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CHATTER
Smothered
in which vince Gray’s supporters are labeled “one citidiots.”

children should not be penalized (by receiving lower per

capita funding), just because their parents cannot bear send-

by SUVs ing them to places that destroy any chance for acquiring
life-long love for learning.” “Funding should be the
same for every child no matter which public school
Lost amid the week’s other they attend,” agrees ward 1 Guy. Not so, says
Wilson Building scandals poster Kathy, who disagrees with the very idea
Was aLan suderman’s of calling the facilities “public,” since they’re
typically run by independent nonprofits.
revelation that
“Arguing that private, government con-
members of Mayor Vince Gray’s tran- tractors should get tax funding—without
sition team had pestered former D.C. proper government oversight strings—
transportation boss Gabe Klein on be- that is equal to that given a public enti-
half of private-sector clients—before ty that provides the same public service
preparing a transition report sharp- is absolutely LUDICROUS!,” she says.
ly critical of the Fenty appointee. The But some of Barras’ other defenders un-
“troubling” scoop got a shout-out in a dercut her arguments that too much bu-
Washington Post editorial and also came reaucratic oversight is lousy for charters.
up in a D.C. Council hearing. “I’m very “I think increasing oversight over char-
concerned about published press reports ters may be a good thing,” writes DC-
about possible conflicts of interest relat- ster, who goes on to add that “Public
ing to who gets the Circulator contract,” schools need to enroll all of the applying
said Ward 1’s Jim Graham. “We need to err students in the neighborhood, as Jonetta
on the side of clear removal from any deci- pointed out, and thus have a legitimate claim
sion-making process where you could stand to to greater funding.”
benefit yourself,” added Ward 6’s Tommy Wells. Barras’ piece also sparked some debate over
On our website, reaction is less unanimous, at the DC urban Moms message board. “My
as commenters wage a battle that echoes last year’s kids are in some very good charters in DC, but I also
election. “It’s stunning-amazing- that these folks who agree with her point that the whole point of charters
both had/have business before the city and served on is to be innovative and live or die on their merits,” writes
Gray’s transition team would not have recused themselves one anonymous poster. “It seems like the [Public Charter
and been walled off,” writes Drez. “This is just so basic.” School Board] has not done a good job of shutting down
“This feels a whole lot like a return to the Barry era,” adds the poorly performing ones or raising the bar—medio-
Hillman. But poster DCRez endorses the accusations of fering links. “Oh, and letting previous Directors that ran the cre charters have hurt the whole movement.” But anoth-
mismanagement, and accuses Suderman of ignoring the agency when it was last in the nation in just about every met- er anonymous poster defends the panel—and dings Bar-
veterans of the oft-lauded Anthony Williams administra- ric...run the transition? When it was spending 50% more than ras. “The Board is extremely scrupulous and has shut down
tion who also served on the transition. “DDOT needs to San Francisco for instance for horrible services for our constit- schools. And of course it is pro-charter. Wouldn’t you be
get its financial house in order and follow the contracting uents? No, that’s obviously not the best way to do it.” pro whatever board you sit on? That doesn’t mean they lack
laws of the District of Columbia Failure to do so makes all integrity.”
them ripe for waste, fraud and abuse.” Charter Dismemberers. Last week’s cover story by
With the flame war pretty much on schedule—a mayor- Jonetta Rose barras questioning D.C. charter school fund- Department of Corrections. Due to a reporting error,
al critic lampooning “One Citidiots;” a couple Gray support- ing riles many charter-school parents posting to our website. our story on armored-car robberies (“Brinks of Disaster,”
ers suggesting those who liken him to Barry are racist—some- The schools “should most certainly be held accountable 2/25/11) misstated a statistic. The figures for the number of
thing surprising happens: Gabe Klein himself jumps into the for what they achieve or fail to achieve with the public mon- bank robberies between 2008 and 2010 covered the District
fray. “Feel free to look at the financials online,” Klein says, of- ey,” writes a poster named alice. “However, charter school and Northern Virginia, not just the District.
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 Welcome
to the New
City Paper
In the winter of 1996, Washington City
Paper hit the streets with a new look, starring
the logo we used until last week. At the time,
we had just switched from old-fashioned cold
type to desktop publishing. The wholesale re-
design was an effort to take advantage of op-
portunities provided with that change.
It’s with a bit of wistfulness that I now say
goodbye to that logo, which I designed. But a
change was necessary. Fifteen years later, we’re
adapting not to a new technology—technolo-
gy nowadays tends to bypass print altogeth-
er—but to a new page size. Our old design
was made for a
paper rough-
ly a third bigger
than the cur-
rent version. It
all seemed a bit
unwieldy on the
smaller sheet we
currently use.
The paper
you’re holding
offers a more
compact logo
and a modular
layout that will
let us tell readers more—on the cover, and
inside. The new design permits us to once
again feature uncropped images by our bril-
liant staff photographer, Darrow Montgom-
ery. And inside, smaller margins and signage
gives us the room to provide more content
and bigger pictures.
In this redesign, we’ve also done some vi-
sual untangling and reorganizing—for exam-
ple, separating our comments section from the
news spread. Overall, we hope it’s a bit less
fussy, more urban, and able to do a better job
showcasing City Paper’s provocative content.
For all the obvious visual differences you’ll
note, what’s most important about the new
design is not merely cosmetic. While we’ve
kept our most popular features, we’ve also
added new items to make the paper a more
valuable and enjoyable read:
• Chatter. With this issue, the paper brings
back a dedicated reader’s page, where our ed-
itors will curate the most interesting respons-
es to City Paper reportage from snail mail, e-
mail, Twitter, and around the Web.
• District Line. We’ve replaced the ge-
nerically named “News” section with a han-
dle that’s familiar to anyone who has read the
paper for more than a few years. In addition
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to traditional City Paper offerings like Loose
Lips, Housing Complex, and Cheap Seats,
District Line will also be where you’ll find
City Desk, a page housing short news and in-
formational items and the Slice-of-D.C. pho-
tos we used to run on page three. The sec-
tion also has room for occasional first-person
narratives or analytical pieces that have been
longstanding City Paper traditions, but nev-
er seemed quite at home under the “News”
banner.
• Arts Desk. Like City Desk, this irregu-
lar page in the arts section, debuting later this
month, will serve as a home for short reviews
and features. You’ll find One Track Mind
here—or one of a variety of new short pieces
we’ll unveil over the next few months.
• City List. You’ll now find our Critic’s
Picks and City Lights picks mixed into the list-
ings sections. We’ll break music down by day
of the week,
which will en-
Washington able readers to
quickly find
out who’s play-
ing tonight.
• Comics
P a g e . Like
many of our
re a d e r s , we
were sorry to
see the paper’s
comics go a few
years ago. Start-
ing next week,
they’ll be back, on a single dedicated page that
will feature Derf’s excellent The City, Shawn
Belschwender’s Clown Time, David Malki’s
Wondermark, and Michael Kupperman’s Up
All Night. You’ll still find Dirt Farm in its usu-
al place.
• Website. We will be revisiting the web-
site design and functionality later this year,
but we couldn’t wait to implement the new
look here as well. We’re also launching a
new and improved online listings search this
month—a major upgrade.
Finally, while the big type is transformed,
you’ll find the small words are still 100 per-
cent City Paper—and they are still set in
Monotype’s News Plantin, the paper’s body
font since long before I first arrived in 1995.
The body copy is the same size and leading as
before the redesign.
A newspaper design is a bit like a set for a
play—it might be attractive or interesting on
its own, but its primary job is to support sto-
rytelling. I’m looking forward to helping to
tell a lot of new City Paper stories.
Jandos Rothstein
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Softcore Conservaporn?
A D.C. tradition moves beyond gawking at right-wing loons.
By Phoebe Connelly
Over the last few years, Washington
journalists, particularly those whose audience
tilts to the left, have enjoyed a not-so-secret ad-
diction: conservaporn.
When the big annual gatherings of the right
rolled around, from CPAC to the Values Vot-
ers Summit, packs of liberal bloggers would
descend, armed with Flip cameras and Twit-
ter feeds. The moment some activist cracked
a joke about Barack Obama’s birth certificate
from the podium, it would go live on the Inter-
net. Outrage—and Web traffic—ensued.
But this year, something different was go-
ing on. Republicans and their fervent base
are no longer the sour group who lost the last
election. Now, they’re driving the debate in
national politics. The Koch brothers, who
fund some of the groups that keep events
like CPAC going, are practically a household
name. It wasn’t just liberals who flocked to
watch CPAC last month.
Conservaporn, in 2011, has gone
mainstream.
CPAC is an annual gathering of the Re-
publican Party faithful, the largest of its
kind, held at the Marriott Wardman Park ho-
tel in Woodley Park. This year’s conference,
a few weeks ago, attracted over 11,000 reg-
istrants—and 750 registered members of
the press. That works out to about one re-
15:1
Ratio of
souRces to
RepoRteRs at
cpac 2011
volves flooding the zone to make sure you
have that valued scoop. And liberal media
organizations have already perfected the art
of turning your opponents’ craziest sup-
porter into tomorrow’s news. At its best, it’s
a delightful skewering. Some speaker gets
caught up in an exuberant rant about how
the White House is taking the country on
the path to socialism, or Newt Gingrich says
something that might make less bombas-
Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr/Creative Commons, illustration by Brooke Hatfield
tic Republicans squirm, and a funny post or
story results, one that plays up both the ab-
surdity and the real political sentiments in-
volved in such an event. The press room fills
up early, and reporters stay late interview-
ing luminaries as they walk off the stage, and
gauging the mood of the Republican faithful
by chatting with eager attendees. (This has
been going on for a while, and writers don’t
always limit themselves to reporting what
actually happens: CPAC was where, in 1997,
The New Republic’s fabulist, Stephen Glass,
hatched up a tale of wild debauchery that
was only later exposed as phony.)
The conference offers a parade of conser-
vatives behaving badly—attacking each oth-
er for being insufficiently zealous, and woo-
ing the base. That spectacle is soothing to the
left, and fertile territory for political report-
ers who have a beat to fill, day in and day out.
porter for every 15 attendees. It’s practical- But there’s also a dark side. At an Andrew
ly embed-level coverage. (Though, as Slate’s Breitbart-sponsored GOProud party one night
David Weigel was quick to point out to me, at during CPAC, a fellow reporter points out
the 2010 Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Suhail Khan as one of their “gets” for the day.
the ratio was more like one to three.) “I interviewed some real freaks today,” the re-
Ours is a political media environment porter tells me. “It’s like shooting fish in a bar-
where the scoop is everything (even if the rel. It’s almost too easy. It is too easy.” Khan
money is still made off slideshows of celeb- is on the board of the American Conservative
rity cleavage). Politico is staking its 2012 elec- Movement, the main organizer of CPAC. He’d
tion coverage on a tripled staff and report- been under attack by conservative activists who
ers assigned to cover politicians’ every move. claimed that he represented a Muslim infiltra-
“There probably is in theory a point where tion of the right. But viewing political actors as
there’s too much,” executive editor Jim Van- gets—rather than as complex, motivated indi-
deHei told The New York Times in late Janu- viduals—limits the story they can tell.
ary. “But we certainly haven’t discovered it.” With a convenient D.C. location and a
Political journalism these days mostly in- ready-for-Twitter presidential straw poll, the
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conference is one of the more visible of the
odd-year political events that generate piles
of blog posts and updates—all without pro-
ducing actual political news, despite a satura-
tion of reporters. “The last few years I haven’t
gone because it’s struck me as totally over-
covered,” one D.C. writer e-mails me. “My
entire Twitter feed is CPAC dispatches.”
After the Tea Party’s rise in 2009 and
electoral triumph in 2010, by the time CPAC rolls
around this year, the vibe is somehow different.
The same old liberal blogs and magazines send
writers (including The American Prospect, where
I used to be an editor). But the correspondents
wind up asking serious questions about policy,
not just transcribing the freak show. The activ-
ists who come to this sort of thing have demon-
strated the power they wield over Republican
leaders, and it’s not just the liberal publications
that have people on the conservative beat.
The news business has changed. Despite
the recession, political coverage has done quite
well over the past few years, especially bite-
sized scooplets like the ones CPAC makes so
easy to dig up. Politico has made a star of itself
despite launching at the start of the 2007 re-
cession. The past year has seen a re-launch of
National Journal, as well as an over-100 staff-
er expansion of Bloomberg’s D.C. office. The
Huffington Post, for all its unpaid bloggers, has
a thriving D.C. bureau; Talking Points Memo
is adding staff to its own D.C. operations. For
all their churn, these are outlets providing sto-
ries that audiences, particularly online audi-
ences, have proved they will click on. “Saying
there’s a little too much horse-race coverage is
like saying there’s a little too much coverage of
Dan Snyder,” Weigel says.
So perhaps it’s inevitable that the mainstream
media has taken a cue from liberal media when
it comes to conservaporn. At one point during
the Breitbart party, I’m standing next to Bri-
an Montopoli, senior political reporter for CBS
(and a Washington City Paper alum). He paus-
es our conversation about Sophie B. Hawkins—
who, disconcertingly, is the entertainment—
because he wants to try for an interview with
James O’Keefe, the conservative activist best
known for dressing as a pimp for an attempted
undercover sting of the liberal organizing group
ACORN. O’Keefe’s handler (or friend, it’s un-
clear), is perturbed by the attention O’Keefe is
receiving from Montopoli and others. “It’s not
like he’s a celebrity. This is just downtime. Why
won’t people leave him alone?” I raise my phone
to type in O’Keefe’s name, and she stops me,
“Are you taking a picture? I think it’s weird that
people want his picture.”
Among the liberal press, meanwhile, some
of the gawking seems to have been replaced by
serious work. Amanda Terkel, senior politics
reporter for The Huffington Post, was at CPAC
for the first time this year. She says the lure is
the level of access. “It’s is the big conservative
event in Washington, D.C. And you get this
incredible access; people just walking around,
they feel comfortable, they are with their base,
and they are willing to chat with journalists.
You don’t have to go to Iowa.”
Activists-behaving-badly coverage, she says,
is always a risk when covering movement poli-
tics, on either side. “This happened at the first
Netroots Nation conference,” a liberal gather-
ing that launched in 2005, Terkel says. “The bl-
ogosphere was new, people were excited. Jour-
nalists descended on it!” Terkel was there as a
blogger. “The number of media from major
newspapers, at times felt like they outnum-
bered attendees.” And like bloggers, conserva-
tives have proven, if no less fascinating, certain-
ly less exotic upon longer examination.
“What reporters don’t understand is that
most of the attendees at the conference do
not care at all about the potential 2012 field,”
says Ana Marie Cox, formerly of Wonkette
and Time, now with GQ. “They are there to
network. To build their résumés. To learn
how to put together a resume.” Cox told me
she’d run into a reporter she knew who had
apologetically dashed off after Rick Santo-
rum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylva-
nia. “What is he going to get from Santorum?
I mean seriously, what groundbreaking thing
is Santorum going to say at CPAC?”
The bright side of everyone getting on the
conservaporn bandwagon is that it’s no lon-
ger enough to just post a video, or capture the
gaffe. The Tea Party is old news. You can fill a
blog with gaffes, but the pieces that get traffic
over time, and get you remembered, are the
ones that offer something more substantive.
“There’s always going to be a rush to be the
first person to post what Michele Bachmann
said,” Weigel notes. “Last year there was still
a lot of coverage of the Tea Party stuff that
was, you know, ‘I venture into the jungle’
which is something I’m often accused of. And
that was less so this year; there was more con-
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DEPT. OF POSITIVE SPIN: D.C. used to fear mayoral arrests and municipal insolvency.
Now we freak about bad SUV leases. Which means things are much better. Right?

Millions and Millions

A month ago, Mayor Vince Gray’s team released a terrifying
estimate of D.C.’s 2012 budget gap: $600 million. This week,
Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi declared the actu-
al shortfall will be $322 million. The difference, Gandhi said,
is due to higher than expected commercial property tax rev-
enue. If the budget is really getting healthier at a rate of $70
million a week, maybe the city can lease a Lincoln Navigator
for everyone by the fall!

A Tax By Any Other Name

Congress forbids D.C. from levying a “commuter tax” on
suburbanites, mostly because Maryland and Virginia have
votes in Congress and we don’t. But At-Large Councilmem-
ber Sekou Biddle has a scheme to dun at least some non-
residents who work here: city employees. (The city payroll
provides 37,600 of D.C.’s 726,000 jobs.) Biddle introduced
legislation this week to require new D.C. employees who re-
side elsewhere to make “voluntary” contributions to the Dis-
trict treasury of 4 percent of their salaries. How many work-
ers that would cover, and how much money it would raise,
remains to be seen—as does Congress’ reaction. For more,
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Kwame D.C. Council Chairman This Brown was briefly the lucky recipient of two Lincoln Navigators—”fully loaded,” at his insistence, and paid for, at nearly “Fully Loaded”
$2,000 a month per vehicle, by taxpayers. After the story turned into a scandal, he gave the cars up.

Sulaimon Soon-to-be-former D.C. Health This Brown ran for mayor last year, winning only 209 votes but serving as a foil to incumbent Adrian Fenty. Winner Vince “Political Bullshit”
Care Finance Department Aide Gray then helped him get a $110,000-a-year government perch. Following reports on past law-enforcement troubles, he
was let go. He blamed “political bullshit” and plans to sue the Gray administration over his dismissal.

Michael A. At-Large D.C. Councilmember The son of a former Democratic party chief, this Brown is a generally popular councilmember. But he had a rough spell in “All-Met”
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councilmember had staff show off a box score featuring a different player named Brown.

Michael D. D.C. Shadow Senator When this Brown ran for incumbent Phil Mendelson’s at-large D.C. Council seat last year, insiders worried that African “White Mike”
American voters would confuse him with Michael A. Brown, who wasn’t on the ballot. Mendelson fans circulated photos to
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Remembering a big kid
By Joe Eaton Yes, he had recently dropped 200 pounds; the weight had Hunter got good at fooling the government workers paid to
come off during his second stint at an inpatient weight-loss pro- chase him. A smart-aleck kid too fat to run fast, he nonetheless
The first time I heard of Terrell Hunter, he was a success gram in rural Virginia, where he’d been sent after having been regularly put them all “in a trick box,” as he put it. I thank him
story—a 15-year-old from Southwest who had dropped more declared a ward of the city following his near-death from heart for letting City Paper tag along and tell his story. I wish it could
than 200 pounds and was learning to box at the YMCA. It was failure. Since returning home, however, Hunter had gained most have changed something.
2007, and I was a new writer at Washington City Paper, report- of it back. Worse yet, his mother had once again lost custody There are a few things I won’t forget about Heavy-T. Like
ing at a conference on childhood obesity. After the talk, I cor- of him after social-services officials concluded she was unable or how the teen asked 30-year-old women for their phone num-
nered the woman who told Hunter’s story. I was short on ideas unwilling to hold the line on his weight. But this time, Hunter bers, but slept with his stuffed dog. Or the time he got caught,
and here was an easy one to pitch conned a social worker into tak-
my editors, an inspirational tale ing him to McDonalds, and then
where things work out, the way slipped out the side door with a
they are supposed to. Big Mac and an Oreo McFlurry. I
But as anyone who spends mainly remember the way the kid
much time reporting on children barely half my age never showed
in trouble in Washington will tell fear, even when the adults around
you, things rarely work out the way him had caved in to it.
they’re supposed to. They didn’t One afternoon, Montgom-
for Terrell Hunter. On Feb. 20, ery, Hunter, and I were hang-
four years after I met him, Hunter ing out at Hunter’s mother’s
died in his sleep at his grandmoth- house in Southwest when the
er’s house from complications of police started hammering on
obesity. He was 19. He weighed the door. Montgomery and I
436 pounds. He had been in in- panicked, jumped into a pantry
tensive care units of local hospitals closet and hid, two journalists
three times in the previous year. on the wrong side of an episode
The news of Hunter’s pass- of Cops. I remember Hunter
ing wasn’t a surprise to me, and looking at us, stone calm, as he
probably isn’t to anyone who rounded the corner and headed
Darrow Montgomery

read “The Battle Over Heavy-
T,” the story that came out of
the many months photogra-
pher Darrow Montgomery and
I spent following him. It was not
an inspirational tale.
Soon after the obesity conference, I met Hunter and he told
me his story. Born and raised in the District, he rarely saw his fa-
ther, who had been just 15 when Hunter was born. If Hunter was
ever thin, he didn’t remember. By age 10, he weighed more than
200 pounds. Classmates at Bowen Elementary School ferried his
food to the second floor because he couldn’t brave the stairs. By
13, he weighed more than 340 pounds, struggling with asthma
and a heart like a senior citizen.
upstairs to find his shoes. Back
downstairs, he put on his black
Nike Air Max high tops, opened
the back door, and slid out, run-
ning as hard as he could. As the
cops kept banging, we stood in
wasn’t going to foster care. He wasn’t going back to Virginia. In- the closet shaking with fear, wondering what to do now, and
stead, he decided to run. how that kid kept it together.
From spring, though summer, and into fall, Hunter ducked Terrell Hunter is survived by his mother, Leslie Abbott; his
in and out of his mother’s home, hiding from police officers and father, Terrell Hunter Sr.; his stepfather, Bruce Wooten; sisters
Child and Family Services Agency workers, giving them the slip Sieda McCray and Jamika DeVaughn; a grandmother, Deborah
whenever they caught up with him. He dropped out of Wood- Brown; and a grandfather, Charles Hunter. A wake will be held
row Wilson Senior High School. He stopped going outside dur- on March 5 at 10 am at Community of Hope at 905 Alabama
ing the day. He gained weight. Ave. SE, with a funeral immediately following. CP

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By Alan Suderman of me, but he just wouldn’t.” “finding it hard to believe that a member of
Gunn told Judge Lee Satterfield, who is the bar could have been so ill-informed, and
Another week, another campaign now the chief judge of D.C. Superior Court, made so little inquiry, about the nature of
supporter of Mayor Vince Gray’s who landed that Karim hadn’t struck her, but “could see it the proceedings.”
a cushy job with the District’s Medicaid agency in his eyes that it was a matter of time.” Gunn After the hearing, Satterfield granted Gunn
and turns out to have legal problems. also told the court that police had removed a a protective order, basing his decision “on his
Talib Karim, a Gray backer who recently rifle from their home; Karim said the rifle was assessment of the credibility and demeanor”
began a $133,000-a-year job as chief of staff his father’s firearm from the Korean War. of both her and Karim. The judge found that
in the Department of Health Care Finance, In court, Karim denied any physical abuse “since the [couple’s] child was born, and dur-
appears to have used physical force on his ex- and said his wife had been the one doing the ing the course of the marriage...[Karim] has
wife, according to D.C. Court of Appeals hitting. “Despite that, I never returned any pushed [Gunn], has aggressively held her down
rulings that upheld a protective order against type of strike or blow to her when she struck and grabbed her against her will.” Karim ap-
him issued by a Superior Court judge.
Just last week, another Gray supporter,
Sulaimon Brown, was fired from his new-
ly landed job as a special assistant for the very
same department after concerns arose about
his past legal trouble, including a protective
“I would
imagine that
order issued against him. Karim’s hiring rais-
es even more uncomfortable questions about
the Gray administration’s vetting and hir-

we’ve all had

ing process, and about Gray’s judgment in
placing supporters in upper-level positions
in a department that handles close to a quar-

problems with
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Karim’s most notable legal problems be-
gan in January 2008, when his wife called the
police to report a domestic disturbance, ac-
cording to a Court of Appeals ruling issued
July 1, 2010. His wife, Delicia Gunn, filed a
petition to get a protective order against Kar-
im. In the petition, Gunn says she and Karim
had a heated argument on Jan. 5, 2008, and
she called the police twice. When she went
to court to get a judge to approve the pro-
tective order, Gunn said Karim had on var-
ious occasions “pushed me while I’m hold-
ing [the couple’s five-month-old] baby,” and
had “grabbed my arm and tried to force me
from not leaving my house” and “would pin
me down and not let me move and I would
constantly tell him to let go of me, to get off
our families.
me,” Karim said, according to court records.
Karim also maintained that his wife had filed
a protective order against him in order to gain
leverage in a custody battle over their child.
The hearing did not go well for Karim,
who is an attorney and represented himself.
Satterfield became exasperated and lost pa-
tience with Karim’s lack of preparation for
the hearing, according to appeals court re-
cords. Karim “recognized that he was do-
ing a poor job in representing himself,” and
asked the judge to reschedule the case, the
court of appeals wrote. Satterfield said no,
pealed. And in affirming Satterfield’s ruling,
the court of appeals said evidence suggested
that Gunn’s prime concern for filing the protec-
tive order “may not have been primarily related
to domestic violence,” but there was “adequate
if not overwhelming” evidence that the judge
made the right decision in regard to “intrafam-
ily offenses,” while noting that “the level of any
violence was not at all extreme.”
The court of appeals also ruled that Sat-
terfield correctly rejected Karim’s request to
reschedule the hearing “solely because the
husband belatedly regretted his improvident

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100
Calls to D.C. government’s “How’s
My Driving?” line to complain about
city-owned vehicles since Jan. 1, 2011
decision to represent himself.” (Which LL
believes is the legalistic way to phrase the old
saw about a lawyer who represents himself
having a fool for a client.)
In an interview, Karim tells LL his wife
had prevailed in her “allegations” because
she’d been represented by a lawyer, which
he says he couldn’t afford at the time of the
hearing. He says a “subtle” reading of the
appeal court’s decision shows that his lack of
an attorney was the real reason why he lost,
not because of the facts of the case. He then
disparages Washington City Paper, saying the
paper only reports the most “salacious” de-
tails about city politics so other media will
follow along. Then he says it would be im-
proper for LL to write about Karim’s per-
sonal past and do damage to his department
and its important work.
“I would imagine that we’ve all had prob-
It would be
one thing if I
had committed
some kind of
heinous crime.”
lems with our families,” Karim says. “It
would be one thing if I had committed some
kind of heinous crime.”
Gunn filed a second protective order against
Karim in January 2010, saying he was harassing
her on a continuous basis and she was “fearful
of her life and safety.” A judge signed a tempo-
rary order, before Gunn asked in March 2010
that the case be dismissed because she said Ka-
rim had stopped harassing her. Gunn did not
return a phone call seeking comment.
Besides the protective orders, court records
show that Karim had a $5,522 federal tax lien
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Calls to D.C. government’s “How’s
My Driving?” line to compliment
city-owned vehicles since Jan. 1, 2011
filed against him in 2003. He’s also been sued
multiple times by a landlord and alleged to have
defaulted on student loans and not paid child
support. Karim says he’s had financial problems
in his past and is working to resolve them.
Karim is the brother of Omar Karim, a
developer and fraternity brother to former
Mayor Adrian Fenty who is at the heart of
an ongoing council investigation into alleg-
edly improper park construction contracts.
Omar Karim’s company, Banneker Ventures,
hired Gunn’s engineering firm for $70,000 to
do work related to the park contracts, accord-
ing to The Washington Post.
Talib Karim briefly made news during last
year’s mayoral campaign when his organiza-
tion, the Muslim Democratic Caucus, en-
dorsed Gray. The Post reported that Gray
was shocked by the endorsement and Kar-
im’s political split from his brother, an ar-
—Talib Karim
dent Fenty supporter.
“I literally fell on the floor,” Gray told the
Post after Karim’s group voted to endorse
him in August.
The endorsement lead to Karim working on
Gray’s transition team. On the Muslim Demo-
cratic Caucus’s Yahoo! Group message board,
Karim posted notices about meetings for cau-
cus members to learn more about efforts to
“help Muslims in DC secure jobs in the in-
coming Gray administration and DC Council.”
Karim told caucus members that if they were
interested in a District government job, they
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should submit their résumés directly to him.
In a later message, Karim wrote that “busi-
nesses and entrepreneurs interested in form-
ing key relationships with the new Adminis-
tration can email [Karim] to purchase tickets
for the Muslim Dems VIP seating” at the
Gray inauguration.
And in a message marked “DC Muslim
Dems Make History,” Karim wrote that on
Dec. 31, 2010, Gray “[lived] up to his promise
to include the Muslim community in his Ad-
ministration, [and appointed] Talib I. Karim,
Chairman of the Muslim Democratic Caucus
of DC, as a top official in the Department of
Health Finance.” (The Post first reported last
week that Karim had been hired.)
The department is actually called the De-
partment of Health Care Finance. Karim says
the transition team recommended him for the
job. City records show he started working for
DHCF on Jan. 3, 2011, the first full day of
Gray’s administration and two weeks before
DHCF Director Wayne Turnage took the
reins of the department. Last week, when
questioned about the hiring and firing of Su-
laimon Brown—who has accused the may-
or of lying and has strongly suggested Gray
promised him a job prior to taking office—
Turnage said emphatically that “all decisions
about personnel begin and end with me.”
Gray’s spokeswoman, Linda Wharton-
Boyd, tells LL the administration is looking
into Karim’s background. “The initial vetting
process only revealed financial challenges and
an intra-family/child custody dispute with a
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Monday directive of an extensive top down re-
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Stuck on the Club Level
At George Mason, football can’t compete with hoops hysteria
By Dave McKenna
George Mason also has a football team.
Actually, Mason has had a football team for
nearly two decades, though the Washington
Redskins’ recent courting of the school as a
potential training camp host got more fan at-
tention than Mason’s team ever did.
“Not many people know about us,” says Jack
Langley, the starting quarterback this season.
Joe Pascale is the father of Mason foot-
ball. Until 2008, he was the only football
coach Mason ever had. The program’s ano-
nymity stings.
“All the work, all the years, for what?” Pas-
cale says. Pascale, 67, founded the football
club in 1993, when friends on the school’s
Board of Visitors asked him to come over from
Georgetown University, where he was an as-
sistant coach. He says administrators pledged
to help elevate the program to NCAA status.
(NCAA programs grant scholarships, club
sports usually don’t.) It never happened.
Pascale had already restored football as an
NCAA sport at Catholic University in the mid-
1970s. He left in 1984 as the winningest head
coach in Catholic history.
Pascale says Mason’s rebuilding job should
have been easier than Catholic’s, given the en-
thusiasm local businesses and students showed
when he arrived. But his honeymoon at Ma-
son ended after just a year, with the 1994 hir-
ing of athletic director Tom O’Connor.
O’Connor is most definitely a basketball
guy. His GMU bio shows that before taking
over Mason athletics, O’Connor had been
head basketball coach at Dartmouth and
Loyola. He’s served on the NCAA’s Basket-
ball Championship Committee, the body
that oversees men’s March Madness, and was
named its chairman in 2008.
O’Connor is a folk hero to most Masonites.
In 2006, on his watch, Mason basketball had
a “Hoosiers”-esque run to the Final Four.
The Patriots head into this week’s Colonial
Athletic Association tournament with the
nation’s longest active winning streak.
So there’s no yardage in quibbling with
18 March 4, 2011 washingtoncitypaper.com
O’Connor’s bona fides as a hoops administrator.
But O’Connor hasn’t ever tried out his ad-
ministrative mojo on Mason’s gridiron. Pascale
says that shortly after becoming AD, O’Connor
told him to give up the NCAA dream.
“We had a meeting and he said that the
only two varsity sports are men’s basketball
and women’s basketball,” Pascale says.
Pascale stuck around for more than a de-
cade after that meeting, and admits he nev-
er hid his disdain for the brass. He wasn’t
canned until June 2008. “That was after I’d
done all the recruiting for the [next] season,
after I’d done all the scheduling, and too late
for me to find any other coaching job,” says
Pascale, who now works for Fairfax County
schools. “Nice guys.”
John Moorhead, a punter, was the only
Pascale-era holdover on this year’s squad.
“When I first talked to Coach Pascale at
freshman orientation,” Moorhead says, “he
told me within two years we’d go from a club
team to an NCAA Division I-AA program.”
Pascale did all a coach could do to make
that happen. His teams won several league ti-
tles, even though Mason’s schedule was silly
strong for a club squad, teeming with teams
that were either already NCAA sanctioned or
on the verge, including Tuskegee Institute,
South Alabama, and Georgia State.
“We beat the hell out of South Alabama,”
Pascale says. “And we beat Georgia State bad,
too, scored up in the 60s. And now they’re
both pretty big time, and Mason’s nothing.”
O’Connor denies pro-basketball equals
anti-football, and points out that his résumé
shows he’s played and coached high school
football, and oversaw a football program
at Santa Clara University when he was AD
there. Every decision he’s made has been in
the best interest of Mason’s bottom line.
“It’s not where we’re in a mode where we
said we don’t want football,” he says. “It’s a
cost issue.”
O’Connor says economic feasibility studies
he’d commissioned showed it would take $90
million—$4 million for operating the football
team and $86 million for a stadium—to start
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Patriot Gamer: Pascale started GMU’s football club with NCAA dreams.
an NCAA program.
“There are schools around here that com-
pete with a first-class program—Maryland,
Virginia, Virginia Tech—plus the Red-
skins,” says O’Connor, “so we’d have to do
it the right way.”
John McGeehan, a Fairfax business lead-
er, got involved with Mason football early in
Pascale’s tenure. He says the roadblocks ad-
ministrators threw in the coach’s way inspired
him to help raise money for stadium improve-
ments and a endowed football scholarships, a
rarity in club football.
McGeehan says he “doesn’t believe any” of
the budgetary excuses, and claims sports offi-
cials crunch numbers as creatively the Nobel
Laureates in GMU’s economics department.
“O’Connor came in with a football bud-
get that counted 85 players, all on full, out-
of-state scholarships,” McGeehan says. “In
D1-AA football, you can have up to 60 schol-
arships, not 85, and the players are definitely
not going to be all out of state. Then he bud-
geted a 40,000-seat stadium, when the aver-
age attendance for football in the CAA [Ma-
son’s NCAA conference] was 11,000. He ran
up the numbers to say football’s too expen-
sive. Meanwhile, Mason makes a licensing
deal with [a soft drink company], and every
dime from that goes in the basketball budget.
Darrow Montgomery
That sure makes basketball look good!
“The bottom line,” McGeehan continues,
“is you can make it look like a program makes
money or loses money. It’s all up to who keeps
the books. Basketball people kept the books.”
Mason spokesperson Adam Brick confirms
that the school would use stadium and scholar-
ship figures cited by McGeehan, but says they’re
based on CAA rivals: “If we aspire to NCAA
1-A, yeah, we would use those numbers.”
In the first game after firing Pascale, against
Lincoln University in September 2008, Ma-
son was held to minus-7 yards rushing dur-
ing a 34-7 loss. The Philly school was playing
its first football game in 48 years. Where 90
players routinely came out for Pascale’s team,
Mason’s student newspaper reported only 22
players dressed for 2010.
“They told me they wanted to go in a new
direction,” Pascale says. “What direction is
that?”
Moorhead said when he first joined the Ma-
son team, he enjoyed getting the free sweatsuits
emblazoned with “George Mason Football.”
“But I’d put them on and walk around, peo-
ple would say, ‘Mason has a football team?’”
he says, chuckling. “That sucked.”
Moorhead, who’ll leave Mason in May hav-
ing never played an NCAA football game, no
longer wears the sweatsuits. CP
SAVAGELOVE
I’m a 41-year-old attractive, happily married
woman. My husband and I have been togeth-
er for 15 years. When we first met, the sex was
absolutely incredible. After we got married, the
sex was good, not great. This was because we
were busy raising our children. (My husband
had custody of 4-year-old twins, children from
his first marriage, when we married.) The rea-
son I know our sex life suffered while we were
busy raising the kids is that after the girls went
off to college, things went right back to abso-
lutely incredible.
One night, we were talking about our sexual
fantasies, and I confessed that since my mid-30s
I’ve fantasized about being with a younger man.
He told me that he’d be fine with me living out
that fantasy if I would have a MFF threesome
with him. I agreed, and we had the MFF three-
some with a friend of mine.
Here’s my question: How do I go about find-
ing a gorgeous, college-age man? I thought about
posting an ad on Craigslist, but you’ve said that
most of the people on Craigslist are flakes and
picture collectors. Do you have better suggestions
for finding a straight college-age guy for a no-
strings-attached encounter? I’m in the Pacific
Northwest, if that makes a difference. Also, I’m
a complete newbie to this, so I’d appreciate a run-
down of all of the usual safety advice when meet-
ing a stranger for sex.
—Mrs. Robinson Seeks Benjamin
P.S. Here is my e-mail address in case any of
your gorgeous, male, college-age readers in the
Pacific Northwest are interested: [e-mail de-
leted].
I don’t print the e-mail addresses of readers
looking for hookups, MRSB, as I am a profes-
sional advice columnist, thankyouverymuch,
not a yentapimp for wannabe Mrs. Robin-
sons. (It also gives my lawyer fits. “What if
you print this woman’s e-mail address and
this woman meets a nice young man who
turns out to be Ted Bundy?” says my law-
yer, who is old enough to remember who Ted
Bundy was—and Mrs. Robinson—but some-
how not too old to lawyer.)
But save for asking me to print your e-
mail address in the column, MRSB, I ap-
prove of everything you and your husband
are doing. Married olds everywhere should
follow your example: You got through the
lean years with decent-if-uninspired sex,
you didn’t become bitter about all that de-
cent-if-uninspired sex, you got back to inde-
cent-and-inspired sex once the kids headed
to college (which you were able to do because
“Hello? Heterosexuals? Your legislators need to hear from you,
and they need to hear from you now.”
you didn’t let yourselves get bitter), and—
most importantly—instead of freaking out
and shooting down each other’s sexual fanta-
sies, you’re helping each other realize those
fantasies. Brafuckingvo.
So how do you find the right young man?
Trawl the ‘Net, like all the other horndogs,
and get your husband to help. (You asked
your friend to have that three-way, right?
Your husband can place a few “hotwife” ads.)
Yes, there are fakers and flakes on Craigslist—
lots and lots—but there are some real boys to
be had; there’s also FetLife.com and Ashley-
Madison.com and a million other hookup
sites. Cast a wide net.
Once you’ve found a potential Benjamin:
Make sure you know his real name, meet in
public, discuss safety (condoms) and sex-
ual health (tested recently?), and be sure to
let him know that someone else—someone
heavily armed—knows where you are and
who you’re with and when you’re supposed
to be back.
Here’s the tricky part: If you don’t get a
good feeling when you meet in person—if he
seems dodgy, if his pics lied, if he gives off a
rape-y/serial-killer-y/lawyer-y-fit-vindicat-
ing vibe—don’t go through with it.
P.S. Oh, what the hell: MRSB’s e-mail ad-
dress is j.e.robinson71@gmail.com. —Dan
I’m a 24-year-old straight male. For the past six
months, I’ve been dating an amazing GGG girl.
We have amazing sex. The other night, after a
week of no sex, I came on to her in bed on Satur-
day night. She turned me down and said that she
was OK with me masturbating on the other side
of the bed so she could sleep. After a very unsat-
isfying orgasm, I told her I understood her need
to sleep, since we had an early engagement the
next morning, but that this was difficult for me.
She said we’d have great sex the next day, which
we did. Which one of us needs to be GGG in this
scenario, should it happen again?
—Fucking Early Engagement
Botches Lovely Evening
A week is a long time to go without at your
age and at six months and prekids, I realize,
but it sounds like the girlfriend more than
made it up to you the next day. As for who
needs to be GGG in this scenario, should it
happen again (and it will)…
GGG demands a little something of both
of you. GGG requires you to stop whining
about having to wait 24 whole hours for awe-
some sex, FEEBLE, and GGG requires her—
if she isn’t completely exhausted (and it ap-
pears she wasn’t, as she was still awake when
your “very unsatisfying orgasm” was over)—
to come through with a loving assist when
you’re desperate and she’s not feeling it, i.e.,
lie with you, talk dirty to you, stick a finger up
your butt—whatever—for the 5 or 10 minutes
it takes you to drain your sack. —Dan
I’m writing to ask you to help me spread the
word about an issue close to my heart. I am a
23-year-old woman without medical insurance
who relies on Planned Parenthood. They have
done SO MUCH for me. They have provided
me with birth control, annual pap smears that
I can actually afford, and emotional support
that helped me get over an abusive relationship
and sexual assault.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed
a bill last week that would cut all federal fund-
ing for Planned Parenthood. This isn’t just
an attack on American women. Planned Par-
enthood educates the entire community about
sexual health and sexually transmitted infec-
tions. I know I don’t need to preach to you. I
plan to write to my senators about this, and
I am encouraging everyone I know to do so.
What I ask is that you mention this in your
column as soon as possible.
—My Body, My Choice
Done and done, MBMC. We used to have
a regular feature called “Straight Rights
Watch.” It lapsed when the Democrats
took the House in 2006 and political at-
tacks on the sexual freedoms of straight
people decreased. But the GOP is back in
charge of the House and many statehous-
es, and attacks on the sexual freedoms of
heterosexuals—attempts to ban abortion,
restrict access to birth control, destroy
Planned Parenthood (which doesn’t just
serve straight people), even make it legal
to kill abortion providers (!!!)—are back,
and so, sadly, is Straight Rights Watch.
Hello? Heterosexuals? Your legislators
need to hear from you, and they need to
hear from you now. And there’s an easy way
to make your voice heard: Go to istandwith-
plannedparenthood.org and add your name
to an open letter to Congress, then swing
over to plannedparenthood.org, click Do-
nate, and give what you can.
—Dan Savage
Send your Savage Love questions to mail@
savagelove.net.
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how to make Washington DC a place where businesses and their employees hypothetical wind farm is far larger than any-
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thing likely to be built. That’s true in the
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• Only a fraction of those turbines would
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The biggest U.S. wind farm at the moment,
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Generating an equivalent amount of elec-
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the clearing of the virgin forest. Sure, that
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the countryside is dotted with windmills. But
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• Tombstone, Ariz., the site of the legendary
1881 “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” that in-
spired the 1957 move, is about 70 miles from
the Tucson shopping center where a U.S. con-
gresswoman, a federal judge, and others were
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later that month noted that the “Wild West”
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trol than present-day Arizona. The historic
gunfight occurred when the marshal tried to
enforce the town’s no-carry law against local
thugs. Today, however, with few restrictions
and no licenses required, virtually any Arizo-
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• British loyalist Michael Stone still claims it
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intend to assassinate Irish Republican Army
political leaders in 2006, despite being ar-
rested at Northern Ireland’s legislature car-
rying knives, an axe, a garotte, and a bag of
explosives including flammable liquids, gas
canisters, and fuses. He was later convict-
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Hermit
Kitchen
From North Korea to Northern Virginia, a tale of
espionage and sausage. By Mike Paarlberg
PhotograPhs by Darrow MontgoMery
The first thing you notice on the menu is what isn’t there:
beef. It’s the essential feature of South Korean restaurants, particular-
ly in barbecue form: beef ribs and bulgogi.
But Pyongyang Soondae—Pyongyang Sausage—isn’t a South
Korean restaurant. It’s North Korean, so the menu skews toward sea-
food, poultry—and pork, pork, pork. The staple meat of the South is
nowhere to be seen, except in a single soup dish. That would be naeng-
myun, the one northern dish every Korean knows, a buckwheat noo-
dle soup with cucumbers and slices of beef, served cold, often with ice
cubes in the broth.
Most Korean restaurants advertise “Pyongyang naengmyun” as
a mark of authenticity, regardless of whether their chefs have ever
been to the totalitarian-ruled city that serves as the soup’s namesake.
Pyongyang Soondae does them one better, serving its version with
balls of pheasant meat.
The authenticity might explain why the new restaurant stands out
in a region already dense with eateries from the peninsula. For that
often elderly chunk of the Korean immigrant population that traces
their ancestry to the North, the spot is unique. Owner Ma Young-Ae
has been advertising heavily in the local Korean press, both print and
TV, since opening her restaurant last fall. Among the customers lunch-
ing on pork liver and intestines are Lim Sung-Il, 73, and his wife Hye-
Gyung, 71, both of whom left Pyongyang as kids. Both made the trek
from Maryland to Pyongyang Soondae’s storefront, lured by child-
hood culinary memories.
Sitting near the border of Alexandria and Fairfax County on Lit-
tle River Turnpike—the restaurant-saturated main drag of Northern
Virginia’s Korean community—the restaurant doesn’t tout its unlikely
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origins, at least not in English. Its only Eng-
lish-language sign, in the parking lot, features
the name of the previous restaurant to occupy
the narrow building. “Pyongyang Soondae”
is written above it, in Korean.
Which makes it the perfect place to find a
restaurant owned by a former spy and oper-
ated by North Korean defectors.
Clad in a red apron decorated with cats
and hearts, Ma Young-Ae, 48, looks like the
quintessential ajuma—a Korean woman who
has settled comfortably into middle age and the
privileges that accompany it: being bowed to,
getting seated first on the bus, giving unsolicit-
ed advice to strangers. Her day revolves around
restaurant work. By 9:30 in the morning, she’s
shopping for supplies. She works until at least
10:30 each night. In her spare time, she listens
to music and watches movies. She likes action
flicks, especially those about the FBI.
A little more than a decade ago, Ma was an
undercover agent for North Korea’s Ministry
of Public Security, conducting drug investiga-
tions. Her job was to bust smugglers—farm-
ers, mostly—who were exporting opium to
China. It was an odd assignment, considering
the North Korean government’s document-
ed involvement in the drug trade itself: along
with weapons and counterfeit “superdollars,”
opium has been a key source of revenue for
the cash-strapped regime. Ma says her job
was a bit less righteous: She was tasked with
busting smugglers operating without govern-
ment approval.
Besides a slight North Korean accent—pro-
nouncing ni as nei—there is little that would
make Ma stand out among Northern Virgin-
ia’s large Korean community.
Until she gets to talking about politics,
that is. A devout Christian with the zeal of
a convert—she found Jesus in South Korea,
where she lived after abandoning the athe-
ist North—Ma is waging a missionary cam-
paign against the state that once employed
her. Her political activities are evident on the
walls of her restaurant, decorated with pic-
tures of her with Hillary Clinton and mem-
bers of the South Korean parliament. She
travels to New York frequently to lead pro-
tests at the offices of the North Korean am-
bassador to the United Nations, the only of-
ficial North Korean delegation in the U.S.
Last year, following North Korea’s contro-
versial sinking of a South Korean naval ves-
sel, she was back, waving a picket sign at the
ambassador. She says a North Korean offi-
cial pulled her aside to growl at her: “Where
do you think you are, bitch?” she recalls,
through an interpreter. “You just watch. We
will kill you.”
Ma’s family was chosun saram—Korean-
descended Chinese citizens who migrated
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“Where do you think you are,
bitch? You just watch. We will
kill you,” Ma recalls a North
Korean official telling her.
from North Korea just before the peninsu-
la’s partition. Most chosun saram settled in the
Jilin Province of northeastern China. But
Ma’s brother joined the northern army dur-
ing the Korean War; the family followed him
back in 1968, when Ma was five years old. Ma
says her mother’s southern roots meant they
were perpetually under suspicion. “I wanted
to go to college,” she says, “but because of
my mother, I didn’t have the opportunity.”
Instead, at 17, Ma joined the army, long
the country’s dominant institution—and a
place that offered opportunities unavailable
elsewhere. A music lover who could play the
piano and accordion as well as the yanggeum,
a stringed instrument played with bamboo
sticks, she wound up in the army’s musical
wing, or Yesuldan, performing songs of trib-
ute to the regime.
Eight years into her service, at age 25, Ma
joined North Korea’s security apparatus as
an intelligence officer. She had married well,
to a high-ranking army officer named Choi
Gwang-Chul. He worked at one point for
Kim Jong-Il’s personal architect, designing
Kim’s summer home. Choi’s younger broth-
er, who worked in intelligence, pulled some
strings to get her the job.
Working as an undercover agent afford-
ed Ma the rare license to travel. Her assign-
ments took her to China, where she first got
into trouble.
“There was a flood,” Ma says, “and we
couldn’t cross the river back [into North
Korea].” Bored, she wandered into a Ko-
rean church. The congregation, she recalls,
was friendly. They had heard of the famines
across the border and assumed she was a ref-
ugee, welcoming her with food. (“I didn’t tell
them I was a government agent,” Ma says.)
The church members also sang hymns.
They asked if Ma could play the piano. She
could. They asked if she knew any hymns.
She did not. So they told her to play any
songs she knew. There was a tune she had of-
ten performed in the army, an anthem prais-
ing Kim Il-Sung. She proceeded to play it,
singing of the Great Leader’s revolution-
ary glories, until the horrified congregation
asked her to stop.
After a few days, the river receded and Ma
returned to Pyongyang. She wrote a report
about her investigation, leaving out the part
about visiting the church. “After I turned it
in, they said, ‘write it again,’” she says. “So
I did. And they said, ‘write it again.’” She
admitted to going to the church. At an un-
derground prison, she says, she was inter-
rogated for a month. “They threw things at
me, and wanted to know if I was a Chris-
tian,” she says.
Ma escaped the worst punishment, she be-
lieves, thanks to her husband’s connections.
She got off relatively easy—suspended from
the force, but later reinstated, with a promo-
tion to boot.
But it wasn’t long before Ma was in trou-
ble again. She was tailing a Korean-Chinese
businessman who had built a textile factory
in North Korea. But the North Korean gov-
ernment was broke, and did not want to pay
his investment returns. So Ma says she was as-
signed to investigate trumped-up charges that
he was a spy.
When the charges were brought, the busi-
nessman turned to Ma, whom he believed
to be a North Korean commerce official. He
pleaded with her to pass along a letter pro-
claiming his innocence. She did. For that, Ma
says, a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Her brother-in-law in the Ministry of
Public Security tipped her off. This time, her
husband’s connections wouldn’t save her. “I
didn’t mean to flee,” she says. But when the
call came in, she was close to the Chinese bor-
der anyway. She says she seized the opportu-
nity without even telling her husband.
For a police state, North Korea
has a surprisingly porous border. Unlike the
Yalu River, which forms the longest part of
the Chinese-North Korean frontier, the Tu-
men River is shallow and slow. Parts of it
are left unprotected by either country. Those
who work with North Korean refugees say it
is not uncommon for whole families to sneak
across and back multiple times. Ma crossed
for good in 2000.
Most refugees don’t make it much farther
than that. In China’s Yanbian Korean Auton-
omous Prefecture, they can blend in with the
ethnic Korean residents. But jobs are scarce,
and many established residents see recent mi-
grants as beggars or thieves. Shady operations
abound in an area where the dominant activ-
ity is human smuggling. North Korean wom-
en are in hot demand in China, a product of
gender imbalances from the one-child poli-
cy. Many are forced into marriages with older
bachelors and widowers; some men in rural
villages pool their money together to pur-
chase a “shared bride.” In South Korea, sev-
eral porn sites feature North Korean women
stripping over live feeds.
Ma, who had developed contacts in Chi-
na, was luckier. For several months, she hid
out with the family of a Korean-Chinese
merchant in the city of Tumen. Eventually,
she made her way to Beijing. Her ultimate
destination was South Korea. But, she says,
a South Korean embassy official told her
Seoul wasn’t taking any more asylum cases at
the time. He gave her some money and told
her to lay low among the city’s Korean-Chi-
nese community.
Instead, she went back to Tumen, where
she was arrested.
Ma says she was tortured by Chinese po-
lice. “They beat me with an ashtray,” she says.
“They hit me in my face and my hands.” Her
right hand and collarbone were broken; the
injuries are still visible from where the bones
were improperly set. Police suspected she was
not a poor farmer, as she claimed. “I was too
pretty,” she says. It wasn’t that the authori-
ties were especially eager to detain a senior of-
ficial; it was that they believed a better-con-
nected refugee could afford a bigger bribe.
They eventually got her to confess. Ma
spent 35 days in lockup, certain she was go-
ing to be killed. Instead, she was miraculous-
ly sprung. It turned out her host, the Kore-
Dear Eater: North
Korean grub in the DMV,
not across the DMZ.
Chicken Rectum, Hold the Grass
The words “North Korean food”
conjure up images of...nothing. Pyong-
yang Soondae’s location in Northern Vir-
ginia, rather than its namesake city, means
its kitchen has access to a bounty unavail-
able to most North Koreans. This alone
makes it a novelty. Considering the homo-
geneity and small size of the Korean pen-
insula, one might expect food that’s little
different from the Korean joints that al-
ready dominate Little River Turnpike.
I certainly did. As a hapa Korean Amer-
ican from Fairfax, I grew up on Korean
food, and thought I’d tried every combi-
nation of kimchi, barbecue, and red pep-
per paste possible.
However, I hadn’t tried roasted chick-
en rectum before. The dish (called ddak
ddong jib, or “chicken shit house” in the
wonderfully literal Korean language) is
not uniquely North Korean—they have it
in the South as well, just not at your typi-
cal restaurant. The dish is late-night drunk
food, a Korean version of jumbo slice:
spicy, heavy, and designed to soak up the
soju after a hard night out.
I had it stone-cold sober and in the mid-
dle of the day, and it was pretty tasty. The
rectums are chewy, with a texture similar to
gluten-based meat substitutes. And you get
your money’s worth: eight to ten of them on
a bed of onions and peppers is $10.
But Pyongyang Soondae’s name referenc-
es its sausage, the North’s other big contri-
bution to Korean cuisine after naengmyun, a
cold noodle dish. Its soondae are made with
pork mixed with rice and vermicelli noo-
dles. The sausage is quite good, though not
so much a meal in itself—better ordered as
a side dish for a soup or larger plate. A nice
option is the soondae regular meal, which
pairs a sampling of sausage with a ferment-
ed fish dish or plate of pheasant dumplings.
The pork liver and intestine soup is good
for those who, well, like liver and intestines.
Otherwise, the seafood pancakes, with more
grains in the flour-squid-shellfish batter, are
delicious and less greasy than the haemul
pajun of the South.
Another surprise is how mild the dish-
es are. Koreans love to add red pepper to ev-
erything, whether fresh or in powder or paste
form. Combined with generous helpings of
kimchi, a good meal is eye-watering and na-
sal-passage-opening. But at Pyongyang Soon-
dae, chef and owner Ma Young-Ae chooses
to leave her dishes mostly unseasoned, letting
the customer choose how much pepper and
vinegar to add at the table.
Servers do not speak English. But non-
Korean speakers will be able to make it
through the menu, which has English trans-
lations, by pointing. Most items are be-
tween $6 and $12. Famine jokes are proba-
bly not appreciated, so do not ask for grass
or bark. —M.P.
Pyongyang Soondae, 6499 Little Riv-
er Turnpike, Annandale. (202) 360-2746.
Hours: Monday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Sunday from 11 a.m.
to 11 p.m.
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an-Chinese merchant, had paid a bribe. Ma
wasn’t taking any chances with the legal asy-
lum process after that. The merchant’s family
paid a forger 25,000 yuan for a fake passport
and airfare for Ma to South Korea. At age 38,
she was on a plane bound for Seoul.
At the time, Ma believed her husband’s
military rank would spare him from the dire
consequences that befall other defectors’ fam-
ilies. And, she thinks, it did—for a time. But
years later, after Ma had moved to the U.S.
and started campaigning against Pyongyang,
it caught up with her. In 2004, she got news
from her sister in China that he had been exe-
cuted. “I was upset,” she says, “but more up-
set thinking how my son [then living in South
Korea] would take it.”
A disproportionate number of defec-
tors who make it to the South end up running
restaurants. Lee Cheong-Guk, one of Pyong-
yang’s top chefs, as well as Yo Man-Chol, an-
other North Korean intelligence officer, both
opened restaurants in Seoul after defecting.
It turns out that culinary nostalgia sells.
Older North Koreans who migrated South
before the war hunger for northern cuisine.
And the estimated 20,000 more recent North
Korean refugees in the South represent a good
source of restaurant labor. Though they’re
greeted with a government stipend and job-
skills classes, many also face prejudice that
makes salaried employment tough. They’re
sometimes accused of being spies, especially
after periodic flare-ups with the North.
In fact, North Korean agents occasionally
infiltrate refugee communities in South Ko-
rea, in order to assassinate some of the high-
er-profile defectors: two alleged spies were
caught last April trying to kill Hwang Jang-
Yeop, former chairman of the North Kore-
an parliament and the highest-ranking defec-
tor to date. More often, South Koreans accuse
refugees of being leeches on the welfare sys-
tem. One study found the unemployment rate
among North Korean refugees to be 14 per-
cent at the time, compared to 4 percent for
the country as a whole.
Again, Ma fared better than most. Follow-
ing resettlement, she formed a North Kore-
an folk music group with nine other defectors
and began playing concerts, calling them-
selves “Pyongyang Yesuldan,” after her old
army group of the same name. It was a time
of rapprochement with the North, and the
novelty of North Korean refugee all-star band
attracted an audience. With proceeds from
her performances, she opened the first of her
Pyongyang Sausage restaurants, in Seoul.
“I wasn’t a very good cook,” Ma says. But,
she reasoned: “At least when you own a res-
taurant, you never go hungry.”
She also paid to have her teenage son, Choi
Hyo-Sung, smuggled out of North Korea.
“You can get anyone out with enough money,”
she says, waving her hand. Suzanne Scholte,
chairwoman of the North Korea Freedom Co-
alition, says it can cost anywhere from $1,500
to $30,000 to get someone from the North to
the South. Ma says she paid smugglers $500 to
get her son out of North Korea, and $3,000 to
get him out of China.
But Ma ran into other troubles. During
the years between 1998 and 2008, successive
South Korean presidents embraced the “Sun-
shine Policy” toward the Pyongyang regime,
paving the way for aid and investment, as well
as a series of televised reunions of families
separated by the demilitarized zone.
Critics, including Ma, called it appease-
ment. South Korean hawks accused the gov-
ernment of trying to silence Pyongyang’s
opponents. Scholte, of the North Korea Free-
dom Coalition, says it amounted to “a gag
rule on high-level defectors.” Since the most
prominent defectors had jobs at Seoul’s Min-
istry of Unification, they could be fired for
speaking out of line.
Ma was neither a high-level defector nor a
government employee. Nevertheless, her out-
spokenness got the attention of Scholte’s or-
ganization, which sponsored a 2002 U.S. visit,
where she spoke at a congressional hearing in
favor of a bill tightening the screws on Pyong-
yang. Passed in 2004, the measure also opened
the doors for the first North Korean refugees
to come to the U.S. As of March 2010, the
Government Accountability Office reports
that 94 North Koreans had resettled here; Ma
says the number is now around 120.
In 2004, Ma came to the U.S. a second
time, touring Korean churches as a speaker
and performer. In South Korea, Christians
outnumber Buddhists by a small margin, but
Korean immigrants to the U.S. are dispro-
portionately Christian, and the church plays
a central role in the community. (When two
Koreans meet in the U.S., the first question
is usually “what church do you go to?” The
second: “Why don’t you go to my church?”).
This role, along with frequent factional quar-
rels and splits among congregations, explains
the proliferation of Korean churches in Cali-
fornia, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and
any area with a sizeable Korean community.
For decades, the plight of North Koreans
has been the cause célèbre for Korean church-
es in South Korea and abroad. Aid work for
North Korean refugees is usually handled
by ministers, who make little distinction for
humanitarian relief and proselytizing. For
many, fighting the communist regime is a holy
cause. The so-called Hermit Kingdom rep-
resents not merely a dictatorship, economic
basket-case and humanitarian disaster, but
also the last frontier for soul-saving.
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“I wasn’t a very good
cook,” Ma says of her first
restaurant. “At least when
you own a restaurant, you
never go hungry.”
Today, Ma traverses easily between the spir-
itual, temporal, political, and cultural realms.
Her performances at churches alternate be-
tween the serene, warbled singing of Korean
folk tales about farmers, mountains, and frogs
and fiery denunciations of Kim Jong-Il.
For her 2004 tour, Ma and her new hus-
band, a fellow defector who goes by the fake
name Choi Un-Chol, were accompanied by
a South Korean government handler. She
claims that he confiscated her passport and
return ticket, then pressured her to drop the
political content from her performances. She
ignored him. In Chicago, she says, an argu-
ment between her husband and the handler
erupted into blows. The handler left mid-
tour, but Ma and her husband (who uses a
false identity because he still has family in
the North) stayed. Her passport had ex-
pired, and she says she was told by the South
Korean consulate in New York that she could
not renew it.
Ma says she and her husband sought po-
litical asylum in the U.S., which they were
granted. She settled in Los Angeles, run-
ning a restaurant there for a few years. She
moved to Virginia after Scholte convinced
Ma that her political activities would be bet-
ter advanced being closer to the U.S. capital.
Ma’s latest incarnation of Pyongyang
Soondae is as much a refugee aid office as
a restaurant. She opened it on Nov. 1, af-
ter selling her restaurant in L.A. She de-
votes a portion of the restaurant proceeds to
refugee rescue and relief work, and efforts
to oppose the Pyongyang government. Of
the approximately 15 North Koreans who
have been resettled in the D.C. area un-
der the North Korean Human Rights Act,
eight work for Ma; two of them currently
live with her. (She says they’ll move once
they get on their feet.)
Most of the refugees also attend the same
church, First Presbyterian Church of the
East, in Chantilly. The minister, Rev. Lee
Guang-Hyun, says six of his 50 parishio-
ners are North Korean; he says his church’s
involvement in North Korean refugee relief
work is a big draw.
So far, business has been good. “Every-
one is surviving,” Ma says, adding that she
has been able to pay her employees on time.
Most are North Korean. Besides Ma and her
son, all go by fake names, worried of repri-
sals against family members back home. A
26-year-old waitress going by the name Kang
I-Sul crossed the Tumen River three years ago
and made it out of China through Mongolia.
She and other servers politely answer ques-
tions from customers about the political sit-
uation, the famine, and other topics of curi-
osity that attract clientele to the restaurant as
much as the food. (There is one non-Korean
on staff, Mari Cruz, 26, from Honduras, who
works as a kitchen assistant. Having worked
in three Korean restaurants before, she says
she is comfortable with the work. The only
difference is the food. “And they don’t rip me
off,” she says.)
Ma being Ma, she says that her troubles
didn’t end with her move to the Washington
area. She claims that she had received threat-
ening phone calls from an intelligence officer
working in the South Korean embassy; she
says she later heard from ministers who had
previously booked her that the man had been
pressuring them not to host her performanc-
es. She filed a lawsuit against the government,
seeking damages for harassment. A spokes-
person for the South Korean embassy, Han
Bo-Wha, responded that the case had been
dismissed by a South Korean court; Ma says
she is appealing the decision.
Victor Cha, director for Asian affairs at the
National Security Council under George W.
Bush’s administration, says that claims of
South Korean government intimidation of
defectors are “not implausible at all.” Cha
says that Seoul “was hypersensitive about
the North Korean human rights issue being
used as a regime-change policy” by the Bush
administration.
But Ma has stranger claims still. She says
she received death threats from a man iden-
tifying himself as a North Korean defector in
L.A., who threatened to kill her with a ham-
mer. She believes a Korean minister in the
U.S. who had offered to pay her to do refugee
relief work in China was also secretly working
on behalf of the Chinese government, plot-
ting to kidnap her and have her deported back
to North Korea. She fears that North Korean
agents will infiltrate the U.S., posing as defec-
tors, in order to kill her.
Seated at a dining table at Pyongyang
Soondae, Ma tells of the dire threats to her
life in a matter-of-fact tone, as though they
are the normal hazards of a 48-year-old
woman running a sausage restaurant. May-
be it’s paranoia. But as a North Korean de-
fector and ex-spy, she has more reasons than
most to be paranoid.
Still, Ma does not seem the least bit agi-
tated. Rather, she appears wearily resigned to
whatever fate God has in store for her. For the
moment, at least, it involves serving buck-
wheat noodle soup and dumplings to a steady
stream of customers. CP
Translation assistance by Kim Soni and Park
Eun-Jung
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Craft Work
H Street NE’s original culinary gentrifier reinvents itself.
Pot Luck: The Argonaut
can make your corn on
the cob taste like the sea.
By Chris Shott
All sorts of foods go well with beer, and all sorts
of brews pair well with food. Spicy hot wings and lukewarm
lager? A classic combo. But, chocolate stout-flavored chicken
wings? The District’s craft beer craze has officially hopped
the suds shark.
The dark chocolaty poultry stands out like a greasy black
thumb from even the heavily beer-focused menu at the recent-
ly reopened Argonaut, the pioneering dive bar turned brunch
spot at the rapidly gentrifying intersection where H Street NE
meets Maryland Avenue and Benning and Bladensburg roads.
You’ve probably heard of beer-can chicken. This is some-
thing else entirely. A little sweet, a little bitter and more than
a little dry, the bits of bony bird are bathed in hot sauce, but-
ter, and Bell’s Special Double Cream Stout, then served with
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the standard sides of celery and blue cheese dressing. On vi-
sual inspection, the blackish wings look like they were mari-
nated in used motor oil, or perhaps just left on the curb to col-
lect grime overnight. Maybe this is what the locals mean when
they say that H Street hasn’t completely lost its grit.
Luckily, they taste a lot better than they look.
“We’re still trying to perfect the recipe,” says Demetrios
Recachinas, the Argo’s interim chef, kitchen manager, and part-
time bartender. “Stout is a great flavor, but when you’re working
with it, if you try to reduce it or anything like that, it gets super,
super bitter.... We thought if we could control the flavor of the
chocolate, then it would be a good combination.”
It’s an ongoing experiment that Recachinas, the former
food manager at the D.C. Central Kitchen and one-time sous
chef for American cooking dominatrix Carole Greenwood at
Buck’s Fishing and Camping, isn’t quick to claim as his own.
He inherited the recipe from a previous chef, who quit one
day after the restaurant’s January grand reopening. The hasty
exit was just the latest in a series of calamities—including fire,
theft, and tax troubles—to befall the beloved boîte.
Even my server seemed skittish about the wings, a sur-
prise at this time of mass obsession with all things malt-
and hops-related.
Other local eateries have employed similar stout-based reci-
pes. At Chinatown’s brew-centric Regional Food and Drink,
for instance, there are no fewer than three menu items infused
with chocolate stout, all of them desserts: a decadent brownie, a
cleverly titled “bieramisu,” even an ice cream float.
The Argonaut’s unique approach (what is this, chicken
mole in a pint glass?) flips this convention on its clucking head.
Is this supposed to be an appetizer? Or a dessert? Either way, it
makes sense mainly as a gimmick to impress the beer geeks.
In fact, the Argo, now fully recovered from last summer’s
devastating kitchen fire, is poised to woo brew enthusiasts
like never before. Re-launched with 24 shiny new taps (up
from just four), the joint has a beer list that’s harder to navi-
gate than the Symplegades. Call it the Quest for the Golden
Yeast: The overhauled menu includes micro-brews from Cal-
ifornia, Colorado, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Hamp-
shire, Ohio, and even Florida.
Adventurers beware: As the multiple asterisks on the
menu suggest, the venue’s actual stockpile of beers chang-
es a lot faster than its printing capabilities. Also note the
disclaimer that certain varieties are “limited in their year-
ly availability or production, so we’ll rotate our selection of-
ten.” In fact, weeks after reopening, the Argo was already
out of several stellar drafts, notably Gonzo Imperial Porter,
Flying Dog Brewery’s potent (9.2 percent) tribute to the late
Hunter S. Thompson.
There are still plenty of high-octane options, of course. And
the folks in the kitchen tend to incorporate ingredients from the
bar into other food items, too. In addition to the dubious stout
wings, both the Argo’s honey-drizzled onion rings and its crispy
fried cod, served with fries and a tasty lemon curry sauce, are
brewski-infused. The batter is made from the light-colored me-
dium-bodied house IPA, which, in keeping with the eatery’s
nautical theme, the staff calls “booty beer.”
“We’re very beer-heavy here,” says Recachinas. “Adding
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Sailing Into New Waters: Roasted portabella stacks aren’t normal dive bar fare.
it to the batter basically infuses another layer
of flavor.”
Back in 2005, the Argonaut was one of
eight properties snatched up as part of pro-
lific D.C. restaurateur Joe Englert’s effort to
“clean up” H Street, as Englert described
it: “to recruit just not restaurants, but bak-
ers, chocolate shops, museums, flower shops
and more to the strip.” The local trade journal
Foodservice Monthly dubbed it the “Joe En-
glert Entertainment District.”
In a part of town previously known for
carry-out dispensed from behind bulletproof
glass, the ensuing culinary gentrification in-
volved places that served Moroccan tapas,
German wursts, and Japanese sushi served
with an ironic side of tater tots. Today’s H
Street corridor offers duck confit at Smith
Commons, Philadelphia-style hoagies at
Taylor Gourmet and the uncomfortably
named “white trash crème brulee” from
Dangerously Delicious Pies.
If you buy the notion that today’s young
professionals regard food and drink the way
their parents approached sex, drugs, and rock
‘n’ roll, then consider H Street a burgeoning
Haight-Ashbury—albeit one promising a bet-
ter kind of crabs.
By those standards, the old Argonaut might
today seem pedestrian. The reinvented one,
though, keeps pace with the neighborhood’s
increasingly baroque tastes.
Proprietors Scott Magnuson and Shaar-
en Pine bought into Englert’s vision early on.
The affable couple serves as the public face of
the Argonaut. (Englert remains the principal
30 March 4, 2011 washingtoncitypaper.com
owner; Magnuson the managing partner.)
“We opened in ’05 as a dive bar with very
little food and that worked really well...un-
til it didn’t,” Pines notes. Much like the cou-
ple (now doting parents) and the surrounding
residential areas (now settling into comfort-
able yuppiedom), the Argo has since opted for
a more family-friendly vibe. “We needed to
become more of a restaurant and less of a bar,
so we hired a chef and managed to change our
entire direction—and double our business!—
in two months.”
For Act III, it seems, the restored Ar-
gonaut has managed to step it up on both
fronts.
Its renewed focus on domestic crafts, in
particular, seems a direct challenge to H Street
neighbor Granville Moore’s status as the
neighborhood beer mecca. The culinary reca-
libration, meanwhile, includes a concerted ef-
fort to hop aboard the locavore bandwagon.
That’s where Recachinas, with his nonprof-
it background and his penchant for sourcing
fresh local ingredients, comes in.
Argonaut’s pasta du jour, for instance, is
handmade at Floriana in Dupont Circle. Over
the past several weeks, the restaurant has ad-
vertised artisanal raviolis stuffed with short
rib, lobster, and curry chicken, among the fea-
tured proteins. But for all three of my recent
visits, it was the same entrée every night: green
pillows of spinach pasta, stuffed with ricotta,
swimming in a creamy soup alongside floating
chunks of garlic, mushroom, and cherry toma-
to, sprinkled with parmesan shavings.
Recachinas wasn’t immediately sure how
well the localized ethics would sit with fans
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dish. Lightly breaded in cornmeal and flour, the flaky fish comes
served on warm flour tortillas, topped with cheddar, diced to-
matoes, and a crunchy slaw of cabbage, red onion, and car-
rot. The new morality threatened to upend this tradition, call-
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origins in far-flung East Asia, in favor of Atlantic mahi-mahi.
“We were expecting a little push-back from our customers,”
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Perhaps the pièce de résistance, menu-wise, comes courtesy
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Inflated Reality
Lessons in verisimilitude for D.C. artist and TLC star Katie Balloons
Pop Couture: D.C. resident Katie Balloons creates a wedding dress in an episode of The Unpoppables.
By Erin Petty
Three days before a fancy wedding, Addi Somekh, Brian
Asman, and Katie Laibstain are suddenly handed a mis-
sion: Make the bride’s dress, complete with five-foot train.
Make it look spectacular. Make it fit perfectly.
And make it out of balloons.
There is, of course, only one world in which such a chal-
lenge could possibly take place: Yes, this all happened on real-
ity television. Somekh, Asman, and Laibstain, better known in
the District as Katie Balloons, are the stars of TLC’s new se-
ries The Unpoppables. The show, which finished airing its first
six-episode season last week, documents the trio—who togeth-
er comprise the balloon collective New Balloon Art—as they
create large-scale balloon installations at events that range from
the aforementioned wedding, to a celebration at a fire museum,
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to the BURST! party at Arlington’s Artisphere complex.
In each of these cases, the artists are shown to be given only
three days to prepare. However, producers make arrangements
at least several weeks in advance. Laibstain’s appearance at the
Artisphere was reported four days before the party.
Laibstain, 26, who lives in Bloomingdale, first began work-
ing with balloons four years ago, as a supplement to her fledg-
ling acting career in Richmond. She started off making simple
balloon animals, but her future changed after she attended her
first balloon convention. “And then I saw these amazing balloon
sculptures, and I knew I would be able to do them even better,”
she says. “I knew it was a business that I would be able to con-
quer within a few years.” The Newport News native relocated to
D.C. in 2008 and started her one-woman balloon business. Lai-
bstain’s creations have appeared at events that range from baby
showers to corporate parties, and include a giant hockey player,
Latex is the
new bLack.
toothbrush centerpieces, and snowflake-like ceiling hangings.
For Laibstain, doing the show was a sudden immersion in
a reality TV world where “reality” often seems only tangen-
tially related to the product that hits the screen. Laibstain—
whose Unpoppables creations include, in addition to the wed-
ding dress, French-inspired cocktail dresses and a “crazy plant
lady” costume—is billed as the show’s fashion expert, although
she hadn’t considered balloon fashion as being a particular spe-
cialty of hers beforehand. Prior to the show, in fact, she was un-
accustomed to making clothes for anyone other than herself—
though you wouldn’t know it. On an adjustable dress form,
Laibstain weaves small balloons, called 160s, to create her fash-
ions. The balloons follow the contours of her clients’ bodies and
are surprisingly flattering. Laibstain’s wedding dress has detail-
ing at the bodice; a dress she created for a fashion show has cap-
sleeves and a flirty “ruffle” at the hem of the skirt. The cre-
ations look more hyper-futuristic than bulbous.
That sort of reinvention is fairly common in shows like
this. “It is absolutely impossible for reality shows to convey
a realistic depiction of life,” says media critic Jennifer L.
Pozner, author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth
About Guilty Pleasure TV. “It’s storytelling—it’s not about
journalism. Producers are using real people as props to achieve
a particular master narrative.”
But that’s precisely what Somekh, already well known in
the world of balloon art, was hoping for. Somekh, who lives
in Los Angeles, where most of the filming took place, was the
subject of the 2005 documentary Balloonhat, and has long had
dreams of translating his work into television. Somekh devel-
oped the show’s concept with a television producer, who took it
to the production company Authentic Entertainment. Authen-
tic then brought the show to TLC, home to another one of their
shows, Toddlers & Tiaras. Somekh sought out Laibstain and the
San Francisco-based Asman to form a made-for-TV balloon
team. “I looked for people I could work with on TV that would
be great to work with in real life,” he says. “Beyond working
well together, Katie and Brian and I get along really well.”
Photos of Laibstain’s balloon fashions on the website
Balloon HQ first caught Somekh’s attention. “I saw a pic-
ture of Katie online in a dress she had made; it was tight, and
so funky,” he says. “I’d never seen anything like it before. I
thought, if this woman is making stuff like that this young,
she has unlimited potential.”
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don’t want to just get wrapped up in this industry. Some of
the horror stories I was told by the crew—some of the mar-
riages split up. It’s just really hard to have a personal life.”
Despite all the attention she’s gotten from the show, she
finds herself with extra time on her hands now. She’s cut her
workload in half since returning from L.A. in early Decem-
Continued ber to accommodate potential demands of the network. In
the past three months she’s made trips to L.A. and New York
for reshoots and promotional events. “I feel like I’m in pur-
Laibstain didn’t hesitate. “When Addi called, it was like gatory since I’ve gotten home,” she says. “They’ll call me
getting a call from Elvis,” she says. “He’s legend in the
balloon world.”
But what followed was brutal. Laibstain flew out
to Los Angeles last September for two months to make
The Unpoppables. She estimates that while shooting, her
workdays averaged 19 hours; about 60 percent of that
time was spent filming and 40 percent sculpting. The
“idle” time spent filming caught her off guard. “There’s
a lot of standing around, and often times that’s when
we need to be building,” she says. “I’d be thinking to
myself, ‘Oh my gosh, I have to be working, I have bal-
loons to make.’ But then I had to remember, ‘No, we
have a show to make.’”
Between the long days and being 3,000 miles away
from her life in D.C., Laibstain says shooting was
“emotionally and physically exhausting.” She also has
Love in This Shrub: Katie Balloons’ “plant lady” creation
fears about the show’s implications on her personal at the Artisphere.
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long time coming. “I feel like in the long run it’s going to be three jobs in December, usually her busiest month, and she’s
worth it, but I want to stay close to my friends,” she says. “I cleared her schedule entirely this month.
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The show’s other challenge for Laibstain was the glimpse
it gave her of her perfectionist ways. “Even though she hates
the b-word, I’m her boss,” Somekh says. In the Artisphere
episode, Laibstain becomes dissatisfied with the flower pot
portion of her plant lady costume and wants to start over.
Somekh doesn’t think she has time and tells her no one’s fo-
cus will be on the pot anyway, but Laibstain protests. “Ka-
tie’s kind of like a wild horse,” he tells the camera. “She
wants to do what she wants to do, but we have to keep each
other in check.” But he says he sees that drive as part of her
artistic vision: “She’d really rather die than make a
bad balloon sculpture.”
Laibstain seems at peace with the show’s portrayal
of her as an uncompromising perfectionist. “It’s in-
teresting to see myself the way other people see me,”
she says. “We all have growth to do. I just get to do
mine in front of millions of people.”
Nevertheless, she hopes the show is renewed. “I
worked so hard on that first season, and there’s a part
of me that has such deep faith that we’re going to get
a second season,” Laibstain says. “It was one of the
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There’s no word yet as to when TLC will deter-
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not. “It varies from series to series,” says a TLC rep-
resentative. “We all have our fingers crossed.”
Laibstain hopes it’s sooner rather than later. If all
goes well, she could be back to work filming the sec-
ond season later this month. “I’m kind of at my wit’s end with
the suspense,” she says. “I keep on smiling, but deep down,
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Emerald Vile: What starts out as a Dublin comedy takes a bleak turn.
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Juno and the Paycock
By Sean O’Casey
Directed by Shirley Serotsky
Washington Shakespeare Company at
Artisphere to March 20
Sean O’Casey’s 1924 Juno and the Paycock
feels like a shrugging comedy about pover-
ty, familial neglect, and alcoholism before it
gradually hardens into a head-shaking tragedy
about poverty, familial neglect, and alcohol-
ism. Then add gang violence and unplanned
pregnancy to the litany of plagues—and nev-
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self-governed Irish Republic as the end that
justifies its thuggish means.
You can say at least this much for Washing-
ton Shakespeare Company’s inventively staged
production of this middle chapter in O’Casey’s
Dublin Trilogy: It gives each of the piece’s tonal
poles its due, boasts a handful of sterling per-
formances, and looks a peach. Indeed, Jessica
Moretti’s set, which takes away two walls of
the Boyle family’s circa-1922 tenement apart-
ment and positions the audience on either side
to peer at one another across it, is almost too
inviting for the claustrophobia this story needs.
The view of the time and place director Shir-
ley Serotsky affords us never comes into focus
as sharply as our fellow patrons’ mugs, but she
seems more interested in rendering O’Casey’s
text faithfully than in underlining its contem-
porary resonance. She’s hardly the first to han-
dle this material with white gloves: The influ-
ential critic Andrew Sarris called its 1930 film
adaptation “the only Hitchcock movie that
one can say that there is absolutely nothing of
Hitchcock in it.”
WSC company player Joe Palka deserves
his promotion here to the leading role of “Cap-
tain” Jack Boyle, a retired merchant seaman
who, to paraphrase the family’s breadwinner—
that’d be his saintly wife, Juno (Cam Magee)—
does more work with a knife and fork than he
ever did with a shovel. To be fair, he was a sail-
or in his prime years, which seems a salient
point regardless of whether you believe his
claims of “pains in me legs” that rule him out
as a laborer. To what degree Serotsky wants us
to condemn him as a layabout is opaque—per-
haps intentionally so, perhaps not.
When the family receives word of an unex-
pected windfall, Jack goes on a tear of conspic-
uous consumption (as opposed to the bloody-
cough kind usually featured in plays like this),
running up bar tabs and bringing home indul-
gences like a gramophone. All this unfolds as
the ink is barely dry on the treaty establishing
the Irish Free State, a prize for which Jack’s
son Johnny (a palpably frayed Jay Hardee) has
given one of his arms and half of his wits—we
call it Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder now. But
as a stone-faced comrade reminds him, “No
man can ever do enough for Ireland.”
It might all be too relentlessly dour to bear
if not for lively supporting turns from a pair
of performers better known for their direct-
ing work of late: WSC artistic director Chris-
topher Henley stirs our sympathy and our
loathing as Jack’s two-faced drinking buddy,
Joxer, and as Mrs. Madigan, Kathleen Aker-
ley is as warm and decent a neighbor to the
audience as she is to the pitiful, splintering
Boyle clan. —Chris Klimek
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Besides, it’s called classic rock for a reason. ez Gratz, who sings and plays electric cello in
It’s challenging to maintain attention over the chamber-metal trio Grayceon. In addition
a full-length album’s worth of downtempo in- to Gratz, the San Francisco-based outfit fea-
Deep Politics strumentals, and it is to Grails’ enormous cred- tures a guitarist, Max Doyle, and a drummer,
Grails it that the majority of Deep Politics sticks. The Zack Farwell, but no bassist. Few bands try
Temporary Residence
band may not have fully transcended its influ- to forge metal without electric bass. But any
Voting By now, the term “post-rock” can safely ences, but it’s keen at incorporating them in a
way that draws focus to their chief strength, en-
doubts about the ampleness of Grayceon’s low
be consigned to the junk heap of history, along end are quashed on “Shellmounds,” the gal-
began with “alternative” and “Islamofascism.” So semble performance. If there is a through line loping highlight of the Grayceon’s third full-
February how to describe the music of Grails, a Port- on Grails’ latest, it is a certain kind of film mu- length All We Destroy. Even when Doyle plays
14! land, Ore., act that trades in moody, long- sic. Someone should introduce Grails to David spare, undistorted guitar, as he does on the Al-
form instrumentals? Chamber-doom? Neo- Fincher—this stuff would fit well with the di- bion-leaning intro, Gratz’s churning accompa-
cinematic? At its formation, the band was rector’s upcoming adaptation of The Girl With niment gives the song undeniable heft.
Washington
hitting lumped into the avant-metal category, some- the Dragon Tattoo. Trent Reznor can’t have all It doesn’t hurt that, when he does stomp
newstands
March 25 where between the fussy prog of Isis and the the cake. Until there’s a proper movie pairing, on the distortion, Doyle has one of the meat-
nihilistic squall of Neurosis. Several releases you’ll have to settle for a blacklight and your iest guitar tones in metal. According to sev-

Poncho
later, Grails have settled on a style more in-
formed by Ennio Morricone than Mastodon.
With immersive compositions and muscular,
if restrained, musicianship, their latest, Deep
imagination. —Casey Rae-Hunter eral metal blogs, Doyle plays without a pick.
If true, this unusual approach might explain
cellocalypSe not only the otherworldliness of his tone—the
roundness of the notes as they move through

Sanchez
Politics, further refines the expansive sound
hinted at on efforts like the Black Tar Proph-
ecies series. Like fellow travelers Kayo Dot,
Grails are redefining “heavy” through a smart
synthesis of beauty and ballast, and the result
is as gripping as it is evocative.
Opener “Future Primitive” establishes
All We Destroy the air—but also the abundance of notes them-
Grayceon selves. Even when chugging through brutal
Profound Lore chord changes on the opening of the Zeppe-
lin-esque “A Road Less Traveled,” Doyle al-
Anyone who thinks cello is for wimps ways seems to be peeling off in new directions,
needs to hear Eric Dolphy. The skronky saxo- weaving in and out of Gratz’s barbed-wire
phonist is perhaps best remembered for his 1964 melodies in a way that makes Grayceon sound

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and a shuddering, cyclical bass riff soon joined and blogger Aesop Dekker, who plays in the than a metal act with a cello instead of a bass.
by spaghetti-twang guitar and impish vio- black metal bands Agalloch and Ludicra, Dol- Were Grayceon simply an instrumental
lin. Whereas musical forebears Godspeed! phy’s highest achievement is 1960’s Out There, band, it would be enough. But Gratz also hap-
You Black Emperor would have pushed to- a modernist set distinguished by its thick sound pens to be a singer with an unusual approach.
ward a cacophonous crescendo, Grails stick and unorthodox instrumentation. Asked by Though she can growl with the best of them—
to a modular approach, introducing subtle el- NPR to name his five favorite jazz recordings, and while sitting down, to boot—she most of-
ements to sustain the ominous mood. Dekker included Out There, he writes, “because ten sings in a clear, sometimes pretty voice. As
The East-meets-Western soundscapes of Ron Carter’s burly cello.” heard on the chug-free album-closer “War’s
continue with “All the Colors of the Dark,” Another musician who knows a thing or End,” Gratz often evokes Brit-folk chanteus-
which is reminiscent of John Zorn’s sunstroke two about the muscularity, not to mention ver- es of yore, like Pentangle’s Jacqui McShee and
classic The Big Gundown, a twisted Morricone satility, of the second largest member of the Trees’ Celia Humphris. It is a style well-suited
tribute. Both compositions evoke a big sky,
but Grails’ is pregnant with storm clouds.
“Corridors of Power” offers a brief respite
from the sour tidings, but it’s also the weak-
est track on Deep Politics. Here, Grails stum-
ble into a mystical rainforest, replete with
Gheorghe Zamfir-esque pan pipes and ambi-
ent synths jacked from late-period Tangerine
Dream. They regain their footing with the ti-
tle track, however, which features the kind of
gauzy piano Thom Yorke is so fond of warbling
over. Maybe someone can do a mash-up.
There are a couple of indirect nods to Black
Sabbath on “Almost Grew My Hair,” which
boasts a stinging guitar figure reminiscent of
Tony Iommi’s solo in “Fairies Wear Boots.”
Likewise, “I Led Three Lives” owes something
to Animals-era Pink Floyd, particularly the
throbbing bass line and paint-peeling axework. Strings Theory: Grayceon has a cello instead of a bass, but it’s no gimmick.

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to the lyrics on All We Destroy, which are strife- Play, lists the career accomplishments over- the Red Sox take two titles 20 years later. relieved and she’s stroked and bored” to en-
weary if not anti-war. The bloody knife in the shadowed by a single error, and finally con- While a couple of songs that are pure- joy “Little Deuce Coupe.” And though the
chorus of opener “Dreamer Deceived” may siders the upside of being a scapegoat. ly about baseball with no larger point—such frenzied “Panda and the Freak” is nominal-
very well be a metaphor. But, by time Gratz Not that there isn’t room for exuberance. as “Pete Rose Way,” which only hints at ly about nicknames, it’s so wildly celebra-
implores someone to “sheath your blade” on “Chin Music” is a happy, loping salute to what made Rose such a unique character— tory that its real subject is thrilled giddiness.
the last song, it’s obvious that at least one of the most aggressive assholes in pitcherdom. are foul tips (sorry), others are home runs If you can’t relate to that, you may be miss-
these weapons is real. (Calling for a guitar solo, Wynn slyly mur- (really sorry). The garage-y, Beach Boys- ing something crucial in your own life. Even
For those who need further proof, con- murs, “Hit me.”) Competing team loyalties esque number “Ichiro Goes to the Moon” if it’s not baseball. —Marc Hirsh
sider “Shellmounds,” where Gratz sings, are addressed in “Fair Weather Fans,” which is obsessed with specs (“a curve with a
“Oh, it breaks my heart in two/to imagine captures the feeling of how, say, a kid whose 12 to 6 dive”), but you don’t have to be a online
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Film
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A big-budget tangle with the men who pull the strings. Plus! Norway’s The Wrestler
The Adjustment Bureau
Directed by George Nolfi
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Directed by Hans Petter Moland
By Tricia Olszewski
At 7:05 a.m. one New York workday,
former Senate hopeful David Norris was sup-
posed to spill his coffee. That meant he’d dash
home to change clothes. That meant he’d miss
his bus. And that meant he wouldn’t run into
Elise, whom he once encountered in a ho-
tel bathroom when he thought he was alone,
working on his concession speech the night he
lost the election. They were to go their separate
ways, and all would be right with the world.
At least that’s how things are run in The
Adjustment Bureau, writer-director George
Nolfi’s adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story.
Nolfi’s directorial debut is like Sliding Doors
crossed with The Matrix, an entertaining sci-
fi romance that’s exciting in more than the
usual will-they-or-won’t-they ways. Because
the force keeping our central couple apart
isn’t wacky friends or crazy exes or ridiculous
self-doubt. It’s men in hats.
Yes, it sounds moronic, but trust me. Da-
vid (Matt Damon, as always a low-key charm-
er) is a reformed fratboy and political wunder-
kind. When he meets Elise (Emily Blunt) in
the bathroom, they have a fine conversation
but never swap info because she’s kinda on the
run, having crashed a wedding at the hotel. So
David is thrilled to see her on a bus shortly af-
terward—he never did spill coffee on himself,
because one of the men who pulls the strings,
Harry (Anthony Mackie), was dozing. Oopsy.
But David + Elise is not part of The Plan, so
the men in hats (led by John Slattery) resort to
intimidation to keep the two apart. Because he
is now ahead of his intended time line, David
catches a glimpse of the Adjustment Bureau
at work: When he walks into his office, high
from running into Elise, he barely notices his
co-workers are frozen as he runs to tell his con-
fidante Charlie (Michael Kelly) the news. But
Charlie is also inanimate; he’s having his brain
recalibrated by the bureau, a group whose
work one normally never sees. But David does,
which means a stern talking-to and the threat
that should he ever reveal what he’s seen, his
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memory and life will be wiped. He’s told he
and Elise are to stay apart, but not why.
What makes The Adjustment Bureau so in-
triguing is its butterfly-effect premise, ap-
plied to potential lovers who seem so natu-
ral together. Nolfi, who penned The Bourne
Ultimatum and Ocean’s Twelve, may have Da-
vid and Elise meet cute, but once they do
their conversations are easy and realistic, not
the too-clever (or, worse, thinks-it’s-clever)
crap you find in most romances. Damon and
Blunt’s characters are likable and decently
rounded, with ambitions beyond getting laid.
They’re worth rooting for against the shad-
owy types keeping them apart.
Until you find out—as David inevita-
bly does—the reason why. Even before that,
though, the ideas of fate and freedom keep The
Adjustment Bureau compelling. (One of the se-
nior adjusters, played by Terence Stamp, ex-
plains that humans only appear to have agen-
cy, because during one of the periods in which
they were granted it, “We had the Dark Ages
for five centuries.”) The film is a curious little
hybrid of actioner and love story, with a sense
of danger that keeps things moving at a quick
clip. There are even some cool effects: Those
hats allow the adjusters to teleport through
doorways, which means a character can jump
from, say, a courthouse to Yankee Stadium to
Ellis Island. At its heart, the film is a sweet ro-
Illuminati-Gotten Gains: Damon and Blunt fight the guys controlling reality.
mance, but with its heady ideas and exciting
action, there’s no room for treacle. one anymore and would love a relationship sembles Mickey Rourke’s Randy the Ram.)
with his kid, who’s now about to have his There’s humor throughout, which is typically
Hans Petter Moland’s A Somewhat own child. So when Jensen lends him a car very gentle but sometimes laugh-out-loud: Ul-
Gentle Man is like a Norwegian version of The to stalk the rat, Ulrik instead uses it to spy rik is told he isn’t allowed to smoke whenever he
Wrestler. Stellan Skarsgård plays Ulrik, a po- on Geir (Jan Gunnar Røise), eventually mak- lights up. When he gets into Jensen’s car to fi-
nytailed gangster just out of jail after serving ing a cautious visit that’s generally well-re- nally tail his snitch, it won’t start. Then there’s
12 years for murder. But you get the feeling ceived. Otherwise, Ulrik’s day-to-day con- his trysts with Karen, lightning-quick encoun-
he doesn’t want to leave, and it’s hard to blame sists of working as a mechanic, wondering ters in which she yells her bloody head off as he
him: Waiting for him outside the prison gates is why the secretary at his shop (Jannike Kruse) thrusts dutifully.
an expanse of gray sky and snow, a crappy room seems so damaged, listening to Jensen blath- The concern of the film, like The Wres-
that’s probably dingier than his cell, and pres- er about settling scores, and watching Polish tler, is redemption, finding a new purpose in
sure from his hotheaded and spiteful boss, Jens- TV with Karen, at least until she decides it’s life, making a fresh start. As Ulrik tentative-
en (Bjørn Floberg), to kill the guy who ratted time to get it on. ly, and then confidently, moves toward these
Ulrik out. He has a grown son, Geir, who tells With its casually handled subplots, A Some- goals, you’ll find yourself engrossed—not
people his father’s dead. And after a dozen years what Gentle Man is ultimately a character study just somewhat but completely. CP
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LUX LOUNGE 649 New York Ave. NW. (202) 347-
8100. Lux Fridays. .

VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625.

18TH STREET LOUNGE 1212 18th St. NW. (202) 466-
3922. DJ Chris Brooks.
Alma Tropical, Changing Modes.
BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE 1811 14th St. NW. (202)
r&B 667-7960. DJ Stereofaith.
CAFE SAINT-EX/GATE 54 LOUNGE 1847 14th St. NW.
BABYLON CLUB 3501 S. Jefferson St., Falls Church.
(202) 265-7839. DJ Eskimo.
(703) 820-3900. Fri., 3/4, Elle Marchelle.
LANGSTON BAR ANd GRILLE 1831 Benning Rd. NE. CHIEF IKE’S MAMBO ROOM 1725 Columbia Rd. NW.
(202) 332-2211. DJ Big Apple Eddie & DJ Bobby Bishop.
(202) 397-3637. Live soul music.
TWELVE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 1123 H St. NE. FUR NIGHTCLUB 33 Patterson St. NE. (202) 842-3401.
(202) 398-2655. Live R&B. Gunplay, Fat Trel.
MAdAM’S ORGAN 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 667-
5370. DJ India.
World
KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St.
MOdERN 3287 M St. NW. (202) 338-7027.
NW. (202) 467-4600. Raghu Dixit.
DJ Stylus Chris.
SCIENCE CLUB 1136 19th St. NW. (202) 775-0747.
go-go
JimP Collective.
THE LIBRARY BAR & GRILL 3514 12th St. NE. (202) MARYGOLdS 8827 Annapolis Rd., Lanham. (301)
832-0517. Brookland Happy Hour with DJs Blackstar
306-0041. Familiar Faces with Lissen.
and Hene.
U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588- TRAdEWINdS 5859 Allentown Way, Camp Springs.
1880. Todd Terry, Sam Burns, Anicet. (301) 449-1234. Rare Essence.

Smithsonian
American Art Luce Unplugged
Luce Unplugged, a new acoustic concert series, fuses live performances by fresh local musicians
Museum with “opening act” gallery talks by Luce staff on a favorite artwork of the performers. Free.

Sunday, March 6 Christylez Bacon

GRAMMY Nominated, progressive Hip-Hop artist from Southeast, DC performs West African djembe drum, acoustic guitar, and human beat-box.
Photo courtesy of Veronika Lukasova

Art talk on Claire Falkenstein’s Corona at 1:30 p.m. – concert at 2 p.m.

Luce Foundation Center, Museum 3rd floor | tinyurl.com/luceunplugged | 202.633.5435

Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th and F Streets NW – 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily – Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro

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MOdERN 3287 M St. NW. (202) 338-7027. DJ Black
Ceaza.
MUSE 717 6th St. NW. (202) 842-9800. Rodrigo Ottoni.

rock SCIENCE CLUB 1136 19th St. NW. (202) 775-0747.

1353 H Street NE (202) 388-ROCK (7625)
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villianS and at the Hotel Box Office Wed–Sat, 6PM–10PM
Friday RenTals Planning a private party? The Rock and Roll
Hotel has a number of options to suit your needs
3/4
FooD Try our veggie burger & Philly Fire Cracker spicy beef
sausage Every Wednesday, 1/2 off burgers and $3 mixies!
TEnniS THU 3/3 Trivia NighT at Rock & Roll Hotel / Free / 730pm
Saturday FRI 3/4 SMiTh WeSTerNS
3/5 w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Tennis System
villaiNS w/ DJ Xiao Yang @ Hotel bar Free 21+
rock & roll SpelliNg Buzzz
SAT 3/5 TeNNiS w/ La Sera / Holiday Shores
MaSS appeal w/ AutorRock @ Hotel bar Free 21+
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Corey
Smith, Matt Stillwell (early show).
BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE 1811 14th St. NW. (202)
667-7960. Alex Winston, Typefighter.
IOTA CLUB & CAFE 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.
(703) 522-8340. Chris Collat Band, Emily Wells, Zelos.
JAMMIN’ JAVA 225 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. (703) 255-
1566. Native, Caspian, Chiaroscuro.
JAXX 6355 Rolling Rd., Springfield. (703) 569-5940.
Na Palm, OCD: Moosh and Twist.
MCGINTY’S PUB 911 Ellsworth Dr., Silver Spring. (301)
587-1270. Westpole.
REd PALACE 1212 H St. NE. (202) 399-3201. The
Parlotones, Xylos.
ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.
Tennis, La Sera, Holiday Shores.
ST. ELMO’S COFFEE PUB 2300 Mount Vernon Ave.,
Alexandria. (703) 739-9268. Michelle Swan.
VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625. Sea-
monster, Drawbridges, Luncheon.
Chronic with DJ “Chunky Beats” Hooper.
U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-
1880. Tittsworth, Torro Torro, Denman.
Jazz
BOHEMIAN CAVERNS 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 299-
0800. Charles McPherson, Larry Willis Trio.
COLUMBIA STATION 2325 18th St. NW. (202) 462-
6040. Jam session with Peter Edelman Quintet.
JOHNNY’S HALF SHELL 400 N. Capitol St. NW. (202)
737-0400. Charles Woods Quartet.
MANdARIN ORIENTAL 1330 Maryland Ave. SW.
(202) 554-8588. Cheryl Jones Quartet.
RITZ CARLTON HOTEL PENTAGON CITY 1250 South
Hayes St., Arlington. (703) 506-4300. The Christopher
Linman Jazz Ensemble.
U-TOPIA 1418 U St. NW. (202) 483-7669. Ed Hahn
Quintet.
Blues
BANGKOK BLUES 926 W. Broad St., Falls Church.

maSS
SUN 3/6 rival SchoolS
w/ Police & Thieves, Radar Fiction
r&B (703) 534-0095. Choptank Murphy, Bluestone.
TWELVE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 1123 H St. NE. FLANAGAN’S HARP & FIddLE 4844 Cordell Ave.,
appEal MON 3/7 YelaWolF, CyHi The Prynce, Low Budget’s (202) 398-2655. Live R&B. Bethesda. (301) 951-0115. Alan Scott.
Kaimbr MAdAM’S ORGAN 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 667-
Saturday
3/5 Wed 3/9 Nicole aTkiNS & The Black Sea
w/ Cotton Jones, Lightfoot
dJ Nights 5370. Johnny Artis Band.

18TH STREET LOUNGE 1212 18th St. NW. (202) 466- ZOO BAR 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 232-
THU 3/10 eli paperBoY reed & The True loveS 3922. DJ Chicus, DJ Jahsonic. 4225. Big Boy Little.
w/ The Electrocutions
Rival CAFE SAINT-EX/GATE 54 LOUNGE 1847 14th St. NW.
SchoolS FRI 3/11 The Silver liNerS, The Honeyguns, The Blue
Line, Redline Addiction
(202) 265-7839. DJ DK. Folk
Sunday CHIEF IKE’S COSMO LOUNGE 1725 Columbia Rd. BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703)
clockWork w/ Ratt Moze, Chris Nitti, Phillip Goyette NW. (202) 332-2211. DJ East 137 & DJ Redstar.
3/6 FREE @ Hotel bar 21+
549-7500. Arlo Guthrie, Abe Guthrie, The Burns Sisters.
FUR NIGHTCLUB 33 Patterson St. NE. (202) 842-3401. WOLF TRAP 1645 Trap Rd., Vienna. (703) 255-1868.
SAT 3/12 eMpreSarioS (live band) - Fort Knox Recordings, Gabriel and Dresden. John Eaton.
DC w/ Funk Ark (live band),Thunderball (dj set)
LUX LOUNGE 649 New York Ave. NW. (202) 347-
World
gkYk w/ DJ Keenan + Metaphysical @ Hotel bar Free 21+ 8100. Lux Saturdays.
SUN 3/13 The rural alBerTa advaNTage
MAdAM’S ORGAN 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 667- KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St.
w/ Pepper Rabbit
5370. DJ India. NW. (202) 467-4600. Kailash Kher.
Wed 3/16 BoYce aveNue w/ Alex Goot
YElawolf MARX CAFÉ 3203 Mt. Pleasant St. NW. (202) 518-

Monday
THU 3/17 Black dog proWl w/ Chute, Force Major
FRI 3/18 SWiFT TechNique
7600. DJ Luis.
classical
3/7 w/ A Cool Stick, Soul Cannon, Ponderosis MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman
Ln., N. Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Sym-

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TUe 3/22 ellie gouldiNg w/ The Knocks
Wednesday THU 3/24 FujiYa & MiYagi w/ Brahms, Warm Ghost
3/9
FRI 3/25 aSoBi SekSu w/ Cults / Sun Airway ONLINE: washingtoncitypaper.com rock
BeckY w/ Djs Stereo Faith + Trevor Martin EMAIL: listings@washcp.com 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. STS9.
@Hotelbar Free21+
FAX: (202) 332-8500 BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-7960. Dum
SAT 3/26 STaNk w/ Dj Metaphysical @Hotelbar Free21+ Dum Girls.
SUN 3/27 FaMilY porTraiT w/ The Twerps MAIL: City List, Washington City Paper
IOTA CLUB & CAFE 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.
Eli REEd Wed 3/30 STarFucker w/ Casiokids
2390 Champlain St. NW, (703) 522-8340. Tami D’mar, Matthew McGinn, Dayna
& ThE TRuE Washington, DC 20009 Kurtz.
lovES THU 3/31 The Felice BroTherS w/ Diamond Doves
FRI 4/1 civil TWilighT w/ A Silent Film, The Rassle
PLEASE INCLUDE JAMMIN’ JAVA 225 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. (703) 255-
Thursday
3/10 • your name 1566. That 1 Guy.
SAT 4/2 luckY duB CD Release Party
• e-mail JAXX 6355 Rolling Rd., Springfield. (703) 569-5940.
THU 4/7 SeNSeS Fail w/ The Ghost Inside, Man Borderline, Home Brewed, shangoband, The Under-
Overboard, Transit, Voyage In Coma • contact name studies, All in Karma, Rick Franklin, World of Light, LEDs
FRI 4/8 violeT SaYS 5 w/ The Fif, Phila Da Future, Dj • event name and Smoke Machines, Melissa Carroll, Rogue Mind.
EmpRESaRioS Beezy, Host Jae Mills REd PALACE 1212 H St. NE. (202) 399-3201. Mother
TUe 4/12 The greeNhorNeS w/ Hacienda
• event description
Saturday Mother, Velvet, Dance for the Dying.
3/12 • price
THU 4/14 Toro Y Moi w/ Adventure ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.
• venue & address Rival Schools, Polica and Theives, Radar Fiction.
Wed 4/20 j-roddY WalTSoN aNd The BuSiNeSS
(4 WEEK RESIDENCY! )
• public contact number
VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625. Paul
• event date(s) & time(s) Michel, Solar Powered Sun Destroyer.

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 I.M.P. PRESENTS I.M.P. PRESENTS
Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
Washington, D.C.
JUST ANNOUNCED!
JUST ANNOUNCED!

STEELY DAN
with the Miles High Big Band
KT TUNSTALLThe Solo Show
and featuring The Embassy Brats APRIL 13
THIS WEEK’S SHOWS On Sale Friday, March 4 at 10am
AUGUST 2
Corey Smith w/ Matt Stillwell Early Show! 7pm Doors ..........Sa 5 On Sale Friday, March 4 at 10am

JUST ANNOUNCED! Transcendent

BLOWOFF featuring the DJ SOUNDS of Man
BOB MOULD & RICHARD MOREL 21+ to enter. ........................Sa 5 2011
JUNE 3-5 The Life and Ideas of
MARCH
On Sale Saturday, March 5 at Noon
For a full lineup, visit capitaljazz.com Ray Kurzweil
OMD w/ Oh Land ....................................................................................Th 10 HEADS UP!
FRIDAY, MAY 13
A Screening of the film followed by a Q&A
with Ray Kurzweil and Barry Ptolemy
The Official M3 Kix-Off Party
Lady Gaga vs. Madonna vs. Kylie - a dance party with DJ lil'e featuring MARCH 10
w/ DJ Lemz & Visuals by Kylos..............................................................F 11 Kix •Warrant and more! Ticketfly.com: 1-877-4Fly-Tix / www.930.com

Streetlight Manifesto w/ A Loss For Words & Larry and His Flask SATURDAY, MAY 14
Whitesnake •Tesla
Early Show! 4:30pm Doors ..................................................................Su 13 Sebastian Bach and more!
G.W. Lisner Auditorium • Washington, D.C.

THE
M DOORS
SHOW ADDED! 2:30P
Apocalyptica w/ Caverns Single-Day tickets On Sale Friday, March 4 at 10am THIS SUNDAY! SECOND

LAURIE BERKNER
Late Show! 10pm Doors. All 12/7 tickets will be honored. ............Su 13
Lucinda Williams w/ Dylan LeBlanc ..............................................Tu 15 Sugarland
w/ Little Big Town & Matt Nathanson BAND
MARCH 6
MAY 22
In association with Metropolitan Talent Presents
w/ The Secret Sisters ..............................Th 17
SOJA w/ Mambo Sauce & Chris Boomer ..............................................F 18 TICKETMASTER:
202-397-SEAT • 410-547-SEAT • 703-573-SEAT • 800-551-SEAT
www.ticketmaster.com
DeVotchKa w/ Mariachi El Bronx ......................................................Tu 22
The Mountain Goats ..........................................................................F 25 w/ Robyn
G.M.U. Patriot Center • Fairfax, VA

Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group w/ Zechs Marquise ..................Su 27

KYLIE
JUNE 15

Ticketfly.com: 1-877-4Fly-Tix / www.930.com

APRIL

24-7 PRESENTS MINOGUE

Several Species: The PINK FLOYD Experience ....................F 1 Aphrodite Live 2011 Tour
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
The Black Angels w/ Suuns ..............................................................Su 3 Presented by Bill Silva Presents

House of Pain w/ Big B • Dirtball • Sozay ........................................Tu 5 TICKETMASTER:

202-397-SEAT • 410-547-SEAT • 703-573-SEAT • 800-551-SEAT
Toad the Wet Sprocket ....................................................................Sa 9 www.ticketmaster.com

Old 97's w/ Teddy Thompson ..............................................................Su 10 D.A.R. Constitution Hall • Washington, D.C.
The Dirty Heads w/ New Politics & Ballyhoo ..................................M 11
The Go! Team w/ Dom ........................................................................W 13
THE AP TOUR FEATURING
Black Veil Brides • Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows •
JUNE 5
I See Stars • VersaEmerge • Conditions ............................Su 17
Mogwai w/ Errors ................................................................................Tu 19
TICKETMASTER:
202-397-SEAT • 410-547-SEAT • 703-573-SEAT • 800-551-SEAT
www.ticketmaster.com
NEVERENDER: SSTB
Coheed and Cambria Performing "The Second Stage Turbine Blade"
in its entirety. With acoustic/electric sets ............................................W 20

Ticketfly.com: 1-877-4FLY-TIX • www.930.com

9:30 CUPCAKES
The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth.
Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA.
www.buzzonslaters.com

Tickets for 9:30 Club shows are available through Ticketfly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office. PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on
9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 club. Buy your advance
9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7PM Weekdays & Until 11PM on show nights. 6-11PM on Sat & 6-10:30PM on Sun on show nights. parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

ROCHE’S 4-1-1
➧
TUNE IN TO DC101 every Tuesday at 4:11pm.
Be the first to hear new concerts coming from 9:30 Club and I.M.P.
➧ HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!
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 SAT MARCH 5 r&B r&B
ALEX WINSTON
TWELVE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 1123 H St. NE. MAdAM’S ORGAN 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 667-
(202) 398-2655. Live R&B. 5370. One Nite Stand.

dJ Nights Jazz
1811 14TH ST NW
18TH STREET LOUNGE 1212 18th St. NW. (202) 466- BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Rear. (202)

www.blackcatdc.com
3922. DJ Sam “The Man” Burns, DJ Thomas Blondet. 337-4141. Amij.
AMERICAN ICE COMPANY 917 V St. NW. (202) 758- MAdAM’S ORGAN 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 667-

MARCH SHOWS
3562. Country Night with Bobby Sugar. 5370. One Nite Stand.
STEVE’S BAR ROOM 1337 Connecticut Ave. NW. TRYST 2459 18th St. NW. (202) 232-5500. Will Rast Trio.
THU 3 COUCH NIGHT: DJ RYAN HICKS &
(202) 293-3150. Sunday Fundays with DJ ChildsPlay.

World
DJ ROULETTE PLAY VINYL R ECORDS IN
THE RED ROOM ALL NIGHT! $FREE

FRI 4 EUGENE MIRMAN Jazz

& PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $15
KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St.
(REGGIE WATTS, KUMAIL NANJIANI) COLUMBIA STATION 2325 18th St. NW. (202) 462- NW. (202) 467-4600. Natyalakshana.
FRI 4 PEEL: DJ STEREOFAITH $5 6040. Jam session with Peter Edelman Quintet.
MOON/BOUNCE
tuesday
SAT 5 dAHLAK 1771 U St. NW. (202) 527-9522. DC Jazz Jam.
DANCING AFFAIR: DISCO, HOUSE,

SUN MARCH 6
HIP HOP, AND 90S POP $7 GEORGIA BROWN’S 950 15th St. NW. (202) 393-
ALEX WINSTON
DUM DUM GIRLS
SAT 5 4499. Jazz brunch.
TYPEFIGHTER $12

SUN 6 DUM DUM GIRLS

TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Rodney rock
MINKS
Richardson, Joe Herrera.
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Pogues.
DIRTY BEACHES $12
HEAVY CREAM
U-TOPIA 1418 U St. NW. (202) 483-7669. Wayne
MON 7 BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE 1811 14th St. NW. (202)
XRAY EYEBALLS
Wilentz and Jim West.
667-7960. Des Ark, Pygmy Lush, Hey Girl.
THEE LOLITAS $10
DES ARK
ZOO BAR 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 232-
TUE 8 4225. Mike Flaherty’s Dixieland Direct Jazz Band.
JAMMIN’ JAVA 225 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. (703) 255-
PYGMY LUSH 1566. Along Those Lines, Static Cinema, Kurtis Parks
HEY GIRL $10
SAY HI
Band, Big Paper Airplanes, Playground Etiqutte.
WED 9
BLAIR
YELLOW OSTRICH $12
Blues REd PALACE 1212 H St. NE. (202) 399-3201. The

WILD FLAG
FLANAGAN’S HARP & FIddLE 4844 Cordell Ave., Coronas, The Kin, Via Audio.
THU 10 Bethesda. (301) 951-0115. Mary Ann Redmond.

THU MAR 10
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, MARY TIMONY,
REBECCA COLE, JANET WEISS
YELLOWFEVER dJ Nights
World
WILD FLAG
THE AQUARIUM $13 RED ROOM
WYE OAK
18TH STREET LOUNGE 1212 18th St. NW. (202) 466-
the
FRI 11
LOWER DENS
IS OPEN 7 BAR DAYS
KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St. 3922. DJ Brooksie.

LANDS & PEOPLES $12

A WEEK W/ NO COVER CHARGE NW. (202) 467-4600. L. Subramaniam. CHIEF IKE’S MAMBO ROOM 1725 Columbia Rd. NW.
ON & ON: DJS AUTOROCK
SUN-THU 8-2AM, FRI-SAT 8-3AM
FRI 11
UPCOMING SHOWS
(202) 332-2211. Reggae night with DJ Jahnny Aleus.
& DANNY HARRIS $5

SAT 12 THE EX
DJ /RUPTURE
SPRCSS $15
MAR 24 BLACK JOE LEWIS &
THE HONEYBEARS
THOSE DARLINS $15
moNday SCIENCE CLUB 1136 19th St. NW. (202) 775-0747.
Brown Rice Collective.
MAR 25 THE JOY U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-
SAT 12 HELLMOUTH HAPPY HOUR: FORMIDABLE
1 EPISODE OF BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER &
DRINK SPECIALS EVERY SATURDAY! 7PM MAR 26 SEBADOH
$18/$20
$13/$15
rock 1880. Prince Paul, Stereo Faith, Jerome Baker III.

SAT 12 KICKS! JESSICA LEA

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Scissor Sisters.
DJS KIM & SARA $FREE
MAR 29
MAYFIELD $15 Jazz
MEREDITH BRAGG
BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE 1811 14th St. NW. (202)
MON 14 APR 1 THE PAINS OF BEING
PURE AT HEART $17 667-7960. Heavy Cream, Xray Eyeballs, Thee Lolitas. BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Rear. (202)
(FULL BAND) $8
APR 2 WARPAINT $15 337-4141. Cheikh Ndoye, Fredric Yonnet, Leni Stern,
TUE 15
DESTROYER $15
ROCKY VOTOLATO
AN EVENING WITH IOTA CLUB & CAFE 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

FRI MAR 11
APR 5 Tosin Aribisala.
WIRE $20
& MATT POND $13
(703) 522-8340. Dinosaur Feathers, Motel Motel.
APR 7

WYE OAK
BLACK LIPS
TRYST 2459 18th St. NW. (202) 232-5500. Peter Edel-
NEIL HAMBURGER
APR 8 JAMMIN’ JAVA 225 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. (703) 255-
WED 16 VIVIAN GIRLS $15

DJ REKHA
man Quartet.
THE KENNY K-STRASS STRASSER APR 9
1566. Chase Coy, Jimmy Robbins, School Boy Humor.
YO-YO EXTRAVAGANZA $13/$15

SAT MAR 12
$12 THE BOXER
TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. The
MAJOR ENTERTAINER MIKE H APR 16 REd PALACE 1212 H St. NE. (202) 399-3201. Astro-
RIVER JAMES REBELLION
THE EX
Capital Focus Band.
THU 17 $10 $15 nautalis, Sims, Ardamus.
THE RAVEONETTES
CLOSE TO THE EDGE:
APR 17
FRI 18 $20
U-TOPIA 1418 U St. NW. (202) 483-7669. Bill Heid.
DJ DREDD $7
ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

80S MAYHEM:
Yelawolf, CyHi The Prynce, Low Budget’s Kaimbr.
SAT 19
AWESOME 80S DANCE PARTY STATE THEATRE 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church. Blues
DJS STEVE EP, MISSGUIDED, KILLA K,
KRASTY MCNASTY $10
(703) 237-0300. Rebelution, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub MAdAM’S ORGAN 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 667-
RIGHT ROUND:
Squad, The Green.
SAT 19
5370. Johnny Artis Band.
DJ LIL’E $7
MON 21 TRES MOUNTAINS
(JEFF AMENT, MIKE MCCREADY, RICHARD CritiC’s PiCk: saturday
STUVERUD, DUG PINNICK) $20

MAINSTAGE SHOWS blowoff

DOORS: SUN-THU 8PM, FRI-SAT 9PM

BACKSTAGE SHOWS
You know the name Bob mould from Hüsker Dü and Sugar, from his solo work, from his old
MON Washington City Paper column (ok, maybe not that last one). He’s also been an active mem-
MAR 21
DOORS: SUN-THU 8PM, FRI-SAT 9PM
ber of the lGBT scene for decades. Since going solo in the ’90s, he’s contributed tracks to ben-
TRES MOUNTAINS efit AiDS research and marriage equality, and he’s been known to run with the fursuit scene
and other gay niches. Blowoff, mould’s DJ night with local eDm producer Richard morel, is a

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party for hairy, muscled, shirtless dudes of all ages. it’s a singular demographic, to be sure, but
if you can get behind the premise, there’s absolutely nothing like it. Blowoff has to be the only
Vegan & Vegetarian
Menu Items, Organic Coffee
leather-friendly, bear-centric queer dance party hosted by a punk legend-cum-DJ you’ll ever

Open late! attend. That is, until it returns to the 9:30 Club next month. BloWoff TAkeS plACe AT 11:30 p.m.
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Fri. Mar. 11 Sookey Jump BlueS Band
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thu March 3 / 6-9pm / Free
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 World Folk
BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. WOLF TRAP 1645 Trap Rd., Vienna. (703) 255-1868.
(703) 549-7500. Atlan, Lilt. California Guitar Trio.
KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St.
NW. (202) 467-4600. Gulabi Sapera. World
KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St.

WedNesday
NW. (202) 467-4600. Tanusree Shankar.

go-go
rock TRAdEWINdS 5859 Allentown Way, Camp Springs.
(301) 449-1234. Big G and the Band.
9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Pogues.

thursday
BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.
(703) 549-7500. Robyn Hitchcock, Joe Boyd.
BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE 1811 14th St. NW. (202)

rock
667-7960. Say Hi, Blair, Yellow Ostrich.
JAMMIN’ JAVA 225 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. (703) 255-
1566. Tony Lucca, Jerad Finck, Brad Rhodes. 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. OMD, Oh Land.

JAXX 6355 Rolling Rd., Springfield. (703) 569-5940.
Rotting Christ, Melechesh, Hate, Abigail Williams,
Lecherous Nocture.
ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.
Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea, Cotton Jones, Lightfoot.
ST. ELMO’S COFFEE PUB 2300 Mount Vernon Ave.,
Alexandria. (703) 739-9268. Innocent Flannel.
VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625. Fan
Tan, Painted Face, Sensual Harassment.
dJ Nights
18TH STREET LOUNGE 1212 18th St. NW. (202) 466-
3922. DJ Kalani, DJ Version Sounds, DJ John Bowen
BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-7960. Wild
Flag, Yellowfever, The Aquarium.
IOTA CLUB & CAFE 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.
(703) 522-8340. We Were Kings, Delta Rae, Colours-
lide.
JAMMIN’ JAVA 225 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. (703) 255-
1566. Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Social, Josh Abt, The
Regulars, American Babies.
MCGINTY’S PUB 911 Ellsworth Dr., Silver Spring. (301)
587-1270. Chris Murphy
ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Eli
“Paperboy” Reed and the True Loves, The Electricutions.
STATE THEATRE 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.
(703) 237-0300. Dark Star Orchestra.

CAFE SAINT-EX/GATE 54 LOUNGE 1847 14th St. NW. VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-7625.
(202) 265-7839. Soul Call Paul. Daddy Lion, Goodman Brown.

r&B
SCIENCE CLUB 1136 19th St. NW. (202) 775-0747.
Formula with Vishal Kanwar.
U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588- TWELVE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 1123 H St. NE.
1880. Le Castle Vania, Smash Gordon, DJ Lisa Frank. (202) 398-2655. Live R&B.

Jazz
BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Rear. (202)
337-4141. Aziza Miller.
GEORGIA BROWN’S 950 15th St. NW. (202) 393-
4499. Jazz evenings.
JO JO’S 1518 U St. NW. (202) 319-9350. Colie Wil-
liams featuring Ol Soul for a New Day.
TRYST 2459 18th St. NW. (202) 232-5500. Lovesome
Thing Jazz Trio.
U-TOPIA 1418 U St. NW. (202) 483-7669. Paul Piper.
dJ Nights
18TH STREET LOUNGE 1212 18th St. NW. (202) 466-
3922. DJ Sean Haney.
CAFE SAINT-EX/GATE 54 LOUNGE 1847 14th St. NW.
(202) 265-7839. DJ Wondermike.
CHIEF IKE’S MAMBO ROOM 1725 Columbia Rd. NW.
(202) 332-2211. Deja Vu ‘80s dance party.
HEAVEN & HELL 2327 18th St. NW. (202) 667-4355.
‘80s Rewind.
MOdERN 3287 M St. NW. (202) 338-7027. DJ Sound-
traxx and DJ Face.

City Lights PiCk: sunday

gyptian
Jamaican singer Gyptian’s “Hold You” (or “Hold Yuh”)
struck a chord with more than just reggae fans in 2010.
Thanks to 10-plus remixes with the likes of nicki minaj
and major lazer, the song became a crossover hit among
R&B, rap, soca, and reggaeton followers. The updates
feature a variety of additional rapped and sung verses, but
it’s Gyptian’s falsetto melody and the minimalist, finger-
plunking keyboard beat that still hypnotize. He’s been setting his patois-tinged vocals to music
since his 2005 roots-reggae single “Serious Times,” and in 2008 he began incorporating sleek
urban accents into his material. When the performer known as the Sexy Rasta was last in the
area five months ago, he rushed through a 25-minute set. Hopefully this time, the ladies’ man will
deliver a performance that lasts. GYpTiAn AnD eTAnA peRfoRm AT 11 p.m. AT DC STAR, 2135 QUeenS
CHApel RD. ne. $25. (202) 635-0089. —Steve Kiviat

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SCIENCE CLUB 1136 19th St. NW. (202) 775-0747. DJ settlers. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
Q and Crew. Wed., 3/9, at 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. Audio and Video at www.lisner.org
LINdA FAIRSTEIN Discusses and signs Silent Mercy,
Jazz a thriller that follows New York assistant D.A. Alex SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 8PM

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Rear. (202)

337-4141. Stanley Jordan.
JO JO’S 1518 U St. NW. (202) 319-9350. Jazz Trio with
Thad Wilson or Brian Settles.
1905 RESTAURANT 1905 9th St. NW. (202) 332-1905.
Hot Club of DC, Nicki Gonzalez & Matvei Sigalov Duo,
and Laissez Foure play on a rotating schedule of nights.
ST. ELMO’S COFFEE PUB 2300 Mount Vernon Ave.,
Alexandria. (703) 739-9268. Not So Modern Jazz
Quartet.
TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Major 6th.
U-TOPIA 1418 U St. NW. (202) 483-7669. Wayne
Wilentz Trio.
Cooper through a case involving the city’s powerful
religious community. Barnes & Noble Downtown,
555 12th St. NW. Thu., 3/10, at 6:30 p.m. Free. (202)
347-0176.
STEVEN GOLdMAN ANd CONTRIBUTORS Discuss
and sign Baseball Prospectus 2011, the annual statistical
guide to baseball. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. Mon., 3/7, at 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.
CHARLES KING Discusses and signs Odessa: Genius
and Death in a City of Dreams, a book that chronicles
the rise and fall of the largely Jewish Ukrainian port city
on the Black Sea. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. Sat., 3/5, at 6 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.
WALTER MOSLEY Discusses and signs When the Thrill
is Gone the third book in the Leonid McGill mystery
series. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
The Music of Lou Harrison
Post-Classical Ensemble
Harrison seamlessly wove the spirituality of Indonesian gamelan into his own
western tradition. This unique event includes gamelan music, film clips and the
most commanding piano concerto composed by an American.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 8PM
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Legendary South African Choir
Ladysmith Black Mambazo create a joy-infused environment everywhere they
sing, marrying the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South Africa
to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music. “Their voices ... will soar in
melodic tenor, alto and bass harmonies.” – Washington Examiner

Blues Tue., 3/8, at 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 8PM
CARLA L. PETERSON Discusses and signs Black
Marcel Khalife in

COLUMBIA STATION 2325 18th St. NW. (202) 462-
6040. Atomic Swing Club.
Folk
WOLF TRAP 1645 Trap Rd., Vienna. (703) 255-1868.
Tom Paxton.
World
KENNEdY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE 2700 F St.
NW. (202) 467-4600. Asima.
CoMedy
ARLINGTON CINEMA ‘N’ dRAFTHOUSE 2903
Columbia Pike, Arlington. (703) 486-2345. Fri., 3/4 &
Sat., 3/5, Gallagher. Thursdays, Live stand-up comedy.
Saturdays, Open mic stand-up comedy.
dC IMPROV 1140 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 296-7008.
Fri., 3/4–Sun., 3/6, Jeffrey Ross. Thu., 3/10, Joe Recca.
Flamenco Weekend:
Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in
Nineteenth-Century New York City. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Fri., 3/4, at 7 p.m. Free.
Concierto Andalouse & Gala Flamenca
Pan American Symphony Orchestra
(202) 364-1919.
TOM SHROdER ANd JOHN KONRAd The Washing- Joining PASO for a riveting performance of Spanish and Arabic
ton Post journalist and oil rig captain discuss and sign music isthe Middle East’s most famous oud player, folk singer,
Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil and composer Marcel Khalifé, with flamenco dancers from Spain.
Disaster. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. Sun., 3/6, at 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 7PM
SARA WHEELER Discusses and signs The Magnetic
North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, an account of a
Paco Peña: Flamenco Vivo
trip to the North Pole, which includes experiences with Flamenco Music and Dance
a crew of Russian icebreakers and a group of reindeer
Bringing life to intoxicating rhythms, colors and sounds of Andalucía,
herders. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Spanish flamenco guitar master Peña and his company of young talented
Thu., 3/10, at 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. dancers, singers and musicians set the stage alight in bursts of glorious
BENJAMIN WITTES Discusses and signs Detention and improvisation and virtuoso flamenco technique. “Peña and his troupe of singers,
Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo, an dancers, and musicians exude apowerful magnetism that gleams with vitality.” - The Age
argument for a better approach to detention centers.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Sat., FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 8PM
Gal Costa
3/5, at 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

BookS GallerIeS Brazilian Vocal Legend

ROBBIE CONAL The guerrilla poster artist and political
activist discusses and signs Not Your Typical Political
Animal, a collection of 20 years’ worth of drawings
and paintings. Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th
St. NW. Fri., 3/4, at 8:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-7638.
STEVE EARLY Discusses and signs The Civil Wars in U.S.
Labor: Birth of a New Workers’ Movement or Death
Throes of the Old?. Busboys and Poets 5th & K, 1025
5th St. NW. Tue., 3/8, at 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 789-2227.
JONATHAN EVISON Discusses and signs West of Here,
a novel about the people of the Olympic Peninsula’s
journey to restore the area after a dam marred its land-
scape, and the attitudes of some of the first European
City Lights PiCk: monday
“1939”
ARLINGTON ARTS CENTER 3350 Wilson Blvd.,
Arlington. Tue.–Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (703) 248-6800.
OngOing: “On the Road.” Mixed media works by vari-
ous artists. “New Blood.” Work by new gallery artists.
To April 3.
CARROLL SQUARE GALLERY 975 F St. NW. Mon-
days–Fridays, 8 a.m.–6 p.m. (202) 638-3000. OngO-
ing: “Open Source.” Work by George Mason Univer-
sity art students. To March 25.
CIVILIAN ART PROJECTS 406 7th St. NW. Wednesdays,
Thursday, and Saturdays, 1–6 p.m.; Fridays, 4–8 p.m;
and by appointment. (202) 347-0022. OngOing: “Bor-
dering on Painting.” Mixed media by Seth Adelsberger.
“Laying Tracks.” Photos by Jason Falchook. To April 9.
One of the visionaries of modern Brazilian music, vocalist Gal Costa’s recordings
helped launch Brazil’s Tropicália movement in the late 1960s. Costa performs songs
by composers Caetano Veloso, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 8PM
Jil Aigrot · Songs of
Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, and Charles Aznavour
French vocalist Jil Aigrot masterfully breathes new life into the cherished
classics of her native country in a new program. Her interpretations of Piaf,
as the singing voice in the acclaimed movie La Vie En Rose and on the concert
stage, have resulted in worldwide acclaim.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 8PM
Ira Glass
Radio on the TV: Stories about
This American Life, the Television Show
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM

The Wizard of Oz captured the American imagination at

Acoustic Africa
its best and most Technicolor, but as “1939” demon- Featuring Habib Koité (Mali), Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi
strates, life for many Americans the year of its release (Zimbabwe), and Afel Bocoum (Mali)
was hardly a trek down the yellow brick road. The national museum of American History’s small FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 8PM
exhibition captures a nation on the brink of major change—in politics, pop culture, technology,
and civil rights—and on the cusp of war. Thanks to fDR’s federal Art project, photographers like
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
Carl mydans captured life during the still-going Great Depression, while marian Anderson and
Cuban rumba legends
Billie Holiday used their vocal talents to protest inferior treatment of African Americans. A more Tickets available at the Lisner Box Office (Tues-Fri, 11am to 5pm),
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The Discovery Series
ImanI WInds
GRAMMY-nominated
ensemble’s only
D.C.-area appearance
Fri., March 4
John Eaton
The Fabulous ’40s
CD release party for a
new all-music album!
Sat., March 5
CalIfornIa GuItar trIo
From Beethoven and Bach
to “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Wed., March 9
al dI mEola
World sInfonIa
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rhapsody Tour 2011
tueS. & Wed., March 15 & 16
The Discovery Series
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Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla,
Ponce, and Ginastera
Fri., March 18
luCy KaplansKy
special guesT:
mark erelli
Perceptive folk singer
thurS., March 24
CravIn’ doGs
25Th anniversary
celebraTion
special guesT:
The michael clem Trio
Local folk favorites
Sat., april 2
Órla fallon, formErly
of CEltIC Woman
Sensational Irish singer/
harpist with a new release
Wed. & thurS., april 6 & 7
The Discovery Series
KatE lIndsEy,
mezzo-soprano
KIm pEnsInGEr
WItman, pianisT
Wolf Trap Opera alumna sings
Bizet, Liszt, Ives & Argento
Fri., april 8
John musTo
thE InspECtor
libreTTo by mark campbell
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commissioned by WolF Trap
Wed. & Fri., april 27 & 29
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CONNER CONTEMPORARY 1358 Florida Ave. NE. Tue.– HEMPHILL FINE ARTS 1515 14th St. NW. Tuesdays–
Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (202) 588-8750. ClOsing: “Win- Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and by appointment. (202)
dowboxing I.” Work by Cordy Ryman. “High Pressure 234-5601. OngOing: “Viewing Rm.” Work by various
3701 Mount Vernon Ave.
System.” Work by Brandon Morse. To March 5. artists. To March 26.
Alexandria, VA • 703-549-7500 CROSS MACKENZIE GALLERY 1054 31st St. NW. HONFLEUR GALLERY 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE. Tues-
For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com
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Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000
Jesse Cook
p.m. (202) 333-7970. Opening: “Covers.” Magazine (202) 536-8994. Opening: “Try a little tenderness as
cover paintings by Cindy Kane. painful as it seems.” Works by Ben Skinner. To April 8.
Mar 3
6 7pm WATCH Awards Ceremony
CURATOR’S OFFICE 1515 14th St. NW. Wednesdays– IRVINE CONTEMPORARY 1412 14th St. NW.
Saturdays, noon–6 p.m. and by appointment. (202) Tuesdays–Saturdays, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. (202) 332-8767.
387-1008. OngOing: “Amend.” Photos by Nicholas
Irish Trad.
ClOsing: “Saturnalia.” Work by various gallery artists.
8 Superstars! ALTAN w/LILT
and Sheila Pye. To March 19. To March 5.
9 Live and Direct from 1967!
Robyn“Chinese
Hitchcock & Joe Boyd
FLASHPOINT 916 G St. NW. Tuesdays–Saturdays, LONG VIEW GALLERY 1234 9th St. NW. Wednes-
noon–6 p.m. (202) 315-1310. OngOing: “Standing
White Bicycles”
days–Saturdays, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sundays noon–5 p.m.
Atop the Ladder.” Mixed media work by Juan Tejedor.
(202) 232-4788. OngOing: New gallery artists group
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To March 26.
Tony Rice Unit show. To March 13.
w/Sierra Hull & Highway 111
FOUNdRY GALLERY 1314 18th St. NW. Wednesdays–
MEZZ GALLERY AT ARTISPHERE 1101 Wilson Blvd.,
Sundays, noon–6 p.m. (202) 463-0203. Opening:
12
ASHFORD&SIMPSON JAY
HAYDEN
“Touch Points.” Water colors by Katherine Blakeslee.
Arlington. Daily, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (703) 875-1100.
OngOing: “Sweet-Meat Cherry-Whip Flip.” Photos by
To March 27.
13
Victoria F. Gaitán. To March 12.
GALLERY AT VIVId SOLUTIONS 2208 Martin Luther
14 In the Bandstand • All Standing, Doors 6pm
MOCA dC 1054 31st St. NW. Wed.–Fri., 1 p.m.–6
The Saw Doctors
King Jr. Ave. SE. Tuesdays–Fridays, noon–5 p.m.; Satur-
The Further Adventures of
days, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (202) 365-8392. Opening: “Car- p.m., Sat., 1 p.m.–5 p.m. (202) 342-6230. Opening:
w/AM Taxi
tograph.” Works by Gerard Lange. To April 8. “Erotica 2011.” To April 2.
Rachelle Ferrell
GOVINdA GALLERY 1227 34th St. NW. Tuesdays– STUdIO GALLERY 2108 R St. NW. Wednesdays &
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Saturdays, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. (202) 333-1180. OngOing: Thursdays, 1–7 p.m.; Fridays 1–8 p.m.; Saturdays, 1–6
18&19
Photos of Washington-area R&B musicians by Fer- p.m. (202) 232-8734. Opening: Photography by Iwan
Bagus. “La Serenissima–Views of Venice.” Works by
nando Sandoval. To April 2.
20 ‘Chinaberry
Elizabeth Grusin-Howe. “Mostly Grey.” Works by Peter
Gaelic Storm
Rodney Crowell Sidewalks Tour’
GREATER RESTON ARTS CENTER (GRACE) 12001
Market St., Ste. 103, Reston. Tuesdays–Saturdays,
Karp. To March 26.
21&22
11 a.m.–5 p.m. (703) 471-9242. Opening: “Emerg- TOUCHSTONE GALLERY 901 New York Ave. NW.
23 Madstone Productions Presents
THE HIGH KINGS
ing Visions: A Sense of Place.” Collaborative projects Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fridays,
between art and English students from Herndon and 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturdays & Sundays, noon–5 p.m.
24 In the Bandstand All Standing, Doors 6pm
South Lakes High Schools. To April 14. and by appointment. (202) 347-2787. Opening: “Sur-
ROBERT EARL KEEN
25
PETER WOLF Kenny
White
26 TOM RUSH
Over The Rhine Lucy Roche
Wainwright
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28 Bob Schneider (solo) MANCINI
OLIVIA
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30 & 31 An Evening with
OBINSON
The Wailin’ Jennys
April 1 The Jazz Crusaders
feat. Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, Wayne Henderson
FOURPLAY
3
JARS OF CLAY ‘Shelter Tour’
4
w/Matt
Matt Maher, Derek Webb, Audrey Assad
6 BET
“MUSIC MATTERS” TOUR w/
Anthony
COLIN HAY
MARSHA AMBROSIUS, MELANIE FIONA David
7&8
Chris
Trapper City Lights PiCk: tuesday
9 Junior Brown The Wranglers
Ruthie &
10 “standing atop
BUDDY GUY Sullivan
Quinn
11
12&13
Tower of Power
Aimee Mann
the ladder”
for visual artist Juan Tejedor, real-world topography is a starting point, not a destination. in
14 Livingston Taylor Buskin &
15 Girlyman & Susan Werner
Batteau the small but wide-ranging exhibition “Standing Atop the Ladder,” the Washington-
based artist offers intricate paintings and mixed-media works with inspirations that range
16 Carrie Newcomer & Debi Smith
from satellite images to transportation maps to the stars. in “pangea as it exists Today,” Teje-
18
dor pieces Africa and South America back together, flips them so they’re unrecognizable, and
‘Soul Survivors’ feat.
ERIC ROBERSON & VIVIAN GREEN shades the areas based on how much human development has occurred. in “Bus Drawing—
Nanci Griffith Kennedys
The
19&20
pacific migrations,” Tejedor draws dendritic forms on a wall in graphite, based on the flight
patterns of birds; in “Bus Drawing,” he abstracts the grids, diagonals, and organic shapes of
21 New Riders of the Purple Sage bus routes in D.C. and Alexandria. But two works from the “night Sky” series, in which Tejedor
& Commander Cody attaches little balls of putty irregularly to rows of filaments, are the most compelling. The
23 Cleve Francis works’ inspiration is evident from their titles, but the pieces equally suggest birds perched on
29 HOT TUNA (Electric)
utility wires at sunset. THe exHiBiTion iS on VieW TUeSDAYS To SATURDAYS fRom noon To 6 p.m. AT
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• Full menu til 1:30am! Ample Free Parking

• Show times and cover charges vary
• Call for more information, to book birthday party
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MARCH
3 LINE DANCING & AFTER PARTY
Joy of Jazz hosts the Mix, Mingle, & Groove after work
networking event. Line dancing w/ instructor, free appetizers,
DJ“Simply DJ”6-10pm || LATE NIGHT starts at 10pm. Birthday
Spectacular, hosted by G.I.P. Events… DJ Capo spins.

4 ELLE’MARCHELLE +
BABYLON’s favorite songstress in her long-anticipated solo debut.
Fresh from her sold out Vegas lounge tour, Elle will dazzle with
contemporary R&B and smoky jazz standards. DJ“Simply DJ”fills
the dance floor. 6:30-10pm || AFTER PARTY with DJ Trini from
93.9FM WKYS.*

5 KURIBACHEW
Performing habesha cultural favorites with full band, LIVE on
stage 7-10pm. Traditional dancers, coffee ceremony and dinner
specials. Shisha and VIP sofas. || INTERNATIONAL FUSION CLUB Friday, March 4th: ELLE MARCHELLE
PARTY with DJ DNA || Hosted by Shelly / Meklit / Mame. ….Dazzles the Babylon faithful!
6 ABDU KIAR & ZEMA BAND *
Marine ChaMber enseMbles
Persichetti

Fitsum & Abdu lead our All Star reggae jam session, ZEMA
BAND live on stage. Mimi adds her Aster Aweke tribute set! DJ
Piojo from 99.1FM El Zol spins Amharic, dancehall, club classics
between sets and late. Party starts at 7pm… Best Sunday event
in the DMV!

7 INDUSTRY NIGHT
NETWORKING EVENT with the inimitable DJ Rabi… Check out his
famous Deep International Mix. NO COVER. Club & Restaurant
professionals social night.

8 ANMARI BAND w/ LEILA

The Hicham Anmari Band performs a classic Arabic stage show.
Special guest Leila Atef. Stageside and VIP sofa seating available
by reservation. 10pm-CLOSE.

9 COLLEGE & REGGAE NIGHT

DJ Mamush triumphant return from Africa Tour… COLLEGE
NIGHT and BEST REGGAE MIX || Half off door with student ID –
daytime prices on shisha etc. til 11pm. Music starts 9pm || By
Zion Prod. / Mame

Bach
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11
LINE DANCING & AFTER PARTY
Mix, Mingle, & Groove party by Joy of Jazz. Line dancing w/
instructor, appetizers, DJ“Simply DJ”6-10pm || LATE NIGHT CLUB
hosted by G.I.P. Events… DJ Capo.

X FACTOR +
This high-energy dance band will have the house rockin’. They
never fail to fill the floor and thrill the bar. LIVE Jazz / R&B dinner
show and DJ Dance Party with DJ“Simply DJ”between sets, 6:30-

Shostakovich 10pm || AFTER PARTY with DJ Trini from 93.9FM WKYS.*

Sunday, March 6 at 2 p.m.

John Philip Sousa Band Hall FRIDAYS… CLUB AFTER PARTY with
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Concert Information: 202-433-4011
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 faces.” Paintings by Michele Cormier. “Inspiration.”
Landscape paintings by Betsy Forster. To March 27.
WASHINGTON PRINTMAKERS GALLERY Pyramid
Atlantic Art Center. 8230 Georgia Ave., 2nd Fl. Tues-
days–Thursdays, noon–6 p.m.; Fridays, noon–7 p.m.;
Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sundays, noon–5 p.m.
(301) 273-3660. Opening: “Reflections Past and Pres-
ent.” Works by Lila Oliver Asher. To March 27.
WAVERLY STREET GALLERY 4600 East-West High-
way, Bethesda. Tuesdays–Saturdays, noon–6 p.m.
TheaTer
AT HOME AT THE ZOO Edward Albee expands on
his career-making one-act The Zoo Story with a new
drama that presents a meticulous look at the lives of
three New Yorkers. A husband and wife engage in
an everyday conversation that veers into dangerously
personal territory; the revelations and confrontations
catapult them from their delicately balanced world
onto life-changing paths. Kogod Cradle at Arena
Stage, 1101 6th St., SE. Tuesdays and Wednesdays at
7:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays

DC’s Legendary Jazz Club

(301) 951-9441. ClOsing: “21+21.” Third annual at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
invitational show. To March 5. $40–$85. Closes April 24. (202) 488-3300.

Established in 1926 WIP GALLERY AT ARTISPHERE 1101 Wilson Blvd., BASRA BOY Rosemary Jenkinson’s world premiere

2001 11th ST NW - (202)299-0800

Arlington. Daily, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (703) 875-1100. one-man show an account of the young folk getting

Amiri Baraka
OngOing: “Rosslyn: A Work in Process.” To March 13.
WOHLFARTH GALLERIES 3419 19th St. NE. Wednes-
days–Saturdays, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. and by appointment.
Friday (202) 526-8022. OngOing: “Sea to Mountain.” Sculpture
Feb 25th
high and getting into fights and trying to get laid,
trying to escape boredom. Josh Sticklin vibrates like a
hopped-up hummingbird as Speedy, a kid who decides
to make the army his ticket out of Belfast. His pal Stig
(also Sticklin, of course) can’t believe he’s falling for the
government’s line, enticed by the promise of adventure

William Parker
and works on paper by Carmela Knepler. To March 12.
and a cash bonus. And Sticklin is a charmer, charis-
WHERE THE BEAUTIFUL danCe
matic and tireless. It isn’t energy he wants for; just clar-
ity and precision. When he’s Stig and when he’s Speedy
PEOPLE GO TO GET UGLY isn’t always readily apparent. His physical and verbal

Saturday
GULABO SAPERA & PARTY Performs the snake stamina are impressive–he’s basically running and yap-
Succulent Soul Food and Live Music charmer’s traditional dance of celebration, or Kalbelia.
Feb 26th
ping full-tilt for 70 minutes–but Basra Boy could use a

Mardi Gras
Part of the Maximum India festival. Kennedy Center moment or two of quietude for the audience to locate
Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Tue., 3/8, at 6 p.m. itself in the continuity of the story. (CK) Keegan The-

Inside Music of
Free. (202) 467-4600. atre at Church Street, 1742 Church St. NW. Saturdays

Curtis Mayfiled
at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.; Sundays at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

the Madam
with
NATYALAKSHANA Classical dance forms are given $20–$25. Closes March 12. (703) 892-0202.
with a modern twist by performers from A perfor-
THE CHOSEN The story of two boys, two fathers, and
mance by members of the Instiute of Choreography two very different Jewish communities in Williams-
Artist in Residence and Innovative Dance in Bangalore. Part of the
Maximum India festival. Kennedy Center Millennium
burg, Brooklyn. Two passionate, intelligent boys com-

Heidi Martin pete for opposing teams in a baseball game. When

Beads,
Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Mon., 3/7, at 6 p.m. Free. (202)
Tuesday
Reuven is injured by Danny, a unique friendship is born.
467-4600. Based on the novel by Chaim Potok. Theater J at Arena
Mar 1st
Babes
Stage, 1101 6th St., SE. Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.;

Charles
NIGHT OF FLIGHT Joy of Music’s youth dance compa-
Thursdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.;
nies, Urban Impact and Groove Elements, will perform
and Booze
Sundays at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $30–$60. Closes

McPherson
with the resident adult company, Dcypher Dance, at March 27. (202) 488-3300.
the Reston Hospital Center and Washington Wizards’
THE COMEdY OF ERRORS Though you’d think a
$6 Absolut Drinks and joint event, Night of Flight. Verizon Center, 601 F St.
NW. Sat., 2/26 at 5 p.m. $25–$99. (202) 628-3200.
play with a pair of identical twins named Antipholus,

Fri & Sat

another pair named Dromio, and a plot widely regard-
$2 Red Bull add on ed as among the most convolutedly farcical in dramatic
Mar 4th & 5th
FIERCE LOVE (REMIX) San Francisco’s Pomo Afro

Robert
literature, wouldn’t need a lot of add-ons, director
$250 for the best set of B--S! Homos performs remixes of the company’s classic piec-
es. Performances highlight Black gay life in the early Aaron Posner and his cast manage to get a high per-

Glasper
(that’s BEADS you pig!)
centage of the evening’s laughs with non-textual jests.
1990s are updated with pop culture references and
(BM) Folger Elizabethan Theatre, 201 East Capitol St.
new pieces. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. Sat., 3/5, at SE. Tuesdays–Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.;
Featuring the Johnny Artis
Experiment!
8 p.m & Sun., 3/6, at 7 p.m. $22. (202) 269-1600. Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. and
7 p.m. $30–$60. Closes March 6. (202) 544-7077.
Mardi Gras Band TANUSREE SHANKAR dANCE COMPANY A perfor-
mance by the contemporary Indian dance troupe. Ken- CYMBELINE It’s later, lesser, loopier Shakespeare–but
Fri & Sat
nedy Center Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Wed., it turns out that even when the Bard’s at less than
LIVE MUSIC

Akua:
Mar 11th & 12th
3/9, at 6 p.m. Free. (202) 467-4600. his best, a stylish staging can be something striking
indeed. (TG) Shakespeare Theatre Company at Lans-
MONDAYS WORd dANCE THEATER Performs “Preludes: Duncan, burgh Theatre, 450 7th St. NW. Tuesdays & Wednes-
Funk and R&B Sand & Chopin.” Lang Theatre at Atlas Performing days at 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays & Fridays at 8 p.m.; Satur-

Soul Jazz Griot

Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. Sat., 3/5, at 5 p.m. & Sun., days at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7:30
TUESDAYS 3/6 at 7 p.m. $30. (202) 399-7993. p.m. $35–$88. Closes March 6. (202) 547-1122.
Rock ‘n Roll and Soul
Sunday
WEDNESDAYS
Mar 13th
Roots and Bluegrass

Every Second Sunday

THURSDAYS
City Lights PiCk: wednesday

changes
Ladies Night

Kenneth
w/ Latin & World Beats

Whalum lll
FRI/SAT/SUN in 2009, then-22-year-old director Tomás Rehorek made a bit of a splash on the festival
Local & National Blues Acts circuit with his debut feature Changes. While there has been no shortage of excellent Czech
cinema in recent years, much of it—including Divided We Fall, I Served the King of England,
SPECIAL EVENTS ON Tuesday and Protector—still dwells on World War ii or the Cold War. Rehorek’s film is a modern, urban
OUR 2ND FLOOR Mar 15th

Bohemian Caverns
assembly of four interwoven storylines, mixing a young couple unable to conceive, a single
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Thurs & Sun: Karaoke @ 9pm
Fri & Sat: House Party
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mother flailing to make ends meet, a middle-aged track coach emptied of confidence, and an
aged spinster wasting away in her farmhouse. The visual style—on-the-run cinematography
Mondays @ 8pm
cutting between street life, domestic anguish, and religious iconography—is colorful and
manic, not unlike Danny Boyle at his jumpy best. How the four plots combine isn’t exactly
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 dR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG A musical tragi- NW. Wednesdays–Sundays at 8 p.m. $20. Closes April
comedy based on the Joss Whedon’s internet series, 2. (202) 265-3055.
produced during the 2007-08 Writer’s Guild strike,
OEdIPUS EL REY On a bare stage, a brutal Chicano
that originally starred Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan
drug lord watches his wife give birth, then shoots her
Fillion. Landless Theatre at the District of Columbia Arts
up with heroin so she won’t realize he’s getting rid of
1140 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 202.296.7008 | dcimprov.com Center, 2438 18th St. NW. Thursdays–Sundays at 7:30
the baby. A fortune-teller had said the kid would grow
JEFFREY WEEKEND JOE FLIP
p.m. $25. Closes March 27. (202) 462-7833.
up to kill his dad, and in this L.A. barrio, no kingpin
ROSS LOUNGE SHOWS RECCA ORLEY UPCOMING HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW A musical about the life takes chances. He hands the infant off to his lieuten-
EVENTS of the renowned African American singer and ground-
breaking actor Ethel Waters. From humble beginnings,
ant with orders to make the baby disappear. But this
kid’s name being Oedipus, there’ll be no stopping him
THE DICSC IMPROV she made her way to Broadway, film, and television; from killing his father, a fate determined as much by
April 6 she is considered one of the most influential jazz and gang culture as by the gods in playwright Luis Alfaro’s

PATRICE ONEAL
blues singers of her time. Starring Bernardine Mitchell. visceral update of Greek myth. Director Michael John
MAR 3 - 6 MAR 6 MAR 10 - 12 MAR 16 - 20 Metro Stage, 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. Thursdays Garcés’ staging blends candle-lit spirituality and
Apr 15 - 17 and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; matter-of-fact brutality into a plausibly raw, modern
“Roastmaster General” Great American Comedy HBO & Winner of BET’s America’s Premier
on Comedy Central Festival Audition “Coming to the Stage” Comic Hypnotist from MICHAEL MCDONALD Sundays at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. $45–$50. Closes March myth. (BM) Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641
Apr 21 - 23
*special event* Showcase Entertainment Tonight 20. (703) 548-9044. D St., NW. Wednesdays–Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays
JO JUDAH BOBBY
TONY ROCK
at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m.; call for other
KOY FRIEDLANDER SLAYTON
AN IdEAL HUSBANd Oscar Wilde’s comedy revolves
Apr 28 - May 1
times. $30–$65. Closes March 6. (202) 393-3939.
around blackmail, political corruption, and public and
private honor in late 19th-century England, where ON THE RAZZLE Tom Stoppard’s reworking of a Vien-
Give the Gift of “an ideal husband” must be above reproach in both nese farce about a pair of shop clerks who sneak off
spheres. Sir Robert Chiltern is a well-regarded politi- to the big city seeking a bit of adventure rattles along
SOLD OUT!
LAUGHTER!!! cian happily married to a loving wife. His status as an reasonably amusingly in Olcott’s ever-in-motion stag-
MAR 24 - 26 MARCH 30 MAR 31-APR 3 APRIL 7 - 10 gift certificates, ideal husband is threatened when evidence of a past ing for Constellation Theatre Company. The puns are
Comedy Central Local college comics NBC’s “30 Rock”, The pitbull of comedy cds, & comedy indiscretion appears. Sir Robert turns to his friend impressive, and if the cast is a little ragged around the
Lord Goring, who takes matters into his own hands. edges, and the staging more frenetic than polished,
& “Chelsea Lately”on E!
*special event*
compete for a
spot in the finals
Comedy Central and
“The Late Show”
from HBO,Showtime
& “The Tonight Show”
school classes Shakespeare Theatre Company at Sidney Harman Hall, chalk that up to over-reaching by an admirably ambi-
610 F St., NW. Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.; tious troupe. (BM) Constellation Theatre at Source,
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. & 8 1835 14th St. NW. Thursdays–Saturdays at 8 p.m.;
p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $20–$98. Closes Sundays at 2 p.m. $25–$30. Closes March 6. (202)
April 10. (202) 547-1122. 204-7741.
JOSEPH ANd THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ONE FLEA SPARE Alexander Strain’s thoughtfully
dREAMCOAT Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musi- conceived production puts design hard to work, with
cal tells the story of Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph, and lighting and sound schemes that comment on Naomi
how he rose from slavery in Egypt to becoming the Wallace’s alternately blunt and poetic dialogue. The
Pharaoh’s right-hand man. Olney Theatre Center, 2001 sets and costumes, caked in the most convincing
Olney-Sandy Spring Rd., Olney. Wednesdays–Fridays, 8 sort of filth, certainly convey the play’s grimy sense of
p.m.; Saturdays, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. and place. It’s all very effective–up to the point where it
7:30 p.m. $34–$54. Closes March 20. (301) 924-3400. begins to feel like Wallace has said what she came to
say about class and money and power and passion,
JUNO ANd THE PAYCOCK Sean O’Casey’s 1924 Juno
and hasn’t quite turned her thoughts yet to how she’ll
and the Paycock starts off feeling like a shrugging com-
get her characters off the stage. There are indelible
edy about poverty, familial contempt, and alcoholism
images aplenty here, on the stage and in the actors’
before gradually hardening into a tragic dirge about
mouths. It’s just there are maybe one or two to spare.
poverty, familial contempt and alcoholism. Say this
(TG) Forum Theatre at Round House, 8641 Colesville
for Washington Shakespeare Company’s inventively
Road, Silver Spring. Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.;
staged production of this middle chapter in O’Casey’s
Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. $25.
Dublin Trilogy: It gives each of the piece’s tonal poles
Closes March 12. (240) 644-1100.
its due, boasts a handful of sterling performances,
and looks a peach. (CK) Washington Shakespeare REd HERRING Michael Hollinger’s farce of features a
HUGGY LOWDOWN Company at Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. spy versus a counter-spy, set in the cold war and involv-
AND Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; matinees Saturdays & ing everything from the H-bomb to the FBI to Joseph
CHRIS PAUL Sundays at 2 p.m. $20-$35. Closes March 20. (800) McCarthy’s daughter. Washington Stage Guild at the
494-8497. Undercroft Theatre of Mount Vernon Place United
Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave., NW.
MORGUE STORY A famous comic book artist, frus-
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at
trated with her personal relationships, meets two
2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $40–$50.
weird men with equally weird lives. One is a perverted
Closes March 27. (240) 582-0050.
sociopathic coroner; the other is a chronically catalep-
Nov 26 - 28
Tom Joyner Morning Show
tic insurance agent. They could only meet in one place: THE WEIR Set in one location in real time, The Weir

on Magic 102.3FM
The morgue. Adapted from the Brazilian underground is the kind of interior, Irish-to-its-chilly-bones piece

*special event*
film. Molotov Theatre at Playbill Cafe, 1409 14th St. at which Keegan Theatre excels. This is a story about

City Lights PiCk: thursday

wordless music
orchestra
Composing classical music is a common career move for aging rock stars too ambitious
or artistic for post-prime stadium tours. nothing, after all, says “serious musician” like
conducting an orchestra at Carnegie Hall. But if Billy Joel and paul mcCartney’s output
has underwhelmed, don’t write off Tyondai Braxton. The former frontman of the post-
rock group Battles, Braxton collaborated in 2009 with new York’s Wordless Music
Orchestra to create Central Market. it’s an album of pulsing, dissonant pieces that fit
comfortably in the company of Stravinsky and other classical innovators. At least, that’s the
premise for this free concert at the library of Congress, where Wmo will perform Braxton’s
compositions alongside the work of John Adams, louis Andriessen, and other 20th century
classical luminaries. WoRDleSS mUSiC oRCHeSTRA WiTH TYonDAi BRAxTon peRfoRmS AT 8 p.m.
AT THe liBRARY of ConGReSS’ CooliDGe AUDiToRiUm, 101 inDepenDenCe AVe. Se. fRee; TiCkeTS
ReQUiReD. (202) 707-5000. —Sadie Dingfelder

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Juan de Marcos &
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Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, “the Quincy Jones
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brings together another triumphant show at
Strathmore. “The audience was dancing in the

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Tickets $25–$52 (Stars Price $22.50–$46.80)

Emergence
Harmonic textures of guitar and powerful lyrics fuse with sublime Carnatic
melodies played on violin, backed rock, funk, and ethnic rhythms.
march 3 at 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. | monsoon club | Tickets $15

When We Dead Awaken

This visually powerful work from Chorus
Repertory Theatre revolves around the
mind’s struggle with reality. Performed
in Manipuri with English surtitles. A free
discussion follows the performance on
March 4.
march 4 & 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Eisenhower Theater | Tickets from $18
Vatsala mehra: An Evening of Ghazals, Sufi, Thumri, and Geet
D.C.’s own “Ghazal Queen” sings songs showcasing the remarkable range and
emotionality of her voice.
TUES., MAR. 8, 8PM
Cirque Mechanics
Boom Town
FRI., MAR. 25, 8PM
An Evening with Naturally 7
Cirque Mechanics fires up a
giddy gold rush of astonishing
There is no band behind this seven-piece
acrobatics in their hilarious new
show—swaying on telegraph ensemble—or, to be precise, the singers are
the band! With their phenomenally flexible
poles, balancing on whiskey

march 8 at 8 p.m. | Eisenhower Theater | Tickets from $20

jugs, and putting a whole new voices, Naturally 7 vocally creates a full range
kind of wild into the Wild West! of instrumental sound, including bass, drums,
malavika Sarukkai: Sakthi Sakthimaan—Energies Auspicious and Fearsome Tickets: $25–$45 guitars, horns and synthesizers. Their sold-out
A hallmark dancer and choreographer in the traditional bharatanatyam style, concerts prove that audiences are getting the
Sarukkai preserves key elements while providing a personal interpretation of the
(Stars Price $22.50–$40.50)
dance’s cultural significance.
distinction and loving it.
march 10 at 7:30 p.m. | Terrace Theater | Tickets $40 Tickets $22.50–$45 (Stars Price $20.25–$40.50)

Utsav Lal, piano

Dubbed “the Raga Pianist,” 18-year-old piano prodigy Utsav Lal seeks to meld the
best of Eastern and Western music through his compositions.
march 13 at 7:30 p.m. | Terrace Theater | Tickets $25

Broken Images
starring Shabana azmi
Award-winning actress Shabana Azmi stars in
Girish Karnad’s psychological thriller about a
relatively unknown Hindi short story writer who
suddenly becomes wealthy and famous by SUN., MAR. 20, 7PM
writing a best-seller in English. Directed by Alyque
Padamsee. Performed in English. The Del McCoury Band Friday Night Eclectic
march 16 at 8 p.m. Just like the hip party you would host—if you
Eisenhower Theater | Tickets from $39
Discover the pure joy of
bluegrass and you’ll see lived in a mansion with an art gallery, a cool band
why this Grammy winner and a bartender. Doors open at 8PM. Advance

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literature events, plus exhibitions, cuisine, and more! complete schedule
ever let it be said, darling,
at kennedy-center.org/india that what I do don’t bring Educated Consumers, First Name Basis
and Bo Jankans (hop hop) MAR. 11
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me joy…I’m a guitar-
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This performance MAR. 25
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 the importance of stories, about how the ritual of
narrative can make sadness and loneliness and disap-
pointment bearable. In a world of mysterious happen-
ings that beggar explanation, this is one inexplicable
phenomena that turns out to be as reliable as the tides.
Ultimately, it’s the stories that involve otherworldly
encounters the least that haunt their tellers the most.
(CK) Keegan Theatre at Church Street, 1742 Church
St. NW. Thursdays–Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3
p.m. $30–$35. Closes March 13. (703) 892-0202.
WHO’S AFRAId OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Chicago’s
Steppenwolf Theatre brings their production of Edward
Albee’s acerbic classic to Arena, starring Amy Morton
and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts. Kreeger Theater at
Arena Stage, 1101 6th St., SE. Tuesdays and Wednes-
days at 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Sat-
urdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. $40–$90. Closes April 10. (202) 488-3300.
Film
THE AdJUSTMENT BUREAU At 7:05 a.m. one
n New York workday, former Senate hopeful David
Norris (Matt Damon) was supposed to spill coffee on
himself on his way to his desk job. That meant he’d
run back home to change clothes. That meant he’d
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miss his bus. And that meant he wouldn’t run into Elise
(Emily Blunt), a dancer he improbably met in a hotel
bathroom while he thought he was alone, working on
his concession speech the night he lost the election.
They’d each go their separate ways, never meeting
SPRING 2011 @ CSPAC again, and all would be right with the world. At least
that’s how things are run in The Adjustment Bureau,
ABBEY THEATRE writer-director George Nolfi’s adaptation of a Philip K.
Dick short story. Nolfi’s directorial debut is like Sliding
Doors crossed with The Matrix, an entertaining sci-fi
love story that’s exciting in more than the usual will-
they-or-won’t-they ways. (TO) (See washingtoncitypa-
per.com for venue information)
n BEASTLY An update of Beauty and the Beast
starring Vanessa Hudgens, Mary Kate Olsen, and
new Hollywood It Boy Alex Pettyfer. (See washington-
citypaper.com for venue information)
n RANGO Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, and Abigail
Breslin lend their voices to this animated film
about a household pet who goes on an adventure to
discover its true self. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for
venue information)
n AGentle
SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN A Somewhat
Man is like a Norwegian version of The
Wrestler. Stellan Skarsgard plays Ulrik, a ponytailed
gangster who’s just been released from jail after serv-
ing 12 years for murder. You get the feeling he doesn’t
SACHAL VASANDANI QUARTET want to leave, and it’s hard to blame him: Waiting for
him outside the prison gates is an expanse of gray skies
sunday, march 13 . 6PM and snow, a crappy room that’s probably dingier than
Indian-American jazz vocalist and composer Sachal Vasandani has his cell, and pressure from his hotheaded and spiteful
boss, Jensen (Bjorn Floberg), to kill the guy who rat-
ALSO APPEARING a singular, deep-brewed voice and the uncanny ability to straddle
ANTHONY DE MARE the fine line between jazz and pop in songs that teem with
ted Ulrik out. He has a grown son, who tells people
his father’s dead. Skarsgard underplays man-of-few-
LIAISONS: Re-imagining emotion and intellect. $35 words Ulrik, but he’s captivating and charming none-
Sondheim theless. The point of the film, again like The Wrestler,
seems to be redemption, finding a new purpose in life,
from the Piano ABBEY THEATRE making a fresh start. As Ulrik tentatively then confi-
saturday, april 2 . 8PM Ireland’s National Theatre presents dently moves toward these goals, you’ll find yourself
engrossed, not somewhat but completely. (TO) (See
UMD School of Music Terminus by Mark O’Rowe washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
MARYLAND OPERA march 17 & 18 . 8PM
STUDIO Serial killers. Avenging angels. Love-sick demons. This is the stuff n TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT In this 80s throwback
rom com, Topher Grace plays Matt Franklin, a
The Barber of Seville of Terminus. Hold on tight as three strangers are ripped from their recent MIT graduate. Instead of embracing youp-
piedum, he moves home and takes a part-time job at
april 8 – 16 daily lives and thrown into a fantastical world that promises to
a video store. When he runs into his high school crush,
shock and thrill. Recommended for mature audiences only. $35 Lori Frederking (new Hollywood It Girl Teresa Palmer),
and she invites him to a party, he thinks he might have
a chance with the girl of his dreams. With Anna Faris,
Dan Fogler, and Chris Pratt. (See washingtoncitypaper.
com for venue information)
BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Martin Law-
rence reprises his role as FBI agent Malcolm Turner and
as Turner’s alter-ego Big Momma. After his stepson
Trent (Brendan T. Jackson) witnesses a murder, the two
of them go undercover in drag together. (See washing-
Where it’s more than a great performance toncitypaper.com for venue information)
CEdAR RAPIdS Nerd-down Ed Helms from The
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu 301.405.ARTS (2787) Hangover and you get Ed Helms from Cedar Rapids, a
fish-out-of-water workplace comedy that wishes it were
a raunchier Office Space but is more like a backward
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New in Town. Helms plays Tim Lippe, a choir-boy insur-
ance salesman from a town so small “if there’s a bad egg
around, people find out pretty fast.” Tim is sent to Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, for a big conference during which he rooms
with a vulgar loudmouth (John C. Reilly) and learns to let
loose from a flirty woman (Anne Heche). (TO) (See wash-
ingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
dRIVE ANGRY The second Nic Cage movie in as many
months–is he really that big of a star, or is his price tag
just that low? Here, he plays a father seeking to avenge
his daughter’s death. (See washingtoncitypaper.com
for venue information)
EVEN THE RAIN Subtlety isn’t exactly the strong suit of
Iciar Bollain’s Bolivia-set drama, Even the Rain. But it’s
easy enough to overlook. Spain’s official entry for Best
Foreign Language Film consideration is a movie about
a movie; specifically, the parallels that the production
crew of a controversial Christopher Columbus film see
between the story they’re trying to tell and the political
upheaval that’s going on around them. (TO) (See wash-
ingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
GNOMEO ANd JULIET The Shakespeare classic gets
an update with garden gnomes. James McAvoy and
Emily Blunt voice the title characters, who–between
pink flamingos and lawn mower races–have as many
obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when
they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. (See
washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
HALL PASS Best friends Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred
(Jason Sudeikis) have each been married for a while,
and their eyes are beginning to wander. They initially
rejoice when their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina
Applegate) grant them a “hall pass”–one week of
freedom, no questions asked. But soon they find that
the single life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. (See wash-
ingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
I AM NUMBER FOUR Producer Michael Bay’s
douchebag fingerprints are all over I Am Number Four,
a Twilight-meets-Transformers mash-up that will leave
you alternately bored and confused. (TO) (See wash-
ingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
THE ILLUSIONIST The Illusionist is practically wordless,
but the visual story it tells will warm your heart before it
breaks it. This film proves Pixar-worthy in its storytelling,
animation, and ability to move a viewer to tears. (TO)
(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
JUST GO WITH IT Another Valentine’s Day, another
Jennifer Aniston rom-com. She plays the assistant to
Adam Sandler’s surgeon. In order to help him romance
a much younger schoolteacher, she travels with him to
Hawaii and poses as his soon- to-be ex-wife. No sur-
prise, things don’t work out as the surgeon plans. (See
washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
KABOOM Copulation practically overcomes the alleged
premise of writer-director Gregg Araki’s college-set
thriller. The plot centers on Smith (Thomas Dekker), a
nearly 19-year-old who lusts after his roommate, the
improbably named Thor (Chris Zylka), but spends most
of his time with his “vagitarian” best friend, Stella (Haley
Bennett). The central mystery involves a murder that
Smith may or may not have witnessed. (TO) (See wash-
ingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
THE KING’S SPEECH The Duke of York, son of Britain’s
king in 1925, is about to deliver an address at the Brit-
ish Empire Exhibition. He steps up to the microphone
and then–silence. Followed by a stutter in which he
can barely get a word out. Fast forward to 1934, and
the duke known as Bertie still has a stutter, but the
perspective has shifted to behind-the-scenes and the
mood lightens considerably. Tom Hooper’s film, written
by David Seidler, has the appearance of royalty with the
personality of a commoner–a stubborn, self-deprecat-
ing, and quite witty commoner. (TO) (See washington-
citypaper.com for venue information)
UNKNOWN After a car accident in Berlin, Dr. Martin Har-
ris (Liam Neeson) awakens to find that his wife (January
Jones) no longer recognizes him and that another man
(Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. While on the run
from mysterious assassins, he struggles to uncover the
truth with the aid of an unlikely ally (Diane Kruger). (See
washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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I Am Number Four (PG-13) 104 mins. Tangled (PG) 100 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:30, 11:10; Sun. 12:20, Sat. 10:00; Sun. 2:45
3:00, 5:40, 8:30; Mon.-Thu. 3:00, 5:40, 8:30
Just Go With It (PG-13) 110 mins. E Street Cinema
Fri.-Sat. 11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50; Sun. 11:10, 555 11th Street NW.
2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15; Mon.-Thu. 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, (202) 452-7672
10:15
127 Hours (R) 95 mins.
Justin Bieber Never Say Never 3D (G) 105 mins. Fri. 2:15, 6:45, 11:30; Sat. 10:00, 2:15, 6:45, 11:30;
March 4–10, 2011 Times currenT as of 4 p.m. Wednesday Fri. 4:20; Sat. 2:15, 5:00; Sun.-Tue. 4:20; Wed. 4:15,
7:15; Thu. 4:20
Sun. 10:00, 2:15, 6:45; Mon.-Thu. 2:15, 6:45
Barney’s Version (R) 132 mins.

REPERTORY
Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patagonia (NR) 40 mins. Justin Bieber Never Say Never: The Director’s Fan Fri. 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sat. 10:15, 12:50, 3:50,
Fri.-Sat. 2:25, 4:25, 6:25; Sun.-Thu. 2:25, 4:25 Cut 3D (G) 115 mins. 6:50, 9:50; Sun. 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15; Mon.-Tue.
Fri. 1:20, 7:20; Sat. 7:35; Sun.-Tue. 1:20, 7:20; Wed. 2:15; Wed. 2:15, 5:15; Thu. 2:15
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D (NR) 44 1:20; Thu. 1:20, 7:20
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center mins. Black Swan (R) 110 mins.
8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring Fri.-Thu. 10:25, 12:25 The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins. Fri. noon, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Sat.-Sun. 10:00,
Fri.-Sun. 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; Mon.-Thu. 1:15, noon, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Mon.-Thu. noon, 2:15,
(301) 495-6700 4:10, 7:10, 10:10
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 4:45, 7:15, 9:45
42nd Street (NR) 89 mins. No Strings Attached (R) 110 mins.
Sun.-Mon Washington Dulles International Airport 14390 Air & Blue Valentine (R) 114 mins.
Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly Fri. 11:55, 2:50, 5:25, 8:20, 11:05; Sat. 4:45, 7:15, Fri. noon, 4:15, 9:00; Sat.-Sun. noon, 4:15, 9:00;
Arugba (NR) 97 mins. 9:50; Sun. 11:55, 2:50, 5:25, 8:20; Mon.-Tue. 2:50, Mon.-Thu. noon, 4:15, 9:00
(202) 357-2700 5:25, 8:20; Wed. 1:25, 4:00; Thu. 2:50, 5:25, 8:20
Thu. 9:45
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (G) 40 mins. Cedar Rapids (R) 86 mins.
The Athlete (Atletu) (NR) 89 mins. Rango (PG) 107 mins.
Fri.-Thu. noon, 2:45 Fri. 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30; Sat. 10:45, 1:15,
Thu. 7:00 Fri.-Sun. 12:30, 3:10, 6:00, 8:50; Mon.-Thu. 3:10,
3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30; Sun. 10:45, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45,
Legends of Flight (NR) 40 mins. 6:00, 8:50
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) (NR) 106 mins. 8:00, 10:00; Mon.-Thu. 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:00
Fri.-Thu. 11:00, 1:45, 4:30 Take Me Home Tonight (R) 114 mins.
Fri. 7:00, 9:15; Sat. 9:30; Sun. 9:00; Tue.-Wed. 9:00 Even the Rain (Tambien la lluvia) (NR) 103 mins.
To Fly (NR) 34 mins. Fri.-Sun. 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon.-Thu.
Black Swan (R) 110 mins. Fri. 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50, 12:15; Sat. 11:15, 1:40,
Fri.-Thu. 1:00, 3:45 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 4:30, 7:20, 9:50, 12:15; Sun. 11:15, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20,
True Grit (PG-13) 110 mins. 9:50; Mon.-Thu. 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50
The Fighter (R) 114 mins.

DISTRICT
Fri.-Sat. 11:30, 2:20, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00; Sun. 11:30,
Fri.-Mon. 2:20, 4:40, 7:05; Tue. 2:20, 4:40; Wed. The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
2:20, 5:30, 8:10; Mon.-Thu. 2:20, 5:30, 8:10
2:20, 7:05; Thu. 2:20, 4:40, 7:05 Fri. 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40, 12:15; Sat. 10:30, 1:00,
Unknown (PG-13) 109 mins. 4:00, 7:00, 9:40, 12:15; Sun. 10:30, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00,
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (NR) 96 mins.
Sun. 1:00; Mon. 7:00
West End Cinema Fri.-Thu. 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 9:40; Mon.-Tue. 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40; Wed. 11:00,
2301 M Street NW 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40; Thu. 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40
Libeled Lady (1936) (NR) (202)419-3456 AMC Mazza Gallerie Monty Python and the Holy Grail (PG) 89 mins.
Sat. 7:20; Sun. 4:45 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW Fri. midnight; Sat. midnight
The Fighter (R) 114 mins.
Platinum Blonde (1931) (NR) 89 mins. Fri.-Sat. 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30; Sun. 12:30, 2:45, (202) 537-9553 Oscar Nominated Shorts 2011: Animation (NR)
Sat. 3:00; Tue. 7:00 5:00, 7:15, 9:30; Mon.-Thu. 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri. 3:00, 7:30, 11:45; Sat. 11:00, 3:00, 7:30, 11:45;
Carmen in 3D (PG-13) 175 mins.
Secret Agent (1936) (NR) 86 mins. Sat. 1:00; Wed. 6:30 Sun. 11:00, 3:00, 7:30; Mon.-Thu. 3:00, 7:30
Inside Job (PG-13) 108 mins.
Sat. 1:00; Sun. 7:00 Fri. 4:30, 7:00; Sat. noon, 4:30, 7:00; Sun. noon, Oscar Nominated Shorts 2011: Live Action (NR)
Drive Angry 3D (R) 104 mins.
Shall We Dance (NR) 109 mins. 4:30; Mon.-Tue. 4:30; Wed. 4:30, 7:00; Thu. Fri. 2:10, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; Sat. 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; Fri. 12:45, 5:15, 9:30; Sat.-Sun. 12:45, 5:15, 9:30;
Fri. 4:45; Sat. 5:00; Wed. 6:30 Sun. 11:30, 2:10, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; Mon.-Tue. 2:10, Mon.-Thu. 12:45, 5:15, 9:30
Kaboom (NR) 88 mins.
The Social Network (PG-13) 120 mins. Fri.-Sat. 11:00 5:05, 7:40; Wed. 2:10; Thu. 2:10, 5:05, 7:40 A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganske snill mann) (NR)
Fri.-Thu. noon, 9:20 Gnomeo & Juliet 3D (G) 84 mins. 105 mins.
Putty Hill (NR) 87 mins.
Fri. 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10; Sat.-Sun. 10:20, Fri. 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sat. 10:05, 12:15,
Fri.-Thu. 3:30, 5:30, 7:20, 9:00
12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10; Mon.-Thu. 2:40, 4:50, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sun. 10:05, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15,
Washington Psychotronic Film Society The Social Network (PG-13) 120 mins. 7:45, 10:00; Mon.-Thu. 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45,
7:00
The Passenger, 1021 7th St. NW Fri. 2:10, 9:15; Sat. 1:00, 2:10, 9:15; Sun. 1:00, 2:10; 10:00
(202) 736-1732 Mon.-Tue. 2:10; Wed.-Thu. 2:10, 9:15 Hall Pass (R) 98 mins.
Fri. 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05; Sat.-Sun. 11:40, 2:20,
The Dungeons of Harrow (1962) 5:00, 7:30, 10:05; Mon.-Thu. 2:20, 5:00, 7:30 Regal Gallery Place
Tue. 8:00 AMC Loews Cineplex Uptown 707 7th St. NW
Just Go With It (PG-13) 110 mins.
3426 Connecticut Ave. NW (202) 393-2121
Fri. 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; Sat.-Sun. 11:00, 1:50,
National Air and Space Museum (202) 333-FILM #799 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; Mon.-Thu. 1:50, 4:30, 7:10 The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Lockheed Martin IMAX Theatre 7th St. & Independance The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins. Fri.-Sat. noon, 12:40, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40,
Ave. SW Justin Bieber Never Say Never: The Director’s Fan
Fri.-Sat. 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30; Sun. 1:30, 4:00, Cut 3D (G) 115 mins. 9:20, 10:20, midnight, 12:50; Sun.-Thu. noon,
(202) 633-4629 7:00; Mon.-Thu. 4:00, 7:00 12:40, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20
Fri. 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; Sat.-Sun. 11:20, 2:00,
Hubble 3D (G) 45 mins. 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; Mon.-Thu. 2:00, 4:40, 7:20 Beastly (PG-13) 95 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 10:20, 12:25, 3:00, 5:05 AMC Loews Theatres Georgetown RISE Encore (NR) 120 mins. Fri.-Sat. 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40, 11:50; Sun.-
Legends of Flight (NR) 40 mins. 3111 K St. NW Mon. 7:30 Thu. 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40
Fri.-Thu. 11:25, 1:30, 4:05 (202) 342-6441 Big Momma’s: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13) 107
Rango (PG) 107 mins.
To Fly (NR) 34 mins. The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins. Fri.-Sun. noon, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20; Mon.-Thu. mins.
Fri.-Thu. 2:25 Fri.-Sat. 11:40, 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Sun. 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50
2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:25; Mon.-Thu. 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, Unknown (PG-13) 109 mins. Drive Angry 3D (R) 104 mins.
National Gallery of Art 10:25 Fri.-Sun. 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Mon. 2:45; Fri.-Sat. 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15, 12:40; Sun.
Tue.-Thu. 2:45, 5:20, 8:00 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15; Mon. 12:25, 2:50,
East Building Auditorium 4th St. & Constitution Ave. NW Beastly (PG-13) 95 mins.
10:15; Tue.-Thu. 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15
(202) 842-6799 Fri.-Sun. 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00; Mon.-Thu.
2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Avalon Theatre The Fighter (R) 114 mins.
A Woman Like That (NR) 93 mins. Fri.-Sat. 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30, 12:15; Sun.-Thu.
Sat. 1:00 Biutiful (R) 147 mins. 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW
1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30
Fri.-Sun. 11:50, 6:10; Mon.-Thu. 6:10 (202) 966-6000
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Gnomeo & Juliet 3D (G) 84 mins.
Criticism (NR) 80 mins. Black Swan (R) 110 mins. The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Fri. 12:15, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 11:00; Sat. 11:55,
Sat. 4:00 Fri.-Thu. 3:20, 9:40 Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00
2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 11:00; Sun. 11:55, 2:10, 4:20,
Women Art Revolution—A Secret History (NR) 83 Carmen in 3D (PG-13) 175 mins. Changes (NR) 6:30, 8:40; Mon. 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40; Tue.-Thu.
mins. Sat. 1:00; Wed. 6:30 Wed. 8:00 11:55, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40
Sun. 4:30 Cedar Rapids (R) 86 mins. The Fighter (R) 114 mins. Hall Pass (R) 98 mins.
Fri.-Sun. 1:10, 3:50, 6:20, 8:45; Mon.-Thu. 3:50, Fri.-Sat. 2:15, 7:45; Sun. 7:45; Mon. 2:15, 7:45; Tue.- Fri.-Sat. 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30, 12:50; Sun.-
National Museum of Natural History 6:20, 8:45 Wed. 2:15; Thu. 2:15, 7:45 Thu. 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30
Johnson IMAX Theatre 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW Drive Angry 3D (R) 104 mins. Inside Job (PG-13) 108 mins. I Am Number Four (PG-13) 104 mins.
(202) 633-4269 Fri.-Thu. 10:30 Fri. 11:30, 5:00; Sat.-Sun. 5:00; Mon.-Thu. 11:30, Fri.-Thu. 12:15, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45
5:00
Arabia 3D (NR) 40 mins. Hall Pass (R) 98 mins. Just Go With It (PG-13) 110 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:25, 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25; Sun.-Thu. Fri.-Sat. 12:25, 3:15, 5:50, 8:40, 11:15; Sun. 12:25, Race To Nowhere (PG-13) 83 mins. Fri.-Sat. 1:00, 3:45, 7:05, 9:55, 12:35; Sun.-Wed.
11:25, 1:25, 3:25, 5:25 3:15, 5:50, 8:40; Mon.-Thu. 3:15, 5:50, 8:40 Tue. 8:00 1:00, 3:45, 7:05, 9:55; Thu. 1:00, 3:45, 9:55

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Justin Bieber Never Say Never 3D (G) 105 mins.
Fri.-Sun. 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; Mon. 12:05,
2:35, 10:20; Tue. 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20;
Wed. 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 10:20; Thu. 12:05, 2:35,
5:10, 7:45, 10:20
Rango (PG) 107 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00, 12:30; Sun.-
Thu. 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00
Take Me Home Tonight (R) 114 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 1:20, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35, 12:10; Sun.-Thu.
1:20, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35
Unknown (PG-13) 109 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 9:50, 12:25; Sun.-Thu.
12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 9:50
MARYLAND
AMC Magic Johnson Capital Center
800 Shoppers Way, Largo
(301) 324-4220
The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40, 12:45; Sun.-
Thu. 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30
Beastly (PG-13) 95 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:00, 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40, 11:30;
Sun. 10:00, 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40; Mon.-
Thu. 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40
Big Momma’s: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13) 107
mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:05, 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10, 11:55; Sun.
10:05, 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10; Mon.-Thu. 12:50,
3:40, 6:30, 9:10
Drive Angry 3D (R) 104 mins.
Fri.-Sat. noon, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00, 12:20; Sun.-
Thu. noon, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10
Gnomeo & Juliet (G) 84 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00
Hall Pass (R) 98 mins.
Fri.-Sun. 10:50, 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Mon.-Thu.
11:00, 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20
I Am Number Four (PG-13) 104 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:20, 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20, 12:10; Sun.
10:20, 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20; Mon.-Thu. 1:05, 3:50,
6:35, 9:20
Justin Bieber Never Say Never 3D (G) 105 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 1:20, 6:50
Justin Bieber Never Say Never: The Director’s Fan
Cut 3D (G) 115 mins.
Fri.-Sun. 10:30, 4:00, 9:30; Mon.-Thu. 4:00, 9:30
Rango (PG) 107 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:25, 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50, 12:15; Sun.
10:25, 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50; Mon.-Thu. 11:05, 1:40,
4:20, 7:00, 9:50
The Roommate (PG-13) 93 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:10, 12:40, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50; Sun.
10:10, 12:40, 3:20, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25; Mon.-Thu.
12:40, 3:20, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25
Take Me Home Tonight (R) 114 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10, 12:40; Sun.-
Thu. 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10
Unknown (PG-13) 109 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:10, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45; Sun.-Thu.
11:10, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:35
Bethesda Row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Ave, Bethesda
(301) 652-7273
Another Year (PG-13) 129 mins.
Fri. 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40; Sat.-Sun. 10:30, 1:10,
4:05, 6:55, 9:40; Mon.-Thu. 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40
Barney’s Version (R) 132 mins.
Fri. 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Sat. 10:20, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15,
9:55; Sun. 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Mon.-Thu. 1:15,
4:15, 7:15, 9:55
Biutiful (R) 147 mins.
Fri. 1:45, 4:50, 8:15; Sat.-Sun. 10:45, 1:45, 4:50,
8:15; Mon.-Thu. 1:45, 4:50, 8:15
Black Swan (R) 110 mins.
Fri. 4:35, 7:25, 10:00; Sat.-Sun. 11:30, 4:35, 7:25,
10:00; Mon.-Thu. 4:35, 7:25, 10:00
Cedar Rapids (R) 86 mins.
Fri. 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50; Sat.-Sun. 10:35,
12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50; Mon.-Thu. 3:00, 5:15,
7:30, 9:50
The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) (PG) 82 mins.
Fri. 12:40, 2:55, 5:05, 7:10, 9:30; Sat.-Sun. 10:40,
12:40, 2:55, 5:05, 7:10, 9:30; Mon.-Thu. 2:55, 5:05,
7:10, 9:30
The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
Fri. 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Sat.-Sun. 10:15,
1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Mon.-Thu. 1:00, 2:00,
4:00, 7:00, 9:45
The Last Lions (NR) 88 mins.
Fri. 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35; Sat.-Sun. 10:25,
12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35; Mon.-Thu. 2:45, 5:00,
7:20, 9:35
P&G Montgomery Mall Cinemas
7101 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda
(301) 767-9555
Gnomeo & Juliet (G) 84 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:00, noon, 2:30, 4:30, 6:45, 8:55; Sun.
10:00, noon, 2:30, 4:30, 6:45; Mon.-Thu. noon,
2:30, 4:30, 6:45
The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Mon.-Tue.
11:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30; Wed. 2:30, 5:00, 7:30; Thu.
11:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30
Rango (PG) 107 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 11:00, 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35; Sun.-Thu.
11:00, 1:35, 4:20, 7:00
Majestic 20
900 Ellsworth Drive, Silver Spring
(301) 565-8884
The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Fri. 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:55, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10,
11:50, 12:35; Sat. 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:55,
7:40, 9:20, 10:10, 11:50, 12:35; Sun. 12:15, 1:45,
2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:55, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10; Mon.-Thu.
1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:55, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10
Battle: Los Angeles (PG-13) 116 mins.
Thu. 12:01
Beastly (PG-13) 95 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:30, 12:30; Sun.-
Thu. 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:30
Big Momma’s: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13) 107
mins.
Fri.-Sat. 12:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10, 11:40; Sun.-Thu.
12:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10
Cedar Rapids (R) 86 mins.
Fri. 2:55, 5:50, 8:15, 10:25; Sat.-Sun. 12:30, 2:55,
5:50, 8:15, 10:25; Mon.-Thu. 2:55, 5:50, 8:15, 10:25
Drive Angry 3D (R) 104 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 2:00, 4:20, 6:45, 9:25, midnight; Sun.-Thu.
2:00, 4:20, 6:45, 9:25
Gnomeo & Juliet (G) 84 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:35
Gnomeo & Juliet 3D (G) 84 mins.
Fri. 2:15, 4:25, 6:25, 8:35, 10:40; Sat.-Sun. 12:05,
2:15, 4:25, 6:25, 8:35, 10:40; Mon.-Thu. 2:15, 4:25,
6:25, 8:35, 10:40
The Grace Card (PG-13) 101 mins.
Fri. 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30, 12:10; Sat. 12:10, 2:35,
4:50, 7:10, 9:30, 12:10; Sun. 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10,
9:30; Mon.-Thu. 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30
Hall Pass (R) 98 mins.
Fri. 1:15, 3:05, 4:00, 5:40, 6:35, 8:05, 9:05, 10:35,
11:35; Sat. 12:25, 1:15, 3:05, 4:00, 5:40, 6:35, 8:05,
9:05, 10:35, 11:35; Sun. 12:25, 1:15, 3:05, 4:00,
5:40, 6:35, 8:05, 9:05, 10:35; Mon.-Thu. 1:15, 3:05,
4:00, 5:40, 6:35, 8:05, 9:05, 10:35
I Am Number Four (PG-13) 104 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 12:45, 3:30, 6:10, 8:45, 11:15; Sun.-Thu.
12:45, 3:30, 6:10, 8:45
I Am Number Four: The IMAX Experience (PG-13)
104 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40, 12:15; Sun.-Wed.
1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40; Thu. 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:25
Just Go With It (PG-13) 110 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05, 12:35; Sun.-Thu.
2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05
Justin Bieber Never Say Never 3D (G) 105 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 1:05, 3:25, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00; Sun.-Thu.
1:05, 3:25, 6:05, 8:30
The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35
Mars Needs Moms in Disney Digital 3D (PG) 88
mins.
Thu. 12:01
Mars Needs Moms: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG)
88 mins.
Thu. 12:01
Rango (PG) 107 mins.
Fri. 1:20, 2:25, 3:50, 4:55, 6:20, 7:25, 8:50, 9:55,
11:20, 12:25; Sat. noon, 1:20, 2:25, 3:50, 4:55, 6:20,
7:25, 8:50, 9:55, 11:20, 12:25; Sun. noon, 1:20,
2:25, 3:50, 4:55, 6:20, 7:25, 8:50, 9:55; Mon.-Thu.
1:20, 2:25, 3:50, 4:55, 6:20, 7:25, 8:50, 9:55
Red Riding Hood (PG-13) 120 mins.
Thu. 12:01
Take Me Home Tonight (R) 114 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 1:00, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20, 12:40; Sun.-
Thu. 1:00, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20
True Grit (PG-13) 110 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 10:00, 12:25; Sun.-Thu. 10:00
Unknown (PG-13) 109 mins.
Fri. 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15, 12:40; Sat. 11:55, 2:30,
5:10, 7:50, 10:15, 12:40; Sun. 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50,
10:15; Mon.-Thu. 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15
VIRGINIA
Alexandria Old Town Theater
815 1/2 King St., Alexandria
(703) 683-8888
The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Fri. 5:45, 8:10; Sat. 1:00, 2:15, 5:45, 8:10; Sun. 1:00,
2:15, 5:45, 8:00; Mon.-Thu. 5:45, 8:00
The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
Fri. 5:15, 7:45, 10:00; Sat. 12:30, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45,
10:00; Sun. 2:30, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45; Mon.-Thu. 5:15,
7:45
AMC Courthouse
2150 Claredon Blvd., Arlington
(703) 998-4262
The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Fri. 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Sat.-Sun. 11:15, 1:45,
4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Mon.-Thu. 4:45, 7:15, 9:55
Barney’s Version (R) 132 mins.
Fri.-Sun. 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Mon. 3:45, 6:40,
9:30; Tue. 3:45; Wed.-Thu. 3:45, 6:40, 9:30
Black Swan (R) 110 mins.
Fri. 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40; Sat.-Sun. 10:40, 1:30,
4:10, 7:00, 9:40; Mon.-Thu. 4:10, 7:00, 9:40
The Fighter (R) 114 mins.
Fri. 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; Sat.-Sun. 11:00, 1:40,
4:30, 7:20, 10:00; Mon.-Thu. 3:50, 6:50, 9:25
Just Go With It (PG-13) 110 mins.
Fri. 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Sat.-Sun. 10:20, 1:15, 4:15,
7:15, 9:55; Mon. 4:05, 6:45, 9:20; Tue. 4:05, 9:20;
Wed.-Thu. 4:05, 6:45, 9:20
No Strings Attached (R) 110 mins.
Fri. 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Sat.-Sun. 10:30, 1:20,
4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Mon.-Thu. 4:20, 7:05, 9:50
The Rite (PG-13) 112 mins.
Fri. 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30; Sat.-Sun. 10:10, 1:00,
4:00, 6:50, 9:30; Mon.-Thu. 4:00, 6:30, 9:10
Take Me Home Tonight (R) 114 mins.
Fri. 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; Sat.-Sun. 10:00,
12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; Mon.-Thu. 4:50,
7:10, 9:45
AMC Loews Cineplex Shirlington
2772 S. Randolph Road, Arlington
(703) 333-FILM #756
127 Hours (R) 95 mins.
Fri. 2:55, 7:20; Sat.-Sun. 10:10, 2:55, 7:20; Mon.-
Thu. 2:55, 7:20
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Biutiful (R) 147 mins.
Fri. 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05; Sat. 9:35, 12:40, 3:50,
7:00, 10:05; Sun. 9:35, 12:40, 3:50, 7:00; Mon.-
Thu. 12:40, 3:50, 7:00
Black Swan (R) 110 mins.
Fri. noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Sat. 9:30, noon,
2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Sun. 9:30, noon, 2:30, 5:00,
7:30; Mon.-Thu. noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30
Blue Valentine (R) 114 mins.
Fri. 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Sat. 9:40, 12:20,
3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Sun. 9:40, 12:20, 3:00, 5:40,
8:10; Mon.-Thu. 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10
Cedar Rapids (R) 86 mins.
Fri. 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Sat. 10:20, 12:30,
2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Sun. 10:20, 12:30, 2:40, 4:50,
7:10; Mon.-Thu. 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10
The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) (PG) 82 mins.
Fri.-Sat. 12:50, 5:10, 9:40; Sun.-Thu. 12:50, 5:10
The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
Fri. 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Sat. 9:30, 12:10,
2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Sun. 9:30, 12:10, 2:50, 5:30,
8:05; Mon.-Thu. 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05
The Last Lions (NR) 88 mins.
Fri. 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 9:50; Sat. 10:50, 1:00,
3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 9:50; Sun. 10:50, 1:00, 3:10, 5:20,
7:40; Mon.-Thu. 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40
Arlington Cinema ‘n’ Drafthouse
2903 Columbus Pike, Arlington
(703) 486-2345
127 Hours (R) 95 mins.
Sat.-Mon. 9:50; Wed. 9:50; Thu. 7:30
The Green Hornet (PG-13) 108 mins.
Fri. 9:50; Mon. 7:30; Tue. 9:50; Wed. 7:30; Thu.
9:50
Tangled (PG) 100 mins.
Sat. 11:30; Sun. 12:30
Tron: Legacy (PG) 127 mins.
Sat. 4:15; Tue. 7:15
Cinema Arts Theatre
Fair City Mall, 9550 Main St., Fairfax
(703) 978-6991
2011 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Ani-
mated Shorts (NR)
Fri.-Thu. 10:05, 2:35, 7:10
2011 Oscar Shorts (NR)
Fri.-Thu. 12:15, 4:30, 9:00
2011 Oscar Shorts: Animated (NR)
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Fri.-Thu. 10:05, 2:35, 7:10
2011 Oscar Shorts: Live Action (NR)
Fri.-Thu. 12:15, 4:30, 9:00
The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 99 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 9:50, 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40
Cedar Rapids (R) 86 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 10:10, 12:10, 2:25, 4:35, 7:40, 9:50
The Fighter (R) 114 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 9:45, 4:40, 9:35
The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) (PG) 82 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 10:00, noon, 2:00, 4:05, 6:05, 8:00, 9:45
The King’s Speech (R) 111 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 9:55, 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05
True Grit (PG-13) 110 mins.
Fri.-Thu. 12:05, 2:20, 7:20
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202/966-1027.
20+ yearS cleanIng Expe-
rience in the Washington Dc
metropolitan area. Your place
have never been cleaned like
this before. can provide refer-
ences upon request. Great rate!
call rosario at 703-581-0769 or
email at bcitan@gmail.com.
fundraISIng/non-profIt/
grantWrIter md-dc-va
lookIng for fiscal sponsor and
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non-profits-businesses-organi-
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other non-profit/for-profit needs/
available for paying office/IT-
administrative/website position.
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In tySonS corner, well-
established facility with more
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cozy place with a young staff.
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call 703-506-0303.
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massage, end with a sensual
touch that you never experienced
before. Incall and outcall, Dupont
circle. call Michael for appoint-
ment, 202/531-6550. Visa/Mc
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excItIng man2man bodywork
“liberate your libido” revitalize
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sage”. Internationally trained,
nationally certified, Irish/Italian,
former US-Navy athlete. awe-
some, discreet well-equipped
private studio, 2.5 blocks Metro,
Ezy parking. Erik, 202/544-7905,
202/321-8439
krav maga. offIcIal
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men and women. Simple, effec-
tive, easy to learn, great total
body workout. $20 intro special
includes orientation and 2 begin-
ner classes. Monkey Bar Gym
conditioning Program, $59/mo.
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an, Downtown upscale location
close to Metro. available day-
time/early evening by appoint-
ment. 202/427-2770
moon tHerapy at Tyson’s
corner. Visit our attractive,
friendly, experienced, licensed
professional asian massage
therapists today! No appoint-
ments needed. Open daily from
10am-10pm, open weekends/
holidays. Please come to relax
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Free dry sauna, and shower.
703/288-0202, 8453-I, Tyco
road, Vienna, Va 22182.
Soft, but Strong touch
by magic hands goes gently
through your muscles. russian
female therapist offers full-body
massage. 4 hands possible.
Incalls/outcalls. contact Yana at
202/352-5382.
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research study. Volunteers should be between the
ages of 18-45, in good general health and taking
no regular medications. Testing will take place at
the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and
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procedures. Travel expenses will be covered.
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full body maSSage for
men by inshape masseur. David,
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they are trained in the ancient
art of Oriental body-work, bet-
ter than any massage, you have
ever experience! rate: $125/1.5
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20850
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in addition to dating advice, we
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vidual dating and pickup tips,
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sage. We offer therapeutic and
Swedish full body massage for
your personal needs and pref-
erence. Book an appointment
today 301/718-1808 www.Mas-
sageBethesda.com
maSSage by ron. Trained
and licensed male bodyworker
giving therapeutic, stress-reliev-
ing, sports and Thai massage,
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felling rested, renewed and ener-
gized. Please call for additional
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true taI cHI - FrEE first class!
Build health, strength, balance
and more. Taught through the
family lineage that created tai
chi. Beginners meet Saturdays
9am. contact head instructor
at 703-801-0064. www.trueta-
ichi.com
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pressure- try our relaxing mas-
sage. Walk-ins are welcomed.
Monday through Saturday 10am-
8pm. 703/359-8999. 11094D
Lee highway, Suite 102, Fairfax,
Va 22030
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coacH. Personal Fitness Train-
ing - Fitness, nutrition, motiva-
tion! Maximize your physical
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consultant Boston celtics. www.
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202-638-1708.
marIna’S full body Swed-
ish massage with a special touch.
additional 4-hand massage
available. Professional, friendly,
young, tall. Outcall possible.
11am-12am, 7 days a week.
202/422-3639, 202/384-3340.
tHaI angel maSSage the
experience of being touched
by an angel. Best of East and
West massage. acupressure,
relaxation, stretching and hair
removal. In/outcall by appt. only
703-400-0441
profeSSIonal relax-
atIon tHerapy, specializing
in light to medium heavenly
Swedish combined with deep
tissue therapy for full body relax-
ation. By a certified, licensed, and
friendly therapist at a comfort-
able and convenient new loca-
tion. Outcalls to major hotels,
evening and night appointments
are also available for singles and
couples. 202/713-3459
magIc toucH by Sasha.
Friendly male and female offer
full-body Swedish, deep tissue
massage. Incalls/outcalls wel-
come. Tel 240/505-0182.
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ation massage. It’s time to say
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enced hands, make today special,
sessions design with you in mind,
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female tHerapISt offerS
custom massage in Gaithersburg,
Maryland. Near 270 and 355.
301/461-8498.
arouSe’ Spa: $99 all day spe-
cial! come and meet our world
famous international therapist.
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appointment only! call 703/895-
7303.
free dIabetIc SupplIeS
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relaxIng full body mas-
sage by female asian massage
therapist in Northern Virginia.
Offering Swedish, deep tissue,
and sports massage in conve-
nient incall location. Weekend
appointments also available.
703/867-8993.
StartIng over Support
Group: Whitman Walker clinic
is offering a free 10-week con-
fidential discussion group for
women whose long-term rela-
tionship with another woman
has ended. For more informa-
tion, call 202-797-3580 or email
peersupport@wwc.org.
enjoy Wonderful maS-
Sage! Experienced male hands
willing & able to help you get rid
of stress, fatigue, toxins & waste
products. Dc/Va. appointments
at 703-402-6698.
orIental maSSage Spa.
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Philippines! Private rooms, clean,
quiet & comfortable. Full body
massage & deep clean body. 301-
801-0040, $125/1.5 hr. at 18552
Office Park Dr., Montgomery Vil-
lage, MD. 20876
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best! 240/418-9530, Bethesda.
joIn bIggeSt loSer’S Jillian
Michaels and clean house’s Niecy
Nash at the Get radical Women’s
conference March 26th, ren-
naissance Washington hotel. This
event will sell out get your tickets
now www.getradicalconference.
com for more info.
anaStaSIa’S full-body
m a S S a g e new in town.
Young, friendly, beautiful, East
European. Incall and outcall.
Please call 202/422-2426. 11am-
12midnight. Bethesda, MD.
free medItatIon claSS
centered around calm abiding.
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tation.html
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Orient. Let us relieve your stress
with a professional full body mas-
sage by one of our very pretty
chinese ladies. $99/1.5hrs;10am-
10pm,Walk in’s Welcome! 9059
Shady Grove ct, Gaithersburg,
MD 20877.240/888-2091
fIt perSonal traInIng
Our training staff has over 100
years of PT experience and the
highest regarded certifications
in our field. You will not find a
more complete and comprehen-
sive personal training service any-
where. call us today and ask us
why we are the right choice for
your personal training. 202/255-
7814, www.fit-dc.com.
excellent SWedISH, deep
Tissue massage, hot Stone mas-
sage or Thai massage by an
asian or European Professional
Therapist. 3106 M St, NW, Dc.
www.qispadc.com. 10am-8pm.
202-333-6345/202-333-6344.
appointment or walk-ins. ask
daily specials. hiring.
female maSSage tHera-
pISt in Northern Virginia. Swed-
ish stress releasing massage and
sports massage available. Evening
and weekend appointments also
available. Incall/outcall. 703/623-
5564.
SSWrc WorkSHop:
employment & Benefits
counseling; Wed. March 9,
3:00 p; 7961 Eastern ave., Silver
Spring MD . Work Incentives Spe-
cialist David Mitchell, will discuss
employment and benefits coun-
seling. More Info. 301-589-2303
x111. www.silverspringdropin-
center.blogspot.com
dental voIce for Mental
health, Lisa Stillman, rDh; Satur-
day March 19th, 2:00 - 3:30pm
rSVP Miriam 589-2303 x108
myarmolinsky aT santegroup
DOT org SSWrc 7961 Eastern
ave., Silver Spring, MD Work-
shop & health Booth; www.
silverspringdropincenter.blog-
spot.com
automobIle accIdent/
Worker’S comp close to
South-EastDc, at Oxon hill.
receive chiropractic,Massage
Therapy,Physical Therapy from
Specialized care center. call
301-740-8500 for appointment.
MWF 9am to 7pm. also accept
Federal BcBS.
free talkIng glucoSe
meter free grants for diabetics
800-518-8427 http://www.free-
glucose-meter-rx.com
pregnant? conSIderIng
adoptIon? Talk with caring
agency specializing in match-
ing birthmothers with families
nationwide. Living expenses
paid. call 24/7 abby’s One True
Gift adoptions 1-866-413-6293.
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female tHerapISt offerS
full body massage in convenient
Northern Virginia location near
Tysons corner. 703/505-9620.
beSt brazIlIan bIkInI Sug-
aring/Body Sugaring. all service
and products buy one full price,
the second is 50% off. www.
sueskincare.com, sueskincare@
hotmail.com. Sunrise hair Studio
full service salon. 119 South Fair-
fax Street alexandria Va 22314.
703-548-1202
let me guIde you to let go
of your mind and celebrate your
body. certified therapeutic body
work. Monday-Saturday 8am-
6:30pm. Military discount. David,
202/251-4543.
excellent deep tISSue
massage, stretching by cMT for
neck/back pain, injury rehab,
relaxation. Men/women, last
minute welcome. 7dys/wk till
11pm. 17th/Kalorama NW by
harrisTeeter. Tim 202.957.1559
www.dcpromassage.com DcPro-
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male atHlete gIveS Swed-
ish sports deep tissue massage,
including stretching, on a table
downtown. Soothing and relax-
ing environment with fireplace.
Flexible hours, shower and park-
ing available. Brian, 312/961-
7724.
Instruction
SIngIng leSSonS! dc
always dreamt of singing? Learn
correct technique, fix vocal prob-
lems, learn songs, style musician-
ship, performance opportunities.
all ages, styles, levels. “have the
voice you’ve always dreamed
of”. Sidra rausch, 202/492-
3172, sidra.sings@comcast.net,
www.creativemusicproductions.
com.
audIo engIneerIng
courSeS Learn “hands-on”
sound engineering “one-on-
one” with a platinum-winning
engineer/instructor at cue
Studios’ professional recording
facilities. Flexible scheduling/
sensible rates. Pro Tools, signal
processing, mic placement, and
much more! www.learnstu-
diorecording.com Falls church,
Va 703/532-9033
Egg Donors
Needed
Financial Compensation begins at $8,000
If you are a healthy woman between
the ages of 20-29 and would like to help
infertile couples please email
info@dominionfertility.com
patIent pIano teacHer
I enjoy teaching both children
and adults, beginners and those
returning to the piano. Off-street
parking for students at NWDc
studio near Metro. 202-234-
1837
guItar leSSonS 202-234-
1837 rock, classical, folk. Begin-
ners welcome. Play a song your
first lesson. NWDc studio with
off street parking near Metro.
learn guItar today!
Guitar instruction: robert Fiester
teaches all styles/levels. 20+
years experience. Technique,
theory, chords, scales, improv,
songs. Make your guitar sing!
www.funkyguitar.com, 301/262-
0522.
Volunteers
St. coletta of Greater Wash-
ington offers volunteer services
to other non-profit organiza-
tions needing help with mailings,
shredding, filing, organizing and
assembling projects, etc. Please
call Joe at 301-816-2180 or email
joseph.mcredmond@stcoletta.
org to request volunteers.
joIn cHarlIe’S place in the
fight against homelessness. To
volunteer, please visit our website
at www.charliesplacedc.org or
call 202-232-3066.
2.23.2011 Help! SenIor/
non-drIver seeks volunteer
assist downsize/trade/barter/recy-
cle items stored: clean soft-toys =
Disney, collectibles/linens, com-
forters. 2 hand-made adirondack
chairs, mirrored headboards,
dorm-trunks, champion Juicer,
utensils. 202/973-2102 No long-
distance!
Help an adult learn to read,
write or speak English. Volun-
teer tutor information sessions
are held on an ongoing basis.
registration is required. call
301-610-0030 or email info@
literacycouncilmcmd.org
defend abortIon rIgHtS.
Washington area clinic Defense
Task Force, WacDTF, needs vol-
unteer clinic escorts Saturday
mornings, weekdays. Trainings,
other info: 202/797-6577, http://
www.wacdtf.org, wacdtf@
wacdtf.org.
dog WalkerS needed!
Friends of homeless animals, a
non-profit, no-kill animal rescue,
needs strong dog walkers week-
ends at our Loudoun county
shelter. cat people needed too!
Must be 18. For more informa-
tion visit www.foha.org.
volunteer for adult lit-
eracy! You really can make a dif-
ference in someone’s life. Tutor-
ing and teaching opportunities
available in Northern Virginia.
For info, contact Belle, 703/237-
0866, volunteers@lcnv.org, or
visit www.lcnv.org.
fInd out about Exciting
Peace and Justice Events In Dc
area by Visiting www.Laaa.MP
Blog and Twitter.com/SeePeace
and Join Us. Please Support The
Peace Movement and Share the
sites with your Friends
volunteer docentS
needed at Gadsby’s Tavern
Museum to give tours and assist
with public programs. Share your
love of history with the public!
For more information call Michele
Longo at 703/746-4242 or visit
www.gadsbystavern.org.
1-2-1 mentorIng pro-
gram in Falls church, Va is
looking for volunteer mentors.
age 21+, commitment of 1 year,
Thursdays 4-6 pm. Mentees in
middle school. call Jessica at
703/219-2106 or e-mail jreyes@
nvfs.org.
pHoenIx rISIng volun-
teerS. Franconia United Meth-
odist church, 6037 Franconia
road, alexandria, serves bagged
meals to homeless fourth Friday
of the month 5:30 pm, and pre-
pare meals the Thursday before
6:30 pm. call 703 971-5151.
volunteerS needed for
capitol Visitor center. help us to
enhance the Visitor Experience
at the capitol! Please contact
Volunteer coordinator at 202-
593-1774 or cvcvolunteer@
aoc.gov
oldIeS but goodIeS cOcK-
Er SPaNIEL rEScUE is hosting an
adoption event where you will
meet the most adorable cockers
of all ages. www.cockerspaniel-
rescue.com
Employment
fIlm promo vIdeo $600
Saturday afternoon. 5 cast mem-
bers involved with blogging Pr
media, sipping lounge cocktails
discussing headlines. Provide
lighting. 3 cameras. mixed
down dvd or card. Free adver-
tising negotiable. Bi-monthly
gig. eve@sipwithsocialites.com
202/649-0797
dc baSed radIo station, The
Flow, is looking for sales & pro-
motions people. Serious inqui-
ries only. Fun environment. Great
perks! Email listen@rocktheflow.
com and enter city Paper in the
subject box or call 410-982-6710
today.
glen ecHo park seeks part-
time hall Manager to manage
dance events/private rentals in
Spanish Ballroom, Bumper car
Pavilion, Ballroom annex. Work
with groups who sponsor dances
and/or private parties to ensure
appropriate management of
events, provide technical sup-
port, oversee financial transac-
tions, open/close venues, liaise
with Park rangers/Park Police
on safety/security issues, and
represent Partnership to public.
Sunday afternoon and evening
shifts. 18 years or older, own
transportation. Email resume:
agale@glenechopark.org.
tecHnology SaleS bro-
kerS Needed. Full or part-time
positions available. call 202/349-
4043 or email info@cloninterna-
tional.com.
ebay Secret drop Ship List
on cD! More than 500 compa-
nies. Super low prices. Use for
eBay, Trade Shows, Flea Markets
or Fundraisers! Send $9.97 to:
Marketing Ventures, Box 33,
randallstown, Maryland 21133
ebay@amazingwebcash.com
dance StudIo In Lanham,
Maryland is seeking to hire dance
instructors to teach dance classes
to children ages 3-18 in the art of
ballet,tap,jazz and hip-hop. New
evening and weekend classes
now forming. resumes can be
emailed to beverly.meredith@
mydancemakers.com or faxed
to 301-731-4838
undercover SHopper get
paid to shop! retail and dining
establishments need undercover
clients to judge quality and
customer service. Up to $100
per day. Please call 1-800-721-
8268.
commercIal cleanIng
contract Solicitor/Partner
Needed. Exp. partner needed to
solicit new contracts. Experience
a must! call aSL Systems 410-
988-0705
faSt groWIng company
seeking Part time Personal assis-
tant/office clerks/bride helpers.
The positions can grow into office
management and offers growth
opportunity for the qualified can-
didates.the positions require the
following attributes: computer
literate on Macs and Pc’s with an
ability to learn new tasks quickly.
ability to work without direct
supervision, Strong written and
verbal skills, ability to multi-task
and willingness to do what it
takes to get job done, Intelli-
gent, enthusiastic, and pleasant
to work with. Send your resume
to brmlnk@aol.com
medIcal bIllIng and Phle-
botomy Training Workshops. call
Doctor’s help at 301-567-5422
to register. Visit us on the web
at www.Doctorshelp.org. We
also offer staffing and medical
employment assistance through
job search.
aSSocIate producer, tHe
Joe Madison Show at Sirius XM
radio. conceptualizes, devel-
ops and produces programs.
Oversees editing & audio board
operation. BS/Ba Degree pre-
ferred. 5 years previous radio/
TV experience required. apply
at https://careers-siriusxm.icims.
com/jobs/6106/job.
keSWIck Hall, an Orient-
Express property, seeks expe-
rienced Executive Pastry chef.
Qualified candidates will pos-
sess a solid work history as
Pastry chef, ideally in hospital-
ity industry. Email for complete
job description or send resume
to recruitment@keswick.com,
or come by the hr office with
resume Mon-Fri,9-4:30. We
are located near charlottesville
at 701 club Dr., Keswick, Va
22947(434)817-7699
major aIrlIne noW hir-
ing at Washington National,
BWI, and Dulles airports: Flight
attendants, reservations, ramp
agents, Baggage handlers,
Mechanics, aircraft Fueling/Ser-
vice, customer Service, admin-
istrative, and others. No experi-
ence necessary. $14 to $22/hour.
202-973-4000.
cIrculatIon repS need-
ed. Experience reality Maga-
zine is hiring people to assist
with circulation and promotions.
Will train. Paid Daily! $9hr plus
bonuses! Part-Time. Flexible
Schedule. Plenty of perks. www.
experiencerealitymag.net call
Today 202.285.6944
pHone actreSSeS from
home. Best pay outs, busy sys-
tem, bilingual/SP a +. Weekends
a must! Land line/good voice.
1-800-403-7772 Lipservice.net
volunteer In afIrca or
Brazil community Development
with the poor in rural areas.
No experience necessary. Fees
apply/scholarships available. 9-20
washingtoncitypaper.com March 4, 2011 65
months programs. www.iicd-
volunteer.org call 413-441-5126
info@iicd-volunteer.org
earn $75-$200 per hour.
Media make-up artist train-
ing. ads, TV, film, fashion. One
week class. Stable job in weak
economy. Details at http://www.
awardMakeUpSchool.com.
310/364-0665.
janney extended day
an afterschool program seeks
experience professional who is
dedicated to the development,
education, and care of children
ages 4–11 during their out of
school hours. Must have experi-
ence in the following: summer
camp, after school programs
and Early Education. Gsitney@
yahoo.com
b e H a v I o r a l H e a lt H
agency hiring. case Manag-
ers, certified addictions counsel-
ors, administrative asst., health
Information Technician, QI Man-
ager, Social Workers LIcSW and
LGSW PT/FFS; clinical Manager.
resume to: hr@hillcrest-dc.org.
http://www.hillcrest-dc.org
back-end Web develop-
er rad campaign Web agency
focused on nonprofit sector.
competitive Salary and Benefits,
full time position. Email resume
and cover letter to info@radcam-
paign.com Full job description at
http://www.radcampaign.com/
radwebdeveloper
lIStIngS edItor-WaSH-
Ington cIty Paper needs
a listings guru to compile our
events listings and edit our
weekly city Lights arts preview
coverage in our adams Morgan
office. Online and in print, this
publication seeks to provide a
comprehensive and flawless
guide to most everything that’s
happening in town. To manage
that function, we want someone
who loves details; opening times,
closing times, venue names, ital-
ics, commas, and has a passion
for arts and entertainment. But
we also want an ace editor who
can coax magic out of short-
form arts picks, and who wants
to contribute to both the cap-
sule reviews and the longer-form
portions of the paper’s online
and print arts coverage. Pluses
include reporting ability, social
networking expertise, and a pas-
sion for working daily deadlines.
We want Washington city Paper
to be the best arts and entertain-
ment guide in town. Position
pays 30K per year with generous
benefits including health care,
dental, and prescription. Please
email cover letter about why you
want this job and a resume to
listingsguru@washingtoncitypa-
per.com or to 2390 champlain
St NW, Washington, Dc 20009,
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1991 box of 726 different cards
are in mint condition $18. Or
340 of my 1988’s for $6. also
438 1987’s for $13. 1982 stick-
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231-5335
kaceS grafIx cymbal
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maxflI golf bag. Brand
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703-231-5335
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and Dupont circle is looking to
purchase books for store credit.
4918 Wisconsin ave., & 1728
connecticut ave. Business hours
11 to 7pm 202-244-0224 http://
www.kulturasbooks.vpweb.
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pIcture framIng metal
12ft long ea., silver, gold and
black new, I have about 80 of
these frames. Will sell all for
$350.00 call (202) 285-3548
donatIonS donatIonS.
uSed furniture wanted, must
be in good condition. Dc/MD/
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call 202-239-7807, 443-872-
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you a lover of creative photog-
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original condition 40” x 25” and
when open to full size 40” x 43”
$495 call 703-231-5335
beautIful mIcHael tHom-
aS black and white stripe pure
silk chairs. Originally paid $1400
per chair but selling for $999 for
both. If interested call (202)701-
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copper pan for commodity
Scale. Looking for commodity
scale pan/plate, 9 1/4” in diam-
eter and has depth of 3/4”. I will
pick-up. Please send me info
on what you have. contact:
dc65tex@lycos.com
nIce paperback bookS - a
box of 26 paperback books. all
are clean and in excellent condi-
tion. You may examine before
buying. $13... rockville, MD.
301-762-7775
Well prInted veterInary
and small mammal books for
sale. hard back books in good
condition. Price for books nego-
tiable. call rico - pager anytime
202/405-2014.
k’nex buIldIng Set, #12147
- builds 20 models. Green plas-
tic storage case with handle,
includes instruction booklet. all
parts are in the set. Nor for chil-
dren under three. Smoke free/pet
free home. $19. 301-762-7775.
kImball pIano for sale.
$999. Upright, mahogany brown,
like new. 202/678-2346.
black metal, glaSS-
topped dining room table w/4
chairs for sale. L: 58-inch, W:
30-inch. Ideal for an apartment
or small dining room. Kalorama/
Dupont cirle. 202.270.9622.
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kitchen waste into compost to
enrich your soil. $28... 301-762-
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beautIful neIman mar-
cuS Miu Miu coral suede pumps/
sandals. Originally paid $470, but
selling for $50.Size 38. If inter-
ested call (202)701-9973.
10 SHeetS of clear acrylic
96 in. X 53 in. & 1 in. thick bul-
let, resistant, 125 lbs ea., 8 sm.
misc. sheets 1 in. thick. $500.00
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record box Sale at Second
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Drive, rockville, MD 20852
301/770-0477 thousands of
records to chose from only $1
per disc or $50 for a box of 100.
Open daily 10am-8pm.
molly Sprocket antIQueS
have moved from Leesburg! Our
new address is 126 Fairfax Pike,
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from 1700’s-1940’s 540/868-
1520 Monday-Saturday: 10am-
7pm Sunday: 10am-6pm www.
mollysprocketantiques@verizon.
net
Senator edWard ken-
nedy’S “My Senator and Me:
a Dog’s Eye View of Washington,
Dc.” autographed by Senator
Kennedy on Dec 15, 2007. also
“PaW-Stamped” by Splash. con-
tact: dc65tex@lycos.com
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point-and-shoot camera. Flash,
red-eye reduction system. Built-in
quartz date function. automatic
film loading. Uses aa batteries
not included. Not digital. Looks
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slot cars by aurora, aFX, Tyco,
etc. rainman@gokatgo.net or
703-819-1656
orangutan beanIe baby
- his name is Bananas. This cute
little one was born on June 30,
2000 per his TY tag and wants
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$9. 301/762-7775
faSt balloon ImprIntIng
and branding with your logo. ask
how fast we can imprint your
logo, photo or words onto bal-
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genre or folk scenes, illustra-
tions, cowboys, indians, ships,
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river/marine views or mythical,
religious, historical scenes, etc.
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degrees”. $25... Please call 301-
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you pay $5 for the design,
plus shirt and shipping costs.
Fees are rolled into your order.
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own personal self expression.
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cent Embroidered on tan cloth
on early 19th century Wood
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FB/GWU Metro Station. contact:
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from The Washington Post.
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Bookstores contact me at djape@
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Welcome to jW Personal
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Jewelry, Gemstone Jewelry, Sil-
ver Jewelry, Pearl Jewelry, and
accessories. high quality certified
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ous audio buyer call 202 285-
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celIng fan, 52” 5 Blade, List
$145.95, sell $50.00, web link for
more details:http://www.lighting-
direct.com/hunter-kingsbury-tra-
ditional-classic-52-5-blade-ceil-
ing-fan-from-the-core-collection/
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brand, any condition, aurora,
aFX, Tyco, etc., track sets, maga-
zines, etc. 703/819-1656
Wa x pa c k S b a S e b a l l
cardS - 1987 unopened sealed
case. Possible rookie cards of
the following players and more:
Barry Bonds, BoJackson, Will
clark, rafael Palmiero, Barry Lar-
kin, ruben Sierra, Bonilla, Wally
Joyner, Moyer, Devon White. $3/
pack- 301-762-7775
25 brand neW dresses.
casual style. Different style.
Msrp $39 each, all for $290.
Beautiful design spring dresses.
dodoltala41@yahoo.com
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adults only. nudistmags4sale@
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703/231-5335
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mt. comfort cemetery
plots (2), alexandria. Look at this
price! Wakefield section, Lot 617,
Sites 1 & 2. $2700 each or $5200
for both. Bought for 4K apiece.
Email Mr. Pratt @ noelpratt2nd@
yahoo.com
SHIrtS. Some brand NEW,
some nearly new. Sizes 2XL-6XL.
Tennis shoes & other shoes in
good condition, nearly new. Size
10 1/2, 11. Prices negotiable. call
rico, 202/405-2014-pager. any-
time after 4PM M-F. Weekends
anytime.
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first place to come to find Beauty
and Personal care information,
products and services! visit www.
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com/watch?v=g8rxhUhxcvk
recondItIoned/refur-
bISHed applIanceS.
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tors, stoves, dishwashers. all
brands, Whirlpool, GE, Maytag,
etc. 30/60/90/120 day warranty.
Same day service in most cases.
904 Brunswick St., Baltimore,
MD 21223. Serving Dc/MD/Va.
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brand neW karen Millen
women’s tailored pinstripe pant-
suit for sale for $200. For images,
see http://www.designersuits.
org.uk/karen-millen-tailored-
suit/. For questions and/or to
purchase the jacket and trou-
sers, please email pncsharma@
yahoo.com.
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WHoleSale neW prom
Wholesale New Prom & Wed-
ding Gowns. www.lamodalisa.
com or call 518-378-0557. Only
$10 per dress and $50 per gown.
retail for $150 - $2,000. Need
Space.
tIffany bracelet for sale
paid $315.00 asking $100.00
OBO great for holiday gift, please
call 301-793-1196
S ta m p c o l l e c t I o n S
purcHaSed or appraised.
I purchase U.S., Worldwide,
and single-country collections,
covers,FDcs, anything philatelic!
also autographs, paper memora-
bilia. american Philatelic Society
member. Phone alex:301-309-
6637 or E-mail Stampex1@
gmail.com.
We Stock gIant weather
balloons in sizes from 3 ft to 50
ft. 866-512-5666
treaSure HouSe Sale:
Beautiful, brand new, never
used, white Italian import lun-
cheon/dinnerware china service
from Decatur house formerly,
now National center for White
house history located at Lafay-
ette Square. chic and distinctive
for newlyweds, hostesses, new
home owner gift, etc. Great way
to add to or complement exist-
ing dinnerware service, etc. Will
agree to very reasonable prices.
202-341-5208
WII meSSenger bag, gray
and white, new, still in plastic
for sale $30.00 contact t. rodd
at butinelli@gmail.com
caSH for recordS & cDs.
Free appraisals. I buy collections
of lps 33, 45, 78. I make house
calls. No collection too large or
small. call Steve: 301/646-5403
or email: sbrumme@comcast.
net
maxImum Impact 4.6oz
cans & More! http://www.main-
labswebsite.com / order-on-our-
secure-online-store!
a Steal! neW men’s suit with
tags and seams - JOS. a Bank
“Signature” collection, 2-but-
ton black, size 38, waist 32, all
new & unaltered. Unworn. Will
email PDF of price tag, $795.
asking $114. noelpratt2nd@
yahoo.com
b e a u t I f u l c a p ta I n ’ S
cHaIr - The Boling chair co.
Siler city, Nc. This leading pre-
mier manufacturer used finest
White Oak to produce Pattern
6711 - Walnut finish. Sells $1100
retail. comfortably seats a 300
pounder. $229, firm. 301/762-
7775
boat & breakfaSt “La Bella
Vita” on the Bay hailing out of
Solomons Island, Maryland on
a beautiful yacht. Tell them
you saw it here. www.arbanY-
achtcharters.com romantic
Day Gift certificates available!
443/404-1559
Wanted ISraelI paInt-
IngS, Judaica Paintings,
american paintings, hungar-
ian Paintings,Ivory, Jade Polish
Paintings, Judaica, Bezalel items.
We also buy paintings that need
restoration. Please send info to
art53588@gmail.com
good coucH/W HIdeWay
bed for free. Needs new cushion
covers. available for your pickup
on 28 March 2011. My address
is: Springfield, Va 22150. My
phone is: 703-569-5576. Larry
Goldschmidt is my name.
antIQue golden oak
sideboard buffet- 48”w 72”h
22”d with beveled mirror, exc
restored condition! $850 call
703/231-5335
Sort-of-vIntage clotH-
Ing noW looking for summer/
spring clothing consignments.
We love great quality, great fun,
great condition, great labels.
Sort-of-Vintage at 4918 Wis-
consin ave., NW Tenleytown/
Friendship heights. 202-244-
0224 http://kulturasbooks.
vpweb.com/
2 glaSS top endtables/sofat-
able-$40 Sits on marble block.
Gateway computer-XP Profes-
sional-$90. Queen Br set-$300,
headboard, mattress, boxspring,
bedframe, dresser/mirror, night-
stand, lamp, linen set. Twin Br
set-$200, cherry, headboard/
footboard, mattress, boxspring,
rails/slats, nightstand, lamp.
gjhart58@yahoo.com, 301/653-
3689.
commuter bIcycle WItH
lock and lights, and helmet, in
excellent riding shape. Schwinn
world sport. also could use as
racing bike. 571/239-2394
WIcker Headboard
and Wicker Dresser. $125 for
either,$225 for both, firm/cash.
These are quality wickers in Show
room condition. Pictures at
citypaper online. mycraigslistac-
count2011@hotmail.com
We Stock a full line of latex
free and non latex balloons.
Excellent substitute if your aller-
gic to latex balloons. Balloons
sold plain or with printing. ask
for bulk discounts. Open 7 days.
(866) 512-5666.
Wanted ISraelI & WaNTED
Israeli & Jewish paintings Polish
Paintings school of paris paintings
Bezalel Items ,judaica antiques
,silver , jade , ivory please send
info to art53588@gmail.com or
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Mixed years 1965-70 40% Silver.
20 coins roll. Each contains .1479
ounces pure silver, roll of 20 coins
contain 2.958 ounces silver. Sell-
ing price just increased to $95.04
per roll. 301-762-7775.
SellIng all my shoes and
sandals. Brands include BcBG
runway, DKNY, Nine West, Via
Spiga, Miu Miu, Gucci. Prices
range from $15 to $50. If inter-
ested call (202) 701-9973.
toppS football cardS -
1991 Factory Set in Mint con-
dition. 660 cards in this set.
Includes Joe Montana, Dan
Marino, Emmett Smith, Elway
and more. $30. 301/762-7775.
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Sonja dIamond mIneS is
having Silver, clothing, hand-
bags, Decor, Shoes Sale. 30%-
70% below retail prices april
16th-17th 10am-6pm (717)
314-7266 Georgetown Univer-
sity hotel and conference center
3800 reservoir rd, NW Washing-
ton Dc 20057 Free Parking
“modern SIren” by rorie
ray, DVD, For Sale includes book-
let, used once. Best offer. 703-
957-6429 catin.egypt@yahoo.
com. also have “Targeting Mr.
right”. Deal for both! Gotta
pay rent!
antIQue SIlvertone table
top Victrola excellent condition!
$595 call 703-231-5335
Computers
do you Have a taco cart,
lunch truck, or other concessions
business? I have the domain
name for you! www.MyTacocart.
com asking $499 obo over $49.
Visit MyTacocart.com and click
the domain for sale link.
Hp color laSer Jet cP 1215
Printer. asking price is $200-
250 or best offer. contact Ms.
Wilkerson @ 202-561-7510.
In good condition; need toner
cartridges.
Garage,
Estate, Yard
Sales
Huge annual rummage
SaLE. Save the date! Benefits
Bannockburn Nursery School,
Saturday, March 12, 9am to 1pm.
Stuff For all at great prices. Mark
your calendars now! Questions?
call 301-320-4252.
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not available in crates & kennels.
Expert advice given to your dog
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de regalar una mascota! Esta
persona desea realmente una
mascota? Va a vivir por muchos
anos! Pienselo Dos Veces antes
de tomar la decision! Un animal
es una vida preciosa!
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guInea pigs, hamsters, mice,
rats for adoption. Small angels
rescue 301-668-0404 info@
smallangelsrescue.org
Save a lIfe! Open up your
heart & home to a rescued cat
awaiting adoption. all you need
is a little extra room & a lot of
love. We provide starter supplies;
vet care. www.homealone.pet-
finder.com
jacob, a 2-3 year old, black
and white am Staff for adop-
tion: friendly, housetrained,
neutered, microchipped, knows
commands. http://www.home-
wardtrails.org
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care. http://www.thepawkeep-
ers.com/
tHInk tWIce! gIvIng
someone a Pet as a Gift? are
they committed to caring for it
for its lifetime? Many unwanted
“Gift” Pets end up euthanized at
animal shelters, or abandoned to
a worse fate.
fabulouS felIne adop-
tIon Event. rescued cats & Kit-
tens ISO forever homes; Sunday
12n-3p; chateau animau, 733
8th St. SE; capitol hill; near East-
ern Market Meto http://www.
homealone.petfinder.com
pet SupplIeS delIvered to
your door www.DogsrUsLLcS-
tore.com put a smile on your best
friends face.
t H e pa W k e e p e r S . c o m
bed&bIScuIt for thepaw-
keepers.com Bed&Biscuit for
Dogs The Pawkeepers have a
mission to provide an alternative
to crating and caging your family
pet. The Pawkeepers provide lov-
ing families for customer’s pets in
private homes.
Crafty
Bastards Arts
& Crafts
troy montana jeWelry -
Specializing in handmade State-
ment Oriented Jewelry. Voted
“Best Place to Buy Jewelry” in
the 2010 “Best of Dc”. Please
vote for me now for 2011. Link
is on my website. www.TroyMon-
tanaJewelry.com
vendorS Wanted!
announcIng the opening of
new open-air markets in heart
of Dc. Liberty North community
Market right by the new Safeway
and Bus-boys and Poets by New
York and Mass ave. opening
soon. Looking for the follow-
ing: arts/crafts, photography-
ceramics and classes fashion,
jewelery, food, collectibles,
furniture/antiques, bakery, cof-
fee/tea, produce, lighting/home
decor, perfumes/cologne, other
interesting products/services.
E-mail contact information at
chefkenac@yahoo.com or call
571-432-9998. all vendors
accepted will have option of
applying for Liberty Market SW
at the water front harbor due to
open in Spring. Visit www.liber-
tynorthcommunitymarket.com
to submit your application.
InvItaIonS, cardS, and
Jewelry: all hand-made hoshika’s
pretty and playful crochet jewelry
& whimsical cards! Please visit:
http://hoshikacards.com/
beSt of baltImore 2008!
Sweet Pepita is handmade
one-of-a-kind apparel. Sewn in
Baltimore from recycled t-shirts
and 100% organic cotton. Shop
sweetpepita.com
unexpected collage art,
cards, and colorful Jewelry by
heidi Leech. Thoughtfully com-
posed, sometimes zany, stitched
collage art for a wall or journal
cover, styro print and illustration
cards, and colorful, geometry-
inspired jewelry at www.hei-
dileech.etsy.com.
nanjodogz polymer
clay dog sculpture, pendants,
artwork, beads with the main
focus on the dog in various
breeds. We also create other
adorable critter beads. custom
orders welcome. Visit my shop
at: http://nanjodogz.etsy.com
beyond form: expreSS-
Ing art exhibit at Del ray
artisans runs 3/4-3/27/11.
reception, Friday 3/4, 7-10 pm.
all-media show exploring the
color, energy and simplicity inher-
ent in abstract artwork. Details at
www.TheDelrayartisans.org or
bplummer11@verizon.net.
come to tHe gesture sessions
to loosen up and participate in a
fun, fast-paced drawing expe-
rience. Drop-in, no need to
register in advance. Bring your
supplies. Dates, directions and
fees at www.theDelrayartisans.
org or Dra.LifeDrawing@gmail.
com.
jeWelry WorkSHopS!
learn to make designer jew-
elry in a weekend. Workshops,
Supplies, Jewelry Marketplace!
Beads and Baubles Festival
Marriott@Metrocenter Wash-
ingtonDc april 9-10th 2011!
class Description/Schedule/
registration available Online.
register Today! Vendors wel-
come! Email:beadstudio@live.
com http://www.washingtond-
cbeadexpo.vpweb.com
Spank you otk Even Good
Girls Need Spanking Fine art
Print signed by artist www.bond-
age69.net Measures 12” tall x
18” wide Depicts Spanking OTK
in a Loving Domestic Discipline
relationship
jImI HendrIx prIntS &
Shirts $20 Limited Numbered
Signed Edition of 93 Screen
Printed (silkscreen) prints http://
designermite.net/Jimi_hendrix.
htm
bondage SpankIng art
www.bondage69.net Models
wanted
tHe ra SerIeS Paintings - 13
paintings http://designermite.
net/ra/
artIStS and crafterS
Wanted for popular summer First
Sunday arts Festivals in historic
annapolis Maryland. Limited to
about 100 artists and crafters
per festival. reserve your space
today. application is on our
website at http://www.firstsun-
dayarts.com
WWW.kItkatkorner.com
country Store of yester-
year original design products that
are safe non-toxic child & baby
friendly made with love and of
first quality materials. handmade
crafts with bygone era prices are
kept intentionally low.
tHe tHree-Hour SHort/
long pose sessions start with
some short warm-up poses and
move into longer poses lasting
10-45 minutes. Drop-in, no need
for advance registration. Details,
directions and fees at www.
theDelrayartisans.org or Dra.
LifeDrawing@gmail.com.
StunnIng orIgInal art-
Work. To purchase beautiful oil
paintings, abstract style, from a
local artist and teacher, please go
to http://nickmoses.com/ Note
that prices are negotiable and
reduced for quick sale! Interested
in exhibition opportunities.
Surreal art: look closely
at the shadows and highlights
within the pictures, and you will
find much more hidden inside.
Surreal art That Entices The
Mind. www.russmcintosh.com
2011 ballSton a&c Mar-
ket is about to begin! Join us
on Saturday, april 9th, Opening
Day, and the second Saturday
of every month until October,
at arlington’s only 100% hand-
made Market. http://ballstonarts-
craftsmarket.blogspot.com
teacHIng artIStS
needed:tHe art + Media
house(aMh)is initiating adult
classes beginning March 7 – april
15, 2011. classes will run once a
week on Monday through Friday
evenings between 7-9pm; and
Saturday’s 10-3pm.
StIckdog rufuS Http://
deSIgnermIte.net/
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mite/7072389 Got a question if
We can do something? Just drop
us a line. Just opened Design-
ermite.net USa Blog at http://
designermiteusa.blogspot.com/
aSHIra malka’S callI-
grapHIc-InSpIred paint-
ings at Beanetics in annandale’til
March 1st. ashiramalka.com
Wheels
2007 Honda accord 5
speed manual. 12k miles 9000
orig owner. 4 door, 4 cylinder,
37 mpg, under warranty for 2
more years or 36k miles loaded.
Moving over seas. dodoltala41@
yahoo.com
1998 Honda goldWIng
with travel trailer, custom paint
job, lots of chrome and lights,
19,000 miles. Too busy to ride,
asking $10,000. 703/919-0126.
1988 Wrangler lare-
do-2.5 , 5 speed, hardtop, hard
doors, no rust, no leaks, new
engine, clutch, radiator, water
pump, alternator and exhaust in
last 10k miles, exc original paint,
runs great! $4600 call 703/231-
5335
1991 jeep Wrangler-4 cyl-
inder,5 speed, new tires, good
condition! $3900 call 703 231
5335
1997 jeep Wrangler-2.5,
5 speed, no rust, new top, paint
in exc condition, runs exc $6900
call 703/231-5335
gotta go! 2003 camry LE,
80k miles, regularly serviced, 4
door, sedan, pw windows, steer-
ing, ac, dual air bags, cd, excel-
lent running condition, good
condition overall-few scratches.
Good on gas. 8,250. obo susun-
howl@yahoo.com
2009 nISSan verSa hatch-
back SL great gas mileage,does
well in snow and ice, has blue-
tooth, 6 disc changer. Never been
in an accident and I don’t smoke.
current mileage is 22,056 571-
379-9365
2009 5x8 Haulmark
Enclosed Trailer Exc condition
$1695 call 703 231 5335
2003 toyota camry LE,
Black, 80k, 4 door sedan for sale,
8,500. or Best Offer. Excellent
running condition-great mile-
age. Excellent shape, condition.
Few scratches. ac,cD, power
steering, automatic, consistent
maintenance. Email catin.egypt@
yahoo.com
Music
Soul/r&b female SInger
looking for band. Songs written
and need music. really want to
jam and perform. Email Melo-
dee c. at Melodeecmusic@
gmail.com
WoodbrIdge open mIc.
Joe’s Place Pizza and Pasta,
13710 Jefferson Davis hwy.
(route 1 S) Every Friday 6:30-
9:30. From Washington, take
95s and exit on left. 2/10th miles
on right opposite McDonalds.
Friendly people.
SaxopHone, alto, bundy.
approx 90% orig lacquer. 5-7
years remaining on pads. Excel
condition. Incl. case, mouth-
piece, neckstrap, swab. asking
$425. call 410-795-0681.
SaxopHone, Selmer,
alto, Super or “cigar cut-
ter”, 1932 vintage. 75% orig.
lacquer. Outplays any mark vi.
Incl orig case and canvas shell,
mouthpiece, swab, polishing
cloth. Excellent condition. asking
$3100. call 410/795-0681 or
lzapalowski@yahoo.com.
attentIon dmv artIStS
For artist Networking & consul-
tation Please visit the Website
www.BrainFreezeMusik.com We
have Services available for seri-
ous artists and welcome you to
take a look!
SeekIng poetS, vocalISt,
Mc, Guitarist, Percussionist,
Bass, Brass and Keyboard play-
ers! sahsent@gmail.com
lIve muSIc every Wednes-
day thru Saturday @ the 219
club 219 King St. alexandria Va.
Blues,Jazz,Funk. New comfort-
able cigar Lounge just added
with flat screen T.V.
female percuSSIonISt
avaIlable for fill-ins. call
Tracy at 301/343-7815
SIngerS needed. roSmur
Music Group looking for vocalist
to complete upcoming project.
For more information email or
call : rosmurmusicgroup@gmail.
com/ 240-351-0534
beautIful “rare” kIm-
ball consolette bird’s eye
maple piano and matching
bench, excellent condition $795
call 703/231-5335 piano serial
#485267
rockvIlle braSS band
has a vacancy for good cornet
and alto horn players. It also has
an immediate requirement for
two percussionists. rehearsals
Wednesday evenings in New-
port Mill MS, Kensington, MD,
20895. apply at www.rockville-
brassband.org
aSpIrIng pIanISt/buSI-
neSS profeSSIonal form-
ing jam sessions and weekly
get togethers for musicians/
singers ages 40-50+ideal get
more playing/singing experi-
ence mostly Black gospel music.
E-mail allenk1101@comcast.
net 202-396-1225/10:00a.m.-
4:30p.m. www.WNPFM101.com
MD-Dc-Va local.
experIenced funky Soul-
ful musicians that sing leads
wanted to rebuild local working
bands. Keys, bass, guitar, horns.
You need pro equip, reliable
transpo, fast learner. r&B, soul,
funk, jazz, hits. Sam 301/248-
8866 ihadprod@hotmail.com.
rockabIlly, blueS, old-
IeS, roots rock & roll Lead
Guitar Player,Bass Player lar-lvy@
hotmail.com
Wax muSeum nIgHt club
Washington Dc that was very
much a part of the music scene
in the 1980s with national music
acts is on Facebook. Who did you
see? http://www.facebook.com/
pages/Washington-Dc/Wax-
Museum-Night-club-Washing-
ton-Dc/268980526216?ref=nf
joIn a Home Grown com-
munity. Dc’s own Musician listing
for part-time players. Get in on
the beginning. www.Musici-
anTemps.com
rap on tv: calling all DMV
hip hop artists who want expo-
sure, hit me up for a spot on
Da cipher Dc’s best hip hop
tv show. www.facebook.com/
supatim202 also check out www.
DacipherDMV.com
baSS player Wanted for
covers & originals rock band.
In our 30s and 40s. Mostly for
fun and occasional gigging and
recording. Silver Spring, MD.
alexmalison@gmail.com
WedneSday jazz jam at
Takoma Station Tavern, 7pm
to 10pm. come sit in with the
house band for some real Book
tunes. No cover! 6914 4th Street
NW, Washington Dc, www.tako-
mastation.com
SaxopHone caSe, Selmer
chesterfield, for tenor. Fits mark
vi, vii, series ii or series iii. ask-
ing $400. call 410/795-0681 or
lzapalowski@yahoo.com
Soulful SaturdayS preS-
entS line and hand dance party
every 1st and 3rd Saturday Wey-
one Sports Lounge Landmark
Mall e-100 5801 Duke Street,
ground level alexandria, Va
22304 $5 class from 6-7
brooklyn band z02 head-
lines at the rams head Live in
Baltimore on March 11th. Open-
ing bands are King Belvedere, Kill
Betty, Sweet cyanide, and One
Way Bullet. Doors Open at 8pm.
all ages show. $12.00
jImmy’S old toWn Tavern
Presents: children of the Grave
a Black Sabbath Tribute Experi-
ence LIVE 24 March 2011 Show
starts at 9:30 PM Jimmy’s Old
Town Tavern 697 Spring Street
herndon, Va 20170
Same-Sex marrIageS!
congratulatIonS D.c.
council, Mayor Fenty & other
advocates who made it possible
for passing the bill on same-sex
marriages! Let Signature Live! be
the entertainment band for your
reception. www.signaturenter-
tainment.org
tHe loneSome ryder Band
“Kickin’ country rock” for all
events! rickSibbett@comcast.
net 571/354-3352
IndIe band needS bass play-
er. Think psych soul meets psych
rock. We only want music as a
career. Looking for a like minded
bass player. contact lrossjedi@
yahoo.com if interested.
SaxopHone, alto, arm-
Strong. Excel condition. 95%
orig lacquer. Incl case, mouth-
piece, neckstrap, swab. asking
$425. call 410-795-0681
tHe pIece by Piece rhythm &
Blues Quintet, now booking for
2011 Private parties, corporate
functions, Weddings, club dates,
christmas Parties, festivals, etc.
Visit our web site at http://www.
piecebypiece.us or contact
703/777-7132.
claSSIc rock drummer
interested in finding classic rock
guitarist, bassist, vocalist, key-
boardist interested in Jamming
for weekend fun in a rehearsal
space in Falls church, Virginia.
all ages and playing ability wel-
come.respond to rlalderman@
hotmail.com
g u I ta r , m a n d o l I n ,
vocalS. 45 years experience.
Now offering lessons! Back-
ground in bluegrass, oldtime,
newgrass, jamgrass, blues, coun-
try rock, some jazz. Experienced
luthier. Scott Morgan 678/215-
3108, or scottmorgan83@hot-
mail.com. Website www.smor-
ganmusic.com
WaSHIngton Interna-
tIonal cHoruS: join and
sing a repertoire of classical
music from around the world.
No auditions. rehearsals Tues-
days from 7-9pm at the United
church on 20th and G Sts. NW.
Limited parking.
Sound & lIgHtIng rentals
for your party or wedding: music
too. DIY with BYODJ rentals serv-
ing NOVa. call 202-641-2063
for sound, lighting & karaoke
rentals for your party or Ipod
event. 24-hr rentals.
SaxopHone, tenor, kIng.
Big brass sound. Low pitch tunes
lower than 440, made in early
1900’s. Incl case, neck strap,
mouthpiece, swab. asking $750.
call 410-795-0681.
acouStIc open mIc Sat-
urday nights cee’s Fine Dining
9901 Fairfax Blvd Fairfax, Va
22030 703.293.9898 www.
ceefinethaidining.com Saturday
nights 7:30-10 pm www.nan-
cykatztriplett.com
tabla playerS Wanted.
mudpiemusic.org is seeking col-
laboration with tabla players.
Please visit our website mudpi-
emusic.org Inquire at carlosof-
mudpie@gmail.com
maurIo marcuS avaIl-
able for booking www.mau-
riomarcus.com email: blues@
mauriomarcus.com
metal lead vocalISt
wanted for the band Life Denied
- contact Mike (301)370-4139
We are out of Gaithersburg Md
http://www.myspace.com/metal-
mushroomonbass or http://www.
myspace.com/lifedeniedusa We
are working on new cD, be pre-
pared to play out as well.
guItar SetupS, repaIrS,
Building, and refinishing- Please
check my web ad for complete
details of the work I do. oipunk-
guy@aol.com 540-450-7360
female vocalISt needed
attractive, physically fit, naturally
gifted, able to travel, willing to set
up equipment for top 40 dance
band. Must have transportation,
motivation. 410/334-6242
conn/beaufort amerI-
can cHIcago Usa Mel-
lophone French horn- circa
1902, Serial #17018, Very Good
Used condition, Valves Move
Freely, comes With 3 crooks,
hard case Included $395 call
703/231-5335
doug parkS and The Lone-
wolves classic rock and r&B
group. available for private func-
tions or venues.For info Doug
Parks (703) 536-4738 Website
www.reverbnation.com/doug-
parksandthelonewolves
rock band SeekS Solid
Drummer In the Wheaton, MD.
auditions & rehearsals will be
held on the weekends. Influenc-
es: U2, coldplay, Neil Young, &
washingtoncitypaper.com March 4, 2011 67
Bowie. Please send us your Links
or other information about you.
mfmmfm75@yahoo.com
creSt v1100 poWeramp
in 3 space Pro-Tec rack bag. 550
watts/side @4 ohms. Includes
manual and speaker cables. Very
low mileage, excellent shape,
perfect working order. $275.
Steve: 703-533-2007 or email
steven_reiter@hotmail.com
metal drummer Wanted
with good double kick skills -
contact Mike (301)370-4139
We are out of Gaithersburg Md
http://www.myspace.com/Metal-
Mushroomonbass or http://www.
myspace.com/LifeDeniedusa We
are working on new cD, be pre-
pared to play out as well.
pro guItarISt avaIlable
has pro gear, pro chops, plays
Blues , Funk, r&B, Oldies, Disco,
Jazz, and GOGO. Professional,
quick study, no drama, and very
reliable. contact sixx@sixxplayya.
com (240) 533-5927 www.sixx-
playya.com www.facebook.com/
DennisSixxatkinson
cHrIStIan band tourIng
this summer. We promote a child
sponsorship program. We have
needs such as canned-food,
water, and gas money. We trust
God to provide. To learn more or
contribute please contact ban-
donamission@yahoo.com.
pa S y S t e m - B e h r i n g e r
10-channel Eurorack Mixer;
crown XLS 602 amp; 2 cerwin
Vega 21” Powered Subs; 2 Maxx
2x15’s Mains; Yamaha 15” floor
monitor; harbinger floor moni-
tor; arM floor monitor; SKB rack.
$2899 rick 301-538-6978.
formuSIcIanS.net WantS
to be a meeting point where to
put in contact all kinds of musi-
cians together. Drummer, guitar,
singer,. In short, a place to find
the musician you´re looking for
concerts, join a band,.
fm radIo boycott:radIo
stations in Dc dont support local
hip hop so we are boycotting
WPGc and WKYS. Until they
support the DMV we will not
support them go to www.Daci-
pherDMV.com/radio-boycott for
more info
lookIng for baSS player
and drummer to work with my
blues program. Need pro players
only. Play with touring acts when
they come to town. contact me
at: delta.d.studios@gmail.com
dc/md area poWervIo-
lence/Hardcore band is
looking for a drummer and a
vocalist. colincslark@aol.com
need lead guItar with vox
for cover band. Our LG is mov-
ing out of town. check us out
at TheNewDominionBand.org,
songlist in blog. contact Jay at
TheNewDominionBand@gmail.
com.
f.c.oldS ambaSSador
trombone #894441 W/
Giardinelli 60 mouth piece and
hard case, finish is in excellent
condition, some small dings but
bell is perfect. $250. call 703
231 5335
record your muSIc at
asparagus Media in Takoma
Park! Large live rooms for bands.
Engineers and producers with the
experience and talent to help you
sound amazing. acoustic piano,
drums, guitars, gear. See/hear
on Facebook: asparagus Media
Studios. 301-270-1770.
WaSHburn Hb30 SemI-
HolloW electric. Sunburst
with hardshell case. Beautiful
and lightly used. $275. For $300,
will throw in one cheap black
Fender Starcaster, a dozen guitar
mags, and a tiny Fender practice
amp. contact: stephen3636@
yahoo.com
a g t / c u S t o m g u I ta r
repaIr all kinds of repairs
for electrics, acoustics and
bass guitars including:setups,
adjustments, installations, pick-
ups, wiring, fretwork, broken
headstocks and more. call for
repairs needed. 703/221-1420
703/878-774 www.fixyourax.
com see web ad!
before and after Inter-
net radio. www.eiderway.com/
Beforeandafter.html: Medieval,
renaissance, Early Baroque,
Modern classical, Jazz, Experi-
mental, Electronic, asian. Bab-
bitt Bartók Berg Byrd cage
Dufay Glass hildegard Josquin
Lustmord Monteverdi Oliveros
Pärt Perle reich Schütz Shchedrin
Ziporyn etc.
WoodbrIdge open mIc.
Every Friday at 13710 Jefferson
Davis hwy. (route 1 S) From Dc
take 95S take Woodbridge exit
on left. 2/10ths mile on right.
adjacent to Potomac Plaza. Joe’s
Place. Good Food.
audIo engIneerIng
courSeS Learn “hands-on”
sound engineering “one-on-
one” with a platinum-winning
engineer/instructor at cue
Studios’ professional recording
facilities. Flexible scheduling/
sensible rates. Pro Tools, signal
processing, mic placement, and
much more! www.learnstu-
diorecording.com Falls church,
Va 703/532-9033
HIre dj entertaInment
that sets the benchmark: wed-
dings, reunions, dances, karaoke,
parties. Metro’s best DJ45rpm
is the big-gig DJ with the most
spectacular laser light shows.
also rent audio, lighting &
effects: email dj45rpm@gmail.
com.
tHe-o tHe beatS III www.
undaworldmusic.com www.twit-
ter.com/undaworldmusic
rIck SIbbett, profeSSIon-
al Drummer/Percussionist for
hire, permanent or fill-in - all
musical styles and genre’s. Email:
rickSibbett@comcast.net Phone:
571-354-3352.
Horn cHartS – affordable,
starting at $15. rock, Funk, Soul,
Disco, Standards, Big Band. Many
with rhythm parts and notation
files available. Inexpensive way to
increase your repertoire. Used by
working musicians. horncharts@
yahoo.com for list.
Internet radIo muSIc
station promoting venues/arts
organizations/on-air advertis-
ers/bands/open mics/needs test
volunteers w/Skype/Blackberry/
cells. Station playing mostly Black
gospel/non-gospel music 24/7.
E-mail allenk1101@comcast.
net 202-396-1225/10:00a.m.-
4:30p.m. www.WNPFM101.com
MD-Dc-Va local.
open mIc @ The 219 club,
219 King St. alexandria Va,
March 9th, 23 and 30. Pa, and
amps provided. check out the
new comfortable cigar Lounge
with flat screen T.V.
St. patrIck’S day Parade of
Washington, D.c. will be held
Mar 13, 2011. Each Sunday lead-
ing up to the parade, fundraising
events will be held at Irish pubs/
restaurants. See Facebook for
event details.
baSSISt cHeIkH ndoye &
Special guests all-Stars line-up
March 8th 2011 at 8pm: Karen
Briggs, Fred Yonnet, Leni Stern,
Lao tizer and Tosin aribisala. buy
tickets: www.bluesalley.com
202-337-4141
muSIcIantempS.com IS
neW, local and growing. Look
here first to find that player you
are missing. Become a valued
member of our home Grown
community!
“attentIon”attentIon”
tHe goSpel band the choozen
instrument is seeking a male or
female leadsinger please help
us. call rev brown at 1-571-722-
5006
StrIctly buSIneSS band
searching for serious Guitarist
& Male Singer most have own
transportation. Playing funk,
r&B, Souther n Soul-Maze,
cameo, Marvin Gaye, Lakeside.
contact Donnell cox at 301/278-
5133.
need a baSS Player? cool
Local Bassist looking to have
fun and audition for a band. call
240-388-1416.
d r u m m e r ava I l a b l e
for gigs, sessions and short
tours. Years of pro experience,
pro gear and reliable transpo.
clicktrack,sequence,jazz r&b,
blues,oldies, neo, gospel, go-go,
african, classicrock. Nucleus
301/379-8410, 301/248-8866
ihadprod@hotmail.com
neW HarveSt band in
search of bass player and horn
player. 202-710-0055.
rISe band & Show is a 10 pc.
reasonably priced group avail-
able for bookings playing all your
favorite Motown & r&B hits from
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a famIly of 2 professors
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going to Dc for a conference,
hoping to stay approximately
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rent starting late april. Minimum
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of Florida ave. call Sarah 248-
890-4825.
Housing for
Rent Studio
petWortH. 614 longfel-
loW St. NW. 1 efficiency apt.
available. $650/mo. New ceramic
tile and kitchen, newer washer/
dryer in laundry room, newer
W/W carpeting, gas heat/cooking
utility included. close to Takoma
Park, Ft. Totten Metro subway,
and Georgia ave. corridor. For
more info contact Byron Perkins,
202/276-5594.
glover park. 2626-2634
Tunlaw rd. NW. Freshly redeco-
rated studio from $985/mo. utili-
ties included. Excellent location,
walk to shopping & restaurants.
No pets. 1 year lease. call char-
lie, 202/338-1054. EhO. Phillips
realty Management, LLc.
bedroom WItH lIvIng
room for rent, $500/mo. elec-
tricity, parking, laundry, cable
included. 1 block from Metro sta-
tion. 202-702-3956. 2501 crest
ave, cheverly, MD 20785.
dupont cIrcle - 1425 17th
St. NW. Freshly redecorated stu-
dio. From $1285/mo. all util. incl.
No pets. call Joe 202/232-4641,
EhO Phillips realty Mgmt, LLc.
tHe cromWell- Sunny
and Spacious Studio apartments
from $950 available immediately,
located in the vibrant Northwest
Washington. all Utilities includ-
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spacious floor plans and central
air. call 202-688-3349 for more
information. Borger Manage-
ment, Inc.
Housing to
Rent One
Bedroom
16tH Street nW 1Br, 2Ba.
Washer/dryer, cac. Parking
available. Minutes walk to rock
creek Park and Walter reed
hospital. convenient for trans-
portation. Separate entrance.
available immediately. $885/
mo. 301/602-6096
one room for rent $650
a month Pennsylvania ave.&
Branch, S.E. Quiet neighborhood.
close to bus/subway. Furnished
bedroom with use of Kitchen.
301-529-0003
upper conn ave/nW - 1Br,
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$1950 1br cleveland Park/
Van Ness metros. hardwood
Floors, Eat-in Kitchen, high ceil-
ings, W/D, Dishwasher, Gym. 1-yr
lease. cats OK. (415) 513-6136.
alexandrIa condo
mInuteS from Dc and Pen-
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er Dryer, free shuttle to Metro.
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1530 rHode ISland, NE - 1
bedroom - On special $800 plus
utils. beautiful basement level
apt available aSaP! Upgraded
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On-site laundry, parking avail-
able $50/mo. 15 mins to rhode
Island Metro and Shopping
center. 202-315-1103 www.
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brookland/ cua metro.
One bedroom apt. washer/dryer,
$800/mo. plus gas and elec.
available January. 301/598-6231.
Quiet building.
mInuteS from george-
toWn 4550 Macarthur Blvd.
NW. redecorated 1Br apartment
in very clean building in a great
neighborhood $1145/mo. al
utilities included. No pets. call
charlie 202-338-1054. EhO Phil-
lips realty Management LLc.
petWortH. 614 longfel-
loW St. NW. 1Br apt. available.
$875/mo. Newer W/D in laundry
room, newer W-W carpeting,
newer ceramic tile in kitchen
and Ba, gas heat/cooking utility
included. close to Takoma Park,
Ft. Totten Metro, and Georgia
ave. corridor. For more info
contact Byron Perkins, 202/276-
5594.
In tHe Heart of adams
Morgan nice 1 bedroom apart-
ment with, hardwood floors,
skylight, walk-in closet, Balcony,
great view of adams Morgan.
$1795.00 per month call Sperry
Van Ness 703-734-2822
ta k o m a d c 1 b r / d e n
apartment top floor of house,
separate entrance, a/c, ceiling
fans, W/D access, small pets OK.
close to stores, old town Takoma
Park, bus lines, 15min walk to
Metro. $950/mo. +1/2 utilities.
202-291-6480
college park, green Line
Metro, 1 Br, living, dining area,
kitchen, 1Ba. 1.5 blocks from
college Park Metro station.
Quiet building, parking, $875/
mo. includes heat and water.
Direct TV available. FiOS. Laun-
dry in building. 1 year lease, 1
month security deposit. Mgr.
301/277-1755.
1bedroom apartment
WItH 1bath In capitol hill for
sublet. apartment is few mins
to white house. contact me on
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dupont cIrcle 2-level
loft furnished for 3,000/month.
amazing location at 18th & r St
NW and apartment is fabulous.
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to get photos and schedule an
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affordable 1 bedroom apt in
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Movement, transportation,
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301.442.4232; steve.communi-
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nW dc SpecIal nice 1 bed-
room apartment with breakfast
bar, hardwood floors, skylights,
walk-in closet, ceiling fans. Quiet
building, near train and bus lines.
Partially furnished optional. $950/
mo. call 301/262-9123.
Housing to
Rent Two
Bedroom
randle HIgHlandS/Se -
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neWly renovated 2 bed-
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/patio. anathai@waldemgmt.
com
16tH Street, nW Dc, 2Br
and 2Ba, washer/dryer, wood
floor, cac. New kitchen and
appliances, parking available.
Quiet residential neighborhood.
Minutes walk to rock creek
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convenient for transportation,
available immediately. $1295/
mo. 301/602-6096
avaIlable for leaSe is a
spacious 2 bedroom apartment.
Well equipped with dishwasher
and a large closet space in a
luxury building, the amenities
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202/362-9441, ext. 16.
2br apartment 1ba Florida
ave., U St. $1200/mo. + utils.
2nd floor townhouse. Immedi-
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Metro, nice neighborhood, off
street parking, hWF. 302 Florida
ave. NW. 202/723-7547, naha-
rt42@hotmail.com.
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Borger Management, Inc.
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bedroom 4.5 bath home great
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close to FDa & Fed & Naval Sur-
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3808
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