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DISTRICT LINE 4 Loose Lips: The Council acts on fare evasion, campaign finance, and internet sales tax bills during a lengthy legislative meeting.

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DISTRICTLINE A new hospital, internet sale taxes, and fare evasion are a few of the most pressing issues in front of the Council.

By Mitch Ryals The end is near. The agenda for the D.C. Council’s penultimate legislative meeting last Tuesday included more than 100 items, from firearm safety to campaign finance reform to turnstile jumping to building a new hospital east of the Anacostia River.

The four-hour marathon meeting was jampacked with classic Council banter. Ward 3’s Mary Cheh called Ward 2’s Jack Evans a “Scrooge,” Council Chairman Phil Mendelson copped to his arrest record for civil disobedience, and AtLarge Councilmember Elissa Silverman formed an unholy alliance with Evans.

“We have over 100 measures on the agenda tomorrow,” Mendelson said during a premeeting news conference a day before the votes. “And it’s hard to be sure that we’re getting all of them right.”

City Paper can’t cover all 100 items, but we’ve selected a few that bubbled to the top.

LOOSE LIPS

Pay to Play: PASSED A bill that brings sweeping changes to the District’s campaign fundraising system passed without so much as a snort from councilmembers. The bill, authored by Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, bars corporations and their executives who have contracts or are seeking contracts with the District from donating to campaigns.

The bill aims to fix D.C.’s so-called pay-toplay culture, where lawmakers and the mayor approve contracts for people who donated to their campaigns. Contracts, tax exemptions, loans, and other types of financial agreements with the District must be worth at least $250,000 to qualify for the ban on donations, according to the bill.

The bill also establishes a board to oversee the Office of Campaign Finance, which is currently operating under the Board of Elections, and whose members are appointed by

the mayor and approved by the Council.

The bill now lands on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s desk. She has so far declined to say whether she supports the changes.

Fare evasion: PASSED For the second consecutive meeting, a bill that decriminalizes illicit free rides on Metro in D.C. stoked heated debate that pitted Evans and Mendelson against everybody else.

To Evans (who is also the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board chairman) and Mendelson, fare evasion is stealing, and stealing should be a crime no matter how small the amount. (It costs $2 to ride the bus.)

Evans says that Metro already loses an estimated $25 million a year in fare evasion on buses alone and argued that decriminalizing the act would only encourage turnstile jumpers (though there’s no evidence of that). Other councilmembers used Evans’ estimated losses as an argument that criminalizing fare evasion clearly isn’t working—why not try something else?

For Allen, chair of the judiciary committee, evading a $2 fare should not mar someone with a criminal record. Currently, fare evaders can be arrested, face up to a $300 fine, and spend 10 days in jail. The bill switches fare evasion to a civil citation, like a parking ticket, and lowers the fine to $50.

The issue of racial discrimination was woven throughout the Council’s discussion, most prominently in the form of a statistic cited by Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, who originally introduced the bill in July 2017. According to a report from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, 91 percent of the criminal citations for fare evasion currently handed out by Metro police go to black people.

With that statistic in mind, At-Large Councilmember Robert White referenced a recent article in The Washington Post that described coordination between Metro and the white supremacist group that staged a “Unite the Right 2” rally in D.C. in August. “I’m sad Metro is los-

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The deal for a new hospital in Ward 8: POSTPONED Late in the legislative meeting, Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray moved to postpone, until Dec. 18, a vote on his bill to build a new healthcare network east of the Anacostia River. A flurry of amendments appeared to blindside him.

Trayon White and Silverman successfully added amendments against Gray’s wishes.

In a moment of confusion, White introduced an amendment that would, in his words, require GW Hospital (which is the District’s preferred partner in building a new and desperately needed hospital in Ward 8) to work with medical students and staff from Howard University Hospital. Howard University has testified that an exclusive deal between the District and GW Hospital would seriously jeopardize the future of Howard’s medical school.

Gray and Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd had been expecting to co-introduce, with White, a weaker amendment that would have asked the city to conduct a feasibility study on creating some sort of partnership Jack Evans

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ing money,” Robert White said, “But I’m more sad about what’s happening to black people.”

If the measure gets through the mayor, it would take effect in 2019.

between GW Hospital and Howard.

Before White made his move, an amendment from Silverman passed to guarantee unionized nurses and other staff at United Medical Center in Ward 8 jobs at the new hospital at St. Elizabeths. The addition passed 8-3, but was opposed by Gray, who called it a “poison pill.”

“I’ve heard from leadership of the executive’s office and George Washington University Hospital, and if this amendment passes, there will be no deal,” he said.

The discussion fired up several councilmembers. “Anybody who votes against this is voting against the unions,” said Evans, fre-

quently noting his surprise at agreeing with his more liberal colleague Silverman.

Gray successfully amended his bill to add 50 more beds at the Ward 8 hospital, bringing its capacity to 200, and to shrink the size of GW Hospital’s proposed expansion to its Foggy Bottom location. The latter amendment envisions a 170-bed tower at GW, with 50 additional beds being added within the hospital’s current footprint. (To complicate matters, GW University opposes that expansion.)

Howard celebrated the addition of White’s amendment, which passed by acclamation.

But Evans was cautious. “I just don’t know if you can make a private company partner with somebody else. … Good luck, it may work. I just don’t see how it works,” Evans said, nonetheless supporting it along with Mendelson.

Moments later, Gray successfully postponed the bill.

Internet sales tax: PASSED The Council passed a bill that will lower the commercial property tax rate for properties worth $10 million or more, frustrating some lawmakers and advocates who say the cut reneges on a promise from 2013 to devote more money to homeless services.

Five years ago, the Council pledged to split internet sales tax revenue in half: 50 percent would go to fund the Metro system, and 50 percent would go to a fund for homeless services. But cities did not have legal authority to collect sales tax on items bought on the internet from businesses that did not have a physical presence in the District. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court changed that, opening the door to a new source of revenue.

But before the court’s decision, the Council raised taxes on commercial property owners in order to pump money into the Metro system.

With the new internet sales tax revenue, councilmembers faced a choice: Lower the commercial property tax rate back down, or use the new revenue as promised in 2013. Ultimately, the bill passed and the commercial property tax rate will drop back down from $1.89 per $100 of assessed value to $1.85.

Councilmembers Silverman, Brianne Nadeau, David Grosso, and Trayon White dissented.

CP Cuneyt Dil contributed reporting.

DISTRICTLINE Minding Manors

Two weeks before the Council votes to subsidize $56 million for a 20-acre redevelopment off Rhode Island Ave. NE, some Brookland residents continue to resist it.

By Morgan Baskin In just under two weeks, the D.C. Council will take a final vote on whether to finance $56 million dollars’ worth of a long-planned redevelopment along Rhode Island Ave. NE. The project, tied up in a months-long appeal that has stalled redevelopment, would bring about 1,800 units of housing and 180,000 square feet of retail to over 20 acres of land in Ward 5, just half a mile from the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station.

And in the fight to stop it, it’s Minnie Elliott against the world. The longtime Brookland Manor resident and tenants’ association president, who filed an appeal against the project last year, maintains that it would negatively affect existing residents of the neighborhood and potentially displace dozens of low-income tenants. She has articulated these concerns since 2014, when the developer first pitched the project.

“They can wine and dine you,” Elliott said at a November meeting of Brookland Manor’s tenants’ association, referring to affordable housing developer MidCity Financial Corp., which is behind the planned redevelopment, “but if you want to speak up, you’ve gotta fight for your rights. This fight is everybody’s fight.”

At the meeting, where about two dozen people––mostly older black women, and a healthy smattering of toddlers swaddled in puffy coats––munched on sandwiches and potato chips, Will Merrifield, an attorney at Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless who represents the tenants’ association, is gauging how many people are interested in canvassing the Council before its vote.

“How naive were we to think MidCity couldn’t just [snap] and get $56 million?” Merrifield says to a chorus of yeses.

The development would triple the density of the existing Brookland Manor complex, which sits southeast of Rhode Island and Montana avenues NE and holds a cluster of apartment buildings. The buildings currently contain 373 federally subsidized units through the project-based Section 8 program and 117 market-rate units where tenants use rental subsidies dispersed by the DC Housing Authority.

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ical units themselves, while tenant-based vouchers allow tenants to keep their subsidies even if they move.)

A bill Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced to the D.C. Council in early October would allow the city to help fund the Rhode Island Ave. project, dubbed “RIA,” through tax increment financing, or borrowing against future tax receipts that it would generate.

But Elliott and a contingent of other residents, along with advocates at Justice First and the Legal Clinic, say that MidCity has not sufficiently proved that the project would not displace some of Brookland Manor’s tenants.

In its second-stage approval for the project, the D.C. Zoning Commission noted last year that MidCity “committed that a minimum of 265 units in this project will be deeply affordable and reserved for existing residents.” (“Deeply affordable” housing typically means housing within reach for families earning around 30 percent of area median income, around $33,000 for a family of four in D.C.) Of those units, MidCity will reserve 200 in one apartment building, Building B, for seniors-only housing. Another apartment building, Building A, will “initially” host the other 65 “for other current residents of Brookland Manor.” A separate clause in the Commission’s order mandates that “there shall be at least 373 units covered by the Section 8 contract.”

But the order states that 40 of the deeply affordable units will only be “temporary,” and that “over time … those 40 units will transition to market-rate units.” Some residents,

including Elliott, worry about what that transition from deeply affordable to market rate will mean for the families living in those units.

And while the Zoning Commission has written that it “does not believe that any displacement will occur” from this or other issues, it writes that “if it does, the Commission finds that it is acceptable given the quality of the public benefits of the Project.”

Complaints about the project run the gamut, including allegations that MidCity’s numbers for rehousing the existing income-restricted tenants don’t match up, that this lack of foresight could result in displacement, and that even precluding these issues, there isn’t a long-term covenant to protect the affordability of dozens of these units.

To this, the Zoning Commission wrote that MidCity “has convincingly demonstrated that at this phase of the redevelopment there are a sufficient number of units to meet this commitment.” Jamie Weinbaum, MidCity’s executive vice president and RIA project lead, as well as the former director of D.C.’s Office of Zoning, which oversees the Zoning Commission, calls these concerns “old tropes”––“frankly,” he says, “there are always concerns that come with development, [like] gentrification and displacement. … For whatever reason, this project became an example [when people] talk about gentrification and displacement.”

The Brookland Manor tenants’ association also claimed last year that MidCity attempted to engage in a campaign to reduce the number of tenants living at Brookland Manor before

redevelopment began, so that there would be fewer tenants in need of relocation. They presented these claims to the Zoning Commission, stating that residency at Brookland Manor declined from 503 to 438 occupied units. (A Washington Post investigation from 2016 found that MidCity sued to evict residents about 370 times between January 2014 and March 2016.)

The Commission punted responsibility for adjudicating this claim, writing that doing so “is not within the Commission’s jurisdiction.”

The Zoning Commission, MidCity, and Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie all emphasize that the dissatisfied party is smaller than the number of tenants who support the project. They point to the 180 Brookland Manor residents who signed onto a “letter of support” for MidCity’s plan, and the dozen who spoke in support of the project at a public hearing in mid-November.

Through a spokesperson, McDuffie says in a lengthy statement emailed to City Paper that “a small number of opponents have been effective at garnering negative news coverage of this project ... and a single litigant suing the developer,” but that he “must weigh their concerns against the more than 180 Brookland Manor residents who signed letters of support during the first zoning case and over 300 residents who have advocated for the start of construction on this project.” (There is more than just a single litigant. International law firm Covington, along with Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, filed a complaint in 2016 against MidCity for the development; the class-action suit, which is ongoing, alleges that the RIA project discriminates against residents’ “familial status” by not providing enough four- or five-bedroom units.)

McDuffie and MidCity also argue that the developer has done due diligence by committing to set aside more total affordable units, and more deeply affordable units, than is required by an inclusionary zoning order. Inclusionary zoning laws require only 8 to 10 percent of units to be affordable in new developments.

And in what might be the first time someone has thanked gentrification, the Zoning Commission writes that someone submitted written testimony “remarking on improvements in crime reduction and positively anticipating a ‘more gentrified culture.’” Weinbaum declined to comment on the two cases against MidCity, saying that he would not “opine” on ongoing litigation.

“I think that there’s another story here that’s the more important story,” Weinbaum tells City Paper. “Those are talking points Will [Merrifield] has been pushing for a while now.

The story is, we made an investment in project approved by the Zoning Commission. [We’re going] one-for-one on all the affordable housing. It was codified in two different zoning orders. … the story here is that this can be a model for a mixed income community.”

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SPORTS

Councilmember Jack Evans predicts sports gambling will be legal in the District by the end of February. “I want to see fans running by [Nationals Park] on Opening Day and betting on Bryce Harper taking the first pitch,” says Evans. “That’s my goal.” washingtoncitypaper.com/sports

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speculated about which players are on the trading block, and the Wizards have at various points had the worst record in the Eastern Conference.

But amid the chaos, Brooks and Wizards players have repeatedly praised Satoranský and stressed how his energy and professionalism have helped Washington in ways not entirely visible on game days. Satoranský, a celebrity in his native Czech Republic but a relative unknown among American sports fans, is a crucial part of the team’s success, those on the team say, even if it doesn’t show up on the stat sheets.

“He’s a point guard that gets people into positions, gets the ball moving,” says Smith, one of Satoranský’s closest friends on the Wizards. “He plays basketball the right way and he goes out there and plays with a lot of heart and effort—the kind of stuff that you really can’t teach.”

Third-year player Tomáš Satoranský provides positive energy for the inconsistent Wizards.

By Kelyn Soong The mood inside Capital One Arena on a rainy and frigid fall evening in late November feels buoyant, even playful. The tense drama that has enveloped the Washington Wizards this season is absent. About half an hour after Washington defeated the New Orleans Pelicans, 124-114, on the Saturday night after Thanksgiving, Tomáš Satoranský walks from the shower toward his locker and immediately asks for forgiveness from teammate Jason Smith. “Apologies, please,” says Satoranský, a sheepish smile across his face.

BASKETBALL

In a pre-recorded video played on the Jumbotron during a timeout in the game, a Monumental Sports & Entertainment employee asked Satoranský who on the team has the worst style. “He’s going to hate me, but Jason Smith,” replied the 27-year-old guard.

“A teammate can’t do that to a teammate,” jokes Smith in the locker room. “We’re beefing right now. We might need to mediate this.”

This counts as a teammate controversy for Satoranský, who is in his third season with the Wizards and has earned a reputation as a positive presence on a team not known for its chemistry or camaraderie. Reports of dysfunction among the Wizards and publicly vented frustrations from head coach Scott Brooks and players have dominated headlines. Reporters have

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nearly everyone in Satoranský’s family played volleyball. But the sport, with its rigid formations, and stop-and-go plays, didn’t appeal to him. Basketball better suited his personality.

“I always like creative things,” he says. “I think basketball is more creative than volleyball. I always said that to my family. They don’t like to hear that. I just always liked the action ... and I feel like there’s always something going on in basketball. It’s not boring at any point.

That was for me the biggest thing about it.”

Satoranský started playing in elementary school around age 7, and within a few years he was competing against boys two to three years older, he says. For Christmas one year, his family bought him a book of NBA history, which he devoured. He loved the movie Space Jam, featuring several of the league’s superstars, and stayed up late (due to the time difference, the games would air in the early mornings) to watch Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, his favorite team. He idolized Manu Ginobili.

The young boy from Prague also decorated his room with photos of NBA players.

There was one of Michael Jordan, a large framed poster of Kevin Garnett, and another of Dwight Howard winning the 2008 NBA Slam Dunk Contest dressed as Superman.

Howard, 32, is now his lockermate in Washington.

“Yeah, I was obsessed,” Satoranský says.

“Then when the internet came, I watched a ton of highlights. I loved it.”

Satoranský laughs at how he used to talk so much about the NBA that friends and family members had to tell him to stop. His friends at school didn’t really understand his obsession.

In the Czech Republic, a country with a population of under 11 million, soccer, ice hockey, and tennis are all more popular than bas-

ketball, and only four Czech natives, including former Wizards player Jan Veselý, have suited up in the NBA. But Satoranský continued to dream. Even at a young age, he dared to imagine playing against the best in the world.

Professional baskeTball shooTing coach Stefan Weissenböck remembers first seeing Satoranský in action over a decade ago.

At that time, Satoranský was on his way to becoming the youngest player to join the Czech senior national team at 16.

Weissenböck, whose mother is Czech, visited the country to recruit young players for his club team in Germany and was immediately impressed by the confident and explosive playmaker.

“He’s a point guard in the body of a [shooting guard-small forward], so tall, and dynamic, and such a creative person,” says Weissenböck, the head of player development for Brose Bamberg, one of Germany’s top teams, and a consultant for the Brooklyn Nets. “He has played point guard his whole life, and that motor that he has, the openness to lead and connect, that was impressive already at an early age.”

The two started working together before Satoranský’s first season with the Wizards in 2016 and meet for about a week each off season to work on various shooting drills. Weissenböck watches all of Satoranský’s possessions and provides video analysis after games.

Before joining Washington, Satoranský starred for Baloncesto Sevilla in Spain from 2009 until 2014 and then FC Barcelona Lassa from 2014 to 2016. (The Wizards drafted him 32nd overall in the 2012 NBA Draft with the intention of letting him develop in Europe for a few years before bringing him to D.C.) Well known NBA players who hail from Spain, including Pau Gasol and Ricky Rubio, have also played for Barca Lassa.

In the 2013-14 season, Satoranský led Sevilla to an 18-16 record and was the team’s co-scoring leader, averaging 12.4 points per game. In his last season in Europe, Satoranský was the starting point guard for Barca, which finished with a 29-5 record in the Liga ACB, Spain’s top professional basketball division.

Growing up in the European system, Satoranský learned how to share the ball. Coaches did not expect one star player to take over like in the NBA, and European teams provided more camaraderie, says Satoranský. Teammates ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner together on road trips and players always had a roommate in hotel rooms.

“I kind of like [that],” Satoranský says. “It brings the team together. I felt like I spent more time with my teammates back then.”

SPORTS But, he adds, the European routine would be difficult to replicate during the far-longer NBA season. In Washington, Satoranský has been able to find his own close group through mutual interests and similar personalities and says he often goes to dinner with Smith, Ian Mahinmi, Otto Porter Jr., and Jeff Green.

It also helps having another European player on the team. Satoranský and his wife, Ana, who’s due to give birth to the couple’s first child in February, also hang out with Mahinmi, a native of France, and his wife, outside of basketball.

“If you’re going to be around somebody for so long, it’s important to have fun, it’s important to like each other,” says Mahinmi. “Tomáš is definitely my guy.”

SatoranSký arrived in the NBA with a clean slate. He says he felt that none of his accomplishments in Europe mattered in his new country and city. For the Wizards, he went long stretches without minutes on the floor.

His confidence dropped, and doubts crept into his mind. His friends back home would send him screenshots of them playing as Satoranský on NBA 2K. At least he was getting court time in a video game, he thought.

Satoranský also had to stop some of his old

“Tomáš is a clown. Tomáš is one of the funniest guys on the team,” says Austin Rivers, before pausing. “He probably is the funniest guy on the team.”

Last season, a John Wall injury thrust Satoranský into a starting role. The Wizards began to play with improved ball movement, which led to Bradley Beal’s infamous quote that “everybody eats.” (Beal later clarified that the comment was not meant as a shot at Wall, who missed 27 games.)

Asked if last year’s results and his teammates’ praise means that the team is better with him on the floor, Satoranský is quick to emphasize that Wall is the best player on the team. “I mean, you want me to say we were better without John or what do you want me to say? I’m not going to say that cause I don’t think it’s true,” he says. “But we just found good style of basketball, which we should play all the time and John’s been doing it a lot.”

His impact, teammates say, is not always noticeable, though his hustle plays and instant energy provide a boost for the Wizards. He is, in other words, the type of selfless player that Brooks has been looking for in what has been a frustrating season. Through 24 games, Satoranský is averaging 5.0 points and 2.7 assists in 15.7 minutes per game.

“He plays basketball the right way and he goes out there and plays with a lot of heart and effort—the kind of stuff that you really can’t teach.” habits. Even though he’s known as a positive teammate, his competitiveness has occasionally boiled over. In Europe, he would often kick the ball across the court after frustrating practices. “It was hard to be around me when I lost,” he laughs.

The only reason he stopped doing that in D.C. is because the Wizards, according to Satoranský, have a rule that punishes such behavior: Players who have an outburst must buy a suit for each assistant coach. “It’s too expensive,” Satoranský says. But he still curses in his native language and brings his own unique personality to the team. During a practice in Dallas last month, Satoranský shouted, “Detlef Schrempf!” and names of other European ex-NBA players after taking jump shots to test his teammates’ knowledge, and to bring some levity to the workouts.

“Anytime you have someone out there who just has that solid foundation, you can just trust him,” Rivers says. “If he’s on the floor, Tomáš ain’t going to do nothing to fuck up the game. That’s an asset, just having someone solid out there all the times.”

When Green was ruled out with an injury earlier this month against the Brooklyn Nets, Brooks inserted Satoranský into the starting lineup for the first time this season. The team would go on to win, 102-88, and Brooks called Satoranský “a great part of our win.”

“He does everything that when you first started playing the game, you did,” Brooks continued. “You share the ball and you play as hard as you can. And when you do that, I needed to reward him. And I think it’s well deserved. The team loves it because he plays hard and you celebrate his effort.”

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BUY D.C. A NEIGHBORHOOD-BY-NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE TO SHOPPING LOCAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS Holiday shopping is widely known to be the absolute worst. Malls are depressing, your online order may or may not arrive on time, and your dad is still impossible to shop for after all these years. Luckily there’s an antidote: buying from locally owned brick-and-mortar shops. Though life for small business owners gets harder every year— with continually rising rents and online shopping a click away—plenty of stores are still sticking it out.

D.C. is home to several great arts and retail hubs, like Union Market, Anacostia Arts Center, and the Arts Walk at Monroe Street Market, where you can find a range of vendors and products for different people on your list. Hyattsville is a hotspot for handmade arts gifts.

And some neighborhoods seem to be built for browsing: While we can’t exactly recommend Chevy Chase for its thrilling nightlife, it has a dense concentration of independent businesses, and Alexandria has a charming array of shops tucked away in historic homes. The folks who run these places are practically guaranteed to be more invested in and knowledgeable about what they’re selling than the average big box associate. Especially when you’re harried by the season, that per-

sonal touch and expertise can go a long way toward making your experience more pleasant.

The thing is, if we want to have these stores, we have to go shop in them. When you buy local, you’re pouring your dollars back into your city and your neighbors who aren’t Jeff Bezos.

(Hasn’t this region given him quite enough this season?)

Beyond that, shopping local is a way to decide what kinds of stuff you want to see in your city. Supporting that local gift shop or bike store and helping them keep their doors open means supporting a neighborhood, a vibe, a culture.

So go see some art and hit up the museum gift shop on the way out. Get a snack at the local cafe and window shop a bit. Make a point to stop by a market or pop-up where you can find a bunch of presents in one stop. Try visiting a part of town you haven’t been to in a while, or haven’t been to at all. Here, we’ve selected presents from 68 different businesses in 12 neighborhoods around the area, to bring a little joy back to your season. Happy shopping.

—Stephanie Rudig

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Ripe Christmas For the health foodie who thinks pizza slice decor is so last year.

Avocado ornament, $18.

Urban Dwell. 1837 Columbia Rd. NW. urbandwelldc.com

Feather Your Chest For those equally concerned with fitness and fashion, this vibrant and earthy print is a great choice.

Nike sports bra, $34.99.

Fleet Feet Sports.

1841 Columbia Rd. NW. fleetfeetdc.com

Burning Desire These candles are hand-poured in Baltimore County, and come in a range of sizes and scents like Meyer Lemon and Lavender.

228 Grant Street Candle Co candles, $10-34. Hudson & Crane. 1781 Florida Ave. NW. hudsonandcrane.com 8 december 7, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

Sugar Caddy Each Peach has pre-made and custom gift basket options for every kind of palate. Try the Sweet Tooth, featuring goodies from local companies like Chocotenango and Paisley Fig. Sweet Tooth gift basket, $50. Each Peach Market.

3068 Mount Pleasant St. NW. eachpeachmarket.com

GEORGETOWN All is Pom Keep little heads warm in this spotty knit hat.

The Blueberry Hill pom-pom hat, $32. Little Birdies Boutique.

1526 Wisconsin Ave. NW. shoplittlebirdies.com

Jaded Love For that beauty trend-chasing friend, try a roller that purports to massage and tone your facial muscles.

Jade roller, $40. Take Care. 1338 Wisconsin Ave. NW. takecareshopdc.com

Soft Opening This adorable mama and baby sloth set can velcro together into a hug.

Sloth plush toys, $49 large, $29 small.

Tugooh Toys. 1355 Wisconsin Ave. NW. tugoohtoys.com

Tis the Sippin’ Tea lovers will appreciate this seasonally appropriate packaging as much as the luxe brew.

Ambessa lingonberry green tea, $11. Just Paper & Tea. 3232 P St. NW. justpaperandtea.com

U STREET/14TH STREET You Better Work Workaholics will be grateful for the bath soak, sheet mask, and energizing skin serum in this kit. Ivy Wild has various limited edition themed kits, all including items at 10 to 15 percent off retail pricing.

“Overworked” beauty kit, $75. Ivy Wild. 1328 Florida Ave. NW, Lobby #2. ivywildbeauty.com

Dicey Subject Both game night enthusiasts and grandpa will appreciate this beautifully painted, unique wood backgammon set.

Backgammon set, $122. GoodWood.

1428 U St. NW. goodwooddc.com

Protect Your Neck A bold yet classic houndstooth pattern is timeless enough to appeal to anyone from a hip teen to Great Aunt Myrtle.

Houndstooth scarf, $34. Violet.

1924 8th St. NW #115. violetdc.com

Blue Plate Special Even amateur chefs can feel like pros with the pretty presentation of this baking dish.

Ceramic dish, $14.99. Home Rule.

1807 14th St NW. homerule.com

Cactus Makes Perfect Even your spacey cousin will have a hard time killing this plant offering.

Potted cactus, $26. Little Leaf.

1401 S St. NW. littleleafshop.com

Tommy Two Tone For the friend whose split personality can’t be limited to one color of ink.

Color changing pens, $20. Cherry Blossom Creative. 2128 8th St. NW. cherryblossomworkshop.com washingtoncitypaper.com december 7, 2018 9

ANACOSTIA D.C. to a Tee But seriously, only get this for someone who actually has been here. Check It prints these shirts as well as custom designs in their headquarters.

“Not a Tourist I Been Here” T-shirt, $20. Check It. 1920 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE. checkitenterprises.com

Swing Out NOVA-based Kwame Alexander recently released the follow-up to his New York Times-bestselling book Solo, co-written with Mary Rand Hess. Their book Swing explores jazz, the high school experience, and political protest.

Swing, $18.99. MahoganyBooks.

1231 Good Hope Rd. SE. mahoganybooks.com

Striped for Cash These wallets are handcrafted by artists in Ethiopia and feature unique, traditionally inspired patterns.

ZAAF wallet, $56. Nubian Hueman. 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE. nubianhueman.com

Photo Finish Celebrate the tail end of Frederick Douglass’ bicentennial year with this coffee table book that explores the man who was the most photographed in the world during his lifetime.

Picturing Frederick Douglass, $49.95. Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Bookstore. 1411 W St. SE. nps.gov/frdo/learn/bookstore.htm

TAKOMA/TAKOMA PARK Trivet Up Already This hand-painted trivet is perfect for the potluck host trying to find a place to set dozens of hot dishes.

Trivet, $12. The Covered Market. 7000 Carroll Ave., Suite D, Takoma Park. thecoveredmarket.com

Putty Party Kids will get into the spirit of the season with putty colored to look like Hanukkah gelt, candy canes, and snow.

Aaron’s Thinking Putty, $2.99.

Fair Day’s Play.

7050 Carroll Ave. #102, Takoma Park. fairdaysplay.com

Give a Shit A fantastic stocking stuffer for your pottymouthed uncle.

Hand shit, $15. S & A Beads. 235 Carroll St. NW. beadstore.com

Oil Ye Faithful This infused olive oil can be used as a base for a salad dressing or a marinade.

Lavender pepper olive oil, $20. The SpiceSuite.

6902 4th St. NW. thespicesuite.com

Bird Feeder Suitable for dipping sauce, nuts, or candies— depending on who you’re buying for.

Bird dish, $20. Tabletop. 6927 Laurel Ave., Takoma Park, Maryland. tabletopdc.com 10 december 7, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

Leg Day An eco-friendly cephalopod toy made entirely of lamb’s wool.

Octopus dog toy, $25.99. The Big Bad Woof Takoma. 6960 Maple St. NW. thebigbadwoof.com

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Blanket Statement Antiochia’s Turkish fabrics are made from extra soft natural materials and come in a multitude of colors, versatile enough to cross off even the trickiest people on your gift list.

Throw, $70. Antiochia.

760 C St. SE. antiochiahome.com

CAPITOL HILL Speck the Halls For the girl who keeps wearing those leggings that are full of holes, these tights with a spattering of metallic are a serious upgrade.

WITH leggings, $95. Summit to Soul. 727 8th St. SE. summittosoul.com

Cute Coo Ca Choo These animal toys can be paired with an augmented reality app.

Walrus toy, $14.99. Fairy Godmother.

319 7th St. SE.

Wine Colors The burst of color on these cups can make even a mediocre merlot sparkle.

Frosted glasses, $28 for set of two.

DCanter. 545 8th St. SE. dcanterwines.com

Gold Digger Drop off a poinsettia in a classy and cheery pot.

Pot, $16.95. Ginkgo Gardens. 911 11th St. SE. ginkgogardens.com Field Canvassing Quavaro travel bags are designed by a husband and wife team in D.C. and ethically produced in Mexico.

Canvas and leather tote, $165.

Quavaro. 323 7th St. SE. quavaro.com

Tile by Fire Score points by collecting tiles and creating intricate patterns in this awardwinning board game.

Azul, $39.99. Labyrinth Games & Puzzles.

645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. labyrinthgameshop.com

Pup on the Housetop Get your holiday greeting cards ready to send out with this plethora of doggo holiday messages.

Dog greeting cards, $16. Groovy dc Cards & Gifts. 321 7th St. SE. groovydc.com

Nectar Wonderland Why settle for a bear full of honey when you could give an elegant flute full?

Savannah Bee Company wildflower honey, $25. Hill’s Kitchen. 713 D St. SE. hillskitchen.com

HYATTSVILLE Coasting on My Looks These festive coasters are letterpress printed with fun patterns.

Coasters, $10. Pyramid Atlantic.

4318 Gallatin St., Hyattsville. pyramidatlanticartcenter.org

Let’s Spoon This teensy little vessel is just the thing to hold a sprig of mistletoe for your beloved.

Spoon bud vase, $14.50. Tanglewood Works. 5132 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville. tanglewoodworks.com 12 december 7, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

Protect What’s Wine Your favorite wine enthusiasts can keep a bottle at the ideal temperature in this container, and you can pick up an accompanying bottle at Franklins, to boot.

WINESULATOR™, $28.99.

Franklins. 5123 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville. franklinsbrewery.com

Basket Baller Local artist Norma J. Brooks makes coiled baskets from vibrant fabrics.

Popsicle hand-sewn basket, $69. Brentwood Arts Exchange. 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. arts.pgparks.com/1910/ Fine-Craft-Store

CHEVY CHASE Texture Circuit Not sure what the kids you’re shopping for are into these days? Whether they’re artsy types or STEM geniuses, they’ll get a kick out of this sculptural electricity kit.

Klutz Circuit Clay Science Kit, $21.99.

Barstons Child’s Play. 5536 Connecticut Ave. NW. barstonschildsplay.com

Show Your Hand Give your poker night buddies a touch of class with this decadent double set of playing cards in a handy storage box.

Christian LaCroix playing cards, $38.

Write For You. 3807 McKinley St. NW. writeforyoudc.com

Down to the Wire Help your tech-challenged parent get their gear together with a stocking stuffer that includes extra cables and screen cleaner.

Emergency Tech Kit, $8. Periwinkle. 3815 Livingston St. NW. periwinklegiftsdc.com

Warming Signs This blanket is made of the same kind of material as a durable sleeping bag, and works great either indoors or outdoors.

Rumpl blanket, $129. core72 Chevy Chase.

5502 Connecticut Ave. NW. core72dc.com Dino and Dash Send your favorite tot to lunch with the appetite of a T. Rex. Cloth lunch bag, $28. Full of Beans.

3813 Livingston St. NW. facebook.com/DCFOB

Glitter Bug Make the season brighter with a shimmery gemstone necklace.

Necklace, $198. Catch Can. 5516 Connecticut Ave. NW. catchcan.com

WATERFRONT/WHARF Berry and Bright This printed towel is inspired by the painting They Call Me Redbone but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake

by Amy Sherald, who also painted Michelle Obama’s official portrait. It was created by The Neighborgoods as part of the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ collection around the piece.

The Neighborgoods dish towel, $18.

Steadfast Supply.

301 Tingey St. SE, #120. steadfastsupplydc.com

You Are Frida Go Eccentric aunts and art freaks alike will love these Frida Kahlo socks.

Sock Smith socks, $8-12. Willow.

1331 4th St. SE. willowstores.com

It’s a Wash This luxurious little box contains individual sheets of soap that are perfect for traveling or one-time use.

Senteurs d’Orient mint tea soap leafs, $40. d/ eleven. 11 District Square SW. d11concept.com

Make It Drain This brightly colored colander collapses for easy storage for your friend with a galley kitchen.

Squish colander, $20.99.

District Hardware and Bike. 730 Maine Ave. SW. districthardware.com washingtoncitypaper.com december 7, 2018 13

ALEXANDRIA Sleep Like a Baby Great for a love nest, or a small dog named Baby.

Oh, Baby pillow, $30. Royal Street Barn Vintage Decor. 128 S Royal St., Alexandria. facebook.com/pg/vintagerx

Glass Fed Upgrade your host’s cheese plate with a colorful cutter.

Blush glass handled cheese knife, $6.99. Cheesetique Del Rey. 2411 Mt Vernon Ave., Alexandria. cheesetique.com

Flashing Out For the friend who’s spent hours explaining to you why DC is better than Marvel.

Flash figurine, $25. Aftertime Comics.

1304 King St., Alexandria.

Scarf Ace Classic Irish knitwear techniques can suit just about anyone’s style.

Scarf, $45. The Irish Walk. 415 King St., Alexandria. irishwalk.com

Slippery People Let your bestie know it’s really OK if she wants to stay in tonight with these comfy lounging slippers.

Fox slippers, $15. Bloomers.

924 King St., Alexandria. shopbloomers.com

Grinding on That Wood With such a gorgeous wood grain, home chefs will look for excuses to grind things with this mortar and pestle.

Olive wood mortar and pestle, $65. Cromwell’s Wood Products. 1121 King St., Alexandria. cromwellwoodproducts.com

Rainbow Connection For the person who’s sticking to veganism for real this time, this tote has sturdy straps made of faux leather.

Rainbow tote, $35.

Penny Post. 1201 King St., Alexandria. facebook.com/ shoppennypost

Tray Chic Spot your keys or jewelry on this vibrant tray.

Cheetah tray, $55. Kiskadee.

2205 Mt Vernon Ave., Alexandria. kiskadeeshop.com

Puddle Jumper A precious animal print will brighten up any little one’s rainy day.

Hunter boots, $55. Purple Goose. 2005 Mt Vernon Ave., Alexandria. thepurplegoose.com

X Factor Written by the daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz, this story follows the life of the latter civil rights icon and explores her life before she married. Auntie Maxine Waters wrote a blurb for the back of the book, which speaks for itself.

Betty Before X, $16.99. Hooray for Books.

1555 King St., Alexandria. hoorary4books.com

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Between Two Worlds This whimsically illustrated puzzle is double sided, with a different hemisphere on each side.

Janod puzzle, $24.99. Pink & Brown Boutique. 1129 King St., Alexandria. pinkandbrownboutique.com

Sheep Dog Furry friends will have a blast ripping the guts out of this icon of children’s television.

Lambchop toy, $11.99. The Dog Store. 2301 Mt Vernon Ave., Alexandria. thedogstoreva.com

DUPONT CIRCLE Kera Carpenter

Clucky Day Toddlers will flock to the soft, feathery texture in this tactile board book.

If I were a chicken, $13.

Chocolate Moose. 1743 L St. NW. chocolatemoosedc.com

A Lip on the Radar Find the perfect cosmetics for any skin tone at this new store focusing on makeup and hair products for people of color, which officially opens on Dec. 8.

Marie Hunter lipstick, $22. Brown Beauty Co-op. 1365 Connecticut Ave. NW. brownbeautyco-op.com

Frame Job Channel a little Kusama with this spotty black and white frame.

Picture frame, $50. Proper Topper. 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW. propertopper.com

Crate Expectations Shop Made in DC has gift crates containing an assortment of locally made products. Try one of their themed boxes or request a custom box.

DC Groom gift box, $155.

Shop Made In DC. 1330 19th St. NW. shopmadeindc.com

Vision Hero Read local author and former CIA officer Tom King’s new take on the Marvel universe.

Vision (The Vision), $39.99. Fantom Comics. 2010 P St. NW. fantomcomics.com

Blue Ribbon Jenni Bick journals are individually handmade in shop and hand dyed in a variety of colors.

Leather journal, $34. Jenni Bick Custom Journals. 1300 Connecticut Ave. NW. jennibickdc.com Manicure the World For the forward-thinking fashionista, 20 percent of the proceeds from this polish go to EMILY’s List.

Claws nail polish, $15. Shelter. 1258 5th St. NE. shopshelter.com

NOMA Sharp Objects A stainless steel blade and an olive wood handle make this knife both an heirloom and a tool that can last through the coming apocalypse.

F. Dick folding knife, $64.99. District Cutlery. Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE. districtcutlery.com

Lit as a Feather Elegant match sets are all the rage right now, but this one comes in a reusable tin with a match striker built into the lid.

Match tin, $16. Salt & Sundry.

Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE. shopsaltandsundry.com

Resistance is Brutal For the architecture nerd who keeps insisting that those concrete federal buildings are actually really beautiful.

Massive, Expressive, Sculptural: Brutalism now and then, $49.95. Politics and Prose Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. politics-prose.com washingtoncitypaper.com december 7, 2018 15

DCFEED

A music-obsessed bar called DIVE, opening in Darlington House on New Year’s Eve, is hoping to revive the spirit of Childe Harold where Bruce Springsteen played.

Uneven Service

Stephanie Rudig

Starved for sit-down restaurants, east-of-the-river residents share what types of establishments they’d like to patronize in their own backyards.

By Laura Hayes Taronica wanTs a Chili’s east of the river.

It’s not because she wants to mix and match different flavors of ribs on a Friday night. She currently works at a location of the chain in Alexandria and wishes there were more restaurants in her neighborhood to shrink her commute.

But in Wards 7 and 8, despite a population of close to 160,000, there are only a handful of full-service restaurants where a family or friends can sit down for a meal. In Ward 7 there’s Sala Thai, Thai Orchid’s K i t c h e n , and Denny’s. Ward 8 has Cheers At The Big Chair, The Player’s Lounge (Georgina’s by day), Everlasting Life Restaurant, and IHOP. Beyond those restaurants, food options are reduced to groceries from the scant three total full-service grocery stores for both wards; carry-outs and fast food; and limited service from delivery apps that expanded their radii after Ward 7 resident Latoya Watson petitioned them.

YOUNG & HUNGRY

Meanwhile, Bon Appétit named D.C. its “Restaurant City of The Year” in 2016. The same year, Michelin made Washington one of four cities in the U.S. to have its prestigious dining guide. At the time, the District had about 2,300 dining and drinking establishments, according to the National Restaurant Association. That number has only shot up like a geyser, and the city just named a director of nightlife to oversee the city’s booming afterhours economy.

To find out what types of restaurants Ward 7 and 8 residents would like to see land nearby, City Paper interviewed patrons outside of the Good Hope Marketplace Safeway on Alabama Avenue SE. The grocery store is in Ward 7, just over the border from Ward 8.

Taronica wants sports bars like Buffalo Wild Wings, fast casuals like &pizza, salad bars, and family restaurants. “It’s always the black communities that have more fast food restaurants than anywhere else,” she says.

Wards 7 and 8 are both close to being 95 percent black, according to DC Office of Planning data. “That’s how we get obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes.”

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Like Taronica, Dante has to travel to work at a LongHorn Steakhouse in Maryland.

He would rather be employed by a restaurant close to home. “We need Italian restaurants and sit-down hibachi restaurants,” he says.

“More burger places too. I want to wine and dine. We have to go far to get everything.”

Two Safeway shoppers want a buffet. Daeon goes to Golden Corral buffet about 12 miles away in Largo—especially on birthdays.

Rita also wants an all-you-can-eat buffet, plus a steakhouse and a seafood restaurant. “We don’t have that over here,” she says. “It’s due to the crime.”

High-value dining was the common denominator. Ronette’s favorite restaurant is Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. The closest location is in Brandywine, which is about 16 miles away. They serve grilled salmon with two sides for $11.99. “It’s reasonable,” she says. “$30 will get you something to eat and maybe two or three drinks.”

Taronica was the most optimistic about restaurants taking a chance on Wards 7 and 8.

“If they build more apartments, they’ll build more restaurants because people want to go

out to eat… People are working 9 to 5. When they get home, they don’t want to cook. They want to go out to eat.”

Residents are not unanimous in their desire for more restaurants to open in Ward 7 and 8. Kay points to Stanton Elementary School across the street. “I’m quite sure a lot of children are participating in reduced or free-lunch programs,” she says. “So their parents aren’t going to be able to afford restaurants.” She’d prefer to see resources spent on bringing more libraries and bookstores to the area, and notes that she’s also fine with their being fewer restaurants because typically it means less rats. “Rarely do I see rats,” she says. “I like it over here.”

Commercial and residential development in the area is underway, making this conversation timely. As population density increases, amenities like restaurants and stores are in greater demand.

The most delicate part of the equation is balancing what today’s residents can afford with what tomorrow’s residents are willing to pay.

Anacostia, for example, was one of the top 10 neighborhoods in D.C. for home appreciation from 2017 to 2018, according to UrbanTurf. The median price of a home went from $310,000 to $360,716.

“We’re getting an increasingly large number of residential units, which will bring more people and a greater critical mass of people who would be the patrons of these places,” says Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray.

“People will have to feel like they’re going to be successful.” That wasn’t the case for Ray’s The Steaks, which closed in 2012, or Walmart, which pulled out on a major deal in Skyland Town Center in 2016, citing unfavorable business conditions.

Now Gray and his Council colleagues are working to incentivize grocery stores and full-service restaurants, zeroing in on Capitol Gateway, East River Park, the Shops at Penn Hill, the Parkside planned-unit development, St. Elizabeths East Campus, the existing United Medical Center parcel, Columbian Quarter, Skyland Town Center, and Deanwood Town Center.

The goals of the East End Grocery and Retail Incentive Tax Exemption Act of 2018 and the East End Commercial Real Property Tax Rate Reduction Amendment Act of 2018 are to offer attractive enough tax breaks to lure in anchor stores, creating opportunities for smaller retailers and restaurants to follow.

Sit-down restaurants are considered eligible for such tax breaks.

The East End Food Justice Amendment Act of 2018 is under Council review. This bill

DCFEED would create the East End Grocery and Retail Incentive Program under the purview of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. Should the bill become a law, it would enable the city to use end-of-year surplus money to help pay for the construction of anchor stores.

The bill attributes the dearth of grocery stores and retail corridors to the fact that many businesses make decisions based on a community’s median annual income. Ward 7’s is $38,559 and Ward 8’s is $31,139, according to 2016 Census data.

Where Gray says he thinks a Red Lobster would succeed, Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, wants a Chuck E. Cheese’s because the casual restaurant doubles as a place for families to play.

“Historically in poverty stricken communities, it’s hard for businesses to get started for fear that they won’t do well,” White says.

“We’re calling on our colleagues and the mayor so we can have the same amenities as everyone else and do it responsibly.”

White recently held up a bill that would have empowered the city to help finance a 1.5million-square-foot development in Anacostia with apartments, a hotel, offices, and retail space, by borrowing against future tax receipts the project would generate.

As City Paper reported, White believes there are too few planned affordable apartment units, too few guaranteed jobs for Ward 8 residents, and too few commitments to involve local businesses. “Some people may say, ‘Trayon is against development,’ but I’m for participation from local businesses as well, not just big food chains,” he explains.

Ward 8 ANC Commissioner Troy Donté Prestwood (8A04) was also at the Safeway on Saturday. “The community is hungry for more amenities, services, more retail, but the pace of development is slow,” he says.

The self-proclaimed optimist thinks restaurants “that are committed to serving a diverse clientele with different price points, quality food, and great customer service” would do very well in his community. “What happens is many of us travel around the city and outside of the city searching for these establishments,” he says.

Nikki Peele, a Ward 8 resident and marketing consultant who blogs about her neighborhood, agrees that too many dining and grocery dollars are being spent in other parts of the city. “Imagine the irony for those of us getting in our cars to go sit down for a meal outside of my ward and being served by someone from my ward,” she says.

This fall, Peele created a Twitter hashtag, #TheDiscards, where she and other east-ofthe-river residents documented what daily life is like, such as how long an Uber Eats delivery takes and the disrepair of the restroom

inside the Giant. “We do love the ward, but to be quite honest people are getting frustrated,” she says.

“I’m one of the few people who isn’t afraid of change,” she says. “As much as this is a discussion about places to eat, it’s an economic conversation. If you don’t have restaurants and grocery stores, those basic third places to go and connect, you’re missing important revenue streams and jobs.”

Peele also wishes other parts of Ward 8 were “flourishing” as much as Anacostia. That’s where Andy Shallal says he’s opening a Busboys and Poets in the first quarter of 2019. “I am very bullish on the area,” he says. “I think it’s going to do great.”

His strategy is to make the restaurant about the neighborhood by hiring locally and developing hyper-local programming. “Customers are very loyal when it comes to having authentic spaces that really cater specifically to the needs of that community rather than just to the bottom line,” he says. Shallal believes he’s a barometer. “There’s lots of eyes on us to see what happens before others make the commitment to go there.”

Two existing restaurant owners confront challenges but are sticking it out while they wait for other restaurateurs to be a part of the rising tide they’re banking on. Oy Changsila opened Sala Thai years ago where Minnesota Avenue SE meets Benning Road SE. “The first year was difficult. It takes until a third year to pick up business.”

Changsila says his customers respond best to his generous happy hour. “You can’t get $5 glasses of wine anywhere now!” he says.

“Even a Long Island Ice Tea or Martini is $5.95.

We’re making money little by little.”

Changsila welcomes competition, especially if it’s from a restaurant serving Cajun or Creole food. “If they come here right now, at least I won’t be alone,” he says. “We’d like to invite everyone to come to Ward 7. It will get better and better.”

Over in Anacostia, Michael Sterling operates Caribbean Citations—a Jamaican carryout with a couple of seats that gives customers a discount if they bring in parking tickets.

He already had a history with the neighborhood, having briefly operated where Cheers At The Big Chair now stands. He struggles in determining what to charge because Caribbean food uses high-price proteins like snapper and goat. “You have to be careful to make money and stay afloat.”

Still, Sterling has hope. “I’m seeing blueprints of buildings and hotels that are going to be put up here,” he says. “If they can weather the storm like I’ve been trying to do, this is the best time to get over here and be established.”

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Stable 1324 H St. NE When you consider Swiss remedies, your first thought may be of a man with a horn shouting about cough drops from a mountain. Yet herbal recipes are common in Swiss cuisine, so Stable decided to add “Medicinal Concoctions” to their menu. Co-owner Silvan Kraemer explains, “We were thinking back to how it all started,” noting that many types of alcohol such as absinthe and amari were created for curative purposes. Stable lists the ostensible benefits alongside each drink, which include a flu remedy and a stress reliever. Their most popular is the “Immune Booster,” with bourbon and supposed cure-all raspberry schnapps.

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Winter has arrived and noses are running, throats are getting raspy, and sneezes abound. But don’t reach for the cough syrup just yet—bartenders are pilfering the apothecary cabinet and researching age-old recipes to concoct drinks that just might have some health benefits. Here are three places to imbibe drinks that claim to mitigate your maladies.

—Stephanie Rudig Tiger Fork 922 N St. NW Basing a cocktail menu around traditional healing recipes can be challenging. “A lot of Chinese medicinal ingredients are very, very hard to get, if not illegal in the United States,” says Tiger Fork beverage director Ian Fletcher. “It was more trying to design them around the herbs we could purchase here.”

Working with a collection of about 90 different kinds of herbs, nuts, berries, twigs, and barks, their traditional Chinese medicine, or “TCM,” cocktails draw inspiration from actual remedies.

The “Bird Market” is based on the jade windscreen formula that targets the immune system. Other cocktails seek to alleviate anxiety or serve as an aphrodisiac, though Fletcher notes that

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Where To Get It: 1250 5th St. NE What It Is: Anyone who’s spent time in the military knows what they’re in for when they hear the acronym S.O.S. The dish name sounds like a cry for help, but in reality Shit on a Shingle is a hearty helping of hangover relief. When you order it at a diner, you usually get a plate of white bread drowning in industrialstrength gravy and mystery meat. But what was once the stuff of mess halls has now been elevated to fine-dining status

American Son 1201 K St. NW “I don’t really like to label cocktails as wellness cocktails because it’s a bit of an oxymoron,” admits Alexandra Bookless, beverage director of American Son. But at D.C.’s Eaton Hotel, where American Son is located, wellness is a priority, so the bar staff has experimented with traditional holistic ingredients. Chinese five spice tea, which is allegedly antibacterial and antimicrobial, is crafted in house for the “Passion Fruit” cocktail on the brunch menu. There’s also a bit of turmeric, which Bookless says “is used for a whole slew of things, including arthritis, heartburn, various kinds of pain, stomach pain, joint pain, headaches. It was also used a lot if you had bronchitis, colds. More than that, we just really like the flavor of it.”

On the first bite, you can tell that this dried beef is a cut above the rest. It’s slightly salty, sliced paper thin, and when combined with the gravy makes for an umami-laden sauce that practically melts in your mouth. Meanwhile, the freshly baked bread is the perfect vessel to sop up all the gravy that spills onto the plate.

The Dish: St. Anselm’s S.O.S. Price: $13

you’d have to take these remedies every day to feel a difference. “You’re not going to feel anything instantaneously.” Unless, of course, you opt for the fatigue-fighting “Eight O’clock Light Show,” which provides an immediate kick with nearly as much caffeine as two cups of coffee.

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Fight Through Flu Season with Medicinal Cocktails

what we’ll eat next week: Milk-poached farm egg with ember-roasted squash, fall greens, brioche, guanciale, and maitake emulsion, $16, The Dabney. Excitement level: 5 out of 5.

thanks to St. Anselm. It’s on the weekend brunch menu and comes served with house-made white bread smothered in a rich bechamel-like gravy, and peppered with specks of beef and parsley.

How It Tastes: Chef Marjorie MeekBradley imports her chipped beef from Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market.

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Why It Helps: S.O.S. is a tried-andtrue hangover cure that will leave your stomach feeling satisfied.

The creaminess of the gravy helps to coat and settle an upset stomach, and the chipped beef and pillowy bread deliver sustenance in the form of proteins and starches. Order it with an Irish coffee, and your mayday cries for help will quickly turn into energy and optimism for the day ahead.

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what we ate this week: Patatas Bravas with paprika oil and aioli, $7, ANXO. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5.

The Sandwich: Roasted Eggplant Pita Where: Little Sesame, 1828 L St. NW Price: $9 Bread: Pita Stuffings: Roasted eggplant, green schug, tahini, pickled red cabbage Thickness: 2 inches Pros: Any vegetable lover will come back for seconds of this simple but flavorful sandwich. Eggplant is the predominant taste, accented by the combination of two sauces—creamy tahini and schug (or zhug). For the uninitiated, schug is an herbaceous, earthy, and fiery condiment popular in Yemeni cuisine. Connoisseurs of Middle Eastern food know that all pickled cabbages are not created equal, but Little Sesame’s delivers just the right amount of acidity.

Cons: While some vegetarian sandwiches aim to mimic the salty, fatty taste of meat, this one is all about flora, which might disappoint some carnivores. It’s not the most beautiful sandwich out there, but who really cares about getting likes on social media when what you’re eating tastes this good?

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 3. Most pita sandwiches are messy because the pocket inevitably rips while you eat it. Your hands will likely get doused in sauce, but the flavor justifies the mess.

Overall score (1 to 5): 5. The combination of vegetables and herbs is harmonious and the size is just right, leaving you sated, not stuffed. Leave the dull desk salads behind and seek out this sandwich instead.

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Welcome to the 14th Annual DowntownDC Holiday Market Jewelers, crafters, candy makers and other artisans from around the world and the District spend the year making one-of-a-kind items for The DowntownDC Holiday Market. Now they are again celebrating “so much more” at the 14th Annual DowntownDC Holiday Market.

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The largest number of curated, homemade items (over 180) than ever before.

Your chance to experience one of the nation’s best holiday markets, according to USA Today.

A celebration of #GivingTuesday on Tuesday, Nov. 27, beginning at noon with community leaders, nonprofits and the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington, as they mark the annual day for online giving.

Live music, food and holiday festivities while you shop!

New this year, support District creatives with locally-made products at the new Made in DC booth or learn more about your favorite DowntownDC museums in the info area throughout the duration of the market.

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Fourteen years ago, the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) and Diverse Market Management (DMM) created an outdoor holiday shopping marketplace for the DowntownDC community. Today, DowntownDC is a retail and tourist destination and this market is at the heart of it all.

The Market is committed to environmental sustainability and environmentallyfriendly initiatives are also important to many of the Market exhibitors, some whom offer fair-trade imports and gifts made from recycled and sustainable resources. The Market is conveniently accessible by public transportation including Metrorail, Metrobus and Capital Bikeshare.

“Washington Ballet’s fast-paced ‘Nutcracker’ fits this town to perfection”

The Market opens Black Friday (Nov. 23) and runs through Dec. 23 and is open daily from 12pm - 8pm on F Street NW between 7th and 9th streets.

The BID and DMM thank our sponsors for their contributions. For a full list of sponsors and for more information on daily performances and vendors, visit DowntownDCHolidayMarket.com. Follow us on Twitter @ DtwnHolidayMkt, (#DowntownDCHolidayMarket), on Facebook and on Instagram. Vendors rotate daily, so we look forward to seeing you throughout this holiday season again and again in DowntownDC!

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Downtown Holiday Market Guide

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EXHIBITORS ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES

Far East Antiques #43, Nov 26 (M)-Dec 2 (Su) iconsDC #25, Dec 6 (Th)-Dec 13 (Th) www.iconsDC.com Jentz Prints #7, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) Tom Rall #13/14, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 5 (W)

CERAMICS

Kerri Henry Pottery #16, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) kerrihenrypottery.com/ Kuzeh Pottery #5, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) www.kuzeh.us Printemps Pottery #18, Dec 6 (Th)-Dec 17 (M) printempspottery.com

CLOTHES & ACCESSORIES

Aria Handmade #32, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) ariahandmade.com Art Inca Native #9, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) Bailiwick Clothing Company #19, Dec 13 (Th)-Dec 16 (Su) bailiwickclothing.com Black Bear Leather #21, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) blackbearleather.com CAMBO3 #25, Nov 26 (M)Nov 29 (Th) etsy.com/shop/cambo3 Celena Gill Design #19, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) celenagilldesign.com Cho-pi-cha

#59, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 29 (Th) De*Nada Design #30, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.denadadesign.com Fuzzy Ink #8, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) fuzzy-ink.com Handmade Especially For You #18, Dec 18 (T)-Dec 23 (Su) www.clydelleco.com Hero Heads - Inspire Us Designs #19, Dec 6 (Th)-Dec 9 (Su) heroheads.com Inka Treasure Shop #2, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) inkatreasureshop.com Jonathon Wye, LLC #34, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) jonwye.com

Kiwi Exquisite #60, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) Kora Designs #43, Nov 26 (M)-Dec 6 (Th) Lil’ Fishy #38, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) lilfishy.com LittleTibetBoutique #12, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) Mirasa Design #52, Nov 28 (W)-Dec 16 (Su) mirasadesign.com Mistura Timepieces #10, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) mistura.com Padhma Creation #51, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 12 (W) padhmaknits.com Pook #60, Nov 26 (M)-Dec 6 (Th) www.pook.ca/ Slant Apparel #19, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) slantevolution.com Stitch & Rivet #59, Dec 17 (M)-Dec 19 (W)

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shopstitchandrivet.com The Buffalo Wool Co. #39, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 17 (M) thebuffalowoolco.com Winthrop Clothing Co. #17, Nov 30 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) etsy.com/shop/ Yikes Twins #52, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 27 (T) #24, Dec 21 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.yikestwins.com

CORPORATE/ GOVERNMENT DC Lottery #15, Dec 6 (Th)-Dec 12 (W) dclottery.com Made In DC #19, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) thisismadeindc.com

CRAFT

Fancy HuLi #17, Nov 30 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) fancyhuli.com Had Matter #60, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) #13, Dec 6 (Th)-Dec 9 (Su) hadmatterart.com Hope’s Journals #59, Dec 3 (M)-Dec 16 (Su) Infinity Lights #31, Nov 26 (M)-Dec 6 (Th) mazelights.com J’s Paper Fantasies #29, Dec 4 (T)-Dec 6 (Th) Rebound Designs #54, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) rebound-designs.com Relojearte #33, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) Sassafras Designs #25, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) Holston Mountain

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EXHIBITORS (cont.)

FIBER ART Holston Mountain Hat Project #22, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 28 (W) holstonhats.com Range of Emotion #36, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) rangeofemotion.com Scarvelous #54, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) #16, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 19 (W) facebook.com/Scarvelous Seeing In Fabric #24, Dec 12 (W)-Dec 17 (M) seeinginfabric.etsy.com The Mouse Works #20, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 26 (M) themouseworks.com

FOOD & DRINK Alexa’s Empanadas #1, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) Migue’s Minis #47, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) miguesminis.com The Taste of Germany #62, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) thetasteofgermany.com Vigilante Coffee #48, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) vigilantecoffee.com

GIFT FOODS Cardinal Chocolates Inc. #15, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 5 (W) #15, Dec 13 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) cardinalchocolates.com Chocotenango #60, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 19 (W) chocotenango.com Chouquette #29, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) chouquette.us J. Chocolatier #29, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) jchocolatier.com Oh-Mazing Granola #19, Dec 10 (M)-Dec 12 (W) ohmazingfood.con Schokolat #55, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 29 (Th) schokolat-us.com Sweetdele’s Sweet Treats #19, Nov 29 (Th)-Dec 2 (Su) sweetdelessweettreats.com

The Capital Candy Jar #64, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) thecapitalcandyjar.com Whisked! #57, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 9 (Su) whiskeddc.com

GLASS Bow Glass #30, Dec 2 (Su)-Dec 6 (Th) bowglass.com Cecil Art Glass #22, Dec 17 (M)-Dec 23 (Su) englerglass #43, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) englerglass.com GlitzyGlass #40, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.glitzy-glass.com Homegrown Glass Art #20, Dec 4 (T)-Dec 23 (Su) ryaneicher.etsy.com Joy of Glass #25, Nov 30 (F)-Dec 5 (W) joyofglass.com New World Glass #30, Nov 27 (T)-Dec 1 (S) www.newworldglass.com

IMPORTED CRAFTS Baby Alpaca #45, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) Colombia Handmade #23, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) etsy.com/shop Colombia Hand Made Organic Art #23, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) www.etsy.com/shop/ ColombiaHandMadeArt Dorjebajra Tibet Shop #51, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) www.mytibetshop.com GingerBandar #22, Dec 3 (M)-Dec 6 (Th) www.gingerbandar.com Harun’s African Art #51, Dec 13 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) Marigold Way #46, Nov 30 (F-Dec 13 (Th) marigoldway.com Mundo Handmade #24, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 11 (T) www.mundovillage.com

Souvenir Arts #61, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) russian-classics.com Toro Mata #6, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.toromata.com Tunisian Touch #63, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) tunisiantouch.com Valley of Gems #26, Dec 10 (M)-Dec 13 (Th) Vida Dulce Imports #14, Dec 6 (Th)-Dec 18 (T) vidadulceimports.com Waters Woods #26, Dec 21 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) waterswoods.com

JEWELRY Amanda Hagerman Jewelry #22, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 11 (T) amandahagerman.com American Princess #56, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 16 (Su) Amy Abrams Designs #17, Nov 23(F) – Nov 29 (Th) Amyabramsdesigns.co Andrea Haffner #28, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) ARTICLE22 #54, Nov 26 (M)-Dec 6 (Th) www.article22.com August Nine Designs #39, Dec 18 (T)-Dec 23 (Su) augustninedesigns.com Be You Fashion #61, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) beyoufashion.com Black Black Moon #5, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) blackblackmoon. carbonmade.com Chelsea E. Bird Designs #17, Dec 21 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) chelseaebird.com Courtney Gillen #56, Dec 17 (M)-Dec 23 (Su) D Collections #3, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) David Conroy Art #27, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 9 (Su) davidconroyart.com/

View a daily schedule at DowntownHolidayMarket.com.

Find unique and wonderful items offered by over 150 exhibitors. Please note, exhibitors may rotateand/or not be at the Market every day. See the Exhibitor Categories above for the participant list, booth numbers, and days of participation. See the SITE MAP for booth locations.

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Deco Etc. #58, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.decoetcjewelry.com Drabo Gallery #19, Dec 3 (M)-Dec 5 (W) www.DraboGallery.com Leah Staley Designs #59, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) www.leahstaley.com Leah Sturgis Jewelry Art #44, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.leahsturgis.com Mann Made Designs #35, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) mannmadedesigns.com Maruxi Jewelry #56, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) www.maruxivintage.com Moya Gallery #23, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) moya-gallery.com nonasuch vintage & craft #17, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 29 (Th) instagram.com/nonasuch/ Southwest Expressions #25, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) nativecraftsworld.com Stio Design #29, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 3 (M) #27, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) ancientcoindesigns.com Taber Studios #52, Dec 17 (M)-Dec 23 (Su) taberstudios.com Terry Pool Design #17, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 20 (Th) www.terrypooldesign.com Tigerlillyshop Jewelry #27, Dec 10 (M)-Dec 13 (Th) Tigerlillyshop.com Turtles Webb #13, Dec 10 (M)-Dec 23 (Su) turtleswebb.com

PAINTING Golshah Agdasi #28, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 19 (W) HOMETOWN GO #20, Nov 27 (T)-Dec 3 (M) hometowngo.com Jonathan Blum #33, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) Jonathanblumportraits.com Joseph Snyder #46, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) josephharrisonsnyder.com Kessler Art #44, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) #14, Dec 19 (W)-Dec 23 (Su) kesslerart.com Marcella Kriebel Art & Illustration #5, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th)

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marcellakriebel.com QuestSkinner #57, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) www.questskinner.com Rayhart #22, Dec 12 (W)-Dec 16 (Su) worksofrayhart.com Thomas Bucci #53, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.thomasbucci.com Tsolmon-Art #4, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.tsolmonart.com Turbopolis #26, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 20 (Th) www.turbopolis.com Washington Watercolors #26, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 9 (Su) marybelcher.com

PHOTOGRAPHY Avner Ofer Photography #41, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) avnerofer.com Chandler Art and Images #16, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) Images By Lucas Bojarowski #19, Nov 26 (M)-Nov 28 (W) Italy In Color #59, Nov 30 (F)-Dec 2 (Su) #31, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 11 (T) www.italyincolor.com Joe Shymanski #50, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) joeshymanski.com MacroFine Photography #5, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) MacroFinePhotography. com Tom Wachs Photography #23, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 6 (Th) tomwachs.com

PRINTMAKING Black Lab #18, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 5 (W) FemalePowerProject.com Cherry Blossom Creative #55, Nov 30 (F)-Dec 16 (Su) cherryblossomcreative.com EWBA #11, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) www.ewba.net Fancy Seeing You Here #22, Nov 29 (Th)-Dec 2 (Su) fancyseeingyouhere.com Grey Moggie Press #22, Nov 29 (Th)-Dec 2 (Su) greymoggie.com Katharine Watson #42, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su)

katharinewatson.com Typecase Industries #16, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) typecaseindustries.com

SOAP & CANDLES BAMI Products #43, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) #21, Dec 14 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) bamiproducts.net Black Oak Grooming Company #19, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) blackoakgrooming.com Coastal Home & Body #49, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) coastalhomeandbody.com Freres Branchiaux Candle Company #19, Dec 20 (Th)-Dec 23 (Su) freresbranchiaux.com Geeda’s Hand Poured Candles #24, Dec 18 (T)-Dec 20 (Th) candlesbygeeda.com Handmade Habitat #55, Dec 17 (M)-Dec 23 (Su) HunnyBunny #19, Dec 17 (M)-Dec 19 (W) hunnybunny.boutique Joyful Bath Co. #21, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 9 (Su) joyfulbathco.com Pure Palette #43, Dec 3 (M)-Dec 6 (Th) purepalette.etsy.com

TEXTILES Janice’s Table #30, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 26 (M) www.janicetable.com Naked Decor #37, Nov 23 (F)-Dec 23 (Su) nakeddecor.com The Neighborgoods #16, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (F) theneighborgoods.com

WOODWORKING Blue Ridge Cutting Board Company #31, Nov 23 (F)-Nov 25 (Su) #31, Dec 12 (W)-Dec 23 (Su) Facebook.com/ blueridgecuttingboardcompany Simply Lofty Creations #61, Dec 7 (F)-Dec 13 (Th) simplyloftycreatioons.com Tree-to-Art #57, Dec 10 (M)-Dec 23 (Su) www.treetoart.com

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MUSIC SCHEDULE

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

A V I RT U A L W O N D E R

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Jim Stephanson Janine Wilson & Max Evans

American Songbook Roots, Americana

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 12:00 PM 2:30 PM 5:00 PM

Flo Anito Jonny Grave Dave Chappell Duo

Jazzy Pop Slide Blues Roots of Blues

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 12:00 PM 2:30 PM 5:00 PM

Howard U. Jazz Choirs, Afro Blue Fast Eddie & The Slowpokes Surf Jaguars

Vocal Jazz Choirs Blue-Eyed Soul Surf Rock

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 12:00 PM 2:30 PM 5:00 PM

Karen Collins & Backroads Band Blue Panamuse The Lovejoy Group

Honky Tonk Blues, Swing Jazz, Holiday

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Patty Reese Swangbang Quartet

Acoustic Roots Swing & Twang

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Carly Harvey & Dave Gorozdos Judge Smith

Blues, Jazz Roots, Rock

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12 12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Billy Coulter Duo Roquois

Acoustic Rock, Americana Pop, R&B

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Smokin’ Lounge Kiti Gartner & Zachary Sweeney

Pop, Rock, Jazz Western Swing, Rockabilly

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14 12:00 PM 2:30 PM 5:00 PM

Maureen Andary Painted Trillium Afro Nuevo

Jazz, Pop Celtic, Folk Latin Jazz

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15 12:00 PM 2:30 PM 5:00 PM

Big Lunch Christylez Bacon King Street Bluegrass

Americana Progressive Hip Hop Bluegrass, Country

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16

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Sol Roots Trio Djangolaya The Gayle Harrod Band

Rock, Blues, Funk Gypsy Jazz Blues, Soul, Motown

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18 12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Patty Reese Snakehead Run

Acoustic Roots Jug Band

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American Songbook Blues, Swing, Jazz

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The National Museum of Women in the Arts says yes to the dress, but its first-ever fashion show could go further.

Rodarte

At the National Museum of Women in the Arts to Feb. 10, 2019

By Kriston Capps For a time in the late aughts, it was hard for a certain class of women to set foot out of their flats wearing anything less than impossible platform heels. As the global economy plunged into the Great Recession, the fashion world was already in crisis mode, gleefully enmeshed in arch narratives of death and decay. Gothic shoes were a central chapter of this morbid story. Hope was not the watchword, in 2008, for haute couture; change always is.

So a pair of golden Christian Louboutins, elevated and spike-encrusted, sets the stage for Rodarte. The exhibit, now on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, tracks the rise of designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy during a perilous moment. Founded by the sisters in 2005, the Rodarte fashion house emerged as a bright new American star as the world spiraled toward darkness. While Rodarte embraced the Stygian themes that were so prevalent a decade ago—Rodarte is indeed responsible for some of the era’s most iconic moments—the designers also opened the way toward recovery. But that trajectory can be hard to trace through the museum’s presentation.

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Rodarte is an achievement for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which has never before mounted a fashion exhibition. The museum’s first foray is an ambitious one: Assembled by guest curator Jill D’Alessandro, curator of costume and textile arts for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Rodarte comprises nearly 100 complete designs drawn from runway shows over the last 13 years. The exhibit teases out both the droll and earnest tendencies in Rodarte’s work, from the flippant references to Star Wars to the meticulous layering that suggests a world fraying at the seams. Yet Rodarte’s place in the context of recent fashion developments is missing in the show—the tell-tale Louboutins notwithstanding.

Rodarte opens with a showstopper: a trio of gowns in dyed silk tulle and nylon net from the house’s spring–summer 2009 collection. Mounted on invisible mannequins, the display serves as an introductory essay to the Los Angeles–based designers’ use of playful materials to create sweeping silhouettes. The gowns marry material with color for a distinctive, adaptable, and deceptively simple strategy. The designers used dyed tulle for horrorinspired dresses in 2008, then returned with a different theme with digitally printed tie-dye silk dresses in 2013. (That arc, from the macabre to the boheme, tells a whole story about fashion.)

Some of Rodarte’s best work can be found early on in the industrial ensembles of the house’s fall–winter 2009 line. One runway design combines a jacket of marbled leather and knitted wool with a dress of knitted mohair, felted wool, and metal-

lic thread and sequins. The outfit looks like infrastructure. The Mulleavy sisters have cited Gordon Matta-Clark as an inspiration, the American artist who tore buildings apart for his installations in the 1970s; Mad Max could be another. The designers build by layers, sometimes using fugitive or unlikely materials, in dense accretions that still feel coherent. Rodarte’s uncanny trick is in making post-apocalyptic armor feel light and accessible.

Rodarte’s upstart story includes a feature role in Black Swan, the 2010 film starring Natalie Portman in a paranoid production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Given the designers’ dip into tulle and terror for their 2008 collection, the Mul- leavy sisters were an inspired choice. Rodarte’s depiction of Portman’s on-screen transformation from white-swan ingénue Odette to dark-swan villain Odile marked a high-water moment for luxe fashion in popular culture. Yet the museum’s Black Swan installation falls flat. The tutus, which are suspended within an enclosure, look squat, and they’re hard to see against a dark backdrop; mannequins might have been the way to go. Video excerpts from the film wouldn’t hurt, either. If ever a show calls for supplementary media, it’s when that media is directed by Darren Aronofsky.

That missed opportunity points to a larger problem in the show: There’s no runway video to showcase how Rodarte’s gowns and dresses flow on a figure. One video screen shows excerpts from Woodshock, a 2017 film directed by the Mulleavy sisters themselves that stars Kirsten Dunst, but it’s hardly as familiar as Black Swan, and fairly abstract to boot. Still, even this moody collage helps to animate the intentionally lifeless black and white slip dresses that Dunst wears in the film—some of Rodarte’s darkest and most straightforwardly minimal work on view.

Several set-pieces in Rodarte do the work justice, especially the display for the house’s ground-breaking 2008 collection.

Arranged on two concentric circular stages, one bisected by a glass plane, the dresses are lit by harsh, Dan Flavin–style fluorescent tubes along the curving wall. The installation gestures at the cinematic flair of the era, when designers such as Alexander McQueen were hell-bent on co-opting the runway for theater. (His absurd platform heels still set the standard.) There’s something to be said for stepping out of the way and letting the work speak for itself, but Rodarte isn’t that kind of bare-bones exhibit and clearly doesn’t want to be. A single room devoted to runway projections, and Rodarte would be complete.

Instead, there isn’t quite enough material to describe the state of the fashion world when Rodarte showed up on the scene. That matters. Even when Rodarte’s looks were of a piece with the brooding trends during the Obama years, Rodarte was pulling away. The house used color to convey horror, for example, without resorting to explicit gore. In 2014, the designers launched a series of print dresses featuring the Death Star, C3PO, and other fun figures from Star Wars. Narratively, these were a lightly snarky departure from the often self-serious Victorian themes that had dominated fashion for years. Perhaps more importantly, these designs quickly went viral—a different mile-marker and a new phenomenon in fashion.

One thing that Rodarte emphasizes is how the Mulleavy sisters insist on the figure in their works. Dress after dress, there’s never any violence against the feminine form, a quality that differentiates Rodarte from their peers. Rarely is the figure a platform for abstract, unwearable sculpture. Sunny yet severe, fantastical but realistic, Rodarte captures a moment in the making.

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THE SCENE REPORT From Chelly the MC to a Killa Cal/King Los collab, here’s what’s new in the DMV hip-hop scene. —Sidney Thomas Chelly The MC, Halfway There Self-released

The title of Chelly’s recently released EP Halfway There is obviously a reference to her rise from a Northeast D.C. girl, to a DMV star rapper, to her current moment on the verge of nationwide notoriety. And this time around, Chelly isn’t afraid to take a few artistic chances. “I got out of my comfort zone and discovered new and different sounds,” she says of her new EP. Where Chelly’s 2017 breakout hit “Northeast Baby” was bouncy and playful, Halfway There has a more serious tone. Chelly spits her verses aggressively and purposefully, as if each song is delivering a message, whether it’s aimed at ex-boyfriends or disloyal associates, Chelly The MC is letting everyone know that playtime is over.

RIYL: Remy Ma in her prime.

D’Jon, Watermelon Seedz Self-released

Listening to D’jon’s Watermelon Seedz EP is a spiritually enriching experience.

Thematically, D’jon continues down the enlightened path of her previous EP, Vibe With Me. D’Jon is equal parts

Erykah Badu and Chuck D—not afraid to embrace her metaphysical and political sides. She ably tackles gentrification on “The District,” and her poignant lyrics makes you empathize with her genuine disappointment in the D.C. political establishment: “Billion dollars spent on that street car and now it’s free.” It’s a spot-on analysis. D’jon says that Watermelon Seedz has more “kick, boom, and samples” than her previous music, and that melodic soundscape—provided mainly by SmackADDamZz—is an effective complement to her soul-stirring poetry.

RIYL: Rapsody

Fee Dollaz, “Damn” Self-released

Northeast D.C. native Fee Dollaz is generating serious heat with her new bop “Damn,” the lead single from her upcoming EP Set It Off. “Damn” flips gender stereotypes and takes female empowerment to a new level. The video features Fee and her girl squad living their best lives and making it rain ungodly amounts of skrilla. Fee is going all out with the promo run for this song. She scored a coveted slot last month at the famed Howard Homecoming YardFest, and performed a

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spirited set—entertaining the hard-toplease undergrads and impressing the music industry heavyweights in attendance. Her charismatic delivery and breezy swag leaves you wanting to hear more.

RIYL: Just listen to Fee Dollaz, trust me.

Jet Riley, Life Dreams and What It Seems and Wish You Were Here

gem that has the potential to burn up dance floors all over the city.

RIYL: French Montana, Wiz Khalifa

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Killa Cal, “BW Parkway”

Jet Riley has probably performed at every hip-hop venue in the D.C. area. And whether he’s on stage at the cavernous Howard Theatre or the more diminutive Pure Lounge, he always leaves a powerful impression on the audience. Riley dropped two EPs recently. The first one, Life Dreams and What It Seems is straight up 2018 hip-hop: crispy auto-tuned rhymes, money talk, and trap beats. No two ways about it: It’s a dope project. The standout tracks are “Light a J,” and “Bag,” which features his frequent collaborator Dblac.

But Riley also finds his voice on the second EP Wish You Were Here—a scintillating collection of international pop and reggaeton tunes—featuring “Bad Gyal,” another hook-up with Dblac, and “Lemon Lime,” a caribbean-flavored

Killa Cal and Baltimore rapper King Los have collaborated on a brand new banger entitled “BW Parkway.” This may seem like an odd pairing because Killa Cal is a member of Rare Essence and is best known as a go-go rapper, while Los is a lyrical phenomenon who was signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy Records for much of the last decade. But Cal has the verbal chops to go headto-head with anyone—and he doesn’t disappoint on this one. After Los drops an expected blazing verse, Cal adeptly holds serve, “Reporting live from 295/ BWI you can tell I’m fly/ B-more and D.C. just got unified.” Look for this song to appear on the upcoming Killa Cal Ripken mixtape.

RIYL: Rick Ross, Ice Cube

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FILMSHORT SUBJECTS dark room with a big screen is uniquely suited to accomplish that.

—Alan Zilberman Roma opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

A STAR IS TORN Vox Lux

Directed by Brady Corbet

FULL FRAME Roma

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón Try and picTure a vivid memory from your childhood. The details of this memory and others like it are often more acute than the memories from adulthood. The reason for this is simple: A young person has fewer experiences, and so there is a freshness to emotions and stimuli when they happen for the first time.

Roma, the new film by Alfonso Cuarón, vividly recreates that childlike perception. It is the rare family drama that’s also a feast for the eyes, and it hinges on an act of empathy that few filmmakers dare attempt.

The first image, shot in gorgeous black and white, is an instruction for how to watch the rest of the film. Cuarón, who also served as the cinematographer, starts with a close-up of the floor, while a thin layer of water slides along one side of the screen to the other. We see some shadows in the reflection, and eventually a plane appears in the distance. The camera pulls back, putting the image into context: A housemaid named Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is cleaning dog shit off the ground. In films like Children of Men, Cuarón had an uncanny ability to find beauty in the mundane or grotesque.

He does that continuously in Roma, using his gifts for camera placement and production design to create an immersive, impeccably curated experience.

The film involves two parallel stories, one involving Cleo and the other involving the family for whom she works. Sofia (Marina de Tavira) is the family matriarch, and since her husband Antonio (Fernando Grediaga) is often away on business, Sofia’s day mostly involves Cleo, the other maids, and her four small children (Cuarón based this film on his own childhood, although it is unclear which of the children is a stand-in for him). At first, Roma offers a slice-of-life routine: Everyone

goes about their business, and the household is relatively harmonious. What leads to disarray are concurrent betrayals: Antonio is not the devoted father he seems, while Cleo’s boyfriend Fermín (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) disappears at a crucial point. Political upheaval also complicates the action, since part of it takes place during an actual student uprising in 1971.

Like in his other work, Cuarón wants your eye to wander into the background. It is often the case that the imagery must be in the background; if he were to film it in a more traditional way, the imagery would add to the plot, not the atmosphere. A stark example happens late in the film, when a character undergoes a surgical procedure. It is a heartbreaking sequence—at the screening I attended, many people in the audience openly wept—but the effect would be too intense or extreme if it was shot like a TV network procedural. That is not to say, however, that all of Roma is a downer.

Many scenes are exhilitaring, like when Cleo visits a massive martial arts rehearsal in a poor Mexico City neighborhood, or when she stumbles upon a political demonstration.

Many of the actors in Roma are not professionals, but Cuarón creates a sense of authenticity through understatement. De Tavria strikes a difficult balance between a devoted mother and an embittered woman who sulks into a funk, and yet the film would fall apart without Aparicio’s stunning work. Cleo is soft spoken and demure, but we see her depth of feeling in between the simple, natural-sounding dialogue. Another crucial context is ethnicity: The family has more European roots, while Cleo has an indigenous background (her character speaks a Mixtec dialect in addition to Spanish). This creates an additional divide between servant and served, so it is all the more moving as these barriers are demolished.

Roma opens in theaters this Friday, and will be available to stream on Netflix starting December 14th. If you are interested in this film and have the means to do so, you should see it on the biggest screen possible. Many of shots contain so much thought and detail that your TV or tablet may not do it justice. It is a luxury to let this masterful film wash over you, and a

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Vox Lux opens with a scene that’s initially warm but ends with a shocking, sickening moment of violence. And out of that violence, a star is born. Writer-director Brady Corbet’s second feature tackles the issue of celebrity in both criminal and pop-music form, ruminating on its capriciousness as well as what would happen to media darlings if people just stopped paying attention. The pop star is desperate not to find out.

Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) is 14 at the turn of the century and the survivor of a school shooting in which she suffers a spinal injury. At a memorial service, she sings a song that she and her sister, Eleanor (Stacy Martin), wrote in response to the tragedy. After a tweak of the lyrics—“I” is changed to “we”—the song becomes a nationwide anthem and Celeste becomes a sensation. She gets a manager (a disheveled, variously accented Jude Law) and rises to stardom, with Eleanor always close by her side.

Then Eleanor sleeps with the manager (he’s never given a name), Celeste sleeps with a guy in a metal band, and Sept. 11 thrusts the country into another period of mourning. The film’s narrator (Willem Dafoe) connects these events, suggesting that on that day, Celeste lost her innocence along with the nation. Eleanor is still entwined in Celeste’s life, but the sisters’ relationship becomes bumpy.

Vox Lux then jumps to 2017. Celeste is 31 and has a teenager, Albertine (also Raffey Cassidy in an elliptical casting stunt). Now played by Natalie Portman, Celeste is swaggering and

suddenly strongly Staten Island-accented; prior to this, Cassidy and Martin, the weakest of the cast, only sporadically talk like New Yorkers, and even when they do, their accents are barely noticeable. Portman’s performance is brash, however, and will either win you immediately or strike you as the actorly equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. It’s impossible to feel ambivalent about it, and by that metric it’s successful. It’s definitely un-Natalie Portman-esque.

Another tragedy awaits in Corbet’s script, keeping Vox Lux strenuously serious and bleak, a tone the discordant score reinforces despite Celeste’s bouncy pop hits (the songs, not quite as catchy as those in the similarly themed A Star Is Born, were written by Sia). Gun culture is the obvious subject, but because the second incident doesn’t take place in the U.S., it’s hard to pin down the director’s message. Even the characters don’t know what to make of this occurrence; the perpetrators design what’s initially only a superficial tie to Celeste, but no details emerge before the film’s end that offer the why behind the what. She’s hounded about it in a press conference and an interview, but the pressure only serves to lead her to get fucked up before her big comeback concert.

The narrator describes Celeste as a “prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present which had reached an extreme of its cycle”—to our eyes, that means that she doesn’t get along with Eleanor and has a prickly relationship with Albertine, who grew up with Eleanor as her guardian. Her career has also suffered (at least it’s inferred that it suffered) from a

PR nightmare involving heavy drinking. But why Celeste’s present is so “gaudy and unlivable” beyond that is anyone’s guess, especially when the film caps off her story with a triumph. Fourteen-year-old Celeste says that she chose pop music because “I didn’t want people to have to think too hard. I just want them to feel good.” Vox Lux is too dour to make anyone feel good. How hard you think is up to you.

—Tricia Olszewski Vox Lux opens December 14 at Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema.

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PLAYING DIRTY Indecent

By Paula Vogel Directed by Eric Rosen At Arena Stage to Dec. 30 There’s someThing rare about the production of Paula Vogel’s haunting play-abouta-play Indecent, available for your perusal—and by all means, I encourage you to peruse it—at Arena Stage through the last weeks of this year: the music. This staging, which after its Arena stand will travel to Kansas City Repertory and then back east to Baltimore Center Stage before it’s memory-holed forever, omits the Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva-composed Klezmer music heard in Indecent’s 2015 premiere at Yale Rep and its four-month Broadway engagement last year. Instead, director Eric Rosen uses a diegetic Klezmer score developed by Alexander Sovronsky, whom Rosen engaged before Vogel had a chance to ensure that all subsequent productions use the music she commissioned. (Sovronsky also plays fiddle in the trio, with Maryn Shaw and John Milosich, that performs the score and remains on stage and visible throughout the play.)

Without having seen the Broadway production, I can only report that this music works, establishing the mise en scène and the somber tone as the action leaps back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean over a period of almost 50 years. The geographic and temporal sprawl, and similarly supersized thematic concerns— what obligation does an artist have to the art he makes and to the people who nourish and sustain it, among other questions—make Indecent an epic. And yet it feels intimate, even quiet. That’s a good trick.

Some of that is lighting design. Josh Epstein shrouds even daytime scenes—actually, I’m not sure there are any anytime scenes—in heavy shadow, as if to suggest that the characters’ epiphanies are internal, and known to them alone. The show is essentially a dramaturgical history of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch’s 1907

play God of Vengeance, which was shocking in its time both for depicting a love affair between two women and for its suggestion—unpopular among some of the playwright’s fellow Jews—that some selected members of God’s Chosen People could sin just as grievously as the goyim. (This aspect was drowned in a wave of more general antiSemitism once God of Vengeance got to Broadway.) Asch’s plot concerns the operator of a brothel who wants to improve his station by marrying off his daughter to a pious suitor. The girl falls for one of the prostitutes in his employ instead.

Vogel cleverly charts the development of God of Vengeance through several increasingly sophisticated iterations of its “rain scene,” which culminates in what became Broadway’s first lesbian kiss. The first one, with men shakily reading the women’s roles in a Warsaw salon, is played for comedy. That the scene becomes more resonant with each reprise is but one example of the dexterity of Emily Shackelford and Susan Lynskey, who perform it as several different characters in different time periods. Every member of the cast plays multiple roles, sometimes in multiple languages; unobtrusive surtitles translate the Yiddish and German passages. Other notably excellent members of the strong company include Ben Cherry, who plays the stage manager of the troupe that first performs God of Vengeance, and who becomes a tireless advocate for the play even after its author shows little interest in protecting it. Max Wolkowitz is convincing, too, as both the wide-eyed and then griefhaunted Asch, and later on, as a young director hoping to revive the playwright’s masterpiece.

After its premiere in Warsaw, God of Vengeance received frequent productions in Europe. When it opened on Broadway in 1923, local authorities indicted the cast and producer on obscenity charges, never mind that the English version was a heavily censored reduction of Asch’s landmark work. Though he’d emigrated to the United States by that time, Asch claimed he didn’t understand English well enough to grok how the backers had defiled his play. In any case, he had already left the theater to write novels. Many of the artists he’d worked with back in Europe would not escape the Third Reich, though they sent him letters begging for help with their asylum applications. That Indecent is so eloquent a reminder that pleas and prayers often go unanswered is just one more paradox in a little story that feels huge.

—Chris Klimek

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JUDY COLLINS "Holidays & Hits"

A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS 21 BILL KIRCHEN & COMMANDER CODY "Honky Tonk Holiday Show!"

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"Holiday Show feat. William "Smooth" Wardlaw"

Director Koji Wakamatsu begins the 1972 film Ecstasy of the Angels much like a typical “pink” or adult Japanese movie, with sultry scenes of a nightclub singer and of lovers sharing (admittedly strange) pillow talk. But the movie quickly shifts to something far more radical in terms of both politics and cinema. Shifting between color and black-and-white footage, Ecstasy of the Angels charts the infighting between groups of political activists in their bid for subversive action. However dedicated they are to their cause, the activists—named after days of the week and months of the year—find their idealistic ambitions corrupted by power dynamics that turn to torture and sexual violence. The Freer presents a 35mm print of this rarely screened film in conjunction with the essential photography exhibition Japan Modern, taken from the collection of filmmakers Gloria Katz (who died on Nov. 25) and Willard Huyck. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. freersackler.si.edu.

—Pat Padua

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Kevin Lionell’s Soulful Christmas with Candi Bleu. 8

KENNEDY CENTER EISENHOWER THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jason Moran—James Reese Europe and The Harlem Hellfighters: The Absence of Ruin. 8 p.m. $19–$59. kennedy-center.org.

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p.m. $15–$25. unionstage.com.

JAZZ

ROCK

SUNDAY CLASSICAL

Second Sundays Jazz presents Convergence. 3 p.m.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Bernice. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Cloud Nothings. 8 p.m. $20–$30. unionstage.com.

PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON 28 PIECES OF A DREAM 29 LAST TRAIN HOME with special guest Cravin' Dogs 26&27

30

22nd Annual

HANK WILLIAMS TRIBUTE SHOW! feat. Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Pete & Maura Kennedy (The Kennedys), Robin & Linda Williams, Patrick McAvinue, Marshall Wilborn

31

New Years Eve with

-8pm-

THE SELDOM SCENE The High & Wides, Mrs. Adventure

Jan 4

WORLD

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Freddy Cole. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

"Maysa’s Jazz Funk Soul Orchestra”

ANACOSTIA ARTS CENTER 1231 Good Hope Road SE.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW.

Free. anacostiaartscenter.com.

(202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra:

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-

Noseda conducts Mahler’s First Symphony. 3 p.m.

4141. Freddy Cole. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35.

$15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

bluesalley.com.

CHANTÉ MOORE 5 SCHOONER FARE and BUSKIN & BATTEAU 10 THE S.O.S. BAND 11&12 RICKY SKAGGS & Kentucky Thunder 15&16

TRAVIS TRITT

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Jazz

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

Jason Moran

Artistic Director

CLOUD NOTHINGS

Cloud Nothings frontman Dylan Baldi doesn’t care what you think about his band’s new album, Last Building Burning. This creative nonchalance has liberated the Cleveland-based indie band to create its heaviest, most brutal album yet—a sonic heel turn from 2017’s pop-punk Life Without Sound. With the help of Sunn O)))’s producer Randall Dunn, Cloud Nothings have unleashed about 35 minutes of menacing vocals amid buzzy guitar riffs and maniacal drumming at frenzied tempos. Throughout the intense journey of Last Building Burning, Baldi confronts his diminishing sense of place. As Cloud Nothings embark on tours of the globe, from midwestern America to the tiniest nooks of Europe, Baldi laments the destruction of historical buildings and cultural identity to make room for ritzy condos and chain coffee shops. Even he has fallen victim to the sterilization of culture as he finds ironic comfort in the glow of a hundred televisions at chicken wing chain Buffalo Wild Wings, naming it the “greatest chain restaurant” in America—a place where you can pretend you’re nowhere. Cloud Nothings perform with The Courtneys and Radiator Greys at 8 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $20–$30. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

—Casey Embert

© Camille Blake and Jazzfest Berlin 2018, Berliner Festspiele

Jason Moran—James Reese Europe and The Harlem Hellfighters: The Absence of Ruin Saturday, December 8 at 8 p.m.

Eisenhower Theater

Jason Moran presents the U.S. premiere of The Absence of Ruin, his salute to James Reese Europe.

The first African American bandleader, Europe created an international demand for jazz and ragtime, forever changing the world of music. Through new arrangements and stunning visual media, Moran will explore the groundbreaking artist’s deep musical catalogue.

A co-commission by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, the Kennedy Center, and Serious

Bobby Sanabria MultiVerse Big Band: West Side Story Reimagined Friday, January 18 at 7 & 9 p.m.

Terrace Theater

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

Groups call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540

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ROCK

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Women Who Rock: A Tribute to the ‘90s. 8 p.m. $12. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Bird Streets. 8:30 p.m.

Free. songbyrddc.com.

MONDAY DJ NIGHTS

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Noodles. 8 p.m. $15. songbyrddc.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Capital Bones: A Stan Kenton Christmas. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The Capitol Bones All-Brass Big Band. 8 p.m. $25–$30. unionstage.com.

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Twist. 8:30 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Gang of Youths. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

FUNK & R&B SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Jorja Smith. 8 p.m. $29.50. songbyrddc.com.

JAZZ BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra: Ellington’s Nutcracker. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

POP U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Eyedress. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

ROCK 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Phosphorescent. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

WEDNESDAY ELECTRONIC

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Delta Heavy. 10:30 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FUNK & R&B SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Hablot Brown. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

JAZZ

TUESDAY

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra: Ellington’s Nutcracker. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Caamp. 8 p.m. $15–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Devotchka. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK

ROCK

Capital One Arena • Washington, D.C.

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.......................................................................................................... APRIL 2 Ticketmaster

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

JUST ANNOUNCED!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Marcus King Band w/ Ida Mae ............................................................. Th DEC 6 Gang of Youths w/ Gretta Ray ....................................................................... M 10 Phosphorescent w/ Liz Cooper & The Stampede .......................................................................... Tu 11 DECEMBER

JANUARY (cont.)

Cat Power w/ Reverend Baron .Su 16 The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza w/ The Family Crest ...................W 19 Hiss Golden Messenger .....Th 20

Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven ....Sa 19 Super Diamond .....................Th 24 Guster w/ Henry Jamison

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Poppy Early Show! 6pm Doors ......Th 31 Amen Dunes Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Th 31

Big Something & Too Many Zooz w/ Electric Love Machine ..........Sa 22 Margo Price w/ Lilly Hiatt ......Th 27 The Pietasters w/ Big D and the Kids Table • The Forwards • DJ Selah ..............F 28

GWAR w/ Iron Reagan & Against The Grain ....................Sa 29 NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE CLUB!

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

Two-night passes available ....F 25 & Sa 26

FEBRUARY

Daley & JMSN ............................F 1 Sharon Van Etten w/ Nilüfer Yanya ............................W 6 Mandolin Orange ....................Th 7 COIN Early Show! 6pm Doors .............F 8 BASS NATION PRESENTS

Space Jesus w/ Minnesota & Huxley Anne Late Show! 10:30pm Doors ..................F 8

Hootie & The Blowfish

w/ Barenaked Ladies .............................................................................. AUGUST 8 On Sale Friday, December 7 at 10am

TRAIN/GOO GOO DOLLS w/ Allen Stone ........................AUGUST 9 Ticketmaster • merriweathermusic.com • impconcerts.com

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

Spiritualized

....................................................................... APRIL 16

CITIZEN COPE

............................................................ APRIL 17

On Sale Friday, December 7 at 10am THIS THURSDAY!

Jewel - Handmade Holiday Tour

w/ Atz, Atz Lee, Nikos Kilcher ............DEC 6 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Steel Pulse: Big Up New Year’s Eve ........ DEC 31 Story District’s Top Shelf . JAN 19 AN EVENING WITH

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Neko Case w/ Margaret Glaspy .. JAN 27 Fred Armisen ............................ FEB 8 LP .................................................... FEB 19 Alice Smith ................................. MAR 9 AURORA w/ Talos....................... MAR 10 José González

The Disco Biscuits............... JAN 25 & The String Theory............ MAR 20 Must purchase two-night pass (with 1/26 Norm Macdonald ................. MAR 21 Disco Biscuits at The Anthem) to attend.

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

JANUARY ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Ozomatli ...................................Th 3 No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party

with DJs Will Eastman and Ozker with visuals by Kylos ..................F 4 BENT: A New LGBTQ Dance Party featuring DJs Lemz, KeenanOrr, and The Barber Streisand // Performances by Pussy Noir, Donna Slash, and Bombalicious Eklaver ..............Sa 5

Jay Pharoah This is a seated show. ........................F 11 MØ w/ ABRA ...............................Tu 15 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Wood Brothers w/ Priscilla Renea ..........Th 17 & F 18

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

Spafford ....................................Sa 9 Panda Bear ..............................M 11 Dorothy w/ Spirit Animal .........Tu 12 Bob Mould Band w/ Titus Andronicus ...................Th 14 Galactic feat. Erica Falls (F 15 - w/ High & Mighty Brass Band)

.......................................F 15 & Sa 16

The Knocks w/ Young & Sick • Blu DeTiger ...Su 17 Jacob Banks ...........................Tu 19 Cherub w/ Mosie ........................F 22 You Me At Six .........................Su 24 Pat Green and Aaron Watson ...............W 27

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

Eyedress ......................... Tu DEC 11 Devotchka ................................W 12 The Slackers w/ War On Women ....Su 23 gnash w/ Mallrat & Gaurdin .... Sa JAN 19 Windhand w/ Genocide Pact ..........Th 24 Cautious Clay ...................... F FEB 1 KONGOS w/ Fitness ......................Sa 2 Ripe w/ Brook and the Bluff & Del Florida ......W 6

Cherry Glazerr w/ Mannequin Pussy .......................W 13 UnoTheActivist ........................Sa 16 9:30 & TRILLECTRO PRESENT MadeinTYO w/ Thutmose & Key! ..... M 18

Julia Holter .............................Tu 19 Parcels ....................................W 20 Gang of Four ...........................Th 21 AJ Mitchell w/ Marteen .................F 22

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

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

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

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

JOHN McLAUGHLIN

LIVE MUSIC | BOURBON | BURGERS

DECEMBER

THE 2018 THIS TIME

OF YEAR TOUR

W / V I L R AY

TUESDAY

DEC 11

BONERAMA

TH 6 AN EVENING WITH PATTERSON HOOD OF DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS FR 7 AN EVENING WITH PATTERSON HOOD OF DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS SA 8 CHOPTEETH SU 9 WOMEN WHO ROCK: A TRIBUTE TO THE 90s SA 15 HOLIDAY ON THE ANACOSTIA DELTA FEATURING THE PIROG BROTHERS SU 16 ADAM EZRA GROUP

MON, DEC 17

TH 20 WIL GRAVATT

FRI, DEC 21

F 21

W/ TIMMIE METZ BAND

THE NIGHTHAWKS

SA 22 MICAH ROBINSON LIVE w/ BOOMSCAT SU 23 SOUTHWEST SOUL SESSIONS w/ ELIJAH BALBED & ISABELLE DE LEON F 28 ELI LEV & THE FORTUNES FOUND w/ HAYLEY FAHEY BAND M 31 A BLUES, ROCK & SOUL NEW YEAR’S EVE EXTRAVAGANZA w/ ROCKA-SONICS, LINWOOD TAYLOR

JANUARY F4

SOUL CRACKERS “BETTER LATE THAN NEVER” NEW YEAR’S DANCE! FEATURING TOMMY LEPSON & THE TOO MUCH SISTERS SA 5 THE ALL-STAR “GRACELAND” TRIBUTE BAND w/ BAKITHI KUMALO & RYAN TENNIS SU 6 SWELLTUNE RECORDS “BOSTON TO AUSTIN” SHOWCASE FEATURING TAMMI SAVOY AND CHRIS CASELLO, JITTERY JACK AND MISS AMY, SEAN MENCHER w/ SPECIAL GUESTS TU 8 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS: A BENEFIT FOR THE LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION FEATURING VANILLA FUDGE + BUCK DHARMA (OF BLUE OYSTER CULT)

W/ ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES SUNDAY DEC

16

AN EVENING WITH

WHOSE HAT IS THIS? WED, DEC 19

AN EVENING WITH

EVERETT BRADLEY’S HOLIDELIC

VIRGINA COALITION SAT, DEC 22

YELLOW DUBMARINE W/ THE FUSS

WED, DEC 26

AN EVENING WITH

LIVE AT THE FILLMORE: THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND BEN WILLIAMS PRESENTS HIS 7TH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH A HOLIDAY MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA FRI, DEC 28

NRBQ

SAT, DEC 29

START MAKING SENSE A TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE W/ QIET

SUN, DEC 30

THE BRIDGE

MON, DEC 31

CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH

THE BRIDGE

MON, DEC 31

CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH

MOONSHINE SOCIETY IN THE LOFT

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Falling through the ice is not the paralyzing fear facing performers in Cirque du Soleil’s new touring extravaganza, Crystal. But crashing down on it from three stories above the cold, hard surface might be. Acrobats jump, trapeze artists swing, and “extreme skaters” go sliding down ramps and flying up into the air, hoping to land on 1/4 inch blades. Crystal is the first ice arena show from the Canadian entertainment franchise, and it promises to include all the incredible things Cirque performers usually do, but this time on ice instead of under big tops. At the center of the story is a young redhead named Crystal who longs to escape her mundane suburban existence. When she falls through the ice while skating on a pond—it seems the Cirque creators could not resist that fearful image—she lands in a watery dreamland full of ice skaters wearing lots of glitter makeup and costumes flashier than Johnny Weir’s. Don’t go to Crystal looking for Michelle Kwan, but if you do enjoy watching Weir commentate on NBC once in a while, or have been known to spend long chilly afternoons at the National Gallery ice rink, this is the Cirque du Soleil show for you. The show runs to Dec. 9 at Capital One Arena, 601 F St. NW. $90–$130. (202) 628-3200. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

THURS, DEC 27

FOLLOW US @PEARLSTREETLIVE 33 PEARL ST SW DC •THE WHARF

CRYSTAL: A BREAKTHROUGH ICE EXPERIENCE

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

SUPERHEROES

The display of the rich legacy of superheroes in America couldn’t be more timely. From the recent passing of Marvel great Stan Lee to the superhero films based on his and Jack Kirby’s creations dominating the box office year after year, Superheroes at the National Museum of American History is the perfect way to commemorate and celebrate our favorite caped crusaders. The exhibition explores the full range of superhero dynamism over the last century, from the Adventures of Superman show in the 1950s to the 2014 cinematic adventure of the best mutants around, X-Men: Days of Future Past. You can check out George Reeves’ Superman costume and Halle Berry’s costume as the formidable Storm. In addition to costumes, the exhibition showcases a dazzling array of artifacts including original comic art, television props, and tons of comic book and movie-related memorabilia. For nearly the next full calendar year, both nostalgic adults and newly fascinated youngins can revel in the excitement that is superhero mania, transcending the ordinary and rising to the heights of our collective imaginations. The exhibition is on view to Sept. 2, 2019 at the National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. americanhistory.si.edu.

—Malika T. Benton

—The London Times

CA M ERO N M AC K I N TO S H PRESENTS

B O U B L I L & S C H Ö N B E R G ’S

Chained dogs suffer day in and day out.

They endure sweltering temperatures, hunger, and thirst and are vulnerable and lonely. Keep them inside, where it’s safe and comfortable.

December 12–January 13 Opera House Groups call (202) 416-8400

Kennedy-Center.org

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

(202) 467-4600

Theater at the Kennedy Center is made possible by

Major support for Musical Theater at the Kennedy Center is provided by

Kennedy Center Theater Season Sponsor

Photo: Don Flood (donfloodphoto.com) • Makeup: Mylah Morales, for Celestine Agency Hair: Marcia Hamilton, for Margaret Maldonado Agency • Styling: Natalie and Giolliosa Fuller (sisterstyling.com)

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THURSDAY

“A play to savor and cheer”

COUNTRY

– New York Times

MIRACLE THEATRE 535 8th St. SE. (202) 400-3210.

Chatham County Line. 8 p.m. $20. themiracletheatre.com.

ELECTRONIC 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Thievery Corporation. 7 p.m. $45. 930.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Marc Rebillet. 7 p.m. $12–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mersiv & Dorfex Bos. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

HIP-HOP SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477

Books

DAVE ENGLEDOW Award-winning photographer Dave Engledow follows up his picture book debut with a fun photographic adventure in his new book,The Little Girl Who Wanted to Be Big. Takoma Park Public Library. 101 Philadelphia Avenue, Takoma Park. Dec. 10. 7 p.m. Free. 301-891-7259.

JOHN PRENDERGAST, FIDEL BAFILEMBA, AND RYAN GOSLING In their book Congo Stories, John Prendergast and Fidel Bafilemba, with photos taken by actor Ryan Gosling, reveal how the people of Congo are fighting back against international exploitation and governmental oppression in their nation.

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre at George Washington University. 800 21st St. NW. Dec. 13. 7 p.m. $20–$35.

(202) 994-8072.

18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Ras Nebyu. 8 p.m. $12– $15. songbyrddc.com.

JAZZ BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Arturo Sandoval. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $65–$70. bluesalley.com.

ROCK ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Cavetown. 8 p.m. $17–$20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning valentine to unlikely love Directed by Aaron Posner Starring Erin Weaver and John Taylor Phillips A Theater J Production | At GALA Hispanic Theatre theaterj.org | 202.777.3210

Dance

BALLET WEST: THE NUTCRACKER Ballet West returns to the Kennedy Center with the D.C. premiere of its new Nutcracker. Kennedy Center Opera House.

2700 F St. NW. Dec. 7. 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 8. 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 9. 7:30 p.m. $59–$175. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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DEC 6

China Crisis

DEC 7

Laughs A-Go-Go

“A Swingin’ Little Christmas” (2 shows!)

in the Wine Garden

w/ Gina Yashere, A-Train, M. Lewis.

Hosted by Niki Moore w/ DJ Oxygene

DEC 10

DEC 12

DEC 13

DEC 8

DEC 9

conya doss

An Illusion of Queen Bey

DEC 14

DEC 15

Riley Knoxx:

EYEDRESS w/ Burniss Travis, Greg Clark, FOI

feat. Musical Director Adam Blackstone, Hosted by Sean Glover of Sound Exchange

Crush Your Craft

Bettye Lavette

DEC 16

DEC 16

DEC 17

DEC 18

DEC 20

Carol Riddick

Dan Zanes & Claudia Eliaza with Pauline Jean

The DC Moth StorySLAM: JOY

PJ Morgan

Chely Wright

Aaron Harden Presents

The Soul Of Christmas

Briclyn Ent. Presents

A Sensory Friendly Holiday Sing Along

The Blackbyrds

Zo! And Carmen Rodgers

holiday show

in the Wine Garden

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As Eyedress, Idris Vicuña makes music like someone building a contraption out of a jumble of LEGO sets. The 28-year-old musician, who was born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S. before returning to Manila as a teenager, is prolific, and his steady stream of releases charts an odds-and-ends course through influences and inspirations. His early work mixed shoegaze and drum machine beats into a gauzy, seductive haze. To that mixture, he added experimental hiphop, industrial noise, surf-rock melodies, and barely-there vocals, living up to the title of his sprawling 2015 LP Shapeshifter. His sleepy, half-remembered dreams of pop music coalesced into something resembling post-post-punk on 2017’s Manila Ice and this year’s Sensitive G, albums that apply his sideways sense of humor to titular subjects like “Toxic Masculinity” and “Cocaine Sunday.” But he’s also returned to his crust punk roots on songs like “No Love in the City” and “No Fun” that challenge his country’s right-wing turn, giving his twisted musical vision some focus. Eyedress performs at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $15. (202) 5881889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Chris Kelly

From the director of Netflix’s THE CROWN

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

By J.B. Priestley

Directed by Stephen Daldry

“HHHHH...a memorable production.”

–DC Theatre Scene

“ELEGANT...an evening of many dark and twisting delights.”

–The Washington Post

“ASTONISHING...there is no better time to see this production.”

–DC Metro Theater Arts

NOW PLAYING DUALITY: ART + SCIENCE

At times in the scientific-based art works of Jody Rasch and Betsy Stewart, it’s hard to grasp a sense of scale. Does a painting depict microscopic organisms, or distant arrays of stars? Is another painting a snapshot of galaxies, or a radar map of a hurricane? Does a third piece feature a fiery depiction of the sun, or a floating cell from an organism? Such tensions suffuse this American Association for the Advancement of Science dual show featuring works by New York-based Rasch, and Stewart, who works out of D.C. Stewart is known for her “pond totems” that depict the layers of organisms that inhabit shallow regions of water, perhaps most notably in this exhibition using a scroll. But some of Rasch’s works steal the show as they display his nimble and exhaustive penmanship. Like the seemingly endless hand-drawn lines of Linn Meyers, Rasch traces out mesmerizing expanses of curlicues in colored pencil—and they are as convincing and appealing up close as they are far away. The exhibition is on view to Feb. 1 at the AAAS Headquarters Art Gallery, 1200 New York Ave. NW. Free. (202) 326-6400. aaas.org.

—Louis Jacobson

FACULTY DANCE CONCERT This concert highlights the choreography of featured UMD Dance faculty members and special guests. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. Dec. 7. 7:30 p.m. $10–$25. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu.

MOMENTUM DANCE’S JAZZ HIP-HOP NUTCRACKER Momentum Dance Theatre’s long running original dance theater holiday show comes to the Anacostia Arts Center for one performance only. Attendees will see dance excerpts from Jazz Hip-Hop Nutcracker that showcase Jazz Hip-Hop Academy students, as well as the professional company dancers. Anacostia Arts Center. 1231 Good Hope Road SE. Dec. 8. 3 p.m. $10–$18. anacostiaartscenter.com.

THE WASHINGTON BALLET’S NUTCRACKER This celebrated Christmas favorite is set in historic Georgetown, combining Revolutionary War-era historical figures with the traditional Nutcracker characters. Warner Theatre. 513 13th St. NW. Dec. 7. 7 p.m.; Dec. 8. 7 p.m.; Dec. 9. 7 p.m.; Dec. 10. 7 p.m.; Dec. 11. 7 p.m.; Dec. 12. 7 p.m.; Dec. 13. 7 p.m. $32–$136. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

Theater

ANYTHING GOES This “gold standard” musical comedy with music by Cole Porter tells the story of ocean liner stowaway Billy Crocker, who seeks to win the love of heiress Hope Harcourt and stop her marriage to the millionaire Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Arena Stage.

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

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL This Grammy-winning jukebox musical chronicles Carole King’s rise to stardom, from her partnership with lyricist Gerry Goffin to her successful solo career, using her hit songs including “I Feel The Earth Move” and “You’ve Got A Friend”. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Dec. 30. $54–$114. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org.

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AFRICAN STUDY A study at NIH is recruiting healthy black African men and women to understand diabetes and heart disease risk in Africans.

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war, their lives are forever changed. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 13. $49–$175.

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ELF In this heartwarming family musical adapted from the film by the same name, a young elf learns of his true identity as a human and travels to New York to find his father while spreading the Christmas cheer. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 6. $37–$84. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org.

THE PANTIES, THE PARTNER AND THE PROFIT Playwright David Ives adapts and translates Carl Sternheim’s German comedic trilogy Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class into one play in this Michael Kahn-directed production. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Jan. 6. $44–102. (202) 5471122. shakespearetheatre.org.

GEM OF THE OCEAN This Timothy Douglas-directed production of August Wilson’s Tony-nominated play is the first in a ten-play series that dramatizes the African-American experience. Set at the turn of the century in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, it centers on a young man who arrives at the house of 285-yearold soothsayer Aunt Ester in search of redemption.

Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Dec. 23. $36–$51. (240) 6441100. roundhousetheatre.org.

HOW TO CATCH A STAR Oliver Jeffers’ beloved children’s book about a boy who tries to befriend a star comes to life in this colorful Jared Mezzocchi-directed production.

Kennedy Center Family Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Dec. 16. $20. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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INDECENT Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel’s deeply moving play tells the story of the Yiddish drama God of Vengeance, a work deemed “indecent” for themes of censorship, immigration and antisemitism when it premiered on Broadway in 1923, and the true story of the creators that risked their careers to bring it to the stage. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 30. $56– $76. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

AN INSPECTOR CALLS Stephen Daldry’s Olivier-winning production of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, hailed as a staple of modern British theatre, comes to D.C. Set on one night in 1912, the play tells the story of an upper-class British family who is visited by a mysterious inspector seeking details about a workingclass woman who committed suicide. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Dec. 23. $44–$102. (202) 5471122. shakespearetheatre.org.

KINGS Two D.C. congresswomen with differing approaches clash in this sharp new comedy by Alexandria native Sarah Burgess, directed by Marti Lyons.

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MISS SAIGON From the creators of Les Miserables comes this classic, Tony-winning Broadway spectacle. When a young Vietnamese woman encounters an American G.I. in a Vietnam bar at the height of the

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SAVAGELOVE I’m a 59-year-old man in good health. For basically my whole adult life, I’ve had this problem during intercourse with a woman of (1) being very quick to come and (2) having a too intense “cringey” sensation when I come. This has led to often going soft at the prospect of intercourse.

This too-intense feeling makes me stop moving when I come, which is not satisfying at all. It doesn’t happen with hand jobs or oral sex—they feel fine and good. Is this a known phenomenon?

And, most importantly, what can I do to get to a point where I can enjoy intercourse? This seriously messes up my enjoyment of sex and my confidence with women. One time, and only one time (out of many with a particular girlfriend), I had intercourse and it felt fine when I came, still thrusting, so I know it’s possible. I have been practicing with a Fleshlight, but it’s still painfully “cringey” when I come. It is not fun and rather depressing.

—He Always Really Dreads Penetration And Regrets This I shared your letter with Dr. Ashley Winter, a urologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, and the cohost of The Full Release, a sex, health, and relationship podcast. Dr. Winter wanted to note that her comments are a general discussion of a medical topic and NOT individual medical advice. She wanted me to emphasize this point—which she also emphasizes at the top of her terrific podcast—because Dr. Winter is a responsible doctor and not a cardcarrying member of the Amalgamated Advice Columnists of America. (Membership in the AACA entitles advice columnists to say pretty much whatever they want.)

“There are three issues at play here,” says Dr. Winter. “First, the pain or ‘cringey’ sensation only associated with vaginal and Fleshlight penetration. Second, being too quick to come. And third, erectile dysfunction. HARDPART insightfully suggests his ED may be related to his performance anxiety as well as anticipated pain, and I would agree with this. I would add that his quick ejaculation is most likely also caused by a mix of ED and pain—the body adapts to pain and erection loss by letting the swimmers off the hook early.”

But why do you experience this pain only during penetrative sex? What is it about PIV (penis in vagina) or PIF (penis in Fleshlight) that causes those painfully cringey feelings?

“If he thrusts more during these activities than he does during oral or hand stimulation, I would expect that either pelvic floor muscle dysfunction or a nerve issue related to the lower spine could be causing the flairs,” says Dr. Winter. “If he were my patient, I would want to know if he has less pain when his partner is on top, which would mean his pelvis is moving less. Also, does he have chronic low back pain?

Bowel or bladder issues?”

Dr. Winter and I continued to general-

ly discuss the medical topics raised by your question, HARDPART, and we generally discussed—this is not, again, individual medical advice, but a general discussion—two things someone with your particular issue might want to think about doing. First, a guy with your problem could try taking Viagra—or a related drug—while also using a penis numbing spray. And a guy with your problem should also have his pelvic floor checked out. A urologist can help a guy with a problem like yours determine if there’s something wrong with the complex web of muscles and nerves that crowd together around your junk and, if it is a pelvic floor issue, refer him to a pelvic floor physical therapist.

Since most German escorts, like most German everybodies, speak English, LEAP, there is no need for an English-to-German dictionary. Just say, “Fuck my ass, please.”

Finally, a suggestion from me, the person with the AACA card: A guy with a problem like yours—a guy whose dick works a certain way and has worked that way for decades—could save himself the hassle of physical therapy and the side effects of Viagra by accepting his dick and the way his dick works. There are women out there who prefer oral and outercourse to PIV, HARDPART, and you could bed those women with confidence.

Follow Dr. Ashley Winter on Twitter @AshleyGWinter, and check out The Full Release podcast, which she cohosts with comedian Mo Mandel, at thefullreleasepod.com.

—Dan Savage I’m a mostly straight guy in my 40s and I’m married to a woman. I don’t know if it’s a midlife crisis or what, but I’ve decided that I want to get fucked in the ass once in my life. I will be visiting Hamburg soon, and it’s my understanding that sex work is legal in Germany. I want your help sorting out the legal, ethical, and practical issues.

1. Legal issue. Paying for sex in Germany is legal, right? But even if sex work is legal, that doesn’t mean every sex worker is doing it voluntarily. I prefer people closer to my own age, and I imagine a 40-year-old sex worker is less likely to be exploited, right? What else can I do to ensure that I’m not with a trafficked individual?

2. Ethical issue. After many years and many

near-divorce situations, my wife and I have adopted a more tolerant (or more apathetic) posture toward each other. She has on several occasions told me that she doesn’t care who I fuck. While I haven’t acted on it, she has said it often enough that I believe her. We’ve talked about an open relationship, but she wasn’t enthusiastic. My best guess is that she doesn’t want to know if I do anything “gay,” while also not wanting me to form any emotional attachments. Do I ask her again if she really doesn’t care who I fuck? Or do her previous statements suffice?

3. Practical issues. Is a condom enough protection? How do I avoid things like herpes and crabs? Other than emptying ye olde bowels, what other steps should I take before asking a male German escort to fuck me in the ass? And how do I ask? Google Translate suggests “Fick mich in den Arsch,” which is an unappealing thing to say. Maybe there’s something sexier?

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1. Sex work is, indeed, legal in Germany. You can minimize your chances of hiring someone who may not be doing sex work of their own free will by avoiding agencies and finding yourself an independent escort. But seeing as how you’re looking to hire a male in his 40s, LEAP, your odds of hiring someone doing sex work under duress are very, very low.

2. The wife who lovingly and apathetically tolerates your soon-to-be-fucked ass has already told you—and told you more than once— that she doesn’t care who you fuck. She also doesn’t want to know if you fuck someone else.

Asking if she meant it immediately before flying off to Hamburg—double-checking to make sure she really doesn’t care who you fuck— would basically mean telling her you know you’re going to fuck someone else in Hamburg (and fuck them all “gay” and shit), and she’s already told you she doesn’t want to know. Taking her at her word, i.e., allowing her previous statements to suffice, is the right thing to do.

3. A condom offers highly effective protection from HIV, gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia. For added protection, LEAP, ask your doctor about getting on PrEP, aka Truvada, before your trip. It’s a daily pill that, once built up to full strength (roughly a week), provides highly effective protection against HIV infection. While condoms do provide some protection against herpes, neither condoms nor PrEP will save you from crabs. To make sure your one-and-only ass fucking goes well, empty ye olde bowels and then douche ye olde rectum.

Since most German escorts, like most German everybodies, speak English, LEAP, there is no need for an English-to-German dictionary.

Just say, “Fuck my ass, please.”

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