WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010


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An online guide to events, night life and entertainment


Nightlife agenda


The Going Out Gurus highlight the week’s best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties


J*DaVeY Prince. Radiohead. Kelis. J Dilla. Vanity 6. Throw all those in a blender and you’ll still be left grasping for the right adjectives to describe electro-pop duo J*DaVeY. “Punk funk” stands out as the most clever summation of Jack Davey’s kittenish vocals and Brooke D’Leau’s synth tableaus. Davey embraces the sexpot role with aplomb, penning cheeky lyrics that ride the line between sleaze and titillation while visually presenting herself as a runway-ready rock star. D’Leau’s earlier work for the group found him grounded in Beat generation sounds; he now backs Davey’s voice with 21st-century new wave. Underground and critical darlings over multiple online indie projects, they’re gearing up for a major label release. Joining them for another stop in D.C. is young soul vocalist Maimounah Yousef. Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Liv, 2001 11th St. NW. www. bohemiancaverns.com. $18.


Going Out Guide happy hour We’re not above a little self-promotion, and we think that this month’s Going Out Guide happy hour should be pretty awesome. We’re taking over the expansive roof deck at Nellie’s, on the corner of Ninth and U streets NW, and inviting everyone to join us for cheap drinks and free snacks, including hot dogs, tzatziki and hummus. But the raffle is outstanding: We’ll be giving away tickets to see the Dave Matthews Band at Nationals Park, the Tony-winning “Avenue Q” at the Lansburgh Theatre, Asia After Dark with DJ Rekha at the Freer, and $50 gift certificates to Nellie’s. As always, all you have to do is show up and say hi. Thursday, 6-8 p.m. Nellie’s Sports Bar, 900 U St. NW. www.goingoutguide.com. Free.


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THEY’RE BACK: Arlington band Unrest in their salad days.


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Joe Mande at 3 Chord Comedy Joe Mande was named Time Out New York’s best


new comic of 2009, he pops up on “Best Week Ever,” he does shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. But to us, he will always be known as the founder of the popular Tumblr blog “Look at This [blankity-blank] Hipster,” which posts photos of 20-something Williamsburg residents with tight pants, too-big plastic glasses, “ironic” mustaches and awful Flock of Seagulls haircuts, accompanied by snarky commentary. (The blog even begat a book of its greatest hits.) Anyway, Mande’s coming down to D.C. to do stand-up at 3 Chord Comedy Night at the Velvet Lounge, which is frequently full of Natty Boh-swilling hipsters. Eli Sairs, Jimmy Meritt, Jake Young and Tyler Sonnichsen are also on the bill. Friday at 7 p.m. Velvet Lounge, 915 U St. NW. www. velvetloungedc.com. $5.


Skyline Saturdays The weekly Adult Swim pool party, which made its debut on the LiaisonHotel’s rooftop deck last summer, was an attempt to bring the exclusive nightclub atmosphere outdoors for the season. But $500 minimums to be able to sit down next to a pool? Washingtonians weren’t buying it, and the hotel Adult Swim was canceled last month. Founder Eric Lund admits that the formula wasn’t right — “too exclusive,” he says. So when Skyline Saturdays — basically Adult Swim 2.0 — makes its debut at the Capitol Skyline’s pool this weekend, there won’t be


VIP areas or minimums for tables, and admission will be free from noon to 2 p.m. and $15 after that. Expect more people working on their tans than splashing in the huge pool. DJs from Midtown, Mate and other hotspots spin “sexy summer anthems” while live musicians play along. Consider this the pre-party for your Saturday night on the town. Saturday, noon-10 p.m. Capitol Skyline Hotel, 10 I St. SW. www.dcpoolparty.com. $15 after 2 p.m. 18 and older.


Unrest Reunion When Arlington-rooted Teenbeat Records


celebrated its 20th anniversary with a two-day shindig at the Black Cat in early 2005, it was the first chance in a decade — and perhaps the last chance ever — to catch the label’s flagship band, Unrest. The oddball indie-pop trio was always one of the city’s most beloved and best bands, and the reunion didn’t disappoint. Its hyper-strummed, hyper-melodic songs were played with passion and precision; you’d never guess it was their first time playing them in many years. That bodes well for Saturday, when Unrest headlines another Teenbeat anniversary show. A bonus is another reunion — for garage-pop troublemakers the Rondelles, who were a guaranteed good show in the late ’90s when all members still sported Xs on their hands. Saturday at 8 p.m. Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. 202-667-4490. www.blackcatdc.com. $15. —Fritz Hahn, Rhome Anderson and David Malitz


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ARTLOTERIA DE AMOR With the advent of a new game show night, H Street’s Palace of Wonders is continuing to do what it does best — serve up fun and games with a side of burlesque. The game, inspired by the Mexican version of bingo, is also spotlighting area artists; visitors won’t be playing with those familiar numbered disks but, rather, crafty little creations by locals, including artists Tim Tate and Dana Ellyn and arts advocate Philippa Hughes of the Pinkline Project. And to spice things up, before the game and between rounds, there will be plenty of entertainment courtesy of Palace favorites, including one of the evening’s co-hosts, Shortstaxx, and Malibu, Mistress of Fire. As for the “amor” in the game title, there’s also a bit of a dating show aspect to the evening. Prizes include a date with another audience member, although if you’re already paired off, never fear: There are prizes for non-singletons as well.


Wednesday. Doors open at 6 p.m.; game show starts at 9 p.m.Wednesday. Palace of Wonders, 1210 H St. NE. www. palaceofwonders.com. $10.


— Stephanie Merry


LILY STARK WHITE


GAME ON:“La Estrella” by Lily Stark White is one of the images used in the Palace of Wonders show.


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BACKSTAGE


Finding the right place for ‘Horrible Child’ to play: Fringe


by Jane Horwitz


Works you won’t see on estab- lished local stages any other time of year — that’s what a fringe fes- tival is supposed to be about, and “Horrible Child” certainly fits the bill. In Lawrence Krauser’s play, the darkest of comedies, parents named P and Q await the arrival of an assassin they’ve hired to murder their offspring. It will run as part of the Capital Fringe Festival this month on Studio Theatre’s Mead stage. Written to be performed as a kind of lightning-fast dialogue/ poem, in the tradition of mid-20th-century avant-garde dramatists such as Ionesco, “Hor- rible Child” is the sort of piece that theater literary managers find interesting, but not sub- scription material. Director Jose Carrasquillo became obsessed with the play when he first saw it in 1997 in a “fringe-y” produc- tion: “I tried to sell it to a lot of theaters, including in D.C., but they just thought it wasn’t for them.” Now Carrasquillo is putting on


the play himself, with perform- ances on Friday and July 14, 17, 22 and 25. Daniel Eichner will play the title role in a bunny suit (luckily for him, Studio Theatre, unlike some Fringe venues, is air- conditioned). His parents (played by Delia Taylor and Lee Ordeman) “look human, but they move and behave nonhumanly,” Carrasquillo says. Eichner’s char- acter will be “the most human el- ement in the piece.” Carrasquillo views “Horrible


Child” at least partly as a meta- phor for parenting gone wrong, or for parents “having to let go af- ter the big disappointment that their child is not like them, doesn’t resemble them in any way, shape or form.” But play- wright Krauser, chatting with Backstage via e-mail, takes a lighter view. “If I had a point to make while writing it, I am thankful to have forgotten what it was,” he said. Krauser remembers that he just “woke up one morning with the first page of the play com- plete in my head. I wrote it down and only years later came back to it (awake), wanting to see if there was any more there.” He agrees that the script is “linguistically baroque,” but just reflecting what’s been “in the air at least


since vaudeville” — not only Io- nesco, but Beckett, Albee, Stop- pard and even “The Honeymoon- ers.” (A snippet of dialogue: “Hor- rible? Me? No. Me, horrible? No! Not even the speck of a gram of a fleck of a dram of the dregs of the dreck of it. . . . Horrible, nope, not me, no way. None, never, uh-uh, not I.”) For actor Eichner, the perform- ances have to have “momentum.” At the end of a 75-minute per- formance, he says, it’ll be “fine if [audiences] stand up from the theater, shaking their heads, like ‘What the hell was that?’ But they shouldn’t have a second to look at their watches. . . . It just needs to take them for a ride.”


Forum Theatre grows up Forum Theatre, the small com-


pany that made a big splash this past season with its Helen Hayes Award-winning productions of Tony Kushner’s two-part epic “Angels in America,” heads into its seventh season with goals and ambitions that Artistic Director Michael Dove wasn’t expecting to deal with for a few years yet. It was Round House Producing


Artistic Director Blake Robison’s offer of a two-season residency for Forum at Round House’s Sil- ver Spring space — a large black- box theater ideal for Forum’s kind of big, experimental stag- ings — that kick-started Forum’s future. “We love the neighborhood, we love the community,” Dove says


Capital Fringe No. 5


The 2010 Capital Fringe Festival opens on Thursday and runs through July 25 at more than 20 venues around Washington. Proudly un-curated, the festival assigns performance spaces on a first-come, first-served basis to folks with all manner of artistic sensibilities. This year, Fringe’s fifth, the roster features 134 groups and nearly 2,000 individual artists, both local and out-of-town — some of whom tour fringe festivals around the country. There will be plays, performance art and solo pieces with titles ranging from “Slave Narratives Revisited” to “Tales of Love and Sausages.” Tickets for individual shows are $15. The box office is at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave. NW. For show and ticket information, visit capfringe.org or call 866-811-4111.


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FROM FORUM:Daniel Eichner and Alexander Strain in “Angels in America.”


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Dove says they’ve decided that the answer means putting deeper roots in the Silver Spring com- munity and having a full-time staff of two (Dove and Cain). (“It’s the big scary step that a company our size and our age makes,” he notes.) They’ll still keep to a three-play season, specializing in works that are rarely performed, and expand their programming with readings and other events. Forum’s coming season will open with “Scorched” (Sept. 30- Oct. 23) by Wajdi Mouawad, a French Canadian playwright of Lebanese birth. Dove, who will


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direct, discovered the play while on a theater trip to Canada spon- sored by the Canadian Embassy and administered by the Helen Hayes Awards. “Scorched” is about a brother and sister of Mid- dle Eastern ancestry who go back to their unspecified homeland af- ter their mother’s death to learn more about her past. Dove calls the play “a sort of Greek tragedy” that asks “What does the past


mean? Do our ancestors affect who we are?” Forum’s second show will be “One Flea Spare”(Feb. 17-March 12, 2011) by Naomi Wallace. Set in England during an outbreak of the Black Plague in 1665, it puts upper-class and lower-class peo- ple together in quarantine. A di- rector has not been signed yet for the show. The company will finish with


Charles Mee’s “Bobrauschenberg- america” (June 2-June 25, 2011), one of Mee’s pieces created to theatricalize the styles of partic- ular visual artists. Dove calls the play “joyous” and a “wonderful little celebration of life and Americanism and art.” Derek Goldman will direct. style@washpost.com


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