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Leave Behind. Other readers questioned the utility of lowincome housing, the issue raised in Aaron Wiener’s column “Use It or Lose It” on the District Opportunity to Purchase Act. chris8lee took to the comments section to gripe, “for once and for all, it’s not the DC gov’ts business or interest to maintain a large low income demographic. there is not that much need for CVS workers and Walmart clerks.” But chris8s t n e r.com/ev lee, you keep using that word “low income.” e p a p y it gtonc in I do not think it means what you think it h s a w o kets, go t means. As NonStopSki pointed out: “In ic t y u b To DC, low income housing... are offered to folks making 40-55k a year, depending on how many dependents/residents they have. Those folks aren’t CVS workers and Walmart clerks. They’re people with degrees, high skill jobs, usually college educated. They’re white, black, brown, hispanic, etc, and they’re young, old, middle aged, single, married, with kids, without kids.... it makes D.C. 2015! r’s Best of e plenty of sense for a city to have a stock p a P y it ers in C of affordable housing that allows people 300 Winn r e v o g n Celebrati to move up financially as they get more experience in the workforce (and therefore, make more money). Just today WCP had a link to a study showing DC rent prices are rising much faster than incomes are in the district.

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by Jonetta Rose Barras elicited a thoughtful response from Linda Moore, founder and former Executive Director of the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School. “At Stokes School, we applaud parents who are sufficiently engaged with their children’s education to successfully shepherd them through home-schooling.” However, she writes, “I hope that no one automatically makes the assumption that one child’s unsuccessful experience at [Stokes] means that the school is insensitive to African-American students.” Her letter is worth reading in its entirely and can be found on our site. The article also touched a nerve with some readers. Specifically, as JM wrote on our site, race doesn’t seem like a legitimate reason to pull one’s kid from public school. “Isn’t DCPS already ~90% staffed by African-Americans? Ironic that these parents are pleading racial insensitivity as grounds for withdrawing their kids.”

Not quite, JM. The position taken here is that structural and institutional racism are working against minority parents and kids, and, as the parents discussed with Barras, extends to the curriculum itself. But what about the kids? Are children always better off when schooled by parents? Commenter Adams Morgan questioned the basic tenets of homeschooling: “what worries me are the social aspects. I know home school collaboratives work hard to provide the social aspects missed

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Department of Corrections. John Anderson’s feature on the National Gallery’s Piero di Cosimo exhibition contained two reporting errors: Samuel H. Kress purchased three Piero paintings at a 1938 gallery show in New York, not four; and there are 20 Piero works in North America, not 19.

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Loose Lips

He Rests His Case

Ron Machen resigns without charging Vince Gray.

A year ago this month, U.S. Attorney Ron Machen invited reporters into his Judiciary Square offices and laid out the case against then-Mayor Vince Gray. He didn’t actually say Gray’s name at the press conference—despite bringing in a guilty plea from Gray shadow campaign financier Jeff Thompson that day, Machen hadn’t charged the mayor.

Still, it was no mystery who Machen meant when he talked about “Mayoral Candidate A” and his scheme to fund an illegal campaign in 2010. In Machen’s telling, Gray hadn’t just asked for Thompson’s money to campaign against Adrian Fenty: Gray wanted the District contractor to sway a teacher’s union election, renovate a home for one of his friends, and give an unnamed Gray relative $10,000.

Machen promised there was much more to come on Thompson and Gray. “What you learned about today is only the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Voters decided they didn’t want Gray in office for the next four years as they awaited the reveal of the rest of that iceberg. As Gray’s primary victory party turned into a collective grief session, Gray Chief of Staff Christopher Murphy blamed it on Thompson’s plea and Machen’s awkwardly timed press conference. Since when, Murphy lamented, did we let U.S. attorneys decide elections?

A year later, it looks like Machen’s iceberg has been hit by global warming. Since then, Machen has managed to secure guilty pleas from two former D.C. Council candidates and Gray’s campaign driver. But he hasn’t charged At-Large Councilmember Vincent Orange or former D.C. Council Chairwoman Linda Cropp—aside from Gray, the most prominent pols implicated by Thompson.

Most surprising of all, he hasn’t filed any charges against Gray himself, despite feeling confident enough in his case to nuke the mayor’s re-election campaign last year.

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By Will Sommer

The One That Got Away? With Gray uncharged, Machen’s successes seem less impressive.

one election bid sunk, Machen announced Monday that he’s leaving office. See ya, sorry about picking your mayor.

Machen’s exit leaves everyone who bought into his claims about Gray—from the Washington Post editorial board to Mayor Muriel Bowser to LL himself—looking awfully dumb. But it also reveals that Machen wasn’t the scourge of corruption that he made himself out to be.

Machen is a U.S. attorney whose ambition exceeded his abilities, a prosecutor who aimed to clean up the Wilson Building and only somewhat succeeded. With Gray uncharged, even his successes seem less impressive. In the end, Machen’s legacy may be that he treated the people he caught better than the people he never charged.

Machen took office in 2010, but he didn’t start looming over the Wilson Building until 2012, when Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. pleaded guilty to blowing city money meant for at-risk kids.

Thomas took real prison time. He’s only scheduled to leave halfway house custody later this month. But three years later, the sentence doesn’t make Machen look so fearsome.

Machen and the FBI had the case dug up for them, first by Thomas’ Republican opponent Tim Day, then by D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General.

Maybe the Thomas case got everyone a little too excited about Machen’s potential. Next up was D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown who, like, Thomas, insisted nothing was wrong until Machen dragged him into court and showed otherwise.

Brown’s flight from the Wilson Building burnished Machen’s reputation even more: This guy was cleaning house! Later that year, a tough-looking Machen appeared in Washingtonian behind his desk like he was about to leap over it and punch a corrupt councilmember.

That the eventual charges against Brown amounted to just a few months of house arrest didn’t look so bad at the time. But for

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DISTRICTLINE all of Brown’s alleged misdeeds, including a string of colossally mismanaged campaign accounts that benefited his brother, the best Machen could get on the chairman was a misdemeanor campaign finance violation and a common bank fraud charge already immortalized on The Wire as a last-ditch charge for prosecutors.

Machen’s pals in the FBI were going through Brown’s trash, spooking him with subpoenas then going through his trash again, yet all Machen could get was house arrest. Even the District’s sedate Office of Campaign Finance, not exactly a model of investigative energy, managed to reveal more on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in sketchy accounting behind Brown’s 2010 campaign than Machen did.

Considering how easily Kwame Brown got off, the charges against former Councilmember Michael Brown—an enthusiastic bribetaker and one of Thompson’s favorite candidates—look like the most impressive part of Machen’s record. For lying to prosecutors

and taking money from undercover agents, Brown, who was already out of office when he was charged, received 39 months in prison.

But Thompson himself will face a much lighter sentence. Unlike Gray, Thompson is a bona fide, admitted crook. A year later, it’s easy to forget how staggeringly huge Thompson’s criminal empire was. He admitted to organizing shadow campaigns to help Brown, Gray, Orange, and even Hillary Clinton; he funnelled hundreds of thousands in straw campaign contributions to nearly every councilmember and several federal candidates. Thompson claims to have done personal favors for the mayor and kicked illicit money into a union race.

For all that, his deal with Machen could earn him just six months of house arrest.

“He tried to steal a presidential election, and he’s a free man,” says former Gray campaign manager Chuck Thies.

The future of the charges against Gray isn’t just about what the partners think of Machen at whatever tony law firm he ends

up joining. As Machen leaves, he raises the question of whether he timed Thompson’s plea with the primary to punish Gray for a case he couldn’t prove in court—a clear abuse of prosecutorial power.

A D.C. Bar complaint against Machen for the plea deal’s timing is still in progress, according to Brian Lederer, the Gray donor who filed it last year.

Machen’s investigation into Gray’s 2010 campaign entered its fourth year this month.

Despite racking up convictions from Gray’s friends and Thompson’s associates, there’s no evidence that Machen is closer to Gray than he was last September, when the mayor rejected a plea offer. After Machen announced his resignation this week, Gray attorney Bob Bennett called on the outgoing prosecutor to use the occasion to clear the ex-mayor.

Gray could still be found guilty at some point. He definitely had a suspicious number of friends willing to commit federal crimes that they say benefitted him. And Machen could still charge Gray in his final two weeks.

After that, acting U.S. Attorney Vinnie Cohen Jr., who already handled the corruption cases, will continue what Machen describes as an “ongoing” case.

Still, lawyers representing Thompson cronies-turned-federal-cooperators tell LL they haven’t seen any recent action on the case.

Fred Cooke Jr. represents Jeanne Clarke Harris, Thompson’s funnel for shadow campaign money and one of a few people who can place Gray at the alleged meeting where he asked Thompson for more shadow campaign funding. “We’re just waiting like everybody else,” Cooke says.

Ditto Edward MacMahon, who represents Thompson straw donor Lee Calhoun.

“We haven’t heard a peep,” MacMahon says.

Join the club. Four years in, the only person who isn’t waiting for the U.S. attorney to finish his case against Gray is Machen himself. CP Got a tip for LL? Send suggestions to lips@ washingtoncitypaper.com. Or call (202) 6506925.

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Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week Rare Essence played at SXSW.

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: 1 numbers This year, D.C. joined in the orgiastic descent of marketing on Austin, Texas, for the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival. It’s technology, it’s music, it’s film, and it’s a lot of Texas barbeque, which is God’s perfect food unless you’re from the Carolinas, and then it’s pistols at dawn. The power of SXSW can be used for good (a 1996 panel was called “So You Want to Make a CD-Rom”) or dark, dark evil (many accelerator winners are the living worst, plus, Wikipedia tells me, John Mayer got his “big break” there). But this year, the District has marshalled its resources to send Mayor Muriel Bowser and a delegation of city employees to Austin to lure startups to D.C. While no one in the mayor’s office could put a number on how many companies they hoped to lure to the city, the enticing commenced last week with a lightly festive welcome reception (“It’s not a party,” a rep from The Washington, DC Economic Partnership told me). Here’s our breakdown of the District’s participation (official and otherwise) in Austin. —emily Q. hazzard

Number of corporate sponsors and partners of the We DC House, brainchild of WDCEP

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The Search for the Holy Rail Why Benning Road ne still needs a streetcar After developer Charles D. Sager built a new neighborhood of rowhouses near the mud flats on the western bank of the Anacostia River in the late 1920s, he set about trying to sell them. “Kingman Park,” announced the cover of a 1930 brochure he published to promote the newly christened neighborhood, “a model community with modern brick homes for colored citizens.”

Sager had initially tried, and failed, to market the homes to white residents, so he quickly rebranded the neighborhood as one “restricted to colored citizens of the better class.” Its residents, the brochure boasted, were “citizens whose thrift, prudence and desire for ideal homes have caused them to locate here.”

One of the key selling points was transportation. Geographically, Kingman Park was relatively isolated: In 1988, an elderly resident told the Washington Post that when he’d bought his house on 24th Street NE for $6,174 in 1928, it was the only block in the neighborhood, surrounded by mud heaps, shrubs, and the city dump. But Kingman Park was adjacent to Benning Road, and Benning Road meant connectivity.

“All centrally located business establishments,” noted the brochure, “may be reached in fifteen minutes by street cars.”

The demise of D.C.’s streetcar network in 1962, exactly a century after the trolleys first started running, coincided with a broader urban decline in the city and the country. People and wealth fled to the suburbs as cars became the principal mode of transportation and crime began to climb. The “in-town suburb” that Sager advertised fell victim, along with so many other neighborhoods, to the farther-flung ones that prospered as the city withered.

These days, while the rowhouses of Kingman Park continue to attract middle-class families, the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare of Benning Road is unlikely to draw the “model community” label. But it’s arguably a model corridor for a streetcar line to work its

year titled “The Streetcar-MinusStreetcar Plan Worked for D.C.,” in which he argued that the mere anticipation of the streetcar had stimulated enough growth along H Street that the eternally delayed trolley itself was no longer needed.

The causality here is questionable, even if the conclusion—that H Street will be just fine with or without the streetcar—is probably correct. H Street is an attractive and once-flourishing commercial corridor surrounded by handsome rowhouses that are walking distance from Union Station and the U.S. Senate offices.

Joe Englert, the restaurant/bar magnate credited with sparking the corridor’s growth, has told me he started opening his venues there before he had any idea that a streetcar would follow. In other words, H Street probably didn’t need the streetcar—the idea of it or the real thing.

But Benning Road does.

“H Street has already seen some growth,” says D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie of Ward 5, which encompasses the north side of Benning.

“Benning Road is likely going to be the beneficiary of the streetcar program, to the extent that we have a plan of action to nurture retail on the Benning Road corridor.”

Signs of the streetcar are everywhere along Benning. On the west end of the street, where it emerges from H Street at the “Starburst” intersection with 15th Street NE, Bladensburg Road, and Maryland Avenue, stands the first Benning streetcar stop-to-be, with two white pillars declaring “D.C. Streetcar: coming soon.” On the east end of this section of Benning is a construction site, where banners in front of the excavator inform passersby Darrow Montgomery

By Aaron Wiener

Big Benning? The corridor’s future growth may depend on the streetcar. magic: a historic commercial strip that, with the economic boost a streetcar’s supposed to bring, could see its vacant storefronts and lots returned to productive use.

Leif Dormsjo, the acting director of the District Department of Transportation, told the D.C. Council earlier this month that the long-anticipated streetcar line along H Street NE and Benning Road, with its tracks laid and its safety certification ongoing, was no longer

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guaranteed to open at all, as the administration of Mayor Muriel Bowser reviews the project. Streetcar critics pounced. The Post’s Clinton Yates urged Bowser to scrap the project, arguing that H Street “is walkable enough as is, so a transit plan trying to turn it into more of a tourist trap and nightlife district is misguided.” CityLab staff writer (and Washington City Paper contributor) Kriston Capps took a victory lap on behalf of a story he wrote last

that the streetcar barn and training center is “coming in 2016.”

Across Benning from the barn site is the street’s most bustling hotspot, at least on a recent evening. “Welcome to 7-Eleven,” says Bob Coomber, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for Kingman Park, “our most successful venture.”

Coomber has lived in the neighborhood since he bought a rowhouse on 21st Street NE in 2009. “It was what we could afford at the time,” he says as we stroll westward on Benning. We pass the former DC Soundstage, which operated as a pool hall until five people were shot there one night in early 2013.

Crossing 24th Street, we come to a MetroPCS store. “This place used to be a check-cashing place, but then that guy was shot, too.”

Coomber adds, “Crime on this strip, it’s an issue.”

An eastbound streetcar passes by, on one of its many test runs. Apart from the driver, the train is empty. On every door is a “do not board” sign.

When an X2 bus passes a minute later, it’s full of passengers. This is the streetcar’s central conundrum: Since its first phase basically duplicates part of the X2’s route, it’s not clear what transit benefits the trolley will actually bring. Yes, the streetcar holds more people and runs more smoothly than a bus, and it doesn’t have to pull to the side or kneel to pick up passengers. But it also will run in mixed traffic, and if a delivery truck gets in the way or a vehicle breaks down, the streetcar is stuck.

And yet everyone expects a major boost from the streetcar. In other cities that have built modern systems, like Portland, Ore., a development boom has lined the rails, although various studies have reached mixed conclusions about the efficacy of the streetcar alone, if not accompanied by zoning changes to promote higher density. Still, with so much vacancy along Benning, a spiffy new streetcar is likely to send a signal to developers that the corridor is an attractive place to invest.

“That’s what I was counting on, that businesses will see the benefit of the amount of traffic that will come through,” says Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander, who represents part of the eastern portion of Benning, which is split between three wards—a political divide that Coomber blames in part for the lack of advocacy for Benning as neighboring H Street flourishes. “That we could have almost an extension of the vibrancy of H Street: That’s what I’m counting on.”

There are plenty of spots crying out for development. Between 20th Street and 21st Street, there’s a grassy vacant lot where rowhouses once stood; across from that stands a boarded-up coal power plant that’s been inoperative for more than 30 years. Apart from the gleaming white Hip Hop Fish & Chicken, most of the retail that does exist looks worse for wear, consisting largely of check-cashing spots, carryouts, liquor stores, and nail salons. Many of the shops are separated from the street by small parking lots—vestiges of an era of auto-centric isolation that the streetcar aims to undo.

The most glaring example of this obsolescence is the Hechinger Mall, just east of the Starburst intersection. The 1981 facility is an island in a sea of surface parking. It made sense at a time when its developers could barely lure retailers to that underserved part of town.

Now, it looks out of place; with the arrival of the streetcar, its clock will be ticking. When it opened, it included a hardware store, a pharmacy, and the largest Safeway supermarket on the east coast. Today, the retail roster of the mall, now owned by New York-based Ashkenazy Acquisition, includes the likes of Dollar Tree, Dollar Magic, Ross Dress for Less, and Ace Cash Express. McDuffie, whose ward includes the mall, says it has “quite frankly outgrown its utility at this point.”

The question is what comes next—and what effect it has on longtime residents.

The city estimates that the streetcar will bring an increase in nearby property values of 5 to 12 percent. That’s great news to people like Alexander, who sees it as a reward for residents who have invested in their homes, but worrisome to others, like McDuffie, who says the city will need to entice developers to build affordable housing as part of new projects and to try to preserve existing affordable housing where it’s threatened. (Much of the low-income housing along Benning belongs to the sprawling Langston Terrace public housing complex, run by the D.C. Housing Authority. But it’s the private apartments, like the two big complexes on the south side of Benning, that could be at risk as developers eye larger profits.)

According to a 2012 streetcar land use study by the D.C. Office of Planning, displacement is “most likely to appear where streetcar corridors pass through neighborhoods with lower household incomes, lower housing prices, and higher proportions of renters. Although residents in these corridors would benefit from reduced transportation costs and greater access to jobs—which could offset increased housing costs for some households—the District should monitor these areas and be prepared to step in with active measures to promote affordability.” Benning is listed among the areas where the planned 22-mile streetcar network could have the greatest impact.

“There’s still some neighbors who live in Trinidad and Carver-Langston and Kingman Park who remember as kids growing up when H Street and Benning Road was more of a thriving business corridor,” says McDuffie.

“I can see a shift back to a more pedestrianfriendly corridor with more foot traffic along Benning Road. But I think the key to ensuring that it’s possible is to make sure, as we focus on the streetcar, that housing affordability exists. That is instrumental to me.”

But first, the streetcar has to start running. The ball’s in your court, Bowser and Dormsjo. And the future of Benning Road CP hangs in the balance.

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Gear Prudence: It’s finally spring, so I’m back on my bike after a long winter. It’s great, and I’m happy to be riding on the open road again. Except for one small—or massive, as the case may be— problem: potholes! They’re everywhere, and I’m worried that I’m going to ride into one and break my bike—or myself! Do you have any advice?

—Do I Veer Or Tumble?

Dear DIVOT: Potholes are one of nature’s greatest mysteries. No one knows for sure where they come from. Some leading scientists believe they’re the result of spring meteor showers, while others ascribe their presence to the impending mole-people invasion.

The more conspiratorial believe that many potholes are part of a marketing stunt by either local auto-body shops to drum up business or by the filmmakers behind the oft-delayed Shawshank Redemption II, in which Andy must chisel into an underground prison to rescue Red from the unknown kidnappers who thwarted their Mexican abscondence.

Or maybe potholes are just the result of precipitation, freezing, thawing, and traffic.

Potholes have the capacity to cause significant harm to bicyclists. As with most unpleasant things, the best strategy is avoidance. You could try to “bunny hop” over them, but like participating in the retrograde line dance of the same name, it’s unlikely this is the most reasonable option. Instead, scan the road ahead, looking at the pavement slightly beyond the distance where you would normally look. Avoid riding too close to any cars or bikes that would hinder your view or shorten the time you’d have to react and maneuver.

At the sign of a pothole, look over your shoulder to ensure that you won’t have any problems moving over, flick out a hand to indicate you’re moving, and proceed as normal. Resist swerving at the last second. Remain vigilant, and you shouldn’t have too many problems.

If you do find yourself riding into a pothole, stay loose, much as you should whenever you are riding over difficult terrain. Ease off on the grips and lift yourself off the seat to handle the dip and bump with greater ease.

It is indeed possible that a pothole will not ruin your bike or cause you to fall. Remain calm. But don’t make riding into potholes a habit, either.

Most importantly, report potholes to 311!

D.C. is pretty good about filling them quickly, but they can only fill what they know about.

Bicyclists tend to be very well acquainted with road surfaces, so please use your knowledge for the community’s benefit, which also conveniently coincides with your self-interest. —GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who blogs at talesfromthesharrows.blogspot.com and tweets at @sharrowsdc. Got a question about bicycling? Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

SAVAGELOVE I’m a straight guy in my 30s dating a woman in her mid-20s. We’ve been together for a year, and I’m crazy about her. In love, even. She’s gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving, and very sexual. She’s perfect.

In her late teens and early 20s, she had a wild sex life. She attended sex parties, had loads of NSA hookups, sexted with random guys she met online, etc. She revealed this to me slowly and carefully out of fear that I’d look down on her, but what she didn’t know is that I have an intense cuckold interest. I’ve asked her, ad nauseam, for every detail she can recall about these encounters.

The ones centering on “alpha jocks” with extremely large cocks are the ones I enjoy most. I’m a nerdy guy, definitely not muscular or athletic.

I have intense fantasies of some alpha male taking her away from me, or catching her with a hot young soccer player or a good-looking musician— any guy at the top of the social pile. The idea of watching her have sex with one of them is exhilarating. But it’s also gut-wrenching. I haven’t told her how much I would like her to go through with an actual hookup. However, I’m certain this would not be well-received on her part; she’s made it clear that she’s not proud of her wild past. To complicate this, my interest in cuckolding does not come from a healthy place. I experienced a series of rejections in my late teens and early 20s, all of which involved being outclassed by better guys. The first girl I was ever in love with, who kept stringing me along, had sex with another guy while talking to me on the phone. She went into detail about how huge his penis was, how good it felt, and so forth, while I shook with envy and misery and excitement. It was a terrible, traumatizing experience, but now it rules my sexual fantasies. Is it okay to indulge an interest that likely stems from a traumatic experience? (Assuming she’s willing.)

—Harrowingly Upsetting Reckless Tendencies Mostly Excite First things first, HURTME: Your girlfriend can’t put this period of her life behind her— all those hung alpha jocks, all those NSA hookups—while she’s with a man who demands to have every last detail recounted ad

nauseam. So you might wanna check in with your gorgeous, sweet, kind, etc. girlfriend before she decides to put you behind her, too.

It’s possible she enjoys sharing her stories with you because your enjoyment makes her feel better about those experiences in retrospect; all those meaningless sexual encounters now mean something because they enhance the relationship she’s in.

Checking in with her about how she’s feeling will give you a better idea of how receptive she would be to cuckolding you. If sharing stories about her past makes her feel sexy (because the encounters were hot) and it feels meaningful (because the stories enhance your sexual connection), then your girlfriend might be open to the idea of coming home with a brand-new story to tell you.

Or she might not. Like I said, you need to check in with her.

As for you, HURTME, your erotic imagination seized on that experience—that cruel girl on the phone—and through a mysterious process that sex researchers don’t quite understand, your mildly-to-wildly-traumatizing early sexual experience emerged in adulthood as a full-blown kink. There may be other boys out there who had the exact same experience— that girl could have had other victims—who don’t have any interest in being cuckolded.

The alchemy of kinks isn’t fully understood.

There’s only one way to find out if you would enjoy being cuckolded, HURTME, and that’s to do it. But there are three questions (at least) that you need to ask yourself before you act: Have you built a firewall between your sense of your own sexual desirability and your kink, a kink that’s about your eroticized fear of sexual inadequacy and not your actual sexual inadequacy? (You landed a gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving, and very sexual girlfriend—you’re clearly more than adequate!)

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A few sessions with a kink-positive shrink might help you answer those questions. You can find one through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and —Dan Therapists (aasect.org).

Is it your opinion that a girl can love a man but also want an open relationship? Or does wanting an open relationship mean that the girl doesn’t love her man? (I’m the girl in this situation.)

—Perplexed Over Lusty Yearnings Wanting to fuck other men isn’t proof that a girl (or a boy or a SOPATGS*) doesn’t love her man. When two people make a monogamous commitment—which should be an optin choice, not a default setting—they’re promising not to fuck other people. But both will still wanna fuck other people. If you can’t see yourself sleeping with just one man for the rest of your life—or being in a relationship with just one man at a time—then a monogamous commitment isn’t for you, POLY. And if the man you’re with wants a monogamous commitment—if being with him means you can’t sleep with other men—then he might —Dan not be for you either. * Some other point along the gender spectrum.

I’m a gay man married to a wonderful man. For most of our 12-year relationship, we’ve had a boring sexual script that is all about him getting blown. He just doesn’t seem interested in much else, and although we’ve talked about it over the years, nothing has really changed. He is selfish in bed. He’s a wonderful husband otherwise, and I love him deeply. Recently, he was out of town, and in a weak moment, I ended up meeting an experienced spanking Dom. We’ve met several times, and I’m counting the days until he whales on my butt again. Not in my wildest imagination could or would my husband EVER do something like this with me. He just doesn’t have it in him.

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Expecting your spouse to do nothing but blow you for 12 years isn’t a limit.

It’s bullshit. a decade. I’m also lying and cheating. I’m deeply torn. If I tell my husband, my guess is that he won’t take it well. It could cause our marriage to unravel. If I keep lying, I bear the moral burden of the lie, and he could find out anyway.

—Still Professing A Normal Kink We all have sexual limits, we’re all entitled to our sexual limits, but expecting your spouse to do nothing but blow you for 12 years isn’t a limit. It’s bullshit, SPANK. Your husband’s complete disregard for your feelings—for your sense of sexual fulfillment—tips over into the sexual abandonment category. His actions don’t excuse your affair, of course, but horniness, frustration, and duress drove you to this, and your husband has to take his share of the responsibility. You say your marriage might unravel if you were to tell your husband about this spanking. But whatever the fallout might be—the end of your marriage or renegotiated terms that allow you to get some/most of your needs met elsewhere—is better than the status quo. Tell him. —Dan Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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How Eugene “Thunder” Hughes and his boxing gym have outlasted decades of change on 14th Street NW

By Chris Opfer • Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

In Eugene “Thunder” Hughes’ world, there are “jokers,” “dingbats,” and “nitwits.”

The first two categories cover a wide variety of folks, but they’re mostly terms of endearment. It’s the last group that’s trouble.

Most of the jokers who have trained at Hughes’ Midtown Youth Academy boxing club over the years are good kids who come from difficult home situations and just need a little straightening out. So were the neighborhood children he used to round up and take to Baptist services on Sundays. Before Hughes fell in love with the “sweet science” as a boy, he says he was a “dingbat” who ran around with local gangs near Capitol Hill and got himself kicked out of Armstrong High School.

Hughes says it was a group of “nitwits” who started the trouble with him and other Black Panthers that stoked the Watts Riots and landed him a stretch behind bars.

Now, at 76 years old, it’s a different brand of dumbassery that plagues the former fighter: developers and investors who come sniffing

around his 14th Street NW gym with lowball offers to buy the place.

“These nitwits send me all sorts of letters saying they wanna buy it for $170,000, $200,000,” Hughes says. “They can go straight to hell with that.”

Last year, a city property appraiser assessed the boxing club’s value at just over $1 million. That’s not bad for a dilapidated, century-old building that hasn’t had any major work done in decades. But while it may not look like much from the outside, the Midtown Youth Academy is one of a dwindling handful of cultural artifacts of the U Street corridor before the boom and a landmark of sorts for fans of the local fight game. It also happens to sit on a stretch of 14th Street that developers seem to think is paved in gold.

That leaves “Thunder” Hughes in an interesting position: The nonprofit he’s run out of the gym for more than three decades owns the place, meaning that he can probably stay there as long as he likes. As a dizzying array

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of pricey new condos and apartment buildings circle the rowhouse-turned-boxing gym and community center, though, the storm of drugs and crime that the academy was meant to protect area kids from has largely subsided.

Now, figuring out how it fits into the neighborhood circa 2015 is Hughes’ next fight.

Passersby during winter would be for given for assuming that the Midtown Youth Academy has already gone the way of an abandoned storefront two doors down and the rotting skeleton of the old Republic Gardens building not far away on U Street. The structure’s peeling black and yellow paint has seen better days. Faded campaign posters for Ward 1’s Jim Graham and E. Gail Anderson Holness may be from last year’s elections, but they look like remnants of a bygone era posted behind a metal gate adorning the building’s front windows. The only way to tell if the gym is open for business on cold, dark evenings is to check if the curtain has been drawn

back at the front door or see if Hughes’s red hatchback is parked across the street.

That’s nothing new, according to Lisa “Too Fierce” Foster Cohen, who was a ripe 28 years old when she took up boxing under Hughes’ tutelage in 1996. Foster Cohen went on to win a world junior featherweight championship just a few years later.

“Let me just tell you this: The way that it looks now is probably a step up from when I first went there,” says Foster Cohen, who helped spruce up the place with a paint job and a small dressing room before embarking on her professional boxing career. She later opened her own gym in the District and is currently writing a book about her time in the fight game. “It’s also probably 10 steps up from how it smelled.”

What the gym lacks in polish, potpourri, and fresh political propaganda, it makes up for in history and personality. A hollowedout rowhouse that once served as a credit union, the MYA’s wooden floorboards creak

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with the subterranean sweat, blood, and spit of generations of young fighters. Its walls are adorned with a smattering of photos of Sugar Ray Leonard and other local legends, newspaper clippings about Hughes and his work, and awards and commendations from local officials praising his efforts in the community.

You never know who might wander into the place: Former middleweight world champion William Joppy came by one night in January looking for his son, and Foster Cohen—who now splits her time between Florida and the D.C. area—says she checks in on Hughes every now and again.

“This place right here? This place is the original,” says Joppy, who met Hughes while boxing as a kid in Hillcrest and still lives in the District. “Old school. There ain’t no places like this no more.”

Hughes says the building is worth three times the D.C. government’s $1 million tax assessment. What it would actually fetch if he sold it is probably somewhere in the middle. In 2013, a developer forked over $2.75 million for the unimproved lot at the end of the block and the crumbling storefront next to it. Perhaps better known as “that parking lot across the street from Fast Gourmet,” the property will soon be home to the Lumen Condominiums. The boutique condo building is expected to feature 18 “elegantly appointed residences,” according to property owner Community Three Development, LLC. “Lumen completes the resurrection of this unique intersection and sets the foundation for a new chapter of prosperity in one of Washington’s most cherished locales,” the developer says on the condo’s website.

Work on that property, coupled with the construction going on at the northeast corner of 14th Street and Florida Avenue, makes for a lot of action on the small block that runs north from the intersection with W Street.

It’s a different type of activity for the corner lot, which was once dubbed “Jemal’s Hookers” in a nod to owner Douglas Jemal and a tip of the hat to either the used car dealership that once occupied the spot or the working women who allegedly used the corner for business transactions after dark.

“It used to be real bad around here,” Joppy says of the neighborhood. “There wasn’t nothing but drugs and prostitutes. I can’t even tell you how much it’s changed. I used to come down here, and you could hardly move around.

There would just be people up and down the block hanging around, doing drugs.”

If the construction crews, shiny new storefronts, and noticeable dearth of opportunities to pay for sex aren’t enough evidence that things have changed, consider the cost of exercise in the small radius surrounding the Midtown Youth Academy.

Most fledgling boxers don’t pay a dime to train under Hughes. That makes him a bit of an outlier on his block these days. On the fourblock stretch of 14th Street that encompasses his gym, you can enjoy unlimited interval training at Elevate Fitness for $159 a month, pedal ’til you can’t feel your thighs at Ride DC for $130 a month, or grunt, swing kettlebells,

and do whatever else it is that people do at CrossFit Praxis for $199 a month. That’s not to mention Vida, the Euro lounge/gym on the 1600 block of U Street ($100-120), and what may very well be the nicest YMCA ($82) this side of the Mississippi.

“These nitwits send me all sorts of letters saying they wanna buy it for $170,000, $200,000... They can go straight to hell with that.”—Eugene Hughes

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Hughes’ own boxing career began in the neighborhood where he grew up, a slice of Capitol Hill that was razed to make room for the Rayburn House Office Building in the early 1960s. He trained at Southeast House, a nonprofit community center that, like the Midtown Youth Academy, offered a wide rage of after school programs for kids.

“Well, myself, I was a fighter,” Hughes says one early January evening, as he perches himself on an old couch at the front of the gym and eats out of a McDonald’s bag. It’s downright frigid outside and not much warmer indoors, where gospel music rises slightly over the din of a space heater. “I started out wanting to be a preacher, but then I turned around and said I want to be a fighter.”

Hughes says he was mentored in his early days by Alfred “Sonny Boy” West, a lightweight who went 48-8 over his career before dying from a brain hemorrhage he suffered in the ring in 1950. While his father—a jazz musician who played trumpet and flute—grappled with heroin and cocaine, it was two women who helped steer Hughes away from trouble.

“Back in that time there was nothing but gangs,” Hughes says. “I was in one of the gangs, and I was told, ‘Boy, you better get your behind in there and do something positive,’” Hughes says. “My mother and my aunt, they were the ones that encouraged me to go to church and stay in church, rather than keep on walking out in the street.”

Hughes says he won three local Golden Gloves crowns fighting as a bantamweight from 1952 to 1954. He later joined the Marines, where he won an all-service tournament as a featherweight.

After time in California and Connecticut, Hughes returned home, and in 1975 he opened a makeshift gym called the 14th Street Academy a few blocks south of his current digs.

Depending on who you ask, the space was either above or next to a bar on the corner of T Street. The plot is now home to The Harper, a high-end micro-apartment building.

Hughes says he saw the dedication and discipline that boxing required as a way to help local kids stay on the right path. He started by recruiting children of the people he worked with as a city government family and drug counselor. That’s when he developed a trademark tough love approach to the “knuckleheads” he trained, using free time to make sure they were going to school and staying out of the juvenile justice system.

“He would always go out there and tell kids, ‘You got one foot in the street and one foot in the gym. That ain’t no way to live,’” Foster Cohen says.

Ask people on the local amateur boxing circuit about Hughes, and one of the first things they’ll do is marvel at what they say is his uncanny ability to keep tough kids in line.

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“They were at-risk kids, but when they came to a boxing event, they were on their best behavior, Genie made sure of that,” Bobby Magruder says of the boxers that Hughes often brought to local events. Magruder was himself an accomplished amateur fighter out of the Hillcrest Boys Club, who won a handful of regional Golden Gloves titles and (unsuccessfully) faced off with Sugar Ray Leonard three times. He’s currently the president and coordinator of the Washington Region Golden Gloves tournament.

Gary “Digital” Williams has been covering the local boxing scene as a writer and ring announcer for 31 years. He says he’s watched at least a few fighters show promise under Hughes, only to steer off the straight and narrow track after leaving the academy. Those same kids, he says, would often turn back to Hughes to get their lives back in order.

“Boxing is one of those sports that really keeps young people away from trouble,” Williams says. “I’ve talked to many different boxers, not only from Mr. Hughes’s gym but also others in the area, that say that if it wasn’t for boxing, who knows where they’d be. They’d probably be dead, in jail, running the streets, or doing nothing. He had guys in there that I think he literally saved.”

After a few years at his original location, Hughes opened the Midtown Youth Academy in 1982. He says he paid $72,000 for the building, which was originally erected in 1912.

Although the area was awash in violence and drugs, Hughes firmly established the gym as a safe haven from the criminal element outside. “Gene’s place was off limits,” says Michelle Darden Lee, who worked at the MYA as an administrative assistant in the late-’80s.

“They didn’t mess with Gene, they didn’t mess with the kids and it was a safe place for the kids just to be kids.”

Foster Cohen was an adult by the time she met Hughes. After a childhood in which she bounced around foster homes, though, she says she came to see him as a type of father figure and thrived under Hughes’s hardnosed approach. “A person like me going into a place like that and being told that I could do it meant a lot,” she says. “Gene provided a lot for me.”

“If it wasn’t for boxing, who knows where they’d be.

They’d probably be dead, in jail, running the streets, or doing nothing. He had guys in there that I think he literally saved.”—Gary Wil iams

The sites of Hughes’s current and former gyms straddle the intersection of 14 and U streets, the area that served as ground zero during the 1968 riots following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Hughes wasn’t around when the looting and fires broke out in the District, but he was present for the race-related riots in Los Angeles that served as a precursor to the outbursts in the District and elsewhere.

After he was discharged from the Marines in 1964, Hughes caught on as a community organizer with the Black Panthers. He says he landed in prison for 27 months after the Watts neighborhood in L.A. burned during the 1965 riots. The trouble started with an incident between white police officers and a black family, according to historical accounts, but many folks blamed poor living conditions, unemployment, and substandard education 18 march 20, 2015 washingtoncitypaper.com

opportunities in the city’s black neighborhoods. Others say it was a result of decades of housing discrimination and segregation combined with police bigotry. Hughes says the riots stemmed in part from a “territorial” battle among various factions in the neighborhood and across the city.

“You got some nitwits who wanna twist things out of order,” Hughes says. “We started going through a whole lot of crap out there in California. Then we got hooked in with the police and all them folks out there, and that’s when we got involved with the burning in Watts. So I did 27 months.”

In February 1968, just a few days before the King assassination, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders issued a 426-page report finding that the riots in L.A., Newark, N.J., and Chicago were driven by a lack of economic opportunity for African Americans. “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal,” the commission concluded.

Nearly 24 years later, Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as D.C.’s mayor following a campaign in which she pledged to help close socio-economic and other divides. The theme of her inauguration address was “a season where the international city, the federal city, the many neighborhoods, the many constituents, become one.” Invoking her “Yes We Will!” campaign slogan, the new mayor urged the city’s residents to work together to find community solutions to the rampant murder and widespread drug abuse that she said had already cost the District a generation of young people. She also acknowledged community leaders who had already laid the groundwork for that fight.

“Every neighborhood in this city is rich with Ph.D.s in survival,” Pratt Dixon said.

“Men and women who are architects of hope and promise, such as Eugene Hughes at the Midtown Youth Academy.”

In the early 1990s, the MYA was equal parts gym and community center, offering after-school and weekend activities like tutoring, basic computer training sessions, and sewing and music lessons, and hosting church services on Sundays. Despite its role in the local boxing scene, the academy played perhaps a greater role as a haven for kids from the poverty, drugs, and crime raging outside. In September 1989, the Washington Post called the neighborhood surrounding the gym “one of the District’s most notorious drug markets where heroin and crack are sold openly.” The MYA and the nearby Martha’s Table children’s center served as sanctuaries for neighborhood kids otherwise left largely to fend for themselves.

Darden Lee says she still remembers the first time that she walked by the gym, surprised to find a large group of children boxing and playing in that part of town. “On 14th Street at that time, the drug dealers ran the neighborhood,” Darden Lee says. “The Midtown Youth Academy was sort of an oasis in the block at the time.”

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“Gene used to buy my boxing equipment when I didn’t have the money. I couldn’t afford to do some of the stuff that we needed to do and he would take care of it. He’s done that for people in the community forever.”—Lisa Foster Cohen but the pace slows to a few young boxers during the winter. Hughes says the gym has gotten by over the years on a mix of grants, charity event proceeds, and donations. The nonprofit organization that owns the gym had its tax-exempt status revoked in May 2010 for failure to file a return, an oversight that Hughes says he’s working on clearing up. When the Midtown Youth Academy was abruptly closed in 1989 after a 6-year-old died in an accidental electrocution, neighbors performed the necessary work to get the place up to code for free, and others sent in condolence cards with small contributions to help cover some of the costs of refurbishing the gym. Hughes also hasn’t been shy about opening up his own wallet to keep the place afloat, according to Foster Cohen.

“I would see him cash his paychecks and bring that money to the gym and spend it,” she says. “Gene used to buy my boxing equipment when I didn’t have the money. I couldn’t afford to do some of the stuff that we needed to do and he would take care of it. He’s done that for people in the community forever.”

Hughes is adamant about keeping the gym where it is, no matter what the property is worth. “I don’t care how much it is. What do I need that money for?” His friends and fans say that while the surrounding neighborhood has

changed, the need to serve at-risk kids hasn’t.

“I think that the developers and those that are buying the expensive condos in that neighborhood should recognize that there should be a commitment to kids who need exposure and need support,” Darden Lee says.

These days, the gym gets kids from across the District and Maryland who come in to train, according to Hughes. It’s one of a handful of youth training facilities scattered around the city, including Headbangers Boxing Gym near Barracks Row on L Street SE and Lime Light Boxing & Fitness at the north end of Columbia Heights.

Hughes, who gets around with the help of a wheelchair and walker, is a bit vague about what will happen when he’s no longer able to run the place. The gym went dark for a few weeks in January when he landed in the hospital with a medical condition he declined to disclose. “When I’m gone, my family knows what to do with this place,” Hughes says.

In the meantime, he has at least one good cut woman in his corner. “We’re like family now: We fight like cats and dogs, but I love that man,” Foster Cohen says. “I’ll tell him off, he’ll tell me off, but you let somebody tell either one of us off and they’re gonna hear it CP from the other person.”

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Every day before diners arrive, the cooks and servers of Table in Shaw gather around for “family meal.” A “family shelf” in the fridge is stocked with a hodgepodge of leftover ingredients that the kitchen crew transforms into ramen, or pizza, or potato gratin for the staff to eat before their shifts.

It’s a restaurant ritual that plays out daily at many spots around town, but it typically remains hidden from guests.

A couple weeks ago, Table decided to change that. They posted a message on Facebook inviting the public to join them at 5 p.m. the next day for their family meal at $20 a pop. Within an hour, the 20 spots they were hoping to fill, plus some, were claimed. Diners arrived to find tables pushed together for communal seating and big bowls of cassoulet, kale salad, roasted potatoes, and a ground chicken and cabbage dish with sriracha sour cream.

At first, there was bit of a high school cafeteria-type divide between the staff and the public, with the cooks and servers lingering around the open kitchen and diners seated at tables. But one of the cooks came and sat down at a table, and people started passing around plates. Chef Patrick Robinson, who has a newborn, chatted with a mother who brought her baby. Another cook, who was off that night, came in anyway with a date.

When it came time for dessert, everyone—apron or not— lined up together for chocolate bread pudding with homemade whipped cream and strawberries.

Events like this are creating a more casual relationship between staff and patrons. In recent years, open kitchens have invited the public to peer into what was once a mysterious place in the back where the food was made. Now, restaurants and bars are hosting public family meals and industry happy hours and other events, which invite diners not just to see what’s happening behind the scenes, but to be a part of the dining world’s culture.

“Everyone kind of wants to be an insider,” says Table Director of Sales & Marketing Erika Kauder. “There’s something so magical to me about being able to go and meet the chefs and say, ‘Hey, I know these guys. I can go in and they’ll remember who I am.’”

Kauder says the idea was conceived late night when she, the general manager, and some of the chefs were sitting around discussing the next day’s family meal. “We were like,

tween 5 and 6 p.m., when the restaurant doesn’t normally do a lot of business. (The staff otherwise eats at 4 p.m. or earlier.) They tried to do a happy hour last year, but the place doesn’t have a bar. For now, the restaurant plans to continue public family meals on a monthly basis, with the next one happening at a yet-to-be-determined date later in March.

Lots of other restaurants serve meals to their staff as a perk of the job, since they’re working during normal dinner hours. At Minibar, chef Johnny Spero gives the world a glimpse of the restaurant’s most epic feasts—sushi or a roasted pork carving station—by posting photos on Instagram. And these aren’t the only places trying to make the public a part of its family meal in some way. Since its 2011 opening, District Commons has offered family meal specials to the dining room every evening at 10 p.m. (or Sundays at 8 p.m.). At that time, the staff rings a dinner bell, and whatever the kitchen is eating that night— fried chicken, pupusas, fish tacos— No Relation: The staff of Table share a family meal before their shifts. is also available to diners at $12 a ‘You know, it would be really cool if we could invite the pub- plate. (Unlike Table, however, staff and diners don’t all eat at lic to these.’” Three days later, they did. The goal was to get the same table or from the same platters.) the neighborhood more involved in the restaurant and build Spanish restaurant SER, which recently opened in Ballston, has taken the idea in yet another direction by putting more of a personal connection with diners.

“A lot of restaurants are going more toward openness, a “family table” used for pre-shift staff meals in the middle open kitchens,” says chef Robinson. “People are very in- of the dining room. When the restaurant extends its hours trigued by who’s preparing their food, how it’s being pre- from lunch to dinner around the end of this month, anyone who’s stopping by for an early happy hour or afternoon pared... They come up and talk to my cooks.”

Kauder admits the open family meal was also a way to re- bite will see the cooks and servers eating alongside them. introduce people to the restaurant since chef Frederik de The owners may even invite guests over to sit down with Pue left his post in January in the midst of litigation with his them and try whatever it is the staff is chowing down on. fellow business owners.

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In general, restaurants and diners have shifted away from the attitude that servers are “servants,” says bar owner Derek Brown. It’s more common for staff to act more like old pals than butlers. “With the recognition of chefs and bartenders as people who are part of a creative industry… that’s attractive for people to spend time around,” Brown says.

At his Shaw oyster bar Eat The Rich, Brown offers an industry happy hour from 11 p.m.

(9:30 p.m. on Sundays) to close every day it’s open, with $1 oysters plus $7 for Natty Boh and a shot of Overholt. While Brown started it to cater to people who work in bars and restaurants and finish their shifts around the time when the special runs, it’s open to everyone.

Similar “industry night” events and happy hours have proliferated at establishments across the city, offering the public a chance to be a part of the late-night drinking rituals of restaurant and bar staff. Rather than just running informal, unadvertised get-togethers or discounts for off-duty chefs and bartenders, more places are publicly promoting these specials.

“There’s always been probably a few million dollars just passing around the city from bartender to bartender,” says Brown. “You sit down at somebody’s bar and you order a drink, and there’s some inexplicit discount, then you give them a big tip, and they come to your bar, same thing. And that money never actually touches the actual economy. It’s like some weird shadow economy.”

Brown felt it made more sense to make that industry happy hour more official. He also says it makes no sense to cordon it off or keep it quiet when it’s something everyone can enjoy. “We don’t know who else has those same issues that they might need a late night place to have food, whether they’re a nurse or whatever,” he says.

Mike Isabella’s “Industry Takeover Night” at Graffiato was one of the first big industry nights promoted to all. On the first Monday of every month, a rotating cast of chefs and bartenders from around D.C. and the country would take over the first-floor pizza bar, and service industry folks and patrons alike would crowd the place for free snacks and discounted drinks.

The idea was inspired by Amis in Philadelphia, where chef Marc Vetri hosts his own monthly industry nights. There, a restaurant pay stub was required to gain access to the industry meal, but Isabella opened his to everyone.

After two years, Isabella ultimately decided to end the events in January, but a new group quickly stepped up to take its

place. Chaplin’s Restaurant head bartender Chad Spangler and the partners in his event productions company, Closed Sessions, launched their own industry night series earlier this month. Unlike Graffiato’s, these events will rotate locations and focus on cocktails. There’s a $10 cover charge, half of which goes to environmental and sustainable food-related charities.

The festivities take place at 10 p.m. the first Monday of every month. Sundays and Mondays are essentially the weekend for servers, cooks, and bartenders, whose busiest shifts are Fridays and Saturdays. Even though that’s not the most convenient for patrons with a traditional desk job, Spangler wants the events to be open to everyone.

“There’s still a lot of people outside of our network and a whole lot of other groups of people that just run in totally different circles that we wouldn’t be able to send an email to or we wouldn’t reach,” he says. “It’s not about just us and the people we already know.”

GBD launched an industry happy hour about a year ago that begins at 9 p.m. every Sunday. Deals include $3 punch and wine and three special beers under $5. Because Neighborhood Restaurant Group, which operates GBD, has nearly 20 restaurants, staff from throughout the company make up at least 80 percent of attendees, says general manager Fritz Gomez Wood.

Still, “you don’t need to be a card-carrying member to take part of the happy hour,” he says. “We’re not going to check your ID and your pay stub.”

For anyone who doesn’t work in the service industry, Wood sees the happy hour as an opportunity to get some honest insight: “They get the insider feel, and they get to hear servers talking honestly about all the beers you like.” In a restaurant setting, servers aren’t usually supposed to say they flat-out don’t like something. “You have to say, ‘Well, that’s not really my style of beer. I prefer X, Y, and Z,” Wood says. “Taking away that millimeter of apron between you and the guest where you can talk like friends, that opens up so many more avenues for discussion.”

Likewise, Brown says that while they might not be chefs or bartenders, plenty of people like to cook or make drinks at home and want to be around people with the same interests. Regardless of what they do and whether they’re part of the ominous sounding “industry,” he appreciates “the latenight people, the vampires of the world” who are out at 11 p.m. on a weeknight for oysters and beers.

“We’re all in this together,” Brown says, CP “even if we’re serving you.”

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Curtains up on the Biggest Celebration of the Season The Opening Ceremony on Saturday, March 21, from 5 to 6:30 PM at the historic Warner Theater at 513 13th Street, NW honors the 103rd anniversary of the gift of the trees from Tokyo to Washington, DC. Enjoy performances by talented U.S. and Japanese artists presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan, with brief remarks by dignitaries.

Performance artists include: Twin brothers Ryohei and Kohei Inoue founded AUN-J Classic Orchestra in 2009, a group of eight young musicians who play traditional Japanese instruments made from natural wood, symbolizing 横 組み an appreciation of nature. By fusing the sounds of traditional Japanese instruments with 21st-century tastes,ポジティブタイプ AUN-J revolutionizes the classic genre with vibrant and energetic performances.

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number one. Don’t miss this chance to hear her perform some of her most popular songs. Ms. Watanabe will be joined by jazz pianist and composer, Senri Oe. Jazz and classical pianist Manami Morita has played since the age of four. A graduate of Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music, she released her first album, “Colors,” in 2009. Morita has performed with internationally acclaimed musicians and has appeared at major events ranging from the Martha’s Vineyard Music Festival to Tokyo Jazz.

The Opening Ceremony is free, but guests must reserve tickets in advance though our website, nationalcherryblossomfestival.org, and there is a $5 processing fee per ticket. If last-minute spaces become available, walk-ins will be accepted at 4:45 PM on the day of the event. The Opening Ceremony is supported by Events DC, Toshiba America, Inc., JCAW Foundation, Inc., Toyota, ANA-All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Inc., the Warner Theatre and media partner Washingtonian.

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Step Into Spring Fitness The Sylvan Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument (17th Street and Constitution Avenue) is the setting for three free Saturday fitness programs during the Festival. Options include total body workouts, creative Dance Fusion classes, Zumba, Vinyasa yoga, cardio sculpt sessions, and more—all between 10 AM and 12 noon.

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Japan and the United States—An Enduring Friendship The U.S. and Japan have a special relationship, and as long time allies share many things in common. Japan’s gift of cherry trees to the United States in 1912 established a foundation of mutual respect and good will that has endured for over a hundred years.

Both countries welcome spring with joyous celebrations marking the arrival of the cherry blossoms, and the National Cherry Blossom Festival is followed closely in Japan on all major media outlets. Our two countries share common experiences and a sense of community and friendship, the basis of a great relationship.

The National Cherry Blossom Festival offers a wonderful way to learn about Japan from live performances, art and foods to technology displays and cultural exhibits.

This year’s opening ceremony offers a great mix of performances, including a leading Japanese pop singer, a jazz pianist and an orchestra featuring traditional Japanese instruments—a fusion of contemporary and classical.

Don’t miss independent performances affiliated with the Festival at the Kennedy

Center’s Millennium Stage at 6PM. Senri Oe will be performing jazz piano with his band on Tuesday, March 31; Kokoro, a group performing “Japanese Melodies from the Heart” on Monday, April 6 and the Tamagawa University Taiko Drumming and Dance Troupe will be rocking the stage on Friday, April 10. Also, Blues Alley Japanese Jazz series returns for a second year in a row featuring Manami Morita on March 23, Machiko Ozawa performing tango and jazz violin on March 24, and jazz pianist Takeshi Obayashi on March 25. Chihiro Yamanaka, who wowed the audience at the 2013 National Cherry Blossom Festival Opening Ceremony, returns to the jazz supper club on March 30. The Japan Information & Culture Center will feature “12”—an installation by noted photographer Tokio Kuniyoshi from March 10–April 30.

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CHERRY BLAST

On Friday, March 27 from 7 PM—12 Midnight, the National Cherry Blossom Festival partners with Art Whino to present a multisensory, multimedia extravaganza showcasing art installations, performance art, and an array of musical performances. It includes 10 Festival Guide Sponsored by Washington City Paper

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BLIND WHINO, a former church turned contemporary art space, proves a dazzling setting for this lively event; as DJ AYESCOLD and DJ NativeSun spin in the lower-level lounge, Blast-ers can take in the multitude of blossom-inspired art exhibited by over 50 artists. All artwork is available for purchase, with proceeds supporting the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

For this 21-and-over event, tickets cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Purchase tickets today at nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/cherry-blast. The event always sells out, and tickets are limited at the door.

Blast is supported by Kirin Brewery, Barefoot Wine and media partners Washington Blade and OnTap Magazine.

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Fun That “Pops” at the Southwest Waterfront Fireworks Festival presented by Procter & Gamble Get ready to enjoy a day of entertainment and pyrotechnic-fueled spectacle by the Potomac River! On Saturday, April 4, from 1 to 9 PM, the free Southwest Waterfront Fireworks Festival presented by Procter & Gamble, brings music and merriment from 650 Water Street, SW to the Titanic Memorial Park. Anchored by two stages and a floating stage in the water, this not-to-be-missed event features vibrant regional acts, military bands, and youth performers. In the family area, children participate in “make and take” activities. Families can take advantage of the Pampers and Luvs baby changing area, and find samples of Tide and other beauty brands. A variety of cuisines is available for Festival-goers at the food truck rally, and adults can relax in the beer garden.

As night falls, lighted boats and illuminated lanterns glow along the Waterfront in preparation for an eye-popping fireworks spectacular that starts at 8:30 PM. The best viewing spots are along the water near the Titanic Memorial and across the Washington Channel at East Potomac Park.

The Southwest Waterfront Fireworks Festival is presented by Procter & Gamble premium brands: Tide, Bounty, Charmin, Pantene, Pampers and Crest, which can be ordered online and picked up easily at your local Harris Teeter using Express Lane curbside pickup service. The Southwest Waterfront Fireworks Festival is supported by The Wharf, Entertainment Cruises, Kirin Brewery and media partners BIG 100.3 and HOT 99.5.

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ANACOSTIA RIVER FESTIVAL 11th Street Bridge Park and the National Park Service present the first annual Anacostia River Festival, a new, must-attend event of the 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival. This year’s Anacostia River Festival on Sunday, April 12, 2015, from 12 Noon—4 PM in Anacostia Park, celebrates the natural world by focusing on the Anacostia River—its history, ecology, and the communities along its riverbanks.

Activities include hands-on art projects, musical performances, boating, fishing workshops, tours of historic Anacostia, bike parades, and other unique programs to connect families with the environment.

Held in Anacostia Park, this free event will encourage District residents and tourists alike to explore communities and parks east of the river.

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and features arts vendors, food booths, and more. Catch all of the action on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW between 9th and 14th streets.

Sakura Matsuri attendees can purchase tickets online at sakuramatsuri.org or pay cash at any entrance on the day of the event. Advance tickets purchased online cost $8 (until April 3); day-of tickets are $10 ($5 after 3 PM). Children 12 and under enter any time at no charge.

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Make Plans for a Captivating Guided Tour.

Big Bus Tours—the Official Sightseeing Tour of the National Cherry Blossom Festival Big Bus Tours of Washington, DC include famous landmarks and monuments that tell the story of the nation’s history. Enjoy all that the Nation’s Capital has to offer: the National Mall, Arlington Cemetery, the Pentagon, Georgetown, the Smithsonian National Zoo, and more. To see routes and book your tour, visit bigbustours.com. Use the discount code BLOSSOM15. For an additional gift at Union Station, Festival Headquarters present your ticket.

Bike and Roll Blossoms by Bike Tour Celebrate spring with this two-hour ride!

See the natural beauty of our Nation’s Capital at its peak on our guided tour around the Potomac, Tidal Basin and beyond. Visit bikethesites.com/Tours.

Entertainment Cruises Cherry Blossom Brunch, Lunch and Dinner Cruises Set sail from the Southwest waterfront on the Odyssey or Spirit of Washington and enjoy dining, dancing, entertainment, and enchanting waterfront views of the cherry blossoms. Visit entertainmentcruises.com.

Washington Photo Safaris Improve your photography skills while you capture the beauty of the blossoms. Class18 Festival Guide Sponsored by Washington City Paper

es are offered at night, at sunrise, in the afternoon, and during the fireworks. Pick your safari today. Visit washingtonphotosafari. com, or call 202.669.8468.

DC Cruises Relax on a tranquil trip along the Potomac with Boat Tours Along the Blossoms and Monuments. At night, the Monuments by Moonlight Cruise offers a spectacular vision of the illuminated monuments surrounded by the blossoms. Visit dc-cruises.com.

National Pedicabs A pedicab tour is an exceptional way for people to tour the cherry blossoms in a customized, personalized way. Learn from a knowledgeable local guide at a relaxed pace as you enjoy the blossoms from an open-air pedicab. Tours can be extended to explore other sites in downtown DC. Visit nationalpedicabs.com, or call 202.269.9090.

The Potomac Riverboat Company Water Taxi Spend the day at the National Mall via The Potomac Riverboat Company Water Taxi.

Arrive near the Tidal Basin by water for a unique view of the cherry trees and enjoy the nearby monuments, memorials, museums and Festival events too. Taxi drops off at Ohio Drive and West Basin. Visit potomacriverboatco.com or call 877.511.2628.

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Festival Event Schedule

Dr. Sky’s Lecture, MASKS, FREE

Hiromi Suda on Millennium Stage

WED, 4/1 2 PM This lecture will present some functions of masks used historically and/or presently in ritual, theater, and therapy focusing on the Japanese Noh masks.

SUN, 3/15 6 PM Originally from Japan, this stunning vocalist developed a keen interest in Brazilian music and produces an innovative sound, recognized by critics as a serious contribution in vocal style and technique.

Art & Drama Therapy Institute, Walter Prichard TheNoMa-Gallaudet U ater, 327 S Street, NE

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Foggy Bottom-GWU 2700 F Street, NW

Au Naturel: Celebrate our Natural World, FREE

Pink Tie Party THUR, 3/19 7–11 PM Hosted by Trade Center Management Associates (TCMA) Presented by LandDesign-Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture Celebrate the blossoms in style during the ninth annual Festival fundraiser and the social event of spring! Wear your finest “Pink Tie” cocktail attire and enjoy a fabulous evening filled with delicious cuisine, cocktails, live music, dancing, silent auction, and more fun for the over-21 crowd. Proceeds keep Festival programming free. Purchase from nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/pink-tie-party Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade CenFederal Triangle ter, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 Metro Center New York Avenue, NW

Hasui’s work involving flowers and flowering trees as well as snow scenes, expansive views of rural Japan, and quiet moments in cities, such as Tokyo.

Workhouse Arts Center, Building W-16, McGuire Woods Gallery, 9518 Workhouse Way Lorton, VA

Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C., FREE

Art at the Center presented

by Events DC, FREE FRI, 3/20 6:30–8 PM Visit Art at the Center for free, curator-led art tours. The diverse collection is the largest public art collection in DC. The collection of site-specific sculpture, painting and photography brings a sense of human scale to the Convention Center.

Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW Mt Vernon Square

Opening Ceremony, FREE, advanced ticketing required SAT, 3/21 5–6:30 PM Kick-off the 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival and watch world-renowned performers as we welcome springtime to Washington, DC and celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the gift of trees from Japan to the United States. Enjoy spirited traditional and contemporary performances in the historic Warner Theatre.

Warner Theatre, 513 13th Street, NW

FRI, 4/3 12 Noon–1 PM Explore highlights from the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ collection—from 17thcentury still lifes to contemporary sculptures— and discuss how artists across time have investigated and depicted the natural world.

Metro Center

Tokyo Picnic Club, FREE SAT, 3/21 11 AM–2 PM Bring a blanket, a basket, and a lunch and have your picnic in style in the Great Hall. A prize will be awarded for the most stylish picnic, activities for families, and more!

National Building Museum, 401 F Judiciary Square Street, NW

TUE 3/24 12 Noon-1 PM Mark A. Klingler, illustrator of Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C., takes us on an urban safari, describing the wild side of the nation’s capital. A book signing follows the program.

National Archives, William G. McGowan TheFedater, 700 Constitution Avenue, NW eral Triangle or Archives-Penn Quarter

Screening of “A Life: The Story of Lady Bird Johnson” with Panel Discussion TUE, 3/24 7 PM Screening of the Charles Guggenheim film on Lady Bird Johnson: “A Life: The Story of Lady Bird Johnson,” followed by discussion with Lady Bird’s granddaughter, Lucinda Robb, and Grace Guggenheim, President of Guggenheim Productions.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1200 Metro Center New York Avenue, NW

Blossoming Problem: Impact of Climate Change on Nature’s Calendar, FREE THUR, 3/26 4:30–6 PM Panel Discussion: “A Blossoming Problem: The Disruptive Impacts of Climate Change on Nature’s Calendar” will explore the effect of global warming on the bloom time of the cherry blossoms and on other plants and animals.

World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th Dupont Circle Street, NW

Make an Okinawan Textile Craft at the GW Museum & Textile Museum, FREE

Cherry Blast: Art + Dance Party Presented with Art Whino

SUN, 3/22 10 AM–4 PM Make an Okinawan textile craft based on the traditional method of bingata and celebrate the grand opening of the GW Museum & Textile Museum in Foggy Bottom.

FRI, 3/27 7 PM–12 Midnight Take part in a multisensory, multimedia event filled with visual and performance art, cuttingedge DJs, and interactive sensory experiences curated by Art Whino. Must be 21 and older. Tickets cost $15 in advance at nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/cherry-blast/ and $20 at the door

The George Washington University Museum and The TexFoggy Bottom-GWU tile Museum, 701 21st Street, NW

Cherry Blossoms & Snow Flurries: The Landscapes of Kawase Hasui SUN, 3/22 3:30–4:30 PM Japanese landscape artist, Kawase Hasui (18831957) worked primarily in the collaborative medium of woodblock printmaking. Based on an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints,” this lecture focuses on the aspects of

BLIND WHINO: SW Arts Club, 700 DelaWaterfront ware Avenue, SW

Blossom Kite Festival Presented

by Pepco and Exelon, FREE SAT, 3/28 10 AM–4:30 PM Spring is in the air—literally! Participate in a day long event featuring kite-making competitions, flight demonstrations by master kite makers from across the country, kite ballet performances, and more.

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Washington Monument grounds, Constitution AvSmithsonian enue & 17th Street, NW

Southwest Waterfront Fireworks Festival Presented by Procter & Gamble, FREE

Cherry Blossom Celebration, FREE

SAT, 4/4 1–9 PM, Fireworks at 8:30 PM Enjoy more than eight celebratory hours of free music, family friendly water-related activities, cultural experiences, live entertainment, and delicious food along the Southwest Waterfront.

SAT, 3/28 11 AM–4:30 PM Enjoy a day full of Japanese art, films, family activities, a book signing, and a kimono trunk show.

Freer and Sackler Galleries, 1050 IndepenSmithsonian dence Avenue, SW

17th Annual Cherry Blossom Freedom Walk, FREE SAT, 3/28 9 AM–12 Noon Join in a short, non-competitive walk and program to celebrate and learn about the Japanese American spirit of patriotism and perseverance during World War II. National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, D Union Station Street & New Jersey Avenue, NW

Zen Gardens, Prepaid registration required

Southwest Waterfront, The Wharf (650 Water Street, Waterfront SW) to the Titanic Memorial

Cherry Blossom Fireworks Dinner Cruise SAT, 4/4 Boarding 7 PM, Cruise 8–11 PM Cap off your day with a sophisticated and luxurious Fireworks Dinner Cruise aboard Odyssey. Enjoy dancing, dining, and a front row seat for the spectacular Southwest Waterfront Fireworks.

Entertainment Cruises, 600 Water Street, SW

SAT, 3/28 1–3 PM Zen gardens like the one at Ryōan-ji represent nature in the abstract and provide space for contemplation. Learn the history of Japan’s famous Zen rock gardens, then design and build your own.

Lantern Making Family Day at Canal Park, FREE

Vignettes Revisited A Therapeutic Noh Theater® Performance Tradition, FREE

Capitol Riverfront BID, Canal Park, 200 Navy Yard-Ballpark Street, SE

National Building Museum, 401 F Judiciary Square Street, NW

SAT, 3/28 2–3 PM Directed by Sirkku M. Sky Hiltunen (Dr. Sky), Ph.D., Ed.D., the Vignettes consist of the dictation of poetry by performers with Intellectual disability as a reflection of symbolic self-identity.

The Art and Drama Therapy Institute’s Keiko KomatsubNoMa-Gallaudet U ara Noh Stage, 327 S Street, NE

49th Annual Cherry Blossom Rugby Tournament, FREE 3/28–3/29 8 AM–5 PM Two-day rugby tournament featuring some of the best high school and college rugby teams in the country. With over 40 participating teams, it is one of the largest rugby tournaments in the country.

Washington RFC, Rosecroft Raceway, 6336 Rosecroft Drive, Fort Washington, MD

Center in Bloom—Floral Design Classes Sun. 3/29, 2015 10:00—11:30 am and 1-2:30 pm Westfield Montgomery Mall 7101 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, Md. 20817 Free, Registration Required Unleash your creative side and step into spring with a series of Floral Design Classes hosted by Westfield Montgomery. Spend a Sunday afternoon with partners H.Bloom, Lilly Pulitzer and Lobster ME, and enjoy a 90 min “AYO” (arrange your own) floral design class with expert florists, good eats and parting gifts. Limit-

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SAT, 4/4 10 AM–2 PM Enjoy lantern making sessions at 10 AM and 12 Noon, a variety of Japanese cultural activities, moon bounce, and other entertainment for the whole family to enjoy.

Japanese Culture Day, FREE SAT, 4/4 10 AM–3 PM Japanese Culture Day provides an exciting opportunity for K-12 children, their families, and teachers to learn Japanese culture through reading, writing, and craft making with Japanese cultural and linguistic professionals Library of Congress, Young Readers Center, Thomas JefCapitol South ferson Building, 10 First Street, SE

Cherry Blossom Family Celebration, FREE SAT, 4/4 11:30 AM–3 PM Celebrate the season with craft activities, live music, gardening demonstrations, Japanese paper dioramas, and more!

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th Gallery Place and G Streets, NW

Shigeru Ban Shelter Challenge, Pre-registration required SAT, 4/4 1–3 PM Design, model, and build shelters inspired by the work of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who builds both permanent and temporary structures with recyclable paper tubes. Bring your creativity to build the biggest and strongest paper tube structures!

National Building Museum, 401 F Judiciary Square Street, NW

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SAT, 4/4 1:05 PM Watch the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees in an exciting exhibition game that culminates the pre-season. Tickets start at $19; portion of each ticket sold at nationals.com/blossomsandbaseball will support the Festival for all games this season.

National Conference of State Societies’ Official Cherry Blossom Grand Ball & Sushi Reception FRI, 4/10 6 PM–12 Midnight A black tie evening culminates in the introduction of the Princesses and the coronation of the 2015 U.S. Cherry Blossom Queen.

Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol Street, SE Navy Yard-Ballpark

JW Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania AvMetro Center enue, NW

Official Japanese Stone Lantern Lighting Ceremony, FREE

National Japan Bowl Championship Rounds, FREE

SUN, 4/5 2:30–4 PM The Lantern Lighting Ceremony celebrates the gift of the cherry trees from Japan to the U.S. The Stone Lantern, also a gift, is lit by the current Embassy of Japan’s Princess to the accompaniment of traditional Japanese music.

FRI, 4/10 1–5 PM The National Japan Bowl competition is held each spring. The format is modeled on popular quiz shows such as “It’s Academic.” Teams from across the nation compete for two days at three different levels, depending on how long they have studied Japanese.

National Park Service & National Conference of State Societies, Tidal Basin, Independence Avenue & 17th Street, SW Smithsonian

The Japan-America Society of Washington DC, National 4-H Youth Conference Center, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD

U.S.-Japan Ties: Image and Reality TUE 4/7 9 AM–2 PM To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA will host a half-day public panel discussion in Washington, DC to examine the depth and strength of U.S. ties with Japan based on public opinion and statistics.

Ronald Reagan Building, Rotunda Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Federal Triangle

Lecture by National Park Service Regional Director Robert Vogel, FREE TUE 4/7 12 Noon–1 PM Robert A. Vogel will speak about the 1912 gift of cherry trees, a symbol of friendship between the city of Tokyo, Japan and Washington, DC. He will also discuss the long-term maintenance and preservation of this gift and how the National Park Service protects this national trea-

Smithsonian

National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade® Presented by Events DC, FREE along Parade route

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ing food and drink from each region of the country.

Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of ConCapitol South gress, 10 First Street, SE

Ft. Myer Officers’ Club, Koran Room, Court House Ft. Myer, VA

National Conference of State Societies’ Celebration of the States/Territories Reception

Tamagawa University Taiko Drumming and Dance Troupe, FREE

THUR, 4/9 6:30–8:30 PM Join the U.S. and Japan Cherry Blossom Queens, along with all the State, Territory, and International Cherry Blossom Princesses, for an evening featur-

THUR, 4/9 12 Noon Thundering taiko drumming meets traditional Japanese dance in a special performance on the National Mall.

Freer Gallery of Art, National Mall Entrance, 1050 In-

SAT, 4/11 10 AM–12 Noon This long-standing Washington tradition includes colorful costumes and blossom-inspired décor alongside giant helium balloons, elaborate floats, marching bands from across the country, and exciting family entertainment. Enjoy celebrity performances and the talents of our Sing into Spring competition winners. Reserved grandstand seats start at $20; purchase from Tunestub at 800.927.0939 or nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/2015parade.

Constitution Avenue, From 7th to 17th Streets, NW Federal Triangle or Archives-Penn Quarter Sakura Matsuri-Japanese Street Festival

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Ongoing Events National Cherry Blossom Festival Welcome Area at the Tidal Basin, 1501 Maine Avenue, SW Smithsonian Performance Stage at the Tidal Basin, FREE 3/28–4/12 Enjoy live entertainment and energetic dance, music, and more live daily from 12 Noon–6 PM.

Book Signing by author Ann McClellan, FREE 3/28, 3/29, 4/3, 4/4, 4/5, 4/10, 4/11 Author Ann McClellan will be signing copies of her books, Cherry Blossoms: The Official Book of the National Cherry Blossom Festival and The Cherry Blossom Festival-Sakura Celebration from 1–3 PM at the National Park Store Tent during the Festival.

Tidal Basin Paddle Boat Rentals presented by Guest Services, Inc.

Produced by The Japan-America Society of Washington DC SAT, 4/11 10:30 AM–6 PM Enjoy over 30 hours of cultural performances and demonstrations on 4 stages, cultural exhibitors and artisan demonstrations, children’s activities, and more. Taste Japanese cuisine, beer and sake, and learn how to cook your own Japanese food in the Culinary Arts Pavilion.

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW between 9th Metro Center and 14th Streets

Japanese Shoji Lamp Workshop SAT 4/11 10 AM–12 Noon Make an elegant Shoji table lamp with wood and rice paper. Learn about the simple Zen aesthetic of Japan’s ancient decorative traditions. Materials supplied, including wiring kit and bulb. Japanese teas and sweets served.

Fairfax County Park Authority, Horticulture Center Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria, VA

Tysons Corner Center’s Cherry Blossom Fashion Event, FREE SAT 4/11 11 AM–2 PM Celebrates the blossoms with a fashion event and free family fun!

Tysons Corner Center, 1961 Chain Bridge Tysons Corner Road, McLean, VA

24th Annual Blessing of the Fleets Ceremony, FREE SAT, 4/11 1–5PM Navy Ceremonial Guardsmen pour water from the Seven Seas into the Memorial’s fountains “charging” them to life. Visitors can see exhibits and sample Navy Bean soup prepared by Navy Culinary Specialists.

U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, 701 PennsylvaArchives-Penn Quarter nia Avenue, NW

Children’s Cherry Blossom Celebration Advance registration recommended SAT, 4/11 1:30–3:30 PM Come to Green Spring Gardens to celebrate the Japanese gift of the cherry trees.

This open house format includes a mixture of free activities and fee based crafts.

Fairfax County Park Authority, Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria, VA

Anacostia River Festival Presented by 11th Street Bridge Park and the National Park Service, FREE SUN, 4/12 12 Noon–4 PM The National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the Anacostia River, its history, ecology, and communities along its riverbanks. Take part

in hands-on art projects, musical performances, boating, fishing workshops, tours of historic Anacostia, bike parades, and other unique programs to engage families with the environment!

Anacostia Park, Anacostia Drive & Good Hope Road, SE Anacostia

Credit Union Cherry Blossom TenMile Run and 5K Run-Walk, FREE SUN, 4/12 7:30–10:30 AM World-class runners and 15,000 running enthusiasts tour the cherry blossoms in the 43rd running of the annual “Runner’s Rite of Spring®” in the Nation’s Capital. Closed to entrants; open for spectators.

Washington Monument Grounds, 15th and Constitution Avenue, NW Smithsonian

SUN, 4/12 1–4 PM The 4th Annual Walk For Wishes® is a community-wide celebration and effort to grant wishes for local children with life-threatening medical conditions. Walkers of all ages come together to enjoy a day that includes the walk itself and ongoing family-fun festivities.

Make-A-Wish® Mid-Atlantic, National Mall, 7th Street to 14th Street, NW (circular)M Smithsonian

Touch of Japan: Tea Samples, Fans, and Fun! SUN, 4/12 3–5 PM Through this program, visitors will gain an appreciation of Japan and see the Japanese influences in our everyday lives. Enjoy an exhibit of Japanese fans and small objects, sample teas, and make a painted fan. Tours of the historic house are included.

Fairfax County Park Authority/Sully Historic Site, 3650 Historic Sully Way, Chantilly, VA

Flower Power, FREE SUN, 4/12 12 Noon–4 PM Flower Power in Historic Anacostia! The afternoon includes live music inspired by the 60s, a DJ with retro beats, floral arranging classes, artworks comprised of hundreds of artificial flower petals, gardening tips, and more.

ARCH Development Corporation, 1231 Good Hope Road, SE Anacostia

National Cherry Blossom Festival Greenscape Corridor Bike Ride, FREE, Advance Reservation Recommended presented

by Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. SAT, 4/18 11:30 AM–4 PM Join in the fun of an 11-mile bike ride through downtown DC exploring the Arlington National Cemetery, the National Mall and the US National Abroetum. Refreshments will be available to participants.

BicycleSPACE, 440 K Street, NW

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Various locations 3/20–4/12 Fairfax County, just outside DC, is home to several splendid gardens that welcome Festival visitors with a special gift. Just check in at the main desk and ask for your free memento. Contact respective parks for hours and directions.

Green Spring 703.642.5173 River Farm 703.768.5700 Meadowlark: 703.255.3631

CineMatsuri E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street, NW Metro Center 3/22–3/26 CineMatsuri showcases five of Japan’s most recent and best films, each in a different genre, reflecting the richness and diversity of today’s Japanese cinema. All films will be shown in Japanese, with English subtitles.

Tidal Basin Welcome Area, 1501 Maine Avenue, SW Smithsonian 3/20–4/12 Board a paddle boat and take in the breathtaking view of the cherry blossoms. Reserve online 10 AM to 4 PM at tidalbasinpaddleboats.com. Walkup reservations are taken daily through 6 PM. National Park Service M Smithsonian

Japanese Piano Jazz Series

Ranger-Led Programs, FREE

ArtJamz: Cherry Blossoms

3/28–4/12

Blues Alley Jazz Society 1073 Wisconsin Avenue, NW 3/23–3/25 Listen to talented emerging Japanese Jazz pianists from America’s most prominent music conservatories. The concerts are in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan and Blues Alley.

Ranger Bike Tours: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Plaza

Freer and Sackler Galleries, 1050 Independence Avenue, SW Smithsonian 3/26, 4/9 Unleash your inner artist and discover the beauty of cherry blossoms in Japanese art during a painting party hosted by ArtJamz, from 7–9 PM. Ages 21+ only. Advanced registration required.

Run with a Ranger: Washington Monument Lodge

Vintage Japanese Garments Trunk Show

Lantern Walk: NPS Tent, Tidal Basin Welcome Area Junior Ranger Activity Zone: Tidal Basin Welcome Area Ranger Walking Tour: Lincoln Memorial Plaza

Pups & Petals Dog Walk: Lincoln Memorial Plaza

Walk For Wishes, FREE

Glorious Gardens Self-Guided Tours presented by Visit Fairfax , FREE

Junior Ranger Booklet: Available at NPS information kiosks. Complete the activity booklet to earn a Cherry Blossom Festival junior ranger badge.

Ranger Talks and Tours of the Memorials: NPS information kiosks

Step Into Spring Fitness Programming, FREE Washington Monument grounds at Sylvan Theatre, 17th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW Smithsonian 3/21, 3/28, 4/4 Alongside the Tidal Basin and Washington Monument from 10 AM—12 noon, enjoy a variety of fun free fitness activities including Zumba, yoga, cardio sculpt, and creative dance fusion classes.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models The Phillips Collection, 600 21st Street, NW, Dupont Circle 2/7–5/10: This exhibition features work by contemporary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, contrasting the artist’s photos of 19th-century mathematical plaster models inspired by Man Ray with his own aluminum mathematical models crafted with computer-controlled, precision milling machines.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Shop, 1050 Independence Avenue, SW Smithsonian 3/27, 3/28, 3/29 Presented by Kyoto Kimono, this shopping event includes vintage kimono, haori jackets, obi, décor items, and fashion accessories created from vintage Japanese textiles.

The Apotheosis of Dance: Music of Piazzolla, Rodrigo, and Beethoven Various Locations 3/28–3/29 Join the New Orchestra of Washington along with guest concertmaster Izumi Kamata and rising guitarist Soichi Muraji as they perform the music of Piazzolla, Rodrigo, and Beethoven that share elements of dance. This event is presented in partnership with the S&R Foundation.

Arts on the Horizon’s, Blossom’s Rainbow, a Theatre for the Very Young Play Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street, NE 4/3–4/12 A painter’s brush sets a young cherry blossom’s world into motion. Infused with whimsical dance, vibrant colors, and dynamic live music, join Blossom’s journey in this play celebrating Japanese culture. Best for ages 2-5. Performance times vary.

“Twelve” Tokio Kuniyoshi Photography Solo Exhibition in Washington DC , FREE

Macy’s Celebrates the National Cherry Blossom Festival, FREE

Japan Information & Culture Center, 1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 100 Farragut North

Macy’s Metro Center, 1201 G Street, NW Metro Center 4/4, 4/8, 4/9 Join Macy’s Metro Center for a family day of fun (4/4), a day of pampering including mini-makeovers and complimentary manicures (4/8), and a spring 2015 women’s fashion presentation with live DJ and refreshments (4/9). Visit www.macys.com/events.

3/10–4/30 Celebrating the 12th anniversary of starting his career as a professional photographer and recalling the importance of 12 as a symbolic number in the time, Tokio Kuniyoshi depicts the universe in 12 ways.

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Filipino, Thai, Korean tasting menu, $65, Restaurant Eve. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5 what we’ll eat next week:

Duck in stone pot, $20, Peter Chang. Excitement level: 5 out of 5

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You know how everyone has been saying 9th Street NW is the new 14th Street NW? Now, they really, really mean it. A flurry of announcements were made within the past week about which restaurants and retail outlets will soon occupy the corridor’s newest mixed-use build—Jessica Sidman ings. Here are the highlights.

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9th and U streets NW

All Purpose The owners of The Red Hen and Boundary Stone are teaming up for an Italian-American restaurant that specializes in New Yorkstyle pizza.

Freehand Water & Wall and Maple Ave Restaurant chef/owner Tim Ma will make his D.C. debut. The details are still TBD, and Ma has not confirmed the name.

Buttercream Bakeshop Pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac has finally found a home for her cake and baked goods shop.

Compass Coffee Marines-turned-coffee aficionados Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez aren’t straying far for their next location, which will just be a cafe not a roastery.

Espita Mezcalería “Master Mezcalier” and first-time restaurateur Josh Phillips will open a Oaxacan restaurant highlighting a variety of mezcals.

Hazel Ever since the lease on Arlington’s Tallula and EatBar ran up, Neighborhood Restaurant Group has been looking for a home for chef Rob Rubba and his new restaurant Hazel. This will likely be it, but the lease isn’t final.

Unnamed Restaurant from Daikaya’s Owners Daikaya is getting a sister restaurant that will likewise focus on ramen. The owners are traveling to Japan for inspiration on the concept.

THE’WICHINGHOUR The Sandwich: The Penn Quarter Naan Burger

Declaration The team behind Teddy & The Bully Bar and Lincoln Restaurant introduce another patriotically themed restaurant. The lease has yet to be finalized.

Where: Grand Trunk, 641 Indiana Ave. NW

Tasty Burger This will be the first D.C. location for the Boston-based fast casual burger chain.

Stuffings: A hot potato-based vegetable patty with spinach, peppers, lime, peas, and garam masala, topped with tamarind chutney, lettuce, and tomato

Price: $7.45 Bread: Naan

Thickness: 2.5 inches Pros: If you’re a fan of veggie samosas and in search of ‘round-the-clock Indian takeout, you’ll enjoy the potato patty. It mimics samosa filling, particularly when topped with the tangy and sweet tamarind chutney. The rich and salty combination of vegetables fills you up so fast, you won’t even miss the meat.

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Hellbender Bäre Bönes Kölsch Where in Town: The Big Board, 421 H St. NE Price: $6.70/12 oz.

Deferred Grainification Ben Evans and Patrick Mullane, cofounders of Hellbender Brewing near Fort Totten, had planned to open in 2012. But

challenges obtaining equipment and negotiating D.C.’s byzantine permitting system led to delay after delay. The brewery finally opened in November, and luckily, it was worth the wait. Hellbender’s spacious, 38seat tasting room boasts a distinctive maple bar and eight taps flowing with a variety of fresh beers. A rare mash filter system, which allows Hellbender to brew more efficiently than most other breweries, will soon give way to a nearly all-wheat Dunkelweizen—a difficult, if not impossible, recipe with a standard brewing system. For now, a couple dozen District bars and shops regularly offer Hellbender’s Eft IPA, Red Line Ale, or Bäre Bönes Kölsch.

Put Some Spring in Your Stange Bare bones, indeed. Despite the extraneous

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umlauts, this German-style Kölsch—technically, a name restricted to those produced in Cologne—is brewed primarily with American ingredients. A blend of lighter-colored malts yields subtle bread and caramel aromas, while Willamette and Sterling hops suggest grass and hay. Mild-flavored with a hint of ripe melon, Bäre Bönes is a refreshing brew perfect for this month’s hasty transition to spring. It is crisp, clean, and Pilsner-like (due to being cold-conditioned like a lager) and remarkably effervescent. At a mere 5 percent alcohol, don’t worry about throwing back several in one sitting. Looking for a beer with more zing? Watch for a new release from Hellbender’s Kölsch Pale Ale series dryhopped with Equinox, one of the latest hop breeds from the pacific northwest.

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Cons: The chewy naan is difficult to tear, giving your incisors quite a workout. Raw vegetables would theoretically add a nice brightness to the dense bread and potato filling, but by placing cold lettuce and tomato on a hot filling, they turn into a stringy, mushy mess.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 2. In order to properly rip a bite off the sandwich, you’ve got to hold onto it tightly, and bits of the squishy potato mixture might fall out of the naan. The sandwich isn’t super saucy, however, so the overall mess is pretty minimal.

Overall score (1 to 5): 3. Flavorwise, this sandwich stacks up well, but its construction and temperature problems lead to an underwhelming result. Get separate orders of naan and samosas the next time you’re at Grand Trunk and enjoy their crispiness instead.

—Caroline Jones

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STEVEN REINEKE Conductor

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LEA SALONGA, ERIC KUNZE , TERRENCE MANN, KATHY VOYTKO, MARIE ZAMORA UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CONCERT CHOIR CHILDREN’S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON

Hits from Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, and more Boublil & Schönberg musicals!

March 27 & 28 | Concert Hall David and Alice Rubenstein are the Presenting Underwriters of NSO.

Additional support for the 2014-2015 NSO Pops Season is provided by The Honorable Barbara H. Franklin and Mr. Wallace Barnes.

These performances are sponsored in part by

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Two weeks of films on bikes, fracking, gorillas, climaTe change, and The anacosTia river: washingTonciTypaper.com/go/eff

Screen Favor Is iPad painting Pop art for the 21st century?

By Elena Goukassian Generation App: Those darn millennials aren’t the only ones on the tech track.

Darrow Montgomery

Picture an artist painting outside of her studio, in a local park, café, or public square. She’s probably sitting opposite a canvas, holding a brush in one paintstained hand and a palette in the other. You can imagine what a hassle it was to lug all of her art supplies there and back.

Local artist Ariel J. Klein regularly paints in public, but he doesn’t need to bring an easel, tubes of paint, or brushes with him.

He uses his iPad. “It’s really nice to have a complete color palette on hand wherever I go,” he says. “It’s a lot less messy, and I can even paint on an airplane.”

Using a few different apps, including Procreate and ArtRage, Klein has been painting on his iPad for about a year and a half.

After earning his BFA in traditional painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012, Klein worked out of a space in Silver Spring before moving to 52 O Street Studios in Truxton Circle. He started using his iPad as a portable sketchbook while traveling and to paint his observations in coffee shops and restaurants. “I don’t even use a notebook anymore,” the 25-year-old says. Most of Klein’s paint-on-canvas pieces are based on those digital sketches. Other digital works get run through a high-quality printer as final pieces. (Klein sometimes paints on his iPhone, too, but finds it’s too small to capture much detail.)

As with his canvas work, on his iPad, Klein can blend colors, select different brushes, zoom in to apply finer details, and zoom out to see the big picture. He can even create simulated paint drips if he wants to.

Klein’s found freedom in some of the tablet’s benefits over analog painting; he’s particularly fond of replicating certain parts of his digital paintings, copy-pasting imagery from one side to the other. When I visited him in his studio in January, Klein showed me a sped-up video on his iPad that captured each mark he’d made (and erased)

on a recent self-portrait. At one point, the left half of his face flipped across the vertical axis to the right side, making the face perfectly symmetrical.

With the exception of Rorschach-style prints, this would never be possible on paper or canvas.

With these digital tools at his disposal, Klein’s non-digital works have started to take on a new aesthetic. “I’m trying to bring digital qualities into [analog] painting,” he says. Klein is currently working on a series of oil-on-canvas paintings, each a close-up of the exact same face in different colors. He hopes to make about 50, covering one whole wall of his studio.

The idea is reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s famous portraits of celebrities— and it turns out Klein’s brand of digital painting takes a lot of cues from Pop art.

Like Klein, a lot of Pop artists replicated imagery to create multiples of a single work. Pop artists had an inclination toward mediums and methods that could easily be reproduced—like silkscreen prints—as a way of both making art more affordable and thumbing their noses at the Abstract Expressionists, who were enamored with the one-ofa-kind nature of their own works. Artists who paint on tablet computers can print as many multiples of their digital paintings as they please, and the copypaste function is ideal for Warholian image repetition.

Before Pop art came around, silk screening was considered the fodder of advertisers, not artists. Comics were for children.

And everyday objects were not worthy of large-scale public sculpture. Pop artists worked to bring these “low” art forms into the realm of “high” art, often combining elements of the two worlds into a single work. Roy Lichtenstein always painted his Ben-Day dots—the pixels of comics printing—by hand. Today, artists like Klein sketch out ideas on iPads and later

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transpose the digital images to their canvases. Although art created on an iPad is not necessarily considered a “low” art today (David Hockney uses one, after all), digital painting is not considered as legitimate a medium as analog painting. A BFA painting program would never let its students paint exclusively on a tablet—though these days, some photography departments don’t require darkroom classes, so the advent of a digital-only painting program may not be too far off.

Practicers of Pop art and iPad art share an inescapable interest in mass culture, advertising, and consumerism, but that interest manifests in opposite ways. Pop artists devoted a lot of their works to elevating everyday objects, with a nod to pop-culture darlings of mainstream media, celebrity, and ads. Warhol liked to talk about his art as mass production, his workshop as a factory, and the artist as a machine, churning out works that featured Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup, and the New York Post’s front page.

Artists working in digital painting today don’t always borrow the current capitalist aesthetic for their works’ imagery, but the sentiment comes through in the medium.

Klein doesn’t say he draws on a tablet. He says he draws on an iPad—and he’s not the only one. In his captions and wall texts, Hockney labels his works “iPad Drawing” and

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“iPhone Drawing.” Roz Hall, a U.K.-based digital artist, categorizes his works as “iPad Art” and “Surface Art,” with subcategories for the various apps he used to make the works: Procreate, Brushes, Sketchbook Pro, InkPad, and Fresh Paint. A brand-name product has become an artistic medium.

And just as Perrier put out limited editions of Warhol-inspired bottles in 2013, the brands these artists have been inadvertently advertising are coming back for more.

On Jan. 1, Apple announced a campaign called “Start Something New.” The campaign commissioned 12 artists, including Hall, to create works (mostly photographs) using Apple products. The pieces are posted online and, until recently, were on display at every Apple store in the world, a number of which also invited artists to lead workshops on digital drawing, painting, and photography.

What does Klein think of all this? Is it good for publicity, a sell-out move for the artists, or just another example of capitalism co-opting a creative movement? “I like it,” Klein says. “I think it’s nice that these artists can get some sponsorship. It’s like being sponsored by a paint company… like Gamblin.” He points out that DJs already get invited to Apple stores to do demos, so why shouldn’t Apple support visual artists, too?

Pop art earned critical and popular success in part because its subject matter and execution were accessible. Pop artists were much more concerned with their reception among everyday people than with the opinions of art-world critics.

Apple sees a similar approachability in the works of artists who use its products, which is why the company seeks out these artists to help it advertise its hardware. Klein says that when he paints on his iPad in a public place, small crowds often gather around and ask what he’s doing. “People especially like how I’m copy-and-pasting and duplicating the image,” he says.

Though you probably won’t see any Hockney works at the Apple store anytime soon (the galleries that represent him would likely have none of that), it seems fitting that, as an artist associated with the Pop art movement, Hockney took so naturally to the iPad and iPhone in his 70s. Painting on an iPad may have its limitations (a glowing screen, a stylus that doesn’t always apply the right amount of pressure, and a flattened paint texture), but those might soon be fixed with an updated model or a new operating system. After all, when you’re using an iPad, Klein says, “things take less time.” Pop art captured the consumerism of the 1950s and ‘60s.

Could tablet art embody our increasingly fast-paced, outCP come-oriented, tech-obsessed world?

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After years of negotiating, building, and collecting, the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum opens to the public on March 21. The new 53,000 square foot facility at the corner of 21st and G streets NW houses the Textile Museum’s permanent collection as well as the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection and Center for National Capital Area Studies.

(It’ll also serve as an interactive classroom for the university’s art history and museum studies students.) In addition to tablet and video installations that will allow visitors to further explore the work, here’s what viewers can see at the District’s newest museum.

—Caroline Jones

Photos by William Atkins and Jessica McConnell Burt/The George Washington University

The bridge connects the new museum to the historic Woodhull House.

Boon

Rome EP Standout Track: No. 1, “Medicine,” a histrionic, lyric-driven indie rock track by D.C. duo Boon. Written and recorded by American University seniors Brendan Principato and Jesse Paller, Boon’s debut Rome EP is a collection of rock songs where conflicts between intimacy, theatricality, and performance play out. The EP isn’t particularly fashionable— you’d be hard-pressed to find a D.C. band that puts vibratoed vocals as high and clear in the mix as Boon does—but the record makes enough unconventional choices to be distinct yet accessible. “Medicine” is its best track, playing the strength of Principato’s vocal delivery against the vulnerability of its lyrics.

Musical Motivation: Principato didn’t play instruments for several months while living abroad in Italy, so when he came up with a key melody for “Medicine” while wandering down a boardwalk, he captured it in an iPhone voice memo. “I looked crazy,” Principato says. “I was just humming it into my phone and my sister was like, ‘What are you doing?’”

The melody survived several other songs he calls “trash” before becoming the hook at the tail end of “Medicine.”

Textile Museum While the old Textile Museum mainly featured pieces of fabric devoid of context, its new home has room for more objects that can be compared to one another. To explain how textiles can temporarily transform individuals, a costume from Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest is displayed next to a video of artist Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits.” The social and political ranks of various individuals are also explained through sarongs, weavings, and rugs dating as far back as 3000 B.C.

Washingtoniana Collection Small’s collection includes a lot of maps, including a large Civil Warera one that was later confiscated because it marked the locations of D.C.’s various forts. Viewers can take a close look at original images of the region before it earned international import and see George Washington’s handwriting up close in three letters he penned about his plans for D.C.

Shitstain on the Internet: Currently, Boon’s only merchandise item is a black T-shirt emblazoned with the text “Boon: the s***stain on the underwear of the Internet,” a quote from one of the band’s interviews with AU’s school paper, the Eagle. The band says the shirts aren’t for sale, though—Paller’s dad, who hired an L.A. screenprinter to make the shirts, only paid for three. — Maxwell Tani Listen to “Medicine” at washingtoncitypaper. com/go/medicine. washingtoncitypaper.com march 20, 2015 55

TheaTerCurtain Calls Make ‘eM Laugh

An energized cast helps Henley debut her latest work.

Roscoe—the company of six all play multiple roles, shuckin’ hard for our yuks. Their energy never wanes, even when what seems like it would make a delightful 85-minute one-act stretches out to a mildly enervating two hours and 15 minutes. Zany is tough to sustain-y.

A loose plot chronicles Roscoe’s attempt to woo rube Mabel for her gold rush inheritance money. When he abandons her in the company of that would-be pornographer, she makes her way to Hollywood to seek her fortune in the pictures, leaving a penitent Roscoe to try to win her back. But as with the films on which it’s modeled, you could enter at any time without losing much.

Elena Day is credited as the show’s “movement consultant,” and she is perhaps responsible for the athleticism of its slapstick-iest moments, like when Garnick’s mishandling of a butterfly net results in a near-complete somersault. It’s not his funnybone that breaks if he gets that move wrong.

Goofing off this at this level is hard work.

—Chris Klimek

Freak Show Doctor Caligari Directed by Matt Reckeweg Pointless Theatre at Mead Theatre Lab to April 4 If hearing that a theater troupe famous for its puppetry is putting on an adaptation of the silent horror film classic The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari doesn’t get your blood racing, you may be a somnambulist. That’s “sleepwalk-

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shifty-eyed Dr. Caligari (Lex Davis, the devil in his eyes) was on hand to hawk Cesare, the fortune-telling somnambulist under his command. When Cesare’s predictions about death start to come true, it’s due to a rash of murders (shown to the audience in silhouette), and Francis is trapped in this crazed landscape of terror.

Every element of this adaptation is a hoot.

Cevarich and Davis have faces made for Expressionism. The rest of the cast, clad in raccoon-eyed makeup and monochrome costumes, gives exaggerated physical performances, stretching out fingers like claws and moving at a deliberate pace, as though trapped in a waking nightmare. Under the madcap direction of Matt Reckeweg, the play itself feels like Caligari’s carnival.

It’s too bad there aren’t more puppets, but the ones that are here are ingeniously deployed. By turning Cesare into a life-sized felt creation with a giant head and slowly beating eyes, puppet designer Genna Davidson makes him an otherworldly presence. The onstage puppeteers are mischievous, with permission to wink at us, because they—and we—are all a part of this Surrealist conspiracy. And when Francis runs to the

Handout photo by Stanley Photography

Beth Henley found success early: She was not yet 30 when her second play, Crimes of the Heart, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1981. Throughout the ‘80s she worked steadily as a playwright and screenwriter, frequently mining quirky humor from Southern women’s struggles to reconcile the competing demands of romantic and familial love, or to break out of their circumscribed roles. Movie-star-in-the-making Holly Hunter starred in seven of Henley’s plays as well as the 1989 film version of Henley’s The Miss Firecracker Contest. Henley also worked with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and her thenboyfriend Stephen Tobolowsky—Ned Ryerson himself!—on the script for Byrne’s 1986 cult movie True Stories.

In the ‘90s and beyond, she remained prolific. But as her stage work grew more outré in form and content, audiences and critical approbation both became more elusive.

When her caustic noir-comedy The Jacksonian—her first play in six years—became a hit in 2013, longtime observers hailed it as her “comeback.”

So what, then, is Laugh, her follow-up making its world premiere at the Studio Theatre?

Call it a throwback. It resembles The Jacksonian to roughly the same extent it evokes Crimes of the Heart, which is to say: Not at all. Set in the 1920s and inspired by silent film comedies, right down to Wayne Barker’s live piano score and title-card style narration, Laugh—an imperative, not a noun—is a Muppety assemblage of outrageous zut alors! accents, awful fake beards, pendulous fake boobs, and creampies-in-faces.

There’s a scheming dowager named Octobra Defoliant (the always game Emily K. Townley). An enterprising smut merchant (the barrel-chested, opera-voiced, generally delightful Jacob Ming-Trent) orders his underling to “Bring on the pornographic Valentine candidates for my perusal!” In intention and in effect, it is decidedly and unreservedly silly. Beth Henley wrote this?

You probably already know if you’re at all susceptible to this key of zany madcap tomfoolery. This is the kind of show wherein just digging lustily into what sounds like an unlikely syllable can land like a brilliant joke. It’s staged and performed with a vigor and precision that frequently gels into a persuasive illusion of effortlessness, and unless you’re an incurable sourpuss you’ll probably have a good time.

Save for our two winsome leads—Helen Cespedes as the resourceful but credulous Mabel and Creed Garnick as the foppish, squeamish

Handout photo by Igor Dmitry

Laugh

By Beth Henley Directed by David Schweizer At Studio Theatre to April 19

er,” for those unfamiliar with the source material—which is tons of spooky fun and available on Netflix, hint hint.

The movie is a hallmark of the German Expressionist movement and a touchstone for horror and Surrealist art. Though it’s nearly a century old, it has the timeless quality of nightmare on its side. And the team at Pointless Theatre are astute students of the form, based on the evidence of their adaptation Doctor Caligari, a perfect melding of source material with re-interpretation.

Like the mad doctor himself, the production casts a spell of awed silence over its

Never has German Expressionism been this entertaining. audience, and the result is the most exciting 70 minutes of theater you’re liable to find in D.C. right now.

The play is “silent,” in that the actors mouth rather than speak their lines. A screen projects the dialogue in the manner of silent movie interstitials, while an electronically distorted three-piece strings section plays a spectacularly eerie original score by Michael Winch (who also solos on violin).

From an asylum, the hero, Francis (Frank Cevarich, nailing the character’s fidgets and lanky movements), relays his story in six acts. A traveling fair came through his small German town, and the smartly outfitted but

police in an attempt to stop the murders, we see they are bug-eyed marionettes, with the strings being pulled by… Caligari himself !

(Cue shrieking violin.)

One thing the stage version can’t capture is the film’s distinctive landscapes, the way characters run across garish jagged paths that stretch far into the distance without end. Set designer Patti Kalil manages her own kind of niftiness, adorning the set with blackand-white zigzags and hidden compartments for the various puppet effects. The show is great for kids: It will give them nightmares, yes, but the right kinds of nightmares.

—Andrew Lapin

JESSICA LANG DANCE

GALLIM DANCE

Sat, Mar 28 at 8pm GW Lisner Auditorium

Apr 16-17 at 8pm Lansburgh Theatre

“A master of visual composition”

The Brooklyn-based company makes its D.C. debut with choreography inspired by Israeli contemporary dance.

Jessica Lang, artistic director

– Dance Magazine

Jessica Lang Dance is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Washington Perfoming Arts dance series performances are co-presented with CityDance and are made possible by Reginald Van Lee.

Andrea Miller, artistic director

JULIAN SANDS

A Celebration of Harold Pinter Sat, Apr 18 at 2pm & 8pm Lansburgh Theatre Directed by John Malkovich and interpreted by acclaimed actor Julian Sands (A Room with a View, Leaving Las Vegas), the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival sensation offers an intimate exploration into Pinter’s poems and political prose.

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FilmShort SubjectS Do You Deceive in Magic?

An Honest Liar Directed by Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein

NOW THRU MARCH 24 A three-week, multidisciplinary, international festival showcasing the many cultures of Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking peoples, and their impact around the world

PIAZZOLOGÍA

(ARGENTINA)

El Mundo de Piazzolla su Vida y su Obra (U.S. PREMIERE)

Combining music, video, and dance, this unique ensemble pays tribute to the legacy of tango maestro Astor Piazzolla in a U.S. premiere performance.

Mar. 20 & 21 Eisenhower Theater OTHER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

PICASSO CERAMIST AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

Exclusive U.S. exhibition!

Now thru Mar. 22 | Atrium & Atrium Foyers

ORQUESTRA JOVEM DO ESTADO (BRAZIL) (U.S. DEBUT) WITH SOPRANO HAROLYN BLACKWELL (U.S.)

From Villa-Lobos to Tom Jobim: Symphonic Music From Brazil

DIOGO INFANTE & JOÃO GIL (PORTUGAL) (U.S. PREMIERE)

Mar. 20 & 21 | Terrace Theater

Plus, more dance, music, theater, literature panels, forums, installations, and culinary offerings.

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For complete festival information, visit KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG/IBERIA IBERIAN SUITE: global arts remix Presented in cooperation with the governments of Portugal and Spain Presenting Underwriter HRH Foundation Festival Benefactors include the Portuguese Secretary of State for Culture, Ambassador Elizabeth F. Bagley, Natalia and Carlos Bulgheroni, Amalia Perea Mahoney and William Mahoney, and David and Alice Rubenstein Major Sponsors include Arte Institute, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, EDP, Fundação Luso-Americana, Marca España, SPAIN arts & culture, ThinkFoodGroup, and Wines of Portugal

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Fraud-Minded: Randi subjects self-proclaimed healers to rigorous tests.

Ode Marítima (“Maritime Ode”)

IBERIAN SUITE: global arts remix is curated by Alicia Adams, Vice President of International Programming

Mar. 22 | Concert Hall

The grimacing mug of the Tolstoy-esque old man on the one-sheet for An Honest Liar suggests that this enemy of professional scammers is about to tell his stories with a self-righteous bark rather than the warmth of a nostalgic grandpa.

It’s the face of James Randi, better known to viewers of a certain age as “The Amazing Randi,” a Canadian-born magician, escape artist, and hoax investigator who’s now 86 and living in Florida with his husband, Deyvi Peña. Once Randi decided he was too old to keep swinging from helicopters while swaddled in a straitjacket, he dedicated himself to unveiling the truths behind the performers he regarded as dishonest liars: mentalists, psychics, and worst of all, faith healers.

There are entertaining surprises in Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein’s documentary as Randi publicly humiliates swindlers like mentalist Uri Geller and “Praise Jee-a-zus!”

but nobody checked their veracity. Instead of opening the public’s eyes, the Carlos Hoax, as it’s known, became so popular that it only deepened his audience’s belief in spirits communicating from beyond the grave.

Randi says of the channeling era, “It was such nonsense. I can’t think of the technical term for it—oh yes, bullshit.” In his interviews for An Honest Liar and in earlier TV footage, Randi is quick with the quips and one-liners, clearly retaining both his sharpness and appetite for fun through the years. (Though perhaps the latter is not so unusual for a man who decapitated Alice Cooper at the end of every show on Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies tour.)

Aside from Randi’s early comment that he felt like an “outsider” growing up and a latechapter mention that he was 81 before he came out as a gay man, the directors don’t get hung up on Randi’s sexuality. His life and relationship with Pena is presented matter-offactly; their status as a couple is both obvious and left alone.

Randi regarded the kind of deception perpetrated by Popoff, who declared himself a healer while emptying believers’ wallets, as despicably unethical; he calls Popoff “a real scoundrel.” (A lesser gentleman might choose a harsher description.) Randi’s intention has

forehead-pusher Peter Popoff, both of whose methods he revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. (Geller, who was unable to pull off a signature trick on the talk show under Randi’s strict prop standards, later responded with the classic line of all the witlessly maligned, “He’s jealous.”)

But the most pleasant surprise is discovering that Stern Poster Randi is actually genial and quite charming, the kind of storyteller you’d be happy to listen to past the doc’s 90minute runtime. He approaches his projects of debunking fraud performed in the name of entertainment with inarguable intelligence and a sense of service, but also with the zeal of a rascal. When channelers became all the rage in the 1980s, Randi turned Peña into “Carlos,” a 2,000-year-old spirit who allegedly spoke through Peña. Randi printed fictional stories about Carlos in fictional newspapers—

always been to enlighten the victims of fraud, to make them wary the next time a trickster rolls into town.

Randi and his cohorts made the fakery of these personalities clear to the public, and that’s what makes the film fun: He explains how they caught them while re-revealing them as frauds. If you’re not already a skeptic, you may resolve to think of Randi’s lessons when some suspicious type next crosses your path.

Still, these sham artists, even the ones profiled here, endure. The film’s question is clear: Why do we keep believing? Randi answers: “The public really doesn’t listen when they’re being told straightforward facts. They’d rather have the romance of the lies.”

—Tricia Olszewski An Honest Liar opens Friday, March 20 at E Street Cinema.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Handi -hour Wednesday, March 25 | 5:30–9 p.m.

Cutting-edge artists Christy Oates and Joshua DeMonte bring their laser cutting and 3D-printing skills to DC’s favorite crafting and craft beer happy hour! $10 tickets at the door; first-come, first-served for: • • •

All you can craft Two drink tickets and snacks Live music

This program is presented in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Must be 21 years of age or older.

8th and G Streets, NW | Washington DC | More info: AmericanArt.si.edu/handihour

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

Rock

“CONFLUENCE: CONSIDERING THE ANACOSTIA”

Friday 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

barns at Wolf trap 1645 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Enter The Haggis. 8 p.m. (Sold out) wolftrap.org.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Strange Design. 9 p.m. $15–$18. gypsysallys.com.

Stripmall Ballads. 7 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Lloyd Dobler Effect. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

Funk & R&B the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Rebirth Brass Band. 8:30 p.m. $37–$42. thehamiltondc.com.

Thurs, 3/19 at 6:30pm Skin Cleanse Adina Grigore

ElEctRonic eChostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Excision. 9 p.m. $30. echostage.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Chris Lake, Will Eastman. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz amp by strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Frédéric Yonnet. 7:30 p.m. $35. ampbystrathmore.com. montpelier arts Center 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. Ron Kearns Quintet. 8 p.m. $25. arts.pgparks.com.

BluEs Zoo bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Moonshine Society. 9 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

countRy hill Country live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

William Clark Green. 10 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

WoRld blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cheikh Ndoye, Baaba Mal, Karen Briggs. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $45. bluesalley.com.

GeorGetoWn university mCneir auditorium 37th and O streets NW. (202) 687-0100. Duo Del Sol. 1:15 p.m. Free. georgetown.edu. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Raul Romero de Los Nosequien y Los Nosecuantos. 8 p.m. $35–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

Kennedy Center millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Rodrigo Leão. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

on the Afterwords Mezzanine The recent relationship between the Anacostia River and art hasn’t been great: A proposed work by Mia Feuer featuring a partially submerged gas station was scuttled last year amid controversy over both its message and its potential to interfere with a study of the pollution lingering in the bed of the river. But a new exhibition at Anacostia’s Vivid Solutions Gallery, “Confluence: Considering the Anacostia,” offers the star-crossed waterway a chance for a fresh start. Piper Grosswendt (the gallery’s associate director) and local photographer Bruce McNeil put out a call for photographers and asked them to respond to the river and its surroundings. The exhibit, timed to coincide with the inaugural Anacostia River Festival, features work by McNeil and three other artists—Becky Harlan, who focuses on people who use the river; David Allen Harris, who specializes in landscapes; and Krista Schlyer, who trains her lens on wildlife. McNeil, for his part, documents the journey the river takes from its origins in Sandy Spring, Md., to its confluence with the Potomac River. There’s not a submerged gas station in sight, but the view’s not so bad. The exhibition is on view Tuesdays through Fridays noon to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., to May 1, at Vivid Solutions Gallery, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. Free. (202) —Louis Jacobson 365-8392. vividsolutionsgallery.com.

classical Kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach performs Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. 8 p.m. $10–$85. kennedy-center.org.

dJ nights dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Discnothèque with DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler. 10 p.m. $4. dcnine.com.

saturday Rock amp by strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Not-Its. 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. $10. ampbystrathmore.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Melodime, Radio Birds, Symphonic Refrain. 8:30 p.m. $15–$19. gypsysallys.com.

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Patriot Center 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax. (703) 993-3000. Chris Tomlin. 7 p.m. $25–$35. patriotcenter.com.

Funk & R&B Dar Constitution Hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Ledisi, Raheem DeVaughn, Leela James. 8 p.m. $85–$110. dar.org. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Rebirth Brass Band. 8:30 p.m. $37–$42. thehamiltondc.com.

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Maysa. 8 p.m. $47.50–$75. thehowardtheatre.com.

ElEctRonic eCHostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Steve Aoki, Headhunterz, Caked Up, Botnek, Reis Stefan. 9 p.m. $51. echostage.com. u street musiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Claptone. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

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Go-Go atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Capital City Symphony and Go-Go Symphony. 8 p.m. $20–$25. atlasarts.org.

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Familiar Faces. 11 p.m. $27.50–$50. thehowardtheatre.com.

opERa gala HisPaniC tHeatre 3333 14th St. NW. (202) 234-7174. Don Giovanni. 8 p.m. $22–$45. galatheatre.org.

classical kenneDy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Christoph Eschenbach performs Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. 8 p.m. $10–$85. kennedy-center.org. sixtH & i HistoriC synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Brooklyn Rider. 8 p.m. $28. sixthandi.org.

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BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Juke Joint Blues Revue. 9 p.m. $10–$15. blackcatdc.com.

linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 328-6000.

The Alexandria Harmonizers, the Vibes, the District, Vox Pop. 8 p.m. $25–$41. thelincolndc.com.

Zoo Bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Stacy Brooks Blues Band. 9 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Sunday

WoRld Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cheikh Ndoye, Baaba Mal, Karen Briggs. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $45. bluesalley.com. kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Brass Ensemble São Paulo. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. SomeKindaWonderful, Mark Scibilia. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Jazz twins JaZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Shoshana Bush. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

SERGE BEYNAUD The Auto-Tuned vocals of Côte d’Ivoire’s Serge Beynaud are the first sign that his dance music takes a more contemporary approach to the traditional West African grooves of yesteryear. Beynaud falls within the genre known as Coupé-Décalé, a speedy polyrhythmic dance-club music popularized by residents of his West African nation and expats living in Paris. Though he began his career as a producer, songwriter, and arranger, Beynaud is now a gregarious frontman surrounded by energetic backup dancers.

His sound is distinct, but his interest in older music styles from t h ro u gh o u t Francophone Africa and the Caribbean comes through in his work. Beynaud’s 2014 release Talehi features tunes with frenetic rhythms and guest rappers, as well as ones with slower, sappier melodies. His croons over saccharine guitar strumming, drawn from the French-Caribbean zouk style, may have helped enhance his heartthrob status, but funky, syncopated tracks like last year’s single “Okeninkpin” are his chefs d’oeuvre. Serge Beynaud performs with Zota at 10 p.m. at Station One, 8131 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. $30–$40.

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“SHIPS, CLOCKS, AND STARS: THE QUEST FOR LONGITUDE” Before Google Maps sent personalized routes to our phones, people used actual maps to get around. Although those paper documents were fine for traversing continents with notable physical features and landmarks, they weren’t nearly as effective for crossing vast, featureless oceans, especially when navigators had to keep piloting the ship after dark.

Sure, a compass could tell you where you were going, but if you lost track of your location, your ship could be lost at sea forever. The risk was so great that in 1714, the British government created the Longitude Act, which offered a reward for anyone who could find a way to determine longitude at sea. In response, tinkerers, clockmakers, astronomers, and naval officers all scrambled to complete the “quest for longitude.” Now, an exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library, created by the staff at Greenwich, England’s National Maritime Museum, presents the different solutions they came up with through more than five decades of study and experimentation. Among the exhibited items are clockmaker John Harrison’s H4 marine timekeeper, astronomical tables developed by Nevil Maskelyne, and paintings from Captain James Cook’s Pacific voyages. A working compass is not required to navigate these displays. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. —Tim Regan Free. (202) 544-4600. folger.edu.

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Opera GALA HispAnic THeATre 3333 14th St. NW. (202) 234-7174. Don Giovanni. 2:30 p.m. $22–$45. galatheatre.org.

classical pHiLLips coLLecTion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. José Franch-Ballester, clarinet, and Michael Brown, piano. 4 p.m. $15–$30. phillipscollection.org.

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BoHeMiAn cAverns 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. bohemiancaverns.com.

Opera GALA HispAnic THeATre 3333 14th St. NW. (202) 234-7174. Don Giovanni. 7:30 p.m. $22–$45. galatheatre.org.

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Funk & r&B u sTreeT Music HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Ibeyi. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Wednesday Rock Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Will Duvall. 7 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Title Fight, La Dispute, The Hotelier. 8 p.m. $20–$23. thehowardtheatre.com. rock & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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JOHN HAMPSEY Annie Dillard’s 1987 memoir, An American Childhood, chronicles her upbringing in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. While the stories Dillard tells are unique to her life, her description of a bucolic, middle-class upbringing has resonated with readers for more than 25 years. Now, California Polytechnic State University literature professor and Pittsburgh native John Hampsey shares his own reflections on growing up in the Pennsylvania city in his new memoir, Kaufman’s Hill.

From being bullied by a gang of tough neighbors to racial animosity and testing the limits of childhood independence, Hampsey distills vivid moments into lyrical passages on the page. With maturity comes change, both to Hampsey’s life and the world in which he lives. Suddenly, his actions don’t seem as carefree as they once did. When he discusses his memoir at Kramerbooks, expect poignant anecdotes about the joys and struggles of coming of age. John Hampsey reads at 6:30 p.m. at Kramerbooks, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 387-1400.

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Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble. 8 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

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HoWarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Kid Creole & The Coconuts. 8 p.m. $35–$70. thehowardtheatre.com.

Thursday Rock

black cat backstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Lieutenant, Yukon Blonde. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tigerman Whoa, These Wild Plains, the Dirty Bangs. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

ElEctRonic U street MUsic Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Gui Boratto, Chadwick, Jandro. 9 p.m. $5–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

dJ nights rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. DJs J’RON, Immersia, and Exaktly. 9 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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aMerican centUry’s broaDWay Hit paraDe Performers from American Century Theater’s previous musical productions return to sing some of their favorite songs from shows like Lady in the Dark, The Cradle Will Rock, and Call Me Mister at this revue compiled by Jack Marshall. American Century Theater at Gunston Theatre Two. 2700 S. Lang St., Arlington. To March 22. $32-$40. (703) 998-4555. americancentury.org.

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AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

As they’re portrayed in popular culture, ballets seem like evening-long affairs of tutus and movement-based interpretations of vaguely European fairytales. In reality, the majority of large ballet companies perform more short, experimental pieces than they do elaborate stories of swans and pumpkins, but the American Ballet Theatre offers a bit of both during its stay at the Kennedy Center. From March 26 to 30, its dancers will take on Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, set to soaring music by Sergei Prokofiev. Before that, for its first two performances in D.C., the company will highlight three of its longtime favorites: George Balanchine’s “Themes and Variations,” Antony Tudor’s “Pillar of Fire,” and Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo.” The latter piece, set to music by Aaron Copland, takes place in the American Southwest and features a lead performance by soloist and copmany star Misty Copeland. She’ll be back in D.C. to perform Swan Lake with the Washington Ballet in April, but for now, enjoy her turn as a joyful cowgirl. The company performs March 24 to March 30 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. $25–$119. (202) 467-4600.

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While some view Easter as an opportunity to gorge on Peeps and Cadbury Creme Eggs, may we suggest something slightly more culturally, spiritually, and intellectually rigorous this season? Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl’s epic three-act Passion Play is a worthy alternative to mindless gluttony and egg hunts. Centered around three separate time periods—Queen Elizabeth I’s England, Hitler’s Germany, and Reagan’s America—each act features an ensemble of actors performing the story of Jesus’ death during these tumultuous eras and the heady debates over art, religion, and politics that subsequently arise in their communities. While this isn’t short-attention-span theater (the last time the play was staged in D.C., at Arena Stage in 2005, performances ran nearly four hours), the actors on the roster—including Frank Britton, Ben Cunis, and Laura C. Harris—make it a must-see for local theater lovers. Expect something grand from director Michael Dove, whose productions of Angels in America and Scorched thrilled viewers and turned Forum into a company to watch. The play runs March 19 to April 11 at Forum Theatre at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Sil—Diana Metzger ver Spring. $15–$30. (301) 588-8279. forum-theatre.com.

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Blue Viola UrbanArias presents this operetta about a junk dealer who steals an instrument from a famous classical musician, only to discover that the product is a fake. Artisphere. 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. To March 29. $26-$28. (703) 875-1100. artisphere.com.

Freedom’S Song Abraham Lincoln’s life and words come to life in this musical that tells the stories of individuals’ highs and lows throughout the Civil War. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 20. $27-$69.

(202) 347-4833. fordstheatre.org. g-d’S honeSt truth Roberta and Larry, a devoted Jewish couple, have the opportunity to rescue a Holocaust torah and give it to their synagogue. Renee Calarco’s new comedy, inspired by the true story of Rabbi Menachem Youlus, examines how communities deal with scandals past and present. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To April 19. $10-$65. (202) 518-9400. theaterj.org.

Kid Victory Legendary composer John Kander collaborates with playwright Greg Pierce on this world premiere musical about a young boy who returns home a year after disappearing and his struggle to reenter society. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To March 22. $29-$94. (703) 8209771. signature-theatre.org.

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St. NW. To April 26. $20-$110. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. much ado aBout nothing This latest wordless production from Synetic Theater sets the story of confirmed bachelor Benedick and his equally stubborn and single counterpart Beatrice in 1950s Las Vegas. Paata Tsikurishvili directs the company’s 11th “Silent Shakespeare” adaptation. Synetic Theater at Crystal City.

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(800) 494-8497. synetictheater.org. ode marítima Acclaimed Portuguese actor Diogo Infante and musician João Gil collaborate on the U.S. debut of this theatrical adaptation of the Fernando Pessoa poem. Part of the Kennedy Center’s Iberian Suite Program. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To March 21. $30. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the originaliSt Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith directs the world premiere of John Strand’s drama about cantankerous Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero stars as Scalia, who spars with a stubborn, liberal law clerk as they prepare for an important case. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To April 26. $70-$110. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. othello (radio VerSion) WSC Avant bard builds on its previous production of Othello by collaborating with Lean & Hungry Theater on a radio version of Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy and revenge. Artisphere.

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laugh Mabel, a wealthy orphan, is sent to live with a calculating aunt who aims to steal her fortune by setting Mabel up with her son. Their courtship flounders but reveals a love of movies and ultimately results in a Hollywood-style romance. Wayne Barker designed original music for this world premiere of Beth Henley’s play. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To April 19. $20-$78. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

paSSion play Sarah Ruhl’s extravagant play jumps from Elizabethan England to Weimar-era Germany to America in the ‘80s as different groups of people act out the annual story of Christ’s resurrection. Michael Dove direct’s Forum’s production, which follows in the tradition of past shows like Angels in America and Scorched. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To April 11. $30-$35. (240) 644-1390. forum-theatre.org.

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Swing Time—The muSical Enjoy the music of Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, and Duke Ellington in this comedic wartime musical set during a war bond radio drive broadcast. Arleigh & Roberta Burke Theater at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center. 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To June 24. $19-$49. (202) 573-8127. swingtimethemusical.com.

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MIPSO Few bands can transport an audience to another state the way Mipso can, making the Chapel Hill, N.C., four-piece a true marvel. Using a cello, a fiddle, and the occasional banjo, the band’s music firmly plants scenes of the Appalachian Mountains and the Old North State in the minds of its listeners. By combining simple string arrangements with complex vocal harmonies, Mipso’s debut album, Dark Holler Pop, displays a youthful, more upbeat take on the folk rock and bluegrass proffered by the likes of Nickel Creek and James Taylor. With every word and strum, Mipso keeps to the mountain gospel—but that’s not to say the band adheres blindly to tradition. Its original ballads pack an emotional punch, and its cover of Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home” makes the song far more fun with the addition of a mandolin. In an intimate setting like AMP, Mipso’s skills will shine even brighter. Mipso performs at 7:30 p.m. at AMP by Strathmore, 11810 Grand Park Ave., North —Jordan-Marie Smith Bethesda. $20–$27. (301) 581-5100. ampbystrathmore.com.

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