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INSIDE CoVer Story: Data MInIng

12 Who gets access to coveted D.C. education data?

DIStrICt LIne 5 housing complex: The city responds to the K2 overdoses affecting vulnerable residents.

6 back2bad: Solutions to this summer’s Red Line shutdown

SportS 8 ball or nothing: The rigorous work of Citi Open ballpeople 10 the scoreboard

FooD 16 we got the beets: D.C.’s beet salad obsession, by the numbers 16 hangover helper: Pearl Street Warehouse’s pancake tacos 16 veg diner Monologues: Sweet corn cavatelli at Beuchert’s Saloon

artS 21 grand Jam: Spontaneous music emerges from local jam sessions.

23 short subjects: Zilberman on Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Olszewski on Love, Cecil 24 one song: Janet Jackson’s “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” 25 crescendo in blue

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DistrictLine Batch-22

for 96 hours, any business that was caught selling the synthetic drug. But the next summer, K2 overdoses continued to sweep across D.C. In July of that year alone, DC FEMS transported nearly 600 people to the hospital who overdosed from the drug.

it mimics the effect of pot. (It doesn’t. As an anti-K2 campaign launched by the city says, “fake weed + u = zombie.”) A single joint of K2 can sell for only one or two bucks on the street. “We have had an increase in [use by] the homeless population because this drug is so cheap,” Royster also said.

Symptoms include aggression, muscle spasms, dehydration, vomiting, and paranoia; side effects can include seizures, brain damage, nerve trauma, and the loss of motor skills.

Buchanan says the people DC FEMS has transported to the hospital are “primarily men,” but that the service has seen patients “ranging in age from early 20s to 60 years old.” They’re also likely taking the drug together.

“When we respond to one call for one individual, more often that not we find multiple patients at the scene,” Buchanan says.

“They’re smoking it together. Not in all cases, but in many, we have multiple patients at the

“We don’t know where exactly they’ve come from,” Royster said on Kojo. But an MPD spokesperson tells City Paper that members of the department’s Narcotics and Special Investigations Division “conducted an operation” in the First District last week, “when they purchased synthetic drugs from an individual believed to be selling the ‘bad batch’ of K2.” Within the same week, the division purchased more synthetic drugs from the same source, and arrested three people as a result, the spokesperson says.

K2 still has an appeal to consumers looking for a cheap, quick high, especially to those who hear “synthetic cannabinoid” and think

same intersection.”

DC FEMS found a good number of those people on and around major intersections near homeless shelters, like the Community for Creative Non-Violence on 2nd and D streets NW, and the 1300 block of New York Avenue NE, by the New York Avenue Men’s Emergency Shelter. FEMS found nine people who overdosed on Fenwick Street NE, behind the shelter, as well as 10 people “up against a wall, not far from One Judiciary Square,” Buchanan says. It transported six people from that scene to the hospital.

The drug has affected homeless popula-

Officials coordinate a response to a spike in K2 overdoses that saw over 260 people hospitalized—many of them among the city’s most vulnerable.

By Morgan Baskin Over the span of six days in mid-July, DC Fire and EMS transported about 150 overdose patients to the hospital––handily surpassing, in less than one week, the 105 total such transports it made in all of July last year.

And since July 14, when the spike in overdoses began, over 260 people in total have been hospitalized from the same type of drug, including four people who died.

They likely overdosed on a drug called K2, a concoction of dried plant material sprayed with different hallucinogens and chemicals, like PCP, that users then smoke. The synthetic cannabinoid is sometimes sold in small packets that look like condom wrappers. Other times, it’s in psychedelic baggies with kids’ cartoons printed on the side.

But the drug, which is marketed as potpourri or incense and goes by a number of names–– K2, Spice, Scooby Snax, bizarro––is a problem, in part, because it’s nearly impossible to know what’s inside each packet. Individual bags of the drug can contain as many as three to five different chemicals, and they vary from packet to packet. As soon as lawmakers ban one substance, manufacturers change the recipe.

“Even if the package looks the same, you still don’t know what you’re getting,” Tanya Royster, Director of the Department of Behavioral Health, said on Kojo Nnamdi’s radio show this week. Of the over 100 different compounds that have been identified in synthetic cannabinoids, one present in the “bad batch” that affected D.C. residents was “a new variant that had not previously been identified,” she said. Put another way: “It’s like rolling the dice,” Doug Buchanan, the communications director at DC FEMS, tells City Paper.

In the summer of 2015, the D.C. Council passed emergency legislation that allowed the Metropolitan Police Department to shut down,

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tions from Lexington, Kentucky and Dallas to New York and Boston.

“Our assumption is that our population is at risk,” Carter Hewgley, a senior advisor for homelessness services at the Department of Human Services, says, noting that many of the reported overdoses have occurred near lowbarrier homeless shelters. “We’re treating it [as such] while we wait to hear that these are confirmed associations.”

DHS is doing that “on a few fronts,” he says.

That includes training shelter staff to recognize the signs of an overdose so they can respond properly, improving their clients’ awareness of the danger of K2 by putting posters in all the agency’s facilities, and increasing their clients’ access to water.

Anyone who calls the shelter hotline can have water delivered to them. “No matter where you are, you have access to hydration,” Hewgley says. Additionally, DHS is hosting a shelter volunteer training session on July 30, and will teach volunteers how to administer Narcan, the prescription drug used to treat opioid overdoses.

All of those efforts are wrapped into the city’s overdose prevention program, which has a pool of existing funds for this purpose. (DHS declined to say how much it has spent on dealing with the current K2 crisis.)

To an extent, it’s difficult to coordinate a city-wide response to a drug when even its consumers don’t know what they’re smoking. As Buchanan points out, Narcan might not be effective for some K2 users who didn’t take a version of the drug laced with opioids.

Taking Narcan in those cases “is not going to hurt,” he says. It just might not work in stopping the effect of the drug.

But Hewgley emphasized that local agencies are taking a “coordinated approach” to the K2 response. The Department of Forensic Sciences is working on identifying the chemical composition of the drug, in the hope that DBH will then be able to find an “acute treatment” for patients who are overdosing. Until then, local agencies are encouraging staff and shelter volunteers to treat patients’ immediate symptoms.

“It feels like the city is really taking care of our population specifically,” Hewgley says, referring to the homeless.

CP If you see someone experiencing the symptoms of a K2 overdose, call the Department of Behavioral Health’s 24/7 emergency hotline at 1-888-7WE-HELP. washingtoncitypaper.com july 27, 2018 5

Back2Bad Your SafeTrack nightmares return with a summer-long Red Line closure.

Since the Brookland and Rhode Island Avenue Metro stations will be closed from now until September 3—the sweatiest part of the year in D.C.—City Paper has written up some alternative route options to get downtown. Don’t worry: SafeTrack has not returned. Metro is temporarily shutting these stations to make them more handicap-accessible and to rebuild their platforms.

—City Paper staff and Brian McEntee Bus Route: 80, 63 Est time: 45ish minutes Pros: For those north of Fort Totten, the 63 bus line starting from Takoma is a straight shot to downtown and avoids all of the mess around Fort Totten and Brookland. But if you’re situated right in those areas, your best bet is the 80, which picks up at both stations and goes downtown via North Capitol Street.

Cons: Godspeed if you’re stuck on a bus driving downtown during rush hour.

Drive Route: Rhode Island Ave. NE to NW, turning left toward downtown at some point Est. time: 30 minutes Pros: Privacy, air conditioning, time with your kids, and blaring whatever

audio you want. The gas station right on Rhode Island Ave. NW is very convenient.

Cons: If you have a car, you might have to pay for parking. Likewise, ride-sharing services and cabs will get expensive.

Bike Route: Metropolitan Branch Trail to R St. NE, or continue to First St. NE past Union Station to E St. NE Est. time: 20-25 minutes Pros: Zoom past car traffic. The trail follows the Red Line so the scenery/graffiti will be familiar. Exercise and fresh air. Earth-friendlier than ditching a plastic straw.

Cons: Potential for sweat. Surrounded by aggro drivers who’d rather be taking Metro. You also have to bike home, slightly uphill.

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Walk Route: Small streets to Rhode Island Ave. NE or NW, turning left toward downtown at some point Est. time: 75 minutes Pros: You’ll have a lot of time to think, which you probably need. Take your commute to the next level by ditching your smartphone for the duration of your walk.

Cons: Not everyone can spare more than two hours per day for walking. But if your obstacle is that you go to the gym or drink cocktails after work, consider walking instead. run Route: Take neighborhood streets to Rhode Island Ave. NE or NW, and then turn left toward downtown (basically same as walking, just slightly faster).

Est. time: It depends, but someone running 10 minute mile pace will take approximately 40 minutes.

Pros: Great for multitasking. You can commute, listen to your favorite podcast(s), and get a workout at the same time! If you’re marathon training, it’s a way to get in those miles without having to wake up super early or run late at night.

Cons: You’ll probably definitely want to find a shower before settling into the office, and you’ll need to pack light. Running with a laptop in your backpack is not fun. limeBike scooter Route: Metropolitan Branch Trail to R

St. NE, or continue to First St. NE past Union Station to E St. NE Est. time: 30-40 minutes Pros: Zeitgeisty AF. No pedaling. You can leave the scooter right outside your final destination.

Cons: Dorky AF. Hard to find a scooter nearby during the morning rush. Can get really expensive, as scooters cost $1 to unlock and 15 cents per minute.

HorseBack Route: Head south on 12th Street NE, and get a nice canter going on Rhode Island Ave. NE to NW Est. time: Hinges on how comfortable you are with lettin’ that stallion fly.

Pros: Carbon neutral (sort of). Cool as hell. Ryan Zinke does it.

Cons: Horses smell. Access to horses and urban trails are limited. Ryan Zinke does it. apparition (à la Harry Potter) Route: Not Applicable Est. time: Instantaneous Pros: It’s a scientific fact: People with shorter commutes are happier. With a 0 second commute, Washingtonians just might be in a good enough state of mind to deal with the daily dumpster fire that is America in 2018.

Cons: You can’t legally apparate until you’re 17, you run the risk of splinching, and downtown D.C., like Hogwarts, may magically prevent apparition.

Also, it’s not real.

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SPORTS

Fairfax resident Natasha Subhash, 16, is one of the best junior players in the world and will compete at the Citi Open qualifying tournament this weekend. washingtoncitypaper.com/sports

Ball or Nothing

Darrow Montgomery

A look at the competitive world of being a Citi Open ballperson

By Kelyn Soong InsIde a dImly lit tennis bubble in Arlington on a humid June morning, Alfredo Casta is living out his dream. The 50-year-old Puerto Rico native sprints around the court as sweat collects on his white visor and listens intently as men and women half his age shout instructions at him.

Casta has accomplished plenty in his life. In 1998, he founded an information technology consulting firm, Cascades Technologies, Inc., which he now co-owns with his wife. They raise two teenagers in the D.C. area and Casta is on the board of trustees for the Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

He travels to Puerto Rico at least once a month

tennis

to help with hurricane recovery efforts.

But on this day, he has just one goal: to prove to those in charge that he is a worthy of being a Citi Open ballperson. Casta, who lives in Potomac Falls, Virginia, is one of about 20 candidates trying out this morning, the second of two Citi Open ballperson tryouts hosted during the late spring by the local tennis tournament, which begins this weekend at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center. Most attendees are high school students hoping to be on the same court as their favorite players or looking for a way to collect community service hours during the summer.

The minimum age for participants is 14.

There is no maximum age, a fact that works in the favor of two people in attendance aiming to qualify for the team: Casta—and me.

“I’ve always wanted to do this,” Casta says during a break. “As a kid, just seeing the pros on TV. But life got in the way.”

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Ballkids—or ballpeople—fill one of the most visible jobs in professional tennis. During a match, they interact with the players more than anyone else on the court. But because of the nature of the job, they’re also some of the least understood, and are sometimes underappreciated.

It’s hard to fully grasp something that isn’t meant to be noticed.

“The whole point is not to be seen and to be in the background,” says Jeff Zhang. “It’s this whole unseen orchestration between the chair umpire, lines judges, ballpersons, fans, players, the whole big community. We all have to play our part for the event to go smoothly.”

During tryouts, Zhang serves as a mentor to those hoping to make the team. If someone forgets which side to roll the balls to, he points them in the right direction.

Zhang has been a ballperson for Citi Open

since 2007, and in 2014 made it to the big leagues, the U.S. Open in New York. The 27year-old Arlington resident has been a ballperson for players like Venus Williams, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray, and as I line up for the speed drill, one of the three tests at the tryout, he is the calming presence I need.

The first thing that comes to my mind is how slow I am. I launch myself into a sprint toward the net, plant my feet, and then power my 31year-old legs back to the baseline. We do this four times. Each time I finish last. By the time the next person is up, I’m out of breath.

It’s been five minutes since the tryout began.

“It’s definitely a lot more challenging and a lot more to it than meets the eye,” Zhang tells me later. “A lot more goes into it than watching tennis.”

After the speed drill, the small group I’m in heads over to the catching drill. This is an important part of being a ballperson, I realize. A Citi Open ballperson chair tells us to use both hands to scoop up the ball. Don’t try to cup it with one hand, she warns. During the match, balls are constantly being rolled to the side of the server after points.

The next drill tests our ability to roll the ball, quickly and accurately. A bad roll can delay the match for seconds, time that feels longer for the professional tennis player ready to get the point moving.

“Treat this as a professional sport,” Dan Yi tells us before the tryout. “This is a competition. A huge driver of who stays is performance.

There’s an entire infrastructure of monitoring and evaluating kids and that starts today.”

Yi, 38, started as a ballkid in 1992, when the tournament only included men and was known as the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, and has been a ballperson chair since the early 2000s. There wasn’t an age limit when he first started, and tryouts did not begin until three years ago, so Yi proudly recounts how, at 12, he made it to the doubles final.

A year later, he was a ballkid in the singles final, won by Amos Mansdorf of Israel.

“I was really excited about ballboying my first singles final, got really pumped, and then the guy who won the title is someone who no one has probably heard of,” says Yi, laughing at the memory. “Then I kind of just did it every year.”

Reaching the final is a badge of honor. What tennis fans don’t realize is that a highly regimented competition between ballpeople takes place within the tennis tournament. The tournament starts with about 120 ballpeople on the first weekend, all of whom work through Tues-

day. Then the cuts begin. The seven individuals on the ballperson chair committee cut 20 people each day until there are about 30 people left for the finals on Sunday.

This year, the tournament had about 90 returning ballpeople from previous years.

“We don’t say a new person can’t make it to the finals, but rarely do we take one new person to the final weekend,” says 35-year-old Emily Benton, one of the chairs. “They sort of go in with that knowledge. ... For the older people, it is a competition. Everyone is good friends, so it’s not unhealthy, but people do get upset.”

During the last portion of the tryout, we get to mimic match play. The participants get to choose between two options: the net or the back. There are four “backs” on the court at all times, two on the side of the server and two on the side of the receiver. All four are responsible at some point for getting balls and towels to the players.

The two net positions stand or kneel at opposite ends of the net. They’re responsible for collecting the balls after the point and getting them to the back positions. This job requires a lot more running than the back.

Despite a drop in confidence in my running abilities after the first drill, I choose to try out as a net, hoping that my effort overshadows

the players.

“As long as [the ball people are] really focused on who’s serving, the rhythm of the points, then you’re good,” says Madison Brengle, who was once ranked among the top 35 female players in the world. “If you get someone who’s looking up and not quite on it, it can maybe disrupt the rhythm of your serve a little bit. But as long as they’re paying attention, we appreciate what they do.”

There is a misconception that all a ballperson does is collect balls and give them to the players. A lot more is involved: Ballpeople have to retrieve towels for the players after points, hold umbrellas, grab water and snacks, run tennis rackets to the stringers, and keep track of the score at all times, while making sure they don’t affect the rhythm of the match. (For an example of what not to do, watch the episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer tries out to be a “ball man.”)

“If we do make a mistake, it can be very obvious,” says Joey Ramsey, a 31-year-old ballperson chair. “The match has to pause and there’s consequences to not having everything together.”

After the two-hour tryout, I huddle with Casta, who has been one of the stars of the morning. He sounds confident that he’ll be se-

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my deficiencies.

At one point during the practice match between two former collegiate tennis players, Kris Barnes and Lief Hollowell, I start moving my head side to side to watch the point— something you’re taught not to do—and hesitate before moving to grab the ball once the point is over.

“This is why you’re going to get cut!” Yi shouts from across the court.

I stumble toward the ball and sprint across the court, sweat dripping down my face. If this were a real match, I would not only have likely received an angry glare from a professional tennis player, I would still have to finish out my hour on the court before being mercifully relieved. Ballpeople at Citi Open work in teams of eight to 10 and are on the court for one hour before coming off for an hour.

Being an absent-minded ballperson makes a difference for everyone involved, including

lected for the team. I’m not so sure about myself. Even though my tryout is technically unofficial, I still don’t want to be cut.

I go chat with a few other people who tried out. There’s 16-year-old Denaij Rose, a rising junior at C.H. Flowers High School who is here because she wants to “see players I idolize close up.” And Josh Keller, a 17-year-old who plays squash for Potomac School in Virginia. “I’ve been a fan of tennis my whole life,” he says.

A few weeks later, I call Ramsey, who tells me, to no surprise, that Casta is a “unanimous keep.” I could’ve worked on a few things, Ramsey says, but adds, “you picked things up pretty quickly and you showed very good effort.” I made the team. I decline, though for a moment, I know how Casta feels. I may not be on the court this Saturday, but Casta and a hundred other die-hard tennis fans will. And I can’t think of a better way for them to spend their time this summer.

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Less than a week after two of D.C. United’s three supporter groups marched and protested at the opening of Audi Field on July 14, the club announced that it had reached an agreement with all three groups—La Barra Brava, Screaming Eagles, and District Ultras.

Both La Barra and the Ultras were upset when United entered into a strategic partnership with the Eagles back in February. But progress has been made to mend fences.

“I should have been involved sooner, but we will get that taken care of,” United managing partner Jason Levien told City Paper’s Pablo Maurer. “I did not know how bad this had gotten until the ribbon cutting.”

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“I learned Magic for eight years. Traveled to La-La Land. Learned how to work with Rockets. Learned to fly with some Hawks. I got stung by the Hornets,” he said, before pausing for the kicker. “Through all of that it taught me how to be Wizard.”

The joke was not particularly well-received online, but for what it’s worth, those inside the press conference laughed and applauded.

No Hustle It’s just been one of those seasons for the Nationals.

On Tuesday, shortstop Trea Turner was named one of the recipients of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association’s Heart & Hustle Award—the same day he was benched by manager Dave Martinez for not running, or making any real movement, toward first base after hitting a bunt in Monday night’s loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.

The award honors “active players who demonstrate a passion for the game of baseball and best embody the values, spirit and tradition of the game.”

Bad dad The Nationals suspended their partnership with Papa John’s after news broke that company’s founder, John Schnatter, used the Nword in a conference call, and other local professional sports teams are thinking about their futures with the pizza chain.

Monumental Sports and Entertainment President of Business Operations Jim Van Stone said in a statement to The Washington Post that the Wizards and Capitals are “currently assessing our relationship with the company and will determine how to proceed.”

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ation made him so confident about the Wizards after playing for several teams in recent years, Howard replied with a pun-filled statement.

Howard Has Jokes The Wizards introduced Dwight Howard, their newest big name acquisition, on Monday, and the 32-year-old came prepared with a money quote.

When asked about why his current situ-

Paisano’s Pizza recently replaced Papa John’s as the local NFL team’s official pizza sponsor, a decision that was made before Schnatter admitted this month to uttering the racial slur. The team will continue to partner with local Papa John’s franchises on post-game promotional deals.

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SAVAGELOVE I’ve been faithfully reading your column in the Chicago Reader for years, and now I’m reaching out to you about my own problem. I’ve been dating this guy for almost a year. Everything is great, except one thing: He wants me to kick him in the nuts. It really bothers me, and I’m not sure what to do. He’s very serious about it, and he brings it up every single day. It makes me really uncomfortable that this is some sort of fetish of his and I need help taking steps forward.

—To Kick Or Not To Kick P.S. I play soccer and I kick hard.

It’s a kink called “ball busting,” TKONTK, and as long as you don’t kick him full force— or even half force—you’re unlikely to do permanent damage. That said, childless guys who are into ball busting are often advised to freeze their sperm just in case. And while it’s not a hugely popular kink, it’s common enough that ball busting porn exists, and ball busting Tumblrs, ball busting blogs, etc.

Take it slow at first, particularly if your guy has only fantasized about this and not experienced it.

—Dan Savage P.S. A guy who brings up his kink every single day deserves to be kicked in the nuts—unless he’s into ball busting, in which case he doesn’t deserve to be kicked in the nuts.

My husband and I were married in Toronto, Canada, in 2005, before marriage equality came to the United States. Does the U.S. government recognize our Canadian marriage or do we need to remarry in the U.S.? Can you find out from one of your legal friends?

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“The US government does recognize your marriage,” said Robbie Kaplan, one of my legal friends—and the attorney who represented Edith Windsor before the US Supreme Court and won. In United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was required to recognize legal same-sex marriages, thereby gutting the Defense of Marriage Act. “We did the same thing,” Kaplan added. “We were married in Toronto in 2006, and the U.S. recognizes our marriage. No need to get married again here.”

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A guy who brings up his kink every single day deserves to be kicked in the nuts— unless he’s into ball busting, in which case he doesn’t deserve to be kicked in the nuts.

I’m in a six-year relationship with a guy you will probably deem DTMFA-worthy but I deem round-up-able to The One. My kids already regarded him as their stepdad before we moved in together about eight months ago. That’s when I learned he’s an addict: He drinks, smokes weed, and jerks off to porn for about two hours every day. He has been this way for more than 20 years, and I have zero delusions he will change for me. Recently he told me he has very little sexual desire for me, that he knows my pussy in and out and it’s boring, but he loves my companionship. How do I deal with this so we can move forward together as an incompatible couple?

—Sex Addict Partner A romantic partner who says something as cruel and negating as what this man has said to you, SAP, either wants out of the relationship

or is grooming their partner for much worse treatment to come. If he wants out of the relationship, the verbal and emotional abuse will escalate until you finally leave him. If he doesn’t want out, the verbal and emotional abuse will escalate a bit more slowly, so that, like the proverbial frog in the pot of boiling water, you don’t realize exactly how bad it’s getting and how much damage it’s doing to you— and your kids.

I know it’s not what you wanted to hear, SAP, but I’m going to say it anyway: DTMFA. —DS I’m a competent in-person lover, but I’m the worst at Skype/FaceTime/WhatsApp sex. I can’t get the angle right, I don’t know what to wear, I feel shy, I don’t know what to say, I can’t get off, I giggle like a 15-year-old girl getting her first French kiss under the bleachers. I’m going to be away from my guy for most of the summer and I need to figure this out. Any advice or tips?

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A 15-year-old girl may giggle the first time she gets French-kissed under the bleachers—or she may not—but a girl who giggles the first time probably isn’t going to be giggling the fiftieth. So just keep at it, try to relax and enjoy yourself, and ask your partner to take the lead, i.e., if you don’t know what to do, ask him to tell you what he’d like you to do, SKYPE—but only follow the orders you’re comfortable following.

—DS What’s the fairest way to determine who should get tied up?

—Bondage Bottom Boyfriends Whoever was tied up last time does the tying up this time and vice versa.

—DS Do you ever wear panties, Dan? Would you post a picture of yourself in panties online? I think you would look good in panties.

—Panties Are Nice To You While I have no particular aversion to wearing panties, PANTY, and while I will not deny the allure of the models at xdress.com, I’ve never worn panties and have no plans to start. As a consequence, I won’t be able to post a picture of myself in panties online to delight you and horrify everyone else.

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DATA MINING

Everyone wants data on D.C.’s schools. But who will use it to make them better?

By Rachel M. Cohen

in the wake of a series of DC Public Schools scandals, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh came forward with an idea: an independent research collaborative that would conduct studies on the city’s public schools, including charters. This collaborative, outlined in draft legislation, would have an advisory board comprised of 16 education stakeholders who would drive the research agenda.

Cheh’s concept has precedent. Other cities,

like Chicago, San Diego, and Houston, have similar research collaboratives, commonly referred to as “research practice partnerships” or RPPs. Local education advocates and Cheh’s colleagues on the Council have come out in strong support of her proposal.

But Cheh’s plan also has detractors, and many of them are the appointees of Mayor Muriel Bowser. At a six-hour public hearing held on July 13, several officials tapped by Bowser spoke out against this so-called “Education Research Collaborative.”

And at the same hearing, the public learned that the executive branch was exploring the launch of its own separate education research consortium with the Urban Institute, a national think tank located in D.C. The news sparked concerns that Bowser was seeking to undercut the Council’s push for independent oversight.

At the core of all this politicking: Who gets access to data about D.C.’s public schools, and how do they get to use it?

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Cheh’s bill, introduCed in April, has eight other co-sponsors, a Council supermajority which could override a potential veto from the mayor. The Council set aside $500,000 in its most recent budget for the auditor to “incubate” this pilot research consortium. (That funding becomes available in October, when fiscal year 2019 begins.) It would be launched initially in the Office of the DC Auditor, an agency outside of the executive branch. Supporters say that after a few years they would look for a new home—be it a local think tank, university, or its own independent agency.

The chair of the education committee, AtLarge Councilmember David Grosso, has not yet taken a position on the bill, but in May he tried to steer the dedicated $500,000 to afterschool programs instead. His effort failed 12-1.

The research collaborative was conceived of in response to the host of education scandals which emerged over the last year, including news that high school graduation rates were

massively inflated and that the public schools chancellor knowingly violated a school choice policy he himself wrote. While local and national leaders have long looked to D.C.’s education reforms as a model for the nation, today many parents, community members, and even elected officials have voiced a lack of confidence in the gains reported by the school system, fearing information has become too politicized under mayoral control.

“I call the information that we get from our education agencies ‘PR,’” says At-Large Councilmember Robert White. “It can be very difficult to get hold of unbiased data.”

“Our hope is to get accurate, reliable, credible data, and then to use this data in a research partnership to understand whether the policies we are pursuing are really working,” says Cheh.

The idea has generated enthusiasm from local education activists who see it as a way to strengthen city schools. “From a parent and teacher perspective, everybody thinks this could be a huge benefit if it’s transparent, community-based, and has a real commitment to practitioners,” says Danica Petroshius, the co-vice president of the Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization. “This is a chance to do something different, to really embrace a new way of doing business.”

Jeffrey Noel, who served as the data management director for D.C.’s state education agency—the Office of the State Superintendent of Education—between 2011 and 2015, also supports the proposed research collaborative.

“One of the things OSSE is known for in the state education community is having really focused on building its data validation and data quality tools … which means those things are really accurate, but it also means that the amount of data OSSE focuses on is really small,” says Noel. “There is a huge amount of raw data that exists that is just not being leveraged, that would help us to actually do better.

But there’s a limit to how quickly OSSE can im-

After 2007, though, DCPS’s failures were no longer seen as the fault of the Council, and councilmembers also benefited from the narrative that the city’s school reforms were a great success. “Over the years there are a lot of questions they just didn’t ask,” says Levy.

Questions community members say the education agencies have not responded to, and the Council has not aggressively pursued, include understanding what teacher turnover looks like at the individual school-level, scaled test score results, and more detailed analyses of “at-risk” subgroups within and between schools.

Following a 2015 independent evaluation of D.C. schools that found the city lacked comprehensive, accessible education data, Grosso pushed for an $11 million investment in OSSE’s data-collection capabilities. But today residents and researchers complain that the city’s education agencies still routinely withhold information from the public.

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witnesses and CounCilmembers rarely uttered the word “subpoena” at the hearing, but the draft legislation endows the research consortium with subpoena power—undoubtedly one of the more contentious features of the proposal.

Josh Boots, the executive director of EmpowerK12, an education data support nonprofit, was one of the few witnesses to directly address the issue. “We are extremely concerned about the prospects of quality research … when that research is being conducted by an entity with the threat of subpoena power,” Boots said. “Will the [local education agency] leaders, principals, and teachers have the trust that is required to share candid quantitative and qualitative data under this scenario? We’re not sure.”

Supporters say that in an ideal world such legal authority would not be included, but that it’s needed in a city where schools and advocates have long fought against disclosing certain types of information.

“You have the subpoena as a backstop,” Councilmember Cheh tells City Paper. “When I was looking into the Department of General Services, for example, the mayor didn’t want me to launch a formal investigation with subpoena power, but then I could say, ‘Well OK, but then promise me when I seek information we’ll get it.’”

Others say a subpoena function is necessary because the Council has failed to sufficiently exercise its own oversight authority.

“The less muscle and oversight the edu-

cation committee employs, the more empowered the education agencies are to not be transparent,” says Petroshius. “I think Council oversight has gotten much, much worse, and I’m done with excuses. There are many things at their disposal and it’s not being done, and that’s a deliberate choice.”

Grosso, the education committee chair, defends the council’s oversight. “I do hearings, meetings, legislation, performance and budget hearings, I write letters, I go out and tour buildings and engage in community conversations,” he tells City Paper.

Levy says that while the council still requests and publishes plenty of data, it lost a lot of incentives to police education since the switch to mayoral control. Before 2007, the council would sketch out the school district’s finances, but councilmembers could not control how those funds were actually spent. This often put councilmembers in the position of being blamed for the public school

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prove what it does internally, so some level of external effort would help.”

Despite this momentum, some significant hurdles remain for the Council’s idea.

At the July 13 hearing, current representatives from D.C.’s three education agencies—District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), the DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB), and OSSE—emphasized their support for conducting independent research, but testified that linking the collaborative to the auditor would conflate the lines between accountability and research, thereby crippling its chance for success.

Hanseul Kang, OSSE’s state superintendent, testified at the hearing that the auditor’s work should not be “commingled” with policy evaluation and research management “because these are two distinct functions” and doing so could “distract from the very real need for research that drives instructional practice.”

Ahnna Smith, the interim Deputy Mayor for Education, argued that housing the collaborative in the auditor’s office “would inherently politicize the research agenda” as the auditor is an arm of the Council. She also testified that the Council’s proposal “conflates the functions of audit and oversight with that of research” and would ultimately “prevent us from achieving the goals of gathering quality, accurate data” that could drive school improvement research.

Rick Cruz, the board chair of the DC Public Charter School Board echoed Kang and Smith’s concerns, testifying that while he supports both robust research and auditing, intertwining those two things could have unintended consequences. He also cautioned that schools “may be hesitant to work as cooperatively than they otherwise may be” if the research collaborative were housed in the auditor’s office, given “the inherent watchdog nature of the office.”

Supporters stressed that aside from an ini-

tial audit of all relevant data, the collaborative’s advisory board, not the auditor, would determine the research agenda. Plus, supporters say, it wouldn’t be permanently housed in the auditor’s office, but “incubated” there to get it off the ground. The primary goal, Cheh emphasized, is to ensure the effort launches in a trusted space that’s independent from the executive branch. She added that after two years, “we’ll be looking to see if there’s a better place to house it.”

D.C.’s auditor, Kathy Patterson, dismissed the criticism that housing it in her office would politicize it. The Council appointed Patterson to a six-year term in December 2014. “I don’t think it would be politicized at all,” she testified. “[My office] is seen as part of the legislative branch, but we also have a huge amount of independence.”

Michael Feuer, the dean of GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development testified that while he supports transitioning the collaborative to somewhere else after a while— including potentially his own university—starting it within the auditor’s office makes sense.

“My hunch is placing the new consortium anywhere would provoke political and partisan concerns,” he said, adding that “if we wait until we’ve got the definitive evidence for a system that would be fool-proof and satisfying to everyone, we won’t get anywhere.”

Mary Levy, a longtime budget analyst for D.C. schools, is more blunt. “This idea is an infant in the cradle,” she tell City Paper. “And if you don’t put it in the auditor’s office it’s going to die in its cradle.”

system’s struggles, yet they had few ways to address the problems. As a result, Levy says, the council would enforce tougher oversight, so it could better justify not ponying up funds all the time.

bert Shanker Institute, a think tank affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, tells City Paper that when his center was conducting a national study on the racial composition of the teaching force, D.C. was the only

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Cheh was the one to bring up the Urban Institute proposal at the July 13 hearing, grilling witnesses from D.C.’s education agencies and the think tank for more details and explanation. Discussions around this alternative RPP had, up to this point, been held in private— and Urban Institute’s pursuit was fresh news to many in the room. While education officials emphasize that discussions are still preliminary, some councilmembers and community advocates characterize it as an attempt to undermine Cheh’s initiative.

Matthew Chingos, the director of the Urban Institute’s education policy program, says their vision would be to establish a research entity modeled on the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, including a data warehouse component for other independent researchers to use. “The goal is to create opportunities for research that researchers want to be doing, and that’s also to the benefit of local policymakers and practitioners,” he says.

While the Urban Institute would ensure that education researchers could publish their findings, no matter how positive or negative they might be, the D.C. education agencies would get to greenlight what research questions could be pursued in the first place. This is also how it’s done in Chicago, according to Bronwyn McDaniel, a spokesperson for Chicago’s research consortium.

Jeffrey Noel says that the reason Chicago’s RPP doesn’t require more independence from its public school district is because the state of Illinois “has a sufficient amount of independence to do critical oversight and research already.” D.C’s state education agency lacks a comparable level of independence.

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major city to not provide them with the granular data they requested.

“Their story was they didn’t have the data on race and ethnicity that we needed,” says Casey. “And let me just say, the only reason one would not collect race and ethnicity data is if one didn’t want to know it.”

In June, Ruth Wattenberg, an education policy analyst and the Ward 3 representative on D.C.’s state board of education, argued in The Washington Post that the mayor’s “unchecked control” over education data hurts students. While other cities have mayoral-controlled school systems, no jurisdiction other than D.C. has its state superintendent also appointed by the mayor.

Wattenberg proposed making OSSE separate from the executive branch to give the agency more political independence. “We can’t control every aspect of our non-state status, but we can blame only ourselves if we eschew the checks and balances that exist in every state and consign ourselves to constant data spin and data darkness,” she wrote.

Grosso tells City Paper that over the last six months his staff has been closely exploring this idea of making OSSE more independent.

“The mayor and her team could also just take their thumbs off the scale,” he says. “There’s nothing stopping the mayor from pulling politics out of schools.”

“The city has been discussing a partnership for months in private, behind closed doors, and then they say, ‘Oh of course we want stakeholder engagement.’ But it’s always an afterthought.”

City Paper, speaking of the potential new research consortium within Urban Institute. “So I think the question is how do you balance the need for independence with the need for collaboration and partnership, and how do you create an environment where folks feel comfortable going after hard questions.”

At the Council’s July hearing, Smith, the deputy mayor for education, said community input would be “critical” if the city’s education agencies moved forward with an Urban Institute partnership.

“The Urban Institute situation is exactly what parents and teachers fear,” says Iris Bond Gill, a parent advocate and a former OSSE official. “The city has been discussing a partnership for months in private, behind closed doors, and then they say, ‘Oh of course we want stakeholder engagement.’ But it’s always an afterthought.” (A Bowser spokesperson did not return City Paper’s request for comment on the Urban Institute RPP.) For now Council leaders disagree over whether the Urban Institute initiative would hamper their proposed research effort.

White says it absolutely would undermine the Council. “It would seem very redundant if the Urban Institute or any other hand-selected research agency was working with our education agencies to collect data,” he says.

Grosso, the education committee chair, was more non-committal, saying it’s not clear that “what Urban wants to do is necessarily going to be the same thing that the Council wants to do.”

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson suggests that Urban’s initiative would not be independent—and therefore not directly competing with their proposal—if it were a partnership with the executive branch. “The issue here is an independent research collaborative, and what was discussed with the Urban Institute was hardly that,” he says.

Chingos emphasized that his think tank does not want to undermine the Council and “certainly want[s] the different efforts to be complementary.” At this point, he added, “everyone’s just figuring out how this all fits together, and we want to see how the legislative process evolves.”

In submitted testimony, Noel, OSSE’s former data director, warned of issues that could arise from establishing two separate research consortiums, with both entities competing for data, funding, educator engagement, and collaboration from other researchers. “Given this risk, I think it is important to outline policy options that could either result in sequenced consortium activities or legitimately limit the need for creation of two,” he wrote.

Noel also warned of housing too much education data outside of local government, where it’s “outside the purview of protections like FOIA and whistleblower protection.” (FOIA, or the Freedom of Information Act, allows residents, and often journalists, to request existing data sets and documents.)

Markup for the Council’s research collaborative will take place after the Council’s summer recess period, and a vote is likely to occur before the end of the calendar year.

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Veg Diner Monologues

We Got the Beets

A look at vegetarian dishes in the District that all should try

By Laura Hayes

31 percent of 362 restaurants

Patrice Cleary on why her Filipino restaurant, Purple Patch, serves a beet salad: “Beets are not that common in Philippine cuisine,” Cleary says. “We have had a roasted beet and tomatoes salad on the menu since we have opened and I haven’t been able to take it off … Everyone should eat more beets.

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on OpenTable, Resy, and Reserve have a beet salad on the menu.

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That’s total beet salad interpretations.

Sileshi Alifom on why his Ethiopian restaurant, Das Ethiopian, serves a beet salad: “The beet salad does exist in most Ethiopian households. It is usually prepared in a variety of ways, both hot sautéed and as a cold salad that is combined with potato, eggs, carrots, and green chili peppers.”

45 dishes pair beets with goat cheese 13 dishes pair beets with orange 5 dishes pair beets with burrata 10 restaurants claim their beets are heirloom

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The Dish: Pearl Street Warehouse’s Pancake Tacos Where To Get It: Breakfast menu, 33 Pearl St. SW Price: $10

What It Is: This secret breakfast dish is eye-catching and anything but traditional. Instead of a corn or flour tortilla, Chef Robert Brown forms taco shells from fluffy pancake mix. Then he fills them with either sweet or savory ingredients.

For his sweet taco, he uses mascarpone and whipped cream as the base and tops it with a mix of strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. His savory version calls for scrambled eggs, sausage, jalapeños, tomatoes, onions, and parsley.

How It Tastes: The savory taco takes the lead with a slight spiciness from the jalapeño, but you shouldn’t sleep on the sweeter taco either. It’s bursting with berry flavor and finishes smooth thanks to the mascarpone and heavy whipped

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21 cuisines represented: American (53) French (15) Italian (9) Spanish (6) Greek (6) Belgian (3) Ethiopian (3) Turkish (3) Russian (2) Japanese (1) Pan-Asian (1) Filipino (1) Brazilian (1) Cajun-Creole (1) Czech (1) Georgian (1) Indian (1) Pan-Latin (1) Lebanese (1) Peruvian (1) Serbian (1)

cream. While you might be skeptical of this frankenfood at first, the flapjack tacos pass the durability test. The outer shells are pliable and soft, yet they don’t split under the weight of the ingredients inside.

Why It Helps: Sure, a stack of pancakes is a great way to beat hangovers, either big or small, but the pancake tacos are a fun reimagination of an original diner staple. It’s also an innovative approach to the morning after. “The pancake serves as the vessel to more food,” Brown says. “It can easily soak up all the drinks you had from the night before.”

Ask for this off-menu item by name anytime breakfast is served at Pearl Street Warehouse, Thursdays through Sundays from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

—Tim Ebner

Laura Hayes

In recent years, beets have become as ubiquitous on D.C. menus as the Caesar salad used to be. A review of dinner menus for 362 restaurants that are on three reservation platforms in D.C. (OpenTable, Resy, and Reserve) reveals how dominant the ruby colored root is. Restaurants serving everything from Filipino to Ethiopian to Cajun-Creole cuisines feature some form of a beet salad. We break down D.C.’s beet appetite, by the numbers.

The Dish: Sweet Corn Cavatelli Where to Get It: Beuchert’s Saloon, 623 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Price: $12 What It Is: A Mexican street corn dish known as elote inspires this summery plate of cavatelli pasta. To make it, Chef Andrew Markert takes corn off the cob, juices it, and uses the liquid to make the pasta dough along with flour, salt, pepper, and eggs. The short, squiggly noodles are topped with jalapeños that have been cooked in olive oil to take some of the sting away, crumbled queso fresco, popped sorghum, and a little lime zest for a touch of citrus. “We’ve done some corn dishes in the past that were whole ears of corn, but lately we’ve been doing more elevated, refined ideas,” he says.

The Story: Markert has fond memories of watching movies with his dad.

“There was always a bucket of popcorn between us,” he says. The chef had an urge to top this dish with popcorn for crunch, but the size would have thrown off the proportions of the dish. He opted for popped sorghum instead, which looks like shrunken popcorn. “The seed looks like a small piece of coriander and it pops up really good,” he says.

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: The fresh corn flavor is explosive and the various textures are fun for the tongue.

Beuchert’s Saloon has always done a bang up job of sourcing pristine produce and you can really taste it in this dish and others found in the “farm stand” section of the menu. As we enter the dog days of summer, pastas smothered in ragus feel a little too heavy. “It’s been pretty popular and I like tasting it every night to make sure it’s good,” Markert jokes.

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Grand Jam

Open jam sessions at Gypsy Sally’s and other area venues are giving a spark to the local music scene.

By Sriram Gopal Gypsy sally’s is hopping the night before America celebrates its 242nd birthday. The club is staying open an hour later in light of the holiday, which is more than fine for the nearly 100 people here to jam.

Twice a month, the Georgetown club hosts a Tuesday night jam session. The hang is loose, the beers are frothy, and friendships are forming, but it’s the spontaneous invention on stage that brings everyone here. Jam sessions are a time-honored tradition in music circles, but recently there’s been an increasing number of open jams at venues around the DMV, and they are energizing the local music scene.

High quality bands are forming at an astonishing pace as a result, to the point where people might look back upon this time in the same way that people view the harDCore scene of the 1980s.

Regular jazz jam sessions around the District are nothing new—Wednesday nights at Mr. Henry’s and the DC Jazz Jam on Sundays at The Brixton are two of the best longtime ones. Gypsy Sally’s serves as something of a hub for this new wave, with spots like Bossa Bistro + Lounge in Adams Morgan, The Wharf ’s Pearl Street Warehouse, Villain & Saint in Bethesda, and Epicure Café in Fairfax all hosting open jams. Going to one of these sessions is not only an engaging way to spend an evening, even if it’s just to observe, but it also gives insight into the anatomy of a vibrant music ecosystem.

If there’s one person who is the central figure in all of this, it’s guitarist and vocalist Gordon Sterling. The 40-year-old musician was born in Queens, New York, to Jamaican parents and moved to the D.C. area when he was 10. Sterling picked up a guitar at 15, formed a band, The Ordinary Way, at 18, and hit the road with the group at 21. The Ordinary Way toured nationally for 10 years, getting far in the jam band circuit before breaking up. Currently, Sterling plays with Nappy Riddem, which he joined several years ago, leads Gor-

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don Sterling and the People, and is part of singer Mary-eL’s ensemble.

Sterling began running jam sessions at the now-defunct Iota in Arlington in 2016 with Sean Gotkin, who currently does sound at Black Cat. “Something really just magical happened there,” says bassist Neel Singh, who runs Wednesday night jams at Villain & Saint. But that magic wasn’t meant to last, as the venue shuttered exactly one year after the jam sessions started.

A few months after Iota closed, Sterling moved the session to Gypsy Sally’s, where attendance has since exploded. Sterling estimates that about 70 percent of the specta-

tors and musicians that come are regulars— the rest being new faces and curious ears.

“It’s almost like a Field Of Dreams situation where if you build it they will come,” Sterling says. sterlinG’s Goal when he started organizing jam sessions was to eliminate what he calls a “crabs in a barrel mentality” that he felt was rampant among local musicians competing for a limited number of gigs. From the beginning, he wanted to make sure that the environment he created would be inviting and accessible, which in turn could lead to a feeling of camaraderie.

“There’s enough food for everybody to eat,” he says. “We were adamant that it was a ‘leave your ego at the door’ kind of situation.”

Sterling is the public face, but he works with bassist Patrick Cheng, who leads Shamans Of Sound, in addition to playing bass with Nappy Riddem and on occasion with See-I and Black Masala. Cheng credits the jam session’s success, in part, to the basic nature of the area.

“We’re right next to a bunch of suburbs, so it’s a bunch of pretty well-off children with a lot of time on their hands, and then they pick up a guitar and that’s their drug,” he says.

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The Gypsy Sally’s session takes place on two Tuesdays every month. Sterling announces the specific Tuesdays via Facebook prior to the start of the month, believing that the irregularity helps maintain interest. The house band provides backline amplification, drums, and keyboards.

Jams are of two types: bucket jams and select jams. With bucket jams, there are literal buckets at the foot of the stage with “talents” written on them (bass, vocals, drums, etc.). Sterling picks a name from each bucket at random and those called play on stage together. For the select jams, people come to the venue with a specific lineup in mind and submit them to Sterling. The night alternates between bucket jams and open jams.

“It’s like herding cats,” Sterling jokes.

In terms of maintaining a certain level of performance, the musicians themselves tend to police anyone who tries to show off and hog the spotlight. Sterling has only once had to pull someone off stage who was not as far along in their craft for jamming.

“I had to handle it gently and I felt horrible about it, but it had to be done,” Sterling recalls. “Luckily, he was gracious and I bought him a drink. We also did end up finding a jam where he could play a song he knew.”

That one instance notwithstanding, the level of musicianship on display will impress even the most casual listener. Mike Sains is a scratch DJ and regular at Gypsy Sally’s, and he spins weekly at the Villain & Saint jam.

“The understanding is that we’re all good so you better come correct when you’re on stage,” he says. “It’s a real ego killer is what it is.”

Each jam session also tends to take on the personality of its organizer, thus differentiating the experience for the listener. For example, at Singh’s Wednesday night jam, which is more intimate than the one at Gypsy Sally’s, musicians sign up with him and then he curates the lineups that perform.

“Gypsy Sally’s is the big house, it’s just on a grand scale,” says Singh. “Sometimes you go and you won’t get to play, it’s just a numbers game.”

While the term “jam band” can have a specific and often negative connotation to many people, these sessions do not limit themselves to any particular genre. This new crop of musos either see that term as an anachronism or have a broader view of the jam scene than the one that existed 20 or more years ago.

“First of all, it was only hippies. It was around the [Grateful] Dead or Phish,” says Sterling about the jam band scene of his youth. “There wasn’t a lot of diversity in the scene back then. Now, I feel that it’s a broader, smarter scene.”

At a typical Gypsy Sally’s jam, singers, MCs, and instrumentalists of all stripes and

backgrounds converge. Sains views these sessions as a way to grow as an artist.

“The question for me as a DJ was, ‘How do I incorporate what I do with what these sometimes classically trained musicians do?’ so we can create the musical conversation together,” he says.

After describing his approach to “tonal percussive manipulation” and fitting into varying styles, Sains admits, “All of the stuff I just said to you, I wasn’t able to articulate two years ago.” an explosion of bands has come out of the sessions, with dozens forming as a result.

Several of them performed at a recent, highly successful Planned Parenthood benefit at Black Cat. Not only have the number of bands grown, each one of them now has a readymade audience.

This reflects the sense of community that brings people back to Gypsy Sally’s or Epicure Café, or Villain & Saint week after week. There is no real distinction between those on and off stage.

Sterling walks around the club offering greetings and bear hugs to everyone he meets. The absence of a velvet rope and the living room atmosphere provide a holistic view of the DMV’s music scene. The inclusivity is intentional and aimed at people of all backgrounds.

“I think sometimes when you’re a woman you deal with stuff that’s a little different because you kind of have to have your guard up,” says Stephanie Kaiser, a keyboardist who leads the band Skaii, which grew out of the sessions. “Most of the people I’ve worked with have been really great. I think encouraging women to have a place in improvisational music is something we’re always kind of working on.”

Sandi Redman, a federal contractor who spends multiple nights per week in local music venues, comes back for the people as much as she does for the music. “All of these folks here have becomes friends of mine. We’re a crowd of at least 200 people,” she says.

Redman has taken it upon herself to document the growing community via her YouTube channel. Similarly, Will Urquhart is an audio-visual professional who streams and archives all of the jams he attends on DC Music Review. He looks to the PhishOD app for inspiration, which is an archive of Phish performances going back to the band’s earliest shows from over 30 years ago.

“There are all these phenomenal musicians and we have no idea where any of them are going,” Urquhart says. “There might be some kid sitting on his phone 30 years from now listening to the earliest recording he could find of this musician he’s really into.”

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout Directed by Christopher McQuarrie

Toward The end of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the director of the CIA says the following about superspy Ethan Hunt: “[He] is the living manifestation of destiny.” It is an absurd thing to say, and not just because it makes zero sense. Alec Baldwin plays the CIA director, and his famous delivery (half ironic, half deadpan) cannot save the line. But if you pause and think for a moment, then the line works as subtext. As the CIA director, Baldwin is not really talking about Ethan Hunt. He is talking about Tom Cruise.

Over the past 20 years and change, the Mission: Impossible franchise has shifted its purpose, while preserving the same spy thriller skeleton.

The first few films reflected the sensibilities of their directors: the first two were directed by Brian De Palma and John Woo, respectively, and longtime fans could instantly recognize the staples of their work. In recent years, however, the films have favored outright spectacle. As Hunt, Cruise performs mind-boggling stunts, with each film looking more dangerous than the last.

This is an actor who internalizes the idea that he is the manifestation of destiny. His films are now about getting the audience to agree with him.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the latest film in the franchise, and reunites Cruise with Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Cruise in Rogue Nation and Jack Reacher. Hunt’s objective—the one he always chooses to accept—is to recover some stolen plutonium from a deadly organization of terrorists. His mission takes him all over Europe, before Hunt and his team head into the Kashmir Mountains. There are the usual faces: Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, and Alec Baldwin follow the whims of an action star who is pushing 60. Henry Cavill is the most important new face, a mustached brute whose preferred method of overcoming an obstacle is to punch through it.

It is strange, and ultimately refreshing, how unimportant the plot is to this film. It amounts to a series of action sequences—chases, fights, shootouts—peppered with breathless dialogue about who betrayed whom, and why. The actors are all convincing and forceful, while individual scenes barely withstand scrutiny: McQuarrie wrote The Usual Suspects, so he understands the specifics of betrayal. All these transitional moments, however, are in service of Tom Cruise’s next stunt. Like North by Northwest, McQuarrie and Cruise know what they want Hunt to do, and construct a movie around it.

The first big chase happens in Paris. You may have seen action films like To Live and Die In L.A. or Ronin, where the hero has no choice but to drive into oncoming traffic. Cruise does

that in Fallout, except on a motorcycle (without a helmet, naturally), and along the tight avenues of Paris. At every turn, even when Cruise goes the wrong way around the Arc de Triomphe, it’s always clear Cruise is driving. McQuarrie’s style is in service of Cruise, whose desire to thrill and entertain the audience is manic. This is an action film where the action star, not the director, is the true auteur. Cruise produced this film, and while he is not behind the camera, you can bet he approved every cut, every shot, and every transition.

All this builds toward the climax in the Kashmir Mountains. It must be seen to be believed, preferably on the largest screen available.

Cruise chases down the bad guy, who is escaping on a helicopter, and his only option is to hijack a second helicopter (there is a rope dangling beneath it). This means we watch Cruise climb the rope, pull himself into the cockpit, kill the men inside, and then begin the chase.

All of this is completely convincing, and apparently Cruise learned how to fly just for this sequence. Combined with a ticking clock and the imposing mountainside, Fallout reaches absurd heights of suspense and entertainment.

At a key point in the film, characters gather to heap praise unto Hunt. They say how he makes them feel safe, and how he is a credit to the world because he simultaneously thinks

about the masses, as well as the individual.

Once again, this fawning admiration is more for Cruise than it is for Hunt.

In an age where the facsimile of spectacle can be produced via green screen, Cruise realizes there is no replacement for stunning vistas and genuine danger. You cannot begrudge Cruise for wanting every character to gush about how awesome he is. So many actors have an inflated sense of self-worth. In Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Tom Cruise is batshit crazy enough to earn it. —Alan Zilberman Mission: Impossible – Fallout opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

JaCk of all trades Love, Cecil

Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland accomplishmenT in sTage and screen plus buckets of charisma should make anyone a fascinating documentary subject. But

Love, Cecil, Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s portrait of arts jack-of-all-trades Cecil Beaton, is a test of hagiographic patience that’s more interested in Beaton’s personality quirks than his career.

The photographer, writer, painter, and set and costume designer who died in 1980 was a three-time Oscar- and four-time Tony Awardwinner for productions including Gigi and My Fair Lady (both the film and play of the latter).

But even though Beaton’s lack of a defined job path is addressed in the film’s very first exchange—“I’m afraid that’s been my problem for a very long time,” he responds when an interviewer asks him to identify his main profession—these achievements are little more than footnotes throughout the 98-minute runtime.

Instead, Vreeland focuses on Beaton’s foppishness. Though he had an affair with Greta Garbo, Beaton was a “terrible, terrible homosexualist,” which in his diary he professed to “try so hard not to be.” There’s no torture attending this comment, however; no less than three times is he referred to as a “dandy” here, and Beaton appears to have been comfortable being fey, with plenty of photos showing him to have been a stylish dresser and even sometimes wearing makeup and women’s clothes.

Footage of Beaton’s interviews—with his English accent adding to the effect—seemed to verify one photographer’s colorful description of him as “that foppish dandy, that fondant piece of icing.” Vreeland also puts more emphasis on his heartbreak than his loves, barely mentioning two of the men he was involved with before jumping to comments about the end of the relationships.

In addition to footage of Beaton himself and the standard (and mostly boring) commentary from people who worked with or befriended him, the film offers narration from his diaries (read by Rupert Everett) as well as scores of his exquisite photographs for Vogue. Famed subjects include Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, and Hepburns Audrey and Katharine; for 40 years, he was the favored photographer of the royal family. Though these are all fascinating on their own, the parade of images is dulled by Beaton’s selfdescriptive comments such as, “Oh yes, I can hate, and I can hate unreasonably.” Others corroborate his “bitchiness” as the documentary becomes more and more worshipful. Isn’t it charming how nasty Beaton could be?

There’s precisely one idea that may keep rolling around your head as you watch Love, Cecil: According to Hamish Bowles, international editor for Vogue, Beaton “continually embraced what was new” and that “the mind boggles to think what he could have made in today’s internet/Instagram/ selfie world. I’d love to see a Beaton portrait of Kim Kardashian,” Bowles says. “And I’d particularly like to read the diary entry.”

—Tricia Olszewski Love, Cecil opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

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ONESONG Janet Jackson’s “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” It’s tIme to listen to Janet Jackson’s brilliant “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” as loud as your current social circumstance will allow. I promise it will be pleasurable.

“What’s the next song?” Jackson asks, flipping through papers.

“The one about me,” Q-Tip responds with characteristic humor and bravado.

The beat drops.

“Oh yeah,” Jackson coos quietly. “I like this one…”

This sexy, perfect song is, well, sexy and perfect.

Yes, this 1997 song famously samples Joni Mitchell. We’ll get to that. But let’s start with the beat. In this song, Jackson—remember, a privileged member of one of America’s royal families—embraces hip-hop culture with passion and verve. The beat’s purposeful, gently swinging boom-bap groove certainly suggests ’90s hip-hop. And indeed, the song features two bonafide hip-hop geniuses: Q-Tip and the late Detroit beat wizard Dilla. So if you feel like the vibe and pace of the song evokes A Tribe Called Quest’s Beats, Rhymes & Life, there is a reason for that.

The conspicuous hip-hop flavor that suffuses this music carries some controversy. There is disagreement about who exactly produced it. Jackson’s longtime collaborators and music biz titans Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are officially credited, but Q-Tip and Dilla (working as production team called The Ummah) say they were the real producers.

Whoever was the true architect, the machine-tooled groove of the song feels strongly hedonic. Though it has a synthetic origin (likely an Akai MPC drum machine). It feels natural and warm and human.

And the song is definitely about human feelings. Its most celebrated and daring feature is a brazen sample of the chorus of Joni Mitchell’s famous environmentalist lament “Big Yellow Taxi.” Samples can serve many functions in music, and this one feels like straightforward homage and tribute. You sense that Jackson has genuine affection for Mitchell’s work. And indeed, the sample carries the actual title of the song.

“Don’t it always seem to go/ that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?” In the original song, this refers to the disappearance of the natural world as it is displaced by commerce and urban development. But Janet Jackson’s stroke of genius here is to recast these poignant words in the personal context of lost love. I find that thrilling.

Notice that the famous sample is swal-

lowed by a record scratch. “Don’t it always seem to go/ that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s—[record scratch].” The record scratch evokes erasure. And the word being erased is “gone.” The whole thing is wildly meta.

There is absolutely no way they could have done this song without Mitchell’s blessing.

She is credited as co-writer (as she should be) and she clearly understood the collage aspect of this art. I think she also understood the component of tribute. Near the end of this song, Jackson even laughs as an homage to

you right in the heart. “How’d I ever let you get away?”

Guest star MC Q-Tip rides alongside Jackson’s quivering melody with his perfected, syncopated (almost coital?) “uh-huh”s, heard in countless Tribe songs. Periodically, he declares “Joni Mitchell never lies!” And this is certainly now one of the signature hooks of the song.

I want to draw your attention to the dynamic between Jackson and Tip. Remember, the song begins with Tip saying the song is “the one about me.” And it turns

Mitchell’s laugh in “Taxi.” I imagine Mitchell enjoyed a mild boost of both fame and royalty checks, neither of which she particularly lacked.

In this song, Jackson makes her voice small and vulnerable and quivering and tender … to the extent that you may not even be able to make out the words. But if you seek them out, you find the words speak of forlorn regret. “I have the feeling/ now believing/ you were the one I was/ meant to be with…” Painful! Hits

out that is exactly the premise of “Got ‘Til It’s Gone.” Ostensibly, Jackson is singing to Q-Tip here. Or she is certainly singing about Q-Tip. Were these professional, fictional roles they agreed to specifically for the song? Or is this some strange, uneasy terrain of non-fiction— Janet Jackson and Q-Tip as real-life ex-lovers, singing about the dissolution of their relationship. The former seems far more likely and believable, but the latter is not beyond the realm

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of possibility. And I suppose part of the fun of the song is this kind of speculation. Another layer of meta.

Near the end of the song, Q-Tip jumps into the spotlight with a rap from his perspective, laying out a narrative that he (or the character he plays in this song) was falsely accused of infidelity. His writing, flow, and cadence are unassailable and unique. Quite simply, the man was born to it. A pure talent. The rap suggests he (or the character) feels he was cast aside wrongly and he’s bitter about it.

Q-Tip’s presence is so charismatic, and his perspective so novel, it almost manages to steal the song from both Jackson and Mitchell. Which is extraordinary, when you think about what forces they are. Tip ends with the song’s other iconic hook, “Now why you wanna go and do that, love? Huh?” And you can’t help but sing along when he repeats it.

Are there any other love songs that allow the song’s object to present a stinging rebuke at the end? I honestly don’t know. It seems like the final innovation of this classic single.

But there is one more: the video.

The name of this essay series is One Song and, by that circumscription, I should limit myself to discussing the world of sound. But I can’t resist adding special mention of the bold, memorable video. In my mind, the video is forever linked to the song.

The video is profoundly, indelibly Afrocentric. Afrocentric not just in a spiritual sense, but a literal geographic one. It’s set in apartheid-era South Africa, surreally inspired by vintage 1970s issues of Drum magazine, basically a South African Life magazine. The video is highly sensual and just a little bit bizarre.

It depicts a vibrant, thrumming community of black Africans at a … club, maybe? It is the vibrancy that strikes you. Look at all these gorgeous people enduring this nasty, humiliating political circumstance. Observe their dignity and perseverance. Look at how sensual their lives are.

It’s an exciting, politically charged statement to set the song in this world. It certainly wasn’t necessary. Why was this choice made? How does it interact with the song?

It certainly compounds the complexity of the song, but you sense that it only enriches what is already there.

I encourage you to watch the video and consider the implications of each shot. And be glad that someone as popular, wealthy, and comfortable as Janet Jackson took such an artistic risk.

—Chad Clark

CrescendoInBlue A History of Jazz in D.C. suggesting that the audience for a book entitled DC Jazz is going to be primarily composed of nerds is not a controversial stance.

What kind of nerds, though—that’s the question. Subtitled Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC, that is indeed what the slim volume from Georgetown University Press (edited by Maurice Jackson and Blair A. Ruble) delivers.

But it’s not a D.C. jazz history, at least in the sense of telling a linear story of how the music and its players developed their art within city limits. Nor is it a book whose primary orientation is toward the music buff.

It’s the history buffs—and D.C. history buffs in particular—who are on the front line.

The above isn’t a criticism.

I’m not even sure it’s a matter of opinion: DC Jazz reads like an expanded issue of a journal of scholarly history, because, well, it is. Its original incarnation was as a jazz-themed issue of Washington History, the Historical Society of Washington DC’s official quarterly, in the spring of 2014. Seven of the 10 pieces in the book feel like they were written for an audience of Historical Society members. (Except the stark, powerful trio of poems by E. Ethelbert Miller; they were in the original journal issue, but nobody would say they were written for it.) And rather than a story, it’s a series of snapshots: “verbal portraits,” say the editors.

The essays in this book “cannot pretend to offer a comprehensive picture of the vibrant and still-vital D.C. jazz scene,” Jackson and Ruble warn us. “Instead, they represent important, idiosyncratic, even syncopated, stories about Washington jazz. They tell as much about the city as they do about the music.”

In fact, they tell us more about the city. Ruble’s essay “Seventh Street: Black DC’s Musical Mecca” doesn’t restrict itself to the titular street, but rather makes it the nucleus of a sociocultural vibe that stretched several blocks beyond it. In Jackson’s collage-like “Jazz, ‘Great Black Music,’ and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Washington, DC,” both the music and the city sometimes fade into the background, mere ingredients in a larger concoction. (That said, Jackson’s studies of Will Marion Cook and James Reese Europe, the District’s ur-jazzmen, are invaluable.)

John Edward Hasse’s adaptation of material from his biography Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington is all but a map of the Duke’s youthful haunts in and around Shaw; Rusty Hassan explores the air-

waves; Lauren Sinclair and Judith Korey (both of whose contributions are new for the book) portray the evolution of Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, respectively, as jazz-fostering institutions. If, as Jason Moran reminded Crescendo in Blue two months ago (and does again in his introduction to DC Jazz), jazz is also about place, this is Exhibit A. But the book tells us much about the city beyond geography. It’s as “Official Washington” a book about jazz as one could imagine: wonky, think-tanky, visiting-scholar-y.

It’s jazz as White Paper. It even features a glance from Anna Harwell Celenza at some of the legislative and executive initiatives that have made jazz a literal presence in Official Washington.

Again—if this sounds like a criticism, rest assured that it is not. The book is precisely what it aspires to be, and a success on its own terms is a success, period. Besides, who’s to complain that historians and history nerds want to give more attention to jazz?

What DC Jazz provides is setting and background, along with rough outlines of characters. It provides gorgeous archival photos of pianist John Malachi like the one that graces the cover, and information on where he went to high school and who he mentored. It does not tell us about the rumbling swing and lowlevel bebop concision he boasted, where it came from, and what effect it had on the musicians around him. It tells us that Buck Hill was a mailman who moonlit at the clubs, but there are no scenes featuring the players he cut to ribbons.

It is ultimately a cornerstone: an essential reference for more narrative, perhaps lively histories. Jackson and Ruble say as much: “We hope to provoke interest.” No serious history of D.C. jazz can go without, for example, Willard Jenkins’ wide-ranging interview with Bill Brower (the city’s alpha jazz nerd, who has put in more time in the trenches than the rest of us put together). Jackson’s and Ruble’s essays sketch the parameters for much of that hypothetical history.

And Bridget Arnwine’s triptych of June Norton, Shirley Horn, and Eva Cassidy is the foundation of a history all its own.

DC Jazz is only the beginning of the work that needs to be done, not the end. As it happens, however, a rush of relevant D.C.-, jazz-, and D.C.-jazz-related material is apparently in the pipeline. Stay tuned. —Michael J. West

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

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AUGUST

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic .Th 2 Andrea Gibson w/ Mary Lambert

SEPTEMBER

Nothing But Thieves

w/ Demob Happy ............................F 7

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MC50: Kick Out the Jams 50th Anniversary Tour

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

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w/ The Detroit Cobras ................Tu 11

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

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Amos Lee w/ Caitlyn Smith ...... SEPT 18 Welcome To Night Vale .. SEPT 26 Blood Orange ........................ SEPT 28 Lykke Li......................................... OCT 5 Gad Elmaleh............................. OCT 10 Years & Years ......................... OCT 11 Eric Hutchinson & The Believers w/ Jeremy Messersmith.................... OCT 12

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

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Striking Matches ............................. Sa 25 & Cherry Pools ................................ Tu AUG 7 Bernhoft Vacationer w/ Sego .............................. F 17 & The Fashion Bruises ...............Th SEP 6 Lydia w/ Jared and The Mill

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Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, & Friends Late Show! 8:30pm Doors ..... SAT OCT 27 THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT

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FRIDAY

For more than half a century, filmmakers and satirists have paid homage to director Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece Persona, and it hasn't lost any of its power.

The film tells the story of an actress (Liv Ullmann) who becomes mute after a bout of stage fright and a nurse (Bibi Andersson) who struggles to communicate with her silent patient. While the film’s psychological conflict was well in line with the philosophical themes that Bergman had addressed for decades, this mid-career breakthrough married the director’s signature drama with a bold visual experimentation—evident from the film’s opening, eye-popping montage—that is still dazzling today. Persona stands out in a career full of triumphs as both a riveting character study and a thrilling reinvention of cinema. This July marks the 100th anniversary of the Swedish director’s birth. What better way is there to celebrate? The film screens at 5:30 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8–$13. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

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Wolf Trap filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Bernstein at 100 - A Celebration. 8:15 p.m. $25–$60. wolftrap.org.

ElECtRONIC flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Zenker Brothers. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

FOlk DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Erin Rae. 7:30 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Kim Walker-Smith. 7 p.m. $22–$26. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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HIP-HOP eChosTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Heat Wave The Concert. 9 p.m. $40. echostage.com.

JAzz blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jazz Funk Soul. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

TWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Kenny Rittenhouse. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

ROCk amp by sTraThmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Sun Dogs. 8 p.m. $20–$25. ampbystrathmore.com.

ComeT ping pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Glue Factory, Positive No and Warm Sun. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. White Ford Bronco. 9 p.m. $25. gypsysallys.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Back to The 90’s. 8 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com. roCK & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Infinity Crush. 8 p.m. $13. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

PERSONA

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FuNk & R&B

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(703) 255-1900. The Best of Wagner’s Ring. 8:15 p.m. $25–$60. wolftrap.org.

COuNtRY

songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Glitterer. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

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

Folk Soul Revival and Pressing Strings. 9:30 p.m. $15–$17. hillcountrywdc.com.

sTaTe TheaTre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. 9 p.m. $15–$18. thestatetheatre.com.

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Pat Lok. 4 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

velveT lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Bal Boheme. 8:30 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

WORlD The anThem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Silvestre Dangond. 8 p.m. $55.50–$155.50. theanthemdc.com.

ElECtRONIC

beThesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Bar-Kays and One Way. 8 p.m. $59.50–$74. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jazz Funk Soul. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

TWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Kenny Rittenhouse. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

POP

merriWeaTher posT pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. David Byrne.

8 p.m. $60–$130. merriweathermusic.com.

ROCk

The anThem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Arctic Monkeys. 8 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com.

FOlk

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. American Television. 8 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

amp by sTraThmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Claire Lynch and Steppin’ at the Junction. 8 p.m. $25–$35. ampbystrathmore.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. The Allman Others and On The Bus. 8 p.m. $12–$25. jamminjava.com.

union sTage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Birdtalker. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. unionstage.com.

roCK & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Stone Driver. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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SAT 7/28 FOLK SOUL REVIVAL W/ PRESSING STRINGS $15/$17 TUE 7/31 JOEY HARKUM DUO THU 8/2 LANCE LOPEZ FRI 8/3 KURT CRANDALL SAT 8/4 SCOTT KURT + MEMPHIS 59 TUE 8/7 MOOSEJAW THU 8/9 ANGELA PERLEY FRI 8/10 JUMPIN JUPITER SAT 8/11 TEXAS BLUES NIGHT FT. BIG BOY LITTLE BLUES BAND SUN 8/12 HEATHER GILLISS BAND $12/$15 TUE 8/14 ROANOKE FRI 8/17 GANGSTAGRASS $15/$20 SAT 8/18 THE BLASTERS $22/$25 THU 8/23 DANNY BARNES $15/$20 FRI 8/24 WYLDER SAT 8/25 THE TRAINJUMPER HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

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Concerts for MigrAnt and Refugee Families

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WORLDWIDE DEBUT OF THE JERRY GARCIA MUSIC & ART EXHIBITION

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

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GYRA

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GoldLink is as much a part of the “MV” as he is the “D.” The rapper was born in D.C. but raised in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Still, that didn’t stop him from making a stunning statement about D.C. on his 2017 debut album, At What Cost. As he name-dropped neighborhoods, paid tribute to go-go, and looped in D.C. area-bred collaborators both well-known (Wale, Mýa) and on the come-up (Shy Glizzy, April George), GoldLink pondered the city’s past, present, and future with his usual blend of elastic raps and soulful beats. With that said, it makes sense that GoldLink has decided to celebrate the album by performing it in full at U Street Music Hall, one the city’s most beloved and intimate venues. The performance is part of a three-night residency (in-full performances of mixtapes And After That, We Didn’t Talk and The God Complex were scheduled earlier in the week) and the last of his shows in the area until 2019. This show is GoldLink’s gift to area supporters and ride or die fans who first powered him to acclaim—whether they live in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia. GoldLink performs at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $30. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Ms. Gerri Morrison. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

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birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Thomas Dolby. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

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The anThem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Arctic Monkeys. 8 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com.

fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Lamb of God. 6:30 p.m. $45–$135. fillmoresilverspring.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Mother’s Finest. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Andy Timmons and Travis Larson Band. 7:30 p.m. $20–$30. jamminjava.com.

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There are very few moments in which I count my blessings that the D.C. area is somehow considered the South by many. The fact that Southern bands like Mother’s Finest consider our backyard to be part of their regional territory is one of them. The Georgia funk-rock (and funk-metal, hard-rock, and R&B) band is legendary for performing as the opener for groups like Black Sabbath, The Who, Aerosmith, and AC/DC, and completely ripping the stage from the feet of those headliners. You gotta love a band bold enough to title a song “Niggizz Can’t Sang Rock & Roll” in the ’70s and follow it up in the ’90s with an album titled Black Radio Won’t Play This Record. They were right, of course. Black radio didn’t play that record. Lead vocalist Joyce Kennedy’s voice is bred for the band’s ability to go from downtempo soul all the way up to power metal sprinkled with funk influences. You probably won’t know every song going in, but if you dig a skilled and lively band and want to get put on to some black rock legend shit before you leave, this show is for you. Mother’s Finest perform at 7:30 p.m. at The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. $35. (703) 549-7500. birchmere.com.

—Hamzat Sani

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A NEW lEAGuE: SHARED PAStIMES AND tHE StORY OF u.S.-JAPAN BASEBAll

The Japanese love affair with baseball owes much to the luck of timing: The westernization of Japan under the Meiji restoration occurred in the late 1860s and 1870s, precisely as baseball was becoming professionalized and wildly popular in the United States. An exhibition at the Japan Information & Culture Center explores these twin branches of baseball’s family tree. A New League showcases the expected artifacts of Japanese baseball—jerseys, cleats, autographed bats, scorecards, manga, and a large collection of baseball cards. Meanwhile, the walls Pick up a copy today from vendors throughoutvintage downtown are heavy with narrative, including the early college game centered on Tokyo, the tours by maD.C. or visit www.streetsense.org for more information. jor leaguers such as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and African-American and women’s teams, the creation of Japanese major league baseball, recovery after postwar occupation, and eventually the migration of Japanese players like Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and Shohei Ohtani to the U.S. major leagues. The exhibition does little to explain the cultural differences between the American and Japanese games. (For that, you’ll need to peruse the books of Robert Whiting.) But the copy today from vendors throughout downtown exhibition presents a solid piece of trivia: Jackie Robinson’s final games before his retirement D.C. or visit www.streetsense.org came on a tour of Japan. The exhibition is on view to Aug. 10 at the Japan Information & Culture Center, 1150 18th St. NW. Free. (202) 238-6900. us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc.

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tHuRSDAY goeThe-insTiTuT WashingTon 1990 K St. NW, Suite 03. (202) 847-4700. Chamber Music at Noon. 12 p.m. Free. goethe.de/washington.

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sounDCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Tigerlily. 8 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

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birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Amanda Shires. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Preston Reed. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. jamminjava.com.

HIP-HOP

roCK & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Black Milk. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Freddy Cole Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

TWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Julian Berkowitz. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

POP

CMD + F

The title of Hemphill Fine Arts’ newest exhibition, CMD + F, may suggest dated PC keyboards.

But the three-artist show, featuring divergent works by James Huckenpahler, Tommy Bobo, and Rachel Schmidt, doesn’t exactly have that vibe. Huckenpahler offers an array of six images, an oddly compelling mix of enlarged Civil War-style tintypes modified with bold, rubbery paint colors, producing works with a pop art sensibility. Bobo channels and redirects colored light to create what amounts to flat, shimmering wall sculptures; the strongest ones are the simplest, such as one in which a series of aligned nails cast precise shadows. The most multifaceted work in the exhibition is Schmidt’s “Tension,” depicting her experience during a residency in Taipei.

It consists of a projected video showing a mix of urban and natural scenes, along with a series of lit wooden shapes that look like drifting ice floes. If it’s not a commentary about climate change and melting ice caps, it easily could be. The exhibition is on view to Aug. 10 at Hemphill Fine Arts, 1515 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com.

—Louis Jacobson

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songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Victory. 8 p.m. $15–$20. songbyrddc.com.

KenneDy CenTer millennium sTage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington International Piano Festival. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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anaCosTia arTs CenTer 1231 Good Hope Road SE. Prowess the Testament. 6 p.m. Free. anacostiaartscenter.com.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Bob Boguslaw & The Way. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

POP

sixTh & i hisToriC synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Us the Duo. 8 p.m. $25–$150. sixthandi. org. union sTage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Boy Pablo. 7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

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birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. War. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere. com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Mild Animals. 7:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com. hill CounTry live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Joey Harkum. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Peter & Jeremy. 7:30 p.m. $30–$40. jamminjava.com.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Leron Young. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

sTraThmore guDelsKy ConCerT gazebo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Chuck Brown Band. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

HIP-HOP fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Rico Nasty. 8 p.m. $20–$58. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAzz TWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. 5th Avenue. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

POP birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

ROCk gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Erika Wennerstrom. 8 p.m. $13–$15. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Dead on Live. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com. roCK & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Sheepdogs. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

WORlD KenneDy CenTer millennium sTage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Lone Piñon. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. library of Congress CooliDge auDiTorium First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Lone Piñon. 12 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

merriWeaTher posT pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Lady A & Darius Rucker. 7 p.m. $56–$345. merriweathermusic.com.

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The anThem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Father John Misty. 8 p.m. $45–$55. theanthemdc. com.

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

8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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8:30 p.m. $16. gypsysallys.com.

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The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Live Dead & Riders ‘69. 8 p.m. $20–$30. thehamiltondc.com. hill CounTry live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Lance Lopez Band. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc. com.

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Books

amber Tamblyn Actress Amber Tamblyn discusses her new novel Any Man, the story of a group of men who decide to unite and speak out after being attacked by a female serial rapist. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Aug. 2. 7 p.m.

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amy naThan Amateur musician Amy Nathan chats about her new book Making Time for Making Music, a manual for adults who seek to revive their musical interests despite tight schedules and rusty skills. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 29. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. ibTihaJ muhammaD Fencing champion Ibtihaj Muhammad discusses her new memoir Proud, the story of how she overcame discrimination and became a five-time Senior World medalist and Olympic bronze medalist. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 28. 3:30 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

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Jennifer gilmore Jennifer Gilmore discusses her new novel If Only, the emotional tale of an adopted girl’s quest to find her birth mother who gave her up at the age of sixteen. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 2. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Jennifer Keishin armsTrong Jennifer Keishin Armstrong discusses her new book Sex and the City and Us, an account of how the award-winning show Sex and the City pushed the boundaries of television and became a cultural phenomenon. Politics and

JAM BOX: A WORLD MUSIC MASHUP OF INSTRUMENTS & VOCALS PRESENTED BY STRATHMORE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE WITH DARYL DAVIS & SETH KIBEL THE EMPTY POCKETS w/ MARGOT MACDONALD FREE SHOW! ELI COOK w/ KATHRYN RHEAULT BLAIR CRIMMINS AND THE HOOKERS w/ MOOSE JAW BLUEGRASS STABLE SHAKERS FEAT. BRECHYN CHACE FREE AFTERNOON SHOW! 12:30pm DOORS

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Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 30. 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919. lynn vinCenT anD sara vlaDiC Journalist Lynn Vincent and historian Sara Vladic discuss their latest book Indianapolis, the true story of the ship whose crew delivered the first atomic bomb to the islands of Japan. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Aug. 1. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867. miChael arCeneaux In his new memoir I Can’t Date Jesus, writer and cultural commentator Michael Arceneaux presents a series of soul-searching essays about growing up as a creative gay black man in America. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 31. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. miChael sCoTT moore In his riveting new memoir The Desert and the Sea, Journalist Michael Scott Moore recounts his experience being held captive

by Somali pirates for three years. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 28. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. riCharD munson Richard Munson chats about his new book Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, a compelling biography of the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 1. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. roberT goolriCK Robert Goolrick discusses his new novel The Dying of the Light, the tale of a young Southern debutante who finds herself torn between love and duty when the man she married for money turns out to be cruel and unbearable. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 29. 5 p.m. Free.

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Thrillher Tour Politics and Prose presents an open reading and discussion featuring three new thrillers by women writers, Michele Campbell (She Was the Quiet One), Kelli Clare (Hidden), and Susie Orman Schnall (The Subway Girls), moderated by Rea Frey. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 27. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Theater

Dave A Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning creative team present this world premiere musical comedy based on the Oscar-nominated film of the same name. Dave tells the story of high school teacher Dave Kovic, who finds himself hired as a standin when the president falls ill under scandalous circumstances. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 19. $102–$117. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. generaTion gap This Second City production, a new original work for Kennedy Center audiences, showcases a battle of the ages from the Greatest Generation to the latest generation. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 12. $49–$59. 202467-4600. kennedy-center.org. hamilTon Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit finally comes to the Kennedy Center. The world famous hiphop musical chronicles the extraordinary life of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 16. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. h.m.s. pinafore The Hypocrites present Olney Theatre audiences with their zany take on comic twoact opera H.M.S. Pinafore. In their playful reimagining of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic sailor love story, instead of the high seas, the story takes place at a slumber party with pajama-clad sailors. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Aug. 19. $30–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. an irish TWisT on shaKespeare’s a miDsummer nighT’s Dream Quotidian Theatre Company sets Shakespeare’s classic comedy in 1820s Ireland, incorporating live Irish music and dance. This regional production is adapted and directed by Stephanie Mumford and Leah Mazade, with assistance from Michele Osherow and Peter Brice. Randolph Road Theater. 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring. To Aug. 12. $15–$37.22. (301) 337-8290. unexpectedstage.org.

The piraTes of penzanCe The Hypocrites, an innovative Chicago theater company, brings its critically-acclaimed version of The Pirates of Penzance to the Olney Theatre Center. The Pirates of Pen-

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In the wake of mass shootings, a clip from Australian comedian Jim Jefferies' 2014 special Bare frequently circulates online.

And since mass shootings happen nearly every day in America, Jefferies’ polemic, in which he rages against the NRA and individuals who oppose gun control, has become quite popular among those sensible enough to realize that the mass murder of schoolchildren, concertgoers, and worshippers should not be a commonplace thing. Monologist Mike Daisey will take a similar approach in The Story of the Gun, a piece in which he uses humor and history to break down America’s firearm obsession.

Daisey first presented the piece in 2014, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Five of the 10 deadliest shootings in American history occurred in the four years since The Story of the Gun debuted. Thousands of gun violence protesters passed Woolly Mammoth, Daisey’s D.C. home, during the March for Our Lives, one of the few uplifting moments of 2018. While his work alone is unlikely to change the minds of steadfast Second Amendment lovers, the spirit of the young, determined activists, at least for this week, continues to radiate from D Street NW. The performance runs to Aug. 5 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW. $20–$66.50. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

—Caroline Jones

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(301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

The sTory of The gun Written and performed by America’s preeminent monologist Mike Daisey, who was labelled “the master storyteller� by the New York Times, this new production delves into the history of America’s relationship with guns. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Aug. 5. $20–$66.50. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Landlord and Tenant Branch 2018 LTB 5873 D.C Housing Authority : Plaintiff, : v.

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