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10 When a cancer care initiative ran out of funding, ill District residents lost a valuable and encouraging resource.

DISTRICT LINE 4 Loose Lips: The District abandoned a partnership with Georgetown University that aided those with developmental disabilities.

Advocates want to know why.

6 Mumble Sauce: Inside a secret art and healing space in LeDroit Park

SPORTS 8 Kickstarter: Can the Washington Spirit and the National Women’s Soccer League hang on to the World Cup momentum?

FOOD 14 If These Shelves Could Talk: Liquor business lessons from four longtime local proprietors 16 Raw Deal: An H Street NE juice bar faces eviction.

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23 Reading Rainbow: The DC Public Library books kids can’t put down 24 Curtain Calls: Ritzel on Synetic Theater’s Treasure Island 24 Short Subjects: Gittell on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 25 Sketches: Assimakopoulos on Vibrant Matter, Social Constructs at Arena Stage

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Short Notice

Advocates worry the seemingly abrupt end to a 14-year relationship with Georgetown University will harm D.C. residents with developmental disabilities. abled residents, the District must, among other things, continue its relationship with Georgetown University, which provides outside expertise in caring for people with developmental disabilities through its “Health Initiative” program. The Health Initiative is part of the federally funded University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities network, branches of which exist in every almost state and provide research on and services for people with disabilities.

D.C. Department of Disability Services Director Andrew Reese, who had been in the job for less than a year at that point, pledged “continued collaboration” with disability rights organizations and families to improve the District’s care and support of people with developmental disabilities.

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle called it a “joyous occasion,” according to a transcript of the proceedings. Cake was served afterward.

But now Bernstein and several other advocates are raising red flags after Reese’s de-

By Mitch Ryals

On the day in January 2017 when the District of Columbia was released from 40 years of federal court supervision of its care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, cautious optimism hung in the air.

Sandy Bernstein, one of the attorneys who represented people with developmental disabilities in the class action lawsuit known in its final years as Joy Evans v. Muriel Bowser, told the judge that her clients and their family members were “pleased with the progress that has been made but concerned that it will not be maintained when the case is closed and oversight ends.”

The lawsuit was originally filed in 1976 over conditions at Forest Haven, a facility that housed more than 1,000 people considered developmentally disabled. In 1978, U.S. District Court Judge John Pratt ruled the District had violated the constitutional rights of those residents and ordered the faciliForest Haven ty to close. It remained open until 1991, at which point the remaining residents were moved into group homes.

Residents at the Laurel, Maryland, facility suffered physical, psychological, and sexual abuse from staff and other residents. They were denied medical and dental treatment, and some died while confined there. Even after the facility closed, the Washington Post documented 116 troubling deaths of developmentally disabled people living in group homes in the community.

The Evans case, spanning eight mayoral administrations and three federal judges, lingered in the court system as the District repeatedly failed to meet the court’s orders. In 2017, D.C. finally met all 70 conditions set by the court.

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partment opted not to continue its 14-year relationship with Georgetown University that began as a result of the lawsuit.

In a letter to Reese, Bernstein describes one of Georgetown’s most important functions under the $1.3 million contract. She writes about a disabled man who was hospitalized with a serious bed sore and needed “lifesustaining” surgery. At first the patient was scared and would not consent to the surgery, Bernstein says. But he later agreed after a nurse with the Health Initiative took the time to explain why the procedure was necessary.

“The Health Initiative’s involvement avoided further hospitalization of the client, which was instrumental in improving his health and decreased the medical costs to the District,” she writes.

Some individuals’ disabilities make communication with hospital doctors and nurses impossible, so a Georgetown physician and nurse work with hospital staff to make sure the person is properly cared for and returned home.

Georgetown also provides sex education and parenting support for developmentally disabled people and training for nurses throughout the District on how to care for disabled people.

“It’s concerning when you have a case and there starts to be slippage and the agency starts backing away from the safeguards they put in place when they were under litigation without any indication they’re not needed anymore,” Bernstein says. “Of course they’re still needed.”

In the past month, advocates, lawyers, and former state disability department heads nationwide have raised similar alarms in letters sent to District officials.

Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau,

whose Committee on Human Services has oversight of DDS, called a rare public roundtable to discuss the change during the Council’s summer recess, on July 23. Nadeau says DDS has not alerted her to any issues with Georgetown’s performance.

DDS publicized its transition plan late last Friday afternoon under pressure from disability rights advocates. The plan awards some of Georgetown’s services, such as the hospital services, to another government contractor while others, such as sex education, are covered under a Medicaid waiver.

Reese’s explanation during the roundtable did not seem to satisfy the advocates, lawyers, and people with disabilities who attended the hearing and raised concerns.

Chris Murphy, Georgetown’s vice president for government relations and community engagement, says the university will consider putting pressure on Mayor Muriel Bowser to intervene, though it’s unclear what, if anything, she could do.

In december 2018, representatives from Georgetown met with Reese, DDS deputy director Winslow Woodland, and chief of staff Thomas (Jared) Morris, according to Murphy, who served as former Mayor Vince Gray’s chief of staff.

Murphy says they expected to talk about Georgetown’s role in the agency’s vision for continuing to care for people with developmental disabilities. But instead, he says, much of the discussion focused on who owned the rights to materials on Georgetown’s website for the Health Initiative.

“We were told that it would be a challenge for DDS to keep funding and services at a pre-Evans standard in a post-Evans world,” he says via email, referring to the lawsuit.

At that time, the Georgetown agreement was in the final year of a four-year deal that accounted for a fraction of DDS’ $168 million budget for 2018. Although Georgetown benefited from a sole-source contract to that point, Murphy says the Georgetown representatives told Reese and his deputies that they welcomed a competitive bidding process going forward.

On May 31, DDS notified Georgetown that it would not renew its contract, which ends August 31 and pays for a physician, two nurses, two psychologists, two home visitors, a health educator, and a health analyst. “We were not given a reason,” Murphy says.

That notification prompted disability advocates across the nation to send letters questioning the decision. They called for a more public and transparent process and

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In a letter to Reese on July 16, Alison Whyte, executive director of the DC Developmental Disabilities Council, a mayoral-appointed body that identifies and addresses the needs of those with developmental disabilities, criticized the lack of communication from DDS about its decision.

“This is not the kind of work that can be done by just anyone and this kind of specific experience should not be taken for granted,” Whyte wrote.

Perhaps the most damning letter was addressed to Mayor Bowser and Chairman Phil Mendelson and signed by eight former directors and deputy directors of state disability agencies from Oregon to Pennsylvania. The letter says publicity around the decades-long class action lawsuit negatively affected disability care systems in their own states. “We all had a stake in DC getting out of the longest lawsuit in the history of disability services, and we view this recent decision as a dangerous step in the wrong direction,” the letter says.

“Its value extends far beyond the four corners of any contract,” the letter continues.

“The generic service system cannot fill the void. As former directors ourselves, we are familiar with the impulse, when federal oversight ends, to pull away from the type of external support that Georgetown provides. We know, from experience, that this would be the wrong move for the District.”

In early July, Winslow, the DDS deputy director, called a nurse and a doctor who work for Georgetown’s Health Initiative program to offer them jobs through a different contractor, according to three people affiliated with the university.

That was around the same time the Washington Post first published a story quoting disability service providers who also raised concerns about the end of Georgetown’s contract.

Both individuals declined the offer, those sources tell LL, saying the offers are evidence that DDS did not have a thorough transition plan before it decided to cancel Georgetown’s contract.

Motir Services Inc., which has won tens of millions of dollars in District contracts over the years, inked a one-year, $760,000 agreement with DDS with options to extend, dated May 1, that includes a speech-language pathologist, a clinical psychologist, a physical therapist, and a project manager. Reese says the company also recently hired a physician to replace the doctor working through Georgetown.

Through its other District contracts, the mi-

nority-owned business provides janitorial services, landscaping, hauling and moving services, IT services, and medical staffing. Motir’s president, Emmanuel Irono, has personally and through his company donated thousands of dollars to the mayoral campaigns of Bowser, Gray, and Adrian Fenty.

During Tuesday’s roundtable, disability rights advocates, lawyers, care providers, and people with disabilities testified in support of Georgetown’s Health Initiative. Nearly every witness described feeling blindsided by DDS’ decision to end the contract and several described the transition as “piecemeal.”

Reese defended the decision, saying that Georgetown helped the District build a “system of providers and robust care,” and that it’s time to transfer those services away from Georgetown’s contract as many of them are now covered under a Medicaid waiver.

“I’m confident that all the necessary services will continue without interruption,” he said at the hearing. “We have developed a system where services are available from other sources including [certified business enterprises.]”

Reese said that comments about his lack of engagement with the people most affected by his decision was “confusing.” From his perspective, DDS had publicly indicated two years ago that the contract would not continue.

Gray, who joined Nadeau for the hearing and who ran the Department of Human Services when Forest Haven closed, said Reese’s testimony did not give him confidence in a smooth transition.

In an interview following the hearing, Nadeau tells LL she was most struck by the disconnect between Reese and the 30 witnesses regarding the end of DDS’ relationship with Georgetown.

“At the very least there is a massive communication breakdown, and at the very worst we’re making a grave mistake,” she says. “The reality is probably somewhere in between.”

Nadeau left with more questions and is considering sending a letter to the mayor asking her to reconsider the transition timeline. She’s also contemplating asking DDS for a list of every individual receiving services from Georgetown and for DDS’ specific plan for how they will transition those services—similar to what she did when the family homeless shelter at D.C. General closed in 2018.

“On its face, I don’t care if Georgetown or some other operator provides these services, but if we have a program that’s been getting really good results for our constituents, I want to make sure we don’t eliminate that without real buy-in,” Nadeau says. “What I saw today was a lack of buy-in.”

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Beverly Price captures beautiful worlds within D.C. and shows them at a secret gallery space infused with Black history.

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By Jordan N. DeLoach Mumble Sauce is a summer 2019 column about how DMV Black communities uplift healing and creativity in the face of gentrification, displacement, policing, and incarceration. This is installment two of 10.

There’s a secreT portal hiding in a house in LeDroit Park.

On the outside, it looks like a large colonial home, similar to the ones around it. If you didn’t know exactly what you were looking for, you wouldn’t know there was anything going on inside.

When I went to a party at this house a few weeks ago, it was dark and I approached with hesitation. I was joined by another

Black woman who was similarly lost, both of us nervous and acutely aware of the dangers of being a Black person approaching the wrong home. We chuckled and felt more sure of ourselves once we reached the front porch. The rattle of the wood beneath our feet let us know we were in the right place— music was playing inside, and a lot of it.

This is House of Secrets: a 100-year-old eclectic abode where Black artists have convened since the 1960s. A lot of soul has touched the walls. Icons like Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Duke Ellington, and Prince have all thrown parties there. Now, in 2019, those parties are being thrown by D.C. bornand-raised photographer Beverly Price.

The list of stories Beverly Price has to tell is even longer than the locs that cascade

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like ropes of licorice down her back. You can tell she’s a storyteller from her photography—black-and-white stills of Black people in Barry Farm that she hangs along the house’s walls during her parties. She uses these functions to connect local Black artists to one another while raising money for the house’s octogenarian owner to help him keep his home.

Price was born and raised in D.C.’s Capitol Hill, so uplifting local Black artists is particularly important to her. “Black artists shouldn’t have to die to be valued. If we don’t support these artists while they’re alive, then they’re not benefiting from it,” Price says. “We’re creating a hub for Black creatives to find their place and feel welcome.”

To say that Black artists are welcomed at Price’s parties is an understatement. Each event has a similar set up. Music for dancing and lounging plays on the house’s different floors. Party attendees can chill and eat outside. And the hallmark is what’s going on in the attic: a jam session where anyone at the party can play different instruments, sing, chant, and rap.

The attic at House of Secrets feels like stepping into a different universe. The ceiling is painted with gradients of blue hues, bright stars, and emotive suns and moons.

Couches line the room’s periphery, punctuated by end tables topped with large red lamps, houseplants, and antique figurines.

Party attendees sit on the crowded couches and along on the floor, careful not to disturb any of the room’s relics, foreheads shiny and sticky with perspiration. There’s no shortage of people fidgeting in their seats to hop on the mic to freestyle or to get their turn on the drums. “Everyone brings something to the space,” Price says.

To Price, giving local Black artists a chance is a form of paying it forward. She found a love for art after a close friend gave her a camera in 2016 as a gift. Price had gotten out of prison 10 years earlier, and she felt like she was getting her bearings for the first time since she went away. She served a fiveyear sentence under D.C.’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, a law that provides incarcerated youth a chance to move forward in life without a criminal record.

“I was in the federal penitentiary at 18. I had to grow up really fast,” she says. “I had to sit in a cell—I was in lockdown for a year— and I had nothing but time to find myself.”

Shortly before Price got her camera, she had a dream in which four young Black boys with deep blue eyes rose out of the ground at Barry Farm and placed a camera in her hands. This dream confirmed for her that photography is part of her life’s purpose.

She started doing research online to learn some tricks before taking classes at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, a community arts center in the neighborhood where she grew up.

Since then, Price’s photography has been featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

The vast majority of subjects of Price’s

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“While I was in prison, I knew I had to prepare myself. I knew the odds were against me. The system in America is very harsh for young people,” says Beverly. “For someone so young to make a mistake, and to have it follow you around forever … it made me question the compassion of this country.”

“My photos tell a story of concern for the youth. I’m a mother to the community.”

There’s power in Black people’s stories, and Beverly wants to give people the chance to share them. That’s why she’s started doing photography workshops with local kids.

It’s why she’s cultivated relationships with so many Black artists across the city, providing them with platforms to dive into their crafts with other musicians. It’s also why she’s developed a bond with the owner of House of Secrets: Beverly’s been documenting his story while helping him take care of his home.

“House of Secrets is a place of ritual, a place of Black D.C. culture. It’s a Black museum and is vital to the ecosystem of D.C.,” Beverly says. “The owner is almost 90 years old and he’s still partying with us. We’re keeping the vibe alive.”

As far as I can tell, this vibe has remarkable reverberation power. Each of Beverly’s parties has been a bit bigger than the last; each attracting different Black artists to flex what they’ve got. Maybe one day, the world will grow more familiar with the stories behind the black-and-white photographs in this secret house.

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Washington Spirit players were stars in the Women’s World Cup. Now their team needs more sponsors, TV exposure, and fan support at their stadium in Boyds, Maryland.

By Seth Vertelney The TemperaTure lasT Saturday night hovered in the 90s at the Maryland SoccerPlex, forcing the Washington Spirit to push back the kickoff time by an hour to 8 p.m. The team’s opponent, the Houston Dash, lacked a star player that would attract fans.

Still, the Spirit played its first match after the conclusion of the Women’s World Cup in front of a sold-out crowd— its first of the 2019 season. 5,500 people at Maureen Hendricks Field packed the stadium to welcome back two tournament stars, Rose Lavelle and Mallory Pugh.

The Spirit, along with every team in the National Women’s Soccer League, enjoyed an increase in attendance over the weekend due to the excitement around the World Cup. But with the next World Cup four years in the future, the Spirit and the NWSL must figure out how to make this momentum and attention last.

“Hopefully it’s not just a first-weekend thing.

Hopefully it continues the rest of the season,” says Lavelle, “because I think this league is very deserving of attention.”

The World Cup brings an increased wave of interest that teams look to ride after the tournament ends. From the Spirit’s perspective, this summer’s competition could not have gone better. The U.S. women’s national team won the whole thing, ensuring that the public would remain engaged throughout the tournament and interest would build organically as the outcomes grew more important. Fans also got to see Lavelle come into her own. Her dynamic performances and solo goal in the final against the Netherlands attracted plenty of attention in print and social media.

The Spirit had five players in total at the World Cup (a sixth, Australia’s Elise Kellond-Knight, joined the Spirit via trade after the tournament), but the team knows Lavelle’s popularity could be its most important asset moving forward.

“We’ve seen that attendance and engagement with our league has shot up,” Spirit captain Andi Sullivan says. “For us, having Rose

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score in the final, that’s huge.”

With star players and increased attention, the Spirit believes it has a chance to break through in the D.C. market this summer. It’s added four new sponsors in just the last few weeks and Spirit majority owner Steve Baldwin is expecting more to come aboard.

“As I came into this and I looked at the business model at both the Spirit level and the NWSL level, the thing that stood out to me more than anything was that we lacked the requisite corporate sponsorships with us as a club and with us as a league,” Baldwin says.

Though Baldwin is looking to address that issue at the club level, there is also plenty of work to be done within the league in order to sustain the momentum beyond the World Cup. Heading into the tournament, the NWSL had no national television deal and just one sponsor, Nike, committed to the league beyond this season. The league’s lack of a television agreement in particular has been baffling for many players.

“It has been frustrating that sometimes you turn on ESPN and there’s like cornhole or cricket … nothing against those sports,” Pugh says with a laugh. “But seriously, I want people to see

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what we can do and just how great each and every one of these players is.”

“It’s honestly mind blowing to think we have incredible players that just aren’t getting the exposure that they need to,” adds midfielder Chloe Logarzo, who competed for Australia in the World Cup. During the tournament, ESPN announced it would be the league’s TV partner for the rest of the 2019 season. But that deal will only last through October, after which the league’s TV future is again murky. Budweiser also recently signed on as the NWSL’s first official beer sponsor.

These are steps in the right direction, but more needs to be done to ensure sustainability.

“We need a title sponsor of the league, we need a presenting sponsor of the league, we need all types of participating sponsors,” Baldwin told City Paper last month. “There is no reason this league shouldn’t be doing $30 to $50 million a year in national sponsor deals.”

With the league faltering, much of the onus to build support has fallen to the teams themselves. For the Spirit, that means boosting the profiles of some of their biggest stars by getting them more face time in the community.

Baldwin says that was another part of his plan when he took over.

“Our club has done more events and activities in the community this year than perhaps all of the other years of the Spirit combined,” he says.

Getting players out into the community is helpful, but getting the community to come out and see the players is one of the biggest challenges that the Spirit currently faces.

The Spirit averaged 3,892 fans last season at Maureen Hendricks Field at the Maryland SoccerPlex, their modestly sized home near Germantown.

The SoccerPlex provides a unique set of benefits and challenges. Though it’s a familyfriendly venue located in an area relatively convenient for suburban Marylanders, the stadium is far from the urban center of D.C. Public transportation from the city to the stadium is a virtual non-starter.

For many fans in D.C., the Spirit can feel distant. The team is planning on playing two of its home games this season at D.C. United’s Audi Field, giving them access to an entirely different fan base.

“Audi Field is a world-class soccer venue and has a different type of experience than what is at the SoccerPlex,” Baldwin says. “I think one of the unique things about our area is we have an opportunity to utilize both and be able to address the entirety of our fan base.”

But Baldwin stops short of saying he wants to see more games at Audi Field in the future.

The Spirit will end up playing 10 of its 12 home games at the SoccerPlex this year. He says the two matches at Audi Field will be a “learning experience” for him.

Success for professional women’s soccer is far from a guarantee in the D.C. area. There have been false dawns before, notably after the U.S. won the 2015 World Cup, and that success didn’t translate into a meaningful boost for NWSL. “It’s almost been frustrating because you have those same players that you saw in the World Cup,” Sullivan says. “A large majority are here so it’s like, ‘Why are people not engaging with it?’”

There is hope, though, that this time around could be different.

“I see us as being in a unique moment of opportunity,” Baldwin says. “My role as an owner is to make sure we capitalize on this opportunity for the women. That goes across the ownership group in the league … I think it requires all of us to think bigger about really understanding the quality of the product that we have and marketing that product differently so it has the stickiness with our fans that we haven’t sustained in the past, and shame on us if we don’t get it done.”

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NO PLACE FOR THE CURE

A once thriving cancer consortium went belly up. In the wake of its failure is an unanswered question: Who is responsible for cancer care in the District?

By Candace Y.A. Montague Photo Illustrations by Darrow Montgomery and Julia Terbrock

One mOrning in June 2009, Stephen Jefferson noticed that he couldn’t tie his shoes. His right foot and leg were swollen. He went straight to his cardiologist, who had very few answers and only one remedy: fluid pills. “The doctor told me that if it doesn’t get any better that I should go to the emergency room.” By Saturday the swelling hadn’t gone down, and after a painful shoe shopping trip with his son, Jefferson headed to Providence Hospital. “My doctor ordered a series of CAT scans. The nurse came back later and said I had fluid around my heart, a collapsed lung, a tumor in my belly the size of a melon, and a blood clot traveling up my leg. Before I knew it, they had to rush me upstairs to a room. I was admitted on June 13th,” he recalls.

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The tests showed that Jefferson had stage four Hodgkin lymphoma.

After surgery and a three-week stint in the hospital, he was released just after the Fourth of July holiday. Jefferson would have to complete three months of chemotherapy, a routine that left him angry at times.

“I would have to go from 29th Street in Southeast to Providence Hospital for treatment twice a month. I knew I had to keep going—if for no one else, for my son. But then I would get angry because I started thinking, ‘Why do I have to travel so far away from home to get treatment?’”

He took his resentment to the office of then-D.C. Councilmember David Catania, who was the chair of the Committee on Health at the

time. “I went in there and my exact words were, ‘How come you let niggas die? We get cancer, we got to travel 30 to 45 minutes to get treatment. White folks and people in the middle of the city can get there in 10 minutes.’” One of Catania’s staffers connected Jefferson with a recently formed advocacy group focused on eliminating disparities in cancer care among District residents, the DC Cancer Consortium.

Jefferson, a former account manager for Canada Dry, met a woman named Susan Lowell Butler, whom he describes as feisty. “I was always talking about how the city didn’t have things for black folks east of the river as far as cancer treatment and oncology services. The next thing I knew they were saying that they wanted me to bring information to people east of the river. I’m a little unpolished. A little rough around the edges. I was like, ‘I dunno if you want me,’” chuckles Jefferson.

But it worked. And for many years the DC Cancer Consortium was the city’s leader in cancer education, prevention, and treatment.

They were the trusted resource that created the city’s master plan for eradicating cancer. But when ideals clashed and the funding well ran dry, the consortium left a consolidated force in fractured pieces.

The DC CanCer Consortium was created in 1990 and spearheaded by Butler, a fearless leader who was a breast and ovarian cancer survivor. The consortium had more than 70 organizational and individual members and seven board members. It distributed more than $11 million in grants to local cancer organizations, and its mission was “to harness the power of collaboration in reducing cancer deaths.”

Its guiding document was the cancer control plan, which contained statistics and goals for reducing cancer deaths in the District. The Consortium created the first plan in 2005, and wrote a total of three plans over the years. Each consecutive plan covered five years and explained in extreme detail the scope of the problem, the goals, objectives, and the key players in the city who would assist in its implementation.

These plans spotlight the barriers and disparities in cancer care and treatment. They break down select cancers that disproportionately affect subgroups and identify how the city and its health facilities can address problems. Finally, the control plan offers a preliminary budget assigning dollar amounts to education, prevention, surveillance, and outreach.

There have been two plans generated over the last eight years, 2011–2016 and 2013–2018.

Before losing her personal battle with cancer in 2010, Butler began grooming YaVonne Boyd to be her successor and carry on the mission of the Cancer Consortium. “Susan Butler, who was the original executive director when the cancer control plan was written, at that point contacted me to come help with the programs they had going. The group came together and wrote the cancer control plan for the District,” Boyd recalls. She says that the group was able to secure $20 million from The Master Settlement Agreement, a 1998 lawsuit settlement reached between the nation’s four largest tobacco companies and attorneys gen-

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eral from 46 states and the District of Columbia concerning the advertising, marketing, and promotion of cigarettes.

With funding and a plan in place, the Consortium was off to a strong start. By 2012, Boyd had already moved into her role as executive director and its efforts began to ramp up. The Consortium started initiatives such as DC Goes Pink for breast cancer and LATINO (Let’s Act Together in New Opportunities), which it designed to increase awareness of cancer among the District’s Hispanic population. There were blogs, media coverage, public service announcements, and fundraisers. DCCC became a prominent advocacy group on the frontlines against a treacherous public health threat.

One of the ways the Consortium made an impact was through its patient navigation services. DCCC partnered with The George Washington University Cancer Institute (now known as The Institute for Patient-Centered Initiatives and Health Equity) to form the Citywide Patient Navigation Network (CPNN). Newly diagnosed patients could consult with DCCC navigators to get assistance with finding treatment options, transportation, making appointments, and emotional support. Patient navigation programs have been shown to increase access to cancer care for patients in underserved areas and provide culturally sensitive support.

Patient navigation services were a core program for DCCC. But when the consortium collapsed, so did CPNN. Patient navigation services are in high demand, but poorly funded.

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, Associate Center Director of Patient-Centered Initiatives and

“I went in there and my exact words were, ‘How come you let niggas die?

We get cancer, we got to travel 30 to 45 minutes to get treatment. White folks and people in the middle of the city can get there in 10 minutes.”

Health Equity at George Washington University Cancer Center, has authored and co-authored several academic studies about patient navigation services.

“Navigation has been shown to reduce costs, emergency room visits, hospitalization, costs to patients, and increase adherence,” she says. “We haven’t been able to figure out how to pay for patient navigation. And so whether it’s at the city level or insurance level or through reimbursement strategies, my hope is that we get a payment model that has an additional payment built in for navigation. We really need that in D.C.” It’s difficult to get information on how many people in D.C. have cancer, and where in the city they live. The last count from DC Health (then called the Department of Health) was done in

2012. Without current numbers, it’s impossible to measure whether the city is reaching its goals and dismantling barriers to care as detailed in the control plan.

The 2012 numbers revealed that there are inequities all over the District in cancer rates and care. The top four cancers among D.C. residents at the time were breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal. Prostate cancer hits black men hard in the District. Black men had an incidence rate and death rate that is two times higher than other groups.

Breast cancer affects black women at high rates. While white women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in D.C., black women are more likely to die from it. PrattChapman says the burden is disproportionately on black women likely because of stress and late-stage diagnoses. “My understanding is that black women are more likely to prioritize other people’s needs before theirs. I think part of it is the responsibilities and chronic stress disproportionately placed on African American women. Also, in areas where larger black clusters are in D.C., people have to travel further for treatment. In terms of diagnosis, women may have family members or friends that were diagnosed at a later stage and had poor health outcomes and so they may be scared and feel that if they go to the hospital they won’t come out.”

Another possible reason for delaying diagnosis is deciding where to get treatment. Until recently there has only been one place in the southeastern end of the city where cancer patients could go to receive care—and that care

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didn’t include on-site chemotherapy. The cancer care clinic at United Medical Center operated with one oncologist and one oncology nurse practitioner and provided screenings, diagnostic care, treatment planning, posttreatment follow-up care, and patient navigation. But the clinic closed at the end of June.

Sometimes it’s not the type of care but rather the type of insurance that determines where patients will receive treatment. In the RAND Monitoring Cancer Outcomes Across the Continuum report from 2012, there was a specific notation about Medicaid and oncology services. The report stated that most hospitals in the D.C. area offer some but not all cancer services for patients with Medicaid Fee-For-Service (FFS), a plan where states pay providers directly for each service covered by Medicaid. In the past, only two hospitals provided services to patients with Medicaid FFS, Medicaid Managed Care Organization (a system that provides health benefits through contracted arrangements), and Alliance (coverage for low income residents who do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare): Providence Hospital and Howard University Hospital. Today only the latter remains, and public health insurance acceptance varies from hospital to hospital.

The last written cancer control plan for the District expired last year. DC Health tells City Paper they are currently working on the 20192023 plan, and that rollout of the yet-to-becompleted plan is tentatively scheduled for late summer 2019—or next month. DC Health claims that the new cancer plan will include updates on progress in meeting the previous plan’s goals and objectives, as well as current local cancer rates (screening, incidence, mortality) and new reduction targets.

It was the settlement money that enabled the DC Cancer Consortium to transform. “Initially [the Consortium] was a group of volunteers that came together that really wanted to make cancer a focus area in the District,” Boyd recollects. “Prior to them we only had Project WISH, which was the breast cancer screening program. But there were no other programs in the DOH that addressed cancer. So when the District funded the cancer control plan, that’s when they hired Susan Butler, who was a cancer survivor herself, to lead the efforts.”

In hindsight, Boyd says she didn’t see the signs on the wall that the consortium was heading toward financial insolvency. “At every board meeting they would say, ‘When is the money going to run out?’ And I guess I wasn’t processing that their intent was not really to go beyond the funding. So when I became the E.D. I wanted to bring in more programs and a different set of board members. Not to remove the current board but to have more community participation. But they would constantly say no. They were more like, ‘We’ve done this work and we put the plan in place. The District has invested in it.’ They really just wanted to do policy and advocacy work.”

The Consortium relied on the D.C. Council for funding because Butler had promised the board of directors that the Consortium would never compete with DCCC board members,

many of whom represented nonprofit organizations, for grant money. Boyd’s hands were tied.

Between 2012 and 2013 the city had a budget shortfall and belts were being tightened.

The consortium took a $3.5 million cut from their settlement money, leaving $16.5 million in their budget. Despite many efforts to raise funds to keep the consortium going, the DC Cancer Consortium filed for bankruptcy in February 2015.

David Castañeda Díaz was the last executive director. He recalls the disappointment he felt when he closed the books. “I wish we could have continued the work. Unfortunately the funding was just a one-time funding from the tobacco settlement. When the funding came to an end, pretty much everything came to an end.” Díaz says he transferred the remaining $2 million back to the Department of Health, and that was that. “I don’t believe there was any political motivation to continue to provide funding for the cancer plan in the District of Columbia. They should do it because the District has some of the highest cancer rates in the nation. And that’s a shame.”

Stephen Jefferson also felt let down by the closing of the consortium, an organization he had worked so hard to promote. “I felt a little hurt and betrayed because I felt that this was something that was really moving. It really had a positive impact on the community.

Folks were coming up to me and saying, ‘I’m glad you’re really speaking on this.’ And then all of a sudden the bottom fell out.”

Some patient navigation services are available through specialty programs such as the breast and cervical cancer program Project WISH and DC Colorectal Cancer Control Program (DC3C). Howard University Hospital also offers support for prostate cancer with their Men Take Ten program.

As for a citywide, one-stop patient navigation home, it doesn’t exist. DC Health says patient navigators are accessed directly through a health care provider. “There are patient navigators in primary care, hospital and treatment center settings; managed care organizations also employ case managers to guide patients with complicated medical care needs. Patients should contact their provider to connect with a navigator,” explains Alison Reeves, a DC Health spokesperson.

A new cancer clinic is set to open within Unity Health’s Parkside location in Northeast D.C. The clinic is a result of a partnership formed between Unity Health Care and Sibley Memorial Hospital and offers cancer care and patient navigation services.

These days, the former DCCC staff members continue to lead in D.C. Boyd is the executive director of Community Wellness Alliance, an organization with a mission to improve health and wellness outcomes for D.C. residents. Díaz is Senior Managing Director at PARAGON Business Consultants.

As for Jefferson, he is now cancer free and conducts smoking cessation groups at United Medical Center in Southeast. His message to fellow survivors is to move on. “I celebrate survivors. You had cancer. You don’t have it anymore. Keep it moving. We are thrivers.” CP

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What we ate this week: Chicken breast with summer truffle, asparagus, black garlic, and potato pave, $24, Primrose. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5.

What we’ll eat next week: Mixto ceviche with fish, shrimp, octopus, fried calamari, leche de tigre, rocoto, cancha, and sweet potato, $20, Pisco y Nazca.

Excitement level: 3 out of 5.

If These Shelves Could Talk Pour one out for four of D.C.’s long-standing liquor stores.

By Laura Hayes One of the original founders of Schneider’s of Capitol Hill is still with us. Abe Genderson, who opened the iconic liquor store in 1949 with his father-in-law Max Schneider, celebrated his 100th bir thday in June.

Abe’s wife, Charlotte Genderson, is also still alive. Almost every branch of the family tree has ties to the small shop that keeps a 20,000-square-foot warehouse in Ivy City.

“She and my grandfather ran the store forever,” says Schneider’s Vice President Elyse Genderson. “She did it in heels with a lot of grace. The store was a true liquor store— they were selling pints of bourbon and cases of beer. It was very different 70 years ago.

Since then, my father and uncle really built it into a world-renowned fine wine retailer and importer through the ’80s, ’90s, and today.”

Elyse was working in the wine industry in New York and moved back to the D.C. area about three-and-a-half years ago when her father, Jon Genderson, began his battle with glioblastoma. Jon, who had been running Schneider’s with his brother Rick Genderson and nephew Josh Genderson, died on May 25.

Schneider’s is one of a handful of enduring D.C. liquor shops whose longtime owners are unofficial historians of how the industry has evolved over time. These operators have fought to keep pace with consumer trends, emerging technologies, and a wave of incoming “big box” retailers that now sell wine, beer, and in some cases, liquor.

Over time, Schneider’s, Calvert Woodley Fine Wines & Spirits, Paul’s Wine & Spirits, and Chat’s Liquors on Capitol Hill discovered ways to build a loyal following and become fixtures in their neighborhoods by specializing in next-level customer service.

“The Whole Foods coming in three blocks from here, we felt a dent,” Elyse says, referring to the H Street NE grocer, which opened in 2017. “You don’t blame people. There’s parking, they’re already getting their food, and the wine section is right there.”

To keep up with the convenience competitors like Whole Foods offer, Schneider’s intro-

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Abe Genderson in the 1950s duced delivery, including its Schneider’s Selects wine club. On the first Monday of every month, they ship members three ($95) or six ($175) hand-picked bottles.

“We’re really trying to stay current and reach all the young people moving into the amazing condos that are coming into the neighborhood on H Street NE and Eastern Market,” Elyse says. “That’s how we’re adapting to the changing climate of retail.”

Schneider’s is able to soldier on for several reasons. First, staff members import wine di-

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rectly, meaning customers don’t pay a middle man. “They’re not paying an importer, wholesaler, and retailer,” Elyse explains. “They’re getting everything at the best possible price.”

And the wines are meticulously selected. “We taste hundreds of wines to find just a few worthy of being on our shelves.”

The 70-year-old business also dabbles in private-label wines. “We find wine from well known producers who have produced too much wine and don’t want to dilute their brand,” Elyse says. “They sell us the juice and

we work with a team in California to do all the bottling and labeling.” She points to a Sonoma cabernet sauvignon that would cost $80 under the winery label.

Schneider’s sells it for $30.

Finally, Schneider’s builds relationships with customers by educating them through tastings, wine dinners, and seminars for aspiring oenophiles.

One such seminar hones in on the benefits of cellaring wine.

“Most consumers in the U.S. buy a bottle of wine and drink it 30 minutes after it’s been purchased,” Elyse says. “We’re trying to get people excited about investing in wine and aging it at home. They’ll see the rich reward when the wine becomes mature.”

On Barracks Row, Chat’s Liquors coowner Burnie Williams actually credits a big box store with helping his business. He believes that when Costco opened in the District in 2012, it prompted a change in permitted operating hours. “Costco changed the game,” he says. “Sunday hours were a nogo.” Mayor Vince Gray signed the legislation allowing for expanded hours in 2013.

Neil Chatlin opened Chat’s in 1934, shortly after Prohibition was repealed. He was among the first to obtain a liquor license in D.C., but the history between when Chatlin opened Chat’s and the Williams family purchased the business in 1978 is hazy. Williams has a hunch

Chat’s closed after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. “A lot of business owners boarded up and got out of town,” Williams says.

When Williams’ father died in 1999, the rest of the family stepped up to keep the business going, including William’s mother Ophelia B. Williams and his sister Dr. Opal B. Williams.

The first year was a grind because Burnie was simultaneously finishing college at Temple University in Philadelphia.

According to Burnie, sales have been steady over the past 20 years except for one month when business dramatically spiked for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. “Absolutely nothing else has come close to the influx of people to this city and the celebrations that were happening,” he says. January is traditionally a slow month, but Chat’s did as much business in the first month of 2009 as they did from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve in 2008 combined.

Visit Chat’s and you’ll likely see Burnie pouring samples. “We’re happy to educate, give recommendations, and do free tastings,” he says. “Everything has been opened from a little $10 cava to a $1,000 bottle of wine. If we don’t taste people on it, they’ll never know.”

His goal is to introduce customers to products before they become trendy.

“The craft movement for spirits has really changed the landscape of what we’re doing,” Burnie says. “Craft” is tricky to define, but generally refers to smaller producers that are carrying out the fermentation and distilling themselves. “It’s having a product that’s transparent, where you can get the person who is doing the producing on the phone, shake their hand, and get that one-on-one information.”

Because consumers want to enjoy the quality of these spirits, Burnie believes customers are masking their taste with fruity mixers less frequently. “People aren’t afraid of flavor anymore,” he says. “In the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s, it was all about having some sort of sweetened fruit profile. I call it the McDonald’s effect. There’s something about those fries that are so good, but you can’t have them every day or you run the risk of tiring of them.”

Eventually, the modern craft bartending movement ushered back in Prohibition-era style cocktails with botanical, herbal, bitter, and floral flavor profiles. “There’s a correlation between the cutting-edge restaurant and bar scene and what happens in the retail space,” Burnie says. He believes there are more “home mixologists” than ever.

“They’re building drinks off these amaros, vermouths, and anise-based spirits and using gin and whiskey as the foundation and having fun. It’s no longer just a simple vodka and juice or vodka and tonic.”

All four liquor stores report a boom in brown liquor sales across all demographics of imbibers. And just as whiskey aficionados seek out bars with the most robust selections, they also seek out liquor stores with plenty of shelf space devoted to bourbon, rye, Scotch, and Irish whiskey.

“People 25 to 30 years old are spending $50 or $60 on a bottle of bourbon,” says Rick Bellman, the co-owner of Paul’s Wine & Spirits. He contends that bourbon and rye sales are catching up to wine sales. Wine has historically been the backbone of the business, which Rick, his brother Steve Bellman, and father, Sonny Bellman, purchased from the original owner in 1984. Paul Hyman first opened the shop in 1969.

Rick says either he or his brother are always present at the store to make recommendations and discuss food pairings. “We feel like we’ve gotten the confidence of our customers as far as hand-selecting items for them. That’s one reason they come to us.”

Lately they’ve been recommending Spanish and Portuguese wines, “which are coming on strong right now.”

Paul’s is a “destination store,” according to Rick, because foot traffic is sparse on the stretch of Wisconsin Ave NW where it’s located. To keep up with big box stores that sell alcohol, Paul’s turned to shipping alcohol as an additional revenue stream, much like Schneider’s. For a long time there were limitations on interstate shipping, but that’s set to change after a June Supreme Court ruling. “Currently there are 11 states we can legally ship to,” he says. “That’s been a challenging factor.”

Less than two miles away from Paul’s, Ed Sands operates Calvert Woodley Fine Wines & Spirits. The Van Ness shop opened in 1982 when two competitors merged—Aaron Bernstein’s Calvert Liquors in Glover Park and Sands’ Woodley Wine & Liquor in Cleveland Park. Eight people on staff have worked there for at least 25 years.

In addition to wine, beer, and liquor, Calvert Woodley boasts a cheese and deli counter that makes it a one-stop-shop for entertaining. “I always believed that we want to have something for everybody because you never know what will happen with consumers’ changing tastes,” Sands says.

Sands saw the most dramatic change to the liquor store sector throughout the 70s.

That’s when Calvert Woodley stopped doing everything by hand and computerized.

It’s also when they stopped selling cigarettes and started focusing on importing and selling fine wines from Europe and elsewhere. In the same era, customers started to pay more attention to domestic wines.

“American wines really came into the forefront in the ’70s,” Sands says. “It was always the perception that imported wine was better than American wine and then several competitions debunked that. They sold much better.”

In his 53 years in the business, Sands has seen highs and lows. One particularly trying moment was in the early ’90s when a supplier failed to deliver more than a million dollars worth of wine for an event. The shop had sold most of it in advance and had to scramble to replace it. But he attributes his store’s longevity to being a friendly place that people want to visit. “I guess we’ve been doing something right,” he says, “because we’ve been here for a long time.”

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Health food entrepreneur Khepra Anu faces an eviction threat at his Hempburger Cafe & Juice Bar on H Street NE.

By Laura Hayes Chef Khepra anu, a raw food and juice cleanse enthusiast, has been providing neighbors on H Street NE with affordable, healthy food since 2011. He started out with Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar, serving vegan entrées such as coconut “crabcakes” and avocado quinoa chili for as little as $11 each alongside juices and smoothies. Then Anu rebranded as Hempburger Cafe & Juice Bar at the end of 2018. Now, the small local business is in danger of closing.

Building owner John C. Formant seeks to evict Anu from 408 H St. NE over three months of missed rent, according to a com-

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plaint filed in D.C. Superior Court on May 22. It alleges that Anu failed to pay a total of $21,833.91 from February through May 2019. A hearing is scheduled in D.C. Superior Court on July 25.

The plaintiff is listed as Somerset Investments, LLC on the complaint. Both D.C. property records and Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs business filings confirm that Formant is behind the LLC. Formant did not respond to any of City Paper’s specific questions about the case. He only offered: “We have no comment. The matter is the hands (sic) of our lawyer and Kephras lawyer and DC Court.”

“We would be heartbroken if Khepra’s landlord kicks him out,” says Lara Atella, who owns Hot Yoga Capitol Hill next door

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to the restaurant. “His cafe has been a cornerstone of the community and a favorite post-yoga gathering place since he opened.

Khepra has been a wonderful neighbor to us at the studio for years. He’s often catered our gatherings and even allowed us to use his space for teacher training. Khepra’s cuisine is world-class, healthy, and delicious. It would be a shame to lose another small, locally owned business on H Street.”

Anu’s business wasn’t always located at 408 H St. NE. He first operated out of Dynamic Wellness located a few doors down on the same block, and stayed there until 2017.

In October of that year Anu inked a lease for 408 H St. NE, but it was a false start because he couldn’t get proper financing to move forward and says he voided the lease, walking

away from the project.

Anu didn’t give up. “Me and my wife had a condo in Columbia Heights with a significant amount of equity,” he explains. They put their condo on the market and it sold, giving Anu enough money to go back to Formant and his team. “I let them know I’m still interested in 408 if they’ll have me. A week or so later they contacted me and said, ‘We’d like to have you in the space.’”

Anu then went about refurbishing the shop. Construction lasted from August 2018 through November 2018 and the cafe opened in December. Anu says he poured $200,000 from his condo sale into the build-out. “That was our entire nest egg,” he says. “We sold that and all of that money went into the building.” If evicted, he fears he’ll never see that money again. “Probably 80 percent I can’t walk out of here with—I can’t take the paint off the walls, then there’s carpentry, plumbing, and electricity.”

Anu says that Formant was patient with him when he first signed the lease, but wishes he could have a full calendar year to settle into his business and catch up on payments, especially because he says summer and fall are his busiest seasons jammed with events that generate revenue.

“Yes, I understand you want your money yesterday,” Anu says. “But it would be better business to stick it out with me than evict me and potentially not get your money that’s owed to you.” A new tenant wouldn’t have to put in a bathroom, kitchen, or even paint the walls, according to Anu. “We improved this space with our own money.”

By February 2019, Anu says, he knew he was in trouble. “January was the last time I had paid my rent,” he says. “I told my landlord, ‘If you give me a couple of months I will be caught up by the end of summer.’ We’re not at the end of summer yet.”

Anu’s attorney, Karen Selby, wouldn’t comment for this story, but City Paper spoke with a lawyer who has been practicing landlord and tenant law for 15 years. Emilie Fairbanks, PLLC, has owned her own practice for eight of those 15 years. She explained some of the legal language in the complaint.

Per the complaint, Formant has requested a non-redeemable judgement. “It means that even though a case might be about rent, even if [the tenant] wins the lottery and offers their landlord eight times the rent, they don’t have to take it,” she says. “They can still evict you.” Compare that to a redeemable judgement, “which means if you show up with all of the rent, the eviction stops.”

Fairbanks explains why a commercial landlord might ask for a non-redeemable judgement: “Let’s say they owe $50,000 and they say, ‘We’ll make a payment of $20,000 and we’ll work off this debt,’” she says. “The problem is that they’re in a hole

Business Development (DSLBD). Anu says he tried for the grant in 2019, but was not awarded one.

The only monetary support Anu says he received from the city was back in 2018, when he was awarded a Small Business Capital Improvement Grant through the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development’s Great Streets Program.

Without additional help from the city or nonprofits, Anu did what stretched small business owners sometimes do. He turned to merchant cash advance (MCA) companies OnDeck, Kabbage, and four others.

“The terms are very aggressive,” Anu says.

“This is the trap that I fell into—the money that’s going out was greater than money coming in.”

At one point, Anu says, he was paying these companies up to $7,000 per week. According to NerdWallet, MCA loans are quick and easy to get approved but boast high interest rates and repayment schedules that “are often unsustainable.”

A representative from Kabbage tells City Paper, “Small businesses are able to apply, qualify and access lines of credit through Kabbage in 10 minutes or less. Once approved for a line of credit, they can access a 6-, 12-, or 18-month loan for the exact amount they need, when they need it.”

H Street Main Street founder Anwar Saleem has been mentoring Anu and is holding out hope that he and the neighborhood can rally behind him to keep Hempburger Cafe & Juice Bar open. The 400 block of H Street NE has a long tradition of offering healthy food and wellness dating back to the late Brother Kibwe Bey’s business Da Place: Institute of Healing and Happiness.

“It’s important for us to keep small businesses down here,” Saleem says. “There are so many processed food venues. Then you have strong healthy eating places. I think that’s something the city needs. A lot of African Americans who suffered from eating processed food now have a place to reclaim their health. It would be sad to see something like that go. People need to better understand its value.”

While no one knows what Formant wants to replace Anu’s business with should he succeed in court, dramas of neighborhoods losing their character to chain stores and big corporations are playing out throughout the city, often after small business owners invest in the spaces they occupy for a short time. Saleem says, “John [Formant]’s a good guy, but when you own a large corporation like that, sometimes you need to look a little deeper and support something needed in the neighborhood.”

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they can really never get out of … The landlord, they can see that. They can see that it will continue to get worse.”

Even if you pay off one month, the next month looms. “If there’s a structural deficit to the business and they’re not ever going to make that up, it’s hard for a landlord to enter into an agreement where they’re going to continue to pay legal fees taking the tenant to court,” Fairbanks continues, commenting broadly on eviction lawsuits, not on the specific situation at 408 H St. NE. Anu has been applying for various grants and loans to save his business. At the end of May, for example, Anu applied for a loan from Washington Area Community Investment Fund (Wacif ). The nonprofit established in 1987 says its mission is to increase equity and economic opportunity in underserved communities in the D.C.-area by investing in low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.

Wacif ’s director of development and communications, Brendon Miller, says there are no real limitations in terms of the types of businesses they support. “We are industry agnostic,” he says. “We’re more interested in the health of the business, but also the strength of the business idea they have.”

The nonprofit also isn’t bound to specific commercial corridors. They grant loans to entrepreneurs across the city, as far south as Ashburn, and as far north as Baltimore. In 2018, Wacif did about $1.2 million in lending, up 60 percent from 2017, according to Miller.

Within a matter of days of applying, Anu’s application for a loan was denied. When asked why Anu’s business wasn’t a fit for a loan, Miller provided the following statement: “Stewardship is a core Wacif value. It informs our approach to lending and advisory services, maximizes the resources available to support underserved entrepreneurs, and helps us protect entrepreneurs from becoming over-leveraged financially. Each of those considerations informed our decision and our commitment to communicate a loan decision to Khepra within 24 hours of receiving all necessary documentation.”

“I’m disappointed by Wacif,” Anu says.

“The mission of Wacif, I would be a perfect candidate. Their mission is to help businesses like mine. They should be the equalizer.

They’ve helped out people I’ve known for years.”

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By Ella Feldman

It’s summer 2003. George W. Bush is president. Anthony A. Williams is mayor. And Jesse B. Rauch is 21 years old, interning for former Congressman Rob Andrews (D-NJ), and trying to live frugally while making D.C. feel like home. HBO’s free summer movie series Screen on the Green meant the world to him that year. He later co-founded a nonprofit called Friends of Screen on the Green to ground the event in the D.C. community.

“It was so awesome to go to Screen on the Green and just meet people,” he says. “Sitting on the Mall, with the Capitol Building in front and the Washington Monument behind you, it really felt that we could make a difference.”

Screen on the Green took place Monday nights on the National Mall from 1999 to 2015. After HBO nearly cancelled it in 2010, Comcast and Friends of Screen on the Green joined forces with the company to keep it going for a few more summers. The series came to an end five years later.

“I think we would’ve been able to have it continue longer if they’d been a little bit more open to being part of the community, and not just thinking it was some sort of PR thing, which of course it was to them, but I think it meant something more to the people here,” Rauch says. He estimates each movie brought 5,000 to 10,000 people to the Mall.

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indoors and outdoors, showing art films and blockbusters, and happening nearly every summer night. “I feel there’s a little bit of Screen on the Green in each of them,” Rauch says.

Here’s a closer look at some of D.C.’s best summer moviewatching options.

Adams Morgan Movie Nights The theme for this summer’s Adams Morgan Movie Nights series took viewers to the final frontier.

“It’s the 50th anniversary of the moon landing this summer, so we decided to do a space theme, because there’s tons of movies about space,” says Kristen Barden, the executive director of the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District.

On five Tuesdays spanning from May through June, hundreds of people dragged blankets, food, and their friends and families onto the Marie Reed soccer field and watched some of the most iconic films set in space: Armageddon, Alien, Spaceballs, Apollo 11, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Barden estimates the screenings averaged 600 to 700 attendees.

Barden and her team collaborated with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to bring specialized programming before, during, and after the films. Before Armageddon screened, a panel of space experts discussed the facts behind the fiction. On three different nights, the Smithsonian brought out a telescope.

Barden says Jupiter’s rings were particularly visible on the night of the E.T. screening. People were lining up to see them through the telescope before, during, and after the movie.

The BID started Adams Morgan Movie Nights in 2014, following renovations to the Marie Reed field that included outdoor amphitheater-style seating. From 2014 through 2018, the series lacked themes but instead had to meet a specific genre formula: something animated or kid-friendly, something retro, something ’80s, something brand-new, and something indie.

This blueprint ensured there was something for everyone: cult classic Pretty in Pink one weekend, Pixar’s emotional rollercoaster Inside Out the next.

NoMa Summer Screen NoMa Business Improvement District President Robin-Eve Jasper jokes that her neighborhood’s outdoor movie series Summer Screen is “NoMadic.”

The themed series has occupied several locations since its inception in 2008. First there was a site at Washington Gateway, then it moved to Union Place for 2009 to 2014. From 2015 to 2017 screenings were at Storey Park, and now they’re at the corner of First Street and Pierce Street NE. Back at the Storey Park field, Jasper says it wasn’t uncommon for 1,000 people to come out for a movie. This summer, they’ve been getting

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Alethia Tanner Park, an open green space north of New York Avenue NE, is set to become the permanent home of Summer Screen next year. Jasper says the space will comfortably seat 1,000.

Jasper fondly remembers 2015’s “Dance Dance Dance!” theme, which included Grease, Singin’ in the Rain, and Moulin Rouge! in its lineup, and a few nights of pre-movie dance instruction. One of Jasper’s favorite memories is when they screened Independence Day on July 4 in 2012, and fireworks lit up the sky behind the screen. This year, the Summer Screen theme is “Who’s Got Game?”—including Bring It On, She’s the Man, Cool Runnings, and Best in Show.

Every year, the BID staff meets to choose a theme, then land on around 20 to 30 films that fit it. Then, those movies go out in a survey to the NoMa community—1,136 people voted in this year’s survey—and the top 12 are chosen to screen that summer.

“We’re really looking for the broadest possible appeal, because we just want people to come out and enjoy a summer Wednesday evening with their neighbors,” she says.

National Gallery of Art Film Programming “Film is something we should think about the way we think about going to a museum and seeing paintings,” says Margaret Parsons, film program curator at the National Gallery of Art. Whenever possible, the gallery screens each film in its original format.

The National Gallery started screening movies, primarily documentaries about the arts, shortly after it opened in 1941.

But NGA’s film programming as it is today didn’t start until Par-

sons arrived in 1981. Today, the gallery has year-round free screenings on weekends.

The gallery kicked off this summer’s programming with a series called “Animals in Japanese Cinema,” inspired by the NGA exhibition The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, and screened classics like Godzilla. Last weekend, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and its By the Light of the Silvery Moon exhibition, the gallery screened space-related movies, including The Right Stuff. In August, NGA will host a film series honoring the filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who died earlier this year.

Parsons and her colleague Joanna Raczynska speak to other film experts, attend film festivals, and do extensive research to form solid visions for each series.

Parsons says the screenings are now averaging 200 attendees.

For more niche screenings, Parsons says the crowd is closer to 50 or 60, but she says it’s “important to show certain films even if we know they’re not going to attract a big audience.”

“As a society I think we’re kind of losing track of what serious film means, and how it’s had a history and a culture of its own,” she says. “I think it’s important to have these other alternative venues around to keep alive the notion that film is a very important art form.”

Library of Congress’ Summer Movies on the Lawn The movies shown at the Library of Congress’ Summer Movies on the Lawn series only have one requirement: They must be selected from the National Film Registry—which means a Librarian of Congress has deemed them culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

The National Film Registry was established in 1988 in an effort to preserve American films. Every year, 25 films are selected for the registry “because of their cultural history and aesthetic significance to our nation’s film heritage,” according to Shari Werb, director of the Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement at the library.

Since 2017, the Library has been screening National Film Registry movies during the summer on their north lawn, directly across the street from the Capitol. Around 400 people come out for each movie, Werb says, and often bring picnics.

For the first time, this year’s Summer Movies on the Lawn series is themed: “Female and Technology Changemakers in Cinema.”

The theme is in line with a year-long initiative by the Library to focus on people they deem America’s changemakers—the Library’s 2019 exhibitions honor suffragists, civil rights activists, and modern artists, among others. This summer’s movie lineup includes Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, A League of Their Own, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park.

“We really want to make sure it’s a film that will bring people pleasure,” says Werb.

The Warner Bros. Theater at the National Museum of American History Full-time Smithsonian film programming started at the Warner Bros. Theater about a year and a half ago. In that year and a half, says Zarth Bertsch, director of theaters at the Smithsonian Institution, the theater has “shown a wide range of American cinema, from classic to contemporary, covering various eras and genres and directors and actors.”

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Georgetown Sunset Cinema The unassuming steep steps at the corner of Prospect St. and 36th St. NW are special: They’re (spoiler alert!) where Father Karras falls to his death in horror classic The Exorcist.

The neighborhood is the backdrop for so many films that when the Georgetown Business Improvement District staff decided to start an outdoor movie series called Georgetown Sunset Cinema in 2015, their first theme was came with ease: movies filmed in or inspired by Georgetown. In addition to The Exorcist, they screened St. Elmo’s Fire, State of Play, No Way Out, and Burn After Reading.

The Georgetown Sunset Cinema series came about from a desire the BID had to engage the community more with Georgetown Waterfront Park, says Debbie Young, the events director for the BID. In 2016, the National Park Service celebrated 100 years of existence, Screen on the Green and Sunset Cinema paid tribute with a series of movies filmed in national parks (like Planet of the Apes and Thelma & Louise). The 2017 theme was “Women in Film” (Hidden Figures, The Devil Wears Prada), and 2018 followed with “Movies that Rock” (Dirty Dancing, Dreamgirls). This summer, the theme is “Out of Office,” and the BID is screening Under the Tuscan Sun, The Sandlot, Little Miss Sunshine, The Parent Trap (Lindsay Lohan version), and Eat Pray Love throughout July and August.

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The theater recently hosted a Harry Potter film festival, ’90s film festival, and a series called “Fantastic Female Filmmakers,” in which the theater screened A League of Their Own, Lost in Translation, Monsoon Wedding, and Selma. Monday followed with a screening of Purple Rain—which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year—and a display of one of Prince’s guitars.

Often, Warner Bros. will host retrospective series on individuals in the industry. One of the first they ever hosted was on Wes Anderson, right before Isle of Dogs came out last year.

Earlier this month, a retrospective on Keanu Reeves screened six of his most iconic movies—Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was accompanied with a beer tasting in collaboration with local breweries.

When it comes to selecting subjects for retrospectives, Bertsch says his team looks for people who are “having a moment,” like Keanu Reeves. “We try to time things when a given actor, or director, or era, or genre, for whatever reason is more in the spotlight,” he says. They’re also informed by the Smithsonian’s film artifact collection. Around 200 people come out for each movie, and their mailing list of frequent filmgoers has more than 122,000 names.

Coming 2 America, a sequel to Coming to America, was recently announced, and Bertsch immediately got the idea to do a retrospective on Eddie Murphy.

movies, they’d choose a theme and 10 to 15 potential movies, then let the community choose their preferred five through an online survey.

About 700 people come out for each movie, Young says. “People are picking movies that they love.” Her dream theme is “Christmas in July,” which would feature everyone’s favorite holiday movies. Her co-workers have shot this down the past few summers. But there’s always next year.

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By Kayla Randall This summer has been red-hot. The season is also a red-hot time for your kids to read for fun. “Summertime is one of those times when kids like to choose what they’re reading,” says Ellen Riordan, the assistant director for youth and family services at DC Public Library.

“What the library really does is represent the reading that isn’t compulsory, and is more about self-driven interests.”

Letting children choose what they want to read is essential, Riordan says.

Choice fosters reading. “If it looks a little hard or a little easy, parents should still encourage that love of reading and stories,” says Riordan.

Here are just a few of the titles kids can’t put down, along with Riordan’s age recommendations and descriptions.

Baby Monkey, Private Eye by David Serlin and Brian Selznick Good for 5 to 8. “It’s a mystery and kids really love mysteries. It’s hard to find the right balance between complexity and simplicity, and Baby Monkey, Private Eye has really hit that sweet spot.”

Dog Man by Dav Pilkey Good for 7 to 9. “He’s an action hero who’s part dog and part man. Dog Man hits the humor bone of emerging readers. He’s their buddy, and they appreciate the puns.”

Squish series by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm Good for 8 to 12. “It’s about an amoeba trying to find his place in the world. He really speaks to the middle grade readers.”

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca Good for 8 to 12. “It’s one of the more accessible books about Apollo 11—a nice mix of fact and presentation. It’s written in clear but involving language, and sits nicely between age ranges, so families

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Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything by Martin W. Sandler Good for 10 and up. “An Association for Library Service to Children notable children’s book of 2019, it’s accessible to everyone.”

Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Good for 8 to 12. “She’s a Cuban American living in Florida with a multi-generational family, and she is adept at changing gears—she’s very interested in bicycles and getting her own.”

A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes Good for 3 to 5. “It’s what’s known as a concept book—it’s essentially about counting and spatial concepts. It’s a great book for little guys, and opens a closeness with the person reading it to them.”

Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall Good for 4 to 8. “It’s a beautiful, detailed book that really brings children into the world of lighthouses when lighthouse keepers lived in them.”

Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love Good for 4 to 8. “A little boy has an encounter with mermaids in the subway.

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Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa ClineRansome and James Ransome Good for 8 to 10. “A picture book biography of Venus and Serena Williams, this has been popular with tennis on TV. It’s very accessible and has lovely illustrations.”

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Good for 14 and up. “An amazing book that was also noted by many award committees for young adult books, it’s written in verse and shows the importance of poetry as an outlet for self-expression.”

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ISLAND HUNTERS Treasure Island

Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson Directed by Tori Tolentino At Synetic Theater to Aug. 18 At leAst once a season, Arlington’s Synetic Theater puts on a show with the target demographic of tween boys. That’s not something that can be said of any other performing arts troupe in Washington, so if you know any adolescent kids who dislike musicals and Julius Caesar, take them to Treasure Island, the latest literary adaptation from the physical theater company based out of a former movie theater in Crystal City.

Synetic is best known for mounting “wordless” productions of Shakespearean classics in which the story unspools through movement and music. Treasure Island has a script, and as with so many other Synetic adaptations, it’s a bit of a drawback. Tori Tolentino (previously known around town as Tori Bertucci) is credited as the director, and adapted the script alongside her husband, Dallas Tolentino. While Treasure Island is not a romance, these two did meet-cute at the theater, acting and assistant directing before taking on a whole show on their own. Resident composer Konstantine Lortkipanidze contributed the canned cinematic music, and many other Synetic regulars appear in the program.

The tight, nurturing environment at Synetic is both a blessing and a curse. The theater develops outstanding talent from its teen company and local colleges, and many Synetic artists go on to work with other D.C. theaters. Yet watching Treasure Island left me wishing the theater would collaborate with outside playwrights more often. (One successful example was 2014’s Three Men in a Boat, written and directed by Georgetown professor Derek Goldman.) Jim Hawkins narrates Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 serialized novel, recounting his boyhood adventures years later, after other characters “asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping back nothing but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is treasure not yet lifted.”

Given the source material, and the known weakness of some of Synetic’s actors when it comes to vocalizing, Treasure Island is a story that would have benefitted from an onstage narrator.

Instead, a myriad of characters (including seven triple-cast actors) are awkwardly introduced via dialogue as they appear onstage. Thus a crotchety barkeep introduces us to “the orphan Jane Hawkins” by yelling at “orphan Jane Hawkins” to keep mopping even when “old friend Billy Bones” walks in. And on and on throughout the 19-character, 70-minute show.

Transforming the hero Jim into heroine Jane will not raise the eyebrows of any youthful audience members. Adults, however, may be distracted: One of these men asking Jane to board his ship might well be a predator. Anne Flowers gamely plays Jane, and she’s most expressive when observing, like when she peeps out of an apple barrel, eyes widening as she eavesdrops on mutinous schemes planned by Long John Silver and members of the Hispaniola’s crew.

The onstage vessel would make any shipyard proud. Scenic designer Phil Charlwood’s skeleton of a prow rotates to reveal a gangplank, used with great effectiveness to convey a near shipwreck. The theater spared no expenses on lighting and dry ice fog machines, which set the mood for tempestuous scenes that will lure in viewers accustomed to small screen entertainment. If the live-action storm doesn’t get them, wait for the Yo-Ho-Ho-and-A-Bottle-of-Rum celebration. Land ho and shore leave for all! Synetic’s dance sequences are epic, and the mash-up of contemporary hip-hop moves and Celtic jigs that Tolentino and the cast created for Treasure Island competes with any you’d see by resident choreographer Irina Tsikurishvili.

Soon everyone but Jane is a drunken mess, even the reluctant-to-chug Captain Smollett.

Synetic newcomer Billie Krishawn helms the Hispaniola, and more or less the whole show, with a commanding voice and movement presence. Krishawn has already distinguished herself at the region’s non-Equity theaters, including Theater Alliance and Constellation Theatre Company. She’d be my nominee for a quasi-narrator to more smoothly steer the rocky script. As it is, however, raise a glass (adult beverage or soda) to this highly entertaining hunt for treasure. —Rebecca J. Ritzel 1800 South Bell St., Arlington. $19–$65. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org.

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FILMSHORT SUBJECTS

TIME TURNER Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Once UpOn a Time in HOllywOOd is considered to be director Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film. He has long held that he would only make 10 films in his career, and if you weren’t sure whether he meant it, this newest picture, which pulses with nostalgia, confirms it. It’s a film from a director on the way out about two guys on their way out: fading TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his aging stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). It’s also set in an era on the way out: 1969 Los Angeles, where cult leader Charles Manson is about to bring the hippie dream crashing down upon the golden shore.

It’s also Tarantino’s heartfelt elegy for a bygone era of film culture, when movie stars sustained the industry and every city block seemingly had its own movie temple at which to worship. Art Deco palaces with grand marquees flutter past in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as its lead characters drive through Los Angeles, attending to the hard business of getting by. Rick Dalton is at a crossroads in his career. Having left a hit Western series to unsuccessfully launch a movie career, he is still famous but feels like old news to casting directors. So does his stuntman and best friend, Booth, who is getting too old to work and has been reduced to a glorified personal assistant. Meanwhile, Dalton’s only hope is to get the hot young director who just moved in next door—Roman Polanski—to cast him in his next movie and revitalize his career. With DiCaprio bathed in flop sweat and sporting a nervous stammer, his desperation is palpable.

Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate (Margot Rob-

bie), on the other hand, is as fresh as the morning dew. She’s not yet jaded enough to let the marquees go unnoticed. In fact, she stops into a local cinema to get her picture taken in front of her poster and, during the movie, waits nervously to see if the audience will laugh at her punchlines. She could be described as naïve, but she’s irresistibly authentic—there is no hint of falseness in her good cheer.

Given Tate’s fate, the film would seem to be a vehicle for Tarantino to draw out his trademark tension before an inevitable explosion of blood, gore, and tragedy. Yes, there is eventually a violent outburst, perhaps the most gruesome in his career, but it feels like an afterthought. This is closer to a hangout movie than a thriller. Once Upon a Time takes us to an era and place that is about to go very, very badly, but instead of tormenting his audience as he so often does, he embraces his characters and finds salvation in human connection. The friendship between Dalton and Booth, brought to tender life by DiCaprio and Pitt, is easily Tarantino’s most well realized love story since Jackie Brown.

It’s the masterful work of a mature artist looking back on his life in film through glasses that were once blood-soaked but are now just rose-tinted. While Tarantino’s grief for a time when film actually mattered is the clear starting point, there is no bitterness in his approach. From the sunlight-dripping cinematography to his heroes’ unfailing attempts at redemption, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood pulses with the earned optimism of a true believer in the power of the movies. Blending fantasy, history, and autobiography, Tarantino has written an adoring ode to an industry that forces you to risk everything to sustain its fantasies.

—Noah Gittell Once Upon a Time in Hollywood opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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work schedules and conditions are equally isolating. Working bizarre hours or on projects that could leave them underground for years keeps them out of sight and out of mind in society, with only the finished product to show Vibrant Matter, for their effort. Griffin’s work, however, highSocial Constructs lights the individuals behind the true building At Arena Stage to August 11 of America.

Two particularly captivating photos display PhotograPher harry griffin finds the polarity between height and depth as well charm in the mundane and takes you to the as natural and manufactured light in the conplaces you didn’t know existed in his new ex- struction industry. The first is a shot from below looking up through a hole in the ground to hibition, Vibrant Matter, Social Constructs.

As the resident photographer of Bethesda- the clear blue sky as the arm of a crane reachheadquartered Clark Construction Group, es down into the space. In contrast, another Griffin spent the past 18 months traveling the photo captures men in a tunnel, highlighted country photographing Clark’s construction by artificial light as cables and machinery ensites. Vibrant Matter, Social Constructs at Are- circle them.

Photos on the upper level of the exhibition na Stage is the culmination of his work, capturing stunning scenes while exploring the take a more intimate approach, showcasdeeper social issues behind America’s infra- ing specific tasks and actions of workers and making the vast sites seem smaller. In one structure. shot, a worker carI n t ri g u e d b y ries a steel beam in the isolated lives front of a vibrant of construction turquoise grid. workers, Griffin Through eliminatunveils the hidden ing background operations behind commotion, Grifsome of Clark’s fin’s portraits algreatest undertaklow viewers to ings—something feel connected most Americans to the workers as will never be able humans—not roto see. By taking botic pieces of the viewers into tunbuilding world. nels or suspending As only the secthem from buildo n d p h o t o g ra ings, the exhibipher to hold his tion focuses on the position at Clark, process of a project Griffin became rather than the outa cer tified oncome. site worker, ful“Vibrant matly equipped with ter” refers to what both construction you can see in the attire and photogshowcase. Grifraphy necessities. fin capitalizes on “Shaft,” 2017/Harry Griffin He was given acthe neon yellows, blues, and oranges in his work to bring whimsy cess to more than 80 sites in eight different and wonder to an industry filled with shades of states and D.C. Many workers had never seen black and white. Griffin’s ability to capture the a photographer onsite with them.

Beyond displaying the magnificent hues bright beauty of seemingly everyday settings invites new perspectives on construction. “It’s and materials present in construction, Griffunny because they’re not necessarily meant fin’s goal was to tell the story of builders in to be beautiful colors,” Griffin says. “They’re his photographs. With close-ups of workers and all-encompassing wide shots of the mass just meant to be visible for safety purposes.”

“Social constructs” is a bit of wordplay, sites, visitors can see the vastness of the inreferring to both the literal meaning of con- dustry while simultaneously focusing in on struction and the consequential impact that the role of the individual. Between the rock construction can have on its workers and and rubble, Griffin’s efforts unearth vivid on society. “Society is built by these invisi- imagery and narrative using a lens through ble labor men,” Griffin says. “There’s usual- which we rarely see.

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CITYLIST

JOE HERTLER

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Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY BLUES

FRIDAY, SEPT. 13 || 9:00PM || $15

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Victory Boyd. 7 p.m. $25–$30. citywinery.com.

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

Crawford & Power. 9:30 p.m. $5. hillcountry.com.

ELECTRONIC CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Tortured Soul. 6:30 p.m. $20–$30. citywinery.com.

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

RYBO b2b Lubelski & option4. 10:30 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Fruit Bats. 7 p.m. $20–$40. unionstage.com.

FUNK & R&B BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Johnny Gill. 7:30 p.m. $95. birchmere.com.

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

Ibibio Sound Machine. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

ELVIS COSTELLO AND BLONDIE

New wave may be old hat, but two of its finest acts—Elvis Costello and Blondie—refuse to let that get them down. The tireless pop troubadour Costello has amassed quite the songbook during his four-decade-plus career, and concertgoers can expect to hear highlights, favorites and a handful of tunes from last year’s Look Now. That album played like a throwback to the heyday of the Brill Building, thanks to a first-ever team-up with Carole King and a handful of tunes with collaborator Burt Bacharach. The other half of the night belongs to a band with an equally eclectic approach, Blondie. The band emerged from the same scene as Costello but have taken a different path, thanks to a 15-year hiatus undertaken as Debbie Harry pursued a career as both a solo artist and a screen actor. On the band’s most recent album, 2017’s Pollinator, Blondie teamed up with modern-day pop explorers Sia, Charli XCX, Dev Hynes and Dave Sitek—artists they paved the way for. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. $95– $175. (202) 888-0020. theanthemdc.com.

—Chris Kelly

HIP-HOP ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Flosstradamus. 9 p.m. $25–$35. echostage.com.

JAZZ

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

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

JENNIFER RATNER-ROSENHAGEN

POP DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sub-Radio. 7 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

ROCK THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Elvis Costello and Blondie. 7:30 p.m. $95–$175. theanthemdc.com.

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Hellyeah. 8 p.m. $29.50– $169. fillmoresilverspring.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Lee Child & Naked Blue. 6:30 p.m. $20–$75. thehamiltondc.com.

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. On The Bus & The Allman Others Band. 7 p.m. $12–$25. jamminjava.com.

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

Into Another & The Old Firm Casuals. 7 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. A Very Special Episode. 8 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

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

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History is a digestible primer in gemlike prose on the history of American thought, ambitious in its sweep and economical in its use of detail. While Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, never says what to think about today’s headlines, readers can see how competing ideas from the past stay with us as familiar themes: Enlightenment-era thought in America retained religion. The uplift of middle-class Victorian culture was mocked by the more sophisticated. Industrialization led to bitter stratification in wealth, class, and education. After World War I, progressives’ push for a diverse American democracy upset many, and modernity upended nearly every aspect of life. Postmodern thought asked “how can the nation safeguard its most precious ideals by way of solidarity and not truth?” In an epilogue on globalization, the author asserts that America is not a fact but instead a question to answer. Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen speaks at 6 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Diana Michele Yap

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THE BOTTOM RUNG $10/$12 CRAWFORD & POWER $5 JONNY GRAVE (W/BAND) $5 JAMES STEINLE & JULIET MCCONKEY $12 LEFT LANE CRUISER ALBUM RELEASE SHOW! $15 HEATHER GILLIS BAND + JASON MORTON & THE CHESAPEAKE SONS $12 UNSPOKEN TRADITION $10 DIRTY STREETS $10 READ SOUTHALL BAND $12+ CALEB CAUDLE *ALL SEATED* $15 GILES MCCONKEY + ORANGE CONSTANT $12+ GRIEFCAT FT. LOUSIA HALL & NARDOLILLY W/ JASMINE GILLISON $10 COVERED WITH JAM PRESENTS: WHICH ONE’S LED? *PINK FLOYD/ LED ZEPPELIN MASHUP!* $5 KELLIE LODER FREE AMY LAVERE & WILL SEXTON $15 THE JAKOB’S FERRY STRAGGLERS + COLEBROOK ROAD $10 PALEFACE $10 JOE HERTLER & THE RAINBOW SEEKERS (ALBUM RELEASE) + STOP LIGHT OBSERVATIONS $15

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET 410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 HillCountry.com/DC • Twitter @hillcountrylive

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

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An Evening with

ELECTRONIC

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Sasha & John Digweed. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com.

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

Planet of the Drums. 10 p.m. $10–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

TAJ MAHAL QUARTET 26,28 JOHNNY GILL 29 THE ASSOCIATION

FUNK & R&B

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An Intimate Evening with

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

Frank Viele

BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Experience Unlimited. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tituss Burgess. 8 p.m. $29–$99. kennedy-center.org.

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

POP

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. New Hope Club. 6:30 p.m. $15–$18. unionstage.com.

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WOLF TRAP FILENE CENTER 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Disney Pixar’s Coco: In Concert Live to Film. 8:30 p.m. $40–$65. wolftrap.org.

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ROCK

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Masters Of Telecaster. 6 p.m. $25–$38. citywinery.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Dávila 666. 7 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. w/ Eric

Scott

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

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featuring Justin Trawick, Louisa Hall, The Sweater Set, Tiffany Thompson, Jenn Bostic, Brian Dunne, Jasmine Gillison, Eric Brace, Jason Ager

DAVID ALLAN COE 11 MOTHER'S FINEST 13 LILA DOWNS WALLIS 15 THE WAIFS BIRD 16 BLOODSTONE "Natural High" 10

17 19

KIM WATERS WATERS

with special guest KAYLA

Double Vision Revisited with

BOB JAMES, DAVID SANBORN, & MARCUS MILLER with guests Billy Kilson & Larry Braggs

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TAB BENOIT

“Whiskey Bayou Revue” with Eric Johanson

21

West Coast Jam with

RICHARD ELLIOT, PETER WHITE & DW3 featuring The West Coast Horns

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An Evening with

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "O Solo Wainwright" with special guest The Rails

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER 24 FREDDIE JACKSON 25 CHANTÉ MOORE 29 BRIAN COURTNEY WILSON 23

w/ Gene Moore

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Yeonas Brothers. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

JIFFY LUBE LIVE 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Hootie & The Blowfish. 7:30 p.m. $54.50–$149.50. livenation.com.

MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. 311 & Dirty Heads. 4:20 p.m. $46–$76. merriweathermusic.com.

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

Altın Gün. 8 p.m. $17–$20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SUNDAY

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

THE SPIRIT OF THE WOODLANDS

Sarah Hood Salomon’s photography exhibit The Spirit of the Woodlands emerged from the ashes of an “egoshredding” portfolio review. The artist consoled herself with long nature walks in remote, overlooked areas along the Potomac River and eventually began photographing again, often in winter. She produced blackand-white images, frequently with slight camera movement at exposure; she later added sepia-like warming tones. The resulting portrayals of silver-trunked trees and intricate brambles are ethereal, even ghostly—realistic, but dreamlike.

The exhibit shares with the rest of her portfolio a focus on solitude. “I do my best work when I am alone, so I am drawn to see how people behave when no one is influencing them,” she says.

The exhibit runs to July 28 at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, 105 North Union St. Suite 312, Alexandria. Free. (703) 683-2205. multipleexposuresgallery.com.

—Louis Jacobson

CLASSICAL

MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Soulful Symphony. 5 p.m. $25–$67. merriweathermusic.com.

COUNTRY

WOLF TRAP FILENE CENTER 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Reba McEntire. 8 p.m. $45. wolftrap.org.

JAZZ

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

ROCK

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531.

Shaun Cassidy. 6 p.m. $45–$65. citywinery.com.

MONDAY FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Team Familiar. 6 p.m. $22. citywinery.com.

POP

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Association. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Winnetka Bowling League. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

ROCK

MARVIN 2007 14th St. NW. (202) 797-7171. Elliot Jefferson. 6 p.m. Free. marvindc.com.

THE PINCH 3548 14th St. NW. (202) 722-4440.

HOODS and Rhythm of Fear. 7 p.m. $10. thepinchdc.com.

TUESDAY CLASSICAL

HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 3022 Woodlawn Ave, Falls Church. (703) 532-6617. Choralis: Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem. 7 p.m. $15. choralis.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

LISA TADDEO

When Lisa Taddeo set out to write a book about human desire, she began her research by talking to men, but quickly found herself disinterested. Their stories about sex all ended the same way: at climax. But women’s stories, even ones describing the same events, were different—their tellings were always entangled with feelings about their own sexuality, personal histories, wants, and fears.

So Taddeo instead spent eight years talking to three women—Maggie, Lina, and Sloane—about the most personal part of their personal lives: their sexual desires.

The resulting book, Three Women, examines what we talk about when we talk about sex with clear eyes. The book tracks how desire animates them and how it is used against them, detailing Maggie’s attempt to see the teacher who groomed her as a teenager brought to justice, Lina’s quest for intimacy in both a sexless marriage and a passionate affair, and how Sloane’s threesomes with her husband fulfill and frustrate her. Women who see themselves reflected in her writing— from the reviews, there are many—will enjoy Taddeo’s conversation with Olivia Nuzzi, New York magazine’s Washington correspondent. Lisa Taddeo speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Emma Sarappo

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COUNTRY

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Clare Bowen. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

FUNK & R&B

LINCOLN THEATRE 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Corinne Bailey Rae. 6:30 p.m. $40. thelincolndc.com.

HIP-HOP

JIFFY LUBE LIVE 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Nelly, TLC, and Flo Rida. 7 p.m. $25– $156. livenation.com.

JAZZ

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Tim Bowman. 6 p.m. $20–$30. citywinery.com.

ROCK

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Ben Folds & Violent Femmes. 8 p.m. $55–$259. theanthemdc.com.

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. I Prevail. 7:30 a.m. $33– $127. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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

We Were Promised Jetpacks. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

WEDNESDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. Erin Driscoll: My Favorite Things.

7:30 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

FOLK

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

Tom Walker. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Natural Wonder. 6 p.m. $15–$25. citywinery.com.

JAZZ

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

QUEEN AND ADAM LAMBERT Last year, Bohemian Rhapsody catapulted Queen back into the spotlight, earning Rami Malek an Academy Award for his turn as Freddie Mercury and setting the stage for a triumphant tour by the band’s remaining members—guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor—plus singer Adam Lambert, who has performed alongside the pair since 2011. Dubbed the Rhapsody Tour, the North American circuit promises to be a lively, feelgood experience. Expect to hear the band’s biggest hits—including the single that inspired the tour’s title—and don’t be surprised if Mercury himself makes an appearance, looming over the stadium in larger-than-life immersive video footage. Lambert isn’t Queen’s incomparable lead singer, but he doesn’t claim to be. Rather than imitating Mercury’s panache, the American Idol alum takes the microphone on his own terms, paying tribute to the fallen front man while offering a new take on the band’s beloved tracks. Queen perform with Adam Lambert at 8 p.m. at Capital One Arena, 601 F St. NW. $49.50–$195. (202) 628-3200. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork. com.

—Meilan Solly

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

ROCK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Jagwar Twin.

7:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Cosmic Charlie. 7 p.m. $15–$18. gypsysallys.com.

JIFFY LUBE LIVE 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Korn & Alice In Chains. 6:30 p.m. $27– $336. livenation.com.

STRATHMORE GUDELSKY CONCERT GAZEBO 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Miss Tess & The Talkbacks. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

WOLF TRAP FILENE CENTER 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Steve Miller Band and Marty Stuart.

7:30 p.m. $45–$75. wolftrap.org.

THURSDAY ELECTRONIC

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Cray.

10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.

FUNK & R&B

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

Feedel Band. 9:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

GO-GO

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

ENTATY. 7 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

HIP-HOP

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Hef. 7 p.m. $13–$15. unionstage.com.

Books

DANIELA PETROVA Petrova will discuss her novel Her Daughter’s Mother with Erica Wright. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 29 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Washington discusses her book A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, which explores the theory that environmental racism is to blame for myriad physical and cognitive issues in poor black communities. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 26 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

J. RYAN STRADAL Stradal, a contributing editor at TASTE magazine, discusses his novel The Lager Queen of Minnesota. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. July 31 7 p.m. Free. (202) 897-4201.

JENNIFER RATNER-ROSENHAGEN Historian Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen discusses her new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, which tracks the intellectual history of the nation from its founding to its present. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 27 6 p.m. (202) 364-1919.

JOHN LARISON Larison discusses his Western novel Whiskey When We’re Dry, now in paperback. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. July 31 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

POP

JULIA PHILLIPS AND MELISSA RIVERO Phillips and Rivero will discuss their novels Disappearing Earth and The Affairs of the Falcóns with Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 27 3:30 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Laundry Day. 6 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. tiLLie. 7 p.m. $51. ustreetmusichall.com.

ROCK

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Terrapin. 6:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

DEAN STRANG Strang will discuss his new history of a pivotal federal labor case, Keep The Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial, The Rise of the Justice Department, and The Fall of the IWW. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 30 6 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

JAZZ

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

Champion Sound Band. 7 p.m. $16. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

LAWRENCE PINTAK Pintak’s new book America and Islam: Soundbites, Suicide Bombs, and the Road to Donald Trump draws on his experience and those of a wide range of Muslim voices for a detailed history and analysis of this country’s relationship with Islam to

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Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, has only been on the silver screen twice: once in 1940, with Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy, and again in 2005, with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. If Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle immediately come to mind, though, you’re not alone—the 1995 BBC television serial remains the definitive version for many Austen lovers. But that’s not necessarily a knock on the quality of the 2005 film, which took risks and liberties with the source material (notably, it’s set in an earlier period, and the Bennet family’s poverty is exaggerated, putting the action in a much different context than Austen’s starched novel of manners) that paid off. Knightley and Macfadyen, as Elizabeth and Darcy, masterfully play with their characters’ electric repulsion-turned-attraction. That’s why this version of Pride and Prejudice caps off Dumbarton House’s month-long Austen film festival. Follow the Bennet sisters’ tangled involvement with men in want of wives on the Dumbarton lawn (picnics encouraged). The film screens at 8:30 p.m. at Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. $6. (202) 337-2288. dumbartonhouse.org.

—Lia Assimakopoulos

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD THIS SATURDAY!

311 & DIRTY HEADS

w/ The Interrupters • Dreamers • Bikini Trill JULY 27 CDE PRESENTS : 2019 SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL FEATURING

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Mynx featuring Vodkatrina • Tezrah • DJ CYD • DJ L Stackz ........... F JUL 26 THE CIRCUS LIFE PODCAST 6TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FEAT.

FeelFree • Justin Trawick and The Common Good • The Dirty Grass Players • Mystery Friends • Abigail Furr and special guests! .. Sa 27 AUGUST

AUGUST (cont.)

REV909: Daft Punk/French House Tribute & Indie Dance Classics with DJs Ozker and Keenan Orr • Visuals by Robin Bell ...................F 2 The Faint w/ Ritual Howls & Closeness .......Sa 3 Tuxedo

No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party

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

SEPTEMBER T ADDED!

D NIGH FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

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

(Mayer Hawthorne & Jake One)

w/ DJ Cuzzin B & Nick Garcia ......Su 4

U STREET MUSIC HALL WELCOMES

Amon Tobin presents Two Fingers ............................Th 8 Neurosis w/ Bell Witch & DEAFKIDS .............F 9 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All ‘90s Band ...................Sa 10 Sonic Youth: 30 Years of

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Two Door Cinema Club ......Tu 10 Wilder Woods (Bear Rinehart of NEEDTOBREATHE) ..................W 11

The Band CAMINO w/ Valley ..F 13 Barns Courtney w/ The Hunna Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 14

Daydream Nation Screening

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

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

Marc Rebillet Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................Sa 14 Polo & Pan ..............................Su 15 Live - Throwing Copper

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

DC Music Rocks Festival feat.

The Eli Lev Collective with special

25th Anniversary Celebration . M 16

Vida Blue ..................................W 18 Band of Skulls w/ Demob Happy ........................Th 19 Grace VanderWaal .................F 20 grandson w/ nothing,nowhere.

guest Jarreau Williams, More AM Than FM, and more!..Sa 17 SURPRISE! AT THE CLUB!

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

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

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

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

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

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

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THIS SATURDAY!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

STORY DISTRICT’S

Breaking Bread: True Stories by

Celebrity Chefs & Industry Insiders . JUL 27 AN EVENING WITH

Ibibio Sound Machine w/ Shormey ...........................F JUL 26 We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls 10th Anniversary w/ Catholic Action ........................Tu 30

METROPOLITAN ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

- Live Show .................................... SEP 11

It’s Jester Joke ........................ OCT 18

Tinariwen w/ Lonnie Holley ........ SEP 19

AEG PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH

Riceboy Sleeps with Wordless Orchestra .......... OCT 28

The Waterboys ..................... SEP 22 Adam Ant: Friend or Foe .... SEP 23 Cat Power w/ Arsun ................... SEP 25 Ta-Nehisi Coates The Water Dancer Book Tour .................................. SEP 26

Reignwolf w/ JJ Wilde ......... Sa AUG 10 Alex Lahey w/ Kingsbury .............Th 22 Why? w/ Barrie ...........................Su 25 Benjamin Francis Leftwich .Th SEP 5

Nahko and Medicine for The People w/ Ayla Nereo . SEP 29 Emeli Sandé (Acoustic) .............. OCT 3

Dawes ............................................AUG 6 Zaz ................................................... OCT 4 Joey Coco Diaz ..........................AUG 9 The Band Perry w/ Phangs .... OCT 15 Antoni In The Kitchen ........ SEP 10 AEG PRESENTS Bianca Del Rio Criminal Podcast

POLITICS AND PROSE PRESENTS

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

(SOLO, ACOUSTIC, INTERACTIVE) ..OCTOBER 27

On Sale Friday, July 26 at 10am

Jónsi & Alex Somers -

X Ambassadors w/ Bear Hands & LPX ....................... OCT 29 Puddles Pity Party w/ Dina Martina ................................ OCT 31 Angel Olsen w/ Vagabon ............NOV 1 U Up? Live ....................................NOV 4

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

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explain why relations have been so fractious. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 28 1 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919.

LISA TADDEO Taddeo will discuss her new book Three Women, an intimate exploration of modern women’s sex lives, with New York writer Olivia Nuzzi.

Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 29 7 p.m. (202) 364-1919.

MASON FUNK Funk will discuss The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 1 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

NEIL SHISTER Shister, a former journalist, sees Burning Man as the vanguard of a crucial new social paradigm, and will discuss his book Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 30 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

NICOLE DENNIS-BENN LIT on H St. Book Club will feature Dennis-Benn in conversation with Lupita Aquino about her new novel Patsy. Solid State Books.

600 H St. NE. July 28 6 p.m. Free. (202) 897-4201.

OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE Braithwaite will discuss her debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer, with writer and producer Tayla Burney. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 28 5 p.m. (202) 364-1919.

PHILIP MUDD Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 31 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

RUSSELL GOLD Gold, who has reported on energy for The Wall Street Journal since 2002, explores the country’s move toward cleaner fuel sources, profiling the work of renewable energy pioneer Michael Skelly in Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 28 3 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

THOMAS W. LIPPMAN Lippman, former chief of the Washington Post’s Middle East bureau, tells the little-known story of Aristotle Onassis’s 1954 entanglement with the Saudi king in Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 27 1 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919.

Theater

ANN Holland Taylor’s Ann is the comedic portrayal of the late Democratic Texas Governor Ann Richards, whose legacy as a feminist and activist politician lives

on. Ann has played at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and on Broadway. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 11 $56–$105. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org.

THE BAND’S VISIT The Band’s Visit is one of the most Tony Award-winning productions in history. Israeli actor Sasson Gabay stars in this musical, about a band of musicians who arrive out of nowhere in a seldom-visited town. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 4 $45–$149. (202) 4674600. kennedy-center.org.

BOOTLEG SHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III In Bootleg Shakespeare, actors come to the performance with only their lines prepared—no rehearsals, no direction.

Back for a second year, the Taffety Punk Bootleggers present Richard III. Folger Shakespeare Library. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Jan. 1 Free. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

BRIGHT COLORS AND BOLD PATTERNS In this oneman show, a guest shows up to a wedding with plenty to say about the issues facing modern gay life, like assimilation, stereotypes, and marriage. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To July 28 $20–$55. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

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

DISNEY’S ALADDIN From the same producer as Broadway’s The Lion King, the new production of Disney’s Aladdin comes to the stage at the Kennedy Center with Clinton Greenspan as Aladdin and Kaena Kekoa as Jasmine. Kennedy Center Opera House.

2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 7 $39–$179. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

THE MOLLUSC The mollusc is a metaphor for Tom Kemp’s sister Dulcie’s “condition.” Hubert Henry Davies’ play is a comedy about love, manners, family, and loyalty. It is directed by Jack Sbarbori. The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To Aug. 4 $15–$35.

(301) 654-8664. writer.org.

THE MOUSETRAP Thunderous Productions presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, a 1952 murder mystery play. It is the longest-running play in London’s West End, and celebrated its 25,000th performance there in 2012. Greenbelt Arts Center. 123 Centerway, Greenbelt. To July 28 $12–$22. (301) 441-8770. greenbeltartscenter.org.

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DARK STAR PARK ALIGNMENT

The late sculptor Nancy Holt may be best known for “Sun Tunnels” (1973–76), a sequence of four massive sections of concrete cylinders aligned with the transit of the sun. The installation’s remote location—an empty stretch of land in Utah’s Great Basin Desert—is both a feature and a bug for Land Art devotees. But D.C. viewers can easily access another impressive example of Holt’s work: “Dark Star Park” (1979–84), a landscaped plaza and sculpture series in Rosslyn. The site, formerly home to a gas station and warehouse, comprises reflecting pools, tunnels, plantings, metal poles, and most notably, five Death Star–shaped spheres made of gunite (a mixture of cement and sand). Every year, on August 1—the date in 1860 when William Henry Ross acquired the land that is Rosslyn today—at exactly 9:32 a.m., the shadows cast by the poles and spheres align with patterns on the ground. The artist worked with an astrophysicist to get the positions just right—and even recalculated the park’s alignment during a renovation in the early 2000s to adjust for slight changes to the Earth’s axis. Dark Star Park serves as a tidy urban escape for the other 364 days of the year, but on Thursday, it’s Holt’s tribute to celestial precision (and NoVa’s development). The shadows will align at 9:32 a.m. at Dark Star Park, 1655 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington. Free. (703) 522-6628. rosslynva.org.

—Kriston Capps

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

TREASURE ISLAND Jane Hawkins is an orphan who gets swept up in the world of pirates, as she learns about her past and who she is. This play is based on the 1883 adventure novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. Synetic Theater at Crystal City.

1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Aug. 18 $10–$65.

(866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org.

Film

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Wizarding zoologist Newt Scamander teams up with a young Albus Dumbledore to defeat the evil wizard Grindelwald. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, and Johnny Depp.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

CRAWL A hurricane traps a woman and her father in a house with aggressive alligators. Starring Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, and Morfydd Clark. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE LION KING Lion cub Simba must take back his throne from his scheming uncle Scar. Starring Donald Glover, Beyoncé, and Chiwitel Ejiofor.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE FAREWELL A family organizes a trip to see their dying grandmother, who they’ve decided not to tell about her diagnosis. Starring Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, and Diana Lin. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD In 1960s Los Angeles, a television actor and his stunt double go on an odyssey to make their names in Hollywood. Starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) STUBER An Uber driver’s new passenger enlists him on a high-stakes hunt for a villain. Starring Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, and Natalie Morales. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SAVAGELOVE I’m a 36-year-old straight guy, happily married for more than 10 years, and a longtime reader.

My wife and I are monogamous. We’re good communicators, well matched in terms of libido, and slightly kinky (light bondage, Dom/sub play in the bedroom). For the last few months, I’ve been thinking about trying prostate play, and I have a couple of questions. A lot of bloggers and other writers in the sex-advice complex tout the health benefits of regular prostate massage, but I haven’t found any academic research to back up some of the lofty claims that are being made. Does prostate massage reduce the risk of prostate cancer and prostatitis? Now the relationship question: I’ve brought partnered prostate play up with my wife, and it’s a hard pass for her. Hygiene is an issue, but that’s easy to take care of (shower, enema, gloves, towels on the bed, etc.). The other part deals with our power dynamics. Typically, I’m the Dom, and, based on the limited conversations we’ve had about this, there is something about penetrating me that she finds deeply uncomfortable. What should I do? How do I frame this conversation in a way that may make her more comfortable and gets her finger(s) in my ass? We’ve shared so much—she’s an incredible partner who has helped me realize so many of my fantasies, and I’d like her to be a part of this one, too.

—Partner Protests Prostate Play

If there were any legit studies out there that documented the health benefits of regular prostate massage, PPPP, Richard Wassersug, Ph.D., would know about them. Wassersug is a research scientist at the University of British Columbia, where he studies ways to help prostate cancer patients manage the side effects of their treatments.

“I’d like to believe that I’m knowledgeable on this topic,” Wassersug said, “[but] I checked PubMed to see if I’d missed anything in the relevant and recent peer-reviewed medical literature. As I expected, there are no objective data supporting the claim that ‘regular prostate massage’ reduces the risk of prostate cancer and prostatitis. [And while] prostate massage can be used to express prostatic fluid for diagnostic purposes, that’s not the same as using it for the treatment of any prostatic diseases.”

But that doesn’t mean that prostate massage isn’t beneficial; absence of evidence, as they say, isn’t evidence of absence.

“We [just] don’t know,” said Wassersug, and finding out “would, in fact, take a very large sample and many years to collect enough data to provide a definitive answer.”

But there definitely is something you can do right now to decrease your risk of prostate cancer, PPPP: Two large studies found that men who ejaculate frequently—more than 21 times per month—are roughly 35 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than men who blow

fewer loads. So if sticking things up your butt makes you come more often, then science says sticking things up your butt will reduce your risk of prostate cancer.

Researchers don’t know exactly why coming a lot may reduce a man’s risk for prostate cancer. There’s no data to support one frequently mentioned theory—that ejaculation may flush out “irritating or harmful substances” that could be gathering in the prostate along with the fluids that make up roughly 30 percent of a man’s seminal fluids—so, again, more research is needed. And until those studies are done, men and other prostate-having people should err on the side of ejaculating as often as (safely and consensually) possible.

As for convincing your otherwise submissive wife to finger your ass, PPPP, you could search for “power bottoms” on the gay section of Pornhub—assuming your wife enjoys

Being friendly is the trick to remaining friends after a casual sexual arrangement ends. gay porn—and familiarize her with the concept of dominant penetratees. You could also add female condoms to your list of hygiene hacks— put one of these trash-can liners in your ass, and the only thing your wife will get on her fingers is lube. But if anal play is a hard no for the wife, you’ll have to enjoy anal play solo.

Richard Wassersug co-leads Life on ADT (lifeonadt.com), a national educational program in Canada for prostate cancer patients dealing with the side effects of androgen deprivation therapy.

—Dan Savage I am a poly nonbinary person, and I’ve been seeing this guy in a BDSM context for about six months.

About two times a month, he canes me and destroys my ass, I get to call him “daddy,” and I get fucked in mind-blowing ways. In the beginning, I expressed interest in dating (with more emotional investment), and he said he didn’t have the mental space for it but he’d be interested in trying to develop something eventually. So we’ve played and had fun, and I’m starting to get feels for this guy… buuuuut… he’s given me no indication he’s interested in anything beyond our current arrangement. I’ve said, “Hey, let’s schedule a date,” something like dinner, coffee, a walk around the fucking block, but he just wants to fuck, no talking.

What he wants isn’t what I’m looking for, so I decided to take my business elsewhere and focus my energy on my other relationships. Well, his mom just got diagnosed with cancer and has a couple months to live. He’s devastated. What are the ethics of breaking up here? I dislike just ghosting, but he’s got other friends and lovers to support him.

He doesn’t really need me. But he does on occasion send little “thinking of you” texts. So am I able to ghost him? Do I owe him a conversation about wants and needs? I’d like to be friends—I am part of a small kinky community, I’m friends with some of his fuck buddies, and I’m going to run into him again—but this isn’t a time in his life when he should be worrying about the feelings of a now-and-then spanking partner.

—Ghosting Has Obvious Shortcomings That Suck

You’ve constructed a false choice for yourself, GHOSTS: either initiate a conversation about your wants and needs or ghost him. But there’s no need for a wants-and-needs convo, as you’ve already had that conversation (more than once) and his don’t align with yours. So instead of disappearing on him, you can simply respond to his “thinking of you” texts with short, thoughtful, compassionate texts of your own. (“Thinking of you, too, especially at this difficult time.”) The odds that he’ll want to meet up in the next few months seem slim, and you can always claim a scheduling conflict if he should ask to get together.

Being friendly is the trick to remaining friends after a casual sexual arrangement ends. Kindly acknowledging someone’s texts—or greeting someone in public—doesn’t obligate you to sleep with (or submit to) them again. And while in most cases I would advise a person to be direct … in this case, I think you should simply step back. Calling him to say, “Hey, I know your mom has cancer and is dying, but I needed to tell you I’m not interested in fucking around anymore, okay?” will make you seem self-involved, thoughtless, and uncaring—you know, not the kind of person someone wants to remain friends with after a casual sexual arrangement ends.

Now, if you were this man’s primary partner, GHOSTS, and you’d been thinking about ending the relationship before he got the news about his mother, I would encourage you to wait a few months and love and support him through this process. (Unless the relationship was abusive, of course, which this one wasn’t.)

But you’re just a FWB—a “friend with bruises,” in your case—and this man has other friends and lovers around him, people whose support he can rely on during this difficult time.

—DS

Scene and

Heard Beat the Heat, July 2019 For a brief, overcast moment, Farragut Square NW makes a strange scene. It feels empty, and people sit in odd places and at unusual angles. It looks like a bad architectural rendering of a public park. Then the cloud moves away from the sun and all becomes clear: These lunchers have found islands of shade in a sea of sunlight.

The heat re-draws the city. It creates new lines and patterns and habits. It’s Monday, around lunchtime, when people take to the streets in search of food, and the “feels like” temperature has cracked triple digits. Some people stay inside and hide—they won’t see the sun until they head home for the day, if they ever emerged from their homes at all.

But those who do venture outside find themselves living a scorching reality.

Construction workers don hard hats with neck flaps and tourists block the sun with umbrellas. Traffic jams form on the protected sides of streets, while the sunny sides are nearly deserted. Pedestrians wait to cross the street feet from the curb, at the border of shade and sun.

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