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10 Three quarters of all GoRaleigh bus riders are African American or Hispanic; one quarter earn less than $15,000 per year.

10 News

14 Pozole, a favorite of the Aztecs, roots Mexican immigrants to their homeland.

20 There are many ways to make pho, but no proper way to eat it.

24 Arts & Culture 28 What to Do This Week

22 Crisp fall weather means soup is in season: a dozen of the Triangle’s best bowls.

36 Arts/Film Calendar

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24 Most of the Art Deco cars on display at Rolling Sculpture were essentially made by hand.

26 Donald Trump snuck up on Mike Daisey, just as he did on the rest of us.

27 Jonathan Lethem’s new novel grew from his dicovery that backgammon hustlers exist.

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Don’t Call It Democracy

We begin this week with Doug MacPherson, who argues that a recent Soapboxer column discouraging third-party votes [“Don’t Nader Us,” September 28] overlooks the fact that, in his view, we need better candidates: “The year 2000 was also my first opportunity to vote, and I voted for Gore,” he writes. “Not that he inspired me; I really wanted to vote for Nader, but it seemed so important to vote against Bush. Then I voted against Bush a second time.

Then Obama came and my friends were hopeful. I wasn’t hopeful, but I saw an opportunity to break the mold of forty-something straight white male presidents in a row. And it worked.

“But now I’m being asked to vote against someone yet again, and I’m sick of it. Democracy is about voting for a candidate you can trust, the person who most represents your own views; politics is about doing whatever it takes to win.

Politics demands we vote for Hillary, not democracy. I truly believe that forcing voters into a pattern of electing the lesser evil will undermine our already imperfect system. Hearing that younger voters want to go third party gives me hope. If Nader had gotten no votes at all, would Bernie have even run? Who else would have been discouraged from trying to beat impossible odds? We need better candidates. We will only get better candidates by showing the dominant parties that we are willing to take our vote elsewhere. I hope Trump loses in November, but let’s not call it democracy if we only ever get to vote against something.”

Dennis Smith is more succinct—and sarcastic: “Yes, I would be thrilled to vote for a criminal who has sold her country out for cash.”

Moving on to last week’s cover story, about Wake County’s transit referendum [“Busboy,” October 5]. Commenter ecodweeb seems to be a reluctant no on the plan. “I really want to support this, but I’m not OK with yet another hike in vehicle registration fees. I already pay $130 more than most everyone else because my car is zero-emission.”

Linda Watson says that, while her experi-

ence on the bus has been largely positive, more frequent and efficient service is necessary.

“I’m in another demographic group the transit planners hope to attract: families trying to get by with one car no matter what their income level,” she writes. “My truck was totaled in an accident eighteen months ago. For almost a year, I couldn’t drive. The silver lining was lower costs and a smaller carbon footprint, so for now we are sticking with one car. Everyone is just an accident away from having to rely on others for transportation. The ‘accident’ that is climate change should also encourage folks to have fewer vehicles and drive fewer miles. …

“On the other hand, the buses come only every half hour, and most of my drives take twenty minutes or less. If the buses came every ten or fifteen minutes, taking them would become the first choice for anyone who wants to avoid traffic and parking hassles.

We also need routes that don’t rely on the hub system. I shouldn’t have to go from west Raleigh to downtown before going to North Hills. It’s a ten-minute drive and an hour bus trip each way.”

“One can’t help but escape the feeling that rightwing-extremist organizations like the John Locke Foundation or Wake County Taxpayers Association (or community activists like Octavia Rainey) may not have the average person’s best interests at heart,” writes commenter Sogno. “I may not ever ride the bus, but as someone who spends 90–150 minutes of my day staring at the vegetation off of I-40, I am pragmatic enough to know that pulling a few cars off the road is in my interest.

I also care to see folks who can’t afford a car aren’t condemned to a life of isolation. We should be empowering our neighbors, and if it costs a little more, so be it.”

“Now I’m being asked to vote against someone yet again, and I’m sick of it.”

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+PROFILES IN COURAGE

On Friday, The Washington Post unearthed a decade-old hot-mic recording of Donald Trump boasting of his sexual prowess to television personality Billy Bush. In it, Trump, then a fifty-nine-year-old newlywed, admitted that he “did try and fuck” a married woman (“I moved on her like a bitch”) and that he popped Tic Tacs because, when he sees a beautiful woman, “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet, just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it.”

And then, the coup d’ grace: “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

The denunciations came fast and furious (including from the maker of Tic Tacs).

By Saturday evening, three-dozen elected Republican officials had said they wouldn’t vote for Trump. House Speaker Paul Ryan disinvited Trump from a campaign event on Saturday, then told colleagues that he would no longer campaign for his party’s nominee.

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another at Sunday’s debate, but tried to shift the focus to Bill Clinton’s long-ago infidelities and unproven accusations of sexual assault, which riled up his Breitbart base while infuriating Republican elites.

The erstwhile Party of Lincoln was cracking up before our eyes.

Which got us wondering: How are North Carolina’s top Republicans, many of whom are locked in pitched reelection battles, responding? Below, we’ve assembled as many statements as we could find—from Twitter and Facebook, from official statements and news reports. You’ll find condemnations aplenty—“Disgusting!” “Indefensible!”— though several self-annointed defenders of virtue have remained noticeably silent (looking at you, Dan Forest).

But what you won’t find is any Tar Heel Republicans saying that they won’t for him.

In so many words, they’re saying that, on one hand, Trump is a vile cretin whom they wouldn’t want in the same room as their daughters, but on the other, what the hell, give him the keys to the Oval Office. Because

to say otherwise would risk offending Trump’s rabid fans, and their convictions don’t have that much courage. That is the very definition of political cowardice.

Governor McCrory: “I condemn in the

strongest possible terms the comments made by Donald Trump regarding women.

I find them disgusting.” (Presumably, he finds Trump’s comments—and not women— disgusting, although, who’s to say for sure?)

Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest: Nothing.

House Speaker Tim Moore: “I strongly

condemn Donald Trump’s comments. This is completely unacceptable.”

U.S. Senator Richard Burr, on Friday: “The comments are inappropriate and completely unacceptable.”

U.S. Senator Richard Burr, on Saturday:

“I am going to watch his level of contrition over the next few days to determine my level of support.”

U.S. Senator Richard Burr, on Monday:

“He’s apologized multiple times since that tape came out, and when I look at what the country needs—and that’s an economy that grows, jobs that are created, and a strong national defense—I’m convinced that I can’t get there with Hillary Clinton. So yeah, I’m supporting Donald Trump.”

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis: “As a proud

husband and father of a daughter, I find Donald Trump’s comments indefensible.”

State Representative Nelson Dollar:

“Donald Trump’s behavior is totally unacceptable. Women should never be exposed to this type of treatment, whether eleven years ago or today.”

Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the N.C. Republican Party: “North

Carolina Republicans agree that these comments are wrong, hurtful and do not represent the highest ideals of our party.”

Dallas Woodhouse, after Sunday’s debate: “Donald Trump rejected the

politics of cronyism and made it clear he will bring strong leadership, prosperity and

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Michelle Nix, vice chair of the NCGOP, on Twitter: “HypocrisyAlert #Libs want men, women, & girls to share LOCKER ROOMS & showers, but now need a ‘Safe Space’ to hear lockerroom talk?!”

N.C. Values Coalition: Silent on Trump’s remarks. Resumed “Hillary’s emails” posts following the debate on Sunday.

State Senator Buck Newton: Silence.

Senate leader Phil Berger: Nope.

U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx: Zilch.

U.S. Representative Renee Ellmers: Nada.

NC for Trump’s first tweet after the video surfaced:“##l@lof lolll#l@m.”

+PROFILES IN OPACITY

On April 5, shortly after HB 2 passed, The Charlotte Observer filed a public records request for emails sent or received by Governor McCrory or his staff that “included, but was not limited to, email exchanges with legislators, administration officials, companies, and Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina staff.”

The paper never got those records; last week, it sued.

This isn’t the first time Team McCrory has been accused to ignoring the state’s

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open-records law. Last year, the INDY, The Charlotte Observer, The News & Observer, and other media outlets sued the McCrory administration, alleging that state agencies failed to produce public documents in a timely manner—or at all.

But this latest case serves as yet another indication of the administration’s cavalier disregard for transparency. Instead of answering records requests, McCrory’s minions often choose to ignore them until threatened with legal action.

We know that all too well. One example: on April 25, the INDY sent a records request to both McCrory and Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, asking for communications related to HB 2. Forest supplied his emails in June. McCrory? We’re still waiting. And those aren’t the only records the gov’s office would rather keep hidden from public view.

Here is a list of our pending, unanswered public records requests, all of which we are entitled to by law.

March 28, 2016: All correspondence between March 23 and March 26 related to the drafting of the governor’s HB 2 “Myths vs.

Facts” press release.

April 25, 2016: All emails from Governor McCrory and chief of staff Thomas Stith between March 14 and March 25 related to the special session and/or HB 2, as well as all emails between February 1 and March 25 from McCrory or Stith related to the

Charlotte ordinance.

May 9, 2016: All correspondence between the governor’s staff and CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS, and ABC employees related to appearances and potential appearances to discuss HB 2 between March 15 and May 9.

June 7, 2016: All communications between McCrory and his scheduler, Meredith McCullen-Steadman.

June 7, 2016: All communications between McCrory or First Lady Ann McCrory and Ann McCrory’s former chief of staff, Heather Dickson, while Dickson was a state employee.

July 15, 2016: All communications associated with the cancellation of Progress NC’s Garden Party Against Hate at the Executive Mansion on July 13.

August 9, 2016: All communications and emails between Department of Health and Human Services employees and the governor’s communications team between August 1 and August 9.

We’ll update this list periodically, if and when new requests are made or if old requests are answered. If past is prologue, most of these will probably be ignored in perpetuity—at least without another lawsuit.

Or maybe a new administration. triangulator@indyweek.com

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After Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” comments surface, Senator Richard Burr says he forgives Trump and will still vote for him. That generosity of spirit must come easy when you don’t have the anatomy a presidential candidate is threatening to go all Don Draper on.

+3

The Charlotte Observer sues the McCrory administration (again) for failing to produce HB 2-related emails requested in April.

Good thing the Republican base doesn’t care about email scandals, right? Right?

-2

The night before Hurricane Matthew struck, McCrory tells a group of conservative pastors that, because of HB 2, he and his wife have been socially shunned. And if anyone knows the pain of being shunned for their homophobia, it’s conservative pastors.

+3

McCrory and opponent Roy Cooper face off in the second of three debates, this one moderated by NBC’s Chuck Todd. Drinking game: take a shot every time someone says “bathroom;” call 911.

-2

Despite the oft-touted “Carolina Comeback,” the state’s poverty rates are still higher than they were before the recession and millennials are struggling to find jobs. Let’s hope some politicians join them come November.

-2

Hurricane Matthew produces record flooding in parts of the state, and more than 250,000 North Carolinians are without power as of Tuesday morning.

McCrory reminds people who take cover in bathrooms to bring their birth certificates.

+3

The N.C. State Fair—including the fair’s new sky ride—will open on Thursday. It’s just like the old sky ride, only each car is deepfried in chocolate and wrapped in bacon.

-2

The Institute for Faith and Family pledges to spend more than $200,000 on pro-HB 2 ads, which it says will protect children from “potentially dangerous” experiences.

Can we get some cash to protect us from them?

This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Paul Blest, and David Hudnall.

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Back of the Bus

HAS RALEIGH’S BUS SYSTEM BEEN LEFT TO LANGUISH BECAUSE MANY OF ITS RIDERS ARE POOR AND BLACK?

BY PAUL BLEST

The Wake County transit plan—which has its primary funding source, a half-cent sales tax hike, on the ballot on November 8—promises to bring long-needed upgrades to the current bus system. But the activists who’ve spent years and decades fighting for these improvements are questioning why it’s taken so long. And, with relief finally on the horizon, some are wondering what improved public transit could mean for Raleigh’s burgeoning gentrification problem—in other words, whether the light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train.

It’s no secret who primarily rides the bus: working-class people of color. According to a GoRaleigh customer survey taken last fall, 68 percent of bus riders are African American; another 10 percent are Hispanic. A quarter of riders make less than $15,000 a year, and nearly half make less than $30,000 per year.

In many ways, the story of Raleigh’s bus system, which was taken over by the county in 1975, mirrors what’s happened elsewhere in the South.

“Most urban bus systems in the United States, there’s what they call ‘needs riders’ and ‘choice riders,’” says Gerry Cohen, a former special counsel to the General Assembly who supports the referendum. “So most urban transit systems, especially in the South, served the black community and working-class neighborhoods. And the white suburbs grew, and transit wasn’t expanded.”

That’s not completely the county’s fault.

Until the state granted Wake County the authority to raise a tax for transit funding in 2009, there was no funding to pursue aggressive improvements. After Republicans, led by commissioner and former Raleigh mayor Paul Coble, took control of the board in 2010, they repeatedly derailed votes on transit, specifically citing concerns about the cost of light rail.

But having taken unanimous control of

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the board in 2014, all seven Democratic commissioners voted earlier this year to put the Wake County transit plan on the ballot. If approved by voters, the referendum will bring $2.3 billion over the next twenty years into a transit plan designed to improve service and infrastructure and add bus rapid transit and commuter rail.

Current riders want more than just better service, however. Ty Henderson, director of the transportation justice group Capital Bus Riders Association, says that a lack of amenities is a huge issue for lowincome riders. Bus shelters are particularly problematic: in the aforementioned GoRaleigh survey, 32 percent of respondents said they were either “very dissatisfied” or “dissatisfied” with bus stop amenities—i.e., shelters, lights, and benches. That was the second-most common complaint after the lack of weekend service. But in that same survey, among GoTriangle riders—who were 50 percent white and generally wealthier— only 19 percent complained about amenities.

Recently, Henderson posted photos to his group’s Twitter account that contrasted stops in southeast Raleigh and stops near the N.C. State campus and Cameron Village.

None of the southeast Raleigh stops pictured had shelters, while those in west Raleigh did.

One stop in southeast Raleigh didn’t even have a sidewalk. That, advocates say, is a demonstration of institutional indifference toward black riders.

On the Wolfline near N.C. State, Henderson says, “No one has to wait out in the rain and the cold. It’s not the same in southeast Raleigh. We live in the same city, but we have two different classes.”

Referendum advocates say their plan can help fix the disparity in amenities. “[The] lack of bus shelters is a major problem,” says Wake County commissioner John Burns. “Bus rapid transit is going to be a big

change for people in that. If we do that the right way, BRT has stations instead of stops.

It’s a lot different from what people are used to seeing.”

But beyond more immediate problems, like the need for more bus shelters, the issue of gentrification looms large. Activist Octavia Rainey points to America’s biggest transportation program in the twentieth century—the Interstate Highway System—as an example of how transit improvements can displace disadvantaged people.

“If you went through downtown [in the past], downtown was full of nothing but black neighborhoods,” Rainey says. “Those neighborhoods are gone because of anti-poverty programs and highway programs, which is nothing but transit. The bottom line is that we have a lot to be fearful of.”

The highway system, of course, led to white flight and the resulting urban decay.

Wake County commissioners, however, argue that the plan will make life better for its current riders—and, along with a good affordable housing strategy, will help prevent displacement.

“One of the key aspects of gentrification is that people in gentrifying communities see an increase in cost of living,” Wake County commissioner Matt Calabria says. “Transit decreases cost of living and enables people who maybe don’t have cars to go to the store or the doctor or their job.”

“My organization is committed to advocating for a strong affordable housing strategy as transit goes forward,” says WakeUP Wake County executive director Karen Rindge. “We’ve learned from other cities if you plan ahead before you put in that line, we can work with the city and the county to put in a plan so people can afford to live. Gentrification is already happening with our lousy transit system.” l pblest@indyweek.com

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Misery Loves Company BLONDE REDHEAD’S 2004 MASTERWORK GETS THE STRING QUARTET TREATMENT AT DUKE

BY MAX BRZEZINSKI If a band lasts long enough, it will eventually incorporate classical instruments into its music. Metal groups call in the orchestra to lend even more excess to their bombast.

Pop songwriters use classical touches to value-add prestige to their sometimes lightweight craft. Many a punk rocker has gone compositional in order to signal a newfound growth, either real or imagined.

On Friday night, Blonde Redhead will play its 2004 album, Misery Is a Butterfly, in its entirety, backed by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. The band has been reaching for grand compositional and conceptual designs since it started recording in 1993; thus the show looks to be more an elaboration and reconstruction of a peak moment in its evolution than a nostalgiafueled exercise in lily gilding.

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Milan. Arriving stateside later in life, their musical ambition and refined songwriting set them apart from their American peers.

On early records like 1995’s La Mia Vita Violenta and 1997’s Fake Can Be Just As Good, the sound could be messy and damaged around the edges, but it was clear that Blonde Redhead was straining for something far different from what their American post-punk peers were after. “Futurism vs. Passéism Part 2,” from 1998’s In an Expression of the Inexpressible, embodies this complexity, functioning both as a driving rock song and an experimental hybrid that takes nineties American punk and turns it into an art project. It features stopand-start arrangements, alternate tunings, and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto blitzing through a French recitation on Italian modernism.

Rechanneling English through Italian and Japanese syntax, early Makino and Pace vocals encrypted the band’s sound. It

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often felt as if they were playing out inscrutable private intrigues among themselves while listeners were left somewhere on the brink of comprehension.

Misery Is a Butterfly, released in 2004, was the first album the band made with a broader listening public in mind. Polished head music, it overlays drum machine tracks and processed loops with string hits and swells, with vocals that are clearer and more cleanly produced than on previous works. Though not exactly confessional, the songs communicate immediately recognizable experiences. In 2002, Makino was nearly trampled to death by a horse. She required major facial reconstructive surgery and months of convalescence. Songs like “Elephant Woman” and “Equus” deal with the aftermath of the accident, while many of Amedeo’s contributions focus on his own role as a secondary survivor of Makino’s brush with death.

But Misery Is a Butterfly doesn’t seek to immerse the listener in the trauma of its content; rather, its songs attempt to distill the essence of specific emotional states and present them for analysis. It’s as much a record about feeling as it is an expression of feelings. The music tries to reproduce the phenomenal textures specific to particular emotional states. The swirling “Anticipation” and “Magic Mountain” explore the vertigo of unfulfilled desire. “Falling Man” and “Messenger” untangle the existential chaos of feeling thrown into the world, while the title track tackles the amorous, braked time of melancholia. For the first time, the band was working from the inside out, attempting to communicate thoughts and emotions beyond merely oblique, cryptic gestures. The result is a cohesive conceptual presentation in which musical and lyrical motifs repeat to present a total vision of how extreme emotional states like love, hate, and trauma sound and feel.

As a result, orchestral arrangements seem a fitting tool with which to reimagine the romantic obsessions of the original Misery Is a Butterfly. When the band played the record live at the Ottobar in Baltimore just after its release, the sound was stripped down, the sonics more in line with the band’s previous material than its most recent recording. In the studio, these longtime admirers of Serge Gainsbourg’s arranger, Jean Claude-Vannier, had been

able to capture his epic, lush post-classical vibe, but they seemed unsure of how to bring it to the stage.

The American Contemporary Music Ensemble’s arrangements will fill in the record’s sketched psychodramas, uncovering latent intensity and emotional heights.

In the setting of Reynolds Industries Theater, this performance of Misery Is a Butterfly promises to be a grander affair than prior ones, or even the original recording— an occasion for the band to let its ambition manifest completely.

Blonde Redhead’s classical turn makes sense in a performing arts context such as Duke Performances. Since “art-damaged” post-punk music has moved from the center of alt-music culture (now finally sharing space with worthy dance, electronic, folk, and “world” musics), it feels natural for its practitioners to jump into more controlled, curated spaces. No longer in the wheelhouse of youth culture, the tradition has had to swerve in a new direction in order to stay vibrant and relevant. With Henry Rollins and Thurston Moore as talking heads on every music documentary and Patti Smith now a regular on the New York Times bestseller list, reframing experimental rock as “art music” seems both the most interesting aesthetic possibility and the most economically viable one. The alternative—stultifying, nostalgia-fueled cash grabs, self-regarding avant-garde navel gazing, or dispirited deck-chair rearrangement—is simply disheartening.

In the hands of many of Blonde Redhead’s contemporaries, this sort of orchestral reimagining has often come across as cynical courtship of a new middlebrow audience. More important, such projects often don’t work musically: the mere addition of strings to basic rock songs simply sounds tacked on and tacky. But Misery Is a Butterfly was a romantic, conceptually thought-through work in its original state; all that was required was the technical means to bring out the full complexity of its musical and lyrical layers. Those in attendance when Blonde Redhead and American Contemporary Music Ensemble perform it can expect to hear new things, whether they know the album inside and out or not at all.

What more can you ask from a band that’s already given so much?

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DISH:

SOUP FOR YOU Eating is a way to understand the history that has shaped your community—and to learn to respect the history of others. Food represents a beautiful, complicated negotiation of cultures among indigenous peoples of the Americas, immigrants, and the rest of us. Nowhere is this essence of food distilled more clearly than in a bowl of soup.

I like to think that, with each sip, we are celebrating myriad cultural exchanges and traditions, both old and new. In DISH, we’ll tell you why pho, an item that has made some big cultural-appropriation headlines lately, is so personal.

We’ll explore the holy power of pozole and how it brings a little bit of Mexico to North Carolina. We make the case for Brunswick stew as distinctly Carolinian. We offer tips from local cookbook authors on restoring your mama's chicken soup recipe, and ask whether the bone broth craze is worth its salt.

Plus, we offer DIY cracker recipes and an illustrated take on our favorite local soups. We hope you sit a while with this issue, just like you'd let a soup do its thing.

Low and slow.

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Bowls of pozole are distributed at a mobile home park in Durham to celebrate the patron saint of Cherán, Michoacán, Mexico.

The Power of Pozole

A MEXICAN STEW OF DEVOTION AND CELEBRATION SIMMERS IN DURHAM STORY BY VICTORIA BOULOUBASIS

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o know pozole and all that the stew holds is to know of devotion—to tradition, to family, and to a spirituality rooted in both.

Teresa Ceja Bautista says her pozole represents a devotion to her pueblo Cherán, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, and to the patron saint: San Francisco, widely known as Saint Francis of Assisi.

On a recent evening, the Ceja Bautista family is hosting the third of nine days set out for the saint’s festival.

Nearly a hundred people are gathered at the family’s home to honor his miracles in their beloved Cherán, from which they all began emigrating in the 1990s.

Many are single adult men, who traded growing corn and raising cattle in Cherán for better-paying landscaping and construction jobs here. Most are

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mothers and fathers whose children only know Cherán by the reimagined memories written on the faces they meet in Durham.

Every October, Catholic devotees celebrate Saint Francis of Assisi, whose legacy of humility—along with Catholicism and pork—reached the Americas with the conquistadors. The Aztecs revered pozole, a stew whose main ingredient is maize. The sacred kernel still symbolizes resistance today in places where Big Ag interests like Monsanto threaten traditions. The particular corn in pozole is what we call hominy—thick, mealy kernels cultivated by indigenous Americans in North, Central, and South America.

(For a tasty pozole at a local restaurant, try Azteca Grill in Durham’s Lakewood neighborhood, owned by the Resendiz

Apolonio family from Michoacán.)

In the Ceja Bautistas' backyard, the evening air carries the aromas of church incense, teenage cologne, and simmering onions down a dirt path scattered with pine needles, which forges an aisle through eight rows of folding chairs.

Shiny papel picado hangs from above.

The flags, cut like paper snowflakes into Mexican folkloric designs, crisscross with utility light bulbs strung from one mobile home roof to the other, the anchors for the celebration.

Padre Marcos Leon, a Peruvian priest from Saint Bernadette Catholic Church in Butner, arrives late to a seated congregation. Teresa and the women who cooked the pozole shuffle chairs into a row by the three cauldrons of soup behind the altar, so they can keep

“Pozole is rarely reduced to a stockpot recipe for eight. Instead, it's a celebration food with an entire pig's head bobbing in a cauldron.”

an eye on it.

Padre Leon, wearing a plaid shirt, stands at an altar cut out of cardboard to look like a tabernacle, at least twenty feet high and decorated with reflective paper, woven baskets, folk art, flowers, and candles surrounding two statues of San Francisco. Devotees have already pinned dollar bills onto the cloaks of each idol and adorned them with garlands of animal crackers to bless their pets and livestock—signs of gratitude and hope for more miracles. Teresa centers a portrait of her deceased mother at the front, to honor her roots.

Padre Leon slips on priestly vestments, the hem of his white robe stopping just above a pair of dusty blue Adidas Sambas. As he gets ready, he clearly smells the feast awaiting him and immediately chooses his opening line.

“If the priest doesn’t eat, people get offended,” he declares loudly as the congregants laugh. “So I have to eat two plates, minimum.”

Dionicio Sixtos and Javier Hernandez carry pozole to people attending a mass for San Francisco at the Ceja Bautista family home in Durham.

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hen Teresa finds out I’ve eaten pozole in Mexico, on Christmas, she laments not having enough time to properly prepare the dried maize herself. This nixtamalization process is what the indigenous people developed to aid in digestion: soaking the kernels in highly alkaline limewater to loosen the hulls until they slide off, making it softer.

It frees niacin into the body so that nutrients are absorbed and the eater doesn’t get sick.

(This process is also employed to grind corn

into masa for tortillas and tamales.)

Pozole is rarely reduced to a stockpot recipe for eight. Instead, it's a celebration food that simmers all day with an entire pig’s head bobbing in a cauldron. Sometimes it’s green or white, but this evening it’s red, spiced by guajillo and other peppers.

“Corn is most economical in Mexico,” Teresa says. “We harvest it in Cherán as our main crop. We don’t use as much meat because it’s expensive.”

Here in the hog capital of the world, Teresa had reserved a large, shallow pan with extra shredded pork that she scooped into each Styrofoam bowl. After closing the service with an emotional prayer to San Francisco, asking him to protect immigrants who cross the border, Padre Leon is served a huge bowl of pozole. (It's so big, he opts out of seconds.)

Men carry dozens of trays out to the seats, where members of the community grab soup and fixings: shredded lettuce, sliced radishes,

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Margarita Peña and Lilia Garcia prepare pots of pozole following mass.

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lime wedges, and pickled chili peppers.

Hominy is more filling, gratifyingly so, than potato or any other stew thickener.

Like the Aztecs and the Mayans in Mexico, the native Cherokee in North Carolina used hominy, nixtamalizing it with lye to ground into grits. Later, colonizers introduced pork, and hog and hominy became a Southern food.

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At Monday’s celebration, Teresa and other parents repeat a refrain like a prayer: that their children remember their Mexican culture is rooted in spiritual traditions and celebrations, ones that express gratitude with generosity. vbouloubasis@indyweek.com

Broth vs. Stock

CHICKEN SOUP FOR EVERY SOUL

WHY THERE’S REALLY NO DEBATE

Local Cookbook Authors Share Stock Tips

BY BRIDGETTE A. LACY You can call it bone broth, but most folks know it’s still stock.

Kate Elia, owner of Growers and Cooks, a Durham-based company making homemade stocks for home cooks, says customers keep asking her about bone broth. It’s become fashionable for those looking for a healing elixir with restorative properties.

“It’s a term created for the health-minded subset,” Elia says. “They are people typically wanting to consume a liquid for health benefits.”

Elia explains that in culinary terms, stock is a cooking liquid made from simmering bones. “You can add aromatics and vegetables such as onion and carrots,” she says.

The bones cook on a low heat from three to eight hours. Chicken bones normally break down in four to five hours; beef bones take more like eight to nine.

For a bone broth more robust in health benefits, you can simmer meat bones for up to twenty-four hours, says Elia. You “really want to dissolve the bone into the liquid,” she says, adding that some people add vinegar to aid in that process.

But that extracts more collagen than flavor. Elia warns that she would never add vinegar to her stock because it sours the taste. Elia, who thinks of herself as the home cooks’ new “BFF” wants customers to have a quality stock as a hearty base for soups, risottos, or other dishes.

“I was looking to help home cooks make incredible recipes that are simple. But I know they don’t always have four hours to make stock,” she says.

She says many store-bought broths and stocks are made out of dehydrated powder, yeast products, and loaded with sodium.

Her chicken stock is flavored with pastured raised chicken parts, leeks, carrots, onions, garlic, bay leaf, and black pepper. No salt for her small batches of stock. Growers and Cooks is available at several Trianglearea locations, at the Carrboro and Durham farmers markets, and online.

Then there’s broth. Cookbook author Nancie McDermott aptly describes it this way: “Broth is when you intentionally make

Kate Elia of Growers and Cooks makes a stock with pumpkin. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

something you are going to eat.” Stock is often just a cooking liquid, whereas broth may be a bowl of chicken soup. At home in Chapel Hill, McDermott likes simmering together “yummy chicken parts,” onions, celery, and carrots in water. She then pulls the meat off the bones and returns it to the pot, making a tasty soup.

McDermott, author of Southern Soups and Stews, suggests being choosy before throwing just anything into a soup pot. Don’t use cruciferous vegetables in broth, like bok choy, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, or cabbage.

Once overcooked, they don’t smell or taste good. These ingredients work better in broth bowls, she says, which is pouring hot liquid over slightly cooked vegetables.

The real key to making a mouthwatering bowl is to layer the flavors, says Jennifer Seay, co-manager of Cary’s Whisk kitchen school and a soup master.

A memorable soup needs to be cared for, Seay explains. You can make a butternut squash soup with sautéed onions, broth, and squash. But if you want it to taste better than baby food, it needs more nuanced flavors and textures. Start with the mirepoix. Roast the vegetables first for a depth of flavor. Add some ginger, orange peel, and lemongrass.

“It adds bright and spicy notes,” Seay says.

Because butternut is sweet, she suggests a garnish of toasted pumpkin seeds, crispy pancetta, or a dollop of mascarpone cream.

The upcoming holidays are a great time to make soups for people. “It’s such a generous thing to do,” Seay says. “It heals and nourishes. It’s the ultimate comfort.” food@indyweek.com Bridgette A. Lacy is a freelance writer and the author of Sunday Dinner, a Savor the South cookbook from UNC Press.

To finish off a chicken soup, Nancie McDermott suggests adding scallions or green onions toward the end. Sliced thinly, they prettily float to the top.

You want little bites, no big chunks.

Use both the white and green parts.

For an Asian touch, McDermott says ginger adds zing to any broth.

Slice it into pieces the size of a quarter, and don’t peel it (the skin harbors lots of flavor). Remove the ginger before you ladle the soup into bowls.

Finish it off with a drizzle of toasted sesame oil, for an incredible aroma and nutty flavor, and chopped cilantro.

To create an Italian version, McDermott suggests throwing in cannellini beans. Rinse them first if you use canned ones. For color and texture, add chopped Swiss chard. Add the stems first; wait to add the chard leaves at the last minute so they quickly wilt without getting soggy. Stir in diced tomatoes and garnish with a little basil at the end. Or heat olive oil in a pan with chopped fresh garlic. Cook for five to ten minutes, sizzling until golden. Spoon that on top of soup.

For Latin flavor, cookbook author Sandra Gutierrez suggests throwing a small, tied bunch of cilantro in the pot for a minute (stems, too) to immerse its aromatics, then removing it. Finish off each bowl with a few drops of hot sauce and a squeeze of lime. Then garnish the soup with fried tortilla strips and cubes of avocado. “Boom,” says Gutierrez, author of four cookbooks, including Latin American Street Food. “It livens up the soup. You get that contrast of fresh and cooked.”

For a more Caribbean flavor, Gutierrez suggests sautéing a mixture of chopped onions, sweet peppers, and tomatoes in olive oil, then adding it to the soup at the end. “That’s called sofrito,” she says. “It adds an extra layer of flavor and awakens the palate.”

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baking time.)

Transfer the squares to the prepared baking sheet and use a chopstick to create a hole in the center of each cracker. Repeat with the remaining dough section. You can reroll the dough scraps a couple of times.

Bake for ten to twelve minutes, until the edges and bottoms are just starting to color; they will continue to crisp as they cool. Let cool completely before serving. To store, keep in an airtight container or plastic bag.

SALTY WHOLE-WHEAT CRACKERS Yield: about 2 1/2 cups crackers Imagine Wheat Thins colliding with saltines. These crackers are crunchy and salty, with a nutty flavor from whole-wheat flour.

They’re also mild enough to work well with a wide range of soups. Pair with chicken noodle, clam chowder, minestrone, or cream of mushroom.

Do-it-yourself crackers add a homemade crunch to your favorite soups. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

Take a Crack At It

RITZ SCHMITZ—MAKE YOUR OWN SOUP CRACKERS

BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE

We can all agree that canned soup has nothing on the real deal. So why do we settle for commodity crackers? While they sound fussy to pull off at home, do-it-yourself crackers are no trickier than making biscuits or cookies—you just roll the dough thinner. Still don’t believe me? Try one of these recipes.

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dar) yields flaky, crumbly, bite-sized crackers. To get the full fake-cheese-it effect, cut them into tiny squares and poke a hole in the center. Pair with tomato, cream of broccoli, cream of spinach, and French onion.

4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, soft 8 ounces sharp cheddar, grated 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon salt Combine the butter and cheddar in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Cream on medium-high speed until completely smooth and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as

needed. Add the flour, cornstarch, and salt and mix on low until a dough forms, scraping again as needed.

Divide the dough in two. Form each section into a rough rectangle and bundle in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to two days.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Roll one dough section into a rectangle, roughly 1/8inch thick. (If it tears or breaks, just piece it back together!) Use a pizza wheel or a knife to divide the dough into tiny squares.

(At this point, you can freeze the crackers on the tray, then transfer them to a big bag.

Store in the freezer for up to one month and bake frozen; just add a few minutes to the

1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 teaspoon sugar 2 tablespoons cold butter, cubed 4 to 5 tablespoons buttermilk Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Whisk together all the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Add the butter and pinch the mixture with your fingertips until it turns crumbly. Add the buttermilk, bit by bit, and stir with a fork until cohesive dough forms.

Generously flour a clean work surface.

Roll the dough into a rectangle, roughly 1/8inch thick. Use a pizza wheel or a knife to divide the dough into tiny squares. (At this point, you can freeze the crackers on the tray, then transfer them to a big bag. Store in the freezer for up to one month and bake frozen; just add a couple of minutes to the baking time.) Transfer the squares to the prepared baking sheet and sprinkle kosher or flaky salt on top. You can reroll the dough scraps a couple times.

Bake for ten to twelve minutes, until the edges and bottoms of the crackers are golden brown; they will continue to crisp as they cool. Let cool completely before serving. To store, keep in an airtight container or plastic bag.

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Take Us to Church

HOW NORTH CAROLINA DOES BRUNSWICK STEW RIGHT

BY MATTHEW POINDEXTER

When I was a teenager, determined to drive too fast, I took a curve pretending I was an Earnhardt and spilled six quarts of church fundraiser Brunswick stew on the floorboard of my car.

My mother had sent me to pick up eight Styrofoam containers of soup, but I returned with only two, the rest mixing in with athletic gear behind the driver’s seat. I cleaned it up, but when the temperature peaked the following summer, my Jeep’s interior smelled like a high school locker room crossed with a pig picking. More than a decade later, my mother remains amazed at my recklessness. I suspect she is actually disappointed that I wasted Brunswick stew.

North Carolina barbecue, both the Eastern and Lexington varieties, has found success far outside the state’s borders. I ordered it at a restaurant in Denver when I was feeling homesick. In Scotland, on Edinburgh’s touristy Royal Mile, you can eat pulled pork sandwiches at Bubba’s Q, just one storefront over from a souvenir shop selling scotch and plaid scarves.

At Brooklyn’s Arrogant Swine, chef Tyson Ho claims he is “on a mission to bring traditional North Carolina BBQ to New York City.” His menu includes both Eastern-style whole hog and Lexington shoulder.

One thing you won’t get in Colorado, Scotland, or New York is Brunswick stew. In a 2014 article in Serious Eats, Ho said he would like to serve it but didn’t think anyone in New York would buy it. Although it’s as integral to a North Carolina barbecue menu as fried okra and hush puppies, Brunswick stew hasn’t become a main attraction out of state.

Some historians trace the stew’s origins to a Native American woman, a cook with no recorded name. Most people, however, will only agree that Brunswick stew likely came from Brunswick County, Virginia, or the town of Brunswick, Georgia. People from each Brunswick have strong opinions about the other Brunswick making false claims to its creation, as well as how the pretender ruins the true stew with offending contents and consistency. To hear the Brunswicks bicker is enough to make you swear off the stuff altogether. They argue over whether the stew should be spicy, smoky, or mushy. Then there

A common food at church fundraisers, Brunswick stew is also on the menu at Hillsborough BBQ Company. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER is the question of peas and potatoes: Should they accompany the agreed-upon corn and lima beans?

These ridiculous arguments ignore the fact that traditional Brunswick stew included items like squirrel, possum, and whatever else the cook had on hand. Today’s versions usually stick to chicken and sometimes pork; Hillsborough BBQ Company adds rabbit to the poultry and pig. Brunswick stew being synonymous with squirrel stew may be one reason why the dish hasn’t caught on outside the South. It’s also a chore to make.

Any Brunswick stew worth its salt (and it should have a great deal of salt) takes hours to make. Those hours can stretch overnight if the pot is big enough. The same “low and slow” approach that makes the best North Carolina barbecue also applies to Brunswick stew. Restaurants in New York may be able to justify hiring a pitmaster when a pulled pork sand-

wich sells for $13.95, but they can’t expect to break even on a “stewmaster.” Without someone there to provide the constant attention the stew needs, it simply can’t be done right.

Thankfully, people in North Carolina have the knowledge and desire to make proper Brunswick stew. It stays on the menu at barbecue joints, especially those in the Piedmont. As a New York Times reporter observed in 1993, we Carolina folk are busy eating Brunswick stew while Virginia and Georgia simply argue over it. The story also noted that, in a single issue, one small-town newspaper in Roxboro reported six notices of Brunswick stew fundraisers for a single weekend.

Ignore Virginians and Georgians: those Roxboro fundraisers are probably what Brunswick stew should be. The stew should take a village to make, and feed just as many.

A small team, preferably Boy Scouts, church

elders, or volunteer firefighters, should have taken turns stirring a massive pot or drum with a wooden paddle through the night. If it contains a few more ingredients than an opinionated food historian considers correct, that’s fine. There’s no Reinheitsgebot here.

When I first heard of Christmas and Easter Catholics, I realized I knew people who could accurately be called Christmas, Easter, and Brunswick stew Methodists. They arrived at the fellowship hall for the first time in months to fill a plastic bowl with Brunswick stew. They sat at tables featuring white sleeves of saltines as centerpieces and ate to their hearts’ content, chatting and smiling.

They appreciated Brunswick stew in a way I did not as a teenage driver. I have not wasted a drop since.

Twitter: @mattpoin

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Faux Pho

UNPACKING THE GREAT PHO APPROPRIATION DEBACLE OF 2016

BY KIM LAN GROUT

L

ast month, Bon Appetit published a video in which Tyler Akin, a white male chef at Stock, a Vietnamese restaurant in Philadelphia, sent thousands of Southeast Asian pho eaters into a collective eye roll. Akin explained the “right” way to eat pho, Vietnam’s aromatic signature soup made of beef bone broth, rice noodles, and a bevy of herbs and spices, including ginger, star anise, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, fish sauce, and a hint of fennel as its character ingredients.

But pho is a lot like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: there is no wrong way to eat it.

It wasn’t until I was a teen that I saw my mother, Le Thi Kim Ngân, and two of her sisters eating pho in the same room together. My mom, confirming that eating pho is not a beauty contest, shoveled noodles into her masticating jaws, pausing only to slurp the necessary bit of broth to wash the hot mess down. My youngest aunt used a fork—a fork!—to twirl her noodles spaghettistyle into the cradle of her spoon, then gracefully depressed it into the bowl, filling with broth what empty spaces remained.

My oldest aunt, analytical and strategic, expertly crafted the perfect bite with exact proportions of noodles, broth, meat, sauce, and herb accoutrements. My mom loves the tendon (gân) and tripe (sách) with as many steamed bean sprouts as she can fit in her bowl; my husband, the meatballs (pho bò viên). My dad cooked beef flank (pho bò nam) with enough red chilies (ot cay) to kill a man, while I prefer mine rare and bloody (pho bò tái), simmered conveniently to tender perfection in its hot broth.

My brother, the chef, likes his pho simplest: noodles, broth, white and green onions.

Crowned as our mother’s perfect son and our family’s beloved oldest male grandson, he dutifully serves his parents and me but is the first to begin eating. He does this humbly, complimenting effusively after the first bite but otherwise saying nothing until the last drop is gone. He, of all of us, must finish his bowl, to honor the dish and our mother’s efforts in making it. The entire meal—first 20 | 10.12.16 | INDYweek.com

Kim Lan Grout finds delicious pho at Bowl of Pho in Durham. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

boil, colorful garnishes, the act of eating—is eccentric art and an act of love. Art and love just don’t fit into “right” or “wrong” molds.

It’s the broth that makes pho, though the type and texture of the bánh pho rice noodles play a crucial supporting role in a great bowl.

The added garnishes of basil, lime, cilantro, peppers, bean sprouts, sriracha, and hoisin have the power to either round out the dish beautifully with a delicate balance of bitter, sweet, sour, spicy, fresh, and crunchy, or can even mask a poorly made broth.

But none of that really matters. “Ăn thit.”

Eat the meat, my mom still says to me, a leftover habit from her days in 1950s and 1960s Vietnam, when meat was expensive and not liberally doled out by the communist government. If I am to finish anything in my bowl, she explains, finish the most expensive part.

Pho, a traditional breakfast food, originated in North Vietnam, something the North Vietnamese carry with pride. But it’s been reinterpreted very differently in central and South Vietnam. Pho is as debatable a topic in Vietnam as is pizza between New York and Chicago, or barbecue on either side of North Carolina.

My mother’s pho, arguably the best in the States, is more than the sum of its parts. The flavors of her pho began simmering before I was born, created with what ingredients were available, affordable, or given to her family.

Those first flavors were of desperation, necessity making a mother of invention.

Those tastes changed after she fled, via one week on a slowly sinking fishing vessel on the South China Sea, holding my then four-yearold brother on her lap to avoid dysentery or a fall from the ship into shark-infested waters.

They spent nine months in a Malaysian refugee camp. From there, her pho evolved into a crucial comfort. It was all she had left: five siblings and her own mother scattered across several countries, two siblings dead, their father in a re-education camp, and only the memories of food to give them a home.

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establish roots, to stand up to racism and sexism. My mother tirelessly raised her son into an Asian man his peers would respect, and me, a daughter with a disability, into an assertive, outspoken VietnameseAmerican woman. Through this process, her pho reflected hope and nostalgia. As she met Vietnamese people in the many different communities in which she lived, she’d sample their pho, and their own hopeful flavors reminded her of cherished people and places back home. That’s my mom’s pho.

I want you to eat, enjoy, and even reimagine pho. It is there for you to add your own flavor and spices, and to eat how you want. Like the country and its people, pho is a very warm, welcoming, “come as you are” and “make it what you wish” kind of dish.

But know what it took to get that bowl to your table. In that broth floats history, struggle, perseverance, and strength, garnished with political revolution and turmoil. This comfort food, likely your favorite hangover cure, was carried here on the laps of boat people, in the memories of refugees. Know that Vietnamese people— both in Vietnam and in the States—are deeply proud that Americans love their cuisine, as if to say, “At least the soup made it out OK.” As my brother does, simply eat, and in eating, honor the culture of the soup, honor the story of my mother and her country. Honor its journey here, to your table. food@indyweek.com

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O U R T W E LV E FAV O R I T E S O U P S

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We’ve hit a beautiful moment in this finicky Southern climate, where, finally, cool breezes welcome more generous appetites. With a hankering for the warming foods we’ve missed, we present our favorite soups around the Triangle. Indulge with us as we pack it on for the winter.

DUCK CONGEE LANTERN

423 WEST FRANKLIN STREET, CHAPEL HILL WWW.LANTERNRESTAURANT.COM

Ah, the elusive duck congee. If you have it once, you’ll forever peek your head inside the restaurant’s door to ask what its daily, fresh-made soup is, fiending for it.

Lantern’s take on the traditional Chinese breakfast rice porridge includes pickled mustard greens, pulled roasted duck, and crunchy duck cracklings.

I’ve never had a bad soup there, but this one gets me howling like an alley cat down Franklin Street.

–Eryk Pruitt

CALABRIAN ONION SOUP TOAST

345 WEST MAIN STREET, DURHAM WWW.TOAST-FIVEPOINTS.COM

An indecisive scan of Toast’s chalkboard menu, followed by a flood of memory of a Tar Heel point guard (Dante Calabria!) precipitated my first order of this deep, tomato-toned soup about which I knew nothing. Innumerable orders followed. Orangehued oil beads against the surface with an elastic web of cheese on top.

A submerged crostini sponges deep, warm flavors off the bottom of the bowl. Thank you, Dante Calabria, for accidentally showing me the way. –Matt Poindexter

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SALTBOX SEAFOOD JOINT

608 NORTH MANGUM STREET, DURHAM WWW.SALTBOXSEAFOODJOINT.COM

While the memory of summer fades, we can taste the beach in a warming chowda from Saltbox.

Chef creates them on a whim, sometimes daily, sometimes weekly, depending on seafood availability. Last week’s offer began as a slightly buttered crab roux simmered in a shellfish brothturned-chowder, thickened by cauliflower and emulsified olive oil (no cream). Big chunks of dogfish, hominy kernels, and fresh-cut herbs bounce in the cup, topped with a couple of Instagram-worthy crab claws. –Victoria Bouloubasis

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VEGAN CHICKEN AND WILD RICE THE REMEDY DINER

137 EAST HARGETT STREET, RALEIGH WWW.THEREMEDYDINER.COM

Whenever I was sick as a kid, I would only eat two things: ramen noodles (the ten-cent packages) or chicken and rice soup. I’ve since become a vegetarian, and that second flavor has been hard to come by—until I found Remedy’s brothy vegan chicken and wild rice soup (with a healthy helping of carrots, celery, and onion). They only have it once every couple of weeks. But good news for vegetarians: the soup of the day at Remedy is always vegetarian. –Paul Blest

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Durham’s Thai Cafe is not a secret, and neither is its coconut soup. Both are indefatigably reliable. Dip into the milky broth dotted with chili oil and catch the micro tofu cubes as they bounce on the spoon.

Delicate slivers of chive stems are dwarfed beside large chunks of baby portabella mushrooms. A sweet beginning on the apex of the tongue trails to mild spice that pleasantly scratches the back of the throat.

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403 WEST ROSEMARY STREET, CHAPEL HILL WWW.THENORTHSIDEDISTRICT.COM

This hidden storefront up Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill’s West End hides the Triangle’s best kept secret: a delicious noodle bowl served until 2 a.m. Served with crunchy carnitas (chicken or soy also available), muddy broth, fried shallots, and wilted gai lan, there may be nothing better to slap sense into your whiskey-dulled taste buds as you amble closer to last call and your Uber ride home. –Eryk Pruitt

SHOYU RAMEN DASHI

415 EAST CHAPEL HILL STREET, DURHAM WWW.DASHIRAMEN.COM

What makes Dashi worth revisiting is the way surprising Southern ingredients pop up. On the current menu, I love the spears of pickled green beans tucked around the rim of the Shoyu ramen, how their bright, green crispness cuts through the big funk and fat of soy sauce and roasted pork. Who knew a bowl of Japanese noodles could take you back to a jar of dilly beans from childhood, picked off a general store shelf? At Dashi, it will.

–Matt Poindexter

ASH RESHTEH SAGE CAFE

1129 WEAVER DAIRY ROAD, CHAPEL HILL WWW.SAGEVEGCAFE.COM

In an unassuming strip mall, this classic Persian soup immediately transports me back to my childhood home, where ash reshteh bubbled in a massive pot to welcome Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Thanks to Sage Cafe you can snag a bowl all year round. Slurpable flat noodles—”reshteh”—swirl around in a savory onion and turmeric broth loaded with herbs like cilantro, chives, and mint and hearty kidney beans, chickpeas, and lentils. Order a big bowl of this vegan dish and share with the table. –Susie Locklier

CURRIED CHICKPEA STEW SANDWHICH

407 WEST FRANKLIN STREET, CHAPEL HILL WWW.SANDWHICH.BIZ

Sandwhich knocks it out of the park with a menu to please everyone, especially with its daily, scratch-made soup offerings. The curried chickpea stew, for one, deftly mingles many bold flavors within a thin tomato broth. Sharp and piquant, the spices hit the tongue with a host of question marks that quickly transform to exclamation points. –Eryk Pruitt

CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP DOS TAQUITOS

6101 GLENWOOD AVENUE, RALEIGH WWW.DOSTAQUITOSNORTH.COM

The most miserable head cold I’ve ever had hit me the morning before a Saturday “date night” with my wife. A waiter at Dos Taquitos recommended a bowl of the restaurant’s signature chicken tortilla soup.

The broth conjured up memories of my mom’s homemade chicken noodle soup, adding spicy notes, paired with creamy, cool, fresh avocado slices as a garnish.

And for balance: the crunch of fried tortilla strips. My sinuses were clear by the time the entrée arrived—and “date night” was back on. –Ken Fine

SOONDUBU JJIGAE SEOUL GARDEN

4701 ATLANTIC AVENUE, RALEIGH WWW.RALEIGHSEOULGARDEN.COM

You’ll need to sift through the menu at Seoul Garden—a restaurant known mainly for Korean BBQ—to find this hidden gem: soondubu jjigae.

A spicy broth is loaded with extra soft tofu and your choice of add-ins (my choice: kimchi and beef ). Once it arrives at your table, crack an egg into it to level up the flavor. Bonus: the myriad of rotating banchan (side dishes) served alongside it. - Jordan Chavis

RASAM

VIMALA’S CURRYBLOSSOM CAFE 431 WEST FRANKLIN STREET, CHAPEL HILL WWW.CURRYBLOSSOM.COM

Vimala Rajendran’s rasam is better classified as an elixir.

While working at Curryblossom for nearly two years, I often kept a small thermos of rasam underneath the cash register during the winter months, to sip away any potential cold. The broth is much like a spider web—delicate in its form, strong in its purpose. Tamarind, garlic, ginger, and lots of sharp Malabar black pepper give rasam a nourishing depth of flavor and a healing magic.

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indyart Learning Curves THE FANTASY AND FAITH OF CONSUMER CULTURE WHISPERS THROUGH SHAPELY ART DECO CARS AT NCMA

BY CHRIS VITIELLO

ABOVE 1940 Tatra T87 COLLECTION OF CHRIS OHRSTROM/PHOTO© 2016 PETER HARHOLDT

TOP RIGHT 1938 Talbot-Lago T-150C-SS Teardrop COLLECTION OF J. W. MARRIOTT, JR./PHOTO © 2016 PETER HARHOLDT

BOTTOM RIGHT 1941 Indian Model 441 COLLECTION OF DUANE VANFLEET/PHOTO © 2016 PETER HARHOLDT

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hen it’s all over and some teacher-bot in the year 3000 is telling ancient-history students about the unlikely geopolitical phenomenon that was the United States, it’s likely that we will be called “the nation of the car.” Our colonial founders’ obsession with the conquest of a 2,500-mile-wide slab of wild land required us to eradicate the Native Americans to take it, enslave a generation of Africans to work it, and construct the world’s largest economy to pave it and make it affordable for us to drive back and forth across it.

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of capitalism: people want this, so how do I make a lot of this really cheaply? And as much as cheap and easy transportation improved the lives of Americans throughout the twentieth century, our addiction to the oil that powers our transportation seems likely to be our unraveling in the twenty-first, and probably the unraveling of a good number of other nations, too.

So what do we do with the fourteen Art Deco cars and three motorcycles in the North Carolina Museum of Art’s new Rolling Sculpture exhibit? On one hand, these ostentatious cars are the obscene baubles of the interwar industrialists whose progeny

are today’s rogue traders, junk bond kings, and profiteering Wells Fargo executives. On the other hand, the cars offer a nuanced look at how design aesthetics responded to the production line and its consumerist culture with a mixture of fantasy and faith.

Taken together, these vehicles express a futuristic optimism in the capacity of industry—and, therefore, in human imagination—to overpower nature. These cars are assassins, clad in brushed aluminum and glass, tasked with taking out agrarian life and Romanticism (albeit with a few wistful waves goodbye to Art Nouveau) once and for all.

Weirdly, today’s futuristic visions still manifest Art Deco aesthetics. If you painted the swooping silver 1938 Hispano-Suiza “Xenia” black, it could be the next Batmobile—but the one-of-a-kind car was only thirty years removed from the Model T. Look at the “Xenia” and then at your MacBook to understand how generations of designers continue to imprint Deco upon the future.

“Streamlining” is one of the explicit themes of the exhibit. Most of the cars have formal elements recognizable from airplanes rather than autos, showing the designers’ blind faith in aerodynamic pro-

ROLLING SCULPTURE: ART DECO CARS FROM THE 1930S AND ’40S

Through January 15, $13–$19 (members/children free) North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh www.ncartmuseum.org

files over Ford’s horseless carriages. The central tailfin of the 1940 Tatra, a Czechoslovakian sedan that Volkswagen ripped off for its Beetle’s design, and the airplane cabin on wheels that is the 1936 Stout Scarab, a forerunner of the minivan with lounge seating, are the most dramatic examples. If these models had wings, they would lift off at highway speeds.

Other cars look more like home appliances—or rather, 1950s and 1960s appliance design followed the sleek, singular forms of these cars. With its top down for display, the 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt could be mistaken for a massive red refrigerator tipped on its back. The Thunderbolt’s chrome skirt seems lifted from a Formica-top kitchen table. With only a small chrome lightning bolt on the door marking the smooth length of this car, ornament takes a back seat to form.

In Art Nouveau, ornamental plant shapes informed the overall object’s design; for Deco designers, objects are symmetrical to best cut through the air, with afterthought hood ornaments such as the stylized archer on the 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow or the dramatic pair of eagle wings on the 1936 Voisin Clairière. Neither lilies nor nymphs grace these hoods.

Rolling Sculpture also shows that NCMA learned some lessons from the well-lit parking lot that was its Porsche show in 2013.

Ken Gross, an automotive journalist and museum consultant, expertly coaxed collectors to loan the Porsches but didn’t make the slightest connection to design ideas in the exhibit itself. Gross flexes his network of collectors and incomparable technical expertise again for Rolling Sculpture, but the museum has smartly paired him with its curator of ancient art, Caroline Rocheleau, to add design and art historical context.

Rocheleau answered a volunteer call at the museum, which does not have a curator of design.

Rocheleau’s contributions of wall texts

for each vehicle are subtle but crucial, and they save Rolling Sculpture from being just another showroom without sales guys. To go with each car, she selected images of Art Deco-era furniture, housewares, and other objects that resonate with one of the car’s design elements. The placards also have photographs of the cars’ interiors to show the details of their dashboards, gauges, and décor. Additionally, Rocheleau likely had a hand in a 1929–1941 timeline on a wall outside the exhibition, which fills in historical context around Art Deco aesthetics despite being clogged with extraneous information, such as Dean Smith’s birth date.

Ideally, the cars could have had some lighting within their cabins—I had to shine my phone’s flashlight through a few windows to be able to see the interiors—and some of Rocheleau’s resonant objects and furniture could have been placed in the galleries next to the cars. But NCMA has hit the minimal marks to call Rolling Sculpture a design show without having to wink at you.

Rocheleau’s curation underscores the most substantial difference between Rolling Sculpture and the Porsche show. These Art Deco cars are legitimate fine art objects—essentially handmade cars. Five of them were produced in an edition of one, and four others had a single-digit run. The 1938 Talbot-Lago Teardrop coupe (only seventeen made) that opens the show required some 2,100 hours of craftsmanship. None of them can remotely be called a production line car, save perhaps the Tatra (3,056 made).

Which brings us back to the visionary industrialists who commissioned these cars and the wars we’re fighting now to fill the tanks of the cars we’re driving to the museum. As much as you want to ooh and aah over the aesthetics here, you have to acknowledge the politics behind them. Futuristic visions are always for the class that can afford to have them.

Twitter: @chrisvitiello

"These vehicles express a futuristic optimism in the capacity of industry to overpower nature."

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THE TRUMP CARD HHH Through November 7 Manbites Dog Theater, Durham www.manbitesdogtheater.org

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TRUMP SNUCK UP ON MIKE DAISEY, JUST LIKE HE DID ON THE REST OF US

BY BYRON WOODS

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Not all input is insight. In this election year, we have seen distrust and disinformation flood the media, largely unchecked. It’s hardly news when the signal-to-noise ratio fluctuates during a presidential election. But what happens when one candidate’s signal is noise: a ceaseless yammer of racist, classist, and sexist invective more befitting of an applicant to some disgraced fraternity chapter than a contender for the country’s highest office?

That question has posed a challenge to the body politic and the journalists covering the race. It’s also challenged monologist Mike Daisey in his latest solo work, The Trump Card. Manbites Dog Theater is presenting veteran actor Carl Martin in a staged reading of the show over an odd patchwork of Sundays and Mondays, plus assorted other weeknights, until the eve of the election.

In the text, Daisey says he began to research Donald Trump more than a year ago, thinking it would turn out to be a chronicle of just another washout among the oddest field of Republican presidential candidates in recent years. At one point, he calls that group, which then included Ben Carson, Rick Santorum, and Ted Cruz, “fifteen defective superheroes ... the worst version of the Marvel Shared Universe that ever has been.”

But when Trump rose to the top of the ticket, Daisey found himself telling a different story than he expected—one that Daisey adds to in real time as it unfolds. The L.A. Times reports that The Trump Card has expanded from the initial eighty-five-minute version released for public performance in early September to the two-and-a-halfhour marathon performed in California last week.

At a certain point, Trump was no longer just another eccentric suitable for Daisey’s recent American Utopias series. Daisey found himself presiding over a postmortem in progress, documenting the decline and possible fall of a political party, which could conceivably take out a sizable chunk of civil society in the bargain. In his efforts to deter-

Carl Martin in The Trump Card

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mine how our politics and culture came to this, Daisey unearths unsettling insights, with greater substance than those vended by the pundit class. Along that journey, he cites and indicts the complicity of conservatives and liberals alike.

In another trademark gesture, Daisey finds unexpected parallels and connections between his own life and his subject. A package from Daisey's father ultimately reminds him of his grandfather’s racism, and a theme party based on the 1989 Parker Brothers offering, Trump: The Game, brings Daisey to unsettling, unforeseen conclusions.

As expected, under Jeff Storer’s direction, Martin brings a blunt bonhomie and a keen

poignancy to Daisey’s role. But even though it was billed as a staged reading, Martin was still too much on book on opening night. The life of a solo performance lies in the actor’s moment-by-moment interactions with the audience. Whenever Martin was looking at his iPad, and not at us, for more than a second, the air began leaking out of the scene.

But with further rehearsals and performances over the next month, Martin’s immediacy in the role should improve, and the insights in Daisey’s script should be heeded while there’s still time.

Twitter: @ByronWoods

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JONATHAN LETHEM: A GAMBLER’S ANATOMY Tuesday, October 18, 7 p.m., free Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill www.flyleafbooks.com

Game Theory

JONATHAN LETHEM’S A GAMBLER’S ANATOMY IS JUST YOUR EVERYDAY TALE OF A TELEPATHIC BACKGAMMON HUSTLER

BY ZACK SMITH In the space of a game board or an all-night poker match, everything’s heightened, and nothing else matters.

It’s like a world within a world. I’m always interested in pocket universes—the kind of desolate side of sensual reality.

Jonathan Lethem has one of the most eclectic literary careers around, ranging from science fiction to realism—and sometimes, both at once—and from long-form nonfiction to comic books. He’s netted numerous honors, including the MacArthur “genius” grant. His new novel, A Gambler’s Anatomy, is the tale of a professional backgammon hustler who believes he’s developing telepathic powers as the result of a tumor growing on his face (you read that correctly). We spoke with Lethem about how these diverse strands came together into a novel, among others topics, such as how music informs his writing.

A Gambler’s Anatomy deals with a number of different topics—eye blots, backgammon, psychic powers. What was the initial inspiration for it?

For me, there usually needs to be a convergence of several ideas. Motherless Brooklyn, for example, there’s no real native reason why Tourette’s and private detectives and Brooklyn should coexist in the same narrative. But for me, when there’s an intersection of things that are charged and provocative, it’s very exciting when they come together somewhere in the middle.

I’d been thinking for a long time about writing a gambling story—it’s kind of a mode I dig, things like The Hustler or Don INDY: You’ve done a lot of Carpenter’s tales about pool work with music and literaplayers or the French film Bob ture, from You Don’t Love Me le flambeur. I always wanted to Yet to your 33 1/3 book and do my own version, but it wasn't your interviews with musiuntil I came across the fact that cians, most recently Keith there really are backgammon Richards. Do you feel learnJonathan Lethem hustlers that I had an angle. ing about rock and the creI had to learn to play backgamative process translates back PHOTO BY JERRY SCHATZBERG mon at a higher level than I ever into your creative writing? had, not because the reader would necessarJONATHAN LETHEM: The relationship ily know the difference, but so that I could between me and rock music is—and make feel some mastery of my subject. So I played sure you include the air quotes here—me hundreds of hours of online backgammon, “professionalizing” it, in a sense. I take this against machines who are designed to beat handful of assignments from Rolling Stone anyone, and sometimes real opponents hidand Billboard and other places, and have ing behind a database. I wasn't able to go these kind of enviable encounters with into some high-end private club and take on Dylan and James Brown. I got to go a litpeople for money, but I still did absorb quite tle more scholarly with the 33 1/3 Talking a bit of backgammon lore.

Heads book.

I’d also been reading about this kind of But these really are the adventures of a super-problematic deep-face surgical interlucky fan. Ninety-five percent of my relavention for a while. It reminded me of hortionship to music is that I’m a wallflower at ror stories I liked: the films Eyes Without a the party. I don’t play; I’m not a professional Face and Seconds. I was thinking about this, music writer. I’m basically a guy with 60,000 and wanted to write a story that had a horsongs on my iTunes, and sometimes I like rifying turn in the middle of it, this surgical to hang out with musicians and talk about sequence. music.

The third part of this was I was living in

Berlin on sabbatical at the American Academy, and I realized I was so interested in writing about where I was, and it made me think about how I’d never written an expatriate story. My characters are often dispossessed, but I wanted to do a literal expatriation story, the sort of “ugly American abroad” mode.

It’s a bit of a stew—a lot of ingredients.

Yeah, I like my books to have a lot of surprises and turns and different textures in the mix. I suppose I’m more of a stew maker than a soufflé cook.

Well, at least you had an excuse to get sucked into online games for hundreds of hours.

The thing I like about games—and online games in some ways exaggerate this property—is that they’re an arena where time kind of disappears, where you go outside of life.

Tell us about the research you did for the book.

I had to do a lot of research on the neurosurgery for sure. I used two real hospitals because I had to feel comfortable with that material. Otherwise, this was a relatively research-light book by design. I wanted to tell a tale this time—follow a character, tell a story, have a plot, just make a lot of stuff up.

For the telepathic elements of the book, I was curious if you talked to the Rhine Research Center at Duke, which deals with psychic research.

That’s cool! I didn’t know that was there. I might visit it while I’m in the area. I actually did almost no research for that part of the book. I’ve read stories with those elements, and to me they have more of a mythic or archetypal component. It was more this legacy of fictional treatments I was drawing on. Bruno doesn’t go into any real-world scientific testing, or even tell anyone that he believes he has this power. I was more thinking about sources in other stories like Robert Silverberg’s Dying Inside or Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man. Twitter: @thezacksmith INDYweek.com | 10.12.16 | 27

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS

SAM AMIDON

Some critics have labeled the music of Piedmont Melody Makers as “unapologetic.”

Why should Alice Gerrard, Jim Watson, Cliff Hale, and Chris Brashear apologize for their first-rate delivery of the finest traditional bluegrass, country, and old-time music around? Gerrard took to folk music while attending Antioch College, veering away from her classical upbringing to work with Hazel Dickens in the sixties. Together, they were a formidable traditional folk presence. It took Gerrard a while to get to her own stuff, releasing Bittersweet, a collection of original numbers, in 2013. In 2014, she teamed up with Hiss Golden Messenger’s Mike Taylor, who produced Follow the Music, and earned a Grammy nomination for best folk album. Her melody-making cohorts are similarly steeped in roots music traditions—Watson cofounded the esteemed Red Clay Ramblers—and together, they’ll deliver some marvelous old-time truths. —Grant Britt

Last week, during zoe | juniper’s Sacred Harp-inspired dance show at Carolina Performing Arts, I couldn’t help but think of Sam Amidon whenever the shape note singers lifted their voices. That pure, unvarnished, lonesome tone is one of many folk traditions imprinted on the Vermont native’s unforgettable voice, an instrument in which technical sophistication tempers oaky roughness. Amidon’s art-folk integrates elements of jazz and contemporary classical; he sounds like someone dreaming of Americana rather than studying it. As if music were all part of a single lineage, Amidon is wont to transfigure an anonymous murder ballad and then instantly pivot to a folksy, unironic pop cover—Tim McGraw, Mariah Carey, R. Kelly—that becomes completely his own. Amidon’s most recent album is 2014’s Lily-O, based on improvisations with jazz-guitar legend Bill Frisell, but newcomers should start with 2010’s I See the Sign, his most varied and visionary work to date. The title track, in particular, with the delicately melting clockwork of its arrangement and the coldly burning images of its lyrics, conjures timelessness in a way that pushes beyond Americana and into the realm of myth. —Brian Howe

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

WEST END POETRY FESTIVAL

Acclaimed poets are traveling from down the street and out of state for this year’s West End Poetry Festival, a production of the Town of Carrboro. Your friends and neighbors and esteemed visitors will convene to hear practiced poets read from and discuss their craft. The Saturday festivities at the Carrboro Century Center begin with a critique-driven workshop with UNC’s Michael McFee, who will shed light on opening lines, metaphorical language, and conclusions. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, an American Book Award winner, will take over at 1:30 p.m., exploring how her indigenous heritage shapes her perception of loss, memory, and the planet’s fate.

New Carrboro poet laureate Gary Phillips and McFee will cap off the night at 7 p.m., reading and answering questions about their work. And if you can’t make the main event on Saturday, there’s also a kickoff party at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, October 14. Five North Carolina poets, including Stuart Dischell and Debra Kaufman, will read and socialize over hors d’oeuvres and wine at Flyleaf Books. —Erica Johnson CARRBORO CENTURY CENTER, CARRBORO Noon–8:30 p.m., free, www.westendpoetryfestival.org

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

MUSE MASQUERADE

The announcement of an art organization’s annual fundraising gala is often rightfully met with a weary roll of the eyes. But not so for the always-innovative Carrack Modern Art, whose first Muse Masquerade last fall was one of the soirees of the season, taking over the ballroom of 21c Museum Hotel for a night of costumes, dancing, and pop-up performances. In its second year, Muse Masquerade has everything from its first year with an added dash of cabaret, in performances by The VaudeVillain Revue and Shasta Kola. Beyond the ballroom, 21c’s galleries will be filled with pop-up art and sound experiences by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Culture Mill, Ginger Wagg & Wild Actions, and others. Impromptu poems, portraits, and tarot readings can be had from The Poetry Fox, Tony Waldron, and Jameela Davis or Philip Young, respectively. Lose yourself in a scavenger hunt or dig into the dance floor with live music by the likes of The Boulevard Ensemble and Shirlette Ammons. And be sure to dress to impress, whether that means black tie, pink tutu, domino mask, or whatever fanciness you fancy. —Brian Howe 21C MUSUEM HOTEL, DURHAM 8 p.m.–midnight, $25–$109, www.thecarrack.org

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

HOME MOVIE DAY

In Mad magazine’s parodic treatment of America’s banal consumer culture, home movies came under fire frequently—the cliché image was of a couple breaking out their home movies and obliviously boring their guests to tears. Home movies, so it was implied, were nothing more than an indulgence, lacking in artistic merit and holding no interest for anyone besides the subjects themselves. In recent decades, the world has become far more sympathetic toward homemade and amateur films, maybe because they now seem to capture fleeting glimpses of an increasingly unrecognizable world. These images of family celebrations, kids on sleds, period transportation, and the like achieve an unexpected poignancy through their imperfections and enigmatic silence. International Home Movie Day, which is coming to the N.C. State Archives in Raleigh courtesy of the A/V Geeks, is a DIY kind of thing. People bring their own footage in several dated formats and play them for the gathered crowd. Often accompanied by a sympathetic music score, the clips flicker with a magical allure that can’t be conjured through CGI. If tears come, they won’t be from boredom. —David Klein NORTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES, RALEIGH | 1–4 p.m., free, www.avgeeks.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

BLONDE REDHEAD FEATURING AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE AT DUKE’S REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER (P. 12), JUNOT DÍAZ AT GEENEN AUDITORIUM (P. 39), DON QUIXOTE AT FLETCHER OPERA THEATER (P. 38), FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT AT THE LIVING ARTS CENTER (WWW.INDYWEEK. COM), JONATHAN LETHEM AT FLYLEAF BOOKS (P. 27), MANIFEST IN CHAPEL HILL (P. 34), ROLLING SCULPTURE AT NCMA (P. 24), RICHARD THOMPSON AT UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL (P. 31), THE TRUMP CARD AT MANBITES DOG THEATER (P. 26) INDYweek.com | 10.12.16 | 29

GUITAR LESSONS

SA 10/15

BRETT DENNEN

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced - all ages

GURU GUITARS 5221 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27606 (919) 833-6607 www.guruguitarshop.com

TH 10/13 @CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

DAVID RAMIREZ

WE 10/12 DIARRHEA

THE SUMMER SET

MO 10/17 FURY TOUR:

SOILWORK W/ UNEARTH,

BATTLECROSS, WOVENWAR, DARKNESS DIVIDED ($20/$23)

TU 10/18 LUCERO

W/CORY BRANAN ($20/$23)

WE 10/19 BEATS ANTIQUE

W/ TOO MANY ZOO'S, THRIFTWORKS ($26/$29)

TH 10/20 WILLIE WATSON

& 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) WE 10/12 TH 10/13

LIVE AT NEPTUNES

BERDMAJIK / STREAM RESPECT THE R.U.H.! TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS LAZURUS / SOIL SUN ETERNAL THE MC / C. SHREVE / DESCENDENT / TUSCON

FR 10/14

LIVE AT NEPTUNES

NEPTUNES FALL FRIDAY SHOW SERIES W/ BODYKIT

SHOW ME THE BODY

JOOSELORD MAGNUS / THEDEEPEND SA 10/15 SU 10/16

MERCHANDISE / PUBLIC MEMORY / JENNY BESETZT OPEN MIC VS. KARAOKE: THE SHOWDOWN W/ MIR’S EXPIRE X KINGDEM KARAOKE

TU 10/18 WE 10/19

TH 10/20

BART’S BIRTHDAY BASH W/ NO EYES / SHADOWGRAPHS / WEIRD PENNIES / MIAMI DICE LIVE AT NEPTUNES NEW MUSIC RALEIGH PRESENTS:

“DIRT ROAD” BY LINDA CATLIN SMITH MATT DOUGLAS & FRIENDS:

A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL W/ CAITLIN CARY & THE SMALL PONDS / BRETT HARRIS / ARIEL POCOCK & MORE!

FR 10/21

TELEPATHY DANCE PARTY W/ FUGO /

FKB$ AKA / FRANK KASTLE / ZENSOFLY / ACE HENDERSON

CASPIAN, BIG EYES, JON LINDSAY, FRIENDS AS ENEMIES MC FRONTALOT, SOON AD, THE HELL NO GENOCIDE PACT, AHLEUCHATISTAS

10/25 ROONEY W/ROYAL TEETH, SWIMMING WITH BEARS ($16/$18) WE 10/26 HATEBREED, DEVILDRIVER, DEVIL YOU KNOW ($25/$28) FR 10/28 IAN HUNTER AND

THE RANT BAND W/ JD FOSTER($25/$28)

SOILWORK

SAM AMIDON SU 11/6 STAND AGAINST HB2 NORTH CAROLINA MUSICIANS

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

TH 11/10 MEWITHOUTYOU W/ YONI WOLF (OF WHY?) $15/$18 FR 11/11 YEASAYER W/ LYDIA AINSWORTH ($20)

TH 11/17

REV PAYTON'S BIG DAMN BAND, SUPERSUCKERS, JESSE DAYTON ($15/$17)

SA11/19

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

($22/$25&VIPAVAIL)

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

SU 10/30 NF W/FLEURIE($18/$21) TU 11/1 THE MOTET

W/ THE CONGRESS ($16/$19)

WE 11/2 SNAKEHIPS W/LAKIM ($17/$20) TH 11/3 LADY PARTS JUSTICE LEAGUE PRESENTS:“YOU SHOULD SMILE MORE AND OTHER MANSPIRATIONAL OBSERVATIONS” STARRING: LIZZ WINSTEAD, HELEN

HONG, JOYELLE JOHNSON, BUZZ OFF, LUCILLE ($15/$20)

FR 11/4 PORTUGAL. THE MAN W/ SOLD ADAM TOD BROWN

OUT

SA 11/5

W/ ACTRESS

OUT

CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM

10/12: CICADA RHYTHM / MICHEALA ANNE ($10/$12) 10/13: DAVID RAMIREZ BOOTLEG TOUR ($13/$15) 10/14: SAM AMIDON ($12/$15) 10/15: GRIFFIN HOUSE ($18) 10/16: ADAM TORRES THOR & FRIENDS , VAUGHN AED ($10/$12) 10/19: MC CHRIS TEN YEARS OF TOURING TOUR W/ MC LARS, MEGA RAN($14/$16) 10/21: SERATONES W/ GHOSTT BLLONDE ($12/$14) 10/22: JON STICKLEY TRIO W/ BLANKO BASNET ($8/$10) 10/27: S U R V I V E

SOLD OUT

& THE BLUES ARE RUNNING 12/14: SHEARWATER

W/CROSS RECORD ($13/$15) 12/ 30: SHERMAN & THE BLAZERS REUNION ($10/$15) 1/6-7/17: ELVIS FEST

ARTSCENTER (CARRBORO)

10/15: JOSEPH W/ RUSTON KELLY ($13/$15)

10/21: CALEB CAUDLE W/BLUE CACTUS ($16) 11/8: ANDREW WK 'THE POWER OF PARTYING' ( $20/$23) DPAC (DURHAM)

4/20/17: STEVE MARTIN &

MARTIN SHORT W/ STEEP CANYON RANGERS (SECOND NIGHT ADDED! ON SALE 10/14) MOTORCO (DURHAM)

SA 11/12 GUIDED BY 10/29: MATT PHILLIPS & THE 10/14: THE SUMMER SET VOICES W/SURFER BLOOD ($26.50) BACK POCKET W/ WINDOW W/ HUDSON THAMES, SUMMER CAT, AGES OF SAGES ($8/$10) WARS($16/$18) SU 11/13 BENJAMIN 10/30: LERA LYNN W/ JOSEPH FRANCIS LEFTWICH 11/16: MITSKI W/ FEAR OF MEN, LEMAY WEAVES($15) ($15/$18) 11/1: BAYONNE ($10/$12) HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER (DUR) MO 11/14 BOB MOULD 11/4 WILD FUR BAND ($20/$22) 12/2: MANDOLIN ORANGE ALBUM RELEASE SHOW W/ ($25) WE 11/16 WET W/DEMO TAPED ($20) BEAUTY WORLD, JOSH MOORE ($10)

W/ NATALIE PRASS**($15/$17)

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE SOLD 30 | 10.12.16 | INDYweek.com

FR 10/14 @CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

SA 10/29 DANNY BROWN W/ ZELOOPERZ, PROFESSOR TOON

12/9,10,11: KING MACKEREL

MO 10/17

COMPOSURE W/FOXING, W/ LILY & MADELEINE ($22/$25)

12/6: THE DISTRICTS

LUCERO

FR10/14:BALANCE AND SA 10/15: BRETT DENNEN

12/4-5: THE MOUNTAIN GOATSSO OUT TU 10/18

TH 10/13 CRANK IT LOUD PRESENTS

MERCURYGIRLS($16/$18)

LD 11/20MANDOLIN ORANGESO OUT 11/21: THE GOOD LIFE W/ FIELD MOUSE ($12/$14)

LD

PLANET

W/ WESTERN MEDICATION, THE NUDE PARTY ** ($12/$15)

W/ THE CONTORTIONIST, HAIL THE SUN, GOOD TIGER, THE WHITE NOISE ($18/$20)

BALANCE AND COMPOSURE 12/2: FRUIT BATS W/ SKYLAR GUDASZ

FR 10/14 @MOTORCO

DANCE GAVIN DANCE

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

FR 10/14

SU 11/27 HOWARD JONES ($25/$28) SA 12/3 BOMBADIL W/GOODNIGHT, TEXAS ( $16/$18) 2/1/17 THE DEVIL MAKES THREE ($22/$25)

11/5: FLOCK OF DIMES W/ YOUR FRIEND ($12) 11/6: ALL GET OUT W/ GATES, MICROWAVE ($10/$12) 11/8":GOODBYE JUNE ($10) 11/10: DAVE SIMONETT

OF TRAMPLED BY TURTLES AND CARL BROEMEL OF MY MORNING JACKET

($15)

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

FEAT. TOMMY LARKINS ON DRUMS ($15)

11/16: SLOAN "ONE CHORD TO ANOTHER" 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR ($20) 11/17: BRENDAN JAMES ($14/$16)

2/16/17 THE RADIO DEPT. ($15/$17)

11/18: BRUXES DEBUT SHOW & EP RELEASE W/BODY GAMES, TEARDROP CANYON, YOUTH LEAGUE ( $7)

3/24/17 JOHNNYSWIM (ON SALE 10/14)

11/19:KILLER FILLER FAREWELL SHOWW/BEAUTYOPERATORS($8/$10)

KINGS (RAL)

OUT 11/19 MANDOLIN ORANGE SO

LD

PINHOOK (DURHAM)

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

10/24:

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

HAW RIVER BALLROOM

11/18

LD MANDOLIN ORANGESO OUT

12/17

CHATHAM COUNTY LINE

FLETCHER OPERA THEATRE (RAL) (TICKETS VIA TICKETMASTER)

11/20:

PATTY GRIFFIN W/ JOAN SHELLEY

CATSCRADLE.COM ★ 919.967.9053 ★ 300 E. MAIN STREET ★ CARRBORO **Asterisks denote advance tickets @ schoolkids records in raleigh, cd alley in chapel hill order tix online at ticketfly.com ★ we serve carolina brewery beer on tap! ★ we are a non-smoking club

music WED, OCT 12

BIG EASY-RALEIGH: Glen Ingram; 6 p.m. • CAROLINA THEATRE: The Wood Brothers; 8 p.m., $28–$31. • CAT’S CRADLE: Cicada Rhythm, Michaela Anne (Back Room); 8 p.m., $10–$12. Diarrhea Planet, Western Medication, The Nude Party; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • THE CAVE: Elizabeth Haddix and the Gurley Flynns, Zubris; 9 p.m., $5. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Johnny Folsom 4 and Patsy Cline Tribute; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Turnpike Troubadours, Dalton Domino; 8 p.m., $23–$27. • LOCAL 506: Ozzy Ozzborn, Rob Sonic Upgrade, Rafael Vigilantics; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: North Carolina Symphony; Oct 12. • MOTORCO: Bronze Radio Return, Air Traffic Controller; 8 p.m., $12–$15.

• NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Berdmajik, Stream; 10 p.m., $6. • NIGHTLIGHT: Richard Pinhas, Wume, Northside Syndicate, Patrick Gallagher; 9 p.m., $15. • POUR HOUSE: Jahman Brahman, Fonix; 9 p.m., $6–$8. • SLIM’S: Shadows, Drunk on the Regs, Death Metal Pope, The Dick Richards, 90 Proof Therapist; 7:30 p.m., $5.

THU, OCT 13 Matthew Curry CURRIED Though he looks like BLUES a kid who just jumped off his skateboard, Matt Curry plays and sings like a grizzled blue demon. Along with ripping out blistering licks in his own blues-rock set, he’s dueted onstage with Peter Frampton on George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and jammed with the Doobie Brothers. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $8.50/8 P.M.]

Dance Gavin Dance QUIRKY Dance Gavin Dance PUNK is a Sacramento, California, post-hardcore six-piece formed by members from now-defunct acts like Farewell Unknown, Ghost Runner on Third, and Atherton. The experimental crew hits the Triangle in support of its seventh album, Mothership, out next month on Rise Records.

With The Contortionist, Hail the

10.12–10.19

CONTRIBUTORS: Jim Allen (JA), Grant Britt (GB), Ryan Cocca (RC), Allison Hussey (AH), David Klein (DK), Karly Justus Marlowe (KM), Drew Millard (DM), Desiré Moses (DRM), Dan Ruccia (DR), Jamie Stuart (JS), Patrick Wall (PW)

Sun, Good Tiger, and The White Noise. —DEM [CAT’S CRADLE, $18–$35/7 P.M.]

David Ramirez ADAMS David Ramirez LOVER experienced a sea change moment when he first heard the songs of Ryan Adams.

Since then, Ramirez has honed his craft, toured incessantly, gotten burned out, and now comes back strong with Fables, a stirring set marked by a heartland pulse and the righteous pull of his burnished baritone. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $13–$15/8:30 P.M.]

Pete Rock FOR THE Almost twenty-five CULTURE years ago, Pete Rock made noise by introducing the world to “T.R.O.Y.,” a song that would be endlessly remixed and reinterpreted in the years to follow. More recently, he’s made a different kind of noise, calling out “mumble rappers” for not “respecting the culture.”

Thankfully, at the Black Wall Street Homecoming concert in Durham, which also features Rapper Big Pooh, Supastition, and Skyzoo, it’s doubtful he’ll be interacting with too many Young Dolph fans. —RC [MOTORCO, $25–$30/10 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m. • THE ARTSCENTER: Piedmont Melody Makers; 8 p.m. • BEYU CAFFE: Baron Tymas; 7 p.m. • BIG EASY-RALEIGH: Annie Bennett; 6 p.m. • THE CAVE: Drum-n-Bass Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Blue Frequency, The Dapper Conspiracy, My Mountains; 8:30 p.m., $5. • DUKE CAMPUS: NELSON MUSIC ROOM: La Hora Española; 8 p.m. • KINGS: Lazurus, Soul Sun, Eternal the MC, C. Shreve, Descendent, Tuscon; 9 p.m., $7. • THE KRAKEN: DJ Brian Burns; 7 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Set it Off, Patent Pending, Messenger Down; 7 p.m., $15. • THE PINHOOK: Voidward, The Second Wife, No More People; 9 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Temperpance League, Austero; 9:30 p.m., free. • THE STATION: Dark Water Rising; 8:30 p.m., $5.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

RICHARD THOMPSON Richard Thompson was a shy suburban kid with a stutter when he was inspired to pick up the guitar by his domineering dad, a policeman with a fondness for Django Reinhardt. By his mid-teens, Richard had joined Fairport Convention, an outfit that initially focused on the American wing of singersongwriters like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Eventually, the band sought inspiration in its home turf of the British Isles, and in doing so, pretty much came up with folk-rock. Thompson’s solos were electrifying, his songs hymnlike, old before their time and defiantly out of step with the Day-Glo zeitgeist of the late sixties. In the next decade he followed a musical path that included session work with folks like Nick Drake and John Cale and, most prominently, a tumultuous partnership as a husband-and-wife duo with Linda Thompson, which included a period of immersion in Sufism and culminated in a crushing divorce and the masterful Shoot Out the Lights in 1982.

Thompson found new love, moved to L.A., and focused on his career as never before. He built a respectable American audience, but he has always been a bit too dire for mass appreciation. This is a writer who, moved to write about a newly born child, chooses not to emulate life-affirming benedictions like Dylan’s “Forever Young” or Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely.” Rather, he devises “End of the Rainbow,” a desolate number that begins, “I feel for you, you little horror.”

Even on the optimistic-seeming “I Feel So Good,” his biggest U.S. single, the singer is thrilled to be breaking somebody’s heart. His signature “1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” brilliantly reimagines that paragon of melodrama: the teenage death song.

And Thompson’s voice can sound as final as the drone of an ancient instrument.

Happily, the big change in Thompson over the years is that he’s come to embrace the role of frontman. He’s now as acclaimed for his between-song digressions as for his songwriting and guitar skills. Tonight, he’ll show you. —David Klein UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $10–$69, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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FRI, OCT 14

Porch Light Apothecary

Balance and Composure

LEAVE IT Raleigh’s Porch Light ON Apothecary celebrates the release of its studio debut, Silence to Sound, capping a few years of sonic growth in which the band doubled in size.

As a quartet, it bolsters Brent Jordan’s rich baritone and revealing lyricism with vibrant arrangements to match his warmth. Ravary and City Below open. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $7–$10/8:30 P.M.]

BALANCE Hopscotch headliner BEAM Baroness wasn’t the only band to be victimized by a touring vehicle crash in the last few years. Pennsylvania post-hardcore outfit Balance and Composure suffered two traumatic van accidents in two weeks back in 2013, and the band spent a year and a half off the road as a result. Light We Made, released last week, doesn’t reference the crash, but the time off has clearly influenced the quintet; its tunes are grander and more widescreen, filled with slick, expansive numbers. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE, $16–$18/8 P.M.]

Dark Water Rising ROCKY Two months after SOUL the band’s last Pour House gig, North Carolina’s Dark Water Rising returns to the Raleigh stage with a unique commentary on contemporary Native American communities interwoven into a soulful rock sound. Lead singer (and OG American Idol alum, circa 2004) Charly Lowry has a voice that powerfully mixes gospel and pop influences, giving life to the songwriting of guitarist Emily Musolino. The Freeway Revival and The Forgotten Man open.

—KM [POUR HOUSE, $5–$10/9 P.M.]

Halfway to Halloween SUPER Raleigh’s Aittala SPOOKY weds the thudding low-end of modern metalcore with the melodic instincts of power metal. The result feels a bit like the Michale Graves-led Misfits, mashed up with a djent rhythm section. Burly and abrupt bass forms more counterpoint than complement to soaring vocal melodies. Tonight, the band is joined by Extinction Level Event, a double bass guitar-driven djent assault, Promo’s dense fusion of doom and modern rock, and MechaBull’s jagged hard rock.

—BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $8/8:30 P.M.]

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox POP Today’s shifting MASHUP musical landscape has led to the rise of a new form of industry Svengali: a guy like Scott Bradlee, who knows how to harness the power of social media to popularize a lucrative shtick.

This one involves remaking popular songs in contrasting musical idioms. He started with a set of R&B versions of Nickelback, so there was no place to go but up, and recent covers of White Stripes, Talking Heads, and Meghan Trainor are a marked improvement. —DK [MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, $37–$99/8 P.M.]

Suzanne Schmid ECLECTIC Suzanne Schmid FOLK was born in the Caribbean, grew up in New York, and went to college near Philadelphia before making her way to North Carolina in the mid-nineties. This gig is the release party for her debut album, The Field Hand, which was written under the guidance of local guitarist Eric Haugen (The Outboards, Fake Swedish) and award-winning Piedmont blues artist Jon Shain. Incorporating North Carolina’s old-time tradition with her love of female alt-rockers, Schmid delivers a style uniquely her own. —DEM [THE ARTSCENTER, $9–$11/7:30 P.M.]

Show Me the Body LOUD Show Me the Body, YANKS a loud, part-punk, part-rap band, is known in the underground music scene for its INDYweek.com | 10.12.16 | 31

TUE 7/5 Crank It Loud: NOTHING / CULTURE ABUSE WAILIN STORMS / HUNDREDFTFACES 7/8 SolKitchen & The Art of Cool Project: The Art of Noise #Durham

FRI

MON 7/11 Regulator Bookstore presents HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Ask Polly Live TH 10/13 FR 10/15 TU 10/18

TUE 7/12 DANNY SCHMIDT / REBECCA NEWTON with WES COLLINS

PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS NO SHAME THEATRE CARRBORO

SA 10/22 FR 10/28 TU 11/1 SA 11/12 FR 11/18 FR 12/2 SA 12/3 SA 12/3 SA 12/17

SAT10/127/16WED PINKERTON RAID / ST. ANTHONY THE MYSTERY TRAIN WED 10/12KING BAND CATIE / AIR CRASH&DETECTIVES

BRONZE RADIO RETURN

WED JUN 29 @ 8:00 PM, $12/$15 SUN JUL 17

CD Release Party

POPUP CHORUS CALEB CAUDLE

FR 10/21 (CO-PRESENTED BY CAT’S CRADLE) SA 10/22

THU 7/14 Storymakers: Durham, Community Listening Event

TRANSACTORS IMPROV: THE SCARY SHOW THE CHUCKLE & CHORTLE COMEDY SHOW LEO KOTTKE POPUP CHORUS TRANSACTORS IMPROV: FOR FAMILIES! CHARLIE PARR ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO A CLASSIC COUNTRY CHRISTMAS 10TH ANNUAL ELF FAIR THE BAREFOOT MOVEMENT CHRISTMAS Find out More at

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300-G East Main St. • Carrboro, NC Find us on Social Media

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W/ AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER @ 8:00 PM

RICHIE RAMONE THE RAGBIRDS THE RAGBIRDS

$12/$15

w/ POISON ANTHEM

RICHARD BACCHUS & THE LUCKIEST GIRLS THE BLACK WALL STREET: UNDERGROUND PETE ROCK feat. SUPASTITION / RAPPER BIG POOH / SKYZOO FRI 7/1 LOOK HOMEWARD / THE MIDATLANTIC FRIMON 10/147/18CAT’SMAIL CRADLE PRESENTS THE SUMMER SET THE HORSE

THU 10/13

TUE 7/5MadeCrank It 2016 Loud: NOTHING For You Tour W/ HUDSON THAMES /&CULTURE SUMMER ABUSE WARS FRI JUL 22WAILIN STORMS / HUNDREDFTFACES FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION: @ 8:00 PMJOHN COWAN LOVE SHOULD NEVER BE ABUSIVE $25/$30 FRI 7/8 SolKitchen & The Art of Cool Project: MON 10/17 FLASH CHORUS: “Milkshake” - Kelis / “Water Fountain” - tUnE-yArDs The Art of Noise #Durham SUN 10/16

JOHN COWAN w/ DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE

TUE 10/18

DUKE SCIENCE & SOCIETY’S PERIODIC TABLES W/ BILL ADAIR

MON 7/11DS&S’S Regulator presents Movie Night:Bookstore PREDICT MY FUTURE HEATHER Ask Polly Live WED 10/19 MUSEUM OF LIFE HAVRILESKY: & SCIENCE PRESENTS

S D R I B G A R E TH TINKERING & DRINKERING SAT 7/23 Rock Showcase TUE 7/12 Girls DANNY SCHMIDT / REBECCA NEWTON with WES COLLINS

SNEAKERS / LITTLE DIESEL THU 7/14THE Motorco Storymakers: Durham, Listening Event FRITUE 10/217/26 ART OF COOLComedy PROJECT & Night: SOLCommunity KITCHEN PRESENT ANDY WOODHULL / ADAM COHEN / NICK HAKIM KING SAT 7/16 PINKERTON RAID / ST. ANTHONY & THE MYSTERY TRAIN er s SATFRI10/227/29URBAN SOIL / FREEWAY REVIVAL -P op Ma tt YOUNG BULL Album Release el er s"Show

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SUN JUL 17 @ 8:00 PM $12/$15

SUN JUL17 COMING SOON: JULIETTE LEWIS, YARN, JARED & THE MILL, HAL KETCHUM, Doors: 7pmNRBQ, LIZ VICE, WINDHAND, CODY CANADA Show: 8pm& THE DEPARTED, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, BAND OF SKULLS, SUNADV 10/23 THE GRAVY BOYS SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS, KING, $12 723 RIGSBEE AVE - DURHAM, NCW/- MOTORCOMUSIC.COM CRIMINAL (AT CAROLINA THEATRE), WALKER LUKENS, DOYLE LAWSON &LEGG, COMING SOON: DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, THE RECORD COMPANY, ADRIAN $15 MONDAY 7/18 OF MAIL THE HORSE QUICKSILVER, RECORD COMPANY, ENTER THE HAGGIS, REBIRTH BRASSBONOFF, BAND, REBIRTH THE BRASS BAND, MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, KARLA !

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TUE 7/26 Motorco Comedy Night: ANDY WOODHULL / ADAM COHEN

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SPARKREATION PAINTING PARTY * DARK WATER RISING PURITAN RODEO W/ MAYHEM PARADOX (2PM) JAZZ SATURDAYS FEAT. DOTCOMBO FREE (10PM) LOOSE CABOOSE DANCE PARTY W/ JAESUNEL FREE

MO 1O/17

SUGAR SKULL DECORATING CLASS *

TU 10/18

HORRORBORO HALLOWEEN MOVIE NIGHT PT. I FREE DRUG YACHT W/ BLOOD REVENGE (2PM) JAZZ SATURDAYS FEAT. ABSOLUTE FREE

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TH 1O/27

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Expect plenty of James Brown and Sly Stone to populate tonight’s set.

Nikol opens. —SG [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $10–$13/8 P.M.]

Mike Stud SPORTY The Duke baseball RAPS star-turned-rapper Mike Stud started receiving attention in 2010 for his first original track, a parody effort called “College Humor.” The song and its accompanying sportsreference-filled music video went viral and helped Stud develop his fan base. Since then, Stud has advance released a handful$10 of projects as his sound has evolved pleasantly but without much direction, from laid-back Mac Miller-style flows to Views-like beats. With support from SonReal. —JS [LINCOLN THEATRE, $21–75/8 P.M.]

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POPThe Summer Set PUNK peddles pop-punk tunes drenched in shiny production perfectly poised for radio. Repeat performers on the Vans Warped Tour, the band has shared a bill with the likes of Yellowcard and cowritten with Paul Doucette of Matchbox Twenty. The band’s latest single, “Figure Me Out,” from this year’s Stories for Monday, is a vulnerable ballad with lyrics that, while over-the-top obvious, you can get

down to. Hudson Thames opens.

—DEM [MOTORCO, $16–$18/7 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY 618 BISTRO: Randy Reed; 7-9:30 p.m. • ARCANA: Muse Masquerade Afterparty with the Floor; 10 p.m., $5. • BEYU CAFFE: Jim Ketch Sextet; Oct 14, 8 & 10 p.m., $10. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Terry Wiley Band; 9 p.m., $8. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • CARRBORO CENTURY CENTER: The Nouveau Gardeners. • CARY ARTS CENTER: Rachel Flowers; 7:30 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE: Sam Amidon (Back Room); 8 p.m., $12–$15. • THE CAVE: MANIFEST; Oct 14, 8 p.m. Oct 15, 8 p.m., $20. • DUKE CAMPUS: REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER: Blonde Redhead, American Contemporary Music Ensemble; 8 p.m., $10–$42. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Muddy Ruckus; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Elmer Gibson; 6:30 p.m. • LOCAL 506: MANIFEST; Oct 14, 9 p.m. Oct 15, 9 p.m., $20. • THE MAYWOOD: Aittala, Extinction Level Event, Promo, MechaBull; 8:30 p.m., $8. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony Pops Series; Oct 14, 8 p.m. Oct 15, 8 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Bodykit; 11 p.m., $5.

• NIGHTLIGHT: Manifest; Oct 14, 9 p.m. Oct 15, 9 p.m., $10–$20. • THE PINHOOK: Soul Funk Disco Dance Party; 10 p.m., $7. • RUBY DELUXE: TOMBOi, Deep Sleeper, DJ DNLTMS; 9 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ariel Pocock, James Suter Trio, Keith Ganz; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

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SAT, OCT 15 Belcea Quartet FATEFUL The Belcea Quartet KNOCK is rapidly becoming a Duke Performances institution, with this stop marking its third appearance in five years. For this show, the group pairs Schubert and Shostakovich. Shostakovich’s eighth quartet is one of his darkest, a meditation on his musical epigram punctuated by

the fateful knock signaling that the KGB is at your door. The two Schubert quartets are certainly lighter, including his expansive final quartet, which unfolds like one endless aria tossed between the quartet. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–42, 8P.M.]

The Chick Corea Elektric Band JAZZ In the late sixties, FUSION Chick Corea was playing about as far out as you could get. Then he discovered Scientology and became obsessed. Onetime bandmate Anthony Braxton talks about how Corea suddenly wanted to make music that “communicated,” that was “a little more commercial.”

Corea soon left to form Return to Forever, and the rest is history.

This show features the core members of the Elektric Band, which arose from the ashes of Return to Forever. —DR [CAROLINA THEATRE, $45–$104, 8P.M.]

Brett Dennen HEART Brett Dennen is a TUNES writer of sharp, introspective folk-pop whose plaintive, confessional sounding voice owes much to his musical hero, Paul Simon, and puts him in the musical company of earnest balladeers like David Gray. He’s kept a relatively low profile since doing Letterman in 2009, but he’s about to release Por Favor, a set of songs that confront hard truths.

Lily & Madeleine, harmonizing twin sisters from Indianapolis, open. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE, $22–$25/8 P.M.]

Joshua Gunn DURM At one point on BOASTS BET’s Music Moguls, Dame Dash asks Joshua Gunn, “How many people you get when you do a show?” Not missing a beat, Gunn responds, “At least twelve hundred.” Perhaps everything on reality TV should be taken with a grain of salt, but after Gunn’s supposed star power wasn’t enough to bring out more than a hundred people during a festival in his hometown last

ling that theweekend, his braggadocious act e two as Durham’s unquestioned certainly number one is growing old. —RC [BEYU CAFFE, $15/8 P.M.] pansive folds like d between Griffin House KE’S M, $10–42, FOLKNashville’s Griffin ROCK House is a young singer-songwriter who writes folk-rock songs in the tradition of ea great American songwriters like Bruce Springsteen. He released e sixties, his latest record, So On and So rea was Forth, and settles into the Cat’s t as you Cradle Back Room for an intimate seated show. —DEM [CAT’S covered CRADLE BACK ROOM, $18/8 P.M.] me ndmate about how d to make Merchandise cated,” that DARK When Tampa mercial.” POP post-punk outfit m Return to Merchandise signed to 4AD a history. few years back, frontman Carson core Cox opined that he saw an c Band, opportunity to “start a new band ashes of with the same name.” While the R band didn’t exactly trash its $45–$104, guitars and drop a breakcore album, there’s no denying the ensembles’s fierce, intelligent ability to subtly reinvent itself with every album. Shedding most of nnen is a the lo-fi punk bile that marked their early days, the new A Corpse sharp, Wired For Sound plunges head-on whose sounding into dark eighties art-pop mode, s musical with glossy production and puts him in darkwave melodies that would of earnest make Martin Gore cheese. With ray. He’s Public Memory and Jenny ofile since Besetzt. —DS [KINGS, $10–$12/9 09, but he’s P.M.] vor, a set of rd truths. monizing Nancy Middleton napolis, FULLY Durham singerADLE, LOADED songwriter Nancy Middleton’s 1996 release, The Way I Do, got her to Nashville, but her latest, Loaded, travels in a different direction. The soulful and swampy “One More Night” has a oint on usic Moguls, sixties Muscle Shoals feel, while ua Gunn, other cuts from the release are u get when Dusty in Memphis-style sultry missing a country soul. —GB [BLUE NOTE At least GRILL, $8/8P.M.] aps V should be alt, but after Ariel Pocock and Tristan Eckerson power g out more PIANO For this evening during a JAZZ showcasing two wn last emerging North Carolinian

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—DR [THE SHED, $10–$12, 8P.M.]

Priapus APEX On April’s BEASTS Depressant EP, Greensboro grindlords Priapus reach a new peak. Its violent bursts are carefully constructed chaos, finding dynamism as guitar squeals the off-balance the low-end bullrush. Beneath the din, incisive lyrics add depth to the craft and show Priapus mastering the blend of insight and intensity of bands like Pig Destroyer and Napalm Death. With Vermin Womb, Lesser Life, and Basura.

—BCR [SLIM’S, $8/8 P.M.]

Canaan Smith RADIO It’s been seven years COUNTRY since Canaan Smith moved to Nashville with hopes of hitting the big time. After a slew of minor breakthroughs on the Billboard charts, he’s released his debut full-length studio album, Bronco, with lead single, “Love You Like That,” which reached No. 1 on the Country Airplay Chart last year. With Jake the Haymakers and Michael Tyler. —DEM [CITY LIMITS, $10–$15/8 P.M.]

Yelawolf HICK-HOP At its best, the music of Alabama rapper Yelawolf and his Slumerican collective fuses rap and country to rep those barely hanging onto the seedy underbelly of the rural South, crackling with the same down-home energy that once characterized the outlaw country of Waylon and Willie. He’s joined in Raleigh by Struggle Jennings— grandson of Waylon himself—as well as redneck-rap pioneer Bubba Sparxxx and JellyRoll,

whose hardscrabble range has yielded collaborations with Three 6 Mafia and faithful covers of Marshall Tucker Band. —DM [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25–$99/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Ultrabillions Dance Party; 10 p.m., free. • BIG EASYRALEIGH: Glen Ingram; 6 p.m. • THE CAVE: MANIFEST; Oct 14, 8 p.m. Oct 15, 8 p.m., $20. • DEEP SOUTH: Undercover, Tall Order; 9 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Stevan Jackson; 11 a.m. Paul Bomar Duo; 6:30 p.m. The Westbrooks; 9 p.m. • LOCAL 506: MANIFEST; Oct 14, 9 p.m. Oct 15, 9 p.m., $20. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony Pops Series; Oct 14, 8 p.m. Oct 15, 8 p.m. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Shady Darling Deadly Beautiful Cabaret; 8:30-11:30 p.m., free. • NIGHTLIGHT: Manifest; Oct 14, 9 p.m. Oct 15, 9 p.m., $10–$20. • POUR HOUSE: Backup Planet, Roxy Roca; 9:30 p.m., $7. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Luxe Posh; 10 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Iris Orning’s IO-5; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

• THE STATION: Loose Caboose Dance Party with DJ Jaesunel; 10 p.m., free. • UNC CAMPUS: KENAN REHEARSAL HALL: UNC Jazz Band with Dominick Farinacci; 8 p.m., $5–$10.

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BY THE Thor Harris, who HAMMER leads Thor & Friends, is a polymath percussionist who’s known as the touring percussionist for renowned American experimental rock band Swans, but whose collaborations reach far and wide. They include Ben Frost, Bill Callahan, Hospital Ships, Shearwater, John Congelton. With his Friends, Peggy Ghorbani and Sarah Gautier, Harris draws on classic minimalism, building circling motifs from mallet-struck instruments and flecking them with shifting streams of strings, winds, and synths. Austin-based songwriter Adam Torres headlines. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

BANG YR Swedish melodic HEAD metal veterans Soilwork arrive in support of their tenth album, last year’s The Ride Majestic. After twenty years, Soilwork has settled into its strengths, accenting rushes of anthemic metal with passages of contemplative prog rock and shading their dynamic melodies with atmospheric vamps. Tonight, the band shares the bill with a varied slate of heavy acts.

Boston’s Unearth bridges hardcore intensity and melodic death metal’s (relative) grace.

Detroit’s Battlecross take a more thrash-oriented angle. San Diego’s Wovenwar emerged from the breakup of As I Lay Dying, and San Antonio’s Darkness Divided opens. —BCR [CAT’S CRADLE, $20–$23/8 P.M.]

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ARCANA: Tuscan Pol, Meditode, Ty Lake; 8 p.m., free. • THE ARTSCENTER: Joseph, Ruston Kelly; 8 p.m., $13–$15. • DUKE CAMPUS: DUKE CHAPEL: Janette Fishell; 5 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Sun-Dried Vibes, Of Good Nature; 7:30 p.m., $10. • LITTLE LAKE HILL: Gerry O’Beirne; 7 p.m., $15. • MEREDITH COLLEGE: JONES AUDITORIUM: Viva Viola; 7 p.m., $20–$25. • MEREDITH COLLEGE: JONES CHAPEL: Fall Choral Concert; 3 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Sean McConnell, Derik Hultquist; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • RUBY DELUXE: AIRHORN Dancehall Dance Party; 10 p.m. • ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Mary Rocap; 4 p.m., $10.

MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; Oct 17, 7 p.m., $7–$10. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5. • UNC CAMPUS: MEMORIAL HALL: UNC Wind Ensemble, UNC Symphony Band; 7:30 p.m., $5–$10.

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TUE, OCT 18 CAT’S CRADLE: Lucero, Cory Branan; 8:30 p.m., $20–$23. • IRREGARDLESS: Gina Adams; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: No Eyes, Shadowgraphs, Weird Pennies, Miami Dice; 9 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Talking Dreads, Medicated Sunfish; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • RUBY DELUXE: liquid assets; 11 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: ECU Jazz Faculty/Student Combo; 7 p.m., $5–$10.

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MANIFEST

The Triangle has plenty of music festivals—Hopscotch, IBMA, Shakori Hills, Moogfest, and more—but few have the same distinct goal as Manifest, which makes its debut in Chapel Hill this weekend. Organized by Sarah Shook and Erika Libero, Manifest has as simple but important goal: to exist for everyone. The organizers of the event—as much a music throwdown as a social demonstration—are focused on supporting the movement toward gender equality and nurturing phobia-free spaces. In particular, the two want to counter the underrepresentation of women and nonbinary people in music by creating a space where these voices are as loud as those of their male counterparts.

Shook and Libero most recently worked together for Project Safe Space, printing stickers and giving them out to businesses to show solidarity against HB 2 in the Triangle.

They recall times they’ve performed locally and been the only women in the lineup, and they want to see that change.

Shook brings her rowdy honky-tonk with the Disarmers to the festival both nights, part of her efforts to proactively dispel the expressions of novelty and surprise that she’s often met with as a female musician.

Twenty other local and touring musicians will perform between three Chapel Hill venues: Local 506, Nightlight, and The Cave. The bands hail from a variety of genres and backgrounds, from garage and punk rock to singersongwriters, but all support Manifest’s stand for gender equality and its efforts to nurture unity and acceptance. In line with the organizers’ HB 2-defiant spirit, the bathrooms at every spot are gender neutral.

“I like to think of it as a socially conscious music festival, and I like to think that the issues we’re countering could change in future years,” Libero says. “We’d definitely like to grow and make this a staple of the town. The town’s been looking for a new music festival for a while.” —Jamie Stuart VARIOUS VENUES, CHAPEL HILL Various times, $10–$25, www.manifestmusicfestival.com

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Her forthcoming full-length project, Tularosa, presents vignettes of a varied cast of Wild West characters—outlaws, authors, chiefs, and cattlemen— via a multidisciplinary work of stage and song. —SG [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/4 P.M.]

ensemble meshes together old-world Middle Eastern sounds, modern day hip-hop, French gypsy jazz, Spanish flamenco, dub reggae, Eastern European wedding music, Afrobeat, Balinese fusion and other global sounds to create its singular, planet-hopping music. If only it were more interesting: As it is, it serves largely as little more than the overstuffed, appropriative background music for Zoe Jakes’s belly dancing—PW CAT’S CRADLE, $26–$29/9 P.M.]

Marco Benevento, Eric Krasno Band DEAD Back in August, both LIKE ME keyboardist Marco Benevento and guitarist Eric Krasno (who’s perhaps best known for his membership in far-reaching funk bands Soulive and Lettuce) joined Warren Haynes on stage in New York City’s Central Park during the extemporaneous encore of Haynes’s Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. Garcia might be the link between the post-rock-leaning jazz pianist (or is he a jazz-leaning post-rock pianist?) and the lithe funk guitarist: both balance jammy bacchanals with pop proclivities —PW [LINCOLN THEATRE, $17/8 P.M.]

La Sera QUE SERA Much of La Sera’s new EP, Queens, consists of pleasant, moderate guitar-driven pop tunes. But on “Shadow of Your Love,” Goodman rips out some shredding riffs that make you sit up and pay attention, a feat that she repeats late in “I Really Need an Angel.” No doubt, she’ll sneak more of that into her live sets. Springtime Carnivore opens with piano-driven pop rock.

—AH [THE PINHOOK, $12–$14/9 P.M.]

Marshmello BOUNCY DJ and producer CASTLE Marshmello first rose to fame in 2015 with tracks and remixes posted online. His remixes of popular EDM tracks by

favorites like Zedd and Jack Ü garnered recognition, but his identity remains unknown: Marshmello rocks his sets from behind a full-head-covering marshmallow helmet. Flushii and Speaker of the House open. —JS [THE RITZ, $25/9 P.M.]

mc chris NERDY If you’re feeling the STUFF urge to hang out with an entire Reddit thread, head on down to see MC Chris, where the aging white rapper will awkwardly jam cultural references into poorly delivered rap songs in front of an ostensibly living audience as part of his Ten Years of Touring Tour. The tour’s name might be a dry joke, but it’s also a depressing reminder that MC Chris pays his bills by deliberately making bad rap music for people who don’t like good rap music.

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The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

SPECIAL Durham Voices EVENT from UNC School of Communications and Media: Ongoing. Reception: Oct 16, 2-4 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart. com.

SPECIAL Plantation Still Lifes: EVENT Work by Gesche Würfel. Ongoing. Reception: Oct 16, 2-4 p.m. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www.chapelhillpreservation. com.

SPECIAL Walden Pond in Four EVENT Seasons: Selections from Transcendental Concord by Lisa McCarty: Photographs and text. Thru Nov 26. Artist talk: Oct 19, 7:30-9 p.m. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www. bullcityarts.org.

ONGOING LAST Along These Lines: CHANCE Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16.

Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Anything Goes 2016: Paintings, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. Thru Oct 29.

Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.

The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro.

Artificial Arrangements: Work

by Susan Martin. Thru Oct 29. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

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10.12–10.19 Backwoods to Bayou: Southern folk art. Thru Nov 17. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www.historichillsborough.org.

Burst Of Color: Work by Adrien Montoya and Lizzie Bailey. Thru Oct 29. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh. com.

LAST Chihuly Venetians: CHANCE 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/.

SPECIAL Collections: Work by EVENT Leah Sobsey. Artist talk: Oct 13, 6-8 p.m. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

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.

Thru Nov 19. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www.lightartdesign. com.

Cuba Now: Photography by Elizabeth Matheson. Ongoing.

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

LAST Dissection of Color: CHANCE Paintings by Sara McCreary. Thru Oct 15. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Drawn to Water: Photography

by Bryce Lankard. Ongoing.

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com.

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

Thru Nov 17. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Finding Each Other in History: Stories from LGBTQ+ Durham: Personal narratives.

Thru Jan 15, 2017. Durham History Hub, Durham. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

Flowers + Water + Color: Work

by Capel States. Thru Nov 6.

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

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

Thru Oct 23. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

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

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

Harvest: Member exhibition.

Thru Nov 13. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Ellen Hathaway: Thru Dec 17.

Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com.

Kim Herold: Mixed media work. Thru Nov 30. Looking Glass Cafe, Carrboro. lookingglasscafe.us.

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. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Shelton Cooper Hodge: Thru Dec 17. HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

“UNTITLED #24” BY ASPEN HOCHALTER

PHOTO COURTESY OF FRANK GALLERY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

PAPER DREAMS The annual FRANK:inFocus photography festival—itself a part of the larger Click! Triangle Photography Festival—kicks off this week at FRANK Gallery in Chapel Hill. Of particular interest is Paper Dreams, an exhibit featuring guest artists Diana Bloomfield, Carolyn DeMeritt, and Aspen Hochhalter. All three women use alternative photography processes, resulting in dreamy, surreal, and personal photos touching on themes such as identity, the self, and memory.

Hochhalter uses wet-plate collodion ambrotypes to deconstruct and reconstruct images of feminine identity. DeMeritt strips away her subjects’ identities or obscures them completely.

Bloomfield uses gum bichromate to repeatedly layer her images, softening hard lines and introducing physical ambiguity into memories of the past. The personal narrative of each of these artists is unique, leaving things open to interpretation while also inviting the audience to consider the nature of representation. After this opening reception, the exhibit runs through Nov. 8.

—Iza Wojciechowska FRANK GALLERY, CHAPEL HILL 6–9 p.m., free, www.frankisart.com

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

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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 LAST Steinfest: Ceramic CHANCE beer steins. Thru Nov 14. Claymakers, Durham. www.claymakers.com.

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 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

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.

Jill Hunt: Youthful Musings: Paintings. Thru Oct 29, 6-9:30 p.m. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www.tippingpaintgallery.com.

The Jemima Code: Photographs

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

Daniel Johnston: Pottery installation. Thru Oct 20. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

Chris Musina: Just Another Animal: Musina, a Richmond, Virginia-based artist who earned a graduate degree in art at UNCChapel 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. Thru Oct 29. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org. —Brian Howe Lessons in Wood: Works in wood

by Crafts Center instructors.

Thru Oct 28. NCSU Campus: The Crafts Center, Raleigh. www. ncsu.edu/crafts.

Levitas: Work by Thomas Konneker, Bruce Mitchell, and Zoe Sasson. Thru Nov 13. Arcana, Durham. www. arcanadurham.com.

Light & Air: Work by Lauren Crahan and John Hartmann with Freecell Architecture. Thru Oct 29. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

LAST Local Landscapes, CHANCE 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/.

“DOWN HOME TASTE” BY BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS IN SOUTHERN ACCENT AT THE NASHER PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENTS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, NEW YORK. GIFT OF MICHAEL STRAIGHT TO THE WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL COLLECTION. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK. © BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS

A Man Singing To Himself: Work

by Jill Snyder. Part of the Click!

Triangle Photography Festival.

Thru Dec 30. Durham Arts Council. www.durhamarts.org.

New Corridors Exhibition: Marnie Blum, Kristan Five, Shawn Hart, Chieko Murasugi, Pete Sack, and Pat Scull. Thru Nov 26. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

One by Two, Line to Color: Leslie Pruneau and Sarah Tector.

Thru Oct 30. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

Oppressive Architecture: Photographs by Gesche Würfel.

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

Paper Dreams: Photography.

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.

LAST Photo-Manipulation: CHANCE The First One Hundred Years: Photography.

Thru Oct 15. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective: Photographs of North Carolina.

Ongoing. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

SPECIAL Pots in the Piedmont: EVENT Pottery by North Carolina artists. Thru Nov 6.

Reception: Oct 14, 6-9 p.m.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.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.

See review, p. 24.

Rorschach: Photographs by Titus Brook Heagins. Thru Oct 29. 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 the Photography Collection: Thru Jan 22, 2017.

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

LAST Selections from CHANCE Uelsmann Untitled: Photographs by Jerry Uelsmann.

Thru Oct 15. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

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

THIS CAMPAIGN IS YUUUGE!: Cartoonists Tackle the 2016 Presidential Race: Collection of 2016 election cartoons.

Thru Dec 2. Duke Campus: Rubenstein Hall, Durham. sanford.duke.edu.

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

Tonal Landscapes: Work by Lori White. Thru Nov 1. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Under the Burning Sun: Work

by Kenneth Nkosi. Ongoing.

Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www. enogallery.net.

The Willard Suitcases: Photography. Thru Oct 20. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

William Noland: Dream Rooms: Long video takes examining technology and intimacy. Thru Feb 5, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

Wonders of Space and Time: Astrophotography: Photographs

by Tim Christensen. Thru Nov 6.

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

Zanele Muholi: Faces and PHASES: Photography. Thru Jan 8, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

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2016 Triangle Vegfest: Music, cooking demonstrations, cooking challenge. Sat, Oct 15, noon. Nash Square, Raleigh.

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

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

Empty Bowls: Soup, beer, and wine to benefit TABLE. $15-$50.

Sun, Oct 16, 3:30 p.m. Weaver Street Market, Carrboro. www. weaverstreetmarket.coop.

History of the Harvest: Farm Fresh: Educational event about North Carolina crops. Sat, Oct 15, 1 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Mixed Media: Swig and Swing: Prohibition-era drinks in conjunction with Rolling Sculpture exhibition. $30$35. Fri, Oct 14, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Gary Nabhan: “Conservation You Can Taste: The Role of Ethnobiologists in the Collaborative Conservation of Food Diversity.” Fri, Oct 14, 7:30 p.m. JC Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/ jcraulstonarboretum.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 am.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Second Chance Dine and Dance with Benevolence Farm: $25-$30. Thu, Oct 13, 6:30 p.m. Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw. www. hawriverballroom.com.

Tinkering & Drinkering: Museum of Life and Science’s happy hour. $10. Wed, Oct 19, 6:30 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic. com.

Wine Tasting at Mandolin: Exploring Terroir with Pinot Noir: Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Mandolin, Raleigh. www. mandolinraleigh.com.

World Beer Festival: $50-$95.

Sat, Oct 15, noon. Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Durham. www. durhambulls.com.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30

DON QUIXOTE

Romance can transform the world. It also can push a disillusioned psyche into a partial or full retreat from reality. Miguel de Cervantes died four hundred years ago this April, but his novel Don Quixote, in which the ideal and the real are in constant conflict, remains the subject of robust debate to this day. When Carolina Ballet’s artistic director, Robert Weiss, premiered his take on the Knight of the Woeful Countenance in 2008, INDY critic Kate Dobbs Ariail praised the choreography and strong visual design (including the “clever, charming solutions” applied to horses and windmills), but she dinged narration that told significant parts of the tale instead of depicting them. See if and how the production has evolved at Fletcher Opera Theater this month. —Byron Woods FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, RALEIGH Various times, $30–$88, www.carolinaballet.com

stage OPENING Blackspace Durham Youth Slam: Poetry slam. Tue, Oct 18, 6 p.m.

Beyù Caffè, Durham. www. beyucaffe.com.

Don Quixote: Carolina Ballet. $32-73. Oct 13-Oct 30. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Fake It Till You Make It: Tommy Noonan and Compagnie Marie Lenfant. $15. Sat, Oct 15, 8 p.m. & Sun, Oct 16, 5 p.m.

Trotter Building, Durham. www. culturemill.org.

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No Poetry Deluxe! Comedy Showcase: Thu, Oct 13, 8:30 p.m. Ruby Deluxe, Raleigh. www.facebook.com/ RubyDeluxeRaleigh.

Henry Rollins: $35-$89. Sun, Oct 16, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre.org.

JB Smoove: Stand-up comedy. $32-$40. Fri, Oct 14 & Sat, Oct 15, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Dan Soder: Stand-up comedy. $15-$23. Thu, Oct 13, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde: Play. $12-$20.

Thru Oct. 30. NCSU Campus: Thompson Hall, Raleigh.

ONGOING

Love Jones: The Musical: $46$76. Oct 18 & Oct 19, 7:30 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

Dracula: Play. $18-$24. Thru Oct 16, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www. theatreinthepark.com.

EverScape: $10-$18. Thru Oct 23. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad.com.

Nickel and Dimed: Play. $10-$22.

Thru Oct 22. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Raleigh. www. sfaraleigh.org.

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

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

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

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Jane Alison: Nine Island. Tue, Oct 18, 6 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Jay Asher: What Light. Tue, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

Belle Boggs: The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood. Thu, Oct 13, 7 p.m.

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

Art Chansky: Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town. Mon, Oct 17, 5 p.m.

Barnes & Noble, Durham. www. barnesandnoble.com.

William Henry Curry, Jackson Cooper: Playing the Race Chord: African American Representation ll retreat in American Musical Theatre and Quixote, Opera. Wed, Oct 12, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. to this quailridgebooks.com. t of the Bruce Hillman: A Plague on All strong Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, ut she Hollywood, and the Discovery ow the of AIDS. Fri, Oct 14, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Jonathan Lethem: A Gambler’s Anatomy. Tue, Oct 18, 7 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com. See story, p. 27.

Marie Lu: The Midnight Star.

Fri, Oct 14, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

hru Oct oductions, Mary Parry: Sadie McGrady Runs sroad.com. for President. Sun, Oct 16, 2 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. y. $10-$22. www.regulatorbookshop.com. s of Assisi gh. www. Jodi Picoult: Small Great Things.

Fri, Oct 14, 1 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.

5. Thru mcintyresbooks.com. ming Arts Nicole Sarracco: Ill-Mannered com.

Ghosts: An Occasionally True . Thru Oct Account of Hillbilly Stonehenge, atre at the Occult Cleaning Products, the igh. www.

Lady in the Picture, and the Bloodcurdling Tale of Crybaby ed reading. Lane. Thu, Oct 13, 7 p.m.

Manbites Regulator Bookshop, Durham. . www. www.regulatorbookshop.com. rg.

John E. Semonche: Pick Nick: The Political Odyssey of Nick Galifianakis from Immigrant Son to Congressman. Wed, Oct 19, 7 p.m. Regulator

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JUNOT DÍAZ

Duke’s Department of English presents one of the world’s most acclaimed authors—a label he’d be sure to brush off—as this year’s Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer. Junot Díaz is the author of the award-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the acclaimed story collection This Is How You Lose Her. In addition to reading and signing, he’ll probably have opinions on all matter of current events; he’s a regular JUNOT DÍAZ pundit on issues such as immigration and the presidential election. For some additional insight, check out the recent Duke University Press collection Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination, the first sustained critical analysis of his work. Be sure to register soon at Eventbrite, as the reading has already been moved to a larger venue once, and lightning ain’t gonna strike twice. —Zack Smith GENEEN AUDITORIUM, FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, DURHAM | 8 p.m., free (Eventbrite registration required), www.english.duke.edu

Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

West End Poetry Festival: Free. Sat, Oct 15, noon. www. westendpoetryfestival.org.

Carrboro Century Center, Carrboro. carrboro.com/ centurycenter.html. See p. 28.

West End Poetry Festival Kickoff: Featuring Kevin Boyle, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Debra Kaufman, Jordan Rice, and Katherine Soniat. Fri, Oct 14, 6:30 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. See p. 28.

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

LITERARY R E L AT E D Bill Adair: “The Truth-O-Meter, Pants on Fire, and Fact-checking the 2016 Election.” $5. Tue, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic. com.

Christopher Anderson: “Du weißt, ich spreche darüber so

SPECIAL SHOWINGS

Shanghai Express: Fri, Oct 14, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

The Angry Birds Movie: Thu, Oct 13, 6 p.m. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

Transgender Parents: Tue, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Bicycle Film Festival: Sun, Oct 16, 3 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Big Dream: Sat, Oct 15, 3 p.m.

Durham Main Library, Durham. www.durhamcountylibrary.org.

The Goonies: Sat, Oct 15, 6 p.m.

Lafayette Village, Raleigh. www. lafayettevillageraleigh.com.

Love Should Never Be Abusive: Sun, Oct 16, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com.

Me Before You: Sat, Oct 15, 2:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Raleigh Film Festival: Various locations throughout downtown Raleigh. Fri, Oct 14, Sat, Oct 15 & Sun, Oct 16. www. raleighfilmandartfestival.com.

Red Peony Gambler: Mon, Oct 17, 7:30 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham. www. shadowboxstudio.org.

 ½ The Birth of a Nation—This Nat Turner biopic overturns the conventions of white Hollywood. Rated R.  ½ Bridget Jones’s Baby— Renée Zellweger’s loveable comic character, now in her forties and pregnant, deserved a better comeback. Rated R.

Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Event: Sat, Oct 15, 11 a.m. Crossroads 20, Cary & Regal North Hills Stadium 14, Raleigh.

OPENING The Accountant—Ben Affleck plays a small-town math whiz who gets tangled with criminal organizations. Rated R. Kevin Hart: What Now?—Kevin Hart stars in this stand-up comedy special. Rated R. A Man Called Ove—This Swedish film is a classic oddcouple story. Rated PG-13

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.

 Ben-Hur—Wow, who thought the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter needed a crack at BenHur? Rated PG-13.

 Deepwater Horizon— This account of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill thrills but leaves important context on the cutting-room floor. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Girl on the Train— Emily Blunt’s vulnerable performance almost redeems a trashy, lurid film. Rated R.  ½ The Magnificent Seven— Despite an able cast, this remake adds little to the wellworn “band of disreputables” trope. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.  Suicide Squad—The plot is throwaway thin, but this team of antiheroes brings much-needed levity and breadth to the DC Extended Universe. Rated PG-13.

furchtbar ungern…”: Quotation and Allusion in the Music of Max Reger. Fri, Oct 14, 4 p.m.

Duke Campus: Biddle Music Building, Durham. music.duke. edu.

Charles Dickens Presents a Farewell Reading: Dramatic reading. Sat, Oct 15, 7:30 p.m. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

Cuentos para Gabo: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Sat, Oct 15, 2 p.m. Cameron Village Regional Library, Raleigh. www.wakegov.com/libraries.

North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony: Margaret Maron, Clyde Edgerton, and Carl Sandburg.

Sun, Oct 16, 2 p.m. www.nclhof. org. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Southern Pines.

Diana West: “Where Did ‘Politically Correct’ Come From and What is it Doing?” Tue, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Extraordinary Ventures, Chapel Hill. www. extraordinaryventures.org.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

DEMOCRACY FOR SALE Clowns have been pointing out the ills of the world at least since Shakespeare, so it shouldn’t be all that surprising that Zach Galifianakis, whose comedic persona tends toward the surrealistically unhinged, has made Democracy for Sale, a serious-minded documentary about financial malfeasance in the current politics of his home state. But somehow it does take a second to digest the fact that the loon from The Hangover and the deadpan interviewer of Between Two Ferns has gone so deep in exploring this timely and crucial topic. The doc will run on Epix as part of a series called America Divided, but here’s your chance to catch a free sneak preview, along with a post-showing panel discussion that will feature Reverend William Barber, who leads the state NAACP, and representatives of Working Films and Democracy NC. The screening is free if you RSVP at the link below. —David Klein HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER, DURHAM 7–9 p.m., free, www.naacpamericadivided.splashthat.com INDYweek.com | 10.12.16 | 39

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