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Landlords exploit D.C.’s rent control laws, jacking up prices after “concessions” expire.
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Tenant Pat Remick
By Andrew Giambrone Pat Remick is bracing herself for a battle with her landlord. A senior who qualifies for limited rent increases under D.C. law, she moved into 3003 Van Ness Apartments in 2012. The residential complex sits between the law schools of Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia in leafy Ward 3, and is composed of two highrises linked by a groundfloor lobby. It’s in a prime location—a fiveminute walk from both the Van Ness-UDC Metro station and Rock Creek Park—and contains roughly 600 units, ranging from
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studios to two-bedrooms. Built in the 1970s, the rent-controlled property has perks to boot: spacious rooms, a 24-hour fitness center, even an Olympic-size pool. And it’s relatively affordable for the tony ward. Or at least it purports to be. Remick learned this the hard way over time. While the former homeowner hopes to hold onto her one-bedroom apartment, she’s grown tired of rent negotiations with Equity Residential, the company that owns 3003 Van Ness. “They become more stressful year after year,” she explains. Remick and half a dozen other tenants interviewed say Equity has a misleading practice of offering annual “concessions,” or discounts, on units, subject to its discretion. The custom undermines the meaning of “rent con-
trol,” residents say: It’s not what they signed up for. District law limits increases for rent-controlled units to 2 percent plus the Consumer Price Index—a measure of inflation—once a year, and to the CPI alone for disabled or elderly tenants like Remick. She received a leaserenewal letter last September, when the CPI was set at 1.5 percent (today it’s 0 percent). So Remick anticipated a new rent of $2,030 a month, or 1.5 percent above the $2,000 she’d been paying. But the company’s memo, containing the letterheads of Smith Property Holdings—an Equity affiliate—and the Department of Housing and Community Development, showed a “new rent charged” of $2,783, effective at the end of December. Shocked by the new figure, Remick fought to
get her rent lowered to $2,030 a month. She threatened to file a tenant petition with the city if Equity didn’t reassess. “I find this to be a ridiculous exchange we have every year,” Remick says. “It’s all a charade. I don’t understand how a building can claim it’s rent-controlled when it’s not related to payments.” That’s the crux of an ongoing dispute between the tenants of 3003 Van Ness and Equity, a $24 billion company founded by business mogul Sam Zell. Equity has more than 300 properties boasting upwards of 85,000 apartment units across the U.S., including Boston, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and D.C. Its corporate office declined to comment. Harry Gural, who heads the property’s tenant association, alleges that Equity “outmaneuvers” those unfamiliar with concessions, which he believes the company applies illegally. He suspects that the practice is “fairly widespread” within the District, equating it to a “bait-and-switch” scheme and “false advertising.” Gural says more than 30 units at 3003 Van Ness have contacted him about rent negotiations. There are probably many more going through the motions with Equity who are too afraid, uninformed, or old to push back, he adds. On Equity’s webpage for 3003 Van Ness, rents and floor plans are depicted side-byside. Scroll down further and Equity disclaims, “Quoted rent may include a concession.” It doesn’t specify how steep that discount would be, or from what value it would be subtracted. Tenants say those figures generally come up at the point of lease signing. Many agree to go through with the agreement when management tells them a higher, non-discounted rent is merely a formality or for internal purposes. Months later, renewal letters like the one Remick received describe that figure as a tenant’s “current rent charged,” which Equity uses to calculate a percentage “adjustment.” This modification often results in renewal rates that are hundreds of dollars—and in some cases over $1,000—above the monthly rent a resident pays. Usually, that’s when an anxious or irked renter contacts the company, and negotiations begin. Although savvy tenants can achieve rent increases that fall within “2 percent plus CPI” of their payments, others aren’t as fortunate. “The key issue here is what the word ‘rent’ means,” Gural explains. “99.9 percent of the people out there think it’s what you pay every month—or what they take out of your bank account every month. Equity says it’s what they wish it were, to have head room. People are getting screwed.”
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To corroborate Equity’s rent policies, City Paper called the 3003 Van Ness leasing office as a prospective tenant. The property has “maximum rents that can be charged on an apartment,” an agent says, some of which are “way beyond what the market would bear.” When that’s the case, Equity offers concessions that reduce rent payments. “What you see [on the website] is absolutely what you would pay,” she says. For example, a one-bedroom advertised with a rent of $1,950 a month (utilities included) has a maximum of $2,352, so Equity would offer a $402 concession on it for one year. Such discounts are determined “based on the market,” the agent notes. But she’s unable to provide an average or median concession amount, adding that “at least 75 percent of the apartments” at 3003 Van Ness receive “competitive” ones. Asked about future lease renewals, the agent says any increases would apply to the “maximum rent.” A tenant could “come and talk to us and we can figure out what kind of concession we can give” after receiving a renewal notice from Equity two to three months before a lease expiration. In communications with tenants, Equity has argued that it isn’t doing anything illegal by offering concessions, a practice that’s becoming more common, housing advocates say. But a difference in interpretation of the District’s rent control laws seems to be at play. Joel Cohn, legislative director for the D.C. Office of the Tenant Advocate, says rent-concession cases have formed a “groundswell” over the past several years, involving a “gray area” of laws governing rent control. So far, though, decisions by the Office of Administrative Hearings, D.C.’s small-claims court, haven’t favored tenants. And OAH’s rulings don’t set precedent. Still, if such a case were to come on appeal, Cohn believes there’s a strong argument “that is yet to be heard in full that some rent concessions are operating as de facto rent ceilings.” Rent ceilings were abolished in 2006 as part of housing reforms spearheaded by Jim Graham, then Ward 1 Councilmember. Be-
fore that, landlords had to report two numbers to the District for rent-controlled units: the ceiling, or maximum allowable rent, and “rent charged,” what a tenant paid each month. But because of loopholes that permitted owners to raise prices on these units, the discrepancies between the two were “getting so wildly large that tenants were being subject to huge increases,” Cohn recalls. For instance, one dubbed the “vacancy high comparable” allowed landlords to bump up a given unit’s rent to that of a similar unit when a vacancy occurred. Legal increase thresholds for units that become vacant are now lower. “Say there’s a grandma in one unit with a low rent ceiling, and another [separate] unit with a lot of turnover—students tended to be there, say—where the rent ceiling would be way, way above the rent charged,” Cohn explains. “Within one fell swoop of grandma vacating her unit, the rent charged to that unit would jump to a much higher rent, leading to an instant loss of affordability.” Cohn notes that owners use concessions as leverage during lease negotiations. While tenants have a right to go month-to-month after their first year, many of them feel pressured into signing annual leases with significant rent increases when an owner threatens to “whammy” them by reducing or eliminating concessions. “Rent control is supposed to mean that the rent increase is going to be manageable and predictable,” Cohn says, adding that concessions can “violate the letter and spirit” of D.C.’s laws. The facts that the term “rent concession” doesn’t show up in the books, and that “rent charged” isn’t explicitly defined, benefit landlords. A 2011 report by the Urban Institute found that up to 80,000 housing units across approximately 4,800 properties in the District were “potentially subject to rent control.” Of those properties, 5.4 percent were located in Ward 3 (where 3003 Van Ness sits), the lowest share in D.C. Still, about a fifth of the rent-controlled buildings in that ward had 51 or more units— larger than those in other parts of the city. All that’s to say that rent concessions affect thousands of D.C. residents. As Gural and Shirley Adelstein—a neighborhood com-
missioner who lives at 3003 Van Ness—point out, rents based on purported maximum numbers could be generating substantial profits for owners in the aggregate. “It often takes some time for people to become aware of what’s going on,” says the ANC commissioner, who moved into the Equity property two years ago. “People would contact Harry or me— or both of us—in a real state of stress and despair not knowing what to do because the increase that was proposed would have essentially priced them out of their home.” (Over the weekend, Adelstein got a renewal letter showing a more than $1,000 increase in the rent she and her husband pay for their one-bedroom-plus-den unit. They plan to negotiate.) One fix to the alleged distortions in prices at rent-controlled buildings could be an official investigation into owners’ policies and practices. Another would be a legislative clarification of existing laws. A spokeswoman for Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh says her office is drafting a pertinent bill. Meanwhile, residents are losing patience. Nick and Katie Pettet plan to leave 3003 Van Ness for another building in the neighborhood, less than a year after settling in. The newlyweds says they intend to file a tenant petition with the District, seeking to recoup some of their relocation expenses, after Equity tried raising their payments from a little under $1,800 a month to $1,930. According to documentation the two provided, Equity was basing that increase on a rent adjustment up
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Cheh helped run an investigation into Mayor Adrian Fenty’s frat brothers’ contracting woes and the bizarre saga of a city fire truck bound for the Dominican Republic. Then, as Vince Gray’s reign began, Cheh ran a hearing in which she peppered bizarre former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown with questions about how he landed
an administration job. The biggest headline that day may have been that Brown refused to remove his sunglasses, but the hearing helped launch the federal investigation that went on to doom Gray’s mayoralty. Now Mayor Muriel Bowser may have to endure a Cheh inquisition of her own. Cheh and the mayor have already tussled
Go Your Own Cheh Like some kind of Wilson Building Forrest Gump, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh always seems to be around w h e n t h e r e ’s a mayoral scandal.
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to $3,468: precisely 2 percent above a “current rent charged” of $3,400. At most, the Pettets were expecting a monthly uptick of $35 a month, not an effective 9-percent jump. Like other tenants, it seemed impossible to them that their one-bedroom could be worth $3,400. Though they’ve enjoyed living at 3003 Van Ness with their cat, they say they’re fed up. “We just wanted to get out and not deal with this anymore,” Nick says, citing “financial and ethical” reasons. As a matter of principle, the couple notes, Equity betrayed their trust by brushing off their appeals to D.C. law during days of back-and-forth with the leasing office. “We didn’t feel we could sign and say, ‘We agree with what you’re doing,’” Katie adds. “Then, what leverage would you have the next time?” “The outcome we would like to see is that landlords raise rent based on the rent you pay, not just some other number,” she explains. “We feel taken advantage of, but we know we’ll be OK.” CP
over everything from the mayor’s proposed all boy’s public school to Cheh’s early opposition to FreshPAC, the Bowser-aligned Super PAC that fizzled under public scrutiny last year. In her latest clash with the mayor, Cheh plans to investigate a big-dollar contracting controversy at the District’s Department of
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General Services that resulted in the resignation of the agency’s chief and the exit of two other top brass, which WAMU first reported. At the center of the ugly episode is the classic poster child of local government dysfunction, the city’s Certified Business Enterprise program. CBE status is meant to give local, often minority-owned businesses an advantage in contract bidding. But when CBE-certified District mega-contractor and Bowser campaign donor Fort Myer Construction lost out on two bids, City Administrator Rashad Young stepped in. Young directed DGS director Chris Weaver to fire the two staffers who had awarded the contracts to a significantly lower bidder. Weaver resigned shortly thereafter. In his Aug. 12 resignation letter, Weaver said he was leaving the agency for personal reasons. But Cheh, who chairs the Council’s Committee on Transportation and the Environment, isn’t buying it. “I don’t believe that’s true,” Cheh says. “I believe it had everything to do with the people being fired.” To turn the case into an investigative hearing and win subpoena power, though, Cheh will need to convince a majority of her committee colleagues. That might be a tough sell with Bowser-aligned councilmembers like Ward 2’s Jack Evans and Ward 4’s Brandon Todd. Also on the committee are Ward 5’s Kenyan McDuffie and Ward 6’s Charles Allen. (McDuffie said in a statement that he’ll support a subpoena powers vote if it’s necessary for the investigation). Even if Cheh can’t subpoena witnesses, she has other ways to try to uncover what happened. “Whoever I get to come, I will put them under oath,” she says. Bowser’s administration wants to frame the DGS shake-up as a case of employees run amok. In a Monday WAMU interview, Young claimed that department’s contracting system, which gave CBEs less of an advantage in bidding, was “indefensible.” Similarly, Bowser spokesman Rob Hawkins said in a statement that the administration is eager for a hearing on “our intolerance for those who seek to undermine local and minority businesses.” For now, Cheh says she’s just asking questions. “We have some mechanism to clear the air,” Cheh says. “I never wanted the Sulaimon Brown thing. I never wanted to investigate the craziness with the fire truck.” CP Got a tip for LL? Send suggestions to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. Or call (202) 650-6925.
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I’m a triathlete so not smoking or vaping, and I have some friends that swear by tincture. I’m a bit apprehensive but think I’m ready. How is the effect different from edibles or smoking? —The Numbing Man By definition a tincture is an alcohol solution, and in this case the alcohol has been infused with cannabis! Depending on how this exquisite elixir is ingested, it offers instant elevation or a slower release. When taken under the tongue (careful to check if dilution is required!), the effect can be virtually immediate. A single milliliter is a nice kick, but if you are new to this, take only a drop and hold under the tongue. Wait a few minutes to see ‘where this particular green dragon is flying, bruh…’ before adding another. If you add several or more milliliters to your favorite craft beer (you already knew that hops and cannabis are related, smarty pants!), the effects tend to be similar to munching a cookie. It’s slowly delivered and a less heady, more somatic experience. Without knowing who concocted the specific infusion you have, your best bet is to be patient. —TP
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I’ve recently had a couple of friends get really sick from edibles. How do I make sure that doesn’t happen to me? —The Hesitant Hippie Even The Potanist is wary of edibles. It’s far more difficult to manage the effects of anything once it’s inside your body, so always err on the side of caution. One cookie may be four servings! Unless you know the chef and they know your constitution, take a dose you imagine might be too small first, and gauge the effect. This is a complex topic that we will revisit because there are many factors, including what’s eaten up to an hour later! Until then, be safe out there. —TP Email your burning questions to potanist@washcp.com.
Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: My friend and I were walking up to a Bikeshare station, where there were just two bikes left. When we got closer, I saw that there was a tourist standing in front of the kiosk slowly navigating the screens to get a bike. We’re both Bikeshare members and had our keys out and ready to go. My buddy said we should just take the last two bikes because we’re members, but I thought we shouldn’t since the tourist was already in the process of checking out. In the end, we didn’t take the bikes, but would it have been wrong if we did? —Must Everyone Mull Bikeshare Etiquette, Reasonableness Dear MEMBER: Probably. There’s both a text and a subtext here that GP will unpack. The primary question is, when does the Bikeshare bike belong to you? Is it when you begin to go through the touchscreen at the kiosk, when you swipe your credit card, when you receive your code to unlock the bike, when you approach your selected bike, or when the bike is actually under your butt? GP is inclined to think that it’s much closer to when the process begins than when there’s actual possession. In that regard, your initial judgment was correct: One of the bikes “belonged” to the tourist. But the subtext of all this is the question of whether members with keys are more worthy of bikes than tourists. And the answer is no. Every Bikeshare user is equal and your key confers only convenience, not greater priority. —GP Gear Prudence: I have noticed a preponderance of mopeds and motorized scooters in the bike lane lately. While I know the low-powered ones are legally allowed to do this, it still seems dangerous. The riders also don’t seem to look out for bikes and weave in and out of the bike lane whimsically. What are your thoughts on this scourge? Shouldn’t bike lanes just be for bikes? —Motorized Or Pedal Equality Demanded? Dear MOPED: First, the law. A motor on your two-wheeled apparatus doesn’t disqualify you from use of a bike lane, provided that you’re not riding a motorcycle, which D.C. law regards as anything with more than a 50cc engine or capable of traveling faster than 35 miles per hour. As you rightly state, there are motorized vehicles that don’t meet these thresholds, and legally these are permitted in bike lanes. Should they be there? GP doesn’t know. Most bikes in the city aren’t going more than 15 miles per hour, and adding much faster traffic to the narrow strip of pavement that constitutes most bike lanes seems likes a recipe for trouble. At the same time, they’re not cars either, so if responsible moped riders are willing to accept that sometimes bicyclists might slow them down—and to behave accordingly in those cases—changing the law to ban them outright seems unnecessary. —GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsDC. Got a question about bicycling? Email gearprudence@washcp.com.
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I have been seeing sex workers for 30 years, and I shudder to think how shitty my life would have been without them. Some have become friends, but I’ve appreciated all of them. Negative stereotypes about guys like me are not fair, but sex work does have its problems. Some clients (including females) are difficult. These difficult clients aren’t typically violent; more often they’re inconsiderate and demanding. Clients need to understand that all people have limits and feelings, and money doesn’t change that. But what can we clients do to fight stupid, regressive, repressive laws that harm sex workers? —Not A John You can speak up, NAJ. The current line from prohibitionists—people who want sex work to remain illegal—is that all women who sell sex are victims and all men who buy sex are monsters. But talk to actual sex workers and you hear about considerate, regular clients who are kind, respectful, and sometimes personally helpful in unexpected ways. (A sex worker friend had a regular client who was a dentist. He did some expensive dental work for my uninsured friend—and he did it for free, not for trade.) You also hear about clients who are threatening or violent—and how laws against sex work make it impossible for them to go to the police, making them more vulnerable, not less, to violence, exploitation, and abuse. There is a large and growing sex workers’ rights movement, NAJ, which Emily Bazelon wrote about in a terrific cover story for the New York Times Magazine (“Should Prostitution Be a Crime?” May 5, 2016). Bazelon spoke with scores of sex workers active in the growing and increasingly effective decriminalization movement. Amnesty International recently called for the full decriminalization of sex work, joining Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization, and other large, mainstream health and human rights groups. But there’s something missing from the movement to decriminalize sex work: clients like you, NAJ. Maggie McNeill, a sex worker, activist, and writer, wrote a blistering piece on her blog (“The Honest Courtesan”) about a recent undercover police operation in Seattle. Scores of men seeking to hire sex workers—the men ranged from surgeons to bus drivers to journalists—were arrested and subjected to ritualized public humiliation designed to discourage other men from paying for sex. “These crusades do nothing but hurt the most vulnerable individuals on both sides of the transaction,” McNeill wrote. “The only way to stop this [is for] all of you clients out there get off of your duffs and fight. Regular clients outnumber full-time whores by at least 60 to 1; gentlemen, I suggest you rethink your current silence, unless you want to be the next one with your name and picture splashed across
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newspapers, TV screens and websites.” The legal risks and social stigma attached to buying sex doubtless leave some clients feeling like they can’t speak up and join the fight, and the much-touted “Nordic Model” is upping the legal stakes for buyers of sex. (The Nordic Model makes buying sex illegal, not selling it. In theory, only clients are supposed to suffer, but in practice, the women are punished, too. Bazelon unpacks the harms of the Nordic Model in her story—please go read it.) But sex workers today, like gays and lesbians not too long ago, are coming out in ever-greater numbers to fight for their rights in the face of potentially dire legal and social consequences.
A father who pushes his son into a dress is just as abusive and unfit as one who forbids his son to wear a dress. Clients need to join the fight—or perhaps I should say clients need to rejoin the fight. In The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, which I read while I was away on vacation, author Faramerz Dabhoiwala writes about “Societies of Virtue” formed all over England in the late 17th century. Adulterers, fornicators, and Sabbath-breakers were persecuted by these groups, NAJ, but their campaigns against prostitutes were particularly vicious and indiscriminate. Women were thrown in jail or publicly whipped for the crime of having a “lewd” appearance. The persecution of streetwalkers, brothel owners, and women guilty of “[walking] quietly about the street” went on for decades. Then a beautiful thing happened. “In the spring of 1711, a drive against ‘loose women and their male followers’ in Covent Garden was foiled when ‘the constables were dreadfully maimed, and one mortally wounded, by ruffians aided by 40 soldiers of the guards, who entered into a combination to protect the women,’” Dabhoiwala writes. “On another occasion in the East End, a crowd of over a thousand seamen mobbed the local magistrates and forcibly released a group of convicted prostitutes being sent to a house of correction.” Male followers of loose women, soldiers of the guard, mobs of seamen—not altruists, but likely clients of the women they fought to defend. And thanks to their efforts and the efforts of 18th-century sex workers who lawyered up, marched into court, and sued the pants off Society of Virtue members, by the middle of the 18th century, women could walk the streets
without being arrested or harassed—even women known to be prostitutes. I’m not suggesting that today’s clients form mobs and attack prohibitionists, cops, prosecutors, and their enablers in the media. But clients can and should be out there speaking up in defense of sex workers and themselves. Sex workers are speaking up and fighting back— on Twitter and other social-media platforms, sometimes anonymously, but increasingly under their own names—and they’re staring down the stigma, the shame, and the law on their own. It’s time for their clients to join them in the fight. —Dan Savage
I’m a 26-year-old gay male, and I like to explore my feminine side by wearing female clothes. I have a boyfriend who likes to do the same thing, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell his parents that he’s gay and explores his feminine side by wearing female clothes. I want to adopt early school-age boys and teach them that they can explore their feminine side by wearing female clothes. My question has two parts. First, in regard to my boyfriend, how can I encourage him to tell his parents he’s gay and wants to explore his feminine side by wearing female clothes? Second, in regard to adopting early school-age boys, how do I teach an early school-age boy that it’s OK for him to explore his feminine side by wearing female clothes and also teach him that he doesn’t have to be gay at the same time? —Dressing A Future Together Wear whatever you like, DAFT, but please don’t adopt any children—boys or otherwise, early school-age or newborn, not now, probably not ever. Because a father who pushes his son into a dress is just as abusive and unfit as one who forbids his son to wear a dress. You two don’t need kids, DAFT, you need a therapist who can help your boyfriend with his issues and help you with yours (your extremely odd and potentially damaging ideas about parenting, not wearing female clothes). Before I sign off: a big thank you to the Dan Savages who filled in for me while I was on vacation—Dan Savage, Orlando-based sportswriter; Dan Savage, London-based theatrical marketing executive; and Dan Savage, Brooklyn-based designer. You guys did a great job! And here’s something clients of sex workers can do without going public: The Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) is running a pilot program to help incarcerated sex workers. Send a book to an imprisoned sex worker, become a pen pal, or make a donation by going to SWOPbehindbars.org and clicking on “10 Ways to Help Incarcerated Sex Workers.” Non-clients are welcome to help, too! —DS Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.
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Would-be assassin John Hinckley won release from St. Elizabeths. Fellow patient Franklin Frye died in custody after serving 45 years over a $20 necklace. By Jim McElhatton On aug. 24, 1971, attorney James S. Dawson, III, wrote to a worried former client who was locked up at St Elizabeths Hospital amid a rampage that saw 18 mental patients go to jail for setting fires to couches, trashing offices, and smashing windows. “I got you acquitted of your charges on the grounds of insanity,” Dawson wrote to Franklin Frye, who was accused of stealing a $20 necklace and wanted to know when he was finally going home. “Cooperate with your doctors and when you get well, you’ll get out,” the lawyer continued. That was 45 years ago. Since then, thousands of people have been released from what is now a mostly vacant hospital for the mentally ill, as patient population rolls plummeted from more than 4,000 to less than 400. Among those most recently ordered free: St. Elizabeths’ most infamous patient, John Hinckley, Jr., who shot President Reagan in 1981 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Scores of others simply walked away. Within months of Frye’s arrival in 1971, The Washington Evening Star reported that more than 100 patients were missing without leave, as hospital officials blamed unlocked doors and disinterested security guards. After a while, the escapees were simply dropped from the patient rolls. But not Franklin Frye. He died of cancer on May 11 after spending virtually his entire adult life inside St Eliz-
abeths, which was transferred from federal to city oversight in the mid-1980s. He was 70 years old. If he had pleaded guilty to the petty theft with which he was charged, he may have spent a few weeks in jail. Unlike inmates who know their sentences, the criminally insane are admitted indefinitely. And under the law, it doesn’t matter much what offense put Frye there in the first place—or that he insisted until the end that he didn’t steal the necklace. “It’s not a fair world,” says Dr. Allen Frances, former chair of the psychiatric department at Duke University, comparing the starkly different outcomes in the Frye and Hinckley cases. “If someone has resources and external support, they get a very different deal than people who are poverty stricken.” It’s impossible to say for sure whether paid counsel would have been able to secure Frye’s release, but surely his case would not have been so egregiously ignored by the court system. From 2008 to 2014, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which had oversight of Frye’s case, lost track of it, as a motion for his release sat on the docket of a dead judge before anyone finally noticed more than five years later. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell tells City Paper the delay was “unacceptable.” Since learning of the lapses in Frye’s case, she says the District’s federal court has adopted measures to ensure motions don’t languish in old closed cases involving presid-
ing judges who are no longer on the bench. Judge Howell, who was appointed two years after the Frye case resurfaced, says that she has ordered St. Elizabeths to provide annual reports, which she will personally inspect, on any patients whose closed cases come under the court’s review. In addition, she says, the court has new procedures to identify and reopen any criminal cases in which a motion was filed on the docket of a judge no longer on the bench. She says one such case has been discovered so far. “It helps me sleep better at night,” Judge Howell says of the changes. But they didn’t come soon enough for Frye. While his motion sat ignored, his family watched as attorneys for Hinckley vigorously advocated for the would-be assassin’s expanding freedoms. Since 1991, there have been more than 600 docket entries in the Hinckley case, compared to fewer than 60 in Frye’s case. “It’s so unfair,” says Frye’s niece, Jevon Holmes. “It’s like the case wasn’t important to anyone.” Over the years, Holmes sometimes asked her uncle about Hinckley. “I’d ask him, ‘Do you know this guy?’ because I wanted to know. And he said, ‘He’s on the same ward as me. Of course, I knew him.’” Family members say Frye talked about playing cards with Hinckley and helping to look after the feral cats Hinckley took to feeding on the hospital grounds.
D.C. officials declined to answer specific questions about Frye or his care, including several his family raised both before and after his death, alleging abusive treatment over the years. “To respect his privacy and follow the law, we can’t discuss details of his medical treatment, but Mr. Frye received the best treatment available to help him recover,” Phyllis Jones, director of legislative and public affairs for the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health, wrote in an email. Dr. Roger Peele, a former psychiatric department chief at St. Elizabeths who worked at the hospital from 1979 to 1995, says he has no recollection of Frye but doubts any concerted effort to keep him at the hospital. “There are these reviews constantly taking place about whether patients needed to remain,” he says. “You wanted the people to get out. That was the goal.” Peele says the patient population has dropped from about 6,000 when he first arrived to fewer than 400 today. “Today, hardly anybody stays that long.” On Jan. 26, 1971, the crime roundup section of The Washington Post included the following among dozens of newly reported indictments: “Franklin H. Frye, 24, of 4926 11th St. NE, robbery in connection with the theft of $20.” The brief went on to name the victim. A woman by the same name lives in a dingy apartment building about four hours outside of Washington. She doesn’t answer phone
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Courtesy of brother William Frye
Franklin HOpkins Frye was born on Jan. 31, 1946, the middle child of Mildred and William Frye. As multiple family members tell the story, his father had just been fired from his job and was out drinking when a few friends teased him about how they had just been over to see Mildred—a ridiculous taunt, given that she had just given birth to Penny days earlier. “My mother was a fine woman, a beautiful woman, and the guys would say, ‘Oh man, we just left your wife,’” Penelope says, recounting the family stories. “They were probably just teasing him because they knew they could and they knew it would bother him.” Enraged and likely drunk, Penelope says, her father stood on the doorstep and shot a round through the door. Franklin, just a toddler, fell from his mother’s arms, hitting his head hard on the floor. As a baby, family members talked about how Franklin would be the smartest in the family, but they never talked that way again. The court has sealed reports from St. Elizabeths, but a 2014 filing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office characterized Frye’s mental illness as “schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type” and, among other things, “borderline intellectual functioning.” At Shaw Junior High School, Frye struggled. “But they just passed him along,” his brother William says. At home, things went missing: watches, clocks and even television sets. Frye’s siblings say he wasn’t stealing, but just insatiably curious and perhaps compulsive about wanting to understand how things worked. He tinkered and took things apart, but struggled to put them back together again. As a teenager, Frye moved in with his father. “She didn’t know what to do with him,” William says of his mother. “She sent him to live with my father, and it was a terrible mistake.” When his father’s watch went missing, the younger Frye was sent off to Cedar Knoll, a reform school where he lived for years, despite Mildred’s persistent attempts to win his release, Penelope says. “My father just didn’t want to be bothered,”
The tattered old papers give no indication what, if anything, city officials said in response.
Franklin Frye as a child
One of the last photos of Franklin Frye
Courtesy of niece Jevon Holmes
calls to a number listed under her name. She doesn’t answer her door. She doesn’t respond to notes slipped underneath it and left with the apartment manager. Yet, she is perhaps the only person alive who can say, with any certainty, whether Frye was even involved in the petty crime that resulted in a lifetime spent inside St. Elizabeths. As Frye told anyone who would listen, he was hanging around a neighborhood friend named Squirt on the Mall with a few other guys, according to his sister, Penelope Campbell. Someone else grabbed a woman’s necklace and the crowd took off running—everyone except Frye. “Maybe they ran and Frankie decided to take the blame,” she says. “But he would always tell me he didn’t do it.” Older brother William Frye says his brother saw no need to run away. “He said, ‘I didn’t do anything to the lady, so why should I run?” William says. “His whole life was ruined.”
William says. For years, he says, his mother tried to get Franklin out of Cedar Knoll. Indeed, among papers her family discovered after Mildred’s death is a Feb. 10, 1964, letter she wrote to the chief of the city’s child welfare department, pleading for Franklin’s release.
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“I was not informed of the time and date of his trial and was thereby prevented from providing him with competent counsel,” she wrote. “Furthermore, I have not yet been informed of the charge or charges for which he was imprisoned nor of the terms of his confinement.”
On June 10, 1971, the clinical director at St. Elizabeths informed Mildred via letter that her son was being held there by court order after being found not guilty by reason of insanity. Frye wrote to his lawyer for help. But Dawson told him he was no longer assigned to the case. Later, Frye had a string of public defenders assigned to look after his case for the rest of his life. Within months of Frye’s arrival, riots broke out at St. Elizabeths, which at the time was under federal control. Soon, the hospital came under scrutiny from congressional auditors, who found patients waiting years to be released because of failed discharge planning. As they languished, the patients grew “disillusioned and had begun to deteriorate in their behavior,” auditors found. Penelope says the early visits to see Frye left her with little to do but watch her overmedicated brother “walking around like a zombie pissing on himself. … They didn’t want to hear anything he had to say.” Frye’s court files described a pattern of onagain, off-again troubling behavior over the years, including a failure to follow hospital rules, which his siblings insist he never exhibited to such a degree until he got to St. Elizabeths. A 2001 attempt to release him ended after a few months because of what one memo described as a “rapid deterioration” in Frye’s mental capacity. Among the documents in Frye’s case files was a government attorney expressing concern that he denied his mental illness and said he would not take any medication if he was released. “In summary, defendant’s inability to comply with hospital rules and prescribed medication has resulted in his extended confinement,” the attorney wrote. Franklin’s last mOntHs were spent being shuttled between St. Elizabeths and hospital rooms for cancer treatment. “I started praying to God when he got sick to take him away,” Penelope says. “He was miserable over there. He’d cry and say, ‘I don’t have no business being over here.’” On occasional day trips to see family, Franklin loved to dance, sing, and dress nicely. At Thanksgiving, he needed the help of a wheelchair, was noticeably gaunt, and hardly talked. “He wasn’t the same,” Holmes says. “I’m not sure if he thought we were looking at him different. Some people shun you when their health is declining because they don’t want the family to see them that way.” A few weeks after Franklin’s death, some of the patients joined his family to hold a ceremony at the hospital. One patient sang a song he wrote for Franklin. Months later, sitting in his backyard, William still recalls the lyrics. “He said, ‘In this life, the wind blows. Sometimes it goes into the valleys, and the wind blows. Sometimes it goes to the mountains,
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A song written by Franklin Frye and the wind blows. But sometimes, it blows into trouble, and yet the wind still blows.’” “And then he said, ‘The wind has blown and now he has gone away, because the wind has blown.’” Frye’s Family believes spending all those years inside St. Elizabeths made him sicker, effectively trapping him, because it became impossible for him to show the improvements necessary to be released in the first place. “You’re in a situation where you’re being told constantly what to do, and that for me, even after a few weeks, I would be disturbed,” says Mary Nell Clark, an attorney for Disability Rights DC, a nonprofit that monitors the hospital. “That’s what institutional living does, and that’s why we try so hard to get people into the community to receive services there.” Frye’s family members say he wasn’t spared abuse over the years. Penelope recalls Franklin being shoved once by someone upset about how his new shoes left scuff marks on the cafeteria floor. He tumbled on the jagged metal edge of a garbage can, she says. Eventually, he’d lost 75 pounds and nearly died of blood poisoning, she adds.
Franklin had hope that he could spend the last years of his life outside of the hospital. It seemed more than possible when the D.C. Public Defender’s Service filed a motion for his release in April 2008. But then it took more than five years to be transferred from the docket of Judge John Garrett Penn, who died in 2009. The D.C. Public Defender’s office did not respond to inquiries about Frye’s case, and most of the lawyers working on it over the years have since left. William Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, says the office entered into a consent order for Frye’s release to a nursing home based on his “significant physical and mental deterioration.” “The fact that he died before his placement is unfortunate, and our condolences go out to his family,” Miller says. Ironically, in death, the court system was far more efficient in handling Frye’s case. Five days after he died on May 11, 2016, the proceedings of United States v. Franklin Frye were closed. CP Email Jim McElhatton at jimmcelhat@gmail. com.
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The 14th Street Corridor is flooded with spots trying to blend club with cuisine. MeMories of Meals at Masa 14 are a little hazy for most Washingtonians. Especially for those who visited on Tuesdays, when allnight happy hour pricing meant swilling vodka-spiked strawberry lemonades in the downstairs bar before texting both exes to see who would show up on the roof for a little grind time (raises hand). Or, maybe it was the bottomless brunch that led to hazy recollections and Netflix-and-nap (raises hand). But now, some diners are making new, and unexpected memories, at Masa 14, one of 14th Street’s first nightlife hubs. Instead of typical club grub, they’re delighting in foie gras and black truffles on house brioche, and later, dry-aged dairy cow with chanterelles and huckleberries. These dishes fly out of Chef Ryan Ratino’s kitchen and land with grace— and the occasional liquid nitrogen cloud— in front of diners at the chef ’s counter that launched in May. The 26-year-old’s resume includes stints at Michelin-starred Big Apple restaurants Caviar Russe and WD-50, plus a term as executive chef at Virginia’s L’Auberge Provencale. At $80 per person for about 10 courses ($125 with wine), D.C. diners hungering for a meal that’s both artful and technically impressive should be lining up to try it, but they’re not. “It’s tough,” Ratino says. “Masa’s not known for something like that. We’re getting bookings, but only here and there.” What’s stifling success, both in terms of reservations and nods of enthusiasm from the press, is Masa 14’s reputation as a nightlife establishment—the kind where drinks flow and food is regarded as merely sustenance, not something to be savored. “I think the people who do come have an amazing time and find it super odd that we have this,” Ratino says. “That’s what I feel like is the hardest part, opening people’s minds up that something else is in the building that’s unlike anything offered before.” Masa 14 Partner Kaz Okochi admits that when the restaurant opened they had a young crowd in mind, one that likes to stay out late. Okochi’s instincts were right, and the par-
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ty crowd came in huge numbers. “Of course, we’re happy it was bringing in money, but still our focus is on the food.” Over the years, interest in the kitchen got lost, and Okochi says they have to work hard to change perception. Other restaurants face the same problem. Once booze and a bumping atmosphere are the bigger draw, it’s more difficult to sell the food as serious. “I remember Lima, the chef was really good and I told a lot of people they serve great food, but a lot of people didn’t think it was a restaurant,” Okochi says of Lima Lounge & Fujimar Restaurant, which shuttered in January 2015. With rising rents and growing competition, it’s obvious why a restaurant might want to embrace its lounge side, stay open later, and host a DJ: There’s a higher profit margin on alcohol, and people demand places to party. Just look at the lines snaking around the block for Marvin and Provision No. 14 long after the last canoodling couple finishes a meal. But can clubs and reputable cuisine coexist? Yes, says Washingtonian magazine food critic Ann Limpert. “I’m in search of really good food wherever it is,” she says. “That goes for every type of place, whether it’s for a gas station or a club.” But execution matters. Limpert describes a meal at Bar Pilar—another 14th Street spot popular with the drinking crowd where Chef Jesse Miller helms the kitchen. “We had an 8:30 dinner, and at 10 a DJ sets up and starts playing Ja Rule and J. Lo,” she says. “We were eating our brisket for two, and it was so incongruous—I expected that downstairs but not upstairs.” Comparatively, Marvin and Provision No. 14 in the same neighborhood execute the dining and dancing dichotomy well because the spaces for each are separate. “We never have to ask people to leave or drop the disco ball on them,” says Marvin general manager Justin Marshall. The spaces share one entrance, but the doorman has a list of the restaurant’s reservations, and diners can cut the line to reach their tables. Same goes for Provision No. 14, with its downstairs dining room and DJ-fueled upstairs lounge that has a separate sound system. As a perk, servers invite dinner guests to
Chef Ryan Ratino plates at Masa 14.
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use the back stairs to access the upstairs area, giving them first dibs. When Mike Bramson was preparing to open Provision No. 14 with his Social Restaurant Group partners, he was warned that a dual concept can be tough. “We were told it’s hard to pull off, to have a solid culinary program and have that nightlife,” Bramson says. “I’ve seen it be successful overseas, so I wanted to attempt it.” He feels they are satisfying customers in the kitchen and upstairs. Like Masa 14, both Marvin and Provision No. 14 have made recent chef hires to bring more attention to the dining room. Chef Angel Franco, formerly of Compass Rose, minibar, and Maketto, is consulting on Marvin’s menu while Provision No. 14 just hired new chef de cuisine Jacob Williams.
But it’s not easy for clubby restaurants to attract chefs with clout, says nightclub partnerturned-restaurateur Reese Gardner, who’s behind Copperwood Tavern, Orange Anchor, and others. He says restaurants have a better shot at longevity when they’re focused on the food. It’s about balance and finding a way for concepts to complement each other, which remains difficult. “I know a lot of chefs, and none of them want to work in a place that has a DJ booth,” he says. “The customers don’t appreciate them, they don’t take it seriously, and when you do dancing and stand-up drinking, it’s very tough on the venue.” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.
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United Swill of America A toast to David Chang!
The District is currently awash in myriad macro brews and regional expressions—AKA the shitty beers Momofuku CCDC founder David Chang famously can’t stop (won’t stop?) guzzling. And he’s not alone. Local tastemakers occasionally still wrap their well-trained lips around old —Warren Rojas
favorites. Here’s what they love, and what they don’t. Derek Brown, owner/operator of Columbia Room, Eat the Rich, Mockingbird Hill, The Passenger, and Southern Efficiency Yea: My “cheap, watery swill” is Bud Light. I truly love it. Nay: I don’t really like PBR. Sorry, hipsters. Greg Engert, beer director/brewer at Neighborhood Restaurant Group Yea: Just this past weekend, as a groomsman slated for a later speech in an Upstate [New York] wedding, I gladly tapped, cracked, and sipped ice cold cans of Utica Club. Nay: My earliest drinking involved one of the old-school classics—Genesee Cream Ale—and this undoubtedly encouraged my desire for something more when it came to American beer.
Patrick Mullane, co-founder/vice president at Hellbender Brewing Company Yea: My go-to cheap-ass beer is Miller High Life. I spent a few years moonlighting in the kitchen at the old Toledo Lounge in Adams Morgan. The kitchen was 110 degrees and the servers would bring me a cold bottle of High Life towards the end of the night. Nay: Straight Budweiser—A.K.A. Bud Heavy. It’s sickly sweet and sits in my stomach like a rock. One can will end my night. Michael Saccone, general manager of Hank’s on the Hill and Twisted Horn Yea: High Life has always been and always will be my go-to cheap beer of choice. I’ve always found it to be super light and crisp and refreshing. Nay: Bud Light, which I absolutely despise.
Jon Taub, chef/owner of Bub and Pop’s Yea: Steel Reserve 211— cheap and gets you where you’re trying to get to. Nay: Steel Reserve—it already deleted five years of my life. Tony Tomelden, owner/ operator of The Pug and Brookland’s Finest Yea: I’m a whiskey guy 99 percent of the time. If I have to drink a beer, it’s generally Coors Light. Nay: Not really any specific one I refuse to drink. Rob Weland, chef/owner of Garrison Yea: I drank a lot of Schaefer back in the day growing up in New Jersey. Cheap and cold! Nay: Milwaukee’s Best— the Beast. That’s just terrible beer.
Want to try some nostalgic shitty beer? Head here: Miller High Life— Milwaukee, Wis. The self-proclaimed “champagne of beers” has been fueling benders since 1903. Pound one at Molly Malone’s or Twisted Horn.
Narragansett Lager— Providence, R.I. A blast from the past for suds=sipping New Englanders. Pound one at Boundary Stone or Luke’s Lobster.
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National Bohemian— Baltimore, Md. Natty Boh was Charm City’s claim to adult beverage fame before The Brewer’s Art upped the ante. Pound one at Eat the Rich or The Pug.
Pabst Blue Ribbon— Milwaukee, Wis. A private equity firm absorbed the onetime dive bar staple in 2014. Pound one at The Big Hunt or Hill Country.
Yuengling Lager— Pottsville, Pa. The oldest continuously operating brewery in America has been cranking out thirst quenchers for nearly two centuries. Pound one at Black Jack or Clyde’s.
UnderServed The best cocktail you’re not ordering
What: Transfigurations, with black limeinfused Dolin Blanc Vermouth, Neisson Rhum Agricole, and dry Curaçao, garnished with grated black lime. Where: Hazel, 808 V St. NW; (202) 8474980; hazelrestaurant.com Price: $11 What You Should Be Drinking: Black limes—which lose their water after drying out in the sun—are prized in Middle Eastern cuisine for their sour, smoky, and earthy flavor. Chef Rob Rubba uses them in both a crudo dish and a cheesecake dessert. When Neighborhood Restaurant Group operations director Peter Koll sought to incorporate a kitchen ingredient into the botanical, aperitif-heavy list, the black lime made sense. “We played around with a few different things like kaffir lime and Thai basil, but ultimately black lime really stood out,” he says. The fruit, purchased in Union Market, is smashed, added to the vermouth, refrigerated, and allowed to steep for about two days—just long enough to add bitterness. It’s then stirred with Neisson Rhum Agricole and dry Curaçao, strained, and garnished with grated black lime. Like other drinks on the cocktail menu, the name is a hat tip to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Why You Should Be Drinking It: Citrus-forward cocktails can come across as one-note, but not so when they incorporate something as unexpected as the Persian culinary staple. “It’s super clean and really lets the complexity of the black lime show through without the bitterness,” Koll says. Infusing the fruit in delicate blanc vermouth offsets the tartness, and Rhum agricole gives it a vegetal component that matches the limes’ earthiness and fermented funkiness. Dried peels from the laraha, a Valencia orange-like fruit that’s distilled into dry Curaçao liqueur, augment the drink’s citrus taste. “Once people get it, they’re really surprised with how delicate it is and how good it is as a start to their meal,” Koll says. The best pairing might just be that aforementioned black lime-topped hamachi crudo, served with crispy rice, radish, hibiscus, and smoked yogurt. —Kelly Magyarics
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Let’s hear it for brevity. In a time when most movies—especially summer blockbusters—rarely clock in at less than two hours, it’s not hard to have a deep appreciation for the art of the short film. Introduce characters, plot, and wrap it all up in less than 20 minutes. DC Shorts gets this, and that’s why—now in its 13th year—it’s one of D.C.’s most celebrated film festivals. And this year is no exception. City Paper’s critics previewed samplings of each showcase, and below you’ll find our (short, because we, too, celebrate brevity) reviews of the good, the bad, and the downright weird in this year’s festival. —Matt Cohen
It was damp, dark and smelled like wood: Odysseus and his men await inside the Trojan Horse for their famous ambush, but their conversations are more Seinfeldian than bellicose. Oh, and the dialogue is in German, which adds to the hushed nuttiness of it all. (Side note: Alec Baldwin should do a comedic reboot of The Hunt For Red October.)
and a Romani trailer park is really a small story about power—and how the young clumsily absorb its lessons.
My Aleppo: An observational documentary about a Syrian family that has resettled in South Africa. They grapple with their decision to flee, as every Skype conversation with people back home is freighted with worry. The camera doesn’t capture much, but the film becomes an intimate portrait of dread and guilt.
SHOWCASE 5: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES
SHOWCASE 3: WAR AND PEACE
Mine: What happens when two people grow old together and then stroll into a restricted wooded area, looking for a long-buried item? Grim and unfunny things—and a ham-handed metaphor or two.
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By Joe Warminsky Conversations are the key to Showcase 3, serving as a reminder that conflict often comes with a huge side-helping of talk—some of it mundane, some of it loaded. The climax of Patriot stings, and a brief rumination on jihad (in the broadest sense) makes My Aleppo resonate.
Patriot: Xenophobia and sexism are front and center for an English girl with a politically active father. But what plays out in a wheat field
Showcase 3 screens Friday, Sept. 9 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
By Tricia Olszewski If there’s any theme to DC Shorts’ Showcase 5, it’s that youth is wasted on the young. Two shorts have boys (On the Roof ) and girls (Balcony) acting dumb, with potentially serious consequences. In Youth, meanwhile, a longmarried couple’s determination to recapture the titular bloom is derailed. Other entries range from pointless to sublime, with most falling somewhere in between. Its best entry, however, makes this showcase worth the price of admission alone. Harder Not Smarter: This 46-second animated film wouldn’t be so puzzling if not for
its title, which has little to do what goes on: An ER employee pretends he’s a doctor and offers split-second diagnoses. He’s neither working harder nor smarter, just idiotically. DCDC: A doc about the DC Downhill Club, a group of guys who search for neglected Districtarea swimming pools in which to skate. These dudes aren’t Lords of Dogtown trespassers, instead going up to the doors of houses with unfilled pools and offering the homeowners, say, a bit of yard work in exchange for the right to clean up the pool and rock their ’boards. It’s win-win for all involved, and makes for a winning documentary as well. Frogman: This film is told from the perspective of an adult son whose father was a “frogman,” or the equivalent of a Navy SEAL before there was such a thing. He then became a spy, leaving behind his family in mystery as he’d suddenly vanish for an unknown length of time or speak a code word to have his team show up at the door. The frogman’s wife claims that she still doesn’t know the particulars of her late husband’s job, which makes the documentary both intriguing
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Balcony: A British schoolgirl tries to do good, protecting and befriending an Afghan classmate who never socializes and is regularly mocked. But then she does something stupid that has fatal consequences. The themes expand beyond being an outsider to sexual abuse and how different kids respond to it—which gives this film some weight, but not enough to compensate for the melodrama. Fragile Storm: The standout of the group, this film packs a lot of power into its nearly 10 minutes. A young woman is apparently held captive by a man in the beginning of his senior years. He’s alternately gruff and tender with her, but all she wants to do is escape. The twist is brilliant and heartbreaking, and its message will resonate long after its ending. On the Roof: Even in the Middle East, boys will be boys. But these boys are of the dangerous, dare-provoking variety, bullying the weakest or the different among the group. One of the bullied has a revelation when he’s almost killed pulling a stunt, and it’s one that finally gives him the sense of freedom to be himself. It’s applaudable. The Quantum Lighter: An unbelievable premise makes for an unsatisfactory film, culminating with you wishing as much ill on one of the main characters as the woman who walks out on him. Youth: Another heartache, though with less force than Fragile Grace. A senior couple saves money to undergo procedures that will extend their lives. But after the wife’s is successful, the man finds out it will be more difficult for him. His decision is a slightly pulled gut-punch, but affecting nonetheless. Showcase 5 screens Friday, Sept. 9 at 9 p.m., Monday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m., and Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 9 p.m. at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
SHOWCASE 7: EXPRESS YOURSELF
By Casey Embert Showcase 7 uncovers a myriad of emotional experiences, ranging from loaded conversations to hilarious displays of rebellion. With a gasp-inducing ending, A Done Deal proves to be the highlight of the showcase, but you won’t leave without a few chuckles and adorable “awws” provided by the other films. A Done Deal: Remy, a high-strung hitman for a small-town mobster, is sent to kill Fernand, an older, lackadaisical associate, because he talks too much. But a cringe-worthy “Who’s
On First”-type misunderstanding about Star Wars and Star Trek derails Remy’s explicit plan to send Fernand to sleep with the fishes. What transpires is a grim story that morphs into a hilarious dark comedy. Air-Mail: Whimsical, paper-like animation creates an adorable story in which a simple girl falls in love with a macho boxer she could only dream of meeting. But her pesky black cat, perhaps sensing the woman’s palpable yearning, captures the boxer’s innocent goldfish as well as a bird made out of love letters to connect the two would-be lovers. It all proves that maybe cats are a girl’s best friend. Buck: Pack your bags! We’re goin’ on a guilt trip! A hungover, teenage DJ is dragged out of bed early in the morning and forced to go hunting with his father. Dad lays on the typical parental guilt when he tells his son that hunting is the way of life and partying isn’t going to get him anywhere. Yes, we’ve heard it all before. The son rolls his eyes into oblivion but unwittingly makes right with his father by the end of the film. Still, we get it already: Parents just don’t understand. The Real American: Alya, a Russian exchange student, faces a multitude of strange cultural barriers as she celebrates her 17th birthday with her American host family—a judgmental wanna-be mother figure and a super creepy “American Dad”—along with a snooty group of Rotary Club members. Alya proves to be the heroine of the film as she throws her middle fingers up at the cultural divide and shows her-
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self to be more genuine—and American—than any of these assholes. Sing For Your Supper: An idiom comes to life in this short film directed by Mu Son, in which a man with laryngitis struggles to acquire a decent meal in a totalitarian society where the quality of one’s food depends on their ability to actually sing for it. The man’s bleak future takes a saccharine sweet twist when he meets a charming rebel with a cause, and love—or just a good ol’ song and dance—saves the day. Bursting at the seams with optimism, it feels like a really long commercial for something wholesome, like Campbell’s Soup or Kraft Singles. Showcase 7 screens Saturday, Sept. 10 at 2 p.m. and Monday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
SHOWCASE 11: VIVA HISPANICA
By Noah Gittell Showcase 11 is dedicated to Latin cinema, but its best films focus on strong and soulful women. From singers to wrestlers to maids, these women are pushing back against the status quo and fighting for their claim on love, dignity, or even the right to earn a living. In the process, they claim our imagination, too. Soy Cubana: This 16-minute documentary about the Vocal Vidas—an all-female, a capella quartet in Santiago de Cuba—accomplishes a lot in its short runtime. It showcases the group’s unique sound (part Cuban, part black
gospel, with a bit of Bobby McFerrin), illuminates the lives and dreams of each of its members, and even makes a political case for art itself. “A people without culture is easily dominated by other forces.” Luchadora: In Mexico, Lucha Libre wrestling is the second-most popular sport, trailing only soccer. Luchadora is an engaging portrait of Luna Magica—female wrestler and single mom—and how a culture often characterized by machismo has reacted to the presence of a strong, famous, and powerful woman. Breakfast with Tiffany: A sweet, young man wakes up early to carry out a secret mission: breakfast in bed for the beauty sleeping at his side. This film is split into two: The first half is a bumbling romantic comedy, but it reaches a sad, startling conclusion as we come to grips with who the woman is and how they ended up together. Engaging but manipulative. Eden Hostel: A comedy narrated by a porcelain Virgin Mary hanging on the wall of a brothel, Eden Hostel is compelling but too cutesy to be really effective. Ultimately, it tries to do too much, mixing a predictable mismatched romance with some trite human truths. Well told, but not worth the telling. Rosa: Easily the stand-out of the group, Rosa explores the dichotomous existence of the housemaid with nuance and passion. The eponymous character cleans the home of a beautiful, wealthy young couple, and has an unshakeable bond with their young son. When things go wrong—as they
do, tragically, in the second half—she is carelessly shoved aside. Gripping and haunting. La Cueva Sagrada (The Holy Caves): A cloying high school comedy, The Holy Caves is the story of an unpopular teenager who starts a sex hotel in his father’s house in order to win the girl of his dreams. You got that? Me neither. The film is almost offensively stupid, but it is cut together with confidence and style. If only that were enough. Showcase 11 screens Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9 p.m., and Thursday, Sept. 15 at 5 p.m. at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
SHOWCASE 12: THE PRICE OF FAME
By Alan Zilberman Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, but that doesn’t mean that everyone should. Fame is a fickle mistress, as these shorts can attest, and while some of them only deign to explore cliches, others are genuinely inspired. Bullet: This is a documentary about David “The Bullet” Smith, a human cannonball who comes from a family of other human cannonpersons. It’s nostalgic, well-photographed, and concise enough to get its point across. An Average Story: A government economist discovers “The Most Average Man in Israel,” who eventually exploits the title for financial gain. Any worthwhile statistician would tell you that an average measures central tendency, so individual data points are irrelevant. The short is wry and funny, but its premise gets a failing grade. Enfant Terrible: Idiots at an art gallery accidentally destroy an artist’s installation, which is literal trash. This is a dark comedy, full of energy and cynicism, even if going after modern art is low-hanging fruit. I Used to Be Famous: This is a short fable about a washed-up boy band star, and how he struggles to connect with an audience. Many shorts strive to be moving, but this one actually gets there since the hero starts as a believably self-absorbed asshole. Shocker! He does not end up that way. Rate Me: This is the best short from the two showcases I’ve seen. It takes an online call girl service, and literally adapts 12 reviews of the same young woman. The ratings range from sincere insight into violent misogynistic fantasies, all the while the young woman remains silent. This is a shocking, inventive look at male entitlement. Somebody Else: The Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope finally finds its way to mainland China. This
might have been moving to the young man who wrote it, but it’s instantly forgettable to his audience—hence the unintentionally ironic title. Showcase 12 screens Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 5 p.m., and Thursday, Sept. 13 at 5 p.m. at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
SHOWCASE 13: CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
By Margaret Carrigan The magical-realist Zero M2 stands out in Showcase 13, which, as a whole, promises plenty of cringe-worthy moments, both comical and dramatic. Other notables include the simple and poignant 40 Aniversario and the visually poetic Boy-Razor. 40 Aniversario (40th Anniversary): Over an endearing home-cooked anniversary breakfast, a couple celebrates their marriage by revealing what they’ve hidden from each other for 40 years. Director J. Enrique Sánchez keeps the film’s cinematography simple as the entire narrative plays out calmly around the table, which only highlights the increasing absurdity of the pair’s confessions. Boy Razor: On a hot summer day at a water park, a young boy seeks revenge on his bullies. Director Peter Pontikis keys up the story’s suspense well with minimal dialogue, and the film reminds us that being the bigger person is rarely painless. Red Rover: A teenage couple flees their fundamentalist family preparing for Doomsday only to discover the end is truly nigh. The film strikes an eerie tenor, but is ultimately just a trite teen romance about sentimentalism and unmet expectations. Sundae: A mother bribes her son with the promise of a sundae to find her husband’s mistress. Unfortunately, kids will say anything to get ice cream, resulting in a botched sneak attack on the Other Woman. Simple and darkly funny. Zero M2 (Zero Square Meters): Broke and discouraged, a student seeks an affordable apartment in overcrowded Paris. He finds a great deal on a studio, but soon realizes it’s too good to be true as the landlord increasingly sizes down the space due to a loophole in the lease. Director Mat Landour skillfully toes the line of moody, magical, and mirthful.
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Film
Built to Thrill
Hans Petter Moland’s latest jocks Tarantino in the most shameless ways, while the co-writer of one of last year’s best foreign-language films delivers an astonishingly mediocre thriller. Disorder
In Order of Disappearance
In Order of Disappearance Directed by Hans Petter Moland
Disorder
Directed by Alice Winocour By Tricia Olszewski A gentle Norwegian snowplow operator goes berserk in Hans Petter Moland’s In Order of Disappearance. If you’re thinking that it’s because of the abundance of the white stuff in the small town of Tyos, you’re technically right—it’s just not the kind of white stuff that you need cleared from your driveway. Nils (Stellan Skarsgård) has just won Citizen of the Year for his dedication to keeping his neighborhood’s roads passable. He’s somewhat uncomfortable about being honored for “something you enjoy doing.” But he gives a short speech anyway and enjoys the evening out with his wife, not knowing that it would be his last peaceful one for some time: The next day, the couple is told that their son is dead, killed by a drug overdose. “Ingvar was no drug addict,” Nils tells a cop. He’s convinced that his kid was murdered. And thus the titular disappearing begins. Moland’s film is like the inverse of his 2010 offering, A Somewhat Gentle Man, also starring Skarsgård. (Kim Fupz Aakeson penned both.) In that story, Skarsgård played a gangster freshly released from jail, no longer in-
terested in violence and wanting to patch things up with his son, who tells people his father is dead. Here, his Nils is equally stoic, but his desire to inflict harm on others suddenly skyrockets. As Nils gets one name after another—each going up the chain of drug-dealer command— he goes full Death Wish, doing so with such remarkable ease that it’s necessary to seriously suspend disbelief. (Before his killing spree starts, Nils seems intent on offing himself, but it’s a fleeting moment that never resurfaces.) His choice of victims—specifically, well, the order of their disappearance—unintentionally escalates a gangster war between a Norwegian cartel led by the Count (Pål Sverre Hagen) and an “Albanian” one led by Papa (Bruno Ganz). One of the Count’s henchmen must constantly correct him: “They’re Serbs.” It’s a running joke in this Tarantino imitation, along with snickers about Nils’ last name (Dickman) and philosophical theorizing about, for instance, how warm-weather countries don’t have welfare. The black humor isn’t front and center, though, which results in the jokes sometimes hitting awkwardly amid the brutal, bloody violence. Nils himself disappears for a while as Moland chooses to focus on the true gangsters, and his wife is out of the picture as soon as the bloodletting begins. There are so many ne’erdo-wells stuffed into the film that they get confusing; Papa and his crew are late-chapter introductions, for one, and the faces become
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so interchangeable that an odd sub-sub-plot about two thugs who are having an affair gets lost entirely. Moland somewhat humorlessly marks each death with black screens serving as grave markers, each adorned with a cross (or star of David) and the full names of the deceased. But neither the humor nor the drama are strong enough not to feel derivative. Even Tarantino’s go-to surf music is dispatched occasionally. Moland may have included it to pay homage, but it only serves to remind you that you’re watching a lesser movie than Pulp Fiction. DisorDer’s protagonist is also involved in a war—but it’s one that’s going on mostly in his head. Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone) is on leave from the military for PTSD. Despite what his doctor tells him, he’s convinced he’ll be leaving on another tour soon. In the meantime, though, he takes a security job watching over the guests of a highprofile party at a lavish Lebanese businessman’s home. The next morning, a buddy who also worked the party tells Vincent that the host is looking for someone to look after his wife, Jessie (Diane Kruger), and son while he goes on a short business trip. So Vincent stays on—partly out of boredom, partly for the money, and partly because he’s a little taken with the elegant blond missus. Who cares if he’s paranoid? After all, it’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you.
Director and co-writer Alice Winocour has fashioned a thriller that’s efficient but largely unimaginative, which is surprising considering that her previous writing credit was Mustang, arguably last year’s best foreignlanguage film. (Her collaborator here is JeanStéphane Bron.) It’s not long before the wife and kid are followed and attacked—while with Vincent—and the reason isn’t terribly compelling. Nor is what the thugs are after, actually. Sure, your pulse quickens a little when the bad men show up. But the fact that the young son never even cries is telling. Besides the serviceable acting by Kruger and Schoenaerts, the best aspect of Disorder is the sound. From the tinnitus that rings Vincent’s ears to the Hans Zimmer-by-way-ofHitchcock score, what you hear is often more exciting than what you see. Streamlining a film to cut out the fluff can be a great thing; editing it till its bones show, however, is obviously less than ideal. The final scene is, admittedly, a bit shiver-inducing, suggesting that Winocour’s instincts were at least in the right place. But if the last 30 seconds of a movie is all that your audience remembers, perhaps next time you should be a bit more paranoid about whether what you’re committing to screen is truly worthwhile. CP In Order of Disappearance opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema. Disorder opens Friday at the Angelika Pop-Up.
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Point of Skew
Michael Joo’s large-scale works are a grand gesture that doesn’t quite feel right in the Sackler Gallery’s awkward space. “Perspectives: Michael Joo”
At the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery to July 9, 2017.
By Kriston Capps Michael Joo’s proJect at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is hard to see in context. His work, the latest in the museum’s splendid “Perspectives” series of Asian contemporary art installations, occupies the museum’s pavilion, same as the others in the series. Spacious and filled with light, the lobby pavilion is easily the best gallery the museum has to offer. But Joo’s piece is far more delicate and asks much more from its surroundings than other “Perspectives” shows. Maybe no space is quite up to the task. Joo’s “Perspectives” exhibit includes a tapestry and a mobile. Both objects take as their subjects the Korean red-crowned cranes, which migrate through the vast no man’s land between North and South Korea known as the Demilitarized Zone. Joo used silver nitrate and 3D scans of dead cranes from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History collection to create an abstraction—a tapestry of a sort, or perhaps a painting or photo print. His suspended mobile, comprising brass bars and volcanic-rock weights, traces the migratory patterns of the birds as tracked by satellites. With his work, Joo seeks to balance natural and technological sources as well as digital and traditional techniques. The mobile in particular is a compelling choice for representing partition in Korea, as it suggests stability and harmony; the political reality is teetering and fragile. Deploying such an iconically mid-century modernist gesture is a pointed comment in context. South Korea is one of the nations that is leading the 21st century, while North Korea has never moved much beyond the 19th century. That same asymmetry can be found in Joo’s painting, which pairs 21st-century digital scanning with 19th-century photo-printing methods. Nature knows no DMZs: The message in Joo’s piece is plain. But the Sackler pavilion is not the easiest place to receive it. The mobile is meant to move, for example, but the air inside the museum is still. (A museum staffer obliged a request to thwack it with a newspaper, setting the piece into motion and turn-
ing its brass beams into chimes that collide in satisfying gongs.) Stillness isn’t a problem for Joo’s mobile. It reads well as an abstraction in space. But the sounds of Crocs-clad museum visitors clomping down the stairs into the lower levels of the subterranean Sackler gallery, make it impossible to hear either the soft clangs of the piece in motion or the utter silence of the mobile in repose. Balance and tension are the critical components in so much of Joo’s work. While he is at times fond of using common or familiar objects in his sculptures, he eschews the snarkiness of post-minimalism. Consider “Expanded Access” (2011), a series of mirrored blown-glass sculptures that take the shape of cloth VIP rope barriers, interconnected in swooping peaks and valleys; or “Dissembled (version 2)” (2013), low-slung ironglass and ceramic sculptures that depict a pile of SWAT-gear shields. Joo’s “Perspectives” show is even more lyrical than those examples. It calls for quiet, even solitude. Unfortunately, that’s not something the Sackler can deliver. The Jean Paul Carlhian–designed underground complex that houses the Freer and Sackler Galleries (also the National Museum of African Art) is the Mistake on the Mall: Some works just won’t work in these spaces. The sunlight that streams into the Sackler pavilion will no doubt cast Joo’s show in different aspects as the season changes from summer to winter and back again. (And to be sure, “Perspectives” would be worth repeat visits if it were hung inside the museum gift shop.) Still, the echoes from the museum chamber are maddening. Just as Joo’s work relies on the weight of different tensions against one another, it also seeks some kind of balance with the viewer, too. An elusive state. One rather interesting aspect of the Sackler’s hanging for this show is how Joo’s 2D and 3D works come together inside the gallery. It’s hard to get a good view of the paintinglike piece without also taking in the sculpture;
Installation view of “Migrated” by Michael Joo (2016). it’s just not a white-cube show. That’s a feature, not a bug. The best perspective may be from the floor, looking up through the installation to the 13-foot tall abstraction, which rises high along the wall. “Perspectives” expresses an elegant concept: Military patrols along both sides of the 160-mile long DMZ have preserved, for
more than 60 years, an unparalleled ecological preserve for the red-crowned crane. That the DMZ could be a source of beauty, that nature can thrive where progress has failed, is a keen and gorgeous insight. CP 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 6331000. asia.si.edu.
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PoPs, the much-admired 2009 Louis Armstrong biography by Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout, was essentially a work of redemption. While even Armstrong’s harshest critics acknowledged the originality of his trumpet playing, he didn’t become beloved by being a genius. He got there by being an entertainer. By performing that beatific eyeroll and smile. By letting Joe Glaser—his powerful, mob-connected manager, whom Armstrong called “my Daddy” in Glaser’s 1969 New York Times obituary—keep him on the road 300 nights per year, playing to increasingly white audiences. By recording material white audiences loved, even if Armstrong thought it was shit: Most notably, the title song of the musical “Hello, Dolly!”Armstrong thought so little of Jerry Herman’s tune that neither he nor his band could recall it soon after the session where they’d cut it. But their version was huge, ending The Beatles’ 14-week reign of the pop charts in 1964. In other words, Armstrong achieved immortality by being—in the estimation of younger peers like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis—an Uncle Tom. And over the decades, Teachout argued, increasing discomfort with the grinning, non-threatening persona Armstrong cultivated made critics undervalue his contributions to music and culture. Teachout’s one-man-play Satchmo at the Waldorf, which followed his book by a couple of years and had a long off-Broadway run in 2014, compresses this line of thinking into a series of monologues set mostly in Armstrong’s dressing room. (Set designer Andrew Cohen evokes the luxury of a vanished era in Mosaic Theater Company’s sturdy new production.) It’s 1971, and Armstrong is in the last weeks of his life, having traded his brutal touring sched-
ule for a cushy residency at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Backstage huffing oxygen from a can, he is moved to defend his legacy. Craig Wallace, the ever-reliable D.C. actor who embodies Armstrong, also slips into the personas of two other figures: Glaser, the manager who engineers his client’s transformation into a mainstream entertainer, and Davis, who acknowledges Armstrong’s gift while condemning his pandering. Wallace sells these quick-changes easily, straightening his posture and adopting a more nasal tone when performing as Glaser, and donning sunglasses and a quicker cadence when he’s Davis. Teachout’s decision to have a single actor play all three parts has more to do with practicality than psychology: This Glaser tells us things Armstrong never knew. It’s only so helpful to compare Satchmo with Signature Theatre’s concurrent show about a pioneering black musician with a complicated sense of his identity, Jelly’s Last Jam. For one thing, this is a play, with no singing or dancing and just a smattering of Armstrong recordings played over scene changes. But if it gives us fewer examples of its subject’s genius, it offers more insight into how its subject thought of himself, as supplied by … Louis Armstrong. He began making audiotapes of his performances, but also of his conversations and private reflections, in 1947. Teachout was the first biographer to take advantage when these tapes became available in 2002. The play quotes at least one passage from the tapes verbatim, when Armstrong observes, “Every white man in the world got one [n-word] at least— they just love his dirty drawers.” A little later, he laments that the black audience that used to come see him in New York City has moved on, now preferring to hear Davis (“a stuck-up doctor’s son”) play the Village Vanguard. But he can still count on white crowds to turn out. Wallace lets his mostly-white audience absorb that and laugh before continuing. This is not the first production of Satchmo where this fourth-wall-breaking joke has operated in this way, and it won’t be the last. —Chris Klimek 1333 H St. NE. $20-$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.
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IdentIty Heft Complete Unknown
Directed by Joshua Marston complete unknown is a dreary movie built on an irresistible idea. It features a beautiful protagonist who literally reinvents herself every year or so, bouncing from city to city, changing her name and background, learning new trades, and breaking off relationships before they get serious. She is an intriguing, complex person, but what makes her fascinating is what makes the movie fail: We can’t invest in a character who isn’t invested in herself. Rachel Weisz plays “Alice,” previously known as Consuelo and Jennifer. Early on, she makes eyes at a sweet, portly economic analyst in a New York cafeteria, which gets her invited to his best friend’s birthday party. She knows what she’s doing. The friend is Tom (Michael Shannon), who immediately recognizes her as the girl who got away. Tom has an identity crisis of his own; his wife has been accepted to graduate school in California, but he isn’t sure if he wants to tag along. So when his disappearing high school sweetheart shows up at his house with a different name, a great new look, and an offer to school him in the art of personal re-invention, it’s something like a cosmic coincidence. Or maybe just shoddy screenwriting. Director Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) films these early scenes with a clear sense of purpose. His characters often hide in the corners of the frame, with negative space dominating their view. It highlights their disconnectedness, emptiness, and mutually selfdestructive focus on what’s absent from their lives. Like everything else about the film, it’s a choice that is more interesting than effective. It’s mysterious and beguiling, yes, but the film doesn’t have a story in its pocket—nor
the character development or point-of-view— to pay it off. When Tom and Alice reunite, Complete Unknown seems to click into place, and the negative space disappears. Alice flees the party, and Tom follows into her world, ready to embrace her way of invented life. A friendly senior citizen (Kathy Bates, in her element) injures herself on the street, and they pose as doctors, and follow her home to offer her treatment. In the comfort of the apartment she shares with her Haitian husband (a sparkling Danny Glover), Tom exercises his muscles of re-invention, with both his future and his past (which, Alice shows, is always subject to revision) in the balance. The actors are well-cast, but the script simply gives them too big a hill to climb. Weisz ably hints at a river of pain underneath her icy hot exterior, but the parameters of her character require her to remain frustratingly out of reach. We never like her because we never know her. Meanwhile, Shannon is always watchable, but his character is too passive to be compelling. Tom can’t decide whether to stay with his uncommonly attractive girlfriend, and when he abandons her that night to follow Alice, he can’t even bring himself to feel liberated by his decision. She lives in the moment, but he’s just a tourist there, which means neither can carry a compelling emotional arc. Maybe Complete Unknown would have worked better as a comedy. You know, one of those ‘80s movies in which a buttoned-up urbanite learns to let loose with the help of a freespirited dream girl. All the elements are there: An awkward domestic situation, an escalating series of lies, and a potentially wild, rambunctious night in the city. To turn this into compelling drama is an ambitious undertaking. At the very least, you’d need an artist with a penetrating understanding of his characters and what drives them, and Complete Unknown just doesn’t have that. Just like its protagonist, the film seems to have forgotten what it is, or it never knew in the first place. —Noah Gittell Complete Unknown opens Friday at Bethesda Row.
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Tickets for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office. 9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7PM Weekdays & Until 11PM on show nights. 6-11PM on Sat & 6-10:30PM on Sun on show nights.
PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!
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Music rock
Hill Country BarBeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Guthrie Brown. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050. Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. 6 p.m. Free. thelincolndc.com.
Vocal
tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Tony Sands. 8 p.m. $18–$39.50. thehamiltondc.com.
dJ Nights
BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mousetrap Indiepop Dance Night with DJ Mark Zimin. 9:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. 90s Tracks Dance Party. 10:30 p.m. $5. dcnine.com. SongByrD muSiC HouSe anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Booty Cheeks Dance Party with DJs Detroyt, Chloedees, and Burymeinamink. 10:30 p.m. $5–$10. songbyrddc.com.
World
kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Khatanbold Urlagbataar. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
couNtry
Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. (703) 754-6400. Zac Brown Band, Drake White and the Big Fire. 7 p.m. $30.50–$74.50. livenation.com.
Blues
BetHeSDa BlueS anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Popa Chubby. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.
Jazz
mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Steve Washington with Dial 251. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. national gallery of art SCulpture garDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Fred Hughes Trio. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. John Russell Lamkin III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.
electroNic
9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Flume, Basenji, Kenton Slash Demon. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930. com.
flaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Andrea Oliva, Jubilee. 8 p.m. $5–$12. flashdc.com.
located next door to 9:30 club
CITY LIGHTS: Friday
Friday
eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Armin Van Buuren, Ruben de Ronde. 9 p.m. $50. echostage.com.
2047 9th Street NW
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u Street muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Bit Funk, Juan Zapata. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.
FuNk & r&B
aCre 121 1400 Irving St. NW. (202) 328-0121. Kenny Sway and the Unknowns. 10 p.m. Free. acre121.com.
darrell haMMoNd
When Saturday Night Live announcer and former cast member Darrell Hammond takes the stage at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse this weekend, he might very well spend his time acting out the presidential election. Known equally well for his impression of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, the skilled improviser could probably create a compelling one-man-show about the Republican nominee and the potential first spouse. He knows both characters down to their annoying, albeit iconic, hand gestures. If you’re hoping to avoid political talk for a night, hope Hammond dumps the characters and starts describing his own life. His 2011 memoir, God, If You’re Not Up Here, I’m Fucked, describes episodes of drug abuse and self harm, not-so-rosy topics that nevertheless influence Hammond’s demeanor and work. In the years since the book came out, Hammond’s returned to Saturday Night Live but encountered another personal setback: being replaced in the role of Colonel Sanders in Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials by Norm Macdonald. In the apparently competitive world of greasy chicken promotion, the jokes must write themselves. Darrell Hammond performs at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington. $32. (703) 486-2345. arlingtondrafthouse.com. —Caroline Jones BirCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Jonathan Sloane Trio. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. u Street muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Bibi Bourelly, PJ. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.
saturday
Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. (703) 754-6400. Korn, Rob Zombie. 6:30 p.m. $25–$69.50. livenation.com. linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050. Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. 6 p.m. Free. thelincolndc.com. rHizome DC 6950 Maple St. NW. 75 Dollar Bill, Ben Bennett, Abstract Human. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.com
dJ Nights
rock
BirCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Bill Kitchen, Austin De Lone and Too Much Fun, Tom Principato Band. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com. BlaCk Cat BaCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Kevin Seconds, Steve Soto. 8:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Justin Trawick and the Common Good. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.
roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Bey vs. Jay Dance Party with DJs Basscamp and The Lothario. 10 p.m. $10. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
World eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Aster Aweke, Madingo Afework. 10 p.m. $48.40. echostage.com. HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Reggaefest featuring Bimshire, Maya, Maga, Tech. 10:30 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com.
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Blues
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com. Carter Barron ampHitHeatre 4850 Colorado Ave. NW. (202) 426-0486. D.C. Blues Festival. Noon. Free. nps.gov.
Jazz
mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Denyse Pearson and her Gentlemen of Distinction. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. John Russell Lamkin III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.
electroNic
9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Flume, Basenji, Kenton Slash Demon. 7 p.m. (Sold out). 930. com. DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Body Werk with Graham Hakte, Trevor Keen, Andy Grant, Katrina Mir. 10:30 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.
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flaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Justin Martin. 8 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Howard Jones, Stronger Sex. 8 p.m. $24.75–$32.75. thehamiltondc.com. muSiC Center at StratHmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Kraftwerk 3-D Concert. 8 p.m. (Sold out) strathmore.org. u Street muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Jerome Baker III, Rex Riot, Lean Quatifah, Mista Selecta, Kristy La Rat, Brad Piff. 10:30 p.m. $5. Wifisfuneral, Ski Mask the Slump God, Danny Towers. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.
FuNk & r&B
BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Prince with DJs Dredd and O’s Cool. 9:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com. wolf trap filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Salt-n-Pepa with Spinderella, All4-One, Color Me Badd, Coolio, Tone Loc, Rob Base, Young MC. 7 p.m. $37–$80. wolftrap.org.
suNday rock
BirCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Sawyer Fredericks, Amy Vachal. 7:30 p.m. $20. birchmere.com.
iota CluB & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Lisa Said, Don Zientara, Fuzz Queen. 7:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com. linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050. Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. 6 p.m. Free. thelincolndc.com. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Porches, Japanese Breakfast, Rivergazer. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
classical u.S. Capitol weSt lawn East Capitol and First streets NW. National Labor Day Concert. 8 p.m. Free. visitthecapitol.gov.
go-go HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. W.H.A.T. Band, Reaction, New Impressionz. 11 p.m. $30–$80. thehowardtheatre.com.
Blues BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.
Jazz BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. (202)667-0088. Gypsy Jazz with Gyula and the D-Mons. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossadc.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Joe Vetter Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.
electroNic eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Alesso. 9 p.m. $40. echostage.com. flaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. DJ Twinn, DJ Sean Morris. 9 p.m. $10. flashdc.com. SounDCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. MK. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Tropixxx Labor Day Party. 6 p.m. velvetloungedc.com.
MoNday Blues
mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Mark “Muleman” Massey, Billy Earheart. 7 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
CITY LIGHTS: saturday
75 dollar Bill
As far as origin stories go, New York’s 75 Dollar Bill’s is about as simple as they get: It all started with a box. One day, percussionist Rick Brown saw a wooden box on the sidewalk, wondered what it would sound like, and took it home with him. “It sounded good and, combined with my natural pack-rat tendencies, that meant I had to have it,” he told Bandcamp recently. The box was used in various jams with fellow musicians, but it wasn’t until guitarist Che Chen heard it that 75 Dollar Bill came into fruition. Chen was looking to start a new project and “as soon as I heard Rick playing that box, I thought, ‘That’s the sound.’” What’s that sound, exactly? It’s a mesmerizing, drone-y project that combines Chen’s North African-inspired riffs and guitar playing style with Brown’s minimalist percussion. It’s a fusion of styles from various regions that add up to something unique and mesmerizing. You’ve got two chances to catch the duo this weekend, as it performs Saturday at RhizomeDC in Takoma, and Sunday at U Street’s Red Onion Records. It’s a rare chance to see big sounds coming from such a minimal set up, which, yes, still includes that box. 75 Dollar Bill performs with Ben Bennett and Abstract Human at 4 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10 suggested donation. rhizomedc.org. —Matt Cohen 32 september 2, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com
tuesday
World
9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Television, Chris Stamey. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.
couNtry
rock
DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Khruangbin. 9 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com. warner tHeatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. Widespread Panic. 8 p.m. $56. warnertheatredc.com. wolf trap filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Meghan Trainor, Hailee Steinfeld, Common Kings. 7 p.m. $32–$65. wolftrap.org.
World
HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Richard Bona. 8 p.m. $25–$45. thehowardtheatre.com. kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Rajab Suleiman and Kithara. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
Jazz
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Sharon Clark. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.
WedNesday rock
9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. of Montreal, Ruby the Rabbitfoot. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com. DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Bright Light Bright Light, Chelsea Shag. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Basement, Eskimeaux, Ovlov. 7:30 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
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HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Kassav. 7 p.m. $30–$40. thehowardtheatre.com. kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Yvette Landry Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. liBrary of CongreSS CooliDge auDitorium First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Yvette Landry Trio. Noon. Free. loc.gov.
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twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Bobby Muncy Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com. BetHeSDa BlueS anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Amy Winehouse Tribute with Elise Testone. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. EWF Tribute Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088. Souldown Jam Sessions. 9 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.
thursday rock
9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Dinosaur Jr., Cloud Nothings. 7 p.m. $30. 930.com. BetHeSDa BlueS anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Mike Peters. 8 p.m. $20–$25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlaCk Cat BaCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Priests, Diat, Vacant Life. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.
warner tHeatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. Widespread Panic. 8 p.m. $56. warnertheatredc.com.
DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Highasakite, Tigers Are Bad For Horses. 9 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com.
wolf trap filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Don Henley. 8 p.m. $42–$112. wolftrap.org.
gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Back to School Indie Night Feat. Wylder, Valley Queen, & Courtesy Tier. 8 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com.
CITY LIGHTS: suNday
troPiXXX laBor day Party
Since 2011, Velvet Lounge’s first-Sundayof-the-month dance party Tropixxx has been making it tough to wake up for work on Monday morning. The spiritual successor to Dave Nada’s Moombahton Mondays, Tropixxx has been passed down like an older brother’s record collection, from Nada to Billy The Gent and Cam Jus before landing with current residents Mathias, The Lothario, and The Clown Prince. This year, the formerly-monthly party has been saved for special occasions, and this weekend’s lineup certainly fills the bill: Brooklyn DJ-producer Rizzla (pictured), who reps both groundbreaking label Fade to Mind and queer club collective KUNQ, headlines the mammoth, nine-hour event. The night also features Luny, a moombahton original from Sydney, Australia, Brooklyn’s Vermillion Bird, Bronx pair El Blanco Nino and Bassbear, and D.C. artist Flash Frequency. Thankfully, this edition of the party is on the Sunday before Labor Day, giving revelers an entire day to recover from the tinnitus and tormina caused by a potent cocktail of bass-heavy club music and cheap Jameson shots. The show begins at 6 p.m. at Velvet Lounge, 915 V St. NW. Free. (202) 462-3213. velvetloungedc.com. —Chris Kelly
Anna & UNCLE EARL Elizabeth THE MANHATTANS
Sept 1
featuring
GERALD ALSTON
“Twin Twang Rides Again”
& TOO FUN BILL KIRCHEN/AUSTIN DELONE MUCH BAND and TOM PRINCIPATO Amy 4 SAWYER FREDERICKS Vachal
MO’Fire
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IN GRATITUDE: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire Motown & More: A Tribute to Motown & Soul Legends 10 THE SELDOM SCENE & JONATHAN EDWARDS Rick 11 HAL KETCHUM Brantley Jenny 15 THE PROCLAIMERS O. EUGE GROOVE 16 Laura 17 MATTHEW SWEET Tsaggaris 18 GARY PUCKETT & UNION GAP 21 THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND 22 THE SMITH SISTERS ‘35TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW!’ with AL PETTEWAY
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MAYSA & HER FUNK SOUL SYMPHONY
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OWEN LAITH AL-SAADI DANOFF
‘25/50 Silver & Gold Celebration!’ w/FRANK McCOMB 25 From “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS Dan Tyminski, Barry Bales, Rob Block, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Pat Enright
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UPCOMING SHOWS FRI | 9/2 | 10:30PM THE NEIGHBORS PRESENTS
BOOTY CHEEKS DANCE PARTY SAT | 9/3 | 10PM RAPTURE DANCE PARTY 70S, 80S, 90S NEW WAVE
SUN | 9/4 | 10PM GROOVE CONTROL DANCE PARTY FRI | 9/9 | 8PM BURLESQUE CHOCOLATE LOUNGE SAT | 9/10 | 7:30PM C.W STONEKING FRI | 9/16 | 7:30 PM ARC IRIS, SUPERHUMAN HAPPINESS SAT | 9/17 | 7:30 PM FLASHBAND: SHOW + OPEN JAM
BILLY BRAGG & JOE HENRY
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LUNA PB A’NGELA WINBUSH ritta hilliPs
Oct 1 WMAL Free Speech Forum w/Chris Plante, Brian Wilson,
Larry O’Connor, Mark Levin
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EL DeBARGE
4&5
An Evening with
LYLE LOVETT
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ROBERT EARL KEEN
DAVID BROMBERG’S BIG BAND “Bucket List Birthday Bash!”
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TRIVIA EVERY M O N D AY & W E D N E S D AY
$3 PBR & NATTY BOH ALL DAY EVERY DAY
HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Danava, The Shrine. 8 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com. rHizome DC. 6950 Maple St. NW. The Sloth Ensemble, Ben Bennett. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.com. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Vandaveer, Stripmall Ballads. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. wolf trap filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Don Henley. 8 p.m. $42–$112. wolftrap.org.
oPera 600 beers from around the world
Downstairs: good food, great beer: $3 PBR & Natty Boh’s all day every day *all shows 21+
SEPTEMBER 1ST
UNDERGROUND COMEDY SHOW STARTS AT 8:30PM
SEPTEMBER 2ND
BURLESQUE IS COMING: A GAME OF THRONES DOORS AT 8PM SHOW AT 9PM SEPTEMBER 3RD
RIDDLE ME TITS: A BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO BATMAN VILLIANS DOORS AT 8PM SHOW AT 9PM SEPTEMBER 4TH
STARR STRUCK COMEDY
kenneDy Center family tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Janai Brugger. 7:30 p.m. $39. kennedy-center.org.
hiP-hoP
verizon Center 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200. Kanye West. 8 p.m. $29.50–$165.00. verizoncenter.com.
World
Hill Center at tHe olD naval HoSpital 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 549-4172. Mehmet Polat Trio. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcenterdc.org.
Folk
tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Three Women and The Truth. 8 p.m. $20–$45. thehamiltondc.com.
Jazz
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Power Trio: Dennis Chambers, Bob Franceschini, and Tom Kennedy. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.
electroNic
Galleries
arlington artS Center 3550 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 248-6800. arlingtonartscenter.org. OngOing: “Light Wishes Only to be Land.” Arlington Art Center Resident Artist Becca Kallem curates this group exhibition that looks at the different ways depth and texture are reflected on canvases. Featured artists include Tom Bunnell, Mike Dowley, and Liz Guzman. Aug. 13 to Oct. 2. OngOing: “Texture of the City.” Students in Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s Photography Institute showcase the work they created over the summer in the center’s Jenkins Community Gallery. Aug. 13 to Oct. 2. BrentwooD artS exCHange 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. (301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks.com. Opening: “Other Worlds of Imagination and Wonder.” Ceramic artist Laurel Lukaszewski and glass sculptor Joseph A. Corcoran create site-specific works for Brentwood Arts Exchange in this immersive exhibition. Curator Jennifer Lindsay arranges the artists’ work next to each other, forcing visitors to consider the size, shape, and materials of each piece. Sept. 6 to Nov. 12. Opening: “District Clay.” View pieces made at the Northeast D.C. ceramic studio that offers classes and creative space for sculptors of all abilities in Brentwood Arts Exchange’s front window Sept. 6 to Nov. 12. CroSS maCkenzie gallery 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-7970. crossmackenzie.com. Opening: “Cindy Kane.” The painter presents a variety of pieces from her ongoing “Birds” series. Sept. 2 to Sept. 30.
FuNk & r&B
Honfleur gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. OngOing: “10th Anniversary East of the River Exhibition.” Artists who work, live, or have roots in Wards 7 and 8 showcase their work at this annual exhibition. This year’s showcased artists include Mei Mei Chang, Wesley Clark, and Deborah Terry. July 29 to Sept. 16.
kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Manny Kellough Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
montpelier artS Center 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. arts.pgparks.com. Opening: “Steven Williams.” The mixed-media artist combines influences from science fiction and found objects in his colorful pieces. Sept. 3 to Sept. 25. Opening: “Allen
flaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Claptone. 8 p.m. $20. flashdc.com. SounDCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. BT. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com. BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Christos DC, Fendika. 9:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.
DOORS AT 7PM
SEPTEMBER 5TH
DISTRICT TRIVIA STARTS AT 730PM
SEPTEMBER 6TH
LAST RESORT COMEDY
DOORS AT 8PM SHOW AT 830PM SEPTEMBER 7TH
PERFECT LIARS CLUB DOORS AT 6PM DISTRICT TRIVIA STARTS AT 730PM
SEPTEMBER 8TH
UNDERGROUND COMEDY SHOW STARTS AT 8:30PM
SEPTEMBER 9TH
LAST RESORT COMEDY
DOORS AT 8PM SHOW AT 830PM SEPTEMBER 10TH
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CITY LIGHTS: MoNday
et’teFFah/the aPPles
For the past 15 years, the Kennedy Center has celebrated the work of local theater companies with its annual Page-to Stage Festival. This weekend’s festival brings together more than 50 companies who will present new material throughout the arts complex over the course of three days. Like the Capital Fringe Festival, the offerings are a bit scattershot, covering everything from the emotional health of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln to the sexual and gender identities of a group of young friends. Monday’s lineup features a piece for young audiences inspired by Booker T. Washington and a piece about a girl’s mixed martial arts hobby, but the highlight comes late in the day when Algerian theater collective Istijmam presents the American premiere of Et’teffah/The Apples, which follows the repression and religious violence that occurred during the nation’s so-called “dark decade” of the 1990s. Combining true stories with dark humor, this show is exactly what the long-running festival is about: new, challenging ideas that don’t take themselves too seriously. The play begins at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Family Theater, 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. —Caroline Jones
CITY LIGHTS: tuesday
1811 14TH ST NW
www.blackcatdc.com
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Alan Sislen, now a D.C.-area landscape and architectural photographer, lived in New York City in the 1990s and frequently commuted through the World Trade Center. Starting within four weeks of the Sept. 11 attacks, Sislen began to visit Ground Zero regularly to capture photographs of the devastation, especially ad-hoc tributes and memorials. Sislen says he found the process of documenting the landscape through photography cathartic. While his work didn’t start as an artistic project, Sislen says, he returned to the site often, even after moving to the D.C. area in 2002. “Over time, the area began to embrace a new normal,” he says. “Slowly, the debris was removed. The politicians and public agreed to reconstruction of buildings, a museum, memorials, and a new transportation hub. Then the construction began. There is a renewed vitality in the area, and a demonstration of the resilience of the people of New York City.” Now, as the 15th anniversary of the attack approaches, Sislen claims he only has a few more images he’d like to make. So he’s taken the opportunity to take stock, assembling 42 images that document the incremental transformation at Ground Zero “to help tell a story of devastation, mourning, hope, and renewal.” The exhibition is on view Fridays through Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursdays 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., to Oct. 16, at Multiple Exposures Gallery at Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria. Free. (703) 838-4565. torpedofactory.org. —Louis Jacobson Linder.” Linder, a former sculptor who has turned to drawing, showcases a series of ink works on paper. Sept. 3 to Oct. 30. StuDio gallery 2108 R St. NW. (202) 232-8734. studiogallerydc.com. Opening: “Magic Chef.” Photographer Carolee Jakes presents a series of photos and prints inspired by an image captured through a hotel window. Aug. 31 to Sept. 24. Opening: “Multiverse.” Lisa Allen presents a series of black and white film photos developed in a way that gives the images an other worldly feel. Aug. 31 to Sept. 24. Opening: “Spirit of the Mountain.” Artist Freda Lee-McCann adds to traditional Chinese landscape paintings by incorporating thumbprint images and ancient poems written in traditional calligraphy. Aug. 31 to Sept. 24. torpeDo faCtory art Center 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. (703) 838-4565. torpedofactory.org. Opening: “The Art of Politics.” Painter Michael Fischerkeller applies a street art aesthetic to this series of works exploring the intersection of art and con-
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temporary political issues. Sept. 7 to Oct. 2. OngOing: “Explorations, Part 2.” Potomac Fiber Arts mem-
bers create scenes from the Amazon, Mount Everest, the north and south poles, and other planets in this group show. Aug. 30 to Oct. 2. Opening: “Impressive Expressions: Patterning in Clay.” Members of the Kiln Club display their delicately scored and decorated pottery in this group show. Sept. 5 to Oct. 2. Opening: “A (Mis)Perceived Physique: Bodyscapes by Three Women Artists.” Artists Carolina Mayorga, Allana Clarke, and Lauren Kalman investigate the way women’s bodies have been represented in art over time in this group show curated by Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell. Sept. 3 to Oct. 16. Opening: “Never Forget.” Photographer Alan Sislen reflects on the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in this series of images that chronicle the journey from grief and sorrow to renewal. Sept. 6 to Oct. 16.
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Come from away This new musical tells the heartwarming true story of how a small Canadian town cared for 6,579 airline passengers stranded there following the September 11th attacks. When 38 planes were diverted to its doorstep, the town of Gander doubled in size, playing host to an international community of strangers and offering food, shelter and friendship. Featuring a rousing score of folk and rock music, the production honors the better angels of our nature, revealing hope and humanity in a time of darkness. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Oct. 9. $20–$73. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.
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BlaCkBerry Daze In the aftermath of World War I, an alluring young man transfixes a small Virginia town and changes the lives of three women living there. Local favorites TC Carson and Roz White star in this musical adapted from the novel by Ruth P. Watson. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Oct. 9. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. CervanteS: el último QuiJote (tHe laSt Quixote) Cervantes has died in the street and a intoxi-
Jelly’S laSt Jam Jazz pianist Mark G. Meadows plays the title role in this musical biography of pioneering jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton, portraying the highs and lows of his career and personal life. Signature Theatre favorite Matthew Gardiner directs this lively production that features songs like “That’s How You Jazz” and “Good Ole New York.” Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Sept. 11. $40–$79. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.
tHe laSt SCHwartz The Schwartz family has been on their last legs since Papa died a year ago. Norma’s husband isn’t speaking to her, Herb and Bonnie are having baby troubles, and Simon wants to be an astronaut. Throw a sexy wanna-be Hollywood starlet into the mix, and you’ve got the recipe for a yahrzeit gone perfectly wrong. Theater J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr makes his D.C. directorial debut in this absurd and thoughtful comedy. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Oct. 2. $27–$57. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. loBBy Hero A security guard and his tightly wound supervisor become participants in a criminal inves-
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ClouD 9 Colonial Africa and 1970s London intersect in this engaging drama from acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill. As characters try to understand the ways they define themselves, the forces of gender and politics cause them to reconsider their places in the world. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 16. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
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angelS in ameriCa Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center collaborate to bring both parts of Tony Kushner’s monumental work about a group of New Yorkers in the early days of the AIDS epidemic to the stage. Combining fantasy elements with history, the play is presented in two parts and will be performed in repertory. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Oct. 30. $36–$56. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.
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viSartS 155 Gibbs St., Rockville. (301) 315-8200. visartsatrockville.org. Opening: “Noise, Body, Music.” Musicians and visual artists collaborate to explain how our personalities and lives are in this exhibition featuring work by Michael Schiffer & Nate Alex Lewis, Farrah Skeiky, FK Alexander, Antibody Corporation, and Fire-Toolz. Sept. 7 to Oct. 16.
cated man insists that the person who killed him is the renowned poet Lope de Vega. This same man recounts the secrets Cervantes shared with him, revealing the most tempestuous periods in the great writer’s life and the ferocious creativity of his final years. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To Oct. 2. $22–$45. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.
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Breaux Bridge, Louisiana’s Yvette Landry sings her honkytonk tunes in a Southern drawl, accompanied by her own acoustic guitar picking and her band’s pedal steel and fiddle. The boozy tunes sound like the perfect backing tunes for a night at the bar but since the Library of Congress auditorium doesn’t exactly resemble a Gulf Coast dive, listeners and dancers will have to let the lyrics and twang of songs like “Three Chords and a Bottle,” “Fishing’s Better Anyway,” and “120 Proof ” carry them down to the bayou. Landry, who has played with Cajun and Creole musicians like Joel Savoy and Geno Delafose, occasionally adds those unique styles when she ups the tempo on the zydeco-inspired, accordion-backed “Yeah You Right,” or warbles “Valse D’orphelin,” a relaxed waltz. She has a series of swinging, Bob Wills-inspired cuts and quick-paced line dance numbers in her repertoire, but her mournful, wallow-in-your-bourbon-and-think-about-your-ex tracks with maudlin titles like “Another Lesson Learned” or “A Church, a Courtroom and then Goodbye” showcase the type of lyricism she likes best. The Yvette Landry Trio performs at noon at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, 10 First Street SE. Free. (202) 707-5000. loc.gov. —Steve Kiviat
tigation in this drama that examines how race, identity, and gender influences our moral choices. Alex Levy, 1st Stage Artistic and Managing Director, leads this production of Kenneth Lonergan’s play. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Oct. 8. $15–$30. (703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org. RepoRt to an academy Scena Theater presents Franz Kafka’s dark drama about a captured ape who ensures his survival by imitating his human companions and ultimately presents his work to a collection of scientists. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Sept. 25. $20–$35. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. Satchmo at the WaldoRf Louis Armstrong recounts his monumental career as a professional musician and his experiences working during the civil rights movement in this acclaimed off-Broadway show that’s presented at Atlas by Mosaic Theater Company of DC. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Sept. 25. $10–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. URinetoWn A lovestruck young man challenges a powerful corporation set on banning the use of private toilets during a massive water shortage in this lively musical from Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis.Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Oct. 9. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.
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Martindale,and Anna Kendrick. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) complete UnknoWn As a man contemplates moving to a new state with his wife, he reconnects with an old flame at a dinner party. The only problem? She changes her identity often and denies knowing him. Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon star in this mystery directed by Joshua Marston. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) moRgan An engineered human child, built in a lab, attacks one of the scientists who built her and a corporate troubleshooter must decide whether to terminate Morgan’s life in this spooky technological thriller. Starring Kate Mara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Toby Jones. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the 9th life of loUiS dRax A psychologist becomes wrapped up in his study of a boy recovering from a near-fatal accident in this scientific thriller from director Alexandre Aja. Starring Jamie Dornan and Aaron Paul. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the light BetWeen oceanS A lighthouse keeper and his wife living in Australia in the years following World War I adopt an abandoned baby and raise her as their own. As she grows, a chance encounter with a mysterious woman leads the family to question their connection to her and their child. Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz star in this historical drama based on the novel by M.L. Stedman. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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