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COVER STORY: 2019

12 View the year through the lens of longtime City Paper staff photographer Darrow Montgomery.

DISTRICT LINE 4 The Year in Local News: We fought for go-go, cheered for our champions, and mourned for those lost too soon.

6 The Year in Local Politics: The mayor took on the arts commission and Jack Evans’ misdeeds got him in big trouble.

8 Loose Lips: Did Evans leave the grill of his car on the side of the road?

SPORTS 10 The Year in Sports: D.C. teams brought home two more championship trophies and some guy named Bryce moved to Philadelphia.

FOOD 20 The Year in Food: Greater representation and diversity made D.C. dining even better in 2019.

ARTS 22 The Year in Arts: The exhibitions, plays, musicals, and music that excited the city this year 24 Galleries: Rudig on Judy Chicago— The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction at the National Museum of Women in the Arts 25 Sketches: Sarappo on Portraits of the World: Denmark at the National Portrait Gallery 26 Speed Reads: Ottenberg on KK Ottesen’s Activist: Portraits of Courage 26 Short Subjects: Zilberman on Uncut Gems

CITY LIST 29 Music 32 Theater 33 Film

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The Year In Local News

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2019 was a year of a lot of firsts and finallys.

Matthew Sampson (left) and Rudi Riet with a ghost bike for Dave Salovesh

By Amanda Michelle Gomez The DisTricT is closing the year with a lot to brag about.

We became a winning sports town thanks to the Mystics and Nationals following up on the Capitals’ accomplishment last year, and Congress held its first hearing on D.C. statehood in more than 20 years.

Unfortunately, not every record-breaking highlight gave us something to be proud of. This year’s homicide count passed last’s, hate crimes are on track to do the same, and 12 members of the Council voted to recommend expelling its longest-serving member, Ward 2’s Jack Evans.

(To be clear, plenty of residents want Evans off the Council and are pleased lawmakers are taking steps to remove him from office.)

There were also many moments of solidarity, from residents gathering at 14th and U

streets NW to celebrate go-go at Moechella to residents uniting online to bash national media for misrepresenting local D.C. Before we say hello to a new decade, let’s look back at D.C. news in 2019: Jan. 25: The federal government reopens after a 35-day shutdown, with no new money for Trump’s border wall included in the plan.

Feb. 28: Bryce Harper skips town and agrees to a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.

March 13: News breaks that Wards 7 and 8 will finally get a 24/7 urgent care center.

March 15: Hundreds of local students stage a walkout to rally against gun violence. “I am tired of having to see how many kids die from violence every single day in this country,” said 16-year-old Jeniffer Guandique, a junior at Northwood High School in Silver Spring.

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(Young people also led demonstrations around climate change and immigration this year.)

March 16: Amazon announces it’s coming to Northern Virginia, thanks to a $23 million incentives package from Arlington County.

March 19: A report confirms what residents feel: D.C. is the most gentrified city in the country. According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, between 2000 and 2013, more than 20,000 African Americans were displaced from their neighborhoods by mostly affluent white people.

April 4: News breaks that the only hospital in Southeast will close its cancer center in 90 days.

April 6: D.C. finally creates a committee to address maternal deaths after the Council confirms committee members. The city has one of the highest maternal mortality rates countrywide: 36.1 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018.

April 19: Passionate bike advocate Dave Salovesh is killed by a motorist running a red light. In July, the driver pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

May 7: Moechella shows how far Washingtonians will go to defend their music, culture, and legacy. The musical rally, held at the corner of 14th and U streets NW, coincided with the #DontMuteDC movement, which began to push back against the erasure of go-go music after neighbors asked Shaw’s Metro PCS store to turn down the sound.

May 25: Dan Snyder marks the 20th anniversary of his ownership of the local NFL team. Fans are not cheering.

May 28: Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, is named as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He is the first African American person to hold the position in the Smithsonian’s 173-year history.

June 21: Federal agents raid Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ Georgetown home.

July 1: Restaurants and other eateries begin to enforce plastic straw bans in July, and the minimum wage increases from $13.25 to $14.00 per hour, as new laws kick in.

July 9: The D.C. Council awards Intralot a $215 million, no-bid contract to operate its lottery and establish its sports betting program after months of contentious debate and questions about Evans’ potential conflicts of interest with Intralot’s lobbyist.

July 18: Eleven-year-old Karon Brown is fatally shot—making him one of the youngest homicide victims in 2019.

July 23: A new citywide tenant union launches. “More and more minorities are being pushed away,” said Ronnie Jackson, Waterside Towers Resident Association president. “We need to be unionized because chunk by chunk, place by place, ward by ward, gentrification is taking over.”

Aug. 8: The Board of Ethics and Government Accountability hits Evans with a $20,000 fine for using Council resources to send business pitches seeking outside employment. Evans, according to the settlement, admits no wrongdoing.

Aug. 13: D.C. gets mopeds on top of everything else. And in 2020, D.C. is more than doubling the number of scooters on the street.

Aug. 21: Seth Hurwitz, co-owner of 9:30 Club and The Anthem, is arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution. (He later pleaded guilty to sexual solicitation and gets three years’ probation.)

Aug. 30: Mayor Muriel Bowser attempts to seize control of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ art collection. AG Karl Racine later says she can’t do that.

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Sept. 1: Selected pharmacies finally start dispensing life-saving overdose-reversing drug Naloxone.

Sept. 9: The Metropolitan Police Department finally releases detailed stop-and-frisk data, three years after the D.C. Council required it with the passage of the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (NEAR) Act. The data provided were only for one month, but show great racial disparity—70 percent of people stopped between July and August were black.

Sept. 12: Express, the free newspaper for commuters published weekdays by the Post, shuts down after a 16-year run. We lost a number of media companies based in D.C. this year, leaving many workers without jobs and security.

Sept. 19: The House of Representatives holds the first hearing on D.C. statehood since 1993.

And Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was more concerned about his staff ’s parking than enfranchising hundreds of thousands of residents.

Sept. 25: St. Elizabeths Hospital goes without running water due to evidence of dangerous bacteria in its water supply. The outage lasted for a month and we still don’t know why the water tested positive for bacteria.

Oct. 2: The Board of Ethics and Government Accountability neglected a whistleblower’s complaint for more than a year, a D.C. Auditor report reveals. To make matters worse, At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds outed the whistleblower during a public hearing.

Oct. 8: Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau introduces the Healthy Beverage Choices Act of 2019 with the support of the majority of her fellow councilmembers. It repeals the existing sales tax on sugary drinks and replaces it with an excise tax.

Oct. 10: The Washington Mystics win their first WNBA title with a victory over the Connecticut Sun at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Ward 8.

Oct. 12: For the first time in the District, Columbus Day is, instead, Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Oct. 16: Nearly two decades after snipers terrorized the D.C. region, killing 10 people and injuring three others, the Supreme Court considers whether Lee Malvo, who was a teenager at the time of the attacks, can challenge his prison sentences. He was initially sentenced to life without parole.

Oct. 22: The District breaks last year’s suspected hate crimes record of 204 total reports, reaching a new high.

Oct. 17: The Council holds an unprecedented hearing about decriminalizing sex work. It lasts 14 hours.

Oct. 30: The underdog Nationals, who had a .01 percent chance to win the World Series in May, defeat the Houston Astros in seven games to become World Series champs.

Nov. 4: The law firm hired by the Council to investigate Evans’ potential ethics violations related to his outside employment releases a 100-page report laying out more than 11 violations and failures to disclose personal financial interests.

Nov. 12: Federal prosecutors finally release a verdict in the Bijan Ghaisar case.

The Justice Depar tment says the U.S. Park Police officers that shot (nine times) and killed the unarmed driver after a minor fender bender will not be charged. “I’m trying to learn how to live with the grief, the permanent hole in my heart,” said Bijan’s father, James Ghaisar. “It is a nightmare every day.”

Nov. 12: Bye Bye, Bei Bei. The National Zoo’s beloved panda leaves for China.

Nov. 13: A slumlord finally pays up. In a settlement reached with the Office of the Attorney General, Bethesda-based landlord Sanford Capital agrees to return more than $1 million in rent to tenants.

Nov. 15: Bowser and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities come to an understanding about who has access to the city’s art collection—bringing an end, for now, to the tussle between the mayor and the commission.

Dec. 3: 12 D.C. councilmembers vote to recommend expelling Evans from the Council. The final vote is expected in January; if all goes according to plan, it will be the first time a sitting councilmember is expelled from the legislative body.

Dec. 12: The year ends without a final agreement for a new hospital expected to replace United Medical Center in Southeast. Negotiations have been going on since 2018, but the Bowser administration promises the Council will be able to review a proposal in “early 2020.”

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The Year in Local Politics Jack Evans’ unprecedented expulsion, a shady lottery contract, and federal prosecutors’ meddling in local legislation

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Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans

By Mitch Ryals LL is decLaring 2019 the Year of Jack Evans. The District’s longest serving lawmaker’s disgraceful exit from the D.C. Council appears imminent after a year in which his misdeeds came into full view. There’s certainly enough material on Evans to fill this entire column, but LL doesn’t want to deprive his readers of recaps of a mayoral tussle with the arts commission, federal prosecutors’ meddling in local legislation, and a botched whistleblower complaint.

Finally, Jack’s Off It’s been a helluva year for the Ward 2 councilmember. The once unofficial “vice mayor,” chair of the region’s public transportation authority, lord of the District’s tax and revenue legislation, and notorious parker now faces near-certain expulsion. Evans’ official actions on behalf of his private clients lost him the sup-

port of most of the city, a Washington Post poll shows. His Council colleagues seem to agree with their constituents.

Among the highlights from the Year of Jack: The U.S. Attorney’s Office served the Council and the mayor’s office with subpoenas in March seeking information on Evans’ private consulting clients. Federal agents raided Evans’ Georgetown home in June, right around the time he was caught fibbing to his colleagues and the public about the results of an investigation commissioned by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which found that he “knowingly” violated ethics rules.

D.C.’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability fined Evans $20,000 in August for enlisting his chief of staff to send business pitches on his behalf to legal and lobbying firms using government email addresses, a violation of the Council’s Code of Official Conduct.

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During this year’s historic statehood hearing in the House of Representatives, Republicans invoked Evans’ name in their argument to continue denying 700,000 tax-paying residents voting representation in Congress.

The most damning revelation came from the law firm hired by the D.C. Council, which concluded that since 2014 Evans repeatedly violated conflict of interest rules and failed to disclose his personal financial interests. All 12 of Evans colleagues relied on that investigation to push forward with recommending his expulsion.

Unless he resigns before the Council can act in mid-January, Evans will be the first lawmaker forced off the Council.

See Shell Company The lucrative contract to operate D.C.’s lottery and implement its new sports gambling program generated heated debates on the Council this year. The $215 million, no-bid

contract went to the Greek company Intralot, the DC Lottery’s current operator.

What several of the subcontractors working with Intralot lack in experience running a gaming operation, they make up for in political connections. The Post reported some of the subs include former campaign aides to Mayor Muriel Bowser, a cousin of Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, and a former DC State Board of Education official.

The bulk of the contract ($110 million) went to a firm headed by businessman Emmanuel Bailey. But, as the Post reported, Bailey’s company appears to have zero employees, raising questions about just how much actual work his company will do.

In August, At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman asked D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s office to investigate whether the contract complies with the law. Racine has yet to respond.

Whistleblown A whistleblower seeking to shed light on potential political favoritism in the award of a $16 million loan from the Housing Production Trust Fund went ignored for a year after initially filing their complaint.

The allegations only saw the light of day because the whistleblower contacted the Office of the D.C. Auditor, who picked up what the Office of Government Ethics dropped. The auditor’s investigation substantiated the complaint—that high-ranked projects lost out on trust fund dollars to lower ranked (and in one case the lowest ranked) proposals. One beneficiary was David Jannarone, a former development official in the D.C. government.

“Harm has been done,” Auditor Kathy Patterson said during a committee hearing in November. “We did not serve that employee well, and failure should have consequences.”

To make matters worse, At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds outed the whistleblower during a separate committee hearing.

She says it was an accident, but not everyone is convinced that’s the case.

War of Art Everything is cool in D.C.’s public arts world for now, but mark 2019 as the year Mayor Bowser decided she would die on art hill.

Starting in May, Bowser proposed converting millions in grant funds from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities into loans. That didn’t go over well with the arts community.

The mayor briefly cancelled the 34th Annual Mayor’s Art Awards, a long running program administered by the arts commission, before relaunching it under a new office she created this year, which some believe duplicates the commission’s role.

Herronor also briefly seized control of the arts commission’s collection of more

DISTRICTLINE PUZZLE than 3,000 artworks, and with her thirdever veto, rejected a Council bill clarifying the commission’s independence from the mayor’s office.

The Council easily dispensed with the mayor’s veto, and the D.C. Attorney General’s office issued a legal memo saying Bowser’s arts vault takeover was illegal.

But in November, arts commission board chair Kay Kendall and Bowser’s chief of staff, John Falcicchio, came to an agreement over who has access to the art vault. According to a memo, the mayor and the commission “shall endeavor to work cooperatively.�

Start a New Sentence D.C. is rethinking criminal sentences for youthful offenders, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office is not happy about it.

This summer, federal prosecutors began waging a campaign against the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA), which would give young people convicted of serious crimes, such as rape and murder, a shot at release. The current law allows offenders who committed their crimes before the age of 18 to ask a judge for a new sentence. The IRAA would expand the age limit to 25.

The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, has argued that the bill will let dangerous criminals loose and retraumatize victims. During a September meeting, federal prosecutors presented inaccurate information on D.C.’s incarceration rate to support their opposition.

Supporters of the law, and the U.S. Supreme Court, say decades-long sentences (and in many cases life sentences) for youthful offenders are too harsh. The bill has yet to come before the full Council for debate, but it has preliminary support from a majority of the members.

Allyship Down Some members of D.C.’s LGBTQ community felt snubbed during this year’s budget season. In a year when reports of suspected hate crimes are on the rise, but criminal prosecutions are sparse, the Council’s failure to appropriate funds for LGBTQ initiatives angered advocates and neighborhood-level elected officials.

In the wake of two high-profile deaths of transgender women of color, those elected officials, known as the Rainbow Caucus, sent a scathing letter to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and the rest of the Council describing what they believe is “institutional disrespect.â€? “We learned long ago that silence = death ‌ and your silence and inaction is killing members of our community or placing them in harm’s way and in hospital emergency rooms,â€? the letter says. “We will not be complacent, we will not be silent, we will hold every single Councilmember account-

able for their failures—both now and during election time.�

Trail Blazers We’re still several months away from June’s Democratic primary, where most local races are decided, but anticipation is already building.

The Office of Campaign Finance has some kinks to work out of its publicly funded elections program. Mostly notably, OCF gave Ward 2 candidate Jordan Grossman some bad advice, which led him to exceed the $2,500 limit on donations from family members. Five other candidates are tussling for the Ward 2 seat: Evans’ former campaign chairman; a self-named “MOCR for life� (an unfortunate acronym for a ward-level mayoral liaison); a former Marine and current Microsoft employee; a Republican-turned-Democrat; and a Fulbright Scholar, who emigrated from China when she was three. Evans has not filed for re-election.

Ward 4 offers a microcosm of the potential shifting ideologies on the Council. Challenger Janeese Lewis George’s publicly financed campaign against Green Team incumbent Brandon Todd has taken in $112,436. George is running to Todd’s left and has the backing of the city’s progressive groups. Todd will continue to benefit from a massive war chest (a total of $371,524 as of December) with the help of Bowser’s donor base and city contractors.

At-Large Councilmember David Grosso announced that he will vacate his seat (one of two citywide positions set aside for the non-majority party) and immediately endorsed his former staffer, Christina Henderson. LL wonders if Grosso is aiming for a run at the chairman’s seat in 2022. Shadow Rep. Franklin Garcia also announced he’s running for Grosso’s seat.

In Memoriam Sterling Tucker, a civil rights activist and the District’s first elected chairman of the Council, died in July of congestive heart failure and kidney failure. He was 95. In his time on the Council, Tucker championed gun control, rent control, and voting rights for felons, all of which are still topics of debate today.

After serving as director of the Washington Urban League, and then a four-year term as chairman, the mild-mannered Tucker finished second to Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry in the 1978 mayoral primary.

Mark Plotkin, the “impatient, impolite, and insistent� political commentator known for his cantankerous advocacy style died in September.

He was 72. The Chicago-raised George Washington University grad was a WTOP political analyst, WAMU host, and general rabble rouser, and ran twice for the Ward 3 Council seat, losing both times. He is remembered as a fervent D.C. statehood advocate and was the major force behind D.C.’s “Taxation Without Representation� license plate tag line.

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By Brendan Emmett Quigley

1 As we speak 4 Just out of eyesight 8 Onion-filled Indian fitters 14 Mouth in Latin 15 Cooler brand name 16 Mali's capital 17 Six-Day War hero 19 Reasons for impeachment 20 Word on a cornerstone 21 Proofconclusion word 23 Info on a bike tire: Abbr.

24 Make a point in writing?

26 Christmas ___ 30 Put on 31 Cold one?

32 Enemy 33 One who plays with a yarn ball 34 Water-to-wine miracle locale 35 ___ Ice Arena (University of Michigan hockey arena) 36 1979 #1 hit for Rod Stewart 39 Gallic existence 40 Meter maid?

41 Its last build was El Capitan 42 William Barr's grp.

43 31-Across imbibers 44 Turn bad 45 Solving crime, say 47 NPR drive giveaway, often 51 Private sleeping quarters 52 Masked no more 54 Bettor-known place 55 College sophomore's picture card, maybe 58 "You get the picture..."

60 Semicircular bench 61 Coastal birds 62 Tiny drink 63 Liverpool's river 64 Lock changers?

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1 One without roots 2 Town where Stephen King lived when he went to college

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Jack’s Car and Grill

Mitch Ryals

The mystery of Jack Evans’ other potential car collision

By Mitch Ryals A mAn in a black sweater with salt-and-pepper hair walks into a dimly lit Dupont haunt and gladhands the people he knows. He orders a Champagne Velvet pilsener, and onto the bar he places the grill that, by all indications, used to be affixed to Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ car.

The scratched and dented license plate held in place by two rusty screws reads “DC Council Ward 2.”

“How ’bout that?” the man says.

He doesn’t want LL’s readers to know his

name, but the man is more than happy to tell the story of how he came to acquire this particular piece of D.C. politics memorabilia.

It was February 2—Groundhog Day—the man begins, and he and his buddy were en route to a nearby restaurant for a 7 p.m. dinner reservation.

They were strolling along Massachusetts Avenue NW, not far from the spot where he’s sitting now, when they happened upon what appeared to be pieces of Evans’ trusty Chrysler Sebring.

“We pass all this debris in the road, and I’m like ‘what the fuck?’” the man says. “And I go look over by this tree, and by the tree was the whole front end of the Sebring with this grill

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and license plate attached.

“I go ‘holy shit,’ look at the license plate,” he exclaims. “I said ‘That’ll be funny. I’ll just stick it over in the bushes.’”

And so the man concealed his new treasure in some nearby shrubs and continued on to dinner where he regaled his friends with tales of his good fortune. The man returned the next morning to retrieve the Sebring’s grill.

He stashed it in the trunk of his car, where it sat for several months, almost forgotten.

LL popped by Evans’ office three times this week intending to ask him about what appears to be his second vehicle collision this

year, but the councilmember was always too busy. During the first visit, Evans’ flack, Joe Florio, said he didn’t know if his boss had been in another car collision separate from the one LL wrote about earlier this month, but promised to ask.

On the second visit, Florio inquired as to whether LL had any more details about this alleged incident, which LL declined to give, asking instead to speak with Evans directly.

Evans was prepping for Tuesday’s legislative meeting and couldn’t be bothered, Florio said, shooing LL away.

On the third try, Florio said Evans is “declining to comment on anything that may or may not have happened in his personal life.”

ThAT A siTTing councilmember’s car could be involved in a collision in the middle of their ward, less than two miles from their home, is understandable. Accidents happen. But that a councilmember would be careless enough to leave behind the one piece of irrefutable evidence of that collision, and then refuse to answer questions about it? Well, touché.

By declining to speak with LL, Evans avoids acknowledging that his car may have been involved in two collisions in one year and doesn’t have to answer questions about whether there’s a police report, if another vehicle was involved, and if so, whose fault it was, and whether or not he was impaired in any way.

LL has seen no evidence to suggest that the councilmember was driving while impaired.

But there is some evidence to suggest Evans is a bad driver. In 2014, Evans hit a pedestrian with his car. And for years, Evans has parked the old Sebring with impunity: in front of fire hydrants, in a crosswalk, in the bus lane. Technically, members of the D.C. Council are exempt from parking rules so long as they’re on official business.

Around the time the tipster believes the incident that left Evans’ front end on the side of the road took place, Evans was nowhere close to the legal mess he finds himself in now. In December 2018, just over a month before the alleged collision, the Washington Post reported that Evans received 200,000 shares of stock in a digital sign company before circulating legislation that would have benefited the company. Evans says he returned the stock, and the bill was never formally introduced.

A clearer picture of Evans’ ethics violations came into view throughout 2019. By December of this year, the D.C. Council had heard enough, and all 12 members of the ad hoc committee assembled to evaluate his misdeeds cast a unanimous vote in favor of forcing Evans from the office he’s held since 1991.

Evans claims he did not intentionally violate any rules. The final vote is expected in January, and if it goes through, Evans will be the first councilmember to be expelled from the body.

LL’s reAders mighT be wondering why all of this is coming to light now if the incident happened 10 months ago. The man with the Sebring’s grill says he reached out to a couple media outlets back in February, including leaving an anonymous voicemail for LL, who then

filed a Freedom of Information Act request.

In March, the Metropolitan Police Department denied the request, claiming that the release of such records would “constitute as a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

When LL questioned how the release of a police report that might reference a sitting councilmember could possibly be considered an invasion of personal privacy, MPD responded that “a search determined … MPD does not have police reports as described in your request.”

For good measure, LL filed another FOIA with MPD this week. He’s waiting for a response.

Shortly after the man called LL in February, he says he left D.C. for a six-week business trip.

By the time he returned, the collision seemed like stale news—that is, until Evans’ Sebring appeared in this column two weeks ago. (In that incident, Evans claimed that an Uber driver ran a red light and hit him at the intersection of 28th and M streets NW.) Upon seeing photos of the beat-up Sebring in the shop, with a trash-bag window and a missing wheel, the man fired off an email: “You don’t know the half of it,” he wrote.

He says he doesn’t keep a close eye on local politics, but he follows the headlines enough to know Evans’ reputation as a business friendly politician and a notorious parker.

The man says he works in finance and might even agree with Evans’ politics. Tony Williams, who championed D.C.’s development boom, was this guy’s favorite mayor, after all.

Even with all the trouble Evans is in now, it’s the parking that really bends the tipster out of shape.

“He’s always parkin’ wherever the fuck he wants, [by] fire hydrants,” the man says. “Every day on P Street he parks right at the stop sign. It’s like ‘laws don’t apply to me.’ There’s a lot of people who think they’re above the law. We’ll see how that works out.”

So why save the busted grill and make the effort to reach out to a reporter now?

“I’m like, ‘you know what, fucker, because you park like an asshole, I hope this causes you a moment’s grief,’” the man says.

He clarifies that he was not an eyewitness to any collision, but from the looks of the debris in the street that evening in early February, he’s confident the Sebring was not a victim of vandalism.

Earlier on in the day when the man believes the collision occurred, scores of people gathered in Dupont Circle to see Potomac Phil, the taxidermied rodent brought out every Groundhog Day to help predict how much longer winter will last. Evans, wearing a top hat, is pictured in the middle of photos from this year’s event.

As we reach the bottom of our beers, the man asks LL if he would like to have the grill.

“I was thinking about keeping it, but I’m too old,” he says. “I can’t have shit like this. I don’t want my place to look like a frat house.

But this’ll look great in a frat house.”

LL accepted the man’s generous offer, finished his drink, and pedaled home. And that, dear reader, is how what looks like a piece of D.C.’s longest serving councilmember’s car came to be hung in City Paper’s office.

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Department of Energy & Environment Government of the District of Columbia PUBLIC NOTICE DOEE issues Proposed Plan for the Anacostia River Sediment Project The District of Columbia’s Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE) is seeking public comment on the Proposed Plan for the Anacostia River Sediment Project (ARSP) that describes clean-up options for the ARSP study area which includes the Anacostia River, Washington Channel, and Kingman Lake.

To ensure that the community’s concerns are addressed, a public comment period will run from December 27, 2019 through January 26, 2020. During this time, the public is encouraged to submit any comments on the Proposed Plan and selected supporting documents to DOEE. DOEE will host a Public Meeting on January 23, 2020 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the DC Department of Employment Services located at 4058 Minnesota Ave NE, Washington, DC 20019 to present the Proposed Plan and take public comments. Written comments on the Proposed Plan and supporting documents may be sent to: Dept of Energy & Environment c/o Gretchen Mikeska 1200 First St NE, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20002 Email: anacostiariversedimentproject@dc.gov Comments must be postmarked / emailed by midnight January 26, 2020. An extension to the public comment period will be considered if received before January 26, 2020. DOEE encourages the public to review the Proposed Plan and the documents that make up the Administrative Record to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the project site and the activities that have been conducted there. The Proposed Plan and the Administrative Record for the project is available at www.anacostiasedimentproject. com, at DOEE headquarters or at the following locations: Francis A. Gregory Library 3660 Alabama Ave SE Washington, DC 20020

“Great” by Liz Montague Liz Montague is a D.C.-based cartoonist and cat mom. You can find her work in The New Yorker and City Paper.

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SPORTS 2019

The Year in Sports D.C. sports fans have learned how it feels to support winners— and they won’t need to settle for anything less.

By Kelyn Soong

Jeers and Cheers The year started inauspiciously with former Nats superstar Bryce Harper signing with division rival Philadelphia Phillies. Harper left a complicated legacy in D.C. and created a void in local star power athletes. When he returned to town in April, the announced crowd of 35,920 at Nationals Park showered him with boos. Fans in right field wore T-shirts that spelled out the word “T-R-A-I-T-O-R.” It didn’t help that the Nats stumbled out of the gate with a 19-31 record, and in late May, they had a .01 percent chance of winning the World Series, according to MLB Stats. The 20th anniversary of Snyder’s team came the same month and served as a reminder of how far the once proud team has fallen.

But local sports fans still had plenty to cheer about. In April, the Wizards finally fired president Ernie Grunfeld after 16 seasons in charge.

The move was long overdue and gave Wizards fans the hope that change could finally come.

Team owner Ted Leonsis named Tommy Sheppard, an assistant under Grunfeld, as the new general manager, and announced the

Darrow Montgomery

For the second year in a row, D.C. sports fans can say what it feels like to be world champions.

On Oct. 10, the Washington Mystics beat the Connecticut Sun in a decisive fifth game to claim the franchise’s first WNBA title. Twenty days later, the Washington Nationals rallied to beat the Houston Astros in seven games, also a franchise first. Just last year, the Washington Capitals won their first Stanley Cup. This year also marked the 20th anniversary of Dan Snyder’s ownership of the local NFL franchise. As the team failed to reach the playoffs for the fourth straight season and 10th time out of the last 12 years, several longtime fans of the team told the Washington Post that they’ve moved on to a support a team 30 miles north, the Lamar Jackson-led Baltimore Ravens, instead.

So if 2019 proved anything, it’s that there is a generation of D.C. sports fans growing up in an age of winners. They don’t have to accept anything less.

creation of Monumental Basketball, the newly formed operation that oversees the Wizards, Mystics, Capital City Go-Go, and Wizards District Gaming, the organization’s esports operation. Sheppard was able to convince Bradley Beal to sign a two-year extension worth nearly $72 million.

The Washington football team also let go of coach Jay Gruden in early October, a move that didn’t garner as much optimism, due to the fact that Snyder still owns the team. “It’s the right move,” City Paper contributor Matt Terl wrote.

“It gives the team a chance to hit eject on a lost season and start evaluating its coaching staff and roster to determine who can contribute next year. It also won’t make a bit of difference.”

On the soccer pitch, Washington Spirit

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stars Rose Lavelle and Mallory Pugh contributed to one of the biggest highlights in sports this year. The clos e friends and roomm ates i n R o ckville made it on the World Cup roster and helped the U.S. win the championship in France.

Lavelle scored arguably the most memorable goal of the tournament in the championship game and she returned to D.C. as a World Cup hero.

Bolstered by the World Cup, fans filled stadiums to watch the Spirit, including two games at the 20,000 capacity Audi Field in Southwest D.C. Next season, due to the increased demand, the team will play in three venues: the Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds, Audi Field, and Segra Field in Leesburg.

Fight to the Finish It’s hard not to hear Natasha Cloud. The Philadelphia area native is outspoken and confident, and this year, she became a vocal leader for the Mystics. When she speaks, people listen.

Cloud received national attention in June for instituting a “media blackout” to raise awareness of the shootings in Southeast D.C. On the court, she made bold, candid pronouncements. With Emma Meesseman back in the mix, the Mystics started the season with the mantra, “run it back,” after being swept in the WNBA Finals last season. They embraced the pressure of being the favorites

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Before Game 5 of the WNBA Finals, WUSA9 reporter Darren M. Haynes asked Cloud if the team would win on their home floor. “That’s a guarantee,” she said. “Facts. Period.”

The team did win, rallying from a halftime deficit behind the duo of league MVP Elena Delle Donne and Meesseman, who earned MVP honors for the WNBA Finals. Coach Mike Thibault, the winningest coach in WNBA history, won his first WNBA title.

Unlike the Mystics, the Nats were never the favorite to win the World Series. The bullpen struggled, second year manager Dave Martinez made questionable in-game decisions, and the team was written off multiple times throughout the season. But with a mixture of veterans and breakout stars, the team won all five elimination games they faced, including Game 7 of the World Series.

“Everybody does love a winner,” Thibault told City Paper in October. “And you know, especially when the winner is likable … A lot has been made about the Nationals, every elimination game they’ve been gritty, they’ve been able to do things. I think fans identify with that … It would be a great feeling if everybody just was great all the time, but when you have a storyline that goes with it, it’s a lot more fun.”

Don’t Forget to Have Fun Anthony Rendon left to sign with the Los Angeles Angels, opposing NFL fans still fill up FedExField, and the Wizards remain near the bottom of the NBA standings, but the Nats and the Mystics reminded fans that D.C. sports can—and should—be fun.

This year featured the unfiltered joy of Brian Dozier singing “Calma” by Puerto Rican artist Pedro Capó while shirtless. Gerardo Parra led dugout dances and got an entire ballpark to clap along to “Baby Shark.” During the World Series, Juan Soto perfected the art of the “bat drop” and is on his way to becoming the sport’s next big name.

At the World Series parade, a 51-year-old from Waldorf, Maryland, named Anibal Apunte dressed up as Elmo and found himself on top of a parade bus. He posed for photos with players and fans and returned home with a lifetime of memories.

The same can be said for Jason Turner, a 19-year-old from Fairfax who went viral after City Paper captured him slip-and-sliding on top of the Nats Park dugout. He’s part of the generation of fans growing up with winners.

“It’s unbelievable,” Turner said shortly after the Nats clinched the World Series. “First the Capitals and the Mystics. Now the Nats. All we need is Dan Snyder to leave D.C. and the [Washington football team will] get on top.”

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2019

PHOTOGRAPHS BY

DARROW MONTGOMERY Darrow MontgoMery’s photo subjects—and their loved ones—often make the comment that he’s seen through to their souls.

That’s true this year, as it is every year. Linger for a few minutes on the boxer fighting for a comeback, and the man who’s just gotten his citizenship. Spend time with the runners keeping pace, and the man standing in his driveway with his dog and his car, at home in the city he loves.

On another level, Montgomery is seeing through to the soul of a city. His biggest photo project this year was Florida Avenue Market, “an island of old D.C. in the ever-encroaching new.” The photos are scattered throughout this collection: The pallets on the sidewalks, the sign painted over in red, and the mannequins chained up are a few of the scenes from a once-bustling wholesale market where you could get deals on meat, produce, flip-flops, and sundries of all kinds. You still can, but the shops have gradually closed and only a few remain. And now they’re surrounded by shiny new buildings.

Montgomery’s main observation about his collection is that the color red comes through in so many of the photos. It’s the color of the World Series-winning Nats, the paint on the back of a pile of wooden crosses meant to honor each of D.C.’s homicide victims, an old lost glove, and berries.

Maybe you’ll see something entirely different in Montgomery’s D.C. of 2019. —Alexa Mills

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Gabriela Orozco, Nov. 1; Justin Weaks, Oct. 31

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DCFEED YOUNG & HUNGRY

The Year in Food

Laura Hayes

Good news, bad news, four trends with potential to last, and dishes that really stood out.

Daikon fritters at Queen’s English

By Laura Hayes Good News Odds are this is a year you tried something you’ve never tasted before. D.C. proper became an even more enthralling place to dine thanks to the addition of restaurants sharing cuisines enjoyed around the world.

We gained two new Burmese restaurants, Thamee and Bandoola Bowl, and two new Laotian restaurants, Laos in Town and Hanumanh. Korean restaurant Mandu was reborn as Anju. We also saw the openings of Queen’s English specializing in Hong Kong fare; Thirsty Crow serving Malaysian; Persian restaurant Vintage78; and Anafre serving tacos guisados and Yucatan seafood. You can now try fine dining Venezuelan at Seven

Reasons; Trinidadian tiffin boxes at Cane; a sports bar selling Filipino food—The Game DC; and off-menu Ghanian dishes at Open Crumb. And that’s a starter list.

This year also saw more people of color and women step into leadership positions and become culinary ambassadors of our city. Already-famous Kith/Kin Chef Kwame Onwuachi, for example, won a James Beard Award and published a must-read memoir. Chef Tom Cunanan’s Bad Saint was named by Food & Wine as one of the most important restaurants of the decade. Meanwhile, chefs like Kevin Tien, Yuan Tang, Peter Prime, and Henji Cheung opened their own restaurants.

Women announced they were teaming up on exciting projects, including South American-ish Mercy Me from Johanna Hellrigl,

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Daniela Moreira, and their romantic partners. Chef Amanda Moll and Carlie Steiner transformed Himitsu into Pom Pom. Steiner also joined forces with Anna Bran-Leis on Dos Mamis. Restaurateur Rose Previte tapped Marcelle Afram to lead her accoladerich restaurant, Maydan.

All of these steps toward greater diversity and representation made dining in the District much more textured and intriguing.

Bad News The restaurant industry is in a state of reckoning. Just as operators are questioning whether the current business model is broken, D.C. is undergoing rapid development that’s pricing out restaurants already fighting for every dollar.

Culinary personality Andrew Zimmern (who

Republic Cantina serves a tequila shot worthy of seconds. They use the leftover liquid from making pico de gallo, plus a squeeze of lime, as a refreshing chaser. The “pico back” shot is $7 during happy hour. was in very hot water this year) recently tweeted: “I think in 20 years restaurants will look very different than they do now and we will see this as the time that it all began to change.”

To fling the doors of a new restaurant open, operators must run through a gauntlet of clogged government agencies. It’s part of the reason why you see me print a projected opening of January and then find it doesn’t come to fruition until June. These operators may be on the hook for paying staff or rent or other expenses while they can’t serve customers. If they didn’t raise enough capital to weather lulls, lags, or snags, it could spell trouble from the start.

Meanwhile, everything costs more, from ingredients to rent to labor. Restaurants have to innovate to make up the difference given that diners balk at climbing menu prices. This is particularly noticeable with entree prices, which have been stagnant for decades.

When it comes to main courses, you’re either a $30-and-over restaurant or $30-and-under restaurant. That’s still a barometer for how expensive an eatery is perceived to be.

As a result, restaurants are tinkering with new models such as “fine-casual,” also called “fast fine.” Diners pay at the counter at Stellina Pizzeria and CHIKO, and then wait for someone to run food to their table. This typically allows restaurants to have less staff. Others are serving trimmer menus because they require fewer ingredients and a leaner kitchen team to execute.

Restaurants also seek new revenue streams and ways to compete in what some restaurateurs call an oversaturated dining scene. That could mean winterizing outdoor spaces, remaining open on holidays for the first time, signing up for sports betting, or getting aggressive with loyalty programs to try and hook the elusive regular diner. Some have even closed down and reopened as something new or undergone a renovation to generate another round of buzz.

Despite all this innovation and experimentation, we’re seeing restaurants with shorter lifespans. Four examples: Scott’s lasted less than eight months; Frenchy’s Naturel was open for six months; Dyllan’s Raw Bar Grill made it just over a year; and The Outsider made it eight months.

Some restaurants close when their five- and 10-year leases come up for renewal because landlords ask for double, triple, or quadruple what a tenant previously paid. This problem has become pervasive enough that Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie and Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen introduced legislation this year to support “legacy” and small local businesses by providing financial assistance and incentivizing landlords to enter into or renew leases with longtime businesses.

Finally, restaurants are struggling to staff their restaurants. A new bar or restaurant opens seemingly every week, with The Wharf, Navy Yard, H Street NE, Shaw, and Adams Morgan seeing the most growth. Yet, there’s a finite pool from which to pull servers, bartenders, cooks, and managers. A perfect storm of factors comes together to create this staffing crisis. Most notably, housing in the city is often too expensive for restaurant industry workers and Metro doesn’t run late enough to bring people out to the more affordable suburbs after last call.

Laura Hayes

Four Trends in 2019 1. A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words or $1,000 Remember that restaurant you like that’s dimly lit? Next time you dine, notice if they’ve turned up the lights. Food critics who pen lengthy reviews populated with two or three pictures now compete with Instagram. A doctored-up photo of a dish seems to be more gripping for diners than reading a few sentences describing the same plate.

It’s a win for restaurants because customers’ Instagram stories become free advertising, unless of course the shutterbug has racked up enough followers to consider themselves an influencer. Then those snaps can really cost you.

2. Tasting Menus for the Rest of Us Tasting menus with three-digit price tags per person got some lower-priced competition this year. More Washingtonians can now have the special-occasion experience of leaving a meal in the hands of the chef. Some even let you build-your-own tasting menu with several options per course for greater flexibility.

Those spots include Rooster & Owl ($65), Nina May ($39), Hazel ($60), and Little Pearl ($49).

3. Bye Beef, Hello Beet Carpaccio Restaurants got Greta-fied and started caring more deeply for the planet in 2019. That meant taking measures to reduce food waste, complying with laws banning plastic straws, and sourcing local ingredients to reduce their carbon footprint. Most notably, however, restaurants added more plant-based dishes to menus. Even fine dining mainstay Komi opted to close down regular operations twice in 2019 to serve a plant-based tasting menu under the moniker Happy Gyro. Expect this trend to gain momentum in the next couple of years, starting with the opening of plant-based Oyster Oyster later this winter.

4. Restaurants and Bars Continued to Professionalize Historically, the hospitality industry was considered a safety net of sorts. It was thought

of as a field that caught society’s misfits who needed to somehow make a living. While restaurants and bars are still a place for second chances (a very good thing!), the stereotype that life in the industry is some kind of sentence and not a thoughtful career choice is finally being sloughed away as society recognizes the skill, talent, deep knowledge, and creativity required for many positions.

Washingtonians are leaving behind the desks where they worked as lawyers, politicos, or engineers to enter the hospitality industry because they find it rewarding and enjoy the flexible hours, among other reasons. And those who have been dedicated to the industry since they were as young as 16 aren’t necessarily looking for an escape hatch. They see their work as a long-term lifestyle with growth potential.

But restaurants and bars don’t offer the same benefits as other industries. Unless you work for a large restaurant group, it’s still very rare to have health insurance fully covered by an employer. As people stay in these jobs later in life, they’re going to need coverage.

As 2019 unfolded, it was fascinating to watch restaurants grapple with how to add benefits and stay afloat given the industry’s razor-thin profit margins. Some restaurants, like ThaAgnolotti at Reverie mee, Emilie’s, and Pineapple and Pearls, added charges on customers’ bills that go toward health care coverage or employee wellness more broadly. This move garnered mixed reactions. Some diners question why a restaurant wouldn’t simply increase prices to cover the cost of employee benefits. Restaurateurs who have taken this step say they hope that describing the charge increases transparency and awareness.

Other restaurants have gotten creative with staff benefits, which has been encouraging.

Some offer their workers free or discounted language lessons, others purchase gym memberships for their staff members to use as a means to bolster physical and mental health.

The Best Things I Ate in 2019 Carne deshilada at Comedor y Pupuseria San Alejo; peanut butter chu with jollof couscous at Mansa Kunda; affumicata and piccante pizzas at Stellina Pizzeria; agnolotti with mentaiko, tobiko, and chili at Reverie; chicken & white flower mushroom salad at Thamee; French onion soup at Primrose; fajita duo of steak and pork belly at Republic Cantina; gorro de bruja pasta at Tail Up Goat; the “Hot Mess” at Frankly ... Pizza!; jeon pancake at Anju; barbacoa tacos at Espita; crispy lotus root sandwich at Mama Chang; fondue at Stable; uni on Carolina gold rice at The Imperial; shrimp donburi bowl at District Fishwife; and sukiyaki for two at Sushi Taro. CP

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The Year in Arts

Take a look back at all of the visual art, theater, and music that 2019 has given us.

The local arTs scene took 2019 to new heights. In the museums and galleries world, there were terrific exhibitions, displays centered on everyone from artist Judy Chicago to wildlife pioneer Jane Goodall. There were some milestones, too: The Smithsonian appointed Lonnie G. Bunch III as its 14th secretary, the first African American person to hold the position in the institution’s 173 years. And George Hemphill made a big move after 15 years on 14th Street NW. D.C. theaters welcomed new plays, revived old ones, and made audience members feel every possible emotion. Plus, August Wilson’s work got more of the adoration and recognition it deserves. It was a year to remember for gogo, the music of the District. Musicians and activists fought back against go-go’s would-be silencers, and gave the world #DontMuteDC and Moechella. With such a huge year on the books, we recall 2019 in museums and galleries, theater, and music to recall the highs, the lows, and everything in between.

—Kayla Randall The Year in Museums and Galleries This was quiTe the year in D.C. visual arts: A government shutdown briefly shut most of the doors on the Mall. The National Gallery of Art’s new director, Kaywin Feldman, took over—and though this year’s exhibitions were planned long before she was on the job, columnist Roger Kimball’s December 2018 pronouncement in the Wall Street Journal that she was one of the “enemies of art” didn’t come true, thankfully. In fact, Feldman’s declaration that art museums need to respond to the “psychological toll that this volatile time must be taking” was something of a mission statement for local museums and galleries, which increasingly responded to a democracy and a planet that seem to be falling apart.

Fittingly, migration and immigration in an increasingly xenophobic era was a major theme. Rockville’s VisArts gallery put on a show about immigration and the twin frontiers of possibility and discrimination in America, and more than 75 international artists in the Phillips Collection’s The Warmth of Other Suns examined what it means to be displaced. The Middle East Institute, a Dupont Circle think tank, opened a gallery space focused on contemporary art from the region.

The Touchstone Gallery’s America Is… asked

“Response to ‘What is Feminist Art?’” by Laura Kina, 2019 what our country is today, and the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition specifically solicited and displayed works that responded to “the current political and social context” for the first time.

Even the exhibitions focused on the past had to reconsider history. Fifty years after 1969, we re-lived the traumatic end of the 1960s, a world-defining decade. For Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary, thousands of people watched a projection of a Saturn V blast off on the Washington Monument, and museums around town dusted off their Space Race artifacts. The Smithsonian American Art Muse-

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um asked us to look back at contemporary responses to the Vietnam War, including some arresting, powerful pieces that eschewed color fields and minimalism for raw, political work with moral authority (and reckon with some racist ’70s takes). The Newseum hosted a major Stonewall show, examining the uprising’s coverage and its rippling effects 50 years later. (And rest in peace to the Newseum, D.C.’s most navel-gazing institution, as we wrote in January. Like journalism as a field, it was often too impressed with its own importance to think about the people it was supposed to serve.) Shows from the American Archives of

Art, the National Archives, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Geographic Museum asked viewers to dwell on feminism and women’s progress ahead of the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment.

Speaking of women artists, Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez’s first museum retrospective at the Phillips Collection was both transcendent and long overdue. The National Museum of Women in the Arts landed a major Judy Chicago show, where the famed artist reflects on mortality—her own and the planet’s. Likewise, the Embassy of Iceland and the House of Sweden celebrated and mourned melting glaciers worldwide.

CPARTS If there’s one surface-level conclusion to be drawn, it might be that museums can’t pretend to be apolitical anymore—they can’t afford it on a social or financial level. —Emma Sarappo The Year in Theater Once again, lOcal stages provided audiences with plenty of entertainment, or at least plenty to talk about. Alexander Hamilton took a year off from visiting the Kennedy Center, but plenty of other exciting musicals filled its halls. Local companies revived plays by American legends, premiered new work, and, in one case, premiered a previously unseen work by an American legend. We saw fantastic work, we saw a few flops, and we’re already looking forward to the next thing we’ll see.

The Kennedy Center welcomed touring productions of two big Broadway musicals that got their starts in D.C. Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-winning smash about depression and connection that premiered at Arena Stage in 2015, took up residence at the Eisenhower Theater in August, and Come From Away, a musical that is somehow both upbeat and about the events of 9/11, seen at Ford’s Theatre before it moved to New York, will play the Eisenhower through the new year.

Speaking of musicals, Signature Theatre somehow made A Chorus Line, a show I consider to be pretty much perfect, even more perfect. Matthew Gardiner’s intimate production yanks on the heartstrings, and the cast, especially Matthew Risch and Maria Rizzo, executes everything spectacularly. I’d tell you to buy tickets but its reputation precedes it—performances have been sold out for more than a month.

Justin Weaks. That’s it, that’s the blurb.

Jokes aside, the actor made audiences laugh in Woolly Mammoth’s production of Aziza Barnes’ BLKS and weep in Ford’s Theatre’s heartrending rendition of August Wilson’s Fences. Weaks was also generous enough to talk about his art in this year’s People Issue.

It’s becoming harder and harder to get away from August Wilson’s words, as more D.C. companies offer their takes on plays from his Pittsburgh Cycle, and that’s a good thing.

This year, audiences were treated to stirring productions of Jitney at Arena Stage, starring a cast of Wilson regulars, and the aforementioned Ford’s production of Fences, featuring breathtaking work from Weaks and his costars Craig Wallace and Erika Rose.

One D.C. theater company managed to present a new work by a long-dead master of American drama. Spooky Action Theater teamed up with local writer and director Natsu Onoda Power to produce The Lady from the Village of the Falling Flowers, an unpublished Tennessee Williams work written around 1930. The play was seen in D.C. before having its formal premiere at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in September, and returned to D.C. for four performances in December.

Anwan “Big G” Glover

Among active playwrights, Joshua Harmon, whose dark comedy Bad Jews thrilled audiences at Studio Theatre in 2014 and 2015, returned to Studio with Admissions, a decidedly less funny and much more complicated play about race and private education. Studio audiences found more consistent laughs with Anchuli Felicia King’s cutting, incisive White Pearl and Drew Droege’s Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, a gigglefest that doubled as an excellent way to spend a hot summer night.

—Caroline Jones The Year in Music nO dOubt abOut it: 2019 was the year that go-go made some noise.

In April, after residents of a luxury highrise tried to mute the go-go music that had been playing at the entrance of Shaw’s Metro PCS store for decades, a viral #DontMuteDC tweet in response to the silencing sparked the DontMuteDC and Long Live GoGo movements, which have energized the go-go community and recast D.C.’s homegrown sound as a music of resistance.

If the residents of this particular luxury high rise had not fought so arrogantly to shut down the speakers at the Metro PCS store at 7th Street and Florida Avenue NW this spring, perhaps some other manifestation of the new D.C.’s contempt for go-go might have lit the fuse. As it turned out, the Metro PCS controversy tapped

into the resentment resulting from decades of gentrification and neglect, and go-go culture would never be quite the same.

The musical protests downtown grew night after night, as warm spring weather and bounce beat bands TOB, Mental Attraction Band 2.0, TCB, ABM, and New Impressionz, along with the WHAT?! Band and others, attracted increasingly larger crowds.

In May, the mighty Moechella rally, which featured ABM and Backyard Band, shut down several blocks around the Reeves Center.

Even after the music was restored at the Metro PCS store, the movements led by longtime activist Ron Moten and Howard University professor Natalie Hopkinson (DontMuteDC) and Justin “Yaddiya” Johnson (Long Live GoGo) continued to gain momentum, attracting national media attention along the way.

Perhaps most important, more go-go artists became activists this year, participating not only in protests relating to the music, but also in community efforts on behalf of Banneker High School, United Medical Center, and the only halfway house in Southeast D.C. for returning citizens.

After decades as the soundtrack of Chocolate City, go-go is now being validated in various ways. As the music progresses toward becoming the official music of D.C., what that designation will actually mean—and whether funding and institutional support will accom-

pany it—will be 2020’s story.

Along with the DontMuteDC and Moechella protests, as well as November’s Go-Go Awards, 2019 was filled with moments every go-go fan and advocate can be proud of: • In June, the annual BET Awards featured Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliott and James “Funk” Thomas performing in front of a backdrop that read “Go-Go Madness #DontMuteDC.” • In August, Rare Essence played an anniversary show at Fort Dupont that drew an audience of more than 15,000.

• In September, several days of extraordinary programming by DontMuteDC and Long Live GoGo included performances

by Backyard Band on the National Mall as part of a “Million Moe March” and at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A “First Ladies of Go-Go” event at the Eaton Workshop featured Michelle Blackwell, Maiesha Rashad, and “Ms. Kim” Graham, among others.

• In November, Stevie Wonder and Doug E. Fresh joined longtime go-go star Donnell Floyd for a farewell show marking his retirement from go-go.

All in all, not a bad year for go-go. So let us raise a toast to those who would silence the music and thank them for making 2019 the year go-go found its activist voice.

—Alona Wartofsky

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GALLERIES

DIE ANOTHER WAY Judy Chicago—The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

At the National Museum of Women in the Arts to Jan. 20, 2020 Judy ChiCago has had a busy year. In addition to opening The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the artist turned 80, opened an art space in New Mexico for her nonprofit Through the Flower, and launched the Judy Chicago Research Portal, which collects the archives of her writing, educational materials, and visual works. The website for that project states that Chicago started the initiative “as part of her efforts to overcome the erasure that has eclipsed the achievements of too many women,” displaying her desire to create an enduring legacy. Thinking about her own departure from this world and what she’ll leave behind has prompted three fascinating series of work, and her continued evolution proves why she remains on the cutting edge after decades.

The End is broken up into three distinct rooms for each of its series, like a guided journey into the underworld, and its guards helpfully recommend that viewers absorb the exhibit in its intended order. The first examines death as an abstract concept, the second finds Chicago’s personal musings on her own demise, and the third considers the death of the natural world. There is a strictly enforced “no photography ” rule throughout, in contrast to the wall text encouraging hashtagging around the rest of the museum, which prods viewers to stay in the moment and engage with the material.

Despite Chicago’s wide-reaching body of work and frequent focus on political and historical issues, her art has often approached those ideas through a lens that points inward.

The first room, titled “Stages of Dying,” repurposes Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief to portray a figure who bears a resemblance to Chicago grappling with the concept of death across several panels. Chicago is unabashed in showing the full humanity and raw emotions of a woman who is elderly, nude, and bald, all rarities in artistic depictions. Her distinctive cursive handwriting is a fixture in these porcelain paintings, and in an interview with Artnet, Chicago says, “because the subject matter was so personal and intimate, I wanted it to be in my own hand. I wanted it to go from my hand into other people’s hearts.”

Next, in the “Mortality” room, the artist

“Stages of Dying 5/6: Depression” by Judy Chicago, 2015 takes a hard look at her own oblivion without flinching, and has gone so far as to preemptively cast her own face and hands in a bronze “death mask,” a tradition typically reserved for after a person dies. Her likeness appears serene, with her head lying on a pillow, a smile on her lips, and her hands clasping lilies. The hyperrealistic heavy bronze serves as a foil to the surreal, stylized collection of black glass paintings that follow. Chicago is a multi-talented craftswoman, adept at choosing the right material for a given work, and her typical technical mastery and ability to move easily between mediums is on display. Glass painting is a painstaking process, requiring the colors to be built up layer by meticulous layer, and going into the kiln for firing multiple times.

One series of these glass paintings titled “In the Shadow of Death” considers the views of various philosophers and writers, etching out choice passages like crib notes. Most of these thinkers have a pretty positive spin on death, and some of the accompanying imagery is a bit more lighthearted than the rest of the exhibit, particularly a gleeful skull-faced character.

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The next of the glass paintings form “How Will I Die,” which plays out as a choose-yourown-adventure of possible fatal outcomes that Chicago has contemplated. “Will I die screaming in pain?” the artist wonders in one particularly visceral panel depicting her writhing figure. “Will I die in bed with my cat Petie by my side?” asks another. These scenes are illustrated with another Judy Chicago avatar, this time with her famous red hair. One panel shows Chicago laid out, an outline of her head rising upward with the text “everyone wants to die peacefully.” Her body rests on a reflective swath of iridescent paint that acts almost as a mirror to place the viewer in the scene. The reveries are deeply personal, but they evoke fears and worries that are shared by all.

In the first two rooms, Chicago leaves space for ambiguity and interpretation, but the “Extinction” segment of the gallery, the finale, conveys an utter clarity of message and purpose. This room features another bronze casting, this one an assemblage of animals that looks over the room, their detailed, lifelike appearances undercut by the inclusion of an incongruous alligator purse. Chicago’s

work has never shied away from uncomfortable truths, and here she has black glass paintings, each displaying a different ecological atrocity wrought by humans using vivid and sometimes violent imagery. Jarring illustrative elements, like the jagged zigzag edges of fins chopped off of sharks and a cross section of a beluga whale being sliced open for its caviar, along with a tin of the stuff, mark the otherwise delicate rendering of nature scenes. The handwritten captions relay upsetting facts and figures, which frantic crossouts sometimes interrupt.

As the year and the decade draw to a close, it’s a fitting time to contemplate endings, and an apt opportunity to see The End before it closes in late January. The End is not light fare for an afternoon at the museum, which is precisely what makes it such a vital experience.

By the end of this terminal journey, a viewer may be unsettled and emotionally spent, and it’s rare that art can provoke such a vigorous reaction. It’s enough to make a person feel alive.

—Stephanie Rudig 1250 New York Ave. NW. $8–$10. (202) 7835000. nmwa.org.

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DANE IDEA Portraits of the World: Denmark At the National Portrait Gallery to Oct. 12, 2020

In 1906, when Michael Ancher painted “Kunstdommere,” or “Art Judges,” a portrait of four major Danish artists in the Danish fishing town of Skagen, artists had been visiting and working there for nearly three decades. In fact, the four artists Ancher depicted—Laurits Tuxen, Peder Severin Krøyer, Holger Drachmann, and Jens Willumsen—are shown inside Krøyer’s Skagen studio. Skagen was a pleasant destination in the summer for painting outdoors, and by the late 1870s, an artists’ colony had developed. Its members, people like Krøyer and his companions, were following a few different threads developing at the end of the 19th century. On one hand, they employed the impressionist style coming out of Paris at the time, painting outside and depicting things as they looked in the natural light. But they were also swept up in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, and they were looking to depict a more rugged, real version of life, emphasizing naturalism and implicitly arguing that the mundane, often dangerous and hard lives of working people were worth the attention of high art. Portraiture, after all, had traditionally been the province of the rich. The mid19th-century development of photography had begun to democratize the form, but attempts to portray the world and its people as they were, warts and all, were fairly new, the province of a creeping modernity.

“Kunstdommere” is the focus of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Portraits of the World: Denmark. The Portraits of the World

series attempts to contextualize foreign works on loan with selections of American portraiture from the museum’s collection to shed “light on the many ways in which social and cultural developments are enriched through the flow of people and ideas across national and geographic borders.” For that reason, across the gallery from “Kunstdommere” is a collection of American paintings from New York City, pegged to New York’s own “modern breakthrough.” However, the gallery design and the eclectic selection of American works undermine the project.

Around the same time the Skagen artists’ colony was in full swing, a Danish-born photographer, Jacob Riis, had swept New York City up in muckraking frenzy thanks to his photographs of the city’s poor and their living conditions. Riis’ 1890 book How the Other Half Lives set the stage for an era of social reform, and his aims were reflected in the works of the Ashcan School, a group of rebellious realists who depicted daily life in New York. This thematic needle is threaded by a 1906 etching, “Memory,” by John Sloan, a major Ashcan artist. But “Memory” depicts the artists themselves (Sloan, Robert Henri, and their wives) mostly at rest, not the “gritty realities of urban life” that the wall text alludes to.

Many of the works shown were made in New York’s own de facto artists’ colonies, and the exhibition attempts to argue that early 20th century New York was a petri dish of artistic influence and competition, much like Skagen. A photograph of Willem de Kooning and his wife Elaine calls to mind her art career, which remained in the shadow of her husband’s throughout her life; the wall text says his criticism of her work “fueled her determination to succeed.” The group that coalesced around the gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue and its intracommunity squabbles are featured, including a satirical, abstract cover of the jour-

nal 291 that pokes fun at Alfred Stieglitz. Ancher’s own painting of his contemporaries was also a bit of a challenge to them: The artists are looking at Krøyer’s unseen portrait of Drachmann, but Ancher painted Krøyer, Drachmann, and two others to boot.

But disconnection pervades the American side of the gallery. The comparison the exhibition seeks to make between the American and Danish modern breakthroughs doesn’t always hold up, especially because only one Danish painting is available to speak for its movement and the American selections are so wide-ranging. The American work represented includes a 1987 Red Grooms hybrid painting/collage/ sculpture depicting Willem de Kooning and the woman he famously painted in “Woman and Bicycle,” which is an interesting tribute, but a leap in both time and style from the pieces next to it.

It’s a lot to bring together, so a glut of text next to every piece tries to tie the knot. Unfortunately, in such a small space, it overwhelms the pieces, especially the smaller ones.

But the exhibition’s goal of illuminating the context and influence of the Danish piece is an admirable one, and it takes ambitious risks. Instead of pairing it with a group of unsentimental portraits and early photographs from the same era, Portraits of the World attempts to draw a bright line from “Kunstdommere” to the realistic depictions of urban life found in New York and then the abstraction (and return to figurative work) that followed. Artists in a community push each other past artistic frontiers, it argues, but it’s hard to follow the shifting frontier with only about a dozen pieces on view.

—Emma Sarappo 8th Street and F Street NW. Free. (202) 633-8300. npg.si.edu.

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BOOKSSPEED READS

ACTIVE VOICE Activist: Portraits of Courage

By KK Ottesen Chronicle Books, 300 pages

Activists Are people willing to campaign for change—who are prepared to be pariahs for their beliefs and who will fight for their principles even when deeply unpopular. KK Ottesen has filled her new book, Activist, with wonderful photographs of and interviews with 41 activists, from Harry Belafonte, Bernie Sanders, and Dolores Huerta to John Lewis, Ralph Nader, and Edward Snowden. Many of these people have devoted their entire lives to their causes.

As Angela Davis tells the author: “I continue to be active in the campaign to free political prisoners, the campaign against the prison-industrial complex. This will be with me for the rest of my life. We all need to stand together. That is the only way we’re going to change the world.”

The people in this book are all fighters; many were thrown in prison for their beliefs.

One, Edward Snowden, has fled the U.S. entirely. Many don’t expect to win their wars. But they fight anyway. Civil rights activist Harry Edwards says, “the obligation is not to win the war. It’s an impossibility.” But, they must make “contributions in terms of winning the battles that we’re confronted with.”

Several activists mention how taking a stand changes everything. As congressman John Lewis describes his first arrest for a Nashville sit-in: “I felt free. I felt liberated. I felt like I crossed over.”

Few devote their lives to fighting for justice.

Most people keep their heads down and just

try to get by. For many, the risks and the costs of leading such a fight are just too high, like going to prison and getting beaten by angry mobs or pepper sprayed by police. Harry Belafonte says, “if the [McCarthy] forces came after me and shut me down in theaters, I could just say Fuck you, you know, I’ll see you in Paris or London or Germany.” That’s why these activists are so important—they risk everything, and sometimes lose everything. They demonstrate courage. They prove that courage and sacrifice really can change the world.

Activism can also preclude pessimism.

Ai-jen Poo, a labor and social activist who organizes domestic workers, explains her role is “to stay optimistic, creative, and generative and to be able to see ways forward that are otherwise really had to see if you are wrapped up inside of the suffering.” It’s about the process, and winning occasional battles. All the people Ottesen interviews are realists, but that does not stop them from thinking big or from attacking their Goliaths with slingshots.

“It took me a while to figure out that there was another side here—and that it was winning,” says climate activist Bill McKibben.

“And it was not just arguing, it was fighting.

The fossil fuel industry… having lost the argument, was easily winning the fight. Because the fight was about money and power.” The enemy is rich and strong, controls the media, and floods Congress with cash. Just getting a counter-narrative public is a major accomplishment for activists.

The point is the fight; the fight for justice, for what’s right for people who may not be quite ready to fight for themselves. “And once you make up your mind, you got to do it,” says Native American activist Clyde Bellecourt. “You got to put your life and your body on the line.”

—Eve Ottenberg

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FILMSHORT SUBJECTS

RING THE ALARM Uncut Gems

Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie It Is not unusual for Adam Sandler to play annoying characters. Starting with Billy Madison and through Jack and Jill, Sandler specializes in people who get under the skin of everyone around them, only to have the audience pulling for them by the end. Uncut Gems, the dark thriller from the Safdie Brothers, takes that formula and deepens it with an unpleasant, irresponsible Sandler character. He plays Howard Ratner, a jewelry dealer, and he’s the sort of guy who is so irritating that it is a relief when others say that to his face. Somehow the film is watchable despite all that, thanks to a staggering command of tone, dense plotting, and Sandler’s inherent charm.

Howard is a degenerate gambler. His own bookies almost refuse to take the bets he makes because he has no self-preservation or good sense. Howard wants to bet on the 2012 NBA Finals and he has some insider information: Kevin Garnett plays himself, and after visiting Howard’s store, he lets the NBA star borrow a unique, priceless jewel. The stone might give Garnett some unknowable advantage, and Garnett gives Howard his NBA championship ring as collateral.

He immediately pawns the ring, using that money to make his bets, all while he owes thousands to other collectors all over town. He juggles all this while maintaining some veneer of a family life, and making time with his livein mistress.

Josh and Benny Safdie enjoy celebrating cinema’s capacity to make us uncomfortable. Their last film, Good Time, a crime thriller where Rob-

ert Pattinson plays an incompetent bank robber who undergoes history’s most idiotic crime spree, was hard to watch—Pattinson’s character kept exploiting vulnerable people, whether they were inebriated, mentally ill, underage, or did not speak English. But in Uncut Gems, Howard is not fooling anyone: Every character knows he is full of shit, and the question is just how much of his scheming they will tolerate.

Aside from the dense plot, Uncut Gems has an impeccable grasp on mood and atmosphere. There is a bravura sequence where Garnett and his entourage visit Howard’s showroom, and they get stuck between two security doors. They are effectively locked in a cage, while Howard is busy juggling two phone calls. All this unfolds while Howard’s security buzzer keeps going off. The cumulative effect is so dizzying that it becomes comical.

There are slower sequences, like when Howard hides in his mistress’ apartment to surprise her, but even those have an uneasy energy to them. The Safdies suggest Howard’s existence, while unsustainable, is like some elevated form of living where every moment is an adrenaline rush.

Adam Sandler is in nearly every scene of Uncut Gems, and he brings the same sinister energy we saw in Punch-Drunk Love and Funny People. The supporting cast attempts to tolerate him, with varying degrees of success, while only his brother-in-law (Eric Bogosian) treats him with the contempt he deserves. Uncut Gems is exhausting and exhilarating, the sort of film that takes the idea of escapism and pushes it to a nearly nauseating degree. We enjoy Howard’s exploits because it is thrilling to watch someone get away with it, even if we aren’t exactly rooting for him.

—Alan Zilberman Uncut Gems opens Wednesday in theaters everywhere.

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CITYLIST

The Club at Studio K

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Opening Weekend!

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

Martin Amini T H U . , JA N . 1 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

NATURE’S WITNESS

Stretch and Bobbito + the M19s Band: No Requests Album Release Concert F R I . , JA N . 1 7 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Jazzmeia Horn SAT. , JA N. 1 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Elijah Jamal Balbed Quintet: The Karma Suite T H U . , JA N . 2 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Hip Hop Karaoke F R I . , JA N . 2 4 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Kassa Overall’s “Blue Swamini” featuring Carmen Lundy S A T. , JA N . 2 5 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

M A S O N B AT E S ’ S KC J U K E B OX

Juan Atkins, Godfather of Techno

T H U . , JA N . 3 0 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

The Time Machine Roast F R I . , JA N . 3 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Music FRIDAY BLUES THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Swamp Strings. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

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

HIP-HOP CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Musiq Soulchild. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $65–$78. citywinery.com.

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

Nature’s Witness offers a sampling of the best submissions to the National Wildlife Federation’s annual photography contest, and what a sampling it is. Some of the subjects are tiny—pollendrenched bees, a translucent dragonfly wing, a neon-hued firefly—but perhaps not surprisingly, the stars are the charismatic megafauna. Those images offer seemingly endless drama: Tommaso Balestrini’s brown bear chasing a flying salmon; Arthur Veitch’s remote-camera image of a quizzical cougar at sunrise; Renee Capozzola’s green sea turtles mating in murky water; Kathee Johnson’s bull elk clashing with their antlers; Buddy Eleazer’s gemsboks gamboling over a Namibian sand dune; and Florian Ledoux’s aerial view of seals lounging on a jagged ice floe shaped approximately like their home continent of Antarctica. The images, almost all of them in vivid color, are timeless, just like the species they document. The exhibition runs to Feb. 28 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Gallery, 1200 New York Ave. NW. Free. (202) 326-6400. aaas.org.

—Louis Jacobson

SATURDAY

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Yellow Dubmarine. 8 p.m. $18–$25.50. thehamiltondc.com.

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

SUNDAY

ELECTRONIC

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Pietasters. 7 p.m. $15. 930.com.

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 .

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

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

Major Support for Jazz: The Buffy and William Cafritz Family Foundation Major Support for Hip Hop and KC Jukebox: The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives

ELECTRONIC

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

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

PROPER UTENSILS

GOGOL BORDELLO

D.C.’s Proper Utensils are a proudly old-school go-go band. They are led by local legend and vocalist James “Jas. Funk” Thomas, also a member of Rare Essence since the 1970s, and feature musicians Lloyd Pinchback and John Buchanan, who played in Chuck Brown’s Soul Searchers. Like groups from go-go’s formative years, Proper Utensils engage in call and response vocal chants over conga and keyboard rhythms and horn section blasts. But don’t write them off as just old-fashioned or retro: This crew can transform recent hits like “Boo’d Up” and “Shape of You” into polyrhythmic dancefloor fillers. Tying together their timeless meld of yesterday and today is Jas. Funk. Look for this engaging lead talker to make the crowd part of the show as he chants “is uptown in the house,” “where my Capricorns at,” and “if you want to deal with the world you gotta love yourself.” Watch him herald the various members of the band as the conga player and drummer embark on a percussion battle and the keyboardists add another layer to flesh out the musical patterns. Decades after this style’s birth, Proper Utensils’ take on it can still rock a party. Proper Utensils perform at 9 p.m. at Prince Hall Masonic Temple, 1000 U St. NW. $20. (202) 748-6565. mwphgldc.com.

—Steve Kiviat

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

START MAKING SENSE

Gogol Bordello got their start playing music at Russian weddings, but these days they have a mission: “to provoke audience(s) out of post-modern aesthetic swamp onto a neo-optimistic communal movement towards new sources of authentic energy.” The bar napkin manifesto is pure punk rock, but Gogol Bordello’s live performances are more in the spirit of dark cabaret. Composed primarily of immigrants, the outfit blends musical styles from around the world. Frontman Eugene Hütz writes lyrics that frame the immigrant narrative as one of defiance and hedonism. But Hütz, who was evacuated from his home in Ukraine in the wake of the Chernobyl meltdown, won’t let Gogol Bordello’s music get boiled down to dry politics. Instead, he hopes to keep it timeless. “I don’t want to be like Dead Kennedys and sing about Ronald Reagan for four years only for the music to then become outdated as soon as Reagan is gone,” Hütz said in an interview. Though they’re incredibly relevant in the age of deportations and blatant racism, Gogol Bordello won’t be reduced to a foil for Trumpism. Instead, their music celebrates centuries of immigrant experience and looks forward to a brighter future. Gogol Bordello perform at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $35. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Will Lennon

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

THAT BIG 80S PARTY

Start Making Sense’s covers of Talking Heads songs are not quite the same as they ever were, but they’re certainly faithful renditions of old favorites. Their devotion is in the details: In October, the tribute band recreated Talking Heads’ groundbreaking concert film Stop Making Sense, their namesake, for the 35th anniversary of its release; on earlier tour stops this month, they also recreated the original band’s iconic 1980 Rome set. On their website, they proudly display their endorsement from the late Bernie Worrell, who said “This band makes plenty of sense to me and is a great representation of Talking Heads’ music.” Worrell, who played with the band for nearly a decade, is uniquely qualified to give that assessment, and it’s true: Frontman Jon Braun genuinely channels David Byrne’s eclectic stage presence and vocals, even the really out-there yelps and chatter, though his suit could be a bit bigger. Start Making Sense perform at 7:30 p.m. at The Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW. $18– $25. (202) 769-0122. thehamiltondc.com.

—Emma Sarappo

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Want to dance? Better yet, do you want to dance with somebody who loves you, and maybe even sneak in a midnight kiss? Then tease your hair high, grab some spandex or some legwarmers, and make sure to put on your neon eyeshadow.

DJ Marco—known for his signature 1980s and 1990s musical mashups—welcomes partygoers to Union Stage as part of “That BIG 80s Party.” It just so happens that he’s bringing the party to D.C. on New Year’s Eve, and there’s no better time to celebrate the 1980s than right before you ring in the decade that marks 40 years since their beginning. Hot pink fishnets and bottle-blonde hair may be optional, but dancing isn’t. Expect to hear tunes that “break down and reconstruct” the infamous artistic decade, including hits from Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, David Bowie and more. And don’t worry, you’ll get a break from the fun at midnight to toast 2020 with a bit of Champagne. The show begins at 8 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $30–$35. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

—Sarah Smith

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FOLK

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

David Wax Museum. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. unionstage.com.

ROCK

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Clutch. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Stephen Kellogg. 7:30 p.m. $25–$38. citywinery.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Start Making Sense. 6:30 p.m. $18–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

MONDAY ELECTRONIC

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The White Panda. 8 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Gogol Bordello. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

TUESDAY DJ NIGHTS

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. New Years Eve Party ft. Firewalker. 10 p.m. $12-$15. pieshopdc.com.

ELECTRONIC

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Eric Prydz. 8 p.m. $60–$70. echostage.com.

FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Lyfe Jennings. 7:30 p.m.; 11 p.m. $65–$75. citywinery.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Moonshine Society. 9:30 p.m. $35. thehamiltondc.com.

JAZZ

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. A Jazz New Year’s Eve: Branford Marsalis. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $75–$85. kennedy-center.org.

POP

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

White Ford Bronco. 9 p.m. $75–$150. theanthemdc.com.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Gogol Bordello. 9 p.m. $35. 930.com.

WORLD

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

The Legendary Wailers feat. Julian “Junior” Marvin. 9 p.m. $39.75–$54.75. thehamiltondc.com.

WEDNESDAY HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Wale. 9 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com.

THURSDAY ROCK

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Company Calls. 8 p.m. $10. pieshopdc.com.

Theater

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

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) 347-4833. 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.

AN IRISH CAROL 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) 265-3767. 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.

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.

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

MY FAIR LADY “The most perfect musical of all time” tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the man determined to make her a proper lady. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW.

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WALE AND FRIENDS

D.C.-born, Maryland-raised rapper Wale’s annual New Year’s Day gig at the Fillmore could be a straight-up celebration. Wale’s latest album Wow… That’s Crazy cracked the Billboard Top 10, the single “On Chill” (featuring singer Jeremih) has topped the radio, and his success has helped bring attention to the hotbed of talent in the D.C. rap scene. His music combines cultural references (like the Seinfeld excerpts on 2008’s The Mixtape About Nothing) and emotion (like on “Expectations,” from his latest album, where he raps “Black man in therapy, ‘cause white terror don’t sleep”) with varying degrees of success. Onstage, backed by locals like UCB and DJ Money, the musicality of his tracks should stand out. Wale’s long been fond of collaborations with rappers and sweet-voiced R&B singers alike, so performing team efforts like 2009’s area hit “Pretty Girls” and 2019’s “On Chill” before a hometown crowd should hopefully give Wale—and the audience—some satisfaction. Wale and friends perform at 9 p.m. at The Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $35. (301) 9609999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

—Steve Kiviat

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

SLINGSHOT DAKOTA

Slingshot Dakota have that starry-eyed indie rock vibe that started to wane around 2012 and had nearly gone extinct by the time anyone started paying attention to its decline. It’s a precious commodity in an acidic world, and it’s heartening to hear music that’s so vulnerable and sincere. Based out of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Slingshot Dakota are a married team with husband Tom Patterson on drums and wife Carly Comando on keyboard and vocals. (The married-couple-band thing is slightly corny, but there are a few active bands with this dynamic who are really cool, like D.C.’s Teen Cobra.) Comando’s keyboard tracks are the foundation of Slingshot Dakota’s sound, and their lyrics capture the messy malaise of a stunted mid-20s. In “You,” Comando sings: “Remember all the driving, we talked about our days, we never had a clue at all that everything would change.” It’s a prayer for a do-over, or at the very least a replay, a requiem for the things that died and changed while we weren’t paying attention. Slingshot Dakota perform at 9 p.m. at Comet Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. $12. (202) 364-0404. cometpingpong.com. —Will Lennon

To Jan. 19. $39–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.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.

Film 1917 Two British privates have to deliver a message into deep enemy territory during World War I. Starring Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Richard Madden. (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) LITTLE WOMEN The four March sisters—Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg—grow up as Jo fights for her dreams.

Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, and Timothée Chalamet. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SPIES IN DISGUISE The world’s best spy is accidentally turned into a pigeon and his nerdy fellow officer must help him save the world. Starring Tom Holland, Karen Gillan, and Will Smith. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER The Resistance—Rey, Finn, Poe, and friends—must face the First Order in a final showdown. Starring Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, and Oscar Isaac. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) UNCUT GEMS A New York jewelry dealer tries to balance his high-rolling lifestyle with his increasingly risky gambling. Starring Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, and Kevin Garnett. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SAVAGELOVE

I’m a mid-20s cis straight man. After my girlfriend and I finished college, she moved overseas to start her job. We’ve broken up twice and gotten back together twice. We are interested in opening up our relationship, but I have reservations. She wants the freedom to throw herself into her new world without the constraint of having to shut down non-platonic sparks. My girlfriend has brought up marriage several times. While she admits she doesn’t have a good track record with monogamy, she insists marriage will change that. Another concern: The last time she was in an open relationship, she cheated on her then-boyfriend with me. “No exes” was one of their rules, and I was her ex at the time.

(I didn’t know she was with someone else.) Another wrinkle: When I confided in her recently that I had developed romantic feelings for another person, she asked me to choose between her and them, and so I aborted this burgeoning connection. That felt unfair, seeing as she wants her freedom. She is also bisexual and wants to have experiences with women.

I would be fine with her hooking up with women, but it makes me sick to my stomach to think about her with other men. She would be willing to put her desire for experiences with other women to the side in order to be with me, she says, once we are married.

I would love to hear your thoughts on these things: (1) whether we should open our relationship (2) my male/female hookup distinction (3) how to move forward if your partner is unsure whether they are built for monogamy but nonetheless wants to settle down in a married, monogamous relationship.

—Onto Processing Entirely New Situation 1. Don’t open it. End it. It’s time to put this dumb, messy, past-its-expiration-date shitshow of a relationship behind you. Would knowing your girlfriend is already fucking other people help you do that? Because your girlfriend is almost certainly fucking other people. Already. Because when someone with a shitty track record where monogamy and nonmonogamy are concerned asks their partner for an open relationship while at the same time demanding their partner “abort” any potential “non-platonic” friendships they might have … yeah, that motherfucker is already fucking other people. They just don’t want to give their partner the same freedom they’ve already seized for themselves.

2. It seems like a silly distinction to me, OPENS, one that comes from a place of insecurity. (And a “no other dick” rule would make most gay open relationships impossible.) But sometimes, working with your partner’s insecurities— accepting them, not fighting them—is the key to a successful open relationship. And since many bisexuals in monogamous opposite-sex relationships often ask to open the relationship because they want to act on their same-sex attractions (or, indeed, have their first same-sex encounter), keeping outside sex same-sex—at least at first— isn’t an entirely unreasonable request. But this is

irrelevant in your case, since your girlfriend is already fucking anyone she wants.

3. Your soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend is hilarious. People who are bad at monogamy don’t get better at it once they’re married. If anything, people who were good at monogamy tend to get worse at it the longer they’re married. If your soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend isn’t bullshitting, if she isn’t bringing up marriage

“It’s time to put this dumb, messy, pastits-expirationdate shitshow of a relationship behind you.” and monogamy to complicate and extend your conversations about opening up this doomed relationship, then she’s deluded. And if your girlfriend cheats because she gets off on risk, danger, or deception, getting married—which would obviously make cheating riskier and more dangerous—could make cheating more appealing to her, not less.

—Dan Savage I’m a bisexual man married to the most beautiful trans woman. I can’t keep my hands off her.

But why can’t I fuck her anally like we both want?

I can’t seem to push past the gates, which sends a signal to my brain that I’m doing something wrong, which make me Mr. Softee. Every other thing we do in bed is smooth as silk. Help!

—Limp Isn’t My Preference I’d have to see video to guess at what might be wrong—not an ask, LIMP, don’t send video— but it never hurts to use more lube, engage in more anal foreplay, and sometimes do butt stuff without even attempting anal intercourse. And when you do go for it, maybe instead of you trying to fuck her/push past the gates, LIMP, you could lie still and let her take charge. In other words: Don’t fuck her with your dick, let her fuck herself with your dick.

—DS I’m a twentysomething bi man in a loving relationship of three years with a straight woman. Last year, we opened up our relationship. At the beginning, we set some ground rules. One of her rules was that I could get together only with women, no men. It bothered me at the time, but it was the only way she would be okay opening up, so I didn’t press her on it. Fast forward to a couple days ago, when I brought it up again. She eventually admitted she’s afraid I will leave her for a man, and that’s why the

idea of me being with other men makes her uncomfortable. She knows these are stereotypes, but she says she can’t get over it. I ended that night angry and hurt. Now I don’t know what to do. To be honest, if we weren’t in an open relationship, I wouldn’t be bothered by the fact that I can’t be sexual with men. But now that I know she is not okay with me doing so because of these bi stereotypes, it drives me nuts. I’m not going to end our relationship over this, but how can I get her to understand my bisexuality is not a threat? —Bye-Bye Bisexuality?

“BBB obviously isn’t going to leave his girlfriend for the first man he sleeps with,” says Zachary Zane, a “bisexual influencer” and a sex writer for Men’s Health. “All bisexual men are not secretly gay. But this is a lie—a vicious stereotype—that BBB’s girlfriend has heard countless times. So even though she knows this logically, she still can’t shake that concern.

Fear often isn’t rational and it can override logic. She’s simply insecure.”

And while accommodating a partner’s irrational insecurity is sometimes the price we have to pay to make an open relationship work, accommodating your partner’s insecurity—one so clearly rooted in biphobia—isn’t going to be sustainable over time. You’re already angry and hurt, BBB, and you’re going to get more upset with every dick you have to pass up. So what do you do?

“The key to helping BBB’s girlfriend understand that his bisexuality isn’t a threat is for him to reassure her often that he’s not going to leave her for a man,” says Zane, “and to tell her and show her how much he loves her. He might also ask if there’s a way she’d feel more comfortable allowing him to be sexual with a man. Maybe they have a threesome. Maybe she prefers that it be someone she knows, or someone she doesn’t know. There’s a lot to discuss.”

But eventually, for your own sanity, you’re going to have to insist that your girlfriend get over her biphobia. She can’t just throw up her hands and say, “I can’t help it!”

“Perhaps I’m giving BBB’s girlfriend too much credit, but it sounds to me like she’ll come around in time,” says Zane. “And while BBB is angry—and validly so—the anger shouldn’t be placed on his girlfriend. It should be placed on a society that has ingrained in her the belief that bisexuality isn’t valid and that bi men will always leave their wives/girlfriends for another man if given the opportunity.”

And if she never comes around, BBB, then you can show her how silly and irrational her fears were by leaving her for another woman.

Follow Zachary Zane on Twitter @ZacharyZane_.

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

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PROBATE DIVISION 2019 ADM 001140 Marketplace . . . . and . . . heirs . . . .whose . . . . where . . 42 Name of Decedent, abouts are unknown John R. Gist aka John . . . . . shall Community . . . .enter . . . .their . . . appear . . 42 Robert Gist. Notice of ance in this proceedEmployment . . . Objections . . . . . . . .to . such . 42 Appointment, Notice to . . . . ing.

Creditors and Notice to appointment shall be Health/Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Unknown Heirs, Cynthia filed with the Register Harrison, whose address . . . of Body & Spirit . . .Wills, . . . .D.C., . . . .515 . . .5th 42 is 3707 Harrison St. NW, Street, N.W., Building A, Housing/Rentals . . .Floor, . . . .Washington, . . . . . . 42 Washington, DC 20015 3rd was appointed Personal Legal Notices . . . D.C. . . . .20001, . . . . .on . .or . .be42 Representative of the fore 6/26/2020. Claims estateMusic/Music of John R. Gist Row . against . . . . the . . . decedent . . . . . 42 aka John Robert Gist shall be presented to Pets . . . . . . . . . . the . . .undersigned . . . . . . . . with . . 42 who died on .January a 2, 2019, with a Will copy to the Register of Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

42 and will serve without Wills or to the Register Court Shared Supervision.

All Housing . of . .Wills . . . with . . . .a .copy . . . to 42 unknown heirs and heirs the undersigned, on or . .are . . . . . before . . . . .6/26/2020, . . . . . . . .or42 whoseServices . whereabouts be unknown shall enter forever barred. Persons their appearance in this believed to be heirs or proceeding. Objections legatees of the decedent to such appointment who do not receive a shall be filed with the copy of this notice by Register of Wills, D.C., mail within 25 days of 515 5th Street, N.W., its publication shall so Building A, 3rd Floor, inform the Register of Washington, D.C. Wills, including name, 20001, on or before address and relation6/26/2020. Claims ship. Date of first against the decedent publication: 12/26/2019 shall be presented to Name of Newspaper the undersigned with a and/or periodical: copy to the Register of Washington City Paper/ Wills or to the Register Daily Washington Law of Wills with a copy to Reporter. Name of Perthe undersigned, on or sonal Representative: before 6/26/2020, or be Cheryl Jaqueline Coates forever barred. Persons TRUE TEST copy Nicole believed to be heirs or Stevens Acting Register legatees of the decedent of Wills Pub Dates: who do not receive a December 26, January copy of this notice by 9, 16. mail within 25 days of its publication shall so EARLY CHILDHOOD inform the Register of ACADEMY PUBLIC Wills, including name, CHARTER SCHOOL, address and relationINC ship. Date of first NOTICE OF INTENT TO publication: 12/26/2019 ENTER A SOLE SOURCE Name of Newspaper CONTRACT and/or periodical: Instruction Partners Washington City Paper/ Daily Washington Law Early Childhood AcadReporter. Name of Peremy Public Charter sonal Representative: School (ECA) intends to Cynthia Harrison enter into a sole source TRUE TEST copy Nicole contract with Stevens Acting Register Instruction Partners of Wills Pub Dates: Deof Washington, DC. cember 26, Jan 9, 16 Instruction Partners is a national charter support SUPERIOR COURT organization whose OF THE DISTRICT OF mission is to dramatiCOLUMBIA cally improve student PROBATE DIVISION achievement and orga2019 ADM 001266 nizational performance Name and Address of in public schools, and Attorney Reed Spellbuild capacity of teachman, 6404 Ivy Lane, ers, staff, leaders and Suite 400, Greenbelt, boards to sustain top Maryland 20770. Name results over time. ECA of Decedent, Mattie seeks to contract with C. Coates aka Mattie Instruction Partners to Curry Coates. Notice of improve first through Appointment, Notice to third grade student Creditors and Notice to growth and achievement Unknown Heirs, Cheryl in reading and math, Jaqueline Coates, whose which has shown a deaddress is 2209 Rand cline over the past four Place, NE, Washingyears based on Public ton, DC 20002, was Charter School Board appointed Personal RepSchool Quality Report

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CLAIM AGAINST Notice TRAVISA of OUTSOURCING, INC. MUST Appointment, Notice INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE to Creditors and Notice DISSOLVED CORPORATION, to Unknown Heirs,OF THE INCLUDE THE NAME Kathleen Wach, whose CLAIMANT, INCLUDE A SUMMAaddress 3810 Garfield RY OF THE is FACTS SUPPORTING Street, NW, THE CLAIM, ANDWashingBE MAILED TO 1600 DC INTERNATIONAL ton, 20007, wasDRIVE, SUITE 600, MCLEAN, VA 22102 appointed Personal Representative of the estate ALL CLAIMS WILL BE BARRED of Patricia Mary Grattan UNLESS A who PROCEEDING Heffernan died on TO ENFORCE THE CLAIM IS COMOctober 27, 2019, withOF MENCED WITH IN 3 YEARS a Will and will serveNOTICE PUBLICATION OF THIS without CourtWITH SuperviIN ACCORDANCE SECTION sion.

All OF unknown heirsOF 29-312.07 THE DISTRICT and heirs whose whereCOLUMBIA ORGANIZATIONS ACT. abouts are unknown shall enter PCS theirisappearTwo Rivers soliciting ance in to this proceedproposals provide project maning.

Objections such agement services for to a small conappointment shall beof the struction project. For a copy RFP, please procurement@ filed with email the Register tworiverspcs.org.

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Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/26/2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 6/26/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a

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copy of this notice by Legals mail within 25 days of its publication shall so DC SCHOLARS PCS REQUEST inform the Register of FOR PROPOSALS – ModuWills, including name, lar Contractor Services - DC address and relationScholars Public Charter School ship. of first solicits Date proposals for a modular publication: 12/26/2019 contractor to provide professional Name of Newspaper management and construction services to construct a modular and/or periodical: building to houseCity four classrooms Washington Paper/ and oneWashington faculty offi ce suite.

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NW, Apt T8, Washington, DC 20009 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of William Lester Eldred aka William Eldred who died on 10/5/2019, with a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/12/2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 6/12/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: 12/12/2019 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/ Daily Washington Law Reporter. Name of Personal Representative: Frank Joseph Wellner TRUE TEST copy Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills Pub Dates: December 12, 19, 26.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2019 ADM 001166 Name of Decedent, Charles Richard Parkins, AKA C- Richard Parkins, AKA Dick Parkins. Name and Address of Attorney, Mr. Wai Ping Chan Esq., 8204 Tower Oaks Blvd, Suite 208, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Deborah Matlin, whose address is 2181 Swan Drive, Vineland, New Jersey 083617364 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Charles Richard Parkins, AKA C- Richard Parkins, AKA Dick Parkins who died on September 1, 2019, with a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 6/12/2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or

before 6/12/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: 12/12/2019 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/ Daily Washington Law Reporter. Name of Personal Representative: Deborah Matlin TRUE TEST copy Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills Pub Dates: December 12, 19, 26.

William W Crocker Decedent NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Rosemary Tate, whose address is 761 Quebec Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010, is the personal representative of the estate of William W. Crocker who died April 15, 2002 without a will and will serve without court supervision. All unknown heirs and whose whereabouts are unknown. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned on or before 12/26/2019 or forever be barred. Persons believed to be heirs to the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 10/3/2019 Washington City Paper Rosemary Tate Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills

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