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Ask Us We knoW our readers have burning questions that they want answered, so once a year we ask you to let loose with your questions and send us on fact-finding missions. Consider this a call for submissions for our Jan. 30 Answers Issue. In past years, we’ve discovered the story behind a catchy neighborhood theme song, explained why one downtown block is incredibly steep, tried to determine which local meteorologist most accurately predicts the weather, and schooled a reader about D.C.’s so-called “inferiority complex.”

Now, for the sixth consecutive year, we need your queries about anything and everything in the District, from restaurants and roads to trees and transportation. No question is too silly. Just drop them in the form found on our website, along with your name and email address. (Don’t worry, we won’t publish your name or digits. We’re just asking for them in case we need to get in touch with you later.)

To whet your appetite, we’ll tease a few questions we’ve already received this year. We won’t be including this one in the upcoming issue, but it’s hands down our internal favorite: “Is Andrew single?” The question refers to City Paper’s Housing Complex reporter Andrew Giambrone, who we agree is quite a catch. We try to refrain from sharing personal information about staffers, but suffice it to say, well, have you seen his Twitter head shot? Hell no, he’s not single.

Others that may make the cut include, “Where can I get some vegan croissants?” and “Are PoPville commenters really that dimwitted?” and “Is there a bar in the District of Columbia that serves wine coolers? I’m not talking artisanally made stuff, I’m thinking Bartles & Jaymes Blue Hawaiian.”

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INSIDE

7 In MEMorIaM Remembering the people, places, and ideals we lost in 2016—a year we’re happy to see go

2 Chatter distriCt Line

4 Tithes That Bind: Pastors part ways after a partnership between black and white congregations dissolves.

6 Gear Prudence

d.C. feed 13 The 12 Coolest 2017 Openings: The Wharf, Ivy City, Georgetown, and Adams Morgan dominate for once.

arts 15 Rise and Shine: With a new album out and a Grammy nomination under her belt, Carolyn Malachi is ready for commercial success.

17 Speed Reads: Eve Ottenberg on Colin W. Sargent’s The Boston Castrato 17 Discogs: Brad Linde’s Team Players’ baseball-themed album All-American 24 Curtains: Chris Klimek on Signature Theatre’s Titanic

City List 19 City Lights: Catch The Shining Sunday at Suns Cinema in Mount Pleasant.

19 Music 21 Galleries 21 Dance 21 Theater 23 Film

26 CLassifieds diversions

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DistrictLine Tithes that Bind Pastors part ways after a partnership between black and white congregations dissolves.

Rev. Jalene C. Chase-Sands, pastor of Douglas

Darrow Montgomery

Memorial United Methodist Church

By Quintin J. Simmons A blAck congregAtion in a beautiful old church on H Street is fighting to preserve its space and identity as the surrounding neighborhood gentrifies. “I need people to understand that the cross is not for sale,” says Rev. Jalene C. Chase-Sands, pastor of Douglas Memorial United Methodist Church. She is referring to the funds her church will be forfeiting by walking away from a 3-year-old arrangement with a church called Table.

Douglas opened its doors to Table, a new and predominately white congregation that has yet to purchase its own building, in 2013.

Douglas was struggling financially at the time, so its then-pastor Rev. Helen Stafford Fleming, who has since retired, found a solution in the partnership. “I had to find ways to get the young, white professionals in,” Fleming says.

“God said, ‘Go into your community.’ Well, my community’s white. So I had to find a way to get to that community.”

Table began holding services in the sanctuary at 5 p.m. on Sundays, when Douglas members were done using their church for the day.

In return for the space, Table would pay Douglas 30 percent of its tithes. The arrangement was made as trendy new stores and pricey condominiums replaced longtime businesses and

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buildings on H Street, and it allowed Douglas to keep its doors open. As Table grew from 15 members to more than 100, its tithe, and thus its payment to Douglas, increased too. It allowed Douglas, which has about 15 to 30 in attendance each Sunday, to pay for salaries, utilities, and repairs on its building.

But that arrangement appears to be falling apart.

Douglas and Table now have a scheduling conflict that calls into question which congregation controls the church. Their struggle is emblematic of the challenges old-guard D.C. congregations, many of them African American, face in neighborhoods that are changing

around the church buildings they own.

As his congregation grew, Table pastor Kevin Lum concluded that his 5 p.m. time slot at Douglas was not ideal. He decided he instead wanted to hold Table services at 10 a.m.—the time the Douglas congregation has been meeting for decades.

Lum researched the H Street neighborhood, his own congregation, and overall church attendance, resolving to push for a morning service for his church, even if it meant a blow to Douglas. “To go where we need to go long term … we need to get rid of our evening services. Evening service really limits your demographic,” Lum says. “If you look, there’s not many kids and not many families there.”

Lum, who is white, says his research shows that a 5 p.m. service will always attract fewer blacks because of cultural traditions. Blacks, he says, are accustomed to going to church early. “I talked to some friends who were trying to build communities that were more diverse, and it’s kind of hard because African-American culture in the U.S. tends to be pretty traditional faith-wise. And to go to church on Sunday nights is just kind of a weird thing.”

Lum met with Chase-Sands last April to discuss H Street’s demographics, telling her the community needed a multicultural service on Sunday mornings. After their talk, and compelled by Lum’s findings, Chase-Sands agreed to surrender the 10 a.m. slot to Table.

But this meant that Chase-Sands had to sell the idea of a time change to the members of her congregation, who have always attended church at 10 a.m. Fleming, who initiated the partnership, was preparing to retire, and Chase-Sands was transitioning into pastor of Douglas, while also continuing in her other job as full-time pastor at a neighboring church called Community. Both pastors and Lum met with the members of Douglas to explain that the Douglas flock would need to worship in the afternoon.

Antoinette Curry, who was married at Douglas four years ago, says the news of a time adjustment made her feel like a visitor in her own home. “If this is our church, why didn’t we have a say so on the time? If this is our church, why do we get pushed late, and they can come in early?” Though Chase-Sands fielded other similar complaints from her congregation, the pastors moved forward, planning to start the schedule change in September.

It never materialized. “Two weeks before the September launch date,” says ChaseSands, “[Lum] came to me and said, ‘Well, we’re not launching in September. Maybe in January or February.’”

That moment served as a release point for Chase-Sands. Lum was putting off the time change, and she took his delay as a sign to abandon it. She’d already gone through the trouble to persuade her reluctant congregation. She couldn’t say “never mind” and then drag them through the process again a few months later.

“I said [to Lum], ‘You can have any time after 12.’ He said, ‘Well if I can’t have 10, then I’m not coming back and not paying Douglas anything else,’” Chase-Sands recalls. She felt as if Lum was “dangling money” in her face.

Lum later apologized and said he didn’t intend to insult her.

Intentions aside, Lum has not held a service at the Douglas building since September.

To make up for the financial loss, ChaseSands decided to take a pay cut. She told her church leadership body to use the money that would otherwise go to her and put it toward the utilities. “They said, ‘You know we feel bad

coffeemaker and not greeting anyone seems to Douglas almost like a racial slap, but I think it’s more of a cultural difference than racial.

I have even had to tell members of Douglas, ‘Look, it’s not racial. They are just as rude to me,’” Lum says with a chuckle.

Today Chase-Sands sees the partnership as over, while Lum still sees an open door. “I’m still hopeful that we will work something out in the next couple of weeks,” he says. The Table website continues to list H Street, alongside downtown and Columbia Heights, as one of the locations for its services. “Our H Street community is launching in early 2017,” the site says. Lum has yet to retrieve some equipment from Douglas, which Chase-Sands has asked him to remove.

Meanwhile, Chase-Sands is considering a plan that would allow musicians and artists to use the church on Fridays or Saturdays. It would be geared to attract people who like live music but dislike bar and club scenes.

“If this is our church, why didn’t we have a say so on the time?” because we can’t pay you,’ and I said, ‘Pay the bills; I need you to pay the bills. Do what you need to do.’”

The personal income loss wasn’t an easy sacrifice, but she felt that God was guiding her.

“It was more important that the bills were paid and the people of Douglas had a sense of what it meant to be a church and knew that somebody was gonna fight for them.”

Subtle differences between the two congregations had begun to emerge long before the scheduling conflict came to a head. At one point, the Table congregation cleared out a room that was stuffed floor to ceiling with what Lum described as junk, and then installed new flooring. Douglas felt the new church was encroaching on their space.

Coffee preparation proved to be another issue. “So if you walk into Douglas and you need to make coffee, you go in and make coffee,” says Lum. “But if you’re a member of Douglas and you walk in, first you would greet everyone and go around the room and give everyone a hug, and then you would go make the coffee.” His own congregants, who he describes as young and “type-A,” would march directly to the kitchen. “Going straight to the

And an arts partnership would not threaten to encroach on the church’s longstanding Sunday service time.

She acknowledges that if Douglas did nothing to generate more money, then the church would be in deficit. “From a business standpoint, if we continue the way we are, yeah, but the faith I have and the hope I see in people’s faces now? I just feel a way is going to be made.”

The Douglas congregation supports ending the partnership. “This didn’t come as a shock to me,” says Blen Gary, 63, in regard to the two churches splitting. Gary, a Douglas member since 2009, says she always felt Table’s mission was to take over the building, and others shared that sentiment. “They wanted this church for the location. This is a very diverse neighborhood and they wanted this church.”

Chase-Sands, initially uncertain of her decision to cut ties with Table, is now at peace with the choice. “If it means taking a pay cut so that that body of Christ can feel like a body of Christ again without another church having an effect on them, then it was worth it to me.”

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A play bow (him), a sideways glance (you), and you’ve got his attention (and then his affection).

He’s open to learning all about hugs and snuggles. Still, he’s more fluent in dog language than this odd human behavior we have, so he might feel more confident in a home with another dog who can translate – and play! – with him. Lil Joe sees the world as a place to explore and is looking for the human to find the hidden paths with him. And if you don’t like the dog park crowd – good news: Lil Joe doesn’t need to go. Since he sees fences and boundaries as a suggestion (he didn’t have them growing up), he would rather wander far and wide on leash with you than play in a small space. He gets a little dreamy at times, lost in his own world of possibilities, but with a little coaxing he jumps right back into play. That said, he appreciates a good nap and quiet time, so between adventures he’s happy enough to curl up with a good book, bone or toy. As for the basics: he is in great health (good teeth, weight, no congenital issues), is perfectly potty trained, loves the crate, is quiet (no really – he’s a hound who doesn’t bark in the house!), walks and runs beautifully on a leash, is fine with cats, etc. City sounds and energy are a little overwhelming for this country boy, so he might be a little more at ease in the burbs either with a yard that has a significant fence or hanging out on the leash. Bottom line – He’s a hound so he can go the distance with you, and when you’re done – he’ll be done too. Can’t understand why folks aren’t lining up for this perfect lil guy – apply today to meet him! Things Joe enjoys: hiking, swimming, bird watching, trail running, snuggling, couch surfing, walking balance beams (and fallen logs), chewing bones, training, going for car rides, shopping in dog-friendly stores, vanilla and peanut butter ice cream, being at the office. Things Joe should avoid: open doors, being left alone outside unsupervised – definitely with a fence less than 7’, running through the woods without a leash…Joe has a story to tell and much more to add to it! Do you want to be his confidant and help him write the next chapters?? I am already neutered, housetrained, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats. Needs a Home With Another Dog?: Yes - friendly and confident. Needs a Fenced Back Yard?: Yes - privacy type, at least 7' high including the gate I am an UNDERDOG because.... I am a hound mix! Hound breeds are very prominent in the rural south and usually the first to be euthanized at the shelter due to the overpopulation of this breed.

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Laws: By far the biggest victory of the year was the change in the contributory negligence standard for D.C. crashes involving cyclists and pedestrians. Thanks to the D.C. Council and mayor, and against considerable opposition, cyclists and pedestrians are no longer held to an unfair standard when involved in a crash. As long as they are less than 51 percent responsible, they’ll be able to receive up to 100 percent recovery for their property loss or injury. This dramatically changes the dynamic when seeking representation for crashes, and it’s a gigantic step towards a system that recognizes the vulnerability and safety of those who don’t use cars. Another legal victory of note is Virginia criminalizing “dooring,” which was already illegal in D.C. and Maryland. GP is grateful that the Old Dominion finally caught up.

Trails: This was a fantastic year for trails. The long-awaited final connection of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail between Benning Road and the Maryland border opened with quiet fanfare.

You can now ride from Nats Park to College Park and beyond completely off-road. Wide stretches of trails to the North and East of the city are now open for cyclists (to ruin your formerly quiet dog walk). Also of note is the beginning of the even-longer-awaited widening and repaving of the Rock Creek Park trail. The initial National Park Service study for this project started during the Harding administration (or thereabouts) and it’ll take a few years to complete, but it’s nice to see that NPS doesn’t just stand for Needs Paving Stat. This year also saw the launch of the Capital Trails Coalition, which aims to go big on trails in the coming years.

Bikeshare: Did you know that Tysons (Tysons FUCKING Corner!) has Bikeshare now? Yeah, for real. And Reston too. The streets still have a long way to go, but Fairfax County got on the Bikeshare bandwagon in a significant way this year, and it’s a giant deal if you’ve ever wanted to bike to Auntie Anne’s Pretzels or whatever.

Oh, and Prince George’s decided at the end of the year to get involved with Bikeshare too. It’s coming East, and that’s important.

Infrastructure: D.C., Montgomery County, and Arlington all added more protected cycle tracks this year. The region is evolving away from “here’s a white line, good luck!” towards higher standards of infrastructure with buffers and posts (and in very rare cases, concrete), a welcome and overdue development. As always, advocates say that the pace of installation isn’t fast enough (see: the Eastern Downtown Protected Bikeway), but there have been and continue to be substantial gains of lane miles outside of the downtown core.

—GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @ sharrowsDC. Got a question about cycling? Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

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Remembering the people, places, and ideals we lost in 2016—a year we’re happy to see go t’s not just you. We’re turning the page on arguably the worst year in the lives of many young District residents—and more seasoned ones too, for that matter. The general zeitgeist (bummed) is informed by a global sense of defeat and loss—among them Brexit, Donald Trump’s election, the Mideast humanitarian crisis, and the loss of so many beloved public figures (David Bowie, Alan Rickman, John Glenn, Prince, Carrie Fisher, and a seemingly endless list of others). District residents feel all that as much as anyone. But sadly, we’ve also suffered too many local casualties, not just treasured and influential personalities, but also hallowed gathering spots and, in some cases, certain sensibilities. We couldn’t include all that we’re mourning in these pages, but this covers much of it. Here’s to a better 2017. —Liz Garrigan

American Dance Institute

Rockville seems more like a sleepy suburban city than a center for contemporary dance. But for six years locals could see acclaimed performances at American Dance Institute, a small theater where choreographers like Jane Comfort and dancers like Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto could present and workshop experimental pieces. ADI, which opened as a ballet school in 2000 and shifted its focus to developing and presenting work from dancers in 2010, occupied a role that venues like the Kennedy Center and Dance Place, for a variety of reasons, could not.

But the venue could never quite nail down its audience, despite different initiatives like bargain

tickets and transporting fans from D.C. to Rockville in a party bus. After receiving a $500,000 Empire State Development grant, the organization decided to relocate to Catskill, New York, leaving local dance fans without a place to see this kind of work.

—Caroline Jones

Angles Bar

It was situated in what is arguably the most obnoxious D.C. neighborhood for drinking—Adams Morgan—but dammit Angles was special.

Not special in the traditional sense, mind you: There weren’t any particularly notable drinks or decorations. But it was special in the sense that it was a room, with four walls and a roof, that served decently priced alcohol, that was washingtoncitypaper.com december 30, 2016 7

sometimes occupied by few or a lot of people, that was the perfect place to contemplate your own mortality. As I wrote in this year’s Best of D.C. issue, there was just something about Angles’ divey, unpretentious atmosphere—woodpaneled walls, jukebox full of corny classicrock jams—that made it the perfect place to hunker down in a fit of existential loneliness, read the news, and wonder what the fuck the point of it all is. Now what? —Matt Cohen

Arts Spaces

It can be argued that arts spaces in D.C. died long ago. Or at least the idea that D.C. would make it easy for artists to find affordable, suitable studio and performance spaces. It’s unfair to say there are no more arts or live-work spaces in the D.C. area anymore because we have 52 O Street, Torpedo Factory, and Brookland Artspace Loft, just to name a few. But 2016 saw a number of developments that certainly felt like significant blows to places where creativity flourishes. Among them a lost fight to save Union Arts from being developed into a hotel, the announcement that the last art gallery in Gallery Place—Flashpoint—will soon close, and the last artist living in Blagden Alley being priced out of his studio-home. The city is currently developing a major cultural plan, which is set to drop in the spring. The plan is intended to address the issue of—and propose a solution to—D.C.’s dwindling arts spaces, but it’s still hard for most artists not to feel like they’re being pushed out of their own city. —Matt Cohen

Bacon at Sweetgreen

D.C.’s own hipster salad chain stopped offering bacon as a topping this spring. A press release trumpeted, “Simply put, you can’t be a healthy food business and serve bacon.” Screw that! Bacon was the only reason I ate at Sweetgreen in the first place. The crispy bits of hog

Chris Barry

were what allowed me to believe I was treating myself, even when the rest of my bowl was filled with a verdant pile of kale, baby spinach, mesclun, and arugula. Consider it the diametric opposite of people who order a burger and fries and then opt for a diet soda to convince themselves they’re eating properly. These days, I look at Sweetgreen’s menu and see new protein options such as roasted steelhead fish and sesame tofu. Boring! And definitely not indulgent. So if you’re looking for me at lunchtime, I’ll be at Cava Grill, where my otherwise healthy salad will be pimped out with a scoop of Crazy Feta.

—Nevin Martell

Marion Christopher Barry

Chris Barry, the 36-year-old son of former Mayor Marion Barry, died in August after an apparent drug overdose. Like his father, Barry had a long, public battle with drug abuse, including several arrests. In an interview with City Paper last year, Barry discussed his struggle. “Everything in my life was just chaos, and you put something in your body that makes

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Residents who live near H Street NE and the starburst of Benning Road, Maryland Avenue, and Bladensburg Road refuse to believe the bad news about the Argonaut, a restaurant that has held up this intersection for more than a decade.

The Argonaut Run Club still takes its name after the family-friendly tavern, even though they now finish their post-run suds somewhere else.

Fans still tweet at the restaurant to ask if Tuesday is trivia night or whether Thursday bluegrass is happening. The answer’s no: For the third time since the Argonaut opened in 2005, the owners failed to pay their property taxes.

While the Argonaut shut its doors briefly in 2009 and 2014, it’s been closed since July, and even the trickle of rumors about the restaurant has dried up. That won’t stop the neighbors who loved this place from peeking in the windows from time to time, over-romanticizing the kinda-terrible food, and longing for the return of a cozy, funky, pirate ship-shaped neighborhood joint for play dates, book clubs, birthdays, and last call.

—Kriston Capps

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chaos seem normal,” Barry said. He followed in his father’s footsteps in other ways too. After Marion Barry died in 2014, Chris ran unsuccessfully in 2015 for the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat his father had held. “Christopher Barry’s untimely passing is a sad ending to the Marion Barry legacy,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said in a statement after the young man’s death. “Christopher never asked for the burden that comes with being part of a famous politician’s family.”

—Liz Garrigan

Joanna Blake

Joanna Blake was just breaking out as an artist when she died in a motorcycle crash in May. She was 39, far too young for her life to end, and far too young to be working at such a high level as a maker of monuments. Memorial sculpture is a calling that draws few sculptors, and the commissions typically go to a circle of grizzled masters. Blake scored big commissions anyway: She made the figurative bronze memorializing the Battle of Bladensburg in

Maryland and also contributed to the National World War II Memorial. Blake will be remembered by the art community that she helped to build in Hyattsville, Maryland, near her home in Cottage City, and for qualities sometimes ascribed to her works: human, heroic, larger than life.

—Kriston Capps

The Last Shred of David Burke’s Dignity

Chef David Burke has accomplished a lot over the years. His mantle is weighed down by awards, he’s opened a bounty of restaurants, and he has penned a pair of cookbooks.

But his résumé includes some stumbles. There was a series of zero-calorie “Flavor Sprays” in such dubious flavors as raspberry bubblegum and mochaccino, which were as awful as they sound. And he’s been involved in a variety of lawsuits, ranging from entanglements with former business partners to charges of sexual ha-

rassment. Though he continues to be a highly successful businessman, he is the worst kind of celebrity chef—one who’s in it for the money, while serving up retreads rather than continuing to innovate. Burke’s reputation bottomed out when the Trump International Hotel announced that he would be overseeing its restaurant BLT Prime. Chef José Andrés, on the other hand, wisely bowed out after the Donald’s incendiary comments about Mexicans at his campaign kickoff foreshadowed the xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, and false statements to come. Burke’s decision to align himself with such a morally unforgivable partner was a crass, craven move that revealed his true colors—shit brown and soulless black. He may make plenty of cash at this venture, but it is at the expense of his dignity and the respect of many of his peers and diners who now see him as a shallow sellout.

—Nevin Martell

Carnegie Library

It’s been a long, slow death for the Carnegie Library in Mount Vernon Square. President Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie dedicated the building in 1903. It was D.C.’s first public library and first desegregated building—as ornate as Carnegie’s own mansion and as sturdy as “The Bull Moose” president himself. But after 70 years, the library became overcrowded, the city moved the books to a bigger building, and the Carnegie went vacant for a decade. Today D.C.’s citywide event space agency, Events DC, controls the building, using it as a venue for art shows and various expos. This year, Apple proposed taking it over as a flagship store. The company has recently displayed a penchant for selling computers in beautiful old municipal buildings, such as New York’s Grand Central Terminal. If the Apple plans go through, the company will share the building with the Historical Society of Washington, whose archives are currently closed due to mold.

—Alexa Mills

In photographs, paintings, and sculptures, over a career spanning more than 40 years, Bill Christenberry captured the slow dilapidation of rural life in the American South. His favorite visual metaphor was kudzu, and he photographed perhaps hundreds of homes and structures covered with coils of vines, many of them located in Hale County, Alabama. In Christenberry’s work, kudzu signaled moral decay and lost decadence. Southern Gothic austerity figures largely in his photos, although he also favored a Pop Art approach to roadside signs, especially advertisements for treats like Tops-brand snuff and RC Cola. His prints and snaps of these fading glories serve as rural ripostes to Andy Warhol’s glamorous Campbell’s soup cans and Brillo boxes. Raised eyebrows have always followed Christenberry’s Ku Klux Klan tableaus—drawings, portraits, and sculptures that tracked his lifelong fascination with the KKK. Today, his works serve as a prescient warning about the creeping threat of moral rot.

—Kriston Capps

City Hall Propriety

District officials aren’t always on the same wavelength, but a May confrontation between D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Mayor Muriel Bowser upped the ante in terms of legislative and executive branch spats. After a presser on D.C. budget autonomy at the Wilson Building—on the day the council was considering a plan to replace the D.C. General family homeless shelter with smaller facilities across the city—Bowser reportedly shouted at Mendelson in a hallway: “You’re a fucking liar!

You know it can’t close in 2018.” Things came to a head because Mendelson had sought to reengineer Bowser’s shelter proposal by requiring all the sites to be on District-owned land.

In the end, he was successful, and the District hopes to open all the new shelters by 2020.

—Andrew Giambrone

Domku

Gone is the District’s preeminent place for pierogies. (Let’s not pretend that Mari Vanna holds a candle to the Slavic spot that D.C. lost this year.) Domku’s sunny yellow dining room went dark in June after operating on Upshur Street in Petworth since 2005. Owner Kera Carpenter, who was once a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland, cited a 66 percent rent increase in a Facebook post about her decision to close. Popular dishes included comforting cabbage rolls, borscht, Swedish meatballs, and the aforementioned soul-hugging pierogies. Petworth experienced its fair share of loss and redemption in 2016. Chez Billy, Domku, and Crane & Turtle all shuttered, but it gained Ten Tigers Parlour, Himitsu, and Slim’s Diner, among others.

—Laura Hayes

Zelda Fichandler

If you’ve seen any theater in Washington or, honestly, anywhere outside New York, you

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I love doughnuts, but I’m not willing to settle for Dunkin duds. When done properly, the frizzled rounds or squares are worthy of a special-treat breakfast, an afternoon pick-me-up, or dessert. So I was over the moon when pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac fired up this palace of deep-fried delights (the name is an initialism for Golden Brown Delicious) in Dupont Circle. Her creations were as varied as they were inventive. There were straightforward options—like chocolate iced filled with chocolate pudding and PB&J—alongside less expected choices, such as grapefruit Campari and tres leches. Not only were there sweet treats, but MacIsaac’s husband, Chef Kyle Bailey, crafted a savory menu focused on fried chicken and other heart-clogging fare. It was the kind of place I went to utterly disregard my daily—no monthly—allowance of grease. Unfortunately, after three years and the departure of both founding chefs, the restaurant let its oil go cold for the last time. I will miss it sorely, though I think I heard my cardiologist breathe a sigh of relief.

—Nevin Martell

Go-Go Demigods

It was a brutal year for the genre that originated in D.C. E.U. keyboardist and producer Ivan Goff died in November, less than two weeks after performing at the Freedom Sounds festival.

Go-Go also lost producer and label head Preston Blue as well as former Petworth frontman “Go-Go” Lorenzo Queen, whose “You Can Dance (If You Want To)” was a huge radio hit in 1986. Another significant casualty was Byron “BJ” Jackson, a prodigiously gifted musician and longtime keyboardist for Rare Essence and Team Familiar. His first cousin, author Kato Hammond, pays tribute to BJ with a new children’s picture book, “I Want to Play, Too,” available on Amazon.

—Alona Wartofsky

Gwen Ifill

Career journalist Gwen Ifill died at age 61 of breast and endometrial cancer at a D.C. hospice center on Nov. 14. Ifill packed her living years with an astounding volume of love and

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Hope

In 2008, a U.S. senator from Illinois ran a successful presidential campaign built around a single word: hope. But it was more than a word.

It was an idea. The idea that the United States, then reeling from a pointless war built on lies and one of the worst economic recessions it has ever experienced, could overcome such dark times, with Barack Obama lighting the way. But in 2016, hope officially died. During a year in which we lost so many beloved figures in popular culture (Prince, David Bowie, Phife Dawg, Muhammed Ali, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Jones, George Michael, Merle Haggard, Gwen Ifill, and John Glenn, just to name a few), we also saw decades of racism, sexism, and general bigotry reach an apex with the election of an anthropomorphic puddle of racist diarrhea a successful businessman Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America.

And just when you thought 2016 couldn’t get any worse, Carrie Fisher, the actress and writer who portrayed a literal embodiment of hope in the original Star Wars films, died in this year’s waning days. Fuck you, 2016. —Matt Cohen

Metro’s 4000Series Cars

The longing for those rickety motions and funky smells is already kicking in. In November, Metro announced it would remove all its 4000-series cars—more than 80 in total, out of an entire fleet of 1,200 cars—from service.

The reason was not so lamentable: Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said the transit agency had identified a “small risk” that a speed-command system on the cars could receive the wrong signals and lead to a collision, particularly when a 4000-series car is at the front of a train. Out with the old and in with the new, we say. But even Metro’s more modern 7000-series cars have had issues. Earlier this month, some on the Red Line decoupled.

—Andrew Giambrone

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accomplishment. She started her career as an intern at the Boston Herald American and went on to write for the Baltimore Evening Sun, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She started her television career at NBC in 1994.

Five years later she became the first black woman to host a national political TV show when she began on Washington Week in Review. She later became the first black woman to host a vice presidential debate. Throughout her life—worthy of many biographies—she showed an unwillingness to shy from the truth, both in her daily life and in her work. She lifted up the people least seen in our society, and exposed those attempting to skirt the truth.

—Alexa Mills

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have Zelda Fichandler to thank. The Arena Stage founder, who died in July, helped start the regional theater movement, which brought dramatic works to cities around the nation.

She served as Arena’s artistic director for 41 years. When it opened in 1950, it was D.C.’s first integrated theater. During her impressive tenure, the theater won the first Regional Theater Tony Award, sent several productions from Southwest to Broadway, and established a love for the stage in Washingtonians of all ages. Fichandler also spent 25 years as the artistic director of the graduate acting program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, training a generation of actors who have become Hollywood mainstays. Her singular contributions turned D.C. into a theater town where practitioners can make a living and audiences can escape the drama of urban life for a few hours.

—Caroline Jones

Millie & Al’s

Magical things happened when you took one of Millie & Al’s $1 JELL-O shots. Coworkers morphed into romantic possibilities, ex-girlfriends’ phone numbers showed up on speed dial, a skeleton danced, and one Jumbo Slice was never enough. The iconic Adams Morgan dive that provided these jiggly time capsules back to college closed after 53 raucous, glorious years in April. Cancer claimed both the life of original owner Al Shapiro and his love interest Millie in the 1990s and 1970s, respectively, but Al’s daughter Barbara Shapiro was able to keep the

business going with gusto. It was an unpretentious, dollar beer kind of place with one of the worst bar bathrooms on record. It didn’t evenbother with a website until very late in the game.

Yet somehow, it seems, half of this city met their spouse at Millie & Al’s.

—Laura Hayes

Old Post Office Pavilion

In its final years, the Old Post Office Pavilion was a sad place. A mini-mall slowly dying within one of the city’s most recognizable land-

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marks, it peddled dubious food and cheap souvenirs to a captive audience of school groups.

But in the 1980s, when the food and shopping court opened in the vast atrium of the Romanesque building, critics rejoiced. The Washington Post called it “one of the more spectacular open courtyards in the world” and predicted it would be key to the revival of downtown D.C. The Old Post Office Pavilion was of a piece with Baltimore’s Harborplace and Boston’s Faneuil Hall, the first generation of urban-development projects that used the power of historic architecture to draw people back to cities—a strategy still used today. It just didn’t work at the Old Post Office, which looked too much like an office building from the outside to attract enough visitors and suffered from a high turnover of stores. Now the 1899 building is a Trump hotel, the tired pavilion replaced by plush meeting rooms and a lobby dripping with gilt, crystal, and blue velvet. Donald Trump stabilized the structure but covered up some of its historic fabric, to the chagrin of preservationists. In the days since the election, the hotel has been at the

center of inquiries about whether the Trump Organization has nudged, or pressured, foreign diplomats to book rooms and events there, and whether Trump himself will be in violation of his business’ lease with the federal government when he becomes president. Sad! Less remarked on: a useful, if dingy, spot for ordinary tourists and office workers has been lost to high rollers. Food-court Chinese food is bad, but wine by the spoon is worse. RIP. —Amanda Kolson Hurley

Vincent Orange’s Council Tenure

As any living and breathing District resident knows, what’s best for good governance isn’t always consistent with what makes compelling newspaper reading. While this year’s political defeat for ethically-challenged at-large D.C. Councilmember Vincent Orange— at the hands of political newcomer Robert White no less—was well deserved, it means a net upgrade in the professional stature of the legislative body, which translates to fewer outrageous shenanigans. At least Orange gave the D.C. journalistic community a parting gift: the opportunity to call foul on his trying to serve the remainder of his term in of-

fice while beginning his new gig as head of the Chamber of Commerce.

—Liz Garrigan

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In January, the District lost a human monument just across from the White House: Concepcion Picciotto, a Spanish-born peace activist who spent more than three decades protesting nuclear weapons and, eventually, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a still-active vigil in Lafayette Park. “Connie,” as she was known by friends and the world at large, died after leaving her post one night and making her way to the N Street Village shelter where she’d lived since October 2015. Associates of the storied protester said Picciotto, who often wore a wig and a helmet, was older than 80. She is remembered as a patron of free speech—and for the fortitude of her convictions.

—Andrew Giambrone

Seth Rich

It was tragic enough that a promising young man’s life was mercilessly snuffed out when he was shot multiple times in July as he walked home in Bloomingdale after being out with friends. But then dark-web bottom feeders turned 27-year-old Seth Rich’s murder into a sick political parlor game. Hiding behind internet handles and committed to nothing but fomenting chaos and misinformation, these online trolls managed to convince a virtual syndicate of dimwits that the Democratic National Committee staffer’s killing was some sort of payback for leaking DNC emails to Wikileaks. Never mind that there’s no evidence to support the odious claim. Meanwhile, his grieving parents are left to live not only with the loss of their son but with the lie being perpetuated online. As his father Joel Rich told City Paper in November, “How can people stoop so low?”

—Liz Garrigan

Michel Richard

When Chef Michel Richard opened Citronelle in Georgetown, it set the tone for fine dining in

the District that is still felt today. He was, for many, a visionary with a big personality that matched his creative cuisine. “He was always the happiest person in the kitchen and always playing with his new ideas and making people smile and always pushing to do something new and different,” says Beuchert’s Saloon Executive Chef Andrew Markert, who worked under Richard at Citronelle. While Citronelle closed, Richard’s memory is alive and well at his second D.C. restaurant, Central Michel Richard.

The French-born chef and James Beard award winner died Aug. 13 at age 68. —Laura Hayes

Science Club

Despite the best efforts of their BID, the Golden Triangle—the area of downtown D.C. roughly bound by K Street and New Hampshire and Connecticut Avenues—is still known in some circles as “Gonorrhea Triangle” or “Herpes Triangle” thanks to watering holes infamous for bar crawls, kickballers, and the smell of disinfectant. But for 10 years there was an oasis in this desert of debauchery: Science Club. Tucked away in a four-story brownstone on 19th Street, Science Club brought a touch of class (and an underrated vegetarian menu) to the neighborhood with DJed dance parties, stand-up open mics, and countless happy hours for the nonprofit sector. Apart from some chalkboards and a few bar beakers, there wasn’t anything “scientific” about Science Club, but it was a reminder that building a golden bar doesn’t take alchemy … just a light touch.

—Chris Kelly

The Sex Barbershop

Just beyond the bustle of H Street Northeast, there used to be a hidden Trinidad neighborhood gem known affectionately as the “Sex Barbershop.” The “Uni” on the Unisex Barbershop sign had burned out years ago, causing it to look like something out of the red light district come nightfall, much to the delight of neighborhood 12-year-olds (as well as this writer). It was a silly neighborhood curiosity that doubled as a handy landmark—as in,

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“I’m almost there, just passing the Sex Barbershop.” Plus, residents wary of the new development encroaching on their neighborhood could rest easy: who would fork over luxury building prices to live adjacent to a purported sex barbershop, whatever that was? Alas, nothing gold can stay. Councilmember Yvette Alexander drove by one evening and issued a panicked “think of the children” tweet about the sign, prompting owner Warren Easley to have it repaired. Though the sign has gotten the chop, the best takeaway was Easley’s sick burn to Alexander: “Is she a councilperson? I thought she lost.”

—Stephanie Rudig

The Washington Home

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“FemaleFriendly” STK

There once was a steakhouse called STK That wanted the ladies to come and play But if they wanted meat, it had to be petit This gendering of eats caused its defeat Sure, the corner it’s on is said to be cursed But its PR stunts were the absolute worst Who can forget the opening party with no food Only temporary tattoos to get you in the mood —Laura Hayes

Swipey

Douglas “Swipey” Brooks, an 18-year-old rap prodigy from Southeast D.C., was fatally shot in late August outside an apartment complex in Suitland, Maryland. Even in a city as jaded as D.C., where we’ve become sadly accustomed to senseless gun violence, the demise of a precocious young artist like Swipey struck an emotional chord among his contemporaries.

The entire local hip-hop community mourned his death. Fellow rappers Wale and Shy Glizzy tweeted their condolences, and DJ Tony Redz from WPGC offered a heartfelt on-air tribute.

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Even among D.C.’s most screwball characters, John Stabb was considered weird. In the 1980s, when all the hardcore kids would attend gigs in the same uniform—ripped jeans, dirty Tshirts, combat boots—Stabb would roll up in a flamboyant collared shirt and a suit jacket.

And as the frontman of famed hardcore band Government Issue, he’d writhe about onstage and in the crowd like he was having some sort of seizure, tearing at his throat as he belted out lyrics. Most people grow out of such phases— get older, get a job, live in the real world. Not Stabb. To him, “the real world” was a social construct and something he wanted no part of. He instead devoted himself to music and the people he loved, doing whatever jobs he had to do to get by. Even in his final days, lying in a hospital with the love of his life, Mina Devadas, he wished he could be anywhere else with her. And that’s what she loved about him, “that there is this energy in him that is almost otherworldly.”

—Matt Cohen

Zema “Chief Zee” Williams Swipey dropped his new mixtape Sorry Not Sorry in July, featuring the standout singles “Intro,” and “Money Money Money” with famed producer Jazz Pha. One of Swipey’s most popular songs was “Best Friend” released in 2015 with Romilli, his frequent collaborator and partner in the group Trouble Squad. Swipey graduated high school with honors and was admitted to Morgan State University before his skyrocketing success led him to pursue his music career full time. His murder remains unsolved. —Sidney Thomas

John Wall’s Future With the Wizards

It’s no small feat to be the most dismal franchise in a city noted for sports misery. No free

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John Wall’s Future With the Wizards agent of any significance wants to play for the team, certainly not Maryland native Kevin Durant, who rejected the team’s advances last summer after a long-simmering, but very one-sided, courtship. General Manager Ernie Grunfeld has traded away more picks than he’s used in the past three drafts. The team is closing out 2016 in the bottom half of the standings in a weak conference. Attendance at home games has been embarrassing. Star point guard John Wall, now in his seventh season as a Wizard, knows more than anyone what this franchise has to offer. No savior is coming in free agency. After this season, two more remain on Wall’s contract. When it expires, it’s hard to picture him spending more of his prime basketball-playing years here.

—Zach Rausnitz

The Washington Home finally shuttered its nursing home and completed the sale of its Upton Street NW property to Sidwell Friends School on Dec. 15. The announcement last year of an agreement to sell the site set off a contentious 15 months, including an unsuccessful attempt by a group of the nursing home’s residents to block the sale in court. The Washington Home had provided long-term and end-of-life care at its Upton Street facilities since the 1940s, and previous sites dated to the 1880s. Now, just a small inpatient unit for hospice patients remains, and not for long. It’ll relocate in 2017 (leasing space from Sidwell rent-free in the meantime). Tim Cox, the CEO of The Washington Home and Community Hospices, says the nonprofit’s hospice unit will remain in the District. “We’re looking in all quadrants of the city, including the Northwest, especially since we’re the only inpatient unit in the Northwest,” he says. Meanwhile, after more than a century providing a place for the District’s sick and dying to go, the nonprofit has shifted mostly to caring for them in their own homes.

—Zach Rausnitz

Washington Monument Elevator

Although few locals actually scale D.C.’s tallest masonry structure, no one will be able to until 2019. In September, the National Park Service closed the Washington Monument indefinitely for needed elevator repairs, following years of service disruptions and a 2011 earthquake that damaged the obelisk. (Visitors had occasionally gotten stuck on the elevator, the vertical equivalent of those anxious moments in Metro tunnels.) Then, at the beginning of December, NPS announced that billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein had put up the money to get the damn thing fixed, an estimated $2 to $3 million. That makes him a kind of American hero: Since January 2012, Rubenstein has donated upwards of $50 million to park service projects. —Andrew Giambrone

Zema “Chief Zee” Williams

If you are a sports fan, you are almost certainly going to die with unfinished business. I’m sure some ancient Cubs fan slipped away peacefully just after the World Series parade, but there were many, many more who just couldn’t hold on through the extra inning of Game 7. Zema “Chief Zee” Williams, superfan and unofficial mascot of the local NFL team, died in July, just before the start of training camp. Fans, the team, and individual players have memorialized him, but there is still an essential strangeness to a late-season run at the playoffs without a single throwaway TV shot of Williams exhorting the fans. Even when sports cares about you, it doesn’t care about you enough to stop moving forward when you’re gone.

—Matt Terl

DCFEED

Three restaurants imported from other cities closed this month: STK in Dupont Circle; Mango Tree in CityCenterDC; and A.G. Kitchen in Silver Spring, Maryland.

None lasted three years.

The 12 Coolest 2017 Openings The Wharf, Ivy City, Georgetown, and Adams Morgan dominate for once.

By Laura Hayes Get ready for burgers, cubanos, a taste of New England, affordable tipples, and more Filipino food because 2017 promises to deliver big on restaurant and bar openings. These are the 12 that have us salivating the most.

Reverie 3210 Grace St. NW (summer) Chef Johnny Spero’s dreamy Georgetown restaurant Reverie will do the impossible: combine avant-garde and affordable by offering both an a la carte menu with dishes topping out at $30 and a small, affordable tasting menu.

Both will showcase the chef’s style of taking nature’s best ingredients and twisting them just enough to be fun and unfamiliar. At a December pop-up, a bowl of whey granita melted to reveal tongues of uni punched up with dill and lovage. Spero’s résumé includes stops at minibar, Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Mugaritz in San Sebastian, Spain.

The Salt Line 79 Potomac Ave. SE (late spring) Capitol Riverfront will get two restaurants in one with the opening of Chef Kyle Bailey’s The Salt Line: an outdoor bar for slamming Narragansett beers before Nationals games and a dining room where Bailey will celebrate the best of New England and the Chesapeake. Expect lobster rolls and freshly shucked oysters, because restaurant group Long Shot Hospitality visited Portland, Maine’s beloved Eventide Oyster Co. for inspiration. Also look forward to fried clams, Portuguese seafood stew, and seafood charcuterie. Considered an alehouse, The Salt Line will have a solid lineup of brews.

Kaliwa, The Orient 751 Wharf St. SW (September) The D.C. area got its first hit of Chef Cathal Armstrong’s Filipino and Thai cooking at Restaurant Eve, where he rolled out a special tasting menu that flared nostrils with heat and tang.

Now he’s bringing The Wharf a full-on Asian restaurant showcasing Filipino, Korean, and Thai food. Armstrong is left-handed, hence the name “Kaliwa,” which means “the left” in Tagalog. It has a slightly sinister connotation, so expect this typically buttoned-up chef to let loose. Look forward to both indoor and riverfront dining. Arm-

strong’s libations partner Todd Thrasher is also making his D.C. debut at The Wharf with Potomac Distilling Co. and rooftop bar, Tiki TNT. Gravitas 1401 Okie St. NE (late spring) Chef Matt Baker’s first solo restaurant, Gravitas, is headed into the Pappas Tomato Factory in Ivy City. Baker, who has worked at minibar, Marcel’s, and Occidental, will showcase an ingredient-driven restaurant that treats vegetables as equals, not just sides. He’ll offer a five-course chef ’s tasting menu, a fivecourse vegetarian tasting menu, and an a la carte menu at the bar. Sample dishes from popups include burnt acorn squash with cocoa nib, pomegranate, and vanilla and salt-baked Japanese eggplant with preserved lemon “tabbouleh,” garlic yogurt, and curry vinaigrette.

Arroz 901 Massachusetts Ave. NW (February) Fresh off a trip to the Iberian Peninsula that culminated in a camel ride, restaurateur Mike Isabella and his partners George and Nick Pagonis are readying to open a 246-seat Spanish restaurant in the Marriott Marquis. With flavors inspired by southern Spain, Portugal, and North Africa, they’ll prove a hotel restaurant doesn’t have to phone it in. Think paella from Valencia, tagine from Morocco, and bastilla from Tangier. Pair everything with sherry, port, gin, and Spanish-made tonics.

Tiger Fork 922 N St. Rear NW (January) When Hong Kong-inspired restaurant Tiger Fork opens in Blagden Alley it will accomplish the unthinkable because beverage director Ian Fletcher will shake and stir cocktails that are actually good for you. The detoxing drinks that draw from Chinese medicine play well with the restaurant’s indulgent dishes like Char Siustyle roasted goose, a mapo tofu riff containing Maine lobster, cumin-spiced lamb tartare, dim sum, and brisket noodle soup. Owner Greg Algie and Chef Nathan Beauchamp, who are also behind The Fainting Goat, traveled to Hong Kong for research and development.

Colada Shop 1405 T St. NW (Jan. 26) It especially stung when Sophie’s Cuban Cui-

sine closed this year because it left the District without proper cubano sandwiches. Enter Colada Shop, opening in the 14th Street Corridor, which will bring back the satisfying pressed sandwiches, plus croquetas, pastelitos, coffee, and cocktails from masterful beverage man Juan Coronado, who earned his chops at José Andrés restaurants.

Consider it a casual neighborhood café, only with cool cocktails like a negroni made with peanut-infused gin. Craving a preview? Colada Shop is already open in Sterling, Virginia.

Chef Johnny Spero’s whey granita, uni, dill, and lovage

The LINE DC 1770 Euclid St. NW (March) Two culinary powerhouses will open restaurants under one roof at The LINE DC hotel coming to Adams Morgan. James Beard winner Spike Gjerde of Baltimore’s Woodberry Kitchen will debut A Rake’s Progress focused on local sourcing and game meat.

Gjerde will also operate A Rake’s Bar and coffee shop The Cup We All Race 4. Joining Gjerde is Maketto’s Erik Bruner-Yang, who has two restaurants planned: Brothers and Sisters, featuring global cuisine, and a tasting menu restaurant called Spoken English.

Hill Prince 1337 H Street NE (January) Claudia’s Steakhouse has a $125 martini.

Left Door has a $100 French 75. The Next Whisky Bar has a $900 drink. Enter cousins Nick and David Wiseman of DGS Delicatessen and Whaley’s, who are ready to pour the antidote to this insanity at Hill Prince, where all drinks will be $10 or less. The neighborhood bar named after a 1950 Preakness Stakes winner will have an intimate front bar opening in January and, in the spring, an outdoor central courtyard and large back bar in a restored carriage house. Think date night.

Red Apron Burger Bar 1323 Connecticut Ave. NW (January) It was a blow when the GBD fryers powered down, but Neighborhood Restaurant Group is replacing the fried chicken and doughnut shop with Red Apron Burger Bar. Chef Nate Anda of Red Apron Butcher has committed to sourcing the meat for his patties strict-

ly from Virginia farmers who follow sustainable practices; he’ll even use the dry-aged suet (beef fat) to make the restaurant’s French fries.

Beer director Greg Engert has built a hopforward beer list for the Dupont Circle burger joint that seeks to pull premium restaurant quality products into the fast bites market.

Marble Alley 2412 18th St. NW (mid-year) Trevor Frye is gearing up to open two bars in 2017—Five to One and Marble Alley. The latter will double as a deli serving unfussy sandwiches, beer, wine, and cocktails daily on the first floor. In the basement, Frye and his team will mix historically inspired cocktails Tuesday through Saturday. Obsessed with the hospitality aspect of bartending, Frye says his cocktails will be 70 percent about what’s in the glass and 30 percent about the experience. The Adams Morgan bar is named after an enclave of bars and brothels within the Murder Bay slum that in the mid-19th century occupied the area where the Federal Triangle sits today.

Mirabelle 900 16th St. NW (winter) Chef Frank Ruta and pastry Chef Aggie Chin are an inseparable culinary one-two punch, having worked together at Palena and, more recently, The Grill Room. It makes sense that they’ll team up again at Mirabelle from restaurateur Hakan Ilhan. The French-American restaurant going in downtown will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Here’s hoping Ruta’s roast chicken and burger reappear.

CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com

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Rise and Shine

With a new album out and Grammy nomination under her belt, Carolyn Malachi is ready for commercial success.

By Christine Grimaldi “Can you play it from the top?” Carolyn Malachi asks the engineers working on her single “We Like Money” one afternoon in August of 2015. She’d already recorded the song, but like an author with a rough draft, she’s not satisfied until she kills her darlings.

As Malachi’s voice hits high and low notes at full throttle, her lyrics evoke a surprising paean to hard work for little reward: “We grind all the time, overtime/ ’Cause we like money/ All the time, overtime/ We grind all the time, overtime/ We like money.”

She pauses for a few beats, calculating if all that work was worth it.

“Cut the check,” her voice interjects in a tone that really means, “Cut the crap.”

The beat picks up again, leading into another intonation of “Cut the check.” Malachi tells the engineers to get rid of the second command.

She’s been serious enough the first time.

Malachi chose to use a go-go framework for “We Like Money” specifically for the D.C. market, updating sounds from 40 years ago with a kind of bluesy twist. But her roots in the District’s music scene date back even earlier: Her great-grandfather, John Malachi, was one of the most renowned local jazz pianists of his time, backing the likes of Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington. And later, he taught Jazz Studies at Howard University.

With “We Like Money,” Malachi is banking on her longstanding critical acclaim, including a 2011 Grammy nomination for Best Urban/ Alternative Performance, to solidify her commercial success. The song anchors her new album, Rise: Story 1, which Malachi plans to follow up with two others, Modern and Natural.

Together, the three albums will serve as a trilogy, Rise of the Modern Natural. Malachi’s game plan mirrors an ambitious chapter-by-chapter bid for the bestseller list. She reliably delivers critics’ picks, but will one of them turn into a hit and propel her into the life she’s been working hard to achieve for herself?

ter all, it runs in her blood. Later, she discovered music production while studying business administration at West Virginia’s Shepherd University and would spend entire days in the lab making her own beats.

The real world provided a reality check when she lost her first post-college job and, like many other millennials in 2008, couldn’t find another. Arts grants from the state of Maryland, where she lived at the time, helped to sustain her over the next two years. So did honing her craft, testing out song lyrics in the spoken word scenes in both Baltimore and the District. By 2009, she released her solo debut, Revenge of the Smart Chicks II: Ambitious Gods.

“In Baltimore, there’s no smoke and mirrors. Zero glitz, zero glam,” Malachi says on a dreary October afternoon in the courtyard of her D.C. apartment complex. She wears no obvious traces of makeup, and her face is as smooth as her sound, even with less than two months to go until Rise: Story 1 drops and her star, hopefully, ascends. “If it’s hot, it’s hot, if it’s not, it’s not, and people will let you know.”

MalaChi is well-versed in the art of reinvention. As a kid growing up in the Brookland neighborhood, she was musically inclined—af-

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MalaChi found the same type of honesty from performing in front of audiences at Busboys and Poets, and she’s still grateful to them for vetting her art. “If it’s not reaching people in its infancy, it’s not going to reach people when it’s all polished and clean and packaged and ready to go out into the world,” she says. Authenticity matters all the more to her as an independent artist who doesn’t work with a major record label.

“I am able to stand on the fact that my art connects with people,” she says.

Malachi began recording her followup to Revenge of the Smart Chicks, the Lions, Fires & Squares EP, with producer and mentor James McKinney, a trustee of the D.C. chapter of The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys of which Malachi is also a member. She released it in 2010, the same year she landed a full-time job in the events department at Prince George’s Community College.

But a week into her new job, something incredible happened: She received the

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McKinney urged her to stay on with the college for as long as she could. She couldn’t afford to quit until she started turning a profit from music. She needed to build on her success instead of resting on it. for years, MalaChi’s typical day would start before dawn.

She’d write a new bio or pitch DJs about playing Lions, Fires & Squares or her 2013 follow-up album, Gold, then head into work for the 12 p.m.-to-8 p.m. shift during the academic year, 9 a.m.to-5 p.m. over the summer. At lunch, she’d do a local news hit, knowing she’d never make it back from northern Virginia to Prince George’s County in under an hour. Her “angel” of a manager let her make up the time on nights and weekends, but those hours increasingly filled with performances as far away as South Africa.

Year after year, Malachi told herself it’d be her last as what some of her colleagues affectionately called a “weekend superstar,” flying out to gigs on Friday nights and returning on red-eyes in time for the Monday blues. She’d still be outfitted for the stage when she walked into work—flashy clothes, heavy makeup—and would head straight to the bathroom, wash up, put on a suit, and transform into “that Carolyn Malachi, not the Carolyn Malachi,” she says. “You want to talk humbling?”

By 2014, Malachi was more ready than ever to leave her day job behind. She had found her current team, JRNE Management and MaSheva King of the Zimari Entertainment Group,

the album—a snippet from a previously unreleased interview that could double as spoken word. “The grass is always greener on the other side,” he says. “You want this, and I’d like to be where you are.”

But the cautionary notes could have come from the younger Malachi’s latest album. Whatever success looks like, whatever the “it” is, she’ll only get there through her own blend of determination and perfectionism. She must know that. Why else log so much studio time just to record the same lyrics over and over?

“I’m ready for harmonies,” Malachi tells the engineers back at House Studio DC that August afternoon a year and a half ago.

They’re excited.

“Her stacks are crazy, man,” the studio intern says.

That’s one word for them. Another would be irresistible.

Malachi’s “Oohs” and “Aahs” stack up faster than lasagna, the layers melting into each other, each one more tempting than the last. One, two, three aren’t enough for her. The sound swells, propelling the lyrics, the familiar plea to prove “it” can be done.

“When the bill’s long and the money is short (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)/ My people get creative. We endure. (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)/ ’Cause we ain’t tryna live like this no more.”

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and more imminently, she had accepted a month-long gig performing on a cruise with Grammy winners and nominees. But she knew she’d have to finally quit working full-time at the college to go through with it.

Malachi wasn’t sure she could. But a two week vacationturned-tour across the country changed everything. “I was out long enough to have tasted the life that I wanted to live,” she says.

She typed up her resignation letter within an hour of her return to the office.

MalaChi is the first to admit that “the life” isn’t easy. She sometimes keeps that dawn-to-dawn schedule, like when D.C. go-go legends Rare Essence recently pulled her on stage at Aqua on New York Avenue to perform at 2 am. But there’s no going back. Malachi readily admits that she’s a disciple of elementary-school mantras in the same vein as, “If you can believe it, you can achieve it.”

She’s equal parts humble and earnest when she speaks about “the power of the mind and being able to see oneself in a certain position,” whether that’s someday selling out Madison Square Garden or, for now, at least somewhat unpacking her whirlwind schedule. “If I say to myself, well, I’m going to do this for two years and then, if I have to get a 9-to-5, I have to get a 9-to-5—I don’t even want that thought in my head,” she says.

It sounds like an extension of wisdom gleaned from her great-grandfather. John Malachi gets his own short track on

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City of Emotions The Boston Castrato Colin W. Sargent Barbican Press, 292 pages $17.95

Mutilation is not an easy fictional theme, especially when a story opens with the castration of a six-year-old. This brutal, gory start is referenced repeatedly in Virginia-based author Colin Sargent’s new novel, The Boston Castrato, and it is not the only mutilation explored; foot binding is referred to, as are the podiatric agonies of ballet dancers.

“It was every dancer’s secret shame. Each of her toes was bunged and purple with blood and coagulant, pus oozing from her split and ingrown nails.”

The idea, clearly, is the physical suffering endured for art; but the novel extends it to include the social and emotional contortions associated with music, dance, and poetry. With this theme, the novel sometimes succeeds and sometimes does not. When it does not, though, it is usually because a graphic description is deployed when a simple, realistic one would work much better.

And realism does not require that every gaudily gruesome detail be exposed, merely that a social world that could exist, that may exist, be evoked.

The best sections of The Boston Castra-

to recount with easy realism the hero’s work in a hotel, another character at work in a shipyard, and other such seemingly mundane activities. The novel vividly renders the hotel—the Parker House—from the subterranean dish-washing stations to the gleaming wood of the bar, to the perfectly appointed dining room, to the owner’s office, and more.

Indeed, the Parker House is more than mere setting, it is practically another full-fledged character, largely due to its pellucid rendering as a social milieu.

Then there are the literati and other luminaries. Since the book is a period piece, set in 1920s Boston, that era’s famous people—the art patroness Isabella Gardener, John Singer Sargent, and, from Vienna, Anna Freud—make appearances, while numerous others are mentioned: Sacco and Vanzetti, Henry James, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Bernard Berenson, and D.H. Lawrence. There are also allusions to the Russian revolution and the vogue of imagist poetry, which give the novel pizzazz, while the plot and subplots provide substance. But at the center of The Boston Castrato is the hero Raffi’s mutilation, which throws a terrible obstacle in the narrative’s path, namely the reader’s pity for him.

At one point Raffi gazes into the eyes of a circus freak: “Dare you come into my loneliness?” is what he sees. This has nothing in common with some happy, 21st century tale of transgender redemption through surgery.

Raffi was swindled out of his manhood and repeated mention of the bloody act impedes appreciation of who he becomes.

The Boston Castrato’s real strengths lie not in evoking a bygone era or the physical torments endured for art, but in its characterization and how it weaves together subplots. Raffi’s friend and boss at the hotel, a blind African American named Victor, is in many ways the book’s central concern. A subplot involving an Italian immigrant family and a communist Harvard student who travelled to Soviet Russia somehow holds your attention better than the details of cross-dressing and catty infighting in the upper crust, blue-blood, gay precincts of ragtime Boston.

There are also strong portrayals of crooked pols, hit men, imposters, gangsters, aspiring singers, and psychics—pictures that advance the plot and subplots—which don’t really pick up steam until halfway through the book. But when they do, they barrel on to their dramatic conclusions, finally pulling the reader past that crippling pity for Raffi to an appreciation of this novel’s achievements.

—Eve Ottenberg

MusicDiscography

Take Me OuT TO The Jazz GaMe Brad Linde’s Team Players All-American Bleebop

“To hiT .400,” an umpire said to baseball legend Ted Williams just before he managed the feat in 1941, “a batter has got to be loose.” Saxophonist Brad Linde got that memo. “Loose” is the word for All-American, the baseballthemed second album by his Team Players ensemble. For all its obsession with rich melody and elaborate harmony, the album’s vibe is remarkably low-key; it’s as if Linde’s quintet just banged this music out during a Saturday afternoon hang.

Which means that even its weirdest material makes for a fun listen. Billy Wolfe, the band’s second reedman, contributes a fourmovement suite called “On Ivy; Cracker Jacks (And the Infield Fly Rule)” that uses the atonal 12-tone system as its backbone. Not exactly hummable tunes—with the notable exception of its dual-horn fourth part, “Fieramente”— but the off-and-running energy of guitarist Aaron Quinn in its opening “Molto Allegro” immediately engages the ear and doesn’t let up. The slow “Tempo di Valse,” featuring bassist John J. Williamson, exchanges suspenseful intrigue for energy; the collective “A Piacere” (which segues into “Fieramente”) goes for ominousness—with its trajectory, and thus the ominousness, increasing as it goes.

Then there’s Linde’s Hammond organ, the album’s most—ahem—inside-baseball component. Not that it sounds like the chipper

instrument one hears at the ballpark. Linde uses it for punchy groove on “Swing Batter Batter, Swing!” adding in a few of the greasy, soul-drenched long tones that mark the Hammond’s jazz tradition. These become the foundation of Linde’s solo piece “Louisville Slugger,” after its noodly first third settles into syncopated slinkiness. The organ also grounds two collective improvisations, based on fractured and somewhat silly—and yes, loose— takes of baseball’s two most famous organ songs, “Charge” (here called “Give me the hotdog, baby!”) and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” The former of these is especially entertaining, with Quinn’s guitar combining the thorny style of Mary Halvorson with the sound of a setup on the fritz.

The rest of the material on All-American is decisively less offbeat. Indeed, being on-beat is key for All-American: its success depends on the crack rhythm section of Williamson and drummer Deric Dickens. Vivacious as the melody on Dickens’ “On Base Percentage” is, for example, it’s only possible by virtue of their rollicking swing. Ditto Linde’s surf-rock “Bat Boy,” with Wolfe’s and Linde’s dueling ramshackle tenor solos held together by nothing but scotch tape and backbeat. (Quinn’s pitchperfect genre riffing gets extra credit here, too.)

But they’re not all about adrenaline. Dickens’ delicacy with brushes, for example, allows the band to find heretofore unknown delicacy in Albert Ayler’s “Ghosts” and brings out great pathos in “With Frozen Feet.” Only the dreary album-closing rendition of “Just A Gigolo” misfires in this department.

That leaves All-American with a 14-for-15 record. In baseball, that’s the stuff of batting titles.

—Michael J. West Listen to All-American at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Band of Horses, The Artisanals. 8 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Bush, The Kickback. 8 p.m. $43.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. 2 Night NYE Celebration with Everyone Orchestra. 9 p.m. $25–$50. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Old 97’s. 8 p.m. $35–$85. thehamiltondc.com.

dJ Nights

blaCk CaT baCkSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Mousetrap with DJ Mark Zimin. 9:30 p.m. $7. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Liberation Dance Party with DJ Bill Spieler. 10:30 p.m. $5. dcnine.com. u STreeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Friday Night Dance Party with Jerome Baker III and Spinser Tracy. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

couNtry

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beTheSDa blueS anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Deanna Bogart. 8 p.m. $25–$30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

News was hard to come by in the camps. Even fake news had slowed to a trickle by the time the Administration had finished the rehabilitation of the East Coast. That was back in, what, ’19?

Back when there were still people left in California who called themselves the D*m*cr*t*c P*rty.

Back when people felt like there was a future. Back when there was a future. In the Ward 5 camp, it was just so monotonous, sewing those “Keep America Great” hats until your fingers bled. We had it pretty good—not like in Ward 2, which was a nightmare even before it sank into the Potomac—but still, there wasn’t anything to keep your mind busy. There was a legend, though. A story that people whispered in the camp, about the camp itself, that it used to be a place of joy—what was it called? yes, I remember, Echostage—a place where children laughed and danced. In those days we’d tell each other the story about how General-Polkovnik Skrillex, before he joined the Red Caps, played electronic music at Echostage! He let the beat drop right where you’re standing, we’d whisper. Of course you’d try to get your comrade to smirk, because if someone saw, it would cost him his bread ration. Can you even imagine? Electricity—lights and music—right here in Ward 5! Skrillex performs at 9 p.m. at Echostage, 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. Sold out. (202) 503-2330. echostage.com.

—Kriston Capps

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Pieces of A Dream. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

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howarD TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Amel Larrieux. 8 p.m. $38–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

kenneDy CenTer ConCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Yasiin Bey. 8:30 p.m. $35–$159. kennedy-center.org.

eChoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Hardwell, Kill the Buzz. 8 p.m. $60–$70. echostage.com.

kenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Carolyn Malachi. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Steve Bug, Eddie Richards, Delano Smith, Patrice Scott, Matthew Dekay, No Regular Play. 8 p.m. $40–$50. flashdc.com.

hill CounTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Jonny Grave & the Tombstones. 9:30 p.m.

Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$40. bluesalley.com.

ElEctroNic

eChoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Skrillex. 9 p.m. Sold out. echostage.com.

FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. John Digweed. 8 p.m. $20–$30. flashdc.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Band of Horses, The Artisanals. 9 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

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gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. 2 Night NYE Celebration with Everyone Orchestra, conducted by Matt Butler. 9 p.m. $50–$75. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Old 97’s. 8:30 p.m. $35–$85. thehamiltondc.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Seldom Scene, Locust Honey String Band, Cabin Creek. 8 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

Jazz

u STreeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Nadastrom, Eau Claire, Ken Lazee. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

beTheSDa blueS anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Doc Scantlin and His Imperial Palms Orchestra. 9 p.m. $75–$150. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

FuNk & r&B Dar ConSTiTuTion hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Maze, Frankie Beverly, El Debarge. 10 p.m. $75. dar.org.

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. New Year’s Eve with Cyrus Chestnut. 6:30 p.m.; 10 p.m. $110–$150. bluesalley.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Colors presents R&B Only NYE. 7 p.m. $21.99. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Wale & Friends. 8 p.m. $39.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Dude Ranch and the Girl at the Rock Show, The Great Heights Band, Stacked Like Pancakes. 8 p.m. $11. fillmoresilverspring.com.

hip-hop

kenneDy CenTer ConCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Yasiin Bey. 8 p.m. $35–$159. kennedy-center.org.

ElEctroNic

eChoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Disclosure. 9 p.m. $35–$50. echostage.com.

MoNday classical

muSiC CenTer aT STraThmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Salute To Vienna New Year’s Concert. 3 p.m. $49–$125. strathmore.org.

hip-hop

rock

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, The Judy Chops. 7:30 p.m. $15.25–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

classical

arena STage 1101 6th St. SW. (202) 488-3300. NSO In Your Neighborhood Kick-Off Concert. 7:30 p.m.

Free. arenastage.org.

World

hill CenTer aT The olD naval hoSpiTal 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 549-4172. Miramar. 7 p.m. $12–$15. hillcenterdc.org.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Seek & Find Project. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

kenneDy CenTer ConCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Yasiin Bey. 8 p.m. $35–$159. kennedy-center.org.

thursday

kenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Wes Felton, Asheru. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. August Burns Red, Protest the Hero, In Hearts Wake, ‘68. 7 p.m. $23. fillmoresilverspring.com.

tuEsday Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Chemistry Project. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

rock

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Ten Feet Tall, Mary-El Band. 8:30 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Alejandro Escovedo. 7:30 p.m. $25–$30. thehamiltondc.com.

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As is tradition, D.C.’s favorite sons Nadastrom return home to celebrate New Year’s Eve at U Street Music Hall. For the seventh year running, the club promises to keep things simple—no inflated cover charges, no champagne bottles, no bullshit—so that revelers can ring in 2017 without being distracted from the music. That’s why Nadastrom is the perfect anchor for the club’s New Year’s party. Whether you want to hear uptempo club music, body-whining moombahton (which basically became the sound of pop radio in the last year or so), or the deepest of deep house grooves, Nadastrom has you covered. Joining the duo is D.C. up-and-comer Eau Claire, who released the scintillating All The Wonder EP earlier this year, and U Hall general manager and performer Ken Lazee. If you’re going to brave the crowds and venture out on New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop, it might as well be a disco ball. Nadastrom performs with Eau Claire and Ken Lazee at 10 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $10. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

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hill CounTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Stealin’ the Deal. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22.50– $27.50. bluesalley.com. kenneDy CenTer millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Ladybugs. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Theater

blaCk naTiviTy This long-running musical by Langston Hughes celebrates the birth of Jesus and the holiday traditions of black Americans Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Dec. 31. $30–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

Galleries

Charm Set at a LGBTQ community center, this play follows Mama Darleena Andrews, a black trans woman who teaches etiquette classes to a diverse ensemble of characters. While they struggle to understand the importance of manners and charm at first, “Mama Darlin” shows them how their behavior can affect their future goals. Natsu Onoda Power directs this award-winning play, which features performances from local favorites Kimberly Gilbert, B’Ellana Marie Duquesne, and Justin Weaks.

Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Jan. 29 $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

CroSS maCkenzie gallery 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-7970. crossmackenzie.com. Ongoing: “The Arbor Series.” Photographer John H. Brown, Jr. showcases a selection of images of trees and plants.

Dec. 10 to Jan. 11.

a ChriSTmaS Carol Veteran local actor Craig Wallace takes on the role of Scrooge in this popular musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ tale about kindness and holiday cheer. Celebrating its 35th season at Ford’s, Michael Wilson’s adaptation is directed by Michael Baron. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Dec. 31. $22–$92. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

aDDiSon/ripley Fine arT 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 338-5180. addisonripleyfineart.com. Ongoing: “Suzanne Caporeal.” The painter and printmaker displays a selection of abstract works. Dec. 6 to Jan. 21.

DC arTS CenTer 2438 18th St. NW. (202) 462-7833. dcartscenter.org. Ongoing: “Mysteries.” This exhibition in DCAC’s nano gallery features small acrylic paintings by artist Nihal Kececi Thadani. Dec. 16 to March 19. hemphill Fine arTS 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 2345601. hemphillfinearts.com. Ongoing: “Everything Became Nearness and All the Nearness Turned to Stone.” Iranian painter Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi presents a series of paintings inspired by the poetry of Rilke.

Nov. 11 to Jan. 19. hillyer arT SpaCe 9 Hillyer Court NW. (202) 3380325. hillyerartspace.org. Closing: “Format.” Photographer Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah curates this exhibition of small, photo-inspired art presented at Hillyer as part of Fotoweek DC. Nov. 7 to Dec. 30. honFleur gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Ongoing: “Things Get Lost.” Artist Michaela PilarBrown explores themes of black identity and sexuality in this exhibition of photography, paintings, and collage. Dec. 9 to Jan. 28. long view gallery 1234 9th St. NW. (202) 2324788. longviewgallerydc.com. Ongoing: “Michelle Peterson-Albandoz.” The local artist, known for her work with wood, displays a series of new pieces inspired by the American flag. Dec. 1 to Jan. 8. monTpelier arTS CenTer 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. arts.pgparks.com. Closing: “Urban Color.” Photographers Susan Stregack and Rollin Fraser display a series of detailed, colorful images captured during their explorations of cities. Nov. 5 to Dec. 31. Closing: “Annual Holiday Group Show.” Montpelier’s resident artists showcase sculptures, paintings, and photos at this year-end exhibition. Dec. 3 to Dec. 31. Closing: “Single Lens Reflextions.” Local photographers turn their attention to their families and familiar locations in this group show. Nov. 6 to Dec. 31. morTon Fine arT 1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 6282787. mortonfineart.com. Closing: “Holiday Small Works Show.” Morton’s resident artists display their work at this annual showcase. Dec. 3 to Jan. 5. viviD SoluTionS gallery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. Ongoing: “Sweet Air of Liberty: Freedom in More Than 3 Acts.”

Benita Elliott uses photography and digital collage techniques to create images inspired by themes from the Civil Rights era. Dec. 9 to Jan. 28.

Dance

STep aFrika!’S magiCal, muSiCal, holiDay STep Show The local African dance company returns with its annual winter production that incorporates percussive movement, music, and an appearance by DJ Frosty the Snowman. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. Dec. 30, 7:30 p.m. $18–$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

Copenhagen Michael Frayn’s drama about a conversation between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, two physicists racing to create the atom bomb, aims to answer questions that historians have puzzled over for decades. This production, directed by Eleanor Holdridge , stars Sherri Edelen, Tim Getman, and Michael Russotto. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Jan. 29 $17–$47.

(202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

Fully CommiTTeD A restaurant reservation taker showcases his amazing dexterity in this comedic and engaging one-man show featuring local actor Tom Story. Recently seen on Broadway, the MetroStage version is directed by Alan Paul. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To Jan. 8. $55–$60. (703) 5489044. metrostage.org. inTo The wooDS Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical that wonders what happens to fairy tale characters after they find their “happily ever after” is reimagined at the Kennedy Center in a new production from Fiasco Theater. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 8. $45–$175. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. an iriSh Carol Keegan Theatre’s annual holiday tradition continues with its presentation of this Christmas Carol adaptation set in a Dublin pub. When its owner loses touch with humanity, a series of ghosts visit to remind him about the important things in life. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Dec. 31. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. mary poppinS The well-loved movie musical about a nanny who brightens the lives of two dour children becomes a high-flying stage show in this production that features songs like “Supercalifragalisticexpealidocious” and “Practically Perfect.” Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 1. $18–$80. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

The SeConD CiTy’S blaCk SiDe oF The moon Woolly Mammoth and the Chicago-based comedy ensemble team up once again for a new show, this one with a cast of black comedians who imagine the future, describing everything from a new planet ruled

by Barack Obama to police brutality and everyone’s obsession with gluten intolerance. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Jan. 1. $20–$69. (202) 3933939. woollymammoth.net.

The SeCreT garDen The classic children’s novel about an orphan who discovers the secrets locked away in her uncle’s mansion comes to Shakespeare Theatre Company in the form of a musical, featuring favorite songs like “Lily’s Eyes” and “A Bit of Earth.” Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Dec. 31. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

Sleeping beauTy The classic fairy tale about a young woman who sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger is transformed into a dark, gothic tale in this new, wordless adaptation from Synetic Theater. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To Jan. 8 $20–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org.

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The Shining

As is tradition, New Year’s Day is spent curled up on the couch, binge-watching movies, and nursing that inevitable hangover. But if you get the energy to leave the house, head over to Mount Pleasant’s Suns Cinema on Sunday evening for a screening of what’s perhaps one of the finest movies to nurse away a hangover on a frosty New Year’s Day. At nearly three hours, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic holds up, and not just because of iconic performances from Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Thanks to the Rodney Ascher’s 2012 documentary Room 237, which explores the many interpretations and theories surrounding the film, watching The Shining is more like an exercise in deep interpretation. Are those patterns on the carpet and Danny’s Apollo 11 shirt Kubrick’s coded confession for faking the moon landings? Is it really about the genocide of Native Americans? At the time of its release, The Shining was such a change of pace in Kubrick’s career that it utterly baffled critics and audiences. Decades later, its been reevaluated as a one of the greatest horror films of all time, but its deeper meanings still confound audiences. Forget your hangover and get lost in the cinema of Stanley Kubrick. The film screens at 7 p.m. at Suns Cinema, 3107 Mount Pleasant St. NW. $5. Sunscinema.com.

—Matt Cohen

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chris sMith

When George W. Bush was reelected president in 2004, Democrats nationwide were stunned. “How could the majority of voters have picked this guy twice?” they wondered aloud. On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, they could see their concerns reflected back at them with an added satirical flair and dose of humor. As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, people are even more alarmed about the future of the United States, and with Stewart well into his second year of retirement, there’s no singular icon on the left who will speak truth to power. (Sorry, Trevor Noah, but you’re not quite cutting it.) If you find distraction to be an adequate coping mechanism, remind yourself of the good old days with The Daily Show (the Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests. Compiled by New York magazine contributing editor Chris Smith, the book features new insights from Stewart and his revolving cast of characters. For a dose of nostalgia in the weeks leading up to Inauguration Day, you can’t do better than spending some time with these familiar, comforting voices. Chris Smith reads at 7 p.m. at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

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FREE CONCERTS! National Symphony Orchestra comes to Southeast and Southwest DC!

January 3–9, 2017 FREE, NO TICKETS REQUIRED Free online reservations are recommended for these concerts. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

ARENA STAGE

Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. OPENING EVENT

BALLOU HIGH SCHOOL

Jacomo Bairos, conductor | Black Violin Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. COMMUNITY CONCERT

TOWN HALL EDUCATION ARTS RECREATION CAMPUS

Jacomo Bairos, conductor | Christylez Bacon and Wytold Jan. 7 at 2 p.m. FAMILY CONCERT BLACK VIOLIN

CHRISTYLEZ BACON AND WYTOLD

SOMeOne iS gOing TO COMe

An unexpected visitor knocking on the door when you’re home can be alarming. Horror movies rely on that premise for a reason, after all. But what if the mere idea of a visitor is enough to instill fear in you? That’s the problem the two central characters in Scena Theatre’s latest production encounter. In Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s Someone Is Going to Come, a couple seeks seclusion and moves into a run-down home in a rural area to ensure their privacy. Despite taking these measures, they’re still consumed by the thought of someone approaching their property. What follows is an intense psychological drama about the power of being alone. Since workshopping the play in 2014, Scena artistic director Robert McNamara has expanded it into a full production that is just dark enough for the gloomy days of early winter. The play runs Jan. 3 to Feb. 5 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $20–$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

—Caroline Jones

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Nso iN your NEighBorhood EVEN MORE FREE CONCERTS Featuring NSO musicians in various combinations playing at Anacostia Community Museum, Blind Whino, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, The Corner Store, East City Bookshop, Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Historic Congressional Cemetery, Holiday Inn Capitol, Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library, Westminster Presbyterian Church and many more locations!

Full schedule and RSVP information at nationalsymphony.org/IYN David and Alice Rubenstein are the Presenting Underwriters of the NSO.

NSO In Your Neighborhood: SE/SW is sponsored by Wells Fargo.

The National Symphony Orchestra’s Community Engagement Program is made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Irene Pollin.

Additional support is provided by Linda and Tobia Mercuro, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, and Tina and Albert Small, Jr.

NSO In Your Neighborhood: SE/SW is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

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The Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra kick off the new year with a performance that highlights the Center’s commitment to “increasing opportunities for all people to participate in and understand the arts.” Some of the NSO’s top musicians, including concertmaster violinist Nurit Bar-Josef, bassist Charles Niles, and percussionist Joseph Connell come together at Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle to usher in the “NSO In Your Neighborhood” community performance series for 2017. This year, the initiative celebrates Southeast and Southwest D.C. and brings a greater breadth of arts opportunities, in partnership with the Kennedy Center, to two sections of our city that often lack quality programming. Joining the NSO musicians is pianist Tony Nalker, leader of the U.S Army Blues and member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, to throw a little jazz heritage into the mix. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. NW. Free.

—Jackson Sinnenberg

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COPENHAGEN

In 1941, long before he was associated with a Breaking Bad character, physicist Werner Heisenberg visited physicist Niels Bohr and his wife Margrethe in Copenhagen. At the time, both men were working on building nuclear weapons, Heisenberg for the Germans and Bohr for the Allies. Although Heisenberg worked with Bohr in the past, historians still wonder what the men discussed during what must have been a tense visit. Playwright Michael Frayn, best known for his farce Noises Off, imagines what might have happened in his play Copenhagen. In it, the spirits of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Margrethe converge after their deaths to explain multiple theories about what happened in Denmark. What was thought to be a scholarly conversation may have been more personal, and while it was unclear how seriously they discussed the consequences of using nuclear weapons to end World War II, the topic of creating weapons that could decimate whole cities certainly came up. In a new production at Theater J, current knowledge about the threat of nuclear war makes the conversations all the more intriguing. The play runs Jan. 5 to Jan. 29 at Theater J, 1529 16th St. NW. $17–$47. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

—Caroline Jones

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Someone IS GoInG to Come In this stirring drama presented by Scena Theater, a couple seeking solitude buys a house in a secluded area but grows increasingly anxious that an unexpected visitor may arrive at any moment. Robert McNamara directs this psychological play by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, which Scena first workshopped in 2014.

Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 5. $20–$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. tItanIC: the muSICal The stirring musical about the sinking of the famous ocean liner is reimagined at Signature by director Eric Schaeffer. Designed to be performed in the round, the production tells the story of the ship’s final minutes. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 29. $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

WICked The touring company of the long-running Broadway musical about the good witches and bad witches Dorothy encounters in Oz returns to the Kennedy Center for the holiday season. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 8 $79–$229.

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

Film aSSaSSIn’S Creed A man discovers he is part of a secret group of assassins after exploring his past in this thriller starring Michael Fassbender and Jeremy Irons. Directed by Justin Kurzel. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Collateral Beauty As a man struggles to cope with tragedy, he seeks understanding by writing letters to Love, Time, and Death. The journey to understanding leads him to interact with other wanderers. Starring Will Smith,Helen Mirren, and Kate Winslet. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) FenCeS Denzel Washington directs and starts with Viola Davis in this adaptation of August Wilson’s searing family drama about a father whose obsession with his missed opportunities negatively impacts his relationship with his son. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

Gold Matthew McConaughey plays a down-on-hisluck businessman who teams up with a geologist to find gold in the Indonesian jungle in this crime drama.

Directed by Stephen Gagan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) hIdden FIGureS Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer play three black scientists who worked to create projections for John Glenn’s orbit of the Earth and other early NASA missions in this drama based on true events. Directed by Theodore Melfi. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) la la land Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star in this contemporary musical about a pianist and an aspiring actress who fall in love. Directed by Damien Chazelle, best known for directing 2014’s Whiplash.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a monSter CallS J.A. Bayona directs this fantasy film about a young boy who relies on his relationship with a humanoid tree to cope with his feelings of loss and bullying. Featuring Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, and Sigourney Weaver. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) roGue one: a Star WarS Story Gareth Edwards directs the latest story in the <em>Star Wars</em> canon, in which the Rebellion attempts to steal plans for the Death Star, leading to a high-stakes conflict.

Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, and Alan Tudyk.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SInG Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, and Seth MacFarlane provide voices to animated animals in this comedy about a koala who aims to restore his old theater by using it as a venue for a singing competition. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the SpaCe BetWeen uS A young man born on Mars visits Earth for the first time in this adventure flick starring Britt Robertson, Janet Montgomery, and Carla Gugino. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Why hIm? James Franco and Bryan Cranston star in this comedy about a boy who tries to get to know his girlfriend’s dad but ends up feuding with him instead.

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DECEMBER

Loose Lips, sunken ships Titanic

Story and book by Peter Stone Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston Directed by Eric Schaeffer At Signature Theatre to Jan. 29, 2017 TiTanic, the original musical, had the good or bad fortune to open in the spring of 1997, eight months before James Cameron’s Oscar-sweeping movie of the same title. The two enterprises were unrelated save for the fact they dramatized the same tragedy. Both were beset by costly technical problems; the musical’s, amusingly, included a model of the doomed RMS Titanic that refused to sink. Cameron’s movie, meanwhile, went so far over budget that covering the production became a sort of blood sport. For a full year prior to its opening, it was written off as an act of hubris as monumental as the ship that inspired it, a fiasco that couldn’t possibly end up in the black given its swollen price tag.

Titanic-the-Broadway-show lost money despite running for two years and winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Titanic-the-movie won Best Picture and 10 other Academy Awards on its way to becoming the biggest (unadjusted) box-office hit in history.

Its long shadow is probably why almost no one remembers there ever was a Titanic musical.

Eric Schaeffer’s vigorous revival for Signature Theatre, beautifully staged and earnestly sung though it is, won’t change that. No element of the performance is subpar. There’s just a remove to 1776 writer Peter Stone’s book and an ersatz quality to Nine composer/lyricist Maury Yeston’s songs that no level of interpretive genius—and Schaeffer’s is very high—could solve.

This is a show that sounds like what people who dislike musical theater think musical theater sounds like. “Lady’s Maid,” an Act One song wherein a trio of poor Irish women all named Kate (played by Jamie Eacker, Erica Claire, and, um, Katie McManus) sing of the better lives they intend to make for themselves in America, has a wit too little in evidence elsewhere. Especial-

ly considering that—to recycle a lame joke that two different people made to me at intermission—we all know how this story ends.

But it’s the journey that matters, especially when the destination is the bottom of the Atlantic. Stone approaches the tale as a 1970s-style ensemble disaster epic, declining to privilege any one of some three dozen characters too highly. But this intended panorama feels awfully vague, proving Cameron’s decision to build his 195-minute movie around just two primary characters the right one.

In terms of stage time, Titanic’s circumspect chief designer, played by Signature veteran Bobby Smith is first among equals. Though he has worthy company in Christopher Bloch and Lawrence Redmond as the ship’s Captain E. J. Smith and White Star Line executive J. Bruce Ismay, respectively. All three actors are strong. Ismay wants to stage a press coup by arriving in New York ahead of schedule while the chief designer and others urge the Captain not to drive the ship’s engines too hard on her maiden voyage. The captain, persuaded by the White Star Line to delay his retirement until after Titanic has proven its mettle, allows himself to be swayed by Ismay’s flattery.

This alone isn’t enough to doom the roughly 1,500 who perished, but rather one of several concessions to vanity that contributed to their deaths. Surely the decisions to equip the decks with fewer than half the number of lifeboats needed to carry the ship’s population and to build the compartments of the hold only so high to preserve the grand ballrooms of the upper decks were graver, less impulsive sins. Facts like these make the foundering of the “The Largest Moving Object” ever built (to quote one of those ho-hum, un-hummable tunes) irresistible as a dramatic subject, but Yeston captures only the gigantism of the event—not its thousand tragic ironies.

On the night I attended, the role of Alice Beane, a starstruck third class passenger usually played by Tracy Lynn Olivera, was performed by Signature veteran Erin Driscoll, who was marvelous. Alice keeps trying to sneak into areas of the ship reserved for first class travelers.

Christopher Mueller has some resonant, understated moments as the ship’s steward, who tries to intercept her without making a scene.

Scenic designer Paul Tate Depoo III wisely does away with any stubbornly buoyant model ship, instead placing a web of ascending gangplanks in Signature’s “Max” space to suggest the grand vessel’s various decks. The in-theround configuration is a good fit for the many dramas playing out simultaneously aboard the huge ship and lets the audience be closer to the actors. It’s a bit of intimacy that Titanic desperately needs.

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Millennium Stage

20 FRI The Wee Trio

Jan. 16 Gladys Knight

with Fabian Almazan

Since bursting onto the scene in 2008, the jazz ensemble’s latest release, Wee+3, was praised

by All About Jazz as “highly accessible music built on a unique blend of intellect, brawn, sensitivity, and humor.”

Free performances every day at 6 p.m. No tickets required (Unless noted otherwise)

21 SAT A Fool’s Paradise

4 WED Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project

Jan. 1 Nag Champa Art Ensemble

Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, the group features some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle, and reimagine traditional music.

5 THU The Ladybugs

Led by Martina DaSilva, all members of the jazz band sing while playing ukulele, guitar, trombone, bass, and drums. Repertoire includes favorites from the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s, infused with swing, country, blues, and Latin music.

JANUARY 2017 1 SUN Tribute to yasiin bey

D.C. musician and WPFW-FM programmer Jamal Gray curates a tribute performance in honor of lyrical artist yasiin bey (formerly known as Mos Def) and his retirement from the music business. The show features experimental jazz outfit Nag Champa Art Ensemble, Oshun, The Cornel West Theory, and DJ Underdog.

Presented in collaboration with Words Beats & Life.

2 MON Wes Felton and Asheru

The D.C. Hip Hop artists perform a show in recognition of the retirement of lyrical artist yasiin bey.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS WITH JOY OF MOTION Hailed as “the area’s most comprehensive dance institution” by the Washington Post, Joy of Motion Dance Center returns with its instructors for a free series of participatory dance classes. Dress to move!

3 TUE Zumba

Take a Zumba dance fitness fusion class led by Tanya Nuchols. Groove, move, and have a good time, with instruction offered for all abilities.

10 TUE Street Pop Jazz/Prince Tribute

Maverick Lemons leads a street pop jazz/Prince tribute dance fitness class, with instruction offered for all abilities.

The multitalented entertainer, who comes from a long line of historical pioneers including Civil Rights leader Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, is a Howard University graduate and has collaborated with Grammy®-nominated artists including Jack White, The Foreign Exchange, and Eric Roberson.

Presented in collaboration with Hometown Sounds.

14 SAT Tal Shtuhl

Specially selected by Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran, the saxophonist explores a variety of pieces with his quartet, including works by Duke Ellington and Clifford Brown, as well as selections from his first release, Beauty Horizons.

6 FRI Batida

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13 FRI Aaron “Ab” Abernathy

The eclectic artist brings African rhythms and electronic dance music together with choreography and video projections.

La Parranda El Clavo

Hailing from New York, the band blends bluegrass, country, rockabilly, and a sucker punch of punk for a rubber-meets-the-road roots sound.

Internationally renowned singer Machado presents a high-energy, salsa dancing concert with the Afro-Venezuelan percussion and vocal ensemble.

A free salsa dance lesson will take place in front of the stage at 5 p.m.

8 SUN Kandace Springs

The Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and pianist counts such song stylists as Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Roberta Flack as her heroes.

Her debut album, Soul Eyes, was lauded by Billboard as a “winning fusion of jazz and soul.”

9 MON Black String

Founded in 2011, the quartet bases its sound on Korean traditional music and improvisational music with fresh and modern influences.

11 WED Jojo Abot

A DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION

16 MON Let Freedom Ring

The Kennedy Center and Georgetown University host a musical celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The concert featuring Grammy Award®–winning singer Gladys Knight also includes the Let Freedom Ring Choir with Music Director Rev. Nolan Williams Jr. Note: Free reserved seat tickets will be given away up to two (2) per person in line at the entrance to the Hall of Nations at 4:30 p.m. on Mon., Jan. 16 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Opera House Orchestra

Members of the KCOHO play a concert of select classical works from Schumann.

IN THE FAMILY THEATER

Jan. 8 Kandace Springs

18 WED Comedy at the Kennedy Center:

Langston Kerman*

12 THU Afro-Cuban Salsa

The comedian does stand-up all over the country, and has performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and Adam DeVine’s House Party. Currently, he plays “Jared” on the Golden Globe®–nominated HBO show Insecure. Opening for Kerman is D.C.based comedian and artist Simone.

Angela Ingram leads an Afro-Cuban salsa dance fitness class, with instruction offered for all abilities.

23 MON Sass Jazz

Dani Quirion leads a “Sass Jazz” dance fitness class, with instruction offered for all abilities and levels of instruction.

DC pianist Mark Saltman and bassist William Knowles present a concert of melodic, groove-oriented compositions in celebration of their new release, Almost.

Participants in the National Symphony Orchestra training program play classical works.

28 SAT Ivy Sole

The Philadelphia-based emcee presents an evening of engaging and personal original music.

30 MON Gondwana Chorale

Australia’s national youth choir performs music that is close to their hearts: new Australian works that capture the mystery and grandeur of their homeland and display the cultural diversity of its people.

31 TUE Theater Alliance

The D.C. theater company presents six 10-minute plays focused on the environment.

Presented in collaboration with Planet Earth Arts Foundation.

Jan. 18 Langston Kerman

Members of the KCOHO play a concert of select classical works from Clarke and Schumann.

“Kandace has a voice that could melt snow” – Prince

“Soul Eyes features an eclectic mix of originals and covers about love and romance that cater perfectly to Springs’ alluring alto and innovative piano arrangements.”

– Billboard

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25 WED SaltmanKnowles

Opera House Orchestra

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Talented recent graduates and teaching artists from Split This Rock perform an evening of spoken word.

19 THU Kennedy Center

Jocelyn Isaac leads its final dance fitness class for the month, focused on modern contemporary instruction.

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24 TUE Ushindi Performance Troupe

This performance contains mature content. Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the Hall of States starting at approximately 5 p.m., up to two tickets per person.

29 SUN Modern Contemporary Dance

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Actor Douglas Taurel performs his powerful and passionate one-man show based on real stories and factual accounts from soldier and family member letters that were written from the American Revolution all the way through current day Afghanistan. The show received four stars at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

26 & 27 THU & FRI NSO Youth Fellows

IN THE CONCERT HALL

17 TUE Kennedy Center

This Ghanaian singer-songwriter’s signature sound is created by an experimental blend of electronica, Afro-beat, jazz, neo-soul, house, and reggae music.

22 SUN The American Soldier

Part of JFKC: A Centennial Celebration of John F. Kennedy

15 SUN Betsayda Machado and

7 SAT The Defibulators

Four Baltimore-based actors perform Shakespeare’s greatest hits on command, adapted and directed by Sarah Curnoles. If the actors do not perform 30 scenes in 60 minutes, someone gets a pie in the face.

“A vocal force to be reckoned with…and will undoubtedly leave listeners wanting more.” – Okayplayer

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“The singer, songwriter, and pianist blends elements station and ride the Bottom/GWU of soul, jazz and pop, producing a unique and modern free Kennedy Center shuttle departing twist on the genre that appeals to young and old every listeners alike.” – Interview Magazine 15 minutes until midnight.

“This gently acoustic, sophisticated and affecting DAILY FOOD AND DRINK SPECIALS “show-stopper” – Evening Standard album is one of the year’s best so far.”

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“Suave songstress” – Wall Street Journal

The Kennedy “Springs’ forceful and textured voice is the stuff Center welcomes legends are made of.” – BlackBook persons with disabilities.

PLEASE NOTE: There is no free parking for free performances.

ALL PERFORMANCES AND PROGRAMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

The Millennium Stage was created and underwritten by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs to make the performing arts accessible to everyone in fulfillment of the Kennedy Center’s mission to its community and the nation.

Additional funding for the Millennium Stage is provided by Bernstein Family Foundation, The Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation, Inc., The Meredith Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A.J. Stolwijk, U.S. Department of Education, and the Millennium Stage Endowment Fund.

The Millennium Stage Endowment Fund was made possible by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, Fannie Mae Foundation, The Kimsey Endowment, Gilbert† and Jaylee† Mead, Mortgage Bankers Association of America and other anonymous gifts to secure the future of the Millennium Stage.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is also made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.