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DISTRICT LINE 4 Pop Pop Pop-Ups: D.C.’s marijuana gray market has become a dangerous place, and participants want protection.
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DISTRICTLINE Pop Pop Pop-Ups Followed home by armed robbers, shot at on residential streets, people in the marijuana gray market want change.
EvEn aftEr hE was violently thrown to the ground, a pistol thrust in his face, Hani’s opinion of weed pop-ups hasn’t changed: “It’s a blessing. I thank God.” The marijuana gray market gave him an opportunity he never expected to have. Growing up in Southeast D.C., Hani has long dealt with severe medical issues, and he first became homeless when he was just a boy, only 12 years old. “I came from nothing—no money, no nothing, sleeping on the streets,” he says. “My teacher used to tell me that I’m not going to make it. That I’d be six feet under.” He’s cycled in and out of homelessness ever since. Hani’s gotten by on a combination of hard work and open-handed kindness that’s earned him friends willing to help out. And until recently, he did most of that hard work on a slew of odd jobs, like selling Christmas trees during the holidays at Eastern Market. Then, about three years ago, Hani started working for weed pop-ups. Within a year, he was running his own business in the “gray market,” in which vendors sell people legal goods and then “gift” them marijuana to go with the goods. Hani sells his art and jewelry, T-shirts and stickers, and gifts cannabis and CBD (which Hani is particularly passionate about). As an entrepreneur, he says that in a night of work, he makes two, three, even five hundred dollars. “Who makes $300 a day in my situation?” he asks. “It can change lives … It got me where I’m comfortable enough that I can buy some shoes, or I can buy the next homeless guy some dinner.” He regularly hosts what he calls “peace concerts” (benefits that fund school supplies for low-income children), and he dreams of opening his own brick-and-mortar one day. “I would love to open a computer café,” he says. “Where you can come and get your tea, your coffee, your hot cocoa. Little danishes. And CBD.” Hani says the gray market put him in a position where he can provide for himself, and for strangers in need. But recently, it’s been a more painful sort of love: The industry, he
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Uzi thinks, has quickly become far more dangerous than it used to be. He was robbed for the first time about a year ago, after a pop-up party at a house in upper Northwest. (Hani, better known by his vendor name Black Egyptian, requested his last name be left out of this article.) “That was a good night,” he recalls. “The first time I ever made real money.” With business booming, he stayed late, and by the time he’d cleaned up, most of the other vendors were gone. He loaded his stuff into a trailer strapped to the back of his scooter, and departed the alley to head home. Then a car pulled up. Out jumped three men, guns drawn. One robber hit Hani hard with the butt of his pistol, knocking him to the ground, and pointed the gun toward his head. He wanted to know how many people were in the house. “I kept saying, ‘I’m the last person. I’m the last person,’” Hani says. “He said, ‘I’m going to shoot your ass.’” Finally, the pop-up’s security guard heard the noise and came running over. The robbers took Hani’s stuff, hopped back in their
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car, and sped off. So he just picked himself off the ground and left. “I didn’t call the police,” he explains. “What am I going to tell the police? That I got robbed at a pop-up?” In 2015, InItIatIvE 71 legalized the possession of marijuana in D.C., and also legalized giving up to an ounce of it away as a gift. Since then, “it’s like the gold rush,” says Rico Valderrama, who works in pop-ups. “Or it’s like the green rush now, with everyone trying to make gold from green.” Hundreds tried to get in on the honeypot, from big corporations fighting for legal dispensary slots, to small vendors “gifting” weed to pop-up customers. So far, non-medical marijuana sales have still been limited to the gray and black markets in D.C.; however, the city has two pending bills that would legalize recreational marijuana sales too, following in the footsteps of the 11 other states that have legalized kush outright. The “grayness” of the gray market in D.C. poses a unique problem for people who work in it: Unlike the dispensaries or even the street dealers, pop-ups’ relationship with law en-
forcement is downright mercurial. Sometimes, vendors collaborate with police officers. Other times, they’re treated like outlaws and are unable to access any of the security benefits a legal business would have; instead they’re pushed to fend for themselves in dangerous environments. City Paper interviewed six people in the pop-up industry who’ve recently been victims of armed robberies, and reviewed the corresponding police reports (unless, like Hani, they didn’t file one, afraid to implicate themselves in the drug market). All six of them described the same sudden shift. Around 2017, the police—previously friendly—suddenly cracked down on pop-ups. And with vendors pushed away from legitimate businesses, they say, the robberies soon followed en masse. “When the crimes started,” Valderamma claims, “it was a weekly thing.” One night last summer, Valderrama was driving back from a pop-up on a hot evening, with one more stop before getting home to his newborn child. He had the music blaring and his windows down. When he parked his car, he heard a noise behind him. He lowered his music and turned around to find a pistol pressed against his head. Valderrama’s a former marine, and he says instinct took over. He grabbed the gun, and slammed it down into the metal of his car, and sped off. Miraculously, he escaped unscathed. Another man, who was also followed home from a weed party, had an even closer call. On March 20, he pulled his car into a friend’s house in Congress Heights after a night at a pop-up, and quickly closed the garage door. Then he heard a sound that terrified him: Someone hit the garage door before it closed all the way, and it began to slowly rise back up. Three guys ran in with pistols and told him to get on the ground. After they took all his money and left him on the floor, he got up, and poked his head outside to make sure they were gone. Bang. The robbers shot at him and missed. He heard wood crack over his head and dropped back to the ground, the bullet whizzing down a calm residential street. “The first couple years [after Initiative 71], we didn’t have any problems,” says one industry figure, who goes by Uzi. (Uzi was one of several people City Paper spoke to who did not want their legal name published, fearing repercussions from criminals or police.) “We could go to restaurants, to bars, with the police outside. There were no public safety problems.” Nightclubs regularly hire off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officers to do security; Uzi says weed pop-ups at the clubs were no exception, with officers paid to help out. The gray market blended into the city’s
nightlife scene, operating in popular commercial districts and late-night strips. “Adams Morgan was one of our best spots,” Hani says. “I could bike there with a wagon full of stuff and not worry about it… I was going into the ’hoods and telling [corner dealers], ‘Stop doing what y’all doing, and get a table.’ And then it changed.” Around 2017, the crackdown began. After completing an extensive review of arrest records, NBC Washington found that between August 2017 and February 2019, the police raided dozens of pop-ups, resulting in at least 255 arrests. Asked about the impetus for the raids, an MPD spokesperson says, “Possession of more than two ounces of marijuana is a crime in the District of Columbia, as well as distribution or possession with the intent to distribute. Officers will take action when matters like this are brought to our attention.” MPD declined to comment on officers doing security for pop-ups, whether police plan to continue raids, and whether they have plans to address the robberies. Valderrama says that, faced with a sudden increase in police pressure, clubs and restaurants distanced themselves from the pop-up scene. So vendors moved from dense, commercial districts to less populated areas, operating out of warehouses and people’s homes. There, they were more vulnerable, and they didn’t have police to back them up. Armed robbers jumped at the opportunity. Mark Manley, a veteran security guard who’s worked extensively with pop-ups, says the dual threat of arrests and rogue gunmen pushed many licensed (and experienced, but unlicensed) guards away from the gray market. They were replaced by large, ordinary men with guns. “It’s like the last pick of jobs now,” Manley says. “It’s not safe … There aren’t no licensed security guards working at these pop-ups anymore.” And after the night of Nov. 14 of last year, it’s not a job Manley would ever choose again. Manley started working in security when he was 16, and as soon he turned 18, he began working at clubs in the District. An enterprising young man, he quickly turned it into his own business. Soon he had a few guys working under him, and clubs would pay him to handle all their security for a night. By fall 2018, he was 29 years old with eight employees and another five on call. At first, he says, the popups were just “easy money.” They paid “pretty much twice what a normal club would offer,” he recalls, and “the police would actually speak to you at the door, say hello.” Most importantly, it was safe: Manley felt comfortable doing security unarmed. When the police raids and robberies started, he became more anxious. He didn’t stop working with the gray market, but he did start carrying a gun. “I was literally providing for my family at these pop-ups,” he says. “So it was kind of, ‘Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.’” Nov. 14 was his fiancée’s birthday. Manley’s crew was working a big pop-up event at Healthy Vapes on Florida Avenue NW, right by Nellie’s Sports Bar. He wanted to
get home to his partner, so his plan was just to swing by and check in. Then everything went wrong. Around 10:30 p.m., a vendor was leaving the party and Manley decided to “check the perimeter.” He walked down to the corner of Florida and 8th. “As soon as I got to the corner,” he says, “[a car] skirted out and four guys in ski masks hopped out,” waving pistols and semiautomatic rifles, guns firing. Pedestrians began to scream, running for cover in a nearby jumbo slice shop, and three of the guys started chasing vendors who were outside. The fourth, Javone Smith, pointed his rifle right at Manley. Manley says he had one thought in his mind: “Getting home. At this point, it was too late to turn back.” Manley ducked out of the way and shot Smith, killing him. The other men sped off. It was later ruled a justified homicide, as the Washington Post has reported. But that night haunts Manley. He lost the security business he spent his entire adult life building up. (He wasn’t properly licensed at the time, although he’d applied for the correct license a few days prior, he says.) More importantly, he tells City Paper, he became obsessed with the man he killed. “I played it out in my head a thousand times,” he says. “Different options.” The next day, he began his painful quest to learn everything he could about Smith. “It was like opening Pandora’s Box—the things he’d been through,” Manley explained, getting emotional. “The more I found out who he was, the more hurt and trauma kicked in.” However, when he got home after the shooting that night, that wasn’t what was in his head. He says he went into his kids’ room, got in their bed, and stayed there until the morning. “They’re my little brats, you know what I mean?” He let out a long, deep laugh. “I was so happy to see them.” Uzi, Valderamma, and some other popup affiliates are planning a rally in the coming month, focused on the public safety problem in the gray market. They want the city to grant them enough legitimacy to at least get some of the protections a legal business would. “We want to be able to get event permits and hire proper security to stay safe,” Uzi says. “That’s all we want.” Event permits would make it legal for them to hire genuine security officers. “A special police officer can’t legally work an event without reporting the location,” he explains, “and you can’t report a location if you don’t have an event permit.” Uzi thinks pop-ups won’t go away—the choices are to make them safer or let them get even more dangerous. “The floodgates have already been opened,” he says. “When it comes to drugs, the streets always win. So if we could all come together for the sake of safety, we’d all be better off.” In his opinion, the economic opportunities in the gray market mean the industry can’t be arrested out of existence. “You literally raided and locked up [255 people], and there were still pop-ups every night,” he says. “Tomorrow, they could say, ‘No more pop-ups.’ And you know what there’d be? More pop-ups.” CP
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Places, Everyone “The Washington that the world thinks it knows is the one we have no use for.” PHOTOS BY DARROW MONTGOMERY
Hains Point I once read in a book that feeling at home provides an added layer of homeostasis. The idea is that a person’s surroundings can keep them—even at the level of the body—stable and capable of working toward a good life. At least that’s how I understood the chapter. Since then I’ve thought of anyone’s neighborhood as a giant hammock, of sorts, or a large personal cocoon, or a third kind of love. We love our families and friends, and sometimes we fall in love, and sometimes that love is for a place. One measure of love is mourning. If you mourn a place after you lose it, that probably means you love it. This is one way to think about what happens when people lose their place to gentrification (and natural disasters, and leaving home). Many of the hundreds of thousands who have called D.C. home have lost their beloved places to development, or departed under the pressure of rising rents. Many among the transient set—the ones who move in and then
leave a few years later, and can often pay the high rent—call another place home. D.C. is a city in flux. People here find spots that provide them with a measure of sanity, or, if they stay long enough, spots that become part of their identity. Caroline Jones, City Paper’s managing editor, had the idea for this collection. It’s based on a 1998 City Paper story called “Private Monuments.” (Get it? Personal monuments, private moments.) For this collection, 21 years later, I invited back many of the original 1998 writers to participate alongside City Paper’s current writers. Look for Jandos Rothstein, Holly Bass, Bradford McKee, Eddie Dean, and Jonetta Rose Barras. Rothstein organized the original collection. He says that then-editor David Carr approved the concept, but he has always suspected that Carr ultimately doubted the value of it. (It’s hard to say what’s true, given that Carr died in 2015.)
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Carr did choose a spot—the northwest corner of Albemarle and 42nd streets NW. “We pull up to the stoplight at 8:37 every morning on our way to school. The twin girls in the back sneak a kiss onto my cheek—a safe half-block from the school where their friends might notice,” he wrote. Rothstein’s 1998 intro said: “To live in— to love—any town compels you to carve a landscape that means something out of the raw urban material around you. But in Washington, those personal monuments are crucial, because they are all that you have. The Washington that the world thinks it knows is the one we have no use for. The D.C. we know and love is hiding.” I dug up the theory I’ve been counting on all this time. It’s in a book called Separation: Anxiety and Anger by British psychologist John Bowlby. He wrote, “it is clear that, so long as the systems that maintain an individual within his familiar environment are being success-
ful, the loads placed on the systems that maintain psychological states are being eased.” I couldn’t say whether my interpretation of his work is right on or stupid, but I’m sure that what follows is a collection full of love. —Alexa Mills Under the East Capitol Street Bridge Before it was paved as part of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, the rocky road that separated River Terrace from Anacostia was a pathway to adventure for kids in the ’90s. Unbeknownst to our parents, my brothers and friends and I would bike from our Northeast neighborhood along the dirt road and across the train tracks to the outdoor skating rink in Anacostia. The entry point for the journey was under the East Capitol Street Bridge. This is where the older kids cautioned us of possible dangers that lurked in the woods and warned us that if we panicked mid-trip, we’d have to find our way back home, alone. Though my heart palpi-
tated each time, I refused to be left behind. By high school, the space under the bridge became a safe haven. Though traffic roared overhead and bats hid in the shadows, it was a source of light, tranquility, and hope. My best friend and I would meet under the bridge to trade secrets and vent about our teenage woes. We would plot our escape to the mysterious piece of land across the Anacostia River, which we now know is Kingman Island. I often reminisce about the time I spent under that bridge, and I rely on memories of youthful freedom and exploration to get me through adulthood. —Christina Sturdivant Sani The Spanish Steps in Kalorama Let me preface this recommendation with a disclaimer: These steps are poorly named. Their title refers to the grandiose, iconic, and popular stairs in Rome, and I’ll admit it, these steps are none of those things. On the contrary, they are small, unimportant, and probably only popular with me. But for someone who doesn’t have the time, money, or emotional energy to invest in a getaway to Italy, Kalorama’s Spanish Steps are a delightful alternative for some peace of mind. The concrete staircase sits on 22nd Street NW between S Street NW and Decatur Place NW, surrounded by trees and plants and adorned with benches and a small fountain. Despite their proximity to Dupont Circle, the steps are quiet and secluded, characteristics that aren’t easy to come by in D.C., and although they’re no architectural feat, they’re charming. I suggest visiting them to picnic, write, read, catch your breath on a run, kiss your crush, or call your grandma. She will thank you, and you will thank me. —Ella Feldman Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress Whenever I attend a show at the Coolidge Auditorium, it feels like hallowed ground. The small, intimate concert hall—fancy enough but in no ways stuffy—is nestled inside the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, impervious to the outside world. The renowned acoustics of the auditorium, built nearly a century ago to host chamber ensembles, make for a world-class venue for its eclectic (and free) concert series. On any given day you can wander in and hear Maryland bluegrassers pay tribute to mountain-music legend Ola Belle Reed or a female band from Niger perform traditional Tuareg music. Much of my abiding fondness for the place comes from what happened here in 1938, when folklorist Alan Lomax of the LOC recorded forgotten jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton, who he’d found operating a U Street NW dive. With busts of Beethoven and Brahms looking on, Morton commandeered a grand piano onstage at the Coolidge for an audience of Lomax alone, at his feet with a Presto discrecording machine. “I had a bottle of whiskey in my office. I put it on the piano,” said Lomax, recounting how he kicked off the fiveweek session with the musician he dubbed the “Creole Benvenuto Cellini.” “As I listened, I realized that this man spoke the English lan-
Top: Under the East Capitol Street Bridge; Above: The Spanish Steps guage in a more beautiful way than anybody I’d ever heard.” —Eddie Dean Hains Point When it’s not underwater, Hains Point is a terrific place to visit. Located at the tip of the 327-acre East Potomac Park, Hains Point offers a unique place of urban solitude for reflection and thought while the world of Washington roars all around it. (I didn’t say quiet solitude.) If you sit just right on the lone, broken picnic bench and stare straight ahead, you barely can discern the Wilson Bridge far to the south. National Airport recedes in your peripheral vision on your far right, as does Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling on your left (where White House presidential helicopters flap-flap-flap to and fro.) Hains Point is named for Peter Conover Hains, a U.S. Army General who designed the Tidal Basin to reduce sewage stink, and later helped lay out the Panama Canal. The Point’s expansive grass field used to be home to “The Awakening”, a sculpture of a giant trying to
free itself from the earth, until its private owners sold it off to National Harbor. Fun Fact: Hains Point is sinking. All of East Potomac Park floods now more than ever. The U.S. Park Service doesn’t have the millions of dollars it would take to rebuild and protect crumbling walkways and sinking grounds of this man-made island that was created by dredging the Potomac. And yes, it is an island, not a peninsula as people often describe it. The four-mile road leading to and from Hains Point is a haven for cyclists and pedestrians. You pass a golf course and an outdoor pool to get there. Go and sit at Hains Point before it slips into the river water. —Tom Sherwood Kennedy Center, Back of the House In 1991, I had a handsome, thrilling new boyfriend who got me a job working with him catering at the Kennedy Center. We earned great money—New York union wages, basically. Made a bunch of friends. Served huge dinners fixed by the very good Chef Max to the likes of Sarah McClendon,
Dan Quayle, Boris Yeltsin, and the whole power-helmet opera crowd of Washington. Our last gig was Bill Clinton’s first inaugural. We saw Sidney Poitier and Geena Davis. We biked home every night with armloads of flowers. We carted food all over that building, which is vast. We learned the back corridors via secret elevators to take coffee to the Golden Circle Lounge, the Bird Room, the African Room, the Chinese Room. On the way, we’d cut through the areas that hold the performers’ practice and rehearsal rooms. The corridors were hard to learn, because there are a lot of them and they are all clean, with walls of white concrete block and plain floors. Sounds seemed to come out of the walls—woodwinds, strings, voices, the tunings, the sudden suite, made not for anyone on the spot, but for later. It was a perfect little world. I returned last week just to inhale. I was surprised how little had changed. It still has pale white walls and neat signs to point the way. Orderly. No nonsense. One thing has
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changed, and that is the boyfriend, who after a marriage in 2015 became my husband. We still go back and look around. —Bradford McKee
Capital Checkers in Shaw Against a backdrop of interlocking diamond shapes, our checker-playing man lounges elegantly near the corner of 8th and S streets NW. A dashing figure in slim-cut, pinstriped pants and pointy shoes, his matching waistcoat peeks from underneath a fitted black blazer adorned with white buttons. Though the matte surface of the mural gives no indication, I like to imagine his buttons are made of carved mother of pearl. I’ve passed the low-slung brick building dozens of times, never noting any activity inside, despite the slightly askew white letters posted on the front declaring “Capital Checkers.” I naively assumed the mural was a tribute to some long-ago social club that had been displaced in the summer of ’68. But one Friday evening, as I brought a friend to admire the artwork, we glimpsed an open door. An affable older gent with an easy smile welcomed us in. Tal Roberts has been the president of Capital Pool Checkers since 1982, and has played the game since the early 1940s. “Pool” refers to a particularly competitive variant of the game, popular in the South. And Roberts’ skills are so sharp, his nickname is The Razor. I’m not sure I even made four moves before Roberts swiftly dispatched me, but it was the most fun losing I’ve ever had. —Holly Bass Pho 14 in Van Ness I noticed when my favorite waitress got a slight, tasteful nose job. And when the menu changed, another waiter made sure to point out that my usual—a large number 10, add broccoli—would now be a number 6. I moved to D.C. in February of 2017 when the town was cold, gray, and grumpy. I was
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Half Mile Gravel Loop Near the U.S. Capitol On a cool September evening, I sidestepped a stream of kids chasing after their ball, weaved past parents pushing strollers, and tried my best to avoid photobombing what looked like a professional shoot. I didn’t mind the extra obstacles. It reminded me of my late 20s, when I would meet up with a friend every Wednesday night during the summer and fall months to run 400, 800, 1,200, or 1,600-meter repeats as part of my marathon training program. But instead of running on an actual track, we would show up on the corner of 7th Street SW and Jefferson Drive and sprint around the half-mile loop located between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. I’ve run hundreds of miles on those gravel paths just two blocks away from the U.S. Capitol, and I still haven’t gotten tired of seeing the orange glow of the sun setting behind the Washington Monument. Even if it means having to dodge the occasional errant kickball. —Kelyn Soong
Capital Checkers alone a lot, and the hot noodle soup a few blocks from my new apartment was a cozy, cheap solution to the twitchy ennui that permeated the early part of that year. Pho 14 is still my fallback when I’m looking to find some peace and comfort. Stomach ache? Pho. Tell a guy on a boring date I have to leave the bar to feed my cat? Pho. Need to craft the perfect text to tell a friend I can’t afford her destination wedding? A smaller bowl of pho, no extras. I learned to get comfortable eating alone in public at Pho 14. A bowl of pho has been the accessory to every book I’ve read in the past two and a half years, though I do try a little harder to save library books from the inevitable broth splatter. —Elizabeth Tuten The HIVE 2.0 in Anacostia Tucked in the basement of an arts space in Anacostia lies the only co-working office
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Google Maps recognizes east of the river. The HIVE 2.0 occupies the lower level of the more well known Anacostia Arts Center, and despite its first location (on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE) closing a few years ago, the HIVE 2.0 has continued to be a place where people can come to build up, refine, and execute their ideas. It is also the only work space that has ever felt organically affirming to me. Despite being underground, the HIVE 2.0 is a space of light, love, and grounding, and I go there whenever I’m struggling with the purpose of my work. While on a job focused on Wards 7 and 8 that somehow had me based in Adams Morgan, I moved my office to The HIVE to get closer to the activists, artists, and entrepreneurs who don’t require a calendar appointment to “network” or need an explanation of how durags work. In a city full of incubators and co-work-
ing spaces, I’ve never encountered a community management team so socially intelligent; they’ll connect you to the people and places you need to know to get things done. Whenever I’m in Anacostia I make it a point to stop by and see what startups are there and fall into conversation with someone I’ve just met about everything from the best wing spot in the city to the intricacies of city code and permits. —Hamzat Sani Kalorama Park When covering a fractious D.C. Council or tracking the lunatic in the White House, or grappling with ordinary life issues overwhelms me, I often race through the gates at 1865 Columbia Road NW. I sit on one of the many benches inside Kalorama Park or stretch out on the grassy knoll of the threeacre site. The trees envelop me, giving me cover and comfort.
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Above: Kalorama Park; Below: Malcolm X Park always at rest when I arrive, but by the time I’ve circled the grounds once, he’s up and organizing his things, maybe feeding the birds whatever snacks he has in his bag. One Sunday morning a man I’d never noticed before stopped to compliment my red mug, but asked why I wasn’t using the pretty blackand-white patterned mug I’d carried the morning before. The advantage of all this is the opportunity to walk slow, or stop walking altogether and get stuck on a thought for five minutes, even 15 minutes. D.C. isn’t awake enough, at this hour and in this place, to shake my brain out of its nice fog. —Alexa Mills
I am undisturbed by the sounds of players on the basketball courts; the chatter of mommies and nannies and laughter of children wildly zipping down the slide-board serve as soothing background music. D.C. isn’t some nondescript enclave of government agencies. It’s a city of families whose diversities are enriching. I began going to Kalorama Park with my young daughter in the 1980s. Later, she and I took my granddaughter there, allowing her to travel at dizzying speed on the merry-goround. Things have changed. The merry-goround is gone, replaced by more modern equipment. The landscaping is far better than it was when I wrote about John Cloud battling the city over its care. My daughter and granddaughter don’t visit anymore. I cannot stay away. Once, the land belonged to John Little. When Hortense Prout, a woman he enslaved, ran away in June 1861, he found her and had her thrown in jail for 10 days. The next year, in April 1862, President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in D.C., including Prout. The Kalorama Citizens Association erected a marker in Prout’s honor in 2008. It does seem odd that a place where people who look like me were once enslaved, now offers my mind and soul incalculable peace and freedom. —Jonetta Rose Barras Malcolm X Park in Columbia Heights On Saturday mornings just after sunrise, Malcolm X Park is quiet. If I wake up when it’s still dark, and spend 20 drowsy minutes brewing the coffee, I can trip across 16th
Street NW, mug in hand, just in time for the park’s finest hour. The big rectangle lawns will be picnic grounds all day, but at dawn a few lucky dogs and their owners have the green to them-
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selves. A woman with handsome streaks of gray in her ponytail is usually power-walking the perimeter; she keeps a small purse slung over one shoulder for some reason. And this one man who sleeps on a bench is
Fort Reno Hill in Tenleytown There I sit, taking in all of D.C. from its highest point, the top of the town: Fort Reno Hill. On a nice evening, a light breeze might be in subtle harmony with the buzz of cicadas as the sun sets, making silhouettes of the District’s skyline. But the hill isn’t particularly beautiful. Its coarse grass stings the skin. The crushed red solo cups stuffed in the fence at its apex crudely spell the word “seniors.” The stale stench of marijuana is always present. But so is the sound of laughter and conversation, the music of high school camaraderie. Fort Reno Hill is a monument to teenage delinquency and late-night adventures, a refuge from the monotony of school, and a haven for people who don’t feel like kids anymore but are still terrified of adulthood. It feels like time stops on top of that hill—just you and the sky and a flattened Bud Light can. —Ayomi Wolff
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3211 Wilson Boulevard betrays its origins as a private home less than it did 15 years ago, when small back rooms, long since sealed off, accommodated limited seating for coffee drinkers. But it still stands out as the oldest and funkiest property on a block that has somehow mostly escaped redevelopment in the Clarendon corridor. Newer and less human-scaled buildings surround it now. 3211 is so out of place, one wonders if it was once a farmhouse. It sports a stairway leading to an upstairs bar that is too narrow to accommodate two-way traffic, and has too few bathrooms for its tightly packed customers. Its walls look like they haven’t been painted since I first started coming here in 2004, when it was a coffee shop named Common Grounds. I was here a lot back then, mostly to work on articles and eventually the bulk of my book. The story then was that it was owned by a young minister who wanted to spread fellowship along with cups of coffee (hence the name), but the only perceivable part of that abandoned effort was a shelf of religious books that were wholly ignored by the regulars who, like me, used the room as a bargain co-working space. Somewhere around 2007 the minister grew bored, and it became the Arlington outpost of D.C.’s Murky Coffee, whose owners were so fanatical about the Zen of Arabica beans that they thought an April Fool’s blog post announcing their sale to Starbucks was self-evidently hilarious. They were less fanatical about paying taxes, a lapse that
shuttered the D.C. location, and eventually the Arlington outpost, too. I had mostly stopped going by then—I didn’t foresee it, but finishing the book turned out to mean I was emotionally finished with the place where I wrote most of it. Northside Social is housed there now— it’s still a sort of coffee shop, but bolstered by wine, beer, and the closest thing to a real kitchen the place has ever had. The old building lends a hipster cred, where it once only gave an impression of decay. My book is far enough behind me that I show up here every once in a while, but I think this article is the first thing I’ve written here since I concluded that project. Still, it’s possible to sit, basically in the same seat at the same long table I might have chosen back then, take in the room and look out the window, and contemplate one of the few small corners of Clarendon that is still (mostly) as it used to be. —Jandos Rothstein The Whole Thing The view of D.C. is transfixing from National Airport. As the plane taxis and takes off, passengers with window seats are treated to a slow roll past the monuments and, on a clear night, a view of the glittering city from above. For me, the sight plays out like a game: How many places can you identify before the plane climbs too high? There are the obvious ones (Arlington National Cemetery and Kennedy’s eternal flame, the National Cathedral, the White House) and less obvious ones (Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, Georgetown University’s somewhat surprising football field) and
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together, those views meld to create the sensation of home. Despite its status as a world capital, D.C. looks like a small town from above. If you squint, you can almost make out the office buildings and
buses. It’s nice to depart from them briefly and view them from a 10,000-foot remove, and it’s also nice to know that those places, be they monumental or ordinary, will be there waiting when you return. —Caroline Jones
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By Laura Hayes Chef MarCelle afraM gives herself a unique pep talk when she considers the pressure of stepping onto the stage at Capital Food Fight this fall. The D.C. Central Kitchen fundraiser that pulls in $770,000 annually to fight hunger and poverty pits four chefs against one another in front of celebrity judges like Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio and Nationals foodie Ryan Zimmerman. But Afram’s not worried about winning—the rising star just wants upand-comers in the audience, particularly those who can see themselves in her, to recognize that they have a shot at making it, too. “You’re Middle Eastern, you’re a woman,
and you’re gay,” she tells herself. “You’re also in a position of power and have the capacity to put yourself out there and see something represented that you’ve never ever seen represented.” The executive chef of Bluejacket is a first generation American who grew up in Silver Spring. Her family is Syrian. “It’s not that there aren’t people from the LGBTQ community cooking or that there aren’t Middle Eastern people or women cooking, but the spotlight just isn’t focused on them,” she says. “I want a sense of purpose that’s bigger than just making great food.” Afram is part of the changing face of food events in the District. The days of tasting fests and fundraisers with exclusively straight white
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male casts seem to be waning. Event organizers are balancing the need to select chefs with name recognition with their desire to send a message about inclusivity. Attendees, who are more educated than ever about the goings on in the D.C. restaurant scene, tend to notice when the slate of participants is one note—especially because the District is brimming with talent and leadership from different backgrounds. Diversification also has the potential benefit of attracting new attendees and fresh donors. But the change has, at times, been slow. Take Lamb Jam, for example. The annual event backs DCCK locally and is part of a national effort to drive restaurants toward supporting fam-
ily-operated farms. Of the 17 chefs who competed in 2016, none were women. Most were white. No woman competed in 2017, either. Organizers tapped two women in 2018, including Afram, who was invited back in 2019 as one of three women. After being the only woman at several events, Afram took charge and made a statement while chairing last year’s Arcadia Farm Dinner, an annual event benefiting the Arcadia Veteran Farmer Program. She only asked women to cook. Diners responded. “I think it sold out the quickest it ever has and I think we beat that this year,” she says. “There’s nothing ultimately wrong with the way it was done before, but we can do better. We can make social impact statements. Talking to guests afterward, they were really excited about what next year had to offer.” This year’s Arcadia Farm Dinner on Sept. 29 has a new theme. Afram asked chefs to make a dish that made them fall in love with cooking. Participants include a handful of first-generation Americans and immigrants including ABC Pony’s Paolo Dungca, RASA’s Rahul Vinod, Emilie’s’ Kevin Tien, and American Son’s Tim Ma. Afram is fascinated by first-generation chefs’ internal battle between assimilation and finding ways to serve the food they grew up eating. “This dinner shows ultimately who is really cooking now,” she says. “What the scene is. It’s so different from 10 years ago when we were all cooking for the chefs who dominated.” Several grassroots groups of hospitality professionals are forming, in part to ensure better representation and visibility. “We have to support each other,” she says. “The only way to teach is to make great examples of ourselves and show people we’re not competing against each other. We’re not enemies. We’re not shittalking anyone. This is hard enough.” Doi Moi Executive Chef Johanna Hellrigl helped found one such group—“New Guard: Womxn Leaders in Hospitality.” It unites hospitality industry leaders spanning from chefs and head bartenders to general managers and owners in sharing resources and best practices. “We seek to usher out old practices and invite in new ones,” she says. Hellrigl, who will battle alongside Afram at Capital Food Fight, says she’s seeing a transformation in who is cooking at D.C.’s major charitable events. “It’s not just white male chefs in white coats,” she says. “That’s been really enjoyable, but I think we still have a little more to go.” She wants to believe organizers have the best intentions when extending invites. “I’m hoping it’s really coming from a place where color and gender are not the basis of why you pick people,” Hellrigl says. She’d rather it be about tal-
ent. “I did an event for The Source for Chinese New Year. I hope they picked me because I cook Southeast Asian food and they were repping chefs that cook Asian cuisine. I’m hoping it wasn’t to fill a quota.” Chef and restaurateur Erik Bruner-Yang selected both Hellrigl and Afram to join him at the REACH Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center. The 16-day September celebration marking the opening of a new wing rotated various chefs through a station at the River Pavillion. Bruner-Yang also tapped Kith and Kin’s Kwame Onwuachi, Sweet Home Café’s Jerome Grant, and the founders of Nicecream. Bruner-Yang’s star has risen high enough for him to be the one with a seat at the table determining which chefs he shares the limelight with, but for a long time he was pigeon-holed as a participant. “I was the guy who represented Asian food,” he says. “It was like, ‘OK here’s Erik cooking Asian food.’ Which was fine. At collaboration events, I’m always put with another Asian chef.” He won Cochon555 back in 2014 when he was the only Asian chef competing. Cochon555 is a cooking contest where participants serve a dish utilizing heritage breed pork. Like Lamb Jam, the event has not featured diverse competitors over the years. Bruner-Yang competed against one woman in 2014. There were no female entrants in 2015; two in 2016; and zero in 2017, the last year that the event was held in D.C. In 2016, Bruner-Yang spoke out against Cochon555 and its founder Brady Lowe, who posed in a photo with a chef dressed in a racist costume at an Asian speakeasy-themed event in Atlanta. Two other Asian chefs who had won Cochon555 locally, Danny Lee and Jonah Kim, all pressured Lowe for an apology, which he later released. Bruner-Yang doesn’t blame Cochon555 for assembling mostly male, mostly white chefs year after year because he believes that’s who was on their radar. “When Cochon was happening and you compared it to what food reporting was happening at the time, of course it was all bros,” he says. Food writers were focused on chefs like Mike Isabella, according to Bruner-Yang. From an attendee perspective, he questions whether someone would pay $150 to taste food from a chef whose name they didn’t recognize. Fortunately that’s changed. “I think the food media has done a good job over the last couple years to be more diverse in their reporting, which allows customers to have exposure to different groups of chefs than they normally had,” Bruner-Yang continues. “Then when people are planning an event, there’s a larger pool to pick from.” David Hagedorn, a chef and restaurateur turned current food critic, conceived of Chefs For Equality and has served as the chair of the jubilant annual fundraising gala for the Human Rights Campaign for eight years. The 2019 event set for Oct. 22 inside the Washington National Cathedral showcases 150 chefs, pastry chefs, and mixologists. “Our responsibility is to raise as much money for HRC Foundation,” he says. “When we
have meetings it’s not, ‘Let’s find the most diverse groups of chefs we can find.’ But, it’s built into our fabric.” Hagedorn believes the roster at Chefs for Equality is diverse because it mirrors the evolving makeup of D.C.’s restaurants. “I think the change is the kind of change that’s taking place naturally in the food scene,” he explains. This will especially be true at the VIP pre-reception showcasing new restaurants. This year’s mix includes Trinidadian restaurant Cane, Burmese restaurant Thamee, Indian restaurant Punjab Grill, Hong Kong-inspired restaurant Queen’s English, and Laos in Town. Two years ago Hagedorn devised a way to make Chefs for Equality even more inclusive. Each chef is allowed to bring one helper. “We ask that they bring someone who is a member of one or more communities like immigrants, women, or LGBTQ so we can promote them alongside the chefs,” he says. “They’re going to be chefs or management. They’re in the background. Let’s make an effort to recognize them now.” DCCK takes a similar approach with Capital Food Fight by enlisting its culinary job training students as extra sets of hands to help the nearly 100 chefs with tasting tables. “We want our students to know and believe they can succeed in this industry,” says the nonprofit’s events specialist Mariah Hayes. “Some come from really challenging places of abuse and incarceration. Our donors and attendees recognize that, or we hope they do.” Hayes says she and her team consider a bevy of factors when determining which four chefs will be invited to battle on stage. They often look to who volunteered at DCCK throughout the year. Diversity is also important to organizers. “The food industry has been predominantly white and male, so we’re really proud to try to break that norm to tell the stories of those who are local and support D.C. Central Kitchen.” This year’s event on Nov. 6 at The Anthem is the second time more than one woman will battle. Afram and Hellrigl will be joined by Kyoo Eom from Dirty Habit and Adam Greenberg from Coconut Club. “It’s been a challenge some years to identify a female chef,” Hayes says. “Now we’re hearing more about women running culinary programs.” Hagedorn, Hayes, and Afram agree that highlighting a diverse group of chefs can draw in more dollars. “Even from a business point of view, being as inclusive as possible expands the client base for people who would want to attend,” Hagedorn notes. “As we diversify our kitchens and our restaurants, the word gets out and people are attracted to that,” Afram says. She puts herself in the shoes of attendees. “If I know there’s someone relatable to me, I’m intrigued. I want to be closer to that. I want to support that cause.” She believes people visited her at The REACH not only because of the lamb riblets she was cooking, but also because she’s a woman from the LGBTQ community. “People are interested in our stories. They want to broaden their minds.” CP
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SPORTS WRESTLING
Ringing in the New
D.C. native Nyla Rose, the first out transgender woman signed by a major U.S. wrestling promotion, will headline All Elite Wrestling’s D.C. show next month. Nyla Rose owes a lot to video games. She’s a professional wrestler, not a professional gamer, but the alternate realities of Intelligent Qube, Tetris, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time have provided Rose with an instructive metaphor. “If video games have taught me anything,” Rose says, “it’s that if you are constantly encountering enemies, then you are heading in the right direction.” Rose’s enemies are never far. They live in her pocket, polluting her cell phone and cluttering her Twitter mentions with a steady stream of verbal abuse. But Rose lets trolls troll. She gets to work, and in February, she became the first out transgender woman signed by a major United States wrestling promotion when she joined All Elite Wrestling (AEW), the nascent league filled with wrestlers from the independent scene and billed as an alternative to the oldguard, global juggernaut WWE. The Northwest D.C. native is a featured act for AEW, and she’ll challenge Riho in the company’s first women’s championship match Oct. 2 at Capital One Arena on the first edition of AEW’s weekly live TNT show, Dynamite. The opportunity is more than a homecoming for Rose. It’s validation of who she is. “On the playing field of being a competitor, I’m just like everyone else,” Rose says. “And that’s incredible.” She earned the storyline opportunity to compete for the title by eliminating Dr. Britt Baker in a 21-woman battle royale on Aug. 31 in Chicago during the preshow for AEW’s “All Out” event. After the match, Rose dropped to her knees, spread her arms wide, and gnawed on the wrestling ring’s middle rope with her teeth. In the world of professional wrestling, the biggest stars are often the biggest personalities. And Rose is a star. She has spent much of her adult life trapped in a paradox. Rose long wanted to be treated like everyone else and to fit into society, while also chasing success in an industry where it pays to stand out. There’s no fading into the background for Rose, who has more than 20,000 followers on Twitter and nearly 14,000 followers on Insta-
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gram. Her crowning moment could come Oct. 2 in front of friends and family. D.C. is often overshadowed in the wrestling community by fellow East Coast cities New York and Philadelphia. But D.C. has a rich wrestling history, from its current crop of independent promotions to serving as a homebase for WWE in the 1950s. Rafael Morffi, AEW’s live events director, says the company polled data from its first four shows, which were streamed on B/R Live, the service owned by Bleacher Report and Turner Sports. A color-coded heat map indicated a high percentage of viewers in D.C. “It’s a market that appeals to many, many socioeconomic backgrounds,” Morfi says. AEW choosing D.C. is validation of the city’s indie scene, says Lolo McGrath, the chief brand officer of Prime Time Pro Wrestling, a new local promotion. McGrath met Rose at a happy hour for local wrestling fans shortly after Rose signed with AEW. “The fact that more people from the DMV aren’t paying attention to her, to me, is borderline offensive,” McGrath says, chuckling. “You have this incredible person who embodies everything about what it means to be an independent wrestler, with the biggest problems
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thrown at you, and challenges. And she just stomps all over them.” McGrath, who is non-binary and says they identify with the trans community, says LGBTQ wrestlers are among the hardest workers on the national independent scene: They have to grind through the rigors of life on wrestling’s fringes, often working 9-to-5 jobs to make ends meet—in addition to potentially performing in front of fans who disapprove of their existence. “Anybody who does it is just a total superhero to me,” McGrath says. “When we think of who in our larger society gets some of the most hate and the most violence, in both physical violence and rhetoric directed towards them, it’s transgender women of color. And that’s Nyla.” Chris Lewis, who performs under the alias Mr. Grim on the independent circuit, was unfamiliar with that reality in early 2014, when he first met Rose. Searching for a mentor, he shot her a Facebook message. She agreed to let him tag along on a road trip to North Carolina, where she had been booked in an independent show. The day of the trip, Lewis arrived at Rose’s home and was taken aback when Rose asked to snap a photo of his driver’s license. He hand-
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ed it over anyway, and after Rose texted the image to some friends, she climbed into the car and turned to Lewis. She had one request: “Please don’t kill me.” “I’m like, ‘Is she joking?’” Lewis says. In the years since, as the two have developed into close friends, Lewis has learned more about the transgender community and the daily threats of violence its members face. In 2018, the Human Rights Campaign tracked at least 26 deaths of transgender people in the U.S., many of whom were transgender women of color. (Rose is black, white, and Native American.) Rose says she has been on the receiving end of insults and glass bottles flung from cars while walking down the street. She feels most comfortable in the wrestling ring. That’s resonated with audiences, including in Japan, where Rose rose to prominence competing for promotions Marvelous and Sendai Girls from 2016-18. She earned the attention of AEW, whose braintrust consists of four wrestlers—Kenny Omega, [former WWE performer] Cody Rhodes, and the Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)—who achieved unprecedented stardom for performers outside of WWE before teaming up with Tony Khan, son of the billionaire owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars Shahid Khan, to form AEW. Omega, Rhodes, and the Jacksons—none of whom are older than 35—are all signed wrestlers for the company, in addition to serving as executive vice presidents. The group has stressed the importance of inclusivity, both in the company’s roster and in its fan base. In May, a man at AEW’s “Double or Nothing” show tweeted a picture of himself next to another fan. “So this fucking nerd next to me asked me to leave #DoubleOrNothing if I was gonna be transphobic. I thought #AEW is for everyone? #AEWDoN.” The Young Bucks responded to a tweet requesting for that fan to be banned from coming events: “We just banned him. Thank you.” AEW was formed in early January as an experiment. It remains to be seen if the best of the indie scene can compete with WWE, but regardless of what happens, Rose will likely be at the forefront. She is featured prominently in the company’s promotional material. And while Rose’s social media is full of hateful comments, she has received plenty of positive messages, too. In addressing Rose, admirers often channel inspiration and hope. “To have someone from this community win the biggest possible title that she could possibly win on cable television, in her hometown. I...” McGrath says, their voice trailing off. “That’s a movie.” CP
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By Metro: Take the Green line to Navy Yard-Ballpark or Waterfront stations.
arts & makers festival
We're celebrating Crafty's Sweet 16! Welcome to an entirely reimagined Crafty Arts & Makers Festival. For the past 16 years, Washington City Paper’s Crafty Arts & Makers Festival has been an essential part of fall in D.C. Like any 16-year-old, we have experienced great successes, a few minor setbacks, and a lot of growth along the way. Our team has taken the cool, unique, and weird pieces of our classic D.C. event and re-envisioned it as an immersive, craft-centric experience for the entire family. This year, in addition to our artists and makers, you can get crafty, too! To start, the first 500 people through the gates each day will get their own Crafty tote bag. Also, be sure to visit Frankie and Sherry of Soul & Ink to choose and customize your own screen-printed Crafty T-shirt that will be printed on site throughout the weekend (you can pre-order your T-shirts online in advance). If you like watching art as it is created, keep an eye on our on-site artists creating live artwork throughout the weekend. Ashley Jaye Williams will compose a large-scale mural for Crafty while Francis Deppner and Chelsea Ritter-Soronen will kick up some dust with live chalk art. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is sponsoring a series of hands-on workshops each day to teach the arts: hand-lettering, weaving basics using recycled textiles, cross-stitching, and even cartooning from a renowned New Yorker cartoonist. Crafty will also feature panel discussions each day at 1 p.m. on craftivism and entrepreneurship. For the younger attendees, the Crafty Kids Corner, sponsored by Bright Start Early Care & Preschool, will have hands-on arts and crafts, face painting, and more. Along the way, try samples of Honest Tea and Hippeas, fill up your water bottles from the FloWater stations around Akridge Lot, and feast at the food trucks offering everything from barbecue to lobster rolls, Indonesian sate to funnel cakes, and ice cream sandwiches. Wash it all down with a refreshing pint of Ommegang beer, a glass of vino from Fleurs de Prairie, Cave de Lugny, and Peter Lehmann Barossa at the Crafty Cantina (must be 21+ and show valid ID). You can raise a glass while enjoying one of the live musical acts on the Crafty Performance Stage or sip as you shop. At the 16th annual Crafty, we are thrilled to host more than 150 creative and talented artists and craftspeople who have traveled from all over North America to participate in our two-day extravaganza. These makers have been hard at work to produce everything from clothing to mystical faux taxidermy, intricate jewelry to ceramics, leather goods to gourmet chocolates. It’s the perfect place to start (and finish) your holiday shopping and to pick up a few new treasures for yourself along the way. We hope you will share your Crafty experience with us as part of the Crafty Scavenger Hunt on social media (#CraftyHunt), and let us know how we can continue to evolve in the years to come. We are so excited to share this year’s Crafty with all of our artists, makers, musicians, partners, and most importantly, you. See you this weekend!
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Beyond the Studio Workshops
• Illustration with Marcella Kriebel | Sunday, October 27, 1–3 p.m. • Washington Improv Theater | Sunday, November 10, 1–3 p.m. Hear from local performing and visual artists with a hands-on workshop.
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company. The artisans are committed to some simple ideas: minimize waste, make goods that last, and make them in a responsible way. Find totes, key rings, wallets, belts, card holders, and more at their booth.
Halsey Berryman is an illustrator and designer born and
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WORKSHOPS Saturday 9.28
Sunday 9.29
10:30 a.m.
Monoprints
Tunnel Books
With Cherie Lester
With Jodi Hoover
12:00 p.m.
Cartooning
Cross-Stitch for Beginners
With Liz Montague
With Stitch Sew Shop
1:30 p.m.
Hand Lettering & Card Making With Good Letters
3:00 p.m.
Weaving Basics with Recycled Textiles With INDIGART Designs
Illustration & Collage With Jamilla Okubo
PERFORMANCES Saturday 9.28
Sunday 9.29
10:00 a.m.
Teddy Chipuras
10:00 a.m.
The Louis Pettinelli Band
11:00 a.m.
Evan Taff
11:30 a.m.
Josh Airhart
12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Crafty Kids The Harambee Experience with Baba Ras D
1:00 p.m.
Off The Rails City Paper Community Conversations Craftivism: Arts, Crafts & Activism
2:00 p.m.
Nick Stacy
3:00 p.m.
The String Queens
3:45 p.m.
Dante Pope
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2:00 p.m.
Déyana Martini Feat. The WordLife Band
3:00 p.m.
Samuel Prather’s G.O! Trio
4:00 p.m.
Diplomatic Immunity
5 Cow Farm Boards creates one-of-a-kind rustic wooden
boards for cutting, serving, and charcuterie, as well as other small kitchen utensils such as spoons, bowls, and knives. Most of the wood is sourced from the owners' farm in Baltimore County.
Familytree
Familytree creates illustrated pop art posters, art prints,
postcards, stickers, and pins with a retro feel. The motto of the creative studio in Nashville, Tennessee is “Art Makes Happy.”
La Loupe is influenced both by Mid-Century design and
traditional Japanese techniques, creating functional and threedimensional works of art. Focused on interior lighting design and home decor accessories. Jorgelina Lopez, a textile designer, and Marco Duenas, a functional artist and woodworker, combine and share their different craftsmanship and their love for art and design.
Colette Bream is a small design studio focused on nostalgic,
imaginative, playful designs. This collection of colorful cozy knits and woolly friends is aimed to spark the imagination of the little ones and bring a smile to the faces of those young at heart. All Colette’s pieces are handmade and 100% lambswool or Italian mohair.
Elizabeth Benotti Ceramics builds thoughtfully designed and
pinched, slip cast, or wheel-thrown pieces in her Maine studio. Little touches like finger impressions, brush strokes, and etchings lend special uniqueness to each work of art. Elizabeth Benotti Ceramics
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Zoa Chimerum Jewelry
Old Blood Jewelry & Wears
Imperium Shaving
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Langdon Wood Maple Syrup
Sloe Gin Fizz
Old Blood Jewelry & Wears boasts a unique collection of handcrafted mixed media pieces by mixing traditional metalsmithing techniques with modern treatments and aesthetics. This maker's jewelry and home decor are bold, clever, and playful, and all metal components are handmade from raw materials.
Imperium Shaving razors and shaving sets are made from hand selected wood or stone and come with a lifetime guarantee. Each one is unique and built to last with a water resistant coating that gives the wood a glass like shine. Every piece is handcrafted by the husband-and-wife owners in their Baltimore studio.
Cactus Club features affordable prints, greeting cards, and stickers based on the paintings of Melinda Tracy Boyce. Take home a full sized print for $20-$25, greeting cards for $4.50, or waterproof vinyl stickers for $2.
Jini & Tonic creates fun, wearable art out of Jini’s original illustrations. Find enamel pins, patches, key chains, T-shirts, and more with feminist, vintage inspired messages and imagery. Jini & Tonic will be celebrating their two year anniversary the weekend of Crafty, so stop by and help them celebrate.
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Behind the Curtain
Highwood Theatre is in great turmoil after its executive director and founder was fired for sending repeated sexual messages to a minor. In about a month’s time, the Highwood Theatre has unraveled. Since early August, two of the four fulltime staffers resigned from the Silver Springbased children’s theater company. On Aug. 24, just a week out from the company’s performance in the Page-to-Stage Festival hosted at the Kennedy Center, a dwindling board of directors fired Highwood’s executive director and founder, Kevin Kearney. An investigation found he violated internal rules by sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a now-former student, who also worked at the theater, while the person was a minor. In that time, all but one of the board’s eight members have stepped down—leaving only Kearney’s father, Jim Kearney, remaining. Neither Jim, nor Kevin Kearney responded to requests for comment. On Aug. 30, about a week after his termination, the Highwood community received an email from the theater sent on Kevin Kearney’s behalf. He wrote that he “may well have violated our policies” and took responsibility “for any and all unprofessional conduct on my part.” He emphasized that the accusations stem from communications with a “staff member” that “occurred four years ago,” and wrote that “it is important that I tell you that I have been accused of nothing else and in fact there is nothing else.” (Bolds and italics copied from the original email.) But board meeting minutes, interviews with former staff and former board members, and the messages themselves tell a different story. Screenshots of the messages, which City Paper has reviewed, contain general references to oral sex, talk about virginity, sex on a beach, and whether size matters. The messages that City Paper reviewed begin in 2015, when the former staffer was 15, and a student at the theater. Kearney was about 25. The messages continue up until 2018 and are part of a back-andforth between the two people. The former staffer and recipient of the sexual messages, who spoke with City Paper on the
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condition of anonymity and asked to use gender neutral pronouns to protect their identity, says before their text exchanges started, Kevin Kearney started giving them compliments in person, saying they were special and unlike the other students. Then, the former staffer says, “he would start mentioning little weird sexual things here and there. Like he might say ‘Oh be right back, I’m gonna go jerk off,’ or something like that.” The former staffer says Kevin Kearney also sent them pictures of his genitalia via Snapchat, an app that can automatically delete messages. The former staffer did not save those photos.
“The first couple he’d say, ‘Oh that wasn’t meant for you. That was meant for someone else,’” they say, and at least one screenshot of their texts seems to support this claim. “And then he started sending them on the regular at night. I would ignore them and not respond because of how uncomfortable it made me.” Through an attorney representing Highwood, who refused to speak with City Paper on the record, Kevin Kearney denies sending pictures of his genitalia. The internal investigation turned up no evidence of the photos, the attorney says. Two former board members, David Glietz and Hannah McCann, call Kevin Kearney’s
Aug. 30 letter misleading and partially inaccurate. Glietz and McCann say they spoke with a second person involved with the theater who also reported receiving inappropriate messages from Kevin Kearney starting when the person was 15 years old. This person also told Glietz and McCann that they had a physical relationship with Kevin Kearney, Glietz and McCann say. This person, who City Paper agreed not to identify by name, has since denied making such claims. In an email facilitated by the attorney representing Highwood, they write in part that “there is no truth to allegations of inappropriate sexual contact by Kevin toward
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CPARTS me if these allegations have been made. I should add that this is not a retraction. Anyone who suggests anything other than my statement here is simply incorrect in their memory or interpretation.” Further complicating the situation is Kevin Kearney’s father’s position on the board. Although Jim Kearney, who is a partner at the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, recused himself from much of the board’s discussions of these allegations, at least three board members say they felt intimidated by his comments during the portions of the meetings in which he participated. Board members specifically recall Jim Kearney warning that they could be liable in a lawsuit for firing an employee without due process and asking to “get granular” about details of the allegations. Both Glietz and McCann also recall him saying, “If this gets out, be ready for the Highwood fire sale because no one’s going to want to be a part of it.” HigHwood THeaTre began in Kevin Kearney’s basement and produced its first show in 2004. The nonprofit organization has since expanded into a unique opportunity for young people to get hands-on experience in nearly every aspect of theater production. The organization has stuck around for 15 seasons, and in addition to its shows, provides in-school educational programming in the area, as well as private lessons. Highwood’s revenue comes from several sources, including donations, sponsorships, ticket sales, enrollment fees, and local government grants, according to financial records. Since fiscal year 2015, the theater has received more than $131,000 in public grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. As the allegations were coming to light in early August, Highwood’s board was in the midst of searching for a new location. Board meeting minutes show a cash-strapped organization struggling to keep the theater afloat, worrying about paying its employees and rent, and grappling with its communication to families who pay enrollment fees, including whether to say anything about the allegations at all. The first person to come forward—the same former student-staffer City Paper spoke with— initially told an adult employee, Liz Daingerfield, who no longer works for the theater. Daingerfield says the former staffer told her that Kevin Kearney sent them pictures of his genitalia along with other sexual messages. Daingerfield says she reported the allegations to Child Protective Services. Daingerfield says she resigned due to the board’s handling of the allegations and was troubled by the theater’s lack of communication with its employees. “I felt it wasn’t a fully ethical place to be anymore,” she says.
Glietz first learned of the accusation Aug. 8, and reported it to the board during a teleconference meeting on Aug. 11, according to the minutes. Jim Kearney quickly recused himself, the minutes show. The board ultimately decided to place Kevin Kearney on administrative leave and emailed him just before 11 p.m. to let him know. About 40 minutes later, Jim Kearney responded with an email suggesting that his son be allowed to continue working on the theater’s relocation. Kevin Kearney was involved in negotiations to find a new space, and without his son’s involvement, Jim Kearney wrote, the theater will be without a performance space and without a way to generate revenue. “Frankly, I am less than enamored of the Board taking this action without first speaking with Kevin, and even less enamored that the Board considered the issue of who to place in the Acting Director role,” Jim Kearney wrote. “That was not made clear as an action item for this meeting, and I would have wished to have weighed in on that issue.” The attorney representing Highwood emphasizes that Jim Kearney acted appropriately and recused himself. Jim Kearney has written similar things in a recent email to Highwood families. On Aug. 12, Glietz says he received a call from Matt Nicola, the theater’s former artistic director, who told him that a second person (the same person who now denies making any accusations) had received inappropriate messages from Kevin Kearney beginning when that person was as young as 15. Nicola has declined City Paper’s requests for comment. That evening, Glietz and McCann met faceto-face with this person at the Highwood offices. They describe the person as “anxious” and say the person expressed concern about other people finding out. “I said, ‘Are you talking about just text messages, or are you talking about physical interactions?’” McCann says. “And [they] said ‘physical.’” Glietz and McCann reported these allegations to the full board the following evening, according to the minutes. Immediately, Jim Kearney jumped in. “The word physical was barely out of my mouth before Jim started aggressively questioning who this second person was,” McCann says. Glietz recalls that the combative interaction effectively shut down any discussion about a second allegation, and the board then began talking about whether its insurance policy would cover legal fees, financial struggles, and the theater’s relocation, minutes show. Minutes for the following board meeting on Aug. 15 show similar discussions, including an estimated $30,000 shortfall and not enough cash to cover payroll or rent. “Jim says this board should make a commitment to do everything to keep the organiza-
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tion running, to keep HW viable,” according to the minutes. After nearly an hour, Jim Kearney recused himself to allow the remaining board members to discuss its investigation. According to the minutes, board members outlined a plan that included interviews with “Complainant #1, #2, and Kevin.” McCann, Glietz, and a third board member, Sarah Monnerat, agreed to conduct the interviews. Toward the end of the meeting, board member Barbara Stone submitted her resignation via email. Two days later, Glietz also resigned, saying in part that he was being forced to choose between the increasing demands on his time from the board and his full-time job. In his resignation letter, Glietz also doubted the organization’s viability. The red flag, he wrote, was an email from Kevin Kearney to board members dismissing McCann’s questions about the theater’s relocation to Bethesda. “The more I think about that moment, it is evident they never saw us as their leaders,” Glietz writes. “But rather a rubber stamp body the non-profit charter required to sign off on the staff ’s decisions. I regret not calling more attention back to the issue back then suggesting we hold the staff accountable for their inappropriate conduct.” McCann resigned soon after, citing Glietz’s resignation letter. Until then, she says, she was unaware the board had discussed relocation plans without her. Glietz and McCann’s firsthand knowledge ends with their resignations. “I understood he must be upset,” McCann says of Jim Kearney. “But looking back, it compromised our responsibilities in that situation to have him involved as much as he was.” The remaining board members later decided to change course and hire a firm, Squire Patton Boggs, to conduct the investigation. Three board members then voted to fire Kevin Kearney effective Aug. 24 for violating internal rules governing staff communication with minors. Highwood Theatre, through its attorney, has refused to release the final report to City Paper, citing confidential information. The attorney also declined to release a redacted version but described its conclusions. Noting he has not read the text messages between Kevin Kearney and the former staffer, the unnamed attorney described the messages as “juvenile” and “misguided and overly familiar based on the intimacies discussed, but not dangerous.” “They continued to be friendly and to work with each other,” the attorney says. “And the young person continued to rise in responsibility, and there was no incident for all those years.” The attorney says that the investigator for Squire Patton Boggs asked interviewees about the alleged physical contact with Kevin Kearney. He says the person who original-
ly made the accusation denied it, and notes that person is identified in the report as a “witness” not a “complainant” as they are in the board meeting minutes. “No one, including the original complainant, the one complainant,” the lawyer says, correcting himself, “has said there was any sexual impropriety. No physical contact. As far as I know, and I’ll say definitively that we have no information as to any physical impropriety.” The attorney tells City Paper that the offensive text messages were limited to a onemonth period in August. But the former staffer says, and screenshots of the messages show, sexually inappropriate messages continuing as recently as 2018. “This has now been in the community since August, almost two months, and usually in a situation like this, other people step forward,” the attorney says. “There’s no #MeToo moments here.” The attorney also scolds Glietz and McCann for resigning before the investigation concluded. “The board acted correctly. They hired outside counsel, conducted an investigation, and they fired an individual,” the attorney says. “The people involved recused themselves, and these guys are out there throwing spitballs. What’s intimidating and truly offensive is that they would be causing an organization confusion by speaking to a reporter about a situation they know nothing about.” Glietz and McCann say that seeing Highwood’s misleading communication with its community fueled their motivation to speak out. “I felt that every parent deserves the chance to be aware of these accusations whether or not they’re true, so they could check in with their kid, check their kid’s cell, and make sure their kid wasn’t exposed to harm,” McCann says. “And as a parent I feel strongly about that.” Kevin Kearney’s Aug. 30 letter did not say his messages were sexual in nature nor that they were with a minor and continued from 2015 to at least 2018. Only after questions from City Paper did the theater send an emailed press statement, which is not posted on its website. The statement referred to Kevin Kearney not by name, but as a “senior employee,” and says “these text messages were exchanged approximately 4 years ago, when the student staff member, now an adult, was an adolescent.” As for Jim Kearney’s involvement, the attorney says, “I would ask to see the humanity in that,” referring to Jim Kearney’s unique position as a lawyer, a board member, and the father of the accused. “At first he was startled, but then he recused himself,” the attorney says. “His story is simple. He reacted like a lawyer and a father, and then he recused himself, and now he’s trying to move on.” CP
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A CUT ABOVE The Barbershop Project At the corner of T and 14th Streets NW to Oct. 6
In a brIght blue shipping container on the corner of T and 14th streets NW, you’ll find a fully functioning barbershop where Alice might spruce up for the Mad Hatter’s tea party. The haircuts provided at The Barbershop Project, the latest exhibition from CulturalDC, are perfectly ordinary. Nothing else is. Silk flowers sprout from delicately carved tree trunk tables, and from the mirrors and the barbers’ chairs. And on the back wall, you will find two remarkable paintings. One depicts a black man, the other a black boy. Both are getting haircuts, crying. These two portraits were created by up-and-coming Pittsburgh artist Devan Shimoyama, who also helped design the space. The paintings are a sparkling collage: hair of glitter, gemstone tears, sequins across the chests. But the faces are distinctly muted, their features faded out and expressionless. For all the fabulous color, the men seem quiet and distant. There’s scissors or an electric trimmer running through their hair, but there is no barber’s hand guiding the objects. They are alone. Shimoyama, who has displayed his barbershop portraits at galleries and solo museum shows up and down the East Coast, often talks about the estrangement he’s experienced during his unavoidable trips to the barber. A black queer man, he describes the barbershop as a locus of hypermasculinity. It’s an important community gathering spot, to be sure, but one where fathers may scold their sons for crying and where homophobia is sometimes unapologetic. That sense of alienation is certainly present in The Barbershop Project. But don’t let the crying fool you— it’s not the main emotion at play. At their core, Shimoyama’s paintings are celebrations. The faces may be muted, but the rest is stuffed with lavish color. In “Bobby,” the adult male portrait, blobs of glittering paint jump off the man’s beard, and runway-ready feathers fill a third of the canvas. “All of it’s a constructed fantasy
“Bobby” by Devan Shimoyama, 2019 made out of synthetic materials,” from the fake flowers to the fake jewels, Shimoyama says. He explains that by emphasizing the colorful and the synthetic, he’s drawing from “black church ladies” and from drag culture, where people “construct an entire fantasy of another individual.” Through that, he’s also constructing another way of seeing the people he paints, or, perhaps, constructing another way for them to
be. In a 2017 interview, Shimoyama laid out his vision for these portraits. The barbershop paintings, he said, came out of a “fantasy,” where the everyday shop becomes a place “in which black males can truly convene and decompress and cry and express themselves as they truly are.” Which raises a question: Are the men crying because they don’t feel at home, or are they crying because they do and don’t need to hold back?
Shimoyama keeps that ambiguous. His subjects’ impenetrable eyes don’t give us any clues. But what is clear, the first thing you notice standing in front of his portraits, is that they are unabashedly crying sparkling rhinestone tears which shine in the light. And however you interpret them, they’re beautiful. Shimoyama has expended a great deal of his prodigious talent finding new materials with which to build his crying men, showcasing another
way of seeing their sadness. In this way, the tears are not necessarily an indication of a problem to be solved or a sign of weakness. They’re just a part of the men he paints. “Having grown up and not really seen black men allowed to be vulnerable,” Shimoyama says, this work is about “allowing someone to emote something outside of that hardened exterior and facade of toughness.” If his subjects’ tears are hard to read, then don’t read too much into them. Of course, this is all ignoring the most unusual aspect of The Barbershop Project—it is a working barbershop, where an acclaimed painter has chosen to display his paintings in the background while people get haircuts. Why move outside the gallery-museum circuit? The most obvious explanation, and probably the best one, is that Shimoyama wanted to bring his work to a wider audience. Kristi Maiselman, the executive director of CulturalDC, estimates that over the summer, when the project was located in Southeast, it got more visitors than CulturalDC did in the 14 years it occupied a traditional brick-andmortar gallery. Tens of thousands of people came to see it, and hundreds, young and old, got free haircuts. Shimoyama works extensively on depictions of young black boys, and he says he wanted to make a space that was more accessible location-wise and sparked enough curiosity to invite people, particularly children, in. “I wanted to make it this fantastical, immersive environment where you walk into the paintings and see this world,” he says. In doing so, Shimoyama has also created a space where his language of jewelry, tears, and glitter comes off in a different light. Walking into The Barbershop Project, you take all of it in at once—the bright orange furniture, the flowers on the wall, the glitzy gems running down the men’s cheeks. It’s impossible not to smile. And removed from the sterile, white walls of a museum, the contrast between his subjects’ glamorous accoutrements and their somber faces isn’t so jarring. They fit right in. Their tears are just one crucial part of the décor. —Joshua Kaplan Corner of T and 14th Streets NW. Free. (202) 315-1321. culturaldc.org / the-barbershop-project.
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CATS SCAN Cats
By T.S. Eliot Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Directed by Trevor Nunn At the Kennedy Center Opera House to Oct. 6 When composer Andrew Lloyd Webber first played the score of the musical Cats for legendary theater director and producer Harold Prince, Prince was certain there had to be some deeper symbolism at work, and inquired if the show was perhaps an allegory for British politics. After an interminable pause, Lloyd Webber reportedly replied, “Hal ... it’s about cats.” Since its premiere in 1981, Cats has often been mocked as a fiasco with a paper thin plot, a charge that is not totally out of line, considering that each song is literally torn from a book of children’s poetry from 1939, and the premise of adult humans playacting as kittens suggests a drama school experiment gone awry. The show’s bad reputation wasn’t helped by the recent trailer release for a nightmarish movie version featuring a digitally bewhiskered Dame Judi Dench. But Cats is less about telling a story in a straightforward way, and more about the pageantry of musical theater and the raw emotions it elicits. The opening number establishes that a tribe of cats called Jellicles are throwing an annual ball to celebrate one member of their group being chosen to ascend to heaven and be reincarnated. Most of the songs that follow serve to introduce the members of this feline festival rather than elaborate on that weird ritual. The actors and the audience are thrown into the play’s strange world immediately, with the cast entering from the back of the theater wearing oversized glowing LED eyes that evoke the show’s iconic brand, and preening for the lucky folks in the aisle seats.
What Cats lacks in story beats it more than makes up for by showcasing the considerable talents of the company, who must pounce from one number to the next, switching genres and dance styles every few minutes. The numbers work particularly well when the cats really lean into superstar personas, as with McGee Maddox’s high energy hair metal track “Rum Tum Tugger,” complete with cat groupies. The vampy “Macavity,” detailing the misdeeds of the show’s mysterious villain, as Alexa Raciop-
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pi and Emma Hearn play it could easily be put on in a smoky jazz club. And Mistoffelees (PJ DiGaetano) appears every bit as magical as his titular piece suggests, leaping and pirouetting almost too fast to be seen. The dated source material has the potential to alienate audiences, particularly younger members, but the cast has nailed the tone and the humor of the text. The mischievous duo Mungojerrie (Tony d’Alelio) and Rumpleteazer (Rose Iannaccone) are hilarious crowd pleasers in their eponymous tune. “Gus: the Theatre Cat” could easily be a sleepy number, but Timothy Gulan’s Asparagus and song partner Kaitlyn Davidson make every dad joke land with energy. Audiences don’t necessarily keep clamoring for Cats for the who’s who of kittens, however. They keep coming back for the climax of the show’s signature song, “Memory,” the metric by which any production of the show lives and dies. Sung by the character of Grizabella (Keri René Fuller), who spends the production hanging around the fringes of the set and getting chased away by the others, it provides the emotional center of the show as she finally is accepted by the group. It doesn’t much matter that the reasons for her ostracization remain murky, because when Fuller sings it, the song sends a collective chill over the audience. Fuller is memorable even when she isn’t singing “Memory,” imbuing the role with a slinky physicality.
The visual aspects of the production design also hold together, each element working as intended to heighten the implicitly strange setting. The stage is transformed into a junkyard with everything scaled up to make the cats look true to size, with fantastic use of oversized props like soccer balls, serving platters, and old shoes. Clever use is made of lighting: Spotlights shine down like moonbeams, a string of lights above the crowd goes up during a raucous dance number, and Mistoffelees wears a jacket bedecked with several Lite-Brite’s worth of multicolored lights. When the cats traipse through the aisles, as they often do, the lights allow for better viewing of the fantastic costume and makeup design, largely unchanged since the original run, right down to the aerobics leg warmers. The Kennedy Center’s acoustics are not always ideal for musicals, and here the lyrics get muffled at times. Theatergoers who didn’t spend countless hours of their childhoods performing renditions of “Macavity” might find some words difficult to understand. Luckily, lyric comprehension is not crucial to the enjoyment of this production. It is tempting to ascribe meaning to Cats, but Cats does not reward close reads or deep scrutiny. Curiosity killed the cat, after all, so don’t think too hard and enjoy the show. —Stephanie Rudig 2700 F St. NW. $49–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
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SHRINKING VIOLET Ms. Purple
National Symphony Orchestra Pops Michael Butterman, conductor Celebrate the centennial of the late, great American music legend with a concert showcasing his seminal talents as a vocalist, pianist, and trailblazing icon. Conductor Michael Butterman leads the NSO, stellar vocalists, and an all-star band in such timeless songs as “Unforgettable,” “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66,” “Mona Lisa,” “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” “Smile,” “L-O-V-E.”
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Directed by Justin Chon Kasie refuses to put her father into hospice care. She ignores the pleas from her livein nurse, who correctly notes that Kasie does not have the means to provide the aroundthe-clock support her father needs. Ms. Purple slowly reveals why Kasie insists on doing things this way, and the answers are more poignant than you might think. Justin Chon focuses on the Korean community of Los Angeles, with Kasie veering between a hermetically sealed Koreatown and a city that is slow to accept her. This is a film with a committed sense of sadness, although it is never cloying or manipulative. The characters are too proud for that, but they wish they could be stronger. Chon never quite shows the full extent of the illness that befalls Kasie’s father. Tiffany Chu plays Kasie, and when we first meet her, she’s hustling some anonymous businessmen in a karaoke bar. She provides them companionship while they get drunk, and she works for tips. She gets stiffed one particularly unpleasant evening, so the valet Octavio (Octavio Pizano) takes pity on her. Too self-involved to notice his advances, Kasie would rather just have the money back. She gets desperate, loitering outside nursing homes and begging the workers to visit her father. The situation is pretty grim, at least until Kasie’s estranged brother Carey (Teddy Lee) returns to help. The Baby Boomers are only getting older, and there are not enough home health aides to go around. Ms. Purple therefore has the potential to connect with anyone who sees it, since we could always stand to improve our family relationships. Chon deepens that sense of connection
with evocative colors and intense music. Composer Roger Suen prefers a single cello, the classical instrument that gets closest to the human voice, using sad repeated melodies. At first, it seems like this particular story does not need or deserve music this intense, but ultimately the exaggerated effect is the point. The music hits those emotional notes because the characters cannot do it for themselves. The film’s strong performances push it above most family dramas. As Kasie, Chu carries an incredible weight on her shoulders, and you can see that weight even as she poses for men who look at her like they’re inspecting cattle. Lee’s performance is also well matched with the material, since he evokes a familiar sense of desperation. There is a remarkable scene where he sits outside an arcade, one he’s repeatedly rejected from, because he has nowhere else to go. Watch how the owner takes pity on him, and how he is still too wounded to show he is grateful. Ms. Purple is a film about small gestures, and how they can take on great significance in the right context. Kasie and Carey share a profound sense of guilt, and that’s largely because of their status as immigrants. The film includes several flashbacks, where we see how their father brought them from Korea to Los Angeles for a chance at a better life. Ms. Purple implies that Kasie and Carey feel like they have failed their father, squandering that opportunity. But coming to America is not a magic bullet to solve this family’s problems, and matters are made worse by a country that does not have the proper infrastructure to take care of the extremely sick. This is not exactly a sad film, but rather a film about sad people. If they can take a break from the crippling guilt, then maybe they will see they already have the support they need. —Alan Zilberman Ms. Purple opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.
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CITYLIST
2019–2020
Music 37 Theater 40 Film 41
Music FRIDAY
ELECTRONIC
ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Chris Lake. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com.
FUNK & R&B
THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. GRiZ. 8 p.m. $40–$189. theanthemdc.com. CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Eric Roberson. 8 p.m. $40–$50. citywinery.com.
POP
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Half Alive. 6 p.m. $25. 930.com. BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Frankie Cosmos. 8 p.m. $18–$20. blackcatdc.com.
ROCK
AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Skerryvore. 8 p.m. $22– $34. ampbystrathmore.com. DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lola Kirke. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com. HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Wild Adriatic & Bella’s Bartok. 9:30 p.m. $12. hillcountry.com.
SATURDAY CLASSICAL
KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Season Opening Gala Concert. 7 p.m. $65–$199. kennedy-center.org.
DJ NIGHTS
BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Cheat Codes. 9 p.m. Free. blackcatdc.com.
POP
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Jade Bird. 6 p.m. $25. 930.com. BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Generationals. 8 p.m. $18–$20. blackcatdc.com. SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sir Babygirl. 8 p.m. $12– $14. songbyrddc.com.
CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY
WU-TANG CLAN
Wu-Tang Clan is what you get when you put philosophy, chess, divine mathematics, samurai movies, funk, and kung fu into the hands of nine genius-level rappers from Staten Island. The Clan dropped Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) within a year of Nas’ Illmatic and Biggie’s Ready to Die, but Wu-Tang’s debut album tapped into something beyond New York hip-hop. They had a business plan from the start: Drop megaton bombs on their debut, then spin members off into solo stardom. This strategy has proven wildly successful, culminating in new classics like GZA’s Liquid Swords and Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clientele. Over the years, the Clan have become both foundational to rap as we know it and a totally distinct institution. (They also attracted the attention of the FBI, who branded the “WTC Organization” a criminal enterprise in internal documents.) Wu-Tang’s distinctive sound and vibe are sometimes mistaken for self-caricature, but in reality, they reveal an ironclad commitment to a carefully crafted aesthetic and ethos. Wu-Tang’s roots run deep, and by staying true to themselves they’ve resisted the ebb and flow of music trends that have washed so many other MCs away. The saga continues in Virginia, where the Clan will be joined by Snoop Dogg to celebrate the 25th anniversaries of their breakout albums: Enter the Wu-Tang and Doggystyle. The show begins at 7 p.m. at Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. $35– $110.50. (703) 754-6400. livenation.com. —Will Lennon day in the Country. 1 p.m. $55–$125. merriweathermusic.com.
HIP-HOP
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. K.Flay. 6:30 p.m. $25. 930.com. SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Mulatto. 8 p.m. $20–$50. songbyrddc.com.
JAZZ
CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Lori Williams. 6 p.m. $20–$35. citywinery.com.
ROCK
ROCK
WORLD
UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Landon Cube. 7:30 p.m. $18–$20. unionstage.com.
THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. 8 p.m. $45–$65. theanthemdc.com. KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dal’Ouna Ensemble and The Atlantic Reed Consort. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. RHIZOME DC 6950 Maple St. NW. The Good Ones from Rwanda, The Mauls, and Time Is Fire. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.
SUNDAY COUNTRY
MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. WPOC Sun-
FLAMENCO LEGENDS
THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Catfish and the Bottlemen. 8 p.m. $35–$75. theanthemdc.com.
WORLD
LINCOLN THEATRE 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050. Nahko and Medicine for the People. 8 p.m. $37.50. thelincolndc.com.
MONDAY
THE SILKROAD ENSEMBLE NOV 15 + 16
RONNIE SPECTOR & THE RONETTES
BEST CHRISTMAS PARTY EVER! DEC 5 + 6
LUCY KAPLANSKY OCT 10
MAGPIE
45TH ANNIVERSARY
ROCK
UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. John Splithoff. 7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.
WORLD
KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. SINTESIS. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
TUESDAY
OCT 20
DAVID FINCKEL, CELLO WU HAN, PIANO
FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATION CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS
OCT 27
MODERN WARRIOR LIVE NOV 6
CLASSICAL
ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH 4001 Yuma St. NW. (202) 966-6288. Christopher Houlihan and the St. Ann Festival Orchestra. 7 p.m. $20. stanndc.org.
FUNK & R&B
CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Liv Warfield. 7:30 p.m. $25–$32. citywinery.com.
POP
DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Charlie Cunningham. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. The Regrettes. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.
ROCK
FUNK & R&B
BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Tiger Army. 7 p.m. $25–$30. blackcatdc.com.
POP
THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Jimmy Herring and The 5 of 7. 6:30 p.m. $30–$40. thehamiltondc.com.
CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. RC & The Gritz. 7:30 p.m. $22–$28. citywinery.com.
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THE QUEBE SISTERS NOV 7
TRACE BUNDY NOV 14
BRIAN NEWMAN NOV 20
AMY HELM NOV 21
AND MANY MORE!
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Dean Lewis. 7 p.m. $30. 930.com.
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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY
CIARA
When Ciara released “Level Up” last summer, it seemed that her lyrics—“my comeback on one hunnid / Less talking, more action, you just gon’ see Ci coming”—were on the money. The club-ready beat put the singer in one of her best modes: dance floor inspiration. The erstwhile “First Lady of Crunk&B” has ridden the pop-R&B rollercoaster since breaking through in the mid-aughts with songs like “Goodies” and “1, 2 Step.” Too often, she’s been outshined by a once-in-a-lifetime talent in Beyoncé; CiCi’s careerbest self-titled record was one of the year’s best... in a year that Bey changed the game with her own selftitled album. That record showed a way forward for Ciara, but her split from ex-fiance and executive producer Future spurred a change in direction, both musically and personally. She married NFL cornball Russell Wilson, released the forgettable, Dr. Luke-heavy Jackie, and then disappeared for a few years. That brings us back to this year’s Beauty Marks. Unfortunately, “Level Up” didn’t set the tone of the album, but there are enough mid-tempo jams and hip-hop-inflected flexes (along with detours through disco- and Afro-pop) to get booties shaking and hips thrusting. Ciara performs at 8 p.m. at The Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $34. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com. —Chris Kelly
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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY
TEAM DRESCH
A Team Dresch reunion means returning to a music history moment at the nexus of grunge and hardcore. Grunge explains the band’s thrift-shop-explosion aesthetic, while hardcore informs their nakedly political music, which still feels urgent and relevant today. Songs from Personal Best and Captain My Captain are short, tight, and bittersweet, packed like tubes of dynamite with the angst and anger of growing up queer in the Reagan-Clinton era. Decades ago, Team founder Donna Dresch took the DIY ethos she cultivated publishing queer culture fanzines in the early ’80s and cut a path between Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. It was a trail that would later be followed by the likes of Sleater-Kinney, who blew up after Dresch brought a riot grrrl edge to the passive post-Nirvana mid-90s. In those days, Team Dresch toured with a self-defense instructor who taught women in the audience combat maneuvers. More recently, in the statement announcing their reunion tour, the band promised to “talk about the climate crisis in between drop-D grunge licks.” The quartet of DIY foremothers will emerge from the disintegrating iceberg of the 21st century and take the stage at the Black Cat. Team Dresch perform at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $15. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com. —Will Lennon SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. B Boys. 8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.
UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. 47Soul. 7:30 p.m. $25–$40. unionstage.com.
WEDNESDAY
HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Da Band. 8 p.m. $27.50–$100. thehowardtheatre.com.
BLUES
CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Cory Siegel’s Chamber Blues with Lynne Jordan. 8 p.m. $28–$35. citywinery.com.
CLASSICAL
KENNEDY CENTER REACH 2700 F St. NW. (202) 4674600. John Cage: Music for Merce—Margaret Leng Tan. 7:30 p.m. $25. kennedy-center.org.
ELECTRONIC
ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Martin Garrix. 9 p.m. $40–$50. echostage.com. U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Meute. 7 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.
HIP-HOP POP
BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Man Man. 7:30 p.m. $18–$20. blackcatdc.com. DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. ViVii. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.
ROCK
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Joseph. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.
Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD
THIS SUNDAY!
WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY FEATURING
Old Dominion • Michael Ray • Jordan Davis • Lauren Alaina • Dylan Scott • Jimmie Allen • Brandon Lay • Filmore .....................SEPT 29
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Late Show! 10pm Doors ................................................................................... Sa 28
Jade Bird w/ Flyte Early Show! 6pm Doors. ...................................................... Sa 28 K.Flay w/ Houses & Your Smith ..................................................................... Su 29 Dean Lewis w/ Scott Helman ........................................................................ M 30 OCTOBER
OCTOBER (cont.)
Joseph w/ Deep Sea Diver ...........W 2 Caravan Palace Early Show! 6pm Doors. .....................Th 3 Luna performing Penthouse w/ Olden Yolk Early Show! 6pm Doors. ....................Sa 5 Bombay Bicycle Club w/ The Greeting Committee
HellBENT .................................Sa 26 bea miller w/ Kah-Lo & Kennedi ..................M 28 Big Freedia w/ Low Cut Connie ......................Tu 29
Late Show! 10pm Doors .....................Sa 5
Noah Kahan w/ JP Saxe ............M 7 Kero Kero Bonito w/ Negative Gemini ......................Tu 8 Shovels & Rope w/ Cedric Burnside .........................W 9 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Perpetual Groove w/ Kendall Street Company ........F 11 Mashrou’ Leila ......................Sa 12 Small Town Murder This is a seated show. ......................Su 13
Moonchild w/ Braxton Cook
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Bishop Briggs w/ Miya Folick & Jax Anderson ..Sa 19 Anthony Brown & group therAPy w/ Maurette Brown-Clark &
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SOFI TUKKER w/ Haiku Hands & LP Giobbi ........W 23 Josh Abbott Band w/ Ray Fulcher ...........................Th 24 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
Lost Frequencies (Live) w/ Throttle Late Show! 10:30pm Doors .F 25
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The Maine w/ Twin XL & Nick Santino .............F 1 The Cinematic Orchestra w/ Photo & PBDY ..........................Sa 2 Chelsea Wolfe w/ Ioanna Gika Early Show! 6pm Doors. ......................Su 3
Mummy Troll Late Show! 10pm Doors ......................Su 3 Cavetown w/ Field Medic & Spookyghostboy..M 4 Neon Indian ..............................Sa 6 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
SunSquabi w/ Goose .................F 8 Ra Ra Riot w/ Bayonne .............W 13 Wild Nothing ............................F 15 Neon Indian ............................Sa 16 Highly Suspect w/ Slothrust .Su 17 Alice Merton ...........................Tu 19 Christone “Kingfish” Ingram .....................................Th 21 San Fermin ...............................F 22 Sasha Sloan w/ Winnetka Bowling League Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 23 Alex Cameron Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Sa 23
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THIS SUNDAY!
Kishi Bashi w/ Cicada Rhythm ....NOV 8 Nahko and Medicine Judge John Hodgman for The People w/ Ayla Nereo . SEP 29 Live ................................................NOV 10 METROPOLITAN ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS Sasha Velour’s Zaz ................................................... OCT 4 Smoke & Mirrors .................NOV 11 Natasha Bedingfield ........... OCT 14 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
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Angel Olsen w/ Vagabon ............NOV 1
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Phum Viphurit w/ ESTEF ......M SEP 30 Surf Curse ........................ Sa OCT 5 clipping. ..................................Th 10 Half Moon Run w/ Tim Baker .........F 11 Pissed Jeans w/ Knife Wife ..........Sa 12
Marika Hackman w/ Girl Friday ...Su 13 Augustana ................................ M 14 slenderbodies w/ Hazey Eyes .......Tu 15 !!! (Chk Chk Chk) .....................Th 17 Lust for Youth w/ Tuff Lover ..........F 18
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Emmylou Harris • Jackson Browne Steve Earle • Patty Griffin • The Mastersons Thao Nguyen • David Pulkingham
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Emmylou Harris • Jackson Browne Steve Earle • Patty Griffin • The Mastersons Thao Nguyen • David Pulkingham
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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE with special guest JESSE MALIN November 5, 2019 • 8pm • warner theatre
TALL THE PAPER KITES HEIGHTS 4&5 KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL 6 GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP 7 KEIKO MATSUI 9 OTTMAR LIEBERT & LUNA NEGRA 10 PHIL VASSAR Tickets at Ticketmaster.com
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PHUM VIPHURIT
Sporting a blue bomber jacket, Phum Viphurit strums a guitar and sings about loneliness. In the background, other Phum Viphurits skateboard, do jumping jacks, and dance with mops. It’s not double vision—that’s the music video for the Bangkok-based singer-songwriter’s most recent single, “Hello, Anxiety,” an indiepop bop about managing the stress inherent in his growing success. By the end of the video, surrounded by glittering peers, Viphurit leads an impromptu disco party and reassures his audience that “the sun still shines, we’ll be fine.” It’s a fitting conclusion for a song that epitomizes the young artist’s brand of breezy neo-soul— in an interview with TimeOut.com, Viphurit described his style as “sunshine music”—and a relatively contemplative follow-up to his 2018 single “Lover Boy.” Concert attendees can look forward to buoyant vibes as well as bragging rights: They’re seeing Thailand’s newest breakout live. Phum Viphurit performs at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $20. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com. —Amy Guay
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TOM PAXTON & THE DONJUANS
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GOAPELE 18 LEE ANN WOMACK 19 HIROSHIMA 40th Anniversary Tour! 17
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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY
FLEABAG
You saw Fleabag; you saw Phoebe WallerBridge win an armload of Emmys. Now see the one-woman show about a hapless, sex-crazed single Brit that led to a black jumpsuit craze and dozens of hot priest memes. Fleabag premiered as a play at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. As Waller-Bridge said after the show won best comedy at the Emmys, she told producers “two jokes over a pint” and they backed what became her Amazon TV series. Over the summer, Waller-Bridge revived the play (directed by Vicky Jones) in London and New York. In D.C., the Shakespeare Theatre will host three screenings of the show as part of its National Theatre Live series—and jumpsuits are strongly encouraged. No word yet if Shakespeare Theatre has managed to find “gin in a tin,” the preferred cocktail of a certain parsonage, but there will definitely be red wine and Beefeaters. Fleabag screens at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. $18. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. —Rebecca J. Ritzel
THURSDAY CLASSICAL
KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Carmina Burana. 7 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.
ELECTRONIC
U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Hayden James. 7 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com. U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Romare. 10:30 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.
FUNK & R&B
CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. In Gratitude. 6 p.m. $30–$40. citywinery.com.
POP
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ROCK
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mt. Joy. 10 p.m. $25. 930.com.
THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. The Head and the Heart. 8 p.m. $54.50–$84.50. theanthemdc.com. BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Vetusta Morla. 7:30 p.m. $17–$20. blackcatdc.com. VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Alé Maria, Brandon S. Bowker, and Imani Wj Wright. 8 p.m. $10–$15. velvetloungedc.com.
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1 HENRY IV Folger puts on 1 Henry IV, the story of a king and his ill-suited heir, Prince Hal, in court and on the battlefield. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Oct. 12. $27–$85. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu. ASSASSINS Assassins is a musical based on John Weidman’s book with music by Stephen Sondheim. It is the dark comedy story of nine attempted and successful presidential assassinations and their assail-
CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY
THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Though William Shakespeare is credited with writing at least 37 plays, scholars believe several of his works have disappeared over time, from a sequel to Love’s Labour’s Lost to a spin-off of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Since 2005, a group of Chicago actors known as the Improvised Shakespeare Company have filled this gap in literary history by performing one-night-only renditions of “new” Shakespearean works. Now, they’re bringing their innovative take on the Bard to the Kennedy Center. Following a title suggested by the audience, the players use Elizabethan language to improvise an entire Shakespeare play—though at half the running time, so you won’t get bored. Several comedians have made their funny bones in the troupe, including Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer Asher Perlman. The show runs to Oct. 6 at the Kennedy Center Family Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $39–$49. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. —Mercedes Hesselroth
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ALDOUS HARDING
New Zealand-raised singer and guitarist Aldous Harding’s eponymous 2014 debut album was striking for its less-ismore take on British folk, thanks to Harding’s tuneful yet raw vocals and minimalistic guitar strumming. Harding, born Hannah Harding (and now living in Wales), has since expanded her musical approach on her second and third albums, but her vocals and lyrics retain a mysterious, artsy feel that sometimes veers into the avant-garde. Her second album Party, produced by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, shows her vocal range as she switches from sweet and breathy to Nico-like monotone to kid-like and screechy. Harding’s skilled take on these various styles of intonation largely feels natural and not studied. She can invoke Joni Mitchell, but does so in a way that’s far from a coffeehouse cover. Sometimes she’ll sing in a measured, precise, and rigid way before suddenly loosening up. On her 2019 album Designer, she stretches and fleshes out her sound even more. Her delivery is pop-like on “Zoo Eyes,” and she’s accompanied by a chorus, keyboard, bass, and drums. However, the lyrics, which include phrases like “I drove my inner child to a show,” feel far from the charts. Aldous Harding performs at 8 p.m. at Rock and Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $15. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com. —Steve Kiviat ants. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Sept. 29. $55–$93. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. CABARET Set in 1929 Berlin as Nazis rose to power, Cabaret focuses on the character of American writer Cliff Bradshaw and his foray into the world of cabaret and his romance with performer Sally Bowles. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 6. $42–$84. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. CANDIDA In the George Bernard Shaw play, a poet and a preacher both love the same woman—and both are baffled by her ultimate choice. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Oct. 20. $25–$50. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org. CATS A group of alley cats are given a chance at an extra life in this classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Oct. 6. $49–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. DOUBT: A PARABLE Studio Theatre stages John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer-winning play Doubt: A Parable, where an allegation of abuse tears apart a 1960s Catholic school. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 6. $20–$80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
ESCAPED ALONE D.C. actress Holly Twyford directs Escaped Alone, a short play about the sometimes mundane, sometimes catastrophic fears that we all face in the modern 21st century. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Nov. 3. $55–$93. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. FAIRVIEW This play, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for drama, follows a dysfunctional family uniting for their grandmother’s birthday—and a group of voyeurs watching them from outside, and eventually, inside. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Oct. 6. $15–$68. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net. FENCES Fences follows former Negro League baseball star Troy Maxson as he struggles to provide for his family and wrestles with the constraints systemic racism and his own human hubris have placed on his life. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Oct. 27. $20– $70. (202) 347-4833. fords.org. JITNEY A Pittsburgh jitney station—a symbol of community stability—is threatened on all sides by a stagnant neighborhood with no jobs and encroaching gentrification. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Oct. 20. $76–$95. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.
LA VIDA ES SUEÑO La Vida es Sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and directed by Hugo Medrano with adaptations by Nando J. López is about free will, destiny, and tyranny. It will be presented in Spanish with English subtitles. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To Oct. 13. $30–$48. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org. LOVE SICK Based on The Song of Songs, Love Sick tells the story a young wife in a lifeless marriage who discovers she has a secret admirer and begins a mysterious, dizzying journey of sexual and personal empowerment. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Sept. 29. $34–$64. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. MIKE BIRBIGLIA’S THE NEW ONE Birbiglia, known for his work in Sleepwalk with Me, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, and roles in Orange is the New Black and Broad City, comes direct from Broadway to tell a new story—aptly titled “The New One.” National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Sept. 29. $39–$114. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org. THE ROYALE The Royale, inspired by the story of boxer Jack Johnson, follows an African American man who dreams of breaking the color line in boxing, despite his knockouts and doubt from his manager. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 27. $49–$54. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY Paulina, the queen bee of the Aburi Girls Boarding School, is desperate to be Miss Ghana—but she’s got some competition within her school, namely from Ericka, who’s just arrived from America with a decidedly Western attitude. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Oct. 13. $32–$73. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. THE SMUGGLER This comedy—9,000 words in rhyme—follows an Irish immigrant who meant to make it in America but ended up on the island of Amity and meets a stranger who teaches him the price of being an American. Eaton DC. 1201 K St. NW. To Oct. 6. $40. (202) 900-8414. eatonworkshop.com. THE TEMPEST Synetic Theater is remounting Shakespeare’s The Tempest—complete with a 30-foot deep pool and “splash zone” seating. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Oct. 20. $20–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. TRYING Trying follows the true story of the author’s time working for Judge Francis Biddle, former attorney general of the United States under FDR—and a notorious taskmaster who is trying to cement his legacy. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Oct. 20. $15–$42. (703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org. WEST BY GOD Set in the Appalachia region of West Virginia, West By God follows the stories of two families, illuminating the divide between urban and rural life experiences and the various prejudices that go along with it. Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To Oct. 20. $30–$50. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.
Film
ABOMINABLE A sweet Yeti has to find his way back to his family. Starring Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, and Eddie Izzard. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) AD ASTRA An astronaut follows a doomed expedition across a hostile solar system to find out what happened to it—and his father. Starring Brad Pitt, Liv Tyler, and Tommy Lee Jones. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) DOWNTON ABBEY This feature film continues the story of the aristocratic Crawleys and their servants in a changing early 20th-century England. Starring Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, and Michelle Dockery. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE GOLDFINCH Based on the novel by Donna Tartt, this film follows a boy in New York after his mother is killed by a bomb at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Starring Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Ansel Elgort. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) HUSTLERS A group of strip club employees team up to turn the tables on their rich clients. Starring Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, and Cardi B. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) RAMBO: LAST BLOOD Rambo is forced to confront his past and take revenge on his last mission. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, and Yvette Monreal. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) WHERE’S MY ROY COHN This documentary follows lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn from his time with Joseph McCarthy to his work for Donald Trump. Directed by Matt Tyrnauer. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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Heard Tragedy September, 2019 An unspeAkAble trAgedy has happened here. Scarlet liquid pools on the ground, and a family looks on in horror. The victim leans back, her face painted with sorrow. Passersby give the scene a wide berth. We don’t know the full story, but a few details paint a picture. A nearly empty bottle of red Gatorade sits guiltily as a young girl stares down at her now-stained shoe. It’s a checkerboard slip-on—the classic one by Vans—and its twin, unharmed in the carnage, is crisp and clean. The city’s dirt and grime have not yet made it dingy. Yes, the sidewalk detective deduces: These shoes were either new or well cared for. There’s no evident animus between the people party to this tragedy. No filthy stares. No pointed silences. Perhaps this wound was self-inflicted. A simple accident. Or perhaps forgiveness already flows freely. Or maybe the blame is yet to come. The matriarch administers first aid, massaging the girl’s ankle and shoe, as if she might somehow expel the sports drink, like blood from a stone. It doesn’t seem to be working. —Will Warren Will Warren writes Scene and Heard. If you know of a location worthy of being seen or heard, email him at wwarren@washingtoncitypaper.com.
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SAVAGELOVE I’m a 35-year-old bisexual man in a LTR with a man. My question, however, has to do with my parents. As an adolescent/teen, I was a snoop (as I think most of us are, looking for dad’s porn stash, etc.). I was probably 12 or so when I found evidence of my dad being a cross-dresser. There were pictures of him in makeup and women’s clothing, and correspondence (under an alias and to a separate PO box) with other men interested in cross-dressing. As far as I could tell, he did this alone in hotel rooms while on work trips. Two years ago while on vacation, it came up while my mom and I were at dinner. She had recently found evidence, and she needed to take a short break to visit a friend out of state to process. She suggested I bring it up with him (I guess) because I’m queer and she knows I used to help host pansexual play parties. My dad is a devout Republican and comes off as very masculine. I see them only a couple times a year. Should I try to bring this up with my dad and let him know that I’ve known about his cross-dressing for more than 20 years and offer my knowledge about kink and alternative sexuality? Or just let him do his thing and we all retain the illusion of ignorance? My parents are still happily married—and whether it is more companionate than lusty, they love each other and have been married for more than 40 years. Your take would be appreciated. —Son Of A Cross-Dresser
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Why does your mother want you to talk to your dad about his cross-dressing? Does she want you to talk him out of it? Does she want you to convince him to include her on his cross-dressing trips? Does she think he would benefit from attending a pansexual play party with his adult bisexual son? Unless your father is in some sort of emotional distress or your mother is in some sort of danger, I really don’t see the point of this conversation, SOACD. It doesn’t sound like your dad is struggling with shame. If your dad had to abuse alcohol or smoke a crate of meth in order to give himself permission to cross-dress alone in a hotel room, you surely would have mentioned that fact. And if your father was having unprotected sex with the other straight male cross-dressers he corresponded with, you surely would have mentioned that, too. From the details you included in your letter, SOACD, it sounds like your dad has successfully integrated cross-dressing into his life without harming himself or neglecting and endangering your mom. You could say your parents had a long and loving marriage despite the cross-dressing… or you could say it’s possible your parents’ marriage is an ongoing success not despite the cross-dressing but because of it. If dressing up in women’s clothes and occasionally escaping the confines of masculine performance helped your dad feel centered
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and emotionally whole, having this escape and having some people he could be open with about it—some straight male cross-dressing peers—could have made him a better husband and father. (It’s too bad it didn’t make him a better person politically, but you can’t have everything.) And while it might have been better for everyone if your dad had been open about his cross-dressing with his wife and kid(s), that ship sailed a long time ago. I don’t see what this convo—coming 20 years after you discovered his cross-dressing and two years after your mother discovered
Sometimes we dodge the bullet, PTP, but on rare occasions the bullet dodges us. it—will achieve other than embarrassing and humiliating your father. Even a married person has a right to some small degree of privacy, and each of us has a right to a small zone of erotic autonomy. Your parents’ long, loving, successful marriage coexisted with your father’s cross-dressing for four decades, and I don’t see why it can’t continue to coexist with it now. And if your mother is sad that your dad never shared this with her and wants to reassure him that he didn’t need to hide this part of himself from her and that she loves him just the same, she doesn’t need to deputize her bisexual son to initiate that conversation. If she thinks it would be a relief and not a torment for her husband to know she knows and that knowing hasn’t changed how she feels about him, she should tell him. —Dan Savage I’m 25 years old and polyamorous. I’m in a relationship with a 28-year-old man since August 2018. It was just him and me when we first started dating, and then his old flame came into the picture. This whole time he had said he was not interested in having kids and a home and a primary partner. Since he got surgery in June and is now unemployed, he’s had a lot of time to think, he says, and now he’s decided he wants kids and a home and a primary partner. He knows I do not want any of these things, so he says his old flame is the person he’s going to do this with. He has made jokes about being an “alcoholic” since I first met him, and I thought it was just a joke. But now he’s spending money he simply does not have on alco-
hol. It worries me. Do I hang in there? Do I throw in the towel? I love this man very much, but I’m so confused. —Previously The Primary I’m so sorry, PTP, but it would appear you’ve lost the unemployed guy with the drinking problem to another. But take heart: You’re young enough to meet someone else, someone who wants what you want and doesn’t want what you don’t. I’m certain that after meeting this person—or even long before you meet them—you’ll be able to recognize that your ex did you a favor. Sometimes we dodge the bullet, PTP, but on rare occasions the bullet dodges us. —DS My 19-year-old younger brother is doing financial domination online. He maintains a Twitter account that’s mostly photos of him giving the finger and looking smug. He also posts pics of his feet, videos of him urinating (no penis visible, just the stream), and lots and lots of “bitch shots,” i.e., crotch-height photos looking up at him from below. He uses a lot of homophobic slurs in the tweets that accompany these images. I would have exactly zero fucks to give about this if my brother wasn’t still a teenager and wasn’t posting photos of his face. I warned him that the internet is forever, and facial-recognition software is a thing, and people who don’t understand the role-play aspect of his use of hate speech will think he’s a bigot. This could come back to haunt him socially or professionally. Complicating matters somewhat, my little brother is a straight boy and I’m gay. He’s not making a ton of money doing this, but he’s making enough that my parents are wondering how he’s buying all those super-expensive shoes. What do I tell him? What do I tell them? —Falling Into Nefarious Doings Of Male Sibling P.S. I know about this because he told me—I didn’t stumble over his Twitter account. You’ve already told your brother the internet is forever and the low-key, low-stakes pseudo sex work he’s doing could come back to haunt him, FINDOMS. Beyond that … well, there’s really not much more you can do. Your brother is an adult, as are the men paying “tribute” to him, as they say in FinDom/FinSub Twitter, and he’s free to make his own choices. As for your parents, why is explaining where your brother is getting all those new shoes your problem? If your brother is old enough to set up his own Twitter and Venmo accounts, he’s old enough to come up with a plausible lie about those shoes. —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.
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heirs whose whereAuctions abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 19, 2020. Claims the deceWhole against Foods Commissary Auction dent shall be presented DC Metro Area to the undersigned with a Dec. copy5 at to10:30AM the Register of 1000s Tables, Carts Wills or S/S to the Register & Trays, 2016 Kettles up of Wills with a copy to to 200 Gallons, Urschel the undersigned, on or Cutters & Shredders inbefore 2020, cludingMarch 2016 19, Diversacut or2110 be forever Dicer, 6 barred. Chill/Freeze Persons believed be Cabs, Double Rackto Ovens & Ranges, (12) Braising heirs or legatees of the Tables, 2016 (3+) decedent who doStephan not VCMs, a copy 30+ of Scales, receive this Hobart 80 qt Mixers, notice by mail within Complete Machine Shop, 25 days of its publicaand much more! View the tion shall catalog at so inform the Register of Wills, or www.mdavisgroup.com including name, address 412-521-5751 and relationship. Date of first publication: Garage/Yard/ 9/19/2019 Name of Rummage/Estate Sales Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington Flea Market every City Fri-Sat Paper/Daily Washington 10am-4pm. 5615 Landover Rd. Law Reporter. Name Cheverly, MD. 20784. Canofbuy Personal Representain bulk. Contact 202-355-2068 tive: Danette for Williams or 301-772-3341 details or if intrestedTEST in beingcopy a vendor. TRUE Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills Pub Dates: September 19, 26 and October 3.
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