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14 spice world Synthetic drugs have plagued D.C. for years.

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CHATTER Spin, Doctored If there’s one takeaway from the

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In which our readers apply to fix Metro

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reader response to last week’s Loose Lips column (“Smoke Screen,” Aug. 28), it’s that there are plenty of candidates WMATA could have hired instead of NEAR ANNAPOLIS, the pricey PR firms they contracted IN CROWNSVILLE, MD to clean up one of its latest messes.

Let’s pull together a list of qualified candidates!

LL name-dropped the gadfly Twitter account @FixMetSaturdays & Sundays ro (aka Chris Barnes who’s now posting as @FixWMATA; pick a through October 25th handle, already!) and FixWMA10 am - 7 pm TA blushed at the mention: “FlatRain or Shine tered, I’m sure.” FixWMATA got some brand-new fans: all_elevators_out wanted to know, “How do we get @fixwmata in as GM? Not only does no one want that job, but let’s face it, folks, he can’t be any worse.

100% serious.” Candidate One. suspiils.

Visit Our Website for deta cious_package had an excellent—albeit unorthodox—solution for handling these kinds of PR crises in the future: “For that kind of money, they could have hired the Spin Doctors instead. Little Miss, Little Miss Can’t be Wrong…”

Solid nomination. Candidate Two. Or, BruceMajors4DC suggested, hire some educrats: “$250,000 for no PR campaign. For that they could have hired two or three mid-level educrats to not teach anyone.” Candidates Three and Four. noodlez, the shoutiest of our regular commenters, lawere foiled by LL aka Will sommer aka Willy Earl in noomented that WMATA really never stood a chance if they dle-speak. “IF THEY CAN’T EVEN KEEP IN-HOUSE

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On Facebook, someone actually defended Metro, and we’re going to call him out by name, because it happened in a public forum and we’re still peeling our jaws off the floor.

Chris Rybicki wrote, “Good for WMATA for caring about their image. Why wouldn’t they hire a PR firm to help them through a disaster? Please…” Candidate Six. Then, of course, an accusation of flack-dom was hurled. Lauren Hall got salty when she replied, “If they care about their image so much they should update their crumbling infrastructure to avoid more DEATH. What are you Chris, one of their flacks?” Apologies: Candidate Six has scratched from the list —Emily Q. Hazzard for already being on payroll.

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Police voted overwhelmingly that they had “no confidence” in Chief Lanier, but only a third participated. washingtoncitypaper.com/go/ChiefVote

Loose Lips

Activist Judged

Darrow Montgomery

Eugene Puryear reinvents himself as one of the mayor’s newest foes.

By Will Sommer All summer, whenever Muriel Bowser and Eugene Puryear have been in the same room, it usually means trouble for the mayor.

In May, Bowser tried to end a sleepy affordable housing tour of Shaw with a press scrum at Uprising Muffin Company. What could go wrong with muffins?

Puryear, who works nearby, was at Uprising on his coffee break. He saw his chance. In front of a cafe full of TV cameras, he confronted the mayor about Metropolitan Police

Department tactics next to a visibly uncomfortable HUD Secretary Julián Castro.

The muffin incident was only a warm-up for last week, when Puryear and more than a dozen other activists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement tried to shout down Bowser. Puryear stood in front of TV cameras with a protest sign, prompting the mayor to ask him to sit down in the middle of her speech.

Bowser came to the Congress Heights gymnasium to announce her plans to control the rising homicide rate; she ended up looking

like she couldn’t even control a decent-sized crowd. The mayor eventually answered questions from reporters behind guarded doors, where the likes of Puryear couldn’t interrupt her again.

After a summer that has left the District with as many homicides so far in 2015 as in all of 2014, Puryear finds himself part of a coalition of activists that says Bowser’s new crime plan amounts to a crackdown on poor black men. Whether the communities that Puryear and co. purport to help actually want their assistance, however, remains to be seen.

Puryear, a 29-year-old Charlottesville, Va. native who came to the District in 2004 to attend Howard University, plans to run for vice president next year on the socialist ticket.

(Being too young to legally hold the office in the bizarro world where he could win, Puryear says, is just another kind of protest.)

But District voters probably remember Puryear best from last year’s general election, when he ran for one of the at-large setaside seats on the D.C. Council. He nabbed less than 4 percent of the vote, a surprisingly decent return for a member of the blighted Statehood Green Party.

Puryear, who now lives in Congress Heights, says he won’t run for a Ward 8 or atlarge seat next year. That means he has even more free time to hassle the mayor and MPD Chief Cathy Lanier.

Officially, Bowser sympathizes with the movement that has blocked District highways and left presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders flustered. She peppers her speeches with promises to make Black Lives Matter “more than just a hashtag.” Her “Safer, Stronger D.C.” crime plan, headed to the Council later this month, woos activists with promises to reduce nuisance traffic stops and offer some criminals easier paths out of jail.

At her backroom press conference, Bowser said she didn’t understand why the activists crashed her speech. After all, who supports murders?

For Puryear, though, Bowser’s promise to add more police on the streets will amount to more officers available to monitor, push around, and potentially kill black Washingtonians. After the Washington Post reported that detail of the plan, Puryear says his group, Stop Police Terror Project D.C., started organizing with other affiliated groups to crash the speech.

In their telling, adding more police and making it easier to search violent offenders on probation might be the quickest solution

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to the District’s rising murder rate, but it’s not the best one.

“Many of us felt, ‘OK, we’ve gotta be there now,’” Puryear says.

The protest meant headlines and television time for Puryear and his colleagues, but it has also opened up a rift between him and community bigwigs.

“Most of those people in [the protest], I ain’t never seen them in my community,” says anti-violence worker and longtime Bowser Green Team associate Ron Moten.

To gain supporters, the city’s Black Lives Matter activists have to convince communities to look for longer-term solutions like job training instead of welcoming new MPD officers to their street corners.

That could be a tough sell. As laid out in Jill Leovy’s book Ghettoside, and demonstrated in countless viral videos, black communities across the county are regularly over-policed on minor crimes like vehicle violations or the sale of loose cigarettes, but under-policed on more serious crimes. In some parts of the city, a larger MPD presence could be a welcome change.

“The rational people do want more police,” says Ward 8 pol Sandra Seegars.

Ward 8 pol Sandra Seegars, for one, is happy to have more cops in her neighborhood.

“The rational people do want more police,” Seegars says.

Puryear faces another problem in his campaign: the popularity of Lanier, who has managed to run MPD for eight years while avoiding any career-ending controversies.

Over the weekend, MPD’s union voted overwhelmingly that it had no confidence in Lanier, albeit with less than a third of its membership participating. Its members are

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pressuring the chief on the other side of Puryear, demanding the return of vice units that activists blame for “jumpout” searches. But even the union’s poll of District residents found that Lanier enjoys a roughly 60-percent approval rating.

Lanier is down from her stratospheric 84-percent approval rating four years ago, but the numbers don’t suggest she’ll be fired any time soon. That leaves Puryear trying to figure out the reasons for her longevity, and he thinks he’s found

one: her appearance.

“Obviously, she can’t help who she is as a person,” Puryear says. “But I mean, you know— blonde woman, youngish look, something that is traditionally a sort of friendly meme, avatar kind of thing in our American culture.”

Puryear sees the District as one suspicious police killing away from a Ferguson- or Baltimore-style uprising. He cites the 2007 police shooting of 14-year-old DeOnte Rawlings in a Washington Highlands public housing complex as an example of the kind of death that would provoke widespread protests now.

Seegars isn’t convinced. Despite this year’s rising death total, she doesn’t see the relevance in the city’s poorest wards for activists focused on racism and police brutality.

“There’s no white person that snuck over here in the night and killed black people,” CP Seegars says.

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#HashtagPolitics In the age of social media, the hashtag has become a convenient way for politicians to get their message out and build momentum. In February, for example, Hillary Clinton made headlines by tweeting #GrandmothersKnowBest—a tongue-in-cheek response to anti-vaccination advocates—and appealing to a large portion of her base: elderly women. (This was, of course, before #Emailgate blew up, which goes to show hashtags can cut both ways.)

On the local level, Mayor Muriel Bowser has conjured up a hashtag storm since entering office in January, using them to promote her initiatives. Last Thursday, she kicked off the #SaferStrongerDC campaign, a citywide effort to cut down on violent crime. Activists with their own hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, interrupted Bowser’s presser.

Inspired by a tweet from our own Gear Prudence (#bikedc, #blessed), here are some of Bowser’s best hits, with definitions offered to help you sort through the argle-bargle. —Andrew Giambrone

#All8Wards

The one that started them all, and may have helped get Bowser elected as mayor. (We’re not exaggerating: Even Pharrell used it.)

#AlleyPalooza

A program to “provide targeted, expedited alley maintenance services.” With a pricetag of $3.7 million, we’re a little disappointed it didn’t feature bouncy castles in back alleys.

#DCKidsRideFree

A program, started two weeks ago, that expanded free Metrorail access to DCPS students.

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Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week WMATA blamed “a combination of human error and flawed Metro processes” for an August derailment.

#DCProud

The name of Bowser’s inaugural ceremony in February, for which she spent $1.15 million. The hashtag has subsequently been used as a catch-all for warm fuzzy feelings about D.C.

#FitDC

“A comprehensive health and wellness initiative that links residents to nutrition and physical fitness resources in their communities.” Can you feel the burn in your thumbs?

#DCWantsEqualPay #FreshStart Bowser heralded this one as #StillNot100 she succeeded Vince Gray.

On National Pay Day, in April, Bowser’s Office on Women’s Policy and Initiatives called for parity in the workplace for women and minorities.

New mayor, new leaf?

#HomewardDC

Bowser’s “bold effort to end homelessness.”

#IWishUKnew

Though sounding like a TSwift song, this one was in fact “designed to foster a dialogue between residents and key stakeholders” after the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

#SaferStrongerDC

An anti-crime initiative launched in late August. (“Retweet and stand with me.”)

Gear Prudence: Should I buy an electric bike? My current commute is about eight miles and I usually drive. Some days I take Bikeshare to work and then Metro home, but I think if I had the extra boost going uphill, I would bike more days.

—Overcoming Hills Motorized

The WELCOME HOME mortgage.

Dear OHM: An electric bike does sound like a potential solution. Most eBikes allow you to pedal normally and engage the motor when you need it, either to maintain a certain speed or to add some extra oomph to your uphill efforts.

For the most part, D.C. law treats eBikes like regular bikes (you don’t need a license, you can ride in bike lanes) but they are restricted from riding on all sidewalks and bike paths even when the motor isn’t running.

While an eBike does spare you the hassles of driving, they’re not without their own: They tend to be more expensive than nonmotorized equivalents, and you’ll need to be mindful of the battery. Likewise, an engined bike could prove more complicated to repair than a purely mechanical one. A joy of bicycling is the simplicity—get on it and go— and you trade some of this away for the power boost. Nevertheless, eBikes are a perfectly viable choice, and there’s a wide variety of op—GP tions, so shop around.

Gear Prudence: My office is having its annual cupcake baking contest. I normally commute by bike, but I’m worried that this might lead to a mishap and jeopardize my chances of winning.

I’m a really good baker and confident in my flavor profile, but presentation is also a key factor in the judging. Do you have any tips for transporting frosted baked goods by bicycle, or should I just suck it up and get to work a different way that day?

—Biking Around Keeping Eats Righted Dear BAKER: A perfunctory Google search for “cupcake-carrying bike weirdo” tells GP that this concern is fairly common and there are some definite best practices. These concern stability and absorption—ensuring that movement is minimized and road vibrations are mitigated, normally through the use of padding (bubble wrap, packing peanuts, crumpled up pages of Martha Stewart magazines). A specialized cupcake carrier might also be worth the investment depending on the size of your batch and your commitment to being a crazy person who desperately wants to win a workplace cupcake contest.

Going by bike seems doable, but still risky.

Instead, just bring the unfrosted cakes to work and sneak away right before judging with your piping bag. Then it’s just a short —GP walk down the hall to victory.

Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsDC. Got a question about bicycling?

Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

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SAVAGELOVE I’m confused about my sexuality. For many years, I thought I preferred hetero-romantic asexual relationships. Exposure to select reading material—thanks to my gender-studies classes—has me convinced I’m an asexual t-type (i.e., “top,” but I prefer not to use such connotative terms) female who is attracted to slight and feminine men.

I do not want to take off my clothes or engage in oral, anal, digital, or vaginal sex. Instead, I want to design sexual situations that comely young gentlemen will consensually enter: restraints, CBT, whippings, play piercings, fisting.

To make matters worse, I’ve never been in a sexual situation or romantic relationship. I am 23 years old. Extremely low self-esteem and a lack of trust in other people—especially men who are attracted to women—prevented me from reaching out to others, let alone informing a potential partner about my unusual interests. Fortunately, extensive therapy sessions have improved my self-image and willingness to take risks. Developing a romantic friendship with a potential partner is essential. I doubt I will have much luck on the internet or at munches given that so many men doubt the existence of exclusively t-type females. I also don’t fit or wish to fit the stereotypical Bettie Page–esque image of a t-type female. Dressing up in PVC and playing Mistress is not my thing. Do you have any recommended how-to guides or communities for t-type females?

—Beyond Envisioning Any Solutions T-type P.S. I’m trapped in the closet.

You should go to munches and put yourself out there on the Internet, BEAST, because in both those places/spaces you’ll meet—I promise—other t-type/Dominant women and the men who want to worship them and suffer at their hands.

Your knowledge of the BDSM/kink/fetish community seems pretty distorted—it sounds like your exposure has been limited to reading materials distributed in your gender-studies classes—but I can assure you that there are men out there, some of them slight and femi-

nine, who not only don’t doubt the existence of exclusively t-type/Dominant females but are actively seeking them. But you’re not going to find them under the rocks in your garden or at the back of your fridge. You’re going to have to enter kinky places/spaces to meet kinky guys.

There’s another type of person in those kinky places/spaces you need to meet: mentors. It’s particularly important for someone with your interests—CBT, whippings, piercings, and fisting are not JV kinks—to meet, speak with, and be mentored by knowledgeable players. These are varsity-level kinks—they are skill sets that take time to acquire. You’re going to need instruction from people with experience before you start torturing a guy’s balls or sticking (clean and sterile) needles through the head of his cock or his nipples, BEAST, as you could do serious and lasting damage to someone if you’re winging it. Munches are your best bet for meeting the players and educators in your area who take mentorship seriously. Be open about who you are (an asexual t-type female/Dominant woman), your ideal partners (slight and feminine sub guys who are into SM, not sex), and your experience level (nonexistent). Ask about classes, don’t do anyone/anything that makes you uncomfortable, and do the reading. (Check out Greenery Press for titles on female dominance, CBT, flogging, and other varsity kinks.)

You know who else you’ll meet in the kink scene? Women who don’t fit stereotypical Bettie Page–esque images, don’t dress up in PVC, and don’t play Mistress games—but you’ll also meet women who enjoy doing all of those things, BEAST, as well as women who could take or leave Bettie Page, Mistress games, etc., but who dress up because it turns on their partners and/or attracts the kind of men/women/SOPATGS* they’re interested in restraining and torturing. When someone is indulging your thing (a slight and feminine guy is giving you his cock and balls to torture), it’s simply good manners to in-

dulge his things (letting him call you “Mistress,” if that’s something he enjoys, or pulling on a little PVC).

And give yourself permission to grow—or to continue growing. You used to think you were one thing (a hetero-romantic asexual), and now you realize you may be another thing entirely (an asexual t-type/Dominant female who is attracted to slight and feminine men).

Who knows what you’ll learn about yourself once you actually start having IRL experiences? (Also… most guys into hardcore BDSM—particularly hardcore masochists— regard CBT and whippings and piercings as sex. Not foreplay, not a substitute for sex, but sex. Something to think through before you have a slight and feminine guy’s balls in your hands: Your “victim” may experience your play as sexual even if you’re experiencing it differently, i.e., you may not feel like you’re having sex with them, BEAST, but they’re going to feel like they’re having sex with you. Is that okay with your particular flavor of/theories about asexuality?)

P.S. You’re not trapped in the closet—that door locks from the inside. You can open it —Dan Savage whenever you’re ready. * Some other point along the gender spectrum.

I’m a foot-fetish guy who split up with my girlfriend of four years. She was into all the foot stuff, and we got into lots of other kinks. My concern is about meeting new women. I’m worried I’m not going to be able to perform for vanilla sex. I feel almost doomed to being solo unless I meet someone who is into the same stuff I am. I was able to do vanilla with my ex, but I don’t know if I can do vanilla stuff with other girls. Do you have any advice on what I can do to change my mindset? Is it possible for me to perform vanilla activities if I am present and relaxed with a girl?

—Just Asking You You told your last girlfriend about your kink, JAY, and you can tell your next girlfriend about it. Act like it’s no big deal—“I have a thing

Act like it’s no big deal—“I have a thing for feet”—because… it’s no big deal. for feet”—because… it’s no big deal. But if you’re too shy to say anything, or you’re afraid of being dumped by a girl who’s a foot-fetishphobe (you should be in a hurry for those girls to dump you), there’s only one way to find out if you can perform vanilla activities with a new —Dan girl: Give it a try.

I had an Ashley Madison account. But I did not create “my” account. Anyone can register an account using anyone’s e-mail address, and deleting fake accounts costs money. Now my e-mail address is on a public database of AM users. People with accounts on AM are victims of the hackers, which you thankfully addressed in your last column. But members—actual and fake—were first victims of Ashley Madison. Shitty security aside, AM is a hub of extortion: no e-mail verification, pay-to-delete (not that your account is actually deleted!), and tons of fake accounts purporting to be women (to balance the real, paying accounts from men). My happily monogamish wife and I use OkCupid and FetLife, which helped us find our way to local swinger and BDSM clubs. There are websites that aren’t reliant on fake users and extortion to build and then entrap a user base.

—Fuck Ashley Madison Everywhere Thanks for sharing, FAME. Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net

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ok the city so long to mount a full response?

Nebiyu Jamal Fanta was still training as a clerk at Benning Market & Dollar Plus in December 2013 when narcotics investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department came in asking whether the store sold products such as “Spice,” “K2,” or “Scooby Snax.” Fanta said no and consented to a search, which nevertheless turned up 1,822 packets of what are known as synthetic cannabinoids. No arrests were made.

Investigators had visited this shop before.

In March 2013, MPD Chief Cathy Lanier had assigned them to visit stores across the District to notify owners that the sale of such products was illegal. Manager Mohammed Wollie had assured them the Kingman Park convenience store would not be a problem.

Just two months later, an undercover agent purchased a 3.5-gram packet of “Bizarro” for $15 from the store. Investigators found a safe containing 557 packets of that and similar brands, plus $3,114 in cash. This time, Fanta was arrested. For reasons law enforcement officials decline to explain, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which prosecutes felonies in the District, did not charge him with any crime, and he was released.

But in October 2013, a D.C. grand jury indicted Fanta for possession with intent to dis-

tribute a controlled substance and extradited him from Minnesota. He is due in D.C. Superior Court on Sept. 9. Thus far, no other charges have been filed in the case.

Until this summer, Fanta’s was one of only five cases on file in D.C. Superior Court, even as MPD Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Muriel Bowser cite synthetic drugs as a contributing factor to a recent spike in D.C. homicides and tout some 70 synthetic drugrelated arrests this year. Overdoses among homeless persons have further elevated the issue to what is being described as a public health crisis and a threat to public safety. D.C. officials said they initially suspected synthetic drugs were a factor in the stabbing death of 24-year-old American University graduate Kevin Sutherland aboard a Metro Red Line train on July 4, then began to question the suspect’s mental state. Lanier has cited the drugs as a factor in three other unidentified homicides, and in July, the Pretrial Services Agency says 20 percent of recent violent crime suspects had tested positive for synthetic drugs.

Now, after years of dithering, and in the midst of a summer crime wave, D.C. officials have leapt into action with a series of legislative, regulatory, and investigative efforts—

both civil and criminal—aimed at preventing the drugs from overwhelming a city. But in spite of the newfound urgency, the question remains: What took them so long?

Synthetic drugs are not a new phenomenon. Since 2008, the Drug Enforcement Administration has identified more than 400 different types, sometimes at a rate of two per week. Synthetic cannabinoids, so named because they sometimes mimic the effects of THC, consist of man-made chemicals applied to leafy plants such as damiana and marshmallow leaf, then labeled as incense or potpourri and “not for human consumption.” Inexpensive, and colorfully packaged with silly names, the drugs are popular among high school students: In 2012, one in nine reported that they had used the drugs at least once. The National Forensic Laboratory Information System found usage skyrocketed from just 23 reported cases in 2009 to 32,784 in 2013.

Prior to 2010, no government entity controlled the drugs, though the Federal Analogue Act allows authorities to treat synthetics as controlled substances if they are “pharmacologically similar” to Schedule I or II drugs. (Schedule I drugs are those which

have no medicinal value and a strong potential for abuse.) In 2011, the DEA exercised its emergency scheduling authority over five types of synthetic cannabinoids. By 2012, the substances were classified as Schedule I drugs.

The Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act placed 26 cannabinoids into Schedule I, and the DEA continues to add to the schedules.

States have gotten involved in controlling these drugs, too: At least 43 states have taken action to control one or more synthetic cannabinoids. In order to prove that a new drug is an analogue of a controlled substance, the government must convince a judge or jury that the chemical structures and pharmacological effects are similar, and that the substances are intended for human consumption.

The DEA says it has, along with federal and state agency partners, executed three significant synthetics operations since 2012: Operation Log Jam resulted in enforcement actions in more than 115 cities across 32 states; and Projects Synergy and Synergy Phase II led to seizure of more than $145 million dollars in drug-related assets and more than 50 tons of synthetic drugs, with large transfers of the proceeds traced to Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.

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Payne, none of those takedowns involved cases out of D.C. The rising number of problems—especially medical emergencies—linked to synthetics precipitated the DEA’s crackdown response. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, nationwide emergency calls related to cannabinoids rose from 2,668 in 2013, to 3,680 in 2014, to 5,652 through August of this year. D.C. is no exception: Recent anecdotal reports indicate that high schools, homeless shelters, jails, and youth rehabilitation centers are teeming with overdoses and individuals presenting with alarming symptoms that are difficult to diagnose.

What officials characterize as a public health crisis or an epidemic of abuse also appears to be rooted in a sluggish response by both local and federal governments to glaring signs of trouble ahead.

Retail purchase of Spice and related products was as easy as buying a can of soda when, after making a number of undercover cocaine buys and obtaining a search warrant, MPD drug investigators entered the D.C. Fish Carryout at 3475 14th St. NW on Feb. 2, 2012, and found plastic bags, scales, cocaine, and a pound of K2. The synthetics were not yet illegal in the District, so the owner, Suk In Hyun, pleaded guilty to distribution of the coke and was sentenced to a year of probation.

But in a handwritten note on the plea agreement, a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office noted, “This agreement does NOT encompass or relate to the ‘K2’ or synthetic marijuana/cannabinoids found in the Fish Carryout. The government reserves the right to bring federal charges against [Hyun] relating to the K2 and/or synthetic cannabinoids in the store.” Not only did the U.S. Attorney’s Office never bring federal charges in the case, until this week, the office had not publicly charged any seller or distributor of the substance in federal court.

Abuse of synthetic cannabinoids continued unrestricted throughout 2012, prompting the D.C. Council to adopt legislation to add them to the D.C. drug schedules that largely mirror the federal schedules. But instead of classifying them as a Schedule I drug like the federal government does, the District classified them as a Schedule III drug, on Nov. 29, 2012. Schedule III classification is reserved for drugs that have medicinal value, which Spice does not. The contradiction left prosecutors without authority to charge anyone caught selling the drug.

The Council compounded its error in December 2012 when it approved legislation that subjected users to up to six months in jail, ignoring one of the fundamental truths of drug enforcement: Prosecuting users does not work. “The war on drugs has a long history of giving authority to crack down on users with the same outcomes year after year,” says Grant Smith, federal policy director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which at the time urged the Council to regulate the sale to minors and go after retailers.

The D.C. Department of Health was the first agency to take remedial action, using its emergency rulemaking authority in November 2013 to classify “cannabimimetic agents” as Schedule I drugs, a rule that would remain in effect for 120 days, giving the Council four months to enact legislation. Those 120 days came and went, however, and the rule expired, again allowing sales and use to go unchecked. Finally, DOH implemented a rule that made synthetic cannabinoids a Schedule I drug on Oct. 20, 2014—more than two years after investigators found a pound of K2 at D.C. Fish.

Neither Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who chaired the Committee on the Judiciary in 2012, nor Tommy Wells, who succeeded him, nor Kenyan McDuffie, who currently chairs the committee, returned calls for this article. Bowser’s office referred questions to DOH and the D.C. Department of Consumer Regulatory Affairs.

“Once you start selling it, you don’t have to look for a distributor. They come knock at the back door.”

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“You a day late and a dollar short, baby,” said a store clerk named Denise one day in July, when I showed up at Aida’s Electronics and asked if the store sold Spice. “If we still sold it, there’d be a line around the block.”

Indeed, Aida’s, at 209 Florida Ave. NW, was once a high-profile seller, clearing $15,000 a week in wholesale alone, according to Denise. She said a middleman would take down an order, go to one of a couple of locations, in either Chinatown or Adams Morgan, and come back with the goods. “There’s lots of ways you can get it,” she said, mentioning the Internet. “But once you start selling it, and people see you’re doing good, you don’t have to look for a distributor. They come knock at the back door.”

During Lanier’s March 2013 initial push to tamp down on these drugs, synthetics were still classified as Schedule III. Investigators made their first visit to Aida’s on March 18, 2013, according to court records, and confiscated 184 packets and 16 jars of the drugs.

Authorities told store owner William Early, a former MPD officer, that in the future they would arrest him or any of his employees for breaking the law. They made good on their promise to pay the store a follow-up visit, returning five times over the next 18 months, during which they made three more seizures, four undercover purchases and four arrests (including two of Early); and responded to a shooting.

Despite DEA lab tests that were positive for synthetic cannabinoids at the federal level, Early was never charged in any criminal court, local or federal. Because of an administrative oversight, the emergency regulation that made the substances illegal in the District expired on March 4, 2014, and were not re-instated until June 20, a critical threemonth lapse that scuttled any chance for local prosecution. Instead, DCRA eventually designated Aida’s shop as a nuisance property under an April 2014 law that allowed officials to revoke a business’ license if it was caught selling synthetic cannabinoids. A police affidavit from Nov. 13, 2014, states that Ear-

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“It’s a distant fourth in terms of priority, behind heroin, cocaine, and meth.” ly was undeterred by DCRA notices, arrests or police notifications. At one point he simply transferred the business license to a family member to avoid prosecution. It was not until July 15 that the D.C. Office of the Attorney General went to court and obtained a permanent injunction forcing Aida’s to shut down for a year.

“We done, baby,” Denise told me during the recent visit. “[Early] might be down in Jamaica by next week.” (A follow up call went to a voicemail message referring callers to an-

other electronic repair serviceman.)

DCRA continued to file revocation notices for five other stores, winning a decision from the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings to shut down two of them. With MPD’s help, the agency has investigated dozens of additional businesses since the 2014 law went into effect, a spokesman said. (A similar law, hastily approved earlier this summer, now allows MPD to automatically shut down a business for 96 hours without having to seek OAH approval, while DCRA impos-

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es conditions to ensure that owners cease the sales of synthetic cannabinoids.)

Vanessa Natale, chief of the OAG’s Neighborhood and Victims Service Section, says her unit has aggressively used a D.C. statute that allows the OAG and DCRA to halt illegal activity at “nuisance properties” where drugs, guns, or prostitution exist, even though the office does not have authority to prosecute felonies. “Our goal is abatement,” Natale says. “We consider it a win to not go to court.” The OAG, Natale says, has

used the rule to shut down several properties in addition to Aida’s.

“If we had jurisdiction I would arrest and prosecute these people,” Natale said. “This isn’t granny in Florida that owns a mom-andpop store being run by a tenant. We try to do the best we can with what we have.”

So why has the long arm of the law been slow to respond to the growing crisis?

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Synthetic Popularly referred to as “synthetic marijuana,” the toxic, sometimes lethal category of drugs more accurately identified as synthetic cannabinoids surfaced in the U.S. in 2008, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Ohio seized a shipment of what also became known as “Spice.”

Though still used as shorthand, “synthetic marijuana” is a misnomer. According to the DEA, the base ingredients are intended to produce a hallucinogenic state of mind akin to that of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in the real thing. But unlike marijuana, they can result in seizures, vomiting, and organ damage.

Synthetic cannabinoids are produced mostly in foreign labs by companies who market them as “legal alternatives” to marijuana, with the added benefit of being difficult to detect in a standard drug test. They are shipped to the U.S. where they are mixed with acetylene and sprayed onto unregulated substances that look like marijuana: damiana leaf is a wild shrub that grows in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, and historically it was used as an aphrodisiac in tea; marshmallow leaf grows wild in Europe, Southwest Asia, the U.S., and Canada.

The DEA says the latter has antiinflammatory properties.

Colorfully packaged and labeled “Not for Human Consumption,” synthetic cannabinoids are sold in retail stores or on the Internet as “Herbal Incense” or “Potpourri.”

They commonly are sold in 3-gram packets for as much as $20. Some brands include: Bizarro, Scooby Snax, Dr. Feelgood, and High Life.

The DEA reports that one in nine 12th graders experimented with the drug at least once in 2012. Local news reports dating as far back as 2011 showed the drug to be popular with midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy; regionally, reports showed undercover DEA agents visiting tobacco shops back in 2011 and asking for brands such as “Hysteria.”

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simply too elusive to get a handle on: Drug tests for users do not detect synthetic cannabinoids; the drugs have diverse ways of coming into the marketplace; manufacturers in China keep changing the chemical compounds to evade prohibited drug schedules.

Veteran law enforcers wonder if the Justice Department is equipped to meet the challenges of the epidemic. Former DEA special agent Jonathan Duecker, now the special agent in charge of the Pennsylvania State Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigations and Drug Control, says his state schedules drugs more aggressively than the federal government and field tests the substances in order to more swiftly proceed to trial.

“When we come across Spice, we’ll charge under the state controlled substances act like any other drug, but unless you’re seeing a large number of overdoses, you wouldn’t know it’s out there,” Duecker says, distinguishing the substance from heroin and cocaine, which are organic and have more established supply networks. “DEA is in the least best position to enforce it. They are not positioned to go into small bodegas. They’re not first responders. It’s a distant fourth in terms of priority, behind heroin, cocaine, and meth.”

D.C. is hamstrung in this sense because MPD does not have its own drug analysis lab and therefore has to rely on DEA to analyze illicit substances, just as it relies on the U.S. Attorney’s Office to prosecute felonies.

Narcotics experts and law enforcers say that, in general, the government does not bring charges unless a lab analysis shows a specific positive match to a Schedule I substance. Although the 1986 federal analogue statute applies to synthetic substances that are “pharmacologically similar” to Schedule I drugs and produce similar effects, it requires proving that they are intended for human consumption, as well as expert chemical testimony, which invites opposing expert testimony from the defense. Yet the paucity of cases filed in D.C. Superior Court related to synthetic drugs also suggests either lack of coordination among partner agencies or plain old bureaucratic gridlock. Officials at the DEA’s Washington Division, which covers D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, do not dispute this notion.

Karl Colder, special agent in charge of that division, says opioids and synthetic opioids pose the biggest threat to public health and are a top priority—“hot ticket items, so to speak,” he says. But in a recent interview, Colder conceded the rise of synthetic drug arrests in 2011 and 2012, coupled with the chemical complexities and high volume requests for lab analyses in general, led to a “log jam” that requires better coordination with MPD and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “All drug evidence has to be tested in our labs, so it’s key that we are on board with whatever agency is requesting analyses,” he says. “If we don’t identify those [evidentiary] exhibits, that’s where delay comes in. That’s where we were having coordination issues.”

According to Colder, MPD can take its seized evidence directly to the DEA’s drug

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testing lab in Largo, Md., but if they do not coordinate with his office, then that can result in delays, depending on how other agencies’ requests for lab analyses are prioritized. MPD also can submit its evidence in court through the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Colder says, but prosecutors prefer drug evidence to come through DEA first, after it has been analyzed at the DEA lab in Largo. The U.S. Attorney’s Office deferred to MPD for answers about how it handles seized drug evidence. In an email, Gwendolyn Crump, an MPD spokeswoman, says, “Illegal drugs seized are sent to the DEA lab for analysis.” She did not elaborate.

“Every agency wants to be independent,” Colton says, adding that the agencies “are putting past differences aside” to become better coordinated. “The issue is how to get evidence to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for prosecution. It’s really about sharing information and coming together as one unit to solve a problem.” In that spirit, Colder also notes that DEA is offering to assist the District in establishing its own drug testing lab. (The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences already boasts a cutting-edge Consolidated Forensic Laboratory, though a national accreditation agency suspended it in April for 30 days, finding that city analysts “were not competent.”)

In law enforcement parlance, a case is “no-papered” when the U.S. Attorney’s Office declines to prosecute the individual whom police have arrested and charged with a crime, or when it shelves the case indefinitely. City Paper reviewed more than two dozen synthetic drug-related arrest reports dating back to 2012—not including the more than 70 arrests Lanier says her department has made in 2015. When asked about the number of arrests vis-a-vis just five cases filed in D.C. Superior Court, William Miller, spokesman for Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent Cohen, says, “Just because a case is no-papered doesn’t mean it’s dead. Some of these are ongoing cases.” (The office filed two more cases just last week, Miller says, and has others in the pipeline, including longer-term investigations that reach beyond D.C.’s borders.)

A press conference at MPD headquarters on Wednesday, which showcased a $2.3 million bust, seems to show that agencies are finally engaged. No one, however, would speak to the relatively small number of prosecutions.

Given past differences among D.C.’s local and federal law enforcement agencies, it’s not hard to imagine how a problem like Spice or K2 could metastasize. Observers have taken note: Teri Janine Quinn, advisory neighborhood commissioner in the Ward 5 district that includes Aida’s, says she hounded the city for months for real, tangible action. “MPD officers were doing everything allowed under the law,” Quinn says. “I pushed them as much as I could. It was frustrating for them, for the residents, and for me.”

Natale, of the OAG, confirms that the city’s criminal law enforcement bureaucracy has been a factor in D.C.’s lack of pros-

ecution of synthetic drug cases. “Anecdotally, I have heard of frustration over this conundrum of delays or refusal to conduct lab tests,” she says.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says it has been actively pursuing synthetic drug cases and has established a Rapid Indictment Process.

Cohen, in particular, has been going out into communities for years, talking to youth and homeless persons about the dangers of the ubiquitous yet somehow elusive drugs. The office also is exploring backup plans such as looking to independent drug analysis labs to expedite evidence processing. Says Cohen: “Our job is to bring local and federal resources together to make it work. We are attacking this problem on multiple levels. When we get a prosecutable case, we act on it.”

His office should have plenty to work with. Crump says the MPD’s Narcotics and Special Investigations Division has 180 officers dedicated to various specialized units, though she did not specify whether any are dedicated solely to the Spice epidemic. She cited 450 reports of overdoses in June alone, and massive amounts of synthetic drug seizures to illustrate the gravity of the problem and efforts to solve it.

Yet even in recent months, after multiple arrests and seizures, consequences for corner store owners have been far from dire. In July, DCRA shut down its first store, Bladensburg Market Dollar in Trinidad, and ordered the store closed for 96 hours while they weighed potential fines and imposed a remediation plan. But arrest records show that while investigators seized more than 1,000 packets of synthetics between September 2013 and August 2014, no criminal charges have yet been filed.

Fanta’s case is even murkier. Originally no-papered, Fanta now is the first person to be charged in D.C. Superior Court. But why him, a store clerk, and why not the manager, Mohammed Wollie, or the store’s owner?

Even if prosecutors have the right man, why did it take them seven months from the time of the first seizure to charge him?

Fanta’s lawyer declined to discuss the case, citing his pending trial date. Reached in Minnesota, where he is under “High Intensity Supervision,” Fanta says he never saw the drugs enter the store and the manager never gave him any specific instructions other than to sell it. He says he didn’t know it was illegal until the police came in. Asked why he thinks he was targeted, he vaguely suggests he is being made a scapegoat. “I am Muslim,” he says quietly.

On a recent visit to Benning Market & Dollar Plus, Wollie, the store manager, was behind the enclosed cashier’s area. He said the store had been sold, and he declined to identify either the former or the current owner.

Though wary of my questions, he said it was business as usual, except the store no longer sold Spice. However, around the corner, young men congregated in alleys, and homeless men and women huddled nearby, with desperate looks that suggested a break from reality—or a trip to the emergency room— CP was just a small, colorful packet away.

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D.C.’s first creamery is finally making cheese

Conan and Genevieve O’Sullivan produce cheese curds at Sona for the first time.

The creamery at Sona Creamery near Eastern Market has remained unused since the adjoining restaurant and wine bar opened in January 2014. But last Friday, wife-husband owners Genevieve and Conan O’Sullivan pulled encyclopedia-thick slabs of cheese curds out of a jacuzzi-sized cheese vat, then chopped them up into squeaky bite-sized pieces for the first time. An inspector from the D.C. Department of Health looked on, occasionally taking photos on his phone to document the process.

The O’Sullivans have had to literally rewrite food production rules in D.C. to even get to this point. But after more than a year and a half of navigating regulatory hurdles and buildout issues, they’ll finally sell their first housemade cheese this weekend. It’s a long time coming not just for Sona, but for the District as well.

As far as the owners are aware, the cheesemaking operation will be the first ever in D.C. The O’Sullivans hired freelance writer Whitney Pipkin (an occasional Y&H contributor) to look into the history of cheesemaking in the District. “She did a public records request and all that, and we can’t find anything that was commercially operated,” Genevieve says.

The O’Sullivans initially planned to open the creamery around the same time as the bar and restaurant, but the buildout became far more complicated than expected. A core drill was sent through the concrete building six times just to get the boiler system installed. “When we talked to our creamery friends, they’re like, ‘Yeah, those are city problems,’” Conan says.

“There’s no blueprint to do this in the middle of a city,” Genevieve says. While there are some urban cheesemakers elsewhere in the country, they’re few and far between. The O’Sullivans say they’re aware of fewer still that have a hybrid creamery, retail shop, restaurant, and bar setup like Sona. Windows between the dining room and production facility allow diners to see the cheesemaking in action. The creamery is also visible to passersby on the street.

Anywhere else in the country, a creamery would be regulated by the state’s agriculture department. In the absence of such an agency in D.C., the O’Sullivans have worked primarily with DOH and petitioned for variances in the food code that are specific to aging and curing cheese. “If you were to try to age cheese at the accepted refrigeration standards, it wouldn’t age, it would die,” Genevieve says. They’ve been allowed to bring raw milk into the District because they’re not selling it as a product.

They will pasteurize the dairy themselves or age it according to federal standards.

DOH says it’s received guidance on how to inspect creameries from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as sought input on inspections from other parts of the country. The health department is specially training certain people to inspect the creamery, so the business won’t just get a random health inspector coming in who doesn’t know about the process.

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Even though the process has taken a long time, the O’Sullivans say working with DOH has been relatively smooth. The fact that D.C. government officials have already updated regulations regarding food trucks, breweries, distilleries, and charcuterie makers over the last few years has helped lay the groundwork for cheesemaking. “All of this new manufacturing is what’s really new to them, because for so long, D.C. didn’t produce anything,” Genevieve says. “When all you were doing was going in and inspecting restaurants, it’s a huge change.”

Conan says the health department official they first met with way back in 2013 “lit up” when they talked about their plans, having recently worked with D.C.’s new charcuterie makers. “We’re sitting there and the health inspector’s telling us, ‘Yeah Three Little Pigs [now Straw Stick & Brick], super cool place... I can eat boar’s head all day long,’” Conan recalls.

It also helped that the O’Sullivans had previous experience in the regulatory world— although not as it pertains to cheese. Before moving to D.C. from Olympia, Wash. in 2012, Conan was executive director of the Washington State Recycling Association. Genevieve was previously director of communications for the National Association of State Foresters. “That little modicum of regulation that we both speak I think helped us actually be able to do this,” Conan says.

The O’Sullivans got into cheesemaking as hobbyists. “We’re project people. There’s some zen in project stuff for us, and so cheese naturally just appealed to us,” Conan says.

“It’s like 90 percent process, 5 percent terror,

5 percent magic.”

As they started getting more serious, they begged friends who had creameries to let them come learn more.

Conan also took cheesemaking classes at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and the couple joined the American Cheese Society, through which they got to know more of their ilk. “Cheesemakers are super open and they’re super willing to tell you what you’re doing wrong,” Conan says—as long as you’re not after their recipes. “One good cheese recipe can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

The Pacific Northwest already had plenty of cheesemakers, but in D.C., they saw the chance to break into a burgeoning food scene. The couple already had family here and visited regularly. “D.C. really grew on us. We both started to feel like locals anyway,” Genevieve says.

“And when we decided we were going to do this business, and just seeing how D.C. was finally finding its foodie self, it just made a lot of sense to us.”

The O’Sullivans plan to begin by putting housemade cheese curds on the menu, which they’ll also pair with poutine as soon as this weekend; goat cheese will follow next week.

They’ll also produce a few styles of brie, which take four to five weeks to age. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian has given the O’Sullivans permission to harvest herbs and flowers from the Victory Garden to use for their cheeses. But their real dream is to cover a wheel of brie in cherry blossoms in the spring. “That would just be magical for us,” Conan says. They’d also like to collaborate with DC Brau to produce a brie washed in Penn Quarter or another beer.

Harder cheeses like gouda take at least three months to age, but the O’Sullivans will likely wait six months to a year “when you get that little bit of crystallization, that pop, like a parm would have,” Conan says.

As they become ready, the cheeses will, of course, be available at Sona’s bar and restaurant. The O’Sullivans have also been in talks with the likes of Whole Foods and Nationals Park about possibly carrying their products down the line.

But for now, they’re are just happy to be scooping curds out of the cheese vat.

“I’m pumped,” Conan says.

“It feels like Christmas,” Genevieve says.

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what we ate last week:

Chicken rice bowl, $8.80, SKWR Kabobline. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5

what we’ll eat next week:

Smoked chicken muffuletta panini, $13, Brookland’s Finest. Excitement level: 4 out of 5

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Dîner en Bank Photo by Laura Hayes

It costs $37 (plus an $8 “membership” fee) just to attend Dîner en Blanc, the flash mob phenomenon in which thousands gather in cities across the globe to picnic in all white.

For that price, participants receive the exclusive opportunity to spend even more money: the ticket price doesn’t include any food, drinks, or even tables and chairs. Instead, everyone must haul their own meal and table settings following strict guidelines (no ivory! no beer! dress elegantly!). The costs can add up fast. Just take a look at the lists of expenses shared by a handful of attendees.

—Jessica Sidman $30 Coleman folding table from Amazon $24 two white chairs from BizChair $33 white plates, tablecloth, and linen napkins from Target and Crate and Barrel $3 white crate to carry items

$40 two folding chairs from Ikea $20 white shadow stripe jacquard tablecloth from Ikea

$29 folding hand truck from Home Depot $16 bottle of Apothic white wine purchased through Dîner en Blanc $63 Great Gatsby food basket and cookies purchased through Dîner en Blanc $202.50 white Kangol hat, slacks, belt, socks, two shirts, shoes, pants, and sandals $8 two Metro cards $18 bouquet of white flowers from Whole Foods and LED candles from Home Depot $9 Fiji Water, Coke Zero, ice, and Styrofoam cooler from CVS

Total: $435.50 $285.53 four bottles of Champagne and two bottles white wine $75 white pants, white shoes, and a white belt (the woman’s dress was so expensive, she wouldn’t say how much it cost.) $140 groceries for four including caprese salad, charcuterie, cheeses, grilled flank steak with chimichurri, roasted potatoes, and grilled asparagus

$70 groceries for mushroom and lentil pâté “faux gras”; Sicilian eggplant and pine nut caponata; and prosciutto, sage, and feta involtini

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$65 polished cotton Trashy Diva dress from eBay

Price: $9.95

$425 custom hat from Louise Green Millinery

Total: $625 $100 all-white picnic menu of cheese and crackers, crab meat tortellini, and cheesecake from Trader Joe’s $6.95 white duct tape from Home Depot (“I was really spooked that the charcoal grey trim on our borrowed folding chairs would get us kicked out.”) $50 white tablecloth, white napkins, battery-operated candles, glass votive holders, glass pitcher, and glass vase from Target $8 Essie “Blanc” nail polish from Target

$175 white table, two chairs, linen, table decor, LED candles, and glassware

$30 white sneakers from H&M

$40 cigars

$9 cab home

Total: more than $715.53

Total: $253.90

brew in town Bluejacket Spectre Brett IPA Where in Town: Bluejacket, 300 Tingey St. SE Price: $12/750 mL Rock the Boat The Navy Yard of yesteryear is long gone, but it’s easy to find reminders of the thousands of sailors who have manned the ships once built there. Take Bluejacket, whose very name is military slang for

The Dish: The Bar Stool Rodeo Burger

$10 white oblong serving dish from Ikea

What It Tastes Like: This is an open-wideon-your-first-bite kind of burger. The coffee gives the Bar Stool Rodeo a savory and earthy taste, and the toppings add hints of spiciness, sweetness, and crunch. It’s a burger Axl Rose would likely approve of.

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an enlisted U.S. sailor. Neighborhood Restaurant Group owns and operates the brewery, which occupies a mammoth red brick and glass building once used in the manufacture of ship boilers and armaments. But even this vast space has proved too small— last month, Bluejacket unveiled a bottle shop and tasting room adjacent to its on-site dining room, the Arsenal. Open Fridays and weekends, the shop features six beers on tap and, as of last week, 16 bottles to take away.

Yeast On This Among those bottles was Spectre, an IPA fermented with Bluejacket’s house strain of Brettanomyces bruxellensis, a

What It Is: Ground coffee beans are mixed into the patty, along with salt and pepper for seasoning. The burger is then pan-seared and dusted with more dry coffee grounds. It comes served on a bun with melted cheddar cheese, fried poblano peppers, and sweet barbecue sauce. “This is an over-thetop burger that sort of plays off a Southwest burger,” chef Adam Harvey says. It’s served with a generous pile of waffle fries.

yeast known for the funky, earthy character it imparts. The beer is dry-hopped with two of my favorites: the tropical fruit-invoking Nelson Sauvin varietal from New Zealand and Falconer’s Flight, a blend of the best citrusy and piney hops from the Pacific Northwest. Spectre’s aroma suggests grapefruit and lemon rind. Its flavor is reminiscent of slightly sweetened marmalade on water crackers enjoyed with a dry chardonnay. The balanced 6.8-percent-alcohol brew’s finish is beautifully dry with a simultaneously sweet and bitter aftertaste. First released last summer, the recipe continues to evolve, but this latest result easily ranks among the best beers the Bluejacket team has produced. So —Tammy Tuck far, anyway.

The Story: The Bar Stool Rodeo burger fits right into the electric-rock vibe at the latest restaurant and bar from Jackie Greenbaum (El Chucho, Bar Charley). There’s a navy blue Corvette parked out front, the jukebox plays ’70s and ’80s power ballads, and the menu features a variety of monster burgers. Harvey says he imagines that this burger would have played frontman in an ’80s hair-metal group.

In fact, the whole premise of the menu is meals that match the rock-themed space.

Also, believe it or not, coffee is becoming a popular add-on to a lot of burgers, Harvey says. “You’re starting to see chefs and restaurants use coffee as rub or spice. It has this bitter, nutty taste that really adds something to the burger.”

—Tim Ebner

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Levity Is the Soul of It

Two of the Smithsonian’s best stages for international contemporary artists deliver a kitsch-y carpet from Egypt and stoner film from Spain.

Perspectives: Lara Baladi At the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Black Box: Sergio Caballero At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

By Kriston Capps Stand back when you see Lara Baladi’s “Oum el Dounia (The Mother of the World).” All the way back: Only from across the room do the details in this 29-foot-long artwork make the right kind of sense. The 2007 piece is a photo collage—or at least, it started out as one. Baladi printed this tapestry (so to speak) using a digital loom, stitching together this playful vision of an oasis from dozens of picture postcards, personal snapshots, and other images. From afar, the overlays of the photo images stand out as clear tiles.

The composite tells a story about popular Egyptian narratives using myths that aren’t native to the country. Characters from The Little Mermaid and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (childhood folktales born in Denmark and England, respectively) populate the scene in “Oum el Dounia.” The piece looks like a storyboard for a Disney mashup of these myths, perhaps adapted for a Middle Eastern audience. According to the artist’s statement, the mermaids are meant to represent the person of Alice’s sister as well as Mary Magdalene, but they look a lot like go-go dancers from New York’s Mermaid Parade.

The picture plane is divided into two horizons, desert and sky, but the vibe is much beachier, even kind of mod, groovy.

The piece draws on an especially touristy vision of Egypt, one that Baladi appears to embrace as fun, or at least amusing. The Egyptian-Lebanese artist is looking at pictures of her homeland through a Western lens and laughing along. With “Oum el Dounia,” the artist is reappropriating the cliche.

Up close, “Oum el Dounia” is abstract in a Pointillist way.

Like any collage, this is a piece that ought to reward close looking. Just as the piece signifies how popular photography misrepresents place—and how, in a desert oasis, even natures strives to trick the eye—there ought to be something about the construction of the work that delivers some sense of the uncanny. But “Oum el Dounia” is an illusion in the most disappointing sense.

The physical texture produced by the digital loom doesn’t render any secrets of the desert. The grain is blurry.

Baladi is the latest artist to appear in the Freer and Sackler galleries “Perspectives” series, one of the Smithsonian Institution’s best forums for showcasing contemporary art from Asia and beyond. Among the likes of Ai Weiwei, Chiharu Shiota, and DoHo Suh, Baladi is a refreshing choice for her lack of pretense.

There’s something subtle and subversive about her depiction of the Great Sphinx of Giza as it might appear in a souvenir tchotchke: cartoonish, framed on both sides by beautiful brown women in bright-colored dresses. But to see the pop appeal, take the long view.

“Ancha es Castilla” or “N’importe quoi,” the names for Sergio Caballero’s Black Box video piece at the Hirshhorn, kind-of sort-of translate to “Anything Goes” and “Whatever” in English. In it, a fingerling potato, a piece of something that might be eggplant, and some choreographed clumps of trash act out the plot of The Exorcist. It’s like a horror flick directed by the Brothers Quay, the excelsior stop-motion animators, but produced by Shingy, that AOL “digital prophet” guy; it’s a dark poem written by Nathalie Djurberg, the Swedish video puppet artist, but illustrated by Tyler the Creator, L.A.’s enfant terrible.

In other words, Caballero’s work is high art that lands low. The Spanish artist favors cheap, fugitive materials: lint, hair, foam, cardboard, fabric, food, and other stuff. But the misfits are only the half of it: The video’s transparency, the artist’s disdain for art-world preciousness, mark “N’importe quoi” as low in the way of Dieter Roth or Joseph Beuys.

Or maybe it’s low art that aims high? Insofar as a video starring garbage can be straightforward, “Ancha es Castilla” or “N’importe quoi” is extremely legible. It follows a nuclear family distressed by the daughter’s possession by a demon, over the course of a 25-minute movie broken up into a bunch of short episodes or vignettes. A mostly DIY endeavor, it owes as much to Lloyd Kaufman or Roger Corman as it does to any video-installation artist.

One real surprise: It’s funny! “Alegría is at a rave… she has been possessed by Beelzebub,” says the father, a sprouting potato. (Caballero voices many of his sculptural subjects.) “And how do you know it’s Beelzebub?” asks the mother, a wad of junk who only wishes to go to the bar. “Wikileaks,” he responds. On repeat viewings, I was never the only person in the Black Box chuckling at its bizarro sizzle.

Still from “Ancha es Castilla” or “N’importe quoi”

by Sergio Caballero (2014).

Repeat viewings are absolutely warranted. The sets— dark, dead forests—may be a reference to Goya’s black paintings; anyway, they help to frame the work as grotesque. For a video whose stars appear to be held together by gum and shoelace, the staging is quite intricate, featuring cutaways that allow Caballero to move his puppets throughout without interrupting the action. The direction and cinematography may serve silliness, but n’importe quoi. It works in a visually captivating way.

The emerging artists from around the world who show at the Hirshhorn’s Black Box rarely deliver stoner absurdity. At first glance, Caballero’s video looks risky. Pull any string—literally or metaphorically—and the whole thing might fall apart. But watch “Ancha es Castilla” or “N’importe quoi” closely and it’s clear how careful, maybe even conservative, the piece really is. CP At Freer Sackler to June 5, 2016. 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. asia.si.edu.

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Wail of a night

Most of us will never be rock stars, but luckily, karaoke lets us indulge in the superstar fantasy, microphone and all, without the pesky paparazzi. Karaoke DJ Ra.Free, who reigns supreme at Wonderland Ballroom on Wednesdays and Bar 7 on Saturdays, has another theory about why people love to sing in dark bars for strangers. “In truth it’s a form of free therapy,” he says. “It improves your breathing and de-stresses you.”

Some songs tend to bring the house down every time. “When you sing Robyn or Journey, people love it.

Outkast’s ‘Roses,’ too, and Frank Sinatra is a big win,” Ra.Free says. Other popular artists include Michael Jackson, Rihanna, and Mumford & Sons.

Of course, not every song will be a crowd pleaser. Ra.Free says that “Fire and Desire” by Teena Marie and Rick James is a vocal sandpit. “I’ve never heard anyone sing it well. That one really kills me.” And you don’t want to be the person who sucks all the energy out of the room, which songs like Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” will do.

Ra.Free has some advice for what he calls karaoke virgins: “Do a shot of Jameson, relax, and let go. Nine times out of ten you’ll be coming back for more.”

What if you have some particular tastes? Here are some of the more specific karaoke offerings in the District.

—Rachel Kurzius

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Country Muzette BBQ Illustration by Lauren Heneghan

Fame song you’re

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nellie’ s SportS cat Bar

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(every tuesday) 900 U St. NW

Live band karaoke: HariKaraoke Band often performs with a gong, which they use to kick off the less musically inclined, though they leave it at home when they play at Hill Country.

individuaL studios: Rent out rooms on an hourly basis and control your own karaoke machine, getting drinks delivered by waitstaff with the push of a button.

dress-up: Prefer to don a colorful wig and a feather boa to really belt at your best? Karaoke at Nellie’s includes lots of costume options for optimal dramatic flair.

punk rock: In addition to a library of punk tunes, there’s a community ethos. Unless you request otherwise, everyone who wants to sing along to your chosen tune joins you on stage.

“Freebird”

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Scene Before

Neither Before We Go nor The Man in the Machine break any new ground, but at least Captain America’s flick is enjoyable.

Before We Go Directed by Chris Evans

Before We Go

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Directed by Alex Gibney

By Tricia Olszewski If a film has a dash of romance, a charming-stranger meet cute is practically guaranteed. So in Before We Go—the premise of which is almost entirely centered around a meet cute—director and star Chris Evans had a seemingly endless list of actors he needed to out-dash to make his film special. In particular, he seems to have been gunning for Ethan Hawke: Captain America’s directorial debut borrows heavily from the Hawke-led Before Sunrise. The general premise (swapping Venice for New York to introduce us to the starcrossed almost-lovers) and a sprinkling of details (play-pretend phone calls and a lack of funds forcing the new friends to wander around the city and bare their souls) will seem more than a little familiar, to say nothing of the preposition their titles share.

It took four scripters to crank out this familiar sundae, which they topped with a cherry they cribbed from Lost in Translation. Is their near-reproduction a robbery or an homage?

The film’s raison d’etre ends up not mattering much, because regardless of its similarities to Before Sunrise, it mostly works.

Things start out dicey when guitar-plucking, gentle-voiced, Sundance-esque music accompanies the intro: Get ready for preciousness. In reality, you’re about to get stubborn bitchiness. (Which, for my taste, is much better. I’d rather be irritated by a strong woman than irritated by one who’s trying too hard.)

Brooke (Alice Eve) has missed the last train out of Grand Central, has had her purse stolen, and broke her cell phone while running after the train. She’s from Boston and needs to get home. What would you do?

Let a handsome and (surprisingly) harmless busker help you, that’s what. For unexplained reasons—OK, everyone should probably be cautious when approached by a stranger in the wee hours—Brooke refuses to let Nick (Evans) do her any favors. But after slightly cracking the ice, Brooke finds out during a phone call that she really needs to get home ASAP, or at least before her husband does. (You assume—as does Nick—that the husband line is

and there, close-ups on faces when one of them is being serious… the usual romcom stuff.

Of course, the possibility of a sequel is left open.

The Hawke–Julie Delpy films were beloved, but just once it would be nice if a studio let us enjoy the company of two charismatic people for 90 minutes and left the last-scene mystery open for us to fill in.

We don’t have to revisit Nick Steve and Brooke in six months or Jobs: The 10 years, ad infinitum. Like Man in the when best friends consider a Machine romance but instead go their separate ways, this pair’s outa ruse, but it’s not.) Still, she tells Nick: I don’t ing will be remembered as a high note. mean to distrust you; it’s just that you’re beAlex Gibney, on the other hand, takes a ing so nice.

Nick, meanwhile, has his own reasons for thorough look at a supposedly fantastic rosticking with Brooke as she figures things out. mance that’s gone south: We’re so worshipHe is a good guy, but he’s also avoiding some- ful of a certain person, we gloss over his notso-great side. But the director’s about to draw thing. Would it surprise you that it’s an ex?

That’s about all you need to set the stage for back the curtain and bring him down—hard.

To wit: What would you think of an ablea night of walking and talking. Though a cadre of screenwriters usually means disaster, the bodied, stupendously wealthy man if he habitbulk of the dialogue is natural; the rest com- ually parked in handicapped spots and fought prises an overabundance of Nick quips and viciously to get out of paying child support?

Boo, right? too-tidy lines such as, “This is about odds, and What if the guy was also responsible for creregret is 100 percent.”

There’s great chemistry between the ating your iEverything?

Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Maleads, however, and it’s easy to believe they’d be low-key, goofy friends. Evans’ di- chine is the film version of that near-universal rection isn’t anything special, but he doesn’t experience of being disappointed when you do anything wrong, either: lens flares here meet your idol. It’s especially disappointing

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if you’d seen or heard no evil, but Apple and Jobs had already gotten bad press over allegations of unsafe working conditions and low wages at the company’s Chinese manufacturing plants, and the alleged intimidation and assault of those who breached Apple security.

The Daily Show titled a segment on the latter incident “Appholes.”

Yet (most of) the world mourned when Jobs died in 2011, and Apple worship continues apace. Gibney’s goal in this documentary is to figure out why the mourning was so intense and widespread, especially considering that we knew the man was something of a, well, apphole.

The director isn’t terribly successful. It’s not only because Jobs was a man of contradictions—the film portrays a man who had himself been adopted yet later rejected his own child; who meditated and claimed to be enlightened yet was cruel to others—but primarily because the documentary feels like a puzzle whose pieces were forced together by a toddler. Gibney made complex economics both understandable and fascinating in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and similarly dissected messy, ugly politics in his Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side. Here, he loosely follows a timeline of Jobs’ career ascent but too often interrupts it with recent footage and facts. Here’s Jobs being good; here’s him being bad.

Gibney leans increasingly on the bad, but that only demonizes Jobs as expected—it doesn’t explain how a technology company and the man behind it became so beloved by its fans that they’re willing to wait in line for hours for the latest gizmo or to have the Apple logo tattooed onto their arms. As Joe Nocera, the writer of an Esquire exposé on Jobs, says, “People didn’t want to hear [the bad stuff].”

Perhaps more damning, a surprising amount of footage used here has already been presented elsewhere—scenes of both Jobs’ product unveilings (to be expected) and previous interviews (not so much). Some stories are worth hearing again, such as the birth of the iPod. And revisiting Apple’s famous commercials—from “1984” to the “She’s a Rainbow” iMac spot to Feist’s poppy ad—brings tiny bursts of marketing joy.

But the patchwork of materials old and new hold your attention mostly because of the Bob Dylan songs that score much of the film. (The mother of Jobs’ first child quotes “All Along the Watchtower,” saying Jobs, a huge Dylan fan, was both a joker and a thief.)

Ultimately, not only will Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine not change anyone’s opinion of the giant, it may confuse those wanting to CP learn more.

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Wiving it Wealthily in herndon Kiss Me Kate Music and lyrics by Cole Porter Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack Directed by Michael Bobbitt At NextStop Theatre Company to Sept. 13

Kiss Me Kate, the musical comedy about a troubled production of The Taming of the Shrew in post-World War II Baltimore, doesn’t lose much sleep over the misogyny inherent in the play that inspired it. Conditions have improved more for women in the 66 years since Kiss Me Kate won the first Tony Award for Best Musical in 1949 than in the three-anda-half centuries dividing that milestone from the early 1590s, when the Bard of Avon wrote his hilarious romp about a young gentleman of Verona who engages in a campaign of starvation, sleep deprivation, and psychological warfare to make his headstrong new bride docile and subservient. The poster for MGM’s 1953 film version of Kiss Me Kate showed Howard Keel (as Petruchio, the gentleman) putting Kathryn Grayson (playing Katherine, his non-consenting spouse) over his knee to deliver what must be the most famous spanking in two-and-a-half millennia of theater.

While Bella and Samuel Spewack’s script for Kiss Me Kate incorporates many of Shrew’s most famous scenes, its backstage plot owes as much to the remarriage-themed comedy films of the 1930s and ’40s—The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve, to cite a few of the very best— as to Shakespeare. Fred, the producer/director of the show-within-the-show, is playing Petruchio opposite Lilli Vanessi, his about34 september 4, 2015 washingtoncitypaper.com

to-remarry ex-wife, as Kate. Each is still in love with the other, but too proud to admit it.

Meanwhile, a reprobate gambler in the cast— also the boyfriend of the young actress with whom Fred has been enjoying a therapeutic dalliance—has signed Fred’s name to an IOU held by a Baltimore gangster. When the gangster sends a pair of legbreakers to collect, Fred drafts them into the show.

It’s a fun, comic premise, but Cole Porter’s songs are why the show is remembered and revived. (The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new Kate will open in November, with an all-male, “gender-blurred” Shrew to follow in May.) The Herndon-based NextStop Theatre Company’s game new production with a cast of 11 (plus a four-piece orchestra directed by pianist Steve Przybylski) feels a little cramped—the company and its ancestor, the Elden Street Players, have operated out of their cozy black box space in a strip mall for more than 25 years—but it’s enjoyable nonetheless. It’s longer on spit than it is on polish, but that’s not much of a problem in a show about a striving theatre company.

Paul Scanlan is likably harried as the beleaguered Fred/Petruchio, and slightly more at ease with the material than his fellows. Karen Vincent, as Lilli/Kate, more than matches him as a singer, though, making her mark early with “So in Love,” one of the show’s most enduring numbers.

Another one, “Too Darn Hot”—a sterling example of Porter’s ability to sail a song about sex past the censors—gets a sultry reading from Hasani Allen and Daphne Epps. The song then blossoms in a full-cast (minus Fred and Lilli) number, and the show’s best showcase for choreographer Rachel Dolan’s trick of finding a way for nine people to dance in a space as compact as this one. Ultimately, the show isn’t reduced by its paucity of stage space nearly as much as it is by the building’s paucity of toilets—a limitation that extends intermission to a momentum-sapping half-hour, which only makes the narrative wheel-spinning in the show’s second act stick out more.

Of course, that halt in the action permits a few more classic tunes. Emily Levey brings the right amount of flirtation to “Always True to You (In My Fashion),” and Kevin Place and Drew Stairs’ awkward singing and dancing doesn’t diminish the pleasure of “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” in the least. Assessing the original Broadway production for the Dec. 31, 1948 New York Times, critic Brooks Atkinson observed that the song, which advises men to memorize a few sonnets to aid in seduction, was “fresh out of the honky-tonks” before remarking of Porter, “All his lyrics are literate, and as usual some of them would shock the editorial staff of The Police Gazette.” Yesterday’s salacious outrage is today’s Great Ameri—Chris Klimek can Songbook.

269 Sunset Park Drive, Herndon. $40. (703) 481-5930. nextstoptheatre.org.

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CITYLIST

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Music

WoRld

Friday

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

Ethio Super Stars. 11 p.m. $40–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

Rock

dJ nights

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Beauty Pill, Paperhaus, Redline Graffiti. 9 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. #YASQUEEN Queer Dance Party with DJ Deedub., Kiyomi Valentine, Frankie & Betty, DC Kings, and Marcus Webb. 8 p.m. $15. 930.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. AJ Ghent Band, Backbeat Underground. 9 p.m. $12–$16. gypsysallys.com.

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Peace and Rhythm feat DJs Bongohead and Andujar.

10:30 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.

kennedy center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Loud Boyz. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Discnotheque with DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler. 10:30 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.

Funk & R&B

rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. James Nasty. 5 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

DeAngelo Redman, The Amours, Tangina Stone, Rob Milton. 7 p.m. $15–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

saturday

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

ElEctRonic

“ESTHER BUBLEY UP FRONT”

u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Wave Racer, Le Youth, Misawa, Jordan James.

10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Rock

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Dough Rollers, Sleepwalkers, New Boss. 8 p.m. $15. 930.com.

Beginning with her work documenting D.C. during World War II and continuing through her coverage of the Miss America pageant and life in the mid-20th century, photographer Esther Bubley succinctly captured pieces of American culture that few others thought important. None of her images are as iconic as Dorothea Lange’s Dustbowl families or Mathew Brady’s Civil War battlefields, but her ability to focus on narrower vignettes of life—children sitting in a Nebraska schoolroom or a G.I. standing on a D.C. street—allows viewers to get to know the people in her photos. Now, the National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates Bubley’s work with a new retrospective that includes pieces from her time spent covering oil boom towns in Texas and farm life in the Midwest. Beyond just serving as historical markers, though, Bubley’s photos possess a bit of irony, as if she anticipated the social changes that would sweep through the nation as she documented it, making this exhibition more thoughtprovoking than just another old photo show. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. to Jan. 17 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. $8–$10. (202) 783-5000. nmwa.org. —Caroline Jones

Jazz BircHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Euge Groove. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Dial 251 for Jazz. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. utopia Bar & Grill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Collector’s Edition. 11:00 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

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

Abigail Palmer Group. 7:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

wolf trap filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Stephen “Ragga” Marley, Morgan Heritage, Tarrus Riley. 7 p.m. $35–$125. wolftrap.org.

Funk & R&B Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Reggae Summer Farewell Party featuring S.T.O.R.M., the Pocket Band, Blac Da’-Lite Band, and Chanty Town.

8 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

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

The Earth, Wind, and Fire Tribute Show. 7:30 p.m. $12–$35. thehowardtheatre.com. rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Black Alley. 5 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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Walter Beasley

Syleena Johnson

(Sax/Vocals)

(Soul/R&B) “Couples Therapy Tour”

SEPTEMBER 3-6

SEPTEMBER 18-20

(New orleans Blues)

(Pop/R&B/Soul)

Chris Thomas King

BLUES ALLEY

Regina Belle

oCToBER 1-4

Rachelle Ferrell (R&B/Soul)

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ElEctRonic u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Huxley, DJ Nav, Julius Jetson. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Renee Tannenbaum. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. utopia Bar & Grill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Ed Hahn Quintet. 9:30 p.m. utopiaindc.com.

Elijah’s Quintet. 11:00 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

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

Rye Baby. 7:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

sunday Rock

Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. 5 Seconds Of Summer, Hey Violet.

7:30 p.m. $25–$75. livenation.com. wolf trap filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Rodrigo y Gabriela. 8 p.m. $35–$125. wolftrap.org.

Funk & R&B Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The Plank Stompers. 10 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.

Jazz

hip-hop

utopia Bar & Grill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Sherryl Jones, Wayne Wilentz. 9:30 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Mick Jenkins & STWO, Myth Syzer, J Stock.

7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Zoo Bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Mike Flaherty’s Dixieland Direct Jazz Band.

7:30 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

dJ nights

BluEs

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Phazefest 2015 with DJ Deedub Tezrah, Sick of Sarah, B. Steady, Michelle Raymond, and Company Calls.

8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

MadaM’s orGan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Stacy Brooks. 9 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com.

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. DJ Ayes Cold. 10:30 p.m. $5. bossproject.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Rapture.

10:30 p.m. $3–$5. dcnine.com.

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

One Love with DJ Inferno. 11 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

go-go 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. 3rd Annual All White End of Summer Jam with Backyard Band, TCB, and TOB. 11 p.m. $40. 930.com.

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

Big Tony and Trouble Funk, Sugar Bear and EU, James Funk and Proper Utensils, Buggs and Junkyard Band.

9 p.m. $30–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

AWKWARD SEX...

AND THE CITY

Sex is great, but let’s be honest: We’ve all had some embarrassing and regrettable moments while getting frisky with a partner. If you seek confirmation that you’re not the only person who’s had uncomfortable encounters, spend some time with the six performers who make up the traveling storytelling group Awkward Sex… and the City. During the show, Natalie Wall, Emmy Harrington, Meghan O’Malley, and Bobby Hankinson will take the stage and relive some of their best bad moments between the sheets. Though the group frequently switches the stories they tell, series creator Wall says this installment should feature tales of buying Plan B in a Christian town on Easter Sunday, micro penises, same-sex sex, and “why hot men should always wear condoms.” Wall adds there might also be surprise giveaways and impromptu performances by scantily clad performers. The show begins at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $12–$15. (202) 667—Tim Regan 4490. blackcatdc.com.

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

ALL WHITE END OF SUMMER JAM Along with patriotic cookouts, Labor Day weekend also brings the go-go takeover of several area clubs. The Kings of Go-Go show featuring Trouble Funk, Experience Unlimited, Junkyard Band, and Proper Utensils take place at the Howard Theatre and Team Familiar plays Café Asia, but only one gig highlights some newer bounce beat go-go as well. The 3rd Annual All White End of Summer Jam indicates the appropriate dress code in its title, but it’s the homegrown racket with touches of melody coming from the stage, not the color of audience members’ clothes, that will invigorate fans. Headliner Backyard Band has been adding hiphop swagger, along with bits of noisy crank and R&B sweetness, to its go-go since the early ’90s. TCB, aka the Bounce Beat Kingz, was founded by Polo, who died in 2013, and originated the fast-tempoed, rototom drum beat with shouted vocals that became bounce. TOB adds unusual keyboard sound effects, sampled female vocals, and echoed rhythms to its chanted male vocals and frenetic, percussive pounding. The staccato beats will ring through Shaw until Monday morning. Backyard Band performs with TCB, TOB, Spill Gang, and Shooters at 11 —Steve Kiviat p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $40. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

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Monday Rock

u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Blackbear, $kinny. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

dJ nights Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. DJ J Sleazy. 7 p.m. Free. blackcatdc.com.

tuesday Rock

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Mothers, Aerial View. 9 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. ecHostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Twenty One Pilots. 6:30 p.m. $43.45. echostage.com. u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Say Lou Lou, Phoebe Ryan. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz utopia Bar & Grill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Lyle Link Trio. 9:30 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

dJ nights Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. DJs Matt Cohen and Justin Gellerson. 7 p.m. Free. blackcatdc.com.

Wednesday Rock

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Xylouris White. 7 p.m. $30.

930.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Wilderness. 7 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

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

Dru Hill. 8 p.m. $36.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

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KRAFTY SOUND SYSTEM

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LAST WORD 22ND ANNIVERSARY

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FRI 11

19 From France

WED 23

Trio Caliente

LARRY GATLIN & THE GATLIN BROTHERS The 23 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES Mastersons Marie 24 JOHN ONDRASIK Miller 20

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Funk Soul Symphony MAYSA & Her 28 BUDDY GUY 30 NERDS and MUSIC An Evening with JOEL HODGSON, PAT ROTHFUSS, PAUL & STORM

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FRI 4

SAT 12

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Jenny Hval, Briana Marela. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. ecHostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Twenty One Pilots. 6:30 p.m. $43.45. echostage.com.

FRI 4

DAVE MASON’S TRAFFIC JAM 18 BILL KIRCHEN & Too Much Fun and JUMPIN’ JUPITER 17

kennedy center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Darren Harper’s The Dynasty Band. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

THU 3

THU 10 MIMICKING

LYFE JENNINGS

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Krafty Sound System. 7 p.m. Free. blackcatdc.com.

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dJ nights

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Dru Hill featuring Sisqo, Nokio, Jazz, and Tao. 8 p.m. $36.50–$60. thehowardtheatre.com. kennedy center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Chariots. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

countRy s e p T e m b e r

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Mike and Ruthy Band, the Hello Strangers, the Appleseed Collective. 8 p.m. $10–$14. gypsysallys.com.

MadaM’s orGan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Human Country Jukebox Band. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

hip-hop friday sepTember 4

spyro gyra

s5

jimmy thackery

su 6

jeff bradshaw & friends

T8

cory henry & the funk apostles with phillip lassiter & pj morgan

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Shining Blade Theory, Aztec Sun. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossproject.com. u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Pouya, Fat Nick, Mikey the Magician, Don Krez, Germ. 8 p.m. $20–$40. ustreetmusichall.com.

dJ nights Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Black Cat Anniversary Party with DJs Dante Ferrando, Tim Kelly, and Friends. 7 p.m. Free. blackcatdc.com.

thursday Rock

Black cat BackstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mimicking Birds. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Sitali and Juju. 9 p.m. $10. bossproject.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sheer Mag, Downtown Boys, Trunk Weed, Myrrh Myrrh. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Albino Rhino, Cartoon Weapons, Freeform Radio, Showpony. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com. warner tHeatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

REO Speedwagon. 8 p.m. $43–$73. warnertheatre.com.

ElEctRonic u street Music Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Truth, Mr. Bill, Starkey, Ill-Esha, Instagib with MC Twisty. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Thursday sepTember 10 & friday sepTember 11

ralph sTanley & The clinch mounTain boys

saTurday sepTember 12

The shirelles

wiTh beverly lee & comedian billy finch

sunday sepTember 13

ana popovic

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES

Barrence Whitfield can warble slow-tempoed gospel and country songs with the best of them, but most of the time he prefers to shout numbers that blend R&B and garage rock at breakneck speed. In late-1970s Boston, Whitfield joined with proto-punk guitarist Peter Greenberg to form a band, the Savages. On their 1984 self-titled debut, they opened with Whitfield wailing “Ow, ow, ow” on the opening verse of the obscure Don Covay track “Bip Bop Bip” that set the feverish tone for the rest of album. Whitfield’s vocal style drew from the likes of Little Richard, Smiley Lewis, and Wilson Pickett, while the band’s fuzzy guitar, honking sax, and rhythm section roughed up jitterbug and twist rhythms for a post-punk era. After achieving some fame in the U.K. and releasing more records in the 1990s, Whitfield has mostly stayed quiet this century. Greenberg left the band in 1986 but reunited with Whitfield again in 2010. On the new release, Under the Savage Sky, Greenberg’s guitar is cranked up higher in the mix. The band roars in a manner that, with the right exposure, should appeal beyond their original fanbase to devotees of Afropunk and house show hardcore alike. Barrence Whitfield & the Savages perform at 8:30 p.m. at Hill Country Barbecue, 410 7th St. NW. $12–$15.

—Steve Kiviat (202) 556-2050. hillcountrywdc.com.

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MOTHERS Based on name alone, you might expect to find a band called Mothers at a family-friendly music festival like Gathering of the Vibes.

But the Mothers that will headline DC9 this week delivers music more angsty than stuff you’d expect from the high-waistedjean-wearing matriarchs we know and love. Beginning as a solo act, Mothers singer and guitarist Kristine Leschper still holds on to her quiet and haunting style. Like Angel Olsen’s, Leschper’s voice crawls over choppy guitars or softly rests on tinged, electronic piano. A sense of longing tugs at each chord, notably on tracks like “burden of proof (pt.

1).” Because the group’s sound continues to evolve, most of its recorded tracks are live, a quality that builds on its DIY aesthetic. Leschper’s spell-binding and simple arrangements allow her to cast a charm over an entire room. Mothers performs at 9 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th —Jordan-Marie Smith St. NW. $10. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com.

countRy Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. 2 Year Anniversary Celebration featuring Jim Lauderdale and Human Country Jukebox. 8:30 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com.

Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Hollertown. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

Folk Gw lisner auditoriuM 730 21st St. NW. (202) 994-6800. The Milk Carton Kids. 8 p.m. $35–$45. lisner.org.

WoRld kennedy center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Pedrito Martinez Group. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org. wolf trap filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Gipsy Kings, Nicolas Reyes, Tonino Baliardo. 8 p.m. $38–$100. wolftrap.org.

hip-hop 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Lil Durk, GunPlay, Hypno Carlito. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

Books

Brené Brown The thought leader, known for her popular TED talks about shame and vulnerability, reads from her new book, Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.

600 I St. NW. Sept. 10, 7 p.m. (202) 408-3100.

Jen cHaney Chaney discusses As If!, her oral history of the movie Clueless, with WAMU producer Tayla Burney. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Sept. 9, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400. racHel feinGold and roMan kostovski Feingold, an editor, and Kostovski, a translator, discuss Plamen Press’ release of the English language version of the late Czech writer Hana Andronikova’s novel The Sound of the Sundial. Busboys & Poets 14th and V. 2021 14th St. NW. Sept. 9, 6:30 p.m. Free.

(202) 387-7638. adaM JoHnson The author, who won much acclaim for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son, reads from his new story collection, Fortune Smiles, which follows

characters dealing with unexpected events. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Sept. 10, 7 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919. senator aMy kloBucHer The senior senator from Minnesota tells her life story in her new book, The Senator Next Door. Busboys and Poets Takoma. 234 Carroll St. NW. Sept. 8, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 726-9525. sonia ManZano The author, who spent decades acting on Sesame Street, discusses her new memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx.

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6, 7:30 p.m. Free. (202) 726-9525. senator claire Mccaskill The author, the first female senator from Missouri, discusses her work and her new memoir, Plenty Ladylike, with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. GW Lisner Auditorium. 730 21st St. NW. Sept. 9, 7 p.m. $15-$40. (202) 994-6800. national Book festival More than 100 authors come together to read and sign copies of their books at the 15th annual festival celebrating all things literary.

Walter E. Washington Convention Center. 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. Sept. 5, 10 a.m. Free.

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Joyce carol oates The acclaimed novelist and essayist looks back on her early life in rural New York in her new memoir, The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Sept. 8, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

GreGory pardlo The poet, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, reads from his new collection, Digest.

Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Sept. 9, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Jeff sMitH The author, a former Missouri state senator who was sent to prison for violating campaign finance laws, describes his year-long sentence in Mr. Smith Goes to Prison. He discusses his book with Martin Austermuhle of WAMU. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Sept. 8, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

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institute that taught them the basics of the medium, in this exhibition co-presented with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Aug. 21–Oct. 25. OngOing: “Resident Artist Group Show.” Resident artists at the arts center present a variety of work at this show curated by Caitlin Tucker-Melvin. Aug. 29–Oct. 11. atHenaeuM 201 Prince St., Alexandria. (703) 5480035. nvfaa.org. CLOSing: “Fields of Energy.” Abstract works by David Carlson and Pat Goslee, painters who are very concerned with spiritual exploration. July 23–Sept. 6. Opening: “The Athenaeum Invitational.”

Based on the theme of Cole Porter’s “Don’t Fence Me In,” this exhibition features works solicited from invitations and open calls. Sept. 10–Oct. 25.

Brentwood arts excHanGe 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. (301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks.com.

OngOing: “The Art of the Tale.” After winning Project America’s Next Top Master Artist contest, Cheverlybased artist Cornett presents a variety of paintings and drawings, some inspired by fairy tales and poems, in this solo show. Aug. 31–Oct. 24. OngOing: “Allen Alexopulos.” Wood-turning artist Alexopulos presents a variety of pieces crafted from tree species native to central Maryland, wood that otherwise would have been destroyed or burned, in this window exhibition.

Aug. 31–Oct. 24. cross MackenZie Gallery 2026 R St. NW. (202) 333-7970. crossmackenzie.com. Opening: “Walter McConnell.” A variety of works by the Belmont, N.Y.based ceramic artist, presented concurrently with the Katzen Arts Center’s show of McConnell’s work.

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Opening: “Ephemeral.” Area sculptors present a variety of work that comments on the temporary nature of art. Featured artists include Millicent Young, Artemis Herber, Elissa Farrow-Savos, Elizabeth Burger, and Diane Szczepaniak. Sept. 10–Nov. 14.

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cHiMerica Inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests, this play by Lucy Kirkwood focuses on a journalist who photographed the events and seeks out his subject years later. Two decades later, with ChineseAmerican relations dominating the election cycle, he’s approached by another Chinese acquaintance with a different proposal. David Muse directs this play about political correctness, change, and responsibility. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Oct. 18. $20-$71. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. doGfiGHt Three Marines, on the verge of being deployed to Southeast Asia, come together for a final night of fun and confront their own mortality when a young waitress teaches them a few lessons about love and companionship. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Sept. 19. $35-$45.

(703) 892-0202. keegantheatre.com. tHe fix When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly, his widow recruits her son to run in his place in this lively musical directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Sept. 20. $29-$85. (703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org.

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The work of British playwright Lucy Kirkwood has found a warm and receptive audience in D.C.-area theaters. Her hilarious play about the magazine industry, NSFW, opened to popular and critical acclaim at Round House Theatre last year, and her new, slightly darker work, Chimerica, is likely to intrigue audiences as it kickstarts Studio Theatre’s fall season. The epic drama spans two decades and focuses on the heated political relationship between China and the United States. This conflict is seen through the lens of Joe, an American photojournalist, who in 1989 takes a picture of a protester facing off with a tank in Tiananmen Square. More than 20 years later, Joe goes in search of his now-famous photo’s subject in order to take advantage of the zeitgeisty topic of U.S./China relations. His opportunistic search becomes far more complicated when his professional and political motives become personal. Sinophiles aren’t the only ones who will connect with Kirkwood’s exploration of brinksmanship; Chimerica’s personal stories will resonate with viewers who aren’t versed in decades of Chinese-American relations. The play runs Sept. 9 to Oct. 18 at Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. $20–$81.

—Diana Metzger (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

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friendsHip Betrayed This 17th-century play by María de Zayas y Sotomayor, like Sex and the City, explores what happens to female friendships while women look for and find love. Kari Ginsburg sets her production in the 1920s, a time when women were beginning to explore their sexual curiosities and passions. Gunston Arts Center. 2700 S. Lang St., Arlington. To Oct. 11. $10-$35. (703) 228-1850. arlingtonarts.org.

Hay fever A husband and wife aim to escape the pressures of their lives by visiting their quiet country home. A quiet weekend becomes anything but that when their children also occupy the estate, in this classic farce by Noel Coward. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Sept. 27. $15-$60.

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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. ironBound Over the course of 22 years, a Polish immigrant examines her romantic relationships and the values she takes from them in this new drama by Martyna Majok. Despite a lack of employment and in order to provide for her son, Darja is able to persevere and fight for what’s most important. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda.

To Oct. 4. $36-$61. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. niGHt falls on tHe Blue planet A woman aims to discover herself after spending her life struggling with familial estrangement and alcoholism. As she begins to understand her emotions and the inner world that exists under her skin, will she be able to reconnect with her sister or remain alone? Rex Daugherty directs this play by Kathleen Akerly as part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Sept. 27. $20-$35.

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(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) GrandMa A young woman in need of money turns to her grandmother for guidance and together, they embark on a series of adventures as they gather resources and reconnect with friends old and new.

Starring Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, and Marcia Gay Harden. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) learninG to drive When a middle-aged n woman’s marriage end, she decides to learn to

the past several decades. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) sun ra, a Joyful noise The funk orchestra n conductor and advocate of “afrofuturism” is celebrated in this documentary directed by Robert Mugge. Anacostia Community Museum. 1901 Fort Place SE. (202) 633-4820. anacostia.si.edu. tHe transporter refueled Frank Martin n must outsmart a series of bank robbers and take on their Russian adversary in this fourth movie in the Transporter series. Starring Ed Skrein and Loan Chabanol. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) unsullied A track star must fight for her survival and overpower her captors in this thrilling film, based on a true story, starring Murray Gray and Rusty Joiner. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a walk in tHe woods Robert Redford and n Nick Nolte play two old friends who decide to

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rosenwald Aviva Kempner profiles Julius Rosenwald, a high school dropout who went on to become the president of Sears and built thousands of schools throughout the Deep South in the early part of the 20th century. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

we are your friends An aspiring DJ aims to break into Hollywood’s electronic dance music scene but following his dreams is not as easy as it appears in this soapy drama starring Zac Efron and Wes Bentley. Max Joseph, best known to audiences as the co-host of MTV’s Catfish, directs. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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a tale of two cities The National Players present Benjamin Kingsland’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel about live in London and Paris during the Reign of Terror. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To Sept. 20. $10-$15. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. trutH & Beauty BoMBs: a softer world Inspired by the web comic created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau, this new play imagines a world where the edges might be softer but monsters are real. A variety of well-known local actors and dramatists, including Alexandra Petri, Frank Britton, and Randy Baker collaborate on this production. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Oct. 4. $20-$30. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

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YERMA An essay collection about women’s desire not to have children, published earlier this year, carried the heavy title Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed. Eighty years before that, Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca published Yerma, a play about the desire for motherhood that carries an equally burdensome English title: Barren. GALA Hispanic Theatre opens its season with a contemporary update of Lorca’s tale about a woman unable to bear children and how the demanding cultural forces around her result in rash and dramatic choices. Times have changed, but the play’s underlying message—that unfulfilled or ignored desires can lead to destruction—remains relevant to many. José Luis Arellano García, an acclaimed Madrid-based director, leads GALA’s production and imbues it with a sense of Spanish culture that will force audiences to consider the severity of Lorca’s poetic work. The play runs Sept. 10 to Oct. 4 at GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 —Caroline Jones 14th St. NW. $20–$42. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

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Sale to be held 9/22/15 at 10a.m on the premises of 7711 Poplar Hill RD, Clinton, Md. 20735 (Okie Truck Service)

Mechanics’ Lien: 2000 CADI VIN# 1G6KD54YXYU283959.

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On the premises of: 4645 Cremen Rd., Temple Hills, MD 20748 (All American Auto SVC CTR).

Mechanics’ Lien: 2005 Chrysler VIN# 3C8FY78G25T525938.

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Sale to be held 9/19/15 at 10 a.m. on the premises of CTI Towing & Storage, 4825 Lydell Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20781

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Sale to be held 9/21/15 at 11 a.m. on the premises of 5912 Walker Mill Rd, Capitol Hgts, MD 20743 (Johnsons Auto Repair) Mechanics’ Lien: 2010 Mitsubishi VIN# JA4AT2AW6AZ016687.

Sale to be held 9/21/15 at 11 a.m. on the premises of 5912 Walker Mill Rd, Capitol Hgts, MD 20743 (Johnsons Auto Repair) Mechanics’ Lien: 2011 Chevy VIN# 2G1WG5EK8B1263057.

Sale to be held 9/19/15 at 10 a.m. on the premises of CTI Towing & Storage, 4825 Lydell Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20781

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