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INSIDE 14 you’re so D.C. If...

Nearly 500 readers filled in the blank to complete this sentence.

Your answers involve a lot of gentrification and mumbo sauce.

4 Chatter distriCt Line 7 Loose Lips: Ward 1 council candidate Kent Boese takes Loose Lips on a neighborhood walk.

8 Run Salutations: A quixotic D.C. yoga teacher is running for mayor. Why? 9 Gear Prudence 10 Indy List 12 Savage Love

food 19 Family Meal: Dining with Kwame Onwuachi’s family reveals the rich culinary traditions that will color his menu at Kith and Kin. 21 Sauce-O-Meter: How recent food happenings measure up 21 The ’Wiching Hour: Capo Deli’s Italian Beef 21 What’s in Stein’s Stein: Port City’s Franconian Kellerbier

25 Short Subjects: Gittell on Victoria & Abdul and Zilberman on Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards 26 Sketches: Capps on Maggie Michael: Cubes and Pyramids Share the Same Base at G Fine Art 28 Discography: Fischer on The Effects’ Eyes to the Light

City List 31 City Lights: Catch Bruno Mars performing his charttopping hits at Capital One Arena this weekend.

31 Music 34 Theater 37 Film

38 CLassifieds diversions 39 Crossword

arts 23 Selfie Expression: A year after Tarica June’s antigentrification anthem “But Anyway” went viral, the D.C. rapper has established herself as one of the city’s hardest working musicians.

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CHATTER

A representative selection of comments on articles in last week’s issue: “After a delayed opening, a boutique dog hotel business prepares for its District debut.”

By Andrew Giambrone.

Sounds AWESOME. —Dana Greenwald on Facebook

By Bill Myers.

Because of all the section 8 housing in the city. Tear them down, problem solved.

—Doug Owens on Facebook And more rich, white, hogs such as yourself may move in? rich boy?

—Jason Hostetter on Facebook Jason Hostetter: No, just people that can compete for housing like everyone else. Why should they not have to live in what they can afford, like the vast majority of people that are forced to commute? It’s a fairness issue. The only people who should be subsidized are those who earn it, such as teachers and firefighters.

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I biked past an MPD cruiser parked illegally last night while its two cops got dinner at Shake Shack. Just a data point.

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Great. Hooray for wealthy dogs and no spaces for artists to have studios.

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Meanwhile human beings sleep on 18th Street.

—Will E. Brooks on Facebook Thank God I have cats.

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

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If dogs could tell you what they wanted to lie down on, I don’t think it would be Calcutta marble and Italian tile.

—Andrew Siddons on Twitter

Barking mad … howling with laughter … the city is going to the dogs … canine with a side of porcine.

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The whole premise is based on the assumption that the police are competent and not criminals themselves.

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“Chris Cole seeks the right to leave his past behind.”

By Jeffrey Anderson.

Interesting article. But lots of conflicting issues here.

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DistrictLine All About That Boese, No Trouble

Ward 1 council candidate Kent Boese takes Loose Lips on a neighborhood walk. the Ward 1 D.C. Council race pits longshot opponents against well-funded incumbent Brianne Nadeau, and one of the key campaign issues, in the eyes of challenger Kent Boese, figures to be responsiveness to community concerns such as blight and public safety.

So Loose Lips spent a few days recently in an area of Ward 1 that Nadeau knows to be a problem area, but which Boese, chairman of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1A, knows like the back of his hand.

Boese, a law librarian, spends much of his free time in the neighborhoods, in community meetings, and in the faces of government officials responsible for addressing his community’s concerns.

Among those concerns is an uptick in crime in an area where an otherwise gentrifying D.C. confronts its rundown past. Vacant and blighted buildings, including the destined-for-demolition Park Morton public housing complex, and a rough mix of street activity mar pockets on and off Georgia Avenue NW on either side of its Metro stop.

Ward 1 is one of the most diverse city wards. In the mix: older black residents, affluent white families, young white renters, and low-income Latinx and black families who reside in older brick apartments, duplexes, or fading houses they inherited from their middle class parents.

A central hub of this ward is the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro Station and its environs, comprised of a large condo complex, a stretch of long-standing restaurants and carryouts, convenience and liquor stores, nail salons, nouveau dive bars, and a strip club. The areas surrounding this hub have seen horrific drug wars in the past, but now attract illicit activity that Boese believes requires more than just police presence.

Outside the CVS two Fridays ago, Boese points out broken sand bags around sewer grates that he says WMATA won’t remove and pavers he says he had the city install, but are now sinking because of rat burrows. The CVS has been tagged. A condom, rubber glove, and upended grocery cart are among the litter near the bus stop. There’s a listing low fence around a treebox that he says no one will repair or replace.

For Boese, all of these conditions are in-

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terconnected and related to quality of life in a changing area that has even more entrenched problems.

Public safety is tricky, as it relies on police resources amid shifting conditions and demographics. This part of Ward 1 used to fall within the Third Police District, says Boese. In 2011, however, then-Chief Cathy Lanier re-districted a portion of it into the Fourth District, which had less crime. East and west of Georgia Avenue, police respond from the Fourth District if a call comes from north of Park Road NW, but the Third District if a call comes from south of Park.

“It’s confusing for the community, and you have to drill down on crime statistics,” Boese says, noting the D.C. police website no longer shows percentage increases or decreases in crime. “We talk a good game about transparency, but people are smart enough to know what the stats mean. Why remove such a feature?”

At a recent community meeting, Boese says a police officer told a group of citizens there are two officers detailed north of Park Road NW, and that the area needs more like seven.

Crime stats support this assertion.

Though crime is down in the Fourth District over all, according to D.C. police data, in Police Service Area 409, which is shaped like a bowtie with the Metro as its knot, violent crime and property crime are both up, especially in the last 60 days. Boese says he has also seen complaints about prostitution over Third District listservs, and residents in PSA 409 have voiced similar concerns.

He walks south to the 600 block of Park Road, where vacant houses deteriorate across the street from the graffitied Park Morton complex. A basement door on one of them has been kicked in before, he says, and another has been used as a drug den. Boese says the closure of an unsecured parking lot and new construction across the street from Park Morton have pushed drug activity to nearby streets.

Through a narrow passage between a condominium and a vacant on the 500 block, Boese trudges through an overgrown backyard with scattered rat traps. Making his way to Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at Park View, a dual-language school, he notes that vandals torched the playground some time back. A brick wall is topped with weeds. Garbage bags are piled around a lamp post. The

city does not address these matters as quickly as he’d like.

Boese ventures onto Newton Place NW. Earlier this month, 41-year-old Antwaun Smith was shot and killed inside an apartment at 615, allegedly by a stepbrother who suspected him of snitching. Boese has hounded public officials about this block for years. A pair of police

gards to properties in the neighborhood that were brought to our attention and are very grateful for MPD’s continued work to help address the public safety concerns,” writes one of her staffers to Boese, in a Sept. 13 email that details coordinated agency efforts such as a Ward 1 Intervention Group to “build trust with individuals in our community who may be hesitant to engage with government services.”

The following day, Boese replies, “I strongly believe that we need to get the situation on Newton Place under control before we are going to see much improvement from the agencies and their efforts ... and yes, this means a dedicated effort from MPD and undercover officers. As I am typing, I have been informed from one of our neighbors that there is an active situation on Newton Place involving someone who is high on drugs with a knife which MPD is currently addressing. This is not a situation where we have the level of safety necessary for agency staff to be productively engaged.”

Nadeau is not backing down from such challenges to her grassroots commitment. In an email to Loose Lips, spokesperson Tom Fazzini details collaborative legislative and regulatory efforts to address the issues: “[Nadeau] has been focused on vacant properties since her time as an ANC when [they] impacted quality of life for adjoining neighbors and became full on nuisances and havens for crime. As a Councilmember she works with the ANCs, MPD and Attorney General and U.S. Attorney’s offices when necessary.”

Yet Boese believes being out in the neighborhoods more frequently is what separates him from Nadeau. “She sees herself first and foremost as a legislator, but the more genuine part of the job is to be a problem solver, out in the community,” he says. “Legislation isn’t where you start, it’s where you end when nothing else is working.”

CP Jeffrey Anderson

By Jeffrey Anderson

SUVs roll slowly by. The stop sign at Newton and 6th NW has a 13—indicative of the MS-13 gang—spray-painted on its back.

Around the corner, Latina mothers push baby strollers. Up a rise, outside Park View Rec Center, young men silently disperse when approached. PSA 409 needs more than policing, Boese says. “We have political boundaries, but communities don’t function that way,” he says.

“And regulatory agencies don’t have the staff or resources to monitor everything.” last friday, on a solo visit to Newton Place NW, a woman is passing out fliers for a vigil for Smith. She says they were cousins. Two D.C. police officers stand at Newton and 6th, presumably in anticipation of the expected gathering. Two young men, one of whom is heavily tattooed, linger in and around a parked sedan, where a woman in the front seat is handing them fliers to post.

Boese sees Newton Place as one example of activity that radiates from transit hubs and commercial corridors.

Nadeau, the incumbent, also sees the connection between blight and public safety. “We have been working closely with MPD in re-

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Run Salutations

Darrow Montgomery

A quixotic D.C. yoga teacher is running for mayor. Why?

By Regina Park On a recent Sunday morning, Dustin Canter stretched his muscles and took the lead at a yoga studio in Shaw. The studio was nearly empty but for the seven practitioners who’d come for one of the ambitious 32-year-old’s weekly hatha, or “force,” yoga sessions.

Despite sparse support, Canter is aiming for a much higher position than those he assumes while teaching yoga. Earlier this year, he launched a bid to unseat Muriel Bowser and become, if elected in 2018, D.C.’s next mayor—the first to have ever been certified as a personal trainer.

That’s a gargantuan if. Having received only a little over $2,100 in campaign contributions as of July 31, according to the Office of Campaign Finance, Canter doesn’t stand much of a chance against Bowser’s developer-stacked electoral apparatus or her 67percent approval rating among District res-

idents, per a June Washington Post poll that appears to have unsettled even her potential name-brand opponents.

But money and popularity don’t seem to concern Canter too much. “It doesn’t take millions of dollars to win this campaign,” he says.

“Polls are a dinosaur way of knowing what’s going on.”

A local, politically inclined Don Quixote (without an apparent Sancho Panza), Canter says he’s in it to represent the people, and isn’t taking corporate contributions. To compensate for his lack of cash, he’s hitting the streets with volunteers to meet voters. Yet another outlet for his guerilla campaign is the “Politics and Poses” class he sometimes teaches, which joins his two passions.

Until this month, Canter lived in a Mount Pleasant group home with four other people. But now he shares a two-bedroom with a roommate in Northeast’s burgeoning Edgewood neighborhood. By day, he runs a fitness

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scheduling- and payment-platform called Routeam, whose goal, according to the company’s website, is to “champion human movement as a means to connect humanity, spread love, and promote peace.”

On his own campaign website and materials, the yogi markets himself as “D.C. Canter.” But after describing himself as a “fourth-generation Washingtonian” in our interview, he later admits he grew up in Rockville and attended a public high school there before shipping off to the University of Illinois, where he earned an accounting degree and joined a fraternity. He says his grandfather opened a furniture store on 14th Street NW after World War II, and that his father was born in D.C. Canter was wearing a T-shirt and jeans when he strolled into Torrie’s Restaurant near Howard University Hospital and shuffled into the last booth on the left for our interview. Canter says he likes to sit at this booth,

dedicated to late D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, “because it reminds me I have to be a mayor for everyone.”

Except for those he calls “the real estate vultures,” that is. When asked who these birds of prey were, Canter couldn’t precisely say. He pointed to D.C.’s shrinking number of affordable apartments and small businesses as proof that the District needs a change in leadership.

Canter plans to crowdsource policy ideas from those who reach him on social media.

“I’m a curator of the issues,” he says, noting that his platform focuses on economic development, homelessness, criminal justice, and jobs.

If only it were that easy. Jasmine Chehrazi, Canter’s yoga mentor and the founder of Yoga District, espouses his political venture, but warns against his impatience.

“Big systems don’t move fast, and sometimes people who are really sharp like Dustin are used to things moving really fast,” Chehrazi says. “He’s a very capable person, but when we’re dealing with larger systems, it’s just going to be that much slower and that much more patience is going to be needed.”

Canter has experience challenging District officials when issues hit close to home. In 2014, Canter biked to the Wilson Building to decry a proposal that would require gyms and health clubs, including yoga studios, to collect sales taxes. In the end, however, the proposal—part of broader local tax reform—passed.

Beyond yoga and his day job, Canter volunteers at the Midtown Youth Academy, a boxing and tutoring center on 14th Street NW, as head of community outreach. The academy’s CEO Khalia Jackson is one of his most vocal cheerleaders. She’s worked closely with Canter for five years, and says he’s not the type to throw in the towel.

“He’s not completely wrapped up in what D.C. is becoming. He also understands what it was like before [and] understands all different types of people,” Jackson explains. “He is dedicated to this venture. I think that he is going to run again and again.”

For now, Canter stands outside of the powers that be, and he probably will for the coming years. But the quixotic yoga teacher vows to run again in 2022 if he is not elected mayor in this cycle.

Running the city, however, isn’t Canter’s only immediate aspiration. Soon, he hopes to host a political radio show dubbed “Breakfast with Dustin.”

Other ideas in the works: On Sept. 24 Canter polled interest on Facebook for his idea to couch-surf with eight different D.C. families. “During the final 8 months of the campaign leading up to the election, I would crash couches in all 8 wards. The idea would be that I would stay with 1 local family for up to 1 month in each ward,” reads his post. A volunteer host in Ward 3 has already emerged.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: Because walking and biking are too hard apparently, tourists take stupid Segways all over. There is nothing more annoying than Segway riders in bike lanes. They’re not bikes and they shouldn’t be there. Segways suck.

—Massively Annoyed Local Loathes Careening, Obnoxious Platforms Dear MALLCOP: That’s a lot of invective for something so silly, but GP accepts annoyance with tourists and their preferred method of personal mobility. How dare they come here and want to spend their time and money exploring one of the world’s most important cities! Don’t they know that some guy on a bike has to get to his boring office job? Assholes.

Not only is it perfectly legal for Segway riders to be in bike lanes, but that’s exactly where they should be. Segwayers have way more in common with bicyclists than other kinds of travelers. They’re wheel-assisted, but not encased in two tons of metal. They travel at a pace faster than walking, but slower than driving. You’d be just as mad if the tourists were on bicycles and slowing you down, but that they’re riding on such mockable means allows you to adopt a posture of snobbishness. Share the space and get over yourself.

—GP Gear Prudence: I have a beautiful, cobalt blue 1975 Schwinn Suburban bike. It has come time for me to give this magnificent beast up. But I want it to go to a good home, one that will restore it to its former glory. Other than surface rust where the scratches are, it’s actually in pretty good shape.

I’d even give it away for free to someone who will take care of it. How should I go about this?

—Goal: Individual, Verifiably Exceptional And Wanting. A Youth?

Dear GIVEAWAY: Step 1: Open a chocolate factory. Step 2 and beyond: You’ve seen the movie (golden tickets, four grandparents sleeping in the same bed, a series of OSHA and labor law violations, and the right kid eventually gets your bike), so GP shouldn’t need to go into greater detail. There might be some hiccups along the way, but it’ll be a delightful romp.

Or you could contact a bike co-op. Many have programs where kids are trained in bike maintenance and refurbishment. They would likely be able to assist you in finding the bike a new forever home and ensure that it is returned to good riding condition in the process.

They’d likely expect the bike for free, but if it’s a 501(c)(3), you could potentially reap the tax benefits. If you want some cash in exchange for the bike, you could sell it the usual online ways, but then the onus would be on you to screen the potential buyers for their goodness of heart. At that point, you might as well have just opened the chocolate factory.

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SAVAGELOVE I had a blast hosting Savage Lovecast Live at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Audience members submitted questions before the show, and I consumed a large pot edible right after the curtain went up and then raced to give as much decent sex advice as I could before it took effect. Here are some of the questions I didn’t get to before my judgment became too impaired to operate a sex-and-relationship-advice podcast.

I’ve been on the dating apps a while. What’s up with serial first daters?

Back when people primarily met at parties, bars, clubs, etc., we established baseline physical/chemical attraction before learning someone’s name and long before a first date.

(We eyeballed ’em, we said hello, we made a moment’s small talk.) With apps, however, we can’t establish baseline physical/chemical attraction until our first face-to-face meeting which itself comes after we’ve swapped flirty messages, sent additional pics, and made a plan to meet. Since apps mean more “first dates,” it feels like we’re meeting a lot more “serial first daters” these days. We aren’t— it’s just that now we have to meet up with people to eyeball ’em, say hello, and make small talk. Don’t think of that first meeting with someone you met via an app as a “first date.” Think of it as the pre-interview before the first date.

What is the appropriate amount of side boob?

This is outside my area of expertise/giving a shit. So I’m going to pass this question on to Tim Gunn. I’ll let you know what Tim has to say should he respond.

My best friend is in a relationship with a really jealous, controlling guy. He guilt-trips her constantly and gets passive-aggressively mad whenever she tries to hang out with people besides him.

When she complains about him, I want to say fuck him, he’s a dick, except … she’s having a full-on affair with another guy and seems not to feel bad about it! I don’t know what advice to give or how to make sense of the situation. What’s my responsibility to her? To her boyfriend?

Maybe your best friend’s boyfriend is jealous and controlling because he senses—or because he knows—his girlfriend is cheating on him. Or maybe it didn’t occur to your best friend to cheat on her boyfriend until after he accused her of cheating for the millionth time—maybe she figured she might as well commit the crime since she was already being punished for it. Or maybe they’re both terrible people who deserve each other and neither is your responsibility.

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Spiking your girlfriend’s twat with pot lube without her consent is not an option.

bars. She feels it should be kept to a minimum, but a little is okay. He feels it shouldn’t happen, as it may make people uncomfortable. Thoughts?

I think this is something you and your opposite-sex partner should discuss over drinks in one of the thousands of straight bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I feel like all my friends resent me for getting married. How do I make them feel less insecure about my new relationship?

Ask yourself which is likelier: All of your friends—every single one of them—are so petty and insecure that they resent you for getting married or you were a megalomaniacal bride-or-groom-or-nonbinary-zilla and behaved so atrociously that you managed to piss off all your friends? If it’s the (less likely) former, make better friends. If it’s the (more likely) latter, make amends.

My brother’s fiancée told my mom that she doesn’t like my mom’s usual lipstick color and asked my mom to wear a shade she picked out for the wedding. My mom is 75 and wears cute pink lipstick.

Is it wrong if both my mom and I wear the pink in solidarity?

You should absolutely wear your mom’s shade in solidarity—and send me a pic of you two at the wedding, please! (Hey, person who asked the previous question, did you pull this kind of shit?

Did you order your friends around the way this woman’s future DIL is ordering her around?)

Since my man and I got engaged, we’ve been fighting about wedding planning. We never fought until now. How can we move forward with the wedding without ruining our relationship? Best sex of my life, BTW. Elope. For your own sake, for the sake of friends and family members who will inevitably be sucked into your conflict about your wedding plans, for the sake of all that excellent sex … just fucking elope.

We are two lesbians in our 20s and ready to start a family. Will you be our sperm donor?

Nope!

You’ve recommended marijuana to help women have better sex. I’ve tried it, but I often get so high that time seems to fracture. When that happens, I worry I’m missing orgasms. What should I do?

Less!

I want to try the new cannabis lubes. Should I tell my girlfriend first or just do it? It’s expensive, and I’m afraid she’ll say no since she doesn’t smoke the ganja.

Do not dose your girlfriend without her consent. If it’s smoke she doesn’t like, ask her how she feels about experimenting with pot edibles and spreadables. And if the answer is no, the answer is no. Spiking your girlfriend’s twat with pot lube without her consent is not an option—it would be an unforgivable and very likely criminal violation of her bodily autonomy. DO NOT DO IT. You are always talking about adult children coming out to their fundamentalist parents about being queer, poly, kinky, etc. But how should older adults handle coming out to their batshit fundamentalist adult kids, especially when these kids control access to grandchildren?

Just as an adult child’s presence is their only leverage over their parents, your presence is your only leverage over your adult children.

(Unless you’re sitting on a large family fortune, of course, and you can threaten them with disinheritance.) And just as queer kids are sometimes forced to lie to their parents—they sometimes have to tell hateful parents what they want to hear in order to avoid being cut off or thrown out—you may have to tell your kids what they want to hear (or not tell them what they don’t want to hear) in order to avoid being cut out of your grandchildren’s lives. It sucks, and I’m sorry—but once your grandchildren are grown, you can say whatever you like and tell your batshit fundamentalist adult kids to go fuck themselves.

When is the best time to tell my married, ostensibly straight coworker that I want to have sexy gay times with his bubble butt?

Hmm … maybe once you’ve updated your résumé, seeing as your gay trouble butt may get fired after you grab his straight bubble butt?

What are some ways to overcome shyness and tell your partner what you want?

Think how soon you’ll be dead (soon!) and how long you’re gonna stay dead once you’re dead (forever!). Then tell your partner everything. Do it in an email if you can’t do it faceto-face—but do it! Donald Trump is president and we could all be dead tomorrow. Don’t delay!

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The winner of our “You are so D.C. if…” contest went straight for the bottom line. If the nearly 500 entries we received could be summed up with one word, that word would be “gentrification.” The outcomes of rising costs of living are many, but one is more poignant than others: “You are so D.C. if you’re a D.C. native and can’t afford to live in the neighborhood you grew up in, let alone any other parts of your city.”

City Paper staff voted blind, meaning we didn’t know your names when we entered our favorites. For that reason, some people won two or more times, while others who entered the contest again and again don’t appear in these pages.

This winner, who found a sharp way to express something many others wrote, didn’t respond after we reached out last Friday asking for a name, and didn’t respond to a follow-up email Monday morning. Maybe this person is trying to be some anonymous voice of wisdom and truth—the wizard behind the curtain, a mysterious moral benefactor. Or maybe our winner forgot to check email this week. Either way, congrats.

Other lessons? D.C. loves Marion Barry. No other politician, past or present, garnered more than a one-off reference, usually negative. For Marion “Mayor for Life” Barry, our readers managed to collectively demand an entire category. They did the same for mumbo sauce, go-go, Metro escalator etiquette, and the experience of repeatedly delivering a verbal resume on demand.

Our categories on race, gentrification, and neighborhoods were far less defined. Answers from all three categories overlapped. As one entrant wrote: “You are so D.C. if you are young, white, with a good job, and gentrifying a black neighborhood.”

Early this week, patterns seemed to be emerging in terms of which entrants stayed anonymous and which didn’t. Were people more likely to fess up to their love of mumbo sauce than their thoughts on race relations? As we go to print, the answer appears to be no. Some wanted to stay anonymous due to their jobs, more people remained anonymous over go-go music than race, and plenty of people attached their names to touchy subjects.

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FIRST PLACE

You’re a D.C. native and can’t afford to live in the neighborhood you grew up in, let alone any other parts of your city.

—Anonymous

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SECOnD PLACE

You go to the corner store and buy a pickled egg, sunflower seeds and a big mama hot sausage, put it in a plastic sandwich bag, bite the corner of the bag and eat it out of that small hole.

—Rachael Dunston

ThIRD PLACE

You had a Marion Barry summer job. —Bruce Holliday

FOURTh PLACE

You once lived in Shaw but claimed it was Logan Circle; lived in Logan but claimed it was the east side of Dupont; lived in Dupont but always mentioned you’re not gay (but are of course cool with all your LGBT neighbors); lived in Bethesda but claimed it was D.C.; or lived in Rockville but called it North Bethesda. —Jeff S.

FIFTh PLACE

You eye roll at movies set in D.C. that have skyscrapers.

—Aryn Myers

SIXTh PLACE

You will never, ever, ever refer to it as Reagan. It was named after a perfectly fine president and is called Washington National.

—Sarah D.

SEVEnTh PLACE

You were born in a D.C. hospital. The rest of you are posers.

—Jon Gann

EIGhTh PLACE

You refuse to go to a museum that requires paid admission, but you’re more than willing to purchase an $18 cocktail.

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nInTh PLACE

You think you are better than people living in Maryland or Virginia, even though you just moved here from some small town (including towns in Maryland or Virginia) one week ago.

—Julie

TEnTh PLACE

You organically walk to the beat of go-go music.

—Cherrelle e’Lan

hOnORAbLE MEnTIOnS You responded with “NE, NW, SE, or SW” when someone asked you what part of the city you lived in. If the follow-up conversation revealed that the person asking the question also lived in that quandrant or had family in that part of town, then and only then was it proper D.C. etiquette to identify your neighborhood by name. Why? Because unless you knew the people in that neighborhood and knew how they referred to their community, you really didn’t know how the community chose to identify itself. Before realtors defined neighborhoods, we D.C. folk began our discovery of what we had in common with a fellow resident by stating our most inclusive identity, a resident of this city, not the most restrictive.

You remember taking pictures in front of backdrops in the CVS parking lot at Florida and Georgia—across the street from Popeyes. —Anonymous You were born here, your parents were born here, your grandparents were born here, and NONE of you worked for the federal govern—Catherine Aselford ment.

—Beverly Lancaster

You often use “the Shrimp Boat” in your directions when asked how to get from point A to point B.

—Tyrone Goodwyn

ThE ESCALATORS You stand on the right and walk on the left.

—Candace Tyler

You push people who stand to the left on escalators. —Monica Galli

You literally want to die when someone stands still on the left side of the escalator. -—Kelly McCone

Tourists standing on the left of a Metro escalator incites homicidal rage.

—Shauntice Rodriguez

The thought of someone not walking up on the left side of the escalator enrages you. —Ashley Lowerre

You believe it is your personal responsibility to educate escalefting tourists about how we do things here.

—Becca Lundberg

You stand on the right side of the escalator anywhere around the world and get annoyed when others don’t.

—Ally Crha

Your biggest pet peeve is not standing right, and walking left.

—Alessandra Clará

You have ever walked into the alley behind the J. Crew on F Street, closed your eyes and inhaled deeply because on the right day, under the right conditions, you can make yourself believe it smells like the funk of the old 9:30 Club.

—Kevin M. Goldberg

You assume the word “contractor” refers to a government contractor, rather than a carpenter, —Ben Wohl plumber, etc.

GEnTRIFICATIOn You complain about gentrification on the way to Soul Cycle.

You are a gentrifier strongly opposed to gentrification.

You complain about gentrification while sipping a pumpkin spice latte in your gentrified neighborhood, in its newest protest-chic coffee shop.

—Carmen Molina

You are young, white, with a good job, and gentrifying a black neighborhood.

—Anonymous

—Anonymous

You remember when H and U streets were not gentrified.

—WashNative

You are white and don’t speak to your black neighbors in a gentrified black community.

—Anonymous

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—Dan Forrest

You recognize a neighborhood as “gentrified” once you see white women jogging there.

—Anonymous

You are always in awe of a white woman with a yoga mat walking in Petworth because back in the day you would have never seen that.

—Erin McNamara

D.C. DICTIOnARY You say “ Dat Joint” when referring to pretty much anything

—Bruce Holliday

You call people bamas.

—Bruce Holliday

You have used the word bama in a sentence.

—Anonymous You call Trump a bama at least once a day.

-Lou Mario You still use the word bama, lunchin’ or joanin’. —Anonymous You miss people understanding what bama and cised mean, and are tired of explaining what mambo sauce is.

—Cameron Jacobs

You used to say “Dem joints was hittin’ n’ stickin’ like Popeye’s chicken!” Meaning something was GOOD! —David Driggers

You called, and still call, Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park, and wouldn’t get seen hulu hooping there on purpose.

—Anonymous You know what “demountables” are in the D.C. schools.

—David Kusnet

You pronounce SE souf-feast.

—Anonymous

“Ery/er” is actually part of a word for you. Eryday = Everyday.

Saerday = Saturday. Merlan = Maryland.

—Cherrelle e’Lan Irk is how you pronounce Eric.

—Monica Bell

You regularly break into alphabet soup laden conversation, and actually know what the acronyms stand for.

—Rufino Hurtado You always refer to D.C. as the District never anything else.

—Dan Maceda

In ThE nEIGhbORhOOD You call neighborhoods by their actual names and refuse to use the ridiculous mashups like Admo.

—Anonymous You rename/rebrand your neighborhood by installing a mural on the side of your house.

—Yancey Burns

You give someone the stare of death when they say “I’m from here,” and you reply “what part?” and they name a Maryland neighborhood.

—Tia Dowe You understand that there are actual neighborhoods full of people who don’t work on the Hill, at the World Bank or IMF, and care even less if you do.

—Ariane C. Jones

Part of meeting another D.C. native involves naming your neighborhood, followed by naming the intersection you lived closest to, and then asking the other person if they knew some person who lived near there.

—Coreene White

You belong to a neighborhood listserv that spends days debating whether it is okay to put dog poop bags in trashcans.

—Susan Holbrook

You care about the schools in your neighborhood whether your children attend private, charter, or public schools.

—Ariane C. Jones You know where the best Ethiopian food is in every neighborhood.

—Daphne Puerto

You remember Trinidad being much larger and don’t understand Truxton Circle being a neighborhood.

—Anonymous Knowing your neighbors is important to you.

—Ariane C. Jones

GO-GO FOREVER Go-go music.

—Sheika Reid

You love go-go music.

—Ariane C. Jones

You know Chuck Brown is the godfather of go-go. —Anonymous Chuck Brown is your godfather.

—Cherrelle e’Lan

You refer to your neighborhood with a street name—Kennedy Street, 5th and O, Morton Street, etc.

—Tanya Golash-Boza

You only know certain chart-topping pop songs because there is a go-go version. —Dustin Williams

You have a Slack group to discuss messages on your neighborhood’s listserv.

—Anonymous

You dance, no matter where you are, when Chuck Brown comes on.

—Anonymous

You know go-go music, Chuck Brown, Rare Essence, EU and the Junk Yard Band. -Anonymous You know all of the words to ANY Chuck Brown song. —Anonymous You’ve gone to a go-go at one of the private schools. —Anonymous You went to go-go parties at Sidwell and NCS. —Sheika Reid You remember free go-gos at the Highland skating rink.

—Anonymous

You know what go-go is and like it.

—Maria

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RACE RELATIOnS You never knew the reason your family and friends always went to Marshall Hall instead of Glen Echo was that Glen Echo didn’t allow black families in their amusement park. And once you found out, you really didn’t give a damn because you always had the best time ever at Marshall Hall. And besides, you got to ride a boat to Marshall Hall. What the hell could beat that?

—Beverly Lancaster

You slam black people on social media.

—Anonymous You are the white PTA president of a historic black school.

—Anonymous

You are white and got into an argument about dog poop on sidewalk.

—Anonymous

You are white and were caught not paying the Metro fare, but if you are black they don’t care.

—Anonymous

You think it’s whack that the white people over at City Paper are creating a litmus test for being D.C. Better yet, you’re so D.C. if you remember when what white people wanted was the last thing that mattered to the cultural pulse of the city. Maybe you’re so D.C. if you miss U Street, jazz clubs, still call it Malcom X Park, want the Washington Football Team back at RFK, miss the UniverSoul Circus, go-go, and get asked for directions to the Metro every goddamn time you’re walking with your kid on the Mall.

I dunno, who really does?

—Michelle Davis

You believe this will be something new white folks get, and not long term residents.

—EJJ

V.I.P.

Since you moved here, you haven’t had a single conversation where you weren’t asked, “So, where do you work?”

—Marissa Paulsen

You have an elevator speech prepared for new acquaintances’ inevitable question, “So what do you do?”

—Becca Lundberg You ask, “What do you do?” upon meeting a new person, and not, “Hi, how are you?” —Anonymous The first question you ask when meeting someone for the first time is, “What do you do?”

—Annette Quarles

You start every introduction with, “What do you do?”

—Allie Fernandez

You meet someone and immediately say, “So, what do you do?”

MUMbO SAUCE

whAT DO YOU DO?

Mumbo sauce.

—Sam Majors

You like chicken and mambo sauce.

—Darlene Wright You love your chicken with mumbo sauce.

—Chantelle James You can’t eat wings without mumbo sauce. —LaKia Lockett-Johnson After moving away, you still drive to D.C. for your chicken wings and mumbo sauce. —Diana Brooks You order mumbo sauce on your wings AND fries. —Candace Tyler You put mumbo sauce on EVERYTHING. —Evangelo “Jegs” Banua You grew up on a particular carryout and are a loyalist to its mumbo sauce.

—Anonymous

You listen to go-go music and eat chicken wings with mumbo sauce.

—Anonymous You know what authentic mambo sauce tastes like.

—Anonymous You prefer mambo sauce over hot sauce.

—Cherrelle e’Lan You thought that mumbo sauce was a staple in the American diet.

—Sheika Reid

You have a spreadsheet of ingredient combinations you’ve created in your quest to engineer the perfect mumbo sauce.

—Kevin M. Goldberg

You have mumbo sauce, half smokes, and DC Brau in your fridge all at the same time.

—Nate Bell

You won’t eat wings from a carryout unless they have mumbo sauce on them. —Quinton Brooks

You know about new hip, trendy mumbo sauce at Whole Foods.

You buy mumbo sauce in bulk from a Chinese carry out.

You order wings and fries with mumbo sauce on EVERYTHING.

—Preston Cornish

—Alex Booker

—Bria Culp

Your first question is, “So what do you do?”

—Alessandra Clará You ask, “So, what do you do?” before you even know the person’s name.

—Yigit Erkut You think you and your job are more important than everyone back home.

—Tom DeLuca You think it stands for “Deserves Career.”

—Michael Rose You introduce yourself with your job title.

—Coreene White For 50% of your acquaintances you learned their jobs before you learned their names, and for the other 50% you will never know their true professions and employers.

—Lily Carter No one understands what you do.

—Elizabeth Hagerty

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—Stephanie Johnson

MARIOn bARRY Mayor Marion Barry is your Mayor for life.

—Cherrelle e’Lan In the summer, you had a job through Marion Barry’s Summer Youth Employment Program.

R.I.P. Marion Barry, “D.C. Mayor for Life.”

—Dr. Monica Roaché

You remember the love the city has had for Marion Barry.

—Sheika Reid

You got your first job under Marion Barry’s summer employment program.

—Kim Park

You assume the D.C. quarter features Marion Barry.

—Phil Wolf

You rode in a election day caravan with Marion Barry. —Will Sommer

You know that Marion Barry will always be “Mayor” Barry for LIFE. May he rest in Paradise.

You have ever used “the bitch set me up” as a legitimate excuse for something.

—Norah S.

—Latrice Stewart-Muhammad

That goddam bitch really did set you up.

—Dan Campbell

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Family Meal

Dining with Kwame Onwuachi’s family reveals the rich culinary traditions that will color his menu at Kith and Kin.

Laura Hayes

Kwame Onwuachi with his grandmother Cassie Phillips

By Laura Hayes To undersTand whaT Chef Kwame Onwuachi is bringing to the table at his new restaurant Kith and Kin, consider his rendition of West African jollof rice. Onwuachi cooks down tomato sauce with shrimp powder, habanero pepper, ginger, garlic, red onion, and red pepper to make a paste that turns the rice the vibrant shade of a harvest moon.

“There’s a running debate between Nigerians and Ghanaians about who makes it the best,” Onwuachi says. Nigerians fold the sauce in after the rice is cooked, while Ghanaians add the paste in from the start, cooking it more like paella. Onwuachi, who lived in Nigeria between the ages of 10 and 12, fuses the

Young & hungrY

techniques by cooking the rice with the seasoning, then piping a few dots of the piquant paste onto the finished dish to ensure diners continue to taste the explosive flavor.

He also adds whipped ricotta for a cooling effect. Spring onion confit, pickled pearl onion petals, and marinated tomatoes all add tartness and tang. While Onwuachi calls the base of his jollof rice “pretty textbook,” the garnishes make the time-honored dish fancy enough to appear on the menu in his refined dining room inside the InterContinental Washington D.C.— The Wharf hotel, set to open on Oct. 12.

If you’ve never tried jollof rice, you’ve probably had one of its cousins. It inspired many of the rice-based dishes in Creole cuisine, including jambalaya. West Africans, who came to the South as slaves, brought their recipes with them and they evolved over time.

“My family has a direct lineage of the Afro-Caribbean and transatlantic slave trade where it started in West Africa, went down to the Caribbean, and all the way to the American South,” Onwuachi says. “I grew up eating jollof rice and jambalaya. I just want to cook the food I cook for my family and my friends.”

That’s what he’ll do at Kith and Kin, which translates to friends and family in Old English.

“When the InterContinental first contacted me to do this hotel, I didn’t know what direction to go in,” Onwuachi says. At first he thought he would stick to new American cuisine. “Then I did this event with Questlove. I made beef patties with yellow pepper hot sauce and José Andrés was drinking the sauce.” After that, he says, people implored him to “cook like this all the time.”

Kith and Kin is Onwuachi’s second restaurant in D.C. The first, The Shaw Bijou, closed

three months after opening earlier this year.

The tasting menu was one of the city’s most expensive, costing $185 before tax, tip, and drinks. It featured luxe dishes like king crab roasted in garlic butter with uni bottarga but garnered unfavorable reviews from critics.

With his new restaurant, the 27-year-old chef will leverage his greatest asset—his family’s rich history and culinary traditions.

Most chefs embark on a period of research and development when opening a restaurant.

They might take a trip to immerse themselves in the cultures whose cuisines they hope to emulate or perhaps they study old recipe books.

For Onwuachi, research called for traveling down memory lane.

They say to know someone is to know their family, so earlier this month, City Paper joined Onwuachi for a late lunch at the Navy Yard apartment he shares with his fiancée, Mya Allen. The chef ’s mother, Jewel Robinson, was up from New Orleans and his grandparents Cassie and Winston Phillips drove from Yorktown, Virginia. Each relative contributed to the rainbow-colored spread.

The biggest pot contained Robinson’s gumbo, dark, murky, and still bubbling. “This is the shit right here,” Onwuachi says. “I would drink this. My mother used to make this growing up all the time. We’d take turns stirring the roux.”

Roux, a mixture of flour and butter cooked into a paste, is used to thicken sauces. Onwuachi calls it “black gold.” Robinson brought a sheet pan of it with her from New Orleans.

Security stopped her for additional screening. “They tested that roux four times,” she says. “They didn’t know what it was. I was like, ‘Dude, we’re in New Orleans, I’m going to D.C., and I have to make gumbo.’”

Gumbo is a deeply personal dish. Some make chicken and sausage gumbo or seafood gumbo, but Robinson combines them. “I grew up with gumbo with sausage, chicken, crabmeat, crab, and shrimp,” she says. Her mother, Cassie, is from Mamou, Louisiana. “It’s a place where they say gumbo was born,” Robinson says.

While Onwuachi has gussied up gumbo for private dinners in the past, even adding caviar beads that burst in your mouth, he’ll put his mother’s more traditional gumbo on the menu at Kith and Kin once his restaurant gets its sea legs. Gumbo requires more steps than some other dishes, and it takes time.

Onwuachi’s grandfather Winston is Trinidadian. He prepared buljol, a traditional dish from the island. He shredded salted codfish, then added onions, tomatoes, avocado, and dressing made from his secret pepper sauce and fresh lime juice. Goat curry and roti also appeared on the table. Curries are common in Trinidad,

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which draws the lion’s share of its culinary influence from India. While Onwuachi prepared it for this lunch, it’s Winston’s recipe.

“This one you start with green seasoning, which is a purée of celery, ginger, garlic, culantro, and habanero ferment,” Onwuachi says. “You marinate the meat in that, then sear the meat and braise it slow.” The curry already packs heat, but if you’re the type who likes to sweat, try Winston’s hot sauce. “It’ll blow your face away,” Onwuachi warns. At Kith and Kin, Onwuachi will serve goat roti, and he’s making his own hot sauce—a jalapeño ferment—that customers will be able to purchase to take home.

Cassie made a warm and comforting stewed chicken dish. Stews are so common where his family is from that Onwuachi acts out a scene to explain it. “This,” he says, pointing to the pot, “is ‘Hey what’s that animal over there?’ ‘I don’t know. Shoot it and let’s boil some rice.’”

Onwuachi also made the style of jollof rice he’ll serve at Kith and Kin. In Nigeria, Onwuachi says villagers would eat jollof rice with whatever they last killed. Borrowing from this tradition, Onwuachi will top Kith and Kin’s jollof rice with a diner’s choice of beef or goat sprinkled with suya, stewed chicken in red sauce, or torched mackerel. Suya is an addictive Nigerian spice blend. Onwuachi’s version combines ginger, peanut, garlic, chili, onion, alligator pepper, and dehydrated beef powder.

When any family gathers around a single table for a meal, it’s natural to reminisce. More specifically, it’s easy to embarrass the man of the hour with stories from his childhood. Robinson, for example, discussed what her son ate growing up.

“Kwame ate everything,” she says. “He would order the craziest thing on the menu just so he could try it. It would take forever.

We’d all be waiting there for him to make his decision.” Once he insisted on liver and onions because he had just seen Silence of the Lambs.

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Onwuachi developed an interest in cooking while helping his mom with her catering company and also from his favorite TV show, Iron Chef. “I used to run around the house with no shirt on, biting bell peppers as a little kid,” he admits. “What an embarrassing ‘mom story.’”

Peeling shrimp next to his mother and eating food made with love seems like an idyllic upbringing, but Onwuachi has hit some rough patches. As the servers used to tell diners at The Shaw Bijou, he once resorted to selling candy on the New York subway to support himself. He also cooked in the galleys of ships floating off Louisiana while workers dealt with the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

“They were there for me throughout all of the rough times,” he says looking around. “I haven’t always been this polished Kwame. For me to be here right now, having my own businesses, doing something that I love, is something I can’t really put into words ” Winston’s eyes crinkle with pride when he talks about his grandson. “You have a young black man that really knows what he wants,” he says. “What I admire most is that if he’s not satisfied with the way things are supposed to go, he’ll choose something and let it go his way.” The room tears up when he talks about how far Onwuachi had to come.

“The restaurant industry is not an easy business, there’s a high rate of failure,” Winston continues. “I can cook for six people, but I cannot cook for 10. So much goes into cooking that the average person doesn’t know.”

Cassie is optimistic about Kith and Kin’s success. “This particular kind of restaurant, I think it’s going to go through the roof,” she says. “I think it’s going to be something that D.C. hasn’t seen.” She’s right. “We’re excited that he keeps on going no matter what, that he has the stamina to go forth.”

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Sauce-O-Meter How recent food happenings measure up

By Laura Hayes LAME SAUCE

MUMBO SAUCE

Once among Post critic Tom Sietsema’s favorites, Mirabelle— home of the $26 ham sandwich—only nets two and a half stars out of four.

A warm mushroom salad costs $24 at Nobu, now open in the West End.

H Street NE switcheroo: Queen Vic owner Ryan Gordon is taking control of Granville Moore’s too.

“Medium-sized” plates at Hazel, Tail Up Goat, and Kyirisan. Your food is good, but pick a lane!

Hana Japanese Market is still temporarily closed.

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The health department starts cracking down on bars that allow dogs.

Now Councilmember Brianne Nadeau’s office is working on emergency legislation to stop pups from being prohibited. Meanwhile, Washingtonians are signing “pawtitions.”

Swizzler is popping up inside Prequel’s new location on 19th Street NW. The trio of guys behind the food truck expanded the menu beyond their signature hot dogs to include burgers and fried chicken.

Stuffings: Shaved, home-cooked roast beef, marinara sauce, fresh garlic, onions, romano cheese, melted mozzarella Bread: Seeded Italian loaf Thickness: 3 inches Pros: Because Capo doesn’t have a seating area, all sandwiches are served to-go style. They’ve mastered wrapping sandwiches with minimal mess and this hot sandwich stayed warm even after a 30-minute bus ride. The seeded loaf adds a pleasant nuttiness that complements the marinara sauce.

The Sandwich: Italian Beef Where: Capo Italian Deli, 715 Florida Ave. NW. Price: $8.95 for a small, $11.95 for a large

Cons: This sandwich can hardly be called an Italian beef. Traditional versions of the Chicago-born offering include thin slices of roast beef topped with jus and giardiniera or roasted sweet peppers. This one dumps the

Bresca is now open on 14th Street NW. Chef Ryan Ratino folds in luxe ingredients, but most dishes cost less than $20.

Don’t go looking for food or fanciness at Union Trust, opening near the White House, from the owners of The Pug, Solly’s, and Brookland’s Finest.

It’s just a no-frills watering hole.

tangy vegetables for raw garlic and replaces the savory jus with a cloyingly sweet marinara sauce. The beef has no flavor whatsoever and the sandwich is packed so tightly, it’s hard to take a bite.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 2. You might expect a sandwich slathered in marinara sauce and melted cheese to drip all over your hands, but in this situation, the sauce is so thick it stays in the confines of the bread. The mess is minimal.

So is the taste.

Overall score (1 to 5): 1.5. Selling sandwiches near the U Street Corridor is a good idea, but Capo has room for improvement. The combination of flavorless fillings and a seat-free storefront make it a place to skip, not to seek out.

—Caroline Jones

Beer: Port City Franconian Kellerbier Person: Abbey Temoschuk, Yeast Wrangler Hometown: Alexandria, Virginia Price: $7 per 14 oz Taste: Aromas of matchstick-mustiness meet mango in this deep golden copper-highlighted lager, which is 5.1 percent ABV. Mild sweetness on the first taste and firm bitterness on the finish, this lager is reminiscent of biting into a crisp Triscuit—simple, satisfying, and a respectful homage to the beers of Southern Germany.

Story: Like most regional breweries, Port City has a laboratory. That’s where you’ll find Abbey Temoschuk. She tests beer for sanitation, micro stability, and finished specifications such as ensuring the beers the brewery produces are the right color, clear instead of cloudy, and with the correct ABV percentage.

“What’s most important is that it’s balanced, there aren’t any off flavors, and that things complement each other well,” she says.

Running all the taste tests at Port City, Temoschuk says drinking and tasting beer are radically different. “Smelling takes at least 30 seconds before you drink it. You take some notes and then finally you get to taste it, taking one sip at a time.” She further explains her process: “Before you take a sip, you pour [beer] into the glass and look to see, analyzing the haze, head retention, and color because those three things alone can tell you a lot about the beer and your brewing process.”

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Selfie Expression

Matt Dunn

A year after Tarica June’s anti-gentrification anthem “But Anyway” went viral, the D.C. rapper still has plenty to say.

By Alona Wartofsky There are plenTy of rappers out there who would love to sign with a label. Tarica June isn’t one of them.

Her reluctance stems from her disdain for the archetype she derides as “the male fantasy female rapper.”

“They all rap about sex. They all are overly sexualized, and that’s not an image I want to put out there,” she says. “I could just be wrong, but I feel like the labels must be pushing people to do this, because it’s not that there’s this lack of deep thought by female artists.”

A few more things you should know about Tarica June: The persuasiveness of her arguments surely dovetails with her day job—she is a practicing lawyer, having graduated cum laude on scholarship from Howard University School of Law. Before that, she attended Stanford University on a full scholarship, so there’s a distinct possibility that she’s smarter than you.

The video released last year for her song “But Anyway,” a brilliant, withering takedown of gentrified D.C., is currently

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at 4.2 million views online. Her new song “Selfie” and its video represent a shift in both tone and subject: It’s a joyful selflove anthem with a laid-back go-go flavor and an overwhelmingly positive message.

What connects them both—and the rest of her oeuvre so far—is June’s razor-sharp lyricism and intelligence paired with compelling messages of both uplift and defiance. Her strongly held views have everything to do with her determination to shape her own music career.

“Selfie” resulted from her frustration with media depictions of African-American women and girls. “We seem to be moving in a direction where these mainstream ideas of beauty are taking women of color, specifically black women, further and further away from their natural selves,” she says. “I wanted to push the conversation in a different direction and provide something that gives little girls an alternative and allows them to see themselves as beautiful just as they are.”

While “Selfie” is clearly aimed at young girls—“I love my selfie just as I am/ No perm, no weave, no bleaching, no ma’am/ I’m beautiful just the way that I am”—there’s nothing childish about its message, which was partly inspired by her admiration

for Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The subject of “natural hair” is particularly irritating to June, who started growing her dreadlocks at age 15.

“Having relaxed hair is now the norm, and that to me is so warped,” she says. “People will be like, ‘Tell me, what made you decide to go natural?’ And I’ll be like, ‘Tell me, what made you decide to go chemical?’

“Why is that a foregone conclusion?... You’re just expected to perm your hair? What if you don’t? Or what if I don’t think I need to do something to myself?” anyone who Thinks Tarica June came out of nowhere with “But Anyway” hasn’t been paying attention. She started performing at U Street clubs in 2010 and released the Moonlight Revolution mixtape the same year. She first put out “But Anyway” on her 2014 Stream of Consciousness mixtape, but the song didn’t gain traction until its re-release with an accompanying music video last year.

Acting as her own manager, producer, video director, and publicist, June is still figuring out how to present herself. She records the interview for this story on her phone, just to be sure she’s not misquoted. Reluctant to reveal her age, she asks whether all journalists will ask that question and why.

Except for “Selfie,” which is sold on iTunes, her music can be downloaded for free. Visiting her website, you might read her blog entry “Check out my special tips for growing long healthy locs” and buy one of the t-shirts she’s selling: a Tarica June crop top, a tee that reads “Femcee is not a word,” or her ampersand “homage” tee—“Latifah & Lyte & Left-Eye & Lauren.”

While “But Anyway” surely deserves a spot on any compilation of the best D.C. songs in recent memory, it is not her only standout work. “Dear Hip-Hop” mourns the wasted potential of mainstream hip-hop, and “4-Unit (My Life)” outlines her challenges as an independent artist, which include having to wait until the guy downstairs finishes showering before she can.

“If I was doing what would be expected for me to be doing with a Stanford degree and a law degree, then I definitely would be living in a nicer place,” she says.

But her sacrifices are yielding results. Her recordings and live performances, for which she often plays guitar with a band, have won over admirers including Rare Essence’s Killa Cal, We Act Radio’s Kymone Freeman, and Ben Woods, a community organizer and activist who booked her for a Students Against Mass Incarceration conference at Howard.

“Tarica is one of the best that I’ve ever heard,” says Drew Anderson, host of the long-running Spit Dat open mic. “She’s really just what hip-hop needs right now. Her understanding of who she is and who she represents is something that I think hiphop in general has been missing.

“It’s nice to see the genuine article, someone who’s in charge of her own image, someone who’s not an industry construct, and someone who writes her own rhymes, because there are still people who care about that,” Anderson continues. “She’s kind of in her own lane. I don’t think anybody’s done it the way that Tarica is trying to do it. She studies hip-hop, and she studies the rules enough to know how and when to break them.

She’s a pioneer for real.”

Longtime D.C. poet Reuben Jackson is another admirer.

“There are many things I love about her work. One is the musicality of language, which I think a lot of poets tend to overlook, and then there’s her mastery of language and understanding how language works,” he says. “To be able to combine that washingtoncitypaper.com september 29, 2017 23

CPArts beautiful use of the word with something that’s accessible but is also multilayered in terms of meaning and relevance, that’s a damn hard thing to do.”

Tarica June spenT her earliest years in Greece and Scotland, where her father was stationed during his Navy service. By the time she was five, her family returned home to D.C. They lived by 14th and Allison streets Northwest, a few doors down from her maternal grandmother’s house.

Like many musicians, she was raised in a musical family. Her father, who grew up on nearby Emerson Street NW, performed ’70s R&B with the Emerson Street Band. Her mother, a political scientist, regularly played Bob Marley and other reggae legends, possibly inspiring June’s track “Babylon System.”

June’s older brother was heavily into hip-hop, which broadened her exposure to the music—not only was she listening to the artists she gravitated towards, she was also hearing his playlist. While at West Elementary, June began to find her voice. “I was very introverted. I wrote songs, I wrote poetry, and nobody ever knew,” she says with an easy laugh.

After several members of her mother’s family fell victim to street violence, it was decided that June should be educated in a safer environment. And so she attended a tony private girls school in Virginia. As a weekday boarder returning home for weekends, she was geographically close to home, but a world apart, one of six black students in her graduating class.

At private school, she began to gain an understanding of the kind of privilege one might find in certain sectors of gen-

trified D.C. “I felt like everybody was rich, and it was just the total opposite of what I knew growing up,” she says. She marveled at girls who seemed to have everything but would curse at their parents. “I just didn’t feel like I really related to people there… and the level of insensitivity sometimes was really crazy.”

She recalls one classmate who was baffled by a lesson on the plight of Native Americans. After describing how Native Americans had been wronged throughout American history, the teacher asked what could be done on their behalf. “This girl—I promise she seemed like she was really racking her brain—and she was like, ‘Wait! I’m confused. Didn’t we give them reservations already?’”

Tarica June bursts into laughter. “Guurrrl!... It’s like, where have you been living and whaaat?

“It wasn’t that I felt like disconnected from how they viewed the world,” she notes. “I just felt that it was unfortunate that that was their perspective.”

Stanford was a more positive experience. She felt homesick, but she also performed rap in public for the first time.

Returning to D.C., she had not planned to attend law school, but was spurred to learn about her legal rights thanks to her experiences with a slumlord as well as a music colleague who released a song she wrote for him without crediting her. Now she practices general business law related to regulatory work. She still lives in the same apartment she had during law school and spends a significant portion of her day job earnings on studio time and making videos.

The video for “But Anyway” cost a little more than a thousand dollars, with most of that going to equipment rental and the cameraman’s fee. Its backdrop includes Aniekan Udofia’s Marvin Gaye mural as well as the Petworth Chuck Brown mural painted by D.C. middle school students. Adding to its D.C. feel is her use of tracks that sampled “Ashley’s Roachclip,” an early Soul Searchers song that has been frequently plundered by outof-town hip-hop artists. But there’s much more than that.

Jackson believes that “But Anyway” resonates because it speaks truth about the District’s gentrification with Tarica June’s characteristic depth and insight, taking a closer look at what happens when longtime African-American residents are displaced to make way for trendy shops and cafes. “The gentrification angle is a big part of it, but it has so much more to it than that,” he says. “She’s asking what does it mean to be alive in a place that’s your home and is changing, and what is her relationship to the change taking place? I just think it’s beautifully done.

“I’ve probably driven my neighbors crazy listening to that song,” adds Jackson. “As a Washingtonian, it really struck me. I think she captures the flavor of the city, her relationship to it as a third-generation Washingtonian, and that kind of witty, sometimes acerbic look at what gentrification has brought to D.C.,” he says. “I’m not always thrilled with where spoken word and hip-hop is today, and to hear something that’s accessible, topical and original… I just feet this great sense of pride about her and her work. I don’t know her, but it’s touched me in a really deep way.”

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FilmShort SubjectS in front of Dench, and let her devour each moment, line of dialogue, and passing glance. It’s a staid story, but her rich, lively performance almost saves it. She is deserving of our worship.

All hail the Queen.

—Noah Gittell

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul opens Friday at Landmark’s E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row Cinema.

One FOOT FOrward The Queen and he Victoria & Abdul

Directed by Stephen Frears Judi dench is not quite a movie star—you won’t find her poster adorning the walls of any teenagers—but when she plays British royalty, she might as well be one. The cumulative power of her roles as Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love and Victoria in Mrs. Brown are on display in the opening of Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul. As we catch up with Victoria three decades after the events of Mrs. Brown, she is 81 years old and dying of loneliness. Her king passed away years earlier, and her middleaged children mostly view her as a bother. So when a spark of friendship ignites between her and Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), an Indian peasant brought to England to participate in a royal ceremony, she is eager to fan it into a flame.

Abdul stays on to be her servant, although he serves her more as a companion and a window to the outside world from which Victoria has been secluded for so long. As their friendship grows and she promotes him to more important positions on her staff, her family (represented by her eldest son, played impeccably

by Eddie Izzard), her aides, and even the prime minister Lord Salisbury (Michael Gambon) become increasingly concerned about the message their closeness is sending to the world.

The more they try to oust Abdul, however, the more agency Victoria seems to gain. Eventually, the old, wizened woman is transformed into something fierce. She becomes, in other words, a Judi Dench type, somehow both sassy and tender, and quick to reclaim her humanity from those who would marginalize her.

Unfortunately, this delightful star turn won’t be enough to save Victoria & Abdul. The first problem is its underlying politics. The film’s events could be read as a whitewashing or outright denial of the tragic realities of colonialism. The Indian peasant and the British monarch become friends. That’s nice, but what does it do for the millions in subjugation in his

homeland? He has no heart for them, and neither does the film.

Those who dismiss the film based on this reading are well within their rights, but the severe lack of characterization the film gives to Abdul, a byproduct of its imperialist tendencies, is what really damns it. Although the story opens from Abdul’s perspective, we never see him with any depth. He smiles, laughs, and dances, and has zero inner life. His wife and

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards Directed by Michael Roberts

Manolo: the Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards is a deliberately coy title for a film. If you’re unfamiliar with the world of high fashion—or you’ve never watched an episode of Sex and the City—it sounds like it could be an indie charmer about a kid who lives in the jungle.

The boy in question, however, would go on to make shoes for way more than mere lizards.

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards

mother, who Victoria retrieves from India to stay with her, do not receive a single line of dialogue. His name may be in the title, but Abdul’s only function in this story is to serve as the exotic catalyst for Victoria’s late-stage awakening. He teaches her Urdu and speaks of the beauty of his homeland. She responds by creating an exhibit of Indian art in Buckingham Palace and staging a play based on Muslim history. Apparently, Victoria was gaining spiritual fulfillment from Eastern mysticism long before The Beatles or Eat, Pray, Love came around.

Still, watching an actor of Dench’s skill and wisdom enact that journey is a cinematic gift that should not be dismissed. The script gives the actress three big speeches, and Frears—who has long since dispensed with the unpredictable idiosyncrasy of his early works like My Beautiful Laundrette and The Grifters—sticks to a safe formula: Put some pretty things in the background, like the baroque interior of palace or the wild moors of Scotland, place the camera

Director Michael Roberts’ profile of Manolo Blahnik, arguably the greatest living shoe designer, is frothy and light. He does not delve into his subject, seemingly out of respectful deference, to the point where there is little detail into Blahnik’s life. Roberts is content to let Blahnik inflate his persona, so there are more questions than answers.

Blahnik grew up in the Canary Islands, only to make a name for himself in the high fashion districts of Paris, London, and eventually New York. Blahnik narrates his own back story, conjuring a romantic notion of himself. His talent is preternatural, and he seemingly never had to struggle because he would charm everyone he met. The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards includes interviews with several fashion heavyweights, including Anna Wintour and Isaac Mizrahi, and they are all rapturous about their talented, eccentric friend. Roberts also spends times photographing the shoes themselves, yet there is little context about why they are so valuable and singular. The transition be-

tween craft and name recognition is invisible: By the halfway point, his customers clamor for his shoes because of his name, and not the quality his name represents.

This is Michael Roberts’ first film, and he shows none of the probing curiosity that most documentarians have in their bones. In fact, parts of the film have a strange, borderline amoral quality. Blahnik discusses how he avoided Paris’ social upheaval in the late ’60s, citing his hatred of crowds. This is accepted on its face, and hardly mentioned again. As the film continues, Blahnik’s reasoning sounds like a convenient excuse since his persona— sophisticated, worldly, excitable—seems borne out of willful ignorance.

At one point, someone comments that fashion designers, like all artists, must be sensitive observers of the world, since their work must reflect what they see. If this is the case, then Blahnik is arguably a failed artist. He seemingly never leaves his immaculately decorated bubble, unless he is on a factory floor where everyone adores him. At one point, the film discusses Blahnik’s kinship with John Galliano. They gloss over how Galliano once announced his love for Hitler, referring to this episode as “losing everything.” A better film would ask how Blahnik stood by his friend/collaborator, or not.

Instead, Roberts is too excited to film the two designers in the same shot.

The best parts of The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards offer hints into the depth of Blahnik’s influences. Based on Roberts’ lopsided view, Blahnik is great because he somehow stands outside the popular fashions of the period. There is an interesting interview with the director of Madrid’s Prado museum, and she notes how Blahnik is clearly enamored by the feet in countless Goyas. In his mind, Blahnik is in the same league as the world’s great painters, and the disparate influences seem to confirm that.

There’s also a section where the film discusses early 20th century Africa as an influence, and the subsequent recreations of this milieu are awkwardly staged. The stain of European colonialism seemingly never occurs to Roberts or Blahnik, since the patterns and colors are justification enough.

It is admittedly unfair to expect all fashion designers to be sensitive, compassionate world citizens who take the controversies of the day into account as they make their designs. Blahnik’s desire to create is compulsive, and there are moments where ideas seem to burst out of him. At the same time, The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards is so adoringly created, so utterly absent of anything resembling an investigative thought, that the film’s shoddy construction creates an opportunity for unfair demands. If Roberts’ craft equalled Blahnik’s, this could have a splashy, smart documentary that is about creativity, as well as a celebration of it. Instead, this is a hagiography with way too many quips, bright colors, and fawning interviews.

—Alan Zilberman Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards

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parent to any fan of her work. Several of her compositions look downright wispy compared to the dense paintings she last showed here in 2015. The lightest new work may be “Residual: Constructing Magic Skies” (2017), a spare and almost Suprematist arrangement of intersectMaggie Michael: Cubes and ing arcs and angles, made using ink, clay excaPyramids Share the Same Base vated from her studio, and metal rust.

At G Fine Art to Oct. 14 The notion of opposition rises to the fore in As the pAinting’s title suggests, “Phallic Michael’s work. Not quite to the level of resisWarlord” belongs locked away in the base- tance: There’s agitation in her abstract paintment. Virtually isolated from the rest of the ings, but only one, “Untitled Yellow Painting artworks on view at G Fine Art, this 2017 paint- (TU XX)” (2017)—another outlier tucked away ing stands out among Maggie Michael’s latest in the basement, with its Trump yellow color paintings: dense, loud, overbearing. It’s simi- and harsh consonant letter forms—suggests lar to the textured, chaotic, all-over style that anything so immediate and topical. The sense has marked Michael’s surface work over her of alarm in her new, taut composition resolast few shows. But across a small suite of la- nates in the title of one painting: “Red Cross, ser-focused paintings on the main gallery lev- Red Crescent, White Helmets” (2016–17).

One thing that Cubes and Pyramids Share el, it’s negative space that reigns.

Cubes and Pyramids Share the Same Base, the Same Base demonstrates is that Michael’s Michael’s latest show with G, marks another horizontal and vertical paintings don’t altransition in her winding career as an abstract ways share the same values. “Afterlife Orthopainter. Her touch is lighter and airier than in dox: Spyridon bends fire, water and clay with past shows: That much will be immediately ap- Blinky (Suspend and Surrender)” (2017)— the last note in the cacophonous title an allusion to Blinky Palermo, a painter’s painter—depicts a violent atmosphere that hinges on a single stable triangle form at mid-canvas.

Michael’s horizontal paintings are more legible; the vertical paintings have more action.

Then there’s “Naming an Arab: An-Nur (‫ )ءوضلا‬vs Meursault on Camus’ Beach” (2017). Michael has tacked an acetate transparency photocopy of pages from The Stranger to the canvas, the artist’s most Robert Rauschenbergian gesture to date.

The painting features two bloody plum-colored forms—opposites, and in Michael’s formal language, clones.

Meursault and the knife-wielding Arab he murders on the beach, probably. Or maybe it’s Raymond Sintès and his Moorish girlfriend. Or Maggie Michael and Albert Camus.

With Michael’s work, it pays to read closely. In several of the paintings in this show, most notably “Residual: Phantom Icon Merges Her and Him” (2017), the artist is revisiting formal innovations she first debuted as a student at American University. She remains the District’s strongest painter. In this show, Michael is working epi-cyclically, retracing her steps, painting through her own retrograde formal concepts even as she works out new tactics for their composition—processing, processing, processing.

—Kriston Capps “Afterlife Orthodox: Spyridon bends fire, water and clay with Blinky (Suspend and Surrender)” 4718 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 462-1601.

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MusicDiscography

Cause and effeCts Eyes to the Light The Effects Dischord Records

Lots of artists have a favorite mode to work in; Devin Ocampo’s might be the power trio. The Effects is the D.C. lifer’s third three-piece after Faraquet and Medications, and the latest to trace a tension between mathy technical excess (no King Crimson haters here), post-hardcore attack and release, and, increasingly more over time, poppy precision and grace. The Effects erupted out of the gate several years ago with a string of full-assault EPs, largely containing songs that were direct, muscular, and propulsive—a power trio’s power trio. Eyes to the Light, their debut full-length on Oca-

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mpo’s home base of Dischord Records, is a bit more surprising, both for its willingness to take detours—opener “New Isolation” is a galloping mission statement until its abrupt, wiry, self-contorting coda, a hint that things could get very proggy—and for its effervescence. The Effects can tear it up, but their album is also notable for its ease and its light touches. There are songs here you’d actually call painterly.

Not all of them, though. And that’s not a bad thing. “Numbers” is another clanging vision quest that ends with a curveball. “Another Day” is clangy but languorous, what seems to be a pulsing reflection on introver-

sion (“the maladjusted inherit nothing, not even the Earth”) that benefits greatly from the talents of Ocampo’s bandmates: drummer David Rich, formerly of instrumental rocket men Buildings, and bassist Matt Dowling, of the sky-scratching mope-rockers Deleted Scenes. These guys do raw and they do deliberate, and at their best they do a bit of both.

“Anchors Aweigh” has a nautical feel and a nautical theme, applying a sea metaphor to either an estranged relationship, an artistic gulf, or both. “I grant the schism is a calculation, abstractionism met with consternation,” sings the typically laconic Ocampo in one unusually wordy lyric (he usually leaves the knottiness to his guitar licks). “I say if you’re lost and out at sea, anchors aweigh.”

“Back and Forth” could be a rumination on static indecision. It also showcases an Ocampo whose vocals have evolved into a careful punk-rock croon, who knows how to make a cosmic road-warrior solo feel right in an otherwise delicate composition.

A few years ago, Ocampo—a recording engineer who is also a member of Beauty Pill and a prolific sideman among bands in the wider Dischord diaspora—described the utilitarian work ethic of the groups he’s led himself: “What defines my various bands is my work with the various members,” he told me, offering a generous, straightforward, very engineer-like sentiment that nevertheless undersold just how creative those bands have been within the strictures they set for themselves.

Yes, the Effects are what happens when you throw together three musicians who are technically rigorous but can channel their abandon, who do bombast but never for its own sake, who see the power trio not as an end but as a vector of something more interesting. In “Anchors Aweigh,” Ocampo even has a nice phrase for it: “collective entropy.”

—Jonathan L. Fischer Listen to “Eyes to the Light” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

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The English Beat ..........................NOV 7 Puddles Pity Party .....................NOV 17 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY CABARet

Weinberg Center for the Arts 20 West Patrick Street, Frederick. (301) 600-2828. Storm Large. 8 p.m. $16.75–$31.75. weinbergcenter.org.

eleCtRONIC

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

9 p.m. $25. 930.com.

FUNk & R&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Here Come The Mummies. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

ROCk

blACk CAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Quicksand. 8 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Wild Cub. 7 p.m. $15–$18. dcnine.com. the hAmilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Eric Krasno Band. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com. hill Country bArbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Dangermuffin. 9:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com. kenneDy Center ConCert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Seu Jorge Presents The Life Aquatic. 8 p.m. $25–$89. kennedy-center.org. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

TORRES. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. songbyrD musiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Tyler Childers. 7 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com. u street musiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Atlas Road Crew. 6:30 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

VOCAl

kenneDy Center fAmily theAter 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jinhai Wang. 7 p.m. $88. kennedy-center.org.

SAtURDAY ClASSICAl

kenneDy Center ConCert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Carpenter plays Copland. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. musiC Center At strAthmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Beijing No. 166 Middle School and Freedom High School. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

COUNtRY

hill Country bArbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Jason Eady. 9:30 p.m. $13–$15. hillcountrywdc.com.

eleCtRONIC

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Crystal Castles. 9 p.m. $30. 930.com. eChostAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Rezz. 9 p.m. $25. echostage.com. u street musiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Zola Jesus. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

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

BRUNO MARS

At some point during the summer, you might have heard a song at a barbecue, at a wedding, or out of a car stereo that sounded like an old favorite, some slab of funk that you just couldn’t place. Was it by Zapp? Or maybe Midnight Star? More than likely, it was Bruno Mars, a singersongwriter who, for the last few years, has made megahits out of pure Soul Train nostalgia. First, it was his appearance on Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” and then it was the one-two punch of the groovy “24K Magic” and “That’s What I Like,” a song that time warps to the early ’90s, recalling an era of new jack swing and pop crossover R&B. There’s nothing new about the music that Mars makes (the similarity of “Uptown Funk” to Zapp’s “More Bounce to the Ounce” has made it the subject of a lawsuit), but that’s beside the point: If you need a song to get a barbecue, a wedding, or an arena concert going, there’s a new king of pop who can deliver it. Bruno Mars performs with Dua Lipa at 8 p.m. at the Capital One Arena, 601 F St. NW. $310. (202) 6283200. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

—Chris Kelly

FOlk

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Leo Kottke. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

HIp-HOp

songbyrD musiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Kodie Shane. 8 p.m. $20–$22. songbyrddc.com.

ROCk

AmP by strAthmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Young Dubliners. 8 p.m. $25–$35. ampbystrathmore.com. blACk CAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Lemon Twigs. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

SUNDAY ClASSICAl

nAtionAl gAllery of Art West gArDen Court 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 8426941. Curtis on Tour. 3:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov. the WArne bAllroom At the Cosmos Club 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW, DC. Alexander String Quartet. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.

FOlk

Weinberg Center for the Arts 20 West Patrick Street, Frederick. (301) 600-2828. Rhiannon Giddens.

7:30 p.m. $22.25–$37.25. weinbergcenter.org.

JAzz

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

Pinback. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

kenneDy Center ConCert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Orion’s Rise: Solange and the Sun Ra Arkestra. 8 p.m. $49–$169. kennedy-center.org.

troPiCAliA 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Bencoolen. 5 p.m. n/a. tropicaliadc.com.

ROCk

VOCAl

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. John Moon. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Church.

8 p.m. $35. 930.com. blACk CAt bACkstAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Mock Identity. 8 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

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CITY LIGHTS: SAtURDAY

FeStIVAl OF SOUtH AFRICAN DANCe

The Festival of South African Dance offers two black forms of movement born under oppression. The Gumboots troupe will be stomping and strutting through gumboot dance, a late-19th century style originally created by rainboot-wearing miners who pounded their feet in distinctive patterns in the darkness to communicate when the mine company banned them from talking. Accompanied onstage by conga drums and keyboard rhythms, The Gumboots’ rapid legwork draws from street frolicking, with some of it resembling that of step dancers. Real Actions Pantsula Dance engage in pantsula, a 1950s street dance style that has evolved to include hiphop moves. In Zulu, pantsula means “waddle like a duck,” and the high-energy dance evokes that through quick foot action. The two companies come together in this festival, blending each dance into something unique. The performance begins at 8 p.m. at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts, 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. $30–$50. (703) 993-2787. cfa.gmu.edu.

—Steve Kiviat DAr Constitution hAll 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Harry Styles. 8 p.m. $57.50–$97.50. dar.org.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Emarosa. 6:30 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. the hAmilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Classic Albums Live: Rush, “2112”. 7 p.m. $25–$49.75. thehamiltondc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Pinback. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

AREYOUAWINNER?

PROvEIt!

WORlD birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Mashrou’Leila. 7:30 p.m. $35.00. birchmere.com. eChostAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Nigerian Independence Concert. 9 p.m. $36.80. echostage.com.

HIp-HOp songbyrD musiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Pardison Fontaine. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

ROCk birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Herman’s Hermits. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

sixth & i historiC synAgogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Ásgeir. 8 p.m. $20–$22. sixthandi.org.

fillmore silVer sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Manchester Orchestra.

7:30 p.m. $23.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

ROCk

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

Pelican. 8 p.m. $14–$16. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

eleCtRONIC

songbyrD musiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Alex Cameron. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

VOCAl 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Oh Wonder.

8 p.m. $30. 930.com.

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blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Band of Roses. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $37. bluesalley. com.

MONDAY

sixth & i historiC synAgogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Asgeir. 8 p.m. $20–$22. sixthandi.org.

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FUNk & R&B

blACk CAt bACkstAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. The Huntress and Holder of Hands. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

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

The Script. 8 p.m. $55. thelincolndc.com.

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tUeSDAY

u street musiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Saint Pé + Crocodiles. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

VOCAl 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Oh Wonder.

8 p.m. $30. 930.com.

CAPitAl one ArenA 601 F St NW, DC. Enrique Iglesias & Pitbull. 7:30 p.m. $39–$575. capitalonearena. monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

WeDNeSDAY ClASSICAl

ClAriCe smith Performing Arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Simon James. 8 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu.

COUNtRY

the hAmilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Secret Sisters. 7:30 p.m. $14.75–$34.75. thehamiltondc.com.

COUNtRY birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Terri Clark. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

eleCtRONIC blACk CAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. RAC. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. blackcatdc.com.

FOlk

ROCk

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tim Barry. 8 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Psychedelic Furs. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chick Corea - Steve Gadd Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $132–$142. bluesalley.com.

blACk CAt bACkstAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Sweet Spirit. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc. com.

musiC Center At strAthmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The United States Navy Band. 7:30 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Chicano Batman. 8 p.m. $20. 930.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Proper Ornaments. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. songbyrD musiC house AnD reCorD CAfe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Twinsmith. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

ROCk 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. NEEDTOBREATHE. 7 p.m. $46. 930.com.

VelVet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Leisure Burn. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

fillmore silVer sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Cafe Tacvba. 8 p.m. $45. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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CAtholiC uniVersity of AmeriCA 620 Michigan Ave. NE. (202) 319-5000. CUA Symphony Orchestra Presents: Music of Spain. 7 p.m. Free. cua.edu.

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Cigarettes After Sex. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

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MOCk IDeNtItY

A healthy local music scene needs collaboration. Few things are more encouraging than watching talented musicians work together to explore musical avenues outside of their own projects.

Mock Identity’s quartet of DC DIY and avant garde artists brings together Adriana-Lucia Cotes (Antonia), Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory), Josh Hoffman (Supersonic Piss) and ambient artist Nate Scheible. Their invigorating first release, 4 Songs, melds anxious noise, urgent rhythms, and Cotes’ expressive and versatile voice. Cotes, a champion of the local scene who works to make space in it for artists of color and women, whispers and screams her disdain for physical and mental abusers. The sound is jagged, with sudden shifts in direction and tempo, making 4 Songs cut even deeper. If you’re looking for an entry into the local music scene, following Mock Identity and the work of its members is a decent place to start. Mock Identity performs with TK Echo and Faunas at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $10. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

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ÁSGeIR

Ásgeir is arguably Iceland’s favorite pop star. The singer from Laugarbakki, once a javelin thrower, has been wildly popular in his home country since the release of his debut, Dýrð í dauðaþögn (later released as In the Silence in English), a folky bit of heartthrob pop that was too saccharine at times. Since then, Ásgeir has taken inspiration from the likes of James Blake, Bon Iver, and his countrymen Sigur Rós and leaned into soaring electronics and larger-than-life melodies on his new record, Afterglow. It’s a pivot that works well with his clear falsetto and elegant lyrics (some of which are written by his poet father and brother). The new sound is arena-ready and inspires visuals of sweeping mountain tops and northern lights. Ásgeir performs with Tusks at 8 p.m. at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. $20–$22. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org. —Justin Weber

Theater

1984 A dystopian reality in which politicians censor the populace and Big Brother rules over everyone was first constructed by George Orwell in his novel, 1984. Now, as part of Mason Fringe, student actors present Robert Owen, Wilton E. Hall, Jr., and William A. Miles, Jr.’s stage adaptation of the story, which feels frighteningly prescient. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax.

To Oct. 8. $10–$20. (888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu.

An ACt of goD Local actor Tom Story plays the ultimate judge in this play about the ways God works and the many things he’d like to vent about. Emmy winning writer David Javerbaum’s comedy is directed at Signature by Eleanor Holdridge. Signature Theatre.

4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Nov. 26. $40–$90.

(703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

Are you noW, or hAVe you eVer been... Set in the days before Langston Hughes was forced to testify in front of Joseph McCarthy and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, this play follows his turmoil as he attempts to write a poem to mark the event. Developed by Carlyle Brown, this play is directed at MetroStage by Thomas W. Jones II. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Nov. 5. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

the Arsonists Woolly Mammoth Theatre presents a new production and translation of Max Frisch’s reflection on Nazism and Communism. The themes in this classic comedy remain relevant today and Woolly’s production stars company members Colin K. Bills, Michael John Garcés, Tim Getman, Kimberly Gilbert, Misha Kachman, Jared Mezzocchi, Ivania Stack, Emily Townley, and outgoing artistic director Howard Shalwitz. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Oct. 14. $20–$59. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

AssAssins Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical drama features a diverse cast of characters, all of whom attempted to or succeeded in killing a sitting president. Featuring songs like “Unworthy of Your Love” and “Another National Museum,” Pallas Theatre Collective’s production is directed by Clare Shaffer. Logan Fringe Arts Space. 1358 Florida Ave. NE. To Oct. 15. $25. (202) 737-7230. capitalfringe.org.

DeAD mAn’s Cell Phone When a woman attempts to silence an incessantly ringing phone in a quiet cafe, she winds up getting involved in an elaborate caper involving a deceased man and dozens of loose ends. Written by MacArthur Fellowship grantee Sarah Ruhl, this comedy is presented as part of Mason Fringe. George Mason University Center for the Arts.

4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. To Oct. 7. $10–$20.

(888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu.

DeAth of A sAlesmAn Arthur Miller’s classic tale about capitalism, family, and the American Dream comes to life in a new production at Ford’s, directed

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

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In these divided times, D.C. could certainly use some divine enlightenment. Luckily, Signature Theatre has a direct line to the man upstairs—or at least to the delightfully snarky Tom Story playing God in this hilarious, speedy (a brisk 90 minutes) one-man show. Originally a set of funny tweets, then turned into a bestselling book, Emmy-winning writer David Javerbaum’s show An Act of God brings the almighty down to Earth to set the record straight on what he really meant with those Commandments. This show promises to be gut-busting with the sharp comic talents of Story (in a role previously performed by Jim Parsons and Sean Hayes) and the biting wit of Javerbaum, who’s best known for his years writing on The Daily Show and for Stephen Colbert. Isn’t laughter truly healing? The play runs Oct. 3 to Nov. 26 at Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. $40-$75. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

—Diana Metzger

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

The effecT Connie and Tristan become quickly enamored with each other after meeting. They can’t keep their hands off one another but is it love or is it a side effect of the new drug they’re taking in a clinical trial?David Muse directs Lucy Prebble’s comedy about romance and the impact of Big Pharma on our daily lives. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 29. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. i KilleD my moTher Erica Chamblee stars in the D.C. premiere of this drama about a woman who survives abandonment, abuse, and societal pressure to find hope in life. Natalia Gleason directs this searing rumination on the human spirit by Hungarian-Romanian playwright Andras Visky. Spooky Action Theater.

1810 16th St. NW. To Sept. 30. $25. (202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org. i’ll GeT you BacK aGain A young woman, adrift in the world without any major plans, decides to sit in as the bass player in her late father’s psychedelic rock band and learns about her past and music history in the process in this world premiere play from Sarah Gancher. Tony nominee Rachel Chavkin directs this lively comedy full of original music and ‘60s sentimentality. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Oct. 29. $36–$65.

(240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. in The heiGhTs Olney Theatre Center and Round House Theatre collaborate on a new production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical. Set in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, the play follows the neighborhood residents as they try to make their fortunes in the neighborhood. Tony nominee and original Broadway cast member Robin de Jesús stars

as Usnavi. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 8. $37–$84. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org. lela & co. Factory 449 presents this spooky drama about a woman’s struggle for survival and the small changes that put on edge. Helen Hayes Award-nominee Felicia Curry stars in this production directed

by Rick Hammerly. Anacostia Arts Center. 1231 Good Hope Road SE. To Sept. 30. anacostiaartscenter.com. a liTTle niGhT music Set in Sweden over the course of one magical night, this classic musical from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler chronicles the love affairs of an aging actress, a married virgin, a student, and a count. Signature artistic director Eric Schaeffer leads this production that features favorite songs including “A Weekend in the Country” and “Send In the Clowns.” Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Oct. 8. $68–$101. (703) 8209771. sigtheatre.org. love anD informaTion Caryl Churchill’s play, a series of interactions, conversations, and revelations between more than 100 characters, opens Forum’s 14th season. Michael Dove directs this rumination on the nature of human interactions. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To Oct. 21. $18–$38. (301) 588-8279. forum-theatre.org.

The lover anD The collecTion Michael Kahn directs a pair of Harold Pinter one-acts to open the Shakespeare Theatre Company season. In The Lover, a couple methodically plans out their extramarital affairs. The Collection follows a jealous husband as he investigates whether his wife had a fling with her coworker during an overnight trip to Leeds. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Oct. 29. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. naTive GarDens Local playwright Karen Zacarias takes on neighborhood disputes in her latest play, which follows the conflict between pregnant couple, the couple next door, and one very contentious fence. Blake Robinson directs this comedy, a co-production with Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theatre. Arena

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CHICANO BATMAN

Chicano Batman’s music is the sound of cracking open a cold beer on a hot summer night. It’s the sound of ’70s soul filtered through the sensibilities of four Los Angeles rockers. The band makes some of the most chill music out there, but don’t let the relaxing rock distract from the impassioned pleas and prayers just under the surface. The group’s new LP, Freedom Is Free, channels the rage and rallying of the Black Lives Matter movement through the socialist, revolutionary rhetoric of Brazilian Tropicália and Jimi Hendrix. It’s barn burning, blistering guitar rock. These caped crusaders fight injustice beyond the streets, and know the power of words over fists, music over melee, beauty over violence. Chicano Batman performs with Khruangbin and The Shacks at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $20. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Jackson Sinnenberg Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Oct. 22. $56–$91. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org.

Neverwhere Rorschach Theater brings back its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s spooky novel about a man who stumbles into a lively world that exists below London. Occupied by angels, monsters, and beasts, this land welcomes newcomers who know where to find it. This remounted production is directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Oct. 1. $20–$30. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

Our TOwN Local favorite Aaron Posner adapts and directs this new production of Thornton Wilder’s classic tale of young love and small town charm.

In Posner’s retelling, Japanese Bunraku-style puppets portray various townspeople, while Jon Hudson Odom plays the Stage Manager. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Nov. 12. $49–$64. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

SeNSe & SeNSibiliTy The romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood come to life in this stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic tale of love, loss, and passion. Presented by Aquila Theatre, one of the nation’s foremost classical theater companies.

George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. To Oct. 1. $26–$44. (888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu.

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

(202) 261-6612. taffetypunk.com.

SkeleTON crew Set in one of Detroit’s last autostamping plant, this play follows a close-knit family of workers who must figure out the lengths they’ll go to to survive as rumors start to echo through the fac-

tory. Patricia McGregor directs this drama written by Detroit native Dominique Morisseau. Studio Theatre.

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

SOTTO vOce Love transcends all borders in Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz’s passionate and lyrical Sotto Voce. A young Cuban man’s research into the fate of the S.S. St. Louis leads him to a reclusive writer who refuses to talk about the ship of Jewish refugees that fled Nazi Germany only to be denied entry into both Cuba and the United States. As he strives to uncover the mysteries she’s hiding, an old romance is relived and a new one blossoms. This dreamlike sonata explores the plight of the refugee, the resilience of love, and the sensuality of imagination. Directed by José Carrasquillo. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Oct. 29. $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

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

1742 Church St. NW. To Oct. 15. $35–$45. (202) 2653767. keegantheatre.com. widOwerS’ hOuSeS Washington Stage Guild, the region’s foremost interpreters of George Bernard Shaw, presents his first play, an excoriation of slumlords and exploitative landlords. The acclaimed playwright incorporates elements of romance and comedy into his societal drama. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Oct. 22. $25–$60. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org.

The wild ParTy Enter a den of debauchery and passion while watching this musical about love affairs and alcohol set in Prohibition-era New York.

Based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March and written by Andrew Lippa, the musical is directed at Constellation Theatre Company by Allison Arkell Stock-

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MASHA GESSEN

On the cusp of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Samantha Bee invited Masha Gessen on her show to ask how the U.S. would know when it’d hit rock bottom. “So there’s a Russian joke,” Gessen replied. “We thought we had hit rock bottom, and then someone knocked from below.” Unfortunately, she knows what she’s talking about: In 2013, Gessen and her girlfriend fled Russia with their kids because the government was considering removing children from same-sex families. Her family settled in the U.S., where Gessen continues to write about autocracy, demagogues, Putin, and, since last year, Trump. Gessen is coming to D.C. to talk about her new book, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, with POLITICO’s Susan B. Glasser. The book traces Russia’s journey from the 1990s promise of democracy to today’s violent autocracy. Gessen’s clear-eyed, blunt perspective on totalitarianism is jarring, but it’s also necessary for anyone who wants to understand how a government betrays its people. Masha Gessen reads at 7 p.m. at Sidwell Friends School, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $5–$40. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Becky Little man. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Oct. 29. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

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

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

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AmericAn mAde Tom Cruise stars as Barry Seal, a CIA pilot who becomes a drug smuggler. Co-starring Domhnall Gleeson, Jesse Plemons, Sarah Wright, and Caleb Landry Jones. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) BAttle oF the sexes Emma Stone stars as Billie Jean King in this drama based on the true story of the star tennis player’s 1973 match with ex-champ Bobby Riggs. Co-starring Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, and Bill Pullman. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) BrAd’s stAtus Ben Stiller plays Brad Sloan, a father who takes his son college-touring and encounters old friends, in this introspective look at life and fatherhood from writer/director Mike White. Co-starring Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, and Michael Sheen.

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FlAtliners Ellen Page stars as a thrill-seeker, who along with friends, becomes obsessed with stopping her heart to trigger a firsthand experience of the afterlife. Co-starring Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, and James Norton. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Friend request Alycia Debnam-Carey stars as college student Laura, who, after accepting an online friend request, finds her life turned upside down. Costarring William Moseley, Connor Paolo, and Brit Morgan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) KingsmAn: the golden circle When Kingsman headquarters are destroyed, the British spies discover a fellow spy organization in America in this latest edition to Matthew Vaughn’s hit Kingsman series.

Starring Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, and Colin Firth.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the lego ninjAgo movie Jackie Chan stars as mentor Master Wu, who guides six ninja warriors tasked with defending their island home, Ninjago City, in this continuation of Warner Bros.’ LEGO franchise. Co-starring Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, and Kumail Nanjiani. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) victoriA And ABdul Judi Dench’s Queen Victoria and Ali Fazal’s young Indian clerk Abdul Karim come together to form an unlikely friendship. Co-starring Eddie Izzard and Michael Gambon. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Legals STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE DISTRICT COURT FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT LEA COUNTY No. D-506-CV-2017-00528 Judge Clingman EAU ROUGE LLC, Plaintiff v.

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

NOTICE OF SUIT PENDING TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: •Martin B. Seretean, also known as M.B. Seretean and as Bud Seretean; •Farol Faye Finkelstein Seretean •Sarah Agnes Bandy, also known as Aggie Bandy TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-entitled action was Court on April 19, 2017 by EAU ROUGE LLC. This lawsuit is a quiet title action that involves a controversy over title to oil, gas and other mineral rights previously owned

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THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE Legals FOLLOWING DECEASED PERSONS: MARTIN B. SERETEAN, ALSO KNOWN AS M. B. SERETEAN AND AS BUD SERETEAN; FAROL FAYE FINKELSTEIN SERETEAN; AND SARAH AGNES BANDY, ALSO KNOWN AS AGGIE BANDY; and ALL UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF INTEREST IN THE PREMISES ADVERSE TO THE PLAINTIFF; Defendants.

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

gie Bandy, located in Lea County, New Mexico, and more particularly described as: Parcel 1: An undivided 16.55274% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean, B. Jack Bandy, Frederick H. Prince, and John W. Mason) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4312, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,529 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 33 East, N.M.P.M. Section 1: Lots 1, 2, S½NE¼, SE¼ Parcel 2: An undivided 14.20899% of the oil Legals and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean, B. Jack Bandy, Frederick H. Prince, and John W. Mason) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4312, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,500 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 33 East, N.M.P.M. Section 12: E½ Parcel 3: An undivided 5.98231% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean and Frederick H. Prince) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 4314, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,245 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 34 East, N.M.P.M. Section 6: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, S½NE¼, SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼, N½ Parcel 4: An undivided 5.98231% of the oil and gas operating rights (being the aggregate of interests formerly owned of record by Martin B. Seretean and Frederick H. Prince) in, to, and under United States Oil and Gas Lease NM 6869, insofar as it covers depths between the surface and 13,245 feet below the surface in the following described land: Township 19 South, Range 34 East, N.M.P.M. Section 6: Lot 7, SE¼SW¼, S½SE¼ A default judgment may be entered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint if a written response is not filed with the Lea County District Clerk, 100 N. Main Ave., Box 6C, Lovington, New Mexico 88260, within thirty (30) days from the last date of this publication. A copy of your answer or responsive pleading must be mailed to the attorneys for EAU ROUGE LLC.: Bill B. Caraway, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, 508 West Wall Street, Ste. 444, Midland, Texas 79701, Tel. (432) 683-4691.

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

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

WITNESS my hand and Seal of Court this 24th day of August, 2017 Nelda Cuellar CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Sandy Long, Deputy Clerk SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2017 ADM 001045 Name of Decedent, Michele Laverne Reynolds, Name and Address of Attorney, Rashida I. Sims, 1218 Barnaby Terr., S.E., SE Washington, DC 20032. Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Mikal J. Reynolds, whose address is 1218 Barnaby Terr., S.E., Washington, DC 20032 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Michele Laverne Reynolds who died on May 12, 2017, without a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose wherabouts 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 3/28/2018.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 3/28/2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of first publication: 9/28/2017 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/ Washington Law Reporter Name of Person Representative: Mikal J. Reynolds TRUE TEST copy Anne Meister Register of Wills Pub Dates: Sept 28, Oct 5, 12.

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Pursuant to D.C. Code section 29-412.06, Enroll America must receive notice of any claims against it by September 28, 2020.

The claim must include: •The monetary amount of the claim; and •Any supporting documentation regarding the claim.

Claims should be sent to via email to Claims@enrollamerica.org or via mail to Enroll America, PO Box 51741, Washington, DC 20091.

Note: claims that are not received by the above deadline will be barred under D.C. Code section 29.412.06(c).

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