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14 Fair Play How an unofficial park has become the crucible in D.C.’s long-stalled public housing reboot

By Andrew Giambrone Photos by Darrow Montgomery

4 ChAtter

Arts

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27 The Hateful Eighth: A remounted race comedy and a cautionary tale about cyberbullying highlight D.C.’s latest theater offerings.

29 The Scene Report: A roundup of new and notable releases from the D.C. music scene 29 One Track Mind: Loi Loi’s debut single “1985” 30 Film: Olszewski on Endless Poetry and Landline 32 Theater: Johnson on Wig Out!

7 Loose Lips: Councilmember, others call foul on D.C. government “rolling out the red carpet” for a company the AG is investigating for wage fraud.

8 Remembering Citizen Jim Vance: He was the very definition of a Washingtonian.

10 Viva Puerto Rico: The D.C. statehood commission suggests a new Southern strategy—that’s going nowhere.

11 Gear Prudence 12 Savage Love 13 The Indy List

d.C. feed 21 Going Green: Local food and drink pros enter D.C.’s still new and nebulous cannabis industry.

25 Slow Your Roll: We rounded up 14 of the strangest sushi roll names from across the region.

25 Underserved: Mirabelle’s Bamboo #2 25 Veg Diner Monologues: Etete’s Crispy Green Lentil Rolls

City List 35 City Lights: Catch Punch Brothers at Wolf Trap on Wednesday.

35 Music 40 Galleries 40 Theater 41 Film

42 CLAssifieds diversions 43 Crossword

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A New Woman

In which City Paper gets a new editor

Darrow MontgoMery

Darrow Montgomery

Alexa Mills’ name first appeared in the pages of Washington City Paper in April 2004, when freelance writer Justin Peters (who would later become her husband) featured the young D.C. domestic violence victim advocate in a cover story about the District’s used mattress market.

As the story noted, she paid $100 for her mattress and rode home with the delivery guys in a Dodge Caravan. When she asked them whether it was clean, they told her to buy one of those mattress covers and that she’d be all set.

Twelve years later, after her stints contributing for The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications, I hired Mills to become managing editor at City Paper, where she has distinguished herself by leading the research and reporting efforts on perhaps the paper’s most notable editorial lift of the year: a series of stories about major D.C. landlord Sanford Capital, whose tenants have long suffered in substandard conditions while the company has been enriched by taxpayer-funded subsidies.

Beginning in mid-August, Mills, 36, will take the helm here as editor, replacing me as I return abroad for family reasons. Publisher Eric Norwood and I believe she is best positioned to continue the paper’s strengthened focus on hard-hitting news and to provide continuity for our accomplished editorial staff.

A 2003 graduate of Cornell University, Mills also has a masters in journalism from Northeastern University and a masters in city planning from MIT. Her front-page investigative Post piece on Sept. 4, 2016—an exhaustive story about a 19-year-old Army private who was lynched on a military base in 1941 that uncovered never-before-reviewed federal government files—helped draw our attention to her innumerable talents.

Mills is equal parts fearless reporter, digital geek, and delightful weirdo.

The paper will no doubt flourish under her thoughtful watch.

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DistrictLine Councilmember, others call foul on D.C. “rolling out the red carpet” for a company accused of wage fraud.

By Jeffrey Anderson With the building boom unabated, one issue D.C. voters can expect to hear a lot about come election year is jobs. Every public land sale, commercial project, mixed-use development, or residential complex comes with mayoral promises of opportunities for a growing labor force.

But the D.C. Apprenticeship Council’s recent certification of an out-of-state contractor and accusations of wage fraud have prompted an investigation by Attorney General Karl Racine and claims by unions and labor advocates that a bad actor is going unchecked. At-large D.C. Councilmember Elissa Silverman worries that the District isn’t enforcing its own labor laws.

“We don’t want to be approving apprenticeships for companies that don’t follow the law, don’t pay employees a fair wage, and engage in bad labor practices,” she says. “We don’t want to rely on bad actors to train employees.”

The apprenticeship council is an 11-member body within the Department of Employment Services that is supposed to ensure compliance with local and federal labor laws and standards. In order to bid on major projects, contractors must have a certain number of licensed skilled workers and apprentices on the job. Certification as an apprenticeship sponsor helps contractors compete for those projects.

Certifying companies that fail to meet wage and overtime standards, labor sources say, is a disincentive for those companies to properly classify and train electricians, plumbers, and drywall and HVAC installers. Profit margins become irresistible to unscrupulous contractors at the expense of workers who are underpaid and struggling to advance in their trades.

Power Design, a Florida-based electrical contractor, received certification from the apprenticeship council last month. The firm has contracts at 16 major building sites in D.C., some publicly funded and most run by the city’s top construction companies. Clark Construction and its related CBG Building Company have hired the firm as an electrical contractor at six

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of those sites. Other major companies such as Hitt Construction, Davis Construction, Donohoe Construction, and Walsh Construction have also hired Power Design.

Developers on some of those projects also include some of the most influential political players in town, including Buwa Binitie of Dantes Partners, David “The King” Wilmot of AutoPark, Bill Jarvis of the Jarvis Companies, Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners, and MRP Realty. (For legal and government relations purposes—and additional clout—Power Design has retained Roderic Woodson of Holland & Knight.)

But lurking in the background is a pattern of conduct by Power Design dating back more than a decade, documented in close to 20 federal lawsuits alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Family Medical Leave Act, and claims of negligence, personal injury, and discrimination, in Maryland, D.C., Georgia, Florida, and Texas. In 2014, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs received a formal complaint from a labor union that a joint venture operating on behalf of Power Design was operating without the proper business and electrical licenses. It is unclear how the alleged “unlicensed activity” was resolved. In 2015, a group of workers on a project run by Clark Construction also filed a class action against Power Design in U.S. District Court alleging unpaid wages. That case resulted in a joint settlement, according to court records.

The narrative within the building trades is that general contractors hire specialty subcontractors like Power Design, which then hire “labor brokers” to place manpower on construction jobs. The brokers—often shell companies—then recruit and hire workers who they pay as independent contractors, creating a second tier of subcontractors. In many cases, the workers are undocumented and paid an hourly rate between 15 and 50 percent of what properly classified trade employees make. No payroll, Medicaid, or Social Security taxes are withheld, and there are no workers’ compensation premiums.

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Although this practice started in the construction of single-family homes, labor representatives say it has become a scourge in the commercial sector as well, even on publicly funded projects. In addition to exploiting immigrant labor, they say, it places contractors who comply with labor laws at a disadvantage and cuts into government tax receipts.

In February, at an apprenticeship council hearing on Power Design’s request for certification, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers submitted what it believed to be evidence of wage fraud, job misclassification, and other violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, so the vote was delayed. In April, Councilmember Silverman, chair of the D.C. Council’s Committee on Labor and Workforce Development, wrote to members of the apprenticeship council and urged them to deny the certification. Sources familiar with the matter say Racine’s office informed DOES officials that he was investigating the allegations against Power Design.

Late last month, the apprenticeship council re-convened, and after hearing evidence from Power Design that it had settled its various lawsuits and outstanding legal claims, approved the certification.

Representatives of the building trades were furious, as was Racine, whose office had reiterated concerns about the company to DOES before the vote. Sources say he was also livid when he learned that department officials had not conveyed those concerns to members of the apprenticeship council. To make matters worse, Lewis Brown, program manager for the Office of Apprenticeship, told the council that Racine’s office had no concerns about Power Design.

Racine’s office confirms only that it has received allegations against Power Design from several advocacy groups. But the office has drafted legislation that would grant him subpoena power to investigate wage theft.

Calls to Power Design’s legal counsel and its D.C. lawyer were not returned. In response to questions from City Paper, DOES director Odie Donald II provided a copy of a letter he sent to Racine’s office, in which he confirmed notice of the attorney general’s investigation into allegations of wage fraud against the firm. He wrote that, after deregistering the firm in 2015, the apprenticeship council granted conditional certification on two conditions: “First, hire [20] D.C. residents as electrician apprentices, and secondly, resolve all outstanding litigations with verification before the scheduled February 23, 2017 Apprenticeship Council meeting.” Ac-

cording to Donald’s letter, Power Design met those conditions, and the apprenticeship council has received no further notice of additional complaints against the company.

But Silverman believes the problem is not limited to a single company. Power Design is one of a dozen firms that received certification for its apprenticeship program in June alone. “With Power Design, there is a troubling pattern of wage theft and misclassification of workers that should concern the District,” she says. “The law is clear: If you are doing a half a million dollars in business or are benefiting from $1 million in District dollars, you need an apprenticeship program that consists of on-the-job training with a requisite number of apprentices and skilled employees on the job. If we haven’t enforced the law, we need to signal that we are serious about this, and have a dialogue with [the building industry] about projects that ought to be offering training opportunities” to workers who are earning money to support their families.

Elizabeth Falcon, executive director of D.C. Jobs With Justice, which leads a sizable labor coalition, asserts that Project Design has cheated employees out of wages while receiving contracts on luxury mixed-use developments all over D.C. And the District is letting them get away with it, she says.

“Instead of protecting workers and residents ... D.C. government did the opposite and rolled out the red carpet for Power Design,” Falcon says. “Despite [its] track record of lawsuits and alleged fraud and a pending OAG investigation, the apprenticeship council gave the company a stamp of approval, allowing it to win bids on projects funded by tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. It should be impossible for companies like Power Design to get certified for apprenticeship, and the public deserves to know why a known corporate wage thief got the government’s stamp of approval.”

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Remembering Citizen Jim Vance

Robin Fader

He was the very definition of a Washingtonian.

By Steve Kistulentz To live in this city is to move through a landscape of quasi-familiar faces, senators and philanthropists, anchormen and quarterbacks, people you see often enough to confuse them with someone you’ve met at a bar or restaurant. They arrive and disappear in two- and four-year cycles, the regular movements of terms of office and military postings. Sometimes all Washington seems to be is a way station between other cities, other careers. The rarest citizen is one who comes from elsewhere and makes the city his own, conquers it, becomes the very definition of a Washingtonian. That was Jim Vance.

On the day of his death, Mayor Muriel Bowser told Channel 4, “He’s been on NBC my entire life, so I don’t really know

a time in Washington without Jim Vance.”

He has been the anchor of my lifetime too, both when I lived here, and especially once I moved away.

I left a career in politics in 2003 to write, and as my teaching career took me to Iowa City, Tallahassee, Jackson, and now Tampa, the only constant was that anytime I came home, there was Vance. The other faces of the 6 p.m. news had moved to other channels, retired, passed away. Still, from my father-inlaw’s leather chair in Potomac, I could tune in and see the voice of my life in the city.

To grow up in the Washington of the 1970s was to learn that national news was local news, too. You would see the great network correspondents of the era, back from Saigon and grabbing a meatloaf sandwich at Bligh’s Lunch near the White House. Men like Doug-

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las Kiker of NBC News, one of Vance’s colleagues and mentors, had traded in their safari jackets for the East Coast establishment uniform—Brooks Brothers, Arthur Adler, J. Press. Not Vance. Vance was custom tailored.

Vance had swag.

Whether it was the single, quarter-inch stripe on his otherwise white-collared shirts, or the gold hoop in his left ear that appeared in tribute to his friend the late Ed Bradley, Vance on television was the walking embodiment of cool. He was bespoke, original, and contrarian. In an era when consultants told anchors what to wear on air and news directors not to hire those who didn’t comply, Vance was the original voice that said, to hell with that. If you watched Vance, you know that is exactly what he would have said, taking great delight in emphasizing the minor

swear within. Read that phrase again. You will hear it in Vance’s voice.

The last time I saw Jim Vance on TV was earlier this summer, as I passed through town on my way to a vacation. His face adorns the new mural that overlooks Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street NW, and he made some remarks to the assembled crowd. On the afternoon of his death, I re-watched the clip I’d seen and noticed a new detail. Even though cancer treatments had thinned his frame and left his voice a shallower, raspy instrument, he came to U Street NW that day with a pen in his pocket. He covered all seven of the city’s elected mayors and was, first and foremost, a reporter.

I hope his face stays there forever. U Street NW is the perfect place for Vance, rooted in the core history of the city’s African-American community. It was, he told us that day, one of the first places he spent his own money when he moved to D.C. in 1969.

The “black Broadway” is the perfect metaphor for Vance as a Washingtonian too, a living example of the city’s modern history.

From the WOL-AM studios just off U Street NW, disc jockey Petey Greene talked a city down from the precipice in April 1968; Metro and revitalization of the corridor both came 20 years after they should have. U Street NW is evolution, a movement from Home Rule to No Taxation Without Representation, and like H Street NE and Georgia Avenue NW, it’s one of a handful of city corridors that shuttles us through the uneasy parts of our past.

These are streets that move from money to poverty, and too often, they are the dividing line between haves and haves not. Maybe the only one of us who always had guaranteed safe passage, as if he carried a card that declared I am a citizen of Washington, was Jim Vance.

When Warner Wolf left Channel 9 in the 1970s for the greener pastures of network television, his job was offered to the late Glenn Brenner, another icon. Brenner, then the weekend guy, turned it down. You don’t want to be the guy to replace the legend, he said. You want to replace the guy who replaces the guy. And that still holds true at Channels 5, 7, and 9. But at Channel 4, you know the seat should just remain empty.

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Up from the ashes of the D.C. statehood movement has risen a fresh idea: Puerto Rico, home to about 3.5 million vote-starved brethren whom we must both fear and embrace, could be key to D.C. statehood.

“We can’t allow Puerto Rico to get ahead of us [on statehood],” Beverly Perry, senior advisor to Mayor Muriel Bowser, said during the New Columbia Statehood Commission meeting last Thursday at the Wilson Building.

Apparently Puerto Rico, which effectively declared bankruptcy in May with more than $100 billion in debt and pension obligations, is in a better position to earn statehood than D.C. According to Perry, the reason Puerto Rico’s statehood prospects have eclipsed D.C.’s is the unincorporated territory’s electorate, which is believed to lean Republican and could produce three House seats for the GOP and only two for Democrats.

But in lieu of fighting Puerto Rico, we could join it, Perry says. The idea is to present D.C. and Puerto Rico as a pair of voteneutering twins, where Puerto Rico’s rightleaning representatives in Congress would

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cancel out the District’s left-leaning ones— even though Puerto Rico has five times more people than D.C. who are more or less split evenly along partisan lines. So, math.

In theory, this Puerto Rico-D.C. pact would somehow convince a Republican-led Congress to grant statehood to the mid-Atlantic version of Vermont, which would deliver the same number of reliably Democratic votes in perpetuity.

Attending Thursday was the full complement of the District’s official statehood commission, including Mayor Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and D.C.’s Congressional cohort of shadow Senators Michael Brown and Paul Strauss as well as shadow Representative Franklin Garcia. The latter three have exactly no power on Capitol Hill and, it turns out, get little respect in the District.

“We not only get ignored on the Hill, we get ignored in Washington, D.C.,” shadow Senator Brown said from the dias. “We don’t have a voice because no one stands up for us in this [the Wilson] building either.”

At the meeting, Rep. Garcia said he talked with members of Puerto Rico’s non-voting Congressional delegation about partnering with D.C. on a statehood application.

“A lot of them are waiting for something from us,” he said. “And I’m not sure if we have anything [to give]?”

Mayor Bowser pushed back on Garcia’s assertion but offered no specifics, other than to say that there would be about $1 million in statehood funds becoming available when the city’s new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

But she noted that none of the money will be available for efforts by the District’s shadow delegation.

From there the discussion shifted to a familiar fantasy: What the District would call itself as a state, presumably after its Puerto Rico strategy succeeds. “New Columbia,” the name of D.C.’s statehood commission, is widely derided, but it can’t be changed without the D.C. Council passing legislation.

“We lack the statutory capacity to change our own name,” shadow Senator Strauss admitted.

The frontrunner, should the council consider it, is the spectacularly confusing “State of Washington, D.C.,” which is in no danger of becoming the official moniker anytime soon.

“I would say there is no legislation pending [for a name change],” Councilmember Mendelson said at the meeting.

Talk of boundaries closed out the gathering, with little discussion of D.C. being the seat of federal government as a fundamental obstacle to statehood, not to mention a crucially important difference from Puerto Rico.

Someone circulated a map outlining a suggested federal district around the National Mall. It appeared that the Wilson Building, where the D.C. government operates, was included in that district, which felt appropriately symbolic of the state of statehood in D.C. Shadow Senator Brown summed up his view of the proceedings as they ended, declaring: “This is really more of a dog-andpony show than anything else.”

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I just wrapped up a big family reunion weekend at the shore. We biked everywhere—to the beach, on the boardwalk, out to dinner, and all around town (and even without bike lanes or helmets!). I’m the big cyclist in my family, and I thought this experience would show them how great biking is. I asked my brother-inlaw on the last day if he thought he’d start riding on his own bike more now that he saw how fun and easy it was. He said no. When I asked why, he said, “It just doesn’t make sense at home.” But it does! So riddle me this: Why do people love to bike on vacation but refuse to do it back at home?

—Biked Everyday Along Coast Happily, But Using Mode More Elsewhere? Delusional!

Dear BEACHBUMMED: It’s great that you had such a bike-filled vacation and found bicycling to be so useful for getting around town. Not every destination allows this, but many beach communities do seem to foster a kind of laidback version of utilitarian cycling that doesn’t seem to happen as frequently elsewhere. But just as your brother-in-law is also likely to reduce his saltwater taffy consumption and see a precipitous decline in the number of holes of pirate-themed mini golf he plays, bicycling, despite increased awareness of its virtues, will remain a vacation novelty.

Often the built environment and local transportation culture of beach communities bolsters bicycling in ways that just aren’t true at home. Points of interest are closer, roads might be narrower or have lower speeds, drivers may be more aware of bicyclists, and so on.

Also, there could be perceived (or real?) conveniences to biking places instead of driving such as scarce or expensive car parking—or maybe your brother-in-law just doesn’t want a shit ton of sand in the backseat of his BMW. But let’s suppose that where he lives is equally accommodating to a bike-oriented lifestyle, with decent roads and places within cycling distances. Why is he incapable of making the intuitive leap that sees the potential of bicycling? Because it was vacation! People are much more open to trying different things on vacation, and they embrace the difference as part of the charm. It’s a temporary escape from the ruts of everyday life, which in his case probably includes driving everywhere. Just as he’ll probably stop rocking the boardshorts, so too will bicycling go by the wayside. Even if it’s qualitatively similar, context matters.

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I’m a reader in Kansas with two teenage daughters, 16 and 18. My girls recently met a boy where they work and both took an interest in him. The 18-year-old was devastated that he was more interested in her younger sister. I spoke to the 16year-old about it, which is when I found out this boy is going to be a sophomore in college. The fact that he’s interested in a 16-year-old is a red flag.

I asked the 16-year-old to keep her distance. She agreed, but I saw a shirtless photo he sent her.

I don’t know what other photos he’s sent and I don’t know what she’s sent him, but I immediately removed all photo apps from her phone.

The girls have had public fights about this boy.

They’ve made peace with each other, but now my 18-year-old wants to date him. I can’t control the actions of an 18-year-old but (1) it seem likely this guy is a complete creep and (2) isn’t her relationship with her sister more important?

—Knowing A Numbskull Stalks Adorable Sisters 1. I’m not ready to pronounce this guy a creep— at least not for the age difference. It sounds like he met your daughters someplace they’re all working this summer, which is a lot less icky than some college boy creeping on high-school girls via Instagram. And you say this boy is going to be a sophomore in college, KANSAS, but don’t give his age. There are 30-year-old college sophomores, of course, but if this boy went straight to college from high school, that would make him 19 years old. If your 16-yearold is closing in on 17, this guy could be “older” by two years and change. While I can understand why you wouldn’t want your younger daughter dating college boys, I think you are overreacting to the age difference—and it’s a moot issue, as he’s no longer pursuing your younger daughter.

1.5. You know what is creepy? Pursuing a pair of sisters. The possibility of conflict was so predictable, it was likely a motivating factor for him. Getting off on drama and public fights isn’t a crime, but it is a red flag.

2. You ordered your 16-year-old to stop seeing this guy and deleted apps from her phone.

(It’s cute you think your daughter isn’t techsavvy enough to re-download and hide all the same apps.) You should warn your daughter about the risks of sexting—it may be legal for her to have sex (16 is the age of consent in Kansas), but she could face child porn charges for sending photos and this boy could wind up on a sex-offender registry for receiving them. (Laws meant to protect young people from being exploited are routinely used to punish them.) But don’t attempt to micromanage your daughters’ love lives. Parental disapproval has a way of driving teenagers into each other’s arms, KANSAS. If you don’t want your daughters having a fuck-you-mom threesome with this guy before the summer is over, you’ll 12 july 28, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

If you don’t want to come across as a creep, don’t describe your stepdaughter— or any other woman—as a “perfect female specimen.”

let them work through this on their own—but go ahead and stitch “boys come and go but sisters are forever” on a couple of pillows and put them on their beds.

—Dan Savage I’m a straight guy married to a wonderful woman. She has a daughter. This girl’s bio dad is a checked-out deadbeat, so I have played “dad” since I met her mom five years ago. The girl who used to be a gangly, awkward 11-year-old is now 16, and there’s no other way to put this: She is hot. I’m not supposed to notice, I know, and I have ZERO interest in being creepy with her, and she has ZERO interest in me. But she has always liked to cuddle with me and still does. I believe safe closeness from a dad figure helps girls make good choices when it comes to boys. (If not for me, she might seek attention from douchebag teenage boys trying to take advantage.) I want to continue to play this role for her. But when she comes in wearing tiny shorts and puts her legs over my lap, I get rock hard. I’m not trying to be creepy, but I’m a guy and she’s a perfect female specimen. I can’t say, “We can’t be as physically close as we used to be,” because that itself would be creepy and it would make her sad.

—Insert Dad Acronym Here Obviously Sometimes children grow up and get hot, and bonus adults in their lives—typically (and thankfully) not their bio or lifelong parents— can’t help but notice. The onus is on the adult in that situation to suppress that shit. Not awareness of a young person’s objective hotness, which cannot be suppressed, but all evidence of said awareness. Which means setting boundaries and, if necessary, keeping your distance. No, you shouldn’t go to your stepdaughter and say, “You got hot, and I get boners when you put your legs on my lap, so stop.” But you should put an end to the cuddling. When she plops down on the couch, go take a walk or a shower or a shit. Better she’s sad over the end

of snuggle time than she notices your boners and feels unsafe around you.

She’s most likely plopping down on you out of habit, IDAHO, not out of a need for affection from a trusted male. I promise you, she’s not going to start blowing bad boys in back alleys if she can’t get close enough to give you a boner anymore. (Also, if you don’t want to come across as a creep, don’t describe your stepdaughter—or any other woman—as a “perfect female specimen.” Ick.) —DS My college-student daughter lives in an apartment over our garage. She has a boyfriend, age 19. After many loud “discussions,” he is allowed to sleep over. My daughter got an IUD without informing me, so I assume they’re sexually active. Two days ago, I crept into the apartment to check on something and found bondage items on her bed—a set of formidable leather restraints. I’m worried she’s being pressured to do things someone her age wouldn’t be interested in. We agreed not to go into the apartment when she wasn’t present, and I know there will be a loud “discussion” if I tell her what I saw. The mental image of my bound daughter distresses me and I worry for her safety. What do I do?

—Offspring Has Incriminating Objects You stay the fuck out of your offspring’s apartment when she isn’t home, OHIO, per your agreement. And you keep these things in mind: Just as there are young queer people out there, there are young kinky people out there too. Your adult daughter might be one of them. For all you know, the restraints were her idea and her boyfriend is the one getting tied up. And a scary-to-mom set of restraints is a lot safer than nylon clothesline or cheap handcuffs. Leather restraints distribute pressure evenly, making them less likely to pinch a nerve or cut off circulation. Like your adult daughter getting herself an IUD, formidable bondage gear is a good sign that she takes her safety seriously. (And how did you find out about the IUD she got without informing you? Did you wander up her vagina one day to “check on something”?)

Finally, OHIO, it’s perfectly understandable that you don’t like the mental image of your adult daughter tied to the bed in her apartment (her apartment, not the apartment), but I’m guessing you don’t like the mental image of your adult daughter with a dick in her mouth, either. Just as you don’t torment yourself by picturing the blowjobs your adult daughter is almost certainly giving her boyfriend, don’t torment yourself by picturing whatever else she might be doing with, to, or for him.

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Shonta High’s daughter, Amarissa, on the playground of the Park Morton housing complex

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Fair Play How an unofficial park has become the crucible in D.C.’s long-stalled public housing reboot

By Andrew Giambrone

On a cOOl night last December, during what would have ordinarily been a mundane hearing on urban planning, District resident Shonta High recited a poem she had written for the occasion.

Dozens of people were gathered in a meeting room downtown to speak about a contested redevelopment project two and a half miles north in Park View, a gentrifying neighborhood along Georgia Avenue NW filled with rowhouses and minority-owned businesses. In recent years bougie coffeeshops, a doggy daycare center, and a beer garden with pergolas and benches have moved in.

High has lived for 16 years at the Park Morton public housing complex, an ailing property just east of Georgia Avenue. She has two daughters—one 17, the other two—and experiences bipolar depression, which has made it hard for her to find work after losing her job in the early 2000s. Subsidized housing and disability benefits have helped her stay afloat while raising her daughters A’Tira and Amarrisa.

Despite the obstacles life has thrown at her, High wants to be an entrepreneur: specifically, a wedding planner who would assist couples on their “big, beautiful, wonderful day.”

But along with the roughly 300 other residents of Park Morton, she’s caught in a battle with nearby homeowners over the future of her neighborhood, with consequences far more wide-ranging than what will happen for just Park Morton residents.

The District wants to redevelop the 12-building complex as part of an ambitious city effort called the New Communities Initiative. Its goal is to stem the displacement of low-income residents by integrating them into new, mixed-income developments alongside tenants who pay market and affordable rents, thereby deconcentrating poverty and reducing crime.

Districtwide, the New Communities Initiative hangs in a delicate balance. It’s premised on residents’ “right to return” to their neighborhoods after construction occurs, and on one-toone replacement of public housing units.

Ideally, this model harnesses off-site land where new housing can be built before res-

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

idents relocate and old housing is demolished—a principle known as “build first.” But since its inception in 2005, New Communities has proceeded by starts and stops. Two of the four communities involved in the endeavor have largely discarded the build-first strategy, calling into question whether it’s viable.

One of those communities was Temple Courts, the initiative’s inaugural project. Officials demolished the 10-story tower in NoMa in late 2008, and the site became a parking lot, which it still remains. It took years for a few dozen replacement units to open in the vicinity, during which time many former residents moved elsewhere. (The District plans to select a master developer for the project by the end of the summer.)

Another is Barry Farm in Southeast D.C. The District abandoned build first there last year, saying it would be too costly and would have forced residents of the half-vacant property to endure increasingly unsafe conditions.

Having expected the opportunity to live on site during reconstruction, and fearing they’ll never be able to return, many Barry Farm residents have gone to battle with the city. Nonetheless, the D.C. Housing Authority is now starting the months-long process of relocating about 200 Barry Farm families to other public housing, or giving them rental vouchers to use for private apartments. (It can take months to place a voucher in D.C.) Park Morton is a comparative success. Although a nasty battle with neighbors threatens the project, it has otherwise advanced more expediently—and more peacefully—within the New Communities portfolio than any other project. It is also poised to be the first under the initiative to follow a robust build-first model.

“It’s almost like Park Morton is the shining star and Barry Farm is kind of a black eye,” says Claire Zippel, an analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute who focuses on affordable housing.

“It’s going to be incredibly critical for DCHA and the District to keep in touch with those families [at Barry Farm] so they know once they’re relocated what the timeline is for returning.”

With the District becoming pricier and the

federal government continuing to slash funding for public housing, the stakes of the initiative have never been higher. Currently, there are over $1 billion worth of deferred maintenance needs across DCHA’s 56 properties, which contain more than 8,300 units.

“Park Morton is an opportunity to show New Communities can work in other places, and there’s a lot riding on that,” says Brianne Nadeau, who represents Ward 1 on the D.C. Council. “It requires political will. It requires government funding. It requires the right partners. And it requires constant communication with all the stakeholders. But that’s not rocket science. We can do that.”

Susan Popkin, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who has studied the New Communities Initiative and similar mixed-income redevelopments across the U.S., says the program is essential because D.C. has one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.

“It’s a chance to see if the city’s going to come through and keep some of the residents who have suffered through the worst days,” she explains.

At risk are both the wellbeing of the District’s lowest-income families and the validity of the public-private model that it and a handful of other cities have promoted as a way to revitalize impoverished areas. So too are the political legacies of Mayor Muriel Bowser, who in part campaigned on jumpstarting the New Communities Initiative, and her three predecessors.

“I can’t keep sitting here and telling [residents], it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming,” Bowser told a housing official at a 2013 D.C. Council hearing, when she chaired the council’s economic development committee. “I’ve got to tell them the truth, right? At some point, we have to.”

But just as it looked like Park Morton was indeed coming, neighbors emerged to beat it back.

To advance the project, officials have earmarked three acres of park space on the site of a former D.C. public school building for new mixed-income housing.

This is where the neighbors’ outrage begins.

The new development would reduce the park’s size by roughly two-thirds. Beyond that, they say the proposed development would diminish neighborhood character, increase traffic, and make parking even more difficult to find.

They’re also exasperated by the planning process, which they describe as undemocratic.

And so they’ve taken to public meetings, online listservs, and now court to express their frustrations. While Park Morton’s residents continue to live in ramshackle conditions, the project’s opponents vociferously deny that their indignation has anything to do with public housing residents potentially moving closer to them, or with race. Park Morton’s tenants are predominantly black, while the neighborhood around them is increasingly white and of mixed race.

On Dec. 5, High spiritedly delivered her poem to the D.C. Zoning Commission, which was considering whether to grant the project exemptions from height, density, and other rules.

“The redevelopment will bring a change that refresh things anew, but many of the people who oppose have a view that’s obscured,” High read aloud. “Try to see this from our point of where we’re tired of living in squalor, and here I am, a proud mother of a brilliant scholar.”

She meant A’Tira, who excels academically.

In her apartment High keeps a binder—1.5 inches thick—where she faithfully stores her daughter’s scholastic accolades. “This was my proudest moment, oh!” she said in a recent interview, holding a President’s Education Award with Barack Obama’s signature on it. “She has all these honor-roll awards. She did all of this in the face of the adversity here at Park Morton, with the shootings, the crime, the drugs, just, the everything, and the stereotypes.”

The December zoning hearing lasted for more than five hours. One nervous Park Morton resident who testified said she felt like she was on a “guillotine,” while another asked High to present her brief remarks in her stead because she was not accustomed to speaking in public.

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Four months later, the commission unanimously green-lighted the planned development in a written order.

But then in June, four homeowners who live on the same block as the park challenged the decision in the D.C. Court of Appeals, stalling construction on the project.

The neighbors’ petitions are expected to delay the redevelopment by up to a year and a half, given the court’s appeals process. And because the project would take around two years to build, Park Morton residents probably wouldn’t be able to move into new apartments until 2020 or 2021.

That’s assuming the court rejects the neighbors’ appeals instead of remanding the case to the zoning commision. The latter happened in December for the planned McMillan Sand Filtration site redevelopment, perhaps the District’s most debated project. The court could also deny the plans for the park outright, as it did last year for a project that was to go up on an empty lot in Brookland.

Like other families affected by the New Communities Initiative, Park Morton residents have already been waiting almost a decade for reconstruction to begin. As a result, intense emotions—and related concerns about the status of public housing in an evermore vanilla Chocolate City—envelop the initiative and the people it touches.

In a hIstOrIcal irony, Park Morton was constructed in 1960 as replacement housing for some of the thousands of mostly black Washingtonians displaced by Southwest’s urban renewal in the 1950s. Officials razed run-down rowhouses on Park Road and Morton Street NW to make room for a garden-style public housing complex flanked by balconies.

Fast forward to today, and among the issues that Park Morton residents regularly deal with are outdated appliances, inconsistent maintenance, pests, mold, and leaks.

The front doors of the property’s 12 buildings, which altogether contain 174 two-bedroom units, are usually wide open for outsiders to come and go. Crime and drugs—facilitated by blind alleys that pervade the property— have plagued the community for decades, marring its reputation.

Even on the surface, Park Morton appears to be in disarray. Air conditioners are set vertically in windows because panes are too narrow to accommodate them normally, shortening their useful lives. Balconies brimming with belongings (bicycles, vacuums, and holiday lights, to name a few) lack exterior panels, or have ones that are badly dislodged. Small gray mailboxes next to sidewalks are damaged.

And while kids run around the complex playfully—four listened to Fetty Wap from a smartphone on a recent afternoon (“I knew this song since I was a baby!” one said)—anxiety grips the place.

Tamika White, president of the Park Morton Resident Council, says the majority of the property’s residents are pessimistic about the future of their home and don’t attend meetings or even read community flyers. When

she’s knocked on doors to speak about the redevelopment project, many have told her they don’t care.

“It saddens me,” White says, tearing up. “I don’t even know what kind of, like, mindset you’re in that you don’t care where you go.”

A six-year resident of Park Morton who has four children and requested anonymity to guard her privacy agrees. “It’s not a futile fight because you do want to feel like your voice matters,” she says while sitting on a handrail near the complex’s playground and swatting away flies.

On that playground, in 2014, a man shot and injured 6-year-old Khalia Smalley and a 25year-old man in a burst of fire. Though Smalley recovered, she and her mother left Park Morton months later. For residents, the shooting brings back memories of more-trying times.

“It shook us to the core, like, ‘OK, we’re not about to go back to doing this,’” says Shonta High, who was pregnant with her youngest daughter and at home with her eldest during the incident.

Although violent crime in Park View spiked in 2015, like it did across the rest of the District, the neighborhood has stabilized over the past year, with few high-profile incidents.

Now, the struggle Park Morton residents find themselves in isn’t about public safety, but public space.

A building at Park Morton with air conditioners turned on their sides

Shonta High the three-acre park at the center of the controversy sits on Georgia Avenue NW between Irving Street and Columbia Road NW. It’s located about four blocks south of Park Morton and is within walking distance of two Metro stops.

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Before there were community garden plots on those three acres, there were classrooms. In 2008, the District closed the old Bruce Monroe Elementary School due to underenrollment and razed it the next year after no charter schools applied to occupy the building.

In the interim, neighbors advocated for recreational space rather than a parking lot to go on the site. The park opened in 2010 with $2 million from the District and with the understanding that it was to be a temporary amenity while its future use was considered.

This is where the District and its developer partners hope to construct the first phase of the redevelopment, which includes a nine-story multifamily building, a six-story building for seniors, and eight townhomes, on the site’s north and west sides. At least 70 of the 273 planned units would be market-rate, 90 would replace units at Park Morton, and 110 or so would be affordable to people who make up to 60 percent of D.C.’s area median income, which equates to about $65,000 for a family of four.

One of the three acres would remain a park.

In fact, it would be designanted as an official city park, which the current site is not.

Neighbors who advocated for the park years ago, and newcomers as well, currently have signs posted on their front lawns opposing the redevelopment. Some say the buildings would dwarf their homes, and that they don’t want to lose the gazebo, two basketball courts, tennis court, surface parking, playsets, or community garden.

“I bring my niece and nephew over there to play in the playground,” a woman told zoning officials in December. “I’ve taught my nephew how to ride his bike in that playground. It’s something that for me, personally, I have a very strong emotional attachment to.”

David Bobeck, a neighbor and one of the four people who filed legal challenges against the development, echoes that sentiment.

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way,” says Bobeck, who is not satisfied with idea for a smaller one-acre park on the same land. “I’m not convinced that that park will be big enough to really provide a significant resource for a community of this size.”

Some Park Morton tenants and their backers say the opposition comes from a deeper, darker place. “Because they don’t want public housing,” the six-year resident says when asked why she thinks nearby homeowners dislike the project. “Let’s call a spade a spade. We look different. We act different.” An advocate who supports the project had earlier told the zoning commission that the concern of the opposing group was “borne out of racism and classism.”

At a March 2016 community meeting on the project, 44-year Park Morton resident Cassandra Jackson spoke to an audience of more than 100 people. “You all had labeled us, you all look down upon us as if we don’t exist,” she said. “I have worked, cleaned, washed, ironed, done every hotel in Washington, D.C. all my life and, yes, I am retired.”

Last December, at a second zoning hearing, homeowner Nida Chaudhary repudiated what she said were unfair rhetorical tactics by proponents of the redevelopment. “They’ve been actively reducing these arguments to racism, and it’s just so offensive,” she said. “Like, I am just overwhelmed with anger.” (Chaudhary is one of the neighbors who have appealed the zoning commission’s decision.)

Days earlier, at the first hearing on the project, Shonta High had rhymed in her poem: “Where you failed to see the human side because we’re mostly people of color, many of the angered people that don’t support this project don’t even know each other. A park or a home, this is a choice that ultimately must be made, and when it comes down to those that oppose, they prefer to sit in the shade.”

D.c. plannIng OffIcIals tried to attract developers to build on the former Bruce Monroe site in 2010, after the school was razed, but received only one solicitation response and declined to award a contract. Around the same time, under Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration, the planned redevelopment of Park Morton began to fall apart. It had been in the works for seven years at that point.

In 2014, more than four years after it had selected the Maryland-based Landex Corp. and the D.C.-based Warrenton Group to lead the Park Morton project, the District killed its agreement with that development team, claiming the “reasonable timeframe for progress … ha[d] expired.”

Landex and Warrenton had built 27 replacement units for Park Morton within an 83-unit building on Georgia Avenue, aptly called The Avenue. But the team failed to acquire additional land to be used for off-site development, which led to the collapse of the deal.

Later that same year, the D.C. Housing Authority sought fresh proposals for the redevelopment of Park Morton. Developers identified Bruce Monroe Park as a suitable site, both because of its size and because the District controlled it. Officials awarded the bid to The Community Builders, a nonprofit, and Dantes

Partners, a for-profit, acting as a joint venture called Park View Community Partners. Their plan is to build on the park, move dozens of Park Morton tenants in, and then gradually demolish and redevelop the existing public housing. This team has been successful so far, save for the wrath of the neighbors.

BOBeck has lIveD in Park View since 2002 and witnessed the neighborhood become safer and more upscale while retaining much of its diversity. Wanting a yard and some space, he bought a 12-foot-wide rowhouse in his price range and stayed there. Bobeck sees Park View as a family neighborhood with unique “character and flavor.”

“Living here is such an incredible joy and really doesn’t compare to any place I’ve ever lived in my entire life,” he says, adding that he uses the park daily. “We’re not cookie-cutter over here.”

Bobeck would like for “the park to remain a park” but acknowledges that this outcome “probably isn’t very realistic” at this point.

“I do think the development as proposed is of a scale that is not appropriate in any way for this community,” he says. “We’re living on top of each other already. Another 500 people, it just doesn’t make any sense.”

Beyond the park, Bobeck and his peers are vexed by the process. The District says it conducted dozens of community meetings and the development team did door-to-door outreach.

From Bobeck’s perspective, these efforts only served to “silence” the park’s neighbors.

“It was not a case of, ‘What would you guys like to see?’ It was a case of, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’” he says. Reflecting on the entire experience, he laughs. “It’s almost insulting.”

Two of the other appellants challenging the redevelopment did not respond to requests for comment, and the fourth could not be reached. But in December, they publicly told zoning officials they felt strong-armed by the District and that they believed the project was already a “done deal” by the time community meetings were held.

One of them, Ryan Cummins, even said the District used “bullying tactics.” “We don’t have the luxury of people who are keenly familiar with this process, professional lobbyists to show up in number, who don’t even live in the neighborhood, to accuse the opposition of things,” he said.

Although the neighbors don’t have an attorney in the case (the appeals court has consolidated their petitions), Bobeck says they welcome any assistance. “We just knew that we had to do something because we are desperate to save the park,” he concludes. “We’re really

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One of the two basketball courts at Bruce Monroe Park

An opposition sign

kind of flying by the seat of our pants.”

Their appeals come amid a significant increase in legal action against planned developments. According to Bisnow, 57 zoning appeals have been filed since the beginning of 2013, and 11 cases are pending before the court.

These cases are holding back the creation of nearly 4,000 new units of housing, including more than 1,400 affordable ones.

Rob Fossi, regional vice president of development for The Community Builders mid-Atlantic division, says such challenges have become par for the course. “This was something, unfortunately, that we were hoping not to encounter, but preparing for,” he says, adding that while the matter is pending, the team can work on design, permitting, and financing, among other tasks.

Audra Grant, president of the Luray-Warder Neighborhood Association and co-chair of the Park Morton Steering Committee—a group that’s helping to guide the redevelopment—manages to see both sides.

“Frankly, if there was a nine-story building going up in front of my house, that’d be very daunting to me too,” she says. (Officials and developers say the project must be large to finance affordable rents.)

Grant has lived across an alley from Park Morton since the early aughts and is “often out and about” in the neighborhood. Though she sympathizes with the neighbors, she stands with the tenants.

“If you have a chance to improve the human condition and livelihoods, that’s more important than preserving a garden,” she argues. “I never see more than 20 people on the park at once, at various points in the day.”

Those numbers held water at dusk on a recent evening, when temperatures felt like they were in the triple digits. Around a dozen men played basketball on the south side of the park, while other people walked around. Few ambled on the north side.

When It apprOveD the disposition of Bruce Monroe Park to the development team, a D.C. Council committee reported that it wasn’t clear that the mayor’s office “gave appropriate consideration to all viable public uses of the property, including continued use of the space as a public park.” But the committee, and ultimately the full Council, passed the deal for its overall benefits.

Such criticism is familiar for Bowser, who in 2016 stirred consternation when announcing a plan to build new family homeless shelters in residential neighborhoods. Although the Council reengineered the plan to require that the shelters be situated on public land—rather than private land, as the mayor had proposed—neighbors in Wards 3 and 5 sued the District, citing concerns about the site-selection process. (Those neighbors lost that court battle this year.)

Angie Rodgers, who directs the New Communities Initiative within Bowser’s office, disagrees with the notion that the District didn’t integrate community input into its plans for Bruce Monroe. Rodgers has overseen neighborhood meetings about the project since early 2015, including a contentious one in November of that year, which 200 or so people attended. Some participants mistakenly believed that the District want-

ed to build on the whole park, she recalls.

“If you just showed up in November, then you might think we sprung this on the community, but that is not indeed what happened,” Rodgers says. “We have tried to be honest and consistent.”

She admits that not everyone will be happy with the redevelopment process, but says the District is motivated by fulfilling its promises to public housing residents. “We felt we were putting together a project that was the right thing for the Park Morton residents, and balanced a lot of competing interests,” Rodgers says. at Barry farm, a New Communities site that’s been contentious for several years, many tenants themselves oppose the redevelopment. They must leave their longtime home while it’s under construction through a phased relocation plan.

They worry about being permanently displaced. “We’re not plants, we’re not trees,” Barry Farm resident and activist Paulette Matthews told the D.C. Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners last year, suggesting it was wrong for officials to “just uplift somebody and put them where you want to.”

In 2015, a group of Barry Farm residents also appealed a zoning decision. The appeal has held up construction as the matter unfolds.

Rodgers says Barry Farm—not Park Morton— is the “rare bird” of the initiative. Barry Farm’s apartments were originally built as temporary housing, she explains, so the complex has deep structural issues that resulted from years of wearand-tear and from federal disinvestment in public housing. She adds that the development team for Barry Farm hopes to submit a second-stage development plan to zoning officials this fall.

“I understand that this is a painful moment for folks—and it has also been a long time coming,” Rodgers says. “At the same time, the sooner this process completes, the sooner there’ll be new units at the site.” hOWever the sItuatIOn at Park Morton resolves itself, residents concerned with gentrification and affordable housing may have the New Communities Initiative on their minds when they go to the polls next June to vote in D.C.’s Democratic primary. Others may not have even heard of it.

Some experts say it’s too soon to say whether Bowser’s management of this program she inherited, and has worked to revive, will bear fruit. Others point to her unrivaled investments in affordable housing and homeless services, in the context of a behemoth economic challenge, as laudable public policy.

For Kent Boese, the chairman of the neighborhood commission that includes Park Morton, the initiative was “extremely frustrating” before the current administration. A candidate in the Ward 1 Council race, he says that only time will tell if New Communities can emerge from the shadow of its past.

“It really depends on how successful they’re able to be with other communities outside of Park Morton,” Boese says. “The trick is going to be replicating it. People are still waiting and seeing with this one.”

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A bottle of water now costs $5 in D.C. when you buy it at JRINK Juicery. The cold-pressed juice company that’s expanding locally debuted a series of restorative waters: Glow, Relax, Detox, and Nourish. Jrinking just one won’t make you look like Jessica Alba.

Going Green

Local food and drink pros enter D.C.’s still new and nebulous cannabis industry.

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Anna Bran Leis (left) and Victoria Harris, two of the founders of DC Taste Buds

By Laura Hayes LocaL chefs, restaurateurs, bartenders, and other hospitality professionals lived through the rap id ballooning of the D.C. bar and restaurant scene, and now they’re poised to apply the lessons learned to another sector growing with explosive speed: cannabis.

Some strive to place products on shelves at medical dispensaries for patients, while others are navigating the gray markets that emerged after Initiative 71 made recreational use legal for D.C. residents 21 and up in

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February 2015.

Many see it as an extension of the city’s hospitality industry, and their reasons for diving into the green economy range from recognizing the potential for profit to personal reasons.

Anna Bran Leis, who owns Taqueria del Barrio and DC Empanadas, felt called to it because of her ongoing battle with cancer. “I know a lot of people through my illness that I met in treatment that I could directly help,” she says. The American Cancer Society cites studies showing marijuana can mitigate nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy.

To help bring relief to others, Bran Leis launched DC Taste Buds with longtime

restaurant employee Victoria Harris and Warren Brown of the local jarred cake company CakeLove. They make everything from cannabis-laced caramel popcorn to infused sauces and salad dressings. They even developed a drink recipe that was printed in Snoop Dogg’s magazine Merry Jane.

The partners pride themselves on creativity.

“In the past, there were just some dirty bong water brownies,” Bran Leis says, adding that culinary craftsmanship deserves more attention because palates have matured.

But there’s no place to try DC Taste Buds’ goods because they’re still navigating the onerous product submission stage of getting their edibles into medical dispensaries. Bran

Leis isn’t willing to sell to the public online, deeming it too risky. “Warren and I have a hell of a lot more to lose than we have to gain by selling things on a website,” she says.

But getting edibles into a dispensary is a difficult process overseen by the Department of Health. DC Taste Buds got a product approved, only to have it pulled from the shelves two weeks later. Most of the back and forth is about potency.

Snipping the red tape is where Harris comes in because she has helped food truck operators, including CapMac, maneuver around a similarly complex regulatory climate. “If I hadn’t done food trucks, I would have said, ‘Fuck this,’” she says. “It’s like a big puzzle.

It’s kind of fun.”

Charles Newsome and Torie Wallace, the duo behind We Baked, were similarly inspired to enter the industry after a terminally ill relative was struggling amid treatment.

“Torie was able to get some medicinal to her,” Newsome explains. “It was like an immediate change. She started eating. From there, we decided to champion the cause and started a nonprofit based on education and responsible usage.”

Newsome currently works for a popular D.C. brewery, and Wallace has worked in catering. Through their nonprofit, they teach people how to home-medicate, and they also produce edibles for gifting—everything from fried chicken to fruit roll-ups. “We’re not looking to get into the retail market,” Newsome says. “Some of the laws are confusing or lacking.”

Initiative 71 allows “home grow” and “home use,” meaning adults can grow a certain number of pot plants at home and can possess two ounces or less of marijuana. Cannabis cannot be sold or consumed in public. But you can gift or transfer one ounce or less to another adult. It’s this last provision that delivery services are creatively interpreting to get product to people’s doors, much like Domino’s Pizza.

With these businesses, people typically purchase paraphernalia, T-shirts, juice, or myriad other items and then receive a “gift” of a couple of grams of marijuana.

Connor Pennington, who has worked at Firefly, Ripple, Daikaya, and Haikan, quit all of his restaurant industry gigs to start one such business, Joint Delivery, with his partner, who works at Mirabelle. “I could go back and bartend somewhere and make more money than I’m making now, but there’s something about this,” he says. “I know there’s money.”

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“We pride ourselves on hospitality,” he says.

“If you can provide the customer service people can get in a restaurant into this business, that’s breaking us off from the rest.” If a client isn’t happy, for example, he sends along something gratis, much like a restaurant manager buys dessert for disgruntled diners.

Pennington makes the deliveries himself for quality control, especially because of review websites. The Yelp of the cannabis industry is called “Where’s Weed,” and there’s even a Tom Sietsema of sativa. Like the Post food critic, Joe Tierney reviews local canna businesses on his blog, “Gentleman Toker.”

Coming from a restaurant background has another perk, Pennington says: Restaurant workers are heavy users. “We have it in with a lot of chefs,” he says. “At Marcel’s, a lot of those guys love our product. I get a rush delivering to those guys.”

Business is steady, but Pennington knows his operation is tricky. “People are still very wary,” he says. “We see people filling up carts [online] and abandoning them. ...The stigma still exists but, yes, we’re in a city where it’s legal.”

Nikolas Schiller, one of the Ballot Initiative 71 authors who is a co-founder of DCMJ— a community group fighting for equal rights for D.C. cannabis users, growers, and their families—is unconvinced about the legality of these donation-based delivery services. “These patriots are trying to fight an unjust system—Congress preventing stores from opening up—but the idea that you can buy something and get something in return, that’s a transaction.” That said, he calls delivery services a gray, not black, market.

Wake n Bake Goodz is another such service led by Kevin White, who was a restaurant server and bartender for 11 years, including at Carolina Kitchen in Hyattsville and BlackFinn Ameripub downtown. He quit restaurants 11 months ago to commit to his edibles business.

He gifts baked goods like cinnamon rolls with cannabis-infused icing and is a frequent flyer at cannabis events across town. “You wake up in the morning, eat them on an empty stomach, enjoy your coffee, and then you’re good to go,” White says. “It’s not an overpowering type of high.”

To stand out from the pack in a saturated market, Wake n Bake products are tested for potency in local laboratories. Like restaurant customers who want to know ingredients, customers appreciate information about dosages. No one wants to end up like

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who once found herself “curled up in a hallucinatory state” after overindulging in a special chocolate bar.

But ask 10 people whether edibles are legal in D.C. and you’ll get 10 different answers. That’s because Initiative 71 only addresses buds, not the extracted concentrates required to infuse products with the THC compound that makes you feel high. Schiller says the short answer is, yes, edibles are legal at home.

Jessica Brown, a pastry chef who owns her own business, Piped Pastry Shop, says she has made edibles in the past, but her experience illuminates why having a professional culinary background doesn’t always meld with marijuana.

The first time a supplier asked her to make edibles, she agreed to use their cannabis-infused butter to bake a fixed amount of treats.

“The way pastry chefs work versus the way they want their cannabis distributed in treats doesn’t match up,” Brown says. Suppliers often put chefs in a position where they have to sacrifice their cooking methods in order to yield edibles with the highest potency.

A second try in the business didn’t pan out either. Brown says she was snubbed payment after making edibles for an event, so she now recommends signing a contract. “The industry is very sticky right now,” she says. “It’s easy to get caught up with the wrong people.” Despite how cutthroat the industry can be, she hopes to stay involved. “I hear it all the time: Elevate the city. Let’s put a smoke cloud over the city.”

But whether the industry is stable enough for chefs to leave restaurants in the rearview mirror is an open question. Some say the market is wide open with enough loopholes and plenty of money to go around, while others say wait.

Then there are people comparing D.C.’s fledgling cannabis industry to the beginning of the craft beer boom or the early days of making wine because there’s room for trailblazers to make their mark. “You can come up with stuff that no one’s come up with before,” Taste Buds’ Victoria Harris says.

But she also cautions those hoping to stay in restaurants while cooking up a canna-business on the side. “Investors might not be cool with it,” she says. “They might be more conservative. That’s why larger restaurant folks haven’t come out to advocate for it.”

DCMJ’s Schiller says that until Congress allows stores to open in D.C., everything is on ice. “It’s a great opportunity to experiment and try new things, but if you want to take it to market, you need to move [elsewhere].” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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The Dish: Crispy Green Lentil Rolls Where to Get It: Etete, 1942 9th St. NW Price: $10.00 What It Is: The appetizer features three fried spring rolls, each stuffed with a mix

Sushi Rock 900 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington Ziggy Stardust Roll: Wagyu beef, grilled asparagus, roasted red pepper, soy paper, onion jam, jalapeño aioli You Shook Me All Night Long Roll: Tempura shrimp, avocado, crab stick, tobiko, negi, Japanese aioli, eel sauce Ichiban Sushi House 4251 Campbell Ave., Arlington Hairy Mexican Roll: Fried shrimp, avocado, spicy sauce inside, topped with crab stick Sticky Rice DC 1224 H St. NE Godzirra Roll: Large crunchy shrimp, avocado, cream cheese, spicy sauce, cucumber, tempura crunchies, tobiko

of whole and blended green lentils, jalapeños, garlic, and onion. The cooked lentils are rolled up inside thin pastry sheets and then deep fried to a golden crisp.

Traditional Ethiopian sambusas— which are deep fried triangles, also stuffed with green lentils— are presented like Asian spring rolls in this dish. On the side is a sauce made of reduced balsamic vinegar infused with coriander, clove, and cardamom. The sauce has a sweet-acidic-spicy trifecta of flavors, which brings out the heat of the lentils.

The Story: Chef Christopher Robertson is the only person who was handed down the family recipes from original Etete owner Tiwaltengus Shenegelegne.

Umi Japanese Cuisine 2625 Connecticut Ave. NW BMW Roll: Salmon, crunch inside, avocado, black pepper tuna, white tuna on top Hikari Sushi & Sake Bar 644 H St. NE Stop Drop Roll: Spicy scallop with cucumber, tobiko, cilantro, wasabi mayo The Hamilton 600 14th St. NW Bull Fighter: Wagyu ribeye, soy-braised shiitake mushroom, Chinese broccoli, chopped wasabi dressing

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Cocktail names can be a little annoying these days. Sometimes they sound like a bartender’s unedited stream of consciousness, plus a few words that are fun or naughty to say out loud. Surprisingly, sushi rolls also carry titles that often have nothing to do with what’s wrapped in nori. We rounded up 14 of the strangest roll names from across the region. Some are culturally insensitive, others are flat-out strange, and still more could be Mortal Kombat characters.

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The best cocktail you’re not ordering

With those recipes in mind, he devised this creative concoction for the restaurant’s grand reopening earlier this year.

Sambusas are one of his favorite Ethiopian dishes, he says, but he wanted to change both the pastry as well as we the presentation to make the sambusas more visually interesting.

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: These rolls are finger-licking good. The lentils have just the right amount of spice and the creamy texture of the filling is a great contrast to the crispy shell.

The presentation is next level—there may not be anywhere else but Etete where you can get Ethiopian food that is as visually appealing as it is delicious.

Pair the Asia-meets-Africa snack with the restaurant’s new cocktail menu.

—Priya Konings

What You Should Be Drinking: The original Bamboo cocktail—a sherry version of a dry martini—was created by Louis Eppinger of the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, Japan in the 1890s. Visiting dignitaries began requesting it at watering holes the world over, until Prohibition squashed its popularity along with cocktail culture in general, and it was all but forgotten. Lead bartender Zachary Faden reinvented the drink, subbing out Spanish fortified wine for Pineau des Charentes, a French apéritif made with grape must and Cognac eau-de-vie. It’s stirred with Dolin Dry Vermouth, Angostura bitters, and orange bitters, strained into a coupe, and garnished with an orange peel.

Why You Should Be Drinking It: Both iterations of the Bamboo are elegant and luxurious yet simple three-ingredient cocktails where no single component needs to elbow out the others to be noticed. But if sherry is unfamiliar to some imbibers, Pineau des Charentes is all but unheard of, and when it does find its way onto a menu, it’s usually sipped neat. The apéritif adds lushness, nuttiness, and viscosity without coming across as cloying, and it counters the delicate herbal tone of dry vermouth. A few dashes of two kinds of bitters give depth and bright citrus that whet the appetite. Try it while lingering on one of the leather stools in Mirabelle’s gilded bar.

—Kelly Magyarics

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At Glen Echo Photoworks, D.C. Photographer Tanguy de Carbonnières looks at land from above. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

The Hateful Eighth

A remounted race comedy and a cautionary tale about cyberbullying highlight D.C.’s latest theater offerings.

An Octoroon

An Octoroon

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Nataki Garrett At Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to Aug. 6

To Tell My Story: A Hamlet Fanfic

By Alexandra Petri Directed by Megan Behm At Silver Spring Black Box Theatre to July 30

By Chris Klimek A blAck Actor in whiteface. A Hispanic actor in blackface. A white actor in, uh, redface. And four women of color and a white lady and another black guy. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon is both pointedly race-and-gender diverse and a thoughtful piece about the limits of representation. Specifically, it’s an artful rant about its author’s discomfort about being pigeonholed as a “black playwright.”

(The quotation marks are his.)

“I’m a ‘black playwright,’” he (as embodied by the fierce and brilliant Jon Hudson Odom) annouces right at the top, shortly before he begins covering his face in white makeup. “I don’t know exactly what that means.”

But as his lament continues, it becomes clear that at least part of what it means is the presumption that he will write with personal insight on an African-American experience made up of crime and poverty and illiteracy and addiction and tragedy. Though his (barely) alter ego “BJJ” never says so, the real-life Jacobs-Jenkins graduated from the private St. John’s College High School in Chevy Chase, and then Princeton University. Privilege and opportunity are not abstractions to him.

Director Nataki Garrett says not one word of the script for An Octoroon—a jeremiad about the early 21st century theater biz wrapped around a wry, raw update of a popular 19th century melodrama—has been revised since she opened her sublime production at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 13 months ago. The funniest and most provocative offering from any of D.C.’s major theaters during the interminable Year of Our Lord two thousand sixteen (even if the Helen Hayes Awards disagreed) has returned unaltered, with its sterling cast fully intact. In the interim, JacobsJenkins was awarded, at the wizened age of 31, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”

But that’s not the event that has shaken the Earth since An Octoroon was here last, or the one that makes individual lines and moments stand out in a way they didn’t last summer, or in 2014 when An Octoroon first appeared off-off Broadway. (Or, presumably, in

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1859, when Irish actor and playwright Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon—the interracial love saga that Jacobs-Jenkins’ play deconstructs—was a giant hit.) A slave auctioneer says he will not permit collusion. A critical plot point hinges on the discovery of a photograph, with the playwright pausing the action to observe that this was cutting-edge tech when The Octoroon was new, and that its original audience would not have shared our sense of how easily it can be manipulated or faked. One bitter lesson of the past 12 months goes unremarked: Just because a camera records a killing doesn’t mean the killer will be punished.

Other topical flourishes were more deliberate. In last Friday night’s press performance, Odom—who also plays both the cruel slaveowner M’Closky and the (comparatively) humane slaveowner George, because, he tells us in his long opening monologue, “all the white guys quit” rather than play unreformed, just-plainevil slavers—appended a scripted line about how he can’t afford a therapist with the apparent ad-lib, “I have a preexisting condi-

tion.” Later, in the role of the villain M’Closky, he tells his male opponent in a knife fight, (also played by Odom!) that he’s going to “stab you in the pussy.” The line isn’t in the script either, and it’s less astute than Odom’s first addition, but a reminder that Jacobs-Jenkins’s satirical targets have grown more powerful during An Octoroon’s lifespan.

Another tweak I noticed was the replacement of a Childish Gambino song during the show’s opening monologue with Kendrick Lamar’s recent “HUMBLE.” (On paper, Jacobs-Jenkins just says it’s “loud, crude, bass-heavy, hypermasculine rap music.”)

The funniest element of the show remains the trio of Shannon Dorsey, Erika Rose, and Felicia Curry as slaves who have their own gossip sessions and workplace rivalries. (Dorsey got one of An Octoroon’s absurdly few Helen Hayes nominations, in the supporting actress category, for her part as Minnie, a slave who Can’t Even.)

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James Konicek and Joseph Castillo-Midyett deserve praise for gamely assaying the show’s other grease-painted roles, both of them wildly insulting stereotypes : Konicek is both the Irish playwright Boucicault and the noble-but-firewater-besotted “Injun” Wahnotee, while Castillo-Midyett has to deploy the N-word more often and more wantonly than anyone else as the shucking-andjiving old slave Pete. An earlier, less controlled Jacobs-Jenkins show, Neighbors, put its black actors in blackface. That reductive facepaint is a grenade of a device, one the playwright has finally figured out how to use. An Octoroon is as uproarious and troubling as it is exhausting. This is as it should be.

AlexAndrA Petri hAs spent the last half-dozen years as The Washington Post’s funniest columnist, and she’s been staging original plays in the Capital Fringe Festival for just as long.

Her ambitious new show, To Tell My Story: A Hamlet Fanfic, is her first as a producing playwright for The Welders. Several of her prior comedies have been wrung from literary classics, but her latest has a little bit of Dear Evan Hansen in it, too, in its keen understanding of how the internet and social media have given teens more power to assert themselves creatively while also making them more vulnerable to abuse.

Petri will wander into sordid territory if that’s where her curiosity leads her. Never Never, her Fringe show two summers ago, was a dark riff on Peter Pan about pedophiles who form a pact to help one another avoid all contact with children. To Tell My Story is comparatively genteel. It’s about a prolific teen author of fan fiction, Elsie

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and Colin Connor. They’re Holmes and Watson, they’re Kirk and Spock, they’re Captain America and Iron Man. Most amusingly, they’re Abraham Lincoln and his platonic-or-was-he bedmate of four years, Joshua Speed. It’s Elsie’s elite status as one of the web’s few proprietors of Lincoln fan fic that gets her noticed by Horatio (Chloe Mikala), our winsome narrator.

A fertile, febrile imagination like Petri’s could ride that premise home, and if this was another Fringe show, under pressure to keep its run time brief, perhaps she would. (As things stand, the 105-minute To Tell My Story could use an intermission.)

But there’s another wrinkle in this tapestry, one involving the sublime Sarah Taurchini as one of Elsie’s schoolmates. I’m reluctant to describe her role in too much detail; even to point out that Taurchini is playing (among other parts) a girl named Ophelia is to tip Petri’s hand. But Taurchini is heartbreakingly credible as a girl in the eye of a social storm, and Ottati is good enough to make you want to see her Hamlet.

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To Tell My Story: A Hamlet Fanfic

(intense, compact Annie Ottati), who believes that Claude, the creep her mom is about to marry, murdered her father, Dane King. (I’m only giving away the weaker jokes.)

But instead of tricking her stepfather-in-waiting into watching a performance of The Mousetrap, Elsie spins out her theories of the crime through the online adventures of various fictional buddy pairings, all played by the same duo, Shravin Amin

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At the National Portrait Gallery, six different perspectives of war. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

The Scene RepoRT A pair of new releases from Etxe Records, Bless’ high-octane rock ’n’ roll catharsis, and a gorgeous experimental tape from Nate Scheible. Here’s what’s new and notable in the D.C. music scene.

—Jonathan L. Fischer

Bless, Bless

DZ Tapes I want to hang out in this band’s teenage wasteland. The buoyant, fist-raising riffs belong on a Raspberries album. The pouty vocals of Luke Reddick belong in a John Waters movie. The filtered, highpitched background vox of bassist Danny Saperstein are too angelic for this world.

This seven-inch makes me want to shotgun a Tecate and hop into a ball pit.

RiYL: Royal Trux, Howling Hex, the driving-around scenes in a Richard Linklater film.

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Etxe Records A new release from the Etxe Records stable, on which vocalist Kris Kagel demonstrates how her wiry, gut-tugging vocals can mesmerize no matter what mode her band is in: sludge-y metal, grunge-y skater-rock throwbacks, noodly bedroom pop. When she outright wails, it’s with a purpose, intoning like Elizabeth Fraser over the droning, trumpet-flecked raga of “Dance in Bad Form” until it releases all of its tension into a crunchy, Balkan-pop coda.

RiYL: Any heavy band short of metal you enjoyed in the early ’90s. Singers like Chan Marshall, Scout Niblett, Patti Smith.

teething Veils, Sea and Sun

Etxe Records Sea and Sun is the lushest and most focused full-length from Teething Veils, the Etxe Records chamber-pop outfit of singer and multi-instrumentalist Greg Svitil, viola player Hannah Burris, and whichever string players, reedists, brass sections, and accordionists they can cram into the studio (in this case, Inner Ear) on a given day. These little songs— sepia-toned yet searching, eccentric yet melodically inclined—add up to something that feels like its own pocket universe, sometimes wistful, sometimes the kind of menacing only achieved via a late-career Tom Waits death rattle.

RiYL: Leonard Cohen (the dark later stuff), Tindersticks (the gorgeous early stuff), Conor Oberst’s vocals without Conor Oberst’s tics.

Nate scheible, Fairfax

ACR An ambient/experimental tape that feels plucked from David Lynch’s brain, both sonically and thematically. Scheible built his soundscape—lumber-

ing and pretty, ominous and occasionally cathartic—around a cassette he found in a Northern Virginia thrift store of a women leaving messages for her romantic companion. “Good morning, my love, it’s Saturday morning at 11:25. The date is the 28th of October—no, darling, it’s the 28th of April. I’m not well.” Diane, I’m not sure even Twin Peaks achieved that level of weird pathos.

RiYL: Mysteries in the woods, William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, Nadine, the gnawing curiosity lurking in mankind’s souls.

ONE TRACK MIND

Loi Loi, “1985”

Standout Track: A sense of longing winds its way through the upbeat synths and warbling vocals of “1985,” the debut single from D.C. synth duo Loi Loi. Featuring siblings Kristie Di Lascio and Johnny Fantastic (Stronger Sex, Br’er), the track explores the very human desire to look back on simpler times. “We’ve all had to balance our own insecurities and noncontentedness with the reality around us,” Di Lascio says, “and we’ve all wanted to escape where we are at some point in our lives.”

Musical Motivation: “1985” was initially born out of a conversation that Di Lascio had with a number of friends who were born that year.

“I just remember having a conversation about all of the things that I remembered that they didn’t,” she says. “I just went into a stream of consciousness about all of the things that I could remember from that time in history.” Not only are major worldwide events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, recounted, but memories of her aunts and late-night conversations with boyfriends. For her, the song acts as a sort of journal—a way for her to compile all of her memories of what life was like back then.

Maybe Not So Simple: The track isn’t all rosetinted glasses, though. Di Lascio is quick to point out that, while we often desire to look back on a simpler time, things were never really as perfect as we may have thought they were. She notes that the song is “a commentary on things that used to be, things that are no longer, and things about that time that we may have taken for granted [and aren’t] as idealistic as we thought they were.”

—Keith Mathias Listen to “1985” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

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Yet it’s all surprisingly compelling. You accept this odd world and the even odder people who populate it. Intentionally or not, Varín defends it best: “Poets don’t explain thems elves.”

—Tricia Olszewski

Endless Poetry

Endless Poetry opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

Poetry In MotIon Endless Poetry

Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky EndlEss PoEtry is the second installment of a planned five-part series to document the life of Chilean writer-director-cult favorite Alejandro Jodorowsky. It’s not only an ambitious undertaking but an optimistic one: Jodorowsky is 88 years old and making these films himself. But if this chapter as well as its preceding one, 2013’s The Dance of Reality, are accurate indications, Jodorowsky’s ability to craft vivid, fanciful features is in no danger of flagging.

If you’re not familiar with the El Topo director, a line from Endless Poetry can serve as a guide: “Perceive reality differently.”

The film continues Dance of Reality-style, portraying Alejandro as an adolescent (Jeremias Herskovits) and a young adult (Adan Jodorowsky, one of Alejandro’s sons) who butts heads with his strict, emotionally distant father, Jaime (Brontis Jodorowsky, Alejandro’s eldest). Alejandro’s mother, Sara (Pamela Flores), is more nurturing, but the director has Flores sing all of her lines operatically—a good enough reason for her child to leave home.

Of course, that’s not really why Alejandro breaks away from his parents. His father demands that he study to become a doctor, but Alejandro buries himself in books of poetry whose authors Dad disparages with venomous homophobic slurs. A rebellious act at a family gathering leads Alejandro to an artists commune to escape; he then opens his bedroom door one day, no longer a kid but a man.

He revels in the creativity around him—dancers, painters, musicians—and his housemates in turn encourage his writing. Alejandro may not have rolls of cash like his merchant father, but he’s giddily happy. “I have sold my devil to the soul!” he exclaims at one point. This play on the saying may not make sense, but points for trying.

Though a little Jodorowsky goes a long way, Endless Poetry is the director’s most accessible film to date. The story is linear and often funny, even if you’re not initially sure if it’s supposed to be. (When Sara’s mother visits to commemorate the anniversary of her son’s death, she cries, “Oh, Jose, how could you choke to death on a piece of strawberry cake?” while destroying the strawberry cake Sara made for the occasion.) It’s peppered with portrayals of real Chilean artists such as Stella Díaz Varín (Flores), Nicanor Parra (Felipe Ríos), and Enrique Lihn (Leandro Taub), with the bawdy, beer-guzzling Varín an especially memorable character.

And Jodorowsky doesn’t deviate from his penchant to put sexuality on display—breasts and penises populate the screen as nonchalantly as the pieces of a set. Gay men are also woven into the story.

As Alejandro experiences the highs and lows of being a poet, occasional difficulty with relationships, and an existential crisis, Jodorowsky randomly pops up onscreen to serve as a guide to his younger self—and at the end, he reassures Alejandro about his future and tells him what to expect. Until then, there’s a lot of weirdness, such as a bar where tuxedo-wearing waiters move in slow motion or servants covered in black—including their faces—who slip in and out of rooms. Scenes outside are often washed in blue. And characters show up unidentified, including a MayDecember couple who finds puppets that look like them, leading to an epic kiss that threat-

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clubbing, hang with her boyfriend, and dabble with some serious drugs. Her mother (Edie Falco) knows that Ali lies about where she spends her time but hasn’t a clue how to stop it. Her father (John Turturro) seems content to look the other way. Needless to say, there’s a bitter rift in their relationship. Oh, and adultery.

Robespierre, who co-wrote the script with Elisabeth Holm, throws all of this at you in the first 30 minutes. The result is a scattershot depiction of the family that doesn’t feel like a story but a pastiche of the ideas that ended up in the writers’ garbage can. And for a film that’s being marketed as a comedy, there’s a decided lack of laughs. Slate can be charming but here she’s just annoying, with an obnoxious cackle that peppers Dana’s every interaction. It’s ironic when Dana says to Ali, “You are such an irritant!”

The film settles into a sufficient groove at its halfway point, though you’ll be more invested than entertained. (Seriously, it takes that long for it to deliver a good joke.) Cheating, emotional distance, and cold feet are the main themes as the characters work to bridge the Landline

FaMIly tIes Landline

Directed by Gillian Robespierre landlinE tries hard to be another touching portrayal of a dysfunctional family whose members make poor life decisions but then learn from them. There are the siblings who squabble but then grow close, the parents whose marriage isn’t in great shape until they find each other again, the rebellious teen who fights with mom and dad but then is humbled. If you consider any of the above a spoiler, you’re probably looking forward to watching your first movie.

The film is the second collaboration between writer-director Gillian Robespierre and comedian Jenny Slate, following 2014’s Obvious Child, and they’ve hit the sophomore slump. Slate plays Dana, an engaged woman who’s living with her strait-laced fiance, Ben (Jay Duplass), and who isn’t terribly excited about getting married. Just when it looks as if Dana will be the main character, the focus shifts to Ali (Abby Quinn), Dana’s teenage sister. Ali regularly sneaks out of the house to go

divides between them—though when Dana tells Ben that she’s going to stay at her parents’ house for a few days because her sister needs her, it’s awfully abrupt, and the inevitable bond that ensues doesn’t feel earned.

The title is a reference to the period in which the story is set: 1995. But it’s arbitrary. Nothing in the script besides Dana bumping into someone at a CD listening station hinges on ’90s culture or technology; at one point Ali gets her phone— yes, a landline—taken away, but parents could just as easily confiscate their kid’s cell in the present day. Waiting for the title to have some significance is nearly as futile as waiting for a laugh, and even if you’re cool with just the life-is-confusing dramatic aspects of the script, these characters never quite gel as a family. (Though Slate and Quinn bear an impressive resemblance.)

And despite Robespierre and Holm’s attempt to infuse the goings-on with Deep Thoughts, only young Ali says anything that counts as a genuine and original insight. Maybe that’s Landline’s period justification: Teenagers were more thoughtful before they started staring at phones.

—Tricia Olszewski Landline opens Friday at Angelika Film Center and Landmark E Street Cinema.

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Absolutely FAbulous Wig Out!

By Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Kent Gash At Studio Theatre to August 6.

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Is It possIble to choose love over family? Over your own identity? That’s what playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney wants you to consider with his play Wig Out!, currently playing at Studio Theatre and helmed by director Kent Gash.

McCraney’s name should ring a bell: Last year, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay alongside Barry Jenkins for Moonlight, the coming-of-age story that was partly based on the challenges he faced as a young black man on a journey of self-discovery in the streets of Miami. And McCraney is not a new voice to theater, or the D.C. theater scene; his breakout Brother/Sister Trilogy has been produced in New York and London, and his play Choir Boy was produced by Studio Theatre in 2015.

With Wig Out! McCraney brings us into a world where fierceness and family are inextricably linked through the lens of African-American drag ball culture. In The House of Light there’s the crowned mother Rey-Rey (Jamyl Dobson) and a father Lucian (Michael Kevin Darnall), and in this house there are rules: Don’t come in without your face on. But the House of Light is also where shining moments take place. Each character reveals their backstory with a gender-shaping monologue in the vein of Chicago, incorporating the line “My grandmother wore a wig...”

The play opens with The Fates, a Shakespearean chorus of sorts—Faith (Dane Figueroa Edidi), Fay (Ysabel Jasa), and Fate (Melissa Victor) bop about fabulously, supporting the production like background singers—who set the scene for the central characters’ meeting on a New York City subway train by singing out the train’s movement (“Movin’, movin’, movin’ gotta keep movin’, always movin’... STOP!”). Eric (Jaysen Wright) and Wilson (Michael Rishawn)—AKA

“Nina”— form an immediate attraction and Wilson asks Eric flat out: “Do you like boys?” But Eric, who is gay, is put off by Wilson’s cross-dressing identity and it’s a problem that may keep them apart.

L a t e r, T h e Fates bring us to the House of Light where “Vogue is the official language,” Stonewall “has come crumbling down,” and “Paris is still burning.” Here, we learn that the House of Di’Abolique, a rival drag house, calls for a Cinderella ball at midnight, challenging the House of Light in a pseudo-turf war.

McCraney isn’t shy about exploring sexuality among his characters, yet it doesn’t feel cheap despite explicit moments and dialogue, like “I give brain like I went to Yale.” But it’s his imagination, when it comes to creating characters, that’s indelible and fairy tale-like. Wright and Rishawn are paired well as lovers. And although they aren’t engaged, in a strange way their story feels like a modern twist on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The House’s DJ, Deity (Desmond Bing), does not approve of their romance and calls Eric out for his phoniness. But Eric is welcomed by Venus (Edwin Brown III), Deity’s ex-lover, and is eventually given the honorary drag name Angel. And Brown III shines as Venus. From every strut to every tear, he became the drag world’s Beyoncé.

Set designer Jason Sherwood creates a wholly original experience: The stage transforms from a runway to the inside of a subway car to a bedroom and into a drag house. In essence, the stage is a character of its own.

But there are brief moments during which the set design—although fabulous as it may be—becomes a burden. At times, it’s hard to see some of the actors’ entrances and exits on stage, but those are risks that come with a nontraditional set. Risks that, in the end, pay off under Gash’s deft direction.

Some of McCraney’s dialogue feels a little inside baseball, er, drag (“Messy Queens tryin’ to keep this old way coming,” for example), but it breathes life into an underrepresented culture and shows why McCraney is perhaps the best dramatist in theater. It’s lyrical and punchy, a pseudo fairy tale with echoes of Shakespearan panache. Wig Out! is as fabulous as they come, proving that family really does come in all shades of fierceness.

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Paul Weller ..............................................................................................................OCTOBER 7 Matisyahu w/ Common Kings & Orphan ..................................................................OCTOBER 10 Blind Pilot ...............................................................................................................OCTOBER 13 THE BIRCHMERE PRESENTS

Colin Hay w/ Chris Trapper ....................................................................................OCTOBER 21 Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band w/ Good Old War ....................................NOVEMBER 2 The Breeders ........................................................................................................NOVEMBER 4 AN EVENING WITH

Kevin Smith ..........................................................................................................NOVEMBER 5 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

John McLaughlin/Jimmy Herring: Meeting of the Spirits ....................NOVEMBER 11 JOHNNYSWIM .....................................................................................................NOVEMBER 15

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL White Ford Bronco: Mondo Cozmo ................................... Tu 12 DC’s All ‘90s Band ........................ F AUG 11 Sonder ................................................. W 13 Sahbabii ............................................. Th 17 ALL GOOD PRESENTS Tei Shi ............................................F SEPT 8 The Werks & Passafire ................. Th 14 MHD ...................................................... F 15 Tank and The Bangas w/ Sweet Crude ...................................... M 11 Astrid S .............................................. Sa 16

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

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

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7PM Weekdays & Until 11PM on show nights. 6-11PM on Sat & 6-10:30PM on Sun on show nights.

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

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CITYLIST

NIKKI HILL

Music 35 Galleries 40 Theater 40 Film 41

FRI. AUG. 4 ~ 9:30PM TIX: $15-$20

Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY ROck

AMP by StrAthMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll: A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry. 8 p.m. $20–$28. ampbystrathmore.com.

H

birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Bacon Brothers, Jenn Grinels.

7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com. rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

In Your Memory, Fadest, Eternal Boy, Better Homes. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe And record cAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Bellows, Fraternal Twin, Stolen Jars. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Wolf trAP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. National Symphony Orchestra performs Orff’s Carmina Burana and Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. 8:15 p.m. $20–$58. wolftrap.org.

cOuNtRY

hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Woodshedders. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

DJ NIGHtS

blAck cAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths Dance Party. 9:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

ELEctRONIc

u Street MuSic hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Free Range: Will Eastman b2b Ayes Cold. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

FuNk & R&B

iotA club & cAfé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Hambone Relay, R.A.M. Band. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

GO-GO

betheSdA blueS & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Suttle. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

GOSpEL

WArner theAtre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Anthony Brown & Group TherAPy. 8 p.m. $25. warnertheatredc.com.

JAzz

kennedy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Heroes Are Gang Leaders. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. nAtionAl gAllery of Art SculPture gArden 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. 3Divas. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov. tWinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Cecil Brooks III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

SAtuRDAY

HEROES ARE GANG LEADERS

Thomas Sayers Ellis was born and raised in D.C. He graduated from Dunbar High and was immersed in go-go culture, playing timbales and rototoms for Petworth Band. His considerable achievements outside of music include two well-received volumes of poetry, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems, and Maverick Room, named after the popular Northeast go-go joint. TSE has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his poetry, and he co-founded the influential Dark Room Collective of African-American poets and writers. He is a gifted photographer as well, and his 2011 solo exhibit (Un)Lock It: The Percussive People in the Go-Go Pocket revealed precious images of go-go’s musicians and fans. With his kooky, unfettered brilliance and occasionally bizarre perspectives, TSE is both charismatic and controversial. His viewpoints are reflected in Heroes Are Gang Leaders, his avant-funk/free jazz spoken-word ensemble that takes its name from the Amiri Baraka short story. Tonight’s HAGL performance is titled This Funk Ain’t William Faulkner’s Fault and includes “Artificial Happiness Button,” "Letters From the Locked Away,” and “Internet Kill Switch.” The group also performs Saturday evening at the new Cleveland Park art space Uptown Art House. Heroes Are Gang Leaders perform at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Alona Wartofsky iotA club & cAfé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Augustus James. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Chicago. 7:30 p.m. $25–$135. livenation.com.

birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Bacon Brothers, Jenn Grinels.

7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

MerriWeAther PoSt PAvilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective. 7:30 p.m. $41–$56. merriweathermusic.com.

blAck cAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Kill Lincoln, Boardroom Heroes, The Best of the Worst, American Television. 8 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

StAte theAtre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. The Legwarmers. 9:30 p.m. $18. thestatetheatre.com.

ROck

cOuNtRY hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Stealin’ the Deal. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

DJ NIGHtS blAck cAt bAckStAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Heavy Rotation with Trev-Ski, DJ Adrian Collazo, Kenny M. 9:30 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

ELEctRONIc rhizoMe dc 6950 Maple St. NW. Open Circuits. 4 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

7.27 7.28 7.29

VINTAGE #18 THE WOODSHEDDERS STEALIN’ THE DEAL 8.1 WHISKERMAN

8.3

THE HALL MONITORS RECORD RELEASE PARTY! NIKKI HILL ANGELA PERLEY & THE HOWLING’ MOONS BELLA HARDY RAY WYLIE HUBBARD RAY WYLIE HUBBARD ROCK-A-SONICS FIRESIDE COLLECTIVE THE YAYHOOS THE WOODSHEDDERS THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES & THE STENTS SCOTT H. BIRAM & GALLOWS BOUND DALE WATSON & HIS LONE STARS WILD THE WATERS

8.4 8.5 8.15 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.22 8.24 8.25 8.26 8.28 8.29 8.31

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9.7 9.9 9.12 9.14 9.15 9.18 9.19 9.21 9.22 9.23 9.29 9.30

ANDREW DUHON SARAH POTENZA / PALEFACE ROD PICOTT SUNNY SWEENEY HAYES CARLL THE PLIMSOULS RE-SOULED THE RAILSPLITTERS THE BLASTERS & FLAT DUO JETS DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN & THE GRAHAMS KYLE LACY & THE HARLEM RIVER NOISE DANGERMUFFIN JASON EADY ALBUM RELEASE SHOW!

10.10 10.12 10.13 10.24 10.25 10.27 10.31

GREYHOUNDS WILD PONIES ‘GALAX’ RELEASE TOUR CASH’D OUT GURF MORLIX SLAID CLEAVES POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES THE WOGGLES

11.9

PERE UBU

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 Hillcountrylive.com • Twitter @hillcountrylive

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U Street MUSic Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Breakbot, Martín Miguel. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

SUNDAY

FUNk & R&B

BircHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Bacon Brothers, Jenn Grinels.

7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

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

Nite Jewel, Geneva Jacuzzi, Harriet Brown. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Wolf trap filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aretha Franklin. 8 p.m. $40–$135. wolftrap.org.

Go-Go BetHeSda BlUeS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Sugar Bear’s Birthday Celebration with EU. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

HIp-Hop SongByrd MUSic HoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Jamila Woods, theMIND. 8:30 p.m. Sold out. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Cecil Brooks III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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

Soca Inferno. 11 p.m. $15. thehowardtheatre.com.

Rock

Black cat BackStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Harry J & the Bling, Kaelan Brown & the Blue Chips, Concept Collective. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. iota clUB & café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Drew Gibson, Sons of Pitches. 8 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

Jiffy lUBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Boston, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.

7:30 p.m. $22.50–$115.50. livenation.com.

MerriWeatHer poSt pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Andrew Bird, Ex Hex. 6 p.m. $45–$55. merriweathermusic.com. rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Jaymes Young, Matt Maeson. 8 p.m. Sold out. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Wolf trap filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. George Thorogood & The Destroyers, 38 Special. 8 p.m. $30–$65. wolftrap.org.

cLASSIcAL

kennedy center MillenniUM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington International Piano Festival. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

DC

BURGER WEEK JULY 23-30, 2017 DCBurgerWeek.com #DCBurgerWeek

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NITE JEWEL

As Nite Jewel, Los Angeles singer-producer Ramona Gonzalez is the star at the center of her own leftfield pop galaxy. Since emerging from the lo-fi haze of 2008’s Good Evening, Gonzalez has polished Nite Jewel until the project glows, her synth-driven, R&B-infused jams becoming brighter and brighter as the years have passed. This year’s Real High, her fourth album, might be her brightest to date, balancing late-night come-ons (“In the Nite,” “Who U R,” and “Part of Me”), low-key disco-pop (“2 Good 2 Be True,” “The Answer,” and “I Don’t Know”), a gauzy vision of Sade (the title track), and some of her most straight-forward R&B yet (closer “R We Talking Long”). As ever, the album was made in collaboration with her husband and creative partner Cole M.G.N. and also features her contemporary Julia Holter, G-funk expert Dam-Funk and Bay Area rapper Droop-E, but make no mistake: Gonzalez is a pop star of her own creation. Nite Jewel performs with Geneva Jacuzzi and Harriet Brown at 8 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $15–$18. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhotel.com.

—Chris Kelly

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

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

CITY LIGHTS: SuNDAY

J U LY F 28 S 29 600 beers from around the world

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

SU 30

AU G U S T

*all shows 21+

W2

J U LY 2 7 T H

THE COMEDY BLOCKWITH DOMINIC RIVERA DOORS AT 7PM, SHOW AT 8PM

TH 3

J U LY 2 8 T H

F4

BROKEN DIAMONDS STAND UP COMEDY DOORS AT 7PM, SHOW AT 8PM J U LY 3 0 T H

STAND UP COMEDY PRESENTED BY RUDY WILSON

S 5

DOORS AT 6PM, SHOW AT 7PM

J U LY 3 1 S T

DISTRICTTRIVIA AT 7:30PM COMICS AND COCKTAILS SPONSORED BY FANTOM COMICS

SU 6

6:30PM

AUGUST 1ST

CAPITAL LAUGHS FREE COMEDY OPEN MIC AT 8:30PM

W9

AUGUST 2ND

TH 10

BROKEN DIAMONDS OPEN MIC AT 8:30PM DISTRICTTRIVIA AT 7:30PM

F 11

AUGUST 3RD

SUPER SPECTACULAR COMEDY SHOW FOR IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

S 12

DOORS AT 6PM, SHOW AT 7:30PM

GENO MARRIOTT & THE SPIRIT OF JAZZ GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA & N.E.W. ATHENS LOUIS ARMSTRONG BIRTHDAY W. TOM WILLIAMS & SHARON CLARKE D&D & KARLA PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

QBANFEST CELEBRATING 15TH ANNIVERSARY A DRAG SALUTE TO DIVAS : DREAMGIRLS TWISTED (3/8PM) WHITNEY HOUSTON BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE THE NIGHTHAWKS AND SOUL CRACKERS DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW (2SHOWS - 7/10PM)

AUGUST 4TH

DC GURLY SHOW PRESENTS:

W 16

DOORS AT 8PM, SHOW AT 9PM

TH 17

FUND-RAISETHE ROOF FOR SMYAL AUGUST 5TH

ATOMIC DOLL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:

ABBA THE CONCERT B.J. JANSEN & COMMON GROUND FEAT: DELFEAYO MARSALIS, RALPH PETERSON

SHOCKEDANDAMAZED! : AN UNPARALLELED LOOK INTO THEWORLD OF SIDESHOWAND VARIETYARTS

F 18

FEATURING SWORD SWALLOWING, FIRE ARTS, BURLESQUE, FEATS OF STRENGTH, ANATOMICAL WONDERS AND MORE! DOORS AT 8PM, SHOW AT 9PM

THE ADMIRALS

http://igg.me/at/bethesdablues 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

AUGUST 6TH

(240) 330-4500

GRASSROOTS COMEDY OPEN MIC DOORS AT 7PM 1523 22nd St NW – Washington, DC 20037 (202) 293-1887 - www.bierbarondc.com @bierbarondc.com for news and events

SUTTLE SUGAR BEAR’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION W/ EU SECRET SOCIETY

www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends

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LEE BAINS III & tHE GLORY FIRES

Southern rock has evolved from misguided tributes to “heritage,” a la Lynyrd Skynyrd, to more complex renderings of “the duality of the Southern thing,” as Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood would say. But in 2017, this type of nuance feels more like an excuse. The next step is moving beyond Southern guilt and recognizing how white, Southern rock ’n’ roll has been a part of the problem. Jason Isbell made this step on his latest album, The Nashville Sound, and explosive Alabama rockers Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires are taking steps in the same direction.

Their latest album, Youth Detention, finds Bains finally reckoning with what made the band’s previous records feel out-of-date. “I don’t want to be a whitewash, I don’t want to be an absence, I don’t want to be the great silence,” he sings on “Whitewash.” These songs are fast and loud.

Bains doesn’t let his reflections make him timid; he shouts his revelations at full volume, going 100 miles an hour. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires perform with The Sniffs and Priors at 9 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $10. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com.

—Justin Weber

FuNk & R&B

betheSdA blueS & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Secret Society. 7:30 p.m. $22.50. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

JAzz

tWinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Dahi Divine. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

MONDAY ROck

fort reno 3800 Donaldson Place NW. (202) 3556356. Numbers Station, Bacchae, Makeup Girl. 7 p.m.

Free. fortreno.com.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe And record cAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Grace Mitchell, Surf Rock is Dead, NAH. 8 p.m. $15. songbyrddc.com. verizon center 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Queen + Adam Lambert. 8 p.m. $69.50–$349. verizoncenter.com.

cLASSIcAL

kennedy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington International Piano Festival. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

cOuNtRY

birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Nikki Lane, Steelism. 7:30 p.m. $20. birchmere.com.

kennedy center concert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Gillian Welch. 8 p.m. $38. kennedy-center.org.

tuESDAY ROck

blAck cAt bAckStAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Foster Carrots, Secret Nudist Friends, Aerial Views. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Rocket Summer, 888. 7:30 p.m. $16. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe And record cAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Rozwell Kid, Chris Farren, Great Grandpa. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

cOuNtRY Wolf trAP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Nashville in Concert. 8 p.m. $32–$75. wolftrap.org.

HIp-HOp 9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Rag’n’Bone Man, Ivy Sole. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

WORLD kennedy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Mokoomba. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

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

For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com Find us on Facebook/Twitter!

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

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1811 14TH ST NW

www.blackcatdc.com

28 &30

@blackcatdc

JULY & AUGUST SHOWS THU 27

5 FRI 28

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

6

FRI 28

w/ The Paul Green Rock Academy

SAT 29

CHRISETTE MICHELE

9

13

CHAD CALEK PRESENTS THE

sir noface lives tour

GILLIAN WELcH

Last November, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut album under Welch’s name, Revival, by releasing Boots No 1: The Official Revival Bootleg. Yet when the storied duo visit The Kennedy Center July 31st, they’ll highlight 2011’s The Harrow & The Harvest by playing the whole thing straight through. Why tour behind a record that’s too old to be new and too young to be forgotten? That’s probably the wrong question. Why not? The Harrow & The Harvest is a modern Americana classic. It was apparent the moment listeners first heard songs like “Hard Times” and “Dark Turn of Mind.” The record is a salve for weary souls overwhelmed by dark times. In these songs, you can hear Welch overcome her burdens and relish the valleys for the peaks they lead to. Those feelings are worth hearing live, regardless of timing. Those looking for tunes outside of The Harrow & The Harvest shouldn’t fret: Welch and Rawlings’ second sets always feature a wide variety of classics, deep cuts, and covers. Gillian Welch performs at 8 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. $38. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Justin Weber

WEDNESDAY ROck

blAck cAt bAckStAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Holograms. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

ELEctRONIc 9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Petit Biscuit. 10 p.m. $20. 930.com.

tHuRSDAY ROck betheSdA blueS & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Girlfriend in a Coma, N.E.W. athens. 8 p.m. $15. bethesdabluesjazz.com. hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202)

FOLk

556-2050. The Hall Monitors. 8:30 p.m. Free.

Wolf trAP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Punch Brothers, I’m With Her, Julian Lage. 8 p.m. $30–$60. wolftrap.org.

hillcountrywdc.com.

JAzz betheSdA blueS & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Geno Marriott & The Spirit of Jazz. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. tWinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Nutria. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

WORLD kennedy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Maria Pomianowska and ReBorn. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

StrAthMore gudelSky concert gAzebo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Fémina. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

SAT 29

FILM SCREENING and Q&A!

Sixth & i hiStoric SynAgogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Joshua Radin & Rachael Yamagata, Brandon Jenner. 7:15 p.m. $29.50–$35. sixthandi.org.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe And record cAfe 2477

DUO SIERRA HULL BUMPER(JessJACKSONS & Chris) 20 JONNY LANG 23 BOB SCHNEIDER KING 24 25 STEPHANIE MILLS KIM WATERS 26 27 SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISON MOORER 30 MARCIA BALL 31 AMANDA SHIRES Sept 1 KENNY LATTIMORE 2 SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS 3 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL 7 MATTHEW SWEET

17

with Tommy

8

Wolf trAP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Blondie, Garbage, Deap Valley. 8 p.m. $35–$85. wolftrap.org.

JAzz tWinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Future Prospect. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

CRYFEST

THE CURE V THE SMITHS

DARK & STORMY

DANCE / ELECTRO / RETRO

KILL LINCOLN

BOARDROOM HEROES THE BEST OF THE WORST AMERICAN TELEVISION

HEAVY ROTATION

VINYL FUNK / DISCO / SOUL

HARRY J & THE BLING

KAELAN BROWN & THE BLUE CHIPS

MON 31 MUGGLE MONDAYS BUTTERBEER & THE 4TH FILM TUE 1

FRI 4

FOSTER CARROTS

SECRET NUDIST FRIENDS AERIAL VIEW

EVIL LEAGUE OF ECDYSIASTS:

PASTIUS REVELIO

BURELSQUE TRIBUTE TO HARRY POTTER

SAT 5

THE U.S. AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

SAT JULY 29 KILL LINCOLN

THE MANHATTANS featuring

Gerald Alston

THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS

9

18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Katie von Schleicher. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Keene

SUN 30

CYMBALS EAT GUITARS

HOT RIZE

10

The Birchmere presents…

FRIDAY Aug 11, 8pm

YOUSSOU N’ DOUR The Voice of Senegal

• Wash. DC Tickets: gwutickets.com | 202.994.6800

SHEER MAG WED AUG 23

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WE ARE LOCATED 3 BLOCKS FROM THE U STREET/CARDOZO STATION

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LIVE

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

PETER HIMMELMAN W/ NATALIE YORK

THURSDAY JULY

27

an evening with

LIVE AT

THE FILLMORE THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE

ORIGINAL ALLMAN

BROTHERS BAND FRIDAY JULY

28

Galleries

heMPhill 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com. Opening: “35 Days.” Hemphill’s latest exhibit focuses on the contributions of local artists, featuring pieces from a diverse ensemble that includes Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downey, and William Christenberry. June 24 to Aug. 11. honfleur gAllery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Opening: “11th Annual East of the River Exhibition.” Artists Asha Elana Casey, Sheila Crider, and Amber Robles-Gordon present multimedia pieces based around themes of spirituality, identity, and repetition at this exhibition sponsored by the Anacostia BID and 11th Street Bridge Park. June 16 to Aug. 5. vivid SolutionS gAllery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. Opening: “City Under Siege.” For his first solo show, photographer Vincent Brown presents a series of images chronicling the District’s chronic homelessness problem. June 16 to Aug. 5.

SAT, JULY 29

AN EVENING WITH InGRATITUDE:

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

ENTER THE HAGGIS

W/ JUSTIN TRAWICK & THE COMMON GOOD TUES, AUG 1

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The stories of Edgar Allen Poe are creepy enough when you’re reading them on the page and creepier still when they’re read out loud with vocal affectation. Who hasn’t been sufficiently freaked out by a bird after listening to “The Raven” or thought they heard a strange thumping sound the first time they read “The Tell-Tale Heart”?

Poe’s works traditionally lack illustration, leaving it up to the individual to conjure unique grotesque images in their minds, until now. Acclaimed artist Gareth Hinds’ latest project is a graphic adaptation of the Baltimore poet’s best work. Hinds has previously created graphic representations of Beowulf, The Odyssey, and Macbeth, so he’s familiar with the ghoulish, slightly macabre qualities Poe specialized in. And while he lacks the general insanity that’s become synonymous with Poe, Hinds will probably succeed in spooking the readers who come see him discuss his work at the Takoma Park Library. When stories are told (and drawn) from the perspective of deranged murderers, how could you not be? Gareth Hinds reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Takoma Park Library, 101 Philadelphia Ave., Takoma Park. Free. (301) 891-7259. takomapark.info/library.

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night SeASonS A 93-year-old woman reflects on her long life, wondering if outliving her family and friends is a punishment or a gift, in this Horton Foote drama directed by Jack Sbarbori. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To Aug. 13. $15–$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org.

An octoroon Woolly Mammoth reunites the cast and creative team of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ spin on 19th century racial melodrama, which first showed at the theater in 2016. As the drama unfurls, a white man falls in love with the part-black owner of the estate, a swindler tries to win the man for himself, and the whole property might be foreclosed on.

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

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I moved to D.C. during an especially muggy August some years back and listened to Chris Thile’s “Heart in a Cage” on an obsessive loop throughout those early days. Thile’s take on what was originally a Strokes song featured the mandolin virtuoso’s signature pluck (pun forever intended) and a full bluegrass backing thanks to the four other musicians who form, with Thile, Punch Brothers. Now you can see for yourself how well their sound fits with our swampiest of seasons when Punch Brothers play Wolf Trap. If Thile’s name sounds familiar, you might recognize him as the new voice of A Prairie Home Companion or remember his days as a boy wonder in Nickel Creek; if you’re a fan, you’ll be pleased to know that at this show, his former bandmate Sara Watkins will play fiddle with all-female Americana trio I’m With Her. Punch Brothers perform with I’m With Her and Julian Lage at 8 p.m. at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. $30–$60. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org.

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How does a band that was founded in 1974 stay relevant and avoid being looped in with the myriad Baby Boomer nostalgia acts on the touring circuit? For Blondie, the answer has been inverting “listen to your elders” into “listen to your youngers.” The band’s eleventh album, this year’s Pollinator, lives up to its title by crossbreeding Debbie Harry and Chris Stein’s iconic and eclectic sound with a few of the best songwriters in contemporary pop music, some of whom weren’t even born when Blondie broke up in 1982. The album is full of live-wire, dancefloor-ready electro-pop that simultaneously jibes with vintage Blondie hits and the retro-futuristic songwriting of Dev Hynes and Charli XCX. And while Blondie has looked outward, the band’s tourmates in Garbage looked inward when returning with 2016’s Strange Little Birds. Shirley Manson and company were able to find a new vitality and maturity with an alt-rock approach. Garbage did it themselves, but if the band is still around in two decades, its members might be asking the kids for help, too. Blondie performs with Garbage and Deap Valley at 7:30 p.m. at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. $30–$60. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org.

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ences of Jay-Z, Ovid, and Destiny’s Child. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Aug. 6. $20–$54. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

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AtoMic blonde Charlize Theron and James McAvoy star in this thriller about an undercover MI6 agent who’s sent to Berlin to discover what happened to a murdered colleague. Directed by David Leitch. (See dunkirk Christopher Nolan directs this dramatization of the World War II battle that finds Belgian, British, and French troops surrounded by German fighters. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Damien Bonnard, and Aneurin Barnard. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the eMoJi Movie Proving that even yellow circles can inspire a film, this animated comedy follows the exploits of Hi-5, Smiler, Flamenca, and their friends as they help Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, find a permanent role. Featuring the voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, and Sofia Vergara. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) girlS triP Four longtime friends reunite in New Orleans to spend a weekend at the Essence Festival and a series of shenanigans ensue in this boisterous comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee. Starring Regi-

An inconvenient Sequel: truth to PoWer 10 years later, Al Gore reflects on the realities of climate change and how close we are to an environmental and energy crisis in this follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) lAndline Jenny Slate, John Turturro, Edie Falco, and Abby Quinn star in this comedy set in 1995 New York, about a young woman preparing to get married and her sister, a covert club kid, who uncover a series of love letters written by her father to another woman.

Directed by Gillian Robespierre. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) vAleriAn And the city of A thouSAnd PlAnetS Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, and Clive Owen star in this science fiction flick about special operatives tasked with saving their city. Directed by Luc Besson and adapted from the Valerian comic book series. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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