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7 Just Sitting There: Dupont Circle residents bristle at vacant townhouses drawing squatters.

8 Our Town Vs. Trump Town: The president-elect is already exerting his power over public space in D.C. 10 Savage Love 11 Gear Prudence

D.C. FeeD 18 Just Desserts: D.C.’s restaurant boom means opportunities for attorneys to bust wage offenders.

31 Career Fare: Odd jobs in D.C. restaurants 31 Brew in Town: Jailbreak Imperial Carrot Cake Conspiracy from Gilly’s Craft Beer & Fine Wine 31 Hangover Helper: Prescription Chicken soup from Glen’s Garden Market

arts 33 Tragicomedy Central: Timely new productions at The Kennedy Center and Woolly Mammoth will leave you crying and laughing.

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36 Speed Reads: Ottenberg on Strivers and Other Stories 37 Discography: Fischer on Title Tracks’ Long Dream

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While neW residential buildings rose at a record-setting pace in the District this year, homelessness increased at almost as rapid a clip. As year-end data reports on both homelessness and home construction were released in November, Housing Complex reporter Andrew Giambrone published their findings in separate articles.

Readers had little reaction to the unprecedented boom in new construction, and few offered comments on ballooning homelessness figures.

But putting a face to the city’s growing disparity seemed to move readers. Commenters were overcome by Giambrone’s recent story about a man found dead of apparent hypothermia during a mid-November cold spell. A woman saw him while walking her dogs in Columbia Heights before 7 a.m. He was in a wheelchair and wearing hospital pants. She asked passersby for help because she’d left her cell phone at home, but none would step up.

In response to the story, Georgetown Ministry (@gmcgt), which provides a special wintertime homeless shelter, tweeted this week, “Street outreach, hypothermia outreach, and shelter hotlines are so important.” D.C. Central Kitchen (@dcck), which trains unemployed adults for culinary jobs, tweeted, “There is much work to be done in this city.”

Others were equally moved. “[H]orrible story. the people who wouldn’t help this woman call 911 are terrible,” tweeted @libbycwatson. Even prolific City Paper commenter Typical DC BS, who in the same week characterized public housing as “taxpayer-provided nests,” was sympathetic towards the victim and the woman trying to help him, writing, “DC scum can’t even be bothered to call 911 when this nice lady asks for help for this poor guy.”

The story of the man found dead in a wheelchair, streetside, proves itself to be a microcosm of life in the District. Over the last five years, homelessness has jumped 27.7 percent in D.C., according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, while the issuance of construction permits increased by 42 percent. In straight numbers, that’s 8,350 homeless residents as of January, and 14,800 units of housing under construction as of August—mostly slotted to house “young professionals.”

Two discordant surges, each one serving as the dark underbelly of the other. @Ward4Anderson tweeted the homelessness numbers, and @rbett responded, “Is that true?” @Ward4Anderson replied with a link to one of Giambrone’s articles and her own conclusion: “Not a matter to be proud of.” —Alexa Mills

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DistrictLine Just Sitting There

By Andrew Giambrone A stretch of three empty rowhouses on an otherwise charming street in Northwest has caused consternation among neighbors, who have observed shabby conditions and attendant squatters after an investment group acquired the buildings last year and hit snags in redevelopment plans.

Located mid-block on 21st Street NW between Massachusetts Avenue and P Street, the vacant properties are within view of the Beaux Arts-style mansion housing the Indonesian Embassy, and also the stately Fairfax at Embassy Row Hotel. Dupont Circle residents say they find the situation both unusual and enervating for the well-established neighborhood, where the real estate market is reliable, though not as hot as some areas farther east. The homes were constructed at the turn of the 19th century, according to D.C.’s Historic Preservation Office. They are each three stories and contain basement units.

The northernmost two have stoops. Those, and possibly the buildings’ vestibules, have been intermittently occupied in recent months by homeless people, neighbors say.

One in particular, described as a middleaged black man about six feet tall and with short hair, has allegedly exposed himself and discarded liquor bottles out front. The man wasn’t there during visits to the block this week, but an empty bottle of E&J Brandy lay atop an old Express newspaper outside one of the rowhouses. Residents say the man seems to suffer from mental illness or substance abuse.

Three District-wide issues coalesce at the strip of houses in question: constraints on private development in historic neighborhoods, accountability for monitoring underutilized land, and homelessness.

Officially, there are some 1,300 vacant properties that have been identified across D.C., many in the city’s poorest enclaves. But because some property owners manage to elude enforcement, there are no doubt more.

“I feel like there’s so many people whose jobs it should be, if this person is truly in cri-

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sis,” says Jonathan Padget, who has owned a condominium in Dupont for eight years.

“There’s a lot of single homeless men and women in the neighborhood who are familiar faces in bad situations. They’re not getting connected to the services they need, and this [man] is one of those people.”

Last month, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs installed wooden boards on the two buildings’ stoops after its inspectors discovered upkeep issues and the owner did not satisfactorily address them. A Nov. 4 inspection report for the middle rowhouse revealed the following violations: “Excessive trash, debris, and unsecured vacant property. Hazard to human life”; “excessive vegetative growth”; and that “the presence of graffiti immediately endangers the surrounding community.” (Not mentioned: a jettisoned blue vacuum cleaner seen on the site this week.)

“We can cite vacant properties for specific issues such as being open and accessible, but to the extent that a structure is visibly or aesthetically unappealing, we’re limited in what the law allows us to do,” a spokesman for DCRA explains. “Our obligation is to make sure it’s safe and secure.”

Although the agency did not conduct work inside the properties and has not to date issued infraction notices levying fines on the owner, the cases remain open, the spokesman notes.

Jeff Fabrikant, who lives in the building between the properties and the Fairfax, says the grounds look less unkempt than they were when the homeless man “was living there full time,” but adds that the man “still goes there and hangs out in the front and drinks,” typically at night.

The investment group, registered as 21 Dupont Condos LLC and based in St. Petersburg, Florida, bought 1508–1512 21st St. NW in September 2015 for at least $6.5 million, public records show. The intent was to convert the buildings into a “boutique luxury condo project” featuring 15 to 20 units, investor Jud Allen told District real estate blog UrbanTurf at the time. A Historic Preservation Office report evaluating the proposal indicates that the group wanted to “restore the historic façade at 1508,” completely re-

furbish all interiors, “combine [the] lots at 1510 and 1512 to connect floors on the interior,” add a set-back story to 1508, and build a fivestory rear addition on 1510 and 1512.

Local neighborhood commissioners took issue with the proposed height increase, stating in a February resolution that there was “significant concern from neighbors” about the anticipated visibility of the new additions “from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 21st Street.” Historic preservation officials ultimately agreed with them, recommending that the group remove the fifth story on 1510 and 1512 from the plans.

Padget posits that these determinations created “obstacles” to making the buildings habitable again. “Who’s so concerned about street ‘visibility’ but not about vacant buildings and squatters at risk of hypothermia?” he says. “That doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m certainly sensitive to concerns about development, but I don’t think these positions by [local officials] were beneficial.”

For others in the area, the onus to render the houses useful rests squarely with the developer. “They should be taking care of their properties and not make the neighborhood and city take care of issues for them,” says ANC 2B Commissioner Daniel Warwick, whose single-member district includes the site. Even if these were relisted, he contends, “it’s still their responsibility to maintain it.”

Turns out, they aren’t for sale. “We are not actively marketing the property at this time and expect to finalize our development plans

Darrow Montgomery

Dupont Circle residents bristle at vacant townhouses drawing squatters.

and be under construction in early 2017,” site investor Jeff Neal writes in an email. “We are aware of the issues with the ‘squatter’ on the property and have sent contractors to the site a number of times to remove trash and boardup doors and windows. Every time we’ve been made aware—either by our own inspection or by contact from neighbors—of a ‘relapse,’ we’ve responded promptly.” Neal declined to comment further.

Peter O., a resident in his twenties who has rented an apartment around the block from the site for more than a year and requested that his last name not be used, says he has never seen the properties clean over the past several months. Instead, he recalls garbage, bottles, and bags strewn asunder.

He adds that he has witnessed people on the stoops “in various states of dress” and consciousness, and corroborates Padget’s descriptions of the seemingly homeless few who “set up shop” there.

“Besides the whole safety implications, it’s kind of an eyesore on the neighborhood,” he says. “You can go three or five blocks in literally any direction—you won’t see anything like that.”

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DistrictLinE Our Town Vs. Trump Town

By Amanda Kolson Hurley RemembeR the huge blue sign on Pennsylvania Avenue this summer that said COMING 2016: TRUMP? Local officials complained about it. The rest of us rolled our eyes.

Turns out, the sign was warning us about more than a hotel opening.

Autocrats have long commandeered urban space to make way for their own power. Baron Haussmann, the majordomo of Emperor Napoleon III, famously destroyed much of medieval Paris and rebuilt it along grander lines. Widened boulevards offered light and air, but also strategic advantages for the regime, such as allowing the army to maneuver better. Benito Mussolini blasted an avenue through ancient ruins and staged fascist parades there. He also built a whole district of Rome, called EUR, for a world’s fair that never happened.

A U.S. president can’t bulldoze parts of the capital at will or order a colossus of himself to be placed in the middle of the Mall. But there is every reason to believe Trump—a real estate developer whose taste in architecture runs to Louis XIV excess—will try to use the city to glorify his reign. The New York Times reported that Trump wants to continue holding rallies while in office because he “likes the instant gratification and adulation that the cheering crowds provide.”

Trump’s new 263-room hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, which opened in September inside the Old Post Office building, is unprecedented in American history. Never before has a president-elect or sitting president controlled a major piece of real estate in downtown Washington. The Old Post Office, a historic landmark, stands directly on the axis of power between the White House and the Capitol.

The Trump Organization does not own the Old Post Office; the federal government does.

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years from the General Services Administration (GSA). He said this week he will “remove” himself from his business interests and will announce details about those plans in mid-December. But Trump continues to hold a large stake in the hotel and will soon have authority over his own landlord—a flagrant conflict of interest.

The Old Post Office is already a site of protest and will likely remain one even after Trump becomes president. The location is both convenient and symbolic. It’s on “America’s Main Street” (unlike the gated and buffered White House) and close to Freedom Plaza, another popular protest site.

But here’s the rub. Thanks to the terms of the lease, the Trump Organization controls the small plaza in front of the hotel. Anytime it wants to evict protesters, it can. Additionally, the District Department of Transportation granted the Trump Hotel rights to the curbside traffic lane on Pennsylvania Avenue for its valet service. This has already forced one long-running D.C. street festival to move to another location.

Trump’s track record on public space is far from encouraging. At the Trump Tower in New York, he has repeatedly flouted city rules requiring him to dedicate the atrium to public use, removing public benches and installing counters for hawking “Make America Great Again” caps.

In Westchester County, N.Y., there is a Donald J. Trump State Park on land Trump bought to build a golf course, before local politicians stymied his effort. Trump then donated the land to the state, announcing the gift at a lavish press conference. But he never followed through with funds for upkeep and amenities like picnic tables. He did claim the tax donation. The park fell into neglect and closed. At one point, Trump demanded that the state give him the land back. The state refused.

The day after D.C. Public School students

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Darrow Montgomery

The president-elect is already exerting his power over public space in D.C.

marched on the Trump International Hotel, guards patrolled the building behind metal fencing. The main entrance was closed off. The plaza was empty except for one man, his dreadlocks twisted into side ponytails, a dog sleeping beside him. As tourists snapped photos, he smiled and held up a sign: #FUCKTRUMP. Another man tentatively approached the barriers and asked a guard how to get inside. “You’ve got a meeting with the Führer?” side-ponytail man shouted as the other man scurried around the corner to 11th Street.

The Pennsylvania Avenue entrance is still closed. A spokesperson for Trump Hotels tells City Paper by email: “The main entrance has always been designated as 11th street [sic] as that is the access for motor vehicles / valet parking, as well as pedestrians.”

This is not true. The hotel plan approved by the government in 2014 promised that “the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance would be ... the primary pedestrian point of entry.”

Instead of entering through gracious arches there, visitors are now steered to a side entry, and passersby are treated to the sight of closed front doors and metal barriers. (The clock tower, run by the National Park Service, will reopen next year with a public entry at the back.)

How long will the barriers stay up? GSA seems to defer to the Trump Organization.

A different Trump spokesperson says hotel management does not discuss security “as a matter of policy.” The arrangements don’t cause as much hassle as those around Trump Tower in New York, where Fifth Avenue is nearly closed off, yet the barriers are defensive architecture in a city already rife with it.

I remember this building from its more relaxed days. My father worked in the Old Post Office when I was growing up. Back then, it was home to two small federal agencies, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I was in awe of the tower—the third-highest in the city—and my father’s office in a turret on the northeast corner. When I visited, we would eat lunch with the tourists in the food court and take the elevator up to the observation deck.

The food court is gone, replaced by a lobby that’s heavy on the gilding and richly colored marble favored by the developer-in-chief.

Massive crystal chandeliers hang from the metal trusses across the atrium, evoking the New York Times’ original verdict on the building: “a cross between a cathedral and a cotton mill.”

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When the hotel opened and struggled to find takers for its ultra-pricey rooms, the awkward building seemed appropriate for a candidate whose suits never fit him quite right, despite his wealth. The Old Post Office was completed in 1899, just as its ornate Romanesque Revival style was going out of fashion. Its technology became obsolete almost immediately, and some of the construction was deemed shoddy. Yet the building survived, despite multiple attempts to have it demolished.

As president, Trump will have authority over the GSA, and no agreement has yet been reached to preempt or limit that. He has said on many occasions that he loathes fancy dinners in tents and believes tents are beneath the dignity of state dinners. The White House doesn’t have a ballroom. Will Trump try to build one, as he offered to do for the Obama administration in 2010? Or will he push for state dinners to be held down the street in his hotel, which has “the largest luxury ballroom in all of Washington, D.C.,” according to its website? He’ll profit personally if his hotel hosts government affairs.

The hotel is already courting foreign diplomats who hope to curry favor with the new president. Will it be surveilled by the Secret Service, along with Trump Tower, and at taxpayers’ expense?

When Pierre L’Enfant laid out his plan for Washington, he made the separation of powers under our constitution visible and tangible, setting the Capitol at a distance from the White House. The grand avenue that links them reflects Enlightenment values, and recent protests demonstrate that it continues to be a democratic space. But our avenues, plazas, and parks could also lend themselves to a dark display of one man’s power. In our current upside-down reality, that’s not crazy to contemplate.

On Inauguration Day, protestors will line the parade route, and the thin-skinned Trump will no doubt bristle at them. Activists are currently fighting in court for the right to protest in front of the hotel and in Freedom Plaza, against the wishes of Trump’s Inaugural Committee.

But while Trump may live in the White House for the next four years, the city belongs to us. “Physical space in the nation’s capital is especially important and valuable, since that is our national political theater,” says Benjamin Barber, a political theorist and author who teaches at Fordham University. The hotel puts the principle of public space to the test, and Barber believes principle will win: “The public will make sure that happens.”

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My boyfriend of almost two years is wonderful, and we have had very few issues. But there is one thing that has almost been a deal breaker. He fiddles with his penis almost constantly—in front of me and in front of our roommates. I’ve confronted him about it a number of times. He said he should be able to fiddle with his dick in every room of the house if he wants to and he should feel comfortable doing so. I told him that he is being “comfortable” at the expense of the comfort of those around him.

We’ve had a number of confrontations about this, and he does it a lot less, but he still does it.

If he doesn’t stop when I tell him to, I just leave the room. My question to you: Is this behavior unacceptable or am I being unreasonable?

—Frustrated With The Fiddling

Until a few weeks ago, I would have said that neo-Nazis sieg-heiling around Washington, D.C. was unacceptable and that any elected official or pundit who didn’t immediately condemn neo-Nazis would be finished politically and professionally. But it turns out that neo-Nazism is just another example of IOIYAR—“it’s OK if you’re a Republican”—and relativism reigns.

In other words: “Unacceptable” is a relative concept, FWTF, not an objective one.

That said, FWTF, I don’t think you’re being unreasonable: Fiddling with your dick in every room of the house is inconsiderate and childish. It sounds like you’re doing a good job of socializing your boyfriend—better late than never—and I would encourage you to keep it up.

—Dan Savage I’m a straight man in a mostly healthy marriage.

Our sex life is average, which I understand is better than some people can hope for, and we communicate well. For example, I felt comfortable admitting to my wife a few weeks ago that I would like more blowjobs. She in turn felt comfortable admitting to me that she would prefer if I showered more often. So we made a deal: I would shower every day and she would blow me twice a month. But the first month came and went with no blowjobs in sight. I’ve showered every single day. Should I bring this up to her?

—Bathe Longer Or Withhold Sex

with me. Three months have gone by, and he’s not yet told me how his other partners feel. One of those partners is under a lot of stress—not the best time to bring up potential new partners to her—but my friend has dated other people in the past three months. I think if he really wanted to do something with me, he would have asked by now. I know you can’t ask someone to give you closure. I’ve also got a shit ton of pride that prevents me from asking him directly how he feels.

Should I just move on? —Confused And Pathetic Yup.

—DS

I am a queer transwoman in my mid-20s, and I am in a monogamous relationship with a queer ciswoman. We have been dating for about three months now. We have had an absolutely amazing sex life since day one, except for one caveat: She has never in her life had an orgasm. For most of the time she has been sexually active, she has felt ambivalent about getting off. It has only been in the past month that she has started feeling a “sexual awakening,” as she calls it.

We have been making progress, but she has been having issues with getting caught up in her head when I am pleasuring her. This has been causing dysphoric feelings for her. We have had a few discussions about what we can do about the situation, but we are feeling lost. We know there isn’t going to be a quick fix, but what do we do about this?

—Confused And Nervous Truly Can’t Overcome Much Exasperation Pot.

—DS

Your wife doesn’t wanna suck your cock, BLOWS, squeaky clean or stinky cheese. I would recommend outsourcing non-birthday blowjobs—if your wife is OK with that, BLOWS, which she won’t be.

—DS

Fiddling with your dick in every room of the house is inconsiderate and childish.

I’m a mid-30s bi woman in an incredible poly marriage with a bi guy. A few months ago, I learned that one of my closest friends (also poly) has a crush on me. I also have always had a crush on him. My crush-friend needed to ask his other partners how they felt about him being involved

I’ve been in a long-term relationship with the girl I’m going to marry. While I’ve had a few relationships in the past, she has had only one other relationship before me, who also happened to be her only other sexual companion. My girlfriend is very vanilla in the bedroom, which is

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fine for me, but the issue is that currently the only way for her to have an orgasm is to grind (dry hump) on my boxer shorts until she climaxes. This obviously causes her a little bit of embarrassment, along with some heavy rug burn on both of our ends. My question for you: Is there any toy or something that may help with this?

—Girlfriend Dryly Humping Pot and sex toys—they might not help, but they couldn’t hurt.

—DS

I’m a woman with a small build who has never had children. During sex, my current partner frequently says, “Squeeze your pussy,” as in he expects me to do Kegel exercises during sex (and hold it), which I will not do because it’s not pleasurable for me to tense up like that during sex. He doesn’t have the biggest or the smallest dick I have ever had, and I have never had this comment before.

I have actually been told many times how “good and tight” I feel. We both enjoy anal, so we tried that. Same request: “Squeeze.” I have no abnormalities. I’m not sure if there is a work-around for this, other than doing Kegels every minute of my life. Help!

—Sex Partner’s Annoying Requests You have two options: You can tell your current sex partner you aren’t going to “squeeze” his dick with your pussy or your ass, as the sensation isn’t pleasurable for you, or can you lie to him. Tell him you’re squeezing your pussy/ass—you’re squeezing so hard—without actually squeezing your pussy/ass. Odds are good he’ll notice a difference even if you’re not doing anything differently, SPAR, so great is the power of suggestion.

—DS I had to write after reading your recent Savage Love Letter of the Day from a woman who spotted a friend’s husband on Tinder and didn’t know whether she should say something to her friend. My (single and tindering ) friend has been mistaken for his identical (married and non-tindering ) twin brother more than once on the app. They live in Seattle and Los Angeles, and so most people in their lives don’t realize they have a twin. My friend has freaked out his sister-in-law’s friends by popping up on their Tinder feed. It came out after the sisterin-law posted a photo of the twins together on social media and multiple people expressed extreme relief that her husband was not a cheater but an identical twin!

—Deluded Acquaintances Needed Answers Thanks for sharing, DANA! —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I’ve been struggling my whole life with the fact that I’m not a morning person. I can’t get myself out of bed before noon on the weekend, and by then my friends are halfway done with their centuries. And forget about bike commuting: I can barely stumble to the Metro and have no motivation to even try to pedal to work. I do ride in the afternoons, but I feel like I’m missing out on so many opportunities because of my need for sleep. Any ideas?

— Someone Lacks Exercise, Enjoyment, Pedaling Dear SLEEP: The struggle is real. Your body clock is set to snooze, and while your chums are up with the chickens, you’re still sawing logs. In the winter when daylight is precious, sticking to afternoon rides limits the number of hours you can enjoy in the saddle. And you curtail your time on the bike further by not cycling to work.

Surely you’ve already attempted the obvious chemical enhancers (e.g. coffee), but GP suspects these too have failed to rouse you. Maybe pushing back your bedtime a few hours earlier would quench your need for sleep. But if this is a lifelong issue, changing sleep patterns may be too difficult to be worth trying. Simple things like setting your bike by the door or sleeping in your bike clothes will make getting out easier, but it sounds like you might need some external motivation.

Will rewards motivate you to get on the bike earlier in the day? You said your friends are out there riding without you, but this doesn’t seem to be enough to get you going. Have you considered making more interesting and attractive friends? That might help. Or is the lack of a compelling destination what’s holding you back? GP wonders if you can find something you want more to do/see/eat more than sleep, which could outweigh your desire to stay in bed. Ideally it’d be some kind of morning activity. Are you super excited about cow milking or watching sporting events in eastward time zones?

Then there’s the opposite tack. Mild discomfort could be a good (if slightly masochistic) way to get you going. If your alternative to biking isn’t blissful sleep, but grating noise, morning riding won’t seem nearly as bad. Move next to a construction site. Borrow a friend’s toddler. Ask your significant other to take accordion lessons. Anything disruptive enough to drive you from home will work wonders.

Or maybe it’s just not worth fighting your body. If you’ve never been a morning person, morning biking might just never happen.

That’s OK! The day has 24 hours either way, and so long as you’re able to carve out time for riding, it hardly matters when you do it. —GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsDC. Got a question about cycling?

Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

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We have many pathways where we live and he seems to know which ones lead to our house. He is completely house trained and has had no accidents in the house. He is super gentle taking treats from hand but is not food oriented.

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o curate a holiday shopping guide during an election season is an odd experience. As the results rolled in Nov. 8, I was halfway through compiling the selections you will find in the next few pages. Like most of D.C., I felt pierced by the results. The next day I went through the paces of trying to work. This awesome job allows me to write about retail, to visit stores, and to engage in critical thinking about D.C.’s economy. It’s hard to be enthusiastic about shopping, though, when it feels like the world is on fire.

So why does this even matter?

I’ve mentally taken everything apart and put it back together dozens of times. The desperate part of myself wanted to conclude that we are are in for a bumpy ride and that it’s time to strap in everything, including our wallets.

My cynical side suggested it doesn’t matter where people spend money, or whether they spend it at all.

But. There are some deeper truths about why supporting local businesses makes an extraordinary difference. Because it does. Here are five reasons to shop local this holiday season:

ShopL • For every dollar you spend, 68 cents stays within the D.C. economy. When you shop at chain stores, only 43 cents of every dollar stays local.

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• You are supporting actual people versus large conglomerates. Most local shop owners work in their own stores. That means the money you spend puts food on their tables and enables them to employ your neighbors.

• Those paying attention have no doubt noticed that small stores are closing. High rent and taxes are taking a toll on independent retail. Over the last year alone, we saw a number of casualties, including Rosies and Rockers, Millennium Decorative Arts, Nomad Yard Collectiv, Universal Gear, Lotus Blooms (18th Street NW location), Toro Mata, Hunted House, and Mara Home. To adopt a phrase from Austin, Texas, we need to keep D.C. weird. That means supporting stores on our home turf.

• Local stores care about supporting artists. The arts and independent shopping are deeply connected. Shop owners typically tend to be the buyers, which means indy stores will carry products from artisans. They are saying “yes” to carrying goods that are handmade, special, and great for their customers.

• It feels personal because it is personal. Keeping a store open is a hard road, so D.C. retailers are dedicated to their shoppers. They are excited to share their knowledge, happy to help you choose a gift, and want you to have a great experience.

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Even—or perhaps especially—in an uncertain political climate, independent retail is critical to building community and nurturing the local economy. When we shop this year, let it be with intention and purpose, and let it include a stop at a favorite neighborhood store.

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Stocking Stuffers 1 Kit & Caboodle

These charming kits are a portable plan of action for life’s little conundrums.

Love You a Latte/Blister Sister kits, $12/each. Blush Med Skincare.

1924 8th St. NW. Suite 134,4915 Cordell Ave. Bethesda. (877) 632-5874 (for both locations) www.blushmed.com/

2 Luck of the Draw

A tiny color pencil set will encourage your friend to draw during the small, inbetween moments of the day.

Color pencil set, $7.60. Cherry Blossom Creative. 2128 8th St. NW. (202) 319-2979 cherryblossomcreative.com/

3 It Grew On Me Your best buddy finally grew a beard this year. This balm will keep it controlled and conditioned.

Uppercut beard balm, $18. Avenue Jack. 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 887-5225 avenue-jack-602375.shoplightspeed.com/

4 Another One Rides the Bus

Your kid will want to play with this car.

Your Dad will want to reminisce about how he used to drive this car (back when he had long hair and a beard, of course).

Volkswagen toy car, $9.98. Little Birdies Boutique. 1526 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 333-1059 www.shoplittlebirdies.com/

5 Comb On

It’s meant for beards, but this wooden comb is small enough to fit in a pocket and can be used on long and short hair, too.

Beard comb, $15. Be Clean. becleanshop.com/

to your next baking project.

Sugar blend tower, $18. Bazaar Spices.

Small Luxuries

1309 5th St. NE. (202) 379-2907

2130 8th St. NW. (202) 380-9658

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www.bazaarspices.com

Angular brushes have become all the rage among beauty bloggers and Instagram stars. Pick one up at a practical pricepoint.

9 That’s How Eye Roll

O! Wow Brush, $16. Blush Med Skincare.

1924 8th St. NW. Suite 134

4915 Cordell Ave. Bethesda. (877) 632-5874 (for both locations)

Your uncle always buys those cheap drugstore sunglasses. Help him see the light by investing in a stylish pair that boasts polarized shades.

Sunski sunglasses, $55. Core72.

5502 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 686-4258

www.blushmed.com/

3316 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 244-1100

7 Pop Star

Be inspired by the genius of Warhol, Caufield, and Lichtenstein with this set of three notebooks.

The Pop Artists notebooks, $21. Cherry Blossom Creative. 2128 8th St. NW. (202) 319-2979 cherryblossomcreative.com/

8 Sugar Stack This stack of flavored sugars will inspire a playful approach

www.core72dc.com/

10 A Concrete Decision A tea

light holder made out of concrete might sound industrial, but gold accents give it a chic edge.

Tea Light Holder by Urban Orphans, $8/each. Hudson & Crane. 1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 436-1223 www.hudsonandcrane.com/

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18 It’s Quite Fetching

Bring the love of the District into your home.

You are going to say that you are buying this for your pet. But, let’s face it, you are buying it for you.

Washington D.C. pillow, $44. Urban Dwell.

1837 Columbia Rd. NW. (202) 558-9087

Fetch toy lips, $9.99. Howl to the Chief.

733 8th St. SE. (202) 544-8710

www.urbandwelldc.com/

www.howltothechief.com/

12 Bill of Brights

Give this coloring book to someone who is into the adult coloring book trend. Or, keep the book and color it yourself. The pages are detachable so you can send them as postcards or frame the individual pictures as gifts.

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Pick up an indoor/outdoor sign that matches your favorite breed of doggo.

Breed sign, $29. The Cheeky Puppy. 1709 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 621-8868

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Iconic Washington, D.C. Coloring Book by Emily Isabella, $9.95. Politics & Prose bookstore in Busboys and Poets. 2021 14th St. NW. (202) 387-7638

www.thecheekypuppy.com/

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Curl up with your kitten, a good book, and a pillow that announces your naptime intention.

www.busboysandpoets.com/books/

13 It’s Monumental

Instill a deep love of D.C. at an early age.

Cat pillow, $18. Groovy DC Cards & Gifts.

321 7th St. SE. (202) 544-6633

The ABC’s of Washington, D.C. by Baby Ventures, $9.99. East City Bookshop. 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 290-1636

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A collapsable bowl means your pup will stay hydrated while you both run around D.C.

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D.C. isn’t just a place, it’s a state of mind.

Dreamer Doer sweatshirt, $54. District of Clothing. www.districtofclothing.com/

Kurgo collaps-a-bowl, $9.99. Howl to the Chief. 733 8th St. SE. (202) 544-8710 www.howltothechief.com/

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Master Craftsman Jeff Stoner (brother of one of the owners of Hudson & Crane) makes these Washington, D.C. cutting boards specifically for the store.

Show how much you love your furry best friend while carrying home your groceries.

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Cheeky tote bag, $20. The Cheeky Puppy.

1709 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 621-8868 www.thecheekypuppy.com/

Cutting board, $65. Hudson & Crane.

1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 436-1223 www.hudsonandcrane.com/

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Subscriptions 16 Light Up Your Life

Local chandler and artisan Amina Ahmad makes these eco-friendly soy candles by hand.

Candle subscription, $30/1 month, $75/3 months, $150/6 months, $300/12 months. Handmade Habitat.

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Your caffeine-loving bestie will freak over this subscription service. One pound of fresh roasted coffee will be sent every week, every other week, or every month. You pick the grind.

Coffee subscription service, $60 and up. Zeke’s Coffee.

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Trey Jones Studio specialises in functional home pieces that make a statement.

Origami Planter in Copper, from $875. Trey Jones Studio. treyjonesstudio.com/

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Artist Rozeal is originally from Washington, D.C. Her art focuses on cultural identity while utilizing traditional ukiyo-e print techniques.

El Oso Me Pregunto by Rozeal, $2,000 (small print), $5,000 (large print with gold leaf). Adamson Gallery. 926 N St., Suite 2, NW. (202) 232-070

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If your partner struggles to get ready in the morning, it’s time to gift an appointment with Ezra Paul. Ezra acts as an educator, guru, and fashion therapist so clients can dress with confidence.

Sport coat, $1,245; Shirt, $165; Tie, $89; Trousers, $325. Ezra Paul Clothing. 1608 17th St. NW. (202) 518-7285 ezrapaul.com/

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Kids 23 To Err is Human, To Arrr is Pirate

Your little one can show her holiday spirit in this Beaufort Bonnet dress.

Forget basic blocks. This wooden set is magnetized and can take the shape of a pirate.

www.shoplittlebirdies.com/

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LoveBelly by Might, $20/each. Analog. 716 Monroe St. NE. Studio No. 5

Pirate Magnetic Stack Up Blocks, $40. Full of Beans. 3813 Livingston St. NW. (202) 362-8566

You don’t need scissors or glue to put together this 2 ½ foot Tyrannosaurus rex.

Build the T.Rex, $19.95. Urban Dwell. 1837 Columbia Road NW. (202) 558-9087 www.urbandwelldc.com/

25 I Wheelie Like You

Lessons about safety, energy, and transportation are included in this informative book about bicycles.

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Girl’s Dress, $64. Little Birdies Boutique.

1526 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 333-1059

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Monsters are great at cuddling. These LoveBelly creatures are handmade in Baltimore out of reclaimed, soft fabrics. www.shopanalog.com/

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Want your kiddo to learn about environmental justice, LGBTQ rights, and democracy? A is for Activist introduces social justice concepts in rhyme.

A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara, $9.99.

Politics & Prose bookstore in Busboys and Poets. 2021 14th St. NW. (202) 387-7638 www.busboysandpoets.com/books/

B is for Bicycles by Scott & Jannine Fitzgerald, $18.99. The Bike Rack.

716 Monroe St. NE. (202) 832-2453 1412 Q St. NW. (202) 387-2453 thebikerackdc.com/

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Bullet journaling has been all the rage in 2016. A beautiful journal will give your ultra-organized friend a way to check off their to-do list.

Gourmet 32 Seasons Greetings

Afghan Saffron, truffle salt, Danish Viking smoked sea salt, black garlic powder, and Piment D’Espelette are included in this sophisticated spice sampler.

Balexis lined journal, $8. The Den Reading Room & Artist Exchange. 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE, Gallery H. (202) 649-0824

The Artisan Collection, $50. Bazaar Spices.

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www.thedenproject.com/

1309 5th St. NE. (202) 379-2907

Encourage your co-worker to up their office game with themed cubicle decoration ideas.

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Cube Chic by Kelley L. Moore, $15.95. Groovy DC Cards & Gifts. 321 7th St. SE. (202) 544-6633

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Making bitters is so 2015. This year it’s all about heat. Craft two different hot sauce flavors and then revel in making your loved ones sweat it out.

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Homemade Hot Sauce Kit, $25. Hudson & Crane. 1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 436-1223

Books & Games

www.hudsonandcrane.com/

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Your child will learn world geography while piecing together this puzzle.

This chutney is #MadeinDC in small batches. Pair it with a sharp cheese, turkey, or pork roast for your holiday dinner.

Our World puzzle, $20. Full of Beans. 3813 Livingston St. NW. (202) 362-8566

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Savory Gal Apple Plum Chutney, $8.49. Glens Garden Market.

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Career Crisis, $18. Cherry Blossom Creative. 2128 8th St. NW. (202) 319-2979

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A robust black tea is a wonderful way to start the day. All of Ajiri’s profits support the education of orphans in western Kenya.

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Have a friend that is fed up at work?

Help them avoid a complete breakdown by working through these thoughtful career prompt cards. cherryblossomcreative.com/

43 By the Book

Zadie Smith’s new book follows the childhood, then adult, friendship of two London girls who love dance.

Ajiri tea, $10.99. Nubian Hueman. 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE. (202) 394-3386

Swing Time by Zadie Smith, $27. East City Bookshop. 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Suite 100. (202) 290-1636

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The distinguished home cook will notice that this pan has a dimpled surface for easy food release.

All-Clad D3 Armor Pan, $99. Hill’s Kitchen. 713 D St. SE. (202) 543-1997 www.hillskitchen.com/

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A cheese server is the perfect gift for someone who loves to entertain. This one is made with Vermont slate, has anti-slip cork feet, and will keep you on budget.

Slate cheese server, $15. Hill’s Kitchen. 713 D St. SE. (202) 543-1997 www.hillskitchen.com/

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This clever keychain holds up to eight keys and includes a loop ring for a car remote.

KeySmart, $20. Avenue Jack. 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 887-5225 avenue-jack-602375.shoplightspeed.com/

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Coeur made the sports bra we’ve all been waiting for. Not only does it provide support, it contains inner pockets that will hold a phone, keys, and a credit card.

For Your Chic Friend 44 You Go, Glen Coco

Gabrielle “CoCo” Chanel’s dramatic life story unfolds in a book that contains handwritten text, illustrations, and excerpts from her diaries.

Coeur Mixed Tape Sports Bra, $44.99. Summit to Soul. 727 8th St. SE. (202) 450-1832

CoCo Chanel an Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat & Nina Cosford, $16.95. Little Birdies Boutique. 1526 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 333-1059

Help your cousin ditch plastic by upgrading her to a sleek bottle made out of stainless steel.

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Attorneys Justin Zelikovitz and Jonathan Tucker

By Will Sommer Justin ZelikovitZ used to have a pushpin map of the world in his office. Every time the loquacious Chinatown attorney won money for a client over a wage dispute, a new pin went into that client’s home country.

The map was a little tacky, Zelikovitz admits. But it also had a more serious problem: Central America was too small to accommodate all the pins Zelikovitz needed to place.

After filing dozens of lawsuits on behalf of District-area restaurant workers, many of them employed in back-of-the-house jobs like food prep and dishwashing, Zelikovitz’s map needed more real estate for pins in countries like Guatemala and Honduras.

Zelikovitz now has a new, custom-ordered map that displays an enlarged Central America mounted on foam. Nearly a dozen pins cluster around a single Honduran town, the remnants of settlements Zelikovitz’s firm landed for a whole family of restaurant workers.

“Even that is getting too crowded, especially El Salvador,” Zelikovitz says of his new map.

In recent years, the District’s restaurant industry has enjoyed a boom in both new restaurants and international attention. As a result, there’s never been a better time to run a highend restaurant in the District—or be a lawyer who sues them.

A good mood reigned Monday in Zelikovitz’s office, where the attorneys there are fresh off a more than $150,000 jury verdict last week against Dupont Circle’s Asia 54.

“We’re always laughing,” Zelikovitz says.

“Is that just a defense mechanism?”

Just three years after leaving Maryland Legal Aid and launching his practice, the 33-yearold Zelikovitz has gone from using just a single room in a Chinatown townhouse to renting the entire building. He is one of several attorneys who have discovered that suing District restaurants over wage law violations doubles as doing good and doing good business.

Zelikovitz and attorney Jonathan Tucker, who left Maryland Legal Aid last year to join the firm, benefit from wage law violations they say can often be caused by scofflaw managers or ignorance among restaurant owners. They have more than 30 active cases, with nearly 20 others on payment plans.

When a restaurant fails to pay a dishwasher minimum wage or time-and-a-half for overtime pay, that’s an opening for the lawyers to send a demand letter on behalf of their clients, many of whom come to them via word of mouth or Spanish-language Google advertisements.

“Upstairs, people are paying $100 to $150 for dinner,” Zelikovitz says of pricey D.C. restaurants, some of which violate wage laws.

“And downstairs, these guys are making $4 to $5 an hour.”

There’s no shortage of opportunities for new lawsuits. Along with construction companies and cleaning businesses, the restaurant industry has some of the most trouble with wage law violations, according to D.C. Jobs with Justice executive director Elizabeth Falcon. Getting restaurant employees what they’re owed is complicated by the fact that many of them don’t speak English or are afraid of losing their jobs.

Restaurants can typically avoid legal struggles if owners hire good labor lawyers, or if they spend time reviewing their payroll, say Zelikovitz and Tucker. Then again...

“They’re not running a restaurant to look at payroll,” Tucker says.

The lives of Zelikovitz’s clients can change dramatically by settlement money. One kitchen prep worker, who asked that his name not be used for fear of being blacklisted in the restaurant world, says his backpay will fund his Honduran family’s cattle business.

Zelikovitz and his clients often have to reduce their settlement demands to get any money from a struggling restaurant. A client might be owed tens of thousands of dollars, but collecting the money proves difficult. That makes cases riskier for Zelikovitz and Tucker, who are paid either through attorney’s fees or a cut of their client’s settlement. “We’re not the Mob,” Zelikovitz says. “We’re attorneys.”

Efforts to get a big payday for both the attorneys and their clients, many of whom send their wages back to their home countries, are complicated by the fact that the District’s more prominent restaurants can afford better attorneys to vet their payroll practices.

“I would be shocked if Le Diplomate was doing anything wrong,” Zelikovitz says, because the restaurant is in the hands of long-

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D.C.’s restaurant boom means opportunities for attorneys to bust wage offenders.

time restaurateur Stephen Starr. On the other hand, he says, “If I were to walk down the street and pop into a random restaurant, I would be shocked if anyone was getting paid by the book.”

But Zelikovitz and Tucker aren’t just pursuing the District’s lower-tier restaurants. Their clients sued trendy Columbia Heights Laotian spot Thip Khao and Chef Johnny Monis’ Little Serow. Both cases were voluntarily dismissed, which almost certainly implies there were settlements with Zelikovitz’s clients. (Zelikovitz wouldn’t confirm settlements, and requests for comment from the restaurants went unreturned.)

In September, Zelikovitz settled an overtime case on behalf of two sushi chefs with Dupont Circle’s Sushi Taro, which happens to have earned one the city’s first Michelin stars.

Sushi Taro’s attorney declined to comment on the record about the case, which apparently began with a payroll computer error.

Tucker says he often reads about a popular restaurant, only to have a restaurant employee come to him months later complaining that he’s been ripped off.

“Now that success doesn’t look as gleaming as it used to,” Tucker says.

Zelikovitz and Tucker aren’t the only wage lawyers making money off the D.C. area’s restaurant boom. Silver Spring-based lawyer Gregg Greenberg, whose firm has sued Top

Chef star Bryan Voltaggio, says it’s easy to find cases.

“Even the most sophisticated restaurants, they’re violators of the law,” Greenberg says.

Zelikovitz’s lawsuits may have even claimed one restaurant. In 2014, downtown’s Malaysia Kopitiam closed three months after Zelikovitz settled a suit filed on behalf of a former kitchen hand. Parlay Sports Bar and Lounge took over the space, and a year later one of Zelikovitz’s clients sued Parlay, too.

Zelikovitz’s brand is more than a little pugnacious. His website (dcwagelaw.com) includes an image macro with a picture of Zelikovitz’s office sign bordered by a quote from Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money.” On the business cards for D.C. Wage Law—or “Pago Justo” if you’re looking at the Spanish-language version—are the scales of justice held by a clenched fist. Zelikovitz says the imagery helps illiterate potential clients identify the firm.

Zelikovitz even tried upgrading the firm’s marketing with a Law & Order-style photo shoot of him and Tucker, both in suits, striding down the street directly towards the camera. Instead of appearing in ads, though, the photo now just hangs in their office.

The pictures proved too hammy, even for Zelikovitz.

“I’m not the D.C. Hammer,” he says.

Then Zelikovitz pauses and reconsiders the photo. Maybe he could use it after all?

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Kuzeh Pottery #13, Dec 11(Su)–Dec 17(S)

Capitol Poster Gallery #41, Nov 28(M)–Nov 30(W) Jentz Prints #7, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) Tom Rall #13/14, Nov 25(F)–Dec 5(M)

Printemps Pottery #29, Dec 12(M)–Dec 18(Su)

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CLOTHES & ACCESSORIES Aria Handmade #32, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) ariahandmade.com

Be You Fashion #42, Dec 12(M)–Dec 23(F) beyoufashion.com

Cho-pi-cha #56, Nov 25(F)–Dec 1(Th)

Colombia Handmade Organic Art #27, Dec 19(M)–Dec 23(F) etsy.com/shop/ ColombiaHandMadeArt

De*Nada Design #30, Dec 9(F)–Dec 23(F) denadadesign.com

Fuzzy Ink #8, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) fuzzy-ink.com

Inka Treasures #2, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) inkatreasureshop.com

Jonathon Wye, LLC #34, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) jonwye.com

Kerplunk Designs #17, Dec 10(S)–Dec 15(Th)

Kora designs #22, Dec 21(W)–Dec 23(F)

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Lil’ Fishy #38, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F)

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LittleTibetBoutique #22, Nov 25(F)–Dec 15(Th)

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MangoBay #46, Dec 19(M)–Dec 23(F)

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The Buffalo Wool Co.

Mirasa Designs #25, Nov 30(W)–Dec 16(Th)

#39, Nov 25(F)–Dec 17(S)

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The Mouse Works

Mistura Timepieces #10, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F)

#41, Nov 25(F)–Nov27(Su) #31, Dec 2(F)–Dec 4(Su)

Reinventing-Reality– Photographic Collages #27, Dec 9(F)–Dec 11(Su)

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Yikes Twins #54, Nov 28(M)–Nov 30(W) #53, Dec 5(M)–Dec 16(F) yikestwins.com

Zermatt Outerwear #51, Dec 12(M)–Dec 15(Th) thezermatt.com

COLLAGE Had Matter #20, Nov 25(F)–Nov 27(Su) #24, Dec 7(W)–Dec 11(Su) hadmatterart.com

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Relojearte #27, Dec 12(M)–Dec 18(Su) relojearte.com

Fancy HuLi #27, Nov 28(M)–Nov 30(W) #31, Dec 5(M)–Dec 8(Th) fancyhuli.com

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Rebound Designs #54, Dec 9(F)–Dec 23(F) rebound-designs.com

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Art Inca Native #9, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F)

Russian Classics

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Baby Alpaca #45, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F)

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Carol-lynn Swol Jewelry Design #60, Dec 5(M)–Dec 8(Th) clswol.com

Chris Bergman Handmade #18, Nov 25(F)–Nov 27(Su) #28, Dec 23(F) instagram.com/chris.bergman

Courtney Gillen #39, Dec 18(Su)–Dec 23(F) D. Collection #3, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) David Conroy Art #54, Dec 1(Th)–Dec 8(Th) davidconroyart.com

Deco Etc. #58, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) decoetcjewelry.com

Harun’sAfrican Art #25, Dec 16(F)–Dec 23(F)

InBloom Jewelry #18, Dec 5(M)–Dec 16(F) inbloomjewelry.com

J.dell Designs #18, Nov 28(M)–Dec 1(Th) #16, Dec 22(Th)–Dec 23(F) etsy.com/shop/JdellDesigns

Jewelry by Elsa #20, Nov 28(M)–Dec 1(Th) jewelrybyelsa.com

Karen Coston Jewelry #12, Dec 14(W)–Dec 23(F) Karencoston.com

Kiwi Exquisite #17, Dec 20(T)–Dec 23(F) kiwikathy.blogspot.com

Laura Moore Designs #26, Nov 25(F)–Dec 1(Th) lauramooredesigns.com

Leah Staley Designs #52, Dec 16(F)–Dec 19(M) leahstaley.com

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Leah Sturgis Jewelry Art #35, Nov 25(F)–Dec 23(F) leahsturgis.com

Lilypad Designs #28, Dec 13(T)–Dec 22(Th)

Italy In Color #19, Dec 2(F)–Dec 4(Su) #20, Dec 9(F)–Dec 11(Su)

Terry Pool Design #16, Dec 7(W)–Dec 21(W)

Quest Skinner #33, Nov 25(F)–Dec 8(Th)

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Nikki’s Jewelry Box #28, Nov 25(F)–Nov 27(Su) NikkisJewelryBox.com

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Moya Gallery #53, Dec 17(S)–Dec 23(F)

The Secret Jewelry Garden #59, Nov 25(F)–Nov 26(S)

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Rayhart #60, Dec 9(F)–Dec 15(Th)

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Turtles Webb #55, Dec 14(W)–Dec 23(F)

The Lavender Whim #53, Nov 29(T)–Dec 3(S)

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Wiwat Kamolpornwijit #43, Dec 18(Su)–Dec 23(F)

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Thomas Bucci #29, Nov 30(W)–Dec 11(Su)

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The Market Stage presents a musical feast of more than 65 shows by some of the area’s best blues, rock, jazz, soul, country, world, and contemporary artists. And of course, it wouldn’t be a holiday market without some of your favorite seasonal standards. Check the daily performance schedule below, and find more information about all of the performers in the Musical Entertainment section of DowntownHolidayMarket.com.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 12:00–2:00 2:30–4:30 5:00–7:00

Patty Reese Music Pilgrim Trio Stacy Brooks Band

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 Acoustic Roots World Music Blues, Jazz

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 12:00–2:00 2:30–4:30 5:00–7:00

Big Lunch Ruthie & the Wranglers DC Mudd Karen Collins & Backroads Nina Casey & Jeff Clair Gina DeSimone & the Moaners Jim Stephanson The Lovejoy Group

American Songbook Holiday, Jazz

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 12:00–2:00 5:00–7:00

Junior Cline Duo Blanco y Negro de Cuba

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 12:00–2:00 5:00–7:00

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 12:00–2:00 5:00–7:00

Billy Coulter Duo Seth Kibel & Sean Lane

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 12:00–2:00 2:30–4:30 5:00–7:00

Flo Anito Ian Walters Andra Faye & Scott Ballantine Esther Haynes & JC VeVe Project Natale Alpha Dog Acoustic Blues

Patty Reese Andra Faye & Scott Ballantine

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Dave Chappell & Dave Hartge Surf Jaguars Flo Anito Seth Kibel & Sean Lane Carly Harvey & Sol Roots Jim Stephanson Janine Wilson & Max Evans

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Dave Chappell & Dave Hartge Stacy Brooks Band

Roots Guitar Blues, Jazz

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 12:00–2:00 2:30–4:30 5:00–7:00

Jim Stephanson Bruce Hutton The Sweater Set

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Dave Chappell & Dave Hartge Jonny Grave Billy Thompson

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19

Denyse Pearson & Her Gentlemen of Distinction Jazz Standards Trio Caliente Latin The Fuss Ska, Reggae

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 12:00–2:00 5:00–7:00

Abigail Palmer & Eric Selby The Lovejoy Group Afro Nuevo

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18 Swing, Jazz Jazz Blues

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17 Jazzy Pop Updated Classics Blues, Roots, Jazz

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Original Country Blues Blue Eyed Soul Updated Classics

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 Honky Tonk American Songbook, Blues Swing, Blues

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 12:00–2:00 5:00–7:00

Bill Baker Band Fast Eddie & the Slowpokes Ian Walters & Friends

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 Americana Roots Old School Blues

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Music Pilgrim Trio OCEAN Celtic Quartet Ian Walters & Friends

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Arlene Shechet, Seeing Asteroids, 2016. Glazed ceramic and steel;For the Forest, 2016. Glazed ceramic and steel, Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; Morris Louis, Seal, 1959, Acrylic on canvas, The Phillips Collection, Gift of Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust, 2011 © 1993 Marcella Louis Brenner. Photo: Lee Stalsworth

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what we’ll drink next week:The Tatted rack cocktail with Martell VS rum, black truffle, lemon, and Perrier-Jouët, $12, Service Bar DC. Excitement Level: 4 out of 5.

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As the restaurant industry evolves, so too does its staff. D.C. eateries are adding people with titles like tea specialist and tobacconist to the payroll. Why? To separate themselves from the competition and to provide a more memorable experience for diners. Learn who they are and what they actually do.

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Chief of Produce Bennett Haynes, Beefsteak José Andrés’ fast casual concept that showcases vegetables hired Haynes to focus on sustainable sourcing and seasonality. The Fulbright scholar who has dedicated his career to agriculture comes to the job with a network of toptier producers having run Ralston Farm LLC, which supplied produce to Michelin-starred restaurants.

Tea Specialist Christian Eck, Park Hyatt Washington Eck is the man managing the tea program inside the Park Hyatt Washington, which is both extensive and expensive. The hotel’s tea cellar has more than 50 rare teas from all over the world, and pots are available from $8 to $300.

Eck is well versed on how each tea should be prepared.

BrewinTown Jailbreak Imperial Carrot Cake Conspiracy Where in Town: Gilly’s Craft Beer & Fine Wine, 2009 Chapman Ave., Rockville Price: $4.50/10 oz.

Ball and Grain The name of this Laurel brewery isn’t a nod to the nearby Maryland state prison. Rather, it refers to the escape its founders Justin Bonner and Kasey Turner made from their dissatisfying 9-to-5 jobs. To date, no inmates have busted out to make a beeline for the beer, but they’d have good reason to. Brewmaster Ryan Harvey has spent the last twoand-a-half years crafting crowd pleasers, many with a culinary twist. Take

Welcome to Scoville, an IPA with jalapeno peppers and cilantro, or Q.Cumber, a cucumber saison with gin botanicals, rosewater, and caraway. Jailbreak’s fall seasonal, The Carrot Conspiracy, is no exception. The amber ale is made with roasted carrots and fall spices.

And Eat It Too The stronger, small-batch version, dubbed Imperial Carrot Cake Conspiracy, is 9 percent alcohol and a delight. Its autumnal flavors reveal themselves with each sip. Notes of vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and then carrot,

Certified Tobacconist Mason Foster, Bourbon Steak Think of Foster, a graduate of the Tobacconist University of Princeton, New Jersey, as the steakhouse’s cigar sommelier. Diners can find the cigar list within the cocktail menu and should feel free to call on Foster to make recommendations before stepping out to the courtyard to puff away.

Whiskey Advisor Chris Leung, Jack Rose Dining Saloon As one of Jack Rose’s salaried whiskey advisors, Leung works the floor helping imbibers find something brown to sip from the bar’s extensive bottle list—2,700 selections and counting. He also hosts whiskey tastings tailored to guests’ preferences; trains staff members; helps choose new whiskey releases that the bar should carry; and handles inventory.

Cheese Whiz Cameron Smith, The Inn at Little Washington As the full-time cheese expert at Northern Virginia’s fine dining oasis, Smith rolls a cowshaped cheese cart named Faira through the luxuriously appointed dining room while sputtering a cheese pun a minute. Diners can hear him coming because the cart moos.

brown sugar, and raisin combine to deliver on the beer’s baked-goods promise. As Imperial Carrot Cake warms, the beer’s initial prickly carbonation calms down and its booziness becomes more apparent. Strong and sweet, the beer is best experienced in small doses with food. At Gilly’s, a glass would work wonders washing down the deli’s bacon berry brie sandwich. Drooling yet? Kegs, so far available in Maryland exclusively, have been kicking fast since last month’s release. But D.C. and Virginia could see a small slice of Imperial Carrot Cake Conspiracy in the coming weeks.

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what we ate last week: The Maketto Dinner Bowl with roasted chicken, sesame-roasted tofu, wild rice, ginger cabbage slaw, cilantro, basil, mint, cucumbers, cashews, chili-tamarind dressing, and a lime squeeze, $10.60, Sweetgreen. Satisfaction level: 2 out of 5.

Hangover Helper: Prescription Chicken The Dish: Chicken Soup Where to Get It: In person at Glen’s Garden Market (Shaw or Dupont Circle) or order delivery through UberEats, Postmates, DoorDash, GrubHub, or emailing directly.

Price: $18 for the hangover soup kit with tea, vitamin potion, and saltine crackers What It Is: Prescription Chicken takes its regular 32 oz. chicken noodle soup with pulled chicken and egg noodles and turns it into a hangover-obliterating beast with aromatics—ginger, horseradish, garlic, fresh turmeric, and jalapenos—designed to force your body to sweat out the booze. Each hangover kit also comes with bonus supplies: a vitamin potion, saltine crackers, and tea.

How it Tastes: This soup tastes better than the stuff that mom used to make on a sick day. The spiciness and bite of the jalapeno, horseradish, and ginger help to increase blood flow to the body and quickly detox the liver, says co-founder Valerie Zweig. The broth is chuggable and will immediately deliver nutrients. There are also fresh, organic carrots, shredded chicken, and celery to fill your stomach and last you through the day. And it arrives discreetly. “It comes together in a delicious, comforting, totally non-judgemental-aboutwhat-happened-last-night cup of soup,” Zweig says.

Why It Helps: Prescription Chicken launched in September and is already seeing some early success. “The hangover kit is by far the most popular offering to date,” Zweig says. “It’s a full-court press on a really tough hangover.” It also couldn’t be easier to get your hands on.

If you’re moaning and groaning and unable to get out of the bed, just reach for your smartphone and order it. It’ll typically arrive within an hour, and you can also pick up a quart at either Glen’s Garden Market location.

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A revival of an Arthur Miller classic feels just as timely for the current political climate as The Second City’s zeitgeisty ensemble show.

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A View From The Bridge

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By Amy Lyons In a tIme when undocumented immigrants are increasingly threatened with deportation and jingoistic hate speech is on the rise, Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge feels less like a 1955 chestnut and more like a piece of contemporary sociopolitical commentary.

Eddie Carbone (Frederick Weller) is an Italian-American longshoreman. He lives what appears to be a simple life in Brooklyn, supporting his wife Beatrice (Andrus Nichols) and 17-year-old niece Catherine (Catherine Combs). But the complexities of his character emerge in ugly ways when Beatrice’s two Italian-born cousins Marco (Alex Esola) and Rodolpho (Dave Register) immigrate to America to escape crushing poverty.

Eddie welcomes the men into his home, even though harboring them is risky. In what seems to be a generous act of ethnic and familial loyalty, he gets them work on the docks and gives them seats at his dinner table. But things sour quickly when Catherine and Rodolpho fall in love. Eddie, you see, wants his niece for himself, and as the play progresses his obsession with the girl becomes a source of stomach-turning tension.

It’s easy to see why Ivo van Hove won a 2016 Best Director

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Tony for this stylized production, which came out of the Young Vic in Britain and is in D.C. after wrapping up its latest run in Los Angeles. There’s no shabby Brooklyn walkup here, nor are there the quaint, naturalistic trappings of a strictly realist, sentimental interpretation. Every element of the production smacks of Greek tragedy and builds toward a relentless interrogation of Eddie’s motives and machinations. Jan Versweyveld’s harsh, unforgiving lighting lays bare all the characters and creates an almost ghostly pallor on the actors’ faces, while An D’Huys’ simple costuming (the actors are in bare feet) and bare-bones scenic design force us into an intimate relationship with this wildly dysfunctional family.

Weller makes Eddie both relatable and repellent, a man prone to speechifying about how hard he works and how much he cares for his family, while he’s secretly sharpening his blade.

Both Weller and van Hove handle the ambiguities in Miller’s text well—that Rodolpho only wants to marry Catherine so he can become a citizen has a ring of truth to it. And these ambiguities make it hard not to have some semblance of empathy for Eddie, whose egomania and paranoia become unforgivable by play’s end (because they drive him to take vengeful action) but seem, at times, to be disturbingly on point. Catherine really might be careening toward disaster with Rodolpho, and no one but Eddie cares. But Weller’s choices don’t over-sentimentalize Eddie; the actor is unafraid to show every impulsive, selfserving misstep of Eddie’s for what they are—the unexamined, short-sighted aggressions of a small, greedy man.

And that’s the show’s highlight: The cast has a collective strength that doesn’t suffer any weak links, and it’s especially pleasing to witness the mounting household tension boiling beneath the surface of banal mealtime chit-chat. They mine Miller’s text and subtext for every ounce of dramatic gold. the most famous alums of The Second City, Chicago’s revered sketch troupe, are, for the most part, white. There’s John Belushi, Amy Poehler, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Steve Carell, to name just a few. Sure, Tim Meadows graduated from The Second City to a long-running Saturday Night Live stint, killing it season after season with his wildly funny, Courvoisier-sipping Leon Phelps, aka The Ladies Man. After seeing The Black Side of the Moon last week at Woolly Mammoth, I sincerely hope that Lorne Michaels and Hollywood talent-seekers are paying attention to the six black actors who comprise the cast: Each one of them is every bit as funny and skilled as the company’s household names.

The show alternates between stand-up, sketch, spoken word, and song, riffing on life in general, and black life in particular. Director Billy Bungeroth explains in the program notes that the show is unique among the troupe’s offerings, because while previous shows have been purely sketch-based, Black Side is “all from the actors’ perspectives. Whatever it is, it’s coming directly from that performer. It’s a much more personal show because of that.”

This personal touch lands an impactful punch when actors

Dewayne Perkins and Torian Miller play a gay couple attending a high-school reunion in suburbia, their easy chemistry belying the stereotypes with which their characters struggle, and it’s totally refreshing to see love, humor, and mutual support transcend feelings of otherness by the sketch’s end.

On the stand-up front, Sonia Denis is a comic force in overalls. A blend of kindness and salt, Denis is clearly practiced in her energetic delivery, bounding around the stage with all the energy of Robin Williams, tackling tough topics (depression, therapy, a white woman’s crazed coveting of the comedian’s hair) like a compact, joke-telling prize-fighter. The other woman in the group, Angela Alise, is a fierce singer.

In terms of writing that gets to the heart of race and politics, two sketches stand out: one in which a white guy is selected from the audience to go on a twisted Dickensian “ghosts of nigger past, present, and future” journey; and a sketch featuring white people passionately protesting gluten, narrated with deft timing by Dave Helem. The Christmas Carol bit is a scream, albeit an uncomfortable one, where we see the race script flipped during a job interview in which the white job candidate sits opposite the hardest hitting satirist of the troupe, Thelonius Munk, as Munk plays a condescending hiring manager who is “so glad that affirmative action lets me meet people like you.” Perkins shows the white guy how it’s done when the white guy fails to get the job; in the do-over, Perkins smiles and agrees with every racist comment, anguishing afterwards at his own shameless ass-kissing.

You can practically hear his teeth grinding and his tongue bleeding from all the horrible but necessary biting.

There are too many good sketches and bits to call out here, and they add up to a night of theater that ends too soon. And the post-election climate was not ignored: It’s noteworthy that a picture of Michelle Obama graces the back wall, with a slogan that reads “Michelle 2020,” and Howard Shalwitz, Woolly Mammoth’s artistic director, added a note to the program on Nov. 11: “Overnight our nation has changed in frightening ways. There is no time for complacency. The role of art in the coming struggle is blazingly clear. We must keep the role of conscience alive. We must ask the hardest questions ... six incredibly talented comedians from Chicago are swiftly updating Black Side of the Moon, which opens next week, so that it charges headlong into the cultural chasm that has revealed itself in our election.”

The cast ends on a frank, funny note that emerges from Munk’s satirical standup, calling out all the un-stereotypical ways in which they are “black as fuck,” (“I’m black as fuck and I’ve watched Amélie 20 times”). And with a cast that is far from vanilla in every way, Black Side of the Moon feels like the perfect post-election comic relief for the dark times ahead.

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[recombinant] fellows: RA

At Hamiltonian Gallery to Dec. 17 Labored descriptions distinguish [recombinant] fellows: RA from the typical group show at Hamiltonian Gallery. For example, a convoluted wall text from guest curator Camilo Álvarez, director of Boston’s innovative Samsøñ Projects, wouldn’t be out of place in the critical-theory journal Semiotext(e). A sample: “Eight isolates collected in the region were analyzed using available ontological sources and molecular typing assays.”

For practical purposes, all that really means is that the show’s eight artists, all Hamiltonian fellows, descended on Boston and made works about their experiences. Or at least, that’s where the show begins. For [recombinant] fellows: RA, two artists set out to make works about the show itself, illustrating the lengths to which artists will sometimes go to pursue some insular end—and how this isn’t always a bad thing.

The best way to see the show is to don Allison Spence’s “In the absence of ” (2016), an audio guide to the exhibit. The piece is a pure homage to the work of Janet Cardiff, an audio-artist known for making guides that take viewers through or around museums. (Cardiff made one of them, “Words Drawn in Water,” for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2005.) Spence’s clever piece invites viewers on a specific march through Hamiltonian, asking them to walk under Nara Park’s suspended painting, “Shatter” (2016), and look up before continuing on.

The piece is nominally connected to the stunning theft of several paintings from the Isa-

belle Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston—a heist that still inspires book-length investigations today. That’s not important context for Spence’s tour of a show she never saw fully installed.

Nancy Daly’s installation is the other meta-work in the show. For her piece, “What’s Yours Is Mine” (2016), she has crafted souvenirs for several of the artists on display (as well as other Hamiltonian alumni). Jim Leach is represented in Daly’s display case by signed pieces of shattered dinner plates, an allusion to “Shutter Stands” (2016), an all-too-serious installation piece (documentation, really, of an unseen performance). Leach’s work is more likable with Daly’s work there to take the piss out of it.

Not all these works necessarily need one another. Dan Perkins’s cluster of small, handsome, abstract landscapes occupy a gallery corner without paying much mind to any of the oth- er “isolates.” Christine Neptune’s digital-video project, “We Are Not Alone: A Digital Exploration of Planet X” is an introverted retreat from both Boston (where the artist reportedly felt uncomfortable) and the viewer.

Naoko Wowsugi approaches isolation in a different way, through a series of photographs depicting various times she arrived in a shop to find no shopkeeper on duty. At each of these establishments, she left a small cowbell imprinted with the words: “Please Ring Cowbell for Service.”

Loneliness is not always a wellspring of comedy for visual artists, so it’s refreshing to see so many artists from this Hamiltonian class touch lightly on the subject. For a show assembled on an intentionally insular, obscurantist theme (“these isolates represent a novel st(r)ain, for which the name, relative assertion [RA], is proposed”), this one gels.

—Kriston Capps 1353 U St. NW. Free. (202) 332-1116. hamiltonianartists.org.

FilmShort SubjectS

PRESENTS:

See No evil The Eyes of My Mother Directed by Nicolas Pesce

The eyes of My Mother contains more grotesque imagery than the average horror film, so there is a temptation to classify it under the “body horror” subgenre. Such a label does the film a disservice, however, since all the transgressive violence deepens a probing, heartfelt psychological study about the effects of profound loneliness. In his directing and writing debut, Nicolas Pesce strikes a grim balance between disgust and sympathy and takes his premise to its inexorable conclusion.

The action largely takes place around a farmhouse, in an unspecified time during the mid20th century. The titular mother (Diana Agostini) is a Portuguese-American immigrant, as well as a former surgeon, and she uses livestock to give her young daughter Francisca (Olivia Bond) anatomy lessons. The pair receive a visit from Charlie (Will Brill), a man who claims to be a salesman but turns out to be a sadistic killer. Francisca’s father (Paul Nazak) catches Charlie violating his wife’s corpse, and his sense of vengeance is ice-cold: he chains Charlie in a barn, cuts out his eyes and tongue, and keeps him alive for years. This early trauma shapes Francisca’s life—Kika Magalhaes plays her as an adult—so we watch her undergo extreme steps to deal with her sense of isolation.

Pesce and cinematographer Zach Kuperstein use crisp, evocative black and white photography. This gives The Eyes of My Mother a timeless quality and offers the audience a mild reprieve from the gore. In addition to torture, Francisca develops a taste for murder, preferring to commune with bodies rather than people. Like the most memorable movie monsters, however, Pesce makes sure we understand that Francisca is fighting against her dark impulses—a fight she ultimately loses. There is a strange, sad sequence where she picks up a woman at a bar and takes her home. Francisca

has the desire for intimacy, yet is so woefully out of practice that when the woman realizes something is wrong, Francisca feels her only recourse is violence. We have no choice but to recognize her perspective better than those of her victims.

In terms of horror, Pesce opts for gnawing dread over “gotcha” scares. He gets a lot of mileage out of filming Charlie, writhing on the floor without the ability to speak or see, as if to invite us to imagine what he could possibly be thinking. The compositions are elegant, with minimal camera movement, a technique that only adds to the dread. A more dynamic, subjective filmmaking style might be more immersive, yet Pesce would rather engage our imagination, not exploit it. The actors are key to this effect. The victims are convincing and ordinary, while Brill’s turn as Charlie is frightening because his self-effacing delivery betrays a deep psychosis. Still, The Eyes of My Mother would fall apart without Magalhaes’ performance. She plays Francisca as a woman who only understands extremes—profoundly lonely, yet without any resources to address her feelings. Despite few lines of dialogue, Magalhaes never takes the easy route, so compassion never veers toward pity.

This film is not a voyeur to Francisca’s crimes because Pesce’s camera is its own form of commentary. There is a long, strange shot where the camera is attached to a tarp that Francisca’s mother drags (young Francisca watches this all unfold, naturally). There are flashes of the outside world and civilization, yet Pesce cuts away from anything reasonable because that would distract from his slow push toward abject madness. The Eyes of My Mother has an ending, as it must, but Pesce prefers no catharsis. He puts Francisca on a disturbing path, and after asking us to share it, he realizes the only way to stop her is cutting her off at the knees. There are no answers, only the demand that we find empathy for someone who perpetrates decades of suffering.

—Alan Zilberman The Eyes of My Mother opens Friday at Landmark’s West End Cinema.

Written by PETER GWINN & BOBBY MORT December 9–31 | Theater Lab The Second City parodies Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for an interactive experience that Scrooge—and the audience!—will never forget. The legendary comedy troupe brings its improvisational skills and sketch comedy mastery to “the night before Christmas.” Ages 16 and up.

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Movin’ on Up

“A chilling, thoughtful, and intuitive warning” —Publishers Weekly

Moving up in the world is what many people live for, and their stories can make great fiction, especially when they reveal what they have sacrificed along the way. That’s the focus of several stories in Robert J. Williams’ new collection Strivers—a group of stories mostly about the aspirations and disappointments of middle-class African Americans, people who are rising, either out of the ghetto or into Ivy League colleges or marriages with professionals. The toll is subtly ever-present: “Strivers they were, brown bloods, haters of their own past, obsessed with light skin, good hair, good times…” The strivers of the title story, set in the 1950s, are painfully oblivious to the real thoughts and feelings of their father, who works as a railroad train porter.

If the best fiction aims to dissect social reality, this collection fits in with that long, distinguished, and dazzling tradition. Social realism is what Strivers is all about. In “Dates for Kreeger,” Williams presents a very suc-

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Strivers and Other Stories

Robert J. Williams Washington Writers Publishing House, 218 pages $16.95

cessful gay government worker who lives in Norfolk, Virginia and is only half out of the closet. “Must be a Southern thing, Kreeger surmised; white or black, in or out, colorful turns of phrase and jokey charm to mask the pain and shame” of being gay. In “The Interview,” a young, educated job applicant reconsiders a gig after he gets a close look at the community of white workers at his prospective place of employment. And in “Lester is Late,” one man “habitually made much of his effort to disprove the ‘Negro stereotype.’ After his time in Korea, Richard led a rigid and orderly civilian life—two successful sons, a manageable but not overwhelming number of civic and religious affiliations, and a ranch-house with several add-ons coincided with a steady series of promotions at the local social security administration office.”

The 15 stories in Strivers are impressive and conjure one social milieu after another, but there are no postmodernist fireworks here. And thank goodness for that— such stylistic posturing would only deflect attention from the main thing: what’s in these people’s hearts and how to make that square (or not) with their world. That’s evident in stories like “Glass House,” which portrays an ex-military housewife whose dissatisfaction with her house reflects dissatisfaction with her life; a story about a rough thief with an unexpectedly chilling ending; and “Tea Time,” which focuses on an affluent, biracial couple in Bethesda who volunteer to mentor a poor child.

But not every story goes in the direction you think it will. In the post-World War II tale “Cotton Compress,” a graduate student visits his family in the rural South, eager to help cotton laborers. But they don’t want to be helped in the way he wants to help, so he settles for something else, satisfying the protagonist’s philanthropic agenda. Even if he wanted to do more, “he gladly repeated the words to himself: I can help him, with that.” In these stories, sometimes the smallest tasks completely upend a person’s view of the world and, thus, the road they travel.

—Eve Ottenberg Robert J. Williams will read from and discuss Strivers and Other Stories at Politics and Prose at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free.

MusicDiscography

John Davis’ 115th Dream Long Dream

Title Tracks Ernest Jenning Recording Co. For an album that “refers to dreams in their many forms—lucid, feverish, aspirational, broken, or realized,” the third full-length by John Davis’ Title Tracks sure knows how to find you in your wide-awake places. Like the band’s previous two records, Long Dream is an insistent, anthemic tour through its songwriter’s impeccable taste, another influencetranscending pastiche of the ’60s garage, ’70s power-pop, ’80s jangle-pop songbook. Has a D.C. songwriter ever been better at inducing head nods than John Davis?

That particular specialty of the Davis arsenal—those gem-like pop songs—hasn’t changed, only now he’s using it to Trojan-horse some slightly heavier (and occasionally trippier) shit. Six years ago, when Title Tracks released its glimmery and taut debut It Was Easy, Davis swam confidently through his sound’s sea lanes, keeping most of his sentiments— lyrics like “oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you’re looking for a steady love”—taut and teenagesized and simple. A year later, the band’s second and best album, In Blank, was harder and faster and clangier, but maintained those glistening melodies beneath the grit. The songs on Long Dream aren’t any less catchy, and in some cases the language strikes the ear as just as straightforward. But whether it’s weighing the road foreseen against the road taken or exploring more nocturnal places, there’s some-

thing more menacing haunting him at night “Low Cool,” the album’s opener, may have some Raspberries and Flamin’ Groovies and La’s in its DNA, but it gets a lot less decodable from there. “Low cool, armor is heavy/ Set it aside as soon as you’re ready,” Davis sings, and he could have in mind an exhausting veneer erected to fend off adversaries, or a more interior partition.

The shimmering “Peaceful Uses,” with its heavenscratching melodies, is addressed to a “prophet of the obvious” whose “time is up,” while the narrator is “trying out a new design that mutes anxiety”; these are songs about finding comfort and grace after a sense-scrambling rough patch, candy-wrappered as pop confections.

“Protect Yourself ” at first seems like a familiar negotiation with the encroachment of middle age, but it’s elevated by Davis’ knack for the slightly askew metaphor—“no one helps you to paint your lines”—and his impeccable ear for garage-hewn grace.

Elsewhere, though, that hard-attained wisdom only gives way to something closer to despair: “Tell me how to change this atmosphere, mirrors darkest when they’re clear,” he sings in “Empty Heavens,” a pleading ballad that contains a few of the musical lessons Davis worked through in Paint Branch, his misty folk duo with his former Q and Not U bandmate Chris Richards. It’s a remarkable mode for the band, which has never been tighter (and is rounded out by longtime bassist Michael Cotterman and drummer Elmer Sharp). I’d clamor for more of it, but then there are the rippers, like “I Don’t Need to Know,” a careening, cathartic refusal to play ball, and “Circle You,” which somehow feels like late-’60s baroque pop filtered through the road-warrior punk of late-’80s X (or better yet, D.C.’s Three, which Title Tracks has covered).

But no note on Long Dream strikes truer than the closer, “False Awakening,” which seems to cram all of Davis’ talents into a single track, and, like both album and song title suggest, indicates that no matter what we dream we end up in one place. “Do your earthly remains know the you they contained, or don’t they care that the future is over,” he sings, “and alone you will bowl, you suburban soul, among the rise and sprawl that drove you.” Like so much of the album, it’s rousing in its delivery and unsettling in its message: that we can never quite untangle what we dream and who we are.

—Jonathan L. Fischer Listen to Long Dream at washingtoncitypaper. com/arts

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Dark Star Orchestra. 7 p.m. $29. 930.com. bethesda blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Maggie Rose, The Morrisson Brothers. 8 p.m. $35. bethesdabluesjazz.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. SLØTFACE, Kid Brother. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Drop Electric, The Last Rewind, Slow Lights. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

Rhizome dC 6950 Maple St. NW. Makoto Kawabata+Tatsuya Nakatani, Rick Parker and Li Daiguo, Halo Valley. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Ripe, Lawrence. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

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Formed nearly two decades ago, Chicago’s Dark Star Orchestra is a cover band that stays true to the Grateful Dead’s manifesto of exploring musical parts unknown, incorporating extended moments of improvisation into each set and pushing musical boundaries in a live atmosphere.

But DSO distinguishes itself from run-of-the-mill tribute acts in one notable way: Its members recreate original set lists from the Grateful Dead’s history, presented song for song just as it happened when the original band played them, all while adding its unique interpretation to songs both well-known and obscure. The Grateful Dead played more than 2,500 shows during its 30year tenure and fans can expect DSO to adapt its approach to capture the finest details of the Grateful Dead’s rapidly changing sound. The idea might seem derivative but over the course of two nights at the 9:30 Club, DSO will turn the familiar Dead tropes into a funkier night of jams.

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rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Dark Star Orchestra. 7 p.m. $29. 930.com. blaCK Cat baCKstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Time Is Fire, E, Insect Factory. 9 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

Comet pinG ponG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Radkey, The Fame Riot, Nox. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Districts, Tangiers. 9 p.m. Sold out. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Riverbreaks, Wylder, Bearcat Wildcat. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

RoCK & Roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Pig Destroyer, Deceased, Drugs of Faith,Cemetery Piss. 7:30 p.m. $18–$22. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

classical

musiC CenteR at stRathmoRe 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah. 7:30 p.m. $35–$82. strathmore.org.

fillmoRe silveR spRinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. 2 Chainz. 8 p.m. $30. fillmoresilverspring.com.

World tRopiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Kahil El’Zabar Ritual Trio, David Murray and Harrison Bankhead. 6 p.m. $15–$20. tropicaliadc.com.

Folk biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

Jazz atlas peRfoRminG aRts CenteR 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Cecily. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $20–$25. atlasarts.org. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Arturo Sandoval. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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insEct Factory

The world of drone music can be intimidating. After all, it’s music (though “music” is a loose term here) that’s inherently inaccessible. Melodies, hooks, choruses, bridges, rhythm—basic songwriting stuff—is sacrificed in lieu of composing long, minimal, repetitive soundscapes. Yet Jeff Barsky, who performs under the moniker Insect Factory, builds these soundscapes in a way that’s indisputably gorgeous, lulling, and even, at times, rhythmically alluring. That’s most evident on his latest LP, Work, which features the guitarist creating layers of sound so dense, it sounds otherworldly. Indeed, it’s hard to believe that the five tracks on Work were created by a single dude with his guitar until you see Barsky perform live. He uses his guitar less as an instrument and more as a sound factory, manipulating the amplification on his pickups to funnel taps, pops, and plucks through a variety of pedals and filters, all looped on top of each other. The result is drone that even the most uninitiated experimental music fan can get behind. Insect Factory performs with E and Time Is Fire at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $12.

(202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Matt Cohen

CITY LIGHTS: sunday

taMpopo

A good meal, just like a good movie, is an escape from reality. A period of time—however brief—when you can just block out your fears and anxieties (and, holy hell, there is no shortage of them) and get lost in the food or a story. Japanese director Juzo Itami’s 1985 classic Tampopo is a kind of marriage of that idea: A great story about the joys of food. Well, kind of. Described as a “ramen western”—a play off spaghetti westerns—Nobuko Miyamoto stars as the titular Tampopo, a Tokyo-dwelling widow who’s struggling to make decent ramen and keep her late husband’s ramen shop open. One day a trucker named Goro stumbles into Tampopo’s shop, blasts her terrible ramen, but pledges to teach her how to make the best ramen in town and turn her business around. It’s a simple story wrapped up in a weird mishmash of genres—dark comedy, erotic romance, kung-fu—that Itami’s films were known for. Janus Films and The Criterion Collection have restored the film, which received stateside acclaim after Roger Ebert gave it a rare four-star review, so check it out and then jet to Daikaya or Toki Underground to further lose yourself in a delicious bowl of ramen. The film screens beginning Dec. 2 at Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. $9–$12. (202) 783-9494. landmarktheatres.com/ washington-d-c/e-street-cinema.

—Matt Cohen

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CITY LIGHTS: Monday

GatEWays/ portalEs

1811 14 ST NW TH

www.blackcatdc.com @blackcatdc

DECEMBER SHOWS FRI 2

SAT 3 SAT 3 SUN 4 TUE 6 WED 7 THU 8 FRI 9 FRI 9 SAT 10 SAT 10 TUE 13

JAZZ & SOUL feat

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David P Stevens, Lin Rountree, Julian Vaughn & Deborah Bond

DJ DREDD PRESENTS

PRINCE/MJ/MADONNA

DANCE PARTY FRI 2

DECEMBER

TASSLES & TOMMY GUNS

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BAD MOVES CURTIS HARDING

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MAGGIE ROSE

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DRAG SALUTE TO MOTOWN TWISTED

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MOTOWN & MORE:

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A Holiday Celebration

SU 11

RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE OLIVIA MANCINI & THE MATES

SUPER ART FIGHT FLASHER

REVEREND HORTON HEAT

by Tony Sands

W 14 TH 15 F

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THE WAG DANCE PARTY TURNED OUT A PUNK

LIVE WITH DAMIAN ABRAHAM

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101ST B-DAY CELEBRATION OF FRANK SINATRA

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Holiday Show

JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS

Comedy Show – 2 SHOWS

BIG NY & FRIENDS 1PM

Big NY & The Smooth Jazz All Stars w/ Special Guest Lindsey Webster 7:30PM

NRBQ CHRISTMAS WITH CASSANDRA WILSON

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The conversation about how immigrants, especially those from Central America, enter the United States has certainly increased in intensity since the President-Elect of the United States started running his mouth.

Regardless of what happens with a wall along the Mexican border, all locals interested in the immigrant experience should visit the Anacostia Community Museum’s latest exhibition. Gateways/Portales highlights migrant populations in D.C., Baltimore, Charlotte, and RaleighDurham and the ways their cultures have impacted their lives in America. Whether that is through street festivals and public displays of heritage or through social justice initiatives, the exhibit uses text and visual art to communicate these ideas and experiences. In order to make the exhibit useful for speakers of other languages, curator Ariana Curtis, who also helmed the museum’s Bridging the Americas: Community and Belonging from Panama to Washington, D.C. show, has chosen to present all information in English and Spanish. The exhibition is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., to Aug. 6, at the Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE. Free. (202) 6334820. anacostia.si.edu.

—Caroline Jones

ElEctronic

Folk

u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Jody Wisternoff, Tony Smooth. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

eChostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Flosstradamus, Towkio, Gent & Jawns. 9 p.m. $48.40. echostage.com.

Funk & r&B

Kennedy CenteR ConCeRt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops with Diana Ross. 8 p.m. $59–$179. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy CenteR millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Harry Bells. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Lizzo, DJ Sophie Eris, Dizzy Fae. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

sunday classical rock

biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. America. 7:30 p.m. $75. birchmere.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Thank You Scientist, Moon Tooth, The Tea Club, Megosh. 7:30 p.m. $13–$16. dcnine.com. phillips ColleCtion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 387-2151. Carter Brey, Benjamin Pasternack. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.

Hip-Hop

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

Emmylou Harris, Sam Bush & Jon Randall Stewart, Owen Danoff. 7:30 p.m. $90–$250. thehamiltondc.com. atlas peRfoRminG aRts CenteR 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. 5 p.m.; 7:30 p.m. $20–$28. atlasarts.org. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Arturo Sandoval. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy CenteR family theateR 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Veronneau. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Joe Vetter Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

Funk & r&B

bethesda blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Drag Salute To Motown Twisted. 3 p.m.; 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Monday classical

biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. George Winston. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Kennedy CenteR family theateR 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Violins Duel: Stradivari versus Guarneri. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Blues Alley Youth Orchestra. 9 p.m. $15. bluesalley.com.

fillmoRe silveR spRinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Kane Brown, Jordan Rager. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

tuEsday

hoWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Damien Escobar. 8 p.m. $49.50–$100. thehowardtheatre.com.

blaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Curtis Harding, Wanted Man. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

rock

Kennedy CenteR millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Trio Sefardi. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Hip-Hop

hoWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Dave East, Juice Bruns. 8 p.m. $20–$35. thehowardtheatre.com. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Cam’ron. 8 p.m. $21–$46. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

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

Delta Rae, Penny and Sparrow. 7:30 p.m. $24.75– $49.75. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Gloria Ruben. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley. com.

ElEctronic

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. MØ, Grace Mitchell. 7 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

WEdnEsday rock

blaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Amasa Hines. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. fillmoRe silveR spRinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Mike Posner, Lindsey Stirling, Jojo. 7 p.m. $46. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Paperhaus, Skyline Hotel. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

Holiday

musiC CenteR at stRathmoRe 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Holidays with Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists. 8 p.m. $25–$75. strathmore.org.

Vocal

Kennedy CenteR millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Lenka Lichtenberg. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy CenteR family theateR 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.

7:30 p.m. $59. kennedy-center.org. mansion at stRathmoRe 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Ramón Tasat. 7:30 p.m. $20. strathmore.org.

World

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

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

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

bossa bistRo 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Kino Musica. 9 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

presents

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chaise Lounge. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22.50. bluesalley.com. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Bobby Muncy Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

ElEctronic

soundCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Apashe, Rucca, Drift. 10 p.m. $12–$15. soundcheckdc.com.

tHursday rock

blaCK Cat baCKstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Olivia Mancini & the Mates, Elena y los Fulanos, Run Come See. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Mystery Lights, Warbly Jets, Pearie Sol. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. fillmoRe silveR spRinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Third Eye Blind, The Rua, Wrabel. 7 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Pasadena, Bumpin Uglies. 9 p.m. $8–$10. gypsysallys.com.

RoCK & Roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Boat Burning, Tone, The Orchid. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Futurebirds, Loamlands. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Holiday

Kennedy CenteR millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Sweet Heaven Kings. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: tuEsday

caM’ron

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classical

While it’s been a long time since Cam’ron dominated the charts, the Harlem globetrotter will always be a rap game legend, thanks to an incident that happened here in D.C. on Oct. 23, 2005. That was the night that, after he was shot three times during an attempted carjacking, Killa Cam drove his blue Lamborghini and the $200,000 worth of jewelry he was wearing to Howard University Hospital. “I got shot three times and my album comes out Nov. 22,” he told the press when leaving the hospital. “It was a sloppy job on their part. They didn’t get anything.” That braggadocious talent for selfpromotion, along with a gift for assonanceheavy wordplay, has defined Cam’ron long past the expiration date of his breakthrough hits, “Oh Boy” and “Hey Ma.” Cam is supposed to drop his first proper album since 2009 any day now, but his place in the hiphop pantheon is secure, whether or not we ever hear Killa Pink. The album is named after the custom shade of his trademark color that he commissioned from Pantone’s Color Institute, a sentence that encapsulates what makes Cam’ron such an inimitable legend. Cam’ron performs at 8 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $21–$46. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Chris Kelly

he PTiano Guys

SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB

Dec 7, 8pm

Baltimore

SUN. ~ DEC. 4 ~ 8:00PM TIX: $12/$15

Tickets On Sale Now at Ticketmaster.com/800-745-3000.

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

Dec 1

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR w/authors BETH MACY (2) & BARRY LYNN (3)

An Evening with

5

GEORGE WINSTON Show” THE DAN BAND “Holiday

8

BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN “Honky Tonk Holiday” with COMMANDER CODY 10 CHERYL WHEELER & JOHN GORKA

9

DEL & DAWG

11 (Del McCoury & David Grisman) 12

VOODOO DADDY BAD BIG“Wild & Swingin’ Holiday Party”

14

BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS featuring BO BICE

Sarah CARBON LEAF Darling 17 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES 18 LORRIE MORGAN’S

15

“Enchanted Christmas”

20

CHRISTMAS A JOHN WATERS (mature audiences)

MINT CONDITION ALLISON 26 HAYES CARLL MOORER

21&22

27&28

JUDY COLLINS

20TH ANNUAL HANK WILLIAMS TRIBUTE 30 PIECES OF A DREAM

29

31

New Year’s Eve with

THE SELDOM SCENE -8pmLocust Honey String Band & Cabin Creek

Jan 6&7

ROAM Winterfest 2017 Dawn 8 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Landes 11&12 STEPHEN LYNCH "The My Old Heart Tour"

H

H

12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.10 12.16 12.17 12.22 12.29

HOLLERTOWN SCOTT KURT & MEMPHIS 59 THE 502S SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB LIVE BAND KARAOKE CLOSED – PRIVATE EVENT HUMAN COUNTRY JUKEBOX CHAMOMILE AND WHISKEY KITI GARTNER & THE DECEITS JAMIE MCLEAN BAND THE HIGHBALLERS BOBBY THOMPSON & REVELATOR HILL 12.30 JONNY GRAVES & THE TOMBSTONES 12.31 ROCK ‘N TWANG NYE

H 1.5 1.7 1.14 1.20 1.24 1.27 3.10 3.21 3.25 4.7

H STEALIN’ THE DEAL DELTA SPUR FOLK SOUL REVIVAL KEVIN FOWLER OLD SALT UNION RANDY THOMPSON BAND CORY MORROW CASH’D OUT THE CURRYS MARK EITZEL / HOWE GELB

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

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

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

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LIVE

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

an intimate evening with

EMMYLOU

600 beers from around the world

Downstairs: good food, great beer: all day every day

HARRIS BENEFITING BONAPARTE’S RETREAT

featuring

SAM BUSH & JON RANDALL W/ SPECIAL GUEST OWEN DANOFF SUNDAY DEC

*all shows 21+

DELTA

DECEMBER 1ST

UNDERGROUND COMEDY

RAE

FREE COMEDY SHOW, DOORS AT 7:00PM, SHOW AT 8:30PM DECEMBER 2ND

GOOSE ISLAND 5 YEAR VERTICAL TAPPING @ 5PM CHEEKY MONKEY VARIETY SHOW, DOORS AT 8:00PM

DECEMBER 3RD

CHRISTMAS ON INFINITE EARTH

PRESENTED BY CYN FACTORY, DOORS @ 8:00PM DECEMBER 4TH

STARR STRUCK COMEDY

DOORS AT 6PM, SHOW AT 7PM

4

W/ PENNY & SPARROW

TUESDAY DEC

6

Interest in N.W.A is at a renewed high since the lopsided biopic Straight Outta Compton mined the Los Angeles gangsta rap group’s legacy for box-office gold, but the film fails to capture the scope of N.W.A’s grip on music as well as Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap. Former LA Weekly music editor Ben Westhoff sifted through court documents, interviewed dozens of players in the early gangsta rap galaxy, and challenged hard-wired narratives for this sobering, detailed history. He also looks at how the rise of this style of hip-hop intersected with cultural touchstones of the time, drawing connections between the death of Eazy-E and the AIDS crisis, as well as the Rodney King riots. Westhoff is an expert storyteller, one who controls everything in Original Gangstas but wisely gives enough room for his subjects to speak for themselves. Ben Westhoff reads at 6:30 p.m. at East City Bookshop, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 100. Free. (202) 290-1636. eastcitybookshop.com.

—Leor Galil

EDWIN MCCAIN

musiC CenteR at stRathmoRe 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO Presents: Swingin’ Nutcracker à la Ellington Featuring Step Afrika!. 8 p.m. $12.50–$60. strathmore.org.

W/ JEFF CAMPBELL

Vocal

SUN, DEC 18

Kennedy CenteR family theateR 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. A Merry Little Christmas With Megan Hilty. 7 p.m. $69. kennedy-center.org.

KURT ELLING HOLIDAY SHOW W/ MARK MEADOWS TUES, DEC 20

LOS LOBOS HOLIDAY SHOW

DECEMBER 5TH

classical

ClaRiCe smith peRfoRminG aRts CenteR Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Margaret Leng Tan. 8 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

World

hoWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Los Van Van, DJ Reyna La Farandulera Morales. 8 p.m. $40–$75. thehowardtheatre.com. linColn theatRe 1215 U St. NW. (202) 8880050. Marcel, Rami, and Bachar Khalife. 7:30 p.m. $35–$200. thelincolndc.com.

AT 7:30PM

CAPITAL LAUGHS

BEn WEstHoFF

SUN, DEC 11

DISTRICT TRIVIA DECEMBER 6TH

CITY LIGHTS: WEdnEsday

THEHAMILTONDC.COM

ElEctronic

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Jai Wolf. 10

FREE COMEDY SHOW, DOORS AT 7PM DECEMBER 7TH

PERFECT LIARS CLUB DOORS AT 5:30, SHOW AT 7:30PM DISTRICT TRIVIAAT 7:30PM

DECEMBER 8TH

UNDERGROUND

COMEDY FREE, DOORS AT 7:00PM, SHOW AT 8:30PM DECEMBER 9TH

BATTLE OF THE BARRELS TAPPING @ 5PM LAST RESORT COMEDY FEATURING LEE CAMP,

D.C.’s

awesomest Theater events calendar.

blaCK nativity This long-running musical by Langston Hughes celebrates the birth of Jesus and the holiday traditions of black Americans. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Dec. 31. $30–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

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DOORS AT 5:30, SHOW AT 6:30PM 1523 22nd St NW – Washington, DC 20037 (202) 293-1887 - www.bierbarondc.com @bierbarondc.com for news and events

p.m. $25. 930.com.

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CaRousel Arena’s annual holiday musical comes in the form of this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about a bad boy and a good girl who fall in love, only to encounter great tragedy. Local favorites Nicholas Rodriguez and E. Faye Butler star in this production, which features songs including “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 24. $64–$99. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. the ChRistians A live choir backs the action in this play set in an enormous church. When Pastor Paul’s church grows from a small storefront into a home for thousands, he is cheered by his followers but his latest sermon is sure to ruffle feathers. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Dec. 11. $27–$57. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

a ChRistmas CaRol Veteran local actor Craig Wallace takes on the role of Scrooge in this popular musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ tale about kindness and holiday cheer. Celebrating its 35th season at Ford’s, Michael Wilson’s adaptation is directed by Michael Baron. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Dec. 31. $22–$92. (202) 347-4833. fords.org. fully Committed A restaurant reservation taker showcases his amazing dexterity in this comedic and engaging one-man show featuring local actor Tom Story. Recently seen on Broadway, the MetroStage version is directed by Alan Paul. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Jan. 8. $55–$60. (703) 5489044. metrostage.org. into the Woods Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical that wonders what happens to fairy tale characters after they find their “happily ever after” is reimagined at the Kennedy Center in a new production from Fiasco Theater. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 8. $45–$175. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. it’s a WondeRful life: a live Radio play In the late 1940s, a team of radio performers gather to tell the story of George Bailey and his angel companion, Clarence, in this lively adaptation of the classic film supplemented with period ads. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Dec. 18. $25–$50. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org. miss bennet: ChRistmas at pembeRley The characters in Pride and Prejudice come together to celebrate Christmas in this new play that follows Mary Bennet as she explores her future and a potential romance. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Dec. 18. $36–$56.

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