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MOVING TARGET D.C. police excel at finding and confiscating illegal guns. But the guns keep coming, and those who traffic them are rarely caught, let alone punished. P. 14

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25 Best Fests: From music festivals to food events and neighborhood celebrations, we tell you which big fall gatherings you can’t miss.

26 Film: Olszewski on Ingrid Goes West and Zilberman on Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

7 Housing Complex: A new lawsuit sheds light on rent concessions, a controversial practice by some D.C. landlords.

8 College Bind: The biggest college scholarship for high school seniors in Wards 7 and 8 is remaking itself with fewer dollars.

10 Gear Prudence 11 The Indy List 12 Savage Love

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Issue usually ruffles the feathers of some D.C. drinkers, and this year’s was no exception.

In response to Alan Zilberman’s beer bro breakdown (“The Five Bros You Meet at Every D.C. Beer Event,” Aug. 18) @dcbeer wrote, “many bros at beer events *are* annoying caricatures. but they’re not & shouldn’t be the whole scene. beer fans beyond these profiles matter!” We know they matter! We celebrate the products made by underrepresented people in the craft beverage industry every other week in “What’s In Stein’s Stein.”

Others related more closely to Zilb e r m a n’s i d e n t i f i e d ch a ra c t e r s : t h e Beer-Splainer, the Bootlicker, the D.C. Beer Dad, the Anti-IPA Guy, and the One-Upper. @BobbyBump wrote “These all exist… Which are you?”

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Aug. 18) offered advice on dealing with drivers who wait too long for cyclists at intersections. In response, readers turned on the cyclists. “Idiots. And how do we make it clear to cyclist[s] that they must ride on the road, and stop harassing pedestrians on the sidewalks?” asked Brigitte Bernal on Facebook. And Donna M Pavone, also on Facebook, concluded: “Cyclists are so stupid.”

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By Andrew Giambrone WheN MattheW Pfaff was looking for a rent-controlled apartment in D.C. last year, he thought he could find one within his budget and in a convenient location—without much ado.

But more than a year and a half later, Pfaff is reflecting on how much of a headache that process became. After applying for a onebedroom unit at the historic South Cathedral Mansions apartment building in Woodley Park, proper ty management staff repeatedly delayed his move-in date and made conflicting statements about what his rent would be, according to a lawsuit Pfaff ’s attorney Aaron Arce Stark filed in D.C. Superior Court this summer. The Silver Spring resident is suing for damages he allegedly suffered because he had to go month-tomonth on his existing lease at a higher rate, hired movers, and sold some furniture.

“I didn’t want to move every year to stay in an affordable unit,” says Pfaff, who remains in the same apartment he was living in when he applied. “I’m not entirely sure what my next step is.

I’m back to that problem where D.C. units are so incredibly expensive that it’s hard to find one.”

The case is significant because it’s one of the first in local civil court to directly address the issue of so-called “rent concessions.” The practice goes like this: A landlord of a rent-controlled building offers an applicant a discount on monthly rent as an incentive for that person to move in. That landlord registers a higher rent amount with the city, even though the tenant usually has no idea there’s a second value in play. (Or if they do, they don’t know what it means.) When the lease comes up for renewal, the landlord raises the rent based on that higher number.

The surprise rate is almost always greater than the rent the tenant reasonably would have expected to pay under D.C.’s rent-control laws. So the tenant must decide whether to move out or try and negotiate down.

The District’s laws generally restrict annual rent increases in rent-controlled buildings to 2 percent plus the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation and is currently set at 1.1 percent. A typical rent-control tenant who pays

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$2,000 a month would therefore anticipate paying no more than $2,062 a month—or a 3.1 percent increase over their initial rent—upon renewing their lease. But with rent concessions, such an increase may derive from a figure hundreds of dollars higher.

Pfaff ’s case is different from the vast majority of those where tenants deal with rent concessions in that he became aware of the practice before signing a lease. Nonetheless, it illustrates how a practice critics call a “baitand-switch” works and how it dilutes D.C.’s rent control policy.

A joint venture between Commonwealth Residential and CAS Riegler owns South Cathedral Mansions, and Kettler Management is the management company. When Pfaff first applied for a unit there, Oculus Realty managed it.

Pfaff ’s lawsuit names the joint venture and both management companies as defendants.

The complaint states that Pfaff was originally offered a monthly rent of $2,500 and told that the historic building—then undergoing renovations worth over $20 million—was subject to rent control. He did not move onto the property in 2016 due to the construction and an ultimately unsuccessful attempt by the owners to sell the building, yet was not contacted about his application during the latter half of that year.

In April 2017, Pfaff received a lease agreement showing the registered monthly rent as $3,822, with a concession addendum showing the monthly rent Pfaff would pay as the agreed-upon $2,500. But at the end of April, after not getting a clear response from Kettler about what his rent would be if he were to renew the lease, Pfaff rejected the proposal.

In a phone call a few days later, a Kettler regional manager told Pfaff that the original lease deal “would not be honored because it had been made with a [previous management] company and that rents registered with D.C. are 20 to 30 percent higher than fair market value,” the lawsuit says.

So Pfaff and his attorney are bringing the case under D.C.’s consumer protection laws.

They argue that the owner and management of South Cathedral Mansions misrepresented facts and misled him. A scheduling conference in the case has been set for September.

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didn’t return requests for comment, and a fourth wouldn’t speak on the record. An attorney for the law firm representing the companies declined to comment because the litigation is pending.

“In a market where the terms of agreements are not being represented accurately or honestly, I don’t think anyone wins,” Pfaff says, noting that landlords incur costs due to tenant turnover. He adds that an “asymmetry of information” makes rent concessions pernicious.

Rent concessions are not explicitly illegal in the District and have become more prevalent since local officials reformed rent-control laws a decade ago.

Yet it’s impossible to say how common concessions are because D.C. doesn’t even know how many rent-controlled units exist, relying on a 2011 study by the Urban Institute that estimated there were almost 80,000 units “potentially subject to rent control” here. The council has mandated the creation of a rentcontrol database, and D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development currently monitors rent control.

But DHCD does not review rent adjustment filings for accuracy in the calculated rent.

While the agency investigates allegations of a landlord misrepresenting rent levels on official paperwork, it typically advises tenants of their right to complain in administrative court, believing this to be a relatively expedient option.

(Renters can also seek help from D.C.’s Office of the Tenant Advocate.)

Officials are starting to show interest in investigating and clarifying the practice. Last year, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh proposed a bill designed to regulate rent concessions and require better disclosure of the rents tenants actually have to pay over time. (A hearing on the bill was held in October, but it did not advance to a committee vote.) And a spokeswoman for District Attorney General Karl Racine, who has eagerly pursued consumer protection issues, says his office is keen to explore the impact of rent concessions and to do so with the D.C. Council.

But she wouldn’t say whether the office is weighing any potential litigation on the issue.

In the meantime, hundreds of residents may be paying more than they should for rent-controlled units. For Harry Gural, the tenant association president of the 3003 Van Ness Apartments, also located in Ward 3 and known for rent concessions, the problem appears to be a District-wide one.

“Even if it’s less than half the rent-control market, that’s a lot of people who year after year are paying hundreds of dollars more than they should be,” says Gural, who has led a campaign to raise awareness about rent concessions and is organizing a nonprofit to address the practice. “There are easily tens of millions of dollars involved in this, and the city is looking the other way.”

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College Bind

The biggest college scholarship for high school seniors in Wards 7 and 8 is remaking itself with fewer dollars.

By Amanda Palleschi On a mOrning in early June, Anacostia High School alum Braswell Chappelle had a big interview for a summer internship at a local D.C. school.

He thought it went pretty well. He’s home for the summer after his sophomore year at University of Arizona—his dream school.

He’s prepared: He has a 3.8 GPA and he’s majoring in education. He has worked an internship before through a college scholarship and training program on writing and leadership skills. The scholarship, known as the “D.C. Achievers” program, requires students to have summer internships. Chapelle won an Achievers scholarship during his senior year of high school, and it pays most of his tuition.

“It’s pretty much taking care of all my tuition and room and board,” he says of the $36,000 the D.C. College Success Foundation awarded him in 2015. “I knew it wasn’t

quite a full ride, but pretty much. If you got it, you were kinda set. You wouldn’t have to pay a lot of loans back. It was like a relief feeling.”

But the current crop of Anacostia High School students won’t have access to the same level of relief. D.C.’s College Success Foundation has ended the version of the program Chapelle entered. The Gates Foundation funds were only scheduled to last through 2018. Now the foundation is at work on “version 2.0,” shifting its focus away from providing for high school students to attend college to a more “comprehensive” program—and there’ll be less money to do it.

The new program “will start in middle school and support them from seventh grade through college completion,” according to the foundation’s director of development Norma Barfield. The foundation worked with consul-

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tants on the new version and decided to fuse two of its existing programs—one aimed at aiding younger students and the other focused on college-bound high schoolers.

Like the current D.C. Achievers program, the “2.0” version “is designed to help low-income students from Wards 7 and 8 prepare for college and qualify for scholarships from numerous sources based on merit and interest,” Barfield adds. “We believe that by focusing on a continuous pathway of more comprehensive services, we’ll enable even more low income students to graduate from college and succeed in life.”

But Foundation officials said that while they could not yet announce the new program’s new funding source, the money offered will be less than what is currently available. And a source with knowledge of the foundation said the new program would have roughly half the amount of money, with fewer kids served.

EvEryOnE lOvEs a Cinderella story, the one about a kid from a poor, mostly black Southeast school defying that old “soft bigotry of low expectations” cliché to graduate and apply to college—a laudable achievement, to be sure.

But how do the ones who make it afford it?

Ten years ago, the nonprofit D.C. College Success Foundation and the city-funded D.C. College Access Program (D.C.-CAP) put a more than $100 million award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation toward answering that question, making their fund the largest source of financial relief for collegebound students at those high schools. The scholarships provided up to $12,000 per year— sometimes for up to five years—to students from six high schools in Wards 7 and 8: Anacostia, Ballou, Thurgood Marshall, Friendship Collegiate Public Charter School, H.D. Woodson, and the Evans campus of Maya Angelou Public Charter School.

Along with a similar, private-donor based scholarship offered through the foundation, more than 250 Ward 7 and 8 students received scholarships each year between 2007 and 2017, which is about 2,500 students total.

Ninety-nine percent of the foundation’s scholarship recipients graduate high school on time, and they complete college at four-year schools within six years at more than four times the rate of their neighborhood counterparts and low-income students nationally.

Da-Quon Rhones, 16, is a senior at Anacostia this year and was accepted as one of the foundation’s “Ward 7 and 8 scholars”— what the foundation is calling the D.C. Achievers replacement program in the interim. He was awarded a one-time award of $25,000, a figure at least $10,000 less than what would have been possible in years prior. But before he received notice that he was a candidate for the scholarship, college wouldn’t have been a possibility, and the money is enough to give him and his mother confidence that he can attend his school of choice. So far, he’s got his eyes on Norfolk State University.

“Being a first generation student, it actually means a lot, because I know that’s one scholarship I already know I have for sure,” Rhones says.

Still, those who work closely with these students, helping them navigate the scholarship applications, entrance exams, and the college admissions process—a labyrinth for most, a minefield for low-income students— say D.C. Achievers was the key ticket, the thing that gave students east of the Anacostia River the biggest boost. Unlike other programs, D.C. Achievers did not require a particularly high GPA. Rhones currently has a 2.5, while Chappelle graduated third in his class with a 3.8. To become eligible, a student only needs to meet the program’s definition of low-income (no more than $57,500 for a family of four), and show plans to complete a bachelor’s degree.

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“Other scholarships are much harder to apply to and come with a lot more uncertainty,” says Paul Penniman, a community activist who runs Resources to Inspire Students and Educators, a tutoring program for students in Wards 7 and 8. Many of the students Penniman works with have been recipients of the D.C. Achievers scholarship, and his program often helps the students navigate the college admissions process.

The Foundation says its new version comes with benefits outside of funding that will make it even more of a boon for students, and they pledge to use “2.0” to help steer students in the direction of other scholarships that might be available elsewhere.

“We will be able to advise students on preparing their portfolios so they are not dependent on single scholarship opportunities but become qualified for and receive greater scholarship dollars from multiple programs,” Barfield says.

ThE ciTy and D.C. Public Schools system do offer other college scholarships, the most well-known being the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant, known as “DC-TAG,” which awards any DCPS graduate up to $10,000 per year toward the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition. The D.C. College Assistance Program’s “last dollar” award provides up to $2,000 for five years and is similar to D.C. Achievers in terms of requirements, although it is available to all public school students. Local nonprofits like the D.C. Quakers also award scholarships, as do area philanthropists like The Carlylse Group’s David Rubinstein.

In the college scholarship game, most states lag behind New York, which began offering free tuition to its public community and four-year colleges for in-state students through its “Excelsior scholarship” earlier this year. But this spring, The Washington Post counted at least 85 municipal and state level initiatives aiming to cover the entire cost of tuition at community colleges, including some in conservative states like Tennessee.

Thus far, the city has shown little interest in similar initiatives that target larger or even entire chunks of college costs. That could be thanks to the federally-funded D.C. TAG, considered a huge advantage for D.C. students since Congress first authorized the program in 1999. Penniman suspects there’s simply too much else on the city’s plate.

“This would be a great program if they could make it work,” he said of the “2.0” plans.

“Nothing can make up for the lost money.”

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Dear BMW: Seems like almost everyone who bikes in D.C. has a BMW horror story. It’s such a well-known phenomenon that David Plotz in Slate once posed four theories (BMW drivers are wealthy; BMW drivers are car lovers; BMW drivers are better drivers than average; BMW drivers are just assholes) to try and explain it. But before assessing the cause of the the BMW driver’s supposed supreme terribleness, you should interrogate the underlying assumption.

Is a luxury sedan really worse than a giant SUV? One of the ones so large it’s named after an expanse of Canadian wilderness or a geological feature? They’ve got more blind spots than cupholders, which likely number in the dozens, and their sheer bulk is menacing for cyclists trying to retain a sliver of asphalt. But vastness isn’t the only thing that might make a car bad around bikes. Mini Coopers (ugh, The Italian Job) and smart cars outweigh and outmuscle bicyclists by orders of magnitude, people drive them like go-karts, and they often take up spaces bicyclists rely on to skirt through traffic.

Also terrible: the humble Toyota Camry, not so much for its external features, but rather that it seems to be the vehicle of choice for Uber and Lyft drivers. Often the last thing a bicyclist sees when slamming on the brakes to avoid a Camry swerving through the bike lane is the window decal of the company paying that driver to cause your life to flash before your eyes. Thanks for nothing, technology!

Really though, the whole notion of the “worst car” is wrongheaded. Certain brands invariably attract assholes, but the real problem isn’t the brand—it’s the assholes. Profiling for assholes based on the kind of cars they might drive isn’t really going to work because (1) the correlation is weak and (2) it just leads to confirmation bias. You remember every bad move you see from BMW drivers because you’re already primed to think that they’re especially bad drivers. It may be that statistically these drivers are worse around bicyclists, but so what? There’s no Moneyball in bike riding—you have to treat every interaction and situation on the road as sui generis and get through it as best you can.

Plus, group disparagement isn’t pragmatic or fair. You wouldn’t want to be tarred with a bad name based on the behavior of other bicyclists.

Resist the urge to make sweeping generalizations, even if they seem deserved.

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Each of us is a writhing mass of contradictions, PH. We all have public personas and private personas, and there are always gaps between the two. And while those gaps, when exposed, can be mutually negating, that’s not always the case. It is possible for someone to be a good dad and a shitty husband. The good dad you knew your dad to be? That wasn’t a lie. It was one of your father’s truths. That he failed as a husband and hurt your mom—with an assist from laws criminalizing sex work—is another of your father’s truths.

You don’t say why your dad was seeking sex outside the marriage, PH. I can’t imagine that was a conversation you wanted to have with your dad in your mid-teens, and it may not be one you ever want to have. But it’s possible your parents’ marriage was more complicated than you know. (“The victim of an affair is not always the victim of the marriage,” as Esther Perel says.) But you’re not an awful daughter for refusing to see your dad during a contentious, confusing, and most likely humiliating time. (I imagine there was press.)

As for how to reach out, I think email is the best way to reestablish contact after an estrangement. You can take your time crafting what you want to say, and your dad can take his time crafting a response. And you’ve already written a good opening line for your first email to your dad: “I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. But I’d like to start talking—via email, for now.”

Give your mother a heads up, PH, so she doesn’t feel blindsided. Good luck.

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nothing wrong with that. For the last couple of months, I’ve been pursuing “death wish” fantasies. When I start feeling low, I seek out guys on hookup sites who are sadistic enough that they might potentially help me carry it out. I’ve even gone so far as to put together a “blackmail package” for them, in case they start feeling like I might tell on them. I honestly wouldn’t want anyone to get in trouble just because I’m not thinking right.

My therapist knows about the masochist end of things, but I’m afraid to tell her this other part because I don’t want to be put on any crazy pills. Is there a way for me to switch my brain from thinking about this and somehow find my way back to normal BDSM or something else entirely without turning off my sexuality completely?

—Rather Not Say My Name There are fantasies that are simply too dangerous to realize, RNSMN, even with a willing victim/sub and a reckless perp/Dom. And any person who pushes a woman’s “death wish” fantasy into potentially-carrying-it-out territory deserves whatever trouble comes their way.

Murder is wrong, even if the person wants it.

And taking advantage of someone who clearly isn’t in their right mind doesn’t magically make manslaughter not criminal—“blackmail package” or no “blackmail package.”

You must open up to your therapist about the risks you’re taking, RNSMN. Some people with extreme and/or dangerous sexual obsessions have been successfully treated with talk therapy and low-dose antidepressants—meds, not “crazy pills.” A good therapist and/or the right low-dose medication could help you find your way back to safer and saner BDSM practices without shutting off your sexuality completely.

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is this guy has some alt-right sympathies that reveal themselves in our political discussions. He’s a Trump guy, but hesitates to admit it because he knows I’m anti-Trump. He shares memes created by Mike Cernovich and Milo Yiannopoulos, he gets his news from hard-right publications, and his sister and brother-in-law are Holocaust deniers. This concerns and confuses me because he’s such a sweet guy and, honestly, so goddamn good in bed. He might be the best lay I’ve ever had. I can’t reconcile these two sides of him, but I also can’t help trying to enlighten him a little bit. One of his best features is his open-mindedness. He’s read books and watched documentaries I’ve recommended. I feel a responsibility to this young, confused, and frankly not-too-bright person who’s surrounded by bad influences. I want to be understanding and gently guide him in a better direction, but sometimes his ignorance is aggravating.

I can also sense that he’s beginning to feel a little judged, which can only make things worse. I keep thinking of your Campsite Rule, and I wonder at what point does one give up throwing logic and articles at someone who thought Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor? Can I continue to have sex with someone who thinks the left is conspiring to turn everyone communist?

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Don’t fuck Nazis.

If someone you just met tells you they’re a Nazi, don’t fuck that Nazi. If you’re already fucking someone and they reveal themselves to be a Nazi, stop fucking that Nazi. If someone tells you they’re a Nazi and you fuck that Nazi anyway and keep fucking that Nazi because they’re good at sex (for a Nazi), your effort to “gently guide” that Nazi away from being a Nazi doesn’t make it okay for you to fuck that Nazi.

Okay, okay: This guy might not be a Nazi at all—although it sure as fuck sounds like his family is, and they probably have more influence over him than you do. It’s possible this young, confused, and not-too-bright boy is merely a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and maybe I’m still too upset about Charlottesville to be impartial. Or, hey, maybe this guy is already a Nazi and hasn’t revealed the full extent of his odious political beliefs to you, CL, because the sex is good and he’s hoping to fuck the Nazi into you before you can fuck the Nazi out of him.

Finally, good people don’t worry about making Nazis “feel judged.” Nazis should be judged—à la Judgment at Nuremberg, an old film with a feel-good ending that’s worth watching right about now. Another thing good people don’t do? They don’t fuck Nazis.

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TARGET D.C. police excel at finding and confiscating illegal guns. But the guns keep coming, and those who traffic them are rarely caught, let alone punished.

By Jeffrey Anderson

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Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

Out ON New York Avenue NE, on an access road less than a half mile from the D.C.-Maryland line, is a nondescript building that houses the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit.

Lieutenant Lashay Makal leads the 22-member unit. In July, she says, the GRU took 194 guns off the street, putting her staff on pace to blow past its five-year average of 300-plus guns recovered per year. Formed in October 2007, the unit, through July, has made 1,772 gun arrests and recovered 3,611 guns. Since 2014, it has recovered 53,572 rounds of ammunition, according to department stats.

The GRU’s philosophy, says Makal, is that every round they recover is a life they potentially saved. “It just takes one bullet,” she says, noting a recent case in which her detectives seized two handguns, two rifles, two high capacity “drum magazines,” and more than 200 rounds of assorted ammunition from one location. “Imagine the damage that can do.”

That’s not hard, given recent incidents. Two weeks ago, a stray bullet crossed the street and ended the life of 17-year-old, college-bound Jamahri Sydnor. She was driving less than a mile from her home in Brentwood when the bullet killed her. Earlier this summer a 1-yearold boy in Northeast survived after a neighborhood dice game turned violent and a bullet meant for someone else hit the baby. And just last week a stray bullet shattered the window of a Potomac Gardens apartment and hit the wall of the bedroom where Tyrasha Johnson’s 3-year-old slept.

Makal and her unit work tirelessly to get the machines that threaten District lives out of circulation. “Every day we’re trying to prevent as many violent crimes as we can,” she says.

“We’re looking to close out crimes where guns are used. We want to improve the overall quality of life and make it safe for kids and grandmothers, grandfathers—the cornerstones of our society. We want to make tourists feel safe.

I believe we are truly making a difference.”

It would be hard to argue with that. She and her unit are good at confiscating illegal guns and connecting them to illegal activity.

There is, however, a massive hole in their operation: The department rarely finds, or brings to justice, those who cross into D.C. with illegal guns and distribute them. The police department’s website claims that detectives in the unit “focus on identifying and apprehending illegal gun traffickers.” But for the most part, the department hasn’t lived up to that claim.

This failure to disrupt the supply chain calls to mind the evolution of drug enforcement. For years police arrested drug users and low-level dealers as if it would reduce the scourge of narcotics, until they realized that using those arrests not to imprison people but rather to build relationships and cases and work their way up to bigger targets was more effective than going after one dime-bag seller at a time.

Guns do not sell as easily in bulk, but once put to use they are more likely to kill. So the question nags: Who is responsible, say, for a gun stolen from a home in Maryland, or from

Lieutenant Lashay Makal

a gun store in Florida, that is sold and then passed around in a D.C. neighborhood and perhaps used in a shooting? How did that gun make its way into D.C.?

“That’s the million-dollar question,” says Makal. “If we could figure that out, we’d be cooking with gas.” tO legally ObtaiN a handgun in D.C., you have to buy it from a federally licensed dealer in another jurisdiction and have it shipped to the District’s only licensee who will facilitate a transaction, a man name Charles Sykes.

He works out of an office in the gun registration unit at MPD’s headquarters and charges a fee to receive the gun and walk the purchaser through a registration process that is onerous and expensive relative to more gun-friendly jurisdictions. He is one of 29 federal firearms licensees in the District, and most of them are gun collectors.

Guns enter the illegal supply chain in a variety of ways: Straw purchases, where a person buys a gun from a licensed gun dealer on behalf of another person; gun show purchases, which in most states do not require background checks; gun store robberies, which are on the rise, law enforcers say; and burglaries of homes and cars, which is by far the most common way illegal guns change hands, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (commonly called ATF).

Comparing D.C.’s illegal gun supply to that of other cities is problematic. Among cities with a population between 600,000 and 700,000, in 2015 it ranked sixth with respect to total guns recovered at 1,465 guns, accord-

ing to ATF data. But for most cities in this data set, the recovered guns came from their home states, whereas roughly half of the guns recovered in D.C. traced back to states along the Iron Pipeline, a 10-state gun smuggling corridor that follows I-95 from the Mid-Atlantic to Florida. About half of the firearms from the Iron Pipeline were traced to Virginia, which itself recovered 7,823 guns that year.

Because of its strict gun laws and proximity to states where guns are sold, D.C. is a magnet for black market sales. D.C.’s illicit gun customers also are getting younger. In 2015, the average age of possessors of recovered guns was 30, which was six years below the national average for states, and down from 39 the year before. In 2014, District law enforcers recovered one gun from a person under age 17. In 2015, they recovered 36 guns from youth under 17.

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, chair of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, gets it. “To what degree do we know how the guns get here, how can we disrupt that?” he says. “Folks tell me in confidence that the way you get your gun is a guy shows up with a trunk full of them and you pick one out. It’s obviously illegal, it’s obviously dangerous, we obviously want it to stop. But to what degree is that a lone guy with a trunk full of guns? I tend to believe that there’s not just that guy who’s got an idea to go sell some guns. I tend to believe there’s some coordinated efforts.”

Allen recognizes that the GRU is proud of every round of ammunition that it takes off the street. “I understand that every bullet is a potential link to saving a life, and that every gun

is an opportunity to resolve a dispute with lethal force. But we don’t want [officers] on a hamster wheel, because a criminal is just going to go get another gun. We do want to find out where that other gun is coming from, so we can break up that cycle.”

Authorities have few stringent laws to work with. There is currently no federal anti-trafficking law, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, though ATF maintains an office called the National Tracing Center to assist state and other federal agencies in discovering the origin stories of guns used in crimes.

And attachments to U.S. Department of Justice’s appropriations bills since 2003, known as the “Tiahrt Amendments” after their sponsor, former U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Republican from Kansas, prohibit ATF from releasing firearm trace data to city and state law enforcement agencies except in aggregate form. For major urban police departments, like MPD, the information gap contributes to making gun trafficking investigations costly, time-consuming and, by all appearances, sporadic.

Meanwhile, a patchwork of regulations from state to state leaves loopholes that gun traffickers are able to exploit. About a third of the states have laws against purchasing guns with an intent to traffic them. Such laws—which are on the books in California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maryland—are among the most effective at reducing illegal gun flow. The remaining states’ laws are aimed at straw purchasers. Virginia, for example, punishes the person who solicits a straw purchase. Maryland punishes anyone who willingly engages in a straw purchase. D.C. has no explicit gun trafficking law.

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A handful of states have established anti-gun trafficking programs. Connecticut has a task force designed to coordinate with in-state and out-of-state agencies to identify and prosecute traffickers. Maryland has a Cease Fire grant program that funds anti-trafficking activities. New York has established an interdiction program aimed at stopping guns from illegally entering the state. D.C. has a “Firearms Bounty Fund” that rewards tips that lead to the adjudication or conviction of a person engaged in illegal gun trafficking or a person who has committed a gun crime. Since that program began in 1994, MPD has issued $56,725 for gun tips and recovered 3,348 guns, according to MPD officials. Gun distribution arrests, however, appear absent from that tally.

That’s a lot of guns off the street, but not all. And from dubious origins to the neighborhoods of D.C., where just last Saturday night yet another child, age 8, was struck and injured by a stray bullet in Southeast, the path of the average illegal gun across the District line remains a mystery. “It’s a challenge to get on top of that and prevent these guns from getting inside the city,” Lt. Makal says.

Makal notes that, while her unit is always interested in gun trafficking leads, her counterparts in the Major Case Division would be the most likely to work with the feds to identify and investigate gun traffickers. But MPD officials declined to authorize a representative of that unit to answer City Paper’s questions, and officials in the Washington field office of the ATF also did not agree to an interview despite several requests. “We see guns trafficked and retrieved by locals but ATF doesn’t necessarily investigate those individual cases,” says one of several ATF spokespeople City Paper contacted for this story. iN SOuthweSt D.C., near L’Enfant Plaza, stands a gleaming government building that serves as a virtual monument to the scientifically possible: The Consolidated Forensic Laboratory, home to the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

On a recent Friday, Jonathan Pope, a veteran firearms examiner and manager of the firearms unit, escorts a City Paper reporter and photographer down a long, cool, bright hallway with polished gray floors and tan walls and into an office that houses the firearms testing lab.

Established in 2011 and operational in October 2012, DFS houses one of just a few major city forensic labs not under the direction of a law enforcement agency. It is an independent civilian agency that aims to use science and technology to support law enforcement and enhance public safety.

When a shooting occurs, the Department of Forensic Sciences dispatches crime scene scientists to collect any recovered guns or shell casings left behind with an eye toward processing the scene as quickly as possible. The department’s technicians have access to state of the art technology: alternate light sources across multiple bandwidths, 3D laser scan-

ners, reconstructive software, chemical and physical developers for fingerprints, and biometric devices for fingerprint searches.

Once the scene is processed, recorded, and analyzed, the evidence comes to the forensics lab where the data is entered into the Laboratory Information Management System, Pope says. Scientists attempt to collect fingerprints and DNA, he says, and then send the gun to the firearms testing unit. Visitors to the unit— even detectives who come in as witnesses— must watch firing tests on a video screen that monitors a single-lane firing range and a ballistics water tank behind a door secured by an iris scanner. After testing the gun for function and operability, the cartridge casings are microscopically examined for suitability and the data from the analyzed casings is entered into the ATF’s National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.

ATF firearms examiners then use what is

ers have captured 2.8 million ballistics images and confirmed more than 74,000 NIBIN hits.

“But the true performance metric of NIBIN is the successful arrest and prosecution of shooters,” ATF’s website states. “Violent crime investigations can go cold very quickly … Linking otherwise unassociated crimes gives investigators a better chance to identify and arrest shooters before they reoffend.”

NIBIN has been instrumental in closing gun cases and solving violent crimes, according to Pope, who lays out two unloaded guns.

Both are models the GRU might recover on the street: a Glock 22 .40 Caliber handgun, and a Glock 17 9mm. Beside the guns, he places a pair of empty magazines—one that holds 17 rounds and one that holds 32 rounds—and motions to a box of rubber gloves before giving the okay to handle the guns.

The power of not just the weapons but the technology available to identify and trace them

known as the Integrated Ballistic Identification System to match digital images of markings left on the outside of the cartridge casings against similar evidence gathered from other crime scenes.

“ATF conducts its analysis and generates a report that goes to the detectives on the case,” Pope says. If there is a match to another crime scene, “it becomes a NIBIN lead,” he says, noting that such leads result in further microscopic analysis of the physical evidence until there’s a direct NIBIN link, or hit.

Once all of the data and physical evidence is gathered and processed, the gun is sent to the MPD’s evidence control branch for preservation and storage.

Since NIBIN launched in 1999, law enforc-

is lost on no one in this chilly, clinical setting.

The challenge, once lab technicians and scientists have generated investigative leads, is for detectives to link the gun to suspects in a city surrounded by gun states with porous borders along a gun trafficking superhighway.

That challenge requires comparing notes with other agencies, says Pope, whose unit attends an inter-agency meeting every two weeks with the MPD, ATF, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Yet asked who sold or transferred these guns to whomever last used them, and by what means, Pope pauses only slightly and raises an eyebrow: “That’s a great question.”

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ONCe iN a while, Makal’s unit at MPD solves a case that looks like it might involve gun traf-

ficking, but it’s hard to tell whether these are proactive investigations or incidental to a routine gun seizure. In June 2016, then-chief Cathy Lanier held a press conference to draw attention to some major gun seizures. Lanier was looking to blame the spike in homicides between 2014 and 2015, at least in part, on large capacity magazines and high caliber weapons. Earlier that week, The Washington Post reported that police had arrested three men from Newport News after finding a Tec-9 semiautomatic assault pistol and a .45 caliber handgun in the trunk of a car that was parked in Edgewood. Were they gun sellers, or just suspects in a gun crime?

Some cases are more explicit, but they are few and far between, and they suggest that gun trafficking cases can be a high-cost, lowreward proposition for the government. Last August, 27-year-old Lonnel Boyd pleaded guilty in federal court of conspiring to sell firearms without a license in D.C. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted the case, Boyd’s arrest followed a yearlong investigation into a network of firearms traffickers in the D.C. area that required multiple confidential sources, wiretaps, and almost two dozen recorded drug buys. Yet the penalty was light: In November, Boyd was sentenced to time served.

In May, the U.S. Attorney charged 38-yearold Clark Calloway, a retired Marine who had been the subject of an undercover investigation, with purchasing and transporting a firearm—an AK-47—with intent to do harm to police officers. No one else connected with the sale of the illegal firearm has been charged.

Last month, federal prosecutors in Virginia brought a case against two D.C. men who allegedly used a U-Haul utility van in a gun store robbery in Chantilly that netted them 35 semiautomatic pistols. In 2015, that office also convicted a Waldorf man for his role in the illegal purchase of 12 guns, including one that was used in multiple shootings in D.C. And federal prosecutors in Virginia convicted a D.C. man in 2014 of using straw purchases to acquire an assault rifle and a semi-automatic pistol.

He was sentenced to 78 months in prison and three years probation.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District doesn’t claim much of a record when it comes to prosecuting gun traffickers. “Whenever a firearm case is presented, part of the screening function is a gun trace,” says Assistant U.S. Attorney Gilberto Guerrero, referring to the process of using a gun’s serial number to see if it has been involved with any crimes. “And if it’s a good charge, we typically ask law enforcement to follow up to determine, ‘how did [the gun] get here.’ But normally it’s ATF’s role to answer that. The challenge is to drill down further and build an investigation. We would like to be more aggressive.”

But even when law enforcers identify suspects who are in the business of selling illegal firearms, Guerrero says, “that doesn’t answer how the guns got here, though at least we can charge them with unlawful distribution of firearms in the District.” Most gun cases, he adds, are linked to drug trafficking. “Every once in

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awhile we see a self-contained [gun trafficking case], but not that often.”

For Tony Barksdale, retired deputy commissioner of operations for the Baltimore Police Department, it’s a matter of policing strategies and priorities. Years ago, Barksdale was in charge of a major gun effort, he says, in conjunction with ATF. “Everything was drugs, drugs, drugs at the time,” Barksdale says. “As with drugs, command staff was in love with gun seizures. But along the way, I realized that all those gun stats, all those weapons seized, just didn’t matter anymore.

“I see all those pictures from D.C., all those seizures, but you have to focus on proactive enforcement. You gotta set standards higher than seizures. Politicians have to ask more of law enforcement. There’s always a supply and demand issue. Like with drugs. An addict buys drugs. Do they have to go to jail? Why not climb higher to find the supplier? If I’m a carpenter, and you take away my hammer, am I still a carpenter? I’m gonna get me another hammer.”

JuSt Over the District line, in District Heights, a large Craftsman-style house sits on an isolated lot with a gravel parking lot and entrance in the rear. A sign on the door reads, “Welcome to Realco, Outdoor World and Gun Hospital.” In 2007, MPD issued a report that ranked Realco as the number one source

of crime guns seized in D.C. In 2010, a yearlong Washington Post investigation found 86 guns sold by Realco that were linked to homicides during one 18-month period. From 1997-2008, the Post found, MPD and Prince George’s police seized more than 160 guns per

year that Realco had sold, with its guns turning up at crime scenes almost twice as often as any other Maryland dealer that had 10 or more guns seized.

The article states that Realco cooperated fully with authorities, who found little if anything

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to suggest the shop was selling guns illegally, underscoring how difficult it is to detect straw purchases. Such cases are hard to prove, the article concluded, and such stores are rarely prosecuted due to bureaucracy, limited resources, and politics—and the Tiahrt Amendments.

Even though Realco was cleared by numerous inspections, the Post series “didn’t stop them from persecuting us and causing all sorts of trouble,” says the man behind the counter, who declines to give his name. (“I’ve found over the years that talking to the press is a way to get my ass bit off,” he says.)

Being a professional though, the gun seller walks me through the paperwork required to buy a gun and even pulls a couple guns out of the case for inspection: a Glock 19 Gen4 9mm with three 10-round magazines (“This one is very common,” he says) and a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm with two eightround magazines.

His demonstration of the basic rules of gun safety and standard lesson on how to properly hold and fire a gun—in addition to a recent visit to a gun range in Virginia, which left this reporter startled by how easy it is to send bullets sailing past a target at 30 yards, even under controlled conditions—are in stark contrast to surveillance videos in the news of late.

They show young men running out from behind cars, firing at other young men, also in motion, and hardly with a proper stance or firing mechanics.

Imagining how the suspects in those videos obtained their guns, compared to the hoops one must jump through at Realco in the relatively gun-friendly state of Maryland is frustrating for people in the communities touched

by gun violence who are sick of excuses.

“I don’t know how guns are coming into the community, but it’s a serious issue law enforcement needs to get answers to,” says Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White. “We are in Washington D.C. with more police and intelligence than anywhere in the world, so it baffles me how a young man who lacks education or money can easily get an automatic gun with an extended clip, but no one is accountable.”

White’s bafflement represents a piece of a larger puzzle for Dimitri Roberts, a former Chicago Police Department officer who serves as a law enforcement analyst for CNN and CBS. Roberts sees the work of specialized units such as the GRU as crucial but overburdened.

“Gun trafficking cases are resource-heavy, long-term investments,” he says. “Local law enforcement doesn’t have the budget and personnel for that investment. That’s why you don’t see us going after mid-level gun traffickers. Plus the burden of proof is too high. You have an ATF task force, but they’re strapped for resources too. We need to develop a trend in this country that places a lot of emphasis on these activities and the organizations engaged in these practices, then come up with the resources to offset the [gun lobby] and support federal and local law enforcers.

And in this political, environment, it’s gonna be tough.

“It comes down to political will and valuing human life,” he says. “We know what to do, but the question is, are we gonna actually put resources behind it to get it done? If you don’t come from a place that pulls you to fight harder, then you will continue to cycle through these problems.”

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By J.F. Meils Joahna hernandez, former manager at Cafe Oaxaca in Adams Morgan, makes traditional Mexican tortillas from scratch. Almost no one in D.C. is doing this besides Hernandez— probably because it’s a shitload of work.

“You have to treat the corn with a lot of love to get it how you want it,” says Hernandez, who begins by boiling imported Mexican corn kernels in an alkaline solution before letting them sit overnight. Come morning the real slog begins: making the masa, or corn dough, that will be made into tortillas and then lightly fried.

The tortilla might be the quickest way to separate the real from the fake in “authentic” Mexican restaurants, which are relatively scant in the District despite all the so-called “hip-Mex” spots opening lately. Which raises a few questions: What qualifies as authentic Mexican food? Is there so little in D.C. because there are so few Mexicans here, compared to, say, Salvadorans? Do District eaters even care?

“I think there’s a lot of pretension now with who is doing it right,” says local cookbook author Pati Jinich, who hosts Pati’s Mexican Table, a nationally syndicated PBS show about to air its sixth season. She recommends assessing authenticity by examining the final product.

“Was it over seasoned?” she asks. “Were the ingredients layered properly? There is a process that has to be respected.”

So if authenticity is about taste, how do you know it when you find it?

For Mexicans cooking in the District, authentic happens when it tastes like home— what their moms made on Sundays, the tacos from a favorite childhood stand, the meals they ate at the local mercado growing up.

“You have to be exposed to it [in Mexico], you have to be there,” says Rodrigo Albarran, who was born and raised in Mexico City and owns R&R Taqueria, which has locations in Elkridge and Perry Hall, Md. He was also the opening chef at Dupont’s Mission in 2014.

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ca Solis, feels the same way. “We went with the food we grew up with,” says Alfredo, who like Albarran and Hernandez, is from Mexico City.

“We know the cuisine from the places where we live, the foods our family has been cooking,” says Hernandez, whose company, Manos de Maiz, operates food stands at farmers markets in Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Eastern Market. “But there is so much more.”

That’s where the idea of “authentic,” even for Mexicans, gets fuzzy. Mexican food is not monolithic—there are many, many regions in Mexico with unique dishes, flavors, and techniques that are difficult to replicate in different Mexican cities, let alone different countries.

Oaxaca might be known for its moles, for example, but moles are made all over the country and they can differ from town-to-town, even from farm-to-farm in the same region. A torta or sope made in Puebla is going to taste different from one made less than 100 miles away in Mexico City, just as a bagel in Manhattan will not taste like one made in Philadelphia.

Translating authentic Mexican food for Americans might be less science than art.

For a long time in the District—and probably still—the lead dog for authentic Mexican has been José Andrés’ Oyamel. Two of Andres’ many proteges are Mirna and Dio Montero, the Mexican husband-and-wife team who both worked at Jaleo before opening Taqueria Habanero on 14th Street NW in 2014.

“My mom thought we were just going to sell tacos,” says Yicela Montero, the couple’s 22year-old daughter, who fields questions for her mostly Spanish-speaking parents.

But the menu at Taqueria Habanero goes well beyond tacos to include traditional, lesser-known dishes like huaraches, chilaquiles, nopales, and aguas frescas. Solis’ menus also sport dishes unfamiliar to American diners, a challenge he overcame by adding pictures.

“With no pictures, they always wanted to order tacos,” he says. “I love tacos, I want to sell tacos, but I want to sell something else, too.”

And that might be the Everest of authentic Mexican food—getting gringos interested in dishes beyond the ones they know and can pronounce. That, and explaining how complex and labor-intensive the food is to make, so custom-

ers stop demanding that it be cheap. “ We g e t complaints,” says S olis, about the price of his tacos, which range from $2.50 to $3. “And we’re like, yeah, compared to downtown prices, some people charge $6 a taco.”

Jinich thinks the problem goes beyond food. “We have to break the stereotypes that because we’re Mexican that everything has to be cheap,” she says. “Because we agree to get paid less, to work more hours.”

The cost of labor is likely why the Monteros don’t make their own masa. They use Maseca, a popular instant masa that nevertheless requires some skill to use well. Solis also uses Maseca for his tortillas at El Sol and Mezcalero.

So is the dearth of authentic Mexican cuisine in D.C. also because only Mexicans can cook it correctly, even when making tortillas from a mix?

“We have people from other countries who are making our food,” says Albarran. “And they can’t do it even though they might be really, really good cooks.” Solis concurs. “It’s like me cooking Chinese food,” he says. “I don’t think people are going to trust it.”

If there’s one non-Mexican in the District, aside from Andrés, who can make an argument that his restaurant is producing authentic Mexican cuisine, it’s Josh Phillips, who, with his wife, Kelly Phillips, owns Espita Mezcaleria in Shaw. A master mezcalier, or expert in mezcal, Josh approaches Espita’s Oaxacan-focused menu with monk-like seriousness.

For starters, Phillips and his team at Espita make their own masa with imported Mexican heirloom corn and use a Mexican-made molino, or corn grinder. Three or four times a year, Phillips and select members of Espita’s 60-person staff go to Oaxaca to learn about mezcal and

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“What’s happening in Oaxacan restaurants, that’s authentic,” Phillips says. “We try to capture what’s going on down there right now.”

Espita, which opened in March 2016, recently swapped chefs. Chef Alexis Samayoa, who is Puerto Rican, left over what Phillips calls “creative differences” and was replaced by Robert Aikens, Phillips’ brother-in-law—a Brit with nearly 30 years experience in professional kitchens, though none cooking Mexican food. “He likes to do fancy, flavorful dishes, which is what’s happening in Oaxaca now,” explains Phillips.

Lost in the discussion of Mexican culinary purity is the end user: District non-Mexicans whose palates help decide which restaurants will be around this time next year. And while newcomers like La Puerta Verde in Ivy City and Santa Rosa Taqueria on Capitol Hill have garnered mostly positive reviews, neither appear to be gunning for authentic status.

Maybe that’s not what Washingtonians want anyway. Maybe big Tex-Mex cafeterias like Lauriol Plaza are good enough to scratch the local itch for Mexican-like food.

Mission is a case in point. Albarran’s first menu included a squash rellena filled with tuna, a queso fundido, or burnt cheese with tortillas, and three different sopas, or soups. The current menu at Mission now contains nachos, taco salad, and a dish called “loco salmon.”

“I don’t think Americanizing Mexican food is bad,” Phillips says. “I don’t think it’s disingenuous to put your own spin on Mexican food. I think it’s culturally appropriate.” CP

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what we’ll eat next week: Italian beef sandwich with marinara sauce, fresh garlic, onions, romano cheese, and melted mozzarella, $8.95, Capo Deli. Excitement level: 3 out of 5.

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Walking into an ALDI supermarket can feel a bit like walking into a Whole Foods in a parallel universe—the decor is similar, but everything is cheap as hell and you have to pay a quarter for a shopping cart.

The discount retailer is pumping $30 million into store redesigns in the D.C. area, including the location in D.C. proper (901 17th St. NE). Hopefully this will combat the misconception that ALDI isn’t up to the level of its competitors.

While it’s true that ALDI’s shelves aren’t overstuffed with ritzy things like three stalks of asparagus in water, the Germany-based supermarket provides plenty of staples, as well as some oddball treats. Find your way to the best ALDI has to offer, PAC-MAN style:

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sweets Here you can gobble up European chocolates—level up with strange flavors like strawberry yogurt-filled bars and caramel brownie German chocolates. The natural furit tropical popsicles are also not to be missed. This is also the section where you can find some of the only non-ALDI brands, like bags of Haribo gummy bears for under a buck.

Nuts ALDI has a ton of nuts and dried fruit, from plain old pistachios to chili-lime cashews and crystallized pineapple. Bonus points for everything being close to half-off prices at other stores.

Bread The bread selection is great, with sourdough loaves, everything bagels, and English muffins. Gain a huge power up from all those carbs—keep a lookout for the gigantic Italian circle loaf with a 16-inch circumference.

Cheese Produce Admittedly, this can be ALDI’s weakest area, but you can score some bonus fruit points. The mangos, bulk pears, and kiwis are always delectable and a total steal.

The avocados are also usually perfectly ready to ripen in a day or two, and often sold for a dollar a piece.

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Beverages Chia seed-infused fruit juices and individual cold brew coffees with almond milk are among various gems.

High score alert! You can assemble a cheese plate gourmet enough to impress dinner party guests thanks to ALDI’s cheese aisle.

There are surprisingly luxurious offerings like mature Irish cheddar and brie, as well things you didn’t even know you wanted like cheese wrapped in prosciutto, bourbon-infused gouda, and the ever-elusive cheese curds. Game over. You win.

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What It Is: Look for this dish under the “adventures” section of Kyirisan’s brunch menu. That’s because the poached chicken scallion waffle is a surprise at each bite. Chef Tim Ma takes a traditional scallion pancake and somehow transforms it into a waffle that’s stuffed with cream cheese and topped with pieces of chicken. Previous iterations of the dish have used confit duck instead.

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cousin. Ma fills it with cream cheese, giving it a light and airy texture, as if you’re biting into a freshly boiled bagel. The waffle is topped with melt-in-your-mouth strips of chicken. Then it’s boosted by the addition of a savory syrup of black vinegar, chilies, soy, ginger, and garlic.

Why It Helps: Stumble in silly because this dish will enliven and elevate your senses after a long night of drinking. Ma is the master of the waffle iron. His creation has a slightly creamy, salty, and tangy flavor that’s sure to fill you up.

Pair it with a “hair of the dog” adult mimosa—orange juice, vodka, and triple sec—and you’ll be back on your feet in no time.

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Stein’s Stein Beer: Solidarity Beer Brett IPA Person: Leah Cheston, CoOwner/Director of Operations, Right Proper Brewing Company – Shaw Brewpub & Kitchen Hometown: Shelby, N.C.

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Price: $6 per pint, $11 per 750 ml bottle Taste: Solidarity Beer Brett IPA begins with aromas of pink Starburst from the hop and yeast interplay, followed by a soft, silky mouthfeel. The mid-palate possesses an earthy flavor of turmeric and the ale finishes with a spicy, gingersnap bite.

Story: Leah Cheston, who oversees payroll for Right Proper’s 70 employees (15 at the Brookland production facility and 55 at the Shaw Brewpub & Kitchen), typically isn’t a fan of bitter IPAs. “Personally I’m not a huge hop fan,” Cheston confesses, but she has high hopes for the first bottled Solidarity Beer.

“The Brett usually subdues the bitterness that I tend to not like as much,” Cheston says. “Brett” is short for Brettanomyces—a complex yeast strain that lends a more rustic flavor profile. “I like earthy wine but not when that barnyard funk takes over or when it comes across as a Band-Aid aroma,” Cheston confesses.

DC Beer Week (8/20–8/27), organized by the DC Brewers Guild, calls for a new brewing of an annual Solidarity Beer. In the past, this “solidarity” came across more in theory than practice because one brewery made it and packaged it in kegs. But this year’s beer is truly collaborative: It was brewed at Right Proper’s Brookland production house and bottled at 3 Stars.

Where to try: Bottles at Right Proper Brookland, 920 Girard St. NE; (202) 5265904, and drafts at Right Proper Brewing Company in Shaw, 624 T St. NW; (202) 607-2337; rightproperbrewing. com —Michael Stein

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Second Looks

Hamiltonian Gallery stages an impressive display of two artists whose seemingly simple works contain multitudes of meaning and information.

Paolo Morales: Between You and Me and Nara Park: What Remains At Hamiltonian Gallery to Sept. 16

By Kriston Capps Alec Soth hoverS over Between You and Me, a show of photographs by Paolo Morales on view at Hamiltonian Gallery. Soth is known for peering behind the curtain in places like Niagara Falls, the subject of his searing 2006 photographic essay about the quiet desires of a community whose survival depends on natural majesty and cheap romance.

Morales’ black-and-white photos also convey economic anxiety.

Not in the sense of abominable political sympathies, but rather he captures the disaffecting doldrums in which the middle class is mired. Morales’ survey is depressed.

It is also familiar. “Two gates locked with a chain” (2017) is a dead-end scene from Anytown, U.S.A., just like the title describes. “Two couples by a tree” (2015) summons a vision of bored teens who might belong to any suburb in the country.

Morales may be striving for a sweeping statement here, a purposely indistinct look at the dislocation that defines contemporary life in America. A milieu. Again, it’s a familiar one—distressingly so.

There are strong highlights among Morales’ staged photos and snapshots. “Hiding couple” (2016) is one of them: an ambiguous photo, maybe staged, maybe not, of a pair standing to the side of a dusty southwestern road, partially obscured by a tree. (A gigantic succulent growing along a fence is a hint about place.) The transaction is uncertain: A romantic interlude? A chat? A man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man? It is full of narrative possibility.

Morales’ prints are outstanding, packed with information.

Damning with faint praise, maybe, but the quality is notable for D.C., a town where photographers do not always put the highest priority on the physical product. Then again, other photos by Morales might have benefited from different decisions. “Selfportrait in light” (2016), which finds the artist snoozing on the couch, light pouring onto his face through some blinds, is a photograph that begs for color to capture so many textures: the fuzz of his fleece, the wood-grain paneling that frames his figure, the diverse textiles of pillows and linens. It’s a Nan Goldin technicolor dream trapped in black and white.

Elsewhere the show strays entirely: “Self-portrait looking at dirt” (2016) is an incongruous shot of Morales staring down at a conspicuous patch of freshly tilled soil in an otherwise nondescript yard. The trappings of the suburbs are all accounted for—chainlink fence, check; basketball hoop, check—but the artist looks as if he’s engaged in a Bruce Nauman–esque performance.

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“Hiding couple” by Paolo Morales (2016) In place of a taut examination of some specific tenant of the suburban romance (already well-worn territory), Morales has aimed for universality and fallen a bit short. There are hints here and there of a better show, for example, with “Aaron and his son” (2016), a shot of a dad-lookin’ dude holding an enormous baby. The clipped arm of another figure, unseen offscreen, falls on the baby’s head. What wins here is the lighting: Aaron and his son are overlit, the landscape behind them dark, which contributes to a sense of exposure and alarm. It could be the start of a John Cheever short story. Maybe all that’s called for here is editing.

“DiSilluSioneD i” (2017), a sculpture by Nara Park that is also on view at Hamiltonian, could be hundreds of years old.

That’s the impression the artist wants to give viewers, anyway: It’s a column or stella made from pieces of plastic laminate that are carefully suspended by invisible monofilament wire. The pieces are made to look like a crumbling composite that is leaning against the wall. Of course, Park’s sculpture is resolutely modern. It’s not an archaeological find or even a suggestion of one but instead a minimalist-ish piece that resembles one of John McCracken’s leaning sculptures.

That duality is plain—obvious, really—across all five works in Park’s “Disillusioned” series. Her selection of laminates that look like Formica, a chintzy surface coating, plays up a contrast between fake and real. The materials are cheapo, superficial applications that contractors might sub in for granite or marble for a tabletop. But she has purchased these washingtoncitypaper.com august 25, 2017 23

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materials, rescued them, elevated them, by using them to make art. Which drives still another tension: classical materials swapped out for their postmodern counterparts.

Park’s overly academic exercise doesn’t need but one iteration to drive the point home. And suspending the materials with string doesn’t enhance the juxtaposition. It blurs it.

Where the artist might have acknowledged and even tested the tenets of minimalism by challenging its cubes and prisms directly—by embracing McCracken’s lean-to form exactly, but with a new skin, perhaps—in “Disillusioned I–V,” Park is spinning her wheels.

The name of Park’s show, What Remains, suggests she is working through the conflict between permanence and impermanence thoughtfully. Its titular piece—a sandcastle emerging from a miniature beach—hits that bullseye.

It’s also a reworking of some other core modern concepts about installation. Do viewers tread on the sand to get a closer look at the castle—to tease out whether it’s the real deal or a fabricated thing? Does Park tidy up after them? Footprints in the sand during the opening suggest that viewers dove right in.

Then there’s the camping lamp situated near the sandcastle, just the right off-kilter addition to decenter the precious beach scene. It’s a ready-made gesture, a lighthouse in this kitschy composition, as much a plea for illumination as a demonstration of it. By easing up and letting chance work, Park finds firmer ground.

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Best Fests

In most cities around the country, summer is festival season. So it is in D.C., just… a little later in the summer. Sure, we’ve got the Funk Parade, Capital Pride, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and a smattering of others in June and July, but the bulk of D.C.’s best festivals don’t take place until late summer and early fall, when some of the city’s most popular neighborhoods celebrate their own cultural diversity out on the streets. To keep track of the many festivals—street fests, music fests, food fests, and more—in the coming months, consult our handy calendar.

—Matt Cohen

17th Street Festival August 26th, 17th Street NW between P and R Streets Now in its seventh year, the 17th Street Festival—taking place on 17th Street NW between P and R streets—has everything you’ve come to expect from a D.C. street fair: 100 vendors, more than 50 artists on display, live music and dancing, a moon bounce for kids, and even a pet zone.

Adams Morgan Day September 10, 18th Street NW Adams Morgan Day might not be as big as it used to be, but the grassroots spirit of D.C.’s oldest neighborhood festival is still very much intact.

Sonic Circuits Festival September 15-17, Rhizome DC Musically, D.C. might best be known for introducing hardcore punk and go-go to the world, but it also has a vast and storied experimental music scene. Since 2001, the Sonic Circuits Festival has served as the mecca of D.C.’s experimental music scene, hosting some of the world’s most innovative and creative musicians along with those based right here in the city.

H Street Festival September 16, H Street NE Over the years, the H Street Festival has evolved into D.C.’s largest neighborhood festival, attracting more than 150,000 people to 11 blocks in the H Street Corridor, with 14 staging areas. Food, drinks, music, arts, vendors—it has it all.

Fiesta D.C. Parade and Festival September 16-17, Constitution Avenue NW between 7th and 14th streets (parade) and Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 3rd and 7th streets The Fiesta D.C. Parade and Festival—the city’s annual celebration of Latino culture—is also one of the city’s oldest, taking place annually for more than four decades.

Washington Turkish Festival September 24, Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 12th and 14th streets September is Turkish Heritage Month and, for the past 15 years, the city has celebrated with the Washington Turkish Festival—the largest annual celebration of all things Turkish in D.C. This year’s theme is Istanbul, so get ready to experience the tastes, sounds, and culture of Turkey’s most populous city.

Takoma Park Street Festival October 1, Carroll Avenue NW This street festival fits with its neighborhood’s unique culture, with a number of local artists booths offering paintings, photos, silk-screening, pottery, stained glass, textiles, woodworking, ceramics, sculptures, and every type of artistic medium you can imagine.

Oh, and there’ll be live music and lots of good food.

Taste of DC 2017 October 7-8, Festival Grounds at RFK Stadium The annual Taste of DC festival isn’t just the largest culinary festival in the city, it’s the largest in the mid-Atlantic. Adjust your waistbands accordingly.

All Things Go Fall Classic October 6-8, Union Market As far as large-scale outdoor music festivals go, there aren’t many in D.C. So it’s kind of a big deal that All Things Go has been able to successfully host one for several years running. This year’s Fall Classic is its biggest one yet, expanding to three days with headliners like Young Thug, Foster the People, Vince Staples, The Knocks, and Saba.

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Ingrid Goes West

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Directed by Matt Spicer ThroughouT Ingrid Goes West, Ingrid Thorburn is glued to her phone. When the film opens, tears are running down her face as she maniacally likes a string of photos on Instagram. And near its end, the first words out of her mouth when she wakes up in a hospital are a frantic “Where’s my phone?” Ingrid is a social-media stalker, and she will dole out either punishment or gushing devotion to the people whose narratives she follows online. (The sobbing? Preceded her crashing a wedding and pepper-spraying the bride in the eyes.)

She’ll also do anything to be near the ones she hearts—including moving across the country. Ingrid (a subtly unhinged Aubrey Plaza) is recovering from her mother’s death and the bride’s failure to invite her to her big day (yet: like, like, like). Then she reads about an Instagram influencer named Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen). Taylor’s a Barbie blonde photographer who lives in L.A. with her artist husband, Ezra (Wyatt Russell). So when Ingrid discovers that her mom left her a sizable inheritance, she leaves her sorry existence behind and heads toward the City of Angels.

At least she tries to leave her sorry existence behind. Writer-director Matt Spicer’s debut is a relatively sharp satire of California (waiters ask, “How can I nourish you today?”), art (Ezra merely puts letters such as “WTF” over cheap paintings), and self-invented celebrities (it’s unclear how Taylor got so huge, but it turns her every move into an affect). But mostly it’s about loneliness, self-doubt, and the obsession social media can breed. Ingrid moves into Taylor’s neighborhood and steals her dog in order to liter-

ally get her foot in the door, and her girl crush is one of those flighty friendlies who loves everyone. So mission accomplished: They become BFFs. This friendship is not entirely believable, which is one failing of the film. But Ingrid’s humiliating fixation is quite realistic. Sometimes it’s funny, such as when she tells herself to “just be cool” and then she’s anything but. But much of it is sociopathic, such as Ingrid taking photos of Taylor sleeping or knowingly keeping her landlord, Dan (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), from an important event because she won’t return his truck on time—Taylor’s cooing to do this or that as it gets later and later, and Ingrid must. Go. Along.

Then the situation gets very dark, instigated by Taylor’s asshat of a brother, Nicky (Billy Magnussen). There’s violence and blackmail.

And we see the emotional hole that Ingrid is living with when Dan tells her that he cares about her and she responds, “Why?” Plaza, who tends to play icily distant, sarcastic characters, brings out Ingrid’s damage with slumping body language and eyes that are sad instead of rolling. Your heart will break as you witness how troubled she is. And Olsen, also somewhat playing against type, is a terrific Californian who rides fakery to fame (the things she tells her fans she loves are often just favorites of her husband’s) and can toss her perfectly beach-wavy hair like an A-list movie star. Even the supporting characters are vividly shallow.

Besides Ingrid and Taylor’s friendship seeming forced, another of the film’s flaws is its abrupt end. Spicer gives the story a happy close, but you get maybe 30 seconds of it before the credits roll. It’s heartwarming and validating, but you want to see where it leads. If the director had played it right, Ingrid would have hightailed it home.

—Tricia Olszewski Ingrid Goes West opens Friday at Landmark’s Atlantic Plumbing Cinema and the Angelika Film Center Mosaic.

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The challenge facing Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World is that most documentaries about rock ’n’ roll nowadays amount to little more than a circlejerk. Directors dutifully get the same musicians and critics, talking about the good old days, back when the music really meant something. You know the type: cranks who talk about Bob Dylan like he’s been deified and ’60s counterculture like it’s the only political movement that mattered.

Rumble has more to say than that, except directors Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana fall into predictable patterns when their informal census loses its momentum.

The primary argument, made by a mix of ethnographers and music historians, is that Native American music was a major influence on rock ’n’ roll. This goes all the way back to before the electric guitar or the blues, when Native Americans would try to pass as black, sharing their culture with African Americans. You can hear the blending of influences the work of blues guitarist Charley Patton, who had a Cherokee grandmother. In the film’s most memorable scene, a modern vocalist listens to a Patton record and is visibly emotional since she hears so much Indian tradition in what’s commonly considered a

three chords. Some of the stories are already familiar to longtime classic rock fans: The Band’s Robbie Robertson, whose mother was a fullblood Mohawk, talks about how he and Bob Dylan were booed during their infamous 1966 tour of England. The film even includes discussion of Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock performance, as if most of his biggest fans do not already regularly recreate the show through an acid flashback. There is an added context for what these performances mean, but the overall narrative is nonetheless padded.

Another strong section of Rumble is when the directors get into the 1970s and 1980s, a period when Native American musicians felt more comfortable exploring their identity in public.

Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” has had a minor resurgence, now that Chris Pratt dances to it over the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy, so Rumble reminds us that the band— all of whom are Native American—would dress in full feather garb and perform tribal dances before their hits. Some stories are more tragic than others: Late session guitarist Jesse Davis counted The Beatles among his biggest fans before his fatal overdose in the late ’80s. The film does not dwell on these sad moments, so they have the resonance of a liner note.

No matter whether these musicians performed—in the Mississippi Delta, jazz clubs in New York City, or on tour with Ozzy Osborne— they somehow left a unique mark. Rumble argues they would play harder, with more soul and raw passion than musicians who were white or black.

It is an intriguing idea, made all the more palpable by the repeated rhythms and chanting. Good intentions elevate a documentary like this, since Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

proto-rock recording. Bainbridge and Maiorana also focus on Native Americans in pop culture, starting with Link Wray and continuing onto Taboo, a member of The Black Eyed Peas.

In terms of form, Bainbridge and Maiorana use traditional documentary techniques.

There are lots of interviews, usually spoken with either breathless enthusiasm or abundant sincerity, while music plays in the background. The only reenactment is when Rumble uses an actor as a stand-in for “Rumble,” a song so iconic that it sets a mood with only

few of the characters discussed get the credit they’re due. More importantly, many of them kept their identity a secret, so their pride and output are not quite linked. Rumble may repeat a lot of what you already know, especially if you own The Last Waltz or any film about music in the 1960s. Still, there is a welcome earnestness here, celebrating tunes you should probably listen to again, anyway.

—Alan Zilberman Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World opens Friday at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

CITYLIST

THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES

Music 27 Theater 34 Film 34

Music

ALSO FEATURING: THE STENTS SAT. AUG. 26 ~ 9:00PM TIX: $25

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

THE GREATEST GENERATION

FRIDAY Rock

Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Root Boy Slim All Stars. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Oneida, Heavy Breathing. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. John Mayer, Dawes. 7 p.m. $36–$140. livenation.com.

Rhizome dC 6950 Maple St. NW. Tar of, Teething Veils, Machine Drift. 8 p.m. Free. rhizomedc.org.

RoCk & Roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Strand of Oaks, Dave Hause & The Mermaid. 9 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com. state theatRe 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. The Classic Rock Experience. 9 p.m. $20–$23. thestatetheatre.com.

Wolf tRaP filene CenteR 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Chris Isaak, JD McPherson. 8 p.m. $30–$60. wolftrap.org.

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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. AC Slater, Jack Beats, Sage Armstrong. 8 p.m. $15–$25. flashdc.com. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Crystal Method, Malphunktion, Ken Lazee. 10 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & R&B

Have you ever watched Star Trek: The Next Generation and wondered if Captain Picard and Wesley Crusher had a “special” relationship? If Geordi La Forge was a men's rights activist? Or just how much weird sex Commander Riker had on the holodeck? Benjamin Ahr Harrison and Adam Pranica have, and they're bringing a live version of The Greatest Generation, their self-described “Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are a bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast” to the Black Cat. This journey up and down the East Coast is called the Premature Assimilation tour, and they'll be setting their mocking-yet-loving, insightful-yet-scatological phasers onto Star Trek: First Contact, which they call “the one good movie the TNG cast made.” And what better venue for their Trekkie silliness than the Black Cat, the home of a weekly TNG happy hour replete with a deal on Romulan ale? (On Earth, it’s essentially a blue Long Island iced tea.) Come join the fun where no one has gone before, unless you were a major nerd when the movie came out in 1996, and get a little twisted while you do it. The event begins at 8 p.m. at the Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $25. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Jason Mogavero

BiRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Stephanie Mills. 7:30 p.m. Sold out. birchmere.com.

tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Frank Lacy. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Durand Jones & The Indications, Raygunomics. 7 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

kennedy CenteR millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Bulla en el Barrio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

fillmoRe silveR sPRing 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Prince Experience.

8:30 p.m. $18. fillmoresilverspring.com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Empire Strikes Brass, Handsomebeast. 9 p.m. $12. gypsysallys.com. hoWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Jon B. 8 p.m. $25–$65. thehowardtheatre.com. national galleRy of aRt sCulPtuRe gaRden 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Black Masala. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

GospEl

WaRneR theatRe 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Tye Tribbett, JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise. 8 p.m. $27.50–$43. warnertheatredc.com.

HIp-Hop

songByRd musiC house and ReCoRd Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Mix Master Mike. 11 p.m. $20. songbyrddc.com.

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sAtuRDAY Rock

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BlaCk Cat BaCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Handsome Hound, Bearcat Wildcat, Lucy Isabel. 9 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Puff Pieces, Governess, TK Echo. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

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Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Jason Aldean, Chris Young, Kane Brown, Dee Jay Silver. 7:30 p.m. $71.75. livenation.com.

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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Culoe De Song, Manfredas, Kim Ann Foxman, Sergio Santos. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Moombahton Massive Reunion. 10 p.m. $12–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & R&B

hoWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Tamar Braxton. 8 p.m. $55–$95. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Greta Van Fleet, Goodbye June. 7 p.m. Sold out. dcnine.com.

BiRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Celebrating 40 Years of Steely Dan’s Aja with Technicolor Motor Home. 9 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com.

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

RoCk & Roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

War on Women, Bat Fangs, We Were Black Clouds. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

songByRd musiC house and ReCoRd Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Authority Zero, The Supervillians, Jon Gazi. 7 p.m. $14–$16. songbyrddc.com.

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

Ramsey Lewis Quartet. 8 p.m. $29.75–$74.75. thehamiltondc.com.

state theatRe 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

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

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

Ramsey Lewis Quartet. 8 p.m. $29.75–$74.75. thehamiltondc.com. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Frank Lacy. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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eagleBank aRena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Nicky Jam, Plan B “el Ganador.” 8 p.m. $49–$139. eaglebankarena.com.

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H JENNI LYN ANDREW DUHON FORLORN STRANGERS SARAH POTENZA / PALEFACE ROD PICOTT SUNNY SWEENEY HAYES CARLL & CURTIS MCMURTRY THE WOODSHEDDERS THE PLIMSOULS RE-SOULED THE RAILSPLITTERS THE BLASTERS & FLAT DUO JETS HOMEMADE SIN & FRIENDS KYLE LACY & THE HARLEM RIVER NOISE DANGERMUFFIN JASON EADY ALBUM RELEASE SHOW! GREYHOUNDS WILD PONIES ‘GALAX’ RELEASE TOUR CASH’D OUT GURF MORLIX SLAID CLEAVES POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES WHITNEY ROSE / NO GOOD SISTER, JOHN TRAIN THE WOGGLES & THE HALL MONITORS, JAKE STARR AND THE DELICIOUS FULLNESS SUNNY LEDFURD PERE UBU & JOHNNY DOWD SLEEPY LABEEF

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

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

Near Archives/Navy Memorial [G, Y] and Gallery PI/Chinatown [R] Metro

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kennedy CenteR millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Sounds of Kyrgyzstan in Washington D.C. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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

1811 14 ST NW TH

www.blackcatdc.com @blackcatdc

AUG + SEPT SHOWS FRI 25

FRI 25 SAT 26 SAT 26

THE GREATEST GENERATION DARK & STORMY

DANCE / ELECTRO / RETRO

EIGHTIES MAYHEM

END OF SUMMER DANCE PARTY

HANDSOME HOUND

SUN 27 UNITED AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA FEAT.

DROP ELECTRIC

MON 28

MUGGLE MONDAYS

BUTTERBEER & THE 8TH FILM

WED 30

GO MOD GO!

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

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

KING 26 KIM WATERS RICK 27 SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISON MOORER BRANTLEY 30 MARCIA BALL Kathryn 31 AMANDA SHIRES Rheault Sept 1 KENNY LATTIMORE 2 SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS Michelle 3 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Lordi 7 MATTHEW SWEET Aug

24

with Tommy

8

featuring

THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS

SAT 2

PUNK ROCK KARAOKE

10

THU 7

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

12

FRI 8

SHABAZZ PALACES

13

SAT 9

BIG THIEF LUCY DACUS

MOLLY SARLE TUE 12

SWERVEDRIVER

PERFORMING RAISE & MEXCAL HEAD

JAPANESE BREAKFAST THU SEPT 7

Rock

BiRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer, Rick Brantley. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

BlaCk Cat BaCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Drop Electric, Small Leaks Sink Ships, We Were Black Clouds. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. PJ Morton, Ash., Major. 7:30 p.m. $20–$30. thehamiltondc.com.

ElEctRonIc

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. YokoO, Jus Nowhere, Raffi, Taiga. 2 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

Funk & R&B

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. BSQ. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

WoRlD

kennedy CenteR millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Asian American Music Society. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MonDAY Rock

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Tyvek, Penguin. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Catscan!, Cult Wife, Herschel Hoover, Trajectories. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Keith Busey’s “70s Best” Show. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Illiterate Light. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Caz Gardiner, Like Vices. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

BiRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Anthony Hamilton. 7:30 p.m. Sold out. birchmere.com.

HIp-Hop

songByRd musiC house and ReCoRd Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Born I Music, Tre Justice.

9 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Funk & R&B

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Ben Patterson Big Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

Gerald Alston

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DRUNK EDUCATION

PORTER RAY + DJ AYESCOLD

Keene

THE MANHATTANS

THU 31

MANNEGUIN PUSSY THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Jalen N’Gonda

sunDAY

JAzz

HOT RIZE

CITY LIGHTS: sAtuRDAY

BELLYDANCE EVOLUTION presents

Fantasm – Odyssey of Dreams

BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY Lowland 14 PENNY & SPARROW Hum 15 KARLA BONOFF 16 MAYSA 17 RALPHIE MAY 18&19

An Evening with

RANDY NEWMAN 20 BRAND X REUNION TOUR with THE JANE GETTER PREMONITION

VALERIE JUNE 22 JOHN McCUTCHEON 23 RED MOLLY 24 AVERY*SUNSHINE 26 CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSON with JOHN JORGENSON 27 JESSE COOK 21

TUE SEPT 12

TAKE METRO!

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

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Beyond Borders Tour 2017

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THE RIPPINGTONS featuring Russ

Freeman

HERE COME THE MUMMIES 30 LEO KOTTKE 29

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MooMBAHton MAssIVE REunIon

After informing worldwide pop hits like Drake, Kyla, and Wizkid’s “One Dance,” Justin Bieber’s “Sorry,” and Major Lazer, DJ Snake, and Mo’s “Lean On,” moombahton’s dembow-inspired riddims are more in vogue than ever. While mainstream music connoisseurs are enamored with moombahton’s mellower vibrations, District party people have seen the homegrown genre’s sprawling evolution over the years as it incorporated various influences, from smooth, soul records to raucous dubstep bangers. This summer, moombahton creator Dave Nada took the sound back into his own hands with his Real Moombahton Hours tour, where he reinvigorated moombahton in clubs all over the country and generously donated the party’s profit to charity. But all roads eventually lead to home. So finally, Nada, along with moombahton pioneers Matt Nordstrom, Sabo, and some promised special guests, returns to the genre’s birthplace for a wild night celebrating one of the District’s greatest contributions to dance music. The show begins at 10 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $12–$15. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Casey Embert

The Anthem • 901 Wharf St. SW, Washington, D.C.

JUST ANNOUNCED! ALL GOOD PRESENTS

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA Recreating the Grateful Dead’s 6/14/91 RFK Show .....................................SAT DECEMBER 2 AEG PRESENTS

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THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

P E N TAT O N I X C H R I S T M AS T O U R ............................ DECEMBER 17

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

SOJA

Delta Rae w/ Lauren Jenkins ....................................................................... Th 24 AN EVENING WITH

w/ Twiddle & Footwerk ..........................................................FRI DECEMBER 29

On Sale Friday, August 25 at 10am

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood .......................................................Sa 26

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER cont.

Washed Out w/ Dega ..............Th 31

Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party

SEPTEMBER DC MUSIC ROCKS FESTIVAL FEATURING

Hayley Fahey Band • Throwing Plates • The Split Seconds • Stone Driver • Thaylobleu .Sa 2 Pat Green w/ Casey Donahew ...Th 7 The Brian Jonestown Massacre w/ Dot Dash................F 8 The Afghan Whigs w/ Har Mar Superstar ..................Sa 9 dded!

First Night Sold Out! Second Night A

Nick Murphy (Chet Faker) w/ Charlotte Cardin & Heathered Pearls ........................M 11 Joseph w/ Bailen .......................W 13

with DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion .....................Sa 16

BADBADNOTGOOD ...............Su 17 dded!

First Night Sold Out! Second Night A

Broken Social Scene w/ Belle Game .............................W 20 Aaron Watson w/ Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................F 22 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Space Jesus Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................F 22 White Ford Bronco:

• theanthemdc.com

DC’s All ‘90s Band ...................Sa 23

Echostage • Washington, D.C.

JUST ANNOUNCED!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Flying Lotus in 3D ..............................................................NOVEMBER 5

Trevor Hall w/ East Forest ....Tu 26

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MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

Kaleo w/ ZZ Ward & Wilder .......... OCT 14 GRiZ .................................................NOV 4 ALL GOOD PRESENTS Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Trombone Shorty & Orleans (and The Sea Lice) .............................NOV 7 Avenue w/ Vintage Trouble ........ OCT 15 Grizzly Bear Phoenix ...................................... OCT 16 w/ serpentwithfeet .............................NOV 8 LCD Soundsystem Tegan and Sara The Con 10th Anniv.

First Night Sold Out! Second Night Added!...... OCT 18 Acoustic Tour ....................................NOV 11 Zedd w/ Grey & Lophiile ................ OCT 21 AEG PRESENTS The War On Drugs Odesza w/ The Building ................................. OCT 23 w/ Sofi Tukker & Louis Futon ............NOV 24 The Head and the Heart w/ Phosphorescent ........................... OCT 27 St. Vincent ................................NOV 27 Primus with Clutch ............... OCT 28 O.A.R. ........................................... DEC 16 The Shins w/ Baio .......................NOV 2 Lorde ................................. APRIL 8, 2018

On Sale Friday, August 25 at 10am

2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA. | www.buzzonslaters.com

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

Sturgill Simpson w/ Fantastic Negrito ....................................... SEPTEMBER 15

YOUNG THE GIANT w/ Cold War Kids & Joywave .......... SEPTEMBER 16

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

AN EVENING WITH

JUST ANNOUNCED!

VANCE JOY

Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos........... SEPT 9

Nathan For You -

Sneak Peek and Q&A ....................... SEPT 10 AEG PRESENTS

Coyote Peterson ..................... SEPT 16 STORY DISTRICT PRESENTS I Did It For The Story: A Tribute to

20 Years of Storytelling .......... SEPT 23 WESTBETH ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

Dylan Moran ............................. SEPT 25

The Script w/ Tom Walker ............... OCT 2 Paul Weller w/ Lucy Rose ............... OCT 7 Matisyahu w/ Common Kings & Orphan ............. OCT 10

Blind Pilot w/ Charlie Cunningham . OCT 13 THE BIRCHMERE PRESENTS

ALISON

w/ Amy Shark & Chappell Roan ...................................OCTOBER 19 On Sale Friday, August 25 at 10am

Colin Hay w/ Chris Trapper .......... OCT 21

KRAUSS & DAVID GRAY ................ SEPTEMBER 23

WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY FEATURING

Rascal Flatts • Billy Currington • Scotty McCreery • Dylan Scott and more! . SEPTEMBER 24 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com

THE BYT BENTZEN BALL OPENING NIGHT! THE MOST VERY SPECIALEST EVENING WITH TIG NOTARO & FRIENDS FEAT.

Capital One Arena • Washington, D.C.

Tig Notaro ...................................OCT 26 Al Franken & Ira Glass Giant of the Senate and Giant of the Radio

AEG PRESENTS

KATY PERRY w/ Noah Cyrus ........................................ SEPTEMBER 25

in Conversation ..............................OCT 29

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Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band w/ Good Old War .................................NOV 2 The Breeders .................................NOV 4 AN EVENING WITH

Kevin Smith ...................................NOV 5 JOHNNYSWIM ..............................NOV 15 Puddles Pity Party .....................NOV 17 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Mavericks ...........................NOV 18

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Tei Shi ............................................F SEPT 8 MHD ...................................................... F 15 Mondo Cozmo w/ Flagship ................ Tu 12 Gabrielle Aplin w/ John Splithoff ....... W 20 Sonder ................................................. W 13 Coast Modern ..................................... F 22 ALL GOOD PRESENTS The Werks & Passafire ................. Th 14 The Cribs ........................................... Sa 23

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

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

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES

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

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

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

CITY LIGHTS: sunDAY

600 beers from around the world

Downstairs: good food, great beer: all day every day *all shows 21+ AUGUST 24TH

UPLAND BEER DINNERAND COMEDY SHOW AUGUST 26TH

“I SWEAR I’MANADULT!”: A BURLESQUETRIBUTETOTHE STRUGGLES OFADULTING AUGUST 27TH

SUNDAY COMICS HOSTED BY RUDYWILSON AUGUST 28TH

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Blues Alley has spent years, decades even, cultivating Cyrus Chestnut, giving the Baltimorean pianist a bandstand on which to develop and mature as a performer. It’s reaped dividends for Chestnut and the club and also for the discriminating jazz fan. During all those years he was supposed to be studying jazz, he also built up massive strategic reserves of blues and gospel resources, and he’s not shy about using them in generous and sophisticated ways. But that doesn’t mean he neglected the jazz studies at all. Indeed, any single set by Chestnut is a virtuoso recital. Any facet of music that you can dream up—rhythm, harmony, dynamics, color, the panoply of subgenres—gets subjected to the piano player’s mastery at some point in the evening. If you haven’t yet seen Chestnut play, oh, the things you’ve missed. The Cyrus Chestnut Trio performs at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $30–$35. (202) 337-4141. bluesalley.com.

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BlaCk Cat BaCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Hothead, Nonzoo, Radiator Greys, Mount Ranier. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Dreamer and Son, Acadia, Elizabeth II, Kid Brother. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

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kennedy CenteR millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Summer Musical Theatre Training Program Showcase. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Bernard Mavritte. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

WEDnEsDAY Rock

BlaCk Cat BaCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Go Mod Go!, The Captivators. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Ms. Fridrich’s Messy Ann Band, The Beanstalk Library, Ilyaimy. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. songByRd musiC house and ReCoRd Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Henry Jamison, Gracie And Rachel. 7 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

BluEs

BiRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Marcia Ball. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

kennedy CenteR millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. United States Army String Quartet. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Saint WKND. 10 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Andaiye & Devine Nature. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

Rhizome dC 6950 Maple St. NW. Creative Healing, Garrett/Tucker/Pony Trio, Trigger, JDH. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org. stRathmoRe gudelsky ConCeRt gazeBo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Akua Allrich. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Marty Nau. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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(703) 255-1900. Michael Bolton, Dave Koz, Larry Graham. 8 p.m. $25–$65. wolftrap.org.

tHuRsDAY Rock

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Washed Out, Dega. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. March Fourth, DJ Cobrawolfshark. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22.50– $27.50. bluesalley.com.

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STEVE MILLER: HEALTH OF THE PLANET

In the abstract, the exhibition of artworks by Steve Miller at the National Academy of Sciences— billed as a "metaphorical checkup" on the ecological health of the Amazonian rainforest—sounds like a gimmick. But while some of the pieces are needlessly complex, others turn out to be strikingly beautiful. In the former category are a series of large canvases that utilize renderings of satellite imagery and local flora and fauna to communicate the basin's galloping deforestation and loss of biodiversity. The multiple overlays of imagery confuse rather than clarify. Simpler and more effective is Miller's use of X-rays to depict animals (some of them still living, a stiff technical challenge).

In two triptychs, Miller has assembled X-rays of artfully posed birds, turtles, and iguanas. Their ghostly images, rendered by inkjet on aluminum, seem to jump outward with an eerie shimmer.

Meanwhile, in "Law of the Jungle," Miller etched an X-ray on laminated glass, showing a sinuously curved python with a very dead mouse still being digested in its stomach. Equal parts beautiful and creepy, the work is easily Miller's finest and the show’s least political. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Fridays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to Jan. 31, at the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW. Free. (202) 334-2415. cpnas.org.

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Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet. 7:30 p.m. $19.75– $29.75. thehamiltondc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Opera on Tap. 7:30 p.m. Free. dcnine.com.

songByRd musiC house and ReCoRd Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Allie X. 8 p.m. Sold out. songbyrddc.com.

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JULIUS CAESAR

When, earlier this summer, New York’s Public Theater staged a version of Julius Caesar that portrayed the titular Roman as a Trump-like buffoon, the right-wing media complained and major corporate sponsors, including Delta Airlines and Bank of America, fled. Actor Gregg Henry, who shellacked his hair into an orange crown and wore a tie that nearly touched his knees, certainly leaned into the physical aspects of the conceived character, but even on the page, the similarities between ancient Rome and present-day Washington resonate eerily. Scena Theatre heightens these connections in its own production of Julius Caesar at Atlas Performing Arts Center. With a cast of actors from D.C. and Dublin, director Robert McNamara tells the story of an ambitious leader who senators can’t stand and decide to stop by any means necessary. While the small company will likely not face the wrath of Donald Trump Jr. like the Public did, seeing this production is essential for anyone looking to the arts for an explanation of our current crisis. The play runs Aug. 22 to Sept. 24 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $15–$45. (202) 399-7993. scenatheatre.org.

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cREAtIVE HEAlInG

The spiritual and avantgarde jazz pioneer Albert Ayler liked to say “Music is the healing force of the universe.” He liked it so much, in fact, that he used the phrase to title one of his last albums.

Ayler, a tenor saxophonist and band leader, wrote creative pieces of deceptive complexity and cacophony. While his band created quite a sound when it played, the melodies he wrote were crafted in the spirit of frontporch folk songs, inviting every listener in to hum along and feel the force of the music in the room. Creative Healing, a five-piece made up of rising voices in Boston’s creative music scene, tries to fulfill Ayler’s vision.

In a mix of free form jazz improvisation, noise rock force, and spoken prose, Creative Healing aims to create music that unites audiences in heart and mind. The music may sound discordant and harsh, but just breathe and let it in. You can find the harmony and beauty if you just listen. Creative Healing performs with Layne Garrett/Jenny Moon Tucker/Pony Payroll Bones Trio, Trigger, and Joshua David Hoffman at 8 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10. rhizomedc.org.

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

by Andrew Lippa, Keegan’s production is directed

by Mark A. Rhea and Colin Smith. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Sept. 2. $45–$55. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. the devil’s musiC: the life & Blues of Bessie smith Mosaic Theater Company opens its third season with this chronicle of Bessie Smith’s final performance, after being tirned away from a whites-only club. Actress Miche Brandon channels Smith’s pain in this musical revue directed by Joe Brancato. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Sept. 24. $20–$65. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. a little night musiC Set in Sweden over the course of one magical night, this classic musical from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler chronicles the love affairs of an aging actress, a married virgin, a student, and a count. Signature artistic director Eric Schaeffer leads this production that features favorite songs including “A Weekend in the Country” and “Send In the Clowns.” Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Oct. 8. $68–$101. (703) 8209771. sigtheatre.org. the WizaRd of hiP After nearly 30 years, this musical coming-of-age tale from Thomas W. Jones II returns to MetroStage. As the central character tries to figure out what’s “hip,” he learns to find his place in the world as he explores issues related to class, gender, and race. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Sept. 17. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

Film

good time In order to save his brother who’s being held at Riker’s Island following a bank robbery gone bad, a young man must go to extremes in this intense crime drama from directors Ben and Joshua Safdie.

Starring Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) ingRid goes West Aubrey Plaza plays an internet stalker who decides to use her inheritance to fund a move to California, where she befriends one of her favorite targets in this weird and zany comedy from director Matt Spicer. Co-starring Elizabeth Olsen and O’Shea Jackson Jr. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) leaP! An orphan who dreams of becoming a famous dancer gets mistaken for someone else and subsequently studies at Paris’ Grand Opera House in this animated film from directors Eric Summer and Éric Warin. Featuring the voices of Elle Fanning, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Dane DeHaan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Patti Cake$ Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, and Siddharth Dhananjay star in this comedy about an aspiring rapper who aims to get attention in her depressed New Jersey town. Written and directed by Geremy Jasper. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) PolaRoid A girl doesn’t know what’s wrong with the Polaroid camera she acquires until she realizes everyone who’s been photographed with it has died in this creepy horror flick from director Lars Klevberg.

Starring Katie Stevens, Madelaine Petsch, and Javier Botet. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) tuliP feveR An artist is tasked with painting a portrait of a woman in 17th century Holland but falls in love with his subject in this romantic drama from director Justin Chadwick, based on the novel by Deborah Moggach. Starring Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, and Dane DeHaan. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

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Announcements DC International School Invitation for Bid RFP for Contracted Design for website, signage, and other needs: DCI requires design services for both print and digital media and physical items in our new building. Please send hourly rates for digital design, print design, and items like tees, mugs, swags and internal building signs. Please also include awards, experience in the education area, and a portfolio of work. Bids must include evidence of experience in fi eld, qualifi cations and estimated fees. Please send proposals to RFP@dcinternationalschool.org.

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RFP for Contracted computer support fees: Service Providers will be required support DCI’s technology for staff and in the classroom. This includes supporting Apple and Chromebook hardware and software. Vendors must have experience implementing Chromebooks and the management console and Educational Technology on large scale basis as well as Apple MacBook support. Bids must include a contract to support DCI as needed, with onsite service hours, as well as remote support hours. Bids must include evidence of experience in fi eld, qualifi cations, and estimated fees for hourly or monthly service.. Please send proposals to RFP@dcinternationalschool. org. Proposals must be received no later than the close of business Friday, September 1, 2017.

RFP for Integrated pest management services: DCI is seeking pest management services for our permanent facility, interior and exterior. The building interior and exterior will need to be periodically inspected for the presence of pests and preventive measures will be taken to avoid pests. If any pests are detected, integrated (non-chemical) methods will be implemented as the first control step, including sanitation measures, exclusion measures, and the use of traps.

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