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REQUIEM for a CHURCHYARD The destruction of a great Washington church after a disastrous fire is both a spiritual and an urban tragedy. The ruins of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church stand as a stark reminder and sad memory of the loss of an English Gothic treasure and striking Dupont Circle landmark.

Wordsworth once reflected on such a loss: “. . . there hath passed away a glory from the earth.”

Fortunately, St. Thomas was reborn by saving a part of its main altar and sanctuary as a backdrop to the beautiful St. Thomas Churchyard Park. That was an urban triumph. Those remains -- beautifully displayed -- anchor and highlight the residual St. Thomas Parish Church behind it, and convey peace and serenity in a place where visitors and city residents find repose.

The Park was created almost fifty years ago by a wise and wonderful man, Father Henry Bruel, Rector of St. Thomas Church at the time of the fire and for many years thereafter. A visionary community leader, Father Bruel foresaw a dynamic new ministry arising from the ashes of the church, with St. Thomas Churchyard Park as its centerpiece. Appalled by the large capital outlays necessary to build a new church, concerned about the great cost of maintaining the old church, and aware of St. Thomas’ small and dwindling congregation, Father Bruel adamantly opposed building a new church and wisely decided not to do so. Instead, his vision went in a brilliant new direction. He envisioned St. Thomas Churchyard Park having a three-fold mission: a welcome open space in a congested neighborhood, a beautiful gateway to the church behind it, and a community offering to complement a “new ministry” of social justice and civic outreach.

His vision reflected a dynamic new urban testament -- religious and secular – in effect a new “holy city,” far more sustaining to St. Thomas Parish than bricks, mortar, and another church. In keeping with the spirit, and vision of his “new ministry,” one of his first outreach efforts was the opening of a widely attended Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in the beautiful church hall.

The winds of urban change have reached gale force in Washington. Architectural redevelopment has transformed our capital city, occasionally with touches of grandeur and grace, but more often with demolitions and desecrations. Nowhere is that more true than in the Dupont Circle community. Regrettably, plans are to eliminate the St. Thomas Churchyard park, build a new church on that site, and construct a large, high-rise, luxury condominium adjacent to it. Overlooked is the likelihood that a new church in time will pose the same financial dilemma as did the old. Contingent on building it, moreover, is a complex redevelopment plan, including construction of a large condominium, greatly out of scale architecturally for that site, damaging to nearby housing, and with high-end pricing fostering the already “unaffordability” housing cost crisis in this city.

The St. Thomas project is another example of “edifice complex” an incurable malady, driven by relentless egoism. Present also is a new “unholy trinity” – rampant gentrification, myopic land-use policy, and “market rate” for everything, especially housing, never mind that in the District, the “market” has become a casino and the landlords are breaking the Bank at Monte Carlo. Mega development dollar signs drive the increasing despoliation of other nearby architectural treasures. Witness the nearby Patterson House, that white-marble treasure in Dupont Circle, whose interior will be gutted to create 90 “rabbit warren” apartments, only the truly affluent can afford, and the Mellon Mansion implosion to become the moneyed American Enterprise Institute.

Meanwhile, downtown another radical transformation has occurred – the conversion of the majestic Old Post Office Building into a luxury hotel – “St.Donald’s Cathedral” -- by that human wrecking ball, Donald Trump.

A new church will not only destroy the beautiful St. Thomas Churchyard Park and the welcome neighborhood open space it affords, but will fill it with a development so large and nondescript, one has to take it on faith that there is a church somewhere inside it. From one vantage point it looks like a miniature section of Rockefeller Center with a cross carved into its central building. The distinguished retired Bishop of New Hampshire looks upon it and sees an “Elysium Field,” while others see only massive concrete and glass. There are many Elysium Fields in New Hampshire, of course, but considerably fewer in Washington, D.C. alas, and almost none nearby, except for Dupont Circle Park. There is, however, “God’s little acre” -- St. Thomas Churchyard Park at 18th and Church Streets, N.W -- which is why many are moving heaven and earth to save it.

What would likely increase church numbers, and be an inspiration to the whole community moreover, would be to hold outdoor services in that beautiful park on a regular or periodic basis. Anglican pageantry, in beautiful purple robes, in procession to and from the church to the park would be truly compelling and uplifting.

The beauty of the St. Thomas Churchyard Park is so captivating, if William Wordsworth were alive today and gazed upon the ruins anchoring it, he would be inspired to write Tintern Abbey II. Moreover, Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, written fifty years before Wordsworth, might have been followed by “Elegy Written in a City Churchyard,” if Gray had looked upon that site.

Now, alas, we are faced with the prospect of Eulogy for a Churchyard. That would be a great loss, to say nothing of the damage to Church Street housing. Money, of course, does not always have to win. Here, all parties should pause and reflect on a variation of a classic biblical injunction: “What does it profit a church if it gains this entire huge development, if it suffers the loss of its own soul.” The bell that tolls then will chime “Requiem for a Churchyard.”

BY JIM MCGRATH

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In a cIty of nerds who have justifiably intense reactions to D.C. development trends, Andrew Giambrone’s piece last week (“Moving the Goalposts,” Oct. 28) about Buzzard Point residents bristling at aspects of the D.C. United stadium project drew conflicting reactions. In an interview with City Paper, ANC 6D Chair Andy Litsky had urged accountability from government officials to ensure that the needs of area residents are thoughtfully considered. “We want to make sure that at no point in our potential advocacy and embrace of this plan for a soccer stadium are we then also accepting the notion that to get there, we are tacitly approving destruction and removal of people— not just in public housing but in owned residential housing,” he said. To which commenter Typical DC BS blithely responded, “Public housing residents demand a say? Please. Stop the idiocy—the ONLY ones with a say in this should be the property owners in the area.” Fabrisse chimed in with a more humane retort: “The residential property owners hate it, too. ...This project is, at best, slipshod.”

But apparently controversial development that encroaches on the lives of D.C. taxpayers simply isn’t as sexy as the demise of a make-your-own-bowl Asian-style eatery that one reader described as “aggressively mediocre.” At last count, there were 142 comments on the D.C. reddit thread linking to our story about Chipotle’s plans to shutter its Southeast Asian eatery ShopHouse. One of our commenters got it more right than others: “Not sure you’ll get many love letters,” Tomaj wrote. “I thought it was a great idea when ShopHouse started, but the fast-casual build-the-bowl approach that works with a burrito doesn’t work for me with East Asian food. I felt like I was just getting a salad, when with East Asian, I want a composed dish, and one that’s cooked together. Hopefully, this move will put some brakes on the fast-casual trend, at least on the low end.” Others are earnestly broken up about the chain’s implosion. For a taste of the sentiments, check out this week’s “Humans of ShopHouse” feature on page 25.

—Liz Garrigan Department of correctIons: Last week’s story about a recent water outage at St. Elizabeths (“Wither St. Elizabeths,” Oct. 28) inadvertently misquoted Linda Greene, president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Greene’s corrected comment: “Waterless hand gels are extremely effective.”

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DistrictLine Uncommon Interests The outsized dramas of a tiny block in Northwest Of all the buildings going up in his neighborhood, Jim Norris is most annoyed by the one next door.

The 71-year-old homeowner has lived in a squat, two-story brick townhouse on Richardson Place NW since August 2001, when he purchas ed the then-abandoned property for $60,000. The street is a somewhat hidden, almost Lilliputian block, tucked between New Jersey Avenue and 4th Street NW, immediately south of where Rhode Island and Florida avenues intersect, in Truxton Circle.

Residents have cherished its distinctly quaint vibe as adjacent Shaw and nearby U Street have transformed into bustling neighborhoods, replete with nightlife and youth.

But over the past few years, Norris, who moved to D.C. in the 1960s and has remained in what he considers Shaw for roughly three decades, has felt besieged by what’s happening on the lot with which he shares a wall.

He discloses upfront that he used to own it—once intending to build a house there—before selling it to an interim owner, Wilbur Mondie, who had it subdivided in two. Mondie dug out the lot and installed the cement form for a basement, which would fill with water during heavy rain. This attracted mosquitoes and rats in the warmer months, and produced “attendant smells,” as Norris puts it. In 2014, Mondie brought in prefab sections for two buildings, stacking them atop one another until they were three stories tall, but never completed them as apartments.

(Norris says work on the site resulted in detritus in his backyard garden.) Then, Mondie sold the property in April.

The new owner, Arlington-based Oaktree Development, is converting the attached buildings into a co-living space to be operated by New York-based startup Common, which runs several projects in Brooklyn and San Francisco totaling 120 bedrooms. Common CEO Brad Har-

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greaves says “Richardson,” as the inaugural D.C. project is dubbed, is expected to open in December or January. Potential tenants apply online before being interviewed for Common “memberships.” These include a private bedroom, furniture, utilities, WiFi, and weekly cleaning, among other amenities.

For Richardson, prices for 12-month memberships start at $1,700 a month. Hargreaves says the median age and income for Common tenants is 30 and $98,000 a year, respectively. The D.C. facility, being mar-

keted as “in Shaw”—in part with a photo of Blagden Alley on Common’s website—will have four units with six bedrooms each. Seven in 10 Common members have one-year leases, though there are one-, three-, and six-month options, says Hargreaves, who founded the company.

The rub for Norris and some of his neighbors comes with the project’s size and intended use.

“What they’re proposing now is to make it basically a glorified rooming house,” Norris says.

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that’s what it is. It’s too big for the immediate context.”

Norris compares the construction on his block to Adams Morgan. “You change from what was historically single-family houses with limited commercial activity to a neighborhood where every commercial property is being developed, and by adding these larger buildings with more inhabitants, it just changes the feel of the neighborhood.”

He says the people likely to move into Oaktree’s property will be transient residents and worries they won’t care about preserving the area’s character. “The other issue is, if it can happen here, it can happen in your neighborhood.”

Given lease terms at other Common properties, Hargreaves counters that it’s a “myth” that tenants are only looking for “shortterm occupancy.” “These aren’t immediate graduates,” he says. “They’re looking for community, to know their neighbors, but don’t want a lot of the annoyances that come with traditional living situations. They’re not negotiating with roommates rabout cleaning shared space.”

As for the site’s massing—a combined 10,700 square feet—Oaktree Partner Peter Stuart says the development complies with zoning requirements and is the same height as a building across the street (which is set back from the sidewalk). The company gutted and renovated the prefabs Mondie ordered and installed brick siding that matches the materials used at JBG’s Atlantic Plumbing site in Shaw. Although their dimensions vary, each bedroom measures between 120 and 140 square feet. “Every project brings its Darrow Montgomery

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unique set of challenges,” Stuart notes. “Certainly … it’s a tight site.”

There are about 10 houses directly on Richardson Place, and the street leads to an alley behind homes that line New Jersey Avenue. Alphonso Frost Jr., a senior who lives on New Jersey and can see the development from his kitchen, doesn’t like it. “It’s awful, that monstrous thing back there with umpteen million bedrooms,” the 30-year D.C. resident explains. “They have no concern about the architectural integrity of the area or if it’s primarily residential.”

A resident who lives on R Street NW, south of the development, says younger neighbors tend to view the project positively, and they’re glad something is finally poised to open on the property. Still, James Wilson, who’s lived in the three-story building across the street since 2014, says many neighbors are circumspect about the development’s effect on the surrounding area because it could double the population of Richardson Place. “There’s a difference between NIMBYs and recognition of shared spaces that have to occur in tight cities,” he says. Similar to other new buildings around the District, concerns include parking availability, the amount of trash generated by Common’s project, and access to the contiguous alleyway.

But these worries are amplified because of the street’s small stature. “It has a quiet charm to it in the middle of the city,” Wilson says.

“We have sort of an open conversation with the developer, and they’ve come to the table and are willing to negotiate matters. We are cautiously optimistic.”

For others, including Norris, there are bigger stakes at play. Teri Janine Quinn, who chairs the neighborhood commission that covers the site, says she hasn’t maintained communication with Oaktree or Common and questions whether the co-living model “fits a highly residential construct” seen in neighborhoods with similar zoning. “I would want to know what has been the real impact of having something like this right next to your home—particularly when you’re in a singlefamily home,” she says. “I live in a rowhouse too. If this were coming next to my house, I would be crazy.” Quinn believes there should be more government oversight of shared-living projects.

Or, as Norris says, “Whether I’m mad or have a case against them or not, we’re entering into new territory here, like with Airbnb. It’s nice to see the city come back and progress into the future, but it would be nice to see it happen in a way that doesn’t destroy neighborhoods as a whole.”

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DistrictLinE AstroTurf War

How the workplace scheduling bill was “twisted, perverted, and mischaracterized.”

orange introduced the bill in 2015 along with co-sponsors Brianne Nadeau, Mary Cheh, and Elissa Silverman. Brandon Todd, David Grosso, Charles Allen, and

in January, a group called the DC Jobs and Growth Partnership emerged as “a joint effort” among District businesses “that are concerned about new policies taking the city

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Labor advocates suffered a setback in September when support for a workplace scheduling bill that the retail and restaurant industry opposed fizzled in the eleventh hour.

The Hours & Scheduling Stability Act, which then-Councilmember Vincent Orange introduced last December, would require restaurant and retail chains with 40 or more stores nationwide to inform employees of their schedules two weeks in advance. The bill arrived as the D.C. Council was enacting a minimum wage increase and wrestling with a paid family leave initiative.

Big retailers, national trade associations, and prominent local restaurant owners decried it as a job killer that would reduce employer flexibility and drive businesses out of D.C. Proponents hailed it as a matter of fairness, equity, and balance for hourly workers.

Complicating matters, Orange resigned to become CEO of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce while the bill was pending, leaving behind an orphan some say was mistreated.

According to advocates for workers whose livelihoods would be affected, the bill also fell prey to a misleading campaign that brought local voices—and lobbying heft—to a contentious national issue. “We expect our Council members to represent the people who vote them into office,” says Ari Schwartz, lead organizer at DC Jobs With Justice. “But in this case, the Council sided with billion-dollar corporations rather than listening to cashiers and sales clerks they see every day.”

But it looks like that campaign is unraveling, as one-time critics of the bill reassess positions that were influenced by a deceitful campaign. “I think we can do better in the way the bill is presented,” says Andy Shallal, owner of Busboys and Poets who now believes he and other local business owners were misled as to how the bill would affect them. “It wouldn’t be the first time small businesses were used as fodder for large business interests, and that’s a shame,” he says.

LaRuby May eventually joined as co-sponsors. After some stops and starts—and after Orange was defeated by newcomer Robert White, who was tapped to serve early when Orange resigned—the bill came to the Council floor on Sept. 20 with its support eroded. Cosponsors Grosso, Todd, and Allen voted with six other members to table the bill, meaning it would likely expire at the end of the year.

(White, elected after the bill was introduced, pledged support during his campaign but voted to table it as well.)

Cheh says the legislation is rooted in basic fairness to retail and service industry workers and is a “matter of decency.” She describes industry opposition as generic and overly reactive to the number of pro-labor bills before the Council this year. “I think the feeling was that maybe we shouldn’t do this all at once,” she says. Silverman says it is less complicated than opponents make it out to be. “Honestly, I think it got twisted, perverted, and mischaracterized,” she says. On Nov. 3, she will hold a committee roundtable to help “reset the conversation.”

Major chains such as Target, CVS and Costco, backed by the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the National Retail Federation, have argued that employers need flexibility during unforeseen weather, and that “restrictive scheduling” could result in labor costs that penalize companies. Auto Zone’s CEO has invoked similar language, warning that a “onesize-fits-all” approach would drive a wedge between workers and employers.

Such claims are due for re-examination, Silverman says, hinting that credible research will show the positive effects of allowing hourly workers the same opportunities as salaried ones to balance life demands. “Costco, CVS, Target, they already have provisions for some of this stuff,” she says. “These are businesses that have to comply with laws in all the states.

They have centralized systems that enable them to do it.”

The key to Thursday’s hearing, Silverman says, is to focus on the bill’s intent, not what the retail industry says it will do—particularly with regard to local small businesses.

By Jeffrey Anderson

in the wrong direction,” according to its website. Through press releases, op-eds, paid social media ads, and boilerplate emails, the group warned that “half of the businesses targeted by the [bill] would cut jobs if the legislation is enacted,” and that part-time job seekers would suffer.

Shallal, originally associated with that “joint effort,” is backing away and says he has never even heard of DC Jobs and Growth Partnership. “Why is this important to local retailers and small businesses?” he asks. “I think a lot of claims were thrown out there that were unfairly characterized.” Kamal Ali, co-owner of the Ben’s Chili Bowl chain, opposed the bill in an op-ed that appears on the partnership’s website. He remains concerned that the Council is moving too fast on “business-unfriendly legislation” that could trickle down to small businesses such as his, but he too says he has never heard of the DC Jobs and Growth Partnership.

Significantly, the bill does not apply to Ben’s Chili Bowl or Busboys and Poets. But then, DC Jobs and Growth Partnership is neither a registered business entity nor a trade association.

According to Steven Jumper, its press contact and a former D.C. Chamber of Commerce staffer, the partnership consists of “groups that came together in a coalition against the bill,” including the Retail Industry Leaders Association and members such as Target, Auto Zone, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Wegman’s, the latter of which has no stores in D.C. Jumper also has

written op-eds against the bill for Washington Business Journal and Washington Informer.

Democracy Data & Communications created the DC Jobs and Growth Partnership, according to DDC spokesman Kevin Lawlor, who describes Jumper as “someone we work with.” DDC’s job, Lawlor says, was to create a coalition of local businesses “to push back” against the bill. But he declined to provide a list of members, and the the DC Jobs and Growth Partnership appears dormant. Brian Dodge, a spokesman for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which hired DDC, says DDC now runs that coalition. “We continue to support the Partnership because it has helped to make local business owners aware of the proposal and to express their concerns about it in a productive way,” Dodge writes in an email.

DDC is not a lobbying firm, Lawlor says, and neither is the DC Jobs and Growth Partnership. But prominent lobbyist Warner H. Session represents the partnership in city hall “to connect Council members with the members of the partnership to express their concerns about the bill,” Lawlor says.

Lisa graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, a national watchdog group that investigates the undue influence of corporations on public policy, says the opposition to the D.C. scheduling bill has all the signs of an “AstroTurf campaign” designed to create the illusion of grassroots support. “In many ways, AstroTurfing is the mod-

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Lawlor disagrees. “Quite frankly, I don’t understand the criticism,” he says. “The people who testified against this bill and who created ads are real live business people.”

If agreeing on what is or is not an AstroTurf campaign is elusive, then evaluating its effectiveness in influencing elected officials is even more so. Labor advocates say they listen for buzzwords from politicians that echo what appears in op-eds, petitions, and press releases from groups such as DC Jobs and Growth Partnership. Or references to the numbers of signatures on petitions that arrive in Council offices from obscure new associations or partnerships. Or a tally of automated emails received via websites such as Keep D.C. Open.

Silverman says such tactics are deceptive.

Yet three of the five members of her subcommittee—Todd, Allen and White—voted to table the bill. Allen tells City Paper he thinks the intent of the bill is a good one, and that he wants to create as much notice of schedule changes as possible. But he says his revisions to address the effect of Metro delays and sporting event disruptions didn’t make it into the final bill, so he voted to table it. “I’m very open to it, but it’s poorly written and it needs work,” he says.

White also has concerns about the bill but says he’s ready to “find a solution that will provide our employees with predictable schedules and a pathway to full-time work.” At the same time, he says he recognizes the importance of scheduling stability for workers that does not lead to the shuttering good businesses. “We can’t forgo the hard work to get this right,” he writes in an email.

Brandon Todd and David Grosso, two other members who retreated from the bill, did not respond to written questions from City Paper.

Silverman, the bill’s heir apparent, says she looks forward to grappling with the business community. But she says that it has an outsize voice. “I want to give workers a bigger voice in city hall on the policies that affect them,” she says. “It’s time to address their issues. We shouldn’t just be a city for rich people.”

Asked if she has ever heard of DC Jobs and Growth Partnership, Democracy Data & Communications, or Keep D.C. Open, she says, “Nope. I have no idea who they are. They should introduce themselves to me.”

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Is there a bigger mess in District transportation than the block of 7th St. NW between New York Avenue NW and Massachusetts Avenue NW? It’s not among the most dangerous intersections in the city. It’s not even the D.C. area’s most intractable transportation problem (Metro, naturally). But that doesn’t stop this Mount Vernon Triangle block from being a consistent debacle and snarling at least two nearby intersections.

This mess can have real consequences. Last year, an elderly pedestrian was pinned under a Greyhound bus turning at the nearby intersection of 7th Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

It’s not clear how to resolve the mess—demolishing the nearby historic Carnegie Library to make way more roads, for example, might prove unpopular. Unfortunately for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists, the District’s Department of Transportation currently has no traffic plans for the block, according to a DDOT spokesman.

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1: Drivers looking to use the protected left turn onto Mount Vernon Place NW back up in the left northbound lane on 7th Street NW.

2: Cars on K Street NW (westbound) looking to take the Mount Vernon left turn or go south on 7th Street run into the blocked left lane and themselves block the rest of northbound 7th Street.

3: Drivers on 7th Street and turning left on K Street NW south of the Carnegie Library angle for the same left lane and block that intersection.

4: Looking to get ahead of the mess and into the coveted left-turn lane, drivers on Massachusetts Avenue turn right on red lights without stopping for pedestrians.

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—Smoke Free and Dope-ful The short answer is yes. Marijuana has been ingested as food and drink since ancient times, and it’s the perfect solution for those who would like a smoke-free high. Speaking of high: Eating cannabis is known to deliver a “body high,” a sort of happy relaxation from within the body, and may not feel like what you experienced long ago.

My dear confused cloning contender, take out your binder and highlighter: It’s time to take notes. Growing marijuana has become a scientifically and technically advanced process, with new advancements announced regularly at conferences and in trade magazines. Cloning is one of these frontiers: There are a variety of techniques ranging from the old-school Tupperware-and-light-bulb method to more modern machines that not only gently mist marijuana cuttings with water and hormones around the clock, but also provide an ambient water scape for your auditory pleasure.

At the root of cloning (pardon the pun) is the same science you forgot to learn in high school: creating a genetically identical life form. In this case, it happens to be marijuana. Growing from seeds means gambling with phenotypes: Plants may be genetically identical but express their genes in different

Marijuana has been ingested as food and drink since ancient times.

THC-laced comestibles are commonly called edibles, which range from classic brownies to the most gourmet concoctions, and are currently a formidable and growing industry.

As you are new to the stoner scene, I would suggest you turn to already established cannabis cooks and ask about potency and dosage before consuming your treats (it’s still illegal to purchase cannabis in DC!). Unlike smoking, which delivers the high within minutes, consuming marijuana can take up to three hours to deliver effects. This means that you should be prepared for a future high version of yourself but note that dosage can quickly go from just-right to way-too-much. That being said, enjoy yourself!

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Dear Potanist: I’m a devoted daily toker and am slightly ashamed to say that I have not yet started growing my own bud, mostly because I’m too busy blazing to figure out how to do it.

There is a new grow shop in my neighborhood that periodically gives out free “clones.” They look like small plants, so I’m not sure why they are called clones. That word reminds me of high school science classes, but I always got high before school and cannot for the life of me remember what cloning has to do with marijuana. Do clones turn into buds?

—Blazed and Confused

ways that become obvious as they get older.

You can skip this Russian roulette with cloning from your favorite plant. Small cuttings from a “mother” plant are placed in perfect conditions for roots to grow directly from the cut stem, effectively creating a genetically identical “daughter,” or “clone.” This is highly advantageous not only because you can grow several generations of plants that produce your favorite bud, but also because the clones grow with the speed of an adult plant, which means more flowers in less time. Even if you forgot all your high school math, that should sound pretty good to you.

The disadvantage to cloning is that the strength of the plant’s genetics will weaken somewhat from generation to generation, so you may eventually end up with a clone that is more susceptible to disease or isn’t able to grow flowers as large as the previous generations, at which point you may want to explore growing from seeds. If you’re just getting started, experimenting with free clones is a great beginning. You’ll learn how different strains grow in different ways, and unlike your high school science experiments, you’ll be able to smoke your results.

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By Matt Terl Fresh air, exercise, earnestness, overt displays of camaraderie and support, extreme patriotism, and missing football games that I want to watch. These all make me uncomfortable.

Which made Sunday’s chain of events personally illuminating. I followed the local NFL team’s London-based draw with the Bengals via Twitter, from atop a hill not far from the Marine Corps War Memorial, where I was watching the finish of the 41st annual Marine Corps Marathon.

It should have amounted to my worst nightmare. Of course, with neither the stamina for the run nor the commitment and self-discipline to train, I didn’t actually run the marathon. I was just waiting for my wife to cross the finish line.

In the absolute loosest possible sense, I had “run” the Marine Corps 10K. While I jogged (and alternately walked and kinda limped), I listened to the football game, streamed from London through my phone to my ears.

Then I took the Metro back to the hotel where we had stayed the night before, still streaming the game. That took me to about halftime. At the hotel, I flipped the game on TV, cleaned up, finished packing, and drove my car closer to the race finish, listening to the broadcast via radio now, instead of phone.

I parked just under a mile from the race finish, and started walking (or, more accurately, stiffly hobbling) while trying to follow the game via Twitter, under the probably misguided assumption that avoiding streaming would conserve battery and limit data consumption.

Which is how I got back to the top of that hill, watching one event live and the other in 140character fragments.

The hill accounts for the marathon’s last twotenths of a mile, the bit that everyone forgets about when they round down in conversations about the “26-mile” race. It is very deliberately there to provide, as the race website says, “a final uphill challenge” and to force runners to finish strong (among other platitudes).

It is brutal on the best of days, but the heat this year made it especially so. It was so unseasonably warm that it set a daily record at Dulles airport just 25 miles away. The runners had been repeatedly advised to curb their pace, to drink more water, to take care of themselves, but 26 miles in heat is 26 miles in heat, and most of the non-military runners looked gassed as they hit the final point-two.

The NFL game’s overtime was a lively one.

Washington failed to score first, but its defense stiffened to keep the team in it. After missing a near-certain, potentially game-winning field goal, the team somehow regained possession with a minute left.

I was learning these developments in bursts, sometimes out of sequence, my phone doing its best to maintain a steady signal in an area choked with invisible texts from reuniting families and race-tracker apps updating and, presumably, plenty of other football “watchers.”

A bad penalty cost Washington the chance to win, and the game ended in a tie, which cued the usual outbursts of frustration and disgust. Based on what people were tweeting, the sense was that somehow this failure to deliver a clear winner was unjust—never mind that the two teams had seemed (based on my disjointed viewing of the game) pretty evenly matched.

Ordinarily, maybe I would’ve joined in, suggested ways to improve NFL overtime, criticized the officiating, or second-guessed some of coach Jay Gruden’s decisions.

But I was simultaneously watching people who were determined simply to finish a grueling test of physical stamina, one that allows for no substitutes or time in between plays, and whose rewards include only personal fulfillment, a medal, and hugs from friendly Marines. One man collapsed halfway up the hill.

Two Marines slung his arms around their shoulders and helped him to the finish. Somewhere out of sight past the bottom of the hill, something presumably unfortunate had happened to a runner, which I discovered when four medics wheeled a gurney up the hill to make sure the person was able to cross the finish line.

Another disquieting trigger for me are sports columns declaiming the inherent virtues of amateurism over sports-for-pay, the importance of wanting-to-win-for-winning’s-sake over wanting to get paid. It’s a stupid, reductive argument, and not the one I’m making here.

But watching these runners—and others who were determined to make it across the finish line, even in less dramatic ways—had a diminishing effect on what I was sure were absolute sentiments. It was difficult to put quite so much emphasis on the football game’s outcome, or even how it came to end as it did.

The players did their jobs to the best of their abilities, and they didn’t win. Sometimes, you don’t get to cross the finish line the way you want. It doesn’t nullify what you did to get there.

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“Most women, even dominant women, are still looking for guys who look like they ‘kick ass and take names’ in every other aspect of their lives,” says FleeMarket (u/flee_market), one of the moderators of r/cuckold on Reddit.

“As for how to find dominant women, I see a lot of submissive guys on various websites— OkCupid, Reddit, Tinder, FetLife—and something they don’t understand is that women looking for sex or love online tend to get buried in unsolicited PMs from thirsty guys. That makes it hard to find that one respectful PM from a guy like our letter writer here. The signal gets lost in the noise.”

Before we get to some practical advice for ALPHA, a quick word about the term “cuck.”

While it has long been an affectionate/horny term embraced by self-identified cuckold fetishists, the alt-right has attempted to turn “cuck” into a term of abuse, hurling it at any straight white man who gives a shit about racial justice, police brutality, and the plight of undocumented immigrants. In an effort to wrest “cuck” back from the bigots, and to mark the waning days of the Trump campaign, I’m dedicating this week’s column to “cuck” as properly understood: a guy who wants his partner to sleep with other men.

So, ALPHA, how can you attract a woman who wants a cuck? “What’s worked for me is using the internet not to find people but to find kinky events where dominant women gather in real life,” says FleeMarket. “I’m on my second openly dominant female partner in four years, both of whom I met at kinky parties. The events are usually listed on FetLife, and you usually have to attend a munch first to demonstrate that you’re not a dingus who can’t follow the rules or a psycho who doesn’t care about them.”

You will find a lot of advice for wannabe cucks on r/cuckold, most offered in response to men trying to talk their vanilla wives or girlfriends into cuckolding them. But you’re as likely to read stories of failure (she said no, absolutely not, never) as you are to read success

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stories (she’s fucking other guys, and here, with her OK, is the video).

“As much effort and time as getting into the kinky community takes, it’s still easier than trying to turn a vanilla woman kinky,” says FleeMarket. “He shouldn’t ‘lead with his kink.’

If a woman asks him what his interests are, mention it, but dial down the excitement level.

These ladies deal with a lot of creeps, and it’s easy to scare them off. Basically: Be in the right place, treat the women there with respect, and get to know them as people first.”

—Dan Savage

In an effort to wrest “cuck” back from the bigots, and to mark the waning days of the Trump campaign, I’m dedicating this week’s column to “cuck” as properly understood: a guy who wants his partner to sleep with other men.

My ex-three-exes-ago was a cuckold. I swore I would never date another cuckold after he blew up at me for not cheating on him juuuuuust right.

I was just a prop, and I came to hate him. I also hated you, Dan, because he raised the subject by giving me some of your columns to read. Fast-forward five years, and my brand-new boyfriend tells me being cuckolded is his ultimate fantasy. I literally started to cry. He held me, he apologized on behalf of all cuckolds everywhere, we laughed, and then he dropped it. He didn’t pressure me, and about a year later, we gave it a try on his birthday. It turns out my boyfriend—fiancé now—is much better at this kink than my ex was. He’s open and honest, he communicates constructively, and he was willing to step outside his comfort zone to accommodate my needs. (He wanted the other guys to be strangers, but I need to know someone before letting him in my body.) I have a regular thing with an ex-FWB, and sex with my cuck is frequent and hot. Things couldn’t be better. So I’m not mad at you anymore, Dan! All is forgiven!

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encounter with another guy should be in front of him or not. He says he doesn’t care; he’s excited either way. I am so nervous, but it’s a good nervous.

We have been monogamous until now. I know you say to take it slow. But when it comes to cuckolding, does slow mean “Only kiss the other guy in front of him the first time” or “Tell him about the other guy I kissed”?

P.S. It’ll be more than kissing either way!

—On Him Watching Or Waiting “Everybody’s different,” says FleeMarket.

“There are guys who love being left at home while she goes out on a ‘date.’ There are guys who love being in the house/hotel but not in the room. There are guys who want to be in the room watching or participating. But as far as whether you should dip your toe in or jump in with both feet, there is no ‘right way,’ only what’s right for you two.”

That said, OHWOW, the reality of a partner sleeping with someone else for the first time— in front of you or not—can be a lot more intense than the fantasy, and you should definitely take things slow the first time.

“There’s the ‘baby steps approach,’ i.e., just flirting with or kissing the other guy (whether in front of him or not) and then seeing how he reacts,” says FleeMarket. “Or telling him that you slept with the other guy, when you really didn’t—just to see how he takes it. Then there’s jumping in with both feet and getting a hotel room and a few drinks with this other guy before taking both men up to your room.”

Whatever you decide, OHWOW, FleeMarket recommends having a plan in place in case things/feels/dicks go wrong.

“Use the traffic-light system,” says FleeMarket. “Things getting too intense? Say ‘yellow’ to slow the play down. Someone getting upset? Say ‘red’ to stop the play and all three of you can talk.

It’s always better if everyone understands it’s OK to call a stop to play if you need to.”

—DS

I just came across the word “wittol.” It means “a man who knows, condones, and even encourages his wife’s enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold.” Considering the frequency with which cuckolding comes up and your influence on language, I thought you might want to know.

—He’s Expanding Lexicon Perpetually

Congrats on your upcoming wedding, CHEAT! And ALPHA? It would appear some vanilla women can be turned.

—DS

Discontent is a big part of the cuckolding kink, HELP, as cuckolds get off on feeling humiliated and jealous. So I’m not sure “wittol” quite works.

But if the alt-right white supremacists succeed in making “cuck” synonymous with “race traitor,” maybe cucks will switch to “wittol.” But don’t give up without a fight, cucks!

—DS

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I’ve gotten really into bicycling over the past two years and it’s definitely given me much stronger and muscular legs, which is cool.

But they feel tight all the time and I feel way less flexible than I used to be. I’m thinking that doing yoga would be a good idea, but I don’t know anything about it. Is there any kind of yoga class that’s especially good for cyclists? Or things that I should know before starting? —Seeking To Regain Elasticity, Taking Class Helps?

Dear STRETCH: GP applauds your willingness to branch out from cycling into a new activity. It shows a great deal of flexibility in your mindset, even if it’s lacking in your muscles. Plus, it’s good that you’ve picked another athletic hobby during which you can wear the stretchy clothes you’ve already purchased for cycling. That’s good multitasking and will cut down on laundry. And yoga tends to be an indoor venture, which will be great for the colder and snowier months when you might find yourself on the bike less.

According to Suzie Wnek, yoga program director and volunteer at BicycleSpace, you don’t need to take a yoga class geared specifically to a bicycling audience. A general class for beginners will more than suit your needs. “Since a cyclist tends to stay in a certain posture while seated, with the legs moving in fairly consistent circles, poses that counter-balance that will be helpful,” she says. “Many basic yoga poses work into the hips, help stabilize the back, and build balance and core strength, all elements a strong cyclist can use.”

Yoga, like cycling, benefits from repetition and dedication and you shouldn’t expect to advance too quickly and regain your former flexibility right away. Also, forget any competitive instincts you might have picked up from chasing Strava records over the past few years. There is no Strava for yoga. [Note to self: invent Strava for cyclist yoga, make all of the money, retire to tropical island]. The increased musculature in your legs might work against you at first, but you’ll definitely start opening up if you keep at it.

Just like when shopping for a bike, it’s OK to check out a few places before committing.

“It’s important to find a place where you feel comfortable. Try a few classes before becoming a regular,” Wnek says. “Some bike shops offer yoga classes, some specifically for cyclists, some for broader audiences, and different levels.”

Regardless of where you end up going, make sure your studio has sufficient bike parking. You can ride with your yoga mat slung over your shoulder or shove it into a pannier. GP suggests over the shoulder so everyone knows you’re a double-threat. In addition to the physical benefits of yoga, perhaps it’ll even bring you a greater sense of calm and self-composure—both of which can come in handy on the road.

—GP

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A StAte of Mind Numb to second-class citizenship, D.C. tries to awaken a statehood movement.

By Zach Rausnitz

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DARROW MONTGOMERY D.C. voters will no doubt approve a ballot measure declaring their wish for statehood this Election Day. But don’t start to wonder about its prospects for getting anywhere in Congress.

“I don’t even think that’s the real point, frankly,” says Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives. Republicans are likely to maintain control of the House and enough of the Senate to mount filibusters. And even when Democrats last controlled Congress by a wide margin, legislation that would’ve given D.C. a vote in the House was sunk by a gunlobby amendment.

Statehood is a distant dream. The ballot measure’s backers are the first to admit that it’s meant more as a signal to the country that D.C. residents want representation than anything else.

It’s also a gesture that D.C.’s elected officials, led by Mayor Muriel Bowser, who called for the vote in April, hope will jumpstart a limp movement. They figure if they shake the corpse around a bit, maybe it’ll start moving on its own.

Aside from a few staunch activists, Washingtonians have been content to lament their second-class citizenship so passively that it raises the question of how much residents really mind their exclusion from American democracy.

“It’s pitiful, or it’s been pitiful, how few residents have been actively involved,” Norton says.

Michael D. Brown, a member of the shadow delegation elected to promote D.C. vot-

ing rights to Congress, shares the frustration.

“It’s terrible. We get a handful of people that come to the rallies, and very often I know half of them by their first names,” he says. in August 1997, President Bill Clinton signed a law empowering the financial control board— which was created to oversee District finances, which were burdened by debt—to run much of the D.C. government over Mayor Marion Barry. For Anise Jenkins, that loss of local authority sparked 19 years and counting of statehood activism, starting with a protest of the control board at the White House. Activists founded the grassroots Stand Up! for Democracy in DC organization, where Jenkins later became executive director.

Josh Burch experienced a seminal moment too. In 2011, as a bargaining chip in federal budget negotiations, President Barack Obama traded away D.C.’s ability to spend its local tax dollars on abortions for low-income women.

“That’s when I just snapped,” says Burch, who co-founded the group Neighbors United for DC Statehood. “I was just like, ‘Fuck this.’

I’ve lived here my whole life. I can’t sit back on the sidelines.” Since then, in their spare time and with no funding, he and his group have met with hundreds of congressional offices to lobby for statehood.

Even the elected officials who gripe about passive residents also recognize that it’s normal to be apathetic after 200 years of secondclass citizenship. It takes clashes with the federal government, perhaps more than anything else, to galvanize D.C. residents. “Unless you have situations like that where residents are di-

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rectly impacted by it, they go about their business,” says Franklin Garcia, a member of the District’s shadow delegation to Congress.

But losses that residents can feel have been rare lately, as the federal government has stayed out of D.C.’s business—for the most part.

In 2014, after a ballot initiative legalized marijuana in D.C., Congress used its budget authority over the District to block it from spending local funds to enact legalization.

That kept D.C. from setting up the tax-andregulation scheme that residents left up to their legislators to devise.

To comply, the D.C. Council canceled a hearing it had scheduled to consider marijuana regulation legislation. Members and their staff could have faced prosecution for participating in defiance of Congress. Instead, the Council held a less formal roundtable discussion, which Burch believes was a missed opportunity.

“Let’s have the fight,” he says. “Let’s hold a fucking hearing, and let’s have them come arrest our councilmembers for doing their job.

Can you imagine the press we would get from that, if they tried to send federal officials into the Wilson Building to arrest councilmembers for holding a hearing to enact a law that was overwhelmingly passed by District voters?”

At-large Councilmember David Grosso, who introduced the marijuana regulation bill, agrees the Council should have held the hearing. He vows to revive the bill in 2017, meddlers be damned.

“I will do it again in January, because I don’t believe that, A, they would do anything about it, and B, I think that the consequences are such that I’m willing to risk it,” Grosso says. “If

they did put a councilmember in the District of Columbia in jail for introducing legislation that the councilmember believes is best for the people of the city, that would be an amazing story, wouldn’t it?”

When Grosso resurrects the bill, he says, “I hope that my colleagues will step up and, this time, not be so afraid of the implications of the Anti-Deficiency Act,” the law House Republicans held over their heads to quash the hearing.

Following the pot roundtable, Republican congressmen requested a list of Council employees who participated. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s response named the councilmembers but not their staffers.

Nobody faced any consequences.

“I submitted the information they requested,” Mendelson says. “I thought it was a bit obnoxious, but my letter providing the answers was very civil and respectful, and that was the last of it.”

PolitiCAl movements hAve beaten long odds before. In 1996, Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act with broad support from both Democrats and Republicans. Twenty years later, support for LGBT rights in American culture and politics has grown at an impressive pace.

But the lessons from the LGBT rights movement—or any movement—are a mixed bag for D.C. voting rights. Litigation was essential to achieve marriage equality, while the lack of representation for D.C. residents is perfectly constitutional. Evan Wolfson, who spent decades spearheading the push for marriage equality, including as founder and president of Freedom

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to Marry, says the movement had some builtin advantages.

“Marriage is a powerful and resonant vocabulary—a way of talking about personal lives, love, commitment, family,” he says. “You don’t need to be an expert to understand marriage.”

One lesson that is relevant: how to lose productively. In 2004, all 11 states with ballot initiatives enacted bans on same-sex marriage.

Eight of the 11 also banned civil unions. But the movement won some supporters during those campaigns, and even though they were too few to win at the time, it was something to build on. “You can’t always win every battle, but what you can do is always engage the battle,” Wolfson says.

The statehood ballot measure is engaging a battle, albeit with a Nov. 8 expiration date.

The campaign drew a backlash when its “constitutional convention” didn’t actually give residents a meaningful say over what was included in the constitution. The ensuing consternation convinced the Council to amend its statehood proposal to require a constitutional convention with elected delegates within two years of statehood.

Jenkins, of Stand Up! for Democracy in DC, says the skirmish proved useful in the end.

“We got a lot of people involved who were outside our circle,” Jenkins says. “I think it really helped to expand the movement.”

But other signs indicate that residents are not all that engaged.

Enthusiasm for naming the state New Columbia has been scant, but there is no popular alternative. At an Oct. 18 hearing, Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans proposed an amendment to kill the New Columbia moniker.

“To me, today, that is an absurd name,” he said at the hearing. “I do not want my new state to be called New Columbia after Christopher Columbus. I mean, really. It makes no sense at all.” But, he added, “I don’t pretend that I have a better name.” So his amendment settled on an awkward one: the State of Washington, D.C. Ward 6’s Charles Allen submitted a footnote: Instead of District of Columbia, or nothing at all, the new D.C. would stand for Douglass Commonwealth, a nod to the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Allen clarified that this wouldn’t lengthen the official name, just give some meaning to the acronym.

Evans offered shrugging support. “Sure, I’m good with that, I guess. Sure. If that’s what gets your vote,” he said. At-large Councilmember Anita Bonds chimed it to call Douglass Commonwealth “a brilliant stroke.”

Formalizing it as an oral amendment, Allen sounded like he was filling out an acrostic: “D.C. stands for the Douglass Commonwealth. D. C.” The Council adopted the convoluted name.

Chairman Mendelson isn’t thrilled about where the Council landed on the naming issue. “It was pretty amazing that the Council in something like 20 minutes managed to completely upend what had been so longstanding and well-entrenched,” he says. even moDest goAls have eluded the D.C.

Mayor Muriel Bowser called for the statehood vote in April, hoping to energize a limp movement.

voting rights movement. Del. Norton has tried year after year to get President Obama to mention D.C.’s struggle in a State of the Union address.

“We’ve done everything,” Norton says.

“We’ve talked as high up as you can go except the president himself. We’ve submitted language, some of it subtle. But we’ve never been able to get him to do it.”

Brown, the shadow senator, says he understands why the White House hasn’t done more for D.C. voting rights. “I’ve been a political operative for 35 years, and if I was on his staff I might say, ‘Look, the people of D.C. aren’t even standing up for this. Why invest the political capital?’”

A new president means fresh hope. Norton believes Hillary Clinton would be more inclined to use the bully pulpit than Obama has been. Ahead of the District’s Democratic primary earlier this year, Clinton wrote an op-ed in the Washington Informer promising that during her presidency, “I will be a vocal champion for D.C. statehood.”

Vocal though she may be, Republicans in Congress will be just as steadfast in denying new seats to an electorate that gave President Obama more than 90 percent of its vote in 2008 and 2012.

Every Democratic presidential nominee has won D.C. in a landslide, going back to the first time the District had a say, in 1964. Yet the constitutional amendment that gave D.C. votes in the Electoral College—adopted by Congress in June 1960 and ratified by the states in 1961— had the support of President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the 1960 presidential nominees, both supported it too.

This bipartisan support came at the tail end of the District’s last period of partisan diversity—not some bygone era where principle

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trumped politics.

D.C. had never voted in a national race, so there wasn’t much data with which to speculate. In 1956, 23,912 Democrats and 21,670 Republicans in the District voted for their party’s national committeemen. Democrats had reason to believe that D.C. would deliver them its three electoral votes. It was a risk for Republicans, but they rolled the dice, hoping to appeal to the soon-to-be partially enfranchised.

These days, the District is a generation or more away from partisan parity. The rapid population changes occurring now are irrelevant, as reliably Democratic white newcomers displace reliably Democratic black residents.

“The demographics of the city are going to be solidly Democratic for quite a while,” says William Frey, an expert in demographics with the Brookings Institution.

Tom Davis, the former congressman from Virginia—one of the few Republicans in recent history to push for D.C. voting rights—isn’t coy about the reason so few members of his party agree with him. “Because it’s a one-party city,” he says. “If this city were a Republican city, it would be the opposite.”

While in office, Davis sponsored legislation that would have given the District one vote in the House, while adding an extra seat for Republican-heavy Utah. In the past, new states sometimes joined the union in pairs, to offset the political concerns of the day. “There’s always been a balance to this. This isn’t a new thing in American democracy,” Davis says.

D.C. statehood backers sometimes float the idea of pairing with Puerto Rico’s statehood movement, based on the attractive—but farfetched—idea that Puerto Rico would defy the trend of Latinos voting Democratic in national elections.

In California, a right-wing movement to form a new state called Jefferson comprised

of 21 northern counties has won official declarations from more than a dozen of the counties since 2013. Sally Rapoza, a leader of the State of Jefferson movement, says it too has heard suggestions that it join Puerto Rico—except in this case, it’s because the island territory would be dependably Democratic.

The question of aligning with D.C. statehood, meanwhile, was a new one for Rapoza.

“I have never heard the issue of D.C. argued before, but it is interesting,” she writes in an email. “Would D.C. be considered a ‘blue state’?” on A sAturDAy in October, on the first brisk day of the season, the District’s early voting began at Judiciary Square. Outside, gusts of wind were so strong that the drummer in the band opening for a statehood rally used one hand to steady a cymbal, which kept nearly tipping over.

Taking their turns trying to pump up the crowd were Eleanor Holmes Norton, half the members of the D.C. Council, and the three members of D.C.’s shadow delegation. A few dozen people attended, including media.

Mayor Bowser, wearing a green cap with “Muriel” written in white letters across the front, cheered from the audience. At one point, she jumped up and down with her fists raised, either showing her enthusiasm or trying to stay warm.

When it was her turn at the microphone, Bowser recalled how long the struggle has dragged on.

“My family has been here for generations,” she said. “We have suffered the indignity of paying taxes without representation.”

Next to the rally, the line for early voting stretched up the block, hundreds waiting to vote in the races in which they’ve been given a say.

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A Spartan in the Kitchen George Pagonis’ path from Greek diner to Greek empire A lot of chefs have a mantra to get them through hard times and grueling days. For George Pagonis, it’s “don’t screw it up,” because that’s the advice his father Tony Pagonis gave him at the most critical juncture of his career.

For most fathers and sons, these backhanded words of encouragement land before the first day of school or minutes before a wedding ceremony, but Tony put on the pressure in 2006, when he gave his sons Nick and George every last cent he earned from selling his Alexandria Greek diner, The Four Seasons, to TD Bank.

The cash positioned Nick and George to sign on as partners with Mike Isabella in 2011 so the trio could open Kapnos on 14th Street NW—and later Kapnos Taverna in Arlington and Kapnos Kouzina in Bethesda.

“I had a month’s worth of sleepless nights because I was so stressed out,” George recalls.

“My dad gave me whatever money he worked his whole life to earn. He gave me everything.”

George grew up working at The Four Seasons, making the transaction especially emotional. While other kids were going to baseball games on weekends, he was showing up for shifts starting in first grade. “We’d come in at 9 a.m. and make toast—you’d order a Western omelet with cheese and wheat toast. I made the wheat toast,” George says.

Servers would share their tips with George, who earned as much as $50 or $60 a day. He spent his earnings on ice cream sandwiches and video games. But even then, his father encouraged him to save. “‘You might have it this week, you might not have it next week. That’s how the restaurant industry works,’” George says, recalling his father’s foresight. “My dad always stressed that the diner is everything. If we lose this diner, we’re finished, we’re going back to Greece.”

The deep financial risk inherent in the business is one reason Tony hoped George wouldn’t follow in his footsteps. But Greek food is in his blood. At different points in their lives, Tony and his wife Mary emigrated from a tiny Greek village called Skoura, just outside of Sparta. They met in New York while Tony was helping his cousin open a Greek diner

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in Brooklyn and Mary was living in Astoria (Queens’ Little Greece).

The couple eventually settled in Alexandria because Tony’s uncle Louis Cholakis was opening Greek diners in Northern Virginia, including Amphora Diner Deluxe in Herndon, and needed help. Also, Tony’s brother Peter Pagonis owns Nostos in nearby Vienna and he has myriad nieces and nephews spread throughout the Northeast in the diner business. Tony followed suit by opening The Four Seasons.

For many of George’s relatives, going into the diner business wasn’t a choice. “When you come over from Greece, you don’t speak Eng-

lish, so you stick to family, and the people who came over first had diners,” George explains.

“They got into the diner business because they didn’t know how to do anything else. It’s kind of like Italians and pizzerias.”

As a first-generation Greek American, George did have a choice. But despite studying business and finance at the University of Mary Washington, he couldn’t quell his instinct to cook.

“I grAduAte from college, buy a fancy suit, and go on some job interviews,” he explains.

“But then I go to my father and almost have a breakdown. ‘Dad, dad, I can’t do this. I’m fak-

ing, this isn’t me.’ My dad’s like, ‘OK fine, you want to do the restaurant business, you’re going to culinary school.’”

George enrolled in New York’s Culinary Institute of America with the idea that he would open a new diner and run it with his brother after graduation. “The problem was I went to culinary school and didn’t realize the dining scene that existed outside the diner world,” George says, adding that his family always ate home-cooked food except for the occasional birthday meal at The Prime Rib. Culinary school stirred a desire to learn the world of fine dining. So George took his first job at New York’s Le Cirque under Chef

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Christophe Bellanca. The restaurant was intensely focused on earning both a New York Times review and Michelin stars.

“Everything had to be perfect,” George says. “I’ve never been screamed at so much in my life. My paychecks were like $350 a week.

Back in those days you worked 80 hours, only got paid for 40, but you didn’t sue your restaurateur.” To make ends meet, he lived with his grandmother in Astoria who still lovingly calls him her “roommate.”

George stayed at Le Cirque for two and a half years until the 2008 financial crisis crushed the fine dining business. He returned to D.C. late that year to be closer to family.

When he Googled “top D.C. restaurants,” the search returned one word—Zaytinya—so he had to work at José Andrés’ Mediterranean restaurant where Isabella was the executive chef at the time.

George submitted his resume on a Sunday evening and Isabella hired him the next morning. He stayed there for two and a half years before leaving to scratch the fine dining itch one more time in New York—this time at Charlie Palmer’s restaurant Aureole.

While he was there, things started to fall into place back at home. Namely, Isabella, who was fresh off a second Top Chef appearance and opening his first restaurant Graffiato, took a trip up to New York to meet with George in winter 2011 because he wanted to open a second restaurant with both Pagonis brothers as partners.

“He’s a good looking guy, Greek, came from fine dining and I thought he’d be perfect for me,” Isabella says. But there’s more to it—Isabella says George has the best work ethic in the company. “You don’t get that as a lot of people start moving up,” Isabella says.

Nick agrees. “He’s a smart kid, but it’s the good work ethic,” he says. “My dad always talked about good work ethic—laziness is the number one thing that will kill you. He’s far from that.”

It took a year and a half for George to nail down the Kapnos opening menu because of his desire to get things right. “I was getting scrutiny from my dad, uncles, my mom, saying you have to have this or that on the menu,” George explains.

His dad couldn’t wrap his head around nontraditional dishes like duck phyllo pie with cherries and pistachio yogurt. “I said I’m sticking to my guns here—I’m either going down in flames or it’s going to work out. Let’s show people Greek food can be different with those flavors in there.”

Though George went with a modern menu showcasing meat spit-roasted over hickory wood that more closely mimics the best BBQ pits in the Southern U.S. than anywhere in Greece, there are some nods at his Greek roots such as the lobster hilopites Kapnos

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serves on Tuesdays. George, after all, spent June through September in Greece growing up and still visits for two weeks every summer with his brother.

The women in George’s village would have hilopites parties where they’d make the diced pasta—drying it on George’s bed when he went out to play. “Then at night my grandmother would pick up the hilopites and my whole bed would smell like it,” he recalls. He had to have the lesser-known, classic dish on his menu but upped the ante by adding lobster.

Then there’s Kapnos’ brunch, a nod to George’s first job. “Big fat pieces of French toast, pork and beans—the really hearty dishes—are all an ode to the diner because I started from breakfast,” George says. “Kapnos D.C.’s brunch kills every other restaurant’s brunch.

We do 200 covers. It’s packed. I love working brunch. I’m probably the only chef that can say that.”

Just As george was getting in the groove at Kapnos, he followed in his partner’s Top Chef footsteps. It was almost a blemish on his career. He was eliminated first when he couldn’t shuck clams fast enough. “I buckled under the pressure—you have a million cameras on you,” George says. “Thank god I got back on and went to the final four.”

Then came the girls. When the show aired in 2015, George was engaged. But that didn’t stop all the single ladies from pinging him on social media or sliding their numbers over the pass in either of George’s open kitchens. (The airing of Top Chef coincided with the opening of Kapnos Taverna.)

“I’m telling you on Twitter they were throwing it out there, being very aggressive,” he says. He threw the numbers in the trash out of respect for his fiancée, but he

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found it hard to say no to posing for pictures with customers. “What they post on Facebook, I had no control over that. It was a little intense.”

Even after the engagement fell through (landing George in a Marie Claire article about the most eligible bachelor chefs in the nation), he didn’t lose focus. “I was a good boy. I didn’t let any of it phase me. I kept my eye on the prize because of my father.”

If you do a Google search for “George Pagonis,” the search engine will auto-fill “girlfriend” before “Kapnos” or even “Top Chef.”

He is now in a committed relationship with Jessica Greeves, who understands when he has to cancel a date to fill in for a sick chef or because a VIP is coming in to dine.

All in all, George says he’s glad he went on the show. “It opened some doors for me,” he says. “I love Mike Isabella, I think he’s a great guy, but I don’t want to be in his shadow my whole life.” to IsAbellA, george is no understudy.

“What he’s doing for Greek food now is what José Andrés did for Spanish food,” the restaurateur says of Pagonis, whose Greek heritage inspired Kapnos, Kapnos Taverna, and Kapnos Kouzina, plus Kapnos Taverna in Reagan National Airport. No two concepts are alike.

Kapnos Taverna boasts a raw bar while Kapnos Kouzina is known for its fried chicken with burnt honey harissa.

“He’s teaching people about Greek food— it’s not just spanakopita, but a lot more flavors and techniques. That’s what people need to understand. I’m an owner, he’s my partner, but he’s the man that deserves the credit for Kapnos.”

A typical work day for George starts at one of his restaurants in the ’burbs, Kapnos Taver-

na or Kapnos Kouzina, where he’ll work lunch and check in with the chef de cuisine. Then in the afternoon it’s back to Kapnos in D.C. to ready the kitchen for dinner service and maybe even some recipe testing for menu development. He’s become a master delegator. “In order for me to do my job properly, I have to free myself up,” George says.

“His team reflects George’s leadership,” says Nick, who oversees front-of-house operations at Kapnos and other restaurants.

“George looks at every dish that comes out. If it’s not right, you’ll hear curse words. Unfortunately, the guests hear it at the chef ’s counter, but that’s part of the experience.”

The days can be draining—George works six days a week—but nothing compares to restaurant openings, which George classify as his most trying moments because he’s in at 7 a.m. and out at 1 a.m., only to repeat the whole thing again.

He says the biggest challenge is training because the food at Kapnos is unlike other restaurants. “All the words are different, all the ingredients are different, the techniques are different. You’re just training, training, training and then the guy quits, doesn’t show up, or he gets in a fight with someone and you have to fire him.”

Even Isabella pinch hits to help out. “I worked the sauté line the first two months at Kapnos Taverna,” George says. “Mike Isabella was working the expo station. Bethesda was the same thing. He comes out of retirement for the openings.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, George has a steady stream of openings in his future.

WhAt people mIght not know about the Pagonis brothers is that they’re more than just partners in the Greek restaurants under the Mike Isabella Concepts (MIC) umbrella.

They’re all in, and that means they’re invested in one of the fastest growing restaurant groups in the region.

The next restaurant to debut is a Southern Spain and Tangier-inspired restaurant called Arroz, which is going into D.C.’s Marriott Marquis hotel this fall. The Pagonis brothers, Isabella, and MIC beverage director Taha Ismail traveled to Portugal, Spain, and Morocco for research.

Then there’s the gargantuan Isabella Eatery going into Tysons Galleria in Virginia.

The 41,000-square-foot food court will hold at least 10 concepts, including Kapnos Marketa—a quick serve take on Kapnos that will get George’s modern Greek food into infinitely more homes (and mouths).

By anyone’s standard’s, even Tony’s, George didn’t screw it up.

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

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what we ate last week: aushak afghan dumplings stuffed with leeks and topped with ground beef, yellow split peas, and strained yogurt, $10, Lapis. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Hokkaido roll with tempura baby scallops, pickled mango, avocado, seared diver scallop, and jalapeño and garlic dill aioli, $18, Sakerum. Excitement Level: 4 out of 5.

HUMANS OF SHOPHOUSE

In light of recent news that Chipotle will no longer be investing in its Southeast Asian offshoot, and instead will focus on pizza and burgers, we asked loyal and first-time ShopHouse Dupont Circle customers for their thoughts. While there’s no set shutter date for the fast casual eatery that allows people to build rice, noodle, or salad bowls in assembly-line fashion, there won’t be any further growth of the chainlet that has both a cult following and its fair share of haters.

—Laura Hayes Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

“I moved here three and a half months ago and I’ve been four or five times.

The Chipotle model is convenient. If I’m being honest, when it was closing I was like, ‘this isn’t the worst thing in the world but it’s nice to have variety, customize what you’re eating.’ You just mask everything with sriracha. There’s not really a lot of flavor. If we’re going to be really honest, the bathroom aftermath of ShopHouse is not great.

So I’m not particularly broken up about it. I’m going have one last meal, some meatballs before it goes down. If we have places like Cava, do we really need ShopHouse?”

“We just moved here about two months ago. We were in Germany and didn’t have ShopHouse. I started coming because of the library promotion deal this past month, and they just gave us a buy-one-get-one coupon, so we came back. Today I got a meatball wrap. It was pretty good.”

“It’s cheap. I like the flavors. Of course I’m going to miss it. I usually come once a week. I usually eat it over two days. In my bowl I have half salad and half white rice. I’m eating it all today because I don’t want my last ShopHouse … to be reheated ShopHouse. I wanted to save some calories, so I got half salad to be good. I’ve got meatballs, squash, beans, and peanuts, and the red curry sauce.”

“I got noodles, steak, pickled veggies.

Are we all concerned it’s closing down?

I wouldn’t be sad. It’s consumerism as anything else. It’s just quick, cheap food. I’m not that attached to my food, I guess. It just keeps me going. I’m good at making lunch for four days of the week and not five, so I need the fifth one and this is it.”

“I’m kind of bummed out. My company just moved around the corner, so this is the second time I’ve been here this week. Two years ago I worked somewhere there was no ShopHouse nearby. Before that for a number of years I worked at a company that had a ShopHouse down the street. I went two or three days a week. I get the chicken bowl with rice and stuff. If they raise their prices, I think all of my peers we’d continue to eat here even if it was two dollars extra. I’m surprised they’re not making the kind of money they were looking for.”

“I just saw it on Yelp. This is my first time. I like Southeast Asian food. It’s not super authentic. It’s an attempt to do Chipotle-style Asian food. I really like the Lao place, Thip Khao. I’m from Taiwan, but I lived in Southeast Asia.”

“I’m there every time something is free. I’m just playing. They just sent out a new promotion this week. They used to have a BikeShare thing. That was awhile back. It’s fresh. It’s fresh.

I do the chicken, the rice, the string beans, the squash, and the corn. I tell them to put extra veggies.”

“This is my first time. It was pretty good, it tasted good. It’s like Chipotle but not. I made this myself. The ShopHouse bowl had rice, but I prefer the noodles. I got the green beans because they looked very good. They’re a little spicy, but it was good. This is maybe my first and my last bowl. It’s a shame.”

“I love the peanut sauce. It’s fabulous.

And they throw extra garlic on top of my chicken. It’s amazing.”

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Fight or Blight The Welders’ latest play aims for authenticity inside The Octagon.

By Chris Klimek Nicklas aliff is a big, burly guy. And it sure looks like he’s beating up a girl.

Her name is Audrey Bertaux. She looks to be somewhere in her twenties, wiry and athletic and far from defenseless. But she has only a fraction of Aliff’s bulk. He sweeps Bertaux off her feet and raises her as though he’s going to body slam her.

He’s got her to about the height of his chest when he takes a wary glance up at the dangerously close ceiling, low enough for him to touch. His commitment to grievous bodily harm suddenly flagging, he looks over at fight choreographer Cliff Williams, an even bigger guy (equally goateed) who’s been observing from a corner of the compact room. I know, says Williams’ expression.

Aliff gently deposits Bertaux on the matted floor.

Overhead clearance won’t be a problem once The Girl in the Red Corner, a new play by Stephen Spotswood, moves into the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street NE, where it has its first preview on Nov. 3.

(It opens formally Saturday, Nov. 5) But in the basement of Capital MMA in Takoma Park on a rainy October afternoon, compromises must be made; even in a production that’s been uncompromising in its efforts to make its hand-to-hand encounters look real.

Well, not real. They have to tell a story, too. Stage combat shouldn’t strive for mere plausibility any more than dialogue should aspire to the repetition and aimlessness of ordinary speech. It’s just supposed to be realistic enough to camouflage the playwright’s narrative or thematic agenda.

“Sometimes there’s a cool move that’s fun to do but which doesn’t serve the story,” director Amber Paige McGinnis says.

“We’ve tried to be very disciplined,” culling the fights down to moves that express each character’s emotional state, blow by blow. Williams estimates the climactic fight they’re working on now has between 50 and 75 of them.

While other shows have featured a high fisticuffs quotient, The Girl in the Red Corner is the first D.C. play to make fight-sports its subject—or at least its milieu—since Studio Theatre’s production of Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch almost five years ago. It’s arguably the most ambitious offering yet from the Welders, a rotating collective of D.C. playmakers founded in 2013. Red Corner is the first show from the Welders’ second generation, a group of eight theater artists who will produce seven plays before choosing the next class of theatremakers to succeed them in just over three years’ time. It’s about Halo, a youngish woman reeling from a divorce and succession of shitty jobs who finds solace in The Octagon—the 25-or-30-foot-diameter (dimensions vary) cage of Mixed Martial Arts competitions.

In a sort of literal expression of the central metaphor that makes fight-stories like Rocky resonate far beyond the audience for blood sports, every scene in Red Corner is staged inside The

Octagon. Even the ones that take place in an office or around a kitchen table.

Deb Sivigny, a prolific designer of sets and costumes who is also one of the eight current Welders, created the cage. Williams created the fights, with a big assist from Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor Jay Ferrari, the show’s MMA consultant.

Ferrari gave the five actors—all of whom are well-condi-

riod for this show hasn’t been substantially longer than that of a conventional play.

There was nothing physical in Red Corner’s audition process, the actors say. Still, Spotswood and McGinnis had good reason to believe the actors they’d hired could handle the load: Hopkins works as an instructor at several D.C.-area health clubs, as does Maggie Donnelly, who plays Gina, Halo’s trainer.

Williams says the level of conditioning the cast came in with has been invaluable, but that performing fights on stage is less about raw athleticism and more about attention to detail and the ability to control one’s strength.

Among the actors, Bertaux has the heaviest burden: As Halo, she’s in every scene—every fight. There’s an intermission, but she never leaves the stage during either of the two acts.

“I’ve always been a workout geek but I knew I’d have to ramp it up,” Bertaux says. She added to a fitness regimen usually dominated by yoga with rope-skipping and other high-intensity interval drills, determined to build her stamina. Were the play a more

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Nicklas Aliff and Audrey Bertaux prepare to engage in fisticuffs. tioned fitness enthusiasts and/or professionals, but with littleto-no martial arts background—a crash course in striking and grappling, but his main task has been working with Williams and McGinnis to design a series of distinct fights that serve the dramatic imperatives of Spotswood’s script. Fights the actors can execute safely over 15 performances.

“Our fight call is going to take an hour,” laughs Jennifer Hopkins, who plays Brinn, Halo’s older sister who’s working through marital difficulties of her own. (Fight call is the practice during which any simulated violence in a play is re-rehearsed shortly before the curtain of each performance, to reduce the chance of an on-stage injury.) This is the fourth week of Red Corner rehearsals; opening night is two weeks away. That means the prep pe-

conventional drama, only the two actors playing fighters, Bertaux and Donnelly, would be spending their afternoon in this basement gym. But Red Corner imagines Halo’s emotional and verbal clashes with her family and coworkers as physical altercations, too. Conflict is the essence of drama, Aristotle said. (Not Aristotle “Warlord” Estino, 0-1, 135 lbs. The other one.)

That means all five cast members—even Hopkins, Hodsoll, and Aliff, as Halo’s sister, mother, and brother-in-law, respectively, who react to her new occupation with variable levels of bewilderment and disapproval—get to sweat. “I’ve never spent so much time on the physical aspect” of a performance, says Lisa Hodsoll, who plays Halo’s mother. And this is an actor who played Medea in a solo show. washingtoncitypaper.com november 4, 2016 27

CPArts “We try to be very clear with the actors,” McGinnis says. “Now we are training in MMA technique. Okay. Now we’re doing theater choreography, and this is the way we have translated the MMA training into something that’s safe and that we can repeat.”

None of this was supposed to be necessary. Spotswood had another play ready for the Welders to develop and produce.

The Gantry Girls Come Home is about “six sisters sitting deathwatch for their mom,” he says. One of them was an MMA fighter. Spotswood “fell down a deep, deep YouTube rabbit hole” of MMA matches and clips as he researched what he thought would only be a detail of one character’s backstory. He also caught up with a friend from college who had begun training as a fighter. “I saw the intense and positive spark” her new occupation brought to her life, Spotswood says.

His growing curiosity about mixed martial arts crystallized when he saw the Minneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree play the Rock & Roll Hotel in Sept. 2015. The statuesque singer/rapper Dessa was performing, and her stage presence gave Spotswood a mental picture of a woman in a fighting stance, sweat-soaked but defiant. By the time he’d completed the short walk home from the concert, he’d decided to write a play about the fighter he’d imagined, whomever she was. All he knew for sure was that every scene would be set in the ring. He knew he could send The Gantry Girls around to theatres and trust them to figure out how to stage it. But for this new thing, he knew he’d want to work closely with a director and designers he knows—a privilege that being the Lead Producing Playwright of his Welders class affords him.

“I started thinking, ‘The Welders are supposed to be an opportunity to take risks and to go bigger,’” Spotswood says. “Well, this would be bigger. This would be real hard.”

McGinnis, who’d had a happy creative partnership with Spotswood on Pinky Swear Productions’ 2015 Capital Fringe show The Last Burlesque, had already agreed to direct Gantry Girls. But the clarity of Spotswood’s vision for Red Corner persuaded her to stay on, even before that clarity manifested itself in a completed script.

“Marrying physicality to storytelling is something that interests me,” says McGinnis. “I was a dancer before I was anything else.” She earns her living primarily as a filmmaker with the production company WILL Interactive, but has directed for almost all of D.C.’s most prominent mid-level theatres; Constellation Theatre Company’s stunning production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus last winter was hers.

Many of Red Corner’s principals hail from some point on the actor-athlete spectrum. Williams was a bouncer and actor before before he got into fight choreography. Theaters also bring him in to choreograph sex scenes, as well as moments of physical comedy.

Donnelly is a compact and intense lady who moved to D.C. from New York two-and-a-half years ago “to hit the reset button.” She’d been doing musical theater and singing at weddings most weekends; eventually the strain wore away her voice. Unable to sing, she felt depressed and aimless. Arriving in D.C., she found the theater community more close-knit than in New York, a discovery that’s been restorative. She also started taking boxing conditioning classes when she got here.

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“It’s really funny that I’m in a play about somebody who feels like she’s out of options and she goes to fighting,” she says. “I know intimately what that’s like.”

Gina, her character, relies on the discipline and routine of fight training to maintain her sobriety. Coincidentally, Donnelly ended up in a “Bodyshred” class taught by Hopkins soon after her arrival, though the two did not introduce themselves to one another until being cast in a show together. Donnelly now teaches 15 to 20 fitness classes per week, mostly barre but also lots of “multiplanar high-intensity conditioning.”

Rehearsal is back on. Bertaux and Donnelly are practicing a grappling scene wherein Gina tries to hold Halo in a “Mount” position, straddling her stomach, but Halo manages to escape.

They’ve been through it several times, and Bertaux complains that her shoulder is beginning to hurt while the choreography seems to be getting less precise. Williams asks the assistant stage manager who has been filming the fight with her phone to give the actors a playback.

He suggests an adjustment, and the women try it again. This time, a tangle of Bertaux’s hair gets briefly trapped under Donnelly’s knee.

“Maybe I should just shave it,” Bertaux says.

“Then I wouldn’t have anything to braid,” coos Donnelly.

Then she crawls back on top of Bertaux, pinning her beneath her legs. No mercy.

CP Nov. 3-20 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 15$30. (202) 399-7993. thewelders.org.

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One Track Mind

A monthly feature that highlights the art of gig posters and flyers.

Nitemoves “Tacit Blue”

Standout Track: No. 8, “Tacit Blue,” is a nuanced, club-ready banger from D.C.based techno auteur Rory O’Connor, a.k.a. Nitemoves. The instrumental track—from his latest album, Don’t Ask!— kicks off the record’s excellent final act with a relentless but varied progressive jam, influenced by the spacier side of italo disco, a style of music O’Connor’s parents played during his formative years. It’s a space-y track that sends listeners through a series of sonic gates at interstellar speeds—each time upping the ante with reverb, delay, phasing, and just about every other effect under the sun.

Nitemoves: bringing D.C. music into the space age one thump at a time.

Show: Fraternal Twin, Keeper, Palette at the Lilly Trotter Tea Lounge. Nov. 9. $8-$10.

Artist: Caroline Rexrode

Show: Tom Blancarte, Sarah Hughes, Daniel Barbiero/ Gary Rouzer/ Nate Scheible at Rhizome DC. 6950 Maple St. NW. Nov. 14. $10.

Artist: Nate Scheible

Show: Funeral Dress, The Unknown Threat, Heatwave at Slash Run. 201 Upshur St. NW. 11/26. $10.

Artist: Kevin Konrad

Show: Alright, Schroeder, The Meer at The Lab. 1819 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria. Nov. 12. $5-$10.

Artist: Mary Kate Larwood

Musical Motivation: Institutionalized secrets. In musical terms, “tacit” means quieter volume, but as evidenced by the not-so-quiet nature of “Tacit Blue,” the song’s title is in fact a reference to clandestine defense programs. “The ‘Tacit Blue’ program,” O’Connor explains, “was a concept Northrup Grumman developed in radar evasion technology in the mid-to-late 70s.” And while the music is entirely instrumental, O’Connor describes Don’t Ask! as a “concept album,” featuring hints and nods to highly classified military programs from over the years. “A lot of the songs on [Don’t Ask!] deal with generally secretive behavior,” he says, “[The songs] were based on things I was thinking and reading about, trying to draw superficial connections between technology and my work.”

Form Vs. Function: “I think I’ve always been a technically minded person,” O’Connor reflects. “I’ve always been really interested in technology and how stuff works, and that’s how I fell into writing music on synthesizers and 4-tracks, stuff like that.” And if his Instagram feed is any evidence, it’s clear he appreciates the art of machinery, interspersing shots from the road with images of fighter jets and more. —Peter Lillis Listen to “Tacit Blue” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

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Musical TheaTer a Go-Go D.C.’s first go-go musical comes from unlikely places.

Wind Me Up, Maria!

Created and Directed by Natsu Onoda Power with Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris At Georgetown University’s Davis Performing Arts Center to Nov. 12

By Alona Wartofsky At first glAnce, Natsu Onoda Power may not seem like someone who would write and direct Wind Me Up, Maria!, the new go-go musical premiering at Georgetown University this weekend. After all, she was born and raised in central Japan, studied theater and printmaking at Northwestern University, and authored a book on post-World War II manga.

But scratch the surface and you’ll find a serious fan of the genre who just might have gone to more go-go shows than you. Power moved to D.C. in 2005, and two years later she first encountered go-go with the man she would later marry, chef Tom Power. “We were in his car and he put on a Chuck Brown CD,” she says.

“I didn’t know what it was. I was like, ‘What is this sound? This is great!’”

Once Natsu heard live go-go, she immediately found a link between D.C.’s continuous percussive groove and her own work in theater. “Chuck’s shows reminded me of the kind of theater I wanted to make. There’s a lot of exchange between the performers and the audience, and it was nonstop, with no discernible transitions,” she says. “One big challenge for me in theater is transitions, how to keep it going with the same kind of drive and energy. Chuck’s shows were incredibly inspiring for me.”

Still, getting a handle on go-go authenticity can be tough for anyone who hasn’t grown up in the DMV, and that’s where Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris steps in as Maria’s musical director and band leader. A popular vocalist on the go-go scene and currently with Rare Essence, Shorty provides crucial credibility.

Known for his singsong vocal style and everpresent aviator shades, Corleone is also a compelling stage presence. At a recent rehearsal at Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center, he stood on top of a table, making ingenious

use of recent RE lyrics for the show’s opening announcements. His voice could be heard one flight up.

The plot of Wind Me Up, Maria! involves a young woman, born and raised in Northeast, who attends Georgetown. She is struggling to find direction when she is hired as a nanny by a wealthy single mom with a brood of politically correct kids. Maria introduces the kids to go-go, and because this is that kind of musical, hijinks ensue. And while Maria! has plenty of laugh lines, Power touches on issues surrounding gentrification as well as the District’s inability to elevate gogo in any meaningful way. The cast, led by GU freshman Myiah Smith as Maria, consists of Georgetown students along with members of Capital Kidds, an ensemble of performing tweens mentored by Shorty.

Like Maria, Smith grew up in Northeast Washington. Smith’s grandfather played in 100 Years Time, a popular funk band during the early ‘70s, so she has some connection with local music. “This production is an accurate reflection of what D.C. music has gone

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through and continues to go through,” says Smith. “It’s great to see a writer like Natsu shed light on issues like gentrification. That’s what the arts are really about.”

Maria!’s music includes original material by Shorty as well a few go-go classics performed by the production’s “GYB” band, which includes scene veterans Quentin “Shorty Dud” Ivey and Mark “Godfather” Lawson. A keyboard player who has performed with a number of bands, Lawson hopes that Maria! can nudge go-go in new directions. “It’s good that we get this opportunity for sharing knowledge of the original style of go-go and where it came from,” says Lawson. “It’s also helping the youth who perform the music to understand that there are other ways to perform go-go. You can get into the community theater, you can into dance programs, you can even do cruises.”

From the start, Shorty was intent on staying true to go-go. “We needed to make sure the script supported the history of the music,” he says. “There have been some conversations, with me saying, ‘this may be a touchy subject

right here.’ So we have made sure we are representing the culture.”

Authenticity was paramount in the production. Wiley Brown, son of the late Chuck Brown, coached the actor playing his father to help him replicate Brown’s signature guffaw.

While the production is slated to run through Nov. 12, Power hopes that Maria! won’t end there. “This is an interesting time for go-go, with a lot of renewed interest,” she says. “Go-go belongs in the city, not just in clubs. And so this show is taking gogo out of its usual club context and making it accessible for people who are not 21 and for families, too.”

Power’s goal is to attract both new audiences and longtime go-go fans. “I really hope anybody and everybody will come,” she says. “But I do need some audience members who are familiar with go-go, so they will know what to do during the call and response.”

37th and O Streets N.W. $7-18. (202) 687-3838. performingarts.georgetown.edu.

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FilmShort SubjectS Doctor Strange

Oh, hOw Strange Doctor Strange

Directed by Scott Derrickson It’d be easy to call the Marvel Cinematic Universe the PEZ Dispenser of Hollywood, but that wouldn’t be fair. On their surfaces, Marvel films are pretty much the same: homogenized superhero fodder—replete with big action set pieces and huge stars—that a studio executive can easily dispense. And they all fit nicely together in a single package; characters and storylines that weave and intersect within individual films to create a larger narrative.

But to Marvel’s credit, they put a lot of care and effort into giving each individual film its own unique fabric, even if they’re cut from the same cloth. Sometimes it works (Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, AntMan, among Marvel’s more unique outings), and sometimes it doesn’t (Iron Man 2 & 3, The Avengers: Age of Ultron). Doctor Strange, Marvel’s latest, is perhaps its most ambitious film yet—at least visually. It’s main character, Dr. Stephen Strange (an affably cocky Benedict Cumberbatch), embarks on inter-dimensional journeys to learn the secrets of the universe. It’s biggest action sequences defy gravity and the laws of physics as cityscapes shift and transform like a massive Rubix Cube. This is Marvel’s acid trip.

Though Doctor Strange’s impressive visual effects and head-spinning mythology—deeply rooted in Eastern mysticism—might seem a bit much for Marvel’s typical filmgoing crowd, its story is rudimentary enough to keep the more far-reaching elements relatively grounded.

This is an origin story, after all, and if there’s one thing Marvel knows how to do, it is how to tell an origin story.

Cumberbatch dazzles—literally and figuratively—as Strange, an accomplished but toococky-for-his-own good neurosurgeon who falls to pieces after a brutal car accident leaves

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the nerves in his hands permanently damaged.

All seems lost for Strange until he meets a man (Benjamin Bratt) who claims to have fully recovered from complete paralysis thanks to a mystical compound in Kathmandu called Kamar-Taj. Strange spends every last penny he has to travel to Kamar-Taj, where he meets a sorcerer called The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), who introduces him to the realm of magic, the astral plane, and other dimensions.

Strange begs her to teach him, but she’s reluctant at first because of his arrogance. She gives in, though, and Strange begins his training at Kamar-Taj under The Ancient One, and her students-turned-sorcerers, including Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Wong (Benedict Wong).

But all is not peachy among Marvel’s sorcery community. Kaecilius (an icy, excellent Mads Mikkelsen), a former student of The Ancient One who’s gone rogue and recruited his own followers after uncovering one of her, er, dark secrets, is hell bent on merging Earth with the ominously named Dark Dimension, a place where time does not exist. Naturally, Strange and the rest of The Ancient One’s students get wrapped up in an interdimensional battle to save the planet from total annihilation. So it goes.

Credit where credit’s due: Director/writer Scott Derrickson, along with co-writer C. Robert Cargill, does a fine job keeping the convoluted backstory relatively grounded, but it’s the thoroughly awe-inspiring action sequences—most of which occur in different dimensions and/or astral planes—that are most impressive in Doctor Strange.

But when all is said and done, Doctor Strange is, at its core, a Marvel origin story, and so it hits all the requisite beats: The main character’s emotional and physical transformation into a superhero; several training montages; and a hackneyed love story, this time between Strange and his co-worker/former lover Christine Palmer (an underutilized Rachel McAdams). Even if Doctor Strange seems like the trippiest superhero movie you’ve ever seen, it’s still the same superhero you’ve seen countless

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times.

—Matt Cohen

Doctor Strange opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

Stand YOur grOund Hacksaw Ridge

Directed by Mel Gibson In Hacksaw Ridge, you will see a small boy hit his brother in the face with a brick. A soldier will lift up another man’s torso and use it as a human shield. You’ll see disembowelings and decapitations, limbs blown off and people buried alive, and did I mention this is a film about a pacifist? One that celebrates his commitment to nonviolence? Rarely has a film ever wrestled so determinedly with itself.

Some will argue that this central contradiction makes the movie feel disjointed, or that it only means there is something for everyone to dislike. The very presence of Mel Gibson behind the camera will be too much for many, but there is something refreshing about a commercial film that challenges us with juxtaposition and refuses to placate its base, particularly in this gerrymandered political era. Hacksaw Ridge brazenly challenges its audience in both form and content, and it might just be the most subversive piece of pop art this year.

Its opening scenes grapple with America’s small-town mythology. As a child in picturesque rural Virginia, Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) witnesses violence both within and without. He nearly kills his brother in a routine fistfight, egged on by his father (Hugo Weaving), an emotionally-crippled and abusive WWI vet. But Doss quashes his darkness through deeds and faith. A devout SeventhDay Adventist, he dreams of becoming a doctor but settles for romancing a local nurse

(Teresa Palmer). Compelled by patriotism, he signs up to fight in WWII but won’t give up his ideals: He agrees to be a medic and refuses to carry a weapon. “While everybody is taking life, I’m going to be saving it,” Doss states defiantly.

His optimism is severely tested, however, in a protracted battle for a mountain ledge that holds key strategic value in the Pacific theater.

It’s a scene just as bloody as the D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan, but filmed with the cheap viscerality of a Saw movie. Blood gushes, bodies are ripped in half, and bullets explode human heads. It’s jarring to see war filtered through B-movie conventions—especially in a prestige picture like Hacksaw Ridge— but it also gives viewers an avenue towards understanding a chaos that is almost unimaginable, and it further underlines Doss’ heroism. He wilfully enters a waking nightmare with only his principles to protect him, and somehow emerges unscathed.

The film is not wrapped quite as tightly in its values. Despite its gruesome violence, Hacksaw Ridge plays as a surprisingly potent anti-gun parable. At one point, Doss plainly states, “I refuse to bear arms,” language that connotes a comment on our present-day political battles. Given that Gibson’s fan base is composed predominantly of members of a certain pro-gun political party, this is an impressively bold move. The film reserves plenty of reverence for those who do fight (and take quite a bit of life over the course of the film), but it clearly holds Doss in even higher esteem. They may be heroes, but he’s a superhero, made nearly invincible by his commitment to compassion.

Still, Hacksaw Ridge would have been a stronger, more complex work if it were interested in Doss as anything more than a hero or a Christ figure. If you’ve seen a war movie before, you expect it to end with a homecoming, where Doss is reunited with the loving wife and family he left behind. It never does.

Nor does the film include any real historical context; the fact that Hacksaw Ridge was one Continued

FilmShort SubjectS of the last battles fought in WWII oddly never comes up. And the idea that the Japanese soldiers might be actual human beings, as opposed to the very personification of evil itself, is nearly unthinkable here. Gibson isn’t interested in context, only in symbols. At least he knows how to use them.

—Noah Gittell Hacksaw Ridge opens Friday at theaters everywhere.

Fight Club Ice Guardians

Directed by Brett Harvey When players In the National Hockey League practice, they skate to increase speed and stick-handle pucks to improve grace.

Weight training is a given. And so, too, are a few rounds in the ring.

Ice Guardians takes a look at an NHL position that you won’t find mentioned in any official playbook. Don’t call them “goons”— though we know they’re goons, and they know they’re goons. Many interviewed here take offense at the label or even get philosophical about it. (“Wherefore goon?”) The accepted description is enforcer, and though the term didn’t come about until the 1970s or ’80s, the enforcer has been a part of the sport since the first professional hockey game, which ended in a brawl.

Director and co-writer Brett Harvey hardly presents a balanced view of the fisticuffs that are regarded as part of the sport. It’s analysis as valentine: The nearly two-hour documentary is little but footage of fights and interviews with career NHL enforcers such as Scott Parker (Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks) and Kevin Westgarth (Los Angeles Kings, Carolina Hurricanes, Calgary Flames).

There are some outsiders, such as a neurosurgeon, a criminologist (?), a TV/radio host, and a behaviorist. The oddest talking head is actor Jay Baruchel, who seems like a totally random commentator unless you know that he co-wrote 2011’s enforcer-themed Goon, which I suppose gives him some authority on the subject.

Most of the players admit to a bit of guilt, but they all sound like schoolboys who mumble an insincere apology after being sent to the corner. Brian McGrattan, who floated around the NHL before landing in the Elite Ice Hockey Team, is open about his violent streak: “I look at another guy and I want to beat his face in every time I see that guy on the ice.”

Scott Parker, who played with the Avalanche and Sharks, says that he used to toughen his hands by wrapping them in chains and punching things so that they became “like hammers.

To people’s faces.”

The film offers several rationalizations for

playing the brute, such as it being the only way that less-skilled players can stand out at AHL levels, or that the mental intimidation of an enforcer on ice is as crucial to winning as the physical aspect, or that finesse players would have shorter careers if they didn’t have others watching their back. Nick Fotiu, who also bounced around the league, rhetorically asked how the multiple Stanley Cup-winning Edmonton Oilers would have performed in the 1980s without enforcers: “Where do you think Wayne Gretzy would be? Where do you think his head would be?”

Harvey also approaches fans on the street to ask their opinion about fighting in hockey.

There was a lone dissenter, with the general consensus being that it’s “fun” and part of the game. One woman—not some testosteroneoverloaded dude—says, “There isn’t enough of it.” Adrenaline seems to be what both the fans and teams crave. Jeff Marek, the radio/ TV personality, remarks, “I’m not sure how I can rationalize something as emotional as a hockey fight. Logically, it makes no sense. It’s a sport. Where does this violence come from?”

Ice Guardians furthers this aspect of the phenomenon by citing tribal instincts that still exist in humans’ subconsciouses. It also touches on concussions, “the code” among enforcers (who sometimes actually chat about at what point in the game they should fight), and the 1996 instigator rule, which essentially allowed someone to play dirty without repercussions because anyone who went after him would be handed multiple minutes in the penalty box for starting a fight.

For all its insider insight, the film never quite explains why people who would be horrified watching a bloody confrontation in everyday life cheer on the very same act within the confines of a rink. Fights electrify the crowd and may alter the momentum of a game. Few fans would disagree with this. But why hockey and not any other sport?

Ice Guardians is a thrilling highlight reel with some bonus game strategies thrown in. (And Buffalo Sabres’ fans will finally learn why Rob Ray always seemed to end fights with his jersey off.) You might hear a tiny violin near the end, which talks about the relatively new NHL rules for deeper and tighter lines that are effectively phasing out enforcers. There’s footage of some of the commentators skating with the Cup, a privilege that current goons-in-training may no longer get the chance to enjoy.

But the film goes further than noting the “profound loyalty” of enforcers and dismissing the number of injuries they cause by copmaring them to innocent hits. The tough guys are practically elevated to saintlike status, being deemed “the most ethical and moral member(s) of the tribe.”

—Tricia Olszewski Ice Guardians opens Friday at AMC Hoffman.

DECLASSIFIED Bryce Dessner LIVE Jacomo Bairos, conductor

Friday, November 18 at 9 p.m.

Concert Hall

DECLASSIFIED concerts feature bold and boundary-breaking music, dynamic multimedia, and audience interaction. Bryce Dessner— multifaceted guitarist from The National, sought-after composer, and all-around borderless artist—joins the NSO for a program of his works, including music from The Revenant and the acclaimed St. Carolyn by the Sea, performed live with Dessner and Gyan Riley on electric guitars.

Pre-Concert entertainment with Flock of Dimes Post-Concert after party DJ set

by Scott Devendorf of The National Cash bar: Bring drinks and snacks into the Concert Hall

KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG | (202) 467-4600 Tickets also available at the Box Office. Groups call (202) 416-8400.

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

David and Alice Rubenstein are the Presenting Underwriters of the NSO. Additional support for DECLASSIFIED: Fridays at 9 is provided by Sydney and Jay Johnson.

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MusicOne sOng One Song is a new monthly column by Chad Clark, of the band Beauty Pill, that dissects and interrogates the deeper meanings of a single song.

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I am not much of a drinker. I’m what they call a lightweight. But I’ve found that there’s a certain state of mind I can only reach with alcohol.

It’s a kind of serene moment of discovered clarity.

The world may sway and swish around you, but you’re in the perfect eye of the storm. It feels like lucidity. Perhaps intoxication has led you to revelation and balance?

It’s illusory, of course. A paradox.

In truth, alcohol serves to lower inhibition and impede motor function. Drinking is derangement. It turns you into a stumbling asshole or a stumbling sweetheart, depending on your disposition. It rarely leads to enlightened consciousness.

Elvis Costello’s “Beyond Belief ” seems to be an impressionistic rendering of this chimerical vantage point. That epiphanic, philosophical insight that seizes you right before you slip off the bar stool.

The song is iconic among musicians; it provokes hushed awe in most songwriters I know.

It evokes drunkenness sonically in order to parse drunkenness itself; a remarkable trick.

But it goes deeper than that.

“Beyond Belief ” is the concise and bold opening song of Elvis Costello & The Attractions’ album Imperial Bedroom. In 1982, this album came as a startling career departure.

With his earlier releases, Costello had established a persona: a confrontational, snarling, acerbic punk. His songs were recriminatory, his recordings economical, dry, and punchy.

The lushly appointed, daringly ambitious Imperial Bedroom (produced by the brilliant Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick) was a total surprise. And coming as it does at the top of the album, “Beyond Belief ” functions as Imperial Bedroom’s statement of intent. All opening songs purport to work that way, but “Beyond Belief ” seems especially defiant.

The song drops you into a suspended, swirling reverie with a single bass note, a faint and floating organ sound, and a jazz-like drum rhythm that keeps the floor slipping beneath your feet. Most notably: There is no guitar. The music seems to hover and float mid-air. Nobody knew The Attractions could do this.

Into this ghostly space comes Costello’s voice, employing a gentle tone that seems either sultry or haunted, depending on your perspective. There is no precedent in his cat-

alogue. It comes out of nowhere. As do the words: History repeats the old conceits the glib replies the same defeats Keep your finger on important issues with crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues I’m just the oily slick on the windup world with a nervous tick in a very fashionable hovel The lyrics spool out masterfully like lines from James Joyce or T.S. Eliot. Densely packed with shadowy wordplay and phantasmagoric allusion, the song seems to depict a sinister night in a bar (or “gin palace.”) Ostensibly, the song’s subject attempts to seduce a beautiful woman. He feels a predatory mixture of desire and objectifying contempt for her. He admires her innocence, but also wishes to defile it. He’s drawn to her allure, but also resents it.

We’ve all seen men do this.

The subject seems to be getting progressively inebriated as the song moves forward. Though it begins with a languid tempo, “Beyond Belief” ends at almost double speed. The pace feels desolate. There is a suggestion of existential panic and harrowing hallucination. (Why the San Andreas fault? Why the canals of Mars?)

The last few lines, which are repeated into the fade-out, express this dread most explicitly. And the fade-out happens just as the band surges most fiercely. The Attractions’ drummer Pete Thomas, in particular, is at his most fiery as the song drifts away. No accident.

But to me, the most striking and singular element of “Beyond Belief ” is the melody.

The melody never repeats until the very last line of the song forms a dark, looping refrain. Pop music is founded on hooks: repeated motifs that are meant to grab you. Making a pop song without repeating a melody... well, I wouldn’t recommend it.

Local painter and songwriter Ryan Nelson (of the bands Soccer Team and Minutes) describes Costello’s lilting melody as “a spiral staircase.” I’d never thought of it that way, but it does have a helix-like quality.

Ryan teaches English and he brought some of his professional literary insight to bear on the discussion. We sifted through the wordplay and homonym gems strewn throughout the lyrics. “In a sense” sounds a lot like “innocence.” Both “nervous tick” and “nervous tic” work in context. And of course the sequence of “catcall,” “wolfwhistle,” and “dogfight” has to be deliberate. Ryan even clued me into “rose and thistle,” symbolizing tension between the English and Scottish cultures, respectively.

Amid the current controversy over whether a songwriter is worthy of recognition among the pantheon of Serious Literature, “Beyond Belief ” is certainly as good an exemplar for The Pop Song As High Art as any. It seemed a fitting inaugural topic for this series. —Chad Clark Elvis Costello & the Imposters play at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. $65-$365. (202) 783-4000.

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I.M.P. PRESENTS Echostage • Washington, D.C. JUST ANNOUNCED!

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Låpsley w/ Aquilo Early Show! 6pm Doors.............................................................F 4 Snakehips w/ Lakim Late Show! 10pm Doors .......................................................F 4 Marillion .......................................................................................................... Sa 5 James Vincent McMorrow w/ Dan Mangan................................................W 9 NOVEMBER

Kelsea Ballerini w/ Morgan Evans ............................................................. Th 10 MIXTAPE: Dance Party with Guest DJ Devon Trotter and Resident DJs Shea Van Horn & Matt Bailer ............................................Sa 12

SoMo w/ STANAJ ............................................................................................ Su 13 Atmosphere w/ Brother Ali • deM atlaS • Plain Ole Bill and Last Word ........M 14 Wet w/ Demo Taped Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................................................... Th 17 DIIV w/ Moon King Late Show! 10pm Doors ......................................................... Th 17

Run the Jewels

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FOALS w/ Bear Hands & Kiev ...............................................................NOVEMBER 3 Grouplove w/ MUNA & Dilly Dally ................................................NOVEMBER 9 Good Charlotte & The Story So Far

w/ Four Year Strong & Big Jesus ...................................................................NOVEMBER 15

Two Door Cinema Club w/ BROODS .................NOVEMBER 17 2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

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Chris Robinson Brotherhood ................................................................ Su 20 Twerksgiving w/ Mathias., Billy The Gent, & Farrah Flosscett .................... W 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Keller Williams’ Thanksforgrassgiving featuring Jeff Austin, Danton Boller, Jay Starling & Nicky Sanders w/ Love Canon .................. F 25 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All 90s Band....................................................Sa 26 The Sounds w/ Zipper Club & My Jerusalem .................................................M 28 Niykee Heaton ............................................................................................. Tu 29 STRFKR w/ Gigamesh & Psychic Twin ............................................................ W 30 DECEMBER

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Mike Gordon ...............................................................................................NOVEMBER 29 Norm Macdonald ..........................................................................................JANUARY 13 The Magnetic Fields:

50 Song Memoir ................................. MARCH 18 (Songs 1-25) & MARCH 19 (Songs 26-50)

Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds : The Final Performances

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL The Lacs ....................................... Th NOV 3 Flock of Dimes w/ Harkin .....................F 4 Kero Kero Bonito w/ Stealf Soulja ...... Sa 5 The Boxer Rebellion w/ Hey Anna .....Su 6 Monarchy w/ Her ................................... M 7 Calum Scott w/ James Tillman ............. Tu 8

TT The Artist w/ Mighty Mark • TSU Dance Crew • Phizzals • DJ ManeSqueeze........ Th 10 Benjamin Francis Leftwich w/ Brolly ............................................... Sa 12 Kool Keith w/ Kaze aka Black Kennedy .Su 13 Swet Shop Boys ................................ M 14

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AMP by StrAthMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Paul Berrere & Fred Tackett.

8 p.m. $35–$45. ampbystrathmore.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Veils, Celebration. 7 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

We Were Black Clouds, Flavor Waster, Wanted Man, Sunndrug. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SMithSoniAn AMeriCAn Art MuSeuM 8th and F streets NW. (202) 633-7970. Sneaks, Hand Grenade Job. 6 p.m. Free. americanart.si.edu. u Street MuSiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Flock of Dimes, Harkin. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

VelVet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Red Sammy, Penny Pistolero, June Star, Street 45s. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

classical

kenneDy Center ConCert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Noseda conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Hip-Hop

DAr ConStitution hAll 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Mystikal, Juvenile, Trick Daddy, Bun B, 8 Ball & MJG, Pastor Troy. 8 p.m. $59–$125. dar.org. kenneDy Center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Oddisee. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

country

gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Amy Helm and the Handsome Strangers, Cris Jacobs Band.

7 p.m. $20–$25. gypsysallys.com.

Jazz

blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com. howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Madeleine Peyroux. 8 p.m. $48.50–$68.50. thehowardtheatre.com. kenneDy Center terrACe gAllery 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Sheila Jordan. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $26–$39. kennedy-center.org.

Mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Dial 251 for Jazz. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Larry Brown. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Låpsley, Aquilo. 6 p.m. $15. Snakehips, Lakim. 10 p.m. $25.

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CITY LIGHTS: Friday

Friday

ElEctronic

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Film 45

eChoStAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Axwell, No Mana. 9 p.m. $30–$50. echostage.com.

FlASh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. The Black Madonna, Savile, The NeedlExchange. 8 p.m. $8–$16. flashdc.com.

SounDCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. EDX. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

“JuXtaposEd: structurE”

For its November exhibit, “Juxtaposed: Structure,” Rockville’s Artists & Makers Studios has paired the photography of two friends and colleagues, Pete McCutchen and Min Enghauser.

McCutchen usually works in color, but for this show he made images in black and white, while Enghauser used medium-format color print film. McCutchen and Enghauser also diverged in subject matter: McCutchen photographed architectural images using a Lensbaby, which is sharp in its “sweet spot” but fuzzed outside of it, producing dreamily impressionistic, and at times eccentric, scenes. For her part, Enghauser offers woodsy tableaux of trees and leaves. She captured them while roaming “areas that serve as buffers between roads and homes, houses and schools, neighborhoods and long-forgotten creeks. Left to their own devices, they grow wild, each place with its own personality.” Meanwhile, Maire McArdle, a third artist showing at the gallery, offers a series of small, mixed-media works that contrast sharply with the magazine spreads she produces for her day job at Bethesda magazine. The abstract, sea-and-sky collages were inspired by the electric blues of the Mediterranean that she saw during a 2015 vacation to the Côte d’Azur.

The exhibition is on view Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to Nov. 22, at Artists & Makers Studios, 11810 Parklawn Drive, Rockville. (240) 437-9573. artistsandmakersstudios.com.

—Louis Jacobson u Street MuSiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Tiger & Woods, Jacques Renault, DJ Nav. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Delbert McClinton, Brian Dunne. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com. the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Rebirth Brass Band. 7 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $35–$45. thehamiltondc.com.

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Pat McGee Band, Gareth Asher. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com. blACk CAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The White Buffalo, The Deltaz. 8 p.m. $18. blackcatdc.com.

CoMet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Twenty20, F-35s, #10 Hot Sauce, DJ Ludo.

1 p.m. $5. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sorority Noise, JANK, Ratboys. 7 p.m. $13–$16. dcnine.com. hill Country bArbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Blasters, The Delta Bombers. 9:30 p.m. $22–$25. hillcountrywdc.com.

saturday

iotA Club & CAFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, The Rocka-Sonics. 8:30 p.m. $15. iotaclubandcafe.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Marillion. 8 p.m. $55. 930.com.

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

Bad Suns, Coin. 8 p.m. Sold out. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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MODERN DANCE at MYB ADULT Drop-In Classes

ClASSICAl

Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Noseda conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Warner tHeatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses Master Quest. 8 p.m. $45-$75. warnertheatredc.com.

HIp-HOp

2nd CLASS

FREE

Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Guru Tribute by DJ Premier. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Focus on body integration, musicality and flow Tuesdays with HELEN REA. Stretch and strengthen your body and mind Wednesdays with EDWARD FRANKLIN former principal with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

301.608.2232 • MarylandYouthBallet.org 926 Ellsworth Drive • Silver Spring Metro

COUNTRY

FillMore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Brothers Osbourne, Lucie Silvas. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com. gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Town Mountain, Burt the Dirt, The Herd of Main Street. 7 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com.

JAzz

FUNk & R&B

dar ConStitution Hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Keith Sweat, Mint Condition. 8 p.m. $52–$125. dar.org. tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Rebirth Brass Band. 7 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $35–$45. thehamiltondc.com. u Street MuSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Kero Kero Bonito, Stealf Soulja. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

SUNDAY ROCk

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Tegan and Sara, Torres. 7 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Joshua Radin, Good Old War. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

BlaCK Cat BaCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. The Interrupters, Bad Cop Bad Cop, The Fuss.

7:30 p.m. $12–$14. blackcatdc.com.

FillMore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Meshuggah, High On Fire.

8 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy Center terraCe gallery 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Pedrito Martinez Group. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $26–$39. kennedy-center.org.

Mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Coniece Washington. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

SixtH & i HiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Chucho Valdes Joe Lovano Quintet. 8 p.m. $55. sixthandi.org. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Larry Brown. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Griffin House. 8 p.m. $15.25–$22.25. thehamiltondc.com. roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Silver Apples, Bernardino Femminielli, Paperhaus. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

(703) 237-0300. Mon Laferte, Jackie Mendez. 8 p.m. $25–$60. thestatetheatre.com. u Street MuSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Boxer Rebellion, Hey Anna. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

ClASSICAl

ElECTRONIC

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Soul Clap. 8 p.m. $10–$20. flashdc.com.

Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Youth Fellows. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

u Street MuSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Will Clarke, Sage Armstrong, Ken Lazee. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

pHillipS ColleCtion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Lukáš Vondráček. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

WASHINGTON FREE PRESS 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION

The Washington Free Press, a radical newspaper that would later become D.C.’s leading underground publication, was first printed in 1966. At the 43rd Annual Conference on D.C. History, filmmaker Jeff Krulik (of Heavy Metal Parking Lot fame) will moderate a reunion panel discussion with six former staffers of the flower power broadsheet that covered the civil rights and antiwar movements, in addition to drugs, cultural reviews, and controversial cartoons until it ceased operations in 1970. Originally started

by Howard University students Frank Speltz and Art Grosman as a combined effort of area college students, the paper transformed into a political tabloid by 1967. Sold on street corners and at head shops, the Free Press became a prominent part of D.C.’s hippy counterculture and was later attacked by the FBI, area police, and the courts. It openly referred to police as pigs and printed the names, addresses, and photos of alleged undercover agents. In 1969, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge directed a grand jury to investigate the newspaper for advocating the destruction of the state. Krulik has researched the publication for years, so expect the panel to reveal stories that convey the Free Press’ role in a time of war, assassinations, and riots. The event begins at 3:15 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. Free. (202) 249-3000. dcconvention.com.

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Jazz Jason Moran, Artistic Director for Jazz

Wayne Shorter: The Unfolding NEA Jazz Master Wayne Shorter and his quartet—Danilo Perez, Brian Blade, John Patitucci—return with a work cocommissioned by the Kennedy Center inspired by recent interpretations of the Big Bang theory that describe the expansion of the universe as an “unfolding” of matter in the time and space continuum.

Saturday, November 12 at 8 p.m.

Eisenhower Theater

Wayne Shorter

This work was co-commissioned by Monterey Jazz Festival; The Kennedy Center; Jazztopad Festival/National Forum of Music, Wroclaw, Poland; and Opening Nights Performing Arts at Florida State University.

Tia Fuller’s Angelic Warrior Quartet Tia Fuller’s third release on Mack Avenue Records, Angelic Warrior, marks her deeprooted evolution as an instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader.

Saturday, November 19 KC Jazz Club

Performances at 7 & 9 p.m. in the Terrace Gallery.

No minimum. Light menu fare available.

Tia Fuller

NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas Join the Kennedy Center and NPR for a special family affair at this year’s holiday concert that features Chicagoans Willie Pickens and daughter Bethany Pickens, plus husband and wife Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes.

Saturday, December 10 at 7 & 9 p.m.

Family Theater

Renee Rosnes & Bill Charlap

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! (202) 467-4600 | KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG Tickets also available at the Box Office. Groups (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540

Luce Unplugged LU C E U N P LU G G E D | C O M M U N I T Y S H O W C A S E

Friday, November 4 | 6–8 p.m. | Free Explore the Luce Center’s thousands of artworks while listening to sets by local bands, Katie Alice Greer and Hand Grenade Job, selected with the help of the Washington City Paper’s arts editor, Matt Cohen. Enjoy a free tasting with Bold Rock Hard Cider. Libations and snacks will be available for purchase from a cash bar.

Presented with the Washington City Paper.

8th and G Streets, NW | Washington DC | AmericanArt.si.edu

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

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com Find us on Facebook/Twitter!

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

THE BLASTERS

W/ THE DELTA BOMBERS SAT., NOV. 5 ~ 9:30PM TIX: $22/$25

Nov 4

Brian DELBERT McCLINTON Dunne

20 Year Reunion

5

All Original BAND Members McGEE PAT w/Gareth + Guest Asher

6

JOSHUA RADIN (Band) w/GOOD OLD WAR

American Songwriter Presents

9

ANDERSON EAST

“Devil In Me Tour” w/BRENT COBB 10

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STEALIN’ THE DEAL KITI GARTNER & THE DECEITS THE BLASTERS / DELTA BOMBERS CLOSED – PRIVATE PARTY LIVE BAND KARAOKE THE WALCOTTS/ RIVVRS THE HIGHBALLERS CLOSED – PRIVATE EVENT ZACH SCHMIDT JAIME WYATT DIBBS & THE DETONATORS / ROCK-A-SONICS 11.25 SCOTT KURT & MEMPHIS 59 11.26 JONNY GRAVES & THE TOMBSTONES

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THE 502S SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB HUMAN COUNTRY JUKEBOX CHAMOMILE & WHISKEY JAMIE MCLEAN FOLK SOUL REVIVAL KEVIN FOWLER OLD SALT UNION CORY MORROW CASH’D OUT

BRANDY CLARK KAREN JONAS

PAULA POUNDSTONE 15 ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY MASON DAVE 16 “Alone Together Again” 13

OLETA ADAMS 19 SUZANNE WESTENHOEFER 20 HERMAN’S HERMITS featuring PETER NOONE 21& JOAN 22 PATTY GRIFFIN SHELLEY BONEY JAMES 23 25 THE SELDOM SCENE & DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD 26& 27 CHARLES ESTEN w/Taylor Noelle (26) & Blake Esse (27)

18

AMY RAY & CHELY WRIGHT STEVE TYRELL 29 30 A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS

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Peter White, Rick Braun, Euge Groove

STEEP CANYON RANGERS 2&3 DAR WILLIAMS 'RETURN TO MORTAL CITY'

Dec 1

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

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

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

4 5

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BURNETT AMERICA LARRYBAND

An Evening with

GEORGE WINSTON Show” THE DAN BAND “Holiday

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PER FIRENZE

A 50-year-old documentary about a disastrous flood in Florence, Italy, initially made to raise money for relief work, isn’t a typical fun Sunday activity, but there’s more to Per Firenze than that limited summary suggests. First: It was directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, of Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew fame. Second: While actor Richard Burton was working with Zeffirelli on The Taming of the Shrew, he lent his signature baritone to narrate the 55-minute film. Third, and perhaps most importantly, it features the only known footage of the devastating flood of the Arno River, which claimed 101 lives and caused unquantifiable damage to the city’s art and book collections over the course of two days. A recent digital restoration by the University of Maryland has restored public access to this beautiful and devastating work, which provides a window into both the actual flood and the filmmaking industry a half-century ago. (The screening coincides with the 50th anniversary of the flood.) As demonstrated by Leonardo diCaprio’s Before the Flood and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, celebrity natural disaster movies come in all stripes. The film shows at 5:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Free. (202) 737-4215. nga.gov. —Noa Rosinplotz

Go-Go

Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Go-Go Brunch with Sugar Bear and E.U. 1:30 p.m. $20–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

NaTioNal Gallery of arT wesT GardeN CourT 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 8426941. Dan Tepfer. 4:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

TwiNs Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jarrett Cherner Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

FUNk & R&B

VerizoN CeNTer 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Maxwell, Mary J. Blige, Ro James. 7 p.m. $49.50– $199.50. verizoncenter.com.

MoNDAY Rock

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tony Molina, Wildhoney, Pure Disgust. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. eaGleBaNk areNa 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Brand New, The Front Bottoms, Modern Baseball. 7 p.m. $27.50–$40. eaglebankarena.com. fillmore silVer spriNG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Sonata Arctica. 5:15 p.m. $30–$62.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

u sTreeT musiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Monarchy, Her. 7 p.m. $18. ustreetmusichall.com.

Hip-Hop Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Retch, Meyhem Lauren. 8 p.m. $15–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz BeTHesda Blues aNd Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Larry Carlton. 7:30 p.m. $35–$45. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

FUNk & R&B Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Spike Wilner Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

TUeSDAY Rock

Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Seu Jorge. 8 p.m. $38.50–$191. thehowardtheatre.com. u sTreeT musiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Calum Scott, James Tillman. 7 p.m. $16. ustreetmusichall.com.

clASSicAl keNNedy CeNTer milleNNium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own”. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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WEdnEsday rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. James Vincent McMorrow, Dan Mangan. 7 p.m. $30. 930.com. bArnS At wolF trAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sheila E. 8 p.m. $55–$70. wolftrap.org.

1811 14TH ST NW

blACk CAt bACkStAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Broncho, Sports. 7:30 p.m. $13. blackcatdc.com.

www.blackcatdc.com @blackcatdc

NOVEMBER SHOWS FRI 4

FRI 4

SAT 5

SAT 5

SUN 6 TUE 8

LIGHTS & MUSIC PRESENTS:

DANCE YOURSELF CLEAN SHIMMY 4 STUDIO HOLLIDAY BURLESQUE (21+)

THE WHITE BUFFALO

HEAVY ROTATION

THE INTERRUPTERS

FRI 11 SAT 12 TUE 15

gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Bond & Bentley, The Jauntee. 7 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

u Street MuSiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Machinedrum, Beautiful Swimmers. 9 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

ShInInG bLaDe, aLLThebeSTkIDS, pIcnIbUS + rapTUre 80/90’S Dance parTy

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

Margo Price, Hugh Masterson. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

bArnS At wolF trAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sheila E. 8 p.m. $55–$70. wolftrap.org.

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

Damien Jurado, Doug Keith. 8 p.m. $17. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Yellowman & the Sagittarius Band. 8 p.m. $25–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

aLMOST a hOUSe ShOw:

classical

tHursday

saT 11/5

sun 11/6

heLLO Shark, TaLL frIenD, TheLMa, GObbInJr

FURBALL DC

WeD Marc e. baSSy + 11/9 yachT rOck hh

MEWITHOUTYOU YONI WOLF

Thu IcOn fOr hIre, 11/10 STIcheD Up hearT

WILD BEASTS

eChoStAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Grouplove, MUNA, Dilly Dally. 7 p.m. $44.45. echostage.com.

kenneDy Center eiSenhower theAter 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Fortas Chamber Music Concerts: Takács Quartet. 7:30 p.m. $25–$59. kennedy-center.org.

ElEctronic

FlASh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Lee Foss, Mina. 8 p.m. $15. flashdc.com.

SounDCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Giraffage. 10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.

Funk & r&B

rock

bArnS At wolF trAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sheila E. 8 p.m. $55–$70. wolftrap.org.

CITY LIGHTS: Monday

fri cUban Dance 11/11 nIGhT saT vUnDabar, fOrTh 11/12 wanDererS, raT pack + Dance parTy bUMppp sun SavOy MOTeL + 11/13 eScape-ISM

FRI NOV 11

twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Bobby Muncy Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

wITh DJ Tezrah

Tues eLecTIOn 11/8 ScreenInG

THE INTERRUPTERS

blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Frank McComb. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

FillMore SilVer SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Sublime with Rome, The Skints. 8 p.m. $39.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

WILD BEASTS

SUN NOV 6

Jazz

DJ Dance The Qrew OUT aLL nIGhT

Mon SOnGbyrD MUSIc 11/7 TrIvIa

HELMET

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Anderson East, Brent Cobb. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

fri 11/4

BRONCHO WITH VERY

2016 DEAD TO THE WORLD TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS LOCAL H

country

eMMa G bIrThDay ShOw fT. eLI Lev & rex

LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE

SPECIAL GUESTS SPORTS

eAglebAnk ArenA 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. The 1975. 8 p.m. $29.95–$59.95. eaglebankarena.com.

kenneDy Center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Bow vs. Plectrum. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Thu 11/3

FUNK / DISCO / BOOGIE

WED 9 DOUBLE VANITY TOUR 2016

FRI 11

UPCOMING SHOWS

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Paper Route, Halfnoise. 8 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

World

Mon JaIMIe branch 11/14 QUarTeT, JaMeS branDOn LewIS TrIO, LewIS/ MccOLM TrIO

BAR

TAKE METRO!

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Cafe NITRO OPTIONS

MEntal sElF-carE: HErBal support For strEssFul tiMEs

As the calendar rolls over into November, let’s take stock of all the winter-y things you need to prepare for: frigid temperatures and snow (La Niña means more snow and colder temps, according to the Capital Weather Gang), shorter days (meaning it’s going to start getting dark earlier), long stints of not leaving the house (see: temperature/weather), and seasonal affective disorder, just to name a few. While the first three things can easily be addressed with a steady diet of soup and Netflix binging, that pesky seasonal affective disorder isn’t as easy to prepare for.

If you’re like me—relatively healthy but consistently anxious that you’re going to get every illness known to man, and also distrustful of modern synthesized medicine—it’s easy to let seasonal affective disorder get the best of you. But let me tell you about wonders of herbal medicine. Actually, no. I won’t. Instead, I will direct you to local herbalist Holly Poole-Kavana—you may have seen her Little Red Bird Botanical herbal medicine products around town. On Monday, she’ll lead a workshop that focuses on medicinal plants “that help us cope with dark days, stressful times, anxiety, feeling low, racing minds, and other unwanted glitches of the brain,” just in time for the long, dark winter blues. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th St. NW. $20. (202) 462-7275. washingtonparks.net.

—Matt Cohen

CITY LIGHTS: tuEsday

FroM tHE rEGEnia pErry collEction: tHE Backyard oF dErEk WEBstEr’s iMaGination

Honduran folk artist Derek Webster spent much of his career creating sculptures from found pieces of wood, metal, and other abandoned objects he found in alleys near his Chicago home. Initially created to brighten his yard, Webster’s work became an official “thing” when gallery owner Paul Waggoner made a wrong turn and spotted the eccentric creations. Soon enough, the sculptures made it into the permanent collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Anacostia Community Museum, where visitors can now see nine pieces by Webster. The pieces come from the Regenia A. Perry Folk Art Collection, which is housed at the museum and includes 45 pieces gathered by the celebrated authority on African-American folk art. It’s not the museum’s most expansive exhibition, but taking the time to explore Webster’s unique figures will teach you something about Central American traditions and the joy of making art for art’s sake. The exhibition is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., to April 23, at the Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE. Free. (202) 633-4820. anacostia.si.edu.

—Caroline Jones DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Falcon, Mikey Erg, Arms Aloft. 8:30 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, KOLARS. 7:30 p.m. $17.25–$50. thehamiltondc.com. hill Country bArbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Walcotts, Rivvrs. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Fidlar, Swmrs, The Frights. 8 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

El Perro del Mar, Den-Mate. 8 p.m. $14. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Vocal

blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Lorree K. Slye. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

classical

kenneDy Center ConCert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Donald Runnicles performs Duruflé’s Requiem and Debussy’s Préludes & Nocturnes. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. kenneDy Center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. McDaniel College Madrigal Singers. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Hip-Hop

u Street MuSiC hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

TT the Artist, Mighty Mark, TSU Dance Crew, Phizzals, DJ Manesqueeze. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

AMP by StrAthMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Brubeck Brothers Quartet. 8 p.m. $30–$40. ampbystrathmore.com.

ElEctronic

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beertown’S 21St QuinQuenniAl tiMe CAPSule DAy CereMony Experimental theater collective dog & pony dc puts a new spin on its ongoing project which follows residents of a small town as it unpacks its time capsule every five years. This updated version incorporates more artifacts from life in the District and features performances by local actors. Thurgood Marshall Center. 1816 12th St. NW. To Nov. 7.

(202) 462-8314. dogandponydc.com.

Mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Snakehead Run Acoustic Jug Band Blues. 8 p.m.

Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

CArouSel Arena’s annual holiday musical comes in the form of this Rogers and Hammerstein classic about a bad boy and a good girl who fall in love, only

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

MICHAEL THOMAS QUINTET DWELE JEANETTE HARRIS LARRY BROWN QUINTET The Texas Chainsaw Horns Presents

HOT MESS BURLESQUE BUTCH TRUCKS OF “THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND”

JUST ANNOUNCED

Funk & r&B

Theater

JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW – 2 Shows JOAN OSBORNE

and The Freight Train

FillMore SilVer SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. STS9. 9 p.m. $34. fillmoresilverspring.com. bArnS At wolF trAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sheila E. 8 p.m. $55–$70. wolftrap.org.

TAB BENOIT LARRY CARLTON SHIRELLES ROCK N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME SALUTE TO THE TROOPS

w/ Leonard, Coleman & Blunt

eChoStAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Porter Robinson, Madeon, Robotaki, Danger. 9 p.m. $30–$40. echostage.com.

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Brandy Clark, Karen Jonas. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Kelsea Ballerini, Morgan Evans. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

F

twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jordon Dixon. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

broADwAy bounD 1st Stage presents the third play in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy, in which two brothers cope with family tragedy while trying to make their way as professional comedy writers. The Pulitzer Prize finalist is directed by Shirley Serotsky. 1st Stage.

1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Dec. 18. $15–$30.

(703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org.

country

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to encounter great tragedy. Local favorites Nicholas Rodriguez and E. Faye Butler star in this favorite, which features songs including “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 24. $64–$99. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

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Milk like SugAr After making a pact with her friends on her 16th birthday, Annie forces herself to look at the world differently. By interacting with different world views for the first time, she learns more about herself and her goals for the future. Mosaic Theater Company presents this Obie-winning play, directed by Jennifer L. Nelson. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Nov. 27. $20–$60. (202) 3997993. atlasarts.org. the night AliVe Quotidian Theatre Company presents Conor McPherson’s latest play in its season opener. Set in Dublin, the action follows a grumpy, unemployed man who befriends a young prostitute.

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE – ADVERTISING SALES Washington City Paper has an immediate opening for an outside sales position responsible for selling and servicing our advertising and media partner clients across our complete line of marketing solutions including print advertising in Washington City Paper, digital/online advertising on washingtoncitypaper.com and across our Digital Ad Network, as well as event sponsorship sales.

In addition to selling and servicing existing accounts, Account Executives are responsible for generating and selling new business revenue by finding new leads, utilizing a consultative sales approach, and making compelling presentations.

You must have the ability to engage, enhance, and grow direct relationships with potential clients and identify their advertising and marketing needs. You must be able to prepare and present custom sales presentations with research and sound solutions for those needs. You must think creatively for clients and be consistent with conducting constant follow-up. Extensive in-person & telephone prospecting is required. Your major focus will be on developing new business through new customer acquisition and selling new marketing http://www.washingtoncitypap solutions to existing customer accounts.

Account Executives, on a weekly basis, perform in person calls to a minimum of 10-20 executive level decision makers and/or small business owners and must be able to communicate Washington City Papers value proposition that is solution-based and differentiates us from any competitors. Account Executive will be responsible for attaining sales goals and must communicate progress on goals and the strategies and tactics used to reach revenue targets to Washington City Paper management.

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Qualifications, background, and disposition of the ideal candidate for this position include:

• Two years of business to business and outside customer sales experience • Experience developing new territories & categories including lead generation and cold calling • Ability to carry and deliver on a sales budget • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Able to work both independently and in a team environment • Energetic, self-motivated, possessing an http://www.washingtoncitypap entrepreneurial spirit and strong work ethic • Organized, detail and results oriented with professional presentation abilities • Willing to embrace new technology and social media • MS Office suite proficiency - prior experience with a CMR/CMS software application • Be driven to succeed, tech savvy, and a world class listener • Enjoy cultivating relationships with area businesses

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We offer product training, a competitive compensation package comprised of a base salary plus commissions, and a full array of benefits including medical/dental/life/disability insurance, a 401K plan, and paid time off including holidays.

Compensation potential has no limits – we pay based on performance.

For consideration please send an introduction letter and resume to Melanie Babb at mbabb@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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