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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 33, NO. 39 8 House Speaker Tim Moore doesn’t always understand what’s in the bills he passes.

10 Before speaking out on transgender students, Wake County sheriff Donnie Harrison reportedly conducted an informal focus group at Bojangles’.

11 If you think I-40 at rush hour is bad now, try putting the entire current population of Cary on the road at the exact same time.

16 “That’s the most punk as fuck thing anybody’s done. Who else is protesting anything right now, really?”

18 A slice of Napoli Gourmet Pizza is the Triangle’s most delicious triangle.

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20 The male-dominated meat industry is getting an infusion of talented knifewielding women.

25 Yes, there will be a new Bowerbirds record—in the meantime, here’s Tuskha.

27 In Clear & Sweet, traditional Sacred Harp singing finds its Southern footing.

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Join us on Tuesday, October 11 through Saturday, October 15 for the Stone Center’s annual Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent film. This year’s theme is Stolen Moments…Imagining the Black Subject, with films from across the diaspora including the US, Niger, Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil, Trinidad &Tobago, France, Angola, and Cuba.

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We begin with Ross Neuberth, who wrote to tell us how much he disliked last week’s feature story, “Charlotte Rising.” The first problem, Neuberth says, is author Ken Fine complaining about being pepper-sprayed: “I am prior military and was pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed for training. If being peppersprayed ‘ranks among the worst experiences I have endured in my thirty-four years on this planet,’ then, frankly, you lack the breadth of experience necessary to report on something as important as race relations in America.

Moreover, you were engaged in an unlawful protest. Key word is unlawful.”

Neuberth goes on to offer a critique of our writing and, well, African Americans: “I wish you would do more to advance the conversation with the platform that has been given to you. Are you trying to placate some far-left black folks with your style of writing? Maybe ‘them blacks’ should read your article with some Nas or DMZ in the background to really get in the mood! There is a conversation here that goes beyond a shooting. Why do young black men commit such a disproportionate amount of crime? How come graduation rates are so low?

Why is security, economic opportunity, education, and more all less than impressive in black communities?”

Meanwhile, Karen K. wants us to know she stands with Governor McCrory on HB 2. “Call me deplorable,” she writes, “but you should know your gender. Either by birth certificate or sight. If you’ve had your surgery and you’ve gone through the appropriate channels to change your gender and birth certificate, then by all means use the bathroom that fits. I stand with McCrory and our legislature. Stand by your convictions and stand firm, Pat. Who cares who pulls out of North Carolina? Maybe

[Charlotte] Mayor Jennifer Roberts, Hillary Clinton, and the LBGs [sic] will stop trying to make people with convictions change their mind by being called deplorable, bigots, and homophobic for money.”

Finally, two diverging responses to last week’s Soapboxer [“Don’t Nader Us”], which cautioned against protest votes. “This was a great essay that precisely mirrors my own experience,” writes commenter Van Buren Boy. “I too opted not to vote in 2000, in my case because Nader wasn’t on the ballot in North Carolina. As a twenty-year-old, I should have known better, but I can’t fully condemn young voters for clinging to Stein or Johnson since I made the same mistake myself. For the thirty-, forty-, and fifty-yearolds out there, though, there’s no excuse. If you don’t vote for Hillary, you are unequivocally demonstrating that you are OK with a Trump presidency.”

But mike_in_nc says this is the “Worst.

Advice. Ever. The whole ‘vote for her because we hate Trump more’ rhetoric is exactly why we have this pair of dullards running for office, and why millions of Americans who aren’t enamored with either of them will still cast their vote for their respective shrunk-wrapped brands of democracy. Neither of the major parties has even come close to earning my vote, which is why I will proudly vote for a third party. At least I’ll be able to look people in the eyes and tell them that I voted my conscience, instead of trying to pick the lesser of the evils— a more daunting task in this election than any prior election I’ve been old enough to vote in.”

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triangulator +DATA DIVE Polls may lie, but raw data doesn’t.

And judging by absentee ballot requests in North Carolina a month from Election Day, the numbers look very good for Democrats—even better than a series of recent surveys showing a slight Hillary Clinton lead (and Governor McCrory getting his ass handed to him). At a minimum, you get the sense that Republicans—who’ve historically been more likely to vote absentee—aren’t all that enthusiastic about this year’s campaign.

Given their choices, can you blame them?

Let’s dig in: using data from the state Board of Elections, we crunched the numbers from the 2012 election and compared them to what’s happening in a state both candidates acknowledge is critical. The number of statewide absentee ballot requests has declined significantly from October 2012—from 107,088 to 92,210, a bad sign for Republicans, considering that, four years ago, absentee voters went 2–1 for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama. Democrats, meanwhile, have seen big gains in the three Triangle counties that are essential to a Clinton victory.

Whether these numbers are harbingers of where the state is headed November 8 or indicative of absolutely nothing remains to be seen.

+WOLVES IN THE WILD Don’t shoot. Don’t even touch.

That was the message delivered last week

by U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle, as he ordered a temporary injunction that both restricts the federal government’s ability to remove endangered red wolves from private property and prohibits landowners from shooting members of the species.

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STATEWIDE REQUESTS 2012: 107,088 2016: 92,210

TOTAL REQUESTS 2012: 2,263 2016: 2,391

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TOTAL REQUESTS 2012: 1,645 2016: 2,125

brought the agency to court for, among other things, its 2015 authorization of a private landowner to kill a breeding female, which the group claimed was in direct violation of the Endangered Species Act. Clearly, Boyle agreed.

In his ruling, he wrote that the feds’ efforts—or, in this case, lack thereof—have failed to “adequately provide for the protection of red wolves and may in fact jeopardize the population’s survival in the wild.”

Thursday’s decision is seen as critical to the survival of the species; wolf advocates worried that their “victory” earlier this month, when the USFWS announced that it would not abandon the decades-old Red Wolf Recovery Program, was hollow and the feds’ intentions were insincere.

Cindy Dohner, the USFWS’s southeast regional director, contended that she and the government were “committed to red wolf recovery.” But after unveiling plans that seemingly focused solely on securing the captive population of two hundred-plus wolves living in zoos across the country,

24% 52%

23%

33%

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advocates argued that the shift in emphasis—and the feds’ plans to decrease the wolves’ home from a five-county tract to federal land in Dare County, which, in conservation scientist Ron Sutherland’s view, “at most could support ten to fifteen wolves”— represented a pathway toward the species’ extinction.

“Any wolves that leave federal land will be captured and returned to captivity or possibly just shot by landowners who would face no repercussions if the wolves were outside of the new restricted recovery area,” Sutherland told the INDY last month.

Not anymore.

Boyle made clear Thursday that any tampering with the red wolf population would represent a violation of his order. So, at least for now, the state’s wolves are free to roam— and live—without fear of capture or death.

“This is a great day for red wolves and for anyone who loves nature in eastern North Carolina,” says Southern Environmental Law Center senior attorney Sierra Weaver. “The court was clear that it’s the Fish and Wild-

life Service’s job to conserve this endangered species, not drive it to extinction.”

+LEGAL THEORIES On Saturday, HB 972—the bipartisan bodycamera law that has come under heavy scrutiny since Charlotte police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott—went into effect. It should be reassuring to everyone, then, that a top Republican leader in the General Assembly doesn’t seem to know how the law actually works.

In a September 28 appearance on Capital Tonight, House Speaker Tim Moore sat down with Tim Boyum to discuss the shooting and the new law. After Moore said HB 972 was a “great bill” and encouraged Charlotte to release the full video, Boyum asked Moore, “Once the law goes into effect, it would be up to a judge, and what if the judge decides not to release that video?”

“Actually, the police department still has the right to release the video under the new

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law,” Moore responded. “What the law does is say, if the police department doesn’t want to release it, it gives a mechanism to where you guys in the media or anyone else can petition a Superior Court judge to release the video.”

“I wish that were the case,” says state ACLU policy counsel Susanna Birdsong.

In addition to other problems associated with HB 972—including the near total discretion given to police departments over who gets to see the video—the new law bars police departments from giving copies of the video to anyone without a judge’s approval.

“Under the law, the law enforcement agency no longer has the power or discretion to release the video to the public or the family or

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otherwise,” Birdsong says. “They do still have discretion to show it to the person [on the video] or their personal representatives, [but those individuals] can’t receive a copy of that. And the law enforcement agency has discretion whether or not to show it to them, so if a police chief wants to deny disclosure, even just coming in and seeing it, then that person would need a court order.”

If anything, Birdsong adds, Moore’s misstep shows how convoluted the law is. “That’s where a lot of the confusion is coming in,” Birdsong says. “It’s led to perhaps Speaker Moore’s confusion on the issue.” triangulator@indyweek.com

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North Carolina congresswoman Renee Ellmers defends Donald Trump’s earlymorning Twitter rant targeting a former Miss Universe, saying, “That’s the kind of president we need.” Yeah, Renee, it’s about time women stopped getting a free pass on body issues (*eye roll*).

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A new poll shows that 63 percent of N.C. voters with a “strong Southern accent” back Trump, while nearly three-fourths of those without an accent support Hillary Clinton. Now what in tarnation do you reckon that could mean?

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Grass Roots North Carolina, a pro-gun organization, raffles off an AR-15 and a portrait/target of Hillary Clinton. Runnersup receive an “I’m With Her” bumper sticker and a Bic lighter.

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Citing HB 2, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association pulls eight of its ten championships from North Carolina, leaving us only the Homophobia Bowl and the Not in My Bathroom Invitational.

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Governor McCrory declares a state of emergency as Hurricane Matthew approaches. The rest of us have been there since March, Pat.

This week’s report by Paul Blest and Ken Fine.

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A Raleigh convenience store owner has claimed forty-two of the ninety-nine winning lottery tickets his store has produced since 2009, totaling $90,000.

Isn’t that convenient?

The Raleigh City Council might forbid residents from renting out their whole house on VRBO. Sales of Murphy beds spike in Raleigh.

Chapel Hill police use DNA to create a sketch of Faith Hedgepeth’s killer.

Unfortunately, no one could see it because they sketched it in DNA.

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WAKE COUNTY’S SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN SAYS SHERIFF DONNIE HARRISON IS PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES WITH TRANSGENDER STUDENTS’ LIVES

BY PAUL BLEST Until he started sounding off about bathroom access for transgender students, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison maintained a solid relationship with the county school system. But after a series of news reports in which Harrison did everything from comparing a transgender student to a child with head lice to identifying the school that drew his ire by not informing parents that their children were using the same facilities as transgender students, Wake County school board chairman Tom Benton is “disturbed.”

“The part of it that disturbs me the most is that he identified the school,” Benton says, adding that doing so “has led to the possible identification of students whose confidentiality is protected by law and protected ethically. What we have told him and his [school resource officers] consistently and constantly is that this is not an allegation of criminal activity, so your SRO roles are to report this to the principal. Other than that, he has no business telling us what our head lice or bathroom policy is.”

The Harrison saga began last month when a transgender student at West Millbrook Middle School was authorized to use the girls’ bathroom, prompting the sheriff to ask for a consistent policy throughout the district. Superintendent Jim Merrill told the SROs—Harrison’s deputies—that it was, essentially, up to the school administrators to make a ruling.

Harrison wasn’t satisfied. He took his case to WRAL and, during an on-air interview, threatened to pull SROs from the schools.

The sheriff also outed the school that the student in question attends. (On Monday, he told the INDY this was a mistake: “I should not have told y’all what school it was.”)

The INDY made a public-records request last Monday for Harrison’s emails. The sheriff called that afternoon to berate a reporter, claiming that this was not a “political issue” and saying that this newspaper was what’s wrong with the world. In the only email that

records request turned up, Harrison likened the protocol for informing parents about transgender students using the bathroom that conforms to their gender identity to informing them of a head lice outbreak.

The backlash was swift. After the INDY published two stories on the imbroglio last week, several Wake County parents reached out to voice their dismay.

“He made it seem like he talked to parents of the school’s children,” says one parent about his conversation with Harrison. “That

“If it’s not politically motivated, why go public a month before the election?” obviously didn’t happen, because he couldn’t do that without the prior consent of the principal. When I asked him, he said he went down to Bojangles’ and asked people there if they would have a problem [with not being informed], and they said they would.”

Another parent told the INDY that, in a phone conversation with Harrison, the sheriff “kept trying to show me that it wasn’t political,” while admitting he would “be on robocalls in the fall” for the GOP. Therein lies the root issue: the politicization of education. Harrison, a Republican, is demanding that school board members take a position a month before all nine of their seats are up for election. Most school board members have remained mum, happy to leave the decision in the hands of principals

despite a federal order allowing transgender students to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identities.

Harrison isn’t up for reelection until 2018, but Benton nonetheless believes he’s trying to make political hay.

“If it’s not politically motivated, why has he decided to go so public about it the month before the election, when there were ongoing discussions between our staffs, including his attorney and our attorney?” Benton asks.

In an interview, Harrison says he spoke out because he didn’t want his SROs to be confused about which facilities transgender students should be permitted to use.

“If Cary doesn't allow a transgender student into the dressing room and Garner does, and I send my SRO from Cary to Garner, and he sees someone who looks like a boy coming out, or someone sees the student coming out of the dressing room and someone points and says, ‘You see that boy coming out of the dressing room?’ That’s our job,” Harrison says. “And then we go to the principal, but we just can’t get let that go, because how do we know that something didn’t happen in that dressing room? … I think that if they just make a policy—and most of the parents I’ve talked to agree with me—if they have a policy, wouldn’t be a problem.”

“There was never an issue with our children before HB 2 came along,” says Hope Tyler, the mother of a transgender Wake County student. “So for the sheriff to be discussing transgender children with people who have no idea what they are talking about is not only absurd, but it’s completely irresponsible. If he wants to pull his officers for fear of being sued, that shows how much he understands. You train your officers [to] communicate with the parents and you keep those officers in those schools. Our children must be protected by these officers every day and not worry about the potty police questioning where they just pissed.” pblest@indyweek.com

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BY PAUL BLEST

find myself in what must look like the saddest sprint of all time—breathing heavy, sneakers clunking against an unforgiving sidewalk, sweating my ass off. Had I known this was how my Monday was going to start, I would’ve worn some lighter clothes. Nevertheless, I am going to catch this goddamn bus.

It’s late August, the first day of a week I’m spending using only Wake County’s public transportation system to get around, to see what it’s like to have to depend on a system that riders, bureaucrats, and elected officials all agree is unreliable, ineffective, and in desperate need of upgrades.

I get to my stop around 9:10 a.m., to

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take the 12 bus to downtown Raleigh so I can grab breakfast with some friends. A few minutes later, the bus makes a right onto Cameron Street, halts on the other side of Daniels Street from my stop, and picks up another passenger. The bus continues on—and then drives right past me, stopping at Woodburn Street, a block away. After a few minutes— maybe it’s waiting for me, but I’m not sure if this is actually my bus—it pulls away from the Woodburn stop and heads toward downtown.

I’m confused. Is this my bus? I think I’m right, and my phone thinks I’m right, but now I’m doubting both of us.

I wait a long, anxious fifteen minutes for the 16 to come, at 9:30. When it does, it again pauses at the phantom stop, this time picking up no one. I learn my lesson, complete the aforementioned sprint, and take my seat, to the chuckles of passengers behind me.

Over the course of that week, I rode buses that had no air conditioning, were consistently late, and were generally a pain to use. Luckily, I had a car to return to the following week; for many riders—a quarter of GoRaleigh’s ridership makes $15,000 a year or less—that isn’t an option.

But it might not be that way for much longer. If a diverse coalition of pro-transit

We are going to choke on our own success if we don’t offer an alternative means of transportation.”

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ocal officials are often diplomatic when talking about the transit system’s problems. Not Wake County commissioner Sig Hutchinson. “In my opinion,” he says, “we just don’t have a functioning transit system in the Triangle.”

Hutchinson, who was elected to the Board of Commissioners in 2014 and is a former chairman of Triangle Transit (now GoTriangle), says he’s been working for the last ten or fifteen years on getting a comprehensive transit plan for Wake County.

It’s long overdue. While Raleigh transit administrator David Eatman notes that Raleigh didn’t slash bus service during the height of the recession, he admits that, since then, “we obviously didn’t go through a large expansion, either.”

Raleigh and Wake officials say that common complaints about the bus system, run

by GoRaleigh, include unreliability, infrequent service, lackluster amenities such as bus shelters, and, of course, the fact that the buses just don’t run late enough; all GoRaleigh buses, except the downtown R-LINE,

“The critique is that we’re going to come down New Bern Avenue and make it look like Brier Creek.

That’s not the goal at all.” reformers—including all of the Wake County commissioners, municipal politicians, universities, social justice groups, community leaders, and chambers of commerce—gets its way, life as Wake County riders know it will change. Advocates for a $2.3 billion transit referendum promise that, if passed, it will not only quadruple bus service but also entirely revamp Wake’s public transportation system within the next ten years, introducing bus rapid transit, commuter rail, local circulators for the municipalities, and express service in, out, and across the county.

For advocates like Wake County commissioner John Burns, this is the one chance to bring the county’s transportation system up to speed with its growth.

“We are a modern, growing county that needs a modern and flexible transportation system,” he says. “We have to have it.

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shut down before midnight.

“It’s one of the things our ridership has asked for pretty much every time we ask them what they want,” Eatman says.

Meanwhile, the county keeps growing: sixty-three new residents per day, or twentythree thousand per year. By 2025, Wake’s population is expected to reach 1.2 million. The county’s new transit plan points to 2040—when, if current trends keep up, the county’s population could exceed 1.5 million—as a sort of D-Day for congestion. The gist: if you think I-40 at rush hour is bad now, try putting the entire current population of Cary on the road at the exact same time.

The reason it’s taken so long for the county to make a significant investment in public transportation is easy: Republican politicians. Specifically, Wake County and General Assembly Republicans.

Until 2009, the state barred local governments from raising taxes for mass transit.

That changed with the Congestion Relief and Intermodal Transportation Act, which gave Triangle counties the option of levying a half-cent tax. Durham and Orange voters approved sales tax increases in 2011 and 2012, respectively, with the money earmarked toward an intercounty light rail.

But the Wake County commission, then under Republican control and led by former Raleigh mayor Paul Coble, declined to follow suit, actively opposing efforts to put the tax hike on the ballot and, at one point in November 2013, bringing in a panel of conservative-leaning transportation experts to oppose light rail.

In 2014, however, Coble and his fellow Republicans were swept out of office, and the new all-Democratic commission revived mass transit talks. But they didn’t talk much about light rail; the new plan, released in December, focused instead on expanded bus service countywide and the implementation of a thirty-seven-mile commuter rail, which will run from Garner to Durham.

“I’d love to have light rail,” Hutchinson says. “[But] light rail is just radioactive with the legislature. They feel like it’s social engineering and part of a communist plot and all of these things that don’t make a lot of sense.”

Indeed, last year the General Assembly capped the state’s contribution to the Durham-Orange County light rail at $500,000.

This year, that cap was replaced with a 10 percent limit. Given that the light-rail plan calls for 25 percent of the $1.6 billion price tag to come from state coffers, that’s put the entire project in jeopardy.

Wake commissioners learned their lesson.

Not only does their plan eschew light rail, but it also asks the state to only pay 1 percent of the total cost.

On June 6, after seemingly endless meetings, the commission finally voted to put the transit referendum on the November ballot.

The commission chambers erupted in rapturous applause.

“Now comes the hard work,” Burns told the INDY the time—in other words, selling the damn thing to voters.

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fit to a T the description of someone whom advocates want to bring into the transit system’s ridership: a millennial with little money whose life would greatly benefit from cheap, semi-adequate public transportation.

I live three minutes from downtown Raleigh, and it usually takes me the same amount of time to find a spot in the garage as it does to drive to the office. On the bus, it’s just as easy. I live two minutes from a stop; I take the 12 or the 16 to Moore Square

BIG MOVES So what is the ten-year, $5.1 billion transit plan—which includes the $2.3 billion salestax hike you’re voting on, as well as increased vehicle registration fees, car-rental taxes, and other funds—all about?

“Big moves,” according to the transit plan.

The first Big Move is centered around a thirty-seven-mile commuter rail, which would initially stretch from Garner to Duke University, with six stops in between: downtown Raleigh, N.C. State, Cary, Morrisville, Research Triangle Park, and downtown Durham. It could eventually go farther, Hutchinson says, to Clayton in one direction and Hillsborough in the other.

The second Big Move focuses on connecting all of the county’s towns to Raleigh—and, by extension, to one another—by extending thirty-minute all-day bus service to Cary, Morrisville, RTP, RDU, and Wake Tech, sixty-minute allday service to Garner, Knightdale, Apex, and Wake Forest, and peakhour service to the other towns in the county.

The third Big Move will have the most immediate impact for Raleigh riders: the expansion of the fifteen-minute all-day bus service in Raleigh and Cary from seventeen miles served to eighty-three. This includes twenty miles of bus rapid transit, which provides a dedicated bus lane and faster boarding.

The final plank is to increase bus service during all seven days—as well as kick-start local fixed-route circulators, similar to the R-LINE in Raleigh and the Bull City Connector in Durham, by guaranteeing that the county will pick up half the tab.

“We’re at a critical mass, where we know the smart play is to move forward,” says Wake County commissioner Matt Calabria. “Starting now, we will head future problems off at the pass. So one of the biggest messages here is that we have to get started.”—Paul Blest

and walk two minutes to my office on Wilmington Street. And the $45 monthly price tag is attractive, considering how the parking garage costs $110 a month.

As an added bonus, I live near Cameron Village, so I can get by just using the bus.

There are at least a dozen restaurants within four blocks of me, the place I get my hair cut is around the corner, and the Harris Teeter is steps away. Even my dentist is two doors down.

It’s not as easy for some folks—those who live in an urban food desert such as South Park and areas of southeast Raleigh, or service workers who have to travel to areas not as well-serviced by the transportation system, such as North Raleigh, in order to make a living. Considering that the most recent GoRaleigh survey indicates almost of half of its ridership makes less than $30,000 per year, it’s likely that includes a lot of people.

“It’s not that the current system doesn’t work well, it’s that it’s not what’s needed,” says Tazra Mitchell, a policy analyst from the N.C. Justice Center, the progressive think tank that, in an August letter, endorsed the plan. “Having more transit options helps improve quality of life. Having a car, car insurance, property taxes, all of that adds up. Lowincome people have less disposable income, so it’s important to have affordable options.”

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t didn’t take long for me to figure out how unreliable the buses were.

I left work Monday around 6 p.m. and trudged down to Moore Square, Raleigh’s transit center, to catch the bus home. The bus was late, presumably due to traffic.

I saw a man wearing a blue work shirt with a logo I couldn’t make out sitting on the bench. I asked him if the bus is usually late.

He laughed. “Yeah,” Rahmir Watson said. “It’s usually late.”

When the bus came ten minutes later, I greeted the driver and asked her how she was doing. “A lot better, glad to have a working AC!” she responded. (Over the course of my week on the bus, I counted at least four rides with malfunctioning air conditioning.)

I climbed aboard and asked Watson what his experience on the bus had been like. He said he’s been riding it for three years—and it’s seldom on schedule.

“I tried to catch the very first Method [the 12 route] bus at six fifteen for my first day of training at work, because I got a promotion,” Watson said. “It just didn’t come. I had to wait until six forty-five to catch the next bus.”

I asked if he got in trouble at work because of that. “A little bit, yeah,” he replied.

Over the course of the week, I only deviated from my Cameron Village-to-downtown route three times; once on Tuesday night, because my girlfriend and I were going to a

show downtown; another time on Thursday night, when I took the 4 bus to our friends’ apartment off Blue Ridge Road; and Friday night, when I took the bus home from work and then, after realizing I didn’t have the $1.25 in cash to pay for a fare to get back downtown for a Brian Wilson show, weaseled my way into getting some friends to give me a ride.

When we got out of that show, at 10:30, I checked my phone for options to get home.

They were abysmal. My only choices were a) to immediately leave and take a 4 bus, which would have included a mile of drunk walking; b) a route in which I would have taken two R-LINE buses that also included a mile of drunk walking; or c) just drunk-walking the whole two miles back to my apartment.

I chose option D: I got a ride with friends.

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o say the transit referendum has institutional support is an understatement; the mayors of ten out of the county’s twelve municipalities have endorsed the plan, and Knightdale mayor James Roberson and Morrisville mayor Mark Stohlman are honorary cochairs. The other two are Shaw University president TashniAnn DuBroy and Raleigh mega-developer John Kane. And the campaign has support from groups that don’t see eye to eye on many issues: the progressive N.C. Justice Center and eight local chambers of commerce, as well as the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association, the oldest African-American political organization in the city.

But not everyone’s on board. Raleigh activist Octavia Rainey, for instance, believes that the referendum could speed up gentrification in east and southeast Raleigh.

“Black people are not living in the inner cities, so they won’t be getting on the bus,” Rainey says. “Because of their income, they’re going to be pushed farther and farther out.

And if you look at the corridors, they’re going to be very, very high income, and the goal is for them to look like downtown, with restaurants on the bottom and people living on the top.”

Advocates say they’re not ignoring those issues.

“When you do transit-oriented development, the critique—and I’ve heard this critique—is that we’re going to come down New Bern Avenue and make it look like Brier Creek,” Burns says. “That’s not the goal at all.

The goal is to put a transit artery on New Bern Avenue that the surrounding community can rely upon.”

In addition, the usual small-government groups are objecting. On its website, the John Locke Foundation calls the referendum “new, additional taxation, and a lot of it.

It’s $78.5 million [referring to expected revenues in 2018] taken from every single person who buys anything in Wake County. It’s

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we’re going to be less competitive, and the people who rely on public transportation are going to still be struggling.”

Last year, Hutchinson points out, the General Assembly threatened to rescind Wake’s ability to put a sales-tax increase on the ballot.

“There’s no reason to believe they’re not going to try that again,” he says. “There is no plan B. We have one shot to get this done. If we can’t get this done right now, I don’t think we’re going to have another opportunity.”

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$78.5 million taken away from every other conceivable use within the economy and pumped into trains and buses. Are we sure that’s a great idea?”

The Wake County Taxpayers Association, which is heading up the local opposition, started a website, againstthetax.com, calling the plan “mass transit run amok.”

“The reason we oppose the plan is that it’s a bad plan,” says Ed Jones, chairman of the WCTA board. “It’s going to cost the taxpayers of Wake County at least five billion dollars. It talks about putting in three times the numbers of buses, a commuter rail that isn’t going to work here, and is going to cost a tremendous deficit. It’s going to cost an awful lot of money to run. I am all for a transportation plan with buses that work, but what we have now does not work, and what’s proposed isn’t going to work.”

“You know Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams—build it and they will come?” asks WCTA vice president Tony Pecoraro, referring to advocates’ assumption that better bus service will produce more riders. “Not likely.”

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“There is no plan B. We have one shot. I don’t think we’re going to have another opportunity.”

On September 19, the WCTA held a press conference featuring Civitas president Francis De Luca and Wake County Republican Party chairman John Bryant at the Adventure Landing park, followed by a “Wake County Taxpayers Putt Putt Tournament.”

Odd as that sounds, it’s more organized than the anti-referendum campaigns in Orange and Durham. “Most of [the opposi-

tion] was sort of, I would describe it as sophomoric,” says Gerry Cohen, a former special counsel to the General Assembly who worked on both the Durham and Orange referendum campaigns. “The comments would use the word ‘choo-choos.’ They ran like a middleschool student council campaign.”

It didn’t work. Durham County passed its referendum in 2011 with more than 60 percent of the vote; Orange County passed its referendum with 59 percent the following year.

While those are comfortable margins, both Durham and Orange are generally known to be more left-leaning than Wake County.

Still, nearly every advocate for the Wake County plan with whom the INDY spoke was confident the plan would pass. And even the skeptics don’t sound optimistic about their chances. But what if the plan fails?

“It means we’re not going to see any improvements in our public transportation system,” says Karen Rindge, executive director of WakeUP Wake County, which enthusiastically supports the plan. “It means our water and air quality is going to get worse,

n Saturday, I woke up, threw on some clothes, and headed to Crabtree Valley Mall. Getting there was almost as easy as getting to work— just a straight shot on the 16 bus. If I worked at the mall, I wouldn’t feel the same way; missing the hourly bus to the mall at my stop means your next option is to take a 12 bus downtown, transfer to the 6 bus, take that to the mall, and then sprint to work.

This, of course, assumes you had a reliable way home.

“I heard from one constituent,” says county commissioner Matt Calabria, “[who said,] ‘My son works at the mall, and the mall closes at nine, but the bus stops running before he can catch it because of his job.’”

On Sunday at 5 p.m., I had a dinner scheduled in Durham. So when I woke up, I mapped out my route and discovered that I would have to leave my apartment by 2:37 p.m. to make it on time. The trip worked as follows: I walked a half-mile to the GoTransit stop and took the 100 bus to the Regional Transit Center in Morrisville—which, on a Sunday afternoon, is utterly lifeless. A few minutes later, I took the 700 express bus to Durham Station. When I got there, I took my final bus, the GoDurham 11, to the stop nearest my destination.

And then I realized that it was going to be even more difficult to get back home. I’d either need to cab it back to Raleigh or walk a mile to the Amtrak station, hop a train, then take a cab or walk the two miles to my apartment; both options would have cost at least $20 but probably more, as well as a lot of time. Fortunately, and probably out of pity, one of my dinner companions offered a ride.

I accepted without hesitation.

The next morning, I groggily woke up at 7:15 to get on the road to Durham, where I had a meeting that started at 8:30. I couldn’t help feeling like I did in high school when my dad handed me the keys to the then-shiny, now-shitty Ford Focus I still drive. Air conditioning or not, it provides a sense of freedom that I learned to appreciate anew over the course of my week on the bus.

That feeling lasted about twenty minutes.

Then I hit traffic on I-40. l pblest@indyweek.com

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BOYCOTT

BAND Forgotten heroes of the heartthrob era reunite to exploit HB 2 cancellations

By David Klein

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he one upside to all this HB 2 nonsense is the way people from across the spectrum have come together—a process that has made strange bedfellows of PayPal, the NCAA, and Cirque du Soleil. That show of unity began in April with an artist boycott that went national with Bruce Springsteen and came to include a veritable hall of fame of other acts. It’s almost unimaginable that a band would enter this climate motivated solely by a desire to exploit the vacuum left by these multiple cancellations. But this year, what’s going too far, really? To One More Wish, a bunch of washed-up third-raters who enjoyed a blip of regional success back in the pre-Y2K, post–Brit pop bubble, it’s a chance to get back in the game.

Rebranded as 1MW, this uniquely untalented crew has done what most crappy boy bands have had the decency not to do: get back together and inflict their insipid but diabolically catchy songs on us once again.

To their credit, though, 1MW ascribes to one of the essential tenets of boy band-dom: a total tool is pulling the strings. We sat down, and Skyped, with the reconstituted foursome and talked about Rachel hair-dos, moral compasses, and what they would do if they found themselves standing next to Simon Le Bon.

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INDY: So your breakout year was 1998, the year of the boy band.

Eric (lead vocals): I don’t think that we as a band knew what the word zeitgeist meant until recently, but apparently we captured that a long time ago.

Ray (manager): We’re a little more about schadenfreude, anyway.

The genre gets knocked a lot. Is there an art to it that people just don’t appreciate?

Ray: I suppose so. Everybody knows that success is measured monetarily. I mean, all this stuff about happiness is horseshit.

When you look at the bottom dollar of a band that did a little better than we did, like *NSYNC or 98 Degrees, the numbers speak for themselves. Luck is a big part of it. Maybe fortune didn’t smile on us quite as much as it did on a band like Backstreet Boys, and it could just be because, you know, we weren’t at the right drugs party at the right time.

Let’s talk influences. Who are your boy band idols?

Jon G (guitar): I’m glad you asked that, and I’ve been deeply meditating on what it means to be a boy band in the first place.

I would argue that all bands other than Heart and the Spice Girls and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are indeed boy bands. My favorite boy band is The Beatles.

Arya (keyboards): I’m basically doing this for money. I would say that my favorite boy band would be Radiohead.

So, you’re reforming to do a tour of North Carolina venues when bands are all pulling out because of HB 2. What would you say to those who call this reunion nothing but a cynical cash grab?

Ray: I say they’re right. You know that scene in This Is Spinal Tap where Nigel Tufnel asks what’s wrong with being sexy? Everybody laughed at that. But I thought that was one of the deepest moments of the whole film. I’ve yet to understand what’s wrong with a cynical cash grab. I mean, is this not America? America is a cynical cash grab.

So in a way, there’s nothing more American than what we’re doing right now.

That’s one way of looking at it. But iconic boy bands like Maroon 5, bands that are like, better than you, have canceled— Ray: As people?

That’s not for me to say.

Ray: OK. Eric: We’ve had a lot of band meetings about how to handle questions like this. One of the points of view that Ray pushed really hard at us was: this is a brand new law.

What happens if it turns out to be the best law ever? We don’t know. I’m not saying it is.

Ray: I would say the majority of people in the fledgling United States probably thought it was a bad idea to separate from Great Britain, as well. I think that book’s been written.

So, if you found yourselves waiting on a line for a bathroom that conformed to the gender on your birth certificate, next to Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran, who also canceled an appearance in North Carolina, you would be fine saying, “We’re doing it for a cash grab”?

Ray: I think the first thing I’d say to Simon Le Bon is thank you very much, because if you hadn’t canceled your show we wouldn’t have been able to swoop in and take your show.

One of your hits says, "The heart is not a toy/You can’t play it like a GameBoy." Do you believe that?

Ray: That’s one of the few lyrics I didn’t write for the band, and in fact I voted against that lyric.

How come?

Ray: Because it’s incorrect. The heart is a lot like a toy or a GameBoy. Jon, since you wrote that line, do you want to field that question?

Jon G: Well, the heart does have an A button and a B button and a directional pad. And if you think about the amount of hearts that we’re going to be playing in a positive way, by touching them with our music, perhaps it’s for the greater good that we are playing these hearts like a GameBoy. Ray: I guess we’re more into heart aggregation than looking at the individual heart.

Would you say so, Jon? Jon G: Uh … yes. Consciousness shifts and crystals and … Yes. Eric: Like a GameBoy, I think that anger can also run out of batteries.

Johnny Rotten said anger is an energy.

But you guys aren’t exactly punks anyway.

Ray: I’d reject the notion that we’re not punk. I mean, we’re clearly anti-establishment at what we’re doing right now. What do the kids say? “Punk as fuck” or something like that? That’s the most punk as fuck thing that anybody’s done, I mean recently. Who else is protesting anything right now really?

Let’s do some word association: “comeback.”

Ray: True rockers never really stop rocking.

That’s what the final line of “Hotel California” is really about. We didn’t really leave; we just maybe checked out for a little while.

“Critics.”

Eric: You say critics; I say … crickets. Because they make a lot of noise, but eventually they get easy to tune out.

Ray: And they’re easy to kill, too.

I noticed you don’t have any new music.

Ray: We’re very aware of the fact that nobody wants to hear new material on a tour like this. We’re playing hits. I think LCD Soundsystem had a video called Shut Up and Play the Hits. And the ironic thing about that is that they neither shut up, nor did they just play the hits. And so our goal is to do what LCD Soundsystem didn’t have the balls to do. In their case, they’re taking shows from other bands. In our case, we’re filling a void that needs to be filled. I reject the notion that LCD Soundsystem has some sort of moral compass and we don’t. I think it’s exactly the opposite.

So, someone’s gotta fill the void?

Ray: One More Wish: we’re here to fill your void. dklein@indyweek.com

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ne More Wish is a fraud—and not just artistically. But just like a real boy band, this fake one was dreamt up by someone else, in this case, Will Chambliss and a few writers at McKinney who seized on the absurdity of HB 2 to concoct an absurdity of their own: a third-rate boy band that re-forms solely to capitalize on the concert venues left empty by artists protesting HB 2.

McKinney, a worldwide ad agency based in Durham, has been vocal in its opposition to HB 2. In April, the group had the first part of the House bill printed on rolls of toilet paper and disseminated them at Moral Monday protests.

Seizing on the idea that the artist boycott was the first major headline

from post-HB 2 North Carolina, Chambliss and producer Frank Sun worked over the “boycott band” pun with director Habib Yazdi and producer Chau Mui, and dreamed up four blinkered boobs and a mercenary-minded manager who see the travesty of HB 2 as a second chance for riches and fame.

To make this idea into a sort of reality, a band had to be assembled to play the parts of these wannabes: Alex Maiolo (Ray), Owen Fitzgerald (Eric), Andy Becker (Dan), Jon Gartner (Jon G), and Arya Ghavamian (Arya). Songs had to be written—bad songs, cloying earworms full of dated references to Y2K and Rachel hair-dos. Locations had to be secured for the film. People had to eat. It took a village, and the village came through in an effort that

united actors, musicians, ad people, and local businesses. The songwriting collective Storefront Music concocted repellently catchy tunes like “Hit Me (On My Pager)” and “JNKA Jeans.” A diverse group, including Rock's Bar and Hair Shop, Fidelitorium Recordings, Rumors Boutique, and the Ridgewood Pool, supplied shooting locations in service of the volunteer film crew and cast. The happy result is the truly This Is Spinal Tap-worthy mockumentary Boycott Band: The Return of One More Wish. (Watch it and find concert dates at www.boycottbandfilm.com.)

So, what is the point of all this really?

What should people do once they’ve spent some time with these deluded hacks? It’s really simple: vote the bums out of office. —David Klein

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Our Golden Age of Pizza

NAPOLI’S ROVING TRUCK SLINGS THE BEST PIES IN THE TRIANGLE

BY DAVID A. ROSS

A scene from the dark ages of Triangle pizza: “Do you have anything hot?”

“Everything’s hot.”

“Fresh out of the oven?”

“Everything comes out of the oven.”

“I mean out of the oven in the last twenty minutes … OK, forget it. I’ll have a slice— not reheated.”

“Cold?”

“Yeah, cold. Reheating messes with the cheese chemistry.”

“Whatever, bro.”

I painfully recall those cadaverous slices— the joyless carb rush, the palate mortified by an animal activity essentially beneath it. Since 2012, a slew of superb Neapolitan pizzerias—Mercato in Carrboro, Pompieri, Toro, and Treforni in Durham—have declared, “Not whatever, bro.” Slated to open this fall or winter, Cary’s Faulisi and Pittsboro’s Capp’s should further gild what’s fast becoming a golden age.

At a remove from this buzzy, burgeoning scene, Napoli Gourmet Pizza, a Carrborobased food truck ensconced nightly next to Fitch Lumber, quietly produces the Triangle’s purest and best pizza. A circular smear of tomato puree, a few puddles of fior di latte, a flutter of torn basil, an oven soaring to a thousand degrees—these are the brushstrokes of a masterful minimalism.

“We do it the old-fashioned way,” says chef and owner Gael Chatelain. “We cut no corners. We go all out and do things properly.”

Napoli strictly adheres to the guidelines of the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, an organization founded in 1984 to preserve “the true Neapolitan pizza.” VPN stipulates a wood-burning oven fired to at least 900 degrees and a cook time of less than ninety seconds. Flour must be “00.” Tomatoes must be certified San Marzano. Flour, water, fresh yeast, and sea salt are the only permissible dough ingredients.

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Napoli Gourmet Pizza parks in Carrboro most nights. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER es intricately textural pies that are at once crispy, light, chewy, and oozy. The cornice is delicately puffed and evenly dotted with “leopard spots”—little pocks of char that indicate entirely correct heat and handling.

Having recently eaten at Don Antonio, the New York branch of Naples’s 115-year-old Pizzeria Starita, I can attest that Napoli’s pies are no mere local “best of.”

Chatelain is an unlikely skipper of a cherry-red pizza-mobile. He grew up in West Africa, where his father was an aid worker.

The family moved to Hillsborough when he was twelve, and he graduated from N.C. State

with a computer science degree in 2005.

He then blindsided the Fates by decamping to Africa with his wife. The couple settled down—if that’s the right phrase—as the owners of a boutique hotel and restaurant in Mali.

When Mali descended into a particularly chaotic civil war, the couple tried to open a similar B and B in Southeast Asia or Central America but couldn’t muster the funding. In 2012, they returned to the Triangle to “start a family and figure out what to do.” During childhood vacations in Europe, Chatelain registered the museums and cathedrals but

it was the Neapolitan pizza that snuck into his soul. Handy to a remarkable degree, he paid $6,900 for a truck that had previously done service as a Cintas uniform-delivery vehicle. The odometer read 225,000 miles, but the innards were functional, and he set about reconfiguring the cargo area.

Tutored by the Internet, he cut out a serving window, reframed the interior with wood and fiberglass, and ran power and plumbing through the walls. Typifying what I would call the Chatelain-esque, he built and installed a 56-inch-diameter cement oven, mounting the igloo-shaped dome on a steel frame and running a stainless-steel chimney through the roof.

The oven, its exterior whimsically tiled with pennies, has become the Napoli icon.

A wood-burning inferno is presumably not what a fire marshal likes to see wedged into the rear of a truck, but Chatelain encountered no difficulties. “There’s no regulation saying you can’t, so apparently you can,” he says. In mid-August, the truck becomes an oven in its own right, with temperatures reaching 106 degrees.

Chatelain does sprightly business, selling fifty to eighty pies per night, but esoteric enterprises have their inevitable frustrations. He hates the steam effect of his cardboard boxes. He wishes the six minutes during which his pizza is effectively perfect were an enforceable eating time-limit.

Chatelain cringes and grieves to think that, right across the street, patrons subject their boxed pies to twenty minutes of shopping at Harris Teeter.

“People have preconceptions about pizza, and our pizza is very different,” he says.

“Some people say it’s burned. Some want to order a slice. Some don’t understand the price point. But once people try our pizza, these complaints tend to fade.”

I half ignore, half make his point by sneaking a glance at the oven. My own pizza is starting to puff, crisp, and bubble. Harris Teeter does not tempt me. david_liling@hotmail.com

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Cutting Edge

NORTH CAROLINA LEADS A MOVEMENT FOR WOMEN BUTCHERS AND FARMERS A butchery demo by Kari Underly is like an improv comedy sketch. At Cane Creek Farm in Graham on Sunday, she rolls with the shouts and whispers from the crowd while sawing through a whole lamb.

Underly, a master butcher from Chicago, is famed for honing her third-generation skills and earning a James Beard Award nomination for her 2012 book, The Art of Beef Cutting. She’s also credited with developing the flatiron steak. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association hired her in 2002 to figure out how to make the most of a cow to boost profits, although the man for whom she consulted tends to take credit for that “discovery.”

Slicing out a flatiron cut in less than five seconds, Underly explains how, early in her career, men told her that she worked for them and that her ideas were theirs. She dangles the meat high above her head.

“If all he’s got is this little piece of meat, then just take it,” Underly says, her wry smile exploding into a sardonic laugh. The women seated before her in rows of folding chairs— all meat-industry workers—clap and laugh at this all-too-familiar struggle, delighting in a shared jibe at the patriarchy.

They’ve come to Orange County from all over the country to attend the third Women Working in the Meat Business Conference, sponsored by NC Choices in Raleigh. WWMB began as a small conference, in 2013, with around thirty attendees. This year’s gathering included seventy registered participants, with at least a dozen more speakers, consultants, and volunteers. It was the first of its kind, says coordinator Sarah Blacklin. It grew out of a women’s session at NC Choices’ annual Carolina Meat Conference.

“It has inspired similar programming in New England, California, New York, and now the newest Women in Meat Northeast in Boston, which are just a few examples of this growing national trend,” Blacklin says.

She confirms that about 65 percent of the attendees are meat farmers, and 15 percent are butchers or own butcher shops.

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BY VICTORIA BOULOUBASIS

Master butcher Kari Underly at the Women Working in the Meat Business Conference there to learn from the experts.

“I work at a butchery in Asheville, but I’m still a counter girl,” I overheard one woman say. Heather Thomason, owner and butcher at Primal Supply Meats in Philadelphia, is attending WWMB for the first time.

When she wanted to apprentice in New York a few years ago, no one would take her up.

“There’s not a lot of resources for us [up north],” she says. “I’m kind of jealous of what you guys have.” Blacklin attributes resources like her program to North Carolina’s leading role in the local food and agriculture movement sweeping the country. Since the 1970s, the number of women farmers has doubled nationally. But that increase is not happening evenly across the country.

“The increase is happening in areas where local food is also on the rise, primarily in urban areas with access to rural farmland,” says Blacklin. “Local foods provide new entrepreneurial opportunities for women to enter, innovate, and lead rather than swim upstream against gendered stereotypes in established farm professions. This is espe-

cially true for North Carolina, with the rise of urban, food, and university centers in close proximity to ample rural farm land with the ideal climate for raising pastured meat.”

According to the latest U.S. Census data, women in North Carolina are entering the local meat business at a rate well above the national average. At least 30 percent of meat farms involve a female operator in North Carolina, twice as many as we find nationally. In more urban areas, women are entering farming at a much higher rate than men.

While statistics for butchers aren’t as clearly defined, Underly says that most female butchers also own their businesses.

Chiara Gledhill hopes to one day take over her family farm, Windy Hill Farm in Cedar Grove, with her husband. It started as a hobby for her father. He, and now she, pasture-raise cattle and other livestock.

“It’s a weird industry to be a part of as a woman, and I’m conscious of it sometimes,” she says. “Listening to men talk at cattle gatherings is really exhausting. I say that also realizing that my dad is my driving inspiration

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and has been for so many years. But listening to ladies talk about it, it’s much more something that I can relate to.”

Gledhill, like most farmers, is still trying to figure out how to make farming a lucrative, or at least sustainable, full-time job. The conference also offered presentations on the economics of sustainability.

Underly moves on to the next animal: a tougher mutton that she slips her knife into with both brute force and finesse. In a maledominated profession, the women who cut meat do so in a way that maintains a vibe of nurturing and care.

She anchors her elbow, using her other arm to twist the animal’s leg “where the saddle dips visually.” Holding the sheep’s leg in one pink-gloved hand, she mentally catches up to a joke she started earlier but never finished.

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Guys don’t steal a pink glove,” she says. The amused crowd erupts into laughter again.

And Underly ends her demo right there, dropping the knife like a mic: “We’re out!” vbouloubasis@indyweek.com

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indymusic Turbo Time

BEAUTY WORLD UNRAVELS THE WONDERFUL NEW TEXTURES OF ITS LATEST EP

BY ELIZABETH BRACY

Speaking with two people deeply locked in a state of creative symbiosis provides a music all its own. To spend an hour talking songwriting craft and inspiration with Leah Gibson and Duncan Webster, who make up the Durham-based dreampop outfit Beauty World, is to hear two close-knit interlocutors seamlessly start and end each other’s sentences, write and revise their shared stories, and engage in an artful running dialogue that implicitly explains the success of their collaboration.

The pair first encountered each other because of their status as scene regulars— Webster is in Hammer No More the Fingers and the classically trained Duncan has lent her cello to Bowerbirds and Lost in the Trees—and the creative partnership grew from there. They currently cohabitate and record their bedroom pop in their actual bedroom. On the occasion of the release of their second EP, the sublime Joypop Turbo, the INDY sat down with Gibson and Webster to jam some tunes, talk influences, and determine once and for all which tropical fruit Beauty World’s sound most exemplifies.

LEAH GIBSON: It does have a Serge vibe.

We’ve been listening recently to Histoire de Melody Nelson and it has a similar vibe to this.

DW: One of my favorite types of music is mambo music, and real swingin’ stuff, like fifties- and sixties-inspired stuff. Stereolab’s like a modern take on that. Even though a lot of it is from the nineties, it still sounds fresh as hell. We record all our own music in our bedroom using one or two mics, so I’ve been reading a lot about different producers. I found out about the guy who produces a lot of Lætitia Sadier’s solo albums [Emmanuel Mario] and learning about all of his ways, like minimal miking techniques, and recording on four tracks and old tape machines, and I just love that vibe.

“CYBELE’S REVERIE” STEREOLAB, CYBELE’S REVERIE (1996) Stereolab’s cerebral, forward-looking indie pop boasts a visionary alchemy of sixties aesthetics and state-of-the-art production.

DW: It’s so minimal. Just strings and acoustic guitar. And her voice—that slight out-of-tuneness—it just tugs at the heart. The Velvet Underground is another band from that era of music that melded classical or baroque music into the rock/ experimental genre. It’s so interesting.

Even stuff people think is sort of cheesy, like Left Banke—I don’t think they’re cheesy. I love that song “Walk Away Renee.”

LG: That was one of the first songs I remember you playing for me, because my middle name is Renee.

DW: The sixties might just be the best era of music.

DUNCAN WEBSTER: The reason that I know these guys is because there’s this song that they used to play on the Duke radio station, WXDU, called “Rock the Parti” by this rapper Gold Chains. It samples a song by Stereolab, and I went and bought Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements after I heard that song. Every time I hear Stereolab, I imagine France—just people walking down the street in France listening to music like this. And also, like, Serge Gainsbourg.

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“THE FAIREST OF THE SEASONS” NICO, CHELSEA GIRL (1967) This heartrending post-Velvet Underground collaboration between John Cale and Nico suggests both the orchestral grandeur and poignant isolation that characterizes much of Beauty World’s catalog.

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was kind of a dud, so we started over two different times. By the end, we figured out what it needed.

DW: We just kept working on a particular version of a song and be like, “This sucks.”

But we had spent so much time on it, and so we’d spend like a day listening to it and still be like, “This sucks.” So then we’d just do it again and it’d be like, “Maybe this sucks a little less.” And then finally something just clicked on “Joypop Turbo,” like, overnight.

The song came together and it sounded awesome. It was totally different than what we had been doing before. Initially, I was trying to make it really computer-y and dance-y and then I realized natural instruments sounded so much better.

“THE CHALET LINES” BELLE & SEBASTIAN, FOLD YOUR HANDS CHILD, YOU WALK LIKE A PEASANT (2000) A typically wry and crushingly sad Belle & Sebastian song, “The Chalet Lines” is rich in melody but brutally spartan in execution— raw nerve music for the bold of heart.

DW: I’ve been to Scotland before and it’s really dreary—just old brick buildings and factories—but also it has very beautiful landscapes. And that juxtaposition is something that Belle And Sebastian uses in their music—their lyrics are so dark, but their music is so happy. But they’re sort of funny, too.

LG: I feel like Duncan’s idea of the best song is the one that sits between being very dark and very humorous.

“MISTY ROSES” ASTRUD GILBERTO, BEACH SAMBA (1967) A weird come-on disguised as a chill groove, Gilberto’s 1967 easy-listening hit evokes both Beauty World’s fascination with the baroque sounds of yore and the angry ambivalence that lurks beneath their seemingly placid melodies.

“HANKY PANKY NOHOW” JOHN CALE, PARIS 1919 (1973) The mournful ballad reflects much of Beauty World’s austere melancholy. The song’s dislocated psychic pain mixes the prosaic with the spiritual.

LG: We saw a little bit of him at Hopscotch a few years ago. He played at Memorial Auditorium.

DW: I more remember the guy who opened for him, Richard Youngs. It was probably the most memorable Hopscotch show I’ve seen to date. He just had a microphone and it was kind of half spoken-word and half a gently singing kind of thing. But it was in this ginormous hall.

LG: He would make the audience be silent, and he would be silent. It got so uncomfortable for people, so they’d just start giggling.

DW: And he’d just sing the same sentence over and over again and he’d get quieter and quieter until there was silence and you just started hearing these sounds of the audience shuffling around uncomfortably, and then he’d just start shouting, and it totally woke you up. But there was something about that silence. I think we’d like to make ourselves uncomfortable more.

Leah Gibson and Duncan Webster PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER “SUMMER WINE” NANCY SINATRA AND LEE HAZLEWOOD, NANCY & LEE (1968) A collaboration between two singers unafraid to reveal themselves at their must vulnerable. The timeless production, indelible hooks, and minor key feel complementary to Beauty World’s gestalt.

DW: The string arrangements here are awesome.

INDY: You guys have really cool and ornate arrangements—do you chart them out?

DW: For these particular songs, I wrote a lot of early versions of them on ukulele—I got obsessed with ukulele and we just came up with these tiny little arrangements.

We’d record the ukulele and add some percussion, and a lot of the percussion was just, like, banging on tables and stuff. And then Leah would just start laying down, like, thirty cello tracks.

LG: I think for all of the songs on Joypop, we tried to record each of the songs three different times. The first version we had of this EP was the worst sounding one, and it

LG: We went on a radio show on WHUP in Hillsborough this summer and had a playlist, and one of the things we had on that list was Martin Denny exotica.

DW: He’s a vibraphone and marimba player from the fifties.

LG: Very lounge-y. I’ll play it on our record player at home, even just when we’re cleaning. We listen to it a lot. And I just learned today about Yma Sumac, she’s a big exotica singer. I think her range spans over four octaves.

DW: She wears a pineapple on her head.

This sounds really weird, but we were at Bowbarr one time and they had this little art installation there—it was like a plastic pineapple and all this plastic exotic fruit around it, but it had this strobe light in it. It was just set up on this table in the corner, but I couldn’t stop looking at it.

LG: It was like this little mini fruit dance party. It also made this cool pattern on the ceiling, and you could just imagine the inner world of these tiny fruits.

DW: That little piece of art changed my life. And I just remember thinking, “This is what I want to do musically. This glowing fruit.”

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THE MIVOS QUARTET

Thursday, October 6, 8 p.m., $10–$24

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The Swiss Connection

REVEALING THE UNEXPECTED LINK BETWEEN PERFORMANCE POET SAUL WILLIAMS AND AVANT-GARDE CLASSICAL MUSIC

BY DAN RUCCIA Saul Williams is not someone you’d immediately expect to see sitting onstage with a string quartet playing music rooted in the abstract noise of contemporary classical music. More often, Williams has been surrounded by hiphop beats and industrial sounds, working with people like Rick Rubin and Trent Reznor. His poetry mixes tightly intertwined literary references with the rhythms and flows of rap and African diaspora culture.

And yet there he’ll be, in the Nelson Music Room with the Mivos Quartet, in the second of two concerts that violinists Olivia De Prato and Lauren Colley, violist Victor Lowrie, and cellist Mariel Roberts will play this week.

Together, these concerts make a pretty convincing case that the distance between Williams and the classical avant-garde is smaller than you might think.

The first Mivos concert, on Thursday, October 6, centers on two very different visions of what a string quartet can be at the dawn of the twenty-first century: Helmut Lachenmann’s String Quartet No. 3 “Grido” and Thomas Adès’s Arcadiana.

Lachenmann is one of the major figures of German music in the postwar twentieth century. He strips music down to its most fundamental sounds, calling on instrumentalists to use “extended techniques”—scratches, pops, whooshes, clicks, and other non-pitched sounds—with the same rigor and intensity as traditional tones. Consequently, his music can be dense and abstract. Grido (“cry”) was written in 2001, when the composer was in his sixties. It is, relatively speaking, one of his most accessible works. There are bits of themes, flashes of chord progressions, and even a motif or two to grab on to, though they sometimes have to fight through layers of extended techniques.

“You feel like you can understand it enough to attempt to bring a transcendent musical experience with something that’s so intensely intricate,” says Lowrie. “It’s an incredibly moving experience to play it.”

Arcadiana is, in many ways, Grido’s opposite.

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The Mivos Quartet PHOTO COURTESY OF KARSTEN WITT MANAGEMENT it, and it pops with youthful energy. During seven short movements, Adès references half a dozen composers and musical approaches: Schubert and Debussy comingle with Mozart and Elgar, all imbued with Adès’s lovely twists on conventional harmony. Soaring melodies are elaborated and embellished several times over, stretching to a delicate thinness or melting away completely. And just as Adès establishes one idea, he jumps to the next.

He does occasionally use some Lachenmannesque sounds, but he uses them differently, putting their expressive qualities in the immediate foreground.

“It’s interesting to look at somebody very young, very precocious, and someone very mature and well-developed dealing with those big compositional issues in the same format, a string quartet piece that’s a hefty, serious work,” Lowrie says.

Strangely enough, the Mivos Quartet’s path to playing with Saul Williams also goes through Lachenmann. In 2012, they were in England, working with the acclaimed Arditti Quartet on that same Lachanmann quartet, among other pieces.

“Irvin Arditti mentioned that ‘there’s some

piece with a rapper that we recorded that might be something you’d be interested in.’

I don’t know why he said that, but he did,” Lowrie recalls.

That piece, NGH WHT, was written by Swiss composer Thomas Kessler in 2007, who set the poem of the same name from Williams’s book The Dead Emcee Scrolls to music. The next time Williams played in New York, the members of the Mivos Quartet eagerly sought him out.

“I was completely blown away,” Lowrie says. “It was a virtuosic performance. We thought, ‘We have to perform with that guy.

He’s amazing.’” After the show, the foursome sneaked backstage and introduced themselves to Williams. Two years later, they were performing NGH WHT with him at a music festival and planning further collaborations.

To write NGH WHT, Kessler analyzed a recording of Williams reciting the poem, deriving a vast palette of sounds ranging from scratches and crackles to fragments of melody and occasional beats. Because the text is so dense, he wanted the quartet to provide an extra layer of mediation or decoding, with the sounds elaborating on Williams’s words.

Kessler is roughly the same age as Lachenmann and shares many of his musical predilections. It’s not surprising, then, that NGH WHT bursts with extended techniques, melting chords, stuttering rhythms, and gritty timbres. William’s energetic recitation provides the energy that propels everything forward.

“He’s a very, very dynamic performer with a lot of energy that we feed off of,” Lowrie says.

Most of the sounds either emerge from that energy, respond to it, or reinforce it. Sometimes, the quartet mimics Williams’s rhymes, adding extra punctuation to already emphatic lines. Elsewhere, woozy chords highlight a particularly hallucinogenic passage.

To Kessler’s credit, he never actually tries to mimic hip-hop beats, even when Williams makes overt references to the sounds of hiphop. On occasion he does settle into lopsided grooves, like when Williams slides into a Jamaican dancehall toast halfway through the piece, but he never tries to make the quartet do real boom-bap. The contrast is strangely thrilling, and the musicians relish the opportunity to expand their horizons.

“It’s fun to go through that process,” Lowrie says, “and learn more through working on the piece and talking to [Williams] about his experiences of music and what he is referencing and what his writing is all about.”

The quartet’s work with Williams has only grown over time. This concert includes a new work by Ted Hearne, who sets Williams’s poem "The Answer to the Questions That Wings Ask" on what Hearne calls “a circular but somewhat confounding chord progression.”

The group will also perform arrangements of songs from some of Williams’s albums.

Each of these collaborations casts his work in a different light, suggesting new readings and hearings of his words and new twists on his sounds. They argue that rap doesn’t need beats or samples to speak, and that a string quartet can be just as powerful a vessel for hip-hop as can a sampler.

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TUSKHA

Saturday, October 8, 10:30 p.m., $27–$124 Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance, Pittsboro www.shakorigrassroots.org

Scratched Record

FOR HIS SOLO DEBUT AS TUSKHA, PHIL MOORE OF BOWERBIRDS LEARNED SOME DIFFICULT LESSONS

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

second record. One of the guys at Partisan was upset with this, and didn’t want to work with Martin at all after that. Breaking the contract with Tuskha was kind of the fallout.

The roller coaster was, I didn’t want to do this in the first place. And then we were like, “Maybe we will do this,” and then, “I guess we won’t do this.” Kind of mixed emotions. I’m not really sure if it was meant to be or if I got screwed over. It was just what it is at this point.

When Bowerbirds, the folksy duo of Beth Tacular and Phil Moore, launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to make a new record in 2013, part of the goal was to fund a record for Moore’s solo side project, then called Island Dweller. The band raised more than thirty-seven thousand dollars for Island Dweller, a new Bowerbirds record, and a home studio.

Shortly after hitting their goal, the couple’s best-laid plans went awry. They completed their studio and had a baby, but the child struggled with extremely serious health issues that required Moore and Tacular to monitor him closely at all hours.

The two were forced to put their combined creative output on hold to care for their kid.

In his free time, Moore sketched electropop tunes on his laptop, which would eventually become Tuskha, released in the spring.

That didn’t come easy, either.

In our recent conversation, Moore described some of the snags he’s hit over the last few years—and how, yes, there will be a new Bowerbirds record.

INDY: How did you start to develop your solo stuff outside of Bowerbirds?

PHIL MOORE: So it was basically just a way to kill boredom in a tour band at first.

I was kind of just in the back of the van for the last year of Bowerbirds touring, and it was pretty extensive. And we just went all over Europe and took these long drives.

I got really bored and anxious, and I just started writing songs on my laptop with whatever program I had at the time. I don’t think I was using Ableton yet, I just started drawing out little MIDI notes on a keyboard and looping them and trying them. It was just fun, and not serious, not folk music. It just felt refreshing. It was really just to pass the time.

What made you want to self-release the record instead of trying to shop it around?

I didn’t want to shop around really at all.

There’s been confusion about the Kickstarter, and what Tuskha is versus Island Dweller. Could you clarify that?

It is all the same thing. The Kickstarter was just such a great idea for people who could totally pull it off if they didn’t have a child.

I have as many Bowerbirds songs as I do for Tuskha stuff. It is just that other side of my songwriting or whatever. I don’t finish those songs until I finish them with Beth.

Those are still all demo forms waiting on my computer. Really stoked to show people, but just haven’t had the time or space to finish.

Phil Moore of Tuskha PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER I wasn’t looking to change the world with this music or anything. I was just looking to put out some stuff that was a different part of me and creative and fun or whatever. So then I just approached my buddy, Martin Anderson, and asked to see if he knew of any folks that would be able to mix the record, just so I could get it out to my friends and to Kickstarter supporters.

Then he heard it, he really liked it, gave it to a couple of his friends, and then he showed it to a record label, the Partisan people.

This one guy from the label really dug it. He came back to me and told me he wanted to release the record on the label, do the thing.

And I was super hesitant about it because

the whole point of this music was just to get out of that zone and not get pigeonholed again into something else, to be totally free from that whole music machine.

Martin’s my manager and Sylvan Esso’s manager too. Sylvan Esso’s first album was out on Partisan. A one-record contract, exploring their options for their next record. So, they ended up finding another label. In that process, the folks at Partisan kind of assumed that because Sylvan Esso has such good success, that of course Sylvan would take their next record to Partisan. But they weren’t in any contractual agreement to do that. They went with what they thought was a better option for the

What’s the biggest thing you learned through all of the stuff that has happened with Tuskha?

Apparently, not very much, because this is not the first time this has happened. I have been on labels, and it is never a totally easy ride. I just really love music, and I want people to hear it. By the time you get to the end of a songwriting process, you want more and more people to hear it, because you have given so much more work to it. There is just always some hiccup, something that happens. When it comes time to release the Bowerbirds record, I don’t know if I will listen to myself as I am going to put that record out. I’m going to be stoked about it, and I know I’m going to want to have the most people hear it as possible. ahussey@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.5.16 | 25

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Wednesday, October 5 & Thursday, October 6, 7:30 p.m., $17–$20 UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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COMMUNAL SACRED HARP SINGING PIERCES CLOISTERED MODERN MOVEMENT IN ZOE | JUNIPER’S CLEAR & SWEET BY MICHAELA DWYER Sacred Harp singing is full-bodied and jagged, with lyrics about trials and redemptions.

Its roots run to rural English church music, but it solidified as an American tradition largely through the work of two Southerners, B.F. White and E.J. King, who published The Sacred Harp tunebook, which uses a shape note system that people who don’t read music can sing.

It was here, in our slippery Southern region, that Georgia-raised, Seattle-based choreographer Zoe Scofield first became acquainted with that ecstatic yet doleful sound. A few years ago, in southern Georgia, Scofield saw a video exhibit at the Okefenokee Heritage Center in which a well-known Sacred Harp singer, David Lee, led a singing class. Scofield felt an immediate, albeit complex, connection to the music.

“It felt both very foreign and very familiar in a way I couldn’t entirely understand or place,” she says. This experience formed the kernel of zoe | juniper’s new piece. Scofield tells the story while driving with visual artist Juniper Shuey, the company's cofounder, to North Carolina from New Orleans, where they premiered Clear & Sweet. This week, Chapel Hill audiences will be the second group to see it, courtesy of co-commissioner Carolina Performing Arts.

Concerns of voice and collaboration are central in the pair’s dynamic repertoire, in which they work their respective art forms into all-encompassing sensory experiences.

The company, which is now ten years old, pursues continuity across media, materializing works in a swirl of sonic and sculptural motion. In Clear & Sweet, Scofield’s angular riffs on balletic forms resound through Shuey’s video installations and set design.

“Zoe | juniper pull away from the pack in that they have combined two unique voices— a dance voice and a visual voice—into something that is absolutely more than the sum of its parts,” says Amy Russell, director of programming at Carolina Performing Arts.

“We value collaboration so highly, especially

Wellness Intervention for Stress and Health (WISH Study) zoe | juniper PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS when it serves to blur and bend boundaries like genre, discipline, tradition, and place.”

Like the communal singing tradition that inspired it, the piece is structured around a hollow square. The audience sits in four sections that face inward—in this case, toward the dancers. Local Sacred Harp singers will be scattered throughout the seating, and attendees will receive songbooks so they can join the performance.

This reflects the inclusive ethos of Sacred Harp. The four shapes of the shape note system—fa sol la mi—aid sight-reading. The singing itself doesn’t demand technical mastery. It’s often free, or costs little, to attend concerts or classes. Scofield is interested in how this spirit diverges from that of the professional dance world.

“It’s very different from my, and probably most people’s, experiences in classical dance training, or any classical art form, which is very much about ability,” says Scofield. “The

better you get, the higher up on the pyramid you are and the more alone you are.”

Clear & Sweet outlines the space we create together between our similarities and differences. Sacred Harp, which uses religious songs but attracts plenty of nonreligious devotees, led to thoughts about the concept of sacred space. What can it look like, and what compels us to create it? In this, Clear & Sweet’s hollow-square construction is evocative of the desire to create home on one's own terms, to hold multiple origins at once.

“We wanted to create something that felt like a porous container, that could contain something literally and figuratively, and that also wasn’t confining, binding, or trapping,” Scofield says. “It’s a funny thing that something that originated in religion—something I’d found very exclusive—ended up being the thing that would bring me back to the South.” calendar@indyweek.com

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The world of online role-playing games is certainly alluring; if you can’t significantly alter a workday that’s dystopian or dull, just log in. “Suddenly, you’re a special person,” notes regional playwright Allan Maule. “The game empowers you in a way real life usually doesn’t to be the agent of change or chaos.”

Maule’s cyber-drama, EverScape, won the “Best of Fest” award last summer at the New York Fringe Festival. In it, physical and virtual realities blur as the dysfunctions of four players gradually turn an online competition into a game without frontiers. Heather Strickland directs a cast including Samantha Corey, Areon Mobasher, Sean Brosnahan, and Chris Hinton in this Bare Theatre coproduction with Sonorous Road.

—Byron Woods

Kyra and Tom had a thing going once, a workplace romance forged in the London restaurant he owned and she managed.

Then Tom got greedy and started renegotiating the social contract—with his wife as well as his workers—making things even more one-sided than they already were. Now Tom’s wife is dead, and he’s unilaterally decided, on the coldest night of the year, that he and Kyra should pick up where they left off.

David Hare’s timely drama asks what ties remain between estranged social classes as well as estranged lovers in a Burning Coal Theatre Company production featuring a rare stage appearance by artistic director Jerome Davis. Emily Barrett Rieder costars. —Byron Woods

In Emma Donoghue’s new novel, The Wonder, the lives of a London nurse named Lib, fresh from the Crimean War, and a journalist collide when each travels to a small Irish town that is the site of a seeming miracle—a young girl said to be subsisting solely on “manna from heaven.” Soon the two are drawn together as they excavate the mystery underlying the child’s refusal to eat and the locals’ acceptance of her claim.

Ultimately, Lib faces a moral dilemma as to the action she must take. In Donoghue’s international best-seller, Room, which became an Oscar-winning motion picture last year, the author similarly imagined a woman in peril, drawing on the notorious Fritzl case. In a richly detailed atmosphere of rural Ireland pervaded by superstition, this tension-filled tale offers further proof of her skills. —David Klein

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If you’re aiming to end your work week on a gentle note, look no further than Friday night’s presentation at The Pinhook. There, James Toth, the beguiling and prolific songwriter who chiefly operates as Wooden Wand, teams up with experimental composer William Fowler Collins. The pair’s Under Stars and Smoke, released in April, is a triptych meant to soundtrack an imaginary landscape, one that’s entirely up to the listener to paint. Across its thirty-five minutes, the album shifts slowly and rumbles, ginning up tense static before dropping into hushed, airy tones. We spend our days with our attention scattered to pings, dings, and a million other distractions—settle in, bliss out, and let Collins and Toth hold your attention for a refreshingly meditative spell. With Durham’s own Ama Divers. —Allison Hussey THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 7 p.m., $10, www.thepinhook.com

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Few albums in 2016 have exuded joy like Chance the Rapper’s May mixtape, Coloring Book. After overcoming a struggle with Xanax and becoming a new father, the twenty-three-year-old Chicago native pulled together an impressive roster of collaborators—among them, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Kirk Franklin, and even Justin Bieber—for a record about keeping your head up and trying hard when the going gets tough. On songs like “Blessings” and “Finish Line/Drown,” Chance leans all the way into gospel influences as he reckons with his faith. Coloring Book was a bold bright spot in a rotten year, and it looks like Chance will only continue to shine.

Francis and the Lights, another ascendant hip-hop artist whose recent work includes a collaboration with West and Justin Vernon as well as a spot on Coloring Book, opens.

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DIARRHEA PLANET

WE 10/5 ELEPHANT REVIVAL W/ BEN SOLLEE ($15/$17)

TH 10/6 TAKING BACK SUNDAY SOLD OUT W/YOU BLEW IT, MAMMOTH INDIGO

FR 10/7 THE DEAR HUNTER THE FINAL ACT TOUR W/ EISLEY, GAVIN CASTLETON ($18/$20) SA 10/8 WXYC 90S DANCE ($5 STUDENTS/ $8 GA) SU 10/9 LANY THE KINDA TOUR W/ TRANSVIOLET ($15)

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THE MOWGLI’S

TH 10/6 @CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

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10/5: ELECTRIC SIX W/ IN THE WHALE ($13/$15) 10/6: ASTRONAUTALIS W/ CESCHI, FACTOR CHANDELIER ($15/$17)

TU 10/11 THE MOWGLI'S

10/7: GREG HUMPHREYS ELECTRIC TRIO ($12/$15)

W/ COLONY HOUSE, DREAMERS ($17/$19)

WE 10/12 DIARRHEA PLANET W/ WESTERN MEDICATION, THE NUDE PARTY ** ($12/$15)

TH 10/13 CRANK IT LOUD PRESENTS

DANCE GAVIN DANCE W/ THE CONTORTIONIST, HAIL THE SUN & MORE ($18/$20) FR10/14:BALANCE & COMPOSURE W/FOXING,MERCURY GIRLS($16/$18)

SA 10/15: BRETT DENNEN W/ LILY & MADELEINE ($22/$25)

MO 10/17 FURY TOUR:

SOILWORK W/ UNEARTH,

TH 10/20 (SEATED SHOW)

WILLIE WATSON & AOIFE O’DONOVAN FR 11/4 PORTUGAL. THE MAN W/ SOLD ADAM TOD BROWN

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SA 11/5

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE SOLD W/ ACTRESS

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SU 11/6 STAND AGAINST HB2 NORTH CAROLINA MUSICIANS

TU 10/18 LUCERO

UNITED FOR EQUALITYNC AND QORDS THE LOVE LANGUAGE, THE VELDT, FABULOUS KNOBS, DB'S AND MORE NOON -MIDNIGHT CONCERT! ($15/$20)

WE 10/19 BEATS ANTIQUE

TH 11/10 MEWITHOUTYOU W/ YONI WOLF (OF WHY?) $15/$18

TH 10/20 WILLIE WATSON

FR 11/11 YEASAYER W/ LYDIA AINSWORTH ($20)

BATTLECROSS, WOVENWAR, DARKNESS DIVIDED ($20/$23) W/CORY BRANAN ($20/$23) W/ TOO MANY ZOO'S, THRIFTWORKS ($26/$29)

& AOIFE O’DONOVAN** ($22/$25; SEATED SHOW)

FR 10/21 THE ORB ($17/$20) SA 10/22 TODD SNIDER W/ ROREY CARROLL

($24/$27; SEATED SHOW) 10/23 BEER & HYMNS PRESENTS:

ORANGE COUNTY JUSTICE UNITED FUNDRAISER ($10) 10/25 ROONEY W/ROYAL TEETH, SWIMMING WITH BEARS ($16/$18)

WE 10/26 HATEBREED, DEVILDRIVER, DEVIL YOU KNOW ($25/$28)

SA 11/12 GUIDED BY VOICES W/SURFER BLOOD ($26.50) SU 11/13 BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH ($15/$18)

MO 11/14 BOB MOULD BAND ($20/$22) WE 11/16 WET W/DEMO TAPED ($20) TH 11/17 REV PAYTON'S BIG

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SA11/19 HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER**($15/$17)

FR 10/28 IAN HUNTER AND

TU11/22PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT ($25)

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SU 11/27 HOWARD JONES ($25/$28)

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ALBUM RELEASE SHOW ($10)

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OF TRAMPLED BY TURTLES AND CARL BROEMEL OF MY MORNING JACKET

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11/11: NO BS! BRASS BAND ($13/$15) 11/13JONATHAN

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11/8: ANDREW WK 'THE POWER OF PARTYING' ( $20/$23) MEMORIAL HALL (UNC-CH)

10/30: REM'S MIKE MILLS'

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10/6: BLITZEN TRAPPER

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W/ KACY & CLAYTON**($17/$19) 10/14: THE SUMMER SET W/ HUDSON THAMES ($16/$18) 11/6 TWO TONGUES W/ BACKWARDS DANCER ($16.50/$20)

11/16: MITSKI W/ FEAR OF MEN, WEAVES($15) HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER (DUR)

12/2: MANDOLIN ORANGE ($25) KINGS (RAL)

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11/19 MANDOLIN ORANGE OUT PINHOOK (DURHAM)

11/10: TED LEO ($13/$15) THE RITZ (RAL) (TICKETS VIA TICKETMASTER)

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THE HEAD AND THE HEART W/ DECLAN MCKENNA 10/28: PHANTOGRAM W/ THE RANGE

HAW RIVER BALLROOM

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SO FEAT. TOMMY LARKINS ON DRUMS ($15) 11/18 MANDOLIN ORANGE OUT 11/16: SLOAN "ONE CHORD TO FLETCHER OPERA THEATRE (RAL) ANOTHER" 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR ($20) (TICKETS VIA TICKETMASTER)

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CAT’S CRADLE: Elephant Revival, Ben Sollee; 7 p.m., $15. Electric Six, In the Whale (Back Room); 8:30 p.m., $13–$15. • DUKE CAMPUS: BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Symphony Orchestra; 8 p.m.

• DUKE COFFEEHOUSE: Whitney. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Acoustic Manner; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Moe.; 8 p.m., $25. • LOCAL 506: Palm, And the Kids, Museum Mouth; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • THE MAYWOOD: Svetlanas, GASH, KIFF; 8 p.m., $8. • MOTORCO: Gangstagrass, Kamara Thomas & The Night Drivers; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Songs from Downstairs; 7:30 p.m., $6. • THE PINHOOK: Futurebirds, High Divers; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • POUR HOUSE: Eddie Taylor, The Second Wife, Josh Feierman; 9 p.m., $5. • THE RITZ: 21 Savage; 8 p.m., $42. • THE STATION: Richie & Rosie, June Star, Andy Bopp; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

THU, OCT 6 Astronautalis ICE COLD Something about BARS the bitter winds of the Midwest seems to inspire some of the most cold, uncompromising hip-hop in America, devoid of the genre’s frequent taste for pretense and vanity. Cut from that cloth, Minneapolisbased rapper Astronautalis may be an even darker blend: Brother Ali without the softer, compassionate assurances, or Macklemore without the corporate marketability. Astro’s job may be to remind us of our bleak reality—not necessarily to make us feel better about it. —RC [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $15–$17/8 P.M.]

Blitzen Trapper FURRY Which Blitzen ROCK Trapper do you want to see? People tend to associate these Portland boys with the country and folksy sides of their sound, but that’s just one part of the band’s musical personality.

Blitzen Trapper has shown that they can rock out with the best of them, coming off like some sort of northwestern Tom Petty & the

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Heartbreakers. Maybe you don’t have to choose, though: you’ll likely get to see several of the band’s facets over the course of a single show. —JA [MOTORCO, $17–$19/8 P.M.]

Julie Fowlis SCOTTISH If you’re up for some FOLKIE real-deal Scottish folk, the kind that’s sung in Gaelic, you could do a lot worse than to sidle up to this Julie Fowlis, from the Outer Hebrides. Even if you’re not hip to the lingo, her honeyed tones will draw you in anyway.

With a voice like hers, she could just as easily make up her own language and it would probably still sound pretty damn engaging.

—JA [CAROLINA THEATRE, $24–$57/8 P.M.]

Gunwale FREE JAZZ Chicago saxophonist cum laude Dave Rempis leads and has played in a host of outré jazz ensembles with the world’s best blusterers: Ken Vandermark in Vandermark 5, Paal Nilssen-Love in Ballister, tromboner Jeb Bishop in The Engines, and so on. Gunwale pairs Rempis with some of the Windy City’s up-and-coming improvisers in bassist Albert Wildeman and drummer Ryan Packard, who also applies electronic manglings to Gunwale’s free-jazz firestorms.

With Tonight at Noon. —PW [KINGS, $8–$12/9:30 P.M.]

Anthony Hamilton LUSTY On “Amen,” his HYMNS latest single, early-aughts hitmaker Anthony Hamilton delivers an exquisitely soulful vocal that’s equal parts

WWW.INDYWEEK.COM sacred and secular, pivoting in just a few beats from the gospel implication of the title word of praise to “Girl, you’re lookin’ good.” Make sense: the Charlotte native honed his skills in a church choir before ascending to platinum sales, Grammy-winning industry validation, and performances for a president who knows his R&B. With Lalah Hathaway and Eric Benet. —DK [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $55–$125/7:30 P.M.]

Samantha Fish BLUES Samantha Fish gets DEVIL the most attention from pounding out chunky rock, but when she starts to sing, the Kansas City native stirs in a country flavor. She gets even further back in the hills when she brings out her oil can guitar for a take on the Stones’ “Dead Flowers.” —GB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $14–$20/8 P.M.]

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RIVER WHYLESS Formed at Appalachian State University and now based in Asheville, River Whyless has been steadily growing. The mountain quartet worked quietly with Horse Feathers frontman and producer Justin Ringle on August’s We All The Light, the follow-up to 2012’s A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door. The band’s recent Triangle gigs have included opening slots for Langhorne Slim and Lake Street Dive and an appearance at last year’s Hopscotch. The band’s crossover appeal makes for a good fit with both a roots troubadour and retro soul revivalists, thanks to dreamy ditties that split the difference between indie pop and folk. The hallmarks of a River Whyless song—lead vocal tradeoffs backed by sweet harmonies and gentle, lush arrangements that incorporate vague worldly influences and plucked violin strings—will likely seem familiar, even if the band is a mere blip on your radar.

We All The Light is destined to draw bigger and bigger crowds for River Whyless as the band refines its take on fashionable popfolk fare, but the album does little to set its creators apart from a slew of similar acts. Its trio of bright-eyed singer-songwriters consistently trot out idealistic themes of inclusiveness in the hope of incitng a passionate response, but these often ring hollow.

In “Baby Brother,” nebulous lines like, “Well you can talk to God in the morning when you are sober/well you can talk to me when you are all fucked up tonight/we all deserve the light,” seem designed for listeners to make their own meaning. The song’s Eastern instrumentation also lends the track a pseudo-spiritual feel.

Sure, such crimes can easily be pinned on more successful acts like Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, and scores of likeminded artists and imitators, but that doesn’t quite excuse River Whyless for following that well-trod path, four years after a promising record whose ruminations on the human condition were far more fully formed. On the next go-round, perhaps this young foursome can reconcile the ambitious songwriting of its unrefined earlier work with its newfound polish and creative arrangements. But if that happens, don’t expect to see them performing in the Back Room. —Spencer Griffith CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $12–$15, www.catscradle.com

Sam Kulik & The Broadcast PLAY Sam Kulik’s BALL! Broadcast is a slow-burn baseball jazz opera that sets Kulik’s play-by-play of the long, mellow march of a New York Mets game over a range of styles, flowing from hot fusion (“Top of the 1st”) to cool Ambien jazz (“Bottom of the 3rd”) to refreshing organ grooves (“Bottom of the 8th”). —PW [THE SHED, $7/8 P.M.]

Taking Back Sunday TIDAL Taking Back Sunday MOAN ranks in the leagues of early-aughts bands that swirled together emo and pop-punk, though it never quite achieved the same star power as contemporaries like Fall Out Boy and the All American Rejects. “Tidal Wave,” the title track to the band’s newest record, is a feeble, paint-by-numbers rock tune, but it’s still totally OK to roll up and pray the band will just play your favorite cuts from Tell All Your Friends, though.

You Blew It! and Mammoth Indigo open. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE, $35/8 P.M.]

Yuna EXOTIC The unlikely ascent R&B of Yuna Zarai from Malaysian law student to buzzed-about online obscurity to critically beloved R&B singer is the sort of catnip press narrative that frequently results in an outpouring of media attention that’s less about the music and more about the backstory. In this instance, though, the attention is well earned. Yuna’s ethereal, slow-burning R&B is consistently

fascinating, playing like a subtly updated version of Sade at her quiet-storm peak. Ńÿłø opens.

—EB [LOCAL 506, $20–$23/8 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH: Juanito Laguna; 5:30 p.m., free. • DEEP SOUTH: Will Overman Band, Kate Rhudy, MKR; 8 p.m., $5. • DUKE CAMPUS: BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Wind Symphony; 8 p.m. • DUKE CAMPUS: NELSON MUSIC ROOM: Mivos Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$24. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Caribou Mountain Collective; 9 p.m., $7. • THE STATION: Arrow Beach, Circle Square; 7:30 p.m., $6.

FRI, OCT 7 3 Doors Down SOUTH Coming off the GRUNGE death of original guitarist Matt Robert from a prescription drug overdose earlier this year, the aughts’ Southern alt-rock staple 3 Doors Down seems to be experiencing the unsexy downsides of aging in a post-grunge band. You wouldn’t know it from this year’s Us and the Night, though, which, despite a reworked lineup, continues its inspirational, inoffensive alt-rock balladry. With Pop Evil and Red Sun Rising. —DS [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $40–$85/8 P.M.]

Alabama, Charlie Daniels Band YEE-HAW Alabama and FEST Charlie Daniels together on one bill is a yee-haw fan’s dream come true, a good ol’ boys reunion with fiddlin’ to beat the devil and some down-home harmony to soften the blows.

Alabama gave its first farewell tour in 2004 but just can’t stay gone, it seems. Daniels has never let up, and, despite a net worth estimated at twenty million bucks, he’s still sawin’ away at age eighty, rosin flying as he stomps through his rowdy set. —GB [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $50–$85/7:30 P.M.] INDYweek.com | 10.5.16 | 31

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SONGBOOK: A Night Of Stories & Songs with KACY & CLAYTON

FRI 10/710/7SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS FRIDAY SMOOTH HOUND SMITH

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7/8 SolKitchen & The Art of Cool Project: The Art of Noise #Durham WITH LITTLE GERMAN BAND MON 7/11 Regulator Bookstore presents SUNDAY 10/9 HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Ask Polly Live FRI

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LA SANTA TUE 7/12 DANNY SCHMIDT / REBECCA NEWTON with WES COLLINS CECILIA WITH THU PATABAMBA 7/14 Storymakers: Durham, Community Listening Event

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The Dear Hunter PROG Once called the PROUST “Proust of Prog Rock” by Consequence of Sound, The Dear Hunter’s Casey Crescenzo has pushed the boundaries of indie rock in the last decade by churning out grandiose concept prog-emo records with a stunning consistency. This year’s operatic Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional is the latest in his six-album cycle about World War I, prostitution, ghosts, and coming of age. Alt-country outfit Eisley opens, plus Gavin Castleton. —DS [CAT’S CRADLE, $18–$50/7:30 P.M.]

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COVER The new album by TUNES the musical fixtures Brooklyn Rider and Anne Sofie von Otter includes covers of Björk, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright, and Sting, but you’ll have to go to the album to hear them. For this concert, they’re showing off new works by Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, Tyondai Braxton, and Colin Jacobsen. Shaw’s “Cant voi l’aube,” a beautiful update of a medieval chanson, is a clear standout of the set. They’ll also perform Janácek, Philip Glass, and John Adams. —DR [UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, $10–$39/8 P.M.]

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ROCK & Norfolk sextet Major SOUL & the Monbacks melds sixties rock with heaps of horns and touches of twang—a raucous combo on record that’s a launching point for even more boisterous live shows, reminiscent of Holy Ghost Tent Revival’s sweaty beginnings. Fellow Virginians Threesound open, followed by melodic roots purveyors Blue Water Highway Band. —SG [THE POUR HOUSE, FREE/8 P.M.]

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Dvořák’s during his American phase. Now it returns to the visionary composer born in what’s now the Czech Republic with three performances of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 5, with pianist Alexei Volodin. Also on the program will be Pastoral, by Karel Husa, a celebrated Czech composer now living in Cary, and a Prokofiev piano concerto —DK [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $18–$71, 8 P.M.]

fast-and-furious fundamentals but stands out for its panache with agile riffs and powerfully placed squeals of feedback.

Rather than settle into a revivalist rut, the band shows the power of execution with subtle variations on stylistic basics. Blackball and Essex//Muro open. —BCR [SOUND FACTORY, $7/8 P.M.]

Joe Newberry, April Verch

BIG BAND Sister Sparrow & the FUN Dirty Birds’ new live album, Fowl Play, highlights the straight-to-tape essence of the seven-piece outfit: a big-band sound best served onstage and in person, buoyed by frontwoman Arleigh Kincheloe’s brassy vocals.

It was recorded last New Year’s Eve at a sold-out show, and the turn-of-the-year energy infuses the band’s soulful rock songs.

Folk-blues duo Smooth Hound Smith opens. —KM [MOTORCO, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

TRAD What do you get FOLK when you put a Missouri-born guitarist and banjo player together with a Canadian fiddler? In the case of Joe Newberry and April Verch, who are temporarily putting their own projects aside to perform as a duo, you get some serious trad folk and old-school country roots and a gift for bringing those sounds into the present day without ever seeming like they’re dusting off museum pieces. In short, it’s the folk process in action. —JA [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $15/9 P.M.]

Charlie Puth WHAT’S The crushing GOIN’ ON blandness of virality-borne pop stars is epitomized by this New Jersey-born bawler, best known for the way he moaned over last summer’s weepy track eulogizing former Fast & Furious star Paul Walker, “See You Again.” Even if he does suddenly get interesting, his so-bad-it’s-not-even-good duet with Meghan Trainor, “Marvin Gaye” (sample lyric: “ You got to give it up to me/ I’m screaming mercy, mercy please”), means he has a lot of bad pop karma to work off. —MJ [THE RITZ, $25/7:30 P.M.]

Rubbish HXC Rubbish draws its BASICS ranks from a pile of defunct hardcore bands, including Mauser / $12 and dayExitofDust, and the veteran band’s confidence is on full display on its self-titled, ten-song demo. Rubbish’s no-frills hardcore leans on the genre’s

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DIY POP With a heartbreaking, sun-baked sound that relies on nothing more than Lauren Morgan’s syrupy voice and Jordan Shih’s lo-fi

instrumentals, nostalgic twee-pop duo Sales won’t play stadiums anytime soon. But no biggie—this is bedroom music pure and simple. But in that cloistered DIY sphere, where projects don’t always make it to the road, few touring acts currently play this style with more verve. With Real Dad and Just Jess. —DS [LOCAL 506, $12–$14/8 P.M.]

John Paul White SOLO John Paul White first SPIRIT rose to prominence as one half of The Civil Wars, the now-defunct duo he formed with Joy Williams in 2008. The Americana duo dazzled with its undeniable chemistry and otherworldly harmonies before fizzling out in 2014, shortly after releasing a second record. Now White’s voice is at the forefront.

On his new solo album, Beulah, he weaves tales of heartache and redemption with soulful Southern charms. The Kernal opens.

—DEM [FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, $24–$31/7:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BEYU CAFFE: Russell Taylor; Oct 8, 8 & 10 p.m., $10. • CAT’S CRADLE: WXYC 90s Dance; 9 p.m., $5–$8. • DEEP SOUTH: ANDYPALOOZA!; 9 p.m., $5–$8. Joe Hero; 9:30 p.m., $8. • DUKE CAMPUS: PAGE AUDITORIUM: Zakir Hussain, Niladri Kumar; 8 p.m., $10–$45. • HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Waltz Night Fall Ball; 7 p.m., $12–$16.

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Oct 12. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Come Out & Show Them: Body Games, GRRL, Blursome, Secret Boyfriend, Cyanotype, DJ Chocolate Rice; 7:30 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: Horace, Primitive Tools, Ravecandy; 10 p.m., $8. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Stephen Chopek; 7 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: NC Rhythm Project; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Come Out & Show Them: American Aquarium, Demon Eye, Lacy Jags, The Veldt, Al Riggs, Konvoi,

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SUN, OCT 9 Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman: An Evening of Yes Music PROG Over two decades, GODS multiple re-formed iterations of Yes have suffered the lack of Jon Anderson’s signature reedy vocals. To its credit, ARW has him, as well as keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who was by all accounts the bad boy of the group. R, or Trevor Rabin, from a later version of the band, fills in for Steve Howe, but no one can replace original bassist Chris Squire. Mountains might come out of the sky, but whether they stand there is anyone’s guess.

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LANY CALI Los Angeles pop trio DREAMY LANY rose quickly to success in 2014 with its third single, “ILYSB,” which quickly went viral online. The ensemble’s euphorically minimalistic soundscape wraps around lyrics that are often both beautiful and devastating. Since then, LANY has continued to tour alongside the likes of Ellie Goulding, Troye Sivan, and Zane Lowe. Transviolet opens this stop. —JS [CAT’S CRADLE, $15/8 P.M.]

called “heavy” and “dynamic,” though each brings a singular approach to earn the adjectives.

Athens, Georgia’s Cinemechanica summons anxious thrills from a frenetic and precise take on math rock that doesn’t shy from atmosphere. The psych rock of Chapel Hill’s Solar Halos builds monuments from smoldering doom riffs, turning metal’s downward gaze into something ascendant. Durham’s Wailin’ Storms casts Southern Gothic for the post-hardcore crowd, evoking the Gun Club and Danzig in their dark and deliberate angle on blues-driven rock. —BCR [KINGS, $7/9 P.M.]

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ARCANA: Housefire, Tescon Pol, Discotoño; 8 p.m., free. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): River Whyless, Heather McEntire; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • DEEP SOUTH: The Ghost of Saturday Nite, Dissin Terry, Nanner Head; 9 p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Tea Leaf Green, Atlas Road Crew; 8 p.m., $10. • LOCAL 506: Mantle, Tournament, Minor Stars; 9 p.m., $8. • MEREDITH COLLEGE: CARSWELL CONCERT HALL: Free Spirits Ensemble; 3 p.m., $10–$12. Raleigh Symphony Orchestra; 3 p.m., $10–$12. • MOTORCO: La Santa Cecilia; 8 p.m., $24–$28. • POUR HOUSE: Andy Timmons Band, Travis Larson Band; 8 p.m., $15–$20. • UNC CAMPUS: PERSON HALL: Lindsay LeachSparks; 3 p.m., free.

METAL Long-running FACETS post-metal explorers Mouth of the Architect arrive on the heels of releasing the new Path of Eight. On the newly released LP’s lead single, “Drown the Old,” the band maintains its penchant for contemplative pacing and tense dynamics but brings elements of prog rock and ambient electronics to the fore, creating a nimble backing for meandering melody that erupts suddenly into burly sludge. The Ohioans are on tour with New York’s Netherlands and New Jersey’s Zvi, both of which offer unorthodox approaches to heavy music. Raleigh’s Grohg opens with a multifaceted fusion of black metal, hardcore, and doom.

—BCR [KINGS, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.]

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TUE, OCT 11 Cinemechanica, Solar Halos, Wailin’ Storms HEAVY & All three bands DYNAMIC assembled tonight offer music that could rightly be

POSITIVE The Mowgli’s radiate VIBEY love with uplifting lyrics and a classic California indie-rock sound, a combination that has led to favorites like “I’m Good” and “San Francisco.” The well-wishing spirit of the music is matched by the positive attitudes of the six band members, whose stage presence is sure to keep listeners in good spirits throughout the show. Support from Colony House and Dreamers. —JS [CAT’S CRADLE, $15-17/8 P.M.]

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COME OUT & SHOW THEM The devastation wrought by HB 2 has galvanized the artistic community in the Triangle like no other political issue in recent memory. Come Out & Show Them: A Benefit to Take Back Our State looks to be one of the most prominent events yet spurred into being by the so-called bathroom bill. Some of the Triangle’s biggest musical names have signed on, an indication of a willingness to come together and take a strong stand against bigotry and divisiveness. The depth and breadth of the artists involved testify to the strength of opposition to the law, enacted in secret by the legislature in March and wreaking havoc statewide ever since.

Friday night opens with a straightforward one-two punch at Kings, with rapper Oak City Slums and the silky, good-vibes grooves of area favorites Sylvan Esso. It’s the next night where things turn into a something like Hopscotch in miniature, with five venues presenting bills of five or six acts each, leaving festivalgoers with a potentially complicated list of commitment problems. You can mix and match a multiflavored evening, or you can settle in for a masterfully curated bill of kindred spirits. Hiphop will reign at Ruby Deluxe, with Well$, Ace Henderson, and Professor Toon. Over at Slim’s, The Veldt and Lacy Jags will lean hard on their effects pedals, yielding to heavy metal from Demon Eye before the mighty American Aquarium takes it home. Kings is all about Southern roots, with a lineup that includes Mipso, Tift Merritt, and Mount Moriah, and Neptunes will jump with Body Games’s dreamy electronica, GRRL’s inventive club beats, and a danceable mix by the estimable DJ Chocolate Rice.

Come Out & Show Them is also the name of the event’s organizing group, a Raleigh-based nonprofit founded by journalist/activists Tina and Grayson Haver Currin (disclosure: Tina is an INDY contributor and Grayson is a former INDY editor). The event’s beneficiaries include Common Cause and Democracy N.C., groups that fight for equitable outcomes in the political sphere, along with Southerners on New Ground, which works on behalf of the LGBTQ community. Recently, we’ve seen ample evidence of the widespread unpopularity of HB 2, and the diversity of the musical acts gathered for this event mirrors the diversity and lively spirit the event hopes to promote further in a post-Pat McCrory North Carolina. —David Klein VARIOUS VENUES, RALEIGH, VARIOUS TIMES, $50, www.comeoutandshowthem.com

ALSO ON TUESDAY CITY LIMITS SALOON: Maren Morris; 7 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Istandard Producer Showcase; 9:30 p.m., $10. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ernest Turner; 7 p.m., $5–$10.

WED, OCT 12 Bronze Radio Return AD ROCK This six-piece crew from Connecticut has achieved that modern kind of success where its songs have reached millions of listeners via licensing arrangements in movies and ads and gigs on large international stages, without resulting in much name recognition. But the band’s songs are accomplished and deeply hook-laden, with a woodsy appeal reminiscent of Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons. In the opening slot is Air Traffic Controller, a band that also likes hooks that go whoa-oh. —DK [MOTORCO, $12–$15, 8 P.M.]

Diarrhea Planet RIFFFour guitarists are ARAMA completely unnecessary for any band except Nashville garage rockers Diarrhea Planet, for whom that sort of overindulgence is the entire point.

Fueled by hair metal and pop-punk, the sextet’s army of shredders unleashes an avalanche of solos—complete with fingertapping and behind-thehead theatrics—between choruses that command raised fists. Don’t forget your earplugs.

Western Medication and The Nude Party open. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

The Turnpike Troubadours RED The Turnpike RAMPAGE Troubadours have taken the red dirt circuit by storm for nearly a decade, bringing their raucous country act to venues all across Texas and their home state of Oklahoma. Self-produced and self-titled, the band’s 2015 LP

peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard country charts. The crew sears with its aggressive blend of fiddle and guitar. Dalton Domino opens.

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Wood Brothers ROOTSY Guitarist Oliver FUNK Wood spent the early nineties on the road with Atlanta bluesman Tinsley Ellis before starting King Johnson, a tribute to great bluesmen as if they were backed by Lowell George and a swamp funk horn section. Meanwhile, his bassist brother, Chris, was jazzily funking it up with Medeski Martin & Wood. The brothers got together in 2005 as the Wood Brothers, with elements of all their priors and then some. —GB [CAROLINA THEATRE, $26–$55/8 P.M.]

Richard Pinhas SYNTH As a member of SMARTS pioneering Parisian rock outfit Heldon in the seventies, avant-rock and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas helped Trojan horse sequenced synthesizers into the dominant notions of rock, at a time when the mixture was still considered exotic and strange. In the following four decades, he’s never given up that adventurous spirit, whether via his own luminescent synth explorations or his collaborations with modern noise titans like Wolf Eyes and Merzbow. Aficionados of the history of electronic music would do well not to miss this. With Wume, Northside Syndicate, and Patrick Gallagher. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $15/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Cicada Rhythm, Michaela Anne; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Johnny Folsom 4 and Patsy Cline Tribute; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LOCAL 506: Ozzy Ozzborn, Rob Sonic Upgrade, Rafael Vigilantics; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony; 8 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Jahman Brahman, Fonix; 9 p.m., $6–$8.

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Reception: Oct 7, 6-9:30 p.m.

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

The Contemporaries: Work by Carrie Alter, Jeff Bell, Charles Chace, Casey Cook, Lynda Curry, Warren Hicks, Jimmy Fountain, Heather Gordon, Harrison Haynes, Soleil Konkel, Leigh Suggs, and Steve Walls.

Oct 7-Nov 19, 6-9 p.m. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www. lightartdesign.com.

SPECIAL Drawn to Water: EVENT Photography by Bryce Lankard. Ongoing.

Reception: Oct 7, 6-9 p.m.; Artist talk: Oct 9, 4 p.m.

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com.

SPECIAL Elsie Dinsmore EVENT Popkin: The Art of Carolina: Landscape images.

Oct 7-Nov 17. Reception: Oct 7, 6-9 p.m. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Ellen Hathaway: Oct 7-Dec 17.

Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh. skyhouseraleigh.com.

Shelton Cooper Hodge: Oct 7-Dec 17. HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

Illicit Detail: Work by Gray Griffin. Oct 5-30. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Jill Hunt: Youthful Musings: Paintings. Oct 7-29, 6-9:30 p.m.

Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www.tippingpaintgallery.com.

A Man Singing To Himself:

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10.05–10.12 Jill Snyder. Part of the Click!

Triangle Photography Festival.

Oct 7-Dec 30. Durham Arts Council. www.durhamarts.org.

SPECIAL New Corridors EVENT Exhibition: Work by Marnie Blum, Kristan Five, Shawn Hart, Chieko Murasugi, Pete Sack, and Pat Scull. Oct 7-Nov 26. Reception: Oct 7, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

One by Two, Line to Color: Leslie Pruneau and Sarah Tector. Oct 7-30. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

Pots in the Piedmont: Pottery

by North Carolina artists. Oct 11-Nov 6. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

SPECIAL A Sense Of...: EVENT Photography.

Ongoing. Reception: Oct 7, 6-9 p.m. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

SPECIAL Tonal Landscapes: EVENT Work by Lori White.

Oct 7-Nov 1. Reception: Oct 8, 2-4 p.m. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. naturalsciences.org.

Walden Pond in Four Seasons: Selections from Transcendental Concord by Lisa McCarty: Photographs and text. Oct 6-Nov 26. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www.bullcityarts.org.

SPECIAL The Willard EVENT Suitcases: Photography. Oct 7-20.

Reception: Oct 7, 6-9 p.m.

The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www.themahlerfineart.com.

ONGOING LAST Against the Wall: CHANCE Paintings by Katherine Armacost. Thru Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Backwoods to Bayou: Southern folk art. Thru Nov 17. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www.historichillsborough.org.

LAST By the Sea: Robert CHANCE Harrison. Thru Oct 8. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham.

www.eruuf.org.

Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Dale Chihuly has taken blown glass into the upper echelons of fine art. This private collection focuses on vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe Closer Than You Appear: Work by Christine Holton.

Thru Oct 29. Naomi Gallery and Studio, Durham. www. naomistudioandgallery.com/.

Collections: Leah Sobsey.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

Cuba Now: Photography by Elizabeth Matheson. Ongoing.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

Dissection of Color: Paintings

by Sara McCreary. Thru Oct 15.

The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org.

Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation: In this visually dazzling, politically charged exhibit, artists of international renown and local legends alike unravel clothing, costume, and ornament into identity politics, especially those pertaining to race. Ongoing.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello LAST Dwane Powell: The CHANCE Art of Politics 40 Years of Editorial Cartoons & Then Some: Dwane Powell retrospective. Thru Oct 8.

Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Go Figure!: Paintings by Linda Carmel and Marcy Lansman and sculpture by Lynn Wartski. Thru Oct 23.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Jillian Goldberg, Susan LaMantia, Constance Pappalardo: Thru Oct 31.

CHRIS MUSINA: “STILL LIFE WITH BIFURCATED POSSUM”

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

CHRIS MUSINA: JUST ANOTHER ANIMAL It’s the quotidian nature of the trash—an issue of Country Living magazine, a crushed 7 Up can, a Starbucks cup, a Back to Nature brand snack box—and the photorealistic style of Chris Musina’s oil painting that really get you. Or OK, actually, it’s the way these elements combine with the two-headed possum that dominates the scene, one head snarling, the other gazing accusingly at the viewer. Musina, a Richmond, Virginia-based artist who earned a graduate degree in art at UNC-Chapel Hill, imbues his studies of how animals are represented in visual culture with a bleak, nihilistic, almost post-human vision. He paints and draws his way into dark places where the wild encroaches on the domestic, and vice versa. After this opening reception, Musina’s antianthropocene exhibit Just Another Animal is on view at Lump through Oct. 29.

—Brian Howe LUMP, RALEIGH 6–9 p.m., free, www.teamlump.org

Village Art Circle, Cary. www. villageartcircle.com.

Harvest: Member exhibition.

Thru Nov 13. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Kim Herold: Mixed media work.

Thru Nov 30. Looking Glass Cafe,

Carrboro. lookingglasscafe.us.

ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe

History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This is the first time in decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings of Old Master painting and sculpture. Thru Mar 19, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.

Into the Woods: Work by Betty Fetvedt, Chris Boerner, and Steve Driggers. Ongoing. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

Ivelisse Jimenez: Jiménez explodes the lineaments of

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abstract painting into threedimensional space. Bright swipes and patterns of paint on walls are augmented with hovering, tensile compositions of plastic, wire, and thread. Jiménez adds a Z axis to most abstractionists’ X and Y, resulting in pieces that change not only depending on the viewer but on where the viewer physically stands. Thru Oct 28.

UNC’s Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu. —Brian Howe Daniel Johnston: Pottery installation. Thru Oct 20. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

Lessons in Wood: Works in wood

by Crafts Center instructors. Thru Oct 28. NCSU’s Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/crafts.

Levitas: Thomas Konneker, Bruce Mitchell, and Zoe Sasson.

Thru Nov 13. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham.com.

SPECIAL Light & Air: Lauren EVENT Crahan and John Hartmann with Freecell Architecture. Thru Oct 29.

Reception: Oct 7, 6-10 p.m.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Local Landscapes, Local Color: Paintings by Sally L. Sutton. Thru Oct 15. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www.tyndallgalleries.com.

Luminous Creatures: Digital images by JP Trostle. Thru Jan 6, 2017. Atomic Fern, Durham. www.atomicfern.com.

LAST Natural Lines: CHANCE Furniture by Jim Oleson. Thru Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

Oppressive Architecture: Photographs by Gesche Würfel.

Thru Dec 4. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

SPECIAL Paintings, EVENT Photographs, Friendship: Works by Clyde Edgerton and John Rosenthal.

Thru Oct 9. Artists’ talk: Oct 6, 6 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Paper Dreams: Part of the Click!

Photography Festival. Thru Oct 31. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Permutations, Progressions + Possibilities: The Art of Vernon Pratt: Thru Nov 28. Betty Ray

McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Photo-Manipulation: The First One Hundred Years: Photography. Thru Oct 15.

Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens.com.

Reverie: Work by Kathy Cousart and Gina Strumpf. Thru Oct 20. ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh.com.

Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s: Thru Jan 15, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

SPECIAL Rorschach: EVENT Photographs by Titus Brook Heagins. Thru Oct 29.

Reception: Oct 7, 6-10 p.m.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection: This exhibit shows how depictions of the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal regions of North Carolina have changed over two centuries in the hands of seventythree painters: Impressionists, realists, folk artists, futurists, postmodernists, and more. Thru Dec 4. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory. org. —David Klein Selections from Uelsmann Untitled: Photographs by Jerry Uelsmann. Thru Oct 15. Through This Lens, Durham. www. throughthislens.com.

LAST The Silence We CHANCE Speak: Work by Erin Canady. Thru Oct 8. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www.thecarrack.org.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art: This is less a simple exhibition than a speculative and critical archive of Southern identity. Slavery, the Civil War, racism, and their complex inheritances?

Much of the work explores and interrogates that. Connections to place so deep that land and body become the same thing?

Many artists unravel the warp and weft of that. The dissonance of the past’s intrusion into the present? The exhibit shimmers with that temporal disorientation. It’s powerful work by supremely capable artists,

and the intensity of their proximity is life-changing. Thru Jan 8, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

—Chris Vitiello

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

CHILDRESS IN MIND How do we know Alice Childress was ahead of her time? In 1955, her Trouble in Mind garnered the first Obie Award given to a black playwright. It presented a scathing indictment of romanticized depictions of race, but never made a planned transition to Broadway after Childress refused to sanitize its ending. And it took the playwright ten years to find a New York producer brave enough to stage Wedding Band, her exploration of an interracial relationship in 1918 Charleston. Black Ops Theatre Company celebrates the centennial of her birth with an evening exploring her life and legacy. After a wine reception and a photography exhibit in the lobby, veteran actors will revisit key scenes from her works. Then a panel including Linda Kerr-Norflett and Kathy Hunter-Williams will assess Childress’s ongoing contributions to the American stage and the wider culture. —Byron Woods

Split Personalities: Bob Rankin, Rebecca Patman, Brenon Day. Thru Oct 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Steinfest: Ceramic beer steins.

Thru Nov 14. Claymakers, Durham. www.claymakers.com.

Studio Touya: The Pottery of Hitomi and Takuro Shibata: Pottery. Thru Oct 30. Tiny Gallery at the Ackland Museum Store, Chapel Hill.

Ana Sumner, Lynn Patton: Fiber art and painted porcelain. Thru Oct 25. Cary Gallery of Artists. www. carygalleryofartists.org.

The Jemima Code: Photographs

by Toni Tipton-Martin. Thru Nov 5. Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

THIS CAMPAIGN IS YUUUGE!: Cartoonists Tackle the 2016 Presidential Race: Collection of 2016 election cartoons. Thru Dec 2. Duke’s Rubenstein Hall, Durham. sanford.duke.edu.

The Ties That Bind: Work by Precious Lovell. Thru Jan 8, 2017. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

Under the Burning Sun: Work

by Kenneth Nkosi. Ongoing.

Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

LAST Within - Without: CHANCE Sculpture by Jeff Bell. Thru Oct 7. SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www. spectrearts.org.

Wonders of Space and Time: Astrophotography: Photographs by Tim Christensen. Thru Nov 6.

Durham Arts Council. www. durhamarts.org.

LAST Zanele Muholi: CHANCE Faces and Phases: Photography. Thru Jan 8, 2017.

Artist lecture: Oct 6, 7 p.m.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

MANBITES DOG THEATER, DURHAM 7:30 p.m., $15, www.manbitesdogtheater.org

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www.carolinatheatre.org.

Nickel and Dimed: Play. $10-$22. Oct 7-22. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Raleigh. www. sfaraleigh.org.

OPENING

Oklahoma!: Musical. Thru Oct 9. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Clear & Sweet: Dance work by zoe | juniper. $10-$20. Wed, Oct 5 & Thu, Oct 6, 7:30 p.m. UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www. carolinaperformingarts.org. See story, p. 27.

Rent: Musical. $23-$115. Oct 11-16. Durham Performing Arts Center. www.dpacnc.com.

Disney Live!: Mickey and Minnie’s Doorway to Magic: $25-$55. Sat, Oct 8, 1 & 4 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com.

Dracula: Play. $18-$24. Oct 6-16, 7:30 p.m. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www. theatreinthepark.com.

EverScape: Play. $10-$18. Oct 6-23. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad. com. See p. 28.

Nikki Glaser: Stand-up comedy. $20. Oct 6–Oct 8. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Andy Hendrickson, Mia Jackson: Stand-up comedy. Sat, Oct 8, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater,.

Kathleen Madigan: Stand-up comedy. $26-$36.

Fri, Oct 7, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Respeck the Road Comedy Tour: Featuring Meredith Armstrong, Jordan Bench, and Reid Clar. $7. Sun, Oct 9, 8 p.m. 106 Main, Durham.

The Search for North Carolina’s Funniest Accountant: Tue, Oct 11. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www.goodnightscomedy.com.

Skylight: Play. $5-$25. Oct 6-22. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www. burningcoal.org. See p. 28.

ONGOING  ½ Mothers and Sons: Play. Thru Oct 9. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org. Read Byron Woods’s review at www.indyweek.com.

The Trump Card: Staged reading. $6-$10. Thru Nov 7. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9

GERALDINE BROOKS: THE SECRET CHORD There’s David the myth, who slew Goliath with a sling and had a direct line to God through the prophet Nathan. And then there’s David the man, about whom very little is known for sure.

He may or may not have been a Hebrew king who united Judah and Israel; he may or may not have been a superlative musician who wrote half the Bible’s Psalms. In her most recent novel, now out in paperback, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks gives the former David the latter’s proportions. The title comes from Leonard Cohen (“I heard there was a secret chord/ That David played and it pleased the Lord”), the history mostly from the Bible, and the gleaming prose and vivid incidents from the author’s prodigious imagination. It’s like reading a streamlined Old Testament with an unexpurgated account of David’s weaknesses as well as his glories, as we see him through the eyes of his prophet, his wives, and others who observe the human foibles shining though his mythic armor. —Brian Howe THE FEARRINGTON BARN, PITTSBORO 2 p.m., $16 (book purchase), www.fearrington.com

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BBQ & Friends: Featuring Nana’s, Nanataco, Saltbox Seafood Joint, Foster’s Market, Rise and The Original Q Shack.

Fundraiser for TROSA. $10-$25.

Sun, Oct 9, 1 p.m. TROSA Inc. Durham. trosainc.com.

Chapel Hill Downtown Pop Up Farmers’ Market: Thursdays, 3:30 p.m.; Thru Oct 27. The Plaza at 140 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill.

Cider Class with Mattie Beason: $25. Sat, Oct 8, 3 p.m. Black Twig Cider House, Durham. www.blacktwigciderhouse.com.

Cooks & Books: Lunch with Ronni Lundy: $85. Thu, Oct 6, 1 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Corks & Cakes: Fall Edition: $18.

Sun, Oct 9, noon. The Wine Feed, Raleigh. www.thewinefeed.com.

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DURHAM ROOTS Farmers’ Market: Saturdays, 8 a.m.; Thru Nov 19. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall.com.

Oktoberfest Pop-Up Beer Garden: Featuring Bond Brothers Beer Company and artisan sausage maker Steve George.

Free. Mon, Oct 10, 5 p.m. Kitchen Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Elissa Altman: Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw. Thu, Oct 6, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh; Sat, Oct 8, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham.

Belle Boggs: The Art of Waiting: Tue, Oct 11, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS

Best of Longleaf: Films: 10 short films. Fri, Oct 7, 5 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Burden: Sat, Oct 8, 2 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Earthcaster: Sat, Oct 8, 7 p.m.

Midtown Park Amphitheatre, Raleigh. www.northhillsraleigh. com.

Thunder Road: Sat, Oct 8, 8 p.m. UNEXPOSED, Durham. durhamunexposed.tumblr.com.

Goosebumps: Sat, Oct 8, 3 p.m.

Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough. www.co.orange. nc.us/library.

Let’s Play Live: Sat, Oct 8, 8 p.m.

Crossroads 20, Cary.

So This Is Paris: Fri, Oct 7, 8 p.m.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Sonic Sea: Wed, Oct 5, 7 p.m.

NCSU Campus: Talley Student Center, Raleigh.

Raleigh Urban Agriculture Day: Sat, Oct 8, 9:45 a.m. Mordecai Historic Park, Raleigh. www. raleighnc.gov/mordecai.

OPENING

The Wines of Chile: $35. Thu, Oct 6, 6 p.m. The Fearrington Granary, Pittsboro. www. fearrington.com.

The Birth of a Nation—This period drama tells the story of Nat Turner’s rebellion against American slavery. Rated R. The Girl on the Train—Like Gone Girl? This twisty thriller is basically the British version.

Rated R. Phantasm: Ravager—After almost forty years, Don Coscarelli’s cult horror franchise ends here. Rated R.

Elizabeth Cox: A Question of Mercy. Sat, Oct 8, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. Mon, Oct 10, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Tim Crothers: The Queen of Katwe. Wed, Oct 12, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Maestro William Henry Curry, Jackson Cooper: Playing the Race Chord. Wed, Oct 12, 7 p.m.

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

Emma Donoghue: The Wonder.

Fri, Oct 7, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge

A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ Bad Moms—It’s The Change-Up and The Hangover for women. You’re welcome?

Rated PG-13.  Ben-Hur—Wow, who thought the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter needed a crack at BenHur? Rated PG-13.  ½ Bridget Jones’s Baby— Renée Zellweger’s loveable comic character, now in her forties and pregnant, deserved a better comeback. Rated R.  Deepwater Horizon—This account of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill thrills but leaves important context on the cutting room floor. Rated PG-13.  ½ Florence Foster Jenkins— Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant carry their tunes, but this biopic of an opera singer who couldn’t sing never finds its melody. Rated PG-13.  Hell or High Water—Two texas antiheroes try to make the best of their bad hand in this bleak but brilliant neoWestern. Rated R.

Books, Raleigh. See p. 28.

Chris Grabenstein: Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel. Mon, Oct 10, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Therese Huston: How Women Decide. Tue, Oct 11, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Manuel Rosa: Columbus: The Untold Story. Fri, Oct 7, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Kevin Boyle, Cassie Kircher: Tue, Oct 11, 7 p.m. West End Wine Bar, Durham. www. westendwinebar.com.

Barbara Claypole White: Echoes of Family. Sat, Oct 8, 11 a.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro; Thu, Oct 6, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Cara’s Kindness. Wed, Oct 12, 4:30 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9

BENDING SPACE: GEORGES ROUSSE AND THE DURHAM PROJECT Ten years ago, an acclaimed Parisian trompe l’oeil painter named Georges Rousse was coaxed to come to Durham by a coalition GEORGES ROUSSE of artists and downtown FILE PHOTO BY LISSA GOTWALS culture mavens who financed his residency.

They reasoned that the dust-gathering remnants of the city’s tobacco past would be an ideal fit for the post-industrial iconography in his paintings and photographs. For twenty-three days, Rousse created installations in four of the city’s dying, unused industrial locations. As Kenny Dalsheimer and Penelope Maunsell’s documentary Bending Space makes clear, much of that Durham has been swept away or transformed wholly, making the film ever more relevant in 2016. Presented by the Click! Triangle Photography Festival and others, this tenthanniversary screening also happens to coincide with the return to the area of the artist himself, who will soon embark on another large-scale project. —David Klein THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $11, www.carolinatheatre.org

 Jason Bourne—Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin returns in an efficient, effective genre exercise with a disposable plot. Rated PG-13.

adds little to the well-worn “band of disreputables” trope.

Rated PG-13.

 The Light Between Oceans—This period romance delivers some Old Hollywood magic. Rated PG-13.

 ½ The Secret Life of Pets— This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.

 ½ The Magnificent Seven— Despite an able cast, this remake

 Suicide Squad—The plot is throwaway thin, but this

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