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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 33, NO. 45

6 What, exactly, is Pat McCrory’s end game?

8 The city says it can’t grant a police oversight board any investigative powers without the consent of the General Assembly.

10 Even with the progress made in Paris, the world remains on track to be 6.1 degrees warmer by 2100 than it was in pre-industrial times.

15 Your entire Thanksgiving spread won’t deliver the happiness that mixed drinks will.

16 The fate of your leftover mashed potatoes is brighter, and tastier, than you imagine.

18 Southern food’s debt to the Lumbee people is rarely mentioned, but the Lumbee remember.

21 Mandolin Orange and Hiss Golden Messenger always seemed like they should have more in common. Now, they do.

22 To tank an anti-discrimination initiative, just make an accusation of discrimination.

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Members of the public fill the back of the Durham County Commission chambers for a preliminary hearing over whether the county board of elections should look into allegations of early-vote mishandling. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

22 Arts & Culture 26 What to Do This Week 28 Music Calendar

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As part of last week’s package on the election of Donald Trump, we asked journalist Troy Herring to talk to some Trump supporters in his native Wayne County. His story, “Trump’s America,” featured several interviews that hinted at an undercurrent of racism. Several Trump supporters took umbrage.

“More of the same from the left: creating a totally bogus narrative to fit their increasingly radical hate agenda,” writes UNCconservative. “I’ve seen this story one hundred times on CNN or read it in The Washington Post. Here is how it goes down: Little Johnny goes off to local university. Gets indoctrinated by the left. Gets his journalism degree. Thinks he is smarter than everyone else. Arrogantly writes hate-filled hit pieces.

Has wine and cheese with his leftist friends.

Feels holier than thou.

Loses an election. More apoplectic hit pieces.

Vicious cycle. The left is going to continue to hate those not like them. We are all ignorant hicks in their eyes. Can’t change them. Drain the swamp.”

Elizabeth Prior believes the writer should leave the South: “Mr. Herring, you, sir, are a pompous ass. While Wayne County is not my favorite place on the planet, there are many positive qualities of Southern, rural Americans that have obviously been wasted on you. You seem to have found some degree of career success for yourself. So, if you find the rural South so offensive, why don’t you get the hell out and go live among some hypocritical, liberal Yankees, where you would obviously fit in much better? I guess you wouldn’t be able to find anyone to judge and demean with your so-called journalism.”

“How did it feel to trash your hometown?” asks Ann Sullivan, vice chairwoman of the local

Republican Party. “In Wayne County, I have not seen one single act of racism! I guess you missed all of the acts of kindness before, during, and after Hurricane Matthew and the floods that occurred after it. I can tell you everyone worked side by side and offered housing, food, and shelter for them and their pets. If that is what you call racist, you have a lot to learn, especially about your home county.”

(Sullivan also contends that there are some comments attributed to her in the story that she did not say, though she did not offer specifics.)

“I grew up in the rural South,” counters mx1010, “and I can say that I’ve known many people just like [those profiled in this story], or probably even worse. These are the kinds of people you don’t want to run into if you are the slightest bit ‘different.’

They will attack your character in any way they can formulate with their shortsighted perspectives and attempt to discredit any confidence you show them.”

“It’s all about racism, white privilege, antiintellectualism, fear of change (as well as of outsiders who support change and hold different ideas), and resentment of others who are educated and choose to use and apply that education to better themselves,” writes Mike Voiland. “One truly has to wonder if [Joseph] Mozingo’s belief that making America great again by going back to ‘the beginning’ means going back to America’s origin sin of white-over-black as the natural order of things, including treating blacks as inanimate chattel and being less than human.”

“More of the same from the left: creating a totally bogus narrative to fit their increasingly radical hate agenda.

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What, exactly, is Governor McCrory’s end game?

The final count on election night put the governor’s challenger, Attorney General Roy Cooper, around five thousand votes ahead, enough to trigger a recount. But a recount wasn’t good enough. The McCrory campaign doubled down, filing election protests in fifty-two counties—including Wake, Durham, and Orange—alleging voter fraud and other irregularities. McCrory also seized on a weird case in Bladen County involving the county’s water and soil conservation district supervisor race to claim rampant Democratic voter fraud.

Several of those protests—filed with county boards that are, per state law, all run

by Republicans—have already been denied, including in the three Triangle counties.

In Wake, the governor’s team produced a spreadsheet of people who “might” have voted in multiple states, put together from a “commercial database.” That complaint was rejected due to lack of evidence. Similarly, the Durham County board unanimously rejected the McCrory campaign’s request to recount more than ninety-four thousand ballots that it claimed were tainted by malfeasance.

While there was a software glitch, the board ruled that there was no evidence of tampering or data corruption.

The McCrory campaign appealed those denials, which set the stage for a disorganized, hastily arranged State Board of Elections meeting that took place via teleconference on Sunday afternoon. At one point, apropos of nothing, executive director Kim Strach mentioned that the state board’s IT director had read a news report saying that felons had possibly voted and took it upon himself to search the state board’s database. There he supposedly found 339 convicted felons who voted during early and absentee voting.

In the end, the board denied the governor’s request to immediately assume jurisdiction of all of the election complaints. Instead, at a meeting Tuesday, the board was set to determine guidelines for how counties should handle voter fraud allegations and decide whether it can throw out the votes of ineligible people. (That meeting was still ongoing as the INDY went to press Tuesday.

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Jacqueline Wagstaff testifies during an evidentiary hearing for the Durham County Board of Elections on Friday. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER Civitas Institute filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate 97,753 ballots of voters who took advantage of same-day registration, which a federal court restored earlier this year after the legislature eliminated it. According to the lawsuit, the State Board of Elections will not be able to verify those voters until after it certifies the election.

All the while, Cooper’s lead has widened.

On Tuesday morning, the Cooper campaign claimed an 8,569-vote lead. Cooper released a video Sunday declaring victory; on Monday he rolled out his transition website.

Newspapers and prominent Democrats demanded that McCrory concede.

The governor has so far declined: “Why is Roy Cooper so insistent on circumventing the electoral process and counting the votes of dead people and felons? It may be because he needs those fraudulent votes to count in order to win,” McCrory spokesman Ricky Diaz said in a statement.

Which again raises the question: What’s the governor’s end game?

One possibility—thanks to a quirk of the state constitution—is that, if the General Assembly determines that the election is “contested,” Republican lawmakers will be able to intervene and decide the result. Of course, doing so would require the expendi-

ture of an enormous amount of political capital, and Cooper would no doubt challenge this chicanery in federal court. But this could be the only play McCrory has left.

As Rob Schofield, director of research at N.C. Policy Watch, wrote last week: “The point of these complaints is not to find actual votes for McCrory. … The objective, as it has been for several days now, is to win a PR battle by dragging things out and sowing confusion.”

Even if McCrory’s last-ditch effort doesn’t work, it sets a dangerous precedent. As Duke political scientist Pablo Beramendi noted on Twitter Tuesday morning: “Core principles of democracy at stake in NC. … Without loser’s consent, democracy dies.”

+GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND Republican lawmakers thought they had it all figured out.

This summer, they voted to alter the state’s election law pertaining to some judicial races.

Under the old system, the order of judicial candidates in partisan races was decided through a randomized process; under the

new system, the candidates affiliated with the party of the governor would get top billing, which is where candidates in lowprofile races like these want to be.

The move was rather nakedly designed to boost the fortunes of Phil Berger Jr., son of the Senate leader and candidate for the N.C. Court of Appeals. And it worked: Berger was first where he might not otherwise have been, and he won—barely. So, too, did the four other Republican candidates for the appeals court. (Those judgeships are ostensibly nonpartisan, but the General Assembly passed a different measure this year that required party affiliations to be noted on the ballot, part of an effort to pack the state’s judiciary with Republicans.)

Cool trick. One problem: this law also appears to have helped elect Mike Morgan, an African-American Democrat from Raleigh, to the N.C. Supreme Court, even as Donald Trump won the state handily. Even more astounding, Morgan won easily, by ten percentage points. On the court, he’ll give Democrats a 4–3 advantage and can serve as a check on legislative overreach.

Here’s how that happened: while the appeals court races were partisan, the only Supreme Court race on the ballot wasn’t.

Its order was still random, and Morgan got

HOW DID MIKE MORGAN WIN?

Candidates’ percentage of the vote in deep-red counties, where Morgan shouldn’t have had a prayer ON THE BALLOT

CHEROKEE CO.

CLEVELAND CO.

CURRITUCK CO.

DUPLIN CO.

PAMLICO CO.

Donald Trump (President, R)

Trump 77%

Trump 64%

Trump 72%

Trump 59%

Trump 62%

Phil Berger Jr. (N.C. Court of Appeals, R)

Berger Jr. 73%

Berger 62%

Berger 71%

Berger 56%

Berger 61%

Hunter Murphy (N.C. Court of Appeals, R)

Murphy 72%

Murphy 60%

Murphy 70%

Murphy 55%

Murphy 60%

Bob Hunter (N.C. Court of Appeals, R)

Hunter 76%

Hunter 65%

Hunter 75%

Hunter 60%

Hunter 64%

Richard Dietz (N.C. Court of Appeals, R)

Dietz 76%

Dietz 65%

Dietz 75%

Dietz 57%

Dietz 64%

Valerie Zachary (N.C. Court of Appeals, R)

Zachary 74%

Zachary 64%

Zachary 76%

Zachary 58%

Zachary 64%

Mike Morgan (N.C. Supreme Court, D)

Morgan 58%

Morgan 52%

Morgan 58%

Morgan 55%

Morgan 55%

SOURCE: STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS

the top slot, over incumbent justice Robert Edmunds. He might well have prevailed because conservative voters, knowing little to nothing about these candidates but having seen Republican judges on top elsewhere on the ballot, assumed Morgan was a Republican. And that was how Morgan overcame an otherwise very good night for the North Carolina GOP. Now, there’s no way to prove this theory.

Maybe, for instance, people thought Republicans should dominate the state’s Court of Appeals but not the Supreme Court.

And if this election taught us anything, it’s that voters are unpredictable.

But when you look at the numbers, the evidence is compelling. Statewide, Morgan took 54.45 percent of the vote, while Edmunds took 45.55 percent. Those percentages are nearly identical to several Court of Appeals races that went red. To name a few: Republicans Bob Hunter, Richard Dietz, and Valarie Zachary all won with an almost identical 54 percent. (Berger and fellow Republican Hunter Murphy were outliers: Murphy won a closer race, by three percentage points, though there was a thirdparty candidate; Berger Jr. won by half a percentage point.)

Those three judicial candidates, for example, won Lenoir County—Hunter by five points, Dietz by two, Zachary by two (Berger Jr. lost Lenoir)—which Trump won by five points and Governor McCrory won by seven.

Morgan won the county by nineteen points.

Another example: Rockingham County.

Trump and U.S. Senator Richard Burr won there by about thirty points. McCrory won by twenty. Berger Jr. won by twenty-one.

Murphy won by twenty-four, and Hunter, Dietz, and Zachary won by twenty-nine.

Morgan—again, a nonincumbent black Democrat—won Rockingham by five.

One more: Cherokee County, out in the mountains. Trump won by fifty-six points.

Burr won by fifty. All five of the Republican appellate court judges garnered north of 70 percent of the vote. Morgan won with 58 percent.

We could go on, but you get the point.

Morgan appears to owe his upset victory— and Democratic control of the state’s highest court—less to a brilliant campaign strategy than to Republicans’ shenanigans backfiring.

To correct these backfiring shenanigans, however, Republican lawmakers appear to be considering—wait for it—more shenanigans. Specifically, according to numerous media reports (including from the INDY), lawmakers want to add two seats to the court in a December special session.

The new justices would, of course, be

appointed by the lame duck McCrory, thus maintaining a Republican majority despite the voters’ wishes.

Last week, Phil Berger—the Senate leader, not the new appellate judge—told Capital Tonight that there have been “no discussions within our caucus about that issue.”

Which, while perhaps a dousing of cold water, isn’t exactly a hard no. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest, Ken Fine, and Lauren Horsch.

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Bridge the Divide

RALEIGH OFFICIALS ARE HOLDING COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON POLICE RELATIONS. ACTIVISTS SAY THAT’S NOT ENOUGH.

BY PAUL BLEST

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“We are not here tonight to validate or invalidate anyone’s feelings or truth,” Mayor Nancy McFarlane told a crowd of one hundred-plus people at the Anne Gordon Center for Active Adults in north Raleigh last Wednesday night. “Remember that tonight is a first step. Your participation tonight is the beginning of a long-term commitment to your community.”

Those words marked the opening of the second meeting of Raleigh’s Community Conversations Series, which is designed to facilitate a dialogue between residents, police officers, and elected officials about race and police relations. After a year in which two young African-American men— Akiel Denkins and Jaqwan Terry—were shot and killed by Raleigh cops, McFarlane and other officials say it’s necessary to understand “different truths.”

“It’s the opportunity to talk to people they’ve never talked to before and to hear someone’s point of view and different realities,” McFarlane told the INDY. “But it’s also the ability for people to create some new bonds, and most importantly, to figure out what we want as a city. It can’t be just government telling people what to do; it has to be a partnership.”

The meetings mirror the Face to Face series that police chief Cassandra DeckBrown hosted last winter. The findings from those meetings were released in September. In response to questions about accountability, the Raleigh Police Department announced the creation of a Citizens Police Academy, which affords laypeople the opportunity to “experience aspects of training.”

In March—shortly after Denkins was killed—the city council also approved a $5.2 million plan to put six hundred body cameras on the street over the next three years.

As part of a pilot program, twenty Raleigh cops are now wearing body cams, though a state law that went into effect October 1 gives police chiefs total discretion over who

gets to see the footage and requires a court order for footage to be released to the public.

That law, critics say, undermines the very transparency the body cams were supposed to provide.

Local activists want the city to go further than either the body cams or this series of meetings: they want the citizens’ oversight board they’ve been seeking to no avail for more than a year.

On Thursday, the ACLU and the Police Accountability Community Taskforce, an activist group, sent a letter to McFarlane calling for the city council to consider this board as part of its 2017 agenda, pointing out that an average of only thirty-four complaints against officers have been made in each of the past five years, and only 31 per-

“They did this exact same thing last year. As far as I’m concerned, nothing has happened.” cent of those have been sustained.

ACLU policy counsel Susanna Birdsong says that there’s no way to even know if the officers found to have violated policy were disciplined. “The data we have doesn’t provide any detail, and I think that they would say that this is part of the officer’s personnel file.” In North Carolina, such personnel files are confidential.

“We have real concerns about the Raleigh Police Department’s ability to effectively investigate and appropriately discipline officers who engage in excessive use of force and racially biased policing,” the ACLU and PACT letter said.

Similar oversight boards have been implemented in more than two hundred other cities around the country, including New

York, Seattle, and Kansas City. After Denkins’s death, the city reviewed PACT’s proposal, but in May said it couldn’t grant investigative or subpoena powers to the board without explicit authorization from the General Assembly. So PACT members asked the council to lobby the legislature.

The council declined. The activists hope the council will reconsider next year.

Those who met in north Raleigh on Wednesday night have had very different experiences with the police: white grandmothers don’t interact with cops the same way young African-American men do, for instance, and it’s worth questioning how a meeting in north Raleigh will improve community relations where they most need to be improved—say, in southeast Raleigh.

People there will eventually get their say, the city says. Similar meetings will be held in each of the five council districts, including District C, where Denkins and Terry died.

Dates and locations haven’t been announced.

Activists don’t think this will change anything. “Other than having a facilitator, they did this exact same thing last year,” says Akiba Byrd, a PACT member. “As far as I’m concerned, nothing has happened.”

That facilitator was Willie Ratchford, the executive director of CharlotteMecklenburg’s Community Relations Committee. Ratchford led the meetings and tried to ease whatever tension was in the air. Although accountability advocates are skeptical that these meetings will produce results, Ratchford says the deep racial divides exposed by the presidential election have made getting people to talk about these things easier, not harder.

“I’ve had people say to me that racial discrimination is a thing of the past,” Ratchford says. “The election may have caused us to be more mindful of the divide that we have, and so we now know what the issue is and the problem is. We’re talking about it together, and we’re going to resolve it together.” pblest@indyweek.com

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PARIS Is Donald Trump about to undo all of the progress made at last year’s Paris climate conference?

BY ALASTAIR BLAND

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f President-elect Donald Trump actually believes all the warnings he issued during the election about the threats of immigration, he should be talking about ways to slow global warming as well.

Rising sea levels, caused by the melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps, will probably displace tens of millions of people in the decades ahead, and many may come to North America as refugees.

Climate change will cause a suite of other problems for future generations to tackle as well, and it’s arguably the most pressing issue of our time. Last December, world leaders gathered in Paris to discuss strategies for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists at every corner of the globe confirm that humans are facing a crisis. However, climate change is being all but ignored by American politicians and lawmakers. It was not discussed in depth at all ILLUSTRATION BY SERENE LUSANO

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during this past election cycle’s televised presidential debates. When climate change does break the surface of public discussion, it polarizes Americans like almost no other political issue. Some conservatives, including Trump, still deny there’s even a problem.

“We are in this bizarre political state in which most of the Republican Party still thinks it has to pretend that climate change is not real,” says Jonathan F.P. Rose, a New York City developer and author of The Well-Tempered City, which explores how low-cost green development can mitigate the impacts of rising global temperatures.

Rose point out that progress cannot be made in drafting effective climate strategies until national leaders agree there’s an issue.

“We have such strong scientific evidence,” he says.

“We can disagree on how we’re going to solve the problems, but I would hope we could move toward an agreement on the basic facts.”

That such a serious planet-wide crisis has become

a divide across the American political battlefield is a “tragedy” to Peter Kalmus, an earth scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, who agreed to be interviewed for this story on his own behalf (not speaking for NASA, JPL, or Caltech).

Kalmus warns that climate change is happening whether politicians want to talk about it or not.

“CO2 molecules and infrared photons don’t give a crap about politics, whether you’re liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, or anything else,” Kalmus says.

Slowing climate change will be essential, since adapting to all of its affects may be impossible.

Governments must strive for greater resource efficiency, shift to renewable energy, and transition to more sustainable agricultural practices.

America’s leaders must also implement a carbon pricing system, climate activists say, that places a financial burden on fossilfuel producers and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. But there may be little to

zero hope that such a system will be installed at the federal level. Trump, in fact, has threatened to reverse commitments the United States agreed to in Paris. Trump has even selected a well-known skeptic of climate change, Myron Ebell, to head his U.S. Environmental Protection Agency transition team.

Steve Valk, communications director for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, says the results of the presidential election come as a discouraging setback in the campaign to slow emissions and global warming.

“There’s no doubt that the steep hill we’ve been climbing just became a sheer cliff,” he says. “But cliffs are scalable.”

Valk says the American public must demand that Congress implement carbon pricing. He argues that the government is not likely to attack climate change unless voters force it to take action.

“The solution is going to have to come from the people,” he says. “Our politicians have shown that they’re just not ready to implement a solution on their own.”

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here’s no question the Earth is warming rapidly. For several years in a row now, each year has been warmer than any year prior in recorded temperature records.

The effects of this upward temperature trend are already being seen. As many as two hundred million people could be displaced by 2050. Climate change is disrupting agriculture. Glacial water sources are vanishing. Storms and droughts are becoming more severe. Altered winds and ocean currents are affecting marine ecosystems. So is ocean acidification, another outcome of carbon dioxide emissions. The sea is rising, and eventually will swamp large coastal regions and islands.

This is true in North Carolina, too. A report released in 2015 by the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission Science Panel on Coastal Hazards predicted that, over the next thirty years, sea levels at Duck, on the northern Outer Banks, will rise as many as 10.6 inches. Other parts of the state’s coast would be affected as well, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree. Ten inches doesn’t sound like a lot, Science Panel member and East Carolina University professor Stanley Riggs told the INDY last year, but it means that “most houses in North Carolina that are oceanfront will not make it through a thirtyyear mortgage” without big, governmentfunded improvements to infrastructure.

In 2010, the Science Panel released an even direr report that projected sea-level rise out to 2100. It concluded that sea levels would rise about thirty-nine inches, which, in a word, would be devastating. At the behest of developers and realtors from

coastal counties, the legislature passed a law in 2012 forbidding the panel from issuing projections farther out than thirty years.

After all, acknowledging climate change’s impacts would require regulatory action, and that was something the Republicans in Raleigh did not want to contemplate.

Fortunately for the planet, this head-insand mentality isn’t universal.

World leaders and climate activists made groundbreaking progress toward slowing the effects of global warming at the Paris climate conference. There, leaders from 195 countries drafted a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and steer the planet off its predicted course. The pact, which addresses energy, transportation, industries, and agriculture, is intended to limit the planet’s warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit from preindustrial years to the end of this century.

Scientists have forecasted that an average global increase of 3.6 degrees will have devastating consequences for humanity.

The United States pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent from 2005 levels within a decade. China, Japan, and nations of the European Union made similar promises. More recently, almost two hundred nations agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, extremely potent but short-lived greenhouse gases emitted by refrigerators and air conditioners, and reduce the emissions from the shipping and aviation industries.

But in the wake of such promising international progress, and as 2016 draws to a close as the third record-warm year in a row, many climate activists are disconcerted both by United States leaders’ recent silence on the issue and by the outcome of the presidential election. Mark Sabbatini, editor of the newspaper Icepeople in Svalbard, Norway, believes shortsighted political scheming has pushed climate change action to the back burner. He wants to see politicians start listening to scientists.

“But industry folks donate money and scientists get shoved aside in the interest of profits and reelection,” says Sabbatini, who recently had to evacuate his apartment as unprecedented temperatures thawed out the entire region’s permafrost, threatening to collapse buildings.

Short-term goals and immediate financial concerns distract leaders from making meaningful policy advances on climate.

“In Congress, they look two years ahead,” Sabbatini says. “In the Senate, they look two years ahead. In the White House, they look four years ahead.”

The three hundred nationwide chapters of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby are calling on local governments and chambers of

commerce to support a revenue-neutral carbon fee. This carbon fee would impose a charge on producers of oil, natural gas, and coal. As a direct result, all products and services that depend on or directly utilize those fossil fuels would cost more for consumers, who would thus have an incentive to buy less of them. Food shipped in from far away would cost more than locally grown alternatives. Gas for heating, electricity generated by oil and coal, and driving a car would become more expensive.

“Bicycling would become more attractive, and so would electric cars and home appliances that use less energy,” says Kalmus, an advocate of the carbon fee.

Promoting this fee system is the Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s entire focus. “This would be the most important step we take toward

addressing climate change,” Valk says.

Through the carbon-fee system, the revenue from fossil fuel producers would be evenly distributed by the collecting agencies among the public, perhaps via a tax credit.

Recycling the dividends back into society would make it a fair system, Valk says, since poorer people, who use less energy than wealthier people, would come out ahead.

The system would also place a tariff on incoming goods from nations without a carbon fee. This would keep American industries from moving overseas and maybe even prompt other nations to set their own price on carbon.

But there’s a problem with the carbon fee, according to other climate activists: it doesn’t support social programs that may reduce society’s carbon footprint.

SIX WAYS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE 1. IMPOSE A PRICE ON CARBON

This could occur in several ways. The revenueneutral carbon fee has a great backbone of advocacy support. It would charge fossil-fuel producers at the first point of sale, and the revenue would be distributed among the public.

Prices of goods and services dependent on fossil fuels would go up, while people who buy less of those products and therefore contribute less to climate change would come out ahead. The revenue-neutral system’s one flaw, by some opinions, is that it doesn’t provide government with a new source of revenue for funding social systems that promote renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and other climate-focused measures. A cap-and-trade system, on the other hand, would fund public agencies while creating incentive for industries to pollute less. Republicans, however, tend to oppose cap-and-trade because it acts much like a tax on businesses.

2. CARBON FARMING

Agriculture has been one of the greatest overall emitters of atmospheric carbon. Now, agriculture must play a role in reversing the damage done to the planet—and it’s theoretically a simple task: when plants grow, they draw carbon into their own mass and into the soil. All that a farmer needs to do is keep that carbon there. By planting longstanding trees and perennial row crops, farmers and other land managers have the power to sequester a great deal of the carbon dioxide that has been emitted into the atmosphere. In the process of slowing climate change, soils will become richer and healthier, with more natural productivity and greater water-retention properties than depleted soils.

3. REDESIGN OUR CITIES

Urban areas are responsible for more than half of America’s carbon footprint, by some estimates. The role of cities in driving climate change can be largely offset by turning linear material and waste streams—like water inputs—into circular loops that recycle precious resources. Jonathan F. P. Rose, author of The Well-Tempered City, says that 98 percent of material resources that enter a city leave again,

mostly as waste, within six months. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings would be one very significant way to reduce a city’s carbon footprint. Upgrading transit systems and making streets more compatible with zero-emission transportation, like walking and riding a bicycle, would also cut emissions.

4. SHIFT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY

This is a big one that has to be tackled, and it will mean fighting the petroleum lobby. Generating electricity currently produces 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, the single largest source by sector in the country, according to the EPA. However, Donald Trump has promised to revive the American coal industry and tap into domestic reserves of natural gas and oil—quite the opposite of developing renewable energy technology.

5. STRIVE FOR LOW- TO ZEROEMISSION TRANSPORTATION

Driving your car—one of the most symbolic expressions of American freedom—contributes significantly to climate change. Transport accounts for 26 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA. More than half of this total comes from private vehicles. Airplanes, ships, and trains produce most of the rest. Against the will of the petroleum industry, national leaders must continue pressing for more efficient vehicles, as well as electric ones powered by clean electricity.

6. MAKE HOMES MORE EFFICIENT

A single pilot light produces about a half ton of carbon dioxide per year, according to Peter Kalmus, author of the forthcoming book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. That is just one example of how households contribute to climate change. According to the EPA, commercial and residential spaces produce 12 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. In his book, Kalmus discusses how and why he took simple but meaningful action that reduced his carbon dioxide emissions from about twenty tons per year to just two.

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“It will put no money into programs that serve disadvantaged communities who, for example, might not be able to afford weatherizing their home and lowering their energy bill, or afford an electric vehicle or a solar panel,” says Renata Brillinger, executive director of the California Climate & Agriculture Network. “It doesn’t give anything to public schools for making the buildings more energy efficient, and it wouldn’t give any money to farmers’ incentive programs for soil building.”

Brillinger’s organization is advocating for farmers to adopt practices that actively draw carbon out of the atmosphere, like planting trees and maintaining ground cover to prevent erosion. Funding, she says, is needed to support such farmers.

But Valk says establishing a carbon pricing system must take into account the notorious reluctance of conservatives in Congress.

“You aren’t going to get a single Republican in Congress to support legislation unless it’s revenue-neutral,” he says. “Any policy is useless if you can’t pass it in Congress.”

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n Washington, D.C., the nation’s leaders continue tussling over high-profile issues like immigration, taxes, health care, abortion, guns, and foreign affairs.

Climate change activists wish they’d think more about soil. That’s because stopping greenhouse gas emissions alone will not stop climate change. The carbon dioxide emitted through centuries of industrial activity will continue to drive warming unless it is removed from the air and put somewhere.

“There are only three places carbon can go,” Brillinger says. “It can go into the atmosphere, where we don’t want it, into the ocean, where we also don’t want it because it causes acidification, or into soil and woody plants, where we do want it. Carbon is the backbone of all forests and is a critical nutrient of soil.”

But most of the Earth’s soil carbon has been lost to the atmosphere, causing a spike in atmospheric carbon. In the 1700s, the Earth’s atmosphere contained less than 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Now, we are at more than 400 and counting. Climate experts generally agree that the atmospheric carbon level must be reduced to 350 or less if we are to keep at bay the most disastrous impacts of warming.

This is why farmers and the soil they work will be so important in mitigating climate change. By employing certain practices and abandoning other ones, farmers and ranchers can turn acreage into valuable carbon sinks—a general agricultural approach often referred to as “carbon farming.”

Conventional agriculture practices tend to emit carbon dioxide. Regular tilling of

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the soil, for example, causes soil carbon to bond with oxygen and float away as carbon dioxide. Tilling also causes erosion, as do deforestation and overgrazing. With erosion, soil carbon enters waterways, creating carbonic acid—the direct culprit of ocean acidification. Researchers have estimated that unsustainable farming practices have caused as much as 80 percent of the world’s soil carbon to turn into carbon dioxide.

Through carbon farming, those who produce the world’s food can simultaneously turn their land into precious carbon sinks.

The basic tenets of carbon farming include growing trees as windbreaks and focusing on perennial crops, like fruit trees and certain grain varieties, which demand less tilling and disturbance of the soil.

Eric Toensmeier, a senior fellow with the climate advocacy group Project Drawdown and the author of The Carbon Farming Solution, says many other countries are far ahead of the United States in both recognizing the importance of soil as a place to store carbon and funding programs that help conventional farmers shift toward carbon farming practices. France, for instance, initiated a sophisticated program in 2011 that calls for increasing soil carbon worldwide by 0.4 percent every year. Healthy soil can contain 10 percent carbon or more, and France’s program has the potential over time to decelerate the increase in atmospheric carbon levels.

Toensmeier is optimistic about the progress being made in the United States, too. The U.S. Department of Agriculture funds programs that support environmentally friendly farming practices that protect watersheds or enhance wildlife habitat, largely through planting perennial grasses and trees. “And it turns out a lot of the practices they’re paying farmers to do to protect water quality or slow erosion also happen to sequester carbon,” Toensmeier says.

It appears obvious that the federal government is establishing a system by which it will eventually pay farmers directly to sequester carbon, he says. Such a direct face-off with climate change, however, may be a few years away still.

And now, climate activists may even need to wait until 2021. “First we need a president who acknowledges that climate change exists,” Toensmeier says.

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“At the city level, mayors have to deliver even needreal results,” Rose said. “They have to protect presidenttheir residents and make wise investments e changeon behalf of their residents. The residents see what they’re doing and hold them accountable.” still talk Modifying our cities, which are responsible attack onfor about half of America’s carbon footprint, warming“will be critical toward dealing with climate change,” Rose says. ther, this “On the coast we’ll have sea-level rise,” he s warmersays. “Inland, we’ll have flooding and heat said then.waves. Heat waves cause more deaths than

hurricanes.”

Simply integrating nature into city infrastructure is a low-cost but effective means of countering the coming changes.

Many cities, for example, are planting thousands of street trees. Trees draw in atmospheric carbon as they grow and, through shade and evaporative cooling effects, can significantly reduce surface temperatures by as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit in some circumstances, Rose says.

Laws and policies that take aim at reduced emissions targets can be very efficient tools for generating change across entire communities. However, Kalmus believes it’s important that individuals, too, reduce their own emissions through voluntary behavior changes, rather than simply waiting for change to come from leaders and lawmakers.

“If you care about climate change, it will make you happier,” he said. “It makes you feel like you’re pioneering a new way to live. For others, you’re the person who is showing the path and making them realize it’s not as crazy as it seems.”

Kalmus has radically overhauled his lifestyle to reduce his carbon footprint. Since 2010 he has cut his own emissions by a factor of ten—from twenty tons per year to just two, by his own estimates. This transformation is the subject of his forthcoming book, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, due out in 2017.

Kalmus rides a bike most places, eats mostly locally grown food, raises some of it in his own yard, has stopped eating meat and— one of the most important changes—has all but quit flying places. He hopes to serve as a model and help spark a transition to an economy that does not depend on constant growth, as ours currently does.

“We need to transition to an economy that doesn’t depend on unending growth,” he says.

Unless we slow our carbon emissions and our population growth now, the depletion of resources, he warns, will catch up with us.

“We need to shift to a steady-state economy and a steady-state population,” he says.

“Fossil-fueled civilization cannot continue forever.”

Though Americans will soon have a president who is essentially advocating for climate change, Valk, at the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, expects time—and warming—to shift voter perspectives.

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See the bellini as the Italian answer to the mimosa. Instead of pricey champagne, it features the humbler prosecco. And it’s made sunny and sweet by peach puree instead of orange juice. While mimosas have been decidedly brunch-zoned, bellinis are just as good in the morning as they are at night. As soon as your guests arrive, pop some bottles and serve this cranberry rendition with cheese and crackers.

BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE

For years, my brother and I played the same secret game at Thanksgiving. Our parents share a home with our grandmother, whose name is Jolly and who is as cool as she sounds. Grandma has more friends than any of us, and every holiday she invites them all—the mahjong ladies, the book club, the widows, the widowers, the couples whose families live far away.

Our Thanksgiving table is Martha Stewart meets retirement home: stalks of Brussels sprouts and tiny gourds as centerpieces, framed by reading glasses and pillboxes. As teenagers, my brother and I hid in our rooms and rolled our eyes.

Eventually, we decided to join the fun. We scribbled some rules, rummaged through the liquor cabinet, and shook hands. Drink any time Grandma or one of her friends mentions a medication, illness, or death; asks someone to repeat something; or requests advice or technological assistance. It was mean and wildly effective, and we were wasted by the end of appetizers.

Then again, isn’t this what Thanksgiving is actually about?

Turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and all the alcohol?

Cocktails take the least amount of time, require the smallest effort, and make everyone the happiest. Here are three fussfree recipes to break the ice, if you will, and treat guests to more than just wine or beer. If you’d like to serve them as part of a drinking game, all the better.

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12 ounces cranberries 1/2 cup honey 3 tablespoons sugar 1 cup water Zest of 1 orange Prosecco Combine the cranberries, honey, sugar, water, and orange zest in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and cook until the cranberries start to break down. Press the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve and trash the dregs. Chill the cranberry sauce for at least a few hours, until very cold, or for up to one week. To assemble a drink, add a few spoonfuls of cranberry sauce to a champagne flute or coupe. Top with prosecco. Stir gently.

ROSEMARY COLLINS

The traditional Tom Collins includes gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup, capped with club soda. It is crisp in an Outer-Banks-in-October sort of way, like a gin drink should be. It also nails my cocktail pet peeve: all sweetness and acidity, no savory oomph. So I added some. Gin is all about the botanicals: juniper, by definition, plus a slew of others, from coriander and cassia to lemon and lavender. Here I sought help from rosemary, which you probably have in your fridge for the turkey. While rosemary often gets pegged as savory, it works wonders in sweet settings. In this revamp on the Collins, it infuses a floral, woodsy simple syrup that makes the cocktail a little less Mike’s Hard Lemonade and a lot more lovely.

2 parts gin, preferably London dry style 1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 part rosemary simple syrup (see recipe below) Club soda Rosemary, for garnish Combine the gin, lemon juice, and rosemary syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add a few cubes of ice. Shake dramatically in front of your guests, until the shaker is frosty. Strain into glasses and top with club soda. Garnish with more rosemary.

ROSEMARY SIMPLE SYRUP 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 2 sprigs rosemary Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook just until the sugar dissolves—you don’t want it to boil. Remove from heat and let steep in the fridge until very cold and flavorful, at least one hour or up to twelve hours.

BOURBON MULLED CIDER

In 2012, I lived in Scotland for several cloudy months leading up to Christmastime. As the weather got colder, the supermarkets got more and more festive, from cookie tins to jars of goose fat to mulled wine sachets. The last was essentially a tea bag filled with various spices—cinnamon shards, citrus peel, cardamom pods, black peppercorns, allspice berries, cloves. On this side of the pond there is no equivalent. Assembling your own mulling mix—by buying the whole spices individually—will cost you more than the wine. Which put me in a bit of a pickle as I brainstormed this recipe in the supermarket. And then I saw pickling spice.

Common, cheap, and with many of the same ingredients as those mulled wine sachets: cinnamon, allspice, black peppercorns, cloves, cardamom, ginger. The surprise guests, like mustard seeds and chilies, offer spice to counter all the sweetness.

8 cups apple cider 1 cup bourbon 1 1/2 tablespoons pickling spice Peels from 1 orange, plus extra for garnish 4 star anise, plus extra for garnish Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Bring to a simmer and cook for about twenty minutes, until very hot and fragrant. Serve in mugs, garnished with orange peel and star anise, if you’re feeling fancy.

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Mash Notes

LOVE YOUR FAVORITE LEFTOVERS WITH FRESH NEW RECIPES

BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE OLIVA

Most Thanksgiving leftovers have a certain fate. Turkey: club sandwiches.

Cranberry sauce: peanut butter sandwiches.

Stuffing: waffle iron. Pie: breakfast!

But the destiny of mashed potatoes is far less of a sure thing. At the holiday table, they are the golden child of sides: buttery and salty, cozy and humble. Fast-forward to Friday and they are all but unrecognizable; they are cold and depressed and lacking in hope. Enter: these recipes, all of which reinvigorate basic mashed potatoes with a fresh sense of purpose. My base included whole milk, butter, and salt, plus a bee sting of garlic. If yours is richer, say with cream or cheese, you’re one step ahead.

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[AFTER] THANKSGIVING FORAGER’S PIE

The classic Irish shepherd’s pie is a ground lamb casserole, polka-dotted with vegetables, covered by a mashed potato roof. The more American-friendly alternative, cottage pie, features ground beef. Though a vegetarian by no means, I prefer to forgo the meat altogether and opt for earthy mushrooms. You can use any variety—button, cremini, shiitake, oyster, hen of the woods—but ideally, mix and match a few different types to diversify flavors and textures. If any pie-eaters avoid gluten, substitute 2 tablespoons of cornstarch for the flour.

2 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 carrots, peeled and chopped 3 celery stalks, chopped 1 yellow onion, chopped Salt to taste 20 ounces mushrooms, chopped 1 cup frozen peas, thawed 1 cup frozen corn, thawed 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 cup vegetable stock 2 teaspoons Worcestershire 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes Butter an 8-by-8-inch casserole dish. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the carrots, celery, and onion, and sauté until soft. Salt to taste. Add the mushrooms and continue to cook until soft. Add the peas and corn and stir to combine. Add the flour and stir again. Slowly add the stock, stirring as you pour. Cook until the liquid just begins to thicken. Add the Worcestershire and season again with salt to taste.

Preheat the oven on the broiler setting. Transfer the mushroom mixture to the prepared casserole dish. Spread the mashed potatoes evenly over top. Slide under the broiler and bake until the top begins to crisp and brown. Let set for a few minutes before serving.

Yield: 8-by-8-inch casserole

KALE SAMOSAS

Samosas are deep-fried, potato-filled pastries that originated in India and other South Asian countries. They are typically triangle-shaped, studded with green peas, and served with a sweet tamarind sauce. Here, I avoid the headache that is frying and call in flaky pie pastry instead. Use your go-to recipe, be it butter-, lard-, or shortening-based. All work equally well. The result yields all the indulgence with half the effort. While samosas are traditionally small and enjoyed as a street snack, these are personal-size. Add in a crunchy salad and you have dinner.

1 tablespoon unsalted butter 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 1-inch piece of ginger, peeled and minced 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seeds 1 large poblano (or 2 small), chopped 1 1/2 cups chopped kale 1 cup frozen peas, thawed 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes Salt to taste Pie dough for 1 crust, divided in 4 Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and ginger and sauté until soft and fragrant. Add the cumin seeds and stir for a minute or so to toast. Add the poblano and cook until soft. Add the kale and cook until it just starts to wilt. Add the peas and potatoes and stir to combine. Salt to taste. Let cool completely.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Form each pie-dough portion into a small disk. Roll each into a circle, about 7 inches in diameter. Divide the potato mixture evenly among the circles. Fold each in half and crimp shut. (Two reliable methods: Pleat the edges, like an empanada or dumpling, with your fingers, or seal with a fork.) Transfer the samosas to a parchment-lined sheet tray. Bake for about 25 minutes, rotating halfway through, until the crust is very colorful. Serve warm. Yield: 4 samosas

WHOLE-WHEAT PIEROGIES WITH CARAMELIZED ONIONS AND SOUR CREAM

Mash up Italian ravioli with Indian samosas and you get Polish pierogies. Many would argue they’re the best of the three, but let’s not argue when we could eat. These simple potato dumplings are boiled in salty water, like pasta, then pan-fried in butter, or not. You can serve them with sauerkraut—the collard rendition from Farmer’s Daughter would be wonderful here—or with sweet caramelized onions and sour cream. If you’d like a lighter alternative to the latter, swap in Greek yogurt. cup whole-wheat flour cup all-purpose flour Pinch salt 1/2 cup just-boiled water (you may not use all of it) 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, plus more to finish 1 large yellow onion, chopped Salt to taste 1 cup leftover mashed potatoes Sour cream to garnish 1/2 1/2

Combine the flours and salt in a medium bowl. Add most of the water and stir until a cohesive, but not sticky, dough forms. If it seems too dry, add more water, bit by bit. Knead the dough on a clean work surface until smooth. Cover with a damp paper towel and let rest for a few minutes.

Meanwhile, melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the onions. Salt to taste. Let cook leisurely and lazily until they are very soft, very brown, very sweet. Lower the heat as needed and stir often.

Set a large pot of salted water on another burner over medium-high heat.

Divide the dough into 16 equal portions. Roll each into a small circle, about 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Add a tablespoon of mashed potato to each circle, then fold and seal into halfmoons. Boil the pierogies in batches, cooking each for about 5 minutes. Pan-fry in butter until the edges begin to crisp. Drape with the caramelized onions and dollop with sour cream. Yield: 16 pierogies

BUCKWHEAT LEFSE

Lefse is less than approachable. Many recipes will warn that you need a “lefse griddle” and a “lefse stick” to ensure lefse success, as a scare tactic. But I promise all you need is a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet and a lot of butter, both of which we have plenty around here. This Scandanavian, potato-based, crepe-like flatbread can be served savory, with butter and salt, or sweet, with butter and sugar. In either case, butter—and don’t forget it. I most like lefse topped with a runny, sunny egg, plus a thunderstorm of chives. If you have any extras, repurpose it into “tortillas” for tacos.

1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes 1/2 cup buckwheat flour 1/2 cup all-purpose flour Butter to fry and to finish Salt to finish Mix the potatoes and flour together in a large bowl—first by spoon, then by hand, until a smooth dough forms. Divide into 8 equal portions. Meanwhile, heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Roll each dough ball into a circle, about 7 inches in diameter. Add a bit of butter to the pan and fry one lefse a time, cooking for 1 to 2 minutes per side until the outside is blistered. Sprinkle with salt and serve warm with butter to pass around.

Yield: 8 lefse Twitter: @EmmaLaperruque

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THE LUMBEE TABLE IS EQUAL PARTS INDIAN, SOUTHERN, AND AMERICAN

BY MALINDA MAYNOR LOWERY

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and Glenn Hunt say Robeson County is “collard country.” PHOTO BY SARA WOOD Lumbee collard sandwich is made with thin cornbread and a garnish of fried fatback. PHOTO BY KATHERINE HYSMITH

In the 1990s I made a short documentary film about Lumbee Indian gospel music, a topic that addressed one of the perennial questions about Lumbees: how can we be “real Indians” while looking, acting, and talking so much like other Southerners? The best scenes were the ones with the music and the food, at my grandparents’ house, down a dirt road just north of Pembroke, North Carolina.

On Thanksgiving, the day we were filming, my cousin described for me the question he often got about Lumbees: “What kind of food do you all eat?” they ask. “Well I like my mom’s fried chicken the best,” he says.

“That’s our food, that’s Lumbee food.” The real question these well-intentioned folks are asking is, “how can you be Indians if you don’t fit my stereotype?”

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celebrating the moment that represents our conquest. It also surprised him that we were Christians. When he said this, my father looked at him with an expression that bespoke the opposite of irony and said, “Well, for us it’s a harvest celebration. We thank God for each other and the food.” Thanksgiving’s actual meaning—the one behind the myth—had never occurred to my New York friend, who had also never eaten anything procured directly from the field or a garden.

But our stove, oven, and table were full of such things that day, and full of singing. While my mother and aunts sang hymns a cappella and in flawless harmony as they fried cornbread, my uncle played keyboard nearby with a round of cousins singing along. And my grandmother chimed in as she chopped the day’s collards. The hymn of choice, one of my grandmother’s favorites and the one we sang at her funeral two years later, was “Hard Workin’ Pilgrim.” Because she worked, as she

cooked, as she sang, as she lived.

The answer to the question is simple: Lumbees are not a stereotype. We’re Indians, Southerners, and Americans, all at once and without doubt. To understand us as Indians, the outsider might have to adjust his ears, eyes, and palate. Indians change, like everyone else, but we remain Indians.

We remain Indians because instead of doing things the “original” way, we do things the appropriate way, which is to say, we share, we remember, we retain our dignity, despite the stereotypes. We don’t forget, even though others have largely forgotten, the role of Indian people in creating what we now know as “Southern” food.

Rayna Green established that indigenous ingredients are at the heart of Southern cuisine, and that newcomers in the South adopted Native growing and cooking techniques. In her 2008 Southern Cultures article, “Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig: Native

Food in the Native South,” you might as well call Southern foodways, Indian foodways, if you want to give proper credit to the people who originated it. The irony is not that we celebrate Thanksgiving or that we go to church, the irony is that after taking our land, white landlords routinely denied our sharecropping families enough land to grow gardens, and now our Indian communities are food deserts. Our new neighbors have appropriated the abundance our own ancestors cultivated, denied it to us, and then marginalized our influence on “their” cuisine.

And yet the stories behind our food traditions ring not with irony but with simplicity of purpose, joy, and good taste. Lumbee Indians are proud to be Southerners, and we happily claim “y’all” too. The people who were interviewed by oral historian Sara Wood for a Southern Cultures project were chosen—

by Sara, Lumbee folklorist Jeff Currie, and myself—not necessarily for their charismatic power as influencers of taste, nor for their authentic adherence to the “real” way, but for their proper stewardship of the exchanges that have forged our survival.

The Lumbee voices we featured have used food as a route to economic independence; Callie Mae Locklear exemplifies this story.

But independence means nothing without reciprocity, without sharing and exchanging so that we can survive. First we share with our families, as Emma Locklear and Eric Locklear (no relation) learned from their elders. Then we share with others, even with those who have taken from us. Dobbs Oxendine and Dorsey and Glenn Hunt describe the Old Foundry restaurant and the collard sandwich; Lumbees have worked to build these and many other things, not just for ourselves but for others. To understand food, as to understand music, or religion, one must not focus only on origins, but on exchange.

Malinda Maynor Lowry is an associate professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill. This piece was reprinted with permission and originally published in Southern Cultures 21, no. 1 (Spring 2015) www.southerncultures.

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The Twain Shall Meet THROUGH WINDING FOLK PATHS, MANDOLIN ORANGE AND HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER FINALLY MEET IN THE MIDDLE

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BY ALLISON HUSSEY title track—but the padding of the big instrumental arrangements often dulls Taylor’s ruminations.

Still, in one instance, Taylor makes a surprising return to form. On “Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer,” he circles back around to the earliest, boogie-heavy version of Hiss Golden Messenger; if the song feels out of place on Heart Like a Levee, it feels right at home in the Hiss back catalog (see the excellent Country Hai East Cotton or Root Work, from 2009 and 2010, for more). Ultimately, though, it seems like Taylor is aiming to keep Hiss on its more recent path of eventempered, genteel jams, even if it pulls his music back from the edges that first made it so compelling.

Meanwhile, Mandolin Orange, the brainchild of Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin, has settled into its own corner as purveyors of easygoing, well-rounded tunes. On its first EP and debut record, 2010’s Quiet Little Room, the band came off as earnest and eager, if a little unsteady. But between 2010 and 2012, they buckled down and issued the stunning double album Haste Make/Hard Hearted Stranger as a follow-up. Last year’s conservative Such Jubilee felt like a lateral move from 2013’s elegant This Side of Jordan, but this year’s Blindfaller finds the band embracing maturity. It’s a solid collection that feels at once confident and comfortable throughout. And as Marlin and Frantz have continued to discover and develop their voices as writers and performers, the duo’s songwriting has only grown stronger.

As a coed duo with acoustic guitars, the pair has long garnered comparisons to Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. It’s a flattering juxtaposition, to be sure, but where Welch and Rawlings revel in hard times and ghostly notes, Frantz and Marlin find sweetness even in mournful moments. And even in a full band iteration that includes pedal steel and mild percussion, as it did in Saxapahaw, the instrumental means justify each song’s tender emotional ends. Frantz and Marlin

have figured out their skill sets and continue to hone them, picking up new ears along the way.

It’s a strange delight to think back on the first time you saw a band and examine bigpicture changes and minute details as an outsider. Paths cross and diverge, or, in the case of Hiss Golden Messenger and Mandolin Orange, even seem to run parallel. Both appear bound for even bigger rooms than the ones they’ve already filled at home. And who knows, maybe someday they’ll split a bill at last. ahussey@indyweek.com

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Last weekend, two Triangle bands came back from long cross-country tours in support of new records. Both were exhausted and grateful, clearly happy to be home at last. Mandolin Orange kicked off its sold-out four-show victory lap around the Triangle Friday night at the Haw River Ballroom, while Hiss Golden Messenger held court in an at-capacity Cat’s Cradle the following evening.

In the past seven or so years , both bands have grown from meager upstarts playing for crowds of a dozen people into acts that command strong headlining gigs at home and abroad. They’ve signed respectable record deals with local heavy hitters—Mandolin Orange with Yep Roc, Hiss Golden Messenger with Merge—and have upgraded from small spaces like Nightlight and Local 506 to some of the area’s best-regarded rooms.

Curiously, though, their audiences have never seemed to overlap much, even though they share core folk ideologies and a bevy of influences—and, on a few occasions, even personnel. While Mandolin Orange made early appeals to followers of straightforward folk and bluegrass, Hiss Golden Messenger attracted Deadheads and devotees of music that exists between blurred lines of genre.

But as Mandolin Orange got sharper and Hiss Golden Messenger mellowed out, two bands that always seemed like they should overlap more finally do.

Before last Saturday night, the most recent show Hiss Golden Messenger had played in the Triangle was almost exactly a year ago, when M.C. Taylor and his band premiered the songs that would become this October’s Merge LP, with photography by William Gedney, as a multimedia commission from Duke Performances. Heart Like a Levee is Taylor’s most polished record yet. The tense, existentially anxious undercurrent that colored Bad Debt, Poor Moon, and Haw has all but evaporated into full-on folk-rock. That’s not to say Heart Like a Levee is all sunshine and rainbows—“Do you hate me, honey, as much as I hate myself?” Taylor sings on the

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Slings & Arrows AN INITIATIVE TO COUNTER DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FEMALE DIRECTORS PROVOKES A DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT IN RALEIGH

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he day after its announcement last week, an initiative to address discrimination against women in regional theater provoked a discrimination complaint with the city of Raleigh and a request to defund a theater company that receives city funds. As a result, one company has already distanced itself from the initiative, which had the best of intentions in attempting to mitigate a longtime injustice.

Still, the complaint raised serious questions about the proposed measure. Is the reversal—instead of the elimination—of a discriminatory pattern less problematic than an existing discriminatory pattern? And why do formal complaints such as these seem to mainly arise whenever status-quo sexism is being challenged?

On November 15, Jerome Davis, artistic director of Burning Coal Theatre Company, issued a press release announcing that nine theater companies in Raleigh, Durham, and Sanford had agreed to hire women to direct the 2017–18 season productions their organizations had not already assigned. Recent research shows that women directed only about a third of all regional shows from 2012–14.

The initiative was a response to the election, to “make the point that women are a central part of our world and our work, and that they deserve to be in positions of leadership as much as men do,” Davis wrote. The companies that signed on to the agreement included Burning Coal, Black Ops Theatre Company, Honest Pint Theatre, Justice Theater Project, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Sonorous Road Productions, Temple Theatre, and the Women’s Theatre Festival.

But on Wednesday morning, someone claiming to be a Raleigh resident named Matthew Davis emailed a complaint to Sarah

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Powers, executive director at the Office of Raleigh Arts, alleging that the initiative violates the Raleigh Arts Commission’s nondiscrimination policy for grant recipients.

Davis’s complaint stated that “because of my gender, I will not have an opportunity to direct one of [Justice Theater Project]’s shows in the coming year. ... This is not what we should be doing as a community. It is wrong.” He requested that all funds to Justice Theater Project be withheld until “they agree to hire directors in a non-discriminatory manner.” (The company received $66,500 in city funds for the 2016–17 season. Burning Coal and NRACT also receive city funding.)

In acknowledging the complaint, Powers said, “We take that non-discrimination policy very seriously. We are asking for further information from the theaters, and looking into what the next steps are.”

After Davis emailed a copy of his complaint to the INDY, we requested an interview. The confrontational rhetoric in his initial email was tempered in his response.

“My earlier email was sent in a state of frustration and anger—so I’m cooling down and letting this play out,” he wrote. “I seek equality. I want greater representation by women in our community. ... However, the proposal in the press release is too draconian in nature and is counterproductive in my view.”

Davis also said he feared reprisals from the theater community. “It could well lead to repercussions from individuals ... who would see my genuine concern about what I see as an act of discrimination and misinterpret that as being anti-woman,” he wrote.

In this and subsequent emails, Davis refused our requests for an interview or to otherwise verify his identity. But his complaint had already done its job. By Thursday evening, Justice Theater Project had withdrawn from the alliance. JTP

managing director Melissa Zeph confirmed that the company had contracted men and women as directors for its coming season prior to the alliance’s announcement and said it made no changes after signing onto the initiative.

“Since we have a woman artistic director who directs most of our shows, it was very easy for us to say yes to the alliance, but we already had men lined up to direct some key shows,” Zeph says. “Upon reflection, we don’t feel comfortable with the wording of the alliance’s initial missive.”

Managing director Timothy Locklear says NRACT made its directing choices before Jerome Davis contacted them. “I told Jerry, ‘I support what you’re doing, but we don’t have all female directors for our next season.’”

Women directed three NRACT productions this year; four will direct there next season.

According to Jerome Davis, an employment attorney his company consulted prior to announcing the initiative advised them that it did not violate Burning Coal’s or the city’s policies.

But Jonathan M. Crotty, head of the employment and benefits practice at Parker Poe, says the matter isn’t so clear.

Crotty thinks the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would likely dismiss such a discrimination case, since anti-discrimination laws apply only to the employment of permanent staff, while guest directors are usually hired as independent contractors. And performing arts companies routinely qualify for a status that exempts them in certain cases. For example, when a company hires a female actor to play a female role, that choice is shielded from nondiscrimination claims.

Still, depending on how the Raleigh Arts Commission’s nondiscrimination policy is interpreted, the initiative may be in violation of it. “It doesn’t sound like it’s limited to just

employment,” Crotty says. “It sounds like it’s broader.” He also thinks that an exemption based on gender would be harder to justify for directors than for actors.

In an email sent to Zeph and Powers after JTP’s response, Matthew Davis wrote, “We are all on the same page now. As I have no further grievance with the company, I consider the matter settled.”

But he wasn’t the only one shaking the tree. Last week, someone named Chris Little emailed a number of local theaters. Though Sonorous Road Productions receives no city funding, Little informed artistic director Michelle Murray Wells that she’d be keeping an eye on the group in case it hosted any company that did. " P e r h a p s the financial consequences are of no concern— or perhaps it is a sacrifice these groups are willing to make—but I thought it worth mentioning, as I shall surely be working to see that taxpayer money not go to fund discrimination in our community,” Little wrote.

Curiously, her Gmail account, along with Matthew Davis’s, appeared to have been deactivated after they filed their complaints, raising doubts about their true identities. Davis later resumed emailing from his account. But, as of Monday morning, Chris Little's email address remained inactive.

Regardless of whether Davis and Little are accurately representing their identities and motives, the question stands: What is the appropriate redress for a population that has always been disadvantaged in the arts?

Jerome Davis says he’s a “firm and lifelong opponent of ‘the pendulum effect’... the idea that in order to correct a wrong, you have to do another wrong. That just keeps the pendulum swinging.”

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INTERNATIONAL THEATER’S RESPONSE TO THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE COMES TO CHAPEL HILL

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Tragedy can make us feel isolated and alone, but it can also unite us, reinforcing existing relationships and forging new bonds.

That’s the case in regional theater right now, as PlayMakers Repertory Company, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Black Ops Theatre Company, and Kenan Theatre Company prepare to stage After Orlando, an international artistic response to the Pulse nightclub massacre last June.

On Monday, artists from all three groups will direct and act in a staged reading of twenty plays, each only two to four minutes long, which examine the shootings and their aftermath from a broad spectrum of viewpoints.

“The great thing about making theater is that it’s community. We come together to do these things,” says Blair Baker, cofounder of New York’s Missing Bolts Productions, which initiated the project in July with the theater alliance NoPassport.

Initially, the two companies solicited work from playwrights in the hope of amassing some twenty-five plays for staged readings in New York and Washington, D.C. But as word spread through the theater community, the project took on a life of its own. Seventy-eight playwrights from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Uganda, and Australia have now contributed scripts. Due to its length, only one public performance of the complete text has been produced: an eleven-hour marathon at a London festival last month. But by the end of next January, sections of the work will have been staged in sixty-nine readings around the world.

Vivienne Benesch has been looking for chances to collaborate with other theater companies and cultural institutions in the area since arriving last January to became PlayMakers Rep’s new artistic director.

Though several larger, longer-term projects are in negotiation, After Orlando gives PlayMakers “an immediate way to respond and stand in solidarity with other companies in the Triangle,” Benesch says. “That seems incredibly important in this moment.”

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A candlelight vigil for the Pulse victims in Orlando, Florida Benesch had already tapped JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, artistic director of Black Ops, as assistant director for PlayMakers’ September production of Detroit '67. “I’m a big fan of JaMeeka,” Benesch says. “She has a lot to say politically and artistically.” Benesch has similar high regard for the political, immersive, and experimental approach that Little Green Pig brings to its work. “They’re a lot of people’s favorite small company in the region,” she says.

The company’s artistic director, Jaybird O’Berski, sees After Orlando as a must-do project because of the way company members had been affected, directly and indirectly, by the Orlando shootings. “And in the climate of fear and loathing that’s only been exacerbated in the last week, people need to feel a sense of safety, a communal warmth,” O’Berski says. The compiled texts remind him of Suzan Lori-Parks’s 365 Days/365 Plays project: “They’re very impressionistic and elliptical; they feel very gut-level,

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very visceral.”

At first, Holloway-Burrell was concerned about the amount of time that had passed since the June tragedy. But, noting the more recent police-related shootings of Philando Castile and Keith Lamont Scott, she concluded that “time never passes for gun violence in America.”

Holloway-Burrell is also struck by an underlying concern of invisibility she finds throughout the scripts. “You get the feeling these characters are very aware of their lack of visibility,” she says. “It’s an unseen population; the only time we tend to see them is when something bad happens. There’s this want, this need to be recognized as humans, on a Tuesday, a Wednesday, and not just when tragedy strikes.”

Jacqueline Lawton, the only local playwright included in the project, is a dramaturge for PlayMakers Rep and a professor in UNC’s Department of Dramatic Art. Holloway-Burrell, who will direct her work, To

Be Alive, says Lawton is “someone you want to mirror. She’s all about arts activism and equity.”

In Lawton’s script, Laith, a young man from Syria, must confront the similarities between himself and the Pulse gunman, Omar Seddique Mateen. “He’s living amid the hyper yet unfounded fear that Syrian refugees are ISIS in disguise,” Lawton notes. “He’s Muslim and gay, and he finds out that the attacker was also Muslim and, rumor has it, a closeted homosexual.” The realization forces Laith to confront his own identity.

The views represented in the other nineteen texts include Ian Rowlands and Korde Tuttle’s ecstatic celebrations of dance and sensual release in a place many in the Orlando gay Latinx community regarded as sanctuary. There’s also Katie Pearl’s poignant Today Is a Good Day, based on lines from the obituaries of the forty-nine victims.

Elsewhere, there is humor, anger, and wonder in works that look in on two privileged Brits in Kabul, a Florida senator, a mother and daughter in a grocery store, and a Latino whose shot of mescal, spilled “for the homies who can’t be here,” conjures a window into the past.

“All these different ways to experience this tragedy just shakes you to your core,” says Zac Kline, cofounder of Missing Bolts.

“This is how voices don’t just fade away. It’s how we say no, we’re not going to let horrible stuff keep happening.”

Jerry Ruiz, associate artistic director of PlayMakers, hopes the free staging helps foster the creation of safe spaces for the LGBTQ community. “It’s a way to show our alliance, and put actions behind our words of support,” he says.

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Max’s domestic bliss is shattered when ne victims. On a secret assignment for the Brits, a SOE spook (Simon McBurney, regrettaand won-renowned Canadian intelligence officer bly given just one scene) reveals his belief privilegedMax Vatan (Brad Pitt) rendezvouses in that Marianne is an imposter who is senda motherMorocco with Marianne Beausejour (Marion ing secrets to Germany. British intelligence d a LatinoCotillard), a savvy French resistance fighter. needs only seventy-two hours to feed her he homiesMax and Marianne’s vocations have left counterintelligence and see if it pops up on ndow intothem staunchly celibate. Posing as a married intercepted wires. But Max, confident of his wife’s loyalty, can’t wait that long and launchcouple while undercover, they spend their xperienceevenings on the rooftop of their safe house— es his own fact-finding mission. our core,”that’s supposedly where men in Casablanca Despite its gossamer buildup, Allied sing Bolts.post-coitally retire. eventually reaches the zenith for any away. It’s The sexual tension between Max and thriller: the moment where the denouement et horribleMarianne remains unrequited until after could go in any of a half-dozen directions, and viewers don't know what’s liable to they carry out their mission, in which irector ofthey go Inglourious Basterds on a German happen. Unfortunately, Zemeckis’s banal ing helpsambassador and his Nazi dinner party. Sex impulses squander this crucial juncture. es for thein a sandstorm follows their getaway, and He and screenwriter Steven Knight opt for show oursuddenly, Max pops the question and asks a Spielbergian climax that feels mercilessly our wordsMarianne to settle down with him in London. focus-grouped, craning their necks in search of sunbathed, undeserved redemption.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25

STACKED: OAK CITY SLUMS, DJ CHELA, QUEEN PLZ

Plenty has changed in Durham since DJ Chela, one of its first prominent female deejays, decided to migrate out of the Bull City several years ago. For starters, the kid she used to know as her best friend’s little brother, Gabriel Eng-Goetz, grew up to become the talented owner of one of North Carolina’s hippest clothing brands, Runaway. Now they’re peers, and he’s booked her to co-headline Stacked, Runaway’s winter release party and benefit for the Creative Arts in Public and Private Schools (CAPS) program. Durham’s music scene has shifted since Chela’s departure, too. Hip-hop is no longer king. Electronic music culprits such as the newly minted bass music hero Oak City Slums and Party Illegal’s trap trooper, Queen Plz, are largely to blame for that. But no one’s complaining—especially not Chela, whose radio, mixtape, and club performances have always embraced progressive sound choices. Durham is the third and final stop of her “Going to Get My Peoples” DJ tour, and y’all could make it so much easier for her to do that by crowding Motorco’s dance floor.

Also with Bless Your Heart. —Eric Tullis MOTORCO, DURHAM 9 p.m., $7–$10, www.motorcomusic.com

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The rapid approach of December means a few things: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” begins its annual two-month saturation of the airwaves; stores get bedazzled in red and green, and orchestras pull out Handel’s Messiah and holiday pops To advertise or feature programs. This year’s entry by the North Carolina Symphony has a decidedly cinematic flavor, a pet for adoption, with tunes from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Home Alone, Babes in Toyland, and of course, Disney’s Frozen. The show will also include some old standbys—“Silver Bells,” “Sleigh Ride,” please contact and “The Twelve Days of Christmas”—and a sing-along, plus appearances by the Raleigh Boychoir, Triangle Youth Ballet, even Santa. There can be a numbing sameness to holiday eroberts@indyweek.com cultural offerings too heavily focused on baby boomer nostalgia, so it’s a welcome change to see the symphony trying to reflect a little of the twenty-first century. —Dan Ruccia MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, RALEIGH Various times, $20–$75, www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com

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KINGS: Housefire, Tann Jones, Drippy Inputs, Repeat Offender; 9 p.m., $8. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Seven Lions; 8 p.m., $21–$26. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony: A Kids Christmas; 3 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Elise Testone; 9 p.m., $7–$10.

• SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Smell the Glove; 10 p.m., $5.

THU, NOV 24 Local Band Local Beer SingerSongwriter Showcase SONG This rendition of the CIRCLE popular series focuses on a dynamic group of Triangle singer-songwriters. Ellis Dyson refits the sounds of ragtime and bluegrass onto a folk-rock chassis. But You Can Call Me John is a one-man folk-punk band. Michael Daughtry writes infectious, life-affirming songs of hope and perseverance, and Eric Scholz has a fine, gravelly voice optimal for his gritty folk songs.

With Greg Sullivan, Doug Burton, and more. —DK [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Gene O’Neill; 11 a.m. Andrew Berinson Trio; 3:30 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

FRI, NOV 25 Los Acosta CUMBIA The Ritz returns to RETURNS its Latin bookings with a Friday show by Los Acosta, the six-member cumbia act from San Luis Potosí. Grupera music has proven to be one of the most consistent crowd-pleasers in the Triangle Latin music scene, with schmaltzy lyrics, danceable rhythms, and, often, matching outfits. Los Bondalosos and Los Caminantes open. —AB [THE RITZ, $35/9:30 P.M.]

Black Friday: Dedekind Cut AMBIENT Thorny, room-swalHAZE lowing ambient dance compositions abound from former Joey Bada$$ touring DJ Dedekind Cut, formerly known as Lee Bannon, who heads up this excellent lineup. Richmond’s Chino Amobi is a production talent in his own right, though he is perhaps best known as cofounder of NON, the tastemaking, politically resilient artist collective that looks to highlight African artists making innovative music around the globe. There’s also Triangle area/ Tri-Angle records signee Hanz, Carrboro’s Chula, and Raleigh’s Tennis Rodman. The slate is a defining night for black and brown voices making vital music in the American electronic underground, so don’t miss out. —DS [KINGS, $10–$12/9:30 P.M.]

Joe Bonamassa GUITAR You’ve probably GOD seen the billboards around Durham advertising Joe Bonamassa’s stop at DPAC as the guitar event of year. Bonamassa was a child prodigy, proficient enough at 12 to open for B. B. King.

Since then, he’s acquired rock god status with a blues-rock sound that blends elements of Cream, ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin. Vocally, he captures Joe Walsh channeling Robert Plant, but can throw in a dose of Ray Charles soul as needed. —GB [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $82–$128/8 P.M.]

Capital City Reggae Fest RALEIGH Tired of Drake RIDDIMS jacking reggae riddims like he invented the genre? Had enough of Tory Lanez’s “Luv” posturing as an overly generous R&B cover of “Everyone Falls in Love”? The misappropriation has gotten out of control, which is why genuine roots reggae celebrations like this one are so important. Between

the uniting Caribbean jam rock of Triangle mainstays Crucial Fiya and the level playing of the reggae rock quartet Signal Fire, this festival may could either take you to a Caribbean shore or plop you dead center onto a dim dance-hall dance floor. No gimmicks here, just an appreciation of the culture.

Also with Ras Medy, Africa King, and more —ET [LINCOLN THEATRE, $10/7 P.M.]

No Eyes FAR OUT, On the brooding MAN track “Guilty,” No Eyes’ Nick Kirkland intones, “Did you ever wonder if your life was a joke?” Later, he offers a piece of sybaritic advice: “Just have a drink, man. Smoke some dope,” he mopes, as if to say, Hey, fuck it, party. Released four months ago on SoundCloud, the song is the newest in the band’s too-brief catalog of spaced-out, twangtinged psych-rock. —PW [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $5/11 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: One Track Mind; 10 p.m.

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• MOTORCO: Runaway Winter Release Party: Oak City Slums, Bless Your Heart, DJ Chela, Queen Plz.; 9 p.m., $7–$10. See page 26. • POUR HOUSE: Horseskull, Voidward, Brothers, Plow; 9 p.m., $5–$8. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m.

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KRAKENVERSARY

There’s no way to confirm this, of course, but it’s a safe bet that most musicians who’ve played at The Kraken have at least one picture in their cell phones of the bar’s colorfully lit roadside marquee that advertises the night’s lineup. Even without photographic evidence, a night of fun at the old roadhouse on the corner of Highway 54 and Dodsons Crossroads is always unforgettable.

Where else can a band pick morsels from the occasional platter of barbecue, or a tray of cupcakes that just show up on the bar because a neighbor brought them by?

Two years ago, locals Jody Kidney and Kirk Schmidt bought The Kraken, which is located out in White Cross, about six miles west of Carrboro.

On Friday, the owners celebrate the joint’s “Krakenversary” with the public.

Since taking over, Kidney and Schmidt have brought in some local craft beers to the menu, occasional food trucks, and thrown a bunch of outdoor cookouts. Patrons are usually a mix of walking-distance locals, friends of bands, and folks who’ll gladly keep the alcohol intake to a DUI-beating minimum just to drive out there on a weekend night to see what’s up.

“Kirk’s been crushing it on the booking, too,” says Kidney. “We’re working on making it a rock ’n’ roll roadhouse for everybody.”

The shows are free, yet musicians can take home a decent sack of change anyway, thanks to the generosity of customers whenever the old pail in front of the stage is passed around for

donations. On top of that, bands often get a cut of bar proceeds.

“We’re keeping the generosity going on, from the community and from the bands” says Schmidt, sitting with a local brew and a laptop at the Kraken bar booth he uses as his “office.”

This year’s Krakenversary features Raleigh’s Countdown Quartet—actually a seven-piece band these days, with three saxes, a trombone, and guitar-bass-drums. The band’s New Orleans-style funk-and-roll is perfectly suited to the Kraken’s spontaneous party vibe. It’s a dream booking for Schmidt, who’s also celebrating his birthday that night. Kidney’s band Fantastico!, the highenergy Chapel Hill blues-rock supergroup led

by Stu Cole, once of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Chicken Wire Gang, will open. On Saturday night, a “Krakenversary Encore Performance” on Saturday offers another y’all-come lineup of the superb violinist Jennifer Curtis with the otherworld’s rock’n’roll messenger Dex Romweber; Raleigh pop-rock supergroup Wayleaves; and The Cosmic Country Band, whose Austin hippie ethos just feels right for NC’s roots music scene.

Plus, it’s right after Thanksgiving, so don’t be surprised if loaves of white bread and a big jar of mayo appear on the bar, for any leftover turkey that patrons want to share. Come on in, neighbor.

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released his first solo work in 1979; five more funky, jazzy LPs followed, earning him Billboard awards and gold status. In 1986, he found God and switched record labels.

He’s since kept busy, both as a touring musician and an airplane pilot. —DK [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $18–$20/8 & 10 P.M.]

DangleBash PUNK Five bands PARTY gather tonight in honor of Safe Word guitarist Bo Dangle’s fortieth birthday. The headliners, Chapel Hill’s Sibannac, offer a rowdy fusion of punk and ska reminiscent of Choking Victim’s crusty 2-Tone anthems. Raleigh’s Machinegun Earl offer a reverent update of classic punk, driven by dense riffs and vocals that blur the line between harsh snarl and anthemic melody. Also on the bill, Richmond hardcore act The Donalds, Garner punks YEA(H), and Dangle’s own band, Safe Word.

—BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $8/8:30 P.M.]

Durty Dub WASTED While there’s BASS no telling what you’re getting at a Durty Dub show—frontman Will Darity might deliver soul satire, funk riffs, Outkast covers, or Juvenile songs—this entertaining and talented jam trio still has yet to take themselves seriously enough to release a full-blown project. If locally comparable bands such as Zoocrü can do it, you have to wonder what the holdup is with Durty Dub. Start a petition at this party and let me be the first one to sign it. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $7/10 P.M.]

PULSE Electronic Dance Party EDM This month hasn’t ESCAPE been great. That said, Raleigh’s largest night catering to all things EDM returns amid dust and debris to zap a bit of energy back into our systems. This edition features Mt. Crushmore, Kevin Flum, Dodgr, Magic, and Val. Rage hard, but try to channel that same zeal the next day into something positive and lasting. —DS [LINCOLN THEATRE, $10–$13/9 P.M.] 30 | 11.23.16 | INDYweek.com

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Safety Last! Live Film Scoring LIVE In June, Tim Carless ACTION premiered his musical score for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Peter Greenaway’s 1990 art-house classic full of sensuality, sumptuous food, and cannibalism.

For his latest film score, Carless looked to far less heady material: Safety Last, starring the great silent-era comic Harold Lloyd. It will be interesting to hear the music that accompanies the iconic sight of Lloyd hanging from the hand of a giant clock. —DK [THE ARTSCENTER, $16/8 P.M.]

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Could be Dido’s inimitable “White Flag,” could be “Timeless Melody” by the La’s. You never know. Come hang with your beloved and see if you can stump their musical chops. Brandon Glasheen opens.

—DS [DEEP SOUTH, $5/8 P.M.]

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OH HELL Thanksgiving with YEAH the family got you on edge? Need to do some drinkin’ and hollerin’ to get it all out of your system? Let Sarah Shook be your guiding light as she cuts her way through raucous honky-tonk tunes. that swing, shred, and seethe. In the opening slots, Wahyas provides pounding garage rock power, plus S.E. Ward. —AH [KINGS, $8–$10/9 P.M.]

COVER Got covers on deck!

STORY Shelter is a Raleigh pop-rock band that specializes in covers, and covers you shall get.

ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Seance Goth Night; 9 p.m., $5. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Tornado

Blues Band, Hornados; 8 p.m., $10. • THE CARY THEATER: Johnny Folsom 4; 8 p.m., $10–$25. • IRREGARDLESS: Eli Wittman; 11:30 a.m. Michael Jones Duo; 6 p.m. Carolyn Mitchell; 9 p.m. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony: Holiday Pops; 3 p.m., $21–$73. See page 26. • POUR HOUSE: Psylo Joe & Dr. Bacon; 9 p.m., $5–$7. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Bitchcraft; 10 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Brevan Hampden Quartet; $10–$15. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Sidewinder and Friends; 8:30 p.m., $13–$15. • THE STATION: Funksgiving: Funk & Hip Hop Party; 10 p.m., free. Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free.

SUN, NOV 27 A Chanticleer Christmas XMAS If the promo pictures SWEATER are to be believed, this twelve-man chorus will show up for this concert in a mess of ugly Christmas sweaters, scarves, and vests. The group has a vast range, with a repertory that encompasses at least a thousand years of musical history. Here, the ensemble spins a tale of Christmas through the ages, mixing Byrd and Praetorius with Ives and Poulenc with more traditional carols. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–$48/7 P.M.]

Howard Jones SYNTH- Best known for an POP KING indelible run of

eighties hit singles, including the undeniable touchstones “No One Is to Blame” and “Things Can Only Get Better,” Welsh-born Howard Jones is a legitimate synth-pop pioneer, equivalent in accomplishment and standing to better remembered British peers like Gary Numan and the Human League. The Roman Spring opens.

—TB [CAT’S CRADLE, $25–$28/7:30 P.M.]

The Monotremes MULTIThis Melbourne GENRE six-piece specializes in an appealing, politically charged take on throwback jazz, with one foot firmly planted in Tin Pan Alley and the other in the Brazilian light-bop of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Buoyant and introspective in equal measure, the group’s shape-shifting musical gestures and potent lyrical reveries are worthy of your

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Nanner Head GRUMPY A hard-riffing group GUYS of locals with Sabbath and the Stooges on the brain and unfettered anguish in their hearts, these delightfully miserable contrarians keep every healthy scene in check. Nanner Head’s desperate blues and debauched rock are the perfect soundtrack to the end times we’ve apparently entered. The Nevernauts and Our Blue Lights open. —TB [DEEP SOUTH, $5/9 P.M.]

Ruth Wynand BLUES Ruth Wyand will BUSTER help you be a rock star. When not playing weddings or blues bars, the Triangle Blues Society’s 2016 Blues Challenge solo/duo winner, who will go to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in a few weeks, runs an adult band camp. If you can count to four, she can teach you how to play tunes like her original,“Fingers Played to the Bone, Losing My Health Insurance, Freedom of Speech and the Right to Choose Blues.” —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/5 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY ARCANA: Delta Boys Fundraiser; 8 p.m., $5–$15. • IRREGARDLESS: Gene O’Neill; 10 a.m. Matt Walsh; 6 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Afton Music Showcase; 6:30 p.m., $12–$15. • RUBY DELUXE: Eunyce Raye’s Drag Showcase; 11:30 p.m. • WEST END WINE BAR-DURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

MON, NOV 28 POUR HOUSE: Aaron Lebos Reality; 9 p.m., $5. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

TUE, NOV 29 Homeshake SLACK Homeshake is MFXER perfect for those lackadaisical days when it’s all you can do to peel yourself out of bed and relocate to the couch to watch TV for six hours. It’s the project of Montreal’s Peter Sagar, who played guitar in Mac DeMarco’s

band before splitting to focus on Homeshake full-time. Fresh Air, Sagar’s new record that’s due out in February, finds the talented young guitarist slacking off harder than ever while wrapping his songs in an R&B sheen. It’s heady, satisfying stuff. Cat Be Damned and SMLH open. —AH [KINGS, $10–$12/10 P.M.]

Three Phantoms in Concert GIVING In sleep he’ll sing to SPIRIT you, in dreams he’ll come to you, and for a worthy cause, he’ll turn himself into three.

Any one of these experienced leads from Phantom of the Opera productions would be enough to fill a large space with ballads as big as Broadway, but tonight the delights are trebled as a triumvirate of stage vets—Craig Shulman, Ciaran Sheehan, and Mark Jacoby—join forces in support of Hurricane Matthew relief. —DK [MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, $20–$100/7:30 P.M.]

Travers Brothership SEVEN This genre-cleaving STRONG Asheville-based seven-piece has built a strong following on the jam-band and roots circuits with a loose-limbed take on funk and soul, pitched someplace between Little Feat’s bone-deep traditionalism and the forward-looking re-examinations of Gary Clark Jr. and Trombone Shorty. Funk You opens. —EB [POUR HOUSE, $5–$8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY DUKE CHAPEL: Duke Chorale Christmas Concert; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: William D. Burton; 6:30 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: TyLake; 11 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

WED, NOV 30 Cordovas GROWN The Cordovas are a WHIZ KID Nashville-based band led by Joe Firstman, who opened for Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson as a young phenom in the early aughts, did a stint as house-band leader on Carson Daly, and released a series of albums on his own before forming Cordovas.

The band’s lived-in roots rock has the feel of friends playing

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With Don Gallardo and Steve Hartsoe. . —DK [POUR HOUSE, $7–$10/9 P.M.

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BRUTAL & Italian quintet BAROQUE Fleshgod Apocalypse dresses death metal in complex arrangements, thick symphonic accents, and elaborate concepts. This year’s King establishes its titular protagonist, then surrounds him with symbolic characters, each representing fears and insecurity that threaten to ruin him. The operatic approach has paid off for acts like Opeth or Dimmu Borgir; for Fleshgod Apocalypse, the orchestral dressing smooths the edges of technically intricate death metal.

With Arkona, The Agonist, Aether Realm, and Rapheumet’s Well.

—BCR [KINGS, $20–$25/7:30 P.M.]

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Ghost of Paul Revere TIRED OF The world may be IT hell-bound with handbag in tow, but the golden age of holler-folk is surely upon us.

I base this claim on the proliferation of earnest, sweetly harmonizing, banjo-picking, Civil War-writing-about stomp-n-clap outfits like Ghost of Paul Revere, who proudly mold the Avett-like and the Mumford-esque into “new” clay.

With Shiloh Hill. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/8 P.M.]

Red Fang DULLED Red Fang’s Only TEETH Ghosts, released last month, is more accessible than anything the band has done in the past. The Portland band doubles down on hard rocking party jams and, at times, flirts with conventional (read: kinda boring) rock, as on the hooky “Flies.” In the opening slot, Atlanta’s Whores take a more nihilist tack; their impulse is to destroy through crushingly heavy noise-rock.

Reliably accessible Florida heavies Torche take the middle. —PW [MOTORCO, $20–$24/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY THE CAVE: Pepe Rolas, Renzo Ortega, Infektion; 9 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Mebanesville; 6:30 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Bloodworth Combo; 9 p.m., $5.

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Thru Nov 26. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com.

Chinese Lantern Festival: Nov 25-Jan 15. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www. boothamphitheatre.com. See p. 27.

Christmas at Captain White’s: Local, national, and international artists. Thru Dec 24. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham.

#Greenspaces: Paintings by Judy Crane and Wendy Musser.

Nov 29-Feb 27. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Collections: Leah Sobsey. Thru Dec 31. 21c Museum Hotel. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

One Root, Three Branches: Mixed media by Doyun Yoon.

Nov 29-Dec 13. Meredith College’s Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Raleigh. meredith.edu.

ONGOING $25/$50/$100 Art Show: Community show with reused materials. Thru Dec 10. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Annual Holiday Exhibition: Local artists. Thru Dec 21. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. www. visualartexchange.org.

SPECIAL The Art of Giving: EVENT Mixed media. Thru Dec 31. Reception: Nov 25, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation: By examining the history of Indian immigrants as they assimilated into the U.S. and their contributions to American life—musical, political, culinary, scholarly, sporting, and cultural—this traveling Smithsonian exhibit reframes what it means to be an Indian American. The artifacts range from images of nineteenthcentury Indian railroad workers and anti-Hindu propaganda to twentieth-century small-town life and today’s Silicon Valley.

Thru Apr 2, 2017. City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh. —David Klein LAST Background: Lauren CHANCE Clay, Julia Gartrell, and Angelina Gualdoni. Thru Nov 27. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org.

Beauty by Nature: Sol Levine.

Thru Dec 1. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org.

LAST Carolina on My CHANCE Mind: Group show.

Discover Your Governors: Thru Aug 6. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello LAST Bill Drewitz: CHANCE Photography. Thru Nov 30. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

Eight Is Enough: A Kick Ass Group Show: John Geci, Elijah Leed, Ben Galata, Jean Christian Rostagni, Abie Harris, Peter Milne, Claire Ashby, and Peter Dugan. Thru Dec 23.

Bull City Arts Collaborative’s Upfront Gallery, Durham. www. bullcityarts.org.

Exchanged and Revealed: Luna Lee Ray and Shelly Hehenberger.

Thru Dec 10. Durham Art Guild. www.durhamartguild.org.

Familiar Strangers: Arjan Zazueta. Thru Dec 2. UNC’s Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Finding Each Other in History: Stories from LGBTQ+ Durham: Personal narratives. Thru Jan 15. Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

Fired Lines: Calligraphy Meets Clay: Pottery. Thru Dec 11. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

LAST FREEDOM: The CHANCE Experiment: Candy Carver, Raj Bunnag, Kenia Brea, Darius Quarles, William Paul

Thomas. Thru Nov 25. Cary Visual Art. caryvisualart.org.

LAST Groundlessness: Julie CHANCE Cardillo. Thru Nov 27. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

Ellen Hathaway: Thru Dec 17.

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

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

History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This is the first time in decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings of Old Master painting and sculpture. Thru Mar 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe I’m Your Biggest Fan: Paintings

by Juliana Peloso. Thru Dec 2.

SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www. spectrearts.org.

Imagination Architectures: Eric Mack. Thru Jan 6. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. www.sonjahaynesstonectr. unc.edu.

Interstitial: Photography by David Hilliard. Thru Dec 11.

Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill.

Inventing History: Cherished Memories of Good Times That Never Happened: Drawings by Richard Chandler Hoff. Thru Jan 13. Durham Arts Council. www. durhamarts.org.

A Man Singing to Himself: Jill Snyder. Thru Dec 30. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org.

LAST Lucia Marcus: CHANCE Mixed media. Thru Nov 27. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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LAST New Corridors CHANCE Exhibition: Marnie Blum, Kristan Five, Shawn Hart, Chieko Murasugi, Pete Sack, and Pat Scull. Thru Nov 26.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

LAST On the Wings of CHANCE Birds: Emma Skurnick. Thru Nov 30. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com.

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

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

Many artists unravel the warp and weft of that. The dissonance of the past’s intrusion into the present? The exhibit shimmers with that temporal disorientation. It’s powerful work by supremely capable artists, and the intensity of their proximity is life-changing. Thru Jan 8, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

—Chris Vitiello Dawn Surratt: Photography.

Thru Jan 14. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

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

LAST Town and Country: CHANCE Will Goodyear. Thru Nov 26. Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. adamcavefineart.com.

Campaign buttons on view in Discover Your Governors at the N.C. Museum of History Oppressive Architecture: Photographs by Gesche Würfel.

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

LAST The Peanut Gallery: CHANCE Installation by Alyssa Miserendino. Thru Nov 27. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www.flandersartgallery.com.

LAST Permutations, CHANCE Progressions + Possibilities = The Art of Vernon Pratt: Thru Nov 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/gregg.

SPECIAL Janelle Piotrowski: EVENT Pen and ink drawings. Thru Nov 30.

Reception: Nov 26, 3-5 p.m.

The Art of Style, Raleigh.

Printing Realities: Sergio Sánchez Santamaría. Thru Dec 6. Duke’s Fredric Jameson Gallery, Durham.

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LAST Quadrivium *when CHANCE four roads cross: Sue Edmonson, Cole+Cole jewelers, Jonathan Davis. Thru Nov 30.

Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. roundaboutartcollective. com.

Quiet Season: Group show.

Thru Dec 26. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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JJ Raia: Photography. Thru Jan 14. Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens.com.

Regional Emerging Artist in Residence Exhibition: Caitlin Cary, who has been playing music and making art in Raleigh for more than twenty years, was awarded a Regional Emerging Artist Residency by Artspace last year. In this shared exhibit, she shows her unique fiber art, in which recognizable Raleigh buildings are depicted in repurposed upholstery sewn to paper. Gesche Würfel is a native of Germany who moved here in

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2009; she brings an outsider’s eye to Southeast Raleigh in new photographs of domestic and commercial spaces in various states of decay, supplemented by drawings made on bus rides during her own Artspace residency. Thru Nov 26. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. —Brian Howe LAST Rockford Files CHANCE Paintings: Paul Friedrich. Thru Nov 28.

Personify, Raleigh.

Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s: On one hand, these ostentatious cars are the obscene baubles of the interwar industrialists whose progeny are today’s rogue traders, junk bond kings, and profiteering Wells Fargo executives. On the other hand, the cars offer a nuanced look at how design aesthetics responded to the production line and its consumerist culture with a mixture of fantasy and faith.

Thru Jan 15, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org.—Chris Vitiello LAST Siglinda Scarpa, Ida CHANCE Trisolini: Ceramics and repurposed books. Thru Nov 28. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection: This exhibit shows how depictions of the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal regions of North Carolina have changed over two centuries in the hands of seventythree painters: Impressionists, realists, folk artists, futurists, postmodernists, and more. Thru Dec 4. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory. org. —David Klein LAST Sisters: 10 Years and CHANCE Counting: Mary Beth Owen and Virginia Owen. Thru Nov 26. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. localcoloraleigh.com

Transgender USA: Mariette Pathy Allen: Photography. Thru Dec 22. Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

View from the Edge: Caroll Lassiter. Thru Dec 4. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

LAST Walden Pond in Four CHANCE Seasons: Selections from Transcendental Concord by Lisa McCarty: Photographs and text. Thru Nov 26. Bull City Arts Collaborative’s Upfront Gallery, Durham. www. bullcityarts.org.

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

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

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3rd Annual Hops for Hope: Fundraiser for Curamericas Global. $7-$15. Tue, Nov 29, 6:30 p.m. Trophy Brewing and Taproom, Raleigh.

Crystal Coast Oyster Festival: $5-$30. Sat, Nov 26, 1 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh. www. lincolntheatre.com.

The Giving Table: A Night for Syrian Refugees: Benefit dinner. $75-$125. Tue, Nov 29, 6 p.m. Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering, Chapel Hill. www. mediterraneandeli.com.

NC Oysters + Bubbles: 6-course Gullah-inspired dinner with PinPoint chef Dean Neff. $65-$95.

Wed, Nov 30, 6:30 p.m.

Piedmont Restaurant, Durham. www. piedmontrestaurant.com.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 am.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Thanksgiving Dinner: $25-$76. Thu, Nov 24, 2 p.m. Counting House, Durham.

Thanksgiving Feast: $15-$35. Thu, Nov 24, 10:30 am. City Kitchen, Chapel Hill. www. citykitchenchapelhill. com.

Triangle Vegetarian Society Thanksgiving Feast: $8-$30. Thu, Nov 24, 11:30 am.

Parizade, Durham. www. parizadedurham.com.

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

Mandolin, Raleigh. www. mandolinraleigh.com.

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OPENING  ½ Allied—See review, p. 25.

Rated R. Bad Santa 2—A sequel to the Christmas cult favorite. Rated R. Loving—Relive the Supreme Court battle over interracial marriage. Rated PG-13.

Moana—Disney mines Polynesian myths. Rated PG. Rules Don’t Apply—Warren Beatty is Howard Hughes in this rom-com. Rated PG-13.

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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL!

Not to be a huge downer, but it’s a little startling, when I think about it, how many of my childhood holiday memories revolve around televisual entertainment. But I guess that was suburban American life in the late-twentieth century, when we communed around one large, glowing box instead of lots of small, private ones. Every December it was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Rankin-Bass stop-motion pictures, in the theaters or on VHS tapes, accumulating their freight of fondness year on year, never changing as life moved on. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is at the pinnacle of the pantheon, and if you want to really feel like a kid again, there’s a way to restore novelty to the nostalgia of the Dr. Seuss picture book and cartoon (let us pass over Jim Carrey in solemn silence). Though this musical adaptation has been sleighing around big cities and Broadway since 1994, it’s been touring nationally only since 2010. Catch it at DPAC next week to pump some fresh NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! into your family tradition, and give your kids something to fondly remember when they take their offspring to see it in virtual reality. —Brian Howe DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM Various times, $40–$180, www.dpacnc.com

Carmina Burana: Carolina Ballet. $20-$79. Nov 23-27.

Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www.dukeenergycenterraleigh. com.

A Christmas Carol: Play. $8.

Tue, Nov 29, 9:50 & 11 a.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre.org.

Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical!: Musical. $15-$170. Nov 29-Dec 4. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com.

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Growing Up White: Standup comedy. $15. Wed, Nov 23, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

No Poetry Comedy: GobbleTime Comedy Hour: $6. Thu, Nov 24, 8:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsbarcade. com.

Hip Hop Nutcracker: Sat, Nov 26, 7:30 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical: Musical. $13-$24. Nov 25-Dec 24. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Ralphie May: Stand-up comedy. $25. Nov 25-27.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  The Accountant—Matt Damon—er, Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin character doesn’t quite add up. Rated R.  Arrival—Denis Villeneuve’s thoughtful aliens-to-Earth film is less about first contact than first communication. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Birth of a Nation—This Nat Turner biopic overturns the conventions of white Hollywood. Rated R.  ½ Bridget Jones’s Baby— Renée Zellweger’s loveable comic character deserved a better comeback. Rated R.  Deepwater Horizon— This account of the oil spill thrills but skimps on context.

Rated PG-13.

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Sat, Nov 26, 10 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com.

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WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS? The short answer? A hell of a singer. In previous documentaries, director Gorman Bechard has trained his eye on Replacements worship, Chapel Hill indie rockers Archers of Loaf, and the “beautifully sad” life of Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart. His latest subject is another iconoclast, albeit one whose story is still rapidly unfolding. Loveless is a twentysix-year-old Ohioan with a penetrating, countrified contralto and an unmistakable air of fierce self-possession. She calls what she does “indie-alt-country,” an apt enough descriptor, but when leading her excellent band through a raging roadhouse rocker not far from Drive-By Truckers, Loveless leaves labels in tatters on the ground. She’s an arresting onstage presence, whose every move and syllable emanates palpable conviction. Behind the scenes, in the studio, and on the road, the question of who she is gets more complicated. Art and life are funny that way. The doc addresses broader complications, too, surviving as a working musician in 2016 chief among them; it also has upcoming screenings at The Pinhook and Kings. —David Klein THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $8–$10, www.artscenterlive.org

 Doctor Strange— Marvel’s magic master’s feisty cape almost steals his movie.

Rated PG-13.  ½ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them—A promising start to a new Harry Potter franchise. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Girl on the Train— Emily Blunt’s vulnerable performance almost redeems a trashy, lurid film. Rated R.  ½ Hacksaw Ridge—Mel Gibson clearly identifies with the religious persecution of conscientious objector Desmond Doss. Rated R.  ½ The Magnificent Seven— Despite an able cast, this remake adds little to the “band of disreputables” trope. Rated PG-13.  Moonlight—Barry Jenkins’s must-see drama deals with a gay black man’s coming of age. Rated R.

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Aaron Becker: Return. Fri, Nov 25, 3 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

Belle Boggs: The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood. Tue, Nov 29, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. See p. 27.

Elizabeth Carlson: North Carolina String Music Masters. Tue, Nov 29, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

L I T E R A RY R E L AT E D Gerald Clayton, Christopher McElroen, René Marie: Discussing Piedmont Blues. Tue, Nov 29, 7 p.m. Beyù Caffè, Durham. www.beyucaffe.com.

The Monti Storyslam: Shit Happens: $12. Tue, Nov 29, 7:30 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com.

Talking Music: The Making of Piedmont Blues: Gerald Clayton, Christopher McElroen, Glenn Hinson, and Wayne Martin. Wed, Nov 30, noon.

Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics, Durham.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27

RESISTING ARREST: POEMS TO STRETCH THE SKY Durham’s activist literary imprint Jacar Press recently published Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, an anthology of poetry, mostly by African-American writers, in response to police violence against black people. The NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis, calls it “one of the most extensive treatments in verse of African-American victims of violence during the contemporary era.”

Edited by Tony Medina, the anthology includes contributions by writers as renowned as Rita Dove, Mark Doty, and Yusef Komunyakaa; it also includes local leaders like Jaki Shelton Green, Howard Craft, and Metta Sáma. That trio will participate in a reading and discussion at Quail Ridge Books on Sunday afternoon, led by Green, with Jacar Press publisher Richard Krawiec also in attendance.

At a moment when new upheavals threaten to overshadow an ongoing epidemic of police violence, this is a timely reminder, and all proceeds from the book benefit the Urban League’s scholarship fund for African-American youth. —Brian Howe QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS, RALEIGH 2 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com

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