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Fights of the Round Table A public meeting over the future of Barry Farm highlighted years-long community concerns, but offered few specific remedies.

The public eye turned, at least for a moment, to Barry Farm during a roundtable At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds hosted last Thursday. Redevelopment plans for the 444-unit public housing complex in Southeast have languished under the city’s leadership for over 12 years.

Officials across a handful of local agencies have long hoped to turn the sprawling complex of apartment units, operated by DC Housing Authority, into a mixed-income development that includes hundreds of market-rate units and retail space alongside its public housing offerings.

That plan is wrapped into the New Communities Initiative, which aims to revitalize four distressed neighborhoods across the city. But it hit yet another roadblock when, in April, the D.C. Court of Appeals vacated the Zoning Commission’s approval of a plan to redevelop Barry Farm. Just one month later, the city withdrew its Planned Unit Development applications for the site from the Zoning Commission.

The Housing Authority has pushed ahead with plans to abate and demolish the property anyway, and has given the remaining Barry Farm residents two options: Move into another public housing property in D.C., or accept a federally-funded housing voucher, which subsidizes much of a tenant’s housing cost but requires them to secure their own unit on the private rental market. But both options have flaws, tenants and advocates say.

The public housing waiting list in D.C. is tens of thousands of people long, and Barry Farm residents say they’re worried they either won’t find a unit, or will be forced to live in an unclean, unsafe building. (DCHA Director Tyrone Garrett, however, testified that DCHA has units available for any Barry Farm family that chooses this option.) Vouchers present a different challenge, with tenants testifying that landlords deny them leases simply for being voucher holders, a practice called “source of income” discrimination that’s illegal in D.C. Barry Farm residents, many of whom have complained for years about the deteriorating

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quality of their apartments, and shared concerns that they’d be displaced during the renovation, hoped that the Council’s Thursday roundtable would provide clarity about the status of the project.

But those hopes were likely dashed from the outset, when Bonds opened the roundtable with a warning that would set the tone for the nearly 4.5-hour hearing. “Up front it should be understood that the executive witnesses today will likely be unable to answer certain questions about next steps with specificity,” Bonds said, “simply because they are in the process of deliberating about how to move forward based on the results of a court case.”

For nearly two hours, a panel of councilmembers––including Bonds, At-Large Councilmember Robert White, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, and Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White––tried to extract specifics from DCHA’s Garrett and NCI Director Angie Rodgers about the city’s plan for Barry Farm.

Public witnesses, largely residents of Barry Farm, spent another two and a half hours describing the emotional and physical volatility of their time living at the property.

In that spirit, Robert White asked Garrett and Rodgers whether there are any “salvageable parts” of the city’s initial plan to develop Barry Farm, after referring to the current state of the project as “a worst-case scenario.” He didn’t receive a concrete answer.

“DCHA is simply reevaluating its next steps,” Garrett told the crowd at the outset, emphasizing that one of the authority’s main priorities is finding suitable housing for the remaining 90 families at Barry Farm, a figure

that reflects a roughly 80 percent vacancy rate.

Garrett says that DCHA’s “optimistic” goal is to have the property totally vacated by the end of October, though 20 families have not decided whether they want a voucher or to remain in public housing.

Rodgers acknowledged that the city has “work to do to respond to the concerns of the court,” referring to the D.C. Appeals Court decision, but adds that abatement work will begin this summer, with demolition (which will take about one year, she says) to follow shortly afterward.

The councilmembers’ lines of questioning were, at times, uncom for tably pointed.

Trayon White told the government witnesses that he had three main concerns: “Why the resident relocation plan has continued when the status of the project is uncertain,” “why the lead developer has changed, and the ramifications,” and the status of “the current plan” for redevelopment.

He pushed Garrett and Rodgers particularly hard on the issue of apartment sizes, a topic that polarized city officials and Barry Farm residents during initial rounds of planning for the site’s redevelopment.

“I’m also concerned about D.C. saying, ‘We have a vision for affordable housing.’ Yet we have a project like Barry Farm that’s owned by DC Housing Authority, yet we’re yielding less amount of units than what was there before. This should have been an opportunity to build more, real affordable housing on this particular project to ensure that we’re truly addressing the housing crisis in the District,” White said.

The panel devolved into inaudible crosstalk over his assertion that D.C. is planning on building fewer affordable units at Barry Farm.

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“One thing you said under your breath, I heard you say under your breath, ‘That’s not true.’

I was trying to get clarity on what part is not true,” White told Rodgers.

“The part about us building less housing on the site than there’s there now,” she replied.

But White became frustrated after Garrett and Rodgers could not immediately tell him how many units of each bedroom size DCHA plans to build at the property. “How many fivebedrooms do you have currently on the property?” White asks again. “How many six-bedrooms do you have? How many four-bedrooms do you plan on bringing back to the property?

In the last plan, what was it? What about fivebedrooms? How many five-bedrooms were in the last plan?”

The public witnesses became agitated and began heckling the government witnesses, while White fired back: “This is basic information. We should have, or somebody on our staff should have that coming to this hearing.” (A staffer brought these figures to Rodgers, who read them at a later point in the roundtable.)

White pressed the government witnesses on other community concerns that have long plagued discussions about the site’s redevelopment.

Onlookers become similarly upset during a line of questioning about the secured funding for Barry Farm. “Do we have the money for this project, and have we ever had the money?” Trayon White asks Rodgers, following it up with: “It’s a simple question.”

Rodgers confirmed that the city has dedicated funding for the first phase of development, but said, “We’re talking about budgeting that’s eight to 10 years out. We can’t say definitively that the Council is going to dedicate money to us eight years from now.”

The Council has since vacated for a twomonth summer recess, though Bonds secured a commitment from Rodgers and Garrett that officials would provide bi-weekly updates “on conversations about the Barry Farm project, the relocation plan, financing, infrastructure, demolition ... and any other aspects of planning as it related to Barry Farm.”

In the meantime, its remaining families prepare to move out of their homes.

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Historic Restoration Upper Northwest activists and the descendant of a remarkable black family want to put back missing pieces of D.C. history.

Looking around Lafayette Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, James Fisher admits he feels something deep. “Pain in knowing that it was in my family—and that it was taken away,” he says. Fisher, who is AfricanAmerican, is seeking recognition for his ancestors, who owned land here from the 1850s until they were pushed out in 1928 to guarantee that Chevy Chase would develop as a pristinely white D.C. neighborhood.

He is also trying to elevate a remarkable ancestor named George Pointer, who rose from slavery to manage a precursor to the C&O Canal and captain boats that ferried building stones to early Washington. Despite these accomplishments, histories either overlook or even ignore Pointer’s life. Fisher aims to correct this.

He has found significant support around Chevy Chase, where residents are motivated by the shock of revelations that treasured neighborhood parks like Lafayette and Fort Reno are products of deliberate efforts to segregate D.C. A new group called the DC History and Justice Collective has a goal to remember the displacement and end the celebration of those involved, starting with renaming Woodrow Wilson High School.

Both Fisher and the DC History and Justice Collective (H&J) see their goal as revealing a hidden past. Fisher views it as staking a claim in American history. The activists want to educate the public on what was lost in making parts of the city whiter.

According to Fisher, records show that his ancestors—the Harris family—first settled along Broad Branch Road NW around 1850. Over the next 80 years, the family divided the large property to form a family compound of five or six houses. “As the family grew they built more houses, so each family had a house,” explains Fisher’s partner, Tanya Hardy.

Maps from 1860 to 1890 show this expansion. Now, on one side are tennis courts and an aging recreation shelter. A newer splash pad and a wide variety of play structures occupy the other side of the hill.

That is because, in 1928, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired the land. At the time, the agency usually offered homeowners little choice but to leave, and would threaten to use eminent domain. The only things that survived from that period, Fisher and Hardy believe, are two enormous oak trees.

Stone ruins believed to be George Pointer’s cottage After learning of his connection to the site from local historians Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green, local historians researching Pointer, Fisher was stunned, and felt a need to reclaim this newfound family history. So in 2015, he hosted a family reunion in the park.

The presence of that much dark skin in Chevy Chase, Hardy says, brought out strange behaviors in park regulars. “They were kind of shocked—but we took the opportunity to explain why we were here,” she says.

That form of education is what Fisher wants to continue, even when he’s not on hand to do the explaining. The District is replacing the existing recreation center building, and Fisher and Hardy feel the construction is an opportunity to conduct archaeological research on the site, and also to install an exhibit that tells the story of Pointer and the Harris family.

He has found backing with two local groups.

The first is Historic Chevy Chase DC, a local history group, and the second is H&J. Both look to an extensive exhibit installed in the Reno community’s school, now a part of Alice Deal Middle School, as an example of what they can do.

Fisher would like to go further, and rename the new rec center building after Pointer, the man who made such a substantial black landholding possible.

Pointer was born into slavery around 1773 and died free in 1832. Pointer is not a new discovery, but unlike the free black man who helped survey the District, Benjamin Ban-

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neker, he does not have a famous name. Fisher wants to correct that.

Pointer’s life story is known because he summarized his remarkable experiences in an 11-page letter he wrote to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in 1829, when that project threatened his riverfront cottage.

In his letter, he narrates how he was rented out to the Patowmack Canal, an earlier scheme to open the Potomac north of Georgetown to commercial shipping. He bought his freedom by 19, and by 23, he was an engineer for the canal. With boats he either owned or captained, he transported stone from nearby quarries to the young city, likely contributing to the construction of the White House and Capitol.

Today, ruins of Pointer’s cottage at Lock 6 of the C&O Canal remain—unkept and unmarked. Worse still, an exhibit at the National Park Service visitors center at Great Falls presents a composite character of a free black canal worker, using material from Pointer’s 1829 letter verbatim. “That hurt me more than anything else,” Fisher says.

Fisher thinks a first good step in recognizing Pointer would be for the exhibit at Great Falls to acknowledge him as a specific person. Further on, he and Hardy would like to see Pointer’s cabin along the C&O Canal restored and interpreted for the public.

Pointer’s is a name that his biographers, and Fisher, think Washingtonians should see more frequently. DC History and Justice has a

name they think high school students should see less: Woodrow Wilson.

H&J is an informal association of about 20 locals, with Tim Hannapel, James Zogby, and Judith Ingram forming the group’s public face. Their ambition is to acknowledge the displacements that made Upper Northwest a white enclave. Woodrow Wilson played a central role in what happened there. Under that southerner’s presidency, federal leaders dismantled the exceptional civil rights protections in D.C., and ended opportunities for African-Americans in the civil services.

Crucially, after Wilson, homeowners and developers found a government increasingly willing to enforce segregation, even removing African-Americans from their neighborhoods. One of the most dramatic incidences of this happened at Fort Reno—a story City Paper chronicled last year. Wilson High sits directly across Chesapeake Street NW from the destroyed community.

“I knew there was something up here,” Ingram said in an interview in the park. What she didn’t know was how the park was part of a campaign to segregate D.C., beginning with Wilson.

Ingram says that the City Paper article spurred her to study Wilson’s involvement.

She connected with Hannapel, a graduate of Wilson, and began a word of mouth campaign to change the name.

Neither Fisher’s effort to recognize Pointer nor H&J’s plan to rename Wilson have encountered opposition so far. At a fractious meeting about the redesign of Lafayette’s rec center on July 11, when Fisher gave brief remarks, he was greeted with applause.

Fisher has found bureaucratic sluggishness a bigger obstacle. He says the DC Department of Parks and Recreation, which manages Lafayette’s facilities, has been unresponsive.

(DPR declined to comment at this time.) He says the National Park Service has been better, acknowledging that the display at Great Falls needs to change, but the branch overseeing C&O Canal has shown less interest in protecting the ruins of Pointer’s cabin.

Compared to exhibits at Lafayette, Ingram admits that changing the name at Wilson could be challenging. So, they are ready to build support slowly through education.

“The playbook is there,” Ingram says, referring to the community process that replaced the name of Benjamin Orr, an early mayor of Washington and a slave owner, with that of revered DCPS principal Lawrence Boone on an elementary school in Fairlawn.

Fisher sees these incidents in context. “This displacement led to a procedural way to legally take land—and illegally take land,” he says.

He noted that this activity was of a piece with mortgage redlining and other forms of housing discrimination that persist to this day.

Ingram agrees. “It’s a cause that should interest everyone in Washington,” she says. CP

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Venus Williams’ deep connection to D.C. inspires generations of kids who see themselves in her.

By Kelyn Soong Rhajzon Rankins can’t remember the first time he met Venus Williams. He was about 5, he thinks. Or maybe 6 or 7. He knows it was when he still had long dreadlocks that dangled down his neck and when he wasn’t much bigger than the tennis racket he used.

“She’s been around and playing me since I was really young,” he says. The two are now on a first name basis.

Williams is an international icon, an athlete who, along with her younger sister, Serena, continues to redefine what’s possible on the tennis court, and is not afraid to use her platform for change. She has regularly spoken out to demand pay equity for male and female athletes. ESPN The Magazine ranked Venus as the third biggest female name in sports on its 2018 World Fame 100 list, behind only Serena and fellow professional tennis player, Maria Sharapova.

But to the hundreds of D.C. children she’s

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met over the years, Venus is a reflection of them. She represents their past, their present, and their future.

“Most of us share the same story,” says Rankins, 15. “We all weren’t, like, privileged.

We’re just out here trying to get better. … That’s why people say she’s just like us.”

Williams, 38, was born in Lynwood, California, near Compton, and now lives in south Florida. But she retains a close connection with the District. She used to play on local public courts during the summer as child with Serena and their father, Richard Williams, according to local coaches, and still has family in the area. Her older half-sister, Isha Price, graduated from Howard University and earned a combined Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University. Venus’ niece, Justus Bobbitt, who also attended Howard, lives in Clinton.

In 2001, when the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center opened in Ward 8, Williams was there, along with Serena. The center’s founder, Cora Masters Barry, is close friends with Venus and Serena’s mother,

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Oracene Price. Williams has also been a regular member of the Washington Kastles over the years and is scheduled to play for the local World Team Tennis franchise on July 25 and 26 at George Washington University’s Smith Center. She is also expected to host a kids clinic.

(World Team Tennis chairman and Washington Kastles owner Mark D. Ein is the owner of Washington City Paper.)

“She loves to teach,” says Bobbitt, 24. “She loves kids. That’s one of the unique gifts she has. With everything that’s happening with the center and the fact that I’m here, and my aunt’s here, it’s just worked out.”

Barry, 73, speaks in reverent terms about Williams. When the center was near completion in 2001, Barry remembers Oracene asking her when the grand opening would be.

“When Venus and Serena are available to come,” Barry replied. “Not a day earlier or a day later.”

In 2015, the center underwent an $18 million renovation, which included construction of a 48,000-square-foot indoor arena named for the Williamses. Dozens of framed photos of both sisters line the hallways and sit inside trophy cases. Williams’ design firm V*Starr Interiors designed the space. The light switch inside Barry’s office features a black-and-white photo of Venus and Serena.

“I’ve known Venus since 1996—I love all of [her family],” Barry says, “but she has my heart because she’s so kind, so, so approachable, and so down to earth. And she’s so giving.”

George Henry roams the outdoor tennis courts in Southeast under the unforgiving sun on a recent summer afternoon. He moved to D.C. about a year ago to work at the center and is now the interim facility manager.

He shouts instructions to the dozen or so young campers on his court, all under the age of 12, feeling as if his career has come full circle. During a break, Henry, 55, pulls out his phone and logs into Facebook. He clicks on a photo from several decades ago of him, Richard Williams, Serena, and Venus. In 1994, he met Richard in Delray Park, Florida, and was hired to help coach the girls, he says.

Henry is not surprised at what the Williams sisters have achieved. Serena, 36, has 23 Grand Slam singles titles, a record in the Open Era, and Venus has seven.

“I had never experienced that kind of work ethic and haven’t since,” he says. “I told [Richard], “It messed me up working with your daughters, my standards are so high.’ ... I’ve worked with pro players who didn’t work as hard as they did when they were 12 years old.”

Inside the center, Celeste Adams is well

known. She attends nearly every event and function the facility has to offer. She’s met Williams twice. A few years ago at charity event sponsored by the Kastles, she got to hit with and ask her idol questions. Last December, she attended a gala at the Southeast center and modeled Williams’ latest outfits from her clothing line, EleVen. The majority of the children that the center serves are African-American. Venus’ impact as one of the few highly-ranked black professional tennis players in a heavily white sport is not lost on Adams, a 15-year-old rising sophomore at Surrattsville High School in Prince George’s County. She is reminded of it whenever a young girl walks by a television and watches a Williams sister compete at a Grand Slam and says, “I want to be just like her.”

Williams “came from nothing in a town that’s not exactly too [different] from this one,” Adams says. “It shows me that anyone, especially African-Americans, if they have a goal, if they push themselves to pursue, then they can do it. … We’re all black kids in a small Southeast area where I think is kind of underrated. I don’t think people give us enough credit.”

There’s no substitute for this kind of influence, Barry says. Sure, the kids have other favorite tennis players. Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and doubles specialists Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan on the men’s side, and Madison Keys on the women’s side are especially popular, but few professional players can relate to these kids the same way the Williams sisters can.

“They look like them, dress like them, came from same communities and that makes a difference when you look at someone who looks like you,” Barry says. “It’s different if you look different. It might seem like a pipe dream. But when you look at someone and they are a reflection of you, then it’s a reality.”

Inside a trophy case near the entrance of the tennis center are a few photos of Rankins.

In one, he’s hitting a backhand as Williams roots him on. In another, the two are high-fiving. Rankins, a rising junior at School Without Walls, started playing tennis at 3 and has his sights set on attending college on a full tennis scholarship. He is a three-star player and the top-rated recruit from D.C. in his grade according to Tennisrecruiting.net.

A flood of positive memories go to his head whenever he walks by these photos near the entrance of the center, Rankins says. But he doesn’t have much time to reflect on the past.

He needs to get going. Rankins, like Williams, has to prepare for the next tennis match. And the future starts now.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I recently saw some knockoff bike advice guy (not GP) say that slapping cars that come too close is actually totally fine. Except that the one time I ever touched a car when biking, it escalated the situation and the guy flipped out and chased me three blocks. I was legitimately scared for my life. Why are drivers so sensitive when people touch their cars? It’s way less bad than running me over! And if slapping cars is unacceptable, what should I do instead?

—Come On Prudence! You Can Answer Too Dear COPYCAT: As a general rule, flesh and the outside of cars should not meet. In fact, pretty much everything you do on a bicycle should be done with this aim in mind. The one exception is when the only way you can save your own life is by touching a car. But even then, touching the car is probably not your most effective option. Yelling also gets the point across, and in truly dire situations, it’s more beneficial to keep both hands on your handlebars and brakes for greater control over steering and stopping. Slapping or kicking a car out of pique is understandable (being nearly run over while biking is deeply unsatisfying!), but it’s likely going to lead to the disproportionate reaction that you’ve already experienced.

Some drivers flip out when you touch their cars because the entire car experience is built on the notion of inviolability. Ensconced in a motorized La-Z-Boy on wheels, drivers move through the world without really being part of it. There’s a reason why so many car commercials are set on empty streets. A thud on the hood is an intrusion upon this fictive sanctuary—a stark reminder that, though caged and climate controlled, the driver is not nearly as separated as he wishes to be. Your selfish efforts to remind them that you’d prefer to not die will puncture their beautiful cocoons, where they are safe from the world around them (though, actually, they aren’t) and safe from the consequences of their inattentiveness (though you aren’t).

Also, people really fucking love their cars.

They pay too much for them, they construct their identities around them (toxic masculinity ftw), and they get in fist fights outside of car washes, jockeying in line and waiting to shower the salt off them. People just don’t like it when strangers touch their stuff. Add to this the shock of hearing a loud noise from within the car cocoon, and it’s really no surprise that there’s a feeling of violation. Slap if you absolutely must, but if it becomes a habit, you’re probably overdoing it for reasons that have nothing to do with self-preservation.

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

Email gearprudence@washchp.com.

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Out In FoRCe After an intense hearing criticizing policing, residents and the city’s police chief debate a path forward.

By Matt Cohen and Hamil R. Harris

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

It wasn’t the first time Peter Newsham saw

ed them to start asking the men hanging out outside—all of whom were black—to see their IDs. Upon searching the men, officers found a BB gun, but bystanders accused MPD officers of planting the gun, which Newsham denies. At the July 12 hearing, Newsham said that in addition to the BB gun, officers found marijuana, PCP, and a gun clip, but no one was arrested.

The hearing was rare: It is unusual for more than half of D.C.’s 13-member council to attend a hearing that doesn’t involve a vote or testimony surrounding pending legislation. It was also long and, at times, gut-wrenching as residents shared their stories of police harassment and violence in their neighborhoods.

The day after the hearing, Newsham, who didn’t attend the second hearing out of respect for public witnesses who didn’t feel comfortable sharing their stories in front of the police, visited Nook’s Barbershop. He approached the group of guys that regularly hangs out in the alley across the street from the barbershop— some of the same guys in the YouTube video— and asked them how he can help improve their relationship with police officers.

Newsham says he asked them, “Listen, how would you like it … if I took out my cell phone and stuck it in your face?”

the video. In fact, just minutes before the hearing was to begin, the Metropolitan Police Department chief wanted to watch the eight-minute video with his assistant chiefs one last time before several D.C. councilmembers and dozens of District residents watched it in its entirety during a two-part, all-day hearing to address police-community relations in Wards 7 and 8. Following the video, Newsham endured hours of intense questioning—at times heated—from more than half the Council.

The video captures an incident that many concerned District residents say is emblematic of the harassment they receive from the MPD on a regular basis. It shows three plainclothes officers exit an unmarked police car in front of Nook’s Barbershop on Sheriff Road NE in Deanwood, just inside the Maryland border.

One officer, upon getting out of the car, says, “We just want to [talk to] whoever owns the Volvo, about the tints. That’s it.” Minutes later, the situation has escalated and nearly a dozen officers have descended on the barbershop, positioning themselves to detain a young black man sitting on a chair.

It’s not clear from the video why the officers came to Nook’s and what prompt-

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“I said, ‘That’s not something that anybody would like,’ and they kind of shook their heads in agreement and said, ‘Yeah, maybe we shouldn’t be doing that.’”

Not everyone wanted to listen to what Newsham had to say, though.

“I just walked away [from him],” says 27year-old Jake Robinson. Others did, too.

As of July 17, the homicide rate in D.C. is up 46 percent from this time last year, with 83 murders recorded thus far—the latest being the devastating shooting death of 10-yearold Makiyah Wilson in the evening on July 16, just a few blocks from Nook’s. Though total violent crime in the District is down this year, by 8 percent, Ward 8 and parts of Ward 7 are seeing a surge in homicides. (Total violent crime is down in both Wards this year.)

In response to the uptick in homicides, Newsham said during the hearing that he deployed 25 percent more cops to the streets in Wards 7 and 8. But even with more cops in the area, the violence—as evidenced by the shooting that killed Wilson, in which a woman and three men were also wounded—continues.

Many people don’t feel safe in their neighborhood, but at the same time, a good many residents don’t trust the police to help keep

them safe either. Some feel like they’re in even more danger when officers arrive on the scene.

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, organized the hearings in part as a response to the incident at Nook’s, but also to address a steady rise of community concerns about police conduct in the District—particularly in Wards 7 and 8.

Residents began requesting the meetings months before the Nook’s Babershop incident happened. In March, 54 local organizations signed their name to a letter co-authored by the local activist organizations Stop Police Terror Project DC and Black Lives Matter DC demanding that Allen and the rest of the Council convene a public hearing to address the alleged racism and violence by MPD. So far this year, three people have been killed in police-involved confrontations: 24year-old D’Quan Young was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on May 9; 22-year-old Marquis Alston was shot and killed in a confrontation with officers on patrol on June 12; and 22-year-old Jeffrey Price was killed on May 4 after the dirt bike he was riding collided with a police cruiser.

In part of Newsham’s testimony, before attendees watched the video, he cautioned the Council that social media posts “don’t show the whole story.” In a follow-up interview with City Paper, Newsham elaborated, saying “I think that anyone who watched the so-

cial media snippet and saw some of the information—or misinformation... would have the very same questions.”

But even after hours of grilling, all of the councilmembers who watched seemed unconvinced that what transpired in the Nook’s Barbershop incident could be justified.

At the second hearing, held later that evening at the Deanwood Recreation Center, residents had the floor. They recounted their own interactions with MPD. C.M. Cottingham was the subject of a video that went viral in September of last year.

In it, 39-year-old Cottingham—who makes his living as an ice cream vendor, is dressed in a red T-shirt and baggy gray sweatpants.

An MPD officer is searching him. As the officer repeatedly pats down his pants around his genital area, Cottingham, visibly uncomfortable, reacts.

“I’m the guy that pretty much launched all of this right here,” he told the councilmembers at the hearing. The incident occurred on his birthday, in front of his 18-year-old son. He says officers pulled up on the street in front of where he, his son, and friends were hanging out, in the Bellevue neighborhood of Southwest, hopped out of their car, and immediately asked them to surrender any guns they had.

“Everyone almost simultaneously said, ‘We don’t have no guns.’ The officer then said, ‘Lift up your shirt.’”

He recounted the emotional trauma that ensued from the officer’s invasive search.

“Those officers humiliated me in front of my child, in front of my friends, in my community, which my family paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for that house,” he said. “This is my community that I grew up in all of my life. I wasn’t doing anything wrong. I’m sitting there with my family and friends. Talking about doing something to enjoy my birthday.

And in this city, black men don’t get to see a lot of birthdays.”

Following Cottingham’s testimony, the ACLU of D.C. filed a lawsuit on July 18 against MPD Officer Sean Lojacono, who searched Cottingham. The suit alleges “unconstitutional and exceedingly invasive bodily search… without a warrant, reasonable suspicion, or probable cause.”

Other testimony came from 16-year-old Shawday Cunningham, who fought through tears as she recalled experiences of harassment from MPD officers.

“When I go outside, it’s officers following, saying ‘You can’t stand here … We go to the playground, they pull out their mace,” she said. “It is sad. It is really, really sad because a lot of youth are dying. Because they not getting the services the need… Y’all need to do better,” she told the councilmembers, after which AtLarge Councilmember Robert White personally extended an invitation to meet one-onone to discuss her experiences further.

It’s a hot-as-hell Monday morning, four days

after the hearings, and Jake Robinson and

his friends Jeremiah Johnson and Mike Ellis are sweating it out on the sidewalk across the street from Nook’s.

All three of them are 27 years old, grew up in the neighborhood together, and have been coming to Nook’s since they were kids. On this morning, they’re with about a half-dozen of their friends. They say they’re there on most days when they don’t have anything else going on—to hang out, catch up with each other, and, at least on this day, pass around blunts.

Though marijuana may be legal in the District, smoking it in public isn’t and carries a penalty of a fine and no more than 60 days in jail. For as long as Nook’s has been a popular spot for people in the neighborhood to hang out, it’s been just as popular a spot for MPD officers to patrol.

Johnson says that there are cops patrolling the area nearly every day. “If they don’t come around here all day, then we know they gonna be here at night,” he says. And, like the June 22 incident that was captured on video, their interactions with police haven’t been very positive.

“They walk up on you and brush you with their shoulder, assaultin’ you, but if you try and push them away then it becomes assault on you and you go to jail,” says Robinson. Ellis adds that often they “violate” him and his friends, asking them to “lift up” their shirts to check for guns, and then becoming hostile if people don’t comply.

There’s no general loitering law in D.C. that says Ellis and his friends can’t hang out in front of Nook’s—especially if no one has called to complain. Though marijuana use is frequent on the block, no one seems to mind.

“In the last year—in the last 365 days—since we been hanging right here, violence has went down 50 percent, statistically proven,” Ellis says.

A data check shows that he’s right. According to the MPD’s own crime map, data reveal that total crime within 1,000 feet of Nook’s Barbershop is down 50.52 percent this year compared to this point last year. And violent crime is down 58 percent.

“We’re policing our neighborhood with positivity. That’s all we doin’,” Ellis says.

“We ain’t out here causin’ the crimes, we out here bringin’ the crime down without violence. Half these kids and stuff runnin’ around, or crackheads—whatever you may call them, addicts—runnin’ around here breakin’ laws, we might know them … They might be our nephews and nieces, or our friends, or neighborhood kids that grew up under us that we need to teach the right way so that they won’t be goin’ through … what we goin’ through.”

Ellis, Robinson, and Johnson all feel as though their race explains why MPD officers like to patrol around Nook’s Barbershop and repeatedly harass them. “They not comin’ wherever you live at Kalorama Road,” Ellis says to the reporters. “They’re not hanging out in front of Harris Teeter. But you see that in front of Sunny’s Carryout or in front of Nook’s Barbershop or in front of Little Jewel’s [daycare].”

Elsewhere in Deanwood, residents are split about what’s happening in their community and what should be done. Many are critical of the MPD and feel as though they are unjustly and unfairly targeting people in their community who aren’t committing violent crimes. But at the same time, some feel as though something needs to be done about the violence in their community.

Darlene Williams, a Deanwood community leader, said it is time for families and young people to change. Williams, who used to live in Stoddert Terrace, still lives in the area, although the projects have since been torn down.

“The police ride past every day and they see the same people on the corner,” she says. “It is time for them to get up and get a job. Don’t be out on the block all the time.”

Meanwhile, Rev. Steve Young, pastor of Holy Christian House of Praise in Northeast, says that “some in the police department need to be stopped and frisked.” He’s concerned about certain officers’ conduct.

Over the years, Young has buried many of the young people killed in the streets. A wall in the foyer of his church is filled up with funeral programs of lives lost to street violence. He makes a concerted effort to reach out to their families. Still, he sees a concurrent problem with police in his community.

“I know the young men out there and what you are seeing is illegal search and seizure and the violation of people’s constitutional rights,” Young says. “Those brothers aren’t hurting anybody. It just looks like a bunch of hillbilly cowboys who are rounding up people like cattle.”

Newsham echoes both of them, admitting that MPD has flaws. “Sometimes it’s trust of the police on the people that are being sought, but frankly sometimes the police when they’re interacting with the community, they do it a wrong way. Wrong can be a bunch of different ways that make it wrong or exacerbate the situation.”

He also acknowledges the department’s successes. “When you go to the scene, if somebody has been the victim of a crime and the police come and they do their job in an appropriate way, people are very, very thankful for that.”

Young may be critical of the police, but he’s still adamant that something needs to be done about the proliferation of illegal drugs and guns in Deanwood. “The drug market is profitable, but where are the drugs coming from?

If [people] are getting high where are the rehabilitation programs to help them?”

For Councilmember Allen, the July 12 hearing was a necessary first step in addressing the growing divide between the MPD and the communities they serve. “It was painful to listen to at times,” he told City Paper in a follow-up interview. “But you’ve gotta make sure you give a space for people to tell you that they’re hurting.”

Greg Montross, the policy director of Stop Police Terror Project DC, which has been a harsh critic of the MPD, agrees. “I think it was a really important first step,” he says. But he’s

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A screenshot from the incident that took place at Nook’s Barbershop in late June.

Wards 7 and 8 communities.

“We’ve fallen into this pattern where community leaders often—maybe of the older guard—are the ones that are calling for more police and that allows the chief to say ‘Well, we’re hearing we need more police,’” Montross says. “But from our political leaders we need broader responses to these root causes that then leads to violence.”

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conflict with, it’s who’s wearing it. On the day after the hearing, when Newsham showed up at Nook’s, Robinson says “Basically, [he was asking] how can he make the area better with police officers, I just walked away,” he says.

Ellis explains that he and his friends don’t feel like the officers who patrol their neighborhood respect their community. He says they’re not from the area—or even D.C.—and “can’t

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skeptical about what will follow in the aftermath of the hearing.

It’s an understandable sentiment to want more police on the streets after a string of tragic shootings. Montross says his organization empathizes with that sentiment, but also stresses the importance of putting government funds and resources into other programs, such as ones focused on transportation, nutrition, housing, employment, and education in the

relate” to their lives and experiences. (Less than 20 percent of MPD officers were District residents as of 2013, according to MPD.) Newsham says he isn’t giving up. “I will actually go up there a couple times again just to develop a conversation with them.”

“We need officers that can relate to us,” Ellis says. “How about you find some officers that grew up in D.C.—they might not even have to have grown up in this area, but they grew up in D.C. and can relate to [us]… then they can come to us and know how to talk to us.” CP

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Changing Courses

Stephanie Ruidg

Restaurateurs take risks and hope for rewards when they reopen as a new concept.

By Laura Hayes When The Black Squirrel opened in Adams Morgan in 2007 replacing T.S. Muttly’s, it had the pull of The Great Gatsby’s green light— drawing the city’s nascent craft beer lovers in droves to try its list of more than 50 brews. Co-owners Tom Knott and Amy Bowman were years ahead of beer giants like ChurchKey and Meridian Pint and quickly cultivated a stable of regular customers who craved the loaded burgers and mussels.

“Amy and Tom purchased this Irish bar and turned it into The Squirrel and all of the sudden you had this magical combination of peo-

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ple who cared about beer, great food, and a relaxed, casual atmosphere,” says Drew Long, a former D.C. resident and Squirrel regular.

“I would frequent The Squirrel, once I discovered it, as much as I could.”

“It always felt homey and welcoming and I bonded with the bar staff and Amy and everyone there—I would get the mussels once a week,” says Marcos Harkness, another Squirrel regular and former D.C. resident.

“Whenever I got back to D.C., I would make a pilgrimage to check on Amy and see if the burger lived up to the memory.”

Knott moved on and in April 2017 Bowman sold the Adams Morgan location to AJ Fastow so she could focus on growing The Black Squirrel brand in northern Virginia. The first location outside D.C. opened in Dunn Loring last

summer and another is planned for Reston. “I loved every minute,” Bowman says of her time in Adams Morgan. “It was a special place for me. It was the people who made it such a wonderful place to work.”

Fastow and some silent partners operated The Black Squirrel without changing much for more than a year. But last week, Fastow announced the bar would close July 31 and reopen as a new concept, Seasons & Sessions, in September.

“We’re doing a tremendous renovation to the main floor,” Fastow says. “It’s been more gastropub divey and we want to make it a proper dining room.” He hired Chef Moe Atari to roll out a menu that leans heavily on Southern and Creole cuisines. Below the beautified dining room will be a downstairs bar and per-

formance space for comedy and brass bands.

While the transformation will be substantial, Fastow says he’s committed to maintaining the bar’s devotion to beer.

“Now that the neighborhood has changed, we feel it’s time for us to make a change as well,” Fastow says. He’s not wrong. Adams Morgan is quietly shedding its rowdy reputation and scaling up, with The Line Hotel leading the way.

“The real dive bars are dying out—Rumba Cafe is gone, Millie & Al’s is gone. Expectations from the neighborhood have gone up a little bit,” Fastow continues. “The more places that pop-up that have chefs of note who are cooking there with innovative styles puts more emphasis on keeping up with the Joneses.”

In order to stay competitive in D.C.’s constantly evolving dining scene, several restaurant and bar operators have recently closed their businesses and installed new concepts in the hopes of grabbing customers’ attention. This type of revamping hits the reset button, bumping an address back into the spotlight. In doing so, restaurateurs risk losing regular customers and name recognition.

They have to hope their research and commitment to their new ventures compensate for nostalgia.

Regulars aren’t convinced that gussying up The Black Squirrel will make it better. “Sprucing it up and making it fancier, you might lose some of the appeal,” says Scott Kinney, a current Mount Pleasant resident who used to trek to the bar from Crystal City. “I don’t know what will differentiate it from the rest of Adams Morgan … It won’t have the same sentimental value.”

Further up 18th Street NW, restaurateur John Andrade took the opposite approach, swinging from refined to relaxed. He and his business partner, Chef Logan McGear, opened Rosario in March 2017. The Italian restaurant named after McGear’s mentor, the late Rosario Patti, served dishes like duck confit carbonara and rockfish piccata, paired with Italian wines. This month it reopened as Rosario’s Tacos & Tequila serving nachos, tacos, and margaritas.

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“The food was great, nearly all of our reviews were four- and five-star reviews.” Ultimately though, Andrade felt that while they were able to fill the dining room on weekends, weekdays didn’t carry enough of a crowd to make the math work.

“There were a couple of things I never accounted for coming from the craft beer world with more casual dining,” Andrade says. He also owns Meridian Pint and its sister establishments, where lower prices and approachable food bring patrons in once or twice a week. “Dining out on Italian fare tends to be less frequent and more occasion-based.” Not having a private room to accommodate “never-ending” requests for parties also handicapped the restaurant.

Andrade began considering a rebrand this past winter and committed to it in the spring.

He went with a Mexican menu, partially because he grew up eating Latin food in a Colombian household and partially because it’s a cuisine many embrace since it doesn’t have to break the bank.

The abrupt shift has lead to some interesting pairings. “I had a woman in the other night that loved Rosario for all it was,” Andrade says.

“She was having tacos with wine. We still have some wonderful Italian wine.”

Andrade isn’t concerned that the area is already home to Los Cuates, Lauriol Plaza, El Tamarindo, and Johnny Pistolas. He compares his move to opening an Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End. “The more the merrier,” he says. “Everyone has liked it so far.”

Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj is also pleased with the response he’s getting at Sababa—the Israeli restaurant he opened in place of Ardeo + Bardeo in Cleveland Park. “Not to toot my own horn, but the customers say, ‘This is brilliant, what you did.’”

Bajaj operates several long-tenured restaurants in D.C. including 701 Restaurant and The Bombay Club. While he’s known to give his restaurants regular facelifts by hanging fresh art and bringing in new chefs, what he did on Connecticut Avenue NW is more dramatic. He first turned half the space into the Indian street food restaurant Bindaas in August 2016, and when that proved successful, he started considering how to replace what remained of Ardeo + Bardeo.

“Four years ago when things started to close down, I thought I better do something here,” Bajaj says. Palena, Nam-Viet, Ripple, Dino, and others didn’t make it. “The energy is moving to 14th Street and other neighborhoods.

What can I do that’s new and exciting to draw diners back?”

Unlike Andrade who went with a cuisine he enjoys and grew up with, Ashok seems to have astutely studied national trends. Many

food scribes named Israeli cuisine one of the biggest food trends of 2018, pointing to the success of restaurants like Philadelphia’s Zahav, New Orleans’ Shaya, and Montreal’s Damas.

For most of Ardeo + Bardeo’s tenure, Bajaj noticed diners were more traditional. They wanted their own salads and entrees. But with experimental Bindaas, he found people were more enticed to order small plates and share. That gave him the gumption to travel to Israel for research and make the leap with Sababa.

“We’re all afraid of change sometimes,” Bajaj says. “But what’s new, what’s new, what’s new? We’re in that era now with social media and the younger generation. Even the people who are older are saying, ‘Been there, done that.’” His advice to other restaurateurs facing a five-, 10-, or 20-year itch? “Don’t be afraid to change. It costs money and it’s a hard process, but if something is not working, change it.”

That’s exactly what Aziz Safi did with Panache in Golden Triangle. The restaurant that offered a menu of “Euro-Mediterranean tapas” was cutting edge when it opened in 2004. But a decade later, it was among a litany of global small plates restaurants in the District. “The first half of 12 years we did really well, then things were changing,” Safi says.

“You have to adapt.”

He closed the restaurant in August 2016 and reopened it as French American Le DeSales in March 2017 with Michelin-starred Chef Raphael Francois as his partner. “We thought the renovation wouldn’t take more than three to four months, but it took seven,” Safi says. “You can’t have old shoes with a new dress. You go and you keep adding, that’s the challenge.”

Safi’s strategy was to identify talent—Francois—and shape the concept around him.

The Le DeSales dinner menu features combinations like cantaloupe with duck prosciutto served with lemon sorbetto and bass with cranberries and cashews. Bar star Lukas B. Smith worked with Aleh Kazak to develop a cutting edge cocktail menu to match. But Safi knows that even with dynamite talent in the kitchen and behind the bar, there’s no guarantee new concepts will shine and regulars will return.

“Restaurant and food is like the fashion industry,” he says. “A fashion designer has so much talent, but not every design is going to work. Sometimes it clicks and you become a hot spot and sometimes with perfect execution, you don’t survive for too long. You have to keep that in mind when you go into the restaurant industry.”

CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Smashed salmon with black bean butter, wild mushrooms, and peas, $17, ChiKo. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

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What D.C.’s Drinking Right Now

Are You Gonna Eat That?

With close to a decade in the business and more than 3,500 clients in D.C., Maryland, and Delaware, Chris Schmid, director of wine and spirits for Prestige-Ledroit Distribution Company, can confidently discuss what denizens of the District drink. Below, he identifies four local beverage trends that just might inspire your next order.

—Laura Hayes 1. Mezcal’s meteoric rise has paved the way for more Mexican spirits.

“Obviously Mezcal is crushing it right now,” Schmid says. “That’s opening the door to several other esoteric spirits.” Most of them aren’t used in cocktails at high-volume bars because of their price point.

You’re more likely to sip them neat at bars that boast collections. (Think of Jack Rose Dining Saloon’s whiskey library.) “The modern consumer is less loyal to brands and more loyal to a category,” Schmid explains. Some other Mexican spirits to sample include sotol from Chihuahua, bacanora from Sonora, and raicilla from Jalisco. Espita Mezcaleria currently carries six raicillas, five sotols, and one bacanora.

2. Low-alcohol cocktails that won’t knock you out “I’ve started to see dedicated sections on cocktail lists devoted to low-alcohol drinks,” Schmid observes. Many of these low-alcohol cocktails swap heavy hitters

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rows devoted to them.” At the same time, “botanical vodkas” are entering the market.

“They should be called gin,” Schmid says.

“Judging by Tito’s sales, vodka is nowhere close to dying out, but at the end of the day it should be flavorless.”

3. Gin and vo d k a a r e starting to mimic each other.

“Gin is proliferating on shelves at a ra p i d p a ce, much like flavored vodkas used to,” according to Schmid. “Now there’s a gin for everyone. If you don’t like juniper, there’s one flavored with rhubarb for you.” He says American consumers are drifting away from juniper-heavy gins to ones with more subtle citrus notes or sweet aromatics. More countries are also getting into gin production. “When you used to go to a liquor store, there were six types of gin. There are now

4.Therapidresurgence of American brandy American brandy is one of the nation’s oldest categories of spirits, predating bourbon. “All of the classic cocktails like the Old Fashioned could have and should have been made with brandy,” Schmid says. “But an epidemic in France impacted the market and whiskey flourished.” Brandy—a spirit made from wine grapes—is much more aromatic.

Schmid says California has produced brandies for the past 20 to 30 years, but now producers from other parts of the country are entering the market. They include Copper & Kings from Kentucky and Catoctin Creek from Virginia.

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Cons: If you detest salty sandwiches, avoid this one, because the turkey isn’t shy on sodium. Those afraid of spreadable liver might find the healthy application of pâté offputting, but give it a chance—it’s good for you! Shout out to vitamins A and B-12.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 4. The first bites go off relatively well, but before

long, coleslaw flies everywhere, the bread starts to disintegrate, and you start sporting a mustard and pâté mustache. Extra napkins are essential for correcting your appearance, as are the mirrors that line the back wall of the restaurant.

Overall score (1 to 5): 4.5.

This big honker of a sandwich could probably feed two people, especially when you factor in the homemade chips served with it.

The flavor combinations wake up your tongue and expand your thinking about just what fits on a sub roll. In other words, The Good Silver is not a second place finisher.

—Caroline Jones

The Dish: Anson Mills “Charleston Gold” Brown Rice Where To Get It: Gravitas, 1401 Okie St. NE; (202) 763-7942; gravitasdc.com Price: Part of a tasting menu ($78 to $110 depending on the number of courses) What It Is: A mound of buttered rice speckled with wakame seaweed and shiso topped with a drizzle of sweet soy sauce and a poached egg. To make the dish, Chef Matt Baker first boils seaweed with soy sauce, sesame, honey, and kombu. He then uses the remaining broth to cook the rice. After he folds in the butter and diced seaweed, he tops the plate with a soy-poached egg yolk and herbaceous shiso that’s Japan’s answer to mint.

What It Tastes Like: All of the best characteristics of Japanese breakfast.

It’s briny, full of subtle umami flavor, and filling enough to give you energy to last the rest of the day. Baker can’t possibly have a light hand when it comes to the farm butter that gives the dish its fluffy, creamy qualities. The texture of the Charleston Gold rice proves why the brand is so trendy. “It’s almost like sushi,” Baker says. “You can feel the texture of every single grain.”

The Story: “It started because I have a 9-year-old stepdaughter who is a little picky, but she loves things that are plain and buttery,” Baker explains. He makes fluffy white rice laced with butter for her.

At the same time, the chef was looking for a way to include seaweed in the menu at his Ivy City restaurant that opened earlier this month. “It’s the next frontier, so I was looking for some applications that are cool,” he continues. So far the dish is popular. Gravitas has already gone through 30 pounds of a 50-pound bag of rice from Anson Mills. The dish is vegetarian like many of the selections on Gravitas’ locally driven menu, which is set up for diners to build their own tasting menus of four to seven courses.

—Laura Hayes

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War Stories

A recent Georgetown graduate blends her family’s history and supernatural elements in her debut novel.

By Kayla Randall Rebecca F. Kuang has vivid memories of begging for green bean popsicles.

She was born in Guangzhou, China, and every afternoon, she and her family would walk through a park, where she’d beg for a treat. They’re still her favorite snack.

Kuang and her family immigrated to the U.S. when she was 4. Her dad had always planned to move his family to the States, and they settled in Dallas, where she was raised. Attracted to Georgetown University’s strong debate program, she later moved to D.C. to attend college.

But it’s early memories of family time in China that drive her new book, The Poppy War. It follows a young orphan girl, bullied for her dark skin but in possession of great shamanic power, through a fictional, fantastical China. As a war rages on, the girl, Rin, tests into the most elite military academy in her empire and later finds herself in the fight of her life.

The book combines family lore, the fantasy novels she loves, and the Chinese history she has studied—including the horrifying 1937 Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops butchered and raped thousands of people, both soldiers and civilians, in the Chinese city of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. “As for the story itself, all of that comes from my family’s history during the turn of the century, their experiences in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and all of the tragedies that rocked China for one hundred years,” Kuang says. “It’s the backbone of the book.”

At the Clarendon Barnes & Noble, The Poppy War sits on a recommended reading shelf with other new and acclaimed releases. An in-store description of the book calls it “an unstoppable story that reads like a fantastic mash-up of Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy and the best Shaolin action film—and features a smart, sharp heroine facing unspeakable challenges in a world we never wanted to leave.”

Kuang began writing the book when she was 19 and managed to start, finish, and publish the book all before turning 22. She graduated from Georgetown this spring and will enter Cambridge’s modern Chinese studies program in the fall.

“I never really thought about age being a barrier,” she says.

She had read Eragon by Christopher Paolini, who started writing that book at the age of 15 and published it when he was 19. “It always seemed possible that you could write fantasy and get published at a ridiculously young age,” Kuang says.

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turned, she had long conversations with them and learned her family’s history in China. “I was steeped in that family legacy and decided I wanted to do something with it,” she says. The “something” evolved into the plot of The Poppy War, with some supplemental fantasy elements.

In China she worked a 9-to-5 job, but she noticed a significant absence: “For the first time in my life, I didn’t have homework,” she says. Since she had free time, she decided she wanted to start and finish at least one big project, figuring she’d never have the time to do it again. She set a goal to write 2,000 words every day and three months later, she had a manuscript. “Everything that has happened afterward is just a really pleasant surprise,” she says.

Kuang then got a literary agent, and on her 20th birthday the book went to auction and was sold to Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins. The Poppy War is the first installment in what will be a trilogy. She’s hard at work on the next installments.

Kuang calls interacting with her book once it’s out in the world strange. “You know how it feels to go back and look at old Facebook posts or diary entries? You’re like, ‘Wow, I wish I could burn all this.’ But I don’t get to do that with my work as a 19-year-old because it’s published and in bookstores and open for everyone to read.”

She’s proud of it, but she hasn’t read the book in its entirety

since its release, in part because she fears that she’ll find things she doesn’t like, such as bad sentences. She essentially taught herself how to write for her first book and has learned more since then. “It’ll probably be the worst thing I’ve ever written, only because I want to get better and better.” The worst thing she’ll ever write seems to be quite successful, landing on a variety of “Best Of ” lists and receiving praise from industry publications and major retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

When Kuang was growing up, she’d always beg her mother to take her to Barnes & Noble, where she’d get lost in a world of books. Seeing her book in the store remains surreal.

She found something poetic about living in D.C. while publishing a book about cultural identity, finding power within, and fighting back against a federation. She lived a 3-mile jog from the White House and had easy access to all of D.C.’s monuments. “It’s just so symbolic because I’m a massive history nerd” she says. “I love D.C. so much.” History of all sorts permeates the pages of The Poppy War. Everything she feels as an immigrant, as a young ChineseAmerican woman, is in the book. She carries the significance of that identity with her all the time. The last line of the acknowledgements calls out to her family: “Immigrants, we get the job done.”

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TheaTerCurtain Calls Barococo

A MAnySplendored Thing 50 Ways to Date your Aubrey

By Danny Rovin Directed by Lynn Sharp Spears At Caos on F to July 29

Nu SaSS ProductioNS is a Capital Fringe success story. Established in 2009 by Aubri O’Connor and Emily Todd, the company, which is dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in theater, expanded a few years back from solely presenting work in the festival to putting on at least two shows annually. “Frustratingly, a majority of our plays have been written by men,” O’Connor remarked to me in 2014, as her company was preparing to open Stone Tape Party, a play by Danny Rovin, a man.

Nu Sass’ latest offering, 50 Ways to Date your Aubrey, is a bit of a riddle. It’s a largely autobiographical (note the variation in the spelling of Aubri) almost-monologue, wherein O’Connor holds forth on her romantic history and philosophy—“ethical non-monogamy” is the descriptor she prefers over “polygamy”—as scripted by Rovin. He occasionally interrupts

the show to offer revisions, while stage manager Charles Lasky interjects to plead his innocence when the light and sound cues start misfiring. Moriah Whiteman is on hand, too, appearing as a succession of O’Connor’s exes and other characters.

But the story they’re all laboring to tell is still O’Connor’s, and as long as it’s coasting on her warmth and apparent candor as a raconteur, it’s a pleasure to sit through. After priming us to expect a learned disquisition on the nature of love and desire—Lynn Sharp Spears’ set surrounds O’Connor with faux Greek columns, and the show opens with the sound of harps—our narrator pretends that the technical glitches and an electronically distorted voice asking probing questions about her fears and regrets rattle her. She downshifts into a seemingly less ambitious set of dating stories. Dating stories are a sturdy genre of voyeuristic entertainment, especially when the tale-teller is as open-hearted and as free of vanity as O’Connor.

This is not a prurient collection of kiss-andtells, but rather a reflection on the complexities of forming multiple simultaneous emotional attachments, and an attempt on our thirtysomething narrator’s part to explain why she has chosen the problems of this approach to dating over the problems of monogamy. That’s grist enough for a 70-minute show without the affectations of the interrupting playwright and pretend-blown cues. Those metatheat-

rical pieces are executed with the professionalism you’d expect from an outfit that’s been at this for nearly a decade, and O’Connor is a dextrous enough comedian that watching her try to control her mock exasperation at her collaborators is no chore. Given the universality of the topic and the buoyancy of O’Connor’s persona, it’s hard to shake the sense that simpler might’ve been even better.

—Chris Klimek 923 F St. NW. $17. (866) 811-4111. capitalfringe.org.

Wig ouT Barococo

Presented by Happenstance Theater At Arena Stage to July 22 it may be a little early in the Fringe season to start handing out superlatives, but what the hell: Happenstance Theater’s Barococo features the best powdered wigs in the festival!

Also, the best fencing duel, the best-danced minuets, and the best harpsichord sonatas.

This is one high-quality costume drama, and if that genre seems off-brand for Fringe, well, it’s not. Happenstance Theater made its debut in 2006 at the very first Capital Fringe

Festival, and has since become one of the area’s top non-Equity theaters. You can’t miss them at the Helen Hayes Awards, because Sabrina Mandell, Mark Jaster, and their colleagues come dressed to the nines. And because they often win. Happenstance returned to Fringe for three more years after that 2006 debut, but retreated once their productions became too big to pack up in 15 minutes.

They got bookings at larger, stable venues like Round House Theatre and Theatre Project, and staged hits like Cabaret Macabre, BrouHaHa and Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville. But with the addition of a curated series at this year’s festival, Happenstance has been lured back. Fringe is producing Barococo and mounting it at Arena Stage, which means the company didn’t have to pony-up admission fees and wait to see whether they’d win a venue that could accommodate a harpsichord in the Fringe lottery. They wisely invested extra money into their costumes, and the results are absolutely fabulous.

Barococo looks like a Merchant Ivory Production, if Merchant Ivory were a physical comedy troupe. Mandell, Jaster, Sarah Olmsted Thomas, and Alex Vernon all have extensive training in traditional clowning. (That means mime and commedia del’arte, not red noses and over-crowded cars.) Most of their shows are set in a bygone era, with a distinct aesthetic and an original devised script.

No European history degree is necessary to guess that the six characters in Barococo date to the life and times of Marie Antoinette; the voluminous gowns and flower-adorned billowing pile of hair atop Thomas’ head clearly indicate the setting. When the lights come up, she is holding court in some sort of 18th century drawing room, where guests are amusing themselves with rapiers, decks of cards, and blindfolds.

There’s a more pointed premise for this variety show than just six rich French people playing parlor games, but you’ll have to piece that together as the hour-long comedy progresses. For the first 40 minutes or so, witty innuendo carries the day. Thomas spreads her legs and sits for a cello lesson with an onstage musician named Doppio (Karen Hansen). Thomas needs help with, among other things, finding the G-String and playing a “hard F.” A bit later in the show, tensions rise and a discussion about animal husbandry (raising cocks, etc.) dissolves into allegations of bestiality.

It turns out there’s a reason these fancy folks are a little stressed out, and the tonal switch from merriment to unease would benefit from a smoother segue. But this is still a captivating comedy. The final moments of the show perfectly marry both physical comedy and political tragedy in a way only an established Washington-based company can.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel 1101 6th St. SW. $17. (866) 811-4111. capitalfringe.org.

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More Money, More ProbleMs Dark Money

Directed by Kimberly Reed Running afoul of campaign finance laws may seem quaint in our political climate.

But you’ll still be alarmed at the goings-on in Dark Money, Kimberly Reed’s deep dive into contribution corruption in Montana’s state government.

“Dark money” refers to funds given to nonprofit organizations, which then use the funds to influence elections through methods such as anti-candidate mailers. There is no limit to how much these nonprofits can receive, and they are not required to name the donors. The IRS refers to them as “social welfare organizations,” but Montana begs to differ: Corporations donate the majority of contributions in order to indirectly advocate for candidates who support certain legislation. And often it’s not for the greater good.

The film makes it clear that the state election system didn’t always allow this. In fact, for nearly 100 years, Montana had the Cor-

rupt Practices Act of 1912 on the books, forbidding corporations from giving to political campaigns. But in 2010, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that such state laws violated the “free speech rights of corporations,” giving them the go-ahead to donate as they pleased.

John Adams, an investigative journalist who shepherds much of the documentary, notes that the subsequent proliferation of social welfare organizations basically made bribery OK in the eyes of the law. He describes it this way: “It’s the government controlled by a corporation controlling the people, which is, like, su-

per crazy big brother, but it’s happening.”

Adams is a recurring figure here, though it may take you a bit to realize this—Reed films him with various states of facial hair, from clean-shaven to bearded to bearded with a handlebar mustache. But continuity doesn’t seem as important to the director as throwing as many facts as she can at the viewer. It may be difficult for anyone unfamiliar with dark money in general, and Montana politics in particular, to initially grasp what’s being alleged. Reed fails to ease into the subject and takes quite a while to get into a storytelling groove that’s sufficient enough to let you follow the narrative. At one early point, there’s a blip about the state’s Berkeley Pit, a copper mine that’s now filled with “poison acid water.” “We are in that position because of outof-control corporations buying our politics,” an offscreen commentator who sounds like Adams says. Why exactly? Specifics remain unknown; the point is it’s bad.

Dark Money likewise does itself a disservice by touching on controversial out-of-state figures such as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Koch brothers—who founded the social welfare group Americans for Prosperity—further giving the film a scattered feel.

For much of the time, though, it focuses on an organization alternately called American Tradition Partnership and Western Tradition Partnership. In the final chapter, Reed stops to breathe, taking a close look at the trial of onetime Montana state Senator Art Wittich, who was accused of accepting and not disclos-

ing the services of ATP/WTP—and therefore essentially accepting illegal corporate donations—during his 2010 campaign.

But wait: Didn’t the Supreme Court say that corporate donations are cool? Aren’t Montana politics super crazy big brother like the rest of the country’s? Too often there’s crucial information that gets lost here. In this film, it’s not just money that’s kept in the dark.

—Tricia Olszewski Dark Money opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

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Teen Issues Eighth Grade

Directed by Bo Burnham The fiRsT Thing that stands out about Eighth Grade is the acne. Kayla (Elsie Fisher), the film’s 14-year-old protagonist, has bad skin. This may be common in middleschoolers, but it’s downright rare onscreen.

The teenagers of Hollywood vocally complain about pimples, but their faces are always blemish-free. Eighth Grade is all about the blemishes, inside and out.

The winning debut film from stand-up comic Bo Burnham (who writes and directs) is a study of Kayla, a typical teenager suffering through her last week of middle school, when the gulf between who we are and who we want to be seems desperately wide. She’s not an adult yet, but she can see it up ahead and is pushing herself to get there as soon as possible. So she stumbles over her words and almost never says what she means. She mostly looks at the ground when she talks, anyway.

At a pool party, she’s the only one of her friends who still wears a one-piece swimsuit. Kayla’s insecurity is always palpable. It’s cringe comedy without the comedy.

The film’s deep empathy for the adolescent experience is a point in its favor, but it sometimes makes the film hard to watch. As the story begins, Kayla has decided to start “putting herself out there” in preparation for high school. She tries to make friends with some popular girls and has a plan to turn a cute boy into her boyfriend. But she’s not Ferris Bueller or Cher from Clueless, adorably scheming her way in and out of trouble. She’s going to fail, and it’s going to hurt.

That’s essentially the entire story of Eighth Grade. There is no homecoming dance or big game to serve as a climax. The film even skips her graduation ceremony, wisely and tellingly showing us only the moments just before it and just after. Without such externalities to drive the plot, the film succeeds almost entirely on the strength of its lead performance. Fisher is absolutely remarkable, maneuvering Kayla’s contradictions (she’s shy at school, but is effervescent when making self-help YouTube videos at home) with such skill that you never catch her acting. It’s the first time in a long time you’ll look at the screen and see someone who really looks, sounds, and feels like a teenager.

It’s simply a life being lived.

It’s also the rare coming-of-age story that carries not a whiff of nostalgia. All movies are made by adults who will naturally remember their teenage years as a series of wacky hijinks and obstacles bested. It’s a way of justifying their present. These films are told in the past tense, but Eighth Grade is told in the present. Adults in the audience may know that Kayla’s courage amid emotional pain is laying the groundwork for future happiness, but Kayla herself has no idea, and the film stays painfully close to her perspective.

Without the benefit of hindsight, Kayla’s survival—in eighth grade, high school, and even in life—is not assured, and every bit of interpersonal drama, like when her father conspicuously spies on her first outing at the mall with some new friends, carries life and death stakes. Remember that? This is what adolescence feels like, and this is what we worked hard to forget. If Eighth Grade is sometimes too painful to be enjoyable, well, we can’t blame it for telling the truth.

—Noah Gittell Eighth Grade opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

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Though it seems like we’re living in dark times, there is a glimmer of hope: Janelle Monáe has apparently been sent from the future to save us from our current predicament. Her visual album Dirty Computer blasted into our stratosphere from parts unknown, and depicted a neondrenched digital dystopia where women, queer people, and people of color are deemed noncompliant “dirty computers.” Futurism has long been a part of Monáe’s work, with many of her previous albums centered around the exploits of her robotic proxy character, Cindi Mayweather. She’s ditched the alter ego to make her most personal album yet, a celebration of all aspects of her identity, as well as a sort of extended coming out. The political is always personal, and many of the tracks on Dirty Computer brim with her righteous indignation at the current political climate. Cindi Mayweather may have been a messiah, but these tracks are far from preachy—instead, Monáe seems to think the best way to #resist is to get asses shaking in spite of the despair. She’s also an incredible live performer, simultaneously theatrical and down-toearth, and in the dramatic setting of The Anthem, she’s sure to mess you up, but no one does it better. Janelle Monáe performs at 8 p.m. at The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. $55–$75. (202) 888-0020. theanthemdc.com.

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

Chatham County Line. 8 p.m. $20–$40. thehamiltondc.com.

eCHostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Plan B. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com.

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

Hollertown. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

ELECtRONIC FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Low Steppa. 4 p.m. $15. flashdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

SAtuRDAY

betHesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Musiq Soulchild. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $69.50–$78. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Jaws in Concert. 8:30 p.m. $40–$65. wolftrap.org.

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

Ar’mon & Trey. 7 p.m. $18–$103. ustreetmusichall.com.

CLASSICAL

Tickets on sale TODAY at 10am at Ticketmaster.com/800-745-3000.

30 An Evening of Music & Storytelling with

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

Nicki Bluhm. 8 p.m. $20–$29.50. thehamiltondc.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Poncho Sanchez. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

An Evening with Washington, DC

COWBOY JUNKIES 29 MOTHER'S FINEST

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. AHI. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

JAzz

Washington, DC

Green NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND Aberdeen Janie THE BACON BROTHERS Barnett Kentucky 25 SHELBY LYNNE Avenue Fri. April 26, 2019 8pm Warner Theatre

aMP by stratHMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Al Stewart. 8 p.m. $30–$50. ampbystrathmore.com.

wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Queen Latifah and Common. 8 p.m. $45–$105. wolftrap.org.

Warner Theatre

July 19 ow 2nd Sh 20,21Added! &22

FOLk

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

August Alsina. 8 p.m. $45–$75. thehowardtheatre. com.

Presented by

Tickets at Ticketfly.com/877-435-9849.

ten tigers Parlour 3813 Georgia Ave. NW. (202) 506-2080. Anthony Naples. 10 p.m. $10–$15. tentigersdc.com.

FillMore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Tory Lanez. 8 p.m. $30–$102. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Washington, DC

Washington, DC

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Mule Musiq Night. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

HIp-HOp

Presented by

by - 8pm Fri. Nov. 30 - Fri. 8pmNov. 30Presented

ELECtRONIC

betHesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Musiq Soulchild. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $69.50–$78. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Presented by

Tickets at Ticketfly.com/877-435-9849.

Tickets at Ticketfly.com/877-435-9849.

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

6 String Drag. 9 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

tHe antHeM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Janelle Monáe. 8 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com.

Washington, DC

Tickets at Ticketfly.com/877-435-9849. with

with

COuNtRY

FuNk & R&B

Presented by

Tickets at Ticketfly.com/877-435-9849.

Washington, Fri. Nov. 30 DC - 8pm

FRIDAY

library oF Congress JaMes MaDison builDing 101 Independence Ave. SE. (202) 707-5000. Jeff and Gerret Warner. 7 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

Fri. Nov. 30 - 8pm

with

Sean AMANDA SHIRES Rowe 3 BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN

2

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

4

JAKE SHIMABUKURO Christie Lenee 9&10 TOAD THE WET SPROCKET 11 AARON NEVILLE 12 MORRIS DAY & THE TIME 13 MINDI ABAIR & THE BONESHAKERS Michelle 14 SHAWN MULLINS Malone 5

"Soul's Core Revival Tour"

the FIXX

15 16

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Jake The Rapper. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Kash’d Out and Edjacated Phools. 8:30 p.m. $13. gypsysallys.com.

Adam Ezra

Felix Cavaliere & Gene Cornish’s

RASCALS

with special guest Carmine Appice

JEFF DANIELS & BEN DANIELS BAND 19 JEAN-LUC PONTY 18

JAzz

"The Atlantic Years"

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Poncho Sanchez. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

20 &21

JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Hot Lanes. 1 p.m. $15. jamminjava.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Project Natale. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

KINA GRANNIS Imaginary Future

JOHN HIATT & THE GONERS SONNY LANDRETH

featuring

22

The Voice of the Moody Blues

JUSTIN HAYWARD

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CITY LIGHTS: SAtuRDAY

SUMMER

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

DEAFHEAVEN

QUEEN LATIFAH COMMON

JAWS IN CONCERT

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JUL 20

JUL 21

The Sturm und Drang surrounding San Francisco’s Deafheaven are not limited to music. The band, which incorporates ethereal post-rock and shoegaze with elements of black metal, has elicited strong reactions throughout their career. Following the release of 2013’s Sunbather, the band found itself in the unexpected position of being embraced by a record-listening public not usually keen on acts like Darkthrone and Emperor. Predictably, this led to a healthy chorus of provisional metalheads who cried foul, demanding that these types of demonic sounds come solely from corpse-painted Norwegians. Fair enough, I suppose. But outside of the hype and backlash, the band has produced consistently engaging albums and their live shows are as theatrical and intense as one might expect. Deafheaven have been slowly incorporating more tuneful elements into their cacophony as heard on the newly released Ordinary Corrupt Human Love which includes a few instances of—gasp!—actual singing. The drama rages on. Deafheaven perform at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $20. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Matt Siblo

CASINO ROYALE IN CONCERT

JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT

OpERA

JUL 22

JUL 24

BERNSTEIN AT 100

A CELEBRATION NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JUL 27 THE BEST OF

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

HANSON STRING THEORY

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AUG 4

BRYAN ADAMS

WAGNER’S RING

AUG 5

JUL 28

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO’S REMAIN IN LIGHT FEMI KUTI AND THE POSITIVE FORCE

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

YANNI

LIVE AT THE ACROPOLIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

AUG 7

VERDI’S RIGOLETTO

FEATURING BROADWAY STARS LIVE IN CONCERT

JUL 29

WOLF TRAP OPERA NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AUG 3

DISNEY’S BROADWAY HITS

WITH WOLF TRAP ORCHESTRA

AUG 9

ROCk CASINO ROYALE LICENSED BY MGM. CASINO ROYALE © 2006 DANJAQ, UNITED ARTISTS. AND RELATED JAMES BOND TRADEMARKS, TM DANJAQ. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TM & © UNIVERSAL STUDIOS.

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

barns at wolF traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Roméo et Juliette. 7:30 p.m. $36–$92. wolftrap.org. tHe antHeM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Greta Van Fleet. 8 p.m. $35–$55. theanthemdc.com. birCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Bacon Brothers. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Poster Children. 7 p.m. $15–$18. dcnine.com.

union stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Toni Romiti. 7:30 p.m. $18–$20. unionstage.com.

JAzz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Poncho Sanchez. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

OpERA

barns at wolF traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aria Jukebox. 3 p.m. $36–$50. wolftrap.org.

pOp

JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Crowded Streets. 10 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com.

JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Zac Clark. 7:30 p.m. $12–$20. jamminjava.com.

MerriweatHer Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Dispatch. 7 p.m. $46–$56. merriweathermusic.com.

birCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Bacon Brothers. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

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

Ezra Mae and the Gypsy Moon. 8 p.m. $13. rockandrollhoteldc.com. state tHeatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. On the Border - The Ultimate Eagles Tribute. 9 p.m. $12–$15. thestatetheatre.com.

SuNDAY CLASSICAL

wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Casino Royale in Concert. 8:30 p.m. $40–$65. wolftrap.org.

ROCk

FillMore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Blackberry Smoke. 7:30 p.m. $27–$81. fillmoresilverspring.com. songbyrD MusiC House anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Really From. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

MONDAY COuNtRY

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

Sam Lewis. 8 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

COuNtRY

JAzz

songbyrD MusiC House anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Daniel Donato. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Fairfax Swing Jazz Ensemble. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

ELECtRONIC

ROCk

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. 16 Bit Lolitas. 4 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

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FuNk & R&B

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. D.O.A. 7:30 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

THIS SATURDAY!

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

Dispatch w/ Nahko and Medicine for the People & Raye Zaragoza ....... JUL 21

THIS SUNDAY!

DC101 KERFUFFLE FEATURING

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

David Byrne w/ Benjamin Clementine ....................................................... JUL 28

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Deafheaven w/ Drab Majesty & Uniform ............................................... Sa JUL 21 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Sleep (performing Holy Mountain) w/ Dylan Carlson ................................ M 23

VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEAT.

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

Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker

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

JULY

AUGUST (cont.)

That 70s Party featuring

DJ Dredd’s MJ + Prince Dance Party

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

with visuals by Robin Bell .....Sa 25 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Blisspop Disco Fest (F 31 - Claptone • Francois K •

AUGUST

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

Charles Feelgood • Eau Claire) & (Sa 1 - Giorgio Moroder • Ultra Naté • Will Eastman) .....F AUG 31 & Sa SEP 1

SEPTEMBER

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

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

FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! EARLY

AEG PRESENTS

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

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

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

Jeremih w/ Teyana Taylor & DaniLeigh ..Sa 11 Seu Jorge .................................W 15 Mura Masa ................................F 17 DC Music Rocks Festival feat.

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

Los Amigos Invisibles ...........F 14 Joey Coco Diaz This is a seated show. ......................Sa 15

FIDLAR w/ Dilly Dally & NOBRO ..............Tu 18

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

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

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FIVE FOR FIGHTING with String Quartet ...... SEPTEMBER 16

YEARS & YEARS

................................................................. OCTOBER 11

THE BYT BENTZEN BALL

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness Live

Early Show! 4:30pm Doors ........................................................................SAT OCTOBER 27

Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, & Friends

Late Show! 8:30pm Doors .....................................................................SAT OCTOBER 27

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

On Sale Friday, July 20 at 10am

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Whethan w/ Sweater Beats & Andrew Luce

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

930.com

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

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Shannon And The Clams

Vacationer w/ Sego .............................. F 17 w/ Big Huge & Gauche ................... Th JUL 26 Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line 10th Anniversary Tour ...................... Sa 18 Lydia w/ Jared and The Mill & Cherry Pools ................................ Tu AUG 7 Striking Matches ............................. Sa 25 • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

THIS WEDNESDAY!

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

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

#ADULTING with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

Early Show! 5:30pm Doors.......... FRI OCT 26 SMART FUNNY & BLACK FEAT.

Amanda Seales (HBO’s Insecure) Late Show! 9pm Doors .......... FRI OCT 26 THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT

Tig Notaro & Friends ..... OCT 28 MADISON HOUSE PRESENTS

Kamasi Washington Garbage w/ Rituals of Mine Version 2.0 20th Anniversary Tour ... OCT 22 w/ Butcher Brown ...........................NOV 10 • thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

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

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

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

THE BYT BENTZEN BALL THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL

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

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songbyrD MusiC House anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Dales. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com. warner tHeatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. #YES50: Celebrating 50 Years of YES. 8 p.m. $37–$77. warnertheatredc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SuNDAY

SLEEp

WORLD

CHUCK PROPHET & the

MISSION EXPRESS W/ JEREMY & THE HARLEQUINS

THURSDAY

JULY 19

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

NICKI BLUHM W/ PETER OREN TRIO FRIDAY JULY

20

kenneDy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuESDAY COuNtRY

wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit. 8 p.m. $35–$65. wolftrap.org.

FOLk

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Charlie Parr. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

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

Mammoths. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

JAzz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jeff Antoniuk & John D’Earth Quintet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

ROCk

tHe antHeM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Courtney Barnett. 8 p.m. $40–$60. theanthemdc. com.

SAT, JULY 21

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Summer Salt.

8 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

W/ KATE RHUDY

wolF traP tHeatre-in-tHe-wooDs 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Danny Weinkauf and his Red Pants Band. 10:30 a.m. $10. wolftrap.org.

CHATHAM COUNTY LINE WED, JULY 25

TAB BENOIT W/ SCOTTY BRATCHER SAT, JULY 28

AN EVENING WITH CHOPTEETH

AFROFUNK BIG BAND

Nearly 20 years after the release of their last proper album, doom metal marijuana enthusiasts Sleep unexpectedly dropped their latest resin-encrusted opus, The Sciences, earlier this year on 4/20. Bearded black light poster enthusiasts continue to rejoice.

Curiously, the band has taken this momentous occasion—a new record universally lauded by a fan base that was ravenous for one— to celebrate the past. On Sunday, the band begins a two-night run at 9:30 Club where they will be commemorating 1992’s Holy Mountain, an unimpeachable classic of the genre that launched 1,000 riffs in its wake. As if this weren’t enough, opening is Dylan Carlson of the band Earth, a fellow torchbearer of influential monosyllabically named drone metal. His latest solo album, Conquistador, was released this April, described by Carlson as the soundtrack to “an imaginary Western.” Far out, man. Sleep perform with Dylan Carlson at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $35.

(202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Matt Siblo

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

WORLD

kenneDy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Arun Ramamurthy Trio. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

WEDNESDAY BLuES

WED, AUG 1

AN EVENING WITH DEAD

tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Tab Benoit. 7:30 p.m. $25–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

ON LIVE

THURS, AUG 2

AN EVENING WITH

LIVE DEAD & RIDERS 69 FRI, AUG 3

AN EVENING WITH JOHN

KADLECIK

SAT, AUG 4

JUAN DE MARCOS & THE AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS THURS, AUG 9

AN EVENING WITH

THE GARCIA PROJECT FRI, AUG 10

COuNtRY

birCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Shelby Lynne. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Nikki Lane. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ELECtRONIC

sounDCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429.

Shades. 10 p.m. $12–$15. soundcheckdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Karen Linette. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Pleasure Train and Throwing Plates. 8 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com. sixtH & i HistoriC synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Fantastic Negrito. 8 p.m. $20–$25. sixthandi.org.

NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS

JAzz

FEAT. SPECIAL GUEST JENNIFER HARTSWICK

twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Joe Vetter Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

SAT, AUG 11

pOp

AN EVENING WITH

THUNDERSTRUCK AMERICA’S AC/DC WED, AUG 15

TORONZO CANNON

W/ VANESSA COLLIER

wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Charlie Puth. 7 p.m. $35–$75. wolftrap.org.

ROCk

tHe antHeM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Echo & The Bunnymen and Violent Femmes. 8 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Wilder Maker. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com.

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

The Dave Matthews Tribute Band. 8 p.m. $15–$55. thehowardtheatre.com.

THEHAMILTONDC.COM

linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Blackmore’s Night. 7:30 p.m. $45. thelincolndc.com.

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BASELItz: SIX DECADES

“I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society,” says German artist and sculptor Georg Baselitz. “And I didn’t want to reestablish an order: I had seen enough of so-called order.” Destruction is one of many themes that plays a significant role in both the art and life of Baselitz, who grew up in the chaotic atmosphere of post-war East Germany. Through art styles ranging from wooden sculptures to large-scale expressive paintings, Baselitz explores a wide range of themes; among them German national identity, the human figure, and the inherent strength of the human condition. Baselitz is now widely regarded as one of Germany’s greatest living artists. Baselitz: Six Decades, the first major U.S. retrospective on the artist in more than 20 years, chronologically traces Baselitz’s career of lifelong artistic experimentation and features more than 100 of his works, many never before displayed in the U.S. Among these works are his celebrated “Fracture” series, which underscores the resilience of the German people following World War II, and controversial works such as his 1962 creation “The Naked Man,” which was seized by authorities for its obscene content when first displayed. Visitors now have the chance to witness Baselitz’s creative genius and celebrate his continued impact on American contemporary art—until September 16, at least. The exhibition is on view to Sept. 16 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu.

—Rose Shafer

CITY LIGHTS: tuESDAY

GENERAtION GAp

A few years ago, I got a chance to experience the brilliance of The Second City’s show Black Side of the Moon and it has forever changed my relationship with Popeyes fried chicken. The outrageously talented comedy troupe known for their improv talent machine delivered a show that was equal parts scathing and hilarious. The performance, delivered right after we discovered that the fate of our country was in the hands of blonde Boris and Natasha, provided enough levity for me to ponder why exactly I still devoured buckets of Popeyes when I knew it was slowly killing me and feeding me remixed Aunt Jemima tropes at the same time. I haven’t walked into a Popeyes since. Such is the power of well-executed satire in an age where criticism is taken as assault, and The Second City has proven themselves to be powerful. The Kennedy Center brings the troupe to the Theater Lab for their latest offering: The Second City’s Generation Gap...Or, How Many Millennials Does It Take to Teach a Baby Boomer to Text Generation X? The group takes on the battle of the generations as it excavates the oh so powerful millennial generation. The show promises to be interactive, thoughtful and most importantly funny AF! The show runs to Aug. 12 at the Kennedy Center Theater Lab, 2700 F St. NW. $49–$59. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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ottessa MosHFegH Ottessa Moshfegh’s compelling novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation tells the story of a woman with a seemingly idealistic existence who tries to escape her life by spending a year under the influence. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 25. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

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

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

saM Pizzigati Sam Pizzigati discusses his new book The Case for a Maximum Wage, which proposes the benefits of limiting top incomes to create a world without the super rich. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 24. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

generation gaP This Second City production, a new original work for Kennedy Center audiences, showcases a battle of the ages from the Greatest Generation to the latest generation. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 12. $49–$59. 202467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

sCott rayMonD einberger Environmental historian Scott Raymond Einberger chats about his new book With Distance in His Eyes, a comprehensive biography of former secretary of the interior Scott Udall, best known for his successes in environmental protection and natural resource conservation. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 22. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. steven uJiFusa In his novel Barons of the Sea, Steven Ujifusa explores the history of the race to build the world’s fastest clipper ship in the mid 19th century, profiling a handful of the visionary shipbuilders involved. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. July 25. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867.

HaMilton Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit finally comes to the Kennedy Center. The world famous hiphop musical chronicles the extraordinary life of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 16. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

H.M.s. PinaFore The Hypocrites present Olney Theatre audiences with their zany take on comic twoact opera H.M.S. Pinafore. In their playful reimagining of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic sailor love story, instead of the high seas, the story takes place at a slumber party with pajama-clad sailors. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Aug. 19. $30–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. on tHe town When three young sailors on shoreleave come to 1944 New York City to find love, two stumble into romances and one searches for a beau-

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The sprawling multidisciplinary works by Trevor Paglen at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibition Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen are said to expose the frameworks of secrecy. It’s a bracing premise, often delivered brilliantly—Paglen was a 2017 MacArthur “genius” grantee—but sometimes in a way that’s overwrought.

Paglen, a native of Camp Springs, Maryland, has cleverly documented California’s Pelican Bay State Prison with the unnatural, glowing red and orange light it emits. In a neat turn of the tables, he’s developed an inspired system to locate and photograph spy satellites, located the drab undersea cables that form the backbone of the internet, and photographed classified military sites from legal distances, producing images that range from heavily pixelated to dreamily Rothko-esque. Unfortunately, Paglen’s relentless focus on secrecy sometimes seems hyped and, for those so inclined, can feed a conspiratorial appetite. Meanwhile, his recent forays into artificial intelligence are promising but often technically inscrutable. The finest of his recent work is more visceral: a milky green cube composed of materials from New Mexico’s Trinity nuclear test site and the Fukushima reactor disaster, to be viewable at Fukushima only once safety allows. The exhibition is on view to Jan. 6, 2019 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F Streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7970. americanart.si.edu.

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The perfect mix of 1950s doowop sweetness and garage rock snarl, the band appeals to all of the classic high school tropes: the greasers, the punks, the nerds, and perhaps most importantly, those who just came to dance. The band’s touchstones don’t fully do them justice—anyone can add some classic girl group harmonies to a revved up rocker. Part of what distinguishes them is the enrapturing rasp of lead singer Shannon Shaw, who emanates the lacerating humor and heartsick drama of a lover who was severely wronged. Over the course of six albums, the band has gradually cleaned up the scuzz around its edges and this year’s Onion—produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach—is surely the Clams’ most accessible. If there’s any justice in this world, a stunner like “Backstreets� will gradually find its way onto next year’s prom playlists. Shannon & the Clams perform at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $15. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com. —Matt Siblo ty he saw on a subway poster—all before being shipped off to war. This production, set to an exuberant Leonard Bernstein score, stars favorite D.C. actors, including Evan Casey, Tracy Lynn Olivera, and Rachel Zampelli. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To July 22. $54–$84. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

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tHe Pirates oF PenzanCe The Hypocrites, an innovative Chicago theater company, brings its critically-acclaimed version of The Pirates of Penzance to the Olney Theatre Center. The Pirates of Penzance is a two-act comic opera centering on young pirate Frederic whose Leap Year birthday becomes his undoing, with iconic music and lyrics by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Aug. 19. $30–$74.

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tHe equalizer 2 Denzel Washington returns as a vigilante serving his brand of justice after his friend and colleague is murdered. Co-starring Pedro Pascal and Bill Pullman. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

tHe wonDerFul wizarD oF oz Synetic Theater presents a brand new adaptation of this classic tale about a girl named Dorothy who turns the land of Oz upside down. Based on L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece of the same name, Synetic’s version will feature verbal and nonverbal communication converging. Davis Performing Arts Center at Georgetown University.

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He is not going to leave his wife for you, and you shouldn’t assume his wife is going to leave him if (or when) this affair is discovered (or exposed). Divorce may be the default setting in the United States in the wake of an affair, TMI, but Europeans take a much more, well, European attitude toward infidelity. Definitely not cricket, not necessarily fatal.

And you don’t need him to leave his wife for you, TMI. OK, OK—you’re in love, and the three weeks you’ve managed to spend together were amazing. But don’t fall into the trap of believing a romantic relationship requires a tidy ending; film, television, and literature beat it into our heads that romantic relationships end either happily at the altar (à la Pride and Prejudice) or tragically at the morgue (à la Forensic Files). But romantic relationships take many forms, TMI, as does romantic success. And this relationship, such as it is, this relationship as-is, sounds like an ongoing success.

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While on vacation, I went for a full body massage.

The first half of the massage—me on my stomach—was great. When the masseuse asked me to flip on my back, things took a turn. She uncovered one of my legs and began massaging my thigh. As she worked on my inner thigh, her finger grazed my scrotum. Then it happened again. And again.

She was working on my thigh, but it felt like I was getting my balls caressed. I began to worry I was getting a visible erection. Then I started to panic when I felt like I might actually come. (I have always had issues with premature ejaculation.) I tried hard to clamp down and think about baseball and senior citizens, but I wound up having an orgasm. She eventually moved to my arms, shoulders, etc., but meanwhile I’m lying there with jizz cooling on myself. Am I guilty of #metoo bad behavior? Should I have said something or asked her to stop? Is it possible she didn’t have any clue? (My penis was never uncovered and I didn’t create an obvious wet spot on the sheet.) I tipped her extra, just in case she was mortified, though I didn’t get the sense she was because nothing changed after I came in terms of her massaging me. (She didn’t hurry away from my legs or rush to finish my massage.) I still feel really weird about the whole thing.

I get massages frequently, this has never happened before, and I certainly didn’t go into it looking for this result.

—Lost Opportunity At De-escalation If it all went down as you described, LOAD, you aren’t guilty of “#metoo bad behavior.”

It’s not uncommon for people to become unintentionally aroused during a nonerotic massage; it’s more noticeable when it happens to men, of course, but it happens to women, too.

“Erections do happen,” a masseuse told me when I ran your letter past her. “So long as guys don’t suddenly ask for a ‘happy ending,’ expose themselves, or—God help me—attempt to take my hand and place it on their erection, they haven’t done anything wrong.”

Since this hasn’t happened to you before, LOAD, I don’t think you should waste too much time worrying about it happening again. But if you’re concerned this one massage created a powerful erotic association and you’re likely to blow a load the next time a masseuse so much as looks at one of your thighs, go ahead and have a quick wank before your appointment.

—DS Living my truth permits others in my fairly conservative circles—Christian family struggling to accept a gay son, colleagues in a traditionally masculine field—to accept gay/other/different folks. I identify as a bottom, and until recently I thought I had erectile dysfunction because I would literally go soft at the thought of topping another man. I should mention that I’m black in the Pacific Northwest, so there is this odd “BBC” fixation and an expectation from many guys that

I will top. However, I am usually very submissive and drawn to hypermasculine, dominant guys.

But I recently noticed an attraction to married guys—specifically, submissive bottom masculine/ muscular married guys who like to wear lingerie.

I met a few and became this dominant guy who fit the stereotype most guys expect when they see me online or in person. Now I’m very confused.

I tried topping recently, because a married guy begged me to. He said, “You’ll never know if you like it until you try it!” Which is the same thing my traditional uncles have said to me about women.

My life would be so much easier if I just married a woman! So this sudden turn from bottom to top is troubling me. I don’t think it is possible to turn straight, but I didn’t think I was a top until a few weeks ago. So am I capable of turning straight?

That would validate everything my homophobic family members have said. I’m repulsed by vaginas but fascinated by boobs. Have you seen/heard of things like this?

—Praying The Straight Away If you’re a regular reader, PTSA, you’ve seen letters in this space from straight-identified guys into cock. Many of these guys have described themselves as being fascinated by cock but repulsed by men; some of these guys seek out sex with trans women who’ve kept their dicks. Your thing for hot guys in lingerie and your thing for boobs might be the gay flip of this erotic script—boobs fascinate you, but you’re not into the genitalia most women have. Muscular guys in lingerie turn you on— big pecs can fill out a lacy bra just as alluringly as big boobs—and it’s possible you might enjoy being with a trans woman who got boobs but kept her dick.

All that said, PTSA, discovering after years of bottoming that you enjoy topping certain types of men—masculine/muscular married guys who beg for your dick while wearing lingerie—doesn’t mean you’re “capable” of turning straight. Going from bottom to versatile isn’t the same thing as going from men to women. And being fascinated by a body part that typically comes attached to people, i.e., women, who fall outside your usual “erotic target interest,” as the sex researchers say, isn’t a sign that your uncles were right all along.

In short, PTSA, you aren’t potentially straight—you’re gay and a little more complicated, interesting, and expansive than you realized at first.

—DS P.S. On behalf of all the dudes who have objectified you with this “BBC” stuff and made you feel anything other than proud to be primarily a bottom, please accept my apology.

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