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INSIDE

10 2017 Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

4 Chatter

City List

distriCt Line

20 City Lights: Hip-hop band The Roots make their annual holiday stop at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Thursday.

20 Music 22 Theater 25 Film

6 High and Mighty: Eight years after the head of a drug policy nonprofit was accused of sexual misconduct, former employees grapple with the fallout.

8 Housing Complex: Dupont Circle residents criticize proposed subsidies for two projects being advanced by a coterie of councilmembers, campaign donors, and corporate lobbyists.

9 Savage Love

26 CLassifieds 27 Crossword On the cover: 1500 Block of Pennsylvania Ave. NW. May 8, 2017

food 16 Restaurant, Seen: D.C.’s hottest restaurant design duo set and anticipate trends that go far beyond looks.

arts 17 Let’s Talk About Sex: In the era of #MeToo, conversations about sex are more important than ever.

19 Short Subjects: Gittell on The Post

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CHATTER

We’re Not Dead

In which we celebrate the fact that we’re still kicking

Darrow MontgoMery

As 2017 comes to an end, the future of Washington City Paper remains uncertain. What we know now is essentially the same as what we knew when we were first informed that the paper was for sale in October: that our parent company, SouthComm, Inc. is prepared to move quickly and wants to close a deal by the end of the year.

On Monday, SouthComm informed the staff that if a sale doesn’t go through, all City Paper salaries will be cut by 40 percent, effective January 1, 2018. Those of us who work in local journalism do it out of love, not for money, and a drastic pay reduction like this would make living in D.C.—one of the most expensive cities in the nation—more difficult than it already is.

Friends and alums of City Paper were more blunt in their assessments of the situation.

“These are de facto layoffs—40% of a @wcp editorial salary is not livable in D.C.,” wrote former Loose Lips reporter Mike DeBonis on Twitter. “[It] would be extremely difficult to live single in DC with under $30k a year, and downright heroic to support any family on that salary. Someone please help @wcp out!” opined Twitter user AJ. “How is that legal?” asked another Twitter user, Joe Flood.

“Worst part of passive-layoff strategy is they almost guarantee fading with a whimper. I pray it doesn’t come to this, but if any paper was ever suited to go in blaze of glory—18,000 word feature on rogue banjoist, scathing takedown of beloved ANC commissioner, etc—it was @wcp,” wrote former editor Michael Schaffer.

In the meantime, we prepared this issue of City Paper, and we’ll have another one for you next week. But if you know of any renegade musicians with five-stringed instruments, we’re interested in the story. Please email us at editor@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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DistrictLine High and Mighty

Eight years after the head of a drug policy nonprofit was accused of sexual misconduct, former employees grapple with the fallout.

By Rachel M. Cohen nearLy eight years ago, City Paper detailed a local sex scandal involving staffers at the Marijuana Policy Project, an influential advocacy group focused on promoting non-punitive marijuana laws.

Certain facts are undisputed: In early August 2009, Rob Kampia left an employee happy hour at Union Pub on Capitol Hill with a female subordinate. Kampia was the organization’s co-founder and executive director; the woman had, days earlier, broken up with her boyfriend, who was also an MPP employee.

The woman was behind the wheel, but halfway through Kampia asked to drive, worried she was too drunk. He then took her back to his house in Columbia Heights, where they had sex.

Within two weeks, seven employees, including the woman, resigned from the organization. All MPP department heads joined together to unanimously call on the board to remove Kampia as executive director.

Kampia was well-known for making sexually inappropriate comments in the workplace, but after the August incident, according to several people who worked there at the time, the office felt not just creepy, but predatory.

City Paper’s 2010 article details the struggle within MPP over the incident—particularly the role of Alison Green, Kampia’s chief of staff and MPP’s unofficial head of HR. Green was also a longtime friend of Kampia. While she originally aligned herself with the department heads calling for Kampia’s removal, Kampia told her that MPP’s largest funder would pull out if he stepped down.

Soon Green said she was “no longer sure where I personally stand on the department heads’ recommendation.” Four days later, she told the managers that “after some rest and thought” she “no longer believe[s] it’s in the best interest of MPP for Rob to step down.” All complaints about Kampia’s behavior were still to go through Green, and she promised to relay them to the board.

Many employees were deeply upset with Green’s about-face.

In the end, the board voted to keep Kampia

on. One board member, Mitch Earleywine, resigned as a result. “It was a difficult decision and not what I thought I was going to do until that very moment,” he says. “I had to do it, but the fact that I had to do still brings me a lot of sadness.”

Following the incident staffers were required to attend sexual harassment training, and MPP implemented its first sexual harassment policy. (Employees had long requested one.)

from management advice and consulting. Today, Ask a Manager gets nearly 3 million visits per month, and Green receives about 60 questions per day. She has become something of a national expert on navigating complicated workplace issues—including sexual misconduct. She also writes a weekly advice column for New York Magazine and has a book coming out next year on workplace problems.

But not everyone has moved past what happened in 2009, or is convinced MPP ever really

“What was so consistently gross and frightening about my job at MPP, which was one of the most miserable years of my life, was how clear it was how many wealthy, wellconnected people were totally willing to let Rob behave as he wanted because he could get results.”

Five months later, the press got wind of what happened, and Kampia then announced he would take a three-month break from the organization to seek therapy. “I just think I’m hypersexualized,” he told The Washington Post at the time. Kampia returned to lead the organization in April, and Green then resigned.

In the seven-and-a-half years since, the episode has been mostly forgotten. Kampia stayed on as executive director.

As for Green, her career has soared: She started Ask a Manager, a workplace advice blog in 2007. By 2010 she realized she was getting enough traffic to start making a living

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addressed the problem. For some, the present wave of alarm over sexual abuse has reopened old wounds.

Late Last month, Kampia finally stepped down from his executive director position, assuming a new role at MPP. He’ll be doing more fundraising but no longer managing staff. (Kampia describes it as a “lateral promotion” that he’d sought, where he’ll make “the same amount of money but for half the workload.”)

A number of cannabis industry leaders wondered if this abrupt change was a sign

that Kampia’s past had caught up with him, and MPP’s board was racing to get ahead of a story in 2017’s climate of heightened vigilance over harassment.

MPP spokesperson Morgan Fox says no, and he says that there have been “no sexual misconduct allegations against any MPP employee since 2009 that I’m aware of.”

City Paper hears a different account from one former employee, Eric Smith, who worked as MPP’s director of IT. He says he left the organization after voicing concerns to a board member about an alleged incident involving Kampia and an intoxicated female employee at Kampia’s home the night of MPP’s 2014 holiday party. At the time of this party, Smith had submitted his resignation and given his 30-day notice; he was still working at MPP. After the holiday party, he told a board member he “would be willing to stay if action were taken.” He had worked at MPP long enough to weather the 2009 upset, but had told the board he would leave if anything of that nature happened again.

“When people leave a decent paying job with nothing else even lined up yet, they’re not leaving because they’re just ready to try something new,” says Smith. “They’re leaving because they’re pissed … I left without another job lined up because I realized the board was never going to take action.”

In a written statement submitted to City Paper, Kampia said, “No employees have alleged they were harassed at any holiday parties or elsewhere in 2014. As recently as December 17, 2017, MPP board members have unanimously stated they’ve received no complaints about harassment from affected parties or third parties since 2010. As for me personally, no MPP employees harassed me at any holiday parties in 2014, nor did I harass any employees, consultants, independent contractors, or others. Because our board of directors has received zero complaints, the board hasn’t even needed to deliberate harassment claims since 2010.”

Kampia also disputes allegations of misconduct in 2009, insisting the night he spent with the employee was consensual. “It was a relationship dispute,” he tells me in an interview. “[T]he colleague who wanted to hook up with me, she had just gotten out of a relationship with another colleague of ours. And that relationship ended I think four days previously.”

“She and I were going to start dating,” he says. But then, her ex-boyfriend “freaked out and quit, because apparently he wanted to possess her body, or something.” Kampia continues: “I don’t know, I don’t want to speak for him quite frankly because I didn’t really talk to him … There’s something on his

DistrictLine mind that caused him to be upset and quit, and I’m guessing it was because the relationship was still too raw … Then he leaves, his friends leave, and now she feels like a jerk, so she leaves.”

I asked Kampia why his therapy sabbatical came several months after the alleged incident. “When two single people are hooking up that’s not particularly interesting, but when the press starts talking about it, now it starts to look like it’s really bad,” he says. “The reason the break happened in January was not because of the incident per se, but because of the press around it.”

City PaPer aLso reached out to Green. Until now, despite working as a management guru who advises women on things like handling creepy men in the office, she had not addressed charges that she had enabled a boss’ inappropriate behavior.

Now Green says that she couldn’t say this at the time, but that she thinks “Rob Kampia is a serial sexual harasser who has been allowed to stay in his position of power because he’s good at his work.” She calls standing behind him in 2009 “the biggest regret” of her career.

“It was just the wrong call, and it’s haunted me for years. I would do anything to be able to go back and redo it,” she says. “I just made a lot of mistakes in that situation, and frankly I didn’t have any experience in how to handle a situation like that … so I tried to do what made sense to me, which was just to tell him over and over to stop. I really regret that I didn’t leave sooner, and that I did not explicitly support those calling for him to be fired.”

I asked her if and how this has affected her work as an advice columnist.

“I have a far better understanding than I want of how these issues end up being allowed to fester in organizations,” Green says, adding that she has “a really strong commitment now to naming [harassment] when I see it” and educating managers on how to respond, including urging them to leave when it appears an employer won’t change their ways.

And for others, the distress still lingers. City Paper spoke with multiple former MPP staffers, and found many still unhappy about the resolution of the 2009 episode. Some voiced frustration with how the board handled it, and others expressed unease with Green’s consulting career.

“She enabled a sexual predator for years,” says Salem Pearce, MPP’s former membership director who resigned in the wake of the 2009 incident. “It makes my stomach sick to see her out there giving advice.”

Max Socol, who started working at MPP in October 2009, less than two months after the incident, says he was hired completely un-

aware of what had just happened, or why there were so many open positions. “I was 23. I didn’t ask why the last person left, but Rob and Alison made no mention of anything in my interview,” he says. “They really actively concealed that anything had happened—anything out of the ordinary. What was so consistently gross and frightening about my job at MPP, which was one of the most miserable years of my life, was how clear it was how many wealthy, well-connected people were totally willing to let Rob behave as he wanted because he could get results.”

For her part, Green says she can’t remember all the details but that “it would have been crazy” to not brief new hires on the situation. Kampia says that even though the press hadn’t picked up the story yet, “you’d have to be an idiot not to know” given the size of the organization. “If you hire someone and they go into an office with 33 people who just saw the shenanigans happening a few weeks ago, it’s not like Rob’s going to be able to hide it,” says Kampia, speaking in the third person. “That’s just asinine that someone would try to claim I was not telling people what had just happened.”

Emily Stevenson, who worked at MPP between June of 2009 and May 2010, says six months after leaving “it really began to crystallize for me how horrific everything was.”

Though a fan of Ask a Manager, Stevenson says that when it came to Kampia, Green seemed blinded by her personal relationship.

“I think she knew the right thing to do, and when she talks about it she gives the right advice, but when it comes to Rob, she was just unable to see him.”

When I spoke to Green, she agreed, explaining that their friendship “muddled” her thinking “because I was more willing to believe the best of him.”

Smith, the former employee who handled IT, says he felt much more frustrated with Green back in 2009, but over the following half-decade, grew “significantly more sympathetic” to the position she was in, given his own interactions with the board.

Earleywine, the board member who quit, says “Alison had a big mess to clean up and I think she did a good job in a hellish situation.”

Still, Earleywine says that despite the circulating rumor, it never seemed true to him that MPP would lose its biggest funder if Rob were removed as ED. Kampia now holds the title “Director of Strategic Development” at MPP. Green says that in the midst of this new cultural moment, she’s optimistic about women feeling more empowered to speak up and out.

“But I am not sure that I’m feeling really optimistic about organizations listening to them,” she acknowledges. “Unless they’re forced to in some way.”

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A coterie of councilmembers, campaign donors, and lobbyists plot questionable tax breaks for Dupont Circle projects.

By Andrew Giambrone During the summer, they fought over whether their local Safeway should sell booze.

But now, as fall turns to winter, elected officials in Dupont Circle agree on a more sober matter: that District lawmakers shouldn’t exempt two commercial projects from millions of dollars in property taxes, as two D.C. councilmembers recently proposed.

These well-located projects are being pushed by landowners, political donors, and lobbyists who are quite familiar with the Wilson Building. Whatever the projects’ merits, to some residents the prospective subsidies seem like new iterations of D.C.’s age-old pay-to-play culture that rewards special interests at taxpayers’ expense.

The first proposal would grant the group that owns the historic Masonic temple at 1733 16th St. NW more than $22 million in tax relief over 25 years. Designed by John Russell Pope and completed in 1915, the building serves as the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry of the Southern District of the U.S., a fraternal organization, and is open to the public for tours.

The other proposal would grant the developers of a hotel project at 1337 Connecticut Ave. NW $2 million in tax relief over a decade. The partly vacant property is home to two nightclubs and a Crossfit center.

While the proposed subsidies have yet to receive D.C. Council hearings and haven’t been scheduled for votes, they’re already getting an initial public vetting.

Last week, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B unanimously voted to oppose both bills, saying in a resolution that they “do not meet the minimum standards of public amenities or public good to offset the loss of tax revenue.” Although ANC actions don’t constitute District policy, the D.C. Council is supposed to give them “great weight.”

In an 8-0 vote with one abstention, the commissioners noted that tax breaks can be “an effective tool in urban planning,” but should be used sparingly to spark economic

housing complex

activity in undeveloped areas, create affordable housing, or support infrastructure.

Owners of both properties say their redevelopments would more easily succeed with government aid, in part because of prohibitive construction costs and cooling financial markets. They add that in the long run, the projects would generate more tax revenue than the potential tax relief would cost, while also reinvigorating Dupont Circle.

The Masons want to renovate their headquarters. The work is expected to cost $65.8 million and include improvements to the temple’s windows, walls, exterior stones, building systems, and accessibility.

To fund a budget shortfall, the Masonic temple Supreme Council would lease the parking lot behind the temple to D.C.based Perseus Realty for about $1 million a year. Perseus would then build an apartment building there and provide replacement parking for the temple.

D.C.’s Chief Financial Officer, however, concluded in an October analysis that the tax break “is not necessary” for the renovations, and that the group has other means of bankrolling it. Those include “alternative lease terms” that could underwrite a residential component, and “unrestricted investments” that could cover the Supreme Council’s anticipated funding gap.

The body of Confederate general and Freemason Albert Pike is interred inside the building. Flanked by sphinx statues and known as the “House of the Temple,” the imposing structure features a small museum dedicated to Pike.

The proposal would be a partial continuation of the status quo: The two-acre site has been exempt from property taxes for the past three years, thanks to a local bud-

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get rider. That tax relief applies for as long as the Supreme Council owns the property and it is “not used for commercial purposes.” The Supreme Council’s planned apartment building would violate this provision.

Neither the group’s Grand Commander’s Office nor Perseus Realty responded to requests for comment.

The Masons have a sponsor in Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, who quietly filed the proposal with the D.C. Council’s Secretary in June. McDuffie chairs the legislature’s committee on business and economic development and is up for reelection next year. His office did not return a request for comment by press time.

The Masons have some hired guns, too.

Influential Wilson Building lobbyists John Ray and Tina Ang, of law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, are advocating on behalf of the Supreme Council and Perseus for the tax break, according to 2017 disclosures.

Ray, a Manatt partner who once served as an at-large D.C. councilmember and repeatedly ran for mayor, did not respond to requests for comment, nor did Ang. They’ve represented big-money clients like (now-merged) Pepco and Exelon, gas station mogul Joe Mamo’s Capitol Petroleum Group, and the New York-based developer of the just-opened LINE hotel in Adams Morgan— which may or may not get a $46 million tax break over 20 years.

Campaign finance records show that since 2012, Manatt has donated $1,500 to McDuffie campaigns, with Ray donating $1,000 since that year.

Earlier this month, Perseus President Bob Cohen contributed $500 to McDuffie’s current reelection bid, as did the company’s executive vice president of development, Adam Peters.

By law, individuals and corporations are limited to $500 in total contributions to a particular ward-level campaign, per election. The limits are higher for D.C.’s at-large and mayoral races.

The temple tax break now rests with the D.C. Council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue, which Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans chairs. His ward includes Dupont Circle.

Evans appears closely linked with the proponents of both proposed tax breaks.

Manatt has employed Evans in an “of counsel” position since late 2015, according Darrow Montgomery

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to his most recent financial disclosure statement. He reported that the side job nets him between $50,000 and $100,000 annually.

Those payments come on top of his yearly $137,000 councilmember salary. It is legal for D.C. councilmembers to moonlight.

Neither Evans nor his spokesman responded to requests for comment. Per campaign finance records, Manatt donated $2,500 to Evans’ campaigns (which include mayoral ones) from 2003 to 2013; Ray gave $1,450; and Ang, $1,250. The Supreme Council gave Evans $2,000 from 2011 to 2013.

As for Perseus employees, Cohen contributed $3,850 to Evans campaigns from 2004 to 2015. Firm Principal John Schwieters donated $500 from 2011 to 2014.

Evans quietly proposed the second tax break in November. It would eliminate up to $200,000 a year in property taxes, over 10 years, for D.C.-based Valor Development’s planned 73-room hotel project. The bill names Valor Principal William L. Lansing and attorney James G. Calomiris as the “principal owners” of the property, and hinges on their continued ownership.

Calomiris, whose 2016 campaign for an at-large D.C. Council seat imploded after City Paper reported that he had pleaded guilty to a 2006 assault charge involving his then-girlfriend, and that he failed two drug tests while under court supervision, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

He donated $750 to Evans campaigns from 2003 to 2015. A 1998 City Paper article reported that an attorney named “James Calomiris” hosted a fundraiser event for an Evans mayoral campaign at a downtown cigar bar. The Calomiris family has long owned and managed local real estate.

The D.C. CFO hasn’t assessed this proposal yet. Lansing says the project would cost over $35 million and would enhance Dupont Circle with “creative placemaking” and more than 50 jobs. He says the District would likely recoup the cost of the proposed tax abatement “within the first three years” of the hotel’s operations.

“We’re looking for a little bit of help,” Lansing says, noting that “the project will go on with or without” the tax break.

Joshua Lopez, a former campaign operator for Mayors Muriel Bowser and Adrian Fenty, is lobbying on behalf of Lansing for the tax break. In a statement, Lopez calls the project “a win-win for all parties involved.”

The dizzying connections are enough to make one’s head spin—not unlike the official name of the Freemasons’ group: “The Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commanders of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America.” Inhale!

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SAVAGELOVE I am a 22-year-old Italian man, 100 percent straight, sensitive and sporty. I have been reading Savage Love for years in Internazionale. I have one question for you: Why do I always fall in love with lesbians? Why do I instantly fall in love with girls who have that something more in their eyes?

Something melancholy and perhaps insecure? Girls whom I’d rather protect and embrace than take to bed? The last three girls who fit this description all turned out to be lesbians. The last girl with whom this happened told me it was my “Red Cross” mindset that made me fall in love with girls who are insecure/sad/melancholy, so I have a sort of selection bias that excludes most straight girls I meet. I do not believe this, because the world is full of straight girls who need saving. So why then, Dan? WHY? I have a girlfriend. I truly love her. Since September, we have been living in two different cities because she went away to study. I am afraid that one day she is going to tell me that she’s gay, too. She always talks with me about a new super-cute female friend. Is she a lesbian? I have recently met another girl, super empathetic. She is gay, and I knew it after an all-night conversation in my car listening to Cigarettes After Sex. Why do I always fall in love with gay girls? Can I love two people at the same time? This is the fourth time that this has happened. Is my girlfriend gay? Why do I find lesbians so attractive? I’m freaking.

—Increasingly Tormented About Lesbian Yearnings

There’s a lot going on in your letter, ITALY, so I’m going to take your questions one at a time.

1. Maybe you always fall in love with lesbians or maybe this was a series of coincidences—by pure chance you fell for more than one woman who turned out to be a lesbian—and, hey, since you’re probably going to love a few more women over the course of your life, ITALY, that “always” seems a bit premature. It’s also possible you find women with a certain degree of masculine energy and/or swagger attractive, and women with that swagger are somewhat likelier to be lesbians, slightly upping your chances of falling in love with four girls who turned out to be lesbians in a row.

Personally, ITALY, I’m attracted to guys with a certain degree of feminine swagger and, needless to say, these guys are likelier to be gay. But while almost all effeminate guys are gay—so stigmatized is femininity in males (even in the gay community)—masculine swagger in women is less stigmatized and therefore somewhat less likely to correlate as strongly with lesbianism. Women with masculine swagger and men with feminine swagger are also likely to be selfconscious about their gender-nonconforming traits, particularly when they’re young and/or not yet out, and that can read as melancholy and/or insecurity.

2. Women—straight or bi or lesbian—don’t

need “saving.” They need respect, they need to be taken seriously, they need bodily autonomy, and they need loving partners and political allies.

3. Your girlfriend may be a lesbian—anyone could in these highly fluid days, even me. But if your girlfriend isn’t straight, ITALY, she’s likelier to be bisexual, seeing as there are roughly three times as many bi women as there are lesbian women. And if she seems gayer now than when you met, that could be because you landed a straight girl who had been suppressing her masculine swagger—which many men don’t find attractive—and she’s consciously or subconsciously come to the realization that she doesn’t have to play the girly girl around you to hold your attention. Quite the opposite, in fact.

You could tell your boyfriend you made a joint appointment with a photographer because you thought you should both have Sears-Portrait-Studio-quality-or-better dick pics to share with your prospective hookups.

4. It’s entirely possible to love more than one person at a time. Just as we are capable of loving more than one parent, child, sibling, friend, and television show at a time (you know I love you both equally, Lady Dynamite and The Crown), we can love more than one romantic partner at a time. But we’re told that romantic love is a zero-sum game so often—if someone wins, someone else loses—it has become a self-fulfilling/relationship-destroying prophecy. It’s a myth that harms not just people who might want to be with two people, but partnered monogamous people as well. A person who is convinced he can feel romantic love for only one person at a time will doubt his love for a long-term partner if he develops a crush on someone new. He’ll say to himself, “I couldn’t possibly feel this way about this barista if I was still in love with my partner of 10 years.” But those feelings can exist side by side—stable, secure, lasting love for a long-term partner and an intense infatuation (most likely fleeting) for a new person.

5. Cigarettes After Sex were on a boat in the Arabian Sea—they sent the pics to prove it— when I reached them about your dilemma.

Drummer Jacob Tomsky said: “About loving more than one person at the same time, a Gabriel García Márquez quote from Love in the Time of Cholera comes to mind: ‘My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.’ Your heart will surprise you with its duplicity.” Or its capacity. Keyboardist Phillip Tubbs wanted to share a Steven Morrissey line with you:

“’Cause I want the one I can’t have and it’s driving me mad.” Lead singer Greg Gonzalez declined to comment.

6. Maybe it’s not an accident that you keep falling for lesbians. There are lots of straight men out there who have a thing for dykes. It’s entirely possible that you aren’t worried your girlfriend is a lesbian, ITALY, but secretly hoping she is. Good luck!

—Dan Savage My boyfriend and I have been together for five years. We have had an open relationship from fairly early on, but it’s only in the last six months that he’s started using various gentlemen’s apps for meeting new guys. We don’t share apps or have threesomes; our dalliances are solo affairs and that works for us. I snuck a look at his phone and I was horrified—the dick pics he’s sharing are terrible. Poorly lit and with bad angles, they completely do not do justice to his cock. His face pics are great, but I really feel like he’s underselling what else he has to offer.

How can I help him take better junk shots without revealing that I’ve been looking at his phone?

—Doesn’t Instinctively Capture Photographic Instant Classics, Sadly You could tell your boyfriend you made a joint appointment with a photographer—perhaps as a Hanukkah/Solstice/Christmas/Kwanzaa/ Ramadan present—because you thought you should both have Sears Portrait Studio-quality-or-better dick pics to share with your prospective hookups, DICPICS, or you could let your boyfriend’s hookups be pleasantly surprised when your boyfriend drops his drawers.

—DS Are you really whining about having a president you don’t like in office? Is that so terrible that you have to get little digs in every week? That’s the problem with you liberals— you’re a bunch of wimps. Man up, dude.

—Make America Strong Again Gee, I don’t recall any whining from you rightwing he-men back when a black guy who didn’t collude with a hostile foreign power and wasn’t poisoning our air and water and didn’t undermine our democratic norms and wasn’t surrounded by a cadre of deeply corrupt sycophants was president—you guys were so stoic during the Obama years, so he-manly. You ova’d up, you didn’t whine or moan, you didn’t spread wild conspiracy theories or march on Washington waving signs that proved you were every bit as misinformed as you are illiterate. (Wake up, dude.)

—DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net. washingtoncitypaper.com december 22, 2017 9

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PhOTOgraPhs By DarrOW MOnTgOMery In a year of newfound national chaos, City Paper’s photographer of 31 years offers a view of D.C. that transcends the moment. Darrow Montgomery captured the days when all eyes were on the District. On January 20th smoke billowed after protesters lit a limousine on fire. The next day millions came for the Women’s March on Washington, and many more marches followed. But when the nation wasn’t looking, Montgomery witnessed the kinds of things that are too humble to make the news, yet more extraordinary: a young woman posing for her quinceañera on the grounds of the Jefferson Memorial; a storefront with a hand-painted phone number on its glass; a man who left his office midday to see the solar eclipse, smiling at the sky.

—Alexa Mills

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D.C.’s hottest restaurant design duo set and anticipate trends that go far beyond looks.

Lauren Winter and Brian Miller

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When you step into the Brookland wine bar Primrose, the space feels lived in. The walls look like they’ve seen hundreds of coats of paint, vases of dried flowers feel like reminders of anniversaries and apologies past, and mirrors covered in patches of patina don’t quite depict accurate reflections. But it’s all a magic trick at the behest of co-owner and designer Lauren Winter. The Paris-inspired spot from Winter and her husband, Sebastian Zutant, only opened at the end of November.

Winter and Brian Miller founded Edit Lab, a hospitality industry focused design agency, in 2008. The trendsetting duo first met more than 20 years ago while attending the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2012, they joined forces with the design and strategy firm Streetsense to form Edit Lab at Streetsense, where they now lead a team of nine.

You’ve seen their work at Tail Up Goat, Whaley’s, and Daikaya. Their projects also include many of the restaurants in Blagden Alley—The Dabney, Calico, Tiger Fork, and Columbia Room—and Bloomingdale fixtures like The Red Hen and Boundary Stone.

The Edit Lab team doesn’t just configure designer furniture and scout vintage accent pieces; they mold the look of entire neighborhoods. “We know these neighborhoods are developing, so our goal is to see how we can shape the changes, steer it in a good direction,” Miller says. The group can quickly assess what a neighborhood has too much of and what a neighborhood lacks.

Miller is the lead on one of Edit Lab’s latest projects, Little Sesame. As City Paper reported in July, the owners of the hummus shop beneath DGS Delicatessen want to grow their brand. In preparation for opening additional locations, partners Nick Wiseman and Ronen Tenne traveled to Israel this summer.

Miller tagged along as he often does when a project draws the lion’s share of its inspiration from a specific place.

“We went around to the old markets in different cities seeing these amazing businesses and

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the community around hummus shops,” Miller says. He learned about hummus culture, history, and how the shops operate. “Now it’s our job to figure out how to capture some of that.”

On a research trip like this Miller snaps about 500 photos per day. Storefronts, food, plates, plants, signage, tile, and lighting are fair game.

“From that, generally we’ll get a set of a couple hundred photos that are important ‘touch points’ to look at,” he says. “Obviously it’s not going to feel like old world Jaffa or something in there, but it has to evoke a number of things that we saw.”

When it comes time to design, Edit Lab considers everything from directing how diners move through the restaurant to how chefs cook and plate the food. “We’re shepherding the whole atmosphere of a space even though we’re only designing a part of it,” Miller says. This level of research yields restaurants that look unlike others. Winter and Miller’s concepts go beyond reclaimed wood, murals, and Edison bulbs.

When almost every restaurant was screwing in Edison bulbs over the past five years, Winter and Miller thought of alternative ways to create a similar effect as the antique filament lights that were popular at the turn of the 20th century. “Things become trends when they’re used at a very successful place and if they can be done for little cost,” Miller explains.

“With Edison bulbs, I think what people like is

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that warm lighting quality. So how do we bring that to a space? How do spaces really glow and have that fire-like, candlelight quality?” Winter softened the lighting at Primrose with chandeliers shrouded in tan ostrich feathers.

Edit Lab’s holistic design strategy positions Miller and Winter to think like restaurateurs and comment on dining trends just as easily as design trends. They can sniff out patterns and identify the forces shaping the District’s dining scene.

For example, the importance of a restaurant’s bar—it’s no longer just a holding pen for diners waiting for tables. “Everyone wants to sit at the bar,” Winter says. “At Primrose, the first couple of nights everyone was at the bar and not at the tables.” Customers often probe a new restaurant by dining at the bar, according to Miller, so it’s critical that bar professionals make a good impression.

The bar remains important despite its uneconomical use of space. “The square footage per person takes up way more space than square footage at a table,” Winter says. “But you make more money typically at the bar because alcohol generates more money.” Even a restaurant that positions tables close together (or, as Winter calls it, “Brooklyn-style”) will devote ample space to the bar because it can be the heart of the operation, dispersing energy into the dining room.

Miller and Winter predict open kitchens will continue to direct how restaurants are designed, but that their look will change. Staring at chefs surrounded by stainless steel equipment will start to feel stale when compared to the open kitchens at places like The Dabney and Maydan that feature live fires. “It feels much more welcoming,” Miller says. “People want to feel that much more visceral, direct connection to what’s being cooked.”

Restaurants today also need to be more nimble. “The economic reality is now people are trying to do more than one thing, so that ends up being important to design in,” Miller says.

With rising rent prices and increased competition, owners are looking to maximize their space. That’s why you see a rise in businesses that operate as cafes during the day and cocktail bars at night, like The Royal and Aaron Silverman’s Little Pearl.

“We’re going to see a lot more restaurantbar hybrids,” Miller says. “They’ll serve full meals, but also work as bars. [The] Fainting Goat set a good precedent there.” Another Edit Lab client, Tiger Fork, is a place you can come for a solo drink, bring a group for dinner, or visit late at night.

Going forward Edit Lab will expand its portfolio beyond restaurant clients for several reasons. The brand new restaurant boom is slowing down, according to Winter, and they’re intrigued by other public-facing projects. Recently, they tackled the interior design of The Apollo, a stylish apartment building on H Street NE. But there also may not be that many restaurant clients positioned to hire a top-tier design firm, especially if they only require a lipstick renovation. “You’re going to see a lot more places take over existing places just because we’re starting to get to a point where we have so many restaurants built out that they’re going to start to go through shorter life cycles,” Miller says.

He points to Bresca on 14th Street NW. It opened swiftly after taking over the first floor of Policy Lounge.

“A lot of places will fail, but sort of like a brushfire, it will create a lot of opportunity for new growth in independent restaurants,” Miller says.

Winter adds that the most intriguing bars and restaurants will open in offbeat locations instead of in big developments or on prime streets.

Her one concern is that customers may be too tough on places that don’t have the funds to make their spaces gorgeous. “I hope the community embraces them and tries them instead of saying, ‘It doesn’t look great.’ In the end, it’s about the food.”

Plus, Miller adds, “We don’t think design is the most important thing despite the fact that it’s what we do.”

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Let’s Talk About Sex

In the era of #MeToo, conversations about sex are more important than ever.

It’s a stIcky summer day in July and a heterosexual couple in their mid-40s, married for 22 years with two small children, is playing with tiny, colorful blocks at Rhizome in Takoma. Each creates independently for a few minutes, and then shares their work.

The woman displays a sheet of white paper covered in different colored blocks, each hue representing an action item: “picked up kids” in blue. Then, “vacuumed floors” in green.

Above that, “mowed lawn” in orange. Represented in pink, atop all the tasks: “extremely hot sex.”

She titled the graph “Choreplay.”

“It’s mental for me,” the woman says. If her husband has done the chores, she feels “like he cares about me, and our house, and our relationship. Like he’s invested.”

Her husband considers this for a beat. “I had no idea.”

She practically shouts, “Oh my god, really?”

He smiles. “I’ve got to start making a chore list.”

Their task was part of creator Jennifer Beman’s Graphic Sex Project, which encourages participants to self-report “data” about their sex lives to create graphs—small art pieces, really— that can act as conversation starters or tools for self-reflection.

Beman is one of a handful of Washingtonians encouraging people to do something that so often can prove daunting: just talk about it. Now, when women in particular are speaking up about rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, these locals are fostering open dialogue about sex, sexuality, and relationships in an attempt to normalize and destigmatize talking about sex at all. If we can speak frankly about sex and partner relationships, we can better push back against abuse.

Katrina L. Pariera, assistant professor of communication and sociology at George Washington University, is going on her third semester teaching her self-created class, “Sexual Communication.” In this #MeToo moment, Pariera considers the consequences of no conversation: “When we don’t talk about sex, we create a space for shame, misinformation, stereotypes, and all of these things that can further perpetuate rape culture and abuse of all different kinds,” she says.

These local discussion groups aren’t at all formal therapy sessions, their hosts say, but the goal might be described as therapy-lite: Arm people with the ability, and the permission, to talk about their bodies and hearts.

Rebecca Hassell, a professional chef and entrepreneur, hosts a monthly discussion group called Women Uncorked at The Lemon Collective in Park View. Inspired (with permission)

by Beman’s original Women Uncorked group gathering at Rhizome, which Beman still hosts, Hassell brings together small groups of anyone who identifies as female over homemade sangria, snacks, and a discussion topic. Staying on-message is hardly mandatory, but a recent starting point was pubic hair.

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During the chat one attendee says, with some anxiety, that she just wants to know what other people do. Turns out, all manner of things; a myriad of styles of pubage are apparently en vogue. One point, though, seems clear: Many are preoccupied with what their partners or potential partners, mostly men, prefer.

With all Uncorked topics, Hassell’s mantra is, “You are OK,” and “Everything is normal.”

Each Uncorked begins with a proclamation that she’s not a professional, just a guide. Medical concerns, or issues a licensed therapist might take on, are outside her purview.

Uncorked is typically a group-led discussion of “What do I do?” type questions. The answers are like an advice cocktail of “here’s what I’ve done” and “maybe you should try/read/ say this.”

Participants may ask one another how to handle mismatched libidos, or what dating app to use, or where to start when investing in sex toys. Most people are strangers, which Hassell says actually allows for more freedom than a typical debrief with pals. Many Uncorkers leave with a bond and a sigh of relief.

Hassell wants to expand the conversation among men, and is working on getting a second discussion group going. When it comes to an Uncorked-style kickback for guys (which she wants to call Men On Tap), she says, “I am confident that there is a need for this kind of group. I am not confident there is a demand.”

Pariera similarly sees a need for men to be involved in these conversations. The first time she taught her Sexual Communication class, it was all women; the second semester, it was about a third men. She says it was kind of surprising to have no

men in the class at first. Conversations about sex, she says, can tend to be about women’s sexuality in an “embrace your sexuality, explore your fantasies” way.

“I think it stems from the idea that we see male sexuality as this unidimensional force, like men are just hypersexual all the time but women’s sexuality is this complicated thing, or [the perception is] that women are more repressed,” Pariera says.

In her class, she says the male students seem just as eager to “look at how we talk about sex.”

If Hassell’s men’s group gets going, she muses the first topic might be, “What was your sex education like?” to ease into discussion with a not-so-deeply personal question. But, she says, she wants men to let themselves be vulnerable and have the courage to discuss and ask questions about sex, as the women in her groups do.

“I would love to create a place where people can take off the mask,” she says, “if only for a little bit.”

H. alejaIbRa badu and Ashley Stafford are bringing discussions of sex and relationships to Anacostia with their group “Black Love WDC.” Black love, Badu says, is unique.

“Going to work as a black person, to interacting in regular society as a black person, when you add those stressors and triggers to the dynamics of a black relationship … we’re in them trying to figure it out,” he says.

Part of what Badu calls decoding “some of the mysticism when it comes to black love, dating, and relationships” is gathering people at The Madison House in Anacostia, which he founded, to watch the Oprah Winfrey Network documentary series Black Love. He credits co-moderator Stafford with washingtoncitypaper.com december 22, 2017 17

CPArts the idea. On Oct. 6, a group of about 20 singles and couples met for the first time to view and discuss the show, which premiered in late August. They continued to meet on subsequent Fridays.

The show’s first episode was OWN’s most-watched unscripted series debut in its history. It will return for a second season next year, featuring interviews with Tina Knowles Lawson, Rev. Run, and Sterling K. Brown.

Pride is a big point to consider in black relationships and love, Badu says. “Loving yourself as a black person, to actually want to fight and stand up for black love” is critical.

At Black Love WDC, co-moderators Badu and Stafford employ an “anonymous box” to allow attendees to field questions without any hangups. Some of the questions that came up on that first Friday tackled monogamy and polyamory. Someone asked plainly, “What constitutes a relationship?”

“We’re not always comfortable expressing things,” Badu says. In some black households, “the freedom to express oneself openly wasn’t always a factor. … We don’t talk, we hold things back.”

The first meeting, Badu says, seemed to offer people a chance to step toward understanding, or a platform to speak. It was, he says, “an entry point for clarity.”

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In her classroom, she seeks to normalize not only talking about sex in general, but the dark side of sexuality. Our culture, she says, is pretty good at joking about sex, but not so great at talking about important and difficult things.

That’s changing, though. The Silence Breakers are on the cover of Time. Powerful abusers’ careers are punted into the garbage heap with each passing day.

And while Pariera says talking about sex is, in general, good, we must remember that communication isn’t a cure-all. Talking about both the lighter and darker sides of sex and sexuality is crucial—and she stresses it being OK if a person doesn’t want to talk—but we have to go further.

“We have to also listen to people and, as a default, trust them when they say something is wrong,” she says. “And we have to minimize the repercussions for coming forward.”

Beman, for her part, repeatedly describes her colorful blocks project as “non-threatening.” She likens the experience to playing with toys. “If sex was more playful, if all of us were free to think about sex in a more playful way, that would be awesome,” she says.

Step one of the project: Consider your “typical sexual encounter.” Step two: Grab a handful of one-centimeter colorful blocks, and assign each color a part of your encounter, e.g., “foreplay,” “intercourse,” “cuddling.” Step three: Create a timeline of said encounter using blocks on a blank piece of paper. Step four (optional): Take a photograph, which would

be added to Beman’s collection.

Some graphs are from her Women Uncorked events, many are from Beman’s run at Artomatic this spring, and some are from local raves. “Everyone interprets the instructions so differently, everyone’s idea of what a graph is is so different,” Beman says. It’s not exact “data,” but more an artful, personal reflection of our perceptions of sex.

Many graphs have “oral” or “fingering” blocks. Several include multiple orgasms. A blue block on one male graph, immediately following “talking/laughing/brain stimulation” represents “consent.” Some aren’t even “graphs” at all, just a pile of many colors. One is shaped like a dinosaur.

One of Beman’s takeaways since beginning the project is that people’s definition of a “sexual episode” is quite broad: “Some of them start right at groping, but some of them start with the morning coffee.”

But the real draw for folks is to think about their own sexuality or reveal surprises, as the “Choreplay” duo did. Some people realize that they’re not getting the right quantity of something they like, or they’re feeling something good, but would like it at a different place in the story arc.

Now that she’s seen the “therapeutic aspect” to making the graphs, she’s expanded into bringing them to couples’ workshops she’s run, and is working to make the website interactive so visitors can create graphs online. She says the graphs help people see the answers to “What do [other] people do?” And so she wants them to realize: “You are fine, you are good, you are right, and you are normal.”

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Directed by Steven Spielberg Burdened By purpose and slipping on its own partisanship, Steven Spielberg’s The Post is the perfect capper to this year in which every piece of pop art felt like it was about Donald Trump. The film, about The Washington Post’s risky decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971, makes few explicit references to our current era, but it doesn’t need to. It’s about two political topics—women in the workplace and the corporatization of the news business—that are bound only by their relevance to contemporary politics. It’s not really a film. It’s the first and most expensive campaign ad for 2018.

Even the presence of Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, whose consistently thoughtful work can bring the flimsiest of stories into three dimensions, begs a political subtext. Streep dipped into the culture wars with her anti-flyover state Golden Globes speech earlier this year and Hanks has often been mentioned as a potential Democratic nominee.

Streep pushes through her politicization in a sharply observed portrayal of Katharine Graham who, when the film begins, has recently taken over ownership of the Post after the death of her husband. Set against a backdrop of white men in suits who want her removed, she evokes the caged nervousness of a woman beset on all sides by enemies—see the way she fumbles with her glasses when stressed—but eventually, when crisis arrives, the strength and decency of Wonder Woman.

Her moment of reckoning comes when editor-in-chief Ben Bradlee (Hanks) gets his hands on a study showing the government knows it is losing the Vietnam War and lying to the public about it. Gruff and avuncular, Hanks’s Bradlee is a caricature of journalistic integrity, so publishing the papers is a no-brainer to him, even after the White House calls to let him know they consider it treason. Complicating matters further is that this is the very week the Post has decided

to go public, and investors may be scared off by the legal challenge, putting the paper’s very existence in jeopardy, and setting up Graham for a consequential decision. Does she publish the truth and suffer the financial consequences, or pull it back and become fake news?

The screenplay by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer stages a meaningful debate between treating journalism as a business versus a public service, but it’s not a fair fight when the antagonist is a misogynistic board member played with top-notch sleaze by Bradley Whitford (evoking Billy Madison more than The West Wing) and when Spielberg’s depictions of the newsroom are dripping with reverence. He glorifies the newspaper lifer with bags under his eyes from sleeping in the newsroom, shooting him from a low angle to emphasize his heroism, and he fetishizes the printing press, which, once started, speeds through the frame like an unstoppable force for good.

There is nothing wrong with romanticizing the news business (says a guy writing in a newspaper to a person reading one), but reverence is less effective than examination. Look at its determined championing of gender equality, which Spielberg approaches not with nuance but simplistic feminist iconography. The moment when Graham, while walking down the steps of the Supreme Court, bifurcates a crowd of young female hippies gazing up at her with adoration (one even raises a small fist in solidarity) is fit for pop-up history books, not a feature film by one of cinema’s greatest masters.

Pop-up books are destined to be forgotten as the reader grows up, and that’s likely the same fate that will befall The Post. It’s the film of our moment, but moments are fleeting. A historical film can tell you more about the era it was created in than the one it depicts, but those parallels are supposed to sneak up on you, so that once you are engrossed in the story, you discover for yourself how little has changed and what we might do about it.

As it stands, The Post is so aspirational that it left me disengaged, for if the battle they won was so decisive, why is it still so relevant?

—Noah Gittell The Post opens Friday at AMC Loews Georgetown, AMC Tysons Corner, and Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

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Folger elizABethAn theAtre 201 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 544-7077. Folger Consort: Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming. 4 p.m.; 8 p.m. $50. folger.edu.

FuNk & R&B BethesdA Blues & JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Soul Crackers. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Freddie Jackson. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

HOlIDAY Folger elizABethAn theAtre 201 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 544-7077. Seasonal Early Music of Germany.

4 p.m. $50. folger.edu.

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Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joe Herrera & Rodney Richardson’s “Holiday Party”. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $37. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy center concert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington: Christmas with Choral Arts. 1 p.m. $15–$69. kennedy-center.org.

JAzz Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joe Herrera & Rodney Richardson’s “Holiday

ACTION BRONSON

At this point, Action Bronson is probably better known as a Viceland television personality than as a musician. As the host of Fuck, That’s Delicious, his take on an Anthony Bourdainstyle food and travel show, and late night cooking show The Untitled Action Bronson Show, he’s made fans out of everyone from Jonah Hill to Harrison Ford. But the big-bearded, big-bellied Queens rapper stays as busy in the booth as he does on TV. Bronson has spent years dropping evocative, detail-and-joke-heavy rhymes with a voice that can be nasal, gravelly, or melodic over throwback beats built from dusty samples. That continues on Blue Chips 7000, his latest collection of perpetually stoned retro rap. But this time around, his boasts—“Fuck, That's Delicious on box set. Me and my mans smokin' on big drugs and feasting on the ox leg”—aren’t hip-hop fantasy, they’re real life. Action Bronson performs at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $29.50. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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ROCk the hAmilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Live at the Fillmore: Allman Brothers Band Tribute. 7:30 p.m. $15–$23. thehamiltondc.com.

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Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $47–$52. bluesalley.com.

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NeXT uP II

“One eye sees, the other feels,” a quote from the German expressionist artist Paul Klee, is the guiding mantra for the D.C.-based artist collective OTHERFEELS. And one thing is for sure—from sensual bedroom R&B to intricate symphonies to energetic indie rock— there is no shortage of emotions in D.C.’s multifarious music scene. With their finger on the pulse of the underground, the OTHERFEELS crew recently launched a musical event series called Next Up, which propels the District’s more peripheral artists into the spotlight.

This second showcase includes afrofuturistic R&B from Echelon the Seeker, a one-woman symphony from OG Lullabies, feel-good psychedelic R&B from FootsXColes, ethereal soundscapes from Flash Frequency, a breezy groove between indie rock and electronica from Redline Graffiti, and soulful serenades from Dreamcast. Expect to feel it all. Next Up II begins at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $15. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

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the BooK oF Will After the Bard’s tragic death, two of his devoted actors decide to assemble the First Folio to ensure their mentor’s words reach the masses. Playwright Lauren Gunderson, who last presented Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at Round House, returns to present this tale of friendship just in time for the holidays. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Dec. 24. $36–$65. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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Cissa Paz. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

An AmericAn in PAris The stage adaptation of the classic musical about a former soldier who falls in love with Paris and an attractive Parisian woman while making his way as an artist comes to the Kennedy Center for the first time. Featuring classic Gershwin tunes like “Stairway to Paradise” and “S Wonderful,” this production is directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 7. $92–$122. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Annie The family-favorite musical about a redhaired orphan and the rich businessman she charms fills Olney’s mainstage during the holiday season.

Featuring favorite songs like “Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” this production is directed by Jason King Jones. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-San-

christmAs At the old Bull & Bush Enjoy classic British carols and drinking songs in this holiday show set in a London pub. As the characters enjoy mince pies and sausage rolls, they perform sketches and share stories related to the Christmas season.

MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Dec. 24. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

A christmAs cArol Veteran local actor Craig Wallace takes on the role of Scrooge in this popular musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ tale about kindness and holiday cheer. Celebrating more than 35 years as a Ford’s holiday tradition, Michael Wilson’s adaptation is directed by Michael Baron. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Dec. 31. $22–$92. (202) 3474833. fords.org.

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TOMB OF CHRIST

For centuries, historians have debated the existence of Jesus of Nazareth almost as fervently as followers of Christianity debate his teachings. One of the most hotly contested aspects of the debate concerns the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is said to be both the site of Christ’s crucifixion and tomb. The National Geographic Museum’s new immersive and interactive exhibit, Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience, does not assert a position in that debate, although it does offer evidence in support of the believers. This exhibit offers unprecedented remote access to one of the most revered heritage sites in the world, using virtual reality, 3-D modeling, and video. Curators have recreated the church in downtown D.C. and chronicle the recent restoration efforts. It’s a fascinating examination of how history is made and how it is preserved, representing an inspiring collaboration of fact and faith, of science and religion, and of the attempt to pull closer to God. The exhibition is on view daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., to August 15, 2018, at the National Geographic Museum, 1145 17th St. NW. $10–$15. (202) 857-7700. nationalgeographic.org/dc.

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crAzy For you The songs of George and Ira Gershwin are reimagined by playwright Ken Ludwig in this musical about a banker, assigned to shut down a small-town theater, who decides to revive it instead.

Featuring favorite songs like “I’ve Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me,” this musical, arriving at Signature in time for the holidays, is directed by Matthew Gardiner. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 14. $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. curve oF dePArture As family members come together for a funeral, they meet in a New Mexico hotel to discuss their futures and what they owe each other. Mike Donahue directs this story about relationships and the ways we learn from each other. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Jan. 7. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. drAW the circle When a man announces his gender transition to his conservative Muslim family, he’s forced to figure out what kind of life he wants to live and what it means to be loved unconditionally. Performed in repertory with The Real Americans. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Dec. 24. $20–$65. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

An irish cArol Keegan Theatre’s annual holiday tradition continues with its presentation of this Christmas Carol adaptation set in a Dublin pub. When its owner loses touch with humanity, a series of ghosts visit to remind him about the important things in life. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Dec. 31. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. the lAst night oF BAllyhoo The year is 1939 and Atlanta’s posh German Jews are preparing for Ballyhoo, their annual lavish country club ball. The Freitag family hopes that the party of the year will be the chance for their daughters to meet their future husbands—but when their uncle brings home his new employee, a handsome Eastern European bachelor from Brooklyn, everyone must confront their own prejudices, desires, and beliefs. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo is an achingly beautiful, comedic, and enthralling romance by the writer of Driving Miss Daisy. Directed by Amber McGinnis. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Dec. 31. $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. ninA simone: Four Women The civil rights anthems of jazz and soul vocalist Nina Simone come to life in this play that follows the artist’s reactions to the tumultuous events of the 1960s. Through songs

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This year has been tough. Seriously, 2017 has come to scalp everyone bald. No one knows what 2018 will bring, and I shudder to think about it, but hey, guess what? It’s Christmas! There’s a host of great holiday jams to play and movies to watch that’ll help you engage in a little escapism this season. Pop in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (the best Home Alone movie, and if you don’t think so, you’re lying to yourself) for some of Kevin McCallister’s signature brand of holiday mayhem. Or maybe you’re into that stop-motion cutie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Who can’t identify with those misfit toys and that abominable snowman?

You could watch A Christmas Carol and pray that Scrooge’s journey from vapid, money-obsessed psycho who ruins working people’s lives to kind and caring grandfather figure translates to real life. Or you could watch It’s A Wonderful Life, the story about how we are loved, how life is always worth living, no matter how harsh the trying moments. It gets me every time. So, whatever you celebrate, if it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or nothing at all, I hope you feel loved this winter. If not, just know that I love you, D.C. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. —Kayla Randall

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Like any great pianist, Cyrus Chestnut has both an armory full of technique and a savvy ear for when and how to deploy it. He’s equally at ease with fast or slow, hard or soft, waltz or swing, blues or gospel (his first love). In addition, he can’t escape his own lyricism. He may just be riffing, or holding down the groove while someone else does a solo, but he can’t help spinning them into something solidly constructed, pretty, and luminous. “Luminous” is a key word for Chestnut. In every situation, he finds the notes that seem to light up a darkened room and joins them together with the intricacy and skill of a medieval craftsman. Though he excels in any context, he’s at his best when at the head of a sympathetic piano trio (like the one he leads with bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Chris Beck), where he’ll thaw the frostiest night. Cyrus Chestnut performs at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $30. (202) 337-4141. bluesalley.com.

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18 Record collector’s curio 20 Middle East statesman Anwar 21 Improves 22 Sea shell seller 24 Giggly Muppet 25 Extremely disinterested 30 Central Park force 34 Letters in many Protestant church names 35 Alternative reader name 36 Horrible 37 Romania’s currency 38 Christmas figure whose prominent feature appears four times in this puzzle 42 Drummer’s setup 43 “Kids� band

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45 Protagonist of the YA book “Hush, Hush�

46 ___Rap (Lil’ Peep’s genre) 47 Brownie’s decorative band 48 2004 curse breakers 51 Badder than bad 53 Prohibition repealer 54 Tacked on 58 Wall-climbing plants 62 Event with a caller 63 Franco’s five 64 Out of one’s gourd 65 Prelude to a recount 66 ___Bell (Anne BrontÍ’s pseudonym) 67 “___Christmasâ€? (classic holiday song) 68 Bela Lugosi’s role in Son of Frankenstein 69 Buttercup kin

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11 Pennsylvania lake 12 Far From You author Sharpe 13 Egg holder 19 Albuquerque sch.

23 Accusatory phrase 25 Lip applications 26 Watch name 27 Biting midges 28 Conclusion 29 Near-eternities 31 “That can’t be good!�

32 Simply the best 33 Dry out 39 Sodom escapee 40 Tenure holder, for short 41 Golf’s equalizer 44 Time traveler’s destination 48 Using only 1s and 0s 49 Racetrack has-been 50 Dead zone message 52 Having veins 54 Shade similar to electric blue 55 Sets (down) 56 Danish shoe brand 57 Animal with hoofs 59 Digging a lot 60 Milton Friedman’s subj.

61 Call Me By Your Name studio 62 Colin Jost’s show

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