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ReadeRs buRned up our phone lines last week after we published a Loose Lips column about insidious developer influence (“Is Pay-to-Play Here to Stay,” July 14). At issue was our decision to include reporting about a personal relationship between the former business development director of development company Dantes Partners and the District government employee who oversaw a project she managed.

Callers, overwhelmingly women, were outraged by the mention, many of them seeing it as implying that a woman was dating a man in a certain position “to get ahead.” In fact, in a city where developers are granted far too much leverage in matters ranging from zoning to membership on government boards and access to public officials, our judgment to include the information was simply meant to convey that there are sometimes even more subtle ways the industry wields clout. We did not suggest the relationship was somehow illicit.

Nevertheless, some readers were scandalized, characterizing the reference as “over the top,” as “foolishness,” and “not befitting” City Paper.

“Write as you will, but introducing the private relationship of junior staff members into this piece with nothing more than a reference to that relationship being ‘widely known’ is highly irresponsible and potentially damaging to individuals who [have] nothing to do with what you are trying to speak about,” DC_DunSun commented on our website. “There may be many relationships to explore as part of this topic, but two paragraphs dedicated to this only show that your actual grasp and research of this topic is weak and misguided.”

Others reacted to the piece more wholesale. “Loose Lips does a good job of describing the nearly universal challenge posed by decisionmakers’ very human preference for friends, family, and contributors,” Aquene1 commented. “Few proponents tout the pay to play proposals as a cure all, so it’s a bit of a straw man to suggest that they would be. Rather, limiting of cash city contractors can give to candidates is a common sense measure that can help a deep and complex problem so eloquently described here.

The human element of the problem is difficult to solve in policy, but policy still has an important role to play.”

For the record, we agree, and City Paper supports the aforementioned campaign finance reform. Meanwhile, an internal Dantes Partners memo in the wake of our piece suggests that it plans to update its “fraternization” policies.

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Carter Nowell

By Andrew Giambrone Two real esTaTe companies are vying for a chance to buy Terrace Manor, a ravaged apartment complex in Southeast D.C. that slumlord Sanford Capital has owned for more than four years. Sanford has declared bankruptcy on the property, so the companies wait under the watch of a federal bankruptcy judge—and about as many attorneys as there are tenants.

Terrace Manor is a ghost town, save for the dozen or so people still who live in the 61-unit complex. When Sanford Capital acquired it in late 2012, it was almost fully occupied. But it was already declining, and the tenants, hoping to restore a place they loved, negotiated an agreement with the help of their pro bono attorneys outlining the most serious conditions and a schedule for repairing them. Sanford Capital co-founder Carter Nowell signed it, even though the agreement wasn’t required to purchase the property.

But under Sanford, conditions worsened.

People moved out in droves, some evicted for non-payment of rent and others fed up with the squalor. Sanford did not fill the vacancies.

In an effort to mediate tensions, tenant representatives began periodic meetings with Sanford at a law office downtown. Tenant association leader Monica Jackson recalls trying to explain that she wanted the place to feel like a community again. “[Nowell] expressed that he very much wanted to get back to that, and he was going to do everything he could to get back to that,” she remembers.

Nothing changed. In October 2016, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued Sanford over building conditions, and in March 2017, Nowell declared bankruptcy at Terrace Manor. The mortgage for the property now stands at $2.8 million, and the two prospective buyers are each offering close to $6 million.

By selling Terrace Manor through bankruptcy, Nowell could both profit handsomely and circumvent the tenants’ right to choose their own buyer under D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA. An exemption to the longstanding law permits that outcome, even when the District is suing a landlord for neglect and aiming to win back rents that tenants have paid.

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So the stakes are high and go far beyond Sanford. If Nowell succeeds in his bankruptcy sale, he could potentially offload the rest of the company’s buildings—more than 65 that house over 1,000 mostly low-income residents— through bankruptcy and without having to provide decent living conditions.

That’s despite roughly 1,100 code violations D.C. cited Sanford for this year.

“Up until recently, this has not been a widespread problem,” says veteran D.C. housing attorney Eric Rome. “And by ‘this,’ I mean landlords filing for bankruptcy for the main purpose or partial purpose of avoiding TOPA. However, over the past few years we’ve seen an increase in these filings.”

Related to the bankruptcy case, in April a D.C. Superior Court judge put Terrace Manor in receivership, meaning an outside party is responsible for resolving housing code issues using company funds. The receiver, an experienced attorney named Marc Albert, submitted an assessment of Terrace Manor to the court in June, which determined that restoring the 11-building complex will cost somewhere between $418,000 and $565,000.

He found that most of the property’s HVAC units were inoperable (“yet had active but exposed electrical lines … which could pose a fire and safety hazard”). He also found a tenant who uses a wrench to open her window, severe bedbug infestations, and standing water in several basements, among other issues.

Nowell is frustrated with the receiver and blames D.C. for his bankruptcy. “The District has used every novel legal tactic possible to delay our ability to sell buildings and instead has decided to use hundreds of thousands of taxpayer resources to drive these buildings into bankruptcies,” he asserts in a statement to City Paper. “It does not help the current tenants, prevents progress, and delays the ability of new buyers to invest necessary resources in the buildings.”

Enter the two prospective buyers: Equilibrium Properties and Kaye Stern Properties. Both operate locally, though most of Equilibrium’s real estate is in Arizona. Kaye Stern, founded in 2012, owns nearly 300 residential units across D.C., with another 100 in development.

Terrace Manor tenants and their attorneys say they know little about these companies or their plans for the property beyond what has

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Sanford Capital weighs potential buyers for its decrepit Terrace Manor complex.

emerged through the bankruptcy process, which is focused on the purchase price and whether it would cover all creditors’ financial claims.

“We’re left guessing who’s going to rehabilitate the property,” said Rosa Evergreen, an attorney for the Terrace Manor tenants association, at a recent court hearing. “The biggest issue that has to be addressed is this entire scheme of how this property is going to be [fixed], and how are the tenants and the association going to be given notice of who the purchaser is, and issues with their leases, with significant time in advance.”

It’s unclear which (if either) bidder will gain Terrace Manor. But Sanford’s lawyers have written in recent court papers that Kaye Stern’s offer of $5.9 million is the “best and highest.” The contract that company principal Jason Stern signed with Nowell on June 23 stipulates that the deal can be voided if the two parties don’t agree on “capital expenditures for protection of the tenants” leading up to the property’s transfer. But Stern and his business partner Jesse Kaye say they don’t anticipate backing out.

“This property is going to get sold one way or another [because] it’s in bankruptcy,” Stern explains. He and Kaye say they have discussed acquiring Terrace Manor since early 2016, and Kaye says he has known Nowell for several years. He was once part of a team that advised Sanford on selling apartments it owns on Wheeler Road SE (the sale never transpired) and also introduced Nowell to the G Street Apartments, which Sanford bought in 2009 and has let fall into disrepair.

The duo is quick to say they plan to work with tenants and make Terrace Manor habitable. “We don’t displace,” Kaye insists. They have not yet held a meeting with the remaining residents, but their plan is to spend about $16,000 a unit on restoration, not including

repairs in common areas. Equilibrium, meanwhile, proposed spending approximately $20,000 a unit, according to a presentation the company gave to tenants last year.

But a third developer—one who has not appeared in the bankruptcy proceedings—says that per-unit renovation would realistically cost four times that much.

“Eighty to $90,000 per unit would be the minimum to do a gut rehab of the property,” says Rozanne Look, director of project development at MANNA, a local nonprofit affordable housing developer. “Ten to $20,000 is really a drop in the bucket. Of the units that we saw, they were in pretty rough shape—not really habitable for someone.” She’d like to work with the tenants on restoring the property “if they can ever resolve the legal nightmare that they’re in,” she says.

Equilibrium managing partner Sofonias Astatke remains interested in buying Terrace Manor despite the competing contract.

“We will have to wait and see if we are afforded the opportunity,” he says. His offer was just below Kaye Stern’s, at $5.86 million. But because he signed that contract more than a year ago, the financial agreements supporting it had become “stale,” the company’s attorney Bruce Henry told the bankruptcy court in May. Like Kaye Stern, Equilibrium also has a preexisting Sanford connection. One of the brokers for its realty arm, Dan Crosby, previously worked for Sanford’s Oakmont Management and was at Terrace Manor regularly for much of the time the property was falling apart. Crosby is listed as the buying broker on their 2016 purchase agreement and stands to profit from the sale.

No one expects a resolution soon. The bankruptcy process is scheduled to stretch into October.

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DistrictLine Sorry State of Affairs

East-of-the-river champions are skeptical that a proposed expansion of the Office on African American Affairs will move the needle.

In 2014, then-candIdate Muriel Bowser promised if elected to create a new deputy mayor position for east of the river, which has long been code for the District’s poorest and most heavily African-American communities.

Bowser delivered on her promise in 2015 by hiring Courtney Snowden as the first Deputy Mayor for Greater Economic Opportunity whose ostensible mandate includes all the District’s “underserved communities.” But her primary focus is Wards 7 and 8, where nearly half of the District’s black population lives and where the poverty rate was 33 percent in 2015, a 6 percent rise from 2007, according to the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

More than two years after Snowden was hired, a bill from Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd to fully fund and staff the skeletal Mayor’s Office on African American Affairs, also created in 2015, is under consideration by the D.C. Council.

Because 12 of 13 council members signed on as sponsors, the bill’s passage seems assured.

But the problems that make it seem necessary won’t pass quite as easily. Nor will the unspoken question the bill raises: Why aren’t African Americans, who make up nearly half the District, already being robustly represented and supported by the mayor’s office?

“Yes, it is problematic that we have to have an Office on African American Affairs in Chocolate City,” says Michael L. Chambers II, a member of the Commission on African American Affairs, a volunteer, 17-person group created in 2011.

Though former Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. introduced the original bill that created the commission, most credit the effort to former Mayor Marion Barry, who was on the D.C. Council at the time and was openly distraught at the results of the 2010 U.S. Census that showed black residents fleeing the District in far greater numbers than expected.

“From the very beginning, it [the Commission on African American Affairs] was not supported by the city,” says Maurice Jackson, a Georgetown history professor who was the first chair

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of the commission. “There are these immense problems that no one is paying attention to.”

In 2016, Jackson spearheaded a report with Georgetown’s School of Nursing and Health Studies that presented health disparities between the District’s white and black residents.

Some notable findings included life expectancy for white men exceeding that of black men by 15 years and an infant mortality rate nearly six times higher for blacks than whites.

Snowden, whose ethics stumbles have made her the target of two D.C. Inspector General investigations, bristles at the idea that her office isn’t up to the task.

“This isn’t just sort of a song and dance,” she says. “We are putting real resources into making sure that we can grow the communities that have been there [in Wards 7 and 8].”

Snowden, who says that part of her office’s role is “to align government resources,” points to a nearly 4 percent drop in unemployment— to 12.5 percent in Ward 8 since Bowser was elected—as evidence that the mayor’s efforts are bearing fruit.

Helming the Office on African American Affairs is Rahman Branch, a well-respected former principal of Ward 8’s Ballou High School who was appointed director in early 2015 and has been a one-man show ever since.

Branch’s tenure at Ballou lasted a decade, so he has an intimate knowledge of the terrain, what’s been tried before, and what it takes to get problems noticed and addressed west of the river.

“The term ‘overlooked and underserved’ can only be applied if we first recognize that there is a population that has been overlooked and underserved,” Branch says.

Snowden and Branch cite a number of programs that point to progress, including Financially Fit DC, a financial planning and education effort that, among other things, connects District residents with home buying clubs. Other examples are Aspire to Entrepreneurship, a program that supports “justice-involved” youths, and Project 500, a partnership with American University that offers training and support for small businesses east of the river.

But among those working at the community level in Wards 7 and 8, there are few believers that an expanded office will move the

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needle.

“There are specific policies that led to what we see happening [east of the river],” says Ari Theresa, a lawyer who challenges large housing developers on zoning and regulation issues in court. “Instead of letting go of those policies, they’re proposing an office. They’re not stating any measurable goals. It’s just a distraction or something to make people feel that their needs are being responded to.”

Other detractors are less diplomatic.

“Putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound does nothing,” says Anthony Muhammad, chair of ANC 8E. “You’re still gonna die.”

A common refrain among those working the trenches east of the Anacostia is that the expansion of this office is the type of cynical electioneering that has been aimed at the District’s black population for too many cycles now.

“Well, it’s election season, and if it looks like the black mayor is trying to do things for black people, it should help get some votes,” says Sandra Seegars (“SS”), a longtime Ward 8 community activist who expresses hope that the OAAA is a sincere effort by the Bowser administration.

Says Jeri Washington, a Ward 7 community activist, “It feeds right into the narrative that we are the last and lost and least. I don’t understand why we’re now just talking about funding. I have to put it on the mayor. I have to put it on the city council. It [the funding] should’ve been automatic.”

Comparable to the OAAA are the Offices on Latino Affairs and Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. Both fall under the Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs and have budgets of about $3 million and $850,000, respectively, and staffs of 10 or fewer each.

Todd’s legislation does not yet include a proposed funding level, but he says, “I expect that the funding will be robust [for the expanded OAAA], on par with other offices

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By J.F. Meils

that are similar.”

It wouldn’t take much to give it more love than it’s seen in recent District operating budgets. The office was only allocated $114,000 in FY 2018, and to add insult to injury, it was mistakenly characterized as the “Outdoor Advertising Association of America.”

But even funded, the contention about the office is unlikely to go away.

“They [politicians] are not going to speak up on this because they think they’ll be seen as favoring the African-American community,” says Jackson. “But they have to stop worrying about if they do this, will these middleclass white voters reject them.”

Another obstacle appears to be Snowden herself, who continues to be polarizing.

“We had not seen the deputy mayor or heard from her in the better part of two years,” says Chambers, referring to a Commission on African American Affairs meeting Snowden recently attended. “Now she was the one trying to get negroes in check before we go to meet the mayor?”

If there’s a silver lining, it might be Branch.

“I’m here for the work,” he says. “Whatever the ether is saying, I was doing this work in this community before this mayor and I was proud to be appointed to do this work now. I have been here for a while in service. I feel like that’s what we’re supposed to do.”

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By Matt Terl Like everyone, i had opinions on what the local NFL team should do about its quarterback Kirk Cousins.

In case you’re reading this column despite having literally no awareness of the top story in local pro sports, Cousins was slated to play this year under the franchise tag. That means that the team was able to prevent him from shopping his services around the league by forcing him to accept $24 million for the upcoming season. Cousins had agreed to this $24 million imposition with apparent good grace, and—according to team president Bruce Allen—negotiations were underway to work out a long-term deal, which would allow Cousins to receive even more money to stay for even longer. This is all a reasonably normal example of what passes for drama in the NFL offseason.

My belief was that the team would find a way to get the deal done. While people are still unsure if Cousins is authentically great, he’s inarguably above-average, by far the most consistently adequate quarterback the team has had in more than a decade, and I thought that Allen & Co. would ultimately do (and pay) whatever it took to keep him around.

It turns out this was dead wrong.

After the contract deadline came and went without a deal, the team released a statement from Allen. It was clearly intended to paint Cousins as greedy and unwilling to negotiate while presenting the team as generous and solicitous. But the statement did reveal two separate truths about the situation: First, that the team had no interest in keeping Cousins long-term, and second, that Cousins has no interest in being here long-term.

The franchise’s offer and the brazen hostility inherent in releasing the statement about it clearly convey the team’s feelings.

The spin was that it “included the highest fully guaranteed amount upon signing for a quarterback in NFL history ($53 million) and guaranteed a total of $72 million for injury.” They were quick to explain that “would have made him at least the second highest-paid player by average per year in NFL history.”

The only numbers that matter in NFL contracts are the guaranteed dollars. On the franchise tag, Cousins is guaranteed $24 million this year. Next year, the team could franchise him again for something like $34 million, or designate him with the transition tag, which

would guarantee $28 million. Or it could let him test his value on the open market, which would guarantee some enormous sum.

So the $53 million the team is boasting about is pretty comparable to the money that Cousins is all but guaranteed by signing nothing: the $24 million this year and the $28 million for the transition tag in 2018, totalling $52 million. Even if we don’t know all the numbers, the team’s offer would tie Cousins up into his mid-thirties, likely past his prime, before he could ever negotiate his next deal. By not taking the offer, Cousins maintains flexibility and increases his likelihood of another astronomical payday within the next year or two.

The rest of the reported details are irrelevant, dropped in to convince casual readers that the team is friendly and kind. But the actual message that the offer sent to Cousins and his agent was, “We don’t really want to sign you.”

The team reported Cousins’ response this way: “Despite our repeated attempts, we have not received any offer from Kirk’s agent this year.”

Observers have suggested that Cousins didn’t counter because he didn’t want the team to leak his demands and make him seem greedy, a concern that seems exceptionally valid in hindsight. But to utterly fail to respond, to simply let the inadequate offer sit there … that only says one thing: “While I will be a good citizen and play this year under the franchise tag, I have no interest in playing here any longer than I absolutely have to.”

So we seem to have a team that doesn’t really want its quarterback, who, in turn, doesn’t want to be on the roster. The bestcase outcome for the team at this point is for Cousins to be successful this year and for another franchise to match the offer and give up two first-round picks to sign him. Or, if all the franchise cares about is spite and bile, the best-case scenario for it is to trade Cousins to Cleveland tomorrow. Meanwhile, the bestcase outcome for Cousins is that the team, fed up with the whole situation, trades him to San Francisco posthaste, where he can play for his old coach Kyle Shanahan.

But the likeliest outcome is that, after another decent season, we have to sit through one more interminable six-month negotiation during which these people pretend to like each other all over again.

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—Apparently Bikes Ride Everywhere And Slow Traffic Dear ABREAST: Nope, it’s legal, but it’s a common misconception that it isn’t. According to D.C. Municipal Regulations 18-1201.7: “Persons riding upon a roadway shall not ride more than two abreast except on paths or part of roadways set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles. Persons riding two abreast shall not impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic…”

The fuzzy part is the meaning of “not impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic.” One person’s normal and reasonable movement is another person’s “GET OUT OF MY WAY! HONK! VROOM!” Being on the road with honks and yelling isn’t the best time to sort out differences in legal interpretation, so GP’s advice for drivers is to chill out and wait if you’re slowed down for a second.

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—Useful Sometimes, Elapsed Driver Craves A Ride Dear USEDCAR: You’re going to need to get a “one more car” sticker for your bike in a show of reverse smugness. It’s understandable to think you can solve your long-distance mobility problem with a car—cars are useful for exactly this!—and calculating the comparative cost of rental cars is prudent. Presumably, you also thought about whether you have bike friends who might be willing to give you a ride to these events. Maybe in exchange for you paying their registration?

GP wonders what the car is going to be doing the 350 days a year you’re not using it to drive to bumblefuck to ride a century. If you’ve lived car-free for a decade, you might have forgotten about the hassles of city parking. But even if parking is ample, a car is still one more thing in your life to manage. It’s an everyday commitment, even if you’re only rarely using it. Or maybe you’ll start using it more than you intended just because you have it. Are you OK with that?

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T H E A local woman’s maddening quest to understand a sound few others can hear

By Emily Dufton Photograph by Darrow Montgomery It started for me in October 2016, when my son was a month old. Every night I would sit in Henry’s room, nursing him back to sleep.

It was early fall and the house was still. We had just moved from Capitol Hill to Takoma Park, and our street was silent—no rushing cars, no sirens or horns. In his quiet room, at one, two, three o’clock in the morning, we’d sit, me exhausted but thrilled with early motherhood, Henry nursing until he slept again.

And that’s when the sound would begin.

Every night, a low, droning hum would fill my head and make me feel like I had seashells taped to my ears. It sounded like I was standing next to a loud refrigerator, or a diesel truck was parked outside, idling directly in front of my door. At first, I thought that’s what it was.

We live around the corner from a restaurant and a small bodega, and in my sleep-deprived mind, I thought maybe they were getting deliveries. I could see how a truck might idle on the street while night-shift employees unloaded boxes and restocked shelves. For weeks I hadn’t slept more than five disjointed hours a night, and parents of infants can make themselves believe anything.

But one night, when Henry was back in his crib, I looked out the window and was quickly disabused of my theory. There was no truck.

The street was empty, the parked cars were still, and yet this hum persisted. If anything, it had gotten louder. It was louder in the front of the house than in the back, and I could only hear it at night, but it was everywhere: in Henry’s nursery, in my bedroom, in the bathroom,

the kitchen, the basement, without end.

Surely, there had to be a source. I’m the daughter of an engineer, taught to revere science and the predictability of the natural world. My dad would argue that there’s no such thing as a magic noise, only clearly substantiated hypotheses. Following that reasoning, if the hum wasn’t coming from a truck, it had to be coming from somewhere else. The next morning, Henry and I went to find out.

We walked up and down our street and around every surrounding block, but no matter where we looked, there was nothing nearby that could produce that kind of sound: no generators, no electricity plants, no factories, no airfields. The power lines were silent, and so was my HVAC system. Even more disturbing, when my husband woke up to care for the baby with me, he said he didn’t hear anything. We’d be sitting in the nursery and the hum would fill my ears, but my husband thought the house was as silent as the street.

I started to think that I was losing my mind, or that I was suffering from some strange postpartum condition. Finally, I did what I should have done in the first place: I Googled “I hear a constant low hum,” and quickly found out that I wasn’t alone. In fact, not only was I not alone, but I was one of the chosen few able to hear what is known as the Worldwide Hum, a massive global auditory phenomenon that, over the past four decades, has intrigued—and disturbed—people the world over.

Before the Hum came to Takoma Park, it was born in Britain. Several articles I found

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reported that the Hum first generated attention in the 1970s, when more than 800 people in Bristol, England, reported hearing a low, droning noise, but no one could find its source.

It soon swept through the United Kingdom, with reports coming from everywhere from rural County Durham to Largs, Scotland, that a mysterious hum was causing people to suffer from headaches, nosebleeds, nausea, and dizziness.

By the early 1990s, it had arrived in the United States. That spring the Hum was problematic enough for residents in Taos, New Mexico, to demand a state congressional investigation into the sound, but nothing conclusive came from the report. Researchers from the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories spent months scouring the state, but no one could pinpoint from where, exactly, the Hum was emanating.

Since then, reports of the noise have spread—across the country and increasingly the world—with more people coming forward to say that they hear a constant, droning hum. Like me, most hear it at night and usually only indoors. And for many, including me, the Hum isn’t a problem (even on nights when the sound was extremely loud, white noise could usually lull me back to sleep). I’ve learned that Hum hearers often go through the same thing I did: When everyone else thinks they’re crazy for complaining about a sound no one else can hear, they go online looking for answers.

And when they do, they find a surprising—and surprisingly dedicated—community that is ac-

tively trying to solve the mystery of the Hum. Most information about the Hum comes from one source: thehum.info, a website run

by Glen MacPherson, a Canadian mathematics teacher and ethnographic researcher, who, over the past five years, has become the unofficial spokesperson for the Hum community.

Since first hearing it in spring 2012, MacPherson has formalized the internet’s discussions of the sound and created a blog and a map where Hum hearers can pin their locations and fill out a form detailing the Hum’s effects on their everyday lives.

MacPherson has clearly hit a nerve: In a half decade, his database has logged more than 16,000 entries, and the World Hum Map is dotted with little red pins. More than anything, MacPherson’s site is cathartic. Hearers have gathered en masse on his site to discuss the Hum in detail (a hearer in Bloxom, Virginia, described the sound as “a low pitch, A-sharp or B-flat”) or lament the discomfort they suffer (headaches, earaches, and fatigue from lack of sleep). And even if the Hum doesn’t bother them, most hearers still report that they’re thrilled to discover they’re not alone.

In addition to compiling the first organized data collection on people who hear the Hum, MacPherson has also made some unique discoveries about those of us who can hear the sound. Beyond location and general descriptions, MacPherson asks Hum hearers to list their age, sex, if they’re right- or left-handed, in which ear they predominantly hear the Hum, any other medical issues with their hear-

H U M ing, and any “unusual geographic, geological, or other features” in their area. In June 2016, MacPherson reported that this information had yielded some interesting results: The average Hum hearer was 40.5 years old, and 55 percent of hearers were men. There were also eight times as many ambidextrous people among Hum hearers than there were in the general population.

While most Hum hearers are located in Europe and the United States, others have dropped pins on every continent except Antarctica, including places as far flung as Bermuda, Siberia, and the Cape Verde islands.

There are dozens of pins on MacPherson’s map in places like London and New York, but there are also lone Hum hearers in the distant rain forest of Rondônia, Brazil, and the quiet Sahel city of Niamey, Niger.

I was fascinated by MacPherson’s map, and spent a couple of hours looking at it while Henry napped, reading stories from Hum hearers and imagining all the exotic places they lived. But the more I looked at it, the more I noticed something strange. When I compared D.C. to other cities, a quick count revealed that, more than Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, or Miami, the greater D.C. area (which I counted liberally as stretching from Fredericksburg to Baltimore) had the highest concentration of pins of any major East Coast city save for New York.

There were even two other Hum hearers in my neighborhood, one of whom lived around the corner from me. A 44-year-old right-handed woman reported in June 2013 that she heard the Hum and it sounded like the same thing I heard—an idling truck or a portable generator—while a 39-year-old right-handed man said in November 2014 that he had measured the “low, steady tone” at 90 hertz.

My neighbors were two of more than 100 D.C.-area residents who had reported hearing the Hum since MacPherson launched his site in 2012. Assuming the reports are coming

in at a steady pace, that averages out to about one new hearer every two and a half weeks.

And these were only the people who had come forward. There were probably even more people in the area like me who heard the Hum but hadn’t posted anything about it online.

I had to wonder, what was going on? Was it the city itself that generated excessive amounts of the noise, or did more Hum hearers make this area their home? I also found something else in my internet searches— something far more disturbing than just irritation or sleeplessness caused by a sourceless noise. Not only did Washington have one of the highest concentrations of Hum hearers on the East Coast, but it was also the only city in America that had experienced a mass shooting perpetrated by a hearer.

going earthquakes and seismic activity—the subtle sound of the Earth’s terrestrial processes unfolding. Like certain animals, including rats, weasels, snakes, and centipedes, Hum hearers are, perhaps, sensitive enough to hear these low tones.

By far the most common theory is that the Hum is internally generated, and nothing more than a form of tinnitus—the constant ringing in the ears that humans have struggled with for centuries. Hum hearers may not be able to pick it up during the day, but at night, when everything else grows quiet, the sound becomes more apparent. As with traditional tinnitus, this theory suggests that the Hum is caused by similar triggers: hearing damage or an underlying medical condition rather than any outside source. And while no one has

I was one of the chosen few able to hear what is known as the Worldwide Hum, a massive global auditory phenomenon that, over the past four decades, has intrigued—and disturbed—people the world over.

PeoPle have been studying the Hum for decades, and there are numerous, if somewhat pedestrian, theories about its cause. Some believe, as MacPherson outlined in October 2016 on his blog, that the Hum is the result of “massive and widespread human activity that creates colossal levels of low frequency sound and infrasound”—in other words, that Hum hearers are attuned to the distant sounds of cars speeding down the highway, surface mining, even the collective noise of hundreds of thousands of appliances constantly plugged into our walls.

Others think the Hum is the noise of on-

been able to explain why thousands of people worldwide would struggle with the same undiagnosed hearing disorder, many people—including scientists and lay researchers alike— are quick to agree, assuming tinnitus is the real cause of the Hum. There is another, far more sinister explanation for the Hum—a theory that MacPherson roundly rejects but that connects the phenomenon directly to D.C. This idea, which university professors have examined and conspiracy theorists on YouTube have advanced, argues that the Hum is a product of the gov-

ernment’s use of very low frequency (VLF) and extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves.

VLF and ELF radio waves can penetrate everything from seawater to rocks and mountains, and the military has used them for decades to communicate with deeply submerged submarines.

But for the more conspiracy-minded, this theory goes on to suggest that Washington’s elites, including politicians and military and law enforcement personnel, have weaponized the sound, and are forcing targeted individuals to hear its constant murmur, while the resulting headaches, depression, sleep deprivation, and “intentional mood management,” as one blogger put it, sow disorder and confusion and keep people under intensive control. In other words, people who hear the Hum aren’t just suffering from tinnitus. Instead, we’re the victims of a vast, covert conspiracy bent on mind control and global domination.

There are numerous blogs dedicated to this hypothesis, and most of these writings are harmless and even occasionally amusing.

But there are other times when the Hum “mind control” theory isn’t benign. Like on Sept. 16, 2013, when a Hum hearer named Aaron Alexis decided that he had had enough of the noise. That day, he brought a Remington 870 shotgun scrawled with the phrases “My ELF Weapon!” and “End the torment!” into the Washington Navy Yard’s Building 197 and, over the span of an hour, proceeded to shoot 15 innocent people, murdering 12. After nearly an hour and a half, law enforcement officials killed Alexis, and the facility was locked down for the rest of the day.

Originally from New York City and last living in Texas, Alexis was a full time Navy reservist from 2007 to 2011, working primarily on aircraft electrical systems. After an honorable discharge, he got a Department of Defense security clearance and went to work on military computer systems in Rhode Island,

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North Carolina, and Virginia. From September 2012 to January 2013 he lived in Japan, working with the subcontractor The Experts to “refresh equipment used on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet network,” according to a statement from the company, and his clearance had just been renewed in July.

Alexis arrived in the D.C. area three weeks before the massacre, and he brought with him a relatively clean record. He’d had sporadic run-ins with the law, and most of them involved guns, but his friends and family were still surprised by his actions. “I can’t believe he did this,” Alexis’ roommate of three years, Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, told CNN. “He never showed any sign of violence.”

But Alexis was clearly living another life. Before arriving in D.C., law enforcement sources said, the 34-year-old had contacted two Veterans Affairs hospitals for assistance with psychological issues, and Alexis’ own writings bemoaned the torment he felt he was undergoing. In documents found after the shooting, Alexis declared that “an ultra-low frequency attack is what I’ve been subject to for the last three months, and to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this.” He also claimed that three people had been sent to follow him, and they used “some sort of microwave machine” to send vibrations into his body, causing depression and sleep disturbances. The FBI didn’t use the term “Hum,” but it did suggest that Alexis “held a delusional belief ” that he was being influenced or controlled by ELF waves. Officials also concluded that Alexis was prepared to die when he entered Building 197. Beyond calling his rifle “My ELF weapon,” Alexis scrawled on his shotgun, “Better off this way!” and “Not what y’all say!”

Students of the Hum were quick to diagnose Alexis as a fellow hearer, one who was driven insane by the sound. Articles in The New Republic, Big Think, and Mic all cited Alexis as a quintessential Hum madman, and Steven Kohlhase, a Hum investigator from Connecticut, argued that Alexis was hardly the only one. Kohlhase blamed the Hum on infrasonic sound from fracking and natural gas pipelines and said that it resulted in widespread “vibroacoustic disease.”

According to Kohlhase, there was a murderous connection between the Hum, fracking, and other shootings, including Adam Lanza’s rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, and Jared Lee Loughner’s attack on Representative Gabby Giffords in 2011. Arguing that there is a distinct correlation between the location of natural gas pipelines and mass shootings, Kohlhase suggested that Alexis had most likely lived near fracking sites as well.

“Looking at a map of instances like this,” he wrote, “I bet you’ll see that each place coincides with a Hum cluster.”

I wasn’t so sure. Alexis didn’t live in D.C. for long, but this city is nowhere close to any fracking sites or natural gas pipelines (the nearest wells are located on the Virginia/West Virginia border). Even before the shooting, his behavior was erratic. He lived in three hotels— one in Bethesda, one in Arlington, and one in Southwest D.C.—between Aug. 25, when he 14 july 21, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

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first arrived, and Sept. 16, the date of his rampage. That meant he covered much of the metro area in the span of just 23 days. And he had only worked at the Navy Yard for five days before he went back to Northern Virginia to purchase his shotgun and ammunition. I began to wonder, why was he moving around so much?

Was he trying to escape the Hum, and was it following him from place to place?

More frighteningly, was there something about living in Washington that caused Humhearing Aaron Alexis to snap? And were other Hum hearers going to do the same thing?

I tried to find answers, but they were hard to come by. I first tried to contact doctors—specialists in the area who dealt with hearing disorders, mood disorders, mental illness, and anxiety. If the Hum were really a form of tinnitus, I wondered if masses of Hum hearers were going to the doctor looking for a cure. Was the Hum a widely diagnosed regional affliction? And if so, what were medical experts telling their patients?

But few would even answer my calls. My requests to the National Institutes of Health went unanswered, while local doctors said they had nothing to discuss. I even contacted the American Tinnitus Association but was told that their associated researchers and clinicians were focused on finding a cure, and none of them “had any experience with a ‘Hum.’” I decided to go back online, but when I posted on the Facebook page for “Low Frequency Noise/Hum Sufferers,” I mostly heard back from people in Australia. And when I posted a call to find other Hum hearers on Craigslist, in the community and science sections, I was met with swift derision. Numerous people dismissed the Hum as nothing but a form of tinnitus and told me that I needed to get my hearing checked. I even considered knocking on doors, trying to find the Takoma Park woman who had posted in 2013. But I felt weird approaching a house asking, “Excuse me, but do you hear a global auditory phenomenon? Because I do too, and I’d like to talk.”

Finally, I contacted MacPherson himself.

MacPherson has long been adamant that, when it comes to researching and finding a solution to the Hum, “we are alone in solving this scientific mystery.” But he was hesitant about involving himself with any pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory about the Hum driving people to mass murder. “It is completely false and patently invalid to connect violent ends and shootings to the Hum,” he wrote to me. After a few more emails, he stopped responding to my requests. That’s right, I’d become the crazy one.

My breakthrough came when I went on my local parents’ listserv and made a simple request: “Do you hear ‘The Hum’?”

I received numerous responses from Hum hearers across the area, and a few were willing to talk. Their responses put me at ease. I was far from alone in hearing the Hum, and most other local people were like me—interested by the noise but hardly driven to horrific acts. As many put it, the Hum wasn’t a problem or a delusion. It didn’t cause major problems in their everyday lives. Instead, it just was—harmlessly, but relentlessly, there.

I first spoke to a 48-year-old man named Dave Ridgeway who lives in Silver Spring.

Ridgeway has been hearing the Hum for two years but has only noticed it during the summer months, specifically in August. Unlike many of the Hum hearers who have responded to MacPherson’s site, Ridgeway says he has only heard the sound outdoors, and, rather than sounding like the steady tone I heard, for him the Hum pulses and throbs.

As Ridgeway says, it sounds like the opening tones of “Cannonball,” the 1993 song by the Breeders, rising and falling all night long, from the early evening until 2 a.m. At first he was the only person to hear it, but in late summer his girlfriend and roommates began to hear it too. Though they originally believed it was noise from the nearby Beltway, when the sound continued after midnight and traffic on the highway decreased, they realized it had to be something else.

“It didn’t bother me,” says Ridgeway, “but it did make me curious.” A native of the area, he believes that it might have something to do with local geography, that the higher elevation of Silver Spring and Takoma Park makes people more susceptible to hearing the tone. There are fewer tall buildings to block the noise, and Ridgeway believes the sound is able to travel, to rise above the constant noise of downtown.

It hasn’t affected his everyday life, but its subtle

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arrival and departure—he heard it until winter came, and then it returned again last summer— made Ridgeway intrigued by its source. “I knew it wasn’t something logical,” he says.

I also spoke to a 58-year-old woman named Kristy Cook who hears the Hum year-round.

Cook lived abroad in Zambia for years and sometimes visits her mother in northern California, but Takoma Park is the only place where she’s heard the Hum. Like Ridgeway, she first thought it was something else—maybe the Metro, or a passing freight train—but her house is about a mile from the station, and the consistency of the noise has led her to believe that it comes from somewhere else. The sound is also extremely gentle—a constant low hum that, Cook says, has no effect on her daily life. But as she became aware of the noise, she became intrigued. Like me, she has only heard the Hum indoors, and her husband hasn’t heard it. Cook says she grew up in the country, and that makes her observant to urban noise. “I notice things,” she says.

When I asked her why she thought the D.C. area was so rife with the Hum, she thought for a moment. “It might be big city noise,” Cook said. “In developed areas, there are a lot of electrical appliances, things that are plugged in all the time. They might be creating a kind of constant buzz. And in Takoma Park, we’re up higher than in D.C. I think the noise from

the city travels up here more easily. That might be what we’re hearing too.”

I asked Ridgeway and Cook a couple of other questions that MacPherson included in his form. Both are right-handed, and neither has had hearing issues in the past. Both have tried, unsuccessfully, to find the source of the sound.

Cook searched her entire house, checking in which rooms it was loudest and testing to see if it was her refrigerator or air conditioner, but it wasn’t. “It always sounds like it’s coming from outside,” she says.

And Ridgeway once spent an entire night roaming through his yard, trying to pinpoint the exact direction of the sound, but as soon as he thought he had tracked it down, it seemed like the source shifted and moved. He also researched the Hum online, and while he joked about being able to hear it (he once posted a picture of himself wearing a tin foil hat on Facebook), Ridgeway was serious about what he found. “I’ve traveled the world, but I’ve never heard the Hum anywhere else,” he says.

My neighbors’ experiences seemed to pop a hole in the tinnitus theory that so many have assumed is the truth. What kind of tinnitus comes and goes, as it does for Ridgeway, when the seasons change? And what kind of tinnitus is location-based, only occurring in certain places for the individual hearer? The question remains: If it’s not tinnitus, what is the Hum? summer has arrIved again in the city.

Ridgeway expects the Hum to return in August when he spends warm evenings outside along Sligo Creek, and Cook reports that she still hears the tone, though now her air conditioner is running to block out the noise.

MacPherson never replied to my emails when I asked him to comment on the Hum’s effects on D.C.. But we also haven’t had any more Hum-related shootings, and most people who hear the Hum assert that it doesn’t affect their everyday lives. Hopefully this means that the ongoing conspiracy theory—that the Hum is directly linked to government mind control, madness, and death—is as crazy as it sounds.

I’ve only spoken to a few people who hear the Hum—those I was able to find through a listserv, most of whom live within a few miles of me. But if MacPherson’s map is to be believed, there are obviously many more Hum hearers in this area.

Meanwhile, and somewhat ironically, I haven’t heard the Hum in weeks. Henry is finally sleeping through the night, and if I do wake up because I hear him babbling on the monitor, I find myself lying in bed and listening for the Hum, waiting for its drone to fill my ears again.

But it’s gone, at least for now, and I’m surprised to find that I miss it. Maybe it’s blocked by the sound of the fan or, on very hot nights, the air conditioner. Or maybe I’m no longer one of the chosen few able to hear its murmuring tone. Either way, it feels like I’ve lost a companion, a noise that kept me company through those long nights with a newborn, when the rest of the world felt distant and asleep.

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Bar owners are consulting on other cocktail menus across town, but will it last? sulting, it’s not an entirely new practice. Brothers Micah and Ari Wilder have been at it for years, starting with their first clients, Stir Food Group’s Zola and Potenza. “We did their cocktail menus, and they made us corporate mixologists,” Micah says. “We were encouraged to play and be as crazy as we could be.”

They’d throw bags of ice into a smoker with a pig to capture the campfire essence, then introduce that smokiness into drinks by refreezing the water into ice cubes.

After Stir Food Group failed, Micah says, “People started catching wind of us. A number of big chefs were randomly calling—Jeff Black or Robert Wiedmaier— and we started lacing all of our products into these beverage programs.”

The Wilder brothers made their own tonics, bitters, and mixers, which is how they found potential gigs. But they quickly discovered the biggest risk factor consultants face. “We knew the minute we left, people would start cutting corners,” Micah says.

“Our programs and names would be bastardized, so we kept our recipes a secret.”

To safeguard their reputation, the duo batched drinks in a commercial kitchen and delivered them in bulk to bars. “We were literally old-world cocktail milkmen,” Micah jokes.

“Our name would be tarnished otherwise, so that was our only solution for longevity.”

Lukas B. Smith, whose home base is at Cotton & Reed, is relatively new to cocktail consulting. He recently handled the drinks at Darrow Montgomery

Service Bar DC’s Glendon Hartley

By Laura Hayes You know the Netflix personalization algorithm that recommends shows based on what you’ve watched and rated highly? A similar matchmaking formula could be applied to the bar scene, thanks to the growing trend of cocktail consulting in D.C. If you like Carlie Steiner’s drinks at Himitsu, for example, you’ll probably also enjoy

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what’s being shaken and stirred at Indique, Timber Pizza Co., and Bullfrog Bagels because she developed the recipes for those restaurants on the side.

Steiner is one of several bartenders who owns his or her own “anchor” business but is being hired to write cocktail menus for other bars. It should come as no surprise that in a city full of people seeking side hustles to combat the rising cost of living, consulting has made its way to the hospitality industry too.

While there’s been an uptick in beverage con-

French brasserie Le DeSales and at Addendum inside 18th Street Lounge. But he’s already turning down business. “I’m at a point now where not everyone that comes knocking gets accepted,” Smith says. “If you don’t want to do what I think you need to do, you can’t have my name.” Cue the Goo Goo Dolls.

Prospective clients want him to supply a drink list, recipes, and rights to his name and be done with it, but that’s when it gets dicey. Rather, Smith also wants bars to invest in the training and ongoing quality control he offers. “It’s not about how cool I am,” he says.

“If it has my name, I have to be able to control the drinks.”

Glendon Hartley and Chad Spangler coown Service Bar DC and are part of a cocktail consulting firm called The Menehune Group that’s been hired by MXDC, Lebanese Taverna, Provision No. 14, and others. Hartley says they also decline consulting inquiries, especially after a bad experience at a U Street sports bar.

“They didn’t know what they wanted,” Hartley says. “We had to rush the project, and we’re like, ‘Don’t tell anyone we did drinks for you.’ The whole situation was different than what we wanted.” If they can’t do it perfectly, he says, it compromises everything else.

Another veteran cocktail consultant—Gina Chersevani, who owns Buffalo & Bergen in Union Market—had a similarly frustrating experience. After devoting seven months to building a balanced sake list for an Asian restaurant, she visited and saw that her selections were no longer on the menu. “That’s when I put out that I was no longer with them,” she says. “They change it back because it’s easier.

I’ll never get it.”

To avoid similar situations, The Menehune Group only signs clients that agree to at least a three-month, comprehensive program. They essentially step in as bar managers, redesigning the spaces to be efficient and remaking liquor inventories with an eye toward good deals. Chersevani does something similar.

This mandates experience, which is why not just anyone can consult.

“People like myself, Lukas, and Carlie, we’ve done it for a very long time and know how the business works,” Hartley says. He cautions against hiring baby-faced consultants. “You’re better off as a bar owner going online and getting cocktails than getting consultants straight out of bartending school from wherever-the-hell.”

When a consulting relationship works out, there are perks for both sides, and for customers too. Hartley explains that since they have their hands in so many projects, they or-

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Finally, consulting helps keep bartenders’ creative juices flowing. Steiner relished the experience of creating drinks like a MatzaMichelada at Bullfrog Bagels’ upstairs bar on Capitol Hill.

“I don’t have any reason to put Jewish-inspired cocktails on my menu [at Himitsu], but I found that fun and rewarding,” she says. Chersevani agrees. After 20 years in the business, she likes to be constantly challenged. “I always feel like I have something better coming,” she says. “It makes you really stay on your game.”

It’s not just coming-soon restaurants that hire consultants. Bars with history sometimes feel new drinks could bring the boost

compares that to a consultant who can curate four menus (one for each season) for $5,000.

If there are 10 drinks on each menu, that’s 40 drinks at $125 per drink. And that price folds in training, organization, and oversight.

Though his services aren’t cheap, Hartley too says they’re priced to be more affordable than paying a full-time bar manager, and he’s optimistic that restaurants will recognize this.

“Beverage consultants are going to be a thing of the future,” he says. “I feel like the quality of bars and restaurants is going down at the same time as the quantity of restaurants is going up.” The shrinking talent pool will make consultants more attractive.

Smith is likewise optimistic, saying he expects big growth in the next year or two. “The future will depend on word of mouth,” he says, adding that he hopes operators will compare notes.

Others are less optimistic. Steiner argues that after a consultant’s work is done, it’s wise to tap someone to take the lead. “They still have to hire that $80,000 person when I leave,” she says. “Someone has to keep it up.”

Consultants often bring the kind of creativity bar managers can’t or won’t muster, but Steiner still doesn’t know if the industry will grow.

“If it has my name, I have to be able to control the drinks.” they need to stay competitive. Chersevani and Steiner say these revamps are the most satisfying. Chersevani, for example, is now streamlining the drinks at Taqueria del Barrio.

She’s long focused on helping bars crunch numbers in addition to fashioning interesting drinks. That’s why she’ll remove cocktails that aren’t selling and look to address why the taco restaurant has 11 kinds of glasses that she estimates cost $10,000. “That’s the interesting part of consulting—rattling a place that’s open.

Rattling the bartenders, staff, and managers.

They don’t like it. But you brought me in because there’s a problem.”

Cocktail consulting seems to be gaining ground locally, but what does the future look like for the cottage industry developing alongside the craft cocktail boom? Like every other business: Success depends on a mutually good deal.

Most operators hope to hire a cocktail consultant instead of an in-house, full-time bar manager, beverage director, or similarly titled salaried employee. Chersevani puts the going rate for such an job at $80,000 a year and

Micah and Ari Wilder no longer consult, citing success at their restaurant Chaplin’s, but Micah predicts consulting will stall out for homegrown, small-to-medium restaurateurs. (Perhaps the Mike Friedmans or Jamie Leeds of the local scene.)

“The only direction consultant groups have to go within the industry is corporate,” Micah says, pointing to Marriott and other hotels.

“Those would be the final frontier for consultants.” Chersevani, in fact, has signed on with major hotel chains.

“In the smaller groups, I just don’t think there’s demand,” Micah says. “I don’t think people are willing to pay that kind of money anymore because all you have to do is open your computer.” Recipes are at the ready, and YouTube is there to teach techniques. “Ari and I were lucky to surface with the boom,” he says. “Consulting days are over. I hate saying that, but you can only be a cocktail gypsy for so long.”

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

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The Chef Brag Kyirisan offers diners the opportunity to buy a round of shots or beers for the kitchen ($12 for beer, $24 for shots). The next request is typically to accompany the booze to the kitchen, where guests can pose and take a photo with the chefs.

Guests often partake in the shots.

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By Laura Hayes Food porn has arguably gotten out of hand. There’s even a restaurant that provides its diners with photography kits—complete with an LED camera light and clip-on, wide-angle lens—designed to make its dishes and drinks look sumptuous on Instagram. Granted, that restaurant’s in London. But from what D.C. restaurant workers tell us, diners right here at home are just as obsessed with getting the perfect shot of their food. Here are just a few customer maneuvers they’ve witnessed: The Styler The beverage director at Ambar in Clarendon went to great lengths to make sure a diner got the perfect picture. First he cleared a booth where she’d have better light, then he gave her a jar full of fresh herbs so she could style her dishes and drinks just like she wanted.

The Demo Demander At ANXO Cidery & Pintxos Bar, customers constantly ask servers to demonstrate pouring from a cider bottle at great heights, especially if they’re lucky enough to get Diego Conde, who hails from Spain where high pours are traditional. He’ll show tables how to do it so they can serve themselves, but they’ll often ask him to do it two or three times so they can shoot a video or a Boomerang.

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what we’ll eat next week: Puttanesca pizza with tomato sauce, rapini, fresh mozzarella, garlic, and anchovy, $13.95, 2 Amy’s Neapolitan Pizzeria.. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

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Stein’s Stein Cider: Graft Cider’s Cloud City Amarillo District Person: Erin Gilbert, assistant beverage director, Pizzeria Paradiso

The Mulligan If guests aren’t phone-ready when there is some kind of active element in the presentation of cocktails or food pairings at Columbia Room, they’ll often ask for doovers, says mixologist JP Fetherston.

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what we ate this week: Meat Draniki (potato pancakes stuffed with spiced beef) served with sour cream, $20, Mari Vanna. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5.

Hometown: Washington, D.C. Price: $11 per 12 ounce

The Drama Queen Servers at Mastro’s Steakhouse are sometimes asked to maximize the smoke factor on the luxe seafood towers that arrive fogging from dry ice.

Taste: Amarillo District is the first in Graft’s “dreamsicle cider” series and is made with ingredients typically reserved for beer: pineapple, lemon zest, lactose sugar, and vanilla. The aroma is that of sharp pineapple, lemon pepper, and dusty Champagne, while the taste falls somewhere between orange juice and key lime pie. The pineapple cuts the acidity of the apples and wild yeast, leaving this complex cider at 6.9 percent ABV.

The Mover At Espita Mezcaleria, guests are putting their plates on the floor or on the entrance steps to capture the best background and lighting.

General manager and partner Josh Phillips says he just laughs it off.

Story: Libations should be fun, says Erin Gilbert. “I don’t enjoy the pretension around it. It should be inclusive,” she says, adding that she likes to meet customers where they are. For example, if someone comes in looking for something that tastes like Stella, she matches the flavor profile without judgment.

The Climber Smoking shellfish towers are also a thing at Ocean Prime. But there, staffers have seen patrons stand on their chairs to get the perfect overhead angle. This is not recommended, they add.

What It Is: For years, chef and butcher Nate Anda has been serving breakfast sandwiches at Red Apron using a thin, round Italian bread known as a tigelle.

But it wasn’t until earlier this year when he opened a burger bar in Dupont Circle that he decided to experiment. “We were thinking of a burger offering to serve at breakfast,” he says. “And I had the round ring molds from our breakfast sandwiches, so I filled them with pancake batter.” That quick stroke of genius produced what’s quickly becoming one of the most talked-about breakfast sandwiches in town.

How it Tastes: Offered on Red Apron’s weekend brunch menu, this burger is an irresistible mix of sweet, savory, and greasy, all packed between two buttermilk buns. Each pancake is slath-

ered with a heavy helping of maple butter, then Anda adds his burger with two slices of white American cheese, bacon, and an over-easy egg. Diners can choose between an Angus beef patty or a breakfast sausage patty. Both are accompanied by a silver float of maple syrup on the side for your drizzling delight. Think of this as the classier, older cousin to the Golden Arches’ McGriddles.

Why It Helps: The pancake burger is your salvation from the Sunday shakes.

It’s an entire breakfast stacked high on a burger. And just like any good burger, it’s going to get very, very messy. So roll up your sleeves and bow down to the altar of Anda, because you’re about to get elbows deep in a hangover cure that’s good to the last bite. —Tim Ebner

Though Gilbert acknowledges that cider and beer drinkers come from all different backgrounds, she says there’s not enough diversity in the field. “It’s much more difficult to get into the brewing industry as a person of color or a woman,” she says. Gilbert often sees what she calls “a kind of token woman” at breweries. This is in sharp contrast to the work environment at Pizzeria Paradiso, where owner Ruth Gresser and beer director Drew McCormick are both women.

“Being surrounded by passionate women has amazed me every day,” Gilbert says. But she recognizes that the scenario is rare. “It’s very different from what I’m used to in the restaurant industry and in the beer industry.”

Where to try: Pizzeria Paradiso Georgetown, 3282 M St. NW; (202) 337-1245 or Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont, 2003 P St. NW (202) 223-1245; eatyourpizza.com -Michael Stein

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After a promising buildout, grand visions for a summer arts space fizzle when it becomes a pop-up beer garden.

By Stephanie Rudig Last apriL, on a lot in Shaw, amateur construction workers donned safety masks and received crash courses in power tool operations. A few people raised a beam up on blocks and jumped on it for an impromptu strength test. Huge stacks of freshly cut wood triangles laid about. This ragtag crew were designers— members from both the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the District Design Lab. Their mission? Build an arts space.

Though DDL and AIGA are both design-focused organizations, this is a somewhat unusual partnership. AIGA was founded in 1914 and boasts a national network of nearly 22,000 members, with a D.C. chapter helmed by 24 board members. DDL was formed a little over a year ago by a group of self-described architecture nerds who gather in their free time and are ruled by the informal motto to “just build shit.”

Just building shit, it turned out, was exactly what AIGA was looking to do as well. AIGA events have traditionally trended toward professional development and lectures from “rock star” designers, but event organizer and AIGA board member Kat-

erina Martchouk explains that within the D.C. chapter there’s been a dedicated push to switch it up and “actually make things, not just sit in the room and listen to somebody speak.”

The two organizations originally connected at a lunchtime studio visit and decided to do a hands-on construction project. “This could’ve been a workshop where we were in a classroom making birdhouses, but we wanted [participants] to get a little construction experience and get people’s hands dirty,” says founding DDL member Jesse Wetzel.

With space at a premium in D.C.’s real estate market, the challenge would be finding a location to build on. Martchouk happened to know Martin Ditto, real estate developer and CEO of Ditto Residential, who happened to have an empty lot slated for future condos. Having previously transformed the lot into a temporary Christmas tree farm, he was open to unconventional ideas and agreed to let the group use the space. prior to securing a space, DDL founder Ted Bazydlo says, “We had some loose ideas but… the site was really the generator.” All parties decided that the best option would be a flex-

ible, multi-purpose outdoor shelter to allow for different kinds of events. Among this group of creatives, there were high hopes for a space that could host performance events and showcase local visual artists. Said Wetzel, “I’d really like it to be a venue for different voices,” going on to describe a beat poet who plays basketball near the site and local filmmakers who could project their works onto a back wall. The informational materials for the AIGA workshop suggested that the space would ultimately become an open-air pavilion used for performances, with a focus on “social outreach”.

Ditto, who is also on the board of Washington Project for the Arts, had similar thoughts back in May. “We’re heading in a direction where the operator of the space will be able to include a lot of local art and artists in their programming. So it’s going to be a cool opportunity to highlight art and artists that are in D.C. and bring people into that.”

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CPArts amid texture. Though the site was far from finished, the skeleton of the wall was in place to host performances for the Funk Parade. DDL members continued to work on the construction over the next several weeks, tweaking the design as they went, before it was revealed that the lot would be taken over by the traveling pop-up beer garden Canteen.

The Shaw and U Street NW areas are home to dozens of outdoor patios and rooftops to drink in and on; arts spaces, not so much. Many galleries and performance spaces in the area have been shuttered due to zoning regulations and rising rents. Most notably, the historic jazz club Bohemian Caverns closed in March 2016 and still stands vacant. The skate park/concert venue/gallery space Fight Club shut down in 2010, prior to its Blagden Alley location being revitalized.

Two prominent galleries, Civilian Art Projects and G Fine Art, were priced out of their prime locations on 14th Street NW and in Shaw and moved in together in a space further north in 16th Street Heights. The former G Fine Arts building is now a branch of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.

There are potential remedies to the disappearing of cultural spaces. The website for the yet-to-be-released D.C. Cultural Plan lists “addressing rising real estate costs that affect artists’ abilities to find affordable space in the District” and “better leveraging of public land and infrastructure,” as key areas of focus. Ditto suggests a rule that anywhere from one to ten percent of new development space be earmarked for arts space. Similar regulations are in the works in cities such as Seattle, where the Office of Arts & Culture has released a list of 30 strategies to support the arts, including requiring developers to build an-

time pop-up arts space producers.”

DDL members Jesse Wetzel and Taiwei Wang and AIGA member Jennifer Low other arts space for any one that they displace.

Until these kinds of changes are implemented on the municipal level, however, using salvaged materials, borrowed space, and motley crews of friends will be the standard operating procedure for District creatives. Groups like AIGA and DDL will continue to have to tap into friend-of-a-friend networks and rely on the benevolence of those with access to space. On top of these challenges, everyone involved in the project was working on it as a side gig around their day jobs. Callie Bruemmer, who works on Ditto’s marketing, put it as such: “We’re not full

construction is sLated to begin on the site before the end of the summer, so the space isn’t going to be available for much longer. No Kings Collective, which creates murals and produces events, were tentatively hoping to program the space and spotlight local artists, but found themselves committed to other projects. And so the well-intentioned plans for a community arts space ran up against the tough reality of permitting and tight deadlines.

Peter Chang of No Kings Collective says, “It’s not like something won’t pan out in the future. We’re not going to stop doing our pop-ups and murals and exhibitions, and [Ditto is] not going to stop developing.” Wetzel of DDL agrees. “Part of this is just building relationships with AIGA and Ditto and any other groups that might want to be a part of it. This isn’t just a one off.”

Despite the anticlimax of the lack of an arts space and the temporary nature of the project, those involved are satisfied with how it turned out. Bazydlo explains, “We really like the idea of temporal architecture. Part of the intriguing part of this site is just that in a few months, this is gone.” Bruemmer says, “Could it have been better used as an arts space? Totally, but no one’s disappointed.”

For the members of DDL, the actual process of building is the most important factor. “For me, for DDL, it was an opportunity to do community outreach through design build,” Wetzel says. “There’s a lot of creative energy in the city, it’s just finding opportunities to bring people together and utilize it.” Cp

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Life, Or SOmething Like it 5 Epiphanies

By David W. Grant Directed by David W. Grant At Pursuit Wine Bay through July 23 No oNe is immune to the events that come waltzing into our lives. Deep within each person is a collection of stories that most of us don’t get the chance to hear—or share.

David W. Grant, the writer, director, and star of 5 Epiphanies, understands this better than anyone. In his one-man performance, Grant invites audiences to sit in a cozy, small space where they’ll listen to the stories that defined his life.

His first story is about a weird teacher he had in a private school who made a deep impression on his life. Grant may have met this teacher in 1965, but the descriptions he relates are extremely vivid and detailed. Besides being “tall and dark and chiseled,” the teacher’s smoking habit and deep intellect are recounted with exquisite detail. The teacher evoked “leather and authority” and his voice, recalled from Grant’s memory, had an unusual sound that would make most students perk up and pay attention.

Grant also recalls a tumultuous time in his life wherein he was working as a bartender. He and his friends were living hedonistic lives, where he said “we saw truth in wine” and felt a sense of disdain about the dull architecture in D.C. He noticed that D.C. was a place “where the rich could be rich together,” which inspired a longing for him and his friends to live like English lords. His companions included people whose names were Guinevere and Lord Byron, but they all fore-

went silverware and “licked each other’s fingers clean.”

They also consumed a lot of drugs, with Grant recalling that a heroin high “is the ultimate high.” As a result, he and his friends thought nothing of the prospect of death, that is until one of his buddies almost died from a heroin overdose, leading Grant and his friends into denial mode.

Grant eventually figured out that his “life was going nowhere,” so he decided to join the Peace Corps and ended up in a village in South Korea, teaching English to the locals.

He was treated like the village idiot there, but he gained the approval of his colleagues when he ate live prawns with gochujang. In his village, he learned that a curfew was imposed because of Communist spies. Grant grew up in the era of bomb shelters, which he found ridiculous, but his experience in South Korea is what finally made him come face-to-face with a harsh reality.

Grant wraps up his performance by sharing two final epiphanies from his life: A short one in which he discusses Theodore Roosevelt and expresses the idea that “we may be edging into a world where words trump meaning;” and a final story about months-long unemployment and the idea of failure. During that time, he instead worked on fixing up his home so that he could see physical evidence that he “was competent and productive.”

5 Epiphanies is essentially just a dude talking about himself for an hour, which on its surface, sounds kind of narcissistic and grating, but there is a sense of appreciation to be gleaned from Grant’s show: As we progress into an increasingly digital society, we might want to carry with us the stories that make us who we are—and maybe, when the time is right, share them with others.

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GalleriesSketcheS accompanying image, Espada captures the two kids in a charming joint portrait.

Hiram Maristany’s work is often equally atmospheric, especially in his moody image of an apartment building covered with grime worthy of Victorian London. Maristany also artfully documented an alleyway pigroast from above and captured a Henri Cartier-Bresson-style decisive moment—one youngster drawing with chalk on the pavement as another launches into a handstand in the rear.

The 10 artists’ techniques are largely conventional—a lot of black-and-white images, with occasional color. Ruben “Children at Play” by Hiram Maristany (1965, printed 2016) Ochoa briefly breaks the mold with a large-scale work that uses a “lenticular” format that shows a different image as the viewer moves from one side of the work to the other. It’s a smart way for Ochoa to mull what lies behind a highway sound barriDown These Mean Streets: er along Interstate 10 that walls off portions of Community and Place in East Los Angeles.

Urban Photography Camilo José Vergara, whose work has previAt the Smithsonian’s American Art ously carried several impressive exhibits at the Museum to Aug. 6 National Building Museum, offers one of his Documenting urban Decay and the signature time-lapse series that tracks architecpersistence of the people who live within it is tural changes in a single spot over time. In this a staple of photography. Familiar though such case, it’s 65 East 125th Street in East Harlem—a tropes may be, the Smithsonian American Art former jazz venue that, between 1977 and 2016 Museum’s Down These Mean Streets: Communi- by Vergara’s account, turned into a smoke shop, a ty and Place in Urban Photography offers some- clothing store, a mattress emporium, and a storefront church. By 2016, his photograph shows thing fresh, in artistry and in technique.

The wide-ranging exhibit showcases the scaffolding, suggesting an ambivalent work of ten Latino photographers, focusing destination for the address: gentrification.

Ultimately, the exhibit’s two standouts are mostly on images they made from the 1960s to the early 1980s. That was a period when Amer- Anthony Hernandez and Perla de Leon.

Hernandez came up with a winning formuican cities were undergoing wrenching demographic and economic changes. “As middle- la for documenting the isolated plight of urban class populations shifted to the suburbs and bus commuters in car-dependent Los Angenew highways cut through thriving neighbor- les. Smartly, Hernandez situated his subjects hoods, many cities began to experience eco- within a single, recurring landscape format: nomic and social disintegration, especially in He photographed Angelenos waiting endlessblack, Latino, and working-class communi- ly for buses, always on a sidewalk hemmed in by a lane of traffic, and on a street that’s always ties,” the exhibit notes.

The works in the exhibit range from docu- pointed in the same diagonal direction—a mentary images to portraiture to conceptual bracing formalistic rigor.

De Leon, meanwhile, offers images of the projects.

Some themes are familiar, if generally well- South Bronx that play up the decay. In one, a executed. Oscar Castillo photographed hope- boy runs down a tumbledown city block unful murals on decaying walls; others trained der an ominously darkening sky, while in antheir lenses on graffiti-covered walls; sever- other, a girl stands in a smoking, brick-strewn al produced surprisingly cheerful portraits of lot. De Leon’s finest image, however, shows a youngsters; and Frank Espada turned over- far-away tenement-style building seemingly perched atop a pile of rubble, looking, from flowing garbage into a recurring motif.

Espada’s East New York portfolio packs an a distance, like a bizarro-world Parthenon—a emotional impact. In one image, one child concise visual encapsulation of how the fates of smiles while his friend subtly hides a toy gun. cities, during the mid-20th century, were being —Louis Jacobson Another image features one boy pulling anoth- turned upside down. er in a wagon beneath a towering, black background that calls to mind the inky hues of Roy 8th and F Streets, N.W. Free. (202) 633-7970.

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FilmShort SubjectS Lady Macbeth

ly decorated rooms serving as the set. Of course, though, Katherine’s dresses are opulent, making her bad behavior even more delicious. There’s no mistaking it: This isn’t Shakespeare. It’s Lady Macbeth.

—Tricia Olszewski Lady Macbeth opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema, Landmark Bethesda Row, and Angelika Film Center.

Worst.

Beach Party. ever.

Lady of the house Lady Macbeth

Directed by William Oldroyd The TiTular characTer alluded to in Lady Macbeth isn’t much of a lady. William Oldroyd’s fierce directorial debut is a very loose riff on the Scottish play, the Shakespearean tragedy in which, in typical Bard fashion, many lives are lost. The body count in this film isn’t nearly as high, but considering the story involves a wellmarried young woman in 19th century England, even a single death is a shocking one.

The script, adapted by newcomer Alice Birch from a novella by Nikolai Leskov, doesn’t give you much information to start out with. It’s implied that it’s the wedding night of Katherine (Florence Pugh) and Alexander (Paul Hilton). Alexander is twice Katherine’s age, but between the candlelight and the thenteenage Katherine’s mature features and manner, they look more like peers than members of separate generations. Regardless, Katherine calls her husband “sir;” his odious father, Boris (Christopher Fairbank), bought her along with a piece of land for his son.

Katherine wins sympathy during her first tortuous days in the manor, having her hair roughly brushed and waist cinched in by Anna (Naomi Ackie), one of the black servants. (The fact that Ackie is black has been both somewhat controversial and considered a triumph of busting through period pieces’ typically lilywhite casting.) Alexander orders her to stay indoors, even though she remarks that she likes fresh air. And whereas Alexander apparently can’t perform in bed, Katherine’s father-inlaw blames her while his son is on a business trip. “And when your husband returns,” Boris says, “you can resume your duties with more vigor, madam.”

Boris also leaves on a trip at the same time as his son, and it doesn’t take long for Katherine to start doing as she pleases. She walks the windy

moors, gets bitchy with the servants, and soon takes a lover, a groomsman named Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis). The young lady of the house grows steely, wiley, and ballsy—and though at times you’re put off by her sudden haughtiness, Katherine’s fuck-off attitude is mostly pretty great.

And then it turns unthinkable. The first victim drops dead while Katherine dines and tries to force Anna into conversation. Things don’t end well when Alexander returns and confronts Katherine about her affair—“I do not like owning a whore,” he says, along with “You’ve grown fatter!”—while Sebastian’s hiding in the room. At least, that is, until she brings him out Dunkirk

in front of her husband and starts undressing him. Soon, she’s living with Sebastian openly, with him even trading his work clothes for threads more befitting a head of the house.

When Katherine receives an unwelcome revelation in the form of a piece of Alexander’s past, it’s not surprising that she’s put off, especially because it threatens her relationship with Sebastian. She’ll do anything to keep him, even as he grows more distant toward her. So she takes care of the problem.

Pugh is terrifically fearless here; it will likely be her breakout role. And in creating this world, Oldroyd and Birch are ones to watch, too. The production is rather austere, with only three musical pieces perfectly placed in the film’s score and a small handful of sparse-

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Dunkirk

Directed by Christopher Nolan No soldier caN fathom how their actions will be perceived back home. Concepts like duty, honor, and cowardice seem all the more hollow when hope is lost and death looms. This anxiety is central to Dunkirk, the existential World War II drama from Christopher Nolan. His latest is an intense film—more pulverizing than brutal— with a sense of scale and grandeur that eclipses most blockbuster entertainment. On top of the non-stop action, Nolan succeeds by acknowledging weak spots that have plagued his entire career. Instead of improving on these weaknesses, he crafted a film that has no need for them. This is a war film at its most economical and relentless.

About 50 miles of ocean separate the French town of Dunkirk from England, and the proximity between the two countries is like a grim joke. It is spring 1940, and after the Battle of France, hundreds of thousands are cut off at the beach. The brusque opening sequence sets the tone for what’s to follow: A handful of young men wander the empty streets, only to run away from gunfire. One of them attempts to fire back, while another drops his rifle, acknowledging the futility. Nolan films the Dunkirk evacuation from three primary vantages: soldiers on the beach, civilian boatmen who were recruited by the rescue effort, and English fighter pilots. The Germans are never seen, except in dramatic shadow.

The film is an assault of gunfire, explosions, and death. The score by frequent Nolan collaborator Hans Zimmer only adds to the heightened sense of fear: A recurring theme sounds like a ticking clock, and the instruments sometimes sound like the whine of a jet engine. Nolan’s script only adds to the feeling of sensory overload. Dunkirk has little dialogue, and vir-

tually no character development whatsoever.

Some reviews see parallels to Malick and The Thin Red Line, but Nolan seems just as influenced by macro-scale documentaries like John Ford’s The Battle of Midway and John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro.

There are a few recognizable faces, including Harry Styles as a fresh-faced everyman, yet Nolan deigns to avoid backstory and false sentiment. Most of the lines are shouted, with a mix of anger and fear. The only actors with anything hinting at depth are Mark Rylance, as a grave-faced civilian, and Kenneth Branagh, as the leader of the evacuation effort. Many Nolan films suffer from half-baked characters and an overabundance of exposition. Dunkirk jettisons traditional characters altogether, in favor of a story told through action.

The color palette is a mix of wan, pitiless blues and greys. As usual, Nolan eschews computer-generated special effects, so the film has a tactile sense of realism. All the dogfights unfold with clarity: Nolan uses the horizon as a guiding principle, giving us the sense of what the pilots hope to accomplish with each maneuver (Tom Hardy plays the lead pilot, and like his role in The Dark Knight Rises, he spends most of the film wearing a mask.)

Still, the scenes on the beach are the most gut-wrenching: Bodies litter the shore, and each attempt to put men on boats seems more helpless than the last. In The Prestige, Nolan’s best film, one character remarks, “[Drowning] was agony,” so we hear and see many characters drown in Dunkirk. There are frequent, impressive shots of a capsized destroyer, with water filling every last possible crevice of the boat’s interior, and sheer suspense overshadows the technical wizardry involved.

Nolan also returns to the perception of time, another favorite theme of his. Unlike Interstellar’s mind-bending paradoxes, Dunkirk jumps around different timelines of the evacuation.

You see one character reduced to an instinctdriven husk, only to see in a later scene how he began as a competent soldier. The cumulative goal is to suggest the psychological effect of such a protracted endeavor: Hardy’s pilot tries to accomplish the maximum good with limited time, while Styles and the other foot soldiers mix boredom with the constant stink of death.

Their only hope is a wordless, gently evolving sense of camaraderie.

Since the Dunkirk evacuation was before the United States’ involvement in the war, English officers were keenly aware of the cost of failure. The soldiers were more bewildered: They found themselves in a modern battle, with little context to comprehend death from above.

Dunkirk avoids military strategy and politics, at least until its final minutes. A character recites Churchill’s famous “We shall fight on the beaches” address. Churchill couldn’t have known that his speech would have a ripple effect, creating an international sense of good and evil. By staying in the moment, Dunkirk is about how England looked toward that beach and saw themselves. Survival is not victory, but it can set an example.

—Alan Zilberman Dunkirk opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

ONESONG Harry Nilsson, “Everybody’s Talkin’” and John Barry, “Midnight Cowboy Theme”

I orIgInally watched Midnight Cowboy on video because I was 17 and I’d heard it was X-rated (later rated R on reissue).

And, though my teen mind was hoping for some bow-chicka-wow-wow, I was met with an entirely different (and far less erotic) type of dirty film.

Midnight Cowboy is dirty, but only in a sad and disquieting way. It’s about prostitution and dark desperation and vulnerability. Not nearly as much fun as 17-year-old me was hoping.

Among other layers, the film is a trenchant inquiry into class dynamics. The wide array of choices available to those born into privilege vs. the narrow array of choices available to those who were not.

The film centers around the arc of a relationship between two damaged characters.

One (Jon Voight) is a tall, laconic, handsome Texan from the South who’s in New York City hoping to screw wealthy women for money.

The other (Dustin Hoffman) is a native New York grifter, not nearly as cunning as he wishes, who has struggled with his ethnicity (Italian, which the film assigns the slur “provoloney”), his class , and his physical limp.

We watch Voight and Hoffman, two “low lifes,” as they attempt to seduce and con their way into NYC upper class society, burdened by (respectively) their naivete and physical countenance. Ultimately, it becomes a very moving journey in a way that neither expects.

It’s a poetic and layered movie, and worth your time (it’s still the only X-rated film to win an Oscar), but I mainly love it now for the music it brought to the world. The name of this essay series is “One Song,” and I have stayed within that boundary for the length of the series, but for this piece, I’m thinking of two par-

ticular pieces of music. I will try to advance my argument that they are, essentially, one song.

The first is “Everybody’s Talkin’,” a gorgeous, countryish tune you will find familiar even if you never knew where it came from. It was originally written and sung by a guy named Fred Neil (who I suspect may have underestimated its eternal magic), but revived for the movie and sung with panache by Harry Nillsson. The lyrics are mysterious—there are lots of haunting, surreal images like “only the shadows of their eyes”—but it automatically instills a driving-into-the-sunset vibe, no matter where you are or what you’re doing. That’s what it’s famous for ,and that’s why it was a hit.

The second is John Barry’s “Midnight Cowboy Theme.” A wistful, transporting instrumental. A towering, perfect composition. Its iconic, deathless, lonely harmonica melody suggests yearning and hope and sadness at once. That guy was very, very good.

Please observe: These two very famous pieces of music, written by two different people at two different times, both seem to evoke the same exact dusky feeling. And unlike sadness or happiness or anger, that feeling is too complex to be captured by a single English word. (Or not one I know anyway.)

That feeling is the exact, inimitable blend of melancholy and yearning and innocence and knowing and dreaming and joy and anguish that imbues the movie itself.

When you hear either “Everybody’s Talkin’” or “Midnight Cowboy Theme,” you imagine a whole movie in just those few minutes, whether you have seen the actual movie or not.

John Barry himself was the music supervisor on the film. I sense that he had the same feeling I have. He features “Everybody’s Talkin’” at several points in the film. Clearly he understood its sweet power. By contrast, he features his own (utterly brilliant and haunting) theme very sparingly. It appears at only a couple of moments.

This speaks to Barry’s humility and vision.

It’s kind of miraculous (and worth celebrating) that these two songs—that bear no compositional similarity—both give you this same, powerful, mysterious, human feeling. It’s as if they are truly, er, one song.

If you haven’t seen the movie, I strongly recommend it. Don’t be lured by the original X rating. And don’t be repelled by it, either.

—Chad Clark

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Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Aquabats, Reggie and The Full Effect, CJ Ramone. 7 p.m. $23. fillmoresilverspring.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

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This Wild Life, Dryjacket, A Will Away. 8 p.m. $18. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

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Funk & r&B

betheSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Chi-Lites featuring Marshall Thompson. 8 p.m. $55–$65. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Jeffrey Osborne. 7:30 p.m. $75. birchmere.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Show. 8 p.m. $15–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

Songbyrd muSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Tank and the Bangas, Sweet Crude. 8:30 p.m. Sold out. songbyrddc.com.

Hip-Hop

verizon Center 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, D.R.A.M. 7:30 p.m. $250. verizoncenter.com.

Jazz

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

LARRY

CITY LIGHTS: Friday

roska

Last year, Drake scored a massive, worldwide hit with “One Dance,” a dancehalland afrobeat-inspired tribute to finding love on the dance floor. At the center of the song was a sample of Kyla’s “Do You Mind,” a 2008 single that’s a prime specimen of UK funky, a true-to-its-name genre of electronic music that mixes Afro-Latin percussion with British garage beats.

You might just hear “Do You Mind” in a DJ set by Roska, a key figure in the UK’s dance music underground who helped develop UK funky at the end of the last decade. Since then, the DJ and producer, born Wayne Goodlitt, has made a name for himself with a hybrid house music style that draws from all things bassheavy and holds down a slot on London’s seminal Rinse FM (a former pirate radio station that went “legit” in 2010). Whether you want to get down to “One Dance” or “Do You Mind”—or both—Roska is sure to have something for you when he makes his D.C. debut. Roska performs with Jessicunt, Jett Chandon, Panch, and Benbo at 9 p.m. at Ten Tigers Parlour, 3813 Georgia Ave. NW. $5. (202) 506-2080. tentigersdc.com.

—Chris Kelly tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Ted Chubb Band. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

World eChoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Silvestre Dangond. 8 p.m. $36.80. echostage.com.

saturday rock dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lionize, Of Tomorrow, Tomato Dodgers. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Sonny Landreth, Toronzo Cannon. 8 p.m. $20–$45. thehamiltondc.com.

Songbyrd muSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Bad Rabbits, G.U.M.P. 8 p.m. $20–$22. songbyrddc.com.

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SAT, JULY 22

SONNY LANDRETH

W/ SPECIAL GUEST TORONZO CANNON SUN, JULY 23

THE STEPPIN STONES W/ BORN CROOKED

TUES, JULY 25

OKKERVIL RIVER W/ JESSE HALE MOORE THURS, JULY 27

PETER HIMMELMAN W/ NATALIE YORK FRI, JULY 28

AN EVENING WITH

LIVE AT THE FILLMORE

THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND SAT, JULY 29

AN EVENING WITH InGRATITUDE:

A TRIBUTE TO EARTH, WIND, & FIRE SUN, JULY 30

ENTER THE HAGGIS TUES, AUG 1

LIVE DEAD ’69 W/ HOLLY BOWLING WED, AUG 2

MIDNIGHT NORTH

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classical

WolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. National Symphony Orchestra performs The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses. 8:30 p.m. $35–$58. wolftrap.org.

country

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Chris Stapleton, Anderson East, Brent Cobb. 7 p.m. $30.75–$70.75. livenation.com.

AN EVENING WITH CRIS JACOBS, JOHN GINTY, & FRIENDS FRI, AUG 4

HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND SAT, AUG 5

AN EVENING WITH

merriWeather poSt pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Greensky Bluegrass, Leftover Salmon. 6 p.m. $40. merriweathermusic.com.

SPLINTERED SUNLIGHT SUN, AUG 6

AN EVENING WITH BOX

OF RAIN

ElEctronic

eChoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Funtcase, Megalodon, Arius. 9 p.m. $25–$35. echostage.com.

FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Norm Talley, Keith Worthy, Daniel Andres, Benoit. 4 p.m.

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$10–$15. Shaun Reeves, Ryan Crosson, markinthedark, Heather Femia. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Justin Jay. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Jeffrey Osborne. 7:30 p.m. $75. birchmere.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Aztec Sun, Big Mama Shakes, Bencoolen. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Hip-Hop

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

The Untouchables featuring Scarface and Backyard Band. 11 p.m. $35–$75. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz

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

sunday

FOLLOW

rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Pure Prairie League, Atlanta Rhythm Section. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Steppin Stones, Born Crooked. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. thehamiltondc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Thurston Moore Group, The Effects. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Ride, Froth. 8 p.m. $35–$38. sixthandi.org.

ElEctronic FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Guti, Mina, Alex Eljaiek, GG. 2 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

Funk & r&B WolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Rebelution, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Collie Buddz, Hirie. 6:30 p.m. $27.50– $39.50. wolftrap.org.

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

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

Mr. Eazi. 8 p.m. $29.50–$105. thehowardtheatre.com.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

UHH YEAH DUDE

Three years after Serial convinced normal people to listen to podcasts, the longform audio genre has become focused on a few big formats: pop culture chatter fests, vehicles for Obama White House aides, and chirpy accounts of unsolved murders. But the granddaddy of podcasts is still two guys sitting around and talking about nothing much at all. No one does that format better— and nearly no one has done it longer—than Uhh Yeah Dude hosts Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette. Romatelli and Larroquette (the son of Night Court star John Larroquette) have been offering their skewed take on the news of the week to listeners since 2006, way before everybody and their cousin was doing the same thing. These kinds of shows live or die on the personalities of the hosts. Fortunately, Larroquette and Romatelli, a mostly failed actor whose career highlights include a bit part in the Britney Spears film Crossroads, have enough to keep the show going 11 years later. The show begins at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930.

930.com.

—Will Sommer 34 july 21, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

CITY LIGHTS: sunday

MATTHIAS MANSEN: CONFIGURATIONS

Woodblock printing is one of history’s oldest continuously practiced art forms. It started out in Asia in the 8th and 9th centuries and came to Europe in the 15th. German artist Matthias Mansen started experimenting with woodblock printing while attending art school in the 1980s. The technique is relatively simple: Artists carve patterns into pieces of wood, cover the wood with ink, then press the block onto a surface. Mansen takes this one step further by using reclaimed wood and using the same blocks in multiple pieces, giving them a linked identity. Because of these common bonds, it’s best to see Mansen’s works together, which the National Gallery of Art invites visitors to do beginning this weekend. Traditional Chinese and Japanese woodblock prints were used for calligraphy, but Mansen’s work is more abstract and colorful. Whether he’s experimenting with human forms or simpler shapes, he brings this ancient technique into the 21st century. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., to Dec. 13, at the National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Free. (202) 737-4215. nga.gov.

—Caroline Jones

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SONIA (from disappear fear)

When he started out as a solo artist in the early 1980s, Billy Bragg turned his love for The Clash and Woody Guthrie into moody solo songs played on an electric guitar. His albums are full of bittersweet pop tracks but his leftist politics, influenced in no small part by the conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, resonate fully on songs like “There Is Power in a Union,” which shares a title with an early 20th century labor song. These two styles came together in the mid ’90s, when Guthrie’s daughter Nora asked Bragg (who later recruited Wilco) to turn some of her father’s never-recorded lyrics into contemporary songs. That project, Mermaid Avenue, was released in 1998 to near universal acclaim. His affection for American folk songs continues nearly two decades later: Last year, he teamed up with Joe Henry to record standards over the course of four days as they traveled by train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Sure, it’s a bit ironic for Bragg to charge a not insignificant sum to hear his working class odes, but his touching minor chord hooks and cleverly rendered lyrical portraits make the expenditure worth it. Billy Bragg performs with SONiA at 7:30 p.m. at The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. $59.50. (703) 549-7500. birchmere.com.

—Steve Kiviat

rock birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

WYLDER & SKOUT

FRI 21

VENN & BOTTLED UP

FRI 21

Beta Play

28,29 &30

SAT 22

TUE 25

THU 27

LITTLE RIVER BAND THE FIXX 7 8 GENE WEEN does BILLY JOEL

blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Algiers, Moon Diagrams. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

(703) 549-7500. Billy Bragg, SONiA. 7:30 p.m. $59.50.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Flowerbomb,

birchmere.com.

Bike Thiefs. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

w/ The Paul Green Rock Academy

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13

FILM SCREENING and Q&A!

DUO SIERRA HULL BUMPER(JessJACKSONS & Chris) 20 JONNY LANG 23 BOB SCHNEIDER KING 24 25 STEPHANIE MILLS KIM WATERS 26 27 SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISON MOORER 30 MARCIA BALL 31 AMANDA SHIRES Sept 1 KENNY LATTIMORE

THE 9

SONGWRITER SERIES

PUNK ROCK KARAOKE

ALGIERS

SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL STARS

CYMBALS EAT GUITARS

FRI 28

CRYFEST DANCE PARTY

SAT 29

KILL LINCOLN

FRI 4

EVIL LEAGUE OF ECDYSIASTS:

THE CURE V THE SMITHS

PASTIUS REVELIO

BURELSQUE TRIBUTE TO HARRY POTTER

CHAD CALEK PRESENTS THE

sir noface lives tour

AN EVENING OF VARIETEASE (21+)

MON 24

6

Billy BraGG

Monday

THU 20

SAT 22

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET THE BACON BROTHERS 31 NIKKI LANE Steelism Aug 4 GORDON LIGHTFOOT

26& 27

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SAT 5

THE U.S. AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

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FRIDAY Aug 11, 8pm

YOUSSOU N’ DOUR The Voice of Senegal

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TRIVIA E V E RY M O N DAY & W E D N E S DAY

$12 BURGER & BEER MON-FRI 4 P M -7 P M

Fort reno 3800 Donaldson Place NW. (202) 3556356. Ear, Fuzzqueen, Mimi Loco and the Drama Queens. 7 p.m. Free. fortreno.com.

CITY LIGHTS: tuEsday

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

Funk & r&B

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Bléz. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

tuEsday rock

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Mt. Joy, Trevor Sensor. 9 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

600 beers from around the world

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. 311, New Politics. 8 p.m. $50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Downstairs: good food, great beer: all day every day

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Vurro, Herb & Hanson. 8 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com.

*all shows 21+

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience. 7 p.m. $25–$99.95. livenation.com.

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CHRISTMAS INJULY BEERTAPPING J U LY 2 1 S T

THE DCWEIRDO SHOW DOORSAT 8PM,SHOWAT 9PM J U LY 2 2 N D

THE CHEEKY MONKEY SIDESHOW DOORSAT 8PM,SHOWAT 9PM J U LY 2 3 R D

TRAVELING CIRQUE D’SADE D O O R S AT 8 P M , S H O W AT 9 P M J U LY 2 4 T H

DISTRICTTRIVIA A T 7 : 3 0 P M COMICS AND COCKTAILS S P O N S O R E D BY FA N T O M C O M I C S

country

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

Okkervil River, Jesse Hale Moore. 7:30 p.m. $24.75– $49.75. thehamiltondc.com.

CABARET

“What good is sitting all alone in your room? / Come hear the music play.” These lines, even though they come from the musical’s penultimate song, precisely summarize the spirit of Cabaret. Set in 1930s Berlin, the Kander and Ebb musical borrows from vaudeville, musical revues, early musical theater, and the scintillating, smoky atmosphere of back-alley nightclubs and can be as dark, moody, and hopeful as a night at a cabaret. It chronicles the lives of patrons and performers in the Kit Kat Klub, from headlining performer Sally Bowles to elderly Jewish store owner Herr Schultz, as they try to navigate an increasingly unfamiliar environment twisted by the ever-growing emergence of Nazi influence throughout their city. But between the wild abandon of der Klub and the terror of the swastika, the story that emerges is one of basic humanism, dignity, and compassion. It’s one that supports the simple act of strangers coming together to share a song and a drink and forget about the world outside, even if only for a few, fleeting moments. The musical runs July 11 to Aug. 6 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $59–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Jackson Sinnenberg

CAPITAL LAUGHS

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BROKEN DIAMONDS STAND UP COMEDY D O O R S AT 7 P M , S H O W AT 8 P M J U LY 3 0 T H

STAND UP COMEDY P R E S E N T E D BY R U DY W I L S O N

D O O R S AT 6 P M , S H O W AT 7 P M

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1523 22nd St NW – Washington, DC 20037 (202) 293-1887 - www.bierbarondc.com @bierbarondc.com for news and events

WolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Diana Ross. 8 p.m. $35–$85. wolftrap.org.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jeff Antoniuk–Paul Bollenback Quintet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tessa Souter. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

rock

CITY LIGHTS: WEdnEsday

J U LY 2 6 T H

J U LY 2 7 T H

merriWeather poSt pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. John Legend, Gallant. 7:30 p.m. $59–$499. merriweathermusic.com.

WEdnEsday

6:30PM

J U LY 2 5 T H

Funk & r&B

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Conor Oberst, Hop Along. 7 p.m. $36. 930.com.

HousE and land

The relationship between art and the natural world is mutually beneficial. Henry David Thoreau reflected upon the simplistic pleasures of a natural surrounding in Walden, and even before that , his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson established the transcendentalist movement with his landmark essay “Nature,” arguing that reality can be understood through the natural world. Since then, artists of every ilk have considered the transcendentalist approach when creating. I don’t know if the members of the folk duo House and Land are actually transcendentalists, but when you consider the band’s name and the nature of their music, it’s not an unfounded assumption. On their self-titled debut LP, House and Land celebrate the traditional music of their Appalachian roots, composing droney, meditative folk songs on guitars, fiddles, shruti box, and a half dozen other traditional acoustic instruments. The result is a masterful album that feels firmly rooted in the tunes and styles of Appalachia. House and Land performs with Layne Garrett and Devin Hoff at 9 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple Ave. NW. $10. rhizomedc.com.

—Matt Cohen

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birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Toad the Wet Sprocket, Beta Play.

7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Palm, Palberta, Dove Lady. 8:30 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. 311, New Politics. 8 p.m. $50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

WolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Regina Spektor, Ben Folds. 8 p.m. $35–$65. wolftrap.org.

Hip-Hop

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Wale, Ari Lennox. 7 p.m. $30. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Leron Young. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Dialectical Imagination. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

tHursday rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Toad the Wet Sprocket, Beta Play.

7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com. blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Cymbals Eat Guitars, Active Bird Community.

7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tristen, Crys Matthews, Reuben Bidez. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Fort reno 3800 Donaldson Place NW. (202) 3556356. No Dead Monsters, Bottled Up, Scanners. 7 p.m.

Free. fortreno.com. merriWeather poSt pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. alt-J, Saint Motel, SOHN. 7 p.m. $45–$65. merriweathermusic.com.

CITY LIGHTS: tHursday

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

Jagwar Ma, My French Roommate. 8 p.m. $18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Xavier Rudd, Emmanuel Jal, Christina Holmes. 7:30 p.m. $30–$35. sixthandi.org.

J U LY

BluEs

F 21 THE CHI-LITES

amp by Strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. John Hammond. 8 p.m. $30–$40. ampbystrathmore.com.

FT. MARSHALL THOMPSON S 22 JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS

caBarEt

kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. A Drag Salute to Divas and Devos. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

COMEDY SHOW (7/10PM) SU 23 A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF MARVIN GAYE & TEDDY PENDERGRASS TH 27 ANTHONY DAVID

ElEctronic

Songbyrd muSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Reagan Bombs. 9 p.m. $10. songbyrddc.com.

Funk & r&B

betheSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Anthony David, Gordon Chambers. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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Theater

S 29 SUGAR BEAR’S BIRTHDAY

CELEBRATION W/ EU SU 30 SECRET SOCIETY

Cabaret The classic musical set in a Weimar Germany nightclub returns to the Kennedy Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Roundabout Theater Company, which produced this revival. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 6 $59–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Capital Fringe FeStival The long-running arts festival sets up in locations around the H Street Corridor for another summer, presenting plays about everything from the occupation of Gaza to author Dorothy Parker. Logan Fringe Arts Space. 1358 Florida Ave. NE. To July 30 $17. (202) 737-7230. capitalfringe.org. the mark oF Cain Synetic Theater presents another original production, this one designed to tell the story of human history from the perspective of Cain, the world’s first recorded criminal. Directed and conceived by Paata Tsikurishvili, this blood drenched drama forces audiences to determine who is guilty in each situation. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Aug. 13 $10–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. night SeaSonS A 93-year-old woman reflects on her long life, wondering if outliving her family and friends is a punishment or a gift, in this Horton Foote drama directed by Jack Sbarbori. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To Aug. 13 $15–$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org. an oCtoroon Woolly Mammoth reunites the cast and creative team of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ spin on 19th century racial melodrama, which first showed at the theater in 2016. As the drama unfurls, a white man falls in love with the part-black owner of the estate, a swindler tries to win the man for himself, and the whole property might be foreclosed on.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Aug. 6 $20–$74. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net. the originaliSt Arena Stage brings back this drama about late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as he mentors a young, liberal clerk working in his office. Directed by Molly Smith, this production once again stars local favorite Edward Gero. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 6 $66–$101. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. rodgerS & hammerStein’S the king and i The touring production of the award-winning musical tells the story of Anna Leonowens and the king of Siam and the relationship that developed between them when she was hired to teach his wives and children about the western world. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 20 $49–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

AU G U S T W2

rEaGan BoMBs

Go-go is the essential sound of Washington, D.C., even though it has largely been absent from the national consciousness. A handful of hit singles have broken through over the years, but the genre evolved mostly as a local phenomenon. That for-us-by-us approach has suited many of its performers and partisans just fine. Not so for DJ Jesse Tittsworth and filmmaker Scott Sanders, two D.C. natives who currently live in Los Angeles. Their new project, Reagan Bombs, looks to bring go-go to a new audience—one comprised of revelers in the global, underground dance world—while respecting the sound’s past and present. The duo’s self-titled debut fuses the sounds of the world of go-go, via samples not just of records and live musicians but from found sounds, interview snippets, and old VHS tapes, with house and techno beats that soundtrack dance floors from Brooklyn to Berlin. As innovative as their approach is, Reagan Bombs probably won’t turn go-go into a mainstream sound. But it will get people dancing. Hasn’t that always been the point? Reagan Bombs performs with Mista Selecta, Kelow Latesha, and Ciscero at 9 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House, 2477 18th St. NW. $10. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com.

—Chris Kelly

Wig out! In this boy-meets-boy tale, a chance meeting on the subway takes a man into the underground world of drag ball culture. Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, co-writer of Moonlight, this warm drama about finding your community incorporates the influences of Jay-Z, Ovid, and Destiny’s Child. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Aug. 6 $20–$54. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

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girlS trip Four longtime friends reunite in New Orleans to spend a weekend at the Essence Festival and a series of shenanigans ensue in this boisterous comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee. Starring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) landline Jenny Slate, John Turturro, Edie Falco, and Abby Quinn star in this comedy set in 1995 New York, about a young woman preparing to get married and her sister, a covert club kid, who uncover a series of love letters written by her father to another woman.

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Legals SUMMONS AND NOTICE Fourth Judicial District Court, for the State of Utah In and For Utah County In the matter of the adoption of Baby Boy R., a minor child.

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IF YOU INTEND TO INTERVENE IN OR ANSWER AND CONTEST THE ADOPTION, YOU MUST FILE A MOTION TO INTERVENE OR AN ANSWER TO THE PETITION WITHIN 30 DAYS. IF YOU DO NOT, THE COURT WILL ENTER AN ORDER OF DEFAULT THAT YOU HAVE WAIVED ANY RIGHT TO FURTHER NOTICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE CHILD, FORFEITED ALL RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THE CHILD, AND ARE BARRED FROM THEREAFTER BRINGING OR MAINTAINING ANY ACTION TO ASSERT ANY INTEREST IN THE CHILD. Any response to the petition or this notice must be filed with the Fourth Judicial District Court, American Fork Dept., 75 East 80 North, Ste. 202, American Fork, UT 84003, and a copy mailed to Larry Jenkins, at Kirton McConkie, 50 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. The petition is on file with the Court. For a copy of the petition, contact Mr. Jenkins at (801) 328-3600.

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