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PerhaPs it was inevitable. City Paper’s cover package (“History, Major,” Sept. 16) advancing this week’s opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture inspired some insipid commentary from the cheap seats. To wit, michael_spielvogle wrote: “In all fairness, equality being what it is, will the Smithsonian now rename the National Museum of American History the National Museum of White American History? I think not. Of course that would be RACIST.” Not to mention inaccurate.

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By Andrew Giambrone Forty-one-year-old mother oF five Kesha Scrivner signs every email with a triumphant mix of The Clark Sisters and Destiny’s Child: “Blessed & Highly Favored, I’m A Survivor.” Her outgoing texts are just as peppy, each ending with “Blessed, I’m A Survivor, Freak Cancer,” except that they’re punctuated not by commas but by emojis: two flexed biceps.

Diagnosed in May 2014 with stage-three breast cancer, Scrivner has seen an onerous share of hospital rooms and gurneys. She’s had three procedures since November, the most recent on Aug. 15—a follow-up to breast reconstruction.

Just five days earlier, though, the D.C. government worker had survived another setback.

Around 5 p.m. that Wednesday, a fire erupted in the back ground-floor unit of her three-story walk-up building in Anacostia, a few blocks east of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. While Scrivner wasn’t home at the time, she received frantic calls from her brother, younger cousin, and 21-year-old daughter, who were. The family’s unit (apartment 202) is upstairs and across the hall from the one where flames were burning.

Firefighters ultimately contained the blaze that evening, and no one in the six-unit, graybrick building was injured. Still, it wreaked havoc in the downstairs unit where it started and rendered the one directly above—that of 26-year-old Gabbie Williams, who has two sons and is now four months pregnant—uninhabitable. With some money from the Red Cross, Scrivner’s and Williams’ families temporarily moved to a Marriott Hotel in Largo, where they remained until that weekend. (A fire department spokesman says the cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.)

This was the prologue to the daunting trials that have occupied the two mothers for the past month. Displaced, their families rep-

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resent the face of financial and circumstantial misfortune, compounded by the distress and hardship of pre-existing medical conditions.

“I don’t have energy. I hurt every day,” says Scrivner, who is staying with her sister and mother in Upper Marlboro, along with her elder daughter, 15-year-old son, and 4-year-old daughter. “I cried the first three weeks, but I had to get it together because I didn’t want to end up back in the hospital.”

Although housing inspectors have not declared Scrivner’s unit unlivable, smoke damaged practically all the family’s furniture and clothes. It even ruined an expensive machine she used to treat lymphedema, a skin condition that commonly results after breast cancer surgery and swells a person’s arms or legs.

“Everything is still at that apartment,” Scrivner says. “I’m starting all over.”

Black marks remain in and around the air ducts of Scrivner’s unit, and her carpet is discolored. Outside, half of the building’s rear facade is covered by a charcoal film, as are its side walls atop boarded-up windows. The smell of burnt chemicals lingers in the driveway, the main stairwell linking the units, and the apartments themselves. What must have been much stronger odors failed to deter looters the week after the fire broke out.

James, an elderly black man who asked to be identified only by his first name and has lived on the building’s third floor since before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, says he’s had to clean his apartment’s walls at least three times since the blaze. He’s also experiencing difficulty speaking at length because of the smoke residue, despite leaving the windows open and fanning out his bedroom.

James says he stayed in the building because it’s been his home for so long. His living room walls, blanketed with photos of his children— one deceased—attests to that fact.

When their Red Cross assistance ran out, Scrivner’s and Williams’ families relocated with the help of D.C.’s Office of the Tenant Advocate to the Holiday Inn Express on Bladensburg Road, near New York Avenue NE. They

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After a fire in Anacostia, single moms and their kids confront the vicissitudes of displacement.

lived there for two weeks with what few necessities they were able to salvage from their apartments. Williams’ unit resembles the site of a raid, detritus in each room: toys strewn every which way, smashed window panes on a mattress, clothes all over the floor.

Then, they had to leave again. Both mothers went to the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center on Rhode Island Avenue NE, where struggling families can access a range of services the District provides. Scrivner says she was offered a shelter placement but couldn’t accept it because her compromised immune system makes it risky for her to spend too much time in shared bathrooms or common areas. A one-bedroom unit wasn’t an ideal fit either.

“I’m not trying to be picky or anything, but realistically how are me and three kids going to go there?” she says. “I’m glad I have my sister to come to, because if not, we’d be sleeping in the car.” But she wants her own home and sense of independence back.

Williams and her children—one is 9, the other will be 2 in October—eventually were furnished a room at the Motel 6 on Georgia Avenue NW, in Brightwood, where many homeless families are placed. She recently received a new housing voucher and, like Scrivner (who

paid market rate for her apartment), has been looking for a new place. Sometimes, she’s driven around neighborhoods with a friend. Her short-term lodgings, where she’s been since Aug. 29, leave much to be desired, the pregnant mom says, above all comfort. “We’re all sleeping on one bed.”

Both kids have noticed the change of circumstances. The oldest, who attends a public school in Ward 8 and has major health issues, has missed several days this year, in part because the trip takes upwards of an hour each way. Several of his friends have asked why he’s been absent so much lately, Williams says. The mother recounts that the youngest, whom she took to the apartment a couple of weeks ago to check the mail, wanted to go inside to lay in his bed.

“I told him he couldn’t,” she says. “I just try to make it as easy as possible. It’s been stressful.”

The displacement has put a strain on Williams’ pregnancy, which her medical caregivers say has suffered complications. “Every day is something different,” she notes.

It’s unclear when the burned-out building will see extensive repairs, no matter how unlikely Williams and Scrivner are to move back, and notwithstanding a Sept. 13 inspection report by

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the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs that found four code violations associated with the fire in Scrivner’s unit. (Among them: “smoke-contaminated ducts” and a “smokecontaminated carpet.”) A senior representative for Urban City Management, which supervises the property and more than 100 others in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, says its insurance company has not greenlighted the necessary refurbishments, since it requires an itemized repair list or estimate of total damages.

The representative adds that the building’s owner wanted to rehabilitate it the day after the blaze, but the insurer stopped any work.

Though a fire inspection has been conducted and adjusters are in the process of obtaining estimates, “We are at their mercy right now and very eager to begin the restoration process,” he says.

In the rep’s telling, Urban encouraged all the tenants to relocate, connecting them to the Red Cross and city agencies. The company offered Scrivner what he describes as exceptional concessions given her condition, such as waiving back rent (the total of which Scrivner disputes), money for the first month of rent plus a security deposit at a new apartment, and referrals to a few management companies that could aid in her search. Scrivner, who’s lived in three buildings supervised by Urban since 2011 and has been in court with the company, replies that the help wasn’t sufficient—she felt hung out to dry.

“This is my issue: You cannot leave families stuck,” Scrivner says. “They don’t have to live there, they probably have their nice houses wherever. Don’t not care about us because we’re in the hood.”

The fire was the company’s worst yet, the rep adds, figuring damages in the tens of thousands of dollars. The building’s subsidized tenants were asked to request emergency relocation vouchers to find alternative housing as soon as possible, he says. Still, Williams has the impression that Urban doesn’t want her as a tenant anymore because she’s the kind to put up a fight when push comes to shove. “Which is fine with me.”

More than a month after she rushed home to find her building aflame, Scrivner says she feels “a whole lot better about things,” knowing her displacement isn’t permanent. She’s survived cancer, after all. “My big focus right now is trying to find another place for me and my children, which is very hard in D.C. because you basically have to have perfect credit to get anything anywhere,” she says, confessing that she doesn’t.

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The ending of the season already feels written: the struggles over the next two to three weeks, the “unexpected” hot streak that turns into a frantic charge for the playoffs down the stretch, the middling (8-8? 9-7?) finish that maybe sneaks in as a wild card, depending on how other teams choke, and the offseason belief that, again, just a couple of key moves will make the difference.

This, more than anything else, is the frustration at the heart of the D.C. sports malaise: the unshakeable feeling that things repeat. It’s why, when the Capitals start the regular season on fire, everyone will still be wary about buying in. It’s why all but the most cheerful fans are cautious about the Nats this year, and why pitcher Stephen Strasburg’s injury had an air of grim inevitability to it. It’s why the ceiling for the Wizards feels like a .500 finish and locker room strife.

So the football team’s games are tedious to watch, as the coaches are overcautious and the team is struggling. The narrative arc of their season feels painfully dull as well, and this depressing sameness is leeching a lot of the fun out of the games. Which is a problem, because I can handle sports disappointing me or breaking my heart, but becoming boring might be unforgivable.

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—Just Asking You What Anyone Likely Knows Dear JAYWALK: This is a tough one and your simplified scenario doesn’t take into account whether the street is one way or two, if there’s a bike lane, what side the pedestrian is crossing to and from, whether you are in the UK or a former British colony with a different traffic heritage, the time of day, the level of sun glare, if the pedestrian is wearing headphones, if you’re wearing headphones, or if this is in the not-sodistant future and instead of headphones, everyone is wearing those new weird Apple earpiece things. But let’s take a crack anyway.

On a two-way street, if the pedestrian is in the middle and heading into the opposite lane, let him go and proceed as normal. You wouldn’t want to cross in front of him because that would be silly and unexpected. If he’s about to step into your lane, your decision is trickier. If there’s a bike lane, stay in it. You’ll want to reduce as much potential misunderstanding as possible, and staying in the bike lane keeps you in a predictable and rightful place. If there’s not a bike lane, GP is inclined to say that you should pass behind the pedestrian, heading for the space that he just vacated rather than the space that he’s about to walk into. Obviously you won’t want to do this if it is likely to imperil you (hello oncoming traffic!), but it seems less likely to cause a mishap than riding into someone’s path.

That said, there’s a strong argument for doing the exact opposite and only ever passing in front of a pedestrian so that he can see you the entire time. Even if someone is still walking towards where you’re about to ride, they’ll be more aware of your presence and could take action accordingly. What worries GP about this is two things: 1) if the pedestrian doesn’t see you or 2) it puts another obstacle (you) between the pedestrian and the sidewalk, his ultimate goal.

The whole thing is just so situational, though. In general, ride in a way that doesn’t hit the person in the street or endangers yourself. Give as much space and warning as possible. Don’t get mad that they’re jaywalking because you’ve probably done worse. Ride purposefully, slow down, and get through it.

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E H T E U ISS Love is Brewing

Five brewery couples in the region share pints, fights, and success.

By Laura Hayes Many couples Meet for the first time over beers. What better low-key date is there than plowing through get-to-know-you probes over suds at an easy-going watering hole? Jason and Melissa Romano, for example, met through friends, then had their first date at a brewpub— Arlington’s shuttered Bardo Rodeo that was a hit in the 1990s. “This is awesome,” Melissa recalls thinking. “I knew he was a keeper.”

What the budding couple didn’t know when they married in October 2001 is that 15 years later, they would open a brewery, especially since Jason and Melissa were (and still are) employed as a cyber security engineer and architect, respectfully. They’re one of a near six-pack of breweries in the region run by couples brave enough to mix love and livelihood.

The Romanos run Lake Anne Brew House in Reston, Virginia’s Lake Anne Plaza. The couple dubbed the operation a “nanobrewery” when it opened in April 2016 because

they only brew about 65 gallons of beer at once (think four college party kegs). But the brewery’s small size and young age didn’t stop it from bringing home two medals at this year’s Virginia Beer Cup. Jason was particularly proud that the Reston Red took home some bling because it’s the recipe he’s been brewing the longest, primarily as a homebrewer of 20 years.

“He started doing it in college with his fraternity,” Melissa says. “He’d lager beer in the walk-in cooler in the basement.” Later in life, “it eventually took over the kitchen and the garage.” Jason is also a certified beer judge, so when the couple sought to open a business to enrich their community, beer made sense.

Melissa designed the tasting room and did the majority of the construction with the help of some able-bodied girlfriends. “Most of the sweat equity is mine,” she says. Today she runs the business, including the tasting room, while her husband does the brewing.

“It’s the rigor of the schedule that has

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made our family life streamlined,” Melissa says. She says her kids take pride in the family business. “It’s fun for them to see us working hard to achieve something and be a part of the community.”

Like the Romanos, Julie Verratti and Emily Bruno of Denizens Brewing Co. in Silver Spring, Maryland, knew they wanted to start a business, but weren’t immediately sure what kind. “Something community-focused that we could do together,” Julie says. Both women felt an entrepreneurial drive, but beer was only a sliver in the rearview mirror because Julie had home-brewed during her first year of law school in the mid-2000s.

The couple met in Boston in 2004 where they were fundraising for the presidential election. They started dating a year later and married in San Francisco in 2008. Early in married life, Emily was a government consultant and later the director of research and policy for the National Women’s Business Council. Julie was working as a senior policy advisor at the Small

Business Administration.

After sending their former office job lives through the shredder, the couple is now two years into brewery ownership. Emily and Julie attribute much of their success (both personal and professional) to having three founding partners. Co-founder and head brewer, Jeff Ramirez, completes the trio. As far as the breakdown of duties between Julie and Emily, Julie says, “I do all the fun stuff and Emily does all the terrible stuff.” She handles distribution and business relations, while Emily conquers the administrative operations work.

“Having clear roles and responsibilities is critical, and having a third party is also good,” Emily says. “With three people, it’s like I’m not talking to my spouse, I’m talking to my business partners.” Overall, the couple says the brewery has strengthened their relationship—citing improved communication, and increased patience and respect. There are tough days too, and work isn’t an escape.

“We’re forced to face things because you can’t

Beerly Beloved

Thor and Leah Cheston, the husband and wife duo behind Right Proper Brewing Company in Shaw, share their opposing views on brews. —Kelly Magyarics

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What style of beer do you gravitate towards?

“I like well-made, simple, fresh ‘beerflavored’ beer—clean simple pale ales with a pronounced hop character.”

“Basically anything that’s not hop-forward. I enjoy unfiltered texture, complex flavor profiles, sweet and sour, or dark and toasty, and the funkier the better.”

Emily Bruno and Julie Verratti traded the office for the brewery. run away from each other,” Julie says.

Jeremy and Sarah Meyers echo the Denizens team about occasional difficulties. “It’s easily the hardest thing we’ve ever done,” Jeremy says about opening BadWolf Brewing Company with his wife in Manassas, Virginia. “It has strengthened our relationship. At times, it greatly strains it, but we’ve been married almost 10 years.”

When Jeremy met Sarah, she wasn’t into craft beer just yet. “I’ve had a penchant for it since 1997, but when I met Sarah she was a Bud Light drinker,” Jeremy says. But the stars aligned when Sarah took an entrepreneurship class at George Mason University studying for an undergraduate degree in business management. “We had to do a business model, so we chose a brewery because Jeremy thought it would be cool,” Sarah says. “It was a hit, we made some beer, got an A+, but kept it on the back burner.”

That is, until Jeremy was ready to move out

of retail. “I had a day of the most annoying customers,” he says. That’s when he realized, “I’m done, I have to quit and start a brewery and she said okay. Flash forward a year, and we were about to open.”

Today, Jeremy oversees all things brewingrelated while Sarah does all of the backend administration. The couple maintains a larger production facility and taproom called Big BadWolf, and the original, smaller taproom aptly named Little BadWolf.

The Meyers say they felt extra pressure because they were trailblazers in the region.

“We’re not claiming we’re the best brewery, or best business people, but we were one of the first of the new breed of breweries,” Jeremy says. Specifically, BadWolf pounced on the opportunity when Virginia SB604 passed, allowing breweries to sell beer on premises without food.

Also trailblazing in the greater D.C. area are two farm breweries owned by not one, but two,

sets of couples: Dirt Farm Brewing in Bluemont, Virginia, and Waredaca Brewing Company in Laytonsville, Maryland.

At Waredaca, a former day camp, Jessica and Brett Snyder run the show with Jessica’s cousin, Steph Kohr, and her husband, Keith Kohr, plus a fifth founder, Robert Lang. Keith, a former brewer at Flying Dog, is responsible for bringing beer into farm life.

“That was how the journey kind of got started,” Jessica says. “When we were doing longterm strategic planning, because that’s what family businesses do, the second generation asked the third generation to bring something new to the farm.”

On working together, Jessica says, “Starting a business with your husband is hard; running a business with your husband is easy.” Startups are taxing, especially with three kids. “Obviously I stand with millions of moms, but it’s hard to work full time and be a mom—one bleeds into the other.”

Darrow Montgomery

Do you have a favorite beer?

“Raised by Wolves, our aromatic pale ale, is exactly what I like in a beer, and it’s always super duper fresh.”

“Baron Corvo, a rustic biere de garde, which takes on red-wine like characteristics of dried fruit and spice; it’s very complex and balanced.”

What’s the best part about working together?

“We often collaborate on projects and brand promotion.

She is super smart and much better at this stuff than I am.

She makes me work harder.”

“Our strengths complement each other—he’s the vision and I’m the details.

We’re constantly working towards the same goal.”

Any challenges about being married co-workers?

“Just like any other job, you can expect to get frustrated with your coworkers at times. Oh, and my wife does not like it when I try to make out with her while at work.”

“Turning it off! It’s hard not to bring work home. Walking the dogs often turns into work meetings.”

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Jessica met Brett when she was working at the Securities and Exchange Commission in D.C. and he was doing construction in the building. She got stuck in the elevator and he rescued her. “Our first date involved drinking mojitos, not beer,” she jokes. They got married on the farm in 2000.

Janell Zurschmeide and her husband, Bruce Zurschmeide, of Dirt Farm Brewing, also married on the family farm that later added a farm brewing operation. They were the first wed-

ding at the property, Bluemont Vineyard, which is now a popular venue for vows.

When Janell said, “I do,” she married into the Zurschmeide family, joining a tight-knit group that has been farming in Loudoun County for 40 years. After adding a three-acre hop yard and 10 acres of land for sowing grain for beer, the farm brewery opened in May 2015.

Janell and Bruce grew up miles apart in the county and met in high school where they no doubt drank their first illegal beers togeth-

er. “At his house not mine,” Janell jokes, adding that at a recent high school reunion, no one was shocked to hear they were opening a brewery. But they might be shocked to learn it was Janell’s idea.

Today, she runs the tasting room, marketing, website, employee management, and other business duties, while Bruce heads up the farming and brewing with his nephews.

They’re co-owners of Dirt Farm with Bruce’s brother Mark Zurschmeide and his wife Kate

Zurschmeide.

Farm life and brewery ownership is all-encompassing—the Zurschmeides even have a session IPA called Work, “because we work our asses off, no joke,” Janell says. “The hardest part about the whole thing is turning off work—it follows you home, it follows you to bed, but being able to build something together that will hopefully stay in our family and we can pass down to our children is really special.”

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Tipple Threat Tag Team Adroit Theory’s trash is Catoctin Creek’s liquid treasure.

Mark OsbOrne is not one to taste defeat.

Back in 2014, the co-founder of Purcellville’s Adroit Theory Brewing Company had his heart set on producing a double stout, but wound up with a major headache instead: The end product was much too sweet.

The goal had been to reach around 13 percent alcohol, but the batch yielded something closer to 8 percent due to a problem with the yeast. “Our yeast converted some of the sugar into alcohol, but basically fell asleep on the job,” Osborne says. A dismal effort by slacker fungi.

He tried “repitching” the brew by introducing additional yeast into the mix—a step akin to jump-starting a car—but that also fell short.

“It was too far gone, beyond resuscitating.”

His dreams of reclamation dashed, Osborne hung his hopes on a total transformation. “We decided instead of dumping it, we would find a way to put it to alternative use,” he says.

Osborne consulted Scott Harris, co-founder of nearby Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, about joining forces to do something with the ruined beer. Both men discovered a kindred spirit.

“Nothing’s a loss,” Harris says. “You can always distill it.” He stresses that as long as the base material is sound, extracting a worthwhile liquor remains a viable option.

Harris earlier this year notched an interdisciplinary win when he released Kings Mountain American Malt Whisky, the sold-out spirit he produced in conjunction with Heritage Brewing Co. But, he says, Catoctin Creek has turned away lost causes in the past. “We’re not in the fixing wine or fixing beer business,” Harris says.

This case was different. “I consider Adroit Theory to be the Andy Warhol of the beer scene,” Harris said. He leapt at the opportunity to assist Osborne.

Soon enough, some unforeseen issues bubbled up from the brew. According to Osborne, the distilling process reduced 100 gallons of wort down to a single gallon of hybrid spirit. “It was crazy. It was hoppy,” Osborne says. Then there was the gunk.

Catoctin Creek’s Scott and Becky Harris pull a dram of whiskey.

“It was just like slime on the inside of the tank… basically this nasty snot,” Harris says of the gummy residue that clogged valves for weeks after. “But the spirit that it produced was really delicious.”

He transferred the initial run into oak barrels and set everything aside.

Next to scrutinize the end result was Becky Harris, Scott’s wife and Catoctin Creek’s chief distiller. As she siphoned the resulting whiskey from its cask, she couldn’t help gush about the collaboration. “I’ve been waiting for this one for two years,” she says as she pulls a dram of the experimental beverage they dubbed “Dia de los Muertos” American Malt Whisky.

“The name of the original beer was Dia de

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los Muertos. So it made sense to name the whiskey the same,” Osborne says of the ominous moniker he came up with.

The whiskey smells of roasted malt and shines as brightly as copper. It’s less forceful on the palate than traditional rye whiskey, but still has a rich mouthfeel, conveying definitive hoppiness balanced by caramel notes.

Harris produced three barrels of Dia de los Muertos. Two are to be released in early November, while the other will be aged an additional four or more years for New York-based Astor Wines & Spirits.

The roughly 700 bottles to be sold locally ($119.99 a pop) will first be made available to the distillery’s VIP members on Nov. 2. Then, the whiskey will be released to the public on

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Nov. 12 at a joint event with Adroit Theory.

Osborne plans to contribute to the festivities by pouring a since-perfected version of the intended stout. “We’re re-brewing that beer, hopefully with more success,” he quips, mapping out plans to age the reconfigured stout in the same barrels Harris used to finish the experimental whiskey, then put it out Nov.12 for a side-by-side comparison. “You’ll be able to taste how it was intended to be,” Osborne said.

Meanwhile, the Harrises are psyched for their next beer run. “We want to team up with different brewers across the region and just do different experimental versions of beers that these guys are making,” Scott Harris said of the soon-to-be-annual tradition.

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A Real Can Artist

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Mike Van Hall designs beer cans and labels that make a lasting impression.

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Skip the cabernet: These beer and steak pairings recommended by area beverage experts have way more suds appeal.

—Kelly Magyarics

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BLT Steak 28-day dry aged prime bone-in Kansas City strip steak ($59) with Schlafly Irish-Style Extra Stout ($9) Roasted barley and dark crystal malted barley lend undertones of chocolate, molasses, espresso, and dried fruit to this dark beer, says beverage director James Nelson. “Its boldness and toasted characteristics pair incredibly well.”

By Tim Ebner Mike Van Hall is a self-described artist, but don’t go looking for his work inside a museum or gallery. Instead, head to the beer fridge located all the way in the back of Schneider’s of Capitol Hill. That’s one place where you can admire his pièce de résistance, called On Fleek.

It’s an imperial stout made by Stillwater Artisanal. The beer is dark and boozy, but also deceivingly drinkable. You’ll get to admire Van Hall’s handiwork before you even take a sip—he didn’t make the beer, he designed the label.

On Fleek looks like it’s from the ’90s, and its playful design makes the beer can a signature Van Hall piece. The packaging has florescent yellow, green, and pink leopard spots, plus blue and black tiger stripes lining the can. Think of a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper.

“When I design beer labels, I want to draw in the customer who might otherwise overlook the beer shelf,” Van Hall says. “My goal is to open people’s eyes to the wide spectrum

and range of beers that I love.”

While you might debate the merits of beer can art, there’s little debate that breweries are looking to labels as something more than just a place to stamp their logos. Regional breweries like Stillwater, DC Brau, Vanish Farmwoods Brewery, and Aslin Beer Co. use Van Hall’s designs. It’s work that he didn’t

necessarily anticipate four years ago as a recovering lawyer who had never received any formal art or design instruction.

Recently, Van Hall worked with DC Brau to design a 5th anniversary beer—a collaboration beer with Perennial Artisan Ales,

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called Pink Pallet Jack.

“With this can, I did something that I love to do,” Van Hall says. “I deconstructed the subject matter—a pallet jack—and rearranged the pieces to see if I could get a pattern out of it. What you get is a can that has the components of a pallet jack, but it’s abstractly represented.”

It’s the kind of beer that Picasso might pour. Just like any artist, Van Hall’s creative process takes time. From start to finish, a can’s design can take several weeks or months. The canvas is not always cooperative either. Aluminum reflects light differently, therefore it may take several tries to get the colors just right, according to Van Hall.

“I’ve really found the beer can to be an awesome spot for creativity,” he says. “And I like to think of labels kind of like album covers.

Everyone remembers their favorite band and album cover. In many ways, I’m trying to do the same thing. I’m trying to capture a moment, something that the drinker will remember for years to come.”

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Le Diplomate Steak au Poivre ($35) with Brouwerij Verhaeghe Duchesse de Bourgogne Flanders Red Ale ($14) “The intense fruit and tartness of the beer [enhances] the earthy and silky texture of the black peppercorn crust and Cognac demi-glace,” says sommelier Jeffrey Barrientos.

Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab 8 oz. filet mignon ($32.95) with Trappist Red Cap ($12) This Belgian amber ale’s got lots of malt and an apricot finish. “The fruity sweetness actually helps cut through [the filet’s] iron flavor and lifts up the seasoning and spices,” explains sommelier Elli Benchimol.

Del Campo 18 oz. dry aged Creekstone Farms ribeye ($56) with Straffe Hendrik Quadrupel ($8) Chef Victor Albisu grills and herb-smokes the meat, which complements the beer’s star anise and cardamom tones. “The herbaceous notes from the spices work with the perfumey herb smoke, made from dried rosemary, thyme, and oregano,” says bar manager Armin Seddiq.

Bourbon Steak 10 oz. Wagyu flat iron from Broadleaf Ranch, Australia ($48) with Flying Dog Kujo Stout ($8) Chef Joe Palma points out that Wagyu has a strong earthy and iodine character, while head bartender Torrence Swain says the Marylandproduced stout’s deep, rich, toasty notes hold up nicely and ramp up the steak’s robust, savory qualities.

Missed Hopportunity

D.C.’s beer scene has never been better, so why do critics virtually ignore it?

WasHington, D.c. is a burgeoning beer destination, one that deserves national and even international attention. Yet diners who rely on food reviews from seasoned critics often have to wade blindly into a restaurant’s beer selection because commentary on brews has been inadequate or nonexistent.

Consider Tom Sietsema’s recent three-star review of All Purpose in Shaw. The restaurant’s menu and various decor-based comforts combine to form the “neighborhood restaurant of your dreams,” and a “happy spot between a spaghetti house and a formal ristorante.”

Doesn’t the fresh restaurant from Chef Mike Friedman seem like the precise place to pop in and enjoy a refreshing pint or two with a pie?

Well, yes, it is.

All Purpose’s outstanding beer selection— an intelligent local curation featuring both new producers like Ocelot and stalwarts like DC Brau—pairs neatly with the kitchen’s various takes on modern Italian cuisine. But it goes ignored in the review, which nods instead to the wine program, which “projects an air of approachability and whimsy.”

Cherry-picking one new review isn’t fair.

For a broader lens, tackling a more sizable manuscript is required. Upon thorough examination of the Washington Post’s Spring Dining Guide—no small task at around 15,000 words—you will find the word “beer” mentioned three times, not counting dish names containing the ingredient (beer-braised lamb, for example), confirming that, yes, The Dab-

ney, Brasserie Beck, and Two Amys all offer beer.

This is a local look at the broader issue of beer getting inferior treatment, which happens elsewhere, too.

Take Bon Appetit’s recent astronomical praise of D.C. dining, which contains nary a peep about beer’s presence in town. Even an accompanying guide on where to drink fails to mention a pairing paradise like Birch & Barley or a top-class brewpub like Right Proper.

What gives?

The idea that food critics aren’t paying attention to suds is hard to reconcile, given that there are new breweries popping up daily across the country, including in and around the District. Together, they’re producing thousands of fascinating beers. It’s even harder to conjure up valid excuses for food critics to be ignorant about both beer’s potential and application.

Dozens of District beverage directors offer outstanding beers every day in D.C. Bad Saint cleverly serves modern takes on craft rice lagers like Stillwater “Extra Dry” with its true-to-form Filipino cuisine. This is but one example of local beverage directors and managers cultivating beer menus to match what’s coming out of the kitchen. These beer experts are far too savvy to degrade local critics anywhere, but on background, they’re frustrated. They bring in and sell great beer, but rarely, if ever, see any ink in food criticism about the fruits of their labor.

Also, if there is a consumable that could use

down into a coherent story that adds meaning and context to a beer.”

When critics do stretch themselves to include beer in their assessments, it’s rewarding. Consider Tim Carman’s review of The Sovereign in the Post. One would expect that a review of the experience at this cathedral to Belgian brewing would discuss beer.

But Carman’s willingness to adventure into beer from the notoriously fussy Fantôme—rather than offer a mere platitude about the range and scale of fermented Belgian treats on offer—provides better service to the reader. It might ever-so-slightly influence a diner who doesn’t bat an eye at ordering a bottle of wine they’ve never heard of before, but doesn’t give beer the same treatment.

Incorporating beer into food criticism is possible, but when—or will—beer garner a permanent place in restaurant reviews? With beer in D.C. at perhaps its more accomplished point since the first half of the 20th century, if not now, then when?

Michael Jackson, the man who literally wrote the book on beer (Ultimate Beer), made note of this precise quandary all the way back in 1983—on the very same pages of the Post.

“On this choice between wine and beer,” Jackson wrote, “there is a snobbism which is particularly American.”

Some things never change.

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the boost a critical eye can provide, it’s beer.

Look around, and you’ll find wine, cocktails, and even coffee well represented in food criticism with serious consideration. But when the public’s most reliable assessments of beer are ratings proffered by a small sample of drinkers, it leaves well-crafted beer without mainstream legitimacy. Regardless of whether you read them or not, restaurant reviews help provide that cultural cachet.

“The best criticism takes its subject—film, literature, wine, art—and places it in the larger cultural context,” Almanac Beer Co. co-owner Jesse Friedman wrote in a February 2015 Eater story. “It’s the role of the critic to distill all of this

Sour Notes

Craft beer is elitist, but beer drinkers are in denial.

By Zach Rausnitz beer Has gotten awfully fancy. Bluejacket, the brewery and restaurant in a former industrial building in Navy Yard, makes a pale ale with “soft yet supple aromas of grapefruit, grass, and fresh-cut flowers.” At Dacha Beer Garden in Shaw, a saison is “rustic with hints of ginger and coriander.”

It’s gotten serious, too. When a friend tells me he heard about the beer he’s drinking on the website BeerAdvocate, I nod politely. The website rated it a 4.5 out of 5, he says. OK, 4.5, got it. Should I be writing this down?

Beer is supposed to be the drink of the people, so it’s tempting to roll my eyes when I watch a bartender fill a beer glass, pour it out, fill it up, pour it out, and, after a while, serve

the beer, once it’s been poured just right. Nobody wants to drink a pint of foam, but can’t beer be consumed without having just enough head to tickle one’s palate or please the aesthetes?

To each their own, I guess. As for me, I don’t like the taste of beer. I don’t like how damn much of it you have to drink in one serving. That puts me in an awkward position when friends or colleagues drag me to one of the many beerworshipping establishments in the District.

Bracing myself, I’ll tell the bartender, “I’d like the house red,” if they offer such a thing.

“Wine,” a friend will inevitably observe.

“Fancy!”

Or maybe he’ll just needle me with a grinning, wordless “Oooh!”

It’s mind-boggling that ordering the cheap-

est, most generic wine makes me snooty.

Meanwhile at Meridian Pint in Columbia Heights, you can order a 12-ounce bottle of beer for $30—and you get to do it next to a mural of two working-class Joes raising pints of beer and a third fellow hoisting an American flag. How the drinkers of chichi beer see themselves reflected in this image, I do not understand. Ordinarily, you need a few drinks in your system to become this delusional.

Isn’t it odd, the way fancy beer drinkers feign shock at someone drinking wine, and the way they surround themselves with proletariat iconography? Maybe it’s the cognitive dissonance that comes when their humble beer features notes of caramel and costs as much as a cocktail made by a self-titled mixologist.

Beer snobs can’t seem to accept that their

preference is just that, a preference. If you don’t like beer, they want to shame you or change you. I’m glad they found something they love, but why can’t they leave the heretics alone? Worse still is the moral superiority bon vivants claim in acting like their fussy beer is as unpretentious as a Bud Light.

Craft beer snobs remind me a little of Donald Trump. Both have a taste for the luxurious, but they’ve managed to con vast numbers of Americans into believing that they’re just like the common folk. Beer may have deserved its down-to-earth reputation in the past. But as craft beer has gone mainstream, our cultural notions need to catch up with reality. These brews shouldn’t get to inherit the mantle of anti-elitism, not when the beer’s “aromas” are this “supple.”

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Pumpkin Gripes

Say no to pumpkin-flavored seasonal beers, and celebrate sweater season with these local brews instead.

By Justin Cook

Courtesy of Right Proper

tHere Was a time when beer nerds chased elusive beers like Avery Rumpkin or Elysian Punkuccino, but now almost every brewery produces a pumpkin-themed beer to remain relevant. The result is a market that’s muddled with oversupply, too-early releases, and worse yet, unbalanced beers. Has the pumpkin brew peaked in D.C.? Perhaps, according to nearby breweries, who are branching out beyond the bandwagon suds to explore the full breadth of fall flavors.

Right Proper Brewing Company’s three foeders.

Big Deal

With massive barrels, Right Proper takes brewing back to the days of “magic and shamanism.”

By Jeff Dufour stuMble into any brewery, and you’ll likely see a few 53-gallon barrels. They probably once held whiskey; now, they probably hold the latest batch of wood-aged porter or stout.

But they’re small potatoes compared to the three oak behemoths at Right Proper Brewing Company’s Brookland production house and tasting room. The wooden tanks, known in brewers’ parlance as “foeders,” once fermented wine at Stone Tower Winery in Leesburg. They can hold about 65 whiskey barrels’ worth of beer.

The Right Proper team believes those behemoths also hold the next big trend in craft beer, akin to the explosion in farmhouse saisons and gose in recent years. Only this time, says coowner Thor Cheston, “It’s bigger than a certain style. It’s a different approach to the brewing process.”

“I think we were ahead of the curve,” he adds. “People may have thought we were ludicrous in bringing in three 45-hectoliter French wine casks when we opened. Now, they think we’re only slightly ludicrous.”

To be fair, foeders aren’t exactly novel technology. Locally, you’ll find one at 3 Stars Brewing Company; in Colorado, New Belgium has scored dozens, and Flemish breweries like Rodenbach have been using them for centuries.

But for Right Proper brewmaster Nathan Zeender, that’s precisely the point. He’s infatuated with brewing’s pre-scientific (and pre– stainless steel) days, when he says the craft was shrouded in “magic and shamanism.”

If there’s any alchemy going on, it’s in how the oak interacts with Right Proper’s house culture—a blend of farmhouse yeast strains, brettanomyces yeast, and lactobacillus bacteria that drives the flavor of many of its beers.

The “brett,” in particular, finds its way into the wood, and continually influences the beer as it matures in the foeder for weeks.

Unlike stainless tanks, foeders aren’t sterilized between batches, adding to their uniqueness. The wood is “a living, breathing environment for our house culture,” which changes a little bit every time it’s re-pitched for a new batch, says Zeender.

Among these batches is Ornithology, an ancient, wine-like style of wheat beer called a grisette; White Bicycles, a rustic witbier brewed with black limes; Astral Weeks, a dryhopped saison; and Baron Corvo, a high-alcohol, malty biere de garde, which lives in the brewery’s only foeder that once held red wine (the rest held white).

“These beers have our real imprint on them,” says Zeender. “That’s something I’m really proud of.”

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Hellbender’s Wheat Dunkelweisse

Thanks to a state-of-the-art mash system, Hellbender was able to brew one of the the first-ever 100 percent wheat (rather than barley) dunkelweisse in America. The traditional Hefeweizen aromas of banana and clove hit you up front and are complemented by the darker, prominent bready and toasty flavors.

The high wheat content provides just a bit of tartness for a unique and satisfying finish.

Hellbender Brewing Company, 5788 2nd St. NE, (202) 827-8768, hellbenderbeer.com

Bluejacket’s Darling Buds

This wet-hop American pale ale is brewed exclusively with more than 10 pounds of locally grown Cascade hops per barrel. Wethopping is traditionally done in the fall, immediately following the hop harvest before the buds are processed, resulting in a fresh flavored yet balanced beer. Bluejacket’s has soft yet supple aromas of grapefruit, grass, and fresh-cut flowers.

Bluejacket, 300 Tingey St. SE, (202) 524-4862, bluejacketdc.com

Port City’s Oktoberfest

Port City is going old school with the king of fall beer styles—a classic Oktoberfest. The traditional lager brewed with German malts and hops has a brilliant amber color with gently sweet flavors of crusty bread, leading to a clean, dry finish punctuated by just a touch of noble hops.

The beer is served “Kellerbier” style, completely unfiltered and naturally carbonated.

Port City Brewing Company, 3950 Wheeler Ave., Alexandria, (703) 797-2739, portcitybrewing.com

Adroit Theory’s Sweet Potato Casserole Porter

This brewery-only gem launching in November is Adroit’s take on a sweet potato casse-

role, complete with a marshmallow-like topping. They use locally grown sweet potatoes and dark brown sugar to brew a porter with an earthy roasted grain nose tempered by caramelized notes of brown sugar, molasses, and roasted malt. The beer has a slightly sticky body with hints of vanilla.

Adroit Theory Brewing Company, 404 Browning Court, Purcellville, (703) 722-3144; adroit-theory.com

Lost Rhino’s RhinO’fest

A traditional Märzen lager, this beer is designed with festival drinking in mind. Lost Rhino uses Hallertau, Czech Saaz, and Perle hops for a crisp, dry finish, and German malts to provide the smooth body that pairs well with rich fall foods. A moderate ABV puts this beer in the easy-drinking category.

Lost Rhino Brewing Company, 21730 Red Rum Drive, Ashburn, (571) 291-2083, lostrhino.com

Denizens’ Junk in the Dunk

This dark lager emulates a traditional Munich-style dunkel, but it packs a higher ABV and more body than typical traditional German beers. Subtle notes of cocoa, caramel, and fresh-baked bread are highlighted in the flavor and aroma of this clean lager.

Denizens Brewing Company, 1115 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, (301) 557-9818, denizensbrewingco.com

Mad Fox’s Hitzig Frau

Hitzig Frau, which translates to “hot lady,” is an appropriate name for a beer brewed in collaboration with the women from the local homebrewer club BURP (Brewers United for Real Potables). This is a traditional German-style Oktoberfest, but pale in color unlike the typical American versions that are deeper red and loaded with caramel malts. It’s brewed with 100 percent imported malt and hops, then slow-lager-fermented for a minimum of eight weeks.

Mad Fox Taproom, 2218 Wisconsin Ave. NW, (202) 791-0389, madfoxbrewing.com

3 Stars’ Nectar of the Bogs

With this cranberry saison, 3 Stars is back with its celebration of fall fruits. It’s dry and slightly tart, but has a nice clean finish. The aroma is full of bright cranberry and some subtle yeast notes. This beer can pair with fall and winter holiday foods, but it’s also light enough to accompany cheese before or after dinner.

3 Stars Brewing Company, 6400 Chillum Place NW, (202) 670-0333, 3starsbrewing.com

swag. DC Improv. 1140 Connecticut Ave. NW. $15.

Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m. (202) 296-7008. dcimprov.com. allaGasH sour & Barrel-aGed niGHt Portland, Maine’s acclaimed brewery brings a variety of aged and sour beers to the Arlington restaurant, including its rare Fluxus 2016, aged in gin barrels. Rustico Ballston. 4075 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Free. Sept. 29, 5 p.m. (571) 384-1820. rusticorestaurant.com. atlas Brew works taP takeoVer and snacklins tastinG Atlas Brew Works offers a variety of beers and Glen’s pairs them with Snacklins, a new vegan pork rind, at this lively tasting event. Glen’s Garden Market. 2001 S St. NW. Free. Sept. 29, 5 p.m.

(202) 588-5698. glensgardenmarket.com. dc total taP takeoVer All 55 tap lines at ChurchKey are filled with local brews at this special Beer Week event. Participating breweries include 3 Stars, Atlas, Bluejacket, Hellbender, DC Brau, District Chophouse, and Right Proper. ChurchKey. 1337 14th St. NW. Free. Sept. 29, 4 p.m. (202) 567-2576. churchkeydc.com.

eventS Saturday, SePt. 24 Blind & Bitter: Vol. 4 Sample a variety of hoppy beers without knowing which one you’re drinking, then vote for your favorite, at this popular blind tasting event. All voting attendees will be entered in a drawing for beer-related prizes, including gift certificates, swag, and brewery tours. ChurchKey. 1337 14th St. NW. Free. Sept. 24, 12 p.m. (202) 567-2576. churchkeydc.com. deVils BackBone/Barrel collaBoration release Party The Virginia-based brewery and the Capitol Hill restaurant team up to present the beer that resulted from their partnership. A selection of rare Devils Backbone beers will also be offered. Barrel. 613 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Free. Sept. 24, 5 p.m.

(202) 543-3622. barreldc.com.

Bites and fliGHts Staff members from Evolution Craft Brewing host this dinner during which guests eat food made with beer and learn how to incorporate different suds into their own recipes. Tickets include food and drink. Glen’s Garden Market. 2001 S St. NW. $35. Sept. 26, 7 p.m.; Sept. 26, 8:15 p.m.

(202) 588-5698. glensgardenmarket.com. tHe Policy in your Pint Learn about the rules governing beer production and find out why so many interesting beers are available in D.C. at this annual beer week panel moderated by Bill DeBaun of DCBeer.com. Featured panelists include “The Craft Beer Lobbyist” Mick Nardelli, D.C. Councilmember David Grosso, and co-owner of Denizens Brewing Company Julie Veratti. Sixth Engine. 438 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Free. Sept. 26, 7 p.m. (202) 506-2455. sixthengine.com.

HoPPy oktoBerfest Mad Fox serves Oktoberfest and IPA beers from around the nation at this tasting held in its Market Square that also features grilled snacks and live music. All tickets include a Mad Fox beer sample glass. Mad Fox Brewing Company. 444 West Broad St., Suite 1, Falls Church. $25-$65. Sept.

24, 12 p.m. (703) 942-6840. madfoxbrewing.com.

ryes of dc “it’s ok if it’s a 3way” release Party Jack Rose Dining Saloon pours beers created by Denizens, Port City, and Atlas Brew Works, all of them aged in Willett Rye barrels. Jack Rose Dining Saloon. 2007 18th St. NW. Free. Sept. 26, 5 p.m.

(202) 588-7388. jackrosediningsaloon.com.

old eBBitt Grill’s 4tH annual BrewHaHa Local restaurants serve snacks paired with 20 different beers from D.C.-area breweries at this annual event. Americana acts Only Lonesome and The Crooked Angels provide the music. Old Ebbitt Grill.

675 15th St. NW. $75. Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.

(202) 347-4800. ebbitt.com.

tueSday, SePt. 27

sour week Sample 10 different tart and fruity beers over the course of Beer Week at the Partisan, specifically selected by Neighborhood Restaurant Group beer director Greg Engert. The Partisan. 709 D St. NW. Free. Sept. 24, 5 p.m. (202) 524-5322. thepartisandc.com.

Sunday, SePt. 25 3 stars HoPfunk fest The Takoma brewery offers hoppy and sour beers at this tasting event. Participating beer providers include Other Half, J. Wakefield, RAR, Oxbow, DC Brau, and Union. 3 Stars Brewing Company. 6400 Chillum Place NE. $15. Sept. 25, 1 p.m.

(202) 670-0333. 3starsbrewing.com.

Battle of tHe Barrel aGed iii DC Brau, 3 Stars, Atlas Brew Works, and Port City present beer aged in barrels for a minimum of one month at this annual event. Judges and guests will vote for a winner, who receives a trophy and a dedicated draft line at Boundary Stone’s back bar for the next year. Boundary Stone. 116 Rhode Island Ave. NW. $20. Sept. 27, 5 p.m. (202) 621-6635.

Beer 101 Executive brewer Bill Madden explains the ins and outs of creating your own beers, from the raw materials you start with to the final products, at this discussion that also features samples of Mad Fox brews. Mad Fox Taproom. 2218 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $15. Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m. (202) 791-0389. madfoxbrewing.com/content/glover-park-taproom.

Beer-Braised Brats and Brews Glen’s serves a selection of craft beers and sausages braised in beer at this tasting, the perfect cure for the midweek blues. Glen’s Garden Market. 2001 S St. NW. $8. Sept.

27, 5 p.m. (202) 588-5698. glensgardenmarket.com.

5 year anniVersary and dc Brau “5-sPot” release Party Boundary Stone celebrates its 5th anniversary by offering the first pints of the 5-Spot, its collaboration session IPA brewed by DC Brau.

Music comes from local funk band Aztec Sun. 116 Rhode Island Ave. NW. Free. Sept. 26, 5 p.m.

(202) 621-6635.

Bell’s 31st anniVersary Party The beloved Michigan brewery celebrates its 31st birthday by bringing samples of more than two dozen beers to ChurchKey’s taps. In addition to popular favorites like Oberon and Two Hearted, rare beers like Boon Companion, an experimental beer brewed with lemon verbena and Sorachi Ace hops, will be available.

ChurchKey. 1337 14th St. NW. Free. Sept. 27, 4 p.m.

(202) 567-2576. churchkeydc.com.

Beer science: Malt 101 Port City brings back its beer classes and this time, the subject is malt. Learn how this simple ingredient gets turned into all different kinds of beers from one of the resident brewers. Port City Brewing Company. 3950 Wheeler Avenue, Alexandria. $20. Sept. 26, 7 p.m. (703) 797-2739. portcitybrewing.com.

Booze Brews Local bartenders team up with local breweries to present a series of beer-forward cocktails at this tasting event. In addition to tasting snacks from Chef Ed Scarpone, guests can vote for their favorite cocktail and enter to win raffle prizes. DBGB Kitchen and Bar. 931 H St. NW. $30. Sept. 27, 7 p.m.

(202) 695-7660. dbgb.com/dc.

Monday, SePt. 26

dc Beer week Brewer’s dinner Pair hearty food with a diverse variety of beers from Gordon Biersch at this downtown dinner. Gordon Biersch. 900 F St. NW. $45. Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m. (202) 783-5454. gordonbiersch.com/locations/washington-dc.

Port city’s coMMonwealtH classics Sample the best food and drink the Commonwealth of Virginia has to offer at this huge tasting event presented by Alexandria’s Port City Brewing Company. In addition to beers from Port City and other Virginia breweries, guests can use their tickets to try War Shore oysters, Sugar Shack donuts, Rocklands barbecue, and Route 11 potato chips. Brewmaster’s Castle (Christian Heurich House Museum). 1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW. $40. Sept. 27, 6 p.m. (202) 429-1894. brewmasterscastle.com. we can Brew it: woMen in Beer Discuss the role ladies play in the craft beer industry at this annual discussion and networking event hosted by the Adams Morgan bar. The Black Squirrel. 2427 18th St. NW. Free. Sept. 27, 6 p.m. (202) 232-1011. blacksquirreldc.com.

WedneSday, SePt. 28 tHe 3 fonteinen Bottle sHare Sample bottles of from this acclaimed Belgian brewery at this tasting event. Among the six featured beers is the rare Armand & Gaston and Hommage 2015, a blend of 3 Lambics aged over different periods. The Sovereign.

1206 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Free. Sept. 28, 5 p.m.

(202) 774-5875. thesovereigndc.com. craft Beer and killer Pizza Margherita pizzas go for $6 and craft beer pints go for $4 at this tasting event at Glen’s Dupont location. Glen’s Garden Market. 2001 S St. NW. Free. Sept. 28, 5 p.m.

(202) 588-5698. glensgardenmarket.com. deVil’s BackBone and fordHaM & doMinion Present a PoP-uP Brewery exPerience The Virginia and Delaware breweries set up satellite sites at Mess Hall for one night only to teach guests about the brewing process. Tickets include a commemorative pint glass, beer tastings, and snacks. Mess Hall.

703 Edgewood St. NE, Washington. $10. Sept. 28, 6 p.m. messhalldc.com. deVils BackBone taP takeoVer Devils Backbone brings some of its rarest offerings to this new beer garden on Barracks Row. The Brig. 1007 8th St. SE. Free. Sept. 28, 5 p.m. (202) 675-1000. ocelot inVades Brookland Pint The Sterlingbased brewery brings five different beers to Brookland Pint during this Beer Week celebration. Offerings include the Planets Align IPA and the Sunnyside Dweller Pils. Brookland Pint. 716 Monroe St. NW. Free.

Sept. 28, 4 p.m. (202) 758-2757. brooklandpint.com.

thurSday, SePt. 29 2nd annual HoPPed uP coMedy niGHt Comedian Sean Patton headlines this evening of beerthemed comedy in which joke-tellers share their best drinking stories and compete for prizes and beer

rar release Sample two new collaboration beers from the Cambridge, Md. brewery, a double IPA and a blonde ale brewed with Hoof Hearted Brewing and Aslin Brewing, respectively. A special edition pint glass is available with the purchase of both beers.

Boundary Stone. 116 Rhode Island Ave. NW. Free.

Sept. 29, 5 p.m. (202) 621-6635.

Friday, SePt. 30 aVery Barrel-aGed Bottle niGHt Rustico offers all 24 of its aged bottles from the Colorado brewery at this celebration. A select few will be available in 4 ounce tasting pours. Rustico—Alexandria. 827 Slaters Lane, Alexandria. Free. Sept. 30, 5 p.m.

(703) 224-5051. rusticorestaurant.com.

Ballast Point 20tH anniVersary Party The Southern California brewery celebrates two decades of business and beer with this tap takeover that features five small-batch brews from its Roots to Boots program. ChurchKey. 1337 14th St. NW. Free. Sept. 30, 4 p.m. (202) 567-2576. churchkeydc.com. cask niGHt Sample casks from local breweries at this event celebrating small batch beers. Tickets include a souvenir pint glass and snacks. District ChopHouse. 509 Seventh St. NW. $50. Sept. 30, 5 p.m. (202) 347-3434. districtchophouse.com. dc Brau’s eVeninG of MaGical Mystery Chef Mike Friedman of The Red Hen and All Purpose cooks at this comprehensive and mysterious dinner party that picks guests up at City Center and takes them to a mysterious location where they’ll feast and toast with a selection of DC Brau beers. City Center DC. 900 9th St. NW. $100. Sept. 30, 6 p.m. dc Brewers’ Guild cask and coMMunity eVent Celebrate the end of Beer Week with this community celebration where guests can drink special brews from local beer purveyors Atlas Brew Works, 3 Stars Brewing Company, Bluejacket, DC Brau Brewing Company, District Chophouse, Gordon Biersch Navy Yard, Gordon Biersch Penn Quarter, Hellbender Brewing Company, and Right Proper Brewing Company. Tickets include unlimited tastings and a souvenir glass. Atlas Brew Works. 2052 West Virginia Avenue Northeast. $50. Sept. 30, 1 p.m.

(202) 832-0420. atlasbrewworks.com. lock, stock, and all of tHe taPs! Devils Backbone presents a variety of rare offerings at this Adams Morgan tap takeover. Smoke & Barrel. 2471 18th St. NW. Free. Sept. 30, 5 p.m. (202) 319-9353. smokeandbarreldc.com.

Saturday, oCt. 1 4tH annual Bikes & Brews Brewery tour and Growler ride Meet at City Bikes and head for Hellbender and Atlas breweries before wrapping up at Glen’s Garden Market for discounted growler fills at this annual Beer Week tradition. City Bikes Adams Morgan. 2501 Champlain St. NW. Free. Oct. 1, 12 p.m.

(202) 255-1564. citybikes.com.

‘Make it funky’ wild Beer festiVal Try wild and sour beers from breweries around the nation at this second annual celebration. Participating breweries include New Belgium, 3 Stars, and Burley Oak. Denizens Brewing Co. 1115 East-West Highway, Silver Spring. $55-$70. Oct. 1, 12 p.m. (301) 557-9818. denizensbrewingco.com.

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Manor Hill Brewing

Columbia Rachael Carson 20315 Georgia Ave., Brookeville, 4017 Damascus Road, Laytonsville, 4411 Manor Lane, Ellicott City, Conservation Park Middle Patuxent Environmental Area Maryland Maryland Maryland Weekend hours: Friday 3-9 p.m.; SatWeekend hours: Friday 4-8 p.m.; SatWeekend hours: Friday 4-8:30 p.m.; urday 12-9 p.m.; Sunday 12-7 p.m. urday 1-8 p.m.; Sunday 1-6 p.m.

Saturday 11a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 Try: Interdependence IPA, Philsner PilTry: White Flag Belgian Wit, Beecher a.m.-6 p.m. sner, Ridiculous Stout IPA, 3-2-1 Gose Try: Grisette Farmhouse, Katherine’s Highland This European-style beer hall that Keith Kohr’s well-made brews compleKolsch, the latest Hidden Hopyard Seopened in July boasts exposed beams ment the serene landscape of this famries IPA and a steeple-topped circular bar ily-owned 220-acre horse farm that Victoria Gastro Pub owners Randy Morrisonville pouring a selection of brewer Kenny was previously home to the Washingand Mary Marriner’s beautifully conBorkmann’s full-flavored beers. Outton Recreational Day Camp. The small, verted barn houses their brewery’s Stumptown side is a second bar, porch, and parustic clubhouse bar serves about six tasting room and production facility. tio with ample shaded seating, and a Wheatland rotating beers and packaged snacks.

Rarely crowded—visits are by reserlawn perfect for a picnic among the An expansive orchard with views of the vation only—the bar pours 10 or more hop vines. lake, woods, and rambling trails has beers, many of which are bold, delipicnic tables and plenty of space for cious takes on traditional styles. kids and (leashed) dogs to frolic.

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By Tim Ebner At first glAnce, crowlers—AKA canned growlers—look like King Kong–sized beers because at 32 ounces, they dwarf a more typical 12-ounce can. Some breweries are substituting them for growlers because they have a few major benefits: they’re easy to stow in a suitcase; they can go to places where glass bottles are not permitted like the beach or pool; and they can keep beer fresher, longer. They’re fairly new to the beer scene, but local breweries and beer shops are catching on to the trend.

“I first saw crowlers from Oskar Blues in 2014,” says Bill DeBaun, editor of DCBeer. “Since then, I’ve seen other breweries pick them up, but not at the rate I’d expect. But I think more will going forward.”

One of the biggest obstacles to crowlers is the canning machine’s sticker price, says Afsheen Tafakor, the owner of two beer stores in Maryland and Virginia. His shop in Falls Church, Dominion Wine and Spirits, recently made the switch to crowlers. The investment in equipment cost him about $10,000. “It was worth it,” Tafakor says. “We’ve been selling crowlers nonstop, and it has helped to increase our draft sales even more. People are opting for cans because the beer can last for upwards of a month.”

A handful of other regional breweries and bottle shops also crank out these mega-cans.

Aslin Beer Co.

Wheatland

BarnHouse Brewery

Vanish Farmwoods Brewery

Old 690 Brewing Company

43271 Spinks Ferry Road, Leesburg, Virginia Weekend hours: Friday 4-9 p.m.; Saturday 12-8 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.

Try: Shenandoah Stout, Hop Dog Pale Ale, the latest saison Roger and Christine Knoell’s high-ceilinged barnhouse tasting room located on their 18-acre farm opened this spring. It’s a major step up from serving beer from the basement of their home. They pour about 10 frequently rotating brews that are typically wellmade, mild-flavored creations that respect the motto “laid back beer for laid back people.”

42245 Black Hops Lane, Leesburg, Virginia Weekend hours: Friday through Sunday 12-8 p.m.

Try: Vermont IPA, Juicy Tangerine White, Abbey Dubbel This massive space, located on a 52acre hop farm and processing facility, features up to 20 of Larry Pomerantz’s wide-ranging brews seven days a week. When the kitchen expansion is complete, Bryan Voltaggio’s “BVQ” (get it?) menu of brisket, ribs, and other popular dishes will return on weekends. Bring friends to help drink a mega-flight of a dozen 4-ounce pours.

15670 Ashbury Church Road, Purcellville, Virginia Weekend hours: Friday 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Try: Late Harvest Peach Blonde, Black Widow Breeder DIPA, the latest Cali or Bust IPA Equal parts brewery and country bar, the lively tasting room here plays host to spontaneous sing-alongs, televised games, free popcorn, and around 10 of Bob Lundberg’s tasty beers on draft. The inside is cozy, but there is more room to sprawl on the porch and grounds of the 10-acre property. A kitchen serves flatbread pizzas, nachos, and other snacks on weekends.

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Ask for a crowler pour on your next brewery visit.

Courtesy of DC Brau

Enjoy a day at the farm by visiting these local vine-to-stein breweries, each within an hour’s drive of the District. To make it easy, here are two suggested itineraries. [Editor’s note: If you plan to drink much more than a sip of each beer—and you probably should—plan to have someone drive your drunk ass around. Reston Limousine is a local favorite.] —Tammy Tuck

Come Crowling Back for More

257 Sunset Park Dr. Herndon; (703) 787-5766; aslinbeer.com Aslin started offering crowler pours in March. Prices range from $12 to $14 per can. Just be sure to check their Facebook or Twitter pages before you go—popular beers, like their Gose and Hoppy Saison, can sell out on weekends.

DC Brau

3178 Bladensburg Rd. NE; (202) 621-8890; dcbrau.com At DC Brau you can get almost any beer on tap in a to-go crowler. For 32 ounce pours, it’s either $6 for a regular draft or $9 for a premium draft, plus an additional dollar for the crowler.

Downtown Crown Wine and Beer

303 Copley Pl., Gaithersburg; (301) 330-7010; downtowncrownwine.com This beer shop in Montgomery County offers a half-dozen beers on tap, which are available for crowler pours. Find beers like Dogfish, RaR, and Jailbreak on tap here. Prices vary by selection, and it’s an additional dollar to fill up a 32ounce crowler.

Dominion Wine and Beer

107 Rowell Ct., Falls Church; (703) 533-3030; dominionwineandbeer.com In Northern Virginia, head to Dominion Wine and Beer for quick and easy crowler pours.

The machine takes less than a minute to can and seal one of their dozen or so draft beers. Before you go, check their website for the latest beer offerings.

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Starting at 7 PM, spend eight hours exploring seven DC neighborhoods, as you’ve never seen them before, filled with art, music, food, drink and much more, all MADE IN DC!

Come to northern Shaw for an early kick-off to Art All Night: Made in DC. A Circus of the Night will bring 8th Street to life, with 25 roaming Nuit Cirque artists, including jugglers on stilts, astounding aerialists, fire breathers and more. Make sure to stop by Atlantic Plumbing and The Shay retailers for art installations and live performances, as well as food, drink and shopping specials.

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Washington College of Law, Capital Atrium, 4300 Nebraska Ave, NW Step back in time and do the Charleston, Jitterbug and the Lindy Hop as a jazz quintet performs music from the Roaring 20s, interspersed with readings from The Great Gatsby and see art on display (7-11 PM).

Tenley Bar & Grill, 4611 41st Street, NW Rock out with local band favorite Cheaper Than Therapy downstairs (8-11 PM), or head upstairs where you can explore DC street scenes, walk through papier-mache birds on branches, learn to create elaborate paper flowers (7-11 PM), or encounter voodoo priestesses (7 PM-12 AM).

Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Take a peek inside District politics as Lateef Mangum, who served as the official photographer for five DC mayors, exhibits his work. Enjoy live music performances throughout the evening. (7 PM-12 AM) ...and much more!

Washington Studio School, 2129 S Street, NW See the Annual Faculty Show of Fine Art and pick up a pencil to draw live as you listen to DJ Brian Kelley (7 PM-12 AM).

Korean Cultural Center, 2370 Massachusetts Avenue, NW See art on display: The Prismatic (Yunjung Kang, Yeonhee Kim, Jin Kim, Yunwook Mun, June Lee, Hwan Jahng, Nina Cho). Watch a performance of “Moment of Silence” by gamin and Jung Woong Kim and screenings of K-Pop music videos.

Taste Korean tea and dessert. (7 PM-12 AM) Pansaari, 1603 17th Street, NW (Lower Level) In “You Were Here,” Esther Hidalgo uses film and antique cameras to create photographic meditations on urban life and decay in Washington, DC. Enjoy a performance by singer-songwriter Emily Hall, blending modern folk music, meditation music from East Africa and Southeast Asia and indie-rock. (7 PM-12 AM) ...and much more!

Metro Plaza, 4250 Connecticut Avenue, NW Kyle Intergalactic Virvelvind, a collective of local fire artists, transforms the open air plaza into a nighttime “Incendiary Circus” (7:30-9:30 PM).

Bread Furst, 4434 Connecticut Avenue, NW Politics and Prose presents local authors Dana Cann, Kyle Dargan and Paula Whyman, reading from their work and discussing with attendees.

Acacia Bistro, 4340 Connecticut Avenue, NW Hear live jazz performances, from acid and bebop to fusion and ragtime, by the UDC Jazz program (7-11:30 PM). ...and much more!

Glow @ Parcel 42, 7th & R Streets, NW Experience a glow-in-the-dark outdoor dance party with a three-story-tall psychedelic 1960s liquid light show (7 PM-3 AM), with music by DJ Black Santa (7-10 PM).

Wonder Bread Factory, 641 S Street, NW Live music by A Band Named Gump, Brass Connection, Red Line Graffiti and more; Lionz of Zion breakdancing competition; gaming; art by Patrick Burns, Santiago Fletcher, Ryan Florig, Brandon Hill, Rose Jaffe, Paul Mericle, Lisa Plz, Superwaxx, and others; DJs Abhi, Dreamcast, Fleg, Lean Quatifah and Mista Selecta; and more on two floors.

Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th Street, NW See and hear the Batala Washington female drum corps in action outside (9 PM), get your face painted and create your own paintings and fiber art inside (7 PM-2 AM). ...and much more!

25 Florida Avenue, NW Different bands play outdoors hourly, presenting everything from folk, jazz and country to rock, electronica and dance music (7 -10 PM). Be dazzled by visual art on display from 18 local artists and see artists creating new work at their easels, right before your eyes (7 PM-1 AM).

City Gear, 1538 North Capitol Street, NW Art meets fashion at this streetwear store, as plain hats and t-shirts are turned into works of art by Katya Krupko’s skillful hands. Witness and purchase unique pieces of clothing custom decorated as you watch (7 PM-12 AM).

7DL Studios, 1506 North Capitol Street, NW Stop by 7DL Studios’ new drum lesson and rehearsal space to explore the artwork on display from multiple mixed media artists while enjoying live percussion performances by 7DL artists (7 PM-1 AM). ...and much more!

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H Street Streetcars Enjoy live music and spoken word performances on the streetcars as they roll down H Street, 7 PM-2 AM. Anthology, 625 H Street, NE Take in a range of classes and live performances in three spaces, including the roof. Classes in body painting, drawing, mixology, yoga, Bollywood, belly and Salsa dancing. Performances include comedy, magicians, acrobats, sword swallowers, and fire twirlers and dancers. (7 PM-3AM) Atlas Theater, 1333 H Street, NE Art on Display includes Black Lives Matter DC Installation and Vision Booth by Omolara Williams McCallister. Watch live painting and live musical performances (7 PM- 3AM). ...and much more!

Georgina’s/The Player’s Lounge, 2737 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) old school dance party.

Bring your vinyl records from home and the DJs will play them for you and the crowd to groove to! (7 PM-2 AM) Mart Liquors, 2931 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE Join in painting a mural that depicts the culture and experience of the community! The mural will depict Dr. Martin L. King Jr., Malcolm X, and Marion Barry.

United Planning Organization Petey Green Center, 2907 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE Enjoy art on display and panel discussions on the current social climate, police brutality, 2016 Presidential election, and more. (7 PM-3 AM) ...and much more!

For full neighborhood lineups and final schedule, visit www.ArtAllNightDC.com or download the ArtAllNightDC mobile app on the App Store or Google Play Store.

Art All Night: Made in DC is presented by the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development in partnership with Destination Congress Heights, Dupont Circle Main Streets, H Street Main Street, North Capitol Main Street, Shaw Main Streets, Tenleytown Main Street and Van Ness Main Street, with financial support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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Sockets Records’ Sean Peoples is back with a new label, Atlantic Rhythms. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

Art of Gold

With its sprawling fine art collection, the National Museum of African American History and Culture may be the museum that finally bridges the gulf between the National Mall and the District.

By Kriston Capps The firsT punch-you-in-The-guT moment comes right away at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Viewers who take the prescribed path will start at the bottom, at the third basement level, in the galleries devoted to slavery and the Middle Passage. The first hityou-over-the-head moment comes after that, in the form of a statue of President Thomas Jefferson. This one greets viewers once they work their way up from the lowest concourse. Those galleries—dark, constrained, and trenchant—open up to a massive hall that takes viewers through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and beyond.

Greeting viewers at the opening is a typical likeness of Jefferson—framed by a wall of 609 bricks, each representing a slave Jefferson owned in his life (280 bricks bear the name of a slave he owned up to 1776). The statue will help viewers cast their impressions of the museum (and also other historical narratives they’ve seen on the National Mall). But the Jefferson stage is ultimately a statue-graphic: a chart in physical form designed to convey the magnitude of the horrors at Monticello. The truth is jarring; the statue, not as much. For a more profound interaction with an art object, visitors will have to wait until they get to the fourth floor.

By then, many visitors may need a break from their brains.

The African American Museum offers many provocative and uplifting moments. Most of all, though, it offers information—a relentless flow of facts in the form of historical artifacts. The building is chock full of photos, texts, and video, but relatively little of it comes in the form of photography, literature, or film.

The visual art galleries on the fourth floor will hit viewers like a cool blast of air conditioning. Serene yet still soaring, these rooms have no cousin in the museum. The inaugural installation of the museum’s fine-art collection is not just a relief for over-exercised eyes and ears. It’s an opportunity for visitors to indulge and rejuvenate their senses—and it’s one of D.C.’s finest art collections to boot.

Curated by Jacquelyn Serwer, who served as the chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 1999 to 2006, the fine-art installation at the new museum begins with some of its coolest work, temperature-wise. Contemporary paintings and a few sculptures open the main galleries, including Minimalist and Washington Color School works with a heavy focus on formalism. “April 4” (1972), the finest piece Sam Gilliam ever painted, is one of them. A spattered all-over painting

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the color of Easter egg shell, the work includes a splash of red and a fold or gash that betrays the violence of its title— April 4, 1968, is the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It is as if to say that life is full and gorgeous but permeated throughout by an insistent, awful, nagging violence.

That could be one way to read the museum—or black history writ large.

‘April 4’ is not one of Gilliam’s larger works or his drape paintings, and it fits in the museum’s collection, which tends toward smaller works. Fine ones include Gregory Coates’ “Blue Feather” (2013), a painting in brightest Yves Klein blue with a rich texture (from goose feathers applied to the canvas).

Also Edward Clark’s “The Big Egg” (1968), an ovular, shaped abstraction that looks something like the surface of Jupiter mixed with Neptune.

Paintings in the contemporary galleries run the gamut of the postwar period, although Serwer trends toward academic work, including Felrath Hines’ “Untitled” (1978), a geometric painting driven by logic and color theory.

Jefferson Pinder’s “Capsule (Mothership)” (2009) is one of few sculptures on view—but what a knockout. The artist, who recently moved from D.C. to Chicago and still holds strong ties to this town, made this Mercury Spacecraft–shaped vessel using tin and the wood from President Barack Obama’s inauguration platform. The piece is capped by sub-woofer that plays the bass line from Sun Ra’s “Space Is the Place” and Stevie Wonder’s “Liv-

“Grand Dame Queenie” (2013), by Amy Sherald

ing in the City.” The piece has always struck me as a celebration of blackness—narratively, for sure, but also in its earthy, rusted tones and decorative elements. Pinder’s piece is a counterpoint to the fragmented, unmonumental found art that was so popular over the last decade but hasn’t held washingtoncitypaper.com september 23, 2016 25

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finally bridges the gulf between the National Mall and the District. From a post–Washington Color School painting by Alma Thomas (who is truly overlooked) to a mystical installation by Renée Stout, artworks by D.C. artists might even be over-represented in this collection. Serwer had the foresight to include “Blue Horse” (2009), a bonkers sculpture by BK Adams, a D.C. artist who showcases the nonsensical and absurdist side of black art history.

Serwer faced an impossible task: How can a curator convey the riches of African-American art history, so totally overlooked by American museums, without hanging a highlight reel? While the collection spans the relevant history, from Joshua Johnson’s 1807–08 portrait of a white plantation owner forward, the museum emphasizes moments between works rather than any overarching thesis. Like the best rooms in the Phillips Collection or the National Gallery of Art, the visual art galleries in the National Museum of African American History and Culture are a place to get lost for a spell. In a museum that can make viewers feel overwhelmed, the fine-art hall is an essenCP tial destination.

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up as substantive.

The galleries are divided into roughly thematic rooms: “Religion and Spirituality,” “The Struggle for Freedom,” and so on. It’s much easier to think of the collection in two modes: abstract and representational. The museum collection, while regrettably light on photography, sculpture, media, installation, and other formats, boasts an embarrassment of riches in painting.

Romare Bearden’s “A Walk in Paradise Gardens” (1955)—an elegant Cubist scene, and surely one of the highlights of the museum—is the kind of painting that obsessives will travel to see.

Loans from Spelman College, Howard University, and other important African-American art collections round out the permanent collection hanging. Jacob Lawrence’s “Praying Ministers” (1962), Henry Ossawa Tanner’s “Disciples Healing the Sick” (1924), and a pair of paintings by Aaron Douglas are here to help round out some of the themes on view. Sharper still is the inclusion of Barkley L. Hendricks’ “New Orleans Niggah” (1972), a swag portrait of a young black man who wouldn’t look out of place, sarto“The Big Egg” (1968), by Edward Clark rially, in 2016. Hendricks’s portrait hangs in dialog with Amy Sherald’s “Grand Dame Queenie” (2013), a Renaissance-styled portrait (from the museum’s his work is absent here, Hendricks and Sherald are harder to find anywhere else. own collection) that condemns respectability politics. Both of The African American Museum may be the museum that these works prefigure the bravado of Kehinde Wiley. While

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Let the chill vibes of the new album from Jau Ocean transport you to a different realm. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

Arts Desk

One Track Mind

“bassIItxNitro”

Chuck Brown will be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.

DIY post-punk musician Sneaks signs to Merge Records.

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Tölva

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Famed go-go musician Byron “BJ” Jackson dies.

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After it closed following the death of its owner, the Chateau Nightclub reopens under new management.

The White House is bringing SXSW to its South Lawn with the SXSL festival. But will it also bring breakfast tacos, corporate sponsorship, and 24-hour binge drinking with it?

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture finally opens!

Joe’s Record Paradise finally reopens.

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The D.C. Kickstarter with the most amount of backers ever? That would be David Teie’s 2015 campaign to fund his “Music For Cats” project.

Standout Track: While the name Tölva might be unfamiliar, the man behind it, Erik Sleight (Br’er, Stronger Sex, CrushnPain), has been a mainstay of the D.C. electronic music scene for some time.

On “bassIItxNitro,” the first track on Tölva’s forthcoming debut, Manudags, Sleight offers a much quieter and more contemplative riff on the music that he makes in his other bands. The track is built around a minute-long loop, and Sleight notes that “I made a four minute song out of remixing myself. Taking what I had and chopping it up and pitch-shifting things, and taking what I had done with that loop and remixing myself into a full song.”

Musical Motivation: For a long time, the Tölva material was something Sleight was sitting on, not yet ready to release.

Unfortunately, he recently had all of his musical gear stolen from his car, spurring him to release this album as a marker of a time and place. “I thought it was going to be much more meticulously planned from every angle,” he says, “but that’s sort of a cop out [...] to basically tell the world that as soon as you release something it’s going to be incredible, but you’re just not done yet. So the whole theft process really ramped up the timeline for releasing the album.”

Testing Boundaries: Sleight derives a lot of enjoyment from maximizing the peculiarities of his equipment. “I use a lot of hardware and synthesizers and drum machines,” he says, “and what’s fun about using those tools for me is that they are what they are and there are limitations, and there’s a lot of power in those limitations.” —Keith Mathias Listen to “bassIItxNitro” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

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Bad Times, Good Times A punk-era sex comedy and a Y2K musical sendup both nail 2016.

Cloud 9

By Caryl Churchill Directed by Michael Kahn At Studio Theatre to Oct. 16

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By Chris Klimek In Its dIssectIon of conventional family structures and gender roles, Cloud 9 feels like the most timely play of 2016—a remarkable accomplishment given that it first appeared in 1979. Suggesting, if not declaring, that the choice between celibacy and heteronormative monogamy is a yoke of colonialism that even the most ardent colonialists only pretended to abide, Cloud 9’s first half feels pointed and provocative. To call the play a sex comedy would diminish it, though that’s exactly what it is— albeit one in which a character observes midorgy, “You can’t separate economics from fucking.” The line comes in the play’s quieter, more searching second half, which contemplates the eroded certainties of patriarchy and empire and asks: Now what?

Of only this much can we be sure: It’s really fucking funny. Studio Theatre’s crisp, haunting new production is director (and longtime Shakespeare Theatre Company honcho) Michael Kahn’s first Churchill—surprising, given the director and the playwright are contemporaries—but Studio’s sixth. They’ve produced her work as often as anyone else’s, but it’s been a while. Their prior Churchill, the meditation-on-cloning A Number, was more than a decade ago.

Churchill’s work has only grown more daring since Cloud 9, but this warhorse, her first big trans-Atlantic hit, is still progressive in form and intention. Act One is set in an unnamed African nation under British rule. Act Two takes place a century later, in 1979 London—though the three characters who recur from the first act have aged only 25 years. (“I felt the first act would be stronger set in Victorian times, at the height of colonialism, rather than in Africa in the 1950s,” the playwright explained in 1983.) Technology, politics, and social mores are shifting more rapid-

ly than our fragile vessels can bear.

But we are not our bodies. The casting willfully scrambles age, race, and gender— not at random, but in specific configurations, per the script. In Act One, Edward, a little boy whose affection for dolls troubles his parents, is played by Laura C. Harris, an adult woman. Betty, Edward’s mother, is played

by Wyatt Fenner, a man. Joy Jones, a young black woman, plays Betty’s elderly white mother-in-law, while white actor Philippe Bowgen embodies Joshua—a native boy who has forsaken his blood relatives and considers himself the adopted son of colonial administrator Clive. (Clive is a white man played by a white man, John Scherer).

Again, Churchill did not simply encourage directors to discount physical characteristics; she said explicitly that a white man should play Joshua, a black woman should play Maude and so on. There’s less stunt casting in Act Two— though Bowgen now plays Cathy, a little girl who adores toy guns—suggesting the lifting of Victorian strictures now permits us to play the roles to which we’re suited, rather than the ones to which we’re… bodied.

The inciting incident of Act One is the arrival at Clive and Betty’s well-appointed home of two guests, the ex-Army adventurer Harry Bagley (a game Christian Pedersen) and acerbic widow Mrs. Saunders (the great Holly Twyford). To his imperious pal Clive, Harry seems the very model of masculinity, a corrective influence for his effete boy, Edward.

In fact, Harry’s appetites are voracious: for Joshua (“Shall we go into the barns and fuck?” he enquires, as though offering a drink), for Betty, and even for the kid. Clive is too busy ordering Joshua around and going down on Mrs. Saunders (who hilariously chides herself for permitting it while it’s still happening) to notice. Meanwhile, Edward’s governess (also Twyford) pines for Betty. If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re societally permitted.

The root of their unhappiness in Act Two isn’t so easily summarized. Victoria, who was present only as a doll in the first act, has grown up to become Laura C. Harris, and is now a mother herself. She’s coupled with Martin (Pedersen), a dim writer working on “a novel about women, from the woman’s point of view.” Her big brother Edward (played by Scherer) yearns for more commitment in his relationship with Gerry (Fenner), who feels smothered and prefers quickies with strangers on the subway. Jones plays Lin, a young

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woman drawn to Cloud 9 Victoria whose brother is a soldier stationed in Belfast — the last and nearest outpost of a shrunken empire. Twyford assumes the role of Betty, now a middleaged widow trying to get used to doing things for herself. It’s improved her sex life, at least, as we learn in a monologue that would be striking in its tenderness even if it didn’t follow two hours of (largely) bawdy comedy.

Their liberation isn’t complete: Edward, a gardener, is still in the closet to his employers at least, for fear of losing his job. “I think I’m a lesbian,” he says, while consensually feeling up his sister. The second act signals its fastforward to the late 20th century by having the cast line up to reprise the imperial fight song that had opened Act One, only to drown them out with “Good Times, Bad Times,” the first track on Led Zeppelin’s debut album. The tune was already a decade old in ’79. But as a signifier for British appropriation of African music by way of one of its former colonies, you could hardly do better. the drought-plagued dystopIa that Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman imagined in their 1999 New York Fringe hit Urinetown: The Musical is more civilized than the waterless Wasteland of Mad Max: Fury Road: The Movie, but it’s no less hilarious. The show scaled up to a Broadway run that opened the week after 9/11 and took home Tony Awards for Kotis’ book and Hollman’s score. (They share credit on the lyrics.)

Back then, Urinetown looked sharper as a Brechtian parody of West Side Story, Les Miserables, and musical theater in general than as a political satire. But as Constellation Theatre Company’s swell new production, reuniting many of the key players from its Helen Hayes Award-devouring production of Avenue Q from last year, reminds us, the show was just 15 years ahead of its time on that front.

It isn’t merely that Urinetown anticipated access to bathrooms as a political issue.

Its villain, Caldwell B. Cladwell (a literallymustache-twirling Nicklas Aliff), is an au-

thoritarian tycoon who believes the brutal methods he used to restore order during “the Stink Years” of rapid environmental decay were justified, and who uses his pretty daughter Hope (Katie Keyser, commanding and funny even when tied to a chair) to put a kind face on his policy. Which is: You gotta pee, you gotta pay. Going in the bushes buys you a one-way ticket to the mysterious gulag known as Urinetown: The Location.

But Hope falls in with Bobby Strong, an accidental revolutionary who begins letting impoverished wretches use the filthy Public Amenity No. 9 free of charge. Vaughn Ryan Midder has great comic instincts as Bobby but is sometimes overmatched by his songs.

There’s no trouble there from the rest of the cast. Matt Dewberry and Jenna Berk (like Midder, Avenue Q vets) are especially strong as jaded cop Officer Lockstock and adorable moppet Little Sally, the show’s narrators and occasional critics. As the hard-hearted, beehive-haired toilet manager Penny Pennywise, Christine Nolan Essig seems at constant risk of bursting into flame.

Speaking of friction: Urinetown features more elaborate and athletic choreography than any Constellation show I can recall.

It’s by Ilona Kessell, a veteran, but new to the close-knit Constellation fold. The dance numbers are when supporting players Emily Madden (also the dance captain) and Harrison Smith come to the fore, and they’re almost too crisp and energetic for parody. I hope the company is staying properly hydratCP ed, in spite of everything. $20–$85 at Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. $25 –$50 at Source, 1835 14th Street NW. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

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It had been one of North Korea’s best-kept secrets: Kim Jong-il was a movie buff. In The Lovers and the Despot, we learn that the Dear Leader had a projection setup in each of his many houses. He also fancied himself a critic, lamenting a problem that international critics have been calling out in their respective industries for decades: the lack of originality in his country’s films. “There’s nothing new about them,” he’s heard saying on a tape. “People here are so closed-minded.”

To address this problem, Kim had a lightbulb moment. He’d employ a successful foreign director and actress and bankroll their projects. The professionals he chose were director Shin Sang-ok and his wife and muse, Choi Eun-hee. Both worked in South Korea.

Kim wondered to his minions, “How could we persuade [Shin] to come here?”

Well, kidnapping is one method. First Kim swiped Choi in 1978, enlisting a secret agent to be her guide when she received an offer from a fake North Korean film company. Soon, strongarms were forcing Choi into Kim’s lair. “Thanks for coming,” he told his new personal actress.

Soon Shin was captured, too, but the pair— who were actually divorced at the time— weren’t reunited for five years. Separately, they were treated like prisoners, which Kim later said was due to “a misunderstanding.”

One can only assume that the brainwashing attempts that both Choi and Shin spoke of were a goof, too. Chalk it up to what one U.S. official called Kim’s “very odd personality,” one shaped by a childhood of extreme isolation.

This oddness, and the heavy hand with which he ruled, is never really explored by codirectors Ross Adam and Robert Cannan beyond comments that Kim didn’t have the cha-

risma of his father, Kim Il-sung, and that North Koreans under Jong-il were also controlled by an “emotional dictatorship.” For Choi and Shin, it was more like a confused Stockholm Syndrome: They openly declared their loyalty to North Korea and that they could never betray Jong-il. They said they were treated with “the utmost respect.” They were eventually allowed to travel throughout Europe. Yet they wanted to escape.

Choi tells her story here, accompanied by commenters such as her and Shin’s son and daughter, and various statesmen and film critics. She’d taped conversations via a recorder hidden in her purse after Shin remarked, “Even if we escape, no one will believe our story.” (Shin died in 2006.) She notes how they would instinctively parallel their realities to cinema: Shin thought of great filmic escapes as he was planning his; Choi pictured herself running in slow motion when they did finally make a dash.

These tapes, photos, and grainy (and somewhat cheesy) re-creations compose the bulk of the film, along with clips of Shin’s movies.

The story’s strangeness makes it interesting enough, but it’s somewhat lacking in terms of what the couple’s day-to-day lives and mindsets were like while imprisoned. Shin was thrilled that he could make any film he wanted without worrying about money. Their son notes of a photograph, “They didn’t seem to be suffering at all.” So it’s difficult to feel the alleged desperation of the situation or an urgency to break free.

Sleeping only a few hours a night, Choi and Shin made 17 films for Kim (including North Korea’s first love story) over two years and three months. Kim instructs them on what to say to people who may be puzzled by their apparent defection from their home country, and an ulterior motive shows through: “Tell [people] you came here looking for true freedom… Now it’s a North-South face-off.”

—Tricia Olszewski The Lovers and the Despot opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinemas.

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Ryan Bingham and Brian Fallon & The Crowes w/ Paul Cauthen . SEPTEMBER 28 Jake Bugg w/ Syd Arthur ............................................................................SEPTEMBER 29 Jim Norton - Mouthful of Shame Tour .................................................FRI, OCTOBER 7 Two Shows - Live taping! 6pm & 9pm Doors.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Blind Pilot, River Whyless. 6 p.m. $25.00. The Revivalists, The Temperance Movement. 10 p.m. $24.00. 930.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Aztec Sun, Alanna Royale. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. bossa bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Crystal Youth,KINGS. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Ava Luna, Klauss. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

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7 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Jon McLaughlin, Marc Scibilia, Brad Ray. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

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fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Game, Backyard Band. 9 p.m. $39–$67. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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amP by strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Raul Midon. 8 p.m. $35–$45. ampbystrathmore.com. eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Zion Y Lennox. 9 p.m. $31. echostage.com.

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bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. King Soul, Soul Crackers.

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(703) 549-7500. Maysa & Her Funk Soul Symphony.

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Tropicalia, the dance club hidden underneath a Subway sandwich shop on U Street NW, is celebrating its fourth birthday the way it started: with international dance music. While the club is sometimes home to DJs playing American pop hits now, on this anniversary, U.K.-based Dhol Foundation will bring its booming South Asian percussion and rhythms to the small room. The combo is led by Johnny Kalsi, who’s also played with Afro Celt Soundsystem and Transglobal Underground. His instrument, the dhol, is a barrel-shaped drum with a goatskin top and bottom that the drummer hits with a stick and a beater. And the Foundation often features four of them, because Kalsi likes a big, multicultural wall of sound approach. His tunes often include sampled Irish fiddlers playing jigs and reels or prerecorded Jamaican reggae vocals along with the skittering Punjabi Indian percussion. These extra elements can be a bit too bombastic, but soon enough the drummers take over and bring the focus back to the raw, exhilarating bhangra beat. The band is joined by New York’s DJ Rhekha, an expert at spinning party-ready bhangra records. The Dhol Foundation performs with DJ Rekha at 8 p.m. at Tropicalia, 2001 14th St. NW. $20–$25. (202) 629-4535. tropicaliadc.com.

—Steve Kiviat fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Trial By Fire. 8:30 p.m. $15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Jon McLaughlin, Marc Scibilia, Brad Ray. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Sean Hayes, Tim Carr. 9 p.m. $18. iotaclubandcafe.com.

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george mason university Center for the arts 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. The Midtown Men. 8 p.m. $60–$100. cfa.gmu. edu.

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blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Death, Rough Francis. 7:30 p.m. $22–$25. blackcatdc.com.

merriweather Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Main Street Music Fest with Toad the Wet Sprocket, Nighthawks. noon $12. merriweathermusic.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Marlon Williams & The Yarra Benders, Julia Jacklin. 9 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

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

Tiger Army, Tijuana Panthers, Creepers. 4 a.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Brad Linde, Josh Walker. 9 p.m. $20–$30. atlasarts.org.

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atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Who’s The Boss? La Serva Padrona and Trial By Jury. 7 p.m. $22–$42. atlasarts.org.

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bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Banda Magda. 7:30 p.m. $15. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Signals Midwest, Oklahoma Car Crash, Kid Claws. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com. eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Glass Animals, Pumarosa. 7 p.m. $36. echostage.com.

World

eaglebank arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Ilaiyaraja, Karthik Iyer, K.S. Chitra, Manu. 4 p.m. $39–$1000. eaglebankarena.com.

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birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Soggy Bottom Boys. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. The Renderers, Insect Factory. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. John Scofield, Steve Swallow, Larry Goldings, Bill Stewart.

8 p.m. $25–$58. thehamiltondc.com.

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

Jon McLaughlin, Marc Scibilia, Brad Ray. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Queers, Svetlanas, OC 45, Fatastic Planets, American Television, The Split Seconds, Kyle Trocolla. 5 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Goldie, Seany Ranks, Vanniety Kills. 6 p.m. $20–$25. flashdc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

FrEEdoM souNds FEstiVal

Even if you didn’t get tickets to the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s opening weekend, you can still head to the National Mall without a ticket and take part in the museum’s outdoor “Freedom Sounds” celebration. The evening concert showcases three groups formed in the 1980s: Living Colour, with its blend of metal and funk; Public Enemy, known for controversial raps over dense, funky beats; and The Roots, a hip-hop unit that gained the attention of listeners long before it became Jimmy Fallon’s house band. The daytime performers emphasize the more rootsy side of the African diaspora. Highlights include the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band’s bluesy mesh of flute and galloping percussion, Bobi Céspedes’ powerful Afro-Cuban singing, and the Freedom Singers, led by Bernice Johnson-Reagon, who courageously sang its spine-tingling spirituals throughout the South as part of the 1960s Civil Rights movement.

At the March on Washington, the group inspired with “We Shall Not be Moved” and the group’s current incarnation, with three longtime members, will demonstrate the poignancy and ongoing relevance of their message. The festival begins at 12 p.m. at the Washington Monument grounds on the National Mall. Free. (202) 633-1000. nmaahc.si.edu.

—Steve Kiviat 36 september 23, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

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Who’s thE Boss?

A 1735 Italian comic opera and an 1875 British operetta don’t have any obvious connection, but for its double bills, D.C.’s plucky, inventive InSeries opera company always comes up with one, however tenuous. In this case, the common theme is marriage, but it might as well be “here’s what passed for feminism in the olden days.” La Serva Padrona, baroque composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s farce of a gold-digging maid who aggressively pursues, and tricks into marriage, a boorish nobleman, matches uncomfortably well with Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan’s tale of another scandalously forward woman who seduces the lecherous judge overseeing her divorce proceeding. Director Nick Olcott gives both an Edwardian era setting, with a fast-moving, in-the-round staging and just enough goofy physical humor to help you check your brain at the door. The opera runs Sept. 14 to 25 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $22–$42. (202) 204-7763. inseries.org.

—Mike Paarlberg

FuNk & r&B

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Princess featuring Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum.

7 p.m. $30.00. 930.com.

MoNday rock

blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Jeff the Brotherhood, Music Band. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Beaty Heart, Beach Baby. 9 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. The Del Arcos, Mimi Loco and The Drama Queens. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Jon McLaughlin, Marc Scibilia, Brad Ray. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

tuEsday rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Billy Bragg & Joe Henry. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. King Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds.

9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Ages and Ages. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Boyce Avenue. 7 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Andy Frasco and the U.N., Backbeat Underground. 8 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Dale Watson’s Chicken S#!+ Bingo. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. thehamiltondc.com.

Vocal

warner theatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

IL Divo. 8 p.m. $73–$123. warnertheatredc.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jazz City w/John Cusick & Dave Marsh. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22.50. bluesalley.com.

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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Vijay & Sofia. 8 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

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bossa bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The Galaxy Electric, April + VISTA. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Elliot Moss, Yoke Lore, FLASH FREQUENCY. 9 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Big Black Wolves, MUNDY, Stonewalled. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

couNtry

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

Darrell Scott, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. 7:30 p.m. $15–$39.75. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Steve Oliver. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. John Lamkin “Favorites”. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Elliot Moss, Yoke Lore, FLASH FREQUENCY. 9 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Nora En Pure, Playin’ Fields, Vania. 6 p.m. $20. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

amP by strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Maria Muldaur. 8 p.m. $30–$40. ampbystrathmore.com.

Jazz

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Bob Moses, No Regular Play, Weval. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

rock

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Bird and the Bee, The Sweet Hurt. 7:30 p.m. $18–$20. blackcatdc.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Buzzcocks, Residuels. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

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bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Alessia Cara, Ruth B, Nathan Sykes. 7:30 p.m. $37. fillmoresilverspring.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Luna, Britta Phillips. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Broadcast, The Marcus King Band. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. thehamiltondc.com.

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velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Chelsea Sisson, A Day Without Love, Nina Gala. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com. atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Souvenirs Ensemble: “Accents” in miniatures: Music by Latin-American Composers.

7:30 p.m. $20–$28. atlasarts.org.

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THE BIRD AND THE BEE

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Taj Mahal Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $60–$70. bluesalley.com.

ElEctroNic

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Roosevelt, Shallou. 9 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Vijay & Sofia. 8 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Luther Re-Lives featuring William “Smooth” Wardlaw. 8 p.m. $27.50. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Theater

angels in ameriCa Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center collaborate to bring both parts of Tony Kushner’s monumental work about a group of New Yorkers in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Combining fantasy elements with history, the play is presented in two parts and will be performed in repertory. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 EastWest Highway, Bethesda. To Oct. 30. $36–$56.

(240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. a biD to save the worlD Living in a world without dying, two young people investigate the strange phenomenon known as death and a wealthy person seeks to buy peace. Director Lee Liebeskind helms this production of Erin Bregman’s dark drama. Rorschach Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Oct. 2. $30. (202) 399-7993. rorschachtheatre.com. blaCkberry Daze In the aftermath of World War I, an alluring young man transfixes a small Virginia town and changes the lives of three women living there. Local favorites TC Carson and Roz White star in this musical adapted from the novel by Ruth P. Watson. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Oct. 9. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

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What’s goiNg oN: VoicEs oF shaW

As Shaw continues to evolve from the home of Howard University and historically black churches to a center for expensive stores and condos, everyone from retailers to The New York Times wants to know what’s happening in the neighborhood. The artists of Brookland-based gallery and studio Pleasant Plains Workshop explore all the micro-communities, heritage, and cultures that mix in the neighborhood on a daily basis through this week-long arts festival. In addition to walking tours and musical performances, other activities explore the changing demographics of the neighborhood. For example, during “Common Grounds,” Tsedaye Makonnen will perform a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony at Compass Coffee, one of the neighborhood’s fancy new coffee shops. On Monday at Bread for the City, artists Natalie Campbell and Saisha Grayson will lead a workshop called “I want a president…” that asks participants to consider the kind of leader they’d like to see in the White House. The resulting work will be read in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. later in October. The workshop begins at 6 p.m. at Bread for the City, 1525 7th St. NW. Free; reservations required. whatsgoingonshaw.com.

—Caroline Jones

CITY LIGHTS: tuEsday

yuNa

When Yuna started uploading songs to her MySpace in the late 2000s, the Malaysian singersongwriter fit nicely alongside Western contemporaries like Regina Spektor, Norah Jones, and Corinne Bailey Rae. After finding acclaim in Malaysia, she soon broke through internationally and caught the ear of Pharrell Williams, who produced a handful of songs on her eponymous American debut album, adding some dance-ready grooves and his hit-making sheen to her singalong songwriting. Her palette grew on 2013’s Nocturnal, a solid collection of radio-friendly pop that benefited from Yuna’s airy soprano and irrepressible positivity. After exploring the limits of sunshine-filled pop, Yuna took a turn towards R&B and hip-hop on this year’s Chapters, dueting with Usher and Jhené Aiko, sampling Drake, and teaming with the legendary DJ Premier. On the latter, the ex-Gang Starr producer samples an Eric B. & Rakim lyric that nods to the wanderlust that has driven Yuna’s musical career: “I got places to go.” Yuna performs with Ńÿłø at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Chris Kelly brownsville song (b-siDe for tray) When a young man’s life is tragically cut short, his family and friends in his Brooklyn neighborhood work together to celebrate him and move forward. Theater Alliance opens its 14th season with this new drama from playwright Kimber Lee. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Oct. 9. $30–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

Cervantes: el último QuiJote (the last Quixote) Cervantes has died in the street and a intoxicated man insists that the person who killed him is the renowned poet Lope de Vega. This same man recounts the secrets Cervantes shared with him, revealing the most tempestuous periods in the great writer’s life and the ferocious creativity of his final years. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles.

GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To Oct. 2. $22–$45. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

Charming the Destroyer (Questionable ChoiCes in the searCh for the sublime) Storyteller Ritija Gupta chronicles her adventures as she seeks a further understanding of faith and grace in this engaging evening that jumps from the Western Wall to the Vatican to Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. Gupta also describes her personal fasts and trips to India as she explores her heritage. Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. 916 G St. NW. To Oct. 2. $10–$21.

(202) 315-1305. culturaldc.org.

ClouD 9 Colonial Africa and 1970s London intersect in this engaging drama from acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill. As characters try to understand the ways they define themselves, the forces of gender and politics cause them to reconsider their places in the world. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 16. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

ColleCtive rage: a Play in 5 booPs Five women named Betty interact in this absurd romantic comedy from playwright Jen Silverman. From fixing trucks to playing the role of a dutiful wife, the characters represent a broad spectrum of jobs and identities. Woolly

Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Oct. 9. $20–$69.

(202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

Come from away This new musical tells the heartwarming true story of how a small Canadian town cared for 6,579 airline passengers stranded there following the September 11th attacks. When 38 planes were diverted to its doorstep, the town of Gander doubled in size, playing host to an international community of strangers and offering food, shelter and friendship. Featuring a rousing score of folk and rock music, the production honors the better angels of our nature, revealing hope and humanity in a time of darkness. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Oct. 9. $20–$73. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

Dante’s inferno Synetic Theater expands its “NotSo-Silent” series with this adaptation of Dante’s epic story about a hero’s journey through the afterlife.

Featuring vivid set designs and physical interactions, this production build on Synetic’s previous interpretation of the work. Synetic Theater at Crystal City.

1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Oct. 30. $20–$60.

(866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. the Diary of anne frank Adapted from the widely read journal of the young Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam during World War II, this gripping drama follows the Frank family and their friends as they watch the world collapse and their safety becomes even more endangered. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 23. $35–$70.

(301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. flowers stink The Kennedy Center and the U.S. Botanic Garden collaborate for a second time on this play geared toward young audiences, in which two plants come to life and help a young, struggling poet when she needs some inspiration. United States Botanic Garden. 100 Maryland Ave. SW. To Oct. 29.

Free. (202) 225-8333. usbg.gov. the gulf Two women intending to spend a day relaxing on the water find themselves in a sticky situation after their boat’s motor breaks and they get

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trapped in the Gulf of Mexico. Signature Theatre presents the world premiere of this comedy from playwright Audrey Cefaly about what happens when nature derails your plans. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Nov. 6. $40–$89. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

I Call My Brothers Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri turned a New York Times column about the 2010 Stockholm bombing into this searing play about a man who, in the aftermath of the attacks, wanders the city hoping not to attract attention based on the color of his skin. Forum Producing Artistic Director Michael Dove directs this piece in its D.C. premiere. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To Oct. 1. $33–$38. (301) 588-8279. forum-theatre.org.

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the last sChwartz The Schwartz family has been on their last legs since Papa died a year ago. Norma’s husband isn’t speaking to her, Herb and Bonnie are having baby troubles, and Simon wants to be an astronaut. Throw a sexy wanna-be Hollywood starlet into the mix, and you’ve got the recipe for a yahrzeit gone perfectly wrong. Theater J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr makes his D.C. directorial debut in this absurd and thoughtful comedy with a whole lot of heart. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Oct. 2. $27–$57. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. the lIttle Foxes Arena Stage kicks off its Lillian Hellman festival with this drama about an ambitious social climber and her even more calculating brothers who run through a series of plans in order to gain wealth as quickly as possible. CSI actress Marg Helgenberger stars as Regina Giddens, the woman who strives to out earn her family. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Oct. 30. $55–$90. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. loBBy hero A security guard and his tightly wound supervisor become participants in a criminal investigation in this drama that examines how race, identity, and gender influences our moral choices. Alex Levy, 1st Stage Artistic and Managing Director, leads this production of Kenneth Lonergan’s play. 1st Stage.

1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Oct. 8. $15–$30.

(703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org.

MotherstruCk Performed by Jamaican storyteller Staceyann Chin, this one-woman show follows the author as she documents her journey towards

motherhood. Beginning with her teenage exploits and fear of an unplanned pregnancy and transitioning to adulthood and her struggle to conceive a baby as a lesbian artist in New York, Chin’s presentation explains the lengths we’ll go to for our children. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 23. $20–$55.

(202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. the other PlaCe As a middle-aged woman feels her life is falling apart in the midst of failing health and an impending divorce, she realizes that everything is not as it seems and she begins to piece together the puzzle of her life. Joseph W. Ritsch directs this regional premiere of Shar White’s drama. Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To Sept. 25. $15–$40. (443) 518-1500. repstage.org.

PIesnI leara/songs oF lear Taking top honors at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this poetic and visceral song cycle distills Shakespeare’s darkly tragic King Lear to its musical essence. Movement, words, and choral songs performed in Latin, Polish and English render in 12 compelling episodes the iconic story of a man who loses everything that defines him. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. To Sept. 24. $10–$25. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu. rePort to an aCadeMy Scena Theater presents Franz Kafka’s dark drama about a captured ape who ensures his survival by imitating his human companions and ultimately presents his work to a collection of scientists. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Sept. 25. $20–$35. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. roMeo & JulIet Shakespeare Theatre Company opens its 2016-2017 season with the classic tale of star-crossed lovers whose relationship sends the lives of their feuding families into chaos. Andrew Veenstra and Ayana Workman star as the title characters in this production directed by Alan Paul. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Nov. 6. $44–$114.

(202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. satChMo at the waldorF Louis Armstrong recounts his monumental career as a professional musician and his experiences working during the civil rights movement in this acclaimed off-Broadway show that’s presented at Atlas by Mosaic Theater Company of DC. Atlas Performing Arts Center.

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MOTHERSTRUCK!

Growing up in Jamaica, poet and performer Staceyann Chin was both terrified and relieved when she realized she was attracted to women. On the one hand, she would face discrimination long after she left her home and moved to Brooklyn; on the other, there was a markedly reduced chance she’d end up with an unwanted pregnancy, like her mother.

Motherstruck!, her one-woman play that played to great acclaim in New York late last year and now comes to Studio Theatre, follows Chin from that moment to the birth of her daughter, nearly 20 years later, which came after a long struggle to start a family. In between, Chin recounts the twists and turns of her life, including her brief marriage to a gay man (who died before they could have a child together), her battles with health insurance providers, various medical complications, and her quest to find love. Passion, humor, and creativity—the qualities that have carried Chin through her ordeals— shine through in this intimate work of art.

The play runs Sept. 28 to Oct. 23 at Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

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