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DistrictLine Family Matters

and their paths began to diverge. Michael got a girl pregnant during his first year of college and dropped out to care for his new daughter.

Robert went on to law school. Michael started coming in contact with the police. He at times turned to alcohol to escape the monotony of his nine-to-five job.

In 2006, Michael fled from the police after he hit a person with his car while driving drunk. That’s what landed him in prison.

Ultimately Robert got a job as legislative counsel in Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s office. He lost a 2014 election to the D.C. Council, but won in 2016.

Now, at 36, Robert draws from his brother’s experience with the criminal justice system as a major driver of his policy priorities.

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Councilmember Robert White Jr. has drawn from his brother’s incarceration to drive his work to help returning citizens.

By Mitch Ryals On the day Michael White walked into a D.C. courtroom, his brother, Robert White Jr., walked into a classroom.

Michael, the older, rowdier of the pair, would be sentenced to serve about two years in prison.

Robert, who is now a city-wide D.C. councilmember, was starting prep classes for the bar exam.

As kids, Michael and Robert were close, yet they could not have been more different. They were born 15 months apart, and because they split time between their mother’s and father’s

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homes and moved frequently, the major constant for each boy was the other.

In the alley behind one of their childhood homes, Robert—dressed in his councilmember’s costume, with shiny black shoes and a tie—describes playing ball and riding bicycles up a hill that now doesn’t seem so steep.

Michael, in a separate conversation, describes adventures the boys had in the creeks and parks around D.C. Both brothers remember the bus driver who only charged them half fare. They’d use the other half to buy candy.

Robert would get Now and Laters; Michael liked Hot Tamales.

Robert struggled in school and along the way earned a reputation as a class clown.

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“I pretty much failed a number of classes every year through my 10th grade year,” he says.

But for Michael, schoolwork came easy. He breezed through high school and occasionally finished Robert’s homework for him.

It wasn’t until a school counselor told Robert that he had no business going to college, and to consider the military instead, that a switch flipped. Robert forged his father’s signature on a transfer application and enrolled at Archbishop Carroll High School, where he shed the attitude that had earned him a reputation as a slacker at his previous school.

Robert was poised to follow in his brother’s footsteps, but then Michael stumbled

Since September 2016, when Robert White was sworn in as the at-large councilmember to replace Vincent Orange, one of the major pillars of his platform has been supporting returning citizens—those who have been released from jail or prison.

A few months after White took office, the Council for Court Excellence, a nonpartisan organization that works toward an equitable criminal justice system in D.C., released a report laying out a dizzying array of obstacles for returning citizens in the District. Limited affordable housing, employment opportunities, and access to healthcare were among the deficiencies the report identified, along with shortfalls in the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizens Affairs.

Similarly, a 2015 report by the Office of the Inspector General found that MORCA lacked “fundamental organizational mechanisms” for connecting D.C.’s returning citizens with services.

Emily Tatro, deputy director for the Council for Court Excellence, says that many of the concerns raised in the organization’s report have been addressed, including increased funding for MORCA. “I think there has been a lot of one-off legislation,” she says of the Council’s previous record with returning citizens. “Certainly there’s been progress over time, but this is the most coordinated and strategic movement we’ve had in a while, and it’s exciting.” Tatro also worked on White’s transition team in 2016.

She says the Council had already made some good steps forward, such as passing the “ban the box” law in 2014, which bars employers from requiring applicants to disclose their criminal record before extending a job offer, and establishing MORCA in 2007.

D.C. also allows people convicted of felony crimes to vote after they’re released from incarceration—a right that’s up for debate in

DistrictLinE some states.

As a councilmember, Robert White helped to secure vital funding for MORCA by convincing other councilmembers to allocate money out of their respective committees. Altogether, Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau, Kenyan McDuffie, and Mary Cheh allocated nearly $400,000 over the past two years toward increasing staff and formulating a strategic plan for the office.

In early October, one of Robert White’s bills providing assistance to D.C. residents released from incarceration took effect. The new law, Returning Citizens Opportunity to Succeed Amendment Act, requires MORCA to start tracking all city residents confined in federal Bureau of Prisons facilities. Starting next year, District officials will reach out to each of those individuals within six months of their scheduled release dates and provide information about housing and employment.

A 2018 analysis of data by the D.C. Policy Center found that at least 43 percent of the nearly 10,000 people supervised by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency were unemployed. Among the most prominent predictors of employment were housing status and intensity of supervision.

The new law also waives the fees for birth certificates, ID cards, learners’ permits, and drivers’ licenses for people released from BOP facilities—breaking down a significant hurdle for those leaving prison with few or no resources and no proof of identity.

An issue Robert says he wishes he could address: Sentenced D.C. residents often end up in far-flung BOP facilities, away from their families and those who might visit them or ease their transition when their release date is near. Although BOP attempts to place D.C. code violators near the District, some are held in facilities on the other side of the country, he says.

“We have no jurisdiction over BOP, nor have they been particularly responsive to the Council even before this administration,” he says.

Tatro points to another of Robert’s bills aimed at helping individuals with criminal records get jobs and housing, the Criminal Record Accuracy Assurance Act. The bill would restrict criminal backgrounding agencies to providing only records of criminal convictions.

Consequently, the background report would not include records of arrests, or charges that were dismissed or sealed by a judge.

“You have a lot of people being kept out of jobs or housing for things the courts have said, ‘This doesn’t exist,’ or when someone is only charged with a crime, and not convicted,” Robert says. “And that’s just patently unfair.”

On Thanksgiving Day 10 years ago, Michael was supposed to join the family for dinner. He’d been released just a few weeks prior, and was living in Hope Village, the District’s only halfway house for men.

The facility has become known at “Hopeless Village” among its past denizens.

Shortly before dinner, Hope Village officials revoked Michael’s privileges to eat with his family. He says that these kinds of rules hindered more than helped his re-entry. Curfews, for example, often conflicted with the reality of taking public transportation.

Now, the BOP appears ready to terminate its relationship with Hope Village. Last week, BOP signed a new $60 million contract with a different private company to establish a new halfway house in Northeast D.C. near the Maryland border. The new facility is scheduled to open March 1, one day after Hope Village’s contract expires.

D.C. councilmembers and Congresswoman Holmes Norton have criticized the contract for BOP’s failed efforts to engage with District leaders and residents, and for the facility’s location, which is not near public transportation.

After he was released from Hope Village, Michael fought to get a job and build meaningful relationships with his children, who moved in with him. For a time, he fell into a familiar routine of working hard for little money. He watched as people with degrees and no felony record passed him by.

Eventually, his kids moved in with their mother. He quit his job, broke his lease, and “couched it” for a few months with a friend, then with his father, and then in his car parked in a church parking lot.

Michael describes this period in his life in terms of a search for greater fulfillment and direction. For the year he was homeless, he volunteered at a soup kitchen, spent afternoons reading Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in the library, and nights in his car that didn’t run.

He says that, out of pride or disillusionment, he largely rejected many of the governmentfunded re-entry programs that his brother is now pushing.

“I never looked into them because I looked at everything with a slant,” he says. “You locked me up, and then you’re like, ‘Here let me help you out.’ I wasn’t buying it.”

What he hopes will be his saving grace came from a local organization, HOPE Project, which provides an IT training program that focuses on returning citizens and people with no college degree.

Michael graduated from the program and recently landed a job with a software company in Georgia. He hopes to one day start his own company—maybe that will bring him the fulfillment he’s been searching for.

Robert, meanwhile, can’t fathom the level of risk his brother seems to thrive on. His own moves are planned, calculated.

City Paper asked him whether he might run for mayor.

“The honest answer is I might run for higher office,” he says. “I would say it’s likely, but it’s not something I’m focused on right now.” CP

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DistrictLinE Bills, Bills, Bills

During its 32nd legislative meeting, the Council moves on a number of highly publicized bills.

delson was referring to the Felony Sexual Assault Statute of Limitations Amendment Act of 2004, the current statute of limitations law, which then-Ward 3 Councilmember Kathy Patterson introduced.

Prior to the vote, Allen, who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, explained how this bill affects him personally. “When I was younger … we had a sexual predator who led my boy scout troop,” he said. “I vividly remember the night my best friend came forward to tell me he was sexually abused … I remember vividly telling adults and they did not believe me. They found out he abused more than 40 victims over two decades.”

In comments from the dais expressing her support, Nadeau said that this bill “hits close to home in other ways,” referencing the recent allegations of sex abuse committed by a pastor at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Mount Pleasant.

Mendelson isn’t alone in opposing of the bill. During a public hearing for the bill in June, ACLU of DC executive director Monica Hopkins testified against it, citing concerns of due process. “The current statute of limitations law protects the accused, especially the falsely accused, of charges that could devastate lives,” she said during the hearing.

(Washingtonian first reported Hopkins’ comments.)

A second and final vote for the bill is scheduled for the Council’s next legislative meeting on Dec. 4. —Matt Cohen

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Council Passes Controversial HomeSharing Regulations

By City Paper Staff It’s been a busy week for the D.C. Council, including the addition of a new rug in the Council Breakfast meeting room. It’s blue with a red and yellow border. Really ties the room together. After a marathon day on Tuesday, with a Council Breakfast, Committee of the Whole meeting, and a legislative meeting, the lawmakers pushed forward a number of bills, from restrictions on Airbnb rentals to eliminating the statute of limitations for prosecuting sexual abuse crimes.

But they punted on Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen’s bill to lower the voting age to 16. Here, City Paper reporters detail a few important bills.

Council Pushes Forward Bill to End Statute of Limitations for Prosecuting Sexual Abuse In D.C., the statute of limitations for prosecuting most sexual abuse cases is 15 years, but a new bill that passed its first vote on Tuesday would eliminate that statute of limitations.

The Sexual Abuse Statute of Limitations Elimination Amendment Act of 2017, which Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced last year with co-sponsoring Councilmembers Brandon Todd (Ward 4), David Grosso (At-Large), Brianne Nadeau (Ward 1), and Robert White (At-Large), would allow victims to come forward at any time. That means that if a survivor of sexu-

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al assault in the ’60s, ’70s, or ’80s is finally ready to report their assault, it could still be prosecuted.

Currently, the statute of limitations in the District is 15 years for first- and second-degree sexual abuse, as well as child sexual abuse (that 15-year timeframe applies up until the survivor turns 21), and 10 years for all other sex offenses. The bill passed its first vote 12-1, with Council Chairman Phil Mendelson as the sole dissenter.

“I think that there’s a very delicate balance in the criminal justice system ensuring there is justice,” said Mendelson from the dais, moments before the vote. “The Council has worked on this over the years, and I think we’ve found the right balance.” Men-

The Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass the final version of a contentious home-sharing regulation that will restrict Airbnb users from listing their second homes on the website.

It will also place a 90-day cap on how long homeowners may rent out space in their primary residences if they’re not personally living on the property. The earliest the law can go into effect is Oct. 1, 2019.

An amendment Allen introduced provides a pathway to a hardship exemption, of sorts, to those in the military or foreign service, or those facing medical crises, who have written documentation of their extenuating circumstances.

Airbnb executives lobbied the Council extensively against passing this bill. “What we see in D.C. is just a hacksaw to everyday people who are making important dollars sharing their homes,” Christopher Nulty, the head of public affairs for Airbnb, told Fox 5 at the beginning of October. “We think that there is a better solution here. We think

Councilmember Jack Evans Engineers a Change of Course on Bill Giving 16-YearOlds the Right to Vote D.C. lawmakers punted a bill that would have given 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote.

The Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018 appeared to have wide support on the Council until Ward 2 Coucilmember Jack Evans motioned to postpone a vote on the bill indefinite-

ly—effectively killing its chances of passing before the year-end deadline.

Evans cited “significant unreadiness,” and councilmembers Cheh, Todd, Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5), Anita Bonds (At-Large), Trayon White (Ward 8), and Mendelson all joined him.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has previously expressed her support of giving 16-year-olds the right to vote.

Councilmembers Bonds and White are both listed as co-introducers of the bill. And just hours before the deciding vote, White had voted against Evans’ previous attempt to table the bill during another vote in the Committee of the Whole meeting.

White represents Ward 8, an area that historically has some of the lowest voter turnout in the District.

The bill would have given 16- and 17-yearolds the right to vote in all D.C. elections, including casting ballots for President of the United States. D.C. would have been the first jurisdiction in the country to lower the voting age for federal elections. Nearby cities such as Takoma Park, Hyattsville, and Greenbelt have lowered the voting age for local elections, and similar efforts are underway throughout the country.

An estimated 10,400 16- and 17-year-olds live in D.C.: 70 percent are black, 21 percent are white, and 12 percent are Latinx, according to The Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety’s report on the bill. They would have been eligible to vote in the 2020 election had the bill moved forward.

Before lawmakers extinguished the measure, Allen gave an impassioned speech about young voices “leading a national conversation [on gun violence] that adults had not done.”

“I abhor taxation without representation,” Allen said. “I get to spend their tax dollars, and these young people are able to work, pay taxes, and in many cases are raising their own families or helping to raise their families. I think we have a moment in front of us that we can recognize and respect the power these young voices have.”

Critics of the bill have argued that 16-yearolds are too immature to vote, are not politically engaged enough, and will vote in line with their parents. But in tabling the bill, neither Evans, nor the six lawmakers who voted with him, were required to articulate the reason for their votes.

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds who attended a previous committee hearing in support of the bill told City Paper about their concerns over education, transportation, and gun violence.

“We all participate in protests and calling our councilmembers, but there’s really no equivalent to having a vote,” said 16-year-old Helisa Cruz after the Judiciary Committee hearing in early November.

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there are better ways to regulate home sharing and to regulate Airbnb, and we are ready and willing to work with the Council to make that happen.”

An initial version of the bill passed in October, but the Council delayed a second vote because of a disagreement over funding mechanisms for the bill. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt initially estimated that passing the bill would cost D.C. some $21 million annually in hotel taxes per year, for one reason: The DC Zoning Commission currently doesn’t allow any short-term housing rentals, period. If the Council passed a bill without the Commission changing its rental code, the thinking went last month, a surge of enforcements by the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs against existing rentals would eliminate the collection of the 14.8 percent hotel tax levied on Airbnb guests.

The DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank run by budget analyst and former Council candidate Ed Lazere, has roundly rejected the Council’s approach to ameliorating those concerns. The bill as amended addresses DeWitt’s projection by asking him to adjust the District’s projected annual revenue—some $47 million, as of September—by reducing it by the roughly $20 million DeWitt anticipates the city will lose via the hotel taxes. But Lazere tells City Paper that this approach “boggles the public finance imagination.”

“I’ve never seen a situation like this, and I’ve been watching the city budget for almost 20 years,” Lazere says. “Everyone knew that the cost for the bill was overestimated, and they went ahead and tried to fund it anyway.

I’ve never seen this happen before—they know that ultimately it would cost a lot less [if the zoning commission amends its regulations], but said, ‘Let’s take the city’s money anyway.’”

While the bill passed Tuesday does not appropriate additional funds to offset the anticipated loss of revenue, the Council will have to find about $3 million in the spring, during budget negotiations, to fund additional DCRA enforcements for the bill. Given that October 2019 is the soonest that the bill can go into effect, the zoning commission has just under a year to mull changes to its short term rental code.

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Local trampoline champion Changa Anderson II has his sights set on the Olympics.

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Changa and Amare Anderson

By Kelyn Soong The high-piTched laughTer of children bounces off the walls and tiny gymnasts in leotards run around the padded blue floor as Changamire Anderson II slips on his rubber soled shoes. Anderson’s younger siblings, 11-year-old Amare and 3-year-old Aria, are nearby, climbing over mats, jumping on trampolines, and trying in vain to get the attention of their parents on a noisy Thursday evening in November at the Silver Stars Gymnastics facility in Silver Spring.

Anderson ignores the commotion around him and starts to jog around, occasionally dodging kids sprinting back from the bathroom

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to rejoin their class. A while later, a young girl who appears to be no older than 5 bolts across a trampoline, crashes face first into a large red mat, and starts giggling. She does it again. And again. And then once more.

“I kind of look back and I can see myself as one of those kids,” says Anderson.

That’s because he was. Anderson, who goes by “Changa,” started out in gymnastics the same way the young children around him did, with boundless energy and an inclination to take risks. Now, the 14-year-old D.C. resident and freshman at Washington Latin Public Charter School in Northwest is Silver Stars Gymnastics’ most accomplished gymnast since its inception in 1993, according to the gym’s owner, Cherie Hope.

In June, Anderson placed first in the 13-14 age group in both trampoline and double-mini

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trampoline at the USA Gymnastics Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina. This week, he is in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the World Age Group Competitions, one of the four athletes chosen to represent Team USA in his age group’s double-mini competition.

“We’ve had high-level gymnasts before, but never at this level,” says Hope. “I mean, like, we’ve had good kids who have been very successful, but this is highest level we’ve ever had.” angela anderson had turned on the television and finally begun to relax one evening more than a decade ago, when she heard a loud “boom” from upstairs. She turned to her husband, Changa, and they shared a look of confusion. He had heard it as well. The sound of little feet tapping on the floor above fol-

lowed. Their baby boy was not even a year old at the time, but had somehow found a way to get out of his crib.

The couple, who met as students at the Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Northwest, decided to install a baby monitor. Baby Changa, Angela soon discovered, was flipping out of the crib.

“It was just so natural,” she says. “I was like, ‘Okay, this kid has to learn how to flip without hurting himself.’”

Their daughter Nia was already a student at Silver Stars Gymnastics, so Angela decided to bring the younger Changa along. She signed up for a “mommy and me” class, but coaches quickly kicked them out. Anderson was far too advanced, they told Angela. By age 4, he was doing back handsprings down the floor, according to Anderson’s coach Juwan Young. When he was 5, he mastered skills that kids years older struggle to learn.

“I was still competing, so I was like, ‘This kid better not be better than me,’” Young says with a laugh. “But when I took over coaching obviously I was like, ‘Okay, I got to fast track him.’ So I started giving him a little bit harder things to do. Everything I threw at him, he was able to conquer it and still ask me for more.” during pracTice a few days before leaving for Russia, Anderson’s eyes grow wide as he sprints down the blue runway. His arms swing rapidly by his sides. When he reaches the double-mini trampoline, he flips and twists—all while maintaining complete control of his body—in ways that his peers practicing this night can only imagine. Anderson lands to the right center of the mat and grimaces. “Point your toes,” Young reminds him as he steps off the mat. In a double-mini trampoline routine, athletes blast off one trampoline, perform an aerial skill, land on another trampoline, perform another aerial skill, then come back to earth. Points can be deducted based on where a gymnast lands.

“It felt like I wasn’t doing it the right way,” Anderson says later. “I actually get frustrated a lot. I mess up on simple skills. I know I can fix them easily and can do better.”

A nagging hip injury has hobbled Anderson in recent weeks and he has been going

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But the injury does not compare to two years ago when he got lost in the air during practice and kneed himself in the chin, shattering several teeth and fracturing his jaw. A scar several inches long is still visible on his chin. Anderson took a few days off from practice, but would still go to the USA Gymnastics Championships in Providence, Rhode Island, where he placed third in double-mini.

“You got to be a little wild,” says Young, who is the head coach for the Silver Stars trampoline and tumbling team. “I would say the biggest thing is definitely having that wild side.

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nished with negative headlines, have impacted enrollment at Silver Stars, says Hope, the gym’s owner. The organization, which has a second location in Bowie, has “an average of 1,500 kids coming through the doors,” she says, but enrollment has dropped “20 to 25 percent” in the wake of controversies. (Construction of the Purple Line, which rerouted traffic near the Silver Spring gym, has also created challenges, Hope notes.)

Anderson says he has never felt uncomfortable at the gym, and his mother adds that their “great relationship” with Young, her son’s 31-year-old coach, has helped ease any concerns.

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PRESSURE

COOKING Shut out from professional therapy because of low wages and a lack of insurance, restaurant workers turn to each other to cope with mental health issues.

By Laura Hayes Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

City PaPer asked bar and restaurant employees what they’d like their industry to look like in five years in terms of mental health, and what they would change if they were the boss.

“Healthcare for D.C.’s second largest industry.”

“Close the restaurant two days a week so everyone has a guaranteed day off.”

“Training to recognize signs of mental disease.”

“A congenial work environment.”

“I hope people start to trust who they’re working for and employers start to trust who is working for them.”

“Si los empleadores le importan sus empleados, los tratarían como su propia familia.”

Talk to them some more, and these workers—from prep cooks, servers, and bartenders to executive chefs and general managers—will oscillate between touting their passion for their craft and candidly unravel-

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ing what it’s like to work in a field rife with hazards that can catalyze or exacerbate mental health conditions.

The hardships they face aren’t new. And therein lies the frustration. Diners are enjoying a food and drink renaissance, but progress behind the scenes largely hasn’t caught up. People have been pontificating about what makes a restaurant a petri dish for emotional pain for decades—before Anthony Bourdain peeled back the curtain by penning Kitchen Confidential in 2000, and before the chef and author took his life in June.

When one of the greatest culinary storytellers died, writers published a plethora of analyses about the state of the restaurant industry. In reporting this story, City Paper sought to examine what local stressors exist in D.C. and what people here are doing to bring about change for District workers.

The reality is that mental health conditions affect one fifth of the U.S. population, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Only 50 percent of these individuals

seek treatment, and those numbers dwindle further for the hospitality industry, which lags behind in insurance coverage, making therapy a luxury few can afford.

A confluence of factors leaves many hospitality industry workers uninsured, from thin profit margins to the fact that many restaurants chiefly hire part-time workers. Without work-sponsored insurance, low-wage earners can get stuck in limbo, unable to afford individual coverage but just above the income line of eligibility for Medicaid. It’s part of the reason you see GoFundMe pages fundraising for restaurant employees to afford care or time off to recover.

DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority Director Mila Kofman confirms that the local restaurant industry has some of the lowest offer rates. She says she’s never met a restaurant operator who didn’t want to offer coverage, but they question if they can afford it year after year.

Absent access to professionals, these resilient workers turn to each other for support.

The fraternal bond between restaurant and bar staff is not unlike that of a sports team or military unit.

But too often, outsiders tell restaurant workers that the problem they’re facing is the industry itself—the long and intense hours, inconsistent schedules, and constant exposure to alcohol. For some, this message drills down to: “Your passion in life is the cause of your problems.” Those committed to the industry want solutions, not an escape hatch. As one local server put it, “This is a career, not a bad job.”

Caro Blackman

“Adding alcohol into the mix makes it a little more unique,” says Liz Cox, a bartender and former general manager at El Camino. “With retail, customers don’t tend to be four shots in.

People get angry and there’s the concept that, ‘You have to do everything I say because I’m tipping you.’ If you ever want to see a man get really, really mad, have a female bartender tell him no.”

Longtime DC 9 bartender Symone Wilson adds that some patrons turn violent. “Having violence perpetrated against you, having things thrown at you, maybe they don’t tip or don’t tip appropriately, sometimes you get men who are handsy,” she says. On rare occasions when she can step away, she jokes that her move is to scream into the ice machine or the walk-in refrigerator. “You’re an octopus with your hands in so many situations, managing so many egos, trying to crank out service with a smile.”

Front and Center “I still had to smile and care about someone’s 60th wedding anniversary.”

Like all those in customer service jobs, restaurant and bar industry employees who work in the dining room or behind the bar, commonly referred to as “front-of-house” positions, have to hide their struggles, no matter how severe, especially since most rely on tips for income.

“It means having to be the best version of yourself for 12 hours a day, six days a week,” says Kapri Robinson, a bartender at Reliable Tavern. “It only causes you to take those frustrations, anger, sadness, anxiety, and pain and put it in a box in your mind for a long period of time until it fills up. It can be damaging.”

Robinson says her customers count on her to have a positive attitude. “When I’m not smiling I get, ‘Where’s your energy today?,’ or, ‘She’s a bitch.’ Man, when you have a bad day I’m not saying shit to you. I work for tips.”

“You have to compartmentalize,” says Caro Blackman, a host at Maydan. “I think human beings have our own traumas. We have our own baggage. The long hours, the deadlines, the demands. Having to produce at a very high level consistently. You don’t get a break. You don’t get to leave your tables for a while.”

Though she exudes hospitality, smiling on

the job was herculean for 13 of the 25 years Blackman has worked in D.C.’s restaurant industry because of a domestic violence situation that almost took her life.

“I showed up for work for a week with two black eyes from my abusive relationship and I lied about it and said I had an allergic reaction,” she says. “I still had to smile and care about someone’s 60th wedding anniversary.

There are so many people like me who are doing the same thing now.”

Servers, bartenders, and hosts are also subjected to harassment from guests. Several front-of-house employees report to City Paper a feeling that the public, and therefore their customers, look down on them. They sense

this when patrons don’t make eye contact, or speak to them in demeaning tones. If a customer says or does something inappropriate, there’s hardly enough time in a fast-paced restaurant to go somewhere private to regroup.

Blackman says that excessively mean online reviews can pile on the pain. “There’s not a lot of compassion behind these Yelpers,” she says. “It really breaks my heart because they don’t know that [a review] might be the one thing that sends someone over the edge. Diners need to understand that just as much as they’re human beings coming into an establishment, we’re human beings coming in with the best intentions every day, pushing through things they don’t know.”

Managers in the Middle “People underestimate how much managers can make your work really awesome or a living hell.”

Cox encourages her colleagues to change jobs if they feel that their managers don’t support them, and she impresses on operators the importance of hiring compassionate managers. “There’s a huge shortage in the hospitality labor supply,” she says. The District’s development boom has birthed an exceptionally large freshman class of restaurants.

“You don’t have to let a bar owner or a manager treat you like dirt.”

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Mike Friedman and the staff of Red Hen

Managers have power on their side. They typically make the schedule, determining which employees work the most lucrative shifts in terms of tips. They grant or deny requests for time off. Sometimes they hire and fire. “In terms of mental health, people underestimate how much managers can make your work really awesome or a living hell,” Cox says.

“A lot of the most egregious harassment comes from management,” adds Lizzie Palumbo, who currently works as the tasting room manager at DC Brau. She’s been a server at Brookland’s Finest Bar & Kitchen, Capitol Lounge, and several H Street NE restaurants. “If you don’t have that support it can make everything else really unstable, especially if you’re dealing with mental health issues to begin with.”

Palumbo was working at Toki Underground in 2011 when she was robbed at gunpoint by three men in front of her home. “It caused me to have PTSD because I was physically assaulted,” she explains. She felt she needed to immediately leave Toki, which had just opened, and seek a less stressful job while she coped with the initial shock.

She went to H Street Country Club and told the managers about her diagnosis. “I keep randomly having panic attacks, but I need to make money right now,” she says she told them.

“The fact that they were like, ‘Come back, we’re here for you. If you don’t want to work downstairs because it’s too busy, it’s fine.’”

Ultimately Palumbo needed a time-out from restaurants and accepted a job at a doggy daycare and rescue facility. “But me being able to be transparent and them saying, ‘You’re a fantastic employee, we want to support you however we can,’ was huge.”

“It’s not easy to deal with mental health issues, especially at work because of the stigma attached,” says H Street Country Club co-owner Ricardo Vergara. “Lizzie was open about what she was going through, but I’m sure we did not know the full extent of her panic attacks. I’m happy we were able to accommodate her.”

Like Palumbo, Cori Bryant had to take a break from the industry after trauma. She was the assistant general manager at Comet Ping Pong during Pizzagate in 2016. The debunked alt-right conspiracy theory held that the pizza joint was involved in a child sex-

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trafficking ring. In December of that year, Edgar Maddison Welch fired three shots into the restaurant using an AR-15-style rifle while “investigating” Pizzagate. No one was injured.

“I wasn’t there that day, but I was there for getting harassed to the point where we couldn’t answer the phone for five months,” Bryant says. To this day a ringing phone is a trigger for her, and the experience led her to press pause on restaurants and work for an insurance company for a year. Today she’s quick to counsel other restaurants receiving threats.

Bryant, who has managed at Tryst and Atomic Billiards, believes managers play the most important role in trying situations. “Every industry only works for the people who are directly above them,” Bryant says. “That’s why people quit. They don’t quit companies. They quit managers.”

Managers are often the go-between when there’s friction between kitchen and dining room employees. What should be a symbiotic relationship can become strained because of long-term tensions over issues like pay disparities or acute problems like a server bury-

ing the kitchen in orders.

Asked about her worst day on the job, Robinson talks about a time she “got into it with a chef ” at a prior place of employment. The general manager pressured her into a sit-down with the chef to hash it out. “When chef summons you, you need to go,” he told her. “There are great chefs out there, but the ego thing is real,” Robinson says. “Having those personalities can break you down. People take that stuff home.”

In the Kitchen “The nature of the business is that small mistakes are so much more noticeable than hard-fought successes.”

Chefs and cooks face their own set of stressors, and there’s little reprieve since sick days and vacations are rare compared to other professions. Their bodies take beatings from working long hours around knives, fire, and slippery surfaces.

For the executive chef whose name is attached to a restaurant and flaunted in reviews,

the job can be full of peaks and valleys. Anxiety and depression accompany the fear of falling short as they chase fame and esteem—or at least enough butts in seats to pay the rent.

But behind the head chef are back-up singers with their own sets of hardships as they do battle against the clock in a repetitive grind.

They bandage physical and emotional wounds and keep going. They’re passionate creatives with vastly different backgrounds. A kitchen is a place of second chances, where a person with an unwavering work ethic can find an open door.

“It’s a thankless job,” says Marcus Bradley Donovan, the executive sous chef at The Oval Room. He’s been in the industry for 20 years and at one point owned a restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland, that shuttered in 2012.

“The top guys get credit, but behind José [Andrés] there are hundreds of guys and girls who don’t get thanking. They cut themselves, burn themselves for hours because they love what they do. Initially we all start out loving what we do, but it takes a toll.”

He talks about how the schedule begets isolation. “If you get two days off in a row, the first day you’re sleeping,” he explains. “There’s just no time to have a life.” At his last job, Donovan was working 16-hour days, leaving little room for seeing friends and family. “It’s hard to maintain a relationship unless you’re dating a bartender or another cook.”

Asked why he sticks with cooking, Donovan says he makes good money, even if the money doesn’t match the stress. “I love it and now I’m questioning why I keep abusing myself,” he says. “There’s no guide on how to survive in this industry.”

Unlike Donovan, Nathan Smith had to put restaurants in the rearview mirror. After cooking at several restaurants in Indianapolis, he’s pursuing a graduate degree in international economic relations at American University.

“The nature of the business is that small mistakes are so much more noticeable than hard-fought successes,” he says, recalling his time in the kitchen. “What truly makes a good day is being mistake free because it’s pretty demoralizing when you make a mistake. You feel very vulnerable.”

Smith also struggled with how unpredictable the work can be. “Your job is defined by a battle between yourself and uncertainty unlike a lot of lines of work where you can plan ahead,” he says.

Even if you’re not the one struggling, watching colleagues suffer has lingering effects. Smith’s most distressing day on the job came when one of his cooks slipped near the fryer, causing his arm to catch fire. “He had to have skin grafts and everything,” Smith recounts. “And he was very economically challenged as most people in the kitchen are.”

The cook eventually made it back to work, but got cancer and died soon after. “We had to raise money just so his family could afford to bury him,” Smith says. “Witnessing the unraveling of his life in slow motion is a big part of the answer of why I left cooking.”

Now that he’s staring down a new career path, he’s noticing what the outside world thinks about his prior profession. “[Cooking] instills a lot of great, transferable skills to other sectors, but since it’s so poorly understood, it gets very little respect from the public ... That’s

why they feel isolated.”

Chefs in the Shadows “I don’t feel like I have an option to respond because I don’t have papers.”

Feelings of isolation only intensify for local workers who don’t speak English, many of whom are from El Salvador. D.C.’s restaurant boom continues to create employment opportunities, but the language barrier predisposes these workers to discrimination, abuse, and the risk of wage theft.

“Sometimes I feel self-esteem suffers,” says Claudia Esteve, who provides mental health counseling to students at Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School. The school has a culinary training program and many of the students in English language classes work in restaurants.

“Imagine being someone whose English is a second language and might not have a very high level of education from their home country, and being perpetually in a pressure environment,” Esteve continues. “Also imagine someone whose immigration status is uncertain.”

According to NAMI, Latinx communities are as susceptible to mental illness as the rest of the population, but they experience disparities in access to quality treatment. NAMI also says Latinx people are less likely to seek help because of the stigma associated with mental health.

A Latino man we’ll call Manuel, because he requested anonymity, used to work the fry station at a local Japanese restaurant. He liked the work because he felt pride whenever he com-

posed a beautiful dish, but says his demanding schedule reduced his life to work and sleep.

He clocked in at 11 a.m. and out at 11 p.m. six days a week. “Working 12 hours with no break is stressful,” he tells City Paper through a translator. “You can’t sit down except for 15 minutes to eat.”

With his earnings, Manuel must pay rent at the one-bedroom D.C. apartment he shares with four adult male family members. He also sends money to his family in his home country and to his 7-year-old daughter and her mother in Maryland. City Paper interviewed four more immigrant restaurant workers who also support their families from afar. The average line cook salary in the District as of Oct. 2018 was $26,935 according to Salary.com.

Two other aspects of Manuel’s job were trying. He wasn’t offered health insurance, and since the Japanese restaurant paid him in cash, he didn’t have a pay stub to use as proof of employment to obtain coverage on his own. A brother was able to add him as a dependent.

He still struggled with the language barrier.

“Many times I couldn’t understand what people were telling me,” he says. “I had to depend on coworkers to teach me. My boss would become irritated when I didn’t understand. He would yell, especially when food wasn’t ready fast enough.”

Alberto, a second Latino restaurant worker who spoke anonymously, faced similar adversity at an Italian restaurant in D.C. “There is a sense of fear when you’re being yelled at and spoken harshly to,” he says in Spanish translated into English. “It’s intimidating. I don’t feel like I have an option to respond because I don’t have papers.”

He feels he’s set up to fail when a head chef arrives upset or angry, bringing his stress from outside into the workplace. “When something is going on with him, it affects everyone. It’s like a sickness that’s contagious.”

The job at the Italian restaurant came to an abrupt end. Alberto alerted his employer he was ill and needed to miss work. When he returned two days later, he was told, “A soccer team can’t play without its goalie. There’s no more work for you.’”

After 19 years of working in D.C. restaurants, Alberto finally has a job he loves. It’s at a local branch of a New York-based restaurant with a corporate ownership structure. He has health insurance, transportation benefits, a flexible, 40-hour-week schedule, free meals, and more responsibility than ever before.

It’s given him perspective. “Restaurants don’t care about workers’ personal problems or emotions,” he says. “The only thing that’s important is that they work. The current situation is much better. It feels like a family.”

Clapping Back at The Status Quo “There are great operators in this town that share my viewpoints, but there are operators who have decided not to break the circle.”

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climbed the ranks in toxic kitchens with screamers at the helm have elected to trash that playbook and inch toward more constructive work environments.

“We’re nurturing people, both guests and our employees,” says Rob Rubba. He led the kitchen at Hazel but departed in June and is gearing up to open a new D.C. restaurant, Oyster Oyster. “Those days of 80-hour work weeks don’t have to happen. You can organize a restaurant differently and have a smaller menu so you don’t have to prep a 40-item menu.”

He worked for household names like Gordon Ramsay, and enough time has passed for him to remember his early days fondly.

“There’s this romantic look back at it, like, ‘That was great,’” he says. “Then I’ll talk to my wife and she’ll say, ‘You were miserable.

You weren’t happy. You were taking a beating every day.’”

When Rubba was first stepping into leadership positions in kitchens he copied the behaviors of his mentors. “I really dug into people,” he says. “I saw it hurt people and worked to quickly remove that from my repertoire in management. Now I try not to replicate anything that those guys did.”

Rubba believes kitchens are becoming more “family-like, more tribe-like” because the next generation of talent has higher expectations.

“We’re going to nurture you and build you up because you have to be awesome for this industry to keep moving forward,” Rubba explains.

Maydan’s Caro Blackman seconds that younger generations are behind cultural change. “Mental health is coming to the forefront because of millenials,” she says. “We’re used to shutting up and dealing with it … I’m excited about how this is going to mark a shift in the food and beverage industry in terms of how we’re caring for staff and having more balance. I think we’ll produce even better restaurants because of it.”

Mike Friedman of All-Purpose Pizzeria and The Red Hen is on board with work-life balance. “Everybody has a life outside of work and if you don’t accept that, that’s a problem,” he says. His three restaurants offer two weeks of vacation, five-day work weeks with two consecutive days off, and health insurance for salaried employees. He also builds open kitchens so cooks feel included.

“For back-of-house and front-of-house to be successful, there can’t be a line,” he says.

“You have to embolden servers and make them feel like they can come and ask the chefs questions.” Having an open kitchen also controls the environment because it’s in earshot of customers. Chefs are teaching instead of yelling. “There are great operators in this town that share my viewpoints, but there are operators who have decided not to break the circle.”

Friedman says he’s adopted hospitality titan Danny Meyer’s philosophy that restaurant leadership should take care of its staff and trust the staff to take care of customers. “If you’re not a happy worker, you’re not going to produce,” he says. “I can take a hit for someone to go get healthy. Some people can hold it in re-

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ally well and not let it affect their work. I was good at that, but for me it led to substance abuse that I had to deal with.”

Picked Their Poison “When you have friends die. When you have people going to rehab. When you have families get broken up. There are real life consequences that come with that behavior.”

Bartender Trevor Frye had too much fun when he first shot onto the scene about five years ago with the opening of Dram & Grain. “The thing that makes working in bars so great is we throw a party every night,” he says. “But it’s also a huge danger. We’re dealing with alcohol and late nights. Anytime you put those in combination, some nefarious things work their way in. I’m not a choir boy. I’m guilty of getting wrapped up in that.”

Frye says he and his pals in their mid-twenties would walk out of work with $800 cash each on a regular basis. “Not the most responsible decisions are being made,” he says.

“That’s why people burn out. When you have friends die. When you have people going to rehab. When families get broken up. There are real life consequences that come with that behavior.”

Colleagues often double as social circles.

Employees report boarding a hamster wheel of working, drinking, and sleeping. While the bonds they form with coworkers are strong enough to feel like family, eventually they can lose touch with their support networks outside of the industry. “I think a lot of younger peo-

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ple, the illusion is every night out is the greatest on earth,” Frye says. “When you’ve done it for years, you realize it’s the same shit every night.”

Bartenders describe drinking as a “crutch” or a way of self-medicating, especially since alcohol is within arm’s reach whenever they’re clocked in. Dr. Chelsea Eckhouse, a clinical supervisor at a substance abuse clinic in the D.C. area, agrees that self-medicating happens when individuals don’t have the proper tools to confront anxiety or depression. “I’ve never met a client with a substance abuse disorder that didn’t also have co-occurring mental health issues,” she says. According to NAMI, 50.5 percent of the 20.2 million adults who have a substance use disorder suffer from mental illness.

Frye reached a breaking point in the winter of 2016 when he was launching his bar, Five to One. He was sleeping three hours per night and drowning in coffee. “I put myself in a fullon panic attack,” he says. “It got to the point where I fell down and couldn’t get out of my bathtub. I couldn’t move. I was able to call a friend who was able to come over and help me calm me down.”

Five to One closed in May, and weeks later, Frye also announced his forthcoming Adams Morgan bar Marble Alley was no longer happening. “I’m at another point in my life where I have to pick up the pieces and realistically put them back together,” he says.

Frye now owns his own bar consulting company and has reclaimed his mental health by focusing on exercise, therapy, his relationship with a significant other, and meditation. He wants to help others do the same. “It’s 100 percent OK to

talk about not feeling good,” he says.

Even the most buzzed about annual conference for bartenders, Tales of The Cocktail, is working to create dialogue about mental health and addiction. In addition to their traditional panels on spirits and innovation in July, there were sessions on “Building a Healthier, Happier Bar Industry,” how to administer NARCAN during opioid overdoses, the importance of eating and sleeping well, and taking care of injuries. There were also yoga classes and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Frye, who has been both an awards judge and a panelist at the conference, has replaced nights out with workouts at Balance Gym. The fitness company has four gyms in the city.

Managing partner Devin Maier put a program in place to help hospitality industry workers take back their health. He offers restaurants an affordable flat rate that allows anyone on staff to sweat it out. It’s a shrewd business move for Balance because restaurant workers use the facilities during off-peak times. Maier is filling empty gyms and at the same time providing a critical service.

“Being able to grab a workout is a nice mental break in an industry that can be very high-stress and also very unhealthy,” he says.

“There are a lot of guys caught in these really tough patterns.”

More restaurateurs are catching on to the benefit, including Adam Greenberg, who is readying to open Coconut Club. He’ll offer the Balance Gym membership to employees.

“Devin is behind people really improving their lives,” he says. “I’m in a much better place as a person when I work out. I know what it does for me mentally.”

Shrinking Options “I was struck by how much this woman didn’t understand our industry.”

Sarah Jane Curran, who has worked locally as the general manager of Birch & Barley and ChurchKey and a captain at Pineapple and Pearls, earned her chops at Eleven Madison Park in New York. She calls it a high-stress environment. “I can talk someone down from a panic attack just as well as I can talk someone through opening a bottle of champagne,” she says. The restaurant provided health insurance, which Curran used to seek out a therapist. She says it was challenging to find a doctor taking new patients who could accommodate her.

“Once I got through all of that, I had a terrible experience of a therapist telling me, ‘The root of your problem is you have a terrible work schedule,’” Curran recalls. “I was struck by how much this woman didn’t understand our industry,” Curran says. “She had no idea at all.”

The restaurant industry employs 14.7 million people nationwide, according to the National Restaurant Association. That’s 10 percent of the overall U.S. workforce. In D.C., the hospitality industry is the second largest employment sector after the government. Yet, industry-specific resources are unicorns.

Curran hopes to change that. In September she led a working group about mental health at a conference aimed at uncovering answers to the industry’s most pressing issues. Women in Hospitality United, a group born out of the #MeToo movement, hosted the conference.

Curran’s team envisioned a concierge service where restaurant workers could call or go online and find a therapist who has an appreciation for the industry, such as a psychologist who put herself through school waiting tables.

“Our industry, though quirky, is not harmful as a whole,” Curran says.

Dr. Kathy HoganBruen doesn’t think restaurant experience is a prerequisite for effectively treating servers, bartenders, and chefs. She practices cognitive behavioral therapy at The Ross Center for Anxiety in Friendship Heights.

“I don’t pretend to get it, but part of my job is to listen, ask questions, learn, and educate myself outside of work,” she says.

When first-time patients seek her counseling, she talks about a pyramid of needs. “The base is physical needs,” she says. “You need to make sure those are being met before moving up the ladder to mental health.” That means exercising, eating well, and sleeping unaided by drugs and alcohol. “In the restaurant industry, I can just imagine the pattern and how that exacerbates problems around living a healthy lifestyle,” she says. “A therapist can help identify places where some improvements can happen.”

HoganBruen doesn’t have many patients in the restaurant industry, noting The Ross Center doesn’t take insurance and charges a higher than average fee for an appointment. This isn’t uncommon. According to the American Psychological Association, about 30 percent

of therapists nationwide do not accept insurance at all.

When practitioners do take insurance, restaurant industry employees can find themselves shut out anyway. According to the Economic Policy Institute’s national numbers from 2014, only 14.4 percent of non-unionized restaurant workers received health insurance from their employer, compared to 48.7 percent of workers in other fields.

Mila Kofman of the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, whose DC Health Link insurance marketplace has nearly 5,000 small businesses signed up for coverage, is working to increase offer rates in the industry through educational events and enrollment sessions on site at area restaurants.

Those without insurance who cannot afford to pay out of pocket can turn to the city’s free safety net services under the purview of the Department of Behavioral Health. There’s a hotline staffed by trained clinicians and counselors (1-888-7WE-HELP) who can dispatch someone to a caller’s location for immediate assistance. There’s also an urgent care center at 35 K St. NE and emergency services through the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program that has extended observation beds for adults at 1905 E St. SE. For more long-term care, the city has a network of providers in all eight wards that offer reduced-fee services on a sliding scale based on income.

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Self Help “Years later when I see other people going through stuff, I can be their hand in the darkness.”

Absent professional therapy, bar and restaurant workers get scrappy, finding coping mechanisms on their own or turning to each other for help.

Those City Paper interviewed report using meditation apps, spending time outside, doing yoga, using cannabis to quell anxiety, and reading self-help books as coping mechanisms. Lina Nicolai, who co-owns Al Crostino and XX+ suffers from panic attacks and reads cognitive behavioral therapy books to recover. “I go to the Kramerbooks and sit on the patio with one of the books, have a beer or two for two hours, and I breathe through it to calm me down,” she says.

Symone Wilson from DC 9 calls bartenders “interim therapists,” and wishes there was some formalized training for industry employees to learn to recognize mental illness warning signs in others. “We’ve lost so many people in the industry to suicide, overdoses, or drug addiction. We see those signs in our friends and try not to let people fall through the cracks,” she says.

When Wilson started working at the club in 2012, she says there were several suicides in one year. “A bar manager knew I was struggling,” she says. “She gave me a book about forgiveness by the Dalai Lama. I was in this unreachable darkness and no one could get to me… Years later, when I see other people going through stuff, I can be their hand in the darkness.”

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Opens November 17 at the National Building Museum Explore the architectural and social history of going to the movies. See photos by award-winning Baltimore Sun photojournalist Amy Davis, historic images, theater ephemera, furnishings, and architectural fragments that evoke memories of moviegoing and illuminate themes of loss and preservation.

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Syrian asylum-seeker Raghad Makhlouf takes on her first major English-language role.

By Chris Klimek Raghad Makhlouf is having a big night.

Thirteen years into her stage and television career, she has performed for audiences exponentially larger than the circle of just 34 people—a capacity crowd—who surrounded her and her three co-stars for Sunday night’s opening of In This Hope: A Pericles Project, the latest theatrical experiment from local playmaking collaborative The Welders. But despite the cozy house, this riff on one of Shakespeare’s deep cuts is still a major line-item on Makhlouf ’s resume: With the exception of two lines in a Young Playwrights’ Theater production in May, In This Hope marks her debut as an English-language actor. (It’s not her debut as a Shakespearean, though: She played Juliet in her third year of college, in Arabic.)

Equally significant, it’s her first major gig since she arrived in the United States 16 months ago.

Makhlouf, 36, is a Syrian asylum-seeker who was compelled to flee with her husband from neighboring Lebanon in 2017, after immigration authorities began cracking down on Syrians living within its borders—part of a worsening refugee crisis created by Syria’s ongoing civil war. (Makhlouf takes issue with the term “civil war,” saying it does not reflect the truth of the Syrian President Bashar Assad’s use of deadly force against unarmed opposition.) Now, in an industrial kitchen in the basement of a church on 16th Street NW—the kitchen abuts the black box space that has been Spooky Action Theater’s regular venue for years—she dabs her eyes as well-wishers line up to congratulate her following a champagne toast by playwright/dramaturg Hannah Hessel Ratner. Makhlouf ’s husband, Manaf Azzam, beams with pride as she introduces him around.

“I might end up spending the rest of my life in this country,” Makhlouf says. “So I had to do this first step. I have to do it, I have to force myself. This might be my new language.” Like many students in her country, she was taught rudimentary English in school, “but the curriculum wasn’t good.” She’s expanded her formal training with lots of exposure to English-language movies, television, and music, she says, but getting by is a far cry from performing for a paying, if sympathetic, crowd.

Makhlouf does not know when or if she will return to her homeland. Were she to leave the U.S. now, she likely would not be permitted to re-enter the country. Nor does she know when U.S. immigration authorities will summon her for an interview to make a ruling on her asylum request. A Syrian friend of hers has been waiting for four years. So even though Pericles wasn’t written in the language in which she’s accustomed to thinking and performing—not that many 21st century English speakers would necessarily regard the Elizabethan verse that’s still partially preserved in Ratner’s script as their mother tongue, ei-

ther—she finds the play’s themes of exile, separation, and new beginnings in unfamiliar lands easy to lock into.

The happy symmetry of performer and material goes be-

yond Makhlouf.

Ratner, the longtime audience experience manager for Shakespeare Theatre Company, wasn’t interested in simply up-

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CPArts dating Pericles. Rather, she wanted a platform to provoke conversations about memory and identity. She says she chose Pericles because it’s “Shakespeare’s most meta play,” introducing the 14th-century poet John Gower as its narrator. In no other play does Shakespeare acknowledge his inspirations so openly, she says.

Ratner liked the notion of Pericles as the anchor for an exploratory theater piece about how artists borrow from artists and how stories transmit identity. When she and New York-based director Anna Brenner—whom she met when the two were in Columbia University’s MFA Theatre Program together seven years ago—began auditions, they instructed candidates not merely to study their sides, but to arrive ready to teach them something.

Each of the four cast members—Makhlouf, Lida Maria Benson, Rocelyn Frisco, and Lori Pitts—have interludes in which they discuss their own family histories in contemporary prose speech before pivoting back to their roles in Pericles.

They also invite members of the audience to volunteer little fragments of autobiography, sometimes just with their neighbor but occasionally with the entire crowd. (The audience is also encouraged to rise from their seats and dance during a wedding scene. You are alerted.)

Makhlouf graduated from Syria’s only formal acting academy, Damascus’ Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, in 2004.

She spent the next six years as a teaching assistant in the acting department there while booking regular stage and television roles. She came to Washington as a part of a two-week international program at the Kennedy Center in 2010, where she

befriended Colin Hovde, who would soon be named artistic director of Theater Alliance. They kept in touch after she returned to Syria and it was Hovde who introduced Makhlouf to Ratner, among many other theater practitioners, after she arrived the U.S. last summer.

Makhlouf moved to Lebanon after marrying in 2013. Her participation in the pro-democracy marches of the prior two years, along with comments she’d published in support of the peaceful revolution on Facebook, had been met with threats on her life, making her increasingly reluctant to return to Syria. In 2015, she appeared in Faces and Places, a TV series dramatizing the events leading up to the peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in Syria of early 2011. Of course, the Assad government does not allow itself to be portrayed in an unfavorable light on TV. Although made by Syrian artists, Faces and Places was filmed in Turkey, and the show has not been seen in Syria via legal channels.

When one of Makhlouf ’s castmates from the show returned to Syria while Faces and Places was still in production, she was arrested and interrogated about the cast and crew of the show, and denied permission to cross the border back into Turkey to finish filming her role in the series. Makhlouf was among the artists the authorities asked about by name.

The tension came to a head last summer when Lebanese officials seized her husband’s passport and threatened to deport him to his native Syria, though he had long made Lebanon his home. After about a month of wrangling, they agreed to return it to him on the condition that he leave the country immediately. Makhlouf and Azzam still had U.S. visas because they had

attended her younger brother’s University of Chicago graduation in the summer of 2016. He’d since moved to Washington, which—along with the local theater connections Makhlouf had made during her 2010 visit—was why they chose to come here.

Makhlouf says there’s no way of knowing who’s informing on who to the Syrian authorities—or, as the refugee crisis has worsened, to the Lebanese authorities—and it’s often difficult to know exactly what gets you branded as a dissident. She blames Assad and his government for the climate of fear and violence that has swallowed her country Her mother, a pro-democracy activist, had the good luck to be out of the country in late 2014 when Syrian authorities broke into her parents’ home and questioned her father, a civil engineer, about his spouse and his daughter. He warned his wife against returning to Syria, and he didn’t see her for more than a year. Her parents have now reunited and been granted asylum in Switzerland.

“Our whole family now is on the blacklist,” Makhlouf says.

With Hovde’s encouragement—Makhlouf refers to him as her mentor, even though they’re contemporaries—she has applied and been accepted into the George Washington University’s Academy of Classical Acting. She’s had to defer her admission until she figures out a way to pay the tuition. She and Azzam, a photographer and graphic designer, are earning enough money to cover the rent on their Alexandria apartment, but there isn’t a lot extra to go around.

But she’s optimistic. And after an involuntary layoff that made all the pressures of adapting to a new life in a new place seem worse, she’s back to doing the only job she’s ever known.

“Changing my career is not an option,” she says.

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From industrial electronic music to “fuck-off, fascists” soul-punk, here are the latest and greatest tunes in the D.C. music scene.

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Replicant Eyes, S/T Etxe Records

The dark wave, post-industrial duo of Dan Gonzalez and Alejandro Castaño makes an accomplished debut, with an album that moves between pop songs and industrial ballads—complete with menacing guitars, heavy synths, and found sounds. Clicks of tape and CD players guide listeners through the album’s main theme: seeing through the eyes of an artificial source of life, a sentient being that ponders its own existence. “Here’s Your Vengeance!” and “The Truth” are standouts, the latter a six-minute cathartic curtain call that implodes upon itself with a righteous amount of fuzz and rage.

RiYL: A superior soundtrack for if they ever remake Cruel Intentions.

Jax Deluca, Organs In The Wind ACR Records

Organs in the Wind, the noteworthy new album by visual and experimental artist Jax Deluca, is an expression of emotions that are hard to communicate. Listening to it is a solitary experience—a set of instructions tells us to listen to this record “at a low volume in a dark space, a quiet cave.” The album, comprised of a set of five compositions, functions as a slow drone of sorts—or even a lullaby that brims with raw emotion and tangible hums.

Among the more spaced-out compositions are “TMH” and “YSGA,” in which we hear soft keys against a ghostly wall that seems to vibrate with every pulsing note. Layered in rich vocals and recorded only using her voice, organ, and a few effects pedals, Deluca manages to sonically capture the moment between stillness and rebirth.

RiYL: Casually standing around and listening to the wind.

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Donna Slash, “Vicious Queen” Self-released

Here’s another song coated with the elusive, although still present, “industrial” tag that this city might now need the most. This absolute banger leans more toward electroclash, at first favoring a more velvety sound, as if Fischerspooner decided to spend a sav-

age night at a dance club. The song’s lyrics are full of intent, with just the right amount of menace, and highlight a powerful message that reminds us we can be whoever we want to be. Is this track—and hopefully a subsequent full-length release—the only thing we ever needed? Possibly.

RiYL: Dancing by yourself wearing tight vinyl black boots.

Lightmare, “Good Night White Pride” Self-released

After coming together for Girls Rock!

DC’s collaborative experiment Hat Band, Shady Rose, Vitamin Dee Chrystal, and Matt Kirkland decided to stick together, later adding Mike Beckage, Yung Michael Loria, and Josette Matoto to form Lightmare. Twelve months later, and following D.C.’s long tradition of punk and protest, their upcoming single “Good Night White Pride” is a powerful call to arms. The video, filmed at The Emergence Community Arts Collective, spawns out of the band’s idea of filming an aerobics-style instructional clip that demonstrates how to punch fascists and neo-Nazis in the face. In their own words, “we snowballed it into this vision of radical unity in diversity against oppression and injustice, featuring people from many of the marginalized groups that are targets of those violent oppressive forces.” Although the filming proved to be hard work, the exercise “was an exultant expression of community.”

RiYL: Listening to X-Ray Spex while painting signs for the next local rally.

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FilmShort SubjectS Widows

Girls to the Front Widows

Directed by Steve McQueen WidoWs is what happens when a bunch of prestige artists make a movie they are way too good for. It’s directed by Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), written by McQueen and Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), and sports a cast that includes Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, and Robert Duvall. With a different cast and crew, Widows would have been a satisfying little B-movie, but in these capable hands, it approaches high art.

In the seat-rattling open sequence, Harry Rawlings (Neeson) leads his team of professional criminals on a robbery that goes wrong, killing all involved and incinerating the $2 million loot. Shortly after the funeral, his widow, Veronica (Davis), is visited by Jamal Manning (Brian Tyree Henry), the crime lord from whom Harry was stealing. He informs her that he’s holding her responsible for the missing cash, so after discovering her late husband’s plans for his next job, Veronica recruits the other grieving wives to complete the job and earn their freedom.

It’s an irresistible hook for our era. In most crime films, women exist only to get smacked around and cry at funerals. Widows takes care of that in the first few minutes. The rest of the film is a deep exploration of characters who have been historically marginalized by the genre. In doing so, it also gives its female stars a showcase. Viola Davis, so adept at depicting restrained emotion in The Help and Fences, is captivating as a woman trapped by both circum-

stance and grief. Her recruits—a single mother (Michelle Rodriguez) and a naïve twenty-something (Elizabeth Debicki)—each are awarded rich inner lives and meaty subplots.

The script’s humanistic bent means that even its villains are viewed with empathy. This produces some nifty complications. Jamal is far from a personification of evil (although his henchman, played with chilling fury by Daniel Kaluuya, comes close). Instead, he is a candidate for local alderman trying to go legitimate and escape the danger of his criminal life. His opponent is Jack Mulligan (Colin Farrell), a sleazy politician burdened by the legacy of his father, a Chicago political legend.

Since the film keeps the details of its heist a secret for the first hour, I won’t spoil the ways Mulligan figures into the plan, but it’s not simple. Like most noir films, Widows populates its story with thugs, hookers, and crooked politicians. Unlike nearly all, it refuses to stop its inquiry at the archetype.

It’s a smart script, but the most credit should go to the director, whose artistry elevates Widows from a plot-driven heist movie to an emotional character study. McQueen is the right person for the job. In his previous works, 12 Years a Slave and Shame, he employed long, unbroken close-ups on the faces of his characters as they endure acute physical pain. He employs the same technique here, except the pain is emotional. It raises the stakes of the heist, never letting us forget the grief—for their husbands, specifically, and the broader challenges of being a woman in a hard world, more generally—that is driving their risky actions.

There is no island paradise in these characters’ future. No time to gaze at a fountain and reflect on their fun. The heist will only allow them to survive, not thrive. Widows is ultimately a story of female empowerment, but, through its sensitive vision and careful tech-

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zo Ferro) is eventually shown shooting people— usually as a reaction to being caught off-guard— but in general he’s portrayed as charmingly spontaneous and carefree, the type to put on a record and dance in strangers’ houses after he robs them. It’s 1971 Buenos Aires, and Carlos says he was “born a thief” and had no role models. The portrait of his home life belies this, however, with both his parents concerned about his criminal behavior and desperate to stop it. A reform school doesn’t help; it’s here that he meets the slightly older Ramón (Chino Darín), whose father, José (Daniel Fanego), is a gangster.

Once José teaches Carlos how to shoot a gun, their bond is sealed and they go into business together. Carlos is a little too reckless for Pops, though, so eventually it becomes just the teen and Ramón. They knock out job after job, selling their stolen merchandise (or, often in Carlos’ case, giving it away), and disappear from their families for a while, living in a hotel. It’s here that the eroticism between the two becomes apparent, though both have dated girls and Ramón, in particular, has a hoEl Angel

nique, it never lets us forget the wounds that come with the victory.

—Noah Gittell Widows opens Friday at theaters everywhere.

shootinG Blanks El Angel

Directed by Luis Ortega El AngEl, argentina’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, tells the story of Carlos Robledo Puch, a real Argentine serial killer the press dubbed the Angel of Death because of the teenager’s golden curls and cherubic face. He was convicted of 11 murders at age 20 and is currently Argentina’s longest-serving prisoner.

The grisliness of the true story is sanitized in Luis Ortega’s film. Yes, Carlos (a terrific Loren-

mophobic streak.

El Angel has a great Latinx rock soundtrack that makes every scene that it graces seem uber cool. Ferro and Darín makes a handsome duo, with Ferro giving an especially seductive performance that will mostly keep you on Carlos’ side. The film is occasionally funny, with Ortega seemingly aiming for a Tarantino-esque vibe. But soon the humor sags under the violence; once Carlos’ shootings no longer seem like knee-jerk reactions, you stop being in the kid’s corner.

Worse, there’s no psychological meat here, no unearthed motivation behind why Carlos has chosen a life of increasingly serious crime. His character, therefore, can’t go beyond one note, with his blond ringlets defining him more than his backstory. Carlos robs and kills and does it some more until the cops catch up to him. Meanwhile, the film doesn’t have a thought in its pretty little head.

—Tricia Olszewski El Angel opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

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Dancing King Billy Elliot

Music by Elton John Book and lyrics by Lee Hall Directed by Matthew Gardiner At Signature Theatre to Jan. 6, 2019 If you’ve never seen the 2000 film Billy Elliot, you should. It’s a very Northern English celebration of individuality and passion, of the power one feels when performing and running full speed toward their calling, all set amid the mayhem of England’s 1984 miners’ strike. The stage musical now running at Signature Theatre, with music by Elton John and book and lyrics by Lee Hall, is a heightened adaptation.

Billy, the young son of a striking English mining community, walks in to his boxing lessons but eventually stumbles upon and becomes enamored with another lesson happening in the building—ballet. Soon, he finds himself loving dance—and he happens to actually be good at it. When he gets the opportunity to join the Royal Ballet School in London, the rest, as Billy would say, is electricity.

The musical keeps all the wonderfully abrasive Northernness of the film. It isn’t easy to successfully keep up a Northern English accent if it isn’t your own—but the cast does its best to bring County Durham to Northern Virginia. Partner: Restaurant Liam Redford stars as one of Signature’s two Billy Elliots. (Owen Tabaka plays the lead in alternating performances.) Redford brings a charm and a sweetness to Billy, and gives the character the necessary heart. It’s easy to feel for Billy and

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Chris Genebach, recently seen as Macduff at the Folger, is a revelation as Billy’s father.

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Nancy Anderson is outstanding as the gruff and straightforward dance teacher Mrs. Wilkinson, who first sparks Billy’s fire when he attends her lessons. She’s something of a pseudo mother to Billy when he needs one after losing his own. Jacob Thomas Anderson shines as Billy’s flamboyant best friend Michael, who loves to dress up in women’s clothing and functions as Billy’s center of gravity.

Even if the story is familiar from the film, Matthew Gardiner’s production features genuinely great moments of stage magic, the best of which features a high-flying Billy dancing with his older self.

Billy Elliot is about many things—work inequality, strikes, masculinity, homophobia, parental death, expressing individuality, finding yourself, chasing dreams—but what it might be about most is chance. An 11-year-old boy from a coal mining town in North East England wants the chance to dance, to make it out of a place that everyone tells him is going nowhere when he’s going somewhere. In a world of chaos, instability, and conflict both in his community and at home, Billy finds that to get that chance, he needs the support of his father, brother, grandmother, and neighbors. They all have to come together and give him that fighting chance to get out and make something of himself. And in Signature’s sincere new production, they do.

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Rising Tides Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 At the National Gallery of Art to Feb. 18, 2019

Before he Became one of the world’s most formidable photographers, Gordon Parks made the choice to use photography as a weapon to fight injustice. It enabled him to work for organizations that would provide opportunities for him create photographs documenting parts of U.S. history. Parks, who was known for being the first black photographer at Vogue and Life, put in years of work before he landed in these positions, and the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition, Gordon Parks: The New Tide, chronicles the early part of his career.

Though his photography documents a fraught sociopolitical time in America, his skill makes his work stand out from others documenting similar themes. He’s an artist with a remarkable eye.

Though he was born into poverty in a segregated Kansas in 1912, Parks saw opportunity. “I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera,” he famously said. And with that power in mind, Parks bought his first camera from a pawn shop in 1937, when he was 25.

In the beginning of his career, he had a steady job as a dining car waiter and porter for a railway company and captured images in his spare time.

But in 1941, he moved to Chicago to chronicle the South Side’s black ghetto. In 1942, he moved to D.C. to work as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration. Beginning in 1945, Parks went on assignment for Ebony, Circuit’s Smart Women, and Glamour magazines, and by 1949, he was spending months in Europe photographing artists, fashion icons, and movie stars.

Parks set the stage for high profile opportunities through years of passionate work chronicling the lives of the underclass. Gordon Parks: The New Tide pays homage to that aspect of his work. The exhibition is laid out chronologically; as visitors move from one gallery to another, they can see Parks’ progress in skill and technique. In the beginning of his career, Parks primarily took portraits, including portraits of Langston Hughes and the actress Anna Lucasta. These early portraits offer a glimpse of how Parks developed his eye by engaging with his subject on an intimate level—he was able to bring feeling out of the people he captured with his camera.

One of Parks’ most iconic pieces, “Government Charwoman (American Gothic),” is a photograph of Ella Watson, who cleaned the FSA building after

business hours. It’s situated in the exhibition along with some of his lesser-known photographs. The photograph depicts Watson with an American flag behind her, a broom in her right hand, and a mop in her left. The wall text in the gallery states that on her $1,080 annual salary, Watson was able to raise her adopted daughter and grandchildren, lived in a more-than-modest apartment above some shops, and was unshaken in her faith in God. Subsequent photographs in Parks’ series on Watson show her at work, at home, and at her place of worship. These images were first published in Ebony in 1942 and show the hardship that many African-Americans were facing in the Jim Crow South.

Parks’ work as a public relations photographer for government agencies humanized issues like poverty, racial discrimination, and classism, and many of these images juxtapose hardship with resilience. While the men and women he captured through his lens endured hard times, Parks was able to seize their moments of strength. As a photographer for the Office of War Information, he witnessed the aftermath of a riot in Harlem spurred by the wounding of a black soldier by a white police officer. His photos of the incident didn’t center on the material devastation that left the community rattled, but rather on the countenances of children, who in the wake of the riot, seemed unscathed by the happenings.

The photographs in this exhibition warrant high praise, not only for their compositional beauty but for what they represent. Parks had a special kind of foresight with his photographs: He knew he could combat racist and classist ills by documenting the struggles of the country’s most marginalized residents. With his camera, Parks shows his audience those who endure but overcome struggle. From the images of little black children in Harlem to the Tuskegee Airmen, the photos in this exhibition illustrate the strength of a people. Parks photographed more than African-American subjects, and the photos in the NGA’s exhibition explore the ingenuity of other oppressed communities, allowing visitors to see the working class and their contributions to society.

In the early years of his career, Parks’ weapon of choice—his camera—made all the hopes, dreams, and rhetoric associated with being poor in America a reality for the privileged class. Parks fought injustice with his camera, which is exactly what he set out to do.

—Shantay Robinson 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free.

(202) 737-4215. nga.gov.

Winter Trailer Night 2018 MONDAY, NOV. 19, 7-9pm • LANDMARK E STREET CINEMA FILM TRAILERS! CRITICS! GIVEAWAYS!

Check out what Hollywood has in store as we preview trailers for this winter’s most anticipated releases. With film critics Tim Gordon & Travis Hopson for a lively discussion.

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

'The Holiday Show' plus your favorites!

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CLASSICAL

An Acoustic Evening with

SHAWN COLVIN

Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. 11:30 a.m. $15– $89. kennedy-center.org.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Randy Rogers Band. 6 p.m. $35. 930.com.

Seth Glier

PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE & FIREFALL

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MiraCle tHeatre 535 8th St. SE. (202) 400-3210.

Union Stage Presents Mary Fahl. 8 p.m. $35. themiracletheatre.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Shad. 8 p.m. $13. dcnine.com.

with RICK BRAUN & EUGE GROOVE

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

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Kennedy Center terraCe Gallery 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. KC Jazz Club: Miguel Zenón’s Yo Soy La Tradición. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $20–$35. kennedy-center.org.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mitski. 10 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

Benefit Concert featuring

JEFF “SKUNK” BAXTER & The American Vinyl All Star Band with many special guests!

SATURDAY Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. 8 p.m. $15– $89. kennedy-center.org.

ELECTRONIC

barns at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Hot Rize. 8 p.m. $45–$60. wolftrap.org.

JAzz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy Center terraCe tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ogresse.

7:30 p.m. $40–$50. kennedy-center.org.

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Kennedy Center eisenHoWer tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Silent Night. 7 p.m. $35–$199. kennedy-center.org.

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blaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Los Campesinos!. 8 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com.

AVERY*SUNSHINE Liz 14 CARBON LEAF Longley Adam 15 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Ezra 16 NORMAN BROWN'S JOYOUS XMAS with BOBBY CALDWELL & MARION MEADOWS 18&19 JUDY COLLINS 12

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CHERYL WHEELER & JOHN GORKA

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tHe antHeM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Young The Giant. 8 p.m. $40–$139. theanthemdc. com.

eCHostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Seven Lions. 9 p.m. $30. echostage.com.

LISSIE Kathryn Rheault BEBEL GILBERTO SARA EVANS Fairground Saints "At Christmas"

FUEGO FLAMENCO FESTIVAL

GALA Hispanic Theatre is more than D.C.’s go-to location for Spanish-language drama; it’s the home of Fuego Flamenco, an annual festival of Spanish music and dance held in Columbia Heights. Thanks to a financial boost and curatorial help from the Spanish Embassy, these performances typically feature the best flamenco Washington sees all year. Week one of the 14th annual festival featured Madrid’s José Barrios. Week two features Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company, a New York-based troupe founded by professional flamenco dancer Omayra Amaya. The work she’ll perform at GALA is called "La Sobremesa," a Spanish word that describes time spent gathered around the table after dinner. The work premiered in 2008, but in this new production, Amaya will be joined onstage by guitarists, singers, and Edwin Aparicio, a popular teacher and dean of D.C.’s own flamenco scene. The show runs to Nov. 18. at GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. $25–$95. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

PHOTO SLAM

Four photographers prevailed in Photoworks’ eighth annual Photo Slam. Their winning works are now on display at the organization’s gallery at Glen Echo Park. First-place winner Nestor Ares Cortes documents the Mexican Day of the Dead, including portraits of costumed participants and images of residents making offerings at shrines for their relatives. The most striking photograph looks through a stone arch toward hulking figures, crosses, and eerily lit trees. Second-place finisher Clint Everett Fenning intimately documents his wife’s two-and-a-half-day childbirth and third-place winner Michael Horan offers a range of snow swept landscapes from Iceland, eloquent in their encapsulation of stark, bracing landscapes at land’s end. The surprise star of the exhibition, however, is the lone submission by “audience choice” winner Kathryn Mohrman—an aerial image of rice terraces in the Yunnan province in China, which depicts eight farmers treading carefully on the snaking edges of the flat, silvery rice fields. The exhibition runs to Dec. 9 at Glen Echo Photoworks, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks.org.

—Louis Jacobson

ROck

Scenes from Frozen, Moana, Zootopia, & More with the Music Played LIVE by the NSO

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mitski. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. linColn TheaTre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Jim James. 7:30 p.m. $41. thelincolndc.com. roCk & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Caroline Rose. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc. com.

WORLD

TropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Elena & Los Fulanos. 7 p.m. $11–$15. tropicaliadc.com.

SUnDAY FOLk

National Symphony Orchestra Pops Steven Reineke, conductor

barns aT Wolf Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Art Garfunkel. 8 p.m. $80–$95. wolftrap.org.

November 23–25 | Concert Hall

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

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kennedy CenTer eisenhoWer TheaTer 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Silent Night. 2 p.m. $35–$199. kennedy-center.org.

POP

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Wild Nothing. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tera Melos and Mouse on the Keys. 7 p.m. $17–$20. dcnine.com. roCk & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Weeks. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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MOnDAY FOLk

barns aT Wolf Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Art Garfunkel. 8 p.m. $80–$95. wolftrap.org.

JAzz

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Boney James. 7:30 p.m. $79.50. birchmere.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joel Harrison and Free Country. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

TUeSDAY FOLk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Dead South. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com. barns aT Wolf Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Art Garfunkel. 8 p.m. $80–$95. wolftrap.org.

JAzz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Katie Thiroux Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $24. bluesalley.com.

OPeRA

kennedy CenTer eisenhoWer TheaTer 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Silent Night. 7:30 p.m. $35–$199. kennedy-center.org.

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blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Menzingers. 7 p.m. $20–$25. blackcatdc.com.

Capital One Arena • Washington, D.C. JUST ANNOUNCED!

MUSE

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THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

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

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD JUST ANNOUNCED!

TRAIN/GOO GOO DOLLS w/ Allen Stone ............. FRI AUGUST 9 On Sale Friday, November 16 at Noon

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER (cont.)

Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party

Snail Mail w/ Empath ................F 21

with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker • Visuals by Kylos ........................F 23

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Big Something & Too Many Zooz w/ Electric Love Machine ..........Sa 22 Margo Price w/ Lilly Hiatt ......Th 27 The Pietasters w/ Big D and the Kids Table •

All the Divas -

A Dance Party with DJ lil’e ..Sa 24

Colter Wall w/ Vincent Neil Emerson .............W 28 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds w/ The Rad Trads ......................Tu 29

The Forwards • DJ Selah ..............F 28

& Against The Grain ....................Sa 29 NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE CLUB!

White Ford Bronco: DC’s All 90s Band Champagne Toast at Midnight ..........M 31

SECOND SHOW ADDED!

Kurt Vile & The Violators w/ Jessica Pratt ............................Sa 1 Polo & Pan ................................Tu 4 Kodaline w/ Ocean Park Standoff .................W 5 Marcus King Band w/ Ida Mae ...................................Th 6 BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon:

JANUARY ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Ozomatli ...................................Th 3 D NIGHT ADDED! FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

To Jesus, Thanks for Everything! Jinkx & DeLa This is a seated show. Su 9

Gang of Youths w/ Gretta Ray . M 10 Phosphorescent w/ Liz Cooper & The Stampede..... Tu 11 FIRST TWO NIGHTS SOLD OUT!

THIRD NIGHT ADDED!

Thievery Corporation w/ The Suffers ............................Sa 15 Cat Power ................................Su 16 The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza w/ The Family Crest ...................W 19 Hiss Golden Messenger .....Th 20

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

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GWAR w/ Iron Reagan

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Noname w/ Elton .......................Tu 8 MØ ..............................................Tu 15

THIS WEDNESDAY!

Jackson Galaxy - Host of Animal Planet’s

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

Esperanza Spalding ..............DEC 1 AEG PRESENTS Adam Conover .........................DEC 2

Jewel - Handmade Holiday Tour w/ Atz, Atz Lee, Nikos Kilcher ..............DEC 6

LP .................................................... FEB 19 Alice Smith ................................. MAR 9 AURORA w/ Talos ....................... MAR 10 D SHOW ADDED!

FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! SECON

AEG PRESENTS Bert Kreischer 9:30pm Doors . MAR 14

José González

& The String Theory............ MAR 20

Story District’s Top Shelf . JAN 19 Neko Case w/ Margaret Glaspy .. JAN 26 Norm Macdonald ................. MAR 21 • thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Wood Brothers w/ Priscilla Renea ..........Th 17 & F 18 Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven ....Sa 19 Super Diamond .....................Th 24 Guster w/ Henry Jamison Two-night passes available ....F 25 & Sa 26

Rainbow Kitten Surprise w/ Mt. Joy .......................M 28 & Tu 29 Poppy Early Show! 6pm Doors ......Tu 31 Amen Dunes Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Tu 31

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IDK w/ Global Dan ................. W NOV 21 Yung Pinch w/ Tyla Yaweh & Yung Manny ............Sa 24 Freddie Gibbs w/ G Perico ...........Tu 27 Tall Heights w/ Frances Cone & Old Sea Brigade .....W 28 WHY? Plays Alopecia w/ Lala Lala .......................... Sa DEC 1 Flint Eastwood w/ Tunde Olaniran ...Su 2

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

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

Eyedress .................................Tu 11 Devotchka ................................W 12 The Slackers w/ War On Women ....Su 23 KONGOS w/ Fitness .............. Sa JAN 2 gnash w/ Mallrat & Gaurdin ............Sa 19 Windhand w/ Genocide Pact ..........Th 24 Cautious Clay ...................... F FEB 1 Ripe w/ Brook and the Bluff & Del Florida ......W 2

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

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

“Funny and joyous!”

—The Guardian

WILD NOTHING

With widespread digital dependency exhausting him, Jack Tatum sighs, “Breathe indigo. It’s the closest thing to living,” as Wild Nothing on his fourth studio album, Indigo. Referring to the blue glow of cell phone screens reflecting upon the face of humanity, Tatum examines his own life of incessant internet connection on the album’s crux, “The Closest Thing to Living.” Newly transplanted from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, Tatum took advantage of the city’s creative technology—like polished production from Jorge Elbrecht (whose resume includes artists like Ariel Pink and Japanese Breakfast) and live tracking with other musicians—to bring his nostalgic adaptation of dream pop to life. Indigo sounds like dreamy 1980s cinema thanks to a sonic palette inspired by Kate Bush, The Cure, and Roxy Music. With an eye on the future, Tatum nods to the past with a sound that exudes the confidence of his debut album, Gemini, and the timelessness of generations past. Wild Nothing performs with Men I Trust at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Casey Embert

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Dirty Nil. 7:30 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

RoCk & Roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Yellow Days. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

WeDNeSDAY FUNk & R&B 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Allen Stone.

7 p.m. $30. 930.com.

City WineRy 1350 Okie St. NE. Black Alley. 9 p.m. $25–$28. citywinery.com.

WORLD STAGES

November 28–December 1 Eisenhower Theater Join the Lab PerForum public discussion with the artists on Nov. 30 at 11 a.m. at Georgetown University. See web for details.

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600 Theater at the Kennedy Center is made possible by

Kennedy Center Theater Season Sponsor

Groups call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540 International Programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.

JAzz blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Russell Malone. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $35. bluesalley.com.

ROck tHe AntHem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Tash Sultana. 8 p.m. $45–$65. theanthemdc.com. union stAge 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The Academic. 7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

THURSDAY POP kenneDy CenteR millennium stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dr. Zoot. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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Books

ARiel buRgeR Lecturer and rabbi Ariel Burger discusses Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, an intimate memoir recounting time spent with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, at Politics and Prose. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 20. 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919.

CARon levis In Caron Levis’ book Stop That Yawn!, young girl Gabby Wild recruits her granny to take her to Never Sleeping City—where they rock around the clock riding Ferris wheels, jamming out, and eating ice cream—to do just about anything to stay awake and avoid going to bed. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 20. 10:30 a.m. Free. (202) 3641919.

CHRis mCgReAl In his book American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts, British investigative journalist Chris McGreal calls to account those who Americans look to protect them yet stand idly by as the bodies pile up year after year in the deadly opioid crisis, constructing a picture of how Big Pharma adapted their strategy over time to discredit the evidence that mass opioid prescribing was creating an epidemic. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 16. 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 3871400. mARgARet geoRge Author Margaret George speaks about her new book The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 17. 3:30 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919. mARvin kAlb Journalist Marvin Kalb speaks about his prescient new book, Enemy of the People: Trump’s

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All that glitters is gold in Senegal.

The National Museum of African Art presents Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women, the first ever major exhibition to explore the history of Senegalese gold jewelry, from centuries ago to the present. Stunning pendant necklaces, bracelets, and earrings abound in this showcase, grounded in the research and collections of art historian Marian Ashby Johnson. The exhibition focuses on the history of Senegal’s gold and how women used it to adorn themselves. Gold is a small piece of a larger picture that encompasses wealth, politics, nationhood, individual taste, and identity. Adhering to the Wolof concept of sañse (“when you look good, you feel good”), the gold jewelry is more than just jewelry, it’s a way of life. As anthropologist Hudita Nura Mustafa says in 1998’s The Art of African Fashion, “In today’s Senegal … gold jewellery, luxury cloth and regal conducts are still the ideals of beauty … Beauty is seen as a kind of goodness.” The exhibition is on view to Sept. 29, 2019 at the National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Ave. SW. Free.

(202) 633-1000. africa.si.edu.

—Malika T. Benton

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

The Passion of Joan of Arc, based on the trial of Joan of Arc, is a silent masterpiece from Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, and a claustrophobic drama of faces—accusing, ecstatic, mystic, illuminated. The extraordinary face at its center gives one of the most celebrated performances in movie history. Renée Jeanne Falconetti, a stage actress who only made a few films, has the rapturous conviction of the young woman she portrays, steadfast in the face of mockery by the men who had her burned at the stake at the age of 19. The Passion of Joan of Arc is the most religious of films, observing with restrained awe an unflinching faith in the face of adversity, yet its stark, minimalist imagery is as startling today as it was in 1928. The film screens at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $15 (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Pat Padua

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When Jason Mills truncated his rap moniker from “Jay IDK” to “IDK,” it was a bet on himself: that hip-hop fans would seek him out, despite his un-Googable name. Thankfully, the bet paid off. The Prince George’s County talent put himself on the rap map with last year’s Kanye-influenced album IWASVERYBAD and established himself as one of the DMV’s finest. He’s spent all year living up to his name’s meaning—“Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge” over menacing beats.

And he hasn’t done it alone. He’s collaborated with fellow up-and-comers like Miami’s Denzel Curry, Houston’s Maxo Kream, and D.C.’s own Q Da Fool. That collaborative spirit illuminates his latest release, IDK & FRIENDS :), a stop-gap until his next album that shows what he can do, whether dropping an old school freestyle with Curry, starting a mosh pit with fellow Maryland artist Rico Nasty, or bridging D.C. generations with Wale. With his friends or not, IDK won’t be hard to find. IDK performs at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $20. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Chris Kelly

War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy, at Politics and Prose.

Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 19.

7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Patricia Miller Author Patricia Miller recreates the groundbreaking 1894 case of breach of promise in her book Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took on Washington. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 18. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Dance

SPectruM Dance theater: a raP On race Based on a famed 1970 public conversation between novelist James Baldwin and anthropologist Margaret Mead, this new work weaves together dance and verbal duets to highlight the complexity of talking about race. This school production was conceived by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Anna Deavere Smith and Tony-nominated choreographer Donald Byrd. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. Nov. 16. 8 p.m. $29–$48. (888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu.

Theater

actually Theater J presents the timely story of Tom and Amber, two college freshmen who find them-

selves in a Title IX hearing after a casual hookup doesn’t go as planned. This production is directed by Johanna Gruenhut and written by Anna Ziegler. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Nov. 18. $30–$69. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org. aiDa Constellation Theatre Company presents Elton John’s epic musical, based on the opera of the same name. It follows the forbidden love story of the Nubian princess Aida and Ramades, the Egyptian captain who enslaved her people. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Nov. 18. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org. anaStaSia Based on the animated film of the same name, the tour of this dazzling Broadway production from the Tony-winning creators of Ragtime makes its way to D.C. In Anastasia, a young orphan uncovers secrets about her past when two con men take advantage of her resemblance to the presumeddead duchess Anastasia. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Nov. 25. $49–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. anything gOeS This “gold standard” musical comedy with music by Cole Porter tells the story of ocean liner stowaway Billy Crocker, who seeks to win the love of heiress Hope Harcourt and stop her marriage to the millionaire Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 23. $66–$105. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org.

Beetlejuice This new Alex Timbers-directed musical, adapted from Tim Burton’s 1988 film, makes its world premiere prior to Broadway. With music by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown, Beetlejuice tells the story of a quirky teenager who moves into a house haunted by its deceased owners and an elusive trickster demon. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Nov. 18. $54–$114. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org.

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MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: WHY WE COLLECT

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To collect is to be human. The avid collector ranges from the young collectors of rocks, toys, and Hot Wheels to the older collectors of art and oil paintings. At the National Museum of American History, the Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect exhibition is a melting pot of collections from the pioneering collectors that influenced and shaped Smithsonian Libraries. The exhibition thoroughly examines the compulsion and desire to hold on to life’s precious givings, from exquisite Japanese prints to hot-air balloons to all-manner of seashells. And it’s not just stuff. Because of these vast and varied collections, we are able to embark on a vibrant excursion into our own history to see which items transcended their respective times. Magnificent Obsessions is a fascinating reminder of what has been and why these little pieces of our history deserve to remain with us, no matter how small, each and every day. The exhibition is on view to July 1, 2020 at the National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. americanhistory.si.edu.

—Malika T. Benton Cry It Out This comedy by Molly Smith Metzler tells the story of next-door neighbors Jessie and Lina, who bond over their infant-rearing struggles during their maternity leaves. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Dec. 16. $20–$80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

Elf In this heartwarming family musical adapted from the film by the same name, a young elf learns of his true identity as a human and travels to New York to find his father while spreading the Christmas cheer. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 6. $37–$84. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org. thE fall Written by seven student activists who helped dismantle the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, The Fall grapples with race, class, history and power in the aftermath of Apartheid through song and dance. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Nov. 18. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. an InspECtOr Calls Stephen Daldry’s Olivier-winning production of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, hailed as a staple of modern British theatre, comes to D.C. Set on one night in 1912, the play tells the story of an upper-class British family who is visited by a mysterious inspector seeking details about a workingclass woman who committed suicide. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Dec. 23. $44–$102. (202) 5471122. shakespearetheatre.org.

KIng JOhn This historic Shakespeare play dramatizes the life of King John of England, who wages war on France after the King Philip demands that he renounce the throne. Directed by Aaron Posner, this production features Kate Eastwood Norris as Philip the Bastard and Holly Twyford as Constance. Folger Shakespeare Library. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Dec. 2. $42-$79. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

Film

BOy ErasEd After being forcibly outed to his parents, a boy is sent to participate in a church-supported gay conversion therapy program. Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Joel Edgerton. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) dr. sEuss’s thE grInCh The mean, green Grinch tries to ruin Christmas cheer in the town of Whoville

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in this Dr. Seuss classic. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, and Pharrell Williams. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) fantastIC BEasts: thE CrImEs Of grIndElwald With the help of his friends, magizoologist Newt Scamander must try to thwart evil wizard Grindelwald’s plans to raise a pure-blood wizard army to one day rule over all non-magical beings. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, and Katherine Waterston. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) thE gIrl In thE spIdEr’s wEB: a nEw dragOn tattOO stOry Computer hacker Lisbeth Salander finds herself entangled in a web of lies, spies, and corruption while trying to save a young math whiz and get back stolen codes. Starring Claire Foy, Sylvia Hoeks, and Lakeith Stanfield. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Instant famIly Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne star as a married couple who adopts three children, and chaos ensues. Co-starring Isabela Moner and Octavia Spencer. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) marIa By Callas This documentary tells the story of the life and work of influential Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, in her own words. Directed

by Tom Volf. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) OvErlOrd Two American soldiers behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day discover an underground lab and a sinister experiment that leads them to enter into a battle with an undead army. Starring Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, and Mathilde Ollivier. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a prIvatE war Celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin finds herself, thanks to her tireless and fearless attitude, at the frontlines of conflicts across the globe. Starring Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, and Jamie Dornan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) wIdOws During a time of turmoil, a group of Chicago widows conspires to finish the job their criminal husbands started. Starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SAVAGELOVE I’ve always wanted to tie girls up, but I can never convince a woman to let me. Lately, I’ve been exploring “bondage singles” sites online, but I’m totally new to this. How do I know which ones I can trust? There are hundreds of profiles, but it’s hard for me to believe I can really just answer an ad, meet a girl in a hotel room, and tie her up. It can’t be that simple, can it?

—The Internet’s Enticing Dates

It can’t be and it isn’t, TIED, because no woman in her right mind is going to let some man she’s never met before tie her up in a hotel room.

That’s not to say it couldn’t happen or hasn’t ever happened, but women stupid enough to take that risk are rare—and it should go without saying that any singles website promising to provide lonely guys with an endless stream of stupid women is a scam. But you don’t have to take my word for it.

Justin Gorbey is a bondage practitioner and educator, as well as a professional artist and tattooer.

Gorbey ties up a lot of women, as you can see on his Instagram account (@daskinbaku), and he doesn’t think you’re going to find someone on a “bondage singles” site, either.

“I would recommend this person step away from the dating sites and step into some educational group meet-ups or ‘munches,’” said Gorbey. “TIED or any new person should focus on groups that match their own desires/interests, and connections will develop organically with time and effort—with a lot of fucking time and effort!”

Kink social and education groups organize online but meet up offline—face-to-face, IRL, in meatspace—at munches (educational talks, no actual play) and play parties (actual play, hence the name). To find the kink organization(s) in your area, TIED, Gorbey suggests that you create a profile on FetLife, the biggest social network for kinky people, and start connecting with other like-minded kinksters at munches.

“Going to munches will not only give TIED a chance to meet people,” said Gorbey, “they’ll give him a ‘guide’ for how to act—most groups generally go over house safe words/etiquette/ rules and consent/risk awareness at the beginning of a munch—and they’ll also give what I call a ‘visual vocabulary’ of what a real-life scene looks like. Porn and fetish fantasy often distort our perceptions of what is plausible or even possible for real people in a real-life scenario. Just watching others play helped me identify the things I found attractive as both a top and a bottom.”

There are lots of men and women out there who are interested in bondage, TIED, and the organized kink scene is the best place to find safe and sane play partners. You’ll be able to interact with kinky women at munches and parties, women who will be a lot likelier to let you tie them up after you’ve demonstrated you’re safe and sane yourself.

“There are hours of intimacy before and after the moment captured for an Instagram photo,” said Gorbey. “These relationships require trust, vulnerability, and communication. These acts require a lot of hard work and commitment, and they expose a person to risk. That’s why the only responsible answer to TIED’s question is to seek education first and play partners second.”

Justin Gorbey teaches workshops and intensives on a number of subjects centering on bondage and power exchange dynamics. To see his work and learn about his workshops, follow him on Instagram.

—Dan Savage

I’m a monogamous woman in a committed relationship with a nonmonogamous man. I try to be cool about his other relationships, but I’m trying to figure out how to bring some fire back into ours.

I miss oral sex, but that’s not on the table because he “doesn’t like” how I taste. I’ve suggested bondage and anal, but he says he’s “too tired.” He can make plans with others to have exciting new experiences, but he doesn’t have any energy for me. I’m at a loss. Counseling is not an option for us because he doesn’t believe in that stuff. Any suggestions?

—Seeking Adventurous Monogamishamy Yes, stop doing his laundry or paying his rent or preparing his meals—stop doing whatever it is you’re doing that your shit boyfriend values and is reluctant to give up, SAM, because it’s clear he doesn’t value you. DTMFA. —DS

No woman in her right mind is going to let some man she’s never met before tie her up in a hotel room.

I’m a 44-year-old straight woman. I’ve been married for 14 years to a husband I love very much.

We have two small children. Early in our courtship, I discovered his interest in bottoming during fem-Dom pegging sessions. I GGG’d his desires, and we explored them. He bought a variety of dildos, strap-on harnesses, and kink ephemera, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the few times we’ve done this. But I’ve grown less interested over the years. We both work, there are kids to look after— and when we have sex, I just want to get it over with and move on with our day, not deal with the pageantry of dress up, stiletto heels, collars and cuffs, lubricating buttholes, graduating to bigger dildos in a session, etc. The vanilla-leaning sex we have is great, and we are both into it, but I

know being bound and pegged is his fantasy and he is less fulfilled by not having it on the menu.

How do I get more motivated to indulge him? Do I have to give him a pass to seek out a pro-Dom to indulge this? (Not sure how I feel about that.)

Ultimately, I don’t hate indulging his fantasy, and it really does it for him. Not sure what to do.

—Frequently Evading My Dude’s Obsessions Mostly

You discovered your husband’s kinks during your courtship—an unspecified period of time prior to the wedding, the kids, etc. And while you say you’ve GGG’d his kinks over the 14+ years you’ve been together, FEMDOM, it’s hard to square that claim with this: “I’ve thoroughly enjoyed [pegging him] the few times we’ve done this.” Indulging someone a few times over 14+ years hardly counts as GGG’ing their desires.

Being “good, giving, and game” for anything—within reason—doesn’t obligate us to do whatever our partners want. But if something is truly central to your partner’s erotic self, then being GGG—being a loving partner— means making an accommodation, FEMDOM, finding a work-around that allows your partner to express this aspect of their sexuality without requiring you to do something you find tedious, a turnoff, or traumatizing. That accommodation can be something as simple as cheerfully allowing your partner to indulge their kinks with porn or during solo play (emphasis on the word cheerfully) to something as challenging as allowing your partner to explore their kinks with others, e.g., play partners or professionals.

If your husband isn’t feeling neglected—if he enjoys hurry-up-and-get-it-over-with sex as much as you do and wants to be tied up and pegged only once every five years—then you don’t have a problem. But if he’s feeling resentful, you do have a problem. Resentment has a way of metastasizing into bitterness, and bitterness has a way of curdling into the kind of anger that can doom a relationship.

So check in with your husband, FEMDOM, and be clear about your feelings: You don’t hate indulging his fantasy, but you’re both busy, you have small children, and his fantasies require a lot of prep and setup. Tell him you want him to be happy—and, hey, if he is happy, then great.

But if he’s not, then it’s time to talk accommodation. You don’t want him to go without, you don’t want him to see a pro, and you don’t want him to feel bad about the sex you do have and both enjoy. So how about this: You get grandparents or good friends to look after your kids once a year while you spend a restful weekend in a nice hotel pegging the husband’s ass between spa treatments.

—DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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