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DistrictLine Big Bird

Longtime residents and newer urbanites find common ground in a bid to save an eagle.

By Ruben Castaneda Valor had somehow made it from the middle of the street to a patch of grass in front of a three-story brick apartment complex. The distance of about 30 feet was a long way for a young, bewildered, and physically compromised eagle.

Dan Rauch had been looking for Valor for days when he got the call. A wildlife biologist for the District, Rauch had watched on camera—the “Eagle Cam,” to be specific—as the 3-month-old Valor tumbled from his nest at the U.S. National Arboretum.

He found the raptor in a section of Northeast Washington once known as “Little Vietnam”— and not because it was an immigrant enclave, but rather because it was a war zone, of sorts.

From January 1990 to December 1995, police recorded at least 49 homicides in the neighborhood, The Washington Post reported.

“Back then, young kids would have probably rocked it,” says Mitch Credle, a retired D.C. homicide detective and local filmmaker who’s mentored countless D.C. kids while coaching them in basketball. “They would have thrown rocks at it. That was the atmosphere back then.

No one would have called the right authorities, unless a parent saw it first.”

More than two decades later, about a dozen neighbors old and new gathered outside to

watch the unfolding drama of Valor the baby eagle. They wanted him to survive.

As I read the rescue accounts, I was intrigued. As a city crime reporter for The Washington Post from 1989 through the late 90s, I’d been to Carver Terrace multiple times to cover shootings. Back then, all of the residents, as I recall, were black—the vast majority of them honest, nonviolent working-class to poor. But cadres of young gunslingers created a pervasive sense of danger. A community eaglet rescue in gentrified Carver Terrace? I wanted to learn more, so for the first time in more than 20 years, I grabbed my notebook and pen and rode into the neighborhood.

The seVenTh offspring of Mr. President and The First Lady fell off a tree on Thursday, July 26. Rauch saw the raptor the next day and coaxed him onto a small tree, but then couldn’t find him.

The following Monday afternoon, Ellis Lane and a friend were riding through Carver Terrace when she noticed a large, dark-feathered bird in the middle of the road. Lane is white, she works at a hip H Street NE bar, and she and her friend, who is also white, were on their way to the Whole Foods on H Street NE in a Lyft.

The bird was in the intersection of 19th and Summit streets NE, near the National Arboretum. Lane saw a couple of drivers

slow down and drive around the bird. The Lyft driver got within about three feet of it and stopped.

“We were freaking out,” says Lane, 35. As the Lyft driver carefully maneuvered around the bird, her friend found the number for D.C. animal control. The situation became more urgent as they waited because “cars were going down 19th Street crazy fast” near the helpless bird, Lane says. She told an animal control official, “Yo, there’s an eagle in the middle of road here.”

Before the Lyft drove off, Lane saw Valor “so scared of the cars driving by so close to him he finally flew-hopped his way directly into the doorway” of the nearby apartment building.

The Lyft drove on.

Rauch arrived minutes later. Neighbors began gathering outside. “I think people were curious,” Rauch says. “It’s a pretty stunning sight.” Most of the onlookers were black, but a couple of them were white.

During the bloody crack era, from the late 1980s through the late 1990s, the only white people likely to be in Carver Terrace were cops, paramedics, firefighters, and reporters covering homicides.

“It was a tough-ass neighborhood,” says William “Lou” Hennessy, who served as the homicide commander for the D.C. police for more than two years from 1993 to 1995, during the height of the crack era. For five consecutive years in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, the District clocked more than 400 homicides annually.

Carver Terrace, in a hilly section just east of the H Street corridor, is bounded by 26th Street NE on the east, the intersection of Maryland Avenue NE, Benning Road NE and Bladensburg Road NE on the west, the National Arboretum on the north and Benning Road NE on the south.

Lane, who lives in the Kingman Park neighborhood of Northeast, about a mile from Carver Terrace, moved to D.C. in the early 2000s, after the worst of the violence had abated.

Today the area is home to a mixture of longtime African-American residents and young whites. The demographic shift isn’t the only thing that has changed. As with other former D.C. combat zones, Carver Terrace has seen a dramatic decline in violent crime over the last generation.

Two groups of Washingtonians who sometimes find themselves at odds in gentrifying neighborhoods—young whites who rent or buy on streets that were once devoid of nonblack residents, and middle-aged to older working-class black residents, some of whom

feel that they’re being pushed out by the newer urbanites—were outside trying to save an eagle together.

As Rauch considered his options, Valor became agitated and made his way to a door that leads into the apartment building, where he spread his wings but was unable to achieve lift.

Rauch was worried that Valor might make his way back to the street and get hit by a car, but he didn’t have with him the thick gloves he and other wildlife experts use to handle raptors. He did, however, have a couple of towels in his car.

He retrieved them, edged his way within a few feet of the bird, and tossed one of them to distract Valor. Then he threw the other towel over Valor’s head and quickly moved in, wrapping his arms around the raptor’s wings.

The big bird squirmed. Worried that Valor would tear into him with his talons or nip him with his beak, Rauch asked if anyone had a dog crate.

An elderly black man went to his nearby home and came back with a crate. Before Rauch could place Valor in the crate, an animal control officer with the Humane Rescue Alliance, the city’s animal control contractor, arrived in his truck. He had the right kind of gloves, took Valor from Rauch, placed him in his truck, and brought him to City Wildlife, a local wildlife rehabilitation center. Valor eventually went on to a bird rehabilitation sanctuary in Delaware, the Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research.

For a week, experts at the rehab sanctuary tested and treated Valor, but he showed no appetite, and refused to be hand-fed or self-feed. On Aug. 7, Tri-State posted a message on its Facebook page saying that Valor’s lack of response led to the decision to humanely euthanize him before his condition deteriorated.

“We learned yesterday afternoon that Valor had tested positive for West Nile virus; we had suspected that this was the cause of his symptoms,” the message said. “Infection with this virus is not always fatal in birds; however, after seven days of intensive supportive care, Valor remained slow to respond to stimuli and displayed no signs of improvement.” The virus is spread by mosquitos.

Rauch sees cause for optimism in Valor’s story. “It was a community effort which reflects the Carver Terrace of today—multiracial, multigenerational,” Rauch says. “The rescue and response was possible due to the synergy of the current residents.”

CP Ruben Castaneda is the author of S Street Rising: Crack, Murder and Redemption in D.C.

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Filing Suit

Activists say the attorney general’s new action against negligent property owners leads to displacement.

An Announcement the office of Attorney General Karl Racine made this week on its enforcement actions against negligent landlords drew ire from some advocates for sex workers, people of color, and low-income residents. It marks another point of tension in a months-long debate about how best to hold building owners accountable for the activities occurring on their properties.

Citing a 1999 law called the Drug-, Firearm-, or Prostitution-Related Nuisance Abatement Act, Racine’s office on Monday said it filed four new lawsuits against building owners who had tacitly allowed significant drug and gun-related activity in buildings in Anacostia, Eckington, and Petworth.

In one Eckington apar tment building, which OAG referred to as a “drug haven,” Racine’s office alleges that two search warrants executed in the last 10 months resulted in the seizure of 234 grams of pot, 68 zips of crack cocaine, and more than three vials of PCP. Another property, whose owner reached a settlement with OAG in June, saw over 700 service calls from local police in the last two years.

Taking legal action against property owners who don’t install basic security measures “to deter criminals” is part of what Racine called a broader effort to “hold neglectful property owners accountable for keeping District tenants and residents safe.” D.C.’s nuisance abatement act enables the attorney general to file charges against property owners who allow drug and gun activity, as well as acts of prostitution, to occur on the premises.

But advocates say this amounts to increased policing of vulnerable groups, particularly in communities where rapid development has driven rental prices up and made it harder for longer-term residents to remain living there.

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more resources,” says Jessica Raven, executive director of the advocacy group Collective Action for Safe Spaces.

None of the enforcement actions Racine announced this week involve prostitution offenses, but when he tweeted that his office would target building owners who “turn[ed] a blind eye to persistent illegal guns, drugs, and prostitution activity on their property,” Raven and a coalition of sex work advocacy groups responded with a flurry of criticism. They argued that those legal tactics would cause sex workers further harm.

Raven’s group, CASS, wrote: “We’re deeply concerned about @agkarlracine’s actions that seek to displace sex workers from their homes, pushing people in the sex trades into homelessness & at greater risk of violence.”

“We’re going after neglectful landlords who endanger their tenants by refusing to address dangerous activity at their properties,” Racine said in an email statement to City Paper. “District residents should feel safe in their homes, no matter where they live or how much they pay in rent.”

In March of 2017, Councilmembers Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5) and Jack Evans (Ward 2) tried to expand the existing nuisance abatement law. They introduced an amendment to the bill that would allow the attorney general to prosecute commercial tenants in addition to their landlords. It’s currently under Council review. Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union-DC, Legal Aid Society, Black Youth Project 100, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, and HIPS have all warned against it.

At an at-times contentious January hearing on the bill, the policy director of ACLU-DC, Nassim Moshiree, argued that the Council shouldn’t expand nuisance abatement laws without understanding how the original legislation affects communities.

“The same problems that we are experiencing with the current law as it relates to residential tenants, as it relates to property owners, will impact the enforcement” of this amendment, Moshiree said, “even if it’s limited to commercial properties.”

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DistrictLinE D.C. expected 100 to 400 of them. At least, that’s what they wrote on their permit request to the National Park Service. But when the time came for the white supremacists of the Unite the Right 2 rally to march from Foggy Bottom to Lafayette Square, only about two dozen of them were in attendance. Thousands of peaceful counterprotesters (and some angry ones) met them with a message: Hate is not welcome in D.C. Here, Washington City Paper photographer Darrow Montgomery captures the scene in and around Lafayette Square last Sunday. —Matt Cohen

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I’m new to bike commuting, but one hurdle I haven’t yet overcome is shopping for groceries by bike. It seems like the likelihood for disaster is high (Broken eggs everywhere! Ice cream melting all over my clothes!) and it doesn’t seem nearly as practical as driving to the store on the weekend and loading up my trunk with what I’ll need for the week. I could see stopping for one item, but I don’t get how people do it on the regular. Any tips for getting started?

—Sure Hope Overly Packed Provisions Emerge Reliably Dear SHOPPER: Shopping for groceries by bike isn’t nearly as complicated as you make it out to be and with a little forethought, it can easily be, integrated into your regular bike commute routine. The big weekly shop, abetted by an SUV and ample parking, isn’t an option for everyone—most obviously those without a car—and even when it is an option, the mere thought of fighting through a crowded suburban Whole Foods on a Saturday afternoon is enough to cause GP to break out in hives. Unless you have a cargo bike or some otherwise capacious storage method, shopping by bike will likely mean buying less stuff and doing it more often (and swapping out watermelon for cantaloupe), but it’s easily achievable with a few simple tricks.

1. Be realistic about how much you can buy at once. Use your backpack or pannier as your shopping basket to ensure that you never purchase more than you can actually carry. Can’t control your shopping impulses? Pack a drawstring bag inside of your regular bag for some emergency backup storage.

2. If the idea of your food mixing with whatever else you’re carrying bugs you out, invest in a basket. Not every bike easily accommodates this (and there are aesthetic trade-offs), but a front basket is more utilitarian than Jeremy Bentham.

A grocery mishap won’t ruin your clothes, plus everyone you pass gets to see just how much you love Hungry-Man dinners and learn your favorite brand of dandruff shampoo.

3. Heavy objects (24 packs of domestic beer, wheels of parmesan) could be a real bear to pedal home, so the best place to shop is probably the store closest to where you live. This minimizes how long you’ll have schlep the load and reduces the amount of time the groceries are exposed to bike-related risks.

4. Learn where the best (or only) bike racks are. Some stores have racks in parking garages close to the entrance, but other times, the best bike parking will be on the street or lot outside. If you’re shopping multiple times a week, you’re going to want to be in and out as quickly as possible, and that means finding the spot closest to the door.

Like everything else with bike commuting, it’ll get easier over time. Give it a shot and if it doesn’t work out, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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It’s Gonna Be Me Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo is taking a chance—on himself.

By Chris Needham

After AtlAntA BrAves television announcer Joe Simpson implied that Nationals wunderkind Juan Soto isn’t really 19 years old, Mike Rizzo moseyed up to the broadcast booth to demand a correction. “Like we handle most of the problems in Nationals Land, we went up to the booth and I had a man-to-man discussion,” the Nationals’ general manager and team president said in a later radio interview with The Sports Junkies.

That’s the Rizzo philosophy. If there’s something to be done, well, he’s the guy for the job. And in a whirlwind of moves during and around the trade deadline, where even nonactions represent a certain kind of assertion, it’s even more clear that this is Rizzo’s team.

The Nationals entered the July 31 trade deadline in a strange place. Despite being pre-season favorites, they found themselves behind not one, but two teams in the division. They’ve had a fiveor six-game deficit for weeks—not close enough or so far back that selling the farm made sense.

Rizzo reportedly considered all his options.

He looked at things to buy. He looked at things to sell, going so far as to consider offers for Bryce Harper. But in the end, he made a bet on himself. It was a bet on the team he assembled with the explicit goal (as evidenced by the removal of former manager Dusty Baker) of not just making the playoffs, but of winning the whole thing.

It was Rizzo doubling down on a previous bet he made, a bet on Davey Martinez, the team’s first-year manager. Some fans have blamed Martinez for the team’s poor play, including its average baserunning and his shaky handling of the pitching staff. Chelsea Janes of The Washington Post wrote a piece that included a number of on-the-record quotes from players essentially saying, “Sure, he’s a nice guy, but he doesn’t quite yet know what he’s doing.” Yahoo’s Jeff Passan cited four sources that called the clubhouse “a mess.”

Martinez hasn’t had an easy job. The team has been crushed by injuries. Daniel Murphy missed half the year, as did Adam Eaton and

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Ryan Zimmerman. Howie Kendrick, who was re-signed to be the injury depth at multiple positions, suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in May and is out for the year. At one point, the Nats had a player named Moisés Sierra batting fifth and it sort of made sense at the time.

But there are also in-game miscues. The Nats have been a disaster on the bases. When it’s not Trea Turner or Michael A. Taylor sprinting fast for second, look away. The team seems to stumble into extra outs a few times every series, leading the league in the number of times a player is tagged out between pitches. Recently, Soto managed to get picked off twice in a game against the Cubs, including once in the eighth inning with the team trailing by a run.

Some managers have an innate feel for when and how to use relievers. Martinez doesn’t have it. One of the complaints players made to The Post is how frequently he warms relievers, only to not use them. In other cases, he has put relievers into unusual roles or places where they feel they’re unable to succeed.

It was that, depending on whose version of events you believe, that gave Rizzo another chance to take action, and to arrest some of the criticism his manager was facing. Rizzo traded reliever Brandon Kintzler to the Cubs because he thought that Kintzler was leaking information about clubhouse discord and personal gripes about Martinez’s bullpen strate-

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gies to the media. While Kintzler denied it (as did one of the reporters), it was just Rizzo being Rizzo. He handled it, as is his wont, by just making the problem disappear.

When reliever Shawn Kelley tossed his glove and showed some frustration with (again, depending on whose version of events you believe) mopping up the final inning in a game the Nats were winning by more than three touchdowns, it was time for him to go.

According to Fancred’s Jon Heyman, Rizzo, not Martinez, confronted Kelley after the game, shouting at him before other players intervened to separate them. Rizzo saw an intemperate reliever, and took action, removing him from the roster the first chance he could.

Asserting himself even more the next day, Rizzo issued an unsaid warning to the clubhouse and put Kelley on blast, calling him selfish. “It’s pretty cut-and-dried,” Rizzo told reporters. “You guys all saw it. The act that he portrayed on the field last night was disrespectful to the name on the front of the jersey, the organization, specifically Davey Martinez.

And you’re either in or you’re in the way. And I thought he was in the way.”

In both the Kintzler and Kelley cases, the subtext became overt. Rizzo saw both relievers as threats to the manager and to the harmony of the clubhouse. Since the manager he hired doesn’t yet, or might not ever, have the

gravitas of an old pro like Baker, Rizzo felt he needed to step in and fill the void. Martinez couldn’t assert himself, so Rizzo would. Out went two useful relievers on a roster already lacking All-Star closer Sean Doolittle due to injury. Hours later, the team lost its other ace reliever, Kelvin Herrera.

So far, the results of the thinned-out pen have been disastrous. Since the team jettisoned Kelley, the bullpen ERA has hovered near 6.00, and the group somehow managed to give up walkoff homers in games they’ve led on successive days. The manager might not be threatened by the personalities, but no lead is safe. Martinez, after the second of those losses, told the press, “I don’t know what else to do.”

The players themselves aren’t really filling the void either. The team’s veterans all appear to be quiet types, none owning the intensity of the recently retired Jayson Werth. On a few occasions, Max Scherzer has stepped up, taking Stephen Strasburg and others aside. But as good as Scherzer is and as respected as he is in the clubhouse, there are few teams where a starting pitcher—who, by definition, plays just twenty percent of the time— is the team’s leader.

It’s Rizzo’s team, and it’s fighting for its life.

With just over a month left in the season, the Nationals are scuffling. For the first time since this run of success started in 2012, they’re in a true National League East pennant race, and have a chance to play meaningful games long into September with the season still in doubt.

But before those September games can mean anything, the Nats will face an immediate challenge. Starting on Aug. 21, six of their next nine games are against the Phillies. Every game is a two-game swing in the standings. If the Nats want to save this season, then they’ll need to decisively win those two series.

The pressure will be on, and we know how that goes with Rizzo’s teams. In 2014, even before those gut-wrenching five-game playoff losses in 2016 and 2017, Tim Hudson, then of the San Francisco Giants, told The Post that “talent can take you a long ways, but what do you have between your legs? That’s going to take you real far.”

Hudson, for what it’s worth, threw 7.1 innings of one-run ball as his Giants crushed the Nats in four games.

After the Nats stood still at the deadline, they might not have the talent they’ve had in the past. So they have to hope the rest of Hudson’s philosophy about overcoming talent holds. For Rizzo, a man who prides himself on doing things “man-to-man,” that’s quite the challenge. These next few weeks will demonstrate whether his team can live up to it. CP

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competition she’s had in some time.

“I have a lot of things I learned from this meet, a lot of areas for improvement, and a lot of motivation,” Ledecky told reporters. “Just going to hold onto those things and take them back into training in the fall.”

Crisis at Maryland University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh and athletic director Damon Evans spoke with reporters on Aug. 14 and admitted that athletic staff members made mistakes that led to offensive lineman Jordan McNair’s death in June.

Wonder Boy This is what D.C. United fans were hoping to see when the team acquired English superstar Wayne Rooney back in June.

On Aug. 12, with less than a minute to go in stoppage time and his team locked in a 2-2 draw with Orlando City SC, Rooney did something that will go down as one of the exciting moments in the team’s 23-season history.

The 32-year-old legend ran halfway down the pitch, tackled the ball from his opponent, then delivered a pinpoint cross to set up teammate Luciano Acosta’s game-winning goal in the waning seconds of the game.

“I told him he looked like he was 18 again,” D.C. United defender Kofi Opare said of Rooney, according to The Washington Post’s Steven Goff. “He said, ‘Man, that’s the fastest I’ve ever run.’ ” Golden Girl When Katie Ledecky competes in the pool, she doesn’t just win. She dominates.

She set untouchable records as a high school swimmer at Stone Ridge School in Bethesda. She shattered world marks at the Olympics.

And she took Stanford to the top in her two years as a collegiate swimmer.

Now, as a professional, the 21-year-old D.C. native is proving that she remains in a class of her own.

At the Pan Pacific championships in Tokyo, Ledecky finished with three individual gold medals (400-, 800-, and 1,500meter freestyle), a bronze (200-meter freestyle), and a silver in the 4x200 freestyle relay. But she’s not satisfied.

The meet featured some of the closest

Earlier in the day, Loh and Evans met privately with McNair’s family to apologize for the school’s actions on the day of the fateful workout. According to reports, McNair, 19, developed heatstroke during a team practice on May 29 and died 15 days later.

Forty minutes elapsed between the time 911 was called and the time McNair arrived at the hospital with a body temperature of 106 degrees, according to a hospital medical report obtained by The Post.

Medical experts recommend that coldwater immersion is the most effective way to treat exertional heatstroke. Evans told reporters that McNair’s temperature was not taken during the workout and that cold-water immersion was not used.

Last week, ESPN reported that head football coach D.J. Durkin and strength and conditioning coach Rick Court implemented a toxic culture of fear and intimidation that made it difficult for players to speak out. Evans announced during the press conference that Court has been fired, while Court released a statement saying he resigned.

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Home Work

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For public housing residents in D.C., fighting for better living conditions is a full-time job.

By Morgan Baskin Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

D.C.’s publiC housing residents have a common refrain when they talk about the conditions of their homes. They say it independently of each other, across many years, to different crowds of anyone who will listen—but particularly to their landlord, the DC Housing Authority.

Treat us like people, not animals.

The Housing Authority is one of the District’s largest landlords, with a portfolio of 56 public housing properties that serve about 20,000 people. Some say it’s also one of the worst, and yet more than double that number are on a closed waiting list to live in its public housing.

Over the years, the bulk of those buildings have fallen into disrepair, and the number of units too decrepit for habitation has grown.

Public housing residents continue to relay the severity of their living conditions, both calmly and with anger, with exasperation and urgency and resignation, to local leaders.

Amanda Korber is a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society. She sees clients who live in public housing, who live in market-rate housing, and who have vouchers to rent on the private market. “Our tenants in public housing have some of the worst conditions,” she says.

“I’ve seen some pretty horrifying things in public housing. Mold, water damage, leaks, infestations—things that, you know, I think we as a city should be pretty ashamed of.”

In 2016, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute released a report on the condition of public housing properties. It cited DCHA budget oversight documents to estimate that 78 percent of its units need repairs, including to plumbing, heating, cooling, and electrical wiring systems—fixes that, all told, would require $1.3 billion.

That number dwarfs the authority’s annual operating budget—$479 million in fiscal year 2017, according to an audit of DCHA’s finances obtained by City Paper through a Freedom of Information Act request—not to mention the smaller Capital Fund budget, which DCHA uses to materially upgrade “deteriorated” units. It was $16 million last year. (DCHA also spent $39 million during fiscal year 2017 on operating costs and “ordinary maintenance.”)

The D.C. Council allocates some local funds to the Housing Authority, though Korber calls the money “a drop in the bucket” compared to what the authority needs. Of the $98.2 mil-

lion the Council recommended giving to the authority in the fiscal year 2019 budget, only $3.25 million was earmarked for the express purpose of repairing public housing units––not insignificant, but not nearly enough.

In the report outlining its budget decisions, the Council’s Committee of the Whole writes that “the federal government’s chronic underfunding of public housing capital and operating expenses has placed public housing inventories at risk of further deterioration.”

The story of D.C.’s crumbling public housing infrastructure is, in many ways, the story of a country reluctant to invest in its own institutions. In 2016, the federal department of Housing and Urban Development, which provides its local counterparts with significant block grants to subsidize housing for the country’s poorest residents, gave DCHA only $14 million for capital improvements. The same year, DCHA indicated it received from HUD only

about 85 percent of what it needed to operate and maintain its public housing stock.

One HUD program, the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, provides block grants to municipalities for the purpose of rehabilitating affordable homes and giving lowincome families direct rental assistance. Adjusting for inflation, funding for HOME has decreased over 70 percent since it began dispersing funds in 1992. This year alone, the Trump administration asked to reduce HUD’s budget in 2019 by $8.8 billion. (Congress rejected the proposal.) The Housing Authority’s fiscal year 2017 audit refers to these discussions as “political and economic realities” to face “head-on.”

As HUD’s political landscape has changed, so too has DCHA’s. Last October, Tyrone Garrett, former vice-chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York’s affordable housing advisory board, succeeded Adrianne Todman as director of DCHA. He tells City Paper that he “inherited” a sizable backlog of 2,300 work orders across DCHA’s properties, which it has whittled down to 500 and aims to clear by the end of this calendar year.

Garrett has also directed a team of contractors to inspect every unit in DCHA’s housing portfolio to assess their conditions. Workers have visited 31 of the authority’s 56 buildings, and have generated an additional 700 work orders from the visits, a spokesperson for the authority says.

Against a backdrop of uncertainty, Garrett expressed unabashed optimism about the Housing Authority’s capacity to respond to these maintenance requests. New executive leadership in the agency’s operations di-

vision, coupled with structural changes to the work order system and re-prioritizing outstanding requests, make Garrett confident in what he refers to as “the implementation phase” of his leadership.

“We’re moving as quickly as we possibly can,” Garrett says, “because I like things finished yesterday as opposed to tomorrow. The glass is always half full for me.”

City Paper spoke to six public housing residents, or their attorneys, living in DCHA properties across every quadrant of the city. For them, “yesterday” can’t come soon enough.

The stories City Paper gathered from these tenants at Barry Farm, Greenleaf Gardens, Montana Terrace, and the Oak Street Apartments are presented below.

Though the size, footprint, age, and history of each of those buildings vary, tenants’ concerns are consistent: that maintenance requests languish for months or years with no response, that management is often hostile to coordinating repairs, and that, even when management dispatches a worker to abate an issue, it’s a “band-aid” fix that doesn’t address underlying structural issues.

“We know that there are private landlords that have been operating as slumlords across the District,” says Yasmina Mrabet, an organizer with multiple social justice groups in D.C. who works as a tenant advocate for low-income residents. “[But it’s] no question that the biggest slumlord in Washington is the city itself.”

“In an ideal world, public housing, where we as a city are the landlord, should be sort of like a model for what low-income housing could be like,” Korber says. “And I think that we are really failing, frankly.”

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it is June, it is gray, and it is humid.

Afternoon rain taps against the living room windows of a ground-floor, two-bedroom apartment in a sprawling Housing Authority complex called Montana Terrace. The 50year-old, 56-unit building sits squarely between Brentwood and Langdon in Ward 5.

In the windowsill, stretched underneath a sheet of vinyl blinds, is Mittens the cat. He used to be the apartment’s resident mouse-catcher, but now he’s asleep in a red knit sweater, despite the summer heat. A years-long battle with cancer has left him thin and in need of a cuddle.

“We’re trying to keep his spirits up,” says Yahvon Early, a U.S. Air Force veteran with a fierce handshake and quick eyes who lives in this apartment. Mittens swishes his tail feebly, sporadically. At her feet is Nico, a cream puff of a Pomeranian with wet black eyes and a little pink tongue.

As a service dog, Nico is a constant source of joy in a place where, Early says, she mostly feels despair.

Underneath Mittens, who has since died, in a neat row along the baseboards, is the bulk of Early’s possessions, parsed out and tied up in white garbage bags to keep the animals out.

Not hers, but the invaders: water bugs, cockroaches, and mice.

As long as she’s lived in her apartment— and at this point, it’s been just over a decade— she remembers having significant, consistent leaks in nearly every room of the apartment, causing water damage so severe that parts of her ceiling routinely collapse. The most regular offender is a three-foot gash by the closet in her daughter’s bedroom that opens to a tangle of silver pipes and cobwebs. It forced her daughter to sleep on a sofa in the living room for nearly two years.

An oblong bubble of water and mold seeps through the wall in the main hallway, and she’s got a patch of damp wall above her electrical box (which has caught fire twice, she says).

She uses floor fans to circulate air, because forget about turning on the air conditioning in her unit. When she does, Early says, the stench of mold is so thick she can’t breathe. She says that the moisture causes her joints to swell, and that she’s been on a nebulizer for years to stabilize her asthma, which she attributes to the mold. A dehumidifier provided by DCHA sits in the living room and takes nearly two full tanks of water out of the air every day, she estimates.

Early adds that it’s not uncommon to break out into hives after showering, and that she no longer cooks on busy holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, when so many families in the building use the water system at the same time that sewage bubbles up through drains in the bathroom and kitchen.

Stories like Early’s are those “you hear from slumlords,” Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, who visited Early’s apartment in August, tells City Paper. “We shouldn’t be hearing them from a public housing agency.”

In 2017 alone, she filed eight work order requests. The receipts show they were all classified as “urgent,” and include issues like plumbing repairs, ceiling leaks, an inoperable fire alarm, faulty locks on her front door, and

extensive mildew. Early says nobody from the Housing Authority addressed those work orders—in some cases, over a year after she filed them—until this summer, when they fixed the ceiling in her daughter’s bedroom.

The Housing Authority paid for her to stay in a hotel for two weeks when it finally restored and repainted the drywall in that bedroom, as well as a section of the living room ceiling. But by mid-August, when this reporter visited Early’s apartment again to look at the patching job, a pale brown but distinctly visible blob was back, smack in the middle of the repaired ceiling.

For tenants, filing a maintenance request is ostensibly as easy as a call to DCHA’s main intake hotline, where an employee relays that request to the appropriate property manager, who then schedules the repair. (Tenants with computers can also now file requests through an online portal.) But Early and Gretchen Helm, her friend and neighbor, almost roll their eyes at the mention of work orders.

Helm says crisply: “I don’t really have faith in the work order system.”

They believe requests aren’t relayed from DCHA’s intake center to its employees (an issue Garrett acknowledges and says the authority is addressing). Montana Terrace’s property manager “doesn’t control the ones that I call in; she controls the ones that she gets” from the Housing Authority, Helm says.

Helm has largely stopped submitting maintenance requests for issues that won’t cause her immediate harm. For her part, Early was

Gretchen Helm

“ The presence of these hazards places the occupants at significant risk of imminent or current adverse health consequences, and may constitute violations of District housing regulations.” so distressed by the lack of response to her outstanding work orders that she says she personally handed a stack of them to DCHA Director Garrett when he visited Montana Terrace this spring to meet tenants.

Even when a maintenance worker does make the rare appearance to repair something, Early says, the problems just keep coming back. The things that need fixing––the building’s pipes, the structural integrity of its roof and gutters—have been left to rot. “All they do is patch,” she says.

She’s also worried about crime. With faulty locks on the entryway to her building, the apartment has twice been broken into; Early says it’s not uncommon to see urine and feces in the hallway of her building, as well as strangers masturbating and taking drugs.

But Early still considers this apartment her

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only viable option as an income-restricted tenant. She says the Housing Authority has offered her apartments at other complexes in The Price Is Right-style reveals, but that the other units were in less safe, less central neighborhoods. (When apartment shopping within the DCHA portfolio, prospective tenants are given two options. They must tour the first apartment and reject it before DCHA allows them to view the second.)

“I feel trapped. For me to live like this…” she trails off, shaking her head.

Aside from a handful of close friends who visit, Early has largely stopped inviting people over for dinner or parties or dates, and some nights, she sits in her car for hours just to avoid the apartment. “I’m more angry than anything,” Early says. And then, that ubiquitous refrain: “It’s about treating people like humans, and not animals.”

helm lives in the building next to Early’s, in a three-floor rowhouse that faces the playground on Montana Terrace’s complex. She’s been there since 2003, and it’s where she raised her two children.

The presence of mold in Helm’s unit is pervasive and jaw-dropping. Peeking into the air conditioning duct on the second floor of her home, you’d be forgiven for thinking they’d been painted black––until you make out the few spots of white wall the mold hasn’t yet covered.

It’s everywhere. The hallways, the bathrooms, the doorframe to the backyard, the living room and kitchen ceilings, the grout, the air vents.

When the air conditioner’s condensation pump in her kitchen closet began to leak recently, a problem she has raised since she served on the complex’s resident council nearly 15 years ago, she noticed too that a portion of the wall behind it was never installed—leaving a hole directly into her neighbor’s apartment.

A Feb. 24, 2017 Healthy Homes report conducted by the Department of Energy and Environment’s lead and housing division includes a six-page spreadsheet that identifies 27 distinct hazards in her home.

“Mold/mildew growth on kitchen ceiling,” it reads. “Mold/mildew has spores that are easily released into the air and can be inhaled.

These spores can have an adverse health impact on individuals with a compromised respiratory system.” It identifies mold or mildew growth in six areas of her home.

Another hazard: “Utility closet doors are

ing regulations,” a letter from the division’s branch chief to DCHA says. It’s not the first inspection to point out the glaring health risks in Helm’s unit.

In 2014, Helm hired an inspector out of pocket from Southeast Environmental Microbiology Laboratories, Inc. to assess the level of fungus and mold in her home. She pulls the wad of papers from a backpack thick with files, like extermination notices and court records, that date back to 2003.

A copy of the results show the apartment tested positive for “elevated mold conditions.”

Three of the toxins it identified—aspergillus/ penicillium, stachybotrys, and cladosporium— can prompt symptoms ranging from sinusitis, vomiting, a “burning sensation,” and diarrhea to, in extreme cases of chronic exposure, fatigue, skin lesions, eye ulcers, and pulmonary emphysema. That’s just a sampling of the five total toxins it found along a single hallway in Helm’s home.

“One inspector told me, ‘I’ve never seen all the colors like this,’” Helm says as she stands in the middle of her living room, staring up at the constellation of mold that slowly grows around her. City Paper visited Helm’s apartment two days after she says a maintenance worker came to her home. She walked this reporter to the second floor bathroom, where Helm pointed to the item he fixed––a new, single white tile affixed to a baseboard next to the shower.

Certain Housing Authority properties have seen the same set of maintenance issues for so

damaged. This poses a serious safety hazard.” “Holes on third floor hallway. This has the potential to create lead laden dust that can be ingested and cause lead poisoning … holes provide avenues for pests to hide, breed, and migrate. Pests are unhygienic and are known to have an adverse health impact on individuals with a compromised respiratory system.” It identifies holes in three places in her home.

“The presence of these hazards places the occupants at significant risk of imminent or current adverse health consequences, and may constitute violations of District hous-

long, tenants and their advocates know buildings by their housing violations. Maggie Donahue, a staff attorney at Legal Aid who works with some public housing residents, says Southwest Waterfront’s Greenleaf Gardens has long struggled with a bed bug and cockroach infestation. “If they’re really bad, they leave behind black specks,” Donahue says of bedbugs. The client’s apartment “looked like it was covered in coffee grounds.”

Another client who has lived in the building for over two decades and requested anonymity reported no hot water, no heat, mice,

roaches, bed bugs, mold, water leaks, in-unit flooding, and mouse holes. One day, Donahue says, “the kitchen cabinets collapsed and just fell down from the wall. Behind them were a ton of roaches and roach residue. [Maintenance] just came back and nailed the cabinets on top of all the roaches.”

Inspection records show that Northwest’s Oak Street Apartments, a 50-unit building, has seen significant water and electrical issues. The first two months of 2017 alone saw D.C.’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs serve the property manager CIH Properties, Inc. with 10 “Notices of Violation,” warnings distributed to property managers before DCRA levies fines.

(DCRA does not typically inspect DCHA properties, because “historically they’ve been self-contained with regard to property maintenance and inspections,” a spokesperson for DCRA tells City Paper. It has only inspected Oak Street because, though it contains DCHA units, it’s a mixed-finance building partially owned by a private company.)

A sample of the violation reports, which City Paper obtained from DCRA, include “failure to properly or safely install, or maintain in a safe and working condition, a required facility – kitchen,” “defective electrical outlet,” “failure to provide or maintain a continuous supply of running hot water … to meet all normal needs,” “wall has dampness,” “central heating facility is not provided or maintained,” “door does not fit reasonably well within frame.”

“The premises are maintained in violation of the Housing Code so as to create a danger to the health, welfare or safety of the occupants or public to constitute a public nuisance,” one NOV reads. (In an email statement, CIH president Kevin O’Malley says the DCRA inspection “identif[ied] minor issues that were corrected within the following 10– 14 days. There have been no follow-up complaints regarding the matters identified in the inspection reports.”)

The agency’s fine for a violation endangering “the health, welfare, or safety” of building occupants is $500.

ACross the City in Ward 8, Patrice McMillan and her mother are struggling with rodents.

Though McMillan has lived in their Barry Farm home since 2006 when she moved in with her mom to take care of her after a stroke, they first noticed an issue in April of 2017, when they’d see a rat or two scuttling across the floor.

Eventually, she says, “I went to the property manager and was like, ‘Look, the rats are in the house and we’re losing the battle.’”

They started to eat through the wiring on kitchen appliances like the stove and freezer. On Thanksgiving, when McMillan tried to put dinner in the oven, “it didn’t work.” She called the Housing Authority at 7 that night, she says, and it took days (and hours of haranguing) to get someone to respond to the maintenance request.

After Christmas, rats had eaten their way through the back of her refrigerator, chomping through all of the holiday leftovers. “It was

all gone in one night. I was, you know, livid. I was calling DCHA all weekend. This was a Saturday morning, like, ‘We need a new refrigerator.’ They told me on the phone it was urgent, but not an emergency,” she says.

At its worst, McMillan would see five or six rats at a time in her home. But she says the extermination company on contract with DCHA to serve Barry Farm, Pest Services Company, merely sent a worker with a rat trap and a jar of peanut butter to catch them. The company has contracted with DCHA since at least 2005, and its value grows every year. In 2016, the authority approved a 36-month, $1.02 million contract with Pest Services Company. (The business did not return City Paper’s calls. DCHA has since engaged a pest management system helmed by researchers and professors at Cornell University.) Like Early, McMillan had taken her belongings out of cabinets and closets so she could try and exterminate the unit.

Around this time, at the authority’s monthly meeting of its board of commissioners in March, a Barry Farm tenant wept over the condition of her home. An elderly tenant commented that “not even the dog” wants to live on the property. “Living at Barry Farm makes my depression worse,” she said. One resident told the room that unaddressed moisture caused mushrooms to grow out of her kitchen ceiling.

“We no longer use the kitchen at all,” McMillan tells City Paper. “We have no appliances anymore. Toaster, blender, pressure cooker, microwave––you name it, it’s been chewed up. We have a linen closet full of sheets and towels we can’t use because they’ve destroyed everything.”

At a July public roundtable hosted by the D.C. Council’s committee on housing and neighborhood revitalization, DCHA Director Garrett fielded questions from councilmembers about a 13-year-old plan to redevelop Barry Farm that was struck down in April by a D.C. appeals court.

When asked why the Housing Authority pushed forward with plans to re-home the dozens of families that still live on the property, despite not having a timeline for redevelopment, Garrett cited the abysmal living conditions. “The quality of life for residents living there is not something we want to have,” he said. “We’re not able to sustain Barry Farm in the manner [we] want.”

About a month later, in mid-August, partial demolition began on Barry Farm. But McMillan is still living on the campus with her mother in their Stevens Road SE home, and the construction is two streets away from her.

They have 90 days to find another home on the private rental market with the voucher they’ve been given, or be placed in another public housing property.

She says she’s still fighting the rats.

“The lack of care they have for this situation is the part that hurts the most,” McMillan says.

“The lack of empathy and understanding. The heartlessness. After they slap you around, they expect you to come back and trust them.

I don’t believe you. You know? I think I’ll do this on my own.”

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ings account. The unique employment culture in restaurants makes tandas attractive. Some workers earn minimum wage and live paycheck-to-paycheck, making it challenging to make a big purchase. Others take home cash tips and are tempted to spend right away. Still others may not have bank accounts.

ROSCAs are nothing new. At least 70 countries have a word for it. Tanda is the term in Mexico, but Ethiopians call it ekub, Filipinos call it paluwagan, Trinidadians call it sou sou, and Pakistanis call it committee. The savings

ROSCA traditions with them from their home countries. “Our Thai and Hispanic staff participate together,” says Tom Healy, a managing partner of Baan Thai. “As soon as the Thais started doing it, the Latin Americans were like, ‘We do this too, can we get in on it?’”

They call it “luck pot” at the 14th Street NW restaurant, and kick things up a notch by introducing a bidding component in place of randomly drawing numbers to determine who gets the money in what order. Ten participants contribute $300 every two weeks. When it comes time to disburse the money, those who haven’t won yet write down how much they’re willing to pay to take the pot home that day. Healy says bids typically range from $5 to $15. On subsequent weeks, the winner has to pay $300, plus whatever they bid, until the cycle is over.

This tweaked tanda aims to solve one of the chief drawbacks of ROSCAs—players don’t always take home the large sum of money when they need it the most. Healy says staff at Baan Thai have used their “luck pot” earnings to buy plane tickets, pay off bills, and put security deposits down on apartments.

“It’s a way to get away from payday loans,”

circles play an important role globally by providing financial inclusion for the unbanked.

The ROSCAs range from rudimentary agreements between friends to more formal systems assisted by NGOs. The World Bank’s “Global Findex Database 2017” report, which measures financial inclusion and financial technology advancement, says 11 percent of adults in developing economies save semi-formally through ROSCAs or something similar.

Much of the D.C. restaurant industry is staffed by immigrants, and many of them bring

he says. “If you need to take you and your child back to your home country for a family emergency, you’re shelling out $3,000 in tickets …

It’s a great emergency buffer.”

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a typical two-week payday loan with a $15 fee per $100 is equivalent to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 400 percent. Many consider payday loans to be predatory.

Healy also says a number of his employees play “luck pot” because they don’t have access to a bank account. “A high percentage of our

How mucH do you trust your coworkers?

That’s a question servers, bartenders, and cooks must ask themselves before joining a tanda.

These informal savings clubs, known in financial circles as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), are part of the work culture at a number of restaurants across the city.

Tony & Joe’s on the Georgetown waterfront has two tandas running simultaneously. Server Joey Tipan organizes a small one with 11 colleagues.

Participants contribute $100 per week, and each week a different person takes home the $1,000 pot ($1,100 minus the $100 they put in). This goes on for 11 weeks until everyone has had a turn raking in the cash.

It’s critical that everyone in the circle be reliable because staff turnover can disrupt the tanda. If someone skips out before the completion of a cycle, the person who started the tanda is typically responsible for covering the money for the deserter.

In some tandas, weekly winners are determined by random draw. Other organizers deliver the pot in a set order, and assign new players to the end of the rotation to make sure that they stick with it until their week for a payout comes up. “Most people that play have been here for a while,” Tipan says. “You know they’re not going to run away with the money … Most people have been here over 10 years.”

Server Alan Ramos’ tanda runs concurrently with Tipan’s at Tony & Joe’s. Twentyseven players put down $300 per week, making the take home $7,800. Both tandas run during the slow season from April through September and include a mix of cooks, servers, bartenders, bussers, and bar backs.

Participants get back exactly what they put in. If your turn is toward the beginning of the tanda, the jackpot mimics a zero-interest loan.

Land a slot later on, and the tanda acts as a sav-

young & hungry

Stephanie Rudig

D.C. restaurant employees participate in savings circles common in countries where formal banking isn’t a viable option.

By Laura Hayes

Jai Williams

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Mason Dixie Biscuit Co. is bringing its decadent fried chicken biscuit sandwiches and milkshakes to Shaw.

Expect the new shop to open next month at 1819 7th St. NW.

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checks that we issue to employees are cashed, not deposited,” he says. “There are a couple of non-banked employees. Some come from countries where they don’t trust the banks.”

According to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) data, 10.8 percent of households in the District were unbanked in 2015, and another 25.4 percent of households were underbanked. The FDIC conducted a new survey in 2017, but hasn’t yet released the data. Employment status, income, and race are the three biggest factors in predicting whether someone has a bank account, but immigration status also plays a role.

Employees from Lauriol Plaza, El Tamarindo, Alero Restaurant, El Sol and Mezcalero also report having participated in tandas at their restaurants at some point. A Lauriol Plaza employee from Bolivia points out that back in her home country, where it’s called “pasanaku,” they play with rice and beans instead of cash.

There’s also a tanda underway at Profish, a seafood supplier based in Ivy City. Mayi Castillo Palafox manages The Tavern at Ivy City Smokehouse across the street. She has been participating in tandas for at least 12 years, and since there isn’t one yet at Ivy City, she in on the one at Profish.

“Tandas are for servers and bartenders, people like that,” she says. The front-ofhouse staff she’s referring to typically get paid in cash. “They get money every day and don’t tend to save it. When they get it, they spend it.” The tanda, she says, “is like putting $2,000 in the bank.”

John Wood, the executive chef at Barrel and Crow in Bethesda, echoes Palafox, saying that some restaurant workers struggle to save money. He is one of 15 people who participate in the tanda at his restaurant, where employees pay $100 for a take-home of $1,400.

“For some of these guys, $1,400 is a lot of money,” Wood says. “One of the guys bought a [used] car. They’re not going to have a mutual fund or anything like that. They’re not in the stock market. This is their version of a bank account.”

Wood, who admits that he has trouble saving, used his tanda lump sum to finish yard work. He believes tandas also contribute to staff bonding, which is why he would recommend other restaurants start one.

“But it depends on the staff and the culture,” he hedges. “We have a very tight-knit crew. Most of them live in the same apartment building. They’re from the same place in Honduras. They were neighbors there, and now they’re neighbors here. They’re so close, there’s not much fear.”

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what we ate this week: Saffron mussels with fennel, smoked sausage, red pepper, and roasted garlic, $20, The Sovereign. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5.

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what we’ll eat next week: Hearth-roasted sweet onion with brie, brioche croutons, and beef-onion jus, $8, Field & Main. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

Breaking Down Charcoal Town’s Steak Shawarma Bowl

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By Laura Hayes Falafel that Charcoal Town makes by grinding beans in house daily

Fries

Toum, a garlicky Middle Eastern condiment that Kinan calls Charcoal Town’s secret weapon

Lettuce, tomato, and onion Coleslaw

Price: $6 Stuffings: Poached egg, brie, avocado, romesco sauce Bread: Ciabatta roll Thickness: 1.5 inches Hummus

Pickled turnips Steak shawarma cooked over charcoal ovens that were already in place when the Jordanian brothers took over the space that used to be a Chix rotisserie restaurant.

Tabbouleh made with parsley, bulgur, tomato, and onion

Hours: 10 p.m. to close Monday through Thursday, 11 p.m. to close Friday and Saturday Drink specials: Absinthe service is $4 off the listed price ($11-$19)

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Food specials: A selection of late night menu bites, including various rillettes and bar nuts baked with a spicy absinthe syrup ($5-$9)

Green Hour at The Sovereign Where: The Sovereign, 1206 Wisconsin Ave. NW

The Sandwich: Brie + Avocado Breakfast Sandwich Where: Pear Plum Cafe, 3064 Mount Pleasant St. NW

Fattoush salad made with tomato, cucumber, radish, and olives

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Weighing in at about three pounds, the steak shawarma bowl ($12.99) at Charcoal Town Shawarma, 2019 11th St. NW, brings the best flavors of Jordan to D.C. Co-owner Kinan Mihyar says Middle Eastern customers, who drive from the far reaches of Maryland and Virginia craving a taste of home, opt for shawarma sandwiches. But Kinan and his brother, Bashar, added a rice bowl because of how popular they are at fast-casual restaurants. Maximize your enjoyment of the dish by dipping warm fries in cool hummus and swiping pickled vegetables through toum, both made in house. Be sure to ask for “everything on it,” and note that Charcoal Town is open until 4 a.m. on weekends.

Pros: Wondering what in the world an absinthe service entails? It’s a decadent, dramatic, and slightly fussy experience involving a fountain that trickles ice water over a sugar cube, thereby diluting a 1 oz. pour of absinthe positioned in a glass under a spigot. General Manager Jeremiah Hansen explains that “pre-Victorian stuff is huge right now,” so expect to rub elbows with industry types and more adventurous

cocktail sippers checking out this old-isnew-again, anise-tasting trend. The rich and unique flavors of absinthe and the glamorous presentation are a far cry from the average happy hour, especially because, Hansen says, the Georgetown restaurant has one of the largest collections of absinthes on the East Coast at 20 varieties (both verte and blanche).

Choose any absinthe and take $4 off the price during “Green Hour.”

Cons: If you come hoping to frolic with the green fairy, you’re out of luck.

Though the absinthes on hand range from 120 to 140 proof (and depending on your tolerance, that may be a con in and of itself), they are unlikely to cause any emerald-tinted visions or any Frenchman to break into song.

—Stephanie Rudig

Pros: Basing a breakfast sandwich around a poached egg, a notoriously finicky preparation, takes balls. That Pear Plum Cafe has managed to keep its eggs soft and gloriously runny would be enough, but pairing the creamy egg with rich avocado and peppery romesco sauce makes it even better. As an added bonus, the egg stayed puncture-free during its delivery from Mount Pleasant to downtown.

Cons: The ciabatta roll absorbs much of the romesco sauce and feels a little too tough for the soft and delicate ingredients in the middle. One wonders whether the mouthfeel would improve with the use of a more tender bread. Sliced brie, though tasty, almost takes the sandwich into richness overload when paired with avocado and egg yolk. The indulgence works in a small sandwich, but the bellyaching might begin if it were larger.

Sloppiness Level (1 to 5): 3. While the bread sops up a lot of the sauce and the fillings stick together, remember that the sandwich includes a runny egg yolk that will likely drip down your hands. A wet wipe would be helpful.

Overall Score (1 to 5): 4. A better bread would make this sandwich a go-to, but it’s still pretty darn good as is. The combination of bold flavors and well-executed preparation makes it an excellent addition to D.C.’s breakfast sandwich offerings, though this one is a little too delicate to serve as a hangover cure.

—Caroline Jones

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Somewhere Over the Go-Go How two music fans turned a prison dream into a one-of-a-kind go-go-inspired adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

By Alona Wartofsky One evening abOut four years ago, Lovail Long and his bunkmate, Salahuddin Mahdi, were working to develop a writing project about their hometown when the 1978 film The Wiz came on TV. “A light bulb came off, and within an hour, we started putting things together,” says Long.

And that is how the new musical The Giz, a go-go adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, came to be. Excited by the possibilities, Long recalls, he called his old friend, Backyard Band leader Anwan “Big G” Glover, and with Big G’s encouragement, Long and Mahdi decided to move forward with the venture.

Both Long and Mahdi were incarcerated in a Georgia prison at the time—Long on drug trafficking charges, Mahdi on aggravated assault—so progress was slow. Still, they worked on a plot synopsis and envisioned which go-go artists might play specific roles. With a contraband prepaid cell phone, Long made an initial connection with established theater director Vernon Williams III, who impressed Long with both his extensive resume and the bow-tie he wore in the photographs Long found online.

The Giz will be performed on August 19 at the MGM National Harbor; Long plans to take it on the road and eventually mount a longer local run. Its ruby red slippers planted firmly in the DMV, The Giz celebrates go-go culture with a cast that features several of the music’s luminaries, including EU’s Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliott as The Giz, a role originally written for Chuck Brown.

Despite its title, The Giz was inspired more by Victor Fleming’s 1939 The Wizard of Oz film than by any productions of The Wiz. The new musical relates the adventure of 18-year-old Dottie, who lives in North Carolina with her maternal grandparents and yearns to attend Howard University. Dottie, who just might be Chuck Brown’s daughter, is taking out the trash when a well-timed storm whisks her away to Munchkin Land, right by the D.C. border of Prince George’s County.

If the script is any indication, there is a distinctly D.C. feel to this story: Dottie and her growing group of traveling companions seek a Chocolate City—not an emerald one. There are shoutouts to Eddie Leonard’s and mumbo sauce, love for homegrown basketball star Kevin Durant, and the Wicked Witch of Southeast is a despised gentrifier. As one munchkin explains, “She knocked down our homes and kicked us out of

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the Chocolate City, pushing us further east into these parts.”

With an abundance of humor and spot-on insight, The Giz is informed by the go-go community’s struggle for acknowledgement and support. Spend a few minutes with the remarkably forthright Long, and it becomes clear that Dottie’s search for a way home also reflects his singular journey.

Now 48, Long grew up in both P.G. County and Southeast D.C., a devoted go-go fan who hoped to someday join the Junkyard band. For as long as he can remember, go-go unified people. “Go-Go was always the one thing that could bring my family together,” he says. Still, somehow, his life veered in the wrong direction. By age 14, he was on the streets.

In 2009, he began serving a five-year sentence in federal prison.

“They really had no evidence for what they locked me up for,” he says. “But by that time I had done so much stuff that it was time for me to go. I knew I might as well go ahead and take the plea.”

Long used his incarceration to contemplate how to turn his life around. “I started looking around for things that I could do Lovail Long, Salahuddin Mahdi, and Vernon Williams III

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when I came home,” he says. “So many people were throwing parties and dealing with a go-go band, but that felt like it was too close to the streets. I wanted to change my environment.”

For Williams, the theater director who worked with Long on the 2017 drama Stranger in My House before signing on to co-write and direct The Giz, there is nothing incidental about Long’s career path. “Lovail’s previous lifestyle when he was out in the streets made him ready for this. He knows how to make contacts, he knows how to put things together, he knows how to negotiate. He’s a natural-born producer,” says Williams.

“Being incarcerated saved his life, and now that he’s out, everything he’s had in him all along has prepared him for now,” adds Williams. “A lot of times, you have to go through certain things to prepare you for your purpose, and I believe he’s now prepared for his purpose. While he was incarcerated, it was just a dream. And now his dream is coming to life, so that in itself is a great triumph.” it’s the middle of the day on a balmy summer Saturday, and a handful of the production’s 120-plus cast members are rehearsing at dance studio in Temple Hills. Dottie (the lovely London Savoy), Scarecrow (tap dancer Cartier Williams, no relation to Vernon), and The Chaperone WB (WPGC’s Tony Redz) have just encountered the decidedly distaff Tin Ma, played by comedian Niki Moore. A collection of friends and other cast members watch the proceedings. Among them is Trina Boo, who describes herself as “D.C.’s Lady Gaga” and landed the role of the Candy Lady when she brought her grandson to an audition. She is wearing fabulously colorful custom-made The Giz boots.

Williams works the group through a section of go-go-inspired call-and-response, and then explains his approach to script fidelity: “You don’t have to say exactly what the script says, but you gotta say what it say.” They all nod.

Outside, filming is in process for The Giz 24/7, a behindscenes promotional video produced by Long and Williams, who

are tapping social media to help fill the MGM’s 3,000 seats. DJ Flexx, who plays The Giz’s Grand Marshall of Southeast, is talking about the significance of this production. “With all the gentrification and everything that’s going on in D.C. now, this play is so needed because it talks about the roots of the city in a way that everybody that’s been here understands,” he says.

“Chuck Brown created an entire genre of music, and we can’t let that go. For so many people, this is a part of their lives.

“This play supports our city, and it supports our culture, and it’s so important that we don’t lose our culture,” he says. “We cannot lose our culture. You can take anything, but you cannot take go-go from us.”

The displacement of African-American families who have lived in D.C. for generations is a crucial theme in The Giz, which gives voice to resentments of those pushed aside. “Gentrification is something that’s actually happening in the city, and something that’s being talked about,” says Williams. “There are residents who will be at this play who have suffered through gentrification, who had to move from the city to Maryland or other parts. It’s a real-life issue that people are actually going through. To make that part of the show—to keep speaking about it and keep the conversation going—was important.”

As the first theatrical production at the MGM, The Giz gains a certain cachet. “I think it’s important for the city to have a connection to what is and what used to be,” says Frank “Scooby” Marshall, go-go artist and Cowardly Lion actor. “There’s the hope that in the future, we can find a happy medium and have everything that was and everything that is co-exist.”

Scooby’s band Sirius Company will perform as the house band for The Giz. Other go-go artists performing in the show include Scooby’s fellow vocalist in the Chuck Brown Band, KK Donelson, who is Brown’s daughter and will be presenting a tribute to her father. And Tony Redz, who plays WB, was previously with the band Optymistic Tribe. (Long’s old cellmate Mahdi, who is credited as a co-writer, has a part as one of

the production’s crows.)

The Giz includes a video tutorial on go-go, starting with its origins in the mid-’70s all the way up to today’s bounce beat bands.

“Those who were born and raised in D.C. can reminisce, and maybe learn something they didn’t know before,” says Vernon Williams. “And for people who are not from here, this show will definitely teach you about go-go and its history.”

In a number titled “The Pocket,” the Scarecrow faces off against a dynasty of local percussion players: Milton “Go-Go Mickey” Freeman and his sons Mickey “Mick III” Freeman and Brion “BeeJay” Scott, all on congas. This segment will underscore the ways that both go-go and tap descend from traditional African percussion. “Tap comes from the Motherland—the roots and basics of it are African,” says Cartier Williams. “The connection I’m making with go-go is pure, because I’m doing go-go with my feet.”

Long reports that The Giz is nearly sold out, something a couple of guys in dingy prison uniforms could only dream of just a few years ago. “We want to see four generations of Washingtonians coming together for this show and bring the kids back to our community and our culture,” says Long. “We also want to create another stream of revenue for our go-go legends to help preserve go-go.”

Like go-go founder Chuck Brown, who learned to play guitar while serving time in Lorton and later, in what was surely a divinely delivered redemption, gave his community the tremendous gift of a music they could call their own, Long has found his way.

“This is something that Chuck Brown would have loved to see, the different ways that people are finding to keep our culture thriving,” says Vernon Williams. “He would have loved to see this, loved to see that his creation still has wings.”

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Deep State of Mind

From orbital satellites to machine learning, Trevor Paglen traces the panopticon through landscape photography.

Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum to Jan. 6, 2019

By Kriston Capps Just across a narrows in the Great South Bay from Fire Island, Mastic Beach is a modest hamlet on Long Island. Mastic Beach may be best known for its recent failure at incorporating as a village. It might yet still emerge as one of the South Shore’s hidden gems, but it’s less a secret than a dead end.

Trevor Paglen’s photograph of Mastic Beach captures the feel of the place: long sandy beach, scattered swimmers and sunbathers, a bit depressed. But that’s only the surface. The other half of “NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Mastic Beach, New York, United States” (2015) reveals a hidden ecosystem swirling underneath the blighted homes and leathered tans. A dizzying grid brimming with network charts, topographical maps, and statistical diagrams uncovers a companion Mastic Beach, the site of an underwater cable landing, a secretive hub for national intelligence.

This diptych—one part landscape photograph, one part paranoid mood board—underscores the twin impulses in Paglen’s art. Sites Unseen, a comprehensive midcareer survey by the artist now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, runs along two tracks.

At once it is a showcase of a photographer devoted to the history of landscape photography, an exhibit rife with references to Ansel Adams and Timothy H. O’Sullivan. But it is also a story of an artist working (even fighting) to center art in his practice as it slips further and further into unknowns and uncertainty.

Paglen is a chronicler of the Deep State; just as Adams and Carleton Watkins used photography to chart the vast unknown American West, Paglen uses the medium to map the territory controlled by the American military intelligence apparatus. Paglen favors the same lunar landscapes as Adams and company: craggy desert reliefs or low alkali flats in Utah and Nevada. “Dead Satellite with Nuclear Reactor, Eastern Arizona (Cosmos 469)” (2011) depicts arcs of orbiting light in nightscape over a lonely desert bluff. Paglen even recreates one 1874 photo by O’Sullivan of Idaho’s Shoshone Falls, the image surface marked up by computer vision detection algorithms.

Where Adams strove for stark scenes in black and white, Paglen revels in the gray areas. Some

of his earliest works on view here are blurry, blown-up images shot by telephoto lens over long distances.

“Control Tower (Area 52); Tonopah Test Range, NV; Distance ~ 20 miles; 11:55 a.m.” (2006) shows the physical surface of the drone base hiding in plain sight in southern Nevada.

Drones are a fascination for Paglen and the subject of some of his best work, including several gorgeous skyscape C-prints from the early 2010s. Majestic skies might be marred by the tiniest speck purporting to be an elusive example of nextgen war machines.

These sunsets over reaper drones are meant to be beautiful.

Paglen is cousin to Edward Burtynsky, the Canadian photographer whose breathtaking landscapes of toxic nickel tailings and exhausted mineral quarries credit human-kind’s awesome power to remake the world. Paglen’s tribute to the landscape–industrial complex is subtler, and perhaps scarier for it. While Burtynsky shows the hidden costs of the “Dead Satellite with Nuclear Reactor, Eastern Arizona (Cosmos 469)” by Trevor Paglen (2011) world we’ve built, the pockets of environmental cataclysm that we leave in our wake, Paglen is looking for the hid- eschatology. It might be easiest to track his ex- the camera sees. Only in Paglen’s case, the camera den world we’re building. The Camp Springs, pansion beyond photography to other media. is increasingly an automaton, making or receiving Maryland–born photographer’s pursuit of sat- These range from found objects (fabric patch- images made by and for other machines.

At times, Paglen’s work takes him off the deep ellites flows from an interest in satellite pho- es representing the emblems of various militography, but also from an almost millenarian tary-intelligence agencies) to portraiture (fa- end. A series of oversized emblems from specialbelief that satellites will be the lasting testa- cial-recognition scanning images). With two izedspookshops—including“OperationOnymous works, Paglen even pays tribute to the cube: (FBI Investigation of the Silk Road)” (2016)—hang ment to humanity.

“Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite the black-box symbol for system opacity, but like calligraphic roundels in a corrupted mosque.

(Design 4; Build 4)” (2013) can’t be missed in also a fan-favorite mode of modernist art. One “Timeline of Earth History” (2012), a wall drawSites Unseen: a massive reflective orb floating is “Trinity Cube” (2017), a sculpture combining ing, denotes the Space Age as an inconsequential at the end of American Art’s modern galleries Trinitite glass forged in the 1945 atomic bomb blip in the story of the rise and fall of eukaryotic milike a great mirrored Death Star. It’s a sketch test in New Mexico with glass recovered from cro-organisms.

If the dark roads that Paglen has taken—the for a project called “Orbital Reflector,” a sculp- the Fukushima Exclusion Zone disaster in 2011 ture that Paglen aims to launch into low Earth in Japan; the other is “Autonomy Cube” (2015), things that he has seen—have turned him into a orbit on the back of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rock- a Plexiglas box housing computer components prophet in the wilderness eating locusts and wild et this fall. But that’s skipping ahead. There able to route wi-fi traffic through the encrypt- honey, well, what’s the saying? Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you? Sites are a few steps between Paglen’s investiga- ed Tor network.

Photography governs everything in Sites Un- Unseen is slightly more optimistic than that. As tive forays into #natsec photography and his seen, whether it’s an “adversarially evolved” ma- unnerving as his subject matter may be, his work, Elon Musk phase.

That’s where curator John Jacob’s other- chine-learning print of a rainbow or a cube made deeply invested in the tools and strategies of modwise excellent survey slips up, if only a little. It of dark web. Paglen is more concerned with ways ernism, elevates art as a form of resistance—and gets hard to follow Paglen’s footsteps as his fo- of seeing than sites or scenes. Like the early pho- an unlikely source of hope.

CP cus expands from the physical footprint of the tographer Eadweard Muybridge, who pioneered Deep State to embrace machine learning, algo- experiments in cinematography because he want- 8th and F streets NW. Free. rithmic processing, and, eventually, full-blown ed to capture motion, Paglen wants to see what (202) 633-1000. americanart.si.edu.

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Life’s Rich Pageant Crazy Rich Asians

Directed by Jon M. Chu Rachel chu, the hero of the new romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, embodies the American Dream. Her mother immigrated to the United States from China so Rachel could have a better life, and now she is an economics professor. This is a broadly appealing character—funny, warm, and smart— and Rachel’s American values are key to the film’s success since Crazy Rich Asians relies on a “fish out of water” premise. Most of the film takes place in Singapore, among men and women so wealthy that their lifestyle is difficult to fathom, so part of the thrill is how director Jon M. Chu highlights their extravagance. Beneath the glamorous surface, however, is a shrewd exploration of how economic class does not necessarily suggest strong values.

When we meet Rachel, she is playing poker. This is part of an economics lecture; she uses game theory to size up her opponent, and take the pot. Rachel does not use these skills in her personal life, since her boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding) is such a sweetheart, and she wants to make a good impression with his family. Nick’s friend is getting married in Singapore, and he’s the best man, so Nick insists she come along for the celebration. Nick is not just “well off ”—his family is one of the country’s biggest landowners. Everyone is polite to Rachel, but it is hard for her to tell whose affection is real and who smiles through gritted teeth. As the festivities get underway, the considerable strain between Rachel and Nick’s mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh), only gets worse.

The screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim has a simple, effective two-pronged approach: There are comic scenes featuring

some terrific Asian-American comedians, coupled with dramatic scenes where Rachel tries to fit into the Young dynasty. As Rachel’s college roommate, Awkwafina steals the show as someone who understands this milieu, and defies its rules. Nick’s cousin Oliver (Nico Santos) is even more embedded, so his snarky commentary is all the more delicious and risky. These characters are outsiders, instinctively siding with Rachel, while many other characters are downright nasty to her. Ronny Chieng plays yet another cousin, and he is the vulgar embodiment of how wealth cannot buy manners or taste.

On top of the catty dialogue, Crazy Rich Asians is a terrific exploration of opulence.

Some of the sets have to be seen to be believed: The bachelor party includes a massive party barge, plus a quiet sojourn to an isolated dock in the middle of a crystal-blue beach. The eventual wedding ceremony includes flourishes so over-the-top you have to admire the gall and imagination it required.

Chu directs with a glitzy, fast-moving camera—giving the impression that we are watching a reality TV show about the Youngs—except the trick is that this is normal to everyone except Rachel. There are some tense, slower sequences, like a session where the Youngs make dumplings and we see how absurd expectations transfer from one generation to the next. Still, this film is a sugary feast, or a travelogue for a holiday few of us can ever afford.

Aside from Wu, who gives a star-making performance as Rachel, Yeoh is key to the film’s success. Eleanor is not just a domineering, controlling matriarch, but a woman whose identity is tied to her family’s sense of protocol. She has many scenes with Wu, and Yeoh’s body language is like a snake that’s toying with its prey. It’s a tightly controlled performance, one that feels all the more intense since Golding is such a charmer as Nick. Nick is not a buffoon, nor is his character on auto-pilot. Even when he and Rachel disagree, there is more to him than typical misunderstandings and good

intentions. Kevin Kwan, who wrote the book that inspired the film, includes much more backstory in his novel. The screenplay cuts away some of it, while preserving the character development that made the book such a hit.

Few Hollywood films have Asian-Americans in the starring roles, so this one represents an important step toward more inclusion and diversity in pop culture. Of course, Crazy Rich Asians will probably be popular well beyond audiences who want to see a film about people who look like them. Anyone who has tried to impress their partner’s family will see themselves in Rachel, and even more people have tried (and failed) to make a good impression on a cool customer like Eleanor. By burrowing into what makes this world so extraordinary—and finding what is universal along way—Chu and his terrific cast have made a romantic comedy for everyone.

—Alan Zilberman Crazy Rich Asians is now playing in theaters everywhere.

caLifoRnia DReamin’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream Directed by Casey Wilder Mott

A MidsuMMer Night’s dreAM takes place in a world where the Hollywood sign has been replaced by “A-T-H-E-N-S” and Shakespeare’s most famous lines are rejiggered into jokes. It’s a tale told not by an idiot but by first-time writer-director Casey Wilder Mott, who delivers a version of the Bard’s comedy that’s surprisingly sexy and, above all, silly. Unless you are finely attuned to the language, it’s sometimes uncommon for Shakespeare’s lighter plays to elicit many LOLs when performed, but Mott and his cast mine the material for every punchline, even wresting laughs via cleverly delivered turns of phrase.

The plot is a tangle of story lines. Hermia (Rachael Leigh Cook), an actress, and Lysand-

er (Hamish Linklater), a photographer, are in love, but that’s complicated by businessman Demetrius (Finn Wittrock), who loves Hermia and is preferred by Hermia’s father (Alan Blumenfeld). Demetrius used to love poet Helena (Lily Rabe), who’s still obsessed with him.

Yet Hermia and Helena are BFFs. When the former tells the latter that she’s running away with Lysander, Helena tells Demetrius in hopes that he’ll see the error of his affection.

Instead, he follows the couple into the forest, and so goes Helena.

Meanwhile, the King and Queen of the Fairies, Oberon (Saul Williams) and Titania (Mia Doi Todd), are estranged. He feels sorry for Helena and instructs his servant, Puck (Avan Jogia), to swipe dust on Demetrius’ eyes while he’s sleeping that will make him fall in love with the first thing he sees when he wakes up. Oberon also uses the dust on Titania. In another subplot, a group of actors are rehearsing a play they will perform for film producer Theseus (Ted Levine) at his wedding. Among them is Bottom (Fran Kranz), whom Puck decides to turn into a walking ass.

(Mott tweaks this—Bottom’s head doesn’t become that of a donkey’s but a re fle c t i o n of his t-shirt, which reads “Buttman.”)

Let’s just say complications ensue, and in the end, the players believe it may have all been a dream.

Though no one stands out in the ensemble, everyone does a fantastic job of wrapping their mouths around Shakespeare’s dialogue and giving it a present-day spin. (For example, Kranz does a casual-cool “How now?” with a “Hey there!” finger point.) As always with the Bard’s work, it’s helpful if you’re familiar with the plot going in—for the most part, these lines aren’t spoken slowly, and it’s not always clear who’s being enchanted and why.

But Mott makes the play as accessible as possible, integrating technology such as texting and video-editing software to amusingly help tell the story.

L.A. is nearly a character itself. Echo Park Lake and its coffee shop figure prominently, while Puck surfs the beaches and Theseus lives in a grand Spanish-style estate. There’s also animation and several nods to Star Wars.

It may sound like a bit of a mess, and Mott certainly does present a film that feels carefree, but it’s just like a dream.

—Tricia Olszewski A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD THIS SATURDAY!

CAKE & BEN FOLDS

w/ Tall Heights............................................ AUG 18

THIS WEDNESDAY!

AUGUST

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

SEPTEMBER (cont.)

DC Music Rocks Festival feat. BlackUDog Prowl • Allthebestkids • STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS DC Music Rocks Festival feat. ........................................ Sa 18 Fellowcraft • Pebble to Pearl • Kid Brother Whethan Black Dog Prowl • Allthebestkids • AEG PRESENTS w/ Sweater Beats & Andrew Luce Fellowcraft • PebbleTaylor to Pearl • Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................F Jeremih & Teyana w/ DaniLeigh ...............................................

Sa 21 11 Kid Brother .............................Sa 18

Owl City w/ Matthew Thiessen W 15 Seu Jorge ......................................................................................................

Kyle Kinane This is a seated show.Th 23 & The Earthquakes .....................Sa 22 Can’t Feel My Face: The Growlers .........................Su 23 2010s Dance Party with Highly Suspect ......................Th 27 DJs Will Eastman & Ozker with visuals by Kylos ................F 24

DJ Dredd’s MJ + Prince Dance Party

with visuals by Robin Bell .....Sa 25

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Blisspop Disco Fest

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

AN EVENING WITH

Belly .........................................Sa 29 OCTOBER

Our Lady Peace w/ Oak & Ash .Tu 2 Cam w/ Lucie Silvas ....................Th 4 HONNE........................................Su 7 SECOND NIGHT ADDED!

Kali Uchis

w/ Gabriel Garzon-Montano.Tu 9 & W 10

Bob Moses w/ Mansionair.......Th 11 Murder By Death

SEPTEMBER

Chapo Trap House

This is a seated show. .........................W 5

Nothing But Thieves

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

Suicidal Tendencies

35th Anniversary Show (playing their self-titled first album in its entirety) w/ Sick Of It All & Iron Reagan ....Sa 8

MC50: Kick Out the Jams 50th Anniversary Tour

featuring MC5’s Brother Wayne Kramer, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, Faith No More’s Billy Gould, Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, and Zen Guerrilla’s Marcus Durant w/ The Detroit Cobras ...............Tu 11

Los Amigos Invisibles ...........F 14 Joey Coco Diaz This is a seated show.......................Sa 15

FIDLAR

w/ Dilly Dally & NOBRO ..............Tu 18 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Car Seat Headrest

w/ Naked Giants & Don Babylon .Th 20

Gary Numan w/ Nightmare Air

w/ William Elliott Whitmore Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 12

What So Not

Late Show! 10pm Doors .....................F 12

The Record Company

w/ Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear.....................Sa 13

Lucero w/ Brent Cowles ...........Su 14 Passenger w/ Lucy Rose.........Tu 16 Atmosphere w/ deM atlaS •

............................. AUG 22

Portugal. The Man w/ Lucius..................................................................SEPT 21 TRILLECTRO FEATURING

SZA • 2 Chainz • RL Grime • special guest Carnage • Young Thug • Playboi Carti • The Internet • Smokepurpp and more! .................SEPT 22

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

Brett Eldredge • Dan + Shay • Dustin Lynch • Devin Dawson • Morgan Evans • Jimmie Allen • Jillian Jacqueline.........................SEPT 30 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C.

Five For Fighting

with String Quartet............... SEPT 16

The Milk Carton Kids

w/ The Barr Brothers ....................... OCT 13 !

Amos Lee w/ Caitlyn Smith ...... SEPT 18 FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECOND NIGHT ADDED w/ Rituals of Mine Welcome To Night Vale .. SEPT 26 Garbage Version 2.0 20th Anniversary Tour ... OCT 22 Blood Orange ........................ SEPT 28 Richard Thompson Lykke Li......................................... OCT 5 Electric Trio ..............................NOV 8 Gad Elmaleh............................. OCT 10 MADISON HOUSE PRESENTS Washington Eric Hutchinson & The Believers Kamasi w/ Butcher Brown ...........................NOV 10 w/ Jeremy Messersmith.................... OCT 12

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

THE BYT BENTZEN BALL BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT FEAT.

SMART FUNNY & BLACK FEAT.

Amanda Seales (HBO’s Insecure)

Phoebe Robinson with special guest Tig Notaro .... OCT 25 THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL

#ADULTING with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos Early Show! 5:30pm Doors ........ FRI OCT 26

Late Show! 9pm Doors ......... FRI OCT 26

Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, & Friends Late Show! 8:30pm Doors ... SAT OCT 27

The Lioness • DJ Keezy ...............W 17

Jonathan Richman

featuring Tommy Larkins

• thelincolndc.com •

U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

Early Show! 6:30pm Doors. 14+ to enter.Sa 20

Black Tiger Sex Machine

Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................Sa 20

Big Thief w/ The Range of Light

Wilderness & .michael. ..............Su 21

Gallant w/ Jamila Woods ..........M 22 We Were Promised Jetpacks .................................Tu 23 Hippo Campus w/ The Districts ...........................W 24

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

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

KENNY CHESNEY w/ Old Dominion

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

Vacationer w/ Sego ................. F AUG 17 Striking Matches w/ Megan Davies .Sa 25 Bernhoft & The Fashion Bruises w/ Jazzo ................................ Th SEP 6 Let’s Eat Grandma w/ Odetta Hartman & Boniface ..........Th 13 The Buttertones ......................Th 20 Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket w/ Steelism ..................................F 21

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

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

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

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SYML w/ Flora Cash .....................Sa 22 Reignwolf ................................ M 24 Anne-Marie w/ Goody Grace ..........W 26 Mt. Joy w/ Arlie ..........................Th 27 Meg Myers w/ Adam Jones ...........Sa 29 The Charlatans UK ............ Tu OCT 2 The Hunna ..................................F 5 The Presets w/ Blood Red Shoes ......Sa 6

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

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CITYLIST

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

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FELIX CAVALIERE & GENE CORNISH’S

RASCALS

Music 23 Books 24 Theater 26 Film 28

Aug 16• 7:30 pm w/special guest

Music

CARMINE APPICE

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

Aug 17

THE MARCUS KING BAND 18 JEFF DANIELS & BEN DANIELS BAND 21 JOHN HIATT & THE GONERS featuring SONNY LANDRETH Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster.com/800-745-3000

CAbARet

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Melba Moore. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

Folk

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FUnk & R&b

BethesdA Blues & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The SOS Band. 8 p.m. $49.50–$59. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Lauryn Hill. 6 p.m. $29–$201.99. livenation.com.

PoP

u street MusiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Vacationer. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

RoCk

the AntheM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

NEEDTOBREATHE. 7 p.m. $46–$76. theanthemdc. com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tacocat. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. roCK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Messthetics. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. songByrd MusiC house And reCord CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Happy Children. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

SAtURDAY CAbARet

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Melba Moore. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

CoUntRY

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

The Blasters. 9 p.m. $22–$25. hillcountrywdc.com.

eleCtRonIC

eChostAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Gareth Emery and Cosmic Gate. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com. u street MusiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Croatia Squad. 10:30 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

wolf trAp filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. The Avett Brothers. 8 p.m. $45–$75. wolftrap.org.

CHRIS ISAAK 28 HIGH VALLEY 29 BOB JAMES TRIO Guitar 30 Legend DICK DALE 31 KIM WATERS Sept 1 JEFFREY OSBORNE 2 THE EARLS OF LEICESTER Presented by JERRY DOUGLAS 27

JAzz

wolf trAp filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Trombone Shorty. 7:30 p.m. $30–$60. wolftrap.org.

The Voice of the Moody Blues

Mike JUSTIN HAYWARD Dawes 23 TANYA TUCKER 24 LITTLE RIVER BAND 25 KEB' MO' (Solo)

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Aisha Badru. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

twins JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Carol Morgan. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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

FRIDAY

the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Spyro Gyra. 8 p.m. $29.75–$54.75. thehamiltondc. com.

In the

MURA MASA

On his SoundCloud page, Mura Masa describes himself as a “beat slayer” and a “heart breaker.” The British DJ-producer is probably being facetious, but there is some truth in those tags.

As a beatsmith, Mura Masa resembles his genre-agnostic contemporaries, melding electronic dance music, hip-hop, R&B, and Asian and Afro-Caribbean music elements into wind-up toys that start wonky and wobbly but quickly find their four-on-the-floor footing. As for all those broken hearts, his tunes provide plenty of dancefloor catharsis, thanks to their heart-on-sleeve melodies. It’s an approach that has served him well, taking him from SoundCloud tinkerer to major label talent in a few years. Like the artists that influenced him—Hudson Mohawke and James Blake—Mura Masa has gone from solo adventurer to collaborator with the stars, looping in the likes of A$AP Rocky, Charli XCX, and Damon Albarn on his self-titled debut album. He recently added disco legends Nile Rodgers and Chic to his list of collaborators, and at just 22 years old, he still has plenty of beats to slay and hearts to break. Mura Masa performs at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $30. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Chris Kelly

JAzz BethesdA Blues & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Ambrosia. 8 p.m. $45–$59. bethesdabluesjazz.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. Carol Morgan. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

RoCk BlACK CAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Dead Sara. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. fillMore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. BandHouse Gigs. 7:30 p.m. $22–$27. fillmoresilverspring.com. the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Donavon Frankenreiter. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com. roCK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Sparta. 9 p.m. $17–$20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

songByrd MusiC house And reCord CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Halogens. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com. songByrd MusiC house And reCord CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. TONE. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com. stAte theAtre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Trial By Fire. 9 p.m. $15–$20. thestatetheatre.com. u street MusiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Ra Ra Riot. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213.

CrushnPain. 8:30 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

SUnDAY CAbARet

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Melba Moore. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

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THE MANHATTANS featuring GERALD ALSTON

THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS 9 JON B 13 THE BRIAN McKNIGHT 4 8

14 15,16

An Acoustic Evening with

NILS LOFGREN & FRIENDS 17 MICHAEL NESMITH & The First National Band

THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND 20 RED MOLLY 21 EUGE GROOVE 18

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BUDDY GUY

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LIVE MUSIC

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THE WHARF, SW DC DINER & BAR OPEN LATE!

Folk

songByrd MusiC house And reCord CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Grogan Social Scene. 5 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

FUnk & R&b

CITY LIGHTS: SAtURDAY

BethesdA Blues & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. A Tribute to the Music of Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass. 7:30 p.m. $35–$40. bethesdabluesjazz.com. u street MusiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Be’la Dona. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Jean Luc Ponty. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Subhi. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. twins JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. William Hooker. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

RoCk

wolf trAp filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The Revivalists. 8 p.m. $35–$55. wolftrap.org.

MonDAY AUGUST CONCERTS TH 16 F 17

GRASS IS DEAD DAVID OLNEY & ANNE McCUE

SA 18

STEVE RILEY AND THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS ZYDECO DANCE LESSON INCLUDED WITH TICKET PURCHASE!

SU 19

TH 30

BEN TUFTS AND FRIENDS: FUNDRAISER FOR THE CRAIG TUFTS EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND 2:30pm DOORS SLOCAN RAMBLERS & FIRESIDE COLLECTIVE CORDOVAS w/ JAY BYRD AND THE MUSICAL TRUST LETITIA VANSANT & THE YOUNG NOVELISTS HUMAN COUNTRY JUKEBOX TWO-STEP DANCE LESSON INCLUDED! FREE AFTERNOON SHOW! 12:30pm DOORS SOUTHWEST SOUL SESSIONS JAM SESSION HOSTED BY ELIJAH BALBED & ISABELLE DE LEON WIL GRAVATT FREE SHOW!

F 31

DAN TYMINSKI w/ LISSY ROSEMONT

TU 21 TH 23 SA 25 SU 26 SU 26

SEPTEMBER CONCERTS SA 1 SU 2 F7 SA 8

THE NIGHTHAWKS FREE SHOW! THE ROCK-A-SONICS & RAY APOLLO ALLEN BAND JAMIE McLEAN BAND & HIGH AND MIGHTY BRASS BAND THE YAWPERS

W 12

SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS w/ SUNNY WAR

TH 13

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER w/ PILL

SA 15 W 19

HACKENSAW BOYS JOLIE HOLLAND AND SAMANTHA PARTON w/ THE BROTHER BROTHERS

TICKETS ON SALE!

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ClASSICAl

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. International Young Artist Piano Competition. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

leGenDARY: SWeet SlICe oF lIbeRtY

tUeSDAY

Pie, science fiction, and audience participation are on the menu at Slim’s Diner in Petworth this week. TBD Immersive, an upstart performance troupe that set up a giant, dystopian cabaret at the Dupont Underground in March, has created a pop-up show at the diner, guaranteeing close encounters of a theatrical kind. Flamethrowers greet patrons on Georgia Avenue NW and, once inside, they’ll meet the supernatural beings “charged with keeping order in the universe.” The “Legends” hang out and drink coffee at Slim’s like it’s their local Luke’s, if Stars Hollow were an intergalactic crossroads instead of a fictional town in Connecticut. A three-course meal is included in the cost of admission, so enjoy some apple and key lime pie. But be prepared to participate, not just eat. The show runs to Aug. 25 at Slim’s Diner, 4201 Georgia Ave. NW. $45–$50. tbdimmersive.com.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Strength & Power Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

thURSDAY

RoCk

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. John Hiatt & The Goners. 7:30 p.m. $65. birchmere.com. wolf trAp filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Jeff Beck. 8 p.m. $35–$75. wolftrap.org.

FUnk & R&b

CoUntRY

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. U.S. Navy Band Commodores. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Tanya Tucker. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.

the scenes of polling that answers some of our biggest questions about polling and surveys. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Aug. 23. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867.

RoCk

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

Danny Barnes. 8:30 p.m. $15–$20. hillcountrywdc. com.

C. J. Chivers Journalist C. J. Chivers discusses his new novel The Fighters, an intimate account of the daily realities of combat which elaborates on his Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Magazine article. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 20. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

JAzz

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. John Hiatt & The Goners. 7:30 p.m. $65. birchmere.com.

WeDneSDAY blUeS

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Justin Hayward. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.

Folk

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Crys Matthews. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

JAzz

strAthMore gudelsKy ConCert gAzeBo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Mark G. Meadows Sextet. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

PoP

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Urquiaga. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.

RoCk

wolf trAp filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Michael McDonald and Peter Cetera.

8 p.m. $35–$80. wolftrap.org. woodridge liBrAry 1801 Hamlin St. NE. (202) 5416226. DC Punk Archive Rooftop Shows. 6:30 p.m.

Free. dclibrary.org/woodridge.

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eleCtRonIC

soundCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Dombresky. 10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.

Folk

union stAge 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Vetiver. 8 p.m. $20. unionstage.com.

FUnk & R&b

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Lakecia Benjamin. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

RoCk

BlACK CAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. In The Whale. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. fillMore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Fishbone. 8 p.m. $25–$75. fillmoresilverspring.com. wolf trAp filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Dawes. 7:30 p.m. $30–$55. wolftrap.org.

Books

Anthony sAlvAnto CBS News’ Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto discusses his new novel Where Did You Get This Number?, a tour behind

Chris hedges In his new book America: The Farewell Tour, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges explores the culture of hopelessness and in our unraveling nation, and its contribution to the epidemics of drug abuse, gambling, suicide, xenophobia, and more. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 22. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Julie sChuMACher Thurber Prize-winning author Julie Schumacher talks about her new novel The Shakespeare Requirement, the story of a widely disliked English professor who has recently been appointed head of the English Department. Union Market. 1309 5th St. NE. Aug. 17. 7 p.m. Free. linneA hArtsuyKer Linnea Hartsuyker chats about her novel The Sea Queen, the eagerly awaited sequel to her novel The Half-Drowned King, an epic retelling of the story of Ragnvald Eysteinsson and other ninth-century vikings. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Aug. 20. 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 488-3867. niCK pyenson In his new book Spying on Whales, Nick Pyenson explores the answers to our biggest questions about whales: some of the largest, deepest diving, and most intelligent creatures on the Earth.

Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 17.

7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. stAnley pluMly Award-winning poet Stanley Plumly discusses his new book Elegy Landscapes, which explores the paintings of renowned landscape artists John Constable and J.M.W. Turner and the influence of their lives on their work. Politics and Prose.

CITY LIGHTS: SUnDAY

IMPRIntS oF ReAlItY

NW. Free. (202) 232-0203. foundrygallery.org.

In her first solo exhibition in the United States, Warsaw, Poland-based artist Malgorzata Jablonska offers both paintings and sculptures, but it’s the latter that dominate the show—for good reason. With Imprints of Reality, Jablonska lays stringy bark atop plexiglass to create fragile facsimiles of the human face and body. “Joanna,” a death mask-esque portrayal of a head, cleverly partners its supple, fleshy curves with the work’s ragged, wispy edges.

In other pieces, she expands the technique to create full torsos. Jablonska’s translucent, glass-based paintings offer a measure of depth and absorbing concepts, such as a rotary of eight fetuses linked by their umbilical cords.

But the paintings fade in the presence of outstanding works like “Body,” a roughly life-size piece made of painstakingly stacked felt, producing a nude female body stepping out of a block, in the style of D.C.’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. The exhibition runs to Sept. 2 at Foundry Gallery, 2118 8th St. —Louis Jacobson

CITY LIGHTS: MonDAY

PUShInG the enVeloPe: MAIl ARt FRoM the ARChIVeS oF AMeRICAn ARt

Before the internet, artists had other ways of sharing their creations with the world. One such way was mail art (also known as “correspondence art” or “postal art”), a movement originating in the 1960s in which artists sent smallscale works to one another through the postal system, using collages, written words, and artist-made stamps. Mail artists sought to diverge from museums and galleries, which they saw as elitist modes of display. Through the more widely accessible means of postcards and packages, the mail art community interacted across international boundaries and circumvented the commercial art market. Pushing the Envelope displays mail art ranging from serious to bizarre: Canadian artist Anna Banana publishes anything and everything banana related in her absurdist newsletter Banana Rag, and Tony Lowes parodies wartime propaganda in a sprawling anti-art manifesto. Other artists draw attention to social and political issues—Russian artist Ry Nikonova depicts herself with a hand tugging a rope around her neck as a means of criticizing the U.S.S.R.’s policy against citizens leaving the country, while British artist Pat Larter stresses sexual liberation and calls attention to the male dominance of the mail art movement through her “fe-mail art.” Though letters and postcards are becoming obsolete in this digital age, the mail art community stands as a testament to the bygone interconnectedness of the postal system. The exhibition runs to January 4, 2019 at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7940. aaa.si.edu.

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CITY LIGHTS: tUeSDAY

AUGUST 23-26, 2018 FRI, AUG 24

SAT, AUG 25

WIDESPREAD PANIC 10:00PM GEORGE CLINTON & P-FUNK 8:45PM

THU, AUG 23

UMPHREY’S MCGEE

UMPHREY’S CGEE M9:45PM

JASON BONHAM 7:15PM

TOOTS 6:00PM MAYTALS

LETTUCE 8:45PM

MOON TAXI 5:00PM

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—Kriston Capps

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The voice that launched a thousand yacht rock revues has lost some of the range that made it the favored instrument of everyone from Christopher Cross to Steely Dan. But even with those otherworldly high notes out of his reach, Michael McDonald is one of the quintessential comforts of pop. Last year, the former Doobie Brother released his first original material solo album in more than 16 years, the introspective Wide Open, but you know you’re coming to hear him “keep the spirit alive” on such chestnuts as “Sweet Freedom” and “On My Own.” And what better opening act than Peter Cetera, the former Chicago singer and bass player whose distinctive tenor was as much a part of the ’70s as McDonald’s soothing baritone. Come hear this summit of two yacht rock giants. Michael McDonald performs with Peter Cetera at 8 p.m. at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. $35–$80. (877) 9653872. wolftrap.org.

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steven r. weisMAn Steven R. Weisman talks about his new book The Chosen Wars, a comprehensive history of how Judaism became an American religion and adapted with each wave of immigrants. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 23. 7 p.m.

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Tony- and Pulitzer-winning creative team of Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman. It centers on a lonely Italian war bride who has an affair with a photographer who has traveled from Washington to photograph the county’s famous covered bridges. Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To Sep. 11. $45–$55.

(202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. dAve This world premiere musical comedy is based on the Oscar-nominated film of the same name. Dave tells the story of high school teacher Dave Kovic, who finds himself hired as a stand-in when the president falls ill under scandalous circumstances. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 19. $102–$117. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. hAMilton Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit finally comes to the Kennedy Center. The world famous hiphop musical chronicles the extraordinary life of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 16. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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MelAnCholy plAy: A ConteMporAry fArCe This emotional comedy follows Tilly, a perpetually melancholic bank teller whose life and relationships are changed when she suddenly discovers happiness. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Sep. 2. $19–$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

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Every other year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts assembles an exhibition for a series called “Women to Watch,” which brings together top talent organized by region. This year’s exhibition, Heavy Metal, introduces an extra checkbox: outstanding regional artists who use metal to make their work. Metal is malleable, of course, and as a result, Heavy Metal looks much more like a typical biennial-type show—with sculpture but also painting, installation, and interventions—than a craft presentation. Rana Begum (nominated for the show by the UK Friends of NMWA) makes bright post-minimalist sculpture in powder-coated aluminum; Leila Khoury (invited by the Ohio Advisory Group) creates dour drawings in steel and concrete. Some works emphasize the formal qualities of metal, including magnetized sculpture by French artist Charlotte Charbonnel and brushed copper plates so thin they could be paper by Italian artist Serena Porrati. On the other hand, Beverly Penn (an artist picked by the Texas State Committee) casts weeds in bronze for poetic effect, rhyming "The Golden Bough" of Virgil’s Aeneid. Contrasts abound in this show, a survey of what’s happening in art today. The exhibition is on view to Sept.

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SAVAGELOVE I’ve been enjoying consensual nonmonogamy for the past two years, in part thanks to your column and podcast. I have a delightful young lover, and our connection has evolved into a kind of Master/slave relationship. I “allow” her to fuck other men and women, and she delights in asking my permission and recounting the details of her other trysts to me. We are curious how much of this she needs to disclose to her other lovers.

They know she isn’t monogamous and they are aware of her relationship with me, but so far she has chosen not to tell them the extent to which I “own” her and have jurisdiction over her body and actions. Of course, it’s just an elaborate role-playing game—but is it wrong to be using these people as pawns in our game without their knowledge and consent? If so, when should she tell them? Before she sleeps with them even once?

Or after she’s developed a more intimate rapport with them? There’s a perverse thrill in her other lovers being totally oblivious to it, but we want to be ethical in our polyamorous ways.

—Masochists And Sadists Tackling Ethical Relations This falls under the header of permissible secret perving (PSP), MASTER, and I will allow it—with one caveat.

My go-to example of PSP is the foot fetishist who works in a shoe store. So long as he’s good at his job and his secret perving is undetectable—no bulges, no heavy breathing, no creepy comments—no harm done. And if he goes home and jacks off about all the sexy, sexy feet he saw and, yes, handled during his shift, he’s not hurting anyone or doing anything unethical. It’s important, however, to note that the foot fetishist salesclerk’s perceptions aren’t the ones that matter. If he thinks he’s playing it cool—he thinks his perving is secret—but his customers or coworkers are creeped out by his behavior, demeanor, heavy breathing, etc., then his perving isn’t secret and is therefore impermissible.

The secret perving you’re doing—the girlfriend has to beg for your permission to fuck other people and report back to you afterward—is small and it’s a bank shot. The other people she’s fucking provide mental fodder for your D/s role-playing games, MASTER, you aren’t directly involving them. Your role-playing games take place before she fucks someone else (when she asks your permission) and after she fucks someone else (when she recounts her experience). And what turns you on about your girlfriend sleeping with other people—and how you and your girlfriend talk to each other about it—is no one’s business but yours.

Now for the caveat: If one of your girlfriend’s lovers strongly objects to Dom/sub sex, relationships, or role-playing games, and your girlfriend is aware they object, and you two want to be exquisitely ethical, MASTER, then ei-

Someone who doesn’t want to risk being fodder for a couple’s dirty talk or even their D/s role-playing games shouldn’t be sleeping with people who are partnered and in open relationships.

ther your girlfriend shouldn’t fuck that person or she should disclose your Master/slave dynamics to that person and allow them to decide whether they want to fuck her anyway.

Zooming out for a second: Some people in open relationships don’t want to know what their partners get up to, and these couples usually have “don’t ask, don’t tell” agreements about sex outside the relationship. But many more people in open relationships do want to hear about their partners’ adventures because it turns them on. Someone who doesn’t want to risk being fodder for a couple’s dirty talk or even their D/s role-playing games shouldn’t be sleeping with people who are partnered and in open relationships. There are things we have a right to ask the people with whom we have casual sex—like whether they’re practicing ethical nonmonogamy, if they have an STI, what kind of birth control they’re using, whether they’re on PrEP, etc.—but a casual fuck isn’t entitled to details about your relationship.

—Dan Savage My boyfriend of one year has refused to delete photos from his Instagram account that show him with his ex-girlfriend. They were together for three years and briefly engaged, and they broke up two years before we met. They aren’t in contact in any way, so I don’t have any worries there, but I think making photos of him with someone else available to his friends and family—and now my friends, too, as many are now following him—is incredibly disrespectful. We’ve had numerous arguments about this, and his “solution” is for me to “stop thinking about it.” He also insists that no one is looking at five-year-old pictures on his Instagram account. If that’s true, why not delete them? He refuses to discuss this issue, even as I lose sleep over it. I’ve tried calmly discussing this with him, I’ve tried crying, I’ve tried screaming my head off—nothing works.

—Personal Insult Causing Stress There’s definitely something your boyfriend

should delete, PICS, but it’s not old photos of his ex.

—DS The man I’m going to marry has a huge boot fetish. He has about 200 pairs of boots in his size.

His size also happens to be my size—and I’m half convinced he wouldn’t have proposed if we didn’t have the same size feet and I couldn’t wear his boots. I want to surprise him with a very special bachelor party (that we’ll both attend): It would be all guys with the same size feet as us, and everyone will be wearing different pairs of boots from his collection. I’m picturing a big group of guys doing for him what I do for him: stand on him, let him lick my (actually, his) boots, make him crawl and grovel. His feet aren’t an uncommon size (11.5), and I’m guessing enough of our mutual friends would fit into his boots that I could actually make this happen. He’s the only fetishist I’ve ever been with—all my other boyfriends were vanilla—and I’m wondering how he would react if he walked into a room and found a bunch of his friends wearing his boots and then I ordered him to start licking. I think it would be way better than going to a strip club or a drag show.

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—The Happy Couple Permissible secret perving at its finest/hottest, THC. Thanks for sharing, and be sure to send me a photo of the wedding party for my records.

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