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hree years ago this week, I was at a journalism conference in Portland, watching on a projection screen with a few dozen editors as Donald Trump took the oath of office and then delivered an unforgettably dystopian inaugural address—complete with references to “American carnage”—that George W. Bush so eloquently (and accurately) described as “some weird shit.”

CONTENTS NEWS 8 NC workplace deaths are up 48 percent

BY THOMASI MCDONALD

9 Why East Raleigh tax bills will skyrocket

BY LEIGH TAUSS

FEATURES 10 A hog-farm neighbor waits for justice

BY BARRY YEOMAN

The Trump era—angry and chaotic and mendacious and unrelenting—had begun.

The impeachment trial that begins this week is, if not its inevitable endpoint, an inevitable stop along the way.

FOOD + DRINK 16 Deli Edison is new but very self-assured

BY NICK WILLIAMS

MUSIC 21 Armin van Buuren changed the streaming internet 22 Black femmes take over hip-hop

BY DAVID FORD SMITH

BY THOMASI MCDONALD

ARTS + CULTURE 28 A feminist Antigone for a new world

That night, as I wandered Portland’s downtown, I ran into a mass of protesters, thousands of them, winding down every street and across every bridge. The next day, similar scenes played out all over the country, as millions of people took to the streets in Women’s Marches. The day after that, as it became clear that the DC Women’s March had far outnumbered Trump’s pathetically small inaugural crowd, the White House tried to gaslight the country about it.

The verdict, of course, is a foregone conclusion. With quisling Republicans in control of the Senate, there’s no chance that two-thirds of senators will vote to remove Trump. The real question is whether Republicans will even feign enough interest in living up to the oath they took last week—that “in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump,” they will “do impartial justice”—to bother with witnesses and evidence before rubber-stamping Trump’s “exoneration.”

For U.S. Senator Thom Tillis, the answer is a hard no. Earlier this month, Tillis—last seen asking his Twitter followers to sign Eric Trump’s birthday card,—went on Fox News to explain that calling witnesses would be a waste of time because the House should have done it, even though the White House blocked the House from doing it.

BY BRIAN HOWE

“This is just another sham in trying to impeach this president for three years,” Tillis said.

Polls show that roughly 70 percent of Americans think Trump’s aides should testify—and a slim majority think he should be removed.

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On Monday night—hours after the president’s legal team filed a, um, novel defense that claimed that abuse of power was not impeachable—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled his proposed rules for a rushed trial that he transparently aims to turn into a charade. No one who goes along with this farcical cover-up and gives a middle finger to the Constitution deserves to be in power.

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As one of the most vulnerable incumbents on the ballot this year, Ol’ Thommy Boy should keep that in mind. But he won’t. He’s chosen his side. In the long run, history will judge him and his colleagues harshly. Come November, so should the people of North Carolina.

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Our January 8 issue featured an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino, whose new book, Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, documents the bloody overthrow of Wilmington’s Fusion government by white supremacists in November 1898. But just how bloody was it?

Zucchino puts the death toll at about 60. Commenter BLACK RALEIGH says it was much higher: “With all due respect, I had to stop reading this article when I read the author’s statement about only 60 people being killed. That is a lie! Other research has shown that hundreds if not thousands of people were killed. If you can’t get that basic part of the story correct, then you’re only spreading false information that continues to dilute the impact of this great crime against humanity.”

JIM AYCOCK, whose great-grandfather’s brother, Governor Charles Aycock, took office in 1901, says Zucchino got it right: “I have studied this event thoroughly for years. By far, the most credible source is the official, state-sponsored Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report released in May 2006, and it places the number of dead at up to 60, a horrible number which needs no exaggeration. I have found no credible source for a greater number than that given in the official report. For some time, I have believed claims of up to 300 or more dead are intended to make Wilmington the nation’s largest race riot equal to Tulsa in 1921, where 300 or more really were killed, but Wilmington was not on that scale.”

In our January 8 Quickbait, we noted a handful of personalized license plate requests that the Division of Motor Vehicles decided were offensive in 2018.

Commenter M STAMEY writes: “It took a year of fighting the DMV to have ‘Sapphic’ approved, because anything referencing LGBT was deemed ‘inappropriate.’ We finally got approved but were sent a contract stating that we wouldn’t hold the DMV responsible if anyone defaced our car. During said conflict, I saw plates such as ‘thickone,’ ‘dk luvr,’ ‘pwrplay,’ and many others that could be interpreted as less than appropriate, not to mention the Confederate plates people can buy.”

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America the Broken Even if we avert disaster in November, the American Dream rings increasingly hollow

BY JONATHAN WEILER backtalk@indyweek.com

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hortly before the 2012 presidential election, I wrote an article asserting that regardless of who won, our democracy was broken. (To be clear, I was a fervent Obama supporter against Mitt Romney).

We were failing to deal seriously with some of the most pressing issues of the day, including growing inequality, inaction on the unfolding catastrophe of climate change, a metastasizing national security state, and political institutions like the Electoral College that increasingly distorted the popular will.

As an undeniably consequential presidential election approaches, it’s sobering to look back and see how little progress we’ve made, if any at all, on those issues over the past decade. And looking ahead, there’s little to indicate that we’re willing or able to seriously confront those and other fundamental problems in the near future.

For instance, the deeply entrenched nature of racism in our society, embedded in all areas of life, including school, work, housing, and the justice system, has arguably received much more attention since 2012, partly as a result of the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. But increased (though still relatively limited) awareness aside, little has actually been done to address systemically those realities. America’s prison population has fallen in recent years, including among African Americans. But America remains in the top two or three of the world’s biggest jailers. And black Americans are at least four times as likely to be imprisoned as white Americans, including for drug offenses, though there is no evidence that blacks use at higher rates than whites.

That we continue to fail to seriously address how profoundly racism structures life chances remains a fundamental stain on our country.

Poverty has declined somewhat from 2012 levels. But despite the record-long expansion, the poverty rate is still higher than it was in the 1970s and in the last years of the Clinton presidency. About 12 percent of the population—close to 40 million Americans—live below the poverty line. And remember that the federal poverty line for a family of four is a meager $26,000 a year. As has long been true, our poverty and child poverty rates remain higher than that of virtually any other rich country.

One area of meaningful improvement in American life since 2012 has been in health insurance coverage, thanks to Obamacare, flawed though it is. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, one in six non-elderly Americans were uninsured before the Affordable Care Act came into full force in 2013. Ten percent are now.

That’s still more than 25 million uninsured Americans each year, a complete outlier among wealthy countries. It is, nevertheless, a real accomplishment. That’s especially true of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which, despite GOP obstruction, insures millions of previously uncovered poor Americans.

But the improvement in health insurance coverage is mitigated by the striking trends in life expectancy. Perhaps the clearest measure of increasing social well-being is how long people live. After steady progress for decades, life expectancy in the U.S., which has long lagged other rich countries, began to flatline about two decades ago. Then, shockingly, it actually declined between 2014 and 2017 (it has ticked up very slightly since). So-called deaths of despair, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including from suicide, liver disease, and drug overdose—the latter from the opioid epidemic, which has claimed several hundred thousand lives since the late ’90s—are a major cause.

Strikingly, as the income and wealth gaps have continued to grow between rich and poor, so has the life-expectancy gap. As a result of steady increases in life expectancy for well-off Americans, coupled with stagnation for the less well-off, the gap is now estimated to be 15 years among men and 10 years among women. This has happened in spite of remarkable breakthroughs in medical technology and treatment, including for cancer and heart disease.

It’s not that nothing is better. The triumph of marriage equality is a great achievement, of course. But the promise of the American Dream—that life chances for most would improve with each passing generation— rings increasingly hollow.

Unfortunately, even if we avert disaster in November, it’s hard to be confident that this will change. 2 Voices is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Join today at KeepItINDY.com.

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15 MINUTES Angel Dozier, 42 Creative strategist and concept artist at Be Connected Durham

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Why did you choose to live in Durham?

I have been in Durham since 1999. I really wanted to move to New York City, and I had a six-year-old. I was not willing to risk putting him in an unstable environment. I decided, OK, this is kind of how I can have both worlds. To me, Durham is a little rugged and rough.

I’m attracted to that, because it gives me that New York feel. So I was like, I’m going to create New York in my own environment. I got a job at Duke as a researcher, and I just built that life for myself.

Durham is kind of rough, but it’s beautiful. I’m attracted to the urban energy.

What do you have in the works for 2020?

I am working on emerging as an artist myself doing photo journals—writing and using photographs to tell stories. I am looking to exhibit later this year. I write all the time. I am a journalist, or a diarist—I write in my journal a lot. So I’m planning on putting the writing out there as visual art. And also in a meditation app—look at me, being a ’70s kid—using the things I have written, to record them for meditation.

What does a healthy arts community look like?

It looks like everybody really pooling their talent together as a collective and rising above all of our issues in a way that none of us has ever seen before. Because we haven’t been united before. But if I’m able to put my whatever it is—my energy, my curatorial talents—for the sake of the community and then, you know, the people next door to me are able to cook a dope meal or something, and the person on the other side of the hall is a great advocate for seniors, if we just take everything that we have, right where we are, we can create something that’s bigger than ourselves, just like that. W

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The Big Boom

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Triangle. But for a more complete view of how the state is changing, we used the most recent data available from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Office of State Budget & Management, and the Carolina Demography Project to put North Carolina’s growth spurt under a microscope.

fter this year’s census, North Carolina will likely gain a 14th congressional district, having added about 1 million new people—about 10 percent of the state’s total population—since 2010. It’s no secret that most of this growth took place around Charlotte and the

Top 10 NC Municipalities by Numeric Growth

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Durham +4,731 (1.7%) Raleigh +3,774 (0.8%) Cary +2,263 (1.4%)

Charlotte +13,151 (1.5%) Concord +2,045 (2.2%) Leland +2,138 (10.7%)

Winston-Salem +1,955 (0.8%) Greensboro +2,513 (0.9%)

North Carolina’s Population

Apex +2,513 (0.9%) Chapel Hill +1,991 (3.4%) 2010

NC Growth by the Numbers

28% in-migrants who moved to North Carolina from other countries between 2010 and 2018.

21% state’s population projected to be 65 and older by 2038, a result of the declining birth rate.

In 2010, it was 13.

14,000 Number of in-migrants who moved to North Carolina from other countries, most often Japan, India, and Mexico.

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growth from 2018–19 due to in-migration, meaning the number of people who moved to North Carolina that exceeded the number of people who moved away, about 81,500 people in total.

17,000 The decline in annual natural increase, meaning population growth through more births than deaths, between 2010–11, when it was about 42,000, and 2018–19, when it was about 25,000. This stems from a decline in the state’s fertility rate, which matches a national trend: From 2018 to 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau reported the first natural increase below 1 million in decades.

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The Good, The Bad & The Awful

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After the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources said it would rather buy land currently owned by the RDU Airport and add it to UMSTEAD PARK than see the airport erect a $2 million (!) fence to keep mountain bikers out, the airport authority delayed a vote on a fence contract.

While RDU is prohibited from selling the land, it can lease it.

The STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH reported 11 flu deaths during the week of January 5–11, bringing the total this season to 33.

A construction worker was killed when a TRENCH COLLAPSED at the site of a future Durham gas station near Brier Creek.

Wake County District Attorney LORRIN FREEMAN said she would not ask the State Bureau of Investigation to review the actions of the two officers who beat Batista-Concepcion. She said she trusted the RPD to do a “thorough review.”

UNC System leaders, last seen handing the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.6 million, complained that the legislature’s BUDGET STANDOFF could turn state universities into collateral damage.

The RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT released body-camera footage of two incidents: from the beating of Batista-Concepcion and from January 4, when an officer fired four shots at a man suspected of trying to steal a city garbage truck (the officer missed).

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A study ranked Raleigh the third most attractive city in the country for MILLENNIALS to relocate, behind only Denver and Austin. Raleigh has seen a 13 percent increase in its millennial population since 2014.

Hundreds of ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS gathered on Bicentennial Plaza to demand that lawmakers dictate to women what they can do with their bodies. One speaker bemoaned the evil combination of abortion and prenatal genetic testing, which are being used together for “genocide.”

1/19

In a one-day session of the General Assembly, the state Senate failed to override Governor Cooper’s veto of the Republican budget, then adjourned, meaning NORTH CAROLINA TEACHERS will go without a raise.

A survey from Public Policy Polling showed that 31 percent of registered Democrats in North Carolina backed JOE BIDEN, while 18 percent and 15 percent backed Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, respectively.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced that it would appeal Orange County Superior Court Judge R. Allen Baddour’s decision denying students and faculty standing to oppose the $2.6 MILLION CONSENT AGREEMENT Baddour approved between the UNC System and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

A video that circulated on social media showed two Raleigh officers kneeing, kicking, and punching BRAILY BATISTA-CONCEPCION while pulling him from his car. The Raleigh Police Department said Batista-Concepcion’s car matched a vehicle suspected in three hit-and-runs on Tuesday morning. Batista-Concepcion was charged with driving while impaired, possession of marijuana, resisting arrest, and obstruction of justice.

The News & Observer reported that, according to Triangle MLS data, the number of area homes that sold for MORE THAN $1 MILLION increased by 360 percent between 2010 and 2019.

1/20

Durham County became the first in North Carolina to ban the purchase of single-serve PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES with county funds, except in emergencies.

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(Here’s what’s happened since the INDY went to press last week)

About a hundred congregants and protesters gathered at the First Presbyterian Church in Durham for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day service, which this year featured local politicians—Mayor Steve Schewel, Congressman David Price, Sheriff Clarence Birkhead, and others—explaining that they were trying to address the crisis at MCDOUGALD TERRACE.

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The ArtsCenter Last January, The ArtsCenter announced that it was pulling out as an anchor of Carrboro’s mixed-use 203 Project, nearly a year after it signed a development agreement with the town. ArtsCenter executive director Dan Mayer said at the time that the nonprofit had “decided to pursue other options that better fit our needs.” Last week, we got a clearer sense of what that meant: The New Jerseybased Nicholson Foundation, a major ArtsCenter funder for almost a decade, granted the organization $1.6 million toward building its own $5.5 million facility at 303 Jones Ferry Road. Barbara McFayden, a Nicholson trustee who is on The ArtsCenter’s board, said it’s time for “The ArtsCenter to have a home that can showcase the imagination within so that it can flourish, embrace, and inspire more members of our community.”

The Durham Housing Authority From the Department of Bad Timing: Last week, news surfaced that on December 30—four days before a carbon monoxide crisis forced the evacuation of McDougald Terrace—the Durham Housing Authority Board of Commissioners awarded CEO Anthony Scott a 1.5 percent raise, worth almost $3,000, and a $15,000 bonus, with the Performance Evaluation Committee praising Scott for rebuilding the DHA’s relationships with the city and HUD and inspiring confidence that the agency could handle major rebuilding and renovation projects. Days later, the carbon monoxide crisis at the McDougald Terrace blew up—bringing to the surface decades of neglect and horror stories of mold and sewage problems and gas leaks—and the DHA had to evacuate some 300 residents to area hotels; it’s spent almost $500,000 on the relocation.

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The Raleigh Police Department When you’re telling people not to “rush to judgment” based on video footage—in other words, not to believe what their eyes are telling them—things have gone sideways. This is the position Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown found herself in on Friday afternoon, defending the body-cam footage the RPD had released in response to a viral video showing the brutal arrest of Braily Batista-Concepcion. And yes, the footage was bad, no matter which version you saw: Officers beating, punching, and kneeing Batista-Concepcion until his face was bloody and he had a black eye. As hard as the footage was to watch, Deck-Brown said, the blame lay with Batista-Concepcion: “Compliance and cooperation are so important during these types of encounters.”

Batista-Concepcion returned to the hospital on Friday due to injuries sustained during his arrest on Tuesday.

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new report from the NC Justice Center found a 48 percent increase in workplace deaths in North Carolina over the last decade.

In addition, the report charges the N.C. Department of Labor with failing to investigate hundreds of workplace deaths, failing to adequately punish companies that break the rules, and failing to enforce state laws.

“Enforcement has fallen since 2012, in terms of penalties, willful violation assessments, and inspections when fatalities occur,” says Allan Freyer, director of the Justice Center’s Workers’ Rights Project and author of “Too Lax, Too Often.” “In fact, there’s been a 900 percent increase in the number of fatality cases where no inspection occurred at all.”

While the NCDOL conducted complete or partial investigations of 459 workplace deaths and catastrophic injuries between 2012 and 2018, the report says, 499 other incidents went uninvestigated. Freyer says that could be due to the department misclassifying some workers as independent contractors, whose deaths and injuries the department does not investigate. (The NCDOL denies that it misclassifies workers.)

“Vulnerable and marginalized” employees are most likely to die on the job; disproportionately, they are people of color. Latinx workers, for example, comprise about 10 percent of the state’s population but accounted for 25 percent of workplace deaths between 2012 and 2017.

They tend to perform more dangerous jobs; 70 percent of workplace deaths take place at construction, manufacturing, and agriculture sites.

Kevin Beauregard, the director of the NCDOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Division, says his staff “knows all too well what anguish and long-lasting impact fatal incidents have on the workplace and the community.”

The Justice Center, he adds, does not present “accurate” or “complete information when they conclude workplace deaths have ‘exploded’ in North Carolina, compared to the national average.” The number of workplace deaths in North Carolina and nationwide fluctuates from year to year based on a number of factors outside of the NCDOL’s control, he says.

Still, the idea that Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry’s department has sided with employers over employees is nothing new. As The News & Observer reported in December, Berry ran for office in 2000 because she was upset 8

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that the OSH had fined her company $550. Throughout her tenure, the NCDOL has shied away from penalizing employers. In April, when Berry announced that she would not seek a sixth term, Berry described her department as “not a regulatory agency so much as we’re an agency that will partner with [employers] and will help them achieve safe workplaces.”

Along those lines, the Justice Center report says the NCDOL’s “core philosophy” is to allow employers to police themselves: “In exchange for voluntary compliance, NCDOL offers lower penalties, laxer enforcement, and fewer investigations.”

“Voluntary compliance gives too many of these violators a free pass,” Freyer says. “And it’s time for the Department of Labor to step up and fully enforce the law.”

Significant penalties exist both to hold employers accountable and to serve as deterrents—the worse the violation, the stiffer the fine, in theory, at least.

But that’s not always what happens.

In a 2014 case cited in the Justice Center report, a worker for Delta Contracting was crushed to death; though the NCDOL deemed the violation “serious,” it fined the company just $1,165.

The Justice Center found that the NCDOL “routinely hands out exceptionally low penalties and then allows violators to negotiate their way to even lower penalties.”

As a result, the state’s penalties for serious violations between 2012 and 2018 were more than 30 percent below the national average.

SOURCES: BLS, NCDOL

In 2014, Freyer says, the NCDOL handed out an average of $3,120 in penalties for violations involving workplace deaths. The national average that year was $11,287.

By 2017, that gap had grown: The state average was $4,177, while the national average was $16,481.

The report also alleges that the NCDOL pulls punches on issuing willful violations against “bad actor” companies, which typically come with the steepest penalties.

Most years, the Justice Center says, the NCDOL issues only a handful of willful violations—and the department backed off “full enforcement in almost two-thirds of the cases where workplace fatalities” stemmed from willful violations. (Beauregard points out that the burden of proof is very high for bad-actor violations.)

One point of agreement between the Justice Center of the NCDOL: The department has too few inspectors. Last year, the NCDOL relied on 97 inspectors, or one for every 44,645 employees and every 2,531 businesses in the state. With that number, it would take the department 108 years to inspect every site in the state.

Beauregard says division “could use additional resources to reach more employers.” The OSH “has had difficulties over the past several years filling vacant compliance officer positions and retaining compliance officers, primarily due to available funding for salaries.”

The NCDOL, Beauregard says, has voiced its concerns to both state and federal lawmakers. W

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The Ground Beneath Them In some East Raleigh neighborhoods, land values have risen 400 percent— and tax bills are about to shoot through the roof

BY LEIGH TAUSS ltauss@indyweek.com

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illie Stokes lives on a fixed income.

His grandmother bought his Maple Street bungalow in the 1920s when College Park was a black neighborhood, self-sufficient, with its own businesses and culture. But when Stokes, 76, inherited the home in 2003, the neighborhood was crawling with drugs and crime. He’d wake up to find litter on the sidewalks and spent his morning walks scooping it up.

“Nobody would be cleaning up, sweeping in the street, but it was in my blood,” Stokes says. “I didn’t like seeing the trash all around.”

Since the city started buying homes in the neighborhood, he’s been on the front lines of another transformation.

Across the street sits one of the city’s “affordable” homes, valued for tax purposes at $262,000. Next door, there’s a two-story home, built in 2018, that’s already valued on the tax rolls at nearly double its $222,000 sales price.

Stokes’s house hasn’t changed much since he’s lived there. But because his neighborhood is becoming so much pricier, the government views the land underneath it as much more valuable. In fact, since the last time Wake County assessed property values four years ago, the value of his land has more than tripled, from $37,500 to $132,250 as of last week. (In 2016, the county decided to assess property values every four years instead of eight.)

This would normally mean a 50 percent hike in local property taxes, from about $585 per year to about $877. Stokes is fortunate; he qualifies for the state’s senior tax relief program and won’t see much of a change. But just 1 percent of city property owners qualify for this tax break. Many of his neighbors don’t—and the county’s revaluation could hit them hard.

Overall, Wake’s appraisals increased property values by about 20 percent, but the changes were unevenly distributed.

Neighborhoods east of downtown Raleigh saw staggering increases driven by redevelopment. Modest houses were gobbled up by developers—or, in some cases, the city—and replaced by newer, bigger, costlier homes. The greatest demand in the market is for homes valued at less than $250,000.

“Forces of supply and demand are at play. High demand and low supply are going to drive up values,” says county tax administrator Marcus Kinrade.

“The redevelopment is mostly driving up the lot values in residential areas east of downtown, at least 50 percent, sometimes 100 percent, sometimes more than 100 percent.”

In Quarry Hills, land values spiked 463 percent due to the revaluation. Nearby, the Carnage neighborhood saw lot values rise 445 percent. In College Park, land values increased by 360 percent.

The county is trying to reduce the impact by writing off the increase in building values in cases in which land values have skyrocketed, but the homes themselves haven’t been drastically improved.

But most of the time, these property owners will pay more anyway.

In the aggregate, the revaluation is supposed to be revenue-neutral, meaning the revenue brought in would be about the same as it would be had the reappraisal not taken place—at least as a starting point for the county’s budget deliberations this year. But revenue-neutrality doesn’t apply to individual properties, which means that those in rapidly developing neighborhoods

will see their tax bills climb, while people in neighborhoods whose values have risen less than 20 percent will pay less, says county commissioner Matt Calabria.

East Raleigh community activist Octavia Rainey sees the process as another piece of the systemic gentrification of her neighborhood. The tax hikes mean lower-income residents who are ineligible for the senior tax relief will face a difficult decision: “Are you going to keep the property or do you just sell it? For the

“Forces of supply and demand are at play. High demand and low supply are going to drive up values.” people who own their houses, they are trying to figure out what to do,” Rainey says. “East Raleigh is really suffering from this tax increase. You have people who live in the redevelopment areas, and they can’t afford to pay their taxes. The city is gonna have to deal with that.”

One idea is to adopt a grant program similar to Durham’s, in which longtime residents in revitalizing areas making below 80 percent of the area median income can apply for funding assistance to offset their tax increase.

City council member Nicole Stewart calls the assessment hikes in College Park “startling, but I also think not terribly unexpected. We’ve been hearing community members say this for a long time, that we need to balance the need for affordable housing without putting that burden back on taxpayers,” Stewart says.

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As Smithfield Foods appeals a multimilliondollar nuisance verdict, a hog-farm neighbor wonders whether he’ll get a chance at justice for his kids’ stench-filled childhoods

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andy Davis admits he’s not a natural warrior.

“I try to make everybody happy,” he says. “My nature is to get along.”

When an industrial hog farm went up near his home in Stantonsburg in 1991, and four years later, he watched pink wastewater flow toward the creek where he played as a child—even then, he shied away from confrontation. It was early in his career, and he didn’t want to be seen as a rabble-rouser.

“If you’re too vocal sometimes,” he says, “things can go sour.”

He dates his turning point to a crisp, sunny day in 2012. Davis and his family were living in his grandparents’ old house, across the road from where he grew up, on land that straddles Wilson and Greene Counties. He and his eight-year-old had been on a father-daughter outing. They arrived home, he says, to an odor that had wafted over from the nearby hog facility, Stantonsburg Farm. Swine operations don’t export their odor 24-7. But at its worst, the manure smells like “rotten eggs and ammonia,” says the federally funded journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It chases people indoors and sticks to clothing, to the point that Davis and his wife no longer hang their laundry outside to dry.

When they stepped out of the truck, Davis says, the stink was particularly strong.

“Dad, why do we have to live like this?” he recalls his daughter asking. “When I go to my friends’ house, I don’t smell this smell.”

The question thwacked Davis. He had grown up swimming and fishing in the nearby sandpits and creeks, and expected his kids to have a footloose childhood, too. When his oldest son—now an adult— was a child, they would pitch tents on their own property and camp overnight.

“We didn’t go to the mountains or wherever,” he says. “We live in the country.”

His two younger kids have had a more ambivalent relationship to the outdoors.

“It’s not like we stayed inside with the blinds pulled,” he says.

But living near Stantonsburg Farm, which has a permit to raise 4,800 pigs at a time, has meant less camping and fishing.

The children didn’t have birthday parties around the swimming pool, because they never knew when the smell would chase everyone inside. That uncertainty, he says, has taken a toll.

“A man’s home is his castle, and he feels he needs to defend his castle, and so it makes you feel weaker,” he says.

His children have noticed their parents’ helplessness, he says, and have internalized it themselves: “It makes them not as bold.

Makes them not as daring. Makes them not as willing to challenge.”

Stantonsburg Farm raises the pigs for the Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, which is owned by a Chinese company.

In 2014 Davis signed on as one of more than 500 plaintiffs suing Smithfield’s hog-production subsidiary, then called Murphy-Brown. The 26 lawsuits allege that industrial hog farming makes life intolerable for those living nearby—in legal parlance, that it creates a “private nuisance.” The plaintiffs live near farms contracted to, or owned by, Smithfield.

They allege that the facilities produce a recurring stench and attract flies, buzzards, and late-night truck traffic.

The lawsuits claim that Smithfield can control the nuisance by changing how its farmers dispose of the pigs’ urine and feces. The waste is currently flushed into large open pits called “lagoons,” where it sits until growers spray it on their fields as fertilizer.

Smithfield insists that the nuisance claims are overblown and that alternative disposal technologies cost too much.

“From the beginning, the lawsuits have been nothing more than a money grab by a

big litigation machine,” the company said in a 2018 statement. The company calls the suits “a serious threat to a major industry, to North Carolina’s entire economy, and to the jobs and livelihoods of tens of thousands of North Carolinians.”

But the company lost all five federal cases that went to trial in 2018 and 2019. Juries awarded 36 neighbors a total of almost $550 million, which the court dialed back to about $98 million because of a North Carolina law limiting punitive damages.

Davis’s case has not yet gone to trial.

But on January 31, in Richmond, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments in the first of Smithfield’s appeals. The appellate court’s decision will help determine whether Davis’s lawsuit moves forward—whether he can seek damages for what he calls his children’s diminished childhood.

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he case before the Fourth Circuit is called McKiver vs. Murphy-Brown. It involves a rural community in Bladen County and a swine facility that opened in its midst in the mid-1990s. Owner Billy Kinlaw had a contract with Smithfield’s Murphy-Brown subsidiary and a permit to raise more than 14,000 pigs at a time. Like all 26 lawsuits, this one was filed by Wallace and Graham, a Salisbury law firm that often takes on large corporations.

The trial took place at the U.S. District Court in Raleigh in April 2018. On the witness stand, Kinlaw’s neighbors recounted how the odor, buzzards, flies, and truck traffic upended their lives.

“My father was a sharecropper,” plaintiff Daphne McKoy, an administrative assistant, testified. “We didn’t have a lot, and what he did leave to his family was that little piece of land.”

Back then, she said, it was quiet, and the air was fresh: “You could spend all day on the porch or under the tree, but no one does that anymore. You can ride through and it looks like a ghost town compared to when I was coming up.”

Many of McKoy’s relatives still live along that road. But McKoy said she fears that when her own children grow up, they will settle down in less noxious surroundings.

“They’re embarrassed by the odors,” she testified. “They’re embarrassed to have their friends over.”

Like Randy Davis, three counties away, McKoy said she felt frustrated by her

“The rules, as written, are so vague and subjective that enforcement will be difficult.

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inability to give her kids a pastoral North Carolina childhood.

“I would like for you to know how helpless I feel as a mother to hear them complain about how the kids say, ‘Your house smells like a trash dump,’” she told the jury. “I just want you to know how sometimes hopeless and helpless it feels.”

This frustration, argued plaintiffs’ co-counsel Michael Kaeske, was as avoidable as the smell itself. “Smithfield has saved untold millions of dollars by refusing to use alternative technology that will fix the problems,” he said during his opening argument. He added that Smithfield has tried to evade responsibility for the stench.

One of the documents Kaeske offered as evidence was a 1999 memo from a now-retired Smithfield executive, Don Butler, lauding the state’s new odor regulations. “The rules, as written, are so vague and subjective that enforcement will be difficult,” Butler wrote. “This may be to our benefit.”

Smithfield pushed back against the plaintiffs’ narrative. “There was never an odor issue raised about the Kinlaw farm before this lawsuit,” defense attorney Mark Anderson told the jury.

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Among his witnesses was Jacquelyne Creed-Enloe, a neighbor whom the Kinlaws have invited over for oyster roasts and pig pickings. Her children sometimes visit the farm, too, she testified, and feed the resident donkeys. They wouldn’t do that, she said, if the farm had a strong odor. One daughter is “really prissy,” and her son “has a keen sense of smell, and he would have a meltdown. He can’t handle gassy smells.”

Over three weeks, the jury heard from parents and children, scientists, and industry leaders who told contradictory stories of life in swine country. Then the jury delivered a decisive verdict: Not only did Smithfield harm the plaintiffs, but it also committed such “egregiously wrongful acts” that it deserved to pay punitive damages. The jury awarded the 10 plaintiffs a total of $50.75 million. State law reduced the award to $3.25 million.

Smithfield appealed the verdict, saying that Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt “committed numerous errors”—first among them “allowing the jury to consider and award punitive damages despite a lack of sufficient evidence.”

That’s the appeal that the Fourth Circuit will hear on January 31.

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fter the McKiver verdict, Billy Kinlaw couldn’t understand how his farm, with its clean environmental record in the eyes of state government, could be the source of a multimillion-dollar jury award.

“Quite frankly, I’ve lost a lot of respect for the legal system,” said Kinlaw, who was not himself sued, in an interview for an article published by the Food & Environmental Reporting

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Network and The Nation. “I’ve never had any type of violation, never had any type of write-up, and this is in 24 years. And now, all of a sudden, I’m a nuisance.”

The industry said the same thing. As part of the Fourth Circuit appeal, four industry groups argued that the court should consider the fact that state regulators have never cited Kinlaw Farms. “[P]laintiffs’ legal theories do not target rogue operators who flout environmental laws,” said an amicus brief filed by the North Carolina Pork Council, North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, and their national counterparts. “They challenge operators who comply with the law and carry out ordinary farming practices. It is no exaggeration to say that a plaintiff win in these lawsuits would subject the everyday activities of all farmers to punitive damages.”

If Randy Davis’s lawsuit makes it to trial, it will be harder for Smithfield and the industry to make that argument.

Stantonsburg Farm, which generates an estimated 12 million gallons of hog waste a year, has received multiple write-ups by regulators over the past quarter-century.

The first came in January 1995.

Prakash Menon was on emergency standby for the state Division of Environmental Management when his beeper interrupted a Saturday afternoon.

Menon, an environmental engineer, was summoned to Stantonsburg, where he saw stagnant pink liquid in the ditches lining both sides of a rural road. (Bacterial action turns hog waste pink.) Several neighbors, including Davis, were there to meet him.

The discharge came from Stantonsburg Farm, according to a violation notice issued by the state government. And it emptied into Contentnea Creek, where Davis had spent so much of his youth. Contentnea Creek, in turn, flows into the Neuse River.

“Wastewater of this nature has the potential to deplete dissolved oxygen in the affected water body to a point which is harmful to aquatic life,” said a DEM inspection report stemming from the incident. But when Menon showed up at the farm, the manager refused him entry. The engineer had to call the Greene County Sheriff’s Office for help.

On a follow-up visit, two other DEM employees found dead pigs improperly dumped in a drainage area, half-covered with water. During that visit, according to state records, the manager again was “not cooperative.”

The 1995 incident was one of several noted by regulators, including waste

discharges in 1999, 2009, and 2013. All the while, neighbors continued to complain.

“How would you feel if you couldn’t drink the water from your own well, go to church without the smell of hog waste permeating your clothing, or even have a barbecue with friends on your own property?” said Don Webb, a plaintiff and former hog farmer, in a 2014 statement released by the Waterkeeper Alliance, an environmental group. Webb died in 2018.

Stantonsburg Farm is owned by Murphy Family Ventures, a company founded and headed by Wendell “Dell” Murphy Jr. He’s the son of Wendell Murphy Sr., who pioneered the expansion of North Carolina’s swine industry and also served in the state legislature from 1983–93. As The News & Observer chronicled in “Boss Hog,” its 1995 Pulitzer-winning investigation, the elder Murphy and his legislative allies championed laws to protect the industry, including sales-tax exemptions and restrictions on county zoning powers.

Smithfield’s subsidiary, Murphy-Brown, leased and managed Stantonsburg Farm from 2002–12.

Smithfield declined an interview request for this article and declined to answer questions by email. Representatives of Murphy Family Ventures and Stantonsburg Farm did not return phone calls.

In its formal response to the lawsuit, Smithfield acknowledged “a few instances where application of effluent at the Stantonsburg Farm resulted in runoff onto neighboring land and waterways.”

The company added that the farm and its owners “undertook efforts immediately to remediate any runoff,” and that Smithfield has worked with the farm to minimize the smell and generally improve its environmental performance.

Over the past three years, Davis says he’s noticed a change: “The hog operation has been very minimal nuisance.” He wonders if this is a result of the lawsuit.

The relief has brought Davis little comfort.

“Some people say, ‘Well, aren’t you happy about that?’ Well, no. That made me mad as hell.” To him, the improvement shows that Stantonsburg Farm could have mitigated the odors all along. “But it cost pennies more to do it, where you can be a better neighbor versus you don’t give a crap about your neighbor.”

“The last three years of my life living here has been great,” he says. “The prior 20 years, it was hell.” W

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The average individual produces four pounds of waste daily; businesses and events generate much more. For event planners, disposing of waste can be time and labor-intensive. Enter Gather Green. Bryce takes care of all their waste recovery needs, providing consultations and waste management before, during, and after the event. With a bit of ingenuity, Bryce recovers, transforms, and diverts plastics and other nonrecyclable waste. For example, when Gather Green contracted with Moogfest, they saw an 83% reduction in waste from the previous year. Event planners simply feel better when they know they aren’t contributing to overflowing landfills.

Fillaree soap company was an early adopter of Gather Green’s Waste Recovery Station, a solution for local businesses. Fillaree’s owner, Alyssa Cherry, was determined to create a zero-waste business, but sorting and transporting each individual material proved to be too much. By partnering with Gather Green in 2019, the company produced only eight pounds of trash, a 99% diversion rate.

Where does it all go? Gather Green works to ensure that materials are properly sorted, then re-envisioned for another purpose. For instance, artists and businesses can turn items like unique plastic packaging into clay molds, or redirect bubble wrap from one business to another. Bryce’s “no trash left behind” mindset encourages everyone to connect and become more engaged and more committed to exploring a new way of dealing with their trash.

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NC Chiropractic celebrates 25 years in business this April, and five years since his move from Chapel Hill to a new location in downtown Carrboro in 2015. The office is between Weaver Street Market and the Carrboro Farmers’ Market. It’s an easy walk in town, or a quick one mile bike or bus ride from UNC or downtown Chapel Hill, and also has plenty of free parking.

Dr. Gaertner has convenient, flexible hours so that business people, students, university employees, and local residents can make lunch or evening appointments, and he offers quality health care without a hassle or obligation to commit to any series of treatments. Dr. Gaertner’s approach is unique in that he combines traditional chiropractic techniques with neuromuscular trigger point therapy. He appeals to both newcomers, and experienced chiropractic patients, who seek more personalized interaction in understanding their care and treatment plans. “From children to the elderly, with headaches, shoulder or leg pain, or injuries from work or auto accidents, everyone feels better with chiropractic.”

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Beauty in a Rare Beast The new Deli Edison brings a lot of self-assurance and a little roozle-doozle— whatever that is—to a Chapel Hill shopping center

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bagel of real virtue is an almost unattainable quarry in the South. Like most people who find beauty in this rare beast, I have ironclad ideas on what bagels should and should not be. I was thrilled to discover that the bagels at Deli Edison come fairly close to my personal archetype. Their shiny lacquered crusts yield an audible crackle, and the interiors balance heft and chewy density with a soft, toothsome crumb. They fight back, just not too hard.

Of course, if you ask Sam Suchoff, there’s no such thing as a perfect bagel.

“I’ve eaten somewhere around 500,000 bagels in my life,” Suchoff explains. “I tend to stop listening when someone tries explaining to me what a ‘real bagel’ is. It’s food. It’s culture. It’s memory. It’s sustenance. It’s complicated.”

Deli Edison, which opened in December, is the latest project from animal-welfarecertified-ham mastermind Suchoff and his partners Pete Wagner and Dan Obusan.

Suchoff is also the chef and owner of the barbecue restaurant The Pig and The Neighborhood Bar; the three businesses share a parking lot with a karate dojo and a dry-cleaner in a tidy little shopping center on Weaver Dairy Road.

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The Piedmont breakfast sandwich at Deli Edison

able cities, where they range in quality from dubious purveyors of cut-rate survival calories to temples of worship for cultish sandwich devotees—often with an imperceptible line separating the two.

But that kind of deli—you know, the New York kind—is a relative newcomer to our firmly automotive commuter scene, and the ones that have popped up recently are still finding their footing with Southern diners who aren’t accustomed to a stop at the corner familiar as part of their daily routine. Of these welcome and ambitious establishments, like Durham’s Lucky’s Deli and Carrboro’s Neal’s Deli, Deli Edison is perhaps the most self-assured, with an admirable commitment to its own charmingly askew approach.

“Delis tend to be freeform,” Wagner says. “We don’t have to stick to a single concept. A deli can be quick but still have a bit of the ol’ roozle-doozle.”

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breakfast sandwich that will surely haunt my dreams until I can once again cram one into my face. It’s a hunk of sage-tinged breakfast sausage nestled between a layer of melted provolone and another of fluffy grilled egg. But what elevates it into classic-level territory—the kind of thing you eat as a high schooler only to spend college lamenting its unavailability—is a smear of cream cheese infused with housemade ‘nduja, a whipped, spreadable salami of enchanting piquancy. I had mine on a toasted everything bagel, and at 8:00 a.m. on a freezing Monday—let me tell you—it was wild, wild times.

The lunch menu has its own left-of-center concoctions. The Nonna is a hoagie stuffed with unctuous, herb-flecked porchetta, pickled vegetables, and roasted broccoli rabe contributing tangy and bitter offsets to the satisfyingly greasy pork.

One of the heartiest sandwiches comes adorned with slabs of BBQ-glazed “impossible” meatloaf, a fairly stupendous simula-

crum of the real thing. Made in-house with “fake meat and love,” according to Wagner, it’s a feat of vegetarian legerdemain.

“We wanted to create an equal experience,” Obusan says. “Not just a good vegan sandwich, but a good sandwich, period.”

And have no fear if you’re looking for more conventional deli stuff, like an inviting refrigerated case stocked with salads and prepared foods. The smoked whitefish is meatier than creamy, a rejoinder to the sad and sodden fish salads of the world.

The egg salad is similarly addictive—airy, tangy, and electrified with fresh dill.

I hoped to close out my visit to Deli Edison with a staple black-and-white cookie, teased on the website but sadly nowhere to be found. I did, however, indulge in a frisbee-sized gingersnap made with bacon fat.

Its flavor and texture were a genuinely new experience for me, crumbling into smoky, melty cookie molecules the moment it hit my tongue. I can’t imagine a more appropriate closing statement from a Southern deli, especially one with roots so inextricably entwined with local, sustainable pork.

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Triangle Restaurant Week Now in its 13th year, Triangle Restaurant Week is an opportunity for restaurants to experiment with menus and for diners to experience some of the area’s best cuisine for a fraction of the usual price. Three-course lunches start at $15, and multicourse dinners range from $20–$35. More than 100 restaurants are participating this year; new restaurants offering TRW menus include Lantern, Stir, Kō•än, and The Durham.

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Winter Food Truck Rodeo Five times a year, dozens of the Triangle’s most popular food trucks converge on Durham Central Park. This winter’s vendors include Yaggsiitenn, Off the Hog, Sadies Raleigh, and Arepashouse NC. Durham Central Park, 501 Foster St., Durham durhamcentralpark.org TUES., JAN. 28, 6:30 P.M., $85

Modern Chinese Cuisine: Wine Tasting On January 28, G.58 Cuisine—Morrisville’s stylish outpost for contemporary takes on traditional Chinese dishes—will pair four Spanish and American wines with tastings from the menu that include the scallop roll, Atlantic salmon, pork belly, and steak with foie gras.

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Crook’s Corner Supper Club Crook’s Corner’s monthly supper club launched last summer, and its casual, family-style approach to communal dining has kept it going strong. At this rendition, chef Justin Burdett will serve a four-course meal (including clams, seared duck breast with cherries, Roasted Roots, and Chocolate Layer Cake) alongside four Haw River River Farmhouse ales.

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Roe vs. Wade Anniversary – Jan. 22, 1973 47 Years of Reproductive Choice “Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy, than a woman’s decision—with the guidance of her physician and within the limits specified in Roe—whether to end her pregnancy.

A woman’s right to make that choice freely is fundamental.”

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We, the undersigned, support a woman’s right to safe, legal, and accessible birth control and abortion.

We condemn the acts of violence and intimidation directed at women and their health care providers. We agree that these rights extend to all women regardless of economic status, and, as taxpayers, affirm our support of public funding for family planning services and funding for abortions for indigent women.

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When you arrive at Lucky Tree, you’ve entered gluten-intolerance heaven. I love this cafe not only because of its decor and layout and because it sells local art and showcases local artists, but because all of its baked goods are gluten-free—and many are vegan-friendly, too. At most area cafes, sensitive guts like mine are an afterthought. Lucky Tree, however, has plenty of delicious gluten-free options; my favorite is the chocolate chip muffin.

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ARMIN VAN BUUREN

Sunday, Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m. | $53 | The Ritz, Raleigh

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Lord of the Trance Armin van Buuren knows his genre’s not cool. He’s just here for good vibes and saving the world.

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rmin van Buuren changed the streaming internet.

In 2001, nearly ten years before Femi Adeyemi’s taste-making internet-radio network NTS (alongside outlets like Rinse.fm and Red Bull Music Academy) ushered in the reign of curated 2010s web radio, van Buuren created his own radio empire.

A fledgling DJ with an effusive, preternaturally positive personality, he wanted to capitalize on the nascent internet boom and to broadcast some of the music he was releasing and enjoying. That May, he hosted the first episode of “Into Trance,” later dubbed “A State of Trance,” on Dutch radio.

From these humble beginnings, ASOT evolved into a sprawling network of shows and one of the longest-running, most-streamed internet music properties to date, now closing in on 1,000 episodes. In 2019, an average episode of ASOT racked up several hundred thousand views on any individual streaming platform, and one of van Buuren’s recent cuts as a producer, “Blah Blah Blah,” is pushing 400 million views on YouTube.

Call him the Alan Freed of trance music.

“Next month, we are celebrating episode 950 in Utrecht, and it sold out!” van Buuren says by phone in advance of the U.S. tour that brings him to The Ritz in Raleigh on January 26. “Thirty-five thousand tickets, which makes it the world’s largest indoor trance event, which I’m super proud of.”

Van Buuren’s wide reach might sound shocking if you’ve never heard of him or his genre. Think of it this way. If recent superstars like Marshmello represent the Top-40 crossover moment of dance music, trance is like that scene’s classic rock: Dense, soaring, populist music, rooted in calls to emotion, larger-than-life ASMR triggers, and utopian hedonism, with a spirt of radical acceptance and melodies you could hum in the shower.

As with many arena-rock bands of yore, this kind of fanbase pluralism means that the trance scene seems

cheesy and unfashionable at times—absolutely detestable to some dance heads, like the sonic equivalent of a sentimental Lifetime movie strapped to a repetitive 4/4 beat.

But that same heart-on-sleeve candor and absence of cool-guy expectation has helped keep trance a staple for decades as other, trendier microgenres have died off.

Trance’s maximalist playbook was folded into the commercial EDM boom of the 2010s. The soaring, melancholy frontline vocals that culminate in a tear-jerking drop, as heard in aughties trance hits like Motorcycle’s “As the Rush Comes,” would later be retrofitted for massive EDM singles like Zedd’s “Clarity” and Porter Robinson’s “Divinity.” And you can hear trance permutated in trendy 2010s EDM subgenres like future bass and tropical house.

Van Buuren laughs when I ask what it’s like to be a trance icon in 2020.

“The downside of what I do is that my genre is definitely not the most popular music right now,” he says. “But I like it where it is right now. It has its own fanbase that is incredibly loyal. And you see a massive trend right now that a lot of techno guys are flirting with trance.”

This man pays attention.

Despite the stereotype of multimillionaire DJs as pretty faces on empty vessels, van Buuren comes across as a passionate, smart conversationalist, and he is fierce on his causes. We talk about the currently raging Australian wildfires and recent headlines that suggest countless millions of animals have died since they began. Others of his status might use politician tricks to talk around the issue.

“You cannot turn away from the gravity of climate change,” he says. “It’s happening and it’s affecting the lives of many people and animals. There is no denying it.”

Van Buuren recently became a celebrity ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund, which he ascribes to being a father of two and to more general existential concerns about using his massive social-media platform for good.

“One of my main concerns that caused me get involved with the WWF is plastic pollution,” he says. “It’s not limited to one country or territory. It’s a global issue that affects us all.”

He mentions a recent ecological study by the WWF that suggests that we consume a credit-card-size amount of microplastic every week, primarily through bottled and tap water sources.

So clearly, van Buuren’s passions extend beyond music, and, as you might expect from someone famous for curating a radio show, his musical tastes extend beyond trance. On his latest record, Balance, he tapped Inner City, better known as Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson, to appear.

“I couldn’t be more proud that one of my absolute heroes is featured on my album,” van Buuren says. “He’s one of my favorite DJs of all time.”

Unbridled enthusiasm has been van Buuren’s secret weapon for staying safe and sane these last three decades.

“I’m really lucky to be a nerd,” he says. “When I started in this industry, I was always more of a nerd than the guy who wants to get crazy and party. I was never into hard drugs. My primary bad habit is wine and champagne, but even now, I stay away from things like vodka.”

Countless EDM-festival-circuit acts see their stars ascend, only to utterly vanish in a haze of drugs and ego. Van Buuren’s success story is a useful one: Discipline is crucial to longevity, even in a musical world known for decadent fantasy. W KeepItINDY.com

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WE RHYME TOO

Friday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m. | $12 | Local 506, Chapel Hill

M8alla (center) performing in “HERstory” at The Pinhook in November

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The Body Eclectic Black femmes take over hip-hop with The Conjure and Be Connected Durham

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hroughout history, from the mythic Mammy figure and the Hottentot Venus to Serena Williams and Beyoncé, the black woman’s anatomy has been a landscape where mainstream culture has projected its worst fears, stereotypes, abuses, sexist tropes, gender controls, and fantasies.

On January 24, “We Rhyme Too,” a black femmes hip-hop showcase at Local 506, will be an affirming reclamation of the black woman’s voice, independence, spirit, and perhaps most important, her body.

“For me, it is necessary to reclaim and govern our own culture,” says Angel Dozier, one of the organizers. “I grew up on empowering MCs and hip-hop pioneers like ShaRock and Roxanne Shante. All the Roxannes! It’s how I grounded myself in my personal education. It’s how I serve as an educational practitioner for our community.”

“We Rhyme Too” is presented by Be Connected Durham and The Conjure, which also presented “HERstory: A Night of Black Femmes in Hip Hop” at The Pinhook in November. That night offered a remarkable look at the creative energies of young black women. The room was filled to capacity with a cross-section of the city; all ages, races, and genders; gay, straight, and nonbinary; different socioeconomic backgrounds.

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It was some bad-ass sisters in house, starting with the emcee, Dozier, who works as the publicist for North Carolina’s poet laureate, Jaki Shelton Green. While introducing the artists, Dozier reminded us to “protect and pay transgender black femmes.”

The show’s curator, Rachel Alexis Storer, is known in the entertainment arena as DJ Gemynii.

Gemynii told the INDY that hip-hop “has been very much a boy’s club,” and that “most hip-hop shows may include one woman but are very much cis-het male dominated.”

Gemynii is also behind The Conjure, with its rallying cry of #payblackfemmes.

“It was important for men, women, and nonbinary folks to be there supporting black femmes. Being in the audience.

Making sure we get paid,” Gemynii says.

“Anytime you see a black woman on this stage, know this: They’re getting paid!”

Dozier adds.

Dozier encouraged us to purchase “The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause” from a vending booth that was set up by the city’s near-iconic activist, Omisade Burney-Scott.

Mikisa Thompson drew attention with her mobile thrift store. In a case of listening to revolutionary words while black, Thompson was charged by police in May after her white neighbors in Garner complained that she was playing her recordings of Malcolm X’s speeches too loud.

“She’s back there creating legacies for black women,” Dozier said, reminding us that Thompson is the mother of Takiya Thompson, the NCCU student who toppled the Confederate statue in Durham.

“Fuck the KKK!” Dozier shouted.

“Fuck the KKK!” the audience shouted back.

The crowd was treated to a striking palette of hip-hop styles by nine artists: the possibilities of love and love gone wrong; commentaries on race, immigration, black-on-black violence, motherhood; teaching and humor.

Roenita Steward, who works with special needs children in Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools and also sings professionally, arrived just before showtime to support her younger coworker, Exhale, who was first up. Her stream-of-consciousness flow was comparable to the Beat Generation poets of the 1940s and 1950s.

“I wanna run through your lights; I wanna dance through your nights; you’re a universe.”

Next up was the gritty hype of Tiny Two Timez. Watching the diminutive Timez was akin to witnessing the ancient warrior Queen Nzinga with a microphone and a beat.

Two Timez’s whir of brown energy and unquestioned street cred was followed by Greensboro rapper Lovey the Don, whose clinging, striped mini-dress and anklehigh boots evoked a ‘60s go-go girl—a fierce, sultry presence.

Cameroonian-born M8alla was superbly accompanied by backup dancers Saky Hall and Tia Coffin. M8alla has opened for national recording star Miguel, and she showed why she is a rising star in her own right. Though she’s now a legal resident, M8alla’s “Illegal” resonates with the ongoing national dialogue about immigration.

“Still undocumented, so I’m running from the law. Everybody asking when I’m gonna be a star. I tell them not to worry, but it’s getting pretty hard.”

Meanwhile, the socially conscious poet and rapper Lena Jackson served up poignant lyrics that are damn near capable of peeling the lead out of public-housing paint. She’s had a busy year, opening for Toni Braxton in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York. Even though she has about a dozen well-made videos, Jackson may be the most formidable rap artist many have not yet heard of. Look up her “Poor Kids,” where an excerpt from a Malcolm X speech serves as a leitmotif.

“The Bible says it loves me. The government says it covers me. It all sounds like a lie when you’re out your mind and hungry.”

Then there were the comedic antics of Tanjah, who ruled the stage despite wearing a boot cast on her broken foot.

She looked as if she was home on the couch wearing sweats, watching television, and eating bon bons before slipping on a sneaker and arriving at the Pinhook to share a heaping helping of self-deprecating levity.

Anyone incapable of laughter while watching Tanjah perform “Smile” is either dead, in a coma, or waiting on a prison sentence.

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Jan. 31 The Marshall Tucker Band The Ritz, 8 p.m., $28

Mar. 12 Billie Eilish PNC Arena, 7:30 p.m., $350+

Feb. 6 Tove Lo The Ritz, 8 p.m., $30

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

Feb. 8 Whitney Haw River Ballroom, 8 p.m., $25

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

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, Mar. 3 Jacquees The Ritz, 8 p.m., $25 8 p.m., $25 Mar. 4 Zack Brown Band PNC Arena, 7 p.m., $36+

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. 2 Local Natives Red Hat, 6:30 p.m., $25+ Jun. 2 The Lumineers Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, 7 p.m., $69+ 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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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 & SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

American Aquarium’s Roadtrip to Raleigh Now in its sixth incarnation, American Aquarium’s Roadtrip to Raleigh serves as the venerable alt-country band’s annual homecoming weekend, all the while showcasing some of its tremendously talented friends from the road. This year’s lineup is perhaps the most impressive yet: Friday features Futurebird’s loping cosmic country and reverb-drenched indierock along with Mike And The Moonpies’ hardcharging honky-tonk, which draws from countrypolitan, red dirt, and the neon-lit nineties. Saturday pairs Charley Crockett’s timeless roots sound—born out of early country and blues but refined through New Orleans and Texas—with Kelsey Waldon’s toughas-nails tales from Kentucky hollers. Of course, the stars of the show will serve up hefty doses of shoutalong anthems and barroom bummers, balancing toughness and tenderness through BJ Barham’s sharp songcraft that delivers hard truths learned from a life well-lived. Despite some lineup churn, the band’s muscular twang is firing on all cylinders and is tighter than ever. —Spencer Griffith Lincoln Theatre 8 p.m., $30

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

Marcus Roberts and the Modern Jazz Generation

Son Little

Pianist Marcus Roberts has made his name over thirty-five years of playing with Wynton Marsalis. Here, he leads a ten-piece band with the instrumental range of a big band and the flexibility of a combo. Roberts prides himself on mentorship, so nearly all of the players here are younger. His definition of “modern”— anything that works today, even your grandma’s chicken recipe—may be a little unusual, but the playing is exemplary, regardless of when the piece was written.

—Dan Ruccia

You’d have sworn that the shimmering guest vocals on The Roots’ 2004 “Guns Are Drawn” single belonged to any one of the Marleys, but the song features Aaron Livingston, ===Philadelphia soul man and one-half of the 2011 indie-funk duo Icebird. Since then, he’s rebranded himself as Son Little and released three ambitious refashions of retro soul and blues. His latest three-song suite, neve give up—and this night’s live treat—is a royal teaser for his upcoming full-length release, aloha. —Eric Tullis Kings 9 p.m., $15

NC State’s Stewart Theatre 8 p.m., $30–$35

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Spider Bags Although they originated further up the coast in New Jersey, Spider Bags are unmistakably Chapel Hillians, and encapsulate the Southern garage-rock sound that popularized the scene in the ‘90s. That isn’t to say the band is a nostalgia act, but it certainly fits alongside other local acts on the Merge roster. It released Someday Everything Will Be Fine with Merge in 2018 and just this past year, the Sophomore Lounge label reissued the band’s 2007 record A Celebration of Hunger. Greensboro indie-rock group Harrison Ford Mustang will open.

—Sam Haw

Sat. 1/25 American Aquarium, Charley Crockett, Kelsey Waldon Lincoln Theatre, 8 p.m. $30.

Appalling, Hoboknife, The Day of The Beast, Nailcrown, Hylic The Maywood, 8:30 p.m. $10.

The Pinhook 9 p.m., $10–$12

Art Critic, Green Aisles Schoolkids Records Raleigh, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

Alan Barnosky, Grand Shores, Omar Ruiz-Lopez Nightlight, 8 p.m. $10 suggested.

St. Lawrence String Quartet For its latest appearance on the Duke Performances stage, the St. Lawrence String Quartet and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott deviate from the normal piano quintet repertory. Sandwiched between string quartets

by Haydn and Debussy are works by Amy Beach and Olivier Messiaen. The Beach piece, written in 1908 when the American was at her prime, melds Mendelssohnian lyricism with impressionistic coloration. And Messiaen’s Pièce is his final completed work, a summation, in miniature, of his vast musical world. —Dan Ruccia Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium 8 p.m., $36–$42 SUNDAY, JANUARY 26

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons While perhaps not as influential as Brian Wilson, Frankie Valli’s iconic tenor is one of the few American voices of the ‘60s that held its own during the onslaught of Beatlemania. Along with the songwriting prowess of Bob Gaudio and the rest of the Four Seasons, Valli scored a string of hits such as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” and the classic ‘70s banger, “December 1963 (Oh What a Night).” —Sam Haw Durham Performing Arts Center 7 p.m., $55+

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Black Bouquet, Dirty Weekend, North by North, Pippa Hoover The Wicked Witch, 9 p.m. $10.

The St. Lawrence String Quartet performs at Baldwin Auditorium on Saturday, January 25.

Jonathan Byrd, The Pickup Cowboys Blue Note Grill, 8 p.m. $15.

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Wed. 1/22

Thu. 1/23

Fri. 1/24

Baby Copperhead, Juan Huevos, Mark Gabriel Little The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m. $5 suggested.

Be Loud! Carolina Showcase Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 8 p.m.

Acid Moon Dance Party Nightlight, 10 p.m. $10.

Marco Benevento, Ian Ferguson Cat’s Cradle, 8 p.m. $17-$20.

Choo Choo Anoo, Geoff Clapp The Station, 7 p.m.

Fust, Infinity Crush, Magic Tuber Stringband Duke Coffeehouse, 9 p.m. $5.

Andrew Nye Slim’s Downtown, 10 p.m.

The World, Inferno Friendship Society, Ancestor Piratas Local 506, 8:30 p.m. $15.

Ben Youngblood, State of the Secretary, Old Cartoons Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $7-$10.

Blue Footed Boobies, The Shivers Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $5.

The Born Agains, S.U.G.O. Radio Neptunes Parlour, 9:30 p.m. $8.

Cajammers Blue Note Grill, 6:30 p.m.

Housterino, Winfield, North by North, Hank and Brendan Local 506, 8:30 p.m. $8.

Lettermans The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Joe Newberry Nightlight, 6:30 p.m. $20.

PopUp Chorus: Wham!, Africa, Miley Cyrus The ArtsCenter, 7 p.m. $15.

Brice Randall Brickford, C. Albert Blomquist Arcana, 9:30 p.m.

Jake Shimabukuro Carolina Theatre, 8 p.m. $30-$50.

Spaced Angel, Sesh, Moose Slim’s Downtown, 9 p.m. $5.

No Quarter: Led Zeppelin Tribute Rhythms Live Music Hall, 8 p.m. $21.

Maj Deeka, Schema Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $8-$10.

The Devil Makes Three, Matt Heckler The Ritz, 8:30 p.m. $25.

American Aquarium, Futurebirds, Mike and the Moonpies Lincoln Theatre, 8 p.m. $30.

North Carolina Symphony: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Meymandi Concert Hall,Showtimes: Fri. &Sat.: 8 p.m. $20-70.

DJ Peroxide Ruby Deluxe, 10 p.m.

Kai Orion Schoolkids Records Raleigh, 7 p.m.

EU, Sugar Bear Rhythms Live Music Hall, 9 p.m. $15.

Illiterate Light, Camp Howard Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 9 p.m. $12-$14.

Rhinestone Throwdown: Dolly Parton’s Birthday The Pinhook, 9 p.m. $10.

Gallus Mag, Knurr and Spell, Analog Mountains The Station, 9 p.m.

The Eyebrows Wake Forest Listening Room, 7 p.m.

Marcus Roberts and the Modern Jazz Generation NCSU Campus: Stewart Theatre, 8 p.m. $30-35.

Horse Jumper of Love Local 506, 9 p.m. $10-$12.

The Feeds, Roar The Engines, Arrow Beach Slim’s Downtown, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Jonathan Scales Fourchesta Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $10-$15.

The Gray, Axis FIve, Ripchorde Released The Maywood, 9 p.m. $10.

The Lynn Grissett Trio Arcana, 9 p.m.

Mystery Hillbillies The Kraken, 8:30 p.m.

A Nest of Singing Birds: Songs & Stories from the Appalachian Mountains Fletcher Opera Theater, 7:30 p.m. $28-$30.

Son Little Kings, 8 p.m. $15.

The Swell Fellas The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Tacoma Park, Triple X Snaxx, Streak of Tigers The Station, 8 p.m.

Baron Tymas, Mark Wells, Peter Kimosh, Brevan Hampden Sharp Nine Gallery, 8 p.m. $20.

Junior Watson, Dean Shot Blue Note Grill, 9 p.m. $20.

We Rhyme Too Local 506, 9 p.m. $12.

DJ Gay Agenda Ruby Deluxe, 10 p.m.

Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Nixon Blevins & Gage The Cary Theater, 8 p.m. $20-$25.

Caroline Mamoulides Pour House Music Hall, 3 p.m.

Nannerhead, Jimmie Ray Swagger and the Fussy Eaters The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Pixl Pyrmd, Marv Krown, Capital L The Mothership, 9 p.m. $5.

Scott Sawyer Sharp Nine Gallery, 8 p.m. $20.

Spider Bags, Harrison Ford Mustang The Pinhook, 9 p.m. $10-$12.

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Well Enough Alone

BY GRANT GOLDEN music@indyweek.com

Son Little performs at Kings on Friday, January 24.

PHOTO COURTESY OF KINGS

St. Lawrence String Quartet & Anne-Marie McDermott Duke Campus: Baldwin Auditorium, 8 p.m. $36-$42.

Tea Cup Gin Wake Forest Listening Room, 7 p.m. $12.

Unaka Prong, Hustle Souls, Vintage Pistols Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 9:30 p.m. $8-$10.

Heather Victoria, Charlie Smarts, Ace Henderson, Draft & Swank, Zack Cokas Kings, 9 p.m. $12-$18.

Woo2x Aquarius Bash The Fruit, 10 p.m. $5+.

Mon. 1/27

Wed. 1/29

Atomic Rhythm All-Stars Neptunes Parlour, 8 p.m. $5.

Backseat Revival Benefit Concert The Cary Theater, 7 p.m. $15.

Bitter, INC., Emotron, Austin Glover The Wicked Witch, 9 p.m. $10.

Propersleep, Harborlights, Frail Body Slim’s Downtown, 9 p.m. $5.

Half Pint, Yellow Wall Dub Squad Lincoln Theatre, 8:30 p.m. $20+.

Tue. 1/28

Desmond Jones Pour House Music Hall, 9 p.m. $8-$10.

Cool Moon, Lazarus Pit The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Sun. 1/26 Armin Van Buuren The Ritz, 7:30 p.m. $48-$53.

NCJRO Sharp Nine Gallery, 8 p.m. $20.

Dishoom Motorco Music Hall, 2 p.m.

Marshall Sidbury, Swedish Wood Patrol Arcana, 8 p.m.

Midnite Cowboy, Uno Dose Pour House Music Hall, 7 p.m.

Anamanaguchi Cat’s Cradle, 8 p.m. $18-$20.

Dexter Romweber The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

Grayscale, Hot Mulligan, WSTR, Lurk, The Second After Motorco Music Hall, 7 p.m. $18-$20.

John Howie, Jr., Sarah Glasco, Reid Johnson Wake Forest Listening Room, 2 p.m.

Absent Lovers, Sibyl, Mister Earthbound Slim’s Downtown, 9 p.m. $5.

Sub Rosa Takeover Isaac Hunter’s Tavern, 9 p.m. $3-$5.

Shannon O’Connor The Cave Tavern, 9 p.m.

The Paranoyds, Spendtime Palace, Cachonne The Pinhook, 8 p.m. $10.

Though it’s probably best known for unleashing Rapsody on the world, Raleigh’s Kooley High, through lineup changes and cross-country moves, has been a consistent fixture in North Carolina hip-hop for more than a decade. It’s built its rep on clever wordplay, immersive production, and the vocal interplay of emcees Tab-One and Charlie Smarts. Tab slings verbal acrobatics and head-spinning rhyme schemes; Charlie brings finesse and emotion.

But with so much of Kooley High’s acclaim coming from the group dynamics, it’s easy for individual strengths to get lost in the mix. That’s why Charlie Smarts’ debut full-length record, We Had a Good Thing Going, is a strong statement. It’s a self-aware release that posits Smarts as a vulnerable yet confident artist who’s ready to forge new paths.

On album opener “My Love,” Smarts sets the tone by parading his love for Kooley High and Inflowential while projecting greater heights to come. “Shit changed, it don’t matter to me,” he nonchalantly spits atop a sparse beat, and turbulent change is a motif that plays out across the album.

We Had a Good Thing Going is an aural representation of an artist at an intersection. On “Middle of the Road,” Smarts weighs his need for constant improvement with feelings of inertia in life. “Penthouse” takes a longer view on coming “a long way from mama’s basement” to his aspiration of “living in the sky.”

But “Penthouse,” like much of the album, is densely packed with societal as well as personal topics. Against lofty goals of luxury living, Smarts weighs concerns of consumerism and affordable housing, struggles with student loans, and hereditary alcoholism.

While the transparency draws you in, Smarts’ flow alone is enough to show how hungry he is. He brilliantly weaves extensive internal rhymes to create sonic tension, making his earworm hooks stand out even more. On lead single “Butter on My Biscuit,” he latches onto a rhyme scheme that spills across verses, using clever line breaks and near-rhymes to string it along.

We Had a Good Thing Going has all of the strengths you’d expect from Smarts’ work in groups: clever punch-lines, Southern swagger, and pop-culture references between memorable choruses. But his ability to pull back that playful curtain and let us peek into his desires and anxieties is what makes this such a rewarding solo effort.

Charlie Smarts: We Had A Good Thing Going M.E.C.C.A. Records, Jan. 20

Mysti Mayhem Blue Note Grill, 5 p.m.

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BIG DANCE THEATER: ANTIGONICK

Friday, Jan. 24–Sunday, Jan. 26, 7:30 & 8:30 p.m., $27 | CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, Chapel Hill | carolinaperformingarts.org

In the Nick of Time Annie-B Parson and Anne Carson’s Antigone always comes out on top of the argument

BY BRIAN HOWE

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Are you friends with Anne Carson?

No, but I’m professional friends with her, meaning we’ve worked together a number of times and spent time together. When I’m working on her stuff, I’m very careful to only contact her a few times through the process with questions. She’s not like other playwrights, where they’re in constant contact with me. I will wait until I just cannot go forward without asking her this question. In this case, my question to her was, why “nick?” Why is there a character named Nick, and why is it Antigonick?

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his isn’t the first time that the Canadian poet and translator Anne Carson has trained her inimitable mind on Antigone. With her signature brevity, brawn, and philosophical wit, Carson took Sophocles’s 2,500-year-old tragedy and made it sing to the present day in a lucid dream of a production by Ivo van Hove, which we saw at Carolina Performing Arts in 2015.

Nor is this the first time that Annie-B Parson, the choreographer-director of New York’s Big Dance Theater (which premiered 17c at UNC in 2017), has staged the play about a woman who chooses fealty to the gods—or perhaps to her own morals and agency—over oppressive aspects of state and family, welded together in the person of Kreon. Antigone’s civil disobedience detonates a mushroom cloud of doom.

This is, however, the first time that Carson’s and Parson’s visions of Antigone have merged. Big Dance Theater’s Antigonick is based on Carson’s book of that title, a freer poetic adaptation than her van Hove translation. It plunges the audience into a particularly spare, feminist, and abbreviated dance-theater rendition of the tale. It’s so abbreviated, in fact, that the half-hour run time needed a “Dionysian Libation”—a party, which you’ll experience before or after the show, depending on when you attend—to make it evening-length.

The INDY recently spoke with Parson, who also staged a version of Antigone by Mac Wellman in the early 2000s, about why she wanted to return to the source now, why the play is inherently feminist and permanently relevant, and what it’s like to severely edit a genius poet known for not wasting a word.

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INDY: This is Big Dance Theater’s second run at Antigone, after one almost twenty years ago with Mac Wellman. Why go back to the same source material?

ANNIE-B PARSON: Oh, I love that question, and actually it’s my third time, believe it or not. The first wasn’t Big Dance.

It does beg the question, why has this play endured? Besides the fact that she’s, could we say, the first female resistor? The first woman who spoke truth to power? Sophocles—was he the first writer who put a woman in that role? We’ll never know, I guess, because so much of theater history has disintegrated. But her story and the way she responds to Kreon continues to be inspiring.

I came back to the story, first, because Anne suggested it. She asked me at lunch one day if I had read her version—not her translation for Ivo van Hove, but her Antigonick, which is more of an adaptation. I said no, and she said, you guys should do it.

I read it, and I’m sorry to use the word, but it’s just so relevant. It became more and more relevant as the #MeToo movement happened, and the way she hears and writes Antigone spoke to me more than any version I’ve ever read. I thought it was the most feminist, and I liked that she sort of tips the balance away from the traditional agon between Kreon and Antigone.

The way we usually hear that argument translated is that there’s this perfect balance between them. But in her version, there’s no balance, really. Antigone is always on top of the argument. She’s also very literary; she seems to have studied philosophy, which I totally love—the idea that she’s armed with the philosophers.

So that’s what drew me to it, and also the brevity. Anne asked me to be very brief.

So these are my words, not hers, but her response was quite beautiful, and I think I had to lie down afterwards because I was verklempt. She said the difference between the mortals and gods is time.

Mortals, our tragedy is that we live in time.

The gods don’t.

You know the part of the play where Kreon changes his mind, because Tiresias says, you know what? You’re fucked. And he runs back to the cell he’s put Antigone in, but she’s already died. Then the consequences of his decision unfold, which are horrendous beyond belief.

So he was the victim of time. He was late. In Antigonick, he says often at the end, “Too late, too late to learn, too late to learn.” That’s the nick of time.

Wow. Mind blown.

Right? I mean, I’ve worked with a lot of genius artists, but I think the word really actually applies to her. Every time I’ve encountered a question with her, it’s been that level of a response.

You’re known for weaving literary texts with a lot of different strands.

How direct of a staging of Carson’s text is this?

It’s completely direct in that it only uses her words. She said, theater’s too long, make it short. So I did. I edited it severely, and I sent her the edited version, and she said fine. So it’s like half as long as the book. It’s very skeletal, you could put it that way. I didn’t cut anything that would change the narrative or make it hard to follow. But anything I felt wasn’t necessary or incredibly beautiful, I cut.

The other sources of material are nonverbal. You will hear things and see dance material that comes from other worlds, that’s more from my own interests and imagination.

Could you say more about doing Antigone after #MeToo and centering it in radical feminism?

[The Mac Wellman] production is also highly feminist. The difference is not just time, but of course, it’s the writers. Mac was really interested in issues around argument and justice. I mentioned the word “agon” before. That’s a really important idea in his version, that equality of their argument and the beauty of the symmetry of those two sides.

It would be really relevant to his production now also, because what we’re missing in our contemporary governmental reality is the symmetry of the two arguments.

We’re in a deadlock, and it’s not like we’re locked in two amazing arguments. We’re just stuck. It’s also super feminist the way we staged it, meaning the women are in the center, which is really easy to do with Antigone. It’s also not always done.

All my work is radically feminist, and some of it, which was more what is now called “devised,” was more overtly feminist. My early pieces had text from Andrea Dworkin and things like that. This play is 100 percent women, everything. Designers, creators, directors, cast. And I did that because it’s Antigone, and I feel like it should always be 100 percent women. W

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Readings THURSDAY, JANUARY 23

Southern Cultures Issue Launch

Charly Palmer, “400 Years” PHOTO COURTESY OF SOUTHERN CULTURES

Southern Cultures launches its winter 2019 issue, “Here/Away” with conversation and artwork from 400: A Collective Flight of Memory, an exhibition featuring black artists of the diaspora.

Guest editor Karida Brown and Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) Director Malinda Maynor Lowery join 400 curator Jamaal Barber and other artists to discuss “blackness and indigeneity.” During this event, you will also have the opportunity to view select pieces from 400 before they move to a larger exhibition at CSAS in the spring.

—Jameela Dallis

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

Donna Everheart The Moonshiner’s Daughter. Sat, Jan. 25, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro.

Wiley and Mallory Cash Step Into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia. Sat, Jan. 25, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Emily Herring Wilson When I Go Back to My Home Country. Tue, Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Eric Chason Breathless.

Wed, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Stephen Hough Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More. Sun, Jan. 26, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Charles Clotfelter, Barry Jacobs, Dan Kane BigTime Sports in American Universities (Clotfelter).

Thu, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham.

Mikhal Dekel Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. Sun, Jan. 26, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro.

Cathy Brooks Edwards Heartspace: Real Life Stories on Death and Dying. Sat, Jan. 25, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro.

E. Patrick Johnson Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women.

Wed, Jan. 22, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham.

Kwame Mbalia Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky. Fri, Jan. 24, 6 p.m.

Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill.

Andrew Rea Binging with Babish: 100 Recipes Recreated from Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows. Tue, Jan. 28, 4 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Scott Reintgen Ashlords.

Tue, Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

David Zucchino Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy. Sat, Jan. 25, 4 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro.

Lectures Chris Cameron: Black Freethought from Slavery to Civil Rights $5. Mon., Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of

Wayne Johns, Ina Cariño, Emilia Phillips Poetry readings. Wed, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham.

Cathy Quiroz Moore: The Political Climate for Public Education Thu, Jan. 23, 12 p.m. Highland United Methodist Church, Raleigh.

Salon Poetry Reading Thu, Jan. 23, 6 p.m. Duke Coffeehouse, Durham.

Voice Rising No. 8 Works in progress by Jeff Jackson, Worth Parker, John Dailey and Michael VenutoloMantovani. Wed, Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson MLK Lecture and Awards Ceremony. Wed, Jan. 22, 7 p.m. UNC Campus: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill.

NorthStar Church of the Arts, Durham 7 p.m., FREE

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Rhinestone Throwdown: Dolly Parton’s Birthday Bash

MONDAY, JANUARY 27

Clare Hemmings

Does Dolly Parton really need an introduction? No, and it would be foolish to attempt one in ninety words. Here’s the gist, though: the Queen of Country turned seventy-four this week, after an astonishing year of coverage—including a popular WNYC podcast devoted to the rise of her star, and a soapy but endearing Netflix series—and it’s time to throw down.

Start the night off at NorthStar Church of the Arts for a 6 p.m. trivia event hosted by Rachel Mills of the podcast Neon Boots followed by a screening of 9 to 5, and finish it out at the Pinhook for a party hosted by Viviva C. Coxx that truly has it all: a boob cake, a drag show, a dance party, and a lookalike contest.

Bring confidence and big hair, and get ready to belt out “Dumb Blonde.” —Sarah Edwards

Emma Goldman’s work was ahead of her time. The activist and thinker advanced anarchist philosophy, championed birth control, started the anarchist journal Mother Earth, and gained a reputation as a freethinking rebel—and all this before 1940. Duke Professor of Feminist Theory Clare Hemmings recently published Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive with Duke University Press; at this talk and reception, she will examine the ways in which Goldman’s feminist theories and activism continue to have an influence in 2020. —Rachel Rockwell Duke’s Ahmedieh Family Lecture Hall, Durham 5:30 p.m., FREE

The Pinhook 9 p.m., $10

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Opening All That Glitters: Spark and Dazzle from the Permanent Collection Costumes. Jan. 24-May 17. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh.

Artist/Scientist: Printmaking and Biology Screen prints. Fri, Jan. 24. 4 p.m. UNC Campus: Genome Sciences Building, Chapel Hill.

Design By Time Group Show. Jan. 24-May 17.

Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh.

Green Group show. Jan. 27-Feb. 23. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough.

Here/Away and 400 Exhibit Group show and issue launch. Thu., Jan. 23.

7 p.m. NorthStar Church of the Arts, Durham.

Opening Reception: All That Glitters & Design By Time Thu., Jan. 23. 6 p.m.

Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh.

Opening Reception for Organized Chaos #1: Graffiti, Geometric Shapes & Patterns Sat., Jan. 25. 4 p.m. Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh.

Raleigh Home Show Interior design show. Jan 24-26. Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh.

Ongoing 5 Points Gallery Six Month Celebration Group show.

Through Feb. 17. 5 Points Gallery, Durham.

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

Artspace, Raleigh.

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

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.

Abie Harris: Painting Music Through Mar. 1.

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

John Beerman: The Shape of Light Paintings. Through Jan. 25. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

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

Through Mar. 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

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.

Michelle Brinegar Through Apr. 11. Saladelia Cafe, Durham.

Cornelio Campos: My Roots Paintings. Through Mar. 12. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

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

Compose and Materialize Group show. Through Mar. 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

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

Stephen Costello: Places Sculpture. Through Jan. 25. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

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

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

Ryan Fox: It’s Easier To Be A Painter. Through Feb 17.

5 Points Gallery, Durham.

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

Lump, Raleigh.

The Full Light of Day Group show of artists with disabilities. Through Mar. 6. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh.

André Leon Gray: lost lux libertas Mixed media.

Through Feb. 25. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill.

Here to Hear // Hear to Here Interactive audio installation. Through Feb. 16. Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Durham.

Horse & Buggy and Friends: Satellite Parrish Street Gallery Group show.

Through Apr. 1. Horse & Buggy Press Pop-Up Shop, Durham.

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

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

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism Paintings. Through Jan. 26. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Jeana Eve Klein & Anne Hill: Meditative Obsessive Mixed media. Through Feb 29. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham.

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.

George McKim Paintings.

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

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.

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. 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.

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

Through Mar. 31. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

Matt Tomko Paintings.

Through Apr. 12. Mad Hatter Bakeshop & Cafe, Durham. ¡Viva Viclas!: The Art of the Lowrider Motorcycle Designed motorcycles.

Through Feb. 9. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

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

Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soliders and Veterans Who Opposed the War Historical artifacts.

Through Feb. 15. Westbook Building, Durham.

My Kid Could Paint That Child art and mixed media.

Through Jan. 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

Telvin Wallace: CARE FOR ME Prints and paintings.

Through Feb 16. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

Organized Chaos #1: Geometric Shapes & Patterns Paintings. Through Mar. 10. Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh.

Wintertide Oil paintings.

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

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 26

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 & SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

Shawn Wayans Out of all of the Wayans, Shawn might be the least-known out of the In Living Color comedy clan for his stand-up chops. But soon after his family’s groundbreaking sketch comedy show ended (with him as its resident DJ, “SW-1”), Shawn found his funny bone in a successful sitcom with his brother Marlon on The WB network, and in a string of absurdly enjoyable comedy flicks (Scary Movie, White Chicks, Little Man, etc.). So, a knack for humor’s most essential display of talent, stand-up comedy, must be in his blood as well, right? Four shows in two nights says hell yeah. —Eric Tulis Raleigh Improv, Raleigh Various times., $25–$75

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons Music and storytelling. $55+. Sun, Jan. 26, 7 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham.

Ron Funches Comedy. Showtimes: Thu.: 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. $17-25. Jan. 23-25. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

Pagliacci Opera. Showtimes: Fri.: 7:30 p.m.

Sun.: 2 p.m. $24+. Jan. 24-26. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh.

Queer Kink Workshop $20. Sun, Jan. 26, 2 p.m. The Fruit, Durham.

Rent Musical. Showtimes: Tue.-Thu.: 7:30 p.m. Fri.: 8 p.m. Sat.: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Sun.: 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. $35+. Jan. 28-Feb. 2. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham.

Social Justice Theater: Columbinus Play.

Showtimes: 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. $10. Sun, Jan. 26. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

Sweet Tea Shakespeare: Macbeth Play. 7:30 p.m. each night. Fri. has additional 10 a.m. showtime. $18-$25. Jan. 24-26, William Peace University: Leggett Theatre, Raleigh.

Talley’s Folly Burning Coal Theatre Company. Thu-Sat: 7:30 p.m. Sun: 2 p.m.

Jan 23-Feb. 9. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh.

Anything Goes Late Show Comedy. $10. Sat., Jan. 25, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

David Burney: “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” Music and storytelling. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. $15. Jan. 24-26. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

Big Dance Theater. $27.

7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Jan. 24-26. Current ArtSpace + Studio, Chapel Hill.

Kerwin Claiborne Comedy. $25. Sun, Jan. 26, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

Bourbon at the Border Play. Showtimes: Fri. & Sat.: 8 p.m. Sun.: 3 p.m. $15-22. Jan. 24-Feb. 9.

North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh.

Comedy Hosted by Michelle Maclay Fri, Jan. 24, 7 p.m. The Cave Tavern, Chapel Hill.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Raleigh Little Theatre. $14-$27.

Thu-Sat: 8 p.m. Sun: 3 p.m. Through Feb. 2.

Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Dancing.

Showtimes: Thu. & Fri.: 8 p.m. Sat.: 1 p.m. & 8 p.m. $15-$35. Jan. 23-25. 8 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

Everybody Play. Showtimes: Tue.-Sat.: 7 p.m.

Sun.: 2 p.m. Feb. 1 only: 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. $15+.

Through Feb. 10. Center for Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill.

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Shawn Wayans Showtimes: Fri.: 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. Sat. 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $25+. Jan. 24-25. Raleigh Improv, Cary.

Ongoing

Host Showdown Comedy. $10.

Wed., Jan. 22, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh.

May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers The Avett Brothers built their global fanbase on soulful, unvarnished acoustic songs. But the folk faithful have been tested since the brothers from Concord hooked up with legendary pop producer Rick Rubin, who loves varnish. He worked in rock drums, electric instruments, and even—gasp!—electronic backing. This came to a head in 2016 on True Sadness, which produced the Avetts’ first number-one hit, the perfectly Rubinesque “Ain’t No Man.” Codirected by Judd Apatow, May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers documents the creation of True Sadness with a superfan’s ogling admiration, but also with a famous director’s confidence to probe. If the record spelled a betrayal of rusticity to some fans, it meant something very different to its creators. Though the film brims with music, it’s less about the Avetts’ voyage into new commercial waters than it is about unpacking the joys and sorrows behind the songs. A flattering but penetrating portrait, it resembles its subjects— intimate, earnest, friendly, humble, a little goofy, and utterly apolitical. —Brian Howe The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh 2 p.m., $5–$7

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

Zombi Child In Zombi Child, Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama and Sant Laurent) weaves together the story of a Haitian man who was buried in the 1960s and resurrected as a zombie, and the misadventures of teenage girls attending an exclusive private school in present-day Paris. With a poetical approach and dark aesthetics, this exceptional horror film provides a rich historical reflection encompassing Caribbean spirituality, cultural appropriation, and the chilling consequences of colonialism. —Marta Núñez Pouzols The Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham 7 p.m., FREE FOR OUR COMPLETE COMMUNITY CALENDAR: INDYWEEK.COM

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NorthStar Church of the Arts, City of Durham.

American Factory Tue., Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham.

AnimeMagic Film Series See full schedule online. $10+. Jan. 24-27, Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Atlantics Thu., Jan. 23, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.

The Cave Wed., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Color Out of Space Showtimes: 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. $10. Wed., Jan. 22, Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Drop Dead Fred $7. Wed., Jan. 29, 9:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

February One Wed., Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Katy Keene Followed by livestream Q&A. $7. Sun., Jan. 26, 6 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers $7.

Sun., Jan. 26, 2 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Possessed $7. Wed., Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz Wed., Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Durham.

Ringu $7. Tue., Jan. 28, 9:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Touch the Sky: Stories, Subversions, and Complexities of Ferguson $5-$10 suggested. Wed., Jan. 29, 7 p.m. NorthStar Church of the Arts, City of Durham.

Troop Beverly Hills 11:15 a.m. & 2 p.m. showtimes. $13. Sun., Jan. 26, Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

VHYES Showtimes: Fri.-Sun.: 8:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.: 5 p.m. $9. Through Jan. 23, Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Who Saw Her Die? $7. Wed., Jan. 29, 7 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Wild Kratts Winter $5. Sat., Jan. 25, 10:30 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Zombi Child Fri., Jan. 24, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.

Opening The Gentleman—In this Guy Ritchie flick, the UK’s top weed dealer is hounded by a sleazy journalist.

Rated R. The Last Full Measure— This star-studded Vietnam War drama includes Peter Fonda in his final role.

Rated R. The Song of Names—A man sets out to find his long-lost childhood best friend, a violin prodigy who disappeared in the early 1950s. Rated PG-13.

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1917—Yet another war film; this one directed by Sam Mendes. Rated R. Bad Boys for Life—Buddy cop comedy about a midlife crisis. Produced by Will Smith. Rated R. 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 clock that predicts your time of death; not surprisingly, it may also be a killing machine). Rated PG-13.

Doctor Sleep—Stephen King sequel to The Shining.

Rated R.

Dolittle—Robert Downey Jr. plays the eccentric vetenarian in this fantasy action reprisal. Rated PG. 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. The Grudge—Real estate difficulties (among other things) are exacerbated when a cursed suburban house goes on the market.

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

Rated PG-13.

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

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

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.

Rated R. Midway—This WWII flick about Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway stars a fleet of hunks. Rated PG-13.

HH½ 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

HHHH Parasite—This highly-anticipated social satire from filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho is crammed with dark twists and intricate metaphors. Rated R. —Sarah Edwards HHH Queen & Slim— A bad date turns into a manhunt after Queen and Slim kill a police officer in self-defense. Had it avoided the more moralistic clichés of the crime melodrama, it could have been more compelling. Rated R. —Ryan Vu

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

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

A Hidden Life HHHH Now playing

A Hidden Life

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Fighting Fascism, Malick-Style

BY GLENN MCDONALD arts@indyweek.com

It’s 1939, and homesteaders Franz and Fani have made an idyllic life for themselves in the verdant valleys of Austria. Working the land with their three little girls, they are deliriously happy, in love with each other and the agrarian paradise around them.

But when war descends, the devout Franz refuses to swear the requisite oath of loyalty to the new Nazi regime. He’s seen what they do.

What happens from there forms the narrative and moral center of director Terrence Malick’s beautiful, haunting A Hidden Life. The film is based on the true story of conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who was later beatified by the Catholic church. The story is a good fit for Malick, whose recurring themes concern the beauty of nature, the nature of faith, and the cosmic significance of the choices we make.

Malick might be the most purely cinematic storyteller of the New Hollywood directors. For him, the script is just the merest of beginnings. He’s in the transport business, really, and here, he brings us to a time and place where the souls of people and nations are in play.

Malick’s fluid camera toggles between restless tracking shots and painterly still images so elegant that you want to drift into the frame. The story resonates on frequencies of image, sound, and movement that radiate out from the plot points, shimmering with significance.

Among those resonant frequencies is a contemporary echo. The film has some things to say about the dark lure of fascism and the puzzling complicity of certain evangelical groups. But Malick’s vision is just too grand to be confined to allegory or even history. As with his 2011 epic The Tree of Life, he’s asking the big questions, painting with darkness and light.

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17-year old Durham County voters who are registered and will be 18 years old on or before Nov. 3, 2020 may vote in Durham’s Primary.

17-year-olds are not permitted to voter in the School Board Election.

Party primaries will be open to voters registered with that respective party. Unaffiliated voters may vote a non-partisan ballot that will only include the School Board Election OR choose to participate in either the Republican, Democratic, or Libertarian primaries.

The Constitution and Green parties have opted not to allow unaffiliated voters to participate in their respective primaries.

The following contests will be on Durham County ballots*: • State and Federal Offices • U.S. House of Representatives • N.C. Senate • Durham County Board of Commissioners • Durham County Board of Education (Final Election) *Offices will only appear on your ballot if you are eligible to vote for the respective contests.

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• Precinct 19, previously located at Merrick-Moore Elementary School has moved back to American Legion Post # 7, located at 406 E Trinity Ave., Durham, NC 27701.

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• The General Assembly passed a resolution that offered artificial limbs to Civil War amputees at no cost on January 23, 1866. The state of NC contracted with Jewett’s Patent Leg Company and opened a temporary factory in Raleigh.

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