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16creature features Tales of the District’s animals Photos by Darrow Montgomery
4 Chatter DistriCt Line
7 Last Year’s Leftovers: The D.C. Council approves DCPS food services contract with another mega-vendor 9 The Potanist 10 Unobstructed View 12 Gear Prudence 13 Buy D.C. 14 Savage Love 15 Straight Dope
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25 Young & Hungry: In her farewell column, Jessica Sidman reveals some food writer secrets. 27 Grazer: Match the restaurant to its unorthodox menu categories 27 The ’Wiching Hour: HipCityVeg’s Philly Steak 27 Brew in Town: Allagash & New Belgium Fat Funk Ale
33 Curtain Calls: Klimek on Hand to God 34 Sketches: Capps on Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection
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37 City Lights: The unusual pairing of Horse Lords and Coup Sauvage & The Snips at the MLK Jr. Library 37 Music 43 Books 43 Galleries 44 Dance 44 Theater 45 Film
46 CLassiFieDs Diversions 47 Crossword
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Wee Wee the pig at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary
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In which our outgoing editor says thanks
Darrow MontgoMery
The ChaTTer Column is usually a space for reader reaction, but I’m hijacking it this week. Call it a bit of editor’s privilege on my way out the door. First, I need to note something that gives me enormous pride. At this year’s convention of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the trade group of the nation’s alt-weekly newspapers, City Paper picked up three first place awards, more than any other paper in the country. Photographer Darrow Montgomery, whose “One Block” photo essay was featured on our cover two weeks ago, won for a selection of his images from 2015. Many of them first appeared on this page in his column, a weekly frame of his view of the city. Most City Paper staff, both past and present, would describe Montgomery as the soul of the paper, something I cannot dispute. It’s a well-deserved honor. Next, Jessica Sidman won for a trio of her Young & Hungry columns that ably profiled the city’s dining scene: how restaurant servers secretly profile you, breakups and other relationship horror stories at D.C. restaurants and bars, and a piece about two rival H Street NE takeout places both named Tony’s. It’s no wonder that after four years on the beat, she was poached by Washingtonian; her final column appears today. And last, but certainly not least, Will Sommer’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends” cover story on how D.C.’s law against blocking the sidewalk results in disproportionate numbers of black men being arrested won first place for race reporting. It’s the kind of wonderful deep dive Sommer has become known for here—his piece on the death of the Ibiza nightclub was also a finalist in feature writing. Stay tuned for another coming soon. Second, for a little over a year, it has been my privilege to lead the staff of City Paper and the slew of contributors—journalists like Ron Knox, an AAN award finalist in music writing, and Jeffrey Anderson, chronicler of the DCPS food follies in this week’s District Line piece—who make this paper what it is. I have been enormously grateful for their effort, talent, and humor on a daily basis. I will miss their work, but I will miss their humanity even more. Thank you. —Steve Cavendish Department of Corrections: Due to an editing error, Jim Thomson’s last name was spelled “Thompson” in a piece on novice playwrights at Capital Fringe. 15000 BloCK of MT. NeBo RoAD, PooleSville, MD., July 1 PuBliSheR eMeRiTuS: Amy AustIn PuBliSheR: ErIc norwood eDiToR: stEVE cAVEndIsH MANAgiNg eDiToRS: EmIly q. 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Tomorrow’s History Today: This was the week the D.C. Council voted to put a statehood referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot, but critics objected to the constitution drafting process.
DistrictLine Last Year’s Leftovers
Once again, D.C. Council approves a mega-vendor school food contract. The D.C. CounCil approved a one-year, $35 million D.C. Public Schools food vendor contract on Tuesday with international conglomerate SodexoMagic that, with additional options, could be worth $186 million over five years. The approval comes a year after D.C. settled a whistleblower lawsuit against previous mega-vendor Chartwells/Thompson Hospitality for $19.4 million amid allegations of fraud, price-gouging, and poor-quality food. But despite a one-year year extension of Chartwells’ contract last summer and instructions to DCPS to deviate from such reliance on a single vendor—much less one with a checkered past—the Council approved by an eight-to-three vote a result that several members denounced as just another a large corporate cop-out. In the runup to the vote, nutrition experts and healthy-food advocates repeatedly cautioned that Sodexo, which posted $22.5 billion in sales as of May, according to Forbes, settled a $20 million False Claims Act case in New York in 2010. It repeatedly has sustained findings of spoiled or expired food, discrimination, and employee safety violations over the past several years. “In considering this contract, I needed to know whether the contract does right by our kids—especially ones who can’t opt out if school meals fall short—and whether it does right by District taxpayers,” said Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who voted to oppose the deal. “I think it’s my job to ask if we are getting a good value for the tens of millions of dollars that we’re spending with a company whose track record elsewhere gives me pause.” At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman said the contract perpetuates reliance on a single vendor and criticized it for failing to include meaningful financial penalties for noncompliance or adequate cost controls. Silverman emphasized concern for the health and well-being of children of low-income families and said that DCPS needs to make quali-
ty school food a higher priority. “This is an issue that affects all children, from every part of the city, but it most affects our low-income children,” she said. “These meals are often their best meals of the day, and for some students, they can be the only real meal they get. They deserve better, if we are serious about helping them learn, build healthy lives, and reach their full potential.” Added Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, architect of the District’s Healthy Schools Act and a persistent advocate for improvements to the school food program: “We are substituting one bad partner for another. With its past history, how can we in good conscience trust our children’s well-being to Sodexo?” However, At-Large Councilmember David Grosso, chair of the Committee on Education, advocated for the contract and said that any large company “has issues,” and that it is “the nature of the beast.” Grosso also said that if the Council did not approve the contract, then 10 schools whose extended school year begins on Aug. 8 could be at risk of not being able to feed their students. As is his custom, Grosso voted “present” and promised strict oversight of the new vendor. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson sided with the education committee chair and said he would like to see more in-school food preparation and a greater variety of vendors, and noted that Sodexo’s is only a one-year contract with options. “There are not many companies that can come in and do business at this scale,” he said. “There just aren’t.” Under the contract, Sodexo will serve 101 of the 113 schools in DCPS, which has an enrollment of more than 48,000 students. D.C. Central Kitchen, under a contract that the Council also approved, will serve the remaining 12 schools. Tuesday’s vote came as little surprise to anyone who has closely followed the DCPS food services saga over the last year. In the wake of the 2015 Chartwells settlement and facing opposition to a two-year extension of that company’s contract, the Council granted Chartwells a one-year extension
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on the premise that it was too late to find a replacement. It also directed DCPS to explore the potential for future in-house meal preparation and conduct a procurement to select multiple vendors that would spur competition and give the city alternatives in the marketplace. Early on, DCPS officials agreed to divide the schools into clusters that would allow them to make multiple awards to prospective vendors. A DCPS timeline called for stakeholder input and public disclosure of a new Request For Proposals that would lead to a contract award ready for Council approval by April 18 and implementation by June 27. But in March, D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson reported that DCPS had made no ef-
fort to explore the in-house option, and in fact had neglected its own kitchen facilities. Patterson and her staff found broken ovens, unused equipment, and cafeterias built to serve more students than attend the schools. By April 1, sources already were fearing that a large award to Sodexo was imminent, City Paper reported at the time. Then, in May, following an Associated Press story about Chancellor Kaya Henderson soliciting contributions to a charity gala from a top Chartwells official, a citizens group called the D.C. School Food Project wrote to the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability and requested an investigation into any undue influence. (Sodexo made contributions to washingtoncitypaper.com july 15, 2016 7
DistrictLine of the D.C. School Food Project, and an associate professor of sociology at George Washington University. “As you know, Chartwells/ Thompson Hospitality just spent most of a decade bilking this city,” she wrote in her expanded testimony, detailing $48 million in costs that exceeded the contract price from 2009 through 2012. “So what company has DCPS chosen to replace Chartwells? Sodexo. A company with $22 billion in revenue last year. A company that has a remarkable record of poor service, bad food, racial discrimination, union busting, and more.” Ken noted that, contrary to the RFP and industry practices, the contract allows Sodexo to pocket rebates from food suppliers, a practice that resulted in the company having to settle an $18 million lawsuit in 2010. “And while they used to hide the fact that they held on to the rebates… they have now figured out that they should get it right in the contract—right up front, before our eyes,” she wrote. Ken also detailed mandates in the Chartwells contract that went missing from the contract with Sodexo. Under the previous contract, she said, meat had to be free of hormones, antibiotics, genetically modified organisms, bad smells, or deterioration; processed fish was not to contain more than 500
the same gala, AP reported.) The citizens group also complained about delays and lack of transparency in the procurement process and lack of responsiveness to citizen concerns. Finally, on May 20, DCPS announced its awards. Yet the contract did not surface until June 27, as the Council session was drawing to a close. Grosso introduced an approval resolution that would allow him to hold a “public roundtable” before the contract came before the Council, but made clear that the Council would be unable to change any terms or performance metrics in the contract. At that roundtable last Wednesday, more than a dozen students, parents, and cafeteria workers presented arguments as to why the Council should not approve the Sodexo deal. Only two of the five education committee members—Grosso and Allen—were present, with the most probing questions coming from Silverman and Cheh. No one testified on behalf of Sodexo or to advocate for contract approval. No one directly involved with the procurement process testified. Government testimony was limited to DCPS Chief Operating Officer Nathaniel Beers, who frequently was unable to answer questions. The most comprehensive testimony was offered by Dr. Ivy Ken, a DCPS parent, member
milligrams of sodium per serving; beef was not to be served more than once a week; eggs had to be U.S. Department of Agriculture Grade A; schools had to serve dark green leafy and orange vegetables weekly; and 20 percent of food ingredients and products had to be locally grown and/or locally processed. The issues of rebates and nutrition intersect, she wrote, when a vendor purchases large volumes of lower-quality food at a lower price and keeps the rebates for itself: “So we’ve gutted the nutritional requirements. We’ve handed over millions of dollars in rebates to a multinational corporation. And where, exactly are the kids in this? Who is looking out for them? One might think it would be DCPS.” Not so, said Ken, citing what she considers a lack of student satisfaction and food waste surveys, and a litany of examples of DCPS denying the public any “robust engagement” and engaging in back-room negotiations with Sodexo. “In September last year,” she wrote, “DCPS officials sat right here and assured this committee that they would split the District into clusters and encourage competition so that no one, single mega-company would dominate the way Chartwells has. And yet here we are. Again.” Councilmembers hammered Beers for more
than an hour until he conceded that if they disapproved the contract he would enact an emergency plan to have D.C. Central Kitchen and Revolution Foods, a Sodexo subcontractor, step in while a new contract could be negotiated. Such recourse would not be necessary. Just this week, however, City Paper learned that a qualified bidder that lost out on the contract, Genuine Foods, a company formed by former DCPS food services director-turnedwhistleblower Jeffrey Mills, has retained the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. In a letter sent Monday to Mendelson, Grosso, and their Council colleagues, obtained by City Paper, the firm proposed that DCPS include Genuine Foods in its food services program and alluded to the potential for a bid protest. None of the 13 councilmembers responded to a request for comment on the letter. Ken, like the councilmembers who opposed the deal, said she wishes DCPS had not waited until just before Council recess to submit the contract, only to have the Council determine that it’s too late to turn away from another mega-vendor. “They kept saying that the contract is going to have to be approved no matter how many problems existed. I’m still hoping for a third way. Are we really stuck with yes or no?” CP
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The Reason to Sign Kirk Cousins to a Long-Term Deal By Matt Terl By the time you read this, you will know Kirk Cousins’ fate. As I write this, though, everything about the local quarterback’s future is shrouded in mystery: Will he play this season for a measly $19.95 million? Or will he and the team reach a long-term deal that pays out somewhere between that number and Andrew Luck’s recent deal, which pays $23.3 million per year over six seasons but contains $47 million in guaranteed money? In these dead weeks of summer, this is what qualifies as a real nail biter of a dilemma, and lots of column inches, podcast minutes, sports radio segments, and TV time have been spent on analyzing what’s going to happen. The debate, such as it is, seems to center on a few questions. What’s best for the team? The easy answer is “a long-term deal,” which would free up some cap space this year and let them carefully plan their next several offseasons with some sense of certainty at the QB position. The primary issue with this approach deals with how good Cousins is, which I’ll get to. The other counterpoint is that most of the major free agents have already signed, so cap space is now of questionable value (although there are always some veterans cut in late summer who might be useful). On the other hand, the team could always structure a long-term deal in such a way that doesn’t free up cap space now, instead guaranteeing Cousins’ 2016 salary at around the same price as he’s getting by being tagged a franchise player, which would allow them to reduce the guaranteed money across the rest of the deal and actually increase future cap flexibility. What’s best for Cousins? The prevailing wisdom seems to be that Cousins is best served playing with the tag this season and locking in an even bigger deal next year. But that presupposes that A) Cousins continues to play as well as he did last year, and B) he doesn’t suffer a catastrophic injury. And neither of those possibilities feels like a sure thing. In fact, item A is probably its own major question. Just how good is Cousins, anyhow? Based on the franchise amount, he is currently being paid like a top-15 quarterback
in the league. Based on how he finished the 2015 season, he might be much better than that—and this is the school of thought that encourages Cousins to play this year on the salary cap. (If the team needs to franchise Cousins again next year, he’ll be making about $4 million more than he currently is.) The problem is, of course, that no one seems quite ready to believe that the Cousins from the last half of last season is the real guy. On the other hand, it seems likely that even the worst Cousins performance, on a team with a coaching staff he’s studied with and some solid offensive weapons, will be as good as whatever the next guy you’d bring in could do. That is, if Cousins regresses, he’d probably be an average QB… and there’s not really that much savings for an average QB. Those three questions, though, ignore the larger question of this ridiculous debate: Why on earth do I care about this? I don’t mean this in a grander, sociological, the-world-is-burning-so-who-cares-aboutsports sense (although that would probably be a perfectly healthy attitude these days). I mean this: Barring injury, Cousins is the quarterback this year for sure, whether he plays on the tag or signs a deal. If he is great, he will be the quarterback next year, whether he plays on another tag or signs a deal. It isn’t my money, nor do I believe that any consumer prices—team shirts, stadium beers, tickets, hot dogs, stale peanuts—are going to be directly affected by Cousins’ deal. There is, in point of fact, unlikely to be any tangible difference to my life (even just my life as a consumer of sports product) regardless of what he does. For a while that made me feel like the obvious decision was to check out of this conversation entirely, treasure these last few days before training camps start and we all go football-crazy again, and maybe take up a hobby. But then I found my deciding factor. If Cousins plays this year on the tag, we’re going to have to go through all of this again next year. All the same blog posts, radio segments, podcasts, and self-referential sports columns. It’s like the most banal remake of Groundhog Day you can imagine. And absolutely none of us need that. CP Follow Matt Terl on Twitter @Matt_Terl.
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I’m in my mid-40s, straight, never married. Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type. The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and want us to get back together. She wrote me a nice letter back saying she doesn’t feel passion for me and we’re never getting back together. Over the past few months, I’ve started dating another girl. She’s pretty, smart, sexy, and kind. If I proposed, she’d probably say yes. I want to get married. The problem is that I don’t have the passion for her that I had for my previous girlfriend. So do I “settle” for Girlfriend #2 or start my search all over? Please don’t give me the bullshit that love can happen at any age. At my age, the number of single women without kids is low. How many married people “settle” for someone who is a good person but not their true love? —No Clever Acronym There is no settling down without some settling for. Please make a note of it. Also, NCA, while passion is a great feeling—totally intoxicating—it also tends to be ephemeral. It’s a hard feeling to sustain over the long haul, and marriage is theoretically the longest of long hauls. You felt strongly about your ex, but she didn’t share your feelings. You don’t feel quite as strongly about your current girlfriend, but you would like to be married—to someone, maybe her—and Girlfriend #2 seems like a good candidate. I wouldn’t suggest proposing, as you’ve been seeing her for only a few months and most sane women view early, impulsive proposals as red flags. And finally, NCA, the specter of a “true love” waiting for us out there somewhere, either lost or not yet found, snuffs out more good-and-loving-and-totally-worth-settlingfor relationships than anything this side of cheating. —Dan Savage My girlfriend has started seeing other partners. It makes her happy, and in turn I’m happy for her. It’s taking me a bit of time to adjust to the new situation, but she’s happier than she’s been in ages. We love each other and are crazily compatible. Today she came back from a hotel with bite marks on her breasts. I know she’s been with a few people over the last few weeks, but being reminded of it each time I look at or touch her makes me uncomfortable. What’s more, the guy who did it knew she was part of a long-term couple. Do I need to get over it for the sake of my girlfriend or do I make an issue of hickeys? —Boy Really Unnerved In Seeing Evidence If you and the girlfriend have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy about her hookups with oth-
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ers, BRUISE, then hickeys and other kinds of slow-fading marks violate the spirit of that agreement. Those kinds of marks amount to a nonverbal “tell.” You have a right to calmly point that out to your girlfriend, and she has a responsibility, in the future and in the moment, to remind/warn her outside sex partners that leaving slow-fading marks on her breasts, neck, thighs, forehead, insoles, eyelids, etc., is out of bounds. For your part, BRUISE, don’t inspect your girlfriend post-hookup for the kinds of marks that fade quickly after sex, as that would amount to a nonverbal ask. —Dan
Even if your second load consists of nothing but good intentions, TPC, reusing a condom the way you describe is a recipe for disaster. My first refractory period—the time it takes me to get ready to have sex again after my first orgasm—is shorter than the time it takes me to lose my erection. I was in a relationship and wasn’t using condoms anymore by the time I figured this out, so it was just generally good times—I’d blow my load, take less than a minute to catch my breath, and be ready to go again. But now that I’m single and entering the dating pool, I’m going to be wrapping it again. Obviously. But I’m not 100 percent sure it’s safe to blow two loads into one condom. I’m not sure how much ejaculate I’m producing the second time I come, but it’s surely less than the first time. I’m not confident that “second” erection would survive the whole taking-off-the-condom-and-tying-it-upand-then-putting-on-another-condom exercise, but I would like to avoid that rigmarole if possible. So is it safe to blow two loads in a single condom? —Two Pump Champ The failure rate for condoms when used correctly is low (2 percent), TPC, but the failure rate for condoms when used incorrectly is high (18 percent). Leaks are the most common way
condoms fail, and slamming your cock in and out of someone with a fully loaded condom wrapped around it will result in leaks. Even if your second load consists of nothing but good intentions, TPC, reusing a condom the way you describe is a recipe for disaster, impregnation, disease transmission, or all of the above. —Dan I have to put my two cents in about Heartbroken And Devastated, the man who discovered that his wife has been cheating on him the entire time they have been together. Her constant and selfish betrayal is egregious. Instead of being honest and giving him a chance to be in an open relationship, she chose to make a fool out of him. She is selfish and a slut. Not to mention that she could have given him an STD, AIDS, you name it. I disagree with you about the concept of monogamy—I don’t think it is a fantasy. I believe there is something that separates us from the animals, and that’s called integrity and self-control. I am happily married to a beautiful woman. I am a singer in a band, I get hit on all the time, but I don’t act on it. Because some of us have a conscience and don’t betray the ones we’ve made a COMMITMENT TO. I wish HAD the best of luck, but I hope he moves on and finds someone who will appreciate him. —Monogamous And Proud In Portland I have a few questions for you, MAPIP, but first: I agree that HAD’s wife betrayed him in an extreme and egregious way, and I made that clear in my response. (“The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.”) Now here’s my question for you: What did you make a COMMITMENT TO? Was it to your wife or was it to an ideal? Did you commit to a fallible human being or did you commit to a principle? Let’s say your wife screwed up and cheated—which happens all the time, it could happen to you (you do realize you’re whistling past the world’s most densely populated graveyard), women cheat now at pretty much the same rate men do—and let’s say it was a far less egregious betrayal than the one HAD is suffering through. Let’s say it was a one-off, years from now, or maybe a two-off. Would you stay and try to save your marriage or would you leave your wife? Staying and trying to save your marriage says, “I committed myself to this person,” leaving says, “I committed myself to this ideal.” If your ideals are more important to you than your spouse, I think you’re doing marriage wrong. But you’re free to disagree. —Dan Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.
DOPE Why are humans so afraid of insects? My first response is to think that insects spoil our food, and a single insect can quickly turn into many, but mice and birds eat our food too, and mice carry diseases. But almost nobody is afraid of birds, and mice don’t inspire nearly the same revulsion that insects do. —Nathan
I don’t know that I’d nominate mice as an exemplar of an unscary stimulus, to be honest— fear of mice is one of the most common fears out there. It’s got its own entry as a phobia in the DSM-IV, and in most surveys it’s right up there with fears of spiders, snakes, dogs, and insects. I’ll give you birds, though. Nobody’s afraid of birds. But it is true there’s a special weight attached to the fear of bugs, which has received more attention in the scientific literature than mouse phobia has. Plus, there was that Jeff Daniels movie. I’m conflating spiders and insects here, though spiders are of course arachnids; I don’t think too many bug-phobes are busy worrying that distinction. In fact, researchers often collapse a whole bunch of critters into a smallanimals category that also includes snakes, worms, etc., being less interested in creaturespecific fear than in what motivates powerful fear responses in general. So why bugs? Some say, maybe unsurprisingly, that it’s evolution: there may just be things humans are genetically predisposed to fear because they once presented us with a distinct mortal threat. Spiders, for instance: “Humans were at perennial, unpredictable and significant risk of encountering highly venomous spiders in their ancestral environments,” Joshua New, a professor of psychology at Barnard, told the Sunday Times in 2014. Eventually, the idea goes, awareness of that risk crept into our DNA. New was coauthor of a study that year suggesting that humans retain a special ability to quickly identify spiders in our visual field. Subjects answered questions about images they’d seen flashed on a computer screen, which included depictions of spiders, flies, and hypodermic needles as well as abstract shapes. The subjects recalled seeing the spiders better than anything else, having evolved—the authors surmised—the need to detect spiders’ presence tout de suite. Tests on young children have also lent credence to the idea that there are some fears people are inherently inclined toward. One 2008 paper, for instance, reported that infants associated footage of snakes with audio of a frightened-sounding voice. Similarly, you’ll see it argued that a famous depth-perception
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experiment from the 1960s called the “visual cliff ”—in which human babies and young animals must decide whether it’s safe to crawl onto a solid but transparent plank suspended above the floor—demonstrates an innate fear of falling in species that don’t fly or swim. As always with evolutionary psychology, not everyone’s buying it. Some might point to a quirky study structured roughly like New’s, only here the subjects were first screened with two tests: one gauging fear of spiders, the other measuring in-depth familiarity with the British sci-fi show Doctor Who. (Like I said, quirky.) They were then asked to find a picture of a horse in a grid of other images, including spider photos and Doctor Who stills, and guess what? Relative to the control group, both Doctor Who fans and arachnophobes were slower to find the horse, suggesting that we’re simply more apt to notice (and thus be distracted by) things we’re already interested in. If you fear spiders for whatever reason, you’ll be more attuned to them; it doesn’t need to be genetic. Critics also see the evolutionary theory as too convenient: after the fact, “it is quite easy to create a plausible looking adaptive scenario for a phobia to almost any stimulus,” in the words of one researcher. Plus, why would people specifically fear small dangerous animals like spiders and snakes, but not larger, predatory animals that also have the potential to do lethal damage—lions, tigers, and bears? And why do so many people fear cockroaches, which are practically harmless? Another theory, then, is the disease-avoidance model, which suggests that our responses don’t stem from a fear of violent harm but from what researchers have called “the foodrejection response of disgust”; why we fear insects more viscerally than we fear lions, in short, is that (as you suggest) insects are the sort of thing that would mess up our food. This is all far from settled, clearly. The answer is that nobody really knows where primal fears come from, and there’s some evidence suggesting they can be learned. Not very satisfying, I know, but hey, it’s nature versus nurture again! Just a few more millennia of back and forth and we’ll have this very debate encoded in our DNA. —Cecil Adams Have something you need to get straight? Take it up with Cecil at straightdope.com.
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Wee Wee was destined for the slaughterhouse. Instead, the pig ended up in hog heaven. By Sarah Anne Hughes It’s a recent Friday morning at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, just before the sun makes the summer heat unbearable. Past a green gate guarded by a turkey buzzard and down a dirt road flanked by woods on one side and by fields of tall, unmowed grass on the other, is a cluster of Canada geese and goats—lots of goats. They’re just a few of the more than 200 animals who reside at the refuge in Poolesville, Md., 400 acres of protected land where pigs, chickens, sheep, goats, turkeys, cows, and other barnyard creatures found wandering urban and suburban areas, spared from the slaughter, or rescued from abusive situations live out their days in peace and tranquility. It’s where the Washington Humane Society sent several chicks recovered after a jilted man mailed them to his ex-girlfriend with the message “There are lots of other chicks out there.” WHS also turned over to the sanctuary a pygmy goat, Billy, found wandering in a neighborhood near the National Arboretum, as well as an Angora goat, Ferdinand, found inside an apartment complex. Also Alvin, the rooster, and Lita, the pig, and many of other farm animals over the years, all winners in a strange lottery that spares them from a most typical fate. Currently, Poplar Spring’s most famous resident is a six-month-old pig named Wee Wee. His origin story sounds like a Disney pitch: A local family found him on the side of a road near Hagerstown, Md., during the January blizzard—small, shivering, and covered in snow. It’s assumed Wee Wee fell off or jumped from a truck on its way to or from an industrial farming facility. Instead of becoming dinner, Wee Wee ended up at Poplar Spring with dozens of other pigs, including another piglet rescue, his best friend Scooter. Wee Wee now has his own Facebook page, where more than 5,000 fans follow his day-to-day adventures— sleeping in mud, trotting across a field, eating one thing or another. “I start off every morning by checking in on Wee Wee, Scooter and the gang. Thanks for all your hard work, photos and videos!!” one fan recently wrote. “Friends forever! It is heartwarming to see how they have bonded. Thank you for all your hard work,” anoth-
er commented. He’s not the only Poplar Spring animal with social media clout. A staff member near the cow field mentions Elliot, whose name would be instantly recognizable to any of the more than 13,000 followers of Poplar
Spring’s Facebook page. The calf is a recent rescue, born in a pen at a livestock exchange and left there for three days without food or water until he was saved with his mother. On this Friday, it’s the morning after Elliot spent his first night with his mom.
“She doesn’t quite recognize that that’s her baby, because I’m sure she’s had her babies taken away from day one every time,” the staff member says. “But at the very least, they’ll be very good friends… And they’ll get to stay together their whole life.” Terry Cummings founded the sanctuary in 1996 with her husband, Dave Hoerauf. They moved to the nearly 300-year-old farmhouse on the land that now serves as the sanctuary in 1987. Cummings says she was inspired to start Poplar Spring (and become a vegetarian) after seeing a farmer abuse and starve cows, actions for which, she found, there was no legal recourse. She majored in Animal Science at the University of Maryland, “but I couldn’t find any job when I got out of school that wasn’t hurting animals.” Cummings then worked as a vet tech in the National Zoo’s hospital for 12 years before quitting to start Poplar. The woman who owned the farmhouse and surrounding
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land donated them to the cause. Part of Poplar Spring’s mission is to “promote compassion and humane treatment for all animals,” the extremity of which is apparent upon a visit to the sheep barn, where a blind, arthritic ewe named Daisy is escaping the heat near a fan. While many pet owners today don’t consider spending thousands of dollars and countless hours on an aging and ailing cat or dog extreme, paying money to care for an old sheep probably strikes many as a bit much and some as ridiculous. But it’s hard to take that cynical approach as Maureen, a volunteer for the past three years, starts listing off the other sheep’s names: Hickory, Millie, Jasper, June, Sarah, Ava, Alfie, Clover, Nicolette, Nelson, Pumpkin, Noel, Adam, and Loki (who loves attention). “You have to look for specific markings,” she says, describing how she tells them apart. Alfie, for example, has freckles on his nose. Maureen says she’s always adored animals, so despite having allergies to most of them, she decided to volunteer at Poplar Spring when she retired. “Some of the stories here, the only word you can say is ‘horrific,’” she says. “There’s a lot of heartbreak here, but it’s so worth it.” Away from the sheep, past the fields where the cows and horses graze, is a barn full of humongous pigs snoozing under fans wafting them in cool breezes. These domestic pigs, who weigh up to 1,000 pounds, weren’t meant to get this old or big—pigs bred and raised for meat are slaughtered at around six months. But, for a variety of reasons, here they are, including 976-pound Mork, who came from the University of Pennsylva-
a fence while several much bigger pigs (there are 50 at the sanctuary) wallow nearby. “These pigs are just as a sweet as any dog. They like to roll over for belly rubs,” Cummings says. “They don’t have a vicious bone in their body… We even trim their teeth by giving a belly rub.” Wee Wee definitely likes belly rubs. While he may no longer be the adorable piglet who was written up in People magazine and featured on the Today show—he currently weighs around 250 pounds and will continue to gain—there’s still something fundamentally lovable about him. Since Wee Wee joined the sanctuary, Cummings says they’ve seen an uptick in demand for tours. “A lot of people are Wee Wee fans. We sold out of the Wee Wee socks in our gift shop.” Despite growing interest, visits, and donations, Poplar Spring is limited in the number of animals it can bring in due to barn space and funding. With more than 200 animals and a staff of seven, they spend $500,000 a year on basics. A newer barn cost $50,000 to construct, Cummings says, a price Poplar Spring could afford thanks to a single donor. “I don’t think we ever thought it would get this far,” she says with a laugh. Now, Poplar Spring’s board of directors is strategizing ways to keep the sanctuary going after Cummings and her husband retire. When other sanctuaries, the ones built on not much more than good intentions, close, that puts a strain on others like Poplar Spring. One day, Cummings will leave her home of decades and these 400 acres behind: It all belongs to the animals, who are guaranteed a spot at Poplar Spring for as long as Poplar Spring exists. Cummings says she just wouldn’t trust anyone else to care for them. “If you make it to a sanctuary, you should be safe for the rest of your life.” CP Poplar Spring will be open to the public on July 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as part of the Montgomery County Farm Tour.
Pets Sound There are a number of resources for domestic violence survivors with pets. The problem? They don’t know about them. By Morgan Baskin nia vet school after Cummings says the students got too attached to him and couldn’t send him to be killed. Cummings explains that the older pigs prefer to sleep in the barn, while the younger
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ones spend part of the day wandering around the grounds. “I have a feeling Wee Wee and Scooter are in the mud,” Cummings says. She’s right. In a muddy creek yards from the pig barn, the two are snuggled together near
One Of natalIa Otero’s more memorable cases as the director of D.C. Survivors and Advocates For Empowerment, which runs the District’s only 24/7 emergency domestic violence shelter, was also a case of animal abuse. The batterer had cut all of the hair off
RedRover Relief has given more than $150,000 to shelters across the country since 2012 to create “co-sheltering” spaces. of the cat he shared with his partner, apowercontrol tactic that is a hallmark of domestic violence. “The animal is a source of control to get into [the survivor’s] psyche,” Otero says. “The cat abuse escalated the situation for [the victim].” A 1999 study found that 87 percent of people who abuse animals do so in front of their partners “for revenge or control.” It’s not a stretch to infer that in a city where the face of homelessness has changed dramatically in recent years—increasingly becoming a population of young families—demand for pet-friendly shelters would also increase. Yet despite both numbers and anecdotes that indicate the demand for these services should be rising, care providers say the number of requests for animal assistance hasn’t changed much at all. Those who work in the domestic violence care network are clear about why that is: Survivors still don’t know what their options are. “A lot of victims of domestic violence want to stay because they think, ‘If I leave, they might hurt or kill my pet.’ They think their pet might be euthanized if they take it to a shelter. And while I can’t say that won’t always be the case, there are definitely other options,” says Meagan Dziura, co-executive director of the Safety Network for Abused Animals and People. The nonprofit helps connect D.C.-area survivors to fosters for their animals. According to one survey conducted in Utah, threats against a pet’s life caused 20 percent of domestic violence survivors to delay leaving their abusive environment. Laurel Meleski, a program coordinator for the national animal charity RedRover Relief, puts the percentage as high as 48; other studies peg it even higher, at 65 percent. The Washington Humane Society’s Safe Haven program is the only one of its kind in the District, working in an unofficial capacity with domestic violence shelters (like DC SAFE) and animal nonprofits (like RedRover Relief and SNAAP) to coordinate temporary shelter for the at-risk pets of domestic violence survivors via foster parents, off-site boarding, or a stay at a WHS facility. Each month, Safe Haven Director Zita Macinanti
says, Safe Haven handles a “revolving door” of three to five cases. If that number seems small for D.C.’s only placement program for pets of domestic violence survivors, that’s because it is. DC SAFE, for example, receives more than 900 calls per month from survivors of domestic violence looking for emergency shelter, and one study showed 52 percent of abuse survivors in shelters left their pets with their batterers. “Any social service is a matter of educating the public and creating [viable] access points,” Otero says. “And in D.C., the process [to shelter a pet] is relatively uncumbersome.” While it’s hard to precisely gauge the need for these services—collecting data on domestic violence survivors who need pet assistance is notoriously difficult, since few homeless shelters screen clients for animal needs and much of the available data is outdated—Otero says that only a small number of DC SAFE’s clients request animal assistance. The survivors that the nonprofit works with are the District’s highest-risk and need to leave abusive environments in an emergency. “It’s difficult to get a victim to make a safe plan. They’re hesitant to leave a pet with a friend, they’re reticent to ask for favors,” Otero says. “I also wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t know to ask [shelters] for those resources.” In instances like this, domestic violencespecific animal shelters aren’t useful for survivors who don’t have the opportunity to coordinate a pet’s stay ahead of their exit. And general homeless shelters in D.C. don’t accept animals, a result of their existing infrastructure (communal living spaces), lack of funds, and fear of dogs like pitbulls, Otero says. While there are certain prohibitive costs associated with opening a homeless shelter to animals—like cages, pet-friendly flooring, and construction costs to build a kennel—there are also a bevy of financial resources available to them. RedRover, for example, has given more than $150,000 to shelters across the country since 2012 to create “co-sheltering” spaces, which Meleski calls “the next logical step in the evolution of services and resources available to domestic violence survivors.” Yet RedRover has only received two requests for financial assistance from D.C.based animal nonprofits in the last four years, both of which were filed through SNAAP on behalf of the Washington Humane Society. The $700 WHS received helped ameliorate the cost of boarding pets off-site, which can run up to $800 per pet each month. “We’d love to help more, but we can only help if we get a request, and it doesn’t look like we’re getting them,” Melenski says. But Otero, Melenski, Dziura, and Macinanti all agree that education is a crucial gap in the care network. In high-turnover social work like domestic violence care, Dziura says, new providers might not have received the training to guide survivors in the right direction. “If there’s one message that I could scream from a megaphone,” Macinanti says, “it’s that you do not have to stay in an abusive environment or leave your pets behind. There are options.” CP
Gotta Hatch ’Em All The D.C. area is a haven for birds and bird watchers, but not all species are making a comeback. By Emily Q. Hazzard I’m standIng In a parking lot in Fairfax County at 7 on Monday morning with a dozen men and women, mostly seniors, but without exception all dressed in khaki nylon hiking pants or khaki vests or hats with flaps. We’re all staring at a point in a tree 100 feet overhead, where a slight flitting movement suggests there’s a bird. Tripod-mounted telescopes start to unfold into their standing positions; binoculars are raised; notebooks are opened. My phone buzzes. The Pokemon Go app tells me there’s a Spearow nearby. In fact, there are several Pokemon apparently rustling around in augmented reality nearby, but I would be too ashamed to try to capture one at a nature preserve. Phone away. “It’s a goldfinch.” Dixie Sommer, a board member of the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia and a member of the Northern Virginia Bird Club, is looking down at her phone, then back up to the treetop, then down at her phone again. She’s showing me an app she uses to track the species spotted on her regular birdwatching trips, like the one this group is about to embark on at Huntley Meadows Park. I notice her app does not require the user to hurl any imaginary red-and-white balls at the birds to log the encounter. Point, Dixie. Depending on what metric you use, we may
be in the golden age of birding. Birders (20 percent of Americans) spent $40 billion in 2011 on their pastime, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And the District is one of the best bird-watching cities in the country. As many species are spotted yearly at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens as at Maine’s Acadia National Park. Eagles and ospreys nest in D.C. and hunt the local fisheries. Ravens have nested in a local bridge, having followed the Potomac River gorge downstream to us. Year-round and migratory species are making a comeback in the area, in part thanks to the effects of the ban on DDT and decades of environmental legislation and cleanup. Foam, out; otters and other fisheries-managing species, in. “let’s gO see the ugliest young thing in D.C.!” Dan Rauch and I have just pulled into a parking lot adjacent to an abandoned brick building. We’re checking up on a black vulture nest which contains a chick. Rauch is a wildlife biologist with the Department of Energy & Environment, and most days he’s out in the field, visiting nests and habitats, counting species, and logging his counts into some of the same databases local bird watchers use to track their sightings. “It’s a fuzzy, hissing blob,” he says.
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We peer around the sill of an unboarded window, and a chicken-sized bird, half fuzzed and half feathered with a bald, wrinkled face, is looking warily back at us. I now understand that Rauch described this bird so I wouldn’t shriek in horror when I saw it. Its rear end is dripping with smelly white shit. There’s a clear, viscous globule of something dangling from its beak. It has no tags on its legs because a tag would catch the chunky stomach contents it habitually vomits on its own feet, and the limb would rot off. Rauch and I haul ourselves onto the window sill (also dribbled with shit) and drop down into the small room (shit on every surface). The floor is strewn with roadkill leftovers, bones, feathers, and more shit. We keep our distance so as not to get vomited or shit upon. Black vultures, it appears, have adapted to urban areas. Rauch tells me the other District nest is at 15th and K. I mentally thumb through my catalogue of lawyer jokes but leave it be. They’re making an impressive comeback, but not everyone is impressed with eagles. “Eagles are a dime a dozen, almost,” says George, a recently retired bird enthusiast on the Huntley Meadows walk, who shoulderhefts a tripod-mounted telescope that looks like it’s designed to shoot Boeing planes out of the sky. He has a point—those species that are the most adaptable have had the easiest time springing back. Eagles, when they can’t fish, can eat groundhogs. Black vultures find new nesting sites. Ravens and peregrines—cliffdwelling species—make their nests under bridges. Some birds, to compete with the ambient noise of cities, have made their calls
louder and shriller, which comes with a higher energy cost. Those who can afford to burn those extra calories survive. But “generally speaking, birds are not having a good time,” laments Rob Young, cofounder of Birding DC and lifelong bird-watching enthusiast. Development and climate change continue to threaten delicate habitats and populations. Meadow and grassland species are particularly at risk because their ideal habitat is also the ideal habitat of strip malls and highway expansions. So, too, are migratory birds whose journeys take them to countries with poorer environmental stewardship. Species who can’t adapt their nesting habits are also running out of room. Even seemingly minor climate events can have a devastating impact on birds. Biologists and birders like the Huntley Meadow group share data to track migration changes, noting when birds are arriving in the area off-schedule. DOEE’s Rauch tells me that a few years ago in May, the summer heat rolled in too hot and too early, and osprey chicks died off en masse. Parents stood over their young in the nest, their water-dampened feathers spread in a cooling canopy over chicks who died anyway, too young to regulate their own body temperatures. When West Nile virus hit bird populations hard a few years ago, crows suffered a 90-percent fatality rate. “iT’s Time To go to work,” Dixie Sommer tells the Huntley Meadow group, as they finish up breakfast at a local Denny’s. She’s holding a sheet of paper, and something like an auction takes places. “Wood ducks? Mallards?” “Four. Five.” Watchers who have seen the highest
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number of a species call out their count to Sommer, who marks their numbers down. “Any turkeys?” “Just the ones at the table.” “Sapsuckers? Flickers?” “Any phoebes?” “One dramatic one!” Tufted titmice, nuthatches, Carolina wrens, kinglets, gnatcatchers, starlings, pipits, and waxwings. Someone calls into question whether a tanager was really heard. “Are you sure you heard it? I didn’t hear it.” “No, I was very sure! Robin with a sore throat. A two on the lozenge scale.” “Rose-breasted grosbeak? Anybody get lucky?” “A pair of orchard orioles? Wow, cool. Where did you see that?” The birds this group spots today—48 distinct species in a couple of hours—will be logged via app interface into an online database, reported to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shared to one or more online listservs, and added to the “lists” individual birders are keeping. There are lifetime lists. There are yearly lists. There are rankorderings of list keepers. There is also a list on my phone, now in my backpack, of completely madeup animals requiring my capture and documentation, and it keeps tugging at my attention. Later that day, as I walk north on Georgia Avenue NW from my bus stop to my house, my phone buzzes. Another Spearow. I stop in the shade of a tree to hurl a small, virtual ball at an imaginary animal, congratulating myself on achieving level 9. Something beans me on the top of my head, raking sharply across my scalp. I look around and see a blue jay on a branch above me, getting ready to making another bombing sortie to drive me away from its nest. I pocket the phone and hurry away. If I were so inclined, I could use another app to tell Cornell and nearby birders that I’ve spotted a nesting blue jay trying to peck my eyes out in front of Colony Club. “how’s your balance?” Rauch asks me. We’re looking at a creek crossing that involves tightroping across a seven-foot stretch of dead branch. He’s says something reassuring about how he’s used this very log to cross a number of times before, and if I had been listening, here’s where I would insert that quote. But I’m not listening. I’m thinking of my phone and the rare and exotic Pokemon it could reveal to me in these woods. “It’s great,” I lie confidently. My phone is in
the car, so it’s just my pride that will be terminally waterlogged if I fall. We’re bushwhacking to a wetlands site in Northeast that’s under management and restoration for a year. Park management and city workers are in the process of periodically clearing out invasive plant species like Phragmites to allow native plants to come back to provide nesting sites. Depending on the result of the restoration, the wetland could be made into a park, or kept secreted away to give birds sanctuary. Rauch’s phone rings—an owl at the National Arboretum has fallen out of a tree and into a creek. We sprint back to the car (I hurl myself across the wobbly branch) and zip over to the site. We both wish there were a bird siren on top of this government-issue Impala. A raptor is in danger! To get to the owl, we have to wade through a field of wild grasses as high as my waist. It’s this type of meadow that’s an essential habitat—the nourishing seeds, the concealment from predators, the thick cover for ground nesting—and yet most likely to be mowed or developed outside of protected land. I’ve seen this type of meadow behind the fence at the Armed Forces Retirement Home, but it’s scheduled to be sold off to developers. It’s the type of wild meadow you can see at parts of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site, also in developers’ sights. It looks like an unkempt, overgrown lawn or an abandoned field. It looks like if you built a strip mall or a parking lot or a grocery store or a brewery over top of it, no one would ever remember what was here before the concrete was poured. Rauch wades into the creek to extract a recently fledged barred owl, a common species in the area. He says its stomach looks empty—it’s new to the world, and if a poor hunter misses a few meals, it can become too weak to fly. City Wildlife will feed and monitor it until it’s recovered enough to return to the Arboretum. This morning, I ran my own battery down to nothing while unsuccesfully hunting a Pokemon. My phone is now on its last legs. I have enough juice to take a picture of a biologist, drenched to his knees, using his phone to call up someone to feed a young owl as the bird angrily cracks its beak a few inches from his face. In the treetops above us, a chorus of birds chatters to alert the forest to the threats below. CP
The Last Pupper
Should you dine al fresco with your furry friend? By Andrew Giambrone a couple weeks ago, PoPville published a memo from Brookland Pint’s general manager about a dog on its patio biting a six-year-old boy on the leg. The little guy’s injury was apparently so bad (“bleeding,” “necessary first aid”) that Brookland Pint isn’t allowing pets anymore. If you have recently adopted a dog, this cautionary tale may give you pause before dining with it on a patio. Or taking it anywhere in public, for that matter. A little more than a year ago, I was in that
exact position. A new dog can be as affirming, and as daunting, as a new child: Will it be all right when it’s left alone? Will it behave when it’s out in public? Will it have an allergic reaction to peanut butter? Gradual exposure can be an effective way of gauging your furball’s social demeanor and assuaging your countless concerns. Instead of plunging right into a busy outdoor space, follow the proverbial tortoise’s sage advice of slow and steady wins the race. (h/t Aesop.) In other words, try having a friend over for dinner in your tiny (likely overpriced) apart-
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Duck! Duck, Goose! D.C. targets Canada geese in Anacostia Park. By Sarah Anne Hughes
ment first. Then—when you’re confident Fido won’t chew up any furniture—ask to bring your dog to said friend’s place. Your personal liability will be less, you can see how the pooch does in a new environment, and you can train it not to jump on people’s laps. If that advice sounds too rosy for you, take that of Drew Swift, the self-same general manager of Brookland Pint, who grew up with dogs and has worked in District restaurants for 18 years. Swift says that, generally speaking, most of his customers with dogs have been “solid pet owners,” who “don’t just bring them along as an accessory, attend to them, and pet to comfort them.” The woman who’d brought her 30pound rescue dog to the establishment’s patio, though, appeared not to be in control of the situation, Swift adds: She told him she’d just gotten it the day before. Swift says the June incident was the first time a customer’s dog had hurt another person. So why institute an outright ban on pets? “It’s not so much a legal issue as people deserve a safe space to eat and drink without having to worry about a pet biting them,” Swift argues. “That extends to my employees as well. So for me, [territorial animals] hadn’t been a problem before, but it’s reared its head now, and I have to act.” Michael Kraus, director of operations at Commune Hotels + Resorts, which oversees the pet-friendly Liaison Capitol Hill hotel and attached Art and Soul restaurant, has a different take. Kraus has two hound mixes, both rescues, one a few years older than the other. The Alexandria resident says he would never take the younger one to a restaurant patio because of the canine’s skittish temperament. While he believes that what happened at Brookland Pint is
an “unfortunate situation,” Art and Soul’s policy is that dogs be “leashed and under control.” On average, the restaurant sees one to five dogs on its patio at a time, Kraus says—except for special occasions like the first-ever dog-birthday party it held last summer. (“She booked the patio for her, and her friends, and their dogs. We had a dog masseuse. It was like a birthday party for a kid in every other way.”) When it comes to the rare, disruptive dog, Art and Soul’s guiding factor is discretion, he notes. The same goes for his employees: “On the off-chance that you have a non-dog-friendly person on staff, they should not be in a situation they don’t want. We’ll make alternative arrangements.” Officially, the D.C. Department of Health does not allow non-service and non-patrol dogs “on the premises of a food establishment.” But both Kraus and Swift say there’s little regular enforcement of the relevant statutes, making it a “gray area” in Swift’s thinking. “I personally have never been cited for pets and I do not know anyone who has been,” he says. D.C. is already a rather pet-friendly city, and as more pet-loving yuppies and DINKs move to the District, more pet-friendly patios and beer gardens (think Dacha) will likely open. Will dog bites happen every once in awhile? Of course. Here, common sense is your real best friend. “I would say on both the hospitality-manager and dog-owner side, it’s important to be aware of your surroundings and of the situation you’re in,” Kraus posits. “I feel like if everyone does that, then we don’t have any problems.” Or, as Swift explains: “If you have a new pet, know your pet and its tendencies well enough that it will behave.” CP
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Canada geese do not have many defenders. First of all, these birds’ poop—so, so much of it—ends up in and around local water sources. Then there’s the poop. Also the poop. Did I mention the poop? For the past several years, D.C. has debated what to do with a growing population of these non-migratory animals—majestic, wild creatures to some, invasive pests to others—as the District pushes to restore filthy waterways and wetlands made filthier by geese waste. The National Park Service hired a contractor to deploy a family-friendly method of goose control last year near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, adjacent sports fields, and on Washington Monument grounds: trained border collies. NPS spokeswoman Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles says the hazing by dog was a success and that NPS plans to renew the contract, although there’s no timeline for when the dogs will again be deployed. But for Anacostia Park, NPS has hatched a plan to gradually remove resident Canada geese through primarily lethal methods as part of a wetlands restoration project. “Over the past decade an increasing number of resident Canada geese have been observed in Anacostia Park,” NPS says in a release. “The abundance of food and the lack of predators in urban areas have allowed resident Canada goose populations to grow rapidly. As a result of the growing resident Canada goose population, the tidal marsh restoration efforts have been jeopardized.” In 2011, NPS released a draft of the goose management plan and a final one in 2014. This June, National Capital Regional Director Bob Vogel signed a Record of Decision on the birds’ fates: “People or remote control vehicles” will herd the geese into nets “in dry, flat areas away from roads or other hazards” during the summer months. (This timing will, presumably, spare migratory geese from the culling.) Handlers will then take the geese offsite to be euthanized. Some geese, “in exceptional cases,” may be shot. Eggs will also be oiled so they can’t hatch. NPS hopes to remove 40 to 60 percent of the resident birds within the first two years. “These actions have been used by federal, state, and local agencies for more than 15 years and have been proven to be the most effective and humane methods,” NPS says. Like the venison produced from the deer culled in Rock Creek Park, edible breast meat will be donated. The rest of the goose carcasses will head to landfills.
As part of the plan, NPS authorized the District Department of Energy & Environment to contract with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to carry out the goose control. DOEE says it supports the plan to target non-migratory geese in its Wildlife Action Plan, which has come under fire for proposing to use lethal methods against another invasive species: feral cats. “The wetland plant communities did not evolve to withstand the browse pressure typical of summer goose populations,” the agency says in the draft plan. “DOEE supports the full elimination of summer resident Canada goose populations. Winter-resident migratory Canada geese are not covered by these statements.” “It’s the easy answer,” says Scott Giacoppo of the Washington Humane Society, which opposes the use of lethal methods to control wild animal populations. “They’re not calling for a reduction, control,” he adds. They’re “calling for the complete eradication.” According to Giacoppo, DOEE’s stance toward non-migratory geese has already put animal control officers in a tough position. If they find an injured goose or orphaned-yethealthy goslings, they can’t take the birds to a wildlife rehabilitation facility like City Wildlife. “My guys are already under strict orders not to touch them,” Giacoppo says of the geese. City Wildlife receives $200,000 a year from DOEE, which, as a condition, prohibits the nonprofit from rehabilitating Canada geese between April 1 and Aug. 31. City Wildlife opposes lethal methods for wildlife population control, its President Anne Lewis says, and it’s offered to assist DOEE in egg oiling efforts. For this year, it’s apparently too late for: According to Anzelmo-Sarles, all capture and euthansia efforts in Anacostia Park have concluded for 2016. NPS plans to later announce how many geese were killed and how much food was subsequently donated. CP
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What it’s really like to be a food writer By Jessica Sidman On my first day at Washington City Paper, one of my colleagues asked me if I’d need to keep the secret phone line. Um, what secret phone line? My predecessors had used an incognito number to make restaurant reservations so that their names and the paper’s name wouldn’t come up on caller ID and give away their identities. I said no. After all, I was the first City Paper food editor to ditch reviews and forgo anonymity. In the age of Yelp and blogs, everyone’s a restaurant critic. What’s more valuable today is storytelling, news, and analysis. All over the country, the “anonymous” restaurant critic has become a dying breed. (If you go by the photos plastered in the back of any city’s kitchens, very few of them were truly anonymous to begin with.) Anonymity will be extinct within a generation. In recent years, writers for New York magazine, the Dallas Morning News, the Los Angeles Times, and other outlets have hung up their disguises and cut up their fake credit cards. I don’t count myself as part of that club, though, because I’ve never really considered myself a critic. I’m a journalist who’s tried to cover the restaurant scene like a crime reporter covers crime or a political reporter covers politics. This is surprisingly difficult to explain, because many still view food writers in a very two-dimensional way—you’re either awarding stars and complaining about the saltiness of the beet salad, or you’re testing recipes for and carefully arranging photos of a beet salad. So for my very last column at City Paper before I leave for Washingtonian, let me pull back the curtain a bit and share with you what it’s really like to be a food writer—warts and all. The food PR machine is more powerful than you know. I don’t think most readers realize the extent to which local and national food media coverage is driven by press releases, carefully orchestrated “exclusives,” and media dinners where restaurants treat professional writers and amateur bloggers alike to free, booze-fu-
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eled, often elaborate meals in the hopes that they will eventually have something nice to say. It’s not my intention to sound holier than thou—as much as I try to avoid it, I’ve been a cog in that wheel at times. And before I started at City Paper and had a food budget of my own, I used to regularly attend these media dinners. You might be surprised to learn that nearly all of D.C.’s food writers and editors have at some point in their careers. The fact is this can be an expensive beat to cover and few publications have the budgets to support it. We could argue about these practices all day, but what’s unfortunate is that they’re not made clear to the reader. You don’t typi-
cally know if a restaurant earned its way onto a list of the top five new brunch spots by hiring a publicist and inviting writers in for free meals. This isn’t to say gratis grub guarantees a story—the quid pro quo is rarely so clearcut—but the overarching result is that too often chefs and restaurateurs expect food writers to be their cheerleaders (or at least refrain from saying anything negative, which is just as bad). And while there’s plenty in the dining scene that deserves praise, too often we pick up the pom-poms. And for those restaurants who can’t afford— or dare refuse—to play this game? Some, like publicist-free Rose’s Luxury, can sustain
their own buzz. But more often, a middling restaurant with a cheap gimmick or generic menu that works the PR machine gets far more attention than a better restaurant that doesn’t. We all need to strive to change this. Most meals are mediocre. Most people have glamorous fantasies about the life of a food writer. Yes, the job sometimes includes extravagant tasting menus and sushi feasts, but more often, you’re eating overdone burgers and over-salted bolognese while desperately trying to flag down your server for a water refill. While the D.C. dining scene has improved by leaps and
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My husband and friends have been well trained not to touch their food until I get a quick pic. (Yes, I’m one of those people.) I’ve outlined my etiquette tips for taking photos in restaurants before, but it’s worth repeating. 1) Try to avoid flash. Eating at 5:30 p.m. helps with this! 2) Don’t spend too much time taking photos. You can get what you need in five seconds or less. I call this the “other five-second rule.” 3) Use a camera phone and leave your bulky DSLR at home. 4) Don’t post photos of your food on Instagram or Twitter while you’re still at the restaurant. Enjoy your freaking meal!
The best time to eat is 5:30 p.m. I can’t remember the last time I had dinner at 8 p.m. on a Friday night. I much prefer to eat like a senior citizen: 5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday. You can actually get a table without a reservation—key if you like to check out trendy new spots. The staff is also less likely to be harried, and you can actually hear your conversation without screaming. If I need a reservation at a place that’s booked, I use Rezhound. This is perhaps one of my best dining secrets. Let’s say I did want that 8 p.m. Friday table at Le Diplomate, but OpenTable shows it’s fully booked. I head to Rezhound.com, enter my desired time frame and contact info, and wait. The service runs bots through OpenTable and sends an email and text message if something opens up. Then I can immediately head to the reservation site and book a spot. Because people often cancel reservations last minute, this is a fairly effective way to get the most sought-after tables. There’s a right way to take photos of your food at a restaurant.
Sexism is subtle but pervasive in the dining room. I’m not sure how many times my husband and I have dined out only to have the server drop the check squarely in front of him, even though I’m paying. Other times, the staff will hand me the fruity, sparkling cocktail my husband ordered, or give him the hefty steak I ordered. And on at least one occasion, I’ve been the one to ask questions about the wine list and order a bottle, but then only my husband is poured the taste. Instances like this aren’t usually intentional but avoidable with good training. Just don’t get me started on “female-friendly” steakhouses and male chefs who think it’s acceptable to call a female reporter “darling.” The worst thing you can tell a food writer... “If I had your job, I’d weigh 300 pounds!” No need to remind us of the weight we’re constantly trying to keep off and the cholesterol level we’re trying to keep low. But seriously, this job is the best. I wouldn’t trade the past four years of cursing chefs, internet trolls, and calories for anything. CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to jsidman@washingtoncitypaper.com.
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what we ate last week: grandma’s zucchini bread with foie gras mousse, $15, Hazel. Satisfaction level: 3 out of 5 what we’ll eat next week: “Petworth special” breakfast, $12, Slim’s Diner. Excitement level: 4 out of 5
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Remember when the restaurant menu was familiar? When we all spoke the same language in discussing our latest dining conquests? (“The appetizers are better here, but the entrees are better there.”) Restaurants are making that more challenging not only because of cryptic portion sizes such as “family-style share small plates,” but also because menu categories have morphed from conventional to cutesy. Draw a line to match the restaurant with its menu categories. —Laura Hayes
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restaurants Ardeo + Bardeo 701 Restaurant Kyirisan Kinship Hazel EatBar
answers: Kyirisan: In the Ground, On the Ground, Under the Water; Kinship: Craft, History, Ingredients, Indulgence; Hazel: Breads and Batters; Ardeo + Bardeo: Earth, Grain, Sea, Land; Eat Bar: Snacky Things, Beasty Things, Green Things; 701 Restaurant: Bounty & Grain
’WichingHour Where: HipCityVeg, 712 7th St. NW, (202) 621-8057, hipcityveg.com Price: $10.65
Bread: Whole wheat long roll Thickness: 2 inches Pros: Freshly griddled mushrooms make this sandwich from the Philadelphia-based vegan fast-casual outlet much more savory, while the caramelized onions yield a pleasant sweetness. The slightly crunchy onions also provide some needed textural contrast. While the organic ketchup tastes more
Menu Categories Snacky Things Bounty & Grain Craft Land In The Ground Grain History Earth On The Ground Breads & Batters Ingredients Beasty Things Under The Water Indulgence Sea Green Things and turn to mush next to the heated fillings.
The Sandwich: Philly Steak
Stuffings: Pulled “steak,” grilled onion, mushroom, lettuce, tomato, organic ketchup
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like pasta sauce than Heinz, its sour flavor complements the salty “steak.” Cons: The faux meat, made of organic soy and grains, tastes too wheaty and becomes gummier as you slowly consume the heavy sandwich. In its brown gravy, it looks like mystery meat served in a prison cafeteria and has the texture of dry playdough. The lettuce and tomato, ingredients that should be highlighted at a non-meat restaurant, wilt
Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 5. Too many ingredients piled in a small, flimsy roll makes for a very messy sandwich that can barely be lifted to your mouth. As an added bonus, your hands will be covered with an oily film by the time you finish the sandwich. Overall score (1 to 5): 1.5. The sauce tastes great, but construction issues and gluey imitation meat render this sandwich almost inedible. Dump the steak, double up on the mushrooms and onions, and select a sturdier bread option, and this vegan experiment improves tenfold. —Caroline Jones
Allagash & New Belgium Fat Funk Ale Where in Town: Target, 3100 14th St. NW Price: $17.99/mixed 12-pack Happy Beerthday! When I was coming of (drinking) age in Colorado in the ’90s, New Belgium’s Fat Tire was the first “good beer” I ever had. So much has changed since then, both with the availability of different beers and the continuous evolution of my palate, that Fat Tire—a first love—doesn’t excite me as it once did. Still, New Belgium’s first flagship is one of the most commercially successful beers ever made, and one that helped inspire the revolution in American brewing. So it’s fitting that the Fort Collins brewery, now fourth largest in the nation, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a mixed “Fat Tire and Friends” 12-pack consisting of the original amber ale alongside recreations from five breweries: Maine’s Allagash, Oregon’s Hopworks, Colorado’s Avery, California’s Firestone Walker, and Ohio’s Rhinegeist. A New Strain Given that New Belgium’s founding brewer first conceived of Fat Tire while on a bike ride through Belgium, the brewers at Allagash elected to riff on the beer’s roots. The resulting Fat Funk Ale shares its predecessor’s deep amber color but is topped with the thick, frothy cream head of a Belgian tripel. Made from the same malt and hops as the original, Allagash’s remake carries a similar biscuity malt backbone and grassy hop bite. But the use of yeast from West Flanders’ De Dolle brewery imparts notes of banana, pear, pepper, and clove that are unique—as is the beer’s subtle funkiness, thanks to bottle conditioning with Allagash’s house strain of Brettanomyces. Ultimately, the 5.6-percent-alcohol Fat Funk is a fullerflavored version of its mild-mannered forerunner and a fun brew to try for those of you who, like me, appreciate Fat Tire as a formative beer. —Tammy Tuck
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Twenty-First Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival July 15–August 7 For more information and the complete festival schedule,
visit asia.si.edu/films The Mermaid (3D screening) Saturday, July 23, 2 pm
Old-schOOl Kung Fu dOuble Feature Saturday, August 6
The Blade
Ten Years
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Sunday, July 24, 2 pm
A Terra-Cotta Warrior
Office (3D screening) Saturday, July 30, 2 pm
Ip Man 3 Sunday, July 31, 2 pm
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Happiness (world premiere) Friday, July 15, 7 pm
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Living the Dream
On the debut records from The Black Sparks and SOMNIA, DIY and community camaraderie transcend time, space, and dreams. The Black Sparks The Black Sparks Tape Modulator
How the Moon Shines on the Shit SOMNIA Rumbletowne Records By Dan Trombly A group of teenagers releasing an album on tape is the bread and butter of punk and hardcore. But few such bands have released one with as much anticipation as The Black Sparks have received for their release. In roughly a decade of playing shows and recording music—beginning when some of its members were younger than 10—the Bethesda-based band has evolved from grade-schoolers jamming in their parents’ basements to high-schoolers and graduates who have played Fort Reno and opened for nationally renowned punk acts. On its selftitled debut album, recorded in 2014 at Arlington’s storied Inner Ear Studios, the young band packs years of its members’ deep engagement with the D.C.-area DIY music scene into a post-hardcore album deeply engaging in its own right. While any band with young members steeped in the tradition of D.C. hardcore invites an inevitable Minor Threat comparison, it undersells The Black Sparks’ ambition and execution. Make no mistake, listeners expecting high-tempo blasts of bile and pit-worthy breakdowns will get them on The Black Sparks’ “Plastic Cards” and “Anticlap,” but they’ll also hear the experimentation expected from a punk band that has played together for years. Frenetic hardcore is never out of vogue, but most of The Black Sparks’ songs embrace the evolution and genre-blurring curiosity of D.C. hardcore greats as much as the genre’s classic origins. “ST Rawberries” offers dub-inspired post-punk passages, while “Run Through the Streets” embraces the tempo changes and dynamics of dramatic post-hardcore. It fades seamlessly into the anthemic “Not For Me,” a song with gang vocals and hooks that ends with a trippy, jazzy horn-accompanied instrumental outro. On the album, it’s clear the band’s time at Inner Ear accomplished two things: The studio captured the energy of The Black Sparks’ ferocious, reputation-building live shows; and the band got the chance to expand on concepts in its songs without worrying about the limitations that a borrowed sound system in a sweat-soaked community space can sometimes impose. The album was produced by Kevin Erickson and engineered by Hugh McElroy—who played in the seminal earlyaughts D.C. experimental post-hardcore band Black Eyes— giving the album the same studio pedigree as Priests’ 2014
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classic Bodies and Control and Money and Power. While its selftitled album may have been years in the making, the creativity and talent on display serves as fair warning that, whether as part of The Black Sparks or other projects, these musicians are just getting started. unlike The Black Sparks, SOMNIA’s How the Moon Shines on the Shit has a shorter origin story, albeit a more geograph-
ically expansive one, spanning from the DIY communities of the city of Washington to the state of Washington. David Combs and Erica Freas, respectively members of acclaimed pop-punk outfits The Max Levine Ensemble and RVIVR, have produced a rousing album rooted in the concepts of lucid dreaming and liminal consciousness. The two musicians are joined by a backing band that features RVIVR members Mattie Jo Canino on bass, Joey Seward on keys, and drummer washingtoncitypaper.com july 15, 2016 29
CPArts Josef Belluci. While playing shows and touring together provided the practical foundation for Combs and Freas’ collaboration, the album’s concept was originally loftier than the already imaginative result. Hoping to wring subconscious songs into waking form, the two strove to employ lucid dreaming techniques to synchronize their dreams and collaborate not just across the continent but on another plane of consciousness. Unsurprisingly, SOMNIA’s songs ultimately had to emerge from electromagnetic rather than esoteric communication, but the resulting album does not suffer from the conscious applications of its creators’ talents. While “dream pop” is a wellestablished subgenre and “dreamy” music is often synonymous with hazy, soft sounds and languid tempos, SOMNIA’s nocturnal preoccupations manifest themselves in driving, urgent songs. This is, after all, a poppunk album, and one concerned with
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using dreams to interrogate reality. The album’s opener, “The Double Life of Ernest C. Croswell,” starts with stark drum hits, and its vocals are unobscured as Freas and Combs recount the telltale signs of dream reality (like “faceless neighbors” and wordless newspapers) as they search for “another language to explore.” Beyond the vocal and guitar work fans of Combs and Freas have come to expect, SOMNIA’s sonic palette includes some elements that seem particularly well-suited to its conceptual subject matter. There are audio snippets from discussions of nightmare creatures and lucid dreaming techniques on “Psychic Vampires” and interlude “Dream a Little Dream.” Seward’s keys provide an ethereal touch to enhance the funereal quality of “Death Blows” and the consciousnessliberating aspirations of “Another Night.” In closing track “(The Double Life Of ) Ed Clairborne,” SOMNIA reflects on the frustrations and rewards of its attempts to extract melodies and meanings from dreams. “I’m hoping that I might find the messages that filter through my mind/ The good, the hard, the words that I can’t find/ I never learned that song though I did try.” Although SOMNIA may feel the need to disclose the shortcomings of its subconscious adventures, it can rest confident that it’s still managed to produce an album that will captivate conscious listeners. CP Listen to The Black Sparks and How the Moon Shines on the Shit at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.
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Read our coverage from this year’s Capital Fringe Festival. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts
Fringeworthy Select reviews from this year’s Capital Fringe Festival
AS IT WERE and/or WHAT (ever) DOESN’T MATTER They say: The terrifying story of a human female trying to find love, occupation and yoga in a sinister company surrounded by holographic projections, threatening memories and/or simulated humanoid robots bent on lust, conspiracy, suicide, alcoholism, domination and mind bending erotic arguments. Our take: Stephen Notes’ experimental play uses loose plot to explore themes like relationships and technology. Throughout much of it, time stands still while the main character, Chelsea (Chuthachinee Juntranggur), relives memories or thinks out loud. But these reveries are hard to follow and poorly tied to the action with the other characters, making Chelsea’s examination of the play’s main themes unsatisfying. See it if: You like plays that don’t necessarily make sense. Skip it if: You like to walk away from a play feeling a sense of catharsis. —Becky Little
Perfect Liars Club
Amelia Earhart… In Space!
They say: Four storytellers. Four unbelievable stories. Three are true. One is not. Listen. Laugh. Interrogate. Vote. Can you spot the liar?
They say: Amelia Earhart is alive and well and living on Neptune! After her plane crashes in outer space, Amelia must team up with some of history’s greatest heroes to uncover an evil alien conspiracy. Based on a true story.
Our take: This show is great for people who like bar games (in fact, it is a bar game, since the Perfect Liars Club holds shows every month at Bier Baron). And hearing people’s stories is only half the fun—the other half is the way the show makes you evaluate, decide, then second-guess yourself and start all over again. See it if: You like guessing games and/or The Moth podcast. Skip it if: You just want to see a traditional play (no hate). —Becky Little July 16 and July 20 at MLK Library
Our take: While the play is not exactly a, uh, true story, the playwright John Nicholas Walsh makes fun of the way history remembers the Earhart tale. Fair warning: There is splash zone seating. See it if: You like over-the-top action comedies. Skip it if: You don’t appreciate dumb humor. —Robin Eberhardt July 15, July 16, July 17, and July 23 at Logan Fringe Arts Space
GLACIER: A Climate Change Ballet They say: Dancers ripple, crack, and plunge— embodying the science behind icecap collapse—in discrete segments inspired by different types of polar ice. Our take: GLACIER leaves viewers with a sentimental message about the natural world in danger due to global warming. The full performance shows a romantic landscape of the Arctic environment—reminding viewers of the real magic being lost as climate change deteriorates the ice caps. See it if: You like ballet and nature. Skip it if: You get bored without dialogue. —Robin Eberhardt July 16 and July 17 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center Read more Fringe reviews at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/fringeworthy.
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GhostMorteM Ghostbusters
Directed by Paul Feig The all-new Ghostbusters arrives with enough baggage to rival the weight of a nuclear proton pack. When Sony announced plans to remake the classic 1984 sci-fi comedy with four female leads, they launched a pre-release narrative that would feature more twists and turns than an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Progressives cheered the decision as an important rebuke of Hollywood sexism. Meanwhile, the loudest and whiniest fanboys cried foul, citing the sanctity of the original film. The backlash had its own backlash, and all of a sudden, purchasing a ticket to Ghostbusters became more than a choice in entertainment. It was now a political act. Thankfully, the movie itself requires a more nuanced perspective from the viewer, as both the benefits and the drawbacks of identity-driven commercial filmmaking are on display. First, the good: On a micro level, Ghostbusters is refreshingly sensitive to women in ways that few blockbusters are. Consider a small but meaningful moment early on when Erin (Kristen Wiig), a chemistry professor up for tenure at Columbia University, receives a stern warning from her dean (Charles Dance) that inexplicably includes a comment on her outfit. There’s also an exchange about the perils of reading internet comments that, given the firestorm that erupted when a male blogger recently announced he was boycotting the film, feels downright prophetic. Unfortunately, these feminist touches are only skin deep, and the filmmakers fail to create a story that is truly borne out of the female experience (like Feig and Wiig did in 2011’s Bridesmaids). The film is not indebted to its women; it’s indebted only to the original Ghostbusters. Erin and her estranged friend and partner Abby (Melissa McCarthy) team up with a weirdo geek (Kate McKinnon) and a streetwise New Yorker (Leslie Jones) to tack-
le the city’s burgeoning epidemic of the supernatural. From there, watching the film is an exercise in remembrance, an experience more likely to produce a knowing chuckle than an outright laugh. Examples: The opening scare, set at a historical home, might as well be the New York Public Library, and the team’s first job—at a haunted rock concert— feels eerily similar to the original’s hotel sequence, right down to the effete concierge who shows them around. Still, with this many funny people in a frame, laughs are inevitable, and Ghostbusters produces enough of them to exceed the low standards set by this particular summer movie season. Weirdly, Chris Hemsworth gets the most chuckles as the team’s unfailingly stupid but hunky assistant (a throwaway bit about a dog named “Michael Hat” might be the biggest laugh in the whole movie). In contrast, the script consistently undermines the brilliant Wiig and McCarthy. Their characters are so frighteningly underwritten (I couldn’t tell you a single thing about McCarthy’s scientist) that they seem more like plug-and-play figures in a larger Hollywood scheme than believable humans. The feminist dog-whistles are nice, but what would really elevate Ghostbusters would be decent characterization. Instead, we watch as two of the funniest actresses of their generation are straightjacketed by a franchise created by men. Thankfully, at least one of these weird, wonderful women gets to strut her stuff. As Holtzmann, the group’s oddball tech expert, McKinnon gives a star-making performance that is both uniquely hilarious and distinctly female. Male comedy stars tend to go one of two directions, either incessantly mugging (Jim Carrey) or purposefully not trying at all (Seth Rogen), but McKinnon opts for a lowkey intensity that feels at once both extraterrestrial and warmly human. She’s a brief glimmer of what Ghostbusters should have been. The film around her should have been truly brought back to life or allowed to rest in peace. —Noah Gittell Ghostbusters opens Friday at theaters everywhere.
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Make aMerica Grate aGain You’ve Been Trumped Directed by Anthony Baxter
DonalD Trump is a lying, hubris-drenched bully. But you knew that already, didn’t you? Which is why this small re-release of Anthony Baxter’s 2011 documentary is a little puzzling. The film, which was Baxter’s feature debut, follows the planning and initial construction of “the world’s greatest golf course” in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Trump is as boastful as ever as he courts the press, claiming that he’s essentially doing the area a favor. Everybody supports him! Except they don’t. The handful of residents near the soon-to-be-plowed dunes have lived there for decades. And one, a farmer and fisherman named Michael Forbes, isn’t selling. “I happen to be a very truthful person,” the Donald tells the media. “[Forbes’] property is terribly maintained. It’s slumlike. It’s disgusting… He lives like a pig.” And Trump didn’t want that disgusting slum ruining the view of his resort’s guests. Another thing that had to go is the wind farm. When he looks out onto the water, Trump says, “I want to see the ocean. I don’t want to see windmills.” Yet he claimed that he had “tremendous” support from environmental groups. It’s no surprise that one environmentalist countered that he knew of no credible organizations who backed the project. You’ve Been Trumped, in fact, has no surprises at all. The real estate mogul’s money allows for security to watch over the construction site, not only shooing away cameras but arresting Baxter himself when he asks the police some questions and gets a bit belligerent after their strong-arming. An early tour of the golf course is for “invited press only.” Trump asks, and Trump doth receives.
Such antics are now expected from the former reality-TV star who is more on the international radar than ever as the presumptive Republican candidate for president of the United States. (Just ask the Washington Post, whose credentials Trump revoked in June.) The film proves that Trump was appalling five years ago—and, let’s be honest, going back much further than that—before his foray into politics morphed from a joke to a threat. Meanwhile, the citizens of Aberdeenshire are shown mostly shaking their heads and pointing to what used to be where. And Baxter—who’s identified in the film as a “legal historian and land rights expert”—leans heavily on the sentimentality, using a piece of music that may as well be titled “These Are the People to Weep For.” (Trump doesn’t get a soundtrack, but one imagines Baxter would choose “The Imperial March.”) In addition to feeling needless and redundant in 2016, You’ve Been Trumped is awfully slow and relatively superficial. It’s Good Guy versus Bad Guy, with too little input from the area’s officials. (And, weirdly, you often can’t understand the Good Guy with the thick brogue, while English speakers without accents are occasionally subtitled.) But there’s plenty of filler, including photos of an elderly resident’s fisherman father and spliced-in scenes from a 1983 Burt Lancaster movie called Local Hero. (Its story does parallel Trump’s, but it still feels unnecessary.) Looking at Baxter’s subsequent filmography, it’s clear that he’s obsessed with this topic: His 2014 documentary, A Dangerous Game, explores how heavy-hitting developers like Trump use golf as a means to trample on livedon land and abuse its ecosystem, and his 2015 release, Dark Side of the Greens, is essentially a follow-up to You’ve Been Trumped and additionally looks at other natural parcels that are being threatened with resort development. Now that Trump-related environmental damage is only one of many, many concerns about the man, perhaps Baxter will widen his view to include other issues instead of repeating himself. —Tricia Olszewski You’ve Been Trumped opens Friday at Angelika Pop-Up.
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Sock PulPit Hand to God
By Robert Askins Directed by Joanie Schultz At Studio Theatre to Aug. 7 To make puppeT sex funny is easy. To move us with felt-creature coitus takes skill. Liam Forde and Caitlin Collins are due major credit for sharing a touching conversation as Jason and Jessica—acquaintances in the youth ministry of a suburban Houston church—while the alter egos attached to their hands perform unspeakable (but mimable, evidently) acts of animal passion in Hand to God, a multi-Tonynominated Broadway comedy getting its first regional production as part of Studio’s anything-goes X series. What’s true of that uproarious scene is true of 30-something Texan Robert Askins’ play as a whole: It’s loud and lewd and irreverent and howlingly funny, but there’s a sympathy to the writing that tempers its pitched godlessness. That’s no small feat when the subject is a possible case of demonic possession and the way this frightening episode ripples through five separately struggling members of Mount Logan Lutheran Church of Cypress, Texas. The playwright, as well as the simpatico cast that director Joanie Schultz has wrangled (including her fellow Chicagoans Collins and Ryan McBride, both in their Studio debuts), lampoon their characters’ frailties but never mock them for their faith. Because the culture wars reduce the warriors on all sides to lame stereotypes, we keep waiting for Pastor Greg (the ever-reliable Tim Getman, in another one of the needled-niceguy roles at which he excels) to be unmasked as a fathead hypocrite. “I know you’re a wounded thing that needs to be cared for,” he tells Jason’s mom, Margery, who’s been struggling to hold it together since her husband died some
months earlier. But Askins opts for the more surprising choice to make the lonely priest overbearing but ultimately decent. He remains committed to tending his flock even when they don’t seem to like him much. Pastor Greg is as baffled as anyone when the shy Jason appears to start channeling his angry, horny, aggressive id through Tyrone, the orange puppet he’s made for an upcoming church performance. Has the kid suffered a psychotic break, or is his hand actually possessed like Bruce Campbell’s in Evil Dead 2? There’s a prologue and epilogue that would seem to stack the deck on that question. What’s clear is that Forde handles his dual role beautifully, wearing shock and revulsion of on his face even while lining Tyrone’s voice with menace. Meanwhile, Margery struggles with a destructive attraction to dumb, swaggering Timothy (McBride)—a few years older than Jason, but still far too young for the type of recreation he and Margery are getting up to. Susan Rome is often cast as the hectoring voice of authority, so to see her playing a character in free-fall is a real treat. Along with game participants Rome and McBride, fight director Robb Hunter deserves a ceremonial set of golden knee pads for the show’s other big banging scene, this one played in the middle of the floor. Oh, right: Set designer Daniel Conway has made over Studio’s fourth-floor black box into a church activity room, the walls lined with board games, plush toys, and cloying pastel posters bearing evangelical slogans. The audience sits at tables festooned with sock-puppet materials (arrive early and you can build one). An in-the-house concession booth offers baked treats as well as the kind of drinks not served at most daytime church functions— certainly not at the youth ministry. Scenes unfold at stages on three sides of the room and everywhere in between, so there are no bad seats. Like the Devil himself, Hand to God is all around you. —Chris Klimek 1501 14th St. NW. $45 – $65. (202) 332-3300.
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GalleriesSketcheS
History receded “Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection”
At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, on view permanently EarliEr this month, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered a significant speech. It was long for an official who left 10 Downing Street almost 10 years ago. He spoke for an hour and 49 minutes, protesting the 2.6 million word conclusions of the Chilcot report, a 12-volume investigation just released by the U.K.’s Iraq Inquiry Committee—an indictment seven years in the making. History at that volume is hard to fathom. It is even harder to depict—or consume. Greater truth may lie in the other direction, orthogonal to facts and figures, in the abstract. An example now hangs in D.C.: “Five Nights,” a set of prints by Reynier Leyva Novo. “Five Nights” measures the manifestos of five of the most influential authoritarians in history—Lenin, Hitler, Castro, Mao, and Gaddafi—by mapping out the ink required to produce them. The only thing that “Five Nights” is missing as a perfect political commentary for our present predicament is a black square measuring the ink poured into one of Saddam Hussein’s romance novels. Novo’s simple but severe prints hang in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s Lerner Room, which overlooks federal Washington. At a time when Blair is defending his decision to depose Hussein—while U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump defends Hussein himself—Novo’s piece condenses dark arguments into bare truths. “Five Nights” is on view as part of “Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection,” the first take on the permanent collection by chief curator Stéphane Aquin. It may be the most political exhibition of collection works that the museum has ever mounted, although it won’t beat viewers over the head with politics. There are some old friends on view, most notably Ron Mueck’s “Untitled (Big Man)” (2000), the Hirshhorn’s fat, bald, glowering mascot, as well as some new friends to be made, namely Eduardo Basualdo’s “The End of Ending” (2012), a vast paper boulder that viewers will experience by edging around its perimeter. Other works are subtler than these two giants, though. The show is an argument for ambiguity and anxiety in an era of extremes. “Masterworks,” which occupies the outer ring of the Hirshhorn’s third-floor, proceeds in two loose semi-cycles. The show is partly historical and partly thematic; Aquin’s attention shifts gallery by gallery. One room, for example, pairs up works by Willem de Kooning with pieces by Alberto Giacometti, a mini-survey contrasting these two mid-century masters. Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, and the lesser-known George Rickey go in for similar
“Two Women in the Country” by Willem de Kooning (1954) in-depth examinations. Yet another gallery is centered around acts of destruction. It includes Héctor Zamora’s “O Abuso da História” (2014), a video in which potted plants rain down from overhead balconies into the central courtyard of São Paulo’s Hospital Matarazzo, as well as Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “World Trade Center” (1997), a photo so ominous that someone along the Bush–Blair axis could have cited it as casus belli. Still another room focuses on anxious experiments in form, with sculptures by Mona Hatoum, Louise Bourgeois, and Rachel Whiteread alongside a major triptych by Joan Mitchell. (Aquin says that it’s a coincidence that all the artists in this gallery are women.) Two works at the end of the survey draw the whole permanent-collection hanging together. One is Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” (1967), a classical sculpture in white plaster that faces a mound of colorful fabric. The piece embraces contradictory impulses in art and history, acknowledging a rejection of the classical framework of beauty without condemning the spirit of mass consumption that has supplanted it. The other is Edward Hopper’s “Eleven A.M.” (1926), a painting of a woman, nude and sickly wan, seated and staring out a window at a sight unseen. Other works in the show may draw more admirers (especially a pair of unspeakably beautiful Van Gogh–style portraits by Francis Bacon), but these works are the Hirshhorn’s state-of-the-union address. As we look backward as a nation, unable to make sense of the past, we also look outward toward an ominous future. Hopper and Pistoletto’s artworks are powerful antidotes to the potion that was popular 25 years ago: that we had reached the end of history and transcended it. Francis Fukuyama and others who sold the idea are now exposed. Here and now, in 2016, with fascism trending and global unions de-coupling, history looms large again, as large as it ever has. Great artworks remind us that history never ends. Powerful artworks give us an opportunity to try to learn what went wrong the first time. —Kriston Capps 700 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 633-4674. hirshhorn.si.edu.
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Brett Dennen w/ Esmé Patterson .................................................................. Th 21 No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Brian Billion ...F 22 .
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Super Furry Animals w/ Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band ............ Sa 23 Swans w/ Okkyung Lee ..................................................................................... Th 28 Femi Kuti and The Positive Force w/ DJ Diaspora .................................. F 29 Drop Electric & Tone w/ The Sea Life & Janel and Anthony ....................... Sa 30
Shinedown w/ Halestorm • Black Stone Cherry • Whiskey Myers ....................AUGUST 10 O.A.R. w/ Eric Hutchinson & The Hunts ..................................................................AUGUST 13 Train w/ Andy Grammer ...............................................................................................AUGUST 20 Miranda Lambert w/ Kip Moore & Brothers Osborne .....................................AUGUST 25
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BROODS w/ Jarryd James .................................................................................. M 1 Boris performing Pink w/ Earth & Sh*tstorm .................................................Th 4 Us the Duo w/ Gardiner Sisters ..........................................................................F 5 Better Than Ezra ............................................................................................Su 7 Dr. Dog .................................................................................................W 10 & Th 11 L7 .......................................................................................................................... F 12 Belly .................................................................................................................. Sa 13 Honne w/ JONES ...............................................................................................Su 14 Toad the Wet Sprocket & Rusted Root w/ Daisie Ghost Flower ............ F 19 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All-90s Band .................................................... Sa 20 The Bangles w/ Cardiac .................................................................................Su 21 Skye & Ross from Morcheeba ................................................................. Th 25 Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Brian Billion .F 26 FIERCE COLLABO PRESENTS
DNA After Dark - Hip Hop Choreographers Showcase 18+ to enter. ...........Su 28 Banks & Steelz (Paul Banks & RZA) ...........................................................W 31 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
The Claypool Lennon Delirium w/ Marco Benevento ..............................Th 1 Television ..........................................................................................................Tu 6 of Montreal w/ Ruby the Rabbitfoot ...................................................................W 7 Dinosaur Jr. w/ Cloud Nothings .......................................................................Th 8 Echo & The Bunnymen ...................................................................................F 9 Marian Hill w/ Vérité & Shaed ........................................................................ Sa 10 Peaches ............................................................................................................Su 11
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AMP by StrAthMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Nighthawks. 8 p.m. $20–$30. ampbystrathmore.com. Acre 121 1400 Irving St. NW. (202) 328-0121. The Boss Chiefs. 10 p.m. $5. acre121.com. blAck cAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Hey Mercedes, The World Is a Beautiful Place..., Prawn. 8 p.m. $16. blackcatdc.com. coMet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. The Stents, The Fuss, The Jennifers. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.
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rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Handsome Hound, Run Come See, Peyote Pilgrim. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u Street MuSic hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Mike Cooley. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.
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9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Pop That: A 2000 & Now Dance Party with Mathias and Friends. 9 p.m. $10. 930.com. Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Wig & Disco. 10:30 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.
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kenneDy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. MuSic center At StrAthMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Evermay Chamber feat. Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras of Strathmore. 7:30 p.m. $15. strathmore.org.
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gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Slim Stevens featuring Jessie Fenton. 8 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com. hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Ray Wylie Hubbard. 9:30 p.m. $22–$35. hillcountrywdc.com.
Jazz
blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marcus Johnson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com. Mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Lionel Lyles. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. nAtionAl gAllery of Art SculPture gArDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 737-4215. Origem. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.
2047 9th Street NW located next door to 9:30 club
twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Kelly Shepherd and Nomad Stories. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.
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echoStAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Knife Party. 9 p.m. $30. echostage.com.
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CITY LIGHTS: Friday
“PriNcE aNd othEr dEPartEd lEgENds”
When a superstar from the world of music like Prince or David Bowie dies, bands and DJs spring into action with covers and setlists. The tributes come more gradually from visual artists, who may owe just as much of their own ideas to the influence of performing artists (these two celestials especially). So why should musicians get to have all the catharsis? “Prince and Other Departed Legends,” assembled by Civilian Art Projects, is a rare and welcome thing—a group art show devoted to the artists who died this year. At a (superficial) glance, some of the influence is easy to see, or at least guess at. Katie Macyshyn is one of D.C.’s spunkiest artists, Joseph Orzal one of its least reverent. I see Prince in both of them. There is more ironic remove in the works of both Nilay Lawson and Ryan Hill, two artists who used to call D.C. home, so I’d align them more closely with Bowie. No one fucks strictly with one or the other, of course—what kind of world would we have, to have to choose?—so plenty of the tributes by the 20-odd participating artists are bound to speak to both legends or more. Here’s hoping that someone involved is a Merle Haggard fan. The exhibition opens at 7 p.m. at Civilian Art Projects, 4718 14th St. NW. Free. civilianartprojects.com. —Kriston Capps flASh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Josh Wink. 8 p.m. $5–$15. flashdc.com. u Street MuSic hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Magda, Navbox. 10:30 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.
FuNk & r&B
betheSDA blueS AnD JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band. 8 p.m. $20–$25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Phil Perry. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere. com. gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Movement, Signal Fire, Feel Free. 9 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com. howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Tarrus Riley, Dean Fraser and the Blak Soil Band. 9 p.m. $25–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.
saturday rock
9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Girls Rock! DC 2016 Showcase. 10 a.m. $10. Jack and Amanda Palmer, Thor and Friends. 6 p.m. $30. 930.com. Acre 121 1400 Irving St. NW. (202) 328-0121. Sub-Radio Standard. 10 p.m. acre121.com.
blAck cAt bAckStAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Technophobia, Heretics in the Lab, Semita Serpens. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. coMet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. The Seth Bogart Show, Pearie Sol. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com. Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The National Parks, Jenn Blosil. 7 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Skip Castro Band. 8 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com. the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Speakers of the House. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. MArtin luther king Jr. MeMoriAl librAry 901 G St. NW. (202) 727-0321. Coup Sauvage & the Snips, Horse Lords. Noon. Free. dclibrary.org/mlk. MerriweAther PoSt PAvilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Vans Warped Tour. 11 a.m. $41.50–$50. merriweathermusic.com. rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. White Ford Bronco. 8 p.m.; 11:30 p.m. $22.50. rockandrollhoteldc.com. StAte theAtre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church. (703) 237-0300. Pandora’s Box. 9 p.m. $12–$15. thestatetheatre.com.
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blAck cAt bAckStAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Common People: ‘90s Alt-Pop and Hip Hop Dance Party with DJ lil’e. 9:30 p.m. $7. blackcatdc.com. Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Peach Pit: A Gay Dance Party. 10:30 p.m. $5–$8. dcnine.com.
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howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Rakim, Tray Chaney. 11 p.m. $26–$46. thehowardtheatre.com.
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echoStAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Raul Romero, Mar de Copas. 7:30 p.m. $25.20. echostage.com.
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iotA club & cAfé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Curtis McMurtry. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.
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Mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 546-8412. Anita King. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Kelly Shepherd and Nomad Stories. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.
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flASh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Prosumer, Solomon Sanchez. 8 p.m. $5–$10. flashdc.com. u Street MuSic hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. REV909: Daft Punk/French House Tribute with Will Eastman and Ozker. 10 p.m. $10–$12. ustreetmusichall.com.
FuNk & r&B
DAr conStitution hAll 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Monica, Melanie Fiona, Avant, Team Familiar. 7 p.m. $25–$150. dar.org. MuSic center At StrAthMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Brian McKnight. 8 p.m. $45–$95. strathmore.org.
the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Dailey & Vincent. 8 p.m. $22.50–$39.50. thehamiltondc.com.
wArner theAtre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. Mint Condition. 8 p.m. $65–$125. warnertheatredc.com.
hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Ray Wylie Hubbard. 9:30 p.m. $22–$35. hillcountrywdc.com.
suNday
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betheSDA blueS AnD JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Joe Clair and Friends. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Gotobeds, Birth (Defects), Bested. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine. com.
blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marcus Johnson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com.
gAlAxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 525-8646. Santics, Numbers Station. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.
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couP sauVagE & thE sNiPs
Sonically, D.C./Maryland neo-soul group Coup Sauvage & The Snips and Baltimore experimental noise band Horse Lords don’t share much in common. The former sings dance-floor ready jams about gentrification in D.C. and the consequences of touching one’s hair, while the latter is more concerned with fractal rhythms and microtonal drone. But both bands share one thing in common: They both use music to confront and question convention. Descended from the “Haus of Sauvage” in Ward 9 (Prince George’s County), Coup Sauvage & The Snips “play music that is celebratory and revelatory. Accusatory and against authority. Confrontational and informational. A soundtrack for the children to watch the first-world burn,” according to promotional notes. And on its latest album, Interventions, Horse Lords deconstruct music and rhythm as we know it, and piece it back together like polyrhythmic Legos. It’s a weird bill—especially for a daytime show in a public library— but it weirdly makes sense. Coup Sauvage & the Snips perform with Horse Lords at noon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. (202) 7270321. dclibrary.org/mlk. —Matt Cohen 38 july 15, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com
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Vocal
boSSA biStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. C’est Si Bon featuring Alexandre Abdoulaev and Annelise Delcambre. 8 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.
dJ Nights
SAuf hAuS 1216 18th St. NW. (202) 466-3355. Party for Pulse: OneOrlando Dance Party Fundraiser. Noon. Free. saufhausdc.com.
classical
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PETER ESKRINE
ACCOMPANIED BY DAVE DAMIANI & NO VACANCY ORCHESTRA
kenneDy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
BluEs
wolf trAP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Tedeschi Trucks Band. 7 p.m. $25–$70. wolftrap.org.
Jazz
blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marcus Johnson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $27.50–$32.50. bluesalley.com.
CHOPTEETH AFROFUNK BIG BAND JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS
twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Justin Lees. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.
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FuNk & r&B
howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. The Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Show. 8 p.m. $12–$35. thehowardtheatre.com.
rock
coMet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Dikembe, Slingshot Dakota, The Rememberables. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.
gAlAxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 525-8646. James Green, We Capillaries. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.
classical
kenneDy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Prelude. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
couNtry
birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Margo Price, Sam Lewis. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.
Jazz
blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. Fairfax Wind Symphony Summer Jazz Ensemble. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.
tuEsday rock
birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Beth Hart, Matt Andersen. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com. blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. Michael Bowie’s BLAST. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Dear Creak, Boketto the Wolf, Karla Bartholomew. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com. kenneDy center concert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops with the Beach Boys. 8 p.m. $29–$109. kennedy-center.org. villAin & SAint 7141 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 800-4700. Katherine C. H. E. 8 p.m. $9–$15. villainandsaint.com.
ACCOMPANIED BY DAVE DAMIANI & NO VACANCY ORCHESTRA
REBUILD WEST VIRGINIA FLOOD RELIEF BENEFIT
MOLLY RINGWALD
ACCOMPANIED BY DAVE DAMIANI & NO VACANCY ORCHESTRA
THE CHUCK BROWN BAND THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS FEATURING KIM WILSON + THE BOBBY THOMPSON PROJECT
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gWEN stEFaNi
At first glance, the cover of Gwen Stefani’s new album This Is What the Truth Feels Like resembles a portrait of Madonna. But it’s not Madonna’s look that Stefani borrows from most on her first album in a decade—it’s her gift for reinvention. After releasing the influential, boundary-blurring Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004 and finding diminishing returns with 2006’s The Sweet Escape, Stefani put her solo career on hold to raise kids, play with her band, No Doubt, and join the cast of The Voice. She teased a solo comeback in 2014, but scrapped an entire record before finding the real-life inspiration that would fuel her new album: her divorce from Gavin Rossdale and a new romance with Voice co-star Blake Shelton. Stefani joined forces with songwriters Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels—basically the Carole King and Gerry Goffin of millennial pop music—and a handful of hitmakers for an album that filters the best parts of her music through the same song machine that produces hits for Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. The resulting album bounds from disco-pop to heartbroken ballads to rap–R&B hybrids, cribbing from contemporary sounds while remaining true to Stefani’s catalog with a deftness that would make Madonna jealous. Gwen Stefani performs with Eve at 7 p.m. at Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. $19.95–$85. (703) 754-6400. livenation.com. —Chris Kelly
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FuNk & r&B
blAck cAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Azealia Banks. 7:30 p.m. $30. blackcatdc.com.
World
3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA • 703-549-7500
kenneDy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Democratoz. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
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rock
9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Brett Dennen, Esme Patterson. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.
hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Fort Defiance. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.
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“Until Next Time” www.mintconditionmusic.com Saturday July 16, 8pm Warner Theatre, Washington DC
the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. C.J. Chenier and The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Dixie Power Trio. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.
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birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Graham Nash. 7:30 p.m. $90.50. birchmere.com.
WEdNEsday
Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Holy Fuck, Doomsquad. 9 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com.
rock
fort reno 3800 Donaldson Place NW. (202) 3556356. Mirror Factory, Bleary Eyed, Jail Solidarity. 7 p.m. Free. fortreno.com.
birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Beth Hart, Matt Andersen. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.
the hAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Steve Forbert, Willy Porter. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com.
Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Water Liars. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Midnight North and the Doobie Decibel System. 8 p.m. $15–$17. gypsysallys.com.
rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. The Maneuvers, The Combs, The Do Likes, Mirror Motives. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
Vocal
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betheSDA blueS AnD JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Vocal Workshop Graduation Concert with Chris Grasso. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
kenneDy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Ingramettes. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
hiP-hoP
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echoStAge 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Young Thug. 9 p.m. $48.40. echostage. com.
kenneDy center MillenniuM StAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Colombian Afro Caribbean Musicians. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
u Street MuSic hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Kanye vs. the World: Yeezy vs. Hova with Jahsonic and Harry Hotter. 10 p.m. $5. ustreetmusichall.com.
Folk
boSSA biStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Throwing Plates, Vim & Vigor. 9 p.m. $5. bossadc. com.
World
StrAthMore outDoorS 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Wild Reeds. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.
Jazz
twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Melody Roulette. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.
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flASh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Ardalan. 8 p.m. $12. flashdc.com. u Street MuSic hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Danny Byrd, G-Dub, Slee-P, Rawphikki. 10 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.
boSSA biStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Democratoz. 9 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.
couNtry
gyPSy SAlly’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Hillbilly Gypsies, The Too Soons. 8 p.m. $13. gypsysallys.com. hill country bArbecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Locust Honey. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. Mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. By & By. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
Jazz
betheSDA blueS AnD JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Haley Reinhart with Dave
CITY LIGHTS: MoNday
hENry Vi, Part 1
The rascally Shakespeare performers from Taffety Punk Theatre Company return to the Folger with another take on the Bard’s dense prose. This time, the actors take on Henry VI, Part I, a play rarely performed by itself, and to up the stakes, they’ll bring the production together in a day as part of the Bootleg Shakespeare series. Scholars might tell you that the three parts of Henry VI are among Shakespeare’s weakest works and the first part—a dense history lesson about the Hundred Years War, an underage heir to the throne, and Joan of Arc—isn’t what you’d call an approachable text, but disregard that information and enter the show with no assumptions. Even the stiff upper lips at the BBC are reconsidering Henry VI, extending the popular Hollow Crown miniseries to include all three parts of the play. As you wait in line for tickets, consider how a quickly assembled staging will represent the burning of a woman on stage. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Free. (202) 355-9441. taffetypunk.com. —Caroline Jones
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FRI, JULY 15 & SAT, JULY 16 9:30PM • TIX $22-$35
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The bill may read Beach Boys, but let’s get something clear: This is not the lineup that wrote and recorded songs like “Good Vibrations” and “Don’t Worry Baby.” Hell, they couldn’t even get John Stamos, somehow still an in-demand actor, to fill in on percussion. Sure, the show will feature the nasally pipes of original member Mike Love and the soft croon of frequent collaborator and touring musician Bruce Johnston, but don’t expect off-kilter studio genius Brian Wilson to be in house. He’s off doing his own Pet Sounds anniversary tour, which will stop at Strathmore in September. Until then, let this NSO Pops-backed show serve as an appetite whetter, a nostalgia trip featuring multiple hours of timeless pop classics. But as therapeutic as the breezy island bongos on “Kokomo” may feel, it’s important not to forget that these are not your parents’ Beach Boys. They’re imposters in flowery Hawaiian shirts who have gotten really good at singing your favorite songs. The Beach Boys perform with the NSO Pops at 8 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. $29–$109. (202) 265-0930. kennedy-center.org. —Dean Essner Damiani and the No Vacancy Orchestra. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. twinS JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Michael Gallant. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.
FuNk & r&B
blueS Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jazz Funk Soul. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com. fillMore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. K. Michelle. 8 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com. howArD theAtre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. The Original Wailers. 8 p.m. $26–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.
Books
JoSePh MADiSon beck In My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justince in 1930s Alabama, the author, now an attorney, reflects on a case his father tried that is similar to the one at the center of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 16, 3:30 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. JeSSicA AnyA blAu The author of four previous novels reads from The Trouble with Lexie, the story of a counselor at a New England prep school with a difficult past. Blau appears with author Frederick Reuss, who reads from Maisie at 8000 Feet. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 17, 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. Jennifer cloSe In The Hopefuls, Close explores the relationship between a couple new to the D.C. political scene and their friends, whose stars appear to be rising quickly. The author discusses the book with Tayla Burney of WAMU. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 20, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.
DonAlD f. kettl The former dean of the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy explains how American bureaucracy can improve and recommit to being competent in his new book, Escaping Jurassic Government. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 16, 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. hAnnAh PittArD The author reads from her third novel, Listen to Me, the story of a frustrated couple on an annual road trip. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 21, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. lAuren weiSberger The author of The Devil Wears Prada turns her attention to the professional tennis circuit in her new book, The Singles Game. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 15, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.
Galleries
ADDiSon/riPley fine Art 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 338-5180. addisonripleyfineart.com. Closing: “Unscripted, Naturally.” New works exploring language and patterning by artist Isabel Manalo. June 8 to July 16. civiliAn Art ProJectS 1019 7th St. NW. (202) 6073804. civilianartprojects.com. Opening: “Prince and Other Departed Legends.” Local artists, including Martine Workman, Adrian Loving, and Mei Mei Chang, pay tribute to many of the musical legends who died this year in this group show. July 15 to Aug. 6. croSS MAckenzie gAllery 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-7970. crossmackenzie.com. Ongoing: “Architects’ Drawings.” Architects and curators Mark McInturff and Dhiru Thadani highlight drawings from some of the world’s most interesting building planners in this exhibition presented in partnership with the National Building Museum. June 8 to July 31.
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Dance
AMericAn bAllet theAtre “America’s National Ballet Company” brings its popular performance of “Romeo and Juliet,” choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan and set to music by Sergei Prokofiev, to local audiences. Popular principal dancer Misty Copeland performs the Juliet role on Friday, July 15. Wolf Trap Filene Center. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. July 15 and 16, 8:30 p.m. $20–$95. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org. DAkShinA/DAniel Phoenix Singh DAnce coMPAny Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company brings classic pieces spanning decades of Anna Sokolow’s repertory back to life in the Washington, D.C. area. Join the company for performances of Sokolow’s “Dreams” (1961), based on images from the Holocaust, “Magritte, Magritte” (1970), a series of vignettes from paintings by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte, and “From the Diaries of Franz Kafka” (1981), Sokolow’s dramatization of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. July 16, 7:30 p.m. Free. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu. rAMA vAiDyAnAthAn Dakshina / Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company brings celebrated international Bharata Natyam performer and choreographer Rama Vaidyanathan to the stage in DC. Her solo production, “Chitravali,” celebrates Krishna through live music, dance, and Rajput miniature paintings. This composition exemplifies the composite nature
of Bharata Natyam as an art form. Vaidyanathan will be accompanied by a skilled live orchestra onstage, allowing the audience to witness the live interplay between classical Indian music and dance. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. July 17, 4 p.m. $25 suggested donation. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu.
Theater
bootleg ShAkeSPeAre: henry vi, PArt 1 Taffety Punk Theatre Company once again produces an entire Shakespeare play in a day. This time, they tackle England’s claim to French territory, Joan of Arc, and an underage heir to the throne in the first part of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses tetralogy. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. July 18, 7:30 p.m. $20. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu. the briDgeS of MADiSon county An Iowa housewife finds her life changed by a traveling photographer in this Tony Award-winning musical from composer Jason Robert Brown based on the bestselling novel by Robert James Waller. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To July 17. $49–$129. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. JuMAnJi On a dull day, Judy and Peter find a mysterious old board game. One live lion, an erupting volcano, and some destructive monkeys later, the children are plunged into an experience they’ll never forget. Will they ever finish this mysterious magic game and claim Jumanji? Serge Seiden directs this performance for audiences of all ages adapted from Chris Van Allsburg’s classic picture book. Adventure Theatre MTC. 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. To Aug. 28. (301) 634-2270. adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
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It’s been three years since Jason Molina—the tortured songwriter who bared his soul with his projects Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.—was found dead and alone in his Indianapolis apartment; his organs seemingly shut down after a decades-long struggle with alcoholism. At the time of his death, it had been years since he’d made any music, but his legacy is still not forgotten, most notably by the Water Valley, Miss. band Water Liars. Over the course of three albums, the band’s Americana-style country music oozes with Molina’s influence. “It’s almost like he’s putting to words all the shit that’s in your head. It’s what you always wanted to write and say,” drummer-vocalist Andrew Bryant said of Molina’s influence in an interview with No Depression. Though Water Liars taps into Molina’s aesthetic and isn’t shy about it, it uses that influence to paints vivid portraits that’s entirely its own. 2013’s Wyoming explores the struggle of trying keep it all together when everything around you is crumbling apart, with songs like “How Will I Call You,” “You Work Days, I Work Nights,” and “Fine Arts,” summoning emotions that Molina no doubt could relate to, but ones that are universal to everyone. Water Liars perform at 9 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com. —Matt Cohen
MiSS cuArentA In Miss Cuarenta, Colombian actress Paula Arcila celebrates her 40th birthday by recalling her many failed dates, romances, and marriages. Arcila’s sharp and insightful delivery will have audiences laughing from beginning to end as she explores society’s obsession with beauty and aging through a hilarious look at certain moments in a woman’s life. A post-performance discussion with the artist follows each evening’s presentation. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. July 15 and 16, 8 p.m. $30. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org. the PhAntoM of the oPerA The longest-running musical in Broadway history, which tells the story of a mysterious masked man who haunts a Paris theater, returns to the Kennedy Center in an all-new production that retains all the classic songs, including “Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You.” Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 20. $25–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. reDDer blooD Dawn Ursula and Jenna Sokolowski star in this drama by Helen Pafumi about a woman who hears the voice of God and, when her life starts to crumble, finally considers listening. The Hub Theatre at John Swayze Theatre. 9431 Silver King Court, Fairfax. To July 31. $20–$30. (703) 674-3177. thehubtheatre.org. the SeconD city’S AlMoSt AccurAte guiDe to AMericA The acclaimed Chicago-based comedy troupe presents a new show full of silly takes on U.S. history and thoughts on the way America sees itself in the world. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To July 31. $49–$64. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. wAShington iMProv theAter PreSentS SuMMer cAMP Washington Improv Theater invites you to choose any bunk you want during Summer Camp—a five-week series of shows from its company ensembles and special guests from across the city. Summer Camp will also feature a reboot of Die! Die! Die!, an improvised slasher movie that’s much funnier (but even more dangerous) than Friday the 13th’s Camp Crystal Lake. Washington Improv Theater at Source.
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Decades after his death, Bob Marley continues to influence the music of artists around the world. Algeria’s Democratoz started off performing covers of the reggae legend’s songs before recording originals—mostly in Arabic—that meld island rhythms and melodies with rock and regional rai and gnawa styles. Singer and songwriter Sadek Bouzinou provides upbeat vocals on most tracks but on some he wails slower, in a more traditionally North African guttural style. Likewise, the band’s rhythm section is adept at crafting heavy, echoed dub and reggae beats, but they also offer hybrid instrumentation that’s not directly linked to the Caribbean. The ensemble sounds most distinctive on tracks that incorporate the Algerian elements. Bouzinou, a charismatic charmer who has sung at protests calling for the release of political prisoners, emotes mournfully on political songs like “Mazal,” and is sometimes matched with equally touching, melancholy horn lines. Hope for more of these cultural blends live. Democratoz performs at 9:30 p.m. at Bossa Bistro, 2463 18th St. NW. $10. (202) 667-0088. bossadc.com. —Steve Kiviat washingtoncitypaper.com july 15, 2016 45
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