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POUR ONE OUT For four decades, local mag All About Beer shaped the national craft beer scene.

This is how it collapsed.

By Michael Venutolo-Montovani, p. 10

OVERSIGHT WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY, P. 8

ITALY MEETS JAPAN IN TAPAS, P. 14

OSHUN’S ANCIENT FUTURE, P. 27

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

VOL. 35, NO. 48

DEPARTMENTS

6 Light-rail cars at a proposed operations and maintenance facility could be 70 percent louder than a jackhammer.

6 News 14 Food & Drink

8 For Raleigh to create a police oversight board with teeth, the General Assembly might have to change the law.

15 Music 17 Holiday Gift Guide 24 Arts & Culture

10 The Triangle-based All About Beer magazine was talking about the craft beer scene before there really was one.

26 What to Do This Week 29 Music Calendar 32 Arts & Culture Calendar

14 Italy meets Japan in delightful small plates at Raleigh newcomer Papa Shogun.

15 Like the rest of the music and arts spheres, the jazz world has struggled with entrenched misogyny.

22 Following the 2016 presidential election, Gabriel Kahane ditched his phone for two weeks to ride a train around the country.

24 The seed for new Durham theater company Monkey Paw/Monkey Claw Collective was planted when Nancy Merlin saw a production of Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter.

25 This season, Duke’s Little Corner Reading Series takes on the theme “Excess Women” from all angles.

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Tom Cuomo, owner and chef of Papa Shogun (see page 14)

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING DECEMBER 4 FOR PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO U.S. 401 AT LIGON MILL AND MITCHELL MILL ROADS IN RALEIGH WAKE COUNTY TIP No. U-5748 The N. C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting in December regarding proposed improvements to the intersection of U.S. 401 with Ligon Mill Road and Mitchell Mill Road in Raleigh. The public meeting will be held Tuesday, December 4, 2018 between 4 and 7 p.m. at Wake Cross Roads Baptist Church located at 3328 Forestville Road, in Raleigh.

At the meeting, maps of the proposed improvements will be presented.

Project team members will be available to discuss the project, answer questions, and provide feedback. Written comments or questions may be submitted at the meeting or via mail/email by January 5, 2019. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

Maps can be viewed or downloaded on the NCDOT Public Meetings Website: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings as they become available.

Persons with additional questions may contact NCDOT Project Engineer, John Conforti, by phone (919) 707-6015 or by email jgconforti@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting.

Anyone requiring special services should contact NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Officer, Diane Wilson by calling (919) 707-6073 or by email at pdwilson1@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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GOTRIANGLE NEEDS A PLACE TO STORE LIGHT-RAIL TRAIN CARS. SOUTHWEST DURHAM RESIDENTS WISH IT WASN’T NEXT TO THEIR HOMES.

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and around Farrington Road in Southwest Durham has been in Isaac Woods’s family for more than a century, since his great-great-grandfather was freed from slavery, became a lumberjack, and starting using his timber proceeds to purchase property.

Over the years, that land—the family now owns about twenty-four acres—has been divided up and passed down. Family members have built homes, grown vegetables, raised chickens and hogs, and hosted reunions with a required lesson on the history of the family and its ties to the land.

“This land goes from one generation to the other. It’s a family norm,” Woods says.

“Every generation is supposed to determine how they can best preserve this land for the next generation.”

That tradition was hijacked in March, Woods says, when GoTriangle bought his aunt’s house and another house next door that Woods built for his cousin. The public transit agency claimed those properties and four others under eminent domain, saying it needs the land for an operations and maintenance facility to service and store vehicles for the planned DurhamOrange light-rail line.

To build the facility, GoTriangle is seeking to rezone about twenty-three acres wedged between Farrington Road and Interstate 40 from residential to light industrial, with a corresponding adjustment to the Future Land Use map, which designates the area for office and commercial use.

The Durham City Council’s December 3 vote on those questions has implications for the viability of the light-rail project. The Federal Transit Administration has asked GoTriangle to nail down plans for the facility by the time it applies for federal funding in April.

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Isaac Woods

BY SARAH WILLETS

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can’t have a light-rail system without a maintenance facility.”

A rail operations and maintenance facility, or ROMF, is exactly what it sounds like. About eighteen light-rail cars will be cleaned, inspected, repaired, and stored there. The Farrington Road site was chosen from five properties along the 17.7-mile light-rail route. According to GoTriangle, the site was selected because of its size and alignment with the line, and because other sites posed greater impacts to the environment and historic sites or required significant infrastructure changes.

Many neighbors of the proposed facility— including an age-restricted development across the street and parents of students at Creekside Elementary School, about a quarter-mile away—worry it will harm them and their corner of Durham. City council members have gotten dozens of emails asking

them to reject GoTriangle’s requests, or at least delay the vote.

Last week, interim project director John Tallmadge said GoTriangle will be moving forward with the request and that choosing another site “is not a viable option.” That’s because, like every aspect of light rail, the ROMF is tangled up in a web of federal and state deadlines, and missing them could be the death of a project on which more than $90 million has already been spent.

In order to get $1.2 billion in federal money—about half of light rail’s $2.47 billion total cost—GoTriangle needs to first secure commitments from state and local funding sources. The state set a deadline of April 30, 2019, for GoTriangle to line up about $1 billion in local funding, including $102 million to be raised privately, and a deadline of November 30, 2019, for a federal funding commitment. Missing either puts

at risk the project’s chances of ever receiving $190 million in state funding.

Between that timeline and the stated commitment of local governments to light rail, residents around the proposed ROMF worry that city council approval is inevitable.

Noise is of particular concern to residents of Culp Arbor, an over-fifty-five community across the street from where the ROMF’s parking lot would be. Most residents are sixty-five or older. A few are in their nineties. They need sleep.

“Age is a protected class and should be for a reason. We were not protected here,” says Ruth Ann McKinney, a retired law professor who has organized her neighbors in opposition to the ROMF. According to an October noise and vibration study by GoTriangle, the ROMF will be noisier than other parts of the line, thanks to a curved track going into the facility.

The study describes these noise impacts in terms of A-weighted decibels (dBa), which account for how humans perceive sound. Most trains will come in following the end of peak service at about 7:30 p.m. and will exit at about 4:00 a.m. Operators are typically required to sound the trains’ horns before leaving.

Using FTA methodology, the study says the sound-exposure level of the trains from a distance of fifty feet will be 118 dBa, and over five seconds of braking on the curved track, the trains will generate 136 dBa. For comparison, at the same distance, rail transit on an “old steel structure” registers at about 100 dBa and a jackhammer at about 90 dBa, according to the FTA. (Trains elsewhere on the line are rated at about 80 dBa.) The noise study assumes there will be thirty-two “train movements” at the ROMF during the day and forty-eight overnight.

McKinney says GoTriangle hasn’t meaningfully engaged with Culp Arbor residents, and argues that the burden is on the transit agency to reach out. Not all residents are internet-savvy, many have limited mobility, and, as retirees, they don’t hear about current issues from co-workers. A city as concerned about equity as Durham should care about that, McKinney says.

“You have to be determined to find information about the ROMF. Asking us to participate in the process is significantly different than if we were fifty-five, forty-five, or thirty-five,” McKinney says. She recalls one neighbor who intended to write to council members but couldn’t find stationery.

The last time the ROMF was widely discussed was in 2015, when the site was selected. But many Culp Arbor residents moved in since then; construction of the neighborhood’s second phase began in 2017.

“This the house I’ve dreamed of, and I don’t have the money to put to put it up for sale,” says Lyn Emerich, who moved in after Hurricane Harvey destroyed her Houston home in August 2017.

GoTriangle says it’s working on a noisemitigation policy and has agreed to install along Farrington Road a berm no taller than four feet, a twenty-foot-deep vegetative buffer, and—behind that—a row of evergreen trees at least eight feet tall.

GoTriangle says the building will be a maximum of fifty feet tall, and once annexed into city limits, it will be subject to a noise ordinance that limits nighttime noise to 50 dBa and daytime noise to 60 dBa. Still, neighbors say an industrial facility doesn’t suit the area or the city’s comprehensive plan guiding future development.

They’re concerned about traffic in and out of the facility (there’s no light rail stop, so employees would commute in other

ways), impacts to wetlands, lights shining into their homes, chemicals on the site, and the effect of all this on property values.

Because of these concerns, the Durham Planning Commission did not recommend that the city council approve GoTriangle’s requests, although planning staffers do.

“A normal development would not be able to blow through all these stop signs,” says Culp Arbor resident Phil Post, who has a background in civil engineering.

GoTriangle has held five meetings since 2015 with area residents and says it’s committed to addressing their concerns.

The agency is offering to make some road improvements, point all exterior lights downward, store any controlled fluids in tanks for off-site disposal, and not include a body shop or paint shop in the facility.

The rezoning request also limits the use of the site to an ROMF and an existing cell tower, meaning that if it’s approved and the ROMF isn’t built, any other use would require a new rezoning request.

According to Green, there’s no alternative site teed up, so if the rezoning isn’t approved, the agency would have “to re-evaluate.”

Woods shares his neighbors’ concerns.

He isn’t opposed to light rail, but he says negotiating with GoTriangle has been “insulting,” and the stress is taking a toll on his elderly mother and aunt. While news reports say residents whose properties were taken via eminent domain have until 2019 to leave, Woods says his relatives were told to be out by July 22 of this year. (Their houses are now boarded up.)

“We took it as being racist because black folks own this land and they’re basically trying to steal it from them,” Woods says.

GoTriangle says landowners were given the opportunity to lease their properties from the agency until August 2019. It also rejects the suggestion that race was a factor: “GoTriangle is committed to treating everyone fairly, equitably, and in accordance with federal law, and we have made every effort to do so in this case.”

Woods’s family is also challenging GoTriangle in court, seeking more money for their two properties. According to property and court records, GoTriangle acquired one of the properties, which was assessed for tax purposes at about $250,000, for $315,000. Tax records indicate that the second property, assessed at about $246,000, sold for $300,000, but court records say GoTriangle paid only $234,000.

“Like the rest of my family, this is what we call home,” Woods says. “We’ll make it.

We’re a family that’s always been together, but these are conditions we shouldn’t have to go through.” swillets@indyweek.com

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A FORMER RALEIGH CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE HAS A PROPOSAL FOR A POLICE OVERSIGHT BOARD. ACCOUNTABILITY ADVOCATES SAY SHE’S POSTURING.

BY LEIGH TAUSS

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s community organizer and former Raleigh City Council candidate Shelia Alamin-Khashoggi rose last Tuesday to present her proposal for a police advisory board, a half-dozen hecklers stood in the back of the city council chambers, holding signs that read, “Not the people’s proposal” and “We say no to victim blaming.”

Although the group, Raleigh PACT, has demanded a police oversight board for years, its members say Alamin-Khashoggi’s version would only further protect Raleigh cops. Policing wasn’t a key element of Alamin-Khashoggi’s campaigns in 2011 and 2017, they argue, and she’s only championing it now to gain credibility ahead of an expected run next year.

And if she’s pandering, they say, she’s not doing a very good job of it.

“An advisory board without the authority to independently investigate, subpoena witnesses, and personnel files and enforce discipline is only lip service to improving police communications and relations without the authority or resources to do the work,” says Rolanda Byrd, whose son Akiel Denkins was shot and killed by Raleigh police in 2016. “We will not be pawns in a political move without substance. An advisory board is not accountability.”

Alamin-Khashoggi insists politics has nothing to do with her plan. She says several community members asked her to draft the proposal, including council member David Cox. “It’s not about me,” AlaminKhashoggi says. “It’s about the community.”

But Cox says that’s not accurate. Though Alamin-Khashoggi discussed her proposal with him, he says, he didn’t ask her to put it together. City spokesman John Boyette Jr. adds in an email: “As far as I know, the council did not ask her to draft that pro8 | 11.28.18 | INDYweek.com

posal. She did it on her own and presented it per her right as a citizen.”

Alamin-Khashoggi’s board would focus on community-police relations, with an emphasis on training, mediation, gang prevention, and educating residents on how to conduct themselves during police interactions, including suggestions such as “citizens should be cautioned against bringing attention to themselves by playing loud music.” The board would comprise a mix of public officials, community members, mental health experts, and law enforcement personnel appointed by the city council, the Human Relations Commission, and nonprofits such as the ACLU. “When things go wrong, the human response is often to blame someone or some entity,” the proposal says. “The Citizens Advisory Board is not designed to point the finger at any particular individual or group. Rather, the Board’s objective would be system-focused.”

In the event of a complaint, the board would seek to “mediate or reconcile” the situation and make recommendations to improve police training. While the proposal makes no mention of subpoena power or access to police internal affairs reports— currently inaccessible under state law—it would allow the board to request an officer’s training-compliance record.

Alamin-Khashoggi says additional records requests could be incorporated in the board’s responsibilities, and her plan is just “a beginning.”

Dawn Blagrove, executive director of the Carolina Justice Policy Center, thinks Alamin-Khashoggi’s proposal would create “an accountability board that is accountable to no one.”

“The proposal we saw presented today,” she said after last week’s council meeting,

“is designed to further protect law enforcement from accountability, to further protect them from external review.”

PACT wants a more aggressive advisory board with investigative power, disciplinary oversight, access to personnel files, and the ability to subpoena witnesses. No such board exists in North Carolina—and in all likelihood, none could without a revision to state law. Even so, Blagrove believes Raleigh should set an example for other municipalities to follow.

Alamin-Khashoggi says she wasn’t surprised at PACT’s reaction to her plan “because I knew they hadn’t read it. If they read it at all, they would have had some type

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of recognition that there is something trying to go forth in place.”

While council member Corey Branch supports the idea of the board, he says he doesn’t support Alamin-Khashoggi’s plan.

He urges other community members to bring forward their own ideas.

“I can’t say I support it as written,” Branch says. “Whatever is finally decided, the community as a whole will have to provide their input because that is the only way we’ll have any type of board that could be effective.”

Cox asked the council to review the concept of a police advisory board during its February retreat. ltauss@indyweek.com

BRIEF

THE DOWNSIDE OF DIX Raleigh officials are dreaming big as they finalize plans for the future Dorothea Dix Park, a potentially $300 million investment that will convert the formal mental hospital grounds into a sprawling park with natural escapes, recreation, an amphitheater, and other amenities. But those dreams aren’t without worry for the twenty-five thousand people living nearby, who tend to be younger and more income-strapped than the average city resident.

Last week, the Raleigh City Council tasked staffers with drafting a plan to bring on a consultant to study the effects the park will have on those neighborhoods and provide options for controlling anticipated development. The neighborhoods in question—Fuller Heights, Caraleigh, and Carolina Pines—are currently some of the most affordable near downtown, with 60 percent of homes valued at less than $200,000. Sixty-three percent are owner-occupied.

People living in those areas tend to earn less than other downtown dwellers: 57 percent of households make less than $50,000 a year, and a third of residents live below the poverty line, more than twice the city’s poverty rate.

“You have a lot of naturally occurring affordability within the neighborhoods today, which is at risk,” planning director Ken Bowers told the council. “The current low-density zoning is not going to preserve that affordability, and a more proactive approach is going to be necessary.”

The park could lead developers to buy up surrounding properties. Under the current zoning, they’d likely either build larger, pricier homes on small lots or combine lots and build high-end apartment buildings. Neither scenario is likely to maintain affordability.

Zoning changes that could promote affordability include increasing density and the number of mixed-use buildings in the area. Public input will be crucial, Bowers said, but outreach will be a challenge, as the discussion entails changing the character of those neighborhoods.

A price tag for the study has not yet been disclosed, although city manager Ruffin Hall described it as “significant.”

The study would probably take about a year. Planning staffers have already taken on more than a dozen large-scale projects, and hiring a consultant would get the study done faster, Bowers said. If the city solicits bids on the project by the middle of next year, the study would be finished in 2020. Work on some sections of the park not currently under lease to the Department of Health and Human Services could begin as early as 2021.

Council member Stef Mandell pointed out that developers are already beginning to scoop up properties. “The sooner we can get some plans together, I think the better we can control what’s going to happen,” Mendell said. —Leigh Tauss

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NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Samantha Borges, Environmental Analysis Unit at (919) 707-6115 or smborges@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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POUR ONE OUT For thirty-nine years, the Triangle-based All About Beer magazine was on the cutting edge of the nation’s craft beer movement. Then it collapsed.

By Michael Venutolo-Montovani • Photos by Alex Boerner

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ohn Holl first suspected something was amiss in the fall of 2016, when his boss—Chris Rice, the owner and publisher of the venerable Durham-based All About Beer magazine—told him the company would no longer use direct deposit, instead reverting to paper checks.

It was temporary, Rice assured him. Holl and his staff trudged along, resigned to the reality that print publishing is full of uncertainty, and maybe Rice just needed flexibility. But then, Holl says, Rice started asking him to hold on to those checks—to wait until the weekend was over, until the company was flush again.

Sometimes, Holl says, those periods stretched beyond the weekend. Sometimes Holl, managing editor Jon Page, and other employees waited as long as two weeks before getting the green light to cash their paychecks. Other times, they were told to cash them, and Rice would cover whatever fees they incurred if the checks bounced.

The troubles only mounted from there.

Soon, the vendors with whom the company worked to put on events, the web developers who kept up the magazine’s online presence, and the freelance writers and photographers whose interviews, stories, and photos populated AAB’s pages began to call Holl and Page, concerned that they hadn’t been paid in weeks, even months.

“It was hard working with writers and photographers who weren’t getting paid for six, eight months,” Page says.

By early 2017, in addition to running a nationally circulated niche publication, Holl and Page say they also had to play middlemen to a growing chorus of angry third parties.

It wouldn’t last long. Holl and Page both left the company within a few months, unable to deal with the insecurity of a full-time job that paid when it could, and unwilling to continue telling writers, photographers, and vendors that their checks were coming soon when they had no idea if that was true.

For thirty-nine years, All About Beer was home to some of the scene’s most regarded writers and was a prominent player in the craft beer movement, both nationally and in North Carolina. Since its founding, AAB’s influence had stretched beyond its pages. The magazine and its staff were behind the beloved World Beer Festival and were instrumental in Pop the Cap, the 2005 change to North Carolina law that allowed the state’s beer scene to take root.

All of that abruptly ended on October 19, when the beer blog Beervana reported that AAB was effectively dead—its employees

had been laid off, and the magazine had ceased publication. As Beervana noted, some AAB subscribers, many of whom had been reading for decades, were enraged— not just that the magazine hadn’t published a new issue since January, but that they hadn’t gotten the refunds they were promised when they complained.

Its former staffers, meanwhile, weren’t surprised.

“All About Beer was synonymous with quality and excitement in the beer world,” Page says. “The idea that we’re not seeing issues of it on the newsstand anymore is just sad to see.”

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ll About Beer was founded in Southern California in 1979 by printing executive Mike Bosak and a handful of beer-enthusiast friends and investors. The magazine published irregularly through its first decade—as many as eight and as few as four issues per year. By the mid-eighties, it settled into a bimonthly schedule, which it maintained until this year.

At the magazine’s founding, there were fewer than one hundred breweries across America, nearly all of which were mass producers such as Anheuser-Busch, Miller, and Coors. But even then, AAB quietly heralded the ultra-nouveau movement of craft and small-batch brewing. Its fourth issue had a brief mention of newcomer Sierra Nevada—today the seventh-largest brewer in the U.S., with production facilities in Asheville. In the decades that followed, AAB found itself on the leading edge of an exploding scene.

The magazine’s ownership changed hands a few times throughout the 1980s, before Daniel Bradford—then, a regular AAB contributor and a founder of Colorado’s Great American Beer Festival— purchased it in 1992 and moved it to the Triangle when his then-wife and soon-tobe editor, Julie Johnson, took a job at Duke.

Rather than the promotion, expansion, or even documentation of the budding craft beer movement, Bradford’s mission was always one of education.

“I’m not here to create drunks,” says Bradford, who owned AAB until 2014 and is now a consultant to up-and-coming breweries and beer publications. “I have a personal history with drunks that motivates me to educate the public about beer appreciation and beer quality. That was always my motivation.”

It was under Bradford and Johnson’s purview that AAB evolved from a malecentric lifestyle-of-beer document, one whose stories skewed more superficial, into something more erudite, informed, and thorough. Focusing on long-form, deep-

dive journalism from renowned writers such as Michael Jackson, Fred Eckhardt, and Jeff Evans, AAB was soon regarded as the elder statesman of beer publications. “[AAB] helped elevate the image of beer in the public’s eye,” says Sean Lilly Wilson, founder of Durham’s Fullsteam Brewery.

“They helped people see that beer could be as well-respected as wine.”

In the mid-nineties, the magazine expanded to include the World Beer Festival. Cut in the image of Denver’s Great American Beer Festival, the WBF brought brewers from around the country to Durham, furthering Bradford’s mission of beer education in a way magazine stories never could.

Yet as AAB solidified its reputation as a premier outlet for beer coverage, its local readership was still legally prohibited from imbibing many of the beers the magazine wrote about. In the early 2000s, North Carolina’s alcohol laws prevented any beer with more than 6 percent alcohol by volume from being brewed or sold in the state. By comparison, Budweiser’s ABV is 5 percent.

“People were driving into Virginia, spending hundreds of dollars on exciting new beers, and bringing them back into the state,” Johnson says.

Toward the end of 2002, Johnson opined on the “silly law” in her regular News & Observer column, offering a New Year’s resolution. “Eliminate the words ‘and not more than six percent (6%)’ and the problem is solved,” she argued. “We only need to remove seven words from the statute books.”

After outlining seven steps to removing those words, she concluded with a New Year’s resolution: “So, next Wednesday, among all of us who are resolving to lose weight, volunteer, get more exercise, or pay our bills on time, is there a critical mass of beer lovers who can open up beer choice for North Carolina?”

The response was immediate, and Johnson was flooded with queries. Back then, North Carolina had a few microbreweries doing their best within the law’s confines—the Outer Banks’ Weeping Radish, Greensboro’s Red Oak, and Ashville’s Highland Brewing among them—but there was an entire world of hoppy IPAs and boozy stouts that were forbidden.

Soon, Johnson, Bradford, and Wilson organized what they thought would be a small meeting at AAB’s offices. More than thirty people showed up, passionate for beer and sparked by the idea that change was on the horizon.

The Pop the Cap movement was born. Its argument was modest: Loosening the old laws wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything, but it would create jobs.

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Breweries started popping up left and right, and a state that had previously counted five breweries became a hub for microbreweries and highly curated bottle shops. Today, according to the N.C. Craft Brewers Guild, there are at least 260 breweries and brewpubs in the state.

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“And I was the secret weapon,” Johnson says. “I guess [legislators] expected to see a drunk frat boy arguing for beer. But sending in a middle-aged lady? They were shocked to see me.”

By 2005, Pop the Cap had pushed lawmakers to raise the ABV limit from 6 percent to 15 percent, which opened wide the doors to beers from the likes of Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, and Dogfish Head.

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hile Pop the Cap was a huge moment for North Carolina’s beer culture, the magazine that helped birth it was struggling to adapt to the digital age. Courtesy of a wave of web-based competition, beer coverage had flourished and democratized. AAB remained the studious upperclassman, but there were lots of exciting upstarts—blogs like Beervana and Good Beer Hunting, as well as AAB’s chief print competitor, the Arizona-based DRAFT Magazine.

In 2013, following her divorce from Bradford, Julie Johnson left, returning the academia. Bradford tapped contributor John Holl to take over.

“Daniel took a chance on me,” Holl says.

“I wasn’t qualified.”

Though Holl had never edited a publication, he’d become one of the most recognizable and respected voices in the craft beer industry—a “rock star,” Page says. Soon after, Bradford brought Page on board as

managing editor, tasked with ensuring that the trains ran on time. The fresh blood reinvigorated the magazine. With Page living in the Bay Area and Holl in New York City, AAB again became a leading national outlet despite the proliferation of beer coverage online.

By then, Bradford had owned and operated AAB for more than two decades. And while his passion for the community was evident—he still attended every editorial meeting and was a visible presence at conventions and beer festivals—after he suffered a stroke, he decided the time had come to move on.

“I needed to make room for younger people,” he says. “[Craft beer] is such an exciting industry. It changes a lot, and I knew it was time for me to get off the stage and make room for other people.”

On July 2, 2014, Bradford sold AAB and the World Beer Festival’s parent company, Chautauqua Inc., to Chris Rice, a partner at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Brewery who was already ensconced in the industry.

“He was at Carolina Brewery,” Bradford says. “I’m a partner at Top of the Hill, so we had a lot of friends in common. I interviewed a lot of people in the industry about him, and a lot of people I respect had recommended him.”

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After the sale, Bradford stayed on in an advisory role, maintaining an office at AAB and contributing to its pages. Rice focused on growing and modernizing the company, remaking it into a multifaceted beer-adjacent empire.

Under Rice’s direction, All About Beer sponsored local tastings at grocery stores around the country and created new beer festivals. The company’s updated website teemed with the news stories, reviews, and stories its readers had long grown accustomed to reading.

At the same time, however, Page and Holl say they began to get troubling calls from vendors who weren’t getting paid on time, and Rice began asking them not to cash their checks.

“We stuck it out as employees because it was always somebody else’s fault,” Holl says. “[Rice] was always blaming someone else.” They were told the vendors had miscalculated or the rental companies had gotten dates wrong, Holl says.

Jude Desnoyer, who was hired as events manager in 2016, says he was inundated by calls from unpaid vendors. When he reached out to events companies, he discovered that AAB had been blacklisted.

In November 2016, Beer Quest—a festival AAB planned to throw in Charlotte’s BB&T Ballpark—was canceled one day before it was slated to take place, after AAB bounced a check, Desnoyer says.

By March 2017, Holl had left the company, and Page and Desnoyer left a few months later. Digital manager Daniel Hartis was promoted to editor.

“There was a lot of turnover from the time John Holl and Jon Page left,” Hartis says.

“There was a snowball effect. It seemed like we were losing key members every week.”

“I wasn’t able to read the writing on the walls,” Desnoyer says. “But the growth we were always being promised just wasn’t happening. And after talking to people within the company about how writers and designers weren’t getting paid, I thought, this is not going to get better.”

Despite the apparent financial woes, Rice purchased DRAFT Magazine in August 2017, announcing that AAB would replace DRAFT in subscribers’ mailboxes, while DRAFT would become an online-only resource. Quickly, though, DRAFT stopped producing original content and became little more than an aggregator, reposting stories from other blog and websites.

Things seemed to be unraveling, Hartis says: Beyond the continuing calls from unpaid vendors, subscribers began to comment in online forums about missed issues, magazines they had paid for that simply never arrived.

This August, DRAFT’s staff in Arizona was padlocked out of its coworking space after missed rent payments, Hartis says.

What remained of the AAB staff worried the same thing would happen to them in the Triangle.

Hartis was laid off in October, but he says he’s still owed four paychecks. It took Desnoyer six months to get what he was owed upon his departure.

Beyond his own pay, it was the lack of commitment to readers that weighed most heavily on Hartis. “The hardest part was subscribers reaching out, asking about the status of the magazine, and my not being able to give a significant answer,” he says.

“A lot of the [staff ] took it all personally,” Desnoyer adds. “Those people had put blood, sweat, and tears into the brand, and they were just being washed away.”

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everal former employees interviewed for this story lay the blame for AAB’s demise at Rice’s feet, arguing that he mismanaged the company. But it’s difficult to know for sure what went wrong. No one aside from Rice really knows, and he isn’t saying much.

Last month, Rice told Beervana that the AAB wasn’t actually closing: “We’ve had our struggles like so many print-centric publishers, as you know. … We do have a significant shift in the business currently underway. I look forward to sharing more details with you in the near future.”

What that shift entails isn’t clear. Rice declined numerous requests for an interview for this story.

It’s possible, perhaps, is that AAB had simply run its course, and its apparent end is merely a sign of the times. From the monolithic to the niche, magazines all over the country are shutting down or cutting back their print runs. (As Beervana noted, Celebrator Beer News ceased print publication earlier this year, and BeerAdvocate announced last December that it was switching its print schedule from monthly to quarterly.) Combine that with a market flooded by blogs and websites, and maybe AAB just became obsolete.

The magazine’s former employees reject that notion. Over nearly four decades, they say, AAB had created something special, something that connected with disciples of craft beer and its attendant culture. In better hands, they say, AAB could have thrived.

“When I saw the article about the death of All About Beer,” Johnson says, “I shocked myself by crying. I thought that there had been enough time, and I had been pissed off long enough that it wouldn’t make me sad.

But it made me terribly sad.” backtalk@indyweek.com

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PAPA SHOGUN FUSES ITALIAN AND JAPANESE FLAVORS INTO WHIMSICAL PASTAS AND SMALL PLATES BY SHARON KURTZMAN

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y husband and I had our first date at a tiny restaurant in New York City’s Little Italy, and Japanese food is my family’s top dining-out choice, so imagine my excitement when I heard about Papa Shogun, an ItalianJapanese fusion restaurant that opened in mid-November in the former Kimbap space in Raleigh’s Seaboard Station. But you don’t have to be a fan of either cuisine to be delighted by chef Tom Cuomo’s clever small plates and pastas.

The restaurant is Cuomo’s first solo venture, though his impressive pedigree includes stints with molecular-gastronomy chef Wylie Dufresne of wd~50 in New York and chef Matt Kelly at Mateo Bar de Tapas in Durham. At Papa Shogun, Cuomo fuses Italian and Japanese flavors and dishes with fine-dining finesse to create a menu that packs equal parts comfort and surprise. Here, the mark of a good dish isn’t simply that you can’t stop eating—it’s that you can’t stop smiling.

Vibe: Inside the intimate, L-shaped space, a quirky painting of a girl lounging in a bowl of ramen greets diners at the door.

The place has an industrial but relaxed feel, with white walls, bleached-wood paneling, and red metal cafe chairs. A glass partition separates the kitchen from the dining room, where guests can glimpse the kitchen action from their table. Doo-wop music amplifies Papa Shogun’s fun factor as an attentive and well-informed wait staff explains the menu and ingredients such as mayu, a black garlic-and-sesame oil that was new to me.

Menu: Small plates show off Cuomo’s concept right from the start: chop salad includes tricolor lettuce, Kalamata olives, and Peppadew peppers in a dressing made with rice-wine vinegar rather than the red-wine version. He riffs on a salata alla Siciliana—whose hallmarks include orange segments, onions, and black olives—with

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Fresh-pulled mozzarella with kombu garlic bread PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER Beets Siciliana, where citrus-roasted beets, olives, and onions are paired with a minty shiso salsa verde and miso almonds. Pasta features include standouts such as udon vongole and carbonara ramen (more on those in a minute). The limited large-plate selection includes a pan-fried pork chop and charred cauliflower. Desserts, such as cannoli filled with matcha cream, match the mash-up vibe.

What to order: Our server helpfully suggested a quantity of dishes for a tapas-style meal, and two small dishes and two pastas was just right for our party of two (sadly, we didn’t have room for dessert). Dishes arrived nicely spaced, starting with freshpulled mozzarella, a warm dome of cheese that we sliced and fashioned into crostini with kombu garlic bread. Yaki onigiri, named for the Japanese snack, are fried rice patties with a sushi-rice-like texture, but the first bite takes you straight to Sicily, reminiscent of arancini oozing mozzarella and marinated roasted red peppers. It’d make for fine finger food, but we stuck with forks and

knives to maximize dipping and mopping up the thick schmear of zesty red pepper sauce.

At first glance, udon vongole appears to be a bowl of the thick Japanese wheat noodles topped with clams (a nod to the Italian classic of linguine with clams), and even though the sauce is bolstered with sake rather than white wine, each mouthful finishes Italian with a smoked, savory whiff of Calabrian chilies and a punch of garlic.

It’s excellent, but the carbonara ramen is the can’t-miss pasta. It’s served in smoked tonkotsu, a pork-marrow broth whose creaminess is enhanced by a sixty-threedegree egg. Our server instructed us to stir in the runny yolk to infuse the broth. After a few spoonfuls, I encourage you to hoist the bowl and slurp with gleeful abandon.

Price: Small plates are $10 to $14; pastas are $16 to $20; large plates top out at $28.

Perfect for: A casual date night; a catch-up with friends over small plates; fans of fusion cuisine or curious foodies. food@indyweek.com

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The comment infuriated women jazz musicians and listeners all over the country, and rightfully so: It portrays women as erotic containers for male expression, as NPR critic Michelle Mercer noted. Even after the contributions from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, and so many more, Iverson’s exchange with Glasper showed that the hypermasculine jazz narrative is still alive and well.

It’s this context that makes In the Jazz Tradition, a December run of shows by Duke Performances at The Fruit, so powerful.

The event will highlight how the contributions of contemporary women jazz vocalists such as Nellie McKay, Nnenna Freelon,

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n 2017, Ethan Iverson, former pianist of the popular jazz trio The Bad Plus, posted an interview he did with jazz pianist Robert Glasper. Though it started harmlessly enough, the interview took a decidedly controversial turn as the two discussed their audiences and why they got into the style.

“I’ve seen what that does to the audience, playing that groove. I love making the audience feel that way. Getting back to women: Women love that,” said Glasper. “They don’t love a whole lot of soloing. When you hit that one groove and stay there, it’s like musical clitoris. You’re there, you stay on that groove, and the women’s eyes close and they start to sway, going into a trance.”

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Jazzmeia Horn, Cecil McLorin Salvant, Lucinda Wiliams, and Durham’s own Kate McGarry challenge that old-world narrative and push the jazz tradition forward.

Last October, Duke Performances presented a large celebration for Thelonious Monk’s one-hundreth birthday, showcasing some of the nation’s best jazz talent at the Fruit. In the Jazz Tradition will extend that thread in a new direction.

“This is sort of mirroring that [event] but just going with women in jazz and focusing on vocals,” says McGarry. “[Aaron Greenwald, director of Duke Performances] has this great ability to create an event that is relevant and exciting and draws in people

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with talent from all over the country. His programming is always fascinating from an artist’s perspective, and he has incredible vision with a really gusty approach to his curating. He’s setting up new traditions in a way.”

McGarry, a soulful jazz singer with a thirty-five-year career, a Grammy nomination, and a recently released album, The Subject Tonight is Love, under her belt, plays the event on December 9. She says she’s honored to represent Durham, where she’s lived for ten years.

“I’m fifty-five, and I’ve been doing it since I was about eighteen. In all those years, one of the most important things, and a big focus for me, has been developing a community of singers, instead of feeling like that dog-eat-dog kind of thing,” McGarry says. “And, in the past year or two, the #MeToo movement hit jazz, and it hit it hard. What I noticed was on Facebook, and everywhere where I was having discussions, men were taking their heads out of the sand and saying, ‘I didn’t realize what you were experiencing. I’m so sorry, let’s see if we can fix this.’”

McGarry says men have begun to do the work to include women. But women haven’t exactly been waiting on the sidelines—they’ve been kicking the doors down.

It all makes for an improved environment from when McGarry was first starting out in the eighties.

“I feel like the feminine aspect, it encourages a horizontal plain instead of a vertical plain—vertical is all about trying to get up the food chain, and that’s more of a masculine outlook,” McGarry says. “So I feel there’s a real benefit to being a woman in jazz in that we’ve been helping each other develop that feeling of safety and of community. That’s where people can flourish and where their voices can flourish because they feel safe.”

Nellie McKay is another example of the sort of artist who can thrive when the definition of jazz expands. A songwriter who embraces traditional jazz harmony and melodies and melds them with her own whimsical, satirical diversions, McKay plays two sets on December 5.

McKay’s songs often collage contemporary commentary with mid-century cultural aesthetic. For instance, the first line of “Mother of Pearl,” an upbeat swing-style ukulele tune that she performed during her

2008 TED Talk, is “Feminists don't have a sense of humor.” As the song progresses, McKay makes it clear she’s not sympathetic to this view, in spite of the flower tucked behind her ear. Rather, she’s ridiculing this dismissive, sexist notion. Many of her other songs operate in this cleverly subversive manner, and come from her own political awareness.

Social programs that could help women— such as single parent health care, universal child care, or universal basic income—are “all possible,” McKay says.

“If we just took some of the money we used for blowing up women in other countries,and used it to help people here, it’s really quite simple,” she adds.

That being said, McKay, who is thirtysix, says she’s experienced very few disadvantages as a woman jazz musician and has reveled in living on the fringes.

Still, McKay’s experience seems a testament to the improved inclusion of voices in jazz who don’t necessarily exist within a scene’s hierarchy.

In the same way, In the Jazz Tradition makes space for country songwriting legend Lucinda Williams to be considered in a new light. On the final night of the event, Memphis-born Charles Lloyd and his band, which includes jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, will join forces with Williams. Together, they’ll blend their love of jazz music with the soul and rock of the Deep South.

All this redefinition of tradition is heartening, but there is more work to be done.

While women vocalists have finally been able to reclaim some spotlight, many women instrumentalists still struggle in the shadows with few female role models. And on top of that, McGarry notes, the experience for women of color is wholly different from that of white women in the genre.

“There’s still so much work to do—even among women artists. African-American women artists have a whole different experience than white women artists that we need to listen to,” she says.

Still, it’s trailblazing events like In the Jazz Tradition that offer space for the discussion of complicated contemporary themes from within the jazz sphere. The event also rewrites history, creating curiosity about women in jazz who may have never gotten their due, and doing the work necessary for a more equitable jazz future. music@indyweek.com

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Train of Thought GABRIEL KAHANE’S CROSS-COUNTRY JOURNEY INSPIRED AN ALBUM OF TALES FROM THE TRACKS

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pending any time on the internet—especially Twitter—feels akin to standing in front of a fire hose of information. It’s a never-ending bothsides shouting match of smug jokes, flimsy conspiracy theories, and bad-faith arguments surrounding tidal waves of horrifying headlines. In an effort to take a break from the shrieking political madness of late 2016, Gabriel Kahane ditched his phone for two weeks and rode the Amtrak rails to learn firsthand how Americans interact with each other on a personal level. What he ended up with was a life-altering lesson in the power of empathy and relishing inefficiency.

Kahane has an illustrious background as a composer, having written pieces for the North Carolina and Oregon symphonies, among others, in addition to issuing two charming, pop-inclined records under his own name. He had already been contemplating a theme for his third LP, August’s Book of Travelers, and began toying with the idea of travel as a guiding concept. But he needed a through line to tie it all together.

“I felt pretty certain that the way that I was receiving the political discourse was toxic and reductive, and I wanted to understand a little bit more for myself what was really happening in America,” he says.

So Kahane booked a thirteen-day trip that took him on a loop through Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and then back to New York. He set his departure date as November 9, 2016: the day after the U.S. presidential election. Kahane admits he anticipated a Clinton victory. In the time leading up to his trip, he expected it to be a sort of “empathy tour,” as he calls it.

“I couldn’t wrap my head around the idea that there was a transitive property of douchebaggery wherein everyone who supported he who is now president shared all of his terrible qualities,” Kahane says.

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“There was something animating the enthusiasm for him as a candidate that was worth investigating, trying to understand what was leading people to support him.”

But the tables ended up being turned on Kahane, who says he felt “a little bit broken” upon his departure. As a way of hitting a personal reset button, he left his phone at home and didn’t access the internet from the train. Between the conversations that informed Book of Travelers, Kahane spent his time reading and writing a diary of his trip that amounted to about eighty thousand words. He did plenty of people-watching and even joined a group of Old Order German Baptist Brethren from Ohio in singing hymns after dinner.

As Kahane struck up conversations with people, he focused on talking about their families, and the stories he heard make up the bulk of Book of Travelers. Even as he encountered people he disagreed with, he focused on trying to connect with them rather than arguing. He recognized that people don’t fit into boxes, and that all of us have the capacity for beauty and ugliness to exist within us at the same time.

“The point of the trip was more about the pursuit of a certain kind of radical empathy that holds the possibility for extreme grief and anger to exist at the same time. In this moment, where it feels like the dialectic and the complex truths are so difficult, you can try to understand where someone is coming from without endorsing where they’re coming from,” he says. “I feel like that’s something that is really missing from the way that we relate to each other.”

The stories on Book of Travelers mostly stem from those family-centered discussions. In “What If I Told You,” Kahane talks with a wealthy black woman traveling to Mississippi from Chicago for a funeral. She took the train at the behest of her sons because they feared for her safety driving

Gabriel Kahane PHOTO COURTESY OF PARADIGM TALENT AGENCY in the South while black. “Model Trains,” meanwhile, sketches a heartbreaking portrait of a man struggling with his health and slipping away. Kahane performs these songs solo on piano, supporting his vocals with sparse, moody arrangements.

On one of the album’s most striking numbers, “October 1, 1939/Port of Hamburg,” Kahane recounts the story of his paternal grandmother’s immigration to the United States, sourcing some of its lyrics from the diaries she kept as a young woman. Fleeing Nazis, she left her home country of Germany for Cuba, where she lived for six months before acquiring permission to enter the U.S. A train eventually delivered her from New Orleans to Los Angeles, where she made a new life for herself.

Two years removed from his trip, Kahane says he feels like a different person than he

was before he departed. His travels have inspired him to think about inefficiency— how late-capitalist obsessions with expediency end up obliterating the beautiful, complicated nuances that accompany daily life. Faster isn’t always better.

“There are some things, like trying to understand where someone is coming from, that need to be done slowly,” Kahane says.

That doesn’t mean slowing the charge toward justice, he adds. It means being more careful and thoughtful with one another as we continue to reckon with our country's staggering racial and economic inequality.

And as Kahane also learned, even on a challenging journey, it’s important to take time to enjoy the view along the way. music@indyweek.com

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Rivers to Love

RICHARD THOMPSON STILL FINDS ROOM FOR FUN IN HIS FIFTY-YEAR SONGWRITING CAREER

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“It’s fun!” Thompson says with a laugh. or fifty years, Richard Thompson “I know my way around it. I’m always has occupied a unique space in the fascinated by the musical process and canon of contemporary popular music. His latest record, 13 Rivers, is an exploration of and continued love affair with the electric guitar, which has garnered him much of his fanbase over the course of his career. The album’s six-minute opener, “The Storm Won’t Come,” is an instant reminder of Thompson’s trademark sound.

He’s perfected the ability to build and release with vivid lyricism and inimitable guitar playing.

After rising to fame with his British folk-rock band, Fairport Convention, and through a handful of cult classics made with Linda Thompson, his ex-wife, Thompson went on to release more than two dozen solo records. Not only is he nearly peerless in his prolific nature, but very few have achieved his level of consistent quality.

13 Rivers is one of Thompson’s most cohesive albums in many years. As gifted a lyricist as he is a guitarist, he explores the human soul and inner turmoil through refRichard Thompson PHOTO BY TOM BEJGROWICZ erences to religion and love. One of the defining qualities of his work is what happens when people play together. the impulsive nature of his songwriting. Not Why does it do something, or why does it one to over-analyze the lyrical nature of the not do something? As a musician, you have work, he allows each song to take on a life of to keep your sense of fun and exploration its own. alive.”

“In some ways, I’m too close to it to comWhile a lot of his time on the road ment,” he says. “But if you ask me two years has been spent solo with an acoustic down the road, I might know what the song guitar, Thompson also has mainstays in is about. There’s really something subconbassist Taras Prodaniuk, who’s played scious to the process.” with Thompson for a dozen years, and Having honed his craft on his father’s jazz drummer Michael Jerome, who’s worked and traditional Scottish music collection, with Thompson for twenty. He’s dubbed Thompson’s sense of guitar exploration is the ensemble his Electric Trio. rarely confined by any particular sound— “The first day of rehearsal, you know except maybe his own. Much of that has to someone is perfect for the job,” Thompdo with his youthful exuberance when playson says. “They were both no-brainers, ing the electric guitar.

really, and I think we’ve developed a pretty good understanding over the years. That’s something you can’t replicate.”

The approach to performing with this band after a stretch performing solo, however, can be a significant shift of momentum, Thompson says.

“Solo, you must draw the audience into you. You’re in a quiet place where the audience can share the experience more intimately. With a band, it’s a louder thing,” he says. “In both of those realms, there is a possibility to beat people over the head with it. With a band, you can really create some contrast, some real quiet moments that can reflect that kind of stillness that comes along with playing acoustic music.”

Despite a half-century-long career, Thompson’s time on the road hasn’t seemed

to slow down. There is no wavering in his voice about his eternal commitment to his craft, and it shows in the studio and on stage. But a certain element of magic reveals itself in Thompson’s live performances “With the studio, you’re making a statement. This is how I define the song. When you play it live, the definitions can vary. It can go on from there and create a different path than that original thing,” Thompson says, noting how performing a song in a live setting can change the way people feel about it. “People say, ‘When’s the live album coming out? We’ve got the record, but we prefer it live.’

There’s valid points to that. Sometimes, you play a song for a month or two and it’s a little different at the end of the experience. It’s evolved a bit, it’s gotten tighter, or there are even new ideas in it.”

To put the time, energy, and love into a career the way Thompson has is an accomplishment not shared by many. His recordings weren’t always appreciated in their time, but they’ve held up as vital documents of scenes, styles, and feelings that would’ve otherwise been lost to history. Thompson has excelled both lyrically, stylistically, and as a performer—tearing apart the human condition through almost every decade of recorded music as it appears today. His performances have never lacked, his records have never felt phoned in, and at sixty-nine years old, his work feels largely more important many of his peers that achieved greater commercial success.

But that’s part of Thompson’s charm.

There’s no bitterness in his voice or condescension toward others—just a man with a satisfaction and assuredness about his singular talent. music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 11.28.18 | 23

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In Good Company

A YOUNG DIRECTOR TAPS AREA VETS TO START A PROMISING NEW THEATER COLLECTIVE IN DURHAM

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When a famous work is produced over ancy Merlin sounds remarkably and over, “the juicy stuff tends to get lost,” matter-of-fact for a person starting Merlin says. “Because The Dumb Waiter’s so a new theater company in Durham. classic and small, there’s a lot of opportunity “A lot of things kind of aligned, and I just for texturing or changing things up a bit: to decided to go for it,” says the twenty-twoamp up the interesting stuff, strengthen the year-old actor, dramaturge, director, and visual artist, a Brooklyn native and a senior at Duke University. “There was this two-person play I really liked called The Dumb Waiter, and it seemed the ideal piece to start with if I wanted to grow my own company. So I said, ‘OK, cool. I’ll start my own theater company.’”

Of course, there’s more to Merlin’s new enterprise, Monkey Paw/Monkey Claw Collective, than a single positive impression of vintage Harold Pinter. After taking theater classes at Duke, Merlin took a year and a half off from school to “do theater stuff” with Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern. She acted as one of the girlgroup Weyard Sisters in the company’s 2016 Macbeth send-up, Maccountant; designed an installation and performed in the immersive environmental piece This Is Not a Novel; and did dramaturgy for a 2017 devised musical, Hunchback.

“I learned how to put on a show and how a company works,” Merlin says. “It was a fantastic experience.” During that time, she shadowed LGP artistic director Jaybird O’Berski as he worked on another Pinter play, The Lovers, in class- Nancy Merlin PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST es for Incubator, an international therelationship between the two characters, and ater-education initiative. Watching O’Berski re-appropriate it into a new kind of setting.” adapt and layer the work with subtexts, culThe Dumb Waiter will be Monkey Paw/ tural references, and dance had a fundamenMonkey Claw’s debut production, staged tal influence on her approach to The Dumb Feb. 15–17 at the Cartier Lounge, a nightWaiter, a 1957 psychological drama in which club in the Straw Valley development next two hit-men wait for orders on their next to New Hope Commons. When it came assassination. to casting the production, Merlin looked “When I first read it, I immediately to actors she’d met and worked with thought these two people are stuck; you can through Little Green Pig. J Evarts, who has see the cabin fever percolating throughout. appeared in recent years in The ChangeThat made me think of The Shining—and ling and Manbites Dog Theater’s The Open wouldn’t that be fun to bring in somehow,” House, is “incredibly smart, incredibly Merlin says with a chuckle.

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deliberate, and incredibly in control of her acting choices,” Merlin says. “I feel I can learn a lot from working with her.”

Merlin also values her rapport with actor and musician Nathan Logan. And Germain Choffart, who recently appeared in Justice

Theater Project’s A Doll’s House, Remodeled and worked with Merlin in on-campus productions at Duke, “popped out of the womb ready to do” the role Merlin envisions for him in The Dumb Waiter, one that adds an air of Stanley Kubrick—if not David Lynch—to the proceedings.

“When I first worked with Nancy, we had a natural connection,” Choffart says.

“She has a lot of energy, new ideas, and a big desire to pursue her own vision.”

Though Evarts has never seen an artist so young start a theater company before,

Merlin’s growth over the past two years and her strong relationships with her mentors at Duke gives Evarts confidence.

“She’s interested in more complicated shows and figuring out what speaks to her, what she wants to see and explore,” Evarts says. Merlin’s choices in playwrights and collaborators “shows she’s really making an effort to stretch herself and make brave, bold choices.”

Further down the line, Merlin plans to star in Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing), a one-person show that “conveys an incredibly deep love for life in the least sentimental way imaginable,” she says. Then she wants to bring another immersive take on an Annie Baker play to Durham (after Bartlett Theater’s The Flick) with a gender-flipped production of The Aliens, staging the drama on a series of café patios and back porches in the area. A collaboration with artists from her native New York is in the offing after that.

Ultimately, Merlin envisions Monkey Paw/Monkey Claw Collective— whose name was taken from a Nick Cave song—as a laboratory where people can “bring proposals, make work, learn from the work that’s made, and use that to make more projects. I want it to be as open as possible,” she says.

Those plans will take financing, though. The collective’s first public offering, an art-show fundraiser called Animal Parade at Shadowbox Studios on December 4, comes on the heels of Merlin’s successful first showing there, It’s a Wild World After All, last month. The postpostmodern musings Merlin places in the mouths of a pop-surreal menagerie including lions, gophers, and geckos puncture our self-important anthropocentricism. Not a bad first note for an ambitious group that plans to add some unexpected twists to theatrical works already known. arts@indyweek.com

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The series begins at Duke Coffeehouse on The timeliness of the theme is not lost on hen Jessica Q. Stark and Hannah Saturday, December 1 with Dorothea Lasky, VanderHart or Stark. Politically, women’s VanderHart, the organizers of the the author of five full-length collections and narratives have been spotlighted in the last Duke University English Departa number of chapbooks, who teaches poetry year, as the #MeToo movement overtook ment’s Little Corner Reading Series, started at Columbia University. Lasky’s poetry spans headlines and women ran in record numbers discussing the theme for their bookings this year, their dialogue ping-ponged back and forth, gathering excitement with each volley.

When they struck on the concept of “Excess Women,” they wanted to explore all the iterations of what that phrase could mean—regarding motherhood, appetite, psychology, and more— and they wanted to map its intersections with race, gender, and other points of identity.

“I love poetry where the language seems so easily read, it should be legible, but there’s an interesting illegibility,” Stark says. “It refuses to be understood in traditional forms.”

“Yes, like when [poems] engage anxiety and grief and depression, but in an atypical way,” VanderHart adds. “It’s like they slip into the hysteric Hannah VanderHart and Jessica Q. Stark PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS woman while moving beyond it.” motherhood, witch-hood, and everything in in the midterm elections. But Stark doesn’t “Which it all goes back, unfortunately, to between. want the theme to be read only as a specific Freud and his question, ‘What do women “I think that a lot of the poets we have narrative of political womanhood. desire?’” Stark says. “The only way to mark chosen really do flex beyond the restrictions “There is a political force behind this, of what was unfathomable to him was to call it put upon poets and creative thinking,” Stark course,” Stark says. “But I also don’t want hysteric, to call it excessive.” says. “Thinking about Dorothea Lasky, she to neglect the specificity of these works.

“Excess” concerns that which moves speaks very frankly about being mindful There’s a lot of attention to the small. beyond institutions, beyond borders, and about language for the common man, lanThere’s a real political weight behind the beyond a confined idea of what poetry and guage that doesn’t have the stamp of intellecminiature. What’s deemed not a part of being a woman is. The goal is to break through tual approval. You can see this in her work, structures? What is not hashtaggable? a typical patriarchal reading of poetry that especially in Milk. It confronts the idea of the There’s some sort of maximalism that I privileges and celebrates masculine poets and amateur in poetry, which is so feminized.” want to resist.” forms while treating the feminine as a violaLasky is also half of the duo Astro Poets, a “Something that we talk about a lot is tion of form.

Twitter account known for astrological readwriting in the margins,” VanderHart adds.

“This theme is very capacious,” Vanderhart ings rendered through memes, self-effacing “Poetry is this thing that you can fit in says. “People really crave narrowing an idea jokes and, of course, poetry. Her oeuvre is at weird marginal times. Like, I can write down to a small, community-size, bite-size more kaleidoscopic than eclectic. Her work in bed on my phone while my partner is idea, but then it neglects a wider context, like seems oriented less around the ejaculatory asleep, and I am curious as to what work is what your community does to other commuepiphany than the minute but radiant shifts created in that space.” nities. It neglects the relations.”

that happen with a subtle twist of the form, like the turn of a kaleidoscope.

“She resists the kind of revelation that is tied to intellectualism,” Stark says. “She moves against the grain of the dissectible; she’s in excess to that. With her work, I always think of the word ‘magic.’”

Stark and VanderHart are both PhD candidates in the Duke English Department who are writing dissertations on poetry; both are also poets themselves. Their enthusiasm for Lasky and this series in general seems to reflect not only their engagement as readers, but also their fellowship with these poets as sisters-in-arms.

In addition to a reading by Stark, the Lasky bill is rounded out by Ina Cariño, an MFA student at N.C. State. Future programs in February and April will feature Rachel Zucker, a poet and the host of the podcast Commonplace, and Dorothy Chan, author of Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold.

The wide-ranging work of these poets pulls on different threads of the theme, but a current through all of their work is rootedness in the specific, quotidian details of their lives—the blurring of lived experience and the written word.

“Something in that miniscule attention is itself radical,” VanderHart says. “The work invites a change in response. All three of our poets are very much journalers and memoiristic writers. The day I stopped writing in my journal, I started writing poetry. Their work resonates with that part of me.”

“A lot of what these poets are doing is breathing into this strange space that does contain confession, but also contains this really interesting experiment,” Stark says.

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

11.28–12.5 MONDAY, DECEMBER 3

DOUG PAISLEY

Though he hails from Toronto, Doug Paisley’s warm, twangy voice and fleet acoustic guitar playing make him sound like a son of the American South. In November, Paisley released Starter Home, his fourth LP for the esteemed No Quarter records. It’s as cozy and comfortable as one might expect a “starter home” to be: modest, warm, and inviting. Across the album, Paisley extends the concept and comforts of home to other corners of everyday life.

Paisley backs his rugged tenor with acoustic guitar, adorned with mildmannered flecks of organ, mandolin, and steel guitar throughout. Though he spends most of Starter Home in an easygoing, midtempo mood, Paisley closes the record with “Shadows,” a charmingly upbeat number that feels perfectly suited for a last-call twirl around the dance floor. From Virginia, Twain opens with its own strain of mellow tunes that feel equally inspired by midcentury rock and folk.

—Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $12–$15, www.catscradle.com

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BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER

For more than fifty years, Bread and Puppet Theater has not only served its unique brand of satirical political criticism and theatrical activism with fresh-made sourdough rye and aioli; it’s also been the inspiration for a number of likeminded troupes, including our own Paperhand Puppet Intervention. That’s why the thirty-strong troupe and band is making a one-night pit-stop here during its Southern tour, staging its current show, The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus, at Paperhand’s studio in Saxapahaw. As predicted, the Trump administration has given Bread and Puppet no shortage of subject matter, but the company also takes time to commemorate historical and less-known modern struggles, from the Battle of Sempach, where an outnumbered Swiss peasant resistance defeated the Austrian Army in the fourteenth century, to the Indian saleswomen who unionized and won the right to sit down during a twelve-hour workday this year. The troupe’s other targets include the U.S.’s proposed Space Force, consumerism and the middle class, the endangered Antarctic ice shelf, and the Supreme Court, which features in a mid-show rap battle. —Byron Woods PAPERHAND PUPPET STUDIO, SAXAPAHAW 7 p.m., $10–$25 suggested, www.paperhand.org 26 | 11.28.18 | INDYweek.com

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1

WAREHOUSE ARTIST STUDIOS GRAND OPENING

There was a time, not long ago, when it seemed like the Golden Belt mixed-use development might grow into a Durham arts-and-entertainment magnet to rival downtown or the area around Motorco. But that prospect dimmed with the gradual evacuation of the artist studios in the historic textile-and-tobacco plant, not to mention the closure of jazz club The Shed and art gallery SPECTRE Arts, which left The Carrack virtually alone to hold it down. Now, LRC Properties, which bought the complex from Scientific Properties, holds out fresh hope for the arts at Golden Belt by opening twenty-five new studios occupied by local artists as well as a Durham Art Guild satellite gallery. This free, family-friendly grand opening features opportunities to meet the artists, food trucks, and live music, and campus newcomer Hi-Wire Brewing will have local beers on tap as well as table games like foosball and some carnival attractions. —Brian Howe GOLDEN BELT CAMPUS, DURHAM 3–10 p.m., free, www.goldenbeltarts.com

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29–SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16

THE WEIR

It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Because our minds stay so engaged, it’s not surprising that some folks don’t sleep well, or sleep at all, without a nightlight or a white-noise device: just a little stimulus to feed the sleeping brain and mask anything that might be lurking underneath. Then the power goes out during an October wind storm or a heavy winter snow, and the silence and darkness that had been kept at bay by incandescence or electronics pour back in. Some do better with that than others. There are no streetlights in the rural Irish community where The Weir, Conor McPherson’s unsettling 1997 drama, takes place, and because the weather can do mischief with the power out here, the darkness and silence are constant forces to be reckoned with. A quintet is huddling in a small pub, sharing stories over drinks, late at night. And, for reasons we learn soon enough, no one’s in any hurry to leave. Director Jerome Davis welcomes back David Dossey, one of Burning Coal’s founding actors, in an all-star cast including Simon Kaplan, Emily Rieder, Lucius Robinson, and Jordan Wolfe. —Byron Woods BURNING COAL THEATER, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m. Thu.–Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $5–$25, www.burningcoal.org

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OSHUN

In one scene in the music video for “Hold Up,” Beyoncé strolls out of a stately building as water gushes out of the doors around her. The inspiration for her flowing, golden yellow dress was Oshun, a Yoruban spirit whose domain includes rivers and fresh water, sensuality, love, purity, and fertility.

So it’s easy to understand why such a goddess might also inspire Niambi Sala and Thandiwe, the young women from New York who make music under the name Oshun. Together, they make lithe, hypnotic songs that blend R&B, hip-hop, and pop into one inimitable blend. Their inspirations are both ancient and futuristic, as they deftly demonstrate in the earth-and-outer-space video for their single “Parts,” a bitingly clever kiss-off track. Arrive early for some opening heat from ZenSoFly, Indigo de Souza, and Icky Bricketts. —Allison Hussey KINGS, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $13–$50, www.kingsraleigh.com

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1

THE CAVE IS 50

Earlier this year, The Cave, a beloved Chapel Hill dive and rock club, was teetering on the brink of oblivion. Its owners had decided to sell the business, but had found no takers by the end of April; the club’s “final” night of business felt like a party for the end of the world. But with the help of a few friends, Melissa Swingle and Autumn Spencer swooped in to save the day, taking over the business for The Cave to remain in its subterranean spot on Franklin Street. This week marks the bar’s golden anniversary, and given how narrowly the bar escaped its springtime fate, there’s plenty to celebrate (including, but not limited to, some long-overdue sprucing-up that Swingle and Spencer administered). The Cave’s Saturday night bill features two longtime Cave-dwelling acts—heavy-hitters LUD and the easygoing North Elementary—as well as Harrison Ford Mustang and Honey Radar. —Allison Hussey THE CAVE, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $10, www.caverntavern.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

ANIMAL PARADE AT SHADOWBOX STUDIO (P. 24), ELF: THE MUSICAL AT DPAC (P. 34), IN THE JAZZ TRADITION AT THE FRUIT (P. 15), GABRIEL KAHANE AT CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM (P. 22), LITTLE CORNER READING SERIES AT DUKE COFFEEHOUSE (P. 25), ELLY LONON AT THE REGULATOR (P. 33), A NEW LOOK AT THE ACKLAND (P. 32), THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS AT N.C. MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES (P. 35), RICHARD THOMPSON AT THE HAW RIVER BALLROOM (P. 23)

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The Mountain Goats perform at the Haw River Ballroom Friday and Saturday.

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

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

THU, NOV 29 ARCANA:

Sis

[FREE/8:30 P.M.] A reviewer posting on San Francisco-based pop group Sis’ bandcamp refers to them as “Organic Sade.”

A gut-tickler for sure, but to be honest, their mood is less eighties hedonism and closer to recent neo-

R&B torch-bearers like Moonchild. An even more specific reference point: the orchestrated trip-hopped pop of completely forgotten bands like The Atomica Project or Karmacoda. The band follows that whole late nineties/ early aughts rainy electronics vibe of cramming in as much laptop sample puree and live instrumentation as possible behind a vocalist for maximum emotional wallop. If you considered buying tickets for the upcoming Massive Attack tour, give this a whirl.

Devon Pelto will read tarot throughout the evening, too.

—David Ford Smith HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Richard Thompson Electric Trio; 8 p.m.

See page 23.

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NEPTUNES PARLOUR:

Parker Gispert [$10/10 P.M.]

Parker Gispert has led Athens power pop trio The Whigs for over fifteen years, but when its members began branching out into other projects, Gispert went solo. His gentle, atmospheric debut album finds the frontman venturing out from his garage rock roots, ditching electric guitar for acoustic and exploring his vocal range with falsetto.

Gispert cites innovative modern guitarists Steve Gunn and Ryley Walker alongside Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell as influences.

Wild Fur opens.

—Spencer Griffith

POUR HOUSE:

Local Band Local Beer: Tramatik, Tureal [$3–$5/8 P.M.]

Making their way through the Triangle’s open mic circuit— mainly Mir.I.Am.’s Carolina Waves series—Henderson, North Carolina’s Tramatik and Tureal have made a mark in the Raleigh hip hop scene with a style reminiscent of Atlanta trap from the late aughts. Though not incredibly original, or lyrically exceptional, the duo’s authenticity is infectious and entertaining. Nun Afterhours, Red Jones, and Jay Ophishal also perform.

—Charles Morse

UNC’S HILL HALL: Carolina Bluegrass Band; 8 p.m.

HAW RIVER BALLROOM:

FRI, NOV 30

[$31/8 P.M.]

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

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Gabriel Kahane; 8 p.m.

See page 22.

CAT’S CRADLE: Wild Child; 8 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Jazz Ensemble with Ali Jackson; 8 p.m.

DUKE COFFEEHOUSE: Knives of Spain, Spectral Habitat, Spookstina; 8 p.m.

DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: Runaway Winter Runway Show + Afterparty; 9 p.m.

The Mountain Goats

As much as the Hex of Infinite Binding EP, an October surprise that ruminates on the certitude of death, reiterates The Mountain Goats’s unabating brilliance, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas accentuates their enduring appeal. The record, released in April by Merge, is a collection of reimagined tunes from John Darnielle’s first (but by no means only) great record by a heterogenous collection of musicians: English Afro-funk band Ibibo Sound Machine, fey singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, literate punkleaning frontpeople Craig Finn and Laura Jane Grace, INDYweek.com | 11.28.18 | 29

KINGS:

Mega Colossus [$10–$12/9 P.M.]

Raleigh’s five-piece adventure metal band aim to “melt every face out there and drink all your booze,” according to their website. Mega Colossus will play tracks off their upcoming EP on a lineup with friends Lazer/Wulf and Double Ferrari from Athens, Georgia. With cited influences from the new wave of British

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heavy metal (think Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc.), there’s no guarantee your face won’t indeed melt.

—Julie K. Smitka

Mike Cooley [$20–$25/9 P.M.]

Think of Mike Cooley as the George Harrison of The DriveBy Truckers. When you’re in a band that has given the world Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell, it’s only natural to get shunted out of the spotlight, even if your own contributions have been sterling, against the John and Paul that Cooley has had to contend with. But stop for half a second and think about the many tunes Cooley brought to the band’s table, from “Uncle Frank” to “Where the Devil Don’t Stay” and tons of others, and seeing him play a solo set seems like an excellent idea. —Jim Allen

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL:

N.C. Symphony and N.C. Master Chorale: Mozart Mass [$18+/8 P.M.]

At age twenty-six, Mozart wrote his 18th and final mass (named “the Great” for unknown reasons). Or at least most of a mass; two movement remained unfinished for reasons that remain mysterious.

But, similar to the equally unfinished Requiem, the notes Mozart did write pack a punch, mixing an obsession with the counterpoint of Bach and Handel with his own gift for flowing, operatic melody. It’s a monumental work, paired here with four much smaller pieces by Schubert.

—Dan Ruccia

UNC Faculty w/Rahsaan Barber Angela Bingham Scott Sawyer/Ron Brendle Noel Sher Quartet Juan Alamo and Marimjazzia Sothcott/Ringel Quintet Mik Templeton Martin Clowse Quintet Ann Hampton Callaway, Diva Power Two Shows - 7pm & 9pm Richmond, VA Bassist, Michael Hawkins NCJRO

THE PINHOOK:

Soccer Mommy [$12/8 P.M.]

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SHARP NINE GALLERY: UNC Jazz Faculty with Rahsaan Barber; 8 p.m.

SLIM’S:

Coco Amino [$5/9 P.M.]

Why Not Now, Coco Amino asks with its debut EP. And it’s a good question: Why not listen to the Chapel Hill quartet’s peppy pop-rock, as much early Beatles as it is late-era Wilco? Why not bliss out to the dayglo “Give Up” or wiggle to the light and funky post-chorus breaks in “Lockjaw”? Why not groove to the pulsing motorik of “Virginia, Lately”? Why not, indeed? With Dr. Mudd & the Alamo. —Patrick Wall

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artsy weirdo Amanda Palmer, among others. That Darnielle’s words can take these variegated forms and still sound undeniably his is a testament to his intellect and ability. Friday’s show is sold out; at press time, tickets to Saturday’s show were still available, and $1 from every ticket goes to support P:EAR Mentor, which works to build positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through art, education, and recreation. Dead Rider opens. —Patrick Wall

THE CAVE TAVERN: Reverand Justin Hylton with Dr. Lunchbox; 11 p.m.

DUKE CHAPEL: Duke Chorale Christmas Concert; 7 p.m.

DUKE COFFEEHOUSE:

Sandy Ewen, Sarah Louise [$5/8 P.M.]

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UNC’S HILL HALL: UNC Jazz Combos; 4 p.m.

HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Mountain Goats, Dead Rider; 8 p.m.

SAT, DEC 1

LOCAL 506:

BINKLEY MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus: There’s No Business Like Snow Business!; 7 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Tan and Sober Gentlemen; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE TAVERN: The Cave’s 50th Anniversary Party; 8 p.m. See page 27.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM:

Calidore String Quartet [$10–$25/8 P.M.]

During World War II, Sergei Prokofiev and other major Soviet artists were evacuated from major cities. Prokofiev ended up in the North Caucasus city of Nalchik along with Anton Chekov’s widow among others, and his second string quartet is the result of his immersion in the various folk traditions of the region.

The flashy, young Calidore String Quartet pair it with a recently-commissioned work by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw and Robert Schumann’s sumptuous third quartet. —Dan Ruccia

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Drug Church [$12–$15/7 P.M.]

Post-grunge may never be commercially hip again, but Drug Church are fighting the good fight to tastefully keep radio-ready doom and gloom sonics alive. On their latest record, Cheer, they spitshine their trademark blown-out noise-punk into melodic bursts of digestible songwriting. Not as gauche as, say, Candlebox, but slender shades of what major labels were hawking during the post-Nirvana signing spree. At the end of the day, it’s still fucked up punk music. With Gouge Away and Seattles New Gods.

—David Ford Smith MOTORCO:

The Connells [$20–$25/9 P.M.]

Raleigh stalwarts The Connells have been bringing their signature brand of chiming, open-hearted alt-rock to the world at large since the mideighties, experiencing brushes with mainstream success along the way but remaining the kind of cult heroes that inspire unswerving obsession

in their hardy fanbase. The band may not be as active these days as it once was, and it’s been a dog’s age since they released a new album, but when Mike and David Connell and company hit the stage, they can still deliver just like they did in their salad days.

Leisure McCorkle opens.

—Jim Allen SHARP NINE GALLERY: Angela Bingham Trio; 8 p.m.

TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH: The Durham Community Chorale: A Holiday Celebration; 3 p.m.

UNC’S HILL HALL: UNC Jazz Band; 8 p.m.

SUN, DEC 2 THE ARTSCENTER:

Barefoot Movement [$25/8 P.M.]

Nashville bluegrass quartet The Barefoot Movement brings its yearly holiday tour to town, featuring festive, irreverent favorites like “Little Saint Nick” and “Run Rudolph Run” nestled between tenderly crooned classics such as “Silver Bells” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and reverent seasonal hymns. Best of all, though, are the harmonyladen, string band versions of “Christmas (Baby Please Come

Home)” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” the latter seemingly inspired by the Jackson 5’s lively take.

—Spencer Griffith RUGGERO PIANO: Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Free Spirits Ensemble Concert; 4 p.m.

PULLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus: There’s No Business Like Snow Business!; 2 p.m.

SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: DJ Pangean; 10 p.m.

UNC’S HILL HALL: Carolina Choir and Chamber Singers; 7 p.m.

UNC’S PERSON HALL: UNCChapel Hill Department of Music: The University Chamber Players; 3 p.m.

MON, DEC 3

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Doug Paisley, Twain; 8 p.m.

See page 26.

DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: In the Jazz Tradition: Nnenna Freelon; 7 p.m., 9 p.m. See page 15.

The guitarists Sandy Ewen, from Houston, and Sarah Louise, from Asheville, seem stylistically incompatible.

Ewen’s solo guitar impressionism is built on skritchings, scrapings and sawings designed to coax abstract, hiccuping melodies.

Louise’s six- and twelve-string compositions are culled from sacred drone and the birdsong of the North Carolina woods she calls home. But ideologically, the musicians are simpatico. Both mine the secret world inside the guitar, zeroing in on the instrument’s inherent and infinite possibility.

Each unexpected note they play is a radiant point on a journey to an unknown end.

—Patrick Wall DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: In the Jazz Tradition: Cécile McLorin Salvant; 7 p.m., 9 p.m. See page 15.

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between direct and cryptic, dark and witty. Lala Lala opens. —Spencer Griffith UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: UNC Symphony Orchestra with Billy Stewart; 7 p.m.

WED, DEC 5

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Symphony Orchestra: Music for the Season; 8 p.m.

DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: In the Jazz Tradition: Nellie McKay; 7 p.m., 9 p.m. See page 15.

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

LINCOLN THEATRE:

Samantha Fish [$19–$29/8 P.M.]

Between her blistering guitar licks and belting vocals, Missouri-born Samantha Fish has won a truckload of blues awards over the years. But lately she’s been opening up her sound, shifting from her initial blues-rock leanings towards a rootsy amalgam of blues, rock, and soul. And with her larger-than-life sound, Fish has got the goods to fill up the wider territory she’s been carving out for herself these days, so the shift is looking like a sage decision. —Jim Allen

Why?

MOTORCO:

Loosely categorized as alternative hip-hop but eclectically eccentric, Why? marks the ten-year anniversary of its album Alopecia, a virtual repository of memorable, often bizarre lyricism set to tuneful, offkilter collages of kitchen-sink instrumentation. Among disturbing confessions of “the kind of shit I won’t admit to my headshrinker” and the beautifully morbid admission “is a funeral I’d fly to from anywhere,” Yoni Wolf speaksings lines that alternate

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Frankie Cosmos New York’s Frankie Cosmos exemplifies a particular strain of aughties indie rock: a little fuzzy, a little scrappy, a little cutesy, a little twinky, and yet heavy on feelings. But as the band proves on March’s Vessel, the reason they’re the standard-bearers is that they pull it off with surprising charm. Stef Chura opens, plus Shy Boys. —Allison Hussey UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: UNC Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band; 7 p.m.

IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Arson Daily, The Muckers, Dim Delights; 8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Mama Played Mondays; 7 p.m.

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m.

RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

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OPENING Runaway Winter Runway Show & Afterparty: Winter ‘18 collection debut. Performances

by Ben Negative, Oak City Slums, Footrocket, ZenSoFly, and DJ Shahzad. 9 p.m. $7–$10.

Durham Fruit Company, Durham. runawayclothes.com.

Warehouse Artist Studios Opening: Opening of twentyfive artist studios featuring live entertainment. Sat, Dec 1. 3 p.m. Warehouse Artist Studios @ Golden Belt, Durham. goldenbeltarts.com.

ONGOING All-Star Group Exhibit: More than twenty artists and craftspersons. 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. www. litmusgallery.com.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1–THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6

A NEW LOOK: THE PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERIES RE-ENERGIZED “That’s the museum with the dead guy in it, right?” This is what our art critic Chris Vitiello’s daughter used to ask him when he said he was going to the Ackland, according to his September story on the UNC-Chapel Hill museum’s plans to reimagine its space and reinstall its permanent collection (read Julie Hamilton’s November review of the exhibit Birthday Presents for more on that) on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary.

That effort comes to fruition in A New Look: The Permanent Collection Galleries Re-Energized. The new display of the collection includes a reconfigured space for global art after 1950 and an expanded African art gallery; it also highlights recent acquisitions, particularly in Asian art and works on paper. The body of the institution’s namesake is still entombed there, but this fall and going forward, the museum with the dead guy in it will be full of life. —Brian Howe

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South African purse by an unknown artist on display in A New Look PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ACKLAND

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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-indierock 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.

Gwen Lowery: Night Visions: Fiber art. Thru Sat, Jan 5.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

LAST I Love My Robot: CHANCE 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 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.

LAST Sisters XII: Better by CHANCE the Dozen!: Pottery, jewelry, and painting by Mary Beth and Virginia Owen. Thru Fri, Nov 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. localcoloraleigh.com.

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

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. pleiadesartdurham.com. nd self- Stephen White: Golden e lenses Classics: Paintings. Thru Mon, social Dec 31. Little Art Gallery & 26.

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ELLY LONON

Elly Lonon, a North Carolina native who fled our red state for bluer climes, is the author of a satirical McSweeney’s column that probes the vanities and verities of a fictional couple named Alexandra and Michael, two central-casting Portlandiastyle liberals navigating the Trump age.

Lonon parlayed the column into a fine new graphic novel, Amongst the Liberal Elite: The Road Trip Exploring Societal Inequities Solidified by Trump (RESIST), with art design by Joan Reilly. In it, Alex and Michael use their tax refund to embark on a cross-country road trip on which they try to make sense of their fellow citizens.

Line art by Miguel Yurrita and Theresa Chiechi illustrates the couple’s divagations with clarity and modernity—each chapter is introduced, of course, by an Instagram post. “Alex and Michael are here to provoke, to question, to make you roll your eyes so deep in your head you see your brain stem—but also to chuckle in recognition,” said New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake. At The Regulator, Lonon is joined in conversation by accomplished local cartoonist Keith Knight. —Brian Howe

REGULATOR BOOKSHOP, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.regulatorbookshop.com

READINGS & SIGNINGS Wes Bryant: Non-fiction book Hunting the Caliphate. Sat, Dec 1, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Frank Harmon: Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See. Sat, Dec 1, 5 p.m. So & So Books, Raleigh.

Gene R. Nichols: The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina. Sat, Dec 1, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Ken Wetherington: Hindsight: A Ghost Story. Sun, Dec 2, 2 p.m. Duke Campus: Biddle Music Building, Durham. kenwetherington2016. wordpress.com.

LECTURES ETC. 2018 Lambeth Lecture: Mary Sue Coleman: The Educated Citizenry: An Endangered Species? Thu, Nov 29, 5 p.m.

UNC Campus: Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill.

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Ruby Fridays: Watercolors in Motion: Talk by scientist and watercolor artist Christopher Lam. Free lunch. Fri, Nov 30, noon. Ruby Lounge at Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.

WeWork Durham Fireside Chat: Durham Mayor Steve Schewel in conversation with Jesica Averhart. Wed, Nov 28, 5 p.m. WeWork One City Center, Durham. we.co/durhamfireside.

Who Were Those Mordecais?: Presentation by Emily Bingham, author of Mordecai: An Early American Family. Sat, Dec 1, 1 p.m. Mordecai Historic Park, Raleigh. raleighnc.gov/mordecai.

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OPENING Aladdin and His Winter Wish: Holiday-themed musical presented

by N.C. Theatre. Nov 29-Dec 2. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Babes in Toyland: Carolina Children’s Theatre. Nov 29 & 30, 7 p.m./Dec 1, 2 p.m. Holly Springs Cultural Center, Holly Springs. carolinachildrenstheatre.com.

The Best Christmas Ever: An Original Holiday Musical: Family-friendly musical.

Nov 30-Dec 1, 8 p.m./Dec 2, 2 p.m. $15. Moonlight Stage Company, Raleigh. moonlightstageco.com.

Last House on the Left: Comedy. $8. Sat, Dec 1, 11 p.m. The Peoples Improv Theater, Chapel Hill. thepitchapelhill.com.

Krish Mohan: Empathy on Sale: Stand-up comedy. With Josh Rosenstein. $10. Sat, Dec 1, 9 p.m. The Peoples Improv Theater, Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com The Nutcracker: Carolina Ballet. Dec 1-2, UNC Campus: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Trifecta Improv: Four local improv teams: Hollodeck, The Land Mermaids, Top Shelf, and Duzy Hallivaria. $10. Sat, Dec 1, 8 p.m. The Peoples Improv Theater, Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com

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ONGOING 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. tickets.duke.edu.

Hamilton: Thru Sun, Dec 2.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Rudolph: The Musical!: Thru Mon, Dec 24, Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.  She Loves Me: A touch of old-world charm can’t redeem pounds of old-world patriarchy in this PlayMakers production of a fusty rom-com about feuding shopkeepers who are anonymously courting each other in letters. Thru Sun, Dec 2. PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org.

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TUESDAY DECEMBER 4–SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9

ELF: THE MUSICAL

Fifteen years ago, a tights-clad Will Ferrell made a family-friendly splash with Elf, an absurd and delightful Christmas comedy that’s endured as a contemporary classic. The story follows Buddy, a thirty-something human who, after spending his whole life among elves, must confront the truth about his nature. He goes off on an adventure in New York City to find his real father and share his enthusiasm for the holiday, which of course leads to an array of madcap escapades. In 2010, the film was adapted into a musical that features plenty of new songs to go along with the movie’s most quotable lines, such as Buddy’s grave accusation that a mall Santa sits “on a throne of lies.” As the code of the elves dictates, “the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” Consider this a good opportunity to kick that cheer into gear. —Allison Hussey

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Conscious Light: Spiritual documentary. $5-$10 suggested donation.

Sat, Dec 1, 7 p.m. Joy of Movement Studio, Pittsboro. consciouslightfilm.com.

Lady Bird: Screening. Tue, Dec 4, 7 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org Walkabout: Screening.

Tue, Dec 4, 6 p.m. NCSU Campus: DH Hill Library, Raleigh. lib.ncsu.edu

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 Creed II—The latest in the revived franchise is a good Rocky sequel, but it’s not a great Creed sequel.

Rated PG-13. ½ First Man— Damien Chazelle shoots the moon in his glorious film about Neil Armstrong.

Rated PG-13.  Green Book— There’s some rose-tinting at play in this cross-racial buddy comedy set in the Jim Crow South, but it’s nice to see the good guys get a rare win. Rated PG-13. ½ Halloween—A backto-basics approach fails to restore the mystery and menace of Michael Myers.

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

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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS With 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton created an enduring multi-seasonal hit that catered to an unusual confluence of interests: the mainstream demand for high-quality, family-friendly holiday fare and the less sunny-spirited weirdos among us. The story follows Jack Skellington, the king of Halloween Town, as he learns about the neighboring Christmas Town and begins to covet Christmas for his own. Plenty gets lost in translation between Jack’s spooky, downbeat nature and the cozy glow of Christmas, resulting in thrills, chills, and a Santa-snatching escapade that culminates in a fairly frightening showdown with the evil Oogie Boogie. Oh, and because it’s a Disney movie, Jack finds true love with Sally, a similarly lonely Halloween heart, and there are lots of memorable songs along the way. For a kooky twist on Christmas, you really can’t do much better, and this N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences screening comes frontloaded with activities. Everybody scream! —Allison Hussey

N.C. MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES, RALEIGH 5:30 p.m. activities/7 p.m. screening, $5, www.naturalsciences.org

food & drink Allagash Oyster Roast: Ages 21+. Sun, Dec 2, noon.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. motorcomusic.com Farmhouse Cider & Wine Tasting: Saturdays and Sundays, 2-6 p.m.

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Pinhook Presents: Weekly Pop-Up Series: Jeddah’s Tea and The Purple Fence, guest vendors. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. ThuSat. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com Scanfair: Scandinavian Christmas Fair: Homemade Scandinavian food, live music, Nordic folk

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The nature of relief being sought is as follows: Money damages owed to the Plaintiff due to negligence in regards to a motor vehicle collision on May 28, 2015. You are required to make a defense to such pleading not later than January 7th, 2019, and upon your failure to do so, the parties seeking relief against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought, including without limitation an entry of default. This the 28th day of November, 2018. KREGER LAW FIRM, PLLC, Thomas J. Kreger, Attorney for Plaintiff, 5003 Southpark Dr., Ste. 260, Durham, NC 27713, Phone: 888820-5885, Fax: 888-812-9380, State Bar No. 38298

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ARIES (March 21–AprilChanelle 19) A. Bergeron | www.moonbymoonapothecary.com Dear Ram: You may feel extra rambunctious, curious, and inspired this week—follow your nose, let yourself explore.

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20) honesty be your guide.

Dear Bull: Sometimes things really are what they seem, especially those that seem too good to be true. Let this be your motto for the next few weeks, specifically in regards to your finances and the intimate collaborations in your life.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Allowing a little trust and faith to circulate in the process helps to balance your more pragmatic side. This will come in Dearwhen Bull:partnerships the New Moon will ask stage you to careinofthe your body, health, and your day to day. handy become center fortake you later week.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) Dear Archer: The Sun is beaming in your sign, so if you’ve been having an identity crisis or at least feeling acutely Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) aware parts of yourself you’d like to see evolve andyou transform, then you areown rightedges, in line with the stars.

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CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Dear Seagoat: You are learning so much these days about the excitement that comes with endings. You can see there Seagoat: it is time tothe joinclouds. forcesThis with hope and let your work and breathe.

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Aquarius(January (January 20-February AQUARIUS 20–February 18) 18) Dear Water Bearer: giveyourself your dreams a space to simply be. Though mayattainable feel tempting to burst and comrades, so your ideas feelitmore and inspired Dear Water Bearer: Surround with peers to you alone.asks Onceyou shared, they returnthe to you with honest feedback, because theybubble, are not isolated your own this New Moon to entertain impossible, toand let refreshing your mind run free, work back. life. Your waiting this exact which will prove whenbeen you apply it to your to expose theparamount ways you’ve holding yourself Belong-term flexible, goals allowhave for been change, findforfaith in moment, this reviving elixir, this strange magic to shake up their structure. the unknown.

PISCES 19–March 20) 20) Pisces(February (February 19-March work or familial role, takemeet time to payhalf-way? attention. Are Dear Fish: If you’re or pressured in your Dear Fish: lookfeeling at theprodded collaborations in your life.

Dolife they support you, you Dothere opportunities you have let slip by, things you consistently procrastinate or avoid? Do you passively approach your they allow for your expansion? If the answer is no, then use this time to evaluate where you put ambitions? Trust that these nudges are filled with the best intentions. They are here to remind you that audacity is your energy. This New Moon wants you to seek reciprocity and refuse to settle for less. necessary to pursue your dreams, and gumption is essential to attaining them.

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