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CHATTER Throw the Bums Out

In which our readers have little sympathy for a D.C. institution

Darrow MontgoMery

The LamonT STreeT Collective has been evicted from its home of 41 years in a pretty textbook case of gentrification. The home for socialists, artists, free spirits, and more ran into a new owner who pushed the tenants to leave, offering a one-time payment of $30,000 for them to be out in July. But instead, its members missed a rent payment, and U.S. Marshals and movers pulled the group out this week.

Sympathy, however, was missing from some who read Elizabeth Flock’s piece on the subject (“The Movement,” July 1). “All they had to do was pay June’s rent and bam they’d get 30k, which I dunno would go a long way to deceiving any goals they might have,” said steven.patz. “But they don’t pay lose the 30k and then are moving to a place with double the rent. keep an eye out folks in six months we’ll see a story how they’re getting evicted again.” Then, Thunder Up921 chimed in, “Don’t get what the news is. They’re making it out to be like this group is getting screwed over, but they paid dirt-cheap rent in one of the best neighborhoods in DC and the homeowner wants to move into his place. Plus he was going to pay them like $20,000 to move out. Unbelievable. Classic case of tenants exploiting a situation, feeling like they’re entitled to something they don’t own.” And Roger Dorn, apparently fresh from Major League, thought we ought to be covering something else: “It seems to me like there are enough problems in this city to concentrate on but instead the WCP continues to harp on a bunch of twenty and thirty somethings losing their cheap housing to a legitimate business transaction. They have had over 15 years to figure out a solution that would allow them to stay in this house, and they already have another (cheap!) place to go. I would think a group of adults would be able to find a solution by now, so I’m not sure why they are the sympathetic party here. If I start doodling on the walls of my row house and let my dog piss inside can I make my landlord reduce my rent to $400 a month?” Tough crowd.

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Tomorrow’s History Today: This was the week that PBS decided that the cloudy weather during the live broadcast of A Capitol Fourth was so bad that they substituted footage from a previous fireworks display without telling viewers.

DistrictLine Shelter, and a Storm For tenants evicted from a condemned building in Ward 4, it’s a long wait in limbo.

By Will Sommer Arthur WilliAms hAs lived in a Districtfunded motel room for months, asking his friends for home-cooked meals and watching his neighbors eat out. With no kitchen and only a tiny fridge in his room, there aren’t many other options.

“There are some people in the other hotels who have to eat the fast food and I’m looking at them getting bigger and bigger, because they can’t cook vegetables or anything like that,” Williams says.

Luis Cruz gets hungry too. But with no kitchen in the New York Avenue NE hotel room that he shares with his family, Cruz has to spend what little income they share on takeout.

“It’s a lot more expensive, especially when it comes to your meals,” Cruz says.

Williams and Cruz are both paying the high cost of being poor in the District. After they were kicked out of Ward 4’s 5509 9th St. NW property when regulators declared it unfit for habitation, they became stuck waiting—surviving—in their hotel rooms for the building to be repaired.

Last March, on the day before inspectors closed it, LL visited the building where Cruz and Williams once lived. The building felt more like a derelict back alley than an apartment complex: It reeked of urine and sweat and stale air. Some units doubled as a squat for prostitutes and fugitives. When the building’s legitimate tenants tried to block transients from breaking into abandoned rooms, they faced a full-on assault from various crooks looking to use the building for their own purposes.

The Metropolitan Police Department discovered its pitiable condition after officers chased a suspect inside. The discovery triggered a Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs inspection that ended with a condemnation and an order to vacate.

As of a March visit, the building was in severe disrepair.

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DistrictLine These days, the outside of the place smells more of sawdust than urine. Many windows remained boarded up or busted open, and a construction crew was working inside when LL visited the site last Tuesday. An employee from the DCRA patrolled the property— the agency’s Nuisance Abatement Fund is footing the bill for the repairs.

In 2009, the building’s landlord Louis Taylor died, sending ownership of the building into a probate court. The recipients of Taylor’s estate were looking to sell the building and get their share of the District’s real estate boom, leaving tenants in the lurch. The state of the facilities, already gloomy before Taylor’s death, declined rapidly, and at least some tenants stopped paying rent entirely.

The March eviction day turned into a sad carnival—residents hauled their clothes out while a DCRA inspector showed sympathetic neighbors how deep the building had sunk into filth. Police officers recoiled from trashfilled rooms, while a TV camera crew and future presumptive At-Large Councilmember Robert White, who lives nearby, inspected the rooms themselves.

Since then, many of the couple of dozen residents displaced from the building have

In many cases, residents forced out of the decrepit building found themselves in a housing limbo.

lived in motels around New York Avenue NE and Bladensburg Road NE. Cruz says they were promised a chance to move back this month. Someday, the residents have been

told, 5509 9th St. NW will be habitable. But deadlines for the rehabilitation of the rooms pass, and the remaining tenants are forced to either hang on as long as they can, or ditch their desperate odds and sell their rights to stay on in the building.

The estate that controls 5509 9th St. NW is eager to get rid of it. While residents report receiving offers to relinquish their Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act rights, estate attorney Gerald Belton says the estate recipients are looking to bail.

Instead, Belton offered to sell the building to LL. When LL demurred, Belton said

he aims to ditch the building in less than a dozen days.

“From an estate-type situation, that’s a nightmare because you’re not dealing with professional buyers and sellers,” Belton says. “It’s a lot of drama.”

Belton declined to say how much he’s offering tenants to relinquish their right to live in a building that’s become unlivable.

“Suffice it to say that there’s no such thing as ‘enough’ in dealing with people,” Belton says.

Officially, the estate that currently owns 5509 9th St. NW should eventually reimburse DCRA for the repairs because the management (or lack thereof ) let the building lapse into decay. It’s not clear whether the estate can pay, though. DCRA spokesman Matt Orlins says the property owner will eventually be billed for the repairs.

For Cruz, who shares his hotel room with several members of his family, there are worse options than waiting for their old building to be repaired.

“We’re just happy that we’re not on the street or in a shelter,” Cruz says.

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By Matt Terl It wasn’t mIssIng out on Kevin Durant that seemed to have deflated Wizards fandom. The only thing that would’ve gotten Durant—DMV local, all-World player, and crown jewel of this NBA free agency period—to come to D.C. was if his desire to come home was greater than his desire to do something sensible with his basketball future. Everyone knew that, and so Durant’s announcement that the Wizards weren’t even getting a courtesy visit actually made sense.

What seemed to rankle was that there appeared to be no real Plan B for the club. The first 24 hours of free agency slipped by without anyone of note expressing even the slightest interest in the Wizards. They re-signed Bradley Beal to a max deal because they had no real choice, and the fanbase seemed to sigh and shrug in unison.

The malaise on #WizardsTwitter was palpable. I reached out to die-hard Wizards fans and media types asking how they’d characterize their morale.

“In a word: resigned,” wrote Kevin Broom, an analytics-focused Wizards blogger.

“They’ve had many opportunities to add talent and build a terrific team, but they’ve consistently opted for short-term fixes.”

“The current mood is despondent,” wrote Bullets Forever’s Jake Whitacre, “but not much more despondent than it was for most of the season.”

And then, before anyone else could get back to me, something weird happened: The Wizards emerged as one of the front-runners to land Al Horford, a versatile big man who would’ve addressed a lot of needs. The decision narrowed, according to the top NBA free agency beat reporters, to a choice between D.C. and the Celtics.

Suddenly, Wizards fans dared to hope again.

One of the top free agents, at a position of need, was considering the Wizards! This would get John Wall the big man he had openly been asking for, restore the team to relevancy, and wash away the bland mediocrity of last year’s .500 squad!

Except anyone following the Wizards in any capacity knew exactly how this was going to end. Saturday morning, while the Horford optimism was at its peak, Wizards blogger (and, full disclosure, a longtime friend of mine) Ben Becker set me a message: “This would be a massive game changer. Your column should be the emotional roller coaster between [the Horford news] dropping and the eventual soul crushing

letdown of him choosing elsewhere.”

He nailed it. Horford picked the Celtics, and Wizards fans just kind of sank back down to the baseline level of general melancholy that’s their typical state. If it had been a roller coaster, it was less like “Top Thrill Dragster” and more like Ocean City’s “Sooper Jet” kiddie coaster.

With the top-line talent off the board, the team filled out their bench with journeymen, projects, and generally defensible-but-boring signings. The brightest spot was probably signing their own draft-and-stash 2012 secondround pick, Tomáš Satoranský, to come over from Barcelona to back up Wall. Which is, as bright spots go, not exactly a spotlight.

There’s a strange solace in the dullness, as there is with the local football team. Longtime Wizards fan Andrew Sharp of Sports Illustrated responded to my email after all the drama, with classic #WizFan equanimity. “Considering how dark this offseason got along the way— Durant snubs, owner subtweets, Horford heartbreak—the end result was a pleasant surprise,” he wrote. “Instead of overpaying for big name backup plans in a doomed attempt to save face, they went with solid role players and a good defender [in free agent signee Ian Mahinmi]. Now they have a young, potentially underrated core coming back next year. I can get into that.”

That’s what Wizards fans have become used to: All things considered, this was fine. It was boring and unsexy and very possibly just what this team needed to improve incrementally heading into the start of head coach Scott Brooks’ tenure and the back stretch of Wall’s current contract. The sensible thing to do would be to accept that this is who the Wizards are, this is what their offseason was, and move on.

But that’s not the true Wizards fan’s natural reaction to anything. “This free-agent weekend went how it was destined to go, presided over as it was by the GM with the .423 win-percentage,” Joe House, podcaster for The Ringer and general Wiz-fan-about-town, wrote me. “The mood and morale at the moment = that familiar dull disappointment, #SoWiz. But if we can figure out how to work a trade for [Atlanta Hawks AllStar power forward Paul] Millsap...”

That ellipsis right there is the sound of the Sooper Jet clicking back up its little hill, and that might be the most #SoWiz thing of all.

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My wife and I have been married for 14 years and in a committed (I assumed) relationship for 17 years. Sex between us (often kinky) has always been great. We have a wonderful life together and two perfect children. I thought we were good; turns out things were too good to be true. I learned recently that my wife has been unfaithful to me throughout our marriage. She began an affair with an older man soon before we were married, and they were physically intimate for five years, including bondage and a Master/sub relationship. The physical sex stopped, but phone sex and online flirting continued up until I discovered this two weeks ago. This is a man I know. She has introduced our children to him. There’s more: She slept with another man (just once, more bondage) but also flirted with him online and met up with him while I was away. She slept with yet another man she works with (just once, vanilla this time). She had phone sex with at least two other men and flirted with still more on Facebook.

This came out because I was jealous about something that now seems minor and checked her email. (Not proud of that.) She is repentant and relieved that I finally know, and she promises that she will be faithful from now on. I’ll always love her, and I know she loves me. We had one session with a counselor and another is scheduled. Results were mixed. One thing that came out was that she has never been faithful to a romantic/ sexual partner. I could forgive a one-time drunken fling, but this is a consistent pattern of infidelity that runs from the beginning of our marriage, and I had no idea. I cannot process it. I thought she had always been as loyal as I’ve been, which is to say completely. I can’t put my wedding ring on—it feels like a lie. I have no one to talk to. For the sake of our future, the love we still share, and our children, we are committed to fixing things, but we’re not sure how.

—Heartbroken And Devastated I’m going to preface my response with what someone in my position is expected to say and what, given the circumstances, may even be true: Your marriage is over. The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.

But you didn’t need me to tell you that, HAD. You knew that already. So I can only assume you wrote wanting to hear something else. You don’t need me to outline the reasons you should leave, and you don’t need my permission to go. You wrote because you’re looking for a reason to stay.

I’ll give it my best shot.

A long-term relationship is a myth two people create together. It’s not chemistry, it’s not math, it’s not engineering. It’s a story, HAD, a story we tell each other, a story we tell others, and a story we tell ourselves.

And sometimes it’s a story we have to revise.

Right now, it feels like the story you’ve been

telling yourself and others about your marriage is a lie: not partly, but wholly. You thought your marriage was a loving, committed, and “completely loyal” one, but it’s not—it can’t be, and it never was, because she was cheating on you from the beginning.

But loyalty isn’t something we demonstrate with our genitals alone. Your wife wasn’t loyal to you sexually, HAD, and that’s painful. And the conventional “wisdom” is that people don’t cheat on partners they love.

But you were married to this woman, and you describe your marriage as good, loving, and wonderful. And it somehow managed to be all those things despite your wife’s betrayals.

She must have been loyal to you in other ways or you would’ve divorced her long before you discovered her infidelities. Think back over the last 17 years: every kind and loving gesture, every considerate action, every intimacy, every moment you took care of each other—was it all a lie?

I’m not trying to exonerate your wife, and I’m not trying to minimize her betrayal or your pain. But if you want to stay together, HAD, you’re going to have to tell yourself a new story, one that makes room for contradiction (loves you, cheated on you), betrayal (shitloads), apologies (shitloads from her), forgiveness (shitloads from you), and… some accommodations going forward. If I may paraphrase Maya Angelou: When someone finally shows you who they are—after you found the incriminating e-mails—you should

Social media has come with costs— trolls, bullying, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed—but the ability to locate someone and ask for a do-over/ screw-over is one of the benefits. believe them. Your wife has never been faithful to you or to anyone else, HAD, at least not sexually. Adjusting your expectations and making accommodations accordingly is more

realistic than expecting your wife to become a different person.

Finally, HAD, a little bonus advice. I ran into Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, the day your letter arrived. Perel is a psychotherapist and couples counselor whose most recent TED Talk (“Rethinking Infidelity”) is one you’re going to want to watch. I shared your letter with Perel and asked her what she thought: Based on her vast experience working with couples confronting infidelity, did she think your marriage was doomed?

“No, I don’t,” said Perel.

Perel’s response honestly surprised me. We spoke for 10 minutes, and I recorded the conversation. It won’t fit in this space—so I’m going to post Perel’s thoughts as the Savage Love Letter of the Day when this column comes out.

So you’re going to get a second opinion from an actual expert, HAD, and—spoiler alert—it’s a hopeful one.

—Dan Savage I’m a cis woman in my late 20s. About three months ago, I had my first one-night stand. I’ve noticed my thoughts have continued to gravitate toward this man ever since—despite having other sexual partners in the interim. I recently ran across his profile on Tinder—however, I’m fairly sure he hasn’t logged on for a while as certain things weren’t up to date. While I obviously swiped right, I’m curious as to whether it would be seen as inappropriate or possibly invasive if I were to reach out via the powers of social media. The night we had went well—it was all incredibly comfortable sexually, and I found him very interesting to talk to both before and after we hooked up. I should mention that I left rather swiftly that evening without grabbing his number in an attempt to “play it cool.” I definitely don’t want to cross social or personal boundaries, but I’d like to see him again.

—Creep There’s nothing creepy about letting someone you fucked know you wanna fuck ’em again or, hey, maybe even date ’em for a while. It gets creepy only if they don’t respond, or if they politely decline, and you keep letting them know you would like to fuck/date them some more.

You liked him, you had a nice time, the sex was good—and you left, stupidly, without his number for fear of looking clingy or uncool.

Social media has come with costs—trolls, bullying, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed—but the ability to locate someone and ask for a do-over/ screw-over is one of the benefits. So look him up on Facebook or Instagram and send him a note. If you don’t hear back, consider yourself swiped left and move on.

—Dan Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

DOPE Now that the sea levels are rising, I’m sure someone out there is already thinking of ways of making a few quid/bucks (not that I’m interested myself, you understand). Who will profit—or indeed profiteer—from this sea change?

—Chris

I submit to you, Chris, that given the various depredations of our modern era, the distinction between profiting and profiteering is, like the Louisiana coastline, rapidly eroding.

But there’s profiting and there’s profiting, if you know what I mean. So in the spirit of Old Testament-style judgment, I thought I’d arrange various ways one might cash in on climate change from least to most evil. Those wanting to make a profit in this arena are advised to stick near the top of this list if they want to keep their souls.

Renewable energy. One hopes, frankly, that there’s a greedy upstart or two out there trying to get rich off solar, wind, geothermal, etc; may they ever proliferate.

Flood mitigation. A proposed set of enormous gates, to be installed south of New York City’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge as protection from another Hurricane Sandy-like storm surge, might cost something like $10 billion to build—which is frankly a steal given the potential scale of future flooding damage. Per tech website the Verge, flood-defense construction’s an industry that’s “poised to take off ”: it might hit $2 billion in the U.S. by 2020.

Trade. Hey, ice might be melting in the Arctic faster than anyplace else in the world, but that’s a boon for shipping. When the Northern Sea Route—along Russia’s Arctic coast and through the Bering Strait—is open, as opposed to frozen, the trip from Europe to China shortens by nearly a third.

Land grabs. Foreseeing a lack of arable land and worrying about food shortages, investors in the U.S., China, and elsewhere are buying up turf around the globe. When “sellers” are coerced by their own governments to play ball (as in Ethiopia and Cambodia), you can see where this might result in a little geopolitical tension.

How tangled a web is this? A 2014 study found that Chinese investors had purchased land in 33 countries; Ethiopia had sold land to 21 countries. A study from 2013, meanwhile, guessed that between 0.7 percent and 1.75 of agricultural land worldwide had either already been transferred from local to foreign ownership or was then in the process of being thus grabbed.

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Water. A New York hedge fund called Water Asset Management LLC has begun buying up water rights worldwide in response to increasing drought. In a Bloomberg article on climate-change investment, one financial adviser complains of an “overemphasis on [global warming’s] negative impacts”; kudos to these guys for their glass-half-full optimism, not to mention their pioneering adoption of a new form of economic colonialism. (Yes, moviegoers, you saw this at the very end of The Big Short, where it’s revealed that the Christian Bale character, the hedge-fund wonk who foresaw the housing crash, has since gone allin on water.)

Arctic drilling. You’ll note the pleasing circularity at work here: by burning enough fossil fuels to warm the earth sufficiently to melt the polar ice caps, we’ve now gained access to yet more fossil fuels buried under those ice caps.

There remain some challenges to extracting them: logistical, because the weather up there sucks; political, because Barack Obama has placed restrictions on the practice. Still, one Bloomberg analyst said recently he’d be “very surprised” if these hurdles put oil and gas companies off forever. They’re nothing if not plucky.

Then there are cases where the ethics-payoff calculus gets more complicated. We hear lots of kvetching worldwide about the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet, but folks in Greenland are a good deal more sanguine about it— they anticipate that as ice depletion renders minerals, oil, and gas more accessible and improves the local fishery, the island might finally have enough cash on hand to declare its independence from Denmark. So they benefit, albeit in a somewhat fraught manner.

And I haven’t even mentioned the Israeli desalination company now selling snowmaking machines to Alpine ski resorts, the firms providing high-end private firefighting services to rich Californians, or any other of the go-getters who who demonstrate again and again the irrepressible vitality of the free market. The possibilities, really, are endless. Unlike, say, the continued health of the planet.

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STAGE RITE From novice playwrights to teenage girls, Capital Fringe offers a stage for all to share their voices.

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Girls Acting Out

Teen girls find a place where they can act like themselves.

By Amy Lyons Sixteen-year-old erin ForriSter had heard ad nauseam the platitude that women can be whatever they want, but she didn’t fully grasp the truth behind the cliché until she met women working as rabbis, filmmakers, and lobbyists.

“Girls are taught we are supposed to follow certain career paths, but to see these women living their passions really made me see that women can do whatever they want,” says Erin.

The women shared their stories with Erin and her peers as guest artists of Act Like a GRRRL, a writing and performance program designed to boost confidence and foster camara-

derie among teenage girls.

The process of sharing writing with peers as it is developed is the engine that powers ALAG. For two weeks, the girls gather at Blueberry Hill Cohousing in Vienna, and respond to writing prompts. As they share their writing with the group, they gather feedback to hone and revise for performance, integrating choreography and singing along the way.

“We start on day one with nothing,” says Erin. “By the end of two weeks we have every girl sharing two or three prompt responses, several dances, and an original song. It always comes together like a professional performance and now that we are part of Fringe it

feels even more professional.”

Vali Forrister—Erin’s aunt and the artistic director of the Actors Bridge Ensemble—created ALAG more than a decade ago in Nashville, and three years ago the organization expanded to the D.C. area. This year marks the group’s second performance at Capital Fringe.

Vali started the program in response to another niece’s negative experience with writing at school.

“She showed me a poem she had written, and it was really good,” says Vali. “But her teacher told her it was too dark. I wanted to give girls a place to explore all sides of their voices, the dark and the light.”

Guest artists likes the ones who are so memorable to Erin are integral to ALAG’s mission of developing leadership skills, but it’s the girls’ own stories that matter most. Amirah Banker, who will be a freshman at Wakefield High School in Arlington next year, was 12 when she joined.

“I was nervous, because I was the youngest one, and I didn’t know if I would fit in,” Amirah says.

Later this month, she’ll write and perform with ALAG for the second time at Capital Fringe. She talks about the upcoming show with excitement and an easy air of self-assuredness; there’s no trace of stage fright in her anticipation of opening night.

“I’m not worried about whether or not people will like what I’m going to say, because the girls in my group have already told me they like my writing,” Amirah says. “If you make a mistake on stage, the other girls are there to help you, and the audience is supportive.”

One of Amirah’s favorite prompts evolved into a piece she performed at Fringe, entitled My Mask, which explores her relationship with her father, who lives in New York. It reads, in part: “I show my feelings for a second/ Then they disappear/ Until next time it rains.” washingtoncitypaper.com july 8, 2016 15

Family is a running theme in Amirah’s writing. She’s grateful for her mother, who she says has always encouraged her creativity, and her grandfather, who has helped raise her. Knowing they will be in the audience at Fringe gives her a sense of pride.

If building confidence and instilling the importance of self-expression aren’t sufficient motivators for girls to participate in ALAG, consider this: One hundred percent of ALAG graduates to date have gone on to college. And the all-girl factor makes it a statistically highachieving space, according to a 2013 report by the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools.

The report found that girls attending all-girls schools—or in the case of ALAG, an all-girls program—have higher aspirations and greater motivation, are challenged to achieve more, and have a higher rate of participation in activities that prepare them for the world outside of school.

Rhonda Eldridge, who co-founded the local chapter of ALAG with Vali, says the girls inspire her.

“It’s an opportunity for young women to speak their truth in a public space,” Rhonda says, “to claim themselves as they navigate their way to adulthood.”

July 21–24. MLK Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. $17. actorsbridge.org/act-like-a-grrrl-nova.

Defying Depravity

Tia Nina returns to Fringe with tit puppets, crotch lights, and glitter blood.

By Jonelle Walker What is a “feminist, punk-rock dance band?”

Surely the opposite of academically minded contemporary dancers, right? Not quite. Tia Nina is a trio of Martha Graham–loving, punkplaying academics, and defying expectations is kind of the group’s thing.

Tia Nina claims a mythical origin story: Fate brought three strangers together on a crosscountry motorcycle trip that culminated in a spiritual experience in the desert. Those three strangers were future band members J Van Stone (Leah Curran Moon), Sammy Rain 16 july 8, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

(Ilana Silverstein), and Sticks (Lisi Stoessel).

Though they are dancers, Tia Nina’s members can also call their group a band. The trio works with songwriters and musicians to create original songs for its performances, and Tia Nina is on a mission to use punk rock and dance to question politics, sex, and gender.

“If you dig deeper, critical ideas about sex, politics, gender, and the body infuse almost everything we do,” Moon says via email.

“Audiences can have a great time if they just watch for the entertainment. Or they can engage more deeply and write about us on their Women’s Studies final.”

Tia Nina got its start with Fringe back in 2013, with the aptly titled Pitchin’ the Tent in the Baldacchino Tent at Fort Fringe. Pitchin’ the Tent was a deconstruction of a rock performance, with the three women each embodying unique eras in that genre’s history.

“The overwhelmingly positive response to our show played a big part in us coming back to

[Fringe],” Moon says. “We knew we were onto something big. The audiences at Fringe are amazing.” Moon says the group then started immediately working on its latest piece, JUICED! JUICED! is a cross between a punk show and a modern dance concert—or in the parlance of Tia Nina, a “gender meltdown.” In a departure from Pitchin’ the Tent, JUICED! will bring a fully integrated lighting and projection design to the Eastman Studio Theatre at Gallaudet, which should complete the concert aesthetic. Successful runs at The Clarice at the University of Maryland in 2015 and the bMORE FEMINIST MELTDOWN in May mean Fringe audiences can expect a polished performance. With some rock ’n’ roll grit, of course.

“The set doesn’t follow an overarching plot, but audiences can expect to have their faces melted off for sure. They can also expect gritty, athletic dancing; slammin’ original tunes; and lots of fun,” Moon says. “At its core, the

show is an unapologetic, satirical sexism takedown complete with tit puppets, crotch lights, and a healthy dose of glitter blood.”

Given the tit puppets, crotch lights, and glitter blood, it might surprise audiences that when they’re not putting on dance shows, Tia Nina’s members bring their particular brand of punk-rock feminism to classrooms. The trio offers master classes and lecture demonstrations to students from middle school to college. They have serious academic cred, too.

Moon boasts a Ph.D. and the band counts faculty from the University of Maryland and George Washington University among its vocal supporters.

“Our content shifts when we teach younger students, but our core message is the same,” Moon says. “Question gender, own your body, take up space, make some… noise!”

That kind of approach to educating young people reflects Tia Nina’s radical fusion of technique-laden modern dance and punk mu-

sic. Dance associated with punk music does not necessarily have its roots in decades-old contemporary or modern dance techniques.

Moon insists, however, that perfect technique does not interest them and that the “obsession with technicism and perfection in mainstream modern dance silences dancers.”

Like its forebears in punk rock, Tia Nina balances two important goals: to put on a good show and to inspire the audience to change the way they think. At a Tia Nina performance, you never have to choose between intellectual engagement or fun; formal dance or radical music; art or politics.

“Do the ideas liberate? Do they make us think differently about the world? That’s what’s interesting. That’s what matters,” Moon says. “That’s Tia Nina.”

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Stage of Life

Novice playwrights make their debut at Fringe.

By Raye Weigel tim CaruSo traCeS his finger through the air above his head, following a seemingly fleeting, imaginary character with his eyes.

When he writes plays, he says, the characters walk through his mind and take on voices of their own.

Caruso, a former government consultant, is part of an informal group of mostly novice playwrights called the Gang of Five. For most of the group’s members, whose ages range from late 40s to late 60s, Fringe will be their public debut.

Their show, PowerPlays, is broken into five distinct 10-minute plays that investigate the nature of truth in relationships. Each one is tied together by music composed by Mark Haag, a lawyer for the Justice Department.

Each play is dramatically different, but the music continues throughout, shifting gradually to match the unique tone of each play.

The same five actors perform in each play

and rotate roles between the stories.

The group’s current members met at a playwriting class at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, a nonprofit that offers workshops and hosts events for aspiring writers of all ages. While some of them already had a background in writing, most were searching for a unique creative outlet. They come from different backgrounds: Caruso served in the military and worked for a time consulting for the Department of Energy and Department of the Navy; Dimitri Neos does IT work; Sarah Dimont Sorkin, originally from London, worked at American University as an academic advisor; Michelle Rago works at the Library of Congress in the digital library; and Marilyn Bennett has a background in law.

But they share a love of the theater and give each other motivation and courage.

“It’s way too scary to be doing this by myself,” Sorkin says.

This iteration of the Gang of Five—members have come and gone over the past three

years—say they felt a connection with one another almost immediately. “We got along very well, everything went very easy,” Neos says. “Even the instructors commented on that… and as we got more comfortable with our writing and [with] each other, we said, ‘You know, why don’t we try doing something together?’”

For the Gang of Five, the journey from page to stage would not have been as smooth had they been in other cities. They say that the D.C. arts scene’s accessibility—with festivals like Fringe and the Source Festival —made it easier for them to get their work produced.

For some, it might seem kind of intimidating to dive into the world of playwriting later in life—especially after having a successful career elsewhere—but some Gang of Five members think of this late start as an advantage.

“It’s so much fun,” Sorkin says. “I’m certain that being an older writer, I don’t care as

much. I’m prepared to experiment more.”

And it’s a cathartic exercise for the group.

Sorkin adds that it brought out parts of her she was not used to witnessing. “It appeals to the underused extrovert in me,” she says.

“I have to go home and recover afterwards from all this exposure, but I love it.”

Caruso agrees: For years he’d been itching to break into the world of fantasy—writing rich descriptions of parallel universes and other fabulous explorations—instead of writing for government work. Here, in a creative landscape, he can.

Same for Rago, who focuses a lot of her energy on her work at the Library of Congress.

“I have always put a lot of effort into my job so it’s always been very separate,” she says.

“It’s very rare for me to have something else that I have to think about while I’m at work besides work.”

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Top of the Props The greatest thing about the Capital Fringe Festival is also the worst thing about the Capital Fringe Festival: It’s not curated. The low barrier to entry allows playwrights with few resources to show their work, which has mixed results. If you’re inspired to make your Fringe directorial debut but don’t know where to start, we’ve drafted a few script ideas we think would be surefire hits. City Paper Art Director Stephanie Rudig has even created props you can cut out. —Sarah Anne Hughes Plate is to scale

D.C.’s favorite summer refrain, It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity, becomes a musical about how stupidly hot it gets here. Fans are great props for first-time actors, as they give novices something to do with their hands.

The advanced thespian can deploy this item in an elaborate dance.

While “medium plates” are gaining popularity in D.C. (yes, seriously), small plates will always hold a special place in the hearts of Washingtonians who love to hate on them. But shouldn’t our children be taught to love, not hate? Enter The Smallest Plate, a play for kids about a tiny piece of china that’s ostracized from its community but is befriended by a goodhearted Mason jar who teaches us all an important lesson about life.

Never has an Internet message board been so ripe for dramatization. DC Urban Moms and Dads features fights between local parents about so many (dumb) things. A recent thread on “rude” parents contained such riveting dialogue as [sic]: Parent 1: “I really hate it when I’m out with my toddler and she sees another toddler and gets excited and says hi to them, and the kids’ parents ignore her as if she said nothing. This is sooooo rude to me.”

Parent 2: “I hate parents like you who think the world revolves around their kid you at think it is cute but others find it annoying.”

Parent 3: “Is it unfathomable to you that people aren’t interested in engaging with or even acknowledging your snowflake??”

My Special Snowflake will bring these exchanges to the stage. And to avoid exposing children to this nonsense, the adult actors will each have their own special snowflake prop to argue over.

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By Sarah Anne Hughes EvEn if you’rE not familiar with the concept of a bike store/coffee shop, there’s no mistaking what The Bike Rack and Filter’s location in Monroe Street Market is about.

The words announce it as you approach the doors, in all caps: “BICYCLES + COFFEE” Closest to Monroe Street NE is Filter, which serves Ceremony coffee and Hawthorne Fine Breakfast Pastry pastries. Directly to the left are helmets, gloves, and rows of bikes sold by The Bike Rack. The spacious repair shop occupies the far left, two-tiered section of the space.

An illustrated “bike plus French press” logo (a riff on a motif at Filter’s other locations) is plastered both outside and inside the shop: bikes and coffee, bikes and coffee, bikes and coffee. It gets stuck in your brain. Pinned to the bulletin board near the Filter entrance, there’s even a drawing of the logo by Ella (age 10).

The Bike Rack’s Chuck Harney and his friend, Filter’s Rasheed Jabr, jointly opened the Brookland store in April 2015. (It was the second District location for The Bike Rack and the third for Filter.) Business was a “a little slower than we anticipated” in the first year, Harney says, in part because a nearby residential development isn’t completed yet. But foot traffic has already picked up in year two, as have the numbers. And the concept?

It’s “great,” he says. “People love it.”

D.C. has been home to the most recognizable retail-food combo—books and coffee—for years in the form of Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Busboys and Poets, and Politics & Prose, as well as Borders and Barnes & Noble locations that have come and gone. Books and coffee are a classic combination. Bikes and coffee (and Allen wrenches)?

On its way there.

District Hardware and Bike, which has been operating in the city for more than 40 years, recently announced that it will open a 6,300square-foot location in The Wharf development in Southwest, complete with a cafe that will serve Vigilante coffee, lighter food options, and beer and wine.

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Chuck Harney says customers love the bikes plus coffee concept at The Bike Rack and Filter’s space in Brookland.

Stanley Conway opened the shop in Dupont Circle in 1971 (it’s now owned by his son, Neil Conway). Ten years ago, it moved to its current location in West End, where it’s part hardware store (District Hardware) and part bike shop (The Bike Shop). Last month, it told customers in an email that it was changing its name to District Hardware and Bike and promised more changes to come.

One of those shifts is an increased focus on bikes. Over the past several years, it became clear to the Conways that bicycling demand is increasing in D.C., but District Hardware and Bike is limited in how much it can grow that part of its business in its current space.

“We kind of came to the conclusion that this hybrid concept really helps smooth out any peaks and valleys from seasonality,” says minority owner Jarrett Conway.

So District Hardware and Bike began looking for other spaces and, with the help of The Washington DC Economic Partnership, was eventually connected to the development

team behind The Wharf. They wanted to keep the hybrid concept, while making the new space “more community focused,” Conway says.

Enter the cafe. District Hardware looked at similar concepts in Colorado and Seattle, places with thriving bike scenes as well as a strong local-first mentality. “Something we wanted to emulate,” he says. “We’ve seen examples of it being successful.”

But the quality of the coffee is just as important as the quality of the retail offerings.

That’s why Conway, who isn’t even a fulltime participant in the business, says he visited “every single coffee shop in the area.” He eventually settled on Vigilante after many (many, many) visits to the roastery in Hyattsville. “Not that I mind,” he jokes.

Beyond the coffee, Conway says he also “enjoyed what [Vigilante was] doing at Maketto”—D.C.’s most adventurous cafe-retail-restaurant experiment, located on H Street NE—“because it showed that another hybrid

concept could function outside of our throwback hardware/bike store.” District Hardware and Bike also plans to have a “really solid beer program” at its Wharf space, he says, as well as breakfast and lunch options.

Chris Vigilante, owner of the local coffee company that bears his last name, says he and Conway clicked initially over a shared passion for biking. Over time, Conway became a “friend of the shop,” and when Conway approached him about becoming a wholesale partner, Vigilante said “absolutely.”

Unlike The Bike Rack and Filter, which colease the Brookland space but maintain separate operations, District Hardware and Bike will run its own cafe at The Wharf. But under the wholesale arrangement, Vigilante will help District Hardware and Bike select and service equipment and train staff. That was one of the selling points, say Conway: Vigilante “seemed to be the ones to offer the most guidance and operational support for us to get set up and be successful.” washingtoncitypaper.com july 8, 2016 21

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Vigilante also has a wholesale agreement with Maketto (the coffee company ran the upstairs cafe for the first five months then turned it over), as well as a number of local cafes including coffee shop-record store Bump ‘n Grind in Silver Spring. Vigilante says his company doesn’t approach other businesses about wholesale, and when they are approached, they vet potential partners thoroughly to make sure there’s a commitment to serving the coffee in a way that doesn’t reflect poorly on Vigilante.

Pairing local retail with a cafe that serves coffee and booze makes sense from a customer service perspective, but there are practical advantages as well. With rising rents and more big-box chains moving into neighborhoods like Navy

“You don’t want to lose that local charm and that small footprint, but at the same time you’ve got rents in a lot of areas that don’t make it... fiscally sound to have anything but a large chain.”

Yard and NoMa, local retail is being squeezed.

In the process of finding its new space, District Hardware and Bike’s team learned that there are a number of resources for small, local businesses in D.C. The shop has also benefited from the following and name recognition it’s earned over the years.

“But D.C. is still a very high-rent district,” Conway says. “You have this battle: You don’t want to lose that local charm and that small footprint, but at the same time you’ve got rents in a lot of areas that don’t make it very conducive or fiscally sound to have anything but a large chain.”

“It’s a constant battle for us,” he adds. “We look at the rents that we pay now, and it’s quite substantial.”

Will Sharp, who launched his own men’s streetwear brand, Durkl, in 2005, is a co-owner of Maketto and is responsible for the retail component. “We’re in Washington. It’s uniquely, insanely expensive for commercial space for retailers,” he says, “but the foot traffic isn’t there.”

Since Maketto opened last year, Sharp says “from an internal business point-of-view,” it’s

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been “challenging.” (“Our business has to be very, very tight. But we’ve learned a hell of a lot in the first year, and we’ve gotten it under control.”)

But “externally, it’s been amazing,” Sharp says, adding that Maketto has allowed them to “bring our services and knowledge to people who wouldn’t normally walk into a retail store.”

Sharp points out that retailers across the country are “trying to figure out new ways to bring people through the door.” (Think coffee and beer in Urban Outfitters.) “For us, we have it all built in,” he says.

Harney says he would consider opening another Bike Rack location as part of a hybrid

concept. “Bikes and coffee are awesome,” he says.

A developer approached Harney about opening a Bike Rack location in Navy Yard, but with finances and staff stretched between two locations, he ultimately decided not to pursue it. Bike Rack’s Logan Circle landlord plans to expand the space, which will allow the store to stretch out.

At both locations, Harney says community is key. “Both shops have to be an integral part of the community and also have relationships with other businesses,” he says.

Sharp feels the same way about Maketto: It’s a gathering place, somewhere to meet your neighbors, hang out, have a coffee or dinner, and do some shopping.

District Hardware and Bike, too, wants to be “a community destination,” Conway says, where you can “come in on your bike, bring your kid, your dog, be able to walk up and have a good morning—and maybe get some errands done in the process.”

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Cava Grill: A phonetic translation of Cava that translates to “Card Hair Greek Snack/Café”

Matchbox: “Traditional Pizza”

The Dish: Mustard Mango Chile Caramel Sundae

La Tasca: “Spanish Restaurant”

RFD: “Gourmet Beer”

Hooters: “Owl Restaurant”

Fado Irish Pub and Restaurant: “Ireland Pub”

Chop’t Creative Salad Company: Chao Bo Ter is a phonetic translation of Chop’t.

The second line means “Genius Salad Company.”

HipCityVeg: “Laugh City Restaurant”

Where to Get It: Indique, 3512-14 Connecticut Ave. NW, (202) 244-6600, indique.com

Are You Gonna Eat That?

Price: $6 What It Is: The mustard-seed gelato that serves as the base of this dessert isn’t the only strange thing on the plate.

Chef K.N. Vinod also cooks up a sauce of caramelized sugar, butter, coconut milk, mango puree, and whole red chiles to complement the gelato. It’s accompanied on the plate by fresh mango, grated coconut mixed with jaggery (blocks of unrefined cane sugar found in India), and a translucent fried curry leaf on top of the gelato.

What It Tastes Like: You know how you’ve always thought mustard and ice cream would be a great combo? No?

That’s too bad, because this is actually pretty damn tasty. The key to this dish is balance, with all of the elements—spicy, earthy, tropical fruity, and creamy— working in concert to create something better than the sum of its parts. It’s tough to pin down exactly what’s happening when it hits your mouth, but it does suggest a faint wasabi-like quality.

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Legal Sea Foods: “Seafood Restaurant”

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—Laura Hayes

Photographs by Laura Hayes

haul after 14 years in business. A cornerstone of that reinvention was to bring in bartender Carlie Steiner of Stir Bartending Co. to revamp the cocktail menu, which now includes a drink made with tequila blanco, lime, mint, and toasted mustard seed syrup. The restaurant was already collaborating on a dessert with Dolci Gelati owner Gianluigi Dellaccio, and a surplus of mustard syrup during the research and development phase of the new cocktail menu brought two and two together. Vinod says he was also looking to improve his bottom line after years of noticing that traditional Indian desserts generally weren’t appealing to American diners. “They always used to find Indian desserts very boring or too sweet,” he says. Now, people are taking notice of the interesting flavors.

—Rina Rapuano

Price: $12 What You Should Be Drinking Many shudder at the memory of ordering a round of buttery nipple shots at the bar. The bachelor party shooter typically contains butterscotch schnapps and Baileys Irish Cream. Sixth Engine Bar Manager Donato Alvarez liked the shot’s “over-the-top richness” but had to class it up for the restaurant’s clientele. Enter the Buttery Tipple, made with brown butter-washed Woodford Reserve, muddled sage, and a rinse of Amaro Borsci. Alvarez browns the butter on low heat behind the bar before adding it to the bourbon with a vigorous shake. The concoction then vacations in the freezer where the fat congeals, separating itself from the alcohol to make straining a cinch. “You essentially get a big, fat butter waffle,” Alvarez explains. Sixth Engine chef Kyle Bailey says he’s hoarding the bourbon butter for fall desserts.

Why You Should Be Drinking it Even though only butter flavor, not butter fat, makes its way into the final cocktail, Alvarez says customers shy away from it. “They’re probably expecting a big pad of butter with oil floating around, but it actually drinks very clean,” he says. While a buttery nipple may be the inspiration, the drink is actually more akin to a mint julep. Sage, plucked from the planters out front, plays the role of mint in brightening up an otherwise boozy drink. Only Amaro Borsci, with its bitter pancake syrup flavor, is required to round out the herbaceous drink that tastes like a bakery smells. Alvarez recommends pairing the cocktail with the pork loin and black pepper spaetzle dish, because the caramelized meat matches the drink’s flavors.

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On the Fringe

Capital Fringe transformed the city’s theater scene—now it’s attempting the same for the city’s music scene.

On a recent muggy Saturday afternoon, a small crowd huddles under the shade of a large tent at the Old City Farm & Guild while a band starts tuning up. It’s the first time the sprawling urban farm on Rhode Island Avenue NW in Shaw has hosted live music, and it’s for a music festival.

As Juanita Ca$h, a cumbia-style Johnny Cash cover band, kicks things off, more and more people start to gather under the Baldacchino Tent. An eclectic lineup of 14 bands and artists played the tent for the Capital Fringe Music Festival over the course of two days.

A wide range of acts were included, from locals like surf-rock quartet Shark Week and Afrofuturist ensemble Nag Champa, to Virginia-based primitive guitarist Daniel Bachman and New York anti-folk musician/artist Ed Hammell. A bona fide free music festival is a first for Capital Fringe, which has transformed the local theater scene over the past decade with its DIY approach to a theater festival, but it’s not unprecedented.

In the past year, Capital Fringe has subtly been making music more of a priority for its operations, regularly hosting shows at its headquarters at the Logan Fringe Arts Space in Trinidad and at more unconventional venues across the city, like public libraries, dowtown parks, and public pools. With the guidance of curators Jim Thompson and Luke Stewart, Fringe has earned a reputation for putting on some of the best and most diverse bills in the city, for both local and out-of-town artists. And it’s slowly shaping how audiences experience live music in D.C.; eschewing single-genre bills at bars and nightclubs for more mixed lineups at places you wouldn’t expect to see bands perform live.

Music at the Capital Fringe Festival is nothing new. In past years, local bands, artists, and DJs performed at Fort Fringe, the festival’s rented space on New York Avenue NW. But when Fringe bought a permanent space—the Logan Fringe Arts Space on Florida Avenue NE—Capital Fringe founder and president Julianne Brienza wanted to use it for more than the festival.

“Julianne started talking about [doing more

music stuff] when they started talking about acquiring the building,” says Thompson. “I think she started saying, ‘Oh there’s potential to do other stuff here, it’s such a massive facility, it’s going to be permanent.’”

Thompson, who comes from an eclectic musical background, has been steadily booking bills all over the city in the past few years through his Multiflora Productions moniker.

When he moved to D.C. from New York in 2012, Thompson saw a gap in the city’s live music scene. Rock music dominated, and there weren’t a lot of opportunities to play for bands and artists with more global-oriented sounds—mostly artists whose music is rooted in Latin and African cultures—unless it was for something like The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, he says.

“The rock venues… they would occasionally book a global act, but only if they knew it was going to be a knock-out,” Thompson says. “But there wasn’t a home to sort of snag the music at the cultural intersection. I knew there was a niche to be filled.”

Thompson began booking shows at the selfdescribed “global dancehall” Tropicalia on U Street NW until the club had to drop him as its full-time booker for financial reasons in 2014. He still books shows there, as well as at Adams Morgan’s Bossa Bistro, but he says booking shows with Fringe, mostly at its Logan Fringe Arts Space and at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library downtown, is a more liberating experience. He doesn’t have to worry about the hassle that comes with booking a show at a bar or club—like making sure the venue will make money to pay its staff and turn a profit, along with enough money to pay artists. All Fringe shows are all-ages, usually free, and all the artists are compensated.

“It’s nice for me. It’s almost like a swan dive into the unknown, the unorthodox venues, making something work in a space that’s site-specific,” he says. “Every space that you can play has its own vibe, if you will.”

Stewart, an accomplished and prolific musician who’s been involved in the D.C. music scene for more than a decade, similarly feels that vibe. In May, he booked Philadelphia Afrofuturist artist and musician Moor Mother Goddess at the Georgetown Li-

Daniel Bachman performs at the first Capital Fringe Music Festival.

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brary—the perfect pairing of an artist whose music and message aligns with the history of the space.

“There’s a lot of historical presence in that area,” Stewart says, “especially pertaining to the kind of work she does: afrosurrealism and thinking about the time, place, and being of black Americans. There are a lot connections in the physical. It was a library that burned down. Georgetown is the home of an unmarked slave graveyard. The storied history of it being one of the first and more prominent settlements of freed slaves. Her material itself has a lot of depth in that regard, in terms of research and really analyzing physical and metaphysical ideas.”

Though Stewart’s been booking experimental and avant-garde bills on the local DIY circuit for years (mostly at the soon-to-be-shuttered Union Arts space at 411 New York Ave. NE) he rarely gets the kind of booking opportunity that Fringe offers: the freedom to put together these kinds of shows at alternative venues like libraries, which one wouldn’t re-

ally think of as a venue for boundary-pushing experimental music. “I think that Fringe is doing a really good job of having a space and creating these opportunities around the city for these unique happenings to occur,” he says.

Like curating a gallery, or programming for a film festival, there’s an art to putting together a good music bill. It has to feature artists who will draw a crowd, obviously, but it’s an opportunity to pull together a mix of musicians of different race, gender, and cultural identity across different musical genres.

It’s easy to put together a bill of all indie rock bands, or jazz ensembles, or experimental noise artists. But how often do you see a bill that has all three?

“I just feel like people naturally tend to get stuck in the grid—I don’t know if it’s a neurological thing or what—and that’s just not my bag,” Thompson says. “I’d rather be knocked over the head with something I didn’t expect and go, ‘Oh shit, this is cool.’ It’s a truer reflection of life; your collisions with other cultures.”

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Listen to a , new tune from D.C. quartet Cigarette. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

Stare at the list of shows being performed at this month’s Capital Fringe Festival for long enough and you’ll start to see patterns emerge. In addition to obvious trends like Shakespeare adaptations and plays inspired by politics, this year’s festival presents multiple shows on topics as diverse as parenting, mental illness, and what happens when robots

F R I NG O Misguided Romeos One Man Romeo The Tragedy of Mario and Juliet

The American We st Rain Follows the Plow Petunia and Chicken

take over the world. Our bingo

T.V. Knockoffs Let Trump Be Trump The Real World: Kabu l

Mommy Blogs On Stage soft animal.hideous hea rt Free Range

board turns a slim selection of more than 100 shows on stages around town into a competitive venture.

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Dating Drama How To Be The Perfec t Wingwoman Play Cupid

Family Matters Aliens, Nazis and Angel s Saudade; the one where I miss you

Mental Illness of All Varieties The Golden Smile I Found That The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow

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Film

The End of Innocence

A drama about nuns raped in war uplifts, while a documentary about an older couple in love—plus puppies!—is unloveable.

The Innocents

Directed by Anne Fontaine

My Love, Don’t Cross That River Directed by Jin Mo-young

By Tricia Olszewski When a Benedictine nun explains to an atheist the mechanics of faith among even the most faithful in The Innocents, she says, “Behind all joy lies the cross.” Although it’s a truism that applies not only to spiritual devotion but to all kinds of love, in director and co-writer Anne Fontaine’s film, it’s an especially powerful sentiment that’s gripped a cloistered convent under the care of a French doctor in 1945 Warsaw. The doctor had been begged to sneak away from her Red Cross station aiding Polish survivors to attend to the French convent, in which many sisters are pregnant and about to give birth.

These pregnancies are not the result of immaculate conceptions. Rather, they’re the aftermath of a nightmarish attack by the Red Army. Not only were the sisters’ bodies and minds violated, their very beliefs—the beliefs they’ve dedicated their lives to—suddenly wobbled. It wasn’t an automatic admittance; in fact, when the doctor, Mathilde (Lou de Laâge), first showed up to help a nun in labor, she was practically turned away. The nuns’ attitude was difficult to understand. Why, after Mother Abbess (Ida’s Agata Kulesza, steely) allowed Mathilde to perform a Caesarean on a sister in labor, was she ordered not to come back to see after mother and child? And what about the other women about to deliver?

The nuns’ vows include not showing their bodies to anyone nor letting another person intimately touch them. And thus the pregnant sisters preferred to scream and squirm throughout labor, indeed even trying to keep their babies from being born, instead of allowing Mathilde to help save the lives of both the mothers and their children.

Fontaine adapted The Innocents (along with four others) from the diary of a real-life Mathilde. After the director’s embarrassing misfire 2013’s Adore—a quite serious version of the Saturday Night Live digital short “Motherlover,” though the subject is their only connection—this film is a veritable triumph. Boasting the mysteries and themes of Ida regarding tight-lipped religion and the clash of faiths, The Innocents pulls you into a world behind 28 july 8, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

walls in which reason exists, though not always according to layman’s logic.

Baby after baby is snatched by Mother Abbess and allegedly taken to a big-hearted acquaintance willing to raise the children.

Throughout the film, there are lies of omission; then there are straight-up lies. This turns out to be one of the latter, unsurprising if you consider that every traditional storytelling arc must have a conflict.

When Mathilde’s quick thinking spares the nuns from yet another invasion, the sisters are as giddy as children, thanking her and asking her to stay. This isn’t the only bright spot in what’s a largely sober tale, however—shame and mourning are kept at bay while the nuns’ vows extend to include service. This evolution of the convent, and the boost of the community around it, would not have been possible if not for a doctor without borders.

Love hurts. Like the professed cross behind the joy in The Innocents, the deep affection and familiarity of the Korean couple in Jin Mo-young’s debut, My Love, Don’t Cross That River, brings heart-shattering pain when their marriage of 76 years comes to an inevitable end. They loved and cherished until death parted them, and the anguish is palpable from the very first scene, a distant shot of the widow weeping.

The documentary (also curiously billed as a drama and romance) ends with this scene as well—nearly three full minutes of tears in the falling snow. And though it may sound as cold as that winter landscape, by then you’ll be itching for the credits to roll, thanks to manipulative editing and undoubted staging that makes this doc feel more like a Nicholas Sparks production.

Jin followed Jo Byeong-man and Kang Kyeyeol for 15 months, until Jo’s death at nearly 100 years old. (There’s a discrepancy between the ages given in various articles and the ones the couple claim in the film.) It isn’t clear at first, but Jin intersperses his footage of Jo’s sunnier days and his decline, marked by fragility and a relentless cough where once there was playfulness, humor, and enough strength to take care of the land outside their home along with his wife.

Now here comes the staging. How often do we need to see the couple throwing leaves at each other, then tossing snow at each other, then splashing each other in a stream? Well, the first instance is cute, but then all three occur be-

The Innocents

My Love, Don’t Cross That River

fore the film hits the 30-minute mark—longtime marriages may fall into repetition, but it’s not usually the equivalent of giving each other perpetual noogies like Jin makes it seem.

Afterward comes the Barbara Waltersstyle sit-down. “You used to be so strong, remember?” Kang asks Jo while they’re taking a breather from some work outdoors. “And now that you (aren’t), how does that make you feel?” There are more natural and charming scenes, such as Jo singing to Kang or her smiling as she watches him chow down on her cooking. They also have two dogs that Jo is especially fond of, and his tenderness for them is infectious, too. She calls him the Korean equivalent of “hubby.”

Then things get real. A screaming match among the couple’s children; the family’s

tears as Jo nears the end. They make the elderly man comfortable at home when a hospital says that medicine would no longer help him—and then, there are puppies! One of the pair’s dogs gave birth, and what a better way to lift the mood of a reality turning too somber. Or, you know, not. Likewise, after Jo is gone, the next shot is not of his wife, his kids, or even a medic—it’s of the dog.

Jo and Kang seem like a couple impossible to dislike. But Jin managed to turn their story CP into a film that’s difficult to love.

The Innocents opens Friday at Landmark Bethesda Row. My Love, Don’t Cross That River opens Friday at Angelika Pop-Up.

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Outsiders In

Two exhibits featuring gender nonconformity and immigrant art couldn’t be timelier.

“The Art of Romaine Brooks”

At the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum to Oct. 2

“The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington”

At the Katzen Arts Center to Aug. 14

By John Anderson A yeAr AfTer the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage, and during a political season in which transgender rights are in the spotlight, it’s a fitting coincidence that the Smithsonian American Art Museum hosts a monographic exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Romaine Brooks.

Brooks, who stopped painting in the 1930s, was nearly forgotten until a resurgence of figurative painting in the 1960s. In 1971, a few months after her death, The “La France Croisée” by Romaine Brooks, 2014 National Collection of Fine Arts (now SAAM), hosted its first retrospec- ed some influence. The gaunt angularity of many of her subjects and muted palette also tive of her work. In 2000, a retrospective of her work had been organized at the National bring to mind Picasso’s blue period. Edouard Museum for Women in the Arts, and that ex- Manet’s influence is also present, at least in hibit confronted her sexuality (by that point, one painting. “Azalées Blanche” features a she had been a gay icon for some years and was reclined nude woman positioned similarknown for her portraits of women in mascu- ly to the main figure of Manet’s “Olympia,” line clothing). Now, 16 years later, her work only positioned in the opposite direction.

Whereas Manet’s “Olympia” stares directly seems as relevant as ever.

The exhibition of Brooks’ work starts even- at the viewer, the subject of Brooks’ “Azalées ly. Her paintings present a consistent grayscale Blanche” faces the end of the canvas. Hardly palette with sparse use of color. A kinship is shocking, unless you consider the frequency often made between the work of Brooks and with which previously known female artists that of James Abbott McNiell Whistler. It’s depicted fully nude women in their works. certainly there in the manner by which Brooks It’s a sparsely populated sorority and Brooks was able to capture a humanity within her fig- may well be its founding member.

That rules-bending persists throughout ures that extends beyond mere likeness (the catalog title of her first retrospective was en- other works, especially when her female figtitled “Thief of Souls”). It’s there in the fierce ures present themselves in masculine dress. determination and thousand-yard stare of the While it’s commonplace now—post Annie nurse in “La France Croisée,” a painting that Hall, post Hillary pantsuits—such presentation in the early years of the 20th centuprotested the onset of the first World War. Although Brooks consciously eschewed ry might have been cheeky. Although, unlike more popular styles of Cubism and Fauvism Marcel Duchamp’s Rrose Sélavy, the intent so prevalent throughout Europe at the time, was not ruse. It was identity. the European masters may still have wield- The AmericAn UniversiTy Museum’s 30 july 8, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

“Underworld Serpent” by Friday Larios, 2015 program, The Alper Initiative for Washington Art, is having identity issues. “The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington” consists of 10 D.C. artists from seven Latin American countries. Most, on some level, are confronting the various cultural aspects of migration, colonization, and imperialism.

Some, admittedly, are heavy-handed, providing more proscriptive reads than open interpretations. A drawing and a collage

by Lenny Campello blast the Castro dictatorship. Carolina Mayorga’s video performance as waitress—with tray taped to arm, and tape-covered mouth—gives us the seenbut-not-heard cliché of the migrant service worker. Ric Garcia’s Warhol-esque portraits of Goya (food brand, not artist) and Malta—a popular Latin American beverage—celebrate Latin cuisine, even though one is a company headquartered in New Jersey and the other is embraced as much by Africans as by Latin Americans. Irene Clouthier’s large-scale paper airplanes serve as an apropos allegory about the global realities of migration, considering the number of Latin Americans one or two generations removed from earlier family migrations from Europe, Africa, and Asia.

The same dynamic holds true for the work of Muriel Hasbun who, through the video piece “Scheherazade,” traces her family from European and Eurasian roots through El Salvador to present day. It’s a personal journey that is as much about the generational relationships between parents and children. In a more poetic turn, her sound booth installation “Arte Voz” invites gallery-goers to transmit their heartbeats to the Cultural Center of Spain in San Salvador; they’ll return broad-

cast heartbeats from El Salvador.

Frida Larios puts an interesting twist on immigration by revisiting the Mayans. Pulling from their hieroglyphic script, she has developed a series of pictoglyphs—converted into relief sculpture and vinyl installations— that riff on creation stories and Mayan myth: part re-telling, part re-invention.

Then there are the artists that blend in. Jose Bermudez’ works are artifacts of the 1960s, demonstrating the broad reach of abstraction after World War II. His sculpture could converse well with Alexander Calder; his painting, with Robert Motherwell. In dialogue with more contemporary materials and abstract processes is Joan Belmar’s installation of wall painting and plastic cups.

What ties it together is Juan Downey’s video, and possible de facto inspiration for the exhibition’s title (if not the exhibition). His video about Diego Velazquez’ painting “Las Meniñas,” breaks down the ways of seeing and reading the painting as told from the perspectives of an artist, various art historians, a mirror salesmen, and others. It underscores the dynamic of how we see, how we are seen, and how we perceive others being seen.

Put more simply, it’s about empathy. As the exhibition demonstrates, it’s with empathy we can transgress most borders and boundCP aries—either real or imagined.

At Smithsonian American Art Museum to Oct. 2. 8 and F streets NW. Free. americanart.si.edu.

At American University Museum to Aug. 14. Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. Free. american.edu.

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Bern notice Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

Thomas Frank Metropolitan Books, pp. 305

In an electIon year—one suffused with voter fury at jobs lost to trade deals, at Wall Street immunity to criminal prosecution, at stagnant wages and a pitifully low minimum wage—a year in which Bernie Sanders emerged as the standard bearer for millions of voters, the Democratic party has only grudgingly taken note of the populist anger. The party felt shocked when alarming West Virginia exit polls revealed that some Sanders voters would switch to Trump, should their candidate not be 32 july 8, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

the nominee. But that wouldn’t shock readers of Thomas Frank’s new book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?, which thoroughly documents the Democratic party’s abandonment of working people to a Republican-engineered “apocalypse,” from Carter through Clinton and Obama.

“It’s a little tiresome, is it not?” Frank asks about liberal effusiveness over their favorite winners. “We’ve heard about the learning class, the wired workers, the creative class and now the ‘smart creatives.’ But it always means the same thing: the well-graduated professionals.” Much of this new book is in fact a critique of the professional class’ selfcongratulation, self-flattery, and cruelty to those below it.

Cruelty may seem like a harsh word, but what else can you call trade deals which throw millions of Americans out of work, hollowing out towns and cities across the country? What else can you call the destruction, under Bill Clinton,

of the program that provided money to single unemployed mothers? Or the creation, in the ’90s, of our vast prison gulag? Or a foreign policy based on overthrowing governments, which leads to failed states like Libya and Iraq? Frank’s list goes on and on, and it’s so disheartening that the reader comes away rooting for the demise of the two-party system.

The first generation of young Americans who have come of age bankrupted by student debt and who voted in the millions for Sanders, Frank writes, will laugh at “the old middle class promise—retirement, pension, a better life than the previous generation had— because it is propaganda so transparent, it sounds like something the Soviet Union used to put out. They will understand that this isn’t a commonwealth; it’s a workhouse.”

Listen, Liberal is a long overdue attack on the left’s political establishment. It documents how the “well-graduated,” so many of whom were such mediocre financial managers that they poisoned the entire economy in 2008, look out for themselves and have taken over an entire political party, which now does the work of looking out for them. True, the Clinton and Obama administrations have achieved some notable successes, which were not at all replicated by Republican presidents. But in retrospect, even these look sparse.

Meanwhile, if the Democrats disappoint, the Republicans only outrage, with the result that there is really nowhere to turn. To make matters worse, as Frank observes, the Democrats have been running against their greatest and most popular New Deal and Great Society accomplishments for decades, in their appalling pursuit of “grand bargains” and consensus. While Republicans have slashed taxes with their phony “trickle down” economics and targeted everything in sight for deregulation, Democrats dismissed working people with the injunction to get some skills, “which explains the Democratic party’s flat inability to rise to the challenge of plutocracy.”

Listen, Liberal is a powerful addition to America’s political discourse. It is full of truths and, sadly, the truth hurts. —Eve Ottenberg

trauma School Raped Black Male

By Kenneth Rogers Jr. Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., pp. 150 MeMoIrs of chIldhood sexual abuse are by their nature confrontational. They lay things bare. They air the painful memories and lasting effects. And after they do so, one simply cannot imagine what family reunions would be like, with all these ugly truths out in the open. This is exactly what happens with

Kenneth Rogers’ recently published Raped Black Male, which points an accusing finger at so many relatives, either for what they did or should have prevented. Divided into three parts—“raped,” “black,” and “male”—the memoir covers what it means to Rogers “to be black, a father, a teacher, and a survivor of sexual abuse.” While it contains pieces of fiction, the book focuses on the author’s childhood and adolescence in Peoria, Ill. Rogers notes that the words “raped black male” are rarely together (in that order) in the same sentence. As homicides of black boys and men at the hands of white police officers continue to rise, the words usually strung together by the media are “armed black male,” “convicted black male,” “imprisoned black male…”

But a story very different from those mainstream media narratives appears in this memoir—the story of how sexual abuse stripped a child of his ego, how his eight-year-old stunted self is locked away and can never grow or experience the world, and how that pain and isolation cause repeated breakdowns. Rogers describes these episodes and the almost-exhilarating relief of medication, laying bare the damage done to his schoolwork and later, his life, by each crippling panic attack.

“Either Kenny’s going to be gay when he grows up or marry a white woman,” Rogers once overheard his relatives laughing about him. So, partly because he was a nerd, he worried that he wasn’t “black enough.” To cure this, he believed he needed a black girlfriend.

An avid viewer of the TV show Family Matters, he was convinced that he was the geeky Steve Urkel and had to become the suave Stefan Urquelle. Well, that didn’t exactly happen, nor did he prove his relatives wrong: He married a white woman.

Rogers, who now teaches in an inner city Baltimore school, was homeless for the last two years of high school, when he and his mother slept on day beds in friends’ or relatives’ basements. That experience scarred him and contributed to his first breakdown, in college. But it led him to empathize even more with the children he teaches now. Of the charter school where he works, he writes that the students’ lives mirror his in high school—they are homeless and have either only one parent or none. He tries to be a model for these kids, to hold them to expectations, someone different from “the large majority of middle class white teachers who enter the profession for two years… and head off to law or medical school (yes, I am talking about Teach For America).” These transient pedagogues from another world only further convince their students that education is pointless and leads nowhere.

For Rogers it did not. He finished college and graduate school. He became a writer, a teacher, a husband, and a father; the middle class dream. He “made it.” But as this resolutely honest memoir shows, he never forgot—never could or will forget—where he came from.

—Eve Ottenberg

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Music rock

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Sick of It All, Street Dogs, King Ly Chee. 8 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com. comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. BRNDA, Bueno, Governess. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

Fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Slippery When Wet. 9 p.m. $15. fillmoresilverspring.com. gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Nocoda, Aces in Chains, The Fat Catz. 9 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Carolyn Wonderland, Toronzo Cannon. 8 p.m. $15–$20.

Mike Slap The Bass. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. iota cluB & caFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Erin and the Wildfire, Julia Fanning, Lucas James Shaffer. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

JiFFy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. 5 Seconds of Summer, One OK Rock, Hey Violet. 7:30 p.m. $25–$99.95. livenation.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. The Bambir. 10 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

dJ Nights

Black cat BackStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Underground: Britpop Dance Party with DJs Matt Walter and Craig Boarman. 9:30 p.m. $7. blackcatdc.com. rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Lights & Music Collective Present Drake vs. Kanye. 10 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Pan American Symphony Orchestra. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. national gallery oF art SculPture garden 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Chelsey Green and the Green Project. 5 p.m.

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WolF traP Filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. NSO and Yuja Wang, piano, perform Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” 8:15 p.m. $20–$58. wolftrap.org.

hip-hop

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

Juice, Alex DB, Ayes Cold, Jacq Jill, Jett Chandon, Mane Squeeze. 10 p.m. $5. ustreetmusichall.com.

World

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

Los Cafres, Estelares. 8 p.m. $30–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

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Friday

eagleBank arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Miel San Marcos and Danny Berrios.

7:30 p.m. $24–$64. eaglebankarena.com.

2047 9th Street NW

Film 40

national mall 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 633-6440. Kalakan, Gatibu. 6:30 p.m.

Free. festival.si.edu.

couNtry

hill country BarBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Human Country Jukebox. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

BrNda

D.C.’s own BRNDA kicks off a summer tour of the East Coast right here on its home turf. The quartet’s jangly post-punk feels oddly sincere and tongue-in-cheek at the same time, something “Boyfriend”—from its 2015 LP Year of the Manatee—pulls off when you learn that it was a Christmas gift to guitarist David Lesser’s religious mother. While Lesser makes sure the lyrics are clear by shouting them in a rigid talk-like fashion, it doesn’t prevent the band from hitting each chorus in the catchiest way possible. It’s hard to predict if and when a band might hit it big, but this is probably one of the last good chances to say, “I saw them back before they were famous.” At this show, BRNDA is joined by Babe City label mates Bueno from Staten Island, who sound like they’re headed in a softer direction with its breezy new single “I Got Your Back.” Local pop outfit Governess, an intriguing new ensemble with with surf rock bones and echo-y, drone-y metal flesh, opens the show. BRNDA performs with Bueno and Governess at 10 p.m. at Comet Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. $12. (202) 364-0404. cometpingpong.com.

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Jazz

amP By Strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Rochelle Rice. 8 p.m. $20–$30. ampbystrathmore.com. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Alison Crockett. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

FuNk & r&B

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Soul Rebels, People’s Blues of Richmond. 8 p.m. $20. 930.com.

BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Spinners. 8 p.m. $55–$75. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Yahzarah. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

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

gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

The Dave Kline Band, Scott Slay and the Rail. 8 p.m. $10–$14. gypsysallys.com. merriWeather PoSt Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Merryland Music Festival. 1 p.m. $75–$175. merriweathermusic.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. More Humans, Greenland, Broken Hills. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

gospel

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

Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Kevin Jackson. 8 p.m. $15–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

dJ Nights

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. MIXTAPE: Alternative Dance Party with special guest Bil Todd. 11 p.m. $12. 930.com.

saturday

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

So Far Gone Drake Night with Gun$ Garcia and Magglezzz. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. David Bazan, Laura Gibson. 8 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

WolF traP Filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. NSO and conductor Emil de Cou

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perform “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. 8:30 p.m. $30–$58. wolftrap.org.

opera

kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. WNO Opera Institute. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

World

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

Bomba Party featuring Jorge Villamizar. 10 p.m. $25–$35. thehowardtheatre.com.

Folk

amP By Strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Shenandoah Run. 8 p.m. $30–$40. ampbystrathmore.com.

suNday rock

BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Yardbirds, Johnny Bombay and the Reactions. 8 p.m. $35–$40. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Little River Band. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

Black cat BackStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Steve Gunn, Spacin’. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Abi Remold, Emily Yacina, Infinity Crush. 8 p.m. $5–$10. cometpingpong.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. 10th Annual Old Time Banjo Festival.

7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Throwdown Syndicate, The Screws, Copstabber. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

couNtry

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Dr. Robinson’s Fiasco, Shagwuf. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

hill country BarBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Angela Perley and the Howlin’ Moons. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

JiFFy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. (703) 754-6400. Toby Keith, Eric Paslay. 7 p.m. $25.25–$94.25. livenation.com.

Blues

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Kiss & Ride featuring Carly Harvey. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

hill country BarBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Yarn, Tony Furtado. 8:30 p.m. $15. hillcountrywdc.com.

JiFFy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Alter Bridge, Saint Asonia. 6:30 p.m. $29.95–$69.95. livenation.com. merriWeather PoSt Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Merryland Music Festival. 1 p.m. $75–$175. merriweathermusic.com.

national mall 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 633-6440. John Santos Sextet and Bobi Céspedes. 6:30 p.m. Free. festival.si.edu.

villain & Saint 7141 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda.

(240) 800-4700. Greg Phoenix Experience, Thee Lexington Arrows. 8 p.m. $7–$8. villainandsaint.com.

tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Alison Crockett. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Navbox, Phillip Goyette. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Emily King, PJ Morton. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

hip-hop

Fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Cam’Ron, The Underachievers, G Herbo, Nyck Caution, Don’t Smoke Rock.

8 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Meli’sa Morgan. 8 p.m. $37.50. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

World

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

national mall 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 633-6440. Korrontzi, Low Leaf, TmbaTa. 4:15 p.m. Free. festival.si.edu.

BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Huda Asfour, Sandcatchers. 8 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

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On her song “Radio,” Emily King name-drops Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin and John Lennon, cooing “If I had one religion it would surely be a love song in the distance, a soft melody.” They’re lyrics that should give you an idea of what to expect from the New York-bred singer-songwriter. The daughter of jazz vocalists Marion Cowings and Kim Kalesti, King looks back to a bygone era of pop, rock, and soul and distills it into delicate daydreams. She debuted in 2007 with East Side Story, an album that fused throwback R&B songcraft with hip-hop beats and found her covering Bill Withers and sampling Bruce Hornsby. But while it garnered her a Grammy nomination, the album performed poorly and she was soon dropped by her label. Humbled but refocused, she returned in 2011 with the Seven EP, her songs even more subdued, her persona more demure. On 2015’s The Switch, she finally opted for the best of both worlds, delivering an album full of breathy melodies, gentle grooves and plenty of “love song[s] in the distance.” Emily King performs with PJ Morton at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com. —Chris Kelly

WolF traP Filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Carlos Vives. 8 p.m. $38–$85. wolftrap.org.

Jazz

tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Sobel 4tet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

FuNk & r&B

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141.

Jean Carne. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Luciano. 8 p.m. $25–$30. thehowardtheatre.com.

MoNday rock

Fort reno 3800 Donaldson Place NW. (202) 3556356. Dot Dash, The Delarcos, Nine to Five. 7 p.m.

Free. fortreno.com. galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Galaxy Electric, Fuzz Queen. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

FuNk & r&B

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Ruff Endz. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

tuesday rock

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Los Lonely Boys, Aaron Stephens.

7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com. gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. John Kadlecik and the DC Mystery Cats. 8 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com.

JiFFy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Steely Dan, Steve Winwood. 7 p.m. $32–$129.50. livenation.com. merriWeather PoSt Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Modest Mouse, Brand New. 7 p.m. $40–$55. merriweathermusic.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Iz’Em, Antarcticats, Calm & Crisis, Hundredth Nomad. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

couNtry

hill country BarBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Boy Named Banjo. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

Jazz

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Gia Mora, Charlie Barnett. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

electroNic

lincoln theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

John Carpenter. 8 p.m. $55–$75. thelincolndc.com.

WedNesday rock

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Young Rapids, Spaceface, Paperhaus. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

classical

kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

go-go

BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Suttle. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

World

BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Orchester Praževica’s Gypsy Soul Party. 10 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.

Blues

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. John Nemeth, Jonathan Sloane Trio. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Luba Mason. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. George Weldon Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Ekali. 8 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

classical

kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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Close your eyes and picture a perfect summer day. Perhaps it involves a comfy chair on a front porch, in an idyllic outdoor setting, or a quiet drive on a peaceful country road with the windows down. Hold on to this image and try to imagine what the perfect soundtrack to it would be. Chances are, it would sound something like the music of Steve Gunn, whose breezy take on Americana-tinged folk rock melds the intricate primitivism of guitar virtuoso John Fahey with the chooglin’ spirit of jammy rock bands. On his latest album, Eyes on the Line, Gunn crafts what’s essentially the perfect warm weather album; nine laid-back songs that take you on something of a musical journey. On songs like “Ancient Jules,” “Conditions Wild,” and “Night Wander,” Gunn paints portraits of characters on a journey, but their destination isn’t always known. Because, for Gunn, it’s not about the destination, but getting lost in the journey.

Steve Gunn performs with Spacin’ at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $15. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

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electroNic

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Bird Dogs present The Everly Brothers Experience. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

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

Gorgon City. 10 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

rock

Black cat BackStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Wussy, Dot Dash. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

Fort reno 3800 Donaldson Place NW. (202) 3556356. The Luau Cinders, Psychic Subcreatures, The Rememberables. 7 p.m. Free. fortreno.com. gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Los Straitjackets. 8 p.m. $20–$25. gypsysallys.com. hill country BarBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Graham Wilkinson. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Aterciopelados. 8 p.m. $35–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

classical

kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops and conductor Jeff Beal present “House of Cards in Concert”. 8 p.m. $19–$79. kennedy-center.org. kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

hip-hop

BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Second Sky, Crystal Youth. 9:30 p.m. $8. bossadc.com.

Jazz

BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Peter Erskine, Dave Damiani and No Vacancy Orchestra. 8 p.m. $35. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marcus Johnson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com.

An Evening with

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

Theo Croker, Mark Meadows. 7:30 p.m. $20–$45. thehamiltondc.com.

THIS PATH TONIGHT, TOUR 2016

tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Twins Jazz Orchestra. 8:30 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. MJ Cole.

8 p.m. $10–$18. flashdc.com.

Books

deBBie cenziPer and Jim oBergeFell Obergefell,the man whose marriage was at the center of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage, recounts his experience and discusses his legal triumph in Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. He appears with his co-author, Debbie Cenziper, a veteran investigative reporter from the Washington Post. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 11, 4 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Scott d. Seligman The author, an expert in Chinese business and journalism, looks back on the nefarious days of New York’s Chinatown in the late 1800s, when rival gangs ran opium dens and betting parlors, in his new book, Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown.

Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 12, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. mark Singer In Trump and Me, Singer, a longtime writer for The New Yorker, revisits his past encounters and experiences reporting on the real estate mogul who is now the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Singer appears in conversation with fellow New Yorker contributor Jane Mayer. Politics & Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 9, 6 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. cheryl lu-lien tan The author reads from her debut novel, Sarong Party Girls, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma set in contemporary Asia. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 12, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400. dan zak The Washington Post reporter reads from his new book, Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age, which examines the intersection between nuclear weapons and civil disobedience in America. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 14, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

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We live in the middle of a surge in both podcasting and Metro troubles. Naturally, that means there’s now a podcast about Metro troubles: WAMU’s Metropocalypse, helmed by reporter and leading Metro strife chronicler Martin Di Caro. After the last year’s fatal smoke incident, frequent fires, and an unprecedented day-long shutdown led new Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld to launch the “SafeTrack” program of repairs, Di Caro takes to the rails each week to find angry passengers. Most people have been taking the delays in stride so far, but for how long? Along the way, there’s exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) talk about the decades-old funding disputes and regional responsibility-shirking that got us here. The live episode taping offers a chance to deliver your commuting gripes in person. Hey, maybe Wiedefeld is listening. The recording begins at 6:30 p.m. at Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 387-3825. kramers.com. —Will Sommer

CITY LIGHTS: tuesday

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You really can’t talk about the history of genre movies without talking about John Carpenter. Since the mid-’70s, Carpenter has helped shape modern cinema through films like Halloween, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, and Escape From New York, just to name a few. Minimal lighting techniques, static shots, and slow, creepy camerawork have come to define his style, but his auteurism is as defined by how his films sound as much as how they look. The son of a music teacher, Carpenter is a gifted musician, whose career in music predates his career in film, leading him to score a majority of his own pictures. An early proponent of synthesizers—especially Moog synths—his films have become known for their distinctive, minimal electronic scores. In recent years, Carpenter has stepped away from the world of film, instead focusing his efforts on making music. In two albums in two years—Lost Themes and Lost Themes II—the master of horror continues to compose epic and creepy soundtracks, though this time they’re for films that don’t exist—and perhaps never will. John Carpenter performs at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. $55–$75. (202) 888-0050. thelincolndc.com.

—Matt Cohen

Galleries

addiSon/riPley Fine art 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 338-5180. addisonripleyfineart.com. Ongoing: “Unscripted, Naturally.” New works exploring language and patterning by artist Isabel Manalo. June 8 to July 16. croSS mackenzie gallery 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-7970. crossmackenzie.com. Ongoing: “Architects’ Drawings.” Architects and curators Mark McInturff and Dhiru A. Thadani highlight drawings from some of the world’s most interesting building planners in this exhibition presented in partnership with the National Building Museum. June 8 to July 31. honFleur gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Ongoing: “Hear/ Here.” Four artists explore themes of displacement and gentrification in American metropolitan areas in this exhibition curated by Jarvis DuBois. June 8 to July 15.

Dance

american Ballet theatre “America’s National Ballet Company” brings its popular performance of “Romeo and Juliet,” choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan and set to music by Sergei Prokofiev, to local audiences. Popular principal dancer Misty Copeland performs the Juliet role on Friday, July 15. Wolf Trap Filene Center. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. July 14, 8:30 p.m. $20–$95. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org. elizaBeth Shea dance The Bloomington, Indiana based dance company performs a selection of old and new works and collaborates with local dancers Connie Dinapoli, Adriane Fang, and Arturo Garcia.

Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. 2700 F St. NW. July 11, 6 p.m. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. makS & val on tour: our Way Maksim and Valentin Chmerkovskiy, stars of Dancing with the Stars, combine an honest and unfiltered narrative of their life story, with the world class dancing, creativity and passion they are known for. Collaborating with the greatest choreographers in the business and sup-

ported by a cast of fellow dance professionals, the show will surprise and delight with timeless elegance and steamy seduction. EagleBank Arena. 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax. July 9 8 p.m. $49.50–$75. (703) 993-3000. eaglebankarena.com.

Theater

the BridgeS oF madiSon county An Iowa housewife finds her life changed by a traveling photographer in this Tony Award-winning musical from composer Jason Robert Brown based on the bestselling novel by Robert James Waller. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To July 17. $49–$129. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. kinky BootS In this award-winning musical based on the 2005 film, a down-on-his-luck shoe factory owner must figure out how to save his business.

Inspiration comes in the form of a drag queen in search of a supportive heel and a team of collaborative colleagues. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To July 10. $25–$199. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the Phantom oF the oPera The longest-running musical in Broadway history, which tells the story of a mysterious masked man who haunts a Paris theater, returns to the Kennedy Center in an all-new production that retains all the classic songs, including “Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You.” Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 20. $25–$149.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

WaShington imProv theater PreSentS Summer camP Washington Improv Theater invites you to choose any bunk you want during Summer Camp—a five-week series of shows from its company ensembles and special guests from across the city. Summer Camp will also feature a reboot of Die! Die! Die!, an improvised slasher movie that’s much funnier (but even more dangerous) than Friday the 13th’s Camp Crystal Lake. Source Theatre. 1835 14th St. NW. To Aug. 6. $12–$15. (202) 204-7800. sourcedc.org.

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Despite focusing on Asian art, the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery seeks to connect ancient art from the other side of the world with Western culture and tradition. The latest example of this cultural fusion is “Chinamania,” an exhibition that juxtaposes two large porcelain sculptures by contemporary American artist Walter McConnell with delicate blue and white porcelain pieces created during China’s Kangxi period. McConnell’s work features skulls, unicorns, trees, and birds stacked on top of each other, giving it a much invasive feel. The small pieces of painted pottery look familiar— the style has been popular in Europe for nearly 150 years, leading to the insanity that gives the exhibit its title—but mass production has made it ubiquitous. No longer is it simply a symbol of the greed and gluttony of Europe’s ruling class.

Presented in conjunction with “Filthy Lucre,” a contemporary take on James McNeill Whistler’s “Peacock Room,” the exhibit makes audiences consider the consequences of art collecting. The exhibition is on view daily, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., to June 4, 2017, at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 633-4880. asia.si.edu.

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