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TO THE LAST REPUBLICAN IN WAKE COUNTY: PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN YOU LEAVE.

By Leigh Tauss, p. 6 MEASURING GERRYMANDERING, P. 6

HOW AMAZON PLAYED US, P. 7

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VOL. 35, NO. 47

5 After getting stomped in this year’s elections, what do Wake County Republicans need to do to stage a comeback? “Get our heads out of our asses,” says one.

7 To find out whether HQ2 was worth it, we would have had to give the world’s richest man, who is sitting on a net worth north of $130 billion, billions of dollars.

8 One-third of the approximately eleven hundred enclosed shopping malls in the U.S. are dead or dying.

15 While the holidays are rife with food drives, PORCH keeps the giving going all year.

16 La Farm Bakery’s Lionel Vatinet recommends turning your Thanksgiving leftovers into a Black Friday brunch casserole.

17 The end of Beyù Caffè’s music programming leaves a massive void for live jazz in Durham.

19 On stage, Hamilton is about how much America has changed. But in the seats, it lays bare how much it hasn’t.

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backtalk

Hang On to Your Jockstrap In last week’s paper, Jeffrey C. Billman wrote about North Carolina’s “democracy problem”—how Democrats had won more votes in General Assembly races, but Republicans won more seats.

On Twitter, Michael Cooper responded: “Thought this was great. Glad you mentioned self-sorting as an issue, too. But even with sorting, the maps are unfair, and our politics would benefit from healthy competition, not campaigns played to the base.”

Tim P, however, argues that neither gerrymandering nor self-sorting—i.e., the tendency of liberals to cluster in urban neighborhoods while conservatives spread out elsewhere—explains the recent election results: “While gerrymandering is a problem, the idea that the spread of geographic representation can result in more electoral victories despite fewer total votes isn’t correct, at least not inherently. There are more Republican districts just as there are more Republican states. I agree with this article, but I don’t think this is the best argument, as intuitive as it may be. Proper districting alone won’t change the difference between rural and urban populations.”

Dennis Cunningham seems to agree.

“People, this is simple,” he writes. “The majority of Dems live in concentrated areas, like cities, when the majority of Republicans live in the rural areas. More area, more representation. You can pack as many people in one house as you want, but it still has only one address.”

Aaron Averill counters: “This is the very definition of gerrymandering. Rural voters, accounting for less than 30 percent of the population, have 70 percent Republican representation. In other words, if you’re a Democrat, your vote counts for less than half what a rural voter’s does. If district representation were truly fair based on population, nearly all the rural areas of the state would have just three or four districts, instead of ten.”

“See?” writes Jeffrey David ZackoSmith. “The South isn’t as conservative as you think. All of these Republicans got their seats through gerrymandering—not votes.”

“Democrats have always had to overcome hurdles that have long favored the slaveholding, Confederate states,” writes Glen Reese. “Each state got two senators when the Constitution was written. So

“The libs won’t be satisfied until your income taxes are north of 80 percent, your work ethic is as pathetic as theirs, and you renounce even ever having uttered the name ‘Jesus.’” each Wyoming senator, for example, now represents one person, compared to the thirty people represented by a California senator. The ‘one person, one vote’ concept is screwed. The rural, redneck states cling to a power that is totally technical and artificial. A national gerrymander.

“Successful congressional gerrymandering of districts in the redneck states has guaranteed that a minority of voters elect a majority of the state reps. I live in North Carolina. I know about that crap. I don’t know if our legislators are stupid, or whether they think that we are. The Electoral College, an experimental attempt by our founders to prevent idiots from being chosen for president, has proved an abysmal failure. It has only thwarted the popular choice. Trump is a shining example. I rest my case.

“The times, they are changing. People are learning how to combat legislative inequalities. The backpressure against minority rule by old white guys is inevitable and overdue. Hang on to your jockstrap. The earth is about to crumble beneath your feet.”

Dave Sandidge probably wouldn’t be happy if that happened: “The libs won’t be satisfied until West Virginia is completely bankrupt because of no coal business, there is no longer any offshore oil and gas production, your income taxes are north of 80 percent, your work ethic is as pathetic as theirs because of there no longer being any incentives to work and succeed, and you renounce even ever having uttered the name ‘Jesus.’ Which reminds me, I’ve never met a true-blue Democrat who wasn’t a professed atheist.”

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Party’s Over

DEMOCRATS DOMINATED THE MIDTERMS IN WAKE COUNTY. CAN THE GOP BOUNCE BACK?

BY LEIGH TAUSS

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he last Wake County Republican in state office, state Senator John Alexander Jr., campaigns on the fact his wife is a Democrat. In a 2014 ad, John and Susan Alexander stand smiling in their kitchen, saying while they don’t agree on everything, they both believe in raising teacher pay and investing in education.

“Plus, he’s got this Democrat to hold him accountable,” Susan says, handing John a bag of trash.

Alexander’s district swipes into the more rural and conservative Franklin County, cresting three country clubs. Even so, he won this year by fewer than twentyfive hundred votes.

Alexander is among a dying breed in Wake County—the endangered species of conservative politicians being driven out by urban demographics and a general disdain for President Trump, experts say.

Out of sixteen partisan state House and Senate races that include Wake County, Alexander is the only Republican left standing. The midterms also saw the ouster of longtime Republican Sheriff Donnie Harrison and Republican clerk of the Superior Court Jennifer Knox, the reelection of Democratic District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, and a Republican-free Wake County Board of Commissioners.

So what, if anything, can the Wake County Republicans do to stage a comeback?

“Get our heads out of our asses,” suggests Brent Woodcox, a Republican attorney and special counsel for the General Assembly.

Republicans have been losing ground in Wake County since at least 2014, when Democrats retook the previously GOPcontrolled Board of Commissioners. But changes in the county’s demographics— trending toward a more diverse and educated voter base—have been underway for much longer. Wake’s population has more than doubled since 1990, when whites made up 76 percent of the county’s 423,380 residents. Now, whites comprise just 61 percent of the county’s million residents

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as of 2014, and over half of Wake residents have attended college.

“This demographic in particular, and especially college-educated women, have moved dramatically toward the Democratic Party,” says N.C. State political science professor Steven Greene. “Wake County is an area with a lot of white, college-educated voters. As long as that trend just maintains, this is basically a one-party county.”

In a sense, this is more evidence of the state’s—and the country’s—growing rural-urban divide. But a closer look paints a more nuanced picture. Wake’s blueness is concentrated in its urban core, where Democrats like Yvonne Lewis Holley and Rosa Gill snagged nearly 80 percent of votes each. It’s more diluted toward the outskirts, which had some of the closest legislative races. Incumbent state representative John B. Adcock, whose district spans Fuquay-Varina, lost by fewer than eight hundred votes to Democrat Sydney Batch. Longtime state

representative Nelson Dollar lost to Julie von Haefen by fewer than a thousand votes; his district encompasses part of Apex and stretches toward Holly Springs.

These communities are the real battlegrounds, says Duke political scientist Mac McCorkle, who describes these towns as “countrypolitan”—caught between a rural legacy and a suburban future.

“Those areas aren’t really rural anymore in any way you can define,” McCorkle says.

“Their legacies might be rural, but more of those people are commuting in, or working in factory or desk jobs. They are not out in the field anymore. It’s these in-between, countrypolitan places that have rural legacies but are connected to the city in some way that are contested areas.”

If Republicans hope to regain traction in Wake, they’ll need to target those districts. To succeed, McCorkle says, they’ll need to distance themselves from state and national politics. Or, more simply, they need to dump Trump.

Democrats’ success in Wake County “really was, in the end, a rejection of Trump,” McCorkle says. “Whether it was a rejection of Republicanism, that remains to be seen, but I think the Republicans are worried that it could [have been]. There’s this growing perception that these guys aren’t about really governing and doing things for the state of North Carolina.

It’s all about how can they get one more manipulation of power.”

National politics have become so polarized, Greene adds, that most races are predetermined by districting and the “R” or “D” that appears on the ballot next to a candidate’s name. But in close races, reputation and campaign rhetoric can make a difference—and may have helped Alexander hang on.

“To win as a Republican in Wake County, you have to talk about certain things like [education] that are going to appeal to more Democratic voters,” Greene says.

“If [Alexander] had run as a hardcore Tea Party Republican, he would have lost. Any Republicans who want to win anything in Wake County are going to run as more moderate Republicans.”

For Woodcox, Wake Republicans need to reinvigorate the party with younger candidates and tell a better story that connects with voters. That could involve advocating for cutting red tape on issues like accessory dwelling units that Raleigh Democrats have dragged their feet on. “[Republicans] need to take a long look inside and understand that the county is changing, and it’s changing very quickly, and the party is not changing as quickly as the county is,” he says. “The message that the party has been running on for a long time just isn't relevant enough with the voters who are voting in these elections, and we’re not connecting with them.

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Down to the Wire

AS A DEADLINE LOOMED, DPS KEPT SOME CUSTODIANS IN THE DARK ABOUT WHETHER THEY STILL HAD JOBS

BY SARAH WILLETS

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ast spring, custodians contracted to work in Durham Public Schools convinced officials to bring their services in-house, making them school system employees with better pay, better benefits, and more job security.

DPS is preparing to make that transition in less than two works, and for at least a few custodians, it’s been a nail-biting wait to find out if they’ll still have jobs come the end of November. Longtime custodians Deborrah Bailey and Gloria Howard made their case before the Board of Education last week, saying that, as loyal employees, they shouldn’t be left to wonder if they’ll soon be out of work.

“The thirtieth of this month, I will be out of work and won’t even have a place to stay,” Howard told the board between tears, prompting school board member Matt Sears to step down from the dais, put his arm around her, and quietly tell her everything would be all right. School board members then asked a representative to speak to Howard in the hall, and since then, human resources has gotten in contact with her about her employment.

Similarly, since speaking to the board on Thursday, Bailey has been recommended for her old job at the Bacon Street central services building, a position she’s held for most of the ten years she had been contracted by Service Solutions.

But the whole process left Howard, Bailey, and others questioning why they had to wait so long to learn if they had jobs. Bailey, who was a vocal proponent of bringing custodial services in-house and who served on a three-member transition committee, wondered whether her advocacy had something to do with it, but said if speaking up on behalf of others meant losing her job, so be it. Despite her role organizing the school custodians, it was the first time she had said publicly that her employment was unsure.

“I just turned sixty-five. I can go home,” she said.

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Howard questioned whether favoritism was the reason she wasn’t immediately recommended for a job she’s held for fourteen years. Prior to being told a few weeks ago that she was being “put out the building” at Githens Middle School, Howard says her hours had been changed, leaving her less time than other custodians had to clean their classrooms. She missed three days of work until the principal helped her get a job picking up trash at Hillside High School, and made sure she was paid for the days she was without work.

Howard told the board that teachers at Githens Middle School, where she cleaned for the past two and a half years, even signed a petition that she be able to stay at the school. Githens principal Crystal Isom-Adu told the INDY she wasn’t aware of a petition, but said Howard “does an outstanding job” and staffers are extremely supportive of her.

“I should have been one of the first hired,” Howard told the school board.

Arasi Adkins, assistant superintendent over human resources, told the board after Howard’s and Bailey’s remarks that “these stories are certainly the exception.”

“Durham Public Schools is proud to have rapidly invested in ending outside contracting of our custodial services and filling each position with a DPS employee,” the school system said in a statement. “We have retained 100 percent of our current DPS custodians as DPS employees, and have hired 97 percent—194 out of 200—of our contractedservice custodians. These numbers speak for themselves. We categorically reject any allegation of retaliation against employees or contract employees for sharing their thoughts about the process of bringing custodial services in-house.”

With the December 3 deadline to have all custodial employees in place, these figures are changing regularly. Overall, the school system will hire about 270 custodians, as well as lead custodians and supervisors.

The thirty-one custodians employed

by Durham schools will retain their jobs

through the transition. According to Adkins, of those thirty-one, thirteen were lead custodians, and eighteen held regular custodian positions. Ten of thirteen lead

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custodians kept their same jobs. One was promoted to a custodial supervisor position, and two were demoted to custodian. swillets@indyweek.com

BRIEF

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ccording to an analysis by Raleigh statistician Marsh Hardy and Democratic activist Joseph Huberman, Democratic congressional candidates in North Carolina “wasted” nearly a million more votes in this year’s midterm election than Republicans did, causing Democrats to lose ten of thirteen races despite nearly splitting the statewide popular vote.

Hardy and Huberman calculate that the state’s congressional races produced a socalled efficiency gap of 27.46 percent, up from 19.3 percent in the 2016 elections and high enough to indicate aggressive gerrymandering by the lawmakers who drew those districts. In this analysis, all the votes won by losing candidates and the votes a winner receives over the majority needed to prevail are considered wasted. The efficiency gap is the difference between the two parties’ wasted votes divided by the number of total votes.

In the 2018 congressional elections in North Carolina, Republicans wasted 382,452 votes, while Democrats wasted 1,314,081 votes. In essence, this means Democrats won fewer seats by huge margins, while Republicans won many more seats by much smaller margins.

According to a proposed standard set forth in a 2014 article in The University of Chicago Law Review, an efficiency gap should be no higher than 8 percent

in districts that are fairly drawn.

That threshold is controversial, but it provides judges with a tool to measure gerrymandering, something they hadn’t had before.

The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t yet ruled on whether partisan—as opposed to racial— gerrymandering is constitutional. With Brett Kavanaugh joining the court’s conservative majority, it seems unlikely to do so.

The N.C. Supreme Court could be another story. Last week, Common Cause and the N.C. Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in state court contending that the state’s legislative districts amount to partisan gerrymanders, which it contends are illegal under the state constitution.

With a 5–2 Democratic advantage on the state court, the plaintiffs seem likely to prevail, and a lawsuit challenging the congressional districts seems destined to follow.

The efficiency gap is likely to be central to the plaintiffs’ arguments in those cases.

It’s possible, if not likely, that the state Supreme Court will order both legislative and congressional districts redrawn before the 2020 election—and that could give Democrats a fighting chance at retaking the state House or Senate. That, in turn, could have huge ramifications, as the next General Assembly will draw the district lines used for the next decade.

—Jeffrey C. Billman

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A Sucker’s Game HOW AMAZON PLAYED US

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n the end, Amazon did what Amazon was always going to do.

That Bachelorette-style “competition” that saw 238 cities across the country prostrate themselves before Jeff Bezos in hopes of winning the beautiful rose of HQ2? It didn’t matter. What mattered was that Amazon got the publicity it wanted, with eager municipalities fawning over the company for months on end. Raleigh put ads on Seattle buses, and North Carolina spent at least $92,000 on a campaign—Tshirts! Social media!— to convince Amazon to cast a flirtatious glance in our direction.

Other cities went further—Chicago paid William Shatner to narrate its proposal video, as Bezos is a Trekkie. A small Georgia city offered to name itself “Amazon” if it prevailed.

Everyone, even in the most progressive bastions, conveniently forgot the horror stories that have emerged from Amazon’s warehouses or its rapacious union-busting. Amazon, after all, was offering fiftythousand high-paying jobs and $5 billion in total investment. It would have been a game changer, especially for midsize cities like Raleigh.

Alas, Amazon’s interest was all for show.

Because what mattered even more than Amazon’s publicity coup is that, after having 238 cities bid on the project, and then by dangling the twenty finalists, including Raleigh, on the line for a year, Amazon extracted the incentives it wanted from New York and Arlington, Virginia, which split the “honor” of being Amazon’s choice.

All it cost them was $2 billion—$1.5 billion from New York, $573 million from Virginia.

The Triangle was never really in the running. In fact, those behind our region’s bid hadn’t heard from the company since June, a few months after they wined and dined company officials at Ashley Christensen’s Death & Taxes.

With Amazon’s choice made, we’re just now learning the incentives—previously shielded from public view—that were on offer: Last week, Wake County released

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN documents showing that it and the city of Raleigh had promised Amazon up to $277 million in incentives. (Durham officials briefly contemplated incentives of up to $50 million, but never made an offer.)

Wake’s contribution would have only been part a small part of the total bid: The 2017 state budget allowed for “transformative projects” that invest $4 billion in the state to be reimbursed 100 percent of their corporate tax bill for a quarter century. Add to that other incentives and the state’s help with infrastructure, and we’d likely be looking at billions of dollars.

To a company like Amazon, currently valued at nearly $800 billion and likely to be worth twice that within a decade, Wake’s $277 million offer is small beer. So, too, is New York and Virginia’s $2 billion. Amazon didn’t base its decision on financial incentives; instead, it located HQ2 in the cities that already have the highest concentrations of Amazon workers outside of Seattle—and, coincidentally, where Bezos already has houses.

The “competition” was little more than a ruse to get the cities that were already going to “win” to cough up some dough, and to get the cities that weren’t to cough up information about their economic development and infrastructure plans that Amazon can now use in its business planning.

We got played, y’all.

Perhaps Amazon would have been worth it. Perhaps not. But to find out, we would’ve had to give the world’s richest man a few billion dollars, after he pitted us against other cities that were vying to give him a few billion dollars to ensure that he had wrung every last dollar from taxpayers while sitting on a net worth north of $130 billion (with a b).

That’s more than just a morally indefensible version of capitalism. That’s a sucker’s game, and we never should’ve played. jbillman@indyweek.com

Downtown Cary

Make your holiday reservations now!

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KILL THE MALL

The decline and fall and (possible) reinvention of Northgate Mall

BY KATIE JANE FERNELIUS

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lthough it was an unremarkable Thursday evening, Northgate Mall was buzzing.

The Christmas decorations had recently been hung, imbuing the mall with an air of hope and expectation.

Manufactured bushels of pine adorned in twinkling lights were suspended from the ceiling, appearing to levitate.

At the Flashlight Barbershop, men pooled in chairs, making the kind of jilted, intimate small talk not uncommon among guys whose attention is divided between a football game and checking their reflections in the mirror. On the wall, a list of rules: no cell phones, no profanity, no sagging pants. One customer defiantly chatted on his cell phone as the barber brushed the loose hairs off his neck.

Around the corner, at Esmerelda’s Cafe, a couple shared a panini.

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with the cautious gentleness with which one might hand over a newborn baby.

On the surface, it seemed like business as usual at the fifty-eightyear-old North Durham shopping center. Though the corridors were thin with people and many of the storefronts sat vacant, the warm fluorescents made the mall feel populated, alive even. But roiling beneath loomed uncertainty over the future of Northgate—who would own it and what they would choose to do with the historic space.

Last month, a private equity firm called Northwood Investors got the legal go-ahead to begin foreclosure on the mall. Not even six months before, the firm had bought two promissory notes comprising the mall’s $62 million debt; Northgate Associates, the local company that owns the mall, defaulted. Now, if the mall either can’t reach an agreement with Northwood or pay off its debt, the mall could face foreclosure by the end of the year.

And that’s left Durham locals—some who only wander in during the holiday season, others who grew up as teenage mall rats in its geometric atrium—wondering what will become of the sprawling complex, which has been part of Durham’s fabric since 1960: Will Northgate be the latest casualty of the retail apocalypse, yet another suburban mall whose shoppers have turned to Amazon or urban retailers? Or can Northgate reinvent itself again, as it’s done several times in the past? And should the city begin eyeing that property for something else altogether—something designed for the twenty-first century, not a relic of a bygone era of American consumerism?

“This is extremely valuable land,” says Mayor Steve Schewel. “It’s located very near downtown. It’s located on an interstate highway. Whether or not it remains in the hands of a local family or whether or not it’s taken over by [Northwood], I think it’s going to be very important that that land be developed in a way that is beneficial to Durham. There are going to be a lot of important decisions made about that land, regardless of who the owner is.”

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n invention of Austrian architect Victor Gruen, the shopping mall was born in 1956, envisioned as an alternative to Main Street. Northgate followed soon after—though developer W. Kenan Rand Jr., who had optioned the former tobacco field in 1949, originally intended that property for something else entirely: a Coca-Cola bottling plant. But he ran into opposition from people who, a half-century later, we might call NIMBYs. The land existed in the interstices between present-day Walltown and Braggtown. Then, there was an involved community that was not eager to see a bottling plant built in their neighborhood. According to a 1949 Durham Morning Herald article, the nearby residents protested at a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, and Rand’s plans were thwarted.

Eight years later, Rand announced that he would build a shopping center on the site. In the time between the rejected plant proposal and his new announcement, construction on the interstate began just a short distance away, making the lot an ideal location for a mall.

In 1960, when it opened, the then-strip mall was among the first of its kind. It featured a Roses, Kerr Drug, and Colonial Stores Supermarket. Within two years, it doubled in size, adding a movie theater and restaurant in addition to twenty-two thousand square feet of store space. It would continue to expand incrementally over the next decade.

At a ceremony in 1974, Rand opened the enclosed mall we know today, complete with the carousel that still runs to this day.

Among the new stores opening were BaskinRobbins, The Curtain Shop, Chess King, Chick-fil-A, B. Dalton Booksellers, Slacks ‘n’ Things, Wrangler Wranch, and even a Spencer Gifts, which is also still there.

Suburbia is often credited with giving rise to the American mall. As consumers moved out of city centers—a white flight aided by the postwar economic boom, an influx of automobiles, and the construction of the interstate highway system—they needed alternative locations to coalesce. Between 1960 and 1990, Durham’s population nearly doubled, but its downtown was decimated by poorly managed urban renewal policies.

But other factors played a role, including the Cold War. According to historian Timothy Mennel, Cold War anxieties fueled the design of the enclosed mall, which was typically miles from concentrated urban centers, fortified by concrete and steel, and climate-controlled, protecting against a potentially harsh, post-nuclear-holocaust environment outside. In fact, many of the earliest malls were built with underground tunnels and fallout shelters.

But the mall emerged from the Cold War in other ways, too. Part of how American capitalism exerted its dominance over communism was through a campaign of consumption, emphasizing the breadth of choices available through the free market.

The rise of consumption became central to the rise of Northgate: Between 1975 and 2000, the mall continued to expand, adding a food court, another screen at the movie theater, and thousands of square feet in retail space. To shop was as American as apple pie.

In early 2000, when sleek competitor The Streets at Southpointe opened in South Durham, Virginia Rand Bowman— Rand’s daughter, who became the managing general partner of Northgate Associates in 1985—expressed optimism about Northgate’s prospects, especially given its history in the Bull City.

“People don’t give track record much credit, but it does play a role,” she told the Triangle Business Journal. “We’ve been going strong for over thirty years, and we’re not going to roll over just because there’s some new competition out there.”

But even its track record couldn’t save Northgate from overarching economic trends. A decade before the Great Recession, malls were beginning to lose traction, especially those, like Northgate, that weren’t seen as “high-end” and, therefore safe. (In 1998, Good Housekeeping warned readers of violent crime at these shopping centers in a feature titled “Danger at the Mall.”)

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Crime was only part of the equation. So, too, was the proliferation of big-box discount stores like Walmart. And so was the proliferation of malls themselves—there were simply too many of them. Tax incentives encouraged the construction of malls even when there wasn’t demand for them.

Americans were over-retailed—and though there were broad economic gains in the 1990s, during that same decade, the buying power of the middle class eroded, and with it, malls’ popularity.

At that time, it was difficult to tell whether those dark clouds amounted to a temporary lull or portended a permanent demise.

Northgate, which heralded the fact that it had an Old Navy and a Disney store, was still going strong throughout the nineties.

But soon after the turn of the century—and a year after the Southpointe mall opened its doors—Northgate decided it was time to reinvent itself.

In early 2001, according to court documents, Bowman and Northgate Associates took out a property-secured loan for $58.5 million. Six years later, they took out a second loan for $27.5 million.

Soon after taking out the first loan, Northgate spent $6 million on a “facelift,” and then $13 million more on a full makeover, expanding the movie theater and shopping areas and entertainment venues.

That investment didn’t appear to pay off.

The story of the mall over the last decade and a half has been a story of closures: from Belk to Macy’s, Office Depot to Guitar Center, Harris Teeter to S&K Menswear.

(While Sears declared bankruptcy earlier this year and announced that more than 180 of its stores would close, the Durham location has so far been spared.)

And so, to walk through Northgate today is to walk through a post-apocalyptic landscape, like walking through a world that is already over: a world where teenage indiscretion involved shoplifting a personality from the shelves of Spencer’s Gifts and Hot Topic. A world where “cucumber melon” was a calling card for tween girls. A world where the first day of school demanded a new outfit. A world that promised that the American dream was within reach, you just had to buy it.

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he shopping mall, like an appendix, is a vestigial organ of American capitalism.

Once emblematic of the abundance of consumer choice, it has been rendered nearly obsolescent.

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One-third of the approximately 1,100 enclosed malls across America are dead or dying.

Many have been converted into medical offices and clinics, megachurches, cultural community hubs, and community college campuses.

Northgate have become tawdry and uncool.

Once the primary watering hole for teenage social savannas, they’ve fallen victim to desertification: Fewer teens frequent malls with each passing year.

This is all true, but there’s a caveat: Malls catering to rich people are still doing fine.

Malls catering to everyone else are dying— a testament, perhaps, to growing inequality.

While luxury malls like Southpointe flourish, one-third of the approximately eleven hundred enclosed malls across America are dead or dying, according to a 2017 study.

Many of these dying malls have been converted into medical offices and clinics, megachurches, cultural community hubs, and community college campuses. Northgate, with its diverse, middle-class clientele, seems headed in that direction.

A Department of Motor Vehicles license agency sits between the New York Jewelry shop and Khen’s Tailor Shop. Reinvestment Partners temporarily inhabits a storefront during tax season, providing free tax assistance to local residents. Revolve Church meets weekly at the cinema. And the Durham Public Library houses its North Carolina collection and Maker Lab at the mall.

The fact that Northgate is and has always been locally owned—and connected to the community it serves—remains one of its strongest attributes. The introduction of Northwood Investors could change all of that, marking a turning point in the mall’s history.

“Northgate Mall has been locally owned forever; basically since it started, it’s been owned by Ginny [Rand Bowman] and her family,” Schewel says. “They’ve been really extraordinary citizens of Durham. As a local mall, they have really contributed so much to the life of our city. So many local events are sponsored out of Northgate, and they help so many of our nonprofits. So I do have concern that a developer without that commitment to our community might not make the same sort of contributions.”

Northgate Associates and Northwood Investors did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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roups like Northwood Investors— which, in June, purchased the $62 million in debt that remained from the loans Northgate took out in the 2000s— have become familiar characters in the transformation of Durham, a sign that outside money is here to stay.

Northwood is behind the new Palladian Apartments, the residential component of a burgeoning “corporate center” on the I-40 between Durham and Chapel Hill. Its portfolio also includes the office building at 555 Mangum and the downtown “living experience” Van Alen.

What its presence will mean for Northgate remains unclear.

Despite the uncertainty, things are still happening at the mall—just not always things that you’d think of as happening at a mall.

Duke Health is proceeding with plans to locate offices and clinics in the former Macy’s. The Durham Public Library plans to lease space there until the renovation of its main branch is completed in early 2020.

And while Northwood could foreclose within a few weeks, store managers say Northgate Associates has assured them that they can expect to keep their leases for at least another year. That’s hardly a longterm guarantee, but for many of Northgate’s small business owners, the American dream is still alive at the mall.

Esmerelda Ayala immigrated to New York City from Honduras twenty-four years ago. She worked in restaurants for the decade she lived in Big Apple, and then for the first six in North Carolina.

Eventually, she left her job in order to focus on her dream: opening up a restaurant, Esmerelda’s Cafe, across the way from Pretzel Twister and near a corridor of clothing stores. The cafe serves coffee, tea, baked goods, soups and, most famously, paninis. Ayala hopes to eventually include Honduran food on her menu.

“A lot of people go to Southpointe because it’s bigger and seems fancier, but Northgate feels more family-oriented,” says Brandon Rogers, a twenty-four-year-old who grew up riding the carousel and now works parttime at both GameStop and Sears. “Plus, it’s the oldest mall in Durham. It’s sad that people have left it. But I am still here.”

Tony Wyatt and his brother used to work with their father in a successful chain of shoe repair stores in the nineties. After their dad retired, they founded their own chain, Wyatt and Dad Shoe Repair, and opened their second store in the Northgate Mall in May 2017.

Wyatt says they’ve already doubled their business.

“I don’t know what [the new owners’] intentions are, but I do know the mall is still signing new leases, so apparently they aren’t trying to tear it down,” Wyatt says.

“I think it’s going to be good when the dust settles. I’m very optimistic that it’s going to be very good and that the mall is going to turn around.”

Being in the shoe repair business, Wyatt is used to being told that an industry is dying. He doesn’t traffic in such anxiety.

“I read articles in newspapers in the 1920s and things like that, and the argument was constantly: Well, cheaper shoes are putting shoe repairs out of business.

And that’s not the case, the demand is still there,” Wyatt says. “Most of our customers do come for us, because there’s nobody else around. I think it is the same for malls like Northgate. The demand is still there.” backtalk@indyweek.com

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PITTSBORO

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he Eastern North Carolina backwater where I grew up? Too small. Raleigh and Durham? Too big. Chapel Hill? Too crowded. Pittsboro? Just right.

Maybe it’s because I grew up in the sticks, and maybe it’s because I value quiet and space, but I need someplace small enough to manage but big enough to avoid the parochial isolation of my childhood home. I need someplace where I can see at least a few stars overhead at night, where commuting is optional, and the closest interstate is at least thirty minutes away.

And I need someplace where the cost of living isn’t prohibitive—not yet, anyway. Pittsboro’s been that place for me since we bought a house here in 2009.

It’s not perfect. There’s a fool-ass Confederate statue in front of the courthouse, and too many trees are coming down, heralds of the massive incoming development Chatham Park’s inexorable growth. But I love it here, and I’m going to do my part to keep Pittsboro distinct, progressive, and welcoming. —Corbie Hill

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PHOENIX BAKERY

664 WEST STREET, 919-542-4452, THEPHOENIXBAKERYNC.COM On Thursday mornings, I meet several friends at Phoenix for coffee (and I always get the beer bread muffin). In our number, there’s a playwright, a sci-fi writer, and a journalist (me). If we’re a cross-section of Pittsboro’s writer population, our fellow customers are a cross-section of the town as a whole: Hippie dirt farmers, cops, retirees, college instructors, families, and various kinds of professionals all queue up for caffeine and freshly baked treats. The food and coffee are satisfying, the vibe and the décor are comfortable and easy, and the company is world-class.

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MORE FROM OUR ADVERTISERS CIRCLE CITY BOOKS & MUSIC

121 HILLSBORO STREET, PITTSBORO, 919-548-5954 It’s been six years since Circle City Books & Music founder Myles Friedman established this Pittsboro landmark believing that every town deserves its own bookstore. Now its eclectic mix of books, vinyl and CDs draws visitors from Mars Hill to Marseille. Visit anytime, it’s open eight days a week.

PITTSBORO TOYS

15 HILLSBORO STREET, PITTSBORO, 919-545-1546 Pittsboro Toys is a unique toy store that specializes in creative and educational toys and books that are made to be passed on for generations. We carry toys handmade by local artisans, as well as brands made in Europe and the USA. We’re a hands on toy store-come play!

RECLAMATION

102 HILLSBORO STREET, PITTSBORO, 919-200-2176, RECLAMATIONHOMEFURNISHINGS. COM At Reclamation you will find a curated selection of vintage, antique, and gently loved home decor and accent furniture at price points lower than what you have come to expect elsewhere. Enjoy browsing in a pleasant atmosphere where new inventory arrives daily and people still say thank you.

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ANGELINA’S KITCHEN

Tacos Michoacan’s veggie burrito and veggie fajitas have never let me down. My youngest daughter is not, and she’s pretty taken with the chicken quesadilla. Don’t sleep on the red salsa.

23 RECTORY STREET, 919-545-5505, ANGELINASKITCHENONLINE.COM Chef-owner Angelina Koulizakis-Battiste runs this longtime anchor of Chatham County’s farm-to-table community. If you’ve lived in THE CITY TAP Pittsboro for longer than six months without 89 HILLSBORO STREET, eating Angelina’s satisfying fusions of Greek and 919-545-0562, THECITYTAP.COM Southwestern cuisines, you’re doing it wrong.

This watering hole serves all of the essential roles of a small town bar. Grab a sandwich GREEK KOUZINA for you and your kids? Ta-da: It’s a lunch 964 EAST STREET, 919-542-9950, spot with a patio. Meet a friend for a beer GREEKKOUZINA.COM on a Tuesday evening? Ta-da: It’s a low-key, I like low-frills establishments that sell good centrally located bar. Catch a rowdy rockabilly food at a fair price, and Greek Kouzina is act or test out a new song at an open mic? Taexactly that: Spend a few dollars, wait a few da: It’s a venue with a full calendar. minutes in the unassuming dining room, and receive consistently good falafel.

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THE MODERN LIFE DELI AND DRINKS

46 SANFORD ROAD, 919-533-6883, THEMODERNLIFEDELI.COM The sandwiches are good, and there’s interesting local beer on tap, but it’s The Mod’s woodfired pizzas that make this downtown eatery essential. We’re big fans of meatless pies like R.U. Caprese? Carnivores dig the Buffalo Willy.

S&T SODA SHOPPE

85 HILLSBORO STREET, 919-545-0007, SANDTSODASHOPPE.COM The real draw at this throwback American diner is the ice cream.

TACOS MICHOACAN

697 HILLSBORO STREET (PARKING LOT), 919-548-7013 For my money, the best restaurant in town is the taco truck that parks in the Alpha Center lot. I’m vegetarian, and

354 EAST STREET, 919-542-5431, 580CRAFTBEER.COM With rotating taps and some fairly obscure selections on the shelves, 580 functions as both a snug bar and a bottle shop for beer nerds.

STARRLIGHT MEAD

480 HILLSBORO STREET, #1000, 919-533-6314, STARRLIGHTMEAD.COM Starrlight’s meads vary by dryness, sweetness, and type of honey, to the point where you can match specific meads to meals or moods. Word is there’s a new, larger location in the works, too.

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CIRCLE CITY BOOKS & MUSIC

121 HILLSBORO STREET, 919-548-5954 Circle City Books’ N.C. authors’ mural has become a downtown landmark. Inside the

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CHATHAM PTA THRIFT SHOP

400 EAST STREET, 919-542-4070, CHATHAM.K12.NC.US/PAGE/21006 I wasn’t going to put my actual favorite store in town on the list because, well, it’s just our humble thrift store. Then again, a few weeks ago, I found a piccolo snare drum there for $8, and all it needs are a new head and wires.

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CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS

764 WEST STREET, 919-545-8000, CCCC. EDU/LOCATIONS/CHATHAM CCCC is a good school, but it’s the mile-long trail and disc golf course that give the Pittsboro campus a broader appeal. The paved footpath wends through woods, around the school’s working farm, and by a frog pond, which keeps the scenery interesting and varied enough for anything from a family walk to a runner putting in a daily 5K.

JORDAN LAKE

280 STATE PARK ROAD, APEX, 919-3620586, NCPARKS.GOV/JORDAN-LAKESTATE-RECREATION-AREA Technically the lake isn’t in Pittsboro, but it’s right on top of us. A major part of our Pittsboro experience is getting a lake pass every summer and taking the kids swimming. We also meet friends of ours to go canoeing, either launching into the lake itself or from the Robeson Creek Canoe Launch, which is in Pittsboro. From the Robeson Creek put-in, I should add, you can choose to paddle upstream into the Haw River or downstream to the lake.

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ROBINSON FERRY RESTAURANT & SPIRITS

111 BRAGG ST, WARRENTON, 252-257-1991, ROBINSONFERRYWARRENTON.COM North Carolina’s best kept secret, the historic town of Warrenton, is located between Kerr Lake and Lake Gaston.

Robinson Ferry builds on an established Warrentonian culture of great food, drink, and friendship. This is where country, city, and casual fine dining intersect.

Think of us on your next day trip.

storefront, the shop is packed with fairly priced used books and a respectable record selection.

For collectors, there are some rare records and early-edition or signed books as well.

102 Hillsboro St., Downtown Pittsboro, NC 919-200-2176

Lowest vintage prices in the Triangle!

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15 Hillsboro St. • Pittsboro, NC 27312 919-545-1546 • www.pittsborotoys.com

121 Hillsboro St. circlecitybooks@gmail.com P.O. Box 831 (919)548-5954 Pittsboro, NC 27312 Open 8 days a week

THE OUTPOSTS

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n what we’re calling The Outposts—Orange County outside of Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, Chatham County outside of downtown Pittsboro, and Saxapahaw—you’ll find a few prime cultural attractions with the added benefit of the lovely country drives it takes to get there.

The main destination is Saxapahaw, which isn’t really near anything: It’s a tiny former mill town way out in Alamance County, surrounded by farmland, about an hour’s drive from Raleigh. But it’s transformed in recent years, its warehouses reimagined as condos and lofts, and its dye house repurposed as a majestic music venue. Think of it as an agrarian outpost of Carrboro, from which it’s a mere twenty-minute drive.

Meanwhile, outside of their major towns, Orange and Chatham encompass everything from bedroom communities and pricey lakeside subdivisions to rolling pasturelands and dense forests. These rural areas are home to a mix of country folk, crunchy folk, and exurban commuters, who come seeking elbow room, space to garden, and fixerupper farmhouses. Whether you need a permanent getaway from the city or a temporary one for dinner and a show under a big night sky, these outliers should be on your map.

—Brian Howe

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HAW RIVER BALLROOM

“More than a restaurant, Robinson Ferry holds the heart and soul of its town” -Our State Magazine, May 2018

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1711 SAXAPAHAW-BETHLEHEM, 336-525-2314, HAWRIVERBALLROOM.COM Imagine a venue the size of Carrboro’s legendary Cat’s Cradle, with similar if slightly more rustic booking proclivities—indie rockers like Guster, Americana giants like Gillian Welch, and their intersections, like the Mountain Goats. But, instead of being stuffed in a strip mall, it’s spread across three levels of a historic dye house floating high above the Haw River, its lanterns gently shining, like a landlocked lighthouse beckoning in all that country darkness.

You’ve just imagined the Haw River Ballroom, the gorgeous music venue at the epicenter of Saxapahaw’s cultural life, adjacent to both the General Store and the Eddy Pub. It also has a coffee shop, Cup 22, and film screenings. Whether you’re twenty minutes away in Carrboro or an hour away in Raleigh, you need to get out here eventually. It’s easy to make a day of it.

Located in Historic Warrenton, NC“It’s worth the drive” The Best Restaurant & Bar Between Raleigh & Richmond www.robinsonferrywarrenton.com 252-257-1991 Reservations greatly appreciated

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sort dotting country roads everywhere. But the Saxapahaw General Store is actually a social center of the creative community that has sprung up in the town’s old mill infrastructure. Yes, you can get gas. But you can also get great food rooted in local, conscious farming and a variety of goods from local producers and artisans. Its breakfast is among my favorites in the Triangle, whether you have it at picnic tables inside or on the brick patio.

ALLEN AND SON BBQ

5650 U.S. 15-501, PITTSBORO, 919-542-2294, STUBBSANDSONBBQ.COM If you’re looking for reimagined ’cue—well, you better turn around and head back to the city, buster. This landmark country pork palace does N.C. ’cue and fixin’s the oldschool way, along with potato salad and sweet tea by the gallon.

THE EDDY PUB

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1715 SAXAPAHAW-BETHLEHEM CHURCH ROAD, SAXAPAHAW, 336-525-2010, THEEDDYPUB.COM “Seriously local food,” boasts this gastropub, and they aren’t kidding—I once ate something there with, I think it was honeysuckle blossoms, and the chef pointed out the window to where it was growing in the yard. The loud, low-slung, communal barroom is a great place to meet people, and local farms pump fresh produce into pub food both Southern and European in character.

A menu spanning N.C. trout cakes and pad Thai washes down with local beers and a long wine list.

THE FEARRINGTON HOUSE RESTAURANT

2000 FEARRINGTON VILLAGE CENTER, FEARRINGTON VILLAGE, PITTSBORO, 919-542-2121, FEARRINGTON.COM/HOUSE If you’re going to blow rent money on a meal, you may as well do it in the gracious, sprawling farmhouse where one of the more celebrated restaurants in this part of North Carolina resides. A seasonally shifting menu fueled by on-site vegetable and herb gardens elevates farm-to-fork dining in a genteel hideaway outside of Chapel Hill.

FIESTA GRILL

3307 N.C. HIGHWAY 54 WEST, 919-928-9002, FIESTAGRILL.US Some of the best authentic Mexican food in the Triangle awaits on an anonymous stretch of rural highway five miles west of Carrboro.

Such a family-driven place that it straightup closed for two weeks of vacation in July, Fiesta Grill is fresh and unassumingly good, and you can’t beat a lunch combination for $5.95.

LEFT BANK BUTCHERY

1729 SAXAPAHAW-BETHLEHEM CHURCH ROAD, SAXAPAHAW, 336-525-2092, LEFTBANKBUTCHERY.COM For those who want to eat meat responsibly, this butcher shop exclusively uses whole, healthy, ethically raised local animals.

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BYNUM FRONT PORCH 950 BYNUM ROAD, BYNUM, BYNUMFRONTPORCH.ORG

The Bynum Front Porch music series, which brings Americana bands to the stage beside the old Bynum General Store on summer Fridays, lies at the junction of old Chatham and new, with a progressive-leaning crowd enjoying rural music beside a historic landmark.

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REVERENCE FARMS CAFE

6956 N.C. HIGHWAY 87, GRAHAM, 336-525-2266, REVERENCEFARMSCAFE.COM If you find yourself in Graham, don’t forget this unique stop, where the farm and table could hardly be closer. A working polyculture farm serves its own meat and veggies, as well as those of other local farms and suppliers, in dishes such as meatloaf and mushroom risotto, bratwurst, and an “Oyster Mushroom Po’ Girl.”

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HAW RIVER FARMHOUSE ALES

1713 SAXAPAHAW-BETHLEHEM CHURCH ROAD, SAXAPAHAW, 336-525-9270, HAWRIVERALES.COM Bringing Belgian-style brewing to the bucolic South distinguishes this little brewery, which has an open tasting room and patio yearround. Foraged, rare, hyperlocal ingredients capture Saxapahaw in unique, funky glasses—hope you like beer with pine needles and stuff in it.

ROOST BEER GARDEN

270 MARKET STREET, FEARRINGTON VILLAGE, PITTSBORO, 919-542-1239, FEARRINGTON.COM/ROOST Don’t let its size fool you—there’s a lot

packed into this tiny building. A pizza oven cranks out wood-fired pies, while beer taps offer excellent local beverages.

SILKHOPE WINERY

2601 SILK HOPE-GUM SPRINGS ROAD, PITTSBORO, 919-545-5696, SILKHOPEWINERY.COM This family-owned vineyard may be small— two and a half acres—but it’s big enough to produce more than a dozen wines, some award-winning.

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PITTSBORO CENTER FOR THE ARTS

18 EAST SALISBURY STREET, 919-533-6997, PITTSBOROYOUTHTHEATER.COM

The main attraction at this arts center and auditorium is the Pittsboro Youth Theater, but it also includes gallery space for exhibits by local artists, pop-up readings, concerts, corporate events spaces, summer camps, and more.

SATURDAYS IN SAXAPAHAW 1612 JORDAN DRIVE, SAXAPAHAW, SAXAPAHAWNC.COM/SATURDAYS

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Each Saturday from May through August, here’s Saxapahaw’s own little farmers market, complete with a music series that skews toward Americana but is also full of surprises.

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Mainly you’ll come to this seventy-two-acre property to get muddy at the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance or to cut the lawn at the Hoppin’ John Old-Time and Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention, but it also hosts arts classes and youth programs throughout the year.

220 MARKET STREET, FEARRINGTON VILLAGE, PITTSBORO, 919-542-3030, FEARRINGTON.COM/MCINTYRES-BOOKS Fearrington’s longstanding independent bookstore draws many of the same national SHAKORI HILLS authors who stop at The Regulator in Durham, Quail Ridge in Raleigh, and Flyleaf in COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER 1439 HENDERSON TANYARD Chapel Hill.

ROAD, PITTSBORO, 919-542-1746, SHAKORIHILLS.ORG SAXAPAHAW GENERAL 1735 SAXAPAHAW-BETHLEHEM CHURCH ROAD, SAXAPAHAW, 336-376-5332, SAXGENSTORE.COM From the road, it looks like an unusually large old-fashioned convenience store of the

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HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVES HELP FIGHT HUNGER, BUT PORCH FEEDS HUNGRY TRIANGLE RESIDENTS YEAR-ROUND

BY MEG NESTEROV

Volunteers with PORCH sort donated non-perishable food at St. Thomas More Catholic Church PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

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n a rainy November morning, more than one hundred people are gathered in a parish hall at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill, ready to be pressed into service. Tables are stacked high with canned goods, boxes of mac and cheese, and jars of pasta sauce—$17,000 worth of non-perishable groceries, all donated by local residents.

More than two thousand paper bags, donated by Harris Teeter, are doubled-up and waiting. An assembly line forms, and in less than two hours, the bags are packed and ready to be delivered to food pantries and families across Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

The people packing bags are volunteers with PORCH, a local hunger-relief organization that spans hundreds of neighborhoods in the Triangle. While food drives are a familiar scene this time of year, PORCH is active year-round. In Orange County alone, donations from two hundred neighborhoods stock fifteen pantries and hundreds of families.

The magnitude of the outreach is even more impressive given that PORCH is a wholly grassroots organization facing complex logistics. It takes a holistic approach to fighting poverty, not only by feeding people, but also through community building, education, and advocacy.

Though it now has hundreds of volunteers, PORCH started in Chapel Hill eight years ago with three energetic and determined women: Christine Cotton, Susan Romaine, and Debbie Horowitz.

“Having seen the impact of food insecurity firsthand when volunteering in our children’s classrooms and volunteering for other hunger relief organizations in town, we were inspired to start PORCH,” Horowitz says. “We work in collaboration with other local nonprofits to fill a unique niche, giving fresh-food access to many families falling through the cracks because of barriers of access to other hungerrelief resources.”

The founders started on a micro level, inviting their neighbors and friends to put a non-perishable food item on their porch on a designated day each month. A neighborhood captain collects the goods and brings them to a central location where they are sorted and redistributed to local charities, food banks, and families in need. This small-scale food drive has grown into a large outpouring of community support, including donations of supplies and services from local businesses.

Some mornings, there are fewer volunteers, less food. The summer months tend to have sparser participation with school out and families away, but there are always enough people to help and plenty to give.

“Our goal is to equalize donations [over the course of the year] to provide a steady source of food. People aren’t just hungry at Thanksgiving,” Horowitz says.

Unique to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro PORCH chapter is the Food for Families initiative, which benefits four hundred foodinsecure families. These families are 95 percent working poor, identified by school

social workers, churches, and refugee-relief workers. They are families on the margins, who might not qualify for government aid, but for whom this monthly gift could make a huge difference. A week’s worth of groceries from PORCH might mean a utility bill gets paid or a holiday gift is affordable. Half of the non-perishable goods collected at the monthly sorting go to these families, which also receive fresh produce, milk, chicken, and eggs. This month, more than eight tons of fresh produce, milk, eggs, chicken, and ground beef were delivered to 1,762 people in time for Thanksgiving and the school break.

PORCH has approximately $16,000 a month for these groceries, which come from individual donations ($40 can feed one family for a month) and some donations from vendors like Farmer Foodshare and Maple View Farms. Other fresh goods are purchased at a discount or in bulk from local supermarkets and wholesale warehouses like Cliff’s Meat Market and Costco.

Food for Families regularly solicits feedback from recipients to learn how they can be better served by PORCH. From such surveys, they learned that Burmese refugees had little use for goods like peanut butter and preferred more bags of rice instead.

The deliveries have also become a major source of community connections among recipients and volunteers, who exchange recipes and share stories through translators. A free flea market often pops up at the distribution site, with donations from

Book Harvest and clothing from community members.

At St. Thomas More, Romaine introduces a guest from UNC Horizons, one of the food pantries served by today’s collection. UNC Horizons is a relatively new PORCH partner. It’s a residential and out-patient program for mothers or mothers-to-be who are in addiction treatment. This allows women to maintain custody of their children, who are provided with daycare or attend Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools, while they receive counseling and classes in parenting and recovery. Many members get assistance such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the onsite PORCH pantry is a bridge for patients whose benefits haven’t yet kicked in. Horizons volunteer Ashley Wilson speaks to the shame many of these women feel coming out of addiction and the shock they experience when they learn that strangers are willing to help them.

The work done today is a drop in the bucket. Collections take place across the state every month. Shoppers at Weaver Street Market are regularly asked to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar, with the extra cents going to PORCH. Elmo’s Diner will support PORCH Durham on November 27, also known as Giving Tuesday, by donating 10 percent of all proceeds. New chapters are spreading through word of mouth. It’s as simple as neighbors helping neighbors, starting with as little as a can of tuna. food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 11.21.18 | 15

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TRIANGLE CHEFS TURN THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS INTO SO MUCH MORE THAN TURKEY SANDWICHES

BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS

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ut down that plate of turkey, take your hands off the microwave, and slowly back away. Instead of settling for nuked leftovers or your umpteenth turkey sandwich, take a cue from these Triangle chefs who teach us how to turn Thanksgiving leftovers into dishes so good, that Turkey Day dinner just might be more fodder than feast.

THANKSGIVING TURKEY BURGERS Gray Brooks

Jack Tar and The Colonel’s Daughter Gray Brooks, the chef and owner of modern diner Jack Tar and The Colonel’s Daughter, is known for elevating comfort food classics with top-notch ingredients and a dose of whimsy. For Brooks and his family, Thanksgiving is as much about the leftovers as it is the main event. So, when he buys his Thanksgiving turkey, he purchases an additional three or four hindquarters (thighs and legs).

He cooks the breasts separately, on the bone, then makes a confit with the dark meat by slowly cooking the meat in duck fat. The following day, he shreds the confit turkey and folds it with leftover chanterelle dressing, a savory, mushroom breadpudding-esque dish. After forming the mixture into patties, Brooks sears them in a hot skillet till crisp then finishes the burgers in the oven.

“Then [we] put ’em on bread or a burger bun, with, of course, some gravy, and some leftover cranberry sauce. And we find an old movie on television,” Brooks says. “It’s a cool Thanksgiving turkey burger. It’s a sloppy sandwich, but it’s okay because you’re at home in your pajamas.”

If you don’t happen to confit your turkey, Brooks suggests chopping leftover dark turkey meat and mixing it with leftover dressing or stuffing to make the patties. Cozy PJs optional.

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SWEET POTATO PUDDING WITH PECAN CRISP CRUMBLES Tonya Little Mama Dip’s As the granddaughter of Mildred Council, Tonya Little grew up in the kitchen of Chapel Hill’s iconic Southern comfort food restaurant, Mama Dip’s. Little still works at the Rosemary Street eatery a few times a week while running her own companies, Tonya’s Cookies, and Sweet Tea and Cornbread, a North Carolina-centric gift and specialty food store at Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall.

“For my family, Thanksgiving starts early,” Little says. “By the time the official Turkey Day comes, we have eaten our share of the roasted bird, dressing, gravy, and Grandma’s sweet potato pudding.”

Their Thanksgiving meal can feature just about anything else, with steak making a frequent appearance.

This year, Little plans to pay homage to her grandmother, who passed away last Spring, by making a dessert inspired by Council’s beloved sweet potato pudding.

She’ll use some of the surplus sweet potatoes they always have on hand to make the pudding, then augment the recipe by baking it with a layer of her own Tonya’s Cookie’s pecan crisp cookies (inspired by her grandmother’s pecan pie). Get the recipe at indyweek.com. Mama Dip may not have a seat at the family’s table this year, but she’ll be in their hearts.

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Lionel Vatinet La Farm Bakery At age sixteen, Lionel Vatinet joined France’s prestigious artisans’ guild, Les Compagnons du Devoir, and became a Maître Boulanger (master baker). In 1999, Vatinet and his wife, Missy, opened

Lionel Vatinet’s Cocotte PHOTO BY GORDON MONRO La Farm Bakery in Cary, earning a loyal following for his signature sourdough boules and white chocolate baguettes.

Even though Vatinet didn’t grow up with the American tradition of Thanksgiving, he’s since embraced the feast—and its leftovers—whole-heartedly.

“I really fell in love with Thanksgiving when I moved here, and Missy and I started celebrating with family. It has become one of my favorites because it’s all about bringing everyone together around the table for simple, yet delicious food,” he says. “And Thanksgiving seems to be a time when there are always a lot of house guests, so we began making this cocotte-

style casserole dish with leftovers. It’s an easy way to keep feeding all those you love the day after.”

A cocotte is a layered, baked egg-cheeseand-bread dish like an Italian strata or savory bread pudding, where cubes of slightly stale bread soak up egg custard and are baked until puffy and golden. Though Vatinet’s recipe calls for sausage, ham, and mushrooms, he points out that the recipe is very versatile, and ingredients can be subbed in according to what’s left over from your own Thanksgiving dinner. It’s just the thing to serve for Black Friday brunch—get the recipe at indyweek.com. food@indyweek.com

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Open and Shut

AS BEYÙ CAFFÈ ENDS ITS RESPECTED MUSIC PROGRAM DOWNTOWN, A NEW VENUE EMERGES IN LAKEWOOD BY KATIE JANE FERNELIUS

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hough there are no venues shuttering, for now, tectonic shifts in Durham’s live music scene are happening as a downtown hub for jazz ends its regular programming at the end of the year and a new concert venue opens its doors in Lakewood. It would be easy to read these concurrent developments as further evidence of a rapidly gentrifying city, but, if you ask the owners, the changes reveal more about their specific passions than they seem to reveal about the economics of live music in Durham.

Beyù Caffè, which has been a staple of the Durham jazz community and a beacon of black business downtown since it opened in late 2009, recently announced in a Facebook post that the start of 2019 would mark the end of its live music programming.

“After much reflection on the changing landscape of downtown Durham and the evolving business model of Beyù, our owner Dorian [Bolden] has decided to make the difficult choice to refocus the business’ efforts and energy on its original passion and scope—coffee,” the post reads. “In a word, Beyù Caffè is returning to its roots.”

Started by Duke alumnus Dorian Bolden, Beyù (pronounced “Be you”) Caffè has evolved in the decade since its opening into a full café and restaurant with breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner service with a bar, in addition to a live performance space.

Many of the café’s followers expressed dismay in the comments, accusing Bolden of catering to a changing demographic downtown—a euphemistic way of saying that Bolden was turning his back on his longtime customer base in favor of attracting more white patrons.

“I have been wrestling with this decision for a very long time,” Bolden says. “The saddest part and the hardest part of putting on live music was that people don’t realize what it takes to run a music production unless things go wrong. It was a choice between being a jack of all trades and master of none, or picking a lane.”

Although the café is known for its live performances, the story penned by Bolden himself on his website emphasizes his love of European coffee and how working at cafés in New York City prepared him to start Beyù.

Even before he opened Beyù’s doors downtown, Bolden was going to house parties with his “Heart and Soul” coffee blend to share his vision for this café.

In 2016, as rents rose downtown, Bolden decided to move just a few storefronts down to its current location at 341 W. Main Street. With financing from Self Help, Bolden bought the space so the business would no longer have to lease from a landlord.

“Why it was such a difficult decision is that I want to make sure we do have a place where we can celebrate another ten years,” Bolden says. “I want to make sure this is a community gathering place and that we can continue to be a part of downtown growth.”

Over the years, a slate of impressive and beloved musicians have performed at Beyù, including Branford Marsalis, Nnena Freelon, and Cyrus Chestnut. It also was a space where many musicians honed their chops, whether up-and-coming percussionists or renowned vocalists. The café was also a staple venue in the Art of Cool festival, as well as in Duke Performances programming. Cicely Mitchell, co-founder of the Art of Cool festival, says she found out about the decision to end live music from social media. It came as a total surprise.

“I think that this poses a huge impact on the jazz and live music community,” Mitchell says. “There is an opportunity to see how resilient the community is. I am optimistic that the musicians, deejays, and audience will find or create a space to connect through live music very soon.”

The impact on the jazz-forward Art of Cool festival will likely be minimal because of its programming across several venues, but Beyù is still one less venue for the festival. And it’s one less stage for jazz hopefuls across the Triangle. Bolden says he’s sympathetic towards those who disagree with his decision.

Al Strong performs at Beyù Caffè during his album release concert the night of Thursday, January 8, 2016 FILE PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER “Beyù has provided music for so many years, and it is a part of people’s lives and memories, so, yes, of course, there is anxiety,” he says.

Still, Bolden insists that this decision to focus on the communal coffee shop is a good not just for the longevity business, but for the Durham community writ large.

“Let us remember that in April 2018, two black men were arrested in a Starbucks for doing absolutely nothing. Beyù Caffè was one of the top coffee shops listed as one of the places to go and support black business in the coffee industry,” Bolden says. “That goes to the importance of bringing together this space for safety and inclusion and diversity.”

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eanwhile, on Chapel Hill Road, a new venue for music will officially open on December 7: Rhythms Live. Owned by husband and wife Victor and Jerre Graham, the venue promises to be “re-expose our adult populations to the music they love and demand,” according to its website.

Victor Graham says the venue is a culmination of a twenty-year journey that began with a fortuitous childhood where he saw Elvis Presley and Jackson Five back to back in the same audience as Johnny Cash and Jerry Lewis; happened upon a KISS performance when they were a lounge act at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee; and met Earth, Wind and Fire shortly after their first album. To Graham, all these encounters were a harbinger of a musical future to come.

“Something hit me—some people call it an epiphany, some people call it the Holy Spirit—and it led me on this long journey to today to what we call Rhythms Live,” Graham says.

A self-professed “country boy” from South Carolina, Victor moved to Durham in the early eighties straight out of college after visiting a friend.

“I visited Durham for the first time in 1983, and the moment I saw Durham, I knew automatically, this is where I want to be,” Graham says. “I could smell the opportunity in the air.” He’s lived here ever since.

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Before opening this venue, Jerre Graham, Victor’s wife, was a banker. Graham himself still works with senior citizens, helping them with estate planning and insurance claims.

Last year, faced with an empty nest and a looming retirement, the Grahams decided to move forward on Victor’s decades-long dream: to open up a music venue.

“I remember the day exactly: August 28, 2017,” Graham says. It was the day he walked into the space that more than a year later would become Rhythms Live.

The venue is located in the Lakewood Shopping Plaza near the Scrap Exchange.

According to Victor, the Reuse Arts District played a pivotal role in the decision to move to the neighborhood.

“They really embraced us and the concept,” Graham says. “I was looking for them, and they were looking for me.”

While Beyù boasted low admission prices (usually under $20) and a range of shows from amateurs and seasoned professionals alike, Rhythms is actively courting an

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older audience for “classic” acts, with a fully seated venue and much pricier tickets (tickets for the venue’s opening show featuring Blood, Sweat and Tears are $60, which includes an entrée from the dinner menu as a grand-opening treat). Rhythms also will have a full dinner service and a bar.

Victor Graham is especially excited that the venue also has free and accessible parking.

The venue’s early line-up of shows includes country music singer Crystal Gale, R&B artist Jeffrey Osborne and Grammywinning guitarist Larry Carlton. Graham says that he believes that Rhythms Live is a good complement to existing venues: smaller than DPAC, but bigger than more intimate jazz clubs in the area like Sharp 9 Gallery.

“The music scene here is just as strong as any music scene in the country,” Graham says. “We feel as we grow, we hope we will be in a position to engage the community and serve it.” music@indyweek.com

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Here’s a shocker: Cold Cream is a great punk band. When the crew of Triangle punk-rock lifers—Montgomery Morris and Laura King of Flesh Wounds (among others), Ron Liberti of Pipe, Clark Blomquist of Tegucigalpan—launches into the opening salvo of “Wage Theft,” that much is clear. Liberti’s slashing, serrated chords, King’s bouncing bass, and Blomquist’s walloping drums guide the song’s manic thrust as Morris delivers a bilious invective that serves as fanfare the working man: “Keep the labor at the bottom/So consumers have the products,” he spits. Perhaps unsurprisingly, politics and oppression rule the day. “Rat Fucker” rails against gerrymandering and voter suppression; “Fasting” inveighs against the deleterious environmental effects of industrialized meat production.

But Cold Cream is also smart as hell. Its invective is littered with, and maybe driven by, historical touchpoints and references. “Eichmann in Jerusalem” is a Germs-y philippic that meditates on Hannah Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil. Dour psych-punk banger “See You on the Somme” invokes World War I imagery and references Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” to fulminate against the self-perpetuating state of warfare. That these songs often race by—only “Somme” clocks in over two and a half minutes—doesn’t blunt their intellect or impact.

For all the weighty subject matter, Cold Cream peppers its polemics with a gnarly sense of humor.

Back-half standout “In Carrz” rails against the yuppiefication of Carrboro (and probably the stretch of Rosemary in Chapel Hill that runs west into Carrboro, too). Morris rails against the new-model highrise condos springing up in the verse and against the prevalence of artisan pizza and microbrewed beer in the bridge before wrapping up the chorus with a great tongue-in-cheek Gary Numan reference: “Now I feel the safest of all,” he sneers, “in Carrz.”

Given the members’ collective pedigree, that Cold Cream seems fully formed on its first release isn’t surprising. Nor is the band’s delivery of its snarling, sneering punk with bone-crunching force and adroit aplomb, or that, given the sociopolitical climate that birthed it, its brand of punk is fiercely personal and intensely political. It’s nice sometimes, though, to not be surprised, isn’t it? —Patrick Wall 18 | 11.21.18 | INDYweek.com

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THE TRIANGLE’S INDIE RECORD STORES GET READY FOR BLACK FRIDAY SALES BY SPENCER GRIFFITH

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n contrast to the over-the-top shenanigans of big box retailers, independent record stores celebrate Black Friday with a considerably smaller seasonal offshoot of April’s annual Record Store Day event. In its ninth year, more than 150 exclusives are available, and every local shop we spoke to—All Day Records (Carrboro), Bull City Records (Durham), Carolina Soul (Durham), Nice Price Books & Records (Raleigh’s Hillsborough Street location, but not the newly opened Oakwood location), Record Krate (Raleigh and Wake Forest), Schoolkids (Raleigh and Chapel Hill), and Sorry State Records (Raleigh)—plans to stock some releases, but the best bet is to call ahead if you’re seeking a specific item.

The list of available titles is extensive and eclectic, ranging from the first-time vinyl release of the Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas soundtrack to the highly unnecessary five-LP Toad The Wet Sprocket box set.

There are also live offerings (including Etta Jones, Muddy Waters, Grateful Dead, Phish, and Ramones) along with special reissues of classic albums (Bob Marley’s Catch A Fire, The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Devo’s Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, and The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle) and more modern hits (Weezer’s “Africa” single and Taylor Swift’s Speak Now and Red).

“It’s not as crazy as Record Store Day, but every year I’m surprised how many people make records a central part of their Black Friday shopping itinerary,” says Sorry State’s

Daniel Lupton. “I’m not sure if the bulk of that shopping is for gifts or people giving themselves a reward after a tough morning of door-busting, but it means a lot that people take time out of their Thanksgiving weekend to come see us,” he adds. Like some other Triangle record retailers, Sorry State has been waiting until Black Friday to refresh its bins with recently acquired stock that includes classic and progressive rock, new wave, and original pressings of midcentury jazz records.

Jazz fans should also plan to browse the crates at Carolina Soul, which is unveiling a collection filled with heavyweights like Miles, Mingus, Monk, and Coltrane, as well rare releases from labels like Strata-East.

Record Krate will also be putting out some unique used inventory it’s saved for the occasion. All Day will be offering ten percent off all new and used vinyl (excluding RSD titles), while Sorry State has yet to determine the discounts on its storewide sale.

In most cases, feel free to sleep in: Although each store is anticipating the unofficial start to holiday shopping with Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, most are keeping normal operating hours. “I kind of like to keep Black Friday a little relaxed and save our energy to go all out for [Record Store Day in] April,” says Chaz Martenstein of Bull City Records. The exception is Schoolkids Records, where Chip Kloss, the ever-excited Raleigh manager, reports both locations will open at 8 a.m. music@indyweek.com

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HAMILTON

Through Sunday, Dec. 2 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham www.dpacnc.com

Taking the Rap

HAMILTON IS SPECTACULAR. BUT IS IT REALLY A SALVE FOR RACIAL WOUNDS, OR JUST A WHITE BANDAGE?

BY BRIAN HOWE

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very lyric has been subjected to Talmudic scrutiny, every hip-hop and show-tune reference footnoted, every historical fudge corrected, every hot take fired and cooled. So I’m not going to write a review. Let’s just talk.

I arrived at DPAC to see Hamilton, the hip-hop Revolutionary War musical turned cultural juggernaut, carrying the following items in my pockets: phone, wallet, keys, notebook, pencil, quarter, dime, three pennies. This inventory is fresh in my mind because I had to put it all in a tray to pass through two metal detectors, a freestanding one and a waved wand, at the internationalflight-worthy security checkpoints choking the queues around the building.

I was also carrying some things I couldn’t put in a tray: the wary anticipation I bring to any box-office blockbuster that is putatively populist but financially exclusive; a conversance with existing critiques of Hamilton as a steamroller gentrifying hip-hop and black culture; and the white privilege and perspective I never leave home without.

Looking around the venue, I realized I was in the minority, in that I couldn’t really afford to be here without a press comp. Tickets are going for hundreds of dollars unless you win one of the $10 lotteries, like in a folk tale about a peasant being made king for a day. But in a more significant way, I was securely in the majority, as the audience, as is often the case at DPAC musicals, was mostly white.

I made my way to a seat that offered a square view of the spare, dynamic set, its brick ramparts laced with wooden ladders and catwalks. There was a sense of moment but also of levity as the usual housekeeping announcements about phones and photos came on in the plummy, peremptory voice of King George III, and the house lights fell. The opening lines—“How does a bastard orphan son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and scholar?”—

Joseph Morales as Alexander Hamilton PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS triggered a Pavlovian pleasure response. This was what we’d been waiting for, something that, in some sense connected to the waiting, we deserved.

During the first act, I made the usual kinds of notes. There were some early intelligibility issues with Aaron Burr, but it didn’t matter—everyone knew the lyrics, and the soft vocal tone of Nik Walker made both his rapping and singing shine. I caught the obvious musical theater citations and likely missed many others. With a deeper knowledge of hip-hop than musicals, I duly geeked out on the references to lyrics or songs by Mobb Deep and Biggie, and I pored over the

inspirations of the instrumental backing, detecting whiffs of connoisseur classics like Pharoahe Monch’s “Simon Says” and Gang Starr’s “Above the Clouds.”

For a musical touted as the future, it’s fascinating to think about how nostalgic Hamilton is—not just for the heyday of Gilbert and Sullivan, but also for a hip-hop golden age before cloud rap and trap, before Lil B and Migos, when lyrical and vocal virtuosity still reigned.

“Golden age” traditionally refers to borough-dwellers like Run-DMC and A Tribe Called Quest and cuts off in the early nineties, when bicoastal crime rap took over.

While Hamilton does due diligence to the former, it lavishes more love on the latter, extending its golden age through Wu-Tang and Big and Pac, all the way up through, say, Lil Wayne. The slipperiness of when and how things were great bears on how the musical treats American history, too.

Golden ages have a funny way of moving around like that. Purists once turned up their noses at gangster rap and its shiny-suited offspring, but when it comes to hip-hop fundamentals, even Mase seems like KRSOne compared to Lil Pump. Two or three decades from now, maybe someone will create Grant—after all, Alexander Hamilton INDYweek.com | 11.21.18 | 19

biographer Ron Chernow took on old Ulysses in his most recent tome—a Civil War mumble-rap musical sung by dozy children with rainbow hair and face tattoos, and it will have the same timeless halo.

Some of the performers actually sound like rappers, limber and fluid. Others, including Joseph Morales as an energetic Alexander Hamilton, sound like talented Broadway singers riveting down their enunciation syllable by syllable. This is rap only insofar as a spoken version of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General”—a chestnut referenced on “Right Hand Man”—would be.

Which is fine. That’s just what musical theater does: absorbs everything into its own idiom, for its own purposes.

But that’s what white culture does, too, and the white left at least hypothetically agrees this is a problem. Once you embark on this line of thought, it’s hard to stop.

Hamilton is spectacular. It throbs with energy, but it’s tense and restrained, building and breaking, not just bombastic. The wordplay is thrilling and the melodic motifs of the R&B songs pleasurably sear the memory. On stagecraft terms, it works fantastically. At intermission, my face hurt from smiling. I texted a friend who was there, “This shit is kind of huh.” I started thinking about star ratings—a perfect five? Four and a half, for the intelligibility issues? Four, deducting one for the whole uneasy gentrifying-rap thing?

Is that the cost of white privilege—a single star?

Mesmerized by the musical, I had ceased to hold in mind that in real life, this cast was divided into masters and slaves along sharp racial lines. Hamilton has been persuasively accused of whitewashing racial history and perpetuating the myth that immigrants need only grit, gumption, and sturdy bootstraps to succeed. The naturalness of seeing diverse races playing formerly white roles says something true about America today, even something inspiring, if you squint. But it is also a lie about history, an act of willful forgetting about men who owned and raped slaves, which makes it a lie about the present, too. What do we owe to painful memory, and at what point does the fantasy slide from redressing past crimes to acquitting them, even as they continue in more covert forms?

This question might be merely academic if not for the fact that in Hamilton, the dream and lie are both finely tooled to flatter white liberal sensibilities using hip-hop as a funhouse mirror. The second act continued to entrance me with its candy-coated revolution and its candy-coated racial politics, but I started to feel—well, like I had eaten too much candy. That night and in the days to follow, my texts about Hamilton changed drastically in tone. Now I wanted to the 20 | 11.21.18 | INDYweek.com

opera houses. Let the people don their own masks, for their own aims. I knew I was overcorrecting. It was an emotional response, not an intellectual one. It happens periodically when you live in the arts—the crisis of faith about its excess, divisions, and baggage. It’s always worth exploring. I loved the show, which agitated me. I know that not everything I want is good for me or others. I abandoned the leveling device of a star rating and started writing through the conflicts instead.

It’s a comforting, if faintly condescending, idea that Hamilton valorizes rags-toriches rappers who conquered an unjust world on the strength of their words by merging them with founding fathers. Less comforting but just as true is that it valorizes the creation myth of white America by merging its icons with those of an artform forged in domestic oppression. This was a version of the Italian or Irish outlaw story that white America could gaze

“On stage, Hamilton is about how much America has changed.

But in the seats, it lays bare how much it hasn’t.”

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amilton seemed like an unlikely success when it debuted three years ago, but in hindsight, it’s a no-brainer. A chance for Broadway to feel modern, cool, and open-minded without leaving its aesthetic or cultural safe zone—how are you going to lose money on that?

It’s clear that Lin-Manuel Miranda has a deep love of hip-hop. He made something genuine and earned, and then he released it into a culture that distorts the genuine and steals the earned. The cast album, widely accessible and helmed by The Roots, is less problematic than the stage version—though even the album wound up revealing white hunger for black culture to call its own when a white Billboard reviewer dubbed it the rap album of the year, absurdly stating it was better hip-hop than Kendrick Lamar.

Hamilton treats rap with self-conscious respect, as a form of eloquent dialectic and debate. But this is an NPR sustainer’s idea of respect. Appreciating rap as a form of civil discourse is not the same as understanding it and giving it space as a revolutionary energy of dissent and self-definition, one born of injustices white Americans at least passively propagate and benefit from.

upon but never possess, and we couldn’t stand it.

With insidious ingenuity, Hamilton creates the illusion of that dream come true, drawing false equivalence between its subject’s rise to fame and Biggie’s, whose “Ten Crack Commandments” becomes “Ten Duel Commandments.” A song about a systemic drug epidemic wrenched out of context and turned into a clever rhetorical structure for the enjoyment of people who might not even get the reference? I think the burden of proof is on anyone who says this isn’t the definition of cultural appropriation, which we claim to abhor.

It’s not for me tell you what the white gaze feels like, but I know that Hamilton, or at least Broadway, was made for me to enjoy. Read other people on feeling unable to respond according to the tradition of the culture supposedly being represented on stage, or how the racially mixed casting is a progressive shibboleth that fakes a postracial utopia white progressives long for.

Hamilton lampoons whiteness in the person of King George (played by a scenestealing Jon Patrick Walker), a regal clown in an ermine robe and a glittering crown.

But whiteness remains the musical’s home turf, which dulls these barbs and ultimately just reassures us we’re not like that. More troubling is that blackness, if inadvertently, is also lampooned, simply by being played for laughs in this context. If you can sit comfortably in an auditorium full of white people chuckling at moments of idiomatic black speech and gestures played for otherness, as if they were exotic tricks—well, your white skin is thicker than mine.

On stage, Hamilton is about how much America has changed. But in the seats, it lays bare how much it hasn’t, as a white audience continues a vampiric relationship with black culture. Broadway gets the vitality and allure of hip-hop; hip-hop gets … breeches-and-bayonets war drama.

Does this sound like fair cultural exchange, which will remain impossible until the bargaining positions are equal, or just more of the same old colonial, imperial mindset?

The musical is geared toward answering the opening question quoted above: Alexander Hamilton succeeded by having more energy, eloquence, and hustle than anyone else, as if the only difference between him and Jay-Z were a couple of hundred years.

But a more important question raised in “My Shot” is left for us to untangle: “If we win our independence is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants? Or will the blood we shed begin an endless cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?”

Many Americans of all races would grant that freedom and death are unequally apportioned in our country, but this is exactly what the musical’s historical revisions so seductively invite us to forget.

It isn’t really that Hamilton is a uniquely problematic musical, but that it throws into sharp relief, because of its juxtaposition with a culture it has long considered below its station, the capacity of the whole enterprise (Broadway, big-box musical theater in general, our country, take your pick) to be a hermetic, revisionist playground for privileged people who long to see themselves in scrappy underdogs, even if it takes serious mental contortions.

This is a cynical view. But sometimes we need cynicism to counterweight credulity.

History is not done with us, and we can’t dispense with it. Hamilton is a phase in massive, grinding gears of cultural transition we can’t fully see yet. Time will tell if it was a reactionary or progressive force, if it mattered to something more than money or if it didn’t. In the meantime, have fun but keep your eyes open. If you’re complicit in something, know it. Remember who you are and where you stand. Have what you want but watch what you eat. bhowe@indyweek.com

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Power Play

A TOUCH OF OLD-WORLD CHARM AND POUNDS OF PATRIARCHY IN CREAKY ROMANTIC COMEDY SHE LOVES ME BY BYRON WOODS

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here’s more than a touch of old-world charm—but a few too many pounds of old-world patriarchy—in She Loves Me, a 1963 musical-comedy rework of Hungarian playwright Miklós László’s 1937 comedy Illatszertár (Parfumerie).

Songwriter Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick’s witty, nimble tunes knowingly puncture the love/hate relationships of the harried clerks and upscale customers of Maraczek’s, a tony Budapest perfume shop.

Anyone who’s ever worked in retail will recognize the unctuous kowtowing in “Thank You, Madam” and relish the digs in “Sounds While Selling,” whose laughable lyrics make surreal non sequiturs out of overlapping countertop conversations.

But then the veil of consumer-based bonhomie and goodwill is completely rent by the show’s eleven o’clock number, an increasingly frantic “Twelve Days to Christmas,” propelled by Kirsten Sanderson’s direction, Tracy Bersley’s gratifying choreography, and Mark Hartman’s peerless six-piece orchestra. They also drolly collaborate in “A Romantic Atmosphere,” during which a wet-behind-the-ears café busboy (David Fine) finds himself the hapless center of an impromptu, comical tango orgy, as the patrons of a tasteful trysting spot briefly let their illicit passions get the better of them— and everyone else.

But Joe Masteroff’s book keeps the tables sharply tilted in favor of Georg (a dashing Michael Maliakel), the snippy head clerk at the perfume shop, who lords it over Jenny Latimer’s earnest Amalia from the moment she comes in seeking a job. Understandably, she resents and resists this treatment using verbal sales-floor combat.

But unbeknown to either of them, Amalia has anonymously responded to the lonelyhearts ad Georg anonymously placed in the city’s paper, and in their correspondence— last century’s analog version of online dating—each has taken liberties with the truth while building up the other in their imagina-

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Through Sunday, Dec. 9 PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill www.playmakersrep.org

tions as an idealized lover. Something’s got to give, of course, when workplace enemies realize they’ve been wooing each other.

Georg’s cowardice about meeting his mystery date ironically gives him the upper hand when he’s the first to realize Amalia’s been writing him. Again, he exploits the situation to his advantage, keeping her in the dark during an inexplicably creepier-thannecessary “Tango Tragique.” Power and its imbalance are more important than equity or amity, here and in the title song, where an

eavesdropping Georg learns Amalia’s true feelings and exults in the most important finding—that he is loved, not that he loves.

Throughout this putative romance, the fears and needs of a man who keeps his cards well hidden come before those of the woman who acts more forthrightly.

We don’t even need to know that Laszlo’s comedy has been made into three films and a musical to realize that we’ve heard this one before. arts@indyweek.com

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Photophobia is a physiological over-sensitivity to light, but the malady takes cultural forms as well, especially regarding those who threaten to shine brighter than us. Exhibit A: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jeered at and cast out by his community on the basis of the color—and wattage—of his nose, in this puppets-and-costumes stage musical based on the beloved 1960s Rankin-Bass holiday special, Rudolph falls in with a gang of social pariahs: latent dentist Hermie the Elf, the Abominable Snow Monster, and Yukon Cornelius, whose strange dalliance with the monster is only surpassed by an even weirder relationship with his pickax. It’s off to the Island of Misfit Toys before bad weather gives all a shot at redemption—and a lesson about the importance of cultural diversity. Sort of. No need to rush: The fifth-annual run of this holiday classic sets up shop in Raleigh for a month, starting this Friday. —Byron Woods

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As the holiday spirit starts winding up toward the end of the year, most everything else begins slowing down: Book and album releases reduce to a trickle for fear of being buried in the deluge of year-end lists and other stuff of the season. But it also brings Oxford American’s annual music issue, which is a consistent treasure trove of beautiful reporting, essays, and more, with a different Southern state or genre as a theme. Last year’s issue focused on Kentucky (and the year before that, the blues), and this year, North Carolina gets a turn. The magazine hosts a celebratory concert on Monday night at Raleigh’s Fletcher Opera Theater, featuring the likes of Alice Gerrard, Shirlette Ammons, Chatham County Line, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and several more. At The Pinhook the next night, luminaries like Dasan Ahanu and Jill McCorkle will read from the issue, among others, and Tift Merritt and Phil Cook will handle the music portion of the evening. —Allison Hussey

FOOD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

HOPS FOR HOPE

Giving Tuesday, aka the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, may be an American-born movement, but its goal is to create an international day of giving to kick off the holiday season. To mark the occasion this year, Raleigh nonprofit Curamericas Global will host its annual fundraiser, Hops for Hope, which aims to raise $350,000 to provide health services and education to impoverished women and children around the world. The event will take place at Oak and Dagger Public House and includes food from local food trucks and craft beer as well as live music, a raffle, and an art auction. The suggested donation is $15 in advance (which includes one drink and one raffle ticket) or a $7 donation at the door.

—Layla Khoury-Hanold OAK & DAGGER PUBLIC HOUSE, RALEIGH 6:30 p.m., $7-$15 suggested, www.oakanddagger.beer

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

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

MOTORCO: Mac DeMarco; 8 p.m.

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[$16/7 & 9 P.M.] Epitome describes itself as the ultimate cover band, “the epitome of top quality musicianship, showmanship, and vocal perfection.”

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Telecaster Masters [$10/9 P.M.]

The tradition of the annual Telecaster Masters show at the Blue Note Grill started back in 2010, with a group of top-tier guitarists in a round-robin format swapping stories and hot licks. This year’s installment in the series will include Will McFarlane, Alan Heckle, Rebecca Newton, Tommy Hartley, FJ Ventre, and George Hindenach, and will offer ample opportunities to soak up some of the best Tele

playing you’re ever likely to encounter. —Jim Allen CAROLINA THEATRE:

A Motown Christmas [$35–$55/8 P.M.]

Motown music is so prescient that sometimes it’s hard to peg an exact memory to it (a commercial, a movie, a first date?). Ditto holiday music (the mall, church, an actual childhood memory of picking out a Christmas tree?).

Combine the two, and even the biggest Grinch among us would find it hard to not be buoyed by a nostalgic holiday spirit. The Motown Experience brings the razzle-dazzle of the classics, backed by some of the biggest legends in Motown, including members of The Temptations and The Capitols. —Sarah Edwards

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): PhilStock ‘18: 2nd Annual Benefit for Phillip Bair; 7 p.m.

KINGS:

Jenny Besetzt, Al Riggs [$7–$10/9 P.M.]

Steeped in an unapologetic Factory Records glow that now feels mercifully out of step among current gazer music trends, Raleigh’s Jenny Besetzt still keeps the holiday in its eye for bruised noise-pop with exquisite vocal melodies and careful attention to drumming, not just genuflection to the cross of Youtube tutorial FX pedal worship and Beach Houseisms. Durham’s prolific Al Riggs is simpatico in his own taste for thoughtful production. On last year’s admirably eclectic We’re Safe But For How Long he lacquers

his alt-country with a thick, scrappy punk atmosphere that tunnels into the space between vintage country classics and Elephant 6. With Two Youths and DJ Luxe Posh. —David Ford Smith THE MAYWOOD:

Danglebash 43 [$10/8:30 P.M.]

Follow up your Thanksgiving feast with this smorgasbord of party punk that celebrates the forty-third birthday of Safe Word guitarist Bo Dangle. Naturally, as it’s Safe Word’s party, they’ll headline; their eastern N.C. thrash-punk sits atop a lineup that also stars Wilson-based melodic death metal band Origin of Disease, Raleigh punk ‘n’ roll outfit The Ghost of Saturday Nite, eclectic Rocky Mount alt-punk-metal band Lords and Liars, and

songwriter Valerie Wood.

—Patrick Wall MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL:

N.C. Symphony: Holiday Pops Extravaganza [$35–$65/7:30 P.M.]

The holiday season continues its inexorable creep earlier and earlier into fall, with holiday decorations starting to go on sale weeks before Halloween. Thankfully, the N.C. Symphony is sticking with a more traditional timeframe for their annual Holiday Pops Extravaganza: moments after the Thanksgiving turkey has cooled enough to make sandwiches. —Dan Ruccia MOTORCO: Nothing, Nowhere., Smrtdeath, St. Panther; 7 p.m.

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Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms [$32/7:30 P.M.]

That both this bill’s coheadliners are often classified as emo acts shows just how far folks stretch that label.

Manchester Orchestra’s stormy alt-rock finds Andy Hull exploring inner turmoil to big melodies matched by the cinematic scope of the band’s dark, dynamic arrangements.

The Front Bottoms recall Future Kings of Nowhere’s ramshackle folk-punk with higher production values and an off-kilter knack for hooks.

As Brother Bird, The Voice’s Caroline Glaser opens with lonesome acoustic ballads that show off her tenderness and range. —Spencer Griffith

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Whether sweetly harmonizing or volleying sassy back-and-

forth dialogue, the charmingly quirky indie folk duets of Mad Crush’s John Elderkin and Joanna Sattin let listeners into conversations about romance with relatable lines about Amazon Prime impulse buys and being “rejected for my pre-existing conditions” (it’s a metaphor, y’all). Hindugrass violinist Laura Thomas lends elegant additions to the nuanced textures of Pipe drummer Chuck Garrison and Elderkin’s fellow former Pope Mark Whelan on guitar.

The quintet plays two sets to celebrate its debut release.

—Spencer Griffith CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Thunderlip, Lightning Born, Book of Wyrms, Snide; 8 p.m.

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it around this time, he’ll be packing some extra star power in the form of percussion legend Sheila E, who’ll be joining Whalum and his band for this special seasonal happening. —Jim Allen THE PINHOOK:

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Kublai Khan [$12–$15/6:30 P.M.]

This isn’t the contemporary Texas hardcore band who this band brought legal action against. No, these are eighties Minneapolis thrashers Kublai Khan, who include Greg Handevldt, Megadeth’s very first guitarist. As Dave Mustaine hilariously noted in Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, his shorter hair length ultimately kept him out of the group. Brutal throwback riffage for anyone who holds a candle for eighties thrash metal.

—David Ford Smith

William Gibson’s 1984 cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer, begins by describing a sky “the color of television.” Raleigh’s four-piece punk outfit “Absent Lovers” riffs on the novel— and this sci-fi sensibility—in their self-titled, four-song EP released last year. This “dark, dystopian dance rock” is music you can lose yourself in—think a witchier Rush, but a bit more metal, a bit more millennial (other influences, as listed by the band: “Star Wars, Philip K. Dick, Late Nights and Alternative Realities, Video Games.”). —Sarah Edwards

MOTORCO: Dubsgiving IV: Young Bull, Breathers, Niito, DJ Shahzad; 9 p.m.

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Unknown Hinson [$20/8 P.M.]

Stuart Daniel Baker, aka Unknown Hinson, has made a long-standing career out of his raucous alter-ego. Having built his character around a publicaccess television show in the nineties in Charlotte, Hinson has gone on to tour extensively around a collection of records that are a blend of rockabilly, comedy, and classic country.

He’s best known these days as the voice of Early Cuyler, a lead character on Adult Swim’s hit cartoon, Squidbillies.

—John Bohannon

SUN, NOV 25 CAROLINA THEATRE:

A Gospel According to Jazz Christmas [$40–$75/7:30 P.M.]

What happens when you mix some serious jazz with a holiday theme and a gospel spirit? If you’re renowned sax man Kirk Whalum, you get A Gospel According to Jazz Christmas, the show he’s been taking on the road for seven years now. And when he brings

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[$5–$7/9 P.M.] Spiral out with a night of mesmerizing improvised music featuring Chapel Hill psych-rock three-piece explorers Binodal. Their ventures usually lean towards the smoked out and loked out end of jamming, though with more crunch and metallic bite than the Phishes of the world.

It probably won’t rewire your brain, but since when does everything have to? With Laser Queen Witch.

—David Ford Smith SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m.

WED, NOV 28 CAT’S CRADLE: Hands Like Houses, Emarosa, Devour the Day, Young Lions; 6 p.m.

HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8 p.m.

Organ Freeman

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

This L.A.-based trio takes the idea of the jazz organ trio (organ, guitar, drums, with the organist handling the bass lines) and exports it into a jam-band context. In the process, organist Trevor Steer, guitarist Erik Carlson, and drummer Rob Humphreys mash up rock, jazz, and funk influences into something simultaneously sophisticated and intensely groove-oriented.

So whether you come to listen, dance, or simply admire their admittedly awesome band name, you’ll end up satisfied. —Jim Allen

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OPENING Artsgiving: “Fall and food” scavenger hunt in the galleries, a cornucopia still-life drawing station, and more. Sun, Nov 25, 2 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

ONGOING

LAST Abundance: Art CHANCE exhibit. Thru Sat, Nov 24. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh.

All-Star Group Exhibit: More than twenty artists and craftspersons in a wide range of media. Thru Mon, Dec 31. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Anything Goes: Sixty-four local artists juried by Jayne Walther.

Thru Thu, Dec 13. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. litmusgallery.com.

Ashlynn Browning: Revisionist Geometry: Paintings. Thru Sat, Jan 5. Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Cameron Village Underground Photography Exhibit: This is going to sound crazy, but did you know there used to be an underground mall under Cameron Village, and that it housed nightclubs that both incubated local rock and hosted legendary touring acts as diverse as R.E.M., Barry Manilow, Jimmy Buffet, and Chuck Mangione? In the late seventies and early eighties, before it was shut down because of concerns about safety, The Village Subway—aka the Raleigh Underground— roiled with nightclubs such as The Frog and Nightgown and The Pier, where Sonic Youth recorded the cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” that appears on Confusion Is Sex. This rich history, mostly lost beyond some hazily remembered blogs, is the subject of a new exhibit at The City of Raleigh Museum, which runs through January after a sold-out, wait-listed reception with photographer Chris Seward. His dynamic black-and-white photos from the scene capture now-famous names and local, proto-indie28 | 11.21.18 | INDYweek.com

rock bands such as The Fabulous Knobs and Arrogance in their primes. More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts. Thru Jan 31.

Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe Sam Ezell: Self-taught Hillsborough artist. Thru Fri, Dec 21. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www.visithillsboroughnc.com. wen Lowery: Night Visions: Fiber art. Thru Sat, Jan 5.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

I Love My Robot: Robot art by Mike Slobot. Thru Sun, Dec 2.

Duke Campus: Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Durham. slobots.com.

Beverly McIver: Eyes Wide Shut: Last year, the Greensboro-born Duke art professor Beverly McIver was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize and set off to spend a year painting in Rome.

Transplanting to Italy is a dream shared by many people, particularly those of us in thrall to Call Me by Your Name, but for McIver, the experience held particular meaning as a time to artistically reimagine herself outside of her roles as teacher, a caregiver, and “an artist living under the weight of the history of the American South.” Eyes Wide Shut features the new paintings she made at the American Academy of Rome.

McIver’s oil portraiture often involves some form of mask— sunglasses, closed eyes—a continuation of a longstanding study of costuming and selfportrayal through the lenses of race, gender, and social identity. Thru Sat, Jan 26.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

—Sarah Edwards LAST Mothers, Daughters, CHANCE and the Writer’s Life: Writing and photography by Elizabeth Matheson and Barbara Tyroler. Thru Nov 23. Block Gallery, Raleigh. raleighnc.gov.

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Nerys Levy and Michele Maynard: Paintings. Thru Sat, Dec 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. frankisart.com.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: 21c Museum Hotel unveils a packed portraiture exhibition featuring work by forty contemporary artists, many of whom pay striking homage to classical portraiture in recasting their own images and experiences. Anthony Goicolea, a photographer interested in digital manipulation and themes of duality and the reclamation of self, nods to John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” with “Portrait in Negative of a Boy with Harmonica as Madame Gautreau.” Miguel Ángel Rojas’s series depicting a young, injured Colombian soldier in repose gracefully gestures toward Michelangelo’s “David.” The exhibition also includes works by Titus Kaphar, Ori Gersht, and Zanele Muholi.

Thru Mar 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels. com/durham.

—Sarah Edwards Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience: Paintings, sculptures, installations and other works by artists who attended the Mountain Lake Symposium.

Featuring works by John Cage, Sally Mann, Howard Finster, Merce Cunningham, and others.

Thru Mon, Dec 10. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Serving Life: Re-Visioning Justice: Hidden Voices and Duke Chapel exhibit about guilt and innocence. Thru Mon, Dec 10.

Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.

Sisters XII: Better by the Dozen!: Pottery, jewelry, and painting

by Mary Beth and Virginia Owen. Thru Fri, Nov 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.

A Southern Review: Featuring the Pleiades member artists. Thru Sun, Dec 23.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. pleiadesartdurham.com.

A painting from Golden Classics, Stephen White’s exhibit at Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, on view through the end of December PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GALLERY Stephen White: Golden Classics: Paintings. Thru Mon, Dec 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Thirtieth Annual Sculpture in the Garden: Outdoor sculpture

show. Thru Dec 9. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu.

Tom Willis: Journey: Paintings.

Thru Fri, Apr 12. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Vernon Pratt: All The Possibilities of Sixteen: Neverbefore-seen posthumous exhibit.

Thru Sun, Feb 10.

Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu

food & drink Farmhouse Cider & Wine Tasting: Saturdays and Sundays, 2-6 p.m. Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove. botanistandbarrel.com.

Pinhook Presents: Weekly Pop-Up Series: Jeddah’s Tea and The Purple Fence, guest vendors. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Thu-Sat. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com.

Thanksgiving at Counting House: $80 adults/$40 kids 12 and under.

Thu, Nov 22, 1 p.m.

Counting House, Durham. countinghousenc.com.

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Wine Tasting at Mandolin: Exploring Terroir with Pinot Noir: Wed, Nov 21, 6 p.m. Mandolin, Raleigh. mandolinraleigh.com.

In her latest UNC-Press book, Carolina Catch, journalist turned prolific cookbook author Debbie Moose extols the virtues of North Carolina-caught fish and shellfish, ranging from the coast, which you’d expect, to the mountains, which perhaps you wouldn’t. With more than ninety recipes and a backto-basics approach, Moose demystifies seafood, debunks preconceived notions about cooking it, and helps readers discover new-to-them (and often under-loved) types of fish from right here in our state, where Moose was born and bred. Catch her at this reading and book signing at The Regulator where she’ll share hard-won tips, tricks, and favorite recipes, and she’ll answer questions from the audience. —Layla Khoury-Hanold

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JOSHUA LOZOFF: LIFE IS MAGIC It makes a difference when your YouTube video gets a quarter of a million hits. Regional mentalist and magician Joshua Lozoff has noticed a few changes since his August appearance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us found legs on the video platform. “More folks are coming to my shows; it’s definitely a reference for people now,” he says. He’s made some changes as well, adding a number of new illusions and effects to his show Life Is Magic since his prior local performance at The ArtsCenter last year. For the first time, Lozoff will deconstruct a trick, deliberately showing how it’s done, as Penn and Teller have famously done with the classic ball-and-cups effect. “When they do that, you see the skill, intelligence, and creativity behind the illusion,” Lozoff says. “But I’m more interested in what happens when we replace the sense of mystery and wonder with knowledge. Will the audience really be more satisfied knowing how a trick is done, or is something lost when that happens?” —Byron Woods

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The Planets: Wed, Nov 21-Sun Nov 25, Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical!: Fri, Nov 23-Mon, Dec 24, Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Venus Fly Trap Comedy Show: Featuring Brett Williams. Music by David Wright. Sat, Nov 24, 8 p.m.

The Wicked Witch, Raleigh. wickedwitchraleigh.com.

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The Harry Show: Ages 18+.

Potentially risque games improv games with audience volunteers. $10. Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m. ComedyWorx, Raleigh. comedyworx.com.

Dancing at Lughnasa: Duke Theater Studies. Nov 15-17, 8 p.m./Nov 18, 2 p.m. $10-$15.

Duke Campus: Sheafer Lab Theater, Durham. www.tickets.duke.edu.

The Memory of Water: Play presented by Forest Moon Theater. Nov†16 & 17, 7:30 p.m./ Nov 18, 3 p.m. $13-$18. Wake Forest Renaissance Center, Wake Forest. forestmoontheater.org

Hamilton: Thru Sun, Dec 2.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

 She Loves Me: Reviewed on p. 21. Thru Sun, Dec 2.

PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS The Cranes Are Flying: Screening with Russian food, popcorn, and discussion. Sun, Nov 25, 3 p.m. Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough. hillsboroughclassicfilms.com.

Dumpster Dive Cinema: Tue, Nov 27, 9 p.m. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24

HILLSBOROUGH LOCAL AUTHOR BOOK FAIR The library book fair is a great tradition for kids, but this one is special in that it’s packing some serious literary firepower for adults. Hosted by The Friends of the Orange County Library, the daylong event highlights the authorial talent nestled in and around Hillsborough, with readings by North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and fiction writer and Piedmont Laureate Nancy Peacock. It also features emerging writers such as Anna Jean Mayhew (author of 1950s Southern coming-of-age novel The Dry Grass of August) and local literary legends such as Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus. Books will be on sale from Purple Crow Books, or you can purchase them directly from authors such as Barbara Claypole White, John Claude Bemis, James Maxey, and many others. Support one of our most important civic institutions, the local library, and find something new to read in your own backyard. —Brian Howe

ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, HILLSBOROUGH 10 a.m.–5 p.m., free, www.orangecountync.gov

Jaki Shelton Green PHOTO BY MATT WAEHNER

LECTURES ETC. Re-Imagining Borders Technologies: Designing New Political Forms: Miriam Ticktin, author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France.

Mon, Nov 26, 5 p.m. Durham. kenan.ethics.duke.edu.

The Last Waltz: Documentary about The Band. Fri, Nov 23, 9 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. thechelseatheater.com.

The Strangers: Screening.

Sat, Nov 24, 9 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. www. thechelseatheater.com.

OPENING Creed II—Rocky trains Adonis Creed to face Ivan Drago’s son in this revitalization of the boxing franchise. Rated PG-13.

Green Book—Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen star in a sort of reverse Driving Miss Daisy. Rated PG-13.

Ralph Breaks the Internet— The Wreck-It Ralph sequel takes advantage of Disney’s IP-dominance with Star Wars, The Muppets, and Marvel cameos. Rated PG. Robin Hood—Plus for casting a British actor as Robin Hood, minus for what looks like ... a kung-fu overlay? Rated PG-13.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Can You Ever Forgive Me?—Comic actor Melissa McCarthy shines in her first dramatic turn, but the characterization of a literary forger is muddled. Rated R. ½ First Man—Damien Chazelle shoots the moon in his glorious film about Neil Armstrong. Rated PG-13.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

LOVE & BASKETBALL Must love and basketball go hand in hand? For me, probably not—but then again, I was a high school benchwarmer. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 directorial debut gives us the chance to inhabit, for two hours, a universe in which the squeak of a high school gymnasium and the power of a childhood crush are intimately connected. Monica and Quincy are neighbors and pick-up basketball rivals who spar, and eventually fall in love, as teenagers. Obstacles arise: fraught parental relationships, college decisions, and the growing realization that they’re playing for very different stakes (fame and glory are not exactly givens for female African-American athletes). Some critics panned the film for its familiar girl-meets-boy storyline, but it doesn’t need to be anything else: Sanaa Lathan found her breakthrough role in the ultra-competitive Monica, and the chemistry between her and Quincy (Omar Epps) is no joke. The “all’s fair in love and basketball” stripping scene is canonical. The film screens at the Varsity in the Ackland Art Museum’s Women with a Camera series, which brings us the irrepressible Lady Bird next. —Sarah Edwards

VARSITY THEATRE, CHAPEL HILL | 7 p.m., $7, www.ackland.org

½ Halloween—A back-tobasics approach fails to restore the mystery and menace of Michael Myers. Rated R.  The Old Man & the Gun—Robert Redford goes out with a bang in this crime caper, reportedly his final film role.

Rated PG-13.

½ Prospect—This indie sci-fi Western starring Jay Duplass wrings some cool stuff from a modest budget.

Rated R. ½ A Star Is Born—Neither modern classic nor megabomb, this Cooper-Gaga remake is best when it’s

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) Dear Archer: The Sun will have just shifted into your sign one day before the Full Moon—a wonderful way to begin your Sagittarius 22-December birthday season! (November This lunar energy will illuminate21) your relationships. It brings into focus equal amounts of fear and hope, limitation and boundlessness, so let your curiousthat nature take charge.

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CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Dear Seagoat: This Full Moon will ask you to19) have faith in your ability to take care of yourself, to tend your own wounds, Capricorn (December 22-January to acknowledge youritbody’s needs and limitations.

It will magnify theyour odd and beautiful waysThe in which arrive at Dear Seagoat: is time to join forces with hope and let work breathe.

Newyou Moon well-being. Invite them in, devote yourself to them, begin to build a blueprint with them as your azimuth. Doing so will reminds you that a spoonful of sugar gets you through a long labor and having a balanced help you to let go of old forms, reckon with any limitations you have been coming up against, and thus make room for the perspective projects awaiting will you. offer you great insight. Time is on your side, re-infuse your work with light.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) 18) Aquarius (January 20-February DearDear Water Bearer:Bearer: The Fullgive Moon will have you glowing, andbe. filled with motivation to share your creations on a Water your dreams a spaceinspired, to simply Though it may feel tempting to burst larger scale. Balance your social calendar with time to reconvene with yourself, to check in on your romantic relationships, your own bubble, this New Moon asks you to entertain the impossible, to let your mind run free, and to give back to your creative pursuits. Though this is a playful time, it is especially important to be on even ground expose theThere waysisyou’ve holding yourself back. Bebut flexible, allow for find isfaith in as withtoyour lover(s). no needbeen to turn a mole hill into a mountain, do remember thatchange, not everyone moving theasunknown. lightly you this week.

PISCES (February 19–March 20) 20) Pisces (February 19-March Dear Fish: The Full Moon is flooding into your home life, and you may feel more drawn than normal to hibernate within its Dear Fish: look at the collaborations inany your life. Dopressure they support you, meet you half-way? walls. With that said, there is a high chance that emotional in your familial relationships needs toDo be heard they allow If the answertoisclear no, then thisit time tosmog. evaluate you put true at this time, andfor thisyour lunarexpansion? energy will make it essential the airuse before turns to This where may be especially in terms how your career is aff ectingwants or not aff ecting the role you play inand yourrefuse domestic This week, be your of energy.

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