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6 Our endorsements for all sixty-three races that will appear on Triangle ballots.

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18 Jazz alchemist Rafiq Bhatia wasn’t one of the cool kids at Enloe High School.

18 Music 24 Arts & Culture 30 What to Do This Week

21 Stones Throw Records shaped a generation of hip-hop and electronic fans. Where will its class of young signees lead the label next?

33 Music Calendar 36 Arts & Culture Calendar

24 Experiencing Georgia O’Keeffe in 2018 presents a common dilemma: How to see afresh a beloved artist whose work has undergone a century of mythologizing?

26 JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell’s reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was inspired by an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

28 Urban Axes is the perfect oasis for the macho-twee set with a hankering to unleash their inner Patrick Bateman.

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BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC Your last, best shot to save the American experiment

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onald Trump’s name will not be on your ballot, but Donald Trump very much will be.

This newspaper’s opposition to and outright contempt for Trump and the politics he represents isn’t a secret. Over the past twenty-two months, Trump has shown himself time and time again to be a cancer infecting the body politic: racist, narcissistic, mendacious, resentful, incoherent, inept, corrupt, chaotic, cruel. He professes affection for dictators but dismisses scientists. He’s surrounded himself with a rogues’ gallery of the worst minds of his generation: white nationalists like Stephen Miller and warmongers like John Bolton, quislings like Mike Pence and grifters like Scott Pruitt, incompetents like Ben Carson and shysters like Rudy Giuliani.

He’s separated children from their parents, mocked a sexual assault survivor, and repeatedly attacked the law enforcement officials investigating his campaign.

History will judge Trump the worst president in a century—and America by whether we allowed him to debase us for a century to come.

That’s the backdrop to this November’s elections, and not just congressional races. In North Carolina, legislative leaders have been devotees of Trump’s religion of shameless, zero-sum politics since before Trump became its high priest, eviscerating norms and targeting minority communities in their lust to maintain power.

This is the through line that connects many of the INDY’s endorsements this fall: Those who stand with Trump and, whether through words or votes, support his agenda, we’ll oppose, no matter their experience or intellect. Those who oppose Trump— and, more important, Trumpism—we’ll almost always support, no matter their shortcomings.

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to a would-be demagogue. In their fealty to Trump and their unwillingness to check his corruption, Republicans have become an existential threat to the republic. They must be banished to the political wilderness. We’ll deal with the Democrats’ flaws later.

Not every race conforms neatly to the Trump/Not Trump paradigm. Judicial and local races, as well as various bond referenda, have little to do with the chump in chief.

In analyzing these races, we assessed them through the prism of the INDY’s values— social justice and egalitarianism, tolerance of and kindness toward marginalized communities, ethical rigor and basic human decency—and our desire for smart, pragmatic, fact-based policymaking. In other words: Not Trump. —Jeffrey C. Billman

ing to follow through once he’s in Washington.” He wants to lower taxes, overturn Roe v. Wade, and “eliminate gun-free zones.”

We’ll pass.

DISTRICT 2: LINDA COLEMAN

There is no greater imperative than electing a Congress that will resist Trump and thwart his party at every opportunity. In the three races that touch the Triangle, the INDY is enthusiastically endorsing two Democratic incumbents and, less enthusiastically, one Democratic challenger.

It’s not entirely clear what Linda Coleman’s strategy is. The former state representative, who lost two consecutive bids for lieutenant governor in 2012 and 2016, seems to be doing her best to stay out of the limelight. She did not return our questionnaire, and her campaign turned down an INDY freelancer’s interview request. Her lowkey approach may be working, however: A recent poll by the Civitas Institute had her tied with incumbent Republican George Holding.

Holding deserves to lose. He votes with Trump more than 92 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight, on everything from rolling back banking regulations to cutting taxes for rich people. He hasn’t distinguished himself as anything more than another Republican yes man. We’re with Coleman.

DISTRICT 1: GK BUTTERFIELD

DISTRICT 4: DAVID PRICE

The former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, GK Butterfield knows what’s really at stake in this election. Butterfield, a former N.C. Supreme Court justice who has represented District 1 since 2004, recognizes that Donald Trump “is not capable of leading this country. … That is why we must elect Democrats to serve as a check on the Trump administration, and investigate and follow the facts where they may lead.”

In Congress, Butterfield has been an ardent critic of Trump’s family-separation policies and fought for universal health care, a higher minimum wage, and better schools.

His Republican opponent, businessman Roger Allison, accuses Butterfield of taking “advantage of North Carolina’s African American population, making various promises along the campaign trail, but fail-

Except for a two-year blip in the nineties, David Price—a Yale-educated political scientist—has been a solid progressive voice in Congress for more than three decades. Price will turn eighty in 2020, and soon it will be time for fresh blood in this seat. But that fresh blood should not be Steve Von Loor— a Hispanic American who echoes Trump’s economic and trade policies and wants to restrict abortion rights—or Libertarian Barbara Howe, neither of whom makes a compelling case for replacing Price.

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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

You can’t separate the six proposed constitutional amendments from how they

were devised. The Republicans rushed these amendments through at the last minute, without debate, discussion, or even an implementing statute, which means they’ll get to decide later—in a lame-duck session—what these amendments really do, after you’ve already voted on them. The proper response to this chicanery: Vote no on all six.

PROTECT THE RIGHT TO HUNT AND FISH: NO It’s unclear exactly how North Carolinians’ right to hunt and fish has come under threat, and none of the amendment’s backers have convinced us of the need to enshrine these rights in the state constitution. What is clear is that this is another case of the General Assembly doing the NRA’s bidding, and that this amendment exists primarily to drive Republican voters to the polls. That sort of politics shouldn’t be rewarded. In addition, there could be unintended (or maybe intended) consequences: The amendment could override regulations on controversial hunting and fishing methods such as gillnetting, which kills sea turtles.

STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS FOR CRIME VICTIMS: NO Marsy’s Law is a nationwide victims’ rights movement bankrolled by a California billionaire. Again, it’s unnecessary: North Carolina already has protections for victims in state law, and there’s nothing stopping the legislature from adding additional protections to state statutes rather than the constitution. It was really done so that Republicans could paint the Nix All 6 effort as being pro-crime. Again, that sort of politics shouldn’t be rewarded. And again, there could be unintended consequences: decreased transparency, a slower criminal justice system, and so on.

REDUCE THE INCOME TAX CAP TO 7 PERCENT: NO Right now, the state constitution caps the top income tax rate at 10 percent. This amendment would lower that cap to 7 percent. Again, this is unnecessary and transparently political, as no one is threatening to raise taxes to 10 percent, even on the wealthy. But it’s also short-sighted and benefits the rich. A vote to significantly raise taxes is always difficult, and for a future legislature to do so would likely mean lawmakers were responding to a crisis; if they did raise taxes, it would almost certainly be on the affluent, and that’s the possibility this amendment is designed to foreclose.

CHANGE THE PROCESS FOR FULFILLING JUDICIAL VACANCIES: NO Another power grab, this amendment would transfer the authority for appointing judges from the governor—who has the gall to be a Democrat—to the legislature, which is more likely to remain in Republican hands for the foreseeable future. Even former Republican governor Pat McCrory thinks this is a terrible idea.

ESTABLISH AN EIGHT-MEMBER BOARD OF ETHICS AND ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT: NO Yet again, a naked power grab. Under the old system, the governor appointed the nine members of the State Board of Elections.

Under this amendment, the board would have four Democrats and four Republicans—a recipe for gridlock, and for keeping the board from investigating electionsrelated shenanigans.

REQUIRE VOTER ID: HELL NO. A few years ago, a federal court ruled that the General Assembly’s previous voter ID law unconstitutionally “targets African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Now the Republicans are back for a second bite at the apple, using the veneer of a popular referendum to mask their intentions. It’s pretty simple, really: Voter ID

makes it more difficult for lower-income minority communities to vote. Since these groups vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, Republicans want them to stay away from the polls. Even if you give Republicans the benefit of the doubt—and we don’t— it’s still bad policy. In theory, this is being done to counteract widespread voter fraud, a problem that barely exists—the equivalent of employing a bazooka to kill an ant.

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The old saw tells us that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Republicans have held absolute power on Jones Street since 2013, for the last two years by virtue of illegitimate supermajorities won through unconstitutional gerrymanders. Democrats need to net six Senate seats or four House seats to overcome the supermajority, eliminate the GOP’s ability to override Governor Cooper’s vetoes at will, and make the Republicans’ power something less than absolute.

STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 14: DAN BLUE

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Dan Blue, the only African American to ever be speaker of the state House, has served in the Senate since 2009 and has been the minority leader since 2014. An accomplished and respected lawmaker, Blue has served Wake County with distinction. His opponent, Sandy Andrews, is half of a married couple running to unseat legislative Democrats. We don’t know much about Andrews beyond that she is a media specialist for McClatchy and got a DUI in 2005. Blue deserves another term.

STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 15: JAY CHAUDHURI Jay Chaudhuri was elected to the state Senate in 2016, when he ran to replace Josh Stein, now the attorney general. In his first two years, Chaudhuri has distinguished himself as a champion of public education and abortion rights. He also voted against HB 142, the halfhearted effort to replace HB 2 that still prevents local governments from passing antidiscrimination ordinances. His Republican opponent, Alan David Michael, isn’t mounting much of a challenge.

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STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 16: WILEY NICKEL We didn’t endorse Wiley Nickel in the Democratic primary, but we were impressed with his background working in the Obama administration and for former Vice President Al Gore, his ability to raise money, and his thoughtful approach to policymaking.

His Republican opponent, Paul Smith— whose campaign Facebook page has nine “likes”—is a self-proclaimed “Christian conservative” and antiabortion activist.

Nickel is going to win, and he’ll do so with our support.

STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 17: SAM SEARCY There are worse Republicans in the legislature than Tamara Barringer, who has served in the state Senate since 2013. Her work on behalf of the foster care system has been admirable, and in 2017 the American Conservative Union rated her the worst Republican in the Senate, which should be a badge of honor. But she’s also voted to allow magistrates to discriminate against gay couples, and though she was the first Republican to call for a repeal of HB 2, that doesn’t change the fact that she voted for it in the first place.

Democrats view this southwest Wake County seat as critical in their campaign to overcome the GOP supermajority. Their candidate is Sam Searcy, who cofounded Greybeard Distillery. Searcy stakes out progressive positions on school funding, forming a nonpartisan redistricting commission, and expanding Medicaid. He also wants to restore the cap on charter schools, hold Duke Energy responsible for its coal ash spills, and better regulate the pork industry. In this race, he’s the better choice.

STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 18: MACK PAUL Senator John Alexander currently represents District 15, but redistricting moved him into District 18, which includes northern Wake County and a piece of Raleigh.

The newly carved district has a small but not overwhelming GOP lean, and Alexander is the kind of pro-business but also pro-transit Republican who won’t turn off voters in the suburbs.

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a real estate attorney and former head of the Wake County Democratic Party. In his questionnaire, Paul takes typical Democratic positions on education, gun reform, and the minimum wage, and he’s especially knowledgeable of planning and development issues. More to the point, he’s a means to an end: ending the supermajority.

three terms, he has pushed for voting rights, net neutrality, rural broadband, and more teacher assistants, to name a few initiatives. We support him for a fourth.

STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 20: FLOYD B. MCKISSICK JR.

This spring, Allison Dahle all but backed into the Democratic nomination—and, given the district’s Dem-heavy composition, the General Assembly—after a lastminute #MeToo scandal hit Representative Duane Hall. But we think she’ll make a good state rep regardless. She’s a staunch advocate for expanding Medicaid, better funding schools, and ensuring equal protections for the LGBTQ community.

Her Republican opponent is Tyler Brooks, a “constitutional and civil rights attorney” who boasts on his website of taking on the ACLU and promises to be “an ardent defender of the rights that are currently under assault throughout the country, including free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms.” He’s also an antiabortion zealot.

We’re supporting Dahle.

In District 20, five-term Democrat Floyd McKissick Jr. is seeking reelection against Republican Tom Stark and Libertarian Jared Erickson. He deserves reelection, both because he’s been effective and because his opponents are unacceptable.

Stark, an attorney who serves as general counsel for the state Republican Party, told the People’s Alliance he disagrees with having protected classes under antidiscrimination laws and thinks local governments “must cooperate” with ICE. Erickson wants to expand the state program that funnels tax dollars to private, often religious schools. He also thinks local governments shouldn’t be able to pass antidiscrimination laws.

McKissick served on the Durham City Council before joining the legislature. He’s sponsored bills to fund school psychologists and counselors, promote a living wage, encourage affordable housing, and expand what can be expunged from criminal records (this one became law). He was also instrumental in bringing Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project back from the dead. Regardless of how you feel about light rail, it shows he can be effective even in a Republican-dominated legislature. We endorse McKissick.

STATE SENATE, DISTRICT 22: MIKE WOODARD Two years ago, we caught hell for endorsing Woodard’s Republican challenger, NeverTrumper T. Greg Doucette. We did so not because we have anything against Woodard but because we believe the legislature needs more Republicans like Doucette. (Doucette left the GOP after the election.) This election presents no such dilemma: Republican candidate Rick Padgett is full MAGA. Woodard, a former Durham City Council member, is a three-term state Senator and administrator at Duke University.

He’s extremely visible in his district—he seems to be everywhere all the time. In his

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STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 23: VALERIE FOUSHEE Valerie Foushee has been a household name in Orange and Chatham Counties for years, having served as a school board member, Orange County commissioner, and a representative in the legislature.

The Democrat faces Republican Tom Glendinning, a landscaper and founder of the N.C. Composting Council who has held several appointed seats in Chatham County, including positions involved in economic development and planning.

His platform centers on economic growth, property rights, and “making the world safer and cleaner” in light of a “breakdown of society.” He advocates for self-defense to protect God-given life until “common decency” is restored. We’re fans of composting, too, but not so much paranoia and religious zeal.

Foushee, on the other hand, is well-versed in issues facing families and education in North Carolina. Along with Woodard, she sponsored a bill in the Senate to move UNC’s Confederate statue. She’s pushed for paid sick leave and vows to repeal the HB 2 replacement bill as soon as possible. We endorse her for another term.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 29: MARYANN BLACK MaryAnn Black was appointed to a vacant seat in the legislature in February 2017. The Democrat is now seeking election to that seat against Republican candidate Charles Becker, an economics professor at Duke, specializing in real estate and urban economics. Becker isn’t a typical Republican; he’s said he voted for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and supports free basic health care for all, a nonpartisan redistricting commission, and holding gun manufacturers liable for the damage caused by their products.

MaryAnn Black Still, we believe Black—a former longtime Durham County commissioner and an official with the Duke University Health System—would be a stronger advocate for public education, environmental regulations, and health care. She introduced legislation to promote living wages and paid leave, as well as to repeal the death penalty. She counts Medicaid expansion and environmental protection among her priorities. Most important, she won’t be a member of Phil Berger’s caucus.

We endorse Black.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 30: MARCIA MOREY Marcia Morey joined the state House in April 2017, having been appointed to a vacant seat. Before that, she served Durham well as chief District Court judge, a role in which she helped establish the county’s misdemeanor diversion program, the first in the state.

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Drawing on her experience as a judge, Morey has advocated for protection of elections and voting rights, changes to the juvenile justice system, and gun regulations. Morey reflects Durham’s values and deserves a full term.

reliable vote for Tim Moore. Either way, Martin has proven himself an effective lawmaker, and he deserves another term.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 31: ZACK FORDE-HAWKINS

Two years ago, Terence Everitt lost to Representative Chris Malone by six percentage points. This year, with the wind at Democrats’ sails, the party hopes he’ll be able to take down the incumbent, a self-proclaimed “gun enthusiast” who believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned, voted for HB 2, and backed Duke Energy on coal ash. We hope that happens. Everitt argues for better education funding, a more equitable tax code, and Medicaid expansion. He deserves your vote.

o a vacant 2017. The n to that e Charles at Duke, rban eco- The District 31 seat is being vacated by publican; Mickey Michaux, Durham’s representak Obama tive for twenty terms. Michaux handpicked free basic the candidate he hopes will be his succesedistrict- sor: Zack Hawkins, who works in student manufac- affairs at UNC. He’s running against Liberd by their tarian Erik Raudsep and Republican Torian Webson, neither of whom is particularly remarkable.

Hawkins has never held elected office, but he has been in politics for ten years working on campaigns for the likes of U.S. Representative David Price and holding leadership roles in the state Democratic Party. He’d advocate against tax breaks for the wealthy and funding the courts on the backs of those who can least pay, and for public education and sensible gun laws.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 33: ROSA GILL

Rosa Gill, a retired teacher and school administrator who served on the Wake County school board, is seeking a fifth term in the state House, where she’s been one mer longof the foremost advocates for schools in missioner the state. Her opponent, Republican Anne UniversiMurtha, is an army veteran and teacher who stronger also says she’s a champion of education. But environthere’s no reason to change horses now. care. She ote living to repeal Medicaid rotection rtant, she ’s caucus. In the fourteen years since his first election to the state House, Grier Martin has been a consistent progressive voice, fighting for better school funding, environmental protections, and improved infrastructure. His opponent, Catherine Whiteford, is national committeewoman for the North Carolina Federation of Young Republicans.

House in Predictably, she espouses low taxes and nted to a fiscal responsibility; less predictably, she ved Dur- wants to cap the amount of tuition collegurt judge, es and universities can charge. It’s possiblish the ble Whiteford could provide much-needed program, youth and vigor to a stale Republican caucus. It’s also possible she’d be just another

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STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 35: TERENCE EVERITT

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 36: JULIE VON HAEFEN Attorney and past president of the Wake County PTA Council Julie von Haefen is running as a pro-education, pro-environment, and pro-equality candidate against Nelson Dollar, a long-serving state rep.

A few years ago, Dollar ruffled Republican feathers by speaking against Medicaid privatization, but that principled stand doesn’t overcome the fact that he’s mostly been a rubber stamp for Republican ambitions. Vote for von Haefen.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 37: SYDNEY BATCH

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Like other suburban Wake districts, Democrats think they’ve got a good shot at winning this open seat. To do that, they’ll have to defeat John Adcock, a former Wake County commissioner candidate running as a fiscal conservative and champion of better road-building. Democrat Sydney Batch, meanwhile, is a family law and child welfare attorney who was endorsed by President Obama. Her detailed campaign platform lays out smart positions on affordable housing, health care, wages, broadband access, and other issues. Batch is the better candidate.

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against Democratic incumbent Yvonne Lewis Holley, who has served this district since 2013. Holley, an advocate for education and the environment, has earned another term.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 39: DARREN JACKSON

eled a lot. His campaign is focused on infrastructure, the environment, and education—all worthy causes, to be sure. But that doesn’t equal a successful case for denying Cynthia Ball a second term. Ball is a smart, progressive leader fighting for better school funding, quality health care, and against the Republicans’ power grabs. She has our endorsement.

The sacrificial lamb Republicans have put up against Darren Jackson, the House minority leader, is Rhonda Allen, a selfproclaimed “gun girl.” Jackson, of course, is a proponent of commonsense gun reform, along with typically progressive positions on taxes, education, and Medicaid expansion. He gets our endorsement.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 40: JOE JOHN In 2016, former N.C. Court of Appeals judge Joe John defeated Republican incumbent Marilyn Avila by fewer than four hundred votes. This year, Avila wants a rematch.

The last go-round, we endorsed John, noting Avila’s cosponsorship of HB 2 and proud support of voter ID. Nothing that’s happened since has changed our opinion.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 41: GALE ADCOCK Gale Adcock, a nurse practitioner and chief health officer at SAS, is seeking her third term in the House on a platform of better teacher pay, Medicaid expansion, and improved mental health and substance abuse care. She has been an advocate for abortion rights and sensible gun reforms and a reliable progressive. Her opponent, Emmanuel Wilder, would be the only Republican African American in the legislature should he win. He’s also tech-savvy— he asked elections officials to allow him to accept cryptocurrency for his campaign, but they said no—and is committed to criminal justice reform. Wilder would be a fresh voice for North Carolina Republicans, and in a different year—against a different opponent—he might have our endorsement. But we’re sticking with Adcock.

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Gale Adcock

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 50: GRAIG MEYER In District 50, incumbent Democrat Graig Meyer faces Republican Kenneth Rothrock, a traffic lawyer. It’d be hard to go against Meyer’s record as an outspoken and ardent representative for Durham and Orange Counties. Meyer is a social worker and advocates for funding for public schools via taxes on the wealthy and corporations, as well as stronger antidiscrimination protections and access to health care.

He is a leader in his party and an active recruiter of new candidates for office. We endorse him for another term.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 54: ROBERT REIVES JR. Robert Reives has represented Chatham County in District 54 since 2013, but the district was recently redrawn to include parts of southern Durham, so he may be a new name to some of you. He’s seeking reelection against Republican Jay Stobbs, an engineer whose platform—centered on road improvements, supporting veterans, and recruiting businesses to Chatham County—is better suited to a county commission race. Reives’s priorities are supporting public education, expanding Medicaid, and protecting natural resource.

Those values are reflected in his voting record.

STATE HOUSE, DISTRICT 56: VERLA INSKO The District 56 race sees longtime Democratic incumbent Verla Inkso against Libertarian Matthew Clements and Republican Matthew Cooke.

Clements’s website says he is for school choice, lower taxes, decriminalization of drug possession, and privatization of the ABC system. Cooke, according to a speech he gave at at a recent Second Amendment rights rally in Hillsborough, is a research scientist with the EPA. He didn’t share much about his platform but highlighted the nearby Confederate monument and the Alamance Regulators militia that are “so much a part of our history.” Yep, we just rolled our eyes, too.

By contrast, Insko was the primary sponsor (along with Meyer) of a bill in May to remove the Confederate statue at UNC known as Silent Sam that has offended students of color for decades. A retired health program administrator, she has also sponsored a host of health-related bills, supporting contraceptive education and and telemedicine, as well as a driver’s license designation for the deaf and hard of hearing. Insko has served eleven terms, and we endorse her for number twelve.

JUDICIARY

Unless you spend your days in a courthouse, there’s often precious little information available about judicial candidates, which presents difficulties for voters and editorial boards alike. Beyond saying that they’ll be fair and impartial, the candidates themselves are generally mum about their ideologies, leaving us to assess them based on their backgrounds and experience—and, thanks to the legislature’s recent moves, their party affiliation.

N.C. SUPREME COURT: ANITA EARLS After Mike Morgan won a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016—likely thanks to Republicans who accidentally voted for him—lawmakers tried to game the system first by requiring candidates to have party identification and then eliminating primaries, thinking that would give incumbent Republican Barbara Jackson a better shot at reelection. Enter Christopher Anglin, a

“former” Democrat who changed parties to run as a Republican and, quite possibly, split the Republican vote, thus giving Democrat Anita Earls a clear shot to victory. Republicans then tried to head Anglin off by passing a law that wouldn’t allow him to appear as a Republican on the ballot, but the courts wouldn’t stand for it. So here we are.

Republicans have good reason to be suspicious of Anglin. Even so, there’s schadenfreude in seeing them hoisted by their own petard. And if Anglin succeeds is paving a path for Earls, he’ll have done the state a favor.

There’s much daylight between the two main candidates: Jackson twice voted to uphold racially gerrymandered legislative districts, while Earls has successfully advocated against gerrymandering at the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson feels North Carolina’s courts aren’t becoming too politicized, while Earls rightly points to political attacks aimed at undermining an independent judiciary. Both candidates speak of equal access to justice. But Earls recognizes existing inequities in ways Jackson does not.

This is one is easy. Earls’s resume—with experience at the U.S. Justice Department, the State Board of Elections, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice—demonstrates a commitment to equality and integrity. We believe she will apply the law with knowledge, fairness, and compassion. We endorse her.

N.C. COURT OF APPEALS, SEAT 1: JOHN ARROWOOD Judge John Arrowood is serving on the Court of Appeals for the second time in his career, having been appointed to unfinished terms by governors Mike Easley and Roy Cooper. The Democrat previously worked in private practice and as a staff attorney at the Court of Appeals and has a breadth of experience in both criminal and civil cases. His challenger, Andrew Heath, is currently a Superior Court judge, a seat he was appointed to by McCrory. Before that, he advised McCrory as state budget director, and before that, he was chairman of the state Industrial Commission.

Heath has an impressive resume, especially for someone who graduated law school just twelve years ago, but it’s bested by Arrowood's decades-long legal career. And, given efforts to chip away at the judiciary, he’s too politically connected for our comfort.

Arrowood has the experience and temperament needed for the seat.

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N.C. COURT OF APPEALS, SEAT 2: TOBIAS HAMPSON In this race, there are two Republican candidates—Jefferson Griffin, a District Court judge in Wake, and Sandra Ray, a District Court judge for New Hanover and Pender counties—and one Democrat, Toby Hampson, who heads up the appellate division at a Raleigh law firm.

trial and appellate courts in these roles. But he pales in comparison to Allegra Collins and her impressive resume.

Collins specializes in appellate law, representing clients in both civil and criminal matters before appellate courts. She clerked for Court of Appeals Judge Linda Stephens and later worked at the state Supreme Court preparing appellate opinions. At Campbell Law, she teaches appellate brief writing, among other subjects.

She is also a member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Appellate Rules Committee and vice chairwoman of its Appellate Practice Section. We endorse Collins.

N.C. SUPERIOR COURT 10D, SEAT 1: KEITH GREGORY

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Ray has held her current position for fourteen years. On her campaign’s Facebook page, she touted that she isn’t endorsed by the state GOP as a sign of her independence (the party backs Griffin).

Griffin was appointed to his seat and then elected to a full term. He’s also a captain in the North Carolina Army National Guard, a role in which he advises fellow soldiers on legal matters.

But Hampson is the most qualified candidate. We were impressed by the care he took in describing the access gap faced by many who come in contact with the courts, and his ideas for closing it. He is wellversed in appellate matters, as the Appellate Practice Group Leader at his firm, a member of the N.C. Bar Association Appellate Rules Committee, a member of the bar’s Appellate Specialization Committee, and a former Court of Appeals clerk.

N.C. COURT OF APPEALS, SEAT 3: ALLEGRA COLLINS Republican Chuck Kitchen is a former county attorney who currently serves as town attorney for the town of Holly Ridge as well as general counsel for the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority. He touts his nearly four decades of experience litigating cases in both

This race pits Democratic incumbent Keith Gregory against Matt Van Sickle, who has no party affiliation. Gregory, a former assistant district attorney and assistant public defender who served eight years on the District Court, was appointed to this seat earlier this year by Governor Cooper to replace Judge Donald Stephens, who retired. Van Sickle is an experienced attorney who promises to bring fresh eyes to the bench, but we see no reason to deny Gregory a full term.

N.C. SUPERIOR COURT 14B, SEAT 3: JOSEPHINE KERR DAVIS This seat opened up when Judge Elaine O’Neal took a position at N.C. Central's law school. It’s the only contested Superior Court race covering Durham County, and because Superior Court judges rotate among jurisdictions, it could also have an impact statewide. Vying for the seat are Dawn Baxton and Josephine Kerr Davis.

Baxton joined the local Public Defender’s Office in 1999 and since 2006 has been the senior assistant public defender. She has also trained lawyers through N.C. Central and the UNC School of Government, and served on the county Board of Elections.

Kerr Davis has been an assistant district attorney in Durham for eight years. Before that, she worked with the state Department of Justice, the Fayetteville Public Defender’s Office, the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, and the Land Loss Prevention Project.

Both candidates are experienced and principled. Both have demonstrated commitments to equity, fairness, and mitigating the harms of court involvement.

That said, Durham is poised to make major strides toward criminal justice reform, and we think Kerr Davis would help make the most of that moment. Through her involvement on People’s Alliance Race Equity Team and a recent driver’s license restoration program, she has already demonstrated an ability to do that work enthusiastically and effectively.

N.C. DISTRICT COURT 10D, SEAT 2: REBECCA EDWARDS This race is a free-for-all, and for that you can thank the legislature’s decision to eliminate judicial primaries. Fight candidates are on the ballot—two Democrats, two Republicans, and one with no party affiliation. Of them, we’re most drawn to Democrat Rebecca Edwards, a family law attorney who speaks openly about the abuse she suffered as a child and has chaired the N.C. Bar Association’s Family Law Council Children’s Issues Committee since 2014. Edwards has a powerful biography, having been on her own at age fifteen after growing up in an abusive and repressive environment. Fifteen years later, she earned her bachelor’s degree, then a law degree.

Now she’s running for judge, pledging never to marginalize people and to keep people from falling through the system’s cracks. We believe she’ll bring to the bench empathy for those who wind up in her courtroom—and that’s an important trait.

N.C. DISTRICT COURT, COURT 14, SEAT 1: DAVE HALL Both candidates for this seat are experienced, albeit in very different ways.

Dave Hall brings ten years of legal experience, first as an indigent defense attorney and more recently as a civil rights attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. He is well-known in Durham for his work with the FADE Coalition fighting racially disparate policing; representing the family of Frank Clark Jr., who was killed by Durham police in 2016; and with the Clean Slate expungement program.

Judge Fred Battaglia worked in private practice for three decades and has served on the District Court since 2014, a role that has included presiding over the Drug Treatment Court. He was in the spotlight earlier this year after acquitting three people accused of toppling a Confederate monument down-

town, angering people who saw the act as mob violence, and then suggesting to members of the county Republican Party that the prosecutor had failed to prepare for the case, angering people who thought the charges were illegitimate in the first place.

Hall’s body of work demonstrates his commitment to equity, community, and justice, and we believe he would be more effective in instilling those values in Durham’s courts than Battaglia. We endorse Hall.

N.C. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, DISTRICT 14, SEAT 5: JIM HILL In his sixteen years on the bench, Judge Jim Hill has lobbied the state for more local court funding, ruled against a requirement that people pay a fee for court-appointed lawyers, and helped establish a program to divert people with mental illness from Durham courts. But he’s also a Republican, and thanks to the General Assembly forcing him to have a party ID by his name, he’s probably going to lose.

Though his reelection might be a lost cause, we’ll support him anyway, given his record and reputation—though he has sometimes been criticized for a disrespectful courtroom manner.

Should he lose, though, challenger Clayton Jones will fill Hill’s shoes well. He’s spent thirteen years with Public Defender’s Office and two in the District Attorney’s Office. If elected, he says his philosophy on the bench would be “judicial activism”— which is reflected in his views on money bail and excessive court fines and fees.

DURHAM COUNTY

SHERIFF: CLARENCE BIRKHEAD In the May Democratic primary, Durham voters clearly signaled what direction they want for the Durham County Sheriff’s Office, choosing Clarence Birkhead over incumbent Mike Andrews by a two-to-one margin.

We endorsed Birkhead then for his commitments to reducing the jail population, ceasing cooperation with ICE, and running a more transparent agency. Since the primary, Birkhead has picked up two write-in opponents: Paul Martin, a major with the Sheriff’s Office, and George Boykin, former chief of police at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh.

Once again, we endorse Birkhead.

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SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR: NATALIE MURDOCK AND LAURA MARIE DAVIS Voters can select two individuals as their picks to join the Soil and Water Conservation District board as supervisors. Of the four candidates, we’re endorsing Natalie Murdock and Laura Marie Davis, who both hold seats as associate supervisors. A third candidate, David Harris, is an appointed board supervisor; the fourth candidate is Jason Watson.

We believe Murdock—with experience in local government, budgeting, and transportation planning—has a breadth of skills that will allow her to take a holistic view of this role. She has demonstrated deep knowledge of the issues, both financial and environmental, facing the district. We endorse her for one of the two seats.

Both Harris and Davis would make good picks for the second seat. Harris has relevant experience with the Upper Neuse River Basin Association and the North Carolina Association of Conservation Districts. Davis is an environmental scientist with experience in community engagement and in local government through her appointment to Durham’s Environmental Affairs Board. For that unique perspective, we’re backing Davis.

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SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR: HEATHER MAIN AND W. CHRIS HOGAN The only local, contested race on Orange County ballots is for Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor. Voters can select two of three candidates: Heather Main, Morris Shambley, and W. Chris Hogan.

Main—an environmental health and safety consultant concerned about the effects of development, agricultural runoff, emerging contaminants, and global warming on Orange County’s natural resources—is the only candidate with a campaign website, and the only one who is not an incumbent.

Both Shambley and Hogan come from long-established farming families in Orange County. Hogan previously operated his family dairy farm but sold it to developers. Shambley’s family farm in Efland, once a dairy, grows soybeans.

We appreciate Main’s ideas and enthusiasm; give her a chance. As for the other spot, Hogan has been on the board for more than a decade, so we’ll give an ambivalent nod to his experience.

CHAPEL HILL AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND: YES Chapel Hill has an affordable housing crisis—that much is clear. This $10 million bond won’t fix that. But it will help the town build four hundred new affordable units and preserve three hundred existing units, and that’s not nothing. And advocates say that $10 million from taxpayers would leverage $35 million for affordable housing from other sources. That’s not nothing, either. We wish Chapel Hill had gone bigger, but this bond is worthy of your support.

WAKE COUNTY

DISTRICT ATTORNEY: LORRIN FREEMAN After eight years as clerk of Superior Court, Lorrin Freeman became Wake’s first female district attorney in 2014, and she’s shown independence and intelligence since assuming that role. She lost the endorsement of the police union after charging three law enforcement officers 14 | 10.17.18 | INDYweek.com

with felony assault. She also successfully prosecuted former Register of Deeds Laura Riddick for embezzlement, and her office brought a felony charge against the head of a private school who allegedly declined to prevent a teacher from sexually assaulting a student. We wish Freeman would pledge not to pursue capital punishment, which is wasteful and largely pointless, but on the whole, she’s done a good job.

Lorrin Freeman Freeman defeated her Republican opponent, John Walter Bryant, in 2014, and we expect she’ll do so again. While he promises to put “irredeemable criminals” behind bars, Freeman is pushing for a criminal summons in lieu of arrest for nonviolent misdemeanor offenses and has expanded diversion programs for offenders with mental health issues. That’s a better approach.

SHERIFF: GERALD BAKER Incumbent Sheriff Donnie Harrison touts his office’s controversial participation in a program referred to as 287(g), in which the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement deputizes sheriff’s deputies to perform some immigration-enforcement duties. Wake is one of only six counties in the state to participate in this program. Harrison defends this decision by arguing that there’s a “misunderstanding” about how the program works, that individuals are only screened after they are arrested, and that the program keeps immigrant communities safer by removing the bad guys. But the empirical evidence suggests he’s wrong—participation in 287(g) doesn’t prevent crime.

Harrison, a Republican who won the sheriff’s job in 2002, is hardly a law-andorder caricature. He talks thoughtfully about reducing the jail population and via bail reform and pretrial release programs for low-risk inmates. But we’re siding with Democrat Gerald Baker, a Sheriff’s Office

veteran who stresses improved relationships with heavily policed communities, strict accountability for members of his office, embracing diversity, and ending Wake’s participation in 287(g). Baker is the right man for the job.

CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT: BLAIR WILLIAMS For seven years when Lorrin Freeman was clerk of court, Blair Williams was her number two. If he succeeds in ousting Jennifer Knox, the Democrat won’t have a huge learning curve. Williams argues that, under Knox, the office has become lax in customer service for probate matters, eliminated internship programs with Shaw and St. Augustine’s universities, and relied on antiquated technology. He also pledges to make the office more accessible to nonEnglish speakers.

Knox—a Republican who is Jesse Helms’s granddaughter—narrowly won four years ago, after serving first as an assistant district attorney and then a District Court judge. She opposes her party’s attacks on the judiciary and disputes Williams’s assessment of her office’s operations. But we’re backing Williams, who we believe would run the office fairly and efficiently.

The Board of Commissioners—which is elected countywide—is a smart, thoughtful, progressive body that has represented Wake County well since the Democrats took control in 2014. Don’t change that dynamic now.

BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 1: HEATHER SCOTT We like both candidates for this open seat— Don Mial and Heather Scott—and we think either could do a terrific job, but we’re endorsing Scott, who’s spent the last two decades teaching music education. Mial’s background is impressive; he’s a former teacher and soldier, with a master’s degree in public administration, and he’s spent decades serving in social, political, and civic organizations. We also agree with him that it’s time to consider whether the Board of Education, rather than the Board of Commissioners, is the right body to levy school property taxes. But Scott, who has two kids in public schools, including one involved in the 504 program that accommodates students with disabilities, impressed us with her deep knowledge of issues like racial disparities in suspensions and the problems associated with the school assignment process. We’d be happy either way, but Scott has our vote.

BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: DISTRICT 3: SHAUN POLLENZ SIG HUTCHINSON, MATT again, Wake residents will be wellCALABRIA, SUSAN EVANS, GREG Here served by either candidate, challenger Shaun Pollenz or incumbent Roxie Cash.

FORD, AND VICKIE ADAMSON Cash is certainly more experienced, having In the May Democratic primary, challengers Susan Evans and Vickie Adamson defeated incumbents Erv Portman and John Burns, arguing that they weren’t sufficiently supportive of public schools. While we endorsed Burns and Portman, Evans and Adamson were both excellent and qualified candidates: Evans is a former school board member, and Adamson has been a leader in the PTA and has a background in finance. We’re endorsing them in the general election over inferior Republican challengers.

The same goes for the three incumbent Democrats facing Republican opposition this fall—Sig Hutchinson, Matt Calabria, and Greg Ford. Hutchinson is well known for his advocacy of greenways and greenspace; Calabria is one of the board’s most energetic progressives, tackling everything from affordable housing to hunger to living wages; and Ford, a former principal, understands education policy like few others.

served on the board from 1991–99 and again to from 2016 to the present, including two years as chairwoman. She argues that she has credibility with current school board members and county commissioners—and given the recent tensions between the two bodies over funding, that’s important.

But we were taken with Pollenz’s thoughtful and thorough answers to our questions about school policies. As he points out, he would be the only board member who went to Wake public schools in the modern era, and his mother is a middle school teacher in this district. He says his top priority, and the reason he ran, is to restore the yearround academic intervention and school support services that Cash voted to eliminate during her first stint on the board. But he also wants to end the school-to-prison pipeline, end the achievement gap, and recoup money the state owes Wake’s school system. We endorse Pollenz.

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BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 5: JIM MARTIN Challenger Logan Martin, a former adviser to Republican state representative Nelson Dollar, says he wants to increase transparency and accountability and be a voice for students, teachers, and parents. Those are good goals, but we don’t see any reason to unseat incumbent Jim Martin, a chemistry professor at N.C. State who has served on the school board since 2011. Martin is versed in the challenges facing the district—some of which don’t come with black and white solutions—including the problems of charters and resegregation, which, as he notes, is often more rooted in housing patterns than school board decisions. Martin deserves reelection.

ment of Environmental Quality. With his wealth of knowledge on water quality issues and state connections, McMillian could serve as a helpful conduit between the district and state regulatory bodies.

U.S. CONGRESS District 1: GK Butterfield District 2: Linda Coleman District 4: David Price CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS No on all six.

STATE SENATE District 14: Dan Blue District 15: Jay Chaudhuri District 16: Wiley Nickel District 17: Sam Searcy District 18: Mack Paul District 20: Floyd B. McKissick Jr. District 22: Mike Woodard

BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 8: LINDSAY MAHAFFEY Incumbent Lindsay Mahaffey faces two challengers this year: John Crowe, about whom we know little; and Bob Melone, who is endorsed by the county Republican Party.

But we think Mahaffey has done a good job and should be reelected. An educator who has three young daughters—two of whom are in Wake elementary schools—Mahaffey has pushed the school system to enact a gender-neutral dress code and address implicit bias. She’s an asset to Wake County students and has earned another term in office.

SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR: IAN MCMILLAN AND JENNA WADSWORTH Since Jenna Wadsworth was first elected to the board in 2010 at age twenty-one, she’s been a strong advocate for farmland preservation and environmental education. Her deep knowledge of environmental issues gives us confidence she’ll continue to be an effective leader.

We have no issues with incumbent David Adams, but Ian McMillan offers an impressive set of skills as an environmental scientist, boasting certifications as a professional wetland scientist, geographic information systems professional, and public manager. McMillan currently serves as the basin planning branch chief for the N.C. Division of Water Resources, a division of the Depart-

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Jenna Wadsworth There are five candidates vying for two SWCD supervisor positions. Wadsworth and McMillan are the best choices.

BONDS FOR EDUCATION, WAKE TECH, AND PARKS AND GREENWAYS: YES ON ALL THREE Wake commissioners have placed three bonds before voters this November: one, for $548 million, for school construction; the second, for $349 million, to renovate and expand Wake Tech; and the third, for $120 million, for greenways and open spaces. The total price tag—about $1 billion—is substantial, and would almost certainly lead to at least modest tax hikes. But the county has pressing needs that must be addressed. These bond referenda are anything but wasteful frivolities. School construction, in particular, is urgent. Less urgent but no less important are improvements to the county’s parks and greenways, which add to the region’s quality of life. And Wake Tech, too, needs help.

Wake County is prosperous and growing because it’s a great place to live and raise kids. It also has a relatively low tax rate, but we can’t focus on the latter at the expense of the former. Vote yes on all three. editors@indyweek.com

STATE HOUSE District 11: Allison Dahle District 23: Valerie Foushee District 29: MaryAnn Black District 30: Marcia Morey District 31: Zack Forde-Hawkins District 33: Rosa Gill District 34: Grier Martin District 35: Terence Everitt District 36: Julie von Haefen District 37: Sydney Batch District 38: Yvonne Lewis Holley District 39: Darren Jackson District 40: Joe John District 41: Gale Adcock District 49: Cynthia Ball District 50: Graig Meyer District 54: Robert Reives Jr. District 56: Verla Insko

JUDICIARY N.C. Supreme Court: Anita Earls N.C. Court of Appeals, Seat 1: John Arrowood N.C. Court of Appeals, Seat 2: Tobias Hampson N.C. Court of Appeals, Seat 3: Allegra Collins N.C. Superior Court 10D, Seat 1: Keith Gregory N.C. Superior Court 14B, Seat 3: Josephine Kerr Davis N.C. District Court 10D, Seat 2: Rebecca Edwards N.C. District Court, Court 14, Seat 1: Dave Hall N.C. District Court Judge, District 14, Seat 5: Jim Hill DURHAM COUNTY Sheriff: Clarence Birkhead Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor: Natalie Murdock, Laura Marie Davis ORANGE COUNTY Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor: Heather Main, W. Chris Hogan Chapel Hill Affordable Housing Bond: Yes WAKE COUNTY District Attorney: Lorrin Freeman Sheriff: Gerald Baker Clerk of Superior Court: Blair Williams Board of Commissioners: Sig Hutchinson, Matt Calabria, Susan Evans, Greg Ford, Vickie Adamson Board of Education, District 1: Heather Scott Board of Education, District 3: Shaun Pollenz Board of Education, District 5: Jim Martin Board of Education, District 8: Lindsay Mahaffey Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor: Ian McMillan, Jenna Wadsworth Bonds for Education, Wake Tech, and Greenways: Yes on all three

Early voting runs through Saturday, November 3; early voters who are not currently registered to vote are allowed to register and vote on the same day.

Durham EV sites: County Board of Elections office, Duke University Brodhead Center, East Regional Library, N.C. Central, North Regional Library, South Regional Library.

HOURS: Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sunday, noon–4 p.m.; Saturday, November 3, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

Orange EV sites: County Board of Elections office, Carrboro Town Hall, Chapel of the Cross, Seymour Senior Center, Efland Ruritan Club Building.

HOURS: Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–3 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.–3 p.m.

Wake EV sites: Apex Community Center, Chavis Community Center, County Board of Elections office, Herbert C. Young Community Center, Knightdale Recreation Center, Lake Lynn Community Center, NCSU Talley Student Union, Northern Regional Center, Optimist Community Center, Wake Tech South Campus Physical Education Building.

HOURS: Monday–Friday, Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–3 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.–6 p.m. HOURS AT THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE: Monday– Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m.; closed weekends except Saturday, November 3, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

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JAZZ ALCHEMIST RAFIQ BHATIA CONSIDERS RALEIGH, RAP, AND RESISTANCE UPON RETURNING TO HIS HOME STATE BY KATIE JANE FERNELIUS

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ailed as the successor to Jimi Hendrix, Bill Frissell, and even J Dilla, Rafiq Bhatia might be the jazz world’s best-kept secret. He creates music with an eye for technical experimentation and a head for generous collaboration; consistent across his music is what he calls an “otherworldly potential.” His guitar always grounds his songs like a scale on a map, even as he tesselates rhythms that reverberate and expand across a sonic landscape.

Having recently released Breaking English, his first self-produced album and his third solo project, earlier this year, Bhatia will headline the Friday night portion of the Don’t Be Mean to People benefit at Ponysaurus Brewing Company in Durham. The twoday benefit, now in its second year, raises money for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. For Bhatia, who grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Enloe High School, the concert occasions not only an opportunity for fundraising for a meaningful cause, but also a return to his home state that he left over a decade ago.

ENLOE Where do I even start? It’s like a wave of memories washing over me. What a tremendous privilege it was to be at that high school at that time. The peers I had inspired me to think differently about the world around me and about myself and who I was even. Also, Enloe is where I met Jack Hill, who is one of my best friends who will be playing bass with me at the ACLU benefit. The nerds there were the cool kids. I was definitely a nerd. But, let me be clear, I was not one of the cool nerds.

SIMULACRUM The first thing I think about is Chris Pattishall, who is also from North Carolina!

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know him for. He gave me Roberto Bolano’s Antwerp to read, and talked to me about simulacra.

We were across the street from a place where we were going to play a show, a bar at this Korean BBQ restaurant. And there was a simulacrum in the bar! It’s a fish tank that is built into the bar that has some kind of—I don’t know what you would call the little things that go into fish tanks or terrariums, the coral. But then there are no actual fish in the fish tank. Instead, behind the fish tank, there is a screen with, like, a screensaver of fish swimming around. So you can see the water and what’s actually in the tank, but behind that there’s a projection of fish.

Anyways, every time I tried to read Antwerp, I would get busy with other work and struggle to come back to it. So [Chris] is really mad at me that I still haven’t finished it.

ALIEN When I think about the term alien, there are two versions of it that come to mind. One is the extraterrestrial variety. There is something real and tangible about the music I want to make—it might exist somewhere else. Even when electronic, it has an organic quality. It has more of an otherworldly potential than a digital potential.

The second version of alien is in terms of the sense of borders and the mobility of people and otherness. Right now, I’m touring across Europe. And I’m both somebody who has an easy time at borders and a difficult time at borders, as a U.S. citizen and as someone who was raised Muslim. It’s so interesting to see how arbitrary our notions of mobility are. I’m interested in this whole concept of where we allow people to come from, and what we think of them upon arrival.

LIGHTWORKS Oh my god, [J Dilla] is just the best ever. Dilla sort of revolutionized the way that drummers play in my generation. There’s a rhythmic tension in the way that people play when they play music in an analog way that can

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be exaggerated by juxtaposing it against the opposite, which is a more computerized, robotic delineation of time. You know when you hear someone playing a beat that sort of wilts back or feels sluggish or woozy— the thing that contextualizes that element in Dilla’s work is that there’s always another element that’s right exactly where the beat is, so the laziness and swagger of it is always made more salient by juxtaposing it against its opposite.

That’s something that I’m constantly looking for ways to do in every area of music: finding a way to contextualize sounds and rhythms and ideas that can turn something familiar on its head, or make something totally foreign feel very kind of intimately familiar. I think of that William Blake quote “Without contraries is no progression.” And I’m pretty sure I learned that quote at Enloe High School.

RESISTANCE My album, Breaking English, is called that because I went with my family to India. We were in a car driving to see the Taj Mahal and kept seeing billboards for “shooting ranges.”

We were confused, but then my dad and I realized it wasn’t advertising guns, it was

music

advertising scenic overlooks, to take good pictures. My dad said, “At a certain point, more people outside the West will be using English than inside of it.” You can allow yourselves to be defined by other people’s stereotypes about you or you can represent yourself in a way that stands in opposition to that.

When I was at Enloe, and I was really into music, there was nobody that I knew of that looked like me that was making music that I was listening to. There was also nobody that looked like me on TV, in advertisements, in any type of entertainment. There was no representation, except for one critical representation: terrorism on TV. For me, deciding to become a musician was not a logical path, and it was not one that I seriously considered as an alternative for many years. And even when I did, I had this ongoing imposter syndrome. Now, every time I play a show, or I appear somewhere in my capacity as an artist, and I see some young brown girls or guys hanging out in the audience, seeing that I’m doing this, they don’t even have to like the music, just the fact that I’m here doing this is part of the reason that I’m here doing it. music@indyweek.com

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NATHAN BOWLES PLAINLY MISTAKEN PARADISE OF BACHELORS 

In 1969, a guy named George Stavis released Labyrinths, a trailblazing, trippy solo banjo record full of folk, jazz, and raga instrumentals. A decade later, Béla Fleck began his recording career and helped establish the jam rock-infused genre of newgrass. The current era brings us banjo man Nathan Bowles, whose level of relative renown lies somewhere in between the completely unknown Stavis and the iconic Fleck. His ingenuity on the instrument is comparable to both, while his style remains utterly idiosyncratic.

Virginia-bred, Durham-based Bowles has a strong folk background, but he’s always beautifully subverted those roots and taken his instrument into fresh territory. On Plainly Mistaken, Bowles is sharper than ever: Buoyed by a full rhythm section, he takes the opportunity to expand his sonic purview even further than before.

The album sets the bar high from its first track, a dreamy cover of "Now If You Remember," from British singer Julie Tippetts's 1975 progressive jazz-rock album, Sunset Glow. But with its ethereal vibe and minimalist arrangement (and Bowles taking one of his rare vocal turns), the track feels like it could have come off Brian Eno's Before and After Science.

While a few tracks, like the solo "Stump Sprout" and the band-backed "Elk River Blues," more clearly follow in the folk tradition, Bowles stretches out on cuts like "The Road Reversed," where he goes artfully modal over martial toms and bowed bass. The solo banjo pieces "Umbra" and "Girih Tiles" provide the album's most impressionistic, reflective moments. Things go furthest afield on the minimalist drone piece "In Kind II," while Bowles' Silver Apples-inspired cover of the forties country tune "Ruby" evolves into a frenzied psychedelic stomp. Bouncing off Plainly Mistaken, Bowles' next step could take him just about anywhere. —Jim Allen

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STONES THROW RECORDS SHOWCASE Tuesday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m., $12–$14 Kings, Raleigh www.kingsraleigh.com

Infinite Ripples

STONES THROW RECORDS SHAPED A GENERATION OF HIP-HOP AND ELECTRONIC FANS. WHERE WILL ITS LATEST CLASS LEAD IT NEXT? BY DAVID FORD SMITH

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n a rare 2004 interview with Wax Poetics, the enigmatic producer and rapper Madlib offered a choice bit of advice on the subject of sample selection: “Take shit off cassette, VCR, iTunes, anything. Some water dripping, it don’t matter.”

Instead of fiendishly sticking to dusty crates of records or one particular era of music for nuggets, he endorses carving your own instinctual pathway through sound, whatever the source may be. Either Madlib picked an excellent label to support his efforts, or the Los Angeles label Stones Throw Records gleaned advice early on from him, as that quote echoes the precise inventive spirit that has kept Stones Throw relevant in the indie label mix for over twenty years. Since 1996, the venerable Los Angeles institution has survived more industry shakeups and dead trends than you could rattle off, and Stones Throw remains a haven for a certain enduring strain of neoWest Coast eclecticism and cool.

Two particularly well-known titles demonstrate as much. There’s the freewheeling 2004 collaboration between Madlib and MF Doom, Madvillain, which became a defining cult rap release of the Adult Swim generation. A barrage of leftfield, often cartoonish sampled beats and lyricism dripping with inscrutable, deeply woven jokes and allusions, it works as a humorous, possibly ironic record. On the flip side, it functions as a substantial, meaningful album that teenagers can emotionally invest in, a duality that feels like a defining theme of millennial art.

The other is J. Dilla’s endlessly influential 2006 classic, Donuts, which dropped three days before his untimely death. Donuts minted Dilla, a distinguished producer for years before that final release, into an alltime production deity. His name instantaneously became the gold standard for a sort of chopped-beats wunderkind producer, and his soul-soaked beat-making style bled into both the underground and the mainstream.

Together, Madvillain and Donuts exist in a sort of rarified air of legend and rumor and debate that few records reach anymore.

In an autobiographical label history on the Stones Throw website, founder Peanut Butter Wolf, aka Chris Manak, provides some context about what propelled the label to

peers at esteemed but shuttered rap emporiums like Rawkus or Def Jux. To this day, Stones Throw continue to shun all obvious expectations about the product they should release. The label has served up new records and reissues from Pasadena R&B king Dam-Funk, electronic pioneer Bruce

Jerry Paper PHOTO BY MONIKA MOGI such highs relatively early on. He grew up in San Jose, California, a military brat who voraciously consumed records and the emanations of eighties West Coast radio. In fact, the story goes that later, in 1998, he originally heard Madlib’s first group, Lootpack, on an area college radio station. According to an interview with Mixmag, he feverishly obtained the number on the group’s obscure twelve-inch record by calling the on-air deejay, which led him to their manager, Madlib’s father. Thus began Manak’s relationship with the reclusive producer that would endure for the next two decades.

Mercifully, the label didn’t die on the hill of turntablism or backpack rap, like their

Haack, violinist Sudan Archives, and Omar Rodriguez-López of the Mars Volta, to name a few. They specialize in the exact sort of diffuse material that dudes like Dilla loved and burned through for source material.

This week, a Stones Throw-branded tour rolls through Kings in Raleigh, highlighting several of the label’s recent offbeat alliances. It’s quite the ragtag collection of lovable weirdos. Among them is Virginia’s Stimulator Jones, who channels grown-and-sexy Oran Juice Jones affectations into a striking, pitch-perfect throwback R&B style that avoids sounding like another sterile by-the-numbers Ableton approximation, by no means an easy feat.

Jerry Paper, who has strong roots in the outré music sphere of the last decade, specializes in a sort of shattered conception of pop music. His mythology runs deep, as he routinely promotes a number of strange concepts involving fuzzy logic, techno spiritualism, and the like, that make reading his interviews highly entertaining and psychedelic. Kiefer might approximate a bit more of the standard neo-soul approach, boasting loose, lush keys and unremitting boom-bap percussion. Finally, there’s Prophet, described by Manak as one of his “holy grails,” an eighties private-press funk legend who was unearthed by crate-diggers like Manak decades later.

In the Stones Throw documentary, Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, one of the most entertaining segments features rapper Tyler, the Creator. An avowed Stones Throw fan and reportedly a former prolific poster on the 2009-era Stones Throw message board, he rhapsodizes about hearing a song

by The Stepkids on the radio at McDonalds.

He zealously ran home and tried to Google the lyrics to find it, ending up on a Japanese message board that dialed him into the world of the label. On a macro level, a number of mainstream rappers of the day, including Tyler, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, and even Kanye West, clearly owe something of a debt to the label’s eclecticism, whether through their own admission or the sonic touchstones of their records.

It’s refreshing to see a label as established as Stones Throw still taking chances on unconventional new artists, especially characters like these who don’t have obvious commercial appeal. Music trends live and die with increasing speed in 2018, and it looks easier than ever for significant labels to wave-ride these trends straight into the ground. If the history of Stones Throw is any indication, music selected out of genuine love tends to fare better. music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.17.18 | 21

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Bienvenue, Tervetuloa, Svāgat, Fáilte, Wëllkomm, Merħba, Bem-vindos, Dobro Požalovat, Soo Dhowow, and WELCOME to the International Festival of Raleigh!

The International Festival was established in 1985 by the City of Raleigh to promote respect and understanding among people of diverse cultural origins. Its purpose was to develop awareness of the many voices that make up our community and to share the uniqueness of each heritage through music, food, dance, art, and education. 2018 marks the 33rd annual International Festival of Raleigh, and that purpose remains the event’s central mission.

95% of the Festivals exhibitors and vendors are members of cultural communities local to the Triangle area. Through the years, as the population of the Triangle has grown and diversified, the Festival has doubled its venues and greatly increased cultural participation. Cultural groups that formed to participate in earlier Festivals now have their own organizations numbering thousands of members and stage their own annual celebrations. Many of the dance groups who started as a few people coming together to preserve their heritage, are now professionals, performing across the US. A number of local ethnic restaurants also had their beginnings at the Festival. Despite their own growth, the Festival’s cultural groups remain loyal to the event and continue to contribute their time and talents each year in this unifying celebration.

The first International Festival was held at the old Raleigh Civic Center. In 2008, the Festival and its international communities helped open of the new Raleigh Convention Center, which remains its venue each October.

Today, the Festival is a central component of the Triangle’s cultural and artistic offerings. Exemplifying Raleigh’s image as an International City, it showcases music, dance, cuisine, art, and cultural education from over 60 diverse cultures, and welcomes more than 25,000 visitors annually.

Whether 2018 marks your first or your 33rd year visiting the International Festival, we are VERY happy to have you with us and we can’t wait to celebrate with you!

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NATURALIZATION CEREMONY The Naturalization Ceremony is the grand opening of the Festival each year, and about 130 new Americans will take their oath of citizenship in this moving event.

Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt’s office officiates the ceremony in cooperation with the Durham Office of Homeland Security, and featured speakers, Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane, NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, and NC Representative David Price, will welcome the candidates to citizenship. The Raleigh Boy Scouts will present the colors this year, and vocalist Michelle Boyette will lead attendees in the national anthem.

One of the wonderful features of the Naturalization Ceremony is its connectivity with North Carolina schools. The Festival invites school classes to participate in a special International Field Trip for the event, and kids bus in from as far away as Charlotte to take part.

In 2017, more than 4000 students experienced the ceremony and various cultural activities.

CULTURAL EXHIBITS Each Cultural Exhibit is created by a local community to tell about their rich histories and traditions. In this fun and educational venue, booths are decorated to represent the annual Festival Theme through the lens of that culture. The 2018 theme is Celebrations Around the World, and exhibits from Yemen to Korea will portray what and how their cultures celebrate.

The Cultural Exhibits are judged each year to give recognition to outstanding designs. 2018’s distinguished judges are Wake County Board of Commissioners Vice-Chair, Sig Hutchinson, Triangle Business Journal Managing Editor, Dane Huffman, and Raleigh Arts Commission Chairperson, Chanda Branch.

Canadian Chinese Colombian Dutch Egyptian Filipino Finnish French Guatemalan

Indian Iranian Iraqi Italian Japanese Korean Lebanese Mexican Nepalese Pakistani

Polish Romanian Russian Scottish Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Yemeni Zimbabwean

MAIN STAGE

Main Stage showcases traditional and modern ethnic dance. Enjoy everything from Dabke to Bollywood with a new performance every 10 minutes, all weekend long. Many of the dancers you’ll see started performing at the Festival as children and continue to dance and choreograph as adults.

FRIDAY 5:30 5:40 5:50 5:55 6:10 6:25 6:45 7:05 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:20 8:35 8:55

Palestinian Teens Brazilian Adults Polynesian Adult Irish Teens Indian Adults Palestinian Adults Scottish Bagpipes Adults North African Adult Argentine Adults Chinese (CAFA) Adults Lebanese Teens Venezuelan Adults Hawaiian Adults Lebanese Adults Palestinian Adults

SATURDAY 11:00 11:05 11:20 11:30 12:20 12:25 12:35 12:55 1:00 1:20 1:25 1:45 2:00

3:45 3:55 4:10 4:20 4:40 4:50 4:55 5:10 5:20 5:40 5:50 5:55 6:10 6:30 6:50 7:05

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7:20 7:35 7:40 8:05 8:20 8:25 8:45 9:00 9:10 9:25

Bangladeshi Teens Spanish Adults Egyptian Adults Ukrainians North African Adults Turkish Teens Mexican Adults Nepali Adults Chinese (CAFA) Adults Egyptian Adults Filipino Adults Chinese (TACAS) Teens Young People’s Matinee Parade of Children Irish Indians Filipinos Colombians Chinese (CAFA) Indians Lebanese Iranians Venezuelans Indians Turkish Vietnamese Chinese (TACAS) Nepalis Peruvians Chinese (CAFA) Teens Spanish Adults Indian Teens Turkish Adults Irish Adults Palestinian Teens Colombian Teens Nepali Teens Korean Adults Iranian Teens Venezuelan Teens Indian Adults Palestinian Adults Greek Adults Colombian Adults International Festival Announcements Lebanese Teens Vietnamese Adults Venezuelan Adults Argentine Adults Vietnamese Teens Lebanese Adults Japanese Adults Palestinian Adults Hawaiian Adults Pakistani Adults

SUNDAY 12:05 12:20 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:20 1:40 1:55 2:00

3:45 3:55 4:10 4:30 4:40 4:50 5:05 5:25 5:35 5:50

Mexican Adults Mexican Adults Indian Adults Filipino Adults Chinese (CAFA) Adults Korean Adults Chinese (TACAS) Teens Vietnamese Adults Young People’s Matinee Parade of Children Irish Indians Filipinos Colombians Chinese (CAFA) Indians Lebanese Iranians Venezuelans Indians Turkish Vietnamese Chinese (TACAS) Nepalis Peruvians Chinese (CAFA) Teens Colombian Teens Scandinavian Adults Korean Adults Nepali Teens Colombian Adults Japanese Adults Iranian Teens Mexican Adults Pakistani Adults

BAZAAR Shop the Bazaar’s global arts, crafts, jewelry, fashions, and toys to score unique holiday gifts or just something nice for YOU. Bangladeshi Brazilian Burundian Colombian Ecuadorian Egyptian French Gambian Guatemalan Indian

Kenyan Malagasy Mexican Nepalese Pakistani Palestinian Russian Thai Turkish Ugandan

COOKING AND LEARNING VENUES

Always wanted to know how to prepare Dutch Olliebollen or dance Bollywood? The Festival’s two Demonstration Booths offer classes in cooking, dance, crafts, cultural etiquette, and more. See all schedules at InternationalFestival.org and on venue signs.

All schedules subject to change.

BIERGARTEN STAGE

The Biergarten Stage features bands and musical performances from around the world. Grab a local internationally-inspired brew and kick back or get out on the floor for a jig or a ska. Don’t miss the special Folkloric Fashion Show on the Biergarten Stage this year, presenting modern and traditional fashion styles and attire from around the world - Saturday from 4:30 to 6PM! S LOST NOMAD

FRIDAY 12PM – 2PM • ED STEPHENSON & FLAMENCO DANCE Nuevo-Flamenco 4:30PM – 6PM • BARROWBURN Celtic 6:30PM – 8PM • MARIA ELENA VALDEZ, “LA REINA DEL MARIACHI” Mariachi 8:30PM – 10PM • CRUCIAL FIYA Reggae

SATURDAY 10:30AM – 12PM • SCANDIMONIUM Nordic Folk 12:30PM – 2PM • DIALI CISSOKHO & KAIRA BA Senegalese Spirituals 2:30PM – 4PM • INDIAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE Traditional and Modern Indian 4:30PM – 6PM • FOLKLORIC FASHION SHOW International Fashion 6:30PM – 8PM • RICARDO DIQUEZ & THE TROPIC ORCHESTRA Caribbean 8:30PM – 10PM • SHANACHIE Irish

SUNDAY 11:30AM – 1PM • VIA ROMEN GUITAR DUO Acoustic World Music 1:30PM – 3PM • LOST NOMADS Middle Eastern 3PM – 4:30PM • MAGNOLIA KLEZMER BAND Eastern European 5PM – 6:30PM • DIFFERENT DRUM African Percussion DIALI CISSOKH

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SIDEWALK CAFES

Sidewalk Cafes offer delicious cuisine from around the globe served from mini restaurants decorated in the style of that culture.

Check out the dessert section for sweets from Puerto Rico to Luxembourg.

Caribbean Chinese Colombian Dutch French Greeks Hungarian Iranian Italian

Jamaican Japanese Kenyan Korean Laotian Larry’s Coffee Lebanese Luxembourgers Nepalese

Globetrotter Lunch

Palestinian Puerto Rican Russia South Sudanese Sudanese Thai Turkish Venezuelan Vietnamese

Come by on Friday from 12 to 2pm for a special Globetrotter Lunch with FREE ADMISSION! Sample your way around the Sidewalk Cafes and Desserts and enjoy great Spanish music and Flamenco dancing.

SOPHIA’S CORNER

Sophia’s Corner is the Festival area for all things KID. Named for the Festival Director’s 2-year old niece, who once visited an event and indignantly proclaimed it had “nothing for little kids”, this area strives to provide fun and engaging activities for young visitors.

Sophia, now going on 17, approves.

Come “travel the world” with the passport scavenger hunt, where big and small kids track down clues about each country’s culture and geography to become a Citizen of the World.

See all schedules at InternationalFestival.org and on venue signs.

2018 will also feature the Festival’s first quiet room and a special sensory-friendly time for youth and adults who are sensitive to noise and crowds. Friday from 2pm to 4pm will be earmarked for a quieter time to enjoy the festival without crowds and loud music. During other times, a small quiet room with sensory-friendly materials will provide a little break from the excitement when needed.

INTERNATIONAL FOCUS – WHO WE ARE International Focus is a non-profit organization with the mission to promote mutual understanding between the people of the Triangle and the international community through education, cultural exchange, arts, and the celebration of achievements. We promote and support multiculturalism and diplomacy by hosting a range of activities and exchanges: The International Visitors Leadership Program is a professional exchange program of the US Department of State designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries. Notable alumni include Dilma Rousseff, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, and Hamid Karzai.

Community Connections, a program of the United States Agency for International Development, is designed to promote public diplomacy through the exchange of cultural ideas and values between participants and local families and host organizations.

The Open World Program, administered by the Open World Leadership Center, is the first and only international exchange agency in the U.S. Legislative Branch. Through Open World, nearly 18,000 current and future leaders from central Asia and Eastern Europe have interacted with Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and thousands of other Americans.

Youth Leadership Programs foster mutual understanding, respect, and civic engagement among young Americans and their international peers. During the exchanges, students and educators participate in workshops, community service activities, team building exercises, meetings with community leaders, leadership development, and live with American families. Upon their return home, the students apply what they have learned to implement projects that serve needs in their communities.

The annual International Festival of Raleigh engages over 60 local international communities who showcase their cuisine, traditional dance and music, crafts, artwork, and unique heritage in a 3-day event celebrating the Triangle’s unique diversity.

Get involved with International Focus: We offer Memberships, Home-Stays, Home Hospitality and Volunteer opportunities.

Come join our international family!

International Focus website: www.InternationalFocusNC.org International Festival website: www.InternationalFestival.org Office: 919.782.0552

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Georgia O’Keeffe, Artist

THE BEYOND DISPELS CLOUDS OF GENDER AND SEX FROM THE WORK OF AN INNOVATIVE, INFLUENTIAL PAINTER

BY SARAH EDWARDS

“Flying Backbone” by Georgia O’Keeffe PHOTO COURTESY OF CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/EDWARD C. ROBINSON III

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xperiencing Georgia O’Keeffe in 2018 presents a common dilemma: How to see afresh a beloved artist whose work has undergone a century’s worth of mythologizing? A painter of big skies and big colors, O’Keeffe was fiercely individualistic, yet she means something intensely personal to many people. She was a pioneer of radical visual perspectives who, with her cropped botanical studies, reframed our relationship with the fractions of the natural world, inviting us to look a little closer, a little longer. But her popular reputation and exhibits have often been clouded by a kind of feminine mysticism.

Thankfully, that cloud disperses in the unusually clear-headed exhibit The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, which debuted in May at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas before moving to the North Carolina Museum of Art on October 13, where it will remain through January.

The exhibit examines O’Keeffe’s themes by considering her alongside emerging artists who follow in her footsteps in different ways.

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The O’Keeffe works range from watercolors made in 1916, when she was an art teacher in South Carolina, to works from the 1970s, when her eyesight was beginning to fail. These images are particularly poignant; titular painting “The Beyond,” an abstract blue horizon painted in 1972, is an eye-catching revelation with a great tenderness seeping through the bold coloring. In between, you’ll find all the luminescent moon-faced Jimson weeds, defiant cityscapes, and stripped-down visions of the American Southwest you’d expect.

Fifty-three works by twenty contemporary artists are featured alongside the thirty-four O’Keeffe paintings, loosely grouped around themes like cityscapes, botanicals, and abstractions. In a moment when women’s experiences are being skewed and

outright erased, this no-nonsense framing of O’Keeffe’s work feels like a balm.

The contemporary works come in a broad range of mediums and with many messages, from Jennifer Packer’s putrid funerary bouquets—painted in response to police violence—to Britny Wainwright’s floral ceramic sculptures, which seek to challenge the “hierarchy of form and ornament.”

Of particular note in the landscape section is Cynthia Daignault’s “Light Atlas,” a wall comprised of 360 postcard-size oil paintings that represent a 360-degree mural of an American road trip. Though Daignault’s inquiry into the American imagination is more suburban than anything O’Keeffe ventured, their interest in extraordinary perspectives on ordinary scenes is well-paired.

THE BEYOND: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE AND CONTEMPORARY ART Through Sunday, Jan. 20 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh www.ncartmuseum.org

Speaking of, The Beyond is ticketed with an exhibit by the German photographer Candida Höfer, known for large-format color images of empty spaces. Adjacent to the O’Keeffe exhibit are twenty-five of her elephantine photographs of public spaces in Mexico—museums, churches, and libraries—created with painstaking research, technique, and an army of assistants. They nearly induce vertigo, so great is their scale.

After spending time in the downy nucleus of a flower, it’s nice to feel small again.

As an artist, O’Keeffe seemed largely uninterested in being either categorized or overthought. Unfortunately, there’s never been a shortage of psychoanalytic readings of her work. Predictably, her husband, Alfred Stieglitz—the legendary gallery owner and photographer—introduced the idea that her floral studies were vulvic in the 1930s, a theory that was later resuscitated by the second-wave feminists of the 1970s and has stuck around ever since.

But O’Keeffe rejected the sexualization of her work, stating once that “when people read

Still, it’s also fair—and maybe necessary—to wonder what O’Keeffe might have thought of her ballet flats being given equal footing alongside her massive renderings of cow skulls. A female artist whose minimalist aesthetics are often embraced in maximalist fashion by the Instagram generation, it can be all too easy to look at O’Keeffe’s flowers and merely see what we’ve been told is there, or to look at one of her marvelous abstractions and think only of what she wore to paint them.

What The Beyond does so well is adding dimensions to the ways we might normally

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see O’Keeffe. Though her flowers receive curatorial attention, they are not the focus.

Neither is her iconography. Instead, her work itself is given fresh perspective by the many perspectives surrounding it. In a season when the demands of women are being so thoroughly unheard and unmet, it’s a relief that one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists is being shown on her own terms, as an artist among artists, enduringly contemporary and larger than life. arts@indyweek.com

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THIRTEEN TRIANGLE RESTAURANTS AND BARS CREATE O’KEEFFE-INSPIRED COCKTAILS

“The Beyond” by Georgia O’Keeffe PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM “Convento de Santo Domingo Oaxaca I” by Candida Höfer PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

erotic symbols into my paintings, they’re really talking about their own affairs.” She was interested in proportion and ways of seeing, not being “woman as Life Giver,” as a 1922 Vanity Fair piece once cloyingly said.

O’Keeffe also rejected the idea that she was remarkable only as a female artist. “Men put me down as the best woman painter,” she once said. “I think I’m one of the best painters.” She wanted to be an artist without modifiers: not just an icon of avantgarde workwear, not just the sensual muse of Stieglitz, and not as a female artist notable only among other female artists.

An O’Keeffe centennial exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum last fall examined the ways that she asserted her “progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona,” showcasing her signature kimonos and blouses alongside portraits of her by the likes of Ansel Adams and Annie Leibowitz—and Stieglitz, who famously took more than three hundred. It’s fair to expect that, for admirers of an artist obsessed with the aesthetic of shapes, the obsessively curated shapes of her wardrobe might also be of interest.

To celebrate The Beyond, NCMA has partnered with thirteen bars and restaurants in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Winston-Salem to create specialty cocktails inspired by the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and the contemporary artists who surround her in the exhibit. The drinks will be served at the participating venues throughout the exhibition’s run.

“Everyone knows Georgia O’Keeffe’s famous flowers, but [they] may not have heard she was also a foodie who loved to come up with her own recipes,” says Karlie Marlowe, director of marketing and visitor services at NCMA. “Since The Beyond examines how O’Keeffe left a lasting legacy on artists working today, it carries that theme of inspiration out into the community.”

Several bartenders found inspiration in O’Keeffe’s “Petunias.” At so•ca, beverage director Tolson Kenney created the Petunia de Santiago, a shaken cocktail made with white rum, hibiscus simple syrup, fresh lime juice, yellow chartreuse, bitters, lavender-infused hibiscus, and passionfruit tea.

“Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘Petunias’ piece stood out to me mostly because I really enjoy natural colors of flowers and foliage,” Kenney says. “Contrasting so•ca’s Petunia de Santiago PHOTO COURTESY OF SO•CA shades of purple brought many flowers to mind— daisies, hibiscus, and lavender. This cocktail embraces acidity, sweetness, and some herbal notes.”

Art lovers and cocktail connoisseurs attending the exhibit on Friday evenings can sip The Beyond at Iris After Dark at NCMA. The Tom Collins riff is a refreshing tipple crafted with Durham Distillery’s Conniption Gin, lemon juice, ginger ale, and sweet lavender syrup for a bolt of purple.

Other specialty cocktails inspired by the exhibit can be found at bu•ku Raleigh, bu•ku Wake Forest, Crossroads at Carolina Inn, The Crunkleton, Hummingbird, Jack Tar & The Colonel’s Daughter, Littler, Mandolin, Pizzeria Toro, and The Katharine. —Veda Gilbert INDYweek.com | 10.17.18 | 25

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History Retweets Itself

TORVALD AND NORA AS KANYE AND KIM IN JAMEEKA HOLLOWAY-BURRELL’S INSTA-DRENCHED IBSEN TWIST

BY BYRON WOODS

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lack Ops Theatre Company director JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell’s modern update of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 drama, A Doll’s House, began with a clip from a 2012 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. In it, Kanye West was going through Kim Kardashian’s closet, urging her to “really clean out everything.” She plaintively asks, “Is it so bad to keep things,” and, “Shouldn’t I keep these for my daughter one day?”

“He was making her throw out things that were really special to her because they weren’t hip anymore,” Holloway-Burrell says. “That’s when it clicked for me: Kimye were 2018’s Torvald and Nora,” the central couple in the Ibsen play, in which Torvald is similarly controlling and dismissive of Nora’s wishes.

Through the lens of a culture steeped in technology, fame, and constant social media, Holloway-Burrell began thinking of A Doll’s House as a reality TV show whose characters were permeable to praise and attack via Instagram and Twitter. To work with her on the script, she turned to Aurelia Belfield, a noted regional actor who has worked for eight years in reality TV at Raleigh’s Trailblazer Studios as a music supervisor and voiceover casting director on shows including Kate Plus 8, Sister Wives, and the Emmy-winning PBS medical documentary Twice Born.

“I needed someone to help me turn this idea into dialogue, and Aurelia really knows how these shows come together,” HollowayBurrell says. “She took the lead with the script, and really just gave me a playground to work in.”

The result is A Doll’s House, Remodeled, a multimedia theater piece that opened Justice Theater Project’s 2018-19 season Friday. It transplants Ibsen’s troubled couple to present-day Silicon Valley. Torvald’s a software developer who’s been building his idea of a feminist app: Artemis, a realtime job-recruitment site for women. The application is about to go live with an IPO valued at $1 billion.

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JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell and Aurelia Belfield

PHOTO COURTESY OF JUSTICE THEATER PROJECT

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Meanwhile, Nora’s been busy fashioning a lifestyle brand from her Instagram account, with a half-million viewers following her live feed just before the big broadcast.

She encourages them—and the audience in the theater—to post their reactions on Twitter, which will be incorporated into the performance.

As those familiar with the Ibsen text might guess, things don’t go according to plan. As the evening unfolds, Nora and Torvald are confronted with the possibility of social and economic ruin, a direct outcome of their choices. Their reactions to the revelations and reversals all play out before an audience of millions empowered to render snap judgments. We also watch and judge as Nora struggles to convince her disbelieving peers that her lifestyle brand is work, as valid and tangible as theirs. Then we look on as the feminist veneer concealing Torvald’s sexist management miscalculations is suddenly stripped away.

“We really wanted to play with the idea of a cis-man who thinks he is so woke that he cannot be questioned,” Belfield says. “He has this patronizing nature: ‘I run this company, I’m supporting women, and they need that; they need me to help.’ But Torvald doesn’t see the patriarchy he’s perpetuating around him.”

Reframing Krogstad, the play’s craven villain, as a bisexual woman who’s a genius in public relations and social-media marketing, strengthens her standing as a foil while reinforcing Torvald’s sexism. It also runs counter to theater’s tendency to place men and men’s stories on stage. Casting Nora as an AfricanAmerican woman (notable Lakeisha Coffey) challenges conventions in feminism as well.

“When we talk about feminism in the historical sense, we’re mainly talking about middle-class white women,” Belfield says.

“We’re subverting that here, forcing the voices of women of color forward. We have to put things in place to make equity happen, because things were put in place to impede it.

It takes work to oppress somebody, so undoing that oppression is also work.”

Our culture is still grappling with issues of women’s autonomy 140 years after Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House, and Holloway-Burrell doesn’t see that changing anytime soon.

“I want to live inside a viable norm that doesn’t tell a woman she has to show up in

stage

a certain way to please her husband, mate, or business,” she says. “I plan to rethink this story for decades, until we live in a world in which we can’t imagine A Doll’s House anymore.” arts@indyweek.com

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It’s not just the title of newly minted Macarthur fellow Dominique Morisseau’s gritty drama, Skeleton Crew, that’s tinged with Halloween.

Mortality and fear also haunt the discourse of the characters, Faye, Shanita, and Dez, who are employed—at least for the moment, in 2008—on one of the last working lines in a Detroit stamping plant. These are the darkest days of the American auto industry, and Morisseau documents the pressures on its surviving factory workers, their managers, and the city that dwindles around them as closed plants form a necropolis of vanished jobs and people.

Young hothead Dez (a forceful Alex Givens) calls the shuttered shops a “breeding ground” for “assembly-line ghosts,” adding, “You can hear the echoes of machines just runnin’ and runnin’ in the hollow space.” But as the plot develops, Morisseau’s text becomes an ethical meditation on an industrial lifeboat that’s slowly going under.

Faye (a brusque, believable Kathryn Hunter-Williams), the long-time union representative, clearly takes no junk from anyone. But she’s forced into an uneasy alliance with Reggie, the line manager (Samuel Ray Gates, last seen in Leaving Eden), when he confides in her that the plant will close.

Reggie begs for time to negotiate the best exit strategy for employees, including the pregnant, single Shanita (a strong Shanelle Nicole Leonard). Meanwhile, plant management is cracking down on discipline in the face of thefts, and the rank and file is pressuring Faye for the truth about its future.

The company’s stamping machines exert thousands of pounds of pressure when they form metal sheets into flawless auto parts. But as director Valerie Curtis-Newton reveals on Jan Chambers’s dingy break-room set, human dreams, ambitions, and souls respond very differently when placed under the kind of stress we witness here. —Byron Woods INDYweek.com | 10.17.18 | 27

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AXES PLUS BEER EQUALS WTF, BUT IT’S NOT SUCH A BAD PASTIME FOR THE END TIMES

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n October 11, trunks still lay across some Durham streets. About a third of the city lacked power. The newscasters warned everyone to remain inside their homes. The next day, the air would be filled with the buzzing of chainsaws as the remnants of the latest string of hurricanes crashed off to sea.

For now, however, it was quiet. Except at Urban Axes, the new joint in Durham’s so28 | 10.17.18 | INDYweek.com

called “DIY District,” which was having its grand opening.

Beer plus axes equals WTF, and Durhamites old and new could be forgiven for not darkening those doors, even if it were the last place in town with heat, air, and fully functioning beer taps. Especially the Durhamites who lament the passing of the old guard.

The ones who pour a little off their can of Fullsteam Paycheck for the empty husks of

nearby landmarks like Manbites Dog Theater. The ones who used to side-eye Blu Seafood and Bar because it could never live up to the memory of Pizza Palace. The ones who speak in reverent whispers of Ringside or Jo and Jo’s and find fewer and fewer people who know what they are talking about. A century and a half earlier, they might have been found standing in Pin Hook, shaking their fists at the coming railroad.

To those citizens, the opening of Urban Axes delivers only one portent: Durham no longer belongs to you. Don’t believe me?

Prowl the precious streets and roll past the BBQ restaurant from Raleigh, the apartments owned by a New York City investment firm. Remember when those people used to look down their noses at Durham?

DIY indeed! So what better place for the latest link in the Philadelphia chain of ax-tossing cantinas targeting city centers of hipster meccas like Boston, Austin, and Baltimore?

Yes, I said “ax-tossing cantinas.” Urban Axes is the perfect oasis for the macho-twee set with a hankering to unleash their inner Patrick Bateman. Still, my buddy and I went to check it out. After all, is there a better Old Durham pastime than to hate on the new kid in town?

The staff cheerily greets us at the door and instructs us to fill out an online waiver before we’re allowed to enter the facility.

Before I’ve even hit enter, I’ve assembled a mental checklist of what I’ll find waiting for me: Beards? Check. Lots of Chads and Beckys posing for what looks like a J. Crew Insta feed? Check. A beer list appropriating #DurtyDurm culture? Check.

We make a beeline for the bar. The minimalist décor seems assembled from a stepby-step guide on how to Brooklyn the shit out of any town in America. This trend seems destined to pass quicker than you can say “Pokémon stop at the cupcake bar.”

But with this on my mind, I stepped up to throw. That’s when I got it.

Once, I thought I’d have to await the apocalypse before I could senselessly throw sharp objects with one hand and drink a Bull City Cider in the other. But ladies and gentlemen, who among you does not believe that the apocalypse is here?

Do you know what I noticed while all around me, I heard the iron blades crack planks of wood with a staccato thwack, thwack, thwack, like a metronome? While I swilled handcrafted brew, waiting my turn, chatting it up with the folks around me?

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Bull City “Not a bad way to spend the evening,” I entlemen, said. “Not since Jack Torrance has anybody e that the had so much fun with a hatchet.”

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FIRST MAN

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DAMIEN CHAZELLE SHOOTS THE MOON IN GLORIOUS NEIL ARMSTRONG BIOPIC FIRST MAN BY NEIL MORRIS

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Space Odyssey. But with the partial except one point in Damien Chazelle’s tion of the Apollo 11 moon shot, every rocket glorious First Man, Janet Armlaunch is filmed from a claustrophobic perstrong (Claire Foy), the wife of spective inside the spacecraft, where every famed astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosroar, shutter, and creak of the capsule carling), dresses down some self-assured NASA ries palpable dread. administrators, comparing them to “a bunch Chazelle shows the astronauts to be of boys making models out of balsa wood.” more than just guinea pigs strapped atop Part of the genius of the La La Land director’s Roman candles. Armstrong, an engineering biopic about the first human to walk on the egghead and civilian test pilot, must moon is that it effectively portrays both the majesty and the folly of the space program.

Chazelle embodies that dichotomy with the inclusion of two poems: pilot John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight,” which marvels at having “slipped the surly bonds of earth,” and Gil ScottHeron’s 1970 recording of “Whitey on the Moon”: “I can't pay no doctor bill / But Whitey's on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin’ still / While Whitey's on the moon.”

Adapted from James R. Hansen’s biography of the same Ryan Gosling in First Man PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES name, First Man is make numerous life-or-death decisions unambiguous on one issue: the bravery and through his career; some demonstrate his ingenuity of the test pilots and astronauts intelligence, and some call into question who faced death daily for the sake of history. whether he has the right stuff. His courage Even the best entries in the space-film genre and skill shine during a trio of action tend to sterilize interstellar travel, often sequences, some of the most thrilling you’re portraying it as sleek and futuristic. First likely to see this year. The film opens with Man, better and more aggressively than any Armstrong kissing the cosmos during a of its peers, conveys the grimy, harrowing breathtaking—and failed—X-15 test flight. mechanics of the early space program. Yes, His courage under fire burns brightest there are scenes in which Chazelle pays during the aborted Gemini 8 mission, which homage to those cinematic predecessors, ends with his craft violently tumbling chiefly a portion of the Gemini 8 mission set through space. Finally, accompanied by to a waltz that’s an obvious paean to 2001: A

Justin Hurwitz’s soaring orchestration, Armstrong navigates a gripping, poignant descent of the Eagle Module to the lunar surface.

Over the eight years covered in the film, the Armstrongs live with death, from those of nameless pilot friends to their cancerstricken young daughter to the launchpad fire that incinerated the Apollo 1 crew.

When Gosling occasionally becomes a brooding cipher, Foy is there is refocus the narrative on the emotional toll exacted by his heroic destiny. Aided by cinematographer Linus Sandgren’s handheld camerawork, much of First Man is a meditative portrait of a taciturn yet resolute hero whose achievements are less about one small step for a man than a giant leap for mankind.

In our era of manipulative outrage and weaponized jingoism, one of the most ridiculous, phony episodes is the faux furor over Chazelle’s decision not to show Armstrong planting the U.S. flag on the lunar surface. But there’s a full complement of flag imagery throughout the film, including the already-erected moon flag itself. Moreover, Chazelle features JFK’s 1962 moon speech and couches the space race in terms of U.S. versus U.S.S.R. First Man is decidedly patriotic but not nationalistic. Armstrong’s first steps on the moon are cast as a moment of unity, not division, for all humankind. It’s a message we could use a lot more of nowadays. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.17.18 | 29

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

KATHLEEN MADIGAN

Kathleen Madigan is a “comic’s comic,” which means, in part, that she has remained dedicated to the art of stand-up—you know, telling jokes in a sequence before a live audience—instead of parlaying it into a major TV or film career. Though she has nearly three decades of touring under her belt, she’s not as well known outside the stand-up circuit as others of her ilk. She’s a regular on late-night talk shows, and she has Netflix specials like Bothering Jesus, which deals with her Missouri upbringing, Uber, and bacon.

But mostly, she’s stayed on the stage, which is why she’s so comfortable and skilled there. Her dedication has paid off in a plethora of awards and a rep as one of the best live stand-ups in the country. See what you’ve been missing when she brings her “Boxed Wine and Bigfoot” tour to the Carolina this week. —Zack Smith CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $25–$45, www.carolinatheatre.org

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

MANIFEST

It’s been a year since the start of the #MeToo movement sparked a shift in American conversations about gender and power dynamics.

Though it still sometimes feels like we’re pulling the patriarchy apart one pebble at a time, that change is happening—and it’ll continue to grow more powerful as the voices of women and nonbinary people are elevated. That’s part of the purpose of Chapel Hill’s Manifest, a two-night affair across Nightlight, The Cave, and Local 506 that turns the spotlight on bands that aren’t entirely made up of men. With the festival now in its third year, this year’s lineup features a broad range of styles: snarling punk from Pie Face Girls and The Muslims, glossy electronica from Diaspoura, ragged and heartfelt country tunes from H.C. McEntire and Sarah Shook. It’s a perfect opportunity to look at the world from plenty of different perspectives, and maybe find a new favorite band while you’re at it. —Allison Hussey THE CAVE, LOCAL 506, AND NIGHTLIGHT, CHAPEL HILL Various times, $10–$25, www.manifestmusicfestival.com

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

NC DANCE FESTIVAL

“Megan Mazarick has such an incredible ability to become lots of different characters,” co-curator Anne Morris says of the local choreographer, whose solo work, monster, opens this year’s Durham dates of the North Carolina Dance Festival. In light of the #MeToo movement and the Kavanaugh hearings, Mazarick’s investigation of cultural perceptions of women “is even more powerful.” Greensboro choreographer Duane Cyrus’s Hero Complexities digs into cultural ideas about race and valor as it explores the sacrifice of Charles W. David Jr., who overcame racial stigma in a segregated Coast Guard in 1943, rescued survivors from a torpedoed ship in freezing waters, and subsequently died of pneumonia. Emily Cargill’s NCDF debut, quiet beings, explores the change in identity a woman experiences upon becoming a mother, and the Charlotte duo Reliable Brother crafts a portrait of young men pursuing dreams and facing fears in their hiphop work, The Destiny. The festival includes Mazarick’s Saturdayafternoon master class at ADF Scripps Studios and post-show talkbacks with the artists. —Byron Woods THE FRUIT, DURHAM 8 p.m., $15–$21, www.danceproject.org

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October 19th – 20th, 2018

Yamantaka//Sonic Titan

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN

It’s no cliché to say that Yamantaka//Sonic Titan are unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Hailing from Canada, the six-person collective comprises musicians who share Asian Canadian heritage, and onstage, they don kabuki-style black, white, and red makeup. The band’s founding members have described their music as “Noh Wave,” striking the middle ground between Noh, a centuries-old tradition of Japanese theater and music, and noisy, nihilistic No Wave music. Yamantaka//Sonic Titan infuse their songs with elements of pop music from Japan and Canada, as well as musical traditions from Canada’s First Nations, and the resulting compositions are are dense and exuberant. It’s easy to start listening to one track and follow tumbling drums down a rabbit hole, only to get pulled in another direction by a spiraling thrill of a synth line. They’re loud (very loud), they’re proud, and they’ll bowl you over with their inimitable wall of sound. Take that, “world music.” Henbrain opens. —Allison Hussey THE PINHOOK, DURHAM | 9 p.m., $10, www.thepinhook.com

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

VHSTIVAL

Time is a flat circle—or, perhaps, a pair of round cassette heads, infinitely playing, rewinding, and playing again. Driven to obsolescence by DVD, Blu-Ray, and on-demand streaming, the tapes known as Video Home System, though considered inferior to Betamax or Laserdisc at the time, have become the black-plastic building blocks of ‘80s and ‘90s nostalgia, static and tracking issues included. Before one could easily steal media or look up its background on IMDB, VHS tapes were volumes of infinite possibility, their garishly covered boxes promising thrills, chills, spills, and the odd bit of violence or nudity. Enjoy a Proustian reverie of weirdness over the two days of VHStival, including ... look, we found it on YouTube, and we’re still not sure we can describe 1989 sci-fi thriller Split. There’s also the VHS collectors documentary Adjust Your Tracking, the many amazing finds of the Found Footage Festival, and a VHS-tape swap meet at the start of each day. There will even be some filmmakers there for Q and A sessions. You won’t be able to fast forward if you get bored, though that seems unlikely with this lineup. —Zack Smith

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Some underground artists release admirable records year after year, steadily amassing fans and refining their flavor without ever managing to subvert their own underdog status. Perhaps soul-rap maven Oddisee will get his shot at the mainstream one day. Until then, he remains one of the underground’s best, a skilled rapper who puts as much care into realizing his songs live as he does recording them in the studio. No iPad rap-alongs here. Oddisee rolls with a formidable live band that accentuates the luminous neo-soul elements in his music.

It’s live-instrument rap that actually sells the concept, never running off the road into gimmickry. —David Ford Smith POUR HOUSE:

Local Band Local Beer: Wild Fur [$3–$5/9 P.M.]

Oddisee performs at Motorco Thursday night.

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2ND WIND: Yeaux Katz, 7 p.m.

2ND WIND: Twofer; 7 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Herded Cats; 8 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Carolina Lightnin’; 7 p.m.

HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb and the Wolves; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Palehorse, Chip Robinson; 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: The Trongone Band, Pearlsnap Phrophets; 8 p.m.

CITY TAP: Vinyl Lounge; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: The Dreamhouses, Indoor Cats; 9 p.m.

War & Treaty

THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd and Friends; 7 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Berndsen, Smoke from All the Friction, Juxton Roy; 8 p.m.

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Breakout Americana act The War and Treaty, made up of Michael and Tanya Trotter, take their joyful rootsy

arrangements to stage this week at the North Carolina State Fair. Each member of the powerhouse couple, who met while performing at a festival in 2010, brings a unique background to their musical and romantic partnership (Michael was previously in the army, Tanya contributed to Sister Act 2). Together, they make bluegrass, gospel, and rock sound good together.

A track on their most recent album, released in August, asks, “Are you ready to love me?” The answer is implicit.

—Sarah Edwards

DUKE COFFEEHOUSE:

Reg Bloor [$5/8:30 P.M.]

Though NYC experimental guitarist Reg Bloor frequently collaborated with the incendiary No Wave pioneer Glenn Branca until his death earlier this year, her own music spirals off toward other directions of sonic anarchy.

Bruising, overdriven guitar feedback meets sheet-rain walls of reverb in an attack often more akin to metal than noise. Terrifying moments guaranteed, and just in time for

Led by local hooksmiths Wylie Hunter and Nick Jaeger, Wild Fur has a chameleonic tendency to shift between and blur genres, landing in synthy, soulful pop-rock territory with textures layered on via samples, sparse percussion, and distorted guitar. Imagine a meeting between The Smiths and Roy Orbison in 2018, and you’re in the neighborhood, at least for a song or two. Athens’ Easter Island adds glimmering, dreamy pop that veers into post-rock, while Wilmington’s The Male Men spikes power pop with surf guitars and punk tempos. —Spencer Griffith THE RITZ:

Kip Moore

in 2011, it hardly seemed like the Georgia native was poised to buck modern Nashville stereotypes.

Though the follow-ups to Moore’s platinum-selling debut haven’t reached nearly those commercial heights, he’s since taken a modest step away from bro country and reconfigured his style and his songwriting with a heavy dose of influence from eighties heartland rock. Jordan Davis and Jillian Jacqueline join.

—Spencer Griffith

FRI, OCT 19 THE ARTSCENTER: Sona Jobarteh; 8 p.m.

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: R’Mone Entonio; 7 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Horse Feathers, Skyway Man, Wood Robinson; 8 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke University Jazz and Djembe Ensembles with Carol Sloane; 8 p.m.

KINGS:

Natalie Prass [$12–$15/9 P.M.]

Natalie Prass’s soulful 2015 debut album was about romantic heartbreak; this year, she offers heartbreak material of a different sort. The Future and the Past, released in June, is a funk-and-disco response to the 2016 election. (Prass scrapped a ready-to-go album when Trump was elected, in search of something more timely.) The result is a set of defiant dancehall anthems, sculpted by political consciousness, which dabble in shimmering eighties pop, gospel, R&B, and tropicália.

—Sarah Edwards

[$35/7:30 P.M.]

LOCAL 506: Manifest; 9 p.m.

When Kip Moore broke out with the chart-topping single “Somethin’ ’Bout a Truck”

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NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE: Ranky Tanky; 8 p.m.

SAT, OCT 20

POUR HOUSE: Swift Technique, The Up and Up, Universal Sigh; 8 p.m.

THE ARTSCENTER:

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM:

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Will Goble Quartet; 8 p.m.

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Like an old-time traveling troubadour, Pokey LaFarge brings his frozen-in-time, vaudevillian revue to town for this solo stop, in which he’ll breathe life into his dusty records, which mash together folk, ragtime, country blues, Western swing, and Dixieland jazz. LaFarge’s love for the building blocks of American music is still clear, but his latest LP features the former St. Louis resident plugging in and addressing contemporary topics like the fallout from the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson. The Watson Twins add country-tinged, harmony-rich pop that shimmers.

—Spencer Griffith

Emanuel Ax is one of the towering pianists of our time, known for deft touch across different musical eras as well as his ongoing collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma. For his first show in the Triangle since 2014, Ax generally sticks with the tried-and-true Romantic repertoire: Brahms, Schumann, Ravel, Chopin. Even his foray into the twenty-first century— George Benjamin’s episodic set of Piano Figures from 2004—feels rooted in the floating sound worlds of Ravel and Debussy. —Dan Ruccia

THE PINHOOK: Hawt Sauce: A Queer Dance Party; 10 p.m.

THE RITZ:

Good Charlotte [$36/7 P.M.]

Throw your hands up, because Good Charlotte is back with their second post-hiatus album, but don’t expect the Madden brothers to stick too faithfully to the snotty pop-punk that made them heroes for legions of Hot Topic-wearing teens in the early aughts. On Generation Rx, the quintet’s huge hooks find homes in moderately paced, electronic-inflected anthems about mental health and opioid abuse that have more in common with modern rock and emo. Sleeping With Sirens, Knuckle Puck, and The Dose all open. —Spencer Griffith THE WICKED WITCH: Stray Local, Honey Magpie, Waking April; 8 p.m.

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—Howard Hardee

TUE, OCT 23 CAT’S CRADLE: The Wind + The Wave, Shawn James, Swells; 8 p.m.

MOTORCO:

This Will Destroy You [$15/8 P.M.]

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KINGS:

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FlashFest

[DONATIONS/6 P.M.] Flash Miller has played in a handful of local bands over the years—Wayleaves, The Royal Nites, Greatest Hits, Natural Science, The Boy Wonder Jinx, to name but a few—but the drummer was hospitalized recently for a stretch and was out of work for several weeks. He’s made a full recovery, but he’s also amassed some significant medical bills in the process.

(Thanks, America!) Tonight, he gets by with a little help from his friends: Black Zarkary, Pale Horse, Stephen’s Pharmacy, Trousers.

—Patrick Wall

nineteenth century, few are as beloved as Norma. Written in 1831, Vincenzo Bellini’s tale of forbidden love and betrayal in ancient Gaul is jammed full of intricate vocal lines and soaring melodies.

The title role has allowed generations of sopranos to pull out all their virtuosic and expressive stops. Soprano Leah Crocetto return to NC Opera for her first performance in that demanding role for this concert performance.

—Dan Ruccia POUR HOUSE: Barefoot Wade; 1 p.m. Seepeoples, The Pack Ad; 8 p.m.

SLIM’S: DJ Pangean; 10 p.m.

UNC’S PERSON HALL: Ensemble Matiz; 7 p.m.

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL:

MON, OCT 22

[$23–$99/2 P.M.]

CAT’S CRADLE: We Were Promised Jetpacks, Hurry Up; 8 p.m.

Of all the Italian bel canto operas from the early

THE CAVE: Clark Stern and Chuck Cotton; 8 p.m.

NC Opera: Norma

Kero Kero Bonito [$5/9 P.M.]

This British band is fronted by lead singer and rapper Sarah Bonito, who likes to flaunt the fact that she can rap in Japanese and can probably beat you at video games.

She’s backed by producers Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled, who give the music a futuristic sheen. There’s also a high level of absurdity involved. On the song “Flamingo,” Bonito wonders aloud, “How many shrimps do you have to eat/ Before you make your skin turn pink?” These are the important questions. —Howard Hardee IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7 p.m.

KINGS:

Bass Drum of Death [$12/7 P.M.]

Oxford, Mississippi’s John Barrett started Bass Drum of Death about a decade ago as

a one-man show, during which he’d sing, play guitar, and stomp a bass drum. He wrote and recorded BDoD’s first two albums—2011’s GB City and 2013’s Bass Drum of Death—by himself. The garage-punk band has long since filled out the live lineup, but the manic, powerchord-driven energy of the original Barrett’s solo show is intact (see “Get Found”). Acid Chaperone opens.

—Howard Hardee MOTORCO MUSIC HALL: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Matthew Schuler, Marielle Kraft; 7 p.m.

THE PINHOOK:

Mirah

[$10-$12/8 P.M.] Mirah Zeitlyn is an alumna of Olympia, Washington, rock and The Microphones. Since the band broke up in 2003, she’s released a plethora of EPs, LPs, and live albums

This Will Destroy You is the rare post-rock band that excels at brevity, condensing post-rock’s sprawling scope into (relatively) bite-sized packages, hinting at epic drama and hitting on intense emotion without all that melodramatic meandering through painfully protracted jams. The Texas quartet’s latest, September’s New Others Part One, is its most streamlined—none of its tunes top seven minutes—but it’s no less effective. One minute, you’re banging your head, and the next you’re bawling your eyes out. —Patrick Wall NIGHTLIGHT:

Radioactivity [$12/9 P.M.]

In the same way that Greg Cartwright is to Memphis, Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan are the éminences grises of garage-punk in Denton, Texas.

Radioactivity, their current quartet, is an offshoot of and embellishment on their celebrated garage-punk outfit The Marked Men. Here, the songwriting duo doesn’t reinvent the wheel so much as it refines it, ripping through the classic punk formula with pure energy and a distinctive voice.

With vanuted N.C. punks No Love, Personality Cult, and Concussion. —Patrick Wall POUR HOUSE: Roxy Roca, Hustle Souls; 8 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Crystal Bright, Griffanzo; 10 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Torche, Irata; 7 p.m.

UNC’S HILL HALL: Brent Wissick; 7 p.m.

WED, OCT 24 CAT’S CRADLE:

Big Thief

[$16–$18/8 P.M.] As temperatures dip and daylight hours wane, fall is a time when we start looking toward cozy comforts.

Brooklyn’s Big Thief makes music for all seasons, but the band specializes in songs that are clear-eyed and uncompromising in their tenderness. Adrianne Lenker’s skill for imbuing her songs with empathy, heartbreak, and hope is unmatched among her indierock peers. The Range of Light Wilderness opens.

—Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Mike Mattison, Scrapomatic; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Grizzly Goat, Crumb Catcher; 9 p.m.

MOTORCO:

Amy Ray and Her Band [$20/8 P.M.]

The Indigo Girls will hit the studio in January for their next album; meanwhile, Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray makes a stop in Durham in support of her sixth solo album, Holler. There, Ray highlights what she describes as a “punky country” sensibility to her experience of growing up in small-town Georgia as a self-proclaimed ”radical leftwing dyke.” Holler, recorded in Asheville and released in September, brings in horns and strings for a twangy, late-sixties country feel. H.C. McEntire opens.

—Sarah Edwards THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd and Friends; 7 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Durty Dub, The Beast, Maj Deeka; 8 p.m.

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OPENING Alamance Artisans Guild Art Extravaganza: Work by thirtyone guild members. Sat, Oct 20-Sun, Oct 21. Vailtree Event & Conference Center, Haw River. www.alamanceartisans.com.

Art Ride: Public Art Bike Tour: Partnership between Young, Gifted, & Broke and Black Folks on Bikes. Sun, Oct 21, 2 p.m. 5 Points Plaza, Durham.

Reception: Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: Remarks from chief curator Alice Gray Stites and a presentation by featured artist Anthony Goicolea. Thu, Oct 18, 6 p.m.

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

Renée Stout: Reception and gallery talk with Visionary Aponte artist Renée Stout.

Fri, Oct 19, 5 p.m. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. www. documentarystudies.duke.edu.

ONGOING

Alternative Images: Pleiades artists in conjunction with the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Nov 5. Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

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SPECIAL Anne Berry: April Is EVENT the Cruelest Month: Photographs. Reception Wed, Oct 17, 5:30-8 p.m. Thru Oct 31. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

RENÉE STOUT The art tells only part of the story in Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, a nine-week program of exhibits, conversations, screenings, performances, and more centered on Duke’s Power Plant Gallery. The series illuminates the life, times, and art of José Antonio Aponte, who was hanged in the early nineteenth century for inciting a rebellion against slavery on Cuban sugar plantations. Specifically, it focuses on artistic responses to Aponte’s book of paintings, drawings, collages, and more, illustrating a liberated cosmology and an alternate history. Artist talks, such as this one by Washington, D.C.-based artist Renée Stout, provide crucial context that the art objects themselves might only allude to.

As an artist who refracts the experiences of the African diaspora through vivid, imaginary characters, Stout should provide key insight into the semi-hidden world of Aponte.

—Brian Howe

POWER PLANT GALLERY, DURHAM 6 p.m., free, www.powerplantgallery.com

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Cameron Village Underground Photography Exhibit: This is going to sound crazy, but did you know there used to be an underground mall under Cameron Village, and that it housed nightclubs that both incubated local rock and hosted legendary touring acts as diverse as R.E.M., Barry Manilow, Jimmy Buffet, and Chuck Mangione? In the late seventies and early eighties, before it was shut down because of concerns about safety, The Village Subway—aka the Raleigh Underground—roiled with nightclubs such as The Frog and Nightgown and The Pier, where Sonic Youth recorded the cover of “I Wanna Be

Your Dog” that appears on Confusion Is Sex. This rich history, mostly lost beyond some hazily remembered blogs, is the subject of a new exhibit at The City of Raleigh Museum, which runs through January after a sold-out, wait-listed reception with photographer Chris Seward.

His dynamic black-andwhite photos from the scene capture now-famous names and local, proto-indie-rock bands such as The Fabulous Knobs and Arrogance in their primes. More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts. Thru Jan 31.

Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe City and Townscapes: From Home to Far Away: Sean Bailey, William Hill, James Keul, Armen Knox, Xavier Knox, David Knox, Faye Oldham, Jackie Rimmler, Jerry Smith, Jailton Suzart, Nancy Walker, Jan Wilson, and Barbara Younger. Thru Oct 21 Margaret Lane Gallery, Hillsborough. margaretlanegallery.com.

A Colorful Bounty: Three featured artists. Thru Oct 23.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

Fall Corridor Exhibition: Artspace members Jason Bryant, Ryan Fox, Trish Klenow, Frank Kreacic, and Susie Silver.

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

Food of the Gods: New York photographer Lydia McCarthy.

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

FRANK in Focus: Beyond the Classroom: Part of the Click!

Photography Festival.

Thru Oct 20. FRANK’s Outreach Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

I Be Person I No Be Number: Part of the Click! Photography Festival. Thru Oct 26. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Nerys Levy and Michele Maynard: Paintings.

Thru Dec 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. frankisart.com.

Meditations: Fiber art by Alice Levinson. Thru Nov 15. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Mothers, Daughters, and the Writer’s Life: Writing and photography by Elizabeth Matheson and Barbara Tyroler.

Thru Nov 23. Block Gallery, Raleigh.

Origins: Photography by Monika Merva. Part of the Click!

Photography Festival. Thru Nov 1. Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

A Palette of Rust and Dreams: Photography by Karen Healy.

Part of the Click! Photography Festival. Thru Nov 1. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: 21c Museum Hotel unveils a packed portraiture exhibition featuring work by forty contemporary artists, many of whom pay striking homage to classical portraiture in recasting their own images and experiences. Anthony Goicolea, a photographer interested in digital manipulation and themes of duality and the reclamation of self, nods to John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” with “Portrait in Negative of a Boy with Harmonica as Madame Gautreau.”

Miguel Ángel Rojas’s series depicting a young, injured Colombian soldier in repose gracefully gestures toward Michelangelo’s “David.” The exhibition also includes works

by Titus Kaphar, Ori Gersht, and Zanele Muholi. Thru Mar 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

—Sarah Edwards SPECIAL Tom Rankin and EVENT Holden Richards: View Camera: Photography.

Part of the Click! Photography Festival. Reception Wed, Oct 17. 5 p.m. Thru Oct 31. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com

Re-Collections: Photography.

Thru Oct 31. Chatham Hill Winery, Cary. www.chathamhillwine.com.

Reflections of Elegance: Kenneth Paul Block & the Masters of Fashion Illustration: Original works by fashion illustrator Kenneth Paul Block. Thru Oct 20.

Alamance Arts Council, Graham. artsalamance.com.

Semiotics of Cruising: William E. Jones, Robert Blanchon, Dean Sameshima, and others. Thru Nov 17.

Lump, Raleigh. www.lumpprojects.org Strange New World: Largescale paintings by Jennifer

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Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Trace message from under quarry stone: Tarik Garrett, Doris Guo, Sarah Viviana Valdez, and Jack Crowley.

Thru Nov 17. Lump, Raleigh. www.lumpprojects.org.

Chocolate Pairing Party: Pastry chef Deric McGuffey and sommelier Amie Fields. $25. Sun, Oct 21, 2 p.m.

Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove. botanistandbarrel.com

Transcending Otherness: Jaki Shelton Green, Stacey L. Kirby, Jennifer Markowitz, Libby O’Daniel, Lamar Whidbee, and Jade Wilson.

Thru Nov 8. Meredith College: Weems Gallery, Raleigh.

TerraVita Food& Drink Festival: Wed, Oct 17-Sat, Oct 20. Carrboro and Chapel Hill. www.terravitafest.com Triangle Oktoberfest: Fri, Oct 19 & Sat, Oct 20. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. boothamphitheatre.com

Trilogy: Paintings by Marcy Lansman, textiles by Alice Levinson, turned wood by Michael Salemi. Thru Oct 21. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Ruby C. Williams: Farm Fresh Folk Art: Paintings.

Thru Nov 2. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. historichillsborough.org.

William E. Jones’s “Tearoom,” on display in The Semiotics of Cruising at Lump through November 17 PHOTO COURTESY OF LUMP

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McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Mark de Castrique: Novel Secret Undertaking. Sat, Oct 20, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com.

Diane Chamberlain: The Dream Daughter: Sat, Oct 20, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

IN THE BLOOD

At the outset of In the Blood, the Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’s modern-day reframing of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the crowd is callous as it mocks the destitute, unwed AfricanAmerican mother: “Shouldn’t have it if you can’t afford it / And you know she can’t / She don’t got no skills / ‘Cept one.” Given the present level of civility in our public discourse, this smug sanctimony is hauntingly familiar.

Meanwhile, Hester, the central character, keeps telling anyone who’ll listen that she only needs a leg up. Parks’s unblinking depiction of everyday living conditions for a homeless mom and her kids precedes a stark account of how society keeps the poor as profitable prey—and what happens when a woman who’s given all has nothing left to give. Artist-in-residence Lormarev Jones directs.

—Byron Woods

TITMUS THEATRE, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $6–$18, www.theatre.arts.ncsu.edu

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The Comedy in a Cave Comedy Show: Erin Terry, Gretchen McNeely, Austin Howard, Jeremy Alder, and Amy Mora.

Hosted by Michelle Maclay. $5 suggested donation. Tue, Oct 23, 7 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill. www.caverntavern.com

NC Dance Festival. Fri, Oct 19, 8 p.m. The Fruit, Durham. www.durhamfruit.com

Laugh. No Matter What.: Katie Goodman’s Broad Comedy. Tue, Oct 23, 7 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. Laugh2018.ppsat.org Mexico Beyond Mariachi: SUGAR SKULL!: Dia de los Muertos musical for children.

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Suicide Girls: Blackheart Burlesque: Fri, Oct 19, 9 p.m.

Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com Venus Fly Trap Comedy: $10.

Sat, Oct 20, 8 p.m. The Wicked Witch, Raleigh. www.wickedwitchraleigh.com When She Had Wings: Play presented by Pittsboro Youth Theater. Sat, Oct 20-Sun, Oct 21.

Sweet Bee Theater & Center for the Arts, Pittsboro. www.chathamartscouncil.org

Tim Renick: Eliminating Achievement Gaps Through Data and Analytics: Fri, Oct 19, 3 p.m. Duke Campus: Gross Hall, Durham.

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy. com A Doll’s House, Remodeled: Play presented by the Justice Theatre Project. Fri, Oct 12-Sun, Oct 28. Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. www.upucc.org The Harry Show: Ages 18+.

Potentially risque games with audience volunteers. $10.

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com Improv at the Varsity: Stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy.$6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.improvatthevarsity.com In the Heights: Musical. Tue, Oct 16-Sun, Oct 21. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. nctheatre.com ½ It Is Done: Reviewed at indyweek.com. Fri, Oct 5-Sun, Oct 21. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. theatreinthepark. com The Six Pack Standup Show: Monthly comedy showcase.

Wed, Oct 17, 7 p.m. North Street Beer Station, Raleigh. northstreetbeerstation.com.  Skeleton Crew: Reviewed on p. 29. $15-$57.

Thru Oct 28. PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org Stuff Happens: Thru Oct 28.

Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www.burningcoal.org

West End Poetry Festival: Four days of free readings, a workshop, and a panel. Wed, Oct 17-Sat, Oct 20. Carrboro Town Commons, Carrboro. www.westendpoetryfestival.org

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

THERESE ANNE FOWLER Therese Anne Fowler explores another mesmerizing chapter in the lives of powerful, independent American women in her new book A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts. Following the national success of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, which was set largely in the 1920s, Fowler sets her sights on an earlier gilded age: late-nineteenthcentury New York City, where Alva Smith’s extravagant ball christened her and her husband’s new chateau on Fifth Avenue, ushering the Vanderbilts into heights of society where wealth alone could not grant them access. Fowler’s keen biographical insight and research are on display, rediscovering a woman common history regards merely as “a Vanderbilt wife” but who would go on to become a major figure in the American women’s suffrage movement. Fowler will discuss the book this week at the Durham Literacy Center’s annual fundraiser, which takes place at The Ruby.

—Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Happy Hour at Vert & Vogue: With Peter Krause. Fri, Oct 19, 5-6 p.m. Vert & Vogue, Durham. www.vertandvogue.com The Jazz Spirit of Mary Lou Williams: Sat, Oct 20, 7 p.m.

Holy Cross Catholic Church, Durham.

THE RUBENSTEIN ARTS CENTER, DURHAM 7 p.m., $30–$100, www.durhamliteracy.org

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS Capturing The Flag: Full Frame Road Show Fall Series. Thu, Oct 18, 7 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham. www.fullframefest.org.

The Changeling: Sat, Oct 20, 9 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. thechelseatheater.com.

Dumpster Dive Cinema: Tue, Oct 23, 9 p.m. The Station, Carrboro www.stationcarrboro.com.

I Am Not a Witch: Film screening. Wed, Oct 24, 6 p.m. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com.

Mama Africa: Documentary about South African musician Miriam Makeba. Fri, Oct 19, 9 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. thechelseatheater.com.

Maynard: Documentary about Maynard Jackson. Jr. Fri, Oct 19, 6 p.m. NCCU Campus: School of Law, Durham. durham-nc.com.

Seeing Allred: Documentary about Gloria Allred. Fri, Oct 19,

BERNARD AND HUEY 7 p.m. Comfort Inn & Suites Crabtree Valley, Raleigh.

Robin is the least interesting thing in this movie. Rated PG.

What It Takes: film en douze tableaux: Documentary about local musician Sarah Shook, followed by a Q&A and live performance. Thu, Oct 18, 8 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro. www.catscradle.com

 Crazy Rich Asians— This Asian-American-led rom-com is an undeniable cultural milestone, but put that aside and it’s uttery standard fare. Rated PG-13.

OPENING The Oath—It’s your classic surviving-the-holidays dark comedy, starring Ike Barinholtz and Tiffany Haddish.

Rated R. Halloween—Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) faces maniac Michael Myers again in the deathless franchise’s eleventh entry. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com. ½ Christopher Robin—After you get used to them being 3-D plush toys, Winnie the Pooh and friends charm, but Christopher

½ First Man— Reviewed on p. 25.

Rated PG-13. ½ Incredibles 2—Dialing up socially progressive themes fourteen years after the original, Pixar’s sequel is fun, funny, and timely but not quite transcendent. Rated PG.

The Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Jules Feiffer has also written for stage and screen, penning scripts for Mike Nichols’s Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman’s Popeye. Feiffer’s two fields collide in this “lost” script, which is based on characters from his classic Village Voice comic strip. Written in 1986, the script was revived by director Dan Mirvish, who worked with Feiffer to bring it to the screen. It stars Oscar-winner Jim Rash as the nebbishy Bernard and notable character actor David Koechner (to me, he’ll always be Todd Packer from The Office) as the rascally Huey, two mismatched friends who reconnect after one becomes successful and the other does not. It definitely doesn’t help matters when Bernard falls for Huey’s estranged daughter, setting off a roundelay of romantic recriminations. Mirvish will be in Cary for a Q and A after this one-night-only screening. —Brian Howe

THE CARY THEATER, CARY 7 p.m., $3–$5, www.thecarytheater.com

 The Old Man & the Gun—Robert Redford goes out with a bang in this crime caper, reportedly his final film role.

Rated PG-13. ½ A Star Is Born— Neither modern classic nor mega-bomb, this CooperGaga remake is best when it’s allowed to be what it wants to be: a tender country-western love story.

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