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THE SHOW NANCY MCFARLANE PRESIDES OVER A THRIVING CITY. CHARLES FRANCIS THINKS SHE DOESN’T DESERVE THE CREDIT. ONE OF THEM WILL BE MAYOR.

BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK 7 You might have missed it, but a quarter-million North Carolina children’s health care is now at risk, thanks to congressional inaction.

8 About 88 percent of North Carolinians drink water with fluoride in it.

11 “White identifiers are more likely to think that the growth of racial or ethnic groups in the United States that are not white is having a negative effect on American culture.”

12 An incumbent Raleigh mayor hasn’t lost a reelection bid since 2001.

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VOL. 34, NO. 39

6 Triangulator 8 News 18 Food 20 Music 24 Arts & Culture 30 What to Do This Week 33 Music Calendar 37 Arts & Culture Calendar

18 Jerk, as in jerk chicken, is not just a spice— it’s also a cooking style.

20 Cory Hanson says the new, melodic release by his usually heavy band Wand is akin to leaving a job at Best Buy for one at Bed, Bath & Beyond.

24 Romeo and Juliet reminds us that young people losing their innocence prematurely is not a new phenomenon.

ON THE COVER RALEIGH: DESIGN BY SHAN STUMPF DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL: PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

Raleigh City Council candidates Nicole Stewart, left, and Zainab Baloch race at Frankie’s Fun Park during the recent Meet Me Halfway event. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON OCTOBER 9 REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INTERSECTION AT U.S. 15-501 AND GARRETT ROAD (S.R. 1116) IN DURHAM, DURHAM COUNTY STIP Project No. U-5717 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposal to make improvements to the intersection at U.S. 15-501 and Garrett Road (S.R. 1116) in Durham County.

The meeting will take place on Monday, October 9, at Cresset Church located at 3707 Garrett Road in Durham from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the above hours as there will be no formal presentation. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments regarding the proposed project. Citizens will also have the opportunity to submit comments and questions in writing. All written comments and questions need to be submitted no later than Monday, October 23.

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Jeffrey C. Billman MANAGING EDITOR FOR ARTS+CULTURE Brian Howe DESIGN DIRECTOR Shan Stumpf STAFF WRITERS Thomas Goldsmith,

Erica Hellerstein, Sarah Willets

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The purpose of this project is to reduce congestion and improve traffic operations at the intersection of US 15-501 and Garrett Road.

For additional information, contact Zahid Baloch, Division Project Delivery at 2612 North Duke Street, Durham, NC 27704 or by e-mail: zbaloch@ncdot.gov, or by calling (919) 707-6012.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at http:// www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who want to participate in these meetings. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, NCDOT at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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backtalk Inked with Liberal Tears This week’s Backtalk begins with Christopher Ross, who liked our Pride package but not so much this letters column.

“Thank you for ‘The Defiant Ones,’” he writes, “your poignant and spot-on assessment of the state of Gay Pride in 2017 in general and in North Carolina in particular.

“I am furious about the cancellation of most of this year’s Pride activities. Before I moved here, I lived for thirty-seven years in New York City, where everyone knew that Gay Pride Day was the last Sunday in June, come hell or high water. Period.

“And I came to assume that NC Pride day was the last Saturday in September. Period.

Sadly, when Pride organizers caved in to the demands of unnamed ‘observant Jews,’ they set a very dangerous precedent. There will often be this or that group unhappy because Pride conflicts with another event.

That is their problem and no one else’s. They are free to choose where to go and what to do on that particular day.

“But to cancel the most important activity of the day is a disgrace, especially, as you noted, in this year of increasing and unrelenting oppression by an administration of thugs and homophobes who are just getting started. Newsweek reports, ‘Trump Administration Says Employers Can Fire People for Being Gay.’ And we’re saying, ‘Oh, OK, we won’t take to the streets and fight these bastards because it might offend people who want to observe Yom Kippur.’ Give me a fucking break.

“This turn of events is due at least in part to ‘The March,’ as it was known in New York, having become a parade somewhere along the line in the last few decades of Pride history.

Of course it should be celebratory, but may we never ever forget that at its heart, it is a political march, not a goddamn parade. And so this year, when we need it most, we will not have a political march and the accompanying speeches but a watered down street fair instead, that, as you said, really works for no one. I want no part of it.

“Shame on the Pride organizers for losing sight of what this weekend is all about and shame on the ‘observant Jews’ who are so eager

to demand special treatment for themselves while they oppress others. Will we never learn?

“And shame on you for silencing your readers by no longer printing our letters in full but abridging them into the mess that is your Backtalk column.’

Gotta admit: that last graph caught us by surprise.

We had a bunch of feedback on our story last week about a fight over front-yard gardens in a Durham subdivision. Adam Haile writes: “Annoying the demographic most responsible for Durham’s rising home values—young professionals with families—is supposed to raise property values? The Woodcroft HOA doesn’t seem to have thought this through. Take a walk through the parts of Durham with ballooning values, like Burch Avenue, Old North Durham, Cleveland-Holloway, and Watts-Hillandale, and you’ll see tons of frontyard gardens.”

Commenter MMR adds: “A similar conservative hijacking of the HOA and selective enforcement of covenants happened to us in the Fairfield neighborhood in Durham two years ago. HOAs are set up to protect developers and are not designed to serve the needs of the entire community for twentyplus years. As such, a small minority can force their will against the rest of the community, as appears to be happening in Woodcroft. This is why we moved to Watts-Hillandale!”

“Grow in your backyard,” counters commenter southdurhamneighbor. “Seriously, nobody wants to see that. People live in neighborhoods with HOAs to protect themselves from people like these.”

“So they want a garden,” writes commenter millertime. “They buy a house with a shady backyard and an HOA. Sounds like they engineered a bad outcome. Thats their problem, not an HOA problem. Good thing the INDY is inked with liberal tears, because they never fall quietly.”

“It is a political march, not a goddamn parade.”

Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on our Facebook page or indyweek.com, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.

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triangulator THE UNITED STATES OF GUNS W

e’ve seen this movie before—too many times. The panicked crowds. The everrising death count. The endless thoughts and prayers for the victims. The praise for first responders. The quest to unveil the killer’s heinous motives. And then, nothing. No action to rein in the proliferation of guns or keep ill-

intentioned men from easily obtaining them.

(Currently, in fact, Congress is considering a bill to make silencers legal.)

So as we reel from the violence on the Las Vegas strip Sunday night, we know how it ends.

The status quo will prevail. And one day soon, another person will come along and make Las

Vegas the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. So long as the NRA controls the Republican Party and the Republican Party controls Washington, the movie will play again and again, and the results will be the same.

Unless, of course, the rest of us do something about it.

THE DEADLIEST MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE U.S. SINCE COLUMBINE LITTLETON, COLORADO

April 20, 1999 13 killed—including 12 students—24 wounded at Columbine High School

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA

NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT

BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK

April 3, 2009 13 killed, 4 wounded in an immigration services center

December 14, 2012 27 killed—including 20 children— at Sandy Hook Elementary School

December 2, 2015 14 killed, at least 17 wounded at a social services center

AURORA, COLORADO July 20, 2012 12 killed, 58 wounded inside a movie theater

WASHINGTON, D.C. September 16, 2013 12 killed, 3 wounded at the Washington Navy Yard

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA October 1, 2017.

59 killed, 527 wounded on the Vegas strip

ATLANTA, GEORGIA FORT HOOD, TEXAS November 5, 2009 13 killed, 32 wounded at a military base

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July 29, 1999 12 killed, 12 wounded when a man shot up two brokerage houses after killing his family

ORLANDO, FLORIDA

June 12, 2016 49 killed, 58 wounded at Pulse nightclub

BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA

April 16, 2007 32 killed, 18 injured at Virginia Tech

+WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

As this weekend’s headlines came barreling in—devastation in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with the mayor of San Juan, Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas—you might have missed another important, albeit less buzzworthy, story.

Over the weekend, Congress allowed the popular program that provides health insurance to nine million children, CHIP, to expire—without any explanation other than they got busy trying to repeal Obamacare.

The bipartisan (remember that?) program, which was cosponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch and the late Ted Kennedy in the nineties, provides health insurance coverage for children and pregnant women in lowincome households—with remarkably effective results. Over the past several decades, the program has helped the uninsured rate for children to plummet, from 14 percent in 1997 to less than 5 percent in 2015.

Now, thanks to Congress’s inaction, those gains hang in the balance, including in North Carolina. According to federal data, 256,446 children were enrolled in North Carolina’s CHIP program in 2016. The feds cover most of the costs—99.8 percent, to be exact—and without that funding, more than $467 million a year is at risk. To add insult to injury, North Carolina’s existing CHIP funds are expected to be spent by early next year. Without new funds, the state has few options—e.g., close enrollment or shut down programs until the funding is restored.

By now, congressional Republicans’ willingness to gut health care funding for vulnerable kids is no secret. Just look at the

Obamacare repeal failure, which would have slashed Medicaid funding, with potentially disastrous consequences for children in North Carolina. But now is the time to hold our state’s elected officials accountable, including Senators Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, both firm supporters of the failed ACA repeal that would have left twenty million Americans in the cold. So far, neither has uttered a peep about CHIP’s expiration.

So much for being pro-life.

+TRAIN STOPS

Durham County commissioners on Monday got an update on the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project that included possible adjustments to the location of two stations and the addition of a new station in downtown Durham.

Adding the proposed station near the Durham Performing Arts Center would require approval from Durham and Orange County commissioners and would cost an estimated $2.5 million. A station at this location was proposed in 2015, but it wasn’t expected to see enough ridership to warrant its construction so close to another stop at the nearby Durham Station.

“What we’re looking at is adding a station basically to serve DPAC and the ballpark and entertainment venues downtown,” project director Danny Rogers told the board, noting that the station would likely serve many out-of-town riders.

Commissioners seemed to favor a “city center” light rail station. “You don’t have to convince us, Danny,” said Commissioner Ellen Reckhow.

Another proposal would move a station planned for Patterson Place, off Witherspoon

Road, about five hundred feet closer to Southwest Durham Drive to accommodate future development and make the station more accessible. Staff members are also looking at moving the so-called Gateway Station near U.S. 15-501 slightly west.

“When you relocate the station from the old one to the proposed location ... you would have an additional two-point-one million square feet of economic development within a short walk to the station,” said Patrick McDonough, manager of planning and transit-oriented development.

Plans also call for moving the rail line on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway from the median of University Drive to the side of the road. This means only one side of University Drive would have to be widened.

GoTriangle is also proposing that station platforms be built to accommodate two-car trains, instead of three-car trains. According to staff, the change would save an estimated $22 million and would make the DPAC station fit in its proposed location.

Over the summer, the project received approval from the Federal Transit Authority to move into the engineering phase. This keeps light rail on track to receive a 50 percent reimbursement for construction.

Overall, it’s a $3.3 billion project. GoTriangle expects that 10 percent of the funding will come from the state. Durham would pay for most of the $1.9 billion needed in local funding. The local share will be funded by vehicle registration fees, car rental fees, and a half-cent transit tax. Construction is projected to begin in 2020 and finish in 2028. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Erica Hellerstein, and Sarah Willets.

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indynews A Matter of Consent

CRITICS OF FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER SAY OWASA IS UNETHICALLY MAKING MEDICAL DECISIONS FOR THEM

BY SARAH WILLETS

C

urtis Williams slowly steps up close to the microphone. Standing in front of the board of commissioners for Orange County’s water authority, he’s holding a faded red dictionary and a poster board on which he’s drawn the cell structure of fluorine. Any dictionary, he says, will tell you what you need to know about the chemical. Tonight, he’s reading from his favorite, American Heritage.

Be it nerves or a desired effect, Williams’s words reverberate through the boardroom with sibilance and crackly feedback: “Highly corrosive. Highly poisonous.”

Williams was one of thirteen people who stood before the Orange Water and Sewer Authority Thursday night to speak against adding fluoride to the water supply—in some ways a lost cause, given that the board made its decision on the matter more than six months ago. No one spoke for fluoridation, although the board has received comments touting the practice as a low-cost, low-risk way to prevent tooth decay among the masses.

And that’s generally the position of the board. OWASA water has been fluoridefree since February, when the authority shut down its water plant after too much fluoride was pumped in and the system unrelatedly experienced a major water main break. In March, the board (with one nay vote from Yinka Ayankoya) decided to resume fluoridation once improvements were made at the plant. Last Thursday, chairman Robert Morgan said that work would likely be complete in the next week or so. (An announcement will be made before fluoridation resumes.)

In the interest of public input, the board’s October 26 meeting will include a discussion of how OWASA should continue to review whether fluoridation is the right choice, but it’s unlikely to cause any changes.

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fluoride may see enamel damage known as dental fluorosis.

According to its website, OWASA uses a compound called hydrofluorosilicic acid that it buys from the Unimin Corp. in Bakersville, North Carolina, for about $25,000 per year and dilutes.

Critics are unconvinced that fluoride is really so beneficial to teeth or even necessary given the prevalence of fluoride today in everything from toothpaste to soda. Instead, they are concerned fluoride exposure can cause a variety of adverse effects, including lower IQs and thyroid problems. Studies have linked fluoride exposure to these ailments, but they’ve Curtis Williams argues before the OWASA board against the reintroduction of flouride into generally been limited or Orange County’s water supply. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER based on fluoride levels much higher than American drinking water. office with a foamy tray of it shoved in “We don’t expect to revisit the decision “Common sense told me if you’re not their mouths, trying not to drool. in the near future,” Morgan said. supposed to swallow it in your toothpaste, The Centers for Disease Control and The February 2 fluoride overfeed has then you shouldn’t be drinking it in some Prevention considers fluoridation one “of revived an unsuccessful 2012 attempt to unknown quantity,” says Daria Barazan10 great public health achievements of the remove fluoride from OWASA’s water, deh, who has been trying since 2012 to get 20th century.” The EPA has denied sevdrawing new members now united under OWASA to stop fluoridating its water. eral activist petitions seeking an end to the banner Fluoride Free Chapel Hill/ Barazandeh, like other fluoride oppothe practice, citing a lack of evidence that Carrboro. Then, like now, the board didn’t nents, says support for fluoride use is fluoride is harmful to health. Fluoridation see compelling evidence to overturn a being perpetuated by “endorsements” has the backing of the U.S. Public Health practice that has been in place in Chapel from the CDC and entrenched financial Service, the American Dental Association, Hill and Carrboro since 1964 and in Amerinterests. She realizes this may get her and the American Medical Association. ica since 1945. labeled as a conspiracy theorist or a “crazy OWASA says it fluoridates its water About 75 percent of the American popuhippie,” she says. to the level of 0.7 parts per million, the lation is served by a fluoridated water supIndeed, opposing fluoridation requires same amount the U.S. Public Health Serply. As of 2015, that included 88 percent of not only rejecting a practice that has been vice recommends for community water North Carolinians. But the last time many passively accepted in America for seven systems. The federal limit is four parts Americans gave much thought to fluoride decades, but also institutions that are supper million. Children exposed to too much was probably while sitting at a dentist’s

“What I’m asking of OWASA is for them to have a fair look at this.” posed to be our safeguards and our sources of neutral, vetted information. In its most extreme forms, fluoride opposition has involved theories about the practice being used by Nazis, communists, fascists, and the Illuminati to subdue the masses.

“I have some sympathy for the people who are pro-fluoride,” Sharon Reese told the OWASA board last week, “because they’ve been in a situation where they believed something to be correct for a long time.

They might be in their fifties or sixties and have believed this their whole lives, and it’s really very difficult to change your mind.”

Barazandeh says she just wants OWASA officials to look at science themselves and to consult experts other than dentists. Last week, she handed them a packet of studies.

“What I was asking of OWASA back then, and what I’m asking now, is for them to have a fair look at this without prejudice,” she says.

Perhaps the group’s most compelling point is that the fluoridation debate is a matter of informed consent. It’s an argument that taps into a basic desire for personal liberty and can circumvent dissections of which study says what. Speakers last week lined up to tell OWASA officials they did not have their permission to medicate them.

Last month, Carrboro alderman Sammy Slade introduced a resolution stating that OWASA is medicating the town’s water with fluoride, and that neither the town board nor its appointees to the OWASA board “can ethically provide consent on behalf of individual Carrboro citizens.”

Ultimately, the resolution was not voted on by the town board.

“That is the foundation upon which most communities have been able to stop fluoride going in their water,” Barazandeh says. “How can OWASA decide what’s best for me medically?” swillets@indyweek.com

Value Statements

IN A CROWDED FIELD WHERE EVERYONE AGREES ON ALMOST EVERYTHING, HOW DO DURHAM CANDIDATES DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES?

BY SARAH WILLETS If you’ve been following the municipal elections in Durham, you’ve likely picked up on some reoccurring themes: affordable housing, policing reform, responsible development.

That candidates for office in the Bull City see these as priority issues is a given.

Durham touts itself as a progressive city, with a legacy of activism and a new fervor for local politics under the Trump administration. It’s no wonder this year’s municipal elections have engendered so much engagement: voters will not only elect the city’s first new mayor since 2001, but their choices for Ward 1, 2, and 3 representatives could reorient the city council.

For the most part, the contenders in this year’s election speak from a baseline of shared values. What varies is how they arrived at those values, how they live those values, and what plans they have to actualize them as a city official.

Candidates have been tasked with setting themselves apart in crowded fields where everyone pretty much agrees on the issues. (It’s even been a challenge to write about. Introducing one candidate means bringing up at least two others, not to mention teasing out the nuances of their platforms in a sentence or two.)

In the mayor’s race, Pierce Freelon has pitched the most unconventional solutions, like a jobs guarantee in which the city would pay for or subsidize wages.

Steve Schewel, a sitting council member, has drawn on deep knowledge of the city’s housing landscape and existing initiatives. Farad Ali has emphasized job creation and is seen as the most pro-development candidate. Sylvester Williams, a pastor, has made strong statements about institutional racism, but some of his responses on LGBTQ and immigrant rights have been tonedeaf. Shea Ramirez, who owns a modeling agency, centers her platform on an authentic love for people but has shared few policy suggestions. Tracy Drinker, a retired police officer, is emphasizing mental health care but has not been as present in the race as other candidates.

Incumbents in Ward 1 and Ward 3 are

facing challengers in their reelection bids. Six people are vying for the Ward 2 seat. Each race has serious, qualified contenders, but the mayoral contest—a referendum on what sort of city Durham wants to be post-Bill Bell—has garnered the most attention.

Throughout the summer, candidates have crowded on stages (dozens of forums have been held), filled out questionnaires, conducted interviews with press and

“It’s difficult to get straight to the point and show how compassionate you are.”

PACs, and held court at meet-and-greets.

At forums, they’ve used much of their time (usually about a minute per question) to convey their values. This sends a clear message of how they fit into Durham’s identity, but it doesn’t leave much room for specific plans and strategies.

Heather Cook, who has partnered with online media outlet Clarion Content to organize Mayor Up, a series of mayoral forums centered on specific issues, including policing and affordable housing, has seen this play out over the past few months.

“The first one was really challeng-

ing because of the questions,” she says.

“When you’re talking about people’s lives and safety, policing seemed particularly sensitive and heavy, and people wanted to be sure their answers conveyed the compassion they had for the question itself. It’s difficult to get straight to the point and show how compassionate you are. You don’t want to seem like you’re just logistical.”

Council member Charlie Reece says it was the same when he was running in 2015. Development, housing, and policing were the central topics then too, although there weren’t as many forums (for which he’s glad). Running against nine others for three at-large seats, he tried to distinguish himself by talking about his upbringing.

“The problem I think with the sixty-toninety-second answer is that you really only have time to talk about values and aspirations. You really don’t have time to talk about how you get there,” he says.

“They want to make sure the listeners understand that we share the same values, we want to get to the same place.”

Over the course of the Mayor Up, Cook says one of the most telling moments was when candidates were asked how their upbringing informs their understanding of housing issues. Through their answers, candidates were able to show how they have lived the values they claim on stage.

Freelon and Schewel both “owned” the privileges of their respective upbringings, while Ali talked about coming out of poverty.

But a value statement is also easier to make than offering concrete plans, and, as Reece notes, it “effectively inoculates a candidate against the dangers of specificity.” But, for candidates, skipping such statements can be risky. In Durham, you don’t want voters wondering where you stand on LGBTQ rights, cooperation with ICE, living wages, or gentrification.

“For the most part, there is general agreement on the nature of the problems, the end state we’re trying to reach,” Reece says. “The issue is how do we get there?

That is rightly where the conversation sits in Durham.” swillets@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 9

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If the Hood Fits

JOHN BURNS IS RIGHT: THE PRESIDENT’S A WHITE SUPREMACIST. PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE OF IT. BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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Last week, Wake County Commissioner John Burns caused a controversy by saying something that shouldn’t be controversial at all: the president of the United States is a white supremacist.

Burns’s remarks on Twitter were prompted by President Trump’s attacks on African-American NFL players kneeling for the national anthem (“sons of bitches”), a sharp contrast to his comments in August that there were some “very fine people” marching with white nationalists and neoNazis in Charlottesville.

“My main point,” Burns says, “was that you can’t treat American citizens exercising their right to protest worse than you treat mass murderers in your comments when you’re president of the United States.”

After The News & Observer reported on Burns’s tweet, he got some angry emails and Facebook comments, though not as many as he expected. In fact, he says, the responses he received were more positive than negative. In itself, that says something. A public official calling the president of the United States a white supremacist should be a shocking act. But it wasn’t. Here it was a one-day story, then most everyone moved on.

If anything, the events of the last week have only made Burns’s case for him.

To describe Trump’s initial reaction to the devastation that Hurricane Maria wrought on Puerto Rico as sluggish or neglectful only skims the surface. We knew where the storm was headed days out. We knew it would be catastrophic. We knew on the day it struck that the island was “destroyed,” as government officials said. Power was gone. Potable water was nowhere to be found. Streets were impassable. Communications were impossible.

Hospitals were shutting down.

And yet the president spent that weekend attacking black athletes who are peacefully protesting police violence against black Americans. He uttered barely a word about Puerto Rico, as millions of American citizens languished without access to food or

water. He didn’t call on Americans to send money or supplies. He didn’t suspend the Jones Act—as he’d done after similar disasters in Texas and Florida—or dispatch the USNS Comfort, a naval hospital ship, until a week after the storm. By all appearances,

Aerial photo of damage in Puerto Rico PHOTO BY YUISA RIOS/FEMA

he was utterly indifferent.

As The Washington Post reported, it wasn’t until four full days after Maria’s landfall that Trump started to understand the scope of the disaster, and only then when he saw the press criticizing his response. That night, he tweeted about Puerto Rico’s “broken infrastructure & massive debt,” as if Puerto Rico was somehow to blame.

By Friday, the president was patting himself on the back, telling reporters “it’s been incredible, the results we’ve had with respect to loss of life.” The death toll is officially sixteen, but, as the Miami Herald reported, experts say the real number is far higher, perhaps into the hundreds. Even the lieutenant general Trump put in charge of the mess has admitted the government hasn’t committed enough troops or supplies.

So, after the mayor of San Juan, who is currently living in a shelter because her home was flooded, pointed out that this

wasn’t a “good news” story and that people were dying, Trump attacked her—and Puerto Ricans generally—rage-tweeting (from his New Jersey golf club) that she showed “such poor leadership ability” and that Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them.”

This is another new low in American politics, though we’ve seen many new lows in the last nine months. You could chalk this up to Trump being a fragile narcissist—he is— but we’re deluding ourselves if we pretend that his casual disregard for the plights of millions of Spanish-speaking American citizens isn’t informed by something even more ominous.

After all, racism has been a defining aspect of Trump’s political ascent, from his propagation of the birther conspiracy theory to his vicious attacks on Muslims and immigrants. Talk all you want about “economic insecurity.”

The fact remains that support for Trump is inextricably linked to white identity.

As Duke University political science professor Ashley Jardina wrote for The Washington Post’s Monkey Page blog in August, “My own work, and that of others, has shown that levels of white identity are one of the strongest predictors of Trump support. … White identifiers are more likely to think that the growth of racial or ethnic groups in the United States that are not white is having a negative effect on American culture.”

We need to call this what it is. Trump is a white supremacist. He’s in power because this white supremacism appeals to white people who feel like they’re losing as America becomes more diverse. Saying that shouldn’t be controversial. Rather, it’s a self-evident fact. jbillman@indyweek.com

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aleigh's mayor isn’t just a figurehead at civic ceremonies. She—or, depending on how things shake out next week, he—is the leader of a city council that decides how to spend nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars a year.

Those council members came to power in a 2015 election that brought out fewer than five thousand votes in one council district. Only 36,172 ballots put incumbent Mayor Nancy McFarlane in office for a third term.

In the municipal elections on October 10, McFarlane is bidding to remain in office for a fourth term, partly on the strength of general contentment with the city’s direction, at least based on a community survey that showed that more than 90 percent of Raleigh residents were mostly or very happy with the state of things.

Opponent Charles Francis, a Raleigh native and lawyer, doesn’t buy that most of Raleigh is satisfied with its government. He says the mayor is aloof, and Raleigh can do better. And he thinks increased turnout will help him overcome the mayor’s popularity.

The party lines in this contest are complicated. Although McFarlane is backed by many prominent Democrats, the mayor is unaffiliated, part of a category of voters that outnumbers Republicans in Wake County. Francis, meanwhile, is a Democrat and has gained the endorsement of the county Democratic Party, which previously backed McFarlane. The race is officially nonpartisan, and it’s not clear that party endorsement will matter much.

The race heated up this week, with both major candidates announcing increased war chests and spending. A victory for Francis would not only be a big upset—an incumbent mayor in Raleigh hasn’t lost reelection since 2001, when Charles Meeker defeated Paul Coble—but would also mark something of a sea change in the normally steady Raleigh politics.

Here, in the INDY’s last issue before the election, we profile the two leading candidates, an effort to give voters some last-minute insight on the two people who might lead the city for at least the next two years.

NANCY MACFARLANE Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane says she’s

all about being a grandma these days. That’s the reason the mayor often appears in public with a child on her hip—Madison, daughter of McFarlane’s daughter Katie.

But that only scratches the surface.

McFarlane is the kind of grandmother with enough savvy about finance to found the specialty pharmacy company MedPro Rx, which she and her husband sold to Diplomat Pharmacy Inc. for $52 million in 2014, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents. (Before the company was sold, the McFarlanes gave nearly 20 percent of their stock to their employees, McFarlane says.)

The mayor’s business acumen was key to pulling off Raleigh’s purchase of the former Dorothea Dix Hospital property through negotiations with two governors, two Councils of State, and the General Assembly.

“I don’t think anybody has any idea what I did to get that park,” says McFarlane, sixtyone. “They don’t need to know.”

During an interview at a downtown coffee bar, McFarlane showed elements of both the hard-edged city leader and the selfdescribed homebody. She’s been knocked— especially by opponent Charles Francis—for being distant and hard to get along with, but she says those views don’t reflect who she really is.

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“I WILL TALK TO ANYBODY. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT CONCEPTION OF ME. ONCE THEY MEET ME, THEY’RE SURPRISED.”

“I will talk to anybody,” McFarlane says.

“A lot of people have a very different conception of me. Once they meet me, they’re surprised.”

Laughing, she adds: “A friend said she was going to get me a T-shirt that says, ‘I’m not a bitch, I’m just shy.’”

Voters’ impressions of McFarlane’s sometimes inscrutable demeanor and of Raleigh’s overall direction will emerge in next week’s municipal elections. Francis, whose short fillin stint on the city council in 1993 comprises his background in political office, launched his bid in July, proclaiming that, for all its high rankings in national and local surveys, Raleigh can do better. He quickly criticized McFarlane as being disconnected from the realities many of Raleigh’s citizens face.

McFarlane hesitated to respond sharply.

“It’s more my style to keep things positive and talk about the things I’ve done and about what’s going right and things that could get better,” she says.

Among the things McFarlane says the city has done right are the purchase of the Dorothea Dix property and the planning for its future, start-up work on the downtown Union Station transportation hub, attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in new business investment, and the tax increase that provides upward of $5 million a year for affordable housing.

Francis has countered that those skyhigh approval ratings are misleading and not reflective of all residents’ situations. The city is too sluggish, he adds, and McFarlane should run things more efficiently to get results more quickly.

City council member David Cox has clashed with McFarlane on occasion, but he says relationships on the council don’t interfere with business getting done. “Eventually issues come up and we vote on them,” says Cox, who thinks either Francis or McFarlane would make a fine mayor. “It’s not like we can’t get things done.”

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ancy Louise McFarlane was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in nearby Arlington. Her father was a credit manager and her mother was a nurse.

“You would get like three pairs of shoes: schools shoes, play shoes, and church shoes,” she says. “Once you got to be fourteen, if you wanted something else, you’d go out and work for it. So, I’ve never been poor, but I don’t think you have to be a certain way to empathize with certain people.”

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2002, and then started MedPro Rx, a specialty pharmacy company that works with high-need patients such as hemophiliacs.

(Ron joined the company later.) MedPro Rx started small, she says.

“We started it with a second [mortgage] on the house,” she says. “We were at a point where I was doing payroll and all the bills, and you sit in front of your computer and you have all your bills, and all that stuff you have to pay, and your employees that you have to pay, and [think], ‘What can I extend, or not pay for ten days, and still get the drug supply I need?’”

The company may have started small, but it got big quickly. Managing that transition, she says, helped her prepare for overseeing city government. She developed the ability to knock heads during negotiations.

“You think I didn’t do that as a business?” she says. “You think I didn’t do that with

“He was not going to run for mayor again and he said to me, ‘You need to think about running,’” she says. “I said, ‘No, no, no, no.”

Despite her initial hesitance to seek the high-profile office, McFarlane took the plunge and ended up winning easily, pulling 61 percent of the vote against two Republican challengers. That year—and in her subsequent bids in 2013 and 2015—McFarlane won the endorsement of the Wake County Democratic Party and received overwhelming Democratic support.

The partisan politics of this year’s race have proven more complicated. McFarlane refers to her positions as progressive, but she lost the endorsement of the Wake Democratic Party to Francis. That endorsement of Francis in this election season made sense— parties tend to support their members over outsiders—but it came as a surprise to many of McFarlane’s followers.

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In addition to learning to function as an executive and reading a balance sheet, McFarlane says she also learned what it means to have a marked effect on others.

“You know your primary responsibility is your employees, and you know them all because it’s a small company and you all get together and do stuff,” she says. “That’s kind of how I see the city. My primary responsibility is the people and their lives. I’m the one who says a lot of times, ‘Who pays for this again?’ Who asks, ‘What’s the long-term cost of this?’”

While getting the company rolling, the couple was also raising their three children.

McFarlane immersed herself in PTA and school volunteer activities, and took a prominent role in her neighborhood’s homeowner’s association. By 2007, she’d turned her attention to municipal politics. She sought— and won—a district seat on the city council.

After two terms, the outgoing Mayor Charles Meeker urged her to seek the next level.

“Their biggest question always is, ‘Why’d they do that?’” she says. “I’m still working on the same progressive issues and ideals. Why would they do that? We’ve had a lot of feedback from Democrats that are not happy about it because they’ve always supported me and didn’t feel it was right to do that. I’ve had Democrats who are torn because they have the party telling them one thing, but their experience is telling them something else.”

She did garner the backing of one Democratic heavy hitter—former governor Jim Hunt, one of the most popular politicians in North Carolina. Considering that Francis has billed himself as a “Jim Hunt Democrat,” this was something of a coup.

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frequent critique McFarlane faces is that the city doesn’t move projects along fast enough.

The effort to improve downtown’s Moore Square is supposed to start this fall after a master plan was completed in 2011 and the council passed funding in 2014. In addition,

doesn’t deserve credit for the city’s growth or national reputation.

“The tide is high because everybody’s moving here,” he argues. “The reason people are moving here is because of cheaper prices than New York and California, the warm weather, and enjoying the family.”

McFarlane’s politically unaffiliated status creates a conundrum for some longtime Democrats who previously supported her.

However, several former and current Democratic officials have endorsed her, including former Raleigh mayor Charles Meeker and state attorney general Josh Stein.

“What I really think is that those people are a very, very small minority of people and much smaller than they think,” Francis says.

“They all just talk to each other.”

(After this interview was conducted, former governor Jim Hunt endorsed McFarlane. Francis did not return a call seeking comment on Hunt’s decision.)

“I am the only Democrat in the race,” Francis says. “McFarlane is an unaffiliated voter who masquerades as a Democrat when she thinks it will benefit her.”

North Carolina voters who are unaffiliated can vote in the primary of any recognized party. In primaries since 1994, McFarlane has voted in Democratic primaries ten times, in Republican primaries twice, and in nonpartisan primaries twice, state records show.

the council has spent years trying to come up with regulations for short-term residential rentals.

That’s government, McFarlane says, noting that a Republican-led Wake County Commission held back Raleigh’s progress on mass transit issues for years during the 1990s.

Another criticism that Francis’s campaign literature hits on: too many people in Raleigh have been shut out of decisions at City Hall.

Says McFarlane: “In a campaign, it’s really easy to pull out one issue and say, ‘You’re not doing enough for affordable housing,’ or, ‘You shouldn’t be spending money on bike lanes,’ or, ‘You shouldn’t be doing this.’ But it’s so complex. I got asked in a forum, If you had a certain amount of money, would you build a park or affordable housing?”

She thinks that’s a false choice. Many decisions about the future of the city aren’t up-or-down or either-or. Whether for her or for Francis, the next term will be filled with intense discussions about what Dix Park will look like, about how to spread the boomgenerated wealth to more citizens of Raleigh and more parts of town, about the best way to stretch affordable housing dollars, about whether there’s really any realistic way to get a grip on growth and traffic.

“We’re really successful because we’ve done a really good job of making this a place that people want to live,” she says. “Is it perfect? No. Could it get better? Yes. It’s always something.”

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CHARLES FRANCIS Charles Francis is in it to win it.

Francis, a fifty-four-year-old banker and attorney, entered the Raleigh mayoral race in July to challenge incumbent Nancy McFarlane. A Raleigh native who previously did a brief stint on the city council, Francis says he’s not merely testing the waters for a bid in 2019, as some observers have speculated.

“That’s wrong,” Francis says during an interview in his Raleigh law office. “The needs that we have in Raleigh can’t wait two more years. They need to be addressed now.

The idea up under that is part of the complacency and self-satisfaction that is keeping us from being a great city. Raleigh’s a good city, but it’s not a great city yet.”

McFarlane, who’s seeking a fourth term, and others have cited a survey by a Kansas-based firm that showed more than nine of ten residents were satisfied with life in Raleigh. Francis, however, says the mayor

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“THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE IN RALEIGH CAN’T WAIT TWO MORE YEARS. THEY NEED TO BE ADDRESSED NOW. RALEIGH’S A GOOD CITY, BUT IT’S NOT A GREAT CITY YET.”

harles T. Franklin was raised in southeast Raleigh in a family that has deep roots in local politics. His grandfather was one of Raleigh’s first black mail carriers and later founded the SwainIrving printing company. He attended local public schools before earning an undergraduate degree at Princeton University and a law degree at Duke University.

“My aunt Vivian [Irving] helped found Wake County Democratic Women,” he says.

“She was a registrar for thirty years for the Wake County Board of Elections.”

Francis recalls interning for U.S. Representative Ike Andrews, a North Carolina Democrat, and making a campaign contribution to Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt’s unsuccessful bid to unseat Senator Jesse Helms in 1990.

“My wife and I were enthusiastic early supporters of Barack Obama,” Francis says, again stressing his Democratic bona fides.

After working as a federal prosecutor in Atlanta, Francis returned to Raleigh and started his law practice in 1994. In 2002, he won a $19 million medical-malpractice settlement for a woman in Chicago. Another signature case was a nine-year fight with the state of North Carolina over undeveloped beach land with a tangled history of inheritance and conflict. That litigation INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 15

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ended with a 2015 settlement in which two plaintiffs represented by Francis received more than $10 million and the state added acreage to Hammocks Beach State Park.

In addition to maintaining his law practice and serving on several nonprofit boards, Francis became a founding director of North State Bank.

His work in law and finance should help him deal with Raleigh problems such as affordable housing, Francis says. He calls the property tax increase passed by a McFarlane-led city council earlier this year “too little, too late, and the wrong approach.”

“It’s too little because it doesn’t even replace the units that are being lost in places like the Sir Walter Hotel and Wintershaven,” he says, referring to subsidized housing for seniors. “It’s the wrong

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“You can’t lead people if you don’t engage them, and this mayor is not even engaging with other members of her own council.” approach because the property tax is regressive. In part you are taxing lowincome, housing-rich seniors to pay for affordable housing for other people who are low-income. That’s not the right way to do it. There are other ways that are much more effective that would put many more units on the ground, preserve more units, and produce much more equity.”

Raleigh should aggressively pursue approaches such as low-income housing tax-credit financing for affordable housing, he says. The federally backed program gives tax incentives to landlords or investors to buy or develop affordable housing, in return for promises to keep them available to low-income tenants for a certain number of years.

During the early days of his campaign, Francis called McFarlane “aloof” and not fully connected to constituents and even to members of the city council.

“You can’t lead people if you don’t engage them, and this mayor is not even engaging the other members of her own council,” he says.

He says he’s heard that the mayor doesn’t get along with other council members members, particularly David Cox and Mary-Ann Baldwin, and that those bad relationships get in the way. .

But council members—even those, like Baldwin, who have been on opposite sides of many issues from McFarlane—say that’s not really the case. While council members disagree at meetings, that doesn’t interfere with how the council functions.

with the broader community.

“She’s not talking with the neighborhood people, hence the CAC debacle,” he says.

According to Francis, McFarlane’s involvement in the development of the Dorothea Dix campus as a city park has left her little energy for other sections of the parks system: “If you go and look at some of those parks in southeast Raleigh, it shows that the city is failing in applying equity tests in the way they are allocating resources,” he says.

“I will engage people all over because I am comfortable and effective with people from all walks of life.”

Because of McFarlane’s longstanding

appeal to voters, her challenger’s effort might be considered a long shot. But Francis says he sees a path to the mayor’s office. It involves reaching to several specific groups of voters that include people of color (“We are working hard to increase the turnout, not just with black people, but with Latino people, Muslim people, with Asian people, with South Asian people, with all the others that are part of the new Raleigh”); young people (“When went to N.C. State to speak the other day, sixty college Dems came to hear me speak; thirty signed up as volunteers”); and irregular voters (“There are three hundred and two thousand voters in Raleigh; only about forty thousand regularly take part in city races”).

In the home stretch, both McFarlane and Francis are hitting multiple events a day.

Francis’s primary task is to attract current and especially new voters with his promises to listen to the needs of people from all over town, get the city’s work done more efficiently, and speed up the pace of providing mass transit and affordable housing.

“There are a lot of reasons people don’t vote,” he says. “One of them is that they haven’t been excited or enthused by the choices of this mayor. We’re giving them a reason to come vote.” tgoldsmith@indyweek.com

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ne controversy promises to linger.

McFarlane initially backed a proposal for a new community engagement board that members of Raleigh’s longstanding citizen advisory councils took as a swipe at them, and as an effort to have city staff drive the collection of comments on contentious zoning issues.

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he fourth-annual North Carolina Jerk Fest, which came to West Point on the Eno on Saturday, September 23, felt like all the Caribbean cookouts and festivals I’d ever been to, rolled into one. Children were running around, screaming and dancing.

People of all hues lounged at tables or on picnic blankets, clustering in the shade of trees.

One vendor was selling coconuts with bendy straws, and, in true island fashion, no one seemed particularly concerned with the time.

I’m Grenadian and Guyanese; my parents came to the United States as teenagers. Though I’ve lived in Durham for several years, this was my first Jerk Fest. Organized by local charity CaribSplash, it starts with a 5K race in the morning, followed by a daylong celebration of Caribbean food, music, and culture. Most of the vendors are local, though the busiest, with a line fifty people long at one point, came from Baltimore.

Cooking demonstrations abound, as do Caribbean folks with their countries’ colors on full display.

Sherine Lewis of Mum’s Jamaican Restaurant in Raleigh was one of the vendors.

Lewis is Jamaican, and she learned to cook jerk chicken, oxtail, and more from her grandmother.

“When she was teaching me, to be honest, I wasn’t really into it,” she says. “But now I’m glad that she taught me how to do it, because it’s been really beneficial to me and my family.” Mum’s won the jerk competition at Jerk Fest in 2015. Lewis’s grandmother’s recipe, a blend of eighteen spices with chicken cooked over a charcoal grill, has held steady over the years.

“Basically, the recipe is the same. The food is so good that you don’t really want to change anything,” Lewis says. “You might add something and create something different, but you’re not going to change how jerk chicken is prepared overall.”

I was always nervous about going to Jerk Fest. Part of it was the worry that I would

Jerk chicken at Mum’s Jamaican Restaurant in Raleigh PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER have to go alone (festivals are awkward when you’re introverted and by yourself ), and part of it was crippling imposter syn-

drome. I was born into this culture, but I know next to nothing about it. Is cluelessness all over my face? Can everyone see that

I don’t know if I belong here? What if people figure out that I have no idea jerk is a cooking process, not just a spice?

Spoiler alert: people did find out, because I told on my damn self. (The chef I was talking to at the time was very kind about it.)

As a first-generation American, I spend a lot of time thinking about my identity and how people perceive it. Maybe it’s getting older and discovering the full depths of my blackness, or maybe it’s a side effect of living in Trump’s America. Maybe it’s my perceived duty to radically challenge the mainstream’s narratives about immigrants and first-generation children. But over the last year, I’ve been voraciously diving into my family’s heritage, trying figure out who I am and where I come from. It’s a heavy, self-imposed crusade that’s almost become an obsession.

Because I’m an immigrant kid, people assume that I know stuff about my parents’ home countries: recipes, politics, geography, folklore, dialects. Much like a tropical storm over the Atlantic, imposter syndrome moves in fast and hard when such questions come up. Am I a “good enough” immigrant kid; am I representing us well? Do I know enough about either of these cultures to say, Yep, I’m Guyanese and Grenadian?

My dad is from the island of Grenada (no, not Granada—that’s a city in Spain, and if one more person tries to correct me, we will fight). My mom is from Guyana (no, not Guinea—that’s a country in West Africa; previously stated conditions apply). My parents arrived in New York, got educated, worked hard, met each other, and eventually created a middle-class life in the suburbs of

Atlanta so their three children could grow up to be great, too.

But I do wish my siblings and I had a deeper connection with the countries and cultures in which my parents grew up. All four of my grandparents are still alive, but since three live in their home countries, I don’t know them well at all. I think I’ve always been secretly jealous of people like Lewis, who learned to cook from their grandparents and got to spend so much time with them.

My parents cooked for us at home, of course. We ate rice with nearly every meal.

Fried plantains (pronounced plan-TINS) are still a major source of comfort for me.

That smoky, savory, sweet smell of frying plantains and vegetable oil follows you around for hours, and will always remind me of my parents’ kitchen.

We went to cookouts when aunties, uncles, and cousins from the island or South America visited the U.S. They dragged us to Caribbean food festivals in Atlanta and New York, something I wish I’d appreciated more when I was a snotty teenager.

And when no one felt like cooking, we’d get takeout (roti, curried chicken and goat, and sorrel for Dad, because the rest of us couldn’t tolerate the bitterness) from a local Trinidadian roti shop.

I didn’t expect it, but, standing under a tree at Jerk Fest, sweating through my cotton shirt, I understood why my parents used to take us to festivals like this. As I get older and realize that my parents are just people who are doing their best, maybe this was their way of giving us a peek into who they are, who we are, and where we’re from. food@indyweek.com

FOOD BRIEF ONE FISH, TWO FISH, LOCAL FISH, UGLY FISH Over the last ten years, 40 percent of North Carolina fish houses have closed because of heightened demand for imported, familiar kinds of seafood. But the provenance of these cheaper, prettier fish can be sketchy: it’s often not clear what boats the fish came from, how and where they were caught, or if they followed conservation regulations regarding overfishing and other measures. Against this tide, Raleigh fish market Locals Seafood sells fresh fish caught on North Carolina’s coast—even if it’s ugly. Ugly and Wild, a short documentary about N.C.’s native fish and how Locals Seafood works with fishing families to bring it to consumers, was made by Vittles, a local filmmaking outfit that explores social issues through the lens of food, and the NC 10% Campaign, which encourages consumers to spend 10 percent of their food dollars in the local economy.

Ugly and Wild’s Durham premiere takes place on the rooftop of the Durham Hotel at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, followed by fish bingo and conversations with Andrea Reusing, chef at The Durham and Lantern, and the Outland family, a multigenerational coastal fishing family. Locals Seafood favorites will be for sale, along with local beer. Admission is free, but you need to register at nc10percent.com/uglyfish. —Iza Wojciechowska

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ory Hanson doesn’t have perfect pitch—the rare ability to hear a random noise like a car horn, and identify it as, say, a B flat—but he is uncommonly attuned to tiny differences in tone. If he picks up the slightest disharmony while he’s singing, everything sounds bad to him.

Or, at least, it used to. As frontman for the rock band Wand, he’s been forced out of his own head.

“I’d think I would be singing flat because I can hear mostly the bass, or one of my guitar strings goes off a little bit,” Hanson says from his home outside of Los Angeles. “I’m just neurotic and paranoid about being well in tune. So, when I stopped giving a shit about hitting wrong notes, then it started to get really good.”

The band also recently started turning down the volume on everything—guitar, bass, synthesizers and drums—which might seem like an odd move for a frenetic, wildly experimental and borderline heavymetal band, but it’s allowed Hanson to settle in more comfortably as a vocalist.

“I was like, Holy shit, I don’t have to scream over this, I can just sing,” he says.

“Especially with the new music, which is so much gentler at times, it feels better to sing over that.”

The new music in question is the band’s fourth album, Plum, released in late September via the esteemed Drag City. Plum is less in-your-face than any of Wand’s previous studio work. Consider, for example, the record’s title track and lead single. It begins with Hanson crooning over steady piano chords and builds subtly. Rather than climaxing with a fuzzy guitar freak-out, it becomes a languid swirl of airy noodling and dueling vocal harmonies. It’s not exactly what one expects from a band that made its name on science fiction themes and monster riffs.

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Wand PHOTO BY ABBY BANKS extensive touring to support it all was an exhausting grind, Hanson says, and everybody involved needed a breather. During the two-year interim, the band added synth player and backing vocalist Sofia Arreguin and guitarist Robert Cody.

Wand’s members also fundamentally changed the band’s creative process. Previously, Hanson approached his cohorts with an idea for a song and they helped fill it out; now decisions are more collaborative, resulting in an increased focus on the craft of songwriting and a generally softer sound. The pop element that used to be an undercurrent has risen to the surface.

Thus, Plum is heavy, but more so in the emotional sense, according to Hanson.

“I think it’s our heaviest record, but I use the term loosely. When we were working on this record, we were looking for strong, resonant feelings. We wanted to see how heavy we can make them,” he says. “It’s a weird

record because it’s our harshest record, our softest record, our happiest record, but it’s also our saddest.”

Plum has thus far received mixed reviews.

Some music outlets have praised the band’s sweeter, more melodic direction, while others have panned it as a restrained and bland turn from a previously exciting rock band.

A good number of fans appear put off by Wand daring to try something new. Hanson says he doesn’t quite get the criticism. For him and his bandmates, revisiting the same musical palette for the sake of pleasing their fan base would be a miserable effort.

“I don’t even see our identity shift that much, but people seemed to get really upset when we don’t do things the way they want,” he says. “I don’t really understand that. The heavy records are still there—you can still listen to them. It’s like, if your friend used to work at Best Buy, but now he works at Bed, Bath & Beyond and

you’re mad because he left Best Buy. The point isn’t the vessel we’re inhabiting for a moment as a band, whether that be rock or metal or psychedelic.”

Fans can rest assured, however, that Wand’s live shows still rock. Hanson has always been a thrilling guitarist who coaxes outrageous, ear-catching squeals and lasergun sounds out of his six-string.

“It’s gotten to the point where I have to stop doing ridiculous shit because it just doesn’t sound that good when you’re noodling the whole time. I have to rein it in.”

Hanson’s greatest challenge remains singing, but he’s finally beginning to trust his voice while playing in front of festivalsize crowds. But he loves singing now more than ever, he says. As Hanson continues to push himself with his own skills, perhaps it’ll continue to propel Wand toward even more compelling creative output. music@indyweek.com

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LINAFORNIA

he first time Linafornia performed at Low End Theory, the Los Angeles weekly club night that serves as the cultural epicenter of the city's fabled beat scene, the up-and-coming producer somehow got into her own head while in the midst of an out-of-body experience.

“I would love to say it was super magical, but I was so nervous,” she says of the night.

“It was such a surreal moment for me.”

Stakes were high and quite personal. The gig meant a great deal to her, having regularly attended the Wednesday event to catch sets from residents like Daddy Kev and DJ Nobody as well as a fluid selection of esteemed guests including Flying Lotus and Samiyam. Now known exclusively by her stage name, Lina says she aimed to wow the crowd, to shatter any doubt as to whether her hometown booking was some fluke, to show and prove.

“In retrospect, I think I did a pretty good job,” she says. Based on immediate feedback she received from multiple people in attendance, it was at least that good if not better.

As one of the most consistently creative strains of contemporary hip-hop, instrumental beat music invites those with unconventional or eclectic tastes to play in its sandbox.

Labels like Brainfeeder and Leaving appear to give artists a great deal of freedom, as demonstrated by releases from their respective rosters. The child of Belizean immigrants, Lina grew up listening to the calypso-reminiscent punta rock of her parents’ native country, along with Jamaican dancehall reggae and American rap artists like Daz Dillinger and Missy Elliott. These seemingly disparate sounds inform her musical craft, best demonstrated by her 2016 debut LP, Yung, for the Dome of Doom imprint.

“I didn’t really listen to underground hiphop or beats until like 2006, when I was in high school,” Lina says. Turning on to the

Linafornia PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST MF Doom discography led her to discover Flying Lotus and Madlib and so on into that sonic community. “I was listening to Dilla before I realized who he was,” she says, citing the now-legendary beatsmith’s early work with A Tribe Called Quest.

Instrumental hip-hop opened Lina’s eyes and ears to a whole new world, one where a great beat could stand alone without the benefit of an emcee or singer. Taking full advantage of what her city offered in the way of these oft-unusual sounds, she began attending more and more shows, familiarizing herself with the likes of Dibiase, The Gaslamp Killer, and Ras G, among others. “They were expressing themselves with their music without having to say anything,” she says. “I thought that was the coolest thing!”

While those live experiences ultimately helped prompt Lina to work on making her own beats, another compelling factor drove her to do so: she never saw a woman on

stage making beats, so she decided to have a go at it herself.

Yung showcases a dozen tracks culled from the plethora of material Lina worked on for her own gigs over the years. Oldschool hip-hop and even more distant jazz play a part on cuts like “Mafmaticbapp” and “Hi Shrimp.” Lina’s interests cross not only genres but international borders.

“I really love Brazilian music,” she says, adding that a number of Yung’s samples come from that world. “I like the whole idea of finding something older and repurposing it for something new. You have to be really resourceful.”

Lina is an unapologetic Adult Swim junkie, and that sort of playful and cartoonish mischief infiltrates her work.

One particularly inventive blend comes on closing track “GotchuallinCHECK,” which pairs the unmistakable synth lead of Roy Ayers’s 1976 classic “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” with the bombastic

vocals from the 1997 Busta Rhymes hit “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check.” She admires Ayers’s work from that period for being so groundbreaking and experimental, especially the warm, full sound that he lays down with his band.

Yung’s original release was only available in cassette and digital editions, but a vinyl pressing is currently in the works.

It’ll feature an exclusive bonus track, “Dig Deep,” with one of Lina’s musical heroes: Georgia Anne Muldrow. Made possible with the help of Red Bull Radio, “Dig Deep” features a murky Linafornia beat permeated by Muldrow’s gripping voice.

“They gave me a couple options and [her name] jumped right out at me,” she says.

“I look up to her.” She suggests that their working relationship may be ongoing, though she’s reticent to reveal any details.

Indeed, Lina seems loath to reveal much about future Linafornia projects. She’s taking her time, she says, trying to gestate new ideas and figure out what exactly she wants to do next. Meanwhile, those coming to see her in Durham, or anywhere else for that matter, shouldn’t show up expecting a straightforward run-through of Yung.

“I’m like a beat conductor,” she says, nodding to Madlib’s seminal series for Stones Throw. “I’m triggering all these different sounds and effects.” Taking into account the live, fluid nature of her approach, she insists that her performance match her mood. The number of unreleased beats in her arsenal suggests several possible directions.

“It’s a vibe that I’m bringing from L.A.,” she says. “Something that only I can bring.” music@indyweek.com

MUSIC BRIEF

ESTRANGERS Gilded Palms Phuzz Records HHHH A still-young band with an already impressive track record of generating memorable, gently mind-bending psych rock, Winston-Salem's Estrangers have long appeared on the verge of a career-making breakthrough. That moment has arrived. As a profoundly gratifying distillation of the group's manifold strengths, the group’s new LP, Gilded Palms, makes for both an ideal entry point and a treat for longtime fans. Frontman Philip Pledger has both refined his craft and expanded his horizons over the course of ten inimitably weird and catchy compositions.

From the warm rush of the opening track “Hotel Savoy,” a winsome drinker's lament whose snaking riff and barrelhouse piano resolves into an uneasy psychedelic coda, the prevailing environment is one of barely sublimated desperation. Tracks like the skittering “The Champ” and the headcaving garage-synth of “Green Stars” play like compellingly druggy caravans

down the dark corridors of Pledger's psyche, festooned with everything from relationship anxiety to a well-earned mistrust of the music industry.

Elsewhere, the reverb-drenched “Sidewalk Song” cops both its harmonized guitars and air of cosmic spiritual seeking from All Things Must Pass, deftly taking the drone and danger of vintage psych and manufacturing something novel from it. Like XTC, the Stone Roses, and Olivia Tremor Control before them, Estrangers prove up to the challenge of internalizing their influences while avoiding the temptation to reflexively mimic them.

Ultimately the elegiac final track “White Tiger”—all slow-burning build and ambitious guitar solo—closes matters on a note of appropriate reverence and subversion before ending abruptly on a horror movie shriek. It's a perfect Estrangers moment: They are scary, they are funny, they are new, they are old, and they are here to say. —Timothy Bracy INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 23

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ROMEO AND JULIET HHH½ Through Sunday, Oct. 22 Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill www.baretheatre.org

Taxing Inheritance

GENERATIONAL TRAUMA WEIGHS ON THE YOUNG IN TWELFTH-CENTURY VERONA, IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME, AND TODAY

BY BYRON WOODS

and Loren Armitage’s solid Friar Lawrence cannot be ignored, and Bonnie Raddatz’s sumptuous costumes place us solidly in the period.

But we should caution companies—not for the first time—about the treacherous acoustics of the Forest Theatre’s stonewall stage, which left some voices doubled and others inaudible throughout the performance, adding to intelligibility problems when a grief-

stricken Juliet (McKenna Waldron) sped through certain passages. She and our Romeo (Christopher McBennett) are clearly young actors of talent, but with questionable range at this point in their development. I expect both will grow during this production, as the most recent faces in a story that has been ceaselessly reiterated for centuries as old hatreds take their greatest toll on the young. bwoods@indyweek.com

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McKenna Waldron and Christopher McBennett in Romeo and Juliet PHOTO BY RON YORGASON

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onservative firebrands lament that our youth are losing their innocence earlier and earlier, victims of television, films, the Internet, and a permissive culture. Images of a teenage gangster holding a gun or an adolescent girl in provocative garb supposedly reveal failings unique to particular communities in our time.

These are lies, of course. Proof is found in an unexpected text, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, as director Lucinda Danner Gainey reminds us in her Bare Theatre production.

It portrays a twelfth-century Verona where a thirteen-year-old Juliet is fair game for marriage among the upper crust, and gangs of boys go armed in public, with reason.

Gainey particularly focuses on the social schism that so divides two families they pass their hatreds down through generations. If, at first, we wink at the irrepressible invective of Sampson and Gregory (Joshua Ammons and 24 | 10.4.17 | INDYweek.com

Benjamin Tarlton), two brash young Montague punks out looking for a fight, we’re later caught up short by their panic when matters escalate out of their hands. The pair’s errant children’s crusade reflects their elders’ enmity, which they’ve swallowed whole. By the time Lord Capulet (Michael Parker) tries to defuse hostilities, at least for the duration of a party at his estate, by complimenting young Romeo and ordering Tybalt (George Labusohr) to stand down, the conflict has too much momentum to be annulled by a single countermand. The familiar tragedy plays out from there.

There is much to praise in Maegan Mercer-Bourne’s authoritative Prince, Tara Nicole Williams’s joyous velocity as Mercutio, Emily James’s good reading of Benvolio, and Laura Parker’s incisive, sometimes comic turn as the Capulet’s nurse. Amanda Lee Scherle’s chilly cameo as Lady Capulet

There were giants in those days, hardboiled hoods and gentlemen gangsters; gamblers, goons, and chiselers of the first rank; and confidence men who knew that if you were running a hustle near Times Square, it behooved you to do so in sharp menswear, with overenunciation and a little class. The neighborhood had standards. Or so, at least, said Damon Runyon, self-styled reporter, raconteur, and father confessor of midtown Manhattan’s shady set in the early twentieth century.

Frank Loesser immortalized two of Runyon’s tales in his classic Broadway fable, Guys and Dolls. The 1950 musical is the second theatrical time capsule Nancy Rich has directed in as many months at Cary Arts Center. (The first was the 1936 society drama The Women, codirected with Lyman Collins.) In this community theater production by the Cary Players, Rich elicits notable work in the central roles but shakier takes among supporting characters.

Elizabeth Quesada gave the strongest performance as a memorable Miss Adelaide, winsome nightclub performer and fourteen-year fiancée of Nathan Detroit (Ted Willis), who runs the “oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York.” Under Darylene Hecht’s musical direction, Quesada made poignant yet hilarious work of “Adelaide’s Lament” and the technically challenging “Sue Me.” Soprano Lauren Bamford soared as Sarah Brown, especially in her duets with the suave but too understated Stan Williams, who played ne’er-do-well gambler Sky Masterson. Rich’s choreography finally caught fire in Williams’s taut “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” and Tony Hefner’s eleven-o’clock number, “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.”

Williams believably churned the hot water his character was in while trying to stay a step ahead of the law, Miss Adelaide, and his fellow gamblers. But when Daryl Ray Carliles and David Adams’s cameos as Benny Southstreet and Harry the Horse were more persuasive than a number of their gangster colleagues, the results left this tale of oldschool gamblers a dicier proposition than it needed to be. —Byron Woods

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On the House

DENISE KIERNAN PUTS DETAILED HUMAN FACES IN THE WINDOWS OF ASHEVILLE’S HISTORIC BILTMORE ESTATE

BY ZACK SMITH

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enise Kiernan was in high school the first time she set foot in Asheville’s Biltmore Estate, an ornate historic house turned tourist attraction that dates to 1895. “It was like this really cool time capsule you could step into,” she remembers. When she moved back to Asheville with her husband eleven years ago, one of the first things they did was take a trip to Biltmore. It quickly blossomed into something like an obsession.

“We’ve been pass holders for years, taking tours, looking at the gardens—and, of course, when anyone comes to visit you, you take them to Biltmore,” she says. “It’s always fun to see it anew through their eyes.”

Kiernan, who had a best-seller a few years ago with The Girls of Atomic City, a chronicle of the women who unknowingly helped work on the first atomic bomb, has parlayed her Biltmore fascination into the new historical nonfiction book The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home. The book delves into the people who built Biltmore, the unique society that formed on its grounds, and the unexpected impact it had on the community of Asheville.

“I remember vividly the bicentennial celebration of 1976,” Kiernan says, explaining that she’s always been a history nerd.

“It made a big impression on me that history was more than just memorizing dates and events. Who were the people, what did they wear, where did their kids go to school, what was an average day like, and what were the concerns of the time? I really liked being able to sink into another time period.”

In researching The Last Castle, she discovered all manner of offbeat stories in the archival material. “One of the most surprising things I came across, and I don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t picked up the book yet,” Kiernan says—so consider this your spoiler warning—“was a direct connection between Edith Vanderbilt’s family and the creation of the teddy bear. And, completely unrelated to the book, I found a letter by George Washington Carver and a letter by Franz Liszt. That’s often what I get excited about, these things with people who have nothing to do with what you’re writing, and the texture of old paper, the feel of an old pen in your hand. I

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wonder what archival research is going to be like thirty years from now, when all you have to do is scroll through somebody’s hard drive.”

Kiernan’s fascination with Biltmore House extends to all levels of the massive estate, and her favorite parts aren’t necessarily the grand landscapes and architecture that are so often advertised.

“I love the basement, the kitchen, the indoor pool, the bowling alley, the servants’ quarters—the kind of working bowels of the house,” Kiernan says. “The laundry rooms alone—what a massive undertaking it must have been, trying to run a place like that!

And of course, as a writer, I love the library.”

Kiernan is also interested in Asheville’s history and the area’s continuing evolution as an artistic and a cultural center, beyond its natural attractions. “Asheville itself has grown tremendously in the eleven years we’ve been back here,” she says. “You drive around downtown and the beer tourism has picked up, we have tremendous restaurants, people are flocking here for foodie-drinky tours.”

The Last Castle puts a human face on George Vanderbilt, the multimillionaire behind the house, and Edith Vanderbilt, who helped create the Pisgah National Forest after George’s death. Kiernan feels that the Vanderbilts’ focus on preservation and philanthropy are as important to their legacy as Biltmore House.

“I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that if these forests were not here, we wouldn’t have the same number of hikers and climbers and paddlers and so many other people who come here to enjoy the Pisgah Forest,” Kiernan says.

Kiernan, who’s already started her next book, roots her ongoing fascination with historical nonfiction in the “wow factor” that true stories contain.

“I think the weight of it being true carries its own fascination,” she says. “The Girls of Atomic City—there’s a lot of stuff in there that, if it was fiction, people would say, That could never happen! I want to be that kid again at the bicentennial. I want to see into another world.” arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 27

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EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HHHH Opening Friday, Oct. 6

Do You Read Me?

EX LIBRIS GAVE US ONE SIMPLE IDEA: PUT THE LIBRARIANS IN CHARGE OF THE COUNTRY

BY GLENN MCDONALD

man’s celebration of the very concept of the public library has the effect of a utopian vision. I sat there thinking, Imagine if our federal government were run by the people we see guiding this institution. Imagine if

our leaders were this thoughtful, curious, and dedicated to principles of knowledge and progress. I’m saying: put the librarians in charge. No, really. arts@indyweek.com

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The New York Public Library in Ex Libris PHOTO COURTESY OF JONATHAN BLANC/ZIPPORAH FILMS

rederick Wiseman is an elder statesman of documentary filmmaking whose long-form works require a certain commitment from the viewer. His latest, a three-and-a-half-hour exploration of the New York Public Library system, might seem like a daunting proposition for a night at the movies—and it is.

But the film is so heartening, so enriching, that you owe it to yourself to make time for it. (Look at it this way: it’s three-and-a-half episodes of whatever you’re binge-watching these days.) Ex Libris is an elixir for anyone who feels sickened by what’s happening in America right now. It’s a reminder that we’ve got a hell of a good civilization going here— one that’s worth preserving if we can just get the right people in charge.

Wiseman has been making documentaries for more than half a century, often focusing on American institutions. His method is to immerse himself in his subject, film for hundreds of hours, and then assemble a moving picture mosaic with no narration, onscreen titles, or traditional narrative.

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Ex Libris plunges into the day-to-day operations of the NYLS, a public-private institution dedicated—and that’s the key word—to disseminating information and improving lives in the communities it serves. We see patrons reading books, of course, but we also see job fairs, instructional seminars, and community forums. Volunteers teach blind kids how to read Braille. Black teenagers wander an African art exhibit. Some celebrities drop in: Elvis Costello, Richard Dawkins, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

No moral is provided, but with every sequence, every edit, Wiseman is directing our attention. There are hidden structures throughout, dots that connect, emotional and notional through lines that combine to speak volumes. We don’t need to be told about the importance of education, science, diversity, and facts. We see it in every frame.

It’s probably important to note that Ex Libris isn’t an overtly political film. But anyone paying attention knows that, right now in America, the stakes are as high as they’ve ever been, and everything is political. Wise-

The medical establishment often takes a grudging view of the mind-body connection. In cases of persistent, debilitating pain not resulting from bodily trauma or chronic condition, standard treatments tend toward physical manipulation or surgery, often after endless rounds of expensive diagnostic tests.

John Sarno, who died this year, was a physician and researcher at NYU Medical Center who spent his career, both as an author and a clinician, in defiance of this model’s assumptions. While many Americans misunderstand psychosomatic illness, a pain that originates in the mind is as real as one derived from physical injury. In Sarno’s unorthodox diagnosis, much chronic pain comes from repressed anger. A Freudian, he used talk therapy to help people zero in on their own repressed anger and stressors, and many of them said their pain subsided.

Sounds too good to be true, right?

Testimonials often do, but All the Rage (Saved by Sarno) makes its case in multiple ways. Most viscerally, Chapel Hillbased director Michael Galinsky (who directed the film with his wife, Suki Hawley, and David Beilinson) documents his own bout of crippling, inca-

pacitating back pain and seeks his own treatment with Sarno.

The film, which screens at Durham’s Carolina Theatre at 7 p.m. on Oct. 11 and 12, is rich and multilayered. Highprofile patients, including Howard Stern and Larry David, earnestly sing Sarno’s

John Sarno

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praises and appear more human than you might think. The doctor himself is a warm, engaging presence; there’s pathos in his being shunned by the medical establishment in which he doggedly operated. Galinsky employs his skills as a storyteller and a photographer as well as an almost unnerving willingness to put his pain and life issues on full display when he suddenly becomes the central character in his own film. —David Klein

The 2017 Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History

No-Man’s Land as Nature Preserve The Strange Case of Cold War Conservation

Dr. Lisa Brady

Professor of History at Boise State University

October 12, 2017 @ 5:00 pm

Duke University’s Environment Hall Following World War II, Cold War animosities turned large swaths of land in Eastern Europe, Korea, and Puerto Rico into militarized areas. In her talk “No-Man’s Land as Nature Preserve,” environmental historian Lisa Brady will explore how and why these militarized areas became de facto nature preserves, what environmental scientists have learned studying them, and how conservation can heal even the wounds of war.

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8

MOON DUO

Unlike many bands on the strange and frightening side of the current neo-psych landscape, the stalwart Sacred Bones band Moon Duo seems content to do what it does best: bliss out. Every song on May’s Occult Architecture Vol II evokes words you might associate with a peaceful afternoon hiking in a deep forest—meditative, comforting, and deeply sensuous.

The expansive mood is apparent right from the jump; opener “New Dawn” feels like it was sculpted from rushing water with its whirling guitars and gushing vocals. While countless modern shoegaze and psych acts attempt this style and curl off into ambient make-out music, Moon Duo instead cycles in a gentle barrage of exploratory elements to keep the illusion intact. If you take your psychedelic music hypnotic and textural, this one’s for you. It may not throw in too many left turns, but as glorious escapism, there’s no beating it. With Birds of Avalon. —David Ford Smith KINGS, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $12–$14, www.kingsraleigh.com 30 | 10.4.17 | INDYweek.com

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

THE PRICE IS RIGHT LIVE

No disrespect to Drew Carey—or to Jerry Springer, I guess, who hosts The Price Is Right Live at DPAC—but for me, the show will always evoke the orange hues of the classic set, perfectly matched to the tan of host Bob Barker, with his skinny microphone and his strange zeal for neutering pets. When I was little, the program ran in constant syndication on daytime TV, and it became permanently entwined with my sense of childhood summers in the suburbs, their endless idleness, joy, and boredom. I watched with a certain mystification: What did a box of Rice-A-Roni cost? A car? And what on Earth was “California emission?”

But I knew all those flashing gold vanity lights meant filthy lucre, that the driving theme music contained a promise of limitless wealth and progress. And the games looked fun—putting golf balls, cracking safes, rolling giant dice, punching paper holes for money, and, of course, Plinko. Now I’m older, and I know what things are worth. But wouldn’t it still be a thrill to spin the big wheel? Come on down. —Brian Howe DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM 7:30 p.m., $30–$139, www.dpacnc.com

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

DIDA SEASON LAUNCH

It’s not unusual to watch Durham Independent Dance Artists performers from the deck or interior of one of downtown Durham’s newer hotels. Last fall, we hugged the roof railings of The Durham Hotel at sunset to see Stephanie Leathers’s quadrants, a prelude to her roving site-specific work Home: the metamorphosis. Earlier this year, we circled the 21c ballroom for Matthew Young and the Department of Improvised Dance’s fluid Set and Setting. Following this trend and DIDA’s broader interest in placing dance work in nontheatrical, transitional social spaces, the local indie dance presenter will host its fourth-season launch party at Unscripted Durham, the new resident of the recently redeveloped midcentury-modern Jack Tar Hotel building. (Yes, the place where people on Instagram have been taking all those swimming pool selfies.) DIDA artists past and present (Matthew Young, Ginger Wagg, and ShaLeigh Dance Works) will perform on a loop; DJ PlayPlay will provide the tunes. —Michaela Dwyer UNSCRIPTED DURHAM, DURHAM 7:30–9 p.m., free, www.unscriptedhotels.com

MONDAY, OCTOBER 9

AN EVENING WITH SARAH VOWELL, AMERICAN HISTORIAN

The American Revolution has been having a moment: it’s fashionable for conservative and liberal pundits alike to express nostalgia for Back Then, as if Thomas Jefferson biographies or Alexander Hamilton raps could serve as political Bible quotes to assuage our fears in this confusing era. Sarah Vowell’s 2015 book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, sheds all such presuppositions, indulging curiosity over orthodoxy—appropriate for a former This American Life editor and contributor. Lafayette is the latest in a series of nonfiction books on American history from Vowell; to read her imagining of America is to be relieved of the burden of reverence and permitted to delight in absurdity, as well as to notice the constellations of meaning stretched between the past and the present. Vowell headlines the Durham County Library’s Durham Reads Together event, in conversation with humorist David Rees at the Carolina Theatre. —Katie Jane Fernelius CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM | 7 p.m., free, www.carolinatheatre.org

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For decades, New Orleans brass bands have steadily stretched beyond the restrictions of the genre to incorporate funk, bebop, R & B, hip-hop, and other nontraditional elements. With its bumptious pile-up of polyphony, decked out with chants, ripping solos, and well-rehearsed sense of spontaneity, the dozen-strong No BS! Brass Band reflects the twenty-first-century tendency toward the extreme mixing of genres as well as a spirit of anarchy that manifests both in the unbridled intensity of its live performances and a reckless aesthetic that embraces John Coltrane but isn’t above covering aHa’s “Take On Me.” The band formed amid the jazz scene around Virginia Commonwealth University, and, recording and working out of studio owned by drummer Lance Koehler, it’s still a homegrown affair. The cheeky name isn’t meant to throw shade at others in the brass-band game, rather it reflects a dogged work ethic that’s taken the ensemble from the lowliest of gigs to top-tier stages like the Kennedy Center and Tiny Desk Concert. Carrboro’s Water Wingz is the opener. —David Klein MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM | 9 p.m., $13–$15, www.motorcomusic.com

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When listening to Vagabon’s debut record, Infinite Worlds, for the first time, don’t try to guess what’s going to happen next—you’ll be confounded. That applies not only to transitions from one song to the next, but to the tracks themselves. “Fear & Force,” the second song on the album, begins with a simple guitar riff bouncing beneath the voice of Lætitia Tamko, who leads the project. You’re lulled into thinking the song will continue down that path—a pleasant indie pop song in its own right—until the guitar abruptly cuts out, replaced by resonant electronic drums, smooth vocal harmonies, and glowing synths. The transition is striking.

Tamko has gone through a number of intense shifts herself. Born in Cameroon, she moved with her family to New York at thirteen and went on to study engineering in college before, in her final year of school, focusing more intensely on music.

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to for solace, and takes pains to establish; at times it is a headspace, an internal world Tamko cultivates and inhabits. On “Cleaning House,” a song about doing away with mental obstacles, she sings, “No longer yearn to be gentle, pure, sweet, not intimidating yet sure,” as if deciding to toss out the clutter of passivity to make room for determination and self-empowerment.

Home, like love, is a familiar theme in music, and has just as much universal resonance.

Moreover, the way Tamko addresses theme is long absent and overdue in the world of indie pop-rock. Vagabon is emerging as a beacon in a musical realm long dominated by introspective white guys. While Tamko’s music is driven to a large degree by personal experience and selfreflection, it also expresses a desire to connect, and a level of confidence seemingly designed to encourage others who may not normally feel at home in the indie music world, or the world at large. A model home may not have existed for Tamko prior to her construction of Infinite Worlds, but she has created a new one for herself in the record. —Noah Rawlings THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $10, www.thepinhook.com

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WED, OCT 4 THE ARTSCENTER: Big Band Night with the Triangle Jazz Orchestra; 7:30 p.m., free.

• BLUE NOTE GRILL: Tas Cru Band; 8 p.m., $8. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Trout Steak Revival, Dead Horses; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15. • DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: Tajmo: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band; 8 p.m., $50+. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Tim Cifers; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Floozies, BoomBox, Late Night Radio; 8 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Luke Elliot, Bill West, Elliott Humphries; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Man Forever, Demon Eye, Lacy Jags; 9 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Sammy J, Of Good Nature; 9 p.m. • THE RITZ: Manchester Orchestra; 7:30 p.m.

THU, OCT 5 Diaspoura Anjali Naik hails POP EXTREME from Charleston,

S.C., and reminds us that interesting, progressive art can bubble up in overlooked corners. As chill-out pop purveyor Diaspoura, she swirls together clouds of down-tempo music and sultry 2010s R & B into a thick, lovely fog. Despite the prettiness, there’s a cutting autobiographical quality to the lyrics, one that draws from her real-world experiences in local progressive organizations like Girls Rock Charleston. Come early for raps from Kevin Venom and eclectic zoner jams from Gudiya of Sand Pact. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $7–$12/9 P.M.]

Dirty Bourbon River Show New Orleans’s WILD ROOTS Dirty Bourbon River Show accurately dubbed its tenth and latest album The Flying Musical Circus: it aptly conjures the vaudevillian outfit’s zany carnival of sound.

Whimsical lyricism collides with a worldly, kaleidoscopic amalgamation of funk, folk, and

jazz. Along with a constant dose of horns, the quintet’s theatrical live antics also include members frequently swapping between accordion, piano, guitars, and percussion.

Dr. Bacon opens. —SG [MOTORCO, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

Great Peacock These purveyors of FANCY FOLK slow-moving, dynamics-intensive roots rock are defined by the vaguely bombastic vocal tendencies of frontmen Andrew Nelson and Blount Floyd, either of whom could make Eddie Vedder or Jim James feel like an exercise in subtlety. Nevertheless, tunes like “Tennessee” land with an undeniable authority, and when the band loosens up, as on the high lonesome “Broken-Hearted Fool,” sparks can fly. The High Divers open. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/8 P.M.]

Nick Hakim SPOOKY Sometimes you SOUL want to boogie to

some Marvin; sometimes you want to drown out the world by listening to shoegaze or dream pop at dangerous volumes. But both at the same time? Yes, says Nick Hakim. Hakim is a New York City producer, singer, and musician, who builds his work from a strong base of soul and R & B, but draws from a mélange of genres to craft songs that somehow sound eerie, groovy, and dreamy all at the same time. With Sam Evian. —NR [KINGS, $13–$15/9 P.M.]

Chris Knight In tones plainspoSTARK TALES ken and hard-bitten, this rural Kentuckian treads the same dark American ground as Bruce Springsteen in Tom Joad mode. His songs about tough people enduring rough times have earned comparisons to John Prine, Steve Earle, and even Cormac McCarthy.

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Dave Rempis’ Ballister This is the fire FREE SOUND music. Each player is a giant of his instrument: Dave Rempis on sax, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums. Rempis emits lithe streams of cross-wise zig-zags. Nilssen-Love attacks his kit with such force as to change the color of the room. Lonberg-Holm pulls a gentle skree skree scratch crinkle scaaaaaaaaaprkjf. The force of their combined sound fills the air with a semi-strong hallucinogen, promising trips darkly intense or intensely dark. —DR [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $8/9 P.M.]

Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance Gather ‘round, STILL SHAKORI children (and adults, and assorted pre-Bonnaroo teens), for the time has come once again for

the twice-yearly music festival at Shakori Hills. Held in the spring and the fall, it’s a reliable gathering for those who want to get away for a day or three and commune with art, music, and nature in the woods of Pittsboro.

Similarly reliable are its bookings: this fall’s iteration includes longtime Shakori standard Donna the Buffalo, which offers rootsy, zydecotinged party music, as well as familiar locals like Phil Cook & the Guitarheels, bluesman Cool John Ferguson, and alt-contry rockers Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, among a few dozen other home-turf and out-of-town bands. —AH [SHAKORI HILLS, $27–$94/4 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Liquid Stranger, Manic Focus, Freddy Todd & Live Animals; 8 p.m., $17–$20. • DEEP SOUTH: Medium Heat, Eyeball, Solemn Shapes; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Angela Bingham Duo; 6-9 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Late Night Episode, JULIA., North11; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 33

Biff Rose; 8:30 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: The Ramonas, The Dapper Conspiracy, Subliminal Surge; 9 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: Viz Queer Dance Party Presents: 90s Prom; 8 p.m.

FRI, OCT 6 Atlas Road Crew CROWES- Formed by students ISH at the University of South Carolina, this crew started out doing Phish covers before relocating to Charleston and forging a sound based on a solid foundation of good old Southern rock. The band’s first full-length LP, Halfway to Hopkins, has the radio-ready earmarks of the genre as it exists today, reminiscent of standard-bearers like Kings of Leon but not breaking much new ground. Raleigh’s Aircrash Detectives open. —DK [MOTORCO, $10–$13/9 P.M.]

Zac Brown Band Whether you take ROOTS RETURN? Zac Brown’s backtracking toward an overt Americana vibe on his latest

album as a welcome return to his roots or a callous attempt at reconnecting with the country market after straying too far into eclecticism depends on how deep you go with him to begin with. Either way, Brown and his band can play, and in concert that’s most of the game right there. —JA [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $65–$350/7 P.M.]

Citizen Cope Operating as Citizen SLACK RAP Cope, Clarence Greenwood and various band members have soldiered through a twenty-five-year career that was initially beset by record-label woes to command stages like Red Hat. In Citizen Cope’s slow rise, the urgency of its hip-hopinfluenced early work has perhaps inevitably been tempered by time. With Rebekah Todd & the Odyssey. —DK [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, FREE/7 P.M.]

Erie Choir Back in May, Erie CHOIR RETURNS Choir—the

long-running Carrboro indie-folk act centered on Eric Roehrig’s evocative songwriting and comfortably gruff croon—posted to Facebook that it would release a record this year. That record hasn’t materialized yet, but what the band has let slip on social media, a taut and twangy power-pop tune that’s tentatively titled “Haunted,” signals promising returns. With Nashville psych-pop band Idle Bloom, and complex Durham indie rockers Le Weekend.

—PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Flynt Flossy To its detriment, hip-hop can sometimes take itself too seriously—but Flynt Flossy and his Turquoise Jeep crew are here to turn that around. The collective is hip-hop gone anti-design with simplistically silly costumes and songs that sound like cheesy lo-fi rip-offs of late-nineties trends. They provide lighthearted fun with hilarious dance routines and catchy choruses that are meant to be sung along with.

—CM [KINGS, $13–$15/8 P.M.]

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Reese McHenry and the Fox After overcoming FOXY LADY dire health issues, Reese McHenry has come roaring back to life in recent years, issuing a blistering LP with Spider Bags this year and teaming up with drummer Stephen Gardner in this drums-and-guitar duo.

McHenry’s force-of-nature voice will always be the lead instrument in any band she plays in, and here the songs tend toward primal but catchy rock ’n’ roll. This all-local bill also feature Amigo and Magnolia Collective. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $6–$8/9 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: Northern Lights This program from FINLANDIA the North Carolina Symphony is a spectacle of Finnish color.

Sibelius, cool and crystalline, reveals some personal struggles in the tone poem En Saga and a triumphant flash in the Second Symphony.

Filling out the program, a relatively recent work by Einojuhani Rautavaara, 1996’s Apotheosis.—DR [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $18–$73/8 P.M.]

Thee Commons SPECIAL It takes a bit of BLEND nerve to mash up the beat-driven Latin dance music known as cumbia with punk rock and psychedelia, but this East L.A. outfit led by the brothers Pacheco turns this explosive hybrid into a perfect party vehicle Ancestor Pirates and Dollhands, open. —DK [LOCAL 506, $8–$10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: Gina Sicilia; 9 p.m., $8. • CAT’S CRADLE: WXYC 2000s Dance; 9 p.m., $5–$8.

• THE COTTON ROOM AT GOLDEN BELT: Party for Social Justice ft. Defacto Thezpian; 9-11 p.m., $10. • DEEP SOUTH: Joe Hero: 90s Night; 9 p.m. • FLETCHER OPERA THEATER: Morgan James; 8 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Small House; 6:30 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Peak City Blues Project, Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stone Tribute);

8:30 p.m., $8. • THE MAYWOOD: Outliar, Gates of Endor, Era Gone; 9 p.m., $10. • NIGHTLIGHT: Jphono1, Stray Owls, SNAKE; 9 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Linafornia with Saint James, Capital L, Shwnsbtg; 9 p.m., $10. See page 22. • POUR HOUSE: The Dig, Kolars, Iamdynamite; 9 p.m.

• THE RITZ: Breaking Benjamin Unplugged; 8 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m. • SHAKORI HILLS: Shakori Hills Fall Festival; $27–$94. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Iris Ornig; 8 p.m., $10–$20. • SOLA COFFEE CAFE: Kelly and Ellis; 7:30-9 p.m. • THE STATION: TV Man and the TV Band; 8:30 p.m., $8.

SAT, OCT 7 Jeb Bishop and Dan Ruccia, Polyorchard, James Gilmore Free Quintet This gathering at FREAK OUT Arcana is a triple-header album release party, more or less, featuring some of the area’s premier players of challenging free-form music. Jazz guitarist James Gilmore steps up to bat with a set of free

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Nowadays, Leroy Savage is known as the father of newgrass music, an honorary title bestowed on him by Sam Bush. But back in the early seventies, Savage was a long-haired rebel leading the charge to incorporate a new sound into bluegrass.

Blending rock, reggae, and jazz into high-and-lonesome with a jam band aesthetic, The New Deal String Band, with Savage on lead vocals, pioneered the music that would be labeled newgrass in later years. Bush watched Savage and company at the Fiddler’s Convention in Union Grove in 1970 and was impressed at how hard the hippie musicians were pushing the boundaries of traditional bluegrass music. A set list from the band’s show at Carlton Haney’s Camp Springs festival the following year reveals an eclectic mix of music: the Bill Monroe/Peter Rowan bluegrass staple “Walls of Time” is bracketed by the 1918 crooner’s classic “After You’ve Gone” and Leiber And Stoller’s 1956 hit for The Clovers, “Love Potion No. 9.” For “Waiting for a Train,” originally by Singing Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers, Savage went for fulltilt yodeling coverage, and Savage and his band squeezed the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil” and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s 1970 hit “Teach Your Children” in there, too.

Less than a decade later, in 1978, Savage joined up with another boundary-pushing band, The Bluegrass Experience.

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jazz to celebrate his new Bag of Tricks, vol. 1. Trombonist Jeb Bishop (a former Raleighite now based in Boston) and violist Dan Ruccia release Scratch Slice Jag, an intriguing and occasionally hair-raising LP of duo compositions. The longrunning expansive ensemble Polyorchard, whose next record, Red October, drops October 15, joins, too.

It’s guaranteed to get weird, but therein lies the delight.

(Disclosure: Dan Ruccia and Polyorchard’s David Menestres are INDY contributors.) —AH [ARCANA, $5/6 P.M.]

Max Frost Austin-based COLD FEET singer, songwriter, and producer Max Frost began life as a blues and roots music connoisseur before adroitly pivoting toward commercial R & B on the strength of undeniable, if occasionally irritating proto-hits like “Withdrawal.”

Equal parts exhilarating and exhausting, Frost’s recent high-energy output does the job but misses the roots.

Nawas opens. —TB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12/9 P.M.]

LANY CYNICAL A relentless hell POP of overproduced reverb slapback and no songs at all, the Los Angeles by way of Nashville three-piece LANY has hit upon perhaps the single most cynical approach to hit-making in what is surely our most cynical era to date. It’s somehow dumb and manipulative, the sound of tweeting all night and surrender. Dagny opens. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE, $20–$23/8 P.M.]

Pink Drinks Durham’s Pink PUNK POP Drinks proffer an ingratiating take on melodic punk rock. The band’s main feature is the alternately intimate and commanding vocals of frontwoman Lauren Reece, which tend to ground runaway trainwreck guitar exertions like “Seemed Like a Good Idea” in an aura of knowing vulnerability.

Elsewhere, tracks like the insistent “Local Stops” highlight a toughness most vocalists would kill for. Glen Echo, Milk N Honey, and The Dead Bedrooms open. —EB [THE CAVE, $5/8 P.M.]

ALSO ON SATURDAY DEEP SOUTH: Sun of Nile, Promo, Den of Wolves; 9 p.m., $8. • DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL: Durham Symphony Orchestra Season Preview; 7 p.m., free. • KENNEDY THEATER: Kevin O’Barr and Greg Moore, Carrie Marshall; 8 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Kitchen Dwellers, Kind Country; 8:30 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Zao, Born Hollow, Crevices; 9 p.m., $15. • MOTORCO: No BS! Brass Band, Water Wingz; 9 p.m., $13–$15.

See page 31. • THE PINHOOK: Stella; 7 p.m., $15. Conjure; 10 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Psylo Joe, Sumilan, Cosmic Superheroes; 9 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Luxe Posh; 10 p.m. • SHAKORI HILLS: Shakori Hills Fall Festival; $27–$94. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ed Paolantonio, Brad Linde; 8 p.m., $10–$20. • SLIM’S: Sportsmanship; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: Jazz Saturday: Frankie Alexander & Baron Tymas; 2-4 p.m., free. Blues and Barbecue: Pork Pie Hat, Skyler Drew Foust; 6:30 p.m., $6–$8.

that earned him a Grammy for 1986’s Strong Persuader.

And his influence is more than musical: he and former bandmate Curtis Salgado were the inspiration for the Blues Brothers. —GB [CAROLINA THEATRE, $39.50–$49.50/8 P.M.]

Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas

name deliberately referred to the Jimi Hendrix Experience to advertise that the band was a little farther out than a traditional bluegrass outfit, mixing rock, country, and folk with originals and traditional covers. And just as he had done with The New Deal String Band, Savage used his distinctive voice to ride the range from ’grass to rock to country. They showed off at Cat’s Cradle every Thursday night until Savage’s departure from the band in 1981.

These days, you can still catch Savage playing all around the area, fronting the Leroy Savage Band, with Tommy Edwards, Jason Beverly, Harris Marley, and Fiddlin’ Al McCanless as his bandmates. On Sunday, they and a few other friends convene to celebrate Savage’s musical accomplishments with the North Carolina Folklore Society’s Brown-Hudson Award. The organization founded the award in 1970 to honor those who have contributed in a special way to the appreciation of North Carolina folklife.

Past recipients of the award include musicians Doc and Merle Watson, Alice Gerrard (who also performs Sunday), playwright Paul Green, string band musicians Joe and Odell Thompson, and potter Nell Cole Graves. It’ll be a vibrant celebration among longtime friends—the joy they’ll strum up is sure to be contagious. —Grant Britt BLUE NOTE GRILL, DURHAM 4 p.m., free, www.bluenotegrill.com production. It’s like listening to those genres, but not having to deal with the lyrics.

Troyboi stands apart from the crowd: his style isn’t as busy; it’s even thin at times, but his simplistic aesthetic is danceable and less fistpump-inducing. —CM [LINCOLN THEATRE, $15–$20/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY

There is no act DUO LINGO quite like Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas.

She’s a second-generation Cuban and Mexican-American, and her stellar second album, Telephone/Telefono, was released in both English and Spanish. Her bratty punk spirit shines through in both, edging into rockabilly with catchy hooks and sing-along choruses. A touch of brass adds a circus-y and cabaret feel. —KH [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12–$15/7:30 P.M.]

CAM RALEIGH: earspace; 7:30-9 p.m., $5–$10. • THE CAVE: TYNY, SMOMID, Scott Yoder; 9 p.m., $5.

• CHAPEL OF THE CROSS: Baroque & Beyond; 3 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. • IRREGARDLESS: Zach Wiley; 6 p.m. • KENAN MUSIC BUILDING: Ella at the Savoy: A Centennial Tribute; 4-6 p.m., $10–$15. • KINGS: Moon Duo, Birds of Avalon; 9 p.m., $12–$14. See page 30. • MILNER MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: The BilliTones; 1:30 p.m. • MOTORCO: Cale Tyson; 8 p.m., $10– $12. • POUR HOUSE: Fea, Bruiser Queen; 8 p.m. • SHAKORI HILLS: Shakori Hills Fall Festival; $27–$94.

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Troyboi

SMOOTH With vocals as SOUL smooth and soulful as Sam Cooke and guitar licks as frosty as Albert Collins, Robert Cray built a crossover blues-soul sound

Listen to most TRAP CHANGES trap producers and you’ll notice a similar sound palette across the board, one that sounds like busy rap or dancehall

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Mo’ynoq TEMPLE Mo‘ynoq, the city OF DOOM in western Uzbekistan, is a monument to

anthropogenic ecological collapse. Though it was once a prosperous seaport, the recession of the Aral Sea has left Mo‘ynoq a barren wasteland dotted by the rusted, rotting carcasses of abandoned container ships.

Mo‘ynoq, the Raleigh black metal band, invokes and evokes that desolation. The two-track Bardo, recorded in Greensboro by metal master Kris Hilbert, is impressive, tumbling drums pounding and pummeling, slashing guitars swarming and veering frenetically. —PW [THE MAYWOOD, $7/9 P.M.]

Widowspeak COUNTRY Reportedly DREAM inspired by a move to Tacoma, Washington, and many hours soundtracked by ninetiess rock cheese on local radio, Widowspeak dropped its latest record, Expect the Best, on Captured Tracks. The songs inhabit that sacred middle ground between druggy contemporary dreampop and alt-country grandeur, like Mazzy Star if it kicked up the chorus pedal jangle. With Clearance and Infinity Crush. —DS [MOTORCO, $12–$14/8 P.M.] INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 35

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• IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7-10 p.m., free. • MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m., $7–$10. • POUR HOUSE: Breastfist; 8 p.m. • THE RITZ: NEEDTOBREATHE; 7 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

TUE, OCT 10 Banditos This roots-rocking ROOTS ROCK six-piece started out in Alabama back around 2010, but that doesn’t make Banditos a Southern rock band any more than its current home base of Nashville makes it a country outfit. Here’s what it is: a juicy jumble of dirty garage rock, blues, soul, twang, and punk attitude. You can call it Americana if you must, but don’t let trying to tie a tag on it interfere with the rumpshaking its set will undoubtedly induce. —JA [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

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SoundCloud BASS HEAVY phenoms are often fun to listen to but highly disposable. Bass producer Mura Masa defies that every step of the way.

The list of featured artists on his latest self-titled release reads like the guest list for an A-List music industry party.

With star power like that at his disposal it’s hard to believe he only started releasing music on the internet just a few years ago.

—CM [CAT’S CRADLE, $20/7:30 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY IRREGARDLESS: Rob Gelblum; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: Wand, Darto, Acid Chaperone; 9 p.m., $10–$12.

See page 20. • LOCAL 506: The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Shiloh Hill; 9 p.m., $12–$14. • THE PINHOOK: Vagabon, Nnamdi Oggbonnaya, Junior Astronomers; 9 p.m., $10. See box, page 33. • POUR HOUSE: Josiah Johnson, Planes on Paper; 8 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: Experimental Tuesday: Diaspoura; Gudiya, the We4p0n, Chinchorro; 10 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Thelonious Monk 100yr Birthday: Ernest Turner, Stephen Riley;

7 p.m., $10–$20. • SLIM’S: Mechabull, King Chiefs, Space Rabbit; 9 p.m., $5. • UNC’S HILL HALL: Pedja Muzijevic; 7:30 p.m.

WED, OCT 11 Honey Duchess TRIANGLE These fixtures in TEAM the Triangle music scene (Patrick O’Neill, Owen Fitzgerald, Stu Edwards, and Dylan Turner) have teamed up to create Honey Duchess. Each member has previously been heavily involved with his own projects, ranging from country to noise rock to indie folk, so the combination of the four promises to make a wild concoction. With Ghost Eagle. —NR [THE STATION, $6/9 P.M.]

Kid Cudi DEMON Mental health and SLAYIN’ hip-hop aren’t something that most people put in the same conversation, but Kid Cudi bravely did so last year by announcing that he was taking a break from music for that very reason, before releasing his album Passion, Pain, and Demon Slayin’. The project provides the kind of deep dive into his soul that fans desire, but he has struggled to find a way to make it sound new. —CM [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $25–$55/8 P.M.]

Joyner Lucas STONER Worcester, HIP-HOP Massachusetts, may not be regarded as a hip-hop hotbed, but Joyner Lucas is all about upending expectations. After all, the guy’s been recording since he was nine years old, and his latest album, while bringing the beats and rhymes, bears a bit of a science fiction theme and stoner vibe.

Expect the unexpected. —JA [MOTORCO, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

Now, Now A long-running Minneapolis duo comprising multi-instrumentalist Cacie Dalager and drummer Bradley Hale, Now, Now charts a melodic trajectory pitched between pop and EDM. Tunes like the edgy and immediate “Wolf” suggest nothing but promise.

Dem Yuut open. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $13–$15/8 P.M.]

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Scott Sharrard & the Brickyard Band

Legendary Shack Shakers

ALLMAN Guitarist Scott JOYS Sharrard had the best of both worlds in all things Allman, schooled by Duane and hired by Gregg as the Gregg Allman Band musical director. These days, Sharrard pays homage to Gregg with his current touring band by performing the Allmans’ 1975 cut “Win, Lose or Draw.” —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $15–$20/8 P.M.]

Tough-minded TAKE COVER purveyors of contemporary American roots rock, Kentucky’s Legendary Shack Shakers possess the virtue of recollecting everything from the nightmare call of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to the Bayou blues champion Jack Dupree. From the last-nerve hillbilly shuffle of “Mud” to the insouciant, degenerate fantasia of “Swampblood”— guitars go haywire, strange rites get consecrated, and weirdness rules the day. This is the wonderful, terrifying genuine article. Bloodshot Bill and Paint Fumes open. —EB [LOCAL 506, $15/9 P.M.]

ALSO ON WEDNESDAY DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Symphony Orchestra with Hsiao-mei Ku; 8 p.m.

• DUKE COFFEEHOUSE: Maple Stave, Twelves, War Brides.

• HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Mysti Mayhem; 6:30 p.m. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Longleaf Pine Nuts; 5:45 p.m., $5. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Cortex; 10 p.m., $7–$10.

• THE PINHOOK: Elvis Division, John Davis; 9 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Particle, Lespecial; 8 p.m.

• RALEIGH CITY MARKET: Music on Market; 5-6:30 p.m. • SLIM’S: Magma Opus, Hound, Witchtit; 9 p.m., $5.

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DEVELOPING LANDSCAPES OPENING 50th Annual Fall Pottery and Glass Festival: Glass and pottery pumpkin patch, pottery demonstrations, kiln openings and live raku firings, glass blowing and bead pulling demonstrations by Lisa Oakley, live music, and food trucks. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat & Sun thru Oct 15. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

SPECIAL Across The Horizon: EVENT Mixed media by Adrien Montoya and stained glass by Lizzie Bailey. Oct 6-28.

Reception: Fri, Oct 6, 6-9 p.m.

Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com.

And Then the Sun Swallowed Me: Black tape and video site installation by Heather Gordon.

Oct 6-Feb 4. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

Arts Collide Fall Art Show: Joshua Smith, Nicole Kennedy, Natalie George, and Cora Ogden. Oct 5-6. Bev’s Fine Art, Raleigh. www.bevsfineart.com.

SPECIAL Doubletake: EVENT Photography by Dan Gottlieb. Oct 6-27. Reception: Fri, Oct 6, 6-9 p.m. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

Black on Black V2: Performances and art. Thru Nov 25. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. www. visualartexchange.org Cast Iron Jewelry Show: Cat Bates. Fri, Oct 6. Quercus Studio, Raleigh. www. quercusraleigh.com.

SPECIAL Fragile Foundations: EVENT Mixed media by Ivana Milojevic Beck. Oct 6-28.

Reception: Fri, Oct 6, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Poetry in Wood, Glass and Paint: Cast glass by Teddy Deveraux, sculptures and paintings by Bob Wade Studios. With piano music and improv comedy on separate stages. Sat, Oct 7, 6-9 p.m. Pittsboro Center

For The Arts, Pittsboro. www. pittsboroyouththeater.com.

SPECIAL Silk Road: HandEVENT painted silk by Jill Hunt. Thru Oct 28. Reception: Fri, Oct 6, 6-9 p.m. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

Lankard, Leah Sobsey, Gesche Würfel, and Warren Hicks, are featured in a regional showcase.

The exhibit wraps the block around the Chapel Hill Street parking garage in a temporary fence and banner of photos.

Thru Nov 30. Chapel Hill Street, Durham. —Brian Howe

You’ve Reached the Office of Stuart Ullman: Replication of office from The Shining by George Jenne. Oct 6-Nov 4. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org.

ONGOING Art in Times of Crisis: Two- and three-dimensional abstract pieces by Joumana Medlej. Thru Oct 30. NCSU Campus: The Crafts Center, Raleigh. www. ncsu.edu/crafts.

Beyond the Front Porch 2017: Exhibition by twelve senior undergraduates. Thru Nov 12. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Blooms and Lagoons: Floral and landscape collection

by Sue Scoggins. Thru Oct 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. www. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Beyond the Surface: Paintings

by Marcy Lansman and Pat Merriman, carved wood

by Larry Favorite. Thru Oct 22. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Carefully Cut: Tin can collage

by Thomas Graham. Thru Nov 2. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www. historichillsborough.org.

Celebrating George Bireline: Paintings. Thru Oct 28. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www. leehansleygallery.com.

Allison Chambers and Charlotte Foust: Paintings. Thru Oct 27.

ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh.com.

Coastscapes: Paintings by Nancy Hughes Miller. Thru Oct 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Fluid: Paintings by MyLoan Dinh. Thru Oct 15. Durham Convention Center. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Nkosinathi Khumalo: “Miner” PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MARKET PHOTO WORKSHOP

The joy and the terror of the Click! Photography Festival derive from the same source: its sheer volume. So many photography exhibits and events in so many places for the whole month of October! If you’re not already a lens hound it can be hard to figure out where to plunge in (though the Click 120 VIP pass provides a handy roadmap if you want to spend $120 on it). But most of Click! is free, and to help you navigate it, we’ll be highlighting key exhibits throughout the month, such as this group show at Allcott Gallery in Chapel Hill. It presents a selection of work that came out of the advanced photography program at Johannesburg’s prestigious Market Photo Workshop—images in which perspectives of South Africa’s physical landscape are inevitably shaped by the fallout from Apartheid’s long lifespan and arduous dismantling. In a world of forced removals and contested property rights, land is more than land; it’s a current and a currency of identity. Starting with this opening reception, see it through the eyes of Nkosinathi Khumalo, Tshepiso Mazibuko, Tegobo Moche, and others through Nov. 2. —Brian Howe

ALLCOTT GALLERY, CHAPEL HILL

6–9 p.m., free, www.clicktrianglephoto.org Court and Capital: Art from Asia’s Greatest Cities: Thru Dec 10. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

Deer, Oh Dear: Paintings by Shannon Bueker. Thru Oct 31. N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

The Disaster Paintings: Donald Sultan. Thru Dec 31. N.C. Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Don’t Quit: The Nello Teer Sr. Story: History of the Teer family in Durham. Thru Dec 15.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

The Fence: Durham is one of seven cities across the nation— the smallest, compared with the likes of Brooklyn, Boston, and Houston—to host this touring, public photography exhibit, curated from submissions from around the world and based on themes such as “home,” “nature,” and “food.” While Lori Vrba is the only local artist among the fifty included in the touring exhibit, nine area photographers, including Bryce

Forbidden Fruits and the Next Nemesis: Collages by Kathryn DeMarco. Thru Oct 30. Crook’s Corner, Chapel Hill. www. crookscorner.com.

From Isolation to War: Native veteran story quilts. Thru Oct 31. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel Hill.

LAST Gamut: Heather CHANCE Gordon. Thru Oct 6.

SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www. spectrearts.org.

Homebound: Brenda Brokke, Leatha Koefler, Amy Friend. Thru Nov 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Hyperactive: Found materials by Leigh Suggs and Garry Noland.

Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Image of Ukraine: Exploring Ukrainian Culture through Embroidery and Painting: Olena Zintchouk. Thru Dec 8.

UNC Campus: FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. www.global.unc.edu.

Juxtaposition: Married couple Donald Martiny and Celia Johnson create a profound visual language in this exhibit.

Martiny’s works are nonrepresentational, heavily textured three-dimensional shapes that he creates on the floor. It’s a physically taxing process. He uses brushes, brooms, mops, and his hands to push paint into abstract swoops. The power of pure paint, combined with simple but strong, emotive strokes, is a dazzling convergence, unbound and unrestricted by the shape of a canvas.

And Johnson has long been intrigued by moving around shapes and colors to create puzzles. Her well-organized geometric compositions blend modern sophistication with clarity and economy. Her brightly colored encaustic works reflect the minimalist images of the sixties. Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. —Linda Kramer A Kiss of the Earth: Apt for a work about a season of fecundity, the epochal modernist ballet The Rite of Spring just keeps on giving, more than a century after its legendary premiere. It’s the inspiration for this experiment

by UNC-Chapel Hill associate art professor Sabine Gruffat, whose interactive threechannel video projection remixes the story of a pagan tribe’s maiden sacrifice with stochastic elements: realtime weather data from Paris affects the weather in the animation, and viewers can text to a number on the wall to further alter the proceedings.

When you consider the contemporary implications, in a world of virtual warfare, of deciding someone’s fate with a command on a screen, you start to scratch the larger issues Gruffat is probing. Thru Jan 28. N.C. Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe More than One Story | Mas de una historia: Photography.

Thru Feb 1. UNC Campus: Davis Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc. edu/davis.

Near and Far: This Click!

Photography Festival exhibit by Alex Harris is representative of the festival’s national-caliber, local-focus bent. Harris, a founder of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies who has been collected from MOMA to NCMA, has photographed the American South for four decades, and looks through a distinctly Southern perspective even when shooting in Alaska, INDYweek.com | 10.4.17 | 37

Havana, or Mumbai. This self-selected retrospective palpates the theme of distance, a paramount concern for photographers both technically and ethically. The lenses of a photographer’s eyes can distort reality as easily as the lens of a camera; Harris has spent a lifetime exploring those complexities. Thru Nov 4. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. — Brian Howe Nevertheless She Persisted: Silkscreen prints by Kelly Bodie. Thru Oct 31. Perch Studios, Carrboro. www. perchstudios.net.

Photographs, Books, and Broadsides: Christer Berg, Catharine Carter, Gail Goers, Raymond Goodman, Bryce Lankard, Rob McDonald, and Jean Christian Rostagni; part of the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Oct 31. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. www.horseandbuggypress.com.

LAST Places: Paintings by CHANCE Marvin Saltzman.

Thru Oct 7. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

Raleigh Makers Market: Sat, Oct 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Benelux Cafe, Raleigh. www. raleighmakersmarket.com.

Refugee: Multimedia art exhibit from the Annenberg Space for Photography exploring the lives of refugees. Thru Nov 3. UNC Friday Center, Chapel Hill. www. fridaycenter.unc.edu.

Rubber Creatures from Outer Space: Sculpture and clothing

by Tom Buhrman. Thru Oct 31.

Durham Art Guild, Durham. www.durhamartguild.org.

The Shape of Fashion: Dress trends from the 1800s to 1900s.

Thru May 6. N.C. Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Small to Large: Delight in the Practice of Painting: Paintings

by Margie Stewart. Thru Oct 23.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

LAST Some Assembly CHANCE Required: Can You Build It?: 3-D paintings and sculpture. Thru Oct 10. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Studio and Porch Paintings: Joan Vandermeer. Thru Oct 27. Mad Hatter Bakeshop & Cafe, Durham. www. madhatterbakeshop.com.

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Reflections Within the Transitioning Grid: Lasercut photography by Merrill Shatzman and libi rose.

Thru Nov 22. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. www. powerplantgallery.com.

The SuperNatural: We’ve lost sight of the seams, once considered inviolable, between nature, technology, and commerce—though we sometimes imagine we are crossing a boundary when we take thousand-dollar bikes into deceptively wild woods with our smartphones and moisture wicking socks.

The SuperNatural wades into this liminal zone, exploring how we see and shape the contours of our planet as the physical refuse of the industrial age shades into the digital refuse of the present. The show includes a generative digital video by Tabor Robak, a virtual reality installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, and photos by Lars Jan, among many others.

Brooklyn artist Chris Doyle created “Dreams of Infinite Luster,” a digital animation, for the exterior vitrines.

In it, “All the elements are rendered in gold, the color of lucre—the product, engine, and goal of capitalism.” Is a luxury hotel an odd site for post-capitalist critique?

Sure. But, as we’ve said, what seams? Thru Jul 1.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe War Experience: Personal artifacts, medals, uniforms, maps, letters, photographs, and more. Thru Nov 29. Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. www. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

We’ve Met Before: Handwoven cloth has a certain rigor, a requirement for stitches to interact with structural integrity rather than spontaneity. Ink, meanwhile, has a quicksilver impulsiveness, a tendency to slip and run unbounded.

Andrea Donnelly holds this contrast in tension. “Cloth, in its infinite variety and varied significance, is deeply linked to our histories and emotions through the body,” she writes in her artist statement.

“Whether it’s woven to hang on the wall or to grace the neck and shoulders, I make cloth that creates connection.” The images on

these large textile pieces evoke bodies, Rorschach blots, abstract flora, and, most of all, memory. Dyed, woven, unwoven, and rewoven, the work contains “a literal record of its own making.” Thru Jan 28. N.C. Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Where We Find Home: Recent Southern photography by Ben Alper, DL Anderson, Aaron Canipe, Justin Cook, Phyllis Dooney, Matt Eich, Preston Gannaway, Lissa Gotwals, Jeremy M. Lange, Jared Soares, Aaron Turner, and Will Warasila. Thru Oct 14. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Louis C. Tiffany: Art and Innovation from the Wester Collection: Stained glass windows, vases, and lamps.

Thru Mar 4. N.C. Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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Agroecology On-Farm Dinner: Farm tour, live music, dinner

by N.C. state chef Adam Smith with special guests. N.C. Statebrewed beer on tap. Fundraiser for the NC State Agroecology Education Farm. $80-$100.

Sat, Oct 7, 4-7 p.m. N.C. State Agroecology Education Farm, Raleigh. www.go.ncsu.edu/ agroecology-dinner BBQ & Friends: A Foodie Fundraiser for TROSA: Music, games, and food samples from Nana’s, Nanataco, Rise, Foster’s Market, The Original Q-Shack, Saltbox Seafood Joint, Mateo, Piedmont Restaurant, The Lakewood, Sage & Swift, Watt’s Grocery, J. Betski’s, and Rue Cler. $10-$25. Sun, Oct 8, 1-4 p.m. TROSA Inc., Durham. trosainc.com.

Fall Harvest Tea: Sun, Oct 8, noon-2 & 3-5 p.m. The Joslin Garden, Raleigh.

Free Wine Tasting: Mon, Oct 9, 5:15-7:15 p.m. Bottle Rev Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill. bottlerev.com.

Sono Wine & Sake Social: Chef Hyunwoo Kim serves complimentary sushi; certified sake advisor James Yang pours wines and sakes. Tue, Oct 10, 5-6:30 p.m. Sono, Raleigh. www.sonoraleigh.com.

stage OPENING Almost Home: Play to benefit hurricane flood relief. $10+.

Sat, Oct 7 & Sun, Oct 8.

Ward Theatre, Durham. wardtheatrecompany.com.

DIDA Season Launch: Live poolside dance performances.

Sat, Oct 7, 7:30-9 p.m.

Unscripted Durham. See p. 30.

Golden Age/The Racket: Improv comedy. $5. Fri, Oct 6, 8 & 9 p.m. Monkey Bottom Collaborative, Durham. www. thisismettlesome.com.

New Work for Goldberg Variations: Pam Tanowitz Dance & Simone Dinnerstein. $10-$38. Fri, Oct 6 & Sat, Oct 7, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

Big Jay Oakerson: Standup comedy. Thu, Oct 5-Sat, Oct 7. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

The Price is Right Live: Gameshow. $30+. Thu, Oct 5, 7:30 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www. dpacnc.com. See p. 30.

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: Sat, Oct 7, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Eyes Up Here Comedy: Standup by women. $5. Fri, Oct 6, 8 p.m. Neptunes Parlour, Raleigh. www.neptunesparlour.com.

LAST ½ Guys and CHANCE Dolls: Reviewed on p. 24. $17-$20. Thru Oct 8.

Cary Arts Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

The Harry Show: Ages 18+.

Improv host leads potentially risque games with audience volunteers. $10. Fri, Oct 6 & Sat, Oct 9, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www. comedyworx.com.

Hot Comedy with Brian Burns: Stand-up comedy. Fri, Oct 6, 8 p.m. The Cave Tavern, Chapel Hill. www.caverntavern.com.

Hush Hush: Secret Brew: Interactive improv comedy.

Thu, Oct 5, 8 p.m. Beer StudyDurham, Durham. www. thisismettlesome.com.

LAST  Playing With CHANCE Fire (After Frankenstein): Playwright Barbara Field begins at the end, with two figures, a creature and his creator, on a desolate field of ice. With Frankenstein (Tony Pender) weakened, his

emboldened monster (Mark Zumbach) draws near until the two are within earshot. Thus begins the pair’s first dialogue in years. The creature earnestly transmits the details of his life while the doctor dispassionately records them. Before long, though, the tables turn, and the creature’s equally probing questions become a truly final examination for a creator who has never fully invested in any human relationship. Why build an intricate machine that has no purpose? Why would a creator abandon his creation without clothing, feeding, teaching, protecting, or loving it? Such questions form the base of religion and philosophy. But despite the script’s strong spiritual and ethical elements, this production rarely rises above melodrama. Moments of pathos only sometime slip out from beneath the inexpertly applied prosthetics marring Zumbach’s visage, and Pender was still reaching for the necessary emotional range. Like its subject, this show is still in search of its full humanity. $18$24. Thru Oct 8. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www. theatreinthepark.com.

—Byron Woods ½ Romeo and Juliet: Reviewed on p. 24. $5. Thru Oct 22. Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.baretheatre.org.

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TARHEEL TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE In Octobers of yore, three thin volumes of Southern ghost tales from Nancy and Bruce Roberts—An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State, Ghosts of the Carolinas, and This Haunted Land—filled my childhood with delicious chills. There was something uncanny in simply knowing where ghosts were, and Bruce’s atmospheric, grainy black-and-white photos of unquiet places, including The House of the Opening Door, The Maco Station, the Single Brothers’ House at Old Salem, and the Jamestown Bridge, gave eerie verisimilitude to grisly tales of vengeance and piteous cries for help from beyond the grave. On Saturday, storytellers and musicians from Historic Interpretations recount eight vivid Carolina ghost stories, including “The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke,” “The Boo Hag,” and the enigmatic tale of “Virginia Dare and the White Doe.” See the show with a three-course meal for twenty-nine dollars, or skip dinner and be the ghost at the feast for fifteen. —Byron Woods

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ERYK PRUITT: WHAT WE RECKON Eclectic indie filmmaker, Southern crime-fiction author, and occasional INDY contributor Eryk Pruitt is at it again in What We Reckon, his third novel, which you can get your grubby mitts on a day early at this release party. We reckon it stars a pair of grifters, a slick yet paranoid con artist named Jack Jordan and a possibly schizophrenic mastermind named Summer Ashton, toting a King James Bible full of blow and a host of interpersonal drama through East Texas. We reckon it’s self-described as “Trainspotting cut with a couple grams of Helter Skelter.” And we reckon it’s a milestone for Pruitt, as it’s being released by New York’s Polis Books, which also rereleased his first two self-published novels, Dirtbags and Hashtag, last month. The Regulator party, cohosted by mystery novelist and 2016 Piedmont Laureate Katy Munger, kicks off a tour that lams as far as Canada before slinking back into Durham to conclude on Dec. 7 with Noir at the Bar, the crime-fiction convention Pruitt hosts at 106 Main each year. —Brian Howe

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Jeffery Beam: Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards.

The lyrical Hillsborough-based poet Jeffery Beam is co-editor of this new critical anthology on the Black Mountain College poet who founded the groundbreaking small press The Jargon Society. Some of the local contributors will be present to help Beam celebrate the release, including Alex Albright, Neal Hutcheson, Roger Manley, and Elizabeth Matheson. Sun, Oct 8, 3:30 p.m.

Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough. www.co.orange. nc.us/library. —Brian Howe James Benn: The Devouring: A Billy Boyle Novel. Sun, Oct 8, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Rob Buyea: The Perfect Score.

Thu, Oct 5, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Wiley Cash: The Last Ballad.

Tue, Oct 10, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. — With Randall Kenan. Wed, Oct 11, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Dana Cohen and Friends: 25 Short Plays from UNC’s Long Story Shorts Festival.

Wed, Oct 11, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Phil Cohen: The Jackson Project: War in the American Workplace.

Sat, Oct 7, 3 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Ryan Higgin & Greg Pizzoli: Bruce’s Big Move & The Twelve Days of Christmas. Sat, Oct 7, 10 a.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

Denise Kiernan: The Last Castle.

Sat, Oct 7, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com. — Mon, Oct 9, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks. com. — Tue, Oct 10, 7 p.m.

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Armistead Maupin: Did you know that before he became a definitive San Francisco author with his Tales of the City novels, Armistead Maupin grew up in Raleigh? You would if you’d read his new memoir, Logical Family, which chronicles his flight from the South, through the Vietnam War, and into modern history.

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KL Pereira: A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality.

Thu, Oct 5, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Jared Yates Sexton: The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore. In conversation with Bronwen Dickey. Mon, Oct 9, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Wendall Thomas: Lost Luggage.

Thu, Oct 5, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Michael Walden: North Carolina Beyond the Connected Age. Wed, Oct 11, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

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LECTURES ETC. 2017 Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art: Stephen J. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University: The Force of Images in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Andrea Mantegna. Oct 10: Painting, Writing and Presence.

Oct 11: Painting as Object and Meta-object. Oct 10-11, 6 p.m.

UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

A to Zine: Make A Zine from Start to Finish: With Tristan Miller. Sun, Oct 8, 2-5 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

An Evening with Sarah Vowell, American Historian: Mon, Oct 9, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre. org. See p. 31.

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sonya Clark. Thu, Oct 5, 6 p.m. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

NC Arts Council Fellowship Winners: 50th Anniversary Celebration: Sun, Oct 8, 2 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

The State of the Arts of Orange County and North Carolina: Announcing the findings of Americans for the Arts’ Arts and Economic Prosperity Survey.

Thu, Oct 5, 5:30 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

Sarah Van Gelder: Founder of YES! Magazine on climate, racial, and economic justice. Mon, Oct 9, 7 p.m. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham. www.eruuf.org.

FOOD EVOLUTION Put aside climate change, and the debate over GMOs and food might be the most contentious science-related flashpoint of our times. Bioengineered products now account for a significant segment of the world’s food supply. The industry that produces genetically modified organisms says its products are innovative and safe, that they slow the impact of climate change and produce healthier food, that biotechnology can be an invaluable benefit for humanity as it depletes its agricultural resources. Opponents charge that Big Agriculture and its GMOs are literally destroying the planet, and both sides say the data confirms their cause.

SPECIAL SHOWINGS Food Evolution: Opening reception at 5 p.m., Q and A after screening. $10. Thu, Oct 5, 6:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre. org. See box, this page.

Manhattan Short Film Festival: $10. Thu, Oct 5-Sun, Oct 8. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

The Reckless Moment: Fall Film Series. $5-$7. Fri, Oct 6, 8 p.m. N.C. Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

OPENING Blade Runner 2049—Denis Villeneuve picks up where Ridely Scott’s classic sci-fi noir left off in 1982. Harrison Ford included! Rated R. The Mountain Between Us— Idris Elba and Kate Winslet play a pair marooned in the Utah wilderness after a plane crash in this

romance/disaster drama.

Rated PG-13.

Victoria & Abdul—Judi Dench is Queen Victoria of England in this film about her real-life relationship with an Indian Muslim servant. Rated PG-13.

A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com. ½ American Made— It’s Top Gun with Tom Cruise flying for cocaine instead of country—fun enough stuff, but it mostly rides on Cruise’s strangely resilient charm.

Rated R. ½ Annabelle: Creation—An adequate scary movie if you’re in a theater packed with people yelling advice at the screen, but genre connoisseurs might be bored. Rated R.  Atomic Blonde— Despite flourishes of ferocity,

Food Evolution, directed by Academy Award nominee Scott Hamilton Kelly and narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, examines the issue in all its complexity, ranging from the perspectives of the farmers on the ground to those of the scientists engineering food nature never dreamt of. A slate of experts from across the food and science spectrum, including Bill Nye, Michael Pollan, and Vandana Shiva, also weigh in; this screening marks the film’s North Carolina premiere. —David Klein

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6:30 p.m., $10, www.carolinatheatre.org this Cold War thriller by John Wick codirector David Leitch coasts on its own glib, quirky coolness. Rated R. ½ Battle of the Sexes—The true story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and washed up champ Bobby Riggs reminds us how much common wisdom about female athletes has evolved. Rated PG-13. ½ The Big Sick— Married screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s autobiographical rom-com truthfully portrays the shifting cultural and romantic landscape of the U.S. Rated R.

meditative, and portentous.

Rated PG-13.  It—Blend classic Spielberg with Stranger Things and you get this scary, heartfilled new version of Stephen King’s magnum opus. Rated R.  The LEGO Ninjago Movie—Expect weak puns, weary pop-culture references, and a waning sense of discovery. Rated PG.  mother!—A harrowing speed-walk through Genesis, the Gospels, and the Book of Revelation, and a lot of frustration for an explosive payoff. Rated R.

½ Despicable Me 3—This franchise feels just about washed up, but your kids won’t care, because Minions!

Rated PG.

½ The Mummy— Tom Cruise’s increasing creepiness is the biggest impediment to a serviceable creature feature.

Rated PG-13.

½ Dunkirk— Christopher Nolan’s WWII picture is very British and, for better and worse, very Terrence Malick—epic,

 Spider-Man: Homecoming—Getting back to basics, a fifty-five-yearold superhero feels like a kid again. Rated PG-13.

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Complete applications due Mon Sept 11. Expected start date is October.

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RICHARD BADU, 919-724-1421, rbadudance@gmail.com

WWW.FRANKHYMAN.COM

GARDENING CLASSES WWW.FRANKHYMAN.COM

INTRO TO IMPROVISATION

November 8th at 7pm-10pm and November 12th 2pm-5pm. Be funny, be quick, be confident. 919829-0822 or www.comedyworx.com

ROBERT GRIFFIN IS ACCEPTING PIANO STUDENTS AGAIN!

C.G. JUNG SOCIETY

of the Triangle Area of NC -- since 1983

Gretchen Heyer,

Jungian Analyst from Houston,TX Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 7:30pm--$15/$10 “Creativity and Individuation“ Sat., Nov. 4, 2017 10am-4pm $60/$40 Creative Writing Workshop Church of Reconciliation, 110 N. Elliott Rd., Chapel Hill Sponsor – C.G. Jung Society of the Triangle JungNC.org To advertise or feature a pet for adoption, please contact eroberts@indyweek.com

Piano Lessons with Robert Griffin. read teaching page @ www.griffanzomusic.com 919-636-2461 adult beginners welcome griffanzo1@gmail.com

To advertise or feature a pet for adoption, please contact eroberts@indyweek.com

BEGINNING ZEN PRACTICE

Chapel Hill Zen Center with David Guy. Monday evenings, 7:30-9. 6 weeks, September 11th to October 23rd (no class October 9th. $60. Scholarships available. 919-6419277 davidguy@mindspring.com www.davidguy.org

BURCH AVE.

Short walk 2 Duke 3 BR, 1 BA $2100 fincaminor@mindspring.com

YOUR AD HERE Email Mike! classy@indyweek.com