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12 A memo to the chAncellor Enough with the mandates and rosy data. Our recommendations for really raising student achievement.

By Markus Batchelor and Ruth Wattenberg Photos by Darrow Montgomery

4 Chatter distriCt Line 7 Housing Complex: D.C. Council chairman blocks mayor from using local funds to restore long-derelict, city-owned historic homes in Anacostia.

8 Loose Lips: An ongoing leadership exodus plagues Bowser.

9 Gear Prudence 10 Savage Love 11 The Indy List

d.C. feed 18 Mai Tired: “It’s really easy to do shitty tiki cocktails that people will buy.”

19 Early Action: Some of D.C.’s top dinner destinations are actually better by day.

19 Are you gonna eat that?: Bantam King’s fried chicken skin ice cream sandwich 19 What’s in Stein’s Stein: Anchor Brewing’s Anchor California Lager

23 Galleries: Tierras Ambulantes at the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. and States of Mind: Photographs of Cuba and North Korea by Carl De Keyzer at the American University Museum 24 Film: Olszewski on Escapes and Gittell on Brigsby Bear

City List 27 City Lights: Learn all about the unicorns of the sea at the Natural History Museum’s newest exhibit.

27 Music 31 Theater 33 Film

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As lAst week’s cover story from reporter Andrew Giambrone detailed, many residents living in Park View, a gentrifying neighborhood along Georgia Avenue NW, are challenging the redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing development, objecting in particular to plans to reduce the size of an unofficial park located nearby (“Fair Play,” July 28).

“The District wants to redevelop the 12-building complex as part of an ambitious city effort called the New Communities Initiative,” Giambrone wrote. “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.”

What Park Morton tenants see in the protests against the project is resentment toward low-income people in an area where their neighbors want to preserve amenities without regard for what’s best for public housing residents. The gentrifiers insist that’s an unfair perception.

“What we are opposed to are the hollow promises that the Mayor’s office, Councilmember Nadeau, and ANC Rep Kent Boese have made to try to sell this current plan,” Fishstick90 wrote on our website. “They claim in flyers, at meetings, and emails to constituents that there will be a one-acre park with identical amenities to the current ones. ... But the legal documents make no such commitment. ... They admitted at the council and zoning hearings that they had no funds set aside for this alleged park, that it probably wouldn’t contain as many amenities.”

Yeah, and Elvis didn’t do no drugs, Twitter user @JerryJonenICLC seemed to say when he wrote, “Resistance to affordable housing always focuses on lame excuses, instead of confronting racism and class privilege.”

But perhaps the most honest reader feedback came from Twitter user @Nehlsie, who penned a series of tweets saying he lived in the neighborhood for six years but moved last year. “This development was an incredibly complicated issue,” he wrote. “And it’s one of the reasons we moved.

Density was going to create a cascade of quality-of-life issues for everyone in [the] ’hood.”

He said he supported the development as a concept but acted with his financial interests in mind. “The move for me was pure capitalist decision: can I max profit on a house next to a nine-story [project]? I feel really crappy abt it.”

Imagine how the Park Morton residents feel.

— Liz Garrigan

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DistrictLine D.C. Council chairman blocks mayor from using local funds to restore long-derelict, city-owned historic homes in Anacostia.

By Andrew Giambrone The head honchos of the District’s executive and legislative branches are engaged in a battle over four ramshackle houses in Historic Anacostia that’s dragged on for more than half a year and probably won’t conclude anytime soon. Meanwhile, neighborhood residents are being forced to tolerate the decades-old eyesores despite their efforts to have them rehabilitated, and the city overall is grappling with a significant housing shortage.

In a yet-unreported budgetary sleight of hand, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson successfully included provisions in the city’s budget for the next fiscal year that prevent Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration from using any local funds to get the four vacant homes refurbished and occupied. The District owns and manages them, and they stand within a few blocks of each other in the historically black neighborhood near the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. As development pushes eastward, real estate in this area has become increasingly valuable. And because the houses are within the Anacostia Historic District, their exteriors cannot be razed.

The political turf war over the homes dates back to last fall and has slow-boiled during the course of 2017. With Mendelson’s latest move in the ongoing saga, it remains unclear how the city will refurbish the houses, which continue to decay and have galled neighbors for years.

“This is disappointing because at the end of the day, the people who are going to suffer are the residents who will continue to have to live near blight,” says Troy Donte Prestwood, chair of the neighborhood commission that covers the homes. “The community’s hope is that the council and the executive can get on the same page, so we could put these homes back into good use.” Anacostia residents went to Mendelson for a legislative solution almost two years ago, Prestwood and others recount.

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In December, the council passed legislation requiring the Bowser administration to transfer the houses to The L’Enfant Trust—a D.C.-based nonprofit that specializes in historic preservation and has offered to redevelop the homes into workforce housing at no cost to taxpayers. Residents have widely praised The L’Enfant Trust’s work in Anacostia, which includes renovating two similar homes in line with historic standards.

Despite the council’s legislation, Bowser’s Department of Housing and Community Development released a solicitation for proposals to rehabilitate properties late last year and, in April, awarded the project to the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights.

DCCH has been a stalwart of that neighborhood’s transformation over the past three decades, but the houses in Anacostia would be its first east-of-the-river projects. (DCCH did not respond to requests for comment.)

In an interview, Mendelson defends his recent budget amendments, which explicitly prohibit any dollars from D.C.’s affordable 1326 Valley Place SE housing coffers, as well as any “operating, capital, contingency, or other District funds,” from going toward the redevelopment of the properties. The amendments include an exemption for the “maintenance” and “stabilization” of the houses to reduce the risk of them utterly collapsing.

“It’s as old as the United States that the legislature has the power of the purse,” Mendel-

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son says. He notes that his recent budget provisions are “consistent” with the council’s December legislation.

LaTasha Gunnels, who lives next to one of the vacant homes, explains that men use the adjacent house as “the neighborhood bathroom,” and the smell of urine is sometimes so strong that she can’t sit outside. Gunnels says she has also seen big rats, drug activity, and evidence of PCP around the property, adding that it once took the District about a year to remove graffiti from the house. She’s at her wit’s end about the situation.

“I’m very frustrated with the city. And I’m not happy. And I wish that Mendelson and Muriel Bowser can sit down together with the L’Enfant Trust and just work something out,” Gunnels says. “It’s depressing living next to one of these homes, and at times I’m concerned about my safety.”

The housing department has a portfolio of about 150 other abandoned properties, twothirds of which are in Wards 7 and 8. Historically, residents have accused the agency of so-called demolition by neglect—a reputation that DHCD, under Director Polly Donaldson, says it’s working to fix through faster dispositions that would result in more affordable housing.

The council’s plan with The L’Enfant Trust would have produced homes for middleclass families who do not make more than 120 percent of the area median income, or nearly $131,000 for a household of four. The idea was to bring greater economic diversity

to the neighborhood, which some residents say it sorely lacks. The L’Enfant Trust would have financed the phased redevelopment of the homes through both grants and proceeds from from eventually selling them.

Bowser’s plan, on the other hand, made up to $1.6 million in District affordable housing funds available to DCCH for work on the four homes and to another nonprofit that was concurrently granted the rights to redevelop two empty lots in Historic Anacostia. The properties would have been sold to families making up to 50 and 80 percent of the area median income, or roughly $87,000 at most for a household of four.

Now, due to the language Mendelson put in the fiscal year 2018 budget, which goes into effect Oct. 1, local government money is off the table. And because the District passed an emergency version of the budget earlier this summer—as is standard given D.C.’s unique relationship with Congress—DHCD currently cannot use those funds for the houses.

In a statement, the department says its competitive solicitation and disposition process ensures that low- and moderate-income families benefit the most from the redevelopment of city-owned properties. “We remain committed to transforming these houses into affordable homes for our residents as quickly as we can,” DHCD says. “Given the [budget] amendment, we are working on solutions that will still enable us to meet this critical goal.”

(A DHCD spokesperson says the agency is still exploring options for how it will do so.)

On a more-fundamental note, Bowser’s office has maintained that the separation of powers in D.C.’s Home Rule Act means that the executive branch is primarily responsible for disposing of city-owned property: Therefore, the administration contends, the council went out-of-bounds by trying to grant the four houses solely to The L’Enfant Trust. “The executive is wrong about that,” Mendelson says, adding that the council frequently participates in land-disposition agreements related to District property. “They can’t cite anything that says [the council doesn’t have a role].”

Prestwood, the chair of the neighborhood commission, says that in an ideal world the executive would quickly get city-owned properties redeveloped, and construction on the four houses would kick off tomorrow. “For so long, these properties have just stood, and to me they stood as a testament to dysfunction in local government—over multiple administrations and multiple agencies,” he says.

“I love a good fight as long as it’s for the people—as long as it’s for the soul of the community,” says Prestwood. “Any other type of fighting is usually unproductive.”

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DistrictLinE Separation Anxiety An ongoing leadership exodus plagues Bowser.

By Jeffrey Anderson From the number of firings and resignations in President Trump’s administration to the number of new head chefs at a once-popular restaurant, a common evaluator of organizational stability is the frequency of leadership change.

So Loose Lips took pause last week when Leif Dormsjo, director of the D.C. Department of Transportation, became merely the latest official to exit Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration.

Dormsjo, whose departure comes two-and-a-half years after his appointment, is among more than a dozen agency heads who have left D.C. government during Bowser’s first two years, not including a copious number of executive-level communications officers who seem to come and go as often as a drummer for the fictional band Spinal Tap. (Irony alert: City Paper is about to get its fourth editor in as many years.)

Dormsjo was appointed in January 2015, arriving in D.C. from Maryland, where he was deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation. In addition to leading DDOT to its long-awaited, much-maligned streetcar launch, he represents D.C. on the Metro board and serves on the board of the Union Station Redevelopment Corp. “Having spent more than 15 years working in state and local government, I decided it was the right time to take on projects across a national and international platform,” says Dormsjo, who is joining a private engineering firm. “I’m very pleased with everything we’ve accomplished at DDOT and expect to see more great things from the agency.”

Also resigning last week was Ana Harvey, director of the Department of Small Local Business Development. But the departures of Harvey and Dormsjo are merely the latest in a long line of executive separations, including Christopher Weaver, who led the Department of General Services before resigning after being pressured to meddle in a contract award; Bill Howland, director of the Department of Public Works, who dates back to the Anthony Williams administration; and Deborah Carroll, director of the Department of Employment Services, who also served as a cabinet-level official under Vince Gray. (Last year’s departures of Cathy Lanier and Kaya Henderson, as police chief and schools chancellor, respectively, had long been anticipated.)

Attrition at the rank-and-file level on the police force and the stunning number of departures among teachers and school principals have been persistent themes under Bowser.

But turnover at the executive level has gone

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largely unexamined—perhaps because its explanations are often less clear.

“In my experience, mayors don’t appreciate the value of continuity,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson tells City Paper. “They are too quick—in the name of putting their own person in position—to replace good agency directors. Over the years, my observation has been that mayors don’t do enough to nurture and support agency directors to keep the good ones.” (Mendelson and Harvey are in a longterm relationship and live together.)

At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman says such exoduses are normal. “People don’t stay in these jobs forever,” she says.

The question is, how long is long enough to be effective? D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson cites an audit her office released earlier this year that found the D.C. Business Center, which is tasked with streamlining relations between entrepreneurs and regulators, was “hampered” by leadership turnover. “The toughest jobs in D.C. government are agency directors,” she says. “[We] have a number of agencies that don’t function well. It takes time, patience, and tenacity to turn them around.

You can’t do it in six months or even a year.”

Patterson says retaining talent at high levels is clearly preferable to a constant leadership turnstile. A national study once found that school superintendents typically stay in their positions for an average of 18 months. Contrast that, she says, with the longevity of successful superintendents in Montgomery and Arlington counties.

Richard Greene, whose firm researches, analyzes, and writes about state and local governments, says cities and states struggle with “knowledge transfers” that are necessitated by changes at the top. “Someone has to know how to do that job before they get the job,” Greene says.

“No matter how qualified that new person is, the work is going to slow down until they understand all the moving parts [of the organization.]”

One or two years go fast, says Greene, even if that’s a typical shelf life for executives. “The problem is when you look at how long it took to reach full capacity,” he says. “If you have turnover every two years, and it takes nine months to get comfortable in the job, then there’s just 15 months out of that time when you’re operating at full capacity.”

Loss of institutional knowledge or the time needed to acquire it aren’t the only factors that stunt progress, Greene adds. “Frequent leadership transitions also lead to a loss of relationships, which is what makes many high-ranking officials most effective. A sense of trust builds over time that helps people work together better. But when an official walks out the door, the relationships leave with them.”

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Your next option is to bail. If the intersection is clear, ride through. Turn on a side street if you can. If there’s a manhole cover, go full ninja turtle.

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My wife has been seriously ill for three years, and I have been her sole caregiver. The doctors here weren’t getting the job done, so we made the difficult decision for her to move 2,000 miles away to start over and be near her family. Our sex life has been nonexistent since she became ill. She offered me a “hall pass” with two rules: (1) It couldn’t be anyone I worked with, and (2) she didn’t want to know about it. She offered multiple times, but I was taking care of her 24/7 and never used it. I started to consider using it after she moved, but I didn’t want to just find some random person on Tinder. You see, I am a cross-dresser. My wife knows. She’s never seen me dressed and isn’t interested in knowing more about it. So instead of paying for a traditional escort, I found someone who would dress me, do my makeup, go out to dinner with me, but no sex. We met three times.

However, one time I did hire a trans woman who dressed me and we did have sex. Obviously, I had to lie at times about where I was when I was using my hall pass, but I considered it a white lie to meet Rule #2. But my wife flew home unannounced to get her things (with her ex-husband along to help) and found my clothes out and quickly got out of me what I had done. She was beyond pissed. She says I had a hall pass for sex but not cross-dressing. She belittled me for the cross-dressing and said the sex was supposed to be a one-and-done thing. She knew I was a crossdresser, and I derived more pleasure from this cross-dressing experience than having anonymous sex with an escort. My questions: Did I violate the hall pass? Was I wrong to cross-dress?

—Dude Relishing Erotic Sexcapades Suddenly Entertaining Divorce P.S. I am quite convincing when dressed and blend well in public.

Your wife went home to get well and “start over.” And it sounds like she got well—at least well enough to fly—and started over with her ex-husband.

I don’t think you were wrong to cross-dress, DRESSED, and if you violated that hall pass, it was only because your soon-to-be-ex-wife didn’t share all the rules with you until after you used it. It looks like a setup to me. Your soon-to-be-ex-wife gave you permission to fuck someone else—permission that came with rules that were disclosed, and secret bylaws and codicils that were not—because, consciously or subconsciously, she wanted to catch you doing it wrong (in your case, DRESSED, doing it more than once, crossdressing when you did it, etc.). Because now she can divorce you with a clear conscience, since she’s not to blame for the split—you and your dick and your dresses are to blame.

You might want to brace yourself for some hardcore blaming and kink-shaming, DRESSED, and for the very real possibility she’ll out you as a cheat and a cross-dresser to 10 august 4, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

There are women out there who dig men in high heels, there are women out there into bi guys, and there is a significant overlap between those two groups of women. family and friends. But however the divorce plays out—and here’s hoping it doesn’t get ugly—at least you’ll soon be free to find a partner you don’t have to hide your cross-dressing from.

—Dan Savage I’m a 22-year-old nonbinary person and I’m debating whether to come out to my father as nonbinary. Complicating things is the fact that I tried to come out to him at 18 back when I thought I was “only” a hetero-leaning bi cross-dresser. He did not take the news well. Today we don’t talk about it, and I think he pretends it never happened. I’m wanting to move toward living in a less-gender-conforming way—including changing my name—and am considering making a second attempt. Pros: not feeling like I’m hiding who I am; maybe I get him off my back about kids; being able to be out on Facebook. Cons: screaming matches; strong possibility of being disowned and losing the modest amount of financial support I get from him; small possibility of him telling my mom (they’re divorced). Any advice?

—One Foot Out What’s more important to you, OFO, living authentically or living off your dad? If being your authentic self means giving up the money he sends you, and you don’t desperately need his money, the choice is obvious. But if his money is all that stands between you and gender-nonconforming homelessness, you might want to think through your options, the risks and the rewards, before going nonbinary official on Facebook.

—DS I’m a 25-year-old man who is mostly interested in women but I like to mess around with men sometimes. I also love wearing high heels and makeup—not to “pass,” but just because I love it. Most women seem to be instantly turned off by these two things. I usually do very well with women, but they bolt when I tell them, and

some have been quite hurtful. My family— even my father—is very understanding about the high heels and my sexuality, but the average woman doesn’t seem to like it when I do something that they deem “theirs.” Which is so unfair. Women can do anything they please—wear pants if they like, have same-sex experiences— but I must submit or face the life of an outcast. Any advice on how to deal with this while also dealing with the bitterness and envy I feel?

—Enraging Gender And Double Standards

Let’s start with those feelings of envy, shall we? While it’s true that women can wear pantsuits without causing alarm (or winning the White House), and while it’s also true that women can have same-sex experiences without freaking out the men in their lives (because straight men are likelier to be aroused than repulsed), women’s choices and their bodies are subjected to much more scrutiny, control, and violence than our male bodies are, EGADS. Until politicians legislate against your right to control your own body (and wear your own heels), you can note the few areas where women enjoy more latitude than men, but you aren’t allowed to bitch about them.

And this should put your pain in perspective: According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half the women murdered in the United States every year—55 percent— are killed by their husbands, boyfriends, or exes. It sucks to be dumped for your sexual orientation or gender expression, I know.

And people kink-shaming is more painful than non-kinksters realize. But none of your exes have stalked and murdered you.

Now the good news: There are women out there who dig men in high heels, there are women out there into bi guys, and there is a significant overlap between those two groups of women. If you succumb to bitterness at your young age because you’ve been dumped a few times—if you despise all women because you were dumped by women you wouldn’t want to be with anyway—you’re going to scare off the women who are genuinely attracted to guys like you. The women who bolted did you a painful favor, and you should be grateful. Because with those average women out of your life, EGADS, you’re free to go find an above-average woman who wants an above-average guy like you. Protip: You’re likelier to find those women at a fetish party or club, or via a kink social-media site or dating website. Good luck.

—DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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Most people don’t realize it, but the high schools in Wards 8 and 3—Anacostia, Ballou, and Wilson—and the elementary and middle schools that “feed” their students to these schools enroll a near-majority of all students in DCPS neighborhood schools. In the school year that just ended, there were 9,144 students enrolled in those Ward 8 schools and 9,703 in Ward 3’s. Citywide, DCPS neighborhood schools enrolled 43,389. It’s no secret that Ward 8 is the lowest-income ward and Ward 3 the highest. They are two very different communities, with divergent student and family populations. Nonetheless, and perhaps surprisingly to some, our concerns about our schools—in Wards 8 and 3, respectively, where we are the elected State Board of Education members— and for the system as a whole are quite similar.

As board members, we have a special opportunity to meet, visit, and interact regularly with the families, teachers, principals, and staff who depend on and work in the DCPS schools across the city.

Solutions to one perceived set of problems have a way of producing a new generation of problems. So it is with our school system. As our new chancellor prepares to release his new strategic plan in the next few weeks, he faces a different set of challenges from his predecessors. And so his agenda must be distinct. We are optimistic about the leadership and ideas that Chancellor Antwan Wilson is bringing to our schools, but we have some advice.

The two chancellors who preceded Wilson inherited a school system suffering from horribly low student achievement. They were charged with taking urgent action. As they saw it, the core of the problem behind low achievement was inadequate teachers and principals—and, more broadly, a culture of low expectations where poverty was blamed for student failure. The reform agenda of these chancellors was clear: There was a laser-focus on identifying and removing inadequate teachers and principals and replacing them with better ones. The relatively lax system was tightened with a stream of mandates from the central office. Evaluation criteria emphasized test scores and adherence to particular teaching and operating approaches. For a long time, a high-quality curriculum was an afterthought.

How successful this agenda has been is subject to debate. While average scores have risen, leading the district to be named “the fastest growing urban school district in the country,” the rise is at least partly due to gentrification: The eighth grade reading and math scores of our poorest students have not budged. After 10 years of aggressive education reform under mayoral control, the achievement gap between rich and poor has gotten wider and the disparities across race are largely unchanged.

Therefore, the DCPS reform agenda must change. There is consensus that successful schools—especially those with the lowest-income children—have, and depend on, strong, supportive, trusting school cultures in which staff members hold high expectations for all students; where all staff are constantly improving and encouraged to recognize, under-

stand, and solve problems that are impeding achievement. Such schools can thrive only in districts that give them the autonomy to do what’s needed—and where data and research, good and bad, are transparent and welcome because they show whether progress is actually being made or whether improvement strategies need to be adjusted.

Education researchers John Papay and Matthew Kraft have written that a culture of high expectations is most possible in high-poverty schools when schools provide “the necessary supports, both academic and socioemotional, to enable students to meet these rigorous standards” and when teachers could count on their schools to “provide students with the type of services and coordinated support they could not provide on their own.”

Their conclusion: “Policymakers should focus as much attention on developing supportive work environments as they give to staffing their schools with effective teachers.”

But the last generation of solutions— constant firing and hiring, command and control management, such a tight focus on easily quantified outcomes without thoughtful consideration of the processes and steps needed to produce them, and too little appreciation for transparency and candor—has left many schools without these environments.

Concerns about untrustworthy data surfaced most recently with The Washington Post’s revelation that the vaunted drop in school suspension rates is largely a result of fabricated numbers.

It’s time for a new improvement agenda.

The canary in the classroom: teacher and principal turnover. the teacher turnover rate in DCPS is among the highest in the country. About 20 percent of our teachers leave the District every year, according to independent researcher Mary Levy, who presented the figures via testimony to the State Board of Education.

Nationally, turnover is roughly 8-11 percent, and about 13 percent in urban districts. In 40 of D.C.’s lowest-income and lowest-achieving schools, an average 33 percent of teachers leave annually, compared to 15-20 percent who leave high-poverty schools nationwide. (At D.C.’s lowest-poverty schools, annual turnover is about 17 percent.) At Ballou High School this year, over 25 percent of teachers left before the end of the school year. At Wilson High School, about 20 percent of this year’s teachers will not return next year.

“When teaching is in trouble, so is learning,” education researcher Andy Hargreaves has written. “Fulfilled learners don’t come out of a system of frustrated and unfulfilled teachers.”

Teacher turnover is bad for learning, for many reasons. Kids are constantly getting brand new, inexperienced teachers (not every departing teacher is replaced by a newbie, but with such constant flux, most surely

are). Study after study shows that first-year teachers are the least effective, followed by second- and third-year teachers. After year three, teaching quality improves more slowly, though it continues to grow. In DCPS, nearly a quarter of first-year teachers leave after their first year and 46 percent after two years.

Meaning: We are virtually assuring that a large portion of our students each year—and an even larger portion in our highest-poverty schools—will be taught by the least effective teachers.

Moreover, new teachers do their best and improve most quickly when they’re part of a supportive, stable, professional community in their school. When turnover is this high, we can assume this culture is very weak and that these new teachers get even less support.

The constant churn also eats up scarce resources, with lots of staff time devoted to endless rounds of recruiting, training, and orienting new staff. DCPS makes admirably large investments in teacher professional development, but if half the teachers in whom the district has invested leave after five years, that’s a lot of money down the drain. Another consideration is that veteran teachers bring connections to the school community and credibility that helps the whole school. In recent testimony to the state board, veteran Woodson High School teacher Laura Fuchs explained why behavior incidents in her classroom have “dropped to almost zero” over her years of teaching.

“In part, I have become a better teacher, honing my craft,” she said. “But there is something else at play. When students walk into my room, over half of them already know how to pronounce my name since they’ve had friends cousins, siblings, teammates, neighbors, and acquaintances who have taken my class. I have a reputation that I have built up with the kids, and I have also been able to adapt to better serve them.”

But the high turnover is also the canary in the classroom. Teachers leave schools in high numbers when they feel they can’t be successful. Some teachers point to individual school leadership as the problem. But in many cases, the trouble lies with the school district itself and the mandates from the central office that deprive school staff, administrators, and principals of needed autonomy. Teachers feel like cogs in a machine, constantly trying to decide whether to do what they think is right for their students or what they know will look good on school reports and their own evaluations. As one teacher told us, teachers are “constantly reminded of their short leash,” whether it’s about how to grade student work, how to encourage best behavior, or how to strengthen their practice.

“The same unsupportive working environments that may motivate teachers to leave a school also constrain their ability to be effective with students,” Papay and Kraft write.

The same might be said of principals. According to a Washington Post story, a quarter of DCPS schools have gone through three or more principals since August 2012. Which brings us to the next big challenge:

Rein in the blizzard of mandates and policies that are imposed on schools.

Address unintended consequences. Give school communities more discretion and autonomy. teachers, parents, and administrators are exhausted by the endless blizzard of mandates and initiatives. Among the complaints we hear: a specific approach to professional development, for a specific number of minutes, regardless of a teacher’s need or the impact on other areas of the school; a system that rounds up grades, making it almost impossible for a student to fail and diminishing teacher discretion; credit recovery programs that can lead to pushing students through to graduation, regardless of what they’ve actually learned; and rules about how many students should pass a course, when students can be asked to leave a classroom for poor behavior, and how many students can be suspended.

It’s not just the mandates from the central office. It’s the unintended, perverse effects of a rigid accountability system. For example, schools and staff are judged overwhelmingly on reading and math test scores. Reading and math are fundamental, but when school quality is solely based on these subjects, the result is that schools often move to de-emphasize social studies, science, and arts. We have heard this complaint most of all in elementary schools, where there is often no dedicated time and staff for these subjects. This is counterproductive. Reading comprehension depends on background knowledge. If we don’t teach social studies and science at the lower levels, students won’t be able to comprehend their middle school and high school science and social studies textbooks. There are also middle schools and high schools where students take double doses of reading and math and, again, lose the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and ultimately their ability to comprehend the more complicated reading they will face in their careers or college.

There is logic behind every mandate—and good intentions. But taken as a whole and implemented quickly from on high, these mandates rob schools of their ability to deploy staff effectively, diminish teacher and principal discretion, and force all schools to treat problems similarly, despite differences in school needs. They take time from other priorities, contribute to teacher departures, sabotage learning, and undermine the ability of schools, teachers, and administrators to “own” and solve the issues in their schools, given their particular circumstances.

Alongside the growing mandates, in many schools the role of the Local School Advisory Team, which is supposed to give a voice to parents and staff in budget and programming decisions, has crumbled, sometimes to the point

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where these groups rarely meet.

There should of course be guidance on all of these vital issues. It’s a legitimate policy goal to reduce suspensions, move toward more common grading guidelines, and raise reading math scores. But execution matters, and understanding and addressing unintended consequences is vital. The current balance is out of whack.

Scott Goldstein, a teacher at Roosevelt and the founder of the new group EmpowerEd, testified before the State Board of Education about a culture of fear and compliance, where principals are “afraid to loosen the reins and allow innovation because they have to prove themselves to the chancellor and the chancellor to the mayor…. It’s a culture where anything, including grade inflation, under-reporting suspensions, and more happens not because of bad people—but pressure to put impressive stats on a shiny brochure for next year or the next campaign.”

These mandates and the pressure to announce successes run counter to a model of

continuous improvement, in which implementation is transparently monitored and where honest feedback is valued so that snafus can be detected early and addressed.

The system should set goals and priorities— and should provide support to schools to reach them. It should be clear about what students at all schools should be learning, through a common core curriculum. But schools, principals, and staff need more discretion and autonomy to figure out how to reach the goals.

Recognize the huge impact of poverty and rectify it with community schools and other appropriate programs.

It’s now coMMon knowledge that socioeconomic position and academic achievement

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have a close correlation. In a city that holds the unfortunate distinction of having one of the largest wealth and income gaps in the country— and the largest achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent counterparts— this correlation could not be more apparent.

Cities around the country are realizing that the only way to effectively close gaps and raise achievement is to embrace a “whole child” approach to public education. These districts have realized that, to have strong neighborhood schools and high-achieving students, you have to help build up strong families. In districts across the country, the “community school strategy” is crucial to meeting these goals.

Cities like New York City, Baltimore, and Oakland (a district our new chancellor recently led) are making both systemic commitments and intentional investments to ensure that neighborhood school communities serve as hubs for high-quality instruction and for the supports children and families need to break down barriers to achievement. Schools in

these districts are partnering and coordinating with dozens of nonprofits, government agencies, community associations, direct service agencies, and corporations to battle chronic community issues, identified in communityinclusive needs assessments.

At West Baltimore’s Robert Coleman Elementary School, one of the nearly 80 partnerships funded with dollars allocated by Baltimore City via the Family League of Baltimore is with a meditation nonprofit called the Holistic Life Foundation. When students have conflicts in the classroom or with each other, the school has students engage in 15-minute “mindfulness moments.” The innovative blend of meditation and yoga that the foundation developed encourages calming down, processing feelings, admitting mistakes, and restoring good faith.

During a typical day at Robert Coleman, students use the technique at the start and end of the day, on a referred or voluntary trip to the “mindful moment room,” or spontaneously in the classroom to calm a disruptive incident in class. When we visited Robert Coleman with nearly 30 teachers, union leaders, parents, DCPS staff, and other government agency representatives in July, three students led us through a mindfulness exercise and explained how it made them “feel calmer” and how they were behaving better in class. Robert Coleman has had zero student suspensions for the last three years.

For their children to access the dozens of programs and services on offer, parents are required to volunteer at least two hours a month at their schools.

Baltimore is beginning to see the results from these coordinated efforts. Students are happier, families are more engaged, attendance is rising, and truancy has fallen, giving students and teachers the ability to focus on what matters: achievement . Citywide, chronic neighborhood issues—hunger, mental and physical health, unemployment, and youth enrichment—are all being addressed inside school buildings and through food pantries and feeding programs, school-based health clinics, parent resource centers, out-of-school programming, and other innovative partnerships and initiatives. In fiscal year 2012, Baltimore funded 18 community schools around the city. As of fiscal year 2016, the city had tripled its number of funded community schools to 56.

Currently, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) funds eight community schools through an approximate $1.5 million grant program administered in three-year cycles. The schools hire community school coordinators to develop programming and partnerships that include and enrich students, families, and neighbors in the community. As a result, school climate has improved, families are engaged and healthier, neighbors are partners and—hallelujah—teachers and students are both more prepared to focus on what matters: academic achievement.

But despite the demonstrated success of these efforts when adequate resources are deployed, the growth and systemic support for the community schools strategy in the Dis-

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After strong advocacy from the community, the D.C. Council later earmarked a modest funding increase.

The community school strategy, with intentional investment and systemic support, has been proven to be effective here at home and around the country. If it is our priority to close the achievement gap and create a city where every family has an opportunity to succeed no matter where students start or what neighborhood they live in, we must be bolder in expanding this strategy. Across the city, principals and school staff are already trying to do the work of building partnerships and supporting families and communities—with little help from city government. D.C. Public Schools, with a chancellor who has seen firsthand what the strategy can do with the right supports, can lead the way in the years to come.

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Transparency and trust, not triumphalism. dcps has launched a trove of well-intended initiatives. Typically, they’re introduced by mandate—sometimes after being piloted in a few schools—with a top-down process that often denies principals and school staff an adequate ability to say whether it’s the right thing for their schools. The message around the initiative, as so many folks have recounted to us, is to implement the program as told and show that it works.

But not even the best mandates or programs work perfectly. All policies have unintended consequences that must be addressed.

Because schools are human institutions where every teacher and student has different strengths and weaknesses and the demands on schools and their priorities are different, the problems and how best to solve them will likewise be particular to each place.

Improvement is hard. Solving the problems that arise requires talking together honestly, recognizing problems and fixing them. The i n ce n t i ve sh o u ld n’t b e to p re t e n d a p ro g ra m w o rk s . It s h o u l d be to provide candid feedback and collaborate to figure out how to execute it.

To know whether something is working, look at the data, but also ask the people on the ground. They can alert us to pitfalls and bad actors and can also tell us about effects that aren’t otherwise being considered. Every policy has unintended consequences. The best antidote is monitor a new initiative and aim for understanding—not just good news.

The widely regarded experts in this educational version of continuous improvement, sometimes called “improvement science,” are the folks at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, a “research-practice” collaboration between the Chicago Public Schools and researchers from the University of Chicago. An example of how it helped solve

a key educational problem has immediate resonance here in D.C. As in D.C., Chicago schools were plagued with what all agreed were overly high suspension and expulsion rates. The Chicago school system directed its schools to lower their rates, much as D.C. did. As the policy required, suspension and expulsion rates fell at all schools, though, unlike here, there’s no evidence that the rates were lowered by fudging the numbers.

But that wasn’t the end of it. The Chicago school system worked with CCSR as part of a long-term partnership to find out how the initiative was working. The collaborative, trustinfused culture was in place to enable candid discussions between researchers and school staff. And what they found was fascinating.

Suspension and expulsion was indeed down in virtually all schools. But in some schools, both achievement and school climate ratings (whether the school is perceived as safe, supportive, and challenging) were also up.

In other schools, suspension and expulsion rates were similarly down, but climate ratings had plunged—and, disastrously but not surprisingly, achievement was down too. Transparency helped everyone understand what had happened. In the schools that put effective policies in place (well-implemented restorative justice, for example), school climate marks went up along with learning. In the other schools, suspension and expulsion rates were brought down, but the behaviors that led to them weren’t addressed. The result was more classroom disruption, a decreased sense of safety, and declining student achievement. There was, as always, an unintended consequence to the well-intentioned policy.

“You focus on trying to address an educational inequity, bring the voices of the people who are most directly impacted into the conversation,” says CCSR founder Tony Bryk, who is regarded as a superhero of school research. It doesn’t mean endorsing “every idea you might hear, but it does mean in some form or other taking these voices into account.

Listening is at the core of improvement.”

Programs are only as good as their implementation, and their implementation is only as good as the school culture, transparent data, and honest dialogue allow. In the case of Chicago’s suspension issue, the problem could be identified and efforts directed toward solving it. That’s what we hope for D.C. dcps can be a model for the country. Our school district is large enough to matter and small enough to be a laboratory for change.

But central to the ethos of a laboratory are transparency, honesty, and understanding about what’s working and why. The current approach prevents that. And the lack of interest in understanding what works and why is part of what leads to a school culture of compliance instead of an effort to do what’s necessary to promote student learning. The chancellor didn’t create this. But it is his responsibility to recognize and fix it.

Our new chancellor has a great opportunity. We look forward to working with him on behalf of all our city’s kids.

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“It’s really easy to do shitty tiki cocktails that people will buy.”

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Flaming Pineapple at Archipelago

By Laura Hayes TruxTon Inn decIded to go tiki for the summer and drew up a menu of sugary hits like the Jungle Bird, Mai Tai, and Hawaiian Sunset.

The neighborhood bar also rolled out plays on tiki classics like the Sunrise Over Barcelona with gin, passionfruit, lemon, coconut cream, and Angostura bitters.

But the neighborhood rebelled. They wanted to sip the original cocktails Truxton Inn introduced when it opened just three months ago, says head bartender Brian Nixon. The bar now serves both menus. But does the fact that Bloomingdale imbibers staged a mini, mixed-drink mutiny suggest there’s too much tiki in this town? And what’s behind the flam-

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ing hot trend?

Truxton Inn isn’t the only bar to shed its normal sensibility for an island vibe. Trummer’s on Main in Clifton, Virginia, has transformed its porch into Polynesia through Aug. 17, making for an odd juxtaposition with its buttoned up cuisine like dry-aged duck breast with confit leg and beluga lentil cassoulet.

Pepita Cantina in Arlington, Virginia, has also been launching tiki pop-ups, and the back corner of the roof deck at Jack Rose Dining Saloon has once again been converted into a tiki bar for the warmer months. Then there’s Hogo Bar, a bygone D.C. tiki bar from Tom Brown that’s now popping up inside The Passenger—possibly for good.

Further proof that the tiki scale has tipped: Eight bars are collaborating for a “Tiki Trail” throughout August. Fans of drinks that come

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Ballston gained a 290-seat Filipino restaurant this week with cocktails from longtime D.C. bartender Jo-Jo Valenzuela.

Bistro 1521 replaces Applebee’s at 900 Glebe Road.

in pineapples—and who are apparently immune to the kind of hangover that makes you feel like you’re hugging a jackhammer—have the month to make their trail stops, earning stamps along the way for polishing off drinks.

Finishers will be invited to a Sept. 3 luau.

Participating bars include Hogo Bar, Archipelago, Cotton & Reed, McClellan’s Retreat, Tuxton Inn, Quarter & Glory, Service Bar DC, and The Good Silver. May the odds be liver in your favor.

Nixon’s reasons for embracing tiki at Truxton Inn this summer and at McClellan’s Retreat in August are pure. “I love tiki,” he says.

“That’s the number one reason.” He always yearns to pour the intricate drinks, but he chooses to do so only during the summer months when crowds are thinner because of the extra time and resources required to serve labor-intensive cocktails with fresh-squeezed juices, house-made orgeat, and garnishes worth tucking behind your ear.

But longtime bartender-turned-bar-owner Trevor Frye renounces the short-term tiki trend. “Throwing a tiki menu out because it’s hot outside is kind of a cop-out,” he says. He believes that temporary tiki bars are whipping up sweet rum drinks, pinning up a few masks, and scoring some cool glassware without taking the time to understand tiki’s long history, its culture, and its ingredients. “It drives me bonkers just because I’ve been to such great tiki bars.”

Two bars that originated in California are credited for igniting the tiki movement in America. Don the Beachcomber debuted in 1933, and Trader Vic’s opened in the same decade. Many venerable tiki bars have opened in the 80 years that followed, including Chicago’s Three Dots and a Dash and Lost Lake, San Francisco’s Smuggler’s Cove, New Orleans’ Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29, and Portland’s Hale Pele.

These permanent tiki bars will always have an advantage over temporary residencies.

Take D.C.’s own U Street NW tiki bar, Archipelago, which could plausibly compete with bars of national renown. Before it opened, the owners immersed themselves in a large collection of first-edition books about tiki bars and recipes. “And we were able to cobble together what money we had to take trips and talk with people in Chicago,” says co-owner Ben Wiley. Even then, he says it took a month to feel comfortable making the drinks.

Tiki cocktails are markedly different from classic cocktails, says Wiley. While most cocktails contain between 2.5 and 3 ounces of alcohol, tiki drinks pack higher potencies at closer to 4.5 or 5 ounces. “You have to make sure they’re good to the last drop,” he says. “That’s why they’re stronger usually. People are sip-

ping them and enjoying them for longer than say a Negroni.”

But Wiley isn’t exercised by bars that appropriate his tropic thunder for a season, saying there’s plenty of room in the sandbox. In fact, he hopes Washingtonians will encounter tiki drinks on a temporary menu and come to Archipelago for a more complete experience. “They’ll do a sneak peek,” he says. “We’re the full movie. It’s not a theme, it’s a lifestyle for us.”

Frye thinks there are several reasons bars are jumping on the Blood & Sand bandwagon.

The first is that the lead spirit in tiki drinks is typically rum, which yields higher profit margins. “I can run a drink with Bacardi, something that costs $14-$17 a liter wholesale, and charge $14 for a drink,” he explains. “And it’s really easy to do shitty tiki cocktails that people will buy.”

Not only is rum more affordable than, say, Scotch, but the spirit is having a moment. After being written off for decades because coconut rums like Malibu tarnished its name, rum is back as a pet spirit. Much like mezcal last year, mixologists are eager to talk about the alcohol’s nuances.

Second, bars are thirsty to remain on the radar. “There’s insane pressure on bars to stay relevant, to stay fresh in the media,” Frye says. “If you put out a press release that says we’re doing a tiki menu, it gets them in the cycle again.”

But flash menus lead to rush jobs, and he argues that tiki culture is something to be studied and embraced. “It shouldn’t just be [done] on a whim, like we’re going to throw something out because we got a request for PR.” Finally, tiki drinks have the wow factor Instagrammers are looking for. “Tiki has this exorbitant nature to it,” Frye says. “It’s over the top. Everyone loves that banana dolphin with a cherry in its mouth.” Crazy garnishes are free marketing for bars, which is part of why tiki is so tempting. But the danger of it is that going off message starts to chip away at a bar’s brand.

It’s OK if people aren’t coming to his bar Five to One on National Piña Colada Day, he says, because he’s focused on new cocktail menus based on the acts playing at the nearby 9:30 Club. “We don’t have to be on this quest to get every person in every single night.”

And he urges other bar owners to shed the obsession with instant gratification and short-term strategizing in favor of cultivating loyal regulars. “Maybe I’ll eat my words at some point, but I believe in the concepts that I put out,” he says. “I’m gonna stick to my guns.”

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

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what we ate this week: Chesapeake crab stir-fry with egg white noodles, Old Bay tomato broth, blue crab, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and parsley, $12.29, honeygrow. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Club thali with fish curry, chicken makhni, kashmiri lamb, palak, and dal, $25, The Bombay Club.

Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

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all Purpose’s fried beans

DBGB Kitchen + Bar 931 H St. NW The best part about DBGB’s “L’Express Lunch” is that the two-course meal comes with a dessert neatly packaged to take back to the office to get over that 2 p.m. slump. The $26 lunch includes a soup or salad appetizer followed by an entree such as pasta, salmon, or a gussied-up burger. Dine from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Sushi Taro 1503 17th St. NW Prices can creep up at Sushi Taro after the sun sets, but lunch is a different story. The Japanese restaurant with a Michelin star to its name serves $14.95 bento boxes with cuts of sashimi, tempura, a main dish, and more. Another steal is the $22 bara chirashi set that has so much fish splayed out over rice that it could easily feed two. Dine from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Some of D.C.’s top dinner destinations are actually better by day. You can score a table without waiting in line or throwing elbows on OpenTable to land a reservation. Some offer weekday lunch items that best much of the dinner menu, while others offer daytime deals even when it’s not Restaurant Week. Our recommendations for when you deserve a break from your nine-to-five.

—Laura Hayes

Ambar 523 8th St. SE Barracks Row Balkan restaurant Ambar serves weekday lunch that’s a steal. For $16 you can pick two open-faced sandwiches plus a glass of wine, beer, or lemonade. Sandwiches include beef tartare, Vienna schnitzel, and lamb salami. A similar lunch deal is available with the choice of a salad ($13), and, as an added bonus, Ambar displays calorie counts. Dine from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Joselito Casa de Comidas 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Ordering the menú del día at a restaurant in Spain and taking advantage of the nap it necessitates is a right of passage. Try it locally at Joselito. The three-course lunch menu ($25) includes a soup or salad starter and a choice of protein for your main course (chicken, beef, or the fish of the day). The meal ends with a dessert plus your choice of a glass of wine, beer, or coffee. Dine from 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

All-Purpose 1250 9th St NW Despite being open more than a year, Shaw’s pizzeria still gets as crushed as a can of San Marzano tomatoes during dinner. But reservations are easy to come by for weekday lunch, and there are lunch-only specials such as a memorable eggplant parmesan sandwich ($14). Dine from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Osteria Morini 301 Water St. SE Take a break with a waterfront view and comforting pasta at Osteria Morini, where $26 during lunch gets you a choice of any appetizer plus a pasta, sandwich, or entree. A la carte pastas are priced between $20 and $24, so it almost feels like getting a free appetizer, which include picks like prosciutto and mortadella meatballs baked in tomato sauce (normally $13). Dine from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

mas of freshly baked bread combined with hay and spice from the California Cluster hops. The first taste is substantive and sweet, like the heel of a loaf of bread, followed by balanced hop-bitterness with a crisp and dry finish.

if things are different.”

What’s in

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Beer: Anchor Brewing’s Anchor California Lager Person: Andrea De Vries, quality assurance supervisor Hometown: La Conner, Washington Price: $7.50 per 16 oz Taste: The first thing you smell are aro-

Story: California Lager, an homage to the state’s first lager, is brewed from California barley and California Cluster hops. But more important than the Golden State cornucopia of agriculture is the yeast. California Lager takes an extra two weeks in the cellar compared to Anchor Steam, for example.

De Vries is tied to California because she moved to San Francisco to study art in 1983. “I have been looking at lager and ale yeast for 23 years under a microscope, so I can tell on a cellular level

She says “the yeast is the heart of the beer” and likens the lager to San Francisco sourdough, as both products are dependent on the health of their yeasts.

The keeper of the heart remains humble, not taking credit for the yeast’s creation, though she notes, “It’s always on my mind when I walk around the brewery.”

Few women have worked at Anchor, but lately that’s changing. “More recently, we just have a lot more women working in production,” she says. “We even have a woman in the brewhouse now.” That woman is Jennifer Jordan, who started in 2014.

Where to try: Daily Grill, 1200 18th St NW, No. 2; (202) 822-5282; dailygrill.com —Michael Stein

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Early Action

The Dish: Fried chicken skin ice cream sandwich Where to Get It: The walk-up window at Bantam King, 501 G St. NW; (202) 733-2612; bantamking.com Price: $5 What It Is: One glance at this summertime treat reveals that it’s not your typical ice cream sandwich—even without the fried chicken skin. The kitchen starts by toasting two King’s Hawaiian rolls, stuffing them with vanilla ice cream imported from Japan, topping them with fried chicken skins left over from roasted birds, and sprinkling the whole shebang with a cinnamon-sugar mixture and kinako, a powder of dried and toasted soybeans.

What It Tastes Like: Awesome. First, who doesn’t love those sweet, squishy Hawaiian rolls found in grocery stores?

Second, the crunchy fried chicken skins are the perfect salty counterpoint to all the pillowy sweetness. The cinnamon and kinako don’t come through strongly, but the snowy powdered sugar helps it at least to look like a dessert.

The Story: Chef de Cuisine Kristian Felix was involved in the research and development of the dish. “Something we were missing when we were testing was a little bit of texture,” he says. “We have chicken skins always available—why not fry it up and see how it tastes?” He says that when the cinnamon and sugar were added, for him it evoked the flavor of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. Plus, “It fits the restaurant really well, so we said, ‘What the heck?’” He adds that ramen-slurpers will finish lunch inside and head outside to the walk-up window to order one for the walk back to work.

—Rina Rapuano

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Cool “Disco” Dan, 1969-2017 Through his iconic signature tag, Danny Hogg became a symbol of community through D.C.’s most turbulent years.

EvEn bEforE thE movie, Cool “Disco” Dan was famous.

The shy young man was the most celebrated graffiti tagger in D.C. His signature, brilliant in its simplicity, seemed to be everywhere. On buses and storefronts, abandoned buildings and alleys.

It appeared in gravity-defying spots on bridges and roofs. And yet, for so long he was invisible.

We were intrigued by his defiance, his boldness and tenacity, and by the way that he was everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

You didn’t need to know anything about graffiti culture to recognize his tag. If you moved through D.C. during the ’80s, even if you rode the Red Line just once, you surely saw the funky block letters: Cool “Disco” Dan. Until a 1991 Washington Post profile, which he later regretted, few knew that his real name was Danny Hogg. A different level of celebrity came with the 2013 release of Joseph Pattisall and Roger Gastman’s documentary The Legend Of Cool “Disco” Dan, which celebrated his legacy and used his life as a window into D.C.’s turbulent ’80s.

Dan, who died last week at age 47 due to complications from diabetes, was a true D.C. icon, and for some, this loss ranks almost right up there with the passing of Chuck Brown and Marion Barry, beloved figures whose names conjure an era that is gone and can never be again. (Imagine, for one brilliant moment, a Cool “Disco” Dan tag on one of the pretentiously named upscale apartment towers that now occupy our considerably duller gentrified town.)

With his tagging, Dan took the go-go tradition of bands greeting audience members by name and reset it in a different, larger venue. As he won broader recognition, he inspired the generation of taggers that came behind him. There is no doubt that he was ahead of his time.

“To me, the way that people now are obsessing with selfies and being seen and being known, all that started back then with Cool ‘Disco’ Dan,” says Rare Essence guitarist Andre “Whiteboy” Johnson. Dan was an RE fan, and Whiteboy remembers nights when the band greeted him during their set. “With us doing all the shout-outs all these years, Dan figured out a way to give himself the ultimate

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shout-out—by branding his name on every billboard, abandoned building, and bridge overpass in the area,” he says.

Within the DMV graffiti community, Dan’s work was viewed as a benchmark. “Being a graffiti writer, one of your top priorities is getting your name out,” says the tagger who goes by Cert. “If you were writing at that time and you met Dan, it would mean the world to you if he said, ‘I know your name—I’ve seen you up.’”

Some believe that he may have earned grudging respect from the police. For all those tags, Dan was detained only a few times, re-

ports Gastman, and served a short sentence in Montgomery County. “A lot of police knew him and would give him a pass,” says Gastman. “Even the cops got it.”

During thE ’80s, Reagan’s federal government exhibited little concern for the well being of a city that did not, in its view, deserve the autonomy of statehood. At the time, Dan’s illegal graffiti felt like a kind of countercultural rebellion against the complacency of Reagan’s federal government.

Or maybe not.

Because here’s the thing about Cool “Disco” Dan: In part because of the economy of his style, his tags meant different things to different people. Those three words invited subjective interpretations, which in themselves reveal something about the people who held them.

For Michael Horsley, a local photographer who devoted many hours to documenting the city’s streets during the late ’80s, Dan’s writing suggested artistic freedom. “I think his work symbolized this universal need to be acknowledged,” says Horsley. “He represented a basic need to express yourself… I thought there was a sense of humor about it: Yeah, I was there.

I climbed up this wall, this tower, this fire escape, and I got it.”

“You gotta respect the work that he did,” adds Horsley. “In a way, he kind of gave us an identity.”

For Bowie State associate professor Tewodross Melchishua Williams, whose visual culture course on hip-hop aesthetics includes a study of Dan, his tags signified a deliberate defiance. “For those of us who grew up here, he’s always going to be a symbol of resistance,” says Williams. “He was about speaking your truth. ... He was in many ways about challenging the system, the local government and police and also the federal side of D.C.” Williams came up in Prince George’s County, and as a teen he saw the ubiquitous tags as a gateway to understanding urban culture.

“This was the age of Barry and Reaganism, and the impact of drugs, violence, and poverty in D.C. in the late ’80s,” he adds. “Dan definitely spoke to those muted voices of many people here in the DMV who were not being heard by the establishment, those who were neglected and left aside.”

Initially for Go-Go Fitness founder Dani Tucker, Cool “Disco” Dan was a provocative and exciting mystery. “We used to have these debates and intellectual conversations about him.

First of all, was he a brother? Was he white? Because a brother can’t get there, do that, and get away with it. Is he carrying a ladder with him?

How the hell did he get on this bridge? On this side of the Coliseum? He had to walk the tracks to get to this side of the building. And he didn’t get caught? That made him a legend,” she says.

Later, for Tucker, who grew up in Southeast,

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CPArts his tags came to represent something far more essential: an example to survive by. “We were living through the craziest time, with the city under siege and 400 murders a year. People were dropping; our friends from school were going down. Go-go and Cool ‘Disco’ Dan were the things that kept us normal,” she says.

“They were our way of saying that those of us who are still here, we’re going to make it, no matter what you see,” she continues. “Everybody counted us all out, like there was nothing good coming out of D.C.”

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born in boston but raised in Capitol Heights and Southeast D.C., Dan came out of the culture of go-go regulars who were tagging—What’s Up Woody, Gangster George, Lisa of The World, Tonya F, and Cool Calm Chuck. His “Disco” nickname, given to him by a class bully, was derived from a minor character in the TV sitcom What’s Happening!! who bested Rerun in a dance contest. Dan’s tags first started showing up 1984, and soon he was everywhere, moving from markers to spray paint cans. He also drew stylized cartoon figures, but he was always best known for his tag.

Before long his tags were multiplying so fast that people wondered whether there was more than one Cool “Disco” Dan. Much of his work seemed to have been meticulously planned.

“There was one tag by Union Station, which you wouldn’t see unless you were in an Amtrak train pulling out at two miles an hour through the train yards,” says longtime D.C. journalist John Curran. “I’d be on the train thinking that this guy is getting his tag seen by thousands of people trapped in a train going two miles an hour. That was not accidental... But it didn’t feel like vandalism. It never seemed bad, stupid, evil, or ugly. It was artsy; it was funny. It seemed almost optimistic to me.”

By Dan’s own account, street drugs and the hustler’s cash stacks never appealed to him.

But as his community was ravaged by the crack epidemic, he faced his own daunting challenges. His father had died when Dan was 13, and in some way, Dan never fully recovered from that. As he reached his teens, he struggled with mental illness. His schooling ended with seventh grade, and there were stints in mental institutions here and in Texas. He told the Post that he had been diagnosed “with personality disorder, bipolar, and schizophrenia.”

People who actually knew Dan, his friends and family, describe him as shy and reserved, quiet until he knew you. He was passionate about the things that interested him—go-go and boxing, and tagging, of course. Perhaps significantly, he was fascinated by celebrity and ghosts.

Pattisall first met Dan in 1996, when he spotted Dan selling go-go PA tapes in a park

by F Street NW. They talked for a while and it seemed to Pattisall that Dan lacked a stable living situation at that time, and was possibly homeless. Pattisall was carrying a Super 8 camera that day, and filmed his first inter-

view with Dan. That footage was later included in the documentary he made with Gastman, a project both describe as deeply important. “We wanted to cement his legacy and we wanted to show him that people cared,” says Gastman.

Dan also figured prominently in the catalogue that accompanied the Pump Me Up: D.C. Subcultures of the 1980s exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art that same year.

As time passes and gentrification continues, the legend around Cool “Disco” Dan takes on an added meaning. “His tag became like the signature of our culture,” says go-go historian Kato Hammond. “As the landscape changes in D.C. and a lot of our culture seems like it’s being erased, people are going to hold onto it even more fondly.”

In 1991, the Corcoran acquired one of Dan’s tags that was salvaged from H Street Northeast. It also acquired two of his drawings. Dan’s work was included in two subsequent Corcoran shows. The Corcoran has since closed, and those two drawings, works on paper titled “Klepto Kid” and “Indo Smoke,” are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. The salvaged piece—enameled spray paint, poster board, and staples on plywood—is part of a larger group of Corcoran works that were not accessioned by the NGA. It will most likely be distributed by the Corcoran board to another area museum in the near future.

Friends say that for Dan, that kind of recognition was both gratifying and unnerving. He did not show up for the premiere screenings in April, 2013, but he did appear at a second round later that year. “He just didn’t have it in him at the time. I think being around everyone was difficult,” says Gastman. “But he was happy and excited when he did come out… Actually being put on that stage, I think meant a lot to him.”

Both Gastman and Pattisall maintained a relationship with Dan following the making of the film, and Pattisall, who lives in the D.C. area, saw him frequently and helped as much as Dan would allow. “We’ve continued to be here for Dan after the movie as much or as little as he would let us,” he says.

Pattisall speaks eloquently of Dan and the experiences they shared. “Normally, we celebrate these lives after people have passed on, but he was able to be here for it,” he says. “I’m glad that Dan was able to see the movie while he was alive, and that he was able to have that experience. It’s a bittersweet thing.

“Dan might be the most inspiring person I have ever known,” he adds. “Some kid from Southeast D.C. who had nothing but a marker and a can of paint made a difference, influenced the most powerful city in the world and has left a legacy.”

CP A tribute to Dan, who is survived by sister La Tonya Watson and mother Denise Womack, will be held on the morning of Aug. 19 at the 9:30 Club. Visit cooldiscodan.com for more info.

GalleriesSketcheS old tools and items found along a journey. It’s mesmerizing to stand above and look at each piece; together they create an impactful visual of one’s supposed past. “Monumentos (Monuments)” is an assemblage of round and rectangular light and dark blocks positioned in rows, similar to chess pieces moving into the opponent’s territory. “Muro (Wall)” forms a long, black staircase in the shape of bricks, placed in the corner—not high enough to go anywhere creating an ending of sorts.

Ana Gomez takes a slightly different spin with her work, which is usually known for addressing issues related to globalization and the relationship between media and consumption habits. “Maruchan” is made up of stacks of instant ramen noodles redressed as porcelain treasures in gold lettering. The noodles have become a staple in Mexico over the years and are even stocked in small stores in mountain villages. “Vitrina (Showcase)” is a beautiful buffet filled with what appear to be porcelain dishes, but are in fact contain“Columna vertebral Kintsugi I, 2017 (Kintsugi I ers for fast food french fries, fountain spinal column)” by Paloma Torres drinks, burger cases, and McDonald’s happy meal box.

In “Sweet Home,” Gomez’s wall installation depicts two women as silhouettes on each end holding together a perfect dinner party complete with embellished China plates. The detail of each plate, however, tells a more complicated version of every woman’s life as she Tierras Ambulantes is hounded by men or erased from the picture (Clay in Transit) completely, a story screaming to escape the At the Mexican Cultural Institute of trap of faithful hostess. Gomez’s work chalWashington, D.C. to Aug. 19 lenges the consumption of mass production In Tierras ambulanTes (Clay in Transit), that’s sold to us—whether it’s the idea that a Mexican artist Paloma Torres thoughtfully cu- woman’s place is in the home, or that junk food rates an exhibition that explores the work of is easily accessible, fast, and cheap. Gomez seven sculptors who use clay as a means of takes these ideals and places them all on a silreturning to cultural roots and origins. The ver platter, forcing us to reconcile and ask ourwork of the exhibition’s participating artists— selves: “Is this really what we want?”

Maria Jose Lavin’s “Una cuestion de Ana Gómez, María José Lavin, Perla Krauze, María José de la Macorra, Gustavo Pérez, Saúl peso -Venus anorexica (anorexic Venus a Kaminer, and curator Paloma Torres—brings weight issue)” are 27 clay barbies encased out not only the intricacies and versatility of behind a clear box, placed upright and upclay itself, but the strengths of the female ce- side down in an alternating pattern. Some are missing limbs yet carry smiles on their ramic artists of Mexico, who steal the show.

María José de la Macorra’s “Lluvia (Rain)” faces. Lavin shows the struggle of anorexis formed by clay pearls hung from the ceil- ia—the body is tortured for a false beauty ing. The five strands fall softly on the floor into sold to us through media without a warning snake-like movements. The delicate shapes label that Lavin attempts to place in the transform the typically hardened clay aesthet- forefront.

Curator Paloma Torres’ work is visually ic into a pliable form—no longer an object held up on a shelf. Similarly, “Entre un adentro y captivating—columns stand upright projectun afuera (Outwardly, Inwardly)” is a wall in- ing strength, yet each piece is vulnerable in its stallation of 60 small pieces mounted togeth- skin. The columns resemble a spine which Paler to form a collection of beloved, found items oma describes as the strength of society, mainlike necklaces, rocks, and fossils. Visually, it’s taining the traditions and roots of immigrants. a beautiful reminder of prize finds from our The columns have intrinsic meaning and visually you can see the subtle cracks that make youth that still give us great joy as adults.

Perla Krauze uses black clay from Oaxaca each structure humanlike and resilient.

Tierras Ambulantes (Clay in Transit) is a powalongside cement and plaster to blend shapes with light and dark clay, the juxtaposition cre- erful story told through clay. The intricate deating a sense of solitude, transformation, and tails sewn into each piece fire off our memories memory. In “Gabinete Coleccion #36 (Cabi- and behaviors—whether it is the feeling of the net Collection #36),” a collection of shapes re- rain on our heads, forgotten treasures or trasembles the contents of an emptied drawer of ditions, or the ideals that, in an instant, chal-

Moving Clay

lenge everything around us. —Laura Irene

wanted to put that particular face forward.

In Cuba, we see baroque ceilings with mas2829 16th St. NW. Free. (202) 728-1628. sively peeling paint, Art Deco lobbies covered instituteofmexicodc.org. by grime, a piano player in a dilapidated studio who’s only able to use an armchair when it’s propped on its side, and a cigar store Native American staring snootily at a burned-out car.

In one image, De Keyzer offers a stunning panorama of a city whose every building is seemingly undercut by crumbling facades and fully exposed beams.

States of Mind: Photographs Here and there, the vibrancy of the Cuban of Cuba and North Korea people pokes through—in family celebrations,

by Carl De Keyzer or in the video screen a resourceful driver has At the American University Museum at installed in a 1950s jalopy. Perhaps the quintthe Katzen Arts Center to Aug. 13 essential De Keyzer image of Cuba is the one It’s hard to think of a worse time to exhibit at a tumbledown amusement park. In it, a faa photographic “grand tour” of North Korea. ther and son enjoy a ride in an elevated car, yet Coming soon after North Korea’s test-launch the ride’s operator is out cold, his head heavy of an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S. and on the control board.

The differences between the two nations its return of American student Otto Warmbier in a comatose state, American patience are apparent in De Keyzer’s images. In Cuba, with the hermit state is understandably thin, the photos of Fidel Castro seem like an afterand the degree of control the regime exerted thought; in North Korea, the framed images of on outsider and Belgian photographer Carl De dictators from the Kim family seem to have an Keyzer was predictably high. Indeed, De Keyz- all-too-real influence on their subjects. Whereer was always accompanied by a state “guide,” as in Cuba, people in the street actually seem to and the exhibit acknowledges that his access, be interacting with each other, in North Korea, as well as “the choice of images he could pho- they seem too scared to.

Smiles are rare. You’ll sometimes see them tograph, was very limited.” with kids, but more often childhood seems to be experienced with an enforced rigidity, as in the music class overseen by grim posters showing martial moves the children are supposed to learn.

Where Cuba is falling apart, North Korea, at least in these images, appears antiseptic— sometimes literally so, as with an image of bedroom furniture encased behind glass walls. Even the crowds seem orderly. And where the scenes aren’t antiseptic, they’re downright bloody, “DPR Korea Grand Tour” by Carl De Keyzer as in the photograph of a realist painting of a soldier (uniform Paradoxically, though, the longstanding labeled “U.S.A.”) torturing a bound, bleeding closed nature of North Korean society, and woman with a hammer.

It’s a pity the exhibition doesn’t offer too many the lack of world-renowned photojournalists allowed in, means that any visual depictions details on what we’re seeing; North Korea, in of North Korea will add to our limited under- particular, will be so unknown to most viewers standing of what’s going on with this key Amer- that most will want to ask questions like, “Why is ican adversary. Impressively, De Keyzer was al- there a World War I-style trench running through lowed to photograph in many locations around a pedestrian plaza?” or, “Why is this dark-clothed the country, rather than just the capital, Pyong- group of middle-aged men raising their fists in yang. So, despite his series’ shortcomings, De unison at an outdoor auditorium?”

But despite the practical obstacles of shootKeyzer’s work in States of Mind: Cuba and North ing in North Korea, De Keyser sometimes loKorea is worth our attention.

The exhibit at the American University Mu- cates a telling touch within a humdrum tabseum pairs 30 images of North Korea with 30 leaux. In one image, he documents a pair of images of Cuba. This presents a bit of a stacked hotplates cooking a meal next to a television deck. For all of Cuba’s problems—and there are showing a vivid scene of blazing artillery guns. many—there is little indication in De Keyzer’s It’s hard to know whether war ’n’ breakfast is photographs of the heavy hand of the state shap- something De Keyzer’s minder would have ing his work. Either that, or the Cuban govern- wanted displayed to the outside world.

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FilmShort SubjectS

Bear necessities

Escapes

Brigsby Bear

Directed by Dave McCary

Grayed runner Escapes

Directed by Michael Almereyda Director Michael alMereyDa had it easy regarding one aspect of creating his Hampton Fancher documentary, Escapes: Just strap a mic onto his star and let him go. The voice of the unlikely Blade Runner scripter—eventually, involuntary co-scripter—is the only one you’ll hear throughout the film’s 89-minute runtime, save for occasional dialogue from the entertaining, expertly curated film and TV clips that often populate the screen as Fancher details his midto-late 20th century Hollywood adventures.

And though they may not be as well-known as the adventures of, say, Jack Nicholson or Warren Beatty, Fancher’s escapades rivaled those of Tinseltown’s top lotharios. If you’re not familiar with the man, however, Almereyda’s opening may leave you a little lost. He drops you in with an offscreen Fancher talking about the artrelated concept of “duende,” loosely defined as authenticity or a heightened emotional state.

Soon after comes the first of the film’s chapters, “Bonanza,” in which Fancher—decidedly out of chronological order—speaks at length about his relationship with the successful Teri Garr while he was broke and no longer getting acting gigs. To a somewhat rambling story about how Fancher came to blows with an ex of Garr’s, Almereyda matches footage of both actors that charmingly expresses the actions and emotions Fancher is talking about. But if you’ve never seen the guy before, it will obviously take you a minute to get clued in to the game.

The director takes a different and arguably more delightful approach to Fancher’s background in the second chapter, “The Brain Eaters.” Describing Fancher’s youth-to early adulthood, Almereyda employs swift-moving and often cheeky title cards with notations such as “Fancher hates school, fails third grade twice, can’t add or subtract, repeatedly runs

away from home.” A photo of him as a child in swim trunks, feet planted widely apart as he holds two toy pistols , follows an update in which Fancher, at age 11, tells his parents he’s finished with formal education. Trivia about a more mature Fancher includes, “Lives briefly with a schizophrenic lingerie model.”

This chapter also details his short-lived marriages to Sue Lyon, aka Lolita, and to a nurse five years his senior. Other relationships included a young Barbara Hershey and, described by Fancher in painstaking detail that culminates in a rather anti-climactic payoff, a one-night stand with a Wilkes-Barre secretary whom he pursued solely because she seemed responsible enough to get him to an early morning flight on time. (He describes the layovers he had to suffer for a promotional event as “gruesome.”) At the end of the rambling story, he says, “That was it,” stands up, and removes his mic.

Fancher, whom Almereyda increasingly shows on camera—albeit still with the accompaniment of TV clips—even aborts some anecdotes. But though he may come across as a bit too weird to serve as the consummate raconteur to whom people flock at parties, Fancher is nonetheless amusing—so much so that Blade Runner becomes an afterthought, both to the viewer and the documentary. Naturally, the path to producing and writing the 1982 scifi classic is a colorful one, involving Philip K. Dick (on whose novel the film is based), Fancher’s 20-year-old girlfriend, and later Hershey, who persuaded the reluctant Fancher to tackle the screenplay by “beat[ing] me down, just through intelligence.” Not much of his original script survived, but recounting his visit to the set for the final scene, he was nonetheless ecstatic to see his vision and hear the one line that made it. And you can’t help but feel happy for him, too—particularly when it’s revealed that Ridley Scott called on the goofball to pen the film’s upcoming sequel.

—Tricia Olszewski Escapes opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

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Whether or not you have been paying attention to the career of Kyle Mooney, Brigsby Bear will come as an enchanting surprise. If you don’t watch Saturday Night Live, you probably don’t know Mooney at all. If you do, you would expect his first starring role in a film to be some sort of acerbic cringe comedy, with Mooney playing the kind of aloof, detached character he has specialized in over his fouryear tenure at SNL. Instead, he may have just made the most sincere film of the year and one of the most sweetly enjoyable.

Brigsby Bear opens like some mash-up of The Truman Show and the awful Brendan Fraser vehicle Blast from the Past. James (Mooney) is a 25-year-old man-child who has lived nearly his entire life in an underground bunker.

His parents, who we quickly learn stole him from a hospital as a baby, keep James underground through a series of TV episodes revolving around a Barney-like bear. Although James doesn’t know it, his parents write and produce these videos themselves, and each one contains a lesson designed to keep James how he is, perpetually uninterested in the world above ground. They even have merch: above James’s bed is a Brigsby-adorned sign reading, “Curiosity is an Unnatural Emotion.”

of superhero franchises and cinematic universes, James’s journey resonates with meaning. He’s a superfan whose whole existence revolves around a single piece of pop culture.

He eagerly awaits the next episode of Brigsby like Marvel fans await the next Avengers movie. He’s a fanboy in an insular world, and it’s just fine with him.

It’s not, however, fine with the world at large. When the FBI comes knocking on his door and James is returned to the world as a vastly unprepared adult, he is met with a roster of authority figures who want him to leave Brigsby in the past. A kind but dutiful cop (Greg Kinnear); a stern, well-meaning psychiatrist (Claire Danes); and, of course, his natural-born parents (Matt Walsh and Michaela Watkins), who struggle admirably with trying to ease his transition to the real world without ripping away the one thing that makes him happy.

You’ll notice a pattern here: everyone in Brigsby Bear is a good person. We don’t see that so much in independent films, which—and I’m speaking very broadly here—tend to focus on people’s flaws rather than their virtues. James certainly has some difficulties interacting with others; his new sister, when she takes him to a party, tells him to “just be normal and don’t embarrass me.” But the film, directed by firsttimer Dave McCary, gives her and everyone else an opportunity for redemption, and most of them take it.

It is a nearly utopian vision of art, nostalgia, and fandom. For some, Brigsby Bear might feel saccharine or sentimental, but it is a worthwhile antidote to the cynicism that we often

Brigsby Bear

James is happy in his shelter, where he immerses himself in the world of Brigsby, rewatching the videos that are delivered to him each week to discover hidden secrets and unifying theories. By night, he hangs out in a Brigsby chat room where he shares ideas and opinions with other fans that are later revealed to be fictions created by his dad (even the girl James has a crush on). In this summer season

apply to Hollywood franchises, comic book nerdom, and, heck, the world beyond them.

Something about Brigsby brings out the best in people, their lightness and their empathy.

We can learn from that. The world isn’t so bad as long as Brigsby Bear is in it. —Noah Gittell Brigsby Bear opens Friday at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

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Valentino Khan .....................Sa 19 Waxahatchee w/ Palehound & Outer Spaces .....M 21 Delta Rae w/ Lauren Jenkins ......................Th 24 AN EVENING WITH

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I Did It For The Story: A Tribute to 20 Years of Storytelling ........ SEPTEMBER 23

The Script ..................................................................................................................OCTOBER 2 Paul Weller ..............................................................................................................OCTOBER 7 Matisyahu w/ Common Kings & Orphan ..................................................................OCTOBER 10 Blind Pilot w/ Charlie Cunningham .........................................................................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 ALL GOOD PRESENTS White Ford Bronco: DC’s All ‘90s Band ........................ F AUG 11 The Werks & Passafire ................. Th 14

Sahbabii ............................................. Th 17 Tei Shi ............................................F SEPT 8 Mondo Cozmo ................................... Tu 12 Sonder ................................................. W 13

MHD ...................................................... F 15 Astrid S w/ Jasmine Thompson ............ Sa 16 Gabrielle Aplin .................................. W 20 Coast Modern ..................................... F 22

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AUGUST SHOWS FRI 4

Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

EVIL LEAGUE OF ECDYSIASTS:

PASTIUS REVELIO

BURELSQUE TRIBUTE TO HARRY POTTER

FRIDAY ROck

SAT 5

THE U.S. AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

SUN 6

NAH (EP RELEASE)

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Michelle Branch, Haerts. 8 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

MON 7

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Gordon Lightfoot. 7:30 p.m. $89.50. birchmere.com.

THU 10

BELLS & HUNTERS

SAT 12

RUN FOR COVER

SAT 12

SINGLEING LIVE PODCAST

TUE 15

OLIVIA & THE MATES

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sports, Yeek.

6:30 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Days Between featuring Better off Dead, The Dirty Grass Players. 9 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com.

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

Honey Island Swamp Band, Twin Brothers Band featuring Paul and Dimitri Yeonas of the Yeonas Brothers Band. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

WED 16

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

Sub-Radio, Unring the Bell, Fuzz Queen, Goose Club.

9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com. sonGbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Andy Suzuki & The Method, Sunbathers. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

FRI 18

BACCHAE (TAPE RELEASE)

SAT 19

RIGHT ROUND 80S ALT POP DANCE PARTY

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wolf Trap filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. National Symphony Orchestra: La-La Land in Concert. 8:30 p.m. $40–$60. wolftrap.org.

WED 23

DJ NIgHTS

FRI 25

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

(703) 237-0300. TGI90s Party with DJ Suga Ray. 8 p.m. $5. thestatetheatre.com.

ELEcTRONIc

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Dense & Pika, Schubert, MOdERN CLASS, Body Werk. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mat.Joe, Philco, David Hamilton. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

beThesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Louis Armstrong Birthday Celebration featuring Tom Williams & Sharon Clarke.

8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. naTional Gallery of arT sCulpTure GarDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Incendio. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Cheyney Thomas. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

WORLD

amp by sTraThmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Daymé Arocena. 8 p.m. $25–$35. ampbystrathmore.com. eaGlebank arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Sonu Nigam and Atif Aslam. 8 p.m. $49–$250. eaglebankarena.com. howarD TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Yemi Alade & The Ovasabi Band. 11 p.m. $40–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

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FYOHNA THU 17 OAKHOUSE

howarD TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Reagan Years, As If. 8 p.m. $20–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. ‘90s Tracks.

10:30 p.m. Free. dcnine.com.

MUGGLE MONDAYS

BUTTERBEER & THE 5TH FILM

YEMI ALADE & THE OVASABI BAND

It hasn’t caught on in the States yet, but the “Kofi Annan,” an Afro-hip-hop dance created by Nigerian singer Yemi Alade and named after the Ghanaian former UN Secretary General, has entertained millions across the African diaspora. “Annan” is no one-off novelty number. The track, from Alade’s second album, Mama Africa, is one of several Afro-pop compositions that quickly turned this diva into a superstar on the continent. She first received acclaim in her homeland when she won Nigeria’s Peak Talent Show in 2009. Her popularity skyrocketed with the success of her 2013 single “Johnny,” a catchy, lighthearted tale about a cheating boyfriend, aided by an over-the-top 2014 video that featured a faux TV reporter and an ensemble of women searching for Johnny. The clip has been viewed on YouTube nearly 73 million times. Alade employs a singsongy, conversational vocal style with clever enunciation on those two funky hits, but she also intones in a sweeter style on other tracks. Working with top African producers, Alade exuberantly shines, whether singing in Nigerian languages, English, French, or Swahili. Yemi Alade & The Ovasabi Band perform at 11 p.m. at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $40–$60. (202) 8032899. thehowardtheatre.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mew, Monakr. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. 1964: The Tribute. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. US Air Guitar National Finals. 8 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. White Ford Bronco. 9 p.m. $25. gypsysallys.com.

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

Splintered Sunlight. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

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GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA & N.E.W. ATHENS LOUIS ARMSTRONG BIRTHDAY W. TOM WILLIAMS & SHARON CLARKE QBANFEST FEATURING PUPY Y LOS QUE SON SON AND MAYITO RIVERA, TANIA PANTOJA, PEDRITO CALVO AND PEPITO GOMEZ WITH A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY DC CASINEROS

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W9 TH 10

F 11 S 12

A DRAG SALUTE TO DIVAS : DREAMGIRLS TWISTED (3/8PM) THE WHITNEY HOUSTON TRIBUTE THE NIGHTHAWKS, KELLY BELL BAND, SOUL CRACKERS W/ SPECIAL GUEST JONATHAN SLOANE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW (2SHOWS - 7/10PM)

SU 13

W 16 TH 17

AMY TOLIVER, ROBERT THOMPSON, & NWO BAND ABBA THE CONCERT B.J. JANSEN & COMMON GROUND FEAT: DELFEAYO MARSALIS AND DUANE EUBANKS

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THE ADMIRALS

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CHRISETTE MICHELE

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CHAD CALEK PRESENTS THE

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DUO SIERRA HULL BUMPER(JessJACKSONS & Chris) 20 JONNY LANG Clarence 23 BOB SCHNEIDER Bucaro 24 KING 26 KIM WATERS 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

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

(703) 237-0300. Girlfriend in a Coma: A Tribute to Morrissey and The Smiths. 9 p.m. $10–$13. thestatetheatre.com.

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sonGbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Iris Bell, Elena & Los Fulanos, Boaty Otis. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS 10 HOT RIZE 12 BELLYDANCE EVOLUTION presents 9

Fantasm – Odyssey of Dreams

BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY Lowland 14 PENNY & SPARROW Hum 15 KARLA BONOFF 13

The Birchmere presents…

FRIDAY Aug 11, 8pm

YOUSSOU N’ DOUR The Voice of Senegal

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(703) 255-1900. National Symphony Orchestra: Jurassic Park in Concert. 8:30 p.m. $35–$58. wolftrap.org.

cOuNTRY

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Florida Georgia Line, Nelly, Chris Lane, Ryan Hurd. 7 p.m. $72. livenation.com.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Butch Queen with DJs Kris Sutton and Sam Blodgett. 10 p.m. $5. dcnine.com.

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FuNk & R&B

fillmore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Khalid, Farrah Flosscett. 8 p.m. Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com. merriweaTher posT pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. 2017 Summer Spirit Festival. 2 p.m. $54–$450. merriweathermusic.com.

JAzz

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Cheyney Thomas. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

WORLD

beThesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. QBan Fest. 10 p.m. $40–$50. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

SuNDAY ROck

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Little River Band. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com. blaCk CaT baCksTaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Nah., Del Florida, Demille Music. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble, Art Feynman. 9 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Box of Rain. 7:30 p.m. $12–$17. thehamiltondc.com.

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. SunDown: Golf Clap. 4 p.m. $10. Jay Tripwire, Franck Roger, Team Zapata. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

ioTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Metro Songs, The Bachelor and the Bad Actress, Ray Sun. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. MikeQ & Vjuan Allure, Uptown Nikko, Jack Inslee, Wreck Tech, Ayes Cold. 10 p.m. $5. ustreetmusichall.com.

sonGbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Slaughter Beach, Dog, Shannen Moser, Bleary Eyed. 8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATuRDAY

MIkEQ

It was 2000 at a drag ball in Detroit and Vjuan Allure was set to DJ after lugging cases of vinyl all the way from the D.C. suburbs.

But of all the tracks he was ready to play, the host only wanted to hear six. Frustrated by the stagnation of the music at drag balls like that one, Allure returned home and remixed Masters At Work’s “The Ha Dance.” In Allure’s hands, the track turned into something more frenetic and aggressive, its iconic “crash” a dance floor weapon, and the ballroom beats genre was born. A few years later, a young DJ named MikeQ heard one of Allure’s tracks at a Newark club and was inspired to make his own ballroom beats. The New Jersey producer would soon become a pioneer and global ambassador for ballroom beats and vogue house, bringing a queer subculture to audiences whose only interaction with drag balls might have been Madonna’s “Vogue.” And while Allure and MikeQ have made countless tracks, remixes, and edits, the only place to really appreciate their talent is on the dance floor. Just be ready to hear more than six tracks. MikeQ performs with Vjuan Allure, Uptown Nikko, Jack Inslee, Wreck Tech, and Ayes Cold at 10 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $5. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Chris Kelly

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beThesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. A Drag Salute to Divas : Dreamgirls Twisted. 3 p.m.; 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SuNDAY

ELEcTRONIc

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Brian Cid, Life on Planets. 2 p.m. $5–$8. flashdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

fillmore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Khalid, Farrah Flosscett. 8 p.m. Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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merriweaTher posT pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. 2017 Summer Spirit Festival. 2 p.m. $54–$450. merriweathermusic.com.

JAzz

kenneDy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Nutria. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Andrew Schiller. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com. wolf Trap filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Chick Corea Elektric Band, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. 7:30 p.m. $30–$65. wolftrap.org.

WORLD

eChosTaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Farruko. 6 p.m. $36.80. echostage.com.

MONDAY ROck

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Evening Darling, Rubyfruit. 9 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

cLASSIcAL

kenneDy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The United States Naval Academy Wind Quintet. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

JAzz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Dwayne Adell Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

TuESDAY ROck

cHIck cOREA ELEkTRIc BAND

Chick Corea came up in the jazz world as a hungry, young pianist playing with swing bands, Latin groups, and avant-garde collectives. For a time, he even accompanied Miles Davis and, with his groundbreaking band Return to Forever, he helped popularize jazz fusion, especially the heavy electricity of jazz-rock. Corea’s sweeping synthesis of styles from across the Americas and around the world was highly influential on a young banjo picker named Béla Fleck, who aimed to extend the boundaries of traditional bluegrass. With his band the Flecktones, Fleck merges the percussive sounds of Appalachia with the chromatic, cool tones of New York City and, like Corea, he’s experimented in other genres, earning Grammy nominations in pop, country, and world music categories. Together, these exemplary musicians will present a night of intense improvisation and head-spinning stylistic synthesis. Chick Corea Elektric Band performs with Bela Fleck & The Flecktones at 7:30 p.m. at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. $30– $65. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org.

—Jackson Sinnenberg

JAzz

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Little Dragon, Xavier Omär. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Lonely Biscuits. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Gene Ween Does Billy Joel with Paul Green Rock Academy. 7:30 p.m. $20. birchmere.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Adam Torres, Wylder. 8 a.m. $10. gypsysallys.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Liv Warfield & Friends. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $35. bluesalley.com.

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

Dark Star Orchestra. 8 p.m. $38.50–$49.25. thehamiltondc.com.

kenneDy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Corina Bartra Sextet. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

sonGbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Behold the Brave, The Howling Tongues. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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

TajMo: The Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band, Jontavious Willis. 8 p.m. $55. thelincolndc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Robbery Inc, Kit & The Chardonnay Boys, Battery Lane. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. sonGbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Homeshake, FootsXColes. 8 p.m. Sold out. songbyrddc.com. wolf Trap filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Goo Goo Dolls, Phillip Phillips. 7:30 p.m. $40–$75. wolftrap.org.

FuNk & R&B

fillmore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. August Alsina, Rotimi, Tone Stith, Yusha Assad, PatriceLIVE. 8 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAzz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Carmen Craven. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. kenneDy CenTer ConCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Herbie Hancock. 8 p.m. $39–$115. kennedy-center.org. kenneDy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra.

6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

WEDNESDAY ROck

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Little Dragon, Xavier Omär. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com.

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cLASSIcAL

wolf Trap filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Asian Youth Orchestra with Sarah Chang. 8 p.m. $20–$58. wolftrap.org.

ELEcTRONIc

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Møme.

10 p.m. $15. flashdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

beThesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. A Tribute to the Music of Whitney Houston Birthday Celebration. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Chrisette Michele. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com. howarD TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Maxi Priest. 9 p.m. $29.50–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

HIp-HOp

fillmore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Playboi Carti, Young Nudy, Gunna, Pierre Bourne. 8 p.m. Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jon Steele. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

WORLD

sixTh & i hisToriC synaGoGue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Natalia Lafourcade. 8 p.m. Sold out. sixthandi.org. sTraThmore GuDelsky ConCerT Gazebo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Matuto. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

THuRSDAY ROck

beThesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Nighthawks, Kelly Bell Band, Soul Crackers, Jonathan Sloane. 7:30 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blaCk CaT baCksTaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Bells & Hunters, Fellowcraft, Short Lives. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Carolyn Wonderland. 7:30 p.m. $15–$30. thehamiltondc. com. ioTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Crooked Angels, The Walkaways, Alex

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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

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NARWHAL: REVEALING AN ARCTIC LEGEND

Anecdotal evidence suggests the narwhal is criminally underutilized in pop culture, apart from an animated pal in Elf, Leelu from Futurama, and a subplot in one of those Ice Age movies. If a blowhole could make a tsk-tsk sound, it would be making it at you, America. There’s so much to appreciate about the majestic marine mammal with a long spiral tusk. (It’s basically a big protruding tooth. Males have them. Some females do, too.) One thing is definitely true: Inuit communities have deep connections to the narwhal. And scientists are drawn to it, too, not only because it carries secrets into the icy Arctic depths, but also because its habitat is vulnerable to climate change.

The National Museum of Natural History pulls together the mystique and the reality in Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend, a new exhibit that promises to immerse visitors in the sea unicorn’s world, as well as Inuit interactions with the creature. There will be tusks, of course, as well as Inuit artifacts, fossils, and a full-scale narwhal model hanging from the ceiling. The exhibit is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. naturalhistory.si.edu.

—Joe Warminsky Parez and the Hell Rojos. 8:30 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com. kenneDy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Lincka. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Fleetmac Wood. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com. wolf Trap filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Dashboard Confessional, The AllAmerican Rejects. 7:30 p.m. $20–$55. wolftrap.org.

ELEcTRONIc

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Lenzman. 10 p.m. $10–$12. flashdc.com.

JAzz

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

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Le Boeuf Brothers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

Theater

biG fish Keegan Theatre closes out its season with the D.C. premiere of this musical based on the 2003 movie and 1998 book of the same name. It tells the story of Edward Bloom, a dying man room who reconnects with his adult son by telling gargantuan tales about his early life involving giants, circuses, and an ensemble of eccentric friends. Composed

by Andrew Lippa, Keegan’s production is directed

by Mark A. Rhea and Colin Smith. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Sept. 2. $45–$55. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

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

The mark of Cain Synetic Theater presents another original production, this one designed to tell the story of human history from the perspective of Cain, the world’s first recorded criminal. Directed and conceived by Paata Tsikurishvili, this blood drenched drama forces audiences to determine who is guilty in each situation. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St., Arlington. To Aug. 13. $10–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. niGhT seasons A 93-year-old woman reflects on her long life, wondering if outliving her family and friends is a punishment or a gift, in this Horton Foote drama directed by Jack Sbarbori. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To Aug. 13. $15–$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org.

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AN EVENING WITH BOX

OF RAIN

WED, AUG 9

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DARK STAR ORCHESTRA SPECIAL ACOUSTIC SHOW THURS, AUG 10

CAROLYN WONDERLAND SAT, AUG 12

JUAN DE MARCOS & THE AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS TUES, AUG 15

AJ CROCE AND ROBBIE FULKS WED, AUG 16

THE ROOSEVELTS

W/ HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL THURS, AUG 17

WALTER TROUT FRI, AUG 18

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THE LONDON SOULS AND CON BRIO WED, AUG 23

WALLY KINGS PRESENTS

KABAKA PYRAMID

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DONAVON FRANKENREITER W/ SPECIAL GUEST MATT GRUNDY

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.

FRI & SAT, AUG 25 & 26

The oriGinalisT Arena Stage brings back this drama about late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Sca-

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2017 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES MONDAYS AT 8 P.M. West Steps of the U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C.

BIG FISH

TueSDAYS AT 7:30 P.M.

The fantasy elements in Big Fish, the stage musical based on the Tim Burton film based on the Daniel Wallace novel, turn the traditional father-son reunion tale into something weirder, which on stage is a good thing. As the dying Edward Bloom tells his son, Will, about the strange adventures he had throughout his early life, a world of giants, werewolves, and poets comes to life, allowing the men to understand each other in ways they never could before. Keegan Theatre is the first D.C. company to take on composer Andrew Lippa’s musical treatment of the story, which ran for less than 100 performances on Broadway. While an intimate theater like the Keegan forces designers to be creative when building these mystical scenes, it also allows audiences to connect with the more personal aspects of the story. Sure, the signature Tim Burton wackiness won’t be recreated on stage, but given Keegan’s success staging pared down musicals in the past, audiences can expect a production that’s both strange and enchanting. The musical runs Aug. 5 to Sept. 2 at Keegan Theatre, 1742 Church Street NW. $45–$55. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

—Caroline Jones

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ADAM TORRES

Indie-folk musician Adam Torres sings in a falsetto over acoustic guitar backed by violin, but don’t mistake him for a sweet, angelic Art Garfunkel type. While Torres certainly has the pipes to do a convincing cover of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” or “Emily,” his songs are melancholic and entrancing, sometimes with a touch of menace. “Soaked in the sound of morning rain/ Soaked in the sound to take away the pain/ Oh it’s been coming down for a year or more,” the Austin-based artist sings on a track on Pearls to Swine, the album he released last year. It was his first since he self-released his debut, Nostra Nova, as a college student in Ohio in 2006.

(That album gained a cult following, which ultimately led to a wide re-release in 2015.) If he needs another decade to nurture another batch of songs as good as the ones on Pearls, so be it.

Adam Torres performs with Wylder at 8 p.m. at Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. $10. (202) 333-7700. gypsysallys.com.

—Zach Rausnitz

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Fleetwood Mac is a band that scarcely needs introduction, and their masterpiece album Rumours is one that every true American should know backwards and forwards. The members of the Los Angeles-based DJ collective Fleetmac Wood certainly do, and they’re hosting several “Rumours Raves” around the country to celebrate the album’s fortieth anniversary. Fleetmac Wood implores you to open your eyes, look at the day, and see things in a different way—in this case, the classic hits of Rumours laid over grooves and dance beats that lend themselves more to rump-shaking than shawl-twirling. For good measure, the remixes also include audio sampled from Fleetwood Mac’s interviews about the famously tumultuous recording sessions for the album. Since this is a birthday celebration, attendees are encouraged to wear costumes or celebratory sparkles and dance the night away, until it’s time to pick up the pieces and go home.

Fleetmac Wood performs at 10 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $10. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Stephanie Rudig lia, as he mentors a young, liberal clerk working in his office. Directed by Molly Smith, this production once again stars local favorite Edward Gero. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 6. $66–$101. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. roDGers & hammersTein’s The kinG anD i The touring production of the award-winning musical tells the story of Anna Leonowens and the king of Siam and the relationship that developed between them when she was hired to teach his wives and children about the western world. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 20. $49–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. wiG ouT! In this boy-meets-boy tale, a chance meeting on the subway takes a man into the underground world of drag ball culture. Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, co-writer of Moonlight, this warm drama about finding your community incorporates the influences of Jay-Z, Ovid, and Destiny’s Child. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Aug. 20. $20–$54. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

Film

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 washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) briGsby bear A kidnapped man finally escapes his captors and sets about making a film version of the only TV show he’s ever seen in this absurdist comedy from Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney. Starring

Claire Danes and Mark Hamill. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) The Dark Tower The latest film adaptation of a Stephen King novel stars Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba as foes locked in a perennial battle over the survival of the universe. It’s up to the last Gunslinger to save the world by bringing down the Man in Black and saving the Dark Tower. (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) 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) kiDnap Halle Berry plays a mother desperate to save her son in this thriller from director Luis Prieto. Co-starring Sage Correa and Jason George. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) menashe Performed entirely in Yiddish, this quiet drama follows a widower who fights for custody of his son against the protestations of his community.

Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) sTep This documentary follows the step team from a high school in inner city Baltimore as its members compete and make their way through their final year of school. Directed by Amanda Lipitz. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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

Case No. 172100009 STATE OF UTAH TO: Unknown PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT a verifi ed petition for termination and determination of birth parents’ rights has been filed in the Fourth Judicial District Court, County of Utah, State of Utah, by Mother Goose Adoptions of Utah, regarding a child who was born to a woman whose initials are A.R., and who resides in Washington D.C.: Baby Boy R was born on June 1, 2017.

IF YOU INTEND TO INTERVENE IN OR ANSWER AND CONTEST THE ADOPTION, YOU MUST FILE A MOTION TO INTERVENE OR AN ANSWER TO THE PETITION WITHIN 30 DAYS. IF YOU DO NOT, THE COURT WILL ENTER AN ORDER OF DEFAULT THAT YOU HAVE WAIVED ANY RIGHT TO FURTHER NOTICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE CHILD, FORFEITED ALL RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THE CHILD, AND ARE BARRED FROM THEREAFTER BRINGING OR MAINTAINING ANY ACTION TO ASSERT ANY INTEREST IN THE CHILD.

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Euphemia L. Haynes Legals Public Charter School strives to provide healthy and nutritious meals. To achieve this goal, we have partnered with the USDA and are participants in the National School Breakfast and Lunch programs.

In addition to the meals we serve with the National School Breakfast and Lunch programs we have a no junk food policy at our school and we are proud to say the snacks served to our students are healthy as well.

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offi ces, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, religious creed, disability, age, political beliefs, or reprisal or Request for Proposals retaliation for prior civil rights Facility Partner activity in any program or acBreakthrough Montessori PCS tivity conducted or funded by USDA. Persons with disabilities Breakthrough Montessori PCS who require alternative means is seeking a qualifi ed partner to of communication for program help us secure a long-term fainformation (e.g. Braille, large cility. Proposals are due no later print, audiotape, American Sign than September 15, 2017. The Language, etc.), should contact complete RFP can be obtained by the Agency (State or local) where emailing kamaria.mabry@breakthey applied for benefi ts. Individthroughmontessori.org . Please uals who are deaf, hard of hearing indicate ‘Facilities Partner RFP’ in or have speech disabilities may the subject line. contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

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E.L. Haynes Public Charter School PUBLIC NOTIFICATION National School Lunch Program Participant Euphemia L. Haynes Public Charter School strives to provide healthy and nutritious meals. To achieve this goal, we have partnered with the USDA and are participants in the National School Breakfast and Lunch programs.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2017 WIL 538 2017 ADM 831 Name of Decedent, Paula Keeney aka Paula Soroka Keeney aka Pauline Soroka Keeney Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Patricia K. Keating, whose address is 14115 Howard Road, Dayton, MD 21036 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Paula Keeney aka Paula Soroka Keeney aka Pauline Soroka Keeney who died on May 17, 2017, without a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose wherabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/3/2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 2/3/2018, or be forever barred.

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