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DistrictLine Design Within Breach

Darrow Montgomery

Another challenge from Ward 3 residents to the city’s planned homeless shelter on Idaho Ave. NW

By Morgan Baskin A hAndful of design modifications proposed by the Department of General Services for its planned homeless shelter on Idaho Avenue NW in Ward 3 have prompted ire from some locals, who claim the changes weren’t filtered through the neighborhood’s residents or the zoning board responsible for approving those modifications.

On July 23, Cozen O’Connor, a law firm representing DGS, submitted a letter to the Office of the Zoning Administrator detailing 15 planned changes to the Ward 3 shelter site and asking for approval of the plans. The changes include modifications like slightly reducing the height of the building, removing a front entry area, shrinking the gross square footage of the property and its playground, and creating a patio deck for both children and adults. They sent a follow-up letter on August 6.

Through its communications to the zoning administrator, Matt LeGrant, DGS maintained that its alterations were “minor” enough that LeGrant himself could approve the changes without a formal review before the Board of

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Zoning Adjustment, an independent body that approves land use and grants exceptions to zoning regulations. “The proposed changes to the [original] BZA-approved plans ... are minor in nature and reduce the building’s overall height and massing, are compliant with the BZA’s Order, and do not trigger the need for additional reviewer zoning relief,” the letter said.

By early August, LeGrant had approved those changes.

But Ward 3 residents who live in the shelter’s neighborhood are pushing back on the assertion that those changes shouldn’t require BZA approval, and are arguing that neighbors weren’t made aware of the proposed changes until the “11th hour,” says Angela Bradbery, an advisory neighborhood commissioner from ANC 3C06. (Commissioners are residents elected to advocate for their neighborhood’s interests, particularly in zoning and development matters.)

The most offensive of the proposed changes, Bradbery says, is the side deck, which would face a single-family home and have a maximum capacity of 62 people.

“Had we known that a patio was planned, the ANC and residents almost certainly would have had something to say to the BZA about

it,” Bradbery says. “One basis for the BZA’s approval of the shelter [permits] was that the shelter would have no adverse impact on the neighborhood. Such a sizable outdoor gathering place raises issues about noise.”

Bradbery says the ANC learned “by accident” of the proposed changes this spring, and that when it finally did, it asked LeGrant to have the BZA review it. “If those parties or any aggrieved person believes that the Zoning Administrator exceeded his authority, they may appeal the decision approving the modification to the BZA,” Sara Bardin, Director of the Office of Zoning, says. A spokesperson for DCRA, where the zoning administrator’s office is housed, did not respond to City Paper’s request for comment.

“We will finally close D.C. General and provide safe, dignified short term family housing for the residents who need us the most. That is something we as a city should all be proud of.

Any adaptations made in the building process are congruent to the designs originally shared with the Advisory Team and have met necessary zoning requirements,” a spokesperson for DGS said in an emailed statement.

The building, a six-story, 50-unit emergency shelter at 3320 Idaho Ave. NW, is part of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to close and demolish the city’s largest family homeless shelter, D.C. General, by the end of this year. Each ward across the city will see a shelter open between this fall and 2020 (with the exception of Ward 2, where there is an existing women-only shelter). But like the shelter site in Ward 5, the Ward 3 shelter has seen significant legal and political opposition from neighbors.

To involve community stakeholders, the Bowser administration created an advisory group specific to each shelter that’s comprised of neighbors, advisory neighborhood commissioners, building and health officials, and others. But some ANCs have complained that their involvement in planning has been in name only.

“If DGS needs to make design changes, then it should be transparent about them, consult the advisory team––what’s it for, if not for things like this?––let residents weigh in and go to BZA and seek approval for them, so the community has

a chance to participate,” Bradbery says.

Last September, a group of about two dozen neighbors filed a challenge in the D.C. Court of Appeals over plans to begin construction last fall. The arguments they made then echo similar concerns raised now––that the local ANC was not included in decisions made about where the shelter will sit, or what it will look like. The group, which calls itself Neighbors for Responsive Government, also submitted a letter to LeGrant this month arguing that the proposed changes “require Board approval.”

And in March, a group of Ward 5 residents also lodged a legal complaint against the development of its neighborhood’s shelter, arguing that the city picked an inappropriate location for it (it sits in an old police building on the 1700 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE), and that local officials crammed plans for the shelter through D.C.’s zoning process without giving neighbors a chance to vocalize their concerns adequately.

At the time, some of those Ward 5 residents referred to their dealings with zoning and building officials as “a total erosion of the democratic process in D.C.” In Ward 3, Bradbery says that lack of transparency, as well as additional questions about the shelter’s design, prompted her ANC to file a series of FOIA requests early this summer for more detailed information about DGS’ plans.

Advocates for the homeless, as well as members of the D.C. Council, have also expressed concerns about DGS’ willingness to provide essential documents about the deconstruction of D.C. General and development of its replacement shelters. Partly in response to this feedback, the agency began publishing bi-monthly reports of demolition progress at D.C. General this summer.

“We all want this shelter to be successful, and for it to work, the city needs community support. But the way DGS is handling this is abysmal,” Bradbery says. “Refusing to provide information and providing misleading information will engender long-term ill will among residents, which will set us up for ongoing confrontations once the shelter is open. That’s exactly what we don’t need.”

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SPORTS

It’s not difficult to connect the dots between a college football program under siege following the tragic death of a player from heat stroke and the lack of interest in high school football, writes contributor Leonard Shapiro. washingtoncitypaper.com/sports

Mystical Force

Darrow Montgomery

Kristi Toliver is an indispensable leader on and off the court for the playoff-bound Mystics.

By Kelyn Soong GeorGe Toliver had his night planned out. He would return home, turn on the TV, and watch the videotaped college basketball game that he missed because he was on an NBA road trip, working as a referee.

Maybe he’d take some notes to pass on to his two star athlete children. He enjoys analyzing the game, and his youngest daughter was already flashing her potential on the basketball court. When Toliver opened the door to his house in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and walked

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into the kitchen, he noticed a pile of paper on the dining room table. Each sheet had handwritten plays from the game, with details of what worked and what didn’t.

Never mind having to review the game himself. His teenage daughter, Kristi, had already done it, and just as well as he could have.

“I was blown away,” George says. “I pulled up the game and watched it, and they were right on point. …She had it written down— who’s making this cut, broken down the play sets. She was probably in ninth grade.”

George tells this story as way to illustrate his daughter’s personality. She’s passionate, he says, but controlled. She commits to her passions, and is a leader by example. She

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does things her own way, and takes initiative to do the small things that make a person successful. Toliver describes herself as an introvert and a leader. “People know when I say something, it’s going to speak volumes because I don’t say a whole lot all the time,” she says.

This season, the Washington Mystics have relied on all of those traits. Elena Delle Donne may be the team’s leading scorer, undisputed leader, and one of the most prominent faces of the WNBA, but Kristi Toliver has been a steadying veteran force that has helped the Mystics to a 22-12 record, their best mark since 2010, and the number three seed in the WNBA playoffs, which begin this week.

Toliver, a former University of Maryland star in her second season in D.C., is the only player to have played and started in every game for the Mystics this year and is averaging 13.9 points per game.

“Oh my God, she just brings so much,” Delle Donne says. “I feel like I don’t even need to talk about her basketball skills—that’s something you turn on the TV and see it. But her intelligence, her basketball IQ, and her leadership is so big. I feel like at any big point of the game, we’re always looking to her for the answers and she has them. She’s going to be a great coach someday. Right now, I’m glad she’s our player-coach.”

Maryland women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese says she knew early on that she had a special player. They first met when Toliver was dominating high school basketball games, shooting and making long-range shots that other players wouldn’t even have dared to take. “I think the thing that made me fall in love with her is that she never missed,” Frese says. “You’re actually shocked when she misses.”

She’s also a “cold-blooded, stone cold,” player, as Frese puts it. The type of player that thrives on the big stage, with thousands of eyes on her and opposing fans trying to tear her down. The player that Frese witnessed even before The Shot against Duke in the 2006 national championship game made Toliver a household women’s basketball name.

In her first ever collegiate game, in November 2005, the crowd inside Siena College’s arena grew hostile, booing each time the small but confident freshman guard scored. With just under a minute to go in the first half, Toliver made another jumper on her way to 16 points in Maryland’s blowout victory. But before she left the court, she put her index finger on her lips and shushed the fans.

“In the end, I was like, ‘This kid has it,’” Frese says.

Toliver, 31, remembers that moment clearly.

“Everybody is like yelling, booing, so I wanted to silence them,” she recalls. “I think I was just in another world, because that’s really not my personality, not who I am, and not who I want to be. …I don’t do that anymore.”

Several months later she made her famous shot, stunning another crowd into silence in the biggest game of her college career. With 18.8 seconds left in the 2006 national championship game and the Terps down by three, Toliver dribbled to the right of the key before swishing an arching three-point shot over Duke’s 6-foot-7 center, Alison Bales. Maryland won in overtime for its first and only

SPORTS NCAA women’s basketball title.

“Man or woman, I think she’s definitely up there as far as hitting clutch shots,” says Marissa Coleman, Toliver’s close friend and one of the best players to suit up at Maryland. “She has that clutch gene that a lot of people don’t have. If I’m the opposing crowd, I wouldn’t want to trash talk, that just fuels her. If you get her going, it’s over.”

Search online for the words “clutch” and “Kristi Toliver,” and you’ll find several results from over the years, including one from earlier this month against the Dallas Wings, where Toliver hit a fade-away final buzzer-beating jumper. These types of shots and pressure situations have been a constant throughout her career. The trick, she’ll tell you, is to never have doubts when you take those shots. Plus, she adds, “I like to make history.”

“You got to trust your training,” Toliver says. “And I say that, and I mean like when I was 8, I’ve been doing that. It’s just a matter of the work I’ve put in and trusting the process and also wanting it. I live for moments like that. That’s when I’m at my absolute best, that’s when I have my 100 percent focus. If there’s a game on the line, I want the ball.”

Toliver worked on her shooting mechanics from a young age with her father and older sister, Carli, who played collegiate basketball at Lehigh University. First they started with tennis balls, then eventually worked up to a regulation size basketball. During practices, George would count down from five seconds.

Kristi would have a few seconds to find the right shot and make it, whether it was a game of HORSE, a competitive pick-up game, or a practice situation.

“So that you have that situational sense,” George says. “It’s not just the shot, not just the moment when you release the ball. It’s what leads up to the moment, some things that must go into play, mentally and physically, and eventually it becomes natural.”

In other words, being clutch can be learned from repetition and practice, or so Toliver’s father believes. Toliver, her teammates, and coaches aren’t so sure.

“If you could [teach that], you would have a lot of more players like that,” Frese says, laughing.

“I think you can observe it,” Toliver says.

“But I think it takes guts and heart to want to be in those moments.”

Mystics coach Mike Thibault is even more direct: “I don’t think that’s teachable. I think you can help encourage it. …Every player has their own insecurities, but she’s learned what her strengths are.”

Part of what makes this year’s Mystics team successful is the dynamic between the team’s two best players, Delle Donne and Toliver, both of whom joined the team last

year. Delle Donne is a former MVP with the Chicago Sky, while Toliver won the WNBA championship with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2016.

Throughout her career, Toliver, the third overall pick in the 2009 WNBA draft, has been paired with some of the best players in the history of the sport, like Delle Donne, Candace Parker, Diana Taurasi, and Maya Moore. In college, she was in the same recruiting class as Coleman, who got drafted second overall in 2009 and now plays for the New York Liberty.

Frese called her duo Batman and Robin, while Coleman says it was more of a “Batman and Batman” situation.

“I think I’ve always done a good job of knowing—it might sound weird—that I had the potential of being the Batman, but accepting the Robin,” Toliver says. “Being the Robin to the great Batman. …I like my role. I embrace it. And I know if I’m a Robin, I’m a killer Robin.”

But joining the Mystics after six seasons with the Sparks was not an easy move for Toliver. She admits that she was “a little depressed in ways” afterward. “It was an end of a chapter for me, a huge chapter in my life as a professional,” she says.

The move also required Toliver to become a more vocal leader. In Los Angeles, Toliver could rely on Parker and Nneka Ogwumike to play that role, but in D.C., she’s been encouraged to be that person, Thibault says.

She joined the Wizards’ Summer League coaching staff and says her career goal is to be a coach in the NBA, which she calls her “first love.”

She recently sat next to someone on a plane and saw him sending a racially offensive text message about the Mystics: “All black team, of course.” She changed seats and posted a photo of the text on her Instagram.

On the day of the recent Unite the Right 2 white supremacist rally in D.C., she gave a speech on the court prior to a game. In her speech, she called for respect for people of all backgrounds and denounced bigotry. “As our leadership fails to provide this inclusive environment, it is all the more important that we together use our power for good,” she said.

Her father was watching at home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. That moment feels just as important to him as any trophy or gamewinning shot.

“The message was necessary, the message was relevant, and it was delivered in the manner that was required for that situation,” George says. “I fully support Kristi’s message given my personal feelings about the current political climate and leadership. ...That may have moved me as much as any particular play she has made. It holds a very high place in my heart.”

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S C OR E B O A R D

The Scoreboard is a sports feature spotlighting the winners and losers, the champs and chumps, the highlights and lowlights, and anything in between, of sports in the D.C. area.

from former columnist Dan Steinberg, tweets from readers, and conversations with Post writers.

MVP MoVe Yes, it’s that Adrian Peterson. In a move that will excite some D.C. sports fans, the local NFL team signed Peterson, a former league MVP, to a one-year deal.

The pick-up comes after several running backs, including rookie standout Derrius Guice, suffered injuries during the pre-season.

oh What a night Things are looking up for D.C. United.

The club has won four of its last five matches and is six points away from a playoff spot, but during its Aug. 19 victory over the New England Revolution, what happened on the field took a back seat to what happened in the broadcast booth. For the first time in the history of the country’s five major men’s sports leagues, the television broadcast team was entirely female, with Katie Witham hosting the broadcast, Lisa Byington serving as the play-by-play announcer, and former U.S. Women’s National Team member Danielle Slaton offering analysis. This move excited both fans and players—all three members of the team shared a photo on Twitter of a young female fan wearing a shirt that read “Make History,” and Witham wrote that Revs striker Juan Agudelo personally thanked her after the match.

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Media Madness At long last, The Athletic, the subscription-based sports site whose co-founder infamously expressed his disdain for local news, announced that it will launch a D.C. vertical in September. Few staffing details are known right now, but the Capitals site Russian Machine Never Breaks cites anonymous sources that say NBC Sports Washington’s Capitals beat reporter Tarik El-Bashir will cover football for The Athletic.

At the same time, The Washington Post’s sports section is rethinking its daily newsletter. Sports Daily is now known as D.C. Sports Bog, and in addition to story links, it will include writing

Peterson, 33, rushed for 11,717 yards and 82 touchdowns during his 10 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, where he earned four All-Pro honors and the 2012 NFL Most Valuable Player Award. But he only played 10 total games last season with the New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals before being released.

Still, his workouts and practices in D.C. have reportedly turned heads.

“He’s a physical freak,” Coach Jay Gruden told ESPN. “He’s in great shape, explosive, and that’s what sold us. Some of the backs we had in here [for workouts] were huffing and puffing, keeling over.

He was standing straight up. He could have gone on another two hours.”

WaVing the White Flag Remember when the Nationals beat the Mets, 25-4, on July 31 and were supposedly on their way to righting the ship and winning the National League East?

Yeah... that didn’t happen.

The Nats stood still on the trade deadline, with general manager and team president Mike Rizzo taking his chances on the roster he built. Since then, the Nats have lost half of their games in August and Rizzo reportedly almost got into a physical fight with a player he ended up removing from the roster.

The team also quietly resumed their partnership with Papa John’s Pizza, which did not exactly earn rave reviews from fans.

On Aug. 21, the team let go of Daniel Murphy and Matt Adams, and Mark Lerner, the team’s principal owner, penned what was essentially a letter of surrender to fans, writing, “the time has come for us to make decisions that will bolster our roster for next season and beyond.”

—Caroline Jones and Kelyn Soong

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Day Tripper Illustrations by Stephanie Rudig

It’s almost Labor Day, it rained half the summer, and D.C. is teeming with workaholics. Even those of us who took a vacation in June or July might be hard put to remember it by now.

So take a day off. Treat your brain to the sight of mountains, a beach, or a different downtown. Swimming weather extends into September, and you can eat outside through the fall.

City Paper has compiled a list of 11 day trips from D.C. We made Union Station the starting point for most destinations because it offers trains and rental cars, and you can get there by public transit.

All of these trips are possible with less than 12 hours advance planning, and a lot of them are cheap. A day in North Beach, Maryland, shouldn’t cost you more than $35 if you have a car; we listed two destinations accessible by commuter rail; and if you go out to Trout Pond in West Virginia, you can pitch a tent to make it an overnight.

Transform your day-long expedition into a weekend (or long weekend) by bringing a tent or booking lodging. Fancy-up any of these trips with a nice hotel. Or, as one writer recommends, put fresh sheets and some chocolates on your bed at home and conclude the day there.

Every itinerary here takes you out of D.C., but if you don’t have the time or the money to cross the District line, immerse yourself in Rock Creek Park for a day, or settle into one of the sparsely visited Smithsonians and get an iced coffee on the way home. Joy is yours.

—Alexa Mills

Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown, West Virginia For: West Virginia mountain mamas Distance from D.C.: 70 miles How to get there: Take the train or drive. MARC’s Brunswick Line will take you directly to the heart of Harpers Ferry for $17, but driving is your best bet if you want to visit other quaint small towns nearby. Lyft and Uber are available in the area, if a bit sporadically.

What to do: The Appalachian Trail passes directly through Harpers Ferry, and there are several different trails of varying levels of difficulty. The Maryland Heights and Loudoun Heights trails are the steepest and hardest, but also have the most rewarding overlook points. Once you climb back down, you’ll be ready to cool off on a casual river float. You can rent a floating tube from a local business like a chump, or bring an inflatable in your backpack and make your own fun. If swimming in the wild isn’t your thing, there are plenty of vintage antique shops to browse and historical oddities to explore. Try taking in a blacksmith demonstration, or check out the wax museum devoted to abolitionist John Brown’s failed attempt to start an uprising of enslaved people.

What to eat: Creamy Creations ice cream awaits you at the bottom of your mountain hike, and it’s worth waiting in the line. Nearby Shepherdstown has dining options that merit the 20-minute drive. Get your caffeine fix pre- or post-hike at Lost Dog Coffee, where you can also take in funky works by locals artists. The Blue Moon Cafe offers dishes prepared with ingredients produced or farmed locally and an excellent patio area. Maria’s Taqueria has unbeatable fish tacos and savory cheddar churros.

Make it an overnight: The Airbnb options are abundant, affordable, and adorable.

You could stay in a teensy-tiny log cabin, a refurbished school bus, or a Colonial-era mansion that is almost definitely haunted.

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North Beach, Maryland For: Low-key day trippers. And we mean low-key.

Distance from D.C.: 33 miles How to get there: Drive. Take the South Capitol Street Bridge to Suitland Parkway, a right on Maryland Highway 4, and a left on Maryland Route 260. This should take about 45 minutes, except during evening rush hour out of D.C. Then it’s easily more than an hour.

What to do: It might be easier to say what there isn’t to do.

It’s not a sprawling beach for your loud party and honking big cooler filled with beer. (Alcohol is banned on the beach. They inspect your cooler.)

It’s not a beach with the pounding surf of the Atlantic Ocean.

It’s not, really, a beach.

It’s a postage stamp-sized beach on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and non-resident visiting adults are charged $17 to access it.

But it’s the perfect day trip—or half-day trip—for a taste of salt air and casual detoxing from D.C. There’s a boardwalk, just a few blocks long, some antique stores, a museum, ice cream shops, and a few restaurants. The main thing to do is quietly appreciate the wide expanse of the Chesapeake Bay that spreads out before you. Breathe deeply.

Luray, Virginia For: Cavern lovers Distance from D.C.: 93 miles How to get there: Drive. It’s a solid two hours and some change trip, so a car is essential. The fastest route is via I-66 W, but beware, the route has tolls.

What to do: Luray is full of Virginia’s geological wonders—stuff you can’t find in the city. With a population of a little less than 5,000, it’s a small, scenic town in the Shenandoah Valley with a name that’s fun to say. Sure, there’s a nice beach and a nature trail at Lake Arrowhead Park, but the crown jewels of Luray are its vast caverns—the largest in the eastern U.S. And don’t worry, the caverns aren’t scary. They’re

What to eat and drink: Hook & Vine opened in May and serves tasty crabcakes in a relaxed, casual setting just two blocks off the beach. Sweet Sue’s Bake Shop and Coffee sells what it advertises. There are other eateries, most near adjoining Chesapeake Beach, but that area has a real suburban sprawl atmosphere.

Make it an overnight: It’s truly a day trip unless you rent a house or an apartment, or stay closer to Annapolis. Accommodations are scarce. Even Airbnb accommodations are scarce. Make it a day trip and sleep in your own bed.

—Tom Sherwood

well-lit, have paved walkways, and guided tours are on offer. Be sure to check out the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a lithophone that, with gentle electric tapping, makes the caverns sing. It’s probably the biggest musical instrument on Earth. When you’re done with cave dwelling, check out the local museums: The Luray Valley Museum features recreated 19th century buildings and the Car & Carriage Caravan Museum showcases vintage rides.

What to eat and drink: Luray is meatlover heaven. Head to Triple Crown BBQ for juicy, slow-smoked Virginia barbecue—there’s pulled pork and sliced tri-tip sirloin by the pound. For cheap eats, enjoy Baby Moons’ all-American fare, from golden brown and deliciously crispy onion rings to stacked hot dogs.

Make it an overnight: Stay at the quaint little Hotel Laurance, with 19th century accents and free breakfast, or the old-fashioned Mimslyn Inn with free Wi-Fi, a spa, and a cocktail bar.

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Baltimore, Maryland For: Biking in a city that isn’t D.C. Distance from D.C.: 1 hour by train How to get there: Take the train. Go to Union Station and get on the MARC bike car, available Saturdays and Sundays.

What to do: Charm City is a perfect one-day bicycling destination and it’s exceedingly easy to get there. The MARC ($8 each way) adds a dedicated bike car on weekends, allowing you to roll your ride on at no additional cost. In an hour, you and your bike are off at Penn Station and adventure awaits. On Maryland Avenue, a two-way protected bike lane (think 15th Street NW) carries you through downtown and toward the Inner Harbor, Fells Point, and Canton. You can take the well-marked and wide-reaching Jones Falls Trail back uphill past the train station and keep on it to get to Druid Hill Park or connect to Falls Road and Roland Avenue on your way toward always interesting Hampden. But the point, really, isn’t to go anywhere in particular. Bringing your bike to another city helps you cover a lot of ground quickly and caters to a love of whimsical exploration. Take the bike lanes and trails wherever they lead you. If you must have guidance, the Tour dem Parks route offers an excellent circumnavigation.

What to eat and drink: Crabcakes, pit beef, Natty Boh, Berger Cookies, Old Bay by the tinful—you’ve heard of all the stereotypical foodstuffs. Attman’s Deli will fill you with enough corned beef to power/impede your day’s pedaling. Handlebar Cafe is a combo restaurant and bike shop. Breweries abound, and you could stretch your legs riding from Waverly Brewing Company to Diamondback Brewing Company and back a few times.

Make it an overnight: Nah. If you miss your train, you’re only a little more than 30 miles from the Greenbelt Metro station. It’s a very doable ride on fairly quiet two-lane roads that parallel the Baltimore—Washington Parkway. Make sure you have lights— the parts of the route along the Patapsco River are quite woodsy.

—Brian McEntee

Berlin, Maryland For: A dose of nature and small town charm Distance from D.C.: 139 miles How to get there: Drive. From Union Station, it’s a straight shot down US-50 and takes approximately 2 and a half hours. You will have to pay a toll to cross the Bay Bridge ($2.50–$6, depending on your payment method).

What to do: Start your day on Assateague Island, where you can chase waves and soak up some sun on one of its beaches. The barrier island, located between Sinepuxent Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, is divided into a national seashore managed by the National Park Service and a state park managed by Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources. Leave your car at the state park—parking only costs $4 for Marylanders and $6 for out-of-state residents, compared to a $20 weekly pass for the national park—and start exploring. Wild horses, like those immortalized in Misty of Chincoteague, live on the island, as do a variety of aquatic birds, including gulls, sandpipers, herons, and pelicans. After your time on the island, head back to downtown Berlin, where you can visit artist studios and listen to live music at bars and restaurants on Main Street.

What to eat and drink: Burley Oak Brewing Company has served fresh craft beer to Berliners since 2011, and its tasting room is the perfect place to sample the brews, throw darts, and catch up with friends. When you’re hungry, check out Blacksmith, a farm-to-table restaurant serving cocktails and seafood-focused small plates, or Rayne’s Reef, an old-school soda fountain offering killer milkshakes and BLTs. Make it an overnight: The Atlantic Hotel, in the center of town, has been in operation since 1895, and its decor refers back to its Victorian roots. It also made a cameo appearance in the classic 1999 rom-com Runaway Bride. If you seek a more intimate vibe, try the Waystead Inn, a five-room bed and breakfast.

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Seneca Rocks, West Virginia For: Rock climbers, hikers, and nature enthusiasts Distance from D.C.: 171 miles How to get there: Drive. Follow I-66 W and US-48 W to Patterson Creek Road in Maysville for just over two hours, then take exit US-48 W and drive to WV-28 S/WV55 W for about 40 minutes.

What to do: There’s no place quite like Seneca Rocks, located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, for city-dwelling rock climbers looking for picturesque views and a challenge. The rocks rise nearly 900 feet above the water. Many of the routes are for advanced climbers, but guide services like Seneca Rocks Climbing School, Seneca Rocks Mountain Guides, and Blue Ridge Mountain Guides can help beginners or people who don’t have climbing partners. The area is home to farms, forests, and two mountain streams, Seneca Creek and the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. Use the streams to cool off after a day of climbing or hiking.

What to eat and drink: There aren’t many options, so consider bringing your own food. But if you’re in a hurry, Yokum’s Vacationland has a general store and deli, and two restaurants, Front Porch and Ground Up, are nearby.

Make it an overnight: Find a campsite at either Seneca Shadows Campground, run by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, or Yokum’s Vacationland, which includes campsites for tents and fully equipped log cabins.

—Kelyn Soong

Charlottesville, Virginia For: Mountain views and delicious food Distance from D.C.: 117 miles How to get there: Drive or take the train. You’ll want to leave early to avoid traffic on your trip to Central Virginia. It takes about two and a half hours, and let your GPS of choice guide you to roads that cut through postcard worthy farms. Amtrak also runs trains from Union Station to Charlottesville.

What to do: Your day begins at the University of Virginia’s “academical village.” While exploring the UNESCO World Heritage Site, be sure to duck into the recently refurbished Rotunda, peek into the room Edgar Allan Poe (very briefly) inhabited before dropping out, and wander through the school’s many gardens. From here, head downtown to poke around Charlottesville’s pedestrian mall. Hunt for treasures in art and clothing shops and grab a bite to eat before heading out to the countryside to take in Blue Ridge Mountain views. Depending on your tastes, you’ll be ogling vistas from a brewery, vineyard, or mountaintop. There are too many spots to list, but Blue Mountain Brewery and King Family Vineyards are fan favorites, offering house-made drinks. If you’re looking for something a bit more active, hike Humpback Rock; it’s a short two-mile trail not far from town with a very rewarding view. Finish your day with a nice dinner in Belmont, a neighborhood just a few minutes from the mall.

What to eat and drink: For breakfast, do as locals and students do, and get a bagel at Bodo’s Bagels, conveniently located right next to the University. For lunch, it’s hard to go wrong on the mall, but The Whiskey Jar is the go-to spot for traditional southern fare. For dinner in Belmont, enjoy locally sourced food at the aptly named The Local, homemade pastas and thoughtful cocktails at Tavola, or toothsome tapas at Mas. Make it an overnight: The South Street Inn puts you in the heart of Charlottesville, and offers a continental breakfast and free cookies. As an added bonus, if you’re staying Friday night, you’ll wake to find a bustling farmers market full of local products and street food outside the front door.

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Alexandria, Virginia and National Harbor, Maryland For: Locals trying to sail through all three parts of the DMV in one day Distance from D.C.: 8.9 miles How to get there: Public transportation. Take the Yellow Line from D.C. to Alexandria, then hop on a water taxi ($11 round trip for children, $17 round trip for adults) and cruise across the Potomac to National Harbor.

What to do: Start the day walking the cobbled streets of Alexandria. Check out comic books at Aftertime Comics, gaze at pretty vintage glassware at The Hour, or see what some of the region’s best artists are creating at the Torpedo Factory. From there, wander down to the waterfront, where you can set sail for Maryland. (Wa-

ter taxis depart every 40 minutes on weekends.) If you’re interested in gambling, set your sights on the MGM National Harbor. If you’d rather not risk your money, you can enjoy the riverfront views from one of National Harbor’s many public seating areas or go for a spin in the Capital Wheel, which rises 180 feet. When you’ve finished exploring all that Oxon Hill has to offer, sail back to Alexandria and make your way back home.

What to eat and drink: Killer E.S.P. in Old Town Alexandria offers coffee and sweet treats throughout the day. Carnivores might consider Myron Mixon’s Pitmaster BBQ for snacks, sandwiches, and piles of smoked meat. If you’re looking for a way to treat yourself, try Fish by José Andrés at the MGM or the tasting menu at Nasime, an intimate Japanese spot in Alexandria.

Make it an overnight: Don’t. While the idea of turndown service is nice, the hotel prices aren’t worth it. Instead, change your sheets and make your bed before you leave.

Maybe put some chocolates on your pillow. Flop onto the bed once you return home and enjoy the smell of fresh laundry.

—Caroline Jones

Winchester, Virginia For: Last-minute planners Distance from D.C.: 79 miles How to get there: Drive. Travel west on Route 7. The ride should take you about an hour and a half.

What to do: If you’re too lazy or busy to plan in advance—or you have little aptitude for day trip planning— Winchester is there for you. It’s lovely, low-key, and a fine place to go for the kind of day tripper who doesn’t choose a destination until the Saturday morning of the trip. The downtown Loudoun Street Mall is the perfect place to mosey and eat. Winchester Brew Works, also downtown, has a great beer selection and an ambience far more relaxed than you could find in D.C. Other Winchester activities include the Patsy Cline Historic House and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley’s art galleries, plus historic house and gardens.

What to eat and drink: Snacking your way through Winchester is a good idea. Even if you go for a full meal, top it off with one of these three treats: A doughnut from Moe’s Donut Shop, which rivals every fancy doughnut store in D.C.; a slider (or several) from Snow White Grill, which you order from a window facing N Loudoun Street; an espresso drink from Hopscotch Coffee & Records, where, as you might guess, you can flip through vinyl records.

Make it an overnight: It’s possible to get a clean, quiet hotel room in Winchester for a good price, even at the last minute. Try for a deal at The George Washington Grand Hotel downtown, but if that doesn’t work out, look into the chain hotels. Getting a good night’s sleep in a quiet town is, in itself, a worthy thing to do.

—Alexa Mills 14 august 24, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

Sperryville, Virginia For: People who love to hike in the morning and imbibe in the afternoon Distance from D.C.: 74 miles How to get there: Drive. Take a scenic journey along I-66 W and US-29 S. What to do: Start your day by lacing up your shoes and hiking through Shenandoah National Park. Admission is $30 per vehicle. Trail options range from the moderate Thornton River Trail (10.5 miles) to the seriously strenuous but always popular Old Rag hike (9.2 miles). If you’re not too tired after your trip through the mountains, head into town for some beverage sampling. Pick your poison by visiting Pen Druid Brewing to try funky, fermented beers, Gadino Cellars for Italian wine and bocce, or Copper Fox Distillery, known for its single malt whiskey.

What to eat and drink: Try Three Blacksmiths (open Thursdays through Saturdays only) for farm-to-table fine dining; Rappahannock Pizza Kitchen for creative, wood-fired pizza; and Thornton River Grille for American classics like roasted chicken and grilled rack of lamb. If you’re feeling really fancy, The Inn at Little Washington is a mere six miles north.

Make it an overnight: Stay at Hopkins Ordinary, a food-driven bed and breakfast that even brews beer in the basement for guests to try. There’s a main house and a separate garden cottage for those who want more privacy. Prices fluctuate depending on the season, but rooms generally go for around $280 a night.

—Laura Hayes

Wardensville, West Virginia For: Those who favor small-town exploration, hiking, and lake lounging Distance from D.C.: 104.3 miles How to get there: Drive. Hop in your car, roll down all the windows, crank your favorite road trip tunes, and enjoy the scenic western drive.

What to do: Wardensville is the kind of small West Virginia town where looks are deceiving. It’s often overshadowed by Lost River, a similar town a few miles down the road that’s become quite popular among D.C.’s gay community. Wardensville has a small, roughly mile-long commercial main street with some interesting spots, including a throwback general store/diner and a small art gallery. But your best bet is to spend the day at Trout Pond. With an area of about 3 acres, Trout Pond has a

small beach for lounging and swimming, an area to canoe and fish, and plenty of hiking trails in the surrounding woods, which offer some breathtaking views.

What to eat and drink: For nearly 10 years, the Lost River Brewing Company—a small brewery and pub situated in the center of main street Wardensville—was reason enough to make the trek. It unfortunately shut down earlier this year. But there’s still a number of spots worth checking out: The Star Mercantile, Quarter Mile Diner, and Kac-Ka-Pon Restaurant are your go-tos for quality comfort food. A few miles down the road in Lost River, the Lost River Grill & Motel, The Inn at Lost River, and the Guesthouse Lost River Restaurant & Lounge all offer unpretentious and delicious homestyle cooking.

Make it an overnight: Pitch a tent at one of the campsites in the Trout Pond Recreation Area. If you’re not into camping, there are a few inns, a motel, and bed and breakfasts in Wardensville and Lost River.

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What it’s like to work at Jessie Taylor Seafood, a nearly 80-year-old business on the water

who has worked at Jessie Taylor for 17 years.

One might think the seven on, seven off lifestyle would mesh well with having a family, but that’s not always the case. “They’ll deal with it for a certain amount of time,” Wise says, referring to significant others. “Then they get this idea in their head that you’re cheating.

You work from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. That’s the furthest thing from your mind when you get off work, but they don’t unBilly Wise derstand it like that.”

Jessie Taylor Seafood dates back to 1939 when Chelton Evans purchased a boat called the Jessie Taylor and roped his brother Fillmore Evans into joining his new business venture.

They cruised the Chesapeake Bay filling their boat with seafood and dropping off their pull at what was then known as the Municipal Fish Wharf in the District.

Fillmore had a son also named Chelton, who is still in command today. He sits in an airconditioned control center with his son, Steve Evans, watching surveillance footage, setting prices, and manning the phones that ring with customer orders.

They have the only cush jobs. Chelton’s other son, Greg Evans, and nephew, Jason Evans, are out in the heat spraying the Old Bay seasoning off crab baskets or gutting butterfish in a back room. Everyone pitches in, seemingly without paying attention to seniority, hierarchy, or where they fall on the family tree.

“There are two sides of the family,” Greg says.

“We work seven days and the other part of the family works seven days.”

The days are routine, but not monotonous enough to cause new hires to cut and run. Employees at Jessie Taylor count how long they’ve collected pay stubs in decades instead of years.

Goodman wears a crab pendant around his neck that his boss gifted him when he hit 25 years in 1992. “They got it, but I’m sure they took it out of my pay,” he jokes.

By Laura Hayes ClarenCe Goodman whips a tiny notebook out of his pocket, producing a to-do list. Other than seeing singer Peter Cetera at Wolf Trap, it looks pretty ordinary. Read the Bible. Tend to his late wife’s cats. Find a dentist who’s worth a damn. Cut the grass.

But unlike the nine-to-five crowd that typically only has two days to cross off errands,

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Goodman has a whole week. “I try to get through it all in one day so I have the other six days to be Clarence,” he says.

The Jessie Taylor Seafood employee of 47 years works seven days on, seven days off just like the rest of his colleagues at the Maine Avenue Fish Market business. “We call it ‘The Well’ because you come here and fill up and then shoot back home,” Goodman says. He’s a tanned, gregarious waterman from Smith Island, Maryland, who gets his energy from a custom elixir of Monster energy drinks, Red Bull, and pineapple juice. His customers call

him “White Chocolate.”

Most Jessie Taylor Seafood employees commute from the Eastern Shore and live above the very barges where they work 14-hour shifts hawking seafood for a week straight. “They get here on Monday night and hurry up and go into their bedrooms, unpack luggage, and take a fresh shower,” Goodman explains. He bunked on the barges for years, but now lives in Springfield, Virginia. While there are televisions and small refrigerators on board, he likens the experience to camping.

“It’s two different lives,” says Billy Wise,

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The radio and tall tales exchanged between coworkers help the hours pass faster. Crank enough Aretha Franklin over the sound system and you might forget how much your body aches. The nature of some of the banter indicates to an outsider that they are entering a testosterone zone—the only females on the barges one day in mid-August were crabs filled with succulent, sun-colored roe.

Jessie Taylor sells upwards of 50 different products sourced from local and far-away waters alike. They range from red snapper and octopus to rockfish and salmon heads. But the fast-paced action in the summer is headquartered in the corner of the market where live crabs skitter around in slanted trays broken down by sex and size.

Goodman says they sell between 1,000 and 2,000 bushels a week. Bushels contain between five and eight dozen crabs, depending on the size of the crustaceans. When a customer places an order, it’s time to glove up and bear down.

“It’s not where you grab them from—it’s going to get you either way,” Wise says. “If you grab it from the back, it’s going to getcha. If you grab it from the front, it’s going to getcha.

Regardless of the way you do it, it’s going to bite you.” Bite is the word Wise and his buddies use colloquially even though the claws inflict the pain.

Each tray seems to contain at least one feisty crab that comes at you like an offensive lineman trying to protect a quarterback. Wherever you reach, they rush over and lunge for your flesh.

Getting pinched in August is only a two out of 10 on an emergency room pain scale, but come fall, when crabs are at their biggest and strongest, their claws can crack a thumbnail.

When filling a customer’s order, sometimes the crabs do the work for you by holding claws, forming a chain like linked paper dolls. It’s important to give each crab a knock to ensure they’re still alive. Despite the company’s best efforts, sometimes nature claims some of the crabs, sending them to the seafood shack in the sky.

If you buy live crabs at Jessie Taylor and don’t want to cook them at home, you can just stroll 20 yards across the market. There, Joey Bowen will steam and flavor them to your preferred level of spice. He’s been at the job for 34 years. Sometimes, he says, all 11 steamers are going at once. On a sleepy summer Thursday, only about three were in use. The heady steam swirling around opens the pores and allows the Old Bay seasoning to seep into your soul.

“Extra spicy big daddy, you know how I like it baby,” Tyrone Hudson calls out when he passes a heavy basket of crabs to Bowen to cook. He’s brought a can of Budweiser, which Bowen pierces and sprays into one of the steamers like a college drinking feat. “It keeps those

crabs tight, it keeps that meat tight,” Hudson explains. Jessie Taylor can’t furnish beer for cooking, but customers can bring their own.

Hudson has patronized Jessie Taylor all his life. “If you’ve been coming here for years, you know everyone,” he says. “These guys ain’t going nowhere. One of my boys isn’t working today. He looks like Mike Tyson.”

Like Hudson, Brenda has been coming to Jessie Taylor for 50 years. But she takes her crabs home alive and steams them herself in a mix of beer, vinegar, and cayenne pepper. She was there on Thursday with her octogenarian mother. Though there are other businesses at the Maine Avenue Fish Market, such as from Captain White’s Seafood, Brenda and her mom are loyal to Jessie Taylor.

Goodman compares the relationship between Jessie Taylor and Captain White’s to the Hatfields and the McCoys. “I’m getting a little dramatic,” he admits. “I love them as long as I don’t have to smell their breath the next morning.”

Both Jessie Taylor employees and the customers stay the same year after year while the city around them changes rapidly. Through years of exchanging currency for crabs, they’ve forged bonds.

“I’ve known Clarence for a long time,” Brenda says. “I was around when he lost his wife. I supported him then and I continue to support him now.” When she lived in D.C. year-round, she brought trays of free sandwiches down to the dock for employees to eat.

“We deal with customers all day long,” Wise says. “I react the way they react … If they’re in a good mood, I’ll keep it that way. If they’re in a bad mood, I try to lift their spirits. That’s the idea around here.”

Goodman calls Wise Jessie Taylor’s best salesman. He’s quick to beckon wandering twosomes and threesomes to his station behind the live crabs. More often than not, he closes the deal.

All this isn’t to say Jessie Taylor is unchanged. “When I started in 1971, we didn’t have nothing like we’ve got now,” Goodman recounts. “We had a little trash can that we used to cook crabs [in] for people while they waited. There certainly were no call-in orders.

Now we’ve got fancy ice machines and guys assigned to pick up our trash and take it away. I was that guy when I started at 16 years old.”

Goodman recalls that a dozen crabs started at $2 for females and $2.50 for males when he began work on Fourth of July weekend 1971.

On a recent Thursday, a dozen started at $14.

For a business trying to stay afloat in the shadow of a billowing $2 billion development, the price isn’t bad.

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

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what we’ll eat next week: Vaca frita (pan-fried ribeye) with caramelized onions, lemon mojo rice, and tostones, $25, Little Havana. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

Yadira Stamp: At the end of culinary school, Esencias Panameñas’s Yadira Stamp interned at Pinzimini in Ballston. She later worked there in just about every role—dishwasher, busser, server, line cook, bartender, and assistant manager. “Since my goal was to open my restaurant, I thought I would take advantage and learn everything that I could,” she says. “The main thing I learned that I carry with me to this day is running and reviewing reports with a fine-toothed comb.”

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what we ate this week: Shrimp and cuttlefish ceviche with coconut, citrus, and chorizo, $14, Poca Madre. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5.

Scott Drewno: CHIKO’s Scott Drewno hails from the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. There, his first hospitality industry job was at Bully Hill Vineyards, where he was tasked with tying grape vines in the vineyard.

“I learned quickly that farm work is difficult work,” he says. “It involves long hours of physically demanding labor, and it’s a daily battle with the elements. I have carried with me much respect and admiration for our farmers since my first job in the vineyard.”

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Andrew Chiou: In addition to learning how to cook, Andrew Chiou of Momo Yakitori had to learn to speak Spanish in three weeks at his first job as a garde manger (cold food cook) at Fish Daddy’s Grill House in College Station, Texas. “On the Friday of my fourth week, the owners and chef gathered the team to pump us up about opening night,” he says. “Turns out we were cooking for three weeks as practice to work out all the kinks. Fish Daddy’s is probably still the smoothest opening I have ever seen.”

Rob Sonderman: Federalist Pig’s Rob Sonderman got his first taste of cooking at Banducci’s—a former sub and pizza joint near Union Station. Sonderman says his dad sat him down at age 14 for an “it’s time to get a job” conversation. That summer he started as a dishwasher and prep cook. “I fell in love with the speed and pace of the action and dealing with the heat and long days for whatever reason,” he says. “It was history from there.” He liked Banducci’s because he got to interface with customers directly. “It’s part of the reason why I built Federalist Pig to be more of an interactive guest and kitchen experience,” he says.

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Johanna Hellrigl: It was practically a given that Doi Moi’s Johanna Hellrigl would wind up in a kitchen: Her parents owned Palio Restaurant in New York City. “Every aspect of the restaurant fascinated me as a child and when my father passed away, every weekend outside of school became about the restaurant because my mother was a widow with an enormous restaurant with more than 100 employees,” she says. Her early days were spent at the pastry station or yelling orders in the expeditor area.

“Even if some nights meant that my bed was two chairs put together in my mother’s office, I wouldn’t trade it for anything else.”

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Tiffany MacIsaac: Buttercream Bakeshop owner Tiffany MacIsaac first tried her hand at sweets as an entry level pastry assistant at Danny Meyer’s Union Square Cafe in New York. “Working there gave me a sense of hustle and a sense of urgency I’ll never forget,” she says. “It taught me that the littlest details can mean the difference between someone that comes once or twice and a regular.”

Mike Friedman: Mike Friedman of All-Purpose and The Red Hen hasn’t fled far from his first professional gig at Mon Ami Gabi in Bethesda. Friedman exited a cubicle job “out of sheer boredom” and landed a prep cook position thanks to a family friend. The French bistro gave him a chain mail glove to protect his nascent cooking hands from cuts and he got to work on a prep list, which including slicing onions for soup and making compound butters.

“I fell in love immediately,” he says. “It was a team sport, and I felt like I was making a difference. I grew very quickly in that restaurant, and it solidified my love of the industry and my deep satisfaction of building great teams.”

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Two productions explore the expanses of space and the limits of the mind.

The Interstellar Ghost Hour

The Interstellar Ghost Hour

Written and directed by Kathleen Akerley At the Callan Theatre at Catholic University to Sept. 9

Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce

By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Nick Martin At Source to Sept. 2

By Rebecca J. Ritzel Obscure references that are more meaningful to a playwright than her audience won’t make or break a script, but they can keep a good play from being great.

Writerly proclivities are what restrain two shows receiving strong productions at small theaters here in end-of-summer Washington. One is by a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, the other by an ambitious local. One is hung up on the Italian word for almond and early modern physiology, while the other is a little too obsessed with Ray Bradbury and Babylonian archeology.

If you haven’t thought much about the Code of Hammurabi since the 1990s (perhaps while playing an educational computer game on your family’s first PC), you may find the nearly three-hour

The Interstellar Ghost Hour a bit tedious. Writer/director Kathleen Akerley is D.C.’s most cerebral playwright, and to sit through this play is to marvel at her polymathematical brain, which has woven an intricate drama about death, space travel, the ubiquity of television cooking shows, and ancient Mesopotamia.

Longacre Lea, the local collective Akerley leads, puts on a show each August in Catholic University’s black box, but The Interstellar Ghost Hour looks like it’s been years in the making, or at least in the ruminating. The production value—sets, costumes, lighting, projections—is as high as any you’d find in one of D.C.’s Equity theaters, and that’s particularly important in a play that begins with an actress stepping out of her orange space suit in the eerie glow of green overhead lights.

The protagonist in The Interstellar Ghost Hour is Iris, played

by Christine Alexander, an adult orphan who travels through space and time, concepts that are nearly synonymous here, to ask her parents the obtuse question, “Did I mourn you well?”

Iris has some parental relationship baggage. On the macro level, this premise is the play’s strength. Who hasn’t wanted to go back in time—whether to repair or savor your bond with a deceased loved one? The Interstellar Ghost Hour assumes that dream is a possibility, although there are still some glitches with the technology. Visiting “astronauts,” we learn, disrupt television programming, and

D.C. rapper Nappy Nappa talks about his Future Times record label debut. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts Iris finds the flatscreen at her parents’ home tuned to Cooking with Hammurabi, a Top Chef-like reality show featuring the guy who coined the phrase “an eye for an eye.” Hammurabi’s not only a judge, he’s the despot who gets to decide if an appetizer is so bad, the contestant should lose an appendage for over-roasting it.

The acting—both in the play and in the pre-recorded material—is sensitive and mostly well timed. Julie Weir plays Iris’ undead mom like a kindly robot. Scott Ward Abernethy is a bit problematic as her father, both in his acting and textual insinuations that Iris was abused. It’s unclear how literally viewers are supposed to take his attempts to strike her; if Iris was beaten, the whole revisiting-her-childhood trope takes on a disturbing level of eye-for-an-eye sadomasochism that doesn’t jive well with the play’s fantastic comic relief.

Because Iris is having some technical issues with her “time phasing,” occasionally lights flicker, DOS warnings flash on the big screen, and the sound of a siren fills the theater. Now instead of her parents occupying the home, Iris finds herself haunting a poor future owner named Brian, played by Ryan Sellers. To stop Iris from knocking over antique ashtrays and rifling through his books, he hires Sam, a “ghost mediator” that M. Temidayo Akibu imbues with kooky verve.

“Ooo! You have an astronaut!” Sam tells Brian after fooling around with crystals and notebooks she totes in what appears to be a ghostbuster’s diaper bag.

“Is it Neil Armstrong?” Brian asks, excitedly.

“No, it is not Neil Armstrong,” Sam says, exasperated. “Everyone always thinks they have a celebrity.”

Akibu nearly redeems this overly talky show. If Akerley were going to make cuts, several long, puzzling video scenes from a fictional cop show should go. Ditto with the host of Cooking with Hammurabi, a Babylonian chef wandering around onstage mixing subatomic particles with a mortar and pestle who also haunts the house and badgers Iris with esoteric questions. He claims to be the author of the world’s oldest cookbook, and sure enough— thank you Atlas Obscura—Yale University owns stone tablets that are likely Earth’s oldest recipe cards. They are inscribed in ancient Akkaddian, and date to the time of Hammurabi.

3801 Harewood Road NE. $15–20. (202) 460-2188. longacrelea.org. sarah ruhl’s Melancholy Play will especially resonate with anyone who studied Shakespeare in graduate school, and/ or is hung up on Freud, and/or has seen the George Balanchine ballet “The Four Temperaments.” As Balanchine knew, Hippocrates thought human personality traits were driven by four bodily fluids, or humors: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. Should those levels become out of balance, one temperament could become unfavorably dominant.

Mankind’s understanding of anatomy hadn’t advanced much by Shakespeare’s day, so when Shylock complains that his blood runs hot in The Merchant of Venice, he’s basically admitting he has an early version of what is now called a personality disorder. Ditto for Edmund who has “too much melancholy” in King Lear.

Freud was also intrigued by the concept, so that explains why one of the six characters in Ruhl’s 2002 play, which is receiving an unrepressed, dream-like staging at Constellation Theatre, is a shrink, and one of the only set pieces onstage is a settee that also serves as a couch and a bed.

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CPArts one 90-minute comedy of manners. We’ve got unrequited love, a love triangle, and a Shakespeare favorite—long lost twins.

“It seems that you enjoy this melancholy of yours,” Lorenzo, the shrink played by Christian Montgomery, says to Tilly, the afflicted bank teller played by Billie Krishawn, who soon finds herself fighting off four suitors. She’s like an Ophelia who, instead of drowning herself, attracts a shrink, a tailor, her hairstylist, and a nurse.

Nick Martin helms this beautifully designed, expressively acted production. Wytold composed appropriately sweet and sad music performed by Kate Rears Burgman, an onstage cellist. (A musical version of this show, created by composer Todd Almond in collaboration with Ruhl, is also available.)

The only thing out of sorts in this whimsical world is the constant reference to almonds. People “look like almonds,” people eat almonds, people turn into almonds. This surrealist nonsense seems out of place unless you have access to a hard copy of the script, which includes in its lengthy preface the Italian word for almond, “mandorla,” a term derived from an ancient symbol of interlocking circles.

Well then. Now everything makes sense! Or maybe not.

By all means, people who write plays should be well read, like cyphers for centuries of wisdom. They should remember, however, that we audience members are merely visiting for 90 minutes (Or three hours. Whatever.) Not all of us are holding scripts, and no one else has access to what is obviously a vast cerebral cortex.

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Directed by Jesse Peretz In Reality Bites, Ethan Hawke cemented himself as a reluctant posterboy for Generation X. His character in the film is the ultimate slacker, the sort of loser who would rather con-

descend to rich people than take their money.

The film features the Hawke character playing with his band, and their only song is called “I’m Nuthin.” It is a sort of dirge an aspiring blues singer might write once they realize they have nothing to be sad about.

Hawke has distanced himself from Reality Bites, carving out a diverse roster of roles across all genres, but Juliet, Naked serves as atonement for his Generation X posturing. It is also a warm romantic comedy, the sort that asks little of its audience and gives just a bit extra in return.

Before we meet the Hawke character, we spend time with Annie (Rose Byrne), a young woman who is exasperated by her life in a sleepy English seaside town. She has a deadend job and lives with her longtime boyfriend Duncan (Chris O’Dowd), a college professor who teaches The Wire to his students (there is an amusing aside where he hands out a cheatsheet of Baltimore slang). But Duncan’s true obsession is Tucker Crowe, who is played by Hawke: Tucker is a fictional rock musician from the ’90s who disappeared from the limelight, and still has dozens of obsessive, passionate fans. Imagine what would happen if Jeff Buckley were still alive, and faded into obscurity like Jeff Mangum did for a while.

Juliet, Naked is based on a Nick Hornby novel, and indeed the Duncan character would be at home in High Fidelity, Hornby’s most famous book. He is a manchild in his thirties,

lem recalling that show’s awkward comic timing: There is a great scene where Annie meets Tucker, and they are improbably joined by nearly all his children, along with their mothers. Peretz’s camera carefully weaves through the room so that each person’s entrance is funnier than the last. Most of the comedy is dialogue-based, and the jokes have the wry delivery that is a hallmark of Hornby’s work. Even the inevitable emotional revelations unfold in a gentle way. These characters have lived enough so that betrayals and upheavals do not arrive with much drama.

Juliet, Naked is meant to Juliet, Naked serve as counter-programming, the cinematic equivalent of a beach read. It is successful on those terms, insofar that it will drift from your memory just like a dog-eared paperback. If the story does not linger, at least the three lead performances have more nuance and humanity required.

On top of that, there is one unintentional running joke involving Byrne, who was visibly pregnant while filming.

Peretz/Byrne have to be creative about how they frame her body, which is ironic since Annie has some anxiety about whether to have children at all. Her concealed belly is like email. They begin a correspondence, and we a metaphor for this film’s appeal. It is another learn what he has been up to since his last pub- relatable flaw you begrudgingly learn to embrace.

—Alan Zilberman lic appearance over 20 years ago.

Both Duncan and Tucker are flawed men, albeit for different reasons. This film has the Juliet, Naked opens Friday at Landmark E wisdom to criticize them, not glamorize them, Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row and it accomplishes that by keeping the sto- Cinema. ry firmly in Annie’s perspective. She is curious about Tucker, but not because he was a famous musician. Instead, he is a middle-aged man with a self-deprecating charm who learned about life the hard way. Director Jesse Peretz includes many scenes of Tucker’s upstate New York home, and his shabby existence is more ramshackle than romantic.

Support the Girls Hawke is terrific here, in a performance that Directed by Andrew Bujalski is miles away from his astounding work in this year’s First Reformed. As Tucker, he has a relaxed physicality and deadpan delivery that MovIes that take place within a single day barely conceals his self-loathing. By the time comprise a subgenre of film with many standTucker flies to England, partially to meet An- out entries—from American Graffiti to Clerks— nie and Duncan, the old adage “never meet but it’s also a list overflowing with testosteryour idols” comes into play. The same might one. For whatever reason, women are left on be said about Annie meeting her pen pal, ex- the periphery of these stories, as girlfriends cept neither she nor Tucker can quite deny who don’t warrant commitment or prizes put their chemistry. He is also a decent musician: on a pedestal. It’s the kind of treatment we exWe learn that Tucker has not performed in de- pect—but don’t accept—from studio comedies, cades, so when he is coaxed into playing The except these all-in-one-day movies, which typKinks’ “Waterloo Sunset,” the confidence of ically feature low stakes and character-driven his performance is all the more surprising. plots, are more often independently made. So Peretz, who has directed many episodes of what took so long for a funny and fresh femalethe HBO show Girls, films Juliet, Naked with driven hangout movie like Support the Girls to the same warm colors. He also has no prob- hit theaters? Let’s just be glad it’s here. crippled by his pop culture obsession, to the point where he is indifferent to Annie’s needs.

In fact, Duncan runs the internet’s biggest Tucker Crowe forum, so when he receives a bootleg CD of early Crowe recordings, he is quick to share his findings.

In a desperate salvo to save their relationship—or perhaps out of spite—Annie opens an account on this forum, and writes a scathing review of the recordings. Duncan tries to stay cool, and then something strange happens: The real Tucker Crowe writes Annie an

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Regina Hall, fresh off her star turn in Girls Trip, is Lisa, manager of a Hooters-like bar called Double Whammies. She’s having a terrible day. Within her first hour at work, she discovers a thief stuck in the vent above the manager’s office. He has accidentally severed the cable, which threatens the restaurant’s ability to broadcast the big fight that night. Beyond her professional obligations, there are also the burdens Lisa takes on herself. One of her waitresses ran over her abusive boyfriend with her car, and Lisa has decided to raise money for her legal fund with an off-the-books carwash during business hours.

Her affection for her waitresses carries her through. Her job may be to manage the restaurant and turn a profit, but her mission is to protect her waitresses from the boorish men that populate their lives. The dudes in Support the Girls are largely pathetic. There are the drunken customers with caramelized onions hanging out of their mouths, the rageful, impotent owner (James Le Gros), and various deadbeat boyfriends. Her waitresses are young and still learning how to handle men. Lisa, with a personal history sprinkled in with just the right amout of detail, has learned long ago.

It’s a winning ensemble piece, but it succeeds on the back on Hall’s best performance yet. Despite the hi jinks going on around her, Hall is steadfastly grounded, never choosing the joke over the emotional reality of her character. Her performance is buttressed by Haley Lu Richardson and Shayna McHale, who play her two most experienced waitresses with truly divergent styles. As Maci, Richardson (Columbus) is a bundle of positive energy, blissfully (and perhaps determinedly) oblivious to the degradations and dangers of her job titillating men.

McHale, a first-time actress, has an authentic weariness that earns laughs without ever reaching for them. When a male customer jokes that he would never touch her without consent, she gets the biggest laugh in the movie by responding with sleepy-eyed matter-offactness, “I will kill you.”

Yes, for much of the film, writer/director Andrew Bujalski walks a very narrow tightrope in its depiction of the sexism inherent in restaurants like Hooters and its fictional counterpart. Lisa works so hard to create a safe and positive work environment, and the film keeps its mood so light and bubbly, that it’s easy to forget the dangers of its objectification of women. These illusions come crashing down in the film’s final third, but Bujalski displays his themes so carefully that these events are played for neither laughs nor tears. It’s simply another obstacle to overcome in a lifetime of them for working women. Support the Girls could have been a tragedy, a comedy, or a rallying cry, but in reality it’s all of them at once.

—Noah Gittell Support The Girls opens Friday at Landmark West End Cinema.

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BLIGHT. Makes RIGHT VoL. II is not a chill playlist. It stands in defiance of a music industry built on homogeny, marketability, and reliably unobjectionable acts. It is a compilation of tracks by mostly local artists, diverse in sound and approach but united by an honest, uncompromising DIY ethos and avant-experimentation.

Music, especially that made with DIY sensibilities, has always balked normality. But D.C.’s BLIGHT. Records has a noticeably stubborn commitment to alternative approaches in everything from recording techniques to promotion. At best, this results in inventive and challenging music, visceral live shows, and a creative space for the District’s colorful misfits and musical deviants. On the flip-side, this stubborn nonconformity can yield imperfect, often fragmentary creations.

BLIGHT. Makes Right Vol. II is a fragmented success that plays to an audience’s short attention span for left-field music while not compromising the integrity of the artists involved. The diversity of sound and varying levels of accessibility guarantee a dizzying listen that confirms, expands, and contextualizes BLIGHT. Records’ reputation for intentional, experimental, and confrontational electronic music.

The comp begins with a head-turning mix of unusual dance tracks; Swoll’s moody and glitchy “Set Up” is immediately contrasted with the shimmering “Tipping Point,” by Crab Legs, and “Homewrecker,” a beautifully wistful track from Stronger Sex. From there, it’s a shift to an affinity for societal confrontation. Evilartform, the project of Omar Pitras Waqar (Sarmust), who recently relocated from D.C., contributed “Opium Den”—a derisive, Punjabi-inflected dance track condemning the colonial roots of America’s drug epidemic. Matching Evilartform’s contempt is Br’er, the primary project of BLIGHT. Records’ founder, Ben Schurr (also of Swoll). On “Numb,” Br’er excels at industrial sound design, mixing whistling screams and (more) glitchy electronics.

Lyrically, it’s one of Schurr’s most aggressive songs, comparing emotional numbness to being “washed down a stream of one billion cracked screens to a children’s choir of screaming/ pixelated hate spiraling tide pool waves across a sky of binary genocide.” It’s, uh, not for the faint of heart and the track is a little indulgent in terms of length. But whereas a full LP of Schurr’s violent metaphors can be initially off-putting, a compilation album allows Br’er to shine as boldly confessional provocateurs.

These sentiments of contempt are not limited to BLIGHT.’s electronic artists. Twothirds of the way through, the noir-rock trio Park Snakes burst in with “West Coast,” an upbeat and appropriately sardonic take on millennial transience and the vapid “coolness” of big cities. This track is a welcomed break from the heaviness of the rest of the comp, and serves as the record’s most entertaining moment and Park Snakes’ most charismatic release to date.

For the fans of pure electronic experimentation, BLIGHT. Makes Right Vol. II does not fail to highlight D.C.’s most inventive artists.

“Drops” by Blacklodge + em.g—the modular synth project of Alex Tebeleff (Paperhaus) and Maggie Gilmore—is an entirely improvised track using a eurorack synth system processing Gilmore’s vocals to create a delicate and otherworldly instrumental piece.

“NKNK” by Tölva (Erik Sleight of Br’er and Swoll) was born out of an experiment with the Octatrack synthesizer, mixing audio from North Korea’s eerie nat i o n a l wa ke - u p song as its sonic back bone. IMKA, a new project of Kevin Chambers (Flash Frequency), provides a softer take on experimentation with “Shadow,” a track made of layered guitar, violin, xylophone, and field recordings of U Street NW to create a serene and cinematic highlight of the record.

By its nature, a compilation allows for flexibility and freedom for the artists involved. For an experimental community like BLIGHT., this comp has the added benefit of introducing audiences to their indefinable sound by juxtaposing confrontational noise, lush electronics, gritty rock, and avant-pop in one package.

—Lindsay Hogan Br’er and Crab Legs will be playing a compilation release show and listening party on Thursday, August 23rd with Eve Maret and Rivers Wilder Green at The Dew Drop Inn.

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

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Kyle Kinane This is a seated show. ............................................................Th AUG 23 Can’t Feel My Face: 2010s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker with visuals by Kylos ...................................... F 24 DJ Dredd’s MJ + Prince Dance Party with visuals by Robin Bell ... Sa 25 AUGUST

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The Growlers .........................Su 23 Highly Suspect ......................Th 27

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Chapo Trap House This is a seated show. .........................W 5 Nothing But Thieves w/ Demob Happy ............................F 7 Suicidal Tendencies

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

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

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Kali Uchis w/ Gabriel Garzon-Montano .Tu 9 & W 10 Bob Moses w/ Mansionair .......Th 11 Murder By Death w/ William Elliott Whitmore Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 12 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

What So Not w/ Chrome Sparks (DJ Set)

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

The Record Company w/ Madisen Ward

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

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

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

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

Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................F 21

Owl City w/ Matthew Thiessen

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

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Striking Matches w/ Megan Davies ................... Sa AUG 25 Bernhoft & The Fashion Bruises w/ Jazzo ................................ Th SEP 6 Let’s Eat Grandma w/ Odetta Hartman & Boniface ..........Th 13 The Buttertones w/ Wild Wing .....Th 20 Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket w/ Steelism ..................................F 21 SYML w/ Flora Cash .....................Sa 22 Reignwolf ................................ M 24

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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 Azizi Gibson ............................Sa 13 White Denim w/ Rotem ...............Su 14 Django Django w/ The Shacks........ M 15 Masego ...................................Th 18

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Peter Bradley Adams. 8 p.m. $20. unionstage.com.

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FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Onur Özer and Taimur Agha. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

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SongByrd MuSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Handsome Hound. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

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

Beach House. 8 p.m. $38–$55. theanthemdc.com.

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

The Trainjumpers. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc. com.

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eChoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. MoneyBagg Yo. 10 p.m. $30. echostage. com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

TUE 9/4

Known to most country music fans as the ringleader and DJ of the popular Bobby Bones Show, Bobby Bones is a man of many talents. He’s made a cameo appearance on the television show Nashville, rocked out with the comedic band The Raging Idiots, authored a best-selling memoir, and performed stand-up comedy. Now, he is working his funny bone cross-country on his Red Hoodie Comedy Tour. While he tends to play the straight man on his radio show, Bones has been bringing the laughs with his stand-up since he was a teenager. If he’s as candid and self deprecating on stage as he is over the airwaves, audiences are sure to be laughing not just at him but with him. Bobby Bones performs at 8 p.m. at the Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. $30.50– $100. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

—Diana Metzger

cOuNtRY

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

Rodney Crowell. 8 p.m. $30–$68.50. thehamiltondc. com.

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SongByrd MuSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Virginia Man. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

goethe-inStitut WaShington 1990 K St. NW, Suite 03. (202) 847-4700. Jazz in the Basement with Brian Settles & Anthony Priog. 2 p.m. Free. goethe. de/washington.

ROck BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Chris Isaak. 7:30 p.m. $95. birchmere.com.

JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Vi-Kings and The Rockits. 7 p.m. $15–$20. jamminjava.com.

State theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Yngwie Johann Malmsteen. 8 p.m. $30. thestatetheatre.com.

MONDAY

THU 9/6 FRI 9/7 SAT 9/8 SUN 9/9 THU 9/13 FRI 9/14 SAT 9/15 TUE 9/18 THU 9/20

DANNY BARNES WYLDER THE TRAINJUMPERS SZLACHETKA 19TH STREET BAND + VIOLET BELL DREW FISH BAND $10/$15 HUMAN COUNTRY JUKEBOX SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB + KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS $15/$20 PALEFACE RAY SCOTT $15/$20 KOE WETZEL $15/$20 HOLLY GOLIGHTY + THE BROKEOFFS $15/ $20 WILD ADRIATIC $10/$12 KIT GARDNER THE HALL MONITORS + MUCK AND THE MIRES $10/$15 BENYARO FELLOWCRAFT

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 HillCountry.com/DC • Twitter @hillcountrylive

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SongByrd MuSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sarah Zuniga. 8 p.m.

Free. songbyrddc.com.

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TANYA TUCKER 24 LITTLE RIVER BAND 25 KEB' MO' (Solo) CHRIS ISAAK 28 HIGH VALLEY 29 BOB JAMES TRIO Guitar 30 Legend DICK DALE 31 KIM WATERS Sept 2 THE EARLS OF LEICESTER Presented by JERRY DOUGLAS 27

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THE MANHATTANS featuring GERALD ALSTON

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

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ERIC BENET 29 HIROSHIMA 30 BASIA Oct 1 CHICK COREA TRIO 3 CHICKS WITH HITS 27&28

TERRI CLARK, PAM TILLIS, SUZY BOGGUSS

THE STEELDRIVERS 6 MICHAEL FRANKS 7 HERMAN'S HERMITS starring PETER NOONE

SUMMER

CITY LIGHTS: SAtuRDAY

tHE BlAck cAt AND RE-ANIMAtOR

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SHOVELS & ROPE JOSEPH

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TONIGHT

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS AUG 24

BOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD A JOURNEY THROUGH HINDI CINEMA

AUG 26

KENNY G THE TENORS AUG 30

GAVIN DeGRAW PHILLIP PHILLIPS AUG 31

ZIGGY MARLEY STEEL PULSE TRIBAL SEEDS IYA TERRA

SEP 1

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

Sometimes we wish we could bring the dead back to life—but could we handle the consequences? Director Stuart Gordon’s 1985 debut Re-Animator was a shotin-the-ass of modern horror, delivering a delirious story of love, loss, and bad lab practices as a nerdy mad scientist (Jeffrey Combs) perfects a serum that can reanimate the dead with horrifying results. This violently inventive thriller, loosely based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, co-stars popular scream queen Barbara Crampton in a breakout role. Join horror host Dr. Sarcofiguy for a blood-curdling double feature that starts with a very different thriller starring two titans of terror: The 1934 film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat, with Bela Lugosi as a creepy mad scientist and Boris Karloff as the leader of an evil cult. Get Halloween season started early this year. The films screen at 7:30 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8–$13. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Pat Padua

MEET YOU THERE TOUR

THE ACES SEP 5

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velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Miss, Understand Me. 8:30 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

IAN ANDERSON PRESENTS

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Chris Isaak. 7:30 p.m. $95. birchmere.com.

50 ANNIVERSARY TOUR

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Reverend Beat-Man. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Liniker e os Caramelows. 8 p.m. $12–$15. unionstage. com.

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BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. High Valley. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

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4U - A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION OF PRINCE SEP 8

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

Szlachetka. 8 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

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

New Order. 8 p.m. $55–$95. theanthemdc.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Slaughter Beach, Dog. 8 p.m. $13. dcnine.com.

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

WEDNESDAY

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Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Wordsmith. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Lucki. 8 p.m. $15–$50. unionstage.com.

JAzz

WolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Kenny G and The Tenors. 8 p.m. $30–$65. wolftrap.org.

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FillMore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Paty Cantú. 8 p.m. $25–$30. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lightmare. 7 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

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Books

Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The US Women’s Air Force Band.

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

StrathMore gudelSKy ConCert gazeBo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Sweetback Sisters. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Bob James Trio. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Black Tusk.

7:30 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Dick Dale. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

arJun Singh Sethi Arjun Singh Sethi discusses his novel American Hate, a collection of testimonials from thirteen victims of the bigoted threats, bullying and violence that have surged since the 2016 elec-

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tion. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Aug. 30. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. earl SWiFt Reporter Earl Swift talks about his novel Chesapeake Requiem, a detailed profile of the Chesapeake’s culturally rich Tangier Island, which is slowly becoming uninhabitable as the waters rise. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 30. 7 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919.

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Kate WalBert Kate Walbert discusses her novel His Favorites, the story of a teenage girl who is shipped off to boarding school, where she is harassed and manipulated by a thirty-four-year-old teacher known as the Master. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 29. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Melani MCaliSter In her novel The Kingdom of God Has No Borders, Melani McAlister traces the history of American evangelicalism over the last fifty years through its interactions with the wider world.

Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Aug. 29. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867. riCK WilSon Republican political strategist Rick Wilson discusses his new book Everything Trump Touches Dies, a searing and darkly humorous critique of the damage Trump has done to the country and the Republican party. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 28. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

WilliaM egginton William Egginton discusses his new book The Splintering of the American Mind, in which he argues that our current national crisis—especially on college campuses—is the fault of our focus on personal identity politics rather than community.

Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 27.

7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

WilliaM oldField and viCtoria BruCe William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce discuss their new book Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society, the true story of a U.S. Post Office Inspector who took down the deadly Black Hand secret society. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 24. 7 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919.

FEATURING JUNIE HENDERSON WED, SEPT 5

AN EVENING WITH SEVEN

VOICES: A TRIBUTE TO PATSY CLINE

FEATURING JESS ELIOT MYHERE (BUMPER JACKSONS), KAREN JONAS, LETITIA VanSANT, SARA CURTIN (SWEATER SET), LAUREN CALVE, BRIAN FARROW AND KITI GARTNER FRI, SEPT 7

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GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD AND THE MOVEMENT W/ ROOTS OF A REBELLION

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THE IGUANAS SUN, SEPT 9

AN EVENING WITH HOLLY

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THURS, SEPT 13

LIVE NATION PRESENTS

ASHLEY McBRYDE

THE GIRL GOING NOWHERE TOUR W/ SPECIAL GUEST DEE WHITE

FRI, SEPT 14

BRASS-A-HOLICS

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Theater

the BridgeS oF MadiSon County Based on the bestselling novel, this musical was developed by the 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. 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.

Marie and roSetta Directed by Sandra L. Holloway, Mosaic Theater Company presents a musical celebration of two extraordinary black women. Marie and Rosetta chronicles the unlikely first rehearsal between Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight, who would go on to become one of the great duos in music history. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Sep. 30. $50–$68. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

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. This production is directed by Nick Martin and written by Sarah Ruhl, acclaimed playwright of The Clean House and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Sep. 2. $19–$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

SMall Mouth SoundS This Ryan Rilette-directed play opens Round House’s 41st season. When six strangers arrive at a week-long silent retreat in the woods in search of enlightenment, they discover that finding inner peace isn’t as easy as they thought.

Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Sep. 23. $36–$57. (240) 6441100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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A BROADER SENSE OF plAcE

Sam Kittner, a D.C.-based photographer, has spent three decades “overcoming the two Ts.” “When you’re a photographer asking to get access to a location in this city, they often think you are either a tourist or a terrorist, not someone who is serious about making photographs,” he says. But Kittner powered through, producing a series of digitally stitched panoramas of D.C. as large as 78”x 33”— now on display at his Fred Schnider Gallery of Art photo exhibition A Broader Sense of Place. The selections show some familiar sights, like cherry blossoms on the Tidal Basin, the Lincoln Memorial, and the U.S. Capitol dome covered by scaffolding, but Kittner’s high perspectives and unusual atmospheric effects offer fresh vibrancy. His favorite image is hardly of a monumental scene: It’s a March 2017 panorama of 7th and H streets NW, part of a series of time-lapse, oddly angled images of D.C. intersections. He made the image by blending together hundreds of exposures taken over 35 minutes. “I had no idea I was going to see so many people wearing Caps jerseys,” he says.

But the surplus of red jerseys helped make the image work. The exhibition is on view to Sept. 8 at the Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, 888 N. Quincy St., Arlington. Free. (703) 841-9404. fredschnider.com/ portfolio/fredschnidergallery.

—Louis Jacobson

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

A GlIMpSE OF ANcIENt YEMEN

South Arabia (modern-day Yemen) was once known by the Romans as “Arabia Felix,” meaning roughly “lucky Arabia.” The origin of this nickname is no mystery: The ancient kingdom of Qataban, with its capital Timna serving as a wildly prosperous center of trade. Timna grew further as a center for metalwork, with alabaster and bronze carvings. Funerary statues and busts, often chiseled from fine alabaster, were embellished with thick plaster hair and inlaid deep-set eyes with blue glass. At the Sackler Gallery, the exhibition A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen showcases this ancient work. One statue on display depicts a small Erote triumphantly riding on a bronze lion. Treasures like these were hidden underground for nearly two millennia until the early 1950s when they were unearthed by Wendell Phillips, an oil-rich American archaeological pioneer who made a name for himself as the first foreigner to excavate in South Arabia. With Yemen currently in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen is an important reminder that there’s so much more to the country than the war and destruction shown on television and in newspapers—it’s home to one of the most vibrant ancient cultures in the world.

The exhibition is on view to Aug. 18, 2019 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. freersackler.si.edu.

—Rose Shafer

CITY LIGHTS: tuESDAY “GLENN CLOSE IS A MARVEL OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONTROL. SHE IS A HURRICANE.”

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BOuND tO AMAzE

“Book artists often embrace several muses simultaneously, and their books demonstrate these relationships,” explains recently retired museum curator Krystyna Wasserman. She spent a career collecting artist’s books of every shape and size, more than 1,000 of them. Wasserman’s more than 30-year collection granted the National Museum of Women in the Arts one of the most widely renowned archives of artists’ books in the world. Defined as any work that uses the book as an art object, what qualifies as “book art” seems limitless. Among featured pieces in the museum’s Bound to Amaze exhibition are Elisabetta Gut’s “Libro-Seme,” a dried tropical fruit with sheet music bound inside, and Sandra March’s “Ès quan dorms que hi veig clar,” a linen pillow-like tome with drawings of people asleep on every page. True to the museum’s theme, many works convey feminist messages: In “Desdemona in Her Own Words,” artist Emily Martin rearranges dialogue from Othello beside colorful abstract drawings to retell Shakespeare’s classic from the perspective of the title character’s slain wife. Highlighting the unexpected ways the written word and visual art can intersect, Bound to Amaze undoubtedly lives up to its name. The exhibition is on view to Nov. 25, 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave NW. $8–$10. (202) 783-5000. nmwa.org.

—Rose Shafer

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a.X.l. A top secret robot dog created by the military befriends a young boy and the pair embark on the adventure of a lifetime as the military attempt to get their creation back. Starring Thomas Jane, Alex Neustaedter, and Dominic Rains. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) BlaCKKKKlanSMan This Spike Lee joint follows the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department and successfully infiltrate his local Ku Klux Klan. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, and Laura Harrier. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) Crazy riCh aSianS Native New Yorker Rachel has met her dream man, but then she must go to Singapore to meet his crazy, rich family. Starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the happytiMe MurderS Melissa McCarthy stars as a disgraced detective who discovers the murders of the puppet cast of a beloved children’s show and takes on the case. Co-starring Elizabeth Banks and

the Meg A man must battle a giant, prehistoric shark to save people trapped in a sunken deep sea submersible. Starring Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, and Rainn Wilson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Mile 22 An intelligence operative leads a lethal tactical unit to smuggle an officer with important information to an extraction point before being caught. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, and Ronda Rousey. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) operation Finale Secret agents embark on a covert mission to find the Nazi officer who masterminded the logistics that led to millions of Jewish people dying in concentration camps. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the WiFe On the way with her writer husband to watch him receive a Nobel Prize, a wife questions their entire relationship, including the sacrifices she’s made in her own life for him. Starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, and Christian Slater. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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13 Alchemist's quest 21 Bravos of a sort 22 Trick out, as a vehicle 25 Bother 26 Eccentric one 27 Squats work them 28 Lions domain, briefly 29 Broom-___ (comic strip) 30 Hands-on alternative medicine 34 "Praise Jesus" 35 Chime noise 37 "Name one!"

39 Goal 40 Flank and rib 43 Capital of China's Shaanxi province 45 Ancient promenade 48 Big name in GPUs 49 DNA carrier 50 "I'm drowning here!"

53 Home run hit 54 Town with a famous tower 55 [eye roll] 56 "Lady doctor," briefly 57 "I'm almost done" 58 Panache 59 "You convinced me!"

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51 Trough holder 52 Enemy 53 Start showing piscine features?

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to fall deeply into the eternal sunshine of Stevie Wonder. Getting lost in his vast catalog might be the best musical medicine for emotional ailments. Endlessly uplifting, the brilliant multiinstrumentalist from Michigan has cultivated a soul career full of ubiquitous hits and hidden gems.

Who could resist the unbridled joy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;For Once In My Life,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Cherie Amour,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Just Called To Say I Love You,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Are The Sunshine Of My Life,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uptight (Everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alright),â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t She Lovelyâ&#x20AC;?? Who could resist the groove of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Superstition,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Higher Ground,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Wish,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living For The Cityâ&#x20AC;?? His songs have been rallying cries, like when â&#x20AC;&#x153;Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Yours)â&#x20AC;? became President Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unofficial campaign theme. People who remember those momentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people who never thought theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d live to see a black president, let alone one who would walk out to Stevie Wonder on election nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;still get chills. Michelle Obama has said Stevie is her favorite artist. And letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not forget his Christmas work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someday At Christmasâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Christmas Means To Me,â&#x20AC;? among many others, are forever bops. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also helped create change, campaigning in 1980 for Martin Luther King Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday to become a U.S. holiday and becoming a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Stevie fans all have their personal favorites, but the lyrics of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Asâ&#x20AC;? perfectly illustrate his hopefulness, how he can see straight into hearts: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just as kindness knows no shame, know through all your joy and pain that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be loving you always.â&#x20AC;? Stevie Wonder performs at 8 p.m. at The Theater at MGM National Harbor, 101 MGM National Ave., Oxon Hill. $185â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$275. (844) 346-4664. mgmnationalharbor.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kayla Randall

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SAVAGELOVE I’m in a pickle. All I want is to experience touch, intimacy, and sexual pleasure—but without freaking out. I grew up with a lot of negative messages from men due to developing early, as well as having some other physical/sexual trauma (no rape or abuse), but the combination has me seriously fucked up.

Whenever I get close to physical intimacy with someone, I run away. I actually faked an emergency once and physically ran away because I knew sex was a possibility that night. I’m not a virgin— but in those instances, I’ve been really drunk (and experienced no emotional/physical pleasure). This is not what I want for my life. I want a relationship and love, and to be open and comfortable with someone expressing their care for me in a physical way without panicked thoughts flooding my brain.

I’ve done lots of therapy, which has helped, but not enough. I recently heard of something called a sexual surrogate. From what I understand, it’s somebody who is trained to therapeutically provide physical touch and intimacy in a controlled and safe environment. Are they legit? —She Can’t Adequately Release Extreme Dread Sexual surrogates are legit, SCARED, but please don’t call them sexual surrogates.

“We’d like to see the language shift back to ‘surrogate partner,’ which was the original term,” says Vena Blanchard, president of the International Professional Surrogates Association (IPSA). “Masters and Johnson originated the concept, and their treatment program was based on the theory that many people had problems that required the help of a cooperative partner, and some people didn’t have partners. So they trained people to work as ‘partner surrogates.’ The media took the term ‘partner surrogate’ and changed it to ‘sexual surrogate’ because it sounded sexier. But ‘sexual surrogate’ implies that the work is all about sex.”

So if surrogate partner therapy is not about sex—or not all about sex—then what is it primarily about?

“Surrogate partner therapy is a therapeutic treatment that combines psychotherapy with experiential learning,” says Blanchard. “It’s a program designed for people like SCARED, for people who struggle with anxiety, panic, and past trauma—things that can distort a person’s experience in the moment.”

Surrogate partner therapy happens in stages, with each progressive stage representing another “teeny, tiny baby step,” as Blanchard put it.

“The client first works with a legitimate therapist until the therapist thinks the client is ready to work with a surrogate partner,” says Blanchard. “You may start by sitting in opposite chairs and just talking. At some point, they might sit and hold hands, practice relaxation techniques, and focus on simple sensations. In the next session, they might touch each other’s faces with their hands.”

Sex can and does sometimes occur in the

later stages of surrogate partner therapy, SCARED, but it doesn’t always and it’s not the goal—healing is.

“By having these repeated safe experiences, in a context where there’s no pressure, and consent is emphasized, and the patient is in control,” says Blanchard, “someone like SCARED can learn to manage her anxiety, and her prior negative experiences are replaced with positive new experiences.”

While I had her on the phone, I asked Blanchard the first question many people have about surrogate partners: Are surrogate partners sex workers?

“A sex worker offers a sexual experience— that is the primary intention of what is a business transaction,” says Blanchard. “What a surrogate partner offers are healing and education. And while healing and education might also take place in a sex-work environment, and while some form of sexual contact might take place in surrogate partner therapy, the primary intention is different. A patient working with a surrogate partner is there to heal old injuries or

Once you’re more comfortable with him, your boners will come. break out of bad patterns so they can have a relationship in the future. People go to sex workers for an immediate experience—the agenda is sexual and about right now, not therapeutic and about the future.”

Then I asked Blanchard the second question many people have about surrogate partner therapy: Is it legal?

“There’s no place that it’s illegal,” says Blanchard. “There’s never been a court case challenging it. In California, where surrogate partner therapy is most common, no one has ever in 50 years challenged it.”

If you’re interested in working with a surrogate partner, SCARED, you can contact the referrals coordinator at IPSA’s website: surrogatetherapy.org.

Finally, SCARED, the number of trained and qualified surrogate partners is relatively small—IPSA has just 70 members—so you might need to go where most of those trained and qualified surrogates partners are in order to work with one. (The part of California that isn’t on fire is lovely this time of year.)

“Since there aren’t many qualified surrogate partners available,” says Blanchard, “people sometimes need to travel to another location and work intensively. People will come for two weeks and work every single day with a therapist and a surrogate partner.” —Dan Savage

My partner and I have been together for 11 years and have always had a great sex life. I love his cock, we have similar appetites, and until recently everything was great. But he has always had an aversion to blood. He is a pacifist, a vegetarian, and a recovering Muslim, so as much as I don’t understand his fear, I would never push him to have sex during my period. The problem is now I bleed whenever we have sex—just a tiny bit, but that’s enough to kill it for him, and the sex is immediately over. We already have enough constraints with differing schedules, kids, lack of privacy, periods. This is a big deal for me, and I don’t know how to deal with it. Any ideas?

—Afraid To Bleed Turn off the lights, draw the curtains, have sex in the dark, get him a blindfold—and insist he see a therapist who specializes in helping people overcome their irrational phobias. —DS

I’m a 35-year-old gay man and I’ve been single for 10 years. I’d kind of given up, but suddenly I’ve got a real sweet guy in my life. He’s 24, so we’ll see how the age thing works out. I used to be pretty adventurous with sex, but I feel extremely nervous now. I feel like a virgin all over again—except I’m not turned on. On our first date, we ended up in a public bathroom, where I gave him a handjob (his idea). Last night, we messed around at my place.

We kissed and got naked, but I couldn’t get hard.

We watched porn. That always works, but not this time. Finally, he played with my nipples and—presto chango—there was a happy ending at last! (Plus, it was a learning experience. I found out I like having my nipples licked, a lot!) I’m worried this will continue to happen. It’s like I’m thinking too much.

I deal with anxiety and depression every day, and this is part of why I’ve been single for so long. I’m not feeling the urge to end the relationship yet, but I’ve been a wreck since we started dating. I’m attracted to this guy, but I can’t get turned on. Is this like not having the urge to eat when you’re nervous? Do I just need to wait it out until I’m comfortable with this guy, and hope he sticks around long enough to stick it in me?

—Lacking In My Pants You’re attracted to this guy, LIMP, and you’re turned on by him, and you’re capable of getting hard. When he played with your tits— when he licked your nipples—it took the focus off your cock, and your cock instantly got hard. Do that more, LIMP: more dates with this guy, more rolling around with him, more exploring other erogenous zones. And it’ll help if you can tell him the truth: You’re a little nervous because it’s been a while since you dated anyone. Once you’re more comfortable with him—once you’re more comfortable seeing someone—your boners will come.

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1615 L Street, NW Suite 440 Any interested person, Washington, DC 20036 including but not limited (202) 466-3883 to creditors, heirs, and legatees of the deceSUPERIOR COURT dent, shall appear on OF THE DISTRICT OF September 11, 2018 at COLUMBIA 10:00am in Courtroom Landlord and Tenant B-53, in the Landlord Branch and Tenant Court, lo2016 LTB 9698 cated at 510 4th Street D.C Housing Authority : NW, Washington, DC, Plaintiff, : to show cause if there v. be any reason why the Leroy Davis : complaint for possession Defendant. : should not be granted NOTICE TO HEIRS OF and the plaintiff take LEROY DAVIS possession, dispose of, or take any other acLeroy Davis, who lived tion as ordered by this at 2301 11th Street, Court of any personal NW, Apt. 709, Washproperty contained in ington, DC 20001, at the unit. Inquiries may the time of his reported be directed to: death, is the subject of Lisa J. Dessel, Esq. an action for a ComMusolino & Dessel PLLC plaint for Possession by 1615 L Street, NW Suite Plaintiff D.C Housing 440 Authority, in the LandWashington, DC 20036 lord and Tenant Branch (202) 466-388 of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, SUPERIOR COURT Case No. 2016 LTB OF THE DISTRICT OF 9698. A judgment for COLUMBIA possession may lead to Landlord and Tenant eviction and the loss of Branch personal property in the 2018 LTB 5876 residence.

D.C Housing Authority : Plaintiff, : Any interested person, v. including but not limited Angel Covington : to creditors, heirs, and Defendant. : legatees of the deceNOTICE TO HEIRS OF dent, shall appear on ANGEL COVINGTON September 11, 2018 at 10:00am in Courtroom Angel Covington, who B-53, in the Landlord lived at 1845 Harvard and Tenant Court, loStreet, NW, Apt. 918, cated at 510 4th Street Washington, DC 20009, NW, Washington, DC, at the time of their to show cause if there reported death, is the be any reason why the subject of an action complaint for possession for a Complaint for should not be granted Possession by Plaintiff and the plaintiff take D.C Housing Authorpossession, dispose of,

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OF COLUMBIA CORPORATIONS DIVISION Gilchrist : Margaret Defendant. : ANOTICE CLAIM TO AGAINST HEIRSTRAVISA OF OUTSOURCING, INC. MUST MARGARET GILCHRIST INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE DISSOLVED CORPORATION, Margaret Gilchrist, who INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE lived at 5336 Colorado CLAIMANT, INCLUDE A SUMMAAvenue, 206 RY OF THE NW, FACTSApt. SUPPORTING Washington, 20011,TO THE CLAIM, ANDDC BE MAILED 1600 at theINTERNATIONAL time of her DRIVE, SUITE 600, MCLEAN, VA the 22102 reported death, is subject of an action ALL CLAIMS WILL BE BARRED for a Complaint for UNLESS A PROCEEDING Possession

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Any interested person, including but not limited to creditors, heirs, and legatees of the decedent, shall appear on September 11, 2018 at 10:00am in Courtroom B-53, in the Landlord and Tenant Court, located at 510 4th Street NW, Washington, DC, to show cause if there be any reason why the complaint for possession should not be granted and the plaintiff take possession, dispose of,

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You are also entitled to seek free assistance through the Family Court’s Self-Help Center, located in JM-570 of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. So ordered Date June 26, 2018 Associate Judge Yvonne M. Williams Superior Court of the District of Columbia SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2018 ADM 000892 Name of Decedent, Laura Ericson. Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Sifu Jai, whose address is 20 West Hurley Road, Woodstock, New York 12498 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Laura Ericson who died on June 1st, 2018, without a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/23/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 2/23/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: 8/23/2018 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/Washington Law Reporter Name of Person Representative: Sifu Jai TRUE TEST copy Anne Meister Register of Wills Pub Dates: August 23, 30, September 6.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2018 ADM 000904 Name of Decedent, Weldon Lee Hemphill, Sr. Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Lisa Hemphill, whose address is 7307 Epping Avenue, Fort Washington, MD 20744 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Weldon Lee Hemphill, Sr who died on April 7, 2018, without a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs

and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/23/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 2/23/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: 8/23/2018 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/Washington Law Reporter Name of Person Representative: Lisa Hemphill TRUE TEST copy Anne Meister Register of Wills Pub Dates: August 23, 30, September 6.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2018 ADM 000844 Name of Decedent, Edwina E Layton. Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Ceasar Layton, whose address is 1425 Euclid St. NW #12, Washington, DC 20009 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Edwina E Layton who died on 9/21/2017, with a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 2/9/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 2/9/2019, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: 8/9/2018 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Wash-

ington City Paper/Washington Law Reporter Name of Person Representative: Caesar Layton TRUE TEST copy Anne Meister Register of Wills Pub Dates: August 9, 16, 23.

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