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“THIS DOCUMENTARY SHOWS HOW THE U.S. IS BECOMING ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’.“ “A wake-up call for people on both sides of the argument.” “‘BIRTHRIGHT: A WAR STORY’ packs a powerful message: that reproduction has become perilous for women in America.”

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23 Social Studies: Two of the biggest current social issues—reproductive rights and gun control—are put under the microscope, with varying degrees of success, in two new films.

25 Flyer By Night: A recurring feature that highlights the art of gig posters and flyers 25 One Track Mind: Maulrat’s “Submarine” 26 Sketches: Capps on Nevermind, Azizam at Transformer 28 Short Subjects: Zilberman on Kingsman: The Golden Circle

7 Loose Lips: Chris Cole seeks the right to leave his past behind.

9 Housing Complex: After a delayed opening, a boutique dog hotel business prepares for its D.C. debut.

10 Unobstructed View 11 Indy List 12 Savage Love 13 Gear Prudence

food 19 Winner Takes Haul: Why a local chef drives to Pennsylvania farm country to bid on tomatoes alongside Mennonites and large grocers 21 Meat, Your Match: Chow down on the best veggie burgers in the District.

21 Hangover Helper: Happy Toast at Tiger Fork 21 Top of the Hour: Bar Charley’s seven-night a-week happy hour.

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A representative selection of comments on articles that appeared in last week’s issue of City Paper: “Corner Zone” by Andrew Giambrone aerie on washingtoncitypaper.com The convoluted conflicts of interest and sheer quantity of slime bedecking this saga boggle the mind. Our elected officials should at the very least amend the TOPA law to ensure that property owners’ bankruptcies never void tenants’ TOPA rights. Let’s see what the self-proclaimed ethics maven, Mayor Bowser, decides to do with the vacant building at the Congress Heights Metro stop.

Point823 on washingtoncitypaper.com Bowser’s ability to bring in talent to head her departments has been a total failure: DBH, DYRS, DDOT, CFSA, DPW, Housing, and the real kicker is DOH. These agencies have shown no innovative work. The fish rots from the head down. And she and her incompetents want another 4 years??

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HousingAdvocacyTeam on Twitter Tell @MayorBowser: choose the tenants!

“Great Renovations” by Amanda Kolson Hurley Rick Otis via email to City Paper While architectural aesthetics and, to some degree, massing are subjective, I find the project (especially the 7th Street SE facades) dour and morose— lacking the features that make the various types of Victorian architecture appealing. Having walked the neighboring streets for over three decades, I find the whole project out of scale with the surrounding historic district and (despite the developer’s argument to the contrary) the buildings that preceded the 1966 Hine Junior High School.

Typical DC BS on washingtoncitypaper.com Nice addition to that neighborhood.

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Chris Cole seeks the right to leave his past behind.

By Jeffrey Anderson for mAny ex-offenders, overcoming their second nature is an obstacle to re-entering society. Chris Cole feels his first nature is the main challenge.

Cole once led a criminal life. Since giving it up—and even when he was living it—he developed job skills and an ability to advocate for himself in ways that often elude his peers. Some barriers are out of his hands though.

A survivor of child abuse, drug violence, and incarceration, Cole hasn’t worked in more than two years despite filing dozens of job applications. A sense of rejection and discrimination tests him every day as he wrestles with his survival instincts.

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D.C. has weathered the societal costs of recidivism for decades. Last week, Mayor Muriel Bowser said she would be proposing, among other reforms, to decrease waiting times for sealing arrestees’ court records from eight years to five and to seal such records automatically for non-convictions and cases that are not prosecuted.

But is that enough, Cole wants to know, to free him from a past he has paid for with prison time? “I done a lot of shit out there in the streets,” he says. “Why am I still even here?”

AfricAn-AmericAns comprise less than half the D.C. population, but almost its entire ex-offender community. Cole is one of thousands who could be affected by the mayor’s proposal. He has a unique story, and he tells it with no apology and no promise that it represents all he has seen and done.

Cole is 43 and stands about 5’10.” He purses his lips when he’s thinking. He grew up in Congress Park, near 13th and Savannah in Southeast. His father went into the military before he was born and was never a part of his upbringing. After he was born, his mother gave him to her godmother, who, he says, beat him with extension cords and switches—“the rubber ones that don’t break.”

In the mid-1980s, Cole started hanging around with boys who would mug and rob people up on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. He says he was caught stealing a car in 1986, at age 12. “I was from the ’hood,” he says. “It was dog eat dog.”

Cole discovered the market power of cocaine.

If he came home with $200, he says, his guardian would demand $100. In turn, he took from others. Asked to describe himself as a teenager, he says: “Chris would probably rob you, stick you

up, or shoot you. That’s how I was known.”

At age 18, Cole pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old and was sentenced to six years of juvenile commitment. (He also caught an armed robbery charge that year that was dismissed, and a murder charge for which he was found not guilty, he says. However, after his sex conviction was expunged, the six-year sentence went on his record as related to the murder charge, for reasons he says he cannot explain.)

Cole served four of those six years at a youth rehabilitation facility in Lorton, and lists his accomplishments there: a GED, a welder’s certificate, and six credits in the Community Conflict and Resolution Program. After he got out, he went back to drug dealing at 13th and Savannah SE. Dealing drugs meant survival, but it also became a means to a lifestyle. That’s what Cole describes as his first nature. His second nature was to get certified in office computer operations and get a job as a computer lab assistant, earning $14 an hour. “You had a job to cover up what you did in the streets,” he recalls.

Cole admits his squandered chances. He got hired as a receptionist at the United Negro College Fund, but he got bored and quit. He hired on with the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees and worked his way up to the legislative department, but when he felt the organization wouldn’t allow him to advance beyond that, he resigned. He was just 28. “It was the worst thing I ever did.”

Two weeks later, Cole was charged with a third degree sex offense involving a female acquaintance. He pleaded guilty and got five years probation. In 2005, he was found not guilty of cocaine distribution, yet pleaded guilty to heroin distribution and received 30 months in prison and five years probation. A D.C. Superior Court judge told Cole he’d send him away for 20 years if he ever came back before the court.

Cole came home in 2007. By then his body could no longer sustain a dual life. His friends were dead or in prison, or living a life he no longer wanted. “I come from a fucked up, toxic environment,” he says. “But I know what I can do. I’m comfortable with my abilities.” re-entry to society went well—at first.

Cole says he earned college credits while in prison, and learned to control his emotions through cognitive therapy. He signed up with Project Empowerment, a city program that helps at-risk adults and ex-offenders with life skills, education, and job placement. But instead of seeking job placement, he designed a curriculum, wrote a proposal, and began teaching classes within the program.

The gig paid well at $6,500 per class. Cole taught two classes while he stayed with his grandmother and with his girlfriend’s mother.

Then he got his own place. Things were looking up. “If I can’t do anything else, I know how to allow others to communicate,” he says of his

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teaching skills.

Cole had gone through a private contractor to secure the teaching gig, however, and about three months in, the city decided to no longer outsource its teaching services. Saddled with rent, bills, and bad credit, he started selling drugs again, until a local contractor arranged for him to enter a halfway house and come to work as a receptionist. He worked at the firm for six years and was its human resources manager, but in 2015, the firm let him go for financial reasons.

“It’s test after test after test after test after test…” he says, his voice rising as he accelerates his words. “You gotta prove yourself, to yourself. You know what works, and what doesn’t. But the tests keep coming.” cole hAsn’t worked since leaving the human resources job. He says he has applied to 50 jobs and been rejected, and has filed approximately 400 claims with the D.C. Office of Human Rights alleging discrimination under the Fair Criminal Record Screening Amendment Act of 2014. GNC, Sodexo, Hooters, Chipotle, AARP—he has filed discrimination claims against them all, often upon receiving a credit or background check form.

D.C. law prohibits employers from requiring applicants to disclose their criminal background or asking them to give permission to an employer, or third party, to conduct a background check before an offer of employment is extended.

When a claim is filed, an OHR representative contacts the employer about potential mediation. About half of filed claims are settled, according to an OHR spokesperson. The rest get assigned to an investigator to find probable cause of a human rights violation. A threejudge administrative panel is responsible for determining whether to uphold findings and for levying fines against employers and approving settlements. Fines range from $1,000 to $5,000, the spokesperson says, depending on the company’s size.

There is no limit to the number of claims a person may file, according to the spokesperson. Cole estimates that 60 of his claims have been dismissed, 40 await mediation, 25 are under investigation, 20 have been settled, and the rest are pending. He has received about $16,000 in settlements over the past yearand-a-half, he says.

Meantime, he survives as best he can. He lives in a house owned by a friend who charges him $400 a month—when he can pay—and is not above shoplifting for food. He’s had job offers that he says devalue his skill set and do not pay a living wage. He knows little about the mayor’s intentions, but knows well that he has to get dismissed charges, not-guilty verdicts, and old guilty pleas off his record if he is to get back on his feet. “I wake up every day

and I’m afraid,” he says. “What am I gonna do if I get sick?” deputy mAyor for Public Safety and Justice Kevin Donahue says society must progress beyond outdated perceptions and practices. Which is why, he says, the mayor will be proposing independent review of crimes that are eligible for record sealing and a discussion on the reasonableness of crimes that disqualify applicants from certain jobs. “The most pervasive issue is the long tail of arrests and convictions on a person’s life,” Donahue says. “It affects job prospects, credit, housing, driver’s licenses.”

There are also data to consider: If a person has been out of prison for four years and has not been re-arrested, the likelihood of re-offending is below 5 percent, he says. Older people are less likely to re-offend than younger people. “Making people wait eight years [to have their court record sealed] is too long,” says Donahue. “We gain little additional safety, and those additional years impose high costs on individuals. We’ve erred on the wrong side of this issue for too long. We need to move forward.”

Councilmembers David Grosso, Trayon White Sr., Anita Bonds, and Kenyan McDuffie have introduced the Record Sealing Modernization Act of 2017, which goes even further than Bowser’s plan by providing for the expungement of records altogether. City Paper did not reach them in time for comment.

Bowser’s proposal will fall short in the eyes of many. Tony Lewis Jr. is a community leader, workforce development specialist, and reentry expert who chairs the D.C. Commission on Re-entry and Returning Citizen Affairs.

He is familiar with Chris Cole. Lewis says that while the mayor’s initiative is a step in the right direction, it is rooted in practices, not policy. “If I’m a company that says no ex-felons can work here, that’s a policy,” he says. “And if that’s a policy that is not affected, then the [proposed legislation] accomplishes nothing.”

From Lewis’ perspective, the city should be doing more to hold businesses accountable. “This ain’t mom and pop stores,” he says. “These are companies that’ll reject you then pay to settle a claim to get you outta their faces. Chris is an example of that.” Returning citizens are uncomfortable as it is to expose anything about themselves, explains Lewis, so advocating for themselves comes even harder. “Chris is a special guy,” he says. “But there’s also a lot of people out here who can do the work. How many doors have to be shut in a man’s face before he says, ‘Fuck it.’”

Chris is still counting, but he says he isn’t giving up. “I look at myself every day and say ‘You did this to yourself.’ It’s easy to dig that ditch, but getting outta that hole? It’s so easy to revert to what you know. But I ain’t losing hope man.”

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After a delayed opening, a boutique dog hotel business prepares for its District début.

There’s a new luxury hotel poised to open in Adams Morgan next week, and it has nothing to do with the long-awaited (and potentially subsidized) Line hotel in an old church on Euclid Street NW. Or with human guests, for that matter.

Come Monday, Rockville-based dog hotel and spa Life of Riley will launch its second location at 2222 18th St. NW. The site used to house Sawah Diner and Mamma Mia Pizza.

It’s located right across the street from the freshly refurbished Marie Reed Elementary School in one of the District’s most dog- (and family-) friendly neighborhoods.

Not one’s typical kennel, Life of Riley will feature 30 overnight suites for dogs of all shapes and breeds, upstairs playrooms separated by pet size, and a few grooming stations. The suites are made with Italian tile and Calcutta marble; the beds inside are handcrafted. The business also offers daytime boarding. Anxious dog owners at work or on vacation can watch their fur babies online through live cameras placed around the establishment, as well as GoPros that dogwalkers will clip onto harnesses. Group walks will take place every two hours.

Those canine luxuries come at a cost.

Rooms will go for $85 or $100 a night (though it’ll be half-off for extra dogs from the same family), while boarding will set owners back $40 for up to six hours and $60 for more than that. Grooming prices will vary by breed, size, and coat, but start at $15 for a manicure, $35 for a wash and dry, and $55 for the full package: “haircut, bath, blow-dry, brush-out, styling, nail trim, ear-cleaning, and dental gel,” per Life of Riley’s website. While other pooch services in the area charge similar rates, these are on the high end.

Life of Riley is the latest iteration of a growing trend, both national and local. For one thing, more developers are furnishing their residential buildings with pet amenities.

In D.C., demand for dog services has produced small businesses like City Dogs, District Dogs, Wagtime, Doozydog! Club, and Doggy Style, each situated in posh residential areas.

Life of Riley owners Paul and Laura Abbott settled on their new 18th Street NW loca-

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tion after unsuccessful attempts to lease space in Shaw and elsewhere in Adams Morgan. The Abbotts, who are Irish and married, came to the U.S. in 2013. They opened Life of Riley’s Maryland location in early 2014 after establishing a popular dog-walking service.

“It was never planned,” Paul says of the business’ origins. When the couple returned to Dublin for three weeks to sort out visa issues, they left their two dogs with a now-competitor (whom Paul doesn’t name). “We weren’t happy with the service and felt there should

rier mix, after whom the business is named, hangs above the front doors. Riley is female, as is the couple’s second pup, Alba, a sevenyear-old Terrier mix. The Abbotts have named a boarding room after Alba, and other rooms after European rugby stadiums, like Laura’s favorite, Galway.

“IN DOG WE TRUST,” says an electric sign in one playroom filled with tennis balls and other toys for furballs. “DOG VIBES ONLY,” says another in the next room over. Black decals of poodles, schnauzers, collies, and other breeds

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be a better way.”

The Abbotts recently completed renovations on the Adams Morgan storefront. They would have opened it sooner but for an electrical conduit that broke beneath the property in late May. “I’ve blocked this period from my memory,” Paul quips, adding that it took three months to receive a permit authorizing the repair work required after the incident. “It almost put us out of business.”

From the outside, the building looks like a recently flipped D.C. rowhouse, painted in that seemingly ubiquitous gray. A Life of Riley sign depicting a silhouette of the Abbotts’ eight-year-old Chihuahua–Jack Russell Ter-

adorn the walls—a touch by Adams Morgan interior designer Mai Dolinh.

On the first floor, customers can buy dog shampoo, upscale leashes and collars, treats, and pink poop bags. There are also kitschy chew toys: a mini “Puptron” bottle that looks like the tequila, a “Chewlulemon” bag, and a “Starbarks” coffee cup (labeled “Frenchie roast,” of course).

The D.C. facility is 3,500 square feet. The Rockville location is about three times that size when accounting for its outdoor space.

According to Paul, District regulations do not allow outdoor space for dog daycare centers and spas.

D.C.’s Department of Health will allow Life of Riley to open next week, though it has not yet conducted a final inspection. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs just issued an occupancy permit to the business.

Paul says he and his wife are not discouraged by the bureaucratic hurdles or existing competition. They have about 2,000 clients at their Maryland location—including some high-rolling sports, television, and arts celebrities—whose pooches’ names include Spicy Tuna and Socrates.

“We’ve got a type [of client] for sure, but we’re proud of that,” Paul says. “People have done well for themselves. They expect the best.” He adds that certain prospective customers get “sticker shock” at Life of Riley’s rates, but that competitors sometimes have hidden fees and “add-ons.”

“Our clients wouldn’t go anywhere else,” the owner continues. “[They] treat their dogs like kids.”

Not every woofer is fit to stay, though. Life of Riley tests dogs for signs of aggressive behavior before finalizing bookings, and declines to host on a case-bycase basis. Staff will prod real dogs with a fake dog dubbed Andrew to see how they respond to stimuli.

There’s good reason for screening. Last year, Life of Riley’s Rockville location made it onto local broadcasts (and even into the New York Daily News) after a bullmastiff had mauled and killed a toy poodle in its care in late fall 2015.

The toy poodle’s owners sued the business, and the case was resolved in May 2016. Paul declined to comment on the incident.

While rare, such cases aren’t unheard of. In recent years, dogs have died during groomings and on walks, including at facilities in the D.C. region. But that hasn’t harmed this booming industry.

Life of Riley in Adams Morgan is starting with a staff of nearly a dozen, and it expects to grow with demand. Paul says employees have a tough job, like keeping the facilities spotless and cleaning up after accidents while maintaining a personal touch with clients, canine and otherwise.

On one occasion in Maryland, he recalls that he was picking up a dog’s poop when it began peeing on him. “Groomers have stories of dogs vomiting on them,” says Paul.

“People think you’re going to come in and play with dogs all day,” he adds. “To some extent that’s true, but there are many responsibilities.”

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Jemele Hill Has strong opinions about Donald Trump, as many people do. A little over a week ago, she tweeted some of those opinions, as many people do. Hers included a flat statement that “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists,” among other statements.

The tweets were not aggressive. Hill framed her criticisms as observations of behavior (“white supremacist,” “ignorant”) rather than as name-calling (“Nazi” or “moron,” for example), and explicitly stated that she considers this issue “a threat” to herself.

She was responding to questions from someone else on Twitter; those tweets are gone now, but it seems likely that they were not exceptionally friendly. It was, by the standards of anti-Trump Twitter rhetoric, pretty measured, mild stuff.

But Hill is also a marquee on-air personality at ESPN, the cohost of ESPN’s 6:00 SportsCenter (currently rebranded as The 6 or SC6, depending on which source you check), and contributor to a number of the sportsy juggernaut’s outlets. So ESPN decided to get involved, issuing a few different statements putting distance between Hill’s personal views and the network’s decidedly less-opinionated views. Hill issued a complementary statement, expressing regret that her comments “painted ESPN in an unfair light.” Then the White House press secretary described Hill’s actions as “a fireable offense,” and the President himself tweeted a potshot at ESPN, and by that point everyone in the hot take industry across sports, politics, and entertainment felt free to weigh in.

For my part, I found myself fixated on a statement from ESPN President John Skipper, issued after the story had gone full-supernova. It was an attempt to illuminate ESPN’s standards for the expression of political opinion, particularly on social media, which are more or less what you’d expect and don’t appear unreasonable, at least on a casual first glance.

But toward the end of the statement, Skipper dropped in something that struck me as odd: “In light of recent events, we need to remind ourselves that we are a journalistic organization and that we should not do anything that undermines that position.”

It’s the kind of clenched-teeth proud journalistic tenet that wouldn’t be out of place in All The

President’s Men or Transmetropolitan, but it rang bizarre when applied to people whose primary roles are often to make jokes over game highlights and speculate wildly about potential roster moves. It’s easy to understand why political reporters and investigative reporters—or even sports reporters within major newspapers— would operate under the kind of stricture Skipper describes. But how could Hill’s political opinions possibly inform her ESPN work? And, tangentially, is what she does even truly journalism?

To get a local, expert point of view on this, I turned to CSN Mid-Atlantic’s multiple Emmy Award-winning anchor Michael Jenkins, who is in the habit of making some jokes over highlights. Jenkins is probably best-known nationally for a bit in which he pretended that the Capitals being eliminated from the playoffs had driven him to drink on-air. He was not particularly impressed with my “is sports-anchoring journalism” question.

“The craft is extremely important to me,” Jenkins says. “I have two degrees in journalism, I’ve taught journalism at the junior college level, I’ve done work in news, and I have a passion for writing and storytelling. But guess what? No one cares, and most people know me as the goofball who was drinking after a Caps playoff loss.”

The social media question also seems simple to me—follow an individual reporter if you like her whole online persona, follow a publication if you just want the sports news—but Jenkins offered a pretty grim analysis of that line of thinking as well.

“Many fans will choose a side, draw a virtual line in the sand and then scream at each other,” Jenkins notes, citing the ongoing drama surrounding Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protest.

“It’s that same sort of mentality that often prevents some consumers from being able to separate journalists’ personal opinions from the sports they cover. If someone disagrees with you, you suddenly suck at your job, as opposed to someone simply acknowledging their viewpoint differs from yours,” says Jenkins.

It’s an accurate analysis and a pithy distillation of an experience shared by almost anyone working in media online. What’s most unsettling about it in regard to the Hill situation, though, is realizing that it not only describes the reaction of Hill’s online critics, but also, both directly and through official channels, the reaction of the president of the United States. CP

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You’re a straight guy, you’re attracted to women, and some women—as you now know—have dicks. Are you into dick? Could you develop a taste for dick? Could you see yourself making an exception for her dick? It’s fine if “no” is the answer to one or all of these questions, COCK, and not being into dick doesn’t make you transphobic. Evan Urquhart, who writes about trans issues for Slate, argues that in addition to being gay, straight, bi, pan, demi, etc., some people are phallophiles and some are vaginophiles—that is, some people (perhaps most) have a strong preference for either partners with dicks or partners with vaginas. And some people—most people—want their dicks on men and their labia on/vaginas in women.

“There’s no shame in it, as long as it doesn’t come from a place of ignorance or hate,” Urquhart writes. “Mature adults should be able to talk plainly about their sexuality, particularly with prospective partners, in a way that doesn’t objectify or shame anyone who happens to be packing the non-preferred equipment.”

Some straight guys are really into dick (trans women with male partners usually aren’t partnered with gay men, and trans women who do sex work typically don’t have any gay male clients), some straight guys are willing to make an exception for a particular dick (after falling in love with a woman who has one), but most straight guys aren’t into dick (other than their own).

Since you’re confused about what to do, COCK, I would encourage you to continue dating this woman, keep an open mind, and keep taking things slow. You’ve got new information to process, and some things—or one thing—to think about before taking this relationship to the next level. But don’t drag it out.

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If you conclude that the dick is a deal breaker, end this relationship with compassion and alacrity. You don’t want to keep seeing her “to be nice” if you know a relationship isn’t possible. Because letting someone live in false hope is always a dick move.

—Dan Savage A few months ago, I started dating someone. I made it clear early on that I didn’t feel comfortable being in a non-monogamous relationship.

They said that’s not usually what they’re into but they weren’t interested in seeing anyone else and they had no problem being monogamous. It’s not that I don’t trust them, and they’ve never given any indication that they’re unhappy with our arrangement, but I can’t shake the fears that, though they won’t admit it (maybe even to themselves), they’d prefer it if our relationship were more open and I’m taking something important away from them. Can someone who usually doesn’t “do” monogamy feel fulfilled in a “closed” relationship?

Can it work out, or will they just slowly grow to resent me for this?

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I have a history of self-sabotage, but in my relationship with him, it has become near constant.

Everyone thinks I’m a smart and kind person who occasionally makes mistakes, but I’m not that person with him. With him, I’m awful. I make promises I don’t keep, and I don’t do the right things to make him feel loved—even though I do loving things. We have been in couples therapy a number of times, but I always derail the process. I have been in therapy solo a number of times with similar results. I always get the therapists on my side and no real change happens.

I want to change, but I haven’t. I want to stop hurting him, but I keep doing it. He feels like I have never really fought for him or the relationship. Why can’t I change?

—My Enraging Self-Sabotaging Yearnings It’s unlikely I’ll be able to do for you in print what three couples counselors and all those therapists couldn’t do for you in person, i.e., help you change your ways—if, indeed, it’s your ways that require changing. Have you ever entertained the thought that maybe there’s a reason every counselor or therapist you see winds up taking your side? Is it possible that you’re not the problem? Are you truly awful, MESSY, or has your husband convinced you that you’re awful in order to have the upper hand in your relationship? (Yeah, yeah, you had an affair. Lots of people do and lots of marriages survive them.)

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You are who you are, your husband knows who you are, and if he wants to be with you, as awful as you are (or as awful as he’s managed to convince you that you are), that’s his choice and he needs to take some responsibility for it. By “stop trying” I don’t mean you should stop making an effort to be a better person or a more loving partner—we should all constantly strive to be better people and more loving partners—but you can’t spend the rest of your life on a therapist’s couch. Or the rack.

If you truly make your husband miserable, he should leave you. If your marriage makes you miserable (or if he does), you should leave him. But if neither of you is going anywhere, MESSY, then you’ll both just have to make the best of your messy selves and your messy marriage.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: Often while biking around town, especially near construction sites, my tires snap up rocks. You know the feeling? My tire rolls over a small pebble and the sideways force sends it flying. I call it accidental stoning and I’m dying to know: Is this my fault for careless biking? And how do you respond when an angry woman pulls over her shiny new Lexus to yell at you for hitting her car, which, in all honesty, you did, but you also didn’t, the rock did … but like, does it matter?

—Rock Unearthed Bruised Belligerent Lady’s Exquisite Sedan; Quarrelsome Upbraiding Administered, But Blame Lands Elsewhere Dear RUBBLESQUABBLE: Each case turns on its specific facts, so we are not dispensing legal advice here, but according to “The Bike Lawyer,” Bruce Deming (thebikelawyer.com), in most cases, no, the cyclist is not at fault. Under the standard definition of negligence in most states (and the District), a person is only liable for damages caused by their “failure to exercise ordinary care, i.e the same caution, attention or skill that a reasonable person would use under similar circumstances.” It is hard to see how simply riding your bike on a street that has pebbles or gravel on it would violate the standard of ordinary care, given that pebbles and gravel are on all streets, and passing over them is often unavoidable. This assumes, of course, that you are not riding excessively fast on a surface covered in gravel. That might allow for an argument that you really weren’t riding prudently, and that sending a stone flying was foreseeable. “But even that would be a stretch,” according to The Bike Lawyer.

As for how to respond, that’s also highly situational. In no circumstance should you stick around if you feel like you’re being threatened with physical violence—either via fisticuffs or with a motor vehicle. If things escalate to this level, call the cops. While a driver’s impetuous anger could be considered understandable in some cases, minor unintentional surface damage to a car in no way serves as justification for that driver to attack you. Nor does her heated indignation justify you to respond in a regrettable manner. Never forget: It was just a pebble!

At the same time, there’s no need to scamper away if you don’t want to. While you don’t owe the driver anything (after all, if you weren’t negligent, it wasn’t really your fault), remaining calm and not escalating the confrontation are key. Apologizing could diffuse the situation (and might even make you feel better). Ultimately, though, it was just a pebble, and if a driver cannot accept that a minuscule bit of road detritus was bound to meet their precious car at some point, they’re living in a fantasy world and there’s only going to be so much you can do to disabuse them.

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Copped out D.C. is teeming with police officers, so the real mystery may be why crime happens at all.

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In the year since Terrence Sterling died at the hands of D.C. police officer Brian Trainer, there have been two sets of arguments. The first is a debate between those, including Mayor Muriel Bowser, who blame an overly aggressive cop (she says Trainer disregarded police regulations that forbid chases) and those—like Trainer’s police union—who blame a suspect for threatening an officer’s life and thereby forfeiting his own.

Those who fall in the second set blame a more nebulous party—a daunting opponent known as The System. “We have seen far too many police shootings of unarmed African Americans in our country, and the public is frustrated by the difficulty in getting prosecutions of officers,” Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said in a news release.

The parameters of the debate, then, have been thoroughly polarized. Either the problem here is hyper-local (individual decisions made by Trainer and/or Sterling and/or both) or crushingly diffuse (too many black folks getting killed in America).

But what if Sterling’s death is a function of numbers? The District is the most heavily policed place in the U.S., which means it’s one of the most heavily policed places on earth. There are thousands of police officers on D.C.’s streets.

Whatever the individual circumstances of Sterling’s death, might not the laws of probability—X number of cops per Y unit of time—suggest that trouble was bound to happen?

Anton Chekhov noted, famously, that if there’s a gun above the mantle in the first act of a play, it will go off by the third act. Trainer’s was one of thousands of cop guns in the District. How many more are waiting to go off?

In 2015, GoverninG magazine looked at D.C. police staffing levels and found that, even with declining membership, the District

was still the most policed city in the U.S. There were nearly 57 D.C. police department cops for every 10,000 Washingtonians—almost twice the average for big cities and about four times the national average. The next closest city was Wilmington, Delaware, with more than 43 cops per 10,000 citizens.

The folks at Governing, however, were only counting the 3,900 or so cops in the D.C. police department. There are another 1,700 Capitol Hill police and some 460 Metro cops. Park Police add another couple hundred (although spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Rose declined to answer basic questions about the number of officers on the force). Then there’s the D.C. Housing Authority and Department of General Services uniformed officers. The FBI and Secret Service have their own uniformed branches. Ditto for the Government Printing Office, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security. There’s a special department just for Amtrak police, as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Smithsonian, the postal service, and the U.S. Mint. A few years ago, when a lunatic shot up the Navy Yard, an even dozen police agencies responded to the call.

Most of the police departments here are small, assigned to a specific building or agency, and their most ardent defenders will acknowledge that their forces are little more than security guards. But they’re security guards with the power to arrest ordinary citizens, and they carry badges, guns, and radios to summon similarly accoutred fellows.

More than that, the larger police agencies—Capitol, Park, and Metro—aren’t shy about getting off their beats. For years, D.C. police officers have routinely gotten around the general orders against police chases (the ones that Trainer is accused of running afoul

of in the Sterling shooting) by outsourcing them to Park Police.

That’s one example of what police-types like to call “interagency cooperation,” but it’s not the only one. The various agencies have also helped each other hide crime statistics by playing the jurisdictional game. Mug someone at Farragut North Metro station, for instance, and the crime will be logged with Metro police rather than the D.C. police. If the suspect is arrested for said mugging on K Street NW the next day by D.C. police, though, it’s logged on D.C.’s books—so the D.C. police department takes credit for solving a crime it doesn’t acknowledge having happened.

GIven the number of cops on D.C.’s streets, it might count as a minor-key miracle that we haven’t had more cases like Terrence Sterling’s. But brutality is only one measure of over-policing.

Park Police, for instance, are still hoping that you won’t have the bad taste to bring up that video from this summer, when their plainclothes officers handcuffed six black teens for selling water on the Mall. Video of the heroic bust went round the Twitterverse at speed, and most people seemed genuinely shocked.

But what the hell did you expect, asks Monica Hopkins-Maxwell, executive director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia.

“Is public safety criminalizing six entrepreneurial boys on the Mall who are trying to sell water?” she asks. “The sheer number of police and police forces you put on the streets increases the number of quote-unquote ‘crimes’ that they can catch.”

Cops often complain that they’re in a loselose situation. They have a point, because every drop of scorn heaped upon cops when they abuse or kill someone is overwhelmed by the

tsunami of panicked calls for more cops any time a crime occurs.

Consider Holmes Norton, who so weepingly joined the chorus over Terrence Sterling’s death. After Park Police handcuffed those six teens on the Mall, she made sure the public knew that she had demanded a meeting with their chief. Yet, for more than a decade, Holmes Norton has fought publicly and fiercely to protect the department’s funding and preserve its staffing levels. (Holmes Norton didn’t respond to requests for comment.)

The ACLU’s Hopkins-Maxwell has grown numb to the ritual. Calling for more cops has become a shibboleth in the public life of the District, she says.

“We as a society have to decide—what is public safety?” she says. “Can we reduce forces and really focus in on stopping crime that has a substantial impact on our society? That’s a choice.”

So far, the choice seems to have gone the other way. In the year after the D.C. Council decriminalized marijuana, for instance, pot busts nearly tripled, The Washington Post reported earlier this year.

And Hopkins-Maxwell isn’t stipulating that brutality isn’t a problem. Just this year, her group settled a lawsuit with Metro police over their handling of a teenage girl Metro cops initially detained for a curfew violation. She was accused of biting an officer, but her lawyers say she only did so after the cop punched her and slammed her head into a bus shelter. Whatever the facts of her case, Hopkins-Maxwell asks you to remember: It all started because a teenager was running late getting home.

Metro spokesman Richard Jordan says that police action against such petty crimes “also deters assaults on Metro employees, other crimes on the system, and results in arrests for people with outstanding warrants.”

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Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, just wrapped up a book he titled The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. He admits that he’s ambivalent about policing levels.

“Whether D.C. has too many police really turns on what the police are doing,” he says.

“There is no question that post-9/11 D.C. has ascribed to a form of security theater where police presence becomes a proxy for actual public safety.”

Nonetheless, the theatrics “likely had a positive effect on reducing crime in many downtown locations,” Ferguson says, adding that the kaleidoscope of police uniforms may actually help things seem less oppressive to ordinary people.

“On the negative side, because D.C. does not control many of the federal police officers, there is no way to maintain local control,” he says.

“Beyond the question of whether one thinks it is wise for park police to arrest kids for selling water on the Mall is the deeper democratic question that even if locals wanted to change it, they couldn’t because Park Police are not under local control. This lack of local control makes it hard to create accountability mechanisms to monitor what federal police are doing to D.C. citizens.” the weIGht of history burdens this discussion. There was a time when living in the District of Columbia was hazardous to your health. At its nadir in the early nineties, the District was dropping nearly two bodies per day. And, even as violence has declined over the past few decades, it still remains relatively—and disproportionately—high in Wards 7 and 8. For many Washingtonians, talk of reducing the number of cops on the streets is a wicked spell that threatens to swing open the very gates of hell again.

“You cannot go and tell someone in Ward 8 and Ward 7 that crime is down. We just had four shootings last week,” says Paul Trantham, an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Ward 8. “That makes no sense. If you just go over in Ward 8 and Ward 7, and start asking those people whether they agree with those numbers or not.”

Trantham acknowledges, though, that it may be a deployment and training problem as much as it is a raw numbers problem.

“Yeah, D.C. has a lot of police,” he says.

“And it makes no sense that D.C. is still a violent city.”

In their desperation to stop the bleeding of the late eighties and early nineties, city leaders tried just about everything. For a while, for instance, the District tried killing as many suspects as it could, leading the nation in officerinvolved fatal shootings until the Justice Department stepped in, beginning in 2001.

Two basic ideas have hung on here. One is the “broken windows” model. The idea is that cops can get ahead of crime by aggressively enforcing quality of life violations. Stop petty vandalism, panhandling, etc., the argument goes, and you can keep a neighborhood from

In 2015, the district was the most policed city in the u.S. there were nearly 57 d.C. police department cops for every 10,000 Washingtonians—almost twice the average for big cities and about four times the national average.

collapsing into a Hobbesian state of nature.

The second idea, related to broken windows, is community policing. That came to town with Chief Charles Ramsey, a veteran bureaucrat who was offered the District job as a consolation prize after having been passed over as chief in his native Chicago. It was Ramsey’s idea to focus on police “visibility” and community relations. Get Officer Friendly walking a beat, the argument ran, knowing her neighborhood and its neighbors, so that she can spot trouble before it starts. (That fetish for “visibility” is also the reason cops drive around with their lights flashing—to the consternation of newcomers, tourists, and epileptics.)

People of goodwill can argue about whether either strategy is or was effective. The plain fact is, crime in D.C. has plummeted over the past two decades, as it has in most other major cities. Things haven’t improved equally— Trantham’s Ward 8 remains the city’s most dangerous—but improved it has, in every measure and in every neighborhood.

Now, the only “changing” neighborhoods in this city are the ones where wealthy (mostly white) people are coming and poor (mostly brown) people are going. the whole questIon of petty versus serious crime is also warped, like so many other questions, by the District’s colonial relationship with the federal government. Whatever else the Romans have done for us, the Justice Department has always set a hard ceiling on

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just how bad D.C.’s bad guys can get.

In the 1980s, the leaders of Chicago’s El Rukn street gang were indicted for trying to buy stinger missiles from Libya so that they could shoot down airliners at O’Hare. Angelinos occasionally have lively public debates over their nastiest serial killer. New York’s Five Families has been run as a multinational since FDR was in the White House. Many Bostonians still swell with a kind of perverse civic pride when they hear the name “Whitey Bulger.” Here in the District, if you want to meet supervillians of that caliber, you’ll have to check into one of our fine comic book shops: The feds simply won’t abide those kinds of shenanigans in their backyard.

Yet, as defenders of the status quo will quickly point out, 911 calls have continued to rise, even as crime has dropped. For critics, that’s no coincidence. One of the effects of community policing/broken windows is to have forced cops to take on roles as social workers, therapists, and neighborhood fence-menders.

“More police is easy,” Hopkins-Maxwell says. “The true solution to safety and to getting healthy, vibrant communities is hard. And we have to do the hard work ourselves.” last year, the D.C. Auditor’s office measured D.C. police department response times, emergency calls, and available manpower. It found that, on average, a D.C. cop can expect to spend 22 percent of their time on emergency calls. (In Ward 8, cops spent an average of 33 percent of their time responding to emergen-

cies, the auditors found.)

By way of contrast, cops in Kansas City spent 35 percent of their time on emergencies; in San Francisco, between 30 and 50 percent, auditors said, citing research by the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit think tank based here in the District. Tallahassee set a goal of 50 percent, and Memphis 42 percent.

“This raises the obvious question of how the remainder of patrol time is spent, and could indicate that the number of patrol officers now deployed could be reduced without a significant impact on public safety,” Auditor Kathy Patterson wrote in an April letter to Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who chairs the Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee. “We recommend that [D.C. police] undertake a comprehensive time utilization study to see whether our very limited review is an accurate picture and a factor that should be taken into account in assessing the need for additional police officers.”

Patterson spent her hot youth as a journalist covering cops in Kansas City, and says she’s always had “tremendous respect” for the work they do. She has been raising the issue of police staffing since she first was elected to the Council in 1995 to represent Ward 3.

“I was a chorus of one, though, on the Council, in arguing that we didn’t need more officers,” she says. “More training, yes, but not more numbers. So the number of officers and the dollars spent have gone up.”

It’s not just a question of resources, Patterson says. Every officer in uniform, “visibly” walking a beat, is an officer who’s not investigating complex cases or the nexus of crime in the neighborhoods. “Elected officials can be part of the problem here,” Patterson says, “always wanting more on patrol, because residents complain they never see officers.”

Asked for comment, a spokesman for D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham issued the following statement: “Chief Newsham believes we have sufficient staffing for policing the District of Columbia and our great relationships with the other law enforcement agencies in the city is beneficial to the communities we serve.”

For Hopkins-Maxwell and other critics, people like Terrence Sterling are going to continue to suffer—and, occasionally, to die—as long as the District commits itself to flooding the streets with cops. Her points are arguable and perhaps even rebuttable, but the arguments won’t be had unless and until there’s a public leader willing to raise the questions.

That person may already be amongst us.

Patterson recalls a youngish police commander she met when she first took public office in the District in the mid-1990s. Even as everyone around Patterson was screaming for more cops, this commander “shared his own view at the time that we had sufficient manpower, and he cared more about quality than quantity in officers,” she recalls.

The commander’s name was Peter Newsham.

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Tail Up Goat launched a city-wide fundraiser for the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma. Co-owner Jill Tyler grew up on St. Thomas. A dollar from every Painkiller cocktail sold at her bar will go to the relief efforts, and she’s asked other restaurants to put a Caribbean cocktail on the menu to do the same. Early participants include Rose’s Luxury, Doi Moi, All-Purpose, 2 Amy’s, Room 11, and Sally’s Middle Name.

Auctioneer collects tomato bids

Why a local chef drives to Pennsylvania farm country to bid on tomatoes alongside Mennonites and large grocers

By Laura Hayes

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adelphia to buy produce,” he says. “He’d go to the orchards, so I kind of learned a bit from that.” His parents opened Hollinger’s Farm Market in 1952, which started as a roadside stand. “People still remember my parents from the grocery store, and I still have family in the area.”

When the highway turns into a road that splits corn fields, Hollinger is home. Three young girls in a miniature wagon pulled by a miniature horse roll by on the right. To the left, a young man rides by on a special scooter with bicycle-sized wheels. Hollinger drives slowly because there are just as many horsedrawn buggies on the road as cars. Their metal wheels grind at the pavement.

There are varying degrees of conservatism amongst Mennonites. While they unite over general principles such as leading a life of service, frugality, and pacifism, groups splinter off based on hyper-specific rules, according to Hollinger. His family left the Mennonite church before he was set to be baptized around age 12.

“There’s the Black Bumper Mennonites,” Hollinger explains. (The group is formally known as Old Order Mennonites.) “They’re allowed to drive cars, but the bumpers have to be black because silver bumpers are too worldly.” The Amish, who also go to the auction, split off from the Mennonites in 1693 when Jakob Ammann, a Swiss Anabaptist leader, called for even greater separation from the modern world. They don’t drive, but they will pay to ride shotgun in a Mennonite person’s car, according to Hollinger.

Pulling up to the auction, parking spots alternate truck, buggy, truck, buggy. The area it encompasses is about the size of two football fields, open to the seasons along the sides but covered by a roof. Barefoot children dressed in hats and suspenders or simple dresses wheel carts and place crates of produce from their family farms in designated rows.

Snyder scans the market and estimates that there are 7,000 watermelons for sale. It’s late August.

The floor is partitioned by “lot” size. Hol-

Zena Polin and Jerry Hollinger

Leola Produce Auction

Photos by Laura Hayes

Jerry Hollinger buys beans with his eyebrows. The executive chef and co-owner of The Daily Dish in Silver Spring drives to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to fight over fruit at the Leola Produce Auction. His fellow bidders range from Mennonites in bonnets looking to stock their roadside stands to a man whose face tattoos scream, “I’m not from these parts.”

Each buyer has a unique way of placing a bid—some nod, others subtly flick a thumb.

Hollinger looks into the eyes of the auctioneer and arches his eyebrows to signal that he’s ready to bid on a box of heirloom tomatoes, peaches, or corn to serve at the restaurant he co-owns with Zena Polin.

“I can never do it the way Jerry does because I have had Botox,” Polin jokes.

“There’s another guy who bids by tapping the auctioneer on the shoulder. You and I will be like, ‘What just happened?’ And Jerry will have won.’” The duo also operates the Dish & Dram in Kensington and runs a catering business.

Hollinger is one of the few chefs at the auction. Order buyer Aaron Hoover says half a dozen come sporadically. Michael Snyder, who has managed the auction for 17 years, thinks that’s an overestimate. “There are not a lot of restaurant guys, just Jerry really.” It doesn’t make sense for a small restaurant to come because bidders have to buy in large quantities. Most buyers are from grocery stores or other farms.

Produce prices skyrocket by the time they make their way to grocery stores and markets closer to D.C., but for those who can find time to travel, purchasing them almost directly from Pennsylvania farmers is far more economical.

Hollinger filled a Ford SUV for $398.90. But the real reason Hollinger pours his coffee before dawn to drive two hours to bid is emotional, not financial.

Hollinger grew up 15 minutes from Leola, also in Lancaster County. He’s the youngest of seven. “I’d go with my dad as a kid to Phil-

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linger makes his bids in the area where farmers sell a minimum of four boxes and a maximum of 16 boxes. In this area, if a seller has a lot with eight or more boxes he can opt to sell it in two halves. That’s Hollinger’s sweet spot. He can come away with four to eight boxes, which is the right amount for his restaurant.

These smaller lot auctions start after the grocery store buyers have gobbled up pallets with 30 or more boxes. That means Hollinger has time to window shop. He walks row by row, eyeing which heirloom tomatoes look and feel the best. Polin trails behind, calling out her list as she goes: “Get peaches. I want to serve them with burrata and prosciutto.”

The fruit looks plucked from a Paul Cezanne still life—there are no visible imperfections and the colors are so vibrant it looks like you’re viewing them through an iPhone’s chrome filter. Peaches are the size of grapefruits. Tomatoes weigh as much as melons.

Snyder explains why the produce looks pristine. “Years ago, when they first started, one farmer did everything: cantaloupe, watermelon, corn, tomatoes, peppers, stuff like that,” he says. The Leola Produce Market started in 1985. “Those guys got out of that. What they do now is specialize. One guy does ’lopes, one guy does watermelon.”

Rules govern how much time can pass before farmers have to bring their harvested bounty to auction. They pick most fruits and vegetables the day before or that morning. But some bidders still try before they buy, cutting thin slices using a pocket knife.

Those looking to eat more than a free sample can go to a snack bar and choose between “Meadow Tea,” fragrant with local mint, burgers, fries, and specials. A ham loaf sandwich costs $4.

When an auctioneer crosses the threshold to the small lot section, Hollinger takes note and gets ready to start bidding. “Need a nine, need a nine, need a nine, need a nine, need a nine, SOLD for $8 to 170,” the auctioneer spits, and just like that the first cartons of tomatoes are off the market. “The auctioneers start where they think the price will end up,” Hollinger explains. “They’ll come down.”

Each bidder has a number. Some register for them in the morning, but regulars like Hollinger have earned permanent digits. As soon as the auctioneer calls out which number has taken a lot, a Mennonite woman hand-writes the seller’s number and the buyer’s number. Then she dashes to the office, handing the paper off like a baton in a relay. There, an employee enters the data into a computer for when buyers come to settle up using cash, check, or credit.

“If I know that I want it, I’ll jump in right away,” says Hollinger. “If I’m not sure and think it’s going to go higher, I’ll wait and see

how much higher. Sometimes I’ll jump in halfway though because it seems like the other guy is going to stop. When I know who I’m going up against, I duck behind somebody and try to be very subtle.”

Side deals are also part of his strategy. Hollinger will talk up buyers before the auctioneer reaches a lot he’s interested in to see if anyone is willing to split it. “They don’t frown upon it unless you are actively trying to suppress pricing,” Hollinger says. “It’s not colluding. The manager would be upset if we weren’t bidding, but it’s just a function of not needing so much.”

It takes about two hours for the auctioneers to snake through the four rows that pique Hollinger’s interest. His haul consists of peaches, corn, pole beans, purple and white polka dot potatoes, peppers, and heirloom tomatoes. At a final table, reserved for single boxes, he buys bunches of mint, sunflowers, a small box of okra, and a hodgepodge of hot peppers. Most of these boxes go for $1 or less.

Back in the truck, he and Polin immediately start gabbing about how they plan to use their purchases back at the restaurant. Sometimes when Hollinger buys too much, he’ll text a small network of chefs and sell to them directly. Pam “The Butcher” Ginsberg, who made her name at Wagshal’s, is one of Hollinger’s favorite buyers.

The Daily Dish opened in 2009, but they restructured their menu a few years later when Hollinger started going to the auction, creating a stage for their prized produce. “Our dinner menu has a salmon, chicken, a daily fish, steak, and pasta but we don’t have set sides,” Polin says. “Every day is a special menu. We can change it daily or weekly depending on what we’re getting in. It’s more fun than serving a set menu.”

For example, Hollinger serves the season’s last soft shell crabs with a succotash made from corn, pole beans, okra, and peppers. He also makes an heirloom tomato salad. Polin, who is responsible for pastries, bakes a peach and blackberry crisp.

While Polin and Hollinger encourage servers to chat up diners about the produce, the average Daily Dish customer may not know the deep connection the restaurant has to a simpler life two states over. When Hollinger and Polin purchased the property in 2009, they needed a name for their restaurant.

“We were driving in Lancaster County and we popped up with The Daily Dish,” Polin explains. There’s the biblical phrase, “give us our daily bread,” that speaks to Hollinger’s Mennonite upbringing. “People are like, ‘It’s like the Daily Grill, it doesn’t mean anything.’ Actually it means a lot.”

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By Priya Konings

Veggie burgers often get a bad reputation for being bland. But with more people going vegetarian (have you seen What the Health?), many local chefs have risen to the challenge of creating veggie burgers that satiate all. A taste test reveals the best vegetarian patties in D.C. proper.

Fare Well Bakery, Diner, and Bar’s Burger ($15) 406 H St. NE If you’re going to operate a vegetarian diner, you better serve a really good veggie burger. Fare Well does just that. Chef Doron Petersan’s patty is earthy and nutty.

She makes it with chickpeas, walnuts, mushrooms, and sunflower seeds, and tops it with a garlicky aioli, fresh tomatoes, and sweet caramelized onions.

Zaytinya’s Falafel Burger ($11) 701 9th St. NW On his lunch menu, Chef Michael Costa serves a Mediterranean-inspired veg-

gie burger with a thick, fragrant falafel patty on an olive oil brioche bun. The patty is spiced with cumin, coriander, and fresh parsley, and topped with tomatoes and garlicky tzatziki sauce.

Farmers & Distillers’ Black-Eyed Pea Burger ($13) 600 Massachusetts Ave. NW Farmers & Distillers forms its veggie burger out of hearty white beans and black-eyed peas for a vegetarian take on a good, old fashioned burger. It’s served on a fresh wheat bun, topped with thick tomatoes, leafy greens, mayonnaise, and layers of melted American cheese.

HangoverHelper Some” brunch, which launched in early September. While you can expect traditional Chinese dishes, like crispy yao cha guai (breakfast crullers) and congee, there are also hangover essentials, like fatty bacon served with a side of pickled radish salad and happy toast. The latter is a Hong Kong-style French toast, topped with burnt coconut cream. We tested the toast with an actual hangover sufferer, and the results are in—this sugary, smiley-faced bread is sure to sweeten your day.

The Dish: Happy Toast Price: $6 What It Is: The latest development at Tiger Fork is a new “Dim Sum and Then

How It Tastes: Before you take a bite, you’ll want to Instagram, or perhaps take a selfie with this smiling plate of French toast. Chef Irvin Van Oordt uses a cookie cutout to give the dish its winning grin. But don’t dilly dally too long; you’ve got a hangover and the dehydration that comes with it. Drink a tall

what we ate this week: Nashville-style hot fried oysters with pickled cucumber, bread, and dill ranch dressing, $15, Succotash. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Chestnut agnolotti with rabbit, sunchoke, pear, and mustard seeds, $19, Bresca.

Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

Good Stuff Eatery’s ‘Shroom Burger ($7.65) 303 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Chef Spike Mendelsohn’s ‘Shroom Burger doesn’t pretend to be healthy.

Good Stuff Eatery cooks stuff a portobello mushroom with not one but two kinds of cheese, dip it in breadcrumbs, and fry it to a golden crisp. Then they crown the thick flying saucer with lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and plenty of savory, creamy “Good Stuff” sauce. Everything tastes better fried.

Bobby’s Burger Palace’s Bobby’s Veggie Burger ($8.95) 2121 K St. NW Chef Bobby Flay came up with his veggie burger recipe on an episode of his namesake show, Beat Bobby Flay. To make it, he chops mushrooms, cooks them down, and glazes them with Bobby’s BBQ sauce. Next, he combines the mushrooms with quinoa to form a super earthy, sweet, and spicy veggie burger patty. Finally, he tops the burger with pickles, cheese, tomatoes, and a spicy mayonnaise-based sauce. This veggie burger brings more umami flavor than most. glass of water and inhale this French toast, enriched with condensed milk and a hairdo of burnt coconut cream. It comes with a with heap of brown sugar and a portion of melted butter. Altogether, it kind of tastes like you’re diving head-first into a giant bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Why It Helps: This dish will fill you up with fried bread, butter, heavy cream, and sugar—all the essential food groups.

And it pairs nicely with a bottomless cup of La Colombe coffee. Even our most hungover friend agrees: “This meal literally nursed me back to health.”

Where to Get It: Dim sum menu at Tiger Fork (available Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.); 922 N St. NW; (202) 733-1152; tigerforkdc.com —Tim Ebner

Top of the Hour

Top of the Hour is a new, recurring print column featuring D.C.’s most generous, fun, and filling happy hours.

Where: Bar Charley, 1825 18th St. NW; (202) 627-2183; barcharley.com Hours: 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 4-6:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; and all night Monday Drink specials: $6 cocktails including Sazeracs, classic Daiquiris, Moscow Mules, and Mai Tais; $2 off wines by the glass; $3.50 Narragansett Tallboys Food specials: $5 giant soft pretzels, $6 Catalan fries, $6 Korean BBQ wings, $12.95 Charley Burger, $16.95 butcher’s cut steak served with rolls or a salad and a side.

Pros: Happy hours that stop at drink specials are so 2007. Enter Bar Charley’s deeply discounted menu of eats. Cobble a few items together to form a full meal paired with stiff $6 cocktails. Start with a soft pretzel fit for a sumo wrestler and served with addictive dippers. If you’re extra hungry, spring for the butcher’s cut steak. It comes with traditional steakhouse accoutrements. And if you like getting a beefy deal, visit Bar Charley on Sunday nights when a table of four can get half-off steaks with the purchase of a scorpion bowl cocktail or a bottle of wine.

Cons: The bar area at Bar Charley is pocket-sized and quickly starts to feel cramped when the crowds funnel in after work. Complicating things is the fact you have to go up to the bar to order. Leave an article of clothing on your stool so it doesn’t get snached up. A little known secret is you can take advantage of all of the happy hour specials in the far more expansive dining room, even if you only plan to drink.

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Two of the biggest current social issues—reproductive rights and gun control—are put under the microscope, with varying degrees of success, in two new films.

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Birthright: A War Story Directed by Civia Tamarkin

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By Tricia Olszewski “UnlawfUl miscarriage” is a phrase that should be goofy and meaningless, like “number red” or “President Trump.” But in certain states in the U.S., an unlawful miscarriage is a felony.

So is having taken any drugs during pregnancy, regardless of the amount or the baby’s health; that crime can land a woman 10 years in prison. Birthright: A War Story, therefore, is not just about the abortion fight. It’s about how “every aspect of pregnancy and childbirth… is being subject[ed] to state punishment,” according to one of the documentary’s talking heads.

“State” is the keyword here. The film tells us that pro-lifers,

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knowing that overturning Roe v. Wade would be an uphill battle, have been focusing on state laws instead. (In case you don’t know which states, there’s a montage of news anchors to tell you.) The exception is the June 2014 Supreme Court ruling that employers do not have to provide insurance coverage for contraception if it goes against their religious beliefs. If this is news to job-hunting ladies, they may want to pick their next gig carefully.

Birthright, directed by Civia Tamarkin, doesn’t try to be balanced in its analysis of women’s reproductive rights; it’s firmly one-sided. Pro-lifers are included in the discussion, but they come across as stupid and ignorant. Or dangerous: “Terminating the life of the abortionist I would not say is murder,” says Rev. Michael Bray of the underground terrorist organization Army of God in a clip. Nor, apparently, are the deaths of women who seek illegal abortions. The fetus has the right to live; the mother or anyone who assists her? Not so much.

Tamarkin, who also shares a writing credit with Luchina Fisher, includes one horror story after another told by women who physically suffered or were jailed because of draconian abortion laws that sometimes extend to miscarriages. At

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washingtoncitypaper.com/arts some point, you start to think, “we get it.” But then each story will have a different twist. And although it’s at first difficult to believe that women would be jailed for failed pregnancies—in this country, in the 21st century—Tamarkin is ready with examples, such as the woman who took rat poison while upset over a breakup. She delivered her baby, but it died soon after. Then the cuffs were brought out. The crime is called feticide.

The tactic of pro-life groups, the film says, is to give the fetus as many rights as possible. These laws would declare that life begins at conception and allow the government to intervene in a woman’s life the second she gets pregnant. “That’s an intrusion into the life of an individual that should shock every conservative in this country,” a lawyer says. Even now, pregnant women are allegedly avoiding doctors and hospitals for fear of intrusion and arrest. University of California, Irvine law professor Michele Goodwin points out that, in this political climate, it’s safer for some women to give birth in a developing country than in their own states. “From a public health perspective,” she says, “we’re really missing the mark.”

Jeremy Kagan did not go for subtlety in his first film in 10 years. Shot begins with a video editor working on a western. “I can make those gunshots pop!” he tells his boss. Then we get a peek into a marriage counseling session. “He threatened to shoot me!” the wife huffs to the therapist. It’s not surprising that soon afterward, one of these characters catches a stray bullet.

The title, after all, isn’t subtle, either.

Shot is one of those films of which you say, “Its heart was in the right place.”

Because as Mark (Noah Wyle), the video editor, remarks later on, “I was just in the way. What kind of fucked-up world is that?” He has a point: He was only taking a post-lunch walk with his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Phoebe (Sharon Leal), on a sunny Los Angeles afternoon. They stopped for a moment and suddenly he gets shot near his heart, the result of a teen’s gun going off accidentally. The teen, Miguel (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), was often bullied, so his cousin had forced an illegal gun on him for protection.

Shot, therefore, is a sermon about gun violence—particularly the unintended kind—and the ease with which kids can obtain a firearm. Most of the film stays with Mark as he’s treated in the ER; Kagan uses an irritating split screen with indistinct borders to keep us up-to-date on Miguel, too. Miguel is full of remorse and even ready to confess to police. Then, for the final chapters, we jump five months ahead to see that Mark is full of rage over how that bullet changed his life and has bought a gun himself.

He tells a disgusted Phoebe that it’s also for protection, but an ensuing encounter proves that he’s after revenge, too.

Written by newbie feature scripters Anneke Campbell and Will Lamborn and based on a story by Kagan, Shot is often clunky and poorly directed. The characters either pick weird times to say something (Mark, though not gravely wounded, tells Phoebe in the ambulance that he’s been paying the bills washingtoncitypaper.com september 22, 2017 23

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The reliance on a split screen instead of alternating Mark’s and Miguel’s narratives feels lazy, with the bifurcations occurring during important moments and thus distracting you from them. You don’t know which side to pay attention to. And we often see things from Mark’s point of view in the hospital, complete with memories of Phoebe playing like vacation slides on every light.

There is one scene with honest dialogue, and that’s when Miguel’s mother stops him from going to the police.

“You are brown,” she says. “You are not going to the police. I’m not going to let you ruin your life.” But the moment is too fleeting for it to count as commentary on the present-day relationship between law enforcement and minorities.

And Miguel’s lines resort to romantic comedy standards whenever he tells someone what he did: The words “it was an accident” should spill off his tongue, but he always takes a while before he adds this detail, just like a simple explanation would clear up some wacky mistake on the screen next door.

Wyle is put in goofy positions, such as appearing like he

well, call to arms to actively support gun control. The title card accomplishes more than anything that came before it.

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smoked some potent mary jane after being doped up in the hospital or when a nurse magically calms him down for a CT scan by saying “Look right here. Into my eyes.” He, Leal, and Lendeborg do not give subpar performances, it’s just that it’s hard for even the best actor to turn a bad script good. The end is very abrupt and not terribly realistic. It’s followed by statistics and a,

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“Submarine” Standout Track: “Submarine,” the second track on D.C. metal quartet Maulrat’s debut EP Swamp Angel, is almost like two different songs. It begins quietly, primarily featuring Tyler Fisher’s contemplative bassline and vocalist/guitar player Wanda Perkins’ vocals. The drums and guitar slowly introduce themselves, but “Submarine” doesn’t really follow the triedand-trite formula of gradually building a quiet track into a loud one: Two minutes in, there’s a marked split. Guitars get fuzzy and drummer Jeff Orrence trades in his restraint for a driving rhythm. “I think [that’s] pretty emblematic of the sounds we tried to lay out for ourselves,” says Fisher. “Heavier, leaning towards metal while still being very melodic.”

Musical Motivation: “Submarine” started as a song that Perkins began writing nearly 10 years ago. “I used to know this guy who built submarines,” she says, “and I thought that was pretty cool, so on the surface it’s about that. But then it evolved to become more of a metaphor for different types of minds and ways of connecting and looking for depth of meaning in relationships.” Fellow guitarist Matt Connolly expands on that metaphor: “It’s about the deep connections that you can form between people and the struggle that that can be sometimes,” he says. “A lot of interpersonal relationships can feel really shallow. There’s a lot beneath the surface that can be really hard to get to.”

Sonic Identities: Swamp Angel is Maulrat’s debut EP, and it showcases a band still working to find its sonic identity—something they’re aware of and embracing. “I think the EP can be a little disparate, because it’s our first time recording together, and I mean that hopefully in a good way,” says Connolly. “I think we just start off with ‘Mosaic’ and ‘Submarine’ as a kind of statement of sound before we twist and turn a little bit.”

-Keith Mathias

Show: Drab Majesty, Statiqbloom, DJ Dianamatic at Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe. 2477 18th St. NW. Sept. 22, 8 p.m. $12-$14.

Artist: Monica Amneus

Show: Spirits, Reality Check, Payback at Slash Run. 201 Upshur St. NW. Sept. 21, 9:45 p.m. $8.

Artist: Sarah O’Donoghue

Show: Mock Identity, TK Echo, Faunas at Black Cat. 1811 14th St. NW. Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. $10.

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GalleriesSketcheS

Three’s Company Nevermind, Azizam

At Transformer to Oct. 14

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NevermiNd, AzizAm never settles into a single groove. At first glance, this show at Transformer could be a meditation on tradition in art, both decorative and modernist.

Look a little closer and some narrative markers begin to emerge between the works. Anahita (Ani) Bradberry, Alexandra Delafkaran, and Sheida Soleimani, the three artists on view, all share Iranian-American heritage, although this fact is only fleetingly apparent. Between the neon installations, ceramic sculptures, and photo collages, no one vision holds sway.

Delafkaran and Bradberry’s fruitful collaboration drives the show. Bradberry’s “Wives and Daughters” (2017), a free-floating orange neon scribble, faces Delafkaran’s “YEAH BUT” (2017), a ceramic shaped like a gut organ. The sculptures are paired on twin sculptural pedestals: opposites that attract.

The team-up is even stronger in Delafkaran’s “Reminiscient of --” (2017) and Bradberry’s “Veins” (2017). These two form a plural artwork, un composé: Electric cords dangle from Bradberry’s red neon and green argon

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horseshoe forms, right into the twin ceramic gourds that Delafkaran has propped up against the wall. It’s hard to dissolve out separate sculptures in this recombinant artwork.

Together, the pieces evoke Eva Hesse.

Two collages by Sheida Soleimani balance the show. Soleimani’s contributions serve as a point of departure, a juxtaposition, that completes this compositionally excellent presentation. Between Bradberry’s future-cool neons, Delafkaran’s crafty ceramics, and Soleimani’s photo collages, Nevermind, Azizam gestures meta-textually toward tradition—how artists embrace or defy expectations with the mediums they choose.

With three Iranian-American female artists who are working at a time when conservatives in America or Iran or both are disputing the tentpoles of their identities, the show promises a narrative punch. Bradberry’s “azizam” (2017), which at a glance could be a word in Farsi rendered in neon, tenders something traditional and literal as modern and abstract. Delafkaran’s “Desirable things” (2017) is a ceramic phallus that could also double as a swoop in Farsi, affixed to a garden hanger; two of her sculptures, “Ports of and into (1 & 2)” (2016) are phalluses speared by wall hooks (more than a little reminiscent of Cathy de Monchaux’s gothic hardcore grotesques). In Soleimani’s “Reyhaneh” (2015), press-on manicured nails burst out of bananas.

That punch in Nevermind, Azizam lands indirectly. The show alludes to sex and formalism but stops short of eliciting a convincing feeling about either. Houseplants and a goldfish flick at the comforts of home even as the show strains to achieve white-cube purity. Perhaps that is the point. The artists may not find themselves in a position to deliver verdicts about the issues that weigh on hyphenated-American identity. In that sense it’s a breath of fresh air. A show willing to linger in ambiguity, insistent on the right to a moment’s reprieve from the klaxon alarm sounding off over all our politics: faith, sex, migration, death.

—Kriston Capps 1404 P St. NW. Free.

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FilmShort SubjectS

Shooting BlankS Kingsman: The Golden Circle Directed by Matthew Vaughn

SequelS are alwayS challenging, since the filmmakers must give audiences more of what they want, while also surprising them in ways that seem consistent with the source material. A sequel for Kingsman, the 2015 spy action-comedy from Matthew Vaughn, is especially challenging. The original film was reactionary, trashy, and smart. It took the piss out of the spy genre, globalism, and modern manners. It included the decapitation of Barack Obama and a perfunctory anal sex joke. Kingsman: The Golden Circle has some of the same screwball energy, and far less satire. False endings and repetitive action sequences only weaken its overall impact.

Vaughn and his co-screenwriter Jane Goldman waste no time. Their young hero Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is confronted by someone in his past, leading to a hyperkinetic chase through London’s streets. The aftermath of his confrontation is fatal: Hackers push through Kingsman’s defenses, allowing a string of rockets to destroy their infrastructure, leaving the shadowy spy organization in ruin. Eggsy and fellow survivor Merlin (Mark Strong) enact their “doomsday protocol,” leading them to Kentucky, where they find their American equivalent: the Statesman. American agents Tequila (Channing Tatum) and Whiskey (Pedro Pascal) help Eggsy and Merlin take on Poppy (Julianne Moore), a deranged drug kingpin who seeks to legalize all narcotics through a needlessly complex blackmail scheme.

There are about six other sub-plots, including an explanation of what happened to Harry, Colin Firth’s character from the first film. Despite this overstuffed quality, the film starts at a gleeful clip. But since it’s nearly two-and-ahalf hours and there are only so many ways to film a shoot-out, all the action loses its power.

Vaughn’s style is crisp, and borderline hyper: He speeds up his actors to superhuman speed, letting them bounce and flail in ways that defy the laws of physics. His ultraviolence was better suited to the original film since the context was also transgressive: The original film included Harry murdering bigoted Southern 28 september 22, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

church-goers in an orgy of death, with a “Freebird” soundtrack. Try as it may, The Golden Circle never reaches such snappy lunacy.

This film is more successful as a comedy, with abundant throwaway gags and one-liners from actors who are too good for this material. There is a protracted seduction sequence where Eggsy needs to get to third base with a co-ed—to save the world, of course. Elton John plays himself in a glorified cameo that riffs on his hot-tempered persona.

Another common thread is the difference between American and English culture.

Vaughn imagines Statesman as genteel, softspoken cowboys, with weapons to match their abundant denim. It is a lazy stereotype, and while Tatum can sell the Western bravado, Pascal struggles with it. Jeff Bridges turns up as Champagne, the head of Statesman, and yet his brief appearance only underscores his halfhearted commitment to this material. In fact, since many of the big name actors only appear in one location, many of their roles amount to little more than Elton’s in scope.

Vaughn relishes the cynicism of his exaggerated worldview. The American president (Bruce Greenwood) reacts to Poppy’s scheme with manic bloodlust, and the film goes out of its way to twist the drug legalization debate until it portrays our justice policy in the least flattering light imaginable (some of this is admittedly welldeserved). Stoners may cheer at a major film discussing legalization in such stark terms—in fact, this literally happened at the press screening— but this target is about ten years too late. Countless other films riffed on the Drug War, all with greater degrees of success, further highlighting Vaughn’s myopic sense of American culture.

If he wants to take the piss out of America, he should update his sense of our culture by a generation or two.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle has a couple of inspired surprises. Hanna Alström reprises her role as a Swedish Princess, and while she was the, er, butt of the anal sex joke in the first film, now she and Eggsy have a modern, equitable relationship. The juxtapositions can be dizzying: There is a scene where a henchman is forced to eat human flesh, and moments later everyone coos over the appearance of a cute puppy. But for every flash of imagination, there is yet another improbable fight scene between henchmen and cyborgs. Vaughn ends his film on an open-ended note, with a voiceover suggesting another sequel will arrive soon. Rather than sticking to a biannual schedule, perhaps he and Goldman should wait until they discover the right targets, instead of settling on lazy ones.

—Alan Zilberman Kingsman: The Golden Circle opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

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KRAUSS & DAVID GRAY ........................ SEPTEMBER 23 OPUS 1 - Experiences in Art + Sound

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

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U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Space Jesus w/ Luzcid • Of The Trees • Digital Ethos Late Show! 10pm Doors ...F 22 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All ‘90s Band ................................................. Sa 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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KATY

Trevor Hall w/ East Forest ........................................................................... Tu 26 Mandolin Orange w/ Dori Freeman .............................................................. W 27 SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER (cont.)

Crystal Castles w/ Farrows ..Sa 30

Noah Gundersen w/ Silver Torches Early Show! 6pm Doors ...................Tu 24 Beach Fossils w/ Snail Mail & Raener Late Show! 10pm Doors ...Tu 24

OCTOBER

The Church w/ The Helio Sequence .................Su 1 dded!

First Night Sold Out! Second Night A

Oh Wonder w/ Jaymes Young ...Tu 3 Chicano Batman/Khruangbin w/ The Shacks ...............................W 4 AEG PRESENTS

Cameron Esposito & Rhea Butcher: Back to Back Seated show! Early Show! 7pm Doors .Sa 7

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

What So Not x Baauer w/ Kidd Marvel

Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................Th 19 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

JJ Grey & Mofro w/ The Commonheart ..................F 20 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Moon Taxi w/ Too Many Zooz Early Show! 6pm Doors ..................Sa 21 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Moon Hooch & Marco Benevento Late Show! 10pm Doors ..................Sa 21 Benjamin Booker w/ She Keeps Bees ......................M 23

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Louis The Child w/ Prince Fox .............................W 25

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The English Beat ..........................NOV 7 Puddles Pity Party .....................NOV 17

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The Script w/ Tom Walker ............... OCT 2 Daniel Johnston & Friends Hi, How Are You Tour

Yann Tiersen ..................................DEC 5 Robert Earl Keen’s

STORY DISTRICT PRESENTS

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

& Through The Roots ...................M 30

Dylan Moran ............................. SEPT 25 The Mavericks ...........................NOV 18

NOVEMBER

Ibeyi w/ theMIND ..........................W 1 JR JR w/ Chad Valley ..................Th 2 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Cabinet ........................................F 3 Ariel Pink w/ Gary War & Clang Quartet .......Su 5 The Mountain Goats w/ Mothers .........................M 6 & Tu 7 Josh Abbott Band ....................W 8 The Strumbellas w/ Noah Kahan .............................Th 9 The Lone Bellow w/ The Wild Reeds ........................F 10

Performing with his world famous friends - Members of Fugazi .................................. OCT 3

Paul Weller w/ Lucy Rose ............... OCT 7 Matisyahu w/ Common Kings & Orphan ............. OCT 10 THE MOTH AND REI PRESENT

The DC Moth GrandSLAM ...... OCT 11 Blind Pilot w/ Charlie Cunningham . OCT 13 THE BIRCHMERE PRESENTS

Colin Hay w/ Chris Trapper .......... OCT 21 Lucinda Williams feat. a Performance of Sweet Old World .. OCT 30 The Breeders .................................NOV 4

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Campfire Caravan w/ Mipso • The Brothers Comatose •

The Lil Smokies ........................Su 12 Hippo Campus w/ Remo Drive . M 13

Merry Christmas From The Fam-O-Lee Show .........DEC 7 THE BYT BENTZEN BALL OPENING NIGHT! THE MOST VERY SPECIALEST EVENING WITH TIG NOTARO & FRIENDS FEAT.

Tig Notaro .................................. OCT 26 Colin Quinn One In Every Crowd

Early Show! 5:30pm Doors .................. OCT 28

Big Terrific feat. Jenny Slate,

Max Silvestri, and Gabe Liedman

Late Show! 9pm Doors ....................... OCT 28

Al Franken & Ira Glass

Giant of the Senate and Giant of the Radio in Conversation ............................. OCT 29

AN EVENING WITH

Kevin Smith ...................................NOV 5

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Revivalists w/ Southern Avenue ...................W 15

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Yonder Mountain String Band w/ The Last Revel ........................F 17 9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

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The Cribs w/ Paws .......................Sa SEP 23 Jacob Sartorius Saint Etienne ..................................... W 27 Morning Show! 9am Doors ........................... Sa 30 Songhoy Blues ................................. Th 28 Zola Jesus w/ John Wiese .................. Sa 30 Atlas Road Crew w/ The Artisanals .... F 29 Saint Pé & Crocodiles ...............Tu OCT 3

Complimentary Champagne Toast at Midnight! ............................ Su DEC 31

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U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

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Troyboi w/ Slumberjack Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Sa 7 Ron Pope w/ Ages and Ages & The Heart Of . Tu 10 Against Me! w/ Bleached & The Dirty Nil .........F 13 Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors w/ Lewis Watson ........................Sa 14 Julien Baker w/ Half Waif ......Tu 17 Hamilton Leithauser w/ Courtney Marie Andrews ........W 18 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions w/ Holy Wave Early Show! 7pm Doors ..................Th 19

Capital One Arena • Washington, D.C.

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CITYLIST

JASON EADY

Music 31 Theater 35 Film 37

Music

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW! SAT. SEPT. 30 ~ 9:30PM TIX: $13-$15

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY ClAssICAl

Folger elizabethan theatre 201 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 544-7077. Folger Consort: An English Garden - Music from the Age of Shakespeare. 8 p.m. $42. folger.edu.

ElECtRonIC

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Space Jesus. 10 p.m. $18. 930.com.

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u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

J.Phlip. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. John McCutcheon. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Steeldrivers. 8 p.m. $25–$55. thehamiltondc.com.

MuSiC Center at StrathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Simon & Garfunkel Story. 8 p.m. $38–$58. strathmore.org.

JAzz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Will Calhoun. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $54.75. bluesalley.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Nicole Saphos Quartet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Aaron Watson. 6 p.m. $20. 930.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Frankie Cosmos. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Ben Ottewell. 7 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

SongbyrD MuSiC houSe anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Drab Majesty. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Coast Modern. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

VelVet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Tha Raw. 7:30 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

VoCAl

howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Dina Martina. 8 p.m. $25–$45. thehowardtheatre. com.

sAtuRDAY ClAssICAl

Folger elizabethan theatre 201 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 544-7077. Folger Consort: An English Garden - Music from the Age of Shakespeare. 4 p.m.; 8 p.m. $42. folger.edu.

MuSiC Center at StrathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Poetic Fire: From Hamlet to Don Juan. 8 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

DJ nIghts

u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mark Farina. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

SELMA

While Ava DuVernay’s Selma is a mere three years old, almost from its release it possessed the kind of cultural heft that takes most movies a half-century or so to acquire. It was the first nondocumentary film to grapple with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy, for one thing. For another, it was helmed by a young director who had already been hailed as a visionary. So had its composer, Jason Moran, an acclaimed jazz artist who also happens to be artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center. Which, in turn, happens to have an in-house symphony orchestra.

Everything—the film, the composer, the venue, the ensemble—demanded that they all be combined, and they will this weekend. After the stirring screening, DuVernay discusses the film and the events it covers with one of its significant characters: U.S. Representative John Lewis. The film screens at 8 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F Street NW. $24–$89. (202) 4674600. kennedy-center.org.

—Michael J. West

Folk

Merriweather PoSt PaVilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Allison Krauss & David Gray. 8 p.m. $55-$75. merriweathermusic. com.

JAzz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Will Calhoun. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $54.75. bluesalley.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Nicole Saphos Quartet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

opERA

kenneDy Center oPera houSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Aida. 7 p.m. $45–$300. kennedy-center.org.

RoCk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. White Ford Bronco. 8 p.m. $22. 930.com.

CoMet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Escape-ism + Light Beams. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. LAPêCHE. 7:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

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9.21

THE BLASTERS & FLAT DUO JETS

9.22

HOMEMADE SIN & FRIENDS

9.23

KYLE LACY & THE HARLEM RIVER NOISE

9.26

WILD THE WATERS

9.28

REVELATOR HILL

9.29

DANGERMUFFIN

9.30

JASON EADY ALBUM RELEASE SHOW!

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10.3

SALLY & GEORGE

10.5

WOODY PINES

10.6

HEATHER GILLIS BAND

10.7

KITI GARTNER

10.10

GREYHOUNDS

10.12

WILD PONIES ‘GALAX’ RELEASE TOUR

10.13

CASH’D OUT

10.14

STRAHAN & THE GOOD NEIGHBORS

10.21

SCOTT KURT & MEMPHIS 59

10.24

GURF MORLIX

10.25

SLAID CLEAVES

u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Cribs. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

10.26

DRESSY BESSY, THE SPLIT SQUAD

10.27

POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES

sunDAY

10.28

WHITNEY ROSE

10.31

THE WOGGLES & THE HALL MONITORS, JAKE STARR AND THE DELICIOUS FULLNESS

11.3

SUNNY LEDFURD

11.10

CHAMOMILE & WHISKEY

11.11

SLEEPY LABEEF

12.9

THE CURRYS

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

Jay Som. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

/ NO GOOD SISTER, JOHN TRAIN

ClAssICAl

Folger elizabethan theatre 201 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 544-7077. Folger Consort: An English Garden - Music from the Age of Shakespeare. 2 p.m. $42. folger.edu. kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Season Opening Gala Concert. 6 p.m. $65–$175. kennedy-center.org.

Folk

aMP by StrathMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Ari Hest. 8 p.m. $25–$30. ampbystrathmore.com.

Funk & R&B

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

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

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

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CITY LIGHTS: sAtuRDAY

MARk FARInA

Mark Farina became a regular fixture in Chicago’s downtempo—a style of electronic dance music designed to be the perfect cool-down at clubs—house music scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Farina made his mark on Chi-town house, and the wider electronic music world, through the creation of his own style known as mushroom jazz. It builds on the unhurried, expansive framework of downtempo with the soulful jazz samples and the kind of firm but laidback funky beats found in Dr. Dre’s vision of West Coast production style. Watching Farina’s DJ sets can be a bit like a jazz show. He’s mastered creating and improvising abstract, electronic beat-driven music up at the booth. This is a rare DJ who invites both dancer and listener to give themselves over to the sway of the set. D.C.’s own Sam “The Man” Burns takes the stand before Farina, bringing his own style of meditative but moving electronic music. Mark Farina performs with DJ Sam “The Man” Burns at 10:30 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $10. (202) 5881889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Jackson Sinnenberg

CITY LIGHTS: sunDAY

RARE EssEnCE

This is how U Street should sound. The relentless percussion, the cathartic call and response, and invigorating mix of jazz, soul, R&B, and funk is D.C. through and through. But one of the paragons of the genre, Rare Essence, hasn’t played on U Street in 10 years. The corridor was once the beating heart of the go-go scene and the return of one of its giants will be a welcome sound.

Still riding the wave from last year’s studio album Turn It Up, the group’s first since 1999, Rare Essence is fresh off the release of Live PA#19: Live @ Fast Eddies 4-28-17 and a popular Tiny Desk Concert at NPR. “Where do I start with go-go?” D.C. newcomers sometimes ask. The best way is to show up, listen, and participate. Go-Go is meant to be absorbed live. So get ready to dance on U Street and show Rare Essence that they shouldn’t wait another 10 years to come back. Rare Essence performs with Jahsonic at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $15. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

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RoCk blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Wire.

7:30 p.m. $20–$30. blackcatdc.com.

SongbyrD MuSiC houSe anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Katie Von Schleicher. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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Rare Essence. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com. eChoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. 10 p.m. $36.80. echostage.com.

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From small beginnings as a Ba Da Bing Records intern, where her lo-fi recordings led to a record deal, Katie Von Schleicher has made the most of her opportunities. Shitty Hits, the follow-up to those early recordings, is bold and clear, a louder, more complex record that retains its edge. To capture her vision, Von Schleicher returned to her childhood home of Pasadena, Md. to record some of the album. It’s a mostly unremarkable town between Baltimore and Annapolis, but an understandable backdrop for Shitty Hits’ dark and strange probing of how mediocrity and anxiety form a unique American paralysis. “The image runs and runs together. I’m glancing at it on a screen. I can’t tell you how I feel. It runs and runs together,” she sings on opener “The Image.” Many of the songs feel welcoming at first listen and then gradually twist and morph into crushing reminders of one’s own loneliness. Shitty Hits is maybe best described by Von Schleicher herself on her Bandcamp page, “Good-time songs you can have a bad night with, driving alone. You’re crying but it feels pretty wonderful.” Katie Von Schleicher performs with Poppy Patica and Hothead at 7 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House, 2477 18th St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com.

—Justin Weber

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birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen with John Jorgenson. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

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blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Stiff Little Fingers. 7:30 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com. blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. The Toasters. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Big Ups. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Trevor Hall.

7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

WEDnEsDAY ElECtRonIC

u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Saint Etienne. 7 p.m. $30. Solardo & Latmun. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mandolin Orange. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Langhorne Slim. 8 p.m. $22–$25. sixthandi.org.

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blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Open Mike Eagle. 7:30 p.m. $12–$14. blackcatdc.com.

u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Yelle. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

eChoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. A$AP Mob. 7 p.m. $51.90–$195. echostage.com.

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Think back to the late aughts in D.C. It was a halcyon time, full of hope, change, and promise, a mood captured on the city’s dancefloors. If you were in the first half of your twenties during this time, one of those dancefloors was certainly DC9, with its Nouveau Riche and Liberation Dance Party nights. While draped in neon, you listened to a mix of equally neon dance music, whether it was called dance punk, new rave, electroclash, or, God forbid, indietronica. And amid the Justice and the Peaches tracks was Yelle, a French electro-pop duo that favored beefy basslines, eminently danceable beats, and the half-sung French kiss-offs of its eponymous frontwoman (aka Julie Budet). Yelle singles like the razor-sharp “Je Veux Te Voir” and the breezy “Ce Jeu” were inescapable at those parties and parties like them, and at the time, no one wanted to escape that neon fantasy world. Yelle has tried to keep that world alive, on 2011’s Safari Disco Club and 2014’s Complètement fou, and even if the world has moved on, you can always party like it’s 2009—if just for one night. Yelle performs with Eau Claire at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $25. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Chris Kelly

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chantae Cann. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley. com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Pavel Urkiza. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

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FillMore SilVer SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Marilyn Manson. 8 p.m. $94–$175. fillmoresilverspring.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Touché Amoré. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SongbyrD MuSiC houSe anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Jillette Johnson. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Carpenter plays Copland. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

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Two Owls. 10:30 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

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birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Rippingtons. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Abby Schaffer. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

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Rainer Maria. 8 p.m. $16–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SongbyrD MuSiC houSe anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Wilsen. 8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Songhoy Blues. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Theater

the arSoniStS Woolly Mammoth Theatre presents a new production and translation of Max Frisch’s reflection on Nazism and Communism. The themes in this classic comedy remain relevant today and Woolly’s production stars company members Colin K. Bills, Michael John Garcés, Tim Getman, Kimberly Gilbert, Misha Kachman, Jared Mezzocchi, Ivania Stack, Emily Townley, and outgoing artistic director Howard Shalwitz. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Oct. 8. $20–$59. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

Death oF a SaleSMan Arthur Miller’s classic tale about capitalism, family, and the American Dream comes to life in a new production at Ford’s, directed

by Stephen Rayne. Local favorite Craig Wallace stars as Willy Loman, with Kimberly Schraf as Linda Loman.

Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Oct. 22. $15–$62.

(202) 347-4833. fords.org.

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

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WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE 10 BUDDY GUY 11 EMILY SALIERS (of Indigo Girls) 9

Murmuration Nation Tour

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PETER WHITE & MARC ANTOINE “Guitar Tango”

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sInglE MothERs

If we take Single Mothers’ singer Drew Thomson at face value when he bellows “you’ve got to write about what you know,” it’s hard to think of a more apt title for the band’s debut album than Negative Qualities. The Ontario punk band traffics in the kind of mean-spirited, self-satisfied snark that has been the genre’s lifeblood since the very beginning, targeting everything from smug, hipster intellectuals (“Marbles”) to its own soon-to-be waning indie cache (“High Speed”). And while it’s impossible to not hear the resemblance between Thomson’s sing-speak cadence and that of The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, a key difference resides in the delivery. While Finn’s Springsteen worshipping hosannas urge listeners to stay positive, Thomson’s John Lydon-esque sneer revels in the cynical unraveling of everyday hypocrisy. In Trump’s America, it’s nice to have a pessimistic option for the days when we don’t feel like going high and would rather go low. Single Mothers performs with Touché Amoré and Gouge Away at 7 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NW. $15. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

—Matt Siblo

i killeD My Mother Erica Chamblee stars in the D.C. premiere of this drama about a woman who survives abandonment, abuse, and societal pressure to find hope in life. Natalia Gleason directs this searing rumination on the human spirit by Hungarian-Romanian playwright Andras Visky. Spooky Action Theater.

1810 16th St. NW. To Sept. 30. $25. (202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org. lela & Co. Factory 449 presents this spooky drama about a woman’s struggle for survival and the small changes that put on edge. Helen Hayes Award-nominee Felicia Curry stars in this production directed

by Rick Hammerly. Anacostia Arts Center. 1231 Good Hope Road SE. To Sept. 30. anacostiaartscenter.com. loVe anD inForMation Caryl Churchill’s play, a series of interactions, conversations, and revelations between more than 100 characters, opens Forum’s 14th season. Michael Dove directs this rumination on the nature of human interactions. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To Oct. 21. $18–$38. (301) 588-8279. forum-theatre.org. the loVer anD the ColleCtion Michael Kahn directs a pair of Harold Pinter one-acts to open the Shakespeare Theatre Company season. In The Lover, a couple methodically plans out their extramarital affairs. The Collection follows a jealous husband as he investigates whether his wife had a fling with her coworker during an overnight trip to Leeds. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Oct. 29. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. natiVe garDenS Local playwright Karen Zacarias takes on neighborhood disputes in her latest play, which follows the conflict between pregnant couple, the couple next door, and one very contentious

fence. Blake Robinson directs this comedy, a co-production with Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theatre. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Oct. 22. $56–$91. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org. neVerwhere Rorschach Theater brings back its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s spooky novel about a man who stumbles into a lively world that exists below London. Occupied by angels, monsters, and beasts, this land welcomes newcomers who know where to find it. This remounted production is directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Oct. 1. $20–$30. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

She roDe horSeS like the StoCk exChange Australian playwright Amelia Roper sets this domestic drama in New England. As two couples try to hold maintain friendships while their worlds and the financial markets collapse around them, comedy and tragedy unfold in equal measure. Taffety Punk at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. 545 7th St. SE. To Oct. 14. $15.

(202) 261-6612. taffetypunk.com.

Skeleton Crew Set in one of Detroit’s last autostamping plant, this play follows a close-knit family of workers who must figure out the lengths they’ll go to to survive as rumors start to echo through the factory. Patricia McGregor directs this drama written by Detroit native Dominique Morisseau. Studio Theatre.

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

StoneS in hiS PoCketS In Marie Jones’ play, two Irish men form a fast friendship when they meet on the set of an American movie. The experience allows them to escape briefly but when their daily responsibilities return, each is forced to grapple with their realities. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater.

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Songhoy Blues came together in Mali’s southern capital, Bamako, where the band’s core members met after they individually fled the north where jihadis had temporarily taken over. Guitarist Garba Touré’s father was a percussionist in the late Ali Farka Touré’s band, and from his dad he developed an appreciation for John Lee Hooker and traditional Malian music. But as a teenager he also listened to rap and rock. All of these influences seamlessly come together on “Bamako,” the funky single from the band’s recently released second album, Resistance. The track, about a Saturday night out in the lively city, benefits from the robust, R&B-tinged vocals of singer Aliou Touré (no relation). Songhoy Blues also expands the droning axework approach with guest performances by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Damon Albarn of Blur on its debut album, Music in Exile, and Iggy Pop and grime MC Elf Kid on Resistance. These visitors never take over, though. The most dynamic instrumental and vocal sounds are the band’s own. Songhoy Blues performs at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $20. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Steve Kiviat 1742 Church St. NW. To Oct. 15. $35–$45. (202) 2653767. keegantheatre.com. wiDowerS’ houSeS Washington Stage Guild, the region’s foremost interpreters of George Bernard Shaw, presents his first play, an excoriation of slumlords and exploitative landlords. The acclaimed playwright incorporates elements of romance and comedy into his societal drama. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Oct. 22. $25–$60. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org. the wilD Party Enter a den of debauchery and passion while watching this musical about love affairs and alcohol set in Prohibition-era New York.

Based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March and written by Andrew Lippa, the musical is directed at Constellation Theatre Company by Allison Arkell Stockman. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Oct. 29. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org. worD beCoMeS FleSh As a father waits for his son to be born, he begins communicating with the child and chronicling his emotions. Theater Alliance opens its 2017/2018 season with a remounting of its awardwinning production of this Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

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

Film

battle oF the SexeS Emma Stone stars as Billie Jean King in this drama based on the true story of the

star tennis player’s 1973 match with ex-champ Bobby Riggs. Co-starring Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, and Bill Pullman. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) braD’S StatuS Ben Stiller plays Brad Sloan, a father who takes his son college-touring and encounters old friends, in this introspective look at life and fatherhood from writer/director Mike White. Co-starring Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, and Michael Sheen.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) FrienD requeSt Alycia Debnam-Carey stars as college student Laura, who, after accepting an online friend request, finds her life turned upside down. Costarring William Moseley, Connor Paolo, and Brit Morgan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the lego ninJago MoVie Jackie Chan stars as mentor Master Wu, who guides six ninja warriors tasked with defending their island home, Ninjago City, in this continuation of Warner Bros.’ LEGO franchise. Co-starring Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, and Kumail Nanjiani. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) kingSMan: the golDen CirCle When Kingsman headquarters are destroyed, the British spies discover a fellow spy organization in America in this latest edition to Matthew Vaughn’s hit Kingsman series.

Starring Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, and Colin Firth.

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TRACY LYNN SERETEAN; SCOTT ALAN SERETEAN; AMANDA MARIE SERETEAN, ALSO KNOWN AS AMANDA GROSSMAN; PATRISHIA SHANE SERETEAN; BURL JACKSON BANDY, ALSO KNOWN AS B. JACK BANDY; BURL JACKSON BANDY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; BURL JACKSON BANDY III; BURL JACKSON BANDY III, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; MURRAY W. BANDY; MURRAY W. BANDY, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; TANA BANDY HARLAN; TANA BANDY HARLAN, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; JOHN W. MASON; MARGARET ANN WILLOUGHBY MASON, ALSO KNOWN AS ANNIE MASON; FREDERICK H. PRINCE, ALSO KNOWN AS FREDERICK H. PRINCE IV; AND DIANA C. PRINCE; and THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: MARTIN B. SERETEAN, ALSO KNOWN AS M. B. SERETEAN AND AS BUD SERETEAN; FAROL FAYE FINKELSTEIN SERETEAN; AND SARAH AGNES BANDY, ALSO KNOWN AS AGGIE BANDY; and ALL UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF; Defendants.

NOTICE OF SUIT PENDING TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: •Martin B. Seretean, also known as M.B. Seretean and as Bud Seretean; •Farol Faye Finkelstein Seretean •Sarah Agnes Bandy, also known as Aggie Bandy TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-entitled action was filed in the above-entitled Court on April 19, 2017 by EAU ROUGE

ALAN SERETEAN; AMANDA MARIE SERETEAN, ALSO KNOWN AS AMANDA GROSSMAN; PATRISHIA SHANE SERETEAN; BURL JACKSON BANDY, ALSO KNOWN AS B. JACK BANDY; BURL JACKSON BANDY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; BURL JACKSON BANDY III; BURL JACKSON BANDY III, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; MURRAY W. BANDY; MURRAY W. BANDY, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; TANA BANDY HARLAN; TANA BANDY HARLAN, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILL OF SARAH AGNES BANDY; JOHN W. MASON; MARGARET ANN WILLOUGHBY MASON, ALSO KNOWN AS ANNIE MASON; FREDERICK H. PRINCE, Legals ALSO KNOWN AS FREDERICK H. PRINCE IV; AND DIANA C. PRINCE; and THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: MARTIN B. SERETEAN, ALSO KNOWN AS M. B. SERETEAN AND AS BUD SERETEAN; FAROL FAYE FINKELSTEIN SERETEAN; AND SARAH AGNES BANDY, ALSO KNOWN AS AGGIE BANDY; and ALL UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF; Defendants.

NOTICE OF SUIT PENDING TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: •Martin B. Seretean, also known as M.B. Seretean and as Bud Seretean; •Farol Faye Finkelstein Seretean •Sarah Agnes Bandy, also known as Aggie Bandy TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-entitled action was filed in the above-entitled Court on April 19, 2017 by EAU ROUGE LLC. This lawsuit is a quiet title action that involves a controversy over title to oil, gas and other mineral rights previously owned or claimed by the following deceased persons: Martin B. Seretean, also known as M.B. Seretean and as Bud Seretean; Farol Faye Finkelstein Seretean; and Sarah Agnes Bandy, also known as Aggie Bandy, located in Lea County, New Mexico, and more particularly described as: Parcel 1: An undivided 16.55274% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean, B. Jack Bandy, Frederick H. Prince, and John W. Mason) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4312, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,529 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 33 East, N.M.P.M. Section 1: Lots 1, 2, S½NE¼, SE¼ Parcel 2: An undivided 14.20899% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean, B. Jack Bandy, Frederick H. Prince, and John W. Mason) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4312, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,500 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 33 East, N.M.P.M. Section 12: E½ Parcel 3: An undivided 5.98231% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean and Frederick H. Prince) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4314, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,245 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 34 East, N.M.P.M. Section 6: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, S½NE¼, SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼, N½ Parcel 4: An undivided 5.98231%

ceased persons: Martin B. Seretean, also known as M.B. Seretean and as Bud Seretean; Farol Faye Finkelstein Seretean; and Sarah Agnes Bandy, also known as Aggie Bandy, located in Lea County, New Mexico, and more particularly described as: Parcel 1: An undivided 16.55274% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean, B. Jack Bandy, Frederick H. Prince, and John W. Mason) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4312, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,529 feet below the surface in the following described land:

Legals Township 19 South, Range 33 East, N.M.P.M. Section 1: Lots 1, 2, S½NE¼, SE¼ Parcel 2: An undivided 14.20899% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean, B. Jack Bandy, Frederick H. Prince, and John W. Mason) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4312, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,500 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 33 East, N.M.P.M. Section 12: E½ Parcel 3: An undivided 5.98231% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean and Frederick H. Prince) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4314, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,245 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 34 East, N.M.P.M. Section 6: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, S½NE¼, SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼, N½ Parcel 4: An undivided 5.98231% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean and Frederick H. Prince) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 6869, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,245 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 34 East, N.M.P.M. Section 6: Lot 7, SE¼SW¼, S½SE¼ A default judgment may be entered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint if a written response is not filed with the Lea County District Clerk, 100 N. Main Ave., Box 6C, Lovington, New Mexico 88260, within thirty (30) days from the last date of this publication. A copy of your answer or responsive pleading must be mailed to the attorneys for EAU ROUGE LLC.: Bill B. Caraway, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, 508 West Wall Street, Ste. 444, Midland, Texas 79701, Tel. (432) 683-4691.

WITNESS my hand and Seal of Court this 24th day of August, 2017 Nelda Cuellar CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Sandy Long, Deputy Clerk

H. Prince) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 6869, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,245 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 34 East, N.M.P.M. Section 6: Lot 7, SE¼SW¼, S½SE¼ A default judgment may be entered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint if a written response is not filed with the Lea County District Clerk, 100 N. Main Ave., Box 6C, Lovington, New Mexico 88260, within thirty (30) days from the last date of this publication. A copy of your answer or responsive pleading Legals must be mailed to the attorneys for EAU ROUGE LLC.: Bill B. Caraway, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, 508 West Wall Street, Ste. 444, Midland, Texas 79701, Tel. (432) 683-4691.

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