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Joint Custody D.C. wanted to legalize weed. A congressman wanted to restrict it. Their efforts birthed a booming underground delivery industry and hobbled the District’s medical marijuana program.

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10 joint custody D.C. wanted to legalize weed. A congressman wanted to restrict it. Their efforts birthed a booming underground delivery industry and hobbled the District’s medical marijuana program.

By J.F. Meils

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

4 Chatter distriCt Line 6 Housing Complex: Since the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library closed, a city-run day center for the homeless and other libraries have seen a large uptick in visitors.

7 Gear Prudence 8 The Indy List 9 Savage Love

food 15 Hearts of Romaine: The search for the perfect Caesar salad 16 Steak Tips: A Philadelphia expat ranks the city’s best cheesesteaks.

16 Veg Diner Monologues: Rasika West End’s Gujarati Lasagne 16 Underserved: Rosario’s La Sirena Segreta

arts 17 Change of Strength: Over the past four years, Pure Disgust helped create a new wave of D.C. hardcore.

Now they’re moving on.

19 The Scene Report: Five new hardcore releases you need to hear 20 Galleries: Capps on XYZT: Abstract Landscapes at ARTECHOUSE 21 Film: Zilberman on Marjorie Prime

City List 23 City Lights: See Sting finally make his Wolf Trap debut on Tuesday.

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You Are So D.C. If …

City Paper, ever eager to understand the people of the District, is launching a new contest. In the spring we asked you to create dioramas made out of Peeps. This fall, we are asking you to tell us what qualities make a person a certified Washingtonian.

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- if you got a D.C. flag tattoo three months into your residency.

- if you’d rather walk in the pouring rain than take the DC Streetcar.

- if the cops have been called to your ANC meeting.

- if you secretly fantasize about getting retroceded.

- if ‘retrocession’ is your safe word.

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The possibilities are endless, as are your opportunities to enter the contest (for the next few weeks, at least). If you’ve got an idea, just fill out the form on our website, washingtoncitypaper.com, by September 14. Please include good contact information so we can get in touch with you in advance if you win. And if you prefer U.S. Mail, please send us your entries on a postcard to the address listed at the bottom of this page.

Based on the submissions, City Paper will choose a first, second, and third place winner among ten final-

In which we ask readers to sum up D.C. residents in a sentence

Consider these straightlaced starter options a mere launch pad for your thoughts.

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Department of Corrections: A story last week (“College Bind”) incorrectly stated the nature of Da-Quon Rhones’ scholarship. D.C. College Success Foundation accepted him in a program that makes him eligible to apply for a scholarship. He has not won it yet.

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DistrictLine Since the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library closed, a city-run day center for the homeless and other libraries have seen a large uptick in visitors.

By Andrew Giambrone A chApter in D.C.’s story of homelessness closed when the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library shuttered temporarily for major renovations on March 4. But another has opened: Visits to the city’s far-flung day center for the homeless have ballooned over the past six months.

About four miles away from the downtown library in an industrial area of Northeast D.C., the day center saw 3,332 total visits last March: the most the center has ever witnessed since it opened in 2015, and two-and-a-half times the visits it had in March 2016. In July, there were 2,856 visits to the center, and August’s numbers are on track to surpass 3,000, according to data provided by D.C. Department of Human Services, which manages the center.

Intakes for new clients are up, too. In March, the center saw a record 112 intakes, and, in April, another 101. (In June and July 2016, there were only four and 30 intakes.) So far in 2017, there have been more than 520 intakes, which DHS tracks by asking new visitors to complete a form.

The library is expected to reopen in 2020 after its $208 million redevelopment transforms the modernist building into a “world-class” facility, as D.C. officials have said. It had long served as a popular gathering spot for men and women who do not have daytime employment or a place of their own to stay. They lost a secular sanctuary.

Eric Sheptock, an advocate for D.C.’s homeless who is homeless himself, says more than 150 homeless people would typically visit the library during business hours. According to him, they came for various reasons: to escape the elements in winter and summer, to use the bathroom, to look for jobs online, and to read books. “We use it for all the normal reasons, but have a few additional reasons as well,” Sheptock notes. “I’ve even seen guys washing off in the restroom.”

Today, the ripple effects of the library’s closure are evident at other libraries as well.

Spokesperson George Williams says D.C. Public Libraries has noticed an increase in visits to branches within range of MLK, like the Shaw

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Library and the Southeast Library, which is located in Capitol Hill. Those libraries saw 22,595 and 14,044 visitors, respectively, in March, or about 30- and 18-percent increases over their February totals of 17,170 and 11,935.

“What we can’t say with specificity is if that increase is solely or exclusively due to customers with or without homes,” Williams says. “We don’t ask people whether they have a home or not when they visit us.”

Bryan Park is a regular at the day center. A white 45-year-old from Houston, Texas, he says he arrived in D.C. last year and sleeps overnight at the Adams Place NE shelter next to the day center. He uses it to do laundry once a week and notes that the center becomes “packed” when it rains.

Park was a frequent patron of the MLK Library, but now he tends to go to the Woodridge Library on Rhode Island Avenue and 18th Street NE. It’s a 20-minute walk from the day center on 2210 Adams Place NE. “Mostly, it’s a place to chill, so we’re not on the sidewalk somewhere,” he says of the day center, praising its staff and services but adding that he wishes it were open on weekends and holidays. “A one-stop-shop would be better downtown … I’m at the [Woodridge] Library when I’m not here.”

At least three-quarters of the day center’s patrons are men, and the overwhelming majori-

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town homeless day center, this location will probably remain its best bet. Officials and their nonprofit partners, including the Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District, are working to find a conveniently located spot, yet such space is limited.

Williams reports that the MLK Library itself is now in the “hazardous abatement” phase of development. Workers are removing materials like asbestos and lead. It first debuted in 1972 and became a landmark in 2007. When it’s remodeled, it will feature more open space, a grand reading room, a new auditorium, a makerspace in the basement, and more—for all visitors.

Whether MLK’s closure has significantly affected D.C. nonprofits that administer day centers isn’t completely clear. Kim Cox, the president of the Father McKenna Center located in NoMa, says their facility hasn’t recorded any growth in visitors since the library’s closure, while Schroeder Stribling, the CEO of N Street Village, says there’s been an “uptick” at its Bethany Women’s Day Center near Logan Circle since spring 2016—when its Pat Handy shelter opened—but is not sure if that is linked with MLK. Thrive DC, based in Columbia Heights, says much the same.

“We have seen only a slight uptick in our numbers since the closing of MLK, and this ebbs and flows on a weekly basis,” explains Alicia Horton, Thrive DC’s executive director. But “on most days, we are operating pretty much at full capacity, serving approximately 200 people [per day].”

All agree that the library served as a refuge for D.C.’s homeless, though. “[It] offered a daytime place to be after the shelters closed in the mornings,” Horton says. “Clients will utilize the facilities that they can access, given transportation challenges. MLK was convenient for many.”

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ty are black. It operates from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. five days a week.

On a recent morning, visitors sat in the lounge area while waiting for lunch at noon or for their turn to use one of the center’s half-dozen laundry machines, stored in another room. A TV on the wall played the news. Sign-up sheets lay on the front desk, as did condoms, juice boxes, animal crackers, and muffins. Five men used as many of 10 available computers.

A hallway flanked by motivational posters (“A positive attitude is a powerful force,” one states) leads to rooms for case managers and a room for haircuts. Another room hosts group events like movies, and a clothing room is filled with shoes, shirts, hangers, and shelves. But most of the clothes are for women, frustrating the center’s predominantly male clientele.

In all, there were over 30 people at the center that day. On busier ones there can be double or triple that.

Although the center is located near two homeless shelters for men—one on New York Avenue NE, the other directly adjacent to the center—it can feel like it’s in the middle of nowhere. Lots that supply truck parking surround the dead-end street, which includes a wastetransfer station. Concert venue Echostage and notorious D.C. strip joint Stadium Club are both down the block. Within eye- and earshot, trains zoom behind the center. Trash is strewn about on Adams Place.

The Langdon neighborhood is one of D.C.’s most industrial areas and is commonly perceived as a dumping ground for activities that would be undesirable in more-residential neighborhoods. Shuttles run by the United Planning Organization pick up homeless people from service sites, a downtown church, and shelters before dropping off anyone who wants to visit the Ward 5 day center.

But until D.C. can identify space for a down-

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: What’s the best way to think about rain forecasts when deciding whether to bike somewhere (and later have to bike back)? My weather app tells me the chance of rain, but that’s not super useful alone. If it’s a 100 percent chance of drizzle, I’ll ride, but if it’s a 30 percent chance of heavier rain, I might not. Do you have advice on this matter?

—Realistic And In Need Dear RAIN: You have two options, the first of which is to stop worrying about whether you get a little wet or very wet. If you adopt this lifestyle, prepare in advance by stocking your home with surplus newspapers for your shoes (they take longer to dry than you’d think), and get in the habit of saying with a straight face, “Oh, I hadn’t noticed,” in response to friends and colleagues asking you why you’re soaked.

Your second option is to switch to a weather app with radar. This will demystify the percentages. You can see the size, shape, and direction of the storm and, most importantly, the dreaded yellow and red splotches, which signal intense precipitation. The apps won’t guarantee you’ll stay dry, exactly, but should provide sufficient downpour warnings. —GP Gear Prudence: What’s better for biking: a messenger bag or a backpack? Messenger bags look cooler, while backpacks seem more sturdy. But if backpacks were actually better, wouldn’t bike couriers use them? How much functionality would I be losing if I just picked the bag that looked better?

—Bags Available Carry Knickknacks Plenty Adequately, Choosing Key Dear BACKPACK: When choosing a bike bag and looking beyond aesthetics alone, you must consider two things: capacity and comfort when riding. Capacity is important because it delimits how much you can carry, and there’s nothing more shameful than a slow walk back down the grocery aisle to return the Funyuns you just couldn’t fit. Generally, but not always, backpacks outperform in this regard. But if you’re sure you’ll never need the extra space, that might not matter. Messenger bags are slung over one shoulder, whereas the dual strap affixment of the backpack provides for more stability and balance when riding— especially when carrying heavy objects. The weight is more evenly distributed and you’re much less likely to experience the discomfort of a shifting bag. That said, the stability comes at the (extremely low) cost of not being able to access the contents without removing the bag from your shoulders. GP wonders if you really need such immediate access, but perhaps you do. Long story short: If you need to carry a lot and want to make sure it’s stable, backpacks work better. Otherwise, if you don’t mind a little shifting, a messenger bag will be sufficient.

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My brother just broke up with his girlfriend for the second time in eight months. They had been together for two and a half years, and she became pretty discontent when she finished college and my brother entered law school because all his time and attention weren’t revolving around her. In January, she staged this bizarre, soap opera-esque situation to make my brother jealous, and then broke up with him when he reacted predictably. (This is not speculation—she admitted to it.) After the breakup, my brother became a mess of a person—sobbing all the time and talking about her to anyone and everyone. At the risk of sounding insensitive, he was unbearable.

Then, against the advice of my family, he started talking to her again and they got back together. The second breakup came after he snooped and found out she had been texting her ex-boyfriend. She was telling that guy that she was trying to line up her next boyfriend while still dating my brother. They broke up again, and he’s now back in the same situation. He started back at school yesterday. He almost fucked that up last time because of her bullshit, and I don’t want to see that happen again. Additionally, I feel bad this happened—I really do—but I don’t have the time or patience to have the same conversation with him a million times. It’s exhausting and annoying.

—Now Over Brother’s Relationship Obsession Your brother is an adult. (I mean, presumably he’s an adult—they’re not letting minors into law school these days, are they?) And since he’s an adult, NOBRO, you can’t stop him from making terrible choices or the same terrible choice over and over again. But here’s the good news, NOBRO: You’re an adult, too! And just as you can’t force your brother to stay away from this toxic POS, your brother can’t force you to converse with him all day long about politics or his POS ex or Game of Thrones turning into Star Trek. (Suddenly, only characters we don’t care about die on GoT. I half expect to see red shirts on the extras in season 7.) And if your brother makes the mistake of getting back together with this woman a second time, your adult ears don’t have to listen to his adult ass complain endlessly about the by-now-predictable consequences of his terrible choices.

If you’re feeling anxious about conversations you fear being dragged into, NOBRO, let your brother know you’re done listening to him sob about his ex. “It was idiotic to take her back the first time,” you could say. “But, hey, we all do idiotic things from time to time, particularly where our love lives are concerned.

You would have to be an idiot, however, to take her back a second time. Personally, bro, I don’t think you should waste another second of your life pining for that manipulative piece of shit. I’m definitely not wasting another minute of my life discussing her with you.

It’s always inspiring when two people manage to salvage a friendship after their romantic relationship ends. But it’s not possible to go in an instant from lovers to besties who talk on the phone every day.

So how about Jon Snow getting out that frozen lake full of zombies, huh? Apparently hypothermia isn’t a thing in the Seven Kingdoms.”

—Dan Savage My ex-boyfriend and I were together for a year and a half. He is a silver fox who is significantly older than me. I was 23 when we met and he was 58. It was supposed to be a fling, but it evolved into a beautiful romance. But after much consideration (he has a vasectomy and already has four kids and will be retiring soon), we ended it three months ago. It was heartbreaking, but we made a conscious decision to be close friends and talk every day. Out of the blue last week, he asked me if I had a boyfriend. I don’t, but I was coincidentally about to go on my first date since the breakup. He proceeded to tell me he “kinda” has a new girlfriend, a woman closer to his age. This was not something I wanted to hear, which he could tell from the silence that met this disclosure. This conversation ruined my weekend. I have been unable to eat or sleep. The guy I went on a date with was sexy—not a love connection, but a bangtown prospect—but I was too emotionally fucked to do anything with him. Do I explain these thoughts to my ex? Let time do the healing? Why did my ex feel the need to tell me about his new girlfriend?

—Heartbroken Over New Ex’s Yummy Your ex told you about his new girlfriend because you two are close friends, right? And close friends typically confide in each other about their love lives, don’t they? And that’s what you wanted, isn’t it?

Backing up: It’s always inspiring when two people manage to salvage a friendship after their romantic relationship ends. But it’s not possible—it’s certainly not on anyone’s list of breakup best practices—to go in an instant from lovers to besties who talk on the phone every day. You got your heart broken, HONEY, and only time can cauterize that particular wound. Your reaction to the news that your ex has a new girlfriend proves your post-breakup friendship wasn’t a “conscious decision” but an ill-advised rush. And while the physical aspect of your relationship with Mr. Silver Fox ended three months ago, you never got out of each other’s pants emotionally. (A bruised ego might also be contributing to your inability to eat or sleep—he got over you faster than you got over him.)

I don’t think you should explain anything to your ex right now, HONEY, because I don’t think you should talk to your ex for the next six months or so. You need to get on with your life—and getting on that new guy is a good place to start.

—DS

I’m a 26-year-old heterosexual female, and I was recently dumped by my boyfriend. He was my first love and the person I lost my virginity to.

We’d been seeing each other for a little over a year.

I had sex with someone else while I was seeing my ex (it was a more casual relationship in the beginning). I wanted more, and I’m not 100 percent sure but think that’s what scared him off. I went into a depression and started seeing a therapist. This all happened a little more than a month ago. Friends tell me that the “best way to get over someone is to get under someone else,” but I’m not sure what to do. I’m pretty sure I’m doing the thing I shouldn’t be doing: holding out hope my ex will decide he made a horrible decision and want to be with me again. I know it is idiotic to have this hope. Can you give me some direction?

— Don’t Underestimate My Pain This may not be helpful in the short term, DUMP, but it’s not idiotic to hold out hope your ex will take you back. It could happen— indeed, it has happened for lots of folks. I have two friends who are married to men who dumped them, regretted it, and begged to be taken back. The trick, however, is to assume it won’t happen and make a conscious effort to get on with your life. (And, if necessary, a conscious effort to get under someone else.) Your boyfriend/first love/first fuck dumped you a little more than a month ago—you’re allowed, one month and change later, to live in hope of a reconciliation. Odds are good, though, that it’s a false hope, DUMP, so don’t pass on any solid offers and keep seeing that therapist. —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net. washingtoncitypaper.com september 1, 2017 9

Joint Custody D.C. wanted to legalize weed. A congressman wanted to restrict it. Their efforts birthed a booming underground delivery industry and hobbled the District’s medical marijuana program.

By J.F. Meils

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery A hAlf-dozen towering pot plants sway in the breeze on Adam Eidinger’s terrace as he recounts the story of his 20th career arrest. Eidinger’s home recently caught fire— no one was hurt, including the plants—but it still smells of ash under fresh paint, an odor replaced with weed when Eidinger sparks a joint and passes it to Nikolas Schiller, his cofounder at DCMJ, which they call “a community group” but operates like a marijuana advocacy shop.

“Cannabis is out in the open in a way that’s changing the culture,” says Eidinger. He drafted Initiative 71, D.C.’s marijuana legalization ballot measure, and it passed with 65 percent of the vote in 2014. “It’s giving the out-of-town politicians a sense of what a city is like that has legalization and the sky is not falling.”

Eidinger’s 20th arrest happened in April.

He was leading a giveaway of joints aimed at members of Congress and staffers on the corner of Constitution Avenue and 1st Street NE— District, not federal land—when Capitol Police cuffed and stuffed him. Initially told he was being arrested under the Controlled Substances Act, federal drug legislation rarely used in D.C., Eidinger says he was ultimately charged with possession under D.C. law. Months later, the U.S. Attorney dropped the charge after acknowledging that Eidinger didn’t, in fact, break the law he basically wrote.

The episode marked the latest chapter in what might be the most tangled marijuana legalization effort in the country—one that allows District residents to possess pot, grow plants, and “gift” up to an ounce of weed to anyone 21 or older, but not buy or sell it. The latter is thanks to a rider Maryland Rep. Andy Harris attached to a 2015 Appropriations bill that forbade the District from spending any money to carry out Initiative 71. In practice, that meant D.C. could not tax or regulate the marijuana its voters just legalized, spawning a large and booming underground market of pot delivery services in the nation’s capital, courtesy of Congress.

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a bad thing. Licensed cultivators and purveyors of medical marijuana, none of whom operate East of the River, say D.C.’s seven-year-old program—and its 119 pages of regulations—is inefficient and over-managed. “We run a bona fide medical marijuana program” says Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, M.D., director of the District’s Department of Health. “This is not a program that is intended to be lax or for people who want to use marijuana recreationally.”

Meanwhile, District tokers access medical marijuana’s recreational cousin with ease.

Caught in the middle are D.C. police and lower-income communities, two groups whose relations were meant to improve with pot legalization. “We’re trying to define in a lot of cases what you can and can’t do,” says Lt. Andrew Struhar of MPD’s Narcotics and Special Investigations Division. Arrests for smoking marijuana in public are rising again after a steep drop following legalization, drawing the ire of just about everyone, including drug prevention workers who believe marijuana use is increasing among those under 21 precisely because of an increase in public smoking.

Two and half years into Initiative 71, the District is in a familiar position—at the legal and regulatory mercy of Congress. But within those confines, some believe there are unique opportunities, including the idea that the District’s completely unregulated weed market can offer some singular insights.

Unless and until Congress acts, it appears that D.C. will continue to be an accidental laboratory of legalization right under the nose of the people who have the power to change it all.

Hundreds of tiny pot leafs dot the map of D.C. on leafedin.org, creating a literal and figurative tapestry of how the so-called “gray” market for marijuana has transformed the District. John Khainson, a former product manager in financial technology, designed the app to anonymously connect buyers and sellers. The interface is not complicated, and frankly not very slick. Nor is it subtle. The nonweed items and services for “sale” on Leafedin—to go along with your “gift” of marijuana— include fresh juice, baseball hats, a tea service, and even a consultation about the best strain of pot for you.

For the uninitiated, sites like Leafedin, wheresweed.com, and Craigslist connect you with a dealer, or “vendor,” who then provides a menu via their interface, their website, or text message. Typically, this menu does not show what is actually for sale, but a list of cannabis offerings that will be your free gift with purchase. Among the available gifts are marijuana flowers (dried pot buds), edibles (candies, cookies, assorted confections made with cannabis) or what are known as concentrates, which cover a whole range of extracted marijuana products from tinctures that can be put under your tongue to oils and waxes that can be vaporized. Once you’ve made your selection, you then arrange a delivery time.

Khainson, who lives in California and launched Leafedin a little over a year ago, did it to make the buyer-seller transaction easier. “I saw D.C. as the amplification of exactly what a gray market is and all the problems

facing marijuana players with legalization,” he says.

If one of those problems was scoring weed in the District, box checked. Khainson claims that Leafedin has between 5,000 and 7,500 user profiles, and enjoyed a 130 percent increase in pageviews during the first ten days of June compared to the first ten days of May. Khainson says he is purposefully vague about his statistics in order to “protect the privacy of the Leafedin community,” but his point is that his site is growing like the recreational pot business in D.C.: very fast.

The underground market is now big enough to attract bloggers who curate and review D.C.’s burgeoning weed scene. One of them, Joe Tierney, started the gentlemantoker.com to help Washingtonians navigate the crush of new products and local delivery services. It didn’t take him long to learn what people really wanted. “My event reviews get clicks, my product reviews get clicks,” he says. “But my delivery reviews get tons of clicks.”

ly, truly wonderful time,” says a manager at a delivery service called Canamelo, who also did not want to be identified because of legal worries. “I can’t always keep up with demand.

We increase our bandwidth on a consistent basis. This [market] is a huge pie. Everyone can get a slice.”

Given the growing appetite reflected on sites like Leafedin, which spiked recently during the height of tourist season, it’s fair to wonder where all the pot is coming from. According to District law, residents can grow up to six plants each, but only three of them can be mature at any given time.

“The majority of it [marijuana] is not coming from here,” says Tierney. “You can’t farm in a small city. Where you can farm is California.”

MPD has no illusions about out-of-state weed flowing into the District. “It’s a tremendous amount,” says Struhar, who describes a recent MPD effort with the U.S. Postal Service where more than 100 pounds were seized in a single day. “If you look at us having to eradicate all of Adam Eidinger

“Cannabis is out in the open in a way that’s changing the culture.”

Because it’s underground, D.C.’s recreational cannabis market is hard to quantify, but anecdotal evidence is pretty consistent. “Quite frankly most of our deliveries are in Northwest, Columbia Heights, some parts of Capitol Hill,” says a representative from a delivery service called Dadogooders who didn’t want to be identified for fear of legal repercussions. “Our demo falls between 25 to 50 years old, mostly professionals, tech savvy, Millennials, a lot of executives. The profile out there is crazy— doctors, attorneys, Congressmen—it spans the whole range. Typically, it would be a collegeeducated white guy.”

And business is brisk. “It’s wonderful, a tru-

this,” he says, “your head would explode.”

In addition to the delivery services, there’s the “Green Light District,” or the 18th Street NW commercial corridor in Adams Morgan, home to a selection of head shops and a home grow equipment supplier. “There are a ton of head shops that have opened in the city and most are not distributing cannabis, but some are,” says Eidinger, who is a part-owner of one, Capitol Hemp, which he says does not offer marijuana in any form. A manager of one that does, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of getting hassled by police, says he believes he is compliant with Initiative 71 in offering a free gram of marijuana with certain

paraphernalia sales.

Another byproduct of the District’s newfound freedom are marijuana pop-ups, or gatherings at private residences promoted over social media where cannabis buyers and sellers come together. Sometimes there’s a cover charge that comes with “free” pot, but other times there are cash-for-pot transactions on the sly.

So is all this legal?

The simple answer is no, says MPD in a statement provided by Bowser spokesperson LaToya Foster: “The idea of buying juice or a piece of art and receiving marijuana as a ‘gift’ is not legal. Also paying a third party, i.e. party host/event planner, for entrance into a function and receiving marijuana is not legal.

The delivery services are inherently illegal because they are being paid to deliver marijuana, which is an illegal distribution.”

And yet enforcement has been arguably light. “When there’s been a crackdown,” says the guy from Canamelo, “it’s been on people who’ve been too public. Anytime you’re standing still and trying to advertise, that’s when the heat comes. You gotta stay mobile.”

For the D.C. Council—who would be taxing and regulating recreational marijuana right now if not for the Harris rider—there is much teeth gnashing while waiting.

“You can’t have a drug sold without regulation,” says D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. “We regulate the sale of alcohol. We regulate the sale of tobacco. We can’t do anything with regard to marijuana. And so we have this ad hoc confusing situation where people are buying something like a flower vase for $50 or $75 as a way of pretending to get marijuana for free.”

And this is where the bashing of Maryland Congressman Andy Harris usually begins.

His detractors—most everyone involved in the District’s legalization efforts—say his rider preventing D.C. from spending money is at best spiteful and at worst responsible for the rise of the District’s underground delivery market.

“Let’s be serious. D.C. made recreational marijuana legal,” says Harris. “To claim somehow that my rider made marijuana easier to get is blatantly ridiculous on the surface.”

As for the idea that he crafted the rider to somehow stick it to the District, Harris, who is a medical doctor and has recently sponsored a medical marijuana research bill in the House, says it’s not personal. “This has nothing to do with D.C. other than that’s where Congress has jurisdiction,” he says. “It [the rider] was to send a message that there are people who believe recreational marijuana is not good for D.C.” Eidinger, who runs hot when the subject of Harris comes up, isn’t buying it. “Politicians who are like ‘I’m okay with medical but not legalization’ are actually prohibitionists,” he says. “That’s why Andy Harris has a medical marijuana research bill, so he can say he’s for medical marijuana. But it’s just to cover his butt. It’s a delay tactic.”

Asked if there are any circumstances under which he would consider pulling the rider, Harris says: “No, unless somehow the entire

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medical and drug abuse community reverses course and says recreational marijuana is good for this country. I don’t think that’s ever going to happen.” whAt will hAppen, inevitably, is national marijuana legalization—unless it doesn’t.

Meanwhile, the federal government has the power to crack down on any business that grows, sells, or distributes cannabis, even if it’s legal under state or District law. This federal cudgel hovers over every legalization effort in the country, but is especially ominous in the District because that’s where the federal government lives and breathes the increasingly weed-filled air.

“It [cannabis] is ubiquitously smoked by young people and increasingly by people well above them in age, so I don’t think you can keep a substance that widely used under the wraps of illegality for much longer,” says D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who doubts the Republicans who control Congress will elevate the issue.

Norton recently put in a draft amendment to remove the Harris rider anyway. She couldn’t say if her amendment would be made in order, or introduced, but “that’s all I can do,” she says.

What Norton has already done is ensured that the District’s 2014 vote for legalization survived Congressional approval in the first place. The explanation of how it happened is slow torture, but basically Norton found a flaw in Harris’ rider that had to do with the word “enact” versus “carry out,” and voila, Initiative 71 became law because it had already been certified in the District.

However, D.C. can do nothing further with legalization, including collect tax revenue from a marijuana market estimated at $130 million a year, according to a 2013 analysis by the D.C.’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer.

Looking forward, there are only so many procedural rabbits to be pulled from hats. The real problem on Capitol Hill, according to some, is age. “There’s a huge generation gap in Congress,” says Aaron Houston, a longtime marijuana lobbyist who works with DCMJ. “Imagine being the guy who has to tell Senator so-and-so what a bong is or what dabs are.

You just don’t want to be that staffer who betrays that you have this knowledge about how to use drugs.”

And yet the Senate is where Houston and DCMJ will be focusing their fire going forward.

“The Senate has seemed to be more sensible on this than the House has been in the past,” says Houston, who cryptically noted that the appropriations process on the Senate side offers more “wiggle room.”

Eidinger and Schiller intend to keep the heat on by stoking public sentiment. Now that they’ve achieved a form of legalization in the District, they’ve got eyes on a bigger prize: nationwide legalization. “We want people to be able to use cannabis responsibly anywhere you can smoke a cigarette,” says Schiller.

One of their many plans is to find a way to use the District’s legalization law to challenge

federal marijuana prohibition. “In a way, D.C. is the only federally approved marijuana legalization law in the country,” explains Eidinger.

“We’re a federal enclave so Home Rule gives us a right to write ballot initiatives. Congress, through the Home Rule Act, has the right to reject legislation from D.C.” Because Congress didn’t reject the District’s legalization law when it came through in 2014, Eidinger believes there’s an opening to use that to somehow challenge federal drug laws. “I’m ready to go to the Supreme Court,” he says.

While the chess match on Capitol Hill plays out, there are issues in the District related to legalization that are starting to fester. One is the inequity that legalization created in terms of consumption. Meaning: If you’re not allowed to consume marijuana in your home because, say, you live in federally funded housing or your landlord frowns upon it, you must go outdoors, where you risk arrest. And those public smoking arrests are on the rise again in D.C., nearly tripling between 2015 and 2016 to more than 400 people, according to MPD figures obtained by The Washington Post.

“There’s a disproportionately large number of African-Americans who feel aggrieved about how this thing [marijuana law] has been enforced over time,” says Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray.

But it was the D.C. Council, which didn’t include Gray at the time, that voted to strengthen the so-called “private club ban” in 2015, re-

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moving a potential option for those who could not consume cannabis in their homes—a situation more prevalent in poorer communities.

“My sense is that [private club] issue is overstated,” says Mendelson. “I didn’t hear of that being an issue in poor communities until we legalized pot.”

But the issue keeps bubbling to the surface regardless. “People show up to our [DCMJ] meetings from Wards 7 and 8,” says Eidinger. “And the number one thing we’re hearing is: ‘I got nowhere to smoke and I’m feeling blackmailed by my landlord who tells me if I complain about anything … I’m going to turn around and get evicted.’”

Because advocates framed the need for Initiative 71 partially in social justice terms, its failure in aspects like the public smoking issue has led some in the drug prevention community to question this gap.

“There was no push by the proponents, including the Council, including the Mayor, to reduce the sentences of African-American males for selling the same amount that is now legal to give away,” says Ambrose Lane, Jr., who chairs the Health Alliance Network and sits on the D.C. Commission for Health Equity.

“So I don’t buy the social justice argument.”

Now that Initiative 71 is law—but also restricted—Mayor Bowser could address criminal justice issues the law did not. She could also, as some suggest, simply move forward on taxing and regulating recreational cannabis in defiance of Congress, risking prosecution un-

der something called the Antideficiency Act, which prevents the spending of unauthorized federal funds.

It was, after all, Mayor Muriel Bowser who stared down Congress in 2015 when Initiative 71 went into effect, following through with implementing the law even after Rep. Jason Chaffetz, then-chairman of the House Oversight Committee, threatened to have her arrested.

For this, Eidinger calls Bowser the “cannabis warrior queen of Washington,” then adds: “She really did something right [in 2015] and if she forgets that, she won’t get re-elected.”

Bowser says she is committed to continuing the fight to have the Harris rider removed, though she did not explain how beyond lobbying on the Hill. Her spokesperson adds: “AntiD.C. riders do not help us improve our neighborhoods or strengthen our schools. Instead, they are usually designed to unreasonably influence the lives and choices of Washingtonians and overturn the will of D.C. Voters.”

As the only people who can legally sell marijuana in D.C., you’d think the District’s medical dispensary owners and licensed growers would be a happier lot. Many are not, and their animus is reserved for pretty much one entity: D.C.’s Department of Health.

“Unfortunately, we have a Department of Health that has largely stood in the way of the development of the medical cannabis market in D.C.,” says Corey Barnette, co-owner of Metropolitan Wellness Center in Capitol

Hill and and owner of District Growers. “The harmful side effects of their tactics has led to a competitive illicit market that is booming without regulatory control, doesn’t pay taxes to help fund the development of the city, and largely operates in the shadows, which at times can be unsafe.”

It’s not surprising when an industry has a beef with its regulators, but the litany of complaints coming from the District’s medical cannabis providers is long, detailed, and remarkably consistent. It’s also not unusual to see an industry publicly going after its regulators when it’s not doing well, which appears to be the case with D.C.’s medical marijuana providers.

Patient registrations are down 30 percent at Metropolitan Wellness Center from a high water mark of 1,400 patients. Herbal Alternatives near Dupont Circle has only 551 of the 5,372 total patients in the medical program as of August 1, according DOH’s Medical Marijuana and Integrative Therapy Division. However,

some dispensaries like Takoma Wellness Center and National Holistic Healing Center, also in Dupont Circle, report slow, steady membership gains.

“We’re cash-flow positive, but we have a huge debt hole that we’re digging ourselves out of,” says Matt Lawson-Baker of Alternative Solutions, a licensed cultivator. “Last year it was month-to-month, just hoping to survive.”

So while some dispensaries and growers are doing better than others, it’s clear that none of them are as elated as their unregulated counterparts, a reason why they might be pushing so hard for regulatory relief.

“My charge is to operate a medical marijuana program,” says Nesbitt, the director of D.C.’s DOH. “I understand a lot of people would like purchase recreational marijuana, but that is an issue I am powerless to advance.

You cannot go to a doctor for the express purposes of just getting marijuana.”

Nesbitt cites her accomplishments with the

program, among them the rule change from two to four ounces a month per patient and the establishment of the Medical Marijuana and Integrative Therapy Division, a five-person unit within D.C.’s Department of Health dedicated to regulating the medical marijuana industry. As of July, a new program manager, Arian Gibson, was running MMIT. He most recently worked for the D.C. DOH as a food technologist and enforcement officer. One of Gibson’s first actions upon taking the job was to cease sending the District’s dispensaries a monthly letter informing them how many patients each had gained or lost in the prior month.

Councilmember Gray, who chairs the D.C. Council’s Committee on Health, says he’s planning an oversight hearing on medical marijuana this fall. “I will want to hear from Dr. Nesbitt and her staff,” says Gray. “Given that this is still a relatively new program, I’m not sure I would react negatively to her efforts to run it as rigorously as she possibly can.”

Gray is also interested in hearing from the medical marijuana providers. “If they feel they’ve been over-regulated, tell me why,” he says. “There’s got to be a middle ground in there somewhere, and I’m not sure we’ve hit it.”

Chief among the complaints Gray will hear is one dispensary owners have had since they first began opening in 2013: It’s too hard to get a medical cannabis card in the District (which this reporter has done). Despite a five-person staff at MMIT, it typically takes four-to-six weeks or more to get a card. The application process is on paper, can require up to two doctor recommendations, and costs patients $100 unless they can prove a certain low income level.

“The number of individuals who have complained about not receiving cards has decreased and we have received some positive feedback from dispensary owners,” says Nesbitt, who adds that the expeditors used by many dispensaries for the application process slow it down because they often file incomplete forms.

Three dispensary owners with whom City Paper spoke strongly disagreed. “We basically have to white glove the whole [registration] process,” says Michael Cuthriell, president and part-owner of Metropolitan Wellness Center. “I speak for every dispensary in saying we are all doing a lot, if not everything, to get enrollments.”

Beyond registrations, complaints include the lack of an integrated electronic system linking the dispensaries and DOH, the slow pace of implementing reciprocity with outof-state medical marijuana programs, and the general hesitancy of District physicians to prescribe marijuana.

“Physicians in Washington, D.C. are not recommending cannabis treatment, period,” says Chanda Macias, owner of National Holistic Healing Center in Dupont, who has a doctorate in cell biology and did cancer research.

“It’s because they don’t know about drug-drug interactions or they’re uncomfortable recommending it while working in a federally funded hospital.”

The common thread to the consternation appears to be business, as in there’s not enough of it. Operators in the medical cannabis program cannot compete with the underground market and feel constrained by onerous rules and the challenges of working within a legal, regulated system.

As in the case of a rocky marriage, better communication might help. “I think they [DOH] have everything in the works,” says Lawson-Baker. “It’s just how it’s gonna be done and when it’s gonna be done and no one knows.

We’re meant to have quarterly meetings with DOH, but we’re lucky if we get two a year.”

Managing expectations alone won’t solve the District’s marijuana issues, which always seem to return to the Harris rider and the underground market it appears to insulate. To get around the problem Eidinger offers a, well, Eidinger-like perspective. “Why do we even need the medical program?” he asks. “It’s bullshit in some ways that businesses have to go through a rigmarole to get a hold of cannabis. I think home growers should be able to sell at farmers markets and see it where it goes.”

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Hearts Of Romaine The search for the perfect Caesar salad

By Jeffrey Anderson Few AmericAn restAurAnt classics are as easy to find on a menu now as they were in the 1950s, but if one item remains, it’s the Caesar salad.

For some, the harmonious blend of garlic, salt, pepper, anchovy, mustard, egg, lemon, and parmesan cheese, tossed with crisp stalks of romaine lettuce and hand-torn, toasted croutons, and more parmesan cheese, is the holy grail of salads.

It’s the salad that precedes steakhouse dinners and plates of fragrant grilled fish alike. A steaming bowl of spaghetti and meatballs will taste better if a Caesar comes first.

Purists close their eyes and ponder: “Is this Caesar that I am eating right now the genuine article, the real thing, the Platonic ideal?”

Like many enigmas, the Caesar is the salad that has been reinterpreted and bastardized so many times that the casual or incurious diner can be forgiven for not even knowing—or caring—what the real thing tastes like. It’s often the thing you order reflexively when you don’t know what else to choose.

Therein lies the problem. By surviving for close to a century, the Caesar has become at once ubiquitous and fleeting. It’s the timeless classic that is everywhere, yet hard to find. It rarely evokes the original, the salad that made you swear you’d never love another.

Caesar Cardini could not have foreseen what a contribution he was making to civilized dining. All he had was a food joint—one where he could sell booze—a thriving customer base, and an idea for an appetizer.

The mystery of the Caesar does not fit into one definitive narrative. A leading version is that Cardini, an Italian chef who cooked French cuisine, immigrated to the States around 1910 and migrated to San Diego, where he opened a restaurant. Then he opened a second one in Tijuana, Mexico, where he could avoid prohibition, and called it Caesar’s.

Tijuana at the time attracted Hollywood luminaries such as Charlie Chaplin and Jean Harlow, who were drawn to the drinking and gambling culture that Los Angeles Times called “Vegas before Vegas was Vegas,” according to an annotated history published in Food &

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Wine this past June.

In 1924, the story goes, Cardini was running out of food to serve all the Americans who had flooded over the border on the Fourth of July when, whether by inspiration or desperation, he conjured up a dish that consisted of what he had on hand: stalks of lettuce, olive oil, raw egg, croutons, parmesan cheese, and Worcestershire sauce. The resulting creation was served not as a salad but as finger food, and it was prepared tableside.

This origin story is from Cardini’s daughter, Rosa Maria Cardini, but it’s not the only version. At least three other versions of the story exist, one of them in a book devoted entirely to the topic: In Search of the Caesar: The Ultimate Caesar Salad Book by Terry D. Greenfield.

Later Cardini’s Tijuana restaurant became a tourist attraction, and in the mid-1920s Julia Child came with her family to have lunch. In From Julia Child’s Kitchen she describes Cardini rolling a cart to the table and tossing the romaine lettuce stalks in a wooden bowl and serving it tableside to the delight of his guests.

In 1938, Cardini moved to Los Angeles and opened a gourmet food store where he bottled the dressing, and in 1948 he patented the recipe, according to Food & Wine. In 1953, the International Society of Epicure in Paris named the Caesar salad “the greatest recipe to originate in the Americas in the last half century.”

Fast forward more than 50 years and Caesar salad has become etched in the international food canon as a theatrical invention rooted in elegance.

So what is the definitive version? A 2013 recipe in Bon Appétit is a good start. First, the dressing: Chop together anchovy fillets, garlic, and a pinch of salt. Mash it into a paste, then scrape it into a bowl. (Purists insist on a garlic-rubbed, wooden bowl.) Whisk in egg yolks, lemon juice, and Dijon mustard. Drizzle in olive oil, whisking gradually, then vegetable oil, and then parmesan. Season the salad with with salt and pepper.

Croutons should be hand-torn for texture and remain crispy on the outside and chewy in the center. The romaine lettuce should be served as whole leaves.

Toss by hand and top with shaved parmesan.

Variations call for Worcestershire sauce in the dressing or garlic rubbed croutons. Abominations such as chicken and salmon are not worthy of discussion.

While Caesar lovers may disagree on many aspects, there is near unanimity that the Caesar served tableside is the best Caesar. Though while sampling seven salads across the D.C. dining scene, none employed the theatrical presentation, despite chefs, servers, and bartenders agreeing it’s the best method.

“It emphasizes the freshness,” says Bob Gilbert, who works the side counter at Tadich Grill. The San Francisco import serves a lemony Caesar topped with baby croutons and anchovy filets. At The Riggsby, a lesser version

ked crostini prompts a companion to observe: “I was hoping for garlic on that [crouton]. That would have been nice.”

Alas, higher-end restaurants seem to approximate the real thing. All-Purpose Pizzeria boldly substitutes Little Gem lettuce for romaine to good effect, as it stays crisper. The dressing is rich and zesty with a hint of anchovy. But in place of croutons the salad is tossed with breadcrumbs, giving it a texture a companion describes as “sandy.”

Mike Friedman, chef-owner of the Shaw pizzeria, agrees it’s hard to find a good Caesar. “If you’re going to make anything really well, it’s going to demand a lot of attention and respect,” Friedman says. “If you have an average Caesar, it probably didn’t have as much attention to detail … For me, a great Caesar is balanced with really crisp lettuces, lots of parmesan, garlic, anchovy, and a toasted note from bread.”

Caesar salad at BLT Steak comes with bland boquerones and thin shards of crisped bread.

Chef Spike Mendelsohn owns We, The Pizza, where he serves a Caesar based on a family recipe, using capers for extra brininess, a tad more Dijon mustard for zestiness, and bacon crumbles. While the quick service restaurant can’t accommodate tableside service, Mendelsohn would like to resurrect the tradition elsewhere.

“I think it needs to come back in a big way,” he says. “Everyone’s tired of tableside guacamole. It’s a one-trick pony. Let’s bring the tableside Caesar back.”

As it stands, any quest for the perfect Caesar seems futile. The dressing often is too bland, or the croutons are ignored or neglected, or the romaine is chopped too small, allowing it to get mushy. At La Tomate, the dressing is heavy on the parmesan and plenty garlicky, though a na-

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He continues, “Garlic is a necessity. I believe in real anchovies, not paste. I don’t believe in laying on top, as the texture changes. I’m looking for that flavor throughout the salad itself.”

The best Caesar sampled was the $14 version at BLT Steak, which arrives with some romaine leaves large enough to eat with your hands. It boasts classic texture and flavor, leaving no doubt as to whether real anchovies are in the dressing. It, too, incorporates breadcrumbs and leans on crostini instead of croutons.

On a recent Friday, longtime D.C. bartender José Cox was serving drinks at BLT Steak.

He’s from Oaxaca, Mexico, and knows his history. “You know where it comes from, don’t you?” he asks, a touch of excitement in his voice. Of course.

He says people in Mexico are enjoying the salad to this day. “Everyone loves the Caesar.”

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This town is home to an abundance of Philadelphia expats, myself included. You’ll find us cheering for the Phillies whenever they play the Nats, babbling non-stop about Wawa, and humming the Rocky theme song as football season draws near. But at least we’re good for one thing—helping District denizens find their way to the best cheesesteaks in town. After tasting five iterations of our signature sandwich in D.C. proper, I ranked them from best to worst. None use bonafide cheese whiz, unfortunately, but at least these locales don’t load their subs up with unconscionable cold toppings like lettuce, tomato, and raw onion.

—Laura Hayes Epic Philly Steaks 1792 Columbia Road NW Price: Half sandwich for $7.95 Ingredients: Steak, mushrooms, grilled onions, green peppers, provolone cheese Bread: 5 Meat: 5 Cheese: 5 Overall impression: 5 When you break this near perfect specimen in two, strings of cheese tether one half to the other, signifying the provolone is expertly melted. The meat-to-veggie-to-bread ratios are ideal and the bread is soft and shiny.

Most importantly, it doesn’t fall apart because the cheesesteak isn’t wet with grease.

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Bub & Pops 1815 M St. NW Price: Half sandwich for $10 Ingredients: Steak, aged provolone, fried onions, house-made special sauce Bread: 3 Meat: 5 Cheese: 5 Overall impression: 5 This is the most flavorful sandwich in

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UnderServed The best cocktail you’re not ordering

What: La Sirena Segreta, with Spring 44 Gin, Don Ciccio & Figli Finocchietto, Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur, lemon juice, and Prosecco Where: Rosario, 2435 18 St. NW; (202) 899-5794; rosariodc.com Price: $12 What You Should Be Drinking: You won’t find fins or a tail in this cocktail named for

the bunch, thanks in part to the high quality cheese and the house-made sauce that tastes like thousand island dressing. It also helps that Chef Jon Taub is from Philly and knows his way around cheesesteaks and hoagies. The only weak point is the bread, which the juicy steak quickly makes soggy.

Capriotti’s Multiple Locations Price: 9” sandwich for $8.99 Ingredients: Grilled USDA choice steak, melted white American cheese, fried onions, hot or sweet peppers Bread: 4 Meat: 4 Cheese: 3 Overall impression: 4 Bread as pillowy as the Pillsbury Doughboy’s belly makes this sandwich stand out, which is a good thing given that Capriotti’s was founded 30 miles away from Philadelphia, in Wilmington, Del. The steak is flavorful, but a little more cheese would go a long way.

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the mythological sea creature, just a splash of Finocchietto, the fennel liqueur created by local craft distiller Francesco Amodeo of Don Ciccio & Figli. Rosario general manager and beverage director Bob Wagner shakes the Finocchietto with Spring 44 Gin, Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur, and lemon juice. The drink is built in a wine glass over ice, topped with Prosecco and garnished with a fennel frond.

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Why You Should Be Drinking It: Rosario’s aperitivo menu

what we ate this week: Crispy squash blossoms with tomato, feta, and corn, $15, Kapnos. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: rutabaga pierogi with lamb bacon, rutabaga sauerkraut, and hard cider, $14, District Winery.

Excitement level: 5 out of 5.

George’s King of Falafel and Cheesesteak 1205 28th St. NW Price: 8” sandwich for $7.95 Ingredients: Grilled shaved ribeye steak, cheese, green peppers, jalapenos, mushrooms Bread: 2 Meat: 4 Cheese: 4 Overall impression: 3 The most curious thing about this cheesesteak is the bread, which is flattened as thin as a saltine cracker. This presents a problem because it’s not strong enough to hold the plentiful portion of shaved ribeye. The bread lays flat, almost like a plate, requiring you to eat the meat with a fork. Only the salty and tangy cheese saves the sandwich.

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Taylor Gourmet Multiple locations Price: Half sandwich for $9.99 Ingredients: Beef ribeye, American or sweet Provolone cheese, grilled onions or mushrooms Bread: 1 Meat: 3 Cheese: 2 Overall impression: 2 Taylor Gourmet, from Philadelphia native Casey Patten, gets a lot right, from their risotto balls to sumptuous chicken cutlet sandwiches, but the cheesesteak is a miss. The bread is so soaked with juice you could ring it out like a sponge and the meat is cut into unsavory clumps. The cheese is hard to find, which allows the flavor of the slippery onions to dominate.

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runs 12 selections deep. But many people think an iconic Italian spritz enjoyed during that oh-so-civilized pre-dinner hour has to start with a bitter red Italian spirit like Campari. False. This sip is equally crisp and refreshing, yet it focuses on less expected flavors. The strong taste of the anise-flavored liqueur matches the crisp and juniperforward Colorado gin, and Barrow’s bite—it’s called “intense” for a reason— gets the juices flowing for dinner (or an antipasto plate to stave off hunger pangs until your table is ready.) Allora, just dive in.

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The Dish: Gujarati Lasagne Where to Get It: Rasika West End Price: $18 What It Is: Gujarati lasagne is an Indian take on the traditional baked pasta dish from Italy. Instead of long, flat noodles, Chef Vikram Sunderam uses khandvi—thin rolls made of gram flour, buttermilk, and turmeric, among other ingredients. Khandvi is a traditional snack in Gujarat, a state in western India. For the lasagne filling, he folds in eggplant and zucchini, cooked in a sauce of tomatoes, coriander, fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds, ginger, and other spices. Think of the filling as ratatouille with Indian seasonings. Chopped peanuts add texture and earthiness. The lasagne is cut into rounds for serving and topped with an Indian gravy called khadi that is made with chickpea flour, yogurt, and mustard seeds, poured tableside. Rice is offered on the side, which can be mixed in with the lasagne and the sauce. The flavors are bold and spicy, and the khadi is warm, creamy, and comforting.

The Story: In 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to D.C. The State Department consulted with Sunderam to develop an innovative Indo-American tasting menu before hosting Modi. Noting that lasagne has become as American as it is Italian, this is one of the most popular dishes that chef created, which is why it is still available on the Rasika West End menu. Sunderam included classic Gujarati ingredients, such as khandvi and peanuts, because the prime minister is from Gujarat.

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: This dish sells itself before you even taste it.

The lasagne glistens like a crown on the plate and swims in a pool of fragrant gravy. The warm, earthy flavors, the crunchy and creamy textures, and the delicious aromas of Indian spices will take over your senses until you finish every last bite.

—Priya Konings

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Change of Strength

Over the past four years, Pure Disgust helped create a new wave of D.C. hardcore.

Now they’re moving on.

By Dan Trombly

Pure dIsgust formed durIng a creative boom for the D.C. punk scene. In the years before 2013, when Pure Disgust recorded their demo, a conversation about local punk and hardcore with an average outsider fan was likely to end up with a historical discussion about Fugazi. But as members of the early and mid-aughts D.C. hardcore community began reconstituting the DIY infrastructure and mentoring a new generation, a genuinely new scene asserted itself.

“There was a really big lull in D.C. in 2010 and 2011… then in 2012, all these young kids showed up,” says Ambrose Nzams, a music writer and lifelong D.C. hardcore devotee. Among those young kids were bassist Daniel Peña, guitarist Brendan Reichardt, singer Rob Watson, and drummer Robin Zeijlon, alongside many other core members of the current local hardcore scene. With the addition of Mendoza and Connor Donegan (who drummed on the demo and in some of the band’s early shows), who moved to D.C. from Cary, North Carolina, Pure Disgust—along with sibling bands Protester and Red Death— quickly made a name for themselves. “They started doing bands they wanted to tour with,” Nzams says. “It wasn’t just a weekend hobby, they started taking things a little more seriously.”

In the beginning Zeijlon says the band “had no expectations and just wanted to be in a band together.” But when they re-

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In the world of hardcore punk, where bands tear through explosively short sets in cramped bars and dingy basements, it’s hard for a band to create a legacy for itself. And when it does, it’s usually long after the band has called it quits.

The lucky ones will get the chance to play at some of the scene’s most notable festivals, like D.C.’s Damaged City Fest or Toronto’s Not Dead Yet. Most will flicker out after a few years— its members moving on to start something new—leaving behind a handful of notable demos and 7-inch records. But when D.C.’s Pure Disgust officially disband after their final show on Saturday night, they won’t have to wait to see what kind of legacy—if any—they’ll have left behind. It’s already there.

In four years, Pure Disgust have distinguished themselves not just by playing all over the U.S., on stages both massive and non-existent, but by how they’ve shaped D.C.’s hardcore scene.

Of course, when asked about the band’s proudest moment, guitarist Ace Mendoza doesn’t hesitate: “playing the same fest as Solange and SZA” at last weekend’s Afropunk Festival in Brooklyn, he says.

It’s a level of recognition outside the DIY hardcore scene that even the most acclaimed new bands only infrequently attain.

While mainstream exposure was hardly Pure Disgust’s objective, it speaks volumes to their talent and dedication—one that they achieved working for the fans they cared for the most.

leased their 2013 demo, it was met with an “overwhelming response.” Blending classic hardcore sounds with the gruff melodies and stomping aggression of Oi!, Pure Disgust picked up on the sounds of ’80s hardcore bands like Life’s Blood or the early 2000s D.C. act 86 Mentality. Far from a simple genre worship project, Pure Disgust added an instrumental and lyrical intensity that was uniquely their own.

At underground venues and gigs, Pure Disgust quickly es-

tablished a reputation for intense, physical live performances.

Watson’s unambiguous and unflinching lyrics about his life experiences, laying out searing indictments of the systemic discrimination and arbitrary violence he and other people of color face on a routine basis, made Pure Disgust one of hardcore’s premier acts.

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CPArts ranging from zine-of-record Maximum Rocknroll to NPR, praises not only the band’s flawless execution of the sounds of classic Oi!-influenced hardcore, but its lyrics that don’t deal in the “vague concepts of brotherhood and unity.” Instead, Watson and Pure Disgust directly address issues like the school-to-prison pipeline and police brutality. “You can mosh to the song,” Skeiky says, “but you better care about what it’s about.”

While Pure Disgust would hardly claim they were the first band to present this potent blend of musical and lyrical fury, their message found an eager audience from within and without the D.C. hardcore community. As a relatively younger band with several musicians of color, Pure Disgust did not just speak to the issues they cared about, but made participation in the scene feel more accessible. “Seeing people three to four years ago first attending shows and now starting their own bands, booking shows, touring, and spreading a message is exciting and motivating in itself,” Mendoza says. “We hope that our existence has inspired someone to become a little more proactive in their own ways.”

Pure dIsgust’s ImPact on the newer generations of punks extends far beyond their DMV roots. Nzams, who joined the band as a roadie on their 2015 West Coast tour, remembers young fans approaching the band to say things like “‘seeing you guys do that made me think I can do a band,’” and “‘your band means everything to me.’” It’s inspiring for the band’s high school- and college-aged fans, according to Skeiky: “‘not only do the people on stage look like me and they’re talking to things important to me, but they’re so close to my age,’” she says of their young fans. “It’s easy to feel like you can do this too.”

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Among the countless enthralled young fans and impressed scene veterans, Pure Disgust also caught the eye of tastemaking New York punk label Katorga Works, who released their 2015 EP Chained and their 2016 self-titled LP. Its record—clocking in at less than 20 minutes—was easily one of last year’s best hardcore albums.

So why stop at the height of their popularity and success? “I think we all realized we weren’t going to write something better than the LP,” Zeijlon says. Even with international accolades from the likes of Rolling Stone and NPR for their breakout record, the band resolved to bring their thunderous four-year run to an end. “We had our eyes set on ending, it just so happened that it aligned with people moving away as well,” Watson says.

Earlier this summer, Watson moved to Orange County, California to pursue career opportunities with his girlfriend. And soon, Reichardt will relocate to Austin, Texas. “Everyone’s grown up since the early days of the band,” Mendoza says, “so it’s only natural for us to move on as people from it.”

Between their impressive album and 2016 tour with the breakout trans-feminist hardcore act G.L.O.S.S. (who also recently broke up), it was clear that Pure Disgust had succeeded— not just as a hardcore band, but as a standard bearer for the D.C. scene. Through relentless touring and the cross-coastal connections that helped bring about their later recorded work, Pure Disgust and other widely-acclaimed new D.C. hardcore bands (or, the New Wave of D.C. Hardcore—NWODCHC, for short) did far more than make a name for themselves: They strengthened the national and international ties that helped cross-pollinate local hardcore scenes and keep them vibrant.

By stoking the interest of DIY record distributors and encouraging out-of-town bands to play shows in D.C.—a city that’s not a guaranteed stop for East Coast punk bands—Pure Disgust helped to remind the world that D.C. was, and still is, a hotbed for hardcore punk. “They were figureheads of the scene,” Nzams argues. “A lot of people’s views of D.C. [hadcore] had to do with Pure Disgust.”

As for what kind of legacy Pure Disgust leaves behind? One doesn’t have to look further than the lineup for its final show on Saturday at Rock & Roll Hotel. Los Angeles’ Blazing Eye and Boston’s Exit Order are traveling to D.C. to perform—a testament to the friendships Pure Disgust have cultivated with likeminded musicians across the country. Also on the lineup are the seminal NWODCHC band Protester, who share members with Pure Disgust, and the new local hardcore band making waves, Rashōmon.

After Saturday, Pure Disgust will be no more, but the members will more than make up for that loss in new or ongoing projects. Looking at the bands that members of Pure Disgust are involved in—Red Death, Protester, Kombat, Closet Christ, Line of Sight, Diaspora, and Witchtrial, among others—speaks to the talent and prolificness of the musicians that make up the, er, hard core of D.C. hardcore. It’s a massive musical family tree that extends far beyond the DMV and will keep spreading as long as there are people around to listen. That is the true legacy of Pure Disgust and the D.C. hardcore scene they helped spawn over the last four years.

And as for Watson? “I don’t plan on being super active [in California],” he says. “But I may join a band or two.”

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Arts Desk

The Scene RepoRT

In this week’s edition of The Scene Report, we open up the pit and take a look at some of the best new releases in the world of D.C. hardcore.

—Dan Trombly Iron Cages, Three Steps to Break Free from the Iron Cage Self-released Flouting hardcore demo tradition, the track with “Intro” in the name doesn’t lead off Iron Cages’ new three-song cassette. While the band has no trouble building the tension and release of that genre staple, lead track “Days Are Numbered” spends just 10 seconds ramping up before plunging into what Three Steps is really all about: pummelling drums, scorching vocals, and meaty guitar at maximum velocity. It doesn’t need much in the way of subgenre triangulation—it’s speed and intensity that’s really just hardcore in its essential form.

RIYL: Punch, fastcore/thrashcore (if you must have a subgenre name-drop), moshing

emotive turns of mid-’80s hardcore.

RIYL: Articles of Faith, Cro-Mags, The Offenders, melodic/emotional hardcore without the genre baggage Witchtrial, Demo 2017 Self-released Witchtrial play a stomping style of metal apt to please longhaired headbangers, hardcore punks, and everyone in between. Featuring a dream team lineup with members hailing from D.C.’s Red Death and Genocide Pact alongside New York’s Ajax and Boston’s Firewalk-

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er, the demo recalls the best moments of the first black metal records and British punk/metal crossover acts. With a combination of demonic vocals, instantly-memorable riffs, and an impressive rhythm section that sounds dangerous at any speed, Witchtrial likely has something to please even the most sectarian subgenre adherent from the punk and metal worlds.

RIYL: Venom, early Bathory, English Dogs, Amebix, throwing up the horns unironically Rashōmon, Demo 2017 Self-released Rashōmon released their demo in early February when they played their first shows, but it’s taken a bit for people to get hip. The superb musicianship and

lacerating delivery from vocalist Kohei Urakami make Rashōmon’s debut seem like some lost gem from the annals of Japanese hardcore recordings whose sale on Discogs are the closest thing punk offers to a retirement savings plan. The 7-inch reissue does justice to the demo’s tightly-produced recording, from the thundering drums of the intro to the swaggering guitar groove on “死体症候群 (Corpse Syndrome).”

Rashōmon ably execute the genre’s traditional d-beat stylings while leaving room for almost psychedelic flourishes, portending well for their upcoming LP. RIYL: Japanese hardcore bands like L.S.D. and Gauze, studs and sunglasses

Kombat, In Death We Are All The Same Self-released Building on two cassettes and an impressive run of chaotic, lightning-fast sets, Kombat’s new 7-inch delivers just under nine minutes of caustic outsider hardcore. Kombat deliver their grim, alienated lyrics with bile-flecked howls, matched by a guitar that’s not so much drenched as immolated by effects pedals, providing metallic and gothic flourish. Propelling them is a rhythm section that ably shifts between drum fillpacked gallops, militant marches, and the occasional pit-clearing lurch.

RIYL: United Mutation, Void, ’80s Midwest hardcore, chorus pedals, creepycrawl Diaspora, Demo 2017 Self-released Ace Mendoza (of D.C.’s Pure Disgust and Red Death) sings and plays guitar in this new powerhouse three-piece. Diaspora deliver riff after riff of guitar heroics on top of a tight rhythm section, filling the demo’s six-minute runtime with urgent melodies. Diaspora’s sound and introspective lyrics, grappling with personal identity and upbringing, recall the more washingtoncitypaper.com september 1, 2017 19

Galleries

House of Vain

In an era of splashy installation art, ArTecHouse has emerged as the District’s permanent home for the razzle-dazzle.

XYZT: Abstract Landscapes At ArTecHouse to sept. 3

By Kriston Capps On a lOnely promontory in Southwest D.C., the influencers gathered.

All summer long, they converged on a basement facility parked in the same cul-de-sac strip as the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. They arrived with photographers in tow. They came in search of the ’grams of the summer, and the best filters money could buy—the interactive digital art of Adrien M. & Claire B. XYZT: Abstract Landscapes, the inaugural show at ARTECHOUSE, closes on September 3. The exhibit features Atari-like digital graphics that respond to motion, from squiggly lines that trace viewers’ footsteps along the floor to cloudbursts of letters that follow their figures along walls made of tulle. On Labor Day, ARTECHOUSE opens ticket sales for its next exhibit, Spirit of Autumn, another digital projection show—this one featuring augmentedreality cocktails—that opens October 1.

ARTECHOUSE, the brainchild of cofounders Sandro Kereselidze and Tatiana Pastukhova, elbowed its way into a national conversation about spectacle and art this summer. XYZT: Ab-

stract Landscapes, featuring the work of French digital artists Claire Bardainne and Adrien Mondot, may have eclipsed the Hive—the latest iteration of the National Building Museum’s annual architectural folly, this one by Studio Gang—as the selfie happening of the summer.

Kereselidze says that the basement space has been open and available since the 1990s, around when he and Pastukhova first came to D.C. Since 2009, the pair have been throwing art-adjacent pop-up social parties under the banner of Art Soiree. All this time, he says, the space now occupied by ARTECHOUSE has been free—a missed opportunity, until they seized on it two-and-a-half years ago.

“It’s a shame,” Kereselidze says, “but at the same time we are very fortunate to be able to make our dreams come true and deliver what we had envisioned.”

XYZT, which opened earlier this year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Fisher, gives a hint as to what ARTECHOUSE’s founders have in mind. Each of the 10 digital landscapes or sculptures was designed with the viewer in mind. In “Anamorphis in Space” (2011, 2015), for example, a projector displays a grid of simple white lines along the floor in a tight corner corridor of the gallery. Sensors pick up on viewers’ footfalls as they walk through the corridor, setting

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ripples of motion through the field.

Art Soiree always delivered much more soiree than art; ARTECHOUSE, similarly, seems to put priority one on tech. The user interfaces in XYZT are all handsome, simple, and minimalist in a Tron or Marie Kondo sense of the term—scaled down, unfussy, delimited. Microsoft Kinect cameras record viewers and translate their figures into corresponding clusters of digital static in “Shifting Clouds” (2011, 2015), an experience like looking into a mirror in The Matrix. Every piece offers the same revelation, though: a spike of brain-wow that lasts for as long as it takes to snap a story on a cell phone. For all XYZT’s pretensions of operating across space and time, the show is disappointingly one-dimensional. The next exhibit promises even less: a digital video backdrop of fall plus an app that reveals zany Pokémon Go–style augments when you pass your camera view over a cocktail. “Neat”—click!—and the thrill has come and gone.

There is room for a gallery that focuses on digital and interactive work in D.C. Curator Paul Shortt has admirably commissioned genre-busting work for the Arlington Planetarium, including Babel: A Full Dome Projection (2017) by Kelley Bell and In This Convex Hull (2016) by Brandon Morse. This series chal-

lenges artists to make use of existing infrastructure with novel projects, the same way that Doug Aitken used the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building as a 360degree screen for SONG 1 (2012). The scale at the planetarium is more intimate, though— something to be savored, not shared.

Any effort to highlight more work by Bell, Morse, Cliff Evans, or any other number of area artists working with digital media ought to be encouraged. Theirs are artworks, however, and locally grown—not party set-pieces hauled in on a world tour. While the distinction can be elusive or arbitrary or philosophical, one easy tell that a space is trading in spectacle is when it reaches saturation levels on social media. Both the Phillips Collection and the Hirshhorn ran shows by Markus Lüpertz all summer, but his trenchant paintings never clogged anyone’s feeds.

A gallery devoted to digital or immersive work, something like New York’s bitforms or Pasadena’s And/Or Gallery, has been sorely missing in the District art scene. Now there may be some (unlikely) competition in this arena. The Renwick Gallery has bid once again to be D.C.’s official receptacle for spectacle with Parallax Gap, a small-scale follow-up to 2015’s blockbuster Wonder. The piece—a ceiling installation in the museum’s Grand Salon—comprises nine fabricated 3D drawings of famous ceilings from across the country. Viewed from most perspectives, the installation by architectural firm FreelandBuck will look like its own thing, a high-tech assemblage of colorful cutouts. Viewed directly from below, the multi-level geometric forms come together to reveal a depiction. In-the-know viewers who lie down on the plush carpet at specific vantage points may look up and recognize the dome from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, for example, or the dome from Minneapolis City Hall.

That’s a delightfully dorky ask of viewers— to pick out the “iconic” ceilings from the Chancellor Green Library at Princeton University or Cincinnati’s Union Terminal—and one that might make more sense at the Building Museum (insofar as it has a native audience anywhere). With Parallax Gap, the Renwick is following, not leading, by looking to hook some of the summer swagger that has attended the Building Museum’s design series (Bjarke Ingels Group’s BIG Maze, Snarkitecture’s The Beach).

The Renwick can claim it all as craft, its original guiding mission. What isn’t craft in the end?

If there’s one thing to be said for the District’s embrace of spectacle, it’s that it’s happening at all scales. Institutions and independents are both firing up loud installations.

For his part, Kereselidze isn’t apologizing for drawing the influencer crowd. “Whether we like it or not, we have technology always in our hands these days,” he says. “It becomes a very powerful tool for creative-minded people to use in a way to interact with audiences and bring something unique.”

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The problem facing Marjorie Prime, the film version of Jordan Harrison’s successful play, is that it shares a high-concept premise with an episode of Black Mirror. Both films use a science fiction conceit to explore how we deal with loss, but there are enough key differences—both in terms of tone and scope— to make the film worthwhile anyway. Adapted and directed by Michael Almereyda, who also directed a Hamlet adaptation set in modern times, this film undeniably feels like a play.

The dialogue is lyrical, for one thing, and all takes place within one set. While admittedly remote and distant, there is emotional resonance to the film, leading into an earned, peculiar sense of wistful sadness.

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Walter—or a version of him, anyway. This is a future where an unnamed company can help the elderly or the aggrieved with a sophisticated hologram, or a “prime,” of their departed loved ones. The more Marjorie interacts with Walter Prime, the better the program can capture his mannerisms. Marjorie’s daughter Tess (Geena Davis) is skeptical of the prime, while her husband, Jon (Tim Robbins), sees its potential. We see Jon talk with Walter, supplying it with details about their lives. We also learn more about the family—all their success and tragedies—so each new interaction takes on new complex dimensions.

The film’s strength is its casting. Smith, Hamm, Davis, and Robbins all radiate intelligence, and they can hit an emotional note through inflection alone. Hamm has the toughest role, yet he conveys a sense of inhumanity with the Prime’s eagerness, its patient nature, and its utter lack of normal movement. Hamm stays still—his voice reassuring, docile—without ever really moving his hands. The drama has an ephemeral quality to it, although we do not realize it at first. Years pass in a second, serving as a reminder for a Prime’s permanence and

Marjorie’s mental state. There are clues in the dialogue, even the staging of scenes, so that we start to understand the sadness that defines this family. No one ever raises their voice; it’s through restraint that we feel their pain.

Although the film is set in the future—Marjorie talks about seeing 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding as a young woman—Almereyda offers few hints we are watching science fiction. We see Marjorie walk through a prime, suggesting it isn’t real, and Tess speaks on a mobile phone that looks almost invisible. Walter and Marjorie’s home looks immaculate, in a timeless way. Like Solaris, another film that uses science fiction to explore loss, Marjorie Prime uses science fiction to delve into the interior lives of its characters. At times, the film’s stagey quality is obvious. Characters describe lots of evocative imagery, like dreams, since stage actors do not have the visual freedom of film directors. The effect can be a little tedious, and yet the premise has enough dramatic heft so that the film’s eventual shifts culminate toward genuine power.

In the promotional material and trailers for Marjorie Prime, Smith and Hamm get the lion’s share of the attention. Still, the film’s real stand-out is Robbins, who hasn’t been given a role this juicy in years.

At first, Jon seems like kind of a prick. He condescends to Tess, suggesting a relationship defined through adversarial encounters, and yet Robbins eventually arrives at a deeper sense of kindness.

During the film’s final stretches, he speaks in reserved tones that he hasn’t used since The Shawshank Redemption. The final scenes are appropriately hollow, working as a metaphor for what eventually happens to all our memories, and yet they would not work without Robbins’ transition from a needling husband into a lonely observer.

Everyone in this film is acutely aware of how they are aging. Marjorie in particular curses her advanced age, aware of her indignities even as she loses her memory. We are all children, parents, husbands, and wives—so Marjorie Prime will undoubtedly mean something specific to everyone who sees it. We may think about our parents, and how they may eventually come to depend on us, instead of the other way around.

We may think about our spouses, and how we would deal if we end up outliving them. This is a film that expects you to keep up with it, to think about its themes while you watch. If most films amount to a passive experience, then this one encourages dialogue—if only in your own mind.

—Alan Zilberman Marjorie Prime opens Friday at Angelika PopUp at Union Market.

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Trevor Hall w/ East Forest ....Tu 26 Mandolin Orange ...................W 27 Crystal Castles ......................Sa 30

Kaleo w/ ZZ Ward & Wilder .......... OCT 14 Grizzly Bear w/ serpentwithfeet .............................NOV 8 ALL GOOD PRESENTS Trombone Shorty & Orleans Tegan and Sara The Con 10th Anniv.

Avenue w/ Vintage Trouble ........ OCT 15 Acoustic Tour ....................................NOV 11 Phoenix ...................................... OCT 16 AEG PRESENTS Odesza LCD Soundsystem First Night Sold Out! Second Night Added!...... OCT 18 w/ Sofi Tukker & Louis Futon ............NOV 24 Zedd w/ Grey & Lophiile ................ OCT 21 St. Vincent ................................NOV 27 The War On Drugs ALL GOOD PRESENTS w/ The Building ................................. OCT 23 Dark Star Orchestra Recreating the Grateful Dead’s The Head and the Heart w/ Phosphorescent ........................... OCT 27 6/14/91 RFK Show .............................DEC 2 Primus with Clutch ............... OCT 28 O.A.R. ........................................... DEC 16 The Shins w/ Baio .......................NOV 2 ALL GOOD PRESENTS GRiZ .................................................NOV 4 SOJA w/ Twiddle & Footwerk....... DEC 29 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Lorde ................................. APRIL 8, 2018 (and The Sea Lice) .............................NOV 7

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Hayley Fahey Band • Throwing Plates • The Split Seconds • Stone Driver • Thaylobleu .............................. Sa 2 SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER cont.

Pat Green w/ Casey Donahew ...Th 7 The Brian Jonestown Massacre w/ Dot Dash................F 8 The Afghan Whigs w/ Har Mar Superstar

Aaron Watson w/ Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................F 22

Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................Sa 9

MIXTAPE 9 Year Anniv. Party w/ DJs Shea Van Horn & Matt Bailer Late Show! 11pm Doors ....................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 Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party 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

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Space Jesus Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................F 22 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All ‘90s Band ...................Sa 23

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First Night Sold Out! Second Night A

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Oh Wonder w/ Sigrid ................Tu 3 Chicano Batman/Khruangbin w/ The Shacks ...............................W 4

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

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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

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

20 Years of Storytelling .......... SEPT 23

Sturgill Simpson w/ Fantastic Negrito ..................................... SEPTEMBER 15 Young The Giant w/ Cold War Kids & Joywave ....................... SEPTEMBER 16

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The Script w/ Tom Walker ............... OCT 2 Paul Weller w/ Lucy Rose ............... OCT 7 Matisyahu

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Alison Krauss & David Gray ....................................... SEPTEMBER 23 WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY FEATURING

Rascal Flatts • Billy Currington • Scotty McCreery • Dylan Scott and more! . SEPTEMBER 24

w/ Common Kings & Orphan ............. OCT 10

Blind Pilot w/ Charlie Cunningham . OCT 13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CITYLIST Music 23 Theater 27 Film 29

Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY

BLuEs

Talib Kweli has been woke since before being “woke” was something to brag about on social media. “Hashtags and RTs are cute and make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but without actual flesh on the ground, there is no movement,” he wrote in a Medium article earlier this year. In the same article, he encouraged a peaceful revolution to go down every day at noon at 24th and P streets NW until Donald Trump is no longer in office. Ever since Kweli jumped into the New York hiphop scene in the ’90s—and especially through Black Star, his collaboration with Mos Def—he’s been advocating for social justice and engaging with his audiences (and some politicians) about police brutality, gun violence, and racial stereotypes. The Sunkissed Sundown, which he headlines at The Howard this weekend, benefits grassroots organizations fighting for fair housing policies and environmental causes. Kweli continues to provide an empowering soundtrack to the revolution with his latest collaborative album, The Seven, with Styles P, on which they meditate on the struggles of being black in America. Talib Kweli performs with Jessica Care Moore, Alex Vaughn, Luc Ra, Afrah Ali, Odd Mojo, and Sir EU at 7 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $40–$75.

(202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Casey Embert

DJ NIghTs

sATuRDAY

u sTreeT MusiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. A Summer’s Night, DJ MIM, Alex DB. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

ELEcTRoNIc

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Squirrel Nut Zippers. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

FuNK & R&B

RocK

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

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sextile, Gloop.

7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sAlly’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Eat Yer Meat, The Last Rewind. 9 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com. linColn TheATre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. 7 p.m. Free. thelincolndc.com. roCk & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Carter Lou & The Project, Elizabeth II, Rhett Repko. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com. sonGByrD MusiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Lavender, Path. 8 p.m. $10. songbyrddc.com. sTATe TheATre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Slippery When Wet. 9 p.m. $12–$15. thestatetheatre.com.

Wolf TrAp filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. The Ambassador: Jimi Hendrix 75th Birthday Concert with Fishbone, Ernie Isley, Nona Hendryx. 8 p.m. $30–$55. wolftrap.org.

The hAMilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Selwyn Birchwood, Vintage #18. 8 p.m. $10–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

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

10:30 p.m. Free. dcnine.com. flAsh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. The Black Madonna, Keenan Orr, Ladies of the Underground. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. u sTreeT MusiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Jungle Fever, Mista Selecta, Mane Squeeze, DJ K-Meta, Jessicunt. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

FuNK & R&B

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Kenny Lattimore. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com. eChosTAGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. R&B Only with DJ Printz & Jabari. 9 p.m. $29.99–$59.99. echostage.com. kenneDy CenTer MillenniuM sTAGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Nobody’s Business. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

hIp-hop

fillMore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. NBA Youngboy. 8 p.m. $27.50–$75. fillmoresilverspring.com. hoWArD TheATre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Talib Kweli, Jessica Care Moore, Alex Vaughn, Luc Ra, Afrah Ali, Odd Mojo, Sir EU. 7 p.m. $40–$75. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz

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

TALIB KWELI

RocK

BlACk CAT BACksTAGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Zack Be, Redline Graffiti, Dawkins. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

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

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Band of Us, Echelon the Seeker, Calista Garcia. 9 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. linColn TheATre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. 7 p.m. Free. thelincolndc.com. rhizoMe DC 6950 Maple St. NW. IT IT, Weird Babies, Langston Kelly Human DJ, Albert Bagman. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

Gypsy sAlly’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Funky Dawgz Brass Band, Fletcher’s Grove. 9 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

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

Kevin Jackson and Anissa Hargrove. 8 p.m. $15–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

hIp-hop fillMore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Nipsey Hussle, Tokyo Dee, Ellis, Ras Nebyu. 9 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com. sonGByrD MusiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Marlon Craft. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

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

Pure Disgust, Blazing Eye, Exit Order, Protester, Rashomon. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Wolf TrAp filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Bryson Tiller, Metro Boomin, H.E.R. 7:30 p.m. $35–$65. wolftrap.org.

TropiCAliA 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535.

Allthebestkids, Ruckzuck. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. tropicaliadc.com.

JAzz

ELEcTRoNIc

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

flAsh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Philip Goyette, Markinthedark, DJ Meegs. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

hoWArD TheATre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Reggae Fest vs. Soca. 11 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com.

eChosTAGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Hardwell. 9 p.m. $30–$50. echostage.com.

WoRLD

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

NATIoNAL BooK FEsTIVAL

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Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

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THE REBEL THE SOUL & THE SAINT TOUR

SATURDAY NOV. 25, 7:30PM DAR CONSTITUTION HALL

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT TICKETMASTER.COM OR CALL 800-745-3000 Aug

AMANDA SHIRES Kathryn Rheault Sept 1 KENNY LATTIMORE 2 SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS Michelle 3 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Lordi 7 MATTHEW SWEET 31

with Tommy

Keene

THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS

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AUG 31

IL DIVO PLUS u THE AMBASSADOR: JIMI HENDRIX

A 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND 75TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT EVENT

FEATURING FISHBONE WITH NONA HENDRYX, ERNIE ISLEY, JUDITH HILL, LIV WARFIELD, AND VERNON REID

HOT RIZE

10 12

TONIGHT!

BELLYDANCE EVOLUTION presents

Fantasm – Odyssey of Dreams

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

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BRYSON TILLER

u

I LOVE THE 90’S

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18&19

METRO BOOMIN H.E.R.

FEATURING TLC, KID N PLAY, MONTELL JORDAN, ROB BASE, C&C MUSIC FACTORY, SNAP

StreetSense StreetSense An Evening with

RANDY NEWMAN 20 BRAND X REUNION TOUR

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RICK SPRINGFIELD RICHARD MARX

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AND MANY MORE!

VALERIE JUNE Amythyst Kiah 22 JOHN McCUTCHEON 23 RED MOLLY 24 AVERY*SUNSHINE 26 CHRIS HILLMAN & HERB PEDERSON with JOHN JORGENSON 27 JESSE COOK THE RIPPINGTONS featuring Russ

Freeman

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In the

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MASHROU’ LEILA All Standing Doors 6pm

dan, Kid n Play, Rob Base, C&C Music Factory, Snap. 7 p.m. $45–$87. wolftrap.org.

Street

RocK

JAzz

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

TWins JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jacie Lee, The Wayne Wilentz Trio, JC & The Lava Lamps. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. A Giant Dog. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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Beyond Borders Tour 2017

suNDAY

Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Matchbox Twenty, Counting Crows.

6:45 p.m. $29.50–$125.50. livenation.com.

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Though the National Mall is a beautiful place to take a walk, it’s not exactly the ideal place to curl up with a good book while navigating around hoards of tourists and fellow book lovers in the late summer heat. Thankfully, the National Book Festival will continue to operate inside the convention center. This year’s diverse and stellar lineup of authors, including Outlander scribe Diana Gabaldon and cultural critic and novelist Roxane Gay, will bring the crowds, but at least you can deal with them in an air conditioned hall. There’s also plenty of stuff you can bring home with you. Graphic novelist and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast created the poster, which you can snatch, and Scholastic will hand out goodies to young readers. Politics & Prose also operates a pop-up store at the festival in case you wanted a book signed by a speaker or hear about a title you must read immediately. Whatever you decide to check out, make sure you arrive in comfortable shoes: You will be waiting in line. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. Free. (888) 714-4696. loc.gov/bookfest.

—Diana Metzger

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

Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. 7 p.m. Free. thelincolndc.com.

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

Haken, Sithu Aye. 8 p.m. $20–$25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

couNTRY

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Asleep at the Wheel, Michelle Lordi.

7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

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DJ NIghTs

TropiCAliA 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Labor Day Weekend Throwdown. 9 p.m. Free. tropicaliadc.com.

ELEcTRoNIc

eChosTAGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Oliver Heldens, Ephwurd, Chocolate Puma. 9 p.m. $25–$40. echostage.com. flAsh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. No Regular Play, HazMat, Edo. 2 p.m. $5–$8. flashdc.com.

FuNK & R&B

sonGByrD MusiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. A.Chal, FKI, Nesta. 8 p.m. $18–$20. songbyrddc.com.

Wolf TrAp filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. I Love the ‘90s with TLC, Montell Jor-

sTATe TheATre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Julieta Venegas. 8 p.m. $37–$42. thestatetheatre.com.

MoNDAY RocK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Downtown Boys, Hemlines, Homosuperior. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. rhizoMe DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Puff Pieces, Mock Identity, Psychic Subcreatures, The Miami Dolphins, Cut Shutters. 3:30 p.m. $10–$20. rhizomedc.org. sonGByrD MusiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Shinyribs. 8 p.m. $15–$17. songbyrddc.com.

TuEsDAY RocK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Smith Street Band, Astronautalis. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sAlly’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Adam Wakefield, Will Overman. 8 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com. sonGByrD MusiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Caddywhompus, Technicians. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Wolf TrAp filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Sting, Joe Sumner, The Last Bandoleros. 7:30 p.m. $45–$165. wolftrap.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

ZACK BE

AN EVENING WITH

BEAUSOLEIL

AVEC

SEPTEMBER

MICHAEL

DOUCET

THURSDAY AUGUST

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SELWYN BIRCHWOOD W/ VINTAGE #18 FRIDAY

SEPT 1

SU 3

SAT, SEPT 2

KEVIN JACKSON BAND AND ANISSA HARGROVE THURS, SEPT 7

RHETT MILLER OF OLD 97’S

2 SHOWS 7/10PM

W6

W/ ANTHONY D’AMATO FRI, SEPT 8

THE JAMES BROWN DANCE PARTY

THE FUNKIEST ALL-STAR TRIBUTE IN SHOW BUSINESS

TH 7

SAT, SEPT 9

LUTHER RE-LIVES

W/ DREW OLIVIA TILLMAN SUN, SEPT 10

AN EVENING WITH BRASS-A-HOLICS

F8 S9

TUES, SEPT 12

NICOLE ATKINS W/ THE KERNAL THURS, SEPT 14

SU 10

THE FUNKY METERS W/ 7COME11

FRI, SEPT 15

CHRIS SMITHER W/ MILTON SAT, SEPT 16

TH 14

NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS

DREAM DISCS: THE ROLLING STONES

F 15

AND TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS

S 16

STICKY FINGERS

DAMN THE TORPEDOS

CLONES OF FUNK JEFF BRADSHAW B-DAY CELEBRATION FEAT. ALGEBRA BLESSETT & GLEN LEWIS OHIO PLAYERS, LABOR DAY WEEKEND PARTY DARYL DAVIS PRESENTS: LABOR DAY EXTENDED DANCE PARTY WITH SANDRA DEAN BAND ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY SINGS “THE ELLA CENTURY” PABLO CRUISE ETHIOPIAN NEW YEAR W/ YEHUNIE BELAY NOTHING BUT THE SAX FEAT. TONY EXUM JR., DEE LUCAS & MARQUEAL JORDAN BOB BALDWIN FEAT. LORI WILLIAMS A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF MOTOWN JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW 2 SHOWS 7/10PM

SUN, SEPT 17

PAUL KELLY

W/ SPECIAL GUEST JESS CORNELIUS TUES, SEPT 19

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80

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Overly programmed synth pop seems to be everywhere these days, whether you’re shopping for groceries or at the gym. Multi-instrumentalist Zack Be, who performs in a duo with drummer Rob Wolk, has doubled down on the synths on his latest release, Used to, Elsewhere. Staccato pulsing overwhelms every track to the point where Be’s lyrics are nearly incomprehensible, but when you pull the layers apart, you start to understand what he’s trying to accomplish. A repeated plinking sound on “Wheels on a Family Church” calls to mind Mark Mothersbaugh’s music for Rugrats, for example, and the video, full of flashing colors, is an intriguing mix of public access TV and performance art. When the pair celebrates Used to, Elsewhere’s release at the Black Cat Backstage, they’ll be joined by Redline Graffiti and Dawkins, two other local acts who challenge the limitations of genre and create cool, slightly offbeat tracks perfect for a Sunday night. Zack Be performs with Redline Graffiti and Dawkins at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $10. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Selma Khenissi

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

PUFF PIECES

To many Americans, Labor Day signifies nothing more than a day off from work and summer’s last long weekend. But the reality is that it’s a day to recognize the importance of the social and economic achievements of American workers who sacrificed so much for our country and to celebrate the creation of the modern labor movement. One way to do that this year is to attend Rhizome’s barbecue and punk show that benefits DC Jobs With Justice, a nonprofit that fights to protect the rights of the city’s working class. The lineup features some of the District’s best and most forward-thinking punk bands: post-punk trio Puff Pieces, surf-punk quartet Psychic Subcreatures, and the new post-hardcore group Mock Identity, along with Minneapolis’ The Miami Dolphins and Denton, Texas noise duo Cut Shutters. That’s a hefty lineup, but it starts conveniently at 5 p.m. (with grilling beginning at 3:30 p.m.), so you can be sure you’ll get home and ready for another week in the workforce at a reasonable hour. Puff Pieces performs with The Miami Dolphins, Psychic Subcreatures, Mock Identity, and Cut Shutters at 5 p.m. at Rhizome, 6950 Maple Ave. NW. $10–$20. rhizomedc.org.

—Matt Cohen

CITY LIGHTS: TuEsDAY

sTINg

Since forming The Police in 1977, Sting has performed nearly non-stop for the past four decades. He’s 65 now, so you’d forgive him for relaxing at one of his palatial estates and cutting back on touring. The chameleon legally known as Gordon Sumner prefers to reinvent himself over and over again. From his world music phase in the late ’90s to his mid-aughts lute obsession and his recent stint as a Broadway composer, the man is always experimenting with a new way to share his talent with others.

There is one thing he hasn’t accomplished in the past 40 years, however: He’s never played at Wolf Trap. To make up for this, he’ll play at the national park for the performing arts three nights in a row. Expect to hear the hits he recorded with his band and as a solo artist, plus some locally relevant songs. Might he play “Fields of Gold” in the style of Eva Cassidy? Drive south and see for yourself. Sting performs with Joe Sumner and The Last Bandoleros at 7:30 p.m. at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. $45–$165. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org.

—Caroline Jones

JAzz

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Scott “Bugs” Allen. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

opERA

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

Rhett Miller, Anthony D’Amato. 7:30 p.m. $20–$39.75. thehamiltondc.com. kenneDy CenTer MillenniuM sTAGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. BRNDA. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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In just over a year, Takoma nonprofit community arts space Rhizome has established itself as D.C.’s Best New Venue (according to this publication) thanks to its commitment to DIY ethos and a curatorial vision that celebrates experimental music in all of its forms. That approach is on display at a show headlined by Baltimore-born, Los Angeles-based duo Odwalla1221 and Iran-born New York City-based producer Sadaf. As Odwalla1221, Chloe Maratta and Flannery Silva turn their friendship into ragged sound collages built from whacked-out samples, poetry loops, and drum machine beats that carefully toe the line between hypnotic and intentionally off-putting. Sadaf, a producer, violinist, vocalist, and multimedia artist, makes music that is just as mesmerizing, combining a variety of sonic influences—Middle Eastern instrumentation, deconstructed Afro-Caribbean dance beats, “free jazz noise violin”—as she ponders concepts like advertising and celebrity through performance art. This tour forges the frontier of experimental music, and thanks to Rhizome, D.C. gets to experience it in an intimate, comfortable space.

Odwalla1221 performs with Sadaf, Alex Cunningham, and Nenet & Julaya Antolin at 8 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10 suggested donation. rhizomedc.org.

—Chris Kelly Townley, and outgoing artistic director Howard Shalwitz. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Oct. 8. $20–$59. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

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.

Don JuAn Tenorio, The infAMous seDuCer of All TiMes Nando López adapts the story of the legendary lothario in this world premiere production directed by José Carrasquillo. When the famous and suave Don Juan is felled by the love of a woman, his entire worldview changes in this sensual and poetic drama. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To Oct. 1. $25–$55. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

The heiDi ChroniCles Rep Stage opens its season with Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about an acclaimed art historian who struggles to find her place in the rapidly changing world and within the women’s movement. Set in the

1980s, when women were battling for recognition in the workplace, this play wonders out loud whether women can ever have it all. Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To Sept. 24. $10–$40. (443) 518-1500. repstage.org. in The heiGhTs Olney Theatre Center and Round House Theatre collaborate on a new production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical. Set in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, the play follows the neighborhood residents as they try to make their fortunes in the neighborhood. Tony nominee and original Broadway cast member Robin de Jesús stars as Usnavi. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 8. $37–$84. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org.

Jesus hoppeD The “A” TrAin As a bike messenger waits on Rikers Island for his murder trial, he meets a born-again serial killer who challenges the way he looks at the world and changes his life forever in this emotional drama. Directors Alex Levy and Juan Francisco Villa kick off 1st Stage’s 10th anniversary season with their take on Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play about redemption and friendship. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Oct. 8. $15–$33. (703) 854-1856.

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Julius CAesAr Scena Theatre presents a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic drama about power and ambition that makes connections between ancient Rome and contemporary Washington. Director Robert McNamara stars in this production, leading a cast of American and Irish actors. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Sept. 24. $30–$40. (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. neverWhere Rorschach Theater brings back its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s spooky novel about a man who stumbles into a lively world that exists below London. Occupied by angels, monsters, and beasts, this land welcomes newcomers who know where to find it. This remounted production is directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Oct. 1. $20–$30. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. skeleTon CreW Set in one of Detroit’s last autostamping plant, this play follows a close-knit family of workers who must figure out the lengths they’ll go to to survive as rumors start to echo through the factory. Patricia McGregor directs this drama written by Detroit native Dominique Morisseau. Studio Theatre.

1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 8. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.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.

WorD BeCoMes flesh As a father waits for his son to be born, he begins communicating with the child and chronicling his emotions. Theater Alliance opens its 2017/2018 season with a remounting of its awardwinning production of this Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Oct. 8. $30–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

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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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Michelle Zauner’s solo project, Japanese Breakfast, came out of the gate strong with last year’s Psychopomp, featuring the irresistibly catchy “Everybody Wants to Love You.” A little more than a year later, she’s back with Soft Sounds from Another Planet, a beautiful record that heralds Zauner as one of the most compelling songwriters working today. The record unfolds gently as Zauner breaks through layers of shoegaze to reveal the sparkling disco of “Machinist,” on which she laments, “I just wanted it all,” before diving back beneath the fuzzy clouds. While the sprinkling of synths and keyboards give it a sci-fi tone at times, Soft Sounds from Another Planet feels very emotionally familiar. “I can’t get you off my mind. I can’t get you off in general,” she sings on the standout track, “Boyish,” which saunters like Nat King Cole or Frankie Valli played at the wrong speed. Zauner uses trumpet accents to try to reach escape velocity on the lullaby-like “Till Death,” but thoughts of celebrity death, PTSD, and anxiety keep her tethered to land. Japanese Breakfast’s dream-like qualities are no mistake: This is the soundtrack to the strange limbo we inhabit when we’re exploring faraway places while still being all too attached to Earth. Japanese Breakfast performs with Mannequin Pussy and The Spirit of the Beehive at at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $13–$15. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

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