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Loved ones remember the people lost in homicides in D.C. this year.

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LIVES LOST 2019

Francis Lee savoy shielded his brother from a sexual predator when they were boys. Davane Williams told his girlfriend he believed in her on a bad day, after she didn’t get a job offer. Corey Farmer supported his friend when she came out as a lesbian in high school.

These are some of the people killed this year in D.C., the erstwhile “murder capital,” where homicides have been ticking up again.

“If it all happened in one day, people would flip out,” says Lloyd Wolf, who has been photographing street shrines to homicide victims for more than 15 years. “Instead, it’s just a steady slaughter.”

D.C. recorded 479 homicides in 1991. Over the next two decades, the numbers gradually decreased. By 2012 the District was down to 88 homicides, but then it reversed: 104 people murdered in 2013, 105 in 2014. Last year the number jumped by 38 percent from the previous year. This year, homicides are currently up 5 percent from that number.

At press time, the Metropolitan Police Department has 160 homicides in the books for this year. Nearly 70 of them were under 26 years old.

“Over the years it’s been, ‘Oh look, it’s the lowest number it’s been in a generation,’ and there was a celebratory wrapping around the homicide number,” says David Bowers, founder of NO MURDERS DC, a movement to end murder in D.C. “But there’s a difference between progress and ‘mission accomplished.’ What about those 88 that were still killed that year? Let’s go tell their parents that we’re celebrating. You have to have a fundamental view that one is too many.”

“I try to let them know that they are worthy of living,” says Jay Brown, a community advocate and activist who has spent his career working in social services and visits families when he hears of a homicide. He estimates he has attended 30 funerals this year, and he says there is a different story behind each killing. “My approach recently has been, when it comes to juveniles, I like to crown them … They don’t value themselves too much. They feel like they’re a burden on society. And that’s why I say, ‘No, you’re a king, you’re a queen. We need you. You need to stay alive.’”

For the past four months, City Paper has talked to the loved ones of this year’s homicide victims. We spoke with teachers, parents, siblings, coworkers, aunts, uncles, grandparents, classmates, childhood friends, and pastors. We asked them to tell us about the person they lost: What talents and passions did they bring into the world? Who and what did they love? What were their plans in life?

We did not ask if the person had done something wrong or committed a crime. Wolf tells a story that explains why. He was photographing shrines one afternoon when a man approached him and introduced himself as the brother of the victim, and they started talking. “He was basically saying that his brother was no sweetheart, but no one deserves this,” says Wolf.

Some of these victims were the walking definition of “sweetheart,” and others may not have been. They all came into the world with gifts to offer their communities. Draw no conclusions based on whether someone has a short write-up, a long one, or none at all. People grieve differently. We may have reached someone who couldn’t or wouldn’t speak, or we may not have reached the right person.

The result is this collection of remembrances for more than 40 people who died by homicide in D.C. this year. If your loved one isn’t on this list but you want them included, just contact City Paper.

We will update this through the end of the year.

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Joseph Burgess, 60

Courtesy Sydney Vranna

Courtesy Saundra Bowman

“He was my backbone.”

Regina Bowman, 50

Found dead in a fire on the 3300 block of Ely Place SE on Jan. 5

Found dead in a fire on the 3300 block of Ely Place SE on Jan. 5

To his daughter, Latricia Burgess, Joseph Burgess was her everything. “He was my backbone,” she says.

He was a strong, intelligent, Christian man whose intentions were always about “helping thy neighbor as thyself,” says Latricia, quoting from Matthew 22:39. He would never let a brother sit on the street cold and hungry while he had a warm house to sleep in. “I was always worried about him,” says Latricia, remarking on how dangerous it was to see her father invite strangers into their home. But he was never worried.

Joseph took it upon himself to teach his kids respect and kindness. Constantly pushing his children to attend college, Joseph always put faith and energy into ensuring his family had a good future planned for themselves.

His love was occasionally a tough love, but it was always out of the goodness of his heart, she says. Whether he was asking them to get through college or get a job, Joseph wanted his children to succeed. “[He’d say], ‘Get yourself together,” says his daughter. He didn’t say it out of spite or hate, but out of affection.

Latricia and her siblings lost their mother several years back; their father’s death was a major blow. “With my mom, we got closure …

The man who murdered my father is still out there,” she says. Latricia urges the city to keep looking for the killer, because to her, a cold case is the equivalent of the city giving up on her father.

“It felt like I lost my backbone,” says Latricia. “A piece of me.”

—Ayomi Wolff

“Regina loved to dance,” says her mother, Saundra Bowman. “Whenever she and her friends went out [to karaoke], Regina would always be up front, singing.” If any opportunity to sing or dance presented itself, she would rise to the occasion, eager to let her talent be seen and shared.

“I think the one thing I’ll miss most about my sister,” says Kyra Harvey, “is her laugh and her smile. She was never shy of giving a hug or a kiss on the cheek.”

Despite working tirelessly as a mother of three, it seemed Regina always had the energy to be of aid to someone else. “She just wanted to help others,” says Saundra. “She cared.”

She was “someone who wanted to know who supported her and in turn who she could support,” says Kyra While she wasn’t looking after her own children, Regina spent hours of her time volunteering at local schools. “People adored her,” says Saundra.

A makeshift shrine of flowers, teddy bears, candles, and books appeared outside the house where she died along with Joseph Burgess.

“This was her mantra,” recited Kyra: “Be purposeful in life, Regina, never fear success, and always be number one.” —Ayomi Wolff

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Vongell Lugo, 36

Stabbed on the 2800 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW on Jan. 6 Vongell was one of those people who could brighten a room just by entering. “He was like a light,” says Sydney Vranna, his close friend and roommate of six years. She set up a GoFundMe page on behalf of his mother, Victoria Lugo, to help her cover the funeral expenses.

His warm personality made meeting new people easy for him. Sydney says he made a perfect first impression––the kind that lasted.

It seemed no matter where he went, he could always make new friends or fit in immediately.

“He was huge Redskins fan,” laughs Sydney. Whenever a football game would come on, Vongell would be front and center, decked in maroon and yellow gear. Whenever the team made a touchdown, shouts of joy would echo throughout their home, his excitement both constant and infectious even long after the ball had passed through the endzone.

He also found joy in cooking. He was, how-

ever, a “messy cook.” But the payoff for a halfdestroyed kitchen after a long night of cooking was always a delicious meal.

Vongell may have been the sweetest, kindest friend, but he was not one to sugarcoat.

He would critique the outfits of his friends, sometimes with simple “no,” and insist they go back and try again. “Sometimes he would tell me just to flat out change,” says Vranna. But he handed out critiques because he wanted to make sure his friends looked their best, knowing that if they were happy, he was happy.

“This is an especially hard time” said Vranna in October. “Autumn was his favorite season.” Vongell loved the fall fashions, the food, and especially how the green leaves of summer transformed into the fiery yellows and oranges of autumn.

—Ayomi Wolff

India Bradley has had three dreams about her firstborn child since he died in January.

In the first dream, she and her husband and her three other kids were in a new house. And she kept saying, “Where is Zyair?” Then he walked through the door, but he didn’t speak.

India hugged him and asked if he was all right.

“He just looked at me. I said, ‘You’re dead, ain’t you baby? You’re in Heaven.’” He shook his head yes. She asked if he knew what happened to him, and who did it. He shook his head yes. “And then all of a sudden I hugged him real real tight, I could feel the tears running down my face. And when I went to pull back and look at him again, he was dead in my arms,” she says.

“His face glowed. It was a bright light, like beautiful. And then he turned into like little flitters, just flittering on off into the sky.”

The second dream came about two months later. In this dream, he was dancing and laughing. She asked him what was going on. “He said, ‘Ma, I’m OK. I'm having a ball. I’m good.’

And I’m like, ‘You are, baby?’ And he was like, ‘Yep, everything will be OK.’” She told him she wanted to be with him. “He said, ‘You will, but it ain’t time yet. But what I need you to do is stop worrying.’” She promised her son she’d try. The next day, she says, everything went perfect for her.

In the third dream she was outside, and some guys started shooting and chasing peo-

ple. She ran to an abandoned house and sat on the front steps, and a guy in a black hoodie came and sat beside her and tried to comfort her. But she didn’t know him so she pulled back his hood, and then saw it was Zyair. He told her he would always protect her, and together they ran through a yard and down a street to the house where India grew up. Her whole family was inside having a party, “even people who have passed, like my dad,” she says. She tried to bring him in the house, but he wouldn’t go. “He said, ‘Mom, I’m always going to be there, trust me, but you’re safe now.

Go on in the house.’” So she did.

Zyair was popular in school, had a gift for fixing electronics, and was a brilliant dancer.

“He used to do tricks like a magician with his hat, make the hat go up in the air, come back down with no string on it,” she says. He insisted he made the best hamburger in the world, and he called it the Scrumptious Burger. He worked at the Michaels in Friendship Heights.

He was in the process of building a motorcycle.

He loved his two little sisters and his baby brother, and a video on his Instagram shows the two brothers giggling and practicing a cooing sound as Zyair kisses the baby on his forehead.

India says that so many people showed up to his candlelight vigil, it looked like a block party.

—Alexa Mills

By Rashid Darden

Courtesy Sean Mack

Courtesy India Bradley

Zyair Bradley, 20

Shot on the unit block of Forrester Street SW on Jan. 13

Alexis Washington, 23

Davane Williams, 22

Shot on the unit block of Forrester Street SW on Jan. 13

Shot on the 1200 block of North Capitol Street NW on Jan. 15

Alexis Washington was, as her uncle called her, a Cadillac. “She exuded style, charisma, grace, and charm … like a Cadillac,” says Sean Mack.

With a laugh that could fill a room and a sense of humor that was loud, “funny loud,” says Sean, Alexis was the kind of young woman people wanted to be around, to associate with.

Alexis was loved in and by her community.

All those around her enjoyed her good company. “It was such a shock,” says Sean. “It left a hole in our community.” He has since been advocating for justice for his niece, calling for action from the city and Mayor Muriel Bowser.

He talks about how his niece was committed to helping others, often delivering groceries to those who couldn’t drive or had health conditions preventing them from leaving their homes. When she died she was attending classes toward her chosen career path: “She was working hard to become an EMT,” says Sean.

On the side, Alexis dabbled in art, some of which was displayed at her funeral.

Although her dream was to become an EMT and be of service to her community, as a single mom, the thing she cared about above all else was the well-being, life, and future of her toddler son. To her, he mattered the most. “He was paramount,” states Sean firmly. He was her world.

—Ayomi Wolff

Davane Williams was one of the most popular kids at YouthBuild Public Charter School.

His girlfriend Kiyana remembers how he found a way to connect with everybody there.

Kids who couldn’t speak much English yet?

“They used to smile and laugh and give him a high five every time they saw him,” she says.

One teacher, Rashid Darden, came to think of Davane as his “school son.” He photographed his graduation so that Davane would always have a record of the big day.

Davane came back to school after graduation, painting the doors and classrooms and gardening out front. “This was a kid that really believed in what he was doing in terms of not just being a student, but being part of the culture of the school and part of giving back to the school,” says Darden. “He was, to me, the epitome of black boy joy.”

Both Kiyana and Darden say that Davane and his mother loved each other very much.

Kiyana deeply misses Davane. In her memory bank is this one time she applied for a job, but got a rejection. “I kind of like broke down, and I started feeling like everything was my fault,” she says. “And he was there to just say, ‘It’s not you.’ He told me: ‘It’s not your fault.

You can get jobs. You’re intelligent enough, you got this.’”

Kiyana was still in high school when Davane died, but she has since finished. And she tacked up her graduation photo right next to his.

—Alexa Mills

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Travis Deyvon Ruth, 21

Corey Farmer, 19

Courtesy Nafisa Hoodbhoy

Courtesy Melanie Carter

By Ronald Edmonds

“He was just that loving, selfless person.

He was a person who always checked in on everybody.”

David Elijah Brandon, 30

Javed Bhutto, 64

Shot on the 2700 block of Jasper Street SE on Jan. 18

Shot on the 400 block of 37th Place SE on Feb. 19

Shot on the 4300 block of Georgia Avenue NW on Feb. 24

Shot on the 2600 block of Wade Road SE on March 1

Travis Deyvon Ruth started going to church his senior year of high school. He expressed curiosity about Christianity one day after school while he was catching up on classwork.

“How do you know there is a God?” Travis asked his teacher Ronald Edmonds.

Edmonds, who’s an officer in the Baptist church, more than entertained the question.

They had a thought-provoking conversation about who they thought God was, and their own lives. After that, Travis asked Edmonds if he could go with him to church on Sundays.

“I would pick him up on the way to church.

He would come with me … We would eat breakfast after,” Edmonds says. “He graduated in summer school—that’s why I knew he was a fighter.”

When he graduated high school, Travis stopped going to church as often. But eventually, when things were right with him and he got a stable job, he returned.

“The end of December last year, he came to join the church again to be baptized. I knew something was different when he walked in to join the church. He walked with confidence this time,” says Edmonds. “He caught the bus Sunday morning to church.”

Travis’ strength was undeniable, his teachers say. He and his family moved to D.C. after surviving Hurricane Katrina. “He was going to go out into the world and do good,” says his English teacher, Kassandra Soter. Travis intended to return to Louisiana one day to start an auto shop and raise his own family.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

“Corey was the sweetest, most protective boy I ever met,” says Jenari Mitchell, his friend and former high school classmate. “To me. To staff members. To his other friends.”

Jenari came out as a lesbian during high school, and while that wasn’t always the easiest experience, Corey was always there to support her, without fail. “He took the initiative to make everyone smile everyday,” she says.

“Whenever I was going through something, Corey was always there to talk, or to just make me laugh. Or he’d just smile until I smiled.”

“He looked out for me like a big brother,” says Jade Polly, who became friends with Corey through his older brother Ryan. “I’d be like, ‘You don’t have to look out for me—I’m older than you!’” she remembers with a laugh.

“But he was just that loving, selfless person.

He was a person who always checked in on everybody.”

Corey was extremely driven, Jade says, and planned to go back to school and become an entrepreneur. But in the meantime, “he was focused on working,” she explains.

“Focused on making sure his mom was taken care of. It really wasn’t asked of him—it was just what he wanted to do.”

While he was stone-cold serious about taking care of his loved ones, Corey’s joy could light up a room. He was a great dancer, Jenari says, and after his death, “there were a lot of videos of him dancing in different places.”

Prom night was the crown jewel. “He really came out of his shell at prom,” she remembers. “Corey took over the dance floor. Usually, boys approach girls to dance, but girls were coming up to him. He was just in his element.”

—Joshua Kaplan

David Brandon was a man of many passions, but all that was secondary to his daughter, Braelyn. “He was just completely devoted to that little girl,” says Melanie Carter, David’s mother.

“When he was with Braelyn, it was like he was 6 all over again. He would just play. Cooking with her. Reading stories to her. He was just starting to teach her the alphabet.” One Christmas, she remembers, he was frantic to get her an electric car. He managed to find one, and Braelyn loved the present, so David would trudge behind her in the freezing cold, as she drove down the sidewalk, beaming.

Growing up, “he was the child in class that talked too much. He always was in trouble for talking too much,” Melanie remembers with a laugh. “He just liked connecting with people.”

And he never lost that spark. After he passed away, the mother of one of his friends told Melanie how one time, David turned someone out of her house for not acting right. “If someone was trying to hurt you, he wasn’t just going to sit around and do nothing,” she says.

“He was very loyal.”

David loved music, and spent a lot of his free time laying down tracks in his friend’s basement studio. And “if there was something he felt strongly about, he’d put his heart into it,” Melanie says. One of those passion projects was the streetwear brand Yagadah—as in “Yagadah do it”—which he co-founded with his friend Delonta. Yagadah combined fashion with motivational messaging directed at young people. “I know he wanted his brand to be positive and to encourage kids to do what they needed to do to be successful,” Melanie explains. “He was really, really determined to be a positive force in the world.”

She’s extremely proud of the dogged way he pursued that dream. “I always told my sons, ‘You can never give up,’” she remembers.

“And he didn’t. David never gave up.”

—Joshua Kaplan

In the picture, Nafisa Hoodbhoy and Javed Bhutto are radiant. They’re wearing pale pastels and unreserved smiles, sitting among friends in Karachi, Pakistan. It was 1993 and they were recently married. “We were very much in love,” she says.

When they met, Nafisa was a journalist covering a murder. The victim of that murder was Javed’s sister. They sought justice for the young woman, and in the process, they fell in love.

They moved to the U.S. nearly 20 years ago to try their luck here. As a teacher and reporter they seemed to get poorer, no matter how hard they worked in Pakistan—but they always planned to return one day.

Nafisa says her husband was “probably the most gentle human being I’ve ever seen.” Any time he had some money, he would send it back home to the person most in need.

The walls of their home in D.C. held hundreds of books on philosophy and history. Javed had earned his PhD in philosophy, taught, and was most proud of his work as a philosopher.

When he died, he was planning a trip to Pakistan. “He told me, ‘I’d like to stay there for two months because I have so many friends that I want to see.’”

Instead she went back alone, and found those friends and hundreds more gathered at the airport. “He was so modest, he would never project himself,” she says. “So what really baffled me is how the day after this happened, suddenly it just burst out in the open about who he was as a person. Everybody had stories about him. And there’s this collective love that I’ve seen coming out of people that’s really overwhelmed me.”

Now Nafisa is back in the U.S., seeking justice—on her own this time.

“I miss him so dearly,” she says. “I cannot tell you.”

—Alexa Mills

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Jobe McDowney, 23

Courtesy Keymiah Armstrong

Courtesy Camille Belfield

Courtesy Pamela Richardson

“He was a young man, just trying find his route through life. And I knew he was on the right path.”

Desimon Richardson, 21

Chester Belfield, 46

Breon Austin, 16

Shot on the 4900 block of Nash Street NE on April 4

Shot on the 4900 block of Nash Street NE on April 4

Stabbed on the 1000 block of Southern Avenue SE on April 13

Shot on the 700 block of Princeton Place NW on April 19

“Jobe had a loving heart, and he cared about people,” says his older cousin Dion McDowney. “He worked hard. He was a quick learner.” Jobe was always oriented toward helping others, Dion explains. A churchgoer who loved his young son, he liked to spend his free time “doing volunteer work. He was the sort of guy who’d give you the shirt right off his back."

Jobe was a fun-loving young man, “who liked to listen to music and hang out, just like normal kids his age. Play video games and stuff,” Dion says. But in his cousin’s eyes, Jobe stood out for his remarkable work ethic, and for his dedication to making himself the best man he could be. “Just working, working hard. Trying to become somebody,” Dion says. “Get himself a trade. He would hold two or three jobs at one time,” including working for Dion’s home remodeling company. Sometimes Dion had to insist on paying him, because Jobe wanted to chip in for free when Dion would call him asking for last-minute help with a job. “He was working with me up until his last day. If that job hadn’t gotten cancelled, he’d probably still be here,” Dion says. “He was a young man, just trying find his route through life. And I knew he was on the right path.”

—Joshua Kaplan

Pamela Richardson remains in awe of how much her son Desimon loved his family and friends. “He was a role model to most of his younger cousins,” Pamela says, pointing out that few 21-year-olds would take the time to care for an autisic family member the way Desimon did for her nephew. “He would pick him up and take him places to get him out of the house, or visit him and play video games,” she recalls.

Desimon was also the cousin who showed up at all of the football games and graduations.

He spent time with his baby nephew. He was a support system for everyone he held close.

Desimon was also very talented, Pamela says. He loved working on computers and playing video games, and even tried creating some games of his own. An up-and-coming rapper, Desimon’s biggest dream was making it in the music industry. “It came from out of nowhere, but then when I saw a video and then others afterwards, and I was like, ‘OK, he’s very interested and getting involved with this.’ So my family and I just started supporting him because every time he showed us a video, he was very excited about it.”

Desimon hoped his music would “take his family far away from here—that was the direction he was going,” Pamela says. His goal was for everyone to be “better than what we are now.”

—Christina Sturdivant Sani

Though he came from a large family, Chester Belfield managed to stand out. The 46-year-old was outgoing, very outspoken, and intelligent, recalls his sister, Camille Belfield. “He was the life of my mother's eight kids,” she says. “He loved his wife—he loved his family.”

Chester and Camille, the baby boy and baby girl of the family, had a special bond. “We were Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson as brothers and sisters,” Camille says, explaining how much her brother loved to sing and dance. A few years ago, the family threw a birthday celebration for Chester’s best friend. Camille remembers her brother as the life of the party, dancing with one of their older sisters. “He had his hands in the air and he just kept on saying, ‘We want muffin! Where is muffin?’” calling out to Camille by her nickname. “He was awesome,” she says. “He was my world.”

Chester had many stories to tell and dreamed of becoming an author. He had written a biographical book called Drastic Measures and was working to get it published before he passed away. “His death was life-changing— not only for me, but for my family as a whole,” says Camille, whose family is working to get Chester’s book on shelves as they continue to grieve. “We're just trying to keep the faith, pray every day and—as time goes by—hope it gets better.”

—Christina Sturdivant Sani

High school student Keymiah Armstrong wrote to City Paper about her friend, Breon Austin: It’s been 8 months, more than half of a year, since Breon Austin left us. He was shot and killed on April 19, in a place where he should’ve felt safe. Bre was full of ambition and cared for others. His mother remembers him as warm-hearted, artistic, and fiercely protective. Though Bre was young, he was a man at heart, and in his mind.

In 2018, he took it upon himself to create his own clothing brand, Bagshxt. I was so excited when he first began to sell his hoodies and hand-painted jeans to people in the city.

Breon was quite innovative and motivated.

All he ever wanted to do was to showcase his creativity and talent to the world. He was nowhere near finished, this was just the beginning for him.

He crosses my mind every day. I try to keep myself busy, but, even if I drift off for just a couple of seconds, there he is. Every time I saw Breon, I would make sure he was OK. I’d tell him, “I care about you, man,” and he’d just smile and tell me that he was good, and that he cared about me too.

Your absence has taken a toll on many lives, Bre. I just hope you’re OK. I miss you, more than you’ll ever know. Breon, I know you’re around, you just aren’t physically here. You should be here Bre, come on, you know that. #BreonAustinForever

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“This 16-year old kid that was always, always smiling. It was beautiful.

He was just blossoming.

He was doing so, so well.”

Eberson Guerra-Sanchez, 16

“I just know he was trying really hard when we were in school together at YouthBuild. Like he really wanted to make something of himself.”

Saoun Coplins, 18

“Bud was very passionate about the things he believed in, and he cared deeply for the people in his life.”

Berner Johnson, 48

“…just in that moment, [he] struck me as so mature and insightful … It just further illustrated how much he had a deep care for people, and wanted to make sure he was able to support his friends.”

Maurice Scott, 15

Bludgeoned with a sharp object on the 5200 block of Canal Road NW on April 27

Shot on the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE on May 4

Assaulted on the 100 block of K Street SE on May 15

Shot on the 3500 block of Wheeler Road SE on May 26

Katie Miller first met Eberson Guerra-Sanchez in September 2017, when he became a student in her English as a second language class at Gov. Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick, Maryland. At first, she says, Eberson was very reserved: extremely shy, always kind, quiet, and polite. It was clear to her, however, that Eberson was dealing with a lot outside of the classroom—she suspected the problem might be gang-related—and because of that, he often treated school like an afterthought. So when Miller was transferred to Frederick’s Tuscarora High at the end of the school year, she was worried about the kid she was leaving behind.

But then, to Miller’s surprise, Eberson transferred to Tuscarora, too. And in that new environment, he began to thrive. “He had a place where he felt safe,” she says. “He started to relax and sit with the other kids.” Suddenly, he was a dedicated, hard-working student, “just laser-focused,” she says, and he quickly made a tight-knit group of friends. “They were just goofy teenage boys,” Miller explains—always joking around, and hanging out at the gym after school. She remembers how happy he finally seemed: “This 16-year old kid that was always, always smiling.” And of course, she was thrilled. “It was beautiful. He was just blossoming,” she emphasizes. “He was doing so, so well.”

On the Friday Eberson went missing, the two of them spoke for the final time. He came up to Miller to show her his report card. “Miss, are these good?” he asked her. “Are these grades good?”

“These are excellent,” she told him. “They show that you’re working hard and you’re learning. You should be really proud of yourself.”

—Joshua Kaplan

Ireg found out about her friend Saoun’s death on Instagram. “Immediately it was like, ‘Wait, what?’” she says. “I got really confused.”

They’d lived across the street from one another as kids. They went to the same elementary school. They shared the same birthday, she says, and both had single black mothers.

Ireg remembers Saoun for being “just a bit more on the positive side,” and for getting up in front of the class and doing a hilarious impression of their teacher.

One of his high school teachers at YouthBuild Public Charter School, Eugenia Reyes, saw that same sense of humor in Saoun—although she was likely never the subject of his jokes. She says he was always making people laugh in her class. She remembers one time, after months of pushing him to get a government ID, he showed up in her classroom empty handed on the day he’d promised to deliver. She was dismayed and took him to task. But then he produced the ID. “He was just messing with me,” she laughs.

Reyes says Saoun wanted to be a firefighter, and he was advanced in reading.

Ireg remembers that as a child, Saoun “was a lot better at math than anyone expected him to be.” The teachers would divide the kids up into groups based on their abilities, and they were always together in the advanced group.

They lost touch for a little while, but became friends again at YouthBuild, where they were in a construction program.

“I just know he was trying really hard when we were in school together at YouthBuild,” she says. “Like he really wanted to make something of himself.”

Saoun and Ireg used to get lunch together, along with another student, Davane Williams. But Davane died in January, Saoun in May. “It was almost like reopening an old scar and then also adding a new one,” says Ireg.

—Alexa Mills

Diane Johnson wrote to City Paper about her husband, Bud: Bud was a loving father and devoted husband. He was a loyal friend, who was generous, thoughtful, and kind. He was a man who took pride in working hard and always giving his best. He dedicated 30 years to working for the United States Senate. Bud was very passionate about the things he believed in, and he cared deeply for the people in his life. He never thought twice about helping coach his children’s sports teams (specifically baseball and basketball). Bud was a very patient coach who understood that when kids were acting out, they needed more structure and he made sure they got that under his watch.

I've known Bud since 1992, and we were married in 1996. Bud loved his family and spending time with his kids, whether it be attending their sporting events, hanging out cheering on D.C. teams, or playing wiffle ball with them. Bud enjoyed finding new places to take walks with our dog and me, watching movies on the weekends, and playing softball. Together, Bud and I were looking forward to retiring, and his dream was to find a smaller city close to the water for us to grow old together.

On weekends and autumn afternoons after school, you could always find Maurice Scott “outside with his friends. On the basketball court. Playing football,” says his twin sister, Melissa. Maurice called her Missy; she calls him Mo. “He wanted to go to the NBA,” Missy says with a laugh. She thinks he would’ve made it. But if pro ball didn’t work out, she says, “he wanted to study mechanical engineering.” “He was very good at math,” Missy explains. “I’d go to his math classes and ask him for help with my homework.”

From walking her through algebra to cleaning Missy’s room, Maurice was always there to lend his sister his hand. “We’d take care of each other,” she says. “My problem was his problem. His problem was mine.” Maurice was “smiling, loving, playful, jokeful.” Missy loved to go to the pool with her brother, where they’d goof around, “dunking each other, pushing each other in the water.” He had a great sense of humor—“he had nicknames for everyone,” she says—and was a loving and devoted brother and friend.

Lauren Catalano, Maurice’s former principal at Somerset Prep, certainly remembers how talented and hard-working of an athlete Maurice was. But even more impressive was how he carried himself on and off the court.

At one practice, Lauren remembers, “one of the players was just really lagging, and Maurice made sure to stay side-by-side with that player and encourage him.” She always knew Maurice to be unfailingly kind, but “just in that moment, [he] struck me as so mature and insightful … It just further illustrated how much he had a deep care for people, and wanted to make sure he was able to support his friends.”

His friends supported him too—they were inseparable. “They were always outside together, knocking on each other’s doors in the morning,” Missy remembers. “See what’s new for today.”

—Joshua Kaplan

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Courtesy Anthony Lorenzo Green

Courtesy Nicole Harper

Courtesy Tim Truman

“Everyone knew him because he made friends with everyone.”

Lola Gulomova, 45

George Hendrix, 22

Anfernee Vernon Walker, 22

Dominic Robinson, 32

Shot on the 4300 Block of Windom Place NW on June 7

Shot on the 300 block of K Street SE on June 22

Shot on the 3900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SW on July 8

Shot on the 900 Block of Division Avenue NE on July 9

Lola Gulomova aspired to be a U.S. Ambassador.

“We had talked a couple of times about it … here are some of the things you have to do,” says Sarah Kemp, who worked with her at the Department of Commerce. “She was just like a spark of energy and joy, and constantly had a huge smile on her face.”

Born in Tajikistan, Gulomova was a foreign commercial service officer. Throughout her life, she also worked at NASA and the United Methodist Committee on Relief, aiding Hurricane Katrina survivors.

She was ambitious, but also appreciated life outside of work, her colleagues say.

Gulomova had a knack for languages, and liked to explore exotic cuisines when traveling abroad. She also had two daughters whom she adored. She would take her girls on vacations, looking to explore different cultures with them.

“Her girls were her life,” says Matt Edwards, her old boss.

“Some people have a hard line between work and family and friends. But I think she enjoyed bringing people together and getting to know her colleagues—not just Americans, but local Chinese staff,” says Jim Rigassio, a colleague who served with Gulomova in Guangzhou, China.

Kemp adds, “She was always the first person to say ‘Stop working, let’s go get a drink— you can’t be working all the time.’”

She had this saying—“widening the circle”—that Rigassio recalls anytime he faces an obstacle at work. Gulomova always welcomed more perspectives during turbulent times.

“This was an immigrant who lived the American dream, who contributed to our national objectives—in this case commercial objectives. And because you can easily obtain a gun, to settle some dispute, you end up with losing that bright light,” says Rigassio.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

History was George Hendrix’s favorite class at YouthBuild Public Charter School. Eugenia Reyes was his teacher. She says he was full of questions and he would enrich the class with his participation. “And he would relate it—everything that we read—he would always relate it, bring it back to, ‘Oh, this is what happens now in D.C., this is what happens within my neighborhood.’” Whether she was teaching about the work of the founding fathers or the D.C. Council, George could bring the information to present-day life.

“I really liked his personality,” says Reyes.

He would come to her class when she was teaching ESL and speak with those students.

“He would always encourage them to speak English, even if they didn’t speak it well or pronounced words wrong,” she says. “He was always giving courage to them.”

Every once in a while, on a bad day, he’d ask to just hang out in her room. He was in and out of school, starting and stopping and starting again. He was always very well dressed, and she says he wanted to start his own business.

“He would draw shoes, and he would color different patterns on the shoes,” she says. “And he was always checking on new brands, new styles in shoes and also clothes.”

She misses him, and the two other YouthBuild students she lost to gun violence this year.

“He was very popular. George was very popular,” says Reyes. “Everyone knew him because he made friends with everyone.”

—Alexa Mills

Anfernee Vernon Walker was Nicole Harper’s second child. “When he was small he was so lovable,” she says. “People loved him. They asked me, could they have him?” Her happy baby was “always smiling, always smiling. It was never a dull moment with Anfernee, never.”

As an adult, she says, “He had a good heart.

And he helped anybody out that he could. He was a family person, he loved his family. He loved his kids.”

He had two little ones, and he had just moved in with their mother, his partner. “They had big plans together,” says his mom. He was working toward getting a second job.

“He tried not to let too much stuff bother him,” says Nicole. “But I knew when stuff was bothering him, like when we lost my mom.

That took a toll on him. When my 17-year-old was shot, that took a toll on him, too.”

Anfernee’s father named him for a basketball player, and he grew up loving to play basketball and football too. He had the nickname Smoke.

“Everybody loved Smoke,” says Nicole.

“He was a kindhearted person. If he had it, you had it.”

—Alexa Mills

Dominic Robinson was the mayor of Deanwood. His community dubbed him that after he testified at a D.C. Council hearing on police conduct in July 2018. Dominic felt compelled to testify after police stopped and frisked a group of black men outside of Nook’s Barbershop, and a witness captured the incident on their cell phone.

“What you all saw in that video, that is nothing new,” he told lawmakers. “We’ve been going through this in this community for the last three, four years.”

Dominic inspired his community that day.

It was groundbreaking for someone from his block to speak up like that.

“People like Dominic wanted to make clear they existed,” says his childhood friend, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Anthony Lorenzo Green. “He made it very clear to me, he wanted to be more active in politics, community issues. Because he was getting tired of being judged by neighbors who didn’t speak with them, didn’t want to engage them, didn’t bother wanting to come to that corner of the community. He wanted to have his own voice, and really speak to who they were.”

Robinson wanted more for himself and his kids, whom he adored. He had dreams of running his own business one day. He and other Deanwood residents already started a T-shirt business. He also dabbled in entertainment— specifically, he was involved with HardWorkin Entertainment, a rap label Huntwood apartments residents started. But he had plans to take it to another level.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

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Ebony and Antwan Washington

Ebony Washington likEs to celebrate her birthday with a community service project. This year’s project was especially personal. The invitation read, “Please join me as we create a memorial for gun violence victims in Washington DC.” Her brother-in-law, Francis Lee Savoy, had recently been shot and killed. The party was on Oct. 5 in the basement of Faith United Church of Christ in Northeast, where she and her family and about 30 friends gathered to create a small wooden cross for each person who had died from gunshot wounds in D.C. in 2019. As they worked, Washington stood up to give a short talk about gun violence. Her friends then gave her an extended, joyous rendition of “Happy Birthday” before going out to place the crosses around the edge of the property. She and her husband, Antwan, hope that passersby stop to look at the crosses.

—Alexa Mills

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Ronald Jones, 59

Stabbed on the 1300 block of Euclid Street NW on July 15 Ronald Jones was among the most advanced chess players in D.C., and he was a regular at the chess tables in Dupont Circle.

“He was at one point the D.C. chess champion, and that's really quite an accomplishment,” says David Mehler, founder of the U.S. Chess Center.

“When you think about people saying, ‘Do what you love,’ chess is what he loved,” says Ronnie’s sister, Tina Boone. They grew up in Chicago, where someone from the neighborhood showed Ronnie how the chess pieces move. From there, he read Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess over and over again.

"I always thought about Ronnie as a brilliant mind," says Tina. He was one of her older siblings in a family of seven kids, and knowing the challenges she would face being left-handed, she says, “Ronnie played games with me to where we both learned to be ambidextrous.”

Here in D.C., Jones’ great passion was teaching children to play. “He loved to see young black players rising in the world of

chess,” says Jamaal Abdul-Alim, a journalist and chess player at Dupont Circle. “He had a passion for the game and he wanted to share that passion with young people,” echoes Mehler.

Wherever Jones set up, he’d invite people to play. While other chess players in Dupont stuck to the regulars, Jones reached out to tourists and passersby. “He would try to create a friendly atmosphere,” says AbdulAlim. “He’d say, ‘Chess player?’ You know, like asking them if they wanted to partake.”

“He lived in Columbia Heights, and sometimes he would be out there in that area where the Target is, and he would set up a chess board and wait for people to approach him,” says Mehler. “And invariably people would.

And if they played, he would beat them. But if they were kids … he would teach them.”

Tina says her brother sent his nieces and nephews chess boards in the mail. “He would play with them over the phone,” she says. “He had the board in his mind. He didn't have to see it.”

—Alexa Mills

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Karon Brown, 11

Courtesy Shelina Warren

Courtesy Tina Boone

“He was a good kid— helpful. You didn’t have to ask him to help you out.

If he saw you working he would come help you out. Quiet, funny. Like to play practical jokes.”

Ahkii Washington-Scruggs, 17

Shot on the 2700 block of Naylor Road SE on July 18

Shot on the 1100 block of Queen Street NE on July 19

Karon Brown was a lover of football, outdoor life, and food—namely McDonald’s. He was described by many as a good kid, a joy.

He was 11 and had just completed his tenure at Stanton Elementary School when he died.

He was on his way to middle school.

“He was funny, a very caring little boy,” says his mother, Kathren Brown. “I just miss his smile and his laughter. Irritating us sometimes, getting on our nerves. I miss all of that.”

He had dreams of playing in the National Football League one day. He was on the Woodland Tigers, a team he thoroughly enjoyed playing for. His coach, Michael Steve Zanders, remembers Karon as a quiet spirit with a humorous side. “He was a good kid—helpful. You didn’t have to ask him to help you out. If he saw you working he would come help you out. Quiet, funny. Liked to play practical jokes.”

Coach Z, as his players call him, met Karon and his family while recruiting for his rec team.

“I met them when they just moved into the community. When I introduced myself as the football coach and the activities I had in the community, he was the first one to come to the door,” he says. Karon played cornerback and safety. His team became a new family for him.

Karon was a self-starter, too. According to Coach Z, Karon “knew how to hustle and make his own money.” He’d figured out how to make a few dollars from his benevolence: pumping gas at the gas station. He used the money to buy his favorite foods and snacks. In his way, he exuded kindness and ambition.

—Candace Y.A. Montague

When Shelina Warren, a teacher at Dunbar High School, first met Ahkii WashingtonScruggs, she told him about a childhood friend she had named Ahkii. “You never met an Ahkii like me before,” he told her. And he was right.

“He definitely left his mark on me,” she says. “He livened up the classroom when he walked in.” She found him to be a confident, bright young man.

He told a lot of jokes in class. But he could also be quiet at times, collecting his thoughts.

When he was down, his classmates—particularly those who were his best friends on the football team—lifted him up. Really, they would lift each other up—usually by talking down the competition. Ahkii loved his football team because he loved the competition. His teammates also acted as family to one another, keeping each other in line. His number was 26, and a recent game the team won against H.D. Woodson was 26 to 14.

Students and faculty at Dunbar High School still talk a lot about Ahkii. Some attribute the football team’s recent wins to his jersey, which remains on the field in his honor.

“He should be here right now … getting ready to graduate,” says Warren. “This was just senseless violence to me. But I know that he is in a better place.”

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

“Anytime I was sad or ready to give up on something, he would tell me that I couldn’t give up because he doesn’t give up, and that we always have to fight to put the pieces back together.”

Courtesy Antwan Washington

“always been a noble slim, and always been solid.”

Jamal Bandy, 27

Shot on the 1300 block of Congress Street SE on July 21 Jamal Bandy, aka Bandit, is remembered by Councilmember Trayon White on his Facebook page as “always been a noble slim, and always been solid.”

Jamal was a father to an 8-year-old son who played football on the Woodland Tigers recreation team. He was an assistant coach working with Michael Steve Zanders, better known as Coach Z, to prepare young boys for gridiron competition. Coach Z remembers Jamal from when he was much younger. He attended Ballou High School with Coach Z’s daughter. “He hung around with the guys that I used to coach.

So all of those guys that I used to coach came back to coach [the next group]. He brought his son up and said he wanted to coach. Nice guy.

He would spend his own money on water, Gatorade, and snacks at the games.”

—Candace Y.A. Montague

Francis Lee Savoy, 37

Wendell Youngblood, 46

Shot on the 300 Block of 50th Street NE on July 26 “I really feel naked out here. I feel naked out here without my guarantee,” says Antwan Washington. “I miss his presence. I miss that assurance that I had somebody in my corner.”

One of Anwan’s earliest childhood memories is of his brother, Francis Lee Savoy, attacking their mother’s boyfriend. He was just 4 or 5 years old at the time, and the two boys were about a year apart—Antwan older, Francis younger. This particular boyfriend sexually abused Antwan. “So when the man used to try to do what he was going to do with me,” says Antwan, “my brother used to always fight him until he had no more fight left in his body.

Sometimes the guy would knock him unconscious. But my brother would continue to get up and come back.”

The two boys made their own core family unit much of the time. As they went in and out of homes and foster care, they always stuck together. If they got separated, they found each other. “It’s like we had a magnetic pull towards each other no matter what distance, no matter the time,” says Antwan.

They loved to watch movies, and when the credits started rolling, Francis (“Franny,” at the time. The boys called each other Franny

Shot on the 1500 block of North Capitol Street NE on Aug. 3

and Twonny as little boys and had a series of joint kicknames as kids, many of them courtesy of their mom) would find whatever he could in the house to make a costume and reenact the lead character. “The A-Team, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Rambo—I don't care. Whatever we watched, after the movie went off, he would go upstairs and creatively cut himself some material, make a bandana, make some nunchucks,” says Antwan. “I think that he was extremely imaginative. I think that he just saw those things and some of those individuals on TV, and it was his way to escape our reality.”

Franny later took the nicknames Black and Jet, loving his dark skin from the time he was a little boy. “He embraced his dark complexion before the Black Lives Matter movement,” says Antwan. “He was already convinced that his black life mattered.”

Antwan loves to talk about his brother.

“I’ve heard people use the terminology, they feel like a piece of them is gone. That’s a completely accurate depiction of where I am,” he says. He is attempting to find comfort, when he can, in the idea that his brother is at peace.

“No more stress, no more worry.”

—Alexa Mills

Wendell Youngblood’s daughter wrote to City Paper about her father: The loss of my father has everything to do with how comforting and present he was in my life. Anytime I was sad or ready to give up on something, he would tell me that I couldn’t give up because he doesn’t give up, and that we always have to fight to put the pieces back together.

My father was loving and welcoming. He learned this from my grandfather, grandmother, and great-grandmother. He taught me how to face who I was and how to wear the shoes that were meant for me. He was one of my cheerleaders and champions that kept me going as I went to law school and beyond.

He has friends and family who are feeling a loss and grieving. My father was love because he loved, deeply and unconditionally. He loved his two children, his grandchild, and his aunts and uncles. He was so smart and honest, and true to the core of being, that “family matters.”

When I would call him, it would always be a long conversation of reaching and teaching me. My father was a writer, an artist, and a counselor. Anytime he conquered an obstacle, he become focused, driven, and ready to teach this or any other lesson to his children.

He was an amazing father and the loss that my family must face is unbearable, and unfortunately long-lasting. I would not be the lawyer, woman, and daughter I am without Wendell Ellis Youngblood Jr.

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Todd Messer, 51

Alonzo Richard Hines Jr., 20

Marquita Lucas, 24

Courtesy Raeann Magill

“Her siblings and I talk about how silly she was and her protective nature of her siblings, even though she was the youngest.”

Courtesy Saundra Hammitt

“And given that I was the youngest, he always got beat up a lot trying to protect me.”

Margery Magill, 27

Assaulted on the 2300 block of 18th Street NW on Aug. 8

Shot on the 1500 block of 45th Street NE on Aug. 14

Killed on the 3700 block of Horner Place SE on Aug. 17

Stabbed on the 400 block of Irving Street NW on Aug. 27

Growing up in Newport, Kentucky, Todd Messer and his little brother Aaron “were just alike,” Aaron says. “Tweedledee and Tweedledum.” When Halloween came around, Todd liked to decide what Aaron’s costume would be. “He was the groom; I was the bride,” Aaron remembers fondly. “He was the Lone Ranger; I was Tonto. Sibling rivalries—we competed in everything. And of course, I usually came up with the short end of the stick.”

But at the end of the day, “he always protected me,” Aaron emphasizes. “And given that I was the youngest, he always got beat up a lot trying to protect me.” “We used to bike around the streets of Newport, Kentucky, one end of the city to the other. The city was ours,” he says. “Of course, our parents didn’t like it. We always got grounded.” It was never that easy to stop Todd, though. Whenever the brothers got grounded, Todd wanted to “run away to Grandma’s house. And he always got me to follow him.”

As a kid, “Todd was inquisitive,” Aaron says. “He was obstinate. He wanted to go his own way as a child.” Todd wanted to grow up “to be a public servant,” Aaron explains. “Before the drugs.” He cut off contact with his family as a teenager, and Aaron believes his brother spent decades dealing with homelessness and substance abuse. “I’ve heard there’ve been a lot of homeless attacks,” Aaron says.

He thinks the world needs to remember that “these people are somebody. Nobody deserves to die like that.”

—Joshua Kaplan

Saundra Haumitt posts on social media about how much she loves and misses her son, and how much her family loves and misses him, all the time. She sent City Paper a text message remembrance for him, and also this photo. “Alonzo was known as Jiggy,” she writes. “I gave him that name as an infant. He graduated from Eastern High School in 2017, and he was a very outgoing, loved sports, football, baseball, and track. Jiggy was very entertaining to his family and friends, kept us all laughing. He had the most remembering SMILE I ever seen.”

Marquita Lucas was loving, caring, and protective. When she wasn’t posting selfies on Instagram or Snapchat, she was spending time with her siblings and nephews.

“Her siblings and I talk about how silly she was and her protective nature of her siblings, even though she was the youngest,” says her aunt Eugena Beard. “She was very loyal to her friends and family.”

She had dreams of becoming a nurse. She was working to finish up nursing school so she could help people. As a kid, she was outgoing, outspoken, and sometimes a little bit rebellious.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

Of all the places she lived, from Turkey to England, Margery Magill felt most at home in D.C. “Washington, D.C. was the most special place in the entire world to her,” says her sister Raeann Magill.

She was enchanted by this city. She’d always talk about the book she just found at the Library of Congress—that was one of her favorite places. She’d even go on dates with her boyfriend there. This reflects how much she loved to learn and explore.

She was also ambitious. She had every intention of working in the agriculture industry on the international level. She wasn’t yet certain about what exactly she’d do, but she always talked about the United Nations, her sister says. She wanted to help people in developing countries farm better so communities could eat well and plentifully. This always interested her; she was active in Future Farmers of America in high school.

Raeann, who was younger by four years, looked up to Margery. She remembers when Margery visited her in Argentina, where she was studying abroad. Raeann was going through a hard time, feeling depressed. She vividly remembers seeing Margery at the airport; her comforting smile, their embrace.

“Seeing her lift[ed] me up,” says Raeann. “I knew everything was going to be OK.” —Amanda Michelle Gomez

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By Telena Felder

By Telena Felder

Courtesy Demetrius Person

Courtesy Aniedrea Galloway

Semaj Alsobrooks, 22

DeAndre Person, 19

Shot on the 3900 block of East Capitol Street NE on Sept. 4

Shot on the 3600 block of Jay Street NE on Sept. 7

Semaj Alsobrooks was a caring son. He would treat his mother, Aniedrea Galloway, to dinner out every year for her birthday, Oct. 12, taking her to a new restaurant each time.

“I miss him—to call me to say happy birthday,” says Galloway. “I loved him so much. He was my baby.”

He was friendly and kind to all, and assumed that everyone was inherently good.

Likewise, people gravitated toward him and sought out his friendship. It helped that he was funny; he was very much a comedian, his mother says.

Semaj had a bright future ahead of him. He was happily married; she inspired him and he inspired her. He dreamed of one day moving to California to be an actor. He even had an agent. If that didn’t work out, he planned to be a cross-country driver. He loved being on the road and traveling—a love he developed as a child. He’d been everywhere on the east coast because his mother would take him skiing at least twice a year. There was no sport Semaj couldn’t do.

“He wanted to take people to come to travel [with us],” says Galloway. “He wanted others to share his different experiences.”

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

Demetrius Person still speaks about his brother, DeAndre, in the present tense much of the time.

They both love music, sports, and video games. DeAndre is the better singer, while Demetrius is the better drummer. They’ve both been making music since they were 5 or 6 years old. They go to church at Restoration Temple where their uncle is the pastor, and they sing gospel music there.

DeAndre is the baby of the family at 19, and Demetrius is 21. They have two older brothers.

DeAndre plays football and is a ’Skins fan.

Demetrius plays baseball and is a Cowboys fan. They both like video games, specifically Madden NFL and an NBA game.

They fight all the time, but the fights don’t last. Demetrius says they “just wait a couple minutes and start to make up.”

“He always made people smile and laugh,” says Demetrius.

—Alexa Mills

Alphonzo and Eric Carter, 55 and 53

Shot in the 2200 Block of Savannah Terrace SE on Sept. 16 Alphonzo and Eric were brothers.

Alphonzo was more of a homebody. That meant he spent a lot of time caring for his family. He was a loving father, a compassionate grandfather, and a caring son.

“He was a boy scout,” says his sister, Renee Carter. “He was a natural fixer-upper … He always walked around the house, fixing things.

He worked on his car. He worked on my car if I needed it. He was a good person—he took care of mom really well.”

When Alphonzo got up in the morning, he was quick to prepare his mother’s breakfast.

Sometimes he’d make a stack of pancakes or grill some sausages. When she had a stroke, he made sure to feed her healthy food, giving her fruit or a plain bagel with a light spread of cream cheese. When he wasn’t caring for his mom, he was taking his grandson to the playground.

Eric, for his part, was “an old man in a young

man’s body,” says Renee, meaning he was wise. He always had a message to share: “If you hang around a hotdog stand, you’ll eat a hotdog,” or “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”

Things got hard for Eric after he injured his back on the job; he worked construction. He became further injured when his spinal discs ruptured in a car accident. Eric got addicted to his prescribed pain medication. But eventually, things started to look up for Eric: He got himself a girlfriend, was about to secure an apartment, and the homeless shelter he stayed at recommended him for a job there.

Eric fatally shot his brother Alphonzo, and then police fatally shot Eric. Renee says Eric sought mental health help the week before he died, and she questions whether inadequate care led her otherwise caring brother to kill.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

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“He was one of those students who was an old soul in a young body.

Very wise, beyond his age. Very low key.

A natural leader. He was very artistic, musically.”

Sean Coleman-Bey, 20

“This kid cared—I mean from his soul, from his gut—about other people’s well-being. And his death was just a gut punch.

It was a gut punch. Because we're talking about a kid who was selfless.”

Jamel Kirkland, 17

Shot on the 1400 block of Brentwood Road NE on Sept. 19

Shot on the 1300 block of Morris Road SE on Sept. 22

City Paper spoke with two teachers who taught Sean when he was a child. Devin Stokes was an assistant teacher in Sean’s fourth grade class, and Gary Reid was his junior high Spanish teacher, both at Tree of Life Public Charter School. Each teacher posted a Facebook status mourning a student they loved.

“He was one of those students who was an old soul in a young body,” says Stokes. “Very wise, beyond his age. Very low key. A natural leader. He was very artistic, musically.”

Stokes remembers a time all of Sean’s gifts came together. The principal had asked each class to come up with an original song to perform at a pep rally. “I was sitting there along with the lead teacher, and we were trying to brainstorm some ideas,” says Stokes. “And I remember Sean started beating on his desk, and he had this rhythm to it. And then he started humming this melody. And it was very, very unique. And from that point I could see the other students become intrigued.”

“He was able to galvanize the other students and bring them in,” says Stokes.

He was a math wiz. “He would coach the students who were really struggling,” says Stokes. Sean also watched out for his younger siblings.

Reid had Sean in class a few years later, and then he had Sean’s little brother and sister. He went to the funeral to pay the whole family his respects.

“He was very attentive in class,” says Reid, remembering Sean. “He was a very jovial person, a very even-tempered person. He was very well respected. He was a good student and he was never disrespectful. And he was always willing to listen.”

—Alexa Mills

“Chip was a student in my eighth grade English class,” says Christina Cook, a teacher at the SEED School of Washington, D.C. That was Jamel Kirkland’s nickname, Chip. She had him in class three years ago.

“On any given day, Chip could be found in my room sitting in the reading area—really more so laying in the reading area, because it’s a comfortable space for kids to work—reading books. He liked science fiction books. He liked mystery books,” she says. “He loved to read all types of literature.”

She remembers how he engaged with one book in particular, a National Book Award winner titled Inside Out And Back Again by Thanhha Lai. It’s the story of a little girl and her big family fleeing Saigon as the Vietnam War reaches their home. “Jamel was very fascinated with one of her brothers, a character in the story. His name was Vu, and Vu was a kung fu artist,” she says. “Jamel used to talk a lot about his sisters and his mom and how much he respected them, and that's why he could relate so much to Vu.” When Chip died, she and her students created a song for him in class. She believes in using all the senses to teach. “The sense of music, sound, hearing, everything, all the senses to help kids grapple with information,” she says. Cook usually writes up some lyrics and the kids come up with a beat. Chip was really good at it. “He would always be the kid I could count on that would participate,” she says. “He would always say, ‘Cook, yo, this is lit.’”

Her voice halts when she talks about it.

“He’s a kid who, if he was still here, he would have gone far in life,” she says, remembering him as a natural entrepreneur.

“This kid cared—I mean from his soul, from his gut—about other people’s well-being. And his death was just a gut punch. It was a gut punch. Because we’re talking about a kid who was selfless.”

—Alexa Mills

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“He loved his family. What really mattered to him and what made him really happy was when he had birthday parties. And my mother made sure he had a birthday party every single birthday he has ever had.”

Devon Miler, 24

Shot on the 1600 block of Rosedale Street NE on Oct. 9 Lillie Warren raised Devon Miler. She was his grandmother and had him since he was a baby. “It’s just been me and him,” says Lillie. “When I got him, he was really sick—he couldn’t walk, he couldn’t do a lot of things.”

But his illnesses and his severe autism didn’t stop him from enjoying the simple things he loved. He especially liked his wrestling figurines. Anywhere Devon went, his toy figures came with him. He watched WWE SmackDown, and on occasion, he’d wrestle too.

“By me being sick, I couldn’t go out and do much with him. But when we’re here, we’re playing music. He loved to sing and dance,” says Lillie. He enjoyed singing along with his aunt, Amirah Christine Warren, who sings professionally.

When he did get out of the house, Devon loved to ride in cars. His caregiver, Lekelefac Fonge, would drive him around and that made him smile. Fonge, who was also fatally shot on Oct. 9, introduced him to a lot of new things, like his African culture. Fonge was originally from

Cameroon. “He loved his aide,” says Lillie.

“He loved his family,” says Amirah Christine.

“What really mattered to him and what made him really happy was when he had birthday parties. And my mother made sure he had a birthday party every single birthday he has ever had.”

Everyone would come over to Lillie’s house and she’d cook him something special. Beef and broccoli was Devon’s favorite dish. And his favorite saying? “Yeah Baby!”—he’d say that to everyone, especially to the women in his life.

Dozens of his family and friends attended his vigil at his grandmother’s house on Oct. 16.

But the connection Devon had with his grandmother was something special, because when Fonge wasn’t caring for Devon, Lillie was.

“I had to do everything for him, and that was something I loved to do for him,” says Lillie. “Now I’m like, who am I going to take care of now? Because I was always there for him.

I’m going to miss taking care of him.”

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

Thomas Lamont Johnson, 15

Shot on the 1300 block of Half Street SW on Oct. 9 Thomas Lamont “TJ” Johnson enjoyed cutting grass for family members. He also loved nature, pet turtles, and his father’s dog, Clifford. In terms of sports, he played youth football for the Benning Stoddert Sharks, and on Sundays it was all about the Dallas Cowboys.

But on Oct. 18, Rev. Steve Young, pastor of the House of Praise, stood in front of a royal blue casket resting in the Northeast D.C. sanctuary that was filled with stone-faced teenagers, and he knocked three times.

“The case is closed,” said Young as he walked in front of the casket. For half an hour, Young delivered a sermon that mixed tough talk, humor, and the word of God. Despite stirring gospel complete with drums, keyboards, and jazzy uptempo church music, most teenagers sat motionless in the pews. Most did not cry, clap, or sing. They just sat there. Then when it was time for eulogies, TJ’s best friend spoke, followed by his old football coach and the woman who owns the daycare center where his grieving mother works.

“To me it ain’t never going to be OK, I can’t get him back,” the young man said. He talked about how they shared carryout meals to-

gether because either he or TJ was broke. A few days before he died, TJ told him he wanted to dine at Ruth’s Chris Steak House for his birthday.

When the coach spoke, he told the young men in the room, “Pull up your pants … If you want to honor Thomas, go to school, make a difference.” The coach then told the adults: “Parents, find a way to love your children.” He looked at TJ’s mother and said, “Ms. Brenda, you did everything in your power.”

When the daycare center owner spoke, she said TJ loved to cut grass in her backyard because it was so peaceful.

Young preached from Matthew 25:13 in the New Testament, which reads, “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” He named his sermon, “Ready or not, here I come.”

As TJ’s casket was pushed out of the church, a long line of teenagers followed it, walking through a gauntlet of older mothers who served as church ushers. One lady yelled out, “Why aren’t you all in school?” A teenage girl replied, “We had permission to come.”

—Hamil R. Harris

Dilcia Rodriguez, 32

Courtesy Sean Magruder

By Hamil Harris

“Dee Dee loved to have fun and her smile and laugh would light up a whole building. ”

Clarence Venable, 40

Shot on the 700 block of Chesapeake Street SE on Oct 16

Shot on the 3200 block of Dubois Place SE on Nov. 22

Latisha Leonard wrote to City Paper about her friend, Dilcia Rodriguez.

I would like to say this about Dilcia “Dee Dee”Rodriguez: I met Dee Dee when she started working at 801 East Men’s Shelter with Catholic Charities about five years ago.

We started off as just co-workers and as time passed it manifested into a strong friendship.

Dee Dee became my sister and my best friend.

It was nothing we didn’t do together. Dee Dee was caring and a non-judgmental person; she would really give you her last if she had it. With anyone she met, she would come up with a nickname for them. My nickname she had for me was her Linky, because I am tall and slim.

Dee Dee leaves behind her four loving children that meant the world to her. Dee Dee was very family oriented. We would get together with our children on different occasions and have cookouts, dinner nights, and some holiday family gatherings. On her free weekends, when we both had some free time from our children, we would go out to have a little fun and let our hair down. Dee Dee loved to have fun and her smile and laugh would light up a whole building.

Dee Dee was loved, and is still loved by so many family, friends, and co-workers. It is such a tragedy that this beautiful soul was taken in the mist of domestic violence, and I hope that Dilcia "Dee Dee” Rodriguez’s story reaches others in the same situation to bring awareness. Dee Dee, you will truly be missed.

Love you!!

“Why you mad?” Clarence Venable would always ask. He said it so frequently, Venable thought of getting his saying trademarked or printed on T-shirts, says his childhood friend Sean Magruder. There was a reason Venable always said this.

“He wanted to make sure everybody is getting along,” says Magruder.

Venable did his best to deescalate fights and keep his community safe as a violence interrupter with MURDER FREE DC. It came naturally to Venable to get involved in this type of work; he was outgoing. He was also doing the work long before he got the official title.

“He wanted D.C. to be a place that his kids could grow up without worrying about gun violence,” Magruder says.

He had five kids, and he cherished them.

He loved being a father. He wanted to form a basketball or football league, starting with his own kids. He was especially proud of one of his children, the comedian. Venable, for his part, cracked jokes all the time. He didn’t have the resources to do comedy professionally, so he was really happy to see his son do stand-up.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez

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The Downtown Holiday Market is centrally located in the heart of Downtown DC, centered at 8th and F Street, NW. It is easily accessible by foot, bike, and Metro (Gallery Pl-Chinatown).

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Welcome to the 15th Annual Downtown Holiday Market

JULIE KENT, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

THE ORIGINAL WASHINGTON, D.C. HOLIDAY TRADITION

The Downtown Holiday Market brings all its seasonal cheer back for its 15th year! Whether you’re shopping for friends and/or family or making your own Wish List, the outdoor Market is your one- stop shop for unique gifts.

Here’s what you can find: • More than 150 vendors from the region and the world will showcase unique and handmade crafts, clothing, glasswork, jewelry, paintings, photographs, woodworking and so much more.

• Shoppers can support District creatives with their locallymade products at the Made in DC booth presented by the Department of Small and Local Business Development.

• New this year, find the National Building Museum’s popular gift shop at the Market.

• Live music, food and holiday festivities while you shop!

NOW THROUGH DECEMBER 29 AT THE WARNER THEATRE

In 2005, the Downtown Business Improvement District (BID) in collaboration with Diverse Markets Management (DMM) created an outdoor holiday shopping marketplace for the Downtown community. Today, Downtown is a retail and tourist destination and this market is at the heart of it all. The Market is committed to environmental sustainability and environmentally friendly initiatives, which 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.

For more information on daily performances and vendors, visit downtownholidaymarket.com. Vendors rotate daily, so we look forward to seeing you throughout this holiday season again and again!

Follow us on Twitter @DtwnHolidayMkt, #DowntownHolidayMarket, on Facebook and on Instagram.

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JOIN US FOR THE PERFECT END NOTE TO THE HOLIDAY SEASON! TWELFTH NIGHT January 5, 2020. 5:00 pm National Presbyterian Church The City Choir of Washington and our Partners in Song, the Freedom High School Chamber Choir (Chantilly, VA), directed by Laura Lazarevich, present an evening of beloved and traditional carols and songs to welcome and celebrate the New Year.

TICKETS: $15-$59 | Group discounts available

Order Your Tickets Today! Visit citychoir.org or call 571-206-8525.

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The Universalist National Memorial Church Artists’ Series Presents

Christmas Eve

by Candlelight

An Evening with International Opera Star

Sharon Christman Featuring

DEC 24, 2019 at 8 P.M.

The UNMC Choir The Maytime Symphonette Alex Chan, Piano & Organ Michael Klucker, Cellist

FREE CONCERT & RECEPTION

A FREE-WILL OFFERING WILL BE COLLECTED FOR THE BUILDING FUND Universalist National Memorial Church 1810 16th Street, N.W. | 202-387-3411

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DAVID GATTON, PASTOR | JOE MURPHY, MODERATOR | DARRYL WINSTON, MUSIC DIRECTOR Free parking will be available behind the Scottish Rite Temple, located diagonally from the church. To access parking, please use the service way on 16th Street between the Chastleton and the Scottish Rite Temple.

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A Baroque Italian Christmas

Venice 202.544.7077

Folger Consort journeys to Venice with holiday music featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria in D, RV 589, with Baroque orchestra and chorus.

December 13 -18 At St. Mark’s Church on Capitol Hill

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MUSIC SCHEDULE The Market Stage presents a musical feast of more than 75 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

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Important Facts About DOVATO

This is only a brief summary of important information about DOVATO and does not replace talking to your healthcare provider about your condition and treatment.

What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO? If you have both human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Resistant HBV infection. Your healthcare provider will test you for HBV infection before you start treatment with DOVATO. If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B, the hepatitis B virus can change (mutate) during your treatment with DOVATO and become harder to treat (resistant). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in people who have HIV-1 and HBV infection.

• Worsening of HBV infection. If you have HIV-1 and HBV infection, your HBV may get worse (flare-up) if you stop taking DOVATO. A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. Worsening liver disease can be serious and may lead to death. ° Do not run out of DOVATO. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your DOVATO is all gone. ° Do not stop DOVATO without first talking to your healthcare provider. If you stop taking DOVATO, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your liver.

What is DOVATO? DOVATO is a prescription medicine that is used without other antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV-1 infection in adults: who have not received antiretroviral medicines in the past, and without known resistance to the medicines dolutegravir or lamivudine. HIV-1 is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in children.

Who should not take DOVATO? Do Not Take DOVATO if You: • have ever had an allergic reaction to a medicine that contains dolutegravir or lamivudine.

• take dofetilide.

What should I tell my healthcare provider before using DOVATO? Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: • have or have had liver problems, including hepatitis B or C infection.

• have kidney problems.

• are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. One of the medicines in DOVATO (dolutegravir) may harm your unborn baby. ° You should not take DOVATO if you are planning to become pregnant or during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Your healthcare provider may prescribe a different medicine if you are planning to become pregnant or become pregnant during treatment with DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, your healthcare provider will perform a pregnancy test before you start treatment with DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, you should consistently use effective birth control (contraception) during treatment with DOVATO. ° Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are planning to become pregnant, you become pregnant, or think you may be pregnant during treatment with DOVATO.

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Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: (cont’d) • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take DOVATO. ° You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of passing HIV-1 to your baby. ° One of the medicines in DOVATO (lamivudine) passes into your breastmilk. ° Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

Some medicines interact with DOVATO. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.

• You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that interact with DOVATO. • Do not start taking a new medicine without telling your healthcare provider.

Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take DOVATO with other medicines.

What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO? DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Those in the “What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO?” section.

• Allergic reactions. Call your healthcare provider right away if you develop a rash with DOVATO. Stop taking DOVATO and get medical help right away if you develop a rash with any of the following signs or symptoms: fever; generally ill feeling; tiredness; muscle or joint aches; blisters or sores in mouth; blisters or peeling of the skin; redness or swelling of the eyes; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; problems breathing.

• Liver problems. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus may have an increased risk of developing new or worsening changes in certain liver tests during treatment with DOVATO. Liver problems, including liver failure, have also happened in people without a history of liver disease or other risk factors. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your liver.

Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice); dark or “tea-colored” urine; light-colored stools (bowel movements); nausea or vomiting; loss of appetite; and/or pain, aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach area.

• Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms that could be signs of lactic acidosis: feel very weak or tired; unusual (not normal) muscle pain; trouble breathing; stomach pain with nausea and vomiting; feel cold, especially in your arms and legs; feel dizzy or lightheaded; and/or a fast or irregular heartbeat.

• Lactic acidosis can also lead to severe liver problems, which can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis). Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the signs or symptoms of liver problems which are listed above under “Liver problems.” You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female or very overweight (obese).

SO MUCH GOES INTO WHO I AM HIV MEDICINE IS ONE PART OF IT. Reasons to ask your doctor about DOVATO: DOVATO can help you reach and then stay undetectable* with just 2 medicines in 1 pill. That means fewer medicines† in your body while taking DOVATO You can take it any time of day with or without food (around the same time each day)—giving you flexibility DOVATO is a once-a-day complete treatment for adults who are new to HIV-1 medicine.

Results may vary. *Undetectable means reducing the HIV in your blood to very low levels (less than 50 copies per mL). † As compared with 3-drug regimens.

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What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO (cont’d)?

• Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having new symptoms after you start taking DOVATO. • The most common side effects of DOVATO include: headache; diarrhea; nausea; trouble sleeping; and tiredness.

These are not all the possible side effects of DOVATO. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Where Can I Find More Information?

• Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

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Switching Goals

It took the DC Housing Authority six years to reach a deal on the renovation of its headquarters. The final proposal is totally different from the original plan.

Something StinkS at the DC Housing Authority, and it isn’t the moldy units they’ve neglected to maintain.

For the past six years, DCHA has been trying to renovate its headquarters at 1133 North Capitol Street NE. To the frustration of some DCHA board commissioners, the project on a valuable piece of property in the middle of NoMa has languished in negotiations—until now.

This week, the DCHA Board of Commissioners voted 6-5 on a resolution approving the long awaited redevelopment plan. But the proposal is quite a bit different from the original idea and leaves several questions about the future of DCHA’s headquarters unanswered.

Under the new proposal, a trio of developers will pay DCHA $67 million for a 99-year lease on the land where its headquarters sits, according to the resolution; they plan to build housing on the site. The estimated total taxable assessed value of the land for 2020, according to the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue, is about $80 million, an increase of about $6 million from 2019.

But rather than renovating its current headquarters, as DCHA originally wanted, the housing authority will pay the development team $14 million to lease back its own headquarters, the resolution states. The terms of the “leaseback” are unclear, and the resolution says the Authority will eventually move to a new location on DCHA-owned property. But the cost of relocating, whether the Authority will need to build new headquarters, and even where it will go, are also not spelled out in the resolution.

DCHA’s original request for proposals in 2014 also called for a separate customer service center as well as at least 210 units of affordable housing to be built on the land. At least one-third of those units were to be reserved for very low-income residents who make 30 percent of the area median income (AMI) or less, according to the original RFP. That same requirement is spelled out in the land deed from 2007, when the District transferred the land to DCHA, but that’s changed under the new plan, too.

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The separate customer service center is gone from the resolution the DCHA Board approved this week. And the new plan calls for “no less than 200 units” of affordable housing, but only stipulates that “20% of any residential square footage” be reserved for those earning 60 percent of AMI. Gone are the 70 deeply affordable units.

The 2014 RFP acknowledged the “significant revitalization” of the surrounding area, known as NoMa, including the construction of a Metro station at New York and Florida avenues NE, which opened in 2004.

“The Site is one of the few significant properties untouched by the revitalization of the area,” the RFP states. “DCHA believes the Site can be redeveloped to better suit its organizational purposes, better serve the neighborhood and result in positive financial returns to the Authority.”

The group of developers who have been in talks with DCHA since at least 2014 include MidAtlantic Realty Partners LLC, CSG Urban Partners, and Taylor Adams Associates, which counts David Jannarone as a managing partner. Jannarone is a former development director under Mayor Adrian Fenty and used to work for the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.

His firm, in partnership with MRP, recently received a $16 million loan from the Housing Production Trust Fund despite the fact that their proposal was ranked dead last, 20

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out of 20. A whistleblower filed a complaint about the questionable award, alleging political favoritism.

Jannarone did not respond to an email seeking comment. Efforts to reach Robert Murphy of MRP and Simone Goring Devaney of CSG were unsuccessful.

According to the resolution, the development team agrees to hire at least 65 low-income residents to work on the development and management phases of the project. The developers also agree to kick in $100,000 for job training, according to the resolution, and $400,000 into a fund DCHA will use to “fund affordable homeownership opportunities at DCHA development sites.”

Before DCHA reached an agreement with the development team, some DCHA commissioners expressed frustration and skepticism during their two previous meetings in October and November. It had been five years since DCHA’s original request.

“I want an answer to my question about why it’s taking so long to do this and whether the original intent and desires and requirements of the RFP are still in tact,” commissioner Bill Slover said during the October 2019 meeting.

DCHA executive director Tyrone Garrett acknowledged in that October meeting that the project was taking longer than anticipated. In thinking about DCHA’s “transformation plan,” which includes addressing the up to $2.5 billion worth of neglected maintenance and capital improvements to the Authority’s housing stock, Garrett said “we realized that the value of this particular asset is more valuable in terms of not just cost, or not just dollar value, but how we could realize and leverage the property in so many different ways to help us with our transformation plan.”

(Garrett testified this past spring that DCHA needed $343 million to address immediate lead and environmental hazards.)

At the DCHA board’s November meeting, Slover suggested the board vote to halt negotiations with the development team that they approved back in 2017, and start all over.

Garrett responded that he was in “active, open negotiation with the developer right now.”

DCHA board chair Neil Albert, an appointee of Mayor Muriel Bowser, cautioned against Slover’s proposal. He suggested instead that DCHA be allowed to continue negotiations.

Albert is the president and executive director of the DowntownDC Business Improvement District and served as the city administrator and deputy mayor for planning and economic development under Fenty.

Commissioner Dyana Forester then pointed out the significant development surrounding DCHA headquarters since it issued its original request.

“Do we think that the market has improved and it might be more beneficial for us to say that ‘we’ve been working through with you all for the past five years’,” she said in November. “‘There is not an interest for you all to move this forward. We want to put this back out into the world.’ I mean maybe to hear from other folks.”

That sounded like a great question to John Falcicchio, the current interim deputy mayor for planning and economic development, and an ex officio DCHA commissioner. But he suggested putting off an answer until the board’s next meeting.

“My other question would be how long would it take us to re-solicit it?” said Falcicchio, who also serves as Bowser’s chief of staff. “So housing is a priority. So getting more housing units is a priority but also getting money that we can invest into our properties is a priority. So if we’re going to take an 18-month or a two-year process to find another partner, well that doesn’t really do us any good either. So, I think that’s all the questions that we need to get answered without voting on this right now.”

At this week’s board meeting, Slover and Forester, who both voted against the resolution, continued to raise concerns about the questions left unanswered in the resolution.

Where will DCHA’s new headquarters go?

How much will it cost to relocate? When it’s all said and done, will DCHA spend more than the $67 million it’s getting in the deal?

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Plots and Pans

Local chefs share the stories behind their most sentimental pots and pans.

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By Laura Hayes Like many eaters, I spent part of my Thanksgiving weekend elbow deep in a sink full of pots and pans soaking in sudsy water.

The food-focused fall holidays have a way of forcing home cooks to employ every vessel in the kitchen to get the job done.

Looking down at the panoply of pans I was scrubbing, I realized that most were once my mother’s and recollected how they had traveled with me in moves across the country and overseas. “Why,” I pondered, especially because some are in shambles. You can buy new ones online and have them shipped straight to your door for less than $50!

Even if they have half a century’s worth of crud clinging to them or have a handle that’s barely hanging on, we hold on to these pots and pans because they’re often sentimental and have been passed down through generations.

They’re not just receptacles; they’re relics.

Professional chefs—who, yes, also cook at home—have the same inclination. City Paper visited several local chefs to check out their most precious pans. Each one tells a story.

Ris Lacoste, Chef and Owner, RIS Ris Lacoste grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as one of seven children. Her father, Rene Lacoste, was a fireman and her mother, Yvonne Lacoste, was a secretary who managed to stretch the family’s budget to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for nine people in a tiny galley kitchen.

“To grow up with three hot meals a day, I was blessed,” Ris says. “That’s why I give back because I got so much.”

Mostly it was meat and potatoes. The family would order half a steer from a local slaughterhouse and pay for it in $50 monthly installments. Ris remembers defrosting an old freezer with a hair dryer to make room for all the beef they would make last for months. “When [my mom] paid her last installment, she would order the next steer,” Ris explains.

Yvonne relied on Revere Copper and Brass pots in the 1950s. New Bedford, after all, was home to a plant that produced them until it closed in 2008. Ris’ uncle, Emile Lacoste, worked there his entire career. “I remember going there as a kid and seeing the big fire pits,”

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she says. “They were melting all these metals.”

The company’s lineage traces back to Paul Revere’s original Canton, Massachusetts, copper rolling mill, founded in 1801. Much later on, in 1938, an employee named James M. Kennedy invented copper-clad cookware that was produced at company headquarters in Rome, New York, and in New Bedford.

When Yvonne died, Ris’ sister, Cathy Lacoste-Hamel, took over the house and disseminated pieces from the collection of socalled Revere Ware. Each of Ris’ six siblings has at least one pot or pan from the set.

She got the double boiler, which is great for cooking things that require indirect heat like melting chocolate for truffles or making hollandaise sauce for a benedict. “These are the pots of my childhood,” Ris says. “Growing up, food was love.”

Adam Howard, Executive Chef, Blue Duck Tavern The pan that Chef Adam Howard holds dear has a bit of a mysterious background. It belonged to his grandfather on his mother’s side of the family. He describes his grandfa-

ther, Howard Smith, as a “country boy” who grew up in deep Alabama.

But World War II disrupted Smith’s bucolic farming lifestyle. The U.S. Army sent him to Germany where he worked as a cook. When the war was over, Smith stuck around for five years. He landed a job cooking in a castle somewhere in central Germany.

Howard doesn’t know much about this fabled castle. “He didn’t really talk about it,” he says. “Everyone just knew it happened. It was that generation, I guess. He wasn’t a big storyteller. He was the quiet hunter type.”

But Smith did hone his cooking skills at the castle and when he left, the family who owned it gave him a cast iron pan that Howard eventually inherited. “It’s really well seasoned—the kind of cast iron you could make an omelette in.”

Seasoning a cast iron pan is a science project that requires time, repetition, and a whole lot of grease. To achieve the desired goal of a nonstick surface, a cast iron pan needs to be coated with oil with a high smoke point and exposed to high heat to kick off a series of chemical reactions, including polymerization.

Howard keeps the pan in the oven so it’s frequently exposed to heat. He mainly uses it for cornbread and breakfast. “It’s been absorbing oils and ingredients over generations,” he says. “There’s something from Stuttgart in there somewhere.”

Robert Curtis, Executive Chef, Hazel Chef Robert Curtis’ cast iron pan has the look of hardened lava. The inside of the pan is smooth, while the outside has a spiky texture from years of carbon buildup. It’s also has significant heft to it. Curtis inherited it, imperfections and all, from his paternal greatgrandmother.

“As far as I’ve known the history of this pan, I’ve seen two things come out of it—fried chicken and cornbread,” Curtis says. “That’s it.”

His father’s side of the family is from Dayton, Ohio. Curtis knew his great-grandmother and remembers her as a quiet woman who loved watching football. Eventually the pan skipped a generation and wound up with Curtis’ father.

“Every Sunday, this thing is filled with fried chicken,” he says. “When football is on there has to be fried chicken.” His dad is a Browns fan.

To acquire the pan, all Curtis had to do was ask to borrow it. “My stepmom was like, ‘Yeah, take it! Hold onto it for a little bit. Don’t worry about bringing it back.’” He thinks she was happy to see it change hands. “She hates the idea of cleaning it. We’ve soaked this thing half a dozen times at their house and this is as good as it gets.”

Today the deep cast iron pan is Curtis’ goto for one-pot dinners. He’ll cut up root vegetables and onions, place them on the bottom

of the pan, and roast a whole chicken on top, for example.

“I love cast iron,” he says. “I love cooking with it. There’s just something about it. When you grab a cast iron pan there’s something rustic or traditional about it.”

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Rock Harper, President, RockSolid Creative Food Group Seasoning a cast iron skillet was a new concept for Chef Rock Harper. He bought one at IKEA hoping to rekindle childhood memories of his grandmother’s cooking. “I get home, wash it, and cook in it right away,” he says. “I called my mother and was like, ‘Why is mine different from my grandmother’s?’ I could hear her shaking her head. She’s like, ‘Boy, it ain’t seasoned!’”

Harper’s grandmother, Esther Harris, was from Tappahannock, Virginia. It wasn’t uncommon for the family to wake up to the smell of angel biscuits or fried apples when they were in her company. “What this lady did before 6 a.m. in a day, I can’t do in a week,” Harper says. “She was a phenom in the kitchen and it ran in the family too.”

Eventually, Harper learned to rub his skillet with oil and bake it for hours until it looked and performed more like his grandmother’s. He’s convinced, though, that “care and love” are actual ingredients his grandmother cooked with.

The skillet was one of the first items Harper and his then-girlfriend, now wife, purchased together. “I love to cook and she loves to eat,” he says.

Scott Drewno, Co-Founder, Fried Rice Collective (CHIKO and Anju) It’s almost assured that people will make bad money decisions in Las Vegas. But Chef Scott Drewno and his then-girlfriend, now wife, Dr. Allison Drewno, might be the exception to that rule.

The high school sweethearts, who’ve been together for nearly three decades, were living in Sin City when they were both 21 years old.

Scott began his cooking career there at a Wolfgang Puck restaurant. The young couple was new to the industry and couldn’t get back to the East Coast for Thanksgiving.

“It was our first Thanksgiving that we both had to work,” Scott says. “In Vegas everything is open all of the time … We couldn’t go home and we were both so sad about it.” They set off to Williams-Sonoma and invested in a 10-piece cookware set from All-Clad. It’s not one pan they find sentimental—it’s 10 stainless steel pots, pans, and lids.

They’ve been using them for almost 25 years. “Obviously we cook a lot so there are some dings in them,” Scott says. “They’re not as pretty as they used to be, but that set went from Vegas to New York to here.”

On Sundays the Drewnos like to make pasta. Scott makes the noodles and Allison makes the bolognese, both utilizing the AllClad set. “They’ll be with us forever,” Scott says. “I always tell people, ‘Spend money on a good set of pans once and you’ll never have to buy them again.’”

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One Wonderful Night

Go-go star Donnell Floyd says goodbye to the genre with a star-studded celebration.

By Alona Wartofsky

Sean White

Some folkS might receive a set of golf clubs, or maybe a gold watch, on the occasion of their retirement.

Go-go star Donnell Floyd got Stevie Wonder.

Closing his 40 years on the go-go circuit with a farewell concert late last month at The Anthem, Floyd was gifted with the opportunity to perform alongside his longtime musical idol.

A former member of the iconic go-go band Rare Essence who has fronted his own popular band Team Familiar since 2002, Floyd first announced in January that he would be stepping away from the genre at the end of 2019. He predicted a big finale, “full of props and showmanship.” His farewell show promised guest performers, but no one was expecting Wonder to join Floyd onstage, praise his contributions to music, and perform a few of his classic songs with Team Familiar. “Tonight we’re here to celebrate you, Mr. Floyd,” Wonder announced from the stage. “Forty years just ain’t long enough.”

Days later, Floyd—who is 55, has raised four kids, and is looking forward to the imminent arrival of his first grandchild—still sounds incredulous. “Just the idea of hearing Stevie Wonder talking about me seems ridiculous,” he says. “The greatest musician and R&B entertainer in the history of the world standing there and talking about me? I felt like I was in a dream.”

After Wonder spoke for a few minutes, Floyd signaled Team Familiar to begin a gogo version of “As.” Clearly delighted, Wonder started singing, with Floyd’s former bandmates Frank “Scooby” Marshall and “Ms. Kim” Graham among those on backup vocals. Flanked by Floyd and rapper Doug E. Fresh, Wonder performed a go-go-tized medley of “I Wish,” “Happy Birthday,” and “My Cherie Amour” before being led offstage. “He decided which of his songs would work on the go-go beat, and we just followed him,” says Floyd.

Wonder has family connections in Prince George’s County, and while some discussion about his participation in Floyd’s farewell show had taken place, the outcome was uncertain. Floyd had dismissed the possibility until that evening, when someone back-

Donnell Floyd, Stevie Wonder, and Doug E. Fresh

stage remarked that they could have sworn they just saw Stevie Wonder walk by. Floyd and Wonder were introduced shortly before the event began.

“He shook my hand and said, ‘Young man, 40 years isn’t that long if you love something,’ and I said, ‘Yes, sir, you’re right,’” recalls Floyd. “He has a lot of D.C. ties, and he loves go-go. He was really complimentary. He said, ‘Maybe I’ll come down and we’ll do a go-go record,’ and I told him we would absolutely love to do that.”

For many in the audience and in the go-go community at large, Wonder’s appearance represented an important validation. “Donnell has been the voice of our generation,” says Montu Mitchell, owner and operator of go-go clothing line Mitchcraft, which sold limited edition commemorative shirts at the show (now available at donnellfloyd.com).

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“With Stevie Wonder, go-go got a stamp of approval. Stevie Wonder stamping Donnell Floyd stamps us and stamps go-go culture. It is something to be respected and appreciated by the greatest living musician in any genre,” says Mitchell.

Wonder’s brief performance was one of many emotional moments throughout the evening. The main event started with a video that Floyd had recorded because he did not trust himself to deliver a speech to his fans without falling apart. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to get through it,” he says. “I’m a crybaby.”

The heartfelt video was followed by Floyd’s Team Familiar bandmates singing “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” as a slideshow depicted go-go’s fallen performers, including the music’s founder, Chuck Brown.

Friends say that the loss of so many of the

genre’s artists inspired Floyd’s original song, “I Gave My Whole Life,” and as the images faded, Floyd appeared on stage, singing: “I come from nowhere, and I chase the daylight, to entertain you. See, I gave my whole life. D.C. I love you, and I hope you feel me.”

As it turned out, Wonder and Floyd’s longtime friend Doug E. Fresh were two of many stars who turned out to honor Floyd. The show also featured guest spots by R&B singer Ledisi and a couple of artists with D.C. roots, Kenny Sway and Raheem DeVaughn. Go-go luminaries who joined Floyd onstage at various points during the evening included Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliott, as well as Backyard Band’s Anwan “Big G” Glover and Leroy “Weensey” Brandon Jr. Floyd was still a student at Duke Ellington School of the Arts when he joined Rare Essence in 1983; before that, he had played

CPARTS with Chance Band and Total Groove. Initially RE’s saxophone player, he eventually pushed the band toward a harder, more hiphop influenced sound as a rapper and co-writer of “Lock It,” “Work the Walls,” “King of the Go-Go Beat,” and “Overnight Scenario,” the band’s biggest hits of the late ’80s and ’90s. (In case you missed it, “Lock It” was featured on an episode of Black-ish last month.)

He left Rare Essence in early 2001 due to a dispute over publishing rights. At the time, his departure was big enough news to warrant a story in the Washington Post. That year, he formed the band 911 with several other former RE members. Nearly a decade later, following a successful RE reunion show, he rejoined the band, and remained for almost 10 months before leaving again, this time to resurrect his own band, then known as Familiar Faces.

Floyd’s farewell show marked the first time since he, Rare Essence guitarist Andre “Whiteboy” Johnson and former Rare Essence percussionist Milton “Go-Go Mickey” Freeman have performed together since 2011. And while Go-Go Mickey has been with Floyd for years, Whiteboy’s appearance was another surprise that even Floyd wasn’t expecting. The audience roared as Whiteboy sauntered onstage while strumming the ret-

ro-styled guitar riff from “Work the Walls.”

Floyd is not retiring from music altogether— he still plans to join a local R&B group as a saxophone player and he has signed on for next year’s much anticipated Rare Essence reunion.

Most go-go bands have three frontline microphones, designated as number one for the band’s lead talker, number two for the rapper, and number three for the vocalist. During his time with RE, Floyd mastered the role of number two mic, and he has long been credited for the evolution of go-go’s second mic.

Floyd devoted a section of his farewell show to a few of his favorite second mic go-go rappers, summoning them with a challenge: “Who’s the best? I want the best to come test me.”

Junkyard Band’s David “32” Ellis Sr. was among those who complied. A friend for decades, 32 could not imagine missing this night.

“Donnell called, and I’ve always told Donnell, anytime you ring my phone, I’m gonna run every light getting there and pay the tickets later,” says 32. “He’s been a mentor for me on and off the stage, and I’m so proud of him. He’s definitely the greatest in my eyes.”

During the course of his career, Floyd has played at countless area clubs as well as larger venues including The Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. He performed with RE on the

legendary Go-Go Live concert at the old Capital Centre and with Team Familiar for Mayor Muriel Bowser’s inauguration at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Perhaps most meaningful, though, were Team Familiar’s 2017 performances in the ancient Nigerian city of Ife for the Yoruba king known as the Ooni of Ife. There were also low points along the way.

When Floyd first left RE, some of his new band’s shows attracted an audience of only 10 people. Far more devastating were the deaths of close friends and bandmates: RE drummer Quentin “Footz” Davidson in 1994 and Team Familiar keyboardist Byron “BJ” Jackson in 2016. “Losing them, those were some of the hardest days I can remember,” says Floyd.

Announcing his retirement early this year, Floyd explained his motivations. “Go-go’s retirement plan is to become irrelevant or to pass away,” he said. “I didn’t want that for me.” Instead, the beloved artist who will always be known around the DMV as “King of the GoGo Beat” stepped away on his own terms.

While The Anthem did not allow the evening to be professionally recorded, plenty of videos can be found on social media.

Floyd closed the show with an a cappella rendition of “I Gave My Whole Life,” and what

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happened next was truly remarkable.

As Floyd choked up, unable to continue, Sugar Bear approached him and wrapped him in a hug, and then others on and offstage rushed over. They surrounded Floyd, holding him, touching him, and supporting him. As Scooby finished the song he could not, Floyd looked up, his fists aloft.

“I saw he was breaking down,” says Sugar Bear. “So I told him, ‘Nah man, you good. God is good. You’re going out on your note. What better way to do it?’”

Darrin “Mr. X” Frazier, a Rare Essence alum who joined the group clustered around Floyd, also sensed a spiritual presence. “It felt like when a pastor comes to the altar, and people place their hands on him as they pray,” he says.

Indeed, there was something almost holy in that moment, which seemed to distill all the love that has always held together this community as it has endured so much—and shared so much. “I felt like we had just ran a marathon, and I made it,” says Floyd. “I finished it, and I was victorious.”

“The way that people treated me and acted toward me, it was almost as if my career was the kind of career that we dreamed of in terms of going around the world and playing music,” he adds. “But we never left the Beltway.” CP

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The news of Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long campaign of serial sexual predation made it all but impossible to invest in the notion of a movie studio where the virtuous men who run the place are subject to blackmail and worse by scheming, nefarious women. But can we please just all agree to make an exception for Singin’ in the Rain?

A sterling specimen of the very top rank of movie musicals, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s beloved puddle-splashing classic has been faithfully transposed, with its silent-era history and comedy intact, in Marcos Santana’s winning production for Olney Theatre Center.

If this rosy look back at the 1920s movie business, seen from the vantage point of 1952, required audiences to suspend their disbelief before, it reads as pure fantasy now, with all we’ve learned in the last couple of years about how powerful men wield their influence over women whose careers they can advance or destroy. Our romantic lead is good-guy silent film star Don Lockwood (Rhett Guter, stepping ably into Kelly’s galoshes), who’s smitten with chorus girl Kathy Selden (guileless and dewy-eyed Amanda Castro) but does nothing underhanded to make her give in to his overtures. Come to that, the chief of Monumental Pictures (an affable Michael Russotto) is presented as a fellow of integrity, too, give or take a throwaway joke about how he’s been busy in his office with

a casting session. In fact, the only person painted in a damning light is Locke’s frequent co-star Lina Lamont (Farrell Parker, having more fun than anyone), whose squeaky voice and immunity to vocal instruction makes her fear the advent of the talkies, and who believes that because she and Locke are coupled onscreen they belong together in life as well.

Lina’s combination of jealousy and professional anxiety drives her to sabotage Kathy, who is hired to serve as Lamont’s voice double, seemingly dooming her chances to win an audience for herself. This is all much darker stuff than what people tend to remember about Singin’ in the Rain: those unforgettable numbers, many repurposed from movies that predate Singin’ in the Rain, which musical director Angie Benson has tuned for maximum penetration.

There’s the title song, of course, during which Guter hoofs it around a rain-slicked stage so speedily you fear for his safety. But he’ll likely finish the run with fewer injuries than the show’s unrepentant scene-stealer, Jacob Scott Tischler, who moves like an animated character painted in among the humans, seemingly impervious to gravity. As piano-man Cosmo, Tischler throws himself to the floor during “Make ‘Em Laugh” as though his bones were made of rubber. “Good Morning,” the other standout, has Guter, Tischler, and Castro engage in a three-way tap battle.

The production is handsome in every other regard, too, from scenic designer Dan Conway’s conjuring of the art-deco Monumental Pictures soundstage on which the action unfolds (I don’t know where he found that massive old piano-sized recording console, but it’s gorgeous) to the crisp black-and-white clips from fake silent movies starring Lockwood and Lamont. Escapism doesn’t get any more escapist than this.

—Chris Klimek 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. $42–$99. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

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KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The HamilTones. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $20–$29. kennedy-center.org.

POP

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

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

ROCK

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

Bleep Bloop. 10:30 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

WORLD

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Los Lobos. 8 p.m. $60–$75. citywinery.com.

SATURDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. A Motown Christmas. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: A Holiday Pops! with Leslie Odom, Jr. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. $29–$109. kennedy-center.org.

RACHEL M. SCHLESINGER CONCERT HALL AND ARTS CENTER 4915 East Campus Drive, Alexandria.

(703) 323-3000. Nutcracker Potpourri. 7 p.m. $5–$85. nvcc.edu.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF ARLINGTON 4444 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington. (703) 8922565. National Chamber Ensemble - Holiday Cheer!.

7:30 p.m. $18–$36. uucava.org.

FUNK & R&B

THE PUBLICK PLAYHOUSE 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly. 301-277-1710. Sylver Logan Sharp. 8 p.m. $20–$25. arts.pgparks.com.

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THU, DEC 26

COUNTRY

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Snails. 9 p.m. $30–$40. echostage.com.

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SAT, DEC 28

YELLOW DUBMARINE

HARRY AND THE POTTERS

W/ THE SCOTCH BONNETS

Calling all witches and wizards: Hop on your broomsticks and gear up for a punk rock Yule Ball.

Wizard rock band Harry and the Potters is the invention of Harry Potter fans Joe and Paul DeGeorge, and their 2019 Yule Ball is an opportunity to showcase the duo’s recently released Lumos and to fundraise for the Harry Potter Alliance, which donates to a slate of progressive causes.

Lumos, the band’s first full-length album in 13 years, chronicles the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Songs like “On the Importance of Media Literacy Under Authoritarian Rule” and “No Pureblood Supremacy” connect the teen wizard’s escapades to modern-day political issues such as immigration and racism. Joining the duo are the Potter Puppet Pals (Neil Cicierega, Emmy Cicierega, and Alora Lanzillotta) of “The Mysterious Ticking Noise” fame, Ashley Trix & The WZRDs, and Hawthorn & Holly. Harry and the Potters perform at 6 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th Street NW. $20. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Sarah Smith

HIP-HOP FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. A$AP Ferg. 8 p.m. $30– $127. fillmoresilverspring.com.

HOLIDAY KENNEDY CENTER OPERA HOUSE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Keith & Kristyn Getty and Friends: SING! An Irish Christmas. 7 p.m. $40–$85. kennedy-center.org.

LINCOLN THEATRE 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington: The Holiday Show.

3 p.m.; 8 p.m. $25–$65. thelincolndc.com.

POP SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Leif Vollebekk. 8 p.m. $16–$20. songbyrddc.com.

ROCK 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Caamp. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

WORLD EAGLEBANK ARENA 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Anuel AA. 8 p.m. $59–$149. eaglebankarena.com.

SUN, DEC 29

START MAKING SENSE: A TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE W/ RUBY DEAR

TUE, DEC 31

CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH

THE LEGENDARY WAILERS

FEAT. JULIAN “JUNIOR” MARVIN W/ JAH WORKS FRI, JAN 3

AN EVENING WITH

BOAT HOUSE ROW YACHT ROCK EXPERIENCE

SUNDAY

SAT, JAN 4

CLASSICAL

CAPITAL ONE ARENA 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Andrea Bocelli. 7:30 p.m. $133–$695. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

HOLIDAY KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington Presents Songs of the Season. 8 p.m. $15–$72. kennedy-center.org.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Washington Chorus Presents A Candlelight Christmas. 1 p.m.; 4 p.m. $19–$82. kennedy-center.org.

LINCOLN THEATRE 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington: The Holiday Show.

3 p.m. $25–$65. thelincolndc.com.

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

SCYTHIAN

SAT, JAN 11

TAB BENOIT TUE, JAN 14

MAGIC CITY HIPPIES

W/ ARGONAUT & WASP FRI, JAN 17

VANESSA COLLIER

W/ JOSE RAMIREZ SAT, JAN 18

AN EVENING WITH

RAY ON MY MIND

POP CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531.

BETTY. 7:30 p.m. $30–$45. citywinery.com.

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

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

PURPLE RAIN

VISIT US DURING WINTER BREAK! Open 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Monday, December 23 Tuesday, December 24 Thursday, December 26 Friday, December 27 Tuesday, December 31 Thursday, January 2 Friday, January 3

Moonshot Studio

FREE! Open every Saturday & Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | The REACH In the Moonshot Studio at the REACH, you get to think as big as President Kennedy when he dreamed of travelling to the moon.

From dance and beat making to poetry and animation, the Moonshot Studio offers activities for people of all ages to explore their artistry and learn something new. Drop by Saturdays to check out the fall 2019 projects through January 5.

Purple Rain is an expertly crafted piece of vanity kitsch that has gracefully aged into a glitterbomb of an art film. Though there are notes that don’t quite translate into the key of 2019, they make the movie a surreal and fascinating product of late-20th-century rock music. For better or worse, Purple Rain is an auteur film, but its author isn’t director Albert Magnoli; it’s Prince, whose rise to glory the movie chronicles. It’s hard to imagine much was done to curb his creative vision. Throughout the film, Prince simultaneously embodies a vulnerable kid escaping domestic troubles through music and a frillyshirted alien God visiting Minneapolis from another planet. He falls in love, slaps said love, and suffers a family tragedy. He spends roughly a third of the movie onstage, thrashing and shredding as the quintessential rock star: Think Jimi Hendrix meets Lord Byron in a pirate-style costume. It all culminates in an epic concert sequence featuring the title track. Unlike many of the decade’s lesser power ballads, “Purple Rain” still hits hard. See a midnight showing of the movie Roger Ebert called “the best rock film since Pink Floyd – The Wall.” The film screens at 11:59 p.m. at Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. $9.75–$10. (202) 783-9494. landmarktheatres.com.

—Will Lennon

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

REVEREND HORTON HEAT

For those who find themselves lonely and left behind this holiday season, Reverend Horton Heat and his friends are coming to town to warm our frozen hearts. Heat, aka Jim Heath, preaches the gospel of psychobilly rock. With the help of an encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll (especially Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, and The Cramps), his stand-up bassist Jimbo Wallace (who has his own theme song, by the way), and his signature Gretsch 6120 hollow body electric guitar, Heat delivers his signature rockabilly and country cocktail with the same sweaty ferocity he had when he started touring in the ’80s.

There are some minor changes—he plays material from his latest album, Whole New Life, experiments with R&B, and he’s recently added a piano to the lineup. But at its core, a Reverend Horton Heat show is still a true-blue psychobilly freakout. Reverend Horton Heat performs at 8 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $30–$35. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Will Lennon BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Reverend Horton Heat. 8 p.m. $30–$35. blackcatdc.com.

VOCAL CAPITAL ONE ARENA 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Andrea Bocelli. 7:30 p.m. $83–$1,800.

tkc.co/moonshot (202) 467-4600

No tickets required!

capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

For more info, call (202) 416-8540

WORLD AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North

Major Supporter: U.S. Department of Education

Additional Support: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

David M. Rubenstein Cornerstone of the REACH

Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. New Orchestra of Washington: Outside the Bachs. 4 p.m. $25–$45. ampbystrathmore.com.

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MONDAY CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Songs of the Season, Christmas with Choral Arts. 7 p.m. $15–$59. kennedy-center.org.

HOLIDAY KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington Presents Songs of the Season. 7 p.m. $15–$72. kennedy-center.org.

JAZZ ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Atlas Presents Jazz: A Bohemian Christmas. 8 p.m. $15–$35. atlasarts.org.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

MOUNT EERIE

A defining feature of Phil Elverum’s music as Mount Eerie is the naked vulnerability that permeates his generally delicate folk songs brimming with conversational, diary-like detail. That quality reached its apotheosis on a pair of albums, A Crow Looked at Me and Now Only, that found the 41-year-old singer-songwriter grappling with grief after the death of his wife, cartoonist, illustrator, and musician Geneviève Castrée. Intensely personal yet stunningly universal, the albums are heart-wrenching. Universality remained a goal on this year’s Lost Wisdom Pt. 2, which finds him collaborating with Julie Doiron, the bassist and co-vocalist for Eric’s Trip, the band that inspired Elverum to make music when he was a teenager. Understandably, Castrée’s death still looms large, but Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 is also written in the wake of his divorce from actress Michelle Williams after a short marriage. “If I again mined the circumstances of my life for these words, I tried to do it with liberation in mind for everyone,” he wrote about the album, and when he sings “Even if I never get to see you again / I’ll know that when we collided / We both broke each other open,” the listener is broken open, as well. Mount Eerie performs at 8 p.m. at the Miracle Theatre, 535 8th St. SE. $25. (202) 400-3210. themiracletheatre.com.

—Chris Kelly

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

GREMLINS

We’ve heard plenty of discourse over whether flicks like Die Hard are the perfect Christmas movies, but consider 1984’s underappreciated horror holiday masterpiece Gremlins as your must-watch entry in the Christmas canon. To refresh your memory: Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) finagles his way into purchasing a furry, doll-sized gremlin called a mogwai from a Chinese gift shop as a Christmas present for his son Billy. But there are three rules both Billy and Randall must follow to ensure that the mogwai coexists harmoniously in their fictional upstate New York town: No exposure to direct sunlight or bright lights (as the gremlin will die), no exposure to water (as the gremlin will multiply), and no feeding the gremlin after midnight. As they discover (because of course they couldn’t just follow the rules), the gremlins are capable of much more than mischief: They trick Billy into a late-night meal, transform into reptilian beasts, and murder a few people. What’s not to love about this fuzzy holiday film? Enjoy the ’80s nostalgia, take in the puppetry and animatronics, and look out for a Steven Spielberg easter egg. Along the way, you and Billy will discover the true meaning of Christmas: Just stick to mainstream commercialism and be happy with the socks you get on Christmas morning. The film screens at 3 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $5–$10. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Christian Paz

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ROCK

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

Mount Eerie. 8 p.m. $25. themiracletheatre.com.

TUESDAY BLUES

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

CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. A Motown Christmas. 7:30 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

HOLIDAY

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The Capitol Bones All-Brass Band present “A Stan Kenton Christmas”. 7:30 p.m. $25–$30. unionstage.com.

WEDNESDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. A Motown Christmas. 7:30 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

HOLIDAY

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Etienne Charles Creole Christmas. 8 p.m. $32–$42. citywinery.com.

ROCK

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

1742 Church St. NW. To Dec. 31 $40–$50. (202) 2653767. keegantheatre.com.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

ETIENNE CHARLES’ CREOLE CHRISTMAS

When interviewed about his 2013 album Creole Soul, Etienne Charles said “‘Creole’ to me means a world within a world … I’m Trinidadian, but being Trinidadian means that I have many different cultural influences as well as many different influences based on my bloodline.” Of course, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and textures in jazz are nothing new. Charles, an accomplished trumpeter and former Guggenheim fellow, told the New York Times that “jazz is Caribbean music” earlier this year. However, it takes a shrewd and immersed thinker like him to get inside those elements, to understand what makes them operate, and to fit that understanding to one of modern jazz. Once you’ve got that together, it’s a short leap to adapting Christmas music as well, as he did on 2015’s Creole Christmas. Charles manages to do it with panache and originality. Wait ’til you hear his astonishing arrangement of “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.” Etienne Charles performs at 8 p.m. at City Winery, 1350 Okie St. NE. $32–$42. (202) 250-2531. citywinery.com.

—Michael J. West

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Bouncing Souls. 7 p.m. $27.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

THURSDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. A Motown Christmas. 8 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

HOLIDAY

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

CeeLo Green Holiday Hits Tour. 8 p.m. $45–$75. thehowardtheatre.com.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah. 7 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

POP

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Turnover & Men I Trust. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. paris_ monster. 8 p.m. $15. pieshopdc.com.

ROCK

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. An Evening with Julian Lage Trio. 8 p.m. $21–$75. unionstage.com.

Theater

AIRNESS Nina thinks winning an air guitar competition will be easy—until the lovable nerds she’s competing against prove her wrong. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Dec. 29 $15–$42. (703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org.

AMADEUS This play dramatizes Mozart’s ascent from child prodigy to favored composer—and the palace intrigue going on between the title character and his foe and rival Salieri. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Dec. 22 $27–$85. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

BONNARD TO VUILLARD: THE INTIMATE POETRY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Toward the end of the 19th century, a group of post-Impressionist French painters dubbed the “Nabis” (from “navi,” the Hebrew word for prophet) blurred the boundaries between fine and decorative art, embracing expressive color and stylization as a means of conveying art’s intimate role in everyday life. Thanks to a bequest by collectors Roger and Vicki Sant, the Phillips Collection now holds a prominent trove of Nabi works, including paintings, sculptures, lithographs, stained glass, needlepoint pieces, and ceramics by Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and Félix Vallotton. Now, the D.C. museum presents more than 60 of these rarely seen creations, drawing on the Sant gift to reveal how the Nabis, who “considered themselves ‘prophets’” of modern art, according to senior curator Elsa Smithgall, questioned the “artificial barriers between the fine and applied arts.” The exhibition runs to Jan. 26, 2020 at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org. —Meilan Solly Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Jan. 1 $32–$124. (202) 3474833. fords.org.

COME FROM AWAY This new musical tells the story of 7,000 stranded sea passengers and a small Newfoundland town that took them in. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 5 $49– $149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE Two strangers meet by letter during World War II and hope to meet in person, but the war keeps pushing them apart. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 29 $56–$72. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

A CHORUS LINE Signature stages one of the most classic American musicals, A Chorus Line—the story of hopeful dancers in an audition room hoping for a spot in the chorus line. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 5 $40–$110. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! This musical follows the misadventures of a precocious pigeon who’s always getting into the next big thing. Kennedy Center Family Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 5 $20.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL In this classic Dickens tale, a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas—with some help from some ghostly apparitions. Ford’s

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Bartlett Sher directs the masterpiece musical Fiddler on the Roof, which follows a Russian Jewish family—Tevye, a milkman, and

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his five daughters—in Tsarist Russia. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Dec. 15. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org.

FROSTY The Barter Players Encore Company presents Frosty, a musical based on the children’s classic holiday tale. When an orphan named Billy places a stolen hat on a snowman’s head, bringing him to life he discovers the magic contained within as the two adventure into New York City. McLean Project for the Arts at the McLean Community Center. 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. To Dec. 14; To Dec. 14 $10–$15. (703) 790-1953. mpaart.org.

AN IRISH CAROL An Irish Carol is a Keegan Theatre tradition. Back for its ninth year, it is an Irish twist on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol set in a contemporary Dublin pub. An Irish Carol follows the story of a wealthy pub owner who is preoccupied with his material goods and must be reminded of his humanity through the holiday spirit. Keegan Theatre.

JERSEY BOYS This musical tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons from their origins to their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—using their iconic songs. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Jan. 5 $54–$114. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org.

LOVE, FACTUALLY The Second City’s fast-paced retelling of Love, Actually is an original take on the movie—back by popular demand. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Dec. 29 $29–$59. 202467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

MY FAIR LADY “The most perfect musical of all time” tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the man determined to make her a proper lady. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 19 $39– $159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

NEWSIES Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are no match for the striking newsboys of New York City in the sultry summer of 1899. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 22 $86–$105. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

PETER PAN Lauren Gunderson’s adaption of J.M. Barrie’s story of a boy who refuses to grow up puts Wendy—a budding scientist—at the center of the play. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Jan. 12 $35–$120.

(202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

SHE THE PEOPLE: THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES! The Second City returns with a follow-up to their allfemale revue She the People that continues to satirize being a woman in America—and in the world.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Jan. 5 $20–$70. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN This classic American musical—featuring songs like “Good Mornin’” and “Make ‘em Laugh”—follows Hollywood’s transition from the silent era to the talkies. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 5 $37–$69.

(301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

THE SNOW QUEEN Synetic presents a family-friendly version of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, where a little girl crosses the Snow Kingdom to save her best friend. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Dec. 29 $60–$195 for a season subscription. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org.

WHITE PEARL This comedy about whiteness and the beauty industry follows the fallout of a skin whitening cream ad’s leak—and someone’s definitely getting fired. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Dec. 15 $20– $80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

Film

THE AERONAUTS A pilot and a scientist seek new discoveries—but end up fighting for survival. Starring Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, and Himesh Patel.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) KNIVES OUT The head of a bickering, eccentric family dies, and a detective is sent to investigate. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, and Chris Evans. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) PLAYMOBIL: THE MOVIE The Playmobil toys come to life in an epic adventure. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Daniel Radcliffe, and Kenan Thompson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) DARK WATERS An attorney sues a powerful chemical company for its lengthy history of pollution. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, and Tim Robbins. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) QUEEN & SLIM A police officer pulls over a couple on a first date—and what happens next bonds them and sends them on the run. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Indya Moore, and Chloe Sevigny. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SAVAGELOVE

My husband and I (straight male/bi female couple) have been married 15 years. We are in our early 40s. When we met, he was inexperienced and crippled by shame from having grown up in an extremely sex-negative atmosphere. I have no hang-ups about sex and was happy to get him involved in some more adventurous stuff, but he quickly became obsessed with kink and shows no sign of slowing. I’m happy to play along with fantasies and role-play, bondage, domination, foot play, anal sex/pegging, going to events, having moresomes, etc. But sometimes I’d like to have gentle and slow “unadorned” sex with an attentive partner who calls me by name, compliments me, and does things to my body he knows I enjoy.

My husband has been seeing a therapist for some years. We also went to this therapist for couples therapy, and he gave us some “exercises” to try to tone down my husband’s desire for perfectly scripted kink “scenes” every time we have sex.

But my husband was either not able or not willing to try them, and I gave up. He now basically can’t maintain an erection without either (1) a complicated script with roles and props and costumes and toys or (2) going through the motions of romantic sex as long as I keep up a constant stream of “in-character” dirty talk, which makes it impossible for me to be in the moment. I’ve urged him to go see a dominatrix or to get more involved in the local kink scene without me, but he’s obsessed with this imagined moment where I suddenly “awaken” and fully join him in his obsessions. I find this condescending and stupid. Just because I can enjoy kink play now and then doesn’t mean I’ll ever be someone who gasps with excitement at a woman on a leash being peed on or someone dangling from the ceiling by the clamps on their nipples. It doesn’t shock me or disgust me, it just kind of bores me. It feels like watching someone fill their kitchen with every gaudy, expensive, chrome radish peeler and strawberry diddler when they can’t even boil an egg. Is there a trick to reducing your partner’s dependence on kink? Or a way to make kink more interesting to yourself?

—Bored By Obsessive Kinkster You must feel like you created a kink monster. But you didn’t! I mean, you did meet this inexperienced, sexually repressed guy, BBOK, and you did encourage him to let go of the shame, and you did give him permission to be a little more sexually adventurous … and 15 years later, you’re stuck with this selfish asshole who’s so obsessed and/or dependent on his kinks that you’ve come to dread having sex with him. But your husband was always the elaborately twisted kinkster he is now; he just needed someone to give him permission to admit to being who he always was—or to get in touch with who he always was—and that person was you.

And now here you are, BBOK, writing to me in the hopes that I can magically cause your husband to become less dependent on

his kinks or can magically “awaken” in you a similarly obsessive interest in the exact same suite of kinks he has. And we both know neither is going to happen, because you’re not going to get kinkier (which is what he wants) and you’ve already tried to get him to rein in his kinks (and that didn’t work). That’s what the couples counseling was about, right? Him learning to be a little less selfish and a little more GGG and a better partner … and the selfish sack of shit couldn’t be bothered, could he?

Both of your proposed fixes are basically pipe dreams, as I suspect you know, BBOK, and I further suspect you’re not really interested in either one. Because what you really want is right here: “Sometimes I’d like to have gentle and slow ‘unadorned’ sex with an attentive partner who calls me by name, compliments

“...well, that’s not just bullshit, DIB, it’s disqualifying assholery and some truly nextlevel negging.

Don’t walk away, run.” me, and does things to my body he knows I enjoy.” (Emphasis mine.)

I don’t think it’s an accident that you wrote about wanting “an attentive partner” to call you by your name and do all sorts of vanilla things to your body that he knows you enjoy. I don’t think it’s an accident that you didn’t use “loving husband” in that sentence, BBOK, because deep down you know your husband isn’t interested in doing those things. And he won’t be any good at doing those things. And even if he could fake an interest in doing those things for 20 minutes, which apparently he can’t, you probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy his halfhearted attempts at vanilla sex, because knowing he had to concentrate on BDSM sex the whole time—knowing some script was playing out in his head—would make it impossible for you to be in (and enjoy) the moment.

You want to have loving, tender, connected sex with someone who cares about you. You want to have sex with someone who isn’t asking you to be someone you’re not each and every time you have sex with him (or her). And the obvious fix here, the easiest work-around, the reasonable accommodation … well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? You need to have sex with someone else, BBOK, with someone who

cares about you. Basically, you need to take your own advice, the advice you’ve been giving your husband, and go find yourself a play partner or two—for vanilla sex, not kinky sex.

If you can find someone who can give you the kind of simple, passionate, connected sex you no longer get in your marriage, perhaps you’ll come to resent your husband less and your desire for kinky sex with him will rebound.

—Dan Savage

I started seeing a man four weeks ago who keeps telling me he can’t sleep with me, or can’t sleep with me yet, because of some all-consuming fetish that he can’t (or doesn’t want to) do with me. He also has sexual issues due to having survived testicular cancer and no longer having testicles. As a bisexual woman, I don’t have an issue with that and am happy to have non-penis sex. But even that is not forthcoming, because he always tells me his fixation on this fetish is interfering, while remaining totally incoherent about what the fetish is and why he can’t do it with me. No one is required to sleep with me, but it’s upsetting to go to bed with him and then, after he plays along for a little while, have to listen to him tell me another totally incoherent version of whatever his fucking problem is. I value this person for the other parts of our relationship, but I’m getting fed up. I don’t see how we’ll ever get along in bed if I’m just trying to have fun while he’s being as tormented, confusing, and complicated as possible. Should I just walk away? Is this bullshit or not?

—Drama Is Boring Unless this ball-less mess is climbing up the fire escape and slipping into your bedroom uninvited, which I’m guessing you would’ve mentioned, he keeps turning up in your bedroom because you keep inviting him. Stop that, DIB. Tell him you’re happy to keep seeing him, if you enjoy his company that much, but you’re not “seeing” him anymore, which means he’s not welcome in your bedroom. So there’s no need for him to bring up his fetish or any other sexual issues with you.

As a general rule, a person really shouldn’t mention the fact that they have a kink or fetish to a new partner unless they’re ready to share what it is. You don’t have to be ready to act on it—lots of people have fetishes and/or kinks they enjoy as fantasy-only or are ready to share but want to take the doing a little slower. But telling someone you have a kink/fetish that’s so all-consuming you can’t be sexual unless it’s a part of the action and then refusing to name the kink/fetish and then adding that you wouldn’t want to do it with the person … well, that’s not just bullshit, DIB, it’s disqualifying assholery and some truly next-level negging. Don’t walk away, run. —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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