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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK DURHAM • CHAPEL HILL VOL. 36 NO. 43

DEPARTMENTS

9 Amelia Freeman-Lynde, who opened Freeman’s Creative two years ago, was the first employee at Monuts.

6 News 26 What to Do This Week

11 The global skincare market has jumped by 60 percent in the last decade.

29 Music Calendar 33 Arts & Culture Calendar

12 Carl McLaurin’s plan to bring a fashion week to Durham began with a mandate from icon André Leon Talley. 13 “Nothing fills me with dread like the thought of getting a haircut, of having a stranger see, touch, judge my hair—my secret, my shame.” 14 In five years, the Facebook group Bull City Swaps grew to thirty-seven hundred members. Founder Shannon Bland decided a change was in order. 22 “But I ain’t cool like Frankie Beverly/ I don’t wear no baseball caps.” 23 While prisoners were building the Executive Mansion, a former slave was building a home that’s also on the National Register of Historic Places.

Noah, 11, wants you to know that he’s an artist (see page 16). PHOTO BY JADE WILSON

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Doctor, Heal Thyself THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR UNC SYSTEM OVERSIGHT NEED TO KEEP THEIR EYE ON THE BALL BY T. GREG DOUCETTE

Achievement Gaps

n last week’s paper, Julia Masters wrote about the stark racial achievement gap in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, which by other measures is considered the best school district in North Carolina. Commenter George P says the problem starts at home: “I know how difficult it can be keeping kids focused and on track as a parent. That is, as I’ve experienced it, the most important element in ensuring academic success. Much of the achievement at school is a result of focus at home. If some kids aren’t measuring up, regardless of race or color, I would look at that dimension. Maybe the answer is as simple as a little after-school help and not all of this racialist mumbo-jumbo—none of which sounds convincing.” “Yours is an incredibly stupid comment,” counters John H. “It’s not ‘some’ kids. It’s a pattern of black students not doing as well in our system as white students. Pop quiz: If you live in a racist society and make less money than your white peers, but you live in an affluent area and have to work two jobs, do you have a) more time or b) less time to spend with your children? “If some parents don’t have time to spend with their children, could there be a systemic reason—like a history of racism in America? Or, as you clearly imply, are black parents just worse at parenting? Because that’s what you just said.” “Leaving education to the ‘home life’ perpetuates institutional racism and achievement gaps,” adds Eleanor M. “Socioeconomic factors decide whether that student is able to access additional out-of-school help. The idea is that by being aware of these biases, we can restructure certain systems within school that are barriers for students. “Whether or not you are ‘convinced,’ the data indisputably points to racism within these schools.” Want to see your name in bold? Comment: indyweek.com Email: backtalk@indyweek.com Facebook: @IndependentWeekly Twitter: @indyweek

T. GREG DOUCETTE is a local criminal defense attorney, justice reform advocate, and host of the podcast #Fsck ’Em All. Follow him on Twitter @greg_doucette. NEXT WEEK: ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS, the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines.

t wasn’t the sort of high definition we expect from video these days, but the images of East Carolina University’s chancellor were unmistakable. First, he loses a flip-flop, taking a few steps before he notices, then turning around to put it back on. Stumbling down a street where he nearly walks into a pole. Steadying himself with his car door to avoid falling into the street. Then driving away while his car straddles multiple lanes. The surveillance videos were the coda to the tenure of ECU interim chancellor Dan Gerlach, who had been placed on administrative leave in late September after photos appeared on social media of him at a bar in a compromising position with a female patron. Following a month-long public relations campaign—complete with an #IStandWithDan hashtag and reinstatement petition—UNC system president Bill Roper informed the ECU Board of Trustees on October 25 that Gerlach would be back on the job the following week. The next day, Gerlach resigned. The surprise resignation was apparently prompted by the revelation that the surveillance videos still existed and would be made public. Following the initial kerfuffle over the bar photos, the UNC system hired a private law firm to “investigate”: Womble Bond Dickinson, the bluest of blue-chip law firms, with a commensurate hourly billing rate. Subsequent news coverage revealed that investigators were notified on October 14 that the surveillance video existed. Yet the investigators didn’t file a request to release the foot-

age until nearly two weeks later—after another attorney had already obtained a court order for it. Why the delay? Well, you see, back in 2016, a bipartisan majority of legislators passed HB 972, a bill removing police video (like surveillance camera footage) from our Public Records Act and directing law enforcement to keep it in accordance with a retention schedule set out by the state archives. The new retention period for that footage? Just thirty days. The taxpayer-financed “investigators” hired by the UNC system were hoping to run out the clock and wait for the footage to be deleted. This practice of looking the other way—rather than ensuring the accountability of the public servants responsible for educating the sons and daughters of North Carolina—seems to be a recurring pattern with the university these days. The man Gerlach replaced, Jerome Staton, had misrepresented his credentials when he was hired and did so poorly as chancellor that students and alumni alike clamored for his removal. The 2018 search for a replacement chancellor at Western Carolina University imploded when it was discovered that the “top candidate” had lied on their résumé. Yet rather than be concerned that their vetting process missed those misrepresentations, the Board of Governors was instead outraged that a member tried to investigate on his own. Allegations of nepotism led to the resignation of the chancellor at Fayetteville State University “to spend time with family.” And grave problems at UNC-Chapel Hill’s hospitals—back

when they were overseen by the same Bill Roper who now runs the entire seventeen-institution UNC system—led to so many dead children that it prompted a multipart New York Times exposé. When I served on the UNC Board of Governors a decade ago, then-President Erskine Bowles repeatedly emphasized the need for accountability and transparency in the system’s operations. He and I frequently disagreed; he once called me “an impudent little shit” on a phone call for opposing one of his initiatives. But Bowles was truly exemplary at staying focused on the things that mattered: ensuring an accessible and affordable high-quality education for the sons and daughters of North Carolina, as required by our state’s constitution. That caliber of leadership is needed now more than ever, as the university faces a legislature that is more skeptical of how it operates—and of higher education more broadly—than at any time in the state’s history. This recent practice of instead ignoring problems and hoping they’ll go away on their own—or myopically playing shoot-the-messenger political games— is counterproductive. One hopes the current members of the Board of Governors will keep their eye on the ball. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information. INDYweek.com | 11.06.19 | 5

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THE VIEW FROM SOMEWHERE: BOOK AND PODCAST LAUNCH Thursday, Nov. 7, 6:30 p.m. The Pinhook, 117 W. Main St., Durham 984-244-7243, thepinhook.com

Journalism’s Unicorn

THE PUBLIC RADIO SHOW MARKETPLACE FIRED DURHAM JOURNALIST LEWIS RAVEN WALLACE FOR SAYING OBJECTIVITY IS DEAD. HIS NEW BOOK SAYS IT NEVER EXISTED. BY JORDAN WILKIE

ewis Raven Wallace didn’t come up with the idea that objectivity doesn’t exist—Freud, Einstein, Derrida, Picasso, and a few others did it first. Wallace just got fired for it. A week into Donald Trump’s presidency, Wallace, then a reporter at American Public Media’s Marketplace, wrote a personal blog—titled “Objectivity Is Dead, and I’m Okay with It”—grappling with fair reporting in the post-fact era. He was the only transgender journalist at Marketplace, perhaps the only transgender journalist on public radio, something he used to great effect to inform his reporting on marginalized communities. But now he had to report on an administration that invented its own version of the truth and tried to bully the press into going along. “As a working journalist,” Wallace wrote, “I’ve been deeply questioning not just what our role is in this moment, but how we must change what we are doing to adapt to a government that believes in ‘alternative facts’ and thrives on lies, including the lie of white racial superiority. I also have the great privilege of working for a public media organization, one whose mission is to serve our listeners as opposed to corporations or the cult of clicks and shares.” That privilege didn’t last long. A few hours later, Marketplace’s general manager ordered him to take down the post and suspended him from the air, telling him that it didn’t comport with unwritten rules about objectivity and neutrality. A few days later, he was terminated; Marketplace’s VP told him it was clear he wanted to do advocacy journalism, and that wasn’t what Marketplace was all about. Wallace argues that this notion—that there is objective journalism and advocacy journalism, and these are completely separate things—creates a false binary. In his new book, A View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity—released on November 12 by the University of Chicago Press—he shows that the news industry has used the unicorn of objectivity to control an entire class of professional labor for a century, and hence to control what journalists write about and what information readers consume. The book details a list of journalists who fought the tide and fiercely covered the most significant stories of their times: from abortion to lynching, the AIDS crisis to trans liberation. The INDY recently spoke with Wallace, a Durham resident and contributing editor at Scalawag, both about the book and the precarious position in which journalism finds itself in the age of Trump. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. 6 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

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INDY: In the book, not only do you do away with objectivity, but you talk about liberation and justice for all. Why did you choose that kind of messaging? LEWIS RAVEN WALLACE: Our message won’t land well with everyone, but that’s part of the point. People don’t change because they feel comfortable. There’s a degree of pushing on things that are going to feel uncomfortable. I think that if you really drill down on a concept like collective liberation, there’s a lot of journalists who want collective liberation and who believe in that. As we all know, you can be fired for articulating that in a mainstream journalism organization right now.

basic structures of democracy that we have had in place. Those structures have never served all of the people. They have never not been racist. They’ve never not been exclusive. In a sense, I think confronting those failings is not optional anymore. Radical traditions originate in the most oppressed communities, because we have the most reasons to propose radical solutions. I think those radical solutions right now, and those histories I talk about in the book, can be really informative to folks who are looking around and saying, “This is not going well. What else has worked in the past? What else have people done?”

Historically, the people who have pushed the needle have been outside of mainstream news, and their coverage forced mainstream news to pick up the issues. How do we change the relationship between media and democracy and justice in the United States? The political moment we’re in is one in which the capitalist structures of mainstream media are failing to protect the

You decided not to include next steps, best practices, or more than a few general ideas about solving the problems you’ve identified. Why? I was really, really resistant to talking about “solutions,” and that’s partly because I think that the solutions to the problems in the news industry are also the solutions to oppression more broadly. The questions and the problems

that we’re facing in the news industry are really the questions and the problems of capitalism and democracy in the United States right now. Oppressed people have always been creating platforms for ourselves and pushing back on the frameworks that oppress and exclude us. So, of course, people are already doing that in journalism. I think objectivity has been one of the big obstacles to collective action in that specific space. Who’s working on solutions? I think that’s on all of us. That’s the thing we’re trying to create, and those are the conversations that we’re trying to facilitate. If it already existed, we wouldn’t be talking about it needing to exist. That could look like pushing and engaging the media that already exists to be more representative, more equitable, more just, more liberation-minded, but that could also look like supporting and creating new things, new structures for distributing information. All of that work matters. I think that the struggle for liberation never ends. I think one of the problems we’re facing right now is that those of us who grew up in the white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy—to go bell hooks on you—are geared toward a consumer sort of approach, even to social justice. Basically, you sign up for the thing, you get the thing, and then you feel satisfied and better. It’s like a bag of chips, but equality. In your book, you describe realizing something “deeply unsettling” during your 2016 political reporting: “White supremacy sometimes feels good.” Fighting for social change is notoriously difficult. Can it feel good, too? I think it’s absolutely essential that the message get out that you can also feel good from being in solidarity with other people and being part of a community that loves you and that you know is going to support you, which is what I experienced when I got fired. It still feels to me like it’s going to take courage for people to step out from a comfort zone, and it’s not going to be a feelgood process all the way through. Where’s that courage going to come from? You’re going to get me to give some hippie shit I didn’t put in the book. We love each other, and through that love, we’re going to help each other become courageous. That’s the actual answer. Through that loving community, we make more space for people to be courageous. I really believe that. Everybody has that in them. backtalk@indyweek.com

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Dress to Express

Let’s appreciate the beauty of what already exists

rinkles are in, high-end is out—and maybe it’s time to mend some neighborly fences and worn-out pairs of pants while we’re at it. The INDY’s fourth-annual Style Issue is dedicated to the beauty of what exists, to exploring what it means to embody a fierce DIY aesthetic. So while you’ll find our usual roundup of local brands and retailers (page 18)— please support them—you’ll also find experiments with personal style, like when photographer Jade Wilson took underprivileged kids to a thrift store so they could learn how to creatively express themselves for twenty bucks (page 16). This DIY spirit can also be found when no money changes hands at all—like with the Facebook group Bull City Shares, which is predicated on the value of sharing with neighbors (page 14)—as well as in efforts aimed at repurposing and preserving.

BY SARAH EDWARDS

Check out our profile of Durham’s sewing collective, Freeman’s Creative (page 9), and read about the restoration of two historic African American landmarks in Raleigh (page 23). Sometimes appreciating the beauty of what you have means confronting your deepest fears and shaving your hair off, as Leigh Tauss explains (page 13). Other times, it might mean waxing poetic about the fine lines that are beginning to set into your face, as Sarah Morris discovers (page 11). Joan Didion has said that style is character, and when we look around the Triangle, we see that adage fleshed out everywhere—in the ways that people shop, improvise, form communities, and get dressed every day (you can catch a glimpse, too, in the street-style spread, beginning on page 20). Ultimately, style doesn’t need to have a brand or dollar price attached to it. What matters is that it makes you the most joyous, fully realized version of yourself. sedwards@indyweek.com

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On the Mend

HOW TO SAVE THOSE PANTS

Being thrifty isn’t just about scoring seconhand finds. It’s also about patching holes.

Freeman’s SecondAnniversary Party Sunday, Nov. 10, 11 a.m.—7 p.m. Freeman’s Creative, Durham freemanscreative.com

BY ANNA CASSELL

’m a good thrifter. My closet overflows with dangly skeleton earrings, velour pedal pushers, and tie-dye sweatpants. I have elaborate inside jokes with the employees at Scrap Thrift. There’s a hole in my thrifting skills, however. While I enjoy the challenge of making do with what I own and can find secondhand, I’ve never been much of a mender. I never learned to sew. I don’t really know why—I never tried because I assumed I’d suck at it. Often, though, sifting through a box of lightly mildew-scented sweaters at a clothing swap, I’m hit with a twinge of regret. I’ll discover an item with potential that needs only the tiniest bit of tweaking: It’s a little too long, a touch too wide, torn at the armpit. I’d love to bring it to life again. (I’d especially love to be the kind of person who could bring it to life.) I’d like to patch that hole. With this in mind, I make a plan to meet with Amelia Freeman-Lynde, who, two years ago, opened Freeman’s Creative, a small sewing shop a few yards from The Scrap Exchange. And, on a warm October afternoon, I bring a pair of pants into Freeman Creative. The door to the shop is wide open, and all three employees are inside, including Freeman-Lynde, all wearing glasses and—this is just by chance—an item of goldenrod-yellow clothing. One wall of the shop is lined with a library of fabric, upright spines organized by material and color. Big boxes, shipments of even more fabric, sit opened by the register. The other wall is for yarns, grouped cozily together in cubbyholes like stuffed animals. While growing up in Georgia, Freeman-Lynde learned to sew and knit from her mother and grandmother. For college, she moved to New York to study theater at Barnard. It was there, through a work-study job, that she fell in love with set design. She abandoned acting and became a professional prop-maker, eventually landing a job at the prestigious off-Broadway Public Theater. City life wasn’t a forever thing, though, and when she and her husband moved to Durham eight years ago, Freeman-Lynde couldn’t shake the call to crafting. After a few years working in restaurants—she was the

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first employee at Monuts—she opened Freeman’s Creative. Since opening her shop, Freeman-Lynde has hired one full-time and three part-time employees; the store’s second-anniversary party takes place this Saturday. The communal backstage spirit has made its way into the store, and Freeman-Lynde has worked hard to make her shop a gathering place. Freeman’s Creative offers affordable classes (based on a $15/hour price). Many are suitable for beginners, but she’s also intentional about offering courses that build skills. You can learn to thread a needle, and you can keep taking classes until you’re ready to make a pair of jeans. You can also, for free, reserve studio time on a Friday evening to work on projects using Freeman’s tools and getting advice from employees in the process. There are weekly crafting club meetups, too. In the store, at a large work table in the back of the store, River Takada-Capel is teaching a private lesson to Janice, a woman in her sixties who is wearing spider earrings and says she wants to dress up as a sexy tomato for Halloween. Janice is a regular. Today, she’s brought

three large plastic bins of things to work on. Amazed, I ask how many projects she has. Takada-Capel responds for her: “Well, think about it—how many projects do you have?” Freeman-Lynde is a natural teacher. When wandering through the maze of ice-creamcolored yarn, I accidentally untwist a skein of it. She first teaches me the word skein, then patiently shows me how to wind it back into form. We sit down at a table and get to work on my project: some chinos I got at a clothing swap. She shows me that it’s possible for me— me—to fix a hole in a pair of pants with some pink embroidery thread and a patch of gauzy plaid I’ve chosen from a bag of scraps. (See sidebar for instructions.) After a while, she leaves me sitting at the oilcloth-covered table to practice while she returns to fielding customers’ questions. Wait, that’s it? I think. A Sylvan Esso-based playlist weaves through the shop as I work, willing my hands to adapt to the strange new motions. I wouldn’t say my fingers are flying; I would say I’m lightly stabbing them every few minutes. However: I am doing this. After some time, more people begin to filter in; there’s a craft circle this afternoon. Freeman-Lynde greets each person by name, and suddenly, I’m surrounded at my table by a group of people praising each other’s handiwork. In an era of fast-fashion, sitting with people who are making sweaters feels retro—maybe vintage—in just the way I like. It’s refreshing. People work at all skill levels. Someone’s nearly completed a child’s sweater with uncannily realistic horses on the front. One person, normally an embroiderer, has just learned to “cast off ”—i.e., to start knitting. (There’s a lot of jargon flying around.) Another, a regular, drops by to pick up a special order. She’s getting compliments on the sweater she’s wearing, a piney-green turtleneck that she made herself. “Finally, it’s knit weather!” she says. We all rejoice. backtalk@indyweek.com

“Boro mending” originated in rural, medieval Japan. Japanese farmers and fishermen have long carried on the tradition of sewing scraps of fabric together using many rows of stitches, reinforcing their work clothing. In recent years, boro has become internationally popular thanks to its functional beauty, and owing to a general trend in slow fashion toward “visible mending.” Here are Amelia Freeman-Lynde’s instructions (interpreted by me) for an easy boroinspired patch: 1. Choose your patch fabric, cut a square to size, and decide if you’d like it to show through the tear you’re mending or cover up the tear entirely. 2. Use Wonder Tape to secure all four edges of the patch, centering the tear. Wonder Tape is a double-sided adhesive that washes out in water and holds the patch in place more firmly and less pointily than pins. 3. Prepare your thread: Cut about a foot of embroidery thread. This type of thread has six strands of fiber in it. Thin it by picking at the cut edge to remove three of the strands, creating two threads of three strands each. You can use one now and one later. Thread your needle and knot the end of the thread. 4. Begin to sew by reinforcing around the tear in the fabric. Start from inside your clothing item and poke the needle out from underneath. Sew a running stitch, the most intuitive stitch there is: Simply stitch in and out until you have outlined the hole. 5. Reinforce: Starting at one edge of the patch inside the article of clothing, again use a running stitch to make horizontal dashes across the patch. When you reach the edge, make sure your needle points inside your clothing. Then you can poke it up onto the next line and stitch back toward the direction you came from. 6. When your foot of thread begins to run out, tie it off inside the clothing by looping the top of the needle (not the tip) through the last dash you’ve stitched; having secured that, tie an overhand knot close to the fabric. Start again with a new foot of thread. 7. Continue this until you’ve covered the whole patch with horizontal dashes. You’re done! Or go a step further, creating “+” or “x” -shaped patterns of thread. Repeat this process, sewing vertically across your existing horizontal stitches.

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Between the Lines

The beauty industry sells us skin-care as self-love, but maybe we should listen to the stories our wrinkles are telling BY SARAH MORRIS

ike most people my age, my education in this world came from both sides of the mouth. On the one hand, I belong to a long line of women—smart, wonderful, slightly vain women—who are prone to wagging around creams and lotions and quoting one-liners like “why look bad when you could look good?” They told me that I was empowered and free to be whoever I wanted, but I heard, too, that I might be freer and more empowered if I made some minor tweaks to my body and face. Sometimes I’m good at parsing those messages, and sometimes they end up sinking into my skin alongside my nightly moisturizer. I’m in my thirtieth year, and, right on schedule, my first resting wrinkle has appeared above my right eyebrow. It’s the one I tend to raise frequently: in play, in skepticism, in the middle of earnest explanation. The arrival of this new wrinkle sent me into an initial tailspin on Reddit threads, Instagram, and to involved conversations with my friends about their anti-aging routines, most of which feel like intimate simulations of the ads on my feed. The global skincare market has jumped by nearly 60 percent in the past ten years with sales up 13-percent in the U.S. alone in 2018, according to a study by the NPD Group. The rise in skincare products far outpaces the sales of traditional cosmetics. Among my friends—who are mostly millennial, body-positive feminists—skincare is beginning to take up more space in our conversations and monthly expenses. Unlike makeup, which can be playful and expressive but which has a more obvious entanglement with commodification and the patriarchy, skincare has been exonerated by the wellness industry as a form of authenticity and self-love. Looking at our crowded shelves of retinols and toners, masks and serums, scrubs and creams—products that often involve

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As we age, the way we feel— the way we have always felt, over and over again— starts to be visible. There’s something beautiful about that.

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monthly subscriptions and shame-filled splurges—I’ve begun to question how much self-love there can be in an industry that tells people they are losing their value with time. After all, the obsession with young, dewy skin doesn’t seem that far removed from the vision of beauty that haunted our mothers and godmothers. Looking at my mother and grandmother, I’ve been thinking about the stories their faces do tell. Aside from genetics, one of the key factors in their formation is repeated expressions. When we’re young, we take great pains to show others who we are on the inside, scowling or smiling, trying to articulate exactly how we feel in the way we dress and wear our hair. As we age, though, the way we feel—the way we have always felt, over and over again—starts to be visible. Our insides make

their way to the surface: laughter and worries, the wry refrain of a raised eyebrow. There’s something beautiful about that. At ninety-two, my grandmother is stunningly wrinkled. When she smiles (which she does all the time), her smile echoes across her face tenfold. Would she wave them away with a magic wand? Oh, maybe—probably. But I wouldn’t. And I wouldn’t erase the fluttering wrinkle of concern on my most sympathetic friend’s face, or the burgeoning crow’s-feet that have appeared on another—the lines that fan like sunbeams out from her eyes. These days, when I find myself standing in front of the mirror rubbing moisturizer into my creases, I try (try!) to mix in a bit of gratitude for the only face I’ll ever wear, a face that wears me. backtalk@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 11.06.19 | 11

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Carl McLaurin wants to bring Big Apple fashion to the Bull City BY BRIAN HOWE

eek in, week out, Carl McLaurin coordinates continuing-education programs at Durham Tech. But at least once each year, he lives every fashion lover’s dream: working backstage at the biannual New York Fashion Week. “The main thing I do working Fashion Week is backstage production,” McLaurin says in his sinuous, precise Southern accent. “Sourcing the clothes, organizing them, dressing and undressing the models, and lining them up to go on the runway so that Michael Kors and his team can come around and say, ‘She’s ready to walk.’” Not that Fashion Week is McLaurin’s sole industry foothold. The forty-one-year-old “fashion production agent,” as he describes his diverse skillset, has also worked on Victoria’s Secret runways and helped dress Lil Kim for the cover of her 2019 album, 9. In the all-or-nothing industry of high fashion, McLaurin has found a middle way between the comfort and stability of Durham and the Carl McLaurin PHOTO BY JADE WILSON career energy of New York. ing the details. “She said, ‘OK, you’re working with Lil Kim,’ And, thanks to a mandate from fashion icon André Leon and I nearly dropped the phone.” There were only two or three days between the call and Talley, he’s got big plans for the Bull City. McLaurin moved to Durham in 2005 to get a master’s the photoshoot, which found the rap legend bedecked in degree in sociology at N.C. Central. But by 2013, he’d gotten jewels in homage to Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista. McLaurin drove to New York to meet a schedule that got one in textiles and apparel instead. “One day, I walked by the fashion building at Central, and even more hectic when he arrived. “I ended up also dressing her for Marc Jacobs’s wedding, I thought to myself, ‘Well, let’s do something different this which wasn’t even in the plan,” McLaurin says. “They sent time around,’” McLaurin says. He started in Central’s fashion program in 2008. By the me off on some errands to Neiman Marcus to pick up shoes fall, he had an internship in New York with The Ground and bags; I’m texting photos back and forth. I did have a Crew, where he’s freelanced as a dresser and stylist assis- country-boy-in-New-York moment, like, help! But we got what we needed and got her out the door of the hotel room.” tant ever since. By the time of the album-cover shoot the next day, during “I listed all the fashion classes I was going to be taking on my résumé,” McLaurin says with a laugh. “I guess they were which McLaurin spent an hour wiring jewels to Lil Kim, he impressed this guy in North Carolina has all this fashion was drained. “I honestly was like, ‘Get me back to North Carolina,’” he knowledge. I since have made my résumé very true.” McLaurin’s biggest brush with glamor started with an says. “But she thanked me and hugged me at the end, and unexpected phone call. A stylist friend had an interesting I found out her grandmother was from Durham. It was a great experience to be around a celebrity like that, someone job lined up but was with a client in Thailand. “She said, ‘Hey, Carl, what are you doing this weekend? I I listened to growing up, and to be working beside her and need a huge favor,’” says McLaurin, who agreed before hear- physically touching her.” 12 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

McLaurin spreads plenty of fashion love at home, too. A graduate assistantship at Central instilled a love of teaching fashion that has included stints at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School and Longleaf School of the Arts. He’s produced small local shows for area designers and styled up-and-coming musicians like the N.C.-to-LA expat Sam Harmonix. He’s made a Miss Spider costume for an E.K. Powe Elementary production of James and the Giant Peach and runs student design competitions at Central. And if things go according to plan, he’s going to give Durham a Fashion Week of its own—one with a powerful creation myth. In February, André Leon Talley, the legendary American Vogue editor, returned to his alma mater, Durham’s Hillside High, to speak at a screening of a documentary about him. McLaurin says that, during a Q&A, Talley brought him and two other local fashion workers on stage and proclaimed that they should start a Durham Fashion Week. McLaurin hopes to do so in 2020. “If André Leon Talley tells you to start a fashion week, you start a fashion week,” he says. “I already have eight designers lined up to show collections who are local to North Carolina.” A lot of people ask McLaurin the question you’re probably thinking: Why doesn’t he move to New York? “I’ve always wanted to bring New York here,” he says. “Even though I’ve had some great opportunities there, I would be a small fish in a big pond. I know we have culture here and can use a fashion platform.” It would be a long-deferred dream come true for someone who, before he went to school for sociology, wanted to be a cosmetologist as a child. “I’m from a different generation than the climate we’re in now,” McLaurin says, “and I stifled my creativity for fashion because I didn’t want to be doing a stereotypical job for someone who’s LGBT. When I went to school for fashion, it came out of a place of me finally doing what I want to do. I often tell people I feel like I became a man in Durham.” bhowe@indyweek.com

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The Haircut

On confronting your deepest, darkest secrets in a barbershop BY LEIGH TAUSS

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on’t be nervous,” Jenean Eberhardt, the blackhaired, tattoed co-owner of Rock’s Bar and Hair Shop, tells me from across the bar as I anxiously sip a Sweetwater pale ale. I am nervous. I clench my jaw, hyperaware of the emptiness in my mouth, swallowing the static and running my fingers through the wisps of hair along my temples. This will be my first haircut in five years. The last was shortly before college graduation, when my thick brown hair fell below my shoulders. At some points in my PHOTO BY LEIGH TAUSS life, I’ve had long, curly hair, at others, a frizzy Jew ’fro, at others, a pixie cut, at essarily belong there (though people with others, I’ve been bald. Today, an inch and a OCD are more likely to have it). Instead, half sticks out, curled in all directions, usual- trichotillomania is a body-focused repetitive disorder, not unlike biting your nails, ly hidden under a pink wrap or baseball cap. For trans people, a haircut can be as just a lot more noticeable. I think of it like empowering as it is transformational, the grooming on the fritz. Between 0.5 percent and 2 percent of the equally tattooed manager Sterling Bentley adds. Lopping off his waist-length brown population have it, according to the Amerhair was “one of the first things I did that ican Journal of Psychiatry. Few ever talk made me feel gender euphoria.” Indeed, about it. I haven’t, at least for most of my life. Rock’s used to call itself a “barbershop,” but For me, it’s been a source of shame that I’ve it’s changed its signage to “masculine-focused grooming, a nod to queer-inclusivity. hidden from the world under wigs and hats. The handwritten sign behind the bar invites I bought clippers so I could shave my head. I then let my hair grow like a haphazard Chia patrons to “tell us your pronouns.” Everything is designed to put me at ease, Pet until it was long enough to grab, then I shaved it again. Repeat ad infinitum. to tell me that this is a safe space. Nothing fills me with dread like the But I’m not trans. My secret—my reason for being here, for being so anxious about thought of getting a haircut, of having a being here, for gulping down the free beer stranger see, touch, judge my hair—my that comes with the haircut in a failed effort secret, my shame. I’m here as an experiment in discomto calm my pulsating nerves—is different. I have a condition called trichotilloma- fort—a challenge to go outside of my comnia. It’s a fancy Greek word that translates fort zone. For some people, such an exercise to “hair-pulling madness” and means, more might involve public speaking or chatting or less, that I pull my hair out when I’m up strangers. I have no problem with either anxious or bored. It’s grouped with obses- of those things. But a haircut? That terrifies me. sive-compulsive disorder in the DSM-V, With a squeak, the metal chair swings to but recent research suggests it doesn’t nec-

greet me, and stylist Erika Herter holds out a white smock. I sit back and adjust my feet—I’m too short to reach the foot bar—and she swings me around. The worst part of a haircut is looking yourself in the eye. I cringe as I feel the clippers touch the back of my neck and flash a nervous smile as I feel its vibration. I break out in goosebumps. The buzz changes frequency as it moves across my nape. It’s going to be too short, boyish, maybe too boyish, I think. But could it possibly be any worse than the mess I have now? Herter’s had other clients like me, she says, at least twenty. They found getting a haircut empowering. To let go of what they cannot control. To let go of their shame and let someone see them. I breathe and try to let go as the scissors snip near my ears. Violent little chirps, and the tiny shards of brown litter my apron, and then the floor. My hair is the “unruly” kind, she tells me, the kind that doesn’t like to be told what to do. Don’t I know it. Curly, kinky, and now a few grays. Herter uses a comb to brush out my sides and trims them down with the clippers, creating a fade. She moves quickly, on autopilot. Soon comes the hush of the hairdryer, the soft heat on my neck and ear. A baby powdered towel gently sweeps my neck. She rubs the pomade between her hands and fluffs the front of my hair. I start to relax. I’m not happy with the way I look—I never am—but at least the fear is gone. Is that empowerment? It’s OK. “It looks great,” Bentley says, beaming at me as I approach the register. I walk out into the pouring rain, which instantly washes away the pomade. ltauss@indyweek.com

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Sharing is Caring

Why the erstwhile Bull City Swaps gave up swapping and became Bull City Shares BY SARAH EDWARDS

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ne day in September, Dawn Bland met a stranger in the dimly lit back room of James Joyce Irish Pub to talk about a mistake she felt that she’d made. The woman she was meeting with, Shannon McCabe, had left a particularly thoughtful comment critiquing a post that Bland had made in the Facebook group Bull City Swaps. Bland wanted to hear more. Bland is the founder of BCS, which has thirty-seven hundred members and has, for the last five years, served as a sort of medieval outpost for small, congenial transactions: a futon for a bottle of wine, a box of Christmas lights for a stack of egg cartons. Since its founding in 2014, BCS has functioned as a kind of alternate economy predicated on small exchanges—post something you’re getting rid of, ask for something you need in return—and fueled by a DIY, low-waste ethos. If you were respectful, resourceful, and not terribly greedy, you could furnish your entire house, outfit a wardrobe, and maybe get a haircut. More important, you could help someone else do the same thing. But Bland had started to wonder if the rapidly expanding group might be better served if it was restricted to members with a Durham zip code. When she posted the idea, however, it was met with pushback from members who felt that it would exclude people in outlying communities from Durham’s resources. Chief among them: Shannon McCabe. Bland arranged a meeting with her, and after listening to her concerns, she posted an apology and asked McCabe to join her as a group moderator. “I was impressed with her ability to call me out,” Bland says. This spirit—positive, respectful, eager to facilitate productive discussions—feels antithetical to most things you find on Facebook. But BCS represents much more than a bunch of transactions: posts are full of affirmations and non-traditional offers. Recently, for instance, Ali Rudel, the owner of East Durham Bake Shop, posted

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I wanted to build community, and I want to build this new idea of asking for what you need when you need it. that her porch was a high-traffic zone for trick-or-treaters and that she would be gone for Halloween; she did, however, want to offer her porch as a space for people who wanted to hand out candy (the post received 35 comments and 101 likes). Other instances of goodwill are more expansive: After the April 10 gas explosion in the Brightleaf District that left two dead and two dozen injured, BCS served as a platform for a whirlwind of fast-working relief efforts. Feel-good corners of the internet can sometimes seem limited to the empty calories of thirty-second puppy videos, but the BCS page curbs any notion that it’s impossible to have a positive, tangible experience online. Numerous offshoots have sprung up, including a plant swap group (gather ye succulent cuttings while ye may), a food swap group, and a mobile clothing swap. All of this chaos is maintained by Bland and seven others who find time to moderate amid busy lives. Most are parents; one moderator teaches at Duke, another is a social worker. The quality they all share, according to Bland, is that each is a caretaker. Bland, who is forty-one and is a mother of two, has a penchant for getting to the heart of places: When she moved to North Carolina from Texas in 2000, she worked as a cashier at Carrboro’s Weaver Street Market, ostensibly one of the most neighborly jobs you could have. Upon moving to Durham, she bartended at James Joyce, a place that she says she likes because it’s full of regulars, most of whom are working-class. In

Texas, she was briefly homeless, an experience that has since spurred her involvement in affordable housing issues. (She also co-runs a competitive arm-wrestling league for women.) Running BCS is almost like another fulltime job; tasks involve vetting the group for trolls and monitoring Craigslist to make sure that items aren’t being sold for a profit. Moderating is invisible labor, but Bland speaks about it with straight-shooting empathy: “It fills my gas tank.” In the end, Bland kept the group open to people outside of Durham. It has, however, undergone one significant change. Last week, Bland posted a new set of rules, one of them prohibiting the transaction-based exchanges on which Bull City Swaps was based. As the group had grown from a few friends and neighbors to a few thousand friends and neighbors, Bland says she realized that it didn’t feel right for exchanges to be tit-for-tat. Swapping, Bland says, “creates a more marketplace feel, like a Facebook marketplace group. It’s not the vibe that I was going for. I wanted to build community, and I want to build this new idea of asking for what you need when you need it: putting out and expecting it to be taken care of.” A few weeks ago, when Bland first hinted that moderators were working on the rule change, she asked for suggestions for a new name for the group. A flood of positive comments followed; members settled on Bull City Shares—something more active and outward-looking, and that kept the BCS acronym. As one put it, “I love positioning it as a sharing group. Bull City Shares is beautiful. Don’t let Wall Street own the term ‘shares.’ ... It’s a great term for our group and what we stand for.” Flipping the script on consumerism, it turns out, can be as easy as being a good neighbor. sedwards@indyweek.com

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Local women tell the stories of their lives through the clothes they wore BY BYRON WOODS

n 2012, researchers coined the term “enclothed cognition” to describe the impact that other full- clothing has on the weargroup for er’s psyche, sense of self, and to make identity. But women have or a prof- known this for generations. but Bland “Clothing is about who -shooting we are and who we wish we were,” local playwright p open Debra Kaufman says. “It, and we as women, are expected signif- to be performative, to provide all these social cues.” To expose and examine w set of e trans- that on stage, Kaufman put ch Bull out a call for monologues last year. She curated some PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBRA KAUFMAN The cascade of images in Jaki Shelton a few seventy submissions down to fourteen, first w thou- presenting them in a staged reading at last Green’s “The Communion of White Dressnd says year’s Women’s Theatre Festival. The char- es” explores the North Carolina poet laureght for acters included a lesbian TV star reluctant- ate’s complex relationship with a series of ly donning what she calls “celebrity drag,” a garments, including communion and weds a more patient in a mammogram gown, and a uni- ding dresses and funeral shrouds. “They convey the gaze of colonialism, the k market- formed waitress at a burger joint. was going After further development, Kaufman gaze of growing up around elderly African nd I want co-produced a fully staged version, Methodist Episcopal church missionaries for what Illuminated Dresses, with Odyssey Stage, who always wore white,” Green says. She g out and which closed Sunday at Burning Coal contrasts the construct of white—“purity, Theatre. Director Lori Mahl says she sanctification, and virginity, the whole puriirst hint- treated the garments almost as separate tan aspect that weighed heavily on me as ng on the characters. In Kaufman’s “Little Black a child”—with the ripped garments of pasions for a Dress,” the archetypal outfit “represents sion, fever, fairy tales, and childbirth. “White is very tricky,” she says. f positive huge sections of her life,” Mahl says, while In Steffi Rubin’s “The Red Dress,” the ettled on the garb in Cynthia Schauff Straub’s “The re active Business Suit” represents her entire career. dress brings a life-changing insight to a boy kept the Straub worked in Chicago’s corporate during a grade-school costume game: the world after getting her MBA in the 1980s. promise of the trans woman he’ll eventung it as a Breaking into business back then was ally be. Rubin got permission to dramatize beautiful. “rough and tumble” for women, she says, the childhood experience of a friend, a Los m ‘shares.’ and “the business suit had to register power; Angeles theater artist who grew up in a and what it really was armor to face a pretty tough small New Hampshire town. “There was a dress that changed everyworld.” The power suit became a carapace thing, a dress that said not just who you are, m, it turns that concealed the wearer’s humanity. “Hillary Clinton’s sort of the poster but that you are,” Rubin says. eighbor. backtalk@indyweek.com week.com woman for that,” Straub says.

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Express Yourself

JAHLEEL, 10 WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I’m a funny person. WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? I’m very athletic and competitive.

Six kids, twenty bucks, a thrift store, and a mission STORY AND PHOTOS BY JADE WILSON

grew up poor. Like a lot of poor kids, my clothes were either handme-downs or came from Goodwill or Family Dollar. And like a lot of poor kids, other kids bullied me because of what I wore. For most of my life, being poor made me insecure, as if my poverty defined me. But over the past few years, I’ve reimagined myself and my sense of fashion—and, in the process, discovered my own self-confidence—through thrifting. It began when my best friend took me to Carolina Thrift in Raleigh, and we spent hours trying on clothes until I found something that excited me. Thrifting gave me permission to be the boisterous, colorful kid I always wanted to be—the person I always was inside—but could never afford to show to the world. Kids today still get picked on for not wearing popular brand names. I wanted to share with them what I’ve learned— that no one else can define who they are, they can celebrate themselves through what they wear, and it doesn’t cost a lot to do it. Through social media, I connected with five Durham kids living in Oxford Manor and another in the Lofts at Southside and, with a few of my finest thrifting friends, took them to the Durham Rescue Mission. The goal was to let them express themselves creatively with just twenty bucks. Along the way, we asked them questions about how they want the world to see them. They walked away from the experience with a bunch of fun new clothes. I left thinking that even a little more access to creative resources could go a long way to making underprivileged kids feel more confident about themselves. 16 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

NOAH, 11 WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I like my hair, my skin. I like that I’m able to do a lot of things. I’m smart. I like my looks. I like that I can do a lot of fun things that other kids can’t. And I like thrift shopping. WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? I want them to know that I’m an artist.

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JORDAN, 11

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? Tough times, I know what to do. And when it comes to the things I love, I know what to go for. Like, my mind is like, yes, that one. I’m that confident person.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I can express myself in colors, earthy tones, neon tones. Things that say I’m full, I’m confident, but I’m also really scared at times. WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? One thing I want people to know about me is though I may look easy to approach, I can be very shy and don’t really like to talk with new people too often.

WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? I want people to know that I’m bold and confident. I want to be out there. And I’m not afraid of anything. I’m ready to take risks. I’m a fearless girl.

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RYAN, 11

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My favorite thing about myself is I know people judge me and bully me sometimes, but still, I’ll just be open with it. And I like to be a gamer sometimes, watch YouTube, be funny, play with my friends.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I like to play around. I like to have fun. I kinda like schoolwork. I like watching anime ’cause it reminds me of myself.

WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? Don’t judge me.

WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? I want them to know that I’m all about fashion—style.

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Local Shops & Brands Where to go to get the goods

the best parts of a thrift shop, offering a variety of one-of-a-kind and classic throwback jewelry, sunglasses, cufflinks, brooches, and accessories. Chet Miller 118 West Parrish Street, Durham 919-683-3201, chetmillershop.com

This home decor center offers a carefully curated, eclectic selection of gifts and artifacts by top designers, from high-end furniture to lamps, wallpaper, and prints. It’s also a down-to-earth purveyor of charming doodads of every sort: trinkets, barware, soap, globes, thermoses, and nature paintings.

Alexander Eton

Deco Raleigh

1251 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary 919-454-0829, alexander-eton.com

207 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh 919-828-5484, decoraleigh.com

This isn’t your grandfather’s suit shop. This home furnishings company features With a blend of contemporary styles and the work of a bevy of talented local artists unique patterns, Alexander Eton brings and artisans. In a pleasantly cluttered atmotasteful flare to menswear. sphere of fun and discovery, it’s easy to lose yourself in the aisles of quirk—kids’ books The Art of Style and greeting cards, refrigerator magnets, mugs, and jewelry. 21 West Hargett Street, Raleigh 919-755-3333, theartofstyleboutique.com

At The Art of Style, the look is chic, cosmopolitan, and modern, with a monochromatic palette that would please even the most fashion-forward urban dwellers. The store carries men’s and women’s clothes by a slate of distinctive designer brands. Look here for that cool item your closet is lacking. Ashworth’s Clothing

210 South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina 919-552-5201, facebook.com/ashworthclothing

The Ashworth family has kept generations well-dressed and well-hemmed. They sell clothes for any occasion, but Ashworth is the perfect destination when preparing for prom, weddings, or any other event at which a tuxedo is expected. BullCity Apparel & Customs

3023 Fayetteville Street, Durham 919-237-3876, thebullcitystore.com

Dolly’s Vintage 213 West Main Street, Durham 919-682-1471, facebook.com/dollysvintage

There’s plenty of eclectic vintage clothing here, but Dolly’s really shines as a gift shop, with a wide array of, well, stuff for just about anyone: jewelry, party wigs, socks, cards, retro aprons, original Kit-Cat Clocks, you get the idea.

Gypsy Jule 207 West Davie Street, Raleigh 919-753-7444, gypsyjule.com

Fierce Boutique

Holder Goods & Crafts

2 North Pettigrew Street, Suite C, Raleigh 919-670-0081, facebook.com/fierceboutique7313

612 West South Street, Raleigh holdergoodsandcrafts.com

Exotique has flourished for a decade with a focus on jewelry, art, and clothing made by an international creative community. It’s a gift store, boutique, and gallery with a distinct sensibility and a commitment to community.

Sequins? Check. Neons? Check. Bold prints? Check. Fierce Boutique is the place to shop for the person who wants to stand out and dress their inner diva. Owner Love Small has a keen eye for the trendiest looks and high-quality local products. Fifi’s Fine Resale Apparel

1000 West Main Street, Raleigh 919-806-3434, fifisconsignmentboutique.com

Want brand-name women’s clothing and accessories—Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, J Crew, Dolce&Gabbana, etc.—at a price that won’t bounce your rent check? Check Fifi’s. Form and Function

1700 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh 919-831-2838, formandfunctionraleigh.com

F&F is a wonderland of funky furniture, gifts, and home accessories, both nostalgic and modern. The owners are also interior designers, so ask for advice while you’re there.

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Flytrap Clothing

412 South McDowell Street, Raleigh 984-242-0025, ealdwineraleigh.com

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An upscale men’s clothing store that opened in early 2019, Ealdwine derived its name from an Old English word that means “old friend.” In this case, old friends pay $600 for a pair of Alden Navy Suede hand-sewn boots, but Lord, are they gorgeous boots.

Edge of Urge With its collection of hats and tees, this 215 East Franklin Street, #110, Raleigh little shop packs a whole lot of love for 919-827-4000, edgeofurge.com Durham. Edge of Urge offers the work of innovative designers of uncommon items—womCarlisle & Linny Vintage Jewelry en’s clothing, jewelry and accessories, baby clothes, or art for your home. The store also 112 South Churton Street, Hillsborough keeps a lively schedule of workshops and 917-400-9800, facebook.com/carlisleandlinny If you thought brooches were out of style, special events. think again. This vintage jewelry shop is all 18 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

Exotique 319 West Main Street, Durham 919-688-5747, theexotique.com

This family-run screen-printing company finds inspiration in the natural world, developing designs for its mostly women’s apparel in its backyard workshop and selling them in high-end stores throughout the country and internationally. Galatea Boutique

10 West Franklin Street, Raleigh 919-833-8565, galateaboutique.com

Located in a renovated warehouse in Seabord Station, Galatea offers hand-selected clothing and accessories that, as its website describes, are “not too young and not too old, not too big and not too small, not too funky and not too conservative.”

Gypsy Jule doesn’t want to be called a boutique. The preferred term: Misfit Mercantile. What does that mean? Rugged and adventurous. Urban and rustic. Unconventionally bohemian. Everything from fashionable boots to glassware, skirts to jeans.

This sun-filled space is a furniture store, art gallery, and interior design firm, as well as a showcase for the work of local artisans, potters, and craftspeople. It’s also an agora where you’ll come upon an alluring stream of rarified objects and curiosities curated with a sharp and appreciative eye. House of Swank Clothing 119 East Hargett Street, Raleigh 919-413-7339, houseofswankclothing.com

Local screen-printer John Pugh churns out all manner of kitschy North Carolina-themed T-shirts: There’s one with a 1920s map of Raleigh, and another that shows the state divided by its barbecue-sauce choices (tomato and vinegar)—that sort of thing. Julian’s 135 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 919-942-4563, julianstyle.com

Alexander Julian may be best known for making the argyle pattern synonymous with Tar Heel basketball, but you won’t find sportswear here. Instead, Julian provides an array of slick belts, argyle sweater vests, and crisp dress shirts for men, and standout jackets, intricate tops, and elegant scarves for women. Liles Clothing Studio 4350 Lassiter at North Hills Avenue, Raleigh 919-510-5556, lilesclothingstudio.com

For men who care about their clothes, Liles is pretty heavenly. Having exclusive rights to some labels means it’s the only place around to find certain designers. Liles also does custom and made-to-measure pieces, providing that exquisite feeling of wearing something made especially for you.

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Love & Peace Boutique

Port of Raleigh

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Tre Bella Boutique And Bridal Store

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro 919-924-8669

416 South McDowell Street, Raleigh 984-221-8008, portofraleigh.co

106 North Graham Street, Chapel Hill 2501 University Drive, #3, Durham 919-942-2335, shopatrumors.com

124 East Main Street, Durham 919-323-7167, trebellainc.com

Love & Peace’s hippy-esque women’s apparel is all fair trade, imported from places like Nepal. Located inside Carr Mill Mall, it’s tie-dye sign is impossible to miss. Morgan Imports

113 South Gregson Street, Durham 919-688-1150, morganimports.com

A gift and home furnishing store, Morgan Imports offers all manner of N.C.-focused tees and paraphernalia for proud locals or out-of-town visitors, as well as bath and beauty products, Christmas ornaments, games, jewelry, kitchen accessories, garden chimes, beds, futons—just a lot of stuff, really.

The carefully curated selection reflects an aesthetic honed over decades. Elegant lines and a clean look pervade the collection, from clocks and tables to vases and charging cables designed to simplify your digital clutter. Possibilities Boutique

Opened in 2013, Rumors has quickly become a well-loved source for delivering that elusive thrill of the find with its carefully selected range of vintage and modern styles. Denim, fur, or leather, designer label or a classic cartoon sweatshirt, New Year’s Eve or Halloween—Rumors has the goods.

1247 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary 919-460-1852, possibilitiesboutique.com

Scout & Molly’s

Munjo Munjo

This small independent women’s clothing emporium reflects its owner’s quarter-century in the business with a look that’s bold and feminine but also comfortable and seemingly effortless. Tunic-style tops are matched with dresses in light, often diaphanous fabrics, all in a range of natural fibers.

120 South Wilmington Street, #103, Raleigh 919-410-9453, munjomunjo.com

Quercus Studio

In its own words, Munjo Munjo sells “collaborative goods for overgrown children.” Most distinctive are its anime-inspired T-shirts, pins, and stickers. Next Consignment Boutique

210 South White Street, Wake Forest 919-554-8040, nextconsignment.com

At this downtown Wake Forest shop, you can get your hands on designer women’s clothes, jewelry, and bags for a fraction of the price of major retailers. There’s also a well-stocked selection of kids clothing. Nyla Elise Clothing

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Nyla Elise’s distinctive T-shirts and letterman jackets have earned street cred from being worn by the likes of Kevin Hart and Kerry Washington, but owner Rick Moore says his locally sourced clothing is for everyone. Emblazoned with slogans like “Film Is My Ammo,” these tees and tanks have an urban verve all their own. The Perfect Piece

200 East Chatham Street, Cary 919-460-9841, dtcfoodandflea.com

If you can’t find the, um, perfect piece at this eleven-thousand-square-foot building, you’re not really looking. This home décor and gift store focuses on furniture sold through the store’s consignment inventory as well as vendors who occupy booths around the showroom.

201 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh 919-960-1355, quercusraleigh.com

Goldsmith Lauren Ramirez has filled her studio with heirloom-quality jewelry, a collection of curated gifts, and store decor that contributes to an off-beat, rustic feel. Pieces are crafted in-house, but the studio also stocks pieces from designers across the country. Raleigh Denim Workshop

319 West Martin Street, Raleigh 919-917-8969, raleighdenimworkshop.com

Raleigh Denim creates authentic, handcrafted jeans sourced exclusively from the finest local textile makers, made from cloth by area designers, pattern makers, and fabricators. This is the place for pricey, indestructible selvage jeans with local pride. Revolver Consignment Boutique

122 Glenwood Avenue South, Raleigh 919-834-3053, revolverboutique.com

Recycling makes good sense, especially when it comes to purchasing upscale clothes at affordable prices. Revolver has earned a rep as a place where you can shop in a pleasant, unhurried, well-organized environment and leave with at least one cool-AF item you just can’t live without.

4120 Main at North Hills Street Raleigh, 919-754-8430, scoutandmollys.com

Shopping at Scout and Molly’s is kind of like a few girlfriends getting together and trying stuff on. The stylists make you feel comfortable, but, like a real friend, they’ll tell you when the look you like is more “Girl please,” than “Girl, yaaaasss.”

Tre Bella started as a home-operated florist shop in 2003, then added a high-end bridal store in 2008, and, in 2014, found a permanent home on Main Street, where the bridal shop combines with a women’s boutique that offers smart fashion at a variety of price points. TS Designs 2053 Willow Springs Lane, Burlington 336-229-6426, tsdesigns.com

This screen-printing company has been plying its trade since 1977. TS offers high-quality, sustainable apparel made of 100 percent North Carolina-grown cotton. Uniquitiques 125 East King Street, Hillsborough 919-644-8000, uniquitiques.com

The whole place is draped in vintage, from the homey décor to the curated style of contemporary women’s clothing for sale. You’ll Sofia’s is all about the ladies. In addi- find it all here: cowboy boots, costume jewtion to elegant clothes, shoes, and jewelry, elry, and Southern-made t-shirts. it offers hand-crafted gifts such as scented Vert & Vogue candles and small paintings. Sofia’s Boutique

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro 919-924-8669, sofiasboutique.us

The Stock Exchange 6120 Farrington Road, Suite B, Chapel Hill 919-403-9977, chapelhillstockexchange.com

A contemporary consignment boutique, the Stock Exchange aims to provide curated clothing at affordable prices—everything from Chanel bags to Burberry vintage hats to Tiffany & Co. earrings, not to mention a wide selection of clothing. Thirteen West

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro 919-924-8669, shopthirteenwest.com

353 West Main Street, Durham 919-797-2767, vertandvogue.com

V&V prides itself on offering cutting-edge looks for men and women that fulfill the owners’ commitment to the work of green-minded designers and artisans. The clothing is made exclusively from fine-quality natural fibers sourced from eco-friendly manufacturers and designers. Voda Boutique 4209 Lassiter Mill Road, #112, Raleigh 919-706-5783, shopvoda.com

In 2017, N.C. State grad Kayla Brewer Curated goods including clothes, jewelry, opened Voda, a boutique that sells everyand décor, all designed for customers “who thing from casual to trendy, night-on-theseek an authentic lifestyle.” town fashions, clutches to booties, jeans to sweaters. Thrive Global WomanCraft Gifts 310 South Driver Street, Durham thrivveglobal.com

Seeking to provide an “urban center for individuals to partake in an open market of closing exchanges for your thrift, consignment, and marketing,” twenty-three-yearold entrepreneur Jeremiah Pittman offers, new, used, and vintage urban apparel.

360 East Main Street, Carrboro 919-929-3300, womancraftgifts.squarespace.com

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How Do You Make Your Clothes Your Own? PHOTOS BY JADE WILSON

DESTINY (left) HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? I express myself through my clothes. I like to be different and dramatic. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? My grandmother’s ring.

JANELLE PIOTROWSKI HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? I thrift most of my clothing, so I like to find original pieces and pair them with a different piece that people might not normally think about. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? High-waisted pants from an old man or woman’s closet.

ARTIST (right) HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? You own it and you try to be the best version of yourself. That’s how you make it your own. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? My necklace. It’s real sparkly and gets a lot of attention. 20 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

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LAURA CROOM HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? Finding the right fit. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? Cowboy boots.

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OCIELE HAWKINS HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? Whatever makes my gender happy. I’m nonbinary. Lately, it’s been a lot of oversized clothes. It helps me feel more comfortable. I love bright colors. Today, my colors are a little bit more muted, but I love brash, bright colors. That makes me feel joy and excitement. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? Right now, this jacket that I have on. I got this at a thrift store. I really like this jacket, I think it’s fire.

HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? I like to be bold. I like to go with what my first gut instinct tells me with my clothes. Even if it doesn’t necessarily make sense to pair something together, if I think it or if I feel it. Like, I want to wear this ratty-ass t-shirt with that leather skirt— I’m gonna try it. I’m gonna make it work because any rules there are about fashion are just made up anyway, so I can make up my own. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? My favorite secondhand item is the Nirvana shirt that belonged to my brother who died when I was younger. He loved Nirvana. He loved Kurt Cobain. I have his shirt and I cut it up to fit my own style.

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I’ve Known Hats

SYDNEY HAMPTON

BY THOMASI MCDONALD

HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? I kind of pull from a bunch of different styles. I wouldn’t say I have one specific style. One day I might be girly, one day I might be edgy. One day I might just be sporty or casual.

(In the spirit of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”) I’ve worn hats, man I have sported big Rastaman tams that sheathed my dreadlocks when they were not in use, as antennae to my ancestors and god I have worn tiny khufes and thought about Africa’s glory, yet to come I have worn a black beret and was inspired by the Black Panther Party’s breakfast program for children in the liberation and defense of all people

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? Over the summer, I got this sweet short-sleeve button-up that’s got white-green-blue stripes on it, and I’d wear it on its own, tied up.

A brown beret in solidarity with brown people, and a blue beret because it goes nice with my sweater And one star-swept night, I’d love to earn a Crown in that Kingdom Still, my secular Holy Grail of Hats (right now, Lord) is a cashmere gray beret with a satin lining Oh, I’ve dug some hats, man Dipped into church on cool Sunday mornings wearing a tan suit before taking a soft-brown fedora off my head Strolled along city sidewalks in a black-and-creamcolored Bailey, laughing at something smart and funny the pretty brown woman on my arm just said

OMISADE BURNEY-SCOTT HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR CLOTHES YOUR OWN? I make my style my own by picking out what makes me happy. What feels compelling and I think is a reflection of my personality. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SECONDHAND OR HOMEMADE ITEM? I had this leather fulllength Maroon Etienne Aigner jacket that I got in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for like seven bucks. And I wore that jacket until the lining came out of it. It was like a 1978 Pam Grier classic leather trent situation.

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Walked in warm April showers donning a worn and rugged Australian Outback, digging the raindrops dripping from its brim Sported a wide straw hat while playing the powerful djembe drum under a burning noon-day sun Staggered in the French Quarter, where I drank everything but water, cooler than cool in a stingybrim fedora I’ve known some hats, man Watching my daddy’s hat falling off his dome when he was on the couch taking his naps But I ain’t cool like Frankie Beverly I don’t wear no baseball caps

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If These Walls Could Talk

Preservation NC saved two Queen Anne homes built by former slaves and turned them into its new headquarters

Preservation NC Fall Symposium Nov. 7–8 Shaw University, 118 E. South St., Raleigh presnc.org

BY THOMASI MCDONALD

tate prisoners began building the Executive Mansion in 1883. Eight years later, Governor Daniel Fowle moved in (and died shortly thereafter). Since then, the building has not only housed thirty governors and countless events and meetings, but it’s also served as an architectural anchor of Blount Street, a foremost exemplar of a Queen Anne Victorian mansion that earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. Around the same time a few miles away, a former slave named Willis Graves built his own two-story Victorian home with an ornate Queen Anne exterior in Oberlin Village, a bustling freedman’s community of about one thousand residents who were once enslaved by Raleigh’s most prominent families. Graves painted his home in the same color scheme as the Executive Mansion: three shades of green—dark, medium, and a yellow wash, with black window sashes. That home is still standing, and it, too, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Three years ago, officials from the nonprofit Preservation NC, the city of Raleigh, and a private developer began efforts to save what’s now called the Graves-Fields home and another historic structure, the residence of the Reverend Plummer T. Hall—the first minister of the First Baptist Church of Oberlin—from the wrecking ball. And those two buildings, constructed a generation after slavery ended, now share a legacy in the modern era. The Graves-Fields house was moved about fifty yards from where it once stood on Oberlin Road—a street now lined with office buildings and condos—to a lot adjacent to the Hall house, with which it now shares a basement and a water and sewage system. This month, those houses will become Preservation NC’s new headquarters. To mark the occasion, the nonprofit, founded in 1939, is hosting a two-day symposium at Shaw University starting on Thursday, which will include lectures, panel

The Hall (left) and Graves-Fields houses, the new headquarters of Preservation NC discussions, a documentary about the preservation of the homes, and a reading of a play by Durham’s Howard Craft about the life of Willis Graves Jr., who became a civil rights attorney in Detroit and was involved in a landmark case that led the Supreme Court to rule that racially restrictive housing covenants are unconstitutional. The symposium also features a walking tour of the Prince Hall District—Raleigh’s

first African American mixed-used neighborhood, with a commercial district that sprang up during segregation, along with turn-of-the-century homes in a community anchored by Shaw, the historically black college that attracted newly freed slaves during Reconstruction. The elder Graves was born around 1856, and by 1883, he’d worked as a brick mason and a justice of the peace. He ran for state

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House of Representatives in 1898—the year of the Wilmington race massacre, which led to the legal disenfranchisement of the state’s African Americans for nearly seventy years. His house was purchased by Spurgeon Fields in 1945. Fields had worked at The News & Observer for four decades and was a loyal companion to publisher Josephus Daniels. Ironically, Daniels was a virulent INDYweek.com | 11.06.19 | 23

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This was all about speaking to the street, saying, ‘We have arrived. We are making it.’ When you consider that Hall and Graves were both born into slavery, these two houses are really amazing.

white supremacist and a mastermind of the Wilmington massacre. Graves used the framing of an older home, built before the Civil War, to construct his house’s second story. Preservation NC officials say they had to separate the two structures before moving the house to the vacate lot they’d purchased next to the Hall house. “It was much more complicated than if it had been built at one time,” says Myrick Howard, president of Preservation NC. The team also discovered that Graves built the house with whatever he could get his hands on. The wainscoting is different from one room to the next. The baseboards don’t match, either. Neither do the doors. “When we started getting into the walls, we learned really fast, the house did not remotely meet code,” Howard says. There were other modern challenges, owing to Graves’s determination to build his family a home by any means necessary. The joists used to frame the floors were undersized, and Preservation NC workers had to nail in more wood to give the floor support. “If someone were walking in the attic of the house, you could feel it if you were standing on the first floor,” Howard says. “It’s clear that they built the house with whatever they could get their hands on, and I admire them all the more for it. The house lasted for a century—and more.” Howard says that even though the tower of the Graves-Fields house is “completely out of level” and “noticeably not squared, that’s part of the story.” While the Hall house was better framed, he adds, termites ravaged the floors. Reverend Hall reportedly purchased the house as a wedding present for his bride, Delia Mallory, when they married in 1877. Deed records indicate that the land the home sat on was a gift from the bride’s father, according to Preservation NC. When it was first built, the Hall residence was only six hundred square feet, and the ceiling was less than eight feet tall. Hall’s parishioners built a pastor’s study on the right side of the house, facing the street. A porch and gazebo were eventually built on the left side to balance the home. “From the street, it looks like a pretty prosperous house,” Howard says. “The Graves-Fields house, too. It looks like a big 24 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

house, and it’s not. The rooms are not particularly big. The ceilings are not particularly high. And if two people are passing each other in the hallway, it’s pretty tight. This was all about speaking to the street, saying, ‘We have arrived. We are making it.’ When you consider that Hall and Graves were both born into slavery, these two houses are really amazing.” To that end, both homes were built in what Howard calls “high Victorian style,” with “highly ornamented” Queen Anne exteriors—spindle friezes just below the porch entrances, balustrades around the porches. The Graves-Fields also has what are called Chicago windows—square colored glass going up and down the sash with a clear glass center. And Graves painted the name “OAKCREST” on the colored glass panes above his front door. “It’s interesting,” Howard says. “Graves named his house. It’s as if he was thinking, ‘Well, if the plantation owner can name his house, by George, I can name my house.’ He literally had it painted onto the glass.” The Hall house, like its counterpart, features a new paint job with original colors that were stylish in its day. It’s brown, with red window sashes and green highlights. It had been painted olive green in the 1990s, while the Graves-Fields home had been covered with white aluminum siding in the 1960s. Howard says that when he first saw homes’ original colors, he thought, “This is going to be dismal—brown, red, with the green. But they really worked nicely.” In addition to showcasing Preservation NC’s new headquarters, the symposium will also contemplate the achievements of Oberlin Village, a historic, albeit fast-disappearing, African American neighborhood first established around 1870. “Oberlin was a proud community,” Howard says. “People know Princeville,” he added, referring to the flood-prone Edgecombe County hamlet that was arguably the nation’s first incorporated all-black town. “Oberlin was Raleigh’s Princeville. … It was a freestanding community outside of Raleigh. It was its own town, with churches, stores, and schools. There are not many more of these freedman’s villages out there.” tmcdonald@indyweek.com

INDY ANIMALS Animal Protection Society of Durham's

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

11.06–11.13

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

THE BLACK KEYS

A decade ago, The Black Keys headlining major arenas was unthinkable, no matter how powerful the then-duo’s hybrid of raw blues and gritty garage rock already was. Then came 2010’s expansive Brothers, the second of four LPs featuring Danger Mouse as a producer, in which Dan Auerbach’s trademark explosive riffs took a backseat to sleek, rhythm-centric songs with attentiongrabbing hooks. The Grammy-winning album was rightfully massive, turning the band into arena staples. After capping their run with Danger Mouse with 2014’s psych-tinged Turn Blue, the Keys went back to their guitar-forward beginnings on this year’s Let’s Rock, though the denser arrangements and polished production remains. Though supporting the latter, this tour touches on each of these phases of the band’s catalog. Quirky indie rock icons Modest Mouse, meanwhile, shift their career-spanning sets nightly, occasionally focusing on their 2004 commercial breakthrough, Good News For People Who Love Bad News. Shannon & The Clams open with infectious energy and retro prom-party vibes. —Spencer Griffith PNC ARENA, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $55+, www.pncarena.com 26 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

The Black Keys PHOTO BY ALYSSE GAFKJEN

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

SIEGFRIED: ACT III IN CONCERT

Beauty, Rilke wrote, is nothing but the beginning of terror. Perhaps that’s why a bear, a dragon, a ring of fire, and the deadly treacheries of a trickster guardian could not make Richard Wagner’s Siegfried fear, but the sight of the sleeping valkyrie Brünnhilde—the first woman he had ever seen—caused him to tremble. It took twelve years—from 1857 to 1869—for the composer to figure out how to end his three-act opera. Possibly it was because the third act, as North Carolina Opera’s general director Eric Mitchko notes, constitutes a fundamental hinge in the Ring Cycle: the moment when the fates of mortals irrevocably passes from the hands of the gods to human hands instead. The company’s former artistic director, Timothy Myers, returns to direct Richard Cox and Alexandra LoBianco as Siegfried and Brünnhilde in a concert presentation of Act III, with projected English translations of the libretto. —Byron Woods MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, RALEIGH 2 p.m., $44+, www.ncopera.org

The New Pornographers PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

Since 1997, The New Pornographers have consistently cranked out power-pop anthems that smack you in the face with thrilling walls of sound. The Vancouver-based collective released their eighth studio record, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, back in September. The record was primarily written and produced by A.C. Newman, aside from a contribution by former member Dan Bejar (Destroyer) on the track “Need Some Giants.” While this album doesn’t see much of a shift from the previous records, it still has its fair share of great moments like the airy arpeggiated synths on “Leather on the Seat” or the orchestral swells on “Colossus Of Rhodes.” As always, Neko Case’s vocals shine. Lady Lamb, the stage name of Aly Spaltro, opens. Her latest record, Even in the Tremor, takes more of a pop direction, a departure from the stripped-back, acoustic sound of her previous record Tender Warriors Club. —Sam Haw THE HAW RIVER BALLROOM, SAXAPAHAW 8 p.m., $32–$35, www.catscradle.com

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8–SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

ArtsPower’s production of

NC COMICON: BULL CITY

If you’re looking for the big-name TV and movie guests that have come to dominate many comic-book conventions, look elsewhere: NC Comicon is all about comics and the people who create and love them. The biannual blowout from the folks at Ultimate Comics, which takes place in Raleigh each spring and in Durham each fall, has a top-drawer lineup of guest creators this year, including Kevin Eastman, who co-created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Becky Cloonan, the first female artist of the main Batman line. There are also deep cuts for old-school comics nerds, such as Flaming Carrot Comics creator Bob Burden and The Crow creator James O’Barr. And OK, sure, there’s a media guest here and there, such as Greg Cipes, who voices Beast Boy on the Teen Titans shows. But mostly, it’s longboxes as far as the eye can see, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. —Brian Howe DURHAM CONVENTION CENTER, DURHAM Various times, $20–$200, www.nccomicon.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? BIG THIEF AT THE HAW RIVER BALLROOM (P. 28), FREEMAN’S SECOND ANNIVERSARY PARTY AT FREEMAN’S CREATIVE (P. 9), RON LIBERTI AND JOHN BOWMAN AT ATTIC 506 (P. 34), MEMBER WHEN?! AT FULL FRAME THEATER (P. 34), PRESERVATION NC FALL SYMPOSIUM AT SHAW UNIVERSITY (P. 23), WILMINGTON ON FIRE AT PROVIDENT1858 (P. 35)

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH AT 10 AM.

CARY ARTS CENTER

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Judson & Lang Hugh Willard Blumora Scott Bouldin Free wine tasting 5-7pm Pete Pawsey

Music Performed from 6pm to 10pm Beer & Wine Served Daily Timberlyne Shopping Center, Chapel Hill 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd • specialtreatsnc.com

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RECENTLY ANNOUNCED: Asgeir, Grayscale, Hot Mulligan, Michal Menert, Late Night Radio THU

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LA MIGRACIÓN ES HERMOSA

A Benefit for the Border featuring Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands, Quilla and David Wimbish of the Collection Local 506 presents

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THE JAPANESE THE JAPANESE HOUSE / Our Girl HOUSE Our Girl

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CHASTITY BELT BELT CHASTITY Strange Strange Ranger Ranger

Crank It Loud Presents

WITH CONFIDENCE:

11/17 The Love And Loathing Tour with Seaway,

Between You And Me, Doll Skin Tue Duke Science & Society presents

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11/19 Under Pressure: Environmental Policy in Perilous Times

with Alex Pfaff

COMING SOON: Fruit Bats, Songs From the Road Band, Com Truise, Flynt Flossy, Mikal Cronin, Young Bull, Keenan McKenzie, Amigo The Devil, Phutureprimitive, an-ten-nae, Jen Kirkman, Garcia Peoples, Deeper, Sammus, Street Corner Symphony, Thunder Jackson, Eric Roberson, The Wusses, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Integrity, Art Alexakis of Everclear, Magic City Hippies, Carbon Leaf, Beth Stelling, Blackalicious, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Over The Rhine, Lost Dog Street Band, While She Sleeps, David Wilcox, Gnawa LanGus, Little People, Frameworks, Black Atlantic, Kevin Morby

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W/ TATIANA HARGREAVES

BLACK MOUNTAIN

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WED, NOV 06 CAT’S CRADLE Yoke Lore, Future Generations; $12-$15. 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN Ginger Cowgirl, Shannon O’Connor; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. LOCAL 506 Kelsey Walden, Bill West; $12. 8 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR Gudiya, Via Intercom, The Two Youths; $12. 10 p.m. THE PINHOOK Screaming Females, Dusk, Bangzz; $15-$17. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Aqueous, Lespecial; $14-$16. 8 p.m. RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE Ligon Middle School Jazz Ensemble Benefit; $15. 6:30 p.m. THE RITZ The Neighbourhood, Slow Hollows, Claud; $30. 8 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Have Gun Will Travel, Earther; $5. 9 p.m.

THU, NOV 07 ARCANA Flamenco Night; $10-$20. 8 07 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL Vanessa Collier; $12. 7:30 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Blue Cactus, Tatiana Hargreaves; $12-$15. 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN LKHD, Claire Morales; 9 p.m. DUKE COFFEEHOUSE Reg Bloor, Alexander, Andy McLeod; $5. 8:30 p.m. KINGS Ayokay, Wingtip; $12-$37. 8 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE Big K.R.I.T., Rapsody, Domani Harris; $28+. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Asian Doll; $25-$75. 8:30 p.m. THE MAYWOOD Iron Kingdom, Mega Colossus, Knightmare; $10. 8:30 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL La Migracion Es Hermosa - A Benefit for the Border; $15. 8 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR Blue Frequency, People of Earth; $7. 10 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT Tegulcigalpan, Hermit The Fog, Fall Of Another Year; 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Case Sensitive, Youth League; $5. 9 p.m. THE RITZ Ganja White Night; $21$25. 7 p.m. RUBENSTEIN ARTS CENTER AT DUKE UNIVERSITY Rafiq Bhatia; $25. 8 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Pictures of Vernon, Padfoot, Green Aisles; $5. 9 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING Room Into The Fog; $12. 7 p.m. THE WICKED WITCH Bad Breeding, Fatamorgana, Floor Model, Tizzi; $12 8:30 p.m.

FRI, NOV 08 ARCANA Andrew Kasab; 9 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL Wiley Fosters; 9 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE The Dip, Erin & The Wildfire; $15-$18. 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN Stray Local; 9 p.m. KINGS Quintron And Miss Pussycat, Three Brained Robot, 300 Dog Night; $12. 9 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

BIG THIEF

While the emotional core of the folk-rock group Big Thief is the achingly intimate singing and storytelling of Adrianne Lenker, the group is not built around her visions alone. Early on in the project that would become Big Thief, Lenker forged a deep creative partnership with the fantastically intuitive guitarist Buck Meek and, with the addition of bassist Max Oleartchik and drummer James Krivchenia, they created something of a chosen family. On Two Hands, the group’s second album of 2019, the trust of relationship allows for a song like “Not” to unfurl, an intense recitation of obfuscation (“It’s not the formless being / Nor the cry in the air / Nor the boy I’m seeing / With her long black hair”) that reconciles in screams of feedback. On “Wolf,” a gentle picker on which Lenker whispers a wolf’s howl almost shyly, it’s easy to imagine she’s singing directly to her co-conspirators. —Josephine McRobbie THE HAW RIVER BALLROOM, SAXAPAHAW 8 p.m., $21-$24, hawriverballroom.com

Big Thief performs at the Haw River Ballroom on Friday, November 8. PHOTO BY DUSTIN CONDREN

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MON, NOV 11

LINCOLN THEATRE The Breakfast Club, Jason Adamo Band; $10. 9 p.m.

DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The ABBA Show; $45-$65. 7:30 p.m.

LOCAL 506 The Energy, Icey Da Boss, Jooselord, 3AM, Zack Cokas, Chyna Vonne, Ethan Taylor; $5-$8. 8 p.m.

THE FRUIT Ariel Pocock Quartet; $18. 7 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD Vesterian, Gutted Christ, Serpentshrine, Antenora; $10. 8:30 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL Leftover Crack, Days N Daze, Cop/Out, Sibannac; $18-$20. 8 p.m.

KINGS STONEFIELD, Birds of Avalon; $10. 8:30 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT JR Bohannon, Health & Beauty, SE Ward; 9 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Bedowyn, Caustic Casanova, Kult Ikon; $7 suggested. 9 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT The Horsenecks, Andy Cahan, Joseph Decosimo; $12. 8 p.m. THE PINHOOK Girlpool, Desert Secretary; $15. 7 p.m. THE PINHOOK House of Coxx: Prince Dance Party and Costume Contest; 9 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Dom Flemons, JD Wilkes; $20$25. 9 p.m. RHYTHMS LIVE MUSIC HALL I Love The 90s; $20+. 9 p.m. SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS RALEIGH Thirsty Curses; 7 p.m. SHARP NINE GALLERY Jim Ketch Swingtet; $20. 8 p.m. LIM’S DOWNTOWN Born Again Heathens, Drat The Luck, Lords and Liars; $5. 9 p.m. THE STATION The Screws, Nico and Emily; 7 p.m. UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL

Emmylou Harris

The career of country singer Emmylou Harris spans almost five decades. Her collaborations have been numerous, over the years, from her work with musical partner Gram Parsons, who died in 1973, to her two most recent albums with Rodney Crowell, and it’s a testament to her songwriting that her music continues to be so consistently heartbreaking and observant. Her voice, too, has only gotten more resonant over time. —Sarah Edwards [$62+, 8 P.M.] WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Aaron Burdett; $12. 7 p.m.

TUE, NOV 12 ARCANA Thanya Iyer, Nicomo, Dreamroot; $10 suggested. 8 p.m.

Emmylou Harris makes a stop at UNC’s Memorial Hall on Friday, November 8. PHOTO COURTESY OF NONESUCH RECORDS THE WICKED WITCH TWINS, Ernestas Sadau, Copula, Rescinder, Leisure Moan; $10. 9 p.m.

SAT, NOV 09 ARCANA Driftwood Soldier; 8 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters; $10-$15. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE

The Infamous Stringdusters

Sure, the Stringdusters won a Grammy in between their previous album and their latest, but Best Bluegrass Album is one of those non-televised awards that barely even counts anyway. And judging by their new record, Rise Sun, the boys haven’t changed a bit. They’re still pumping out the blend of old-school bluegrass chops and sharp, contemporary songwriting they perfected at least a decade ago. —Jim Allen [$23-$26, 8 P.M.]

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Jack Klatt; $10- $12. 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN Evil English, Jphono1, Sara Bell; 9 p.m. DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream Tour; Multimedia holographic performance. 8 p.m. KINGS Cinnamon Girls; $8. 9 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE High Plains Drifters: Beastie Boys Tribute; $12. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Steve Howell; 3 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Kate Rhudy; 5 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Ellis Dyson & The Shambles, Ashley Heath & Her Heathens; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY Noel Sherr Quartet; $20. 8 p.m.

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THE WICKED WITCH Neo Tokyo; Krikett, Neuron Husky, Ataraxiom. $7-$10. 10 p.m.

Joyland Tape Release

NIGHTLIGHT Legally Goth; Sludge Bath, Magickal Body, Scary Dude, Fifi Die-Die. $7. 10 p.m.

The producer BLAC YOCO and the culture website Durham Beat joined forces to create Joyland, a tape compilation featuring a diverse array oflocal electronic, noise, and hiphop acts. This release party features the dive-bombing post-punk of Sister,brother, the based cloud rap of OG Spliff, the variegated noise music of All Data Lost co-founder Spookstina, the deep-house vibes of Kir, and the space rock of Fall of Another Year. Along with the tape, cop the limited-edition shirt and zinebefore they’re gone. —Brian Howe

THE PINHOOK Paperback, So Soon, The Truth, Almost People, Dirty Weekend; $6-$10. 8 p.m.

[$5 SUGGESTED, 8 P.M.] RHYTHMS LIVE MUSIC HALL Backyard Band; $20-$30. 9 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Lonnie Walker, Case Sensitive, Winfield; $10. 9 p.m. THE MAYWOOD Black Tusk, Child Bite, Noctomb; $12-$15. 9 p.m. MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL The Music of Harry Potter; Presented by the North Carolina Symphony. $65-$76. 7:30 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL The Japanese House, Our Girl; $16-$18. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Fallow Ground, Will Easter And The Nomads, Whiskey Foxtrot; $5. 9 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Doug Prescott Band; 7 p.m.

SUN, NOV 10 BLUE NOTE GRILL Ellerbee Creek Band; 5 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Peter Holsapple Combo; $10. 8 p.m. KINGS Weesefest 4.0 (Episode I); Absent Lovers, Stephen’s Pharmacy, & more. Donation suggested. 8 p.m. LOCAL 506 Cory Branan, Darrin Bradburry, Brian McGee; $12-$15. 8 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Wayne’s Jetski, Shaken Nature, John Bias; $5. 8 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM H.C. McEntire, Al Riggs; $12. 2 p.m.

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Despite a few lineup changes and a departure from the Jagjaguwar label, Black Mountain stays true to their stoner rock roots. This year, they released their fifth record, Destroyer, a sludgy sonic roadtrip inspired by a vintage Dodge Destroyer. Eerie synths drone and fuzzed-out guitars rip on “Licensed to Drive,” a song about singer Stephen McBean finally getting his driver’s license in 2017. Singersongwriter and guitar wizard Ryley Walker opens. —Sam Haw [$20-$22, 8 P.M.] CAT’S CRADLE Cursive, Cloud Nothings, The Appleseed Cast; $20-$22. 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN Daikaju, Blood Red River; 9 p.m. DUKE CAMPUS: DUKE CHAPEL Tenebrae; $25-$34. 8 p.m. DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Third Eye Blind, Smallpools; $40+. 7:30 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE Tiffany Young; $25+. 8 p.m. LOCAL 506 Goon, Nathan Arizona and the New Mexicans, Moose; $8-$10. 9 p.m.

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THE NIGHT RIDER Arthur Buezo, Party Girl, Savage; 8 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT Waldo Witt, TC Superstar; $8. 8:30 p.m.

Even though Robert Alfons has said that his new TR/ST album, The Destroyer – 2, is a deconstruction of shame, it’s baffling that he chose “Shame” as the first single. A pleasant but innocuous two minutes of ambient piano and strings, it feels more like an interlude than a single, and it isn’t representative of the album, which is a powerful, transporting take on the beautifully doomed, pulsating darkwave sound he’s known for. With SRSQ. —Brian Howe [$17, 8 P.M.]

THE PINHOOK Lisa Prank, Fruit Snack; $10. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Jeremy Pinnell; $8-$10. 8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK Kamara Thomas, Karen and the Sorrows; $10. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Vintage Pistol, Lake Chamberlain; $5-$10. 9 p.m.

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OPENING The Art of Giving painting, sculpture, photography, glass art, jewelry, turned wood, pottery & fiber art. Reception: Nov. 29 6-9pm. Mon, Nov 11. Tue, Dec 31. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. HillsboroughGallery.com. BIG INK Live printmaking. Sat, Nov 9. Sun, Nov 10. 11 AM Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org. NC Gourd Arts & Crafts Festival $2. Sat, Nov 9. Sat, Nov 9. 9 AM NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh. ncgourdsociety.org.

ONGOING 100+ Years of Earth and Fire: A Retrospective of Four Women Working in Clay Pottery. Reception Nov 15, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Thru Dec 7. Durham Art Guild, Durham. durhamartguild.org. Lety Alvarez, Pepe Caudillo, Allison Coleman Paintings. Thru Jan 25. Artspace, Raleigh. Anarchism and the Political Art of Les Temps Nouveaux, 18951914 Prints and graphics. Thru Dec 15. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art. Thru Jan 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

The Art of Resistance Thru Dec 13. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures With guest curator Hannah Star Rogers. Additional work on view at NCMA. Thru Mar 15. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts. ncsu.edu. John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Scott Avett: INVISIBLE Paintings and prints. Thru Sun, Feb 2. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Megan Bostic: Undeveloped Memories Mixed media. Thru Dec 7. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent Mixed media. Thru Dec 1. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. ncartmuseum.org. Ashlyn Browning: Recalibrate Paintings. Thru Nov 30. Artspace, Raleigh. . Conner Calhoun: Whispers from Wizard Mountain Drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Thru Dec 13. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. Kennedi Carter: Godchild Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com/durham.

A Certain Uncertainty; from the Cassilhaus Collection Thru Nov 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org. Chatham Attitude Longitude and Latitude: 2019 Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour Mixed Media. Reception: Nov 22, 6 p.m. Fri, Nov 1. Thru Nov 30. 6 PM The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org. conTEXT: A Calligraphic Journey Thru Nov 7. NCSU’s The Crafts Center, Raleigh. crafts.arts.ncsu.edu. Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations Art inspired by music and rhythm. Thru Mar 1. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Dirty South Jasmine Best, Laura Little, Aaron McIntosh, Renzo Ortega. Thru Nov 30. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Encantada | Enchanted Thru Dec 20. Duke Campus: John Hope Franklin Center, Durham. Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Thru Jan 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu. Peter Filene & Bill McAllister Photos. Thru Nov 10. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. Coulter Fussell & Antonia Perez: Heirloom Quilts and mixed media. Reception: Nov 1, 6 p.m. Thru Dec 28. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

RON LIBERTI AND JOHN BOWMAN: PIZZA TAKES THE CAKE The warren of artist studios that make up Attic 506 will be buzzing with life on Second Friday, and—aptly, for a space above the indie music club Local 506—the Chapel Hill music scene will be in full effect. The main exhibit, Pizza Takes the Cake, features the screen prints of local legend Ron Liberti (formerly of Pipe, currently of Cold Cream) and the collages of John Bowman, a veteran of bands like Kerbloki and the co-owner of Bowbarr. Supplementing Liberti’s polished punk aesthetic and Bowman’s retro-absurdist one, Acid Rain Production exhibits a video by Rachele Riley, and George Jenne screens a film on the roof at sundown. While the space is open by appointment throughout the month, the best time to experience the exhibit as a part of the social fabric it stems from is Friday night. —Brian Howe

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Hal Goodtree & Students: Photos. Thru Nov 9. Through This Lens, Durham. Harriet Hoover, Vanessa Murray, Rusty Shackleford Thru Jan 5. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery Frank Konhaus & Ellen Cassily: Cassilhaus Collection Photos. Thru Nov 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org. Georges Le Chevallier: Shibui Paintings Paintings. Thru Nov 23. VAE, Raleigh. Maria Martinez-Cañas: Rebus + Diversions Mixed media. Thru Jan 12. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. Chris McGuire: With The Land Photography. Thru Nov 23. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Raleigh. Momentum @ Hamilton Hill 2D and 3D art. Reception: Nov 16, 5-8 p.m. Thru Dec 31. Hamilton Hill, Durham. More Outsider Art in the Visitors Center Folk art. Group show. Thru Nov 29. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. mikesarttruck.com. Mystical Logical Mixed media. Thru Dec 13. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. New Orleans Second Line Parades Photos. Thru Dec 31. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel Hill. southerncultures.org. NOURISH Thru Dec 2. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com. Now It’s Dark Prints. Thru Nov 15. 10 a.m. Holy Mountain Printing, Durham. holymountainprinting.com. Nuevo Espíritu de Durham: New Spirit of Durham Personal stories and images. Fri, Sep 13. Thru Jan 5. Museum of Durham History , Durham. cityofraleighmuseum.org. Orange County Artists Guild Open Studio Tour Seventy-eight artists. Thru Nov 10. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com. Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu.

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Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com/durham.

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QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Thru Mar 8. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC Campus: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu.

The ongoing gentrification of Durham—sharply accelerated in recent years, and rooted in decades of institutional racism and housing inequality—has erased much of the history belonging to longtime residents. At this event, a community retelling of the history of the city hosted by Scalawag magazine and sponsored by PEN America, local artists and storytellers will gather together to remember the “vibrancy, color, and history of Durham before developers.” The event lineup includes the storytellers Aya Shabu and Brother Ray Eurquhart and the visual artists Candy Carver, Billy Dee, and Anthony Patterson; there will also be a thirty-minute screening about the history of Durham. Ultimately, though, the floor at this multi-generational event belongs to the people with lived experiences: Audience members are encouraged to come bearing the stories and marginalia from decades past, including polaroids, cassette tapes, and scrapbooks. Light refreshments included. —Sarah Edwards

Lynn Saville: Photos. Thru Nov 9. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com. She Who Tells a Story Thru Dec 1. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org. Laura Lacambra Shubert: New Works Paintings. Thru Dec 29. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net. Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Thru Dec 21. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, an Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com.

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Sydney Steen: Fault Lines Vignettes. Thru Oct 25, 2020. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com. Dawn Surratt & Lori Vrba: (en)compass Mixed media. Thru Dec 20. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com. Yuko Nogami Taylor: Majestic Incognito - Sanctuary Paintings. Thru Dec 2. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com. Teens, Inspired: Home Poems, mixed media. Thru Jan 3. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. ¡Viva Viclas!: The Art of the Lowrider Motorcycle Guest curator Denise Sandoval. Thru Feb 9. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org. What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art. Thru Jan 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

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READINGS & SIGNINGS James Applewhite, Brit Washburn Time Beginnings (Applewhite) & Notwithstanding (Washburn). Tue, Nov 12, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com. Andrea Beaty Sofia Valdez, Future Prez. Sat, Nov 9, 6 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Wes J. Bryant Hunting the Caliphate: America’s War on ISIS and the Dawn of the Strike Cell. Wed, Nov 6, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Cassandra King Conroy Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. Fri, Nov 8, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Debra Diamond Diary of a Death Doula: 25 Lessons the Dying Teach Us About the Afterlife. Fri, Nov 8, 7 p.m. The Episcopal Center at Duke, Durham. Tori Eldridge The Ninja Daughter. Sat, Nov 9, 2 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Cameron Dezen Hammon This Is My Body. Fri, Nov 8, 6 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Kelly Starling Lyons Sun, Nov 10, 2 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

Charles D. Thompson Jr. Going Over Home. Sat, Nov 9, 2 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Chris McDougall Running With Sherman: The Donkey with a Heart of a Hero. Sat, Nov 9, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton The Revisioners. Tue, Nov 12, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Orrin Pilkey Sea Level Rise. Thu, Nov 7, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Lee Smith, Samia Serageldin Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South. Thu, Nov 7, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

LECTURES, ETC. Rafuq Bhatia Thu, Nov 7, 12 p.m The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com. The Dancing Species Fri, Nov 8, 12 p.m. Ruby Lounge at Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham.

stage OPENING Black Laughs Matter: NCCU Comedy Show Comedy. $15$50. Thu, Nov 7, 6 p.m. Rhythms Live Music Hall, Durham. rhythmslivenc.com. Chet Chats Comedy. $8. Thu, Nov 7, 8 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com. Erik Griffin Comedy. Thurs: 7 p.m.; Fri: 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m.; Sat: 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $20-$70. Nov 7-9, Raleigh Improv, Raleigh. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years Play. Tues-Fri: 7:30 p.m.; Sat & Sun: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $31+. Nov 8-17, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Heroes and Villains Storytelling. $26. Sat, Nov 9, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Judge John Hodgman Podcast taping. $30 - $25. Thu, Nov 7, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Logan Guntzelman Comedy. Fri 8 p.m., Sat 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. $20. Nov 8-9, Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com. Neptunes Comedy Comedy. Alex Hofford, Lucy Moore, Aaron Ransom, Corey Freeman, Freddy Valoy, Wolfgang Mehta, Matt White. $5. Sun, Nov 10, 8:30 p.m. Neptunes Parlour, Raleigh. neptunesparlour.com. Nurse Blake Comedy. $25+. Tue, Nov 12, 7:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Sasha Velour Drag show. $35+. Fri, Nov 8, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. The Big Boyz of Comedy Comedy. $5. Fri, Nov 8, 7 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill. thepitchapelhill.com.

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Tony Roberts Comedy. Thu 8 p.m.; Fri & Sat 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun 7 p.m. $23-$31. Thu, Nov 7-10, Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com. We Will Rock You Musical. Thu, Nov 7, 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sensory-Friendly Performance) Raleigh Little Theatre. Musical. Sat, Nov 9, 1 p.m. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. raleighlittletheatre.org.

ONGOING Be More Chill NRACT. Musical. $20-$22. Fri: 8 p.m. Sat: 8 p.m. Sun: 3 p.m. Thru Nov 10, North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. nract.org. A Bronx Tale Musical Musical. Tues-Thurs: 7:30 p.m., Fri: 8 p.m., Sat: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sun: 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. $31+. Nov 5- 10. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com. Carolyn Adams Play. Fri & Sat at 8 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m. $17. Thru Nov 10. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

When men cannot control their anger, ruin spills out upon everything and everyone around them. So goes what’s been called the oldest story: the story of war. Emerging director Bobby Callaway’s take on a translation of the Euripidean tragedy focuses on male hubris, the atrocity and senselessness of battle, and the toll both ultimately take on the lives of the women after the fall of Troy. But wait: Is that a veteran of the Iraqi War among the conquered? And does a widow from World War II stand beside her? “Throughout history, these conflicts have been initiated by men,” observes producer Naveed Moeed. “Now it’s time for women to take their power back.” In a Bare Theatre production that breaks free from its original ancient setting, the women of Troy and other conflicts across the centuries find agency when the goddess Athena’s displeasure is not deferred. —Byron Woods

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OPENING Doctor Sleep—Stephen King sequel to The Shining. Rated R. Last Christmas—Halloween is over, so of course it’s time for a Christmas rom-rom. In this rendition; an unlucky department store elf falls in love. Rated PG-13. Playing with Fire—Family comedy about a crew of firefighters who are tasked with babysitting. Rated PG. Midway—This WWII flick about Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway stars a fleet of hunks. Rated PG-13. 36 | 11.06.19 | INDYweek.com

½ Pain and Glory—In this auto-fictional exercise, the director Pedro Almodóvar is honest about his life but guarded about his psyche. Rated R. —Marta Núñez

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers. Downton Abbey—King George V and Queen Mary pay a visit to the abbey and cause a flurry of activity in this spin-off of the television series. Rated PG. Abominable—A yeti must be reunited with his family in this computer-animated adventure. Rated PG.

of activity in this spin-off of the television series. Rated PG. The Gemini Man—Will Smith always seems to be being hunted by mutants and/or clones; in this horror flick, the clone killer is his younger self. Rated PG-13. ½ Good Boys—In this Superbad for tweens, a trio of sixth-grade BFFs have misadventures as they try to find the cool-kids party. The profuse profanity is cut by the kids’ infectious charm. Rated R. —NM Harriet—Kasi Lemmons stars in this biographical film about the heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Rated PG-13.

Ad Astra—A tortured but calm Brad Pitt traverses the solar system in search of his lost father. Rated PG-13.

Hustlers—The true story of strippers drugging and stealing from Wall Street stock traders is the stuff think pieces are made of. Rated R.

The Addams Family —In this star-studded new Addams installation, the macabre clan face-off with a reality television show host. Rated PG.

IT Chapter Two—The mixed reviews for the second part of Stephen King’s killer-clown opus mainly agree that it’s just not that scary. Rated R.

 After the Wedding— Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams outshine the script, in this gender-flipped remake of the 2006 Danish drama. Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald

Jexi—A man’s life is ruined by his phone, when an AI program goes haywire. Rated R.

½ Angel Has Fallen— Secret Service agent Mike Banning is framed for an assassination attempt on POTUS. It’s not as wretched as London Has Fallen, and Nick Nolte as a conspiracy theorist is almost worth it. Rated R.—Neil Morris Black and Blue—A rookie cop captures a murder by corrupt cops, in this timely thriller. Rated R. Countdown—Apps may kill us all, and in this horror film, they do (the app in question is a countdown clock that predicts your time of death; not surprisingly, it may also be a killing mahine). Rated PG-13 The Death of Dick Long—A couple of ne’er-do-wells in small town Alabama find themselves covering up a crime, when their bandmate bro turns up dead. Rated R. Downton Abbey—King George V and Queen Mary pay a visit to the abbey and cause a flurry

Jojo Rabbit—This black comedy is about a German boy who discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Rated PG-13. Joker—At first, the buzz around this star vehicle for Batman’s greatest villain was all about Joaquin Phoenix’s intense turn in a role Heath Ledger made famous. But as more details of the plot have emerged, there’s been a justified backlash about what sounds like an antihero myth for violent incels. Rated R. Judy—Renee Zellweger, in a role that will likely make her an Oscar frontrunner, plays Judy Garland during the last few years of her life. Rated PG-13. The Lighthouse—Birds caw, fog looms, and waves crash in this hallucinatory horror film about two lightkeepers trapped in a remote lighthouse. Somewhere between camp and distressing gore-fest, the lighthouse will leave you paranoid about seagulls (and probably other people). Rated R. —Sarah Edwards

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WILMINGTON ON FIRE This screening, which takes place inside a coworking space inside the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance building, is aptly located: the film chronicles a racial massacre that took place in Wilmington in 1898, the same year The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association was founded. Wilmington was the largest city in the state, at the time, and had a majority black population that included a thriving middle class. On November 10, an armed mob of Democratic Party-backed white supremacists opened fire on African American neighborhoods, slaughtering hundreds and driving thousands of people out of the city for good. This Wilmington on Fire screening is part of a monthly film series in honor of the Wonderland Theater, a black-owned movie theater built by Frederick K. Watkins; screenings occur on the first Thursday of every month, October through May, excluding February. Director Christopher Everett will attend and a brief Q&A will follow the screening of the film; this event is free but you must RSVP through Eventbrite to reserve your tickets. —Thomasi McDonald

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A still from Wilmington on Fire PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKERS Lucy in the Sky—This Noah Hawley film gives an existential touch to the story of disgraced astronaut Lisa Nowak (see: every tabloid story in 2007). Rated R. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil— Angelina Jolie was perhaps born to do many things, but surely playing one of Disney’s greatest villianesses is one of them. Rated PG. Motherless Brooklyn—Edward Norton plays a loner private detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel. Rated PG.  Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant exercise in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. —Marta Núñez Pouzols

 The Peanut Butter Falcon—This heartwarming Tom-and-Huck tale features a breakout performance by Zack Gottsagen, who has Down syndrome, and a soulful Shia LaBeouf. Rated PG-13. —GM  Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins—This spirited documentary pays homage to Molly Ivins, a native Texan and the daughter of an oil tycoon who bucked both geography and genealogy to become a leading voice of the liberal left for more than fifty years. Unrated. Rambo: Last Blood—The Vietnam War was a long time ago now, but wily veteran Rambo is still out here, this time waging one-man war on a drug cartel. Rated R. Ready or Not—A new bride is drawn into a brutal game of hide-and-seek with her husband’s wealthy family in this class-ragey, horrorcomedy-thriller. Rated R.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark—The classic anthology of ghoulish tales gets mined for incidents in this horror throwback. Rated PG-13. ½ Spider-Man: Far from Home—It’s a bedrock truism that a superhero story is only as good as its villain, and Mysterio’s motivations are entirely and conspicuously dumb. Rated PG-13. —GM Terminator: Dark Fate—It’s like nothing after Terminator 2: Judgement Day ever happened as James Cameron returns to the fold of the classic sci-fi franchise. Rated R. Where’s My Roy Cohn?–This documentary about Donald Trump’s mentor and fixer exposes the seamy roots of the American political machine. Rated PG-13. Zombieland: Double Tap—A heartland sequel to the 2009 cult classic. Rated R.

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