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A D.C. Cocktail Bar Takes on Taboos
One of Washington, D.C.’s best cocktail bars is Silver Lyan, the only U.S. outpost for award-winning British bar maestro Ryan “Mr Lyan” Chetiyawardana’s cocktail empire. The bar, which is located inside a subterranean vault in a bank that has been converted into a chic downtown hotel, is renowned for its elaborate techniques, its cleverly referential cocktails—one recent drink was designed to mimic a half-smoke, Washington, D.C.’s signature chili dog—and its themed menus.
Over the summer, the bar unveiled its newest menu, devoted to exploring taboos. On this menu, there are drinks devoted to cannibalism, nipples, unspeakable words, and outlawed substances.
For example, there’s the Banned in Boston, which consists of Patrón reposado tequila, pawpaw amazake, cornflake Froyo, white cacao absinthe, and silver pepper mix. Even if you aren’t familiar with most of the ingredients, all you need to know is they’re all part of a high-concept story in a glass.
The drink was inspired by the so-called forbidden fruit effect. As a post on the bar’s Instagram feed explained, “Multiple psych studies have shown that limiting access to something only makes it more desirable—the more you tell people they can’t have something, the more they want it—and the allure of the unattainable has been exploited by canny marketers for centuries.” And thus, multiple ingredients in the cocktail are derived from substances that have either been banned or have been associated with the Garden of Eden, where Eve was tempted to eat a fruit from a particular tree after being told not to.
Pawpaws, for example, are Missouri’s official state fruit, and Missouri is where members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe the Garden of Eden existed. The pawpaws in the drink come from a farm in Ohio, however, and are combined with mango, banana, koji rice, and vodka. And that’s just one part of the drink.
The cornflake Froyo, meanwhile, is a nod to John Harvey Kellogg, a Progressive leader in the late 1800s and early 1900s who advocated abstinence from sex, insisting it provided health benefits. For the drink, cornflakes and whole milk are combined into cereal milk, then added to Greek yogurt, which is then garnished with peppercorns.
If this sounds exhaustingly elaborate, have no fear; the drink itself is creamy and chilled and layered with delicious, unexpected flavors. It’s so unusual, and so good, that it’s not too hard to imagine the drink being, well, banned in Boston, a mid–20th century phrase that achieved meme status referencing the New England city’s historical propensity to ban books, music, movies, and other artistic works with supposedly objectionable content.
The good news? The Banned in Boston is available for drinking in Washington, D.C.
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Jaemi Theatre Company, a new AAPI-led theater company based in Washington, DC, officially launches this spring with its inaugural project, BAAL, a staged reading at the 2026 Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival on Friday, March 6, at 7:30 PM at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
Founded by Artistic Director Youri Kim and Artistic Associate Juyoung Koh, Jaemi Theatre was born out of a recognition that DC, one of the largest theater markets in the United States, had no company dedicated to centering Asian stories or led by Asian artists. The name “Jaemi” comes from a Korean word meaning “fun,” and in its Sino-Korean form, 在美, means both “to live in America” and “to live in beauty.”
“I kept hearing from companies that it was hard to find Asian actors, and I heard it so often that I started to believe it myself,” said Youri Kim. “But through building community with other AAPI theater artists in the area, I realized the talent was always here. What was missing was the infrastructure to connect us. Jaemi is that infrastructure.”
BAAL, an original work written by Youri Kim (not to be confused with Bertolt Brecht’s 1918 play of the same name), is a body horror drama set in a dystopian city where the air is toxic and birth is outlawed. In the city of Baal, citizens are forced into an impossible choice: terminate or sacrifice a family member. The play uses the language of biological mutation and bodily control to examine how systems of power decide who gets to exist and on what terms, questions that resonate deeply within AAPI and immigrant communities navigating structures that seek to define, contain, and assimilate them. The staged reading features a cast of seven and an original sound design.
BAAL plays as a staged reading Friday, March 6, 2026, at 7:30 PM in Lab Theatre II at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St NE, Washington, DC). Tickets ($29.75) are available online.
Looking ahead, Jaemi Theatre plans to host a founding party and fundraiser this fall, and will launch an Asian Writer Play Submission program in the second half of 2026. The program will pair playwrights from selected Asian countries with Asian playwrights based in DC for a workshop development process, building a pipeline that connects diasporic voices across borders.
For more information, visit yourikimdirector.com or follow @jaemitheatre on Instagram.
About Jaemi Theatre Company
Jaemi Theatre is a newly formed AAPI-led performance initiative based in Washington, DC, co-founded by Artistic Director Youri Kim and Artistic Associate Juyoung Koh. “Jaemi” is Korean for “fun” and, in its Sino-Korean form, means “to live in America” and “to live in beauty.” The company creates interdisciplinary performance rooted in diasporic imagination and radical storytelling. Jaemi is a home for the unfinished and the unassimilated, where performance holds contradiction without needing to resolve it.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The San Francisco Ballet board has voted to cancel its upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center.
The company is scheduled for a four-day run in Washington D.C. in May.
Petition urges SF Ballet to cancel Kennedy Center tour stop as company opens 2026 season
Last year, Pres. Donald Trump overhauled the Kennedy Center’s board, including naming himself the chairman.
That led several artists to cancel scheduled performances.
A statement from SF Ballet says the group “looks forward to performing for Washington, D.C. audiences in the future.”
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