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who picked up last week’s Beer Issue, but we hope it at least held them over until they could reach their nearest bar. As @nathasha tweeted, “saving for the commute home, which will be long b/c... metro.” Food Editor Jessica Sidman wrote about navigating the world of beer name trademarks, which the @BeerLawCenter called a “Good write up on a growing issue.” Attorney Kevin M. Goldberg was similarly pleased: “#Trademark & #beer? Yes please! (Really useful look at how any TM disputes really arise & play out) Well done @wcp.” Fluxgirl was amused by Aaron Morrissey’s piece on local alternatives to macro brews, especially his suggestion that Bud Light Platinum drinkers “procure a bag of Swedish Fish and a bottle of rubbing alcohol at the nearby pharmacy.” She commented, “Made me LOL!” The Beer Issue may have a “born on” date of last week, but it has no expiration, so check out the whole package at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/beerissue2015.

Ticket to Chide. The amount of disdain toward the subjects of Will Sommer’s column on the bigwigs who score sports tickets from Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office could fill a stadium. Typical DC BS commented, “Love how scumbags like Phinis Jones and David Jannarone still hang in there with this Bowwowzer crowd.” Daddy Grace Fish Sandwich agreed: “Many are ass kissers too.

I am surprised I didn’t see Joshua Lopez on the list to get free tickets. He’s in both Fenty and Bowser inner circles.” Sommer’s piece was actually a come-together moment for Typical DC BS (“Nice we agree on this”) and DGSS (“Believe it or not, we agree on a lot of issues, Typical DC BS. hehe.”) Maybe they’ll take in a game together —Sarah Anne Hughes some time soon.

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Garber may be new to the Council campaign trail, but he hasn’t been shy about going after Orange.

By Will Sommer The vending machine at H Street NE spot Maketto sells Magnum condoms, cat statues, and pouches of MSG. Elsewhere, diners can buy beard oil and artisanal razors. But last week, Maketto patrons got a chance to spend their money on something not so ironic-chic: a D.C. Council campaign.

On Saturday, Maketto hosted the campaign

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ing the race before the June primary and filling an empty field that’s not likely to stay that way. Going against him winning Orange’s seat, meanwhile, is pretty much everything else.

Garber, a former Navy Yard advisory neighborhood commissioner, once covered development (and the lack of it) across the Anacostia River with his And Now, Anacostia blog. Garber is a prolific social media presence with more than 6,000 Twitter followers (and someone at his party recommended his Instagram to LL).

He has the same platform that was big last year, with promises about improved schools and affordable housing. If he’s elected next year, Garber says he’d want to be on the Council’s education or transportation committees.

At Saturday’s kickoff, Garber supporters compared their candidate to Brianne Nadeau, the Ward 1 upstart who wrested away Jim Graham’s Council seat last year by hitting him on ethics and starting her campaign years before the primary. Garber’s campaign is hoping that his early start will help him replicate Nadeau’s success— and that of Councilmember David Grosso, who beat then-councilmember Michael A. Brown by starting his campaign before anyone was thinking about the race.

“I’m excited to jump in early,” Garber says.

Orange hasn’t registered to run again, but tells LL he’ll be back on the campaign trail “at the appropriate time.” At first, Orange’s reelection plans might seem strange, since he’s had the roughest time out of any of the incumbents up for re-election next year.

In 2012, Orange ran interference with health inspectors on behalf of a campaign donor’s ratfilled business. U.S. Attorney Ron Machen then subpoenaed that donor’s records. (Orange says he was just trying to save jobs.) Last year, Orange was fingered in court as the (possibly unknowing) recipient of an illicit Jeff Thompson shadow campaign.

In other words: Orange can’t exactly run on cleaning up the Wilson Building.

Orange also didn’t prove his political talents with his failed mayoral run last year. Like Photos by Darrow Montgomery

Vincent Orange gets his first challenger in David Garber.

Introducing the

kickoff for David Garber, the first at-large challenger to incumbent Councilmember Vincent Orange. With Maketto and Garber—a prolific tweeter on urbanism, minor hero of the smart growth set, and natty dresser—a politician and his party haven’t been this well matched since Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans launched his ill-fated mayoral campaign at Logan Circle’s tony Le Diplomate.

This is 32-year-old Garber’s first Coun-

cil campaign, but being new hasn’t made him shy about going after Orange. Garber launched his campaign last week with a video blasting Orange, a pugnacity he brought to his weekend kickoff.

“I’m going to be running against a corrupt politician with deep pockets,” Garber told his would-be donors, by way of hitting them up for his own campaign war chest.

For now, Garber can benefit from enter-

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DISTRICTLINE Council colleague Evans, Orange brought in just single percentage points of the vote on Election Day. Unlike Evans, though, Orange’s treasury wasn’t enough to make ward challengers think twice for 2016. Evans raised a whopping $1.5 million in the mayoral race; Orange, who should have a broad contribution base because of his city-wide seat, collected just a tenth of that.

While Orange’s campaigning can tend towards the baroque—think handing out actual oranges and suing after being excluded from a debate—he loves to do it. Orange’s marathon politicking will challenge Garber and the other opponents who will appear in the race, according to former Vince Gray campaign manager Chuck Thies.

“He’s almost the closest thing D.C. politics has to Donald Trump,” Thies says.

Orange also hasn’t managed to anger Muriel Bowser, the one person with enough influence to single-handedly push him out. While Orange had a tumultuous relationship with Gray, he hasn’t made Bowser mad enough to justify her trying to fund an opposition candidate. So

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“[Orange is] almost the closest thing D.C. politics has to Donald Trump.”

far, Bowser has sat out the race, and there’s no obvious Green Team candidate waiting to enter the Democratic field.

Garber consultant John Rodriguez says his candidate is pulling in “very strong” fundraising numbers a week into his campaign, although

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Rodriguez declined to provide figures. Garber, who’s gay, could could also score some cash from District LGBTQ donors. Currently, the Council doesn’t have any openly gay councilmembers.

On the other hand: Garber is white, running against an African-American councilmember who can get out his votes. The smart-growther types who cheer Garber on haven’t done much to prove their strength at the ballot box lately—as Tommy Wells, the urbanist darling who came in third in last year’s mayoral primary, will tell you.

“If [Orange] were to feel threatened, he is very shrewd at playing identity politics and using that tactic to drive turnout where he needs the votes,” Thies says.

Rodriguez claims that he’s not worried about his candidate’s race hamstringing his chances against Orange, an old hand at the kind of campaign tactics that bring out his voters.

“As we look at the picture today, we’re in a CP great position,” Rodriguez says.

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For the past week, more than 30 rented goats have been dining on the invasive plant species choking the trees around D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery. It’s the second time a group of goats has travelled to the historic site to help clear the poison ivy and weeds that can kill the trees, causing them to fall on the historic grave markers. This time, the goats are from Browsing Green Goats in Sunderland, Md. “The goats live with us on our farm and are cared for daily by us and loved on,” says owner Mary Bowen. “The majority of them were born here on our farm so they have been handled by us from the day they were born.” The goats, who are on view to the public from dawn until dusk through Aug. 20, also have their own personalities, according to Bowen. Here, we introduce you to a few of the goats currently at the cemetery.

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Cinnamon, along with Moonlight and Joy (not pictured), are trained to walk on a lead. Cinnamon “tends to keep to herself most of the time,” says Bowen, while Moonlight “loves to lick hands.”

Joy is a former therapy goat who spent some of her younger days comforting a hospice patient.

(Also pictured: Korra.)

Nadia, “the wonder goat,” is so sweet she’s available for birthday party appearances. She’s also the subject of a forthcoming children’s book by Bowen’s teenage daughter, Jacqueline, called The Adventures of Nadia the Wonder Goat. “Jacqueline wants people to see agriculture through Nadia’s eyes,” Bowen says. “[She] wants people to know goats aren’t like how they are portrayed in ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff.’ They are beautiful and have their own personality.”

Peanut, a half fainting, half Pygmy goat, may be small, but he has a distinctive look thanks to his “long goatee and massive horns.” Bowen adds, “He’s pretty quiet and tends to stay to himself.”

Whiskey, the “big boy” of the group, was apparently not invited to help clear the cemetery but jumped on the trailer anyway. Despite his apparent eagerness, Bowen says he’s “timid of strangers.”

Mistletoe was born two years ago on Dec. 25 (get it?) and has a twin sister, Arabelle. “Mistletoe is 95 percent Boer goat and 5 percent Kiko goat, two very hardy and docile breeds,” says Bowen. washingtoncitypaper.com august 14, 2015 9

SAVAGELOVE I’ve been reading your column for a while, and you always advise kinky people to go seek the same within the kink community. But in my experience, the kink community is very “sex right away, get to know you later”–oriented. So I have two questions. First, as someone who’s a bit of an old-fashioned romantic, is there somewhere I can go to find sexually compatible people who are willing to let me get to know them before we fuck? And second, it’s very difficult for me to come in vanilla situations, which has caused some awkwardness in the past.

My fetish is intense CBT (cock and ball torture), it’s pretty specific, and in my (admittedly limited) experience, most guys aren’t very willing to let me inflict that kind of pain. Seeing as I’m probably not going to stop dating people from the general pool (shy 24-year-old cub, not into hookups—I take what I can get), do you have any advice for making conventional sex a little better for me?

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damage someone—if you attempt CBT without knowing what you’re doing. That’s why Roger produced a series of instructional videos for men who are curious about CBT. Look for videos number 59, 60, and 62 at shotgunvideo.com, a series of lectures/demos.

They’re just $10 each. Follow Roger on Twit—Dan Savage ter @RogerOfShotgun.

tion, HISBALLS, and then let Roger give you some advice that might actually be useful: Hardcore kinksters—kinksters who find it difficult to come in vanilla situations—make conventional sex a little better by entertaining fantasies about their kinks.

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“Finding appropriate partners is harder for seriously kinky men, but it’s a lot easier now than it used to be,” said Roger. “Recon is a worldwide cruising site (recon.com) that caters to alt-sex men. HISBALLS can choose a profile name for himself (like MuscleCBT—that guy is notorious), he can put up a few pictures, and most importantly he can write out what he’s looking for. He can tell people if he’s a top or a bottom, give some indication of what experience he’s had, focus on what he wants, but also tell people what his no-fly zones are—as in ‘no unsafe sex, no drugs, and no Republicans.’”

You can also find kinky guys at Adam4Adam, Manhunt, and BigMuscle—and you’ll find kinky guys in the general dating pool, too—and you’re not obligated to jump into bed and/or immediately start torturing the cock and balls of someone you’ve just met.

“HISBALLS can suggest going to a movie or dinner, or taking in the entire opera season together first,” said Roger, “or go straight to bed if it seems right. He should go at the speed that’s right for him. And he’ll be surprised—or more likely stunned—at just how many romantic, CBT-oriented men there are out there.”

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I lost my dad young and I had a bunch of issues growing up. I’m probably gay, I love the idea of light bondage, and I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember. I feel like I’ve been on a self-discovery thing over the past year and have caught tidbits that bothered me. I have depression/anxiety and the old “abandonment complex,” and I’m still insecure about a lot of this. Is it reasonable to blame psychological trauma for my sexuality—the possibly gay thing and the kinks?

—Troubled Over Yearnings The inclination to blame your sexuality and kinks on your loss is understandable, TOY, but it’s not reasonable. (Sorry about your dad, kiddo.) Because when you think about it—when you apply reason—you quickly come to this: There are lots of gay men out there who are into bondage who didn’t lose their dads at a young age, who don’t suffer from depression or anxiety, who don’t have abandonment issues, and whose childhoods were comparatively issue-free. It’s natural to wonder how you got to be kinky, TOY, but kinks are pretty random —Dan and pretty inexplicable.

Your advice to UGH last week was fine in general—he’s the frustrated man whose wife isn’t interested in sex—and a pretty solid rehash of your standard advice for people trapped in sexless marriages. But I’m writing because you missed something that may have been key: “Currently, she can last having sex for nearly half an hour before feeling exhausted and stopping, regardless of me reaching orgasm or not.” Two things: (1) Half an hour of PIV sex when you’re not feeling it would take a vat

of lube and probably still be painful. (2) His wife lies there getting the inside of her vagina sanded off

by Jackhammer McGee here and then has the nerve to ask him to stop when it’s too much “regardless” of HIS orgasm?!? What about her orgasm? What about her delicate vaginal tissue getting torn up?

Not that he will magically consider her pleasure if he’s blind to her comfort and general well-being, but it might help him put his marriage in perspective.

—Engaged Reader Represents Thanks for your e-mail, ERR, and I really should’ve spotted that. We all have our blind spots, and this is definitely one of mine: When someone says they were having sex for half an hour, I don’t think of 30 minutes of PIV/PIB, as I don’t define “sex” as “penetrative vaginal or anal intercourse.” My working definition of sex includes mutual masturbation, oral, fantasy play, and PIV/PIB. So when someone says, “My partner can only last having sex for half an hour,” I imagine half an hour of oral and mutual masturbation and penetration all jumbled together. I need to bear in mind that not all of my readers define sex the same way I do—indeed, far too many people believe penetration is sex and vice versa. Thanks for —Dan the reminder, ERR. CONFIDENTIAL TO AMERICAN WOMEN: Did you watch the big GOP debate last week?

Scott Walker said that he supports a ban on abortion with no exception to save the life of the pregnant woman, and Marco Rubio said that women impregnated by rapists should not be allowed to get abortions—and not one of the other eight men onstage objected, not even the one supposedly pro-choice candidate. That would be George Pataki, the “prochoice Republican” who bragged about defunding Planned Parenthood when he was —Dan governor of New York.

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“Congratulations to HISBALLS for admitting to himself that he has a creative sex drive,” said Donald Roger, the sadistic entrepreneur behind Shotgun Video (shotgunvideo.com), a gay BDSM porn studio that specializes in CBT. “Instead of wasting his time on why-am-Ibored-with-this sex, HISBALLS can look forward to a passionate and fascinating sex life.”

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Gear Prudence: I’ve ridden my bike to work for a few years, and I’ve developed a reputation on my street for being the “bike guy.” It’s fun, and I’ve helped a few of my neighbors with some of their bike questions and even fixed a flat tire for the woman across the street. However, one of my other neighbors, a sort of weird guy, has decided that he’s going to start biking too and that he’ll just ride with me downtown every day. Uninvited, he tagged along once, and it was painfully awkward, but he’s undeterred.

I really don’t want to bike with this guy, but how can I ditch someone who lives next door?

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Dear GLOM: There are few times in life where the obvious solution to a bike etiquette question is to join the Mafia, but this is clearly one of them. No, not to whack the guy, but so that you can eventually find your way to the witness relocation program and a new life in beautiful Scottsdale, where you’ll be able to shake off this unsavory neighbor at the very low cost of constantly looking over your shoulder for fear of reprisal from the Cosa Nostra. But at least you’ll be free from a unbidden bikecommute tagalong.

GP supposes there are less obvious solutions as well, and of a slightly more passiveaggressive bent. You could start leaving earlier or later in the hopes that riding with you is no longer convenient. Ride too fast or too slow. Switch up your route to take you farther out of the way of his destination. Forsake bike commuting altogether and hope he doesn’t follow you onto the bus or train.

You could rent a gorilla costume and pray that your neighbor opts not to go all Goodall on the cycling ape leaving your house each morning. But each of these approaches upends your own commute and trades the inconvenience of an unwanted riding partner for other inconveniences and/or exorbitant costume shop rental fees.

As a last resort, try honesty. Explain to your neighbor that your bike commute is your alone time, and while you’re happy that he’s biking to work too, that you prefer to ride by yourself. This conversation will likely be extremely awkward, but you’ve just got to get through it. Or take a different approach entirely. Ride with the guy. Talk about stuff. See if you cotton to him. Perhaps his “weirdness” is a function of being socially awkward and your newfound commonality will lead to a burgeoning friendship. But if you do that for a little and it doesn’t work out, it’s likely back —GP to the frank conversation.

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invisible tape David Wilson uncovered the existence of a murder confession he says will exonerate him. There’s only one problem: Nobody can find it.

By Jim McElhatton

At 10:20 a.m. on June 14, 1999, a Metropolitan Police Department detective and federal agents wired up a confidential informant and dropped him off in Congress Park with simple instructions: find “LT” and get him to talk about who shot Ronnie Middleton and Sabrina Bradley.

“LT” was Antonio Roberson, and he’d bragged about killing the couple a year earlier in Congress Park, the informant told police. There were different theories over the years about why the couple was killed, but they all focused squarely on Middleton, who prosecutors say was a hitman for local drug kingpin Tommy Edelin. Bradley, a mother of two and Middleton’s girlfriend, just happened to be there.

“Collateral damage,” as one prosecutor put it.

At 10:40 a.m., the recorder was turned off. The undercover operation was quick and, by any measure, a success. “In what was described as a very brief discussion, the source advised that Roberson engaged the source in conversation regarding the captioned shooting,” a detective wrote. “The source stated that Roberson openly discussed his involvement in the incident, including firing the shots that took the lives of Middleton and Bradley.”

It’s been nearly two decades since the slayings. The case is closed. Roberson is long since dead; so is another purported participant in those killings, Antoine Draine.

And yet a few months ago, MPD’s Office of General

Counsel, acting on a directive from the mayor’s office, told the department’s homicide branch to search its files for the old tape.

The search was the result of David Wilson’s Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent appeal.

In D.C., he was known around Congress Park as “Cool Wop,” but now he lives in a federal prison in Pine Knot, Ky., after he was convicted for driving the getaway car in the Middleton and Bradley murders. But he insists that whatever Roberson said on that tape 16 years ago will exonerate him.

“That evidence has been out there since ’99. It’s casesolving evidence,” Wilson said. “I know it was transmitted, and I want to know what was said because I know it exonerates me… I don’t think that the MPD is that negligent or careless, especially with a homicide where people lost their lives.”

Prisons are filled with inmates like Wilson doing life or close to it. Many of them have ample time to file open records requests for something—anything—that might pull loose a thread to aid in some post-conviction appeal, no matter how unlikely. Sometimes, it’s just about hope.

Wilson says there’s more to it in his case: He says he

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never would have been convicted if the jury had heard that tape. How he can be so sure is unclear, because he hasn’t heard it, either.

Prosecutors, no doubt, would point out that a Roberson confession alone hardly exonerates Wilson. They never argued Wilson was the triggerman, but the getaway driver. The police memo saying Roberson confessed doesn’t refute any of this.

For now, though, Wilson isn’t asking anyone to believe him. He just wants the tape so he can prove what he’s saying. And his argument is pretty straightforward: If he’s going to be sentenced to almost half a century in prison for a crime, then surely he deserves a chance to listen to the recorded confession the government had in its possession. So far, he cannot.

Wilson is an able jailhouse lawyer. When MPD rejected his initial request, he appealed to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office, later arguing that if MPD really didn’t have the confession, then it violated D.C. law requiring the preservation of evidence in murder cases.

“The June 14, 1999 audio recording was a case solving piece of evidence in a double homicide committed within the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia,” Wilson wrote in his appeal letter. “It is simply not reasonable to accept the assertion that someone in the agency just ‘surrendered’ this evidence to someone outside the agency. It is not merely unbelievable, it is unlawful.”

After receiving Wilson’s appeal, the mayor’s office told MPD to search its files. He scored a similar—if fleeting—win with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in an open-records request to federal prosecutors.

Initially, federal prosecutors refused to confirm or deny the existence of the tape. After Wilson filed a lawsuit from prison, a judge ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office to search for it. So far, neither agency has found any recording. After all, the FOIA law requires only that agencies conduct “an adequate search.”

Still, Wilson’s persistent efforts to pry loose the recording have created a paper trail of responses, denials, and appeals that raise questions about evidence handling, records preservation, and the public’s right to access records under the Freedom of Information Act. So far, these records make clear, a murder confession has gone missing.

And nobody will explain why.

Around 2 a.m. on Aug. 17, 1998, with five bullets in or through him, Ronnie “Squid” Middleton managed to drive from the 1500 block of Congress Place SE about a mile up Alabama Avenue SE. He probably knew enough to fear his life would end this way. And then it did.

And after years of piling up bodies, when it finally was his turn, Middleton drove himself not to D.C. General (which, in the summer of 1998, was still a hospital) but to the Seventh District MPD headquarters. Perhaps he wanted to say something about who did this to him, but when he finally arrived, he had little to say.

The white Ford Bronco barreled up to the front door of the station. As officers ran outside with their guns aimed at the Bronco, one spotted bullet holes in the driver’s side door. “He’s

shot!” someone yelled. Officer James Craig tried to get Middleton to talk while paramedics were called.

“He did not respond to questions I asked and he appeared to be fading in and out of consciousness and he also appeared to be having trouble breathing,” Craig later wrote in a statement, though a detective later testified Middleton managed to say where the shootings had happened. Another officer remembered discovering Bradley in the backseat, moaning. She had been shot, too. According to prosecutors, a third person was in the car that night and managed to escape through a window.

Within hours, Middleton and Bradley would be dead.

Tommy Edelin was the first person charged in the Middleton and Bradley murders, though the killings were hardly the only crimes alleged. A massive federal conspiracy case charged Edelin with leading the 1-5 Mob drug gang. Prosecutors at the time said the organization sold hundreds of kilos of crack in Southeast throughout the 1990s and was responsible for at least a dozen murders, including those of a 14-year-old girl and her 20-yearold brother. They were shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity on the way home from a church Christmas party, though Edelin was acquitted in those killings.

The government’s theory in the 2001 trial was that Edelin was worried whether Middleton—

his most trusted and efficient hitman—might turn and cooperate with the government. In the summer of 1998, Edelin and just about everyone facing charges in the case was locked up, but Middleton was still free—and on heroin. Prosecutors said Edelin feared that as soon as Middleton got locked up and started going through heroin withdrawal, he’d stand little chance of resisting efforts to get him to cooperate.

“And Tommy feared that although [Middleton] was a friend, it was just too big of a chance.

So Tommy reaches out, and being the smart, manipulative guy that he is, he reaches out to an unlikely ally,” a prosecutor explained to jurors.

That ally, according to prosecutors, was the Congress Park Crew.

A government witness testified that Edelin confided how, from jail, he reached out to the rival gang to have three men—identified in transcripts as “LT,” “Das,” and “Cool Wop”—kill Middleton and Bradley. But while Edelin was convicted in four murders and a host of other felony charges, then sentenced to life in prison, he was acquitted in the Middleton and Bradley murders.

Years later, prosecutors put forward another theory: Middleton was killed not to protect Edelin but to get back at him. Wilson wanted revenge, they said, after Middleton killed a close friend named Maurice Doleman. The killing triggered a bloody war between Edelin’s 1-5 Mob and the Congress Park Crew, according to prosecutors, who said Wilson drove the getaway car for his two purported accomplices—Draine

and Roberson—both dead by the time Wilson went to trial in 2007.

Unlike in the Edelin case, however, jurors rejected conspiracy and racketeering charges.

“Conspiracy? A crew? With the evidence the prosecutor presented, not one among us could see it,” one juror, Jim Caron, wrote to the sentencing judge after learning that some defendants faced decades in prison despite only being convicted of minor drug transactions (see sidebar below). Caron died of a heart ailment a few weeks after writing the letter in 2008.

Prosecutors had better luck against Wilson.

He was convicted of aiding and abetting in the Middleton and Bradley murders. He was sentenced to more than 45 years in prison. There were no eyewitnesses tying Wilson to the murders, the defense argued, but several witnesses testified against him, including Bobby Capies, whom Wilson and his lawyers believe is the undercover informant who elicited the confession from Roberson. On the stand, Capies told jurors that Wilson confessed to him.

“He was telling me that it was him [Wilson], [Draine], and [Roberson], said they was riding around smoking,” Capies told the jury. “And they rode through there and they seen [Middleton] in a truck, looked like he was smoking.”

“They went back around the block to get a gun. They pull up, and I guess they was going to a conclusion of whoever who was going to get out. [Wilson] said, ‘There ain’t no time for this, man. Y’all idling.’ So [Roberson] was like, ‘Man,

“Every time they talk about me... they describe me as a drug dealer. I wasn’t.”

George Ball took a rare afternoon off from his job as a meeting planner for a trade group to spend some time in a U.S. District courtroom.

He was attending the July 9 sentencing of Matthew Lowry, the FBI agent who pleaded guilty to taking at least 20 bags of seized heroin— some containing hundreds of grams—from the FBI’s evidence room.

Ball is one of more than two dozen drug defendants whose cases were tossed because Lowry tainted the evidence. There’s been much press attention about how the Lowry case robbed the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office of the chance to try complicated drug conspiracy cases that can take years to investigate and prosecute.

The courtroom was packed with reporters and family, so Ball, 67, was nearly turned away. He insisted on a seat. After more than an hour, he said, he found himself sitting alongside Lowry’s family, near the front row.

“I was determined to see how justice works on the other side of the case,” Ball later tells City Paper in an interview.

Ball says Lowry’s conviction actually robbed him of the chance to clear his name, and that he didn’t want to see his own charges dismissed on a technicality. He says that even though he risked more than decade in prison, he told his attorney that he wouldn’t be pleading guilty.

“The whole time I was under this cloud for a year and half, never was my name associated with the word ‘innocent,’” Ball says. “I kind of feel sorry that Lowry got into this trouble because now I’m in this limbo. Every time they talk about me—the judge, the prosecutor, the defense attorney—they describe me as a drug dealer. I wasn’t.”

Ball wasn’t just thinking about his own case when he attended the Lowry sentencing. He recalled coming to the same courthouse a few years earlier to watch the sentencing of his son, Antwuan, a co-defendant with David Wilson in the Congress Park Crew case. Antwuan was

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acquitted of all but one of the charges against him: a $600, half-ounce, hand-to-hand crack transaction recorded by an undercover informant.

Still, Antwuan Ball received a sentence of nearly two decades in prison. That’s largely because Judge Richard Roberts found that, for sentencing purposes, Ball was part of a drug conspiracy—even though jurors acquitted him of the conspiracy charge. Under federal rules, however, judges can hand out tougher sentences based on charges the jury rejected or never heard at trial.

Antwuan Ball’s appeals lawyer, Stephen Leckar, argued in court papers that Ball would have received a little under five years—at most—if sentenced solely on the drug quantities of which he was convicted. The judge’s finding nearly quadrupled his sentence to just under 19 years.

He remembers the difficult time he had leaving the courtroom after his son’s sentencing four years earlier.

“When I went to my son’s sentencing, I was 100 percent positive that he was coming home with me that day,” Ball says. “I just felt so good.

Then I was going through my head, huh, 200-something months? After everybody left I couldn’t move. Everybody was outside wondering where I was at, but I couldn’t move because I could not believe this.”

Ball and two co-defendants, facing similarly long sentences in the Congress Park case, appealed theirs. They fell just one vote short of having their case heard in the Supreme Court last year. The appeal produced an unlikely dissent that joined the court’s most liberal and conservative factions: Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Ginsburg all sought to accept the case.

After Lowry’s sentencing, George Ball walked out of the hearing shaking his head, wondering how the same courthouse could send his son away for more than 18 years for a half-ounce. The exFBI agent got three years.

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it’s my gun, I’m going to do it.’”

But defense lawyers argued that just about everyone in Congress Park seemed to confess to Capies. They called him a liar willing to say whatever he had to say to work his way out of his own felony murder and drug charges. And they pointed to testimony in which he admitted to once lying to law enforcement.

Eleven years after the murders and nearly three years after Wilson’s conviction, his defense produced an affidavit from a D.C. Jail inmate who came forward to say that he, not Wilson, was the driver. According to the inmate, Roberson forced him at gunpoint to drive the getaway car. But Judge Richard Roberts ruled the confession wasn’t credible, in part, because Wilson and the inmate knew each other at the D.C. Jail. With the confession coming 11 years after the killings and more than a year and a half after the jury’s verdict, Roberts said the confession suggested “a last ditch effort for the defendant to escape punishment.”

In another post-trial motion, Wilson’s defense alleged “repeated and profound Brady violations” by the government—a reference to the Supreme Court ruling Brady v. Maryland that requires prosecutors turn over government evidence favorable to a defendant.

Among the pieces of evidence related to the alleged Brady violations is the MPD memo mentioning Roberson’s confession. Wilson’s attorney said in court papers that the defense only learned of the memo after the trial ended. But Roberts sided with prosecutors against a new trial, ruling the memo “was not exculpatory in any respect” because prosecutors had argued all along Wilson was the getaway driver and Roberson the shooter. And so a memo disclosing that Roberson confessed doesn’t contradict the government’s case, he ruled.

The assignment to search MPD’s files earlier this year for a copy of the recording fell to Detective Daniel Whalen, who said in a sworn statement that he had located a document in the Middleton and Bradley file describing how “an admission of involvement by a suspect was covertly recorded via the use of wired cooperating informant.”

But Whalen said he couldn’t find the actual recording.

He said MPD appeared to have surrendered it to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms but never got it back. The detective also found a handwritten note in the files saying that a transcript of the recording was supposed to be made available. But “there is no documentation in the homicide file to show that a copy of this transcript was ever actually received by the MPD,” Whalen said.

According to Whalen, the tape wasn’t anywhere else in the homicide files, either. And, according to MPD, that was good enough because the agency had conducted an “adequate search” under the open records law. The case was closed.

In an appeals letter to the mayor’s office, Wilson argued that surrendering the evidence without retaining a copy violated D.C. law that requires the preservation of evidence in murder

None of this explains where the recording is and why Wilson can’t obtain a copy. cases. He also said there’s no indication MPD tried to contact ATF or the retired police detective who worked on the Middleton and Bradley homicides.

The mayor’s office referred Wilson to the D.C. Office of Inspector General if he wanted to request an investigation into whether evidence rules were broken, but sided with MPD and rejected his appeal.

City Paper sent a detailed list of questions to MPD about whether the agency made a copy of the recording prior to surrendering it to ATF, whether MPD looked outside of its own homicide files, and whether surrendering copies of a murder confession squared with MPD chainof-custody rules.

After two weeks, MPD spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump wrote, “We are declining to comment. Please direct your questions to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”

In 2013, Wilson filed a similar but slightly different FOIA request with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, this time naming Bobby Capies as the undercover informant who spoke to Roberson.

Initially, the department declined to confirm or deny whether the record existed, citing privacy and other exemptions under the FOIA law. Acting as his own attorney, Wilson sued. In a pretrial ruling, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg sided with the inmate.

“The existence of the tape is not a matter of mere speculation,” Boasberg ruled, rejecting the U.S. Attorney’s Office initial motion to dismiss the case. “Rather, two documents disclosed in the wake of Wilson’s trial indicate that such a record is likely to have been created.”

Boasberg ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office to search its files. In the 160 boxes of records on the Congress Park Crew prosecution, officials located one document titled “running resume,” according to court records. “It is an account of the conversation that Mr. Wilson is seeking,” U.S. Attorney’s Office FOIA liaison Karin Kelly stated in a sworn declaration in which she outlined her search for the recording.

“It is also the only document I came across that made any mention of Bobby Capies wearing a body recording device and speaking with Antonio Roberson,” she stated. “I did not find an actual recording of the conversation, nor did I find a transcript of the conversation.”

Kelly later emailed one of the assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted the Congress Park case for ideas on where the recording might be, but she never heard back, according to court records. Still, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a motion to dismiss Wilson’s case because it had conducted “an adequate search” for the recording, meeting its obligations under the FOIA law.

And, government attorneys added in another declaration, all documents responsive to Wilson’s request would have been located at the U.S. At-

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torney’s Office, because there were no other systems of records across the Justice Department— which includes the ATF—where Wilson’s case would have been maintained. Boasberg agreed with prosecutors that an adequate search was conducted. He tossed the case.

None of this explains where the recording is and why Wilson can’t obtain a copy. Whether you think he’s guilty or not, or whether the tape helps or hurts his post-conviction efforts, Wilson says he deserves to listen to it. And if there’s any chance, however small, the recording could exonerate Wilson, is “adequate search” under the FOIA law enough?

In response to questions about the location of the recording, including whether anyone sought to contact ATF to locate a copy in response to Wilson’s FOIA, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to discuss specifics regarding Wilson’s case.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office takes its constitutional and ethical obligations very seriously,” spokesman Bill Miller wrote in an email.

“We rely on expansive policies, frequent training, and robust checks and balances to ensure that we not only meet—but exceed—our constitutional and ethical obligations. Although Mr. Wilson’s FOIA lawsuit has been dismissed, his appeal in the criminal case remains pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. For that reason, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has no comment about this particular matter at this time.”

Wilson said his efforts to find the tape continue, despite setbacks with MPD and federal prosecutors. While the U.S. Attorney’s Office said records in Wilson’s case are unlikely to be anywhere else within the Justice Department, he’s filed a FOIA request with ATF. He’s also preparing to file a complaint with the D.C. Office of Inspector General, as well as a lawsuit against the District.

But on July 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld Wilson’s conviction in a 2-1 vote. “Even considering the cumulative effect of the multiple alleged Brady violations,” the majority wrote, “the untimely or suppressed materials are insufficient to undermine our confidence in the jury’s verdict.”

Dissenting, Circuit Judge Robert L. Wilkins argued that Wilson deserved a new trial. He didn’t rule on the Brady violation allegations, but said Wilson’s defense was ineffective because his lead attorney became ill and the replacement attorney had missed crucial parts of the trial.

In the hundreds of pages of post-conviction motions and appeals court filings, however, the memo on the undercover recording is barely mentioned. It was a footnote in Robert’s ruling, and it wasn’t mentioned in the appeals court decision.

But Wilson says a memo saying a confession

took place is altogether different from hearing the confession itself. With the courts paying scant attention to the question of whether the tape could clear him, Wilson said he’s relying on the Freedom of Information Act to find out.

Stephen Saltzburg, a law professor at George Washington University who served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, said the inability of any agencies to locate the tape was “troubling in connection with a murder investigation, which is certainly the highest priority crime.”

“You’d think that if Wilson was mentioned on the tape, the government would have let that be known,” Saltzburg said. “I think it underscores the legitimacy of asking what happened to this tape.”

American University professor Jon Gould, head of the Preventing Wrongful Convictions Project, said one of three things could’ve happened to the tape.

“It’s highly unlikely that it’s the one that Wilson wants to argue, which is that it’s a giant conspiracy between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and MPD because they know it’s exonerating and they destroyed it. Is it possible?

Yes. Is it likely? Not with this U.S. Attorney’s Office and probably not with this MPD. The D.C. criminal justice system is generally much better than other places in the U.S., so I would be quite surprised if they were intentionally destroying exonerating evidence.”

The second possibility is that “the evidence in the case just got put out to pasture because they basically clean house on a regular basis, and it’s an old case at this point,” he said.

The third, and most likely, Gould said, was that “it got lost somewhere.”

“We see communication between prosecutors and police departments sometimes have difficulty with each side knowing where key evidence has been kept.”

Still, the fact that the tape has not been located does raise questions about evidence control, Gould said. But for Wilson to prove a legal violation, he needs to be able to argue why he thinks the tape will exonerate him, Gould said.

“Regardless of whether there’s a legal violation, it’s an embarrassment to the MPD and to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and I can imagine a judge saying, ‘I want to get to the bottom of this. A confession in a murder case is something I want to know more about and why it is you don’t have the confession?’”

Asked why he’s so sure the tape will exonerate him, Wilson said he recalls walking up on a conversation between Roberson and Capies around the time when the police memo said the confession took place. He said he only caught the end of the conversation, but Roberson had been drinking, and he was telling Capies that he drove himself and killed Middleton in retaliation for the killing of a friend.

At this point, Wilson has little to lose by lying. Credible or not, he says he is not asking to be believed—he’s just asking for the tape because he deserves to listens to it. He insists that once he has it, though, he’ll be cleared.

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There can be a lot of trial and error to find the right conditions, and many of the herbs will only grow during a brief window of a couple weeks or months. But Magassy is nonetheless up to the challenge. “He sees what it means to introduce people to ingredients that they’ve never tried before. That’s the reason he does what he does,” McCoy says.

Chef Rob Weland, who recently opened Garrison on Barracks Row, also plans to custom-grow certain ingredients through his partnership with farmer Mike Protas of One Acre Farm in Boyds, Md. Portas has already done his seed order for this year, but in the winter, the chef and the farmer will confer to discuss what to grow for next year. “I’ll set aside a parcel for them and grow exclusively their things,” Protas explains.

One Acre Farm already grows many of the ingredients Weland will want, like purple radishes, colored peppers, fennel, and all sorts of heirloom tomatoes. But Protas is also willing to take a shot at more obscure things. Weland hopes to bring his staff out to the farm to help plant and harvest.

Protas also operates a CSA on Capitol Hill and plans to grow extra of whatever Weland wants to give to his members. He likes the idea that his members will be able to find the same products in a neighborhood restaurant. Plus, there’s an element of mutual back-scratching: Protas helps out Weland by growing the products he wants. Meanwhile, Weland helps Protas by buying all the produce that’s leftover from the CSA at a reduced rate. In years past, Protas donated the leftovers, but he was struggling to find a group to continue to pick up the food.

Chef Kyle Bailey and Birch & Barley chef Kyle Bailey rooftop farmer John says farmers are usually pretty accomStark grow rare plants modating to requests, but he’s opted atop Evening Star Cafe. to do the gardening in-house instead.

Bailey works with Neighborhood Restaurant Group handyman and rooftop are very few people that actually do follow through and sup- farmer John Stark to grow rare varieties of herbs, edible flowport their local farmers,” he says. “No one wants to pay the ers, and produce on the roof of sister restaurant Evening Star prices. Everybody wants the quality, but nobody wants to put Cafe in Alexandria. That way, they can experiment with one or forth the effort.” Magassy supplied McCoy in his days at Duke’s two packets of seeds, “whereas a farmer’s going to want to do Grocery, and now, McCoy cans goods for Magassy to sell at his more than that,” Bailey says.

Every year, Bailey and Stark go through a rare seeds catalogue farm stands.

But beyond that, Magassy is simply interested in planting and pick out the plants that pique their interest. This year, they new things: “I love growing. I grow smiles… My stuff is grown bought 30 to 40 different varieties of seeds, their largest supply with pride and intention,” he says. McCoy adds that not every yet. Among the summer bounty are a couple varieties of okra— crop works out when removed from its native tropical climate. including some that are “short and fat and you can’t put your

By Jessica Sidman Chef Alex McCoy wants to channel the flavors of Southeast Asia at his forthcoming Petworth restaurant, but some of the herbs and produce used in the cooking are difficult—if not impossible—to find here.

“There’s this fantastic herb that tastes almost like raw fish. It’s great. It’s delicious,” says McCoy, who was previously the chef at Duke’s Grocery and recently competed on Food Network Star. Other herbs have very funky flavors, while some he describes as very similar to Japanese shiso leaves. Plus: “A lot of people don’t realize how many types of basil they use in Southeast Asia…

They’re all very nuanced.”

Curries and other Southeast Asian dishes are often served alongside a bouquet of fresh herbs like these, which help offset the spicy richness. But rather than finding substitute ingredients for his yet-unnamed restaurant at 845 Upshur St. NW, McCoy is taking a different approach. He’s importing around 30 types of seeds from growers he’s met in his travels on the other side of the globe and partnering with local farmers to grow things like water mimosa, pandan, Vietnamese mint, and cha phlu just for him. Some of the ingredients don’t have American names.

“Just to be able to cook with those ingredients, as hard as they are to source, it’s going to add this wonderful freshness, this wonderful vibrancy to our food,” McCoy says. “That kind of stuff wakes me up in the morning.”

While plenty of restaurants brag about their local sourcing, most rely on what farms are already harvesting. A handful of chefs, like McCoy, are going a step further by building relationships with farmers who will customgrow less ordinary ingredients.

In an ever-competitive dining scene, such arrangements are a way for restaurants to stand out and offer more unique or authentic flavors. It’s also what the next frontier of the farm-totable movement could look like.

Potomac Farm Market owner Steve Magassy, one of the farmers who’s working with McCoy to grow many of these Southeast Asian plants, says the chef’s approach is rare. “There

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hand around them”—as well as purple jalapeños that are green on the inside. More unusual still: marshmallow flowers and dragon egg cucumbers. “They’re so cool,” Bailey says. “It’s like Game of Thrones.”

“I like having the only one of something in town,” Bailey says.

Similarly, ThinkFoodGroup has contracted with Up Top Acres, D.C.’s first commercial rooftop farming business, to maintain a 7,000square-foot plot on the roof of Oyamel’s building. The company grows a wide variety of micro-greens, flowers, and herbs, including “harder to find, higher value stuff that doesn’t stay fresh as long,” says Up Top Acres co-founder Kristof Grina. The bounty is then shared among ThinkFoodGroup’s downtown restaurants, including Jaleo, Zaytinya, Minibar, and China Chilcano.

China Chilcano is also working with Good Fortune Farm in Brandywine, Md. to grow aji peppers, which are prominent in Peruvian cooking. Unlike in Mexican cuisine, which uses a lot of dry chilies, Peruvian cuisine uses mostly fresh chilies. “It’s really difficult to get them and really expensive to get them from Peru,” says ThinkFoodGroup Director of Research and Development Ruben Garcia. He says there are some aji pepper crops in California but not so much on the East Coast. “We want to support the local economy, obviously,” Garcia says.

McCoy finds that collaborations between

chefs and farmers are much more common on the West Coast simply because there are so many more farms within close vicinity.

“A lot of the chefs and the restaurant owners, they really want to bring in a product that’s different, that separates them from other restaurants,” McCoy says. But at the same time, in D.C., even those who’ve embraced the farm-to-table philosophy typically still rely on distributors to bring them organic produce.

“The easier it becomes to collaborate with farmers, the easier it is to get these phenomenal products and the better that the food in the CP city is going to be,” McCoy says.

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

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what we ate last week: Seafood cioppino with chilled gazpacho broth, $29, Beuchert’s Saloon. Satisfaction level: 3 out of 5 what we’ll eat next week: Shrimp with jasmine rice and green curry, $10, Scarlet Oak. Excitement level: 2.5 out of 5

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Underserved Not all cocktails are made equally, and knowing which rail liquor has been added to your drink might make you rethink overlooking the top shelf. Unless, that is, happy hour prices are too tempting to ignore or you actually enjoy vodka that comes in a $10 plastic jug. Here’s a look at what rail liquors bars across D.C. use.

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Vodka

Whiskey

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Tanqueray

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Bowman’s

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Kentucky Gentleman

Duke’s Grocery

Odesse

Zelko

Kentucky Gentleman

Claudia’s Steakhouse

Beefeater

Svedka

Bar Pilar

Bowman’s

Bowman’s

Hank’s Oyster Bar

Gordon’s

Smirnoff

Old Overholt

The Big Board

Bowman’s

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Tito’s

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Pros: Individually, each ingredient in this upscale version of Pittsburgh’s famously monstrous French fry sandwich is well executed.

The sausage is moist and chewy, the slaw’s got a surprising dose of heat, and the bread remains crisp on the outside but soft on the inside. Most miraculously, the fries don’t become soggy while sitting in the sandwich.

Cons: This sandwich is so poorly constructed that ingredients start falling out as soon as you pick it up. Tiny slices of bread cannot

The best cocktail you’re not ordering What: The Sneaky Pete with Espolón Blanco tequila, red bell pepper juice, agave, lime, bell pepper salt, and Hellfire Habanero Shrub bitters Where: Mason Social, 728 Henry St., Alexandria Price: $10.50 What You Should Be Drinking Mason Social’s take on a margarita doesn’t come with an imaginary wagging finger to remind you of how many calories Mexico’s signature drink carries. That’s because Beverage Director Tony Burke substitutes red bell pepper juice for sour mix—the sugary, caloric culprit Burke says can lend “a gut rot kind of feel.” He adds tequila, agave, lime, and Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub to the flamingo-colored cocktail before garnishing it with a lime twist and a half-rim of red pepper salt. Burke makes the salt by drying the pepper membranes spit out by the juicer, then running them through a spice grinder with kosher salt. Those who crave the taste of tequila might not dig the drink because other ingredients mask the spirit’s signature sting, which is partially how the drink got its name.

The Sneaky Pete goes down easy, so you can toss back a few before the tequila catches up with you. The name is also a nod to Burke’s grandmother. “She used to call me ‘sneaky Pete’ when I was younger and trying to get away with stuff that I had no business trying to get away with,” he says. Sneaky Tony doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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contain the massive sausage, causing it to roll out of the sandwich and into your hand. With little surface area to balance ingredients on, the fries and tomato also escape. When you finally get around to nibbling the sausage, you’ll need sharp incisors to tear through its tough casing.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 4. You quickly end up with two slices of bread in one hand and a bunch of fries in a pile on your plate. Be sure to hold on to your fork and knife.

Overall score (1 to 5): 3. Taste-wise, this sandwich is perfectly fine, but restructuring the sandwich every time you take a bite quickly becomes a chore. Something easier to handle would make it much more enjoyable.

—Caroline Jones

Why You Should be Drinking It Despite Burke’s efforts, the Sneaky Pete isn’t getting enough love. “The red bell pepper juice is keeping people from drinking it because they expect it to be like drinking V-8 with tequila,” Burke says. But there’s no trace of V-8’s gazpacho taste. Instead, the mellow red pepper flavor contributes to a refreshing, balanced gulp that marries ingredients from the kitchen and behind the bar. Perhaps the words “hellfire” and “habanero” also sound like a challenge your taste buds don’t want to take on. But, the addition of the habanero shrub adds only a quick pop of heat before dissipating. The easy-drinking aspects of the Sneaky Pete means it doesn’t have to be nighttime to enjoy it. Consider subbing it in for a bloody mary at brunch. —Laura Hayes

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A Hard Day’s Life Two men weather the worst the world can throw their way.

Listen to Me Marlon Directed by Stevan Riley Tom at the Farm Directed by Xavier Dolan

By Tricia Olszewski Marlon Brando may have played strong, silent types on the stage and screen, but when he was alone, he talked his own ear off. Stevan Riley’s Listen to Me Marlon is all Brando, all the time (well, 99 percent of the time). Its 95 minutes are culled from his personal audio cassette recordings, in which he talked about everything and nothing. There’s some footage from interviews and, of course, clips from his films, but the documentary’s heart is Brando pouring out his soul.

His honesty is matched by his eloquence: “I had a lot of derring-do and panache,” Brando says of his young, impossibly handsome self. Those qualities made his transition from plays to movies, under the tutelage of Stella Adler, rather smooth. Brando also quotes Shakespeare and tosses around words like “miasma”; this may be the first documentary about an actor that makes you consult a dictionary. That is, when you can understand him—at times the man mumbles like a certain Corleone.

Riley generally organizes the film in a logical, early-to-late career linearity. At the beginning of the film, however, today’s Brando talks about having his head scanned into a computer as a 3-D image; he predicts the total digitization of future actors.

(You wish you could ask his opinion on James Cameron.) This creepy, no-eyed image reappears throughout the film, sometimes speaking lines from the cassettes, which makes it even creepier.

Naturally, Brando ruminates on his career for the bulk of these tapes, offering his take on going to weekend matinees as a kid (“That sense of good feeling got me through the week”); directors (“They cover up a sense of inadequacy by being very authoritative”); acting (“Lying for a living, that’s all acting is... so, we all act”); and Hollywood in general (“Money, money, money”). He calls Francis Ford Coppola “a card-carrying prick” and applauds his own convincing “pose of indifference,” yet says he’d feel extremely hurt if a film’s problems were blamed on him, as Apocalypse Now and Mutiny on the Bounty were.

When he’s not talking movies, Brando speaks about the human experience at large. He seems to have battled his way through the worst of it: absent, alcoholic parents; the fetishization and lack of privacy that comes with stardom; a son who was kidnapped as a teenager, only to later kill his half-sister’s boy-

In Listen to Me Marlon, Brando listens to himself. friend; a daughter who committed suicide. He deemed the United States a “cruel, mean society” and sought peace in Tahiti.

Listen to Me Marlon shows Brando as a flirtatious, evasive interview subject, rarely less than polite in the public eye. His sensitivity, undoubtedly stoked by his troubled childhood and fishbowl life, is both surprising and fascinating to observe. Among his trove of cassettes are self-hypnosis tapes—including at least one for weight loss—and a jarring session where he convinces himself to discuss his own rage.

A fiercely private person, Brando would probably have hated this film. Or maybe, one hopes, he would have shrugged it off as the nature of the beast that kept him both rolling in cash and miserable.

One of the handful of significant characters in Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm is a narcissistic jackass—but, surprisingly, he’s not played by Dolan. The so-called enfant terrible of queer cinema hasn’t gone totally modest, however, as he’s once again cast himself as the film’s titular star. (But he does appear to be “playing ugly.” Once you’ve seen Tom’s distracting, poodle-like DIY haircut, you’ll understand.)

Dolan adapted Tom at the Farm from the play of the same name; he and playwright Michel Marc Bouchard reportedly wrote the drafts relay-style. The director seems to have been a bit red-pen-happy, removing not only most of the theatricality but some important details, too. This quasi-thriller marks a new direction for Dolan, at least in terms of genre, and though it’s much more tolerable than earlier works like Heartbeats and I Killed My Mother (his green shows), in his efforts to make Tom more mysterious, Dolan’s made the film baffling and inaccessible.

Tom is a Montreal ad man whose boyfriend, Guillaume, just died. He travels to the country to visit his lost love’s mother and older brother, Francis, whom Tom did not know existed. It’s soon clear why. Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) is a violent tormentor whose simultaneous anger and obsession with Tom doesn’t exactly mask the basis of his homophobia. He informs Tom that his slightly batty mother (Lise Roy, who originated the role onstage) doesn’t know Guillaume was gay and demands that Tom say whatever it takes to maintain her ignorance. That includes pretending that Guillaume had a serious girlfriend.

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waiting for something worthy of its horror-movie touches to happen. Disappointingly, nothing ever does. There’s at least one jump scare, plus Hitchcockian flourishes like a tension-infused string score and lots of wide shots. Francis’ mother, who at first seems relatively sane—though preoccupied with the fact that Guillaume’s girlfriend hasn’t been in touch, and a little weird in general—acts increasingly bizarre. Roy’s dowdy look and gray ponytail recall The Shining’s Shelley Duvall, had her character survived the slaughter.

The more Francis berates Tom (“You’re just a waste of cum”) and assaults him as a release for his self-hatred and frustration, the more Tom succumbs to lust-fueled Stockholm Syndrome. Suddenly, the city boy is all about milking cows and maintaining the farm. The oddest scene in the film, though, is the most effective bearer of the movie’s disquieting undercurrent. It involves Francis’ spontaneous tango in a huge garage, and a revelation carelessly shouted over music—the kind you don’t want the subject of your revelation to overhear. The scene initially feels out of place, then turns stomach-sinking.

Still, Tom’s faults are too numerous to over-

The enfant terrible of queer cinema is slightly less terrible in Tom at the Farm.

look. Dolan never makes Tom’s grief believable; although he skillfully projects hypersensitivity (and seems to share Francis’ self-hatred), he rarely acts like someone whose lover has unexpectedly died. Worse, the climax asks several questions that are too open-ended to even warrant speculation.

Characters could be dead or alive; Francis may be a murderer or just a lonely bully. An actor is credited as Guillaume in the press notes, but aside from a quick glance of a photo on his casket, you never see him—Tom has only one flashback of the two of them, and you can’t see Guillaume’s face. Was he another victim of Dolan’s overeager red pen?

Moreover, is Guillaume really dead? And why does Tom find himself alone in the house one morning? There aren’t strong enough clues to support any theory, which ultimately makes Tom at the Farm another Dolan disappointment.

Happily, this time, it’s not for his same old enCP fant terrible reasons.

Listen to Me Marlon opens Aug. 14 at E Street Cinema. Tom at the Farm opens Aug. 14 at the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market.

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Year of the Manatee Standout Track: No. 4, “Boyfriend,” a smirking, post-punky number from BRNDA’s sophomore LP, Year of the Manatee.

Like most of the fourpiece’s best songs, “Boyfriend” is overtly quirky but also pretty accessible. Dave Lesser’s Fred Schneiderlike vocal warble may scare off the faint of heart—especially when he gleefully screeches “Jesus be my boyfriend” at the track’s end—but “Boyfriend” is, at its core, a damn fine rock song, with enough noodly guitar phrases and pummeling, uptempo drum hits to satisfy the Velvet Underground fan in anyone.

Musical Motivation: Considering the track’s wry, whacked-out lyrics, it’s hard to believe Lesser when he reveals the inspiration for “Boyfriend”: his churchgoing mother. Even harder to believe is that the song was written as a Christmas present to her.

“It went over fine,” says the singer, who performed it for his family on the holiday. “She still was slightly offended by it but not so much that it ruined Christmas.”

I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band): Lesser’s manic, talky vocals make frequent appearances on Year of the Manatee, making it easy to guess who his favorite frontmen are: David Byrne, Lou Reed, and Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch.

Lesser says he sings this way because wants his words to be heard and understood: “[My] lyrics are easier to get across if I’m talking.

—Dean Essner We are a wordy band.”

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At H Street NE food and clothing emporium Maketto, visitors can buy original watercolor paintings by local cartoonist Josh Kramer from a vending machine.

“Let them have gun laws! Let them have weed! Let them decide the things that they need!” John Oliver joined a bunch of kiddos in singing through the case for D.C. statehood on Last Week Tonight.

Montgomery County police arrested Shy Glizzy after the local rapper confronted cops (and, police say, tried to get onlookers angry) who were searching someone else for drugs.

The owners of Echostage will open Soundcheck, a new disco-inspired dance club, in the K Street NW space formerly occupied by Lotus Lounge.

Noted tenor saxophonist— and City Paper favorite—Elijah Balbed is leaving D.C. for the New York jazz scene.

The Washington football team will get de-slurred in Fox’s forthcoming futurist TV show, Minority Report.

Its new name: the Red Clouds.

With more than $630,000 in funding from more than 8,200 backers, the Smithsonian’s Kickstarter for the restoration and display of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit blew the institute’s other crowdfunding attempts out of the water.

Strike two for Melissa Chiu: The Hirshhorn director hired a curator with a big conflict of interest and will hold the museum’s 40th-anniversary gala in New York City.

An unauthorized guerilla installation of neon yarn by artist duo Toki was removed without the artists’ notice from a vacant building near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station.

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There are two Rube Goldberg machines now on view in “Play,” a big summer group show at the Arlington Arts Center that lives up to its name. A kite the size of a motorcycle has landed in the tree in the front yard. In the basement, there’s a—well, “fun-room” is probably the best way to describe it. And the exhibit is host to one of the best athletic competitions since “Dan & Dave.”

That might be a dated reference for some. “Dan & Dave” was a major Reebok campaign in the run-up to the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona that pitted American decathletes Dan O’Brien and Dave Johnson against one another in a proto-reality-TV contest for Olympic gold (and MTV glory). Even now, it might be the best lens for understanding the multi-piece, multimedia collaboration

by Annette Isham and Zac Willis on view in Arlington, in which the artists compete in three sports: the tomahawk throw, spear hunt, and 40-yard field-goal kick.

The artists talk the talk: “This is for the fans,” says Isham, an artist who falls somewhere between Lena Dunham and Cindy Sherman on the play-acting spectrum, as she prepares to toss a spear at a (fake) wild turkey. “I really want to bring home that W for them.” In videos and portraits, Isham and Willis strike a precious pose, but their commitment to verve in the face of arbitrary exercises is more Bruce Nauman than Wes Anderson.

Steven Jones’ “Yummy Go Round” provides the other laugh-out-loud moment in “Play.” His affection for Hungry-Man frozen dinner-sized portions, from enormous ridable chicken legs to motorized corns on the cob, reminds me of the way Ken Kagami uses strawberries and bananas to illustrate his disturbing, adult-content drawings. (Jones’ humor lacks the darkness of Kagami’s, though.) The same goes for Cory Oberndorfer’s self-explanatory yard works: “Kite,” “Lawn Dart,” and “Frisbee,” each one spanning at least 8 feet. “Play” is plenty playful, but it isn’t balanced by the uncertainty built into genre. It’s missing the terror of fairy tales, the horror of carnivals, and frankly, the formal edge of Pop Art. But “Play” makes up for a lack of depth with spot-on execution. You want thingamabobs? Catherine O’Connell’s got plenty.

Both she and Randall Lear contribute major installations that are made out of minor sculptures, and all those whatsits look like little sketches of a broader concept.

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Top: “The Field Goal Challenge” by Annette Isham and Zac Willis (2014).

Right: “Carnival Interior” by Scott Pennington (2015).

Lear’s installation, “Gaggle of Doohickeys,” takes the form of a wall-mounted, gallery-sized painting (which, unfortunately, cannot escape an undeniable comparison to Elizabeth Murray’s biomorphic-shaped canvases). O’Connell’s pieces, or “stories” (“A Story of Nuance,” “A Genuine Story,” and so on), read like a detailed sketchbook.

A big summer show like “Play” would be incomplete without something viewers could, you know, actually play with.

Three works deliver on the fun, starting with the immersive “Carnival Interior” by Scott Pennington, the aforementioned funroom. Then there’s “Mr. Yums Inc.,” a custom video game that asks visitors to take the helm at Mr. Yum’s factory. I didn’t have the patience for the video game, but artists Jason Corace and Sam Sheffield also built an attached, stimulating Rube Goldberg machine that’s a joy to mess with. Whereas the “Yums” business is refined and polished, “Dwell & Its Occupant,” the other big contraption (this one by Marty Weishaar), is made of fugitive materials. I kept hoping that Weishaar’s machine would fall apart in my hands—a design to thwart a viewer’s expectations for a game.

“Play” asks one serious question: Does

the work need the viewer? Is John James Anderson’s artist coloring book incomplete until someone takes a crayon to its pages? Becca Kallem is nearly too straightfaced for this group show, but it’s a good thing that curator Karyn Miller included her mini–solo show of paintings and sculptures. Kallem’s works include bold and soft colors, hard and soft edges, and more or less flat paintings. The axis in her work is experimentation, a catholicism toward form and format that is coalescing into a larger whole.

“Order Box,” for example, resembles a vinyl crate containing wood panels with geometric acrylic tiles. It doesn’t seem like a work that could be made by the same painter responsible for “Can’t Stop,” a large symbolist abstraction. The more Kallem explores the Tetris tangrams common to her works, the closer she gets to expressing a style built on play—which looks like hard work.

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a 16-year-old who unintentionally killed his younger brother six years earlier. Although a convicted criminal—“they made an example of him,” says his harried mother, Helen (Adrienne Nelson)—he’s been allowed to live at home with his parents and attend high school. Adam’s father, Charles (Dwight Tolar), a big-box store manager and Army reservist, keeps his grief buried by working as much overtime as he can stand. Adam’s older sister Kaylee (Danielle Bourgeois) acts out and can’t wait to leave for college. The youngest child, Ruthie (Grace Doughty), has no memory of the accident, which occurred when she was just an infant.

The social worker interviews them each individually, at a kitchen table covered in half-

Children kill one another with handguns more often than we think. That was the takeaway of the September 2013 New York Times story that inspired Marja-Lewis Ryan’s anguished play One in the Chamber.

The Times piece, “Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll,” by Michael Luo and Mike McIntire, documented how inconsistent reporting of minors’ shooting deaths from state to state—some are recorded as accidents, while others are deemed homicides—minimizes the prevalence of the problem. The story also discusses the gun lobby’s pattern of resistance to safe-storage laws and efforts to stymie technologies that would allow only a handgun’s registered owner to fire it.

It’s a powerful piece of reporting, more pointed in its intent than Ryan’s dramatization of how the accidental killing of one child at the hands of another haunts a Colorado family. Her fic- It’s all medicine and message, but a pair of extraortional scenario shares sim- dinary performances elevate this timely piece. ilarities with several of the real cases in the Times story: An adult has a folded laundry. Helen can barely suppress lapse of vigilance and leaves a firearm where her resentment at having to convince one a kid can get to it. Crucially, that adult fails of “you young, non-Christian people” that to clear the chamber of her semiautomatic her home is a suitable place for her survivpistol after removing the magazine, allowing ing son to remain. one round to remain. While the increased soThe cast that Michael R. Piazza has asphistication of representations of firearms sembled handles this grim material well. in movies, TV shows, and video games in Tolar and Nelson are both especially strong, recent decades seems certain to have propa- pivoting convincingly between forced gated a fascination, particularly among boys, make-nice smiles and flashes of pure rage. with firearms, this has not translated to a lev- Kate Sullivan’s set is a credible recreation el of “gun literacy” that prevents some ir- of the kind of overstuffed house a working responsible adults—never mind kids—from family of five might share, and its proximbelieving still-loaded semi-autos are safe. ity to the seats in the close confines of the While no one writes a play about the Mead Theatre Lab adds to the sense that shooting death of a 9-year-old because we’re intruding on a family that has enough they believe guns are not a problem, Ry- pain in their lives without our nosy opinan’s writing is largely free of didacticism, ions. And don’t we judge the families when at least until the abrupt, contrived conclu- we read that another curious kid has shot sion. Until then, she displays real empathy himself or a sibling? for her characters. And while the overall The show runs a mere 70 minutes, and at effect of the show is one of all medicine longer than that, its unrelenting bleakness and no sugar, it does feature a pair of ex- would likely be suffocating. But for presenttraordinary performances. ing its case in nonjudgmental terms, it de—Chris Klimek The play unfolds more or less in real time, serves our attention. on a Saturday when a social worker (Liz Os916 G St. NW. $25. (202) 315-1305. born) is dispatched on a home visit as part of a parole evaluation for Adam (Noah Chiet), oneinthechamberdc.com.

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FilmShort SubjectS Sex Smitten The Diary of a Teenage Girl Directed by Marielle Heller When it comes to sex at the movies, the guys usually have all the fun. There could be an entire Netflix subgenre of movies devoted to male pleasure. In fact, the MPAA has shown a disturbing double standard in this area; the 2006 documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated demonstrated how even the slightest implication of a female orgasm typically relegates a film to an NC-17 rating and, as a result, a dramatically smaller audience. We know this, but changing it is a more complicated task.

In that context, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a revolutionary act. Based on a graphic

the U.S.—in any sort of political or psychological context. In fact, Minnie is depicted as the instigator, and the script takes her affinity for sex at face value. “Are you a nympho?” a friend asks her, after Minnie recounts the story of her affair with Monroe. Minnie doesn’t answer, and neither does the film; it’s a question for another day.

Today is about celebrating Minnie and one of the most emotionally authentic depictions of teen life in recent memory. Consider the casting: It would have been easy for the producers to insist on hiring some hot, young thing to play Minnie. Surely model-turned-actress Cara DeLevingne (now starring in Paper Towns) would have put more butts in the seats, especially with the film’s liberal use of nudity.

But instead Heller chose Powley, a British actress who looks and acts, well, like a normal

For once, a mainstream film centers its sex on female pleasure. novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, the film is a pure work of entertainment that depicts female pleasure without judgment, shame, or objectification. It even opens in post-coital bliss.

Fifteen-year-old Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) has just lost her virginity and is walking slow-motion through a park, looking at the sunny, beautiful world through new eyes. It’s an effective start, capturing with perfect clarity that universal teenage moment when sex is the easiest way to feel free.

It turns out Minnie lost her virginity not to an awkward teenage boy (although she finds one of those later) but to Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), the mustachioed, beer-slurping boyfriend of her divorced mother with substance abuse issues (Kristen Wiig). Minnie may be acting out some resentment towards her mother, an armchair feminist who stopped maturing after the birth of her daughter. Plus, it’s San Francisco in the 1970s, when sexual exploration was encouraged, if not required.

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teenager. Minnie is a complex character struggling with physical and psychological transitions—her eyes are too big for her head, and her sexual appetite too advanced for her maturity level—but instead of burying those contradictions under eye candy, Powley bravely bares her humanity and captures all the jubilation, sadness, and terror of teenage life.

Still, there are cracks in the film’s bold, trope-busting aesthetic. A scene that reveals a character’s true colors during an acid trip feels like it’s been done before, and even the film’s central narrative device, implicit in its title, is a cliché. But these displays of genre convention serve a noble purpose: creating a soft, comfortable space for its more ground-breaking, provocative ideas. It’s a bitter pill of medicine in candy coating, and it makes the hard-earned but laughably obvious lesson—female characters can be sexual without being sexualized— —Noah Gittell go down smooth.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl opens Aug. 14 at E Street Cinema, Arclight Bethesda, Angelika Film Center at Mosaic, and AMC Loews Shirlington.

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Music

Friday Rock

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

Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit.

8 p.m. $27.50–$62.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

IoTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Fellowcraft, Freedom Radio, Fortuna.

8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

JammIn Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. Swell Daze, Sub-Radio Standard, Hello Dharma. 8 p.m. $10–$20. jamminjava.com.

JIffy lube lIve 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire.

7:30 p.m. $25–$125. livenation.com. marTIn luTHer KIng Jr. memorIal lIbrary 901 G St. NW. (202) 727-0321. Mellow Diamond featuring Janel Leppin. 12 p.m. Free. dclibrary.org/mlk. roCK & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Spirit Animal, Tribe Society. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

TropICalIa 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535.

Snails, Murphy’s Kids, Eastern Standard Time.

7:30 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com.

ElEctRonic u STreeT muSIC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. The Black Madonna, Martyn, Max D. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. The Kevin Cordt Quartet. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

countRy 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Jonny Grave and the Tombstones, Derek Evry and his Band of Misanthropes, Olivia Mancini. 8 p.m. $15. 930.com. bIrCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Dry Branch Fire Squad, Lou Reid and Carolina. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com. wolf Trap fIlene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band. 8 p.m. $25–$45. wolftrap.org.

Folk bIrCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Dry Branch Fire Squad, Lou Reid & Carolina. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

classical Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Duo Drumartica. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

DJ nights boSSa bISTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Dubwise with DJs Dutty Bookman and Spyda the DJ. 10 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND Does Lyle Lovett even need to make records anymore? His last album, 2012’s Release Me, was a collection of covers of his favorite songs that fulfilled his contract with Curb Records. He is years past his most memorable original work and decades past his brief foray into the tabloids when he was married to Julia Roberts. And yet most of the good seats are already gone for his Wolf Trap show and the lawn will likely be full, too, of fans in search of an evening of laidback songs and some Texas humor. Lovett and his Large Band rarely fail to deliver, alternating between original favorites like “Here I Am” and “Church,” and an array of eclectic covers of artists like Ida Cox, Townes Van Zandt, and the Grateful Dead. Lovett always entertains, even if he’s not giving us anything new. Lyle Lovett and his Large Band perform at 8 p.m. at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

—Steve Cavendish (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Discnotheque with DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler. 10 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.

saturday Rock

blaCK CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Shark Week. 9 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. merrIweaTHer poST pavIlIon 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Phish. 7 p.m. $45–$65. merriweathermusic.com.

Funk & R&B boSSa bISTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Baked Potatoes, Samurai Pizza Cats. 10 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.

THe HamIlTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Chubby Carrier & The Bayou Swamp Band. 8:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

ElEctRonic u STreeT muSIC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Louis the Child, Shawn Wasabi, J.R. Nelson.

10:30 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

paTrIoT CenTer 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax. (703) 993-3000. Michael W. Smith, Crowder, Brandon Heath, Jamie Grace, Sidewalk Prophets, Josh Wilson, Exodus. 3 p.m. $20–$65. patriotcenter.com.

Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Charles Covington Jazz Organ Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

roCK & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Sumac, Black Clouds, Sweet Cobra. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kim Scudera with Rob Orwin. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

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countRy wolf Trap fIlene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Little Big Town, David Nail, Ashley Monroe. 7 p.m. $35–$42. wolftrap.org.

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Rock

Folk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Touchpants.

11:30 p.m. $12–$25. 930.com.

manSIon aT STraTHmore 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville. (301) 581-5100. Uke & Guitar Summit Open Mics. 6:30 p.m. $15. strathmore.org.

blaCK CaT baCKSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Do Likes, the Combs. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com.

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sunday

reSTon Town CenTer 11900 Market St., Reston.

(703) 912-4062. Jambulay and the Panmasters Steel Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Free. restontowncenter.com.

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

Roc Mikey, UCB, Hippie Life Krew. 11:59 p.m. $30–$50. thehowardtheatre.com. u STreeT muSIC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Over-Doz. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

DJ nights 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Hot In Herre: 2000’s Dance Party with DJ’s Will Eastman and Brian Billion. 9 p.m. $15. 930.com. blaCK CaT baCKSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Right Round with DJ Lil’e. 10 p.m. $7. blackcatdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Poseurs : 32nd Annual Reunion with DJ Mohawk Adam. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. marx Café 3203 Mt. Pleasant St. NW. (202) 5187600. Latin Rock with DJ Luis. 10 p.m. Free. marxcafemtp.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. NE-HI, Stereoriots, Alex Tebeleff. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. merrIweaTHer poST pavIlIon 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Phish. 7 p.m. $45–$65. merriweathermusic.com. roCK & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. The World Is a Beautiful Place..., Pianos Become the Teeth, Turnover, Take One Car. 7 p.m. $16. rockandrollhoteldc.com. wolf Trap fIlene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. ABBA - The Concert. 8 p.m. $25–$42. wolftrap.org.

Jazz THe HIll CenTer ,. (301) 593-4777. Sine Qua Non. 5 p.m. Free.

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

Strunz and Farah. 8 p.m. $25–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

countRy Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Humming House. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

When plans for its summer production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters fell through at the last minute, the folks at Scena Theatre didn’t panic and try to put the cast’s just-acquired Slavic accents to work in a new Russian play. Instead, they recruited a cast of regular contributors and returned to a light and lively romp they last produced in 2011, ensuring that the show—albeit one entirely different in mood and genre—would go on. As he did four years ago, Scena Artistic Director Robert McNamara helms the company’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the silly comedy of errors about a marriage proposal gone awry. As a way of paying tribute to the multiple roles Wilde played in his personal life (dedicated family man and father; closeted, teenager-seducing bon vivant) and commenting on the gender fluidity of the play’s characters, male and female actors swap roles, with some men playing assertive women and some women portraying effeminate men. Whether that change takes away from Earnest’s message about male and female relationships is up for debate, but this comedic caper seems much more suited for D.C. in late August than the heavy material that could have been staged in its place. The play runs Aug. 15 to Sept. 13 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. —Caroline Jones $25–$45. (202) 399-7993. scenatheatre.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE

The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die is a statement of belief, an audacious kind of secular faith, and the name of the (at least) eight-piece band headlining Rock & Roll Hotel this weekend. In the group’s contribution to the new wave of emo music that has traversed the U.S. over the last decade, screaming accompanies high-pitched singing, all of it laid over aggressive drumming and guitar that’s mellow one moment and screeching the next. Despite a regularly revolving lineup that currently splits vocal responsibilities among four singers, TWIABP has developed a passionate, nationwide fanbase that, in all likelihood, will cheer and perhaps shed a few tears while the Connecticut-born band sings about beloved hometowns and committed best friends. Fellow third-wave emo groups Pianos Become the Teeth and Turnover open the show, giving audiences noisy, passionate honesty in a convenient variety pack.

The World Is a Beautiful Place… performs with Pianos Become the Teeth, Turnover, and Take One Car at 7 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $16. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhotel.com.

—Kevin Carty

Folk manSIon aT STraTHmore 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville. (301) 581-5100. Uke & Guitar Summit Open Mics. 6:30 p.m. $15. strathmore.org.

WoRlD boSSa bISTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Atemi Oyungu. 9 p.m. $7. bossproject.com.

Monday Funk & R&B

madam’S organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. One Nite Stand. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

countRy Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Secret Sisters. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Folk manSIon aT STraTHmore 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville. (301) 581-5100. Uke & Guitar Summit Open Mics. 6:30 p.m. $15. strathmore.org.

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blaCK CaT baCKSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mobius Strip, Booby Trap, Psychic Subcreatures. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

wolf Trap fIlene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. ZZ Top, Blackberry Smoke. 8 p.m. $30–$45. wolftrap.org.

Funk & R&B madam’S organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Johnny Artis Band. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

WoRlD dar ConSTITuTIon Hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 628-4780. Juanes, Ximena Sarinana. 7:30 p.m. $18.50–$78.50. dar.org.

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

Blackalicious, Future Band, New Breed Brass Band.

8 p.m. $25–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

Vocal u.S. CapITol weST lawn East Capitol and First streets NW. U.S. Air Force Concert Band and Singing Sergeants. 8 p.m. Free. visitthecapitol.gov.

gospEl Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Lee Boys. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Wednesday Rock

blaCK CaT baCKSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Literature, Expert Alterations, the Rememberables. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gravity Lens.

9 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Adia Victoria, Annie Stokes. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

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

Jazz Is Dead feat. Alphonso Johnson, Jeff Pevar, Tom Constanten, Rod Morgenstein, and Chris Smith. 8 p.m. $30–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

THe HamIlTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Donovan Frankenreiter. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

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boSSa bISTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Tara Trinity Project. 10 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.

ElEctRonic u STreeT muSIC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Alexander Lewis and Medasin Masego with special guests. 10 p.m. $5–$7. ustreetmusichall.com.

countRy Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Bumper Jacksons. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org. merrIweaTHer poST pavIlIon 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Willie Nelson and Family, Old Crow Medicine Show. 8 p.m. $45–$75. merriweathermusic.com.

Folk madam’S organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Bob Perilla’s Big Hillbilly Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

wolf Trap fIlene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra, Uncle Kracker, Eve 6. 7 p.m. $35–$100. wolftrap.org.

Funk & R&B Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Vivian Green. 8 p.m. $25–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

ElEctRonic u STreeT muSIC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Nicholas Jarr, Brian Billion. 10 p.m. (Sold out). ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz beTHeSda blueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Steve Tyrell. 8 p.m. $35–$45. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $27.50. bluesalley.com. duKem bar and reSTauranT 1114 U St. NW. (202) 667-8735. Alan Palmer Quartet. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Free. dukemrestaurant.com.

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wolf Trap fIlene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

8 p.m. $25–$50. wolftrap.org.

Kennedy CenTer mIllennIum STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Reginald Cyntje. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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blaCK CaT baCKSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Cowards Choir, Coconut Milk, Super City. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. boSSa bISTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The El Reys, Marcus Webb. 9:30 p.m. $10. bossproject.com.

mr. Henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Old Town Tradition. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

WoRlD madam’S organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Patrick Alban and Noche Latina. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

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“SUMMER HUMMER: FOREPLAY”

The male revues that have passed through the region in the wake of Magic Mike XXL may have let ticket buyers down, but lovers of fit, hunky men who can dance (and sing! and act!) should hold out hope that Signature Theatre’s fourth annual “Summer Hummer” show won’t disappoint.

More than 60 D.C.-area performers will appear onstage in various states of undress at the annual cabaret variety show, which Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will direct. The previous three Hummers have raised more than $130,000 for the Taking Care of Our Own Fund, a pool of money that assists members of the local theater community with health care costs and other related needs. Those who have signed on to sing this year include Sherri Edelen, Will Gartshore, Donna Migliaccio, Nova Payton, Tracy Lynn Olivera, and Nicholas Rodriguez. Also performing: two ensembles who have dubbed themselves the Jockstrap Boys and the Foreplay Pasties. Come out to support the cause, bring cash to tuck into a dance belt, and be there for the big reveal. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell —Rebecca J. Ritzel Ave., Arlington. $35. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

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BLACKALICIOUS More than a decade after its carefully honed album The Craft stunned critics with its technical precision and lyrical gymnastics, Sacramento, Calif., hip-hop duo Blackalicious finally returns with new beats. Members Gift of Gab and Chief XCel plan to self-release their fourth full-length album, Imani, Vol. 1, on Sept. 18; the two subsequent parts of what’s expected to be a trilogy will come out over the next two years.

For the unfortunate souls who can’t get Daniel Radcliffe’s politely accented rendition of Blackalicious’ “Alphabet Aerobics” out of their heads, the new tracks from Imani will provide merciful relief. Expect a preview of Imani and a nod to the group’s older hits—delivered with a bit more oomph than Harry Potter’s Tonight Show attempt—when the duo stops at the Howard Theatre. Opening act New Breed Brass Band, a nine-man outfit from New Orleans, comes to D.C. full of energy, sounding like Earth Wind & Fire took over your high school pep rally. Blackalicious performs with Future Band and New Breed Brass Band at 8 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $25–$45.

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graCe CavalIerI Cavalieri, a popular poet and producer of the WPFW program “The Poet and the Poem,” reads from her new memoir, Life Upon the Wicked Stage. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 14, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. roberT draper In Pope Francis and the New Vatican, National Geographic contributors Robert Draper and David Yoder give readers an inside look at this ancient institution and explain how Pope Francis has changed the papacy. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 18, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. eroTICa Slam THree! Participants read their sexiest compositions and the audience votes for its favorite entry at this third annual celebration of erotica.

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CarolIne fredrICKSon In Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over, the author, the president of the American Constitution Society, explores how women can fight for the rights, be it maternity leave, minimum wage, or health insurance, they are entitled to. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 17, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. raJua HaSSIb Hassib compares the lives of two families living on the same New Jersey street, a group descended from Puritans and a family with roots in Egypt, in her first novel, In the Language of Miracles.

Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 20, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. rICHard Hoffman, may rIHanI Hoffman, a nonfiction writer, reads from his memoir, Love & Fury.

Rihani reads from Cultures Without Borders. The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. Aug. 16, 2 p.m. Free. (301) 654-8664. aSHer prICe In Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity, Price describes his attempt to dunk a basketball at the tender age of 34. In the process, he learns about the limits of human abilities, beginning with his own. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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OngOing: “Ellen Cornett.” After winning Project America’s Next Top Master Artist contest, Cheverlybased artist Cornett presents a variety of work in this solo show. Aug. 3–Sept. 26. dC arTS CenTer 2438 18th St. NW. (202) 462-7833. dcartscenter.org. OngOing: DCAC members and amateur artists display their own work at this annual celebration of experimental and inventive art.

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amerICan moor In this one-man show, acclaimed actor Keith Hamilton Cobb explores race in America by using Shakespeare’s famous moor, Othello, as a metaphor. Cobb’s play also examines diversity, the state of American theater, and unadulterated love. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Aug. 16. $15–$25. (202) 544-0703. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

THe booK of mormon The Broadway musical about two missionaries and their misadventures in Africa arrives at the Kennedy Center for an extended summer stay. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 16. $43–$250. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. dear evan HanSen In this moving musical, Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) stars as a man who appears to have a perfect life—a beautiful girlfriend, a happy family, and a chance to finally fit in—but his secrets threaten the life he’s built. Tony Award nominee Michael Greif directs this new piece about how we survive in a modern world. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 23. $40–$100. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

InTImaTe apparel Deanna Dykes and Kristin Poe direct this moving drama about a Black seamstress in early 20th century New York who works for everyone from wealthy clients to prostitutes and yearns to find love. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Aug. 29. $20–$25. (202) 544-0703. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

JulIuS CaeSar The schemes of Romans and the downfall of the emperor are revealed in Shakespeare’s classic play, presented at Olney Theatre Center by the National Players. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To Aug. 16. $10–$15. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. onCe An Irish musician meets a young piano player in this romantic, Tony Award-winning musical based on the film by John Carney. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 16. $65–$135. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

TxT Brian Feldman presents this interactive show in which he reads anonymous online messages sent from audience members every Sunday in 2015. Anything goes in terms of subject matter and profanity, so arrive with no expectations. American Poetry Museum. 716 Monroe St. #25. To December 27. $15–$20. (800) 838-3006. txtshow.brownpapertickets.com.

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beST of enemIeS The lively televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley are remembered and examined in this documentary directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

How we dIed of dISeaSe-relaTed IllneSSeS, boneS In wHISperS Longacre Lea presents these two plays about the consequences of disease as part of Women’s Voices Theater Festival. In How We Died..., an American returning from abroad is isolated when he contracts an unnamed illness and is forced to confront his own mortality in comedic ways. In Bones in Whispers, two clans who have survived a plague confront each other using guns and hip-hop dance to express their feelings. Longacre Lea at Callan Theatre at Catholic University. 3801 Harewood Road NE. To Sept. 6. $20. longacrelea.org.

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darK plaCeS Charlize Theron stars as a woman who reinvestigates the brutal murder of her family in this film based on the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

her sexuality by beginning an affair with her mother’s boyfriend in this drama based on the novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. Starring Kristin Wiig, Bel Powley, and Alexander Skarsgård. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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THe end of THe Tour The early career of author David Foster Wallace is examined in this biopic starring Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky, the Rolling Stone reporter assigned to write about him. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) fanTaSTIC four Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, and Jamie Bell star as four superheroes tasked with saving the world from an evil enemy in this contemporary reimagining of Marvel’s long-running series.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THe gIfT A mysterious man reenters the life of a couple he went to high school with in this disarming thriller starring Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, and Joel Edgerton. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) HIppoCraTeS: dIary of a frenCH doCTor A young doctor examines his limits and fears as he works under his doctor in this French drama directed by Thomas Lilti. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) lISTen To me marlon This documentary uses n never before heard audio recordings to tell the story of Marlon Brando’s career and life. Unlike a typical documentary, that uses talking heads to comment on the subject, this one just relies on archival audio and video. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THe looK of SIlenCe An optometrist whose brother was killed in the Indonesian genocide seeks closure in this documentary from Joshua Oppenheimer. He finds it by confronting one of his patients, who was involved

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Starring Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, and her daughter Mamie Gummer. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SHaun THe SHeep The popular British animated character comes to the big screen in this film, which finds Shaun and his friends lost in the Big City ans struggling to find their way back to the farm. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) STraIgHT ouTTa CompTon The story of pioneering rap group N.W.A. is told in this biopic starring Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, and N.W.A. member Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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15 Warm mildtasting cereal 16 Continuous change of a nothing worker?

18 Bo’s family 19 Cleaned up after a drive by?

21 Burlesque show prop 24 Result of overthrowing a TE, say 25 Mined stuff 26 Some christening invitees 28 Pup with no family 29 Good place to kneel?

32 Underwater breather 33 “Tiny Bubbles” entertainer 34 ___ florentine (Italian cooking term)

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43 Old brewing equipment 44 Stifler’s mom in the American Pie series 46 Half hexadeca47 Dotted line scribble, briefly 48 Stavanger’s nat.

49 Bronco tamer who avoided mass layoffs?

54 God whom Greece’s capital is named after 55 The tater to rule them all?

59 Like angry bulls 60 Before, to a pretentious poetry student 61 Startle 62 French military hats 63 Versatile white bean 64 Court document

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Down 1 Shrink, as computer files 2 Diamonds, to gangsters 3 Besides that thing 4 Inexpensive alternatives to resorts 5 He died on “The Day The Music Died” 6 Shoot out flames 7 Smart watch missive 8 Operation setting?

9 Some brutal exams 10 Marathon trainer’s stat 11 Body language?: Abbr.

12 Yorkshire girl 15 Glutton’s helping 17 “Just throwing it out there,” initially 20 Brawny competitor 21 Powerful person 22 Like some bhaji 23 Completely wrong 27 Larter of the Resident Evil series 28 Get on your high horse?

29 Added, as to an account 30 Cause of warmer winters 31 “Parsifal” composer 33 Performs well 36 Opinion, in a saying 37 Martian’s weapon in The War of the Worlds 38 Hither’s opposite 44 Low-fare bus 45 Wide-eyed 46 Cheri of Liza Life Coach 47 Veep between Hubert and Gerald 49 Enjoy the rays 50 Social change magazine 51 Website section with a cart 52 ___ out (barely gets) 53 Letters accompanying some blue links 56 Average number 57 Machine gun with two safeties 58 Clue collector: Abbr.

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