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The Battle of Fort Reno The long and little-known story of how neighbors and developers used a plan for a park to push a thriving African-American community out of Fort Reno P. 12

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INSIDE 12 The baTTle of forT reno

The long and little-known story of how neighbors and developers used a plan for a park to push a thriving African-American community out of Fort Reno

By Neil Flanagan

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

4 Chatter distriCt Line 7 Housing Complex: Hill East residents asked D.C. about plans for their neighborhood and got a vague answer. Less than a week later, the District released a bid that includes a new Amazon headquarters there.

8 Loose Lips: Council candidates question whether incumbent mailers are doubling as taxpayer-funded campaign literature.

10 Savage Love

food 22 Meat Your Maker: Harvey’s Meats survives as a throwback business in a rapidly modernizing warehouse district.

arts 23 Graphic Novelty: Cartoonist Adam Griffiths has spent the past decade writing and illustrating a 600-page graphic novel about his grandmother’s landmark discrimination lawsuit.

24 Sketches: Anderson on Linling Lu at Hemphill Fine Arts 26 Short Subjects: Olszewski on Thor: Ragnarok 28 Discography: Kelly on IDK’s IWASVERYBAD

City List 31 City Lights: Check out singer Bryan Adams’ portraits of famous Canadians at their embassy’s art gallery this week.

31 Music 36 Theater 37 Film

38 CLassifieds diversions 39 Crossword

On the cover: One of the few houses remaining from the original Reno neighborhood. Photo by Darrow Montgomery

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CHATTER

In the Shadow of the People (Issue)

In which City Paper marks the start of an election year

Darrow MontgoMery

D.C. eleCtion season has officially begun, at least according to City Paper’s political thermometer. Candidates demanding stories about themselves (positive ones) and their opponents (negative ones); candidates calling our offices on repeat and shrieking their complaints over various articles; campaign managers flooding our inboxes—the political version of the first snowflake of the year in blizzard country.

Not to wipe City Paper’s hands of the business. Election dirt is a staple of journalism everywhere. Reporters sit on a different perch, but not always a different tree.

As a backdrop to this election season wind-up, though, my staff and I were putting together our annual “People Issue,” which will come out next week. Every fall, the staff creates a list of 20 or so people we want to talk to. City Paper photographer of 31 years Darrow Montgomery sets up a makeshift studio in our office and welcomes this group of D.C.’s finest as they come in for their portraits over the course of two full days.

The reporting staff transcribes and trims their interviews over several weeks.

The best “People Issue” subjects have clear and uncomplicated visions of their purposes in life, their work, and the meaning of their work.

Think of a person who is devoted to their small business, a person who is obsessed with getting and sharing good data on issues that impact the lives of many, or an aging artist who put money and fame on the backburner a long time ago.

Political candidates in election season are often just the opposite.

Whatever heartfelt goals they have for their city are buried under the weight of fundraising, wars with opponents, strategy, and power lust.

They tend to replace clear-eyed visions with sound bites. Some come out on the other end of it true public servants, whether they win or not. Others don’t. It’s hard to predict which ones will take which path.

Primary elections for mayor and select D.C. Council seats are in June 2018, and the general election is next November. Let the muckraking begin. We hope you enjoy this year’s People Issue, too.

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To testify at a community hearing, please submit your name and organization (if any) to the Office of the Commission Secretary by 5 p.m., 3 days before a hearing by calling 202-626-5150 or by sending an email to psc-commissionsecretary@dc.gov.

We welcome walk-ins the day of the hearing.

If an organization or an individual is unable to offer comments at the community hearing, written statements may be dropped off to the DCPSC at 1325 G Street N.W., Suite 800, Washington D.C. 20005, or submitted through the DCPSC website.

Hearing Dates: Monday, November 27, 2017 6:30 p.m. start Anacostia Library / Ora Glover Community Room 1800 Good Hope Road, S.E Washington, D.C. 20020 Tuesday, November 28, 2017 6:30 p.m. start Trinity University / O’Connor Auditorium 125 Michigan Avenue, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20017 Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:00 a.m. start Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia 1325 G Street, N.W., Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005 Thursday, November 30, 2017 6:30 p.m. start Greater Washington Urban League / Pepco Community Room 2901 14th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 Individuals who need special accommodations, interpretation and/or translation services should inform the Office of the Commission Secretary at least 7 days prior to the hearing at 202-626-5150.

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DistrictLine Unexpected Package Hill East residents asked D.C. about plans for their neighborhood and got a vague answer. Less than a week later, the District released a bid that includes a new Amazon headquarters there.

Five days beFore the District unveiled a splashy proposal to court Amazon’s new headquarters, a top city planning official withheld key information about where it could go from nearly 30 Hill East residents who had gathered to discuss the future of their neighborhood.

During a community meeting on Oct. 11, advisory neighborhood commissioner Nick Burger asked Sarosh Olpadwala, the director of real estate for the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, about the District’s longterm plans for Reservation 13. Just south of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, the site contains 67 acres of underdeveloped land that has been the subject of planning talks for more than a decade. It includes several municipal buildings and the former D.C. General Hospital, which currently serves as the city’s largest family homeless shelter and is expected to close in 2020 (though a recent zoning appeal could impede the closure).

As of today, many neighbors consider the site an eyesore. But they recognize that it has huge potential to connect them with the Anacostia River, and have pushed for a variety of amenities there, like new homes, stores, and parks.

On Oct. 11, Olpadwala told the crowd that the District would have to figure out how to develop the majority of Reservation 13 after Donatelli Development and Blue Skye Construction complete the first phase of a mixed-use project slated for two of the site’s parcels. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration approved the project in 2015, but it has faced delays due to infrastructure and permitting issues. Both Olpadwala and developer Christopher Donatelli said workers would break ground on the project early next year.

“In terms of what the subsequent phases are, I think we would like to move with expediency, but we also want to be very deliberate,” Olpadwala told residents. “We’re going to tear down D.C. General, and then that will open up just a whole host of possibilities.”

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After Denise Krepp, another advisory neighborhood commissioner, called this answer “rather vague” and pressed for more details, Olpadwala said “a lot [would] depend on the infrastructure development” related to the Donatelli-Blue Skye project. “It’s a major property for us, it’s a major portfolio for us, it’s a major neighborhood,” he added.

He did not mention that D.C. would soon feature Reservation 13 as one of four prospective sites in its bid for Amazon’s second headquarters. Residents got that information five days later. Some of them are now fuming over Bowser’s alleged secrecy in selecting the sites, especially given Reservation 13’s knotty history. (The site also includes the outdated D.C. Jail, though the District’s bid does not incorporate that facility.)

Amazon announced its North American

the proposal). The Hill East site is the only one that would offer Amazon a unified campus, as the rest don’t have fully contiguous land. “[Reservation 13] is a shiny rock they keep dangling, and we still don’t have affordable housing,” says Krepp, who lives a block from the site. “That’s what’s frustrating to my residents: the lack of transparency. You tell us something and you lie to us. Why should we trust you about anything?”

Citing a short-lived idea a few years ago to install an Olympic Village on the site for the 2024 Games (many Hill East neighbors opposed it), Krepp adds that the District has a history of not informing residents “what’s going on in our own neighborhood.”

“We have to FOIA,” she says, referring to the Freedom of Information Act. “But they can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell

competition for a new headquarters site on Sept. 7, saying it would create 50,000 highpaying jobs. A week later, the Bowser administration declared its intention to bid, and kicked off a marketing campaign branded “#ObviouslyDC.” (In a Sept. 14 video, the mayor reads aloud from an article about the competition in The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She coyly asks an Amazon Echo device on her desk: “Alexa, where is the most interesting company in the world going to locate?”)

D.C. released its proposal on Oct. 16, two days before bids were due. The other sites the District pitched are NoMa-Union Station, ShawHoward University, and Buzzard Point-Ballpark-Poplar Point (or “Anacostia Riverfront” in

consultants what’s going on.”

Advisory neighborhood commissioner Daniel Ridge was bothered, too. “I would stop short of alleging that they lied to us, but I’m going to stop just short,” he says. “I was surprised, and somewhat offended, to learn that there were renderings. That document wasn’t put together overnight.”

Krepp and Ridge say they first heard that Reservation 13 would appear in the District’s Amazon proposal less than an hour before a mayoral press release went out, but that DMPED asked them not to relay the news until Bowser’s office had done so. Angered, Krepp tweeted it anyway. She says her response to DMPED that morning “is not printable.”

Ridge says he “resented” the embargo.

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By Andrew Giambrone

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen says he received a “courtesy call” about the bid from Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner on Oct. 15, a day before the announcement. Allen says they spoke about the challenges and opportunities at each of the sites (three fall within Ward 6), and that he asked DMPED to give a heads-up to the affected ANCs. “I’m just not sure how an Amazon office-use would be consistent” with residents’ vision for community amenities, Allen says, adding that such a large development on Reservation 13 would require a “substantial zoning rewrite.”

Amazon’s request for proposals stipulates that it initially needs 500,000 square feet of space to begin operating the headquarters in 2019, and up to 8 million square feet “beyond 2027.” The company received 238 submissions and is expected to present a winner in 2018.

In an interview, Kenner insists there was no intent to mislead or deceive residents leading up to the disclosure of the four sites. Since Amazon’s RFP was relatively brief and the company didn’t provide much more information when the administration inquired, he says, the bid was meant to “showcase the diversity of opportunities and attributes” D.C. boasts, from multimodal transit and waterfront areas to a dynamic workforce and universities.

As for Hill East residents’ feelings of being hoodwinked, Kenner says it was simply a matter of bad timing. “This is about an option that we wanted to make sure was on the table,” he explains. “We needed to be mindful of the timing not just for this site but all the sites, because we needed to announce it in a consistent fashion.”

With “nothing set in stone” at this point, officials will reach out to residents if Amazon indicates to D.C. that it’s interested in moving here, Kenner says, because “it’s literally going to take a village to accommodate” whatever the company is looking for. Regarding Reservation 13, he says the Donatelli-Blue Skye project “will not be impacted by anything that could happen with Amazon,” and that D.C. General and the D.C. Jail aren’t “necessarily” hindrances to new development.

Not all Hill East residents, though, are girding themselves to fight Amazon.

“From my time here, it seems like we always get stuck in this place of: Either the whole thing’s going to get developed and D.C. offers it up for one purpose or another, or nothing,” says Ryan Donahue. “I want there to be something between that.”

“I sympathize with the anger,” he says, noting that multiple administrations have “played politics” with Reservation 13. “But frankly, I’m not sure the anger and the outrage is going to do a lot of good.”

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DistrictLinE We’ve Got Mail Council candidates question whether incumbent mailers are doubling as taxpayer-funded campaign literature.

By Jeffrey Anderson Direct mail can be an effective—if not expensive—way for D.C. councilmembers to reach their constituents with policy updates, their office hours schedule, and information on how to report problems with trash pickup, potholes, or broken street lights.

Several sitting councilmembers send mailers.

Loose Lips can see why political upstarts might regard an incumbent’s mail blitz as an unfair advantage, especially at a time when leveling the playing field and encouraging participation in the electoral process seems to be more lip service than reality.

So when a mailer distributed recently by the Ward 1 office of Councilmember Brianne Nadeau showed up last week, LL took note.

Printed on both sides of poster stock paper, the legal pad-sized mailer provides her constituents with legislative and office updates, a backto-school and District brief, along with contact information for those seeking assistance.

With Nadeau facing numerous challengers in the June Democratic primary, the timing seemed auspicious—for her. A call to her office yielded a swift response from Deputy Chief of Staff Tom Fazzini.

Over the past two-and-a-half years, Fazzini says, Nadeau has spent $56,000 on four mailers that have gone out to between 16,500 and 19,500 constituents per mailer—roughly 3 percent of the office’s total spending. (Nadeau does not maintain a constituent services fund, which allows office-holders to raise up to $40,000 per year to help residents with things like funeral arrangements, emergency housing, past due utility bills, and “informational services,” which could include mailers.

The law disallows use of those funds for the primary purpose of promoting a candidate.)

“These are part of an overall program of engagement with constituents,” he says. “Our updates have been a regular part of our outreach over the course of the Councilmember’s term, because it’s important to us that all our constituents know how the Council is having a direct impact on their lives.”

For Ward 1 Council candidate Lori Parker, though, Nadeau’s three most recent mailers come too close to the announcement of her reelection bid. “I would not spend taxpayer dollars on such communications given the timing, whether allowable or not. As we continue to meet with and listen to our neighbors throughout the Ward, the timing and funding of these

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recent mailers—and not the content—is clearly on the mind of many neighbors,” she says.

Candidate Kent Boese, current chairman of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1A, says, “There’s not much new information [in the mailer]. It’s not much of an update. To anyone who looked at it, it looks like some kind of campaign material.”

Nadeau got on the phone with LL and described the mailers as a resource for school modernization and public safety updates. She explained that some constituents rely less on social media than others. “It’s nice to have on your fridge, to have in hand so you can refer to it,” she says.

She points to strict rules regarding content and a review by the Council’s Office of the General Counsel as assurances that members are not misusing Council resources. (There is a 90-day blackout period prior to an election during which incumbents cannot send mailers from their office.)

Besides, her campaign does not begin in earnest until February, she says, at which time she will begin tapping into a sizable war chest that she amassed a year ahead of the primary. (She attributes the advanced timing of her fundraising and delayed timing of her campaigning to her recent pregnancy.)

“I was an upstart three years ago,” says Nadeau. “You can be critical of the incumbent advantage, but I’m not an entrenched incumbent.”

Nadeau is not alone in her use of constituent mailers. Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen sends them out twice a year, typically in the spring and fall. His last mailing went out to 19,000 Ward 6 residents, with design, printing, and mailing costs of about $13,000, according to his communications director Erik Salmi. The four-page newsletter includes updates on legislation, ward news, contact information, and office hours, Salmi says. Like Nadeau, Allen does not have a constituent services fund, and pays for the mailers out of his office’s annual operating budget.

Others who reportedly send out mailers include Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie and At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds.

McDuffie’s spokesman, Nolan Treadway, says the office has done one in the last year, a “5-year report.” He did not provide specifics. Bonds’ office did not respond to City Paper’s questions.

At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman, who is alone in not accepting corporate or PAC money, has never done a mailer, according to her legislative director, Sam Rosen-Amy. CP

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SAVAGELOVE I am a pretty handsome gay (I have been told) and I am dating a gorgeous man. I am 34, and he is 31. I am bottom only, and he is top only— so it’s a good match. He seems sincerely interested in me and we are talking about being together. But here is the thing: He noticed that I have a rather small penis. I am under the average, and his dick is quite big and long. Since he discovered this, he fancies about “humiliating” me about my “small pee-pee.” He would even like me to show it to his friends. I am not ashamed of the size of my penis because it’s how I am made and I can’t change it. But I wonder what this idea means for him. I would somehow understand that he would put me down if he suffered from a “small dick complex,” but since he is so well-endowed, I don’t get it. Is it a common turn-on for some top guys to imagine that their partner is smaller than them? Does it hide something else maybe?

—Humiliated Over Tackle P.S. English is not my mother tongue. I apologize for this.

I don’t have a problem with your English—it’s doubtless better than my [insert your mother tongue here]—I have a problem with your potential boyfriend.

Small penis humiliation (SPH) is a kink popular enough to have spawned a porn genre. There are more than 76,000 SPH-themed porn videos on XTube—and XTube is just one of the various porn tubes out there ruining everything for everyone. Over at PornHub, there are SPH videos with more than two million views. That’s all anecdote, not data, HOT, but it’s anecdote enough to confirm that, yes, small penis humiliation is definitely a thing. And it can be a very good thing for guys whose erotic imaginations transformed their anxieties about having small dicks into a kink they enjoy.

But you are not one of those guys. You like your dick fine, and you’ve got the exact right attitude about your dick—indeed, all men everywhere, regardless of size, should embrace their dicks the way you’ve embraced your own. Your dick is your dick, you can’t change it, and you shouldn’t be ashamed of it. And big or small, HOT, your dick has all the same nerve endings as that big and long thing on the guy who might be your boyfriend someday (but who’s definitely a presumptuous asshole right now).

As with most kinks—bondage, cuckolding, foot fetishes, diapers, pup play—subs/ bottoms are way more common than doms/ tops. So it’s usually the guy with the small dick who initiates small penis humiliation games with his partner, HOT, not the boyfriend with the bigger dick and/or the girlfriend with the pussy and/or the bigger dick. (Some women have dicks, all women can purchase strapons.) While there are SPH tops out there—just as there are bondage tops, half of whom are 10 november 3, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

frustrated bondage bottoms—their numbers are far smaller.

The issue here isn’t stumbling over a rare small penis humiliation top in the wild, HOT, but whether or not you’re into it. Are you into power play? Do you like being degraded? Does the thought of this dude ordering you to show your dick to his friends—friends who presumably want to see your dick—turn you on in any way? If the answer is no, no, and FUCK NO, then tell your potential new boyfriend to stop making fun of your cock. If the answer is maybe, maybe, and maybe under the right circumstances, then talk it over with him and work out when, where, and how you’re willing to indulge his SPH kink.

If you stay with him, you’re also going to need to have a conversation about consent.

SPH isn’t something you surprise someone with. Like most kinks, it requires advance discussion, the setting of limits, and the consent of both parties. It’s worrisome that this guy didn’t bother with obtaining your consent in advance, HOT, and if he doesn’t recognize that he made a mistake and swear not to make a similar mistake in the future, well, then you’ll have to DTMFA. —Dan Savage

Your dick is your dick, you can’t change it, and you shouldn’t be ashamed of it.

I’m sorry to be graphic, but it can’t be avoided. I’d like to have my fiancé come on my pussy and then have someone else lick it off. My two questions: (1) Does that fall in the realm of safe sex for the extra person involved? (2) How do we find that person?

Is there an app to meet a third, or how do we find swinger parties in our area? Is that a degrading thing to ask someone to do?

—Personally Understands Serious Sexual Yearnings 1. Nope. Various sexually transmitted infections—gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, herpes, HPV, etc.—could be contracted by the extra person and/or passed on to you and your fiancé. There’s low to no risk for HIV, PUSSY, but the act nevertheless falls outside the realm of safe sex. Very little actually exists in the realm of purely safe sex. There’s always risk. We can mitigate those risks, and we can make sex saf-

er, but save for solo and cyber, sex is rarely ever 100 percent safe.

2. This is technically three questions, PUSSY. You find that person by putting ads on hookup sites and/or by putting yourselves in places where you might meet that person, i.e., pickup joints, sex parties, swingers clubs. There are lots of apps out there for couples seeking thirds. You can even advertise as a couple seeking a third on big dating sites like OkCupid. It is a degrading thing to ask someone to do, but since there are lots of people out there into erotic degradation, that’s a potential selling point.

—DS I am in a relationship with a lovely and amazing man. Everything could be really good, if only his father would stop being a creep. He’s constantly telling me how beautiful, smart, and attractive I am. Last year around Christmas, I sang a few songs when we were visiting my boyfriend’s family, and his father commented that I have an “erotic” voice. A few days later, I received an email from him. Attached was a poem about my singing where he called my voice “angelic” and “pure.” It made me really uncomfortable and I told him that I don’t want to receive poems from him and that he should stop complimenting me all the time. He didn’t. When I told him again to stop commenting on my appearance, he responded that I must not like myself very much. I talked to my boyfriend’s mother, and she said she’s “given up” and ignores her husband’s behavior. It turns out that he behaved similarly with ex-girlfriends of my boyfriend’s brothers. I’m so angry and don’t know what to do. My boyfriend supports me, but it’s hard to talk about the topic because it’s his father.

—Fucking Annoyed That He Engrosses Rightfulness

I’m curious what your boyfriend’s “support” looks like, FATHER. Does he tell you privately that his father is a creep and that he wishes his dad would knock this shit off? Or does he tell his father directly that he’s being a creep and insist he knock it off? The latter is support, the former is not.

I’m thinking there’s a reason your boyfriend’s brothers only have ex-girlfriends— you don’t speak of any currents, FATHER, a highly revealing detail—and it’s not just because their dad is a creep. It’s because no one in the family is willing to stand up to this creep.

Not his wife, not his children. If your boyfriend refuses to run interference and/or shut his father down, I would advise you to join the list of exes. However “lovely and amazing” your boyfriend might be when you two are alone, if he’s useless in the face of his father’s sexual harassment, you’ll have to DTMFA too. —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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The Battle of Fort Reno

The long and little-known story of how neighbors and developers used a plan for a park to push a thriving AfricanAmerican community out of Fort Reno

By Neil Flanagan

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

Looking south to the National Cathedral from the Fort Reno water tower, 1930

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Courtesy of National Park Service

Three aFrican-american acTivisTs hurried to the Capitol on the morning of March 28th, 1926. They had heard Congress was considering a bill that would wipe out a community of 370 families in the growing suburbs west of Rock Creek Park. In the small neighborhood known as Reno, black and white residents mixed like a checkerboard.

James Lincoln Neill, a Howard-educated attorney and businessman, led the group that morning. At the door to the committee room, he stopped the chairman of the House District Committee, Ernest Gibson, and made his protest: The black residents were never offered a hearing. The chairman took heed and promised the men they would have a chance to plead their case. This gave the activists time to organize.

They were fighting for 52 acres where African-Americans had made a decent life. Reno was a community with modest houses and churches, clubs, and a thriving social calendar. But white suburbs had recently grown up around Reno, and many of the people moving to them sought racial exclusivity. Real estate developers were relentless and zealous in their efforts to provide it.

The freedoms of the post-Civil War Recon-

struction era lasted longer in the District of Columbia than they did in many other parts of the nation, but an upset election brought Southern white power to Washington in 1913. President Woodrow Wilson’s administration slowly instituted segregation in D.C., and Southern congressmen pushed segregationist practices on a city that not only couldn’t vote for president, it couldn’t elect its own government.

It was during D.C.’s 1920s economic boom that color lines grew clearer and homes became a vehicle of white wealth and black dispossession. The federal government grew, and at the same time racist sentiment increased.

Neill’s harried intervention with the congressman, recounted in the Washington Tribune, was the beginning of a forgotten fight for civil rights in the middle of the creation of modern Washington. In 2017, it can feel like gentrification is a racially tinged contest over space that runs like a live wire through every interaction. The story of Reno reveals a critical part of the history behind this dynamic.

Today “ForT reno” is synonymous with a long-running DIY summer concert series and the iconic water towers on its land. Residents take Reno’s sports fields, grassy hills, and the Alice Deal Middle School as essential and wonderful community resources. Few stop to think why they’re on that particular spot.

Location is everything. Fort Reno Park is the highest point in D.C. and sits on the west, upwind side of the city. It is near the intersection of two ridgelines. One of those ridges provides a dry route with a steady grade from Georgetown. The other separates the escarpment that bounded the original city of Washington from the flatter piedmont north and west.

Because the ridges intersected there, so did roads leading from Georgetown’s port to the plantations of the upper Potomac. With roads came travellers, and so a Scottish immigrant named John Tennally built a tavern there, founding Tenleytown. In the 1790s, travellers coming to Washington from as far away as the Ohio frontier might stay overnight, reshoe horses, and drink.

Just north of Tenleytown was Reno, with its views from Rock Creek to the Potomac—a tempting site for a wealthy man to make his estate. A Treasury Department official named Giles Dyer purchased the land in the summer of 1853 and dubbed the 62-acre property “Oak Lawn.” His tax records reveal a comfortable plantation with orchards, tenants, a 16-room house, and at least five enslaved people: Alfred, Sarah, Dallas, Mary, and Rose.

Giles Dyer died only three years later in 1856, leaving his widow, Jane, to run the homestead. Then, in July 1861, Confederate forces humiliated the Union at the Battle of Bull Run just 30 miles from D.C., the Union’s capital. It was the first major battle of the Civil War, and slave-owning Maryland was only staying in the Union by force. Officials realized they needed to fortify Washington.

Union engineers suspected, correctly, that a Confederate invasion would cross the Potomac north of Great Falls in the piedmont where the river was narrower and flat. This made the

two roads that went north and west from Tenleytown strategic risks. The Dyer farm, with its high, long ridge flanking the two roads, was a perfect spot from which to rain shells on any Confederate invaders.

By 1862, a mess of ramparts, stockpiles, and tents blanketed the Dyer land. The Union named the facility after General Jesse Reno, who died that year. Fort Reno was massive, demanding civilian labor. Former slaves, freed in D.C. just that year, found work maintaining the fort. Escaped slaves, who the Union could declare seized enemy property, a technicality that prevented them from being recaptured legally, also worked there.

Alcione Amos, a curator at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum who has studied the early residents of Reno, says, “The forts offered security, shelter, food, and work.

By 1864 an estimated 50,000 African-American refugees had moved to Washington.”

After the war ended, the government sold the fort for scrap. In 1866, the Dyers returned to ruined land. Their wealth in plants, buildings, and enslaved people was all gone. Court records show that when the family tried to divide the property in 1867, they discovered that Giles Dyer’s will was invalid. They settled the case by hiring a real estate team named Onion & Butts to subdivide the property into 600 or so lots, each of them roughly 25-by-100 feet and facing 33-foot wide streets. The developers called it “Reno City.”

Property sale records suggest that white speculators bought most of the lots, and some built houses to rent to African-Americans starting new lives in Reno. A number of AfricanAmericans could also afford the $12.50 it cost to buy a lot, and they owned their homes.

Amos has studied one early black landowning family, George and Ariana Dover. George had been owned by the Peirce-Shoemaker family (of Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park), while Ariana was a slave for a Georgetown merchant. They acquired three parcels in the southwest corner of Reno and built two houses for their large family. Amos notes they lived in Reno “well into the 20th century.”

Reno stayed sleepy for years. Most AfricanAmericans migrating to D.C. were not so interested in living in a village, preferring more central neighborhoods like Shaw and Foggy Bottom, where there was more work. They were drawn to the District because it offered unparalleled opportunities for black people. From the Reconstruction era onwards, black residents could hold well-paying civil service jobs, from low-level clerkships to political appointments.

“Federal salaries were better and more stable than any other African-Americans could earn, and so patronage and the attendant paychecks were critical to the high property ownership and relative affluence of Black D.C.,” says Eric Yellin, a professor of history at the University of Richmond.

African-Americans were unlikely to assume political power, in part due to the District’s govermental structure. From 1874 to 1967, a panel of three presidential appointees governed D.C., one of whom was an Army Corps of Engineers officer.

But the District was nonetheless desirable, and it became an oasis as white supremacists rolled back the rights of African-Americans across the South, and those who could flee did. Many Southern blacks had no choice.

One such man was Thomas Walker.

Born in 1850 to a white father and enslaved African-American mother, his master raised him to be a literate house slave. He did well professionally in Selma, Alabama, after emancipation, but at the end of reconstruction, a lynch mob forced him to flee in disguise. He eventually settled in D.C. and took a Republican political appointment.

The economic base created a strong black middle class and landmark educational system centered on Howard University. There were no Jim Crow streetcars, but private life in Washington was by no means integrated.

One block of a street might be white, but turn the corner, and it would be upwardly mobile black residents. The overwhelmingly black poor tended to live in substandard housing fronting the alleys behind primary houses.

The white population also grew with the federal government after the Civil War. Streetcars, new federal workers, and a flush of wealth induced a wave of suburbanization in all four quadrants.

In the late 1880s, a secretive group of investors started buying land north of Dupont Circle, across Rock Creek, and out to the Maryland border east of Reno. The papers gossiped that this “California Syndicate” would pay high prices for seemingly worthless property in a straight line along what is now Connecticut Avenue NW. When an investor blabbed to the press, the California Syndicate revealed itself as the estate of California senator and mining baron William Sharon, headed by the senator’s sonin-law Francis G. Newlands, who later became a congressman and senator for Nevada.

Newlands named his premier development Chevy Chase, and the land holding company the Chevy Chase Land Company.

The California Syndicate’s bizarre purchases followed Newlands’ vision. He subscribed to two beliefs common in his day. First, that the wealthy would always favor the west side of cities, where prevailing winds meant that the smells of burning coal, manure, and sweat did not pollute the air. Second, that the wealthy would flee neighborhoods when stores, industry, the poor, and non-whites moved in.

So, he believed, cities grew westward until they hit a natural barrier, like the Potomac, where they would go north. This lack of stability bothered homeowners. Newlands and his partners decided to skip past that pattern by building a long road and, at the end of it, what developers called a “high-class” subdivision.

That road is Connecticut Avenue NW, leading to Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Developers for the wealthy distanced themselves from their peers by focusing on long-term investments financed by wealthy or international investors. They called themselves “high class developers” or “community builders.” Rather than sell rural plots of land as-is, they promised complete, planned

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Fort Reno concert, 2011 packages of stable neighborhoods and ready infrastructure.

They also ensured exclusivity by requiring, in the deed to the land, that only a single-family detached house costing a large amount of money could be constructed. The Chevy Chase Land Company did not include explicit bars against non-white people, known as racial covenants, but the mandated cost of the house made it impractical for all but the wealthiest non-white people to buy the land.

Newlands and his partners further maintained control through a system of interlocking corporations run by the same people. If someone wanted to buy a lot in a Chevy Chase subdivision, they’d have to go through the Thomas Fisher brokerage, controlled by Newlands’ deputy, Edward Stellwagen. The brokerage would screen buyers, sell property, insurance, and provide mortgage financing. Later, the partners would add Union Trust Bank to manage outside investments.

Planners at the time had decided on a hybrid street plan for the District, with gridded streets and curvilinear parkways. Newlands—by then an extremely absentee congressman—helped eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Ol-

msted Sr.’s firm get the job to make that plan.

But the vision was still too commercial and not grand enough for many, so in March 1901 Congress convened a team to fully reimagine the District. This team would become known as the McMillan Commission.

Its youngest member was Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. He proved to be one of the strongest voices in the room, securing his reputation independent of his father. The McMillan Commission’s 1902 design is famous for laying out the Mall as a tree-lined network of commemorative pavilions surrounded by government offices, not dissimilar from what exists today.

Their vision extended into the still-rural suburbs as well. They drew a network of parks crisscrossing the the hills, including a parkway called Fort Drive that followed the Civil War lines of defense.

Olmsted singled out Fort Reno’s high point as a special place. He proposed a vast circular park, thousands of feet in diameter to secure those same views Giles Dyer and army engineers coveted. Civil War nostalgia made the hill with amazing views an appealing historical site.

The McMillan Plan was a shocking and new

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vision of monumental urbanity. It was hugely popular in D.C. The problem was, it was obscenely expensive and therefore had little support in Congress. Still, it was something for civic beautifiers to aim for when they looked around their neighborhoods.

White residents of Tenleytown certainly saw the big park at Fort Reno as an opportunity. Already in 1899, a group of property owners that would later become the Friendship Citizens Association had eyed some of the area for clearance. In March 1901, the Evening Times reported that the FCA was working with the D.C. Commissioners to purchase the land, which would “wipe out the colored settlement on Reno, where the houses are small and detrimental to surrounding interests.”

In the years following the McMillan Plan, Tenleytowners agitated for clearing Reno to make a park, while developers of nearby subdivisions flacked the big circular park in their brochures.

One of those developers, Senator Thomas Patterson from Colorado, even submitted a bill to create a Fort Reno military park. Like the McMillan plan, though, it cost too much.

Instead of condemning the existing community and land for a park, the city built the

Jesse Reno School, a four-room facility that is now incorporated into Alice Deal Middle School. It became a cornerstone for Reno, located in the area most heavily populated by African-Americans.

If Reno’s residents, who lived on the high land, were worried about this plan, I have not found paper evidence of it. Instead, Reno grew considerably. More and more houses went up on the narrow streets. Methodists, Episcopalians, and Baptists set up church missions. Residents organized black chapters of mutual aid societies and social clubs. Stores opened up to serve the population.

Those who settled there described a tough but meaningful life. Samuel Hebron, a homeowner, told his story to Congress in 1926: “I went out there 20 years ago. I could not get anything but a hollow out there, 20 feet deep.

I labored hard and worked for it in the city, and walked in when I didn’t have the [street] car fare.”

Reno was a rural quirk in the growing capital. African-American high society did not acknowledge Reno much, other than through churches and sports leagues. When black papers referenced Reno, they often had to explain

where it was. Well-educated African-Americans, it seemed, still had better prospects in mid-city neighborhoods like Shaw.

The unusual freedom black Washingtonians once had faded as emancipatory fervor declined. “The national Republican party had begun to lose interest in even the minimal support for black leaders it had offered since the 1890s,” Eric Yellin explains. The last vestiges ended in 1912 after Southern Democrats took control of both the White House and Congress for the first time since the Civil War. As Yellin’s book Racism in the Nation’s Service documents, President Woodrow Wilson’s appointees wasted no time in segregating lunchrooms, bathrooms, and offices in federal buildings. High-ranking black officials found themselves demoted, educated men and women shifted into low-level work because of their race.

Reno kept growing. In the new political climate, the Friendship Citizens Association again expressed their fears that less affluent and less white neighbors threatened their real estate values. This was particularly true for a North Carolina-born man named Luther Derrick, a house painter who had settled in a large Victorian house steps from Reno.

For Derrick, the presence of black people was an even greater threat. An ardent segregationist, he allied with Tenleytown natives like John Chappell when he became president of

the Citizens Association, turning its attention to segregated streetcars, anti-miscegenation laws, and prohibition.

Newlands died in 1917, and Edward Stellwagen took the Chevy Chase Land Company through a boom before he contracted meningitis. Debilitated, he delegated many of his responsibilities to employees.

Harold Doyle, a charismatic and relentless salesman who had been with the Fisher brokerage since he was 17, became a leader in the company. He and his business associates acted as strawbuyers, aggressively buying up land in Reno, as they did elsewhere in the area.

Meanwhile, African-American leaders across the city held out hope that President Warren G. Harding’s administration would restore their position. But Yellin notes there was no political will. A race riot in D.C. in the summer of 1919 persuaded many whites of segregationists’ claim that the races could not live together. President Wilson’s changes were permanent. Black papers like the Washington Tribune show a shift from optimism to anger.

Because D.C. had no elected government, the city followed the Feds. The Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, which managed the city’s parks, made some of the first moves to introduce Jim Crow to the District, posting “whites only” signs in Rock Creek Park and also segregating the seating at the Lincoln Memorial’s dedication in 1922. African-Americans were

relegated to the back of the ceremony.

The memorial’s success and the suburban growth helped to bring attention back to plans and parks. The Board of Trade, a liberal D.C. business group that held enormous influence over the city’s unelected government, lobbied for the McMillan Plan alongside citizens clubs, who emphasized parks and schools in the new neighborhoods.

It was hard to persuade Congress to spend money on a huge network of parks for people who couldn’t vote.

Success came when the Washingtonians got the backing of the American Planning and Civic Association. This national, progressive organization developed a new strategy. In Washington, they created the Committee of 100 on the Federal City to put a civic face on the Board of Trade’s agenda. To get national support, the APCA’s executive director, a woman named Harlean James, crisscrossed the nation in her car in 1923 pitching Washington as a model of planning.

The strategy worked. Congressional archives show a government bombarded with letters demanding a dignified, leafy Capital. Congress established a National Capital Park Commission composed of agency heads in 1924, and District officials turned the commission’s attention to Reno by November 1925, in its sixth meeting.

That November, the board voted to clear the houses and families of Reno and convert it to

a park, but didn’t fund it. Clearing a town was expensive: $1 million, they estimated, which was more than a third of what the Lincoln Memorial cost. So they asked Congress to pay for it separately. Within weeks identical bills were in the House and the Senate, endorsed by the District Commissioners, and quietly scheduled for hearings.

If James Neill or his two colleagues, Thomas Walker and Thomas Johnson, hadn’t gotten word of a notice in the newspaper, the mixedrace enclave in Reno might have been demolished shortly thereafter.

Instead, the men found out what was happening. Neill and Johnson rushed to Capitol Hill that morning in March, 1926. They stopped the chairman of the House committee in a hallway and contacted the Senate as well and won their opportunity to fight for the community in public hearings.

The Senate heard them first, so the activists returned to the Hill to face off against supporters of the Senate’s clearance bill on the afternoon of June 2, 1926. The transcript presents a tense mood. James Neill led opponents and Reno’s black residents. Thomas Fisher Company’s Harold Doyle rallied a coalition of white neighbors and officials.

Proponents of the conversion started on a bad foot when their heavyweight supporters didn’t show up. Army Engineer D.C. Commissioner J. Franklin Bell and Riggs Bank presi-

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3900 block of Davenport Street NW, now a soccer field and community garden

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dent Charles Glover could have had a lot of influence. Instead, the task of explaining the plan fell to its designer, Melvin Hazen, head of the city’s Surveyor Office.

“The District has in mind acquiring the subdivision for several reasons.” Hazen began, referring to Reno. “First, to wipe it off, so the street plan can be developed in harmony with the general plan for the District. They want also to have an additional reservoir.” He continued, “They also want a high school, and this is a plan we got up more in detail of what we would like to do,” referencing the plan approved by the Park Commission.

Hazen had been interested in urban planning for some time. He came from a planting family in Catlett, Virginia, about 40 miles outside of the District, but moved to town at the turn of the century. He became the District surveyor in 1908, carrying out the plans to expand the city’s system of streets and regulating land sales. He used his position to push for the McMillan Plan alongside Charles Glover in the 1910s. He called for the purchase of parkland, backed zoning earlier than most officials, and attacked “misfit subdivisions” like Reno.

He also took up questionable causes, like demolishing the largely African-Americanpopulated dwellings that faced the alleys behind white neighborhoods. They were generally substandard and without plumbing. It was too convenient, opponents noted, that alley clearance would remove the poorest African-Americans from the white neighborhoods without much thought to what would happen to those people when they lost their homes.

Hazen made the first official endorsement of clearing every block of Reno. In 1914, he

recommended the city condemn all of the 1869 grid, re-subdivide it according to Olmsted Jr.’s plan for streets, and then sell the remainder to developers. Courts at the time were skeptical of eminent domain, and his plan was without a clear public purpose and need, so the idea fell flat.

But in the less egalitarian atmosphere of 1920, Hazen brought the idea back. This time he leaned into suburbanites’ need for recreation space, bringing back the park proposed in the McMillan Plan.

The Friendship Citizens Association, by then led by segregationist Luther Derrick, embraced the plan and set up a permanent committee to study it. In 1922, the Board of Trade endorsed his plan, making it a serious proposal.

Thirteen years after he first proposed it, Hazen faced a skeptical audience in that Senate committee room in 1926. He repeated: “It is an ill-devised, ill-shaped subdivision, that you cannot do anything with unless you just wipe it off.”

Next to speak was Proctor Dougherty, a businessman from Chevy Chase D.C. with political ambitions. He read from the D.C. Commissioners’ endorsement of the Reno clearance bill. His short testimony was just a show of support, duplicating the official statement of the Chevy Chase Citizens Association, of which he was a member.

A May 26th, 1926 letter from Harold Doyle to Dougherty holds a clue as to why Dougherty came at all. In the letter, available in Dougherty’s papers at the Historical Society of Washington, Doyle says the clearance was a way to “eliminate the blot on the whole neighborhood,” and reveals a secret meeting of “important citizens” a few years earlier. In his letter,

3915 Chesapeake Street NW in 1935

Doyle listed several bankers in attendance at this meeting: Charles Glover, Edward Stellwagen, Charles J. Bell (cousin of Alexander Graham), John B. Larner, John Joy Edson, as well as “many others.” In the letter, Doyle caters to Dougherty’s political ambitions.

Stellwagen’s presence in this backroom

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NCPPC purchases in 1920s and 30s

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NCPPC purchases in 1920s and 30s Reservoir and school Last phase of NCCPC purchases, ending in 1951

meeting of bankers and other prominent Washingtonians sheds considerable light on the participation of the Chevy Chase companies, as he was president of Doyle’s brokerage and the Chevy Chase Land Company.

City Paper asked the Chevy Chase Land Company, which is still owned by the descendants of Francis Newlands, and the Chevy Chase Historical Society to search their private archives for material related to this meeting and other incidents in this story. Both parties said they found no relevant source material for the time period in question, and the CCLC declined to comment further.

Glover’s involvement in the meeting is even more remarkable. Few people had the lobbying power that Glover did. Riggs Bank counted high-ranking officials and almost every U.S. president as customers. For Dougherty, this was a chance to get closer to power and shore up the image of Chevy Chase, D.C. where he owned a home. A few months after his testimony, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Dougherty to be D.C. Commissioner, managing the government of the city.

But in the hearing over Reno in 1926, he and his allies floundered. After he spoke the conversation turned to what Doyle had told Dougherty was “some little opposition.”

Neill took the floor and he wasted no time in getting to the substance. “They ... say that this is an unsightly place, that it is a blight upon the District. Why is it a blight? Simply because negroes occupy it. They want a white settlement there.”

The chairman, Senator Royal Copeland of New York, objected, noting the many valid “municipal” reasons Hazen had outlined. “Now let us see, Senator,” Neill retorted. “What we want is the chance to live as the other people live.”

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when they drive these people out of there.”

Walker and Neill were well versed in their subject. Walker had earned a law degree from Howard University and had started selling real estate in Reno by 1897. Neill and his brother Lewis were also buying and selling in Reno by the 1920s.

And Neill had faced off against the Chevy Chase companies before.

Neill was born outside Nashville, Tennessee, probably in 1866, and graduated from Fisk University in his hometown. He moved to the District during its prosperous time to work in the Pension Bureau, where he advanced from an entry level position to clerk. He attended Howard Law School, and used his degree to organize several business ventures.

The gilded age real estate speculation extended to African-Americans, so Neill sought to try his hand. In collaboration with a salesman, Alexander Satterwhite, and another lawyer named Charles Cuney, he secured financing from an affluent doctor, Michel Dumas.

The four black men conceived of a restricted, high-class subdivision like Chevy Chase, only it would be open to African-Americans.

Using a white straw buyer, they secured a 31-acre subdivision along what is now Wisconsin Avenue and Western Avenue NW, cut from Chevy Chase land. Called “Belmont,” news-

Remnant of the last blocks cleared in 1951

He brought up the reasons people had moved to Reno. “Some of them lived in huts and hovels, but their forefathers bought them and paid for them. Some of them have improved them, have nice, up to date, convenient modern houses, and they do not want to give them up.”

Neill called out Chevy Chase Land Company for being behind the scheme and pointed out its vast vacant holdings around the neighborhood.

“Just see, gentlemen, how preposterous this proposition is. They come in and ask for a school and a playground, with a thousand acres around this place where they can go and take it.”

Thomas Walker, the black politician from Selma who had escaped lynching, followed Neill. “These people out there do not own the land for speculation.” In contrast, he said, “The men who want this thing will reap a big harvest

paper articles show the residents of Friendship Heights and Somerset eagerly watching its progress, anticipating another exclusive subdivision like theirs.

When they discovered who’d bought it, though, the white neighbors became distressed. “White Cap Threats in Washington Suburb,” the New York Times reported on July 6, 1906. Richard Ough, the ad hoc leader of the concerned citizens, announced in the Washington Times: “You may call the organization we are forming White Caps, Ku Klux, or what you will,” referring to the protagonists of Thomas Dixon’s 1905’s bestseller, The Clansman, later adapted into Birth of a Nation.

The Belmont Syndicate managed to broker the sales of 20 lots to fellow African-Americans, but it fell apart when they went to close

the sales. The terms of purchase allowed other parties, two of whom were Chevy Chase Land Company and the Union Trust Bank, to deny the release of land.

Alleging the Belmont Syndicate was a shakedown, the trustee parties did not release the lots. Satterwhite bailed in 1907, selling his shares to white speculators and damaging the Belmont Syndicate’s claims to the land title.

Unable to guarantee sales, Belmont defaulted and Dumas began a string of lawsuits which ended in a stalemate over the 20 lots.

Neill returned to practicing law, married, and had a daughter. But he was changed by what happened at Belmont. Already in October of 1906, he openly questioned the views of Booker T. Washington, the dominant African-American political figure at that time. Like other well-educated African-Americans, Neill felt that Washington’s strategy accommodated white supremacists in politics, carving out meager rights in court and the marketplace. By 1908, he had joined the circle of radical black activist William Monroe Trotter.

Born to a well-connected Democrat father and with a Harvard degree, Trotter spoke for a business-friendly form of integration. His ideas would be considered conservative in 2017, but at the time, his vision of race mixing disturbed even progressive whites. He refused to soften his public stances to cater to caucasian allies, so he simply took no money from them, whittling down his personal wealth to support his activism and his paper, the Boston Guardian.

“Trotter knew and had empathy for the people whose lives were being ruined by Wilson’s administration,” Yellin notes. Trotter came to D.C. frequently to lobby for the rights of African-Americans, and Neill’s obituary notes he accompanied Trotter on seven visits to the White House, including one where Trotter and President Wilson got into a shouting fight.

James Neill’s daughter Elizabeth Banton, who lived to be 103, said in an interview earlier this year that Trotter stayed at the Neill’s house at 906 T Street NW when he was in town. Neill came to know Thomas Walker, and Reno, through the Washington chapter of Trotter’s organization, the National Equal Rights League.

Walker and Neill were both elites who had tasted something like equality. They lived through a decline in their own rights, as politicians in both parties saw less and less need to defend them. They understood how precious a place like Reno was for African-Americans.

Even as Neill and Harold Doyle eyed Reno, Belmont’s 20 lots remained in limbo. Court records at Maryland’s state archives show the Thomas Fisher Company finally settled with Michel Dumas and other parties on October 31, 1925. The lots returned to the Chevy Chase Land Company.

The Park Commission approved the Reno project the next month, and the Senate hearing over Reno came only eight months later.

Beyond Neill and his two colleagues, the residents of Reno spoke. Thornton Lewis, president of the Reno Citizens’ Association, called out the low sums the bill offered for their land. “We could not buy a chicken coop

Names in Order of Appearance James Neill: African-American lawyer, businessman, and activist Ernest Gibson: U.S. representative from Vermont Giles Dyer: Owner of Oak Lawn, replaced

by Fort Reno Jane Dyer: Widow owner of Oak Lawn Jesse Reno: Army officer, died in 1862 Thomas Walker: African-American politician in Alabama, lawyer and businessman in D.C. William Sharon: Financier, senator from Nevada Francis Newlands: Developer, Chevy Chase Land Company founder, senator and U.S. representative from Nevada Thomas Fisher: Early real estate broker Edward Stellwagen: President of Thomas Fisher Brokerage, Union Trust Bank, and Chevy Chase Land Company Frederick Olmsted Sr.: Early landscape architect, designed Central Park Frederick Olmsted Jr.: Landscape architect, member of McMillan Commission Thomas Patterson: Senator from Colorado Samuel Hebron: Reno resident and homeowner Luther Derrick: Segregationist, President of Friendship Citizens Association Harold Doyle: Vice President of the Thomas Fisher Company Harlean James: Executive Secretary of the American Planning and Civic Association Thomas Johnson: African-American clerk and activist J. Franklin Bell: Engineer Commissioner of D.C. Charles Glover: President of Riggs Bank Melvin Hazen: D.C. Surveyor, later D.C. Commissioner Proctor Dougherty: D.C. Commissioner, businessman from Chevy Chase, D.C. Charles Bell: President of the American Security and Trust Corporation Royal Copeland: Senator from New York Alexander Satterwhite: Part of the Belmont Syndicate Charles Cuney: Part of the Belmont Syndicate Michel Dumas: Howard University trustee, part of Belmont Syndicate Richard Ough: Resident of Friendship Heights, Belmont opponent Booker T. Washington: Preeminent civil rights activist until the 1910s William Monroe Trotter: Activist, friend of James Neill Elizabeth Banton: Daughter of James Neill Thornton Lewis: Longtime head of the Reno Citizens’ Association Lucinda Harper: Reno resident Ulysses Grant III: Director of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, grandson of Civil War general Carey Brown: Deputy Director of NCPPC Charles Eliot II: NCPPC urban planner WIlliam Ladue: Engineer Commissioner in the late 1920s Frederic Sackett: Senator from Kentucky

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and the staff planner, Charles Eliot II, after Olmsted personally visited Reno.

Carey Brown presented three options, casually noting that the package of school, park, reservoir, and parkway would demolish many homes. The new Engineer Commissioner, William Ladue, questioned whether it was worth $2 million—one of the priciest NCPPC projects. He was skeptical they needed so much land.

The commission settled on a general statement of support with further study. After the vote, Grant III interjected, “There have been many schemes to get the colored settlements out of there, and this is merely one way of doing it.”

Ladue barked back, insisting they should “not go into a big scheme, which is nothing but a land development scheme, with the idea of selling off afterwards what they did not want.”

On December 21 of that year, the District started making offers for the property it wanted for a school, now Alice Deal Middle School, holding the threat of condemnation over own-

1936 demolition of houses on Emery Street NW

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ers’ heads. While the city had originally wanted just a few squares, by 1928, they were insisting on a huge parcel covering, according to Neill, 20 homes occupied by African-Americans.

Harold Doyle owned land in the school area.

He and other white landowners sold quickly.

In January 1929, Thomas Johnson appeared with a few allies before a Senate hearing on the D.C. budget to protest the project.

The transcript shows both Democrat and Republican senators challenging District officials.

Royal Copeland, the senator who chaired the 1926 hearing, led the school board officials to admit their plan would displace a population.

“There are certain human rights that must be taken care of,” he said. “I should want to be very certain we are not causing tremendous inconvenience to that section of our population.”

Kentucky Republican Frederic Sackett was more blunt. “Is this a part of that effort to get it away from the colored people who live there?” he asked a panel of D.C. officials.

With this positive outcome, Neill contested the condemnation proceedings that made way for the Deal School in court. In a motion

to dismiss, Neill leaned on the hard questions in the Senate, submitting the transcripts, dogeared and marked up. “Racial prejudice, and not the public good … is the underlying motive,” he wrote in a defiant motion to dismiss.

The court was unmoved. The 1925 law that authorized the school explicitly called for it to be built in Reno. The District took possession of the land for Deal on June 6, 1930. The 1930 report of the D.C. School Board stated that project was delayed due to “obstructive tactics.”

Neill and the Reno residents did persuade one person: William Ladue. When NCPPC considered Reno again in 1929, the Engineer Commissioner took the floor and said, “There was a delegation of colored friends from this area who protested to the Senate Committee.

They asked some pretty harsh questions. … It raises the general question of the operations of the government being directed toward eliminating their homes.”

Ladue’s comment afforded Reno one of the few breaks it got. Fellow commissioner Grant III proposed to only acquire vacant lots on the western side of the community, and this pro-

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for that amount of money,” he told chairman Royal Copeland. The elderly Lucinda Harper piled on, turning to her crippled husband and asking for the right to die in her own house.

“Would it be fair to turn me out?” she asked.

“We haven’t got long to stay here.”

Sensing that the hearing was going badly, Doyle called the National Capital Park Commission for support. Its new director, Ulysses S. Grant III, sent a deputy across town, an army engineer named Carey Brown.

Brown brought a book of the McMillan Plan before the Senators, and laid out Fort Reno’s importance in the Fort Circle park project.

“The acquisition of Reno, if Congress sees fit to authorize its acquisition, is a great step forward in carrying out the park plan of the District, as it has existed since 1901,” he said.

Appealing to the decades-old vision was not enough. The activists and residents had given chairman Copeland pause. The senator from New York wondered out loud, “Where do the colored people go? What plans have they?”

“No plans,” Neill replied. Fewer and fewer places were open to African-Americans as real estate agents and residents worked hard to sharpen the color lines of the city.

The chairman stumbled to respond, adjourning with the insistence that Congress would act without prejudice. After rehashing their arguments at a few more hearings, both the House and Senate bills lost their traction and expired.

The desire to eliminate Reno did not abate.

Not at all, as the white-only subdivisions surrounding Reno grew. With Dougherty now a D.C. Commissioner, the white residents of Chevy Chase and Tenleytown found a closer ally in government. The will to remove the neighborhood expanded from reformers and developers to homeowners and school parents.

These groups had a new tool. The progressives who created the Park Commission succeeded in expanding its power in 1926, becoming the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, or NCPPC. Still trying to make D.C. a model of planning, they installed preeminent planners who supported them. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was one of them.

In 1927, Grant III ramped up NCPPC’s new mission with a professional staff of the sons and nephews of famous planners. Charmingly odd, but blunt, the Austria-educated grandson of the Union general developed a reputation as an effective pragmatist in the Army Corps of Engineers and through a number of other positions he held in D.C. His staff assessed where the city was growing, adapting the McMillan plan in a string of reports that guided NCPPC’s transformation of D.C. One report suggested reviving a parkway following the circle of Civil War forts. Another proposed establishing a system of recreation centers across D.C., including one at Reno. They then presented these concepts to the commission to be enacted.

NCPPC knew the plans for Fort Reno were racially motivated, as the transcript of their February 1928 meeting reveals. The planners met to discuss plans for the “Fort Reno Project” developed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

The Jesse Reno School still stands.

posal passed. The residents of the community had more time. NCPPC made offers and bought property throughout the 30s, but only condemned one house in Reno before 1937– and that to open the roadway in front of Deal.

When NCPPC started making offers the white absentee landlords who controlled most of the property sold.

As the churches, clubs, and stores sold, the Reno that had so much potential less than a decade before withered away. The impact spread beyond the neighborhood’s boundaries. Smaller black settlements out west on Chain Bridge Road NW and up north on Broad Branch Road NW, each about a mile away, lost their churches and stores. Contemporary interviews, available in the papers of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier at Howard University, show a flow between the three communities in terms of church attendance and residence, but it was only a matter of time until AfricanAmericans in these settlements moved out.

When a landowner in Reno did sell, records show NCPPC let residents rent—some for years, others for just weeks. In the areas on the eastern side, excluded from purchase in 1928, the city paved the streets and put in water mains. Assuming Hazen’s plan would

eventually come to fruition, some homeowners stopped maintaining their properties as they once did. Landlords cared even less.

As a result, the neighborhood fell into disrepair. People who remember the last bits of Reno remember it as a slum. It was a slum— one created by the government.

White neighbors continued to press for clearing the last corner out through the 1930s.

In July 1938, Harold Doyle wrote to NCPPC’s staff director, proposing the commission use “slum clearance” to remove residents. There was, he wrote, “no good reason” to reserve this small pocket “for the use of colored.” They would “scatter” out to Benning Road NE. That September, NCPPC voted to add the rest of the land that was once Giles Dyer’s farm, and later the town of Reno, to the park. World War II slowed the last purchases, but the commission pursued the project until they evicted the last residents in 1951. The city closed down the segregated Reno School.

By that time, almost everyone who had fought over Reno was dead. Oral histories at the Washington Historical Society say that most of the remaining residents moved to what were then the African-American neighborhoods, like LeDroit Park and east of the

Anacostia to areas like Deanwood.

The men who conceived its demise fared well. Following Proctor Dougherty, Melvin Hazen became a D.C. Commissioner, serving from 1933 until his death in 1941. After retiring from the Army, Ulysses S. Grant III led NCPPC through the beginning of urban renewal. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. cemented his influence, founding the American Society of Landscape Architects and shaping the form of suburbs through a seat on a committee, under President Herbert Hoover, to promote zoning across the country.

James Neill did not live to see the end of Reno. His brother sold his last property to NCPPC in 1930, and James died in 1931 at 65. The Baltimore Afro-American memorialized him as “a strong opponent of federal segregation.”

His daughter Elizabeth lived to be a centenarian. She graduated as valedictorian from D.C.’s Dunbar High School, went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College outside Boston, and earned another degree from the University of Chicago. She married a Tuskegee Airman—a member of the elite African-American pilots who fought in World War II. The couple settled in Michigan, where he was from, and she lived there until she died

this past August.

Of the institutions that served Reno’s residents, only St. George’s Episcopal Church reestablished itself. Its building sits on 2nd Street NW in Bloomingdale and counts Reno descendants among its parishioners.

On the old ground a few remnants remain, mostly on the southeast corner that was demolished last. Not far from the Fort Reno stage, where neighbors take their dogs off their leashes, are a few fire hydrants in the middle of the field. Among the trees, some foundations and patches of pavement stick out of the ground.

Five buildings survive. Three are duplexes, numbered 4814-4822 Nebraska Avenue NW. They stand askew from the modern road. Another is a brick building at the corner of 41st and Chesapeake NW, built in the lag of the 1930s, which may be renovated for the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission soon.

The last one is the Reno School. Neglected for years, the city declared it a historic landmark and restored it in 2014 as a wing of the Alice Deal Middle School.

CP Neil Flanagan is an architectural designer and freelance writer who grew up one block south of Fort Reno.

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Meat Your Maker

Harvey’s Meats survives as a throwback business in a rapidly modernizing warehouse district

Darrow Montgomery

Marty Kaufman and George Lesznar at Harvey’s Market

By Jeffrey Anderson Pass through the doors of Union Market on a busy Saturday and you will encounter a frantic scene packed with millennials, Gallaudet students, families, and elderly couples from across the region.

And baby strollers. Lots of baby strollers.

There’s an oyster bar, a “roof-to-table” restaurant with craft cocktails, a faux-retro soda shop with booze, an “urban bohemian” home furnishings store, walkup food vendors, a knife sharpening stand, a liquor store, and clothing and jewelry retailers.

It’s a bright, shiny place where, in spite of the crowds, you can get in and out in 15 minutes while shopping for a dinner party because there’s no line at the dairy shop, the cheese stand, the bakery counter, or the fish monger.

That’s because most visitors are there to score a meal to eat on-site, likely outside with a pair of the same species of dog.

The soul of the bougie food hall in Northeast D.C. remains Harvey’s Market, an oldschool butcher shop that’s operated in its cur-

Young & hungrY

rent location since 2012 but has been rooted in the D.C. food scene for decades, back before avocado toast was a thing and when appetizersized plates weren’t meant to be shared.

Six years ago, a fire torched the D.C. Farmers Market, which occupied the same property Union Market does now. Nearly all the vendors lost their leases, including the current proprietors of Harvey’s Market, George Lesznar and Marty Kaufman, who then worked for different operations. Their stories chronicling how the neighborhood used to be show how much it’s changed in less than a decade.

“This was a fixed-income market,” says Kaufman, who first came to work at the market in 1978. “It was a bit of a rathole, but it was a busy rathole.”

Kaufman worked as the manager of Murray’s Meats. One stand over, Lesznar was a butcher for the original Harvey’s Market, owned by Harvey Chidel, whose father opened his first butcher shop at O Street Market in 1931. It operated there until the market burned in the 1968 riots, then re-opened at the D.C. Farmers Market in 1971.

“We called it ‘The Dungeon,’” says Lesznar, a trained butcher who came to the business in

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1987. “Harvey said we sold more meat per pound than every butcher and grocery store in the District combined.”

Murray’s and Harvey’s were friendly competitors, Lesznar says. “We had to be. We sold to the same customers at first, but eventually we went to higher end meats.”

Kaufman puts a finer point on it: “[At Murray’s] we bought cheap and sold cheap.”

In the ’80s and ’90s, the D.C. Farmers Market was a place to buy just about anything, Kaufman continues. “You could get counterfeit goods, you could buy drugs and guns. It was a tough situation. We had trouble with customers not wanting to come into the building.”

One time, when Kaufman was working for Murray’s, two men tried to hijack a van, he recalls, while an off-duty, pregnant female police officer was having lunch. The officer drew her weapon and forced one of the robbers to the ground, and sat on him until backup arrived. When uniformed officers came, they didn’t know she was off-duty and they shot her in the back.

“Fortunately she was wearing her vest,” Lesznar says. “But bullets were flying everywhere and everyone hit the ground.” There was fallout, as the off-duty officer who got shot was black, and the uniformed cop who shot her was white. “The media came out and tried to get us to say things about the police, but I wasn’t about to do that,” Lesznar recalls.

“This was a rough, rough market,” Kaufman says. “But frankly, we had a tough clientele, and many of them were used to it.”

When Chidel’s wife died in 2000, he sold the meat business to his son Miles and his daughter Harriette, who Lesznar married in 1982. “I was the butcher in the family,” Lesznar says. But when the fire burned down the market in 2011, leases expired, the company folded, and Lesznar asked his brother-in-law for the naming rights to Harvey’s Market.

With Harriette’s share of the the insurance proceeds, Lesznar started Harvey’s Market of Maryland LLC, which trades as Harvey’s Market. “The only thing I got was the name, and

that giant plastic pig head over there above the meat locker.”

He brought in Kaufman, who, besides being a friendly competitor, had become a golfing buddy and was not seeing eye-to-eye with his own brother-in-law at Murray’s.

The new leases inside the rebuilt Union Market called for smaller business spaces, downsized from 2,000 square feet to 500 square feet. “We started from scratch,” Lesznar says. “Even though neither one of us has a forte in specialty markets, they gave us a chance to open a small butcher spot.”

Their first order of business was to visit Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania to identify family farmers and places that were farming sustainably. “There’s a lot of things we learned,” Kaufman says. “Like 100-percent, grass-fed beef. What does that really mean?”

It turns out cows can be raised in pens before being allowed to graze for a certain amount of time before slaughter and still be labeled grass-fed. “We didn’t know that until we went around talking to farmers,” says Lesznar.

Not long ago, the pair tried to negotiate a second store in Cleveland Park near the Uptown Theater, but talks are on hold. “It’s very much in limbo up there,” Kaufman says. “Old time restaurants and stores are not surviving.”

“There’s always a new, better, best,” says Lesznar. “We try new things, and try to change things around [too]…”

“People want familiarity but also want new things, so we kind of have to balance it up,” Kaufman says, noting that the new Whole Foods on H Street NE has cut into their business.

“The main thing being a grocer here is there are so many food establishments taking up space. If you’re shopping for groceries, you can’t find everything you need here in one place, so you go shop somewhere else.” If you’re grilling burgers, for example, you could find the beef and buns at Union Market, but not all of the condiments and toppings.

Yet there’s still no substitute for craft. Lesznar is always ready with advice on which cuts best serve a customer’s need, and is quick to special order harder-to-find proteins. Customers are used to seeing him in his smeared apron, deboning, cutting, cleaning up—a master at dealing with bodily fluids, blood, and bacteria. “I think a butcher needs to understand the entire process of butchering the animal,” he says, “from start to finish.”

CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.

CPArts

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Graphic Novelty

Cartoonist Adam Griffiths has spent the past decade writing and illustrating a 600page graphic novel about his grandmother’s landmark discrimination lawsuit.

Listening to AdAm griffiths talk about his new graphic novel, Washington White, is a dizzying experience. It’s a science fiction spy thriller that takes place in D.C.—and also a parallel universe within an engineered disease that only the government knows about. In this mysterious world, the president of the United States authorizes the testing of mind-control drugs, a transgender drummer fights to rejoin her punk band, and a greedy developer tries to gentrify the parallel universe-within-a-disease with a sea of condos. At the center of it all is the novel’s titular newspaper, Washington White—a tabloid whose black owner tries to tell the public about all the crazy shit going on in the District because his dad is the one behind it.

All of this, mind you, happens in part one.

Griffiths, a local cartoonist and illustrator, has spent the past nine years writing and illustrating Washington White, which, from start to finish, runs approximately 600 pages. Illustrated like a cross between the seminal ’90s comic strip The Boondocks and the squashed-and-stretched surrealism of Rocko’s Modern Life, the work blends the poststructuralist science fiction of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder with a heavy dose of Japanese manga and anime. Reading the graphic novel, the first 70 pages of which Griffiths has only published on newsprint, one wonders if psychedelic drugs inspired such a mind-bending story.

Washington White is actually the story of Griffiths’ grandmother, Peggy S. Griffiths, a lawyer who died in 2012 and was best known for winning a landmark bias lawsuit against the federal government in 1977. Peggy Griffiths worked for the U.S. Civil Service Commission’s Appeals Review Board starting in 1968. She applied for a promotion in 1974, but didn’t get it, and subsequently filed suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Some white guy got it, and then was elected to be the Chairman [of the Board of Appeals] afterward,” Griffiths says. “It sounded like this really kind of redundant thing, you know?

You work for the U.S. Civil Service Commission and you were definitely passed over for a job.”

Growing up, Griffiths, who comes from a family of lawyers, knew about his grandmother’s landmark lawsuit but says no one in his family really talked about it, and he was curious.

Adam moved into his grandmother’s house in D.C. after attending the Maryland Institute College of Art. At that time, Peggy was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and lived in a

erything else up around it,” Griffiths says.

In the graphic novel, Peggy Griffiths’ story is retold through the character of Peggy Fables, a bureaucrat who also gets passed over for a promotion. The outcome of Fables’ discrimination is rigged, at the behest of the president, in order to install a man who will help mind-control drugs reach the general public. It all unfolds in a surreal, dreamlike manner.

“I wanted it to be more structurally and conceptually irreverent, as opposed to, like, a story where lots of people are saying mean things to each other,” Griffiths says. “Washington White is a black-owned newspaper that is sort of modeled [after] some of those bad German tabloids where they have a ‘Beauty of the Week’ on the front of them.”

In the novel, Sam, a black character, has been given control of the newspaper by his father, “Rev’rund” Saranksby, a powerful and evil white businessman who created the mindcontrol drug at the center of the story. Saranksby puts Sam in control of Washington White as a way to manipulate the media so that he can cover up his wrongdoings. Sam, however, uses the newspaper to inform the public about what’s really going on in the District.

Griffiths’s experiences in D.C. over the past decade also inform Washington White. “I was sort of coming up with all of this stuff as D.C. was kind of gentrifying,” he says. “That part was always kind of weird, and sometimes I was just kind of going out of my mind because I would come up with something and then the next week it would seem like it was actually happening.”

The institutionalized racism that his grandmother dealt with during her lawsuit, is, to Griffiths, the most important part of his work. “People don’t really understand what fighting discrimination really looks like, except for, like, marches and those sort of grand gestures of exercising your freedom,” he says. “And so I wanted to have something that sort of emphasized the specificness and the terribleness and kind of the humiliation of having to file a lawsuit for something as humdrum as a promotion.

“In the version of Black America I live in, it’s all individualist,” Griffiths says. “It’s not, like, the ‘Kumbaya,’ ‘We Are The World’-type of thing that most people sort of perceive the black experience to be. It’s more like, ‘I need to keep every fucking body away from me, and get along in the world without making too much noise, without bothering too many people, without stepping on too many toes.’”

CP Darrow Montgomery

By Matt Cohen

nursing home. No one had looked after the house for about five years. “I get there and things are growing out of teacups, no one’s touched it forever,” he recalls. “So I just start going through all the stuff that’s in the house.”

As he started cleaning up his grandmother’s house, he tried to find more information about her lawsuit. “I dug into all of these papers in her house and I still [couldn’t] really find anything,” he recalls. “I actually even put in an inquiry with … the Library of Congress … but they’d already been shredded by that point. So they had, like, two pieces of paper that I could look at to tell me something about [the lawsuit].”

Griffiths was working as an arts administrator at the time, first at the Provisions Learning Project, then at the Washington Project for the Arts, and drawing a comic strip for fun in his free time. His quest to find out more about his grandmother and her historic lawsuit had yielded few results, “so I thought, ‘How about I just make it up?’” he says.

With that thought, the Washington White project began. “I just sort of started with the case and then I just sort of built ev-

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Linling Lu

At Hemphill Fine Arts to Dec. 16 It’s been fIve years since Linling Lu’s last exhibition at Hemphill Fine Arts. She’s not going to escape any yawning references to Kenneth Noland or Gene Davis this time, either.

But that is more a feature of the work than a bug. Sure: We can compare her vibrating stripes to those of Davis. Yes: The circle recalls Noland. But neither of those artists were capable of capturing a deep space within their best known paintings. Lu does—though no photograph of her pieces can adequately recreate the space of the work. All numbered within the series of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the concentric blue bands of “#122” fall into a deep abyss of blue.

Conversely, the stripes of green in “#120” leap from the circular canvas like the conical eye of a chameleon.

The illusion of space occurs at a careful distance from each painting. Viewed from too far away, the canvas pulsates, creating disorienting eye pain. Viewed too closely, the full-effect of a painting’s deep space is lost. However, it’s from upclose that the canvas transforms into a second work, one where a careful study can be made of the painting’s lollipop stripes, as the rest of the canvas deliciously consumes all peripheral vision.

A closer look provides an opportunity to closely examine the solid bands of colors that wrap around each painting. In many instances, the bands are not solid colors at all: The colors feather from a hard exterior edge in toward a softer, lighter value. While nearly every painting appears to conceal the mark of the brush—an artist’s touch—it is the

subtle irregularity within the blend that reveals the human hand, and the sensitive attention the artist gives to each canvas.

The circular motif of concentric rings isn’t the only construct in the gallery. There’s a small composition of collaged fabrics and another little triangular composition of stripes. They feel more like afterthoughts, though: a suggestion that the artist is keeping her hand busy with other things.

Then there are the sculptures. Small, Tetris-like sculptures sit on a shelf inside Hemphill’s chapel-like room that divides the middle gallery from the rear gallery.

The 11 intersecting constructions are composed of 2-inch cubes: most are three, four cubes wide, deep, or tall.

Color almost seems superfluous in these compositions, yet their colors feel as informed by the self-conscious formalism of color theory and design that exists in the paintings (without the function of depth or space). The color makes the work more approachable, and defines their separate forms, which almost take on figurative qualities of people sitting, standing, and laying down.

As they interact with other forms, each sculpture can be personified into relationships that range from friendly to tantric as they hold hands, kiss, embrace, and penetrate the other two, three, or four shapes in each composition. As a group, the orgy of colors and shapes appear to work, but unlike their

circular counterparts throughout the remaining galleries, they might not hit the bulls-eye.

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Out Of this WOrld Thor: Ragnarok

Directed by Taika Waititi You need onlY look at the non-superhero-like, technicolor-dreamcoat one-sheet for Thor: Ragnarok to get the sense that this third installment is going to be different.

Director Taika Waititi, the New Zealander known for Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What We Do in the Shadows, has taken the reins from Alan Taylor and ensured that Asgard and other realms would be dark worlds no more. Instead, bright places and things have been swapped for all the usual black and gray. And not only that: Thanks to a trio of scripters, Ragnarok is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s best comedy.

Yes, I said comedy. The yuks start with the opening line and don’t let up until the end, with some physical comedy thrown in as well. (Thor trying to look nonchalant while standing nearly rivals Ricky Bobby’s confusion about what to do with his hands during an interview.) Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher L. Yost—writers on lesserknown Marvel properties but none known for his comic chops—are responsible for the fun, freewheeling tone here, and you may be surprised at how goofy it gets, with the scripters not above even puerile, below-the-belt jokes.

(One in three moviegoers will applaud. Will that person be you?)

Now on to the business side of things. As the film opens, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is wrapped in chains and locked in a cage. He’s been captured by a fiery being whose ornamental headdress will allow him to kickstart Ragnarok, or “the fall of Asgard,” Thor’s home planet. Naturally, our hero can’t let this happen, so to the propulsive beats of “Immigrant Song,” he lays waste to all the evildoers with the help of his trusty hammer, which he won’t have for much longer.

Enter Hela (Cate Blanchett). Hela is surprised that a dying Odin (Anthony Hopkins) lays on Thor and Loki (Tom Hiddleston). She’s their eldest sister, the one who fought beside a then-bloodthirsty Odin and whose powers are greater than her brothers’. Her name means “goddess of death,” and she doesn’t want her do-gooder siblings meddling in her revolutionary affairs. To help ensure this, she breaks Thor’s hammer like a human sister might break her little brother’s toy.

The arc of Ragnarok, therefore, involves stopping Hela and the Ragnarok itself. This takes Thor to an involuntarily lengthy stay in the Sakaar realm, where he meets the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum), spies Loki currying favor, and accidentally becomes known as the “Lord of Thunder.” (“I didn’t see any thunder, but out of your fingers, was that sparkles?” the Grandmaster giddily asks.) As the Grandmaster’s prisoner, Thor is forced to meet a mighty opponent in Sakaar’s amphitheater, who turns out to be a well-lived-in Hulk.

Of course, you know how this ends, but the script, the cinematography, and the performances make this billionth Marvel entry seem fresh. Blanchett, hair blackened and wearing a Maleficent-ish headpiece, makes a frightening villain, her deep voice seemingly dropping a register to ensure an extra-evil package. Goldblum, who was encouraged to ad lib, brings a light-as-air quality to the Grandmaster, perpetually joking even when the character is doing something bad. And Hiddleston and Hemsworth are old hats at this, though not as experienced with the gags they’re asked to perform. (The phrase “Get help!” may no longer make you think of danger.)

That Waititi chooses to use “Immigrant Song” for another battle wasn’t the best move: It felt out of place the first time, so the second time really seems wrong. The rest of the soundtrack is synthesizer-heavy, with a blippy-bloop score reminiscent of an ’80s thriller—perhaps you’re meant to laugh at that, too.

When a superhero film features items such as the Shake Weight, it’s fair to say that anything goes.

—Tricia Olszewski Thor: Ragnorak opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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Mystery School

by Paul Selig

SUN, NOV 5

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

ATTACCA QUARTET CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS

WED, NOV 8

JD SOUTHER RED BARAAT FRI, NOV 10

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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE JOSHUA HEDLEY WED, NOV 15

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO THU, NOV 16

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EVENING OF INDIAN DANCE

directed by Aly B. Ettman featuring Nora Achrati Oct. 28 to Nov. 19 Sat. 8:00, Sun. 7:00 Tix, info: UniversePlayers2.org 202-355-6330 Melton Rehearsal Hall Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 641 D Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20004

SAT, NOV 18

JOHN EATON

FOUNDING FATHERS: IRVING BERLIN & JEROME KERN SUN, NOV 19

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THE SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH & HAL DAVID SAT, NOV 25

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Bad Company Art by

IWASVERYBAD Michael Johnson IDK HXLY

EvErything that iDK does is high concept, from his name (short for “Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge”) to his mixtapes (2015’s SubTrap, short for “suburban trap” and/or “trap music with substance”). That continues on IWASVERYBAD, a full-length soundtrack LP that serves as his debut album (in the hip-hop world, the distinctions between albums, mixtapes, and even “playlists” have been meaningless for several years).

This time around, the concept is a familiar one, detailing how a middle class kid from P.G. County (born Jason Mills, fka Jay IDK) ended up in jail, turned his life around by rapping, and dealt with a strained relationship with his mother. It shares the day-in-a-life DNA of Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City and YG’s My Krazy Life, but with the middle class perspective of his contemporaries (Chance the Rapper, J. Cole, and Childish Gambino) and his main influence, Kanye West.

The influence of those artists shines through on IWASVERYBAD at almost every turn.

Across the album, IDK shares the tumbling consonant flow of Lamar and the too-clever wordplay of Gambino, while also reworking a handful of classic Kanye lyrics and an iconic line from Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy?” (sung here by Shawna, who featured on the original). Which isn’t to say that he’s a biter: Hip-hop is a genre always in conversation with itself, and IDK’s meta references are too self-aware to be swagger jacking.

Beyond the on-the-sleeve influences, IDK

is at his best when he’s getting personal. “I’m just a middle class n***a whose class was a mixture of them spellin’ bee winners and them P.G. killers,” he explains, a mix that left him in somewhere in the middle, a “good-home-I-don’t-give-afuck trap n***a.” The album opens with a Greek chorus of teachers, cops, and authority figures leaving messages for his mother about his latest misbehaviors, of which there were plenty; he’s not kidding about that title.

The psychodrama that plays out on IWASVERYBAD is how his relationship with his mother strained under the weight of his behavior, a chicken-or-egg game that he explores on the poignant “No Shoes On the Rug, Leave Them At the Door.” Was misspending his youth why his mother came home after work and never hugged him, or the other way around? “I used to think all the time, if I could be a good boy, she’d probably love me a lot.” (Damn.)

He delves even deeper on “Black Sheep, White Dove,” a eulogy for his mother, who passed in 2016; he posits that knowing she was ill prevented him from getting close to her and doing the right thing. That revelation is the final puzzle piece, and even the hardest listener will shed a tear when he wonders, “Mom, where you get them wings from, pretty?”

The narrative of the album may be familiar, but IDK’s bag of tricks keeps it compelling, whether he’s toying with a non-linear narrative, hiding messages in reverse, detouring with a dance floor track, or mixing tracks seamlessly. As for his featured guests, it’s more of a mixed bag: Chief Keef is the perfect pick for the ignorant-as-hell “17 Wit A 38” and Yung Gleesh adds a different DMV flavor on two tracks, while DOOM and Del The Funky Homosapien feel tacked on to “Pizza Shop Extended.” But overall, IDK and his producers have crafted a sonically expansive record that sits nicely on the rap landscape while offering something personal.

Like other middle class rap stars, from Kanye to Cole to Drake, IDK’s need to be taken seriously—on both his tracks and in the streets—keeps his creative fires burning. On IWASVERYBAD, that motivated him to take a familiar concept and make it his own, on his terms. When he says that “they say lyrics ain’t cool no more, I’m like sheesh, I guess after this shit drop I’m might peace,” let’s hope it’s an empty threat.

—Chris Kelly Listen to “IWASVERYBAD” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

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Mouse on Mars Wednesday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. | Atrium

Renowned German electronica duo Mouse on Mars brings its visionary sound to the Kennedy Center in a visceral event combining live electronica and acoustic instruments.

Widely acknowledged as the heirs to Kraftwerk, Mouse on Mars makes a rare D.C. appearance.

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FELIX CAVALIERE’S RASCALS 50th Anniversary Tour November 17, 2017, 8 p.m.

Mega hits include “Good Lovin,” “I’ve Been Lonely Too Long,” “Groovin’,” “How Can I Be Sure,” “A Girl Like You,” “A Beautiful Morning,” and “People Got to Be Free.”

Tickets are $60, $50 Regular; $50, $40 Faculty, Staff, & Seniors; & $45, $35 Students w/ID

Discounted tickets must be purchased in person with valid student or staff ID.

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CITYLIST

PERE UBU

Music 31 Theater 36 Film 37

THUR. NOV. 9 ~ 8:00PM TIX: $25-$28

Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY

While many Bryan Adams fans were busy drunkenly belting out karaoke versions of hits like “Summer of ’69” and “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You,” the man quietly launched a second career as a fashion photographer. In the past few years he’s shot supermodels Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista for the glossy Dutch magazine Zoo, actor John Boyega for British GQ, and a trio of Bond Girls for Vanity Fair.

Now, the Canadian Embassy in D.C. has honored Adams with an exhibit of his work. Canadians is a portrait series chronicling famous Canadians that Americans happen to love, from Brantford, Ontario’s Wayne Gretzky and Edmonton, Alberta’s Michael J. Fox to Ottawa, Ontario’s Margaret Atwood and Charlemagne, Quebec’s Celine Dion.

Our neighbors to the north have significantly impacted American pop culture, so take some time to reflect on their work while checking out their impressive property on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. And for those looking for eye candy, do not fret: Adams’ subjects include #relationshipgoals representatives Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Fridays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to Jan. 26, at the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery, 501 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Free. (202) 682-1740. international.gc.ca.

—Caroline Jones

11.2

STEALIN’ THE DEAL

11.3

SUNNY LEDFURD

JAzz

Blues

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

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Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. DECLASSIFIED: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with the NSO. 9 p.m. $39. kennedy-center.org.

Funk & R&B

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 3:59 p.m.; 8 p.m. $67–$72. bluesalley.com. howard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. 8 p.m. $45–$85. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz

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

Rebirth Brass Band. 7 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $35–$45. thehamiltondc.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Reginald Cyntje. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

RoCk

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Dears. 7 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. songByrd music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Hotelier. 8 p.m. $15–$18. songbyrddc.com.

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BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Cold Specks. 8 p.m. $13–$15. blackcatdc.com.

Kennedy center terrace theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Cynthia Erivo. 7:30 p.m. $49–$69. kennedy-center.org.

sAtuRDAY ClAssICAl

Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. liBrary of congress coolidge auditorium First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Solungga Liu. 2 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

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the anthem 901 Wharf Street SW, DC. Griz. 8 p.m. $35-$55. theanthemdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. 6:30 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com. u street music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Slow Magic. 7 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.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. songByrd music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Curtis Harding. 8:30 p.m. $15–$18. songbyrddc.com.

CAnADIAns

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

Rebirth Brass Band. 7 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $35–$45. thehamiltondc.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Reginald Cyntje. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

RoCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Elbow. 8 p.m. $40. 930.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Pat McGee Band. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com. lincoln theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

The Breeders. 8 p.m. $35. thelincolndc.com. rocK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Tera Melos. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

WoRlD

sixth & i historic synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. A Far Cry and Luciana Souza. 8 p.m. $35. sixthandi.org.

Kennedy center terrace theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. New York Festival of Songs: The Passion of Leonard Bernstein. 2 p.m. $50. kennedy-center.org.

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11.7

★

COLONEL JOSH & THE HONKY TONK HEROES

11.9

PERE UBU

11.10

CHAMOMILE & WHISKEY

11.11

SLEEPY LABEEF

11.16

JAMIE MCLEAN BAND

11.17

FOLK SOUL REVIVAL

11.18

THE WOODSHEDDERS

11.25

JONNY GRAVE & THE TOMBSTONES

11.30

MARY BATTIATA & LITTLE PINK ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

national gallery of art west garden court 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 8426941. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. 3:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

★

★

the warne Ballroom at the cosmos cluB 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW, DC. Victor Julien-Laferrière & Giullaume Bellom. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.

12.1

ROCK-A-SONICS

12.2

CLUB CLOSED - PRIVATE EVENT

eleCtRonIC

12.9

THE CURRYS

12.15

CLUB CLOSED - PRIVATE EVENT

1.7

FRED EAGLESMITH TRAVELING SHOW STARRING TIF GINN

echostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Flying Lotus. 7 p.m. $43.45. echostage. com.

Funk & R&B

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

sunDAY

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

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 Hillcountrylive.com • Twitter @hillcountrylive

Barns at wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Attacca Quartet. 8 p.m. $40. wolftrap.org.

songByrd music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Lostboycrow. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

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ReBIRtH BRAss BAnD

Feel like funkin’ it up this weekend? Well, grab a partner and your dancing shoes so you can imagine yourself parading down Canal and Bourbon streets with the Rebirth Brass Band. Founded around 1982 by trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, bass drummer Keith Frazier, and tuba player Philip Frazier, the band catchily scat lyrics from songs you’ve heard before over brass-heavy instrumentation, and perform some originals, too. After catapulting onto the New Orleans dance music scene, Rebirth has since set the standard for contemporary brass bands. The best part of the crew’s rise: They did it by not conforming to any of the perceptions or technicalities of traditional brass music. The legendary rebels of the Rebirth Brass Band aren’t ones for following rules, anyway. Sure, you think you know what to expect, but please, let the guys with the massive brass instruments show you what it’s really like to party. Come see about them. Rebirth Brass Band performs at 10:30 p.m. at The Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW. $35–$45. (202) 769-0122. thehamiltondc.com.

—Mikala Williams

RoCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ariel Pink. 8 p.m. $26.75. 930.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. And The Kids.

9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Isley Brothers. 8 p.m. $49–$89. kennedy-center.org. rocK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

All Them Witches. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

VoCAl

eagleBanK arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Ana Gabriel. 7 p.m. $84–$184. eaglebankarena.com. national presByterian church 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. (202) 429-2121. City Choir of Washington: Barber Adagio for Strings, Bruckner Mass in F Minor.

4:30 p.m. $15–$50. bachconsort.org. thearc 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. (202) 889-5901.

Thomas Circle Singers. 4 p.m. Free. thearcdc.com. warner theatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Kidz Bop. 4 p.m. $43–$187. warnertheatredc.com.

MonDAY eleCtRonIC

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

Susanne Sundfør. 7:30 p.m. $15–$17. thehamiltondc. com.

Folk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Mountain Goats. 8 p.m. $36. 930.com.

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

The Rural Alberta Advantage. 8 p.m. $18–$20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Lao Tizer Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $42. bluesalley.com. fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Oteil Burbridge. 8 p.m. $27.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Kennedy center theater laB 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600. Django Festival All-Stars featuring Dorado and Amati Schmitt. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $30–$40. kennedy-center.org.

RoCk

BlacK cat BacKstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Mister Heavenly. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

tuesDAY Folk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Mountain Goats. 8 p.m. $36. 930.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $62–$67. bluesalley.com.

RoCk

the anthem 901 Wharf Street SW, DC. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile. 8 p.m. $46-$76. theanthemdc. com.

Echostage • Washington, D.C.

THIS SUNDAY!

Flying Lotus in 3D

w/ Seven Davis Jr & PBDY .................................................................................NOVEMBER 5 THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Cabinet w/ WOLF! feat. Scott Metzger & Jordan August ........................... F NOV 3 Ariel Pink w/ Gary War & Clang Quartet ........................................................ Su 5 The Mountain Goats w/ Mothers ........................................................ M 6 & Tu 7 Josh Abbott Band ............................................................................................ W 8

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

BIANCA DEL RIO

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On Sale Friday, November 3 at Noon

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER (cont.)

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

The Lone Bellow w/ The Wild Reeds ......................Sa 11 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Mipso • The Brothers Comatose • The Lil Smokies ...................Su 12 Hippo Campus w/ Remo Drive . M 13 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Yonder Mountain String Band w/ The Last Revel ........................F 17 Strike Anywhere & City of Caterpillar w/ Battery • Worriers • Big Hush . Th 21 The Pietasters w/ Bumpin’ Uglies

& The Players Band ......................F 24 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Keller Williams’ Thanksforgrassgiving feat.

Larry & Jenny Keel, Jeremy Garrett, Danny Barnes, Jay Starling .....Sa 25

Cut Copy w/ Palmbomen II ........W 29 AN EVENING WITH

Deer Tick ................................Tu 30 DECEMBER

Priests w/ Blacks Myths & Mellow Diamond . F 1 Reverend Horton Heat w/ Big Sandy • Dale Watson •

The Blasters ...................................Su 3

Jungle ..........................................M 4 TEEV PRESENTS

Hadag Nahash with special guest Hanan Ben Ari ...W 6 NEW MEDIA TOURING PRESENTS

Robert Earl Keen’s

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FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECOND N

Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band ...................NOV 3

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Bear Grillz

Late Show! 10pm Doors. 18+ to enter. .Sa 9

THIS SUNDAY! AN EVENING WITH

Mogwai w/ Xander Harris ........Su 10

Kevin Smith ...................................NOV 5

AN EVENING WITH

Hiss Golden Messenger .....M 11 The White Buffalo w/ Suzanne Santo ........................W 13 Angel Olsen w/ White Magic...Th 14

THIS TUESDAY!

The English Beat ..........................NOV 7 THIS WEDNESDAY! PEN/FAULKNER AND EUDORA WELTY FOUNDATIONS PRESENT EUDORA WELTY LECTURE

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ....NOV 8 Puddles Pity Party .....................NOV 17

Victor Wooten Trio feat. Dennis Chambers &

Bob Franceschini ...................Sa 16

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Mavericks ...........................NOV 18

Municipal Waste w/ NAILS • Macabre • Shitfucker .Su 17 Up and Vanished Live This is a seated show. .....................M 18

MURRAY & PETER PRESENT

A Drag Queen Christmas .......NOV 26 Yann Tiersen .................................. DEC 5 AN EVENING WITH

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

David Rawlings ............................DEC 6

Ookay .........................................F 22 OTHERFEELS PRESENTS NEXT UP II FEAT.

Tony Kill • Echelon The Seeker • OG Lullabies • Dawkins •

Merry Christmas From The Fam-O-Lee Show .........DEC 7 AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH

Kip Moore, Randy Rogers,

and Wade Bowen...................... DEC 13

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT LINCOLN THEATRE!

White Ford Bronco:

DC’s All 90s Band ..................... DEC 31

Henry Rollins -

Travel Slideshow .......................... JAN 15

Majid Jordan ................................ JAN 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Wood Brothers

w/ The Stray Birds ........................... JAN 26 Dixie Dregs (complete Original Lineup

with Steve Morse, Rod Morgenstein, Allen Sloan, Andy West, and Steve Davidowski) ..................MAR 7

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester ...................APR 11

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FootsXColes • Sugg Savage .Sa 23

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The Dead Milkmen w/ Mindless Faith ...........................F 5 MØ & Cashmere Cat .............M 22 Tennis ........................................W 24 Big Head Todd & The Monsters ...................Th 25

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Gary Numan w/ Me Not You Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 9

Phoebe Ryan w/ Molly Kate Kestner & MORGXN.... Th NOV 2 Dhani Harrison w/ Summer Moon ....... Tu 7 Wax Tailor - Solo Set w/ Dirty Art Club .W 8 Foreign Beggars ................................ Th 9 Orgone w/ Threesound .......................... F 10 Sahbabii w/ Nessly • T3 • 4orever

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KEVIN SMITH

DEL M COURY

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THURSDAY NOV

TH 2

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REBIRTH

AN EVENING WITH JESSE COLIN YOUNG AND BAND 8PM

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 & SPECIAL GUEST TRACY HAMLIN 8PM

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

NOV 3 & 4

MON, NOV 6

LIVE NATION PRESENTS

SUSANNE SUNDFØR W/ SHEY BABA

WED, NOV 8

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

ELEPHANT REVIVAL W/ JOE PUG FRI, NOV 10

FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN W/ TWO TON TWIG

F 10

ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY SINGS “THE ELLA CENTURY” 8PM

S 11

CONYA DOSS & SPECIAL GUEST TERI TOBIN 8 PM

SAT, NOV 11

NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS

THE LAST WALTZ TRIBUTE SUN, NOV 12

DOYLE BRAMHALL II

8PM

F3

BRASS

BAND

HANK LEVY LEGACY BAND

W/ ALTHEA GRACE

HABIB KOITÉ & BAMADA

SU 12 BRIAN BLADE & THE FELLOWSHIP BAND 8 PM

FRI, NOV 17

M 13

TUES, NOV 14

W/ SAHEL

THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL

W/ SAMMY MILLER & THE CONGREGATION

BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION

TH 16 LOOSE ENDS FEATURING JANE EUGENE 7 PM

SUN, NOV 19

F 17

W/ JODY NARDONE

TUES, NOV 21

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

ARCHIE’S RETIREMENT PARTY 7:30 PM

SAT, NOV 18

BETTYE LAVETTE

Kevin Smith is best known for writing and directing a string of ’90s cult classics—Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma—but as his film career took a dive in the new millennium (Jersey Girl, anyone?), he turned himself into a cottage industry of content. Soon, Smith wasn’t just a filmmaker, but a comic book writer, a podcasting pioneer, a fixture on reality TV, and perhaps most notably, a public speaker with a knack for question-and-answer sessions. The latter became his “Evening with Kevin Smith” tours and DVDs, and got him back to basics: telling stories with a puerile and profane edge. But despite all the dick and fart jokes, he seems to actually be a good guy: After the flood of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, his mentor and longtime producer, Smith quickly denounced him and pledged to donate Weinstein-linked residuals to a nonprofit that advocates for women working in film. In the movies, Smith is Silent Bob, but in real life, he’s speaking up. Kevin Smith speaks at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. $35. (202) 888-0050. thelincolndc.com.

—Chris Kelly

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

Live Mountain Goats shows are bigger than ever—literally—with multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas bringing bandleader John Darnielle’s more vibrant songs to life. Darnielle, despite being a beloved songwriter for more than two decades, continues to ascend the ladder of superstardom. Just this year he’s released his second novel, Universal Harvester, and his latest Mountain Goats record, Goths, and his classic 2002 album All Hail West Texas is at the center of a new podcast, I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats, in which Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink interviews him about the record as bands cover its songs. Yet, Darnielle is as down-to-earth as ever. The spirit that makes him so beloved, the way he connects with listeners ,and his unequivocal advocacy for equality, reproductive justice, and compassion, never gets lost, no matter how much success he and his band achieve. The Mountain Goats perform at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $36. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Justin Weber

CITY LIGHTS: tuesDAY

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Nov 2 An Intimate Evening with Fado Superstar

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

OLETA ADAMS 7 BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN 8 EL DeBARGE 9 MORRIS DAY & THE TIME 10, &12 PAULA POUNDSTONE 5

CouRtneY BARnett AnD kuRt VIle

As cold weather arrives in D.C. this year, it brings with it more chances to get cozy. Luckily, guitar demi-gods Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have teamed up for one of the coziest albums of the year, Lotta Sea Lice. The winding, laidback vibes of Vile feel like a thick blanket to wrap up in, and Barnett’s Australian twang adds the crackle and burn of a warm hearth. On “Continental Breakfast,” Vile and Barnett go back and forth about “intercontinental friendships” and the sense of home they create on the road. Its accompanying video collects scenes of the duo enjoying a perfect late summer day lounging around, chatting, and going bowling. It’s charming and welcoming in such a way that you wish you could dive through the screen and join them. Thankfully, this week you can snuggle up with them at the Wharf ’s new venue The Anthem. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile perform at 8 p.m. at The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. $46–$76. (202) 8880020. theanthemdc.com.

—Justin Weber

13

THE PACO DeLUCIA PROJECT

14

BRUCE COCKBURN (Band)

17

WALTER BEASLEY

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music center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Yasmin Levy & The Klezmatics. 8 p.m. $25–$65. strathmore.org.

WeDnesDAY ClAssICAl

hylton performing arts center 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas. (703) 993-7759. U.S. Army Concert Band. 8 p.m. Free. hyltoncenter.org.

eleCtRonIC

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. EMA + The Blow. 8:30 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. u street music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Blank Banshee. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

the anthem 901 Wharf Street SW, DC. Grizzly Bear.

8 p.m. $41-$56. theanthemdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Elephant Revival. 7:30 p.m. $17–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $62–$67. bluesalley.com.

RoCk

Barns at wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. J.D. Souther. 8 p.m. $40–$45. wolftrap.org.

tHuRsDAY eleCtRonIC

songByrd music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Mystery Skulls. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Funk & R&B

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Morris Day & The Time. 7:30 p.m. $79.50. birchmere.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. El DeBarge. 7:30 p.m. $65. birchmere.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $62–$67. bluesalley.com. milKBoy arthouse 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park. Colin Stetson. 8 p.m. $10–$30. milkboyarthouse.com.

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9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Strumbellas. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. HIM. 7 p.m. $39. fillmoresilverspring.com. hill country BarBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Pere Ubu. 8 p.m. $25–$28. hillcountrywdc.com.

VoCAl

eagleBanK arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Marc Anthony. 8 p.m. $59–$450. eaglebankarena.com.

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OCT / NOV SHOWS THU 2 FRI 3

PAUL THORN BAND with Alice Drinks The Kool-Aid

KATHY MATTEA

FRI 3

SAT 4

DEEP DONNA

SUN 5

BLITZEN TRAPPER

NICOLE ATKINS

HEAVY DISCO/B-SIDES/DEEP CUPTS

LILLY HIATT FRI 10

SAT 11

THE STANLEY CLARKE BAND

THU 16

THE SELDOM SCENE & DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD

FRI 17

DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET 27 NATHAN PACHECO 30 THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND

TUE 28

Dec 1

BEST OF BURESQUEER

DOWN & DIRTY HOLIGAY BLUES

JD MCPHERSON

TUE 14

25

COLD SPECKS LA TIMPA

SAT 4

19 feat. Bill Cooley “The Acoustic Living Room” Song & Stories 20

FOOL’S PARADE WORLD TOUR 2017

BE STEADWELL

Unit 3 Deep

18 “Hammer & Nail 20th Anniversary Show!”

LOUD BOYZ

COOL MOON / PEE CIRCLES

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

Flamenco Legends by Javier Limon

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White Reaper. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc. com.

1811 14TH ST NW

SAT 18

DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN

LEE RANALDO

LUNA

THE DRUMS

THE STORY SO FAR

TAKE ME OUT

BEACH SLANG

“Honky Tonk Holiday”

BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN with special guest COMMANDER CODY 2 CHERYL WHEELER & JOHN GORKA

FRI NOV 3

COLD SPECKS

CHAKA

KHAN IN CONCERT! Fri. Nov. 24 • 8pm

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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. annie The family-favorite musical about a redhaired orphan and the rich businessman she charms fills Olney’s mainstage during the holiday season.

Featuring favorite songs like “Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” this production is directed by Jason King Jones. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Dec. 31. $37–$84. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org.

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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.

NOVEMBER 2ND

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DOORS AT 6:30PM, SHOW AT 7:30PM

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.

NOVEMBER 3RD

DC GURLY SHOW PRESENTS: FUND-RAISETHE ROOF FOR HUMANE RESCUEALLIANCE

DOORS AT 8PM, SHOW AT 9PM NOVEMBER 4TH

crazy for you The songs of George and Ira Gershwin are reimagined by playwright Ken Ludwig in

BEER,DINNER,ANDCOMEDY:

this musical about a banker, assigned to shut down a small-town theater, who decides to revive it instead.

Featuring favorite songs like “I’ve Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me,” this musical, arriving at Signature in time for the holidays, is directed by Matthew Gardiner. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 14. $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.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. 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 com-

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GRIzzlY BeAR

It’s been five years since Grizzly Bear released their last album, Shields. Since then, the foursome went their separate ways—getting married, getting divorced, having children, living in the wilderness—not sure if or when they would ever make music together again. The Brooklynbased band of twenty-somethings debuted in 2004 with Horn of Plenty, which paved a distinctive lane in indie rock thanks to its meticulously composed melodies and beautiful, harmonic melancholy that is truly unique to them. Just as organic as the sound they’ve been nurturing for more than a decade now, Grizzly Bear’s highly anticipated reunion with Painted Ruins shows how much, and how little, things have changed. Painted Ruins is a new brand of mysterious and nebulous, much like the anxieties of life that fueled its creation. But, as usual, Grizzly Bear have the visceral craftsmanship that makes dealing with those anxieties sound lovely. Grizzly Bear performs with serpentwithfeet at 8 p.m. at The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. $41-$56. (202) 888-0020. theanthemdc.com.

—Casey Embert

GOTHAM AWARDS NOMINATION BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD

CITY LIGHTS: tHuRsDAY

MAGGIE BETTS

“EXCELLENT.” -Justin Chang, LOS ANGELES TIMES

2017-

MARGARET QUALLEY JULIANNE NICHOLSON DIANNA AGRON MORGAN SAYLOR MADDIE HASSON LIANA LIBERATO AND

MELISSA LEO

NOVITIATE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

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STARTS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3

MARC AntHonY

Marc Anthony may be best known to most Americans as the husband of Jennifer Lopez from 2004 until their divorce in 2014. Others may know him and his chiseled cheekbones from movies like Man on Fire starring Denzel Washington. However, to fans of salsa and Latin pop, New York-born Anthony is a superstar singer who has been wowing them with his dramatic vocal delivery since the early ’90s. At 12, he was singing background vocals, after having learned songwriting and music theory from his father. After a brief stint in his twenties singing Latin disco, he began meshing his theatrical intonation with piano and percussion-led tropical rhythms. Later, he branched out to melodramatic Latin ballads and uptempo Spanish and English pop. He returned to salsa with 2013’s 3.0, an album featuring the track “Vivir Mi Vida,” in which he vows to laugh, dance, and live his life. You can look to do the same as Anthony dips into his varied catalog. Marc Anthony performs at 8 p.m. at EagleBank Arena, 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax. $59–$149.

(703) 993-3000. eaglebankarena.com.

—Steve Kiviat

mittee, 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.

to have some holiday mischief in this sequel to Bad Moms. Starring Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

a short series of disagreements presented here in chronological order English playwright Daniel Kitson comes to D.C. to create a unique, site- and time-specific piece for Studio audiences consisting of bits of conversations, squabbles, and discussions. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Nov. 25. $20–$25. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

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)

top girls To celebrate a promotion at work, Marlene hosts a dinner party with significant women from history. Caryl Churchill’s award-winning drama looks at the roles women have played over time and how Marlene rises to the top of her field. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Dec. 2. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

novitiate A nun-in-training struggles with the complexities of her own ideology and sexuality. Starring Margaret Qualley, Julianne Nicholson, and Dianna Agron. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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

a Bad moms christmas The bad mom gang returns to rebel against gender expectations and

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) thor: ragnaroK With a little help from his friends, Thor must fight powerful villain Hela to stop the destruction of Asgard. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, and Mark Ruffalo. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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November 8–11, 8 p.m.

November 12, 2 p.m.

Montgomery College student artists will come together to present what American Dream means to them through music, dance, and theatre performance.

Tickets are $10 Regular, $8 Seniors & $5 Students w/ ID

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Angie Lockhart Publicist Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Cente Montgomery College DJANGO FESTIVAL ALL-STARS 51 Mannakee Street FEATURING DORADO AND AMATI SCHMITT Rockville, MD 20850 NOVEMBER 6 AT 7 & 9 P.M. | THEATER LAB phone 240-567-7538 The Django Festival All-Stars travel the world delivering lively performances in tribute fax 240-567-7542 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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Support for Jazz at the Kennedy Center is generously provided by C. Michael Kojaian.

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