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Performance Paralysis Is D.C.’s ethics director in danger of losing his job?

There comes a time in every director of government ethics’ life when the sensible next step is to leave. And reader, that time may be near for D.C.’s current ethics chief, Brent Wolfingbarger.

LL has learned the axe may soon be falling on the man who has helmed D.C.’s ethics shop for the past two years. That should come as no surprise to any casual observer of D.C. government, especially those who caught Wolfingbarger’s performance during a committee oversight hearing called last month to address the fact that an untold number of complaints submitted to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) went unaddressed for who knows how long.

One such complaint was the subject of an Office of the D.C. Auditor report laying out how Wolfingbarger’s office ignored a whistleblower’s complaint that accused a mayoral appointee of political favoritism.

By the end of the three-and-a-half hour hearing, LL was left feeling a bit despondent about the state of ethics enforcement in a government that’s seen its fair share of scandals.

In his testimony, Wolfingbarger revealed that under his watch the agency had neglected to acknowledge at least 31 complaints submitted via email for a two-month timeframe in 2018. He also could not say exactly how many complaints the agency had received prior to this fiscal year, and he described a tracking system that relied at least partially on his own memory and on a spreadsheet saved on his now-former general counsel’s laptop. The laptop, Wolfingbarger added, was password protected, so he had no way to access the spreadsheet.

Wolfingbarger also took the opportunity to attack the auditor’s investigatory tactics as “covert” and complained that the timing of the hearing was “a bit unusual,” given that the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability’s annual performance oversight hearing will take place early next year. BEGA oversees OGE and the Office of Open Government.

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who chairs the committee with oversight of BEGA, didn’t like that one bit. Allen asked Wolfingbarger if he believed it was inappropriate for the committee to hold a hearing with

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the Metropolitan Police Department on gun trafficking a few weeks ago, or one on hate crimes earlier this year.

“I would say not,” Wolfingbarger said.

“No. This committee can hold hearings whenever it wants to talk through issues that are important and timely,” Allen scolded.

Allen expressed further frustration with Wolfingbarger’s decision to pause an ethics investigation into Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans in 2018, even when the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority saw fit to move forward with an investigation of its own.

When the mountain of evidence against Evans grew too high, the Council opted to shell out $250,000 for its own investigation into Evans’ shady business relationships, which turned up at least 11 violations of ethics rules.

“The result is you’re making the Council be BEGA,” Allen said during last month’s hearing. “We’re spending a lot of taxpayer dollars to go do these other investigations that would otherwise be exactly what we would assume and think that’s what BEGA’s for.”

Wolfingbarger explained, as he has before, that he paused his ethics investigation into Evans at the request of federal law enforcement, to avoid interfering with a criminal investigation. He suggested that WMATA’s investigation may have interfered with the U.S. Attorney’s investigation of Evans, but also admitted that he did not check with them to confirm. (BEGA’s investigation into Evans has been reopened and is ongoing. The agency also fined Evans $20,000 in a separate investigation in August.)

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LL followed up with BEGA chair Norma Hutcheson in the weeks following the hearing.

Asked whether she is satisfied with the job Wolfingbarger is doing and whether his job is in danger, Hutcheson told LL she could not comment.

“I’m not in a position to speak on that right now,” she said. “The board went into super executive session, and there’s a reason why we go into super executive session. I listed those reasons out before, and that’s as far as I can go.”

BEGA’s December meeting minutes show the board met secretly “to discuss personnel matters including the appointment, employment, assignment, promotion, performance evaluation, compensation, discipline, demotion, removal, or resignation of government appointees, employees, or officials.”

Wolfingbarger did not respond to multiple emails seeking comment on this story. seT aside The cases BEGA knew about but wasn’t investigating. The agency apparently has a problem even responding to complaints and requests for ethics advice.

Allen said during the November hearing that multiple people submitted complaints to BEGA but received basically no response other than an initial acknowledgement, and then contacted his office wondering what the hell was going on with their complaints.

The auditor’s review also turned up several other instances where BEGA failed to respond to allegations of ethics rule breaking and requests for guidance on ethical rules.

“I feel like your tracking system right now,”

Allen said. “And that’s not sustainable at all.”

“Not at all,” Wolfingbarger agreed.

Ward 4 advisory neighborhood commissioner Erin Palmer, who works as an ethics enforcement lawyer for the federal government, testified during the committee hearing about BEGA’s lack of response to a complaint she filed against Evans. Wolfingbarger opted to incorporate her complaint into the already-existing investigation, which was at the time on hold.

But every step of the way, Palmer said, she had to prod Wolfingbarger for an update. At one point, she waited three months without a response, emails show.

“BEGA has exhibited basic deficiencies,” she writes to LL this week. “Some of that may be a lack of resources or longstanding challenges from the previous leaders. But it’s hard to see it as something other than a lack of investment in and commitment to an agency dedicated to accountability.”

As for those 31 complaints left sitting, unaddressed, in the BEGA email inbox, Wolfingbarger testified last month that three were potential violations of the District’s Code of Conduct, one of which dealt with sexual harassment. Lucky for BEGA, though, none of the three complaints fell within its purview, so Wolfingbarger said he referred them to other agencies for investigation.

He sent the allegation of sexual harassment, for example, to the Office of Human Rights (OHR) and the D.C. Department of Human Resources (DCHR). An OHR spokesperson could not confirm or deny the existence of a referral for such a complaint from BEGA, citing confidentiality rules. Generally, when OHR receives a referral from another agency, they ask the complainant to file a separate complaint with their office before launching an investigation.

DCHR’s general counsel told LL in a phone conversation last week that the office has no record of a referral from BEGA for sexual harassment.

Hutcheson, the BEGA chairperson, tells LL that the board doesn’t track the cases it refers to other agencies.

“We couldn’t possibly be doing that. They don’t have the resources to do that,” she says.

“There’s not enough people there.”

During his part of the hearing, Wolfingbarger emphasized that his office’s neglect of the whistleblower’s complaint was “one isolated complaint,” even while faced with several other examples of neglect.

But he also outlined the steps he’s taken since the auditor pointed out his office’s shortcomings, including a new complaint intake process, a 12-page policy document outlining how complaints are to be handled, and a request to regularly audit those procedures.

LL has to wonder whether that’s too little too late.

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HIGHSTRUNG Helicopter parents add to the already stressful world of junior tennis.

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in the seconD round of a 12-and-under tennis tournament at Anacostia Park several years ago, Ronnie Goodall sat nervously near the court as his daughter, Kai, engaged in a tight match against her opponent.

Goodall, a former varsity tennis player at Georgetown University, cheered and shouted words of encouragement at her: “Move your feet!” “Get ready for the next shot!”

Coaching during tennis matches is not allowed, and the father of Kai’s opponent made a comment to Goodall, warning him to watch his words.

“I was like, ‘Watch what?’” Goodall recalls saying. The two got into a brief but heated exchange, before Goodall walked around the park to cool down.

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During practice at the OSSA Tennis Academy earlier this year, Vince Pulupa noticed something strange. A parent stood inside the lobby near the court and appeared to be timing her child’s water breaks with a stopwatch. The woman later told Pulupa that her daughter spent only 37 minutes out of the hour-long lesson hitting a tennis ball.

“In 17, 18 years of coaching, I never had anyone tell me that until 2019,” says Pulupa, the academy’s co-founder.

At junior tennis tournaments, Pulupa has witnessed verbal abuse from parents toward their kids, referees, and other players. They routinely fidget and yell during matches. On rare occasions, he’s had to break up fights between parents.

It’s a scene that’s playing out in youth sports across the country. Overly involved, aggressive, or toxic parents are nothing new in the competitive sporting environment, but several local tennis coaches believe overbearing parents are becoming more prevalent.

They see parents getting increasingly involved in the minutiae of their child’s daily progress and micromanaging their careers, sometimes at the expense of development.

Pulupa understands why it happens. Parents of young athletes can invest thousands of dollars in their children’s careers with the goal of a college scholarship, or even a professional career, in mind. According to The Aspen Institute, a nonprofit think tank headquartered in D.C., some parents spend upward of $34,900 a year on tennis per child, which is the highest of the 21 sports the organization evaluated.

Tennis is also unique in that it is an individual sport with minimal coaching allowed during competition. Limited barriers exist between a player and their parents, and external pressures, whether from coaches or parents, can lead to burnout.

“The kids live with the parents, so they have them all day, all night,” Pulupa says.

“Tennis, we hope, is sort of the escape, whether you’re taking it super seriously for tournament reasons or recreational … And I think that escape is more beneficial when you can kind of get away from the home life a little bit.”

A sign at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park motion. Between the ages of 7 and 12, the pressure she felt from her parents, especially her father, was constant, Kai says. One day, on the car ride home after a match, she broke down.

“I lost, and I was crying. He kept trying to talk to me afterwards,” recalls Kai, now 17. “I didn’t want to talk. I just needed to reflect. I told him, ‘I can’t keep doing this if you keep talking from the sidelines. I have to focus and it’s hard to do that. I appreciate you trying to help and stuff, but it’s more detrimental than beneficial.’”

Goodall understands the high-strung world of competitive junior tennis. He not only has experienced it himself, but sees other stressed and overly engaged parents in his role as the director of the Arthur Ashe Children’s Program and Junior Team Tennis at the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation.

“The parents are very, very involved” in the more advanced clinics at the organization’s 16th Street NW location, Goodall says.

And the better a child gets, the more money it’s going to cost, says Goodall, who used to work for the Mid-Atlantic section of the United States Tennis Association. Like with many competitive youth sports, tennis parents need to pay for travel, tournament fees, coaching, and equipment. This can lead to an obsession with results, for both parents and young athletes.

“When I got my daughter into tennis, I

wanted her to follow my footsteps, which is not right,” Goodall says. “She has to do her own. I was thinking, ‘Wow, college scholarship, possibly pro.’”

“A lot of parents are trying to realize dreams for their kids.”

Kai, a senior at School Without Walls, says her parents’ comments and behavior did not make her want to quit, but her passion for the sport wavered. “Some [tennis centers] I just didn’t like at all,” she says. “Having to go there after school every day just discouraged me, and eventually I lost some interest for tennis, and on top of that, the little comments [my parents made] on the sidelines, they were like an extra factor.”

Goodall eventually backed off, and says he began to leave a lot of teaching up to Kai’s coaches instead. His advice to his old self is to not take the sport so seriously. “It’s going to work itself out,” Goodall says. “Give Kai the best chances of enhancing and improving her game, and it will work itself out.”

As Kai reflects on her young tennis career, which began at age 5, she is grateful for her parents’ support. She knows that not everyone has that. But she wishes her father didn’t make her play tennis for his own reasons.

And maybe, there could’ve been more barriers during tournaments.

“Looking back on it, if he wasn’t as involved as he was, then I might not have gone as far with tennis as I have now, so I kind of

appreciate the fact that he was pitching in a lot, but sometimes, it’s annoying,” Kai says.

“I don’t like that sideline stuff. That I could’ve done without.” about 15 years ago at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Vesa Ponkka attempted an experiment. He closed all practices to parents during the winter.

They weren’t allowed inside the tennis bubble while their kids practiced.

Ponkka, the academy’s president and senior director of tennis, says it wasn’t a response to problematic parents, but that he “wanted to create a peaceful training environment.”

Parents at first balked at the rule, but over time, Ponkka says, they began to relax. It built trust. Ponkka concluded that since there were no issues during those winter months, he began to allow parents to sit on the benches inside the tennis bubble during practice again.

But a strict barrier still exists: Parents are not allowed on the court during training, unless it’s a private lesson.

On the outdoor courts, there are signs that stipulate that only coaches and players are allowed beyond a certain point.

To Ponkka, “90 percent of the parents are great people, great human beings. It’s that 10 percent that gives it a bad name.” He’s seen overinvolvement increase over the years. Parents, armed with more information found online about the sport and the pressure of get-

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ting their kids into college, have become more results-focused and impatient.

Coaches, in turn, have to do more to earn trust.

“I think they’re worse than in the early days,” Ponkka says. “There was more respect right away. There was more trust, easily to be established. Now we just need to work harder to establish that trust and making sure communication works well. I think it’s more time consuming. I think it’s more work. But it’s something that needs to be done and it needs to be done well, because we all need to think about what’s best for the kids.”

Ponkka, a native of Finland, says that while it doesn’t happen “too many times,” he’s witnessed the alarming and violent side of competitive youth tennis that has plagued other sports, as well. “I have seen fights. I have seen fights with baseball bats, all kinds of stuff,” Ponkka says. “I have seen parents ruining people’s cars.

It’s just absolutely as ugly as it can get.”

Tournaments can be a source of stress. Parents are aware of their kids’ rankings and important matches. To combat some of the issues that can arise at these tournaments, the USTA has a set of guidelines for parents, coaches, and spectators.

All must remain a “minimum of 8 feet away from the playing area” and “any negative communication with tournament officials” can result in a code violation. Spectators can be asked to leave. The USTA also encourages players, parents, coaches, and spectators to sign an oath prior to the tournament.

But tennis coaches, parents, and players that City Paper spoke to say that spectators still struggle to keep their emotions in check at nearly every tournament—especially at the higher level events. That ranges from parents accusing their child’s opponent of making bad line calls to those who walk onto the court to stop a match.

Asaf Yamin, the director of high performance at JTCC, recognizes that youth sports parents can sometimes be over the top, but he wants to redirect the passion. In an individual sport like tennis, kids must learn how to problem solve on their own. It would help to give parents a distraction during tournaments, Yamin says, like having them attend mandatory seminars featuring guest speakers from the tennis industry.

“I think in the tournaments, there should be more parent education,” he says. “I think there should be parent activities—you keep them busy. Going there 10 hours, there’s literally nothing. What else are you going to do but be overly involved?”

In 2020, USTA Mid-Atlantic plans to hold 25 to 30 parent education sessions led by Rachel Kros, the senior manager of youth competition for the section. The sessions, which will be held during tennis events and tournaments, will educate parents on the junior competitive structure changes taking place in 2021, and also the parents’ roles in youth athlete development.

Yamin points to his native Israel as a model of how to create more barriers between the players and parents during tournaments. The

Israel Tennis Association, he says, hosts tournaments where no parents—and sometimes even coaches—are allowed on site. At the beginning, Yamin says, it would be stressful for parents, but it allowed the players to grow and learn how to trust themselves.

He wants the U.S. to start implementing similar procedures. Yamin says there have been discussions to do so at College Park, but no concrete plans as of yet.

“I think it’s for the parents’ sake and for the kids’ sake, mostly, to be on their own,” Yamin says. “Tennis is an individual sport ... It’s not so much against the parents, but it’s more to benefit the kids in some ways.”

The consTanT search for the “magic bullet” is what frustrates and angers Bob Pass.

At 4 Star Tennis Academy, which he started in 1973, Pass sees a lot more parents who are overly involved in their kids’ tennis schedule.

If a child isn’t winning right away, parents get impatient.

“You can’t control parents from being overly involved,” he says. “They do the driving.

They pay the bills. You can’t prevent them.

The only thing you can do is talk to them, and they can either accept the coaching or they do not. And most of them don’t take the coaching. And it’s worse, the attitude that they know what’s best is much more so than in the past.”

This lack of trust can manifest in different ways. Parents, Pass says, insist on making tournament schedules, instead of letting coaches handle it. They contend that their kids are ready for national-level tournaments, and get confrontational when he disagrees.

Parents are also more willing to have their kids attend multiple academies and bounce from coach to coach, according to Pass.

“There’s a lot more shopping around,” he explains. “I feel like that’s a detriment to the kid, because coaching success can’t happen without the element of trust, to develop that to the highest degree depends on loyalty in both directions. I don’t care if you’re the

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greatest coach in the world, you don’t develop without that. The parents doing that, in my opinion, are doing a great disservice to the kids. That is something new in the last 10 to 12 years.”

The helicopter parenting damages a young player’s growth—not just in sports, but in their overall health. Studies have shown that this type of parenting can affect a child’s emotional well-being. A study published last year in the journal Developmental Psychology concluded that children with over controlling parents may struggle to adjust in school and social environments.

“Our research showed that children with helicopter parents may be less able to deal with the challenging demands of growing up, especially with navigating the complex school environment,” Dr. Nicole B. Perry, the study’s lead author, told the American Psychological Association. “Children who cannot regulate their emotions and behavior effectively are more likely to act out in the classroom, to have a harder time making friends and to struggle in school.”

Harrison Bernstein, a coach at the OSSA Tennis Academy, likens the helicopter parenting in sports to the recent college admissions bribery scandal, where parents were accused of paying money to change their child’s test scores or bribe college officials.

“It’s an individual sport, and it’s the only sport in competition where coaching is not allowed,” Bernstein says. “That makes it really interesting. Which is kind of ironic—because you want to do everything for them, then they have to go out there on their own. When you think of training, wouldn’t you want them to do that more often?”

At OSSA, which operates out of Lakewood Country Club in Rockville, parents are not allowed on the court during practice. In tennis, parents sometimes act as the de-facto coach, and so “lines get blurred,” Bernstein says.

But once at the academy, strict boundaries are set.

“We’re coaching, you’re parenting. That’s the thing parents have to realize. You be the

parent,” says Bernstein, who has experience coaching in the NFL. “You have to let your kids be coached. That’s one of the things that’s not happening. The more you do for them, like picking up the balls, the worse they are. The development of the player, the players are worse off if the parents are helping.”

Pass isn’t sure what the solution is to overbearing parents. The “percent of crazies is higher,” he says, and he hopes that parents are able to allow their kids to make mistakes.

That, to him, is part of the learning process.

“They don’t go into school and sit over the teacher’s shoulder and tell the teachers what the kids need, but in tennis they do, they come and watch every practice,” Pass says. “And the kids can’t perform because they’re worried about if they’re making a few errors, that they’re going to be criticized by parents on the ride home. It just creates a terrible environment. You can’t be successful unless you’re in an environment where you’re free, free to do well or make mistakes or whatever. You have to be free to make mistakes in practice, otherwise how can you grow?”

Like many of the kids he coaches and the parents he interacts with, Pulupa is a competitive person. When kids don’t share toys with his son, Dylan, at the playground, his blood pressure starts to rise.

Pulupa laughs. His son is 1-and-a-half. Before last year, he couldn’t quite relate to the overinvolved parents he sees. Now, he gets it.

He understands the financial and emotional sacrifices parents often have to make for their child to succeed in an ultra competitive and expensive sport like junior tennis. He understands the thinking that they know what’s best for their own child.

“I see where the parents get a little bit crazy about their kid. It’s their kid, right? And like I said, most of these parents are successful in something, you know, living in this [Montgomery County] area,” Pulupa says.

“They are competitive by nature, you’re adding sports to it ... You start really throwing all your eggs in this one specialized sport, and it’s like, I can see it. I can see why it’s happening. I don’t condone it, but I get it.”

Dylan has shown interest in baseball and soccer, and Pulupa says he will introduce him to tennis eventually. But he’s apprehensive about entering his son in competitive youth tennis.

Pulupa knows that other sports have their issues and that tennis isn’t unique in that sense, but it’s different when you see the problems up close.

“I don’t know if I want my son to be a part of this world,” he says. “I’ve seen a lot. I know what it takes, you know, competitively. And I also know, it’s not the prettiest world, sometimes it’s lonely. I mean, it takes a, you know, a certain individual to play this. It takes a certain family to sort of support this and I just don’t know, you have to be a little bit crazy.

You know what I mean? Like to work in the business, to be a kid, to be a family. You got to be a little off to do this.”

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Cold Wars

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Local ice cream purveyors get creative in order to weather winter’s challenges.

Mt. Desert Island Ice Cream

By Laura Hayes Business freezes for most D.C. ice cream shops in the colder months. “We definitely lost money every month in the winter,” says Brian Lowit, co-owner of Mt. Desert Island Ice Cream in Mount Pleasant. “If you analyze the month-by-month for November through March, there was never a day with no people, but there were days with two or three people.”

In other seasons, the ice cream shop serving flavors like Girl Scouts Gone Wild and Butterscotch Miso thrives. “We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the support from Mount Pleasant and greater D.C.,” Lowit says. “Last summer was a little more overwhelming than we expected. Fall was pretty good. Winter was just winter in an ice cream shop.”

Four D.C.-based frozen dessert businesses report doing 25 to 40 percent less business in the winter than in warmer months. Despite reduced revenue, operators are still on the hook for rent, must pay staff, and have to continue production, albeit in a reduced capacity. Running a retail business in the District is already hard; scooping a seasonal product adds further challenges. Each ice cream shop deploys different survival strategies.

Ice Cream Jubilee owner Victoria Lai looks to solidify relationships with other local businesses to keep a stream of customers coming into her T Street NW store. Keri Lijinsky’s Sweet Crimes bakery pops up on mornings and afternoons to sell gluten-free baked goods. “It’s an opportunity for her to meet new customers and it’s great for us to have that energy in the morning,” Lai says.

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Ice Cream Jubilee also operates shops in Navy Yard and Arlington. Lai says being a small business allows her to be agile and introduce new products to draw people in during off-peak months, such as tasting flights of six flavors. “You get one-ounce, golf ballsized scoops,” Lai explains. “Instead of hitting happy hour, we have people meeting up after work and trying new flavors.”

The versatility of ice cream shops works in operators’ favor. They’re an affordable family outing and a way to keep a date going without visiting a bar.

“We love being in Adams Morgan and Shaw because they’re really bar-focused places,” says Nicecream co-owner Gil Welsford. “What if you want to hang out with friends and you don’t drink or don’t feel like drinking? That’s what drove us to open

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in those two places.”

There are also Nicecream shops in Arlington and Alexandria. The company stands out for using liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream in front of customers. To keep cash flowing in during the winter, Nicecream rolls out a gourmet hot chocolate menu.

During the first and only winter Mt. Desert Island has weathered so far, Lowit noticed signing on with Grubhub was helpful.

“People don’t want to leave the house, but they still want ice cream,” he says. They get significantly more delivery orders during off-peak months and are now on Postmates and Uber Eats too. Once you factor in a service fee, a delivery fee, tax, and tip, Washingtonians pay close to $20 for a pint that’s delivered directly to their door.

Lowit also tried closing for a few weeks in January 2019. This year, they’ll shut down for the entire month. “It’s hard because we like to be open for the neighborhood,” he says. “We’ll lose less money being closed.”

Lowit and his team will use the opportunity to repaint and complete other maintenance projects with the help of staff.

Founded in 2004 by Robb Duncan and Violeta Edelman, Dolcezza is the most senior frozen dessert business consulted for this story. Dolcezza operates gelato shops in Logan Circle, CityCenterDC, Dupont Circle, Bethesda, and other neighborhoods throughout the region.

Its leaders have diversified the company’s business model to include coffee, pastries, and breakfast sandwiches, which provides some bottom-line insulation in the winter.

“We should open in Miami,” Duncan jokes.

“That would be best, but we’re not opening retail in any other markets.”

Dolcezza’s biggest growth strategy has been boosting its wholesale business by 450 percent. In May 2019, Whole Foods began selling Dolcezza gelato in all 500 of its stores across the country. Pints are also available in other gourmet grocery chains like Fresh Market, Earth Fare, and Lucky’s Market.

In total, Duncan says they’re in 1,300 stores nationwide. “That is a game changer in every sense of the word,” he says. “It’s a totally brand new business for us that we’re really taking very seriously.” Despite this major expansion, Dolcezza still produces all of its gelato in its factory behind Union Market.

Ice Cream Jubilee is charting a similar path. Lai’s ice cream is now sold in Whole Foods in six states and D.C. “Having a grocery store presence also offsets the seasonality of the waterfront location,” Lai says. Her Navy Yard shop is slammed when a crush of Washingtonians descend on the neighbor-

hood for Nationals games and outdoor concerts, but that doesn’t extend into the winter.

Not all local scoopers seek out wholesale opportunities to solve for slow business because they worry about how it will affect quality. “A lot of ice cream places, when they ramp up to do wholesale, run into grocery stores saying prices need to be lower, prices need to be lower,” Welsford explains.

“They start using different ingredients and increase overrun.”

Overrun refers to the amount of air pushed into ice cream while it’s being churned. Generally, the lower the overrun, the better the ice cream. “Most ice cream places will put a gallon of ice cream base in and they’ll get two gallons out,” Welsford says. “Our ice cream is super dense and creamy. We have very low overrun.” Because of this, their prices are higher.

Local ice cream shops also confront yearround challenges, including increasing labor costs, a shaky dairy industry, and competition from outside brands that are more insulated from seasonal revenue swings.

Lai is worried about the changing dairy market.

She believes current prices are not supporting farmers and it’s in large part due to corporations like Walmart opening their own processing plants. NBC reported in 2018 that 42,000 dairy farmers have gone out of business since 2000 and notes that 2018 was the fourth year in a row where farmers’ milk prices dipped below the cost of production. (Farmers spend $1.92 to produce a gallon of milk and make $1.32 per gallon when they sell it to processors.) The report calls the closed dairy farms “casualties of an outdated business model” and victims of “pricey farm loans and pressures from corporate agriculture.”

Trickling Springs Creamery, a popular Pennsylvania dairy farm, closed earlier this year. While the company has not given a public explanation for shutting down, the business had been under investigation for faulty financial practices that left many Mennonite investors “holding the bag,” according to a recent Post report.

Three of the four ice cream shops City Paper interviewed share something in common beyond a commitment to sourcing quality local ingredients: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams opened a shop within one-tenth of a mile of Ice Cream Jubilee’s T Street NW location; one-tenth of a mile of Dolcezza’s Bethesda location; and one-tenth of a mile of Nicecream’s Alexandria location.

There are close to 50 current or forthcoming Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream scoop shops across the country. The Columbus, Ohiobased company is run by CEO Jeni Britton Bauer, who Forbes has called “possi-

bly the most notable ice cream authority in the world.” The chain, which started as a single shop in Columbus, gained a cult following thanks to enthusiastic media reviews and unconventional flavors like Sun-Popped Corn and Sweet Cream Biscuits & Peach Jam. “Our strategy isn’t to open near other ice cream shops,” Britton Bauer tells City Paper in an emailed statement. “Our strategy is to open in great neighborhoods. We want success for everyone.”

Of the impact a national competitor can have on a smaller business, Lai says, “I can’t deny the fact that they have a newer, shinier store that gets more foot traffic than our little store does around the corner. And it has been difficult being that close, having a well heeled, well funded competitor nearby.”

She wonders if clustering ice cream stores near each other isn’t a unique strategy.

“You’ll probably find a CAVA by a Chipotle by a Chopt,” Lai says. “A waterfront is a waterfront. A shopping street is a shopping street. I think the quick growth of competition of similar businesses next to each other is a result of the rapid development of D.C. commercial areas.”

Welsford isn’t sure how Jeni’s will impact their Alexandria store during the busy months because they have yet to both be open during the summer.

“I really like to think we’ve built a strong brand and community in Old Town,” he says. “I’m hoping they don’t affect us. We have really high rents and rising costs of labor, so if it does affect us, it’s really going to suck. I hope the community recognizes that we’re two local people trying to live the ice cream dream. We don’t have big investment dollars. We don’t have big investors. It’s just us.”

“Consumer capitalism’s a bitch man,” Duncan says. “There’s nothing you can do about it. We’re all competing for the same thing and trying to be the best.” While he hedges that outsiders coming in certainly cuts into revenue, he thinks of competition as something that makes you better. “It pushes you,” he says. “It keeps you on the edge. If you’re comfortable and there’s no one else, you can get too comfortable and not have the next novel thing.”

Lai hopes to weather many more winters with her made-in-D.C. compatriots. “Local businesses like mine and Dolcezza’s and Nicecream—we live here,” she says. “We’re going to be here no matter what. No matter if a neighborhood takes a turn for the worse.

And our businesses will hopefully still be here too. Embracing outsider competition is just another hurdle local business owners face. It’s an opportunity to turn inwards and say, ‘What really makes us special?’” CP

I hope the community recognizes that we’re two local people trying to live the ice cream dream. We don’t have big investment dollars.

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The publishers of six local small presses bare their literary souls.

By Hannah Grieco D.C.’s literary sCene is independent to the core, with poetry readings in tiny spaces, local bookstores supporting writers, and small publishing houses putting out work in a variety of genres.

Those small, independent presses are some of the best in the nation. They function like the big five publishing houses of Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster, working to sell as many books as they can. But unlike the big five, they rarely require authors to work with literary agents, and they are much more willing to take a chance on new, lesser-known writers or styles of writing that don’t fit into the more established genres.

City Paper spoke with the publishers of six area indie presses about their love of the writ-

ten word, their deep respect for authors and poets, and why they keep hope alive for their industry.

Paycock Press Arlington’s Paycock Press began as an umbrella, or overarching, press for the literary publication Gargoyle Magazine which was founded in 1976. Richard Peabody, a writer and publisher who has dedicated his life to printing the words of authors and poets that otherwise might not be read, is one of the original founders. Peabody is a major figure in D.C.’s literary world, reluctantly accompanying Paycock Press into the digital age while holding on to its historical roots.

He remembers the days of doing Gargoyle’s typeset and printing in Glen Echo, where The Writer’s Center, one of the area’s oldest literary institutions, was located.

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“This process, you’ve got to care about it,” he says. “You’re not just working nine to five.

It used to be people making books in back rooms. It was the coolest thing. We were still using a typesetting machine where we would cut and paste and shape.”

Peabody knows firsthand the sacrifices required to maintain a press through the years.

“You don’t do this to make money,” he says. “It’s an addiction. You want your authors to be happy. In a lot of cases this is an author’s first book, it’s their baby. Their whole life went into this book and we want this to be a happy experience.”

Now Peabody puts out two issues of Gargoyle a year, plus the beloved “Grace and Gravity” series featuring D.C. women writers, and has four books in the current pipeline, all by women. He loves to focus on poetry and short story collections, which can be harder to place

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for big publishers. Above all, he prints what he wants to print, not following any niche or style.

Washington Writers’ Publishing House A nonprofit cooperative founded in the early 1970s, Washington Writers’ Publishing House began with a blind contest open to poets in the area. That tradition continues, with more than 120 poetry and short story collections published since then from their yearly contests. Local authors Melanie Hatter, Caroline Bock, and Nathan Leslie are just a few of the talents they’ve printed. Publisher Kathleen Wheaton describes their niche as “D.C. and its suburbs—we strive to represent its diversity of voices.”

“Short story collections are difficult to publish, even if your stories have won prizes or been published in prestigious journals,” she adds.

WWPH utilizes a strictly volunteer staff and they focus on developing flexible, cooperative author-editor relationships that continue on with authors often acting as editors for the following year’s winners. Wheaton wanted to be a part of a collaborative process with writers, one of the main reasons she loves independent publishing.

“Kindness isn’t a word one associates with D.C., but I would say it applies to the literary scene here,” says Wheaton. “Literature is a somewhat freakish occupation in Washington, and I’ve found writers and poets to be incredibly generous to and supportive of each other. They show up at readings, and buy and promote each other’s books. Having lived in New York, I can say it was a much more competitive, mutually hostile environment.”

Santa Fe Writers Project Santa Fe Writers Project publisher Andrew Gifford is from the D.C. area, but in 1998 he traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to “disappear into the mountains” as he faced a painful struggle with trigeminal neuralgia.

“Looking up at that big sky on a chilly November evening, I realized I needed to fight for what I loved most: literature, and the power of a writer’s voice to get in our heads and change our lives,” he says.

And so Bethesda’s Santa Fe Writers Project was born. One of the area’s largest independent presses, it was founded that same year.

SFWP now staffs six people, plus a small group of interns, with plans to release six to eight books in 2020, as well as their top-tier literary journal The SFWP Quarterly.

Gifford worked for an academic publisher for almost 20 years, and learned firsthand about the difference between chasing the bottom line and loving literature and the craft. For him, running a small press means that authors

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There is no focus on a specific genre at SFWP, and Gifford believes that presses like his are more successful when casting a wide net.

“If I want to keep reading it and I like it through to the end, I’ll make an offer,” he says. “If I can see the book in my to-be-read pile then let’s make that happen.”

Next season, he’ll be publishing a detective novel, a novel about the fashion industry in New York, and a dystopian novel set in a Kafkaesque Chinese prison. He promises middle-grade fiction, memoir, poetry, and plenty more in the coming years.

ways thinking about helping other writers get into print, to get them out into the world. Jimmy is very similar in that regard.”

Putting out multiple books a year, Solari and her husband pour over details with authors in a way that larger publishing houses don’t. From editing to cover design, it’s a team approach that allows their writers to choose how much or how little they want to be a part of the fine-tuning.

In 2014, ASP also became an imprint of Santa Fe Writers Project, which has allowed for larger print runs. Solari collaborates with many editors and publishers in the local area, and the press runs like a well oiled machine, but for her, feels like a family.

Alan Squire Publishing Rose Solari, publisher and co-founder of Alan Squire Publishing in Bethesda, started her small press in 2010 to “reject the culture of no.”

She watched large publishing houses pass on project after project that her fellow writers were working on—projects she believed in—and she knew she had to play a role in changing that.

Solari and her husband James J. Patterson are both successful writers, but they always wanted something more.

“It’s never been quite enough for me,” she says. “I’ve always been entrepreneurial, al-

Mason Jar Press An up-and-coming indie press out of Baltimore launched in 2014, Mason Jar is a labor of love for Ian Anderson, Mike Tager, and their small group of volunteers. Everyone at Mason Jar has a day job, and most have families and their own personal writing to work on. Both Anderson and Tager view publishing as a partnership between their press and their authors, and they work intimately with each writer to make sure the final product reflects their vision. One of Mason Jar’s authors, Tyrese Coleman, was a finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award for her

collection “How to Sit.” “We want all of our authors to have the best possible experience in putting out a book,” Anderson says. “That matters more to us than the money. Yes, there are lights to be kept on, but we have no illusions that MJP will make any of us rich. We’re not doing this for money. And maybe this is a bit cynical of the big publishers, but our books aren’t just ‘units’ to us. They are things we care deeply about, and believe in as much as our authors. Because of that, we treat each title with the care and thoughtfulness we would want someone else to put into our writing.”

Anderson views the Baltimore and D.C. literary scenes as separate and distinct, but also deeply cooperative and connected. He jokes that “you get two scenes for the price of a MARC ticket,” and he’s right. Local authors read at events in both cities and everywhere in between.

Shout Mouse Press Shout Mouse is a nonprofit, D.C.-based writing and publishing program for underheard voices. They have published 40 books so far, highlighting more than 300 teen authors.

Their work focuses entirely on serving youth whose backgrounds are underrepresented in children’s and young adult literature, and they publish in all genres.

“We launched Shout Mouse Press in 2014 to fill a gap we saw in the publishing world,” says publisher Kathy Crutcher. “There was, and continues to be, a dearth of diverse books and voices in children’s publishing—especially those written in own voices, those members of the community being portrayed. To address this lack of diversity and create opportunities for young authors of marginalized backgrounds, we had to start our own press.”

Crutcher and her team are committed to doing much more than sell books. Instead, they work closely with their teen authors, from initial writing workshops to editing and publishing, to tell stories that the authors feel have not been told and must be told.

“Our core values and process set us apart from traditional publishers,” Crutcher explains. “At the outset of a book project, we don’t ask what will sell books. Instead, we center youth voices at every part of the process: What story do our authors wish they had as a child? What story of theirs do they want others, especially those who may be different from them, to hear?”

Shout Mouse books are also used to support curricula in D.C. schools, and schools across the country, inspiring marginalized students to read stories and poems that speak to their experiences, and to write their own stories. CP

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Newsies—sorry, that’s Disney’s Newsies—is Arena Stage’s designated holiday season book-balancer this year, but if you like your reassuring, sentimental fare less musical and more modest in scope, Ken Ludwig’s romantic two-hander Dear Jack, Dear Louise might be just what the Army doctor ordered.

Ludwig’s father was an Army physician during World War II, first stateside in Oregon and later in France. Ludwig’s new play is a dramatization of the three-year correspondence between his future dad and his future mom, a musical theater performer in New York City, before they finally met in person, having found love for the price of a stamp. Well, a lot of stamps. One needn’t be the offspring of parents who wrote faithfully for years before they ever laid eyes on one another—something I never learned about my own folks until my late 20s—to find it utterly charming.

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a few wrinkles to iron out: The finale, in director Jackie Maxwell’s otherwise beautifully paced world premiere production, feels abrupt.

We’re in no hurry, after all, to get away from the two pen pals, because Maxwell has cast the show perfectly: Jake Epstein and Amelia Pedlow both channel an outsized earnestness that’s immensely seductive. If they both seem impossibly virtuous, that can be excused on the grounds that they’re presenting highly curated versions of themselves to one another in prose. Their dialogue is, in fact, a recitation of their letters, even when they interrupt one another. Only rarely do we learn some-

thing about one correspondent that they’ve not volunteered to the other in writing. When Jack receives word from Louise that she has met his parents, for example — “They’re like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, if Norman Rockwell painted Jews!” she reports — he pours himself a stiff drink.

Ludwig is a D.C. resident whose plays have been performed all over the world, but because his first Broadway show was the Tony Award-winning comedy Lend Me a Tenor, his reputation as a dramatist who deals mostly in farce has stuck. Dear Jack, Dear Louise represents a more intimate comic style, one that I suspect demands more of its actors. For 90 minutes Pedlow and Epstein are talking to one another but looking out at the audience, with some clever interjections, pauses, and other bits of nonverbal syncopation to reflect the unpredictable pace of wartime mail. That they’re able to pull off these technical performances without seeming artificial is a credit to their instincts and Maxwell’s direction.

Pedlow’s speaking voice sometimes seems a little too sing-songy for ordinary speech, something I noticed in her otherwise excellent recent performance as Sister James in Studio Theatre’s strong production of Doubt, but it’s a good fit for Louise. The character is a singer trying to land a role in a Broadway show, and the mediated nature of her budding romance with a man she’s never met calls for a slightly more rarified mode of expression. Her life in a New York boarding house is more varied from day-to-day than Jack’s austere existence as physician attending critically wounded soldiers. Beowulf Boritt’s simple set, which surrounds Epstein with Army-issue foot lockers and Pedlow with a more ramshackle and comfortable set of furniture, expresses this idea eloquently. But I’d gladly listen to a radio drama adaptation of Dear Jack, Dear Louise, too.

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There is a scene halfway through Bombshell, after Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) has sued Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) for sexual harassment, when a group of female anchors congregate backstage giving simultaneous interviews via cell phones in which they ferociously defend Ailes, stating that he never once made them uncomfortable. While they talk, they are also getting into wardrobe for a broadcast, which involves stuffing their bras, putting on girdles, and cramming their bruised and blistered feet into high heels. It’s a brilliant juxtaposition that demonstrates how women can internalize their own harassment and oppression. Bombshell is the story of how three women managed to break free from the cycle of abuse.

The film opens as a meta-textual explainer in the style of The Big Short, with Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) speaking directly to the camera, explaining the power dynamics of the Fox News office. All the power rests on the second floor, where Ailes rules like a dictator, barking orders to the production room from his phone and hosting a seemingly endless line of young, blonde journalists in his office. Although we’ll later learn that Carlson and Kelly have suffered abuses in that room, we see it happen with Kayla Pospisil (Margot Robbie), an up-and-comer who is savvy enough to facilitate a private meeting with Ailes but who has no idea what sexual humiliations he has in store for her.

Directed by Jay Roach (Game Change,

Trumbo), Bombshell work best when it opts for character-driven storytelling over pure information dump. The script, from Charles Randolph, who wrote The Big Short, alternates among the stories of Carlson, Kelly, and Pospisil. Carlson, after being fired for repeatedly raising women’s issues on her show, initiates a lawsuit, Kelly struggles with the decision to go public about her own harassment, and the fictional Pospisil suffers the impact of her harassment in real time.

Pospisil is a crucial character, a Christian conservative and Fox fanatic whose idealism is shattered by Ailes’ abuse.

At its least effective, Bombshell succumbs to the temptation of turning its ripped-fromthe-headlines plot into a wax museum. Brief appearances of actors dressed up like Geraldo Rivera, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly inspire chuckles of recognition that distance you from the compelling human drama. But maybe it’s no accident that the men largely come off as cartoons, while the women—including Kate McKinnon, who does her most emotionally resonant work yet as Pospisil’s friend and sometimes lover—are portrayed with more complexity. In particular, Theron deserves kudos for her portrayal of a woman who possesses immense power and influence but is struggling with how to wield it.

Bombshell works because it is not a partisan document. Sexual harassment isn’t restricted to one political party or ideology, so the abuse that Ailes inflicted on his female employees need not be tied to the regressive content that frequently tainted his airwaves.

Bombshell makes the Fox newsroom feel like any other office space. That in itself is a remarkable achievement.

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THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Soul Gravity. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Mister Goblin. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

Most Savage Gentlemen, a D.C.-area band, are a quartet that plays a mix of originals and covers, hitting the classics (The Beatles, The Backstreet Boys) and their contemporaries (The Black Keys, Dropkick Murphys). All four band members share credit for writing their original songs, and it shows. Their debut album sounds like a compilation of funk, rock, go-go, blues, and country bands whose only common denominator is that they all go for broke. Mostly, though, Most Savage Gentlemen deliver a polished version of music you already like. For some bands, music is an art, and its primary functions are experimentation and boundary-pushing. For others, it’s a craft to be refined. This is a party band, a bar band, music to drink beer and brown liquor to. Still, strains of politics find their way into Most Savage Gentlemen’s lyrics (see “Don’t Say Anything”). In this, they call to mind ’90s and 2000s California bands like Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers: mild-spice bro-rock with something on its mind. Most Savage Gentlemen perform at 8 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $10. (202) 483-5000. dc9.club.

—Will Lennon

HOLIDAY

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah. 8 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. A Funky Christmas Miracle: Holiday Funk & Soul Night. 8 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 537-6200. Gospel Christmas. 7 p.m. $6. nationalcathedral.org.

ROCK

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Lightmare, Lotion Princess, and Born Dad. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Most Savage Gentlemen. 8 p.m. $10. dc9.club.

Broccoli City Festival Preview S A T, F E B 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Linda May Han Oh, Aventurine T H U , F E B 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD M3 ROCK FESTIVAL FEATURING

Kix • Tesla • RATT • Night Ranger and more! ..................MAY 1-3 For more info and a full lineup, visit m3rockfest.com

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

STORY DISTRICT’S

SUCKER FOR LOVE ................................. FRI FEBRUARY 14

LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT

........................................... FRI APRIL 10

Kurt Vile with Cate Le Bon ....... FRI APRIL 24 AEG PRESENTS

BITCH SESH

DECEMBER

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS JANUARY (cont.)

The Budos Band THIS WEEK’S SHOWS Xxxxxx w/ Xxxxxx w/ Paul and The Tall Trees Turnover &2-Day MenPass I Trust Must purchase with 12/7 PPPP @ The Anthem to attend. ............................

F DEC18 6 Late Show!

10:30pm Doors................Sa w/ Renata Zeiguer ......................Th 19 Xxxxxxxxxx Ripe w/ The New Respects ........Th 23 Hot in Herre Holiday w/ Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx EarlySpectacular: Show! 6pm Doors ........................................................... Sa 7 The Glorious Sons 2000s Dance Party with

......................................................................... FRI JULY 31

On Sale Friday, December 20 at 10am

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

DJs Will Eastman and Ozker • Visuals by Kylos ........................F 20

GWAR

w/ Des Rocs ..................................F 24

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Twiddle ...................................Sa 25

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

w/ Unearth & Savage Master .......F 27

The Pietasters

Cory Wong w/ Scott Mulvahill..Su 26 Atmosphere w/ The Lioness •

w/ The Fuss • Oison • Creachies .Sa 28

Nikki Jean • DJ Keezy..................M 27

JANUARY

Metronomy w/ Joy Again ..........F 31

No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party

with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker • Visuals by Kylos ..........................F 3 BENT: Ringing in the Raging ‘20s

featuring DJ L Stackz • Baronhawk Poitier • Lemz Vs Tezrah • Sean Morris • with performances by Pussy Noir • Baby • Summer Camp • Majic Dyke...................................Sa 4

Yola w/ Amythyst Kiah.................F 10 BASS NATION PRESENTS

Svdden Death w/ Phiso .........Sa 11 Hiss Golden Messenger w/ Lilly Hiatt ................................W 15

American Authors and MAGIC GIANT w/ Public ........Th 16 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Sullivan King w/ Eliminate .....F 17 Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 18

STORY DISTRICT’S Top Shelf ................................... JAN 25 FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! SECOND

SHOW ADDED!

w/ Justin Townes Earle & Worriers .MAR 13

AEG PRESENTS

Tim and Eric

Late Show! 8:30pm Doors .................. FEB 8

Julius Dein ................................ FEB 23 Jonathan Richman & Bonnie “Prince” Billy ........ MAR 7 thelincolndc.com • impconcerts.com •

Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 16 Blood Orange w/ Tei Shi......... MAR 18 Welcome to Night Vale .......APR 2 Walk Off The Earth ................APR 5 Watch What Crappens........ MAY 2

U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

FEBRUARY 9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Lane 8 w/ Paraleven .................Sa 1

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Spafford w/ Eggy .......................W 5 Cold War Kids w/ Overcoats ....Th 6 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Dustbowl Revival

Early Show! 6:30pm Doors ..................F 7

Electric Guest w/ Soleima

Late Show! 10pm Doors........................F 7

Raphael Saadiq

The Slackers

w/ Mephiskapheles

............... Th DEC 19

Temples w/ Art d’Ecco

Anna of the North w/ Dizzy Fae....Th 13 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT

Moon Hooch ...........................Sa 22 w/ Anik Khan & Savon............W 26 Sango Great Good Fine OK w/ Aaron Taos ...............................F 31 VÉRITÉ ......................................F 28 Palace .................................M FEB 3 GARZA Poppy w/ Vowws ...........................Sa 8 (Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation) .Sa 29 All 11/8 9:30 Club tickets honored. . M JAN 20

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w/ Jamila Woods & DJ Duggz .......Sa 8

Saint Motel..............................Tu 11 Echosmith

w/ Weathers & Jayden Bartels....W 12

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ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Big Something and Andy Frasco & The U.N.

w/ Kyle Ayers ...........................Th 13

Galactic feat. Anjelika Jelly Joseph

(Sa 15 - w/ Southern Avenue).F 14 & Sa 15

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PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on

9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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WORLD

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

Rosa Tatuata. 7:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

TIME CAPSULE: PHOTOGRAPHS

BY FRANK STEWART

SATURDAY CABARET

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

CLASSICAL

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah. 8 p.m. $10–$79. strathmore.org.

DJ NIGHTS

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

The Crystal Method. 10 p.m. $10–$30. ustreetmusichall.com.

ELECTRONIC

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Thievery Corporation. 8 p.m. $50. 930.com.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. LITZ with Radii. 9 p.m. $12–$15. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

HIP-HOP

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. The Annual Commander Xmas Show Ft. Supreme Commander. 8:30 p.m. Free. pieshopdc.com.

HOLIDAY

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington Presents Songs of the Season. 1 p.m. $15–$72. kennedy-center.org.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah. 8 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

LOS CARPINTEROS: CUBA VA! Fresh off the heels of its magnificent survey of Havanaborn surrealist painter Zilia Sánchez, the Phillips Collection returns to Cuba with a presentation of the work of the collective known as Los Carpinteros. Since the 1990s, Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez— along with Alexandre Arrechea, until his departure in 2003—have executed some of the more stunning visual metaphors in contemporary sculpture. From a chest of drawers shaped like a hand grenade to an installation that looks like an exploding office space frozen moments after detonation, works by Los Carpinteros are laced with wry humor. Cuba Va!, which features LED sculptural portraits and two video installations, serves as a swan song: It’s the duo’s first museum show since Los Carpinteros decided to hang up their act in 2018. The exhibition runs to Jan. 12, 2020 at The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

W/ CAMERON NEAL

SATURDAY

DEC 21

AN EVENING WITH

BEN WILLIAMS THURSDAY DEC

26

FRI, DEC 27

AN EVENING WITH

LIVE AT THE FILLMORE:

THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND SAT, DEC 28

YELLOW DUBMARINE

W/ THE SCOTCH BONNETS SUN, DEC 29

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

SUNDAY

TUE, DEC 31

CLASSICAL

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah. 3 p.m. $10–$79. strathmore.org.

ELECTRONIC

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Thievery Corporation. 7 p.m. $50. 930.com.

HOLIDAY

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah. 1 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

STRIPPED DOWN (DUO)

8TH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH

FUNK & R&B

Photographer Frank Stewart is not a household name, but the aptly titled retrospective Time Capsule makes a strong case that he should be. Stewart, who cut his teeth as an assistant to artist Romare Bearden, has proven his mettle in all types of settings—smoky café booths occupied by furtive lovers, streets populated with whitewall tires and overstuffed clotheslines, dimly lit jazz sessions, and dusty African roads. Stewart printed his image of Louisville, Kentucky,’s skyline on aluminum, making the lace curtain through which he photographed the view unexpectedly leaden. Two locales in particular seem to have jolted Stewart’s creative juices. In Cuba, he flipped the conventions of vintage-car photography by focusing solely on a single car hood’s mesmerizing, overlapping layers of blue. And in post-Katrina New Orleans, Stewart captured a car half submerged in oily water, its negative space forming a cross. The exhibition runs to Jan. 4 at Gallery Neptune & Brown, 1530 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 986-1200. galleryneptunebrown.com.

—Louis Jacobson

WILD CHILD

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Washington Chorus Presents A Candlelight Christmas. 8 p.m. $19–$82. kennedy-center.org.

MONDAY

CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH

THE LEGENDARY WAILERS

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

AN EVENING WITH

BOAT HOUSE ROW YACHT ROCK EXPERIENCE SAT, JAN 4

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

SCYTHIAN

SAT, JAN 11

TAB BENOIT TUE, JAN 14

MAGIC CITY HIPPIES

FUNK & R&B

W/ ARGONAUT & WASP

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Vybe Band Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m. $22–$25. citywinery. com.

FRI, JAN 17

HOLIDAY

W/ JOSE RAMIREZ

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. A Family Christmas for the Young and Young at Heart. 1 p.m. $20–$30. kennedy-center.org.

ROCK

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

Trans-Siberian Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. $49.50–$79.50. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

VANESSA COLLIER SAT, JAN 18

AN EVENING WITH

RAY ON MY MIND SUN, JAN 19

RARE ESSENCE W/ DUPONT BRASS

TUESDAY CLASSICAL —Kriston Capps

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Songs of the Season, Christmas with Choral Arts. 2 p.m. $15–$59. kennedy-center.org.

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

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

ZOOLIGHTS

CARBON LEAF 21 A Very MAYSA Christmas

Dec 19

feat. Her Jazz Funk Soul Orchestra with CHRIS "BIG DOG" DAVIS

LUTHER RE-LIVES

22 Holiday Show feat. William ‘Smooth’ Wardlaw

NRBQ Taylor 27 CHARLES ESTEN Noele 28 PIECES OF A DREAM feat. Justin-Lee Schultz 26

29

23rd Annual

Hank Williams Tribute Show

with Cathy

Fink & Marcy Marxer, Pete & Maura Kennedy, The Bumper Jacksons Duo, Patrick McAvinue, Mark Schatz 31

New Year's Eve with

THE SELDOM SCENE Old Town Flood & Circa Blue

8pm

Jan 3

LAST TRAIN HOME 4 SCHOONER FARE BUSKIN & BATTEAU 5 Charles Ross' Thomm Jutz

HOLIDAY

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington Presents Songs of the Season. 2 p.m. $15–$72. kennedy-center.org.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington presents A Family Christmas. 11 a.m. $20–$45. kennedy-center.org.

JAZZ 8

Michael Hoover Presents

MEMORIES OF ELVIS

An Elvis Presley Birthday Concert!

9 10

AVERY*SUNSHINE RICKY SKAGGS & Kentucky Thunder

CHRISETTE MICHELE 16 BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY 12

17&19

An Evening with

EDDIE FROM OHIO

21&22

An Evening with

RICHARD THOMPSON (Solo)

24

THE NEW BIRTH

25

Newmyer Flyer Presents The Best of

JANIS JOPLIN & JIMI HENDRIX 29&30

An Evening with

COWBOY JUNKIES Jan Feb 31& 1 WILL DOWNING 6 LIZZ WRIGHT

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Jam Before Christmas. 7 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

If you are looking for a holiday event on the 23rd that’s relaxing, fun, and conducive to artsy Instagram posts, ZooLights at the National Zoo is the place to be. Illuminated by 500,000 eco-friendly LED lights, the event combines a litany of activities—art exhibits, bright lights, a holiday market, snow tubing, train rides—into one giant exhibition for a complete holiday experience. This year, the Zoo has also installed the Entre Les Rangs exhibit, a field of shimmering, billowing lights that transfixes audiences. It should be noted that live zoo animals are not featured in ZooLights (they need sleep as much as we do), but ZooLights will feature dozens of crafted “animal lanterns” around the park. Animal shapes also feature in the laser light show, which takes place on the wall of the Elephant Community Center. There are live musical performances booked for almost every day and food stands operating throughout the park. The exhibition runs to Jan. 1, 2020 at the National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 633-3045. nationalzoo.si.edu.

—Tristan Jung

UNITED STATES BOTANIC GARDEN 100 Maryland Ave. SW. (202) 225-8333. Changamiré. 6 p.m. Free. usbg.gov.

WEDNESDAY JAZZ

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

THE NUTCRACKER

THURSDAY ELECTRONIC

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Rezz and i_o. 9 p.m. $40–$50. echostage.com.

FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. A Tribute to Phyllis Hyman. 8 p.m. $30–$35. citywinery.com.

GO-GO

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

Crank Karaoke with DJ Alizay. 9 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAZZ

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Ben Williams. 8 p.m. $20–$45. thehamiltondc.com.

ROCK

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. New Bomb Turks. 8 p.m. $20–$24. citywinery.com.

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There’s hardly a Christmas melody more recognizable than the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. It conjures up images of gossamer gowns, snow flurries, and reflective sheets of ice. This year, the ethereal dance of the fairy and the stately march of the wooden soldiers are yet again coming to the Warner Theatre, this time performed by the Washington Ballet. But since we’re in D.C., there’s a twist to this performance: Expect a more Americanized version of the Russian ballet, set in 1882 Georgetown. Yes, that means familiar historic figures including George Washington dancing across the stage. But the main story remains: Young Clara receives a nutcracker at her parents’ lavish Christmas party which soon turns out to be much more than a toy, leading her into a land of fairies, sweets, and a vengeful Mouse King. The ballet runs to Dec. 29 at the Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. $65–$150. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

—Chelsea Cirruzzo

22; Dec. 23; Dec. 24; Dec. 25; Dec. 26 $67–$180. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

SEASON’S GREENINGS: AMERICA’S GARDENS

Theater

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

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

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

A CHRISTMAS CAROL In this classic Dickens tale, a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas—with some help from some ghostly apparitions. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Jan. 1 $32–$124. (202) 3474833. fords.org.

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

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

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

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

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

What’s better (and less expensive) than packing a suitcase to jet around the country this holiday season? Take a trip to the United States Botanic Garden for the 2019 Season’s Greenings exhibit, a plant-based tour of conservatories and sculptures around America. You’ll find plant-based models of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Japanese torii gate, the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens’ flamingo topiaries, and the Huntsville Botanical Garden’s Rocket Garden. Season’s Greenings also features special holiday model trains, including one that circles a fully decorated Christmas tree (make sure to check out the tree’s destination-specific ornaments).

And for plant lovers who haven’t gotten their fill of greenery and mistletoe, the USBG will be decking the halls with its collection of poinsettia varieties—including both rare heirloom breeds and newly developed ones. The exhibit offers the perfect opportunity to travel the country, or at least see its plants, while staying warm inside the capital’s own greenhouse. The exhibition is on view to Jan. 5 at the United States Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Avenue SW. Free. (202) 225-8333. usbg.gov.

—Sarah Smith

VOCAL

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

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

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

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

Dance

THE WASHINGTON BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER The Washington Ballet brings the classic holiday ballet to life with dancers from the Washington School of Ballet, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Warner Theatre. 513 13th St. NW. Dec. 20; Dec. 21; Dec.

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

MY FAIR LADY “The most perfect musical of all time” tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the

HEY 2030, SEE YOU AT COLLEGE. dccollegesavings.com

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CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

BEN WILLIAMS

and

Heard Seasons Greetings December, 2019

man determined to make her a proper lady. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 19 $39– $159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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

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

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

(202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

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

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

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

(301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

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

Film

1917 Two British privates have to deliver a message into deep enemy territory during World War I. Starring

This year marks a decade since Ben Williams won what was then the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Bass competition. It catapulted the D.C. native to major-player status, a highly in-demand musician in New York City and around the jazz world who’s also recorded two acclaimed albums. Although he’s based in New York, he’s remained a Washingtonian at heart—our city’s rhythm plays out on his instrument. As such, it’s become a tradition to celebrate his late-December birthday with a hometown concert. This year (his 35th), it so happens that Williams also has an upcoming album to promote. I Am A Man is charged, linking the civil rights movement at its height to today’s ongoing fight for black lives and justice. It’s also his best work yet. It’s somewhat heavy holiday fare, but appropriate for a season advocating for peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Ben Williams performs at 8 p.m. at The Hamilton, 600 14th Street NW. $20–$45.

(202) 769-0122. thehamiltondc.com.

—Michael J. West Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Richard Madden. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE AERONAUTS A pilot and a scientist seek new discoveries—but end up fighting for survival. Starring Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, and Himesh Patel.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) BOMBSHELL Three women take on Fox News and its head, Roger Ailes, after toxic behavior and sexual harassment at work. Starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) CATS A group of humanoid Jellicle cats compete to be the cat selected to ascend to the Heaviside Layer.

Starring Taylor Swift, Francesca Hayward, and Idris Elba. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) A HIDDEN LIFE Conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter refuses to fight for the Nazis and finds his world upended. Starring August Dieh, Valerie Pachner, and Maria Simon. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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A bevy of holiday songs have filled up D.C. airwaves, homes, and earbuds. People dust off and tinker with their seasonal playlists, and radio stations transform into round-the-clock explosions of jingle bells and well-wishes.

It’s the same on D.C.’s streets. Solo renditions of top-40 hits performed for loose change give way to Yuletide favorites and expressions of cheer. Downtown, a man with a perfectly old-fashioned sounding voice belts out “Silver Bells” over a pre-recorded track as people make their way to work.

Outside of the Farragut North Metro station, a man, armed with a steel drum, tries to find his place in the holiday music scene. He hits notes that don’t seem to go together when, suddenly, the discordant clang of his instrument gives way to the unmistakable melody of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” But, like a Mid-Atlantic snowflake, it melts away as soon as he catches it.

He continues to feel out the song—snippets of success mingle with missed notes. He pauses. People continue past him, descending beneath the earth or continuing along the sidewalk. From the next block I can hear when he starts again, the classic song about a historymaking reindeer ringing loud and true.

—Will Warren Will Warren writes Scene and Heard. If you know of a location worthy of being seen or heard, email him at wwarren@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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I am a 60-year-old heterosexual man, and I am being told that I’m normal. I have been to several urologists, and they say I have no medical issues. But I’m having a hard time buying it, because for the last six months, my ejaculate has been extremely bloody. This is embarrassing, especially since oral sex—giving and receiving—has always been my favorite. The urologists’ explanation is that as you get older, there are blood vessels within the penis that can break during an erection. They gave me some pills to ensure there was no infection, but then they told me that I’ll probably have to use condoms for the rest of my life. My partner doesn’t need contraceptives, so we haven’t used condoms for decades. If I were bleeding out of any other orifice, there would be a team of doctors helping me. Is there really no hope?

—Tell Me It Ain’t So “Hematospermia—blood in the ejaculate—is usually not considered a big deal, in the sense that the vast majority of the time it’s not a sign of cancer,” says Dr. Ashley Winter, a board-certified urologist, the co-host of The Full Release podcast, and my go-to expert on all blood-in-spunk-related matters. “I’d want to know how much he’s actually bleeding and what they’ve done to check him out. But that said, sometimes a guy with a large prostate will bleed with orgasm.”

For everyone out there panicking because they saw blood in their semen one time a decade ago, Dr. Winter says a one-off bloody load isn’t something to worry about. But if you saw blood in your semen that one time and you have health insurance and you’re a hypochondriac like me, Dr. Winter recommends a visit to a doc for a short consultation and a quick physical exam.

“But in a case like TMIAS’, where the issue is ongoing and the subject is over 55,” says Dr. Winter, “a typical evaluation would include a PSA blood test (a prostate cancer screening test), as well as testing for STIs (such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and herpes), along with a urinalysis to check for blood in the urine and urinary infections. If those tests were not revealing, I would consider doing an ultrasound or MRI of the prostate and surrounding organs, as well as putting a camera up the urethra (called cystoscopy) to check out the plumbing.”

Assuming you’ve had all those tests, and your prostate was present on photo day, and the doctors found no sign of cancer or infection, TMIAS, then what the hell is going on?

“Typically, the cause would be something such as dilated blood vessels along the ejaculate exit route,” aka the urethra. Quickly: The urethra is a tube that connects the outside world (and all those piss bottoms) to your bladder; it’s the tube we all piss through. In males, the urethra pulls double duty, as men also ejaculate through it (and some women do, too!)— it runs through the prostate gland, a gland that

produces about a third of the seminal fluid. An enlarged prostate squeezes the urethra, which can make urination difficult and uncomfortable, and can also result in—you guessed it— blood in the semen.

One possible “fix” for an enlarged prostate is a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), which basically amounts to “a ‘Roto-Rootering’ of the prostate,” as Dr. Winter so vividly puts it. A doctor shoves something called a resectoscope up your urethra and slices away chunks of prostate tissue.

“The problem with these procedures is that they can cause a person to stop ejaculating at all,” says Dr. Winter. “So if TMIAS has already had a fairly robust evaluation, then either using condoms or just having his sex partner adapt to the presence of blood may be the best solution. And in the absence of an infection, shooting a bloody load into your partner

“He should have done his screw diligence—but you should have done yours, too.” is not dangerous. Couples have intercourse during menstruation without harm, and plenty of F-F couples have sex during menstruation as well.”

But hold on and back up and wait just a goddamn minute: Didn’t your doctors say everything looked normal? Doesn’t that mean your prostate isn’t enlarged?

“A ‘normal’ prostate generally means that it is not cancerous and normal in size for your age,” says Dr. Winter. “As you get older, your prostate gets bigger. So it’s highly probable that what TMIAS has is a big-ass-but-normal-for-hisage prostate. And bigger prostates tend to have larger blood vessels lining the urethra and are therefore more likely to bleed when he experiences those lovely contractions associated with orgasm. When TMIAS was told that ‘there are blood vessels within the penis that can break,’ I suspect his doc was referring to this and was trying to simplify the explanation.”

And while the presence of blood in your ejaculate may not be normal or ideal, TMIAS, it’s likely you’re normal, and there’s nothing your doctor— or a team of them—can do about it.

“Sometimes a lack of a ‘fix’ is not dismissiveness, it’s just an admittance that a lot of things medical folks do/offer aren’t perfect,” says Dr. Winter.

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

—Dan Savage

I’m a woman with a dating profile on OkCupid that states I’m nonmonogamous and only looking for the same. Recently, I had two great dates with a guy who described himself as monogamous on his profile. However, after our first date and a lot of messaging, I intuited that he hadn’t actually read the fine print on my profile. Usually guys bring that up when they’ve read it, and he hadn’t mentioned it once. So I brought it up at the end of our second date when we were having post-dinner drinks at a bar. In retrospect, I should have set up a time to seriously discuss this, not spring it on him while we were drinking, but I felt like the longer it went unsaid, the more “betrayed” he might feel. And boy, did he have a reaction. He went from “This is not a deal breaker” to “Oh my god, I can’t do this, I should just go” in 20 minutes, and then rushed out of the bar. We cleared the air the next day, and he apologized for being a jerk and bailing. But clearly we’re not going to be dating going forward. Maybe this was always how a guy like him was going to react, but when is the right time to bring nonmonogamy up if you meet someone in real life first? Or if it’s clear someone didn’t read the damn fine print on your profile before jumping straight to infatuation? He claimed his meltdown was an emotional response to the conflict he was feeling between (a) the expectation that serious relationships need to lead to monogamy and (b) the great time he was having with someone who turned out to be (gasp) nonmonogamous. Was there a better way to have shared this information? A time sooner or later?

We were really clicking, so his freak-out was a huge surprise.

—Read The Fine Print Dude should have read the fine print on your profile. He should have done his screw diligence—but you should have done yours, too. Or followed through with yours. You read the fine print on his profile, RTFP, you knew he described himself as monogamous, but you went on a date with him anyway—you went on two dates and swapped a lot of messages—without stopping to ask him the dreaded direct question (DDQ): “My profile says I’m nonmonogamous and only looking for the same, and yours says you’re monogamous. Are you making an exception for me because I’m amazing or did you not read my whole profile?” You should have asked this guy the DDQ not to spare him the horror of your company and avoid wasting his time, RTFP, but to spare yourself that stupid scene in the bar and avoid wasting your time.

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