KLMNO . MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016 WASHINGTONPOST.COM/STYLE Style EZ SU C THE RELIABLE SOURCE MUSIC REVIEW BOOK WORLD KIDSPOST The Taste of the South Hugh Wolff led Anne Akiko L.S. Hilton, right, has one Search our article about charity gala had a crowd Myers and the National of the year’s most-talked- William Shakespeare for of 2,000 partying with Symphony in works by about thrillers in the sexy, some of the words and gusto until 1 a.m. C2 composer Mason Bates. C8 well-written “Maestra.” C3 phrases he gave us. C8 Artists with N.C. tours: The heartache Skip out or of Dixie speak out? BY CAITLIN GIBSON For touring artists opposed to North Carolina’s “bathroom bill,” a complicated question looms: To boycott or not to boycott? Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Ani DiFranco and author Sherman Alexie are among those who have opted to cancel their appearances as a show of opposi- tion to a new law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the gen- der they were assigned at birth. Others, including Cyndi Lau- per, Duran Duran and comedian Joel McHale, have decided to forge ahead with their Tar Heel State events and use their time in the spotlight to support local LGBT advocacy groups and speak out against the law. So which is the right call? What has the greater impact — an artist’s presence or absence? In Springsteen’s case, he de- cided that scrapping the concert would make the biggest waves: “It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards,” he wrote in a statement an- nouncing his cancellation. But his decision drew a back- lash of its own, as the Greensboro Coliseum reported that it would BOYCOTT CONTINUED ON C4 MATTHEW HINTON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES JOEL RYAN/INVISION/ASSOCIATED PRESS Scandals have Cyndi Lauper will use her BY NEELY TUCKER The state’s former top cop, Spencer Collier, appearance to criticize the law. roiled Alabama plans to file a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit next montgomery, ala. — In the mortuary of week. Once a staunch ally of Bentley, he claims disaster that is Alabama politics, it is impor- politics time and the governor sacked him because he refused tant to note that Gov. Dr. Robert J. Bentley is an illegal order to not cooperate with a grand still in charge, for now. jury investigation involving the speaker of the MUSIC REVIEW The 74-year-old balding grandfather and star again, but the House, who goes on trial next month on 23 of sexy phone chats to the senior political felony counts of ethics violations. adviser three decades his junior is accused of darkest blot of all As calls for the conservative Republican’s being at the center of a complex web of deceit, resignation mount, the various investigations A maverick betrayal and mendacity that falls somewhere may come from underway are heading into “it’s not the crime, between the better parts of the Old Testament it’s the coverup” territory. conductor’s and the steamy Southern plays of Tennessee its soft-spoken “Robert Bentley should not be sitting in the Williams. governor’s office,” says Allen Farley, the Re- Nor is it, by any means, over. publican House member who last year asked Reporters hound Bentley at his every ap- governor the state attorney general’s office to investi- too-cool pearance, asking about his $1,800 burner gate Bentley’s use of state resources to carry cellphones and the use of a state helicopter to out his alleged affair. The woman in question Mahler pick up his forgotten wallet. “I’m the governor. Gov. Robert Bentley, above is Rebekah Caldwell Mason, 44, a married And I had to have money. I had to buy at a 2013 ceremony in mother of three. something to eat,” Bentley said last Thursday Mobile, could face “He’s the state of Alabama’s spokesperson, BY ANNE MIDGETTE by way of explanation. impeachment proceedings our representative,” Farley said in an inter- The state House is expected to vote next in the wake of an alleged view. “And this is someone I want negotiating Michael Tilson Thomas has week to set up an impeachment committee, affair with his former senior on behalf of the state? I don’t think so.” become an eminent conductor, and the lieutenant governor has been blunt: political adviser. Probes When Bentley was first elected in 2010, he entering his eighth decade with- She’s ready to take over as soon as she’s needed. into his conduct and a ALABAMA CONTINUED ON C5 out ever fully having outgrown potential lawsuit from a his air of the enfant terrible. As former ally also loom. music director of the San Fran- cisco Symphony for the past two decades, he has become known for unusual projects, such as a signature “American Mavericks” series that has included mem- bers of the Grateful Dead, or his rather brilliant reimagining of the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, African American museum designed with emotions in mind which I was able to see in San Francisco last year. BY PEGGY MCGLONE thecivilrightsmovement.Museum “Theideaoflettingpeoplesitwitha This last project shows the officials anticipate tears, sighs and little bit of discomfort is something kind of unusual interpretive They are heartbreakingly even some anger as visitors pro- we have to do because of the stories choices he sometimes wants to small, these rough-hewn iron ceed through the galleries. we have in the museum.” make in the standard repertoire, shackles with openings that are Thevisitorexperiencehasbeena Louise Lawrence-Israëls knows which remains (as it does for just 21/2 inches in diameter. They priority from the beginning, ad- firsthand about the difficulty of virtually all professional conduc- are menacing, too, their five- dressed in the design of the build- talking about race, identity and tors, however offbeat) his bread pound bulk disturbingly heavy for ing,theorganizationofexhibitions, social justice. The 73-year-old and butter. His Washington Per- the tiny wrists they confined. De- and the text and videos that supple- Bethesda resident is a volunteer at forming Arts appearance with spite their small size, they deliver ment the displays. And now, with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu- the orchestra at the Kennedy agutpunchbysummoningthe lessthansixmonthstoopening,the seum, where for 22 years she has Center on Saturday afternoon horror and humanity of the slave effort turns to the front lines, to the encountered a range of responses, also focused on these choices, to trade in a way that no history staff and volunteers who will inter- from shock to tears to surprise. greater and lesser effects. textbook could ever do. act with visitors. The work is exhausting — though Rather than contemporary The shackles are among the “Not a lot of [other institutions] she doesn’t notice until she gets Americana, the concert featured thousands of items that will be on are taking on, head on, one of the home after a day of tours or talks. two Viennese masterworks, view at the National Museum of most difficult things society is fac- “It is not tiring for me when I’m SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE Schubert’s “Unfinished” Sym- African American History and Cul- ing today, which is the history of doing it. It’s uplifting,” she said. Small shackles are among the artifacts that will be on display at phony and Mahler’s “Das Lied ture when it opens Sept. 24. These our country and how that impacts “It’s so important that you can National Museum of African American History and Culture. von der Erde” (“The Song of the artifacts will tell stories of slavery, today,”said Esther Washington, the make an impact on people. People Some design aspects of the museum, which opens in September, Earth”), Mahler being another Reconstruction, segregation and museum’s director of education. EMOTIONS CONTINUED ON C3 are intended to help visitors deal with their emotions. MUSIC CONTINUED ON C2 MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ SU C5 Television TV HIGHLIGHTS BROADCAST CHANNELS 4/18/16 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 4.1 WRC (NBC) ◆ News ◆ Hollywood ◆ Te Voice (Live) (10:01) ◆ Blindspot News ◆ Tonight Show 5.1 WTTG (Fox) ◆ Mod Fam ◆ Mod Fam ◆ Gotham (9:01) ◆ Lucifer News News ◆ TMZ 7.1 WJLA (ABC) ◆ Wheel ◆ J’pardy! ◆ Dancing With the Stars (Live) (10:01) ◆ Castle News ◆ J. 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