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Playground shootouts, bleach attacks, and overpriced housing: Columbia Heights in decline P. 14

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INSIDE 14 Withering heights

Playground shootouts, bleach attacks, and overpriced housing: Columbia Heights in decline

By Andrew GiAmBrone PhotoGrAPhs By dArrow montGomery

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4 Chatter DistriCt Line

7 Plaza Drama: The hysteria over Adams Morgan’s plaza manages to make a developer look sympathetic.

9 Unobstructed View 10 Gear Prudence 11 Potanist 12 Savage Love 13 Buy D.C.

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In which readers have no fucking idea how hard it can get.

Darrow MontgoMery

In response to Zach Rausnitz’s reporting on the sale of The Washington Home site to Sidwell Friends School (“With Friends Like These…” Aug. 5), one helpful reader, DC Resident, suggested (mansplained?) that perhaps the fault lies with those who placed their elder family members into a nursing home to begin with. After he/she sanctimoniously described paying for daily nursing visits for a parent, DC Resident doubled down: “today, people … can spend 10 years at home with increased nursing visits, physical and occupational therapy visits, and be surrounded by family and friends who really care for them. This home is a relic of a different medical era, like an iron lung or polio wing…. As someone who upended their life to take care of their parents in their final days, I really have to ask why none of the children interviewed in the article admit to themselves that they could do this too. The City Paper did a real disservice by not interviewing adult children who chose NOT to put their parents in full time nursing homes. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” DC Resident, you sound undeniably like an complete asshole with no regard for the various circumstances and limitations others might face. A reader with the username Mary Mason was far more eloquent in her response than we are: “I, as I’m not hiding my name, am one of those interviewed and one of those who had no choice…. I am very happy that you had the choice to move into your parents’ home. That choice in fact is not available to everyone, nor is it always appropriate…. My mother is full care. She has to have an attendent 24 hours a day because she can’t speak, walk, write, push a button, call for help, care for herself, has a feeding tube, and many other medical complications that preclude Home Care….” Please do yourself a favor and read Mary Mason’s full comment on our site, as it’s an illuminating view into the incredibly difficult decisions children must make for their parents toward the end of their lives.

—Emily Q. Hazzard Department of Corrections: Due to an editing error, we ran our City Lights pick for Saturday’s Ingrown Summer Showcase on Tuesday.

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Tomorrow’s History Today: This was the week Vincent Orange was shamed into conceding he couldn’t simultaneously serve on the D.C. Council and head the Chamber of Commerce. He announced his resignation effective Aug. 15.

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Outsized outrage in Adams Morgan over ugly plaza

By Robin Eberhardt ThaT sound you just heard in Adams Morgan was a bunch of misdirected residents whistling past the graveyard.

Neighborhood residents who have become accustomed to co-opting a plaza where the old Knickerbocker Theatre once stood—and where 98 people died in 1922 after its roof collapsed from a blizzard—are indignant that its owner wants to redevelop it. Some even have grand illusions that they can persuade the city to buy the private property.

Holding “Save Our Plaza!” signs, they have been demonstrating on recent Saturday mornings in front of the Suntrust Bank at 18th and Columbia Road to ensure they can keep eventsquatting on the undistinguished pigeon perch they have appropriated for a farmers market and other gatherings.

Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau has declined to hold a public forum about the baffling controversy and charitably describes the uproar. “That plaza has been on loan to the community all these years,” Nadeau says. “It’s not a public plaza, but it’s being used by the public.”

Earnest residents are rallying against the

development plan to demolish the existing plaza and bank to erect a seven-story, mixeduse luxury apartment building. They hold “teach-ins” about the plaza’s history and urge residents to contact Nadeau to express disapproval. The group, Adams Morgan for Reasonable Development, has even submitted comments to the city’s historic preservation office about why it should be saved.

But while the property sits within the Washington Heights Historic District, the space is not itself historic.

Activists, meanwhile, are not appeased by D.C. developer PN Hoffman’s compromise in the face of community outrage. The redesigned plans include a smaller, 2,500-squarefoot plaza with planters and benches at the intersection where the current one stands, and moving the building back.

“I’m horrified by them building a luxury building,” longtime Adams Morgan resident Lydia Sarner says as she buys peaches from the plaza’s farmers market. “Sometimes, traditions are nice.”

Sarner calls the space—characterized during the daytime by its brick layout and knots of pigeons—the “center of our village.” There are also

occasional concerts on the plaza, and it’s part of Adams Morgan Day, an annual street festival.

Billy Simpson, a commissioner for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission that includes Adams Morgan, says the plaza is the “heart of Adams Morgan” and that the community values the open space it provides for casual and organized activities. Simpson complains that the new plaza wouldn’t be welcoming with a new, larger building next to it.

“It creates a different feeling,” Simpson says. “It cancels out the feeling of openness.”

All of this leaves Monty Hoffman, PN Hoffman’s founder and CEO, somewhat dazed by the outsized expectations from people who don’t actually have the right to any. Hoffman says he didn’t expect such indignation over private property, adding that there’s a significant cost to relocating building space away from the valuable area where the plaza is to the back of the building near the alley, per his compromise.

“We go the extra mile to make things work out, but this particular ANC has been very hostile towards our development,” he says. “We’re giving 2,500 square feet to the public.”

Longtime Adams Morgan resident Eddie Becker hopes that the city will buy back the

property from PN Hoffman so that the public can keep using it as is. He points to tax records that show the value of the building to be nearly $5 million.

“The plaza has great potential,” Becker says. “You need open spaces.”

The dispute has strained Nadeau’s relations with her plaza-obsessed constituents. Last month, protesters crashed Nadeau’s “office hours” in Adams Morgan in an attempt to save what they’ve dubbed “Reparations Plaza”— purportedly in reference to alleged bank redlining, the practice of refusing service to poor and minority bank customers. Plaza protesters complain that Nadeau eventually just left rather than listen to their complaints.

“I was shocked when she turned away from us to fold up her outreach table rather than fully hear the real concerns of her constituents,” Adams Morgan resident Mary Jane Owen said in a press release the plaza group distributed.

Nadeau says she believes the perspectives from the ANC commissioners are being heard and that a forum would be unnecessary. Adams Morgan residents participated in a survey last year called Envision Adams Morgan, in which they offered input about how they

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would like their neighborhood to grow.

“There’s been a really good discussion of that plaza and other public spaces,” she says.

“It’s not going to add value when we’ve had discussions already.”

Nadeau says she’s looking at ways to better utilize the genuinely public spaces in the Adams Morgan area to compensate. She held a meeting three weeks ago so the developer and neighborhood organizations could make nice, but Simpson says the meeting didn’t facilitate a compromise on building designs.

It’s a lot of energy to invest into saving what might be one the neighborhood’s least attractive spaces—with its brick-on-brick design and complete lack of shade. Meanwhile, Hoffman says the farmers market is using the plaza “sparingly” during the week and that the space is even a “dead zone” at times. He is working with the community to find alternative open spaces for the activities there now.

Mike Tabor, who owns the farm that hosts the farmers market, says it is “caught in the middle” of the development plan and that he’s searching for alternative locations for the market after the site is developed into the smaller plaza.

“I’m a little bit afraid that it’s going to be difficult for people to afford to live in the neighborhood,” he says.

Southeast D.C. resident Julia Kann, who has volunteered with the farmers market for six years, says the development of the area with Suntrust Bank will further gentrification and make it more difficult for people to afford to live in Adams Morgan. She says the plan is “symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with the city.”

Kann says that the plaza allows a place for diversity to thrive and predicts that removing it to build luxury housing will divide the community. She says the people who come to the farmers market share similar opinions about the development. “You will hear that all day,” she says.

Esther Siegel, who helps run the farmers market, says that the group opposes PN Hoffman’s plans as a way of “honoring the will of the neighborhood.” She says most people in the area would agree that the current structure could use some work but that it’s wrong for a developer not “invested” in Adams Morgan to make such a change.

“For an outside developer to change the soul, the spirit, of the neighborhood, it’s so tragic,” Siegel says. “Neighbors are left with what someone wants to build here.”

Hoffman, meanwhile, may be the District’s most sympathetic face of development. “The community raised concerns about the plaza, so we responded to that,” he says from his office. For a company giving 2,500 square feet to the public, “frankly I think we’ve been treated very poorly.”

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By Matt Terl There are Two very tired recurring jokes about the Washington NFL team’s name.

The first, and most worn out, involves a potato. The other is based on the implication that “Washington” is the offensive word that needs changing. As a joke, it’s not a particularly funny example of tedious LOL politics! humor.

But it’ll be even less funny when it turns out to be true.

With training camp underway in Richmond, Virginia, Gov. Terry McAuliffe has been back out publicly stumping to have the team’s eventual FedEx Field replacement built in Virginia. “I view this as a Virginia team,” he said last week. Normally, we could dismiss this as standard political pandering, except that he said it on ESPN 980, which— rightly or wrongly—creates the impression that team owner Dan Snyder, who also owns the station, sanctioned McAuliffe’s sentiment being made public.

If ESPN 980 isn’t an outright outlet for the team’s message, it’s at least a bellwether for where it’s headed. Host and former player Chris Cooley’s on-air hint about an imminent location announcement— and team dissatisfaction with D.C.—seems ominous.

Setting aside the thorny question of whether a football stadium is a financial and civic asset, building a stadium in Virginia would be a terrible idea for this team.

It’s easy enough to argue that the team has had very little presence in D.C. proper since starting to play games at Maryland’s FedEx Field nearly two decades ago. The training facility is in Ashburn, Virginia, and training camp was held there too from 2003 until the move to Richmond in 2013. There’s really nothing left of the team in the District aside from the ghosts and memories at RFK. But putting the stadium in Prince George’s County and the training facility in Loudoun County at least made the team feel like a regional entity—to get to the stadium (in Maryland) from the facility (in Virginia), you had to drive through (or, more likely, around) D.C. If the stadium winds up in Loudoun, it becomes a Virginia football team.

I lived in Ashburn for a few years, moving there from Baltimore and expecting to feel like

I was part of the greater D.C. Metro area, like I had in the Maryland suburbs where I grew up. The straight shot on the Dulles Toll Road makes for a smooth, accessible commute… and hides the fact that Ashburn feels more like a suburb of Leesburg than an exurb of D.C., less analogous to Rockville or Bethesda and more like Urbana. A team that trains there and plays there will have as much relevance to the District as does White’s Ferry or the “Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C.” in Sterling, Virginia.

Such a move also wouldn’t do much to staunch the steady creep of purple from the north, either. Much of Howard County already tilts toward the Ravens, and I’ve noticed more and more purple car flags in northern and eastern Montgomery County too.

The 1997 move from D.C. to Maryland was protected under the aegis of the team’s decade of on-field excellence. In those days, the last Super Bowl win was only five years gone, and it seemed like a given that the next one wouldn’t be too far off. If the current team fails to build on 2015’s success, re-establish itself as a genuine contender, and basically become part of the NFL conversation in a significant way, a move to Virginia will present a tempting opportunity for tired, frustrated fans to jump ship.

Usually, all of this would seem faintly ridiculous to me. I’d scoff at the old-school parochialism in an age of fantasy football and NFL Sunday Ticket, a time when proximity to a team means as little as it ever has. But it’s an Olympic year, and nothing illustrates the importance of sport to a region’s psyche quite like an entire country deciding to care about gymnastics for two solid weeks just because the athletes are wearing our flag.

That same attitude and sentiment scales to the local level. Another well-worn truism of this area is that the NFL squad, when it’s doing well, is the great leveler and unifier—across party lines and demographics. If the team retrenches and embeds itself entirely in some empty field near the Silver Line, a whole lot of that will be lost to history.

At that point, the name might as well change… just not the part of the name that we don’t print under City Paper house style. CP Follow Matt Terl on Twitter @Matt_Terl.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: There’s one part of my bike commute that I just can’t seem to figure out: those damn downtown traffic circles. It seems like every time I ride through one I’m nearly hit, and the times I’m not almost hit, drivers honk at me. It’s so annoying and, frankly, dangerous.

How can I master riding through circles?

—Cycling In Roundabouts Confuses, Leaves Exasperation Dear CIRCLE: Circles befuddle and enrage. Just ask the guy who killed Archimedes.

They’re also among the road designs that have the rare ability to flummox cyclists and drivers alike. In short, everyone hates them (especially the kinds of modified roundabouts with interior and exterior lanes, multiple slip lanes, and stoplights such as those found downtown). Except for L’Enfant, of course, who blessed our fair city with them without first consulting Henry Ford. And so here we are. But if Dante can get through his circles, so can you, and GP is here to help.

Each of the big circles downtown has a different setup for cyclists, so there’s no one right way to manage all of them. The best general principle, though, is to have a good idea before entering the circle where you plan to exit, lest you wind up in an infinite loop. You will be tempted to stick to as close to the outside of the circle as possible, but this isn’t the best idea.

Clinging to the outer lane will put you in the path of those exiting the circle before you and set up needless conflict. Likewise, don’t put yourself too close to the interior of the circle either—some of the statues inside have pointy swords and you risk a tire puncture. Don’t be afraid to take a whole lane (as a driver does): This will clarify your intentions and broadcast your future movements, which is crucial in navigating tricky situations on your bicycle. You could even use hand gestures to signal where you plan to turn. These, however, are no guarantee that your desire will be respected, so keep your head on a swivel. Assume nothing.

Predict unpredictability.

The chaos of a circle, especially at rush hour when all traffic rules and decorum are abandoned, might suggest an opportunity to jettison caution and weave haphazardly through various obstructions. When things are really hairy, this might be your only choice, but generally, it’s best to remain prudent and aware that frustration, confusion, giant metal boxes, and any deviation from going in a straight line result in situations that can be quite dangerous for cyclists. One idea is to opt out entirely and take a different route, but here’s another: Use the center of the circle, like a pedestrian. It’s legal and it might be faster, not to mention safer. —GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsDC. Got a question about bicycling?

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Dear Potanist: I’m 60 years old and haven’t smoked pot in many years, but now that it’s legal to smoke at home, I’d like to indulge. However, I’ve lost track of my “smoking” friends and don’t have any way to obtain seeds or pot.

Luckily my health is good, so I don’t qualify for medical marijuana.

—Can’t Rest in Northwest Although it’s illegal to do so, many seed banks stealth ship to D.C. with guaranteed arrival.

Just make sure you choose a bank that carries authentic breeder’s seeds. Buyer beware: There are many less reputable seed companies that concoct their own inferior strains and attach world-class strain names. To stay within the confines of D.C. law, seed shares are the way to go. They are free, local, and are regularly advertised. Keep abreast by joining D.C. marijuana medical, recreational, and edibles Facebook groups. Attend a seed share event.

A seasoned grower (or current smoker!) will have extra seeds to gift as well as advice for your growing endeavors. Finally, procuring the medical marijuana card is easier than sweating in a steam room. If your doctor won’t help, find one who will.

—The Potanist

How do I get my hands on weed lube in D.C.? I don’t have a friend in California (or in many places) I feel comfortable asking to mail me some.

And I don’t plan to make any trips to Colorado, Washington, or Cali, the only places where products like Foria are legal, as I understand it.

—Slippery when Wet Ganja-enhanced body butters, lubes, tinctures, and edibles are all available and legal in the District, as long as they are homemade and shared—not sold. There are many locals who pride themselves on diversity and quality of their apothecaries.

—TP None of my friends smoke weed so I’m always smoking alone. Is there any hope of cannabis social clubs, like they have in Europe, opening up in the District?

—The Loner Stoner A friend with weed is a friend, indeed. Sadly, there’s no way to predict when Congress will back off and allow “weed, the people” to gather, blaze, and be merry. We can only hope that lawmakers will recognize the benefits of legal cannabis and take action to correct draconian laws that prohibit public access to this fantastic natural resource.

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DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for the next three weeks—but you won’t be reading old columns while I’m away. You’ll be getting a new column every week, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me.

Yes, there’s another Dan Savage. He’s a sports writer and the assistant director of digital content for OrlandoMagic.com, and he will be answering your questions this week.

Dan has covered six NBA finals and 10 NBA All-Star Games. He’s appeared on CBS, ESPN, NBA TV, and First Take, and his writing has been published at ESPN.com, CBS.com, NBA. com, and OrlandoMagic.com. This is his first time giving sex-and-relationship advice.

“Other sports writers often tell me they enjoyed reading my latest column,” he told me in an e-mail, “but when they show me the article, it’s one of your sex-advice columns. The joke is going to be on them this time around when it’s actually my advice!”

—Dan Savage

I’m a straight guy in my 40s, and I’ve been with my wife for more than 20 years. I’m incredibly attracted to my wife. Recently, I’ve been a bit frustrated with us not having sex as frequently as I’d like. So I broached the subject with her. I tried to be easygoing about it, but maybe I fucked that up. Basically, I told her that I fantasize about her daily and would like to have sex more often. I cited two examples of frustration. Two weeks ago, I came on to her and tried to initiate, but we had a dinner party to go to and she didn’t want to be late. One week ago, I was flirting with her but was rebuffed because we were going out to dinner and … she wanted to go to dinner more than fuck, I guess. I made my wife cry by bringing this up. End result is that she doesn’t want to fuck more than we already do, there’s nothing I can do to make sex more appealing for her, and it hurt her for me to bring the subject up at all. I dropped it, apologized, and moved on. I don’t want to coerce her into anything (I want her to want me), so here we are. How can I communicate better in the future?

—Using My Words Communication in any relationship is key. On the basketball court, one of the first things young players are taught is to communicate effectively with their teammates. They’re required to call out plays, offensive assignments, and defensive rotations in order to prevent breakdowns and keep the system working smoothly.

In relationships, the same principles hold true. You have to be able to effectively communicate with your partner in order to keep both parties happy. And just like everything else in life, timing is everything.

First, I’d make sure you communicate your needs at a time other than when you’ve just been rebuffed. You’re then likely to be less emotional, think more rationally, and more effectively explain your needs without apply-

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ing added pressure. Second, I’d try making your next move when other plans are not on the table. In both the examples you mention, UMW, the timing of your request appears to have been an issue for her.

Schedule some time for an intimate dinner at home or cap off an exciting evening out on the town with romantic advances. If she does not respond to your improved efforts, then she’s not being a good teammate. A successful relationship is when both members’ needs are met, not just one.

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It’s great to have an ecoconscious lifestyle, but not at the expense of your urinary tract.

I’m a 36-year-old bisexual female. I’ve been dating my nice Midwestern boyfriend for about four and a half years. Within the first few dates, I brought up non-monogamy. I was pretty sure from past experiences that long-term monogamy wasn’t going to be for me. I get bored, I like attention, and I love the chase. He was against it. I thought, OK, we have a lot of other positive stuff going for us and maybe he would reconsider in the future. I feel like I’ve lost a part of my sexual self—no adventures, no three-ways, I miss girls, etc. I feel that what I want—newness, some kink he isn’t trained in, being with a girl, etc.—he can’t give me. So I brought up opening up the relationship again. My thought is I could get what I need/want and get my engine revving again, and hopefully bring that excitement and spark back to our relationship. He listens to your podcasts now, but he doesn’t think he could handle the idea of me with someone else. I don’t think I can handle the relationship as it is now, though, and this was my suggestion to try to make it stronger. I feel like I’ve already ended the relationship just by bringing this up.

Are we doomed?

—A Girl Has Needs

I appreciate you having your boyfriend listen to my podcasts—oh wait, that was probably meant for the other Dan Savage. Never mind.

My podcasts probably wouldn’t have helped with this issue.

Your question reminds me of a topic that’s currently top of mind in my profession: NBA free agency. In the basketball world, it’s the time of year when teams can go after the best available prospects not under contract and offer them a deal to join their team. Organizations heavily vet these players, talking to their former teammates, coaches, and others to make sure that their values match up.

There’s nothing worse than being locked into a five-year guaranteed contract with a guy who doesn’t fit with your franchise. Actually, on second thought, there is—getting married to a guy who doesn’t share the same relationship goals and values.

If your boyfriend is someone who has no interest in open relationships—and from all indications, he doesn’t—odds are he’s never going to be happy in that type of situation. And if you’re never going to be happy with monogamy, then you need to find someone whose values match your own. Unfortunately, some people are destined to play man-to-(wo)man, while others are more satisfied in a 2-3 zone. —Dan I’ve been hooking up with a good friend for about a year. We’re both single, and he lives in another state but comes to town for work every month or two, and we usually hang out and have really great sex when he’s here. One of the things I’ve always admired about him is his ecoconscious lifestyle… which includes showering only about once a week to save water. His BO is pretty inoffensive (it’s actually a nice scent), but I find that most times we hook up, I get a raging UTI within a day or two. It’s happened enough times that I’m wondering if his infrequent washing could be allowing bacteria to live on his junk, causing my infections. Is that possible? Do I need to have a talk with him about washing more frequently/thoroughly?

—Hurts To Pee The simple answer is yes, HTP. It’s great to have an eco-conscious lifestyle, but not at the expense of your urinary tract. If he cares about you as much as he does about the environment, then with a quick chat, he’ll probably focus a little more on his personal hygiene.

Especially if you explain to him that the overuse of antibiotics contributes to creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can cause issues for the entire planet.

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By Andrew Giambrone Photographs by Darrow Montgomery Raquel Colon is headed south.

The mother of two boys, ages 4 and 2, takes a break from packing and picks up the phone. Her voice is soft, understanding. One of the kids shuffles on her lap and gurgles as she talks about why she’s leaving Columbia Heights, her neighborhood for almost 25 years.

Now 31, Colon migrated from Honduras when she was 8, with her parents and older sister. The family decamped in Los Angeles, where they stayed for a few months be-

fore the prevalence gang violence led them to D.C. The city was still considered the “murder capital” at the time, but at least the family had relatives here. They lived in Northeast for a bit, then moved to the Woodner, a hotelturned-apartment building on 16th Street NW that borders Rock Creek Park. Colon grew up there, attending Bancroft Elementary and Sacred Heart schools.

It wasn’t until her senior year at The School Without Walls that her parents bought their current home near 14th and Fairmont

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streets—a three-bedroom rowhouse that’s since tripled in value. While working for a local economic development nonprofit, Colon, her husband and children have lived in the house with her parents, both older than 60.

She and her husband, a security professional, resolved to move four months ago.

They settled on Austin, Texas, after searching around the District and Maryland. After weighing prices, schools, and crime, Columbia Heights quickly fell off their list of options, Colon says.

“We would think that with making the neighborhood better, quote-unquote, things like crime would be a little bit less common,” she says. “It’s not necessarily the case.”

Colon isn’t alone. In recent years, a steady drumbeat of eyebrow-raising incidents has dismayed Columbia Heights residents who hold the neighborhood’s massive redevelopment in one hand and the persistence of gun violence, muggings, and drug deals in the other. Meanwhile, real-estate values and rents continue to rise, attracting young pro-

fessionals who pine for the modern conveniences money can buy, and pushing others out.

The target of more than $1 billion in investment, Columbia Heights today is a far cry from the community ravaged and torched during the April 1968 riots that erupted after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. But beneath the veneer of new stores and buildings, tensions endure.

June 14 was a dark day for the neighborhood.

Around 6:30 a.m. that Tuesday, 20-year-old Devonte Crawford was shot and killed inside the Columbia Heights Village, an affordable housing complex about a block south of the Columbia Heights Metro station. Less than 12 hours later, two 39-year-old men were critically wounded by gunfire steps away, on a basketball court near 14th and Girard streets. (The crimes were unrelated.)

Community members were shaken but not terribly surprised. Mark Ranslem, who’s lived in Columbia Heights since June 2010 and served as a neighborhood commissioner since April 2014, says the park where the double shooting happened has long been “a source of aggravation.” Though it has spray equipment for children, people also drink, smoke marijuana, and deal drugs there, Ranslem says. And, he adds, its bathrooms host all manner of illicit activity.

“It’s happening in the middle of the day,” the commissioner explains. “People here are sick of it.”

The day after Crawford was killed, a swarm of police officers scrambled to the Metro station, at 14th and Irving streets, to respond to an assault on one of their own. The officer had tried to stop a fight among a large group of teens. Some 20 departmental vehicles clogged the frequently busy intersection.

By Thursday, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, who represents Columbia Heights, had sent a lengthy letter to the community describing the week as “difficult” (it was the same week of the Orlando nightclub killings). A neighborhood resident, Nadeau wrote that the incidents were “upsetting” and outlined ways for concerned citizens to stay informed.

For the local lawmaker, the shootings were a reminder of the ubiquity of firearms in D.C. “Something as minor as one person accidentally bumping into the other gets violent,” Nadeau wrote. “One of them has a gun. The other ends up dead. These are the things that keep me up at night.”

Violent episodes have unnerved Colon too.

She says her sister was walking around Columbia Heights with her fiance about a year and a half ago when a stranger threatened them with a knife and demanded their belongings. The couple was ultimately unharmed. “That’s the scary stuff,” Colon says. The couple relocated to Tenleytown.

Perhaps the most harrowing event was when two men opened fire on each other last year on the Girard Street Park playground, which is tucked behind the Columbia Heights Community

Center on 15th Street. Right before noon on July 7, the shooters caused hysteria around the swings and benches for dozens of children and their guardians who were enjoying the summer morning. The suspects fled. Authorities said they may have belonged to rival gangs.

No one was injured, but many residents were quite literally shell-shocked. “What kind of asshole does this near a kids’ playground?” Andrew Wiseman wondered on his New Columbia Heights blog. Residents had similar questions for officials at a meeting hastily organized that Wednesday evening.

Colon, for one, has stopped visiting the park with her sons. “Honestly, I try to avoid some of the parks and some of the pockets in Columbia Heights,” she says. “If I take my kids to the park, I will take them down to Wisconsin Avenue. Somewhere [there won’t be] the risk of a stray bullet.”

Other incidents have prompted her to contact police officers via the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District listserv. In March, she reported illegal craps games occurring under “poor lighting” at Girard Street Park. Then—at the beginning of this month— she replied to a lieutenant’s email about early-morning gunfire on her block, where the day before law enforcement had discovered “numerous shell casings and damage to several vehicles.”

“Something’s gotta give,” she wrote.

A fact of urban living is that crime tends to surge during the warmer months. Some Columbia Heights residents are nonetheless baffled by how often it crops up on 14th Street north of Florida Avenue. It’s one of the District’s most congested corridors, busy with buses, cabs, and strollers. On July 30, 29year-old Edward Roberts Jr. was fatally shot on 14th between Oak Street and Otis Place, not far from local restaurant landmarks like Thip Khao and Pho Viet. Last Friday, a bullet apparently grazed a woman off Girard Street.

On Saturday night, officers responded to 14th and Belmont streets after shots were fired near a block party.

Columbia Heights has more police than anywhere else in Ward 1, and one of the highest concentrations in D.C. But that hasn’t deterred brazen criminals from creating disorder. Last November, around 8 p.m., a group of suspects approached a man by the PNC Bank and Vitamin Shoppe on Park Road and plunged a knife into his back. A couple of weeks later, two robbers punched a guy in the face near the Metro. In December, a man was shot and wounded near Tubman Elementary School at 5 p.m.

“I know the city has a million problems— we’re facing an affordable housing crisis right now—so there’s a lot of things to tackle,” Colon demurs. “But as a resident, it’s very alarming sometimes.”

Data from three police service areas that cover Columbia Heights suggest she’s not off the mark. August to August, total crime in the neighborhood gradually rose by several percentage points from 2011 to last year. This increase was primarily driven by property crimes like burglaries and thefts rather than violent

ones like assaults and homicides, although the area did see 10 killings from Aug. 1, 2014 to Aug. 1, 2015—more than double the four homicides over the previous period.

Columbia Heights and contiguous Park View (which share a police service area) have registered more than 13,000 property and violent crimes during the past five years. Approximately 80 percent of these have been property crimes, led by thefts from vehicles. Among violent crimes, more than half have been robberies that didn’t involve guns.

As of last Friday, the three police service areas experienced an almost 15 percent drop across all forms of crime year-to-date, with 66 percent fewer homicides, 50 percent fewer sexual assaults, and 37 percent fewer robberies without guns than seen in the same period last year. Robberies and assaults using guns, however, spiked 27 and 75 percent, respectively.

Strictly by the numbers, then, Columbia Heights presents a mixed bag in terms of public safety.

for D.C.’s fire department. A social worker by day, Smith says “every aspect of [their] lives”— from recreation to religion—“revolves around [the neighborhood].” While she plans to stay long term, Smith says Columbia Heights can feel “extremely transient” given all the newcomers who rent and then leave within a couple years. Their anxieties about crime typically outweigh those of old-timers, who tend to fret over housing costs.

“I have a lot of residents in my [singlemember district] who have lived there for 40plus years, and I’ve heard it’s mostly positive change from them: The neighborhood is safer, more diverse, and has more programs,” she says. “I think the newer ones’ concerns depend on where they’re coming from and what they’re used to. But because our communication channels are improving, sometimes the perception that crime is rising is stronger, which overall is good for transparency.”

Safety is in the eye of the beholder, it turns out. For Kent Boese, the chair of ANC 1A who

Across D.C., violence and property crime have fallen slightly year-to-date. It’s certainly no longer the murder capital it once was: Homicides fell nearly 60 percent between 2000 and 2013.

But the perception of safety, especially in densely populated neighborhoods like Columbia Heights that have experienced rapid gentrification, is far less calculable—and no less essential.

Jessica L. Smith, a neighborhood commissioner who chairs ANC 1B’s public safety committee, has lived in Columbia Heights for three years. She recently bought a condo near Malcolm X Park with her husband, a paramedic

lives in Park View but whose commission covers central Columbia Heights, the 14th Street strip could benefit from more consistent information sharing between residents and officers as well as more “sustained” police presence.

He says he’s “very disturbed” by stabbings around Harvard Street.

“I’m frankly surprised more people aren’t talking about them,” the bow-tie-clad chair says.

Non-fatal crimes have also grabbed attention. Robbers have hit the Wells Fargo Bank close to the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza at least four times since June 2014. The BB&T branch on 14th

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Street between Irving and Kenyon was the target of a robbery attempt in January. Other neighborhood incidents have been just plain bizarre. Last November, a man carrying a large cup from Chipotle filled with bleach threw the liquid at four people around the corner from the eatery. In February, five suspects, including minors, entered the 14th Street Chipotle and used chairs to assault a man.

Nadeau agrees with Smith that the neighborhood has become dramatically safer over time, like the District overall, but says her constituents live in the moment—they don’t want to hear about “back then.”

“We rely a lot on crime statistics to tell us that our neighborhoods are safe,” Nadeau explains. “I don’t think that’s true of the general public. My residents don’t care if I tell them statistically crime is down. What they care about is what they see and feel, and that’s what I have to be sensitive to.” within two months of moving to Co-

lumbia Heights, Patrick Nelson was whipped in the back of the head with the butt of a gun.

His glasses came flying off his face, and he couldn’t see a thing.

Luckily, he says, a neighbor saw what happened and immediately came to help. They called the police and filed a report. “I ended up with a wonderful two black eyes,” he recalls.

This was 30 years ago. Nelson was living in a friend’s house on Holmead Place, a block east of 14th Street, near Monroe. “There was nothing on 14th Street at all,” he explains.

“No Metro, no buildings, no services. The rest of it, aside from the Tivoli, was mostly empty lots.”

The Tivoli Theatre was finished in 1924, designed as the largest cinema in D.C., with more than 2,000 seats and a balcony. Although it survived the 1968 riots, it closed in 1976 after a period of decay. Now, the historically preserved site houses retail, office, and performance space. It reopened in 2005 and is a fixture in Columbia Heights.

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Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, vacant properties were pervasive. The District owned some via eminent domain, and many others belonged to people who were unwilling or unable to refurbish them. Nelson, now 59, says a grassroots group of devoted denizens set out to revitalize the 14th Street corridor all the way up to Columbia Heights. Their endeavors were institutionalized through community development corporations backed by “Mayor for Life” Marion Barry. (Barry also decided to locate the Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center on U Street NW, in 1986, to help spur economic growth and link services with D.C.’s poor.) The District then deeded land to the CDCs for redevelopment. The one for Columbia Heights launched in 1984.

Nelson joined the organization’s board, which oversaw projects like the Nehemiah Retail Center, an 18,000-square-foot strip mall that opened in 1995, at 14th and Belmont streets. (The center was razed in 2008, one of the CDC’s unsuccessful efforts.) The group

also received grants it then used to build lowincome housing, and the Latin American Youth Center on Columbia Road.

But the real game-changers for Columbia Heights have only come within the last 17 years. The first was the Metro station, which debuted in September 1999 and extended the Green Line by roughly three miles. (“Metro Goes to New Heights in the District,” a Washington Post headline punned.)

Nadeau’s predecessor Jim Graham, a former Metro board chairman, says it was a watershed moment.

“When I came into office in 1999, there was no reason to go to Columbia Heights unless you lived there,” he says. “And after dark, you didn’t want to be there because it was owned by the gangs. The place has transformed from a dead zone into a very lively area.”

Graham touts his role in facilitating the advent of the Giant grocery store on Park Road, which replaced a smaller, 38-year-old outpost at 14th and Newton streets in 2005. The bustling chain occupies more than 50,000 square feet of space and has an attached parking lot.

That it serves patrons 24/7 has made the Giant a neighborhood anchor.

(Speaking of late-night hours, the former councilmember now promotes a gay night at a Georgia Avenue and Newton Place strip club called The House. “We would never have thought of doing this 10 years ago,” Graham continues, chuckling. “People said we were crazy.”)

The other project that paved the way for contemporary Columbia Heights was the DC USA retail development. The boxy site replaced a torn-down post office in February 2008 and brought a suburban symbol to the city center: Target.

“That took some real persuading on the behalf of Bob Moore,” the late director of the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights, Nelson says. Moore told the CDC’s board members of his travails in persuading Target executives to consider the neighborhood for a location.

“They’re driving up 14th Street and the closer they get to the site, the more they’re pushing the buttons to lock the doors,” Nelson recalls.

“The expression on the guys’ faces was, ‘You don’t really think we’re going to be opening a frickin’ store here, now do you, Bob?’” Moore was “a lion who fought continuously for others,” his protege and current DCCH president Andre Byers says. Under Moore’s charismatic leadership, over 1,000 units of affordable housing were produced in Columbia Heights, though Byers says the price controls on some of them may soon expire. “If we only have a conversation about preserving affordability, but don’t have a conversation about boosting the capital income of residents, the battle will be lost.”

With some incentives from the District, including over $40 million in tax-increment financing that allowed New York-based developer Grid Properties to build an underground parking garage with 1,000 spaces, Target green-lighted the location. “That was the crack

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in the ceiling, so to speak,” Nelson says. “Target was the headliner because it was a huge retailer, and that was a big win for the city. Then Best Buy came, the [Washington Sports Club], Staples, Bank of America, Marshalls.”

All this has made Columbia Heights one of the most heavily trafficked neighborhoods in D.C. A study published last month by Dochter & Alexander Retail Advisors found that the volume of pedestrians outside DC USA is about the same each day of the week, with a noticeable bump on Saturdays. In 2010, a census tract in the northern part of the neighborhood displayed huge population density: more than 59,000 people per square mile.

Concurrent with DC USA, residential properties were going up thanks to the gravitational pull of the Metro. So too were the values of the neighborhood’s classic rowhouses, which were being renovated by professional developers and individual house-flippers. Tom Gordon, a real estate agent in the Dupont Circle office of Real Living At Home, says commercialization was the “pied piper” for potential owners and tenants: “You had a very quick jump in prices after that development. From there, it’s been a steady rise that really hasn’t shown much sign of slowing.”

The median sale price for all homes in zip code 20010 (the bulk of Columbia Heights) has risen more than 45 percent from June 2011 to June 2016, he says, from $450,000 to $655,000. Homes in 20010 are selling for slightly above list prices, meaning there’s high buyer demand and relatively low supply. “It’s been a strong seller’s market,” Gordon adds.

The range in home sale prices in Columbia Heights over that period has been wide, from about $250,000 to $1.4 million for a threebedroom, two-bathroom residence. Rents are harder to pin down, but Gordon says the median price for all rentals this year in 20010, including houses and apartment units, is roughly $3,250 a month. Five years ago, it was approximately $2,400 a month. It’s not unheard of to spend less than $1,000 a month for a room in a group house, or more than $3,000 for a twobedroom, two-bathroom apartment in a luxury building above the Metro.

The neighborhood’s real estate is booming so much that New Columbia Heights blogger Wiseman says he’s stopped consistently writing about new buildings: It’s too much to keep up with.

In part, higher home values in Columbia Heights have been driven by the conversion of its quaint rowhouses into two- or three-unit condos being scooped up by upper-income couples and new families. Gordon remembers one instance near Girard Street and Sherman Avenue a few years ago that transformed two houses into “enormous” condominiums with roof decks. They were recently assessed at $1.3 million. The houses had previously sold to the tune of $700,000.

Boese, chair of ANC 1A, says there’s money to be made in flipping houses. “But in the long term, I’m not so sure it’s helping the health of the community,” he cautions. “I think it does have a certain amount of destabilizing effect,” resulting in prohibitive cost barriers.

Resident Mark Ranslem

Jack appelbaum attended Georgetown for four years but made the move to Columbia Heights after graduating in 2014. Along with three friends, the 24-year-old employee of a management consulting company found a sizable apartment located about a five-minute walk from the Metro.

“It wasn’t as much about the neighborhood at that point, versus the apartment itself meeting our needs,” Appelbaum says. “It was more important for me to be near socializing opportunities rather than work, especially not knowing where my clients would be. I’m always going to get up and go to work in the morning—I’m much less likely to travel far to socialize.”

While single-family housing stock may be in short supply, Columbia Heights has no shortage of the post-college or post-grad-school sort looking to pursue their careers. Like Appelbaum, they’re keen to discover neighborhood gems along 11th Street or go to U Street on the weekends. When his lease expired this year, Appelbaum opted to stay in Columbia Heights, relocating to another building further south along 14th Street. “It’s so close to everything that it makes the experience better,” he says. Plus, “I probably know more people living in Columbia Heights than when I moved in.”

Other demographic groups have been moving out. According to the Urban Institute, nearly 6,700 fewer black people lived in the Columbia Heights–Mount Pleasant area in 2010 than in 2000. The white population grew by leaps over that time, with 8,300 newcomers from a total count of more than 47,000 people. The share of Latino residents declined about 3 percentage points.

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A multitude of factors can account for these shifts, including births and deaths. But residents say they’ve anecdotally noticed more white people in Columbia Heights, who now make up about a third of the area. They also say the neighborhood resembles a clash of socioeconomic classes.

Alicia Wilson heads La Clinica del Pueblo, a nonprofit founded in 1983 that provides health services tailored to Latino residents. Wilson, who is white, notes that more of the organization’s clients commute from farther away than in the past, with 30 percent coming from Prince George’s County. Many patients simply can’t afford to live in D.C. anymore.

“What I would say is that the racial and ethnic divisions and tensions are more pronounced,” she says. “Now you have three distinct ethnic groups in Columbia Heights, whereas previously there were just two. Prior to the Metro opening, you could have maybe argued that Columbia Heights was African American and Mount Pleasant was Latino.

Then [the area] became increasingly Caucasian. There’s not integration. There’s still segregated communities, if not segregated neighborhoods.”

Or, as Wiseman says, “I feel like it’s diverse, but I don’t know if it’s diverse together.”

Lori Kaplan, president of the Latin American Youth Center—which has been in Columbia Heights since 1974—says community organizations like hers can combat this silo effect through volunteer and other programs. Still, she says, some of the kids who attend the center have experienced stereotyping by local authorities and businesses.

One new entrant she declined to name re-

buffed her efforts to connect businesses with teens, whom LAYC helps find jobs. “They said, ‘We don’t hire from the community we’re in,’” Kaplan recounts. “Their reason was that if you hire kids from the neighborhood, they’re going to steal from you. It was disgusting. I was shocked.”

This kind of bias has triggered anxiety that the area’s diversity is being diluted. Nadeau characterizes it as the neighborhood’s “most special quality, the thing we’ll ultimately be fighting hardest to retain.”

Few semi-private spaces in the area draw diverse groups together. But on a recent Saturday, the line outside the Florida Avenue Grill featured hungry customers of all races and ages. The District institution on the outskirts of Columbia Heights (it’s down 11th Street hill) opened in 1944 and was bought by Imar Hutchins in 2005. He developed the mixedmaterial Lacey Condominiums next door, but decided to preserve the Grill because of its historical significance for “soul food,” he says. A significant portion of the restaurant’s regulars come from Columbia Heights, and now Maryland.

Hutchins says the “unpretentious” greasy spoon is one of the last “true cross-sections of the city,” a place like Ben’s Chili Bowl that has “survived from the old days” and coexists with the new District.

“The soul of the city is being lost, washed away little by little,” Hutchins says. “The irony of it is, the sad part of it is, it doesn’t have to be that way, if there was more thoughtful development.”

“This is the way black people experience gentrification: They try to go to some place they used to go to last month, and it’s not there anymore,” the owner adds. “I went to a thrift store on Georgia Avenue to see if they had any records that were cool. I went there, and it was completely gone.” as of this writing, there are 454 comments on an anonymous letter about Columbia Heights that local blog PoPville published in June. At turns memoir and screed, the item was widely shared.

The author, who disclosed at the outset that he is black, wrote that he and his wife bought a rowhouse on Kenyon Street in 2006.

They liked the neighborhood at first: Aside from some “used condoms” strewn around, it was “the picture of urban renewal.”

“Then a few years ago the positive changes in Columbia Heights seemingly started to reverse,” the man wrote. “The streets … filled with unbelievable quantities of trash. It was as though people from all over D.C. were coming to Columbia Heights specifically to throw trash on the street. The amount of crime skyrocketed. Robber[ies], assaults, burglar[ies] became a more frequent issue.”

The piece touched a nerve, causing many residents to wring their hands via community listservs. Nadeau says she was disappointed to see the author’s perspective, calling the letter “pessimistic” and “not a particularly fair assessment” of the state of Columbia Heights.

The man wrote that he had moved out of D.C.

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“Life is challenging enough as it is, being constantly treated like the enemy and dealing with the constant level of ‘fail’ of the District is just exhausting,” he wrote. A number of commenters appeared to empathize with his frustrations, at least in the abstract.

Christine Miller, a neighborhood commissioner for Columbia Heights elected in July, says she read the letter and could understand someone coming to a “breaking point” like that.

“It’s tough to tell what that line is for everybody,” she says. “I’ve certainly had moments where I hug my kids a little tighter because I realize we just missed a violent incident by a block or by a day.” Some of the matters the writer identified—like homelessness—are “complicated,” she adds.

Such quality of life issues breed varying degrees of discontent. In Columbia Heights, there seem to be a few themes. One is that the civic plaza at 14th Street and Park Road has become a gathering place for people experiencing homelessness or addiction. Boese says he contacted the Department of Behavioral Health late last month to alert them to the problem. “It’s a difficult situation in that [the District] can try to help anyone who is receptive to seeking help, but if someone doesn’t want it, no one can force it on them,” the ANC chair notes.

Residents and surrounding business owners hope that the plaza doesn’t become a tragedy of the commons. Ammar Daoud, the owner of The Heights restaurant, says he would like the city to get more involved, though he doesn’t think it’s only a matter of policing. Michael Lastoria, the CEO of &pizza, which opened a location on the plaza in March, says he selected the space because it “anchors” the neighborhood and is accessible to everyone.

Beyond that highly visible space, a vacant building behind DC USA—near the corner of Hiatt Place and Park Road—and another on Georgia Avenue have posed challenges: People use them for drug dealing and squatting. The former is on the same block as a public school.

Preliminary data from MPD show that since January 2013 authorities have made 675 narcotics-related arrests in police service areas covering Columbia Heights and Park View.

As of last weekend, such arrests in 2016 (176) have exceeded last year’s total (175). In 2014, there were almost double the number than the year before—214 versus 110.

In response, some neighbors have demanded more police patrols. “There’s no way you can live in a city and expect that every time something happens, there’s going to be a cop on the corner to solve the problem,” Nelson counters.

“That’s living in lala land.”

As for commercial spaces, others complain that that the 14th Street corridor is becoming too corporate. Wiseman says he’d like something more “interesting” than major brands like Best Buy. Ex-Councilmember Graham agrees, saying he’s a fan of new shops around Florida Avenue and 7th Street. “Why aren’t these in Columbia Heights?” he asks. “I

don’t want to eliminate the dollar stores of the world, but we’ve got that base covered in terms of retail. We need more diversity.”

Daoud says he doesn’t care one way or the other. “All business is good business, whether they are franchise-based businesses or independents,” he argues. “They should come and invest.”

DC USA lost the Staples on its first floor this year, but it also gained a popular Chickfil-A. It’s set to get an Ethiopian restaurant soon, on Park Road, Byers says. He predicts the next wave of neighborhood development will sprout up along Georgia Avenue.

“It will look different, primarily because you have a lot of micro, privately owned parcels,” he explains. “On 14th Street, you had a swath of District-owned land and you could put that up for solicitation. You don’t have the same large footprint” on Georgia north of Howard University.

“Even if the boutique or mom-and-pop

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shops aren’t located in DC USA itself, the properties on 14th, 11th, Georgia, and Mount Pleasant are still prime opportunities for businesses to pick off customers going to the big boxes, and to support something that’s locally grown,” Byers adds.

Despite its problems, some improvements are in store for Columbia Heights in the years ahead. In the upcoming District budget, Nadeau included funding for new Main Street and Clean Team programs that she hopes will help abate public sanitation issues, provide jobs, and keep neighborhood spaces active.

Similar initiatives have seen success in other quadrants.

With major development already installed and new spaces spreading to Georgia and Sherman avenues, the market for small businesses in Columbia Heights probably won’t shrink anytime soon. Still, some feel obliged to patronize those that have endured all the area’s changes.

“Sure I can go to Cava and get a good meal—I like Cava—but I’ll go get pupusas instead,” says Kevin Sullivan, an ex-roommate of Appelbaum’s. “Or I’ll go to the little Ethiopian market across the street, and talk to the guy at the counter.” He believes these make the neighborhood unique.

“We don’t want it to turn into Bethesda— nothing against Bethesda,” Miller quips. “But I would say when you talk to people, they want to maintain the character of our area, which means you have to include all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. We need to be moving everybody forward.”

But for Raquel Colon, greener pastures are calling. She says she’ll return to visit her friends and parents, who intend to remain in their home indefinitely. She’s advised them to avoid 14th Street—even during the day—because of shootings and other “commotion.”

“I worry about them being on their own,” she says. “Hopefully, it’ll get better.”

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Make New American Great Again

By Laura Hayes LabeLs are annoying. Who can forget the head-scratching “It’s complicated” on Facebook? Not to mention the overplayed refrain that was seemingly everywhere in 2015: “I’m just not into labels.” Labeling restaurants, like relationships, can be tough too.

A Yelp query reveals that 744 restaurants in the D.C. metro area are labeled as “American (New).” Yelp is pretty generous in defining the metro area—stretching it all the way to Baltimore—but the point stands: In the restaurant industry, the term New American gets sprinkled around as liberally as salt.

Because diners are so often making decisions on where to eat based on Yelp, OpenTable, and Google searches, the lingo matters.

Especially terminology as prevalent as “New American.” Where did it come from? How is it defined? Is it meaningful commentary on cuisine or just a generic catchphrase?

Some restaurants create their own Yelp page and thus self-select up to three categories of cuisine type, but other restaurants’ pages are built using information crowd-sourced from diners’ reviews, according to Yelp DC community director Kimberly Van Santos.

She feels more restaurants are choosing to describe themselves as “American (New)” than ever before.

“The D.C. dining scene has progressively moved so much in just the past decade, and chefs are celebrating new cooking techniques and ethnic flavors,” Van Santos says.

Many of the restaurants characterized as “American (New)” on Yelp are described using a synonym, “Contemporary American,” on OpenTable. Caroline Potter, OpenTable’s chief dining officer, says that “American” and “Contemporary American” combined make up roughly one-third of all U.S. restaurants on

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the reservation platform. Potter confirms that restaurants Tuna tataki at Kinship self-select their category.

Google is trickier. Every restaurant Google landing page contains its address, hours, and other need-toknow details, but also features a one-sentence description written by Google employees.

“We’re having all sorts of trouble with Google, I don’t know where they get some of the language they put on those pages,” says Michael Schlow, the chef and restaurateur behind local restaurants like Tico and Alta Strada, as well as a string of Boston restaurants.

Marjorie Meek-Bradley, who helms Ripple in Cleveland Park, is among those a little bewildered by a description. Google describes her restaurant as a “[c]olorful haunt with an inventive, seasonal New Amer- glorified bar food.”

A movement in the early ’90s brought ican menu & artisan cocktails in a comfy setting.” She characterizes her food as Northern American provincial cooking to the forefront, California inspired by Mediterranean flavors according to Ziebold. “That was an era of chefs and seasonal ingredients. “To me that’s how I who were classically French-trained who really engaged in American regional cooking cook, but it’s a mouthful.”

In looking to define New American cui- and took the classics of a region and elevatsine today, some chefs examine the roots of ed them.” Locally, he credits Chefs Charlie the term, including Eric Ziebold, who says he Palmer, Jeffrey Buben, and Bob Kinkead proudly serves a New American menu at Kin- for spearheading the movement.

Schlow and Chef Rob Rubba of Hazel list ship. “Because we’re in an international world today, we’re redefining what it means to be an other “New American” pioneers. “For me it American restaurant,” he says. “Go back 15 or was really about the generation of Jeremiah 20 years and you’d have ethnic restaurants be- Tower, Alice Waters, Jasper White, Lydia cause at the end of the day, we were settled by Shire, and Wolfgang Puck,” Schlow says, latimmigrants. What would have been consid- er including Larry Forgione and Jonathan ered an American restaurant served burgers, Waxman. “There’s American and there’s hot dogs, buffalo wings, and the full gamut of New American, which is taking the ideas of

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New American cuisine seems like it’s everywhere. Is it a catchphrase or meaningful commentary?

our tried-and-true dishes and some of our regional specialties and then turning them upside down,” Schlow continues.

Rubba adds Chefs Norman Van Aken and Charlie Trotter. “Norman was using tropical island flavors with French techniques and the American mindset,” he says. “Same thing with Charlie Trotter—he did French food, but at the same time it was vibrant flavors, less butter, and he was sourcing ingredients from around the world.”

What Schlow and Rubba are getting at is that New American cuisine capitalizes on America’s status as a melting pot. For example, Ziebold’s menu boasts everything from a Japanese-inspired tuna tataki to Maine lobster French toast. And Schlow calls Ziebold’s torchon one of the best dishes of the year. “It’s in-

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Slate Wine Bar, one of the few restaurants to include New American terminology on its own website, is headed up by sommelier and Chef Danny Lledó. In building the menu, Lledó pulled from his Maryland childhood as well as his Spanish and Portuguese heritage. And yet the duck breast egg rolls are the most popular. “People talk about them all the time,” Lledó says. “That’s the beautiful thing about New American cuisine, it depends on the ability of the chef to make interpretations.”

Meek-Bradley describes another duck preparation as epitomizing New American cuisine. Black garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and chilies accompany the duck, but there’s also a swish of smoked yogurt. “It’s two different regions in the world, but the flavors work together,” she says. “That’s how our country is: You bring a lot of different things together and make it work.” She adds that America’s multicultural cuisine advantageously gives chefs the freedom to be creative and feel unconfined.

Ziebold agrees. “Contrary to what’s been going on in our country in the last 18 months with the police getting assaulted and the Black Lives Matter movement, the reality is that everybody in America is supposed to be created equal—that doesn’t exist everywhere in the world,” Ziebold says. “It’s that openness to culture, that openness to ideas that really makes a modern American restaurant today—the ability to embrace influence from other places.”

America doesn’t have thousands of years of food history and tradition like countries in Asia or Europe do, so there’s room to play. “In France, you could go eat ratatouille and know it’s French,” Rubba says. “There’s regional cuisine, but what ‘American’ is is always evolving.

It’s a spirit and a mindset more than an actual cuisine.”

In addition to the American concept of a cultural melting pot, chefs, including Ziebold, Schlow and Rubba, often mention sourcing ingredients locally as a key part of a working definition of New American cuisine.

“For me, New American was the predecessor to farm-to-table,” Schlow says. “It meant that chefs were sourcing their food from specific farms and then giving that food an inventive twist that was not specifically Italian, Spanish, French, or German—it was their own creative blend deeply rooted in American ingredients.”

Blue Duck Tavern was one of the first restaurants in D.C. to take the farm-to-table approach. “The restaurant is based on that idea, we’re just trying to keep it alive,” says Chef de

Cuisine Brad Deboy. “You can’t say farm-totable anymore, it’s status quo, you just have to get on board.” Google describes Blue DucTavern as “New American preparations of locally sourced ingredients served amid handcrafted furnishings.”

Deboy prefers descriptors that tout the restaurant’s ingredient-driven cuisine. His menu includes dishes like organic chicken sourced from Allen Farms in Delaware served with fermented onion vinaigrette and fruit tree honey, and squid ink cavatelli showcasing Chesapeake Bay clams enlivened by summer chilies and bottarga.

The Pig’s Executive Chef Michael Bonk also serves as Eatwell DC’s Culinary Director.

He says he can’t confidently define New American cuisine—nor does he believe in it, even though his restaurant is classified as such on Google and OpenTable. “What’s old American?” he asks. “Are we talking about the White House cookbook from 1896? I don’t think anything should be called New American. It should be called American.”

But Bonk agrees the terminology has to do with sourcing. “All the pigs I buy are from friends, and all the produce we get is from our farm or a local growers’ cooperative,” Bonk says. “We’re representing the local abundance in our area and what’s in season instead of getting fish flown in from Hawaii or buying canned products from Europe.”

Ziebold also feels ingredients are a big part of New American cuisine—hence the “ingredients” heading on his Kinship menu. He says the U.S. has bloomed in terms of quality products that are readily available.

The answer then is that New American, while imperfect, is more than a catchall category. It’s reflective of a tradition in which chefs marry local ingredients with foreign techniques and flavor profiles to create something fresh and different. Just look at restaurants like Rose’s Luxury, Tail Up Goat, Kyirisan, and Convivial as archetypes.

Both proponents and detractors of New American hope it never becomes as reductive as a Southwest egg roll or a pad Thai burger. “If you look at the ’90s, Asian fusion was a thing, now it’s a dirty word,” says Meek-Bradley. “It started off in an interesting place and the next thing you know, wasabi mashed potatoes and tuna were on every menu.”

Ziebold cautions that when New American plates are created, they should be well intentioned and perhaps carry a story. “It’s not the confusion fusion of putting a bunch of flavors together and calling it Modern American,” he says. “We don’t try to be creative just for the sake of being creative.”

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Timber Pizza Co. in Petworth ($12–$16, one size) +Pies are reminiscent of a trip to the farmers market with toppings like squash blossoms and kale. +Pizzas are wood-fired but without too many burnt bubbles. +No pizza is more than $16, despite quality ingredients. +They use local purveyors, including ‘Chups fruit ketchup.

All Purpose in Shaw ($18–$19, one size) +Chef Mike Friedman’s doughy, deck-oven pies are a welcome alternative to D.C.’s soggy-bottomed Neapolitan-style pizza craze. +Twists enliven classics such as a giardiniera topper for texture or chili honey on pepperoni for some sweet heat. +There’s the option to DIY. Casolare in Glover Park ($15–$17, one size) +These pizzas are as simple as they come, such as the marinara with nothing more than tomato, garlic, and oregano, allowing quality ingredients to do the talking. +Pies are thin, so you can try more of the menu.

- But they’re still $15 to $17.

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- Large swatches of the crust are burnt.

- The toppings feel more like an afterthought than integrated into the pizza.

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Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 3. The bun almost overflows with lobster meat, so some pieces inevitably fall onto the plate. Just grab a fork and savor the extra lobster by itself.

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By Tricia Olszewski While Watching Miss Sharon Jones!, you might come to think that the film’s title is missing a couple of exclamation points. It’s partly because of the orally punctuated introductions provided by one member of her soul/R&B band, the DapKings. (“Please welcome… Miss! Sharon! Jones!”) But mostly it’s because Jones is a firecracker who, though only 4-feet-11, consistently gives outsized performances whether she’s onstage or just puttin’ it on for friends.

Frankly, unless you’re a fan, her act gets to be a bit much—Jones has certainly earned her popular nom de funk, “the female James Brown.” In front of an audience, she makes you feel like you’ve entered a church. And when in church, she she makes you feel like you’ve entered a world unknown to man. She extends her admittedly gorgeous, praiseful rendition of “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” into a veritable speaking-in-tongues display of manic testifying that had at least one fellow churchgoer looking on (and backing up) in disbelief. It might have left even Jesus wishing she’d tone it down a notch.

Not that Jones doesn’t have reason to be jubilant. Director Barbara Kopple (Shut Up & Sing) follows the singer starting in 2013, after she’d received a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer—a cancer that’s typical terminal. We see her getting her head shaved; we see her sitting in chemo. She tells her medical attendants, “Google me,” so they can witness that she’s not the tired, sick woman they usually see before them. One doctor who had seen a video of a Dap-Kings performance mentioned that Jones was “a big woman.” Her response: “I carry myself tall.”

And she does. Her personality is so big, it’s shocking when you see the petite woman standing next to a 6-foot giant. She laughs about her smooth pate and jokes about her restricted diet with a nutritionist, who also happens to be the friend who invited Jones to her home for months to heal. In the spacious, quiet house, Jones doesn’t let music in, because it’s something she associates with health and happiness. Instead, she embraces TV, rattling off her 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. schedule. (“The View… you gotta watch The View.”)

But because the Dap-Kings were about to release an album and go on tour when Jones got sick, music must barge into her quiet time when the postponed tour gets near. It’s heartswelling to see the concern her fellow bandmates and man-

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agement show her, and uncomfortable when a few of them admit that although they certainly care about Jones’ well-being, they also need money. She gets frustrated when she can’t bring it like she used to. Any chronically ill viewer will tear up when watching the group’s push-pull of “You must” and “I can’t.”

With the Big C looming, Kopple gives short shrift to Jones’ rise, which was 30 years in the making. Told she was “too dark” and “too short,” among other things, to make it in show business, Jones spent half her adulthood working as a corrections officer and wedding-band singer. Her late-in-life success likely fueled her fight against the body that turned against her: I waited all this time to get onstage, and I’m not getting off of it anytime soon. The director sprinkles bits of the band’s performance throughout the doc—the better to avoid being a downer—and during one spotlight moment, Jones sings/yells: “And I’m gonna keep on… keep on shoutin’.”

For better or worse, you know that’s right. in LittLe Men, director Ira Sachs demonstrates how a pebble dropped in a puddle can create a tsunami. Besides an old grandfather passing away, there are no matters of life and death like there are in Miss Sharon Jones! But money—or lack thereof—does become a critical detail that will affect the families involved in greater ways than anyone could imagine.

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The crux of Little Men is New York City real estate and gentrification. Sachs’ last feature, Love Is Strange, also took on NYC property, its protagonists negotiating the logistics of their romance after finances force them to live apart for a while. Here, the parallel is the friendship of two 13year-old boys. Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet Manhattan kid whose parents, Brian and Kathy (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle), move the family to Brooklyn after his grandpa dies and leaves them his apartment. Beneath the home is a dress shop owned and run by Leonor (Paulina García, Gloria). Leonor hasn’t had a rent increase in the 10 years since she moved in. Jake’s father, mother, and especially aunt (Talia Balsam) think it’s about time that changed— just like the neighborhood has changed.

Before Brian takes on that talk, Jake becomes best friends with Leonor’s Brooklynese-spoutin’ son, Tony (Michael Barbieri). They like the same sci-fi, and Tony wants to become an actor, just like Jake’s (struggling) dad. The truth is that Kathy, a psychotherapist, supports the family, a fact that Leonor tucks away to pull out when necessary.

And she’s prepared for what’s coming. What Brian and his sister think is a reasonable rent increase is out of Leonor’s league, and she turns cold, fast. She’s ready with guilt trips and manipulative declarations such as “I was more [your father’s] family, if you want to know, than you

were” and, regarding Brian’s income, “He thought you should be more than man.” Brian’s not one to fight, but what can he do when this quiet chain-smoker lets loose?

Both families somewhat illogically decide to use the boys as a strategy and keep them apart. The boys retaliate by going silent.

Though Sachs and co-writer Mauricio Zacharias don’t always nail a naturalistic tone (teenage kids don’t exactly say things to one another such as, “You’re a great friend”), the film is full of nicely observed moments: Brian breaking down in the quiet after his father’s wake, Tony crushing on a girl, both kids taking an acting class in solidarity. They’re hoping to go to the same arts high school; Tony for acting, and Jake for drawing.

The end of Little Men is extremely abrupt and, initially, puzzling. Some time has passed, but you don’t know how much. Things have changed, but you can’t tell what exactly happened. Given a minute to weigh it, though, you’ll realize that Sachs has given you just enough to supply all you need to know. It’s bittersweet, he seems to say, but so is CP growing up.

Miss Sharon Jones! opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

Little Men opens Friday at Avalon Theatre.

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Listen to a newish track from D.C. vets Dot Dash.

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Flex Your Ears

For more than three decades, Dischord Records—the little record label founded in 1980 in D.C. by teens Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson—has been the most influential punk label in the world.

That may sound like hyperbole, but when you look at its prolific discography, it’s evident that no other label has had as great an impact on punk as Dischord has. Of course, in the age of streaming music, that evidence isn’t always clear. Thankfully, Dischord put its entire discography up on the artist-and-label-friendly streaming site Bandcamp a couple weeks ago, offering the chance to dig deep into its catalogue. It’s a lot of music. Feeling overwhelmed? We’ve created this flowchart to help make things a little easier. It doesn’t encompass all of Dischord’s artists, but it’s a start.

—Matt Cohen

Listen to: Fugazi, Minor Threat, Rites Of Spring

Not very

How familiar are you with the Dischord discography?

Very

Listen to: Nation of Ulysses, Government Issue, Artificial Peace

Political Listen to: Youth Brigade, Marginal Man, Dag Nasty, Scream, Faith, Void, The Untouchables, Gray Matter

Whatever opens up the pit

Listen to: Shudder To Think, Alarms & Controls, Medications, Faraquet, Autoclave

How do you like your punk?

Dance-y Garage-y

Angular

I like it a little poppy

Listen to: Fire Party, Slant 6, Ignition

Weird How weird?

What kind of pop?

Gimme some glam grooves

Keep it experimental

Pop-punk Listen to: Deathfix Listen to: Jawbox, Trusty

Psychedelic and groovy

Listen to: Soccer Team, Antelope

Listen to: Beauty Pill Listen to: Title Tracks

Frenetic and jazzy

Minimal and melodic

Power-pop

Indie-pop

Listen to: Q And Not U, El Guapo, The Aquarium, Edie Sedgwick

Listen to: Make-Up

Listen to: Black Eyes

Another astral plane

Listen to: Lungfish, The Pupils

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FilmShort SubjectS

Fake It ’tIl You Make It Florence Foster Jenkins Directed by Stephen Frears

One Of the hardest things for a professional actor to do is to play a bad actor. How do you discard years of training and your natural gift for a single role, then pick them back up again when the project is over? Surely that same quandary applies to singers, and if that’s the case, Meryl Streep actually deserves her yearly Oscar nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins.

Streep has sung beautifully throughout her career, from Postcards from the Edge to Mamma Mia!, but in her latest, she adopts a tinny, highpitched warble that, if this were only a slightly broader comedy than it already is, would make windows shatter.

Florence Foster Jenkins is an uneven but occasionally poignant biopic about a character who underestimates the wide gulf between those who appreciate art and those who make it. In post-war New York, its protagonist is a patron of the arts who uses her considerable wealth and status to support concerts for the upper class. After growing tired of standing on the sidelines, she begins taking singing lessons with a legendary vocal coach. Because of her clout, neither he nor her doting husband Bayfield (Hugh Grant) have the heart to tell her the truth about her talents, or lack thereof. In fact, the strategy doesn’t even need to be spoken aloud. In their small world rife with aging socialites, a little deception in the name of flattery is to be expected.

Subterfuge comes less naturally to her accompanist Cosme (Simon Helberg), a struggling composer who’s taken on the job with Florence for some extra cash. For Cosme, withholding judgment at her awful singing voice is akin to being asked not to laugh in

church; his wide eyes and angular face seem to be constantly on the verge of bursting. Everyone else lies effortlessly, to her and to each other. Florence and Bayfield have a platonic marriage, but he sneaks off every night to live with his girlfriend Kathleen (Rebecca Ferguson) in a modest apartment. Bayfield tells people that she approves of this arrangement, but does she? Based on his comfort with deception, it’s more likely that, in their marriage, the truth is simply better left unsaid.

For a while, the film rollicks along as one of those simplistic comedies in which older folks embarrass themselves for comedic benefit, like The Full Monty or Calendar Girls. Which is fine. But when Florence sets her sights on Carnegie Hall, an ickiness sets in. In some scenes, we are asked to laugh at Florence and her delusions of grandeur. In others, we are forced into pity, particularly when the origins of her mysterious health condition are finally revealed.

Director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) withholds information about Florence and Bayfield, putting us in the odd position of laughing at the machinations of their subterfuge (which, of course, involves such comedic staples as buying up every newspaper in town), then immediately regretting our giggles.

Still, the bold performances by a pair of stars nearly save the day. Grant has fully transcended the sheepish persona of his youth; here, he uncovers layers of meaning in a tragically complex character. Meanwhile, Streep seems to have finally found a proper vehicle to indulge for her recent run of hamminess (August: Osage County, Into the Woods) in service of a character that, had she not been based on a real person, would likely be viewed as too ridiculous to exist. As Jenkins, Streep hits all the right notes—the comedic highs and the mournful lows. She never struggles to find the pitch, which almost makes the film’s schizophrenic tone seem normal. In other words, maybe a song doesn’t have to be perfectly written, as long as it’s sung with feeling. —Noah Gittell Florence Foster Jenkins opens everywhere on Friday.

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TheaTerCurtain Calls

Fear No evil Fear

Written and directed by Kathleen Akerley At The Callan Theatre, Catholic University, through Sept. 4 “I want to know why it’s more fun to talk about Shakespeare than to watch Shakespeare,” declares Penelope (Amal Saade), cheerful patron of the fictitious theater company 38th Pie. Kathleen Akerley better hope Penelope is right about that: Fear, Akerley’s unruly and overlong but whip-smart comedy about playmaking, is a talk about Shakespeare that goes on for three hours—longer than any of the three productions of Shakespeare I’ve seen this summer, in fact.

Akerley is well schooled in the kinds of intra-company debates and unscheduled backer appeasement sessions that form the substance of this agreeable yack-fest. She’s run Longacre Lea, her (nonfictional) nonprofit theatrical concern, for 18 years, staging a new production each August. In its first decade, her company specialized in Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco. More recently, it’s become a showcase for Akerley’s own writing, which aspires to a similarly demanding strain of erudition.

The premise of Fear is that 38th Pie has resolved—on account of the strings attached to Penelope’s generous donation—to do its first Shakespeare. The company’s seven members must decide, via an inefficient but democratic process endemic to nonprofit theater companies, which one and how. Should they allow the audience to vote on what play they’ll see each night, 10 minutes before curtain? What about borrowing a trick from improv comedy shows and allowing the crowd to specify elements like nudity, silence, contemporary prose, or an emphasis on background characters?

The players—a half-dozen youngish locals plus a more seasoned British actor played by non-British Longacre regular Michael Glenn— vigorously debate the merits of their preferred texts (Hamlet and MacBeth, mostly) and concepts. Supplying them all with things to say al-

lows Akerley to unburden herself of at least the beginnings of several essays (or dissertations) worth of insights and frustrations on the topic of why we’re still so hung up on Mr. Shakespeare, four centuries in the ground. (Colonialism, but that’s not the only answer, one of her characters monologues.)

The actors are varied and comfortable enough in their skins that they don’t all sound like mouthpieces for her. Singling out individuals among the 38th Pie players for praise seems inappropriate; the entire ensemble is good, and believable as a group of longtime collaborators.

(Most of them have worked for Akerley before.)

Saade’s warm performance makes Penelope feel like more than just a functionary, but that’s what the character is—a way of forcing the others to translate their discussions from actor-shorthand into plain talk. Penelope is paying to keep the lights on, so her questions must be indulged and her (gentle) suggestions entertained.

This conceit will ring true to theater people— and may ring baffling or insufferable to any civilians who happen to see it. Me? I liked it. I liked it so much that I hope Akerley will take a scalpel to it.

The problem is that she has a six-episode season’s worth of material about this company, which makes a few subplots—particularly those concerning budding romances or fraying friendships among the actors—feel underserved despite an expansive run-time. It’s possible for a three-hour play to be too short, of course, but that’s not the problem, here. Rather, Fear lacks sufficient momentum to power Act Two’s hour-plus, wherein we see too many of the productions proposed in Act One up on their feet, as theater-folk say. (A silent Hamlet influenced by Frank Herbert’s Dune has the good sense to wrap up before the joke runs dry.) After several of these vignettes, the piece wheels round to what feels like a well-earned, roundly satisfying deus ex machina ending.

Only it doesn’t end there. Ironically, one of its funnier shows-within-the-show is a superhero parody called the The Coda Crime, extrapolated from Prince Hamlet’s line about “some vicious mole of nature.”

Akerley’s reluctance to slay her darlings is understandable. Her writing is so smart, and the ensemble so appealing, that there are no bad scenes, just duplicative ones. She can’t just excise the material that doesn’t propel the narrative because there’s little narrative to speak of.

What there is, is, um, plenty of speech to narrate about. Akerley is a real talent, one in desperate need of an editor/dramaturg who’s as smart as she is. And as fearless, too.

—Chris Klimek 3801 Harewood Road NE. $15-$20.

(202) 460-2188. longacrelea.org.

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Speed deMONS The Hike

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By Drew Magary Viking, pp. 278 The laTesT book from Drew Magary, his second novel The Hike, immediately and unceremoniously takes readers on a series of eerie mini-adventures that unfold at breakneck pace. In its stutterstep movement from one scenario, challenge—or monster—to another, it feels like an unfolding video game. Indeed, Magary, a GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist who lives in Maryland, has cited gaming among a dozen of his influences, and it shows. Page breaks throughout the novel serve to mark when the protagonist awakes to an entirely new environment or set of circumstances, thanks to the deusex-machina rules set out in the novel’s universe. The fantasy-horrorscience-fiction-comedy title badly wants to be a genre-bender. It’s not, but it pulls a neater trick, instead saluting the classic tropes of a host of genres and formats.

The plot proceeds so suddenly and with so little character exposition that you can almost hear the author writing “Um…” at the beginning, unsure of where to start. So where do we start? With Ben, by most accounts an average, middle-aged dad and husband on a work trip who quite literally walks into the woods for a short hike and finds himself in an alternate reality. He starts to pinball from one creepy episode to another: evade some psycho woods-dwelling serial killers! Get a kindly granny to feed you and help you with some magic beans! Slay a ghoulish monster! Solve a puzzle to get to the next monstrous challenge!

Here, readers might start to fight through some quest fatigue. How many more hideous, scream-evoking creatures will we encounter?

How many puzzles or riddles can possibly be involved? This is where the book’s sprightly pace actually saves things, pulling the reader along. Bring this book to a beach weekend, and you’ll be carried through no matter your attention span.

It’s hard to root for a character who seems so … meh, so Magary uses some devices to shore up a protagonist that perhaps he didn’t take enough time to fully compose. Flashback memories of Ben’s kids and wife tug at the heartstrings. After all, if you feel no empathy for a man who misses his young child so badly he starts tucking a rock into bed at night just to keep his memories alive, you might

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be dead inside. No matter: You’ll find yourself rooting for Crab, an immediately likeable character who is—what else?—a talking crab.

Then there’s Cisco, the earnest, xenophobic conquistador damned to the same psychedelic torment game Ben unwittingly walked into. You might even find Fermona endearing, even if she is a giantess who snacks on human flesh.

Until suddenly there you are, in the middle of the book (hopefully sitting by a pool or in front of a fan with a margarita), having charged through a gauntlet of body horror, fairy tale nods, and a brief puzzle setup lovingly pulled straight from Myst. It’s here that Magary drops on the reader his first real, existential, gut-twisting horror. Ben may not feel any more tangible as a character, but you want to puke on his behalf. The second half of the book delivers on more of this heinousness—the kind that makes you question everything, feeling around the edges of your own psyche for signs you’re in hell, or dreaming, or part of a grand experiment. The second half, in other words, is utterly dark.

Sharp-eyed readers might notice some astutely placed clues (Magary likes to drop hints in his choice of descriptors) that foreshadow the twist on the very last page of the book.

It’s gimmicky, but in a way that feels consistent with the fan-tribute tone of the rest of the novel. Don’t flip ahead if you haven’t seen it coming, though. Stick to the path and proceed as the game was designed, although by the time you cross the finish line you’ll realize the deft storytelling was the point all along.

—Emily Q. Hazzard

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Dr. Dog w/ Sun Club ....................................................................................... Th 11 L7 ........................................................................................................................ F 12 Honne w/ JONES ............................................................................................. Su 14

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Toad the Wet Sprocket & Rusted Root w/ Daisie Ghost-Flower ............ F 19 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All-90s Band .................................................... Sa 20 The Bangles w/ Cardiac .................................................................................Su 21 Skye & Ross from Morcheeba ................................................................. Th 25 Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Brian Billion .F 26 THE CIRCUS LIFE PODCAST THIRD ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FEATURING

Justin Trawick and The Common Good • Louisa Hall •

Owen Danoff (from NBC’s The Voice) FULL BAND • Oh He Dead • The Duskwhales • Gingerwolf • Nardo Lilly ...................................................Sa 27

Melanie Martinez .................................................................................. SEPTEMBER 22 Glass Animals ........................................................................................ SEPTEMBER 25 NIGHT ADDED!

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CHVRCHES ....................................................................................................OCTOBER 18 Die Antwoord ...............................................................................................OCTOBER 23 FOALS w/ Bear Hands & Kiev .........................................................................NOVEMBER 3 Grouplove w/ MUNA & Dilly Dally .................................................................NOVEMBER 9 Two Door Cinema Club ........................................................................NOVEMBER 17 2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

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DNA After Dark - Hip Hop Choreographers Showcase 18+ to enter. ...........Su 28 Banks & Steelz (Paul Banks & RZA) ...........................................................W 31 SEPTEMBER ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Claypool Lennon Delirium w/ Marco Benevento ..............................Th 1 Diggy Simmons ...............................................................................................Su 4 Television w/ Chris Stamey ...............................................................................Tu 6 of Montreal w/ Ruby the Rabbitfoot ...................................................................W 7 Dinosaur Jr. w/ Cloud Nothings .......................................................................Th 8 Marian Hill w/ Vérité & Shaed ........................................................................ Sa 10 Peaches ............................................................................................................Su 11 IRD NIGHT ADDED! FIRST TWO NIGHTS SOLD OUT! TH

Young the Giant w/ Ra Ra Riot .......................................................................W 14 Angel Olsen w/ Alex Cameron ....................................................................... Th 15 Cherub w/ Frenship & Boo Seeka ...................................................................... F 16 Built To Spill w/ Hop Along & Alex G .............................................................Su 18 Okkervil River w/ Landlady ............................................................................ M 19 Lush w/ Tamaryn ...............................................................................................W 21 Blind Pilot Early Show! 6pm Doors ........................................................................ F 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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Music rock

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Kyle Craft, Mass Gothic. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Appetite for Destruction.

8:30 p.m. $15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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

Electric Peacock Dance Band. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. howarD TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Baroness, Pallbearer. 7 p.m. $25. thehowardtheatre.com. marTin luTher King Jr. memorial library 901 G St. NW. (202) 727-0321. Protect-U. Noon. Free. dclibrary.org/mlk. roCK & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Happy Abandon, Lighting Fires, The Pinkerton Raid. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

(703) 237-0300. X, Dead Rock West. 9 p.m. $35. thestatetheatre.com.

dJ Nights

blaCK CaT baCKSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Heavy Rotation with DJs Adrian Collazo, Ozker, and Martin Miguel. 10 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. X-ES with DJs Twin and Sean Morris. 10 p.m. $5. dcnine.com.

classical

KenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington Performing Arts’ Summer Performing Arts Academy. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

World

TropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Ava Rocha, Cissa Paz. 8 p.m. $15. tropicaliadc.com.

couNtry

hill CounTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Hollertown. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Darius Rucker, Dan + Shay, Michael Ray. 7 p.m. $30.25–$50. livenation.com. wolF Trap Filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Emmylou Harris. 7:30 p.m. $30–$55. wolftrap.org.

Blues

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Justin Jones Band, Lauren Calve. 9 p.m. $10– $12. gypsysallys.com.

ioTa Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Bobby Thompson and Revelator Hill, The Academy Blues Project. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

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Friday

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

Charlie Musselwhite, Janiva Magness. 8 p.m. $25–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

2047 9th Street NW

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Jazz

the loNesoMe West

Martin McDonagh’s 1997 play The Lonesome West follows two contemptuous brothers who recently lost their father—the result of a presumed accident for which one of the two sons was responsible. Relentlessly bickering over their inheritance and other petty matters, the pair takes turns inciting each other into fits of fury over trivial offenses and perceived injustices. Coleman, scornful and surly, distains his tightfisted brother Valene’s control of the family’s purse strings, while Valene, possessive and miserly, walks around with a felt-tipped pen initialing all his belongings. The play’s other two characters, Welsh, a self-deprecating, alcoholic priest who often descends into paralyzing doubt over Catholicism and his suitability for the cloth; and a young woman who serves as the illicit supplier of the brothers’ alcohol, make repeated attempts to keep the peace between the brothers. The Lonesome West is the third play in McDonagh’s Leenane trilogy, set in a backwards, lawless town in Connemara where interfamilial murders and rampant alcoholism seem to be the norm. Riddled with self-effacing humor, brotherly ridicule, and unapologetic profanity, McDonagh paints a hilarious and macabre portrait of two siblings in the boondocks of western Ireland whose unfettered derision may destroy them. The play runs to Aug. 27 at Keegan Theatre, 1742 Church St. NW. $35–$45. (202) 2653767. keegantheatre.com.

—Victoria Gaffney naTional gallery oF arT SCulpTure garDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Paul Carr. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen Septet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

electroNic

FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Honey Soundsystem, The Needlexchange. 8 p.m. $5–$12. flashdc.com.

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com.

SounDCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Global Fridays with DJs Reckless and Mario. 10 p.m. Free. soundcheckdc.com.

mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kevin Cordt. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

u STreeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mr. Scruff. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

FuNk & r&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Larry Graham and Graham Central Station. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.

saturday rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Bandhouse Gigs Tribute to David Bowie. 7:30 p.m. $22–$27. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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ioTa Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. The Cowards Choir, Christopher the Conquered, Old Sea Brigade. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

Folk

merriweaTher poST pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. O.A.R., Eric Hutchinson, The Hunts. 6:30 p.m. $44.75–$59.75. merriweathermusic.com.

couNtry

mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kim Scudera with Batida Diferente. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. roCK & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Black Dog Prowl, The Meer, More AM Than FM, The Jones. 7 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. wolF Trap Filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. 98 Degrees, O-Town, Ryan Cabrera, Dream. 7 p.m. $30–$55. wolftrap.org.

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MARION MEADOWS & PAUL TAYLOR JUNIOR BROWN 18 Bonnie 19 PAUL THORN BAND Bishop 20 MARSHALL CRENSHAW’S Big Surprise!

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dJ Nights

blaCK CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Right Round Up! with DJ Lil’e. 9:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. howarD TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Maxtape with guest DJs Adam Koussari-Amin and Keenan Orr. 10 p.m. $10–$12.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

hip-hop

CarTer barron amphiTheaTre 4850 Colorado Ave. NW. (202) 426-0486. Konshens the MC and His State of Mind, The Foundation Band. 7 p.m. $25. musicatthemonument.com.

manSion aT STraThmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Uke & Guitar Summit Evening Concert. 6:30 p.m. $15. strathmore.org. hill CounTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Randy Thompson Band. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

Blues

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

Johnny and the Headhunters. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com.

KenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Charles Covington. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen Septet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

electroNic

FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Mike Huckaby, Beautiful Swimmers. 8 p.m. $10. flashdc.com. u STreeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Moombahton Massive Reunion. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

GERALD ALSTON

“Twin Twang Rides Again”

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BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN and TOM PRINCIPATO BAND 4 SAWYER FREDERICKS MO’Fire

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IN GRATITUDE: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire Motown & More: A Tribute to Motown & Soul Legends 10 THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS HAL KETCHUM 11 15 THE PROCLAIMERS EUGE GROOVE 16 17 MATTHEW SWEET 18 GARY PUCKETT & UNION GAP 21 THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND 22 THE SMITH SISTERS ‘35TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW!’ with AL PETTEWAY

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‘25/50 Silver & Gold Celebration!’

MBoNgWaNa star

On 2015’s From Kinshasa, the Congolese band Mbongwana Star and Paris-based producer Doctor L cleverly mixed central African music genres with post-punk, funk, and psychedelia, creating a noisy hybrid that sounded eclectic but not contrived. Mbongwana means “change” in Lingala and the group’s compositions feel much rougher than those vocalists Coco Ngabali and Theo Nzonza presented in their earlier combo Staff Benda Bilili. In that ensemble, the duo chanted and sang over more traditional Congolese rumba guitar grooves. Now, aided by a new crew of instrumentalists, the singers’ squeaky and melodic warbling rings out over a jumble of guitar feedback, skittering percussion, and echoing bass. On “Malukayi,” electrified thumb piano from fellow Congolese act Konono No. 1 helps drive the tempo, while on “Nganshe,” spoken vocals, backing harmonies, and a quick drum beat swirl together. Sure, the musicians occasionally slow down on tracks like “Coco Blues,” but that’s seemingly just to take a breather before launching into another hyperactive cut that pairs tuneful vocal refrains with random bursts of static and pounding stickwork. Mbongwana Star performs at 8 p.m. at Lubber Run Amphitheater, North Columbus Street and 2nd Street North, Arlington. Free. (703) 228-1850. arlingtonarts.org.

—Steve Kiviat

FuNk & r&B

ForT DuponT parK 1900 Anacostia Drive SE. (202) 426-7723. Les Nubians, Proverbs Reggae Band, Pan Lara Steel Orchestra. 6 p.m. Free. nps.gov. gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Zach Deputy, ELM, Staycation. 9 p.m. $14. gypsysallys.com.

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

Junior Marvin Presents Reggae Rock, Nuex. 8 p.m. $30–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Kool & The Gang, Bootsy Collins, Morris Day, Doug E. Fresh. 7 p.m. $20–$99.50. livenation.com.

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com. boSSa biSTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

C’est Si Bon, Underdog. 7 p.m. $5. bossadc.com. hill CounTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Hot Club of Cowtown. 8:45 p.m. $15–$20. hillcountrywdc.com.

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Gracie Terzian. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

electroNic

SounDCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Fehrplay. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

suNday

MoNday

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Great Good Fine OK. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gringo Star, Silent Old Mtns. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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galaxy huT 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. The Dick Van Dykes, Black Flood Dixon. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

galaxy huT 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. The Plank Stompers, Deltaphonic. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

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

Fellow Creatures, Stranger in the Alps, Joseph and the Beasts. 7 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com. wolF Trap Filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Classic Albums Live Presents David Bowie. 8 p.m. $25–$45. wolftrap.org.

Folk

manSion aT STraThmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Uke & Guitar Summit Evening Concert. 6:30 p.m. $15. strathmore.org.

Blues

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

Sue Foley, Mike Flanigin, Dave Chappell. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Sax and the City featuring Marion Meadows and Paul Taylor. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

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

Golden Gate Wingmen. 8 p.m. $25.50–$34.50. thehamiltondc.com.

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KenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Ginkgoa. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

FuNk & r&B

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

tuesday rock

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sumac, Jaye Jayle, Nordra. 8:30 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

KenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Handsome Hound. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: suNday

uke & guitar suMMit

About 130 years ago, Portuguese immigrants from Macaronesia landed in Hawaii and started crafting a new addition to the lute family. Adapted from their traditional instruments, this small, fourstringed number, the ukulele, was widely embraced, from the king of Hawaii to the streets. This week, Strathmore celebrates that invention, along with all of its modern hybrids, including the banjo ukulele. If you’re not enrolled in classes with the professionals gathered for the eighth annual Uke & Guitar Summit, the public performances are your best chance to see a large collection of ukulele players in one nearby place. The evenings are designed to showcase the range of professional strummers but they also feature an open-mic component that lets a few amateur participants step onstage. Folk, blues, and country-tinged set lists are popular with a lot of ukulele players, but Strathmore’s lineup also pulls in musicians who focus on the uke’s tropical roots and its modern incarnation as songwriting vehicle and cover instrument, the things internet sensations are made of. Sunday’s lineup features Hawaii’s Jeff Peterson, Milwaukee’s harmonica-and-ukulele-playing Lil’ Rev (pictured), along with two local singersongwriters: Maryland-based David Geyer and the D.C.-based humorist Louisa Hall. The performance begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Mansion at Strathmore, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. $15. (301) 581-5100. strathmore.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

DRIVIN N’ CRYIN / DASH RIP ROCK

THURSDAY, AUG. 25 ~ 9PM TIX: $12/$15

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HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

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THE MOTH STORY SLAM

If you fancy yourself a David Sedaris or Hannah Horvath in the making, or if a date told you that at least you tell a good story, get to The Moth Story Slam post haste. Unlike some rigidly planned storytelling shows, at The Moth, audience members put their names in a hat when they arrive and hope they’ll be among the lucky 10 plucked from the audience for a shot on the big stage.

The winner gets to perform again at a later championship show. Here’s one complication, however: the night’s theme isn’t revealed until doors open. Attendees then have 30 minutes to adapt their best true stories into something engaging and, like your high school geometry test, no notes are allowed. For a taste of what you’re in for, check out The Moth’s podcast and weekly public radio show, featuring some of the best storytellers from 25 cities around the world where The Moth hosts shows, covering everything from practicing Wicca to getting caught in a storm in a small fishing boat. Don’t be intimidated: Moth favorites like Mike Birbiglia and Garrison Keillor had to start somewhere too. The performance begins at 6:30 p.m. at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $10. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Diana Metzger

COuNTRY Hill Country BarBeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Colonel Josh and the Honky Tonk Heroes.

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

JAzz Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. George V. Johnson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

WEDNESDAY ROCk

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. No Small Children, The Red Fetish. 8 p.m. $8. bossadc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Beat Connection, Kodak To Graph, Lance Neptune. 9 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

FOLk Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Christian Lopez Band, Silver Line Station. 8 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com. stratHmore outDoors 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Uke Fest. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

JAzz KenneDy Center millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Three: A Jazz and Classical Collage. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Real Talk Collective. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

ELECTRONiC FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Manila Killa, DJ 2Rip. 8 p.m. $15. flashdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Collaboration with special guest Lori Williams. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Curtis Salgado, Selwyn Birchwood. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

THuRSDAY ROCk

BlaCK Cat BaCKstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Elena and Los Fulanos, Maryjo Mattea and a Pile of Dudes. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

Comet pinG ponG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Escape-ism. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Drug Church, Donovan Wolfington. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Professor Louie and The Crowmatix, Dwight & Nicole. 8 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Donavon Frankenreiter, Zach Heckendorf. 8:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

KenneDy Center millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jon Stickley Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

VOCAL

Verizon Center 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200. Barbra Streisand. 8 p.m. $102–$513. verizoncenter.com.

Hip-HOp

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. 21 Savage, Mondo, Cali LaFlare. 11 p.m. $25–$550. thehowardtheatre.com.

CITY LIGHTS: tuesday

“Will & JaNe”

Shakespeare’s work has inspired books, films, and musicals in addition to centuries’ worth of doctoral dissertations and scholarly research.

Another British author who worked hundreds of years ago has similarly bridged the gap between popular acclaim and academic respect. In the past 15 years, Jane Austen’s six novels have been turned into online comedy series, elaborate costume dramas, zombie thrillers, and comic books. Picking up on the similarities between the Bard and the lady from Bath, curators at the Folger Shakespeare Library present “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity,” a new exhibition that looks at the obsession the authors draw so long after their deaths. Visitors can read about the authors’ growing impacts on readers across the centuries, but the real draw is all the items included in the exhibit that the authors have inspired over time. From the tchotchkes that you might find near a bookstore counter to the grave etchings fans have made during pilgrimages, they help explain the obsession some people feel, even if you are not personally moved by Colin Firth’s work as Mr. Darcy. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m., to Nov. 6, at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Free. (202) 544-4600. folger.edu. —Caroline Jones

World

boSSa biSTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Sahel. 9:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

couNtry

hill CounTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Whitney Rose. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion. 7:30 p.m. $30.25–$81.50. livenation.com. mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. By & By. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

Jazz

TwinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Cristian Perez. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

electroNic

FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Ben UFO. 8 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com.

SounDCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Dannic. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com. u STreeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Alix Perez, Lenzman. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

FuNk & r&B

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

V. Bozeman, Avery Wilson, TSoul, Kondwani Fidel . 7 p.m. $25–$35. thehowardtheatre.com.

Books

roSa brooKS The former Pentagon official and daughter of anti-war activists explains how geographical shifts have made wars difficult to end when she reads from her new book, How Everything

Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 15, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

JeFF CioleTTi Learn about new types of spirits and how to try new things the next time you’re out at a bar when the popular beverage writer discusses his new book, The Year of Drinking Adventurously. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

DenniS a. henigan The author, a former vice president of the Brady Campaign and Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, reads from “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People” and Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control, the updated version of his 2009 book, Lethal Logic. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 18, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Terry TempeST williamS The author celebrates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service with a new book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, that captures the nation’s diverse terrain. Politics & Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 17, 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919. eD yong Learn how the organisms that live inside our bodies actually improve our health in I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, a new book from the Atlantic science reporter. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 16, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Galleries

honFleur gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Ongoing: “10th Anniversary East of the River Exhibition.” Artists who work, live, or have roots in Wards 7 and 8 showcase their work at this annual exhibition. This year’s show-

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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

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CURTIS SALGADO AND SELWYN BIRCHWOOD

viviD SoluTionS gallery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. Ongoing: “Feminicity.” Olivia Tripp Morrow creates abstract sculptures using wire and textiles donated by women in this exhibit that explores female identity and experience. Presented as part of IMMERSION, an ongoing art installation in locations throughout Historic Anacostia. July 29 to Sept. 16.

Dance

FolK DanCeS oF inDia Performers from the Indian Dance Educators Association present a collection of traditional dances from all the country’s regions. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. 2700 F St. NW. Aug. 14, 6 p.m. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Theater

hanD To goD A Christian puppet ministry working at a Texas church is overwhelmed by a possessed, demonic puppet in this silly comedy from playwright Robert Askins. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Aug. 28. $20–$65. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

JUNIOR MARVIN PRESENTS REGGAE ROCK W/ NUEX SUE FOLEY W/ DAVE CHAPPELL

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Jelly’S laST Jam Jazz pianist Mark G. Meadows plays the title role in this musical biography of pioneering jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton, portraying the

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JumanJi On a dull day, Judy and Peter find a mysterious old board game. One live lion, an erupting volcano, and some destructive monkeys later, the children are plunged into an experience they’ll never forget.

Will they ever finish this mysterious magic game and claim Jumanji? Serge Seiden directs this performance for audiences of all ages adapted from Chris Van Allsburg’s classic picture book. Adventure Theatre MTC. 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. To Aug. 28. $19.50.

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The phanTom oF The opera The longest-running musical in Broadway history, which tells the story of a mysterious masked man who haunts a Paris theater, returns to the Kennedy Center in an all-new production that retains all the classic songs, including “Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You.” Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 20. $25–$149.

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The TempeST Shakespeare Theatre Company revives Ethan McSweeney’s popular production of Shakespeare’s take on power and magic on a tropical island for its annual Free For All. Affiliated artists Patrick Page and Edward Gero star as Prospero and Alonso. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Aug. 28.

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