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CONTENTS

9 The crisis at McDougald Terrace

BY LEIGH TAUSS

BY THOMASI MCDONALD

FEATURES 10 How white supremacists took over North Carolina

We had to find a way to do it all.

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

13 Mountain Man recasts The Fruit in its own whimsical image

BY BRIAN HOWE

FOOD + DRINK 21 Chapel Hill’s best hidden wine shop 22 A dessert that feels like self-care

BY ADAM SOBSEY

BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

MUSIC 24 Fifty-one reasons to love local music right now ARTS + CULTURE 31 An Afrofuturist vision of Henrietta Lacks 32 Our top 10 plays of 2019

BY JAMEELA F. DALLIS

BY BYRON WOODS

As magazines often do, we’ve created furniture, or regular featurettes that will appear in most issues: Quickbait, a fast story told visually; A Week in the Life, a recap of the week’s headlines; 15 Minutes (as in, “of fame”), a brief, photo-centric interview; 1,000 Words (as in, “a picture’s worth”), in which Jade Wilson finds a story to tell through photographs.

More is on the way.

We’ve also reorganized our calendars to make them easier to read. Our music calendar is now attached to our music section, and our arts calendar to our arts section. We’ve done away with What to Do This Week; instead, each calendar is designed to guide you through the week’s offerings while still being as comprehensive as possible.

We want to challenge, to provoke, to inform, to entertain, to make people laugh.

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27 Down the Road

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7 A Week in the Life

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22 Where to Eat and Drink This Week

Our solution is to treat our digital content like a newspaper and our print edition more like a magazine. Online, we’ll break news. In print, we’ll tell compelling stories with longer shelf lives, and we’ll make those stories more appealing.

The through-line is that we want these pages to be more reflective of our community. We want to better engage with our audience. We want to find more voices from more walks of life. We want to make this a newspaper for everyone who picks it up, even if they don’t agree with everything we have to say.

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It’s been about four years since the INDY’s last redesign, which came about four years after the previous one. So I suppose we’re right on schedule. In any event, I think this one’s gorgeous, and I hope you’ll love it as much as I do.

But what we’re trying to accomplish here is more than cosmetic. This is a functional redesign as well, intended to accommodate the realities of an era when news comes at a hellfire pace. So much of our energy is devoted to breaking stories online, but we don’t want to abandon the things that make the INDY the INDY: the deep dives, the probing feature stories, the thoughtful arts and entertainment coverage.

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When we set out to reimagine the INDY, that was my directive: Let’s make a physical newspaper that people can’t wait to read, even when everyone in this industry is telling us that print is dead.

And, well, I think we’ve done it.

For that, all praise goes to our incredible design team, creative director Annie Maynard and graphic designer Rudi Petry, who’ve spent months on this project and, as far as I’m concerned, knocked it out of the park.

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Our last issue of 2019 focused on 19 people who’d been consequential to the Triangle last year. Some readers didn’t approve of Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin’s inclusion on our list.

“I see you are reporting to fit your false narrative, even reinventing history with your claim that MAB was surprised to get your endorsement, though you let slip she secretly interviewed with you prior to announcing her decision to run for mayor,” wrote anonymous commenter NO NAME REQUIRED. Two things: 1) The story said Baldwin was surprised to get The News & Observer’s endorsement. 2) We broke the news of her mayoral announcement, which made an advance interview necessary.

“Let’s do some math,” adds ALLEN. “Sixty-nine percent of the people who voted for Raleigh mayor voted against her! She has no mandate. Her arbitrary rule that you can’t say the chief of police’s name is shocking and shouldn’t go unchallenged. Why are the INDY-approved councilors sitting there and doing nothing?” (As we reported last week, the council was set to revise those rules on Tuesday, after this newspaper goes to press.)

Also on the list was Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry, a justice reform advocate to whom CARTER takes exception: “Every one of us in Durham—white, black, Latinx, Asian, and any other combination thereof—is in grave danger as long as Deberry and the People’s Alliance have a stranglehold over criminal justice. Deberry has refused to prosecute habitual criminals, and by admitting that she will not prosecute nonviolent crimes, she simply opens the door to all manner of chaos, which eventually does escalate into violent crime. This city has seen 40 homicides this year and an untold number of shootings, robberies, and property crime, yet Deberry (and the city council) refuses to even offer token relief, such as actually prosecuting criminals or hiring additional police officers. The very idea of criminal justice reform is misguided if the motivation is simply to reduce the number of black people in jail. If the people in jail are criminals, then they should be in jail. It’s a slap in the face to actual law-abiding black people (yes, there are some!) to assume that they just simply can’t help being criminals because they are black (and maybe even poor).”

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Quiet as It’s Kept Holidays, holy rage, and breaking the silence in Durham

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t was a holiday, so downtown Durham was quiet. ing Authority’s neglected McDougald Terrace homes.

Completely quiet. Even the constant buzz of There are many silent ways that the myth of home is construction machinery in a gentrifying city had shattered here in Durham. But usually, you can’t hear taken the day off. All the shops, offices, and it while it’s happening. restaurants were closed. The city hushed, and Unless somebody screams. families huddled in at home.

Guess what, Durham? The screaming has started.

Or that’s what you might think. Unless you The STOP EVICTIONS NOW coalition has emerged to heard the screaming. draw attention to the fact that, all year, but especially I live near the downtown jail and happened to walk during the holidays, too many families lose their homes by on that quiet day. Given the air slits that pass for “Guess what, Durham? The screaming has started.” windows at the jail and the height of the sound, I couldn’t see what was happening. All I know is what I and have few safe options. Now, in the new year, conheard. One heart-wrenching scream and then a chorus cerned parents and community members at McDouof screams following. The sound echoed off the glass of gald Terrace are demanding that the DHA address the the empty Durham Performing Arts Center, the Fox 50 gas leakages, carbon monoxide, broken heating sysstation, the vacant parking lots. I don’t know whether tems, and general structural negligence affecting the the scream was from someone being physically harmed, physical health of residents. and a chorus rose up in witness. I don’t know if it was The bravery of the activists who are raising their the sound of protest. voices at McDougald and seeking to intervene in evicI do know that some famous prison rebellions have tions citywide is beautiful. And it reminds me of June taken place during the holidays, when fewer guards come Jordan’s poem published 50 years ago, “For Beautiful to work and the heartbreak of being separated from Mary Brown: Chicago Rent Strike Leader.” In that poem, family on a day of celebratory gathering is palpable.

Jordan honors the work of those protesting unlivable I haven’t heard any news of a full-scale rebellion in housing conditions in Chicago with these words: “You the downtown jail in recent months, but I know what I will be god to bless you.” heard. It was a tortured sound that I never would have I hope that in this new decade, we can learn from been able to perceive except for the fact that it was what this holiday season has taught us, that for many the only sound, and I happened to be within earshot. A of us, the idea of the holidays as warmth, home, cozy person screaming became people screaming. And for a connection, and culinary and consumerist cheer is only a moment, there was a break in the profound silence of dream. For many Durham residents, so-called holy days the routine absurdity of hundreds of people not even actually represent a crisis in dignity and an existential convicted of any crime, forcibly kept away from their contradiction. There are so many ways that the safety loved ones during the holidays. The guttural sound of and warmth of home, our most basic human right, is a a longing for home. fantasy right now in Durham, daily bulldozed by rhetoric Mostly, the systemic homelessness Durham reproduc- that doesn’t account for the anguish in our midst. es is quiet, easily drowned out by the sound of bulldozers, And alongside those who seek to stop evictions and traffic, and the promise of opportunities for some. It is guarantee safe housing for all Durham residents, I imagthe mold growing quietly on the walls of rental prop- ine a Durham blessed, not by the forced silence of disemerties, ravishing immune systems all over this “City of powerment, but by the peace of a people safe at home, Medicine.” It is the quick installation of a plastic gate honored at the level of our breathing. That’s something preventing anyone from sitting or sleeping in the shelter I can believe in. That’s something I would celebrate. of the underpass of my exit off of 147, and the evictions Imagine that holy day, when we can stop screamand price-outs that make such a gate necessary. It is the ing—and sing. W tragedy of two babies dying in their sleep in the last two Voices is made possible by contributions to the months of 2019 and the possibility that it might be INDY Press Club. Join today at KeepItINDY.com. linked to the toxicity of the air inside the Durham HousALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines.

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Kerwin Pittman, 32 Community activist, director of Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services

BY LEIGH TAUSS ltauss@indyweek.com

What makes Raleigh home?

I grew up here. Raleigh is home because my family is from here. I know that the different situations that plague Raleigh—be they housing, job opportunities, police brutality, a wide range of different things, from the old to the young—I know they will affect my family members.

Our roots are in Raleigh.

What’s your biggest hope for 2020?

To see better transparency from the Raleigh Police Department when dealing

with the community and to see more transparency across the nation when dealing with different government entities, especially the White House. I want the people to be spoken for more, because now it just seems like the establishment has the voice and the people are being trampled upon.

What’s your favorite place in Raleigh?

The Martin Luther King Jr. statue is one of my favorite places to go to and meditate.

I go there sometimes and sit in my car, sometimes I go out by the statue. Meditating for

me looks like me putting my different ideas, my different goals, my views into perspective. Taking the frustration that I might have felt that day, that week, that month, and dealing with different things I have going on and seeing how I can put in it a positive and productive perspective. It looks like clearing my mind, taking some time out for myself. Being a community activist, it’s easy to get out of focus and get off track because you get so invested in the different issues, you lose focus. These issues can consume you, but you can’t let them consume you. W

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‘In Poor Taste’

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very year, the state Division of Motor Vehicles gets about 50,000 requests for personalized license plates, a privilege for which drivers pay $30. And every year, the DMV rejects something like 1 percent of those requests. Sometimes its reasons are mundane: The request is over the space limit, or it conflicts with an existing plate series, or it would be illegible to law enforcement (e.g., “II1I11I1”).

But in 2018, 349 of the 1,070 rejected applications were tossed because they were deemed “offensive” or “in poor taste,” according to records obtained by the INDY. For some, the nature of their naughtiness was obvious (see our Honor Roll of Shame). Others, however, required a keen eye attuned to cultural references.

And still others seemed to blur the lines between “poor taste” and free speech.

Asked how the DMV determines what’s offensive, state Department of Transportation spokesman John Brockwell explains: “DMV checks various websites for definitions and clarifications into questionable requests to determine if it is offensive or in poor taste along with discussion of staff within the [DMV].”

Here are a few license plates that didn’t make the cut in 2018 because the DMV—which, it’s worth noting, gave out 372 Sons of Confederate Veterans specialty plates that year—deemed them offensive or in poor taste.

First in Flight

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First in Flight

First in Flight

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First in Flight

First in Flight

DMN HIPY

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NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA

First in Flight

First in Flight

FATJESUS

MADE MAN

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NORTH CAROLINA

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First in Flight

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YA MAMA

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The Good, The Bad & The Awful d goo

Stephanie Hofeller

On Sunday, Stephanie Hofeller published her late father’s files on a new website, thehofellerfiles.com. After Thomas Hofeller died in 2018, Stephanie turned over the GOP gerrymandering guru’s files over to Common Cause, which was suing the General Assembly, over the NCGOP’s objections. The bombshells they contained not only helped force the General Assembly to redraw legislative and congressional districts last year, but they also showed that the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the census were politically motivated.

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The Durham Fire Department bad

Last month, when concerns about carbon monoxide at McDougald Terrace first surfaced, Durham Fire Department assistant chief Andy Sannipoli told The News & Observer that “there was no indication” that CO had contributed to the recent deaths of two infants in Durham’s largest public housing complex. Under pressure from activists, however, the city walked that back. Last Thursday, EMS assistant chief Lee VanVleet admitted that the infants’ autopsy reports hadn’t been completed, which means that, well, yeah, it’s possible carbon monoxide played a role, after all. The next day, the DHA began voluntarily relocating McDougald residents.

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HYFRSM is disqualified due to its reference to the Drake song “HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right)” ft. Lil Wayne.

Though the red drum is the state’s official saltwater fish, the DMV notes that “redrum” is “murder” spelled backward, which was sufficient to reject this application.

The DMV points out that DASRTMFR is short for “That’s right, motherfucker.”

Honor Roll of Shame These are real things North Carolinians asked to be put on their license plates in 2018. Honest.

C0KEDLR DEZNUTTS LYNCHM0B RUBNBTTS SUK ME SUPERBVR THEBITCH TIEHRUP U NAKED? 0 FUCKS

Thom Tillis

When his primary challenger dropped out, the country’s most vulnerable incumbent could have put a little daylight between himself and President Trump. But that’s not Thom Tillis’s play this year; blind, feckless allegiance is. So when Trump droned Qassem Soleimani on Friday, Tillis went on Pat McCrory’s radio show to proclaim that it’s “reckless” to “do anything but thank the president”—a very 2003 sentiment. The next day, in an embarrassingly gratuitous bit of ass-kissing, Tillis asked his Twitter followers to “sign a birthday card” for Eric Trump, an “American Patriot.” That tweet got ratioed—i.e., more replies than retweets or likes, an indication of internet mockery—like nothing we’ve ever seen: As of Monday morning, it had 18,401 replies to a combined 732 RTs and likes.

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After a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, the U.S. began deploying 3,500 soldiers from Fort Bragg to the region, one of the most rapid deployments in decades.

The state Department of Commerce said that North Carolina added 124,001 jobs between November 2018 and November 2019; unemployment decreased in 92 of 100 counties, including all 15 metro counties.

Mike Bloomberg’s experiment in purchasing the presidency opened an office in downtown Raleigh.

Hundreds gathered at Halifax Mall on Sunday to protest the Trump administration’s move toward war with Iran. About a hundred antiwar veterans and protesters amassed in Durham, as well.

After a bloody 2019, Durham notched its first homicide of 2020, when police discovered a man fatally shot in the 700 block of Gray Avenue.

Inc. named Durham the third-best city in the country to start a business, behind Austin and Salt Lake City. Raleigh placed 16th.

All three Al’s Burger Shack locations filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing assets of less than $50,000 against liabilities ranging from $500,000 to $1 million. The company said it “overextended during expansion.” Al’s recently announced that it would add a fourth location as part of Beer Study’s expansion in Durham.

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Duke Energy agreed to relocate about 80 million tons of coal ash by 2038 as part of an unprecedented settlement with the Department of Environmental Quality and environmental groups.

A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security found no evidence that Russian hackers had breached the computer system Durham County used during the 2016 election.

The Wake County Library System did away with late fees and expanded its checkout period from two weeks to three.

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Symphoni Rudolph, the first baby born in the Triangle in 2020, arrived at UNC Rex in Raleigh at 12:17 a.m.

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A federal judge struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law, arguing that it was “impermissibly motivated … by discriminatory intent.” Attorney General Josh Stein said he’ll appeal, but voters won’t have to show ID in the March primary.

North Carolina is likely to gain one congressional seat following the 2020 census.

The Raleigh-Durham International Airport announced that its annual passenger count grew by more than 10 percent from 2018 to 2019.

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GoTriangle unveiled its first two electric buses at an event at Raleigh Union Station.

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Free Ride Could Raleigh make its buses free?

Sure. But it won’t be simple.

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cross the country, cities are looking to expand bus transit as a way to alleviate traffic congestion and combat climate change. The goal is the same: more riders and fewer cars on the road.

Last year, Kansas City became the first large city to make its bus system completely free—something the smaller Chapel Hill did back in 2002—which has spurred talk that perhaps Raleigh, with a new city council committed to improving public transportation, could follow suit.

It’s not clear how much that would cost.

Each day, riders make about 18,000 trips on GoRaleigh buses, paying at least $1.25 a ride. Those trips add about $3 million to the city’s coffers a year.

Eating that cost would require roughly a half-cent property tax increase. But there would also be savings—GoRaleigh would no longer need to print tickets or maintain ticket vending machines—as well as additional expenses, such as higher maintenance and security costs associated with more ridership.

So the real price tag is difficult to calculate, says Michael Moore, the city’s transportation director.

What’s more important, he says, is figuring out what the city really wants to accomplish: a more equitable bus system or better ridership.

“Sometimes making it fare-free doesn’t actually improve ridership a whole lot,” Moore says. “What people see as a barrier to transit ridership is the frequency and reliability. It’s not always the cost. If the bus isn’t going where you want to go when you want it to go, it doesn’t matter what it costs at that point.”

That wasn’t the case in Chapel Hill, which saw ridership nearly triple after implementing its no-fare system, says transit director Brian Litchfield. Fares only made up about 12 percent of the bus system’s budget in 2001, making it “pretty easy” to absorb the cost, Litchfield says. The town went from 2.6 million annual riders in 2002 to about 7 million now.

Kansas City hasn’t yet gotten its zero-fare system up and running, but it will probably cost about $8 million a year, according to spokesman Chris Hernandez. Kansas City plans to fund it through a combination of sales taxes, property taxes, and federal grants.

The key to Chapel Hill’s success hinged on partnerships Carborro and UNC-Chapel Hill, which fund about 64 percent of the system’s $24 million budget.

Raleigh’s fares comprise only about 8 percent of GoRa-

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leigh’s operating budget, the bulk of which comes from taxpayers, the Wake County Transit Plan, and grants.

Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin says eliminating fares would likely require a joint effort with GoTriangle. The Regional Transit Alliance is planning a study to explore what that might look like.

That doesn’t mean the Raleigh City Council won’t look into abolishing fares during this year’s budgeting process, Baldwin says. But because the council already plans to ask taxpayers to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds for Dix Park and affordable housing, she’s wary of asking for too much, too soon.

“I think this is very doable,” Baldwin says. “I’m thinking it’s going to take us a little longer, though, than 2020 to figure it out. So what I would suggest that we look at this as an opportunity for 2021.”

Council member Nicole Stewart says the city should see bus rapid transit through before pushing a fare-free system. (BRT is included in Wake County’s transit plan, which voters approved in a referendum in 2016.) That means dedicated bus lanes, more pick-up times, and speedier service.

“I think it is worth exploring the idea of a fare-free system, but we can’t lose sight of our current priority of bus rapid transit,” Stewart says.

For now, the council plans to look into a fare-capping system to ensure that those who pay by the ride don’t pay more than the cost of a monthly pass. W

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Poisonous Air Two dead kids, too many questions at McDougald Terrace

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his weekend, Durham Housing Authority officials began relocating more than 300 residents of McDougald Terrace into hotels because of concerns about potentially dangerous levels of carbon monoxide in their homes.

But a question lingers among residents of the 67-year-old housing complex, the city’s largest: Did carbon monoxide poisoning kill two infants?

On Thursday, a day before the DHA announced the voluntary relocation, residents and community advocates gathered at Burton Elementary School for a Q&A session with DHA officials, who were joined by EMS and Fire Department officials who had spent the previous week checking apartments’ carbon monoxide levels. Those inspections found six units with elevated carbon monoxide levels and 13 more with gas leaks; in addition, paramedics reported four residents with elevated carbon monoxide levels, two of whom required hospitalization.

Despite those results, Fire Department assistant chief Andy Sannipoli told The News & Observer that “there was no indication” that carbon monoxide led to the deaths of infants on November 20 and December 8.

But at Thursday’s meeting, not everyone accepted that assurance.

Victoria Peterson, a former city council candidate, told DHA executive director Anthony Scott she wanted to “cut to the chase and through the rumors. I heard that two children died. I don’t know if that’s true or not. So I would like you gentlemen to speak on that. I would like to know, have any children died? Have any children gone to the hospital?”

Scott called the notion that infants were dying at McDougald “a rumor that’s been out there for a while,” before adding that he was told by the fire department that there was no indication that the deaths stemmed from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Peterson pressed. She asked Scott and other officials if they’d seen the autopsy reports. Told the reports hadn’t been completed, she said, “So there’s a possibility that [carbon monoxide poisoning] could be what happened?”

“Yes ma’am,” answered assistant EMS chief Lee VanVleet.

Scott assured residents that addressing the carbon monoxide scare was his highest

“We will not stand for another baby to die.” priority, but that’s just one issue among many. To live there, current and former residents said Thursday, is to be subjected to a barrage of “Third World” conditions.

“That place needs to be shut down,” a former resident said. “What I’ve heard today is unfathomable. You need to contact Washington. It’s an emergency.”

The residents described hearing rats in their walls and smelling mold in their kitchen cabinets and showers, dealing with rusted window sills and rickety outside porches that pulled away from their unit’s exterior, and witnessing gas leaks repaired with duct tape. Tub faucets couldn’t be turned off for days, creating more mold.

Paint peeled from their walls and tubs, and ceilings cracked.

And then there were the sewage problems.

“Every other day, I’m unclogging my toilet,” complained a resident of Building 16.

“I even switched toilet paper.”

Equally aggravating, the residents said, are the indifferent property managers.

A resident of Building 41 said that when she calls to report a problem, no one answers.

On Thursday, residents complained about living conditions at McDougald Terrace in a meeting with DHA officials. PHOTO BY JADE WILSON “My door has been messed up for over a year,” she said. “When I call for a work order, they add to the rent [for the work], but they don’t actually do the work.”

The residents grew testy, but not disrespectful, throughout the nearly two-hour meeting. They wanted to be heard.

“We all are somebody!” one resident said.

“We are more than our address!” added another.

One wondered whether the DHA would have held the meeting if two children hadn’t died.

A resident of the JJ Henderson Towers housing complex accused the DHA of “the cover-up of black babies dying.” He also accused the city of coveting the East Durham land McDougald sits on.

“What you’re doing now borders on environmental racism,” he said. “Make the conditions so bad that it’s unlivable.

We will not stand for another baby to die in McDougald Terrace. The blood is on your hands.”

Scott denied that the DHA wants to repurpose the land. The renovations the DHA plans as part of the housing bond

Durham voters passed in November “include building on the same site.”

Ashley Canady, the McDougald residents council president, told Scott her biggest worry was that residents who spoke out would be evicted for doing so.

Scott promised that there would be “no retaliation.” He also said that “over the next several weeks,” he wanted to match residents’ work orders with the work they said wasn’t being done.

That night, a building at McDougald was evacuated after someone smelled gas.

By Friday evening, the DHA was making arrangements for all 348 tenants to relocate “until carbon monoxide risks have been eliminated.”

Forty McDougald residents and their supporters spoke at Monday night’s Durham City Council meeting to voice their concerns about living conditions at the housing complex. In response, the council awarded Urban Ministries $90,000 to assist the displaced families. W Additional reporting by Sara Pequeño and Jade Wilson.

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A Pulitzer Prize winner’s extraordinary new book shines a light on one of North Carolina’s darkest chapters: the 1898 coup that reshaped the state— and the South—forever

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n Thursday, November 10, 1898, more than 2,000 armed white men, backed by a white-supremacist state militia, effected the only successful coup d’etat in American history. They swarmed the city of Wilmington, murdered at least 60 African Americans, forced more than 2,100 black residents to flee, ordered the city’s multiracial government and other public officials to resign, more or less at gunpoint, then replaced them with white rulers. No one tried to stop them, and no one was ever held responsible.

This insurrection was preceded by a months-long campaign of political violence intended to scare black voters from the ballot box in Wilmington and elsewhere. It worked; two days earlier, the white-supremacist Democratic Party had reclaimed the legislature from the Fusionists after four years out of power, thanks to intimidation and outright fraud. The newly re-empowered whites soon passed a constitutional amendment that restricted black access to the polls and then enacted a series of Jim Crow laws that lived on for decades.

Chances are, you’ve heard something about the Wilmington coup, though it’s

“Blacks didn’t riot; if anything, the opposite is true. Even the word ‘riot’ deceptively conveys spontaneity. What happened in Wilmington was not spontaneous; it was planned months in advance.” possible you haven’t. For such a momentous event in North Carolina history, it’s seldom gotten its historical due. For most of the 20th century, when it was taught in schools, it was taught as a “race riot”—blacks rioted and whites restored order. That’s how the white insurrectionists framed the day’s events, and that’s how white newspapermen recorded it at the time.

That story is a lie: Blacks didn’t riot; if anything, the opposite is true. Even the word “riot” deceptively conveys spontaneity.

What happened was not spontaneous; it was planned months in advance.

In 1951, the white narrative was first challenged in a thesis by Helen Edwards, a black scholar at N.C. Central. Calling her a

“negress,” Wilmington officials decried her work as “distorted and sensational.” Efforts to revisit the white narrative resurfaced around the coup’s centennial in 1998.

Two years later, the General Assembly created a commission to what happened at Wilmington.

In 2006, the commission published its 480-page report, showing that the coup was not a “race riot” but a “documented conspiracy” to overthrow a legitimate government. On November 8, 2008—110 years after the stolen election—Wilmington installed a memorial a block from where the coup’s first victims were killed.

It reads: “Wilmington’s 1898 racial violence was not accidental. It began a

successful statewide Democratic campaign to regain control of state government, disenfranchise African-Americans, and create a system of local segregation which persisted into the second half of the 20th century.”

Such an extraordinary event, with such far-reaching consequences, deserves more than a government report. It deserves an extraordinarily compelling exploration.

With Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, that’s what Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino has provided.

Zucchino, a product of Fort Bragg High School and UNC-Chapel Hill, has reported all over the globe over the last four decades—from apartheid South Africa in the 1980s to innercity Philadelphia, from Lebanon to Iraq. Now a contributing writer for The New York Times, he spent three years digging into the story of Wilmington. The result is a work that not only details the brutality of the coup itself but also the context in which it took place.

Last week, I spoke with Zucchino about Wilmington’s Lie and why what happened 121 years ago—and how we talk about it—still matters.

This interview has been edited for space and clarity.

INDY: What drew your interest to Wilmington in 1898?

DAVID ZUCCHINO: It’s this hidden story

that’s been covered up and mischaracterized for more than a century—a forgotten chapter of not just North Carolina history but our nation’s history. Even a lot of people in North Carolina don’t know about this. It wasn’t taught in the schools, and if it was taught, it was taught as a response to a black race riot, where whites restored order from a corrupt black government. I thought it was remarkable that something like this could happen in the United States. I went to high school and college in North Carolina, and I never heard of it—it was never taught in any history class I ever took. That made me even more determined to bring this to national attention.

Before I read Wilmington’s Lie, I was familiar with the basics of the story. But I didn’t know about its place in the larger narrative of North Carolina history. Tell us why this insurrection still matters.

What the white-supremacy campaign of 1898 tried to do was to rob blacks of the vote—and not only the vote but the right to hold appointed or political office. They were amazingly successful. This was a huge point in racial history for African Americans in North Carolina and throughout the South.

After Reconstruction, blacks had the vote, and there were blacks in Congress, blacks voted openly. Then by 1898, through intimidation, through killing—some 60 blacks in Wilmington—they kept blacks in North Carolina from voting in any significant numbers from 1898 up until the mid-’60s.

In 1896, there were 126,000 registered black voters in North Carolina. By 1902, just six years later, they were 6,000. They ended black participation in politics in North Carolina for 70-some years.

This spread throughout the South; it wasn’t just happening in North Carolina. This event really inspired white supremacy all across the South.

What was really significant was that right after the riot, after white supremacists had stolen the 1898 election through fraud, ballot stuffing, and the intimidation of black voters, they passed a law in 1900, the Suffrage Amendment, that basically legally took the vote away from AfricanAmerican citizens by saying that any person whose grandfather or whose descendent had voted before 1867— which, conveniently, was the year that blacks got the vote in North Carolina—was not subject to literacy tests and could vote without the literacy test or the poll tax. And that, of course, disenfranchised just about every black person in North Carolina.

By the late 1890s, there was a Fusionist governor and General Assembly and a black member of Congress from North Carolina as well as a few black legislators. Blacks were gaining some political power.

This whole situation just antagonized white supremacists because, through the Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of Redeemer movement right at the end 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy of Reconstruction [in 1876] and up until By David Zucchino, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1894 in North Carolina, they ran the state $28 (hardcover) Published Jan. 7, 2020 government, and white supremacy was official state policy. But the Democratic Party lost control of the state legislature When I started researching this book, in 1894 because white populists had been I had no idea just how meticulous they so enraged by how it had been taken over were, how they planned everything. One by the banks and the railroads and big- example is that they planted all these phony newspaper money interests that they stories that said blacks rebelled and combined with were going to riot during Republicans, both black and after the election, and white, to form Fusion, “Wilmington was they were going to and that put blacks in a rarity at that rise up, they were positions of power not only time. It was a blackstockpiling weapons. in the state legislature but majority city. There They fed these stories to specifically in Wilmington. weren’t that many the white reporters coming Wilmington was a rarity at in the South. And down from the major that time. It was a blacknewspapers. That became it had a multiracial majority city. There weren’t the narrative when, in fact, that many in the South. government, which it was the whites who were And it had a multiracial was very unusual, and stockpiling weapons and government, which was it had a real thriving who carefully planned this very unusual, and it had a for a specific day, two days black middle class, real thriving black middle after the election. class, and black doctors and black doctors Another example of just and lawyers and black and lawyers and how orchestrated this policemen and magistrates. black policemen and thing was: The editor of This was a primal threat magistrates. This was the Record, the daily black to white supremacy. The newspaper in Wilmington, whites of North Carolina, a primal threat to had written an editorial in specifically of Wilmington, white supremacy.”

August 1898, well before were determined that they the November election, weren’t going to go back. where he scandalized They were going to retake whites by suggesting the city. that cases where black What is unusual about Wilmington versus men had been lynched for allegedly raping other so-called race riots is that it wasn’t white women were, in many cases, actually spontaneous. It was premeditated over consensual affairs. The so-called Red Shirts, a period of months. And not only was it which was basically the militia of the whitepremeditated, but they announced what supremacy movement, wanted to lynch Alex they intended to do. They were going to Manly right away. And the leaders of the win by the ballot or the bullet. They said movement said, “No, this is not the time. We they were going to overthrow the so-called will have much more impact if we wait until Negro rule. And they did it. Amazingly, after the election.” they got away with it. No one was ever prosecuted, no one was ever convicted. At the same time, they had this whole Sixty people were just killed, 60 American campaign of stump speakers who would go citizens killed in broad daylight. And the out and really just enrage white audiences with all these tales of black men coming federal government did nothing.

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to steal their jobs, black men coming to steal their women, But then, when the white-supremacy black-beast rapists, Negro rule and how it was incompetent campaign started, he was completely and criminal. It just built to a crescendo, planned up until the intimidated by the white-supremacy leaders day of the election. They sent Red Shirts out as nightriders and backed down at every opportunity to into black areas to beat and whip black men and threaten stand up for blacks. He realized that his them if they even registered to vote. It really tamped down life was in danger. He had been threatened the black vote and allowed them to win the election. Once with assassination. He had been threatened they won the election, they were in a position of power to with impeachment. He was terrified, and he easily overthrow the [Wilmington] government, just as rolled over. He saw the whole thing coming they had announced they would. and realized very clearly what was going to happen, yet he essentially authorized the killing You talked about Alex Manly’s editorial. It’s not the only of black men by giving the white-supremacist time in the book where this sort of racial-sexual dynamic leaders the power to pull out the state militia hits a nerve among whites. in Wilmington—and this was a completely white-supremacist militia, even though it was The reason blacks voting, blacks holding public office supposed to be a state militia. was such a threat—it was political power, but it went much deeper. It really pierced the sexual insecurities of At the national level, President [William] McKinley white men in the South, who absolutely feared black men was an abolitionist. Yet I could find no record that becoming equal on any footing, whether it was social, he uttered one word in public about the killings economic, or political. Because if a black man rose to and the coup; he just remained silent even though power, to equal status to that of a white man, he would he had been warned in the months leading up to it be competition for the affections of white women. many times by America’s only black congressman, who was from North Carolina. He did nothing. He That’s why they created this campaign of the so-called did not send troops, as blacks wanted, because black-beast rapists and warning white voters that blacks Governor Russell was too afraid of antagonizing were coming not only for their women but for their jobs. white supremacists by asking for federal troops.

That was a real force in motivating these men.

There was a Republican presidential administration in 1898, and there was a Fusionist governor who was elected with black votes, both of whom were in a position to help. The white supremacists telegraphed their intentions for months, but no one did anything. How should history look at those who failed to intervene?

[McKinley] was preoccupied with the aftermath of the Spanish-American War; I think that played into it. He had also campaigned on binding the nation’s wounds from the Civil War; he wanted to bring the country together. He saw the Spanish-American War as actually bringing together Americans from the North and the South who, for the first time since the Civil War, were fighting on the same side. So I think, for all those reasons, he decided that politically that it was not expedient to get involved.

That’s an important aspect of this book. I’ll start at the state level. Governor Daniel Russell was from Wilmington. He came from a slaveholding family. So he shared a lot of the racial prejudices of the whiteBringing the nation together meant letting the white supremacy movement. But he was a Republican, supremacists have their way. and by the standards of the day, he was fairly moderate, and he was a pretty calculating politician.

Basically, it’s what it amounted to, yeah. Also, like any He realized that blacks had the power through the president, he needed the folks in the South. He was gonna vote to put him in office. run for election [in 1900].

“It really pierced the sexual insecurities of white men in the South, who absolutely feared black men becoming equal on any footing, whether it was social, economic, or political. Because if a black man rose to power, to equal status to that of a white man, he would be competition for the affections of white women.”

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You covered apartheid South Africa. The white supremacists in Wilmington—this was a movement that brought its own form of apartheid in the U.S. for almost 70 years. What parallels did you see?

There were a couple of things that I saw in South Africa that happened in 1898 in North Carolina. One was the demonizing by race, the belittling, the racial scapegoating and stereotyping by white rulers, courts, white citizens of the country, and just day by day by day turning [whites] against the black population as a menace, as incompetent, as inferior and incapable of equality and citizenship. Both the apartheid movement and the white-supremacy movement really hit on all these elements. The sexual threat of the so-called black-beast rapists in 1898 was repeated under National Party rule when apartheid was coming into play in the early or middle parts of the 20th century, and it was the same playbook. Politically, [South Africa] used apartheid laws to deny blacks equal rights, and, of course, after the coup, [North Carolina] passed the Suffrage Amendment.

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A federal judge recently struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law, citing the state’s “sordid history” with voter suppression, so this racial history still seems relevant. I wonder what lessons you see from Wilmington that resonate with you.

I see white political conservatives still finding ways to disenfranchise black voters or limit their access to the polls. Whether it’s pure racism today, as it was in 1898, I can’t say. It could be just political opportunism. But regardless of the intent, the effect is to restrict the voting rights of African Americans, and the voter ID law [in 2013] was a perfect example. The federal courts ruled that it targeted blacks with, quote, “surgical precision.”

After the [ruling], they came up with an amendment that did pass [in 2018], and that reminded me so much of the attempt in 1900, successfully, to pass the Suffrage Amendment, which had the same effect of almost cutting off access to the voting booth to black citizens.

So this is happening again and again.

Throughout the book, you see shades of things that are still happening. It’s different, but the outlines are familiar—there’s the same fear of losing power.

I see the echoes of 1898 in the Twitter and internet universe with the rise of the white-nationalist right with the racial and ethnic scapegoating and demonizing online. I mean, just one example was when Donald Trump came down the escalator to announce his run for president, he talked about Mexican criminals and rapists coming across the border to take your jobs, and that’s almost word-for-word from the language of the white supremacists in 1898 when they were warning white voters the same thing about blacks. It’s just remarkable how this undercurrent of singling out a group as an enemy and as a target and a scapegoat continues. W

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After ten years in harmony, Mountain Man conjures the sea and stars in a Durham warehouse

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Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath, Molly Sarlé, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig at Sylvan Esso’s new studio in Chapel Hill PHOTOS BY JADE WILSON

t’s unanimous: The purpose is joy.

The three singers of Mountain Man are gathered in the kitchen of the recording studio that one of them, Amelia Meath, is building in the woods in Chapel Hill with Nick Sanborn, her partner in Sylvan Esso.

Set to open sometime this year, it will be called Betty’s, after Sanborn’s grandmother.

As work on the studio progresses, the facility is already coming to life. It’s where Sylvan Esso—with Mountain Man’s Molly Sarlé and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, along with several other friends—stayed and rehearsed before their recent WITH tour, which sold out two nights at DPAC. Today it feels good to be inside, watching the gray rain pelt the backyard garden through a window, with steaming mugs of coffee and crunchy snacks on the table. Meath, Sarlé, and Sauser-Monnig are here to talk about Cosmic Prom, their three-night concert/art experience/ silly party at The Fruit January 17–19, though only Harry Potter, cats, and astrology have been discussed so far—the idle lingua franca of a long friendship.

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For each night of Cosmic Prom, artist Nat Russell is transforming the warehouse venue into a different whimsical environment. The first night, “Beneath the Stars,” is campingthemed; attendees are encouraged to dress up like “a starry abyss” (your guess is as good as ours) and bring sleeping bags. Night two, “Under the Canopy,” whisks us to the rainforest; dress like a tropical creature and The idea for Cosmic Prom germinated bring a plant. Night three is “Below the Sea.” spontaneously, as things do among friends.

We hope you have a fish lewk and a beach “We all hang out so much and have chair, because at the time of this writing, it’s spent so much of our lives together the only night that’s not sold out. that sometimes, when these ideas come “Joy,” Meath says, distilling the point of it all. together, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where they came from,” Sarlé says.

“Joy,” Sarlé affirms, in her higher voice.

In its early days, the trio played by lakes “Joy,” says Sauser-Monnig, resolving a canon of accord, albeit prompted by an and bonfires, in stairwells and tunnels. With interviewer who had gotten used the trio’s some academy money to spend—the shows way of echoing and finishing one another’s are presented by Duke Performances—they seized on the opportunity to bring the great thoughts. Everyone laughs.

There’s a lot of laughter when you hang outdoors inside.

Most of all, they wanted to have some fun. out with Mountain Man. After ten years, “We’ve all been they’ve grown into working really hard their singular band on our own projects name, harmonizing this past year, and I in conversation as think we just wanted they do in song. to do something that Their origin story felt pure,” Sarlé says. has been polished to “We leaned into the the verge of folklore.

“We’ve all been whimsical aspect. It felt They met when like we were just kind Meath overheard working really hard of spitball-dreaming Sarlé singing “Dog on our own projects the most fun sleepover Song,” the first song that we could, like, she’d ever written, this past year, and I ‘Wouldn’t this be funny in a Bennington think we just wanted if it actually happened?’”

College dorm. Meath To make it happen, asked Sarlé to teach to do something that they called in a trusted it to her, then taught friend, the Indiana-based it to her friend felt pure.” artist Nat Russell, whose Sauser-Monnig. graphic, stylized paintings Rather quickly, the on shaped plywood spontaneous trio cutouts suggested him went from singing as the perfect person to folk songs at house parties to releasing their nationally turn The Fruit into an immersive environment. acclaimed 2010 debut Made the Harbor They gave him free rein.

“We’ve been thinking about it as an and touring with Feist as backup singers.

After the unexpected success and college, opportunity to invite people to play in a they scattered—to California, to Minnesota, collective format, and Nat’s work is really to North Carolina. But in recent years, the playful,” Sauser-Monnig says.

“And the more we can find people we truly stars have guided them back here, where Meath had established the Grammy- trust and let them run with the idea, instead nominated duo Sylvan Esso. After a pivotal being like, ‘Make the leaf this way!,’ it leads outdoor reunion show at Aaron Dessner to more exciting and expansive choices,” and Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires festival Meath adds. “It leads to the environment in Wisconsin, Mountain Man released its feeling more alive because it came from also-acclaimed second album, Magic Ship, multiple minds.”

With references such as Howard Finster on the esteemed Nonesuch label in 2018.

Now they’re coming off of a big 2019, when and the stage sets of painter David Hockney Sarlé and Sauser-Monnig (as Daughter in mind, Russell has a simple goal: to be of Swords) both released excellent solo himself. After all, it’s why the band entrusted him with this. projects (see page 24).

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“You’re going to feel the human hand, like a primitive or homemade magic.”

“I’m not the kind of artist that’s going to put on a laser light show,” he says. “I’m going to make things that fit the theme that I think are beautiful and will complement the vision of these amazing performers.

You’re going to feel the human hand, like a primitive or homemade magic.”

“Really?” Meath and Sauser-Monnig reply In addition to the Mountain Man concerts and the environments, the shows will feature in chorus.

Sarlé, even quieter: “I was also in jazz band.” surprise guests and DJs each night for “chill, Both: “YOU WERE IN JAZZ BAND?” non-required but fun dance parties,” Meath Sarlé: “Because of Roger Triptrapper.” says. “This is a true invitation to create with us by investing in being as weird and far out (Note: The name has been changed, but its silliness has been preserved.) as you feel like being.”

Meath: “Who the fuck is Roger Triptrapper?”

“They can expect to be immersed in sound Sarlé: “Roger Triptrapper was the boy I had and whimsy,” Sarlé adds, deadpan.

After this magical respite, the members a crush on in sixth grade, and he was in jazz of Mountain Man will be back to business band. He played the clarinet.”

The conversation goes like this for some as usual. Sauser-Monnig and Sarlé are both touring in the early months of 2020. Sylvan time, like it could wind on forever, a thread Esso is starting to release new music in the stitching three friends’ voices and lives first half of the year, leading to a new record together, tighter and tighter as time goes on.

Music is the outcome. But the purpose is joy. in the second half.

“We were just babies when we started out, But today, they’re just hanging out on a rainy morning, and the conversation turns to their and our personalities kind of grew around musical lives before Mountain Man. Sauser- each other,” Meath says, growing solemn.

Monnig grew up in a music store. Meath “Molly and Alexandra’s influence has been remembers driving around with a friend in a deeply rooted in my life, and I see it more maroon Mazda Miata, making up electroclash as I get older. The way you move around the songs. In high school, Sarlé recorded a concept world is strongly influenced by the people album about global warming with band called you surround yourself with. It’s really like they’ve raised me.” the Tickle-Me Hell-Nos. Everyone embraces.

Most of this is well-trod ground for the “This year is our tenth anniversary as trio, but it turns out that, after all this time, they still have things to learn about one friends, which is very significant to me,” Meath says. another.

“It is significant,” Sauser-Monnig agrees.

“I played flute in school band,” Sarlé “Very significant,” Sarlé concludes. W says quietly.

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ell into his second decade as the owner of a successful downtown Chapel Hill hair salon, David Sutton went back to school at age 50 and got his MBA. He wanted to explore options for a possible career change. All’s well at DB Sutton & Company, but he likes to evolve.

“I’m thinking about going back again at 60,” he muses. “Maybe to law school.”

After Sutton bought his salon’s building two years ago, he says, “I needed to think about monetizing the space.”

He retails hair products and some couture, but the nail tech he put in behind the reception area wasn’t profitable. Perhaps it was too obvious a complement. Or maybe the space was too much like a cave.

Wine likes a cave, and Sutton likes wine— loves it, actually. He knows it well. He used to sell it long ago as a rep for a North Carolina distributor. He’s still immersed in the ferment of the Triangle’s lively wine culture.

When he travels, he visits wineries and finds good food and drink. It’s part of his life.

In downtown Chapel Hill, where Sutton lives as well as owns his salon, he observed the residential condo-development uptick and wondered where the new arrivals were going to shop.

“Then I thought, ‘How hard can it be to get a wine retail license?’” he says.

Sutton is the type to “walk off the beaten path a little bit, see something, knock on doors, and ask questions.” (He’s found some good winemakers that way.) He knocked on doors and got the necessary papers, then knocked on more and got them signed.

Then he laid in a stock of wines he loves— and some everybody loves—and about a year ago splashed the word “Wine” in his salon window.

Now he’s got one of the best caves in the Triangle.

Yes, in the back of a hair salon.

It happens to be much needed. In the seven years since the demise of the beloved 3 Cups, no Chapel Hill wine shop has filled its niche of hand-selected, gracefully made, small-scaled wines. And with the mall-scaled A Southern Season about to close its brickand-mortar store, Chapel Hill is losing its largest fine wine retailer.

It was the wine that motivated him, though, not profit, he says.

“You find things that you like, and you do them,” Sutton says. “I cover my overhead with the salon. I’m not trying to gouge. My margins are about 10 to 20 percent lower” than the same wines in other stores.

His unlikely store differs in other ways, too.

When he started selling wine, he says, “I wanted something I could give my clients.

People come in here, and they’re overwhelmed by having to describe how they want their hair. Tell me about your lifestyle, tell me what you like to do, who you are, and then we create a look based on how you portray yourself. I thought, why can’t we do the same thing with wine?”

His salon clients account for about 70 percent of his wine sales, Sutton estimates.

“Most are women,” he says. “Most of the wine stores are run by men. It’s a male, hetero-centric industry in many regards.” Sutton is a self-described “Southern gay boy” who “doesn’t care about [wine] scores. I only care about how it tastes. I find most men like a heavier-alcohol wine. Most women like a lighter-alcohol wine, and so do I—wines that tend to be more esoteric, more poetic on the palate, rather than an assault of flavor.”

Sutton followed his nose to like-minded drinkers. He invited Triangle food doyen Lex Alexander, who owned 3 Cups, into the salon to sell the mixed cases of wines he’s continued to select and assemble for his loyal 3 Cups-era clientele.

“Lex comes in and does tastings, and he is so entertaining with his wine palate and his drawings and his reciting of poetry”—a regular feature of Alexander’s tastings—“that I think it accents what we do as a salon,” Sutton says.

Sutton has other accents in mind. He’d like to bring in charities for fundraising wine tastings. He wants to partake in the thriving local cheese industry and sell that, too. He likes it when people buy a bottle of wine, sit down right in the salon, and drink it. He wouldn’t mind if his salon became a wine bar at night.

“We can build a bigger community,” he says. “We’re all small people. And people are always happy to tell you about something they love doing. Doesn’t have to be big-name. It can be little and fantastic and have a better story.” W KeepItINDY.com

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107 Edinburgh Drive, #106-A, Cary | 919-362-7882 | asalievents.com/cafe

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OPENING: Cinnaholic Bakery Cinnaholic—the gourmet vegan bakery of Shark Tank fame—opens its new Cary location on January 10. The location is the chain’s third in North Carolina and first in the Triangle. Between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on opening day, cinnamon rolls will cost $1 a pop.

1209 Parkside Main St., Cary 919-650-1407 | cinnaholic.com SAT., JAN. 11, 10 A.M.–NOON

Sweet + Salt: A Bakery Pop-Up Series

Asali Desserts & Cafe

Spoon-Fed At Asali Desserts & Cafe, a cup of sahlab feels like self-care

BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

@glassofrose

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or Hanadi Asad, sahlab is synonymous with winter the way that hot chocolate might be for others.

Her Palestinian mother only made the steamed-milk beverage in winter, though chilly nights were rare in Kuwait, where she was born. When Asad was eight years old, her family moved to Raleigh; happily, that meant her mom made sahlab more frequently, especially when it snowed.

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ly scented with cinnamon, and, in some Levantine countries, it’s perfumed with rose water, too, then garnished with toppings such as spices, nuts, and dried fruit.

Though it was summer when Asad and her husband, Jamaal Ali, opened Asali Desserts & Cafe in Cary’s MacGregor Village—a brick-and-mortar extension of their popular dessert and events company—she decided she couldn’t wait until winter to serve sahlab.

I’m glad she didn’t.

I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I sampled it last August. Dipping your spoon into a cup of sahlab feels like an act of self-care. You can’t absently sip it; it requires you to be in the moment. It begs to be savored as you scoop up a little froth with some toppings to make a composed bite.

At Asali, Asad uses a sahlab mix imported from Turkey that’s lightly sweetened with sugar and cinnamon. She combines it with milk and uses a frother to continuously stir and steam the milk, allowing it to thicken without scalding the milk.

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Asad tops each cup with a dusting of cinnamon and a scattering of chopped pistachios and shredded coconut, just like her mom made it.

The drink is rich enough to enjoy as a dessert, particularly if you don’t have a sweet tooth. But it’s hard to resist sampling the confections beckoning from the gleaming cases that greet you when you walk in.

If you’re solo, try pairing a cup of sahlab with a macaron (or two), which come in flavors such as pomegranate and lavender, then retire to one of the couches in the lounge area. In the mood to share? Bring a crew and order a round of sahlab and a sampling of desserts, as many groups do on Friday and Saturday nights when the place pulses with an old-world-coffeehouse vibe. Families and friends and people of all ages and nationalities crowd around tables where wedges of coconut cake sit alongside plates of baklava.

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The Durham Hotel’s coffee shop kicks off a new bakery pop-up series with some delicious carbohydrates made by Andrew Ullom of Raleigh’s Union Special Bread. Future Sweet + Salty pop-ups include appearances by Phoebe Lawless & Snack Service, Vivian Howard, and Boulted Bread.

The Durham Hotel, 315 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham 919-768-8830 | thedurham.com MON., JAN. 13, 7 P.M., $100+

Katsuji Tanabe and Silvia Barban at High Horse At this ticketed dinner, Katsuji Tanabe welcomes fellow Top Chef alum Silva Barban of the Brooklyn restaurant and pasta shop LaRina Pastificio & Vino.

The event begins a monthly guest chef dinner series hosted by Katsuji at High Horse; on January 14, High Horse will serve special dishes by Barban alongside the regular menu.

High Horse, 208 Wolfe St., Raleigh 919-594-1381 | highhorsenc.com

BY SARAH EDWARDS

1,000 Words Enough Is Enough WORDS + PHOTOGRAPHY

BY JADE WILSON

Jan. 2: The human beings who live in McDougald Terrace, with support from advocates and other Durham Housing Authority residents, marched from the intersection of Sima and Ridgeway Avenues to Burton Elementary School ahead of a meeting with DHA and Durham officials where they demanded safe and sanitary conditions in the city’s largest public housing complex. McDougald has faced a carbon monoxide scare in recent weeks, including two infant deaths that residents worry might be linked to CO poisoning (see page 9). But at the meeting (pictured here), residents also complained about evictions, retaliation, inhumane treatment by property managers, gas leaks, mold, unfulfilled work orders, a disastrous sewage system, and a host of other problems that have long gone unresolved. The next day, the DHA agreed to relocate all McDougald residents to area hotels until the CO problem was fixed. The other issues, however, have been going on for years—and most of the time, residents have fought these battles alone. W

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There I was, trying to make a simple year-end top 10 for local music.

Then I started thinking about what a strong year it was and decided to do 19 for 2019. Then I reviewed lists from writers, musicians, and presenters and said, “FINE, WE WILL DO 51 THINGS.” This feature was built for web, where you can hear all of this stuff and read more takes from our writers and music-scene peeps, but I wanted to give print readers a taste of what a bounty this year brought, too. We could have done dozens more. If you can’t find something to get obsessed with here, you probably just don’t like music. —Brian Howe WATCH VIDEOS, HEAR MUSIC, AND READ MORE AT INDYWEEK.COM

ANCESTRAL MEMORIES: am.pm COCHONNE: Cochonne

ALONE IN THE DARK COURTESY OF HOT RELEASES

DAUGHTER OF SWORDS: “Fellows” I haven’t seen Alexandra Sauser-Monnig play with a full band yet, and I’m excited to. But I love watching her play solo. She does everything to keep me entrapped in her storytelling and songwriting, with her light guitar work and wandering vocals.

Her debut solo record, Dawnbreaker, has a great mix of full-band and solo songs.

The opener, “Fellows,” works these aspects into a meandering melodic journey that feels both written and improvised. It is the essence of her captivating live set at Hopscotch last year. Yes, she’s one third of Mountain Man, but “Fellows” demonstrates why we need her to keep producing and playing solo as well. —Kym Register DRAG SOUNDS: IV FOOTROCKET: Colony FITNESS WOMXN: New Age Record FFFOOLERY: Raleighwood JAKE XERXES FUSSELL: Out of Sight JUDGE SCHREBER’S AVIAN CHOIR: Bleed

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GIBSON & TOUTANT: Gibson & Toutant GRRL: “Pay Attention” SKYLAR GUDASZ: “Wichita Lineman” GUDIYA: Kya Tracks Vol. 1 HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER: Terms of Surrender JPHONO1: “I’ve Let All My Hair Grow” KING DRAFT AND SWANK: TwoFive 2 Jersey: The Sequel With 9th Wonder mentoring, it’s tempting to tag these Jamla new jacks as “Little Brother’s little brothers.” There is a kinship—precise raps, ‘70s-soul samples, HBCU roots—but King Draft and Swank came into their own on TwoFive 2 Jersey: The Sequel when they veered away from conscious boom-bap and neo-soul shadow.

Over brooding, low-lit tracks “69 < 96” and “When U Grind,” the duo focused its lyrical

frame on harsh lessons learned in sketchy crime schemes. Unhurried, unflustered, and spitting from experience, Eastern N.C. native Swank plays the antsy youngblood who knows better; King Draft counsels with a deep-grained gravitas. On standout “Already Dope,” they hint at the flow of cocaine-rap virtuosos Clipse, but with a gimlet eye. This is the duo’s lane: scoping the drug pipeline from North to South (search “Operation Tooth Fairy”) and making you feel the fallout. —Charles Aaron LESTHEGENIUS: “Raleighwood Hills” LIGHTNING BORN: Lightning Born LIQUID ASSET: In Laboratory LITTLE BROTHER: May the Lord Watch LOAMLANDS: Lez Dance MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND: Wayward Airs for Earthbound Vagrants

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MANDOLIN ORANGE: “The Wolves” KARL MARXS: “Digital Romance” H.C. MCENTIRE: “Houses of the Holy” REESE MCHENRY: No Dados SONNY MILES: GAMMA Sonny Miles kicked off his year with the release of this stellar new-age hiphop album and capped it with a cosign on Barack Obama’s year-end list for his feature on Lesthegenius’s “Raleighwood Hills.” GAMMA is a triumphant record that blends nostalgia with innovation, the political with the personal, and joy with despondence. Landing somewhere between neo-soul, pop, and hip-hop, it’s a densely packed sonic world. Miles uses a mix of organic instrumentation and samples to add flourishes to his addictive vocal hooks.

Tracks like “The Kids” and “Good Lovin’ in the West” showcase his range, depth, and limitless promise. —Grant Golden

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: In League with Dragons MO’YNOQ: Dreaming in a Dead Language THE MUSLIMS: Mayo Supreme There are so many goddamn punk bands in the Triangle, most of them straight and white and male-dominated. Thankfully, we have The Muslims, who are none of those things, and who blast through groove-heavy hardcore with necessary rage.

Lyricist and front-person QADR has the wicked sense of humor of an aged satirist.

“Ya Late” needs to be blasted from every car window surrounding every college campus, and “Fuck the Cistem” is a pointed call-out of Nice Guys who worm their way into artistic spaces to prey on women. This is a dark, hilarious, and important record from a band that will one day rule us all, as well it should. —Al Riggs

SONNY MILES: GAMMA COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

MOLLY SARLÉ: Karaoke Angel SECRET BOYFRIEND: Memory Care Unit Vol. 2

THE MUSLIMS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

PAT JUNIOR: I Thought I Knew PIE FACE GIRLS: “Street Creep”

RAPSODY: EVE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

RAPSODY: Eve Rapsody’s introspective approach on her second studio album, an ode to Black women, solidified her position in hip-hop as a bona fide emcee. Her storytelling, witty bars, and poetry not only paid homage to greats such as Nina Simone, Michelle Obama, and the late Aaliyah, but they also revealed who Rapsody is as a person and artist, as she celebrates her tomboy feminine aesthetic and directly addresses the critics and naysayers. The Grammy-worthy project features an impressive list of guest appearances, too, including Queen Latifah, D’Angelo, GZA, and J. Cole. —Kyesha Jennings AL RIGGS: Lavender Scare

SISTER,BROTHER: Suicide Club Sister,brother’s 2017 debut felt like trying to chug two Red Bulls while headbanging under a hundred strobes. The live show feels much the same, with Alison Martlew solemnly ripping into her bass while ski-masked Mark Hanley loops samples, screams, and dances the crowd into a frenzy. They are uncomfortably loud, and that is the mission. At the beginning of 2019, they released Suicide Club. It has twice as many songs as the debut, each still a brief sucker punch. If first record was a mission statement, the second is a whole-ass thesis on the fast and the loud, complex and carefully designed but punk as fuck.

—Sarah Schmader SOLAR HALOS: Coiled Light SSOFT: Air Maintenance SUN STUDIES: “You, Reversed” THEDEEEPEND: Verano TRIPLE X SNAXXX: “Ottte” ERNEST TURNER: My Americana ULTRABILLIONS: Home Astronomy VARIOUS ARTISTS: Alone in the Dark Local label Hot Releases has been supporting unconventional artists since 2008.

Around Halloween, it dropped Alone in the Dark, an engulfing compilation of deep cuts by underground experimental artists.

The music ranges from abstract soundscapes to trance-inducing anarchic techno, harsh industrial noise to lo-fi dreampop.

With four tracks by Triangle-based projects—Floor Model, Housefire, Binky (whose new tape will be released by the label in January), and Secret Boyfriend, the project of the label’s proprietor—it’s an introspective journey of exquisite gloom and sonic tribulations. —Marta Núñez Pouzols VARIOUS ARTISTS: American Idylls WYE OAK: “Fortune” YOUNG BULL: Young Bull Is Not an Individual AND ONE TO GROW ON: KATE RHUDY: “Dance It Away” The first new music from captivating Raleigh singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy since her brilliant 2017 debut LP takes a sharp turn away from acoustic serenity. With a danceable electro-pop beat, thanks to Jack Hallenbeck—an LA-based producer who’s worked with Maggie Rogers—“Dance It Away” suggests Rogers’s early work with its lilting delivery and dreamy production, though Rhudy retains her folkish charm, thanks to her soft Southern twang and fiddle flourishes. Written in the afterglow of New Year’s Day 2019, the track just dropped on New Year’s Eve. “This song is for everyone waking up and wanting to be the best version of themselves, and all the things that get in the way,” she explained in hand-written notes on Instagram. Though Rhudy describes it as “my joyous ask of myself,” the freeing sentiment is a worthy mantra for all this year. —Spencer Griffith W KeepItINDY.com

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Chocolate Lounge & Juice Bar

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DEAD SOULS GOTHIC LOUNGE 9pm

Sat 1/11 Wed 1/15 Fri 1/17 Sat 1/18

Gracious Me Free Wine Tasting 5-7pm Chocolate Covered Comedy Chris Myers

Music Performed from 6pm to 10pm Beer & Wine Served Daily Timberlyne Shopping Center, Chapel Hill 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd • specialtreatsnc.com

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER W/LILLY HIATT ($26) SA 1/18 AMERICAN AUTHORS AND MAGIC GIANT W/ SPECIAL GUEST PUBLIC ($25/$28) MO 1/20 CRACKER AND CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN TU 1/21 TOO MANY ZOOZ W/ BIROCRATIC ($18/$20)

TH 1/23 YOLA W/AMYTHYST KLAH ($20/$23)

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THE ROAD TO NOW PODCAST ($35)

WE 1/29 ANAMANAGUCHI ($18/$20)

STRING BAND/TRAVELLIN MCCOURYS ($25/$30)

FR 1/31 BEACH FOSSILS W/NEGATIVE GEMINI ($18/$20) SA 2/1 JAWBOX W/HAMMERED HULLS ($28/$30)

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SHRED FOR MUSIC ED 3:

Undrask, The Reticent, Stellar Circuits, Knightmare, Raimee

SA 2/8 ABBEY ROAD LIVE! – FAMILY MATINEE (2 SHOWS) ($10/13) WE 2/12 ROSS MATHEWS ($35) FR 2/14 THRICE,

MEWITHOUTYOU, DRUG CHURCH ( $26/$30) SA 2/15 COLONY HOUSE THE LEAVE WHAT’S LOST BEHIND TOUR W/TYSON MOTSENBOCKER ($15/$18) MO 2/17 KYLE KINANE THE SPRING BREAK TOUR($25/$28) TU 2/18 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS ($26/$30)

MAGIC CITY HIPPIES with Argonaut & Wasp SUN

1/12

When We Knock, We Win:

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Duke Science & Society presents 1/14 PERIODIC TABLES: Money Changes Everything: The Warped Incentives in American Healthcare TUE

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The Monti STORYSLAM—Resolutions

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WXDU presents

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MICHAL MENERT / LATE NIGHT RADIO

SA 3/14 RADICAL FACE ($25/$28)

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1/21 Nia 20th Anniversary Tour with special guest Rowdy THU-SAT

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FR 1/31 DAMN TALL BUILDINGS ($14/$17) TU 2/4 CHRIS FARREN, RETIREMENT PARTY, MACSEAL ($10/$12) SA 2/8 SEERATONES ($13/$15)

MO 2/17 MICHIGAN RATTLERS ($14/$17) TU 2/18 THE MATTSON 2 ($13/$15)

FR 4/3 SHOVELS & ROPE W/INDIANOLA ($25/$28)

WE 2/19 BLACK LIPS W/WARISH ($15)

TU 4/7 ATERCIOPELADOS AND LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES ($32/$35)

TH 2/20 THE BROOK & THE BLUFF ($12/$14)

MO 4/20 REAL ESTATE ($25/$28)

SA 2/22 TIM BARRY W/ ROGER HARVEY & FRIENDS ($15)

TH 5/14 YOLA – WALK

THROUGH FIRE WORLD TOUR W/AMYTHYST KIAH ($20/23) SA 11/14 HOODOO GURUS

FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA

COMING SOON: Grayscale, Hot Mulligan, Over The Rhine, Lost Dog Street Band, AJJ, Jason Ringenberg, Blockhead, We Were Promised Jetpacks, great dane and Stayloose, While She Sleeps, David Wilcox, Paul Cauthen, Remember Jones, Gnawa LanGus, OM, Little People, Frameworks, Ellis Dyson & The Shambles, Against Me!, Asgeir, Mdou Moctar, Tiny Moving Parts, Black Atlantic, Caspian, Deafheaven, Vundabar, Shannon & the Clams, Kevin Morby, Neil Hamburger

SU 4/26 SAMMY RAE & THE FRIENDS ($12/$15)

SA 3/28 ANTIBALAS ($18/$22)

MO 5/11 BARNS COURTNEY ($22/$25)

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SA 1/18 DJANGO FEST DAY 1 ONYX CLUB BOYS, DAVID DIGIUSEPPE & ROBBIE LINK (& WORKSHOPS) ($15/$20)

WE 2/11 BAY FACTION W/SUPERBODY ($12/$15)

TU 5/5 ANDY SHAUF W/ FAYE WEBSTER ($18/$20)

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TU 3/24 STEVE GUNN, MARY LATTIMORE, & WILLIAM TYLER ($20/$22)

SU 5/3 THE RESIDENTS ($30/$35)

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FR 1/17 MO LOWDA & THE HUMBLE W/ ARSON DAILY ($12/$15)

SU 2/9 MC LARS W/ SCHAFFER THE DARKLORD ($15)

SA 5/2 GUIDED BY VOICES ($30/$35; ON SALE 1/10)

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SA 3/21 BEST COAST THE ALWAYS TOMORROW TOUR W/MANNEQUIN PUSSY ($25/$27)

FR 3/27 SOCCER MOMMY W/ TOMBERLIN ($18/$20)

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*Be on the lookout for these big names coming through the Triangle

Billie Eilish Jan. 31 The Marshall Tucker Band The Ritz, 8 p.m., $28 Feb. 6 Tove Lo The Ritz, 8 p.m., $30 Feb. 8 Whitney Haw River Ballroom, 8 p.m., $25 Feb. 9 Tony Bennett DPAC, 7:30 p.m., $65+ Feb. 11 Celine Dion PNC Arena, 7:30 p.m., $125+ Feb. 28 Wye Oak Baldwin Auditorium, 8 p.m., $25 Mar. 4 Zack Brown Band PNC Arena, 7 p.m., $36+ Mar. 12 Billie Eilish PNC Arena, 7:30 p.m., $350+

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Mar. 20 Michael Bublé PNC Arena, 8 p.m., $65+

Jun. 2 Local Natives Red Hat, 6:30 p.m., $25+

Mar. 21 Best Coast Cat’s Cradle, 8 p.m., $25–$27

Jun. 2 The Lumineers Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., $69+

Mar. 27 Soccer Mommy Cat’s Cradle, 8 p.m., $18–$20 Mar. 30 Mandy Moore, DPAC, 8 p.m., $30+ Apr. 15 Angel Olsen Carolina Theatre, 8 p.m., $33–$35 Apr. 20 Sharon Van Etten Haw River Ballroom, 8 p.m., $28–$31 Apr. 22 Lake Street Dive DPAC, 7:30 p.m., $35+

Jun. 4 Kenny Chesney Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7:30 p.m., $100+

Jul. 10 Thomas Rhett Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, time TBD, $91+ Jul. 11 Tedeschi Trucks Band Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 6:30 p.m., $84 Aug. 1 Harry Styles PNC Arena, 8 p.m., $76

Jun. 20 The Doobie Brothers Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, $51+

Aug. 10 Journey, The Pretenders Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., $59+

Jun. 23 Alanis Morisette Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., $68+

Sep. 9 Kiss Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7:30 p.m., $81+

Jul. 4 The Black Crowes Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 8 p.m., $50

Sep. 12 Maroon 5, Meghan Trainor Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., $87+

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Fanm d’Ayiti: Nathalie Joachim with the Spektral Quartet

JANUARY 8–15

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The composer and flutist Nathalie Joachim has rich memories of spending time with her maternal grandmother in Haiti, absorbing lessons about strength and cultural connection through singing songs together.

With Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti), Joachim continues the aesthetic hallmarks of Flutronix, her musical partnership with Allison Loggins-Hull. Weaving together oral history audio, electronics, singing, and the sounds of the flute and string quartet Spektral Quartet, she celebrates women’s contributions to Haitian Vodou, folk, and popular music. —Josephine McRobbie UNC’s Moeser Auditorium 8 p.m., $37

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9

Faye, Late Bloomer, Jenny Besetzt Duke’s tiny, underappreciated club space rings in another decade of eclectic student bookings with this spirited splatter of North Carolina punk. Charlotte’s Faye summon the leads and cheek of Last Splash-era Kim Deal to their punk-pop mix, while fellow N.C. rockers Late Bloomer feel like a college radio noise-pop memory from the same nineties milieu. With Jenny Besetzt. —David Ford Smith Duke Coffeehouse 9 p.m., $5

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 & SATURDAY, JANUARY 11

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Hiss Golden Messenger

Like ambient music or Top-40 crossovers, contemplative acoustic records are often in danger of blurring together en masse; a colorless heap of sweet nothings.

Raleigh’s Whisperer seems aware of this, and curates his work accordingly. On last year’s excellent Am I The Meadow Or The Mountain, fragile guitars and airy production set the table, suggesting peers like Hiss Golden Messenger. However, you get the feeling that he’s painting his own grand vision, closer to the rarified art-pop air of David Sylvian than his direct cohort.

Infused with undeniable grooves and gospel power, Hiss Golden Messenger’s soulful, rich roots music is rife with emotion as the prolific M.C. Taylor’s deeply personal songs—delivered via his warm, reedy tenor—simultaneously offer a sense of hope while exploring vulnerable, and often dark, territory. The strength of Taylor’s resolve is matched by the muscle of his airtight band, enough to make Hiss listeners into true believers. Lilly Hiatt adds twangy confessionals set to moody Americana.

—Spencer Griffith

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Shaquim Muldrow Up-and-coming tenor saxophonist Shaquim Muldrow continues to play his way through the Triangle jazz scene. In just the past year, the South Carolina graduate of the NCCU Jazz Studies Program has played at the Fruit, Sharp Nine Gallery, the Hayti Heritage Center, and numerous other spots around the region. This free concert sees him fronting a trio, allowing his capacious sound to completely take the lead. —Dan Ruccia NC Museum of History 3 p.m., FREE FRIDAY, JANUARY 10–SUNDAY, JANUARY 12

North Carolina Symphony: The Planets It’s entirely appropriate that the New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New is presenting a recent work by fellow Kiwi Salina Fisher for her return to the NC Symphony podium. Rainphase depicts all the moods of a rainstorm in Wellington, literally capturing the sound of wind gusts, droplets hitting various materials, and the endlessly reflected glow of a soused city. —Dan Ruccia

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Meymandi Concert Hall 8 p.m Fri. & Sat. / 7:30 p.m. Sun., $20+

Wed. 1/8 Art Alexakis, Andrew Winter Motorco Music Hall, 8 p.m. $20-$30.

Automb, Hubris, Arghast, Rale The Maywood, 8 p.m. $10.

Choo Choo Anoo The Station, 7 p.m.

Noisays, Trenchlung, Herculean Locusts Slim’s Downtown, 9 p.m. $7 suggested.

Pale Blue Dot, Bad Horoscope, Stranded Bandits, Art Critic Ruby Deluxe, 10 p.m. $8.

Shaquim Muldrow performs at the NC Museum of History on Sunday, January 12.

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Sam Frazier, Abigail Dowd, Wyatt Easterling Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 7 p.m. $20.

The Great Cover Up Kings, 7:30 p.m. 50+ bands. $50.

Housterino, Binder, Hey Champ! Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $5.

Whisperer Arcana, 8 p.m. $5-$10 suggested.

Fri. 1/10 Appetite for Destruction: Guns N’ Roses Tribute The Ritz, 7 p.m. $6-$12.

Propersleep, Cor De Lux The Night Rider, 8 p.m. $5 suggested.

Bark & Hart, The Doug Prescott Band The Kraken, 8 p.m.

The Standby, The Bronze Age, Faster on Fire, Dead Casual Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $7-$10.

Chaosmic, Via, Escaping Agharta Slim’s Downtown, 9 p.m. $7 suggested.

Trevor Daniel and the REEF The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Fanm D’Ayiti, Nathalie Joachim, Spektral Quartet UNC Campus: Hill Hall, 8 p.m. $37.

The Yale Russian Chorus Unity Center of Peace, 7 p.m. $15.

The Gina Furtado Project Wake Forest Listening Room, 7 p.m.

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Dave Finucane Sextet Sharp Nine Gallery, 8 p.m. $20.

Benchmark, Split Type, Beket, The Unapologetic Kind The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Carolina Lightnin’ Blue Note Grill, 7 p.m.

The Great Cover Up Kings, 7:30 p.m. 50+ bands. $50.

Heat Preacher & The Gone Ghosts, TEXOMA Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 8:15 p.m. $7-$8.

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Trial by Fire: Journey Tribute The Ritz, 8 p.m. $5-$10.

Tula Vera, Eyeball, Condido, People Of Earth The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Sun. 1/12 David Bromberg Quintet, Paul Loren Lincoln Theatre, 8 p.m. $20-$30.

The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Carolina Theatre, 3 p.m. $30.

Erik Satie Eve Arcana, 8 p.m.

The Harmony Project Local 506, 4 p.m.

Glenn Jones Blue Note Grill, 5 p.m. $6.

JPHONO1 Pour House Music Hall, 1 p.m.

Shaquim Muldrow NC Museum of History, 3 p.m.

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Casey Williams Pour House Music Hall, 5 p.m.

Whisperer plays at Arcana on Thursday, January 9.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Hiss Golden Messenger, Lilly Hiatt Cat’s Cradle, 8 p.m. $25-$45.

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Africa Unplugged Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $15-$20.

The Mac McLaughlin Group Arcana, 9 p.m.

Wake Moody, Rachel Despard Local 506, 8 p.m. $8-$10.

Natural Born Leaders, Mellow Swells The Station, 9 p.m.

North Carolina Symphony: The Planets Meymandi Concert Hall, 8 p.m. $77+.

Scrub Pine, The New Aquarian The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Shred for Music Ed Motorco Music Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-$12.

The Steel Wheels Fletcher Opera Theater, 7:30 p.m. $30.

Tish Songbird and the Applause Lincoln Theatre, 8:30 p.m. $18-$30.

The Travellers Blue Note Grill, 9 p.m.

Jack Williams, Tommy Edwards The Cary Theater, 8 p.m. $20-$25.

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Sat. 1/11 Rod Abernathy Wake Forest Listening Room, 7 p.m. $12.

Jenny Besetzt, Humanize, No One Mind Nightlight, 8 p.m.

The Body Party Ruby Deluxe, 10 p.m. $5.

A Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $10-$12.

Cold Cream and Patois Counselors, Three Body Problem Local 506, 9:30 p.m. $9.

Maj Deeka, The Wright Ave, Cosmic Superheroes Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 9:30 p.m. $6-$8.

Dusky Roses Arcana, 9 p.m.

The Great Cover Up Kings, 7:30 p.m. 50+ bands. $50.

Hiss Golden Messenger, Lilly Hiatt Cat’s Cradle, 8 p.m. $25.

In Gratitude: Earth, Wind, and Fire Tribute Rhythms Live Music Hall, 8 p.m. $31.

Joe’s Cousin Pour House Music Hall, 5 p.m.

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Lanternfly, The Michael Character, Empty Disco The Night Rider, 7 p.m.

Donation suggested.

Magic City Hippies, Argonaut & Wasp Motorco Music Hall, 9 p.m. $18-$20.

Chris McGinnis Pour House Music Hall, 3 p.m.

Men’s Choral Invitational: Final Concert UNC Campus: Hill Hall, 5:30 p.m. $5.

Mighty Messengers of Soul Blue Note Grill, 8 p.m. $8.

Mon. 1/13 Atomic Rhythm All-Stars Neptunes Parlour, 8 p.m. $5.

Eat, Housefire, Hardface The Wicked Witch, 9 p.m. $10.

Dexter Romweber The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Tue. 1/14 The Unlikely Candidates, The Orphan The Poet Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $12-$15.

Wed. 1/15 The Disco Biscuits The Ritz, 8 p.m. $41.

Minister Sin, Aittala, Written In Gray, I Am Maddox The Maywood, 8:30 p.m. $8.

Girls Rock Roulette Meet Up The Pinhook, 6 p.m.

North Carolina Symphony: The Planets Meymandi Concert Hall, 8 p.m. $77+.

Olivia Jean, Them! Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $10-$12.

Rodes Pour House Music Hall, 1 p.m.

Secret Shame, Night Battles, Green Aisles The Wicked Witch, 9 p.m. $10.

The Shakedown Lincoln Theatre, 8:30 p.m. $10$30.

Matt Southern Pour House Music Hall, 1 p.m.

The Strange Wonders, Velvet Sky, Gallus Mag

Goalkeeper, Come Clean Local 506, 8 p.m. $10-$13.

Lang Owen Arcana, 8 p.m.

Planet Mercury, The Bronze Age, With Clarity Slim’s Downtown, 9 p.m. $5.

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Thrash from the Past

BY BRYAN C. REED arts@indyweek.com

More than a simple placeholder between full-length releases, Outliar’s new EP, Thrashing the Vault, is the Apex-based metal band’s second chance to make a good first impression.

After the release of Outliar’s debut, Provoked to Anger, in 2012, founding guitarist Ray J. Currie dismantled and rebuilt the band, hoping to shift it closer to his vision of fusing Bay Area thrash with old-school death metal. He removed the record from retail and streaming platforms and released the gore-splattered Taste the Blood in 2018 with a new band, vocalist Anthony Graham, guitarist Rick Ace, bassist Cisco Rivera, and drummer Adam Hancock.

For Thrashing the Vault, the new band re-recorded five of Provoked to Anger’s nine songs with the chemistry and variety that helped Taste the Blood find the sweet spot between brutality and speed. It’s a concise retcon in which early ideas meet present capabilities.

Melding purist thrash with melodic death metal, Thrashing the Vault feels neither revivalist nor ostentatiously progressive. After a thick, chiming instrumental opener, “A Loss of Sincerity” launches into a driving metalcore riff before a classic thrash vamp that wouldn’t feel out of place on Metallica classic Kill ‘Em All. And “Rod of the Shepherd” is driven by a guttural rhythm section and a spartan vocal pattern, though it still makes room for modern-metal melody in the old-school palette.

Outliar’s knack for dynamic nuance peaks in the eight-minute closer, “Vendetta,” which boasts sprinting speed-metal passages and elegant harmonic solos within a shifting arrangement that puts all of the band’s strengths on display. Taste the Blood already proved that Outliar was a revitalized band, but this invigorating reinvention clinches it. In fact, it’s their strongest statement to date, distilling their assets with no frills.

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The Immortal Henrietta Lacks An Afrofuturist art collective invents a new language for a true story of science, consent, and survival

BY JAMEELA F. DALLIS arts@indyweek.com

H

enrietta Lacks died nearly seventy years ago, but some people say that she lives to this day.

No, this isn’t a ghost story, but it is a story about a kind of immortality. It’s also the subject of Project LHAXX, a polyglot exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum.

Lacks, a 31-year-old mother of five, was treated at The Johns Hopkins Hospital for cervical cancer, which took her life in 1951.

For years, George Gey, a cancer and virus researcher, had been collecting cells from biopsies of cervical cancer patients. Lacks was the first person whose cells did not die in the lab. Instead, they doubled every twenty to twenty-four hours.

Her name survives in her “immortal cell line,” which is called HeLa. It played a significant part in the development of the polio vaccine and is still used to study the effects of new treatments on cancer cells without experimenting on humans.

But Lacks’s story is inseparable from issues of consent, ownership, and the troubling history of medical experimentation on black bodies. Gey took her cells without her or her family’s knowledge, which was standard procedure. Lacks’s family didn’t know her cells had been critically important to medical research until the mid-1970s. The cells have created a billion-dollar industry; at least 11,000 patents contain them. But her children have not, and likely will never, benefit financially from their mother’s genetic material.

Lacks’s story is part of the inspiration behind Project LHAXX, a site-specific installation in the Ackland’s ART& community space. It was created by Charlotte visual artists Marcus Kiser and Jason Woodberry and Durham performance artist Quentin Talley, collaborating as Intergalactic Soul. They approached Lacks’s story through an Afrofuturist lens.

“Afrofuturism is about preserving Black spaces in the future,” Kiser says. “It’s the idea of preserving the culture and making sure that we still have a voice—that we’re still heard, and we’re controlling our own narrative.”

The mixed-media installation fills an entire gallery wall. Indecipherable gold glyphs are striking against a black background with elliptical, sculptural neon lights at the center. The lights represent stars Sirius A and B and the Dogon people of Mali, who knew about the white dwarf Sirius B centuries before it was recognized by nineteenth-century astronomers. A “cosmic message,” accessible via the free augmented reality app Artivive, accompanies the installation.

Woodberry calls the mysterious markings “hieroglyphs from future ancestors”— evidence of survival. He says he was compelled to develop them because he realized

that “African Americans are the only people in this country without a native language.”

The glyphs are inspired by languages from the regions of Woodberry’s ancestry, including Nyo, from West Africa, and early forms of Irish. Kiser, Woodberry, and Talley were also inspired by Alisha Wormsley’s evolving project There Are Black People in the Future, an exhibition they saw years ago in Charlotte.

Lacks’s influence for the installation is evident in more than one way. Woodberry explains that two years ago, many of the glyphs didn’t exist, and some meant something totally different. Like Lacks’s cells, the characters of the language continue to mutate and change over time.

Woodberry learned about Lacks in 2016 during the collective’s residency at the McColl Center in Charlotte, when he happened to meet someone involved with George C. Wolfe’s 2017 film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, based on Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book of the same name.

Woodberry was frustrated, both by Lacks’s story and by the fact that he hadn’t heard of her until his thirties. From enslavement to forced sterilization to the Tuskegee syphilis study, bodily consent has been stolen from African Americans in devastating, generation-altering ways.

But the collaborators of Intergalactic Soul also gleaned something extraordinary in Lacks’s story. Her clinical immortality aligns with Afrofuturism and survival against overwhelming odds. Through her cells, Woodberry says, Lacks is “preserving a space for Black people in the future”—the same thing that these artists are committed to doing through art and performance.

Project LHAXX asks us to think about the power of narrative, who tells our stories, adaptation, and extraordinary survival.

I asked the artists to consider the significance of the passage of four centuries since the effectual beginning of chattel slavery in the Americas, and only about 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation.

“We still here,” Talley says.

“Every Black person you see,” Woodberry adds, “is the offspring of a survivor.” W KeepItINDY.com

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Our Favorite Local Theater of 2019 Women and their stories dominated the best plays we saw on Triangle stages

BY BYRON WOODS arts@indyweek.com

THE HERD Honest Pint Theatre/North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre Under David Henderson’s direction, superior ensemble work by a seasoned sextet made the regional debut of British playwright Rory Kinnear a striking, nuanced domestic drama about a family challenged, but ultimately not defined, by the developmental disabilities of its youngest child.

MEN ON BOATS Justice Theater Project Brilliantly conceived and staged by Jules Odendahl-James, this achievement in ensemble acting deconstructed the nineteenth-century colonial hubris of a geographic expedition of the Grand Canyon, putting women in roles they were historically denied and then placing us behind Sonya Drum’s clearly fabricated set to expose the artificiality of conventional history.

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Sonorous Road Theatre In the finest hour of Sonorous Road’s final season, at least for now, artistic director Michelle Murray Wells illuminated the role of an embattled mathematician fighting sexism in the eighteenth century as she tries to solve the fundamental riddle of Newtonian physics. Under Egla Hassan’s deft direction, Sterling Hurst also excelled as Emilie’s dashing and dangerous partner, Voltaire.

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PlayMakers Repertory Company In this still-too-timely Paula Vogel revival, sexual-abuse survivor Li’l Bit (a riveting Julia Gibson) needed every square foot of designer Jan Chambers’s cavernous storageunit set to stow and then unpack a lifetime of conflicted memories and feelings for her damaged Uncle Peck (Jeffrey Blair Cornell).

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WHITE Bulldog Ensemble Theater What made this intersectional critique of the privilege and power dynamics that fuel the exploitation and erasure of AfricanAmerican artists so strikingly meta? In the real world, transfigured lead actor Monèt Noelle Marshall had spent the previous year challenging the same issues (in her Buy It/ Call It trilogy) that her character did in this razor-sharp comedy.

A WOMAN Women’s Theatre Festival When two old friends stood across gender and power divides and contemplated the same injustice—the Presbyterian church’s longstanding policy against female elders in its leadership—the resulting fight for the soul of a faith (brought to vivid life by Tamara Farias and Steve Roten) placed Chris Cragin-Day’s cerebral play in the company of Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn.

POOLED Li V Mahob Productions Moses T. Alexander Greene’s controversial but soulful play, a hit at the National Black Theatre Festival, updated the conventions of the gospel-musical genre in its depiction of people in need of healing from problems traditionally considered too hot to handle in faith-based shows.

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Bulldog Ensemble Theater The lengthy list of worthy female actors in need of starring vehicles got a longdelayed check mark when Madeleine Pabis played an enigmatic grifter slowly seduced into revealing the tricks of the trade to Julie Oliver’s character, a retiree no longer interested in being “Midwestern nice.”

SERIAL Sonorous Road Theatre Sometimes it all comes together. In this standout from an otherwise-shaky Open Doors Short Play Festival, newcomer Supriya Jaya’s up-to-the-minute script, Noelle Barnard Azarelo’s nuanced direction, and fine performances by Emily Levinstone and Sarah Richardson turned a deceptively cozy domestic comedy into a delicate inquiry into murder’s role in modern relationships.

INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Ward Theatre Company After the initial punch lines faded in this send-up of wellness resorts for the wellto-do, sharply defined characters—whose real-world hurts made them a lot less ridiculous—inhabited an ensemble-devised work reminiscent of improvised filmmakers Christopher Guest and Robert Altman. W

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Donna Everhart The Moonshiner’s Daughter 7pm Kate DiCamillo Beverly, Right Here 2pm at NCSU’s Hunt Library SOLD OUT Diane Chamberlain Big Lies in a Small Town 7pm

David Zucchino Wilmington’s Lie 7pm HOW TO WRITE FOR COMICS WORKSHOP 1.24-25 with Jeremy Whitley (registration required) 1.21

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Today, meet William Page (no, that’s not a pseudonym; yes, he was born for this job), from Letters Bookshop in downtown Durham.

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What have you been reading lately?

One is actually over there: How Long ’Til Black Future Month [by N.K. Jemison]. Jemison’s one of my favorite authors, and this is the first of her short fiction I’ve read. In the intro, she talks about using fiction as a playground for testing her ideas, and you can kind of feel that.

Anything coming out in 2020 that you’re excited about?

That’s funny. This is one. [He picks up a copy of These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card.] This was not planned at all.

It sure looks planned!

It’s on my looking-forward-to list, and I walked in today, and this was just sitting over there. It’s an advance copy. I wanted to read it before I knew what it was about, just because I think that’s a great title.

It’s about this family secret that has repercussions for this person and one of his children, who doesn’t know he’s his father. It goes between Jamaica and New York.

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What’s been selling?

I’m not gonna take all the credit for it because it’s a really great book [he picks up My Sister the Serial Killer by Lincoln Braithwaite], but I’ve been really pushing this. It’s a cool debut novel, both about what you think it’s about and about a lot of other things; a fast-paced page-turner. She has a really deft touch; she’s really precise. No wasted words. It’s a one-day read. W

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Contemporary Art Museum Sensory Saturday Sat, Jan. 11. 10 a.m. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Lety Alvarez, Pepe Caudillo, Allison Coleman Paintings. Through Jan. 25.

Artspace, Raleigh.

Instruments of Divination in Africa: Works from the Collection of Rhonda Morgan Wilkerson, Ph.D. Sculpture and objects used in divination. Jan. 10-Jun. 7. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Scott Avett: INVISIBLE Screenprints and paintings. Through Feb. 2. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Resolutions 2020 Opening Reception and Juror Talk Fri, Jan. 10. 6 p.m.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough.

Winter Welcome Walk at the Gregg 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. tours. Thu, Jan. 9.

Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh.

arts THURSDAY, JANUARY 9

Musical Gallery Exploration: Samantha Crain Known for blending her Choctaw heritage with poetic storytelling over lush indie-folk, Oklahoma’s Samantha Crain presents a musical tour of Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, a unique performance in response to what’s billed as “the first exhibition to chart the development of contemporary Indigenous art in the United States and Canada.” Without preconceived notions, Crain expects “to remain open to the inspirations within the exhibit” while curating her set the day before. While in town, Crain will also contribute to a January 8 songwriters’ panel at The Pinhook alongside Kym Register, Tift Merritt, and Kamara Thomas. —Spencer Griffith

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art. Through Jan. 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham.

Art of Mental Health Mixed media. Through Jan. 24.

Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham.

Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology Other exhibits at NC State Libraries and GES Center. Through Mar. 15. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh.

John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings.

Through Dec. 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

John Beerman: The Shape of Light Paintings.

Reception: November 16, 5-7 p.m. Through Jan. 25. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

Christopher Bickford: Legends of the Sandbar Photos. Through Feb. 15.

Through This Lens, Durham.

Lois Blasberg, Suzanne Love, Dr. Jane Steelman Mixed media. Through Jan. 28. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary.

Megan Bostic, Andy Mauery, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: Hairstory Art made of human hair.

Through Feb. 29.

Artspace, Raleigh.

Kennedi Carter: Godchild Photography. Through Jan. 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

Rosana Castrillo Díaz: Trust me. You are t/here.

Mixed media. Through Jan. 12. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations Mixed media. Through Mar. 1. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham.

Stephen Costello: Places Sculpture. Reception: November 16, 5-7 p.m.

Through Jan. 25. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Folk art. Through Jan. 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh.

Festive 5 Points Mixed media. Through Jan. 13. 5 Points Gallery, Durham.

Fine Contemporary Craft Through Feb. 1. Artspace, Raleigh.

Joe Frank: At the Dark End of the Bar Radio shows. Through Feb. 25.

Lump, Raleigh.

Abie Harris: Painting Music Through Mar. 1.

The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

Shelly Hehenberger, Luna Lee Ray, R.J.Dobbs Mixed media and sculpture.

Through Mar. 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Danielle James: Secondhand Salon Neon art. Through Feb. 7. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh.

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism Paintings. Through Jan. 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Law and Justice: The Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1819- 2019 Artifacts, images, texts.

Through May 31. NC Museum of History, Raleigh.

Let It Sale, Let It Sale, Let It Sale! Mixed media.

Through Jan. 31. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh.

Lost and Found: Stories for Vernacular Photographs Through Jan. 12. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Maria Martinez-Cañas: Rebus + Diversions Mixed media. Through Jan. 12.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

George McKim Paintings.

Through Feb. 2. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill.

Eleanor Mills: Wildflowers of Crested Butte, Colorado Photography. Through Apr. 18. Duke Campus: Lilly Library, Durham.

NC Chinese Lantern Festival Through Jan. 12. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary.

Paintings From The Estate of Robert Broderson Through Feb. 9. Gallery C, Raleigh.

Anthony Patterson: Gifts from my Grandfather Paintings and mixed media.

Through Jan. 25. Artspace, Raleigh.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Mixed media.

Through Jan. 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

Press Prints. Through Jan. 10. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Raleigh.

Property of the People: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1924–1945 Photography.

Through Feb. 9. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Through Mar. 8.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh.

Residents Showcase Paintings. Through Jan. 23.

Litmus Gallery, Raleigh.

Resolutions 2020 2D & 3D media. January 6-26, 2020. Through Jan. 26.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough.

Leanne Shapton: La Donna Del Lago Painting and photography. Through Feb. 25. Lump, Raleigh.

Sydney Steen: Fault Lines Vignettes. Through Oct. 25. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

Doug Tabb: What Did I Just See? Sculpture.

Through Jan. 13. 5 Points Gallery, Durham.

Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photography.

Through Mar. 31. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. ¡Viva Viclas!: The Art of the Lowrider Motorcycle Designed motorcycles.

Through Feb. 9. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art. Through Jan. 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Wintertide Oil paintings.

Through Feb. 1. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh.

Woodcroft Pottery Sale Pottery sale. Sun, Dec 15.

12 p.m. Woodcroft Swim & Tennis Club, Durham.

The Nasher Museum Of Art, Durham FREE, 6:30 p.m.

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The Monti StorySLAM: Resolutions The Monti is Durham’s answer to live community storytelling (think: The Moth) and, being wildly popular, themed story slams like this one tend to sell out. Anyone can participate: to sign up, all you need to do is put your name down before the show for a chance to be randomly selected. “Anyone is welcome,” Monti founder and producer Jeff Polish told the INDY over the phone. However, he adds, “It takes a lot of work to tell a great story. I don’t want to say I’m disappointed when someone gets up there completely unrehearsed, but…the bar has been raised. Most people are prepared.” Just resolve to bring your A-game for this night of resolutions, is all we’re saying.

—Anna Cassell Motorco Music Hall, Durham $12, 7:30 p.m.

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Come From Away Musical.

Showtimes: Jan. 14-16, 7:30 p.m. Jan 17, 8 p.m. Jan 18, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Jan 19, 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. $32+. Jan. 14-19, Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham.

The Amish Project Play.

Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. WedSat; 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Sun. $35. Through Jan.12.

Center for Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill.

Elegant Pierogies: Homegrown Comedy. $8.

Thu, Jan. 9, 8 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill.

Family-Friendly Transactors Improv $10.

Sat, Jan. 11, 6 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

Funny is Funny $10.

Sat, Jan. 11, 10:30 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

Mick Foley Comedy. $25+.

Wed, Jan. 8, 7 p.m. Raleigh Improv, Cary.

The Simon & Garfunkel Story Tribute performance.

Wed, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham.

Stone Cold And The Jackal Comedy. SOLD OUT. Wed, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

Love Letters to my Child Spoken word. Showtimes: Fri 8 p.m., Sat 7:30 p.m. $15-$20. Jan. 10-11, Hayti Heritage Center, Durham.

Neville’s Quarter Songwriting Bonanza III Comedy. Sun, Jan. 12, 3 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill.

The Sinful Six Comedy. $12. Wed, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

Taylor Tomlinson Comedy.

Showtimes: Thu & Sun: 7 p.m.; Fri 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m.; Sat 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $20. Jan. 9-12, Raleigh Improv, Cary.

Venus Fly Trap Comedy Show $10. Sun, Jan. 12, 7 p.m. The Wicked Witch, Raleigh.

George Willborn Comedy.

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Fri & Sat, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. $17-$25. Jan. 9-11, Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

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A menagerie of illustrations, photographs, screenshots, prose, and poems make up Savage Pageant, the debut full-length collection by the Durham-based poet Jessica Q. Stark.

It’s a book about a lot of things—psychogenic disorders, Hollywood, ghosts, Daniel Boone, and a nuclear meltdown, to name just a few—but at the center is Jungleland, a now-defunct zoo in Southern California where Hollywood’s show animals were kept, beginning in the 1920s, until the zoo shuttered in the 1960s.

The story of the zoo unfolds through timelines and connected historical characters, including Mabel Stark (no relation), a renowned tiger trainer who was mauled multiple times and died from a drug overdose, after hearing that her favorite tiger had escaped and been killed.

This strange corner of history is fertile ground for Stark’s broad investigations of the body, taming, and trauma. It also suits Stark’s distinct writing style, which is both epigrammatic and exploratory. Pregnancy is described as “the awkward roundness of past sex on a body-stage;” a ghost is “a felt miscalculation.” The past—trauma, true happiness, mistakes, heroics—externalizes without fail.

In recent years, a cadre of writers—Maggie Nelson and Kate Zambreno come to mind—have experimented with the bounds of text, embroidering poetry, prose, and history into fluid documentary poetics. Savage Pageant is a thoughtful and important addition to the form. At some points, it can be easy to lose the thread of all these different textual elements—the inclusion of intermissions, an epilogue, and four acts slows the pace down a bit—but that’s also a testament to the collection’s high ambition.

The gripping title poem, “Savage Pageant: The Jungleland Had Many Names,” makes the most of these ambitions, writing of a “spectacle archive of harm” that includes mass shootings and the Flint water crisis. These dark subjects are a high-wire act, for sure, but the poet walking it is careful and confident.

Later, hope flares in “There Are Many Types of Cannibals,” when Stark writes, “In the overflow of human information and category— reserve a space for the crack. Look through perfect symmetry for some bright triangle in misty air.”

Beyond being spectacularly lovely, that line also might be one of the best working definitions of poetry I’ve ever heard. This information-saturated world is overwhelming, but the best poetry makes sense of it—not by being that bright triangle of light and air, but by being the crack that allows us to see it. As Stark has it, “There are spaces—enough for everyone.”

Savage Pageant is available for discounted preorder ($15) through the Birds, LLC website (birdsllc.com) until Jan. 17. Books ship Jan. 24. The book officially launches March 17, when you can find it at Quail Ridge Books and So & So Books or online at Small Press Distribution for $18.

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Fractured Democracy In November, free-speech nonprofit PEN America reported that around 47 percent of U.S. newsroom staff has been cut since 2004.

Local journalism is, without a doubt, in crisis. On January 9, PEN partners with NorthStar Church of the Arts for a conversation examining that crisis, and its effect on North Carolina. Join Southerly’s founding editor Lyndsey Gilpin, researcher Jeremy Borden, Free Press’s Alicia Bell, and journalist Antionette Kerr for a discussion of the state’s media landscape and the relationship between local news, community, and class. RSVP encouraged.

—Rachel Rockwell NorthStar Church Of The Arts, Durham FREE, 7 p.m.

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Diane Chamberlain Big Lies in a Small Town.

Reserved seating. Tue, Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Samantha Crain, Tift Merritt, Kym Register, Kamara Thomas Wed, Jan. 8, 7 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Kate DiCamillo Beverly, Right Here. Sold out. Sat, Jan. 11, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Fractured Democracy: Rural News and Representation in North Carolina Media Thu, Jan. 9, 7 p.m. NorthStar Church of the Arts, Durham.

JP Gritton Wyoming. Wed, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Brian Lampkin The Tarboro Three: Rape, Race, and Secrecy. Sat, Jan. 11, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro.

David Zucchino Wilmington’s Lie. Tue, Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Jessica Q. Stark: Savage Pageant [Birds, LLC; March 17]

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The Possessed In this stylish 1965 film, a visitor descends on a small Italian village in search of a woman, only to be told that she is dead.

Directed by Luigi Bazzoni and based on the novel La donna del lago by Giovanni Comisso, the film is one of the inspirations behind the artist Leanne Shapton’s exhibit, La donna del lago, which runs at Lump Gallery through January 24. Shapton—an award-winning writer and illustrator who has had work in The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other places— charmingly translates the experience of movie-watching to the canvas with a series of soft, noir-ish odes to cinema. At this screening—in 2K restoration from the original 35mm—the mood is mysterious, and the popcorn flows free.

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All the President’s Men $15.

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American Factory $9. Sat, Jan. 11, 3:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Apollo 11 $9. Sun, Jan. 12, 2:55 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

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The Wild One $8. Wed, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

For Sama $13. Sat, Jan. 11, 6:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Opening 1917—Yet another war film; this one directed by Sam Mendes. Rated R. 63 Up—This moving documentary/social experiment, now playing at the Carolina Theatre, follows seven British children from different socioeconomic backgrounds over the years. Unrated.

Just Mercy—Based on the book of the same name, this film tells the story of Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer defending a client who is unjustly on death row. Rated PG-13.

Like a Boss—Things go awry for raunchy and ambitious duo Mia (Tiffany Hadish) and Mel (Rose Bryne) when things sour

with a beauty tycoon who is a little too interested in their makeup company.

Rated R.

clock that predicts your time of death; not surprisingly, it may also be a killing mahine). Rated PG-13.

Underwater—Kristen Stewart stars in a science-fiction flick—which is perhaps not for those who are claustrophobic or scared of water—about a crew of underwater researchers terrorized by mysterious creatures. Rated PG-13.

Doctor Sleep—Stephen King sequel to The Shining.

Rated R..

Now Playing The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood— Audiences can’t get enough of the Mr. Rogers content, and for good reason. In this rendition, Matthew Rhys plays a journalist assigned a profile of Fred Rogers,played by a perfectly-cast Tom Hanks. Rated PG. Countdown—Apps may kill us all, and in this horror film, they do (the app in question is a countdown

Frankie—Isabelle Hupert stars as an ailing matriarch in this sprawling family drama. Rated PG-13.

Ford v. Ferrari—Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in a biographical sports drama about a legendary race. Rated PG-13.

Frozen 2— In search of the origins of her powers, Elsa and her sister Anna strike out beyond their frosty homeland.

Rated PG.

Jojo Rabbit—Black comedy about a German boy who discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Rated PG-13.

the more moralistic clichés of the crime melodrama, it could have been more compelling. Rated R. —Ryan Vu

Jumanji: The Next Level— This adventure comedy picks up where the 1995 flick left off. Rated PG-13.

Richard Jewell—Clint Eastwood reconsiders the story of Richard Jewell, a security guard falsely accused of bombing the 1996 Olympics. Rated R.

Midway—This WWII flick about Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway stars a fleet of hunks. Rated PG-13. ½ Pain and Glory—In this auto-fictional exercise, the director Pedro Almodóvar is honest about his life but guarded about his psyche. Rated R. —Marta Núñez Pouzols

The Grudge—Real estate difficulties (among other things) are exacerbated when a cursed suburban house goes on the market.

Rated R.

 Parasite—This highly-anticipated social satire from filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho is crammed with dark twists and intricate metaphors. Rated R. —Sarah Edwards

Harriet—Kasi Lemmons stars in this biographical film about the heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Rated PG-13.

 Queen & Slim— A bad date turns into a manhunt after Queen and Slim kill a police officer in self-defense. Had it avoided

Terminator: Dark Fate— It’s like nothing after Terminator 2: Judgement Day ever happened as James Cameron returns to the fold of the classic sci-fi franchise. Rated R.  Uncut Gems— Loud and brash, with extreme close-ups and a discordant score ratcheting up the unease, this Safdie brothers flick stars Adam Sandler as a jeweler who places a high-stakes bet.

Rated R. —Neil Morris Waves—An emotional movie about a suburban African-American family navigating loss. Rated R.

From Beyond $7. Wed, Jan. 15, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

The Gentlemen Dapper Followed by Livestream Q&A. Sold out. Sat, Jan. 11, 8:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Honeyland $9. Sun, Jan. 12, 1:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Johnny Mnemonic $7. Mon, Jan. 13, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Laura $7. Sun, Jan. 12, 2 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Commando $7. Wed, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham.

One Child Nation $12.

Wed, Jan. 8, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

The Crying Game $6. Wed, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary.

The Outsider SOLD OUT. Wed, Jan. 8, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

The Edge of Democracy $13. Sun, Jan. 12, 6:30 p.m.

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The Possessed (La Donna Del Lago) Fri, Jan. 10, 7 p.m. Lump, Raleigh.

Re-Animator $7. Tue, Jan. 14, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Vhyes Followed by Livestream Q&A. $12.

Sun, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

The Possessed screens at Lump Gallery as part of Leanne Shapton’s exhibit, La Donna Del Largo.

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