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14 The horror Issue True tales of exorcists, witches, potion-makers, and fortune tellers from around the region Illustrations by Stephanie Rudig

distriCt Line 7 Loose Lips: Proprietor of Anacostia eatery applies business principles to race for D.C. Council seat.

8 Can City Paper Become a Nonprofit Publication?: Nonprofit journalism works in Austin, Texas and New Haven, Connecticut.

9 Gear Prudence 10 Supply and Rebrand: Five names for developing D.C.-area neighborhoods that raise eyebrows 12 Savage Love

food 21 Pop Biz: Pop-ups aren’t a flash in the pan. The trend of temporary restaurants is here to stay, and that’s a good thing for the city.

23 Turkey Lurkey Time: A guide to D.C.’s Thanksgivinginspired sandwiches 23 Hangover Helper: Silver’s Bison Huevos Rancheros 23 Top of the Hour: Rakuya’s discounted drinks and sushi

arts 25 Willing and Stable: With STABLE, artists Caitlin Teal Price, Tim Doud, and Linn Meyers hope to create a sustainable model for local arts communities.

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26 Curtain Calls: Zilberman on The Price at Arena Stage and Klimek on The Welders’ Hello, My Name Is... at Rhizome 28 Short Subjects: Olszewski on Suburbicon and Zilberman on The Killing of a Sacred Deer 30 Sketches: Robinson on Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the United States (Annotated) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 31 Discography: Lopez on Elena & Los Fulanos’ Volcán and Weber on Sara Curtin’s Or So It Seemed

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In which we share our vision

Darrow MontgoMery

Last week in this column I explained that City Paper is for sale, that its owner, SouthComm, Inc., hopes to close a deal by the end of 2017, and that staffers see this sale ending in one of three general ways. The paper could have no buyer and close, a buyer could come in and make staff cuts to match the paper’s income, or City Paper could find a winning business model, whether nonprofit, for-profit, or another structure.

Over the past week we’ve had time to develop a vision for what City Paper’s journalism would look like under the winning scenario.

City Paper should be D.C.’s hometown newspaper—an aggressive, delightful, comprehensive source of news for the District. The Washington Post is a force in national news, but gives less and less on local. We want to give more and more. We envision a City Paper that grows again.

Today we have four major beats. Our housing reporter pushes indepth and investigative coverage of D.C.’s dramatic housing market and its great wealth disparities. Our relentless food writer goes well beyond restaurant openings to include the lives of workers, food injustices, and the local history of the industry. City Paper’s political writer gets scoops on guns, schools, and wasteful government spending alike. And a stable of freelance arts writers—some with more than 20 years of experience— are highly specialized in theater, visual arts, music, film, photography, and literature.

To that, we want to add constant, investigative coverage of education—daycare through university—to fill out the beat we’ve already cobbled together with various writers. In this election season, we’d like to double political coverage. We want to cover D.C’s profound income inequality problems in a thoughtful and well-rounded way. We’d add a health reporter to dig into policy and the people at the other end of it.

We’d do more on cannabis all around. City Paper is also best positioned to expand arts coverage to match the city’s booming scene and the lives of its artists. We want to scale up investigations in all coverage areas, and dig deeper into neighborhoods. We’ve already got a new multimedia project coming.

Pie in the sky? Maybe. In these pages you’ll find an article on a nonprofit news model, and we’re reporting on others. We know that residents want the news, and we are looking to hear from you on what you’d want out of a bigger City Paper.

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DistrictLine Counter Intelligence

Proprietor of Anacostia eatery applies business principles to race for D.C. Council seat.

Dionne ReeDeR likes to tell the story of a younger cousin whom she hired at her cafe in Anacostia, Cheers At The Big Chair. It’s an anecdote about personal responsibility and hard work, says the community advocate and business owner who has declared her candidacy for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council.

She showed up at her cafe one day and her cousin—who refers to as her as “Auntie” out of respect—was loafing, FaceTiming with a friend. Reeder looked askance at the manager, who told her the nephew had swept and taken out the trash, and then decided to take a break.

She took her nephew out back: “He said, ‘What’s up Auntie?’ and I said, ‘You know I’m firing you.’” Reeder cackles. For her it was an easy call. The young man needed to be taught a lesson. “I told him, ‘I love you enough to fire you.’”

On the second floor of this cozy eatery on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE last weekend, Reeder talked with Loose Lips about the values her parents instilled in her. “If I came home with a B, my father would say, ‘You know you can get an A.’” These days, Reeder speaks of “human capital development” for youth and small businesses, which she says is more about self-sufficiency than social services and worker-friendly initiatives.

Reeder aims to unseat incumbent Elissa Silverman, the at-large councilmember best known for championing labor-friendly bills that have alienated the business community and provided an opening for a challenge.

And if Reeder can marshall that powerful bloc of support, the incumbent could be in for a fight.

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ReeDeR gRew up in Columbia Heights.

Her father worked his entire career at George Washington University and her mother ran an upholstery business out of the family’s basement.

She has an infectious optimism that she says is rooted in the work ethic her parents demanded. “They empowered me to work hard, to achieve something,” says Reeder, who graduated from Roosevelt High School and then West

Virginia State University, where she served as president of the student government.

While having the benefit of two working parents, and eventually a job on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for the House Committee on Natural Resources, Reeder also saw inequity in less fortunate households by doing community work through her church. “I learned that you need to show people the way to do the work,” she says. “You have to understand their needs, and look at ways to serve that need.”

service, she says the need for economic development is what motivated her to lead a team to start Cheers, a full service restaurant that hires employees from the community. “We need services and an implementation process that is inclusive to be able to identify skills in people that allow them to move forward,” she says. “When you invest in people, it builds a community of helping systems.”

Unseating Silverman in a citywide race will be a major challenge for a first-time candidate.

The incumbent often has the spending advan-

Reeder has impressed some impressive people. At the D.C Community Prevention Partnership she developed a college prep program, and 75 percent of the 200 youth she helped get into college graduated, which caught the attention of then-Chief Financial Officer Anthony Williams, who awarded her a $9 million budget to curb youth violence. When Williams became mayor he hired Reeder as his neighborhood services coordinator in Ward 8. She later worked for the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative, managing the organization’s dayto-day activities and its multi-million dollar investments.

Although her background is in community

tage, and her record of progressive initiatives has shown her to be a serious and ambitious lawmaker.

But legislation Silverman has supported, including a flexible hours bill that did not become law, a minimum wage boost, and a paid family leave act, leave her vulnerable to a business-friendly campaign, Reeder says.

“It’s a soul-searching angle that results from my own business struggles,” she says. “I had to look at who on the Council is supportive of business and who is not. [Elissa] is a good person, but I have the ability to relate to community growth through service, religious faith, and business.”

A native Washingtonian, Reeder grew up

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in Ward 1, where she now lives, bought her first home in Ward 5, and has served communities all over the city. She is an openly gay, married, African-American woman who has a daughter by her marriage, as well as a four-year-old granddaughter. “We grew up together,” she says of her daughter and her wife, whom she met when they were in their 20s. (Reeder is 46, her wife, 43.) “They keep me sound.”

In order to wage a credible challenge, Reeder will have to generate multi-generational support, as well as synthesize the public services and private enterprise sectors.

Bryan “Scottie” Irving of Blue Skye Construction, LLC knew Reeder’s sister, whose life was tragically cut short. “She has overcome a lot from a family perspective,” Irving says of Reeder. “She’s stayed fast to who she is, whereas a lot of people veer off in the other direction.”

Brenda Williams, former deputy chief of staff for Councilmember Marion Barry and a former charter school operator, says, “I’m from an era where we were taught to listen, to take things in as we process information on our own. I see that in her, and I see a natural networker who likes to negotiate and put people together. I see why people want her to run.”

Williams says she also appreciates Reeder’s spirit of entrepreneurship, which can be infectious for people who do not think they have the pedigree to be successful in such a fast-paced economy. “Dionne’s message is one of a level playing field. We hear people say that business is too hard, that the spirit of adventure is missing in young people.”

Reeder’s willingness to take on business risk appeals to an older generation that also wants to see more practical experience on the Council. “It’s easy to write words on paper, but it’s different to know what it’s like to have to meet payroll, to experience what those words mean,” says Williams.

Reeder says she was raised to understand that community services can only get a person so far. “People behind that counter and in that kitchen [at Cheers], they got to believe in themselves. The business community can do that, if we develop the human capital and get away from being dependant on social services.”

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You all know the news: Washington City Paper is for sale. Our owner, SouthComm, Inc., is looking to sell the paper pretty quickly, too— by the end of the year, with preliminary offers due by Nov. 1.

In light of this news, we’re reporting on the possibilities for the future.

While it’s no secret that local newsrooms are hurting financially, and that an Uncle (or Aunt) Pennybags swooping in can save the day, some publications have found sustainability by becoming nonprofits. It’s a way for newsrooms to be directly supported by the community where they’re reporting.

That’s the vision Michael Kanin—a former City Paper staffer—had in 2013 when he started the Austin Monitor—a small but vital publication in Austin, Texas.

Kanin, who had been a freelance writer for the Monitor’s previous incarnation, In Fact Daily, says that “a group of friends and I had been talking about the need for better local journalism in Austin,” and “kicked around the idea to create something.”

At the time, there was a pretty hefty paywall to read the articles on In Fact Daily. “We wanted to make this thing accessible to more people,” Kanin says. “Nonprofit journalism is more accessible to communities than profit journalism.”

And so Kanin, along with staffers Elizabeth Pagano and Jo Clifton, came up with a plan to buy IFD and turn it into the nonprofit publication it is today. It wasn’t easy. First, they had to establish a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation, the Capital of Texas Media Foundation, that would officially take ownership.

Getting approval for 501(c)(3) status can take anywhere from two to 12 months, so while they were waiting for their status to get approved, they had a fiscal sponsor to accept funds. During this period they were also brokering a deal with their owner, which was the Austin-American Statesman.

Through this transition, the Monitor expanded its coverage. IFD had focused on city hall, but the Monitor covers local politics, transportation, development, and more.

Today, the Monitor’s funding comes from a combination of subscriptions (the Monitor has three subscription tiers that range from $5.41 to $97.43 a month), sponsorships, community

partnerships, and donations from readers.

“I’m not going to say our model is unique,” Kanin says, “but I believe in that model.”

Kanin is right: The Monitor’s model isn’t unique. One comparable paper, an online daily out of Connecticut called the New Haven Independent, inspired and supported Kanin and his colleagues as they launched. The Monitor didn’t have a formal nonprofit status when it started, but needed a way to accept donations immediately. The New Haven Independent filled this gap with its 501(c)(3), the Online Journalism Project, by accepting donations for the Monitor while Kanin and his team awaited approval for their own nonprofit status.

A longtime local news reporter and editor in New Haven, Paul Bass founded the Independent in 2005. His was the second-ever nonprofit online newspaper—after the Voice of San Diego—he says. After years working at the alt weekly newspaper the New Haven Advocate, Bass founded the Online Journalism Project in order to launch the Independent .

“We have the DNA of an altweekly, but the model of a community daily,” Bass says.

Initially, when the Independent launched, nearly 75 percent of its funding came from national foundations, like the Knight Foundation. “But that well dries up,” Bass says. Today, however, more than 75 percent of the Independent’s funding comes from local sources—philanthropists, local institutions, and the like.

There’s a kind of freedom that comes with being a public and not-for-profit news organization, Bass says. “You’re not looking to make rich people richer,” he says. His advice for City Paper: “You gotta find people that care about Washington, that care about good reporting that benefits the community.”

The Independent, the Monitor, and their peers offer one vision for the future of City Paper: a nonprofit newspaper funded through a combination of sponsorships, journalism grants, and either subscriptions or voluntary reader donations.

“I don’t think you can do the journalism you want to do under the umbrella of people who don’t know the city,” says Kanin, who now sits on the Monitor’s board of directors and is the publisher of Texas Observer. “People love to say print is dead and alt weeklies are dead, and I think that’s bullshit.”

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: Last night, I was biking behind a cyclist who had no lights. I found it hard to see him and I imagine drivers did too. We were stopped together at a stoplight and I debated telling him to get some lights, but couldn’t figure out how to say that without sounding like a scold.

How do I politely tell ninja cyclists to light up?

— Listen, I’m Genuinely Helpful, Though Usually Peeved Dear LIGHTUP: Riding in the dark without lights is inexcusably bad. When it starts getting dark earlier, many cyclists are either caught unaware or think there’s still enough ambient light to make bike lights unnecessary. This is wrong.

More than any other piece of equipment, including helmets, proper lighting does the most to keep a bicyclist safe at night. Your desire to intervene is laudable. You could be cutesy and say, “Oh, forget your lights?” But GP doesn’t cotton to cutesy. Go with the direct, “Hey, you need lights.” This is both clear and factually accurate.

When you catch an errant “Fuck off,” which’ll probably happen, you’ll at least have the satisfaction of knowing you’re right. If you really want super karma points, buy a couple of pairs of cheap light sets and hand them out as needed. They’re not too costly, and in that way, you’ll be solving problems at the same time as identifying them.

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Gear Prudence: In spite of the annual objections, you have a horrible tradition of coming up with terrible bike-themed Halloween costume ideas. Again, we’ve all asked you to stop.

You’re not going to do it again this year, are you?

— Geez. Honestly Over Stupid Themes.

Dear GHOST: As with all tedious horror tropes, there’s always a sequel! Halloween and bicycling are a great pair. One is about wearing a wacky outfit and coming up with excuses to binge on crazy amounts of calories. The other is Halloween.

Here’s a list of costumes that’ll be sure to make your friends say “huh?”

• Wear garish colors and park yourself wherever you please. You’re dockless bikeshare.

Extra points if your costume falls apart within minutes.

• Put on some roller skates and carry a couple of D batteries and say you’re an E-bike.

Note: costume not permitted in NYC. • Never show up at all. You’re the 6th Street NW cycletrack. This is a great way to to reuse your Fugazi reunion costume from a few years back.

• Travel erratically, like you have no idea where you’re going. Make sudden movements toward the curb and anyone holding a smart phone. You’ll need a U sticker or a pink mustache to really pull together the look.

If you are trick-or-treating by bike this year, have fun with it. The snickers you receive might even be candy.

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DistrictLinE Supply and Rebrand

Five names for developing D.C.-area neighborhoods that raise eyebrows

By Andrew Giambrone Like language, D.C. neighborhood names evolve. Monikers that surfaced this century—NoMa, Capitol Riverfront, and Hill East—are now comfortably lodged in the minds of many residents. Older names like Swampoodle, Lily Ponds, and Civic Betterment have long had their own charms.

Yet some geographic neologisms may cause a person to ask, “Well, where’d that one come from?” While City Paper doesn’t deign to know who came up with which first, here are five local neighborhood names that have emerged in the past few years.

Twin Oaks This one takes the cake, and not just because former City Paper staffer Aaron Wiener made up the name and has been peddling it since he left the paper in 2015. Twin Oaks even has a Twitter account now. It’s just north of Columbia Heights and west of Petworth in what some consider 16th Street Heights. The best landmark for this nabe is brunch spot Red Derby.

North End Shaw As early as 2015, developer JBG Cos. (before a merger this year transformed it into JBG Smith) tried to get this name to stick. It describes the area around the Atlantic Plumbing project and the 9:30 Club, where new eateries and apartments have opened. No “South End Shaw” yet.

North Capitol Otherwise known as parts of Truxton Circle and Bloomingdale—and not to be confused with Eckington—“North Capitol” refers to the area west of North Capitol Street between New York and Rhode Island avenues NW. The name appeared in a September Post real estate article.

North District Notice a pattern? This branded neighborhood lies in (Metro-accessible!)

Crystal City. It is also largely being developed by JBG Smith, which plans on converting offices into residences. “We want to treat Crystal City more like a city, and cities have neighborhoods,” a Smith rep recently told the Washington Business Journal.

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East End Ex-Mayor Vince Gray is on an explicit campaign to change the fact that many people call Wards 7 and 8 “east of the river”—meaning the Anacostia—because, he says, it’s “shorthand [for] the ‘Wrong Side of the Tracks.’” Gray and likeminded thinkers prefer this analogue of Northwest’s West End.

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SAVAGELOVE In a frank exchange early in our courtship, I told my girlfriend that I have no kinks. As a faithful reader of Savage Love, I’m obviously not opposed to kinks— but I’ve never had any inclinations in that direction, and am probably a typical hetero vanilla. As a result, I’m damn near clueless in that area. Last night, my girlfriend placed my hands around her neck and asked me to choke her. My instant reaction was to say no, not out of any objection in principle but because I thought it might be dangerous in my inexperienced hands. Later I did comply, but I was definitely holding back. I dearly love my main squeeze—clever pun there, huh?—and I want to be GGG, but… well, you see my misgivings. I know about safe words, but can we count on them when the recipient’s larynx is being compromised and she may be close to passing out?

For the record, I had no difficulty in acceding to her request to be bitten, as I know where and how hard I can do that without causing damage, but choking is an area of darkness for me. And let me note that my girlfriend has no grounding in medicine, physiology, or anything that would lead me to be comfortable trusting her judgment about choking.

—Choke Holds Obligate Kink Education I have friends who are professional Dominants— women who will stick needles through the head of their client’s cock and post the bloody pics to Twitter—who refuse to do breath play and/or choking scenes.

“It’s impossible to control for all the variables,” said Mistress Matisse, a professional dominatrix with more than 20 years of experience. “People think choking isn’t kinky, but it is. People think it’s a low-risk activity, but it’s not. Choking isn’t just about the lungs. It can affect the brain and the heart—it can affect the whole body—and if the bottom has underlying health issues, things can go disastrously wrong. I feel strongly about this.”

Wrapping something around someone’s neck—your hands, a belt, a rope—is the most dangerous form of breath control/play, Matisse emphasized, and simply cannot be done safely.

Fragile bones (like the hyoid bone), nerves, arteries, veins—the neck is a crowded place, it’s vulnerable, and putting sustained pressure on someone’s neck is extremely risky.

Matisse also noted: “The person doing the choking needs to be aware that they’re on the hook legally—for at least manslaughter charges— if the person who asked to be choked should die.

People have gone to jail for this kind of ‘play.’”

Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101, not only takes a similarly dim view of choking, CHOKE, he’s served as an expert witness at the trials of people who choked someone to death during sex.

“It’s always inherently life-threatening, and it’s always inherently unpredictable,” said Wiseman. “It’s more dangerous than suffocation, as you can get into deeper trouble more quickly.

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ing, you can’t say to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that if you ‘only’ choke someone for 30 seconds, they’ll be okay. People have died after being choked for less than 30 seconds.”

I’m tempted to leave it there, CHOKE, because I worry that anything else I might say— anything remotely equivocal—could result in one idiot choking another to death. But the fact of the matter is that choking, despite the risks, is a relatively common kink, and almost all deaths related to breath play occur during solo scenes, not partnered scenes. So I’m going to give you a little advice about meeting your girlfriend’s particular needs safely, i.e., without wrapping your hands around her neck.

So your partner wants to be choked?

“What most people who are into choking want is to feel controlled,” said Matisse. “So put your hand over her mouth. Grab her hair, wrap an arm around her shoulder—not her neck—and put your other hand over her mouth. That should satisfy the urge.”

Another option, CHOKE, is a gas mask. If it’s not too disturbing a look—if it’s not a boner-killer—you can put a gas mask on someone, cover the breathing hole with the flat of your hand, and cut off your partner’s air. All they have to do when they need a breath is shake their head, which will break the seal created by your palm and allow them to breathe.

And finally, CHOKE, you could—if you really like this woman—take a stage combat class or book a session with a fight choreographer. There are safe choke holds used on stage, where the person being choked is in control and no actual pressure is placed on the neck. —Dan Savage

Wrapping something around someone’s neck—your hands, a belt, a rope—is the most dangerous form of breath control/play, Matisse emphasized, and simply cannot be done safely.

My boyfriend of four months is great, we’re in love, and the sex is amazing. Now for the but: A strange man takes my boyfriend out once or twice a year for a fancy lunch and gives him a lot of expensive new underwear. At these lunch “dates,” my boyfriend returns the underwear the man gave him last time, now used and worn. It seems obvious to me that Underpants Pervert, as I’ve dubbed him, is masturbating with these old pairs of underwear. This has been

going on for SEVEN YEARS, and it makes me so uncomfortable that I asked my boyfriend to stop. He agreed, but he went back on the agreement the next time Underpants Pervert snapped his fingers. My boyfriend says he likes this guy, doesn’t feel objectified in a bad way, enjoys their lunches, and thinks of him as an old friend. When I see my boyfriend in his underwear, all I can think is, “That pervert is going to be masturbating into those soon,” when I should be thinking, “My boyfriend is so sexy.” You’ll probably take Underpants Pervert’s side—since you’re prokink and an older gay man yourself—and tell me to get over it. But what if I can’t? —Having Issues Stopping Boyfriend’s Underpants Man

P.S. My boyfriend is 28 and straight. I’m a 25-yearold cis bi woman.

Get over it.

P.S. And if you can’t get over it? Well, I guess you could issue an ultimatum, HISBUM: “It’s me or Underpants Pervert.” You would essentially be asking your boyfriend to end a successful long-term relationship (seven years)—a relationship of a different sort, yes, but a relationship nonetheless—in favor of a short-term relationship (four months). You’ve already asked your boyfriend to stop seeing this man, and he chose the perverted fag over the controlling girlfriend.

If you can’t get over it and you decide to issue that ultimatum, HISBUM, don’t be surprised if he chooses the pervert over you a second time.

Just wondering why I can’t find any coverage in your many years of letters concerning the effects of pubic lice on sexual health and relationships.

—Asking For A Friend No one has ever asked me about pubic lice, AFAF. Some people believe pubic lice have been driven to extinction—at least in the West—by the shaving-your-pubes trend, which is now in its second or third decade and shows no sign of abating. But that theory, which I once believed myself (and could explain why no one asks me about it), has been thoroughly debunked. So I can’t tell you why pubic lice haven’t come up in the column. It’s a mystery.

—DS The one thing I would have added to your advice for MISSCLEO, the mom who caught her son stealing panties: If she can afford it, after the talk about where the bra came from, she should give him an Amazon gift card. Maybe $50 to $100? No matter how close they are, he’s not going to ask his mom to buy panties for him, but she can give him the means and then assiduously ignore boxes that show up with his name on them. —People Are Nice To You Thanks for sharing, PANTY. Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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-makers, n o i t o p , s e ists, witch c r o egion x r e e f h o t s d e l n a t u o True dig rs from ar e l l e t e phanie Ru e n t u S t y r b o s f n and ratio Illust

Brewed Awakenings D.C.-area witches learn potion-making, cast spells, and get political.

By Jeanine Santucci A few drops of clary sage, a pinch of devil’s shoestring, and some fragments of smoky quartz. Five witches sit around a cauldron on a Saturday afternoon in the community space of an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, practicing the art of potion-making.

They are affiliated with Firefly House, an organization serving D.C.-area residents who are members of several different Pagan traditions.

David Salisbury, a witch who is very active in Firefly and the area’s larger witch community, is hosting the gathering. Every year around this time he gives a potion-making lesson— one of several educational opportunities offered year round to Firefly witches.

Salisbury practices witchcraft and the contemporary Pagan religion of Wicca, but not all those who practice witchcraft are Wiccans, or even Pagans. Some may be part of other traditions, but also cast spells and invoke spirits.

After giving a brief lesson in herbalism and the history of potions, which extends back to

ancient Egypt, and passing around a few staple potion books such as Karen Harrison’s Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook, Salisbury teaches the witches how to craft a brew for purification and cleansing.

Salisbury explains that the idea behind potion-making comes from the doctrine of signatures, which states that all plant material has a certain property that can be transferred onto another object, person, or place.

The clary sage wards off stress, the devil’s shoestring ensures a continually pure environment, and the smoky quartz absorbs negative energy. This potion is meant to be misted on oneself or in one’s workplace to expel a negative atmosphere.

Salisbury loves Halloween season. His apartment is decked out in spiderwebs, a skeleton, and a spooky doormat. He sits barefoot on a couch wearing a silver pentacle pendant around his neck and his black cat, Olive, weaves herself between his legs. He recognizes that Olive is a stereotype, but says he does just happen to have a black cat. As for the Halloween decorations, Salisbury thinks they’re

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harmless fun, though not all witches are comfortable with secular depictions.

Beyond spells, many Wiccans are inclined toward activism. Salisbury points to the lore that paints witches as the helpers of societal outcasts, even while being driven out of society themselves.

“I believe that activism, civil rights—all that has been woven into what we call the modern craft for a very long time because the role of the witch has always been the person who is othered,” Salisbury says. “Everyone fears and hates her until their kid gets sick and there’s no one else to help them out. … So she’ll take care of them, and she willingly goes into that role knowing that she will forever be othered. So I think people come to the craft usually from backgrounds where they felt othered in some way.”

Firefly helped organize a coalition of witches that attended the Women’s March on Washington in January, and Salisbury says that witches might engage in activism by casting a spell to defeat a piece of anti-reproductive rights legislation, for example. Every month

during the waning crescent moon, witches cast a spell to “bind” Trump.

Though Wicca wasn’t brought to the U.S. and popularized until the ’60s, it has preceding traditions. In January 1941, almost a year before the U.S. entered World War II, a group of D.C. area witches gathered for a “hex party” where they cast curses on Adolf Hitler.

They were described in a LIFE magazine feature at the time as “respectable residents.”

They were regular people who gathered one night to perform voodoo magic on a dummy of Hitler dressed in a Nazi uniform. The event host, Charles Tupper, was reportedly a worker in a U.S. Navy factory, and others were said to have worked for the government.

Something about D.C. fosters an environment in which witches become particularly engaged, according to Katrina Messenger, a local Wiccan elder, priestess, and a founder of the Dark Flame Coven. Messenger grew up in Anacostia and has lived in the area for more than 60 years. She knows that not all witches feel pulled to activism as she does, but she believes that the spiritual work “has to be paired with something concrete in the world, otherwise it’s just an intellectual exercise, and that’s not what witches do.”

“If you ever spent any time in Southern California in Hollywood, it’s just kind of in the air, you breathe entertainment industry. And then there’s a similar kind of thing in D.C. Even those of us who are not directly involved tend to kind of breathe politics,” Gwendolyn Reece adds.

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Reece is an associate librarian at American University and Wiccan priestess in the Hellenic tradition. She has published research articles on the prevalence of Pagan practices in the U.S., the obstacles contemporary Paganism faces, and the idea of stigmatized identity.

“We do have a variety of different types of traditions, so depending on what your interest is, there is a tremendous amount of expertise and support that is available in a lot of different ways,” Reece says. “There’s just a lot of variety and a lot of collaboration, not competition.”

“Certainly we have dramatic overrepresentation of LGBT people. We have significant overrepresentation of women,” she adds.

Messenger remembers when it was much more difficult for witches to find each other. She created an organization for performing public rituals so that area witches could connect.

“So many of the witches in this area in particular and in the Mid-Atlantic in general had a large Pagan presence, but unless you were actually in the know with somebody, you wouldn’t know they existed. They were so much hidden,” Messenger says. “If you didn’t know somebody you would think that nothing was happening, and that wasn’t true.”

The internet changed that. “Now, we’re everywhere,” she says. “There’s people all around, and my view is that they were always here, they just didn’t know where to go.”

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Put Your Hands Together Compare and contrast these palm readings from three of D.C.’s top-rated psychics.

By Stephanie Rudig Not to brAg, but I have one hell of a life line. Three area psychics agree that I will live a long, healthy, and successful life. I’m likely to stick around well into my 80s, if not longer, they say.

Of course, the accuracy of these predictions lives in the heart of the listener. Do you believe that humans can foretell the future? In these uncertain times, I’m open-minded to the possibility. But how to know if any given psychic is a quack or an oracle? First, I scoured online reviews to find top-rated fortune tellers. I picked three, and asked each of them to perform the same service—a basic palm reading—to see what overlap I might find in their predictions.

The Psychic Shop 1215 Connecticut Ave. NW, #3 The elevator takes me from a nondescript vestibule to the third floor, and opens on a sort of living room with shelves stocked with mystical knickknacks. My reader, who prefers that I not use her name, ushers me into a side room, and I place my hands on the table, palms up, while she studies them carefully.

She explains that my life line is very strong, and I’m very passionate. My head line directly intersects with my life line, which indicates strong logic and a science-driven edge—unusual qualities to find alongside the aforementioned passion. (I’d love to tell the high school chemistry teacher who gave me a C minus that I have a “science edge.”) The psychic also tells me I’m free-spirited, but not so much that I

have commitment issues, and so I’ll have three intense romantic relationships in my life before settling into one long-term one.

2018 will be a “grounding” year for me, after much upheaval in 2017. The psychic foresees I’ll face a major career crossroads around April, and at this time I’ll be forced to choose to move elsewhere or grow my roots in D.C. She muses that I’ll do better to pick the latter.

Psychic Readings by Christine 1308 18th St NW Christine welcomes me into her apartment and we head to her kitchen table to begin. She, too, tells me that my life line is long and strong, and that I’ll be fairly well off financially. She says I’ve had at least three past lives, and “old souls” like myself are extremely prone to boredom. Because of that, I have trouble choosing a focus in my career. Evidently I don’t get angry too often, but as Christine says, “I wouldn’t want to be the one you get mad at.”

As for my future, I need to spend November and December focusing on myself since it’s been a hard year. However, things are looking up in 2018. I even have a job promotion to look forward to. Christine tells me that I need to put romantic relationships on the back burner for now, but not to worry, because I’ll end up happily partnered, and with a son and daughter to boot.

For self-improvement, I’m to practice yoga or pilates and keep a daily journal. “Why don’t you write more?” Christine implores, which I must admit is an eerily fitting comment for the moment. When we’re finished, she remarks:

Witch Hunt

The alleged enchantress of Leonardtown wields power more than 300 years after her death.

By Kayla Randall It wAs A particularly brutal winter for Leonardtown, Maryland. In 1697, or 1698 depending on who you ask, disease outbreaks, death, crop failures, and a harsh cold plagued the area.

Word of the Salem witch trials a few years earlier had made its way south. Superstition and fear found fertile ground in the desperation.

That fear arrived at the doorstep of Moll Dyer, an older English immigrant who lived in a hut just south of Leonardtown. The townspeople decided that Dyer was the source of

their misfortune. They labeled the single woman a “witch” and said that she must have cursed the town. They descended upon her hut on a frigid night, torches in hand, and set her home ablaze.

Dyer escaped the flames, running off into the nearby woods as torch-wielding colonists followed her. The snow fell more forcefully, the winds blew harder, and suddenly, Dyer was deep in the woods in the midst of a blizzard. She had lost those chasing her, but she was alone. She soon found a large boulder and rested her hand and knee upon it.

It was too cold. There was no way she’d

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“I’m surprised I got so much.” In her telling, palm readings usually only reveal larger arcs of a person’s life, but she got a lot of specifics from my palms.

Maybe the future really is in my hands.

years old, as I’m an excellent writer. (I’ll allow you to judge that for yourself, dear reader.)

Mrs. Natalie asks if I do yoga, and when I say yes, tells me I must do it more often. Swimming may also work for me. She declares that I’m too independent and I must not be afraid to find love and give myself to another person. She states that I’m single without asking whether I am, so either she’s really, really good, or it’s just really, really apparent.

Mrs. Natalie of Georgetown 1500 Wisconsin Ave. NW When I arrive at Mrs. Natalie’s she’s finishing up another reading. She invites me to wait in her living room while she disappears into a curtained-off area with her client. It seems impolite to listen to someone else’s reading, so I focus on the television until it’s my turn.

Once again, my life line holds good news—a long, healthy, successful life unmarred by major tragedy. One of Mrs. Natalie’s first assertions is that I can do much better than my current job, a claim I wholeheartedly disagree with. She tells me that my confidence is lacking right now, but if I become more self-assured there’s a bright career in television for me. I’ll also write a book when I’m around 40

so, wAs there any truth to these palm readings? The analyses of my personality were pretty spot on. All suggested that I’m independent and a creative thinker, but honestly, my patchencrusted denim jacket could have given that away. They all offered general guidance on quality of life, recommending journaling and exercise, which is always good advice, though not really prophetic. Only time will tell whether forecasts about my future career, romances, and length of life will pan out. I’ll check back in at City Paper in about 50 years.

survive the night. In her final moments, she stretched out an arm, raising it to the heavens to curse Leonardtown and her persecutors for eternity. A few days later she was found frozen to death on that very boulder.

At least, that’s how the legend goes. It’s a story that has been passed down from generation to generation. Ask anyone in town and they know all about Moll Dyer. Today, the place where Dyer’s hut is said to have stood is called Moll Dyer Road, and the stream that runs parallel to it is called Moll Dyer’s Run. In 1972, the local National Guard removed an 875-pound boulder from the woods and put it downtown, smack in front of what is now the Old Jail Museum, as a makeshift memorial. The boulder is believed to be the one Dyer froze to death upon, and her hand and knee prints are supposedly still visible.

But is any of this true? Did a Moll Dyer even exist? One Leonardtown resident, 71-yearold Lynn Buonviri, decided she was going to answer these questions. The legend has giv-

en Buonviri an entirely new life, one in which she gives public talks on the topic, and offers walking tours in Leonardtown. She has been researching Dyer intensely for the past three years.

“Moll and I have been together for quite a while,” Buonviri jokes. “I’m getting to be known as Moll Dyer’s friend.”

One of Buonviri’s friends had the maiden name Dyer, and she was curious as to whether there was a connection. She visited the St. Mary’s County Historical Society and asked them to tell her everything they knew about Dyer, the so-called “witch in the woods.”

Buonviri says the Historical Society staff told her they didn’t even know for sure if Dyer existed. They knew the legend, but had no proof. Buonviri was shocked. She asked them to give her every article written about the subject and attempted to connect the dots. She looked through genealogical records, searching for a single woman who immigrated to the area in the 1600s with the last

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name Dyer. When she finally found a woman who fit the bill, it was Mary Dyer who came from Devon, England. Moll could be a nickname for Mary.

Buonviri wholeheartedly believes that this is the Moll Dyer. Whether or not she performed witchcraft may be impossible to find out, but she does believe that Dyer probably practiced some type of herbal medicine, leading people to label her as an enchantress.

“You have to take a leap of faith,” she says.

“But this legend has lived for more than 300 years. If something lasts that long, it has to have some sort of basis in fact.”

Her own experience with the Moll Dyer rock solidified her faith. One fall day a few years ago, Buonviri, who suffers from a lung disease that causes her to cough up a little bit

of blood, was downtown near the rock with her husband. She took a couple pictures and decided to put her hands on the rock. It was cold, she says, and she removed her hands and began to walk away. Within 30 seconds, she started coughing up blood non-stop. She coughed up a cup of blood in 45 minutes—the most she’s ever coughed.

She won’t be touching the rock again. She will, however, be writing a book about Dyer.

Currently, she’s also trying to organize a movement for Leonardtown to officially make the rock a memorial with a full explanation of who Moll Dyer was.

“It’s speculation and it’s a legend, and it brings people to town, especially around Halloween,” she says, laughing. “And we really owe it to her.”

Ghosts, Busted How a team of Northern Virginia exorcists help demons find their way home

By Regina Park If you INvIte someone over to your home to help you get rid of a bad spirit, you’d likely call them a ghostbuster. Tammy Hopler prefers to be called a spiritual warrior and a helping hand for both the living and the dead.

Hopler is the founder and main investigator of Spirit Chasers, a Northern Virginia-based paranormal team. Unlike most supernatural detectives, however, the Spirit Chasers don’t just bust the ghosts—they exorcise them.

“I didn’t just want to be a ghost hunter,” Hopler says. “I wanted to deal with the dark stuff that most investigators weren’t going to deal with and resolve the issues for good.”

Five years ago, Hopler was a determined skeptic of the paranormal. It was largely by mistake that she stumbled upon spirit chasing. One day, her friend invited her to a party in a supposedly haunted house, and she seized the chance to prove that there was a logical explanation for the spooks.

That night, a K2 electromagnetic fields meter was thrown at her head and she recorded voices cursing at her. Then the entity followed her home.

“At that point, I had no idea what to do myself,” Hopler says. “I had someone recommended to me.”

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best in the Christian paranormal field to help her become a better investigator.

Keith Johnson, a demonologist who trained under Ed and Lorraine Warren, supernatural experts whose work inspired horror films like The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring, and Annabelle, answered the call. He taught Hopler how to properly cross over a spirit and differentiate between human and demon hauntings.

Hopler aims to provide assistance to those wondering whether their spectral houseguest is a dead human or a demon from the nether regions of hell. It’s a dangerous line of work—Hopler has been scratched, found snakes in her basement, seen figures out of the corner of her eye, and dodged multiple flying objects while trying to help uneasy residents.

One of Hopler’s most complicated cases involved a demon who had harassed a West Virginia woman for 40 years. The entity grew bolder as it encountered each new paranormal investigator, eventually dislocating two of the homeowner’s fingers, throttling her with her own mesh bed canopy, and locking her out of the house.

“I’ve got 30 pages of notes I’ve taken from her on things that have happened since they’ve moved in, and I don’t think anybody who’s not as strong-minded as her would have lasted this

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Hopler further differs from more traditional ghost hunters when it comes to the tools she uses. Though she always travels with traditional items like electromagnetic field meters and infrared cameras, her most important tool is as invisible as the culprits she’s trying to catch: her faith.

“I’m very particular on who I investigate with,” says Hopler. “If they don’t have a true faith in God, aren’t God-fearing people, then I don’t really want to because if we go in and start doing prayers at the end of the night and you’ve got someone there who isn’t a true believer, it’s going to make you less effective.”

After selecting a small, devout team and screening potential clients over email for signs of a real haunting (they don’t, however, have to share her faith), the next step for Tammy and the Spirit Chasers is to physically investigate the site. They specialize in private residence calls, and Hopler occasionally travels to historic sites around the region for fun or as a trial run when training new recruits.

Upon arrival at an exorcism, the team establishes a baseline reading on the house with their equipment so they can compare spikes in activity throughout the investigation. The investigators then try to make contact with the spirit and determine what type of entity they’re dealing with, gathering evidence along the way.

Hopler then makes sure to spiritually fumigate the house before leaving.

“My concern is when you’re using the equipment you could open up something, and I don’t want to leave somebody’s house with something possibly open to make it worse,” says Hopler. “Even if we go to a house and there is nothing there, we will still do a fumigation with a minimum of a house blessing or

holy water.”

For a proper fumigation, the team starts by reciting prayers at the front door—the type of prayer depends on the situation, but the Lord’s Prayer will often suffice—and burns incense blessed by a Catholic priest throughout the entire house.

“We fumigate everything—windows, doors, attics, crawl spaces. If you’re in a bedroom with dresser drawers, you open up the drawers,” she says.

To close the session, the team says a final prayer at the front door and then performs a land blessing by scattering salt also blessed by a priest around the home. This mash-up of paranormal investigation and exorcism is certainly successful in quashing unruly spirits—Hopler says her team enjoys an 80% success rate.

Working as a part-time ghost buster comes with a whole slew of time commitments that differ with each job, but typically Hopler tries to wrap up each case in one night so she doesn’t leave any openings for the spirit to return to the house.

As October comes to a close, Hopler is gearing up for her busy season. Most other paranormal investigators see a dive in cases around the winter, but Hopler says that, strangely, she receives more requests around this time. She never accepts payment for her work, insisting that guiding those beyond the veil to a better place is payment enough, despite the time commitment and personal financial cost.

“Once, when we were doing some crossing over prayers all of the sudden in my ear I heard ‘goodbye.’ A lady, as clear as day,” Hopler says.

“And that, to me, that means more than all the other stuff combined because this lady possibly found peace.”

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ANXO Cidery & Pintxos bar pledges to make 22,000 gallons of cider with this year’s apple crop, representing a shift in focus for the local brand. What started as a restaurant has evolved into a cider production powerhouse.

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Pop Biz

By Laura Hayes NiNety-NiNe. that’s how many times the word “pop-up” has appeared in City Paper’s food section since Jan 1. A pop-up is a temporary restaurant, and they dominated D.C. in 2017. Some were one night stands—such as a small dinner in a novel locale—while others stretched on for months in the form of a food stall or restaurant residency. They ranged in scope from sneak peaks of coming attractions to collaborative dinners that united cooks from different kitchens. Pop-ups seemed like a fad when they first took place, but evidence from the past year proves they’re here to stay.

The frequency with which pop-ups now occur isn’t the only tell. New venues are being built for the specific purpose of hosting popups. Among the early adopters was Union Market in 2012. While some of the food hall’s stalls have permanent tenants, other stands cycle through occupants to give budding food entrepreneurs a chance to test concepts like Japanese comfort food from UZU or Portuguese doughnuts from B. Doughnut.

Mess Hall, opened in 2014, does double duty as a commercial kitchen and pop-up space. EatsPlace DC opened the same year in Park View. Prequel followed in 2015, though it moved from F Street NW to 19th Street NW in September. The first iteration was set up so diners could invest in the restaurants popping up at Prequel through a company called EquityEats, helping them to become a permanent restaurant more quickly. Most recently, Shop Made in DC debuted near Dupont Circle on Oct. 19. The cafe and retail space dedicated to local products serves food from two rotating vendors during dinner.

Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington President Kathy Hollinger commends these pop-up manufactories for funneling new restaurants into the city’s thriving dining scene. “We’re very supportive of organi-

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zations like Mess Hall, who bring in those who want to experiment with a concept,” she says. “Ultimately we want that concept in a brick and mortar space. We want to help them gain the proper tools to survive in a very competitive environment.”

But pop-ups, even the ones at locations built to host them, take a lot of elbow grease and— spoiler alert—they’re not cash cows. So what makes chefs want to invest their time, money, and energy in cooking on a limited basis?

There’s little money to be made in pop-ups, at least not right away, because the chefs are responsible for all the upfront costs. They buy the food and drinks, and pay the staff they hire, for example. “You end up working your tail off and you’re not making any money,” says Matt Baker. He’s done 10 pop-ups over the year and a half he’s been waiting to open Gravitas, which has been stymied by construction delays. They’ve ranged from three nights of dinners at Mess Hall to one-off soirees at three area distilleries.

“I did all those pop-ups leading up to the opening [of Gravitas] to never do a pop-up again in my life,” Baker says. “I hope that’s the truth.” As he further explains, “I’d lose at least a week of my life prepping for days, marketing, promotions, ticket sales, confirming allergies with guests, social media, working out logistics with the place you’re doing it at, making sure you have all the beverages you need, plus glassware, plates, linens, decorations, floral arrangements, tablescapes, and a playlist.”

Putting on a pop-up is akin to the “Restaurant Wars” challenge on Top Chef, in which two

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Pop-ups aren’t a flash in the pan. The trend of temporary restaurants is here to stay, and that’s a good thing for the city.

teams throw together a restaurant in a day. In this case, however, you’re likely flying solo.

Bartender Alex Bookless and her chef husband Michael Turner use pop-ups to refine their ideas for a future restaurant named after their daughter, June. Bookless agrees that pop-ups yield little financial gain because of all of the line items, including the fee to rent space.

For their first pop-up in D.C., the duo held multiple seatings at Mess Hall over the course of three nights. Mess Hall founder Al Gold-

berg typically charges chefs between $1,000 and $1,200 to host a pop-up series with seats for 25 to 50 guests. This is significantly less than what Mess Hall charges for corporate or social events, when the rate is $400 per hour and most contracts are for 6 to 7 hours.

“We want the chefs to make money, and also want the guests to have unique experience for a good value,” Goldberg says. Support from Mess Hall includes a dedicated production space, storage, access to commercial kitchen equipment, and social media promotion.

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While pop-ups aren’t money-makers, they can attract investors. Baker says his pop-ups brought in several who previously hadn’t tasted his cooking. And despite the physical and emotional toll, Baker would do them again. “I would recommend this for a first-time chef or restaurateur solely because nothing is handed to you in this industry,” he says. “It prepares you for being a restaurateur.”

Other chefs host pop-ups to collaborate with friends and flex their creative muscles outside of the kitchens where they cook every day. Bobby Pradachith co-owns Thip Khao and Padaek (formerly Bangkok Golden) with his mother, Seng Luangrath, but he seeks out pop-up opportunities because he finds himself spending more time in front of the computer crunching numbers and less time cooking.

“Pop-ups are good for people who have all these ideas they can’t do at their restaurant because their employers won’t allow them,” he says. He’s also using them to fine tune the Lao restaurant he wants to open alongside his existing concepts.

Pradachith teamed up with Paolo Dungca of Restaurant Eve and Kaliwa in July at the Dolcezza Factory. Dungca is Filipino and Pradachith is Lao; the menu combined elements of both cuisines. Because they’re experimental in nature, pop-ups have become a way to introduce D.C. to underrepresented ethnic cuisines. “This city is always hungry to find something new,” Pradachith says. “Modern cooking is paving a way for old school, regional ethnic cuisines.”

Established chefs looking to stay relevant and generate some positive publicity also like the pop-up concept. “It’s a good way to get people excited about what’s going on sometimes,” says restaurateur Mike Isabella. “Let them know, hit the press, give sneak peeks. That’s why we started doing it in that fashion.”

Isabella honed the concepts of restaurants like Yona and Arroz by hosting pop-ups at his sandwich shop, G by Mike Isabella, and invited food writers to write preview stories. As his company grows, Isabella has stopped doing pop-ups and doesn’t consider them a big part of the dining scene today. He does, however, tip his hat to Drink Company’s Derek Brown for what he’s done on 7th Street NW. Brown converted Mockingbird Hill, Southern Efficiency, and Eat The Rich into a permanent pop-up space, with themes ranging from an irreverent tribute to Christmas to the ghoulish PUB (short for Pop Up Bar) Dread. He’s been masterful at generating buzz—Washingtonian wrote eight stories about the Game of Thrones PUB, Drink Company’s pop-up that drew crowds rivaling Disney World during spring break.

Why chefs decide to experiment in a pop-up setting makes sense, but does pop-up pande-

monium do anything for the city, or for diners?

In the short term, pop-up attendees may pay as much as they would in a restaurant for experimental cuisine from nascent culinary pros.

“Pop-ups can feel like going to a very talented friend’s house for an evening of food and beverage pairings,” Goldberg says. “They’re not a replacement for restaurants but if you’re an avid diner, it’s fun to mix one in once a month.”

In the long run, aspiring chefs who take feedback from pop-up attendees in earnest are better prepared to succeed in a breakneck industry once they open a brick and mortar restaurant. Hitting the ground running can only be good for the city’s culinary reputation.

“We have an obligation in this industry to help make it better every day,” says Alex McCoy. He used his recently vacated space at 3301 Georgia Avenue NW to test several restaurants and train staff before deciding which concepts should become permanent. He then invited others to host pop-ups in the space to reap the same benefits.

Baker gained a critical nugget of feedback through pop-ups that caused him to abandon an ill-fated idea at Gravitas. He was toying with serving a vegan tasting menu but struggled to sell tickets to a vegan pop-up and took the hint. “The vegan market wasn’t ready for high-end, high-dollar vegan food,” he says. “I took that feedback and decided to do vegetarian, not vegan.”

Post food critic Tom Sietsema agrees that pop-ups are advantageous. He’s been known to visit a new restaurant on night one or two, so if a chef fine-tunes recipes and service during pop-ups perhaps they’re more prepared for an early review. “I love the idea of pop-ups,” Sietsema says. “They allow chefs to rehearse menus and generate buzz among potential customers.”

Seasoned local chef Ris Lacoste of Ris agrees. “Pop-ups have their worth—it’s a beautiful thing to see young people have their own business, especially because it can cost millions of dollars to open a restaurant,” she says.

“It’s not a bad idea if you have the patience and the will to do it and really test. Do you have a good product? Can you handle the hours? Can you handle the money? You have to wear so many hats.”

As a diner you never know if the pop-up you attend is helmed by the next big thing. “I went to pop-ups for years living here,” Bookless says. “There was a Korean barbecue pop-up Aaron Silverman did at SUNdeVICH on Valentine’s Day six or seven years ago.” He’s not serving bulgogi but the James Beard awardwinning chef now has three Michelin stars— one for Rose’s Luxury and two for Pineapple & Pearls.

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Top of the Hour

Turkey Lurkey Time

By Catherine Douglas Moran

Pumpkin spice is fall’s dominant flavor, but those eaters wanting something autumnal and savory might seek out a sandwich inspired by Thanksgiving fare. Some shops sling Turkey Day sandwiches year round, while others only offer them for a few weeks. Here’s what we think of what’s available around town:

Year-long: Jetties’ Nobadeer ($9.95) Multiple locations Sliced roasted turkey is wedged between a satisfying amount of cranberry sauce, scrumptious stuffing packed with onions, and mayonnaise on white bread. It’s a simple sandwich, and could use thicker bread to contain all of the filling.

DC Wisey’s Chantilly ($9) 1440 Wisconsin Ave. NW Holiday meets healthy in a surprisingly flavorful sandwich served hot or cold.

Turkey, brie, and light cranberry mayonnaise rest atop a choice of multigrain bread, walnut raisin bread, or a croissant. When hot, the melted brie adds creaminess.

Wagshal’s Turkey Stuffing Thing ($10.69) Multiple locations This sandwich’s cute name is the only thing working in its favor. Turkey, stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce on a French roll should satisfy, but the only flavors that come through are turkey and roll. The sandwich skimps on the stuffing, and the gravy is hard to detect.

MGM Roast Beef’s Thanksgiving Dinner ($11.50) 905 Brentwood Road NE This standout tastes like home. The open-face sandwich, with cranberry chutney offered on the side, features delicious white and dark meat turkey topped generously with brown gravy and stuffing on a plain roll.

Capriotti’s The Bobbie (9” small—$7.99, 12” medium—$10.79, 20” large—$17.19) Multiple locations This sub will stuff the hungriest Thanksgiving fan and still provide ample leftovers. Capriotti’s signature sandwich provides an ample dose of mayonnaise and cranberry sauce to balance out the copious amounts of turkey and homemade stuffing.

Seasonal: Bub and Pop’s The Gobbler (half—$10, whole—$18).

1815 M St. NW Available: Oct. 31 through Thanksgiving Day Look forward to: A hot combo of turkey wing confit and veloute with cranberry sauce, stuffing, and coleslaw on a regular hoagie roll.

HangoverHelper The Dish: Bison Huevos Rancheros Where to Get It: Silver, 3404 Wisconsin Ave. NW, (202) 851-3199, eatatsilver.com Price: $17 What It Is: A hearty helping of hangover relief is available any time of day thanks to Silver’s all-day brunch menu, which includes a take on a classic dish—huevos rancheros. Silver serves it with chorizo and bison hash mixed with rice. It’s topped with goat cheese, two over-easy eggs, fresh guacamo-

le, peppers, and salsa rojo. Three giant tortilla chips come on the side for scooping, so no silverware is required.

How it Tastes: Every miserable start to the day needs a fiery burst of flavor to awaken the body and soul, and these huevos rancheros deliver. The cool and creamy guacamole and goat cheese cut through the heat and acidity of red peppers and sal-

Buffalo and Bergen’s The Goy Gobbler ($9.50).

1309 5th St. NE Available: Nov. 1 through the holidays Look forward to: Turkey, cranberry sauce, and bacon on a sweet potato and thyme knish.

Glen’s Garden Market’s Unpardoned ($10.99) 2001 S St. NW and 1924 8th St. NW Available: Month of November Look forward to: House-made turkey roulade made of dark and white meat on rye with cranberry sauce and housemade sausage stuffing.

Breadline’s The Holiday Turkey ($8.99) 1751 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Available: Oct. 23 to the beginning of January Look forward to: Fresh roasted turkey with sweet potato, caramelized onion, dijon mustard, cranberry sauce, and mixed greens on ciabatta.

Capo Italian Deli’s Thanksgiving Special (6”—$8.95, 11”—$11.95) 715 Florida Ave. NW Available: Two weeks before Thanksgiving to the weekend after Look forward to: Oven-roasted turkey with orange cranberry sauce, sliced cucumbers, and red onions on Italian bread.

sa. But the best part of the dish is at the bottom, beneath a runny egg yolk.

That’s where you’ll find a mix of bison and chorizo hash, which delivers a spicy and slightly gamey flavor.

Why It Helps: This dish will turn your “Oof!” into an instant “Olé!” And who doesn’t love a dish that allows you to eat with your hands? Simply grab one of the oversized tortilla chips and dig deep into this marvelous mess of morning-after relief.

—Tim Ebner

Where: Rakuya, 1900 Q St NW, (202) 265-7258, rakuyarestaurant.com Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the bar Drink specials: $4–$7 beer, $6 wine, $7–$8 sake, and $8–$10 cocktails Food specials: $3.50–$4.50 nigiri sushi, $5 basic sushi rolls, $7–$10 specialty rolls, $5 small plates, and $3 snacks Pros: At Rakuya, you can satisfy a sushi craving on the cheap while downing a few beers. Get a sampling of the basic nigiri, like eel or toro, then spring for a speciality roll. One top choice is the “fish and chip” roll, featuring crunchy, fried fish, vinegar, and potato sticks in one bite.

The wicked spicy tuna roll, a flavorful combination of tuna, avocado, ginger, and jalapeno, is tasty and a bloody good deal at $10.

Apart from rolls, discounted menu highlights include agedashi tofu with Brussels sprouts and kabocha squash, as well as the soy-marinated fried chicken karaage.

Cons: Rakuya tends to fill up quickly given its prime location in Dupont Circle and the small bar area is the only place where happy hour specials are available. Try to get there on the early side and snag a bar stool or a high-top table. This set-up is not appropriate for larger groups.

—Aparna Krishnamoorthy

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Divine Felines Cats of Ancient Egypt

Celebrate National Cat Day with us on October 29! on the 29th Gallery talks: 12 and 3 pm Open Studio: 12–4 pm Films: Kedi, 1 pm, and Neko Atsume House, 3:30 pm

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum and generously supported by Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars Petcare Figurine of a Standing Lion-Headed Goddess; 664–30 BCE; faience; Brooklyn Museum; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.943E

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Our eight year-running jazz column, The Jazz Setlist, bids adieu. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

Willing and Stable

With STABLE, artists Caitlin Teal Price, Tim Doud, and Linn Meyers hope to create a sustainable model for local arts communities.

Ask Any Artist working in D.C. and they’ll tell you the same story: Nobody trusts that their studio situation is going to last. Even the artists with a cherry deal know that the grim call from the landlord can come at any time. Space is at a premium for all kinds of uses in the District, and low-cost studios suitable for painters, photographers, sculptors, and designers are getting harder and harder to come by. The artists with a precarious lease on a carriage house or a handshake deal for a corner of a warehouse are the lucky ones. Plenty would settle for less.

That’s a problem that three D.C. artists—Caitlin Teal Price, Tim Doud, and Linn Meyers—hope to solve with STABLE. The new arts nonprofit organization has a unique mission: To make space for artists to make things. Working with Rebekah Pineda, an arts administrator with development experience from the Sitar Arts Center and Hamiltonian Gallery, the team is building out a model for providing affordable, sustainable art studios for artists in the District.

“I had this opportunity. My husband builds bars and things, and they were redeveloping Ivy City,” Price says. “I had this idea to put in studio space over there, because there was tons of empty space, and you know what D.C. needs is more artists’ space.”

STABLE got its start three years ago, when Doud and Price met through the National Portrait Gallery, which has exhibited work by both artists. They started talking about a grander idea—something bigger than the Ivy City project that eventually turned into Open Studio, a printmaking shop. Lisa Gold, the former executive director of Washington Project for the Arts, asked them to give a talk on the lack of affordable studio space, which pushed Price and Doud to firm up their ideas as a proposal. Meyers—whose installation at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden closed in August—heard their talk and asked to get involved with their pitch.

“We didn’t want it to be structured as a traditional studio,” Doud says. “We wanted there to be a movement within the studio.”

Now, STABLE’s work is coming close to fruition. If the founders can raise $300,000 by January 1, 2018, they will sign a letter of intent with real estate developer Boundary Companies for about 12,000 square feet in the Eckington neighborhood.

They intend to build out more than two dozen below–market rent studios, with flexible programming spaces to be used by artists and other arts organizations, which are key to STABLE’s model. It would double the number of buildings in the city currently devoted to artist studios (the other one being the colony at 52 O Street NW).

The opportunity came to the artists in January of this year,

as developers cemented plans to reshape a huge chunk of Eckington. A number of developments are all shaping up at once: Boundary partnered with JBG to purchase a former wholesale flower market and State Farm Insurance building, where the developers plan to erect Eckington Yards, a whopping 700,000square-foot mixed-use project. Nearby, Foulger-Pratt Companies and the NoMa Business Improvement District jointly acquired a parcel from Pepco, which they will use to put up another mixed-use building as well as a 2-acre park near the Metropolitan Branch Trail. (Good news, cyclists: They plan to Rebekah Pineda, Caitlin Teal Price, Tim Doud, Linn Myers

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straighten out that awful Z-shaped kink in the trail.)

Separately, Boundary hooked up with Foulger-Pratt to purchase the former Art and Drama Therapy Institute building at 327 S Street NE. From the start, the developers planned to “create a building where artists and retailers and makers, all of which are historical users who are found in Ward 5, can coexist in a manner that will create a vibrant community,” says John Wilkinson, president of Boundary Companies. That’s where STABLE plans to go.

So far, Sirkku “Dr. Sky” Hiltunen, the founder of the Art and Drama Therapy Institute, plans to keep an office for her new project, Beyond Mask Expressions. A local home-goods chain is also interested in becoming a tenant.

Boundary got word of STABLE’s mission through Lauren Hilyard, a D.C. art consultant. The developer started talking with the artists in February. STABLE aims to build something sustainable in the long run; getting a lease with a real runway was one of their top priorities going into talks with various developers. If they can put together the money by January for the Boundary project—no small ask—STABLE will get a 10-year lease. That’s enough time to figure out whether or not Eckington works as a long-term home for STABLE, Meyers says. And if it doesn’t, it’s

enough time for STABLE to move somewhere else.

In order to make the STABLE plan solvent, the founders are looking for buy-in from a variety of organizations. Most of the 25 to 30 studios at STABLE will go to individual artists, who can rent the space on a longterm basis. But around 10 of the studios may be available to institutions for shorter leases of a year or less. An organization like, say, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities might want to rent a STABLE studio to give out to artists as a kind of grant. Area universities and museums might have an interest in supporting a studio fellowship, too. That’s the thinking: Get organizations to pay for the service, rather than going hat-in-hand to organizations looking for support.

“We’re not going to be on a hamster wheel for every dime on an annual budget,” Meyers says.

“What we pay is the same as what we pass along to the artists.”

One unique stABLe proposition would put D.C.’s status as the nation’s capital to work for local artists. The founders hope to gin up interest with area embassies in renting a studio (or studios). Think of a rotating visiting-artist studioslash-gallery space, one geared toward cultural outreach programs, supported by the Goethe Institut or Solas Nua or the like. An international embassy component could potentially boost the profile of the Eckington development. Moreover, it would give the city a flexible cultural platform the likes of which almost nobody is currently providing—a program no other city can fulfill the same way.

The embassy platform notwithstanding, STABLE is focused on D.C. and representing its art scene in an equitable way. “The artists at STABLE will vary in age, gender, and culture,” Meyers says. “We want to have artists from all of the eight wards in D.C., some who are at the beginnings of their careers and some who are more well established. The architecture of the space will reflect these goals.

We will have small, medium, and large studios.”

Even if STABLE falls short of turning Eckington into a destination arts district, it will shore up the fortunes of the city’s art scene for a long time. Artists couldn’t save their studios at the Union Arts building, which closed last year, or the Gold Leaf Studios building before that, or umpteen other studio buildings before that. This time, a developer is giving artists an opportunity to build something new. If STABLE lives up to its founders’ vision, it will add more to the city than cultural infrastructure.

“We want people circulating through the space, so it’s not just people going into their studios and shutting the door and doing their own thing,” Price says. “We want to build a community, an artists’ hub.”

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TheaTerCurtain Calls The Price

Cost of Living The Price

By Arthur Miller Directed by Seema Sueko At Arena Stage to Nov. 12 Arthur Miller’s The Price made its Broadway debut in 1968, a year fraught with political upheaval. The play does not deal with political assassinations, racial unrest, or rioting, and yet its themes get at the existential rot many Americans faced in the twentieth century. It seems deep resentment and angst never go out of style, so Arena Stage’s mounting of The Price is vital even today. Nothing about the play is particularly fashionable, and yet there is urgency to the dialogue and intense, acutely-felt performances.

Set designer Wilson Chin frames the stage with dusty furniture, giving the impression of a forgotten attic. The first minutes unfold wordlessly, with an air of nostalgia as Victor Franz (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh) removes white sheets that cover chairs, sofas, and armoires. He finds an old phonograph, and is delighted when it is still functional. Victor is wistful and silent, feelings that govern the drama that follows.

His wife, Esther (Pearl Sun), arrives, and they discuss money. It is never an easy topic, particularly since their lifestyle is comfortable but not affluent. Victor works as a police officer, and at age 46, is in a position to receive his pension.

More importantly, he and Esther are sitting on a potential windfall: The building Victor inherited from his late father is about to be demolished, so they have hired an appraiser to value and collect all the furniture. That man, Gregory Solomon (Hal Linden), is a smooth-talking, larger-than-life octogenarian. Solomon is quick to warn Victor that family matters always complicate his business, which is of course what happens when Victor’s estranged brother Walter (Rafael Untalan) unexpectedly arrives.

Miller’s dialogue has two distinct modes. Ear-

ly in the play, he reveals his ear for mid-century slang. Victor speaks like a man who’s worked a beat for decades, but there are subtle inklings that he is fiercely intelligent, which is not always associated with his vocation. Eventually the audience learns that indeed, he was once a promising university student. That unexpected intelligence is necessary for the play’s second mode, when Victor and Walter—a successful doctor— engage in a sustained, deeply personal battle of words. This dialogue is more grandiose, as Miller turns his characters into metaphors for different ideas of success and sacrifice. The Great Depression informs the rift between the siblings, and it is thrilling to watch them relitigate a past during which their father’s actions negatively influenced their lives.

Driven by Miller’s expert dialogue, The Price’s highlight is a sustained negotiation between Victor and Solomon that happens in the play’s first half. Ebrahimzadeh and Linden are alone on stage for an extended period, and the audience’s collective anxiety grows as the men circle around a dollar figure. Victor has no taste of the song-and-dance of a sales pitch, and Solomon relishes the opportunity— he says that this appraisal literally added years to his life. You may recognize Linden from the ’70s sitcom Barney Miller, on which he played the straight man to comic actors like Abe Vigoda. His role as Solomon is markedly different. He is The Price’s exaggerated, comic figure, and like Solomon, he clearly relishes his role. Ebrahimzadeh is a good foil for Linden: square-jawed and serious, and yet somewhat receptive to his charms.

With regard to its dramatic structure, The Price is an odd play, made up of two massive scenes, with a handful of short ones around them. It’s as if Miller would rather explore his bigger themes, instead of frame the narrative in a more traditional way. The “price” in question takes on many forms, whether it’s the cost of the furniture, or the bigger emotional costs to Victor, Esther, and Walter. Part of what makes the wounds deeper, however, is the sense of lost affection between Victor and Walter. They have a shared history, but their different paths

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through adulthood prevent them from connecting with each other any longer. Esther is no slouch either. Sun’s performance is disarming: She speaks with the affected accent of a sixties housewife, but never demurs to Victor.

Director Seema Sueko includes few flourishes in her production, and instead lets the actors’ performances speak for themselves.

Each character is wholly fleshed out, conveying more emotion and meaning through actions and looks than any piece of dialogue. It is harrowing to watch Ebrahimzadeh seethe silently as Untalan’s Walter cajoles and condescends to his younger brother. The drama never devolves into to a full-on shouting match, since these characters yearn to be understood more than they yearn to win the argument. There are no answers in The Price, or any sense of conclusion or satisfaction. Like Miller’s most famous plays, his unearthing of our collective desperation is enough.

—Alan Zilberman 1101 6th St. SW. $71–$111. (202) 554-9066. arenastage.org.

HomeComing Hello, My Name Is…

By Deb Sivigny Directed by Randy Baker At Rhizome DC to Nov. 12 Hello, My NaMe Is… is an immersive, sitespecific theatrical experiment from playwright collective The Welders, developed out of writer Deb Sivigny’s 2015 visit to South Korea. She was born there, but came to the United States as an adoptee when she was still an infant. As an adult, she grew curious about the circumstances of her adoption and the homeland she’d been too young to remember.

Her new show dramatizes this three-and-ahalf-decade journey through three characters

June (Linda Bard) in 1990. The venue is Takoma’s Rhizome community art space—a repurposed two-story residential home that typically hosts art installations and concerts. With each scene change, the audience is ushered into another room, up the creaky stairs or down, out to the backyard or back into the kitchen. Performers and observers jockey for space, and the mild discomfort and social anxiety this induces— no one is allowed to settle into their darkened seat and disappear—helps the audience project themselves into the emotional climate of characters who are haunted by a sense of unbelonging. Sivigny is a sought-after set designer, but rarely has the physical environment of a theatrical experience influenced the product so profoundly. (Hello’s set is credited to Patti Kalil.)

Our three protagonists face the trials of adulthood with variable fortunes: Dana (Janine Baumgardner), was brought up by a loving, seemingly prosperous family and enjoys a fairly comfortable life, while Bryan (Jon Jon Johnson) isn’t so lucky. Eventually, they all return to South Korea—one of them involuntarily—to investigate their roots. A silent Jennifer Knight, dressed in a traditional Korean hanbok, floats through periodically, a representation of the birth mother all three adoptees are seeking, metaphorically if not literally. Another standout performer, Emily Sucher, plays a childhood friend of June’s who finds their relationship becoming strained as they each grow to adulthood. Her drunken outburst at Dana’s wedding is the only scene that feels contrived, but Sucher’s performance brings a note of levity to an evening that might be unbearably somber without it.

Most scenes are separated by gaps of many years. Sivigny and director Randy Baker use pop hits to signal which era we’re in, although many scenes have a calendar on the wall to let us know if it’s 1990 or 1995 or 2002. Even signposts as clear as these can’t alleviate every trace of narrative murk, but the plot isn’t the point. Art is not a police report. As an emotion-

Hello, My Name Is...

whose experiences roughly parallel her own: All of them came to the U.S. as part of the massive exodus that brought 200,000 South Korean children stateside between 1970 and 1990.

As the show opens, the audience crams itself into Aunt Rosey (Julie Garner)’s Midwestern living room to await the arrival of six-year-old

al collage that captures one small facet of the immigrant experience in an empathetic and inventive way, Hello, My Name Is… is an experience to which you’d be wise to introduce yourself.

—Chris Klimek 6950 Maple St. NW. $40. thewelders.org.

“NICKELL AND BABB… SURE BURN BRIGHT.” —Washington Post

THE BLUE HOUR A Far Cry Luciana Souza, vocalist

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FilmShort SubjectS ercise, or an experimental genre film. Instead, the cumulative effect feels like a scene in A Clockwork Orange, another Kubrick film, where its hero watches violence with his eyes pried open. The stakes here are nowhere near that high, and yet The Killing of a Sacred Deer unspools like a trap, with Lanthimos needling his audience like we are his patient.

—Alan Zilberman

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

Family matters The Killing of a Sacred Deer Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

The Killing of a Sacred deer is a pitiless film, with director Yorgos Lanthimos making absurdly high demands for anyone who dares buy a ticket. There is a brazen absence of logic, with slow-burn horror as its only replacement. There is deadpan comedy while characters quietly struggle through inexplicable suffering. The trouble is that these demands, including graphic imagery and violence, are in service of something shallow.

The film indulges in nonstop inhumanity for its own sake. Unlike mother!, another recent challenging film that uses allegory and metaphor to strive for deeper meaning, the characters and actors here are merely stuck in a director’s hateful playground.

Before the title card, Lanthimos steels his camera on an abdomen midway through surgery. There are no hands at work, with the shot so tight that we cannot see who is under the knife. Instead, we watch the simple mechanics of the body’s internal organs at work—the effect is both grotesque and clinically fascinating. Perhaps Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) operated on this person, but Lanthimos conditions us not to trust what we see.

Steven has a strange relationship with Martin (Barry Keoghan), a sullen teenager: Steven performed surgery on Martin’s father, who died on the operating table, and now Steven keeps tabs on him—out of pity or a greater sense of guilt. Martin makes a bizarre ultimatum one afternoon. Steven must kill someone in his family—either his wife, Anna (Nicole Kidman), or one of his children, Kim (Raffey Cassidy) or Bob (Sunny Suljic)—and if he doesn’t, all of them will suffer and die.

At first, Steven ignores Martin, but then Bob wakes one morning and cannot move his legs.

Martin’s prophecy is coming true, and the film follows Steven’s decision-making process.

Formally speaking, Lanthimos’ biggest influence in this film is Stanley Kubrick. There are long tracking shots, many of them featur-

ing similar lenses to the ones Kubrick used, and characters are framed without much sympathy. Kubrick had a dim view of humanity, using his characters as pawns as a means to explore more cerebral ideas, and Lanthimos has a similar disinterest in things like sympathy or compassion. Steven is a callow character, keeping his feelings mostly to himself, and Farrell reprises the same defeated body language from his character in Lanthimos’ previous film The Lobster. It is a striking performance because Farrell successfully drains his natural charisma in favor of something more base and ordinary.

Another Kubrick connection is how Farrell has the same profession as Tom Cruise’s character in Eyes Wide Shut, which also starred Kidman as the doctor’s wife. That film explored sexuality and marriage, while The Killing of a Sacred Deer dismantles family instead. There is a hypnotic quality to the filmmaking, as there was with Kubrick, and many shots have impressive, austere elegance.

The trouble with The Killing of a Sacred Deer is that it has all the trappings of a ponderous art-house drama, with little of the intellectual rigor. There are other influences on the film, including allegory from the Bible and ancient Greek mythology, but they are moot in a modern tale where the lead characters have ordinary lives and zero curiosity.

Steven’s biggest flaw is that he is an egomaniac, the sort who internalizes conflict instead of involving his family, and there is nothing new to that character arc. The rest of Steven’s family, especially his children, are oddly resigned to living as Martin’s playthings. There are many scenes where Kim and Bob drag their bodies across the floor, as if their degradation is a grim joke. The script by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou only compounds the inhumanity with flat, hollow dialogue. Martin sounds like an inarticulate sadist, while Anna has virtually no agency whatsoever.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer has some intriguing critiques of the medical profession. Steven is quick to assign blame to his colleague Matthew (Bill Camp), who in turn does the same thing to him. Indeed, Steven learns something about the indignity of being a bystander, even if he experiences no real contrition or shame.

This film does not work as an intellectual ex-

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mockin’ the suburbs Suburbicon

Directed by George Clooney When four screenWriters are credited for one script, it usually indicates that a mess is nigh, no matter how lauded they are.

George Clooney’s Suburbicon is no exception.

Co-written by Clooney, Grant Heslov (The Ides of March), and Joel and Ethan Coen, the film is an untenable hybrid whose more successful half has the Coens’ ink-black comedic fingerprints all over it while trying to blend with a serious subplot about the harassment a black family faces when they move into the titular idyllic white suburb in 1959. Their connection is razor-thin.

The tonal 180s start at the beginning of the film and don’t let up until the credits roll. When the film opens, we see a promotional clip for Suburbicon, a neighborhood that allegedly is safer than city living. Soon after, its friendly mailman meets the Suburbicon new neighbor: Mrs. Meyers (Karimah Westbrook), an AfricanAmerican woman who shockingly isn’t the help. Our main family, the Lodges, however, aren’t prejudiced and send their young son, Nicky (Noah Jupe), to play ball with the Meyers boy, Andy (Tony Espinosa). This friendship proves largely superfluous to the plot.

The central story revolves around a breakin at the Lodge residence. The family— Nicky; his father, Gardner (Matt Damon); his mother, Rose (Julianne Moore); and his aunt Margaret (also Moore)—are tied up and

chloroform’d by two thugs who take off with the family’s savings. First, though, they kill Rose. And before you can say “Nicky needs a mother,” Margaret has moved in and even dyes her hair Rose-platinum. Nothing suspicious about that.

Though the Coens’ style jumps out at you in nearly every sequence, their humor almost always falls flat. You sense that it’s meant to be funny when, for instance, every person Gardner runs into when he returns to work says, “Sorry for your loss,” but considering this is pretty standard behavior, it’s unlikely you’ll chuckle. And maybe it’s supposed to be absurd when an older lady interviewed by the local news says that the neighborhood was safe until the Meyerses moved in—and, to be fair, it is—but it’s hardly a laugh after the terrible things the innocent family went through, including increasingly rowdy crowds outside their home.

The details behind Rose’s murder turn out to be less than novel—in fact, the twist is so stale it’s shocking. Only the performances and the occasional joke that works keep this leisurely film chugging along, wheezing most of the way. Moore is particularly delicious as the caring auntie who suddenly stops being so nice, alternately wearing her Stepford smile and “eat your goddamn vegetables” grimace. Damon’s turn gets more layered as the plot escalates, at one point sitting on a chair as if he were constipated and the chair were actually a toilet made of nails. But the film is seen through the eyes of Nicky, so it rests on Jupe’s shoulders. And though he probably won’t be the subject of any For Your Consideration campaigns, his Nicky is sufficient at projecting fear, bafflement, and wiles.

In the end, though, you’re left wondering what Clooney et al. wanted the film to be. A murder mystery a la Fargo? A satire about the

faux innocence of life in 1950s suburbia? A commentary about race relations and misplaced rage? Suburbicon tries to be all of these things, and consequently succeeds at none of them.

—Tricia Olszewski Suburbicon opens Friday at Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema and AMC Loews Georgetown 14.

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between the Union and the Confederacy about slavery, the slaves were not exactly the forethought. Walker includes stencils of slaves with hoes, axes, and cotton bags as a means of identifying their value in this conflict. The fates of thousands of people were at stake if either side won, but there wasn’t a solid plan for what the slaves would do with their lives if they were actually freed.

The war’s outcome meant drastically different things for whites and African-Americans. While there were two armies fighting, African-Americans could be identified as a third party whose preferences weren’t considered.

In “Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights,” there’s an image of a large pot-bellied slave with one “Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats” by Kara Walker (2005) boxing glove looking down on a smaller, more naturallooking figure with two Kara Walker: Harper’s ing to the original work and keeping the name boxing gloves. “Signal Station” recognizes Pictorial History of the the same, she tells the story of the Civil War the conflict between slaves about their freeCivil War (Annotated) dom, something a lot of Civil War scholarship from the slave’s perspective.

At the Smithsonian American Art MuseThe first image of the exhibition, “Alabama ignores. Freedom was a dream for some, but um to March 11, 2018 Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats,” for others, it might have been a nightmare.

While the Confederate army fought to GrowinG up in Stone Mountain, Georgia, depicts whites and African-Americans movKara Walker could not avoid the imagery of ing as a group toward gun-boats. Walker over- maintain the institution of slavery, scholars the Civil War. A tribute to Confederate lead- lays a stencil of a female slave running, which contend that it might not have been just for ers—Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stone- kicks off the narrative that viewers follow economic stability. Some people genuinewall Jackson—is carved into the side of Stone throughout the exhibition. The scene takes ly believed African-Americans needed to be Mountain itself, and every Independence place in Confederate Alabama, where some controlled. Laws that forbade African-AmerDay, families gather at that side of the moun- slaves might have been interested in greeting icans from owning guns, for fear of an upristain to watch a fireworks display. Stone Moun- these gun-boats carrying firearms to protect ing, prevented slaves from joining Confedertain was also a gathering site of the second Ku the Confederacy. But the insertion of a stencil ate soldiers on the battlefields until it was too Klux Klan. Those who have studied Walker’s of a female runaway slave invokes the spirit of late. Meanwhile, the Union enlisted fugitive biography know her move from California to Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad slaves as spies and 200,000 African-Ameria newly desegregated, but still very divided, “conductor” who guided as many as 300 en- cans served in the Army and Navy combined.

Walker’s annotations of the Harper’s illusGeorgia in the 1980s heavily influenced her slaved people to freedom. Tubman’s presence in this exhibit is necessary, as she’s known to trations remind visitors that African-Amerilife and her art.

Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the be the only woman to lead an armed military cans also lost life and limb in the fight for their Civil War (Annotated) is based on the roman- operation during the Civil War. The raid on freedom. That fight, however, didn’t yield the tic depiction of the conflict captured in the the Combahee River in South Carolina result- freedom they had wished for. African Ameripages of Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil ed in the liberation of more than 750 enslaved cans, to this day, endure race-based brutality War. In this exhibition, Walker enlarges illus- people. With this image, Walker’s tale about from law enforcement and weapon-carrying neighbors. Though her work is intertwined trations from the original volume and stencils slaves’ role in the Civil War begins.

Further along in the exhibition, stencils with the imagery of the past, Walker’s work, large black figures on top of them. The stencils are not very detailed, but those familiar with overlaid on the enlarged illustrations begin at this museum at this moment in history, reWalker’s work will be reminded of the some- to tell a story about the fate of enslaved peo- flects the tensions of the present day as well.

—Shantay Robinson what comical and grotesque ways she shapes ple during this period. Most of the illustrathese figures in her silhouettes. Walker’s piec- tions that Walker chose to enlarge and use in es have the same titles as the original images, this collection are of the places where battles F Street NW and 8th Street NW. Free. which implies she’s correcting history; by add- were held. While the Civil War was a conflict (202) 633-1000. americanart.si.edu.

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out In the SuIteS Volcán

Elena & Los Fulanos Self-released “Ponle fin,” A new tune from D.C.’s Elena & Los Fulanos, is an ode to a lot of things: to the city, to resistance, to protest music, to female empowerment, to immigrant communities. The band’s mastermind, Elena Lacayo, scribbled out the lyrics earlier this year as a way to denounce the injustices she’d found neatly packaged into the current presidential administration—and to give alarmed communities an effusive power anthem that declares “enough.”

“I was going to all of these protests and I realized we don’t have modern-day protests songs; we have a lot of older songs we still rely on. So, I was like, ‘Man, we should come up with something that’s like a call and response that’s current,’ and the combination of all of these things I was thinking about ended up in ‘Ponle Fin,’” Lacayo says.

“Ponle Fin” marks one of Elena & Los Fulanos’ most defiant efforts. It’s also one of their catchiest releases, embodying the bolder, snappier spirit of their recently released album Volcán. The project is a follow-up to the band’s 2014 debut Miel Venenosa, a compendium of bilingual folk-inspired songs that Lacayo recorded with the help of a $9,000 crowd-funding campaign. Miel Venenosa garnered attention throughout the city and received a nomination for “best Latin album of 2014” from the Washington Area Music Association.

Miel Venenosa asserted Lacayo’s masterful

ability to weave together folk traditions from both the U.S. and Nicaragua, where she grew up.

On Volcán, Lacayo takes a deeper dive into Nicaraguan culture, imbuing the music with marimba rhythms and son nica textures. The album opens with “Tributo a Darío,” a proud homage to Nicaragua’s most renowned poet Rubén Darío, and closes with an acoustic cover of “Nicaragua, Nicaraguita,” a beloved Carlos Mejía Godoy compositional tribute to the country.

But the album isn’t anchored by Nicaraguan roots. A freer, brasher Lacayo experiments with styles from other parts of Latin America, cultivating ideas that were mere seedlings on Miel Venenosa. There’s a finalized version of the band’s bossa nova take on Radiohead’s “Creep,” and congas and bongos thunder on the upbeat “Morir Bailando,” as well as on “Veneer” and “Ponle Fin.” Volcán also benefits from a fuller live band sound—the result of Lacayo pulling in the expertise of her bandmates Danny Cervantes and Andrew Northcutt. While the Elena & Los Fulanos roster rotates from time to time, Cervantes and Northcutt make up the band’s core these days. Cervantes, a violinist and ukulele player who performs with mariachi groups, contributed heavily to the first album, and helped Lacayo write and perform “Que Linda Es Mi Tierra,” the band’s first shot at ranchera. Northcutt, an engineer and percussionist, often pushes a more avant-garde approach; Lacayo credits him with thinking up the “Creep” cover and arranging a string section on “Gone.”

“One of them pushes me forward and one of them keeps me grounded in the traditions, and I’m somewhere in between,” Lacayo says of the band dynamic.

Lacayo’s activist background surfaces heavily on Volcán. Before committing to music, Lacayo was a rising star at the National Council of La Raza (now UnidosUS), where she led and coordinated statewide immigration efforts. Her songwriting has always included stories that revolve around Latinx struggles (“Amor Migrante” is a tender example). But Volcán is a louder sound-off in the face of injustice, spurred partially by misogyny that Lacayo witnessed during and after the election that hit close to her own experiences.

“The rhetoric happening in the public space brought back what it was for me to grow up a woman in a very machisto culture,” she says.

“I was kind of a tomboy growing up and inter-

ested in music and soccer and things that felt more male-oriented. So the more I think about it, the more being a woman is what has made me interested in justice.”

D.C.’s post-election protest streak is also underscored in “Taking Back the Streets,” an interlude recorded at the People’s Climate March and a march for immigrant rights. The track comes just before “Ponle Fin,” which extends the tribute to D.C.’s culture of resistance.

Christylez Bacon provides a guest verse on the track, and the video for the song stages bits and pieces of a protest. But the video also captures a D.C. “away from the federal city,” Lacayo says, and shows a range of communities, with whom she hopes her music connects.

“It’s not just about Nicaragua or Latinos; I think what I do is about anybody who has felt at some point that they don’t fit in,” she says.

—Julyssa Lopez Listen to Volcán at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

I am woman Or So It Seemed

Sara Curtin Local Woman Records Albums often hAve a catalyst—a new love, a breakup, a close encounter with death, world events, or just the fact that a contract demands it—sometimes obvious and sometimes not. The spark for Or So It Seemed, the latest album from D.C.’s Sara Curtin, seems to be simply existing. Or, rather, existing as a woman and a musician in 2017.

The emotional spectrum Curtin covers over the course of nine songs makes it impossible to pigeonhole Or So It Seemed as any particular kind of record. At times it’s angry and at times it’s anxious, but it’s also content and hopeful.

It’s a full portrait of a human being: nuanced,

complex, and contradictory.

“Oh, I’ve been meaning to call you,” Curtin sings to open the album on “Blame Time.”

It’s unclear at first who the half-hearted excuse is addressing. Most will assume a lover and that Curtin is sheepish, but as the laidback cascading guitar builds into something brighter and more dominant she remembers wild times in Brooklyn. “I’ve been meaning to forgive you. Swear I meant to,” Curtin sings, half-lamenting the struggle to keep old friendships alive and half-celebrating her freedom from them.

It’s a perfect lead-in to the slithering garage-rock of the title track. Curtin draws confidence from the swampy rock ’n’ roll to hide what may be her deepest insecurities. “Used to be an artist, or so it seemed,” she sings before the crippling kicker in the chorus, “Oh, what a waste of time/ To hold on to what used to be mine.”

Or So It Seemed builds throughout its strong first half. “When Was The Last Time” layers in backing vocals with big harmonies, dreamy guitar, and stark marching drum breaks. “Wellish Home,” a quiet folk stunner that sounds similar to Joan Shelley, doesn’t need to be loud to make an impact. The opening line “When my well dries up/ How will I fill my cup?” will put a lump in your throat.

The apex is “What Do I Know” where Curtin charges ahead, tired of proving herself. “Now I’m fielding your questions and compliments laced with surprise/ How’d I learn to do what I’m doing?/ Would you ask those other guys?”

“Song for Thanksgiving” is both the most cliché and challenging track on the record. It’s an earnest Thanksgiving hymn about appreciating what you have and teaching children the value of love over all else. At first, it seems to stall the momentum Or So It Seemed has when it’s sad and angry, but in the broader context of a full portrait of Curtin, it uses that momentum to reveal some additional assumptions” Women can be sad, angry, anxious, and appreciative all at once. A woman can sing “I have so much to be thankful for” and “When, oh, when we call a spade by name?” on the same album without having to be one or the other at every moment.

Or So It Seemed ends with a fantasy: Curtin, who’s been making records for 10 years and recently founded Local Woman Records, seems ready to take what’s hers. “Dine on the stars and moon/ Ate ’em up with a spoon,” she sings.

—Justin Weber Listen to “Or So It Seemed” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

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Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY

ElECTRONIC

EchostagE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Krewella. 9 p.m. $25–$40. echostage.com.

FOlk

anthEm 901 Wharf Street SW, DC. The Head and The Heart. 8 p.m. $45-$75. theanthemdc.com. hill country BarBEcuE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Possessed by Paul James. 9:30 p.m. $13–$15. hillcountrywdc.com.

FuNk & R&B

howard thEatrE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Eric Roberson. 8 p.m. $35–$70. thehowardtheatre. com.

GOspEl

FillmorE silvEr spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Elevation Worship. 8 p.m. $24.95–$51.95. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAzz

amp By strathmorE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Harold López-Nussa Trio. 8 p.m. $25–$35. ampbystrathmore.com.

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sachal Ensemble. 8 p.m. $45–$55. wolftrap.org.

BluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jane Monheit. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $57–$62. bluesalley.com.

KEnnEdy cEntEr concErt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Pink Martini with China Forbes. 8 p.m. $24–$89. kennedy-center.org.

KEnnEdy cEntEr tErracE thEatEr 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Ron Carter Trio. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $35–$40. kennedy-center.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Michael Thomas Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

ROCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Misterwives. 6:30 p.m. $31. 930.com.

BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Paperhaus. 8 p.m. $12–$15. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. This Is The Kit. 7 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com. thE hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Melvin Seals and JGB. 8 p.m. $25–$30. thehamiltondc.com. warnEr thEatrE 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Johnny Clegg. 8 p.m. $43–$184. warnertheatredc. com.

WORlD

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Heather Maxwell. 7 p.m. $10. bossadc.com. tropicalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Innov Gnawa. 9 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com.

sATuRDAY ClAssICAl

hylton pErForming arts cEntEr 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas. (703) 993-7759. Manassas Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. $16–$20. hyltoncenter.org.

WHITE FORD BRONCO

With chokers back in fashion, O.J. Simpson free, and Britney Spears selling out shows, it really doesn’t feel like the ’90s are that far in the past. One awesome local band, White Ford Bronco, doesn’t want you to believe it ever ended. Even though WFB plays all your favorite jams, don’t call them a cover band—they put on a killer live show that rivals in sheer entertainment and talent any of the ’90s bands whose songs they play. Thanks to how popular the group has become in recent years, it’s rare to see them play a venue as intimate as Rock & Roll Hotel. The show is all ages, so bring your kid sister, that ’00s baby, and school her on how good music used to be back when boy bands ruled and wallet chains were the it accessory. White Ford Bronco performs at 8 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $25. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

—Diana Metzger

music cEntEr at strathmorE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Sol Gabetta Performs Tchaikovsky. 8 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

FuNk & R&B

COuNTRY

JAzz

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Maggie Rose. 8 p.m. $22–$25. wolftrap.org. thE hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Reckless Kelly. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com. hill country BarBEcuE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Whitney Rose. 8:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com.

ElECTRONIC 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Gryffin. 10 p.m. $22. 930.com.

howard thEatrE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Eric Roberson. 8 p.m. $35–$70. thehowardtheatre. com.

BluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jane Monheit. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $57–$62. bluesalley.com.

KEnnEdy cEntEr concErt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Pink Martini with China Forbes. 8 p.m. $24–$89. kennedy-center.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Michael Thomas Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

ROCk 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Misterwives. 6:30 p.m. $31. 930.com.

FOlk

anthEm 901 Wharf Street SW, DC. Primus. 8 p.m. $45-$249. theanthemdc.com.

BirchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Tom Paxton. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

FillmorE silvEr spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Death From Above. 8:30 p.m. $27.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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GAVIN DEGRAW

I don’t want to be anywhere other than at this concert. Gavin DeGraw, known worldwide for holding the illustrious honor of singing the One Tree Hill theme song, croons soul-searching tunes that take listeners through every possible kind of break-up. His first album, 2003’s Chariot, hooked fans with its emotional rollercoaster-style music. They were so hooked that they bought more than one million copies, and the record was certified platinum. DeGraw has stayed busy since then, releasing five more albums, most recently Something Worth Saving in September of 2016. And, of course, don’t forget he was booted off Dancing With The Stars during week five of season 14. While he does have fresher material to perform, it’ll always be about Chariot classics “I Don’t Want To Be” and “More Than Anyone,” so don’t miss your chance to belt those lyrics back at him. Gavin DeGraw performs at 8 p.m. at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St NW. $45.

(202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

—Laura Hayes gw lisnEr auditorium 730 21st St. NW. (202) 9946800. King Crimson. 8 p.m. $65–$155. lisner.gwu.edu. rhizomE dc 6950 Maple St. NW. Talibam. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org. songByrd music housE and rEcord caFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Names Halloween Special. 9 p.m. $8–$25. songbyrddc.com. warnEr thEatrE 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Michael McDonald. 8 p.m. $47.50–$348. warnertheatredc.com.

VOCAl

sixth & i historic synagoguE 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Gavin DeGraw. 8 p.m. Sold out. sixthandi. org.

suNDAY ClAssICAl

KEnnEdy cEntEr concErt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Halloween Spooktacular. 2 p.m.; 4 p.m. $15–$18. kennedy-center.org. national gallEry oF art wEst gardEn court 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 8426941. Pomerium. 3:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

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thE warnE Ballroom at thE cosmos cluB 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW, DC. Steven Osborne. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org. warnEr thEatrE 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Ludovico Einaudi. 8 p.m. $65–$95. warnertheatredc. com.

ElECTRONIC dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Boy Harsher. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

FOlk BirchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Jake Shimabukuro. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

FuNk & R&B FillmorE silvEr spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. BJ The Chicago Kid. 8 p.m. $19–$75. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAzz BluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jane Monheit. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $57–$62. bluesalley.com.

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AlICE WATERs

Every time you buy organic lettuce at Whole Foods or slather goat cheese on a cracker, you should thank Alice Waters. Just as Julia Child introduced American audiences to the wonders of French food, Waters taught us how to appreciate vegetables that didn’t come in a can and weren’t grown with the aid of insect-killing chemicals. From the kitchen of Chez Panisse, her legendary restaurant in Berkeley, California, she explores the intersection of food and politics. Waters’ journey to becoming a culinary icon wasn’t necessarily direct, however.

In her new memoir, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook, Waters paints a vivid picture of Northern California in the 1960s and describes the experiences that led her to open her own restaurant when she couldn’t find the food she wanted anywhere else. Today, she’s focused on bringing organic food to schoolchildren nationwide through the Edible Schoolyard Project. She’s no stranger to D.C., either—Michelle Obama consulted with Waters as she planned the White House Kitchen Garden. Alice Waters reads at 3 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Caroline Jones

Love & Lust Classifieds Are Back Remember these?

ROCk 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Bad Suns. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com. amp By strathmorE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Everly Brothers Experience. 8 p.m. $25–$35. ampbystrathmore.com. rocK & roll hotEl 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Craig Finn & The Uptown Controllers. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

VOCAl claricE smith pErForming arts cEntEr Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

UMD Chamber Singers. 3 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

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u strEEt music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

LÉON. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

WORlD Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Just Vibe Ensemble. 7 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Los Gaiteros de Sanguashington. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc. com.

MONDAY FuNk & R&B

u strEEt music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

T-Pain. 7 p.m. $30. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

BluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roderick Giles & Grace. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $39. bluesalley.com. claricE smith pErForming arts cEntEr Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

UMD Big Band Halloween Scream. 7:30 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu.

ROCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Iration. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

VOCAl

BirchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Shawn Colvin. 7:30 p.m. $62.50. birchmere.com. claricE smith pErForming arts cEntEr Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

TEMPO. 8 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu. liBrary oF congrEss coolidgE auditorium First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Orlando Consort. 8 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA • 703-549-7500

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Oct 26

An Acoustic Evening with

ANDERS OSBORNE & JACKIE GREENE “Tourgether 2017” w/Chris Jacobs

SU 29 BILLY GILMAN “ONE VOICE” 7:30PM T 31

HALLOWEEN SPOOKY TUESDAY W THE VI-KINGS AND THE DCEIVERS 7:30PM

SUZANNE WESTENHOEFER 29 JAKE SHIMABUKURO

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30&31 ‘A Few Small Repairs 20th Anniversary Tour’

SHAWNLarryCOLVIN and Her Band Campbell & Teresa Williams

T-pAIN

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T-Pain does not incorporate elaborate metaphors into his music. He prefers simple statements: “I’m ’n luv wit a stripper,” “I’ma buy u a drank,” “I’m on a boat.” The original auto-tuned versions of these songs are classics of mid-2000s hip-hop and R&B, and soundtracked many a dormroom dance party. But when T-Pain, born Faheem Najm, stripped the production and performed an adaptation backed only by a keyboard at a 2014 NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, those declarations took on even more power. Instead of seeming silly, T-Pain was sincere. If you met him at the club and heard his plea, you’d probably let him buy you that drink. To date, more than 11.3 million people have watched his Tiny Desk concert, and its success inspired him to embark on a national acoustic tour. He has overcome the pain of leaving his hometown and building a career (the T stands for Tallahassee, Florida) and has established himself as a savvy businessman dedicated to entertaining his adoring fans. T-Pain performs with Smino at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $30. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Caroline Jones

WORlD

statE thEatrE 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Ileana Mercedes Cabra. 8 p.m. $25–$30. thestatetheatre.com.

TuEsDAY ClAssICAl

claricE smith pErForming arts cEntEr Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Yehonatan Berick. 8 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu.

ROCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Dresden Dolls. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com. hill country BarBEcuE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Woggles. 8 p.m. $15. hillcountrywdc. com. rocK & roll hotEl 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Nothing But Thieves. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc. com. u strEEt music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Shout Out Louds. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

VOCAl

BirchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Shawn Colvin. 7:30 p.m. $62.50. birchmere.com.

WORlD

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The Sandcatchers. 7:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Cheick Hamala Diabate. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.

WEDNEsDAY ClAssICAl

Nov 1

2 An Intimate Evening with Fado Superstar

TH 2

HANK LEVY LEGACY BAND 8PM

F3

AN EVENING WITH JESSE COLIN YOUNG AND BAND

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SU 5

SELINA ALBRIGHT & STEVE COLE 7:30PM

T7

SNARK & DESPAIR CD RELEASE SHOW OF SETH KIBEL 8PM

W8

LIFE’S RICH W/ STEVE FIDYK 8PM

TH 9

JEANETTE HARRIS 8PM

F 10

ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY SINGS “THE ELLA CENTURY” 8PM

OLETA ADAMS 7 BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN 8 EL DeBARGE 9 MORRIS DAY & THE TIME 10, &12 PAULA POUNDSTONE THE PACO DeLUCIA PROJECT

ElECTRONIC

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BRUCE COCKBURN (Band)

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WALTER BEASLEY

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Bernhoft. 8 p.m. $22–$25. wolftrap.org.

GOspEl

BluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eric Essix MOVE Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $44.50. bluesalley.com.

HIp-HOp

FillmorE silvEr spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Cypress Hill. 9 p.m. $32.50–$332.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. howard thEatrE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Rich Chigga. 8 p.m. $20–$125. thehowardtheatre. com. u strEEt music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Lil’ Peep. 7 p.m. $17–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

7:30PM

MARIZA & Special Friends Daryl 3 DELBERT McCLINTON Davis 4 PAT McGEE BAND w/ Keaton Simons & Jason Adamo

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FuNk & R&B

GABRIELLE STRAVELLI W/ JOSE ANDRE MONTANO

ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY

claricE smith pErForming arts cEntEr Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

UMD University & Community Band. 8 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu. rocK & roll hotEl 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

J.Views. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

W1

Flamenco Legends by Javier Limon

Unit 3 Deep

18 “Hammer & Nail 20th Anniversary Show!”

PAUL THORN BAND with Alice Drinks The Kool-Aid

KATHY MATTEA

19 feat. Bill Cooley “The Acoustic Living Room” Song & Stories

LALAH HATHAWAY THE HONESTLY TOUR

Fri. Jan. 26, 8pm

Warner Theatre, Wash DC. NEW ALBUM

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JUST ANNOUNCED MON, DEC 4 - LARRY CARLTON 8PM http://igg.me/at/bethesdablues 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

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JAzz

FOlk

twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. BSQ. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

lincoln thEatrE 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band. 8 p.m. $45. thelincolndc.com.

BirchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Acoustic Alchemy. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

ROCk

EaglEBanK arEna 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. A Perfect Circle. 8 p.m. $39–$350. eaglebankarena.com.

THuRsDAY ClAssICAl

KEnnEdy cEntEr concErt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Street Sense

COuNTRY

Pick up a copy today from vendors throughout downtown D.C. or visit www.streetsense.org for more information.

CITY LIGHTS: TuEsDAY

amp By strathmorE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Lydia Loveless. 8 p.m. $15–$20. ampbystrathmore.com.

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Rodney Crowell. 8 p.m. $40–$45. wolftrap.org.

ElECTRONIC

u strEEt music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Phoebe Ryan. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

thE hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Del McCoury Band. 7:30 p.m. $35–$80. thehamiltondc. com.

FuNk & R&B

BluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 3:59 p.m.; 8 p.m. $67–$72. bluesalley.com.

HIp-HOp

vElvEt loungE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Ardamus. 8:30 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

JAzz

mansion at strathmorE 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Victor Provost. 7:30 p.m. $30. strathmore.org. milKBoy arthousE 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park. Warren Wolf and the Wolfpack. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $10–$30. milkboyarthouse.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Twins Jazz Orchestra. 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

ROCk

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

Where the Washington area’s poor and homeless earn and give their two cents

DJANGO FESTIVAL ALL-STARS FEATURING DORADO AND AMATI SCHMITT NOVEMBER 6 AT 7 & 9 P.M. | THEATER LAB The Django Festival All-Stars travel the world delivering lively performances in tribute to the swinging style of the Belgian guitarist credited with popularizing “hot jazz.” They return to the Kennedy Center for two energetic performances, led by legendary gypsy guitarist and violinist Dorado Schmitt who is joined by his guitar-playing sons Amati and Samson. The performance also includes Pierre Blanchard on violin, Ludovic Beier on accordian, Gino Bernard on bass, and Francko Mehrstein on rhythm guitar.

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For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540.

Support for Jazz at the Kennedy Center is generously provided by C. Michael Kojaian.

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THE DREsDEN DOlls

Many people know Amanda Palmer by her reputation. The musician found new fame when she married fantasy scribe Neil Gaiman in 2011, raised an at-that-time unheard of $1.2 million on Kickstarter in 2012, and found herself an early target of the internet outrage machine for, among other things, asking fans to perform for free at her concerts. But for legions of devoted fans, Palmer is an idol, both as a solo artist and as the co-founder of The Dresden Dolls, a selfdescribed “Brechtian punk cabaret” act that disbanded in 2008. A few years removed from all her controversies, Palmer and partner-in-crime Brian Viglione have reunited the Dolls, and the timing couldn’t be better. The duo made melodramatic musical theater meditations on gender roles and sexuality that seem particularly apt at a time when victims of misogyny and sexual assault and harassment are calling out perpetrators. The fictional “Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner” sounds like #MeToo truth-telling. Thankfully, Palmer never backs down, and we need her music more than ever. The Dresden Dolls perform at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $35. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Chris Kelly

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNEsDAY

1811 14TH ST NW

www.blackcatdc.com @blackcatdc

OCT / NOV SHOWS THU 26

FRI 27

FRI 27

SARA CURTIN

ALBUM RELEASE

PAPERHAUS

RECORD RELEASE FEATURING GO COZY/TONY KILL/DJ ALEX DB

DARK & STORMY

DANCE / ELECTRO / RETRO

HALLOWEEN EDITION

SAT 28 FYM PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:

HALLOWEEN

DANCE PARTY

IBEYI

WED 1

Ibeyi is the Yoruba word for twins, which makes it the perfect name for the duo of Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz. The sisters are twins, and duality is the throughline of their music.

Born in Paris to French-Venezuelan singer Maya Dagnino and Cuban percussionist Angá Diaz, a famed conguero, the Diaz sisters combine and contrast jazz and pop, organic vocals and electronic instrumentation, and ambience and Afro-Cuban percussion. The pair also have a penchant for multi-lingual lyrics, their dueting voices reminiscent of everyone from Björk to Regina Spektor. On their self-titled debut, they processed the grief of losing their father and older sister, and despite the weight of that album, their just-released Ash is heavier and more insistent. Perhaps that’s because the duo has looked outward into the world, supplementing their twin communion with samples of Michelle Obama and contributions from like-minded collaborators Kamasi Washington and Chilly Gonzales. The twins will always have each other, but they are definitely not alone. Ibeyi performs at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Chris Kelly

THU 2

LOUD BOYZ

FRI 3

FOOL’S PARADE WORLD TOUR 2017

SAT 4

JD MCPHERSON

SUN 5

BlacK cat BacKstagE 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Loud Boyz. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

FillmorE silvEr spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Dirty Head. 8 p.m. $32.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. rocK & roll hotEl 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Clientele. 8 p.m. $18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

VOCAl

dar constitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Straight No Chaser. 7:30 p.m. $39–$60. dar.org.

WORlD

BirchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Mariza. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere. com.

Theater

thE advEnturEs oF pEtEr pan Synetic Theater takes on the story of the boy who won’t grow up and his merry company of followers in this production full of high-flying acrobatics and one very sinister pirate.

Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Nov. 19. $20–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. antony and clEopatra Robert Richmond returns to the Folger to lead the company’s production of the

Bard’s drama about the romance between a Roman ruler and an Egyptian queen. As the forces of love and politics pull the title characters apart, both must decide to put themselves or their countries first. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Nov. 19. $35–$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu. arE you now, or havE you EvEr BEEn... Set in the days before Langston Hughes was forced to testify in front of Joseph McCarthy and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, this play follows his turmoil as he attempts to write a poem to mark the event. Developed by Carlyle Brown, this play is directed at MetroStage by Thomas W. Jones II. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Nov. 5. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. thE BooK oF mormon The long-running Broadway musical about two Mormon missionaries who wind up angering an African war lord returns to the Kennedy Center for another engagement. Featuring songs like “Hello!” and “I Believe,” this comedy currently stars Gabe Gibbs and Conor Peirson. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Nov. 19. $59–$199.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

EmiliE: la marquisE du chatElEt dEFEnds hEr liFE tonight Playwright Lauren Gunderson tells the story of the acclaimed French physicist who spent her career answering questions of both the head and the heart, trying to determine whether love or philosophy should govern her actions. WSC Avant Bard Acting Company member Sara Barker stars as Emile on this area premiere directed by Rick Hammerly. Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two. 2700 South Lang St., Arlington. To Nov. 12. $10–$35. (703) 418-4808. wscavantbard.org.

COLD SPECKS

BLITZEN TRAPPER

FRI 10 DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN SAT 11 TUE 14

anthEm 901 Wharf Street SW, DC. The Shins. 8 p.m. $40-$75. theanthemdc.com.

PUBLIC

THU 16

LEE RANALDO

LUNA

THE DRUMS

FRI NOV 3

COLD SPECKS

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Love & Lust Classifieds Are Back ANBEssA ORCHEsTRA

Remember these?

Brooklyn’s Anbessa Orchestra may not have any Ethiopian members, but the group has quickly developed a reputation for its ability to play funky, instrumental covers of classic ’60s and ’70s songs from the nation—and to play originals influenced by that era. The band, whose name means “lion” in Amharic, formed in 2014. Leader Nadav Peled, an Israeli guitarist and arranger, was first inspired by the unique feel of the genre’s pentatonic scale framework after working with an Ethiopian singer in 2010. In the group’s hands, this swinging music is propelled by a rhythm section, horns, and keyboards that draw largely from soulful jazz, Ethiopian traditional sounds, and atmospheric movie soundtracks. Now, the lions will bring their take to D.C. for a night with local Ethiopian-led Feedel Band who mix golden era tunes with straight-ahead jazz.

Anbessa Orchestra performs with Feedel Band at 9 p.m. at Bossa, 2463 18th St. NW. $10. (202) 6670088. bossadc.com.

—Steve Kiviat lady day at EmErson’s Bar & grill Set in a seedy Philadelphia jazz club four months before Billie Holiday’s death, this musical revue serves as a biography of the infamous singer and a cautionary tale.

Featuring songs like “God Bless the Child”, “My Man” and “Strange Fruit,” this production is directed by Lanie Robertson. Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To Nov. 19. $10–$40. (443) 518-1500. repstage.org.

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mEan girls Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond, and Nell Benjamin team up to turn the classic 2004 high school comedy into a stage musical, which makes its preBroadway debut in D.C. Featuring a cast of theater veterans including Kate Rockwell, Taylor Louderman, and Kerry Butler, the show is directed by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Dec. 3. $68–$178. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org. our town Local favorite Aaron Posner adapts and directs this new production of Thornton Wilder’s classic tale of young love and small town charm.

In Posner’s retelling, Japanese Bunraku-style puppets portray various townspeople, while Jon Hudson Odom plays the Stage Manager. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Nov. 12. $49–$64. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. thE paJama gamE Union conflicts are never as thrilling or romantic as they are in this musical set at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory. When the superintendent falls in love with the head of the grievance committee, all sorts of drama ensues, as does plenty of dancing. Alan Paul directs Arena’s annual fall musical that features songs like “Steam Heat” and “Hernando’s Hideaway.” Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 24. $65–$120. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. vicuña & an EpiloguE Originally presented in 2016, this drama follows an Iranian tailor as he makes a suit for a real estate magnate-turned-political candidate preparing for a presidential debate. This time, the play is performed with a new epilogue that chronicles events from Election Night. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Nov. 26. $20–$65. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

Film

gEostorm A satellite designer races to save Earth from a potent geostorm. Starring Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, and Abbie Cornish. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) thE Killing oF a sacrEd dEEr Colin Farrell stars as Steven, a surgeon and family man whose world is turned sideways when a sinister teenager enters his life. Co-starring Nicole Kidman and Alicia Silverstone.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) only thE BravE A group of firefighters put their lives on the line to combat a historic wildfire. Starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, and Jeff Bridges. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) thE snowman Detective Harry Hole must investigate a woman’s mysterious murder in this drama adapted from the Norwegian book of the same name.

Starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) suBurBicon Dark revelations and a home invasion shake a tranquil suburban town. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Oscar Isaac. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) thanK you For your sErvicE Soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to cope with civilian life. Starring Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, and Keisha CastleHughes. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

The Edge of the Universe Players 2 present a vicious stage comedy with serious spiritual questions

THE ANONYMOUS WHISTLEBLOWER WHO RISKED EVERYTHING IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE

Mystery School

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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by Paul Selig 1 actor—5 characters—5 cosmic views—5 individual crises that get resolved or don’t

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