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COVER STORY: TOUGH CALL

10 Inside D.C.’s crisis line headquarters, skilled staff and those experiencing mental illness take on daily challenges.

DISTRICT LINE 4 Housing Complex: Pols love talking about D.C.’s First Source law, but it does little good.

6 Wily Coyote: Reporting coyote sightings in the name of science

SPORTS 8 Talent Pool: Like her friend Katie Ledecky, local swimming phenom Phoebe Bacon has her sights set on the Olympics.

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DISTRICTLINE Poorly Sourced

D.C.’s development boom makes fixing its beleaguered First Source law more urgent.

By Morgan Baskin To repair The Castle on the Hill, Adrienne Smoot-Edwards’ construction company, Phoenix Restoration Group, needed $100,000 more just to put warm bodies in the room.

Phoenix, one of the few D.C.-based construction businesses fluent in historic preservation, was hired to help modernize the towering Cardozo Education Campus, perched north of Florida Avenue NW. The company employs 13 full-time people with collective decades of experience in historic preservation. They know how to handle 100-year-old glass, copy an old profile on a piece of wood, remove and restore historic locksets, and remove old finishes off of doors and windows without damaging the underlying wood.

But a roughly 30-year-old District law called First Source required Smoot-Edwards to hire additional workers—D.C. residents—for that project, work that in her estimation was physically unnecessary, given the breadth and sophistication of her team’s expertise. And hiring additional workers to comply with the law would cost an extra $100,000—money that, Smoot-Edwards says, “was not in the budget to hire people I don’t need.”

So the general contractor on the Cardozo modernization project, Smoot-Edwards says, extended Phoenix’s contract by $100,000, just so the company could say on paper that it used D.C. residents for construction work.

Criticisms of First Source largely center around the Department of Employment Services’ enforcement of the law, which requires beneficiaries of large public subsidies to hire District residents for newly created positions. An audit of DOES’ compliance with and oversight of First Source, published in April by the office of D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson, found that DOES has failed to implement over 80 percent of the law’s provisions effectively, if at all.

In 2011, lawmakers overhauled First Source to make its requirements even more aggressive. But lawmakers, executives, and budget analysts alike still describe it as a law that is too onerous for contractors and too out of step with the economic landscape of D.C. As D.C. undergoes a boom of new commercial and residential construction, the question

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of how to make First Source more effective has become particularly urgent. This year, Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau (Ward 1) and Trayon White (Ward 8) have criticized developers responsible for large projects in their respective wards for their apparent failure to comply with First Source for Adams Morgan’s The Line Hotel and Anacostia’s Maple View Flats, respectively.

(White even held a protest this summer against the developer’s hiring practices.)

But executives, particularly in the construction industry, tell City Paper that beyond even the question of enforcement, the First Source law as written is flawed.

“First Source is essentially a feel-good thing we do to say that developers have done something for D.C. residents. But it makes criminals out of employers [who are unable to comply with it], and embarrasses the government,” says Yesim Sayin Taylor, the executive director of the D.C. Policy Center.

Large multi-use development projects, like The Line, are enticing prospects to lawmakers and some residents in part because of the perception that they’ll draw construction jobs to the neighborhood. Lawmakers often justify mammoth public subsidies to developers by arguing that they’ll drive new jobs to locals. But that perception, particularly as it applies to First Source, is misguided.

“Even people in the Wilson Building have [the misconception] that when there’s a new project that gets some kind of District funding or District support ... all of the jobs on that project, or that a [large] portion of the jobs on that

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project will go to District residents. And that’s not the case,” Patterson says. “It’s only applicable to new jobs. So if I’m a major contractor, I bring in my crew that are already on my payroll, and there may not be any new jobs created.”

This point particularly aggrieves Smoot-Edwards. Some of her employees have worked at the company for 15 years. “Those who are making promises to the city don’t understand [the law]. I don’t know why the conception is that with every new construction site, we’re disregarding everyone who’s ever worked for us, and holding job fairs to complete the contract,” she says. (She has employees who used to live in D.C. but have since moved to Maryland due to the rising cost of living in the city. “Am I supposed to fire them because they moved?” she asks.)

Smoot-Edwards, whose company worked on The Line, points out that developers favor time-tested contractors with “expertise and stability,” and whose crews have a history of working together. “The thing you don’t want is a company that, every time a new project comes along, they have to rehire new people and go through the learning curve,” she says.

First Source’s reporting requirements for construction companies also mandate that executives file monthly reports demonstrating that they’re making good faith efforts to employ D.C. residents, even if employers have already filled an open position. Smoot-Edwards estimates that she has created unnecessary positions for D.C. residents on at least four separate construction projects.

While completing restoration work on the

still-in-progress renovation of Chinatown’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Smoot-Edwards says DOES informed her that a new hire wouldn’t count toward Phoenix’s First Source requirement because the employee was tasked with managerial duties in the field office instead of physically painting the building.

“There is a gap between what is on the market and what we have demand for,” Sayin Taylor says, “and First Source is not helping fill those gaps.” As far back as 2010, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute reported in a paper coauthored by now-At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman, who oversees DOES, that “there is a skills mismatch between DC residents seeking work and jobs available.”

Lawrence Perry, the deputy auditor who has reported extensively on First Source compliance issues, says that he believes the claim that there is a shortage of skilled laborers in D.C. “is legitimate,” and that despite using DOES resources to find qualified workers, employers have reported that there “just wasn’t a pool of skilled laborers in the District.” Patterson calls this “a persistent issue.”

Both Patterson and Sayin Taylor point to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s development of a D.C. infrastructure academy at the University of the District of Columbia as the kind of good investment that will help foster economic parity. But Sayin Taylor points out that programs like these are sending workers out into “a regional labor market with very localized interventions.”

Even apprenticeship requirements, particularly for non-unionized workplaces, can prove burdensome, Smoot-Edwards says. The District requires all prime- and sub-contractors who perform construction, renovation, or IT work for the D.C. government with contracts of $500,000 or more to provide apprenticeships to D.C. residents. That forces smaller companies to bake in tens of thousands of additional dollars for trade teachers into project bids, making themselves less competitive than bigger companies with existing infrastructure to support the apprentices.

And while Patterson says that some employers and union shops have robust apprenticeship programs that are helpful in scouting and training new workers, the city as a whole is “not pulling all those pieces together in a way that’s effective” for local applicants seeking new technical skills. She also points to the Workforce Investment Council, a board that advises local agencies on job programs, which has seen three different permanent and interim leaders in the span of about two years.

“I think there have been some efforts made,” Patterson says, “[But] it’s tricky to get a real, concerted, overarching approach to an issue like this with continually changing leadership.”

More than anything, Smoot-Edwards says she wants to invest in the employees she already has. “When you find the right person with the right hands,” she says, “you try your best to hang onto them.”

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DISTRICTLINE Wily Coyote

Stephanie Rudig

A new citizen science project allows people to report D.C.-area coyote sightings.

By Kayla Randall You might have seen a dog-like creature in the dead of night and wondered: Exactly what species am I looking at? To trained eyes and ears, a coyote gives itself away—bigger than a fox and smaller than a wolf, a narrow snout and sinewy body, a black-tipped tail hanging downward, an unmistakable yip.

Longtime D.C. resident Megan Draheim is the founder of the recently launched District Coyote Project, which provides information to area residents about the local coyote population and how to coexist with them.

Draheim is on the faculty at Virginia Tech’s Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability in Arlington, where she teaches in the natural resource management master’s program.

Her project examines coyote ecology and human-coyote interactions, providing extensive information and resources on its website

about what you should do if you see a coyote.

“I had been wanting to do a local project because I’ve been in the D.C. area for 23 or 24 years now. But we didn’t have enough coyotes at that point to do a project that would’ve given me enough robust data to work with them.”

The lack of coyotes is not a problem today.

A National Park Service employee first officially sighted a coyote in Rock Creek Park in the early 2000s, she says. So, they’ve likely been moving through the area dating back a little longer than that. “The mid-Atlantic region is the last part of the contiguous 48 states that coyotes have gotten to,” she says. “And D.C. is kind of in the heart of the mid-Atlantic region, so we’re really one of the last places they’re coming to.

They’re really relatively recent arrivals here but they got here on their own. It’s a natural range expansion on their part.”

Coyotes have been able to thrive here for a couple of reasons, Draheim says. One is that

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humans have gotten rid of all the larger predators in the eastern part of the country. There are no mountain lions, no wolves, no other top-level predators that tend to suppress coyote populations. Coyotes are our new apex predator, the largest predator living in urban areas in terms of animals that are residential, she says, though mountain lions and bears do come into urban areas occasionally.

Humans also provide an excellent habitat for coyotes. Many coyotes’ diets consist of rodents and rabbits, animals in abundant supply around humans. In fact, urban coyotes tend to have smaller home ranges than rural coyotes because the abundance of resources is so much higher in cities.

This fall, the District Coyote Project’s fiveperson team started a citizen science initiative on its website in which people can report sightings of coyotes and foxes. The results appear as pins on a map of the region.

So what do we know about the coyotes we live with? Not much—yet. There are endless questions, Draheim says. How many of them live here? What are their eating habits here?

Where in the area do they live? All questions hard to answer, though some answers seem to be more attainable than others.

Population estimates do not come easily.

“We have no idea about D.C.,” she says. “It’s one of the things we’re hoping to look at and address with this project but no work has been done yet. In terms of the U.S., I’ve never seen an estimate. I think it would be quite hard to do because their territories range in size so much.

I think that’s a really challenging number to come up with.”

The new citizen science project will help to give Draheim and team members a better idea of where local people are seeing these animals.

One Falls Church woman did find the elusive, skittish creature at night right in her own backyard on a camera trap photo—a picture captured with a motion sensor-triggered camera.

She sent it in to Draheim to post on the project’s website. Draheim says what she’s seen in other cities is that coyotes tend to stick to larger green spaces, so here that would mean places like Rock Creek, the Arboretum, and Kenilworth Park, including golf courses and cemeteries. Some coyotes, though, live with no green spaces. “I heard recently somebody saw a coyote crossing his yard on Michigan Avenue,” she says. “So they do come out of the parks, and that’s one of the things we’re hoping to learn: how they use D.C. as habitat, how they’re interacting with our fox populations.”

The Chicago area is home to both a wealth of coyotes and the Urban Coyote Research Project, which has been tracking coyotes continuously for nearly 18 years. Stanley Gehrt, the principal investigator of the Cook County project, initiated the study in 2000. He currently serves as a professor and wildlife extension specialist at The Ohio State University.

“It’s hard to get numbers on coyotes in a single park sometimes,” Gehrt says.

“They’re just so tricky and difficult to count.

They’re very elusive and really smart.” Despite the difficulty, the project managed to do an analysis about 10 years ago, and at that time they found an estimated 2,000 coyotes living in Cook County, a conservative estimate as pups don’t get counted until they are about a year old. Today, he says, the number is probably double that, again as a very conservative estimate.

The Chicago project is more invasive, using radio collars to follow and track the animals. “Being able to reliably follow and track these animals allows us to also follow other things, such as any kind of disease that might be in the population or other forms of mortality that you wouldn’t be able to document through any other means,” he says. “If an

DISTRICTLINE animal dies from distemper, it would be very hard to document that unless you have them radio collared.”

The Chicago project serves as a model for other cities attempting similar research. “I get that question a lot from other cities, like how can they do something similar to this,” he says. “The thing is, it’s kind of a unique situation in Chicago where the county itself has such a large population base that they have a lot of funds that they can use to apply to research like ours.”

The way to begin, he says, is citizen science.

Starting off with noninvasive approaches and engaging the public is a first step that, despite limits to information, is valuable. Citizen science is a great way for communities to get in-

some coyote knowledge. I love coyotes. They can coexist with humans and sometimes we may not even know they’re around us. There’s a lot to learn about them.”

She wants people to be comfortable with the wildlife around them, rather than fearful or neutral. As humans continue to spread out and develop more land, there will be more interactions between us and wildlife.

Draheim offers some rules for interacting with wildlife: Don’t feed coyotes, keep outdoor compost bins closed, bring outdoor pet food in, and if you see a coyote without pups in the city outside of green spaces, haze it— raise your arms up, wave them around, yell at the coyote, move toward the coyote to chase it away and keep it properly fearful of people.

“I love coyotes. They can coexist with humans and sometimes we may not even know they’re around us.” volved with wildlife research efforts, and ultimately, conservation.

American University environmental science program master’s student Lindsay Powers wants to get involved in a big way.

Powers is planning for her thesis to be a research project on urban coyotes in Rock Creek Park. Draheim, who did her master’s and PhD graduate work on coyotes, recently agreed to be on Powers’ thesis committee.

“I got my research permit this past summer to study in Rock Creek Park,” says Powers. “And so what that will involve is a camera trap study and scat analysis, hopefully starting in December and probably until July or August of next year.”

“Scat” is animal droppings. Powers hopes to get camera trap footage of the coyotes that roam Rock Creek and analyze their droppings, which could help uncover a lot about the population, like possibly diet and disease information.

“Right now, the National Park Service doesn’t have a ton of information about the coyotes in Rock Creek Park, so my goal is to basically use camera traps and scat analysis to provide information that’s useful to them and also interesting to the public to help them learn more about coyotes,” she says. “It’s exciting to think that I can help lay a good foundation for

Most times, Draheim says, the coyote is going to scurry away. But don’t haze a coyote that appears sick or injured, or has pups—they are incredibly protective of their young. And keep your dogs and cats close to you and on leashes, as the coyote may see them as prey.

Draheim says humans kill huge numbers of coyotes each year in the United States.

“Lethal control of coyotes, untargeted lethal control of coyotes, obviously doesn’t work because we’ve tried to kill them off since European settlers came across them in the West, and all that’s happened is of course now they live in the entire country—except for Hawaii, they haven’t quite figured that one out yet,” she says.

They have found the cities and suburbs and urban green spaces, and they’re not going anywhere.

“I think people often forget or don’t recognize that urban areas are actually part of nature, too,” Draheim says. “We have wildlife that lives around us and they treat cities just as they do any other habitat, just as they would out in a rural area. I think it’s easy for people to think of cities as human habitat only, and that wildlife doesn’t belong here—except maybe for songbirds and some animals that people look at very favorably. But in fact, it’s habitat for all of us—humans and wildlife.”

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& Tennis Club in Cabin John—whose members included the Ledecky family—but the pool had a two-year waitlist, according to Bacon’s mother, Philippa.

At the pool, Bacon would jump into the water with abandon. By 4, she could swim a butterfly stroke across the 25-meter pool, says Bacon’s father, Tim. She’s a natural, Philippa thought. “She was a very good swimmer for a 4-year-old,” adds Tim. “She exhibited very good talent at a young age. Where that would go, I had no idea.”

Later that year, Bacon joined development stroke school classes at the local Nation’s Capital Swim Club (the same club team as, you guessed it, Katie Ledecky) and enjoyed meeting new friends in the sport. Competitive meets wouldn’t enter her life until later.

While competing for Tallyho in the Montgomery County Swim League 8 and under division, Bacon qualified as an alternate for the All-Star meet. She continued to improve and break records from there. (This past summer, Bacon set MCSL records for girls ages 15 to 18 in the 100-meter short course backstroke, in 1 minute and 0.22 seconds, and the 100-meter individual medley, in 1:03.08.)

But Bacon didn’t view swimming as her sole passion, or even a ticket to the Olympics. She had far too many hobbies and interests, and swimming was the most time consuming. As she got older, her love for the sport waned, so before she turned 10, she quit.

“Coaches were definitely not happy,” Bacon says with a laugh. “Mom was not happy.”

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Swimming phenom Phoebe Bacon is breaking records of a former schoolmate—Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky.

By Kelyn Soong Like many pre-k students at Little Flower School in Bethesda, Phoebe Bacon admired her big buddy. Educators at the private, Catholic school randomly paired Bacon with a fourth grade student to be in her “buddy group,” a program that encourages students across different grades to socialize, and the two quickly became friends.

They waved to each other in the hallway, played during recess, and participated in arts and crafts. The activities did not occur often— maybe three or four events during the school year—so Bacon looked forward to spending

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whatever time she had with the older girl at school. “Because we thought they were so cool,” she laughs.

But Bacon didn’t know much about her big buddy, besides learning that, like her, she was a swimmer. And apparently a pretty good one.

Her big buddy’s name was Katie Ledecky.

Ledecky would go on to become a five-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the most famous swimmers in the world, but also, more importantly to Bacon, a friend who continues to influence her life. As a junior at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bacon is rewriting D.C.-area high school swimming record books—just like Ledecky did several years ago.

“Not many people get to say you’re good

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friends with such an Olympian, such an amazing swimmer and amazing athlete,” says Bacon, now 16.

And in her own way, she’s following the unprecedented Olympic path blazed by the 21-year-old pro swimmer.

“Obviously over the last couple of years she’s really blossomed as a swimmer, both at the high school level and nationally,” says Ledecky, who graduated from Stone Ridge in 2015. “So it is crazy for me … to think back: We were buddies when I was in fourth grade.”

Bacon Started Swimming around age 2, when her family joined the Tallyho Swim & Tennis Club in Potomac. Her parents had briefly considered joining the Palisades Swim

Sitting StiLL iS a challenge for Bacon. She doesn’t like being bored. If there’s down time, she’ll go for a bike ride, or play basketball in the neighborhood. On weekends, she occasionally goes hiking on the Billy Goat Trail or she’ll find her cousins and organize cooking competitions in her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She likes to bake. Bacon will also find projects around the house to work on with her father, like building a rock climbing wall from scratch, or their current venture, rebuilding a 1993 Jeep Wrangler. Growing up, she participated in about half a dozen sports, including swimming.

During her freshman year at Stone Ridge, Bacon played on the varsity soccer team, the club ice hockey team, and the junior varsity lacrosse team—in addition to starring on the swim program made famous by Ledecky.

“People are like, ‘Oh, I’m going to nap.’

Yeah, I like my naps, but I also like going out and doing whatever,” Bacon says.

Philippa describes her youngest daughter, and third oldest child, in one word: exhaust-

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“She is a very busy young lady,” her mother says. “She definitely has her down time. She needs her down time and has it, but it’s a very small portion of her day.”

Giving up swimming, it turned out, freed up too much time. Extra energy piled up with no comparable outlet. After six months, Bacon decided to return with a renewed perspective.

She’s enjoyed the journey since.

Swimming is where she truly excels and she sees a future in the sport. “It’s where I really felt like I felt good,” Bacon says.

By March of 2016, Bacon reached a swimming milestone that made her realize her potential. She qualified for the Olympic trials in the 100-meter backstroke at just 13 years old, and was the third-youngest of the 1,885 swimmers at the meet in Omaha, Nebraska, that summer.

She placed 83rd overall out of 164 swimmers with a time of 1:03.19, and received a writeup the next day in The Washington Post.

The Olympic trials established an inextricable link, in more ways than one, to her elementary school big buddy.

“Everybody knows who she is,” says Tim

Kelly, Bacon’s club coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club. “Everyone in the club knows Phoebe’s name. The summer league is very big, 80-plus teams, thousands of kids. They know who she is.”

But that doesn’t mean the two are clones.

Far from it. Just ask their coaches.

During a swim meet at Stone Ridge earlier this month, Bacon wandered the pool deck, shouting encouragements at her teammates.

At 5-feet-10, she is as tall as many of the high school boys, and faster than several of them.

She strolled around the pool with a confident walk. She is, unlike Ledecky, just as much of an athlete on solid ground as she is underwater.

“Katie on the land, you had to be cautious with her,” Stone Ridge swimming and diving coach Bob Walker says. “You did dryland with Katie, you were worried about her stumbling down and stubbing a toe or something.

It isn’t like that with Phoebe. You look at Phoebe and she’s almost dancing around the deck cheering for somebody. Katie would move to that location to cheer behind the lane at a different rate.”

The two also compete in vastly different disciplines. Ledecky dominates in long dis-

tance freestyle. Bacon’s best event is the sprint backstroke.

At the USA Swimming Winter Nationals Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, a few weeks ago, Ledecky won the 200-, 400-, and 800-meter long course (50-meter pool) freestyle events. Bacon finished ninth in the 200 individual medley (2:15.96), ninth in the 100 butterfly (1:00.09), fourth in the 200 backstroke (2:11.13), and second in the 100 backstroke (1:00.02).

“I mean, how do you compare to the greatest swimmer in our sport? I don’t know if you can compare them that way,” says Kelly, her club coach. “They’re also very different swimmers, but right now they both swim on the national team. I would not be at all surprised if they both swim on the same Olympic team some day. They’re very different people, but they’re both special.”

And even if she’s not on the same trajectory as Ledecky, Bacon is on the verge of being an Olympian. Her goal, she says, is to qualify for the Olympics as many times as possible. At Nationals, she qualified for the 2020 Olympic trials in all four individual events.

Bacon says she will verbally commit to swim at a college soon, and has her eyes set on quali-

fying for the Olympic trials in even more events.

“I think she’s right up there,” says Ledecky.

“She competes in pretty tough events, sprint backstroke events, 100 back, 200 back, those are really competitive events in the United States right now. ... But if she continues on down this stretch she’s at, I think she’ll make the finals at Olympic trials, probably, and once you make the finals, it’s anyone’s game.

Whether she makes the team in 2020 or not, I think she’s still very young and has a long career ahead of her.”

“I’m not trying to put any pressure on her,” the gold medalist adds. “But … if you’re on a national team, you’re one of the top swimmers in the country, and you have those opportunities ahead of you.”

During her final individual race at the Dec. 4 high school meet, Bacon broke another pool record, finishing the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:05.37, more than 15 seconds faster than the second place swimmer. Afterward, Walker looked up at the large record scoreboard on one end of the pool and pointed to where Bacon’s name would appear once again, replacing the name of another Stone Ridge swimming prodigy.

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TOUGH CALL A day-in-the-life look at D.C.’s crisis line limns common challenges for people with lived experience of mental illness and the unsung workers who give their all to help.

By Diana Michele Yap

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

The Tragic sTreeT spectacle of a fellow District resident talking to himself—a visual shorthand for unaddressed serious mental illness—would not look strange to Tyreese R. McAllister, a licensed professional counselor and a 27-year veteran of emergency men-

tal health work in the D.C. area. “I see it on a regular basis,” she says.

No one is immune to issues of mental illness, which cut across race, gender, income, and social status, she says. Stigma makes it hard for people who need help to get treat-

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ment, and easy for society to react with a shrug to human suffering.

Since 2017, McAllister has directed mobile crisis services and the homeless outreach program within the Department of Behavioral Health’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Emer-

gency Program, overseeing approximately 23 DBH employees.

When people who could be diagnosed with mental illness are out on the streets, other people “drive by, walk by, see them, and think that they’re a lost cause. And they’re not,” says Michael L. Young, a peer specialist at CPEP and a Marine Corps veteran who went undiagnosed for 20 years. “They’re just going through something at that point. And if they could get the help that they need, you would see that there is a marked difference in what could go on.”

Enter CPEP as one crucial option in the District’s mental-health system of care. The CPEP operation is housed in Building 14 on the DC General campus in the Hill East neighbor-

may have a heart. You may feel bad that people live like this. But to be able to work with them is a whole different skill set. It’s not even a skill.

It’s a level of compassion that not everyone can reach in themselves.”

Rachelle ellison, who lives in D.C., says that someone called the CPEP crisis line on her behalf back in 2002.

“I had substance abuse and mental-health issues that were unaddressed at that point. I was in a psychotic state. I was pretty much having a mental breakdown. And someone called because I would just—I wouldn’t respond,” she says. “When the police came, I wouldn’t respond to their commands. And the police called CPEP.” A team arrived, and took her to the CPEP building for emergency psychiatric services.

After that, the only thing Ellison can remember “is them holding me down,” she says, “to put the Haldol shot in me.”

When she “came to,” she was calm. “Everyone was very professional, very friendly,” she recalls. Once she was stabilized, they let her go.

She says now, “That service is in place for clients who have situations just like mine, who can’t mentally function in the city or on the streets, or who become so overwhelmed that they may need to go to CPEP not to be a danger to themselves or others in society.”

Ellison is now in recovery, soon to celebrate her fifth year clean and sober. She is a DBHcertified peer specialist trained to assist others in recovery and wellness, and a speaker and advocate for the National Coalition for the Homeless.

Is this hard to talk about?

“Actually, no, it’s not,” Ellison says. “Department of Behavioral Health is a big part of the reason I’ve grown so much, and I’ve been able to elevate, and I’m very grateful.” hood. While patients can walk into the building 24/7 to receive emergency services and/or observation beds for people 18 and older, the mobile crisis services unit opens at 9 a.m. and takes its last call at 1 a.m.

A phone call to the CPEP crisis line activates mobile crisis services—teams of two workers who drive a vehicle to an adult who is experiencing a psychiatric crisis and is unable or unwilling to travel for treatment. A crisis can mean being in trouble with the law, injuring yourself, developing a plan to take your own life, or considering hurting others.

Most people with mental-health needs lead their everyday lives and go about their daily business in D.C. But CPEP is crisis-based. It’s for people who, through no fault of their own, are in the grip of a medical nightmare, trying to survive a terrible time in their life.

McAllister says her team visits some people whose homes are in disarray. Or they may not have bathed in a year because they’re streetbound. They may have gangrene that smells awful, lice, or bedbugs hopping all around.

“This is not a job that everyone can do. This is not a job everyone should do,” she says. “You

DBh is not without its troubles. This year, DBH has unwittingly found itself in the spotlight.

In February, a sweeping report by the D.C. Auditor and the Council for Court Excellence, a nonpartisan organization that works toward an equitable criminal justice system in D.C., lambasted DBH for its handling of people with possible mental illness in the criminal justice system; among the vast array of issues were timely evaluations of defendants and insufficient treatment and resources such as housing. In August, attorneys filed a class action suit against the D.C. government, alleging that its failure to provide adequate outpatient treatment to children led to damaging, repeated institutionalizations.

On Nov. 30, former DBH Director Tanya Royster was ousted as Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, Director of the Department of Health, would also serve as Interim Director of DBH. Lawsuits and oversight by the federal court and the U.S. Department of Justice have shaped D.C.’s behavioral health system, the CCE wrote in the report’s introduction. “The District’s public mental health agency has spent more years under federal oversight than not, with the most recent case concluding in 2014.”

Drill down to the moment of someone in crisis, though, and you have a person in need and workers devoting their days to helping.

The auditor’s report acknowledged: “While we found that much of its staff are passionate about their work and are dedicated to improving the agency’s operations, we also found that DBH has much room for improvement.”

CPEP is one section within one of the five administrations that compose DBH, and was not the focus of the report. in BuilDing 14, CPEP’s mobile crisis unit works out of a bright room painted robin’s egg blue that’s off a dimly lit hallway, along which people in flimsy hospital gowns are relaxing on seats and chatting on a recent fall afternoon.

The room is stocked with a half-dozen or so landline phones and workstations. Opposite the phones is a large whiteboard that contains critical information: Date of the phone call.

Name of the mental-health consumer. Name of who or what program referred the consumer. Red dots mean staffers are out on a call to visit that consumer.

The board, sort of a dry-erase spreadsheet used to track people in crisis from referral to handoff, is a quiet reminder of the lives at stake. Any given person who relies on D.C.’s public mental-health system may have a long history of mental illness, or be experiencing their first psychotic break, or they may not have a mental illness, such as someone in crisis after surviving a traumatic event.

Often, the CPEP crisis line gets calls about people who have stopped taking their medicine; family members are concerned. Or neighbors call in about hoarders.

“Anybody can call us in the District. We not only deal with District residents. We deal with visitors,” McAllister says. The White House is here. The Pentagon is close by. The CIA. The FBI. “You have people who have delusions all

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How to get help in D.C. during a mental-health crisis In an emergency—if you or someone you know is in immediate danger—call 911.

If you or someone you know needs help, call the Department of Behavioral Health’s Access HelpLine (1-888-7WE-HELP), which serves as the 24/7 front door to getting connected to local services and also is D.C.’s suicide hotline. The Access HelpLine can connect you to the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program crisis line to activate CPEP mobile crisis services from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day.

For children facing a crisis, the 24/7 Children and Adolescent Mobile Psychiatric Service (202-481-1450) provides onsite immediate help that’s geared toward ages 6 to 21 years.

On a national level, if you or someone you know is in crisis, call the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-TALK), whether they are considering suicide or not.

Another option is the 24/7 Crisis Text Line (text NAMI to 741-741).

The National Domestic Violence Hotline (800-799-SAFE) and the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800-656-HOPE) offer help 24/7.

For information, referrals, and support, the NAMI HelpLine (800-950NAMI) can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, or at info@nami.org.

Sources: DBH; NAMI

over the United States,” she adds. “Or I could really say the world because we’ve had some foreign visitors, too.”

A phone rings. Bill, a mental-health professional in mobile crisis services, answers. It’s a young consumer who calls frequently just to talk. Bill greets the person by first name. When the crisis line gets calls like these, CPEP staff usually assess, see if anything is needed, give a few moments of time, and then disconnect.

Some on the mobile crisis staff are called mental-health counselors. Those with higher degrees are mental-health specialists. Certified addiction counselors and peer specialists round out the team, along with interns in social work from Howard University and George Mason University. McAllister herself is also certified as a sex-offender treatment provider and a clinical trauma professional.

The phone rings again. Bill takes the call. He checks the electronic record system to see if this person is in it. Then he confirms the ad-

dress and phone number. He documents the issues and checks the history. “We have to know where he is,” Bill says into the phone.

From November 2017 to November 2018, CPEP’s mobile crisis services team received 2,702 referrals and responded in person to 1,707 of those phone calls for face-to-face visits, according to DBH. Crisis intervention is just one service provided by the team.

The range of services also includes traumatic event response, grief and loss response, follow-up with domestic violence survivors referred from DC SAFE (an organization that also provides crisis support), links to providers, referrals, and well checks. The average response time is 49 minutes, 17 seconds.

Mobile crisis services cover two shifts, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

At least four mental-health professionals must staff each shift so they can field two teams of two to cover the entire District. Three teams are preferable. They go out on about 10 to 12 calls per shift.

Whoever picks up the phone is often the same person who goes out on a call. They do their best to get there within an hour.

Sometimes even before the day shift begins, the phones are ringing because things have happened overnight.

At the start of the day, McAllister or a supervisor goes over the board and assigns cases. The team takes their marching orders of who’ll work together in a pair. They get their DBH-issued things together to take out into the field, including a resource book in a white binder with laminated pages, an iPad, and a cell phone. They sign themselves out on the board. Then the two-person teams go out in unmarked government vehicles.

Bill, in tandem with Jennifer, a supervisor, leaves Building 14 to take care of the call.

While CPEP’s mobile crisis services are referral-based, its Homeless Outreach Program is primarily about finding cases. That means they go out to look for people living outside who don’t want services, and they patiently develop relationships with them over many months. They do take referrals if people call in to say a homeless person needs help.

In a different wing of Building 14 are the offices for McAllister and her HOP professionals. They’re out in the community most days, in snow or in rain, doing outreach to consumers who are both chronically mentally ill and chronically homeless.

“They go places where a lot of people won’t go to find them,” says McAllister of her staff.

The HOP team has a list of vulnerable people to see, broken down into each area of the city’s eight wards. The staffers each have their own sections. “That way, they become very familiar with who’s homeless in that area so they’re easier to find and locate, and also to develop a rapport,” she adds. “Many of the consumers don’t want to speak to government workers.”

Across the country, funding for mental health services varies from year to year. Many Medicaid programs pay for crisis stabilization services, and a number of states and the District expanded Medicaid through the Affordable

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Care Act. “Finding adequate funding—not only for crisis services, but for the mental-health system in general—is always a challenge,” says Ron Honberg, a senior policy advisor at the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Currently, when crises occur, most communities depend on their police to handle them.

But that should be the job of the mental-health system, he says. An effective crisis response system includes a 24-hour crisis line, walk-in

the police with them, often D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, but mobile crisis services interface with different kinds of police or law enforcement. “On federal property, we’re dealing with Park Police. If we’re over by the White House, we’re dealing with Secret Service,” she says. “It just depends.”

While out in the field, a mobile crisis team relies on the iPad to, say, look up resources or use a language-translation line. The cell phone

crisis services, and mobile crisis services that intervene where the crisis is occurring, according to NAMI. Crisis services ideally can lessen burdens on police and, in the long run, save money by intervening before a person shows up at the emergency room or ends up hospitalized or in jail, Honberg says.

NAMI hears frequently from upset families who called their county’s mobile crisis team only to hear that their loved one didn’t seem imminently dangerous to themself or others, but “if he threatens to hurt you or hurt himself, then call us,” Honberg says. “Of course, that’s very frustrating to families. Because to wait till that happens—it’s sometimes too late.”

McAllister has noticed that as the city changes, more people want to call the crisis line or HOP to help people. “I think many people become disenchanted with DBH when we don’t take people off the street immediately,” she says.

“People have a right to self-determination.

People have a right to accept treatment and to refuse it, except if they’re likely to injure themselves or others,” she states. “If they don’t meet the criteria for involuntary hospitalization, we are not able to hospitalize them.”

On the board in Building 14, a red flag next to a name means possibly suicidal, homicidal, or violent.

“A majority of our customers are not violent, and a lot of them don’t even have a history of violence,” says McAllister. “People are protective of themselves in their space. We have a team of people who are strangers going into someone’s home.” They check to see if there’s a history of violence. If so, they take

is for the GPS, to tell the consumer or the referral source they’re there, to check in with staff, or to call the police if needed.

“You can’t really tell a person while you’re sitting in their living room, ‘I’m going to FD12 you. The police are going to come and take you to the hospital.’ That’s not safe. Nor is it smart,” McAllister says. “We alert each other that the police have to be called, and we can’t necessarily do it in front of the consumer.”

An FD-12 is a petition for involuntary hospitalization so that somebody who is likely to injure themself or others can get the treatment they need. In addition to CPEP, McAllister says,

think there’s an issue, or they would have gone voluntarily in the first place.

Respress says that people ask, “Why did I have to be taken away in handcuffs?” That, to her way of thinking, “should be a different kind of process. We need to have a different conversation as a community about discretion and assessment of care and dangerousness.” Imagine if you believe that the government is out to hurt you, and police officers come, put you in handcuffs, and take you away in a car, she says. “I remember this one person in the program telling me, ‘Christy, I literally thought they were taking me away to kill me.’ And can you imagine that terror?”

D.C. needs to involve more people who have lived experience of mental illness—who have experienced CPEP’s services, including mobile crisis, and the FD-12—in helping to reform the system of care and to better inform it, she says. “The conversation must be led by people who have lived through it. Period.”

Why? Her voice high and full of emotion, Respress says, “Because I will never fully understand what it is like as a person who has not been involuntarily hospitalized. I will never fully comprehend, no matter how much the people I serve tell me, what that was like and what the system felt like.”

Good enough, she adds, is never good enough.

three hospitals in D.C. take people with FD-12s, as well as the VA for America’s veterans.

Later, after returning to Building 14, Bill conveys that a case manager at a program said someone reportedly went into a police station and was talking about people breaking into his place, then went to the property management and said that the police had given him the green light to kill anybody who goes into his unit. “At which point,” Bill says, “we automatically had an FD-12 started to be written.” They waited for the case manager at the address and waited for the police, having requested at least one CIO—a crisis intervention officer with MPD who’s spe-

cially trained by DBH. The CIO program in the District began in 2009 as a collaborative effort between the MPD and DBH, according to an annual trend report on the CIO program for FY 2011 through FY 2016 by MPD and Pathways to Housing DC. As of 2016, 994 CIOs from MPD and other D.C. law enforcement agencies were trained.

Most incidents to which CIOs respond are resolved peacefully. People brandish weapons 7 to 11 percent of the time. As shown by the data, weapons are only involved in a small number of mental-health incidents, according to the report.

The program increases safety for the public and law enforcement and the diversion of nonviolent people with mental illnesses away from the criminal justice system. It also has led to decreases in preventable arrests, decreased response times, and increases in referrals to mental-health services by law enforcement.

Bill reports that their intervention went smoothly; the consumer was brought to CPEP. “We had him. He’s here,” says Bill.

“You’re at Your lowest point when you’re in psychiatric care. You’re waiting. You’re scared. You might be angry,” says Christy Respress, a social worker who is executive director of Pathways to Housing DC, the nonprofit organization that brought the Housing First model to the District and that is certified

by DBH to provide the highest level of mentalhealth services in the community.

Involuntary hospitalization, or the FD-12 process, is always used as a last resort, according to Respress, who also serves as president

of the Board of Directors of the DC Behavioral Health Association.

“There are no good answers here. There’s no black-and-white, easy answer about taking away a human being’s rights and where that line is,” she says. “People are in this work because they care so deeply about people and their mental health. To have to make that kind of decision when you know it’s required to save a life—it doesn’t make it easy.”

People might be angry at, and distrustful of, providers after an involuntary hospitalization. Respress understands that. But more often than not, “when we stand by people and then continue to just keep offering this unconditional support and care, when they are better, and when they are in a different place in their recovery,” she says, “they will thank us for being with them and understand why we initiated the hospitalization.”

MPD policy is that all people are handcuffed when being transported for mental health services in an MPD vehicle, and further that all adults being transported to CPEP for mental observation in an MPD vehicle are field searched and handcuffed before being put in the vehicle, according to a 2015 MPD directive on interacting with mental-health consumers.

If an adult who shows no signs of being a danger to themself or others voluntarily agrees to go to CPEP, however, transportation is to be arranged by a family member, by ambulance if the person is injured, or using the vehicle of the referring agency. According to DBH, mobile crisis and homeless outreach can and do transport voluntary consumers to either CPEP or a hospital in an unmarked government vehicle.

Many people who are in psychosis do not

at this moment in Building 14, a man’s voice yelling curse words somewhere nearby is audible and prolonged. His anger, or anguish, is palpable.

Confronted with suffering like this, the average person in our culture doesn’t understand. It’s a reflex to turn away in discomfort from the plight of others. It’s common human nature to ignore the unsettling aspects of our messy human existence, or carelessly make fun of someone in pain. It’s easier, sometimes, to live like meaning resides on the shiny surfaces of society.

McAllister is not a stranger to the horror of personal tragedy. Last year, her daughter was killed by gunfire in D.C. She was 18 years old.

“I find my personal experience helps me to do this job even better,” McAllister says now. “I still go onto gun scenes where somebody has gotten killed.” When McAllister worked in Prince George’s County, she worked alongside the police and gave death notifications for years. “And then, one day in my life, I’m given a death notification, right? But it made me understand.”

It made her stronger, she says. “You have to be able to have enough ego strength that somebody else is in crisis, and they absolutely need you to be present. And you have to stay present because there’s also an element of safety. I still have to keep my head on a swivel. I’m in a neighborhood I don’t know. I’m in a community that does not know me.”

McAllister emphasizes that CPEP works on mitigating crisis, and the dry-erase board used by her mobile crisis unit reflects that.

“We don’t see these people long-term,” she says. They erase the names one at a time as they close cases. But the board is never clean, she says. The work is never done.

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Gear Prudence: I love biking, but I hate winter.

Come springtime, this means that I’m going to be extremely slow and out of shape unless I ride indoors. But spin classes seem like such a commitment and the idea of buying an exercise bike feels a little over-the-top. What should I do?

—Snow Persists. I’m Neutralized Dear SPIN: One of the more amazing things about bicycling is that it’s an outdoor activity that doesn’t necessarily require the outside.

The outside makes it more pleasurable—you can pass by miles and miles of natural terrain and finish a ride with a sense of accomplishment. But nature isn’t strictly necessary if your sole goal is to turn over the pedals ad infinitum. This can be just as well accomplished with a bike that doesn’t go anywhere, and a large number of people experience bicycling this way exclusively. In GP’s estimation, this is not nearly as satisfying as riding outside, but unless you want to buy the requisite amount of merino and neoprene to cope with the cold, you’ll have to pedal to nowhere indoors.

Signing up for spin classes or embarking on a home exercise regimen are serious commitments, so be sure to pick the right one.

There are a lot of things to like about spin classes. They are inside. They are scheduled.

They are led by an instructor. They are full of other people who have also decided to ride a stationary bike inside, making your decision seem like less of a character flaw. If you’re the kind of person who needs structure in order to exercise, classes are a great way to guarantee that you actually do the indoor bicycling that you intended to do. The downsides of this rigidity are also manifold. You have to pay for the classes, and that adds up quickly. And you have to leave your house to actually get to the class. If you have other obligations and/or are good at coming up with excuses, good luck.

So instead you can buy an exercise bike or a trainer (to which you attach your bike) and ride the miles in the comfort of your own home.

There are countless downloadable workouts and apps if you’re into that kind of thing. You’ll need, of course, sufficient room to get this set up and steely mental determination to ensure that you actually get on the trainer and do the workout. Both trainers and stationary bikes will require some upfront investment money. And, of course, there’s a reasonably good chance you’ll never actually use it: Climate change is making winter exceedingly short and podcasts maybe aren’t as distracting as you’d hope they’d be.

But if you beat the odds and hold yourself accountable, come spring, you might only be a little slow and out of shape, instead of very, and that’s nothing to sniff at.

—GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsdc. Got a question about bicycling?

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By Laura Hayes ChanCes are good that you already know what food will be served at your funeral. That’s because there’s comfort in the familiarity of passed-down traditions. The presence of specific foods and drinks is the common denominator at wakes and funerals across various cultures.

There’s a somewhat scientific reason why food plays an integral role in the mourning process. According to Michelle Palmer, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and the executive director of D.C.’s Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, the acute phase of grief significantly disrupts regular eating habits, and lasts up to three months.

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void, Palmer says others experience a significant loss of appetite. “Either they have GI upset so their stomach is sour and food sounds unappetizing, or their grief fills all the way to the top of their throat and the thought of swallowing feels impossible,” she says.

“The nervous system is over-activated,” Palmer continues. “There’s adrenaline and cortisol, like being in a fight-or-flight situation.

If you think about when there’s adrenaline running through your system, the last thing you want to do is eat.” Palmer believes the meals that follow funerals are about coaxing the griefstricken into eating.

To gain a window into what foods and drinks various countries serve, City Paper spoke to D.C.-area chefs and restaurateurs with ties to South Korea, Vietnam, India, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Ghana, and Venezuela. Traditions vary from region to region and neighborhood

to neighborhood, so what is true for these individuals and their families may not apply to a country’s entire population. Some shun aggressive flavors and drinking alcohol, while others put on one hell of a party.

When someone dies in Northern India, food is stripped of its key flavor agents—garlic and ginger—for seven days, according to Sanjay Mandhaiya. The New Delhi native is a chef and partner at Pappe.

Mandhaiya says Hindu mourners wear white and follow a sattvic diet comprised of foods aiming to bring clarity to mind and body. That means no meat, no heavy seasonings, and no ghee (the clarified butter that gives Indian food its richness). “It’s boring food with some roti,” he says of the potato dishes and subtle vegetarian curries traditionally consumed after the death of a loved one. “You’re basically detoxifying your body.”

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Around the world, funeral foods and customs bring comfort to mourners and the deceased.

Families don’t serve dessert unless the deceased lived a long life, according to Mandhaiya.

“If you’re much older and had a rich life that is to be celebrated, people will enjoy a dessert called ladoo,” he says. The sweet orbs made from flour and ghee can be enhanced with ingredients like chopped nuts, raisins, and coconut.

Some Vietnamese also strip down their cuisine while paying tribute to the dead, according to Nam Viet owner Ngoc Anh Tran. But while Hindu Punjabis give up flavorful food for a week, Vietnamese Buddhists go vegan for 49 days.

After someone dies, family and friends convene at the deceased’s house once a week throughout the seven-week period to share a meal and remembrances. “It’s a vegan spread in Vietnamese culture called chay,” Tran says, with her son Richard Nguyen translating.

“Of those spreads, there’s fermented tofu and steamed veggies.”

“When my dad passed, we did 49 days of a lot of vegan food,” Nguyen says. Both of his parents are from Can Tho, a city in southern Vietnam. “By about the fourth day, I was tired of tofu but we had to endure because in Buddhist culture it means that if you endure during that time, it’s good for them. It’s a good note to send them off into the afterlife.”

Edible and potable offerings also play a role in Vietnamese funeral customs. Loved ones erect a small altar where they can place food, drinks, and fake money that’s burned on certain holidays. The 49-day mark is when the family ceases bringing rice to the altar, but that’s not when grieving ends. The next milestone is 100 days after death, when mourners celebrate the “end of the tears.” The mourning process concludes on the second anniversary of the death.

In Korea, modern funerals last a modest three days, according to Mandu co-owner Danny Lee. They’re held in what are known as jang-raeshik-jang—buildings with many funeral rooms, which are generally attached to a hospital.

“You walk in and there’s at least one family member there 24/7,” Lee says, noting that Koreans work long hours and like to be able to pay their respects when time allows. The person manning the observance room is there to receive guests who then perform a bowing ritual.

After visiting the room, mourners meet family members in the facility’s dining hall to enjoy a spread of food and generous pours of beer and soju, a neutral-tasting Korean distilled spirit. “If you’re a guest, you pay observance to the family and then you drink with the family,” Lee says.

“It’s similar to a wake, but it’s all done immediately after someone passes.”

As far as food, Lee recounts seeing rice, jjigae (stew), japchae (stir-fried noodles), stuffed rice

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cakes, and banchan at these gatherings. Banchan (or panchan) are small Korean snacks that accompany a meal. “Literally there are tables and tables of banchan ranging from kimchi and pickles to seasoned veggies, salted shrimp, crispy tiny anchovies, and egg custards,” he says. A stew called yukgaejang, which contains red chili peppers said to ward off ghosts, is also served.

If Korean funerals allow the mood to slip from solemn to slightly celebratory with help from the soju, Ghanaians raise the mood to just short of jubilant. A funeral director told CNN in 2014 that an average funeral in Ghana costs between $15,000 and $20,000, including the price of a casket carved into the shape of anything from a beer bottle to a sneaker to a ship.

“Funerals are huge in Ghana,” says Prince Matey, the chef and owner of Appioo African Bar & Grill. “They spend more money on the funeral than when the person is alive.

It’s crazy. I truly don’t know why.” It’s better to have more attendees, which is why Matey says he’s heard of families hiring fake mourners. “They even have professional dancers who carry the casket and are dancing with it,” he says.

The meal following the funeral is elaborate, according to Matey. Small appetizers like doughnuts, chips, and peanuts are typically available throughout the day, then after the burial the family gathers to indulge in dishes like fried fish with kenkey (a dumpling-like ball of fermented corn dough), jollof rice, grilled chicken, goat stew, waakye (rice and beans), okra soup, and tilapia. “Sometimes caterers do it, and some people have a huge family and choose to cook themselves,” Matey says.

In Cyprus, where Sakerum owner Stephanos Andreou lived until he was 19, memorial services are held at certain intervals after someone’s death. “Three days, nine days, 40 days, three months, six months, one year, and then every year after that,” he explains. The first 40 days are the most significant. During that time, relatives of the deceased wear black and men forgo shaving. Most Greek Cypriots, including Andreou, are Greek Orthodox, but there’s also a population of Islamic Turkish Cypriots.

“During this time we give koliva,” a boiled wheat preparation sweetened with sugar or honey and studded with anything from sesame seeds and ground walnuts to pomegranate seeds, he says. “It symbolizes life.”

But immediately after a funeral in the city of Nicosia, where Andreou is from, the family of the deceased will put out a spread of wine, halloumi cheese, olives, and bread. “Each guest will pass the food from the relatives and say, ‘God forgive him.’ The dinner happens for three straight days as a part of supporting the family and being there with them.”

Most of Venezuela, where Chef Enrique Limardo is from, is Roman Catholic. Limardo

first made a name for himself locally at Alma Cocina Latina in Baltimore and now he’s readying to open Seven Reasons on 14th Street NW. He explains that regardless of socio-economic class, Venezuelans welcome funeral guests with a simple chicken soup that has various names: chupe de pollo, hervido de gallina, and levanta muerto.

Otherwise, there’s a divide between how the South American country’s rich and poor observe someone’s passing. “Sometimes in the most poor neighborhoods, the people from ‘the barrio’ make a huge party that’s very fun and loud, with a lot of alcohol involved and a variety of Venezuelan traditional food items,” Limardo explains.

The festivities usually include a practice known as bailando al muerto, which translates to “dancing with the dead.” Limardo says boogying on the streets where the deceased lived invites the dead to “join the Gods in a fun way.”

Wealthier Venezuelans look down on the celebratory vibe, according to Limardo. “On the most high-up scale of the society, people are more attached to the Catholic religion,” he explains. Compared to a lengthy, days-long party, they typically attend a ceremony at a church before sharing in a meal of coffee, non-alcoholic drinks, and small bites like arepas, tequeños (fried cheese sticks), and the aforementioned chicken soup.

“For me, and from my point of view, I prefer the celebratory meaning,” Limardo concludes. “Just because everybody will die at a certain point. That will happen no matter what. The question is, ‘When?’”

Omar Masroor, the owner of Afghan Bistro and Bistro Aracosia, shares Limardo’s sense of inevitability when it comes to death. While it’s customary in Islamic cultures to bury the dead as quickly as possible, Masroor says when someone dies you should mourn for 40 days. “No partying, no listening to music,” he says. “If someone died two weeks ago and you’re seen in a nightclub, it’s not good. You have to mourn.”

At funerals Masroor attended in his home country, relatives served a sharbat-style drink combining rosewater and the “tears of the basil plant.” Sharbat is a chilled, refreshing beverage typically featuring flower petals or other botanicals. Adding the slimy seeds to the base gives the drink a unique texture. He also recalls eating halvah. The sweet, fudgy dessert made with semolina flour and flavored with nuts, rosewater, and cardamom is often handed out to the homeless in addition to mourners.

“I was taught in the West everyone runs away from death,” says Masroor. “In my family, and most households, we believe the moment you take your first breath you’re dying.

It’s a cycle. Life life life life then death death death death. If you ask my father what life is, he’d say, ‘death in slow motion.’”

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EXHIBITORS ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES

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

CERAMICS

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

CLOTHES & ACCESSORIES

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

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

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

Downtown Holiday Market Guide

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

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

CRAFT

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

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EXHIBITORS (cont.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Makin’ Moves

An affordable housing complex in Ward 8 houses one of the District’s most ambitious maker spaces.

What is commoN to all maker spaces is an emphasis on learning and community. The NonStop Art Makerspace at Oxon Run stands out because of the specific community they work with—multiple generations of Ward 8 residents—and how they’ve made it happen. NonStop Art’s maker space is the result of a collaboration between real estate developers, artists, and private donors.

The Overlook at Oxon Run is a gated apartment complex comprised of more than 300 one- and two-bedroom apartments for senior residents and small families. The Community Preservation and Development Corporation (CPDC), the non-profit real estate developer behind Oxon Run, works exclusively with low- and moderate-income individuals and families. About 9,000 people live in CPDC’s 30-plus buildings in D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Baked into the nonprofit’s financial structure is a commitment to helping its residents feel supported beyond just having a roof over their heads.

So in June of 2015, Pamela Lyons, CPDC’s Senior Vice President of Community Impact Strategies, jumped at the opportunity when Capital One invited them to apply for a community development grant to implement an “innovative idea.”

By that point, Capital One had already partnered with CPDC on other community initiatives, such as a “financial asset building” network—a savings initiative to help a small group of residents support and invest in each other’s entrepreneurial initiatives. A maker space, though, would be different from any service CPDC had previously offered at any of their buildings.

Lyons first came across the idea of a maker space in an article she read years earlier, and immediately thought it would be beneficial for CPDC residents. Though she had never heard of a maker space based in an affordable housing building, Lyons believed it could teach residents employable skills and offer them a unique creative outlet. And because all of CPDC’s buildings house individuals from a wide range of ages, Lyons also believed maker spaces could be a powerful way to connect people across generations.

“A great deal of learning happens when youth and older people come together,” she says.

CPDC ultimately won two grants from Capital One, totaling $700,000. The grants covered the cost of the technology and equipment as well as the renovation of the three basement rooms (previously occupied by Academy of Hope Adult PubDarrow Montgomery

Nonstop Art staff members Nehemiah Dixon, Lorenzo Cardim, and Charlene Gaddy Wallace

The maker movement began in Silicon Valley with the insight that many of today’s most successful entrepreneurs are themselves tinkerers who grew up building things. One of the big ideas behind maker spaces is that when people become competent at making physical things, they gain confidence that they can build anything, including companies.

Dale Dougherty, who had a successful career in technology media and is considered the “grandfather of the maker movement,” has spent the last 13 years spreading this message of making. Whether the maker wants to explore STEM fields, learn a new skill, or start a business, a maker space should foster curiosity, creativity, and innovation.

By Adrianna Smith Nehemiah DixoN isN’t a stranger to change. A D.C. native who grew up in Southeast, Dixon hasn’t sat idly by as his hometown has evolved.

“Growing up in Southeast, I remember what this city looked like in the 1990s. When I was living on 16th Street in the mid2000s, I remember when the cranes came up,” he recalls. But rather than protest, move out, or bemoan gentrification, Dixon, an accomplished artist, saw an opportunity. “I want[ed] to stay in the middle and make compromises,” he says. “I want[ed] to try to do something with communities to help improve people’s lives.”

These days, as the District’s housing prices continue to rise, Dixon is working to have a say in how his changing city is supporting its longtime residents. Creating maker spaces, he’s discovered, is a way to do that.

Dixon is the founder and CEO of NonStop Art Makerspace

at Oxon Run in Ward 8’s Washington Highlands neighborhood. It’s a place of bustling creativity: On any weekday afternoon you can find 10-year-olds working side-by-side with 75-year-olds at the sewing machine, 3D printer, or desktop computers. NonStop’s intergenerational environment—and the fact that it’s in the basement of an affordable housing complex—sets this maker space apart from most other maker spaces.

In their most general sense, maker spaces are places for people to physically build things. Over the last five years, maker spaces have cropped up all across D.C. You might be familiar with the Fab Lab Pop-Up in NoMa, operated by DC Public Library while the central library, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, is undergoing renovations. Local college students might be familiar with wood shop classes at their university’s maker space. Or, if you’re the parent of a young child, you might have taken a family trip to the KID Museum’s KIDFest in Silver Spring last September, which also offered a maker space.

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CPARTS lic Charter School, which moved out once they received their charter and needed to expand). In July of 2017, after years of research and a brief period of construction, CPDC, Nonstop Art and Capital One jointly opened the Makerspace.

The NoNsTop ArT Makerspace is spread across three separate but closely linked rooms totaling 1,800 square feet of making: the Fabric Arts Lab, home to popular sewing classes; the Funk Lab, with computers and 3D printers for making digital designs; and the Maker Spot, used for more industrial machinery, like their laser cutter.

Access is free to all residents of Oxon Run and residents of CPDC’s sister buildings. This fall, the Makerspace opened up membership to non-residents, too: After completing a brief orientation, anyone can sign up to use the space. For $20 a day, a person can join any class, or for $65 a month, members can access the three labs for up to 80 hours a week. On Dec. 19th, NonStop Art is hosting an open house for all D.C. residents to check out the Makerspace and its membership options.

NonStop Art runs the day-to-day logistics of the Makerspace and pays the artist residents who teach all of the classes. In exchange, NonStop doesn’t pay rent to CPDC to use the space.

The NonStop staff—all working artists themselves who each have their own projects and exhibits—appreciate being able to make things with a community who may not feel welcome walking into a traditional museum or art gallery. Dixon reinforces his social justice model by paying his artists well above minimum wage at $25 an hour.

Even before NonStop Art existed, Dixon knew he wanted

to work with CPDC because of their commitment to lower-income communities. CPDC has won multiple awards for their buildings and service to lower income populations, and recently combined resources with non-profit housing developer Enterprise, which has an even larger reach.

Already, Dixon is talking to CPDC and other developers about opening more maker spaces in affordable housing communities. Although he knows he can’t stop gentrification, Dixon wants to help shape the future of development.

Lorenzo Cardim, NonStop’s Program Director, echoes Dixon’s sentiment. To him, it makes sense for maker spaces to collaborate with developers who should be looking to create ways “to not get completely detached from the soul of their community.”

Dorothy Jones-Davis, Executive Director of Nation of Makers, which supports maker organizations across the country, says she’s “excited about maker spaces’ potential in community economic development.” In a similar way that developers sometimes provide their residents with gyms and rooftop pools, Jones-Davis believes maker spaces could become part of this package of services offered in other buildings.

Historically, she notes, the relationship between developers and maker spaces has been tense because there’s competition around the kind of space needed for tinkering—large, inexpensive, and industrial. But NonStop Art’s maker space is a prime example of how smaller and residential spaces can work.

FirsT ANd ForemosT, Dixon considers himself an artist, and

his vision for NonStop Art extends beyond maker spaces. He’s eager to engage communities through public art, as expressed by his most recent exhibit, an outdoor sculpture of three hoodies in Foggy Bottom. NonStop Art is also partnering with the Phillips Collection to hold workshops and commission artwork.

When it comes to maker spaces, it’s a matter of art and economics. Dixon wants people to learn skills and processes that will help them get a job or start a business. Already, a few residents have used the vinyl-cutter to design and make their own T-shirts, and in the sewing lab, other residents are taking orders.

A maker space should be about creating a place for the community to gather and providing the resources for people to educate themselves, Dixon believes. He wants to be sure that people, no matter their age, feel supported and encouraged as they work with technology. Given that the maker space is on one of the building’s senior floors, the most frequent users have been senior citizens. It’s been amazing, Dixon notes, to see people who start out barely knowing how to turn on a computer creating their own designs on CorelDRAW a year later.

“Making is all about engaging people, and a lot of making comes out of being under-resourced,” says Jones-Davis.

She speaks from her own experience growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with few economic means. “I personally believe there is a lot more innovation in those communities because people are forced to innovate when the resources aren’t there,” she says. “Just because you’re poor doesn’t mean you don’t have ideas.”

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BORDER CROSSING Brandon Morse: Equator

At Dupont Underground to February 2019 TecTonic plaTes collide in “Equator,” sending material spewing forth into the world. Black matter erupts along a seam in what might be an oceanic trench or the root of the Rocky Mountains. Majestic, even meditative, the video draws in viewers as it grinds out obsidian forms.

Brandon Morse’s work gives us process two ways. “Equator” (2018), a four-channel installation, suggests the violent formation of new earth, or some volcanic process like it. Yet the motion in “Equator” is its own process, not just a rough depiction of nature. The core of the piece is a generative video, meaning the artwork is an unfolding algorithm rather than an animation.

There’s something else at work in Equator, which is also the name for Morse’s show on view at Dupont Underground. For this suite of software works, Morse generates violent conflict at

Installation view of “Equator” by Brandon Morse (2018) intersecting planes. The unrelenting focus on churn, shown across multiple works, hints at a preoccupation. It’s subtle—definitely that—yet searing. In the right light, Equator is a taut essay on borders: what they mean, how they work, how they don’t work. Morse’s show is a prime example of how art with a political bent doesn’t need to look literal to be critical.

Equator assembles five works, several spanning multiple channels. Three made with this show in mind are organized around horizontal borders. “Slip” (2018), for example, tracks a wavy, undulating delineation where two rotating surfaces meet. Morse’s visuals tend to defy easy description: Imagine two silver rolling pins turning against one another (viewed through the lens of powerful hallucinogenic drugs). In fact, the three-channel video follows an algorithm, with rules set by Morse that detail the pitch of the shadow cast by crests in the forms or the glare off their metallic surfaces.

(The pieces on view at Dupont Underground are videos, the artist explains, but the ideal works themselves are software files.)

“Slip” is less explosive than “Equator” or “Peel” (2018), a single-channel work whose surface appears to unspool from a tilted axis.

The silver striated surfaces that meet in “Slip” don’t so much clash as unfold; the border be-

tween them is smooth and negotiated. Silky and languid, the action in “Slip” is no less mesmerizing than the punch of “Equator,” even if it’s a lot less dramatic. Both show ways of conceiving of borders, which can be the site of instability, unrest, and revolt but also transaction, congress, and osmosis.

Equator caps off a productive year for Morse, who also showcased some generative videos at Fab Lab D.C. in April; he projected a multichannel piece (called “Prow”) at VisArts in Rockville last December. “Subduction” (2018), a two-channel work at Dupont Underground, revives the unsettling egg-like forms he debuted in a mind-bending convex dome projection at Arlington’s David M. Brown Planetarium in 2016. Of his recent works, a piece called “Tête-à-Tête” (2014) stands out as a D.C. favorite: a generative video in which two clouds of wiry flagella square off in a space that looks like it could be a Julie Mehretu painting rendered in code. By all appearances, Morse’s work draws a wealth from abstract painting. Abstraction alone distinguishes his work from a whole lot of artists who use computer science to create: The field tends to be over literal and navel gazing.

Equator also comes out ahead of most recent shows at Dupont Underground. Two years in, the sometimes unforgiving space has a better

record as a party venue than a contemporary art gallery. However, given its long curve of a wall and industrial backdrop, it’s hard to imagine a better space for chilly video works that emphasize action across a horizontal plane.

It would be overstating it to say that Equator adds up to any prescription for the ongoing border debate in America (whose contours conservatives and liberals can’t agree on anyway).

“Apogee” (2018) breaks with the broader horizontal line: This video depicts a twitchy asteroid form that emanates spheroids under a pulsating strobe. If there’s any narrative connection to the rest of the show, it’s in the strict sense of paranoia that this piece and its unrelenting pulse evokes.

Equator is less a show about the politics of the border than an abstraction on the anxiety caused by this debate. Borders, broadly construed, are falling all around us, even as new autocrats arise to erect walls in angry reverberations of the past. To say that without words is a challenge for art; to say that through process is an achievement for Morse. He’s a fitting artist to take on the idea of borders. What else are they if not an abstraction, simple and disruptive and defining?

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FILMSHORT SUBJECTS

PARENT TRAP Ben is Back

Directed by Peter Hedges

STOLEN GOOD Shoplifters

Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda In ShoplifterS, family ties are strengthened through petty theft. The opening scene shows a father and son at work, skulking about a grocery store and looking for an opportune moment to pilfer some goods. They’re not doing it for fun, exactly; though Dad has a construction job and Mom works at a laundry, it’s implied that they need that five-finger discount: “I forgot the shampoo,” the kid says after they leave, suggesting they’re taking only necessities. Still, they treat themselves to some street food on the way home to go with their stolen noodles.

But croquettes aren’t the only thing they pick up. As they’re nearing home and remarking on how cold it is, Osamu (Lily Franky) and Shota (Jyo Kairi) notice a little girl, Yuri (Miyu Sasaki), alone on a balcony. They’ve seen her out there before. This time, Osamu decides to bring her with them so she can have a hot meal. Home turns out to be a shack with three other adults: Osamu’s wife, Nobuyo (Sakura Andô); her younger sister, Aki (Mayu Matsuoka); and “Grandma” (Kirin Kiki). Their mealtimes are warm even though they’re on top of each other and sleep on the floor.

It’s clear they are a happy family. And when Osamu and Nobuyo take Yuri back to where he found her—despite the scars on her arms— and overhear her mother fighting with someone about how she never wanted to have her, they decide that their family has room for one more.

Writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s follow-up to 2016’s masterful After the Storm won the Palme d’Or and continues a theme he explored in 2013’s Like Father, Like Son: Which

is more important, nature or nurture? Yuri is quickly made a part of things as Osamu and Shota teach her how to steal and Nobuyo lavishes her with motherly attention. When Shota eventually resents the girl’s presence and argues to Osamu that she gets in the way, he tells the boy point-blank, “Yuri is your sister.” They’ll have another conversation about it, but the statement is unshakeable. As the film goes on, revelations are made that indicate there’s more to the clan than you initially think; indeed, Yuri belongs there as much as anybody.

Shoplifters is a bit slow to start, made up of moments that may be exquisitely rendered but are nonetheless small. Not all of the family members pull their own weight narratively, either: While Grandma joins Osamu, Nobuyo, Shota, and Yuri in scamming her way through life, Aki doesn’t really fit in. Not only does she not contribute financially to the household, but her small storyline—she works in a sex shop—adds nothing to the bigger picture. In fact, one scene in which she gets closer to a depressed customer is a distraction that comes across as bizarre because the matter is never revisited. It’s unclear what we’re supposed to get out of either character besides a few amusing lines such as, “She went to shake her breasts.”

Though the film isn’t a breezy build, spending this low-key time with the family results in a devastating final chapter in which they’re faced with a reckoning. The joy with which they live their day-to-day lives has been more important than their criminal activity, but it’s no spoiler to say they can’t get away scot-free forever. That Kore-eda makes these people not only empathetic but lovable is a sizable achievement, though one that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s seen his earlier work. His characters may never be perfect, but his films often come close.

—Tricia Olszewski Shoplifters opens Friday at the Avalon Theatre.

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It was only a matter of time. This awards season has brought us Hollywood’s first two attempts to wrestle America’s opioid crisis into something both relatable and uplifting. Did they succeed? Perhaps for some. Notably, both are about suburban white kids who squander their potential on hard drugs. The first, Beautiful Boy, detailed how addiction can consume both parents and children, and that the best thing for the parents to do is to let go. The latest, Ben is Back, suggests they should hold on for dear life.

In the film by Peter Hedges, Julia Roberts plays Holly Burns, whose son Ben (Lucas Hedges) shows up on her door on Christ-

mas Eve, when he is supposed to be in rehab.

Nobody in the family is happy about this.

His sister Ivy (Kathryn Newton) is cautiously pleased to see him. Holly’s new husband Neal (Courtney B. Vance), skittish after an unidentified incident with Ben that occured the previous Christmas, wants him out. Holly is the only one who is optimistic about her son’s chances—she seems to view his return as some sort of Christmas miracle—and she convinces the rest of the family to allow him to stay for Christmas Day before returning to rehab.

The film works best in this first half, as Holly struggles to balance her past disappointments with her son and her steadfast belief in his recovery. The family dynamic is richly drawn. Everyone seems to know that Holly is too willing to fool herself about Ben’s chances—Ben included—but no one wants to confront her with the worst pos-

sibilities and cause her more pain. Roberts does some of her best work in years here.

The qualities that first made her a star— namely, her super-sized smile and bubbly personality—are on full display, but they now have years of depth behind them. Her positivity isn’t innate. It’s performative. Holly hopes her lightness will keep Ben from being dragged down into the dark.

The plot of Ben is Back turns when a sudden crisis forces Ben to revisit his old haunts and former associates to try to recover an item stolen from his family’s home. It is a tour of the suburban underworld, and Holly refuses to let him go alone. It’s a neat narrative trick, exposing her to the truly seedy side of Ben’s life that she has spent every ounce of her energy trying to avoid, but it also stops the film dead in its tracks. You would think that putting two characters on the road with a clear purpose would heighten the tension, but the family scene, with all their unspoken feelings, was far more interesting dynamic. By the time Ben is strapping money to his chest to pay off an old debt to a cartoonishly antisocial drug dealer, Ben is

Back has fully lost the thread of reality and devolved into weak genre thrills and “issue movies” cliches.

Perhaps that’s inevitable. The first time that Hollywood takes on a new social issue, it tends toward a Movie of the Week aesthetic. Philadelphia won points for bringing the AIDS crisis to the mainstream, but it’s considered a “straight savior” movie now for foregrounding a homophobic character. We need not list the number of racial movies that avoid the complex realities of structural racism in favor of conclusory depictions of easily won racial harmony. Ben is Back is one of these movies.

It’s a film for soccer moms with troubled teens, and while I suppose they deserve their movie, too, it’s hard to imagine this one meaning much to anyone else.

—Noah Gittell Ben is Back opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

THEATERCURTAIN CALLS

FAMILY MATTERS The Panties, The Partner, and The Profit: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class

By David Ives Inspired by the work of Carl Sternheim Directed by Michael Kahn At the Lansburgh Theatre to Jan. 6

DaviD ives has written all kinds of plays since the late 1970s, but the ones he’s done with outgoing Shakespeare Theatre Company honcho Michael Kahn over the last decade have all been centuries-old French comedies translated into rhyming English verse. For their fifth and final pairing before Kahn retires at the end of the current season, Ives—whose sexy two-hander Venus in Fur was the most-performed play in the country a couple of years after its stellar Studio Theatre production in 2011—has chosen to refresh a satirical trio by the German social critic Carl Sternheim that follows the Maske family over three generations.

Ives has streamlined their name to “Mask” and made them voracious Americans, his choice of synonyms for “rewrite” indicating a loosening fidelity as he goes: “The Panties” is “adapted” from Die Hose; “The Partner” is “freely adapted” from Der Snob; and “The Profit” is merely “suggested” by Sternheim’s 1913. Perhaps Ives was hoping to shield his inspiration from criticism in the latter case, because the triptych’s finale, “The Profit,” wherein two sisters who share control of a $2 trillion empire await the end of the world, is the longest and most ambitious piece of the whole. And despite the fact it’s the one Ives has tinkered with the most since STC hosted a free workshop of these plays last year, it’s still the only time one begins to feel fidgety. (The trio runs just under two hours all in, and is performed sans intermission.)

“The Panties” takes place in Boston on Independence Day 1950. Its slamming doors and midcentury New Yawk accents seem cal-

culated to evoke hazy memories of the oftrerun 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners.

Louise Mask (Kimberly Gilbert) is at home trying to live down the humiliation of having had her undies fall down while attending a parade that morning; the scandal has sent several potential boarders—a descendent of Paul Revere and a rabbi—and one repressed neighbor to her door. Her husband, Joseph (Carson Elrod), is as embarrassed by this episode as Louise, though he seems blind to his wife’s sexual frustration. “We practice what you might call Catholic contraception,” Louise confesses to her neighbor, Trudy (Julia Coffey).

“The Partner” is set in 1987. Christian Mask (Kevin Isola), the son of Louise and Joseph, is a trader on Wall Street, trying to conceal his humble background—and the corpse of the mistress he’s just shot in the chest with Alexander Hamilton’s dueling pistol, a birthday present from that same mistress—long enough to secure a partnership. While he’s running around trying to keep his deception from unraveling, a descendant of Hamilton (Tony Roach, who plays the descendant of Paul Revere in the previous play) delivers the homily: “The future of money is always money.”

“The Profit,” finally, finds the vapid Louise Mask (Gilbert again, playing the granddaughter of her character from the first segment) enjoying a life of amoral privilege in near-future Malibu. She receives several unexpected visitors on a morning when Southern California has already begun its slide into the Pacific and a gigantic sea snake, its arrival foretold in recurring jokes throughout the evening, is making its way down the coast from Ventura County.

As in Ford’s’ strong production of Born Yesterday earlier this fall, Gilbert is working in a more mannered vein of performance than she has in her more naturalistic work at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, where she’s a longtime company member. It’s a little jarring initially, only because she’s much more familiar to D.C. audiences than the other five actors, none of whom are based here, though Elrod and Coffey have appeared in previous STC productions. Much of the fun comes from watching these players adopt different hairstyles and wardrobes to play much younger or older versions or relatives of the same people over a 75-year span, in the same way that certain jokes echo down through the decades throughout the evening. Ives is better at farce than he is at satire, but maybe that’s the Sternheim showing.

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Margo Price w/ Lilly Hiatt ......Th 27 The Pietasters

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GWAR w/ Iron Reagan

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

Jay Pharoah

This is a seated show. ........................F 11

Jumpin’ Jupiter and The Grandsons

Spafford ....................................Sa 9 Panda Bear ..............................M 11 Dorothy w/ Spirit Animal .........Tu 12 Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness w/ Flor & Grizfolk .......................W 13

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An Evening with DEA Agents Steve Murphy & Javier Pena A Conversation on Pablo Escobar’s Take Down and the Hit Netflix Show Narcos ...................................................... SAT FEBRUARY 2

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Fred Armisen ............................ FEB 8 LP .................................................... FEB 19 Alice Smith................................. MAR 9 AURORA w/ Talos....................... MAR 10 José González

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KONGOS w/ Fitness ......................Sa 2 Ripe w/ Brook and the Bluff & Del Florida ......W 6 Cherry Glazerr w/ Mannequin Pussy .......................W 13 MHD ..........................................F 15 UnoTheActivist........................Sa 16

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Music FRIDAY CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: A Holiday Pops! Under the Mistletoe with Ashley Brown. 8 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org.

DJ NIGHTS

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

Anna Winter Dance Party. 10 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAZZ

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

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE GALLERY 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Discovery Artist in the KC Jazz Club: Quiana Lynell. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $20. kennedy-center.org.

OPERA

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me. 7:30 p.m. $49–$79. kennedy-center.org.

ROCK

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Curls. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Alfredo Mojica Group. 10:30 p.m. $5–$10. bossadc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Cuban Dance Party. 11 p.m. $8–$10. songbyrddc.com.

SATURDAY CLASSICAL

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

It’s now closing in on 40 years that Wynton Marsalis has been performing in Washington at Christmas time: first at Blues Alley with his quintet and quartet, then at the Warner Theatre, Kennedy Center, and Strathmore with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Yes, the context and the venue changes, but at this point Wynton’s D.C. Christmas concerts can safely be called a tradition. When a living icon and evangelist of jazz traditionalism—as Marsalis unquestionably is—spearheads a holiday concert, it means he won’t limit a holiday event to holiday music. Marsalis also has to spread the jazz message, meaning that Monk, Ellington, Basie, Parker, and others will work their way into the concert program. In this case, vocalists Vuyo Sotashe and Veronica Swift will also be on hand to provide an assist.

Traditionalism, too, has its surprises. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. $58–$108. (301) 581-5100. strathmore.org.

—Michael J. West

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: A Holiday Pops! Under the

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LIVE AT THE FILLMORE: THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND THURS, DEC 27

BEN WILLIAMS PRESENTS HIS 7TH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH A HOLIDAY MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA FRI, DEC 28

NRBQ

SAT, DEC 29

START MAKING SENSE A TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE W/ QIET

SUN, DEC 30

THE BRIDGE

W/ THE RON HOLLOWAY BAND MON, DEC 31

CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH THE BRIDGE

W/ THE TRONGONE BAND

MON, DEC 31

CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH MOONSHINE SOCIETY

IN THE LOFT

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ALL GOOD PRESENTS SCYTHIAN W/ KENTUCKY AVENUE

A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS

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BILL"Honky KIRCHEN & COMMANDER CODY Tonk Holiday Show!"

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A Very MAYSA Christmas

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LUTHER RE-LIVES

"Maysa’s Jazz Funk Soul Orchestra”

"Holiday Show feat. William "Smooth" Wardlaw"

PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON 28 PIECES OF A DREAM 29 LAST TRAIN HOME 26&27

with special guest Cravin'

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Dogs

22nd Annual

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

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THE SELDOM SCENE

LUDWIG

The majestic Neuschwanstein Castle looks like something out of a fairytale, and its grandeur has been featured in such disparate films as the classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Mel Brooks farce Spaceballs. And we have 19th century monarch “Mad” King Ludwig II of Bavaria to thank for it. Reportedly building it to withdraw from the world, Ludwig funded the opulent project out of his own deep coffers, but his subjects were understandably appalled at the extravagance—which may have helped to give rise to rumors of his deteriorating mental state. Helmut Berger stars as the conflicted bachelor king in director Luchino Visconti’s 1973 biopic Ludwig, a stagy four-hour epic that revels in the melodrama and court glamour of the colorful and controversial ruler. The film co-stars Trevor Howard as composer Richard Wagner (whom Ludwig championed) and, reprising the role from the candy-colored Sissi films she made early in her career, Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The film screens at 2 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Free. (202) 737-4215. nga.gov.

—Pat Padua

The High & Wides, Ms. Adventure

Jan 4

CHANTÉ MOORE

SCHOONER FARE and BUSKIN & BATTEAU

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THE S.O.S. BAND

RICKY SKAGGS & Kentucky Thunder 15&16 TRAVIS TRITT 17 THE VENTURES 18, 19,20 EDDIE FROM OHIO 21 ANGIE STONE 22&23 TOMMY EMMANUEL, CGP & JOHN KNOWLES, CGP 11&12

“The Heart Songs Tour”

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JUDY COLLINS "Holidays & Hits"

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SAT, DEC 22

W/ THE FUSS

BOBBY CALDWELL & MARION MEADOWS

18&19

VIRGINA COALITION

W/ TIMMIE METZ BAND

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

SONGS OF THE SEASON: CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS

All of D.C.’s good little carol singers are putting out their wooden shoes and hoping for a visit from Sinterklaas this afternoon at the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s annual Songs of the Season concert. Each December, the chorus partners with an embassy and presents carols with ties to that country at the Kennedy Center. This year it’s the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ turn to contribute seasonal tunes and customs, like setting out wooden shoes instead of putting up stockings. Dutch ambassador Henne Schuwer and his wife Lena Boman Schuwer will serve as honorary patrons for Monday's performance, and hopefully bring chocolate and good will to everyone. Other (non-Dutch) selections on the program include “In the Bleak Midwinter,” “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming,” and “Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion,” from Handel’s Messiah. Because Jesus isn’t entirely the reason for the season, the choir will sing “Sleigh Ride” and “White Christmas.” A youth choir featuring all-star singers from area public schools will be onstage as well, and the entire audience will be challenged to sing a stanza of “Silent Night” in Dutch. The show runs to Dec. 24 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. $15–$69. (202) 244-3669. choralarts.org/christmas.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

Holiday movies are not a fertile area for innovation. Take the sound of sleigh bells jingling, add some cliché sentimentality and a bunch of plot contrivances, and you have cracked the code. The best one can hope for when it comes to holiday entertainment is a bit of humor and a minimal amount of maudlin sentimentality. It is in the spirit of my establishing these very low standards that I resolutely recommend The Muppet Christmas Carol, a familiar take on the Dickens classic but one that hits all of the requisite notes in the right way. Michael Caine is wonderfully game as Ebenezer Scrooge, bringing a sense of gravitas—and an impeccable Michael Caine impression—to the proceedings. He manages to genuinely sell dramatic moments, be it when he’s chastising the insufficient work ethic of Kermit the Frog or cursing his fate to the curmudgeonly perpetual balcony-dwellers Waldorf and Statler. If you find yourself in need of some holiday cheer these days, you would be hard pressed to find a more amusing option. The film screens at 5:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $5–$13. (301) 495-6700. silver.afi.com.

—Matt Siblo

Mistletoe with Ashley Brown. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org.

DJ NIGHTS

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

Base Camp. 10 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

ELECTRONIC

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Argonaut & Wasp. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

FOLK

SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Darlingside. 8 p.m. $22–$25. sixthandi.org.

FUNK & R&B

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Diary of an R&B Classic: D’angelo Brown Sugar. 1 p.m. $5–$7. songbyrddc.com.

JAZZ

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

OPERA

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me. 2 p.m.; 7:30 p.m. $49– $79. kennedy-center.org.

ROCK

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

O.A.R. 8 p.m. $45–$75. theanthemdc.com.

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

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WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Tumbao y Raul Morel. 10:30 p.m. $5–$10. bossadc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Cuban Dance Party. midnight $8–$10. songbyrddc.com.

SUNDAY FOLK

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Adam Ezra Group. 8 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Ryley Walker. 8 p.m. $12– $14. songbyrddc.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Griffin House. 7:30 p.m. $22–$25. unionstage.com.

FUNK & R&B

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The Funktronics. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

HIP-HOP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Luna. 9 p.m. $5. songbyrddc.com.

HOLIDAY

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Born Ruffians.

7:30 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Norman Brown’s Joyous Christmas with Bobby Caldwell & Marion Meadows. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Holiday on the Anacostia Delta with The Pirog Brothers. 8:30 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

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

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KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me. 2 p.m.; 7:30 p.m. $49– $79. kennedy-center.org.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Cat Power. 7 p.m. $40. 930.com.

MONDAY 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–$69. kennedy-center.org.

JAZZ

Bettye Lavette

The Blackbyrds

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A Sensory Friendly Holiday Sing Along

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Dave Detwiler & The White House Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Karel Ruzicka. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Virgil Boutellis-Taft and Jing Yang. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. New York Concert Artists & Associates presents Jiaxin Tian. 7:30 p.m. $25. kennedy-center.org.

FOLK BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Judy Collins. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

JAZZ BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Benjie Porecki. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.

WORLD BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Cheick Hamala’s Griot Street. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossadc. com.

WEDNESDAY CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Vocal Arts DC presents Angel Blue. 7:30 p.m. $55. kennedy-center.org.

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

Glide. 9 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

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SEA MONSTERS UNEARTHED: LIFE IN ANGOLA'S ANCIENT SEAS

Hey, do y’all know about sea monsters? Allow me to introduce you to them. So, after the South Atlantic Ocean basin formed 120 million years ago, giant marine reptiles ruled. These reptiles— mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and sea turtles—lived and thrived along Africa’s southwest coast, near what is now modern Angola. Scientists unearthed the monster fossils, and a new exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, aptly titled Sea Monsters Unearthed, allows visitors to discover insights into what this monster-filled time in Earth’s history was like, and learn about how that relates to today’s oceans. These gargantuan beasts of the deep are so incredible, it’s actually weird to think that once upon a time Earth was like a terrifying Godzilla movie. You can come face to face with the fossil remains, like touching the teeth of a “shell-crushing mosasaur,” as Natural History puts it, or check out the fossil skull of the oldest species of sea turtle in the South Atlantic. And of course, a 23-foot-long fossil reconstruction of a predatory mosasaur.

When you’ve seen it all, take time to praise science that we weren’t around for them to eat us.

The exhibition is on view to 2020 at the National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. naturalhistory.si.edu.

—Kayla Randall

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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

After a typical Broadway season, only one or two plays succeed in launching cross-country tours. You would think that to join musicals out on the road, those plays would have to get everything right. However, this year the play dropping by the Kennedy Center is The Play That Goes Wrong. A show that failed to net a Tony Award nomination for best play in 2017 is out on the road and still making money. To be fair, the competition was tough last year; all four of the very serious Tony-nominated plays have already or will be staged at Washington’s regional theaters, including Indecent, a drama now at Arena Stage. Don’t miss them. But if you also need comic relief, check out The Play That Goes Wrong. This farce by a trio of British thespians—who also starred in the play on Broadway—follows in the tradition of play-within-a-play classics like Noises Off. This time the troupe in question is attempting to stage a murder mystery. Expect bad acting and bumbling detective work, all in the name of good theater. The show runs to Jan. 6, 2019 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $49–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org —Rebecca J. Ritzel

FOLK

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Judy Collins. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

HIP-HOP

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

HOLIDAY

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

ROCK

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Foggy May. 9 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

THURSDAY CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

COUNTRY

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Wil Gravatt. 8 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

DJ NIGHTS

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

Article. 10 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Hiss Golden Messenger. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

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UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The 9 Holiday Show. 8:30 p.m. $12–$15. unionstage.com.

HOLIDAY

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. A John Waters Christmas. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marcus Johnson: Urban Jam Band Holiday Party.

8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Beach Bunny. 8 p.m. $12– $14. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Kameleon Beats. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

Theater

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

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

Were You Born In Africa?

Must Be: • Born in Africa • 18-65 years old • Requires 3 visits • Compensation provided • Refer to study # 99-DK-0002

Please call (301) 402-7119 • http://clinicaltrials.gov Department of Health and Human Services • National Institutes of Health • National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

HELP ADVANCE HIV RESEARCH

The NIH Vaccine Research Center is looking for people living with HIV in the DC-area to participate in a clinical trial. The study will evaluate an investigational product that targets the HIV virus.

You may be eligible if you: • Are living with HIV and between the ages of 18 and 60 • Are taking HIV medication

Financial compensation will be provided.

To volunteer, call 1-866-833-5433 (TTY 1-866-411-1010), email vaccines@nih.gov, or visit www.niaid.nih.giv/about/vrc.

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RAHEEM DEVAUGHN

Raheem DeVaughn describes himself as “the Love King of R&B.” While he may have some competition for the title in this contemporary R&B-dominated era, the D.C.-raised artist has a claim to the throne. Since debuting in 2005, DeVaughn has been a reliable source of loverboy R&B, cooing dancefloor odes and bedroom promises over lush slow jam productions with midtempo grooves. This year, DeVaughn celebrated the anniversary of his BET-powered breakthrough with Decade of a Love King, an album that eschews hookups and flings as he extols the virtues of monogamy. For his fans in D.C. who have matured alongside him, DeVaughn is returning to town for his fifth Raheem DeVaughn & Friends Holiday Charity Concert. In the past, DeVaughn’s friends have included the likes of Wale, Faith Evans, and Chrisette Michele. Time will tell who the king will invite to his court this year. Raheem DeVaughn performs at 8 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $35–$65. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com. —Chris Kelly

ELF As in the film, young elf learns of his true identity as a human and travels to New York to find his father while spreading the Christmas cheer. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 6. $37–$84. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

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

Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Jan. 6. $25–$55.

(202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

MISS SAIGON When a young Vietnamese woman encounters an American G.I. in a Vietnam bar at the height of the war, their lives are forever changed.

Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 13. $49–$175. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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

MORTAL ENGINES Two young people meet and try to stop giant city-on-wheels London—in a postapocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and devour each other—from destroying everything. Starring Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, and Robert Sheehan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE MULE Facing foreclosure on his business, an elderly man becomes a successful drug mule for a Mexican cartel, which draws the attention of law enforcement. Starring Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, and Taissa Farmiga. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Broadway and London’s smash hit comedy arrives at the Kennedy Center. The Play That Goes Wrong centers on the fictional Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Dec. 31. $49–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

ONCE UPON A DEADPOOL The merc with a mouth is back, now joining forces with other mutants to protect a teenage mutant from a genetically enhanced futuristic soldier in this PG-13 recut of Deadpool 2.

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, and Zazie Beetz.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

Film

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his reality and then crosses paths with counterparts from other universes, with the group joining forces to fight a universal threat. Starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, and Hailee Steinfeld. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Mary, Queen of Scots defies pressure to remarry after being made a widow and

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returns to her native Scotland in an attempt to overthrow her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, and Jack Lowden.

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SAVAGELOVE Straight and married but not boring, and heading to my parents’ house for our first family Christmas since my asshole MAGA brother “stumbled over” the Tumblr blog where the wife and I posted about our sexual adventures. (Pics of MMF threesomes and cross-dressing/pegging sessions, plus some dirty “true enough” stories.)

My brother has always been an angry screwup, so he leapt on the chance to make me look bad by sending the link to my parents, siblings, and even some close family friends. Our Tumblr blog is still up because we aren’t ashamed. Any advice?

—Totally Uncool Malicious Bastard’s Lame Reveal

Your Tumblr blog isn’t going to be up for much longer, TUMBLR, as the company that owns Tumblr—Verizon—is ashamed of your blog and the millions of others like it. Tumblr announced last week that all “adult” content is banned as of December 17. And the definition of “adult content” is pretty broad: “photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations,” although they will allow genitals and those wicked “female-presenting nipples” in images of classical art. (No contemporary junk or lady nips allowed.)

This is not just a blow to people who use Tumblr for porn—and that’s most people who use Tumblr—but also to the sex work community. Sex workers had already been driven off most other online platforms by anti-sex-work crusaders, and now sex workers are being driven off Tumblr as well. Forcing sex workers off the internet won’t end sex work, the stated goal of anti-sex-work crusaders, but it will make sex work more dangerous—which tells us everything we need to know about the motives of anti-sex-work crusaders. While they claim to oppose sex work because it’s dangerous, they push policies that make sex work more dangerous. Sex workers weren’t just advertising online, they were organizing—in addition to honing and making the political argument for decriminalizing sex work, they were screening potential clients and sharing information with each other about dangerous clients. Just like anti-choice/anti-abortion crusaders, anti-sex-work crusaders don’t want to “protect” women; they want to punish women for making choices they disapprove of. (As a general rule: If what you’re doing makes people less safe, you don’t get to claim you’re trying to protect anyone—it’s like claiming you only set houses on fire to drive home the importance of smoke alarms.)

Anyway, fuck your sex-shaming/smutshaming brother, TUMBLR. As for the rest of your family, you and the wife should slap smiles on your faces and act like you’ve done nothing wrong—because you haven’t done anything wrong. Your asshole brother is the

bad guy, and any family members who wish to discuss how offended they were by your Tumblr blog should be directed to speak with your brother, as he’s the one who showed it to them.

—Dan Savage

How can I explain to my sisters that although I am a free sexual woman, I still prefer men as sexual partners? My sisters are both involved with women and they cannot understand how, with all the awful sexual inequality in the world, I can still be primarily attracted to men. Sometimes I even imagine my sexuality as a gay man’s sexuality in a woman’s body, and I try to explain it to them in this way. I’m not a secret right-winger or someone kidding around by asking this question. This is a real issue.

—Give It To Me Straight P.S. I have a straight male friend who says he’s a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. What do you think of this?

People don’t choose to be straight—some poor motherfuckers are born that way—any more than hetero-romantic bisexuals choose to be hetero-romantic bisexuals. You can’t help who you’re attracted to, GITMS, primarily or otherwise, and the contempt of family members can’t change a person’s sexual or romantic orientation. Your sisters should understand that, since they most likely wouldn’t be with women if the contempt of family members had that kind of power.

As for describing yourself as a gay man trapped in a woman’s body and your straight male friend describing himself as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body… Unless the two of you are trans—in which case, you could be homos trapped in the wrong bodies—your friend is just another straight guy mortified by the mess straight people (mostly white, mostly men) have made of the world. You’re also mortified by straightness, GITMS, or at least the sexual inequality that often comes bundled with it. But instead of your straight male friend opting out of heterosexuality (which he can’t do) or you framing your attraction to men as a gay thing to get your sisters off your back (which you shouldn’t have to do), your friend should identify as straight (because he is) and you should identify as someone who doesn’t give a shit what her sisters think (because you shouldn’t).

If good straight guys and “free sexual women” in opposite-sex relationships don’t identify with heterosexuality and/or hetero-romantic orientations, GITMS, all the shitty straight people will conclude that they get to define heterosexuality (which they don’t).

—DS I’m a gay man in my mid 20s, and I’m getting more serious with a guy I met a few months ago.

I was surprised to eventually learn that “Michael” is in his late 30s, since he easily passes for my age. I’m comfortable with the age gap, but I’m struggling with how to present this to my parents. Religious and conservative, they were cordial but distant with the last guy I dated (who was my age). I’m afraid the age gap with my new boyfriend will create even more discomfort for them and that Michael will sense it when he comes along to visit for the holidays.

I’m considering lying to my parents if Michael’s age comes up. I’ve challenged my parents’ attitudes for many years—but at this point, I’m willing to trade honesty for the chance to be treated even a little bit more like a “normal couple” at Christmas. Is it selfish to ask Michael for permission to lie about his age? I’m nervous to even share my feelings with him, for fear it will give the impression I’m embarrassed by him.

—Awkward Gatherings Expected Given Age Peculiarity Tell one lie to make your relationship seem more acceptable to your parents, and you’ll be tempted to tell them more lies—and I don’t know about you, AGEGAP, but not having to lie to mommy and daddy anymore was one of the reasons I came out of the closet. And if you want your parents to be comfortable with Michael, if you don’t want them to think there’s anything wrong with their son dating an older man, deceiving your parents about Michael’s age is a terrible first move. That says you think there’s something wrong with it—and you won’t just be saying that to your parents, AGEGAP, you’ll be saying it to Michael as well.

And let’s say things work out with Michael. The lie you told that first Christmas will only serve to make things more awkward after you finally tell them the truth about your boyfriend’s age. And if your parents are like other mildly or wildly homophobic parents, i.e., if they’re inclined to regard the man who sodomizes their son as a negative influence in his life, they may not believe the lie was your idea. They’ll think this creepily youthful older man—this man who showed up in their home wearing a suit made out of the skins of younger gay men— encouraged their son to lie to them so they wouldn’t object to the relationship in the early stages, when their objections might have had the ability to derail it.

Finally, AGEGAP, if your older boyfriend is concerned you may be too immature for him— not all young people are immature and not all immature people are young, but this shit does correlate—telling him you’re still in the lie-tomommy-and-daddy stage might prompt him to end this relationship.

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

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2, 2018. Service of process may be made SUPERIOR COURT upon Maura Pond, 2108 OF THE DISTRICT OF 16th Street SE, WashCOLUMBIA ington, DC 20020 whose PROBATE DIVISION designation as District 2018 ADM 001373 of Columbia agent has Name of Decedent, been filed with the Frank Wang AKA Frank Register of Wills, D.C. Xiaohang Wang. Name

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Objections to such appointment (or Ato CLAIM AGAINST TRAVISA the probate of deOUTSOURCING, MUST cedent’s Will) INC. shall be INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE filed with the Register DISSOLVED CORPORATION, of Wills, THE D.C., 515 OF 5thTHE INCLUDE NAME Street, N.W., Building CLAIMANT, INCLUDE A SUMMAA, 3rdTHE Floor, WashingRY OF FACTS SUPPORTING ton, D.C. 20001, on or TO THE CLAIM, AND BE MAILED 1600 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, before 6/6/2019. Claims SUITE 600,the MCLEAN, VA 22102 against decedent shall be presented to ALL WILL BEwith BARRED the CLAIMS undersigned a UNLESS A PROCEEDING copy to the Register of TO ENFORCE THE CLAIM IS COMWills or to the Register MENCED WITH IN 3 YEARS OF of Wills withOFa THIS copyNOTICE to PUBLICATION the undersigned, or IN ACCORDANCE WITH on SECTION before or beOF 29-312.076/6/2019, OF THE DISTRICT forever Persons COLUMBIAbarred.

ORGANIZATIONS ACT. believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent Two Rivers PCS is soliciting who do to not receive proposals provide projecta mancopy this notice byconagementofservices for a small mail within struction project.25 Fordays a copyof of the RFP,publication please email procurement@ its shall so tworiverspcs.org.

Deadline inform the Register of for submissions is December 6, 2017.

Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: 12/6/2018 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/ Daily Washington Law Reporter Name of Person Representative: Lisa W. Wang TRUE TEST copy Anne Meister Register of Wills Pub Dates: December 6, 13, 20.

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E.L. Haynes Public Charter School Legals REQUEST FOR PROPOSDC SCHOLARS PCS - REQUEST ALS FOR PROPOSALS – ModuWater Retention Manlar Contractor Services - DC agement Scholars Public Charter School E.L. solicitsHaynes proposalsPublic for a modular Charter School contractor to provide (“ELH”) professional is seeking proposals management and construction servicesqualified to construct a modular from vendors building house four classrooms to helptous create a and one management faculty offi ce suite.

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PROBATE DIVISION 2018 ADM 001352 Rooms for Rent Name of Decedent, Marcea C. Austin.

Holiday Special-Notice Two of furAppointment, nished rooms for Notice short or to long Creditors and Notice term rental ($900 and $800toper Unknown month) withHeirs, accessSharon to W/D, WiFi, and Den.adUtiliPeek Kitchen, Lewis, whose ties included.

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whose whereabouts are Construction/Labor unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th DESIGN Street,NOW N.W., POWER HIRBuilding A, 3rd Floor, ING ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES OF ALLD.C. SKILL LEVWashington, ELS! on or before 20001, 5/29/2019. Claims about thethe position… against decedent Do you love working towith shall be presented your hands? Are you interthe undersigned withand a ested in construction copy to the Register of in becoming an electrician?

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who do not receive a what we’re looking for… copy of this Motivated D.C.notice residentsby who mail of wantwithin to learn25thedays electrical itstrade publication shall so and have a high school inform Register diplomathe or GED as wellofas reliable transportation.

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5615 Landover Notice Unknown Cheverly, to MD. 20784. Can buy Heirs, Austin in bulk. Tiffany Contact 202-355-2068 Liston, whosefor address or 301-772-3341 details or if intrested being a vendor. is 6015inIndependence Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ralph Austin, a/k/a, Ralph E. Austin, Jr who died on July 18, 2004, without a Will and will serve with Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/29/2019. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to

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SUPERIOR COURTcontact For more information, OF THE DISTRICT OF Futsum, COLUMBIA info@leadersinstitutemd.org or PROBATE DIVISION call 301-655-9679 2018 ADM 1299 General Name of Decedent, Jay Austin. Notice of Looking to Rent yard space Appointment, Notice tofor hunting dogs.and Alexandria/ArlingCreditors Notice to ton, VA area only. Medium sized Unknown Heirs, Jordan dogs will be well-maintained in Benigno, temperature whose controledaddog housdress is advanced 500 Pullin Rd,care es. I have animal McDonouh, experience and GA dogs30253 will be rid was Personal free ofappointed feces, flies, urine and oder.

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