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Wonder why politics seems so FUBAR? Two UNC profs have an answer.

It’s not reassuring.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO FAYETTEVILLE ROAD (S.R. 1118) FROM WOODCROFT PARKWAY TO BARBEE ROAD (S.R. 1106) DURHAM COUNTY STIP PROJECT NO. U-6021 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed project to widen Fayetteville Road from a 2-lane road to a 4-lane road with a median from Woodcroft Parkway to Barbee Road with bicycle and pedestrian accommodations. The proposed project is approximately 1.4 miles long. This project will connect to the existing 4-lane section south of Woodcroft Parkway, and the City is underway with a separate project to widen Fayetteville Road to four lanes north of Barbee Road. The meeting will take place on Thursday, December 6, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Berea Baptist Church located at 5011 Fayetteville Road in Durham.

The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by January 4, 2019. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings.

For additional information, contact Robert Boot, NCDOT Project Contact at, 1616 East Millbrook Road, Suite 160, Raleigh, NC 27609, (919) 431-5276, or raboot@ ncdot.gov. You can also contact Teresa Gresham, P.E., Consultant Project Manager at, 421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600, Raleigh, NC 27601, (919) 677-2194, or teresa.gresham@kimley-horn.com.

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.

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.

Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH VOL. 35, NO. 49

6 “How are we almost thirty years into the Americans With Disabilities Act and Durham is just now getting around to including us?”

DEPARTMENTS 6 News

8 Seventy percent of your health outcomes have nothing to do with your behavioral choices.

14 Food & Drink

9 How to understand politics: “The thing that really unifies everything is the level of threat that people perceive in the world.”

23 Arts & Culture

14 We’ve got holiday entertaining all wrapped up. Nine local celebs bring their favorite dish to the INDY’s virtual potluck.

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

16 N.C. Raga Revival’s jam-session approach offers a fresh, modern take on Indian classical music.

18 Swearin’s new record isn’t about a breakup, nor is it a eulogy.

23 Monét Noelle Marshall concludes her “Buy It Call It” performance trilogy by dismantling the form of performance.

25 Robin Kirk didn’t set out to write another first-person dystopian YA novel.

But stories do what they want to do.

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In a recent feature story, Katie Jane Fernelius took a close look at the history and troubles of Northgate Mall in Durham.

Self-described “local sentimental sap” Michelle Smith reflects on what the mall meant to her and her generation: “As a native of Durham (my parents still live in the house I grew up in), I was one of said ‘mall rats.’ I, my sister, and brother all have memories of hanging out with friends at that mall well before its deterioration.

“It has brought me sadness that it’s fallen as it has in recent years. It’s not only been a source for shopping, but a part of our social structure and income at times. As a kid, I remember going shopping at the Big Star; my uncle was the produce manager.

My sister worked at Wills Book Store as a teen. I worked at Express during college at one point, and my dad had a second job at Sears. I used to go to Roses and Thalhimers (when it was outside the mall) with my grandmother and to the uniform shop with my mom to pick up her Nurse Mates.

I threw my retainer in the trash at that mall McDonald’s when shopping with my friend Gina!

“It became very disheartening when the crime wave invaded the mall. My mom didn’t want me going by myself. But as an adult, I still shop there. I trust no one else other than the sweet woman at the Eyebrow Designer to thread my brows, Khen’s is the best tailor in town, and I still love shopping at Sears for clothes for my kids, not to mention the other unique shops you discussed. Having a shopping center convenient to North Durhamites is terribly valuable. A working mom such as myself does not always have the time to hike to Southpoint, no matter how flashy and fancy it is.

Life is busy, and, most days, there is the element of time to consider.

“I am only one thread of the fabric of this large, growing community. I am sure there are many others who have very similar stories. I appreciate you shedding light on the structure that is so much more than that—a part of our memories and history of the Durham community. I hope that the new owners/developers will take this to heart when planning its future. It’s a valuable piece of property, but not just for its financial equity.”

“I threw my retainer in the trash at that mall McDonald’s!”

Susan Weaver adds: “Northgate Mall reflects the heartbeat of Durham in ways that the article overlooked with its not-sosubtle title, ‘Kill the Mall.’ In addition to providing low- to medium-priced retail, cell phone and shoe repair, and beauty shops, the Northgate Mall hosts a mall-walkers club with socials and recognitions, two library facilities (including a 3-D printer), Wednesday night music jams, Dress for Success, and seasonal displays, events, and art. It also hosts a summer movie and concert series, as well as many events featuring local schools and organizations, diversity programs, and public interest.

“There is dining variety in addition to the outdoor market April to November. As with so many things in Durham, Northgate Mall’s value to the community is more than superficial. Its heart beats with and for the people. Sears recognized that—it bucked national trends by keeping the store open.

Duke did, too, with expanding services there. It would be nice to see you promote expansion even more to accommodate government offices or other services. A lot of people rely on it for employment, amusement, and, of course, shopping.”

Finally, Jim Craven responds to a comment in a recent Backtalk: “Dave Sandidge says he has ‘never met a true-blue Democrat who wasn’t a professed atheist.’ Dave and I have not met. I would tell him, though, that I am an unreconstructed New Deal, Fair Deal, Great Society, bleeding heart, tax-and-spend liberal Democrat, and also a proud supporter of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi, an NRA opponent, and am retired from the United States Navy. I am also a priest in the Episcopal Church, ordained now thirty-three years.”

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Sight Privilege

DO DURHAM PARKS AND REC POLICIES DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE BLIND?

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lvira Basnight was fifteen years old when glaucoma closed in on her sight. She left her New York high school, where she was a freshman, to attend a school for the blind. But after a year spent learning how to get around and read braille, she asked to go back to public school.

“It was being back in the mainstream, being back among people like myself, although I was just now blind,” she says. “I needed to be back out there in the world.”

Forty-two years later, Basnight is again asking for the opportunity to participate in the world as any sighted person would, this time from the city of Durham’s Parks and Recreation Department. In September, Basnight filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice against Parks and Rec, saying its Mature Adults program is discriminating by not providing a sighted guide for her or allowing her to bring her own guide without that person being charged a registration fee.

In essence, she says she’s being double-charged because of her visual impairment. The city has told her it would make an effort to waive fees for guides, but she argues that, twenty-eight years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the city should have a written policy guaranteeing that consideration to anyone with an impairment.

Basnight says in her thirty years in Durham, she has approached Parks and Rec “off and on” about including more activities for people with visual impairments. She’s stepped up that advocacy in the past year as she nears retirement from a career at the Duke ALS Clinic.

The city’s programs specifically for people with visual impairments—VIP programs, as they’re called—don’t suit Basnight’s appetite for exercise or adventure.

“We don’t need to sit down and play bingo and crochet,” she says.

So she looked to DPR’s Mature Adults program, which is for those fifty-five and up and offers trips to attractions around the state.

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Basnight went on two trips with the program—to the Black Mountain Chocolate Factory and a play in Sanford—holding on to the elbow of a Parks and Rec employee.

But when she tried to sign up for a third excursion, she was told staffers could no longer guide her.

Elvira Basnight

Registration for these trips is less than $100. For city residents, current offerings range from $6 to go to the outlet mall in Mebane to $75 for a buffet and a performance of Langston Hughes’s Black Nativity. Basnight says her complaint has less to do with cost than principle.

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Parks and Rec spokeswoman Cynthia Booth says the department’s “goal has always been to make DPR programs accessible to all participants,” but it is “unable to foresee the particular needs of each individual requiring a guide” and doesn’t have the staff to provide one. City attorney Patrick Baker says having staffers, “especially if they are not qualified,” act as guides could pose a liability risk.

Basnight says she would prefer a guide be provided—whether that’s a Parks and Rec employee or a volunteer. Participants in the Mature Adults program have to register for trips in advance, and it’s difficult to know who will be available to come along. Besides, Basnight says, she doesn’t know a lot of people who are as active as she is.

“How are we almost thirty years into the ADA and Durham is just now getting around to including us?” she asks. “We want to educate the city of Durham.”

The Americans with Disabilities Act, which has prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities since 1990, requires public entities to make “reasonable modifications” so that programs and services are accessible. (Basnight says she doesn’t consider herself disabled, although her vision impairment qualifies her to file complaints under the ADA.) “The ADA is an important law because it doesn’t just require everyone to be treated equally,” says Jennifer Bills, who teaches disability law at UNC-Chapel Hill.

“It does sometimes require public entities or employers to do something affirmative to even the playing field or even out access.”

In deciding if modifications are warranted, Bills explains, courts would look at an entity’s resources and existing programming, then decide whether the modification is reasonable. The ADA doesn’t require any changes that “would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of a service, program, or activity or in undue financial and administrative burdens.”

Bills says she can’t give a legal opinion on Basnight’s case, but given how low program costs are, it doesn’t seem like an undue burden for the city to pay for a guide.

“They’re not saying people with visual disabilities can’t participate,” Bills says. “It’s not facially overt, intentional discrimination, but it is having an impact that’s disparate based on the person’s disability.”

While Baker agrees that a “six-dollar fee waiver here or there would seem to be a reasonable accommodation,” he says it may not always be as simple as writing off the city’s fee—for example, if a destination requires its own admission fee. His office has advised Parks and Rec to accommodate fee-waiver requests from anyone with a disability. He also told Basnight the city “would be providing her at a minimum all of the reasonable accommodations that would be required by the ADA, if not more.”

He’s not sure, however, that a policy change is warranted. The ADA already requires the city to make accommodations, and, as far as he knows, Basnight is the only person making this request.

But Basnight says that’s not enough.

Instead, she says Parks and Rec needs to change its policies and do more to reach people with visual impairments.

“I’m convinced there are a lot of blind people out there who were turned away and did not pursue it,” she says. “I didn’t walk away.” swillets@indyweek.com

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The Hidden Epidemic

TWO-THIRDS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES STEM FROM SOCIOECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS. WAKE COUNTY SEES THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY. BY LEIGH TAUSS

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behavior—diet, exercise, drug use, and sexun medical school, Raleigh internist al activity—while the remaining 20 percent Dr. Stuart Levin learned to examine stems from access to quality health care. patients as if they were in a vacuum, “What we now know is that your zip then use that information to assess a litany code is a bigger determinant of how long of symptoms, diagnosis a problem, and preyou are going to live than your DNA code,” scribe treatment. What he wasn’t taught says Commissioner Sig Hutchinson, who was how to address the underlying causes also cochaired the task force. “One zip code of poor health, which research increasingly shows is tied not only to behaviors and access to quality health care but also to socioeconomic circumstances and a person’s physical environment.

“It makes me think outside of what I’m doing in the exam room,” Levin says. “It’s not just a question of giving the patient the right medication or ordering a test—it’s a much more community-based solution, and it’s an attempt to start thinking about what health is. Health is not just health care.”

Levin cochaired Wake County’s Population Health Task Force, which sought to broaden the county’s approach by infusing health outcomes into every stratum of government services, from law enforcement to A scene from the documentary Resilience land-use planning. The Board of Comdifference can mean an eighteen-year difmissioners unanimously approved the ference in your life expectancy, as well as task force’s report on November 19. Counwell-being within that life.” ty staffers are now developing strategies to The county sees this as a call to action: implement the task force’s findings and will 70 percent of these factors are within present them to commissioners in February. its control. To improve the community’s A core element of this effort is redefinhealth, the county must first understand ing the way the county thinks about health, the role its services play and incorporate not merely as a product of personal choicthis understanding into training and policy. es or DNA destiny but as a symphony of “Every professional who works for Wake social determinants. According to the RobCounty not only has an impact on the health ert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy and well-being of our citizens, but should Communities project, the biggest influence be seen as a health care professional and on people’s health outcomes is their socioshould see their job from the perspective of economic circumstance, including educahow it impacts the health and well-being of tion, employment, income, and community our citizens,” Hutchinson says. support. This, along with environmental A major aspect of this effort begins with factors such as air and water quality, housproviding children with the skills and suping, and transportation access, accounts for port they need to overcome adversity. An 50 percent of a person’s health outcomes. ongoing, two-decade-long San Diego study An additional 30 percent is determined by 8 | 12.5.18 | INDYweek.com

on adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, shows that childhood trauma has a substantial effect on a person’s long-term health outcomes. The more childhood traumas— including neglect, sexual abuse, substance abuse, incarcerated relatives, divorce, and mental illness—a person is exposed to, the greater risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke,

depression, drug addiction, obesity, and diabetes, among other negative outcomes.

The study showed that 64 percent of the population has at least one ACE, and more than 12 percent have four or more. The antidote to ACEs is a wide-ranging approach to public health focused on teaching county employees from all departments how to deal with trauma and build community resilience. This would entail everything from improved social services to crafting policies for land use, transportation, and economic development that prioritize public health.

From a criminal justice standpoint, it means an emphasis not only on holding people accountable but also healing, says District Attorney Lorrin Freeman.

“When we look at offenders who we deal with and prosecute that we know also have a history of similar types of abuse or

addiction, trying to solve the root cause of their behavior is the best way to reduce recidivism going forward,” Freeman says.

“Having endured some sort of trauma in childhood is fairly prevalent. [County staffers] may not realize that the work they are doing is interfacing with folks who may have experienced those sorts of things, and yet the data shows we all do.”

The task force recommends expanding the scope of the Community Health Needs Assessment, a component of the Affordable Care Act that requires tax-exempt hospitals to assess community health needs and gaps in care.

The expansion would introduce social determinants as health factors that need to be assessed along with traditional metrics. It would also create an implementation plan based on the data from the CHNA. In addition, the task force wants to align ongoing public health initiatives with statewide efforts and create public-private partnerships with local businesses, philanthropic organizations, and government operations to coordinate and evaluate public health efforts.

To spread awareness of ACEs and trauma-informed care, the local organization Advocates for Health in Action is screening the film Resilience, which reviews the findings of the San Diego ACEs study and looks at ways to build community support systems through trauma-informed care. The next screening will take place at 8:30 a.m. on January 9 at Marble’s Kids Museum.

AHA will also be hosting a training session on December 10 at N.C. State’s McKimmon Center. It includes a free keynote address from Becky Haas, a trauma-informed administrator for Ballad Health, a health care provider servicing parts of northwest North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. Attendees can also attend a training session on trauma-informed practices from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for $40. ltauss@indyweek.com

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Wonder why everything in politics seems so FUBAR? Two UNC profs have an answer, and it’s not reassuring.

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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lthough there are a number of qualities that people feel children should have, every person thinks that some are more important than others.

I am going to read you pairs of desirable qualities.

Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have.

1. Independence versus respect for elders 2. Obedience versus self-reliance 3. Curiosity versus good manners 4. Being considerate versus being well-behaved

How you answer those four questions can predict a lot about you: whether you’re more likely to live in the city or the suburbs, to watch The Amazing Race or Mad Men, to eat at Red Lobster or Goorsha, to name your daughter Katherine or Louise, to go to church or Sunday brunch, to pursue higher education or not, to drink a Michelob Ultra or a Trophy Cloud Surfer IPA, to drive a GMC Yukon or a Toyota Prius.

More important, how you answer says a whole lot about your politics.

That’s the thesis behind Prius or Pickup? How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide, the new book from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill political scientists Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler. Those who pick traits centered on order—respect for elders, obedience, having good manners, being wellbehaved—have a “fixed” worldview, and are more likely to harbor racial prejudice and support politicians like Donald Trump. Those who go other way are said to have “fluid” worldviews and are likely to have supported Hillary Clinton. (As we’ll see, lots of caveats apply, and most people fall somewhere in the middle.)

Prius is something of a layperson’s follow-up to Hetherington and Weiler’s first joint publication, 2009’s Authoritarianism & Polarization in American Politics, which showed that the Republican Party was unified less by small-government principles than by authoritarian tendencies—a proclivity toward maintaining a social order that conservatives believe is under threat. Prius, which is mercifully lighter on statistics (and ditches the pejorativesounding “authoritarian” for the nicer “fixed”), expands on this concept for the Trump era.

In the process, it offers a cogent—and discomfitingly convincing—argument for why everything in our political system seems irreparably shattered. Since the civil rights movement, they write, our political system has become fundamentally polarized by these worldview divides. That, in turn, has led each side to distrust, even hate, the other, to the point where we don’t just consider our opponents wrong but dangerous. On the right, this polarization congealed around Donald Trump, a politician who speaks to the authoritarian worldview better than any in a generation, and—most dangerously—has led his partisans to shrug aside attacks on the free press, the rule of law, and other democratic norms.

Politics, Hetherington and Weiler argue, has become less about issues than our gut reactions. As Hetherington puts it, “We have what is not an ideological polarization per se, but rather what we call an effect of a feeling-based polarization. … We’d believe anything about our political opponents. This is the perniciousness of this particular divide.”

I interviewed Hetherington and Weiler at length last week in Chapel Hill. What follows is a condensed version of our conversation, edited for space and clarity. You can find the entire interview on our podcast, INDYcast, which you can download on Apple Podcasts or listen to at soundcloud.com/indycast.

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INDY: Your first book came out in 2009, about the time the Tea Party emerged.

It seemed prescient, because this was a group ostensibly organized around economic principles, but there was a cultural undertone to it. Why did you come to think that authoritarianism was such an organizing principle of conservatism?

HETHERINGTON: One of the reasons I think people misunderstand the politics of this moment is they’re still thinking about ideology in the same way they did during the New Deal—that the Republicans are really the anti-government party and the Democrats are the pro-government party.

That’s not really the case anymore. What we noted was this cascade of issues, from race to law and order to women’s equality to sexual orientation, all of them were knitted together by one thing, and that is a concern about social change, not economic change or anything along those lines. These groups—whether it was feminists or African Americans or any of these groups—they were all pressing the established hierarchy for new opportunities.

Prius argues that you can ask people four questions about child-rearing, and based on their answers, you can predict a lot of information about them. Why are these questions so important?

HETHERINGTON: It’s off the wall, in a sense, that these things work the way that they do, but the questions are directed to people’s understanding of what makes a good child. What makes a good child is a pretty fundamental thing to who we are as human beings, so that’s probably a really important start to things. These are the questions that we asked to deduce the degree to which people are fixed in their worldview. They’re maybe more traditional—“respect” and “obedience” and “good behavior.” Or if their worldviews are more fluid, those would be people who favor independent children who are curious. What we show throughout the book is that the answers to these questions predict very well people’s opinions about gay rights, people’s racial attitudes, people’s opinions about immigration, people’s opinions about gender roles, people’s opinions about gun control, people’s opinions about constitutional and biblical interpretation, people’s opinions about basically everything that divides us deeply.

It doesn’t tell us anything about how big government ought to be, and that’s what’s important here. A different kind of ideology divided us about those things. But the things that we reasoned about in our guts as opposed to in our heads, that’s where these four items about parenting move the dial.

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My sense from your work is that fixed people tend to have a greater need for order, and they see greater value in maintaining and preserving the social order.

HETHERINGTON: The thing that really unifies everything is the level of threat that people perceive in the world. What we think this really turns on is the degree to which people view the world as a dangerous place. When Donald Trump was talking about Jamal Khashoggi’s killing in the Saudi embassy in Turkey, what he started his statement with was, “The world is a very dangerous place!”

He is appealing to this worldview, saying, “Things are uncertain, and any deviation from what we’re doing now—the traditional way of thinking about things—is potentially dangerous.”

If you think about it in the social world— these traditions that have tied us together, whether they’re religious, or whether they’re about sexual orientation, or women’s roles, or racial hierarchy—maybe they’re not fair, but they’ve served us really well for a really long time. And it could cast us into disorder and chaos if we change any of those things.

People on the opposite side of the worldview divide—people who want independent kids who are curious and outward-looking—they view it differently. If you want your kids out there being curious and independent, you must think the world is a much safer place.

WEILER: To the extent that they—the more fluid or liberal—see a threat in the world, it’s precisely from those people who want to shut down that exploration and to prevent us from being more open to a more diverse kind of society. There’s a question on a 2016 political survey that basically asks people, “Which is closer to your understanding of reality: ‘The world is a dangerous place. It’s full of threat. We need to guard against it,’ or, ‘We live in a big, beautiful world that’s

safe to explore.’” And the responses are just staggering. By sixty- to seventy-point margins, Donald Trump voters said that first view, that the world is a dangerous place.

And by the exact same inverse margin, Hillary Clinton voters said that closer to their view of reality was the sense the world is a big, beautiful place safe to explore.

HETHERINGTON: Our work has always been about polarization. Why is politics so polarized if people actually don’t care all that much on the issues? If people don’t really care very much about politics, maybe they’re not necessarily extreme on the issues. But here’s the thing: What if you just completely understand the world differently from those on the other side in your guts?

If you think the world is dangerous and you see people on the other side thinking, “Oh, let’s let refugees and immigrants into the country,” that’s dangerous. And those people aren’t just people you disagree with, those are people who are dangerous to the country.

And on the other side of that divide, those who are judging people without getting to know them because of the color of their skin or where they come from, those people aren’t just disagreeable.

They’re dangerous, because their worldview is anathema to yours. So it’s very hard for people on opposite sides of this particular divide to understand what the other side could possibly be thinking.

In Authoritarianism & Polarization, you wrote that elections turn on people who fall in the middle—what you call “mixed”: not quite authoritarian but not not-authoritarian.

HETHERINGTON: There are a couple of things about those who are in the middle of the worldview spectrum. The first thing is their opinions about the most divisive issues in American life—whether it’s race,

or immigration, or gender roles—tend to be closer to the fixed than they are to the fluid.

And this gives people on the political right an advantage. When the fluid talk about things like structural racism, most people don’t get that. And this is important for liberals to realize, actually. We tend to be in our own cocoons, our own bubbles, and, as a result, we tend to think everybody sees the world the way we do.

The second thing that I would say is, in the context of the present moment in politics, it doesn’t so much matter how fixed or how fluid people are. Almost everybody has put on a blue uniform or a red uniform. And as such, with partisanship so strong, the mixed act like those who are at the extremes.

WEILER: I do want to add one thing, though, to complicate this picture a little bit. While most people are being compelled to take sides, some people do sway, right? We just had a very different electoral outcome than we did in 2016. There are all sorts of reasons for that, but I think one thing that is true—speaking from a partisan perspective, we’re “lucky” that Trump is as extreme and bad as he is, because he’s turning off quite a number of people in the middle. If [there was] somebody with similar instincts about immigration who wasn’t such a jerk about it, that would be a much more palatable way of packaging that worldview to people who would be inclined to agree, but whom Trump is just turning off. That obviously has implications for our politics now and in 2020.

You note that American minorities tend to be more fixed in their worldview and yet vote like fluid people. Why is that?

WEILER: African Americans are the most extreme example in both directions. They answer the parenting questions in the most fixed way of any measurable group that we have, and they are by far the most reliably Democratic voters. In their case, I think we feel like the answer is pretty straightforward, which is that the Republican Party has proven itself so obviously hostile to them over a long period of time that they don’t really have a choice.

It’s worth noting that these parenting questions that we’re describing only really explain well how white people think. But people of color are, of course, an incredibly important part of the story, and the reason is that their self-interest makes so clear that, whatever ambivalence they have about the Democratic Party, they know where they stand with the Republican Party.

HETHERINGTON: This is a key part of the historical story. We talk a lot about working-class whites these days. If you go back to the Nixon years and the LBJ years in the

sixties, working-class whites, whether they were in the South or whether they were in Northern cities, they were Democrats.

And what Republicans realized was, “We can peel some of these working-class white Democrats off by making appeals to race, by saying African Americans are getting more than they deserve and taking things away from you all.” So the beginning of this worldview divide is exactly this issue. It’s Republicans trying to peel away old-time Democratic constituencies by making negative appeals to race.

Prius suggests that worldview correlates with all sorts of personality traits and life decisions, down to how many kids you have and what you name them. What are these little quirks that you found, and what really surprised you about them?

HETHERINGTON: There are a couple of things that are really important to keep in mind. These correlations all exist. Democrats go to Starbucks. Republicans go to Dunkin’ Donuts. Republicans drink light beer. Democrats are more inclined to drink IPAs. [But] we may have all of these different personal experiences that cause us to be a little bit different. We’re not necessarily saying that all liberals have these tastes for IPAs and fancy coffee and certain types of cars. There are plenty of liberals who drive pickups, and not very many conservatives who drive Priuses, but there are surely a few. But the key thing here isn’t necessarily the behavior that people actually engage in, it’s the caricature that develops about the other side by the choices that they make.

One of the shows that the conservatives really love is Duck Dynasty. Duck Dynasty, of course, is a show about rural life in the South. Lots of guns, hunting, and so forth.

All of those things are conservative-identity things. One of my graduate students has shown that people identify that show more with Republicans than they do being pro-life on abortion. I mean, that’s really remarkable. On the other side of it are yoga and foreign films. Those are things that liberals do, and people make that connection to the Democratic Party more cleanly than they do being pro-choice on abortion.

So the question is, if you’re a Republican who encounters somebody with a yoga mat walking to a foreign film studio theater, do you want to talk to that person? Do you want to have anything to do with that person? Or have you made a judgment about that person even before anybody’s uttered a word? Of course, the answer is the latter.

And this is the thing that’s so pernicious about the worldview divide. Because we have these markers of who we are, and they cross into the cultural sphere, it’s making it

“When the fluid talk about things like structural racism, most people don’t get that. And this is important for liberals to realize, actually. We tend to be in our own cocoons, our own bubbles, and, as a result, we tend to think everybody sees the world the way we do.” much more challenging for people across the political divide to get to know each other and to realize that we’re actually not that different. Maybe we are different, but we’re not that different.

WEILER: I grew up Manhattan, the epicenter of godless liberalism—and I’m Jewish—in the 1960s and 1970s. Our food options—where did we go out to eat when I was a kid? We went to Howard Johnson’s.

There was no Thai food. Americans did not have the same choices back then. Likewise, people more or less had the same attitudes about disciplining children. There was no debate about gay rights before the 1970s. I think this is important to understand, too.

It’s the proliferation of choice that makes possible the kind of divide we’re talking about, one that both suffuses our political choices and our nonpolitical choices, because we can now differentiate ourselves from other people in ways that we never would have seen fifty years ago.

There’s a physiological aspect to this—for instance, you say fixed people tend to have stronger gag reflexes. Does that indicate that worldviews are baked into our DNA? HETHERINGTON: That’s probably the most controversial element in the book. What we mostly are trying to do there is to paint a picture of what the worldview divide is mostly about: A, it’s about wariness, and B, it’s automatic. In other words, people don’t

deliberate about their reactions to certain things. It’s automatic. It’s before conscious thought begins. This is a key to our understanding of polarization. If we are acting automatically as opposed to deliberatively, then there’s no way we’re going to be able to see across the divide.

Is this baked into us? I mean, do people come out of the womb hardwired to be conservative or liberal? We don’t want to go that far. Even the people who do that biopolitics and genetics-type research would say that way of thinking is really a caricature of their research. These reflexes that we develop have something, probably, to do with our wiring, but they also interact with the early life experiences that we have.

WEILER: I want to add one thing here, which is that wariness is not political destiny. It’s wariness in this very particular historical and political context that’s being reinforced by the way the parties are divided, the issues that are being emphasized, the rhetoric of political leaders, to make these instincts as politically relevant as they are. I mention this in part to say that the role of leaders, of political elites, I don’t think can be overstated.

We are not making a biology-is-destiny argument. We’re using that as a foundation to explain these different instincts and how, under the right circumstances, they can be exploited in the ways they are for political gain.

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In 2016, what drew fixed people to Donald Trump as opposed to Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush, people who had conservative records?

WEILER: I would say that Trump was the dream candidate for the fixed worldview.

The entire Republican Party had become an anti-immigration party over the previous several years. There’s always been that rhetoric, but Trump owned and sold it in a way that we had not seen. I think it was even the language and rhetoric that he used. There were all kinds of studies during the campaign looking at the grade level of the candidates’ language. Trump’s was like at a fourth-grade level. That doesn’t mean that everybody who supported him has a fourth-grade-level-education understanding of the world. What’s important is how clear and simple and black and white Trump was in communicating what he communicated. I think that was just an especially good fit for fixed-world folks who wanted clarity.

You write about the erosion of democratic norms under Trump. Is that what concerns you most about his presidency?

HETHERINGTON: This is a really remarkable moment. We have a president who refuses to sit for questions from Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and nobody raises a fuss about it. Imagine if any other political leader took that stance. What concerns me most is how low the bar has become for him and his comportment as it relates to democratic norms. There’s very little concern about these types of things.

Republicans in Congress, they’re not going to stand up and say anything negative about Trump, because his supporters are their supporters. If they alienate Trump, they alienate the base, and they may face a primary challenge in the next election.

And then you think about the people in the electorate. Think about why these questions about child-rearing work. People who want respectful children who are obedient and well-behaved, they want a tidy, not disagreeing, household. What do these democratic principles like free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protecting minority rights …

WEILER: Accountability for people who have authority …

HETHERINGTON: These people say, “All of these things, these democratic principles create untidiness. They create disagreement and discord. We hate that. So, if everybody would just listen to Trump, then everything would be OK. WEILER: Democracy is institutionalized messiness.

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WEILER: This is both something that troubles me, but also encourages me in terms of what we’ve seen over the last year and a half. Every time Trump breached a norm, especially during the campaign, people responded, “Oh, that’s disqualifying.”

And it drove me crazy, because that whole

notion is just based on this false premise that anything is disqualifying other than people voting against you. It turns out that these vaunted norms that we love to talk about are not nearly as solid or protective as we’ve always wanted to believe that they are. On the other hand, what I am so heartened by,

honestly, has been the incredible response in the last twenty months to what we’ve seen.

The turnout in these midterm elections was staggering by American standards, our highest turnout since 1914. I am encouraged that, on the ground, I feel like people are actually internalizing that notion that norms aren’t going to save us. Only we are going to protect and save our democracy.

In 2004, the political scientist Morris Fiorina co-wrote a book called Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America. It suggested that Americans are closely divided, not deeply divided. Your book, however, argues that the two camps are worlds apart. Are those two perspectives fundamentally incompatible?

HETHERINGTON: I still teach that book.

The reason I still teach it is because I actually think, in an odd way, it’s still right. And in some ways, it’s a salvation. What Fiorina specifically suggests is that we’re not polarized on the issues. In his view, our elites are what are polarized. And this is the idea that if we just sat down and talked to each other, we would actually come to realize that.

But what we would suggest is that it hardly matters that we’re not so polarized on the issues. What’s actually more consequential is how we’re polarized, and that is, we’re polarized in our feelings. So the nature of polarization is just different.

I think Fiorina’s still right as far as it goes.

We’re not miles apart, necessarily, on the issues. What we’re far apart on are the symbols. We have what is not an ideological polarization per se, but rather what we call an effect of a feeling-based polarization. And it might be even more important. Because think about this: What we show in the book is we’ve come to hate the other side more than ever in the history of survey research.

WEILER: By the way, we don’t like our side any more than we did forty years ago. The only thing that’s changed is how much we hate the other side.

HETHERINGTON: Exactly. And it’s because they are characterized by this other worldview that seems dangerous and that we just can’t really understand. But here’s the thing that’s so important about that: You’re probably a better person than I am, but I hate somebody. And I know that it affects every single thing that comes up about that person. So if I hear a rumor about that person, am I willing to believe it? Hell yeah. Let’s play this out with Donald Trump. Would you believe the fact that Donald Trump refused to hug a child in the in the White House who had special needs? Yeah, you’d believe it, but it’s not true. We’d believe anything about our political opponents. This is the perniciousness of this particular divide.

This worldview dynamic that you describe makes for a fairly depressing political outlook. To put it simply: Are we screwed?

HETHERINGTON: I think this might be the natural way that Americans and all people are usually divided. Have we been divided like this before? If you look at the Electoral College map from 1896, it’s almost exactly the same as the one now. It just flips by party.

We’ve been there before, and we got out of it.

But it was because the political elites decided that it was more advantageous to divvy up the country in different ways.

And we also had a Great Depression, which caused the parties to stake out different ground. You ended up with a weird system where segregationist Southern whites were in the same party as African Americans.

So how do we get out of it? It’s going to be political leaders who decide that this approach to things is no longer winning elections.

WEILER: Our “optimistic scenario” at the end of the book is that, if there is some climate catastrophe of significant enough proportions, it might alter our sense of urgency about how we need to how we need to work together to solve problems. But, of course, we don’t really want to root for a climate catastrophe in order to bring about more political unity.

I want to add one more optimistic note, which is that, especially from the perspective of what we all worried about in January 2017, it’s been an unnerving time in some ways, and in other ways, our institutions have held pretty well. I mean, the Trump administration has been dealt one legal setback after another. They keep trying to find other ways to be horrible to people, but our courts are—maybe not as much as we would like—delivering them very significant defeats. So I’m personally more optimistic than I was twenty months ago about our capacity to withstand somebody like Trump.

HETHERINGTON: Voters came through, too, in 2018. Institutions are holding up.

They haven’t been as tested as they might be, though, in the next couple of months.

I was talking to my students the other day about the scenario that I mentioned about the Mueller report. What the students came back with was, if people can’t be convinced that [collusion] was determinative of the election outcome, people will ignore it. The motivation, if you’re a Republican, is to ignore it. And I was thinking to myself, “Wow. I bet you that’s right.”

I mean, we’re talking about colluding with the country’s most serious adversary to win a presidential election, and people are like, “Oh.” That’s disturbing. jbillman@indyweek.com

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The INDY’s Virtual Holiday Potluck WE ASKED LOCAL CELEBS TO BRING THEIR FAVORITE DISHES, FROM APPS TO ‘ZERTS

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o share and celebrate the season, the INDY held a virtual holiday potluck, inviting notable Triangle personalities—from TV hosts to mayors to musicians—to share their favorite recipes of the season.

Rather than wonder at the sanity of the request, most generously shared not only a recipe but a glimpse into their own holiday traditions and memories.

The exercise has also given us ample inspiration for our own holiday gettogethers—if you don’t have a go-to recipe, deciding what to bring to a potluck tops our list of holiday stress-inducing panic. From cheesy starters to a sweet-andcreamy finale, we’ve got holiday entertaining all wrapped up. food@indyweek.com

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Deborah Ross, Politician: SPICY PIMENTO CHEESE Deborah Ross, the former head of the North Carolina ACLU and U.S. senatorial candidate, counts on her spicy pimento cheese to guarantee a potluck win. The recipe, which she created with her husband Steve, features fresh jalapeños, chipotle peppers in a spicy adobo sauce, and roasted red bell peppers.

Every holiday season Ross looks forward to trimming the tree in their Boylan Heights home and taking a walk with their dog before Christmas dinner. And if midnight snack cravings call, Ross can attest that this pimento cheese makes an excellent openfaced sandwich topped with sliced avocado.

Lisa Prince, TV Host: CHEESE BALL Fuquay-Varina native Lisa Prince, host of the PBS shows Flavor NC and From the Vineyard, celebrates the holidays surrounded by family and food. One of Prince’s contributions for Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinners—and her most-requested potluck recipe—is her mom’s cheese ball.

The cheese is cream cheese, the salt is old-school seasoning salt, and the surprise guest star is canned pineapple, which explains why the ball is pineapple-shaped.

Put it all together and you’ve got a retro crowd-pleaser that doubles as a conversation-starting centerpiece. (See recipe at indyweek.com.)

Nancy McFarlane, Mayor of Raleigh: HOT ARTICHOKE DIP For Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane and her family, it’s not the holidays without artichoke dip. The dish has been in McFarlane’s family for so long, no one remembers when and where the recipe originated. She’s been making it herself since college and serves it at every Christmas gathering. The dish features a blend of artichokes, cream cheese, and mayonnaise spiked with garlic, dill, and Parmesan. It’s baked until bubbly and the smell of baked cheese lures the party into the kitchen—it’s the perfect dish to ensure that you get to snack and visit with guests while you finish cooking dinner.

Steve Schewel, Mayor of Durham: LATKES For Durham Mayor Steve Schewel, latkes are a treasured component of Hanukkah. The fried potato pancakes have been on Hanukkah tables since the turn of the eighteenth century, and the oil they’re fried in represents the miraculous oil that kept temple lamps burning for eight days. Schewel has been making latkes according to a friend’s mom’s recipe for several decades and has learned that the secret to obtaining a crispy texture is to “squeeze, squeeze, squeeze” the moisture from the grated potatoes before mixing with the rest of the ingredients. Try making them and serving them with traditional accompaniments such as apple sauce and sour cream. (See recipe at indyweek.com.)

Cherie Berry, N.C. Commissioner of Labor: ‘HOLY’ SUCCOTASH Cherie Berry’s face may be the most familiar at the potluck because as North Carolina’s Commissioner of Labor, her photo hangs in every public elevator in the state. Her contribution is a generations-old family recipe for succotash from her late husband Norman. Succotash, a typical Southern dish consisting of corn, lima beans, and sometimes other vegetables, starts the same way many respectable Southern dishes do: with fatback. Berry’s recipe calls for canned lima beans and corn, making the dish an easy-but-still-authentic fix. The lima beans and corn are cooked slowly, which means that leftovers taste better after a few days in the fridge.

Steve Troxler, N.C. Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs: POTATO SALAD If there’s one dish Steve Troxler could make for a potluck, it’d be his mom’s old-fashioned, Southern-style potato salad, made with mustard, dill weed, pickle relish, eggs, grated onion, and mayonnaise. It was a fixture at every family get-together, but he hasn’t enjoyed the dish since his mom passed away. Like many cooks of her generation, Troxler’s mother didn’t follow a written recipe, preferring to adjust the flavor with a bit more of this or that until it was right. This reminds us that we should write down recipes for family favorites for future generations.

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Ken Smith, WRAL-TV Reporter and Anchor: FRIED SWEET PLANTAINS

Pierce Freelon, Musician and Founder of Blackspace: BIRTHDAY CAKE PROTEIN BITES

N.C. Governor Roy Cooper and First Lady Kristin Cooper: PINEAPPLE FLUFF PIE

Raised on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Ken Smith’s holiday vista may have featured palm trees instead of firs, but he still fondly remembers the aroma of his mom’s baked holiday treats and waiting up late on Christmas Eve for carolers. Here in North Carolina, Smith brings the islands to holiday get-togethers with caramelized, sautéed sweet plantains. It may sound like dessert, but in the Caribbean, it’s typically served as a side, acting as the perfect foil to slow-roasted meats such as pernil, pork shoulder liberally seasoned with garlic and bitter orange.

(See recipe at indyweek.com.)

Pierce Freelon is known as a lot of things—he’s a rapper, educator, founder of Blackspace, a hub for Afrofuturism, digital media, and social entrepreneurship, and a former Durham mayoral candidate. But one label he wouldn’t dream of adding to that list is ‘cook.’ His eight-year-old daughter Stella is the cook in the family, taking after her grandmother, acclaimed jazz singer Nnenna Freelon. One of Stella’s go-to holiday treats are Birthday Cake Protein Bites, a no-bake vegan recipe she learned to make from website The Edgy Veg.

Though she now calls herself First Lady of North Carolina, Kristin Cooper was raised in Oklahoma City and grew up eating a dessert called pineapple fluff pie. Many years later, she came across the recipe online, though it went by the name pineapple millionaire pie. It’s an icebox pie with two layers: the bottom is an American buttercream-custard hybrid while the top features fluffy whipped cream folded with crushed pineapple and toasted North Carolina pecans. It’s now a favorite dessert of the governor and their three daughters, too, with a mandatory slot on all holiday menus.

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or hundreds of centuries, raga has formed the backbone of Indian classical music, offering a guideline for musicians to improvise when performed live.

Ragas—which roughly translates to “coloring”—are still played throughout India and were first popularized stateside by sitar master Ravi Shankar in the sixties, piquing the interest of The Beatles, John Coltrane, Carlos Santana, and others who began to incorporate its stylings and Indian instrumentation into their own work.

Forty years later, raga is now seeing a renewed interest right here in the Triangle. A loose collective known as N.C. Raga Revival has been congregating every month over the past four years to jam raga-style and share a mutual passion for this ancient technique not regularly heard locally. Their sessions are offering a fresh, a modern approach to a centuries-old music—and its popularity has continued to grow.

“It was just a few musicians in the beginning, and I was playing almost every show,”

founder Viswas Chitnis says. “Now it’s become so successful, that I play maybe only once a year now as a solo artist.”

Chitnis is a trained sitar player who was eager to find a new outlet in the Triangle to showcase his life-long love for Indian classical music. Having spent years splitting time between North Carolina and New York City, Chitnis became inspired

by Brooklyn Raga Massive, a similar group that holds weekly performances and jam sessions of Indian classical music across

New York City, and with whom Chitnis would often collaborate.

“The best part of Brooklyn Raga Massive is that it gives people exposure and creates opportunities for people who would have never played together,” Chitnis says. “I wanted to bring that here.”

Chitnis decided to bring the collective’s inclusive, jam session approach to the Triangle and gathered a few local musicians he knew who shared a similar interest. Soon, the word was out, and what started as a jam session among friends began to blossom. Now, N.C. Raga Revival holds monthly shows that include dance and solo performances, switching every month between The Flowjo in Carrboro and Cirque De Vol in Raleigh—spaces that allow the performances to be a welcoming, all-ages, and alcoholfree environment for whoever wants to join a jam session or simply take in the music.

“I know a lot of people just in the Triangle area who have devoted their lives to this music, but there weren't that many opportunities for them to showcase their skills. The idea was to change that,” Chitnis explains.

Smitha K. Prasad has found the N.C. Raga Revival a welcome addition. Born in Kuwait, Prasad relocated to India with her family during the Gulf War where she began to train as a Carnatic vocalist (a classical style of music from southern India).

After moving to the United States, Prasad continued to train and perform, but it was often strictly within the Indian diaspora communities. Then Prasad heard about the N.C. Raga Revival and decided to attend a show. Now she performs with the collective a few times a year.

“I loved the idea,” Prasad says. “[N.C. Raga Revival] gives a space to musicians to have an opportunity to innovate without the fear of how it’s going to be perceived, while providing a formal stage and platform for this experimentation.”

To Prasad, this openness to try new things is a key part of her own approach to music and its survival as an art form.

“Music has to grow beyond geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries,” she explains. “Here in North Carolina, a warm acceptance of Indian classical music has really developed, and it’s been awesome to see that grow beyond who it traditionally appeals to.”

Aarti Dixit, a vocalist in classical Hindustani music from the north of India, found that N.C. Raga Revival brought something unique to the area’s music scene.

She also appreciates the collective’s openminded approach.

“Sometimes, it is great to bring in a fresh element, because not everyone always wants to hear what is traditional,” Dixit

says. “In particular, the younger generations have so many other options for music.

Adding a little bit of jamming to the mix is a great idea, especially when also coupled with classical Indian music.”

Dixit first attended an N.C. Raga Revival performance a couple of years ago and was impressed. Chitnis invited her to perform, and now Dixit sings with the group every few months.

“Personally, I found that it helped me a lot to sit and sing with musicians who appreciate Indian classical music, knowing that they understand what I am singing and the music itself,” Dixit explains. “I feel so blessed to know them.”

While raga is hundreds of centuries old (in Hinduism, it’s believed to exist naturally in the world and is discovered by humans), the multitudinous ways it allows for improvisation helps raga continue to find new devotees. Daniel Chambo, who performs the bansuri (a bamboo flute), counts himself as one of the many devoted to raga and the versatility that it offers.

“I appreciate the spaciousness and the patience of the music,” Chambo says. “It allows me to step into a more meditative state.”

Chambo hosted the first ever N.C. Raga Revival show at his farmhouse and has been a regular player ever since. He’s even brought his dad along to play banjo in a jam session, which regularly features a mix of players on both classical Indian and Western instrumentation. For Chambo, performing a raga is also a loose form of spiritual therapy.

“With everything being so busy and so much information out there, it gives people permission to slow down a bit and invites them to move more inward with the music,” Chambo says. “When the audience is on the floor and totally zoned out in a catatonic state after I’m done playing, I take it as a compliment.”

Chitnis offers a similar impression on raga.

“The rules from which Indian classical music is created are not the same as the music that is popular here in the West. It requires a little bit of an open heart and an open mind,” he says.

Excitingly for Chitnis, he has seen just that among the growing audience and artists who now join N.C. Raga Revival monthly.

“When I started this, I knew it would be a lot of work. But a lot of people are passionate about it,” Chitnis says. “It’s fun for me to just create this opportunity for others through this organization and get others involved.” music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 12.5.18 | 17

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The break-up stuff on this one is actually about somebody else. It didn’t really feel uncomfortable. I think that it probably would have been to play stuff about Kyle with Kyle at that time [laughs]. But honestly, it’s been so long ago at this point. Anything I write about the band or about the scene—in Philly, not LA—is a mutual feeling and inspiration among all three of us.

Premature Postmortems

SWEARIN’ READ YOUR REVIEW, AND THEY SWEAR THEIR COMEBACK RECORD IS ABOUT THE PRESENT, NOT THE PAST BY JULIE SMITKA Swearin' PHOTO BY ALI DONOHUEN

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was at a point in my life where I didn’t really want to be involved in a scene at all, and though I enjoyed pursuing my solo project and going on tour, I still missed Swearin’,” the singer and guitarist Allison Crutchfield says when I reach her on a rare rainy day in Los Angeles, where she moved three years ago to step away from Philadelphia’s DIY rock scene after the band’s breakup. The indie-rock outfit had a following before its 2011 debut.

Crutchfield and her twin sister, Katie, first performed together as P.S. Eliot and garnered attention for their feminist poppunk. After they decided to pursue their own projects—Allison in Swearin’, Katie in Waxahatchee—both gravitated toward a softer sort of storytelling, growing as lyricists without departing from bright hooks and intimate honesty.

But this year, Crutchfield reconvened with bandmates Jeff Bolt and Kyle Gilbride to release their first album in five years, Fall into the Sun, on Merge Records, which brings them to the Cat’s Cradle Back Room with opener Dark Thoughts.

An autobiography of their time apart, the songs alternate between the perspectives of Crutchfield and Gilbride—the one who left and the one who stayed. Though the pair did go through a romantic breakup after the band’s, they swear that Fall into the Sun is not a breakup record: “That’s not what this was ever about,” Crutchfield says.

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INDY: What’s it like to have another album together after being apart?

ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD: It’s so funny, it’s been a month since Fall into the Sun came out, and I thought the album itself would’ve sufficed for any statement I would’ve wanted to make. I do think it was interpreted as a breakup record. I try to read a lot of what people write about us, because I’m curious about how people swallow what we have to say. I know some musicians don’t read reviews, or at least say they don’t [laughs]. I try to keep up without letting it get to me or change how I work. In the end, we shared what we wanted to, even if it wasn’t interpreted completely how we intended.

I heard it as a sort of short-term time capsule, a way to catch up after time apart.

Yes! Reviews referring to it as a eulogy or a romantic break-up record, I see that as taking a lot of emotional liberties. And that’s the danger of putting your art into the world, you know? Horrible things can happen. Horrible in a creative sense, if it’s not interpreted how you interpret it.

When that happens, it’s almost like it’s not really yours anymore. That can be a bummer when it doesn’t align with how you see your own art. That’s the risk. To be clear: It’s not a eulogy, and it’s not about the breakup of me and Kyle. You heard it here first [laughs].

There's a lot of cloud imagery in the lyrics in “Growing into a Ghost,” “Stabilize,” and “Future Hell.”

When we were writing lyrics for the record, it became apparent that we had such different viewpoints on that time in our lives, and we had conversations about the ways that we could tie everything together, since we knew that we would be doing the writing completely separately. One of the things we were both thinking about a lot was that we were working from different time zones and climates. Visual climates, but also politically, in the scenes that surrounded us. Now that I think about it, it makes sense that so much about weather and space and time came into the record, but that wasn’t entirely intentional, like a writing device.

It’s what we were experiencing, and that shows organically.

What is it like to hear these songs now that Swearin’ is together in a different way?

I don’t want to say I’m impervious to embarrassment, like I don’t want to say I’m immune to that feeling of vulnerability, but I definitely feel very comfortable with Jeff and Kyle. I make it a point to only play with people who are down to be real with me and make me feel like it’s OK to sing about something super personal. Anything that seems like a break-up in what I wrote for the album actually isn’t about Kyle. I reserved all those songs for my solo stuff.

Why did you move to LA? It was a pretty drastic move in general. I’ve been here a little over a year now and only noticed it raining maybe three times. I’m sitting in my car right now, and it’s pouring rain, which is so insane. The scene is really different here, too. I knew it would be, but it’s something else to experience it. I think part of me leaving Philly was because I wanted the freedom to be a little more—not anonymous, but the social aspects of being in a band were getting a little daunting for me, and being so invested in the Philly music scene made me realize it wasn’t part of what I wanted to be doing anymore. The scene here is really vast, but it’s more that I’m at a place where I’m not directly involved, and I don’t feel the need to be right now. In my experience, the scene is a little less political, just because it’s such a large city with so much music and so many pockets. I’m fortunate enough to have a career, [so I don’t] necessarily need to tie that to the social aspects of music scenes here. And I’m getting older [laughs]. It’s nice to have this change now.

You’re only twenty-nine!

Yeah, but the older I get and the less involved I am in DIY culture—though I still support it—the more it’s allowed me to write less frequently. As a younger person, I was constantly working on things little by little, whereas now I can have breaks and let my writing out in big bursts. When you’re constantly meeting new people and seeing new bands and staying up late, it’s the beautiful and glorifying thing you love as a young punk. It helps you figure out what you want to make. Your writing shifts and you settle and focus, maybe not so much as a result of age directly, but like having had more time to explore. I’m waiting for the urge to write now. I’m learning to be a little more patient.

I definitely think there will be more records from Swearin’ and my solo stuff and collaborating with others’ bands. I still love getting to be in the background a bit. music@indyweek.com

SWEARIN’

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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Gift Cards

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Holiday Gift Guide Bungalow Small-batch sugar and sea salt blends

by Beautiful Briny Sea | $8-$24 These tasty blends make wonderful stocking stuffers or small gifts for friends and coworkers!

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Carolina Performing Arts Give loved ones an unforgettable experience with a Carolina Performing Arts gift card!

If you buy a gift card by December 31, 2018, you’ll get a 20% bonus gift card to keep or give with your gift! (Ex: buy $100 gift card, get a bonus $20 gift card!) carolinaperformingarts.org 919-843-3333 Memorial Hall Box Office UNC - Chapel Hill | 114 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Gift Card

This holiday season, give the gift of concerts, comedy and cinema all in one package: a Carolina Theatre gift card. Cardholders may use cards like cash towards tickets to live events, films or to buy concessions at downtown Durham’s home for the arts since 1926.

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Cedar Creek Gallery

Blown Glass Ornaments | $17-$125 A destination for treasures. 4,000 sf of pottery, glass, metal wood fiber and more by over 200 local, regional and national craftspeople. 20 Minutes from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

Open 10AM-6PM 7 days a week.

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NC State Live Still shopping for an idealist? Provocateurs Jon Boogz and Lil Buck take street dance to the highest level in Love Heals All Wounds at NC State LIVE on February 2nd at 8pm. There’s good reason these dancers have gone viral. Witness their choreography, which mesmerizes as it tackles vital issues...and ultimately encourages justice and joy!

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Counter Culture Coffee Iridescent: Limited-Release Winter Blend | $18.25 Each year we release Iridescent, a limited-edition winter blend, and earmark $1 per pound sold to fund development projects in the communities where we buy coffee.

Available at coffee shops, grocery stores, and more—including our Friday Tasting at 10 a.m. at our Durham roastery and HQ! 812 Mallard Avenue, Durham counterculturecoffee.com/iridescent

North Carolina Museum of Art Membership Starting at $55

Give the Gift of Membership!

Includes an exclusive magnet set featuring member-favorite works of art, and a voucher for a free coffee at our café.

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GeekCraft Expo Etsy meets Comic Con at GeekCraft Expo, a curated market featuring handmade geek goods by local crafters & makers. If you’re looking for gifts for the geeks on your holiday shopping list, there’s simply no better place to shop! Family friendly and FREE if you pre-register! www.geekcraftexpo.com | @GeekCraftExpo

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North Carolina Museum of Art

Ultra-soft, pashmina scarf | $34

Raleigh’s artful shopping destination, with unique gifts for everyone on your list.

Museum Store at the North Carolina Museum of Art West Building, located next to Iris restaurant 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh 919-664-6784 ncartmuseum.org

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Carlisle & Linny Vintage

1950s emerald and clear rhinestone drop earrings | $95 Dash (or stroll) into Carlisle & Linny for a truly special piece from the late 1800s to the 1970s. From Dior hats, vintage velvet clutches, cuff links, flasks, and emerald earrings, this boutique offers the most incredible selection of authentic, vintage jewelry and accessories.

112 S. Churton Street, Hillsborough 919-400-9800

Margaret Lane Gallery

Polymer Clay Mosaic Pendants

by Debi Drew | $45

Celebrate the Season with giftable art from local artists. Choose from oil, water color, and acrylic paintings; collage; sculptures; stained glass ornaments, suncatchers, and windows; notecards and handcrafted jewelry from local artists – like these polymer clay mosaic pendants by Debi Drew.

Selections for a wide range of interests and budgets.

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Volume Records & Beer Gift Cards

Enjoy the best of both worlds at Hillsborough’s well-curated record store and craft beer lounge.

Vinyl makes a great gift, and logo tote bags, t-shirts, pint glasses and these ever-so-flexible gift cards are also available. Happy Holidays!

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Check out these Hillsborough businesses!

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts

Hand Needle-Felted Ornaments | $28-$36 Local artist-owned gallery located in downtown Hillsborough, where you can find something for everyone on your list – pottery, glass, wood, jewelry, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, fiber and cards. Plus – just for the holidays – a huge selection of handmade ornaments like these adorable needle-felted ornaments by Lynn Wartski. Open daily, with extended holiday hours!

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Spiral Studios Jewelry

Sterling Silver Earrings $54 & Hand-carved Russian Santa $86 Located in historic downtown Hillsborough, Spiral Studios features original jewelry designed and handcrafted by metalsmith Jeannine Rogers. Along with her collection of one-of-a-kind pieces, she also carries a variety of unique crafts and gifts sourced from local artists.

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Tangerine Clean Gift Certificate

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Let us take care of your home cleaning: Tangerine Clean is a local, all-natural home cleaning cooperative offering one-time deep cleans and recurring cleanings to clients in Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Gift certificates now available at tangerineclean.coop www.tangerineclean.coop info@tangerineclean.coop 919-475-0307

Give the gift of craft beer with a gift certificate to The Glass Jug Beer Lab! The Jug also has the best bottle openers in town and glassware to match the quality of the beer you pour in it. Perfect stocking stuffers for the beer lover in your life! Plus, an on-site microbrewery & beer garden!!

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Wenthworth & Leggett Books & Prints Expect the unexpected at our shop. Diverse stock of rare, new and used books.

Science & Medicine, Literature, Children’s & Juvenile, Civil War & WWII, Durham & NC History.

Give the gift of knowledge, adventure, and creativity to a loved one for the Holidays.

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Zola Craft Gallery

Handcarved mug by local artist | $34.99-$39.99

Zola carries an eclectic selection of handcrafted art for everyday life with a focus on local and regional artists. Visit us to find jewelry, pottery, glass, and wood, plus art for garden and home.

626B 9th Street, above Bruegger’s Bagels in Durham 919-286-5112 www.zolacraftgallery.com

The Wine Feed

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BUY MY ART AND CALL IT HOLY

Friday, Dec. 7–Sunday, Dec. 16, pay what you choose Various venues, Durham www.monetnoellemarshall.com

Holy Trinity

MONÉT NOELLE MARSHALL CONCLUDES HER "BUY IT CALL IT" PERFORMANCE TRILOGY WITH HEALING GRACE BY KHAYLA DEANS

Monét Noelle Marshall standing with members of her community PHOTO BY DERRICK BEASLEY

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onét Noelle Marshall is a playwright, director, actor, curator, consultant, and activist. At her core, she is a creator who uses art as a tool to connect people. This desire for cultivating “radical relationships,” as she says, is evident in her latest work, Buy My Art and Call It Holy, which concludes the Buy It Call It trilogy she began in January.

The first two parts, Buy My Soul and Call It Art and Buy My Body and Call It a Ticket, were interactive explorations of the values and worth of Black art and Black lives. Now Marshall closes the trilogy by encouraging us to reimagine what art can be, locating

holiness and creativity in everyday interactions of human connection. I had the pleasure of speaking with Marshall to learn more about the participatory tenday experience, which has its opening reception at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, December 7 at 310 East Main Street, the former location of Old Havana Sandwich Shop.

Through the gift of her words, art, and hands, strengthened by the ancestors that stand with her, Marshall is fully aware of the power that comes from within to shape and change the world around her. And it is her hope to help others find that special power within themselves.

INDY: What was the overall vision with the Buy It Call It trilogy?

MONÉT NOELLE MARSHALL: [This] is like the three parts of a debut album. The first part is, “I see you. I see how this whole art institution, capitalism, the misuse, misrepresentation, and the co-optation of Black bodies is happening. I’m going to play because this is what I want to do. But I see you.”

The second part explores the question, “Who am I?” If I’m going to put myself out there in this way and make the art that I want to make, there are some things that I want folks to know. And I don’t want you to hear INDYweek.com | 12.5.18 | 23

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it secondhand. I want you to hear it from me, because there is no shame in my story, and there is no shame in your story, either. We all know consumption is happening, so let’s just be honest about it. That means looking in my face when you decide how much my body of work and my body is worth.

So now, this third piece is understanding that there is something inherently specific and special and artful and holy about your existence. Let’s find it, and let’s make it happen.

You write, “This is an honoring of the human spirit that connects us. It’s lifting up our grandmothers’ ways of being. A recognition that the works of their hands were art and holy offerings.” I love that you chose to complete the trilogy on the sentiment of the human spirit that connects all of us, recognizing how there is art and sacredness in everything that we do. Can you talk a little bit more about that?

For me, I’m thinking about queer Black womanness. When I originally started this project and wrote the grant that ended up funding the art through the North Carolina Art Council, I wrote more specifically about Black women. I wrote about how, in the Christian tradition, grace is something we are given, and we don’t deserve. I believe that the labor of Black women in this country is grace because we continue to give it, and this country continues to not deserve it. And yet, we give it anyway. So many of us give it and we don’t even recognize how holy that offering is. We don’t see ourselves as holy, and we don’t see ourselves as art. I feel like many of us are dying and struggling and stressed and hurting because we are not getting any messages that say, “No, you deserve rest and care and peace and joy and pleasure.”

How much can you share about what people can expect?

It’s ten days of programming. Every day there is something different. It’s across five locations in Durham. The guiding aesthetic question is, “What would church look like in a queer Black grandmom’s kitchen?” Which is another way of asking, “What would church look like in Monét’s future kitchen?”

The main space [at 310 East Main Street] will be open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5:00 p.m., and I’ll be in there serving tea with bread that I’ll make that morning.

There will be books, music, and places to sit.

There will be no programming. Just come and chill. For me, that really is one of the ways I’m honoring my grandmothers, Zelma and Evelyn. I grew up with my grandmother Evelyn in the home, and she was just so present. Her presence was truly a gift to me.

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I would come home, just spill my whole day, and she would just listen. Now that I’m older and she is gone, I’m recognizing how much I miss having that and how much that made me feel seen.

On Saturday we are doing a Day of Celebration, which is an open movement space [at the Living Arts Collective] from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. It is family friendly. We’re going to have DJ VSPRTN play music. Just come move your body, however you want to. On Tuesday, we’ll have our Night of Mediation, which will be a guided meditation. Let’s be quiet and breathe. The next night is the Night of Visioning. Folks are invited to come and speak their dreams out loud. That’s how we manifest each other’s visions. What happens when we get together and have a dream cypher?

The next night is our Night of Mourning, because I really feel like we can’t get our visions if there are things that we can’t let go of [because we] are not honest about the fact that we are grieving them. Then, Friday night, December 14, will be our Night of Sensuality. That will be at The Fruit. It will be a space to consciously pay attention to each of our senses.

We will also have two Sunday services [at the W.G. Pearson Center], but the service is not religious. It’s just spiritual. It’s about our connection to one another. To close out the project, we’ll do a Night of Gratitude, which will be a community dinner. I grew up Christian, and we said grace and we thanked God. In the same way we’re thanking this Being for this meal, I couldn’t tell you who picked the food or whose hands cultivated the food. I want to bring our grace down to the earth, literally. The food curator, Gabrielle Eitienne, who is brilliant, knows the stories of the people [who cultivated the food]. All of the farmers are Black, and they are from North Carolina and South Carolina.

That’s the project. It’s a lot of happenings.

They are all free and donation based. I want folks to enter in however they want to. There is no wrong way of engaging through this work.

Each of these nights and days are like a different portal where folks access their own holiness and their own art. It’s also a celebration of being alive and having a body, with other people who are also alive and have bodies.

I’m grateful for you and the work that you’ve done and continue to do. It’s powerful and necessary. If folks wanted to reach out, what’s the best way for people to keep up to date?

The website is buyitcallit.com and there’s an Eventbrite page for each night of programming. There’s also a Facebook event with the schedule. Folks can also follow me on Instagram at @MadameMonarch. arts@indyweek.com

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ROBIN KIRK: THE BOND

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., free The Regulator Bookshop, Durham www.regulatorbookshop.com

Slippery Hope

WOMEN HAVE TOPPLED THE PATRIARCHY—BUT AT WHAT COST?—IN ROBIN KIRK’S CAUTIONARY TALE OF GENOCIDE

BY SAMUEL MONTGOMERY-BLINN

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fter publishing three nonfiction books on such subjects as guerrilla wars in Peru and the drug war in Colombia—not to mention her three decades’ worth of human-rights work and journalism in South and Central America—Duke Human Rights Center Co-Chair Robin Kirk set herself quite the challenge when writing her first novel.

“I wanted to write a book for young adults about genocide, about how easy it would be to fall into it,” Kirk says over coffee at Ninth Street Bakery. The result is The Bond, the first installment of a planned trilogy, published this month by Chapel Hill’s Blue Crow Publishing under its nascent Goldenjay Books imprint for young adults. Told in the striking voice of Dinitra 584-KxA— known to her friends as Dini—the novel is set centuries into a dystopian future, after a war between women and men all but wiped out the latter. Now, women are “sown” into life stations through genetic planning, while the remaining men are kept in containment, to be used only for their genetic material until scientific advancement can ensure that “their terrible violence would be eliminated forever.”

We meet Dini on the morning of graduation day at the Collegium, where she and her classmates have been educated since they were six years old. Now, they’re awaiting their first three-year job assignments, which could range from chef to navigator to sanitation worker, unless they preempt such duties by volunteering for the military and boarding one of the shining Legionships for parts unknown.

If this first-person narration in a regimented world makes this sound like a cynical paint-by-numbers approach to young-adult literature, allow me to disabuse you of that notion. In addition to her nonfiction, Kirk is a poet with an MFA in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she did not set out to write a formula.

“I actually starting writing the book in third person,” she says. Laughing, she

Robin Kirk PHOTO BY SAMUEL MONTGOMERY-BLINN confronts the stereotype head-on with an impromptu, affected outburst: “Another YA first-person novel—gah! I was having trouble finding the right voice, and so, as an experiment, I tried writing in first person and felt an immediate connection.”

Told in thirty-one chapters of about nine pages each, the novel has a crackling,

energetic pace. It also features an essential ingredient that Kirk knew she had to include to make the book work for the younger audience she set out to reach: hope.

“I was in Cambodia, visiting a memorial museum to the genocide, and there were kids, eight or nine years old, and I just had a visceral reaction to that,” she says,

explaining that she waited until her own children were older before taking them to similar memorials. “This story is a little less direct—there’s a hopeful side that real life doesn’t often have.” Citing Philip Pullman, she continues, “Some subjects are too large for adult literature. But children are able to grasp these things.”

Earlier in our conversation, Kirk had mentioned an all-too-common Spanish phrase she learned in the course of her human rights work that translates to “there had to be a reason.” Uttered when a neighbor has been “disappeared”—by a government or a cartel—it refers to what Kirk calls the “underlying logic of genocide. It’s the logic of Rwanda, Yugoslavia, and Cambodia. It’s people in the abstract that they can hate.”

In her book, Kirk worked to avoid such abstractions, even regarding those we would regard as being on the wrong side of history.

“I hope I’ve achieved a level of complexity of character, not pure evil, not able to be completely written off,” she says.

Kirk says her students at Duke, where she is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, also influenced the novel.

“It’s the way they feel, at times, out of place,” she explains. “They’ve been groomed to be one thing—say, a successful Wall Street financial analyst—and they get here and discover that they really want something quite different. With this book, I want to tell them, ‘You are perfect as you are. You have talents you think are deficits, but are actually your superpower.’”

If the novel sounds like it’s full of lectures and overwhelming dark themes, I can disabuse you of that notion as well. One of the absolute breakout stars of the novel is an enhanced hybrid “battle dog” named 12, and a chapter on Dini’s failures as a student closes with the memorable quote, “I am a furry, carnivorous potato.” Kirk’s warning against the slippery slope to genocide has not just hope, but adventure and humor, too. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 12.5.18 | 25

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11–THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13

MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER

Moscow remains a name of legend in the world of Russian ballet. Shortly after the art form began in the former capital, St. Petersburg, in the 1730s, Moscow became the dance tradition’s second city in 1776, when the Bolshoi Ballet was founded there. But the Moscow Ballet that tours the U.S. is a comparative newcomer to the field. Though many of its performers have solid roots in top Russian and Eastern European companies, it started in 1993, just four years before our own Carolina Ballet, as a world-class pick-up company that only performs each November and December. Its recent provenance, stemming from the era of glasnost, is reflected in its updated choreography as well.

Instead of venturing into the traditional Land of Sweets in the second act, its principals journey to the Land of Peace and Harmony, where they meet a new character: a winged creature created by two dancers called the Dove of Peace. The dream lives on in the company’s three-night stand. —Byron Woods CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 7 p.m., $28+, www.carolinatheatre.org

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6

WUME

With their November LP, Towards the Shadow, Baltimore’s April Camlin and Albert Schatz— known together as Wume—delivered an electrifying delight. Fidgety synths prick and writhe over motorik-adjacent rhythms, exploding across tracks like “Blood Moon” and “Ravel.” On “Pool of Light,” the duo deploys a piano for a song that feels bouncy and peppy, with an undercurrent of reservation that carefully keeps the song from becoming cartoonish. But beyond lighting up neural receptors with its unusual arrangements, Wume offers an opportunity for deeper reflections on earthly delights, too. In “Functionary,” Camlin addresses capitalism, pleasure, and the ways in which mindless adhesion to the former eradicates the possibility of the latter. Towards the Shadow is both a dreamy escape and a unique wake-up call that feels like a suitable soundtrack for a late-fall turn toward introversion. Carrboro’s Speed Stick opens with a double dose of drums. —Allison Hussey NEPTUNES PARLOUR, RALEIGH 10 p.m., $8, www.kingsraleigh.com 26 | 12.5.18 | INDYweek.com

Tiny Engine Theatre describes its return to the regional stage, Paul Sapp’s new Lady Misrule, as “a Christmas noir.” If that seems odd, remember that most of the Yuletide’s equally historic—but understandably less beloved—supporting characters basically constitute a group of grubby otherworldly goons, billed across a number of cultures as the bad-cop enforcers for the ultimate good cop: Santa Claus. The Eastern European half-goat, halfdemon Krampus; Northern France’s bête noire, Le Père Fouettard (The Whipping Father); Germany’s Belsnickel and Knecht Ruprecht; Iceland’s giant child-eating troll, Grýla; and at least a dozen more—they have to stay somewhere during the other eleven months of the year. Such a crew could easily make the North Pole conspicuously less jolly and a lot more dangerous should a difference of opinion arise. A down-on-his-luck advertising man finds himself picking up the pieces after his daughter’s death at 90 degrees North in a work that asks just how dirty you have to get when you’re trying to do good. —Byron Woods WALLTOWN CHILDREN’S THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat, $18, www.tinyenginetheatre.com

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8

PHIL COOK

“Given Family/Chosen Family” is an idea that resonates for Phil Cook, who even used the phrase on merch related to this year’s People Are My Drug, which deftly blends his loves of blues, gospel, and folk. “We can’t get by in this life without our family,” Cook offers, explaining that he has both a close biological family and a “loving, supportive group of friends” who he identifies as his “chosen family.” Tonight, he gathers with the latter, enlisting some of his favorite local musicians—Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath, Kamara Thomas, Rissi Palmer, Tamisha Waden, Joel Holloway, and Mavis “Swan” Poole, Cook’s vocal teacher—to collaborate with his mighty band. Serving as the connective tissue between sometimes-disparate circles, Cook teases that this group will “create a big sound in celebration of something I can’t yet say, but it’s the best surprise we can offer.” If his extensive track record is any indication, expect him to fully deliver on that promise. —Spencer Griffith MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 9 p.m., $22–$25, www.motorcomusic.com

Phil Cook

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7

LOVE LIFE

In Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s rarely staged, self-styled “vaudeville in two acts” from 1948, Sam and Susan seem at first like an ordinary neighborhood couple from just up the way. If their marriage isn’t the happiest, at least there are other compensations; neither of them has aged a minute since 1791. In this early example of a concept musical, the twosome weather a series of social changes over an American century and a half—in industry, suffrage, technology, transit, and its associated temptations. Weill and Lerner note the impact of each on the central relationship and the definition of marriage itself. Musical-film fans will note that Lerner recycled the rueful reminiscences of “I Remember It Well” in the score of Gigi. Broadway actor Victoria Clark worked with a Duke musical theater class on this workshop production; tickets are free, but reservations are required. —Byron Woods VON DER HEYDEN STUDIO THEATER, DURHAM 7 p.m., free with reservation, www.artscenter.duke.edu

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FRI, DEC 7 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The Old Ceremony, Chessa Rich; 8 p.m.

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Toys for Tots Benefit: Pipe, Spider Bags [$15/8 P.M.]

’Tis the season, folks. All door proceeds from this benefit show, now in its sixth year, go toward purchasing toys for Toys for Tots, the United States Marine Corps Reserve program that distributes toys to children whose parents can’t afford Christmas gifts.

And while it’s better to give than receive, receiving’s still pretty good in this case: Triangle rock vets Spider Bags (whose Someday Everything Will Be Fine, released in August, is one of the strongest local records of the year) and Pipe headline, with Juan Huevos and Santana Montana providing direct support. (Disclosure: Spider Bags bassist Steve Oliva is the INDY’s art director.)

—Patrick Wall THE PINHOOK:

Doe Paoro [$12–$14/8 P.M.]

Southern Culture on the Skids plays at Cat’s Cradle on Saturday, December 8.

WED, DEC 5

DUKE CAMPUS: 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.

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

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL: Frankie Cosmos, Stef Chura, Shy Boys; 8 p.m.

UNC CAMPUS: Memorial Hall: UNC Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band; 7 p.m.

THU, DEC 6 DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: In the Jazz Tradition: Catherine Russell; 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

certified gold) while releasing children’s albums and books, pursuing on-screen and voice acting, and designing her own line of eyewear. —Julie K. Smitka

FLETCHER OPERA THEATER:

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Lisa Loeb

LINCOLN THEATRE:

Lisa Loeb seems to succeed at everything she tries. Her single “Stay (I Missed You)” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Loeb the first unsigned musician to top the chart. She continues to release pop-rock albums (two of which were

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Front Country Ostensibly based in bluegrass, Front Country’s cover choices—from Tom Petty and Tina Turner to HAIM and tUnE-yArDs—reveal its progressive take on string band music with a pop bent.

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Driven home by Melody Walker’s powerhouse pipes, the quintet’s hooks are as sharp as its acoustic picking. In the opening slots, the sparse twang of Blue Cactus sounds as lonesome as its forlorn duets, while Hank Smith and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw go electric with their banjo and fiddle duo. —Spencer Griffith MOTORCO:

sour combo—bubblegum hooks and cheery vocals meet grungy guitars and vulnerable declarations—is even more emotional and intense live. Recent Yep Roc signees Daddy Long Legs come unhinged with raw, lo-fi blues-rock explosions while LA punks FEELS bring scuzzy riot grrrl snarl.

—Spencer Griffith

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THE PINHOOK: Youth League, Chew, Pleasures; 9 p.m.

Impossibly catchy on Guppy, Charly Bliss’s sweet-and-

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Doe Paoro’s new album, Soft Power, has a title that deftly hews content with sound: Her vocals, liquid with an easy groove, are underwritten with a steely, powerful pop backbone. It’s an album (produced by Jimmy Hogarth, who has worked with other soulful singer-songwriters like Sia and Amy Winehouse) that also takes the lush sensibilities of classic girl-group hooks and harmonies and applies them with urgency to songs about misogyny, aging, and boundaries. Skylar Gudasz opens. —Sarah Edwards THE RITZ: A Very Get Sad Y’all Christmas; 8 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Juan Alamo, Marimjazzia; 8 p.m.

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Southern Culture on the Skids [$13–$15/9 P.M.]

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MOTORCO MUSIC HALL: Phil Cook Presents Given Family/Chosen Family; 9 p.m.

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THE PINHOOK: Doe Paoro, Skylar Gudasz; 8 p.m.

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CARY ARTS CENTER: The Concert Singers of Cary: Holiday Pops; 7 p.m.

Cloud Nothings plays at Motorco on Tuesday, December 11.

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This old-school boogie band from Chapel Hill has been making butts wiggle since 1983, sticking with the same lineup of Dave Hartman (drums), Mary Huff (bass and vocals), and Rick Miller (guitar and vocals) for the past thirty years. They’re all about groovy walking basslines, shimmering surf-rock guitar, and tongue-in-cheek references to trailer park culture. The trio recently released a new doublealbum, Bootleggers Choice LP, which bears fine tracks like “Fried Chicken and Gasoline” and “Banana Pudding.”

—Howard Hardee

Richard Powers’s novels brim with music. Two years ago, his book Orfeo provided a powerful springboard for Duke University composition professor Scott Lindroth. Here, his latest novel, The Overstory, inspired four composers— including Duke professor Stephen Jaffe and Duke alum David Kirkland Garner—to write a collaborative cantata that investigates our fraught relationship with nature.

The four composers wrote collaboratively, sharing sketches and ideas in a process that has few antecedents in the world of classical music.

—Dan Ruccia DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: In the Jazz Tradition: René Marie; 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Sothcott, Ringel Quintet; 8 p.m.

SUN, DEC 9 DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: In the Jazz Tradition: Kate McGarry; 6 p.m., 8 p.m.

HILLYER MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Hillyer Community Chorus Holiday Concert; 7 p.m.

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL: School of Rock Cary: Afternoon of Epic Rock; noon.

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Upon this driving rhythmic engine, the Chicago quintet stitches funk, Afrobeat, Latin rock, and soul-jazz into transcendent and powerful cosmic jams. Its layered, nuanced, abstruse grooves are animative and rapturous—and very, very easy to lose yourself in.

—Patrick Wall SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: DJ Pangean; 10 p.m.

ST. MICHAEL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: The Oakwood Waits; 7 p.m.

MON, DEC 10 CAROLINA THEATRE:

In the Jazz Tradition: Charles Lloyd and the Marvels with Lucinda Williams [$55–$75/8 P.M.]

Celebrated jazz sax man Charles Lloyd had some heavy company on the Vanished Gardens album he released earlier this year, including Lucinda Williams, guitar visionary Bill Frisell, and pedal steel virtuoso Greg Leisz. The members of the supergroup that created the album will be hitting the stage for an extremely special evening of music that blurs the borders between genres and emerges with a new musical amalgam, making the most of the vast and disparate experiences of the contributors. —Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Swearin’, Dark Thoughts; 8 p.m.

IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7 p.m.

LEGENDS: DJ Joey; 9 p.m.

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State Property [$35+/8 P.M.]

It seems that the winners of this year’s holiday season are fans of the early-aughts Rocafella Records roster sans Jay-Z, who are being treated to a new—and surprisingly good—Diplomats album, and now a reunion tour from State Property, the crew within Rocafella consisting of Philadelphia rappers Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Peedi Crack, and Chris & Neef. Pioneering the last great era of East Coast rap, State Property’s legacy is strong with songs like “What We Do” and “The Truth.”

—Charles Morse

CAVE plays at Nightlight on Sunday, December 9.

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

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

TUE, DEC 11 MOTORCO:

Cloud Nothings

[$15–$17/8 P.M.] What a difference a producer makes. Consider the last three records from Cloud Nothings. John Congleton leaned into the Ohio band’s rough edges on Here and Nowhere Else, the band’s 2014 high-water mark; John Goodmanson smoothed and buffed their ragged angst on last year’s polished and nuanced Life Without Sound. For this year’s Last Burning Building, Dylan Bundi recruited Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth), who splits the difference, capturing the band’s dynamic live intensity while keeping things fluid and catchy. —Patrick Wall

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NIGHTLIGHT:

Pod Blotz, Craow [$8/9 P.M.]

Los Angeles-via-Detroit artist Suzy Poling, aka sound sculpture project Pod Blotz, rips gaseous industrial drone that channels abyssal images of debris-strewn alleyways, queasy angles, even just a particularly bleak and meaningless day. But over in another lane, Craow cranks the speed, slamming big slabs of industrial metal together into macabre, danceable techno.

Horror Xmas, featuring an allstar cast of local underground favorites including Floor Model, Secret Boyfriend, and Housefire, opens. —David Ford Smith POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL: Frederick the Younger, Babe Club; 9 p.m.

UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL:

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

jazz music today, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra continues its annual tradition of performing swinging holiday favorites. The evening includes an impressive cast of guest vocalists delivering silkysmooth takes on everything from Count Basie’s “Jingle Bells” to winter classics such as “White Christmas” and “Zat You Santa Claus?” As always, the orchestra is led by trumpeter, composer, and jazz spokesman Wynton Marsalis.

—Howard Hardee

WED, DEC 12

DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Celtic Thunder X; 8 p.m.

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

PNC ARENA:

hard-rocking holiday music. Is it the evocation of a deep cold?

A frostier take on Kraftwerk’s vision of a Trans-Europe Express train? The hypothetical proximity to Santa’s workshop?

Or maybe it’s just a combination of words that someone thought was cool? We’ll never know.

—Dan Ruccia MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL:

N.C. Master Chorale [$27–$33/7:30 P.M.]

Haven’t had enough carols yet? The N.C. Master Chorale has the show for you, with more carols than you can shake a candy cane at, including newer entries from the soundtracks to Frozen, Home Alone, and The Polar Express alongside classics.

There’s even a singalong to help satisfy all your wassailing needs. —Dan Ruccia POUR HOUSE:

[$62–$132/7:30 P.M.]

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Boasting a roster of some of the finest soloists, ensemble players, and arrangers in

It’s unclear what exactly “TransSiberia” has to do with faux-

The fifty-year reign of the guitar as the dominant

[$44+/7:30 P.M.]

Jason D. Williams [$12–$15/8 P.M.]

instrument in popular music obscures the fact that piano used to rule rock ’n’ roll, and there’s no better representative of the old guard than Jason D. Williams.

A traditional country and rock artist who often draws comparisons to Jerry Lee Lewis, Williams has been banging out vintage boogiewoogie on his piano and energetically interacting with the audience going since the eighties. —Howard Hardee THE PINHOOK:

Weedie Braimah [$15/8 P.M.]

Born in Ghana, raised in St. Louis, and currently based in New Orleans, Weedie Braimah is a master djembe player who not only executes machine-gun-fast drum rolls, but performs with the energy level of Sheck Wes. His call-and-response routine is sure to keep you engaged, and in an intimate venue like Pinhook, the energy is sure to be contagious.

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OPENING Mike Benson: Photography.

Thru Mon, Dec 31. Reception: Thu, Dec 6, 7 p.m. with Ron Liberti deejaying. Bowbarr, Carrboro.

SPECIAL Allan Gurganus: A EVENT Writer’s Sketchbooks: Paintings. Wed, Dec 5-Sat, Jan 19. Reception: Dec 5, 6-9 p.m. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, It’s a Winter Show!: Work by female artists. Fri, Dec 7.-Sat, Dec 29.

Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. localcoloraleigh.com.

SPECIAL Edwin Lohmeyer: EVENT mobilemedic/oracle: Participatory sound installation.

Fri, Dec 7.-Sat, Dec 29.

Reception: Dec 7, 6-10 p.m.

Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL Dane Winkler: Brain EVENT Janitor: Interactive installations and large-scale sculptures. Fri, Dec 7-Sat, Feb 2.

Reception: Dec 7, 6-10 p.m.

Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

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.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5

ALLAN GURGANUS: A WRITER’S SKETCHBOOKS Duke’s Rubenstein Library recently acquired the papers of one of North Carolina’s seminal authors, the fiction writer and essayist Allan Gurganus. But before he wrote the nationally acclaimed books Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and White People, Gurganus began his creative life as an artist, a discipline he studied at the University of Pennsylvania before consoling himself with his sketchbook while serving in the Vietnam War. To celebrate the acquisition of the papers, the Rubenstein is working with Power Plant Gallery to showcase sixty never-beforeseen drawings and paintings in Allan Gurganus: A Writer’s Sketchbooks, which runs through January 19 after this opening reception. The colorful, imaginative, but ultimately humane style of Gurganus’s books is revealed in a new way through these visual works. (Also mark your calendar for Thursday, January 17, when the author gives a reading coordinated with the exhibit at the Rubenstein Library.) —Brian Howe

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Freeman Beard: A Watercolor World: Watercolors.

Thru Jan 31. Bull City Art & Frame Co, Durham. bullcityartandframecompany. com.

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

Painting by Allan Gurganus PHOTO COURTESY OF POWER PLANT GALLERY

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

photographer Chris Seward.

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

Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe Chatham Artists Guild Open Studio Tour: Fifty-two artists in various media. Dec 8: 10 a.m.-5p.m./Dec. 9: noon-5p.m. NC Arts Incubator, Siler City. chathamartistsguild.org.

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.

Beverly McIver: Eyes Wide Shut: Last year, the Greensboroborn Duke art professor Beverly McIver was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize and set off to spend a year painting in Rome. Transplanting to Italy is a dream shared by many people, particularly those of us in thrall to Call Me by Your Name, but for McIver, the experience held particular meaning as a time to artistically reimagine herself outside of her roles as teacher, a caregiver, and “an artist living under the weight of the history of the American South.” Eyes Wide Shut features the new paintings she made at the American Academy of Rome.

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

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

—Sarah Edwards

LAST Nerys Levy and CHANCE 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 Vernon Pratt: All The Possibilities of Sixteen: Neverbefore-seen posthumous exhibit. Thru Sun, Feb 10. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

LAST Rural Avant-Garde: CHANCE 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.

LAST Serving Life: CHANCE 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.

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

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. pleiadesartdurham.com.

LAST Thirtieth Annual CHANCE Sculpture in the Garden: Outdoor sculpture show. Thru Dec 9. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu.

Allison Tierney: Glimpse: Mixed media. Thru Feb 7.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

SPECIAL Blaise Tobia: EVENT Material Matters: Photography. Thru Jan 26.

Reception: Dec 7, 6-10 p.m.

Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Stephen White: Golden Classics: Paintings. Thru Mon, Dec 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Tom Willis: Journey: Paintings.

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

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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

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8

PATTON OSWALT Emmy and Grammy winner Patton Oswalt has a long history with the Triangle, dating back to when he opened for Bill Hicks at Goodnights in Raleigh. He’s become a true multi-hyphenate star, a prominent stand-up comedian, author, actor, talkshow guest, and more. His work ranges from acerbic, geeky references—say, a hilarious takedown of George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels—to emotionally raw revelations: Annihilation, his most recent stand-up special, deals bluntly with the passing of his late wife, Michelle McNamara (whose bestselling nonfiction crime book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, he helped finish). It’s good to have Oswalt back in Raleigh. Here’s hoping the noted cinephile will check out the retro-VHS store at the Alamo Drafthouse while he’s in town. —Zack Smith

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OPENING Celeste Barber: Actor and comedian. Wed, Dec 12, 8 p.m.

Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Creme Cabaret: Decadence: Burlesque, bellydance, and more, inspired by the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Thu, Dec 6, 8 p.m. Arcana, Durham. arcanadurham.com.

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Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol: Presented by Actors Comedy Lab and NRACT. $20–$22.

Dec 7-16, North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. nract.org.

Lady Misrule: Written and directed by Paul Sapp. Dec 7-15, Walltown Children’s Theatre, Durham. tinyenginetheatre.com.

Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Radio Play: Presented by

OdysseyStage. $7–$10. Sun, Dec 9, 3 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. odysseystage.org.

Patton Oswalt: Comedy. Sat, Dec 8, 8 p.m. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh. www.bnpresents.com.

Sex Ed Storytelling: Storytelling event to benefit SHIFT NC. $10. Sun, Dec 9, 7 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. motorcomusic.com.

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 thirtysomething 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. $29+.

Thru Dec 9, Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www. dpacnc.com.

—Allison Hussey Hamilton: Thru Sun, Dec 2.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

The House of Coxx Drag Show!: $10. Sat, Dec 8, 9 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com.

The Monti StorySLAM: Chemistry: Stories told around the theme. 18+. Tickets $12. Wed, Dec 12, 7 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. motorcomusic.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.

—Byron Woods

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

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

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.

Wine to Water: Ugly Christmas Sweater & Wine Tasting: $20 suggested.

Fri, Dec 7. 6 p.m. The Raleigh Wine Shop, Raleigh. theraleighwineshop.com.

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COOPER, FLETCHER, HUNTER, AND STARK In last week’s issue, the INDY highlighted Duke’s Little Corner Reading Series and the women who run it. Now one of them, Jessica Q. Stark, is getting off-campus—out of Durham, in fact—for a reading at Raleigh’s So & So Books, though it is not part of the long-running So & So Reading Series, which takes place at CAM Raleigh.

(Simple, right?) Instead, this is a release party for Durham poet Joanna Penn Cooper’s two recent chapbooks, When We Were Fearsome (Ethel Zine) and Mud Woman (dancing girl press, with Rebecca Bratten Weiss). Cooper and Stark will be joined by prolific Durham reader Lauren Hunter (Human Achievements) and Joe Fletcher, author of recent book The Hatch, who holds the enviable title of managing editor of The William Blake Archive.

Close out 2018 the right way—that is, by attending the abundant assortment of local poetry readings on offer this December.

—Sarah Edwards

SO & SO BOOKS, RALEIGH 7 p.m., free, www.facebook.com/soandsobooks

READINGS & SIGNINGS Cathy Barrow: Cookbook Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet and Savory Slab Pies. Wed, Dec 12, 6 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Allan Gurganus: Holiday story A Fool for Christmas. Thu, Dec 6, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Robin Kirk: Young-adult fantasy novel The Bond. Tue, Dec 11, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Debbie Moose: Cookbook Carolina Catch: Cooking North

Carolina Fish and Shellfish from Mountains to Coast. Sun, Dec 9, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

LECTURES ETC. In the Jazz Tradition Roundtable Discussion: Farah Jasmine Griffin in conversation with Jazzmeia Horn, Catherine Russell, Nnenna Freelon, and Kate McGarry. Fri, Dec 7, noon. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com.

Two Southern Ladies: Lee Smith in conversation with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and Darnell Arnoult. $25. Sat, Dec 8, 4 p.m. St Matthews Episcopal Church, Hillsborough. burwellschool.org.

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Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

OPENING Maria by Callas—The great opera singer is portrayed in her own archival words and by famed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Rated PG.

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.estern love story. Rated R. 36 | 12.5.18 | INDYweek.com

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NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION AND FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF Chevy Chase is an a-hole, but this is hard to remember while you’re watching the ridiculously charming National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which made an instant, seemingly permanent splash in the Christmas-movie canon for the children of the eighties and nineties. All Clark Griswold wants is to decorate his house with twenty-five thousand lights, find a perfect tree, have a nice turkey dinner, and get his bonus so he can buy his family a swimming pool. But the lights won’t work, the tree is infested by a crazed squirrel, the turkey’s tough, and the swimming-pool dream turns into a hostage crisis. Elaine from Seinfeld plays the tragic yuppie next door, and Beverly D’Angelo steals scenes as the indefatigable Ellen Griswold. In trying to dig up new tidbits about a movie I’ve seen dozens of times, I discovered that the music is by Angelo Badalamenti of David Lynch fame, which I’m still trying to get my head around. This double feature at the Carolina pairs it with another John Hughes-penned retro classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. —Brian Howe

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