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FAULTY TOWERS As Millennia, owner of Durham's JFK Towers, is cited by HUD for financial mismanagement, residents continue to complain about safety, management, and upkeep at the low-income, elderly living facility. By Cy Neff, p. 5

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Millennia, owner of low-income senior living complexes such as Durham's JFK Towers, is in trouble with HUD. Residents have been complaining about coniditions at Millennia properties for months. BY CY NEFF

Meet the candidates in Wake County's four competitive district court judges elections this primary. BY JASMINE GALLUP

10 Hillside High School students float their solutions to some of Durham's, and the world's, most pressing problems. BY CHASE PELLEGRINI DE PAUR

CAMP GUIDE 13 Where to send your kids this summer. BY INDY STAFF

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Iron & Wine singer-songwriter Sam Beam discusses his first visual arts exhibition at Peel Gallery. BY TASSO HARTZOG

22 Hiyo, the 10th album from the Triangle trio Chatham County Line, pushes the boundaries of bluegrass. BY JORDAN LAWRENCE 24 Durham's Justin Morris, who performs as Sluice, writes music that follows the river's fluid logic. BY TASSO HARTZOG 26 Two great thinkers square off in the UK film Freud's Last Session. BY GLENN MCDONALD

28 Scene on Radio podcast hosts Michael A. Betts II and John Biewen discuss the podcast's sixth season. BY CHASE PELLEGRINI DE PAUR

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COVER JFK Towers resident Johnetta Alston PHOTO BY WILSON

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Last week, for the web, we wrote about Sam’s Bottle Shop—formerly Sam’s Quik Shop and Blue Light, all Durham institutions owned by the Boy family— and its current owner John Boy Jr.’s plans to close the shop’s doors for good next month. Sam’s Quik Shop was one of the first to bring curated, craft beer to the Triangle market, as reader JULIE JOHNSON recalled in an email, and the shop’s knowledgeable staff, not to mention its vast collection of specialty beer, will be missed by many:

The thriving craft beer scene in North Carolina owes a big thanks to John Boy and Sam’s Blue Light. During the years-long effort to modernize NC’s beer laws through the legislation known as Pop the Cap, Sam’s—already a pioneer in bringing unusual beer to the state--was a steadfast supporter. Pop the Cap represented beer drinkers who were demanding better choices; John Boy gave us invaluable backing and the perspective of an independent retailer, which was important in shaping our approach to the legislation. When House Bill 392 (the “Pop the Cap” bill) passed in 2005, it raised the permissible beer alcohol content from under 6% to 15%—and opened the market to an eye-popping range of previously unavailable styles. And local businesses responded: today’s community of over 420 NC breweries and brewpubs is about ten times the number operating in 2004. The day the bill passed, I drove to Sam’s and bought my first bottle of stronger beer, a Chimay from Belgium, from John. I wish him a very happy retirement, and many thanks. P.S. One happy memory of the Blue Light on Erwin. I was entertaining a well-known beer writer who was visiting the area, and I took him to Sam’s. My guest was astonished when a modest-looking gas station and car wash attached to what appeared to be a convenience store turned out to have one of the best specialty beer selections (and best-informed staff) to be found anywhere. In our paper two weeks ago, we published a letter from Durham Sheriff Clarence Birkhead, a supporter of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. The sheriff wrote that he was disappointed that Durham’s City Council didn’t extend the use of ShotSpotter as experts at Duke evaluate data gathered during the yearlong

ShotSpotter pilot. Reader BRITTANY PRICE wrote in response to Birkhead’s letter that ShotSpotter isn’t the answer to the gun violence that troubles Durham and other U.S. cities: About a year and a half ago, I lost a loved one to gun violence in another city. Shotspotter didn’t identify the outdoor shootout he was in as gunfire, but they did change their data at the police department’s request after he died. While plenty of neighbors called 911, he didn’t survive, and if he had, the circumstances around his death almost certainly would’ve landed him in prison. I work in public health, and a sad, true joke we make in my field is that when public health is working, it’s pretty invisible. It’s not as punchy as a headline about a scoop and run that gunfire detection technology enabled, but it does save more lives. And Shotspotter simply doesn’t save lives the way preventive measures do; a growing body of research backs this up, including Doucette et al.’s comprehensive 2021 analysis. It is easy to say that the expenditure on this technology is worth it if it saves one life, but the truth is we’re working with limited resources; spending this amount of money on tech that doesn’t work is an insult to the memory of people who could’ve been saved by preventive measures. My friend’s life is a testament to that: I know for a fact he was saved multiple times by harm reduction and affordable healthcare. He wouldn’t have been in the situation that took his life if he’d had access to affordable housing, to steady, well-paying income and benefits that didn’t exclude him for his criminal record. And I sincerely believe the person who shot him wouldn’t have been there, either. They both deserved better than wasted money on Shotspotter. So do we. Durham is hurting. It’s tempting to throw Shotspotter at that pain, but we must turn toward what works and invest in our community.

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Durham Should Pay the $6 Million That the City Owes Darryl Howard Howard spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. Durham’s new council should pay him the judgment he was awarded. BY ELIZABETH SIMPSON backtalk@indyweek.com

ho would suspect that Concord would be more progressive than Durham on the subject of compensating victims of police corruption? Yet last week, Concord made good on a $25 million judgment for Ronnie Long, a man who spent 40 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit—and the city also wrote a sincere note of apology. But in Durham, Darryl Howard is still waiting for a $6 million judgment that a jury awarded him in 2021. Mr. Howard is an innocent man who spent 24 years in prison for a rape and murder that he didn’t commit. DNA evidence proved he didn’t do it. The case was weak all along. At trial, one of the prosecution’s coerced witnesses declared: “You can’t force me to come and tell something I didn’t see!” Back in 2022, Emancipate NC wrote a letter to the city council to explain that its legal justifications for not paying Mr. Howard were feeble. We also visited the Durham City Council with Mr. Howard for public comment and urged the councilors to pay the judgment rather than try to get off the hook based on technicalities. Mr. Howard told them: “It would be impossible to explain what I’ve gone through.” But the Durham City Council, under the leadership of former mayor Elaine O’Neal, refused to pay him what he is owed. But it’s not too late. Now, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated other Durham Police Department defendants who discovered the exonerating DNA evidence and should have disclosed it to Howard’s lawyers. And meanwhile, Mr. Howard has intervened in a new lawsuit about Durham’s stubborn refusal to pay the judgment. Mr. Howard will go to a settlement conference with the city on February 1, 2024. We have a new mayor in Durham and three new city councilors: Nate Baker, Chelsea Cook, and Carl Rist. This time around, the council should vote to compensate Mr. Howard fully for his suffering. And, the city should apologize. Not only for wrongfully incarcerating Mr. Howard for 24 long years, but also for making him wait years more for his fair compensation. 2 Elizabeth Simpson is a strategic director and attorney at Emancipate NC. INDYweek.com January 24, 2024

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Competition and Community How friendships coalesce over air hockey at a bar in downtown Raleigh. BY ELIM LEE backtalk@indyweek.com

t one bar in downtown Raleigh, people get really into geometry. But not in the way you would think. Show up at Boxcar Raleigh on a Monday night, and you’ll see a lively crowd amidst the beeping lights and beers on tap. People mill around and there’s a general pull of focus towards the center. Look closer and you’ll see that everyone is crowded around the two air hockey tables. Sign-ups end at 8 p.m. for the weekly air hockey tournament, and often the ‘Beginners’ bracket is maxed out at 20 participants. People bring customized mallets in bright colors, decorated with novelty stickers. Some are wearing fingerless gloves. Going up to bat at each match, they bounce on their toes and hype themselves up. Watching two people play against each other, you see their focus flit around so fast it’s hard to keep up. It’s not an impulsive or reactionary guessing game. There are tactics to the angling of their shots and the way they retrieve the puck. Often you’ll see players bouncing the puck perpendicular against the wall to still it, cornering the puck away from the goal when an opponent misfires, or drawing a square around the puck with their mallet in order to center and aim it. You might think, “Wow, I guess people here are just really into air hockey.” But little would you know that Raleigh actually hosts the largest air hockey community in the world. It is so remarkable that a twotime world champion actually moved from Ireland to Raleigh after visiting for an air hockey tournament. Raleigh’s success owes a lot to the weekly organizers, Cam and his partner, Kaye. A friend introduced the two to air hockey in 2019 and they kept playing until the competitive fervor really started surfacing in 2022. Cam soon started working for Raleigh’s Boxcar Bar + Arcade with the goal of eventually facilitating tournaments. Formerly just an add-on task to a bartender’s list of responsi4

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bilities, when Cam went to work full-time as an engineer, the opportunity came to take on the tournament responsibilities as a weekly nighttime gig. Boxcar has supported the air hockey tournaments by providing tokens for free use of the air hockey tables and paying Cam to organize the event. Before Cam and Kaye came onto the scene, Kurt Zehnder, the godfather of air hockey in North Carolina, was a cultural mainstay. Kurt went to the World Championships in Houston, Texas and brought back what he learned. He started by ranking around 22 players, and the scene in Raleigh has grown to around 80 ranked players. Cam and Kurt both sit on the U.S. Air Hockey Association, the sport’s national governing body. The Boxcar Raleigh tournaments are split into three different levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Once you win your level, you have to win again with a one-point handicap— then, you can advance to the next level. In charge of getting three different concurrent competitions running efficiently, Cam and Kaye enter everyone who signs up into a bracketing system. By now, they estimate to know around 200 people by face and name just from the tournaments. The rankings are serious. Everyone claims a spot on the roster each year by competing at a championship. From there, people can challenge each other for their rankings. In order to oust a fellow player, you have to win four of seven sets. To win a set, you have to win four out of seven games. So, that’s 49 chances to win at least 16 times. If the lower ranked player wins the challenge, they take the higher rank and everyone else in between moves down a rank. Last year, Cam was director for the North Carolina State Tournament, hosted in Durham. A bunch of Boxcar weekly regulars rented an Airbnb and made a retreat out of it. There were 91 participants playing over the course of three days, comparable to the World’s Tournament, with about 100-

Monday night air hockey players get ready to square off. PHOTO COURTESY OF CAM MOORE AND KAYE HUNTER

110 players that come from as far away as Ireland, Argentina, and Russia. Within Raleigh’s crowd, we have the No. 3 ranked player in the world. This year, Raleigh sent 20 players to Houston for World’s, and 10 finished in the top 64 out of 128, with three players finishing in the Top 30. Overall, Raleigh boasts 12 of the top 60 players in the world. And all of these top ranked players were built from Boxcar’s simple Monday nights. Kaye says she came into the scene with a desire to create a space that felt more like a community. She wanted there to be an atmosphere where it wasn’t weird to talk about air hockey technique and strategy, where it was okay to get really into an arcade game. Cam says air hockey offers an outlet for anyone who might have played a sport in the past, now looking for that familiar competitive rush without risk of injury. Additionally, the playing field is equal among different ages and genders and physicalities; it’s a game of quick wit and coordination. People in the community have started leading training sessions. One player who owns his own gym has bought a few tables for common use. Soon to come is a schedule where a top 15-ranked player routinely offers lessons on trick shots and good defense. I ask Cam and Kaye why Raleigh’s space has grown so much more than everywhere else. They think it’s the combination of college town and yuppie transplants that Raleigh is home to, so people are open to trying anything new as long as it’s something to do, especially on a Monday night. The players who show up every week comprise a diverse crowd with every race, gender, sex-

uality, and walk of life represented. There’s a successful architect, an owner of multiple gyms, strippers, hair stylists, chefs, engineers, and students. You have players in their 50s and players who are completely broke. Air hockey also offers a low barrier to entry. You can practice for free at the Boxcar tournaments, or you can buy a used table off of Facebook Marketplace for $200 to have more time to practice. Around 20 of the regulars in Raleigh have their own tables at home, and almost nobody has paid more than a thousand dollars for theirs. The game of air hockey isn’t about who gets the most points. It’s a race. Anyone hitting a puck will inevitably score seven points at some point. The trick is to stall your opponent and beat them to it. “You might think there can’t be tension in air hockey,” Cam says, “but when you get to 6-6, it’s truly anyone’s game.” That’s why more than 20 players have a tattoo of “7-6” in the digital air hockey scoring font, Kurt Zehnder’s own design. Cam and Kaye got theirs together in 2022 when they went to their first World Championship. The day of their tournament just so happened to be their seven-year anniversary. 2 Elim Lee is a Georgia peach who took a detour in New England and came back to her roots in the South this past year. Her least-in-progress, most-finished project is her children’s book Needle and the Too Big World. Follow her on Twitter at @wellwhatgives and Instagram at @elimscribbles.

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Faulty Towers Millennia, owner of Durham’s JFK Towers, was restricted by HUD from entering into new government contracts following financial mismanagement. But residents’ complaints about safety, management, and upkeep have been mounting. BY CY NEFF backtalk@indyweek.com

JFK Towers in Durham PHOTO BY WILSON

nsafe living conditions at North Durham’s JFK Towers apartment complex made headlines this past summer, with complaints including sewage-filled bathtubs, widespread trash pileups and breeding maggots, broken A/C and heating units, and inoperable elevators. JFK Towers is an elderly-living, low-income facility. All tenants have housing vouchers, and 12 units are designated for mobility-impaired residents. Now, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has found Cleveland-based Millennia Companies, owners of 177-unit JFK Towers and 159-unit Naples Terrace, to have practiced consistent financial mismanagement. Millennia is barred from entering any new contracts with government agencies. Issues at Millennia properties have been reported across the country. In September, tenants at a Millennia property in North Little Rock, Arkansas, filed a $5 billion class-action lawsuit against the company after a gas explosion killed three residents the prior fall. In August 2022, a mother and daughter were killed following a gas leak at a Millennia property in Cleveland, Mississippi. A 2019 gas explosion at a Millennia property in Jacksonville, Florida, hospitalized seven residents. Durham’s Neighborhood Improvement Services Department’s inspections at JFK Towers in late July and early August resulted in 55 open cases and 157 open violations. Residents of JFK Towers spoke at an August 7 Durham City Council meeting about hazardous living conditions, repeatedly stressing the need to hold Millennia accountable and the limited options facing low-income disabled and elderly Durhamites.

Almost half a year later, many of the problems that put JFK Towers on the local news, and brought its residents to city hall, remain present. Residents confirmed recent flooding, widespread bedbugs and cockroaches, renovated units unfit for disabled residents, and a front door that has been broken long enough to warrant mention at Durham’s January 2 council meeting. “I have a tenant right now in my resident advocacy group that cannot fit her shower chair in her bathtub,” JFK Towers tenant Phyllis Bryant says. “She cannot reach her shower head because she’s petite. And she’s bathing by throwing basins of water over her head.” Bryant adds that Millennia “actually put the stove in a handicap unit out of reach of the fire sprinkler. With no thought that that is the main source of fire in a unit …. Millennia told our attorneys and told code enforcement, when asked about what they’d do if all the elevators go down, they said they would install a chairlift in the fire exits, in the fire stairwell.” Bryant’s current concerns regarding fire hazards mirror resident testimony from August’s council meeting, where resident Johnetta Alston spoke about fire alarms not working. “[On] Saturday JFK was on fire, but guess what? The alarms were turned off. By the time the residents on the third floor got down outside of the building—no fire trucks,” Alston said. “They had to call on their phones to get the fire trucks there, because the smoke was billowing in the hallway.” Over two months after Alston’s testimony, an October Quadel-MOR report—a review designed to assess the safety

and efficacy of affordable housing projects—found the fire alarm panel unplugged, thereby unable to trigger alarms or contact the fire department. The INDY asked Millennia about fire hazards at JFK, in light of other fatal incidents at Millennia properties, and received the following response: “Millennia assures the community that prompt action has been taken. The unplugged fire panel has been successfully repaired, and as part of the ongoing rehabilitation project, Millennia is in the process of ordering and scheduling the installation of a new fire panel as the safety of residents is a top priority.” The same Quadel report faulted Millennia for having “no effective preventative maintenance program for the property …. There was no evidence of periodic [unit] inspections in the files audited …. The property is not fully staffed with maintenance personnel.” Still, HUD’s recent actions against Millennia were spurred not by unsafe living conditions but by alleged financial mismanagement. “HUD found that Millennia Housing Management exercised financial mismanagement of tenant security deposit accounts and taxpayer funds providing housing assistance,” HUD wrote in a statement to the publication Atlanta Civic Circle. “The company and its president are immediately prohibited from entering into new business with any federal government agency, including HUD, and HUD is taking steps to bar Millennia CEO Frank T. Sinito and the Millennia Housing Management from all federal government programs, including the Section 8 program, for five years.” According to Millennia’s website, Millennia houses more than 86,000 people in 280 properties across 26 states, INDYweek.com January 24, 2024

with a specialization in affordable and senior housing. As of 2021, the company was receiving more than $137 million a year in federal subsidies. Millennia overtook management of JFK Towers from embattled developer Global Ministries in 2019 and formally purchased the property in 2022. Global Ministries began selling off all of its subsidized housing portfolio in 2016 after intense political scrutiny from HUD over living conditions and financial mismanagement, culminating in an August 2016 raid of Global Ministries offices in Cordova, Tennessee. According to an April 2022 letter from Millennia, the company had purchased more than 5,000 units of housing from Global Ministries’ portfolio. Affordable housing projects are appealing to investors due to low-interest loans, federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) programs, long housing waiting lists ensuring ample tenant pools, and federal rent subsidization through housing choice vouchers. Of the $35.35 million Millennia spent to acquire and renovate JFK Towers, $17.53 million in tax-exempt bonds came from the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA), $10.14 million came from LIHTCs, and $1.5 million came from the City of Durham. This financial breakdown allows developers such as Millennia to reap healthy profits on money loaned by the public, with government-subsidized rents from low-income taxpayers. Millennia’s tax application to the NCHFA shows a planned income of $2,272,680 annually, achieved by renting out the 177 units at $1,070 per month.

Durham taxpayers’ $1.5 million loan to Millennia for the construction was part of the city’s Forever Home, Durham, program, a $160 million initiative born of Durham’s 2019 affordable housing bond. As the INDY previously reported, Forever Home, Durham, presentations had marked JFK Towers’ 177 units as renovated and restored in April, and the organization repeated the assertion in an August presentation, after stories had broken regarding living conditions at JFK Towers.

key factor in awarding the loan. “One of the things that we were interested in was making sure that it was preserved as affordable housing,” Johnson says. “We didn’t want to risk losing that in the Durham community by having it go market rate.” However, NCHFA executive director Scott Farmer confirmed that the 30-year affordability period existed before the city’s $1.5 million loan (approved in February 2023), and was stipulated as part of Mil-

“JFK was on fire, but guess what? The alarms were turned off. By the time the residents on the third floor got down outside of the building—no fire trucks.” Durham community development director Reginald Johnson clarified that the $1.5 million loan from the City of Durham, closed in February 2023, acted as stopgap financing to help Millennia pay off debt associated with the JFK Towers acquisition. Johnson described the process for receiving Forever Home, Durham, funding as “competitive” and said the loan from the City of Durham stipulates an affordability period of 30 years for all of JFK’s units, a

lennia’s tax-exempt bond with the NCHFA (approved in January 2022). Even leading up to 2022, before the approval of the tax-exempt bond, or Durham’s loan, evidence of Millennia’s mismanagement was public. Most notably, a 2021 investigative series from The Houston Chronicle titled “Living Hell” documented Millennia properties around the country. The series detailed unpaid bills on behalf of Millennia, consistently hazardous health

conditions, managerial misconduct, and a consistent failure on behalf of agencies, from the local to federal level, to hold Millennia accountable. A more recent Fox13 Memphis investigation in August discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in liens filed against Millennia by unpaid contractors across the mid-South. As of January 9, Millennia’s Google profile shows 33 separate reviews from contractors and vendors alleging unpaid invoices. When asked if Millennia had any outstanding unpaid invoices for work completed in Durham County, defined as work billed on or before December 15, Millennia said that “it is inaccurate that Millennia does not pay its contractors” but did not provide a direct answer regarding contractors in Durham. While HUD’s statement limits Millennia’s future actions, it offers no course of action for current Millennia tenants. Tenants and advocates at August’s city council meeting painted a grim picture of living in deplorable conditions, but with rising rents across the city combined with the realities of being elderly or disabled, there are few options of where else to go. “This is a long-going situation in Durham as it relates to our seniors of low means. JFK has been experiencing problems for a long time,” Durham resident and former city council member Jacqueline Wagstaff said at the meeting in August. “It’s hard on residents when they’re under the thumb of the government, and their housing is reliant on that, to actually be brave enough to come out and stand up. I’m happy that these residents have come out tonight.” 2

JFK Towers Financial Breakdown for All + Mobility-Impaired Units ALL UNITS

MOBILITYIMPAIRED UNITS

GROSS YEARLY RENTAL INCOME

Low-Income

177

2,272,680

Market-Rate

Totals

177

2,272,680

Mobility impaired: 5% of units comply with QAP Section IV(F)(4)

Persons with disabilities or persons experiencing homelessness:

(in addition to the units required by other federal and state codes)

Minimum number of units required: 18 DATA FROM JFK TOWERS’ APPLICATION TO THE NC HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

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Taking the Bench Wake County has several races for district court judges’ seats this primary election cycle. Here’s who’s running. BY JASMINE GALLUP jgallup@indyweek.com

his year, 12 district court judges will be elected in Wake County—and for the next four years, they will have the power to decide whether to turn children over to foster care, grant restraining orders, or incarcerate people for misdemeanors such as assault, reckless driving, or possession of marijuana. Although races in these courts often receive little attention in election years, judges’ decisions have life-changing impacts. In Durham, for instance, district court judges have torn families apart by placing children in foster care and keeping them away from parents who are fighting for custody. “Typically the cases you see at the district court level are criminal misdemeanor cases,” says Jamie Paulen, a Hillsborough-based attorney who has worked across the Triangle. “When I worked in Alamance [County] representing protesters, all of the protester trials were tried as bench trials, meaning there’s no jury; there’s just a judge.” In addition to adjudicating criminal misdemeanors, these judges also deal with traffic violations, family law cases, juvenile cases, civil cases (involving less than $10,000), and a variety of other matters. But when it comes time to elect judges, there’s little information available, says Paulen. “The importance of judicial races is not well appreciated,” she says. “I don’t think people are thinking, ‘What happens if I get misidentified as a criminal and I have to go to court? Who would I want to have taking a look at that case?’” As someone who’s worked extensively in district courts, Paulen says she wants judges who are fair—meaning those who don’t automatically side with the people in power such as law enforcement officers, prosecutors, or county social services. 8

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“You need a judge who doesn’t automatically believe law enforcement is telling the truth,” Paulen says, citing the BRADY list, which was created to track officers whose behavior on the job has been called into question. “It would be the same in any kind of civil contest. You don’t want a judge who’s going to automatically think that moms will make better parents or that dads should pay more because they’re supposed to be making more money.” Electing judges without biases is impossible, but “you need to have people that are willing to evaluate their biases and try to understand them and mitigate against them,” Paulen says. “If you’re a Black male, you want to believe that the person in front of you is going to treat you exactly the same as a white lady who has the same charges.” Many of the judges up for election in Wake County this year are running unopposed, but four races will be determined in the March 5 primary. In those parts of the county (namely, District 10) some newcomers are challenging judges who have been on the bench for more than a decade, offering alternative perspectives on criminal justice, while one seat is up for grabs as a long-serving judge retires from the bench.

District 10A, Seat 3 Wake County’s district court is divided into six subdistricts, each served by three or so judges. In District 10A, which encom-

passes northern Wake County, incumbent Cindy Kenney is facing challenger Douglas R. Brown, a criminal defense attorney and former assistant district attorney for Wake County. Brown, who graduated from law school at UNC-Chapel Hill, has more than 25 years of experience in Wake County as both a prosecutor and defense attorney. In a letter to the Wake County Bar Association, he wrote that he has completed “more than 50 jury trials and thousands of bench trials.” “I always strive to be fair and even-tempered,” Brown added. “With my breadth and depth of experience, I am in a unique position to have a positive impact on people who come through our Wake County courts.” In 2022, Gov. Roy Cooper appointed Kenney, also a graduate of the UNC-CH law school, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Daniel Nagle. Prior to her appointment to the district court, Kenney worked as an assistant district attorney in Wake and Durham Counties, prosecuting cases of child abuse, drug trafficking, and homicide, among others. Most recently, she worked for the NC Department of Commerce hearing appeals related to decisions on unemployment benefits and other labor issues.

District 10C, Seat 3 In District 10C, which includes North

Raleigh, incumbent Anna Elena Worley is up against challenger Renee Jordan, a defense attorney. Jordan, who graduated from Campbell Law School in 2005, represents clients charged with felonies, misdemeanors, DWIs, and traffic violations, according to her website. She’s been working as a defense attorney across North Carolina for 19 years. Worley, who first assumed office in 2009, has been a district court judge for 15 years, specializing in family law. In family court, she’s heard cases involving “custody, child support, spousal support, division of property, and divorce,” she wrote in response to a 2016 INDY questionnaire. “The families of Wake County deserve a judiciary that remembers that children feel the effects of our courts’ decisions, even when they are not parties to an action,” she added. In her years on the bench Worley has also “chosen to participate in groups and organizations that work to protect those with the least access to resources, the least access to education, and the least access to justice,” she wrote. Her work has included advocating for refugees, tutoring children for whom English is a second language, and representing domestic violence survivors pro bono.

District 10D, Seat 5 In District 10D—a sprawling subdistrict that includes southern Wake County and

western Raleigh—longtime judge Debra Ann Sasser is not running for reelection. After 19 years, Sasser’s seat is up for grabs by either Blair Williams, Wake County Clerk of Superior Court, or Kevin Boxberger, a public defender. Williams, who graduated from Campbell Law School in 1995, was elected as superior court clerk in 2018. As clerk, he handles the court’s record-keeping but also deals with cases of guardianship and probate matters like executing wills. Prior to his election, Williams worked in the clerk’s office for eight years, helping with cases in the estates, civil, and special proceedings divisions. He has also worked as a private attorney, helping clients with issues of estate planning, elder law, guardianship, and power of attorney. Boxberger, on the other hand, has spent much of his 11-year legal career as a defense attorney, primarily representing people who could not afford a lawyer. He’s handled criminal, juvenile, and traffic cases, working with clients charged with anything from speeding to homicide. In 2022, Boxberger was hired as a regional defender for the NC Office of Indigent Defense Services, the public defender’s office. There, Boxberger oversees public defenders in eight counties including Wake. Boxberger’s “decade-long practice in criminal defense … highlights a dedication to the underrepresented,” his website states. “Moreover, the mentorship [Boxberger] provides and the sought-after advice from fellow attorneys speak volumes about the respect he commands in the legal community.”

District 10E, Seat 3 In District 10E, which encompasses South Raleigh, Crystal Grimes, a public defender who represents people charged with felonies in Wake County, is challenging Democratic incumbent Eric Craig Chasse, who has served for 17 years. Democratic governor Michael Easley appointed Chasse as a district court judge in 2007. During his time on the bench, he’s served in abuse/neglect/dependency court and judged juvenile delinquency matters. Today, Chasse serves mostly in criminal court, hearing pleas related to Class H and I felonies. These less serious felonies—including assault, hit and run, sale of controlled substances, and possession of cocaine or marijuana—can still result in up to three years in prison. When not in court, Chasse also handles hundreds of expungement petitions, making decisions on whether to remove criminal charges from residents’ records. 2

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NOTICE OF DURHAM COUNTY PRIMARY AND ELECTION Tuesday, March 5, 2024

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The Primary and Election for Durham County will be held in Durham County, NC on Tuesday May 17th. All Durham County precincts will be open from 6:30 am until 7:30 pm.

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17-year-old Durham County voters who are registered and will be 18 years old on or before Nov. 8, 2022, may vote in Durham’s Primary. 17-year-olds are not permitted to vote in School Board or Town of Cary elections. Party primaries will be open to voters registered with that respective party. Unaffiliated voters may vote a non-partisan ballot that will only include the School Board Election and Town of Cary (if applicable) OR choose to participate in either the Republican or Democratic primaries. Registered Libertarians will be given a non-partisan ballot. The following contests will be on the Durham County ballots*: • • • • • •

US President US Congress NC Council of State NC General Assembly Durham County Board of Commissioners Durham County Board of Education (Final Election)

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*Offices will only appear on your ballot if you are eligible to vote for the respective contest.

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ABSENTEE ONE-STOP (EARLY VOTING) LOCATIONS South Regional Library 4505 S. Alston Ave., Durham

North Regional Library 221 Milton Rd., Durham

East Regional Library 211 Lick Creek Lane., Durham

Duke University – Karsh Alumni Center 2080 Duke University Road, Durham

Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 4907 Garrett Rd., Durham

Durham County Main Library 300 N Roxboro St., Durham

NCCU Law School 640 Nelson St., Durham

Donna Everhart: When the Jessamine Grows MON 1.29 7:00 PM

Early voting schedule: Thursday, February 15, 2024 – Saturday, March 2, 2024 Hours are consistent at all four early voting sites. • • • •

Weekdays: 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturdays (February 17th and 24th): 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday (March 2nd): 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sundays: 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE: The voter registration deadline for the Primary and Election is Friday, February 9, 2024 (25 days prior). Voters that miss the registration deadline may register and vote during the Early Voting period. Voters who are currently registered need not re-register. Registered voters who have moved or changed other information since the last election should notify the Board of Elections of that change by February 9th. Party changes are not permitted after the voter registration deadline.

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SAME DAY REGISTRATION: Voters are allowed to register and vote during early voting. It is quicker and easier to register in advance, but if you have not registered you can do so during Early Voting with proper identification. This same day registration is not allowed at polling places on Election Day. For more details on the requirements associated with Same-Day Registration during Early Voting, visit our website at https://www.dcovotes.com/voters/voting/early-voting. Information regarding registration, polling locations, absentee voting, or other election matters may be obtained by contacting the Board of Elections. Website: www.dcovotes.com Phone: 919-560-0700

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Civic Duty Hillside High School students propose their own solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time. BY CHASE PELLEGRINI DE PAUR chase@indyweek.com

Hillside High School student Khya Rounds, 15, talks about their group civics project at the Hillside High School Civic Action Project Expo. PHOTO BY ANGELICA EDWARDS

n a January morning at Durham’s Hillside High School, more than 100 civics students presented possible solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time: gun violence, the housing crisis, climate change, criminal justice, and education. The students, who spent the last month dreaming up these solutions, filled the entrance hall with tri-fold poster boards and presented their ideas to peers, teachers, and community leaders. The idea for the expo came from Hillside teachers in 2019 but didn’t start in its current form until 2021, following the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. At stake were grades, glory, and a $100 cash prize for the winner, to be determined by a popular vote. Students Karma Livingston, Niya Shands, and Dorian Vaughan stood in front of “Can’t Stand the Rain,” their project about rain gardens featuring colored-pencil illustrations of weather patterns, an umbrella, and a house swept up in waves. They were inspired to look at the issue of flooding because, well, it’s something they see a lot around Durham. “Every time it rains you get a flash flood and you can tell that it’s a major issue,” one of the group members tells the INDY. Their project also pointed out that annual precipitation in North Carolina is expected to rise over the next 20 years. 10

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The “Can’t Stand the Rain” team laid out the process for building rain gardens, bowlshaped areas “designed to capture and soak in rainwater.” They would need to find sites, check the soil, and select plants that could withstand a deluge. The students also identified some of the stakeholders to consult, such as the City of Durham Watershed Special Projects and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension. One stakeholder in attendance, Durham City Council member Javiera Caballero, says the rain garden project stood out to her because of its eye-catching illustrations and intriguing title. Another project that Caballero liked was designed to reduce accidental gun violence by increasing access to secure storage options for firearms. “I told them to figure out participatory budgeting,” Caballero says, referring to the city process that allows residents as young as 13 to decide how to spend $2.4 million of city money. “Those are the kinds of projects that we can fund, right?” But she had to tell students that some ideas—like raising the age to purchase firearms—would be impossible for a city government to implement. Frances Starn, a Hillside teacher who organized this year’s expo, says that some of her students ran into that bleak reality of American policy. “Gun violence in particular, is some-

thing that they do not feel optimistic about changing. Especially because it affects some of them so deeply and closely,” says Starn. Last year, 17-year-old Hillside student Anthony Feaster was shot and killed near the school by another teen. Avoidable deaths like Feaster’s, combined with the constant drip of headlines about school shootings across the country and a state and federal government that seem to be paralyzed and apathetic, make it hard to convince teens that they live in a country that cares about their lives and their futures. Still, Starn says it’s her job to teach her students how to imagine a better world. As a lifelong Durhamite, the project, to her, is about getting “the kids thinking more about our place and why it’s important and how they can affect it.” So she asked them to “just pretend like we’re in an alternate universe where things could be different.” “There is some future in which things are different. Can we imagine a future that is better? What got it there?” she says. Another project about gun violence called “Got Shot? Get Help!” looked at how to reduce rates of recidivism among victims. The authors—Diamond Hodges, Emily Ugalde Rodriguez, Abigail Armas, and Karen Campos—displayed on their poster board that “being the victim of gun violence also increases chances of the person becoming the perpetrator of violence,”

citing statistics from Everytown for Gun Safety and news from WRAL. In response, they proposed increasing hospital victim intervention programs in Durham to help break that cycle of violence, a solution that could save money and lives. The students are upset about gun violence but not entirely disheartened. “You should never give up,” a group member tells the INDY. “It’s all about your mind-set and how you work on it.” Other students were well aware of the potential for star power to attract attention. One project, “Get You a Job Guaranteed” by Christopher Mason and Janiyah Thorpe, featured a photo of a smiling Mayor Leonardo Williams, who was in attendance. Their project included a plan for job fairs to help people who don’t want to go to college. Thorpe says that making change in a community is possible. But only “if everybody wants to.” And while the board featuring the photo of Mayor Williams didn’t win, Starn says Williams did invite the authors of the winning project, “Can’t Stand the Rain,” to present to the city council. To Starn and other teachers, the project is about showing their students that student’s voices do matter in the community; a civics education, after all, is about exploring the relationship between an individual and their civilization. 2

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SAM BEAM, RECENT VISUAL WORKS

Through Sunday, Jan. 28 | Peel Gallery, Carrboro | peel.gallery.com

Sam Beam PHOTO BY LORRAINE PORTMAN

SAM BEAM: [Peel’s owner Lindsay Metivier] had someone scheduled, and something happened where they couldn’t do it, so she had a hole in the calendar. They called me up to see. At first, I was like, “I don’t have time.” And then, you know, I’m glad it all worked out.

That’s funny, I was gonna ask, “Why now?” It sounds like it was a bit of a coincidence. Sometimes I just need somebody to kick my ass and get me in gear, because there was never going to be a right time. Sometimes the opportunity comes up and you just jump for it.

You’ve been making art—visual art—for a long time. Can you tell me about your background in drawing and painting? I’ve been drawing ever since I was a little kid. That was always my happy place, up in my room with my drawing paper. Did it all through school, went to art school thinking I was gonna be a painter, got into photography and filmmaking, and then went on to do that stuff—and was always just doing music as a hobby, honestly. I mean, I feel like it was much more a surprise that I ended up pursuing music than it was pursuing art.

You describe drawing and painting in your artist’s statement as a “meditative practice.” How does that complement your music-making?

Time After Time Chatting with Durham artist Sam Beam—also known as the singersongwriter behind Iron & Wine—about his first visual arts show. BY TASSO HARTZOG music@indyweek.com

ast week, Sam Beam found himself in an unfamiliar though not entirely unexpected position: holding court at his own art opening. Best known as the singer-songwriter behind Iron & Wine, Beam, who lives in Durham, spent much of his life pursuing the visual arts. He studied painting in college, got a graduate degree in film, then worked as a professor at Miami International University of Art & Design, teaching film and cinematography, before quitting to tour in support of his 2004 album, Our Endless Numbered Days. Music was just a hobby that accidentally took off—a plan B, maybe even a plan C, that became plan A. Sam Beam, Recent Visual Works, on view now at Peel Gallery in Carrboro, is the latest expression of Beam’s seemingly inexhaustible creative drive. The show is small but vibrant.

Filling two walls are several dozen black-and-white paintings of a serpent tangling with two nude figures—“Snake Dance,” Beam calls the series. More works hang from the ceiling: colorful collages of jumbled animal forms and mesmerizing quilts that Beam made from painted cardboard. Soon after the opening, Beam left for Los Angeles to promote Who Can See Forever, a new film about his life and music. He spoke with the INDY by video call about making and breaking patterns, wearing many hats, and feeling jealous of animals. INDY: This show at Peel was your first exhibition of visual work outside of your album covers, right? Tell me a little bit about how that came about.

I have a certain amount of creative energy that has to come out somewhere. You either put it towards painting, or drawing, or whatever art you’re making—or music. Whatever your day says that you have time to do. Specifically, I’ve been [making art] while I’m on tour. You end up with a lot of downtime on tour, waiting around, and so it’s been great to have something to do that I enjoy. The “Snake Dance” piece wasn’t really about drawing people; it was about drawing shapes and getting lost in the patterns, doing several of them, and developing the style of it. It became something that I could repeat and, like I said, find variations in. Some are more painterly, some are more sketchy. But it’s a similar thing that I do with music. You stumble into a phrase or a melody, and you sit with it and keep working at it and working at it until you find some song that you’re eventually OK with walking away from.

All the works in the show engage in pattern and repetition in some way. What’s the draw there for you? Is pattern-breaking something you also think about in music? Definitely, yeah. You’re trying to find a framework, a series of chords, and then you try to find ways to balance the INDYweek.com January 24, 2024

uniformity [with] moments of improvisation—moments of breaking the pattern in interesting ways. Visual art works similarly, especially the stuff that I have in the show. You know, the quilt pieces—I mean, my mom made quilts, and I love that tradition. It’s often very hard-and-fast rules of patterning and design. But in making the cardboard quilts, you can kind of break [the pattern] up.

Maybe there’s some similarity between the tradition of quilting and the genre of music that you tend to work in. There’s a deep tradition with certain ways of making patterns or telling stories, and you seem interested in taking that tradition and doing something else with it.

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Definitely. I mean, it’s always a balance. Enjoying, celebrating the tradition, but also pushing, nudging it along—or trying to.

I’ve seen you described as a Renaissance man. Is that a description you embrace? I mean, it sounds silly—it sounds like I should have a very frilly hat on—but I feel like what they mean is I’ve dabbled in a lot of different mediums. I mean, I love doing that. I enjoy them all. If I were to only do music, I think it would get really tiresome or tedious. It’s a great way to just sort of mix

up your life—variety, that kind of thing. So, yeah, I guess I am. But no, I really don’t ever think about it. I’m just a busybody.

You sing a lot about animals, and you’re interested in nature, but it doesn’t seem like you’re interested in a “pure” idea of nature. In these paintings, too, the animals are kind of amalgamations of different things. Yeah. They’re like a dream. In poetry, people include animals a lot because they’ve always represented a knowing creature in the world that is different than us—that is in connection with the world in a way that we are separate. So we’re always slightly jealous, and we hold them, and there’s a mystery around them that we feel left out [of]. So I love talking about animals or talking about our relationship with drawing animals, because they’ve always had a power to us. I’m talking on very basic levels. And I see that magic—that’s what I like to borrow from for my artwork.

Do you ever feel jealous of animals? All the time. Hate putting on shoes, hate having to wear a coat. Just imagine if you didn’t have to do that. 2 This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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NOW recognizes the 51st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade January 22, 2024

“While Roe was a watershed moment that catapulted women closer to achieving full equality, Dobbs reversed half a century of progress.” –CHRISTIAN NUNES, NOW PRESIDENT

—ASHLEY ALL

Communication & Political Strategist

“People now see the real consequences of these bans. They see children having to cross state lines to get care. They see women almost dying in childbirth. So they don’t buy the arguments the other side is making.”

“Dobbs changed everything.” –ASHLEY ALL

We, the undersigned, support women’s right to safe, legal and accessible birth control and abortion. We condemn acts of violence and intimidation directed at women and their health care providers. We agree that these rights extend to all women regardless of economic status and, as taxpayers, affirm our support of public funding for family planning services and funding for abortions for indigent women. Jeanne Abbott Jacquelyn Cephas Abram Brooke Adams Michael Adamson Virginia Adamson Jennifer Albright Jana Albritton Robin Allen Susan Anderson Molly Arnold Ann Ashford Donna Baily Ethelyn Holden Baker Representative Cynthia Ball Dr. Marjorie A. Baney Krista Barbour Esther Barkley Deirdre Barlaz Mort Barlaz Marla Barthen Betsy Baste Kenille Baumgardner Karen Bearden Melissa Beattie Shana Becker Betsy Bickel Sue Bielawski Andrea Biondi Nancy Blood Tolly Boatwright Mary Bolstad Randy Booker Penelope Booze Foss Suzanne Botts Susane Boukamel James Glenn Boyd Vicki Vars Boyer Chad Boykin Beverly Branaman Yevonne Brannon Luis Bravo Aliza Bricklin Leigh Briggs Virginia Bristol Deborah Brogden Kermit E. Brown Tammy Brunner Pat Bullard

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CHATHAM COUNTY LINE: HIYO

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Bluegrass Unbound After 15 years spent patiently evolving, Chatham County Line lets loose on new album Hiyo. BY JORDAN LAWRENCE music@indyweek.com

, Chatham County Line’s frankly titled fourth album, and Hiyo, the trio’s soon-to-be-released 10th album, were recorded about a decade and a half apart in the same place, Asheville’s Echo Mountain. The studio, a converted Methodist sanctuary, has become a recording destination for adventurous acts of a variety of stripes (Steve Martin, The Avett Brothers, Sylvan Esso). At the time that the decidedly bluegrass band—then consisting of guitarist and lead singer Dave Wilson, mandolinist John Teer, bass/pedal steel player Greg Reading, and banjo player Chandler Holt—recorded IV, though, Echo Mountain had only been open a couple of years. “It was clean,” Wilson recalls. “Brand new.” The intervening years have worn the space, he muses, but they’ve also given it an ineffable something it didn’t have before. “It felt so cool to go back all these years later, and the 22

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stairs are all scratched up and there’s dust bunnies in the corner,” he said. “It’s just like, ‘Oh man, this place has got the mojo now.’ I mean, it had it back then, but it really is lived-in now and it’s been vibrated.” Time has also worn and reshaped Chatham County Line. And like Echo Mountain, they’re all the better for it. Born in 1999 following the dissolution of Reading and Wilson’s previous Raleigh folk-rock band, Stillhouse, the group progressed through three straightforward and increasingly pristine bluegrass albums on their way to IV. Through the years and albums that followed after, the group increasingly clawed at the strict confines of traditional bluegrass instrumentation. They were already doing it, really, expertly layering in Reading’s dreamy pedal steel. But subsequent albums saw the band add drums, an accompaniment often seen as a cardinal sin among bluegrass purists, and piano, stepping beyond the style’s rigid structures.

A rebellious rock ’n’ roll spirit has long defined Chatham County Line, as evidenced by the fully electrified holiday tours the group went on annually, even as they continued to famously play and sing live around a single mic the rest of the year. That mojo is fully realized on Hiyo, a warmly futuristic vision of what old-time-leaning folk can be in 2024. It’s marked not just by earnest and energetic pickin’ and singin’, but by synthesizers and drum machines and the sumptuously reverberating production aesthetic of Rachael Moore, a close T Bone Burnett collaborator. This is all a stunning, but not altogether unexpected, evolution for the band, an affirmation of the freedom they’ve been seeking since they crystallized their acoustic prowess on that first trip to Echo Mountain. Chatham County Line isn’t the only group pushing the frontiers of bluegrass. Wilson says that once folks like psych-grass phenom Billy Strings began to be accepted into the genre, the landscape felt wide open, and fellow Tar Heel luminaries Steep Canyon Rangers are as much an Americana act these days as they are a bluegrass band. “It’s kind of when they quit caring about what other people thought and made an album really to move themselves,” Wilson says of the feeling he gets from some of his all-time favorite albums. “That’s kind of the moment that always makes a special record, I’ve found. And this album, I don’t know how to describe it. It was like we just didn’t care anymore.” One of Chatham County Line’s tethers to bluegrass was Holt’s banjo, the driving engine of the group during its more traditional days. In 2020, Holt stepped away from the band after two decades to spend more time with family. An electrifying picker, his presence never held the band back, but his instrument remained the backbone of their sound. “We were sort of beholden to a certain style, being all acoustic and using the banjo,” Wilson explains. “Dropping that instrument, it just kicks open the door to a whole new world and a whole new way to live.” The pandemic, while certainly unwelcome, became an opportunity to gestate budding notions of what the band could become. Wilson, shaken by a time that was “so freaking weird and negative,” stalled in his concerted songwriting, instead randomly recording and writing down snippets of ideas, a process he compares to Jackson Browne’s famous penchant for calling his answering machine to get down emerging inspirations.

Building up the new live version of the group was another crucial step, as pedals and effects and amps became ingrained elements. Wilson started tuning his guitar to an open G, the way Keith Richards does, mimicking the traditional tuning of a banjo. Another essential piece of the puzzle was delivered when Chatham County Line was cast to play members of the band backing George Jones and Tammy Wynette on George & Tammy, the Showtime series starring Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon, which began filming in late 2021. It was there that they met Moore, who helped T Bone Burnett with the show’s music, connecting them with a producer with the forward-looking vision to help the band realize its evolution. The resulting collection is beautifully ethereal and wistful. The songs fixate on the beginnings and endings of relationships—inspired in part by the band’s own time of transition—but they keep an eye glued hopefully to the unreachable horizon. The accompanying music is both distinct and distinctly modern. Leadoff song and lead single “Right on Time” praises a woman who was “right on time / To take my mind and start it over,” as echoing electric guitar and bass, fiddle, and drums bound through a wide-screen folk-rock vista with an old-time heart and a futuristic sparkle. On “Magic,” angelic electronic chirps and steady drums reinforce giddily loping acoustic picking, as Wilson opines, “The night is young and the feeling’s right / I got a little buzz, but baby that’s all right,” enraptured by a budding romance. “Lone Ranger’’ brings ghostly electric blues that echo from beyond the veil, bolstering them with soothing acoustic drone, a transfixing and effective curveball. Balancing his anxiety about spending just one night with a woman, Wilson looks backward and forward: “As a boy I lived for television on Saturdays / Cartoons, cowboys, showing me the way / I still check under, getting into bed most nights / Made mistakes but I was brought up right.” The album’s lone instrumental, the elegiacally loping old-time interlude “Way Down Yonder,” serves as firm assurance that this is still Chatham County Line. They’ve simply left behind constraints that no longer feel important. “The mind and the heart and the soul behind it” is still the same, Wilson says. “Harmony singing and singing together has kind of always been our thing …. We never were a flashy solo band or anything like that. So it’s really just hard work and harmony to me that makes it representative of what this band does.” 2

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SLUICE WITH ALLI BLOIS

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Deep Waters As Sluice, Durham’s Justin Morris writes music that, full of memory and close observation, converges at the place where humans and nature meet. BY TASSO HARTZOG music@indyweek.com

hen he was a kid, Justin Morris would leave home in Winston-Salem each summer for a family trip to Virginia. “On the old backroads, we’d pass a historical marker, and the marker was for Slink Shoal Sluice,” he recalls. Every summer, without a clue what it meant, he’d think, “That’s the craziest combination of words.” A sluice, Morris would soon learn, is a channel for controlling the flow of water. So captivating was the awkward, alliterative music of the historical marker that Sluice—capital S—became the name of Morris’s songwriting project in 2019. An obsession with water infrastructure abides: Radial Gate, his album released in March 2023, takes its title 24

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from an apparatus used in the spillways of dams. According to the cosmology of Justin Morris, everything is water; listen to any song on Radial Gate and you’ll hear it. “I jump the bank a lanky otter,” he sings on “Fourth of July” over the twang of a pedal steel. “I am looking at water hitting water.” Even when Morris isn’t singing about rivers, his songs follow their fluid logic. Each gentle word floats like a raft downstream, meandering through scenes that form little eddies in the flow of narrative time. Morris through-composes his songs, forgoing verses and choruses. The result is a discography that feels like a collection of short stories, though Morris rarely fictionalizes.

When he turns his writerly attention on a spot where the “river bends to a pool” on the song “Mill,” for example, you get the sense that he has a particular curve in mind, because he does. It’s next to Occoneechee Mountain. “If I’m trying to write something that is true—quote-unquote true, whatever that means,” he tells me, “just talking about my experiences and where they happened is a route, for me, of getting close to achieving that.” Morris’s songs, rich with memory and close observation, are rooted in North Carolina’s landscape, and particularly in the semirural environs west of Durham where he lives. Once, Morris says, he was wading in the Eno River with his bandmate Oliver Child-Lanning and Child-Lanning’s partner when lightning struck the water. As it happened, they were all singing the Bill Callahan song “Drinking at the Dam.” The story (too perfect to be made up) eventually became “Fourth of July”: “I am a cartoon Callahan,” Morris sings on the track, playfully acknowledging one of his most important influences. “I am the man getting struck by lightning.” On a sunny January afternoon, I met Morris—tall, genial, a hugger rather than a hand-shaker—at the rental property he shares with Child-Lanning. The two had just finished a series of 12-hour recording sessions for the new Sluice record, alongside drummer Avery Sullivan and a few other collaborators, and were recuperating outside with coffee and archery. Standing on a grassy slope below a makeshift stage, Morris slotted an arrow into his recurve bow, drew back the string, and let go. Child-Lanning and his friend Walt sat in lawn chairs behind Morris. To their right was a goat pen with three residents: Pretty Saro, Tupelo, and Flora. Until recently, Morris and Child-Lanning built things for a living; the goat pen was their handiwork. But a few months ago, following the success of Radial Gate (Pitchfork reviewed it positively, and The Guardian put it on a best-of-2023 list alongside the likes of Lana Del Rey and Lil Yachty), both quit their day jobs. This month, Sluice set out on their first headlining tour. “We’re both figuring out what being a quote-unquote fulltime musician would be like,” Morris said, now sitting beside Child-Lanning. From the vantage of our lawn chairs, with the afternoon sun on the meadow grass, being a full-time musician didn’t look so bad: archery, fresh air, a few goats. (“It’s like sitting at the beach,” Walt quipped.) The whole music thing has not all been a beach for Morris, though. When he was younger, he imagined a future for himself as a working musician; he studied music technology at UNC-Asheville, where he met future collaborator Alli Rogers (who performs as Alli Blois and engineered Radial Gate) and the members of Wednesday. But by his midtwenties, Morris was “explicitly in a state of despair about music.” When he released his first album as Sluice, in 2019, he defiantly posted it online with no promotion: “art for art’s sake.” Radial Gate’s positive reception has been “incredibly

validating,” Morris says—especially among fellow musicians in North Carolina’s lively scene, of which he has become an integral part. When he’s not performing as Sluice, Morris plays in the Durham band Fust and in Weirs, his and Child-Lanning’s experimental-folk duo. “A rich community is something that I’ve been wanting for a long time,” he explains, “and I feel like it exists, which I’m incredibly grateful for.” In December, Sluice opened for Asheville’s Angel Olsen at a packed Haw River Ballroom. It was the last day of the tour, and when I spoke to Morris, shortly before the show, he confessed to feeling a little exhausted. Thirty minutes later, none of that was evident. Morris and his bandmates—Child-Lanning on bass, Sullivan on drums, and Libby Rodenbough on fiddle—worked the crowd into a trance with “Ostern,” Radial Gate’s instrumental opener, which builds slowly toward a sublime conflux. Morris and Sullivan grinned at each other. The audience looked on, rapt and remarkably quiet. Haw River Ballroom, a converted cotton mill on the bank of the Haw, was a fitting venue for Sluice. A sluice, like a mill, is “something very industrial, and kind of ugly, that has to do with something very natural and very beautiful and very lifegiving,” Morris tells me. ”Exploring where those lines can blur a little bit is interesting.” That night, while Morris sang about spillways and swimming, river water slid by in the darkness at a rate of 100 cubic feet per second. The songs on Radial Gate tend to inhabit messy riparian ecosystems where the human and the nonhuman converge, where beer cans get caught in cattails. “I’ve had no revelations in the wilderness,” Morris admits on “Acts 9:3”—maybe because wilderness has become somewhat of a fantasy in the Anthropocene. In the same song, Morris is walking toward Damascus when Jesus appears in a flash of light. Here’s the catch: It’s basically a true story, like all of Sluice’s songs. It turns out that Morris was hiking on the Appalachian Trail toward Damascus, Virginia, near the border with Tennessee, and the Jesus character was actually a guy who stopped at a trail crossing to chat, share a couple beers, and offer Morris some oxycodone. The flash of light was the guy’s Ram truck glinting in the sun. When the truth is as interesting as it is, “we should just say exactly what happened,” Morris insists. “There’s no reason to obfuscate that.” The real world is never pure in Sluice’s wry but sincere songs, but it is always beautiful. 2

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reud’s Last Session, the talky and cerebral UK film in theaters this week, is the kind of movie we don’t see much anymore. Adapted from a stage play, it’s a movie about two people talking—in this case, two of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The setup is intriguing. Set in the anxious days before World War II, the script imagines an extended London encounter between world-famous neurologist Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) and author C. S. Lewis (Matthew Goode), the Oxford scholar and theologian who gave us The Chronicles of Narnia. Did this auspicious summit actually take place? Probably not, but maybe. Historians tell us that Freud did indeed meet with “a famed Oxford don” around this time, in his London home. It’s a delicious slice of conjecture. Lewis was, at the time, the world’s most famous Christian thinker and apologist, which in this context just means an advocate and public defender. Freud, of course, was an avowed atheist, man of science, and the father of psychoanalysis. “I am a passionate disbeliever who is obsessed with ancient belief,” he tells Lewis in the film. “Yours included.” As you might imagine, it’s a pretty good discussion. Freud and Lewis cover a lot of ground. God. Death. Free will. Despair. Fathers. Daughters. Sex. War. Morphine. Dental prostheses. And, of course, cigars. Freud calls Christianity a “ludicrous dream, an insidious lie.” Lewis stands his ground. “You don’t have to be an imbecile to believe in God,” he says. “Those of who do are not suffering from an obsessional neurosis.” The film is strictly even-handed and gives each man’s perspective equal time and rhetorical weight. The dialogue is heightened,

and screenwriter Mark St. Germain’s use of language is gorgeous. Meanwhile, director Matthew Brown stitches in some new threads to open up the stagy nature of the script. (It’s still pretty stagy.) Freud, we learn, is suffering from terminal oral cancer and some deep regrets, explored in dream sequences and flashbacks. When air-raid sirens send the pair to a nearby church cellar, another brutal flashback sequence explores Lewis’s lingering trauma from World War I. The most compelling subplot involves Freud’s adult daughter Anna, a fierce thinker in her own right who would go on to pioneer the field of child psychoanalysis. In this film, Freud treats her cruelly, even as

she tries to care for him in his final weeks. As Anna, German actress Liv Lisa Fries very nearly steals the film, and I was surprised to find I wanted the story to follow her up and out of that grim London mansion. The rolling conversation between the men is never less than engaging, and Hopkins holds the frame effortlessly, as always, with those ancient Welsh eyes. But Anna is the character I really cared about, in the end. Freud’s Last Session is effective as a kind of staged thought experiment, but as a film it never really finds its groove. The visuals are muddy and sometimes gaudy (those dream sequences!), and the intrusive musical score is a sustained bummer. Still, it’s a great opportunity for that noble ritual of after-movie debate. Why not keep the discussion going? After all, the film raises questions at the very core of the human condition. Those who value the art of good conversation will appreciate the film, I think. You can get to places in dialogue that you just can’t get to in your own head. The best exchange comes near the end. “It was madness to think we could explain the greatest mystery of all time,” Freud says. “No, there’s a greater madness,” Lewis replies. “Not to think of it at all.” 2

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Recent History The latest season of Scene on Radio hones in on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and its reverberations today. BY CHASE PELLEGRINI DE PAUR chase@indyweek.com

he sixth season of Scene on Radio, “Echoes of a Coup,” begins with a reminder of January 6, 2021. But “Echoes of a Coup” doesn’t stay in the present—or in Washington—for long. Instead, the season co-produced by Michael A. Betts II and John Biewen tells the story of Wilmington in 1898, when “men openly proclaiming white supremacy, in a well-planned conspiracy, removed the city’s mayor and city council at gunpoint.” It was a coup and a massacre that white newspapers at the time referred to as a race riot. It’s also a story that, like many stories of American violence, still isn’t taught as widely as it should be. In the first episode, the hosts tell the story of the multiracial democracy that could have been in Wilmington. They introduce us to the heroic thinkers Abraham Galloway and David Walker. And they leave us with a reminder: History doesn’t just write itself. We actively decide who to remember, who to honor, and who to forget. Scene on Radio survived the recent management tumult at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies and found a new home with the school’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. The first three episodes of the new season are out now.

INDY: I’m from the North, and I remember hearing about the Wilmington massacre for the first time in college in North Carolina. What drew you to this topic for your sixth season of the podcast? MICHAEL BETTS II: The [Kenan] Institute of Ethics at Duke brought Mike Wiley and Charlie Thompson on, and they formed a program called America’s Hallowed Ground. And they came to me and asked me to develop a podcast, and I was like, the only way that we can do this really well is that it needs to be multiracial and it needs to be with 28

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L to R: Michael Betts II PHOTO BY CICI CHENG John Biewen PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER another really beloved and thoughtful radio person. So I called John and he almost immediately said yes. And then I got the job at UNC-Wilmington, which even more localized the focus. JOHN BIEWEN: America’s Hallowed Ground is really a project that was about places in North Carolina that are of historical significance, and particularly with regard to race and racism. And Wilmington would literally be the place that you would think of to tell a really important story that is not exactly top secret at this point but is still undertold and under-understood, if I can coin that word. Betts: America’s Hallowed Ground is starting in North Carolina but is moving out and is interested in looking at the entire country and the spaces where we haven’t really done our due diligence of remembrance in the right ways.

You start the first episode by mentioning January 6, 2021. Could you draw parallels between the late 1800s and American politics today? Biewen: Our feeling was that we would not have to say a great deal about that, because the parallels are so obvious. We did want to make it explicit at the top that we see the parallels but that we are—as we say in the podcast—that we are again in a time when powerful people in this country, including elected officials, are working very

hard and in organized fashion to undermine the democratic processes in this country in a way that we haven’t seen in many, many years. And we have the threat and the reality of political violence, not just on January 6. So the echoes of the 1898 story can be felt very strongly and viscerally right now.

Episode 1 paints this picture of a thriving Black community in Wilmington before the coup. It was this “cosmopolitan, subversive, politically sophisticated” city full of Black men who had traveled the world. Could you paint this picture for us here? Betts: David Cecelski, the historian and writer, does a phenomenal job of dropping us into that space. And it’s Black people, Black men and women who are well versed. There’s a story of a gentleman who was enslaved at the time, who was subscribed to The New York Times and Congressional Quarterly and is reading Marx and Engels. These are folks that are really thinking, that are subscribed to two publications while enslaved, and that’s completely antithetical to anything we’ve ever heard before. These are individuals that spoke multiple languages. This is a space that—specifically on the dock—is orchestrated by Black hands. And they have power. They have real power in a way that doesn’t sound like they are victims. They’re definitely experiencing oppression, but they’ve created this space because of the necessity by white people to get their money.

Biewen: We hear about two main figures, both of whom were born in or near Wilmington: David Walker, who was born at the end of the 18th century, born a free Black man in Wilmington, and went on to write one of the most radical abolitionist books of the 1820s, Appeal; and Abraham Galloway, who was born about 40 years later and did absolutely remarkable things—escaped from slavery in the 1850s and then worked for the Union, met with Abraham Lincoln, spirited his mother out of slavery in Wilmington during the Civil War, helped to orchestrate landings by the Union boats in Wilmington, and then was elected to the state assembly in North Carolina after the war, and then died at age 33. And these are people that should be far better known, and the fact that they’re not says a lot about the things we prioritize in this country.

are self-reliant or community based, not as individuals that have any agency. It became really important—because of what Wilmington was—to describe the agency of the region, to describe who Black people were at the time, and to describe that it’s really ironic to ask people who have consistently continued to overcome oppression and vanquishment and built really, really spectacular communities that just get burned down, to ask them to continue to bootstrap and pull themselves up. The second thing is, as a storyteller and a creative, it’s the only way to get people on board to really understand the devastation of the action that happens. I’m not trying to downplay the loss of life as not impactful, I’m not trying to downplay the loss of political freedoms and the loss of social capital, but you can’t get an audience member to really care without tell-

Could you tell me about the historiography behind this project and these events? At what point does history call this a “race riot” versus a “massacre”? At what point is it a “coup”? Betts: We talked to LeRae Umfleet, who is the historian who did the vast majority of the uncovering of a lot of the texts. She was commissioned in 2003 [for] the Commission on the Wilmington Race Riot. And she always struggled with that title because she herself felt that it mischaracterized what was actually occurring. And we also talked to a woman named Bertha Boykin Todd who said we had to get the community on board with the notion of the language shift because, initially, they had to be OK with a “riot,” and then they had to be OK with a “massacre”—we had to get to those language developments. And she even says we benefited from the labor that was done [looking at subsequent massacres] in places like Tulsa, [Oklahoma,] and Rosewood, Florida. We’ve benefited from that labor.

Betts: David Walker’s Appeal is a global appeal for the liberation of Black people everywhere. Abraham Galloway’s work is concerned, far more than just with Black liberation. He introduces the first bill for women’s suffrage when he goes to the statehouse. These are individuals that are concerned about more than just themselves. And we see that again and again. We learn about other characters, like Charles Chesnutt, who’s born in Fayetteville. He’s a realism writer. He goes on to tell the first story that we really get about the massacre and coup. He understands the political space. And he’s a product of eastern North Carolina and is very eager to make sure that as a Booker T. Washington type—somebody who is a political moderate, if you will—he’s not trying to inflame the hearts of white individuals so that they’re angry with Black people, but he’s looking for ways to bridge the racial divide.

Why did you begin with that vision of Wilmington? This is maybe the worst question to ask a creator in any medium, but why did you tell the story in the order that you did, with the characters that you did? Betts: It is so commonplace in this day and age to tell [stories of] Black and brown atrocities as victims, not as individuals who

ing them why they should care. And so when we start with what the world looked like, it’s an amazing place, and it’s antithetical to our imaginations. We—because of the Dunning School, because of people like the Daughters of the Confederacy, because of all of these actions of white supremacy—we don’t even imagine that world. It’s beyond us. Part of having the first episode be the way it is, is [in order] to frustrate people and be like, why have I never heard these things? Why is Black History Month always Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks? We live in North Carolina, why don’t we know who Abraham Galloway is? He’s an actual Black action hero. There should have been 12 movies about him already. And then when we tell you why you don’t know about those things, then you start to go and hunt and ask the question: What else don’t I know?

Biewen: Episode 4 is really all about that question. We trace how initially there was a period of really triumphant gloating on the part of white supremacists in Wilmington and in North Carolina about the victory on November 10, 1898. And then there’s a long period of silence, in which this is just not something that gets talked about because it makes white folks uncomfortable. We talk about the role of a very important historian at UNC-Chapel Hill, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, who was part of the Dunning School, and the role that he played in just establishing that “well, yeah, you know, we don’t talk about that.” And that really lasted all the way up to the 1990s. You get then, finally, people in Wilmington and then in the [General] Assembly taking tangible steps to get the facts first of all, to do a comprehensive historical study that LeRae Umfleet primarily did, to tell the story fully and accurately, and then to have acknowledgments like a memorial park and monument built 10 years later. We’ve since had a Chris Everett documentary film, we’ve had other books that have come out, but the story still doesn’t loom as large in the American imagination as it should. 2

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