RALEIGH October 16, 2019
Young. Queer. Bold. Fun.
What we expect from Saige Martin and the rest of the new Raleigh City Council By Leigh Tauss, p. 7
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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH VOL. 36 NO. 40
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6 Last August, the historic Harriet Tubman YWCA building in Durham’s Hayti community was a week away from the wrecking ball. Now, it’s going to become affordable housing.
6 News 14 Food 16 Music
7 The average age of the Raleigh City Council now is fiftyseven. Come December 2, it will be forty-three.
17 Arts & Culture 22 What to Do This Week
9 You will be shocked to learn that we are endorsing the fellow who founded this newspaper (and his legacy project).
25 Music Calendar 29 Arts & Culture Calendar
18 Raleigh painter Damian Stamer found that watercolors captured something ineffable about the transience of rural spaces he saw from the highway. 19 The Durham Civil Rights Mural comes to life on the night before the mainstage showcase at this year’s NC Dance Festival. 21 The chemistry between the doctor and his monster steals the show in the world premiere of Carolina Ballet’s Frankenstein.
Frankenstein is the latest work from Carolina Ballet (see page 21). PHOTO BY RACHEL NEVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY
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Cold Calculus
WHAT’S 60,000 DEAD BODIES BETWEEN FRIENDS?
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effrey C. Billman wrote recently about the mental gymnastics one has to perform to believe that Donald Trump has done nothing wrong in the Ukraine affair. Sam Knight is ready to perform those gymnastics: “The entire Democrat allegation that Trump withheld money to Ukraine in exchange for digging up dirt on Biden has been proven false. Have you read the transcript of the conversation with the president of Ukraine? I’m sure you have, but whatever, a ‘whistleblower’ with no first-hand knowledge of the call and Adam Schiff said it happened, so it must be true, the indisputable proof that it did not be damned. “Trump will not be impeached. … Not only will Trump not be impeached, once John Durham and Bill Barr are done, a lot of indictments will be unsealed and a lot of your favorite government demigods will be heading to prison. So go ahead, laugh what I say off as conspiracy from a right-wing kook, but I will be proven correct and you know I will, which is why you and the rest of the leftist hoards have collectively lost your shit.” Speaking of losing one’s shit, Leigh Tauss wrote about Raleigh City Council member David Cox’s bitter social-media reaction to watching his allies lose their reelection bids last week. Kevin Wilson writes: “1. What an ungracious winner. 2. He should thank the [controversial Triangle Government Alliance] mailer for saving his political career because he was dead to rights until then. 3. He’s the prototypical baby boomer.” Chantelle Miles, however, says we were “bullying local politicians [we don’t] agree with. Cox was simply lamenting the loss of others’ campaigns.” “Sorry,” counters Rod Ridings. “I read that post of his a few times and strongly disagree. Over half his message is a ridiculous list of ‘bad things will happen under this new council,’ and that’s just passive-aggressive whining that the INDY is rightfully calling out.” Want to see your name in bold? Comment: indyweek.com Email: backtalk@indyweek.com Facebook: @IndependentWeekly Twitter: @indyweek
BY JONATHAN WEILER
JONATHAN WEILER is a teaching professor UNC-Chapel Hill and co-author of Prius or Pickup? How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide and Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. NEXT WEEK: COURTNEY NAPIER, a Raleigh native, community activist, and co-host of the podcast Mothering on the Margins.
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n 1996, Madeleine Albright, thenU.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be confirmed as secretary of state under President Clinton, sat for an interview on 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl. At the time, the United States was enforcing an embargo against the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The Clinton administration saw Saddam as a threat to regional stability and believed he was pursuing weapons of mass destruction. Reports about the effects of the embargo on Iraqi civilians were dire. Stahl asked Albright about that: “We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?” Albright responded: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it.” In subsequent years, Albright apologized for that deeply troubling statement, though she largely blamed Stahl for what she deemed the question’s unfair premise. And Stahl’s number may have been inflated, though no one disputes that the embargo had profound consequences for Iraqi civilians. But the exchange reflects a disturbing reality about American foreign policy, especially in certain regions of the world: American elites, whatever their intentions, display a consistent disregard for the basic sanctity of human life when other interests are at stake. Nowhere is this more evident in 2019 than in Yemen. For the past several years, since the beginning of a civil conflict that has escalated into a regional war, Yemen has become the site of the
world’s worst humanitarian crisis. According to some estimates, sixty thousand Yemenis have died between 2016 and 2018. In a country of about thirty million people, the UN estimates that roughly 80 percent of the population is in immediate need of humanitarian assistance. The conflict is typically portrayed as a proxy war between Houthi rebel forces, backed by Iran, and the deposed Hadi regime, backed by Saudi Arabia and a sometimes-shifting coalition of Gulf states. Experts say it’s more complicated than that, with unstable regional alliances intermingling with divergent interests among the coalition allies. From the perspective of U.S. foreign policy, those nuances don’t matter. Since 2014, America’s backing of the Saudis in Yemen, including as their chief arms provider, directly implicates us in the ongoing atrocities there. These include a blockade that has strangled humanitarian aid, including food and health supplies, and which has resulted in the world’s worst cholera epidemic in decades. The Trump administration has been unabashed in its support for Saudi forces and has also worked double-time to whitewash the image of the Saudi regime, which was tarnished badly last year after the gruesome murder of the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi. But support for Saudi Arabia has, of course, long been a bipartisan affair. After the political uprising in Yemen in 2011, the Obama administration increasingly deployed drones in Yemen to rout out Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. It’s been well-documented that drone strikes there, as elsewhere,
resulted in civilian massacres, which have escalated since the Saudi-led airstrike campaign began in 2015. Last year, after Khashoggi’s murder, Congress passed a bipartisan bill to end military aid to Saudi Arabia specifically earmarked for the war in Yemen. Trump vetoed it. Notably, foreign policy is the one arena in which congressional Republicans have shown any inclination to push back against Trump. There’s no realistic chance that the savagery in Yemen will abate under the Trump administration, which has continued to support Saudi actions (and has continued to kill civilians elsewhere in drone strikes). The real question is, will the next administration have any desire to chart a new course? When push comes to shove, most Americans just don’t care about foreign policy, until it ends up as blowback in the form of a catastrophe on American soil. So we can expect little focus on it during the 2020 campaign, except insofar as Trump’s impulsivity undermines American diplomacy. Still, it’s worth asking whether Democratic presidential contenders can wean their party’s own penchant for destructive indifference in Yemen and elsewhere. Perhaps fealty to the simple principle to first do no harm would be a good place to start. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information. INDYweek.com | 10.16.19 | 5
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The Next Chapter
LAST YEAR, DURHAM’S HISTORIC TUBMAN YWCA WAS DAYS AWAY FROM DEMOLITION. NOW IT HAS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. BY THOMASI MCDONALD
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rom the moment it opened in 1954—the same year the U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in public schools—the Harriet Tubman YWCA in Durham’s Hayti community hummed with activity. The YWCA ceased operations in the 1970s, and the building gradually fell into disrepair. By 2013, as the INDY reported last year, police reported unsafe conditions at the vacant building. Over the next five years, the cops responded to 381 calls of illegal activity within five hundred feet of the property as the city tried to work with its owner, who promised but failed to fix it up. The city issued a demolition order in 2015 but didn’t allocate funds to knock the building down until 2017. The demolition was delayed again to allow for asbestos removal. Last August—the day before the asbestos removal was completed and the week before demolition was set to begin—April Johnson, the director of Preservation Durham, called the city’s Neighborhood Improvement Services and relayed the building’s significance and a new owner’s willingness to renovate it. In a 2012 inventory of African-American historic sites in Durham, Johnson had named the Y a top priority for preservation. The demolition was put on hold two days later. Then, earlier this year, the dark, badly damaged building in the 300 block of East Umstead Street went into foreclosure after the owner, Mark Bullock, failed to pay more than $100,000 in property taxes. The nonprofit Reinvestment Partners purchased the property on September 12 for $304,500. And now the organization, whose mission is to create healthy neighborhoods, is trying to raise about $2.5 million to build affordable housing on the site with a community service element, perhaps a daycare center. The stories shared by the residents of East Umstead are uncomfortable: drug addiction, sexual assault, domestic vio6 | 10.16.19 | INDYweek.com
The former Harriet Tubman YWCA building PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA lence. Reinvestment Partners executive from the broken promises that marked director Peter Skillern says he first consid- the end of segregation and the so-called ered turning the building into affordable urban renewal of Hayti in the 1960s and early 1970s. housing for women only. The Tubman Y declined in the wake of “But I talked with people who say the men are even more traumatized,” he says. “So urban renewal and the construction of the Durham Freeway, which decimated Hayti, we’re building co-ed apartments.” Along with redeveloping the building to Skillern says. There’s a correlation, he adds, house ten studio apartments, the nonprof- between disinvestment in a community’s it also hopes its work will help heal a com- infrastructure and violence, drugs, poverty, munity that has not yet fully recovered and inadequate housing.
“Long-term disinvestment and social ills, they feed on each other,” he says. “We are trying to revive and restore that missing link.” Skillern adds that the old Y is “culturally and historically important to Durham,” owing to its size and proximity to the recent renovations to create senior housing, the library, and a new educational center. “It’s important to have these institutional buildings that become contributing factors to the street,” he says, to help offset drug use, prostitution, and vagrancy. “It’s great that the building is being revitalized and that the units are expected to be affordable,” says James Blake, pastor of the Fisher Memorial Church, which is less than a block away. “I’m hopeful that the revitalization of the Y will be a vehicle that helps our community.” During its heyday, the handsome, spacious Y had twenty-four beds in twelve dorm rooms that housed black student nurses who worked at the Old Lincoln Hospital. The Tubman Y also served as a gathering place for Friday night dances, drapery-making classes, business and civic leadership activities, and civil rights demonstration planning. Reinvestment Partners has partnered with Kip Ryan, an African American businessman who owns properties in the 1200 block of Fayetteville Street. Its plans call for demolishing one of those buildings to build a parking lot and revitalizing a second one into office space. Skillern says the purchase marks the end of a beginning that started in the 1970s, when the YWCA shut down at this location. The building continued as a meeting place for organizations such as the Duke Workers Organizing Committee and the Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists. During the nineties, it housed a daycare center. When that shuttered, the building languished. “The new story started on September 12,” Skillern says. tmcdonald@indyweek.com
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The New Kids
FIVE THINGS TO EXPECT FROM RALEIGH’S YOUNGER, BOLDER, QUEERER CITY COUNCIL (AND ONE THING YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT) BY LEIGH TAUSS
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aleigh is ready for change. The neighborhood-protectionist majority is gone. Stef Mendell, Kay Crowder, and Russ Stephenson were defeated last week, and Dickie Thompson had already announced his retirement; David Cox held on but has been rendered irrelevant. In their place is a set of fresher faces: Saige Martin, twenty-eight, and Jonathan Melton, thirty-three, the city’s first openly gay council members, as well as David Knight and Patrick Buffkin. They’ll join the re-elected Corey Branch and Nicole Stewart, who has spent the last two years as the previous council’s black sheep. And leading them all will be the NIMBY crowd’s worst nightmare, MaryAnn Baldwin, who surprised most observers—herself included—by first earning the most votes last Tuesday night and then by putting enough distance between her and Charles Francis to deter a runoff. “What we saw was Raleigh’s voters coming out and saying, ‘We recognize the pivotal moment we’re in,’ and that they want a council and leadership who is ready to embrace our future and who is ready to plan and build a sustainable and equitable city,” Stewart says. Now comes the hard part: governing. The new council is younger (its average age will drop from fifty-seven to forty-three), queerer, bolder, and, well, if not sexier, then at least more fun. (Baldwin and Martin wore matching capes—capes!— at election night events.) The newcomers want a city that’s taller, denser, and more walkable (and scooter-able). They want to tackle affordable housing and climate change head-on. But what will that mean? And will they be able to deliver on their big campaign promises? The next chapter of Raleigh’s history is about to be written. Here are five things we think are likely to happen—and one that isn’t.
process slow down. Reexamining zoning to allow for more diverse housing choices will also be a piece of the puzzle. “There is no silver bullet,” Martin says. “We have unique opportunities [to] really look at some of the structural reforms that are necessary.”
Council member-elect Jonathan Melton
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ADUs by right: Since the council required homeowners to petition neighbors for permission to build accessory dwelling units, none have been built. This is unlikely to last. Baldwin wants property owners to be allowed to build ADUs by right, and the council (other than Cox) has her back. Martin calls it ‘low-hanging fruit” and thinks it will get done within a hundred days of the new crew being sworn in on December 2. Revisit Airbnb rules: The current regulations, which go into effect in January, allow residents to rent up to two rooms in their home to up to two adults; they also ban whole-house rentals entirely. Expect the council to loosen the restrictions posthaste, especially with regard to wholehouse rentals. Bring back scooters: Last week, scooters hit Raleigh’s streets for the first time since they disappeared in July. But only a few hundred did, and only from one company, Gotcha. Because the new council wants Raleigh to embrace alternative transportation, it’s a safe bet that it will relax the high
fees and tight restrictions and perhaps try to get Bird and Lime back out there. Address affordable housing: On to more complex challenges—and none are bigger than this. It’s what they all campaigned on, and it will be their biggest test. Getting a substantial affordable housing bond referendum on the ballot in 2020 seems like a no-brainer, but it shouldn’t happen before some meaningful plans are put in place. Whatever money the bond generates, some of the incoming council members say, should go to land banking near transit corridors and partnering with the private sector to create incentives for affordable units and multifamily housing. To that end, the city will have to streamline the process for getting development approved. Former mayor Charles Meeker—whose brother Richard owns the INDY—says developers have begun turning away from Raleigh because the current council made it so difficult for projects to move forward. A new team could draw new investment. Cutting red tape may also help smaller contractors that have seen the permitting
Take climate change seriously: This is the crisis of our time, and while Raleigh can only put so much of a dent in a global problem, it shouldn’t pass up an opportunity to lead. For starters, Knight believes the city should promote rooftop and commercial-grade solar projects. Infrastructure will be another big player in making the city greener; that includes maintaining and upgrading water and sewer lines to prevent spills. Likewise, the greenway system should be upgraded and maintained. Closing a section for months is unacceptable, Knight says, as people not only use the trails for recreation but also to commute to work, and promoting alternative commuter options could make the city less car-centric. But don’t fear the neighborhood apocalypse: After the election, Cox bemoaned the outcome, fretting on Facebook that the new council members would unleash development on the city’s suburban areas: a Sheetz on every corner, wider roads, garish billboards flooding downtown, and citizen advisory councils stripped for parts. This fear is unfounded, the newcomers say. Growth and neighborhoods aren’t mutually exclusive. The city can promote density and height downtown without wreaking havoc on quieter hamlets. “I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s turning over the keys to the development community,” Melton says. “I think the city should have a good relationship with the development community. Who is going to build all the housing we say we need?” ltauss@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.16.19 | 7
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By Force, Fraud, or Law
WHAT CHARLES AYCOCK AND DONALD TRUMP HAVE IN COMMON (BESIDES WHITE SUPREMACY) BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN
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here are three ways in which we may rule,” Charles Aycock, soon to be the governor of North Carolina, told his supporters in 1900. “By force, by fraud, or by law. We have ruled by force, we can rule by fraud, but we want to rule by law.” Aycock was rallying his fellow white supremacists not only for his own election but also to pass a state constitutional amendment that would, in effect, disenfranchise most black voters. By modern standards, this was a startlingly revelatory admission: Whites were willing to govern under the rule of law, Aycock was saying, but only if they could dictate its terms. They were also perfectly fine using force or fraud to enable them to dictate those terms. Indeed, white supremacists had recently used force to accomplish that goal, during the November 1898 Wilmington coup, overthrowing a municipal government deemed too friendly to African Americans and murdering at least sixty black men. And they used fraud, too. Aycock and the amendment both prevailed that November by a roughly 60–40 spread—according to the unlikely tallies of Democratic clerks. For the next seventy years, having cheated and bullied their way to absolute power, white supremacists got to write the laws. I thought of Aycock’s quote—captured in David Zucchino’s forthcoming book, Wilmington’s Lie—and the sense of entitlement behind it, when I read the letter the White House dispatched to the House of Representatives last week, calling the impeachment proceedings illegitimate and saying the administration wouldn’t participate. “You have designed and implemented your inquiry in a manner that violates fundamental fairness and Constitutionally mandated due process,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone told House leaders on October 8. Since Trump judged the case against himself “baseless,” he would not “participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry.”
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“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” Cipollone’s letter is patently absurd. Impeachment is spelled out in the Constitution; by definition, it can’t be unconstitutional. The administration can’t simply declare the president innocent and therefore ignore congressional subpoenas. According to Gregg Nunziata, the former chief counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, the letter was a “barely lawyered temper tantrum” and a “middle finger to Congress.” It was only the latest in a string of them. That same day, Trump’s Department of Justice was in federal court, arguing that the courts had erred four decades ago by allowing Congress to review transcripts of Watergate grand jury proceedings. The House Judiciary Committee now wants to review Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials, and— for some unfathomable reason—the DOJ is desperate to stop that from happening. Also that day, the State Department ordered Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and now a key player in the Ukraine scandal, not to appear for a scheduled congressional deposition. Text messages between Sondland and former Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker that were previously released by Congress appear to show that the administration was withholding military aid from Ukraine unless the country indulged Trump’s conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election and reopened an investigation into Joe Biden’s son—except for one, in September, in which Sondland
told the head of the embassy in Kyiv that he was “incorrect about President Trump’s intentions” and that there was “no quid pro quo.” (Sondland was awarded the ambassadorship after giving Trump’s inauguration committee $1 million; his appointment was championed by U.S. Senator Thom Tillis, to whom he gave $17,900 and his wife gave $57,900, according to Open Secrets.) In addition, Rudy Giuliani announced that he would disregard a House subpoena for documents and dared Congress to hold him in contempt. It didn’t take long for dominoes to begin falling. Two of Giuliani’s henchmen were arrested boarding one-way flights out of the country, accused of routing hundreds of thousands of Russian dollars into Republican political campaigns in an effort to, among other things, oust the American ambassador to Ukraine—which Trump did. Giuliani himself is now said to be under criminal investigation. Meanwhile, Sondland has agreed to testify whether the State Department wants him to or not; The Washington Post reported that he plans to say that Trump dictated his “no quid pro quo” message to the Ukrainian embassy. And according to The Wall Street Journal, in August, Sondland told U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, R–Wisconsin, that Ukrainian aid was directly tied to these investigations. The White House knows where this is going. The only recourse is to paint the exercise as illegitimate—to assert, as Richard Nixon did, that “when the president does it, that means it’s not illegal”—and to hope the president’s supporters choose not to care. Charles Aycock was a white supremacist, but that’s not the thing that most tightly binds him to Donald Trump. Instead, it’s the authoritarian sense that that the rule of law exists to further their interests, and it can be ignored when it serves to restrain them. By force, by fraud, or by law—whatever gets the job done. jbillman@indyweek.com
Durham Mayor: Steve Schewel (inc.) Confidence Level: Very high Other Candidates: Sylvester Williams
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ur streak has ended, dear reader. There will now be at least one person serving on the Raleigh and Durham city councils whom the INDY has not endorsed: David Cox, who bested Brian Fitzsimmons last week. But Raleigh voters filled in the bubble for the rest of our choices—even the underdogs—and in Durham, our three picks for the city council ran the table in the primary, making them the presumptive favorites headed into November. Fourteen-for-fifteen is a pretty good batting average, we’d say. Enough gloating. This week, a new round of elections begins. And while there are no runoffs in Raleigh, there is an important general election (and bond referendum) in Durham, as well as municipal elections in Orange County. Some of these races lack the drama we saw in the Triangle’s largest city, but these towns are grappling with many of the same challenges—housing affordability, economic development, growth, traffic, and so on—and your vote will dictate the direction they take. Before we dive into our endorsements, a caveat: We don’t cover Orange County with the same intensity that we do local governments in Durham and Wake, and, to be honest, we worried about parachuting in where we didn’t belong. For that reason—as we did with Cary—we chose not to endorse in races for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education; we simply don’t know enough about the issues facing the school board or the candidates running for it to offer an educated opinion. (We did, however, send school board candidates a questionnaire; you can see their responses at indyweek.com/elections.) But we did bone up on the choices facing voters in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough: their survey responses, their endorsements, what our trusted sources tell us, etc. And ultimately, we believe we’ve selected the candidates who best align with our values and who will most effectively move these towns forward.
It won’t surprise anyone familiar with this paper or its history that we’re endorsing Steve Schewel’s re-election. Schewel, of course, founded the INDY in 1983 and published it for three decades, and while he’s no longer financially staked in the company, his values are encoded in our DNA. It would take a heck of a challenger to turn our heads. Sylvester Williams isn’t it. More important, Schewel has done an excellent job amid difficult circumstances, and his leadership speaks for itself. With the collapse of light rail and the uptick in violent crime this year, as well as recent tensions between segments of the city’s black and brown political communities, it would have been easy for the Durham City Council to become fraught with backbiting or get bogged down by picayune matters. Instead, the council forged ahead with initiatives big (a potentially transformative housing bond) and small (an innovative participatory budgeting exercise). There are problems Schewel and company need to address in his second term. He identifies violent crime, disparities in economic growth, and affordable housing as his top priorities, arguing for a holistic approach in which the city builds trust in overpoliced neighborhoods while focusing its resources on violent criminals and creating wealth in lower-income communities. He also says the city needs a “beautiful phoenix to rise from the ashes of light rail,” perhaps a commuter rail system in conjunction with Wake County and/or a bus rapid transit system that could capitalize on some of the work the city did in preparation for light rail over the last decade. Schewel deserves a chance to see his vision through—and we’re not just saying that because we wouldn’t be here without him.
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City Council: Javiera Caballero (inc.), Jillian Johnson (inc.), Charlie Reece (inc.) Confidence Level: High Other Candidates: Joshua Gunn, Daniel Meier, Jacqueline Wagstaff We endorsed the Bull City Together slate ahead of the primary, and we’ve seen no reason to change our minds since. As we noted, the council has not been without missteps, but it has fashioned itself into the most unabashedly progressive local government in the Southeast—willing to confront systemic racial inequities, embrace urban density, and push for a smart affordable housing plan. Of the three remaining challengers, we’re most inclined to support Joshua Gunn. But while, in a vacuum, Gunn has made a pretty good case for himself, he has not, in our view, made a good-enough case for why he should replace one (or all) of the three incumbents.
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Housing Bond: Yes Confidence Level: Off the charts More than the council races, this is the most important item on Durham ballots, and it’s vital to the city’s future that it passes. The proposed $95 million housing bond would be the largest in the state’s history, but it’s about more than simply throwing money at a problem; if that were it, we’d be reticent to lend it our support, given the inherently regressive nature of the property taxes that will fund it. Instead, the bond is part of a multifaceted approach to tackling an extraordinarily complex issue. And while it won’t solve the housing crisis or singlehandedly mitigate the market forces driving it, it will go a long way toward preventing Durham from becoming, as Mayor Steve Schewel puts it, a “Disney version of itself.” Explaining the totality of how the bond works requires more space than we have here—it’s not a simplistic or dumbed-down remedy. But the gist is this: Between fiscal
years 2020 and 2024, the city plans to spend about $160 million on affordable housing. Roughly $65 million of this is “non-bondable,” expenses the city has to cover from existing local or federal funds. From the bond, about $59 million will go to the much-needed redevelopment of Durham Housing Authority properties downtown, renovating them to be more mixed-income than typical “projects.” With the bond, the city estimates that it will be able to assist about fifteen thousand residents with housing—from people experiencing homelessness to lower-income homeowners who will see their housing stabilized. The cost for the median Durham homeowner will be about $37 a year. To our minds, that’s a hell of a deal. If you’re concerned that the devil lies in the details, the good news is that the program looks even better upon closer inspection. It’s full of small ideas that thread together in brilliant ways: $3.4 million for an emergency homeless shelter and rapid rehousing; $4.6 million to help low-income homeowners pay for repairs like leaking roofs and bro-
ken air conditioners and keep their houses from falling victim to we’ll-pay-cash vultures; $25 million to build and preserve multifamily housing; $3.5 million to build accessory dwelling units; $2.3 million for eviction diversion; $6.3 million for a down payment assistance program; $2.5 million for an employment training so that low-income workers can compete for jobs on bond-financed construction projects, and so on. We’ve covered housing plans for many years, and we’ve never seen one as thoughtfully prepared or as holistic as what Durham has put together. Combined with the city’s recent push toward density through Expanded Housing Choices, we believe the bond could not only help alleviate the city’s housing crunch, but it could also serve as an example for other Triangle cities. Some things will go wrong; others will come in over-budget. It’s a bold, ambitious plan, and bumps in the road are inevitable. But it deserves your support. We enthusiastically endorse the bond, and for Durham’s sake, we hope you vote for it.
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Chapel Hill Mayor: Pam Hemminger (inc.) Confidence Level: Medium Other Candidates: Joshua Levenson For the last few years, the affluent, educated, liberal Chapel Hill has, on the one hand, talked a bunch about affordable housing but, on the other, struggled to make a lot of headway on it. Yes, the town passed a $10 million bond last year to secure several hundred affordable units, but its inclusionary zoning policy has been a bust, and several town council members have compounded the problem by being antagonistic to most kinds of new development. Demand has outpaced supply, housing prices have skyrocketed, and now Chapel Hill, despite a wealth of good intentions, is playing catchup. The problem isn’t just housing, either. Retail rents, especially downtown, have gone through the roof, too, making it difficult to start new businesses. To thrive over the next decade, the town needs a more vibrant urban core—and that means it’s going to need more density, more height, and more people. Pam Hemminger defeated incumbent Mark Kleinschmidt in 2015, riding a wave of slower-growth activism that saw Kleinschmidt as too cozy with developers. But while Hemminger is still endorsed by the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town, or CHALT, the neighborhood-activist group that pushed for Kleinschmidt’s ouster, she’s not defined by it. For the most part, she recognizes that a sustainable, livable town will require a broader tax base and, consequently, more pedestrian traffic and business development. She also wants to revise land-use regulations while working with developers to secure the outcomes the town wants. And she wants the town to prioritize action on climate change. Her opponent, a grassroots canvasser and yoga and math teacher named Josh Levenson, says he wants to expand affordable housing by forbidding developers from tearing down existing housing without guaranteeing they’ll build “at least 15 percent more” affordable units, which suggests he’s not really familiar with how this stuff works. Levenson says he also wants to increase pre-K funding, which isn’t in the town’s ambit.
Town Council: Jess Anderson (inc.), Susan Hunter, Tai Huynh, Michael Parker (inc.) Confidence Level: Medium to high Other Candidates: Nancy Oates (inc.), Amy Ryan, Renuka Soll Voters will choose four council members from seven candidates. Easy ones first: Michael Parker supports aggressively expanding housing options and automobile alternatives, including bus rapid transit, as well as boosting economic development downtown and creating a data-driven climate action plan. Parker has our enthusiastic endorsement. So does Susan Hunter, an impressive newcomer who’s won the backing of Equality NC, the Next Chapel Hill & Carrboro Action Fund (no surprise, since she’s a board member), the Orange-Chatham Group Sierra Club, and a slew of progressives we respect, including outgoing council member Donna Bell and Orange County Commissioner Mark Marcoplos. She, too, is a strong advocate for a climate change plan and a strong advocate of regional transit, as well as using both town-owned land and development partnerships to create affordable units while adding to the supply via gentle density. We’re also supporting Jess Anderson, a policy analyst with a keen mind and a knack for both problem-solving and counterintuitive thinking. The fourth choice is the most difficult. We’re rolling the dice and endorsing Tai Huynh, a twenty-two-year-old Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill. To begin with, it would be helpful for a university town to have a university student involved in its government; more important, however, Huynh strikes us as an exceptionally bright young man who could add a needed perspective to the town council. Ambitious and entrepreneurial, he understands that smart growth is not a zero-sum contest between development and the environment, and that Chapel Hill needs to foster walkable, mixed-income communities and an innovative business atmosphere.
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Carrboro Mayor: Lydia Lavelle (inc.) Confidence Level: High Other Candidates: N/A Lydia Lavelle was elected Carrboro’s mayor in 2013, and Lydia Lavelle will likely be Carrboro’s mayor until she decides she no longer wants to be. There’s a reason no one is running against her. The N.C. Central law professor is as good a representative for the town’s progressive, inclusive values as you could find. She has two priorities for her fourth term: revamping the town’s comprehensive plan and rebooting the 203 Project, an initiative with Orange County that will house the Orange County Southern Library. (The project was dealt a blow earlier this year when The ArtsCenter bailed.) Lavelle also demonstrates an uncommon self-awareness for a public official, volunteering that the Board of Aldermen should do a better job of giving direction to the town’s staff. Perhaps this is easy to do when you don’t have an opponent, but it’s a character trait we value nonetheless. Carrboro is in good hands with her at the helm.
Hillsborough Board of Aldermen: Susan Romaine, Damon Seils (inc.), Sammy Slade (inc.) Confidence Level: Medium to high Other Candidates: Matt Clements, Steve Friedman, Matt Neal In this election, voters pick three aldermen from six candidates. Two of these choices are easy: Incumbents Damon Seils and Sammy Slade deserve re-election. The third slot presents a more difficult decision. Susan Romaine and Steve Friedman have qualities and stake out positions we like. They both speak to the need to increase density and diversify Carrboro’s housing stock, something the town needs to do. Friedman has good ideas, too, about growing the town’s tax base and remaining attractive to businesses. Either would make a fine alderman. But we’re siding with Romaine because we admire her work as a founder of PORCH and the Orange County Living Wage Project, and because we believe her experience will enable her to find practical solutions to difficult problems.
Mayor: Jenn Weaver (inc. commissioner) Confidence Level: High Other Candidates: N/A After fourteen years, Tom Stevens has opted not to seek an eighth term as mayor. The mayor pro tem, Jenn Weaver, is running unopposed to replace him. As is typical of Hillsborough elections, you don’t get much of a choice. But Weaver, a former public policy researcher with progressive ideas on housing and sustainability, will make a good mayor.
But that alone isn’t a compelling reason to make a change. Evelyn Lloyd is the board’s voice of experience, having served Hillsborough since 1991; her institutional knowledge will prove vital as the town’s department heads retire. Matt Hughes provides youth, vigor, and a progressive perspective. Mark Bell wants to continue focusing on affordability and equity amid rapid growth. They all deserve re-election. backtalk@indyweek.com
Board of Commissioners: Mark Bell (inc.), Matt Hughes (inc.), Evelyn Lloyd (inc.) Confidence Level: High Other Candidates: Kevin Mason Kevin Mason, the co-owner of The Accidental Baker, says he is running to give Hillsborough voters options, as everyone else on the ballot is an incumbent. That’s admirable—and the competition is very welcome.
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THE INDY’S 2019 VOTING GUIDE DURHAM
Mayor: Steve Schewel City Council: Javiera Caballero, Jillian Johnson, Charlie Reece Housing Bond: Yes
CHAPEL HILL
Mayor: Pam Hemminger Town Council: Jessica Anderson, Susan Hunter, Tai Huynh, Michael Parker
CARRBORO
Mayor: Lydia Lavelle Board of Aldermen: Susan Romaine, Damon Seils, Sammy Slade
HILLSBOROUGH
Mayor: Jenn Weaver Board of Commissioners: Mark Bell, Matt Hughes, Evelyn Lloyd Note: The INDY is not endorsing in races for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education. Find candidates’ responses to our questionnaires at indyweek.com/elections.
EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS Early voting runs from Oct. 16 through Nov. 1.
Durham County
Orange County
Criminal Justice Resources Center 326 E. Main St., Durham
Orange County Board of Elections 208 S. Cameron St., Hillsborough
South Regional Library 4505 S. Alston Ave., Durham
Carrboro Town Hall 301 W. Main St., Carrboro
N.C. Central Turner Law Building 640 Nelson St., Durham
Chapel of the Cross 304 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
North Regional Library 221 Milton Road, Durham
Seymour Senior Center 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill
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JAMES PHARMACY
111 North Churton Street, Hillsborough 919-932-0134, jphillsborough.com
Seafood Addiction
JAMES PHARMACY IMPROVES ON ITS HILLSBOROUGH PREDECESSOR, LAPLACE, IN EVERY WAY BY NICK WILLIAMS
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eep-frying seafood is an art. I’d put it right up there with barbecue, pizza crust, ice cream, and ramen among the foods that simply can’t be perfected without apostolic practice and repetition. Dunking sea creatures in hot oil is probably not as difficult to master as those other finicky skillsets, but finding truly excellent examples—even among the literally hundreds of restaurants devoted to it—is just as difficult. Like pizza and barbecue and ramen and ice cream, even bad examples of fried seafood have an essential core of indulgent pleasure; it becomes easy to mask the poor quality of one specific plate of food behind the innate charms of the gestalt. But to fry seafood in a way that is really, truly good—that’s another trick altogether. So I am happy to report that the fried seafood at James Pharmacy is really, truly, good. The batter is perfect, somehow infused with its own lemony brightness and applied as more a protective shell for the fish than a donut-thick encasement. And the quality of the seafood is (mostly) excellent. My visits were punctuated by ax-headsized pieces of flounder, the flesh buttery and meltingly soft; oysters that popped like little saltwater balloons; and, best of all, great, bristling piles of clam strips. This humble boardwalk staple is often nothing more than a convenient batter-delivery vehicle—sad wisps of clam suffocated by funnel cake dough. Here, they are voluptuous, meaty, briny, and sweet. James Pharmacy is part of the continued reshuffling of Hillsborough’s main drag, which has seen the opening of a beer-pouring record store and the expansion of the beloved Wooden Nickel. It replaces—and has much the same team—as the decent-yet-unmemorable Cajun simulacra LaPlace Louisiana Cookery. I was concerned it would be a retread, but the new concept has improved on its precursor in every way. 14 | 10.16.19 | INDYweek.com
Flounder sandwich
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The layout is the same, but La Place’s semi-dingy aesthetic has been replaced by an inviting interior that is clean and bright without being antiseptic. Punctuated by blonde wood and a weirdly tasteful array of nautical ephemera, the dining room is a uniform off-white, or what my wife called “the color of a sail.” It does indeed feel like you’re ensconced in clean canvas, especially in the dim glow of hurricane lamps. It’s a warm, attractive space, and it slots right into Churton Street’s cozy ambiance. Before diving into the specifics of James Pharmacy’s menu, I should talk about the actual, physical paper menu that you’ll find in your hands because it looks and reads like something from an entirely different restaurant. You’ll find words like “dippin’” and “sippin’” and “shrooms” and “cukes” and “freaky” and “dance-off” and “tropical party in your mouth.” There’s a cock-
tail called “Tiki As F.” (I had it; it’s pretty good.) There’s a cocktail called the “Phil Collins,” which is funny until you see “Sussudio” listed among the ingredients. There’s a “Big Ass Bowl of Mussels.” There’s a dish that comes with something called “crack sauce.” Actually, if you peruse the raw bar menu, you’ll encounter the words “ass” and “crack” in alarming proximity to one another. The menu is supposed to be “fun,” but it comes at you like a Times Square happy-hour throwdown. But behind the manic font changes and the shouty verbiage, there’s some profound, soulful cooking. About that, uh, “crack sauce.” It turns out to be the dressing on a fabulous plate of fried calamari. Tossed with crisp cabbage and shot through with fiery acidity and electric fish-sauce funk, the dish ends up somewhere between comfort food classic and Thai yam pla. It’s awe-
some, in spite of the pithy reference to street drugs. Equally complex and refreshing is the fish ceviche, meaty chunks of red drum “cooked” in a drinkable, hangover-killing broth of bitter citrus and sweet potato. The accompanying house-made tortilla chips vary in quality, but it doesn’t really matter when the ceviche is this good. (Avoid the shrimp ceviche, though. It’s not terrible; just inessential.) I visited James Pharmacy multiple times to get a read on its enormous menu. One of those visits was a solo lunch, where I decided to try all the items for which I had the lowest expectations. I had already been suckered in by the unforgettable clam strips—surely this place doesn’t need to serve a poke bowl. The poke bowl, to my bafflement, is great—a generous handful of cubed raw tuna with just enough soy/mayo richness to offset the accompanying edamame, seaweed, cucumbers, and pickled ginger arranged mezze-like over a scattering of white rice. It’s invigorating and bracingly healthy. Equally satisfying (and extravagantly unhealthy) is a gigantic grilled alpine cheese sandwich stuffed with fried green tomatoes and blackberry jam. The alpine cheese, rather than some Sysco-truck “Swiss,” is honest-to-god cheese, rich and complex, and the tart tomatoes cut right through the sweetness of the jam. The whole affair is pressed cleanly between slabs of buttery toast, thick enough that the molten insides don’t drip. Vegetarians, take heed. Not everything is so wonderful. The chopped salad is entirely too chopped, once-proud romaine and stilton and pecans reduced to a sad, wet dust. The boiled peanut hummus is out-of-place and tastes nothing like boiled peanuts. Blackened catfish tacos dissolve into an unappealing mound, the catfish itself a rare instance of James Pharmacy serving fish that tasted unpleasantly fishy. The seafood chowder is described as “soon-to-be world-famous”; that’s not going to happen.
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THE N.C. STATE FAIR Oct. 17–27, N.C. State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh ncstatefair.org, $10–13 The State Fair returns on Thursday with a slew of new rides and attractions, but more important (at least for our purposes), deepfried, indulgent, sometimes-bizarre FAIR FOOD! Try La Farm’s stuffed Cubano baguette with pulled pork, mozzarella cheese, bread-and-butter pickles, sweet ham, and a garlic, cilantro, and lime Cubano sauce; or get the candied bacon s’more, because it’s the fair. There’s also The Chickenator from Chef’s D’Lites, a golden fried chicken breast nestled in a cinnamon bun and topped with pepper jack cheese and crisp bacon, or deep-fried garlic cheese curds courtesy of the Cheese Curd Shack. Hickory Tree BBQ is offering a Crack-n-Cheese stuffed turkey leg, and the Chick-N-Que has a deep-fried emu burrito. Get the red velvet cheese enchilada funnel cake from Mediterranean Grill or a Reese’s Pieces donut (!) dipped in chocolate frosting and topped with chopped peanuts. When all else fails, opt for a deepfried Oreo. Goddamn, we love the fair.
Fried clam strips
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But the burgers are magnificent, the piquancy of local grass-fed beef slathered with more of that fatty alpine cheese. The shearling-soft bun disintegrates almost instantly under the patty’s juiciness. The drinks list is as huge as the food menu, but it’s neatly arranged and well-curated with hip, small-production wines and seafood-friendly beers. There is clearly some well-intentioned creativity and skill behind the cocktail list, although they play fast and loose with their take on a Jungle Bird, one of my favorite cocktails from the tiki days. Served in a Collins glass, and without the tenebrous molasses swirl of blackstrap rum, it’s a decent drink, but it’s not a Jungle Bird. More intriguing is the aforementioned Tiki As F, basically an old-fashioned made with pineapple rum, slightly medicinal but fascinatingly smoky. For the abstaining customer, James Pharmacy innovates with thoughtful non-alcoholic options. The Love Potion #9 is a shockingly vibrant concoction of pineapple, hibiscus, lemon, and ginger.
All of this—the tacos, the tiki, the dips, the beach-bum wordplay—stacks up into the unsubtle persona that James Pharmacy is clearly trying to present to the world. A party vibe, a casual meal, a drinking lunch, a raucous, happy dinner (the dining room was packed on a Tuesday night). But ultimately, this playfulness undersells the heart of the place. The real key is the whole fried fish. I have written at length about the joys of eating whole fish, and I can confidently say that James Pharmacy’s take is one of the best— and strangest—that I’ve encountered in the Triangle. Gone is the batter, replaced by a glistening, seed-strewn carapace of pure crisp, encasing a whole branzino. The fish is curled into an action pose, like a carp depicted mid-leap in a Sumi-e ink painting. The first bite is almost too sweet, draped in a sticky, lime-tinged sauce. But when dragged through the spiced dregs and fish juices collected at the bottom of the plate, and paired with a bite of cool, soy-drenched pickled cucumber, it snaps into exquisite balance. food@indyweek.com
TERRA VITA FOOD FESTIVAL Oct. 16–19, locations in Chapel Hill and Carrboro terravitafest.com In its tenth and final year, the TerraVita Food Festival is a multiday celebration of culinary excellence, bringing together top chefs, food artisans, sommeliers, baristas, brewers, educators, distillers, cookbook authors, and other industry luminaries from across the Southeast. At multiple locations in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and the surrounding area, the festival boasts some of the best in food and drink in the Triangle. On October 18 at Lavender Oaks farm, Caitlin McCormick, the pastry chef at FIG in Charleston, will be at the tribute dinner for the late Karen Barker. McCormick will offer her version of Barker’s signature Blackout Cake. POOLE’SIDE APERITIVO Fridays at Poole’side Pies, 428 S. McDowell St., Raleigh ac-restaurants.com/poolside, $20 Starting Friday, Ashley Christensen’s Poole’side Pies will offer an Aperitivo hour, a casual after-work cocktail party from 4:00–5:00 p.m. featuring Aperol spritzes, Peroni beers, and a rotating cast of snacks. Aperitivo is an Italian tradition, a way to unwind and socialize at the end of the workday before dinner. As a bonus, you’ll also be first in line to put your name in for a table at Poole’side to enjoy one of Christensen’s Neapolitan-inspired pizzas. The recurring Friday event requires an advance ticket purchase through resy.com. —Andrea Rice
YOUR WEEK. EVERY WEDNESDAY. FOOD • NEWS • ARTS • MUSIC
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LOCAL JAZZ: SHAQUIM MULDROW Monday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., $15 The Fruit, Durham www.durhamfruit.com
BRIAN HORTON TRIO JAZZ RESIDENCY Tuesdays, 9–11:30 p.m., free Kingfisher, Durham www.kingfisherdurham.com
Scene and Heard
THE FRUIT AND KINGFISHER ADD WORTHY RECURRING JAZZ NIGHTS TO THE DURHAM SCENE BY DAN RUCCIA
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ne recent Monlayout mean that the sound day night, I was carries without ever getting running a little overwhelming, even when late to The Fruit, where Horton’s trio expanded to a line was snaking out of a sextet with an extra rank the door for that night’s of horns during the second edition of the semi-weekset. I was initially seated at ly Local Jazz series. I a bank of tables off to one joined the queue to catch side. I couldn’t see the band, some of Durham’s best but I could hear just fine, homegrown jazz talent: even though I made it a On this night, it was piapoint to gradually shift to a nist Ernest Turner and better vantage point as peohis recently reconfigured ple around me slowly left. trio, with bassist Kevin Horton’s trio is a rollickBeardsley and drummer ing force, with each playJeremy “Bean” Clemons. er pushing the others ever Inside, the half-full outward. At one point, the Fruit felt like a concert drummer pulled out a clathall masquerading as tering second-line groove a jazz club. Risers with so deep that it very nearly rows of chairs attemptmade my head explode. ed to blend in with the Kingfisher is, first and walls while a smattering foremost, a bar, meanof round candlelit tables ing that, while there were surrounded the stage. plenty of people there The first folks in line to listen, there was also snatched those up right plenty of talking going on away. I grabbed a seat in throughout. It added an air the front row of risers Shaquim Muldrow plays in the Local Jazz series Oct. 21 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST of informality to the show with a cold beverage. When Turner (wear- fisher, one of Durham’s newest bars, where that seemed to complement Horton’s lowing a sharp burgundy suit) and company saxophonist Brian Horton has a weekly res- key vibe (particularly during the second took the stage after a short, enthusiastic idency. Even so, I was running late enough set, which became a kind of blowing sesintroduction from emcee Shana Tucker, the that I forgot to turn off the light of my sion on a bunch of standards). And even crowd went wild, then immediately shut up, bike, so Horton’s trio was already playing though the service was occasionally a litlistening deeply, which Turner rewarded when I walked through Kingfisher’s base- tle slow, Kingfisher’s cocktails are tasty, a with a wide-ranging, gripping performance ment door. It had been probably eight years savory complement to the music wafting that was somehow at its best when he was since I had last seen Horton at his old spot around. The experience couldn’t have been playing ballads. In between songs, he chat- at Whiskey on Thursday nights. It’s safe to more different than the previous night’s, tered with the audience, who weren’t afraid say that Kingfisher is not Whiskey by any but the jazz was just as good. to chatter back. It felt like a gathering of stretch of the imagination. Whiskey was Now, does anyone know how to jumpfriends with one purpose in mind: listen- always smoky and incredibly loud, without start a bike light? I’ve got to make it to The ing to jazz. I walked back to my car simul- enough places to sit, especially when the Fruit to see NCCU alumnus and sax playtaneously hungry (having missed dinner to band was playing. The quality of the music er Shaquim Muldrow this Monday night, make it) and satiated. made it worth it, just barely. and I swear that this time, I’m not going On Tuesday night, because the weather Kingfisher, on the other hand, is a great to be late. was a touch cooler, I decided to bike to King- spot to see jazz. The low ceilings and strange music@indyweek.com 16 | 10.16.19 | INDYweek.com
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NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, Oct. 20–Saturday, Nov. 2 UNC’s Institute for the Study of the Americas, Chapel Hill/Duke’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Durham www.latinfilmfestivalnc.com
Reality Check
THE NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IS RESHAPING SIMPLISTIC NARRATIVES ABOUT A GROWING POPULATION IN OUR STATE BY SARA PEQUEÑO
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y now Latin Americans make up 9.6 percent of North Carolina residents. While this is a smaller proportion than the rest of the country, the population is growing at a faster rate than any other group in the state. Rarely, though, are those spikes in statewide representation reflected in academia. At UNC-Chapel Hill, as of 2018, less than 5 percent of full-time faculty were Hispanic. This number has increased since 2007, but it still doesn’t represent the 10 percent of Latin American students at the university. The thirty-fourth-annual NC Latin American Film Festival will take place October 20 through November 2. Films will be shown throughout venues in the Triangle, with variations in genre, country, and language. It takes place through a collaboration with Duke University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Study of the Americas. The festival launched in 1986 as a way to connect the growing Latin American population in the state and the academic community. Today, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Study of the Americas has more than fifteen hundred short and feature-length films available for public use, according to Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, the festival’s director for the last ten years, who helped start a Latin American short film festival in Pennsylvania during his doctoral program at the University of Pittsburgh. Now, as a teacher at Duke, he is able to “show the realities of Latin America through film.” Since 2012, the festival has shifted to focus more on indigenous populations in Latin America, as a way to lift up the voices of people that are often ignored by modern media, news, and art. This year, in conjunction with the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages, there will be a series of short films created by indigenous filmmakers.
DisemPOWERed
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Mãtãnãg: The Enchanted Woman, an animated short from the Maxacali in Brazil, was created with the help of the entire village, from designs to the post-production process. Director Charles Bicalho, who will attend the screening, says this is the second animated movie he had ever produced. “It was a completely different process because we did the illustration workshops in the village with more than fifteen people,” Bicalho says. “I mean kids and women and the guys, everybody was illustrating.” The fifty-minute short animates the folk story of Mãtãnãg, a woman who ends up in the village of the dead with her husband’s spirit. Bicalho and a Maxacali shaman developed the screenplay. When it came to production, animation felt like the perfect medium to tell the ancient tale.
“We can use the animation language to tell any kind of story we want,” Bicalho says. On the other hand, some films take on stories closer to real life. DisemPOWERed is a documentary by mother-and-son duo Sandy Smith-Nonini and Roque Nonini that follows the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, exploring how the country’s dependency on oil, debt, and corruption within the national electric company led to blackouts that lasted for months. “It was very corrupt because the governors and ruling parties had come to use the electric company as a sort of a piggy bank to do their favorite financial projects,” Smith-Nonini says of Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority. The movie tells the story of Puerto Rico’s economic collapse through the Puerto
Ricans that the filmmakers met through three separate trips. Some of the film’s subjects were without refrigeration for insulin or kidney dialysis, while others are early power-plant retirees who are now fixing lines for their villages. María López, former programming director for the Chicago Latino Film Festival, says she thinks that film, but especially short film, are more accessible to the public. “With the digital age that we live in and social media, everybody has a much shorter attention span,” López says. “You’re most likely to just want to watch a short video. This is why short films are my favorite way of telling and presenting Latin American stories.” spequeno@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.16.19 | 17
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DAMIAN STAMER: UNSEEN Through Saturday, Nov. 2 Craven Allen Gallery, Durham www.cravenallengallery.com
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DAMIAN STAMER USES THE EPHEMERAL POWER OF WATERCOLORS TO CAPTURE THE SECRET HISTORIES AND UNCERTAIN FUTURES OF RURAL PLACES BY LAUREN PIEMONT
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ew Sharon ty through softly bleeding Church Rd. washes of watercolor, piec79” embodes like “Horry County MT ies the mystery, revela8” and “South Lowell MP tion, and transience that 27” represent impendpermeates Unseen, an ing erasure. Stamer uses exhibit by Raleigh painter printmaking techniques to Damian Stamer. A small layer imposing forms and shed doggedly holds the frenetic lines over othercenter of the composiwise-idyllic pastoral scenes. tion. The shed’s sharp Interiors such as “Horry edges separate it from the County Study 6” and “New kaleidoscopically blurred Sharon Church Rd. 3” show landscape that surrounds crowded spaces scratched it. Its entryway, which over with a tangle of colis no more than a dark ored lines. Will these spacstroke of paint, implies es, which were once home that a door was once there to someone, be lost to decay, but has now been pulled spurred by encroaching off its hinges. What lies nature or the “progress” of beyond the entrance, redevelopment? and will the momentary Craven Allen’s quiet, chance to find out soon secluded belowground gallery slip away? is the ideal space in which to Unseen, currently on view such layered, intimate view at Craven Allen Galwork. There is a solemnity in lery in Durham, includes a room with no natural light, multiple works on paper and it lends itself quite well to by Stamer. The landthe sobering questions Stamscapes and interiors he er is posing. has sourced from his comUnseen is Stamer’s first mutes through rural North full show of works on paper. Carolina are presented to Though primarily an oil viewers as a vanitas—a painter, he picked up waterreminder of ephemercolors for the first time since ality. Although the artist his undergraduate studies in typically reserves watera residency at the Hungar“New Sharon Church Rd. Study 3” by Damian Stamer COURTESY OF THE ARTIST colors for preliminary ian University of Fine Arts studies, here, he deftly uses it to create por- a car window, but now, as an adult, he is in Budapest in 2018. What first seemed tals into a world that is often either ignored also aware of the sometimes grim, likely like an enticing experiment in pushing an unknowable history that creates the con- abandoned medium turned into a powerful or misunderstood. Crumbling barns and old farmhouses ditions for scenes like these. The intention tool for inquiry. Unseen is a triumph of both littered with moth-eaten mattresses, bro- of this body of work is to call attention to technique and content, transporting the ken furniture, and artifacts of days gone complexities that are overlooked when we viewer far from what is known in a seemby have a nostalgic, poetic quality that can see something familiar. ingly commonplace vehicle. It is certainly While “New Sharon Church Rd. 79” and an exhibition to be seen. hypnotize observers. Stamer recalls first feeling this way as a child looking outside “South Lowell 153” portray haunting beauarts@indyweek.com
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NC DANCE FESTIVAL
Friday, Oct. 18 & Saturday, Oct. 19, various times, $15–$21 The Durham Arts Council (Fri.)/The Fruit (Sat.), Durham www.danceproject.org
Motion Pictures
BEFORE ITS ANNUAL SHOWCASE, THE NC DANCE FESTIVAL BRINGS A HISTORIC DURHAM MURAL TO LIFE BY BYRON WOODS
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he idea for a new dance work has to start list whose layered soundscapes added ambience somewhere. Most often, it’s with a choreand gravitas to Culture Mill’s June premiere of ographer who has an impulse or insight They Are All at ADF. Emerging painter and visustrong enough to drive them through months of al artist Cynelsa Broderick was tapped to create exploration. Sometimes, though, creation needs a a large ground mural extending across the DAC jumpstart from the outside. parking lot, plus a border where the community can fill in a geometric pattern of diamonds with Myra Weise manages museum services at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art, but over the last some three hundred multicolored sticks of sidethree years, she’s also been helping local choreogwalk chalk. Sonic Pie Productions’ Tess Mangum raphers self-produce their work under the rubric Ocaña will handle lighting and sound design. of Proxemic Media—an appropriate name for her For Duncan, bringing to life a 2,400-foot mural efforts to reduce the distance between performcovering more than a century of civil rights activism involved creating a series of vignettes illusers and their dreams, and between artists and the public. During the prior two autumns, Weise trating historic episodes, including baptisms at produced a series of Third Friday showcases at St. Joseph’s AME Church (the present site of Empower Dance Studio on Parrish Street. This Hayti Heritage Center), the “secret” 1944 Duke/ year, she had a much bigger idea. NCCU basketball game, the rise of Black Wall Street, and the 1943 arrest of high school student “Durham is home to two dozen murals,” she says. Doris Lyons, who refused to give up her seat on a “What would happen if we bring them to life?” Durham public bus. In one sequence, dancers will That question gets its first answer Friday, appear in costume as leaders stepping from the when the NC Dance Festival presents Continuing to Tell during the first night of its two-evening mural into the performance. stand in Durham. Based on the Durham Civil “The mural is a roadmap of monumental things Rights Mural, the performance event will take that happened in our city,” says Tucker. “We’re sitplace in front of it in the Morris Street parking ting on a gold mine of history.” lot adjacent to the Durham Arts Council on FriIn the festival’s main showcase the next night at day night. The Fruit, other artists will also probe issues involvWeise, whose history in dance involves profesing culture, history, and identity. Durham artist sional training as a dancer and more than a decade Megan Yankee’s excerpt from Qué gringa, que grinof experience in arts administration, envisioned ga, an evening-length work in progress, investigates more than just a choreographic tableau vivant, aniwhat her Mestizx heritage looks and feels like in mating artistic cityscapes. Live music was importthe current political climate. Burlington choreographer Vania Claiborne’s (Bro)tha/Brother examines ant. The projects also had to be interactive and extend the world of the murals out into their immefriendship among black men, and Winston-Salem’s diate environment. Kira Blazek-Ziaii uses humor to parse out independence and interdependence among women in Keep “I wanted visual artists to play off the mural as more than a backdrop,” she says. “Essentially, It Together. Durham choreographer Megan Ross’s they’d draw a ground mural that literally sets the playful To Meep Like a Peep and Greensboro’s Clastage for live performance.” rice Young rounds out the showcase. Meanwhile, the NC Dance Festival had been The evening underlines NCDF’s increasing commitment to seek out fresh talent in recent looking for more innovative ways to interact Tess Mangum Ocaña, Shana Tucker, Myra Weise, Cynelsa Broderick, years; all five acts are making their festival debuts. with the communities it visits during its annual and Kristin Taylor Duncan PHOTO BY ZOE LITAKER “So many artists are coming to North Carolina with state-wide tours. According to NC Dance Project execuWith production assistance from the festival and a tive director Anne Morris, taking dance out of tradition- grant from Downtown Durham Inc., Weise put a creative already impressive resumes,” Morris says. “We’re trying to al spaces and onto the streets was “a good way to link up team together. Choreographer Kristin Taylor Duncan, the be as conscious of them as we can, so we can support them with the downtown Durham community in a bigger way artistic director of Durham’s KT Collective, had collabo- and introduce them to new audiences.” rated in the past with Shana Tucker, a composer and celthan we’ve been able to do before.” arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.16.19 | 19
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To Be Frank
CAROLINA BALLET BRINGS A CLASSIC MONSTER STORY TO AFTERLIFE BY RACHEL PITTMAN FRANKENSTEIN
Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh Through Sunday, Oct. 27 www.carolinaballet.com
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t Fletcher Opera Theater, the stage is split by a series of symbols. First, a simple wooden crucifix divides the backdrop. Then, that cross is replaced with the bloody, hanging corpse of Victor Frankenstein’s bride. Finally, a tragic tableau sits center stage: Frankenstein’s broken body, his grieving monster, and two sylphs representing good and evil arranged in a final position of remorse. To be clear, the first crucifix doesn’t come from the premiere of Frankenstein, the new work by Carolina Ballet’s resident choreographer, Zalman Raffael. Instead, it features in the piece that opens the evening: artistic director Robert Weiss’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a short ballet set to a J. Mark Scearce-created musical version of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem. This playful yet haunting piece primes the palate for Frankenstein. There’s a European-folk-dance-reminiscen wedding, the death of the magical Albatross (a flitting Margaret Severin-Hansen), and a pas de deux between two skeletal sailors (a wickedly powerful Kiefer Curtis and Lara O’Brien). All of these elements combine to create a spooky teaser for the horrors that await in Frankenstein. After intermission, the tale of the doomed Victor Frankenstein and his Monster begins. The ballet follows the book’s order, and we look on as Victor sews together his half-man, expels him from the lab, and then is slain by his handiwork. From his first appearance as Victor, Yevgeny Shlapko commands the stage with sustained jumps and soulful emotion, and Shlapko brings Victor’s journey from cocky boy to regretful mad scientist to life with sizzling energy.
Frankenstein PHOTO BY RACHEL NEVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY It’s a fervor matched flawlessly by Marcelo Martinez’s Monster, and the chemistry between the two steals the show; in repeated pas de deux, Shlapko’s bounding, often-manic movement is marvelously offset by Martinez’s tortured long lines and lumbering yet slinky choreography. Along with this magnetic man-versus-monster battle, Raffael adds more tension with Good (Ashley Hathaway) and Evil (Alyssa Pilger), who are visual representations of the Monster’s impulses. Hathaway and Pilger seem more ghostly than human, with their otherworldly port de bras and days-long extensions while cloaked in long mesh veils. Jan Burkhard’s performance as Victor’s bride, Elizabeth, is another powerful female role; her demure, sustained balances and joyful presence leave the audience all the more heartbroken by her eventual fate. Along with Scearce’s eerie music—an unsettling mixture of violin, organ, and xylophone—the dancers’ passionate performances carry the audience seamlessly through to the close of Frankenstein, when the journey to the land of monsters is ended with the simple, harrowing positioning of the Monster, flanked by Good and Evil and bowed over his creator’s corpse. You’ll come for the Halloween-worthy tale and stay for the sinister score, provocative choreography, and thoughtful performances. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.16.19 | 21
10.16–10.23
WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
(SANDY) ALEX G
A mishap with a recording device prevented the INDY from running an interview with the prolific singersongwriter (Sandy) Alex G, who makes dreamy, surreal lo-fi songs that somehow manage to also feel preternaturally emotionally intelligent. Here, anyway, is an amalgam of the conversation: Right now, he’s reading Roberto Bolaño (he picked up a copy of the hefty 2666 in the airport because he liked the cover). He found the lyrics to “Southern Sky” in his dream journal (the last time lyrics came to him in a dream, he says, was the song “Axesteel,” from 2014’s DSU). In regards to a picture of him that was recently swept into a fake news frenzy—in the picture, he is depicted with a beer stain on his pants; members of the altright mistook him for a youthful Beto O’Rourke and circulated it with the caption “Robert Francis O’Rourke in college. Drunk and pissing his pants. He wants to be your president in 2020!”—Alex G says that he found out about it when an old friend from high school texted him. And yes, he thinks it’s funny. Other snippets of the conversation are lost to the sands of time and errant technology, but welcome to Durham anyway, Alex G. We hope you like our Southern sky. —Sarah Edwards MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 8 p.m., $18, www.motorcomusic.com
(Sandy) Alex G comes to Motorco on Friday, October 18. PHOTO BY TONJE THILESEN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
CHRIS THILE
In 2016, the mandolin player and singer Chris Thile took over hosting the stalwart radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion. Though he’d long been groomed to replace Garrison Keillor, it would turn out to be more of a sea change than anyone had expected, with Keillor ousted entirely from Minnesota Public Radio after allegations of sexual misconduct. The program relaunched as Live from Here the following year, and Thile has continued to remake the show, not only in his own image, but in that of a more expansive canon of American music and entertainment. Thile is no doleful Lutheran dream boy: The Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek member is an impossibly good-natured and energetic host whose versatility is apparent in his sincere music interpretations (recent episodes have included tributes to Laurie Anderson, India.Arie, Hank Williams, and The Beach Boys). Beyond Live from Here, Thile’s broad tastes are seen in side projects, which include recordings of Bach’s sonatas and partitas, and a stint at Jack White’s Third Man Records. —Josephine McRobbie UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $37+, www.carolinaperformingarts.org
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16– SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19
WEST END POETRY FESTIVAL
It might as well be National Poetry Month in Carrboro, where the fourteenth annual West End Poetry Festival kicks off this Wednesday. This year’s theme, “The Citizen Poet: Work and Reconciliation,” includes readings from more than thirty poets from North Carolina. On Wednesday evening, the Carrboro Poets Council kicks things off with a reading and ice cream social at Johnny’s Gone Fishing, followed by a Thursday night open mic at the Cat’s Cradle Back Room. On Friday, there’ll be an evening reception at Flyleaf Books. Finally, on Saturday afternoon, featured poets Jonathan Farmer, Alison Rollins, and Fred Joiner convene at the Carrboro Century Center for a reading; there will also be an after-party hosted by CJ Suitt and The Sacrificial Poets at 2nd Wind. If none of those poets spark your whimsy—and they should—keep the West End Poetry Festival on your radar. Festival organizer and Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner won an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for the future development of the festival and other literary outreach initiatives in the area. —Coco Wilder VARIOUS VENUES, CHAPEL HILL/CARRBORO Various times, free, www.westendpoetryfestival.org
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19
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The two-day Manifest music festival—which takes place at The Cave, Nightlight, and Local 506—aims to provide a supportive platform for the work of female, trans, and nonbinary musicians in the Triangle and beyond. It’s the brainchild of Sarah Shook, the outlawcountry force behind The Disarmers, and Erika Libero, frontperson for the theatrical psych outfit Henbrain. A punk ethos runs through Manifest, with all-ages show options and no tolerance for discrimination or harassment. There are plenty of loud and scuzzy choices among the twenty-four acts, including groups like BANGZZ, Basura, Pie Face Girls, Mallwalker, and Reese McHenry. There’s space for those whose ideology comes through loud and clear despite comparatively gentler sonics, such as Skylar Gudasz, Dissimilar South, and Fruit Snack. Attendees can also catch sets from sonic innovators like dynamic songwriter S.E. Ward, hip-hop multi-talent ZenSoFly, four-track dreamer Moon Racer, and Gudiya, a sound artist and DJ who creates pieces incorporating Bollywood tunes, throbbing beats, and distorted guitar riffs. —Josephine McRobbie VARIOUS VENUES, CHAPEL HILL Various times, $10–$30, www.manifestmusicfestival.com
The Bad Plus performs at Baldwin Auditorium on Sunday, October 20.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20
THE BAD PLUS
Much has changed in the five years since The Bad Plus last came to Durham. Founding pianist Ethan Iverson left the band in 2017 to follow his own muse. For a band defined by its consistency—Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King had been playing together for seventeen years—the departure seemed sudden and unexpected. But Anderson and King immediately drafted Orrin Evans and forged ahead, recording Never Stop II within a few weeks of their first rehearsal. Like 2010’s Never Stop (and unlike the oblique covers of Nirvana, the Bee Gees, and Milton Babbitt that helped to make them famous), this album features only original compositions. What’s remarkable is that it still feels very much like a Bad Plus record, just with a slightly different accent; their songs still are built around energetic rhythms, lustrous melodies, and dynamic group improvisations. Evans’s instincts are different than Iverson’s, pushing everyone in exciting new directions. —Dan Ruccia BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, DURHAM 7 p.m., $25, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19
BON IVER
Though much of the discourse surrounding Justin Vernon has focused on his Thoreauvian bout of isolation in the winter of ‘06, he’s spent the better part of his career surrounding himself with a network of other visionaries, from Kanye West (before he lost his mind) to acclaimed local chef Ashley Christensen. For his latest work as Bon Iver, i,i, Vernon invited a crew of nearly fifty collaborators to Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Texas to assist in the creative process. The group’s latest offering maintains the electronic nature of the previous record, 22, A Million, while scaling back on the vocal modulation and sampling. Lyrically, this is Vernon’s most direct and political work to date, yet the production ventures toward poppy maximalism—the total antithesis of For Emma, Forever Ago. This record also marks the band’s first arena tour. Inspired by Kandinsky, Christopher Bauder constructed an installation of moving mirrors that reflect the stage lighting to create architectural patterns along with the music. Genre-bending singer-songwriter Feist opens. —Sam Haw PNC ARENA, RALEIGH
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SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Savage Knights, Floor Model, Acomip; $5. 8 p.m.
LINCOLN THEATRE 5th Annual Nelson Mullins Battle Of The Broker Bands; $14. 6 p.m.
THU, OCT 17 CAT’S CRADLE Witt Lowry, Xuitcasecity, Whatever We Are; $16-$18. 8 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL Nash Street Ramblers; 7 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE Watch What Crappens; $25-$28. 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN Headcase the Band, Caffeine Daydream, The Monsters from Outer Space; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.
LOCAL 506 The Districts, Corey Flood; $15-$18. 8 p.m. THE PINHOOK
Lee Baines III & the Glory Fires [$10, 8 P.M.] Resonating with the Drive-By Truckers’ “duality of the Southern thing,” Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires will turn The Pinhook
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name “Johann”), with Johann Sebastian only appearing in passing. Taken together, the show provides an interesting snapshot of German Baroque choral traditions. —Dan Ruccia KINGS The Dangling Loafer, Tyler Wood; $7. 8 p.m. KINGS Oranssi Pazuzu, Insect Ark; $15-$18. 10:30 p.m. THE KRAKEN Aarow Beach, Roar The Engines; 8 p.m. THE MAYWOOD Extinction Level Event, Lifecurse, Corona Mortis; $10. 9 p.m. MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL Leslie Odom Jr.; 8 p.m. $67+. 8 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL (Sandy) Alex G, Tomberlin, ARTHUR; $18. 8 p.m. MANIFEST 4, NIGHT 1: Gudiya, ZenSoFly, Lobby Boy, Moon Racer; $10-$30. 8 p.m. THE PINHOOK Sengoko, No One Mind, Humanize; $8. 9 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Wild Adriatic, Raptor Taxi; $10-$12. 9 p.m. RHYTHMS LIVE MUSIC HALL Johnny White & The Elite Band; $10. 8 p.m. SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS RALEIGH Konbanwa, Small Life Form; 7 p.m.
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires PHOTO BY WES FRAZER into a punk pulpit as Bains delivers sermons against all sorts of isms while grappling with his experiences growing up in Birmingham. The urgency of Bains’s rallying cries is matched by the band’s incendiary energy and Southern rock riffs. With Loamlands and Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough. —Spencer Griffith PNC ARENA
Post Malone [$80+, 8 P.M.] Here’s my seventy-five-word think piece: A white emo kid from Syracuse sprouts cornrows, gold fronts, and face tats and racks up a million SoundCloud plays in a month with a self-released
AutoTune-rap song in which he compares himself to Allen Iverson and traffics in gardenvariety misogyny, and it’s infuriatingly irresistible, as it always is when problematic content meets persuasive music (call it The Weeknd Syndrome). With Swae Lee and Tyla Yaweh. —Brian Howe POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Tumbao, Tambem, Azulz; $5. 9 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Charles Latham & the Borrowed Band, Hardworker; $5. 9 p.m.
FRI, OCT 18 ARCANA Ally J, Kevin Clark; 9 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE Swervedriver, Milly (Back Room); $23-$25. 8 p.m.
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Swervedriver [$23–$25, 8 P.M.] Brawny, song-oriented, and indebted more to the earthy realms of late ‘80s protogrunge and American car culture than their arty peers in My Bloody Valentine, Oxford shoegaze pioneers Swervedriver languished out of print for years, a victim of bad career decisions and fleeting British press trends. Were they a crucial band? No. Do they have undeniable period hits like “Blowin Cool?” Yes. As with Swirlies, Ride, and many others, they return now to school zoomers on pop feedback. With Milly. —David Ford Smith
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Ami Dang [$5, 9 P.M.]
Ami Dang is a conservatorytrained student of composition and North Indian classical music, a Baltimore-raised electronica and ambient experimenter, and a big believer in the transcendent power of the sitar. Plucks and strums of the iconic instrument are a major focus of her music, interspersed with pieces that foreground cello loops, synthesizer, and Dang’s fullbodied singing. With GRRL and Gudiya. —Josephine McRobbie KINGS Sun Seeker, Duncan Fellows, Sixteen Jackies; $12. 9 p.m. THE KRAKEN The Low Gals, Lisa R & The Lucky Stars; 8 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE The Dobre Brothers; $30. 12:30 p.m. MANIFEST 4, NIGHT 2: Basura, Sister Brother, Nomadic War Machine, Pool Boy; $10-$30. 8 p.m.
CAT’S CRADLE Ra Ra Riot, Bayonne; $17-$19. 9 p.m.
SHARP NINE GALLERY Frankie Alexander Quartet; $20. 8 p.m.
THE CAVE TAVERN Music Festival 4: Sidewalk Furniture, Cochonne, BANGZZ, Mean Habit; $10. 9 p.m.
SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Jenney Bestzt, BRNDA, Reese McHenry; $7. 9 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Lowland Hum; $15. 7 p.m.
POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, Ric Wilson; $25-$30. 9 p.m. THE RITZ GRUNGE FEST $12. 4 p.m. RHYTHMS LIVE MUSIC HALL NCCU Jazz Ensemble Benefit Concert; $33. 7:30 p.m.
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SHARP NINE GALLERY Christian Tamburr Quartet; $20. 7 p.m.
ARCANA Russell Favret; 9 p.m.
SLIM’S DOWNTOWN The Antique Hearts, The Gone Ghosts, The Menders; $5. 9 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Amy Rigby; $12. 7 p.m.
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Vox Luminis [$25–$34, 8 P.M.] So often, concerts of music from the Bach family focus on Johann Sebastian Bach’s children. This performance by the Netherlands-based vocal group Vox Luminis flips the script, looking instead at Johann Sebastian’s older cousins, Johann Michael, Johann Christoph, and Johann Ludwig (apparently the family had a thing for the
BLUE NOTE GRILL Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos; $10-$15. 8 p.m. CARY ARTS CENTER Gina Chavez; 7:30 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE Moonchild, Devin Morrison; $23+. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff, Dylan Earl, Severed Fingers; $8. 9 p.m.
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THE CAVE TAVERN Manifest Music Festival 4: Dissimilar South, Emily Musolino, S.E. Ward, Brooke Maxwell; $10. 9 p.m. DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Jerusalem Quartet; $36-$42. 8 p.m.
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BLUE NOTE GRILL Watson, Runkle, Savage, Knight & Goldsmith; 5 p.m.
Ami Dang PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM The Bad Plus; $25. 8 p.m. LOCAL 506 Skyzoo, Elzhi; $15. 8 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR Stray Fossa, Softball Club, Pretty Crimes; $10. 8:30 p.m. NORTHSTAR CHURCH OF THE ARTS
Molly Sarlé [$10–$20, 8 P.M.]
On Karaoke Angel, Molly Sarlé’s debut LP, the Durham singer-songwriter balances folk-pop jangles with raw, earthy minimalism reminiscent of her work as one third of Mountain Man. Delivering gut punches like “I know who I am and I’ll never get used to it,” Sarlé’s vocal gauze is well-suited for the reverent confines of NorthStar Church of the Arts. This is Karaoke Angel’s official release show; opener Skylar Gudasz will enchant with the emotional heft of her poetic lyricism. —Spencer Griffith THE PINHOOK Matt Phillips & The Back Pocket, The Mobros, The Brazen Youth; $8-$11. 8:30 p.m.
PNC ARENA MercyMe, Crowder, Micah Tyler; $30+. 7 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Zephyranthes, Aiming For Enrike, Pterodactyl; $5. 8 p.m. THE STATION Pete Pawsey, Juliana Finch, Mark Cool; 7:30 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Lud; 2 p.m. THE WICKED WITCH Bay Faction, Mons Vi, Accidental Caps, Split Type; $10-$12. 8 p.m.
MON, OCT 21 BLUE NOTE GRILL Adam Ezra Group; $15. 9 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE William Wild, Cereus Bright (Back Room); $10-$12. 8 p.m. THE FRUIT Shaquim Muldrow Quartet; $15. 7 p.m. KINGS Shane Mauss; $15-$22. 7:30 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR JP Harris; $10-$12. 9 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Gray Young, Moniker, Lunchbox Hero; $5. 8 p.m.
TUE, OCT 22 ARCANA Juniper & The Wolf; 8:30 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE Noah Gundersen, Jonny G; $17-$20. 8 p.m. THE CAVE Tavern Boogie Reverie and Friends; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. KINGS Kate Toupin, Grayson Foster; $12-$14. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Artikal Sound System, Vana Liya, Gabo Fayuca; $10-$12. 9 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Spaced Angel, Yairms; $5. 9 p.m. UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL Chris Thile; $37+. 7:30 p.m.
WED, OCT 23 CAT’S CRADLE Oh Sees, Prettiest Eyes, No Whammy!; $24-$26. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE City of the Sun, Old Sea Brigade (Back Room); $15-$17. 8 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL The Allusionist; $25-$28. 8 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT Shivery Shakes, Toothsome, Screen Time; $7. 9:30 p.m. THE PINHOOK Aff & Friends; $10-$15. 9 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Stoop Kids, Honey Hounds; $12-$15. 9 p.m.
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(EN)COMPASS: PHOTO-BASED STORYTELLING Daguerreotypes slung from antlers, the gear of a clock set in a small box with pictures, and woven cutouts of text from old books make up some of the intricate pieces by the artists Dawn Surratt and Lori Vrba. Like ghostly little shadowboxes, these works use the idea of “a guiding inner compass” to explore themes of memory and illusion, deftly using the past to tell a story about conditions and feelings that resonate in the present. Surratt’s installations and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries across the country, including in the Southeast Center for Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, and Power Plant Gallery. Vrba lives in Chapel Hill and is the cofounder of Pigs Fly Retreat; in 2015, American Photo Magazine named her book The Moth Wing Diaries one of its top ten photo books. Both artists have work on display in this exhibit at Horse & Buggy Press through December 20; a reception on October 17 kicks thing off with a five-minute performance piece by Surratt and Vrba alongside special guest Tama Hochbaum. —Sarah Edwards
HORSE & BUGGY PRESS, DURHAM 6–8 p.m., free, www.horseandbuggypress.com
Another Potato Chip Weekend Bill Brown, Jerstin Crosby, Sabine Gruffat, George Jenne, Lindsay Metivier, Alyssa Miserendino, Travis Phillips, Rachele Riley, Derek Toomes, Louis Watts. Thru Oct 13. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art. Thru Jan 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.
“Novel of Our Acquaintance” by Lori Vrba PHOTO COURTESY OF HORSE & BUGGY PRESS
The Art of Resistance Thru Dec 13. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill.
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The Atomic Photographers Guild: Nuclear Visions Photography. Thru Oct 31. UNC’s Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures With guest curator Hannah Star Rogers. Additional work on view at NCMA. Oct 16-Mar 15. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts. ncsu.edu. Owens Daniels: The Power of Music reception: Oct 18, 6 p.m. Durham Art Guild, Durham. durhamartguild.org. Hal Goodtree & Students: Photos. Oct 18-Nov 9. Through This Lens, Durham.
Night Spells: $7-$15+ suggested. Oct 18, 6 p.m. NorthStar Church of the Arts, Durham. northstardurham.com. Orange County Artists Guild Open Studio Tour Preview: Seventy-eight artists. Reception: Oct. 25, 6-9 p.m. Oct 21-Nov 10. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com. Lynn Saville: Photos. Oct 18-Nov 9. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com. Twilight Photography: Oct 18, noon. Ruby Lounge at Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.
ONGOING Mark Abercrombie Thru Oct 28. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com. All the Rembrandt Drawings Drawings. Thru Jan 20. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org. Altered Surfaces Larry Favorite, Marcy Lansman, Eric Saunders. Thru Oct 20. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. HillsboroughGallery.com. Anarchism and the Political Art of Les Temps Nouveaux, 18951914 Prints and graphics. Thru Dec 15. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.
Scott Avett: INVISIBLE Paintings and prints. Thru Sun, Feb 2. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Derrick Beasley: Black Wholes as Possibilities: Photos and sculpture. Thru Oct 31. Reception: Oct 18, 6 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org. Jayne Bomberg: A Unique Journey in Visual Art Thru Oct 20. Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough. skylightgallerync.wordpress.com.
Kennedi Carter: Godchild Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com/durham. Cary Gallery of Artists: Art N Learning Thru Oct 23. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org. Celebrating Nature Group show. Watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and pen & ink. Thru Oct 27. NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. A Certain Uncertainty; from the Cassilhaus Collection Thru Nov 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org. conTEXT: A Calligraphic Journey Thru Nov 7. NCSU’s The Crafts Center, Raleigh. crafts.arts.ncsu.edu. Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations Art inspired by music and rhythm. Thru Mar 1. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. José Manuel Cruz: COLORICAN Various media. Thru Oct 11. NCCU Art Museum, Durham. José Manuel Cruz: Urban Cultural Footprints Thru Oct 31. Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh. triangleculturalart.com.
Owens Daniels: The Power of Music Thru Oct 29. Reception: Oct 18, 6-9 p.m. Durham Art Guild, Durham. durhamartguild.org. Dirty South Jasmine Best, Laura Little, Aaron McIntosh, Renzo Ortega. Thru Nov 30. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Suzanne Dittenber: Momentary Memorial Sculptures and video. Thru Oct 26. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org. Fall Back Thru Oct 26. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com. Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Thru Jan 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu. Elissa Farrow-Savos: Truth Matters Mixed media. Thru Oct 30. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net Feels Warm, Like Things Burning Group show. Thru Oct 26. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. Peter Filene & Bill McAllister Photos. Thru Nov 10. Reception: Oct 11, 6-8 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.
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Harriet Hoover, Vanessa Murray, Rusty Shackleford Thru Jan 5. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery
Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC Campus: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu.
John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.
Philip M. Rosoff: 1+1 Photos. Thru Oct 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.
Frank Konhaus & Ellen Cassily: Cassilhaus Collection Photos. Thru Nov 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org. Andrew Kozlowski: Dark Days Prints and more. Thru Oct 26. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org. Maria Martinez-Cañas: Rebus + Diversions Mixed media. Thru Jan 12. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. More Outsider Art in the Visitors Center Folk art. Group show. Thru Nov 29. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. mikesarttruck.com. New Orleans Second Line Parades Photos. Thru Dec 31. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel Hill. southerncultures.org. Adè Oh: Blakstroglyphs Multimedia. Thru Oct 27. Reception: Oct 18, 5-11 p.m. NorthStar Church of the Arts, Durham. northstardurham.com. Nathaniel Quinn Paintings. Thru Nov 1. Reception: Oct 12, 5-8 p.m. Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro. Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu. Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com/durham. QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Thru Mar 8. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. ncmuseumofhistory.org. Nathaniel Quinn Paintings. Thru Nov 1. Reception: Oct 12, 5-8 p.m. Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro. John Rosenthal: Other Than Itself Photos. Thru Oct 12. Through This Lens, Durham. 30 | 10.16.19 | INDYweek.com
Elissa Farrow Savos Mixed media. Thru Oct 30. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net She Who Tells a Story Thru Dec 1. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org. Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Thru Dec 21. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com. Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off Interactive sculptures. Thru Oct 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Damian Stamer: Unseen Watercolors and works on paper. Thru Nov 2. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com. Leigh Suggs: No One Ever Makes a Promise in a Dream Thru Nov 3. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery. Trudy Thomson & Dawn Hummer: Fiber ConFigurations Fiber art. Thru Oct 31. Reception: Oct 11, 6-8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org/gallery. Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. Trudy Thomson & Dawn Hummer: Fiber ConFigurations Fiber art. Thru Oct 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org. ¡Viva Viclas!: The Art of the Lowrider Motorcycle Guest curator Denise Sandoval. Thru Feb 9. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org. What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art. Thru Jan 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
TAYARI JONES An American Marriage tells the sweeping story of Roy, a young black man who is wrongfully incarcerated, and his wife, Celestial, a textile artist in Atlanta who must await his return. Although a deeply racist and corrupt criminal justice system is the backdrop, the real—and more rarely told— story at the heart of the novel is the relationship fallout of that system. In this case, it’s a middle-class couple whose young love, “still burning blue hot,” is interrupted at the very start of their lives together. The novel was published by Chapel Hill’s Algonquin Press to national acclaim and praise from all corners (including, notably, Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama). Jones, the author of three previous novels, joins Adriane Lentz-Smith for conversation in Duke’s Ethics of Now series. —Sarah Edwards
DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.kenan.ethics.duke.edu
READINGS & SIGNINGS Karla FC Holloway A Death in Harlem. Wed, Oct 16, 6:30 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com Lenard D. Moore One Window’s Light. Wed, Oct 16, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com Kwame Mbalia Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky. Wed, Oct 16, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com West End Poetry Festival Open Mic Poetry readings. Thu, Oct 17, 6:30 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro. catscradle.com Shalom Goldman and Tom Campbell Starstruck in the Promised Land: How the Arts Shaped American Passions about Israel. Thu, Oct 17, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com Elaine Funaro The Harpsichord Diaries: A Musical Journey. Sat, Oct 19, 10:30 a.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com Jon Sealy The Edge of America. Sat, Oct 19, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com
Tayari Jones PHOTO BY NINA SUBIN Mike Lowery Everything Awesome About Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts! Sat, Oct 19, 11 a.m. Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro. chathamlibraries.org Cat Warren What The Dog Knows. Sat, Oct 19, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com Alan Gratz Allies. Sat, Oct 19, 2 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com Elaine Funaro Harpsichord Diaries: A Musical Journey. Sun, Oct 20, 2 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com
Alan Gratz Allies. Sun, Oct 20, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com Elizabeth Trinkaus Enough Already! Yes, You Are: A Stepby-step Guide to Crushing the Myth That If You Do Just One More Thing, You Will Finally Be Enough. Sun, Oct 20, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com María Deguzmán Understanding John Rechy. Tue, Oct 22, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com Jenny Brown Without Apology. Tue, Oct 22, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com
Cat Warren What the Dog Knows. Wed, Oct 23, 6 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com
LECTURES, ETC. Battleground State: Making US Elections More Secure Tue, Oct 22, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham motorcomusic.com Sex Ed Storytelling $15. Mon, Oct 21, 7:30 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham thepinhook.com
stage OPENING Between2Clouds Comedy Night Comedy. $5. Fri, Oct 18, 7 p.m. The Cotton Company, Wake Forest. thecottoncompany.net. Michael Casey, Mat AlanoMartin, Dwight Simmons, Lauren Faber Magic and comedy. $10. Wed, Oct 23, 8:30 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill. local506.com. Gina Chavez Sat, Oct 19, 7:30 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary. townofcary.org. Comedy in the Cave Comedy. Wed, Oct 23, 7 p.m. The Cave Tavern, Chapel Hill. caverntavern.com. Comedy Overload: A Local Stand Up Comedy Showcase $5. Thu, Oct 17, 8 p.m. Pour House Music Hall, Raleigh. thepourhousemusichall.com. Dairyland Playmakers Repertory Company. $15+. Oct 16-Nov 3. UNC Campus: Center for Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org Bianca Del Rio Comedy. $40. Wed, Oct 16, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Infinite Possibilities Ward Theatre Company. Fri-Sat: 8 p.m. Sun: 4 p.m. Oct 18-20. Ward Theatre, Durham. wardtheatrecompany.com Chrissie Mayr $15. Sat, Oct 19, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com. Mo’Nique Comedy. $40. Fri: 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. Sat: 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. Oct 18-19. Raleigh Improv, Raleigh. improv.com/Raleigh. NC Dance Festival Sat, Oct 19, 8 p.m. The Fruit, Durham. Jeanne Robertson $72+. Sun, Oct 20, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.
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INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Jennifer Romeo, Nicholas Todaro, and Erin Wenger in Infinite Possibilities PHOTO BY ANTHONY MIRACOLA
Six Pack Standup Show Comedy. $5. Wed, Oct 16, 7:45 p.m. North Street Beer Station, Raleigh. northstreetbeerstation.com.
Wilder & Wilder Thornton Wilder short plays. Sun, Oct 20, 2 p.m. UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu.
Andrew Sleighter, Brian Herberger. $15. Fri, Oct 18, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.
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Dan Soder. Comedy. Thu: 8 p.m. Fri-Sat: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. Oct 17-19. Goodnights Comedy Club,Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com. SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque $22+. Fri, Oct 18, 9 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
Aladdin Musical. $30+. Oct 2-26. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com. Around the World in 80 Days. Theatre Raleigh. Play. $30. Fri: 7 p.m. Sat: 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sun: 2 p.m. Thru Oct 27. Kennedy Theatre. Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
The Container Thru Oct 27, 6:30 p.m. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. burningcoal.org. Dracula $19-$27. Thru Oct 20. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. theatreinthepark.com. Frankenstein Carolina Ballet. Thru Oct 27. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. West Side Story NC Theatre. Musical. Tue-Fri: 7:30 p.m. Sat-Sun: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Thru Oct 20. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
The author Mike Dooley has given many hope (and many others unintended mirth) with his Panglossian 2009 self-help bestseller, Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams. But in the latest original creation from Durham’s Ward Theatre Company, all that self-actualization hits a serious snag, in a toney neighborhood of Monterey, California, when a therapist at the fictitious Center for Infinite Possibilities has manifested change, permanently by...getting hit by a train. Now, an unexpected substitute counselor, with some very different notes from the universe enters the Papaya Room to conduct the day’s group therapy session. The noted ensemble, based on the theatrical theories of Sanford Meisner, started developing the comedy over the summer before its current premiere. The fourteen-member cast includes Guy Beretich, Amy Paquette, Carter Smith, and Brandon Cooke; artistic director Wendy Ward directs. —Byron Woods
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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS Home is Distant Shores Wed, Oct 16, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org Kingdom Of The Spiders $7. Wed, Oct 16 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org Zombieland Double Screening Wed, Oct 16, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Wed, Oct 16, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com The Picture of Dorian Gray $6. Thu, Oct 17, 2 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com The Farewell $6. Thu, Oct 17, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde $6. Sun, Oct 20, 2 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com
Ad Astra—A tortured but calm Brad Pitt traverses the solar system in search of his lost father. Rated PG-13.
The Cordillera of Dreams Sun Oct 20, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.
The Addams Family —In this star-studded new Addams installation, the macabre clan face-off with a reality television show host. Rated PG.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day $5. Sun, Oct 20, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com The Best of Enemies Mon, Oct 21, 6 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com Poltergeist $5. Mon, Oct 21, 7 p.m. Rialto Theatre, Raleigh. newsite.ambassadorcinemas.com Snowpiercer $8. Mon, Oct 21, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM Tue, Oct 22, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater, Durham.
After the Wedding— Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams outshine the script, in this gender-flipped remake of the 2006 Danish drama. Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald ½ Angel Has Fallen— Secret Service agent Mike Banning is framed for an assassination attempt on POTUS. It’s not as wretched as London Has Fallen, and Nick Nolte as a conspiracy theorist is almost worth it. Rated R.—Neil Morris
The Old Dark House Thu, Oct 17, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.
Pájaros De Verano (Birds Of Passage) Tue, Oct 22, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org
Aquarela—Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary about the unruly beauty of water is set to a Finnish heavy-metal score. Rated PG.
F11 and Be There $7-$10. Thu, Oct 17, 7:30 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. thechelseatheater.com
Victor $8. Tue, Oct 22, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com
Brittany Runs a Marathon— This comedy mines body image for laughs but does so with uplift rather than cringes, as a woman makes positive changes in her life by running a marathon. Rated R.
The Monster Squad, The Witches $7. Fri, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org The Craft Fri, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham. Mad Love $7. Fri, Oct 18, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org Soul of the Demon $1. Fri, Oct 18, 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com Paris to Pittsburgh Sat, Oct 19, 2 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com MOTHERLOAD Sat, Oct 19, 6:30 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org The Blair Witch Project $6. Sat, Oct 19, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com The Bride Of Frankenstein $13. Sat, Oct 19, 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com The Rocky Horror Picture Show $13. Sun, Oct 20, 12 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com 32 | 10.16.19 | INDYweek.com
Crossing Delancey $7. Wed, Oct 23, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org Death Becomes Her $5. Wed, Oct 23, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com
OPENING Maleficent: Mistress of Evil— Angelina Jolie was perhaps born to do many things, but surely playing one of Disney’s greatest villianesses is one of them. Rated PG. Lucy in the Sky—This Noah Hawley gives an existential touch to the story of disgraced astronaut Lisa Nowak (see: every tabloid story in 2007). Rated R. Zombieland: Double Tap—A heartland sequel to the 2009 cult classic. Rated R.
N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers. Abominable—A yeti must be reunited with his family in this computer-animated adventure. Rated PG.
The Death of Dick Long—A couple of ne’er-do-wells in small town Alabama find themselves covering up a crime, when their bandmate bro turns up dead. Rated R. Downton Abbey—King George V and Queen Mary pay a visit to the abbey and cause a flurry of activity in this spin-off of the television series. Rated PG. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw—The testosterone-driven repartee between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is the only reason to endure this cartoonish, logically and temporally challenged CGI fest. Rated PG-13. —NM The Farewell— A family travels to China to say goodbye to the family matriarch, who is dying of cancer. The twist? They feel that it’s more benevolent to not tell her she’s dying. Rated PG. —Sarah Edwards
The Gemini Man —Will Smith always seems to be being hunted by mutants and/or clones; in this horror flick, the clone killer is his younger self. Rated PG-13. The Goldfinch—Jezebel put it best: “Everyone already hates The Goldfinch,” which makes a pretentious muck of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel of art and grief. Rated R. ½ Good Boys—In this Superbad for tweens, a trio of sixth-grade BFFs have misadventures as they try to find the cool-kids party. The profuse profanity is cut by the kids’ infectious charm. Rated R. —NM Hustlers—The true story of strippers drugging and stealing from Wall Street stock traders is the stuff think pieces are made of. Rated R. IT Chapter Two—The mixed reviews for the second part of Stephen King’s killer-clown opus mainly agree that it’s just not that scary. Rated R. Jexi—A man’s life is ruined by his phone, when an AI program goes haywire. Rated R. Joker—At first, the buzz around this star vehicle for Batman’s greatest villain was all about Joaquin Phoenix’s intense turn in a role Heath Ledger made famous. But as more details of the plot have emerged, there’s been a justified backlash about what sounds like an antihero myth for violent incels. Rated R. Judy—Renee Zellweger, in a role that will likely make her an Oscar frontrunner, plays Judy Garland during the last few years of her life. Rated PG-13. ½ The Lion King— Jon Favreau’s photorealistic palette is the boon and bane of Disney’s “live-action” computer rendering of an animated classic. Rated PG. —NM Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant exercise in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. —Marta Núñez Pouzols
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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI What is it that makes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the 1920 psychological horror film by Robert Wiene, such irresistible fodder for the live-score treatment? (I just saw one earlier this year in Brooklyn, with a sort of avant-garde jazz score.) For one, it was a silent film, which means that it doesn’t come preloaded with any musical associations—it’s an open canvas for musicians to play on, but one full of compelling shadows and shapes. As canvases go, it is a very striking one, as a high point of German Expressionism. Its canted angles and bulging lines are intrinsically musical already, as they represent feelings and intuitions as much as forms. The Mallarmé Chamber Players, one of the Triangle’s most flexible and reliable chamber-music groups, should have a field day with original music by Eric Schwartz, performed by Bo Newsome (oboe), Suzanne Rousso (viola), Nathan Leyland (cello), Jacqueline Nappi (piano), and Andrea Edith Moore (soprano). —Brian Howe
THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 7:30 p.m., $20, www.mallarmemusic.org The Peanut Butter Falcon—This heartwarming Tom-and-Huck tale features a breakout performance by Zack Gottsagen, who has Down syndrome, and a soulful Shia LaBeouf. Rated PG-13. —GM Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins— Reviewed on page 29. Unrated Rambo: Last Blood—The Vietnam War was a long time ago now, but wily veteran Rambo is still out here, this time waging one-man war on a drug cartel. Rated R. Ready or Not—A new bride is drawn into a brutal game of hide-and-seek with her husband’s wealthy family in this class-ragey, horrorcomedy-thriller. Rated R.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark—The classic anthology of ghoulish tales gets mined for incidents in this horror throwback. Rated PG-13. ½ Spider-Man: Far from Home—It’s a bedrock truism that a superhero story is only as good as its villain, and Mysterio’s motivations are entirely and conspicuously dumb. Rated PG-13. —GM Toy Story 4—A spork’s severe ontological distress ballasts a half-daring, half-predictable extension of a beloved animated franchise. Rated G. —NM
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