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DIStRICt LINE 5 housing complex: Facing drastic budget cuts, community-based organizations scramble to restructure.

SpORtS 6 rank and Miles: Militaryaffiliated road races keep area runners moving in the fall.

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DistrictLine Cut and Haste

City makes last-minute cuts to housing counseling providers, which now plan to reduce services or lay off staff.

Nearly a dozeN local housing counseling providers and advocates for those facing housing instability received a destabilizing notice at the end of September: The Department of Housing and Community Development would reduce their funding by nearly 28 percent, effective at the beginning of fiscal year 2019. The new fiscal year started on Monday—just one full business day, in some cases, after the groups received their grant letters.

At least 10 organizations were hit with budget cuts of this magnitude, which range from tens of thousands to half a million dollars.

They include Housing Counseling Services, Mi Casa, Central American Resource Center, AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Latino Economic Development Center, Manna Inc., Greater Washington Urban League, Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, Lydia’s House Inc., and University Legal Services Inc. The cut came from a line item in the city’s budget called Neighborhood Based Activities, which in fiscal year 2018 was funded at $9.5 million. For fiscal year 2019, that figure was reduced to about $6.1 million.

City Paper spoke with the executive directors or service providers from three of these organizations—Housing Counseling Services, CARECEN, and LEDC—who confirmed the cuts and acknowledged that they would have to either reduce services or lay off staff as a result.

The community-based organizations (CBOs) affected provide critical services to residents across all income levels, like credit counseling, renter assistance and budget management, technical assistance, home rehabilitation and lead remediation, and TOPA counseling.

Some, like Housing Counseling Services, host training sessions for the Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) renter and homeownership program that are required before residents can register for the IZ lottery. HCS also assists residents applying to DHCD-funded home pur-

housing complex

chase programs, like the Home Purchase Assistance Program (HPAP).

For Housing Counseling Services alone, a 28 percent reduction in its funding from DHCD represents $500,000.

Executive Director Marian Siegel tells City Paper that the organization has already laid off one staff member as a result, and expects between six and 10 additional staffers will be laid off or moved to other program areas.

For the public, she says, it means “drastically reducing the entry point for HPAP and IZ,” which both start with group sessions hosted by Housing Counseling Services for those interested in applying. HCS will scale back those sessions, typically held once a week, by half, which she estimates will result in a two- to four-month delay in “anybody getting entry as a starting point for those programs.” HCS served about 2,500 people last year alone in its Inclusionary Zoning Orientations, a figure she says will probably be halved as well.

Though Siegel says she was aware during the budget negotiation last spring that DHCD was weighing cuts to community-based organizations, “we were assured that high-performing agencies wouldn’t see the cut. Instead they did across the board. We’re high-performing. We had lots of conversations with DHCD staff, lots of conversations with partners … we were kind of assured that we’d be able to continue serving. And we weren’t not nervous, but we were less nervous,” she says. Siegel adds that a DHCD official told her the money cut from D.C.’s CBOs would go to the redevelopment of Water Reed; a spokesperson for DHCD did not provide a comment by press time.

And while she says DHCD officials told her they might add money back into the HCS contract during the year, Siegel rejects the notion that she can lay off six staff members and then hire them again in six months. “We can’t operate programs like that. That’s useless. We have

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to set a year’s goal, a work plan,” she says. As a result of the financial insecurity, Siegel says HCS is also worried “about losing our highperforming staff.”

“There will be tenants living in buildings that are dilapidated that won’t get served, seniors living in homes that need Single Family Residential Rehabilitation that will be a longer delay to apply for. These two examples are two of many,” she says. “It’s disheartening, because we’re here in full partnership with the city and are the entry point for many of its programs.”

During a phone conversation on Monday afternoon, Marla Bilonick, the executive director of the Latino Economic Development Center, says the organization lost about $200,000 from DHCD for fiscal year 2019. While it’s doing “a numbers game” to make sure it doesn’t have to lay off any staff, she says it “absolutely will have reduced services, because we can’t support our current load with what we got from DHCD.” Among other services, LEDC provides technical assistance to small businesses, counseling to first-time homebuyers and those facing foreclosure, and organizational muscle to help renters organize tenant associations, preventing illegal rent increases and remediating poor housing conditions.

Like Siegel, Bilonick says she was anticipating budget cuts, but not to this extent. She similarly expressed concern about the fact that cuts were made across the board and weren’t scaled to match the performance of an organization.

“Regardless of outstanding performance,

there’s no reward. I think that was a flaw of the action. It basically dis-incentivizes over-performance, because regardless, everyone got the same cut,” she says. “You could’ve had an extremely poor year and gotten that cut. You could have blown it out of the water and gotten that cut. I question that approach.”

LEDC tenant organizing manager Rob Wohl adds that, in 2017, LEDC worked on projects that received $30 million of public investment. “For less than $1 million, our department is managing to help package projects that result in millions of dollars” of public support, he says. “We’re finding places that DHCD steps in to do preservation, and we’re doing it cheaply.” The decision to kick away at that “support system,” as he calls it, “seems shortsighted and counterproductive.”

And while, Bilonick says, LEDC “isn’t going to fall apart, it’s a majorly unfortunate hand that we were dealt.”

More significant to Bilonick is the “opportunity cost” of not fully funding organizations that work with tenants on legal and technical issues around housing, which she believes will reduce the number of homeowners in D.C. Wohl echoes her point: “The poorer and more marginalized you are, the more you’re going to be locked out. Non-English speakers or low-income folks—they’re going to be the ones who suffer the most, because they depend the most on outside tenant assistance.”

In response to specific questions about why CBOs were notified so close to the new fiscal year and whether DHCD did in fact earmark these funds for the redevelopment of Walter Reed, a spokesperson for DHCD sent City Paper an emailed statement after close of business on Tuesday. It cites Mayor Muriel Bowser’s financial commitments to DHCD’s Housing Production Trust Fund and HPAP as examples of how the administration has “help[ed] house our seniors, veterans, families and those experiencing homelessness.”

The statement continues: “Such spending has never happened before[.] She has dedicated more local funds toward affordable housing, but federal funding through [Community Development Block Grant] has not kept up her pace. It’s that budget pressure which resulted in making the tough decisions on the funding allocations for these community-based nonprofit organizations. We explained this expected outcome earlier this year, during DHCD’s budget oversight process last spring. However, this does not diminish our support toward our CBOs to the best extent possible in light of more limited federal resources. We will closely track whether additional federal CDBG funds become available during FY 2019.”

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SPORTS

South African ultramarathon legend Bruce Fordyce was in D.C. to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s centennial and also support the Fletcher’s Cove parkrun, a free weekly 5K runwalk on Saturday mornings in Northwest. washingtoncitypaper.com/sports

Rank and Miles

In D.C., military-sponsored road races give runners order and meaning.

By Kelyn Soong An emotionAl silence greeted Army Maj. Kelly Calway at the 12th mile of the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon. Spectators lined the grass to her left and near the Potomac River on her right. No one made a sound. A few miles earlier, she had separated herself from the pack of elite female runners. Calway was suddenly alone in her thoughts and very aware of where she was, and where she was going.

Running through the “wear blue mile” that commemorates fallen service members at the Marine Corps Marathon can elicit different emotions from runners. Some may be taken aback to see the vast collection of blackand-white photos of fallen U.S. soldiers, while others may find inspiration from the somber, mile-long memorial. But for Calway, it reminded her of the significance of the first two words of the race. The week prior, she ran the Army Ten-Miler on the same streets of D.C., and three days after completing the marathon, she deployed to Kuwait.

“That mile, I’m telling you, if that mile was maybe at mile 20, I would’ve lost it,” says Calway, who would go on to be the first woman to cross the finish of the 26.2-mile race that year, in 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 15 seconds. “I probably would’ve been bawling.”

For a few weekends in late summer through the fall, the District welcomes tens of thousands of runners to its streets. Other major cities in the United States do the same. Chicago hosts a fall marathon, and so does New York City. Both of those races are sponsored by large companies—Bank of America and Tata Consultancy Services, respectively. In D.C., a major industry organizing races is the military.

In September and October alone, race organizers put on the Navy-Air Force Half Marathon, the Navy Mile, the Army Ten-Miler, and the Marine Corps Marathon, which typically has a field of approximately 30,000 runners. The Navy-Air Force Half Marathon is hosted by the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation department at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Small-

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running

er area road and trail races throughout the fall also benefit the military.

That supporting the military goes over well in D.C. is hardly surprising. As of June 2018, there were 9,771 active duty military members stationed in D.C., 124,510 in Virginia, and 30,055 in Maryland, according to figures from the Department of Defense. Thousands of veterans and civilian Department of Defense employees also make their home in the region.

“I think there’s a lot of people that are like us, that are probably military members of organizations trying to do something worthwhile,” says Charlie Hautau, the chairman for the Navy Mile committee and a retired Navy captain. “You have an influx of decision makers, influencers on Capitol Hill and the Pentagon. This is the center of gravity for those type of events.”

Calway, 34, moved back to the area this past July—she graduated from West Potomac High School in 2002—and trains with the elite postcollegiate Georgetown Running Club. Almost every year since 2009, she has made it a priority to run the Army Ten-Miler, which routinely draws more than 20,000 participants. One year, Calway says, she even tried to plan her pregnancy around the Ten-Miler but was ultimately talked out of it. This month, she will run both the 34th annual Army Ten-Miler and the

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43rd edition of the Marine Corps Marathon.

“It will never get old to run around D.C. and see the monuments,” she says, “and be reminded that I’m out there, I get to run with ‘ARMY’ on my chest, and I get to run for all the people who can’t be out there, the ones who are deployed or who have made the ultimate sacrifices. I take in those inspirational sights and really run for people more than myself.”

The Army Ten-Miler, which is produced by the U.S. Army, Military District of Washington, also serves as a reunion for Army service members. The Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting begins a day after the race, on Oct. 8, and runs through Oct. 10. A 2007 Army Ten-Miler survey and focus group study found that 57 percent of the race participants were affiliated with the military, government, or Department of Defense.

“I’d say a lot of people in the Army use the race as a family reunion,” says Army Ten-Miler chief of business operations Maida Johnson.

“All or most have been stationed here at one point and there are so many [Army] installations in the District, Maryland, and Virginia.”

When the Marine Corps Marathon made its debut in 1976, the country was still reeling from the deeply unpopular Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers were called “baby killers” and the U.S. military struggled with morale.

The marathon, seeking to capitalize off the running boom of the 1970s, served as a way to present the Marine Corps in a more positive light, says race director Rick Nealis, a retired Marine Corps Major.

“One of the mission’s criteria was to change the mindset of the America people coming out of the Vietnam War,” he says. “We went from a draft to going to an all-volunteer force, that was another thing. That drove the Marine Corps Marathon, having a good public relations vehicle.”

Nealis also mentions that the race, which is organized by the Marine Corps and is one of the largest marathons that does not offer prize money, helps the service “showcase the Marines and our military skills,” spreads community good will, and promotes a healthy lifestyle.

Both he and George Banker, the chief of race operations at Army Ten-Miler, cite the military as having the infrastructure and organizational skills to pull off large road races.

“When a runner comes to a military event, they expect certain things,” says Banker, who served 20 years as a tech sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. “They expect a quality race, they expect everything to be done right. You can go to a civilian race, and they run out of water, and runners don’t think much of it. If we run out of water, everyone from the White House down knows about it.”

Dixon Hemphill has run the Marine Corps Marathon and the Army Ten-Miler several times in the past, and on a recent Sunday morning in downtown D.C., he participated in the age 70and-over heat at the Navy Mile. The mile road race on Pennsylvania Avenue NW is presented by the United Services Automobile Association and benefits the Naval Sea Cadet Corps, the Safe Harbor Foundation, and the United States Navy Memorial. Hemphill has participated since it started in 2015. The race holds a special place in the heart of the Fairfax Station resident.

On the back of both of his minivans are white stickers with plain, black text that reads, “World II,” on one line and, “I served,” right below. Hemphill, 93, served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy and was on active duty from 1943 to 1946.

Close to the finish line right near the U.S. Navy Memorial, Hemphill received some of the loudest cheers. A volunteer handed him a race medal. Hemphill wore it proudly as he walked along the course to greet his 92-yearold wife, June, their friends, and other family members. Shortly after, he learned of another honor.

Next year, the Navy Mile will dedicate the 70-plus division to Hemphill.

“It’s a real honor,” he says with a bit of disbelief in his voice. “It’s a real honor.”

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GOAL ORIENTED at home in shaw with d.c. united coach ben olsen— as he faces the greatest expectations of his career story and photographs by pablo maurer

“Aww, FrAnkie, liFe is so hard. I know. Life is so hard.”

Ben Olsen’s four-year-old son is in full meltdown as his father leads him and his older siblings Oscar, seven, and Ruby, ten, down a narrow alley behind their school. Olsen is doing his best to assuage the kid, scooping him up in his arms as they near the corner. There are promises of chocolate, a trip to the park, even a visit with Grandpa. He appears inconsolable.

Olsen looks over his shoulder at the rest of his clan, feigning disgust and pointing to a pair of smashed rodents on the pavement. “What is that smell? Oscar? What is that smell? It’s a rat! It’s Charlie the rat!”

All three shriek in mock—or maybe actual—terror. Frankie gets plopped down for a closer look as they walk by, his anxiety temporarily replaced by morbid curiosity. “This is our recent crier,” says Olsen, tousling his youngest son’s hair. “C’mon partner. We got stuff to do.”

D.C. UniteD is in the middle of the biggest year in its storied history, one that’s seen the team move into a gleaming new home and, in English legend Wayne Rooney, sign one of the biggest names in the history of the game. After a slow start, the team is charging hard toward the final playoff spot in their conference

and there is an actual buzz about the team in this city, maybe for the first time.

Olsen, the club’s head coach since 2010, now faces real, consequential expectations.

For years, any expectations were tempered by the fact that the club wasn’t spending on top players, or marketing, or much of anything, eager to limit its losses until they moved into a new facility. But now, with Rooney and company playing entertaining soccer and the club itself thrust into the limelight, Ben Olsen is under immense pressure.

He isn’t showing it today. Though United plays home games at Audi Field, the players are stuck training at RFK Stadium for the time being while the club completes work on a new training facility. His wife Megan teaches health and physical education in the area, so for the time being, Olsen has the pleasure of depositing his kids at school on his way to work every morning.

When time allows, he can also pick them up, as he’s done today. The three load in to their dad’s SUV and Olsen winds down city streets, eventually arriving at his residence in Shaw, a spacious rowhouse that he’s called home for a decade. They walk inside, and his kids disperse shortly thereafter. Ben then turns his attention to a speaker that’s filing the living room with Ruby’s music. “ALEXA! ALEXA!

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OFF! Ruby, did you change the name on this thing again?” The three of them have disappeared upstairs for now. Olsen kills the music.

The sound of them at play, their stomping feet above, is an apt enough soundtrack for a Friday afternoon.

The place is full of artwork, mostly pieces that belonged to Olsen’s grandfather. He was an advertising agent in New York City but spent much of his time at home in his studio, sculpting and painting. He was also an inventor, and a picker, all of which runs in the family—Olsen makes art in his studio on O Street NW, and his older brother owns an antique shop in Philly.

The shelves in Olsen’s living room are full of his grandpa’s “whimsies,” elegantly crafted wood sculptures that all hide some secret—press a lever or pull a chain and you’ll find out what it is. “My grandmother just passed away last year,” Olsen says. “Now they’re both gone. Their house was just epic.

You couldn’t imagine how much of this type of stuff there was. This wall would have like 10 paintings and four tchotchkes, all kinds of stuff.” He motions to a sculpture of a wooden whale in the corner, pulls on a lever on its back, and Ahab pops out. The lever then falls off. The risk of having this kind of stuff out around kids, it seems.

The Ben Olsen who settles into a chair in his living room for a chat with a reporter is a far cry from what many fans have become accustomed to seeing. During games, United’s skipper wears his heart on his sleeve. He can be pensive, thoughtful, playful, cantankerous, animated, even downright angry. He is fiercely loyal to his employer and can be combative with those who aren’t.

Just days before his club’s biggest game in recent memory, a must-win encounter with Montreal (United went on to win that match 5-0), Olsen seems at ease. He picks his words carefully, but you get the sense he’s in a pretty good place.

“I never wanted to coach,” he says. “As a player, I looked at these coaches I had and I was like, ‘Why would these guys put themselves through this?’ I remember being conscious of this. Because you could see it throughout the season. You could see it on their faces. They were just … worn down.”

Forced into retirement by chronic injuries after a 12-year career as a midfielder for the club, United deputized Olsen as an assistant coach in 2010. A few months later, mid-way through a truly terrible season, Olsen was handed the head coaching spot. He thought he might do it for a couple of years. “See what it was all about,” he says. Eight years later, he’s the longest-ten-

ured head coach in the team’s history.

He has survived a pair of dreadful seasons—a 2013 campaign that was arguably the worst ever by any MLS team, and a 20loss season in 2017. He has also enjoyed more than a few highlights: Olsen was the league’s coach of the year in 2014, he managed an improbable U.S. Open Cup championship in 2013, and he’s guided his side to the playoffs somewhat reliably.

He has also matured greatly as a coach and tactician over the years. Olsen’s early sides earned a reputation for grinding out results, often at the expense of playing attractive soccer. You could see, very clearly, an influence from his days as a player. Olsen was a hardcharging midfielder, the type of player who worked his way under your skin.

There was skill there, yes—enough to send him to a World Cup, even—but over the years those nagging injuries forced him to adapt his game. Toward the end, it was his scrappiness that stood out. He was a streetfighter, and he instilled that mentality in a series of United squads that scratched and clawed their way to victory, or at least tried to.

Olsen has retained a lot of that—he’s still widely perceived as a “player’s coach,” a manager who’s learned to bring the best out of his men. But he’s also taken a studious turn, absorbing a great deal from his peers.

His hand has been forced a bit. Major League Soccer is a whole different animal than it was when Olsen joined the league.

“Coaching in MLS has come a long way since I stopped playing—there wasn’t a lot of high-level coaching, I think 15 years ago in this league. Now you have to keep pushing yourself year after year, because every week you could play a [former NYCFC coach Patrick] Vieira, and then a Scandinavian team, and then a Tata Martino, an Argentine. It’s a whole different animal. You have an Italian, Euro-style counter-attack team coming in this weekend in Montreal. And then you’ll play Columbus, kind of a Dutch influence, stretch it out at all costs, and the next game you’ll get the Red Bulls—they just split the field in half and just slam it down your throat,” says Olsen.

“I’m proud of the way we’re playing right now. I want people to be entertained, and now I think for the first time I have some of the guns. You can’t just take this and create that.

You need THIS to create that.”

There is chatter out there, among media and fans alike, that Olsen, who has always enjoyed a relatively long leash, may well be fired from his post if United fail to make the playoffs this year. They remain below the playoff line with five games left in their season.

“It really doesn’t [bother me], man. At this point, it doesn’t,” he says. “Three years ago,

four years ago, I think it would’ve bothered me. I feel like I’m here for D.C. United. If D.C. United’s president, the owners decide that D.C. is gonna be in a better spot without me?

Cool. I’m here for D.C. United.”

It is hard to imagine Olsen coaching anywhere else. He is so deeply associated with United, a name that fans thrust up there with other club greats like Jaime Moreno, Marco Etcheverry, and John Harkes. Olsen is the current club’s last true link to their glory days, the squads of the mid-to-late ’90s and early 2000s that set the bar for excellence in a fledgling league.

He is also a local celebrity, really the only professional coach of a D.C. team who has embedded himself deeply in the District itself, lending support to local charities and championing D.C. voting rights.

“I go through the what-ifs,” Olsen reflects.

“If I got fired tomorrow, would I be calling my agent like ‘Hey, get me back in a job next year, find me a job, I want interviews’? No. I wouldn’t.”

Olsen’s acceptance of whatever his fate may be shouldn’t be confused with nonchalance or indifference. He talks at length about the rigors of the job, the extremes of all of it—the feeling in his gut that won’t go away after a tough loss, the time he’s missed with his family. “It can beat you down,” he says.

“I think people only have so much energy, and if work takes away most of it, you come home and you’re less patient with the kids; reading a book at night is just a little bit harder. … It’s just easier to come home and bug out and watch TV and not play a board game with them. I feel like they’re short-changed on that.

Certainly my wife is as well.”

Olsen’s youngest two kids hustle down the stairs and into the front yard, dumping out into a neighborhood that looks a little less recognizable everyday. Olsen has had a front seat to Shaw’s metamorphosis and grapples with the same issues that so many who’ve come to the city in the past couple of decades do.

“I have a lot of mixed emotions about it. I don’t really know how to process all of them. I certainly didn’t buy this house out of speculation.

I thought it was a great, diverse neighborhood, I thought it had a great little park behind it. If we were going to raise a family, it was going to be an interesting place to lay down roots. I had no idea that this would pop like it has,” he says.

“But I also know a lot of people on this block that I’m close to that have different feelings about that. I try and be very sensitive to that, I understand their views, the views of people that have been on this block for a long time. I think there’s a lot of good arguments coming from them. All I can do is just try and be a good neighbor. I come from a small town in Penn-

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sylvania where that usually wins out.”

On bad days, when city life becomes overwhelming and the summer heat becomes unbearable, he and Megan sometimes start looking at property in Maryland, or elsewhere.

But those thoughts are typically short-lived.

“Then I walk out my door, and around the corner,” Olsen quips, “and I have a bourbon with my local bartender. And I feel full of life again.”

O st. stUDiOs has been an artist’s space since the mid-’70s. Formerly a Hecht’s furniture factory, the warehouse is dripping in early 20th century craftsmanship and charm, something badly lacking from so many of the newer structures around it.

It sits on about as unvarnished a block as you’ll find in the area. Olsen saunters up to the front door of the building and swings it open. Nobody in the crowd gathered outside the nearby day shelter seems to be paying him much attention. His second-floor studio is a spacious, long, brick-walled room with hardwood floors. This place is Olsen’s third home, and maybe his one true escape. His work as a coach is all-consuming; his family life gobbles up the little time that remains. On rare occasions, like today—an off-day for the club—he can carve out an hour or two to enter his studio, where he paints.

“I started doing this when I started getting injured to keep myself from going crazy,” Olsen says. When those injuries forced him into coaching, Olsen lost the only other creative outlet he had—playing soccer.

The more time he spends here, the more time he works at his painting, the less enjoyable it gets. Olsen likens it to any other hobby— it’s relatively easy, and fun, to become profi-

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cient. To do the hard work, to truly become good, is a struggle.

Looking at three of Olsen’s works side-byside, his evolution is apparent. The first, one of his earlier works, reads like a hybrid of an early Jackson Pollock and a Franz Kline. Flat, gray forms are layered over thick, black lines intertwining at random. There is color, too, and the canvas looks heavy, chaotic even.

Elements of that first painting remain in the second, but it’s a more focused work, something like a de Kooning, but a bit less figural.

Blues, greens, and oranges peek out from behind a silver sheen, which masks much of the painting. There’s less movement and more color, fewer clearly defined lines.

The third of the three is a departure, with clearly defined fields of color, no heavy line work. A semi-circular shape, split down the middle, is set on top of a brown background.

There is a flow, and your eyes are carried off the canvas by a thin band of white which emerges from the top of the piece.

“It’s toil,” Olsen says. “It’s hours of work sometimes. I want to still enjoy it. But when I find myself now going into that realm, where it’s less enjoyable, because it’s fucking hard, where you’re not just like, ‘Let’s throw something on the canvas and step back and do it again.’ To really get mature, it’s a huge amount of work.”

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Single Servings

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Does a deep focus on single drinks make for better business at D.C. bars and restaurants?

By Laura Hayes You can go on a historical odyssey without leaving your seat at St. Anselm. The American steakhouse on 5th Street NE offers a collection of 42 unique Madeira selections, with one vintage dating as far back as 1850. The fortified wines that both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington sipped are potable time capsules that make any meal more intriguing and double as dinner table conversation starters.

Erik Segelbaum, corporate wine director for Stephen Starr restaurants nationwide, recommends ordering a pour of Madeira and

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discussing what was happening in the world the year it was produced. St. Anselm is a partnership between Starr and Brooklyn restaurateur Joe Carroll.

“In 1989 we were still mourning the Challenger explosion,” Segelbaum says. “Think about 1850. California was becoming a state.

Someone was picking these grapes before California existed! There’s pre-Civil War, preWorld War I, pre-World War II, the Great Depression, Prohibition. You can taste history in a way that’s unlike anything else you could ever drink.”

Madeira was the drink of the American Revolution. The founding fathers toasted most major milestones with it, which makes it all the more impressive that it was discovered

accidentally. People living on the Portuguese island of Madeira fortified wine to preserve it as it made its way across the Atlantic in ships.

At sea, the barrels would bake in the sun—essentially “cooking” the wine and giving Madeira its signature flavor.

“In many cases today that heating process is mechanized,” Carroll says. “Hot water is pumped through the outside of the tanks. But traditionally, barrels were put on the roof of bodegas.” (In Portuguese, bodega refers to a small tavern, not a corner convenience store.)

While there are only seven active Madeira producers remaining on the island, Carroll emphasizes that there’s plenty of product available because it hasn’t been very popular over the past century.

St. Anselm is one of several D.C. restaurant hoping to teach Washingtonians about less common tipples by amassing a collection.

Some of these eateries’ owners have calculated that it makes good business sense to specialize and become the authority on one type of alcohol. Others just love a spirit and want to share their passion with customers even if it doesn’t benefit the bottom line.

Segelbaum and Carroll took several steps to make trying Madeira less intimidating. They sourced a variety of Madeiras instead of solely purchasing old, expensive bottles. One-ounce pours cost between $5 and $130. According to Segelbaum, three ounces is the norm but can be scary to commit to when you don’t know what to expect. “We also don’t take normal margins on a product like this,” he says. “We run very, very high on our costs so as to make it approachable to our guests to make it price positive and appealing.”

Instead of arranging the menu by grape varietal such as sercial, verdelho, bual, and malmsey, Segelbaum ordered the Madeiras from dry to sweet and included food pairings on the menu. Not all Madeiras taste aggressively sweet. He recommends a sercial with oysters and verdelho with grilled fish and believes everything goes well with Madeira. “You haven’t really lived if you haven’t had a good Madeira and a street dog,” he says.

Servers at St. Anselm recommend beginners wade in by selecting a flight. The “Exploration of 4 Styles” lets customers try 10year-old versions of the four main varietals for $18. The “When I was your age we didn’t have…” flight shows how time alters the taste of Madeira. It includes Madeiras from 1968, 1976, and 1989 for $46. You can also build your own flight.

It’s early, but Segelbaum says the Madeiras are immensely popular. “Saturday night one of our managers spent the whole night just pouring Madeira flights,” he says. “D.C. is already a Madeira town, and they’ve responded beautifully to this program.” The Jefferson Hotel carries Madeira, as does Shaw wine bar Maxwell Park.

Espita Mezcaleria also uses flights to coax diners into trying its leading agave spirit neat.

Mezcal appears frequently on menus in D.C., but not to the extent it does at the Shaw restaurant, which carries more than 100 varieties. Espita serves mezcal in one-, two-, and sixounce pours with sal de gusano (smoky worm salt) and oranges. Most cost between $9 and $15 an ounce. Partner Josh Phillips says their house mezcal flight is the most popular and believes that the restaurant’s investment in mezcal is paying off.

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DCFEED “We sell a ton of neat mezcal,” he says. “If you look at our liquor, beer, and wine sales, our liquor sales account for 88 percent of bar sales—one third is mezcal and two thirds are cocktails.” His restaurant’s customers fall into three categories. “There’s a group coming for the food and then they discover mezcal; another group that comes for the accolades we’ve gotten for cocktails who then realize it’s all mezcal; and then the mezcal nerds.”

Still, some customers just want a damn margarita, and Espita will gladly make one. “Give the people what they want, I’m not here to change people,” Phillips says. But when the margarita has been sucked dry, servers are trained to recommend a second drink that’s mezcal-based with a similar flavor profile as a margarita. “That’s a good way to give them an entrance,” he says.

Little Coco’s, on 14th Street NW north of Columbia Heights, uses a familiar cocktail to persuade customers to explore the neighborhood Italian restaurant’s deep amari stockpile.

The “Dark ‘n Stormari” is a Dark and Stormy with house-made ginger beer and two types of amari instead of rum. It gives customers a hint of bitterness that the booze category is known for. Partner Gordon Banks has gathered about 60 amari—a word used to describe a broad category of bitter Italian liqueurs typically sipped as stomach-settling digestifs. Fernet Branca, a funky amaro made in Milan, has long been a darling of restaurant industry employees.

“Ever since the Fernet craze a couple of years ago and the boom of all of the local and micro-distilleries, we keep getting new stuff in,” Banks says. “Fourteen of 60 are vintage amari that go back to the 1930s.”

Little Coco’s sells most of its amari in oneand-a-half-ounce pours, which generally cost between $6 and $12. The older ones are also available in three-quarter-ounce pours. Banks says the restaurant will feature flights as part of its soon-to-launch “That’s Amari Tuesdays.”

In the meantime, he has other strategies to persuade beginners to explore amari such as toning down a neat pour with soda water and a twist of orange peel.

He also knows to steer first-timers away from Elisir Novasalus, the most aggressively bitter amaro on the menu flavored with sap from Sicilian pine trees. “You cannot taste anything after it,” Banks says. “It’s a palate-annihilator. This is a dare kind of shot that you’re not going to believe you’re drinking.”

Banks says the amari are most sought after by his colleagues in bars and restaurants. But other guests are catching on too. “There are still a lot of people who have never heard of amari, so there’s education,” Banks says. “If they get into it and they like it, they become a regular and explore the entire collection.”

He admits he honed in on amari out of per-

sonal preference and doesn’t mind if it doesn’t rapidly turn a profit. “I don’t always think of the financial part of it,” he says. “When the vintage bottles are done, they’re done. If it takes me eight years to sell through all of them, it was worth it to me. A lot of restaurants would consider that a bad investment—having cash flow tied up in a small number of bottles.”

At The Sovereign in Georgetown, General Manager Jeremiah Hansen helped bulk up the Belgian beer bar’s absinthe options when he was hired about five months ago. There are now more than 20 varieties of the anise-accented spirit to try, split into two categories: verte (green) and blanche (clear).

Most of the verte absinthes come from France and blanche from Switzerland, but there are also some new-world producers in each category like northern Virginia’s Mt. Defiance Absinthe.

Absinthe debuted in 1792 as a medicinal elixir, but the spirit clings onto a certain amount of intrigue because it was banned for nearly a century in some European countries, including France, and in the U.S. until 2007.

The hoopla emanated from the purported hallucinogenic qualities of wormwood, the plant that flavors absinthe. “Absinthe had a pretty poor stigma for a long time, but the taboo draws people to it at the same time,” Hansen says.

The Sovereign prices its absinthe at $11 to $19 an ounce and customers get to decide how they’d like it served: the Swiss way, with pistachio orgeat and sparkling water for $2 extra; with sparkling wine also for $2 extra; the Belgian way, with a sweet Belgian elixir and chilled water for $3 more; or a classic absinthe service with a fountain. During the bar’s latenight absinthe hour, all selections are $4 off.

Customers find the fountain set-up the most exciting, according to Hansen. It’s not just about putting something in front of them that they’ll enjoy,” he says. “It’s about a memorable moment. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken a fountain out and watched their eyes light up. Then they bring their friends in.

There are very few other moments with alcohol that are like that.”

An absinthe fountain slowly drips cold water onto a spoon holding a sugar cube. A glass containing absinthe is positioned below. Introducing water turns the absinthe cloudy in what’s known as the louche process.

Hansen says the sweat equity he put into sourcing the absinthes pays off, especially when it comes to staff training. “The education that goes around it is less scattershot,” he says. “The more you know about something, the more you remember it. Being able to dig into any product, whether it’s absinthe, whiskey, or madeira, the deeper the program, the more responsive you can be.”

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Fish Fried Day

It’s instantly satisfying to take a utensil and crack through the crispy skin of a whole fried fish, releasing tender, flakey meat and dousing it in an accompanying sauce. Four D.C. area restaurants nail the preparation, which is ideal for sharing with a friend or date as a main course.

—Laura Hayes fried rockf i s h ($ 3 5 – $40). Owner Tu Yutthpon Wetchapinan explains that cooks filet the fish and fry it in pieces before putting the filets back to present it whole. It’s topped with lime wedges, lemongrass, shallots, scallions, and cashews.

“Some people only put peanuts, but I think cashews are better,” he says. The sauce contains fresh lime juice, fish sauce, and secret ingredients. It’s served with rice that can be used to sop up the salty, tangy juices.

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cial type of ham, but The Source’s Executive Chef Russell Smith was able to achieve something similar by substituting dried shiitake mushrooms, fermented cabbage, and soy-marinated tofu.

“The XO sauce is a little heavy and kind of salty, so I added the meyer lemon vinaigrette to brighten it up,” Smith says.

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A look at vegetarian dishes in the District that all should try

“Impossible” Potsticker with Vegetarian XO Sauce and Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette Where to Get It: The Source, 575 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Price: $18 What It Is: Fried dumplings stuffed with cutting edge faux meat and topped with umami rich vegetarian XO sauce and piquant meyer lemon vinaigrette. Traditional XO sauce, popularized in Hong Kong, calls for dried seafood and a spe-

Chloe 1331 4th St. SE At Chloe, Chef Haidar Karoum splits a whole sea bream down the middle and uses a mound of rice to prop the fish up so it comes to the table standing at attention for dramatic effect.

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Esaan 1307 Old Chain Bridge Road, McLean This tiny Northern Thai restaurant in McLean does most of the work for you with its whole

The Story: California-based company Impossible rolled out a brilliant burger meat substitute in July 2016 and for a long time, sourcing it was fiercely competitive. When Smith first contacted the company after hearing about the vegetarian “meat” that has the ability to bleed and taste like real beef, they said all of their product was spoken for. About 10 months ago, Smith says supply caught up with demand and he was able to reliably source Impossible meat from Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors.

Now he tucks little mounds of it seasoned with garlic, shallots, ginger, sesame oil, and white pepper into potsticker wrappers before boiling and frying them. “Veg-

“It’s an under-utilized fish, and when prepared correctly, has a similar profile to flounder, with wicked fins that puff up when you fry them,” he says. To prepare the fish ($29), Karoum dresses it in lime juice, toasted cumin, coriander, black pepper, and chile de árbol. Then he dusts it with rice flour and flash fries it. The sea bream is served with a spicy and acidic salsa verde made with charred tomatillos. Chloe’s menu is global, pulling from many different cuisines. Karoum says with the fish he went for a Mexican-inspired preparation as a hat tip to his kitchen staff.

Doi Moi 1800 14th St. NW Chef Johanna Hellrigl recommends diners ignore their utensils and use their hands to tackle her whole fried snapper ($30). She tosses the fish, which comes from North Carolina or Key West, in rice flour for ultimate crispiness. It’s served with fresh cilantro, scallions, a dipping sauce, and some salt made from kaffir lime and bird’s eye chilies. “The sauce is inspired by my favorite ingredients found through my travels in Southeast Asia,” she says. “It’s very refreshing rather than heavy.” For best results, dip morsels of the tender meat and crackling skin in the sauce, then sprinkle on some of the salt.

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Kith/Kin at the InterContinental 801 Wharf St. SW The whole fried red snapper ($54) arrives at the table in a curl, bathing in a sweet and tangy Caribbeanstyle brown stew with limes and cilantro. Chef Kwame Onwuachi, who has family in Trinidad and Jamaica, makes the sauce with fermented scotch bonnet peppers, a ginger-garlic puree, tomato, caramel, and onions. He sources the two- or three-pound snappers from the Florida Keys and marinates them in spices before dredging them in cornstarch to create the audible crunch. Sometimes servers will suggest a side such as fried plantains, jollof rice, or rice and peas to round out the filling meal.

what we’ll eat next week: Charred cucumbers with ramp vinaigrette, boquerones, and cured egg yolk, $12, Reverie.

Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

etable dumplings sometimes are mushy and don’t have a pleasant pop like a pork or shrimp dumpling,” he says. “This comes a lot closer to that. That’s the main reason I like it.”

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: Impossible meat is made with wheat and potato protein, coconut oil, some binders like konjac (a starchy Asian plant), and a critical molecule called heme that’s found in high concentrations in animals and less so in plants. According to Impossible’s website, the company sourced hemecontaining protein from the roots of soy plants and inserted it into a genetically engineered yeast that they then ferment.

It creates a product that closely mimics ground beef or pork in flavor and texture. It costs Smith three times as much as regular ground beef but customers love it. “We do a dim sum plate and often times, they’re the guest favorite even though there’s lobster and shrimp and pork dumplings.”

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what we ate this week: Salmon en croute with pommes puree, kale, and tarragon, $27, Primrose. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5.

The Sandwich: Grilled jerk fish sandwich Where: Little Havana, 3704 14th St. NW Price: $12 Stuffings: Jerk marinated mahi mahi, pineapple jicama slaw, lettuce, curry aioli Bread: Cuban roll Thickness: 3 inches Pros: This sandwich tastes tropical in the best way. The fresh slaw gives each bite some crunch and the crisp roll does an admirable job of holding most of the fillings inside. As for the fish, it delicately flakes and isn’t overpowered by the jerk seasoning. You still know you’re eating mahi mahi, and that’s a good thing. Little Havana serves tostones (twice fried green plantains) on the side with a creamy dipping sauce, upping the tropical quotient.

Cons: If curry is not your thing, steer clear of this sandwich. The flavor dominates the aioli, which seeps into every bite. Taking a bite can also be tricky for the dainty.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 5. All the stuffings are slippery, forcing some of the fillings out of the roll as you eat. The aioli will coat your fingers and drip down your chin until you eventually tap out and pick up a knife and fork to eat what’s left on your plate. You’ll want to, because everything tastes so good.

Overall score (1 to 5): 4.5. For taste, this sandwich receives full marks, but the mess it makes causes it to lose half a point. So long as you don’t wear your finest duds and keep plenty of napkins on hand, you’ll be fine. You’ll be even better if you pair your sandwich with one of Little Havana’s tasty rum cocktails.

—Caroline Jones

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A Family Affair

Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center celebrates 60 years and thrives in the modern retail environment.

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also entered the family business as they came of age, starting at the bottom and working their way up, as their father felt it necessary to teach them every aspect of the business.

“I mean, it was just always jumpin’,” Alan Levin recalls of those early days.

“They opened the store in ’58, so right when the store was getting its legs underneath it came The Beatles and The Beach Boys, so everybody wanted to be a musician.”

Dark times did arrive, however, in the form of the uprising that took place in various parts of the District after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. No one on staff was present when the violence broke out, but there was nothing left of the store by the time the smoke cleared, according to Alan Levin.

The Levins decided to move the store out to Wheaton and the Washington Music Center has been at its current location, which was formerly a furniture outlet, since 1968. Now, the company owns several buildings that include multiple showrooms, instrument repair workshops, storage facilities, and a sister company that equips large-scale customers with their audiovisual needs.

Chuck Levin ran the business until his Alan, Adam, and Abbe Levin passing in 2002, at which point his children took over, with help from Marge, until she passed in 2010. Robert Levin succumbed own unique way. Rather than just a series of events, a number to an aggressive cancer in 2013, so the current leadership is of partner manufacturers are making limited edition instru- comprised of Alan and Abbe Levin, as well as Adam Levin, ments stamped with special logos and features, all available Robert’s son, who joined the company in 2010 and is poised to on the showroom floor. Most notable is an exact recreation of take over as the third generation of Levin leadership.

“Family” and “community” are words that come repeatthe “Big Chuck” wah-wah pedal, a piece of equipment sold in edly when people talk about Chuck’s. Adam Levin credits the the ’70s that has now become part of Chuck’s lore.

“There are certain tweaks we’ve had to do, obviously, but store’s tight-knit staff with helping him cope with the sudden for the most part, we’re a big dinosaur,” says Alan Levin, loss of his father.

“Having a 150-person family to back you up, I would not be whose parents opened up shop in 1958. “What we do, we do the person I am today without this place,” he says. really well.”

Paul Reed Smith founded the Maryland-based PRS GuiCharles “Chuck” Levin opened the original location at 12th and H streets NE, and staffed it along with his wife, Marge. The tars in 1985, and its endorsers include legendary players like two had been in the pawn shop business prior and dealt with Carlos Santana, fusion pioneer John McLaughlin, and musical instruments and musicians regularly before shifting Rush’s Alex Lifeson. Smith’s relationship with Chuck’s starttheir focus on musical equipment in their new venture. Their ed in his childhood, a time when “going to Chuck Levin’s was children—brothers Alan and Robert, as well as sister Abbe— like going to Mecca,” he says.

By Sriram Gopal The experience of walking into Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center—known to patrons as simply “Chuck’s”— has not changed in years. The staff, many of whom have worked the floor for decades, still write sales tickets by hand. There are no clean lines or trendy lighting in the space. The colors are rather drab, save for the instruments on display. The overall feeling is one of organized chaos. And yet, after six decades, people still come.

This year marks this local institution’s 60th anniversary, and it’s an example of an independent retail operation that is not only surviving in the face of big box stores and web retailers, but is thriving. Chuck’s is commemorating 60 years in its

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CPArts In the mid-’70s, Smith started working at the store. When PRS Guitars formed, Chuck Levin was among the first people who signed an order for its guitars, and these days there can be as many as 200 of them in stock.

“Mr. Levin was a teacher. He would drop these gems for you to live by. He was extraordinarily smart, very skilled and knowledgeable. He was the daddy of the music business,” says Smith, whose company is supplying a limited run of guitars to this year’s anniversary festivities.

Everyone involved with Chuck’s has a story. Mark Rishebarger, who began working at Chuck’s in 1985 and now manages the accessories department, recalls the time his brother, Scott—who also once worked at Chuck’s—had a child and brought in cigars for the staff. The staff lit their stogies in the store and Mark worried that the haze permeating the store would anger the boss. At that moment, Chuck stepped out onto sales floor with a smile and a lit cigar of his own.

“When you’ve been here as long as a lot of us have been here, you watch people grow up, and then you watch their kids grow up,” Rishebarger says. “I’m on like the third round of that so it’s really wild.”

Rishebarger is just one of several staffers who have put in decades with Chuck’s. Naturally, the level of expertise from the sales team is unmatched, which in turn brings in business and a loyal customer base via word of mouth. Some of those clients include some serious A-listers in the music world, like Stevie Wonder, who visits the store on a nearly annual basis.

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“It’s like a neutron star that sucks in matter,” jokes Paul Schein, a 37-year veteran of Chuck’s guitar department, describing Wonder’s visits. “The store empties toward the keyboard room in the back. He’s always cool about it and even plays for people.”

The staff will proudly tell you that, even when celebrities come into the store, they do not get special treatment—nor does any salesperson who waits on them. When Fender Guitars made a signature model of its Telecaster series to honor D.C. legend Danny Gatton, it sent a batch to Chuck’s. Lou Reed placed an order with Schein for one of them, but Schein miscalculated the shipping cost and $1.38 was taken out of his next paycheck. The charge-back slip remained on the staff bulletin board for years.

O.A.R., a band whose members came together while students at Wootton High School in Rockville, have deep ties to the store. Carl Culos, a now-retired staffer in Chuck’s’ sound department—his son, Chris Culos, is the band’s drummer— mixed and mastered O.A.R.’s first album. O.A.R. guitarist Richard On bought his first electric guitar at Chuck’s while in middle school and continues to shop there.

“They still treat us like we’re nobodies, in the friendliest way possible,” he jokes. “I still get goosebumps when I walk in there because I have so many memories.”

Similarly, Matt Rippetoe, who plays saxophone for Thievery Corporation, See-I, and a host of other bands, has been going to Chuck’s since the ’80s. When he was 24, he wanted to sell a saxophone to get some cash. Chuck Levin himself tried to talk him out of it, not realizing that Rippetoe still had an-

other horn.

“It’s cool that it was more important to him to encourage some kid to keep playing music than to make a deal,” Rippetoe says.

Employees like Rishebarger and Schein are a significant part of the value that a store like Chuck’s offers, even in the face of large-scale competitors. The company is adapting to the current environment, but in a way that stays true to its ethos. Ten years ago, Sean Robinson, another long-time employee, convinced the owners to set up a space for educational clinics. Since then, a number of prominent artists—including Rodrigo y Gabriela, bassists Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, and Ron Carter—have given masterclasses and performances on the stage.

Adam Levin’s first major contribution to the store since coming on board was to revamp and dedicate a team to Chuck’s’ online operations. Online sales currently represent just a fraction of the overall business, but other technological changes emerged as a result, including new inventory and payment systems.

Levin also set up a professional photography studio onsite so web customers can see the exact instrument they’re purchasing. And, to boot, they simultaneously have web access to Chuck’s’ revered staff to talk through purchase decisions. The developing model is one where the web business is complementing the physical business, rather than replacing it.

“If all the computers fell to shit, we’d be okay,” Levin says. “I can still call you on the phone and we know how to talk on the phone.”

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we know he’s got a Sexy Prof mode in his toolbox. But as the journalist-turned-tutor Paul (and just what did Paul tell the editor who was expecting a profile of Brock, anyway?), he emphasizes the more priggish elements of his character’s personality, which makes his pairing with Bille feel more arbitrary than it should, and deepens our suspicion that Billie might be better off without either of these two clowns.

But these are minor gripes in a show so overstuffed with talent that it can afford to keep the likes of Naomi Jacobson, Evan Casey, and Matt Dewberry in the wings for most of its run time. Born Yesterday is a fetching antique whose obsolescence is a feature, not a bug.

—Chris Klimek 511 10th St. NW. $25–$62. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

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By Garson Kanin Directed by Aaron Posner At Ford’s Theatre to Oct. 21 There’s only so much updating that Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin’s hit 1946 farce about a mobster who comes to Washington and hires a journalist to tutor his former chorus-girl mistress, can bear. When the 1950 film version was remade in 1993 (a year whose eventually Broadway-bound movies included Groundhog Day and Dave), screenwriter Douglas McGrath relocated its tale of postwar influence-seeking to the present day. The Clinton-era stunt casting was fun— former Senate Watergate Committee counsel / future Senator Fred Dalton Thompson as a crooked senator; recently retired Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee as the Secretary of the Navy; famed Post columnist and Bradlee spouse Sally Quinn as the secretary’s wife— but even then, the premise seemed more than a little creaky. Audiences were meant to cheer because sexy, incurious Billie Dawn stands up to her controlling boyfriend by glomming on to her professor instead?

Well, yeah, sorta. But 1993 was a hundred years ago.

With his Chekhov rewrites and his many Shakespeares at the Folger Theatre and elsewhere, director Aaron Posner has built a career of making anachronistic material palatable. That’s why it’s such a swell surprise that his grand, satisfying, finger-wagging Born Yesterday at Ford’s Theatre barely even tries. Posner keeps the material grounded in the era to which the party currently in power in This Town wants desperately to return—the time just after World War II—and upholds the quaint notion that a grifter would have to bribe legislators rather than simply run-

ning for office himself. The problem of making its expired archetypal characters seem vibrant and real is one he’s outsourced to a trio of his most constant collaborators.

Kimberly Gilbert, Cody Nickell, and Eric Hissom, play (respectively) the chorus girl, Billie Dawn, her teacher, Paul Verrall, and the gangster’s lawyer, Ed Devery—a fallen public servant who douses his pangs of conscience in booze. And as Harry Brock, the bully who has come to Washington to bribe Senator Hedges (Todd Scofield, another Posner favorite), we have Ed Gero, a supersized presence who seems forever in danger of blowing scenic designer Daniel Lee Conway’s luxe two-story hotel suite into fine dust. Having spent a chunk of the last three years embodying the equally irritable if rather more expressive Antonin Scalia in The Originalist, Gero here seems to relish the novelty of playing a lout who isn’t based on a single, specific, real person.

As Billie, who grows more inquisitive and independent under Paul’s tutelage, Gilbert gives the show’s other swinging-for-the-fences comic performance. It’s a more mannered one than we’ve come to expect from her: She’s adopted a Marilyn Monroe (or Judy Holliday) breathy-baby voice and a habit of soft-shoeing in place to amuse herself when conversation alone won’t do it. She’s also the main beneficiary of costume designer Kelsey Hunt’s attention, sporting a wardrobe of ball gowns and pin-up girl lingerie and high-waisted palazzo pants beneath her curly blonde coif that oughta be sold alongside copies of Our American Cousin in the Ford’s gift shop. It’s an admirable variation for an actor who has only rarely ever looked like she’s acting, though it might’ve been interesting to see her temper these behaviors somewhat as Billie grows more assertive—or at any rate, goes from seeking Harry’s approval to seeking Paul’s.

Nickell played the dashing Septimus Hodge, a math teacher in awe of his brilliant pupil, opposite Hissom in Posner’s Folger production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia nine years ago, so

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LOvE TRAin Heisenberg

By Simon Stephens Directed by Joe Calarco At Signature Theatre to Nov. 11 In a TheaTrIcal age where so many relationship dramas hinge on a shock-the-audience twist, there is something to be said for a charming play that puts the principle of uncertainty right up front in its title.

Heisenberg, a play named for the German physicist who coined a theory of indeterminacy, opened Sept. 28 at Signature Theatre, the lucky local venue that became the first to stage this sleeper Broadway hit from two years ago. Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt starred in that production of Simon Stephens’ play, which initially ran in a much smaller offBroadway theater.

Signature’s black box production restores Heisenberg to an intimate-but-abstract vibe. Director Joe Calarco stages the show in the round, with a clever set piece (Stephens instructs for the stage to be as bare as possible) that initially functions as a bed, folds into a park bench, and later stacks into a counter. The minimalist aesthetic will be familiar to anyone who has seen the English dramatist’s best-known play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won the 2015 Tony for best new play and toured at the Kennedy Center a year later.

Signature’s cast for Heisenberg features Rachel Zampelli, seen more frequently in musicals, in the roll of Georgie, a single 40ish woman from Jersey living in London who meets Alex, a septuagenarian butcher played by Michael Russotto, in a train station. Their banter isn’t so much an exchange of wits as it is a battle of stereotypes: a lower class Lorelai Gilmore come to torture Anthony Hopkins as the reserved English butler in The Remains of the Day. “I’ve seen your type before,” Georgie says,

after identifying herself as a waitress. “The shy, brooding intellectual type. You come in.

You sit down. You order a croissant. You read a fucking poem. … I’m right, aren’t I? I’ve got you down to a tee.”

She is surprised to learn, a few long rambles later, that she does not.

“What job do you do?” Georgie asks him, after spilling her life story, which includes marriage and divorce to an Englishman and a romantic honeymoon in Thailand.

“I’m a butcher,” he says. When she protests, he follows up with, “Yes I am, I’m afraid.”

But Georgie, it turns out, is not a waitress.

The whole play turns on whether or not we believe anything she says, whether or not we believe her romantic affection for the much older Alex, and whether or not we believe genuine love is still possible when both partners know one may be lying.

There is no big reveal in this play, and honestly, given all the hype about Heisenberg, that’s almost disappointing. Parker’s New York performances were described as “explosive,” but potential combustion is not Zampelli’s goal.

Her Georgie is a little nuts and likeably neurotic, especially when she dumps out the entire contents of her purse onstage before putting on hand lotion.

Russotto is a well adjusted, empathetic sad sack who nails a tricky accent: Irish by birth, but living in the U.K. for the past 60 years.

Georgie says she loves his eyes, and Russotto does manage to look at her not like a helpless puppy, but like a good man who knows deep down inside he could use a good lay.

He gets one, but it’s not a transformative experience. Neither character undergoes a seismic shift, and maybe that’s what’s missing from this production of Heisenberg. Or maybe both characters learn to be comfortable moving forward in life despite many uncertainties, and that’s the whole point.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. $40–$89.

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ExCLAmATiOn PROCLAmATiOns Lincolnesque

By John Strand Directed by Colin Smith At Keegan Theatre to Oct. 14 a Tall, ThIn man (Brandon McCoy) stands among the columns wearing an austere black frock coat and vest, reciting Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech with great earnestness. He is soon interrupted by another man, Leo (Michael Innocenti), his younger brother, who demands he come home before neighbors call

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the police. The thin man is neither Lincoln nor a historical reenactor, but a once brilliant political strategist named Francis who, after a psychotic episode, now believes himself to be the 16th president of the United States.

As a condition of Francis’ release from Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Leo has been made his brother’s keeper, but Leo’s problems extend beyond caring for a delusional sibling: He’s also a speechwriter for Mike Carpenter, a mediocre congressional representative in danger of losing to a challenger. As the incumbent’s new chief of staff, Carla (Keegan Artistic Director Susan Marie Rhea) makes clear, if their guy loses the election, both will be unemployed. Francis, meanwhile, has struck up a friendship with a homeless man (Stan Shulman) whom he addresses as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. While the Secretary may or may not be a former GS-14 or 15 and may or may not have held secrets, he is prone to outbursts about Lockheed Martin and MSG. Soon, Francis is helping Leo write his speeches, updating the rhetorical tropes of “the Shakespeare of American politics.” Political commentators describe the congressman’s new style—one that calls upon the better angels rather than negative attacks – as “Lincolnesque.” Poll numbers improve. The cynical Carla discovers something attractive about the nebbishy speechwriter.

Playwright John Strand has crafted a well structured comedy about the conflict between democratic ideals that, until recently, even the worst practitioners paid lip service to, and the situational ethics that even the most highminded must indulge in if they are to accomplish anything. While some of the words are borrowed—though as Leo notes, “copyright unencumbered”—Strand also has a strong sense of comic dialogue. Most importantly, Strand’s formal sense gives the comic set-up a tragic subtext: the self-inflicted wounds of ambition, and the guilty feelings associated with caring for a loved one with a mental illness.

The Keegan previously staged Lincolnesque in 2009 and company stalwarts Innocenti, Rhea, and Shulman seem to relish revisiting their roles in this new Colin Smith-directed production. In-

nocenti, as Leo, the real protagonist of the story, gracefully ping-pongs between the idealism that drives him and the cynicism that constrains him, all while exuding a vulnerability. Rhea plays Carla as Leo’s opposite: New to Washington, she comes from the world of business, and while winning takes priority in her mind, there is a level of ruthlessness that even she, with her own loose ethics (which Rhea plays with great effect), seems reluctant to indulge in. Shulman plays the Secretary of War with a focused mania as he flits between his own paranoia and indulging Francis’ grandiose visions. He also takes on the role of Harold Daly, a well heeled political operative backing Carpenter’s challenger who also happens to own the building whose floors and toilets Francis cleans. As Francis, McCoy brings a charismatic gravitas to the delusions of grandeur while allowing the latent political strategist to lurk underneath.

Set designer Matthew J. Keenan provides a brilliantly executed concept: The neoclassical columns, painted to evoke the flows of marble, are angled off from the vertical; lines on the floor don’t run perpendicular to one another, and laminated newspapers lie just below the false marble wash. Washington’s news obsession is never out of sight or mind. Sound Designer Veronica J. Lancaster scores the evening with an intriguing mix of electronically processed percussive effects.

Despite the setting and central themes, Lincolnesque is a remarkably apolitical and nonpartisan play. Though Leo briefly discusses a concern regarding gerrymandering, the only policy issues discussed are the Secretary of War’s paranoid delusions and Lincoln’s conduct as Commander-In-Chief. It seems just a little too safe that martial law in Maryland and a proposed mass repatriation of AfricanAmericans to Africa are criticized a centuryand-a-half later without an eye to any of today’s atrocities, but Washingtonian playgoers do love to be entertained by stories about the local industry. For that purpose, Lincolnesque is a skillful entertainment.

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The Horror! The Horror!

Select reviews from the 13th annual Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival Grimm tradition. Aside from the Turkish one, the clear highlight is from Hungary. It was directed by Peter Strickland, who has some adoration from horror fans after directing Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy.

His segment is called The Cobbler’s Lot, and it draws from surrealist silent traditions to create something truly unnerving. None of these shorts overstay their welcome, but since Strickland’s is last, it effectively ends up being worth the price of admission.

(AZ) Saturday, Oct. 6 at 7:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Lords of Chaos

By Alan Zilberman and Matt Cohen Horror is a fickle genre. Make a movie too serious, it can end up unintentionally funny. Try and make an outrageous horror-comedy hybrid, it can easily be not funny at all. But the best horror movies are the ones that subvert and warp reality, showing us that the horrors of everyday life can always be worse; horror films with low budgets either tend to stick within the constraints of the genre, or try and reinvent it.

Neither is easy to do. Now in its 13th year, the Spooky Movie Film Festival continues to bring some of the most buzzed about new movies in the horror genre to the D.C. area. Each year is a mixed bag—sometimes undiscovered gems premiere to uproarious praise, other years, duds. This year’s festival fits right in that tradition. It opens with a screening of Don Coscarelli’s 1979 classic Phantasm and also features the Nicolas Cage-starring film Mandy, which we previously reviewed and loved. Of the select films we reviewed, some were better than others, but fortunately none of them made us want to gouge our eyes out.

Blood Paradise

Directed by Patrick von Barkenberg The best horror films are thematically subversive. They get at some uncomfortable truth about human nature, whether it’s our deepest fears or worst impulses. Blood Paradise, a new horror film from Sweden, includes transgressive imagery without much thought behind it.

Director Patrick von Barkenberg focuses on Robin (Andréa Winter), a bestselling crime novelist who goes to the Swedish countryside

for her latest inspiration. She meets some backward country folk, including her driver Hans Bubi (Christer Cavallius). Most of the film is a “fish out of water” premise, with Robin confronting and challenging increasingly bizarre, violent locals. It’s also an erotically tinged horror film: Robin is frequently nude for no reason other than her good looks. There is a murderer among these eccentrics, and the reveal of Blood Paradise is a complete rip-off of Hitchcock’s Psycho, right down to the costumes. The cumulative effect is a horror film made by hobbyists who mainly wanted to have fun, so any concerns over quality were secondary. (AZ) Friday, Oct. 5 at 7:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

The Field Guide to Evil

Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, and Yannis Veslemes What is striking about The Field Guide to Evil, the new collection of horror shorts from all over the world, is how they are similar. That is not a bad thing: While each film is from a separate country, the similarities highlight what folklore shares across cultures. Most of them involve monsters who attack vulnerable people, whether they are women, children, or the impoverished. There is also a moral dimension to the creatures, like the Turkish “childbirth monster” that preys on an exhausted new mother at her wit’s end. But like all anthology horror films, some entries are stronger than others. The best unfold wordlessly, like a fairy tale in the classic

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Directed by Jonus Åkerlund True metalheads know: The origin story of how the Norwegian black metal scene came to be is, well, pretty fucked up. Bands like Immortal and Mayhem may now be international rock stars, touring the world over in signature black-andwhite demonic face paint, but in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the key players who forged Norway’s notorious black metal scene committed acts of arson and murder all in the name of Satan. There’ve been numerous documentaries, books, and podcast that tell the story, but director Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos is the first biopic to dramatize the formation of the legendary band Mayhem and the scene it spawned. But for a ripped-from-the-headlines story that begins with a horrific suicide and ends with a similarly horrifying murder, Åkerlund’s film is unfortunately kind of a snooze. Rory Culkin shines as Euronymous, Mayhem’s founding guitarist and the self-appointed creator/leader of “True Norwegian Black Metal,” but Emory Cohen steals the show as Varg, the black metal prodigy whose harsh ideology and beliefs push Euronymous and his acolytes to extreme measures.

Lords of Chaos is well acted and worth watching for anyone with a passing interest in the source material, but Åkerlund’s subtle direction fails to conjure much tension or sense of dread—something sorely needed to tell this story.

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bie apocalypse story. There is simply nothing new to tell with this framework, and yet Lost In Apocalypse persists as if The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and The Last of Us never happened. It focuses on a zombie outbreak in China, where the usual mix of jerks, oddballs, and heroes fight their way through the horde. This film includes some melodrama, like the scene where the young girl must abandon her zombie parents, or one too many scenes where someone sacrifices themselves for the greater good.

If you see this film, you will probably keep hoping for some fresh twist on the material. Instead, the filmmakers always make the easy choice, and skip on the gore while they’re at it. No zombie story can be interesting for too long, so it is common to root for the humans to lose. In Lost In Apocalypse, you’ll be wishing for a complete zombie victory within minutes.

(AZ) Sunday, Oct. 7 at 2:45 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Slice

Directed by Austin Vesely

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On paper, Slice has many things going for it: A stellar cast marked by the acting debut of Chance the Rapper; distribution from the prestigious indie distributor A24, and a wild premise that involves werewolves, ghosts, and a pizza place. So it’s a bit disappointing that director Austin Vesely’s highly anticipated horror-comedy isn’t a better film than it is. Slice takes place in an alternate universe, where the living and the dead co-mingle in a kind of weird “separate but equal” existence. In the city of Kingfisher, 40,000 ghosts reside in a part of town called Ghost Town. One night, a pizza delivery boy is murdered while making a delivery in Ghost Town. Naturally, the living blame the dead and the fragile peaceful balance of the town hangs on a thread. Astrid (Zazie Beetz), another pizza delivery person, suspects the true culprit is a werewolf, and goes on the hunt for justice. Slice is at its best when it goes full schlock and B-movie lunacy, which is clearly Vesely’s point. But halfway through, the film gets bogged down with a needlessly complex plot, which requires viewers to think more than they should for a schlocky B-movie. Still, it features Chance doing his best Michael Jacksonas-a-werewolf-in-Thriller, so it’s worth it for that, at the very least.

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life” allude to the necessity of purging one’s sins before crossing over, while questioning the belief systems by which sin and shame are determined.

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The low-fi video, skipping and static with Given the characteristic treatment awkward sound, recalls 1980s technology, of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) in perhaps referencing an ancestor of the artAmerican popular culture, visitors may ex- ist. Martinez also jabs at Catholicism, with a pect to find glittering skulls and vibrantly at- determination to celebrate the sinners alongtired skeletons inside the current exhibition side the saints.

The dichotomy inherent in some of the at The Mansion at Strathmore. But Día de Muertos: Cultural Perspectives not only chal- works emphasize the conditions of transnalenges the typical images by which the hol- tional identity, and Día de Muertos itself. Celiday is generically recognized and too of- ebrated over the course of three days for the ten diminished; it offers intriguing and remembrance of saints and loved ones, the introspective ways its traditions manifest Allhallowtide between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2, is in works by contemporary diaspora artists a Catholic feast. But Día de Muertos is a preChristian, indigenous tradition, enveloped by from Latin America.

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by Edgar Reyes, (who, full diswhose work is cl o s u r e , i s a reminiscent in Washington City scale and color Paper contribuof Chicano art tor). Among the murals. While more traditionJessica Aguero’s a l a p p r o a ch installation of es, Katty Huerdeflated helium tas’ split-open balloons in “Forc a nva s , “ S e e ever And” resurYou on the Othrects the kitsch er Side,” lends that is commont h re e - d i m e n ly found roadsionality to an side, their lumieffective metanous colors suit phor for rebirth a kind of pop and the brightly shrine to movecolored flowers ment, in and beleft at the graves yond this world. of loved ones. In In “So Trava looser symbolic gesture, con“Ana Josefa” by Veronica Melendez (2018) el Well,” Erick Benitez’s decepsumer products playfully represent the departed in Veronica tively simple silhouettes in acrylic on thermal Melendez’s graphic prints. Both artists ref- mylar dispel any notion of Día de Muertos as erence traditions of graveside memorializa- a fun sideshow to Halloween. The ghosttion during Día de Muertos, and the peace- ly contours of flowers used in healing pracful afterlife they aspire to on behalf of the tices speak to traditions travelled across distances and cultures. For transnational artists, deceased.

Remembrance and celebration of loved “crossed over” implies not only travel of the ones is the essence of Día de Muertos. How- dead but a condition of the living. Ties to the ever, the exhibition’s strength lies in works past and to healing become more important that seek to understand both personal loss and as they become less tangible, and as we all transnational identity. In “Performing Confes- slip further down the same inevitable path.

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CITYLIST

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

Oct 4&5

HERMAN'S HERMITS starring PETER NOONE The Other 9 BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY Years 10 LEO KOTTKE Harrow 11 THE JAYHAWKS Fair 12&13 THE WHISPERS 14 KEIKO MATSUI 16 INCOGNITO 7

FRIDAY CLAssICAL

ClariCe Smith Performing artS Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

UMD Wind Orchestra. 8 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

CountRY

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

Blitzen Trapper. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ELECtRonIC

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

Elderbrook. 10:30 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FunK & R&B

with specialguest MAYSA

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

Shemekia Copeland. 8 p.m. $15.75–$35.75. thehamiltondc.com.

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eliane Elias. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$60. bluesalley.com.

CANDY DULFER 19 STEPHANIE MILLS 21 OTTMAR LIEBERT & Luna Negra 22 SAMANTHA FISH Skribe

PoP

the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Florence + The Machine. 8 p.m. $104.50–$179.50. theanthemdc.com.

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the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Black Lillies. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Nora Jane Struthers. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com.

ELECtRonIC

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

9:30 Club Presents The Presets. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

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

Breakbot. 10:30 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

LYKKE LI

Lykke Li’s music has been the soundtrack of millennial heartbreak for a decade thanks to the perfect pairing of her distinctive, hushed vocals and indie-pop instrumentation. Throughout it all, her album titles have been instructive, from the breeziness of Youth Novels to the melodramatic Wounded Rhymes to the older-but-not-wiser I Never Learn. This year’s so sad so sexy is no different, even if it seems a little more self-aware this time around. The sadness was a given, but the overt sexiness—suggested, musically at least, by pop-machine songwriting and trap-pop percussion—was not. The new sonic approach might be a bridge too far for some, especially when she verges into reductive territory on “sex money feelings die.” But when she follows the rivers she’s used to, she sounds like the Lykke Li that has sung a generation of listeners through countless breakups. On towering ballad “last piece,” she sings, “Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.” Lykke Li performs at 8 p.m. at The Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. $41. (202) 888-0050. thelincolndc.com.

—Chris Kelly

JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eliane Elias. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$60. bluesalley.com.

PoP

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Hot Lanes. 1 p.m. $15. jamminjava.com.

Florence + The Machine. 8 p.m. $104.50–$179.50.

oPERA

kennedy Center oPera hoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: La traviata. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

theanthemdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Chelsea Cutler. 8 p.m. Sold out. dcnine.com.

An Evening with

LYLE LOVETT & ROBERT EARL KEEN 25 PHIL VASSAR 26 DELBERT McCLINTON

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

Lykke Li. 8 p.m. $41. thelincolndc.com.

CountRY

& The Big Noise

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milkBoy arthoUSe 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park. Sean Jones Quartet. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $10–$30. milkboyarthouse.com.

sAtuRDAY

WYNONNA

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JAzz

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Not Even. 8 p.m. $20–$25. jamminjava.com.

THE STEELDRIVERS Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

w/Dave Chappell & Tommy Lepson

27 28

TOM PAXTON & The DonJuans An Evening with

KATHY MATTEA

Nov 1

The Stars from

THE COMMITMENTS 2 DAVID BROMBERG BIG BAND 3 RAVEN'S NIGHT 2018 4 MIPSO & FRIENDS "DARK HOLLER POP

RoCK

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Simple Minds. 8 p.m. Sold out. 930.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Great Lake Swimmers. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

State theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Rata Blanca. 8 p.m. $42. thestatetheatre.com.

w/10 String Symphony

7 8 9

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CITY LIGHTS: sAtuRDAY

SHEMEKIA COPELAND W/ VANESSA COLLIER FRIDAY

OCT 5

PATRICK SWEANY BAND TUESDAY, OCT. 16

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$15/ADV $20/DOS

BLACK LILLIES W/ STRONG WATER

SATURDAY OCT

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SUN, OCT 7

LIVE NATION PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH

MELVIN SEALS & JGB MON, OCT 8

AN EVENING WITH CAPITAL

PRIDE’S “MUSIC IN THE NIGHT” FUNDRAISER

WED, OCT 10

JEFFREY FOUCAULT W/ LAURIE SARGENT

THURS, OCT 11

EILEN JEWELL W/ HILLFOLK NOIR FRI, OCT 12

ANTIBALAS SAT, OCT 13

AN EVENING WITH

THE ENGLISHTOWN PROJECT SUN, OCT 14

MORGAN JAMES TUES, OCT 16

SLATE PRESENTS

SLOW BURN LIVE IN DC WED, OCT 17

ALL GOOD PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH

JJ GREY

THURS, OCT 18

JOHN NEMETH W/ JOSH CHRISTINA FRI, OCT 19

THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND FRI, OCT 26

AN EVENING WITH THE

NIGHT I

FAB FAUX: THE BEATLES IN LOVE PLUS A SET OF FAVORITES

SAT, OCT 27

AN EVENING WITH THE

NIGHT II

FAB FAUX: THE BEATLES IN ROCK PLUS A SET OF FAVORITES

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THU 10/4 BEN DANAHER FRI 10/5 HUBBY JENKINS (CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS) SAT 10/6 C2 + THE BROTHERS REED TUE 10/9 SLAID CLEAVES $20 THU 10/11 THE DETROIT COBRAS $15/$18 SAT 10/13 STRAHAN + THE GOOD NEIGHBORS SUN 10/14 THE COLD HARD CASH SHOW (JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE) $10/$12 TUE 10/16 PATRICK SWEANY BAND $15/$20 THU 10/18 DHARMASOUL BAND FRI 10/19 THE DRUNKEN HEARTS SAT 10/20 DENNIS JAY $10/$25 WED 10/24 JONNY GRAVE THU 10/25 LARRY AND HIS FLASK & BOB LOG III $16/$20 FRI 10/26 HARPER & THE MIDWEST KIND SAT 10/27 SCOTT KURT HALLOWEEN HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 HillCountry.com/DC • Twitter @hillcountrylive

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

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FLoREnCE + tHE MACHInE

Times are bad—like, really bad—and perhaps the only things that can capture this torment are the boundless vocals and anachronistic musical stylings of Florence + The Machine. The band sounds like it comes from some indistinct time in the past, or maybe what druids would use to soundtrack a rave. The songs swell to impossible, cosmic crescendos, with traditional drumming techniques, harps, and most powerfully of all, lead singer Florence Welch’s echoing, infinite vibrato. Her voice can range from quiet hymnal to primal scream, seeming to tell you that everything will be OK, and also that nothing was ever OK to begin with. Though doom is imminent, Florence + The Machine will happily serve as your benevolent spiritual guides and help you navigate the mysterious forces of the universe. During a rainy outdoor performance in 2016, Welch jovially asked the crowd, “Are you drier than it is up here? Are you keeping warm?” No, Florence, we’re all barely treading water out here, but at least a sorceress bedecked in billowing fabric is looking out for our well-being. Florence + The Machine perform at 8 p.m. at The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. $104.50–$179.50. (202) 888-0020. theanthemdc.com. —Stephanie Rudig

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Tom Morello. 9 p.m. $49.50. unionstage.com.

sunDAY JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eliane Elias. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$60. bluesalley.com.

oPERA

kennedy Center oPera hoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: La traviata. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

PoP

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. HONNE. 6 p.m. $20. 930.com.

RoCK

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sleepwalkers.

8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Papa Roach. 7:30 p.m. $39–$93. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Welshly Arms. 7:30 p.m. $15–$30. unionstage.com.

MonDAY JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jane Monheit. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45. bluesalley.com.

oPERA

kennedy Center oPera hoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: La traviata. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

PoP

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Noah Kahan. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com.

RoCK

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Struts.

7 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. John Mark McMillan Presents Body + Ghost Tour. 7 p.m. $22–$42. unionstage.com.

tuEsDAY FoLK

hill CoUntry live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Slaid Cleaves. 8:30 p.m. $20–$28. hillcountrywdc. com.

JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Swing Shift. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $24. bluesalley.com.

oPERA

kennedy Center oPera hoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: La traviata. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

PoP

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Kali Uchis. 7 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD JUST ANNOUNCED - NOW FREE!

M E R R I W E AT H E R 2 0 1 8 • Experiences in Art + Sound .OCT 13 For more info, visit opusmerriweather.com

• For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

Capital One Arena • Washington, D.C.

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

AEG & I.M.P. PRESENT

Lupe Fiasco w/ Nikki Jean • Billy Blue • Mickey Factz • Dayne Jordan .... F OCT 5

PANIC! AT THE DISCO

w/ Two Feet ............. JANUARY 20

Ticketmaster

T ADDED! NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECOND NIGH

FIRST

Kali Uchis w/ Gabriel Garzon-Montano .......................................................... W 10

Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C. JUST ANNOUNCED!

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

Bob Moses w/ Mansionair .......Th 11 Murder By Death w/ William Elliott Whitmore & Tim Barry

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Soulection’s The Sound of Tomorrow feat. Andre Power •

Joe Kay • Devin Tracy • J. Robb • Andres Uribe .............................Th 1

Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 12

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Cursive w/ Meat Wave & Campdogzz ..........F 2

What So Not w/ Chrome Sparks (DJ Set)

Late Show! 10pm Doors .....................F 12

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

The Record Company w/ Madisen Ward

Ekali w/ 1788-L & Jaron Early Show! 6pm Doors.....................Sa 3

Lucero w/ Brent Cowles ...........Su 14 Passenger ...............................Tu 16 Atmosphere w/ deM atlaS •

Fleetmac Wood

and the Mama Bear.....................Sa 13

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Sa 3 ED! SOLD OUT! SECOND NIGHT ADD

FIRST NIGHT

The Lioness • DJ Keezy ...............W 17

St. Lucia w/ The Colonies ..........Tu 6

AN EVENING WITH

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Jonathan Richman

MAX w/ Bryce Vine & EZI

featuring Tommy Larkins

Early Show! 6:30pm Doors. 14+ to enter. Sa 20 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Black Tiger Sex Machine w/ Kai Wachi & Lektrique

Late Show! 10pm Doors ..................Sa 20

Big Thief w/ The Range of Light Wilderness & .michael. ..............Su 21

We Were Promised Jetpacks w/ Hurry Up .............Tu 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Twiddle (F 26 - w/ Bumpin’ Uglies) .F 26 & Sa 27 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Moon Taxi w/ Moon Hooch .............Sa 27 & Su 28 Jain w/ Drama ............................M 29 Jake Shears (of Scissor Sisters) w/ SSION HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST! First prize wins two tickets to every 9:30 show in Nov/Dec 2018! .......W 31

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

Early Show! 6pm Doors.....................Th 8

Midland w/ Desure

Late Show! 10pm Doors ......................Th 8 AN EVENING WITH

Chris Robinson Brotherhood . F 9 Brett Dennen w/ Nick Mulvey

LIVE NATION PRESENTS

STAY TUNED with PREET BHARARA

with special guest Chuck Todd ................................................................NOVEMBER 15 AEG PRESENTS

ADAM CONOVER ..................................................DECEMBER 2 On Sale Friday, October 5 at 10am

THIS FRIDAY!

Lykke Li w/ TiRon & Ayomari ......... OCT 5 Eric Hutchinson & The Believers w/ Jeremy Messersmith .................... OCT 12 The Milk Carton Kids w/ The Barr Brothers ....................... OCT 13 Elle King w/ Cordovas ...................NOV 2

Jewel - Handmade Holiday Tour w/ Atz, Atz Lee, Nikos Kilcher ..............DEC 6 Edie Brickell & New Bohemians ................NOV 3 Ingrid Michaelson Trio Inside Netflix’s The Staircase - Songs for the Season ......... DEC 12 & Making a Murderer: Alice Smith ................................. MAR 9 Fabrications, Lies, Fake Science, and the Owl Theory José González feat. David Rudolf and Jerry Buting Moderated by NPR’s Carrie Johnson .NOV 5 & The String Theory ......... MAR 20 THE BYT BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL

Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, & Friends ... OCT 27

OPENING NIGHT FEAT.

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Late Show! 10:30pm Doors ...............Sa 10

#ADULTING with Michelle Buteau

Papadosio w/ LITZ

Toro Y Moi w/ Dizzy Fae ...........M 12 Ty Segall (Solo Acoustic) This is a seated show. ......................Tu 13

Randy Rogers Band w/ Parker McCollum ....................F 16 Wild Nothing w/ Men I Trust ..Su 18 The Dead South w/ The Hooten Halllers & Del Suelo .................................Tu 20

Allen Stone w/ Nick Waterhouse ....................W 21

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Early Show! 5:30pm Doors ......... OCT 25

and Jordan Carlos ...................... OCT 26 • thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

The Presets w/ Blood Red Shoes ................. Sa OCT 6 Azizi Gibson w/ Jez Dior & Lost Boy .Sa 13 White Denim w/ Rotem ...............Su 14 Django Django w/ The Shacks........ M 15 SCARLXRD ..............................Tu 16

Trevor Powers w/ CORMAC ROTH ...F 19 Low Cut Connie w/ Ruby Boots • &more (Chill Moody & Donn T) ....................Su 21 Alexandros .............................. M 22 Oh Pep! Late Show! 10:30pm Doors ...W 24

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office.

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES impconcerts.com AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

My Cat from Hell ...................NOV 21

AN EVENING WITH

Phoebe Robinson with special guest Tig Notaro

Early Show! 6pm Doors ...................Sa 10

Richard Thompson Electric Trio ..............................NOV 8 Ólafur Arnalds ........................NOV 14 Jackson Galaxy - Host of Animal Planet’s

PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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FunK & R&B BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Rachelle Ferrell. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $70–$75. bluesalley.com.

CITY LIGHTS: sunDAY

oPERA kennedy Center oPera hoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: La traviata. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

PoP dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gruff Rhys. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

RoCK the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Ben Howard. 8 p.m. $45–$75. theanthemdc.com.

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. MEGATIVE. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. blackcatdc.com. hill CoUntry live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

The Detroit Cobras, Fiona Silver and Jumpin’ Jupiter. 8 p.m. $15–$18. hillcountrywdc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Tribulation. 8 p.m. $16–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Books

PLACEs WE FInD

In their joint exhibition at Photoworks at Glen Echo, it’s not hard to tell Catiana Garcia Kilroy and Sandy Sugawara’s images apart. Kilroy loves repetitive patterns: planks in a whitewashed fence, crowded racks of dresses, a veil of seashells hung from the ceiling, and rows of dimly lit tables in a mess hall. More intriguing, though, are the images in which Kilroy breaks this pattern. In a photograph of Los Angeles’ Union Station, for instance, a row of vertical windows is less intriguing than the dreamy, supple trees and sky seen through them, while in an image of a botanical nursery, the fabric roof has a surface that seems to swell and recede like the ocean.

By contrast, Sugawara’s images are all about the painstakingly arranged tableau. One image at a veterans’ memorial consists of water and sky, grounded by a solitary and well focused visitor.

Another image, “Thanksgiving,” features an artfully tousled tablecloth on a dining room table.

Among several images presumably taken from inside Sugawara’s home, the most impressive is “Self Portrait”—less for the shadow of herself taking the image and more for the blazing rectangle of orange and red, which suggests the artfully raw edges of a Polaroid transfer print. The exhibition is on view to Nov. 4 at Glen Echo Photoworks, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks.org.

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

Milo Greene. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

RoCK

the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Nine Inch Nails. 7:30 p.m. $95–$175. theanthemdc.com.

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Swearin’ and Sheer Mag. 9:45 p.m. $15–$17. blackcatdc.com. fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Ninja Sex Party. 7 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com.

WEDnEsDAY BLuEs

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. AJ Croce. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $35. bluesalley.com.

CLAssICAL

kennedy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dover Quartet. 7:30 p.m. $45. kennedy-center.org.

HIP-HoP

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Milo.

7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

oPERA

kennedy Center oPera hoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: La traviata. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

anita SarkeeSian and eBony adamS Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams discuss their new book History Vs Women, which highlights the untold stories of remarkable women through the ages and around the world. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Oct. 8. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Brooke Barker Brooke Barker chats about her latest book Sad Animal Babies, a humorous illustrated profile of over 100 different baby creatures. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Oct. 9.

7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867.

Theater

aida Constellation Theatre Company presents Elton John’s epic musical, based on the opera of the same name. It follows the forbidden love story of the Nubian princess Aida and Ramades, the Egyptian captain who enslaved her people. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Nov. 18. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

Born yeSterday Set in the 1940s, this Broadway play tells the story of Billie Dawn, the naive girlfriend of a Washington tycoon who fights back against his corrupt political schemes. This regional production is directed by Aaron Posner and stars Kimberly Gilbert and Edward Gero. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Oct. 21. $20–$62. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

Como agUa Para ChoColate (like Water for ChoColate) Making its U.S. premiere, this production centers on a young woman who is forbidden to marry because of family tradition and takes to expressing herself through cooking. It is based on the novel by Laura Esquivel, adapted to the stage

by Garbi Losada and directed by Olga Sánchez. Performed in Spanish with English subtitles. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To Oct. 7. $20–$48.

(202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org. hoW i learned to drive Round House’s production of this Pulitzer-winning play is directed by Amber Paige McGinnis and written by Paula Vogel. This timely story chronicles one woman’s struggle to break free from the cycle of sexual abuse and come to terms with her traumatizing memories. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Nov. 4. $48.40–$67. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. if i forget This acutely personal play tells the story of a Jewish D.C. family agonizing over whether to sell their 14th street home after their mother has died and their father is in need of full-time care. If I Forget is directed by Matt Torney and written by Dear Evan Hansen Tony-winner Steven Levenson. Studio The-

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On J. Cole’s fifth album, KOD, the North Carolina rapper strikingly steps out with a piece of work a lot less about Jermaine and much more about J. Cole. With an album title that can be interpreted as a triple entendre (Kids On Drugs, King Overdosed, and Kill Our Demons), Cole breathes life into the intricacies and intersections of generational hot topics like celebrity, drug addiction, and mental health. Despite the distinctive shift to a more external worldview on KOD, which contrasts his more introspective previous albums 4 Your Eyez Only and 2014 Forest Hills Drive, the overarching consistency of intimate storytelling and having no features remains. On standout tracks “Kevin’s Heart” and “Photograph,” Cole illustrates with sharp skill and simplicity the struggles of lust and monogamy. Throughout the 12-track project, Cole is adamant about tapping full-throttle into the nuances of life as a famous, black rapper—even if that comes at the cost of providing no comfort for his unfiltered truths. J. Cole performs at 7:30 p.m. at Capital One Arena, 601 F St. NW. $49.50–$149.50. (202) 628-3200. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

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Did you know that many newborn mammals can’t open their eyes for a few weeks? Or that newborn elephants have no control over their trunks? Or that some bat babies cling to their parents as they fly? Writer and illustrator Brooke Barker’s new book Sad Animal Babies will tell you all that and so much more—more than 100 entries about the experiences of mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, insect and miscellaneous vertebrate, fish, and aquatic mammal younglings. It ain’t easy being young, y’all. Especially when you’re a baby elephant. Barker’s latest is a follow-up to her best-selling Sad Animal Facts, full of informative fun facts, colorful animal illustrations, and an always-hilarious quotation. Sad Animal Babies is formatted the same way but this time Barker’s focused her trademark wit on the youth.

The result is a book you could have a good time reading to your kids or to yourself that teaches us a fundamental truth: Nature is wild. Brooke Barker speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, 70 District Square SW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

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Denzel Curry may be just 23 years old, but he’s already thinking about his legacy. “We set the tone for everybody else, and then they just took it a bit further,” he recently told Pitchfork. “Each thing just made me legendary in my own right, and people started to realize my influence.” Curry may sound cocky, but the Miami rapper isn’t wrong: Among the current crop of so-called SoundCloud rappers who have taken over hip-hop, Curry is an influential veteran. After dropping his first mixtape at 16, Curry has consistently pushed his art forward, updating Three 6 Mafia for a new generation with his spitfire flow and psychedelic tendencies. And for a rapper whose breakthrough single was the mosh pit-starting “Threatz,” he’s increasingly shown off an ear for melody, as he does throughout his latest album, TA13OO. Even with his preternatural accomplishments, it feels as if Curry is just getting started. “Everybody wanna ride waves, and jump when the ship don’t sail,” he raps on “SWITCH IT UP | ZWITCH 1T UP,” as if he knows it’s more exciting to start waves than to ride them to shore. Denzel Curry performs at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $25–$75. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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laBoUr of love Fresh from London’s West End, this new comedy traces the ups and downs of leftwing politics in Britain over the past two decades.

Labour of Love is directed by Leora Morris with an Olivier-winning script by James Graham. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 28. $49–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

the old man & the gUn Robert Redford stars in this true story of a 70-year-old man who mounts an escape from San Quentin and performs a string of heists. Co-starring Sissy Spacek and Danny Glover. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SoUth PaCifiC This regional production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is directed by Alan Muraoka and choreographed by Darren Lee. Set during World War II on a distant Pacific island, South Pacific tells the sweeping love story of nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To Oct. 7. $64–$84. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. tUrn me looSe This John Gould Rubin-directed play traces comic genius Dick Gregory’s rise to fame as the first black comedian to utilize racial comedy, intertwining art and activism and risking his safety in the process. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Oct. 14. $56–76. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

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SAVAGELOVE Is it even possible for a couple that stopped having sex to start back up again? My girlfriend and I (we’re both women) have been together for four years, and we haven’t had sex for two. I thought the sex was good before it stopped, but apparently she was going through the motions. She’s a sex worker, and it took her a while to figure out she was not being present, and she wanted to stop having sex with me until she could figure out how to change that. I get that and respect it. We have an open relationship, so I started having more sex with other people. And while it’s fun, I do find myself wishing I could have sex with someone I actually care about—and I only care about her. She says she wants to start having sex with me again, but we don’t really know how to do that. Everything is kind of terrifying and awkward. She said it’s hard to go from sex with zero intimacy into sex with the intimacy turned up to 11. We’re very romantic with each other, and there are other forms of physical affection like kisses and snuggling, but no making out or humping. I love her more than I knew I could love a person, and if we never do figure out how to have sex together, I’ll still stay with her. But for two people who are both highly sexual and want to have sex with each other, we sure are perplexed at how to make this work.

—Sex Or Romance Dilemma

“Let’s cut to the chase: Yes, it is possible for a couple that has stopped having sex to start having it again,” said Dr. Lori Brotto, a clinical psychologist and a sex researcher at the University of British Columbia.

You ended on a note of despair, SORD, but Brotto sees two good reasons for hope: You and your girlfriend are completely open and honest with each other, and you’re committed to staying together whether or not the sex resumes. Your communication skills and that rock-solid commitment—neither of you are going anywhere—are the bedrock on which you can rebuild your sex life.

“There are two aspects of SORD’s question that jump out at me: one, the reference to wanting to be present for sex, and two, the description of the situation as terrifying and awkward,” said Brotto. “SORD’s girlfriend likely perfected the practice of ‘going elsewhere’ during sex while at work, which meant that it became almost automatic for her to do this while having sex in her relationship. This is classic mindlessness, and it is why mindfulness—the state of full awareness to the present moment in a kind and compassionate way—may be a tool for her to consider implementing.”

Mindfulness is the subject of Brotto’s new book, Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire.

“Mindfulness has a long history in Buddhist meditation, and it allowed monks to sit with their present experience, including pain and suffering, for hours or days—or sometimes

weeks and months,” said Dr. Brotto. “In more recent years, mindfulness has been reconceptualized as a tool that anyone can use and benefit from. It doesn’t rely on having a Buddhist orientation or a cave to retreat to.”

So how does this ancient mindfulness stuff work where modern girl-on-girl sex is concerned?

“The practice is simple,” said Brotto. “It involves deliberately paying attention to sensations, sounds, and thoughts in the present moment—and noticing when the mind gets pulled elsewhere and then gently but firmly guiding it back. Mindfulness is also about not berating yourself for finding it challenging or judging yourself for the thoughts you have.”

In her practice, Dr. Brotto has seen research subjects successfully use mindfulness to cultivate and/or reignite sexual desire, calm anxiety, and relieve the awkwardness and fear that some people experience with sex.

“Suffice it to say,” she said, “there is an impressive body of research that supports the practice of mindful sex, and people who otherwise may believe that their minds are incapable of staying still can effectively learn to fully engage their attention to sex and the person(s) with whom they are having sex.

It doesn’t matter if you are skeptical about whether mindfulness works or not—if you are willing to learn the skills and apply it to sex, you’re likely to benefit.”

And if you’re nervous or scared that it won’t work or that you’ll never reconnect sexually with your girlfriend, SORD, Brotto wants you to know that those feelings are perfectly normal.

“The uncertainty surrounding what will happen when they try to reintegrate sex can be terrifying for some couples,” said Brotto. “What if it doesn’t work? What if neither of them has desire? What if the sex is just plain bad? If SORD and her partner are worrying about the anticipated sex, or even catastrophizing over it—a jargony term meaning they imagine it ending in disaster—that can make it damn near impossible to remain in the present. The good news is that mindfulness can help with the tendency to get lost on the thought train.”

So here’s what you’re going to do, SORD: Order a copy of Dr. Brotto’s new book and read it with your girlfriend. And while you wait for the book to arrive, you’re going to try a mindful touching exercise called “sensate focus.”

“She will invite her girlfriend to touch her from head to toe, minus the genitals, for 15 minutes—without the goal of triggering arousal or desire,” said Brotto. “SORD’s role is to pay attention to the sensations emerging, and curtail any thoughts by redirecting attention to the here and now. And relax. After 15 minutes, they switch roles so SORD becomes the

giver and her girlfriend is the receiver. This is not foreplay. It is not manual sexual stimulation. It is a mindfulness exercise designed to teach a person to remain in the present while receiving sensual touch.”

There are solo mindfulness exercises, SORD, and some good, commercially available apps out there that can walk you through them. But if your goal is reconnecting with your girlfriend, Brotto strongly recommends that you two work on mindfulness together.

“My view is that a couple-based mindfulness exercise like sensate focus will get them to their goal of mind-blowing, mind-knowing sex,” said Brotto.

Follow Dr. Brotto on Twitter @DrLoriBrotto.

—Dan Savage CONFIDENTIAL TO AMERICAN CITIZENS EVERYWHERE: Furious about Brett Kavanaugh? Me, too. That’s why I donated to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Our only hope of protecting a woman’s right to choose, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, the environment, organized labor—our only hope for blocking Trump’s anti-everyone-and-everything agenda—is to take back the U.S. House and Senate this November. If the Democrats control the House come January (which looks likely), they can impeach Kavanaugh; if they control the Senate come January (a longer shot but within reach), they can put Kavanaugh on trial—and that means a full investigation into all the allegations against him, including the numerous ways in which he perjured himself during his confirmation hearings. It would take a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict and remove Kavanaugh, and Dems likely won’t take that many seats—but if a trial uncovers proof that Kavanaugh committed the crimes he’s been accused of and lied to Congress, perhaps enough Republicans can be shamed into voting to remove him. (Republicans feeling shame? That may be the longest of long shots.) Go to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee website (dscc.org), click “contribute,” and give what you can.

CONFIDENTIAL TO CANADIAN STUDENTS IN ONTARIO: Thank you for walking out of your classrooms to protest the scrapping of Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum by Doug Ford, your newish (and thuggish) premier. Every student deserves an up-to-date sexual education that covers reproduction, pleasure, consent, tech, sexting, sexual abuse, and LGBTQ issues. Watching students stand up against Ford’s reactionary, bigoted, sex-negative assholery has been truly inspiring. Keep it up!

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