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politics: A ward 8 boss gets into church biz 7 Food: no-cash eateries leave unbanked behind 17 arts: kris Funn’s musical autobiography 26

FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE A N D T H E B I RT H O F I M P R E S S I O N I S M A P R I L 9 – J U LY 9 Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Musée Fabre, Montpellier; and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Made possible by leadership support of The Leonard and Elaine Silverstein Family Foundation. Major support is provided through the generosity of the Virginia Cretella Mars Endowment Fund for the International Exchange of Art. Additional funding is provided by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art. Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. image: Frédéric Bazille, Portraits of the *** Family, called The Family Gathering (detail), summer 1867 - early winter 1868, oil on canvas, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, purchased with the assistance of Marc Bazille, 1905, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, purchased with the assistance of Marc Bazille, 1905. © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

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INSIDE 12 D.C.’S HomeleSS CriSiS

Nonprofits and residents innovate while officials try to restrict services.

By Andrew Giambrone, Quintin J. Simmons, and Laura Hayes Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

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23 Foreign Affairs: Two new films from abroad capture cultural and familial complexities with equal parts nuance and boredom.

25 Short Subjects: Zilberman on Baby Driver and Gittell on The Beguiled 26 Discography: West on Kris Funn’s Corner Store

7 Loose Lips: Longtime Ward 8 political boss Phinis Jones branches out into ministry.

8 Unobstructed View 9 Gear Prudence 10 Savage Love 11 Indy List

d.C. feed 17 Cash, Out: A significant number of D.C. residents don’t have bank accounts, yet casual eateries are increasingly going cashless.

20 Cocktails With Your Haircut: Several establishments are capitalizing on the District’s desire to take the edge off by introducing alcohol into the mix.

20 What’s in Stein’s Stein: Logsdon Farmhouse Ales’ Seizoen Bretta 20 Are You Gonna Eat That?: Et Voila!’s Royal of Mussels

City List 29 City Lights: Hear Jason Isbell and The Mountain Goats sing about outsiders and vampires at Merriweather on Friday.

29 Music 32 Galleries 32 Theater 32 Film

34 CLAssifieds diversions 35 Crossword

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In which we tighten online commenting

Darrow MontgoMery

Somewhere in the vast ether of internet commenting past, an anonymous reader who didn’t like my political coverage accused me more than once of being a secret porn star who pressured sources to join in a circle of kinky sexual behavior. As flattering as it was to be considered adult smut material—I guess porn really does have something for everyone—it would be fair to say that such discourse didn’t advance or illuminate the issues in the city down South I once covered.

And it would be a vast understatement to say that online comments haven’t improved. In fact, they have become progressively less constructive and acutely more vile. Where they once served to aid news organizations in developing or advancing stories—their anonymous nature shielding well-meaning whistleblowers from exposure—they have become more trouble than they’re worth. So in the very near future, City Paper is going the way of many other larger news organizations in requiring readers who comment on our site to do so using registered social media accounts.

As is true for many publications, the majority of the conversations about our pieces are already on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. And we get our share of reader phone calls, too.

For the website comments, the change accomplishes a couple of things: First, it will act as a first line of defense against annoying spam comments about penis enlargement and work-from-home schemes that we don’t have the resources to police and delete. And second, because readers will at a minimum have to identify themselves via a public social media login, they will be less likely to launch threats and ad hominem attacks against journalists and story subjects. We embrace differences of opinion and challenges, but have no obligation to allow any and all nameless imps to dishonestly upbraid either our journalists or those we cover in such prominent space adjacent to our reporting.

One note: Legacy commenters who are currently logged into the site will be able to continue posting comments under their existing login until logging out. We value reader contributions and feedback, but we want to make the process—and the product—more civil and responsible. This, we hope, will accomplish that.

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DistrictLine Nearer the Church Longtime Ward 8 political boss Phinis Jones branches out into ministry.

By Jeffrey Anderson

Loose Lips

in office.

Jones believes in giving as well as receiving. He and just two of his companies have contributed $7,900 to political candidates since 2013, and he personally has donated $14,650 to political action committees over the years, including a $10,000 payment to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s FreshPAC in 2015.

The Washington Times reported in 2013 that he and his various companies and other businesses that reside at 3215 MLK Jr. Ave. contributed more than $60,000 to D.C. politicians from 2006 through 2013—often bundling contributions from associates and their own business entities to avoid campaign finance limitations.

Yet he has his flaws. Court records show he has racked up personal and business judgments against Phinis Jones’ him in excess headquarters of $155,000 in D.C. and Maryland from 2000 to 2013, The Times reported. He was a former property manager at the Park Southern affordable housing complex, which the city seized after discovering a pattern of bad debt and “gross mismanagement,” according to court filings. In 1997, City Paper reported that Jones was investigated for fraud and breach of contract in connection with a Congress Heights job training center.

Congress Heights Community Training and Development Corp.—founded by Jones, run by Ray, and located at 3215 MLK Jr. Ave.— also has provided construction, maintenance, and neighborhood outreach services for slum-condition properties owned by Sanford Capital that are slated for redevelopment at the Congress Heights Metro sta-

tion, and is suing to gain control of a crucial adjacent property. Although the city acquired the properties, Jones stood to receive a $5,000 per year payment under a Community Benefits Agreement with Sanford, had a development deal gone through. Developer Geoffrey Griffis, then Sanford’s real estate partner, told The Post that he didn’t know what the money was for. “I don’t know what they actually do,” he said of Jones’ company at the time.

Church founder is arguably the ideal next step for Jones, as strange as it might seem for a man who already juggles real estate, community development, politics, nonprofits, and private business interests.

Beginning in September, New Life will hold services for the time being in a multi-purpose

Andy DelGiudice

EtchEd crudEly in the concrete sidewalk in front of the three-bedroom Colonial at 3215 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue is the name of a man who has lorded over Ward 8 for decades.

Phinis Jones is many things—politico, campaign financier, entrepreneur, community developer —and he is about to add another title to his portfolio: church founder.

“I am excited about this new opportunity to minister to and meet the need of the residents of this community,” Jones, a founding board member of New Life Ministries, says in a news release. “I commit my time, connections, and resources to the vision, mission, and goals of this important community ministry.”

Connections and resources are a Jones specialty, and they all revolve around 3215 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Within its four walls exists a crazy quilt of certified business entities, nonprofits, holding corporations, and private ventures, most of them tied to Jones and his business partner Monica T. Ray, who was campaign treasurer for former Ward 8 Councilmember LaRuby May. Business ties and transactions involving Jones, Ray, and May are enough to drive a PriceWaterhouse auditor bonkers: Millions in federal funding for an affordable housing complex for seniors, with management and development fees paid to companies owned by Jones; a sweetheart land deal between Jones’ development partners and a church where Ray and May were officers that loaned them money to complete the sale; dozens of community development ventures involving Jones and Ray that compete for the same publicly funded, minority set-aside contracts. Much of the book on Jones is dated, but his game is still strong. Along with Ray, he has secured a piece of the action in the Washington Wizards facility project, in which their firm, Capitol Services Management Inc., employs a “high tech and high touch” approach to community outreach.

The contract was let even as May, an occasional business partner of Ray and Jones, was still

conference room at the back of the Community College Preparatory Academy, an adult charter school at 2405 MLK Jr. Ave. that May founded— and where Ray serves as the academy’s trustee and founding board member and Jones chairs its Friends of CC Prep committee. The space will come rent-free, says academy head Connie Spinner, who describes Jones and company as “a small group coming together and doing good.” Says Spinner, “Our hope is that the church will be a part of the community and that they keep their good going.”

Business filings at D.C.’s Department

of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs show Jones as a director of New Life along with Shelley Rice and Ernest D. Lyles Sr., the latter of whom says New Life’s business office will be located at 3309 MLK Jr. Ave., a detached single-family residence assessed at $233,120 and classified for tax purposes as “blighted real property.”

Until recently, Lyles had been pastor at the formerly known A.P. Shaw—Congress Heights United Methodist Church, where he served for more than 30 years. “It was my desire to retire and do my own thing,” the 62-year-old says. “I chose to move on to another ministry.”

That ministry includes 27 congregants whom Lyles consider founders. Its first order of business is to partner with Parkway Overlook Tenants Association to advocate for protecting affordable housing as the Section 8 project undergoes redevelopment, he says.

“Once you start out [as a church], it’s not an uncommon practice,” Lyles says.

New Life also will work with the athletic director at Johnson Middle School to develop after-school programs and plans to conduct outreach to ex-offenders and their family members. “That community needs Christ,” the pastor says.

Lyles says he first met Jones a decade ago when Lyles was sponsoring cultural awareness tours in West Africa. Jones became an officer at a church that, along with a nonprofit, raised money to support a school project in West Ghana and projects in Senegal and Gambia. “When it comes to buildings, they don’t go to a bank and take out loans over there,” he says. “They build as they are able.”

New Life’s approach to ministry, Lyles says, particularly where government contracts are concerned, will be “to approach [social problems] from a spiritual perspective to see how God can play a role.”

Asked how New Life is paying for the building at 3309 MLK Jr. Ave., Lyles says his founders are tithers, meaning they pay a tenth of their annual earnings to support the church and its ministry. “That’s what Christians do.

That’s what the Book of God tells us to do.”

Lyles says he doesn’t know about Jones’ farflung business activities and projects. Jones did not respond to an email seeking comment.

“I don’t know who his business partners are,” Lyles says of his church co-founder.

That’s a conscious decision, the pastor says.

“There was this church where the pastor had officers bring in their pay stubs to show they were tithing; I don’t do that,” he says. “If they say this is my tithe, I have no cause to question it, like, ‘What’s going on, you prostitutin’ on the side?’ No. I take it, and I bless it, and I thank God and use it for my ministry.”

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June and July are always a dead time in the sports calendar. Three of the big four sports are dormant (or as close to it as they get), and the fourth is mired in the middle of its interminable season. If you’re more a sports fan than a baseball fan (and you don’t take solace in the WNBA or arena football), this stretch is always rough.

But this year, in this town, it’s particularly dreadful.

Most of the time, when you think of a sports curse, you think of a city—itself often crumbling or destitute—with a whole bunch of terrible, losing sports teams, doomed for eternity to watch mediocre players performing poorly.

But things are different here. We can’t even be cursed properly.

The Nationals are comfortably perched in first place in their division (which, admittedly, is having a down year). The team is blessed with at least three top-tier marquee players (Bryce Harper, Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer) and has several other rising stars. They’re fun to watch, play in a clean, new, pleasant (if soulless) stadium, and seem like they could make some noise in the postseason.

And yet the franchise’s future is also covered with a persistent fug of doom: The bullpen is horrific this year, largely because the team ownership apparently declined to put down the cash a top-notch closer would require. And that same parsimony has made Harper’s departure seem almost inevitable, which makes rooting for him bittersweet and occasionally frustrating.

The Wizards feature an incandescent talent in John Wall, with Bradley Beal and Otto Porter being excellent young players maybe a tier down. The team overachieved last year, washed out of the playoffs maybe a little earlier than fans would’ve hoped … and yet its future is limited by two factors: First, it lacks roster flexibility, significant draft picks, or a general manager who would be able to make effective use of either. Second, even if it had those things, the dominance of the Golden State Warriors, and to a more tenuous extent the Cleveland Cavaliers, puts a

firm ceiling on how much the Wizards could even hope for.

The Capitals feature one of the NHL’s alltime greats in Alex Ovechkin, and the team routinely puts a watchable, fun, winning regular season product on the ice. But there is a genuine feeling of stagnation around the team—a sense that this roster has given all it can and that it hasn’t made a difference, a sense that the head coach is doomed (and overmatched), and, finally, that the window of possibility is closed, if it was ever truly open. And that’s not even considering the issues that plague hockey in general—that one bad bounce and two bad calls can decide playoff games.

The football team may be the best off of the bunch, but it’s bogged down in another year of will-they-or-won’t-they contract negotiations with quarterback Kirk Cousins.

It feels impossible to stay as engaged as I used to be—and as I would like to be. Brent, who writes about the football team for his Burgundy Blog (and prefers not to use his last name), seems without such problems.

He analyzes the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the roster, watches morning press conferences announcing new titles in the personnel department, and frantically tweets about all of it.

It’s a level of engagement that seems totally distant to me right now, but Brent sees it as inevitable. “I still look, because honestly, I cannot look away,” he says. “If I care about how the game works, I have to care about the smallest details, because they matter. Often a very thin margin separates success from failure.”

In essence, Brent staves off potential ennui by becoming even more committed to following, analyzing, and talking about the team. “If I wasn’t going balls to the wall, I would probably quit outright,” he says.

As nearly every area team makes it more difficult to drum up that level of interest— and as not every fan has Brent’s near-pathological intensity—that sentiment is exactly what should have ownership and the leagues worried.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: The street in front of my house recently got “sharrows” and I’m ... confused. It’s a picture of a bike rider, but it’s not an actual bike lane. It’s in the middle of the road, and not off the side where people actually ride their bikes.

It’s just there. I don’t know. I guess my biggest question is: Why are they even there? And does this actually do anything special for bicyclists?

—Something Happened Around Recently, Rider Openly Wonders Suspiciously Dear SHARROWS: Before answering the why, let’s tackle the what. A sharrow (or shared lane marking) is the picture of a bicycle figure topped with a chevron. Sharrow is a portmanteau of “shared” and “arrow” and doesn’t, as many people believe, have anything to do with Shar-Peis and the adorable growly “row” noise they make as puppies. They’re found on roads where there aren’t bike lanes, and the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) writes in their Urban Bikeway Design Guide that sharrows “should not be considered a substitute for bike lanes, cycle tracks, or other separation treatments.” As you might have guessed from the “share” thing, sharrows, unlike bike lanes, don’t create a designated space for bicyclists, which means you’re in the same legal situation as you would be if they weren’t there.

Per NACTO, a sharrow aims to do three main things: 1) reinforce the legitimacy of bicycle traffic on the street, 2) recommend proper bicyclist positioning 3) offer directional and wayfinding guidance. The second reason explains why they’re in the middle of the street. Sharrows (ideally) signal to a bicyclist where to ride to avoid hastily opened car doors.

Also, on narrow lanes, sharrows tell the cyclist where to ride to (hopefully) avoid riding sideby-side with a car. So,they’re not (or shouldn’t be) placed completely haphazardly.

Reasons one and three get into the why. Maybe sharrows have been placed to help close a gap between two stretches of actual bike lanes.

Or to remind you to not ride into oncoming traffic. As for the legitimacy question, this is a little more fraught. Reminding drivers that bikes are traffic too is fine, but yeah, no shit. Other than highways, bikes are allowed everywhere. We don’t have “carrows” to say that cars are legitimate—it’s just assumed. And denoting certain streets as “bikes are legitimate here” might prompt questions (from stupid people) about the legitimacy of bikes on streets without them.

Cynics suggest one other reason for sharrows: They’re something. “Building a bike lane removes parking, so let’s throw them some sharrows and then we can say we care about bikes,” they imagine nefarious transportation department bigwigs saying in smoke-filled rooms. Are sharrows “bikewashing”? They can be. Do they make cycling safer? Not really.

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By Dan Savage

I had a great time at the live taping of the Savage Lovecast at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre.

Audience members submitted questions on cards, and I tackled as many as I could over two hours—with the welcome and hilarious assistance of comedian Kristen Toomey.

Here are some of the questions we didn’t get to before they gave us the hook.…

If your partner’s social media makes you uncomfortable—whether it’s the overly friendly comments they get on their photos or vice versa (their overly friendly comments on other people’s photos)—do you have the right to say something?

You have the right to say something—the First Amendment applies to relationships, too—but you have two additional rights and one responsibility: the right to refrain from reading the comments, the right to unfollow your partner’s social media accounts, and the responsibility to get over your jealousy.

A couple invited me to go on a trip as their third and to have threesomes. I am friends with the guy, and there is chemistry. But I have not met the girl. I’m worried that there may not be chemistry with her. Is there anything I can do to build chemistry or at least get us all comfortable enough to jump into it?

Get this woman’s phone number, exchange a few photos and flirty texts, and relax. Remember: You’re the very special guest star here—it’s their job to seduce you, not the other way around.

My partner really wants an open relationship; I really don’t. He isn’t the jealous type; I am. We compromised, and I agreed to a threesome. I want to meet him in the middle, but I really hate the idea of even a threesome and can’t stop stressing about it. What should I do?

You should end this relationship yourself or you can let an ill-advised, sure-to-be-disastrous threesome end it for you.

Any dating advice for people who are gay and disabled?

Move on all fronts: Go places and do things—as much as your disability and budget allow—join gay dating sites, be open about your disability, be open to dating other disabled people. And take the advice of an amputee I interviewed for a column a long, long time ago: “So long as they don’t see me as a fetish object, I’m willing to date people who may be attracted to me initially because of my disability, not despite it.”

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Why do I say yes to dates if I love being alone?

Because we’re constantly told—by our families, our entertainments, our faith traditions— that there’s something wrong with being alone.

The healthiest loners shrug it off and don’t search for mates, the complicit loners play along and go through the motions of searching for mates, and the oblivious loners make themselves and others miserable by searching for and landing mates they never wanted.

My boyfriend keeps talking about how much he would like for me to peg him. (I’m female.) Should I wait for him to buy a contraption or surprise him myself? We’ve been dating only three months.

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Butts shouldn’t be fucked too soon after a meal or too soon before a bowel movement.

For more info, read the late, great Dr. Jack Morin’s Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide for Men, Women, and Couples—which can be read before, during, and after meals and/or bowel movements.

My sister’s husband describes himself as sexually “vanilla.” She says she hasn’t had an orgasm without a vibrator in seven years. They are currently separated, and he wants her back. If he makes some lifestyle changes (stops smoking so much weed, goes to the gym), is there hope for her sex life?

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sex sucked.

If you require an average-to-large penis to enjoy sex, don’t keep seeing this guy. He needs to find someone who thinks—or someone who knows—tongues, fingers, brains, kinks, etc., can add up to great sex.

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No. As a trauma/rape survivor, I found myself attracted to girls afterward. Is this because I’m scared of men or am I genuinely attracted to girls? Is this a thing that happens after trauma?

People react to trauma in all sorts of ways— some of them unpredictable. And trauma has the power to unlock truths or obscure them.

I’m sorry you were raped, and I would encourage you to explore these issues with a counselor. Rape Victim Advocates (rapevictimadvocates.org) can help you find a qualified counselor.

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I know he loves me, but I feel very objectified.

A woman who enjoys having someone come on her chest doesn’t have to surrender her feminist card for letting someone come on her chest. But you don’t enjoy it—it makes you feel objectified in the wrong way. (Most of us, feminists included, enjoy being appreciated for our parts and our smarts.) Use your words: “I don’t like it when you come on my chest. So that’s over.” He’ll have to respect that limit or he’ll have to go. If he doesn’t feel comfortable coming inside you, IUD or no IUD, you’ll have to respect his choice. He can pull out and come somewhere else—in his own hand, on his own belly, or in a condom.

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Tell him what you’re gonna do (“I’m gonna suck that dick”), tell him what you’re doing (“I’m sucking that dmmffhm”), tell him what you just did (“I sucked that dick”).

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D.C.’S HOMELESS CRISIS

Nonprofits and residents innovate while officials try to restrict services.

Toy Stories

Kids caper freely at a Northeast hotel with help from the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project.

By Andrew Giambrone Tucked beTween Train tracks and freeway-like New York Avenue NE, where vehicles drive fast and sidewalks are dangerously narrow, the Quality Inn & Suites looks like a forgotten slice of D.C. from the outside.

Inside, dozens of homeless families occupy this hotel-turned-shelter.

In the hotel’s parking lot on a Monday evening, a small boy throws a near-spiral with a soft football and stands triumphant. A few of his peers—black boys and girls ages three to seven—dart across the pavement with one another and adult volunteers from the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project, a nonprofit group founded in 2003 that provides play nights at the Quality Inn. They’ve been doing it since January and plan to add a Wednesday evening playtime for toddlers.

About 20 kids roam around the hotel’s ballroom. Some build, and then deconstruct, homes out of Lincoln Logs on a musty brown

and maroon carpet. Others take turns at the plastic kitchen against a window that looks onto the Budget Motor Inn—also an overflow shelter—across New York Avenue.

The view also looks out on Douglas Development’s refurbished Hecht Warehouse, where two-bedroom units start at roughly $2,400 a month in rent, a few blocks west. A water tower painted with the word “HECHT” rises above the complex and its organic food market. To the Motor Inn’s left is a small liquor store.

Dance studio-like mirrors on either end of the Quality Inn’s ballroom, which the Playtime Project is allowed to use for activities per an agreement with D.C.’s Department of Human Services, make the room appear bigger than it is. Some kids dress up in costumes that the nonprofit brought in tow. Soon enough, a mini-Spider Man, a couple of Supermen, and a blue-robed princess are out.

“You want to be a princess?” the tiny Spi-

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Night on the Town With memories of a childhood brush with homelessness, a woman spent her birthday handing out gifts to those sleeping in D.C. parks.

By Quintin J. Simmons dania MaTos was a teenager growing up in New Jersey when the sheriff came to her family’s front door and explained that they would have to vacate the premises immediately.

Matos saw distress on her mother’s face, and promptly began to bargain with the officer.

She spilled out their story—she had a younger brother and sister in school, and her mom was dealing with the aftermath of a divorce.

“That sheriff could have easily dismissed me,” she says. “But he looked me in my eye and said, ‘OK, I’m going to give you a few hours’ in one of the worst situations ever. That meant a lot. So I try to pay that forward every day,” Matos says.

Two decades later, Matos still is. In fact, her commitment has grown over time.

On June 16, her 36th birthday, she eschewed the traditional birthday niceties and instead planned an evening handing out packages to homeless people in downtown Washington.

She called it “Dania’s Birthday of Service” and

asked all who were willing to help to donate gently used clothing, prepackaged foods, hand sanitizer, bottled water, and other necessities.

She also assembled a group of people to help bundle the items and distribute them.

The response was overwhelming.

“I keep getting all these Amazon packages at home, and it feels like it’s my birthday every single time. And then I open it, and it’s like 50 body washes!” Matos said a day before the event. Her routine consisted of taking pictures of the donations and then posting them on social media, publicly thanking the benefactors.

Party-goers met at the expected birthday hour—Friday evening at 8—and carpooled from Alexandria to D.C. The rain began falling as they pulled into the city. Umbrellas in hand, the 15 attendees split into groups and made their way to places where homeless people unfurl their bedrolls each night—Lafayette Park, Franklin Square Park, McPherson Square, and finally Union Station. As the rain came down,

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der Man shrieks to his acquaintance. Another girl with blue beads in her hair plays cashier at a table nearby with a female volunteer, pushing buttons. “How much is that going to cost me?” the volunteer asks. “Twenty dollars!” the girl answers, to her shock.

The Quality Inn is one of several hotels in D.C. and Maryland that serve as emergency shelters for the District’s homeless families because the main one, the former D.C. General Hospital, is usually at capacity with about 250 families.

City data compiled on one night last week showed more than 800 families in the shelter system, over half of whom were living in hotels. In total, there were about 2,400 adults and children in emergency shelter. The hotels alone cost District taxpayers nearly $60,000 a night, down from almost $80,000 late last year, according to city officials.

Jetta Butler has been staying at the Quality Inn since April 2016 with her 1-year-old daughter and boyfriend. She says they became homeless after finding out that she was pregnant only two months before her daughter’s birth and after losing her job. While Mondays at the Playtime Project’s Quality Inn program are designed for 3- to 7-year-olds, she brings her baby because “it gives her something to do” outside of their cramped hotel room, in a neighborhood where parks are scarce. She adds that her daughter already knows about 10 basic words.

“We gotta have some kind of social activity,” Butler says as her daughter rattles a tambourine. “I like this because I can go upstairs.

I trust [them] with her.” She says she’s looking for a new job.

For Jamila Larson, the executive director and co-founder of the Playtime Project, the logistical and bureaucratic hoops the group has had to clear to set up at the Quality Inn were well worth the effort. She says volunteers haul the toys and playsets from the hotel’s second floor and pack them up when the night is through.

“It definitely takes some juggling, but the first night it was extraordinary how many kids came down,” Larson says. The Playtime Project has about 300 volunteers in its network, dedicated space at D.C. General, and some programming at a few other shelter sites.

“Families need to have their other needs met,” Larson explains. “They can become so isolated.”

Around 8 p.m. Monday, the dozen or volunteers, mostly women, gather the toys and books in the ballroom. Moms and a few older siblings come to pick up the kids, who say goodbye and leave with healthy snacks in hand.

“I made it!” a young girl tells her mom, pointing at the craft bracelet on her wrist.

“Just because we’re homeless, that doesn’t mean we don’t matter,” Butler says.

“We didn’t choose to be homeless. I look at this as an obstacle,” she continues. “We want to get out soon. This is not what we want for our child, but at least it’s a roof over your head and food. ...At least we’re not under a bridge.”

Matos and her friends distributed their gifts to the homeless and made conversation as they went. In a few cases they bowed heads, held hands, and prayed with the recipients.

To organize the event, Matos enlisted the help of Sarah Frye, a friend from her church who regularly organizes homeless outreach and with whom she’s been attending Alexandria’s Metro Church for about two years.

“We go making sure that we’re respectful of it being their space and their home,” says Frye.

“If they’re lying down asleep or whatever, we treat it as their space, and we enter it with great respect and humility,” Frye says.

Matos has been volunteering in shelters since 2005, including working as a Spanish and French-to-English translator and serving food around Thanksgiving. When she started doing homeless outreach, she was surprised at how much those she met simply wanted to talk.

“People just walk by them; people just can’t be bothered,” she says. “So when I do the outreach, they’re like, ‘Oh my God, someone I can talk to that’s actually going to listen and make me feel validated and human.’”

Over the years she has persuaded her mother and younger brother to participate on occasion. “They love it when my mom comes because she makes them yummy Puerto Rican food,” she says.

Her brother, Guillermo Ortiz, also came out for the birthday party. When he presented an older woman with a poncho that night, she appreciatively remarked on how she would use it for warmth. “In that moment, I really understood how much I take for granted,” Ortiz says.

“I’m thinking, ‘I just want to keep you dry.’ But she’s thinking, ‘This is another layer to keep

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me from freezing at night.’”

Leslie Roseboro, 55, was another of the homeless people that Matos’ group met. When Roseboro learned that Matos and many of the others live in Alexandria, he commented on the recent shooting of GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Well versed in the details, he expressed disappointment over the incident and spoke about the lack of news coverage on the officers shot in the melee.

“A black brother and black sister was shot, too!” Roseboro said, referring to Capitol Police officers Crystal Griner and David Bailey, who suffered injuries while protecting the congressman. Quickly changing topics, he also rattled off his thoughts on the use of the N-word, saying it’s time for fellow black men “to leave that word alone.” Roseboro says he’s been on the streets off and on for 17 years, and that his mental issues have contributed to his homelessness.

The volunteers also met Hayward Tisdale, 64. Standing under a partially enclosed bus stop to beat the rain, he was noticeably grateful to receive his care package. He said his homelessness was caused by a prison conviction and an unyielding addiction to drugs.

“The drugs had control of me so bad, one time I stole two rims off a car right in front of the White House.” He says he was promised drugs in exchange for the car parts.

“But now, I’ve been sober for 13 months,” he said proudly.

He says he has a warm place he can go, but because drug use is frequent there, he tries to avoid it. Now approaching 65, he says he’ll soon be eligible to receive financial assistance.

When Matos and her family were evicted in the late 1990s, they managed to avoid the streets. Since it was their second displacement in a row, they didn’t have much to pack. What they couldn’t fit into their temporary storage unit, they stuffed in the family car and a moving van. With the help of cousins, they were out of the apartment that same day.

Her aunt had access to a timeshare property in the Poconos, and the family was able to move there for three weeks. They commuted from Pennsylvania to New Jersey for school— more than a two-hour drive each way. “Even in the homelessness we experienced, we were privileged,” says Matos, adding that as a Latina, it is ironic to speak of privileges. “A lot of people don’t think about privilege in homelessness. Yet we had a roof over our heads.”

Ortiz is 25 now but was in middle school at the time. He remembers his mother being composed and downplaying the move. “She said, ‘This is going to be temporary, and we’re going to bounce back and figure it out,’” he recalls. “And I was like, ‘It’s OK, she’s my mom, she’s got this. She’s always had this.’”

His mom told him to think of it as a vacation.

“She wanted to try to preserve as much innocence in us as possible.” Ortiz says. “But at the same time, I knew something was wrong because we were making that commute with all our stuff in the back of the car,” he says.

As adults, he and sister are making lemonade out of their fuzzy childhood memories.

“Homelessness is a circumstance,” says Matos. “It’s not who they are.”

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Kitchen Influential DC Central Kitchen’s latest training tool for homeless and returning citizens is a fast-casual cafe.

By Laura Hayes debbie banks was homeless when she enrolled in DC Central Kitchen’s free Culinary Job Training course in 2010. “I lost my job, lost my home, and walked the streets eating nothing but bagels,” she says. “That’s why I don’t eat bagels now.”

The 14-week intensive program that includes culinary instruction, job readiness training, and life skills development takes adults who face employment barriers because of histories of incarceration, substance abuse, homelessness, and trauma and prepares them for jobs in food service, including restaurants.

After she graduated, Banks worked in several D.C. public schools that contract with DC Central Kitchen to provide school meals.

She later found her way back to the organization’s headquarters at 425 2nd St. NW, where she is now a cook working with volunteers to prepare 5,000 free meals a day distributed to more than 80 partner organizations.

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But whenever she has the opportunity, Banks lends her ear to the current group of students— the 108th class, which graduates this week. “I lift them up,” she says. “Everybody here has been through something. We’re family in here.”

Banks noticed that more recent job training classes have more resources than when she came through with the 80th class. “They’re giving them more opportunities, letting them learn more,” she says. “When I came in, we were just learning the basics to get through.

They’re getting different certificates that give them a better chance of being employed.”

She’s right. The more recent students study and prepare to take managerial-level food safety exams and are taught about common allergens. But perhaps the greatest step towards better opportunity comes in the form of the CJT Café, which is approaching its one-year anniversary in July. It’s a fast-casual, free dining experience for DC Central Kitchen volunteers run

entirely by the current class of students. The cafe is open on Friday afternoons.

Culinary instructor Daniela Hurtado explains that the decision to launch the cafe to provide realtime training was the result of a survey of area restaurants. “Everyone wanted people very conscious about urgency and also knife skills,” she says.

When the window opened at noon one day in May, there was a line 40 people deep that snaked through the kitchen by 12:10 p.m. Dishes included grilled shrimp Caesar salad, clam chowder, pan-fried tilapia with Puerto Rican sauce, and a three-cheese omelet.

Among the current class of 19 students who handle the meal service is Roderick Bryant, a returning citizen who was recently incarcerated at a federal prison in Virginia. “I came home with culinary skills already, 30-odd years,” he says. “But what I didn’t come home with were skills for readjusting to society. I could have come home and gotten a job, but I would have been settling. I thought: I want to change my life.” The 55-year-old sought structure. “I need the life skills. I need to be around people striving to get somewhere in life today.”

His classmate Elhadji Thior, for example, has a goal of returning to his native Senegal, where he wants to open a restaurant and be the executive chef. Though he’s had experience cooking in a Turkish restaurant in Libya, Thior says he’s here to learn about American ingredients and the American cooking system. “I realized that there are a lot of ingredients, so there’s a lot to learn because this is what I want for my career,” Thior says.

Banks has found a real niche for herself as a mentor at DC Central Kitchen and encourages others to consider the program, especially given that 90 percent of graduates find permanent work. “This company gave me things I’ve never had before,” she says. “I never had insurance, a 401k, I never even had a bank account.” Banks even convinced her nephew to apply, and while he was accepted into the program, diabetes claimed his life before he could graduate.

“If you want to have another chance at life the way you’re supposed to live in this world, give yourself a chance,” Banks says. “It’s going to be hard. Nothing comes easy. You have to stand your ground and claim it.”

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Stymie Shelter

To the chagrin of advocates, the D.C. Council weighs stricter requirements for shelter access. a coaliTion of advocates and District officials are divided over proposed reforms to D.C.’s shelter system, with city lawmakers expected to mark up and vote on the reforms in the coming months.

For the first time since 2005, D.C. is pushing for sweeping changes to the laws that govern its homeless services. This time around, they are facing the extra strain of a deeper affordable housing crisis.

Councilmembers are considering a revamp that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration says will align the District with federal regulations that have existed for several years, and also reduce demand on overstretched shelters.

But nonprofit groups—including the Legal Aid Society of D.C., Bread for the City, and the Children’s Law Center—say some of the contemplated changes would endanger the welfare of homeless families in particular by tightening emergency-shelter access, impairing independent review of service-denials, and perpetuating problems with short-term subsidies.

The ball rests in the court of a committee chaired by Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau. In June, this committee held a hearing on the legislation that Bowser submitted to the council a month earlier, and Nadeau says a vote likely won’t occur until after the council’s summer recess.

“We’re going to have to see how long it takes to do this right,” Nadeau explains in an interview.

“Even the most technical aspects of this bill impact people’s lives, so I take that very seriously.”

As drafted, Bowser’s proposal would increase the number of documents homeless people must present to be admitted into emergency shelter from one to two. The bill lists 13 options for individuals and families to prove they live in the District, including evidence of receiving local public assistance like cash benefits, an unexpired driver’s license, a recent pay stub or eviction notice, and school enrollment records. Though the city already screens shelter applicants based on proof of residency, it says from last October to April, one in 10 applicants weren’t D.C. residents.

The legislation would also give the executive branch broad authority to presume a household is not eligible for emergency shelter if it has “an ownership interest in safe housing or is listed on a lease or occupancy agreement in safe housing”—with exceptions built in for cases of “domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.” A household would have to show by “clear and convincing evidence” that it “cannot return to such housing.”

Advocates say this is too onerous a legal

standard for people who often come from unstable situations or are rotating among places.

From last October to April, the District denied 16 percent of shelter applicants by ruling that they already had safe housing.

“By doubling documentation requirements—even for families who have already demonstrated their D.C. residency for the purposes of identification, school enrollment, or public benefits—the bill effectively creates a residency standard for homeless services that is higher than any of these programs,” Damon

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mayor on ending homelessness, introduced last September—a move that triggered similar consternation from members of the homeless advocacy community. That legislation never came up for a vote and has been incorporated under D.C.’s pending Homeless Services Amendment Act of 2017.

In a letter to the council when she submitted the latter, Bowser wrote that the District must put its own residents first. “When the homeless system is stretched to fill affordable housing gaps, it is not equipped to adequately address the needs of residents experiencing a housing emergency and who have no safe place to sleep,” she explained, noting that D.C.’s Interagency Council on Homelessness solicited input on issues in the legislation for a full year.

Kristy Greenwalt, who has directed the ICH since 2014, says that as a public policy matter, the District’s homeless services must be narrowly tailored because shelter stock and resources are scarce. This also means it is incumbent on D.C. to divert families from the

King of Legal Aid testified to the council’s human services committee on June 14.

Amber Harding of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless told the council that the bill reflects “the myths that there are significant numbers of people in shelters who do not actually need shelter services, or who are somehow ‘gaming the system’ to access housing programs, and that there are significant numbers of people flooding our shelters from other jurisdictions.” Harding suggests there’s also a legal risk that the proposal may run afoul of the constitutional “right to travel” to other jurisdictions upheld by the Supreme Court.

The proposal mirrors stand-alone legislation that Bowser, who in part campaigned for

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shelter system when possible through mediating family disputes, stopping evictions, and stabilizing homes, she adds.

“There’s a reality when you’re in an implementing position, which is that the trajectory we’re on is not sustainable,” Greenwalt says.

“We need a regional response. That’s not happening right now.”

The D.C. General family shelter, which houses roughly 250 families, is at capacity, and the city currently spends about $65,000 a day on housing homeless families in hotels.

“We can’t use our shelter system as a holding zone for people waiting for affordable housing,” Greenwalt says, noting that there are an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 households in

D.C. who pay more than half of their income on rent or are in severely distressed units.

Although investments in housing vouchers have increased the number of shelter exits in recent months, there were still more than 800 families in emergency shelters as of last week. The Bowser administration also points to a problem of efficiency: Approximately one in four overflow motel rooms “are not consistently used by clients.”

Advocates say the legislation would give the D.C. Department of Human Services too much power to decide appeals over denials of certain public benefits, and would codify issues with the rapid rehousing program. That program provides rental subsidies for one or two years to families who leave the shelter system, but who in many cases face significant effective rent increases once those subsidies lapse. For example, a person with a rapid rehousing voucher covering 60 percent of the rent on a $1,000 per month apartment would need to pay $600 more out of their own coffers each month (assuming the landlord doesn’t raise the rent) after the voucher period ends. For those with limited streams of income, this jump can spur an eviction, or even a return to homelessness. DHS insists that rapid rehousing is largely successful, saying that more than 80 percent of participants do not immediately return to shelter.

For some advocates, Bowser’s support of tighter shelter requirements came as a surprise. The mayor pushed through a plan to close D.C. General and open smaller family shelters across the District by 2020, despite loud protests from neighbors purportedly worried about property values and quality of life issues. Bowser also phased in year-round access to D.C. emergency shelters beginning in summer 2015, which has helped to relieve the system during hypothermia season.

The administration says these efforts led to a 10.5 percent decrease in total homelessness from 2016 to 2017, and a 21.8 percent decrease in family homelessness over the same period.

(January’s count, though, which was conducted on a warm night, found a sharp, 182 percent spike in cases of individual homelessness.)

As the 2018 mayoral election nears, Bowser has been quick to say there is more work to be done, while simultaneously touting the positive change in numbers.

She’ll have to convince some of her colleagues on the council that the most controversial parts of the proposal are fair. A spokesman for At-Large Councilmember David Grosso, who sits on the human services committee, says Grosso is still reviewing the legislation but wants to make certain it “does not fundamentally change the philosophy of our shelter system by narrowing or even closing the door on those who seek assistance.” He shares concerns about rapid rehousing.

Nadeau’s committee still has to publish a report on the bill, with comments from the council’s committee on housing and neighborhood revitalization, before it heads to a full council vote. Public comments on the bill have closed.

“The consequence of not moving forward is curtailing our ability to serve the homeless,” Nadeau says.

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Cash, Out

A significant number of D.C. residents don’t have bank accounts, yet casual eateries are increasingly going cashless.

By Laura Hayes GeorGetown’s veGetarian taco restaurant Chaia is weighing a tough call that many of the region’s fast-casual eateries will grapple with as an already swollen market becomes even more saturated with competition.

Should it go cashless to streamline operations and reduce customer wait times? Or should it continue to accept cash in order to make its healthy food more accessible to all Washingtonians?

“The reason not to is there are folks that don’t have a credit card and they can’t eat,” says Chaia co-owner Bettina Stern. “I don’t want to cut people out. That’s why we haven’t done it.”

In D.C., 11.8 percent of all households are unbanked, meaning they don’t have access to traditional savings or checking accounts, according to a Prosperity Now 2016 scorecard.

And another 24.8 percent of District households are underbanked, bringing the total percentage of households who might have trouble swiping or inserting a card at a register to more than 36 percent. Compare that to 27.7 percent nationwide.

Despite these statistics, Stern is torn because one of the chief reasons fast-casual restaurants cite for eliminating cash is theft prevention. “It’s safer for our staff, safer for the books,” Stern says. “Ultimately, since we are a fast casual, there is the speed factor, but for me it’s more about the safety. I’m a New Yorker, so I’m innately aware—my antenna is up on theft and personal safety.”

Just across the street from Chaia is Dog Tag Bakery, which experienced a break-in this year. Someone tried to enter through an unlocked window in May but was spooked by a restaurant worker, according to both the police report and a Dog Tag representative.

And it’s not an isolated incident. There have been 27 robberies and 18 burglaries at restaurants in the District since the start of 2017, according to preliminary data from D.C. police. Last year those numbers were 86 and

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79, respectively.

Sweetgreen, the salad company founded

by Georgetown alumni that has more than 60 stores across the country, is one of the largest chains to go cashless thus far—making the controversial switch in March for its Maryland, D.C., and Virginia locations.

Though Sweetgreen declined interview requests, company officials have previously cited theft prevention and eliminating the cost of using armored cars as the reasons for the change.

Meanwhile, two separate inside jobs triggered another local casual chain to eliminate cash in November 2015. “We had two very serious cases of theft by our store managers,” says Kevin Thompson, chief financial officer of Jetties. The sandwich, soup, and salad spot with six restaurants in the D.C. area also operates two locations of taco-slinger Surfside.

“One happened in 2014, where we were tipped off by an employee that something fishy was going on,” Thompson says. A manager had been stealing hundreds of dollars a day for months. The following fall, a customer raised a red flag about a different manager who was doing something similar.

That’s when the conversation began about going cashless. “We talked about it intensely, and there were a lot of strong opinions,” Thompson says. “We knew we’d lose business and piss off customers, but in the end, we decided it was something we were going to do.”

Sweetgreen and Jetties estimate that cash customers accounted for about 10 percent of their business, and Chaia’s Stern says that’s true of her business too. “Even before we stopped taking cash, we saw the percentage of [cash] revenue drop from 40 percent to 10 percent in a span of a couple of years,” Thompson says. “We get some complaints, but it’s nowhere near as many as I thought—one or two people a week at each of our locations.”

Stern says, “I believe 10 percent of customers would initially be annoyed with it and we’d get some flack and lose a few people. They might come back. I hope they would come back.” But unbanked customers wouldn’t be able to come back.

Linnea Lassiter, an analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, says cashless policies make healthy food even less accessible for low-income Washingtonians, many of whom live in food deserts across the river where they struggle to meet dietary guidelines for consuming fresh produce.

“I’m concerned with more and more restaurants, businesses, and shops going cashless because you’re systematically excluding a group of people who are already disadvantaged and disenfranchised,” Lassiter says.

“And now they can’t have access to this restaurant?”

Lassiter believes that restaurants like Sweetgreen have calculated that their typical customer is not a low-income person of color who doesn’t have access to a bank account.

“They’ll say, ‘We’re not in Ward 7 or 8, and our clientele is not low-income or African-American,’” she says. “People of color commute and or live in areas where there are Sweetgreens.”

Employment status, income, and race are the three biggest factors influencing whether someone has a bank account, but immigration status also plays a role because proper documentation is required to open an account. Language barriers are also a predictor. A final factor is geographic proximity to a banking branch.

Like food deserts, bank deserts exist in D.C. too.

And where there are no banks, predatory payday lenders set up shop, Lassiter says.

“In D.C., we know nearly 15 percent of black residents are unemployed,” she notes, adding that the median white household income here is $120,000 per year while the median black household income is $41,000 per year. And the disparity is worsening.

Recognizing how important it is to serve all diners, CAVA—another locally-based fastcasual chain with about 30 locations nationwide—hasn’t pulled the trigger.

“We believe exclusively accepting cashless payments is not in the best interest of our customers,” says CEO Brett Schulman, whose Mediterranean chain has a team of data scientists who use technology to enhance customer experience. “We pride ourselves on being an inclusive company. If you’re trying to make high-quality, healthier food accessible to more

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people, you can’t exclude the people who have the least access to it.”

Pretty soon more fast-casual restaurants like Beefsteak, eatsa, Shouk, HipCityVeg, SKWR Kabobline, Little Sesame, &pizza, TaKorean, Buredo, Pow Pow, and District Taco will stare down the same decision, if they haven’t already. Competition for Washington’s time-strapped diners is fierce, and everyone’s looking to stand out or speed up.

Competition also means there’s a smaller talent pool of trustworthy workers. Operations that accept cash typically require on-duty managers to handle accounting at the end of the night. Because Surfside in Dupont Circle is open 24 hours a day, it was cashless from day one for that very reason.

“We have no problems down there with not taking cash, and it’s a very diverse crowd,” Thompson says of Surfside. “On a selfish level, it’s made my life a lot easier. It streamlines everything.”

Sweetgreen founder Jonathan Neman told Business Insider that eliminating cash speeds service by 10 percent, but Lannister finds fault with taking such drastic measures to shave off a few seconds.

“It goes back to that idea that people who make more money—frankly white residents, segments that have more privilege—their time is more valuable than people with less privilege.”

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

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‘Everybody in the ?

Getting Tipsy’

Several establishments across the city are capitalizing on the District’s consistent desire to take the edge off by introducing alcohol into the mix. Sometimes you just need a drink. Why does it have to be in a traditional bar? -Laura Hayes At the Gym Upper West Side Cafe, 2233 M St. NW; (202) 241-2233; squashonfire.com If you don’t bristle at places that label themselves as “boutique,” head to the Upper West Side Cafe located inside the West End’s new squash club—not the vegetable but the sport involving racquets and a ball that refuses to bounce. Squash on Fire’s bar has signature cocktails ($13-$15) like the “4/20” Striker with Champagne, hibiscus, and hemp seeds plus $7 beers and nine wines by the glass ($11-$14). Visit 8 a.m. daily, evening closures vary during the week.

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On the Capital Wheel Flight Deck, 116 Waterfront St., National Harbor, MD; 301-842-8650; thecapitalwheel.com Maybe you want to have the kind of date that only seems possible in ’90s rom coms? National Harbor’s most pronounced attraction recently added a bar component they’re calling Flight Deck.

Wine, beer, and cider are all offered. The only catch is that you have to pay an extra $8 per drink to bring your libation on the Ferris wheel because it requires a special cup. Flight Deck is open weekdays from 4-11 p.m. and weekends from 12-11 p.m.

Before You Get Locked in a Room Escape Room Live, 3345 M St. NW; (800) 616-4880; escaperoomlive.com Escape rooms are a fun diversion for friends or a solid ice breaker for you and your future inlaws. One of the newest locations of the puzzle rooms to open in D.C. is in Georgetown and includes a bar, so you can imbibe before or after you get locked into a somewhat confined space for 45 minutes. Offerings include beer ($5.50$7.50), Smirnoff Ice ($6), and Seven Sisters Wine ($7.50). The bar is open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3-9 p.m.; Fridays from 1210 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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atypical for an 8 percent ABV beer. The Brettanomyces yeast creates a zesty spiciness with an intense dryness akin to white Burgundy wine.

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Story: From 11th-grade dropout to small business owner, Kenneth Nguyen is no stranger to struggle or success. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, Nguyen’s parents left after the fall of Saigon in 1975, arriving in a refugee camp with no grasp of English. Nguyen says his mother was initially upset when he didn’t graduate high school, though he eventually got his GED and his bachelor’s in business.

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Price: $7 per 375 ml Taste: This saison is as thirst-quenching as a light beer, only stronger. Aromas of ripe fruit and dusty cellars greet the nostrils. Tiny bubbles scrub the palate, creating a lightness

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what we’ll eat next week: Osso Bucco with Korean barbecue-braised pork shank, barley, quinoa, snap peas, and shallots, $26, Himitsu.

Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

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But the biggest draw is the “H Street Lounge” perched above all the wellstocked aisles. The spacious bar with flatscreen TVs and snacks pours 16 draft beers in an array of sizes and eight wines by the glass ($7-$10). Go from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily.

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The dish: Royal of mussels, offered regularly as a special

If your stylist is in a good mood and isn’t slammed, you might be able to get a glass of bubbly at Drybar, but non-chain salon Sip & Dry in Ivy City has a full-on cocktail bar and a specific drink to match each blowdry style. For example, The Sue Ellen (big bouncy curls) comes with a “Whiskey Slap” cocktail for $48. If you want more than just the one cocktail that comes with your blowout, buy more at the fourseat bar. Sip & Dry is open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2-8 p.m.; Fridays from 12-10 p.m; Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. wholesalers, they sell hard-to-find craft beer to bars, restaurants, and grocery stores within the District.

ChurchKey is where Nguyen cut his teeth as a server, participating daily in pre-shift meetings with Neighborhood Restaurant Group beer director Greg Engert. “Greg’s program made my knowledge practical,” he says.

Nguyen likens being a small business owner to riding an animal. “Everyone from the outside sees you riding this great lion and they say, ‘This guy’s brave, he’s courageous, he’s a risk taker,’ and I’m on the lion going, ‘How the fuck did I get up here and how do I not get eaten alive?’”

Where to Buy: Craft Beer Cellar DC, 301 H St NE; (202) 846-7585; dc.craftbeercellar.com —Michael Stein

Where to get it: Et Voila!; 5120 MacArthur Blvd. NW; (202) 237-2300; etvoiladc.com Price: $14.50 What it is: Oblong spheres of mussel custard nestled among mini choux puffs and mussel salad, all swimming in a tomato gazpacho and finished with micro cilantro and basil oil. The custard is made using a French technique that involves heating a blend of eggs and cream to 185°F so it thickens but doesn’t scramble. The liquid released when mussels are cooked is added to the mixture to impart briny umami undertones. The custard is then chilled and set in molds.

What it tastes like: Chef Claudio Pirollo describes the appetizer as “everything in one dish” because of the broad contrasts in flavor and texture. The rich, velvety mussel custard is balanced by the bright acidity of gazpacho and the light crunch of choux pastry and crisp micro cilantro. Saffron, Espelette pepper, and lemon season the mussel-infused custard, and the lightly cooked and dressed mussels serve as a visual reminder of the star ingredient.

The story: European menus are often graced by a royal of asparagus or royal of tomato—a savory custard with juice or purée from a flavorful ingredient. One of Pirollo’s former chefs back in Belgium once prepared a royal of mussels, made with mussel juice and a tiny variety of shrimp from the North Sea. A surplus of mussel juice in the fridge at Et Voila! inspired Pirollo to try the royal method with the restaurant’s signature mollusk. He reduces the mussel juice by half to intensify the taste before adding it to the custard.

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The Wolf Trap Opera’s production of Rossini’s The Touchstone is dumb, but expertly performed. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

Moscow Never Sleeps

Foreign Affairs

Two new films from abroad capture cultural and familial complexities with equal parts nuance and boredom.

Moscow Never Sleeps Directed by Johnny O’Reilly

Sami Blood

Directed by Amanda Kernell

By Tricia Olszewski It’s no surprIse that one of the stars of Moscow Never Sleeps is Moscow itself. Writer-director Johnny O’Reilly punctuates his Crash-like story with shots of Moscow at its prettiest: colorful skyscrapers, including the gorgeous Evolution Tower, lit at dusk; a pan of a beautiful night sky; lavish fireworks; a sunrise. But the characters who populate this

film

scenery aren’t so memorable.

The film’s intertwining plotlines take place on City Day, essentially Moscow’s version of the Fourth of July. There’s a lot of drama going on alongside the festivities involving Valery (Yuriy Stoyanov), a well-known actor now in his twilight years who’s told that without surgery, death is imminent, and his wife (Elena Safonova) and mistress (Elena Babenko); Valery’s prodigal son, Ilya (Oleg Dolin), who’s trying to win back pop singer Katya (Evgenia Brik) from Anton (Aleksey Serebryakov), a wealthy but corrupt businessman; Vladimir (Mikhail Efremov), an emotionally abusive alcoholic who’s dumping his mute mother, Vera (Tamara Spiricheva), into a decrepit old folks home so his son, Stepan (Sergey Belov), and Stepan’s girlfriend no longer have to care for her; Vladimir’s rebellious teen daughter

(Lyubov Aksyonova) and her reserved stepsister (Anastasiya Shalonko), who despise each other; and finally the jerks who mash on the drunk and clearly underage girls after having spent the day dragging Valery, who escaped from the hospital, around town to show off their famous find.

The gist of it is that you get to know zilch about these characters, barring a few exceptions. Besides, for the most part, the Katya/Anton/Ilya love triangle, everybody treats each other horribly. There are two catfights, drugs and drinking, attempted rape, attempted suicide, assault, and spousal humiliation while a couple has guests. A man who’s no contender for Father of the Year tells his young son that “strong people don’t cry” when the kid is upset about his dad leaving the country.

There’s only one plot thread that has a hint of motivation behind it. (Excepting the ones involving the troublemaking guys: Some things need no explanation.) More often, you’re watching characters so blank that sometimes you don’t get their names or make the association that a certain character is involved in another story line. The women are the most impressive here, particularly Spiricheva, whose expressions are more emotive than other performers’ line deliveries, and Shalonko, who lends her character a heartbreaking longing to escape the ugliness of her stepfamily, particularly when her bratty stepsister gets them into dangerous situations.

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CPArts found are merely silly, including sudden bonding and an apparent miracle. O’Reilly had an opportunity to build a more indepth story around one of his conversations, in which Anton and his driver are discussing Moscow as a bottlenecked prison that they love anyway: “How do you escape a prison you love?”

Anton asks, which could have easily been turned into a metaphor for a suffocating relationship, but the director doesn’t go there. Instead, he prefers an exploration of his title that’s only surface-deep. Moscow Never Sleeps, but viewers probably will. even If you’ve seen more coming-of-age movies than you care to recall, it’s a nearly sure bet that you’ve never sat through one that spoke of yoiking. Sami Blood, the feature debut of writer-director Amanda Kernell, is a fascinating take on the familiar genre because of the people it centers on: the Sami, a once-maligned indigenous race who here are portrayed in 1930s northern Sweden. Its rebel is 14-year-old reindeer-herder Elle-Marja, and she wants to get the hell out of Dodge.

Regarding yoiking, after a few references Kernell finally reveals 15 minutes in that it’s a kind of singing/chanting that only the Sami practice. “Don’t yoik at school,” Elle-Marja (Lene Cecilia Sparrok) tells her younger sister, Njenna (Mia Erika Sparrok, her real sister). Though Elle-Marja is a model student, she’s ashamed of the research she and her classmates are subject to as if they were sideshow freaks: head measurement, study of their facial features, and finally a strip-down in front of the entire class. Elle-Marja hesitates—she’s extremely reluctant to submit to this process—but her teacher (Hanna Alström), who’s the knuckle-rapping kind, demands that she set an ex-

ample for the others.

Sami Blood The moment is agonizing, and only one of many to come. A pretty dress that Elle-Marja finds on a clothesline turns out to be a gateway; she steals it and attends a Swedish gathering, dancing and smoking and even kissing a boy. The experience is something she desperately needs after attacking a group of guys who insult and then rape her. But she’s a “filthy Lapp” and gets caught, with the punishment being a whipping on her bare back.

Throughout the film, there’s a clear divide between “real” Swedes and the Sami, with a particular emphasis on which language a person uses.

There’s also plenty of judgment from both sides: Some society girls condescendingly ask Elle-Marja (who begins to call herself Christina) to yoik at a birthday party, relenting weight. Lene Cecilia Sparrok does an excellent job of for example, while her mother—bitter that her eldest ran away— relating Elle-Marja’s misery and determination without lookonce comments, “Don’t you go and get all Swedish.” We see that ing like she’s simply sulking. And Kernell places the character Elle-Marja carries that sense of disparagement for her entire life, in fraught situations, including one in which she talks the paras the film is framed with her elderly self coming home for a fu- ents of the boy she danced with into letting her stay in their nice house. The tightrope she must walk during dinner with them— neral and referring to the Sami as “those people.”

Kernell, herself half-Sami, gets the details of this little-known the kid isn’t home—will have your stomach in knots. You may race right, from their traditional clothing to the research per- think Elle-Marja’s got guts, or you may think she’s foolish in pushformed on them. And the attitude of “other” is, of course, re- ing her luck. Either way, Kernell leaves you with a people you’ll flected in our bigoted assumptions today, with only the specif- want to know better and a heroine you won’t soon forget. CP ics differing and the systemic racism generally writ larger. (The Sami were considered to have smaller brains and be incapable Moscow Never Sleeps opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema. of surviving outside their circles.)

The most pervasive aspect of Sami Blood, however, is its un- Sami Blood opens Friday at West End Cinema.

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Pedal to the Metal Baby Driver

Directed by Edgar Wright Most filM directors are obsessed with movement. They always think about how an actor moves within a frame, or how a camera moves around an actor. Edgar Wright takes this obsession into full-on fetish territory. Since Shaun of the Dead, his comedic action films have exaggerated movement. His camera heaves, twirls, and spins with precision. In that regard, Wright’s latest film, Baby Driver, is the final culmination of a style he has been honing his entire career. Wright also invents a new subgenre in the process: the action musical. You know when you’re walking down the street, the perfect song comes on your headphones, and you feel in sync with the universe? Baby Driver captures that feeling, and adds some car chases.

Ansel Elgort plays Baby, and the character is in the tradition started by Alain Delon in Le Samouraï and continued onward by Ryan Gosling in Drive. Baby is the soft-spoken, nearly silent wheel man for a crew of professional criminals. Their leader Doc (Kevin Spacey) brought him on board when he caught Baby trying to steal his car; he’s so talented, he gave him a job instead of breaking his legs. The film follows the typical “one last heist” structure. Baby is the reluctant criminal, while his accomplices Buddy (Jon Hamm), Bats (Jamie Foxx), and Darling (Eiza González) are far more eager/violent. The last job seems impossible to pull off, so Baby has to think on his feet—and the gas pedal—to evade one obstacle after another.

So what makes Baby Driver an action musical? Music is the only way Baby can function— an accident left him with tinnitus—so he constantly blasts tunes in his ears. His tastes are eclectic, with several iPods full of songs, but he generally prefers something percussive and upbeat when he’s in heist mode. The film opens with Baby listening to “Bellbottoms”

by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and

Wright cuts the film so the images and editing match the length of the song’s central riff.

That same overlay of music and imagery continues through to the romantic subplot: Baby falls in love with Debora (Lily James), a waitress at a diner, because she gorgeously hums Carla Thomas’ “B-A-B-Y” to herself. Many films use music, especially pop songs, to create a specific tone or mood. Baby Driver makes this relationship more symbiotic, to the point where you can describe specific scenes by the corresponding soundtrack.

This film marks the first time Edgar Wright set a film in the United States, and here he uses Atlanta’s vast, complex system of freeways and bridges to his advantage. The frequent action sequences are a celebration of movement; it’s almost like Baby can get his cars to dance.

There are few establishing shots—Wright prefers to film cars from the bottom up—and so the chases have no omniscient point-of-view.

Such an approach creates its challenges, and yet Wright knows when to pull back and let the stunts speak for themselves. He also finds a way to make car chases seem new, even claustrophobic. The most memorable is set inside a parking garage. The cars are in close proximity, colliding with each other constantly, and yet Wright uses the limited space to his advantage.

Another of Wright’s talents is finding the right actor for a role: All the actors in Baby Driver, including Elgort, are good fits for the archetypes they inhabit. Based on what we see here, Jon Hamm could be one of our great movie villains, since he easily veers from camaraderie to provoking genuine terror. As Bats, Jamie Foxx starts threatening and stays that way, and he maintains an air of intimidation through precise, economical word choice.

Since Elgort and James are the more reactive, innocent characters, they are not having as much fun, yet they ground the movie’s borderline twee contrivances. Still, it’s the most fun to see Kevin Spacey letting his proverbial hair down, since his unflappable intelligence elevates his characters into something more sophisticated than they appear on paper.

Baby Driver runs into the same problems that plague Edgar Wright’s earlier work. He

still does not know how to end a movie, and the epilogue drags into downright ponderous territory. In fact, if Wright had the discipline to end his work immediately after the climax, then Baby Driver would be one of the best, most original action films of the decade. This is where Wright’s affection gets in the way of his bottom line: He loves his characters so much, even the bad ones, that he feels obligated to give them a protracted sendoff. We shouldn’t begrudge him too much, however, since this is the rare, unique entertainment that takes classic action tropes, and turbocharges them.

—Alan Zilberman Baby Driver is now playing in theaters everywhere.

lost in Flirtation The Beguiled

Directed by Sofia Coppola sex and war are the two most exciting things that can happen to a human body. Neither is seen in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, but both lie just out of reach, their power informing every dark deed.

In the opening scenes, an injured Union soldier (Colin Farrell) is discovered on the grounds of a Virginia seminary, where a handful of women and girls are waiting out the war.

With cannons firing in the near distance, Miss Martha the headmistress (Nicole Kidman) undresses the soldier’s unconscious body to tend to his wounds. She’s also tending to her own needs, pushing his towel down a bit lower than it needs to go. Meanwhile, Coppola’s camera acquiesces, staying trained on his sweaty, muscled body. She doesn’t show us the lady’s reaction because she doesn’t need to. Rarely has the female gaze been so persuasive.

The Beguiled is officially an adaptation, but really it’s a revolution. Coppola has taken a 1966 Southern gothic novel by John Cullinan (adapted into a 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood) and filtered it through a feminine sensibility, turning its monstrous revenge drama into a delicate comedy of manners. Martha brings the soldier, John McBurny, into their home out of Christian duty, but her thrill at

having a man around keeps him there. As he recovers from his leg wound, he flirts with the tart and tawdry teen (Elle Fanning, growing up before our eyes); befriends the precious child who discovers him in the forest (Oona Laurence); and professes his undying love to the chaste schoolteacher (Kirsten Dunst).

Having an injured man in the house is their prom, an opportunity to wear fancy dresses, pinch their cheeks, and indulge the rumble in their loins that has either been long abandoned or not yet acknowledged. Of course, in their devout household, none can admit their feelings, leading to hilarious scenes of caged heat and double entendres. At dinner, the teen tells him of the dessert she has prepared in his honor. “I hope you like apple pie,” she winks. “You used my recipe, didn’t you?” the teacher interrupts, shooting daggers. The youngest, a child of no more than eight, chimes in. “I picked the apples,” she says, batting her tiny eyelashes at the handsome stranger.

As the polite soldier, Farrell is a prize worthy of such passive aggression. After a shave and a bath, the gruff, bearded Irishman is transformed into a young Elvis, and he achieves a greasy submissiveness that highlights the subversive power structures at play. With him confined to his bed for much of the first act, the girls feel brazen enough to act on their feelings, and McBurny leans into his objectification, gazing longingly at them from his sick bed and getting off on their physical dominance. Rarely has a simply-spoken “Yes, ma’am” felt so sexually potent.

It’s a dynamic situation, but while Coppola tantalizes effectively, the story itself has too much possibility and not enough followthrough. Many of the director’s films have been short on plot—Lost in Translation and Somewhere come to mind—but they also never promised any. After all those hidden glances and secret kisses, The Beguiled seems to be begging for some catharsis, an orgiastic outburst of violence or sex. Perhaps that’s the man in me talking, though. In this world, the finale comes too abruptly. Sure, it ends with a little death, but true to the film’s female gaze, there is no real climax, and we are left wanting just a little bit more.

—Noah Gittell The Beguiled opens Friday at E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row.

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Story of HiS Life Corner Store

Kris Funn Self-released The second Track on Corner Store is called “Visceral,” and that about says it all. The insanely good debut record by bassist Kris Funn and his titular band has plenty of cerebral stuff happening—just try keeping count of Funn and drummer Quincy Phillips’ accents on “Arithmetricks,” for example. But primarily, this is head music in the sense of bobbing, not calculating.

As for the ingredients, they’re listed in the opening “Welcome” by spoken-word performance artist Paige Hernandez (Funn’s wife).

“The corner of bebop and hip-hop, hard rock and hard knocks; where the blues is the visceral response to everything, and a boombox is the soundtrack to a city block.” They appear throughout in various combinations that defy labels. The aforementioned “Visceral” is a three-piece groove: Funn, Phillips, and guitarist John Lee (Funn’s primary foil on Corner Store). One wouldn’t call it jazz-rock, jazz-funk, or funk-rock… yet it has the blistering attack of guitar rock, the rolling thump of funk, and unmistakable jazz language in the solos by Funn and Lee—not to mention a swing foundation.

They also sometimes defy their titles. Seeing the name “Boombox”—and reading Funn’s liner-note description of its inspiration, the DJ who lived up the street from him as a kid—one might naturally expect the pounding rhythms of early hip-hop, and perhaps the musique concrete of a Bomb Squad production. Instead, 26 june 30, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

it’s a singsong vamp, Lee and alto saxophonist Tim Green (who does extraordinary bopbased solo work on the tune) leading against a three-note phrase from Funn and a steady snare-and-cymbal thrust from John Lamkin (who alternates with Phillips on the drums).

The bridge is a wash of nostalgia—“Boombox” doesn’t document the object itself, but rather Funn’s childhood response to it.

Therein lies the key. Corner Store is ultimately Funn’s musical autobiography, from warm meditations on his older brother (“Gemini”) and wife (“PIF”), to evocation of his longtime U Street residency with The Young Lions (“Thursday Night Prayer Meeting,” gospel-ridden and played by the band itself—Funn, Phillips, and pianist Allyn Johnson). It’s also the key to the album’s lack of cerebral posturing: The bassist, who wrote every tune on the record (with one co-authorship), unearths his life not through a series of aural home movies, but through the lens of his own emotions.

Of course, this is most true on abstractions like “Mind Control,” with Green and especially pianist Janelle Gill playing lines both ominous and wounded, and the throbbing “Wish,” perhaps the album’s best tune. Following a full minute breast-beating solo from Funn, Lee’s guitar shifts from ethereal comps to bluesy tears to hard-rock shredding, then back to ether. There’s no one image or narrative to peg it to, but the sense of dreamy regret comes in loud and clear. That’s perhaps the most fundamental of Funn’s achievements with Corner Store: reminding us that ideas themselves can be as visceral as anything tangible.

—Michael J. West Listen to Corner Store at washingtoncitypaper. com/arts.

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The Anthem • 901 Wharf St. SW, Washington, D.C. JUST ANNOUNCED!

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

JUNE

KALEO w/ ZZ Ward & Wilder.............................................................SAT OCTOBER 14 PHOENIX ............................................................................................OCTOBER 16 Queens of the Stone Age w/ Royal Blood .....................FRI OCTOBER 20

AUGUST cont.

Freddie Gibbs................................................................................................. Th 8 Get Low w/ Mathias & Friends ...F Wall 30 ...............................................................F Michelle Branch w/ Haerts.......F 49 Jamestown Revival w/ Colter Mew Monakr 5 The Record Company w/ The Deadmen Earlyw/ Show!

7pm ...........................Sa Doors .................. Sa 10 JULY Sold Out! Second Show Added!

First Show Mixtape Pride Party DJs Shea Van Horn and Matt Bailer .............. Sa 10 Phazefest featuring DJwith Tezrah, Little Dragon w/ Xavier Omär ...W 9 Coolots, Homosuperior, The Circus Life Podcast Olivia & The Mates, andw/ more! ....Sa 1 Rodrigo y Gabriela Ryan Sheridan ........................................................

M 12 4th Anniversary Concert ....F 11 Caravan Palace ........................W 5 Bomba Estéreo .....................Th 17 Release the Pressure with The Districts Martín Miguel, Hot Coffee,

All Shows On Sale Friday, June 30 at 10am

Lorde ............................................................................................................ APRIL 8, 2018 • theanthemdc.com

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit w/ The Mountain Goats ..................JUNE 30 Dispatch w/ Guster & Marco Benevento.......................................................... JULY 7 My Morning Jacket w/ Gary Clark Jr. ..................................................... JULY 14

Valentino Khan.....................Sa 19 Waxahatchee

Added!

w/ Palehound & Outer Spaces .....M 21

Bitch Sesh Live

Matinee Show!

2pm Doors. This is a seated show. .....Su 16

Delta Rae

MERRIWEATHER 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FEATURING

w/ Lauren Jenkins......................Th 24

Amadou & Mariam

Jackson Browne and Willie Nelson

AN EVENING WITH

w/ Redline Graffiti ......................Th 20 Sister Hazel ..............................F 21

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood ........................Sa 26 Washed Out ............................Th 31

Uhh Yeah Dude

This is a seated show.......................Sa 22

Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes)

w/ Father John Misty plus special guest host Grace Potter Talkin’ & Singin ... JULY 15

VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEATURING

American Authors • Anti-Flag • The Ataris • Big D and The Kids Table • CKY • Emmure • GWAR • Hatebreed • Hawthorne Heights • Municipal Waste and many more! ........ JULY 16

SEPTEMBER

w/ Hop Along ...............................W 26

Gorillaz w/ Vince Staples & Danny Brown ........................................................... JULY 17

The Brian Jonestown Massacre ....................................F 8 The Afghan Whigs

AUGUST U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Petit Biscuit ..............................W 2

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM COMPOSER OF OUR ERA

Hans Zimmer Live with Orchestra and Chorus performing music from

Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, The Dark Knight and more!.................................. JULY 21

w/ Har Mar Superstar ..................Sa 9

Children 12 and under FREE on the lawn with paid ticket!

John Legend w/ Gallant New date! All 6/20 tickets honored................................. JULY 25 alt-J w/ Saint Motel & SOHN .................................................................................. JULY 27 Fleet Foxes w/ Animal Collective ........................................................ JULY 29 Belle and Sebastian / Spoon / Andrew Bird w/ Ex Hex ........ JULY 30

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MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD THIS FRIDAY!

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

This is a seated show.......................Tu 11

9:30 CUPCAKES

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile (and The Sea Lice) ................NOVEMBER 7 ST. VINCENT ........................................................................................NOVEMBER 27

w/ Sam Evian & Soccer Mommy ...F 18

Samantha Francesca & Ozker ..F 7

Kyle Mooney Live First Show Sold Out! Second Show

ZEDD w/ Grey & Lophiile ........................................................................SAT OCTOBER 21

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SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL FEATURING

Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds • Bel Biv Devoe • Fantasia • SWV and more! .........AUGUST 5-6

1215 U Street NW

Lady Antebellum w/ Kelsea Ballerini & Brett Young .......................... AUGUST 13 Santana .......................................................................................................... AUGUST 15 Sturgill Simpson w/ Fantastic Negrito ............................................ SEPTEMBER 15 Young The Giant w/ Cold War Kids & Joywave .............................. SEPTEMBER 16

Washington, D.C.

JUST ANNOUNCED! STORY DISTRICT PRESENTS

I Did It For The Story: A Tribute to 20 Years of Storytelling .. SAT SEPTEMBER 23

LIAM GALLAGHER ....................................................................NOVEMBER 29 On Sale Friday, June 30 at 10am

AN EVENING WITH

Alison Krauss & David Gray .................................................. SEPTEMBER 23

WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY FEATURING

Rascal Flatts • Billy Currington • Scotty McCreery • Dylan Scott and more!. SEPTEMBER 24 Chrysalis at Merriweather Park

AEG LIVE PRESENTS

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live!

SECRET SURPRISE FILM! Late Show! 8:30pm Doors ........................................... JULY 9

Greensky Bluegrass w/ Leftover Salmon ................................................. JULY 22 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com

SECOND NIGHT ADDED! AEG LIVE PRESENTS

Tim And Eric: 10th Anniversary Awesome Tour ........................................................ JULY 19

TajMo: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band w/ Jontavious Willis............................. AUGUST 9 Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos .................................................... SEPTEMBER 9 The Kooks .................................................................................................................OCTOBER 4 Paul Weller ..............................................................................................................OCTOBER 7 Blind Pilot ...............................................................................................................OCTOBER 13

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

THE BIRCHMERE PRESENTS

Colin Hay ................................................................................................................OCTOBER 21 Iron & Wine w/ John Moreland ..............................................................................NOVEMBER 9 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

John McLaughlin/Jimmy Herring: Meeting of the Spirits ....................NOVEMBER 11 JOHNNYSWIM.....................................................................................................NOVEMBER 15 • thelincolndc.com •

3TEETH ........................................... F JUL 7 Kap G & JR Donato

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Hip Abduction .......................... Th 20

New date! All 2/23 tickets will be honored. . Su JUL 9

Myles Parrish ................................... Sa 15 Frank Iero w/ The Homeless Gospel Choir . F 21

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

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PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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CITYLIST

SUNNY SWEENEY

Music 29 Galleries 32 Theater 32 Film 32

Music

ACOUSTIC STORYTELLER SESSION SUN., JULY 2 ~ 8:30PM TIX: $12-$20

CITY LIGHTS: Friday

Friday rock

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Des Demonas, Mr. Airplane Man. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

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Fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Rumours—A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac. 8 p.m. $11. fillmoresilverspring.com.

6.29 6.30

gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Bearcat Wildcat, Happy Abandon. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com.

Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Declassified: Ben Folds Presents. 9 p.m. $39. kennedy-center.org. merriweatHer PoSt Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, The Mountain Goats. 7:30 p.m. $40–$55. merriweathermusic.com.

Songbyrd muSiC HouSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Saywecanfly, Call Me Karizma, Marina City. 8 p.m. $15–$25. songbyrddc.com.

State tHeatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Tim Reynolds and TR3, Joe Lawlor and Friends. 9 p.m. $20. thestatetheatre.com.

dJ Nights

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Get Low with Mathias & Friends. 8 p.m. $12. 930.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Fez & Moustache Party with DJ Brian Goldenberg. 10:30 p.m. Free. dcnine.com.

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

Reggae Fest vs. Soca. 11 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com. u Street muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Prince and Michael Jackson Summer Pop Up with DJ Dredd. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

ElEctroNic

eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. DJ Mustard, Matoma, 4B. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com.

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Nick Höppner, Shanti Celeste, Samantha Francesca, DJ Freez, Sleepy G. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

betHeSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Tribute to Funk Bands. 8 p.m. $35–$40. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Vivian Green. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Carol Riddick & Friends. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

Jazz

mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Lionel Lyles. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

REVELATOR HILL SCOTT KURT & MEMPHIS 59

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iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Last Train Home. 8:30 p.m. $15. iotaclubandcafe.com.

roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Ruse de Guerre, Cold Beaches, The Firnats, More AM than FM. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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JasoN isBEll & thE 400 uNit

At first glance, the pairing of Jason Isbell and John Darnielle seems strange. Not only are both popular and capable of headlining on their own, but their audiences wouldn’t appear to have much overlap. Their new records are also nearly sonic opposites. The Nashville Sound is Isbell’s hardest-charging and sleekest album yet, a tribute to the classic country and rock ’n’ roll sounds that gestated in Nashville’s RCA Studios. Darnielle announced Goths with a simple proclamation: “NO COMPED VOCALS, NO PITCH CORRECTION, NO GUITARS.” An opportunity for newest Mountain Goats member and multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas to really shine, Goths allows Darnielle to expand into richer compositions and groovy rhythms. It’s an album-length ode to the feeling lonely kids have when they find their crowd. Isbell, meanwhile, mourns a disappearing working class while confronting the racism of his community head on. What ties The Mountain Goats and Jason Isbell together is this shared empathy for the outsider. And vampires.

They both have songs specifically mentioning vampires. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit performs with The Mountain Goats at 7:30 p.m. at Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. $40–$55. (410) 715-5550. merriweathermusic.com.

—Justin Weber national gallery oF art SCulPture garden 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Victor Provost. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Anthony Nelson. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

Vocal Kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Balkanes, Madras Youth Choir. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

World

Be Steadwell, DC Kings, Heather Mae, Kellyn Marie Goler. 8 p.m. $15. 930.com.

Fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Strangelove—The Depeche Mode Experience. 8 p.m. $15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Shartel & Hume. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Last Train Home. 8:30 p.m. $15. iotaclubandcafe.com.

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

Leo Dan. 8 p.m. $49–$99. thehowardtheatre.com.

roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Beverly, Ablebody. 8 p.m. $17. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

saturday

Songbyrd muSiC HouSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Boogarins, Modern Nomad. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Girls Rock!

DC 2017 Showcase. 10:30 a.m. $12. Phazefest with DJ Tezrah, Coolots, Homosuperior, Olivia & The Mates,

State tHeatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Hera Music Festival featuring MaryeL, LATO, Party Like It’s, Fuzzqueen, More AM than FM. 4:15 p.m. $20–$25. thestatetheatre.com.

rock

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.6 7.7 7.11 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.18 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.25 7.27 7.28 7.29 8.1 8.4 8.5 8.15 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.22 8.24 8.26 8.28 8.29 8.31 9.7 9.9 9.12 9.15 9.19 9.21 9.22 9.23 9.29 10.13 10.24 10.25 10.27 10.31

H RANDY THOMPSON BAND SUNNY SWEENEY KITI GARTNER QUILES & CLOUD JONNY GRAVE & THE TOMBSTONES ROSELIT BONE KURT CRANDALL BEN MILLER BAND THE HIGHBALLERS THE CRANE WIVES KARA GRAINGER SUPERSUCKERS / THE UPPER CRUST HOLLERTOWN ZANE CAMPBELL VINTAGE #18 THE WOODSHEDDERS STEALIN’ THE DEAL WHISKERMAN NIKKI HILL ANGELA PERLEY & THE HOWLIN’ MOONS BELLA HARDY RAY WYLIE HUBBARD RAY WYLIE HUBBARD ROCK-A-SONICS FIRESIDE COLLECTIVE THE YAYHOOS THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES & THE STENTS SCOTT H. BIRAM & GALLOWS BOUND DALE WATSON & HIS LONE STARS WILD THE WATERS ANDREW DUHON SARAH POTENZA / PALEFACE ROD PICOTT HAYES CARLL THE RAILSPLITTERS THE BLASTERS DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN KYLE LACY AND THE HARLEM RIVER NOISE DANGERMUFFIN CASH’D OUT GURF MORLIX SLAID CLEAVES POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES THE WOGGLES / ALSO FEATURING: THE HALL MONITORS, JAKE STARR AND THE DELICIOUS FULLNESS

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 Hillcountrylive.com • Twitter @hillcountrylive

Near Archives/Navy Memorial [G, Y] and Gallery PI/Chinatown [R] Metro

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dJ Nights

LIVE

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

AN EVENING WITH

LOVE

CANON

THURSDAY JUNE

29

BJ

BARHAM W/ CHARLEY CROCKETT SUNDAY JULY

2

THURS, JULY 6

PUMPSTATION ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS JESSE ROYAL W/ RAS SLICK FRI, JULY 7

SWEAR & SHAKE W/ CAROLINE ROSE SAT, JULY 8

AN EVENING WITH SUPERFLYDISCO:

A RETRO 70’S DANCE PARTY

SUN, JULY 9

MINGO FISHTRAP FRI, JULY 14

LES NUBIANS

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL TOUR SAT, JULY 15

TOWN MOUNTAIN AND I DRAW SLOW FRI, JULY 21

LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS SAT, JULY 22

SONNY LANDRETH

W/ SPECIAL GUEST TORONZO CANNON SUN, JULY 23

THE STEPPIN STONES TUES, JULY 25

OKKERVIL RIVER W/ JESSE HALE MOORE THURS, JULY 27

PETER HIMMELMAN

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

For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com Find us on Facebook/Twitter!

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000 June

Canada 150 Celebration!

VIVIAN GREEN July 1&2 LYFE JENNINGS Django 7&8 JERRY JEFF WALKER Walker Garrett 13 KASEY CHAMBERS Kato Ruston 14 ROBERT EARL KEEN Kelly 15 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & The Asbury Jukes 16 GARY PUCKETT & The Union Gap

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THE ZOMBIES

17

Don DiLego

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES M 19 SAWYER FREDERICKS w/Gabriel Wolfchild & The Northern Light, Haley Johnson The

18

asTersons

ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS 21 & JEFFREY OSBORNE 22 23 PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE & ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION

Jocelyn & Chris Arndt

20

BILLY BRAGG

24

with

SONIA (from disappear fear)

26& 27

Play TOAD THE WET SPROCKET Beta 28,29 &30 THE BACON BROTHERS 31 NIKKI LANE Steelism Aug 4 GORDON LIGHTFOOT

5 6 7

LITTLE RIVER BAND THE FIXX

GENE WEEN does BILLY JOEL 9 CHRISETTE MICHELE 11& 12 STEPHEN STILLS & JUDY COLLINS

FRI, JULY 28

8

LIVE AT THE FILLMORE: THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

13

AN EVENING WITH

KEN KATHLEEN EDWARDS YATES

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CHAD CALEK PRESENTS THE

SAT, JULY 29

sir noface lives tour

A TRIBUTE TO EARTH, WIND, & FIRE

The Birchmere presents…

AN EVENING WITH InGRATITUDE:

FILM SCREENING and Q&A!

FRIDAY Aug 11, 8pm

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YOUSSOU N’ DOUR The Voice of Senegal

• Wash. DC Tickets: gwutickets.com | 202.994.6800

u Street muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Feed Me Disco with Eau Claire, Bête Noire, Fady D. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

ElEctroNic

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Riza, DJ MLEM, Makz. 4 p.m. $5. Chez Damier. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

betHeSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Blackbyrds. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Lyfe Jennings. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com. gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Swift Technique, Grand Ole’ Ditch. 9 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com.

hip-hop

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

Beanie Sigel, Handles. 8 p.m. $25–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Azar Lawrence Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$35. bluesalley.com. mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Shannon Gunn. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Anthony Nelson. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

opEra

barnS at wolF traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Wolf Trap Opera: Rossini’s “The Touchstone”. 7:30 p.m. $32–$88. wolftrap.org.

Vocal

Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Celebrate Freedom Concert. 8 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Latvian Voices, Egschiglen, Pihcintu. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. BJ Barham, Charley Crockett. 7:30 p.m. $10–$25. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Braddock Station Garrison, Lisa Said, Crooks and Crows. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

Songbyrd muSiC HouSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sean Barna, Ghost Lit Kingdom. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

dJ Nights

roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

DJ Sharkey. 8 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ElEctroNic

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Atish, Mandar, Navbox, Edo, Throe, Jus Nowhere. 2 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

betHeSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Prince Tribute Show. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Lyfe Jennings. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

hip-hop

eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. WizKid. 9 p.m. $60. echostage.com.

Jazz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Azar Lawrence Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$35. bluesalley.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. William Hooker. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

Vocal

Kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Miami Children’s Chorus, Les Voix Boréales, Gandharva Choir. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MoNday rock

suNday rock

betHeSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. We Are Because He Was: A Tribute to Chuck Berry. 8 p.m. $25–$30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

blaCK Cat baCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Sam Kogon, Wes Charlton. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

State tHeatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Red Not Chili Peppers. 9 p.m. $15. thestatetheatre.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Big Business, Caustic Casanova, Teen Mortgage. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter. 7:30 p.m. $45–$125. wolftrap.org.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

throWiNg shadE

From boozy bottomless brunches to moonlit after-hours parties, D.C. residents always have a good reason to wake up early and stay up late.

Throwing Shade, a new monthly day party held on and around U Street NW, promises to eliminate the Saturday afternoon slump in favor of breezy, rooftop chillin’ with ice-cold cocktails and a feel-good summer soundtrack. Farrah Flosscett and Mathias, Throwing Shade resident DJs and District nightlife favorites, have a special way of bringing the dance floor to life with thoughtfully curated soundtracks of party-starting anthems spanning a myriad of genres. From funky, percussive go-go music to dembow-driven moombahton to District-inspired hip-hop, D.C.’s music scene has a lot to offer, and these two are on a steadfast mission to showcase it. Both DJs have been quite vocal about their intentions to create the quintessential day party in the style of Los Angeles’ famous anything-goes party, The Do-Over. With crowd-pleasing vibes and a handpicked rotation of talented guest DJs, Throwing Shade might be exactly what the District needs this summer. The event begins at 3 p.m. at Lost Society, 2001 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 618-8868. lostsociety-dc.com.

—Casey Embert

CITY LIGHTS: suNday

1811 14TH ST NW

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JUNE / JULY SHOWS FRI 30 DARK & STORMY

JUNE F 30

J U LY

DANCE / ELECTRO / RETRO

FRI 30 AND SAT 1 SUN 2 MON 3 TUE 4

BJ BarhaM

BJ Barham doesn’t believe in the American Dream. Born in a North Carolina tobacco town, Barham watched his family struggle against American mythology. “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, they say. And you can live the American Dream,” he sings on “The American Tobacco Company.” “But all those days I spent thinking in the South Pacific … yeah, this ain’t how I thought that dream would be.” The American Aquarium frontman has been sober since the fall of 2014, and his songwriting has gained clarity and bite since then. For his first solo record, Rockingham, the American class system became his target. “You can’t call yourself a farmer just because you plant a seed. You must bargain with the dirt,” Barham sings on “O’ Lover.” Being working class means more to Barham than being part of the 99 percent. Rockingham is full of characters with fates already sealed. In the midst of these tales, Barham positions material things against personal relationships—“Reidsville” starts out with a man choosing sides over Mustangs versus Chevrolets until he eventually trades “wheels for a wedding band”—and he realizes that the only thing we really have in America is each other. BJ Barham performs with Charley Crockett at 7:30 p.m. at The Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW. $10–$25. (202) 787-1000. thehamiltondc.com.

—Justin Weber

dJ Nights roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

DJ Zacheser. 5 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u Street muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Big Boom ft. SkiiTour, Fort Knox Five, DJ Phil Dice, Raptorstein. 10 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

ElEctroNic FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. DJ Sean Morris, DJ Twin. 10 p.m. $15. flashdc.com.

go-go Howard tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 8032899. Pre-4th of July Old School Jam featuring Rare Essence, Sugar Bear & EU and Trouble Funk. 9 p.m. $25–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

hip-hop Fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Shy Glizzy, Will Tha Rapper. 8 p.m. $35–$100. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Jazz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50. bluesalley.com.

Vocal Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. 2017 Serenade! Washington D.C. Choral Festival. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuEsday

THE CAPITAL CITY

BURLESQUE AND VAUDEVILLE FESTIVAL

S 1 SU 2 M 3

SAM KOGON

WES CHARLTON

MUGGLE MONDAYS

BUTTERBEER & THE FIRST FILM

HEMLINES

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NO MEN + FEMME FLAG

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T-REXTASY

FRI 7

THE INDEPENDANCE

FOUL SWOOPS + BACCHAE

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A PRO-CHOICE PROM

SAT 8

RISK (18+)

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TUE 11

THE FLATLINERS

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ROYAL HEADACHE

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THE REMEMBERABLES WILDHONEY

RENT PARTY

THE RADIOGRAPHERS COOL BABY

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u.S. CaPitol weSt lawn East Capitol and First streets NW. A Capitol Fourth 2017. 8 p.m. Free. visitthecapitol.gov.

ElEctroNic

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Sarah Myers, Philip Goyette, Juan Zapata, Benoit, DJ Meegs.

2 p.m. Free. flashdc.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Caravan Palace. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com. blaCK Cat baCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. T-Rextasy, Foul Swoops, Bacchae. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. wolF traP Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Wood Brothers, Hot Tuna. 7 p.m. $30–$80. wolftrap.org.

ElEctroNic

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Dase, Devon James, Julius Jetson, Rawle Night Long. 9 p.m.

Free. flashdc.com.

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JULIA NIXON SINGS SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH/HAL DAVID ERIC ROBERSON A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF ARETHA FRANKLIN, CHAKA KHAN & GLADYS KNIGHT THE FIX THE CHI-LITES FT. MARSHALL THOMPSON

S 22 (7/10PM) JOE CLAIR

SAT JUL 8

WEdNEsday

DARYL DAVIS PRESENTS

W/ DAVE YLVISAKER DOZEN

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blaCK Cat baCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Hemlines, No Men, Femme Flag. 6:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

BLACKBYRDS PRINCE TRIBUTE SHOW

PLUS SIR JOE QUARTERMAN & FREE SOUL

TALES FROM THE ROUND WORLD BURLESQUE (21+)

FRI 7

TRIBUTE TO THE FUNK BANDS

& FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF MARVIN GAYE & TEDDY PENDERGRASS

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Funk & R&B

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The 8 Ohms Band, Backbeat Underground. 8:30 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

CITY LIGHTS: Monday

RaRE EssEncE

Darrow Montgomery

When’s the last time gogo legends Rare Essence, EU, and Trouble Funk appeared on the same bill?

At least 25 years ago, when the bands still played the Washington Coliseum and the D.C. Armory. The old Coliseum is now an REI and the Armory isn’t hosting go-go these days, but The Howard Theatre will do just fine for tonight’s Pre 4th of July Old School Jam. While the lineup doesn’t offer as many acts as the Coliseum holiday go-go shows once did, there’s no denying this is a mighty night featuring some of go-go’s greatest: Rare Essence doing an old-school set led by James Funk, who just might be the most charismatic lead talker in old-school go-go; longtime favorite Sugar Bear, another of old school go-go’s most beloved figures, leads the indomitable EU; and you know Trouble Funk’s gonna drop the bomb on everybody in that joint. While all three bands have lost some personnel along the way, they still work the go-go groove like no one outside D.C. can. Look sharp, ‘cause you know Funk’s gonna turn on the spotlight, y’all. Rare Essence performs with Sugar Bear & EU, Trouble Funk, and DJ Dirty Rico at 9 p.m. at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $25–$45. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Alona Wartofsky

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The 512 Experience. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tissa Khosola. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

ThuRsday Rock

BeThesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Jonathan Sloane Trio. 8 p.m. $15–$18. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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

DeadPhish Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Fast Eddie & The Slowpokes. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. sonGByrd music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Cayetana, Worriers, Camp Cope. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com. sTaTe TheaTre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Trevor Hall, Satsang. 8:30 p.m. $25. thestatetheatre.com. wolf Trap filene cenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Natalie Merchant. 8 p.m. $30–$75. wolftrap.org.

counTRy

mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Moose Jaw. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

ElEcTRonic

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Youngsta, N-Type. 9 p.m. $10–$12. flashdc.com.

Funk & R&B

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jean Carne. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

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

Jesse Royal, Ras Slick. 7:30 p.m. $22.50–$28. thehamiltondc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: TuEsday

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ONE LIFE: SYLVIA PLATH

Aside from eating burgers and watching colorful explosives light up the sky, one way to celebrate America’s birthday is to take in the work of its finest artists. You can do that at the concert on the West Lawn of the Capitol, which this year welcomes such luminaries as Kellie Pickler, Mark McGrath, and John Stamos. Or you can visit the latest exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery’s “One Life” series, this one honoring author Sylvia Plath.

While it might seem depressing in an already dark year to study the life of a woman known for dying with her head in her oven, this exhibit promises to tell Plath’s story in a deeper and more nuanced manner. Curator Dorothy Moss mined Plath’s archives at Smith College for artifacts and explores the dualities she experimented with, be it hair color or in her poetry. The collection of objects allows visitors to know Plath better and see the ways in which she came to define American poetry in the 20th century. The exhibit is on view daily 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., to May 20, at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F Streets NW. Free. (202) 633-8300. npg.si.edu.

—Caroline Jones 32 june 30, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

Jazz

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lil Tracy. 8 p.m. $10–$20. dcnine.com.

Jazz

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Andrew Latona. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

Galleries

GreaTer resTon arTs cenTer 12001 Market St., Ste. 103, Reston. (703) 471-9242. restonarts.org.

Ongoing: “The Great Dismal Swamp.” Acclaimed multimedia artist Radcliffe Bailey makes his D.C. area debut with this exhibition that addresses his family’s Virginia heritage and the state’s role in the Underground Railroad. April 21 to July 8. hemphill 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com. Ongoing: “35 Days.” Hemphill’s latest exhibit focuses on the contributions of local artists, featuring pieces from a diverse ensemble that includes Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downey, and William Christenberry. June 24 to Aug. 11. honfleur Gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Ongoing: “11th Annual East of the River Exhibition.” Artists Asha Elana Casey, Sheila Crider, and Amber Robles-Gordon present multimedia pieces based around themes of spirituality, identity, and repetition at this exhibition sponsored by the Anacostia BID and 11th Street Bridge Park. June 16 to Aug. 5.

ViVid soluTions Gallery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. Ongoing: “City Under Siege.” For his first solo show, photographer Vincent Brown presents a series of images chronicling the District’s chronic homelessness problem. June 16 to Aug. 5.

Theater

disney’s The liTTle mermaid Hear favorite songs like “Under the Sea” and “Part of Your World” in this touring stage production based on the classic animated film. Wolf Trap Filene Center. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. To July 2 $25–$85. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org. hedwiG and The anGry inch Celebrate the journey of queer rock star Hedwig Robinson in this searing musical that takes audiences from communist Germany to stages throughout America while exploring what it means to be a performer and a person in love. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To July 2 $59–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Jesus chrisT supersTar Signature presents this classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that chronicles the last week of Christ’s life. Featuring songs like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Everything’s Alright,” this production is directed by Joe Calarco.

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To July 2 $40–$99. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

The school for lies Director Michael Kahn leads Shakespeare Theatre Company’s adaptation of Moliere’s Le Misanthrope. When alternate facts become reality and a man aims to take down the pompous suitors who fill his social group, all hell breaks loose. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To July 2 $44–$123. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

The sound of music Local favorite Nicholas Rodriguez stars as Captain Von Trapp in this touring production of the beloved musical that includes classic songs like “Do-Re-Mi,” “Edelweiss,” and “Climb Every Mountain.” Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To July 16 $49–$169. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Film

The BeGuiled In this Palme d’Or winning film, a girls’ school in Civil War-era Virginia becomes a temporary home for a wounded Union soldier and before long, the house is taken over by sexual tension and rivalry.

Directed by Sofia Coppola. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) The BiG sick Kumail Nanjiani stars in this autobiographical film that chronicles how he met and fell in love with his wife, Emily, as well as the cultural forces they had to overcome. Directed by Michael Showalter. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) despicaBle me 3 The minions are back in this third entry in the animated series, which finds Gru reuniting with his more cheerful brother Dru for another caper. Featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, and Trey Parker. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) The excepTion Set in the early days of World War I, this drama follows a German soldier tasked with determining whether the Dutch have planted a spy in the ranks as he becomes enamored with a Jewish woman he meets. Starring Christopher Plummer, Jai Courtney, and Lily James. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) The house Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell play parents who try to raise money by running a casino in their basement after spending their child’s college fund in this raunchy comedy from writers Brendan O’Brien and Andrew Jay Cohen. Co-starring Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, and Allison Tolman. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) maudie Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke star in this drama about a Nova Scotia-based housekeeper who dreams of becoming an artist and becomes a beloved community figure. Directed by Aisling Walsh.

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For the people who are from here and have been here for a long time, it’s common knowledge that D.C. has a great music scene. It seems like every week a new band pops up in our fertile scene, creating a powerful, original sound in a scene of powerful, original sounds.

One of these is Bacchae, a post-punk quartet that has been on some of the best bills around town in the past year. With their debut record, Down the Drain, out in the world, you can expect to see Bacchae’s name even more, for it’s an album of expertly crafted, catchy post-punk jams that’s sure to catch the ear of anyone who listens. The band—comprised of vocalist/keyboardist Katie McD, bassist/vocalist Rena Hagins, drummer Eileen O’Grady, and guitarist Andrew Breiner—cull from a variety of genres on their debut album. Songs like “Dream Arena” and “Human Trash” evoke The Cure’s poppier era, while “Man and Machine” has a straight-up B-52s vibe. But at its core, Bacchae is an unapologetic, in-your-face punk band, and nothing showcases that better than “Sour,” with McD sing-screaming “L-E-M-O-N: I’m not the one to put the sugar on your tongue/ LE-M-O-N: I’m not dumb—I didn’t ask for your opinion.” Bacchae performs with Foul Swoops and T-Rextasy at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $10. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

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Let me set the scene for you: You’re lying on a lawn with your besties on a warm summer night.

In your picnic basket, there’s a nice plate of cheese and crackers.

You spend the evening knocking back several bottles of rosé, chatting and laughing through the evening. Your soundtrack? Some Lorde, maybe some Fleetwood Mac, or HAIM, or Alanis Morissette. Welcome to the summer of roséwave. And one of the staples of roséwave—a term recently introduced by NPR Music to define the unapologetic pop tunes that soundtrack those chill nights of sippin’ wine in the grass with your nearest and dearest—would be Natalie Merchant, the former 10,000 Maniacs singer whose solo career blossomed when she left the band in 1993. The folksy songwriter, responsible for such blanket-lounging jams as “Kind & Generous” and “These Are Days” has steadily churned out music to soundtrack wine-drunk summer nights for decades, and seeing her at Wolf Trap, where she performs in support of a new 10 CD box set, is peak roséwave. So call your pals, pack a picnic—for the love of God, don’t forget the rosé—and head to Vienna, for these are days you’ll remember when winter comes back around. Natalie Merchant performs at 8 p.m. at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. $30–$75. (703) 2551900. wolftrap.org.

—Matt Cohen

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