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Maybe it was our cover last week, in which art director Stephanie Rudig adroitly captured the mood of the District with a stunning illustration of Lincoln flipping the bird to the president-elect. (There was lots of praise for that one—and we thank you—but victory laps are much less fun than shining a light on the discontented.) Or more likely, it was Donald Trump’s seemingly improbable election upset. Whatever the cause, the comments on City Paper stories about everything from housing and food to art and politics took on a tone of liberated hostility. In response to a piece about long-forgotten D.C. Cold War fallout shelters (“Shelter in Place,” Nov. 11), which we noted could come in handy given Trump’s support for nuclear proliferation, Northeazy wrote, “Shameful. Hillary Clinton has voted for or got the US involved in more wars than Trump has denounced. Here is a list in case you Libs forgot … places Hillary has bombed: Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan Yemen Somalia.” Northeazy wasn’t finished, even finding fault with our roundup of local dining spots where lunch can be had for under $5 (“Take Human Bites,” Nov. 11): “If you cannot afford more than $5 for a decent lunch, then you should pack your own.” Not a fiscal conservative, apparently.

Even an online piece about affordable housing in Southeast managed to poke the bear. “More idiocy by DC Dumocrats— bleeding hearts overcoming common sense brains,” Typical DC BS wrote. “Sorry, there IS NO RIGHT TO LIVE WHERE YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO LIVE. PERIOD.” Then there’s our online Pizza Gate piece, about alt-right conspiracy theorists claiming that pizza joint Comet Ping Pong is a pedophiliac sex ring. “There is no way you can spin this,” wrote Derek Bramwell. “America is awake to the Luciferian cabal that has run this country for so long. The rest of the world is waking up too. At an exponential rate each year.” writers, there are still two weeks left to submit your work for our annual Fiction Issue, which will be published Jan. 5. We’re looking for stellar, unpublished short fiction from local writers—about the District—and we’re awarding a $500 prize for the winning entry. The stories will be juried by local award-winning author Mary Kay Zuravleff.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser faces perhaps her biggest challenge yet— replacing chiefs for the twin pillars of public safety and education.

The narraTive was irresistible. In January 2015, days after her swearing in, Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press joined by Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson—“The Women Who Run Washington.”

“How fitting for the nation’s capital to have three women in charge, women who have gotten things done in this city for years,” Bowser told moderator Chuck Todd. “We want the whole world to know we are a city on the move.”

Bowser inherited Henderson and Lanier from previous mayors, and MPD was in a state of attrition that persists to this day. DCPS then and now suffers from one of the highest student achievement gaps in the country. Yet the rapidly gentrifying District was not only on the move, it was being led by a triumvirate of formidable women.

Less than two years later, the nearly simultaneous departures of Lanier in September and Henderson in October have left Bowser in search of replacements for the twin pillars of her administration: two popular, long-tenured officials in charge of public education and public safety. While she has not committed to a time schedule for naming replacements, she has indicated that she will make her decisions in succession—chancellor first, chief second.

Bowser’s handling of the matter has left some wanting for answers. “I would say we have to be careful not to collapse both decisions together, but rather tease them out,” says Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh. “The process has to be somewhat opaque because we are talking about personnel decisions. But we also have to have substantive discussions about what we are looking for. I think those discussions have been lacking. It’s somewhat of a black hole.”

This serial approach to selecting new leaders also presents issues related to department continuity and progress. Both departments face significant policy debates and labor negotiations, but neither of the officials in charge have a clear

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Bowser’s new chancellor won’t take over until the 2017-2018 school year. If she hires from within—Interim Chancellor John Davis, chief of schools under Henderson, is not the only internal candidate—she could decide anytime. If she goes outside, the selection could take longer. Cheh is not sure the mayor will go that route. “I have a sense that a status quo approach is being pursued, and I’m not sure everyone would agree on that,” she says.

“But that would make the interim chancellor the ideal choice—same as with Kaya.” (Henderson took over for Michelle Rhee, her former boss, in 2010.)

Deferring the selection of a new police chief places both MPD and Interim Chief Peter Newsham, former assistant chief of investigations and Lanier’s right-hand man, in limbo, according to Fraternal Order of Police officials. “I think there’s a feeling of uncertainty, of baited breath,” says FOP Treasurer Gregory Pemberton, a persistent critic of the former chief. “We don’t know if we’re going to get another Lanier, or someone worse, or if they’re going to go in another direction.

There’s a sense of optimism among the members, but empirically, there’s not enough information to say. And if they don’t make a decision until after the chancellor, Newsham could be floating around for eight or nine months.”

Those are Bowser’s initial dilemmas. Both of her interim leaders are white men. How does she manage demographics, or optics, after she has committed to a serial approach to replacing two women? If she selects Davis, does that disqualify Newsham?

In terms of process, Bowser has emphasized community input—at least with regard to her schools chancellor search. For police chief, it’s hard to tell what if anything is going on, given her decision to forestall the selection.

Such looming decisions are the ultimate test of Bowser’s first term, city officials say, and possibly the determining factors in whether she wins a second. “These appointments are the mayoral equivalent of Supreme Court appointments,” At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman says. “Public safety and schools are two of the top issues any mayor faces. These will be key people in her administra-

tion who will impact how she will be viewed by the voters.” replacing a schools chancellor is not so easy. Bowser got off to a bumpy start. Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles initially announced that a decision would come in October, with community forums scheduled for September. Given such a short timeframe, rumors swirled that Bowser had already selected a candidate. “People were anxious that we were moving too quickly at first,” Niles tells City Paper. “I probably didn’t do a good job explaining that we wanted to get the information from the community to the mayor as soon as possible as a backdrop for her search.”

The mayor is required to establish a panel of parents, students, and teachers, including representatives of the Washington Teachers Union, according to a D.C. statute on chancellor appointment. The mayor also is required to provide to that panel résumés of candidates under consideration and to hold a meeting to hear its input. “The Mayor shall consider the opinions and recommendations of the panel in making his or her nomination and shall give great weight to any recommendation of the Washington Teachers Union,” the statute states.

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Committee, consists of 17 members from all eight city wards with a range of experience and investment. The committee’s statutory role, which is advisory, includes input gathered through a community engagement process that consisted of three public forums, online surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder conference calls. That process is not required by statute, but Niles says the administration intends to comply with the statute and “go beyond it.” Meanwhile, Boyden global executive search firm has been conducting a talent search for candidates. (Boyden also has interviewed stakeholders to gather community input for the committee, Niles says.)

Washingtonians take community input seriously. “We’ve been fighting to have more involvement,” says Cathy Reilly, a Ward 4 resident and co-founder of the Senior High Alliance of Parents, Principals, and Educators (S.H.A.P.P.E.). “It’s more important than ever to be strong in our local institutions. It’ll be interesting to see if [the mayor’s] choice reflects the priorities that have been captured in this process.”

The process has been elaborate. On Aug. 4, the committee met for a discussion with Boyden to go over priorities. Hundreds attended several community forums held between Aug. 30 and Sept. 14. Niles then presented “high-level summaries” to the committee, which began to develop recommendations for the mayor.

There were online surveys, stakeholder calls, student focus groups, worksheets, work tables, and call-ins to Niles and the Mayor’s office of Talent and Appointments; a couple more committee meetings, feedback reports, and on and on. Finally, the committee issued recommendations to the mayor in a 10-page

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DistrictLine Oct. 24 memo. A week later, Bowser publicly issued her Chancellor Search Community Engagement Report.

Bowser’s report concluded that the new schools chief should focus on reducing the achievement gap, increasing opportunities for all students, growing community engagement, prioritizing teacher retention, and improving school safety and culture. The chancellor should be a visionary who thinks strategically, inspires people, and has management and community relations skills to go along with a deep understanding of D.C. culture and climate, the report stated.

Even optimistic stakeholders noted the lack of revelation or major insight. “It’s easy to think that a lot of process wasn’t necessary if we didn’t learn a big ‘new’ thing,” says one prominent school reform advocate. “But it does knit us together as one city and one team, heading in one direction.” in 2012, Kaya Henderson’s five-point strategic plan, a Capital Commitment, listed “Investing In Struggling Schools” as her second-highest priority. Four years later, after an elaborate community engagement process, Bowser has identified it as her top priority.

Niles says the committee report echoes what the mayor is thinking and notes no major city has closed that gap. “It’s like building wealth,” she says. “It’s not a short-term marker.” If anything, the report indicates that “we can’t just dawdle along. We need to double-down.”

Educators and D.C. residents want to see Bowser and the D.C. Council accept full responsibility for Henderson’s failure to close the achievement gap—and fix it. Some see Bowser’s selection of a chancellor as the most important function of her office. Julian F. “Pete” MacDonald, a former DCPS volunteer tutor and class aide who guided senior academic exchanges between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. for the Fulbright Program, wrote to the Council in October and urged them to work with the mayor or “act independently if necessary” to appoint a chancellor who is committed to effective reform of the problem. “My and my circle’s votes will depend on candidates’ response to this issue,” he wrote. (Interestingly, At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds was the only member who replied.)

He then wrote to Bowser and reiterated his message. In an interview with City Paper, MacDonald credits the mayor’s community engagement process for pinpointing what he sees as the city’s major problem, but he worries about the lack of urgency regarding a problem already known to exist.

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, offers his theory: “These kinds of processes get decision makers off the hook in a pleasant sounding way,” he says. Hess—

an educator, author of numerous books, and a political scientist—says elaborate processes like the ones the Bowser administration has rolled out is part of the reason why education governance is so often dysfunctional. “What if everyone did this for all of their executive decisions, and at the end of the day, half of the participants are annoyed? Most of those who have weighed in will not be accountable for the final choice. Most are not directly affected in a specific manner. It’s a particularly difficult way to do business.”

Hess points to a number of difficulties that come with elaborate and protracted executive decision-making. “A helter skelter process that drags on makes it hard to set clear expectations or assign clear accountability for the choice in a leader,” he says. “With Michelle Rhee, and Kaya Henderson, they always said the mayors took their success personally. When a mayor makes it sound like it’s everyone’s choice, it sounds nice, but a new chancellor will not be able to say with conviction that the mayor has their back. It’s not good for the mayor, the chancellor, or improvement. The public elected the mayor to make these decisions and the Council to approve them. They are the conduit to the public, not some Rube Goldberg-esque mechanism that insulates the mayor and undercuts the chancellor.”

Significantly, the integrity of that mechanism has been called into question. WTU President Elizabeth Davis says the mayor appointed just one union representative to her leadership committee—Davis—whereas the statute specified representatives, plural.

“That left a bitter taste in the mouths of WTU members and parents who wanted transparency and input but also to see that the letter of the law is followed,” Davis says. Again, Niles insists she is sticking to the letter of the law. “I am going to follow what the statute says, and that will be one indicator of a successful chancellor search,” she says.

The WTU has been well-represented at the community meetings organized by Niles’ office and has conducted its own internal task force and teacher-community surveys that yielded more than a half dozen qualifications for a new chancellor, Davis says. But she is upset that the leadership committee has not received copies of the candidate résumés that Bowser is considering and that the mayor has not convened a meeting with the committee to hear its recommendations. On Sunday, she sent an email to Niles requesting that her office comply with the law and disclose those résumés—the second such request in a week. “Although this legislation wasn’t really followed in the selection of Chancellors Rhee or Henderson, the D.C. community remains hopeful that the rule of law will prevail this time around,” Davis wrote in an email distributed to the leadership committee, D.C. Council

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Chairman Phil Mendelson, and members of the D.C. Council Education Committee, among others.

“We were pleased when the mayor held off on making her selection in October, but we are hoping to stay on track,” says Davis. “It’s awfully embarrassing that as a member of the committee it’s not possible to answer simple questions such as how many candidates there are, who they are, or whether they are internal or external.”

All in due time, says Niles, noting that the statute does not specify timeframes. “We do not want the finalists to be known right now,” she says. “But there will be a time when [the committee] will have that confidential information.” if The chancellor search is suspended in mid-air, then the search for a new police chief has yet to leave the ground. Interim Chief Peter Newsham has been with MPD for 27 years.

He is widely respected and projects a formidable presence. But with MPD facing critical policy, recruitment, and retention challenges— and ongoing labor negotiations with a union it has been at war with for years—he is somewhat hamstrung until given a clear mandate to implement a vision for the department.

MPD’s pressing issues are born of a decade of Lanier policies that Newsham helped implement, enforce, or discontinue—often in conflict with the rank and file. Community policing, vice units, stationary or “fixed posts,” and use of body cameras are all matters that have been part of a broader civic discussion.

But just as the Bowser administration has acknowledged a top priority in closing school achievement gaps, it has acknowledged a top priority in addressing attrition rates that have left MPD’s ranks at a historic low.

At a recent hearing before the Council’s Judiciary Committee, chaired by Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, the interim chief testified that MPD currently has 3,729 sworn officers and that nearly a third of MPD’s officers that left the force during fiscal years 2015 and 2016 resigned—a recognition that detracts from Lanier’s historical claim that attrition is the result of a “retirement bubble.” FOP Vice Chairman Stephen Bigelow then testified that the union represents just 3,400 sworn officers, detectives, and sergeants, and that a far lesser number are actively engaged in policing the city’s streets.

Dozens of D.C. residents showed up to testify, and the six-hour hearing went into the night.

And while they expressed a range of concerns, what stood out was a disclosure by Kevin Donahue, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, that the process for selecting a new chief would happen after the chancellor search. When it came her turn to question Donahue, Silverman sought a more definitive answer. “What is the

timeline?” Silverman asked. “If the chancellor search takes awhile, we could have [Newsham] as interim chief for a year. Would it make sense to select another chief?”

Donahue spoke “generically” about the process. “It’s certainly not going to be a year, but I don’t want to come in and say there’s a specific timeframe,” he said. “We’re not going to be rushed, because we want to have a public process.” Silverman pressed on, noting the chancellor selection process that was well underway. Donahue responded that based on the number of applicants there was no immediate need for a search firm, but that the mayor intended to hold open forums and “reach out to stakeholders.”

Silverman then turned to Michael Tobin, executive director of the Office of Police Complaints. “Time will tell if that’s followed through, but I can’t emphasize enough that there be adequate public input into the process,” Tobin said. “When?” Silverman asked.

“When should the public input occur? Should it occur now?”

To Mary Cheh, MPD is in good hands for the time being. Lanier’s Achilles’ Heel was her ability to relate to the rank and file, Cheh says.

“We need a department that’s not at war with itself,” she says. “We need to raise morale. We can’t be successful with disaffected police officers.” Newsham could bridge that gap, she adds, “but there again, I don’t think I’ve heard much discussion of what we’re looking for. I wish I knew more.”

Pemberton, the FOP treasurer, sees the department in suspense for the foreseeable future. For the members, it’s difficult, he says, two years into the mayor’s term, to be put on hold as critical policy debates and contract negotiations remain unresolved. However Bowser plans to go about selecting a new chief, he can only hope that some historical context be brought to the table. “The engines are revved down,” he says. “[Newsham] doesn’t want to disagree with the mayor, or go the other way of Lanier. He can’t make policy changes until he is blessed and told ‘go forth and do well.’”

Interim Chancellor John Davis could be feeling the same way just now, and with critical reforms at issue for both schools and public safety, the time looks right for Bowser to prove what kind of leader she can be. Waiting on the sidelines, for now, is the D.C. Council.

“The law prescribes a public process for selecting a schools chancellor and it does not prescribe any process when it comes to selecting a police chief,” says Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. “Other than the legal requirements—which exist for selecting a schools chancellor, not for chief of police—the process for coming up with an appointment is entirely the Mayor’s decision and the Council has no role until the nominee is submitted for confirmation.”

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Without being there, it’s really hard to know whether the pass was too close or just fine. You don’t by any chance wear a helmet cam every time you ride in an Uber, do you?

(You probably don’t even wear a helmet at all, but that’s a personal choice.) Local laws require drivers to stay three feet away when passing bicyclists, so if your driver was any closer than that, the maneuver was both illegal and unsafe. Meanwhile, it’s customary for drivers to give more space when possible, which is not only safer for the cyclist but also more courteous in general. After all, there’s no law stopping you from standing three inches away from someone while talking to them, but our culture is one in which people feel more comfortable interacting at greater distances. It’s the same with cars.

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I’m a longtime fan—reader and listener—and part of the 47 percent of white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared, and mad about the election is woefully insufficient. I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning because I honestly felt like there was nothing else I could do. That being said, I wanted to share that I had one of the most weirdly charged, hottest, and sexiest orgasms. A little buzzed (dealing with those election results) and sad, my boyfriend and I turned to each other for consolation. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, we were fucking as Trump came on the TV to give his acceptance speech. As that orange blowhard spewed more bullshit about being our president, I rode my boyfriend’s big, beautiful dick until I came. It was the perfect way to say, “Fuck this.

Now fuck me.” I encourage all your readers to fuck out the stress from this election. Yes, we should donate and volunteer and speak up and protest and vote and not give up hope, but we should also keep doing it and taking care of each other. Because love trumps hate, and fucking trumps … well, I’m not sure what fucking trumps. But it sure makes life better.

—Justifiably Unsettled Lass Intensely Emoting

It’s important to practice good self-care in the wake of a traumatic event—the election qualifies as a traumatic event—and going by the definition of self-care at GoodTherapy.org, fucking the living shit out of someone qualifies as self-care: “Actions that an individual might take in order to reach optimal physical and mental health … [includes] activities that an individual engages in to relax or attain emotional well-being, such as meditating, journaling, or visiting a counselor.”

They’re too polite over at GoodTherapy.org to include “fucking the shit out of someone” on their list of examples, JULIE, but what you did on election night—which just so happens to be the exact same thing I did on election night—certainly meets all the criteria.

And if anyone out there who did the same on election night—fucked the shit out of someone—is feeling the least bit guilty, please know that millions of Americans did the exact same thing after 9/11. We used a different term to describe all that post-9/11 fucking: “terror sex,” which New York magazine defined as “urgent, unguarded, end-of-the-world coitus inspired by that day’s sudden jolt of uncertainty and fear.”

I want to thank you for writing, JULIE, and I want to second your recommendation: Sex, partnered or solo, makes life better—and people shouldn’t feel guilty about fucking someone else and/or fucking/jacking/dildo-ing themselves at this uncertain and fearful moment in our nation’s history. Yes, we must donate and volunteer and protest and vote, all while reminding ourselves daily that Hillary 10 november 18, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

Clinton won the popular vote. And we must commit to defending our friends, neighbors, and coworkers who are immigrants (documented or not), Muslims (American born, immigrants, or refugees), people of color, women seeking reproductive health care, trans men and women seeking safety, lesbian and gay men seeking to protect their families, and everyone and everything else Trump has threatened to harm, up to and including the planet we all live on.

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that music and dance and art and sex and joy are a distraction from the fight. They are a part of the fight.

But we must make time for joy and pleasure and laughter and friends and food and art and music and sex. During the darkest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when Republicans and religious conservatives controlled the federal government and were doing everything in their power to harm the sick and dying, queers organized and protested and volunteered and mourned. We also made music and theater and art. We took care of each other, and we danced and loved and fucked. Embracing joy and art and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us feel better—it kept us sane— and it had the added benefit of driving our enemies crazy. They couldn’t understand how we could be anything but miserable, given the challenges we faced—their greed, their indifference, their bigotry—but we created and experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this awful disease. We turned to each other— we turned to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers—and said, “Fuck them. Now fuck me.”

We didn’t eradicate HIV/AIDS, the disease that was sickening us then, but we fought it to a standstill and we may defeat it yet. The disease that now sickens our nation is different. We may never eradicate racism and sexism and hatred. But fight it we will. And don’t listen to anyone who tells you that music and dance and art and sex and joy are a distraction from the fight. They are a part of the fight.

—Dan Savage My boyfriend is undocumented. His sister married a U.S. citizen and may receive a green card. We had hoped to someday do the same. But next year, the extreme right will control all three branches of the federal government. Deportation will surely come for my boyfriend. Additionally, we’re a gay couple,

and Donald Trump has pledged to repeal marriage equality, if not ban it outright. So if we were to marry now, the timing would look suspicious. And even if we did marry, that marriage is likely to be invalidated in the coming years. Is it still worth it to try? What do I do if the government takes away the love of my life?

—Keep Him Home You should marry your boyfriend immediately, KHH, and do so with confidence.

“There is no realistic possibility that anyone’s marriage will be invalidated,” says Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which has taken marriage-rights cases to the U.S. Supreme Court (and won). “The law is very strong that if a marriage is valid when entered, it cannot be invalidated by any subsequent change in the law. So people who are already married should not be concerned that their marriage can be taken away.”

And Minter says the court is unlikely to overturn Obergefell, the decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country.

“The doctrine of stare decisis—which means that courts generally will respect and follow their own prior rulings—is also very strong, and the Supreme Court very rarely overturns an important constitutional ruling so soon after issuing it,” says Minter. “Even the appointment of an anti-marriage-equality justice to replace Justice Scalia would not jeopardize the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on marriage equality, and the great majority of Americans still strongly support the freedom of same-sex couples to marry.”

—DS I’m heartsick about the election. Today I made a donation to Planned Parenthood. PP asked me if I wanted my donation to be in honor of anyone and noted they’ll send a card to that person to let them know I’ve donated in their name. Why yes, I thought, I’d like to make my donation in honor of Mike Pence, vice president-elect. Until Jan. 20, his address is 4600 N Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana, 46208. After Jan. 20, his address will sadly be 1 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, D.C., 20008. If any of your readers are inclined to join me in honoring our VP-elect, they can donate at plannedparenthood.org.

—Generous Investment Verifying Equality In addition to donating to Planned Parenthood—which everyone should do—please donate to the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org). Better yet, become a card-carrying member of the ACLU today. With Trump in the White House and Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, freedom and decency need to lawyer the fuck up.

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Mining a Murder How DNC staffer Seth Rich became a martyr for the Trump-supporting alt-right.

By Will Sommer While DonalD Trump defied almost every prediction by winning the presidential election last week, his diehard supporters rejoiced on Trump-friendly forums like Reddit’s “The_Donald” page.

They thanked the obvious people—Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, Breitbart News president turned Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon. They praised Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published Democratic National Committee emails suspected to have been obtained by Russian hackers.

But some of the most effusive praise went to a Democrat. Seth Rich, a 27-year-old DNC employee whose July murder in D.C.’s Bloomingdale neighborhood remains unsolved, has taken on a surprising martyrdom among Trump supporters. In their telling—based on zero evidence—mysterious forces allied with Hillary Clinton killed Rich as payback for leaking DNC emails to Wikileaks.

“I know we’re in the middle of celebrating, but it’s important to remember: His name was Seth Rich,” wrote one Reddit user.

As Trump’s lead grew, his supporters continued celebrating Rich with the slogan they’ve attached to him: “His name was Seth Rich.”

Reddit threads posted about Rich earned hundreds of comments and thousands of positive “votes,” as users imagined Rich cheering Trump’s 290 electoral votes from heaven.

“I know your (sic) looking down at us,” wrote another poster. “Love you bro.”

What at first looked like a tragic robberygone-bad has attracted attention across the globe. It’s been discussed in Assange’s London embassy hideout and within the Chinese Communist Party.

Even for a campaign plagued by fake online news and rumors, the ideas about Rich’s murder stand out. The Snopes page debunking the rumors about his death has been shared more than 40,000 times. A Google search for Rich’s

name and “Clinton” returns 186,000 results.

People across the right, from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to conspiracy theorist godfather (and Trump ally) Alex Jones, champion “solving” the murder.

This is what happens when a murder victim becomes a pro-Trump meme.

ShoTSpoTTer, The high-Tech listening devices that are installed across the city to alert police to gunfire, first detected Rich’s shooting.

A system alert sent police racing to the 2100 block of Flagler Pl. NW. It also recorded the exact time Rich was shot: Sunday, July 10, at 4:19 a.m.

By the time police officers reached Rich less than four minutes later, he was on the ground with bruises on his hands and face and a bullet lodged in his spine. The killer was gone.

Rich survived long enough to make it to a hospital, but died less than two hours later.

“Everybody was surprised that he didn’t make it,” says Seth’s father Joel Rich.

By 6 a.m. that morning, Seth Rich had become the District’s 68th murder victim of 2016. The killing of the enthusiastic DNC voting data director from Omaha, Nebraska, looked set to become just another high-profile example of the random violence touching the District’s professional class—like the 2006 murder of British activist Alan Senitt in Georgetown, the 2015 Shaw shooting of Deloitte analyst Matt Shlonsky, or the 2015 still-unsolved murder of reporter Charnice Milton.

There had already been a string of armed robberies in Bloomingdale leading up to Rich’s murder. In fact, police officers reached the scene so quickly in part because they had been posted nearby after the robberies.

“Over the last weeks before [the murder], they had just been on a steady incline,” Bloomingdale Civic Association president Teri Janine Quinn says.

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All that lends credence to the theory that Rich’s murder was just an armed robbery that went too far. Instead, his death has become perhaps the most intensely watched D.C. murder since the 2001 killing of congressional intern Chandra Levy.

That’s because no other recent murder in the District could be tied, however tenuously, to the “Clinton Death List”—the lengthy, decades-old list of casualties attributed to Bill or Hillary Clinton that has become right-wing folklore.

Within two days of Rich’s murder, Your News Wire—a website that typically traffics in “scoops” about the Illuminati—vaguely declared that Rich was a “campaign fraud whistleblower.” A month after Rich’s death, far-right website World Net Daily added Rich to its “Clinton Death List” alongside the likes of Vince Foster, the Clinton administration deputy counsel who committed suicide—or “suicide,” depending on which sites you believe—in 1993.

There is still no evidence that the Clintons or anyone else in politics was involved in Rich’s murder. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, there’s no proof Rich’s tragic demise was linked to his job.

Still, there was enough to get conspiracyhungry minds rolling. If Rich had been murdered in a botched robbery—the only theory MPD has publicized—why did his murderer leave behind his phone, wallet, and watch?

There was a timeline question, too. An investigation of the hours before Rich’s death by Britain’s right-wing Daily Mail tabloid found that he had spent much of the night at Columbia Heights’ Lou’s City Bar, which he visited frequently. Bar employees told the Daily Mail that Rich had left around closing time at 1:45 a.m., leaving questions about where he had been in the nearly three hours between then and the shooting just one block from his Bloomingdale house. The employees said Rich

had possibly planned to go to another bar— the nearby Wonderland Ballroom—but it was all enough to raise questions in the internet’s most fevered minds.

Joel rich puT his son to rest three days after the murder, following a packed service in their Nebraska synagogue. The mourners at the service included Seth’s friends and professors from his alma mater Creighton University, and former Nebraska Sen. Bill Nelson, for whom Rich had campaigned.

For Joel Rich, it was a crushing end for the big-hearted son who regularly watched CSPAN for fun and never met a stranger he didn’t treat as a friend.

“He was a special kind of person who people wanted to be around, because they knew he would treat everybody fairly,” he says.

Clinton mentioned Rich’s death in a speech on gun violence. The DNC would later include him in the “In Memoriam” part of its convention. Interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile, who says she cried for hours after hearing of Rich’s death, remembers him as a “cheerleader” for the DNC’s voter registration efforts.

“Everyone around here loved Seth,” Brazile says. “His ideals, his commitment.”

Still, Joel Rich and his wife Mary Rich began to notice the theories surrounding their son’s murder build just days after his death.

On July 13, the same day as Rich’s funeral, conspiracy theory website Whatdoesitmean.com claimed Rich had been murdered by a Clinton “hit team.” Joel Rich soon saw acquaintances complaining on Facebook about the budding conspiracy theories surrounding his death.

He told them to just ignore it. Then came Wikileaks.

On July 22, 12 days after Rich’s murder, Assange and Wikileaks began publishing emails obtained from DNC email accounts. The revelations in the emails, which showed some op-

Photo courtesy of the Rich family

position within the DNC to Clinton primary challenger Bernie Sanders, would eventually force the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just days before the Democratic convention.

For the conspiracy-minded and Clintonaverse, the connection was clear: Clinton allies murdered Rich because he leaked the emails to Assange. Others, including Trump associate Roger Stone Jr., claimed that Rich had been planning to meet with the FBI before he was killed.

“Coincidence?” Stone tweeted. “I think not.”

Assange himself helped promote the idea in August, when he gave an interview with a Dutch news agency from the London embassy where he has sought asylum for four years.

In the interview, Assange hinted that Rich worked with Wikileaks.

“Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks,” Assange said cryptically.

“There’s a 27-year-old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington.”

Wikileaks has offered $20,000 for information about Rich’s murderer. Assange, who is notorious for promising bombshell revelations that never come, has repeatedly declined to offer proof that Rich was behind the leak or even to say explicitly that he worked with the group.

Assange’s implications brought new attention to the growing rumors. Commenters on right-wing blog posts regularly mention Clinton’s role in Rich’s death as if it’s a proven fact.

“It was a tragedy that occurred at a time when a rumor like that could really get legs,” Snopes fact-checker Kim LaCapria tells City Paper in an email.

The Chinese Communist Party’s youth wing even posted on social media about Rich’s death as an example of the evils of American politics.

“The sources of the Hillary leaked emails were murdered, one after another?” the post reads, according to a BuzzFeed translation.

“This is the truth of Western democracy!”

In Nebraska, the Riches’ home phone line became flooded with media requests.

“We stopped answering the home phone for about three weeks,” Joel Rich says.

The family’s attempts to discourage the conspiracies only seemed to agitate the theorists. In August, they asked for an end to the speculation. That didn’t convince right-wing pundit Tomi Lahren, who hosts an online show for Glenn Beck’s The Blaze network.

“His family doesn’t want to be in a body bag either!” Lahren said on a podcast for Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller site, after broaching the idea that Rich had been murdered over politics.

When the Riches asked Brad Bauman, a Democratic-affiliated crisis consultant, to be their spokesman, Wikileaks tweeted about the development. At Infowars, the far-right 9/11 truther site run by excitable conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Bauman’s hiring was just further proof of a cover-up.

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“Has Brad Bauman been tasked by the Democratic establishment with silencing uncomfortable questions about Seth Rich’s murder?” Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson asked.

On Aug. 27, Infowars’ online talk show devoted more than 10 minutes to speculating about Rich’s death.

“This might be the first robbery on record where nothing was taken,” Infowars reporter Margaret Howell marvelled.

Jones’ ideas may be on the fringe, but he’s no outsider when it comes to the Trump campaign. Trump appeared on Jones’ radio show last December. After Trump’s election, Jones claimed that the president-elect called to thank him.

In October, U.S. intelligence agencies issued a joint statement blaming the release of the Wikileaks emails not on an internal DNC leaker but on hackers operating with the Russian government. For Joel Rich, the idea that his son leaked the emails is absurd. He points out that his son worked on voter access tools, not on an email server.

He wouldn’t have had access to the DNC’s email system. Besides, Joel Rich says, his son was so averse to rule-breaking that he was reluctant to jaywalk.

The utter absence of connections between Rich’s murder, Wikileaks, and Clinton didn’t stop Trump supporters and the campaign’s surrogates from propagating the theories while stopping just short of endorsing them. In an August appearance on talk radio host Mike Gallagher’s nationally syndicated show, Gingrich typified the campaign’s approach to the conspiracy theory.

“If someone is gunned down in our national capital, we ought to have a pretty passionate interest in knowing why,” Gingrich said. “And if it clearly wasn’t a mugging and it wasn’t for money, what was it for?”

Rich isn’t even the only recent D.C. death blamed on Clinton. The August death of Shawn Lucas, a process server who had delivered a lawsuit to the DNC, had also been attributed to the spurious “death list.” (A statement from the District’s Medical Examiner blamed Lucas’ death on a combination of the opioid fentanyl and other drugs).

With Seth Rich entrenched as an unlikely martyr for the fringes on the right, even his clothing became a subject of fascination on the right-wing internet.

Joel Rich says that his son loved to dress up for July 4, or any date he considered significant for the United States, like the day the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. One of the most circulated pictures of Rich after his death featured him in full patriotic gear, wearing an American flag shirt, blue pants with stars, American flag shoes, even red-and-white striped socks. In his hand: a drink in, naturally, an American flag koozie.

One Reddit user posted a picture of himself dressed as Rich for Halloween, complete with an American flag shirt. When people asked who he was supposed to be, the user wrote, he had an answer: “I honor a hero, and his name

was Seth Rich!”

Joel Rich says the online speculation that his son helped to leak the emails to the DNC makes him “swallow hard.”

“How do you counteract that?” he adds.

“You can’t disprove a lie.”

If you thInk Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman got involved with solving Seth Rich’s murder just to promote himself, he doesn’t mind.

Burkman can take it—he says he’s made of “alligator skin.”

That’s not to be confused with his shoes, which are made of crocodile skin.

“Other than the presidential election itself, it’s probably the top news story online,” Burkman told City Paper in an October interview, after comparing the effort to find Rich’s killer to the search for the Lindbergh baby.

Burkman doesn’t shy away from media attention. In 2014, he unsuccessfully promoted legislation attempting to ban gay players from the NFL. Last year, he tried to host an early general fundraiser for Trump, before eventually disowning the candidate. And in September, Burkman committed $100,000 of his own money to the reward for information about Rich’s murder.

Burkman claims he’s not putting up the reward to promote himself. Instead, he says Rich’s murder just reminded him how his family would have reacted to his death as a young man living on Capitol Hill.

“I wondered how my mother would have

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felt,” Burkman says.

He is quick to formulate theories about what was behind the killing. Maybe a rival, jealous of the young man’s career success. Or maybe it really was a botched robbery. But there’s one theory he dismisses out of hand: the idea that Seth Rich was working with Wikileaks.

The notion that Clinton ordered Rich’s murder, Burkman says, is promoted by “the same sickos in my party that wanted to talk about Vince Foster.”

“I think he’s using it for free advertising for himself,” Burkman says of Assange. “I think it’s sad.”

Between Wikileaks, Burkman, and the $25,000 reward MPD is offering, anyone who could provide information could potentially receive $145,000. Burkman says he offered the money so that a tipster could afford to move out of the District.

“They may have to go to Seattle or something to save their life,” Burkman says.

Money and continued media attention may be some of the last things going for a successful conclusion to the Rich investigation. With no witnesses and no surveillance footage, the investigation is likely left to rely on a tipster.

Joel Rich says that a nearby surveillance camera captured two men leaving the scene, but not the crime itself. The Riches and Burkman are planning a news conference for this Monday, Nov. 21 in Bloomingdale’s Crispus Attucks Park to publicize the reward.

“The people who know something probably don’t watch the 10 o’clock news,” Joel Rich says.

In oCtober, reddIt user “EmpireofWin” printed the picture of Rich in his American flag outfit on a T-shirt with the tagline “His name was Seth Rich.” He promised to wear the shirt regularly until Rich received “justice.”

“EmpireofWin” concedes that he doesn’t know whether Rich leaked the DNC emails to Assange. Still, he says it was a harmless way to promote the Rich investigation—at least until he lost the T-shirt.

“The man was a total patriot,” he writes in a message to City Paper. “I don’t know a single person who can wrap themselves in flags and say they hate this country.”

Rob Burkman and Wikileaks aren’t the only ones donating to the Rich case—or capitalizing on it, depending on your point of view. Alt-right figure Mike Cernovich, whose prominence among Trump supporters recently earned him a New Yorker profile, has contributed a $20,000 reward through a bounty-styled website run by controversial right-wing journalist Chuck Johnson.

Other, anonymous users on the site have contributed $101.

Via email, Johnson has a simple explanation for why Rich’s murder stands out: “People like a good mystery, particularly one that involves suspected foul play.” dnC staffers gathered in October outside its Capitol Hill headquarters to dedicate a bike rack to Rich.

“Fierce fighter for voting rights,” the plaque reads in part. “Devoted Democrat.”

Rich’s girlfriend locked his bike to the rack in a nod to his frequent cycling around the District. Brazile urged the attendees at the memorial to help register voters for an election that would, a month later, become a landmark disaster for the Democratic Party.

“I wanted a part of Seth to remain here at the building,” Brazile says.

For the people who knew Rich, the fact that he and his murder are being exploited as proTrump propaganda hurts. Brazile calls the efforts “despicable.”

“I hope that when someone publishes a lie like this that they think about the impact that it has on the victim’s family and on the loved ones,” says Pratt Wiley, the DNC’s National Director of Voter Expansion and Rich’s former boss.

Online, Trump supporters who claim that Rich paid for Trump’s win with his life memorialize him in different ways. One Reddit user used image-editing software to turn Rich’s face green, morphing him into a version of the alt-right’s “Pepe” frog mascot. Another sold shirts with Rich’s face and the slogan adopted by his misguided supporters: “His name was Seth Rich.” In one post-election thread, Reddit users even pondered commissioning a bust of Rich to stand outside the DNC’s headquarters.

Joel Rich says he often enters his son’s name on Google, only to see conspiracy theories.

When told that Trump supporters were imagining Seth cheering Trump’s victory from the afterlife, he’s stunned.

“How can people stoop so low?”

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Greater WashinGton’s breWery boom merits a hearty hoist of the pint glass. After all, the number of breweries in the region has grown from a mere dozen to more than 75 in the past five years, with several more on the way. But most are in Virginia and Maryland, with only 12—six production breweries and six brewpubs—in D.C. proper. City swillers find themselves crossing state lines with envy, wondering why the District isn’t seeing more substantial growth.

Despite the many ways in which D.C. is primed for progress, breweries looking to get started here face high costs, a limited supply of suitable spaces, regulatory barriers, and government bureaucracy.

In the win column for D.C. is the city’s educated, enthusiastic clientele. The District’s thriving beer bars, initial wave of brewpubs and breweries, and constant influx of new brands have birthed sophisticated beer drinkers. “Folks drinking here know a lot and have so much to choose from,” says Kathy Rizzo, executive director of the D.C. Brewers’ Guild.

D.C.’s distribution laws are also favorable.

Breweries can skip wholesalers and peddle their beer directly to bars and bottle shops.

Though it takes considerable effort, self-distribution is particularly advantageous for small breweries and new ones trying to establish themselves. Most D.C. breweries work with distributors, but if a brewery does not feel well-represented it can more easily dissolve its distribution contract in D.C. than it can in Virginia and Maryland, where franchise laws interfere. The absence of these laws also gives District breweries a bargaining chip when negotiating terms.

Other laws have also become more welcoming. Over the last four years, breweries like DC Brau have worked with regulators and legislators to pass a sequence of bills permitting the sale of growlers, allowing tasting rooms to sell pints, extending operating hours, and encouraging live music.

Development helps too. “The city is still growing and so many beautiful neighborhoods are still developing,” says Right Proper Brewing founder Thor Cheston, who opened a brewpub in Shaw and a production

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brewery in Brookland. “There’s just so much opportunity to find a great spot for a little pub.”

He expected more to be open by now.

So what gives?

First, it takes a lot of cash to get started. D.C. rents are high. Brewery start-up costs often exceed $1 million, and it can be difficult to secure loans and investments, especially when breweries are still unfamiliar to many prospective investors.

“Most people don’t understand how a brewery is different from a restaurant or bar as an investment,” says James Warner, who is working with his wife Kim Carnahan to open City-State Brewing. “You need more equipment, a larger space, and there can be a much larger return but also large up-front costs that could take longer, maybe five years, to pay back.”

Those expenses often include significant

renovations such as installing adequate floors, drains, appropriate cooling, and more. And D.C. building permits are costly. “Our building permit fee alone was $19,000,” says ANXO Cidery & Pintxos Bar’s Tim Prendergast. “That’s not including architects, lawyers, etc. That’s literally just the fee to stamp the permit.”

Finding a location also proves challenging.

Brewpubs can set up shop almost anywhere restaurants can, but the space needs to be large and amenable to specialized upgrades.

Production breweries, on the other hand, can only operate in manufacturing zones. These scarce spots are primarily scattered along New York Avenue and Metro’s red line, the city’s two northeast rail corridors. There are far more ready-to-brew sites in the abundant industrial parks of Virginia and Maryland.

Location challenges can prove so trying that breweries avoid the overhead by lean-

ing on others. Handsome Beer Company, which started selling beer in D.C. and Maryland last September, brews at Old Bust Head in Warrenton, Virginia. John Fleury and Josh Perry, the duo behind Pulaski True American, plan to open a neighborhood brewpub, perhaps in Ivy City or Anacostia, but will brew there sparingly. Instead, they’ll enlist another brewery for the majority of their production.

Brick-and-mortar shop or not, licensing fees are another hurdle. Breweries in D.C. pay from $5,000 to $8,400 per year regardless of operation size. The higher end of this range includes extra permits for production breweries to offer samples, sell pints, or host live bands. Brewpubs also pay licensing and permitting fees in order to operate as restaurants.

For Andy Oetman, D.C.’s fees are a concern. His environmentally focused, grassroots

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project Fishbowl Brewing and CoHoperative may produce as few as 1,000 gallons of beer a year, but he will still owe at least $5,000.

“If I want to do a small artisanal project, it’s the same price as a large production brewery,” he explains. “I’ll have to figure out the scale that still makes sense financially.”

Virginia, meanwhile, has a tiered system. A brewery producing 500 or fewer barrels per year pays $350 to $550 annually for state licenses, while those brewing more than 10,000 barrels pay as much as $4,500. Brewpubs pay anywhere from $150 to $3,300, depending on the type of restaurant liquor license they choose.

But Virginia isn’t without its burdens. Breweries pay a hefty excise tax of $8 per barrel for beer sold on site. (In D.C. and Maryland, excise tax is only $2.79 per barrel.) Counties and cities in the Commonwealth often charge additional fees, especially for brewpubs. Alexandria will charge forthcoming Portner Brewhouse an initial $600 fee and then a minimum of $250 each year on top of a percentage of all sales. In Arlington, New District Brewing—the county’s first production brewery in a century—pays a 4 percent meal tax on tasting room beer sales.

In terms of state licensing, Maryland is the Promised Land. A farm brewery may pay as little as $200 per year and can engage in a wide range of activities from offering samples and selling beer to go, to serving food and selling crops to other breweries. At the higher end, a large production brewery making more than 22,500 barrels per year pays only $1,500 for state licensing and can sell pints and beer to go.

County and city fees vary in Maryland too.

In Montgomery County, for example, Denizens Brewing Co. pays $1,025 annually for their restaurant and alcohol licenses—with state fees substantially less than they would pay in the District.

Licenses and permits can cause headaches regardless of location, but difficulties with regulation in D.C. may discourage would-be entrepreneurs. Horror stories abound. Right Proper had to retrofit its high-capacity boiler and pays $12,000 annually for daily inspections. Hellbender, which just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, had to spend an unplanned $35,000 to seal their floor before opening. And then there’s Bardo Brewpub, which sued D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board after the agency denied Bardo’s application for an outdoor riverfront beer garden.

Arlington’s a different story. “I can’t say enough about Arlington County,” says New District Brewing Company founder Mike Katrivanos. “The Arlington Economic Development team was instrumental in setting up early meetings with people from each government office to plan together.” They even

Despite the many ways in which D.C. is primed for progress, breweries looking to get started here face high costs, a limited supply of suitable spaces, regulatory barriers, and government bureaucracy. helped New District avoid signing leases on maligned properties.

Looking toward expansion, Katrivanos plans to apply for a Virginia Department of Agriculture grant, which Arlington would match.

This matching program recently awarded Port City Brewing $500,000 in funding.

This support can make all the difference and, fortunately, the D.C. government is making some changes. For example, the D.C. Council and Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration have been supportive with progressive legislation changes. And the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs offers free consultations and workshops through its Small Business Resource Center, and recently began offering the option to apply for licensing online with a tool that streamlines processes across agencies—only breweries and brewpubs are not yet included.

“D.C. really does a lot to support local business,” says Rizzo, who works with the government on behalf of D.C. breweries. “They just don’t know all there is to know about the brewing industry yet. They want there to be a clearer path and for us to let them know what we want them to do to support us.”

So what needs to happen? Along with changes in the law, the restructuring of license classifications and fees and adjustments for brewery-specific construction and health codes will be critical in paving the way to a District brewery boom.

Likewise, government loans or grants like those offered in Virginia, or tax credits such as the one recently passed in New York, could help ease high costs for D.C. breweries. More zoning for production breweries is also needed.

D.C.’s brewery scene is still nascent compared to its neighbors, but as the industry matures, more favorable conditions are sure to follow. Breweries seem to beget breweries, despite concerns about the craft beer bubble bursting. If Loudoun County can support 22 breweries, the District should be able to accommodate more than its current 12.

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We’ve ranked five from first to worst so you know where to splurge and what to avoid.

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National Museum of African American History and Culture 1400 Constitution Ave. NW If Sweet Home Café were a restaurant that didn’t require a museum ticket, critics and everyday diners would be elbowing each other to get in. Never before has D.C. seen soul food this satisfying and sincere, and that’s despite it being scaled to feed the masses.The buttermilk fried chicken with two sides ($14.95) is the ultimate comfort food, but diners can also find panroasted rainbow trout with cornbread and mustard green stuffing ($15.95) or duck, andouille, and crawfish gumbo with Carolina rice and green onion ($13.95). A dessert bar and mini bellinis in a bottle make for sweet additions.

National Museum of the American Indian 4th St. & Independence Ave. SW Believe the reputation Mitsitam Café has earned itself as the best food on the Mall, especially now that the museum has hired its first Native American chef. Cuisine ranges from food inspired by the Northern Woodlands and Mesoamerica to the Great Plains. The best plate just may be the “five-region sampler” ($32) from the Northwest Coast with both salmon and grilled bison loin served with three sides like hominy salad, golden beets, and mushrooms. Other highlights include Northern Atlantic clam soup ($7.55), baconwrapped halibut with wild rice and sour cherry aioli ($16.95), and buffalo chili and cheese ($8.25).

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6th & Constitution Ave. NW Despite landing Starr Catering Group this year, Cascade Café doesn’t wow as much as the glittery walkway that deposits diners there. The “World Grill” advertises weekly rotating specials like shawarma and tacos, but on my visit the cook says they don’t have any. I settle for a ricotta, mushroom, and arugula pizza ($8.50) that’s cold and brittle even after being reheated and is covered in a white substance that looks like dried spit-up. Only the antipasto bar earns points for flavor, freshness, and appealing to the health conscious. I build a plate for $10.37.

600 Independence Ave. SW There’s nothing special at the cafeteria inside this museum. Unless of course you grew up a fan of Boston Market, because they have one of those, plus a McDonald’s and a Donatos Pizza. What saves the National Air and Space Museum is the gift shop where visitors can purchase freeze-dried space food sure to serve as a shot of nostalgia for a couple of bucks.

14th St. and Constitution Ave. NW Stars and Stripes Cafe will leave you longing for better days at an airport Johnny Rockets. I skip a feeble, lessthan-fresh salad bar and a grill station proffering pricey hot dogs and head to the barbecue window where a pulled pork sandwich is allegedly “smoked and cured in house over hardwood.” I grab it ($10.95) and a side of alarmingly yellow potato salad ($3.25). The sandwich is greasy and tastes like liquid smoke, and I can’t bring myself to crack the hardening mayo shell of the potato salad. The only bright spot is a selection of retro candy for sale, including Lemonheads and Cow Tales. washingtoncitypaper.com november 18, 2016 19

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Arena Stage simplifies a classic musical, and new productions from Solas Nua, and Studio Theatre pair heavy political themes with sparse staging. las Rodriguez, whose portrayal of Curley in Arena’s 2010 production of Oklahoma earned a Helen Hayes award, possesses so much sweetness that it’s hard to believe him as the tough and stubborn Billy, a man so frustrated with life that he physically lashes out against those he loves. His starry-eyed hope makes sense in the second act, but when Billy does truly awful things, the portrayal needs a more sinister approach.

Director Molly Smith uses the rest of the company to fully build out this fictional world. Local favorite E. Faye Butler sells her role as Mrs. Mullin, the owner of the carousel, with haughty laughter and stage-commanding gestures, while Kate Rockwell steals the show as Carrie Pipperidge, Julie’s best friend who provides comic relief and emotional support in equal doses. The 19 tireless chorus members play everything from bearded ladies and carousel horses to townspeople and sailors and sell every role.

Through them, the town comes alive.

In adapting Carousel for Arena’s round Fichandler Stage, Smith has found ways to simplify a show that could get bogged down by having too many physical things on stage. She does away with props entirely, choosing to convey important changes through costumes. Music director Paul Sportelli received special permission from R&H Theatricals to adapt the orchestrations for a 12-piece group, which set designer Todd Rosenthal places in a suspended structure above the stage so the music fully envelops the performers and the audience. Choreographer Parker Esse also departs from tradition, applying modern touches to Agnes De Mille’s classic second-act ballet, creating a dance that looks less dreamy and delicate but still conveys the piece’s meaning. The result is a show that feels new, despite debuting on Broadway more than seven decades ago and being set in a more distant time period.

Smith calls Carousel “the Hamlet of American musicals.”

The musical includes fewer calculating murderers but both works question whether or not a character’s actions can be redeemed and share a curiosity with life after death. Billy Bigelow seems like a ne’er-do-well—he certainly sees himself that way—but it’s up to the audience and Julie to decide whether he can overcome those negative traits. Whether he’s the villain or hero, lover or louse, his memory remains in the minds of the characters and the audience. Passing up the straight-forward happy ending also yields something more rewarding: a musical that the audience keeps humming and thinking about days later.

—Caroline Jones

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Carousel

Carousel

By Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Directed by Molly Smith At Arena Stage through Dec. 24 “Walk on, Walk on, with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone,” Nettie Fowler sings halfway through the second act of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. The lyrics might be a bit on the nose, but for Arena Stage’s production of the musical, transformed from standard, audience-pleasing fare into something extraordinary by its dazzling ensemble, this sentiment feels somewhat appropriate.

Set in a coastal Maine mill town in the late 19th century, the story follows the relationship between Coney Island carousel barker Billy Bigelow and factory worker Julie Jordan. But don’t expect to settle in to see the traditional lovemarriage-baby narrative play out. While all those elements are present, Carousel looks more intimately at the ways humans fail one another and the limits of redemption. Rather than build elaborate back stories for Billy and Julie, Rodgers and Hammerstein chose to examine the connection between these two characters over the first two months of their relationship—what led up to the moment they met does not matter.

Making her Arena Stage debut, Betsy Morgan imparts a sense of world-weariness in her portrayal of Julie. She wants to escape the monotonous tasks she performs day after day at the cotton mill, and getting together with Billy brings some excitement to her life. He’s seen more of the world than she has and partnering with him feels thrilling and terrifying. Nicho-

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Little Thing, Big Thing

By Donal O’Kelly Directed by Rex Daugherty At Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab to Nov. 27 The moTormouThed crime caper Little Thing, Big Thing is a shining example of the sort of lo-fi, high-speed theater that Solas Nua does better than any outfit in town. The D.C.-based contemporary Irish arts organization once used the cavernous Uline Arena—site of The Beatles’s first concert on U.S. soil, 52 years before it became an REI—as a venue. But it’s best known for the kind of intimate, minimally produced shows that would work on a basketball court or in a basement.

A comic thriller set in rural Ireland, Little Thing, Big Thing features Nanna Ingvarsson and Sasha Olinick sharing two dozen roles and a half-dozen accents between them. There are alcoholic cops and executives from multinational oil interests in the dramatis personae, but Ingvarsson spends most of the show’s breathless 90 minutes as Martha, a nun just back from Nigeria, and Olinick as Larry, a thief who happens to be burgling her convent when bad men show up. All he’d intended was to purloin a statue of the Virgin Mary—bad karma, surely, but nothing like the kind of mortal sin the other intruders had in mind.

Larry and Martha flee in a van, and the tale follows their long night’s journey into day, Sister Martha chiding the driver for his profanity all the while. “Coarse language is just a sign of impotence,” she sniffs.

The reprimand is funnier spoken in an Irish accent, because everything is funnier spoken in an Irish accent. Playwright Donal O’Kelly de-emphasizes the visual components of theater like sets and props in favor of roiling waves of language— dialogue, interior monologues, even the stage directions the players recite aloud. Even when the plot—something about an incriminating roll of film with which Sister Martha has been entrusted—leaves you lost, the current of words pulls you along.

The show’s other source of pleasure is the grace and ease of Ingvarsson and Olinick’s quick-changes between characters. At one point, Ingvarsson transubstantiates from a dozing nun into a policeman who questions Larry on suspicion of drunk driving while trying not to wake the nun in the passenger seat. The device recalls the stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps that ran on Broadway from 2008-2010, which used only four actors to embody every character from the movie (and other Hitchcock movies), bringing a similar circus-like appeal to a chase plot.

But the precedent Little Thing, Big Thing most reflects is Disco Pigs, the first show Solas Nua performed, in 2005. Director Rex Daugherty appeared in it off-Broadway in 2008 and here in D.C. in 2009. Like Little Thing, Big Thing, it was a frenetic two-hander staged minimally, with spoken-aloud stage directions and no props save for a shopping cart.(Little Thing, Big Thing uses a couple of chairs, a scrim, and a trunk.)

Disco Pigs cast Daugherty and Madeleine Carr as Irish teens on a spree of petty crime and self-discovery. It ran only 60 minutes. This time, the characters and performers are older and their awakening is of the political variety. But the impact is similar. It’s a powerful thing, to do a lot with just a little.

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Straight White Men

Straight White Men

iT can be said that America did not pay enough attention to what a majority of straight white men were really thinking until Nov. 9. A fortuitous hint from this election year came when president-elect Donald J. Trump won the Republican primary. But that wasn’t enough. Actually, successful voter turnout from the straight white man’s demographic looked bleak, according to some. Just days before the election, actress Lena Dunham asked her father Carroll “how he felt about the extinction of white men” in a tweet. Carroll responded, “Straight white guys have been screwing things up long enough” and that it was “high time for straight white males to step back and let some other people do it.”

And on Nov. 9, political analysts were stunned after diverting their eyes from this crucial voting bloc. But playwright Young Jean Lee was not shocked. In fact, the white male privilege rhetoric dispelled by Dunham’s dad echoes in her latest play, Straight White Men. Straight White Men doesn’t consider why white men are privileged, but instead contemplates what they should do about it. The family—three brothers and their father—at the center of Lee’s play is liberal and progressive; we see evidence of this in the first act when they pull out their revamped version of Monopoly, called “Privilege.” Instead of a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, they use a “denial card” to get

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out of things, and if they get stopped by the police they won’t immediately go to jail. The game was created by their late mother who designed it to remind them that they are privileged. One of the actors says, “How else would we learn how not to be assholes?”

The three brothers, in their mid-forties, are together for Christmas in their father’s home, reminiscing and roughhousing, but after one of the brothers suddenly has a breakdown, their merriment melts into a discussion about achievement.

The scene sneaks up on the audience, bringing gravity to too much horseplay when two of the brothers accuse the other, Matt (Michael Tisdale), of not using his “white privilege,” and the outcome is unexpected—a glimpse into what it looks like when straight white men screw things up.

The characters in Lee’s naturalist family drama spend much of their stage time interrogating their privilege, and their problems are very much middle class: Matt is a Harvard grad pay-

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ing off a mountain of school loans, Drew (Avery Clark) is seeing a therapist to figure out how to achieve happiness, and Jake (Bruch Reed) is a divorced banker who misses his family. Lee uses theater to play with perception and racial identities: Through a stripped down, sparse set design, she makes it clear that racial and gender privilege do not equal economic privilege. The “brand” of the straight white man demographic—unflappable, wealthy, entitled—is a stereotype. This is not to say that Lee views this group as oppressed, but it does evoke some sympathy.

Director Shana Cooper makes her debut at Studio Theatre and stages a nuanced, focused production. Tisdale, Clark, and Reed don’t physically look like brothers, but the chemistry between them—their clashes and moments of familial love and hate—sells it. And for the intimacy of the stage, they’re able to exercise a good amount of physicality—jumping on and off couches and chasing each other around—thanks to Cooper’s deft blocking.

But some of Cooper’s directorial choices aren’t as swift. At 85 minutes with no intermission, Cooper utilizes Jeymee Semiti in the role of “stagehand-in-charge” to transition between scenes, reminding the audience to turn off their cellphones while she helps to dress and undress the stage. It’s a well-performed role, albeit an unnecessary one that comes off as bit too pretentious.

Despite the political climate, it’s easy to put Straight White Men’s politics aside and enjoy watching the titular white men let it all go: After a major blow-up, the three brothers come back together for a pseudo-dance-off to Missy Elliott’s “Lose Control.” But even then, it’s hard to ignore the characters’ perceived wokeness: “You can’t change the system without giving up what you have.”

—Rachael Johnson

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“AN EMOTIONAL WIPEOUT”

It’s not a common occurrence that a deconstructed production of a contemporary classic winds up winning both the Olivier Award and the Tony Award for best direction. But this turned out to be a stunningly fruitful match of sensibilities.

Van Hove is an avant-gardist with a keen appreciation for plays—American plays in particular. Audiences have grown more appreciative of his stark X-ray tactics exposing the psychosexual subtexts of drama we mistakenly assumed we already knew.

If ever there were a play that could use van Hove’s interpretive seduction, it’s Miller’s smoldering domestic drama…

If van Hove’s direction transforms the audience into voyeurs at times, the scenic design by van Hove’s close collaborator Jan Versweyveld turns theatergoers into a combination of spectators at a boxing match and jurors at a trial. The whole town is indeed watching.

—Los Angeles Times

Like the kings of ancient Greek tragedies, Eddie Carbone is a respected leader in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Like those monarchs, he keeps protective watch over his little kingdom, while refusing to see what he doesn’t want to see. And that’s his tragic flaw. Van Hove’s austere production—which builds to a jolting final image that is almost unbearably sad—casts the characters’ raw emotions into sharp relief.

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FilmShort SubjectS Elle

Hard to WatcH Elle

Directed by Paul Verhoeven It’s a rather universally accepted truth that the French are more relaxed about sex than Americans. And if the production of Elle is any indication, that attitude extends to rape and general misogyny as well.

Director Paul Verhoeven, who had quite the execrable run in the late 1990s with Showgirls, Starship Troopers, and Hollow Man, wanted to make Elle—which was adapted from a French novel that’s set in Paris—in the U.S. But no reputable actress would touch it. So when Verhoeven finally secured Isabelle Huppert for the lead, he kept the story’s original location.

Elle is the Dutch director’s first French film, and considering it’s France’s official submission for Academy Award consideration in the best foreign language film category, there would likely be no tears shed on this side of the pond if the country decided to keep him.

The borderline nonchalance with which Verhoeven approaches the violent story is evident in the first scene: He trains his camera on a cat, who stares for a bit and soon walks away as an assault takes place off-screen. We then see the aftermath as a man in a black ski mask stands up and leaves while Michèle (Huppert) remains on the floor of her home.

It’s daylight.

Once alone, Michèle doesn’t call the police or even a friend. Instead, she cleans up some broken glass and acts like nothing happened when her son, Vincent (Jonas Bloquet), visits to ask her to be the guarantor for an apartment for him and his pregnant girlfriend.

Michèle is the co-founder of a successful video-game company, which apparently has

The Love Witch

made her wealthy. At work, she encourages the exaggeration of sexual material in the games—including a monster’s enjoyment while he’s raping a woman—and says “otherwise, there’s no boner moment” to explain innocent-looking character’s transformation to one of power must be emphasized.

We discover why Michèle didn’t want to involve the police regarding her own assault: It turns out she has daddy issues, but not ones that involve abandonment or a shortage of “I love you”s. Her father was a mass murderer, and because he was captured at an unfortunate but tabloid-irresistible scene, a photo of a dead-eyed, half-naked, 10-year-old Michèle became forever associated with his crimes. So she tries to single out her attacker herself.

Not only does Verhoeven choose to show us a replay of Michèle’s rape, the story (adapted by David Birke, then translated back to French by Harold Manning) has her assaulted a few more times. Combine these details with Michèle’s affairs with married men, and any mental health professional would prescribe her daily sessions on a couch to help unlock this amount of baggage.

Despite the vileness of the plot, Elle remains engrossing because of Huppert’s performance. It might seem impossible to bring even the blackest comedy into such a script, but her Michèle is often funny in her seemingly continual exasperation and simply comes across as a genuine woman who’s smart, aggressive, and quick to roll her eyes at the ridiculous.

Of course, the red herrings keep you involved throughout the film as well, though its third act may leave you sickened instead of surprised. Elle is not for the closed-minded. Michèle’s home and lifestyle may project a sense of chicness, but it never completely obscures the ugliness underneath.

—Tricia Olszewski Elle opens Friday at the Angelika Film Center.

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WitcHes BreW The Love Witch

Directed by Anna Biller WIth Its stIlted acting, threadbare plot, and mismatched styles, The Love Witch has all the hallmarks of a terrible movie. On first glance, it looks like one of those quasi-feminist B-movies in which an objectified vixen takes revenge on her oppressors. It sort of is that movie, but it’s also much more. A toxic brew of horror film, melodrama, and exploitation flick, the striking new film by Anna Biller (who wrote, produced, directed, and edited) is an entertaining deconstruction of cultural norms and gender roles. If we’re all puppets beholden to our cultural maker, Biller has a helluva time showing us the strings.

Elaine (Samantha Robinson) is a modernday witch, meaning she doesn’t ride a broom or have a wart on her nose. She’s a sexy, young woman who uses spells and potions to get what she wants, and she only wants one thing: love. After poisoning her husband for reasons unknown, she arrives in a small California town looking for a fresh start. She has a rough go of things. She lures a man to a cabin in the woods, where she seduces him with such vigor that he dies of heart failure.

It wasn’t the hallucinogenic drugs she gave him. No, no: He died of love.

If you’re prone to acid flashbacks, watch out. Although it takes place in contemporary times (note the cell phones), Biller films the proceedings with a day-glo palette that resembles the Technicolor movies of a bygone

era. So do the modish costumes and garish set design. Everything seems like a dream, or at least a construct. The colors are brighter than they are in life. It doesn’t take too much drifting to get lost in Elaine’s blood-red dress or her icy-blue eyeshadow.

That’s exactly what happens to the men in her life. She mistakes sex for love and seduces them so ferociously that they can’t function without her. Her second victim is a downtrodden businessman who fancies a passionate love affair to give him sweet escape from his boring marriage. When a handsome, square-jawed detective comes sniffing around asking Elaine about her first victim, she turns the tables on him, and soon they are getting married in a bizarre pagan ceremony.

You’ll notice that the characters are archetypes from another era: the horny hippie, the bored husband, and the straight-laced, bythe-book police officer. Even our heroine subscribes to a regressive view of gender relations, offering sex, nurturing, and total fulfilment of the needs of her male counterparts. Of course, it doesn’t work. Getting what they want kills them, and Biller’s film ultimately becomes a criticism of the gender role that its heroine lives by.

And so the amateurish acting and hilariously retro characterization serves to build a bridge from the past to the present and, perhaps, to indicate that the feminist battles of the counterculture are hardly settled today. I’m pretty sure we knew that—if memory serves, we may have even received some evidence of it last week—but another lesson, particularly one this beautiful and engaging, couldn’t hurt.

—Noah Gittell The Love Witch opens Friday at E Street Cinema.

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Wet w/ Demo Taped Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................................................... Th 17 DIIV w/ Moon King Late Show! 10pm Doors ......................................................... Th 17 AN EVENING WITH

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Chris Robinson Brotherhood ................................................................ Su 20 Twerksgiving w/ Mathias., Billy The Gent, & Farrah Flosscett ....................W 23

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Keller Williams’ Thanksforgrassgiving featuring Jeff Austin, Danton Boller, Jay Starling & Nicky Sanders w/ Love Canon .................. F 25 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All 90s Band....................................................Sa 26 The Sounds w/ Zipper Club & My Jerusalem .................................................M 28 Niykee Heaton ............................................................................................. Tu 29 STRFKR w/ Gigamesh & Psychic Twin ............................................................ W 30

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Dark Star Orchestra ......................................................................... F 2 & Sa 3 Animals As Leaders w/ Intervals & Plini .................................................... Su 4

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Crash Boom Bang w/ That Lying Bitch & His Dream of Lions................... Th 22 The Pietasters w/ Mephiskapheles • Hub City Stompers • Loving Paupers .. F 23 Clutch w/ The Obsessed • Lionize • Silver Spring School of Rock Band ........ Tu 27

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RDGLDGRN ......................................... W 23 Roy Woods ......................................... Tu 29 Ripe & Lawrence ......................... F DEC 2 Lizzo w/ DJ Sophia Eris • Dizzy Fae ......... Sa 3 Futurebirds w/ Loamlands .................. Th 8 Audio Push • Demrick • T Dubz ............... M 21 Dragonette w/ Gibbz ..............................F 9 • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office

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Music Friday rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Elle King, Paul Cauthen. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com. barns at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Eric Burdon & The Animals. 8 p.m. $75–$85. wolftrap.org. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mitski, Fear of Men, Weaves. 8 p.m. Sold out. blackcatdc.com.

Comet ping pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Title Tracks, Light Beams. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Body Language, Bearstronaut. 7 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Evanescence. 8 p.m. Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Reverend Peyton’s, Big Damn Band, The Supersuckers. 9 p.m. $16–$19. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Yacht Rock Revue. 8 p.m. $20.50–$25.50. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Das Rock Band, The Tolerators. 8:30 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com. kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Declassified: Bryce Dessner. 9 p.m. $29. kennedy-center.org. linColn theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

David Gray. 8 p.m. Sold out. thelincolndc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Sloan. 9 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Vocal

kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Zack Zadek. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

dJ Nights

state theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. TGI90s with DJ Suga Ray. 8 p.m. $5. thestatetheatre.com.

opera

VagaBoN

For Laetitia Tamko, music is catharsis. Or maybe it’s confessional. Or it could be nuanced, poetic reflections of the world around her. Actually, it’s all of these things, because Tamko, who performs under the moniker Vagabon, writes lyrics that contain multitudes of meaning and depth.

It’s not shocking for a singersongwriter to write confessional, poetic songs but the Cameroon-born, New Yorkbased songwriter and producer has a way with words that is both deeply personal and widely relatable. Take “Fear & Force,” off her forthcoming debut album Infinite Worlds. Originally titled “Vermont II” on her Persian Garden EP, the reworked tune tells a complicated story about someone she cares deeply for wanting her to relocate to Vermont with them. “I wasn’t down,” she tells Stereogum about the song’s meaning. “I wasn’t done with my life here, and so it became this dilemma of like: Do you move where your partner is with the fear that you won’t find yourself where they find themselves?” And when Tamko delivers the lyrics “Freddie, come back / I know you love Vermont, but I thought I had more time / Freddie, come back / I know you love where you are, but I think I changed my mind,” in wistful harmonies, the emotional juxtaposition in her words hits nearly as hard as the bassand-beat drop that accompanies it. Vagabon performs with Sad13 and Sam Evian at 7:30 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House and Record Cafe, 2477 18th St. NW. $12. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com.

—Matt Cohen

electroNic eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Adventure Club, Vanic, Cesqeaux. 9 p.m. $25–$40. echostage.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Kenny Glasgow, Ostrich, Philip Goyette, Jus Nowhere. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com. sounDCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Matt Lange. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

go-go

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Oleta Adams. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

FuNk & r&B

hill Country barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Dibbs and the Detonators, Rock-A-Sonics.

9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Bobby Thompson and Revelator Hill, Ron Holloway, Bryan Elijah Smith. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Kingsley Flood, Fellow Creatures, Louis Weeks. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Good Life. 7:30 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Vocal

hoWarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Stephanie Mills, DJ Lance Reynolds. 7:30 p.m. $69.50– $110. thehowardtheatre.com.

kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Sean Hartley. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

ClariCe smith performing arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Kekuhi Keali’ikanaka’oleohaililani & Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole. 8 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

saturday

classical

Jazz

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Elle King, Paul Cauthen. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com.

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra performs Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Life and Times, Warm Sun. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

musiC Center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO

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CITY LIGHTS: Friday

ClariCe smith performing arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Maryland Opera Studio: The Rape of Lucretia. 7:30 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu. hoWarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Greatest Rappa Alive Birthday Bash featuring Northeast Groovers, What Band and Project 71. 11 p.m. $30–$300. thehowardtheatre.com.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

rock

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Beethoven Weekend: The Ninth Symphony. 8 p.m. $40–$105. strathmore.org.

World

hoWarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Machel Montano, Angela Hunte, DJ Stephen. 11 p.m. $55. thehowardtheatre.com.

couNtry

linColn theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Loretta Lynn. 8 p.m. Sold out. thelincolndc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com. kenneDy Center terraCe gallery 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tia Fuller’s Angelic Warrior Quartet. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $26–$39. kennedy-center.org.

electroNic

eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Seven Lions, Pegboard Nerds, Xilent, Grum. 9 p.m. $31. echostage.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Tony Fairchild, Dansman & Throe, Ben Jenkins. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. No BS! Brass Band. 9 p.m. $15–$19. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Junior Marvin’s Wailers, The Kurlou Reggae Allstars. 8 p.m. $25–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Wesley Stromberg, Spencer Sutherland, Alec Benjamin. 8:30 p.m. $17.50–$20. dcnine.com. galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Woodgrove, Rachel Brassfield, Free Symmetry.

9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Runaway Gin. 8 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com. hoWarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Mago de Oz, Rata Blanca. 7 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com. musiC Center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Jake Shimabukuro. 8 p.m. $25–$55. strathmore.org. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

K.Flay, Nightly, Layne. 8 p.m. $14. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Vocal

ClariCe smith performing arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

University Chorale, University of Maryland Women’s Chorus and Men’s Chorus. 7:30 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu. kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Scott Evan Davis. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

classical

atlas performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Capital City Symphony: A Night in Paris. 5 p.m. $15–$25. atlasarts.org.

suNday

bairD auDitorium at national museum of natural history 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 633-3030. What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow - Britten: A Ceremony of Carols. 6 p.m. $25. residentassociates.org.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

folger elizabethan theatre 201 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 544-7077. Roomful of Teeth. 7 p.m. $20–$50. folger.edu.

rock

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

Machel MoNtaNo

Trinidadian soca singer Machel Montano recently made his feature film debut in Bazodee, a fictional romance tale, based in part on his own life, in which he plays a musical heartthrob.

Montano established his Lothario reputation while chanting fast-paced, sing-song stanzas over propulsive Caribbean carnival dance beats and singing slower-tempoed love songs that merge calypso’s bouncy lilt with pop melodies. The soca star also keeps his ear tuned for interesting international inflections—he’s turbocharged some songs with Nigerian R&B beats and covered Puerto Rican reggaeton numbers during live shows. To emphasize his fondness for duets, Montano will join forces at the Howard with Angela Hunte, a Trinidadian rapper with whom he has collaborated on tracks like 2015’s “Party Done.” On that tale of braggadocio, he varies his tempo from verse to verse as Hunte alternates between a raw, hip-hop-influenced flow and a more tuneful one. Attendees at soca gigs often jump up and down to the frenetic programmed rhythms, and wave flags from their homelands. Count on that and some participatory exchanges on Saturday night. Machel Montano performs with Angela Hunte and DJ Stephen at 11 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $55. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Steve Kiviat 28 november 18, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

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kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Choral Arts Society of Washington presents Berlioz: Requiem, Op. 5. 5 p.m. $15–$69. kennedy-center.org. national gallery of art West garDen Court 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 8426941. A Far Cry. 3:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov. phillips ColleCtion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Nadia Sirota, Liam Byrne. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.

Vocal kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Alan Schmuckler. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

classical kenneDy Center theater lab 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600. ATOS Trio. 7:30 p.m. $45. kennedy-center.org.

opera

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ClariCe smith performing arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Maryland Opera Studio: The Rape of Lucretia. 3 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

ClariCe smith performing arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Maryland Opera Studio: The Rape of Lucretia. 7:30 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

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the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Patty Larkin, Suzzy Roche, Lucy Wainwright Roche.

7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roberta Gambarini. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

FuNk & r&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Patty Griffin with Joan Shelley. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

Jazz blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Elijah Balbed & The JoGo Project. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Brandy, PatriceLIVE. 7 p.m. $49.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Circles Around the Sun. 8:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

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blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The King Khan & BBQ Show, The Gartrells. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. PWR BTTM, Bellows, Lisa Prank, Alain Ginsberg. 8:30 p.m. $12 $14. dcnine.com. fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Jon Bellion. 8 p.m. Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com. galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Rabid Flash Mob, The Adjustment Center, Bad Idols. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com. linColn theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Ingrid Michaelson. 8 p.m. $55. thelincolndc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Pwr Bttm, Bellows, Lisa Prank, Alain Ginsberg. 7:30 p.m. Sold out. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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With an instantly relatable voice of quavering determination, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby burst onto the national scene in 1996 with her first solo record, Diary of a Mod Housewife. Her sweet melodies accompanied yearning lyrics that turned a broken heart and workaday life into wit. Its dozen songs told stories of the dissolution of her marriage on “The Down Side of Love” (“That tingling feeling when you’re first holding hands gives way to dealing with a list of demands”), temping in her mid-30s on “Good Girls” (“They’ve got my mind and body, but they can’t take my soul”), and holding on to hope on “Knapsack” (“Hey, I got a band—I understand what life is for”). Several records later, with a day job at an upstate New York bookstore, a second marriage to new wave singer Wreckless Eric, and an adult daughter who has her own band, Rigby has hit the road to celebrate Diary of a Mod Housewife’s 20th anniversary. In 1996, she signed my CD—its candy-lettered cover showing her clear eyes beneath pushed-up, world-reflecting shades—with a neatly scrawled, “See you in SF.” I never went to San Francisco, but that’s another story. Her words still ring true.

Amy Rigby performs with The Paranoid Style at 7:30 p.m. at Jammin Java, 227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna. $18. (703) 255-1566. jamminjava.com.

—Diana Michele Yap

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linColn theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Ingrid Michaelson. 8 p.m. $55. thelincolndc.com.

Vocal kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Ashleigh Rubenach & Stephen Ross Madsen. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

opera ClariCe smith performing arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787.

Maryland Opera Studio: The Rape of Lucretia. 7:30 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

Folk birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Patty Griffin with Joan Shelley. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

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Hill Country BarBeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Scott Kurt Duo. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

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Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Swing Shift. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30 –$35. bluesalley.com.

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BlaCk Cat BaCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Sound of Ceres, Brothertiger. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

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

Peter Hook and the Light. 8 p.m. $35. thehowardtheatre.com.

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BirCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Boney James. 7:30 p.m. $65. birchmere.com.

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soundCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Ephwurd, Revazz, Kcik. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com.

FUNK & R&B

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. April Sampe. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

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Broadway Bound 1st Stage presents the third play in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy, in which two brothers cope with family tragedy while trying to make their way as professional comedy writers. The Pulitzer Prize finalist is directed by Shirley Serotsky. 1st Stage.

1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Dec. 18. $15–$30.

(703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org.

Carousel Arena’s annual holiday musical comes in the form of this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about a bad boy and a good girl who fall in love, only to encounter great tragedy. Local favorites Nicholas Rodriguez and E. Faye Butler star in this favorite, which features songs including “If I Loved You” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 24. $64–$99. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. tHe CHristians A live choir backs the action in this play set in an enormous church. When Pastor Paul’s church grows from a small storefront into a home for thousands, he is cheered by his followers but his latest sermon is sure to ruffle feathers. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Dec. 11. $27–$57. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

eCHostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Meek Mill. 10 p.m. $36.80. echostage.com.

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Freaky Friday A mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies in this lively new musical based on Mary Rodgers’ novel that subsequently inspired two films. Parenthood writer Bridget Carpenter and Next to Normal authors Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey collaborate on this world premiere. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Nov. 20. $40–$99. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

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BlaCk nativity This long-running musical by Langston Hughes celebrates the birth of Jesus and the holiday traditions of black Americans Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To Dec. 31. $30–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

a CHristmas Carol Veteran local actor Craig Wallace takes on the role of Scrooge in this popular musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ tale about kindness and holiday cheer. Celebrating its 35th season at Ford’s, Michael Wilson’s adaptation is directed by Michael Baron. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Dec. 31. $22–$92. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

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Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To Nov. 20. $15–$40. (443) 5181500. repstage.org.

ameriCan Hero Three sandwich makers in a mall turn into allies during the Great Recession in this dark comedy from playwright Bess Wohl. Rep Stage at

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

ALAN SCHMUCKLER

After a five-year absence, Chicago-based composer and lyricist Alan Schmuckler once again graces the Millennium Stage.

Previously, he appeared with his frequent collaborator Michael Mahler as part of ASCAP’s “Songwriters the Next Generation” series. This time, Schmuckler is going solo and he’s been quite prolific in the past several years. Most recently, he’s co-created two musicals, The Emperor’s New Clothes (which premiered at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) and Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me (a musical based on Serial) with Dave Holstein, a well-known TV writer for shows like Weeds and Raising Hope. Schmuckler has also had his own brush with the TV world; his musical series Boyfred is in development with Sony and ABC. If you’re a fan of cutting edge musical theater talent, or you just want to best your friends when they won’t stop yakking about the Hamilton mixtape, get yourself to Schmuckler’s show. Once he blows up, you’ll be able to say you saw him on a tiny stage at the Kennedy Center. Alan Schmuckler performs at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.com.

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iNgrid MichaelsoN

In a confusing and terrifying new world, the phrase “it doesn’t have to make sense” may or may not be a comfort. It is, however, the title of Ingrid Michaelson’s newest album. Michaelson has had no shortage of song material in the past few years. Her autoimmune disorder, her recent divorce, and the death of her mother are the emotional backbones of many songs, including “Light Me Up,” written just a week after her mother’s passing. Her songs are tear-jerking enough to be featured on Grey’s Anatomy and cute enough for a 2007 Old Navy sweater ad about being yourself. This D.C. stop is the last on her tour, and also features the playfully experimental AJR, a trio of teenage brothers from New York with whom Michaelson’s collaborated in the past. Together, the two form a striking contrast, with AJR’s relentlessly new pop and Michaelson’s timeless emotional connection with her audience making for a fresh and cathartic evening. And even if the album name doesn’t do it, Michaelson’s lead single might help you work through some emotions. It’s called “Hell No.” Ingrid Michaelson performs at 6:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. $55. (202) 888-0050. thelincolndc.com.

—Noa Rosinplotz may of her family and coach, who expect her to be a lightweight, in this new play from playwright Stephen Spotswood and presented by The Welders. When the things she learns in the ring start to intersect with her daily life, Halo must decide how to conduct herself.

Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Nov. 20. $15–$30. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. mary poppins The well-loved movie musical about a nanny who brightens the lives of two dour children becomes a high-flying stage show in this production that features songs like “Supercalifragalisticexpealidocious” and “Practically Perfect.” Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 1. $18–$80. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

a miDsummer night’s Dream Fairy queens, lovers on the run, and a man transformed into a donkey take the stage in George Mason University’s production of Shakespeare’s enduring comedy. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. To Nov. 20. $10–$20. (888) 9452468. cfa.gmu.edu. milk like sugar After making a pact with her friends on her 16th birthday, Annie forces herself to look at the world differently. By interacting with different world views for the first time, she learns more about herself and her goals for the future. Mosaic Theater Company presents this Obie-winning play,

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Mathias.

Of all the nights of the year, going out on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving makes the most sense: Everyone has off for the holiday and they’re either reconnecting with friends who have returned home or preparing for the stress that a day with family often entails.

The latter point is particularly apt this year: This will be the first time some of us come faceto-face with the Trump supporters in our families. Wikipedia calls the night Blackout Wednesday or Drinksgiving, but you don’t need to binge drink to have a good time. Enter “Twerksgiving,” brought to you by DJs Mathias., Billy The Gent, and Farrah Flosscett at 9:30 Club. Three of the best party-starters in the DMV promise “house party vibes” with a night of hip-hop, R&B, club music, and twerk jams so that you can dance the pain away—whether you’re still shaking off this election or mentally preparing for a day of eating with the ones you love. Mathias. performs with Billy the Gent and Farrah Flosscett at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $12. (202) 265-0930. 930.com. —Chris Kelly directed by Jennifer L. Nelson. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Nov. 27. $20–$60. (202) 3997993. atlasarts.org. miss bennet: Christmas at pemberley The characters in Pride and Prejudice come together to celebrate Christmas in this new play that follows Mary Bennet as she explores her future and a potential romance. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Dec. 18. $36–$56.

(240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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the night alive Quotidian Theatre Company presents Conor McPherson’s latest play in its season opener. Set in Dublin, the action follows a grumpy, unemployed man who befriends a young prostitute.

When her boyfriend shows up, the group must figure out what their relationship means. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To Nov. 20. $15–$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org.

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six Degrees of separation John Guare’s play about the connections that exist between seemingly unrelated people is reimagined at Keegan Theatre by director Brandon McCoy. Combining humor and drama, the show explores the ways we define each other and the boxes we put ourselves in. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Dec. 3. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

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straight White men Provocative playwright Young Jean Lee presents this comedy about three brothers and their father who come together for a Christmas bout of wrestling and video games but when one member of the group begins to buckle under pressure, they all learn the stakes of their fight are higher than anyone imagined. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Dec. 18. $20–$85. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

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the seConD City’s blaCk siDe of the moon Woolly Mammoth and the Chicago-based comedy ensemble team up once again for a new show, this one with a cast of black comedians who imagine the future, describing everything from a new planet ruled

by Barack Obama to police brutality and everyone’s obsession with gluten intolerance. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Jan. 1. $20–$69. (202) 3933939. woollymammoth.net.

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moby DiCk The white whale comes alive in this lively adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic man-versusnature tale. Jamie Abelson and Christopher Donahue star as Ishmael and Ahab. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 24. $55–$90. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

show starring local favorites Donna Migliaccio, Nova Y. Payton, Ilona Dulaski, Naomi Jacobson and Sandy Bainum arrives just in time for the holidays. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Dec. 24. $40–$90. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

seConD season, blooD memories These original plays by Jonelle Walker and Leticia Ridley focus on women as victims and perpetrators of both systematic and physical violence, in the present as well as in the past. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. To Nov. 19.

Free. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu. the seCret garDen The classic children’s novel about an orphan who discovers the secrets locked away in her uncle’s mansion comes to Shakespeare Theatre Company in the form of a musical, featuring favorite songs like “Lily’s Eyes” and “A Bit of Earth.” Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Dec. 31. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. silver belles When the longtime director of a town’s Christmas pageant suddenly dies, four silver-haired singers join together to ensure the show continues. Combining elements of popular sitcoms like The Golden Girls and Designing Women, this new

tame. This new play from author (and City Paper contributor) Jonelle Walker imagines the plot of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew from the perspective of the woman being tamed. When a young woman is forced by her family and an alluring young pastor to conform to traditional gender roles, a series of explosive comedic encounters unfold. Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two. 2700 South Lang St., Arlington. To Dec. 11. $10–$50. (703) 418-4808. wscavantbard.org. a vieW from the briDge Director Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play comes to the Kennedy Center for a limited engagement following an acclaimed run on Broadway. Following a Brooklynbased Italian-American family, the action revolves around Eddie, a man so obsessed with his niece that his actions spin out of control. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Dec. 3. $45–$119.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Where WorDs onCe Were Irish Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer returns to the Kennedy Center with this play about a young man who kicks off an adventure by stealing a pen and starting to write in a land where only 1000 words can exist. Kennedy Center Family Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Nov. 27. $20. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the year of magiCal thinking Kathleen Turner stars in this solo performance, an adaptation of Joan Didion’s 2003 memoir about the sudden death of her husband and her subsequent experiences over the course of a year. Poignant and searing, the play explores the force of tragedy. Arena Stage. 1101 6th

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