INDY Week 3.08.17

Trump Supporters Hate All This Division p.6

Time to Step Up, Richard Burr p.9

raleigh 3|8|17

Trump isn’t Hitler, local Jewish leaders say.

But with anti-Semitic threats on the rise, they’re still concerned—and not just for themselves.

BY KEN FINE

PA G E 1 0

Pulitzer Winner Caroline Shaw Comes Home p.24

6 “I be we w peop

8 Dow the c resid

9 Rich Don

10 Mor been in th two

24 Com colla violi

29 The insp teen

2 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH 6 “I believe in Christian people, and that’s what we want in America. We don’t want no Satan people here.”

8 Downtown Raleigh’s biggest challenge remains the conflicting desires of businesspeople, residents, and visitors.

9 Richard Burr can no longer afford to pretend that Donald Trump is a normal president.

10 More than one hundred bomb threats have been called in to seventy-two Jewish institutions in thirty states so far this year, including at least two in North Carolina.

24 Composer Caroline Shaw returns home to collaborate with the N.C. Symphony on Lo, a violin concerto minus the usual ego.

29 The stories that refugees told Natalie Anderson inspired her to create a YA novel starring a bold teenage refugee heroine.

VOL. 34, NO.8

DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 9 Soapboxer 19 Food 23 Music 25 Arts & Culture 30 What to Do This Week 33 Music Calendar 37 Arts & Culture Calendar

On the cover: DESIGN BY SHAN STUMPF

A Donald Trump supporter on the Halifax Mall in Raleigh Saturday (see page 6) PHOTO BY JEN GREGG

INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 3

Raleigh Durham | Chapel Hill

PUBLISHER Susan Harper EDITORIAL

EDITOR IN CHIEF Jeffrey C. Billman MANAGING EDITOR FOR ARTS+CULTURE Brian Howe DESIGN DIRECTOR Shan Stumpf NEWS EDITOR Ken Fine STAFF WRITERS Thomas Goldsmith,

ba

Th Wh

In last we lets took Michael P Miner say prejudice on the ow idea that M of the hea CHIEF CONTRIBUTORS theory’ is Spencer Griffith, Corbie Hill, Laura Jaramillo, Erica Johnson, Jill Warren Lucas, at the defi Sayaka Matsuoka, Glenn McDonald, some bad Neil Morris, Angela Perez, Hannah Pitstick, ble.’ Mr. Po Bryan C. Reed, V. Cullum Rogers, Dan Ruccia, inable? W Dan Schram, Zack Smith, Eric Tullis, Chris Vitiello, Ryan Vu, Patrick Wall, Iza “Pollard Wojciechowska, Baynard Woods neighbor INTERNS Megan Howard, Nijah McKinney, son famil Noah Rawlings the tall ol yards. A PRODUCTION+DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGER Christopher Williams he recogn GRAPHIC DESIGNER Steve Oliva a raptor’s prey. He OPERATIONS BUSINESS MANAGER Alex Rogers raptor cen DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Tira Murray and to th to ask for CIRCULATION CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Brenna Berry-Stewart bird expe DISTRIBUTION Laura Bass, David Cameron, an educat Michael Griswold, JC Lacroix, Raymond Lanier, Richard David Lee, Joseph Lizana, James Maness, ticing att ty years.

Gloria McNair, Jeff Prince, Timm Shaw, Freddie Simons, Marshall Wade, Gerald Weeks INDY cho theory ‘in ADVERTISING “Your w ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Shannon Legge SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Ele Roberts error in M ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Gillian Morris, Joshua Rowsey bothered t ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE & CLASSIFIEDS SALES MANAGER attack wa Sarah Schmader the heavil WWW.INDYWEEK.COM indoors. A P.O. Box 1772 • Durham, N.C. 27702 bird was i DURHAM 201 West Main Street, Suite 101 no doubt Durham, N.C. 27701 | 919-286-1972 idea so re RALEIGH 227 Fayetteville Street, Suite 105 sibility th Raleigh, N.C. 27601 | 919-832-8774 but only a EMAIL ADDRESSES first initial[no space]last name@indyweek.com me, the ow DISPLAY ADVERTISING SALES advertising@indyweek.com Meanw RALEIGH 919-832-8774 DURHAM 919-286-1972 national s CLASSIFIEDS ADVERTISING 919-286-6642 resigned a CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2017 INDY WEEK dent Mike All rights reserved. Material may not be with the R reproduced without permission. week’s De Skater to H the negati press; it is are the qu Erica Hellerstein, Sarah Willets MUSIC EDITOR Allison Hussey ASSOCIATE ARTS+COPY EDITOR David Klein FOOD EDITOR Victoria Bouloubasis LISTINGS COORDINATOR Kate Thompson THEATER AND DANCE CRITIC Byron Woods RESTAURANT CRITIC Emma Laperruque STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Alex Boerner, Ben McKeown

4 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

backtalk

The Owls Are Not What They Seem In last week’s issue, Ken Fine and Sarah Willets took a look back at the now-concluded Michael Peterson case, and while writer Joan Miner says “much of it rang true, your obvious prejudice against Larry Pollard’s earnest work on the owl theory stands out. Referring to the idea that Mrs. Peterson was struck in the back of the head by a raptor as the ‘infamous owl theory’ is bizarre. It is false. It is unfair. Look at the definition of infamous: ‘well-known for some bad quality or deed, wicked, abominable.’ Mr. Pollard’s ideas are bad, wicked, abominable? Why? “Pollard, the next-door neighbor of the Peterson family, saw owls in the tall old trees in their yards. A lifelong hunter, he recognized the pattern a raptor’s talons make on prey. He traveled to the raptor center in our state and to the Smithsonian to ask for the opinions of bird experts. Pollard is an educated man, a practicing attorney for thirty years. Why does the INDY choose to call his theory ‘infamous’?

“Your writers also printed a significant error in Mr. Pollard’s theory. Those of us who bothered to learn important details know the attack was thought to happen outdoors in the heavily wooded yard—never, never, never indoors. Any newspaper article that says a bird was in the house is suspect. That error is no doubt made to further ridicule the whole idea so readers do not take seriously the possibility that this tragedy was never a murder but only a sad and surprising act in nature. To me, the owl theory makes total sense.”

Meanwhile, Joe Flynn, the brother of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned after reportedly lying to Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with the Russian ambassador, writes about last week’s Democracy in Crisis column [“From Skater to Hater”] that he is “just so pissed at all the negative bullshit about my brother in the press; it is so unbelievably one-sided. Where are the questions about the laws that were bro-

ken in the fact that the private conversations of a U.S. citizen have been breached selectively?

It just seemed like you are jumping on a bandwagon. I know hundreds of skaters and surfers who are concerned about the weakened position the Obama administration put the U.S. military and our national security in. Does that make us all haters?

“My brother is not a hater. He is a patriot who served his country incredibly well for thirty-three years and transformed wartime intelligence gathering. Everyone in the U.S. military knows that. He has strong opinions about radical Islam and made no bones about it. His day of reckoning is coming, he welcomes the investigation and is patiently waiting to testify under oath about his conversations with the Russians and any other foreign dignitaries he spoke to prior to taking office, which was totally natural for an incoming national security adviser to do. There is no crime, there is nothing wrong in doing that. There is a ton of precedent with these kinds of communications. The crime is the fact that someone on the Obama team selectively disclosed these conversations to the media in order to put Mike and the president in untenable positions. This is a political assassination, and it will be brought to light very soon.”

Finally, about our story last week on the pending demise of the historic Maiden Lane [“End of the Lane”], commenter SJW writes: “I hate this. Raleigh’s charm is being chewed up and spit out with the ordinary and expensive. I can hardly afford to live here and I’m fifth generation in Raleigh. Are there any city leaders that were born and raised in Raleigh? If so, I wish they cared more about Raleigh’s history.”

“Why does the INDY choose to call the owl theory infamous?”

Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on our Facebook page or indyweek.com, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.

READY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE? START NOW!

DROP-IN CLASSES

Experiencing Mindfulness Every Wednesday | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gentle Yoga Every Friday | 10:30 am & 12:00 pm

PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS AND CLASSES CURRENTLY REGISTERING

Healing Yoga for Back and Neck Pain Starts Apr. 18 | Register now through Apr. 15

Leading Others In Writing For Health Starts May 11 | Register now through May 5

Transform Your Health: Write to Heal Starts May 17 | Register now through May 14

Mindfulness Retreat: Recognizing and Trusting Awareness Starts Jun. 9 | Register Mar. 16 through Jun. 6

Mindful Yoga for Cancer

Starts Jun. 22 | Register now through Jun. 15 For information, pricing, or to register for a program visit DukeIntegrativeMedicine.org Duke Center for Living Campus 3475 Erwin Road, Durham • (919) 660-6826 INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 5

triangulator FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED AT THE MARCH 4 TRUMP RALLY

On Saturday, some of Donald Trump’s most die-hard North Carolina supporters gathered on the Halifax Mall in downtown Raleigh, where they heard speeches, held signs, and verbally sparred with protesters. Here are five things we learned about and from them.

1. NOT MANY SHOWED UP

The N.C. Deplorables United Facebook page invited thirty-five hundred people, but only about three hundred showed. (Rallies all over the country attracted similarly sparse crowds.)

That’s a far cry from the tens of thousands who rallied in recent months at the Women’s March and the Moral March. While most of the Trump supporters were white, a few people of color attended, including Apostle Wiggins, who said he wanted to see “America purged and the evil out of the country.” Asked what evil he was referring to, he cited illegal immigration.

2. THEY DON’T LIKE BEING

3. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT RUSSIA

CALLED FASCISTS OR RACISTS

After protesters unfurled a paper wall to mock Trump’s border wall, a Trump supporter who identified himself as Alex Al became angry: “You keep lying! That’s not racist. You’re the racist!” Al, who moved to America from Iraq, later told the INDY: “When you shut down free speech, you’re the fascist. OK. You’re calling other people fascist. You’re the fascist. Who burned books? Hitler burned books. They’re burning books. The conservatives are not burning books.”

“These people here, this is what sold me,” added Jonas Williams, an African-American Democrat who was selling merchandise (including “Deplorable Lives Matter” buttons).

“Because I would travel around to the different states— Ohio, Florida—and the news would portray them as radicals, they were these racist people and all this kinda stuff.

But the more and more I was involved with them, the more and more they showed a different perspective of the people than what the news did.”

4. STATE SENATOR

RON RABIN IS A LUNATIC

Rabin was the first elected official in North Carolina to endorse Trump.

In a speech, he said that the “temper tantrum kids … running off at the mouth” about “resistance” will lead to an insurgency. He blamed Hollywood, universities, the media, Ron Rabin a “cabal of leftists and internationalists,” and conservative bogeyman George Soros, who Rabin claimed “wants to destroy the United States.” “What possible right do [elected officials] have to say they resist the presidency of the United States?” Rabin asked. “What they’re doing is really an act of sedition.”

6 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

PHOTO BY JEN GREGG

Jonas Williams

PHOTO BY JEN GREGG

5. THEY THINK THERE’S TOO MUCH DIVISION

Jonas Williams: “All the crap about the Russians, I feel like the American people should be insulted by the Democrats even acknowledging or saying that the Russians had something to do with our election because we the people, we voted him in because we wanted to vote him in, not because of what—I don’t even know what Russia said or did or whatever, but whatever they did, they didn’t change our votes.”

Asked what’s dividing the country, Chuck Piratzky said people “just seem to be on two sides of the fence.” Some may think they’re being discriminated against, said Piratzsky, “but I don’t really think that’s the case, because this is a country of opportunity. That’s what this country is. So, if we think that we’re being discriminated against, then we’re living our truth.”

“A civil war is gonna happen if something doesn’t happen soon,” said Melinda Earp. “We need to quit being, you know, divided, and the corruption in the White House needs to stop. I PHOTO BY JEN GREGG mean, all this has to be stopped because we’re separating.”

Earp—who also argued for a more lenient approach toward undocumented immigrants—went on to say: “It’s just really scary for everybody. And these Muslim people are not here to help us at all. I believe in Christian people, and that’s what we want in America. We don’t want no Satan people here. ’Cause that’s what they are. God’s showing us a sign and we better take it. That’s just all there is to it. I’m a true believer in that. I have a lot of faith, and I think that this is our time—or, you know, a lot of people are gonna die.”

+CIVIL FIGHTS

For the last fifteen years, the UNC School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights has helped advocate for the state’s poor and minority populations, providing legal advice and representation for those who may not have otherwise been able to afford it.

Now some members of the Republicancontrolled UNC Board of Governors want it to stop, proposing that the center cease involving itself in civil rights litigation. As Raleigh attorney Steve Long explained last week, “Suing the state and its municipalities violates the mission of the university.”

A BOG committee decided to study the issue. For now, the law school dean has promised that the center won’t take up any new cases. So what sort of cases has the center taken on that have aroused the board’s ire? We asked for a complete list; the center sent us synopses of the following nine cases, along with nine amicus briefs and a ton of advocacy work.

Judge for yourself whether this work truly runs afoul of the university’s mission.

Leandro v. State: The center intervened on behalf of African-American students suing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools over an inadequate allocation of resources. CMS and the state entered into a consent order on a school turnaround plan.

Gary et al. v. Halifax County: A primarily white city annexed a black community as part of an entertainment district without any notice to residents, then levied additional taxes, forcing some residents out. The center helped the community de-annex and recovered tens of thousands of dollars in property taxes for residents.

Everett et al. v. Pitt County Board of Education: Working with the Pitt County Coalition for the Education of Black Children, the center has been seeking to integrate schools in Pitt County for a decade. In 2008, it sued; a settlement in 2009 held that federal desegregation orders were still applicable. In 2010, the school board passed a new schoolreassignment plan; the center sued again, but this time it lost in the Court of Appeals.

Johnson v. Fleming: The center filed a fair housing lawsuit on behalf of the Johnson family against a landlord, real estate agent, and real estate company in Moore County that refused to rent to the Johnsons because of their race. The lawsuit was settled in the Johnsons’ favor.

Habitat for Humanity v. Upchurch et al.: The center helped file a lawsuit on behalf of Habitat for Humanity of the North Carolina Sandhills alleging racial discrimination related to a contract over an affordable

housing development in Pine Bluff. The lawsuit was settled in Habitat’s favor.

ROCCA et al. v. Brunswick County: The center sued to prevent Brunswick County from placing an industrial waste site in a low-income, African-American community.

The county ultimately agreed to build an elementary school on that property instead.

In re: Redmond, In re: Hughes, In re: Smith: The center helped victims of the state’s eugenics program, which ran from 1929–73, receive reparations. Many were people of color and lower income and would not have received compensation without the center’s help.

Silver et al. v. Halifax County Board of Commissioners: The center sued to consolidate three small, low-performing, racially segregated school districts in Halifax County. This case is currently before the Court of Appeals.

Concerned Citizens for Successful Schools v. Johnston County Board of Education: The center sued after the Johnston County school board did not produce public records.

The case was settled, and the records were provided. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman and Megan Howard.

PERIPHERAL VISIONS | V.C. ROGERS

Erin Hoffman

erin_hoffman@med.unc.edu 919-843-0720 OR

Susan Blevins

suzanne_blevins@med.unc. edu 919-843-8763 INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 7

indynews

The Next Wave

FORMER N&O PUBLISHER ORAGE QUARLES III TRIES TO SET DOWNTOWN RALEIGH UP FOR ITS SECOND PHASE OF RAPID DEVELOPMENT

BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH Orage Quarles III recalls hitting the rubber-chicken circuit of dinners at community and business groups in 2000, when he came to Raleigh from California to become publisher of The News & Observer. Publishers of dailies often attend meet-and-greets of this sort, but Quarles arrived with something of an unusual message for the community’s leading lights.

“Raleigh so far has been a pleasant surprise, but the downtown sucks,” he told the people he met. “Never in my wildest dreams did I expect that the downtown of a capital city would be so barren.”

In his new role as interim director of the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, Quarles, sixty-six, is inheriting guardianship of the vital downtown blocks that have attracted increasing numbers of visitors, residents, and tourists since Fayetteville Street was reopened in 2006. Filling in at the departure of David Diaz, the ten-year leader of the DRA, Quarles is tasked with creating a strategic plan on which the nonprofit will base its choice of a permanent leader, which Quarles says will not be him.

Quarles’s arrival at DRA coincided with Mayor Nancy McFarlane’s announcement that she’ll seek a fourth term. Quarles and McFarlane, a principal in arranging the lease for state land that will become Dix Park, have been closely involved in planning what proponents believe will become a destination attraction for the city.

Downtown’s—and the DRA’s—biggest challenge remains the balancing act between the sometimes conflicting desires of businesspeople, residents, and visitors, Quarles says: between new development and the remnants of old Raleigh, between rising prices and affordable housing, between the entertainment district and condo dwellers. Such problems consumed city council members for more than a year, with images of Raleigh streets populated 8 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

Orage Quarles III PHOTO BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH by inebriated partiers figuring prominently even in the 2015 city elections.

“We don’t want to be known as DrunkTown anymore,” Quarles says.

At the Wilmington Street office where he started work March 1, there’s plenty of ongoing business to address, says Quarles, who left the N&O last year. (The DRA is moving in September to the Capital Bank Building on Fayetteville Street.) Affordable housing is a major issue. So too is catching up on mass transit, he says, making the case that community leaders should have gotten the process started at the turn of the century, when it was clear that traffic was piling up around Research Triangle Park.

“We’re behind the eight ball, and the price we’re going to have to pay is a whole lot more,” he says.

Downtown, though, continues to attract new residents and queries from outside

businesses, to the point where the heart of Raleigh could be entering a second phase of development: another wave of rapid growth.

The N&O reported last May that the mobile app company WalkMe plans to hire several hundred people for a new downtown Raleigh office, although the company experienced internal dissension about the move because of HB 2. The software giant Citrix, with a large presence on the western edge of downtown, plans to hire four hundred additional people in Raleigh, state economic development officials have said. Already, Quarles says, downtown needs more retail and health care practices to meet the demands of current residents and workers.

In an interview, McFarlane says there’s something to the idea of a second, even more intense wave of downtown growth. Much of the first wave involved taking empty spaces and turning them into successful business-

es. In addition, Union Station, with a first phase projected to open late this year, and Dix Park could contribute to another step forward for the city, McFarlane says.

Quarles heads the nominating committee for the Dix Park Conservancy’s board of directors, which is hammering out a plan for the 308-acre tract. With the hiring of CEO Sean Malone and the signing of architect Michael Van Valkenburgh for the Dix project, Quarles says, he had time to entertain the DRA’s offer.

He says that Dix Park would keep in touch with its history, both memorializing the role of its site in providing care to North Carolinians with mental illness and preserving reminders that the property was originally part of a plantation.

Both he and McFarlane say they’re interested in a range of possible approaches to Dix. “How do you design that park so that people not only want to visit Dix Park, but also to visit downtown? If you want to spend a lot of money, you can build an elevated tramway,” Quarles suggests.

As Quarles ponders the array of possibilities for downtown, he takes a minute to reflect on the newspaper where he worked for sixteen years, a span in which the publication shrank dramatically in staff and pages. Leaving at age sixty-five was his choice, he says, but the N&O remains close to his heart.

“I love the place,” Quarles says. “I miss the employees. They know I miss them.

But I was ready to go. You give so much; it takes a lot out of you. It’s exciting that I get do to something different for the first time in my life.” tgoldsmith@indyweek Editor’s note: Quarles was publisher of The News & Observer during staff writer Thomas Goldsmith’s tenure at the newspaper from 2003–16.

soapboxer

The President’s Not Well IT’S TIME WE STOPPED PRETENDING OTHERWISE. THAT INCLUDES YOU, SENATOR BURR.

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN There are three possibilities that explain Donald Trump’s Saturday-morning Twitter tantrum, in which he accused—absent a shred of evidence beyond a rant from a talkshow host that was regurgitated in a Breitbart post—former president Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign. None bodes particularly well for the ostensible leader of the free world.

The first and most likely explanation is that he’s dead wrong, and, like everyone else, he shouldn’t rely on Stephen Bannon’s propaganda shop for information, particularly when he controls one of the most sophisticated intelligence apparatuses in the world. This suggests, at minimum, that the president is an unusually credulous man. (The conservative Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes has White House sources acknowledging “that Trump had no idea whether the claims he was making were true when he made them.”)

The second is that there was a wiretap, but it was legal. In this case, the FBI went before a federal judge or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, presented evidence, and procured a warrant. That’s not a good look either. (On Sunday, Obama’s director of national intelligence flatly denied that there was a FISA warrant taken out against Trump. The FBI director also reportedly asked the Department of Justice to publicly rebuke the president’s claim as false.)

The third is that Obama went rogue and had his goons bug Trump Tower. If true, of course, Trump has every right to be upset.

Then again, you’d think that, had Trump really uncovered a criminal scheme surpassing Watergate, he wouldn’t have immediately returned to a Twitter feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger about Celebrity Apprentice.

All of this is to say: the president’s not well.

Pick your poison. In the best-case scenario, he exercises poor judgment and impulse control. In less-good scenarios, he’s unstable, gullible, and paranoid. In the very worst case, he’s trying to cover up his campaign’s collusion with an adversarial foreign power

that helped elect him.

Of course, there’s no evidence for that yet.

No fire, just a lot of smoke—certainly enough to warrant an investigation.

The question, then, is who should lead it?

Bowing to political pressure, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who lied under oath about his meetings with the Russian ambassador during the campaign, has recused himself from any DOJ investigation. But given his ties to this emerging scandal, can his department be trusted to handle the matter? Clearly not. What about Congress?

The House and Senate intelligence committees are supposed to be exploring Russian interference.

But the Republican heads of those committees—Representative Devin Nunes of California and Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina—have shown little appetite for the kind of robust investigation a potential scandal of this magnitude demands. In fact, late last month, Nunes and Burr—on orders from the White House—called reporters to try to knock down stories about relationships between the Trump orbit and Russia.

That’s exactly why a special prosecutor is needed—to disentangle the politics and the conflicts of interest and figure out what the hell is going on.

So let’s have it out. On Sunday, the Trump White House asked the intelligence committees to investigate Trump’s Obama accusations. (“It’s not paranoia at all,” Nunes said dutifully.) Let’s kick that to a special prosecutor, along with the Russia stuff, and get to the heart of it. Maybe there’s something sinister there. Maybe not. Who knows?

But I do know that something’s dangerously amiss with the commander in chief.

And it’s time for those with the power to stop him—i.e., high-ranking Republicans willing to put country before party—to recognize that, show some courage, and act accordingly. It’s time for them to speak out.

I’m looking at you, Richard Burr. jbillman@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 9

“We Know What Silence Breeds” Trump isn’t Hitler, local Jewish leaders say.

But with anti-Semitic threats on the rise, they’re still concerned — and not just for themselves.

B Y K EN FIN E P H OTOS BY AL EX BO ERN ER

Rabbi Larry Bach 10 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

W

hen the phone started ringing, at about ten thirty on February 22, more than 150 students inside the Sandra E. Lerner Jewish Community Day School were well into their morning routines.

A staff member answered. “In a short time,” the unidentified voice on the other end of the line said, “a large number of Jews are going to be slaughtered.” They would die, the caller continued, in a “bloodbath” courtesy of “a C-4 bomb with a lot of shrapnel.”

School officials initiated their emergency protocols. The police were called.

The building was evacuated. Fortunately, spring had come early to Durham, so it was mild outside and the sun was shining as the children—as young as two and up to to fifth grade—made their way to the school’s designated safe zone. But that was little consolation to the parents on the other end of a robocall alerting them to the situation.

The bomb-sniffing dogs that descended on Lerner that Wednesday morning didn’t find anything. But even after authorities gave the all-clear, Lerner canceled the remainder of the school day.

Board president Hollis Gauss noted in a letter to parents that “bomb threats are usually used as a scare tactic [to] cause fear and panic.” But Gauss told the INDY that the disruption had real consequences: parents were forced to leave work and students lost valuable instruction time.

Even though no bomb was found, future threats would have to be taken seriously “every single time.”

Additional threats are a very real possibility.

In a trend characterized as disturbing

by Jewish leaders, politicians, and social justice activists, more than a hundred bomb threats have been called in to seventy-two Jewish institutions across thirty states so far this year. According to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency report, the most recent of five waves of such threats came on February 27, when twenty-one threats were called in, including one to a Jewish community center in Asheville. (On Friday, federal agents charged Juan Thompson, a former journalist, with making bomb threats against at least eight Jewish centers as part of a bizarre campaign to harass a woman he’d previously dated; it’s unknown whether he’s suspected in similar cases such as the one at Lerner.)

Rabbi Jen Feldman

Meanwhile, hundreds of tombstones have been damaged at Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and St. Louis, and swastikas have been carved into cars in Miami.

And just a few days ago, according to the State Bureau of Investigation, somebody wrote “Jews Must Die” on a blackboard in a Mitchell County school. (The FBI’s Charlotte office declined to comment on the matter.)

“People are thinking about pulling their kids out of schools, quitting [Jewish Community Centers],” says Rabbi Larry Bach of Judea Reform. “That’s all true and measurable. And this sort of thing emboldens others who might take it to the next level.”

Some, including N.C. NAACP leader Rev. William Barber, have blamed the increasing tensions—the Southern Poverty Law Center recently reported that the number of hate groups in the U.S. has tripled in the past year—on President Trump’s rhetoric.

Others have suggested that the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, visitors from some Muslim-majority countries, and the admission of refugees has encouraged xenophobes to act out.

But several leaders of the local Jewish community were careful not to stoke comparisons between Trump and Adolf Hitler.

As Rabbi John Friedman, formerly of Judea Reform, puts it, anti-Semitism is “something that is a part of American culture. …

Sometimes, there are trends that repress it—make it not stylish to express your hatred or your bigotry or whatever—but I think it’s around all the time.”

However, Friedman and his colleagues have noticed a tangible difference this time around. Jews aren’t the only ones who feel marginalized and under siege. And they— linking arms with members of the LGTBQ community, Muslims, refugees, and immigrants—say they’ll refuse to stay silent in the face of it.

“History has lessons,” Friedman says.

“Like silence in the face of the abuse of another person. That’s an important lesson.”

“We’ve been in these fights since long before [Trump] happened,” Bach adds. “But what this moment is allowing for—and not allowing in the sense that we’re grateful for it—in this moment, what is happening is people are noticing. We’re showing up.”

T

ies to white nationalism have dogged the Trump camp since before the election. In July, the president’s campaign faced allegations INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 11

JUSTICE FOR ALL PEOPLE

Justice for All People is a donation-led nonprofit organization that is manned by a team of more than 50 volunteer civil rights lawyers. We are inspired by the indomitable spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., and aim to emulate his strength and determination. We’ll put our more than 15 years of civil rights experience to work for you as we tackle cases in Chicago, Illinois, and anywhere in the United States.

757-977-8435 • www.justice4allpeople.net

Casino Party Saturday 3/18 7-10 pm Folks - Please indicate your presence by the weekend for the party on 3/18.

If you are coming please indicate the game you want to play.

Also remember costs are $30 each up to 2 persons and additional folks pay $15 each.

We will have snacks, prizes and lots of fun.

The best prize is 1-way travel to any place in the US except for either Hawaii or Puerto Rico.

Please respond one way or the other

by Saturday this week so I can hire enough dealers for the party.

Thom Nelson 919-818-9875 School for Vegas 1401 Diggs Dr Ste A • Raleigh, NC 27603

12 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

of anti-Semitism when Trump tweeted a graphic of Hillary Clinton that featured a six-pointed star and a pile of cash—an image that had previously been posted on a white supremacist message board. Trump blamed the “dishonest media” for hyping the situation. (Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, whom Trump initially refused to disavow, praised the graphic.)

The post-election hiring of former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon—who ran the late stages of Trump’s presidential campaign and whose website explicitly gave a platform to the anti-Semitic alt-right—as a chief White House adviser hasn’t helped either. Add to that reports that the president would rename the Countering Violent Extremism program and focus its resources solely on combatting Islamic extremists (no longer including white supremacists) and Trump’s pointed omission of the Jews in his Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, and critics have only grown more skeptical since he took office.

Jen Feldman, rabbi at Kehillah Synagogue in Chapel Hill, characterizes Trump’s Holocaust statement as “chilling.” Still, her message to her congregation is hopeful. “To be awake to how fear is used is the most important lesson and to fight against fear with solidarity and fierceness,” she says. “I think we need to be very awake to fear. Fear works.

We can’t let it work.”

Friedman says triumphing over fear means, in part, refusing to perpetuate it via claims that the president poses a Holocaustlevel threat.

“I know we’re all probably thinking about the current administration and the example being set by the president and Bannon and others and whether that’s affecting [the volume of hate speech]. I think it probably is,” he says. “… But it’s quite something else to overlay the Holocaust on the election of Donald Trump. And people who compare Donald Trump to Hitler didn’t know Hitler.”

For Daniel Greyber, rabbi at Durham’s Beth El Synagogue, the recent wave of antiSemitism is jarring, yet he points out that hate directed at the Jews has existed for more than two thousand years. It’s worth remembering, he says, that Jews carried the label of Christ-killers until 1965, when Pope Paul VI repudiated the claim.

“That was the first time that there was an official expression of Christian doctrine that affirmed that Jews had not killed Jesus,” Greyber says. “So if you’re asking, ‘Where is [anti-Semitism] coming from?’

It has a long history. And history is not easily forgotten, and it’s not easily moved forward from.”

O

n January 29, about a month before the Lerner bomb scare, Feldman was one of more than fifteen hundred people who converged on Raleigh-Durham International Airport to protest an executive order banning citizens of seven primarily Muslim countries from entering the U.S. (After federal courts struck down the original ban, the Trump administration issued a similar one on Monday.)

She knew what it was like to be labeled “the other” and “the stranger,” so she decided to make her voice heard.

Now, when she thinks about how to help members of her congregation move forward amid what many of them perceive as a rising tide of animosity toward Jews here and across the country, she recalls something that unfolded on that Sunday afternoon.

“To see my eight-year-old holding up a sign and saying, ‘No ban. No wall. America is for us all,’ that’s how I deal with it,” Feldman says. “You show the strength. You show the power that we have together. You give them hope. You give them a voice. You teach them what’s right. Honestly, right after the election, I did ask myself, ‘How can I raise my children in this world?’ Now I know how.”

Moving forward, she says, means joining forces with those outside the Jewish community who face their own risks under the Trump administration. “This is something impacting religious and ethnic minorities, immigrants, refugees,” she says.

“This is a very important moment for us to live our Jewish values in the community—to live them by standing up to anti-Semitism and hate, to live them by standing up to antigay, anti-woman, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee,” Feldman adds. “‘You shall not oppress a stranger’ is [noted] thirty-six times in the Torah. So, this is what our experience teaches us.”

Bach has participated in recent protests as well. He was one of several hundred Durham residents who attended a pro-refugee rally just hours before Trump signed the travel ban. He says the way to fight back against white nationalism and xenophobia is to mobilize.

“I hope that we don’t raise a generation of kids that are just in a crouch, thinking the world is out to get them,” Bach says. “To be aware of it? To learn about history? Yes. But the main thing I want my kids to understand is that the best antidote is not getting into a crouch. It’s getting out there with other people.”

He continues: “There isn’t silence right now. People are coming together. We know what silence breeds, and so no one is being silent right now.” kfine@indyweek.com

Helping our readers plan their summer activities!

a month mb scare, more than verged on Airport to g citizens ries from rts struck p adminMonday.) beled “the decided to

Durham Arts Council Summer Arts Camp June 12- August 25

w to help e forward e as a rishere and omething noon. ding up a America is Feldman show the give them each them the elecraise my w how.” ns joining wish comunder the omething minorities,

• Day & Resident Camps • Weekly June 11-Aug 25 • Pre K-High School Horseback Riding, Zipline,Lake Toys, Farm, Off Site Adventure Trips, Leadership Training, Transportation from Chapel Hill Available.

Minutes from Durham & Chapel Hill

campchestnutridge.org • 919.304.2178

Drawing Painting Mixed Media Clay • Theater Dance • Chorus Rising Kindergartener through Age 13 Teen Intensives (ages 13-17) also available

durhamarts.org 919-560-2726

nt for us to munity—to Semitism up to antinti-immidds. “‘You oted] thirwhat our

t protests dred Duro-refugee igned the ight back nophobia

eneration thinking says. “To tory? Yes. to underot getting here with

nce right We know e is being

week.com SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 13

Helping our readers plan their summer activities!

Summer C amp at

SEEDS Urban ga rd kitchen en and sch located ool in downtow n Durha m

Growing , and Sha Cooking, ring Foo d!

Rising 1 -5th Gra Registra des tion ope ns March 919-683-11 15th!

97 | w

ww.seeds

nc.org

Nature • Wildlife • Wilderness Skills

SUMMER DAY CAMPS June 12 - August 25 • ages 5-18

teen trip camps • wildlife science teen leadership training swamp crawler • many more themes!

3 LOCATIONS LEIGH FARM PARK • Durham UMSTEAD PARK • Hwy. 70 entrance • Wake blackwood farm park • chapel hill www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org • 919.489.0900

Camelot Academy AcademyHas has It it all!

Camelot All! EduCamp Weekly sessions • Full day • Ages 6-12

Daily Academics Reading • Writing • Math

Daily Field Trips Swimming • Bowling • Rollerskating

Explorations

Weekly sessions • Half & full day • Ages 5-18

Unique Specialty Programs

New - Homesteading Legos Theater & TeenMusical Construction Spanish

Archaeology

...and much more!

Now accepting Summer Camp Applications

919-688-3040 809 Proctor St., Durham For more information, visit us online at

www.camelotacademy.org 14 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Helping our readers plan their summer activities!

Learn to Fence! r camps n s u m m ee a rs fu d n a S a fe 8 - 17 y Fo r a g e s w n tow n D u rh a m o D in L o c a te d

Creative Summer Clay Camp ages 5-13 • Half & Full Day options reserve your space now!

www.midsouthfencersclub.org • 919-286-3100

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

205 W. main St, Carrboro • 919-933-9700 www.glazedexpectations.com

INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 15

Helping our readers plan their summer activities!

Spanish and French Immersion Camps for grades 2-12 All the fun of a summer camp while totally immersed in a foreign language!

Camps held at New Hope Camp in Chapel Hill – very convenient to I-40 Day, Overnight and Hybrid camps!

Immersionisland.org • info@immersionisland.org • (919) 259-2843

16 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 17

Helping our readers plan their summer activities!

BLUE SKIESof

Mapleview

Ages 7 - 17 • www.blueskiesmapleview.us Chapel Hill/Hillsborough • 919-933-1444

18 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

SUMMER HORSE CAMP

Carrboro’s Cirque Sanctuary Providing empowering embodiment for all ages The Flowjo provides a fun, exciting and safe environment for exploring movement, performance and building community.

The Flowjo Summer program for youth 5+ focuses on Aerial Dance, Hooping, Circus Arts, Yoga & Bodymind Camps.

100B Brewer Lane, Carrboro • www.TheFlowjo.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

indyfood

Dawn of the Deli

JEWISH FOOD’S GOTTEN HIP. BUT IF YOU GO FAR BACK ENOUGH, IT’S ALWAYS BEEN FUSION.

BY KIM LAN GROUT

Just as family gathers for a meal, Jews and non-Jews alike converged on Sunday at UNC-Chapel Hill for the Jewish Food in the Global South Symposium, together exploriing the complexity of Jewish food—what it is, where it’s from, and, perhaps most hotly debated, to whom it now belongs.

The first event of its kind, hosted by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and generously sponsored by UNC alumni Jimmy and Susan Pittleman, the symposium attracted a packed house and offered hardly a moment for quiet reflection; attendees broke away from the often lively discussions only to eat. (Among the goodies: mounds of chopped liver, pastrami and pimento cheese biscuits from Neal’s Deli, and a Jerusalem-Palestinian-inspired spread from Mediterranean Deli.) “[The Pittlemans] wanted a program related to Jewish-American food,” said Marcie Cohen Ferris, an American studies professor who cochaired the event. “I saw it as an opportunity to turn the lens onto global food, but in this special place [the South]. I want people to see Jewish food with its deep-layered vibrancy in American cuisine.”

The series of panels began with “The Jewish Kitchen: History and Politics” and ended with “The New American Deli: Global Southern-Style.” In between were many

others, laced with Jewish humor and Yiddish sayings. The two-dozen-plus panelists and audience of 245 were in agreement that they’d never heard the word “gefilte fish” uttered so many times in a single day.

The symposium brought together leaders in the Jewish culinary niche from around the country and here in the Triangle. The spiciest exchanges came during discussions about which Jewish dishes and techniques are actually Jewish and how best to honor their long, complex traditions.

Sam Suchoff, owner of Chapel Hill’s The Pig, admitted that, as a bar-mitzvahed former vegan turned pork connoisseur, his is “a story of contradictions.” Panelists and audience members hotly contested notions

ILLUSTRATIONS BY EMILY WALLACE

about the authenticity of Jewish food, debating whether the “hipsterization” of Jewish food did justice to the rich culture and cuisine. “It’s all fusion if you go back far enough,” explained Ari Weinzweig, author, historian, self-proclaimed anarchist, and co-founding partner of Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And, as if to settle the debate, Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, announced, “Sometimes what you dip a knish in helps navigate all that.”

The palpable kinship suggested a consensus: Jewish food is as much about place and survivorship as it is about flavors and nostalgia. It is the food of immigrants, of roaming, of politics, and of conflict. It is a food of constant change that also holds people together.

Finally, an audience member asked what we’d all been thinking: Why had there been such a strong police presence in an otherwise empty building, on a quiet Sunday on UNC’s campus? Cohen Ferris confirmed that she had requested more security for the crowd’s safety. In an interview conducted two days prior to the symposium in the wake of the bomb threat to Durham’s Lerner School, she explained, “These kinds of attacks on religious groups happen when a society is in a particularly anxious time.

We’re in that moment. But, those who hope to stir [us] up actually embolden “the other” and make us more proud to be us.”

Kim Severson, a New York Times journalist and keynote moderator, asked panelists, “Can we cook to counter the incredible rise of anti-Semitism in this country?” Alon Shaya, an award-winning New Orleansbased Israeli chef (Shaya, Domenica), answered, “I’ve never had a bad conversation about food. Food is love.”

In closing, Cohen Ferris, managed to turn the sobering topic of extra security into something positive: “Look, we are no longer gathering in ghettos; we now gather in symposiums.” food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 19

BE HEALTHY BE STRONG Diane Von Furstenburg • St. John Lilly Pulitzer • Citizens of Humanity Kate Spade • Coach • Michael Kors 7 for all Mankind • Marc Jacobs Theory • And more...

1000 W. Main St. Durham (919) 806-3434

2028 Cameron St. Raleigh (919) 803-5414 No appointment necessary • Now accepting seasonal items for consignment

Enjoy Your Favorite Japanese Restaurant 7 Days A Week

AKAI HANA

Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 206 W. Main St • Carrboro • 919-942-6848 909 A Arendell St • Morehead City • 252.222.3272 www.akaihana.com

INDY WEEK’S BAR + BEVERAGE MAGAZINE ON STANDS NOW

20 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

food

Healing Spaces

SANKOFA FARMS PLANTS SEEDS TO EMPOWER DURHAM’S BLACK YOUTH

BY SAYAKA MATSUOKA Kamal Bell remembers what it’s like to grow up in a food desert in Durham. In the nineties, he lived on the northeast side with his parents and older brother, in a mostly black neighborhood near Southern High School. He remembers after-school car rides to Whole Foods, around the corner from Immaculata Catholic School, where he was a student. Bell’s father, an herbalist, frequently made the twenty-minute trip from their house for fresh herbs.

Bell, who now lives in East Durham, still treks to the same Whole Foods when he needs groceries. The round trip takes thirty minutes, but he says it’s one of the few places with quality produce.

“In Durham, the allocation of resources typically does not accommodate all individuals fairly,” Bell says.

A 2011 report by the Durham County Health Department showed that about seventeen percent of Durham—or approximately forty-three thousand people—was food insecure. By the USDA’s definition, it means that they don’t have access to “nutritionally adequate foods” to lead “active, healthy lives.”

Additionally, the same report showed that sixty-three percent of those who live in northeast Durham, where Bell grew up, are affected by food deserts, or “low-income areas where a substantial number or share of residents have low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.”

Fifteen years later, Bell sees the obvious trajectory in the statistics: the plight of his community hasn’t significantly abated.

Last spring Bell started Sankofa Farms, a tuition-free, nine-week summer academy where low-income youths learn the value of food and farming. As an agriculture biotechnology teacher at Lowes Grove Middle School, Bell works to change the reality he experienced firsthand.

Bell acquired twelve acres of land in Cedar Grove, thirty minutes outside of Durham, for the STEM-based program. Through hands-on learning at the farm and additional classroom education at St. Mark AME Zion

Kamron Jackson gathers eggs at Sankofa Farms.

Church, students parse the existing problems and work toward building solutions.

In his first year of operation, Bell focused on showing his “Sankofites”—four male black students ages fourteen and fifteen—how to grow produce like squash and sweet corn and nurture chickens for egg production.

This spring, Bell launched a Kickstarter campaign, and he hopes to broaden the age range of his young charges, take in at least ten more boys, and include girls as well. The current goal of $7,000 would cover the costs of buying a van to transport students from their homes to the farm and the classroom.

As of this past Tuesday, more than $5,000 had been met with just over two weeks to go.

Bell says the funding would also allow him to run the program year-round on Saturdays.

He envisions Sankofa as both a safety net for at-risk kids and a way for them to reconnect with the land. “I want this program to be something where we can heal from a lot

PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

of the experiences that we have had and learn about our history as African people,” says Bell.

He notes the decades of racial discrimination that black farmers have faced, culminating in the 1999 class-action lawsuit Pigford v Glickman, in which a black North Carolina farmer, and four-hundred other black farmers, sued the U.S.D.A. for discrimination in allocation of farm loans and assistance. The case, which ended with an award of more than one billion dollars to more than 70,000 farmers, is regarded as the largest civil rights settlement to date.

If all goes well with Sankofa, Bell envisions an automated system that would feed and water the livestock, so students could concentrate on distributing the organic produce to food-scarce areas in the city. He also notes that a program like this enables kids at vulnerable ages to stay involved with the community and stay out of what Bell calls

“troublesome situations.”

“When I was around the age of thirteen, I was dealing with major anger issues that almost led to me being kicked out of middle school,” recalls Bell. He attended counseling sessions at St. Mark that he says kept him out of trouble—and eventually led him to finish high school and earn a master’s degree in agricultural education from N.C. A&T. “Farms can be healing and empowering spaces,” says Shorlette Ammons of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at N.C. A&T University, whose work is rooted in dismantling racism in the food system. “Having these kinds of spaces helps folks to deal with the emotional and psychological trauma associated with food insecurity and systemic social and economic disparity.”

“Black folks have a long and complicated history with the land,” Ammons continues. “A history of agrarianism has been exploited and made invisible. This is a great opportunity to renew that innate relationship to the land with these young folks.”

She believes organizations like Sankofa that help younger generations sell produce and create income are critical components in the fight against food insecurity. Bell says he’s already seen students showing signs of a changed outlook and a newfound passion for farming. His voice cracks as he talks about one student who reminds him a lot of his younger self.

“His grandmother told me one day that he wanted to come to the farm that weekend,” Bell says. “It means so much to me that we can take a kid that has everything stacked up against him and they would tell their guardian that they want to go to the farm. Those moments mean the most to me.” food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 21

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

22 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

indymusic

CAPPELLA PRATENSIS

Friday, March 10, 8 p.m., $10–$32 Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium, Durham www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

Polyphonic Spree

CAPPELLA PRATENSIS TURNS TO THE MUSIC AND ART OF TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCHMEN TO CELEBRATE CHAOS

BY NOAH RAWLINGS If you’ve ever seen “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” the famed three-panel painting by Hieronymus Bosch, you’ve probably thought to yourself, “What the hell?” Because there, occupying the rightmost panel, is an extravagant, absurd, and shocking depiction of hell.

Amid the fire and brimstone of typical hellscapes, you’ll spot a giant with trees for legs and a fractured eggshell for a torso; a pack of rats eating a knight; a pair of disembodied ears attached to an enormous knife blade; a birdman with a cauldron for a crown sitting upon a golden throne, devouring a live human. Even if you dwell on the serene left panel or wider middle panel of the work, you’re still confronted with a supernatural, surreal vision that could put Magritte or Dalí to shame.

If you’ve never seen a Bosch painting, no, he was not a psychedelics-devouring, paint-splashing madman; he was a fifteenth-century painter from the Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch, and his work inspired this weekend’s performance at Duke by Cappella Pratensis, a choral ensemble that shares Bosch’s hometown. On Friday, to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of Bosch’s death, the renowned group presents a series of polyphonic works composed

by Pierre de la Rue. Born in Belgium two years after Bosch, the composer spent much of his life composing in Bosch’s native city.

La Rue’s connections to Bosch extend beyond geography and temporal proximity—his aesthetic sensibility is similar in many regards, according to Stratton Bull, director of Cappella Pratensis.

“La Rue’s a composer who’s very busy. The whole concept of polyphony is to have multiple lines at once, four different songs going on at the same time,” Bull says.

“Busy,” and even “polyphonic,” are equally fitting terms for Bosch’s art. His works can read like twisted I Spy tableaux where many story lines are happening all at once.

Throughout a La Rue piece, you may find yourself getting lost following one melodic voice before another catches your ear; like-

[Bosch's] works can read like twisted I Spy tableaux where many story lines are happening.

Cappella Pratensis PHOTO COURTESY OF DUKE PERFORMANCES wise, Bosch’s paintings contain dozens of scenes in which viewers can immerse themselves and wander through. The rich but overstimulating qualities of both artists result in works that are simultaneously harmonious

and cacophonous: figures in Bosch’s paintings are clustered with a degree of unity, but the density of the clusters can be confusing or overwhelming. The same is true of La Rue’s elaborate, concurrent melodies.

“These aren’t just serene and simple, calm melodies,” Bull says.

La Rue’s compositions possess beauty, as well as immense complexity and “moments of debauchery,” as Bull puts it—moments that parallel Bosch’s often irreverent and intricate art. La Rue’s music might seem daunting, and Bull acknowledges the possibility of such a perception. But, ultimately, the music can speak to an audience beyond those who typically appreciate “difficult” music or classical music.

“My two little nieces were dragged along by their mother to a performance, and they completely loved it. They loaded up their iPods with polyphony the next day,” Bull says.

Bull’s not promising that Cappella Pratensis will transform attendees into lifetime polyphony aficionados, but he does believe in the vitality and continued relevance of the music, especially in a live setting. Recorded, music doesn’t have quite the same power as when it unfolds in real time, but, as a Bosch painting can still evoke shock, surprise, and aesthetic delight in the hearts of twenty-first century viewers, so too can the music of La Rue. “We just have to keep at it,” Bull says.

“It’s not old music, or church music. It’s just good music.” music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 23

music

N.C. SYMPHONY QUARTET WITH CAROLINE SHAW Friday, March 10, 9 p.m., $8–$10 Kings, Raleigh www.kingsraleigh.com

N.C. SYMPHONY WITH CAROLINE SHAW

Saturday, March 11, 8 p.m., $25 Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh www.dukeenergycenter.com

Chaos By Design

PULITZER-WINNING COMPOSER CAROLINE SHAW RETURNS TO HER HOME STATE FOR A RUN WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY

BY DAN RUCCIA For a little while, it seemed like Caroline Shaw was performing in the Triangle every few months. In the span of a few years, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, violinist, and singer has performed at Duke with the vocal group Roomful of Teeth and jammed with violinist Jennifer Curtis at the Cat’s Cradle Back Room, among other local gigs.

Since winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013, Shaw has been in high demand, but she still manages to make her way back to her native North Carolina for performances.

This month, she’s enjoying an extended stay with the North Carolina Symphony, in preparation for its participation in SHIFT: A Festival of American Orchestras in Washington, D.C., at the end of the month. The N.C. Symphony’s contribution will showcase contemporary composers with connections to North Carolina, and Shaw will be the featured soloist, performing her violin concerto Lo. While she’s in Raleigh, she’ll also join a string quartet of symphony members for the latest edition of the symphony’s more casual series at Kings.

The Friday night show with the symphony quartet at Kings features two chamber works by Shaw: Valencia, a propulsive portrait of the elaborate structure of the Valencia orange; and By and By, a spacious reimagining of various hymns, including “I’ll Fly Away,” for voice and string quartet. By and By varies a little each time Shaw performs it, and part of that sense of difference has to do with the way she adapts the songs. So much of their original feel comes from their chord progressions, the way the emphasis changes on certain words and at predictable intervals. Shaw discards the chords, along with much of the original melodies, to create something more rhapsodic and open. Over a bed of drones or oscillating chords, she recasts familiar tunes into a kind of ecstatic plainsong. Drama emerges from interactions between text, texture, and line, rather than melody and harmony. Since each of the songs that comprise By and By is a vision of death and the afterlife, strip24 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

Caroline Shaw PHOTO BY ALEX LEE ping them of their harmonic roots moves them a step or two further from this temporal realm.

This weekend also marks the North Carolina Symphony’s second performance of Lo, which it co-commissioned and first performed in November 2015. It’s unusual for a performer to play the same work with an orchestra two seasons in a row, and even more so with a new work, which makes this occasion all the more exciting. As both a composer and performer, Shaw notes that

she’s feeling far less stress about this performance than she was for its premiere. She says she knows more about the piece, how she ought to play it, and how the orchestra will respond.

Lo is what happens to a violin concerto when you subtract the ego. Shaw’s part doesn’t draw unnecessary attention to itself, instead, it revels in simple highlights: the long rising scale that opens the piece, some flickering arpeggios dotted here and there, an unadorned melody built around a single

upward leap. There are soloistic moments, but they always seem to emerge from within the orchestra. Intriguingly, the solo is only partially notated: Shaw has a general idea of what she wants to do in a section, but the exact implementation varies. Last time she played it with the symphony, she said her part was about seventy-five percent set. Now she reports that it’s “about ninety-four-point-three percent set now”—she’s left herself some wiggle room in a few sections. As a performer, Shaw is concerned about dialogue and camaraderie, about being a coequal member of the ensemble rather than some interloper standing out in front.

Shaw’s dual concern for simplicity and community allows her to perform a weird musical inversion. In so much of Lo, the writing for the orchestra is far more complex than anything going on with the soloist. The scale that opens the work is subsumed by shifting groups of instruments playing odd, sometimes unrelated chord progressions in lopsided rhythms. Elsewhere, while a limber violin melody soars overhead, Shaw instructs the winds to play “spunky” interlocking polyrhythms to create a fuzzy cloud of harmony.

Her harmonic language is rooted alternately in English Baroque dances and modern pop songs, meaning that there are lots of tonal chords that move in strange ways. For instance, the third movement grows entirely from an enticing four-chord loop in the vibraphone that persists, even as Shaw surrounds it with chaos. But that chaos almost always comes from the orchestra, from Shaw-ascomposer rather than Shaw-as-soloist.

All of these works display the fundamental tension at play between activity and stasis in Shaw’s music. Each piece has long stretches where a static musical ground serves as the base around which a whirlwind of other activity swirls. Once the active part has worn itself out, that static base is still there, thrumming along. It’s a fascinating way to make music—one that’s always open to new possibilities. music@indyweek.com

stage

LITTLE GREEN PIG THEATRICAL CONCERN: THIS IS NOT A NOVEL HHHH Through March 11 The Scrap Exchange’s ReUse Arts Center, Durham www.littlegreenpig.com

Picture Pages WITH OR WITHOUT ITS AUDIO ACCOMPANIMENT, IMMERSIVE THEATER INSTALLATION THIS IS NOT A NOVEL THRIVES ON THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE

BY BYRON WOODS

Dana Marks performs in This Is Not a Novel. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

I

t was no mere technical hiccup that waylaid my high school production of Oklahoma. Instead, it was the lighting equivalent of a grand mal seizure: a memory dump that cascaded through hundreds of programmed cues over a couple of horrifying minutes before plunging us into darkness. When tech goes that far off the rails, the results rarely improve the show. So I’m more than mildly bemused to report that’s exactly what occurred during my encounter with This Is Not a Novel, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern’s immersive, imaginative environmental work, which closes this weekend.

Audience members are supposed to listen to Bill Floyd’s audio play, an adaptation of writer David Markson’s later works, through earbuds on their phones as they explore the dozens of nooks and crannies in this sprawling, two-story multimedia installation. But in order to do that, I now know, you have to download the SoundCloud app and/or the large audio file before show time. A number of us were left standing outside the Lake-

wood venue long past the 8 p.m. opening on Saturday night, as a combination of poor signal strength and multiple patrons trying to download the file at once led to glacial transfer times. When my hosts saw that it would take more than an hour to download, they finally bade me to enter without it.

And that, as it turns out, is the best way to take on This Is Not a Novel.

After I’d explored for about fifteen minutes, director Jaybird O’Berski tracked me down to loan me a device with the sound file loaded, so I was able to also experience the show as intended. Earbuds in, I listened as an avuncular John Fidel Justice and an intergenerational choir of actors and nonactors narrated passages from Markson’s last four published novels, his most radical—and arid—efforts to deconstruct the form.

In the titular work, an author “weary unto death of making up stories” and “equally tired of inventing characters” seeks to form a novel “with no intimation of story whatsoever”: no plot, characters, setting, descriptions,

or “overriding central motivations,” and, thus, “no conflicts and/or confrontations.”

In Floyd’s compiled text, Justice dryly intones the writer’s intentions amid what he terms a “disquisition on the maladies of the life of art”—an extremely extended list of the colorful dysfunctions and deaths of artists and philosophers across the ages—before a benediction of sorts, one hour and fifty minutes later. (Among hundreds of entries, we learn that Bertrand Russell was “so inept physically that he could never learn to make a pot of tea.”) Though references to Van Gogh and others occur repeatedly, they're kept far enough apart to prevent them from building narrative momentum—another stylistic no-no, apparently.

The result suggests an audiobook version of some popular trivia compendium—say, the literary parts of The Book of Lists series— occasionally laced with a compiler’s realtime misgivings. After a while, I noticed I was zoning out from this recital of relentlessly disjunctive factoids.

But an abundance of visual and sensory stimuli kept me busy as I traversed the thirtysix separate installations in the show’s three main areas. (Only two of these are accessible to those with physical disabilities; the company is offering these patrons free admission.) Plus, you need to hear what’s going on or verbally interact with the characters in at least a third of the installations.

Ultimately, I found that the earbuds and vocal track insulated me too much from the live action and sensory riddles I encountered.

After a while, I stopped taking them out to interact and putting them back in. By then, there were more than enough voices in my head, and I really didn’t miss the extra ones.

I confirmed this assessment when I went back later and listened to the soundtrack in its entirety.

I have intentionally provided next to no description of the thirty-six elements that form the wide-ranging environments in this work. Last week, Brian Howe gave readers a glimpse into a handful of them in his feature story. After my experience in this roughedged, prismatic amalgam of music, theater, film, puppetry, and visual, literary, and performance art, I’ve concluded that one of its most important qualities is the element of surprise. Not knowing what’s next and learning how to navigate the environment is part of the challenge—and the fun.

But it is fair game to note that, while some characters, like the puppet, Mr. Delius, seem confined to specific interactions in an established space, others are free range. Since not all performers are conspicuously costumed, you always wonder if someone approaching you is a character, a visitor, or someone choosing to be both. (Protip: Some of the characters have to be drawn out; when anyone invites you into their narrative, go.) After Saturday’s performance, actors said that the different worlds were beginning to further interact and recombine.

I can confirm that This Is Not A Novel fully achieves the aim stated in its subtitle; it is a playscape for adults, though frequently more pensive than delirious. And these hints won’t spoil the surprise. Explore all spaces thoroughly. The back alley’s important. Slow down when exploring the silken maze. And consider carefully what it means to be a guest and a host. In this everything-except-a-novel, sooner or later, you’re both. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 25

26 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

stage

JOHN WATERS: THIS FILTHY WORLD: DIRTIER & FILTHIER Thursday, March 9, 8 p.m., $37–$63 The Carolina Theatre, Durham www.carolinatheatre.org

CertainWaters A LEGENDARY FILMMAKER AND LOWBROW VIRTUOSO GETS EVEN FILTHIER FOR OUR LOWBROW TIMES

J

BY TONY MAUSS

ohn Waters is a world-class talker who needs nothing more than a topic and a nudge to set him off on a verbal voyage, destination unknown. With encyclopedic knowledge of the most profane edges of popular culture, he is a highart savant—a connoisseur of the lurid, the lowbrow, and the louche. Best known for his film work, Waters has also published multiple books, and in recent years he’s been working his brand of linguistic magic onstage in This Filthy World, his one-man show/lecture series/borscht belt vaudeville stand-up routine.

Before he brings a "dirtier and filthier" update of the show to the Carolina Theatre, we reached “the Pope of Trash” via a landline—a landline!—in his New York City apartment. He lived up to his legend, providing a barrage of banter on subjects ranging from tour riders to the writing process.

And he had a few choice words about the chief executive and his supporters, too.

INDY: I’ve always been fascinated by the way you came to Hollywood, the way you created your own career.

JOHN WATERS: Well, I didn’t get to Hollywood until the end of it. I started with underground movies, then I went to midnight movies, then independent, then Hollywood, then back to independent. I think I’ve made every kind of movie. I think the world of independent film that I do is no longer there, so I’m glad I’ve made sixteen movies or something, if you count all of them. It’s not like I haven’t spoken, and I’m still in the film business. I’ve had three development deals that never happened for different projects in the last ten years, so Hollywood has treated me very fairly.

ILLUSTRATION BY SHAN STUMPF

Was Hollywood your goal or was it “I want to make films,” and whoever sup-

ports that, you were willing to work with them?

When I started out I was so young, in high school—did I think I would go to Hollywood? I didn’t not think I was going to. I got Variety when I was a teenager so I knew about the film business. I was interested in it, but when I started I just wanted to make underground movies because that was the only thing I thought was possible at the time and I always learned from just doing it.

I started out the same way kids do when they make the films with cell phones with their friends. I did the same thing. My friends were a little more extreme, but they were playing a part. They really weren’t the characters that we portrayed, in real life, and I had to use a big heavy camera that was made for the news before video came out.

That’s the difference—my camera equipment was a lot heavier, but it was the same.

I’ve always viewed your films, and your subsequent books and speaking tours, as the work of an innate storyteller.

That’s all I need to do, and really, I’m a writer. I wrote all my movies. I wrote my books, I wrote my show, I write my journalism, I write my art projects. Everything I do is about making it up. I could never make a movie I didn’t write. I wouldn’t know how to do it. I’d be bored. I’ve always needed a way to tell stories. The last film I made, A Dirty Shame, was not a success at the box office. My last two books were a success in the publishing business. I guess you always just stay where they like you the most. Common sense.

You’ve always been up-front about wanting to do the work regardless of how your audience views you working in a particular medium.

I always had an audience, even in the very INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 27

beginning, and I understand it’s called show business, it’s not called show art, so basically they have to make money or you won’t be allowed to make the next one. So I understand that real world. It’s not like in Europe, where all these great art movies that I put on my top ten list for Artforum every year—the government helps to pay for those movies.

That would never happen in America. Could you imagine the government paying for Todd Solondz’s last movie? It’s not gonna happen.

In Europe, it would happen.

In publishing a book, you collaborate to get the book published.

When I write a book it’s just my assistants— they are good researchers and copy editors, and I have a great editor, Jonathan Galassi, but it’s not like making a movie where you need to credit rolls of people who do all the technical stuff.

Now you have this speaking tour and it’s just you, a microphone, and an audience.

Yes, but I’ve been doing this for fifty years, and I do have agents that set it up and people that make sure every detail is taken care of.

But you are right, I have a very short rider: Evian water, some food in the dressing room, and me. But I constantly upgrade and rewrite this stuff, and I’m always writing new material. You still need the people to book you, the promoter, etcetera, and it is still writing something. You just need to memorize it, and that’s the difference because you have to be an actor at the same time. I’m playing myself when I do my spoken-word show.

For your spoken-word show and your writing, what is the compelling thing that moves you to tell the story?

First of all I want to make myself laugh, make others chuckle, and at the same time change how people think by taking them into a world they may be nervous to enter.

I think I am politically correct, even though people would definitely question that. My whole life has been a trigger warning. At the same time, I am asking to change your opinion by making you laugh, by making you think—to not judge other people and consider that you really don’t know the whole story about everybody’s behavior, to be a little more open-minded.

To advertise or feature

To advertise or feature a pet for adoption, please contact eroberts@indyweek.com 28 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

In relation to that, wondering if a pet forI was adoption, you would talk about the current please contact political climate.

It is very much part of my show. That’s one eroberts@indyweek.com of the main subjects I talk about. The scariest thing was Trump last night when he acted like a president. That’s scarier. That was Pence you saw speaking last night. He’s scarier. And I saw him nodding in the back-

“I THINK I AM POLITICALLY CORRECT, EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE WOULD DEFINITELY QUESTION THAT. MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A TRIGGER WARNING.” ground, like some sort of schizophrenic other person. The three personalities of Eve, that’s what it was like. Him speaking with the other two behind him nodding and applauding and smiling devilishly. And unfortunately, he did it well, so that’s what was frightening, when he was praying and people were looking to the heavens. It makes me very nervous.

You speak all over the country, and there has been a lot of talk about the division in the country. Have you noticed a difference in your audiences regionally?

First of all, my audience is smart, multi-aged.

They dress up for me. I think they are smart, so I don’t explain every joke. I have yet to see a cute Trump supporter, even in a rough-trade kind of way. I guess there might be some Trump supporters there, but it doesn’t feel like it. I would say that ninety-eight percent of my audience didn’t vote for him, but you never know; liberals can be big fascists, too.

I’ve seen that. I try, when I speak, to recognize that you might not agree with me. But that doesn’t mean I don’t find hope for a new kind of political rebellion which is happening and I hope continues to happen.

How do you think we keep people engaged?

By constantly using humor to humiliate our enemy. Use humor to make the opposition look ridiculous. I have always been for that, and that’s the only movement I can really join. arts@indyweek.com

indypage

NATALIE C. ANDERSON Monday, March 13, 7 p.m., free Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh www.quailridgebooks.com

Taking Refuge in Fiction

NATALIE ANDERSON WORKED WITH REFUGEES IN RALEIGH. NOW, IN THE WINTER OF THE MUSLIM BAN, SHE’S BACK TO LAUNCH HER DEBUT YA NOVEL ABOUT REFUGEES IN AFRICA.

BY DOUG GIBSON In Raleigh on Monday, YA author Natalie C. Anderson launches her debut novel, City of Saints & Thieves, a thriller about a young African refugee named Tina. Universal has already acquired the film rights to the highly touted book, which takes place on the east coast of Africa, where Tina, on the hunt for her mother’s killer, navigates Sangui City, a dystopian world of computer hackers, desperate criminals, and powerful, unaccountable elites.

Anderson’s first encounter with refugees, however, took place closer to home.

“It was my first introduction to the idea that there even were refugees—in North Carolina, at least,” Anderson says of her first job after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, when she worked in Raleigh with Lutheran Family Services, helping newly arrived refugees resettle in the area. The work was difficult, but witnessing the generosity these newcomers encountered in the Triangle made it rewarding, too.

“I was always impressed with how welcoming people were,” she says. The experience inspired her to choose refugee work as a career. First, she headed to Oxford University, where she earned a master’s degree in forced migration, then to Africa, where she took a job processing Congolese refugees in Uganda.

In the process of vetting her, Anderson’s interviewers mostly wanted to know if she could endure the isolation of life in the field. “‘Are you going to survive or are you going to have a meltdown?’” Anderson recalls them asking. “I’m sure I said something like, ‘I’ll be fine! It sounds great!’”

As it turned out, Anderson’s biggest challenge wasn’t the isolation. It was the stories she heard from refugees, so many of which went something like, “This happened, and then this happened, and then this person died, and this person was raped, and this person was kidnapped.” The prospect of safety made it easier for refugees to speak openly, and yet, Anderson says, none had “a story

Natalie C. Anderson

PHOTO BY KARINA HATHAWAY

anyone should have to tell again.” Hearing them, day after day, took an emotional toll.

“Your brain needs some way to process things,” Anderson says. “I started reading a lot of children’s literature, because that was basically the only thing I could handle.” She also tried writing—she started a middle-grade fantasy novel—but continued to find refugees’ stories impossible to tell.

Anderson (who now lives in Geneva, Switzerland) returned to Africa later in her career, to Nairobi. She found that, with enough time and distance, she was ready to write about the refugee experience. She imagined a RobinHood-like young woman who rises from her childhood as a refugee to fight for justice, and Tina was born.

While Tina is a fictional construct, Anderson maintains that she reflects the real-life resilience she saw as a worker both in Africa

and Raleigh. She mentions an extended family she helped settle in the Triangle, led by a matriarch grandmother whose officer husband died resisting military rule in Burma.

“This grandmother was just this force to be reckoned with,” Anderson says. “You don’t expect for this sweet little eighty-yearold lady to have these stories about trekking through the jungle.”

Anderson also recalls a young man she worked with in Cairo, a Somali refugee whose mother negotiated his release with the terrorists who kidnapped him and then used the ransom money to fly him out of the country.

The young man never heard from his mother again, and, much like Tina, he earned a reputation as a troublemaker as he navigated the byzantine refugee-resettlement process—which can take years, even when you’re not from a country whose people are banned

from entry—in order to create a better future for his brother and sister, who had accompanied him into exile.

Now that refugees are prominent in the news, Anderson is fielding a lot of questions about the hardships that refugees face and the ordeal of securing permission to come to the U.S. She’s heartened by the interest.

“I’ve spent my career having to explain who refugees are and why it’s important to support them,” she says. “It’s great that people are finally waking up to how great it is that we continue to be an open country.”

Meet Anderson at Quail Ridge Books on March 13, when she appears on a panel sponsored by Penguin Teen that also features fellow YA authors Alwyn Hamilton, Lesley Livingston, and North Carolina’s own Renée Ahdieh. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 29

3.8–3.15

The cast of Two Months In

STAGE

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

FRIDAY, MARCH 10 & SATURDAY, MARCH 11

TWO MONTHS IN

This weekend (and again on March 17 and 18), a team of local comedians, writers, and actors try to mend broken funnybones with this Second City-style revue, promising topical satire and jocular jabs at our “Tweeter in Chief” from diverse perspectives. The show is directed by Jack Reitz, who has a history of addressing social issues—from the stigma of stuttering to sexual assault in the military—as an actor and educator with Interactive Theater Carolina and Catharsis Productions in Chicago. The revue features Caitlin Wells, Amy Hallett, Marcus Zollicoffer, Shane Smith, Rishan Dhamija, and Josh Rowsey (disclosure: Rowsey is an account executive in the INDY’s advertising department). Two months into our preposterous president’s reign of terror against truth, dignity, and other quaint American pastimes, you almost have to laugh. —Brian Howe THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO

8 p.m., $10–$12, www.artscenterlive.org 30 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK The Nile Project PHOTO COURTESY OF NC STATE LIVE

STAGE

FRIDAY, MARCH 10–SUNDAY, MARCH 26

13: THE MUSICAL

Evan, the central character in this Jason Robert Brown musical, knows it’s just a phase he’s going through. “One day I’ll be thirty/ One day I’ll be fine/ One day I’ll make fun of this dramatic life of mine,” he sings. But right now, turning thirteen looks to him like a disaster. Everything’s changing; his mom’s divorcing his dad, and he’s moved with her from New York to a small Indiana town. That means making friends out of strangers and navigating the cliques at a new school. Plus his bar mitzvah’s coming up— another life transition—in this witty, warm, and surprisingly sophisticated coming-of-age musical. Joel Rainey directs a cast including Bryan Bunch and Averi Zimmerman.

—Byron Woods NORTH RALEIGH ARTS & CREATIVE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $12–$20, www.nract.org

MUSIC

SATURDAY, MARCH 11

ROCK ROULETTE TO BENEFIT GIRLS ROCK NC

Some bands practice painstakingly for months and months before taking their first steps into the spotlight in front of an audience. But the ten brave bands taking the stage for this weekend’s Rock Roulette fundraiser for Girls Rock NC have had no such luxury. Fifty volunteers—all women, trans, and gender nonconforming people with varying backgrounds in music—were randomly assigned to one another as bandmates in mid-January. They’ve had the past seven weeks to pull in money for GRNC and come up with a few original tunes. The groups strut their stuff at Motorco in the hopes that hundreds more kids can follow in their footsteps. —Allison Hussey MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10, www.motorcomusic.com

MUSIC

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15

THE NILE PROJECT

As it flows north through Africa, the Nile River cuts through eleven countries, from Tanzania through Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, and Ethiopia, all the way up to Egypt.

Though these nations share the life-giving waters of one of the world’s longest rivers, their cultures aren’t always connected, for reasons that range from politics to proximity. That’s where The Nile Project steps in. Beginning in California, the ensemble comprises musicians of widely varied backgrounds, with the aim of dissolving the cultural divides between them by blending the countries’ different identities in favor of a larger regional identity. Like Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, The Nile Project’s mission is education through a multicultural musical lens. The Wednesday night concert, which features a preshow talk at 6:30 p.m. from Nile Project leader Mina Girgis, kicks off a week of events at N.C. State that encompasses discussions about music, culture, water, and sustainability. They’re also recording locally at Pittsboro’s Manifold Studio—check out next week’s issue for more on that. —Allison Hussey NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., $8–$30, www.live.arts.ncsu.edu

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

NATALIE C. ANDERSON AT QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS (P. 29), CAPPELLA PRATENSIS AT DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM (P. 23), JUDY KEENE AT CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY (P. 37), PHILIP LEWIS AT FLYLEAF BOOKS (P. 40), N.C. SYMPHONY QUARTET AT KINGS (P. 24), PIE FACE GIRLS AT THE PINHOOK (P. 33), THIS IS NOT A NOVEL AT THE SCRAP EXCHANGE (P. 25), VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS AT FLETCHER OPERA THEATER (P. 39), JOHN WATERS AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 27) INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 31

3/9 TIM O'BRIEN SEATED SHOW ($22/$25) 3/10 ELECTRIC GUEST W/ CHAOS CHAOS ($12/$14)

TH 3/9

TIM O’BRIEN

3/11YEP ROC PRESENTS A BENEFIT

FOR THE ACLU-NC LEGAL FOUNDATION:

TOWN MOUNTAIN, TIFT MERRITT, ALEXANDRA SAUSER-MONNIG OF MOUNTAIN MAN, CALEB CAUDLE ($15 3/12 SENSES FAIL W/ COUNTERPARTS, MOVEMENTS, LIKE PACIFIC ($15/$18) 3/17 TORTOISE W/ TARA JANE O'NEIL ($15) 3/18 MARTIN SEXTON** W/ BROTHERS MCCANN ($25/$29) 3/23 SOHN** W/ WILLIAM DOYLE ($17/$20) SOLD 3/24 JOHNNYSWIM OUT 3/25 HIPPO CAMPUS W/MAGIC CITY HIPPIES ($13/$15) 3/28 THE MENZINGERS W/ JEFF ROSENSTOCK, ROZWELL KID ($17/$20) 3/29 COREY SMITH W/ JACOB POWELL ($20) 3/31 BENEFIT FOR BILL LADD FEATURING:

THE CONNELLS

W/THEROMANSPRING,ARROWBEACH($10) LD SOJR 4/1 DINOSAUR W/ EASY ACTION OUT

4/2LAMBCHOPW/XYLOURISWHITE($15) 4/7 CARBON LEAF W/ ME AND MY BROTHER ($16/$20) 4/8 DIRTY BOURBON RIVER SHOW AND ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES ($10/$12) 4/10 GOGOL BORDELLO ($27/$30) ON SALE 3/10

4/11 WHY? W/ ESKIMEAUX ($16/$18) 4/15 MIKE POSNER AND THE

LEGENDARY MIKE POSNER BAND ($20/$24) 4/17 CASHMERE CAT ($17/$20) 4/18 CHRONIXX

W/ KELISSA, MAX GLAZER ($22.50/$25) 4/20 FOXYGEN W/ GABRIELLA COHEN ( $18/$20) 4/21 JUMP,

LIT TLE CHILDREN

SOLD OUT

FR 3/10

ELECTRIC GUEST SU 3/12

CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM 3/8 MAJOR AND THE MONBACKS W/ OBLATIONS ($10) 3/9 KINGS PRESENTS ET ANDERSON W/ DEN-MATE, THE SEA LIFE, FOXTURE ($12) 3/10 TIM DARCY (OF OUGHT) W/ MOLLY BURCH ($10/$12) 3/11 MEGA COLLOSSUS W/ THE BEGGARS, RUSCHA ($8) 3/12 JULIA W/ LYRA, GRAYSCALE WHALE ($5) 3/17 DARK WATER RISING W/ORLANDO PARKER JR, OG MERGE ($8/$10) 3/18 PAX' CHEST FEST ($10/$12) 3/21 NYLON MUSIC TOUR PRESENTS POWERS & BRIDGIT MENDLER ($16/$18) LD HOUSE 3/22 THE JAPANESESO W/BLAISE MOORE OUT

3/23 SABA W/ SYLVAN LACUE ($15/$18) 3/24 THE FAUX HAWKS THE CINNAMON GIRLS, "SEQUEL TO ZIGGY STARDUST" LISTENING PARTY 3/25 REBEKAH TODD & THE ODDYSSEY W/ LAURA REED BAND ($10/$12) 3/29 CHERRY GLAZERR W/LALA LALA AND IAN SWEET ($13/$15) 3/30 THE SUITCASE JUNKET W/ DUPONT BROTHERS ($10/$12) 3/31 TRANSPORTATION W/ BAT FANGS, SUNNYSLOPES 4/2 CARRIE ELKIN W/ DANNY SCHMIDT ($12/$15) 4/7 NORTH ELEMENTARY W/THEWYRMSANDSEWARD(FULLBAND)

4/23 THE STEELDRIVERS ($28/$35)

4/8 DRIFTWOOD

4/24 AN EVENING WITH NOAH & ABBY GUNDERSEN ($16/$18) 4/25 PARACHUTE W/ KRIS ALLEN ($18/$20)

4/9 BIRDS OF CHICAGO ($12/$15)

4/26 DOPAPOD W/ GROOVE FETISH ($13/$15)

4/14 KAWEHI ($12/$15)

4/28 SOMO ($25/$30) 4/30 AB-SOUL ($22.50/$25) ON SALE 3/10 5/5 ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO W/ SAUL ZONANA ($26/$30) 5/10 SLOWDIVE W/ CASKET GIRLS ($36/$39) 5/11 CRANK IT LOUD PRESENTS PUP W/PRAWN ($15/$17) 5/14 SARA WATKINS SEATED SHOW ($18/$22) 5/16 WHITNEY W/ NATALIE PRASS ($16) 5/17 NEW FOUND GLORY W/ TRASH BOAT ($22/$26) 5/19 PERFUME GENIUS W/ SERPENTWITHFEET ($17/$19) 5/20 SAY ANYTHING / BAYSIDE W/ HOT ROD CIRCUIT ($21/$23) 6/5 CAR SEAT HEADREST ($17/$20; ON SALE 3/10) 6/6 THE ORWELLS ($18/$20) 7/19 JOHN MORELAND SEATED SHOW ($13/$15) 11/7 THE STRUMBELLAS ($22/$25)

4/13 MATT PRYOR AND DAN ANDRIANO ($13/$15) 4/15 DIET CIG W/ DADDY ISSUES, FISH DAD ($10) 4/17 SALLIE FORD W/ MOLLY BURCH ($10/$12) 4/18 SWEET SPIRIT ($10/$12) 4/19 ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE W/ BABYLON ($10/$12) 4/20 SCOTT MILLER ($12/$14) 4/27 THE WILD REEDS W/ BLANK RANGE ($12/$14) 4/28 SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS W/ TWO DOLLAR PISTOLS ($10/$12) 4/29 THE DEAD TONGUES / LOAMLANDS W/MOLLY SARLE ($10) 4/30 SEAN ROWE W/ FAYE WEBSTER 5/2 SWEET CRUDE W/ MOTEL RADIO ($10) 5/3 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH W/ LAURA GIBSON ($16) 5/6 SHANNON MCNALLY ($17/$20) 5/8 THE BESNARD LAKES W/ THE LIFE AND TIMES ($12) 5/19 HAAS KOWERT TICE ($12/$15)

SENSES FAIL

MO 3/20 @CAROLINA THEATRE

THE ZOMBIES ‘ODESSEY AND ORACLE’ 50 YEAR TOUR

5/23 DEAD MAN WINTER (FEAT. DAVE SIMONETT OF TRAMPLED BY TURTLES) 5/24 TOBIN SPROUT W/ ELF POWER ($13/$15) 6/7 GRIFFIN HOUSE ($20/$23) 6/9 JONATHAN BYRD 6/14 JOAN SHELLEY W/ JAKE XERXES FUSSELL ($13/$15; ON SALE 3/10) 6/17 BARNS COURTNEY ($14/$16) ARTSCENTER (CARRBORO) 5/14 ROBYN HITCHCOCK **($20/$23) PINHOOK (DURHAM) 4/24 MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ (OF DELTA SPIRIT) $13/$15 KINGS (RAL) 5/3 ANDY SHAUF W/ JULIA JACKLIN ($13/$15) 5/10 RUN RIVER NORTH W/ARKELLS, COBI ($15/$17; ON SALE 3/10) RED HAT AMPH. (RAL) 5/14 THE XX CAROLINA THEATRE (DUR) 3/20 THE ZOMBIES 'ODESSEY AND ORACLE' 50 YEAR TOUR 4/14 WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE W/ERIN MCKEOWN THE RITZ (RAL) (TICKETS VIA TICKETMASTER)

5/1 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS W/ WAXAHATCHEE ($30) NC MUSEUM OF ART (RAL) 5/6 MIPSO W/ RIVER WHYLESS 6/5 FOUR VOICES: JOAN BAEZ, MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER AND INDIGO GIRLS AMY RAY & EMILY SALIERS 6/13 KALEO 6/18 JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT 7/22 MANDOLIN ORANGE W/ JOE PUG 7/31BELLE AND SEBASTIAN AND ANDREW BIRD HAW RIVER BALLROOM SOLD 3/11 SON VOLT OUT W/JOHNNY IRION 4/1 PATRICK WATSON ($20/$22) 6/11 JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW ($20/$22; ON SALE 3/10) DPAC (DURHAM 4/20, 21 STEVE MARTIN AND MARTIN SHORT WITH STEEP CANYON RANGERS

CATSCRADLE.COM ★ 919.967.9053 ★ 300 E. MAIN STREET ★ CARRBORO

**Asterisks denote advance tickets @ schoolkids records in raleigh & chapel hill order tix online at ticketfly.com ★ we serve carolina brewery beer on tap! ★ we are a non-smoking club 32 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

INDY WEEK’S BAR + BEVERAGE MAGAZINE ON STANDS NOW

music

3.8–3.15

FOR OUR COMPLETE COMMUNITY CALENDAR

WWW.INDYWEEK.COM

CONTRIBUTORS: Elizabeth Bracy (EB), Timothy Bracy (TB), Grant Britt (GB), Elizabeth Byrum (EGB), Zoe Camp (ZC), Spencer Griffith (SG), Allison Hussey (AH), David Klein (DK), Charles Morse (CM), Noah Rawlings (NR),Patrick Wall (PW)

WED, MAR 8

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Major and the Monbacks, The Oblations; 8:30 p.m., $10. • THE CAVE: Floor Model, Matt Stevenson; 9 p.m., $5. • HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: The Longleaf Pine Nuts; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: Electronic Summit #3: Voter Frog, Bodykit, Tegucigalpan, Spongebath; 9 p.m., $8. • LINCOLN THEATRE: David Bromberg, Austin Shaw; 8 p.m., $20–$30. • LOCAL 506: Yoke Lore, Pronoun; 7 p.m., $12–$14.

• MOTORCO: Ben Sollee & Jordon Ellis, Charles Latham; 8 p.m., $15–$17.

• THE PINHOOK: Kane Strang; 9 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Mt. Joy; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • UNC’S HILL HALL: Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss; 7:30 p.m., $10–$39.

THU, MAR 9

The Down Hill Strugglers OLD-TIME A library probably FUN isn’t the first place you’d expect to hear live music early on a Thursday evening, but UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection is offering just that. The Down Hill Strugglers, an old-time trio made up of a banjo, fiddle, and an acoustic guitar, perform in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room inside stately Wilson Library. The music follows a book talk by Ronald D. Cohen, author of the new Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America. —AH [UNC’S WILSON LIBRARY, FREE/6 P.M.]

ET Anderson

DREAM A Vancouver POP four-piece trafficking in the sort of ambient soft pop that made indie stars of Beach House, The Belle Game’s most notable element is the bracingly melodramatic vocals of frontwoman Andrea Lo. But despite her best efforts, the persistent haziness threatens to relegate the end result to sonic wallpaper. DCTV opens. —EB [THE PINHOOK, $10/9 P.M.]

PHONE Hailing from HOME Charleston, South Carolina, the guys of ET Anderson sound equally at home evoking the reverbed-out noir of the Gun Club, the detuned weirdness of early Sonic Youth, and the bummer fever dreams of Eric’s Trip. Affiliated with the ascendant South Carolina indie label Hearts & Plugs, this promising cohort of mild-mannered degenerates represents the vanguard of a rapidly burgeoning scene.

Den-Mate, The Sea Life, and Foxture open. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12/8 P.M.]

Craver, Hicks, Watson, and Newberry

Local Band Local Beer: Tab-One, Sinopsis

NOT The ensemble of LAWYERS Craver, Hicks, Watson, and Newberry might sound like a law firm, but you won’t find any fast talking from these fellows. Bill Hicks, Jim Watson, and Mike Craver were all longstanding personnel of the Red Clay Ramblers, and they’re joined by banjoist extraordinaire Joe Newberry. Expect plenty of quick picking and an equal amount of grinning. —AH [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/7 P.M.]

LOCAL Whether teaming BARS up as members of Kooley High or as a duo on last year’s Sincerely, Tab LP, emcee Tab-One and producer Sinopsis consistently deliver excellent material, with Tab-One dropping effortlessly sharp, playful wordplay over Sinopsis’s timeless, inventive beats. Veteran Raleigh rhymer Lazurus resurfaced with his nimble flow on the recently released Do It Yourself, reaffirming him as one of the area’s most underappreciated lyricists. Ghost

The Belle Game

Dog, Mosca Flux, and Venomiss round out this healthy bill of Triangle talent. —SG [POUR HOUSE, $3–$5/9:30 P.M.]

Tim O’Brien ‘GRASSY Tim O’Brien may not GUY have been one of the original fathers of bluegrass, but the mandolin whiz and multi-instrumentalist has certainly done his fair share of work to keep the genre going.

Whether with his band Hot Rize, picking in the Flatt & Scruggs tribute The Earls of Leicester, or on his own, O’Brien offers excellent interpretations of acoustic music.

—AH [CAT’S CRADLE, $22–$25/8 P.M.]

Operator Music Band KRAUT Operator Music ROCK Band hails from Brooklyn, but it sounds like a group of lifelong Berliners on its debut LP, the new Puzzlephonics I & II. Sparse, analog-driven, and powered largely through the mechanical, German-made rhythmic pattern known as the motorik, the quartet’s brittle art rock belies a reverence for the krautrock pantheon. The band’s pugnacious spirit, manifested in zig-zagging riffs and dissonant synths, makes its apt study all the more impactful. Paperhaus and SMLH open. —ZC [KINGS, $5/10 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m. • THE CAVE: Country Mice, Secretary Pool, Majestic Vistas, Matt Kalb; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Buffcoat and the Lacquer, Jared Place, Nino Zarcone, The Trees; 8:30 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Going Back Band; 6 p.m. • THE STATION: The Straight 8’s, Morgan Geer; 8 p.m., $6.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

PIE FACE GIRLS One of the more bizarre side effects of last year’s presidential election was the instant meme-ification of every snappy soundbite.

Within twenty-four hours of the words being uttered, whether we wanted it or not, we could buy T-shirts, bearing messages of “bad hombre,” “nasty woman,” “they go low, we go high,” and so on. But unlike a cute Etsy coffee mug, Raleigh’s Pie Face Girls really are nasty.

On Formative Years, the band’s debut fulllength on Negative Fun, they show how much they mean it.

The record opens up with “Washed Out,” which is a thrilling takedown of the kind of unsavory behavior that men impose upon others at shows. “If you think your cover charge buys you limitless remarks, you can keep your rite of passage,” shouts guitarist and vocalist Dani Hoffpauir, before she goes on to squeal, “Here’s your cake, now watch me eat it!”

With bassist Tiffany Huff and drummer Klay Misenheimer, Hoffpauir delights in being crass, coarse, and impolite, which is a welcome break in step from fussy, squeaky-clean indie rock.

Formative Years is full of clever barbs, which are generally directed outward (see “Get On the Floor,” which opens with the trio yelling, “That girl’s got the cla-aaaap!”), but moments of emotional honesty hide behind sludgy, chugging riffs. There’s a twinge of defeat in Hoffpauir’s flat delivery of “You’re like coffee, and I’m cigarettes/Together we’re a pleasant but poisonous mix” on “O Piss,” but the song twists into a warped and wonderful come-on.

Pie Face Girls never bother with trying to be cutsey or coy—rather, Formative Years is a bold, at times even aggressive assertion of identity and desire. The final few seconds of Formative Years deliver a crackling cackle from Misenheimer at the end of “Fuck You I’m Pretty,” which makes for a fine closing note: You can take it or leave it, and Pie Face Girls probably won’t give a shit either way. They’ll keep cackling, cussing, and shredding whether you like it or not. —Allison Hussey THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $8, www.thepinhook.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 33

FRI, MAR 10 BLUE WED: THE HERDED CATS CRAVER, HICKS, WATSON & NEWBERRY DUKE STREET DOGS JIMMY WEAVER TRIO JOSH PRESLAR BAND ADRIAN DUKE & THERESA RICHMOND TUESDAY BLUES JAM

WE 3/8 TH 3/9 FR 3/10 SA 3/11 SU 3/12 TU 3/14

8PM

3/103/11

7PM

SA 3/11

6-8PM

SU 3/12 SU 3/12

9PM $5 8PM $8 5-7PM

3/173/18

7:30PM

LIVE MUSIC • OPEN TUESDAY—SUNDAY THEBLUENOTEGRILL.COM 709 WASHINGTON STREET • DURHAM

STRAIGHT 8’S TH 3/9 THE W/ MORGAN GEER 7:30PM, $6, 21+ GRUMHAUS CD RELEASE FR 3/10 WHIT W/ THE JEB 7:30PM, $6, 21+ JAZZ SATURDAY W/ CORASON 2PM, FREE, ALL AGES THE WYRMS SA 3/11 W/ DENTIST, SEABREEZE DINER 7:30, $7, 21+ DJ AVIATION PARKWAY 10PM, FREE, 21+ SAVING SPACE SHOWCASE #2: WE 3/15 COSMIC PUNK W/ SOCCER TEES, FISH DAD 9PM, $5 W/ MOMMA MOLASSES, TH 3/16 EARLEINE HANK AND BRENDAN 8PM, $6, 21+ *ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE

SA 3/18 TU 3/21 SA 3/25 FR 3/31 TU 4/4 SA 4/8 4/74/10 SA 4/15 SA 4/29

TWO MONTHS IN AN ORIGINAL SKETCH COMEDY REVUE PRESENTED BY METTLESOME TRANSACTORS IMPROV: FOR FAMILIES! GARY STROUTSOS ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS TWO MONTHS IN AN ORIGINAL SKETCH

COMEDY REVUE PRESENTED BY METTLESOME IRA KNIGHT PRESENTS:

MARTIN LUTHER KING: AN INTERPRETATION POPUP CHORUS NO SHAME THEATRE - CARRBORO SONGS FROM THE CIRCLE 7 POPUP CHORUS THE ALWAYS INSPIRING GALA PAUPER PLAYERS PRESENTS:

IN THE HEIGHTS JOSHUA LOZOFF: LIFE IS MAGIC THE MONTI STORYSLAM GRANDSLAM Find out More at

ArtsCenterLive.org

300-G East Main St. • Carrboro, NC Find us on Social Media

@ArtsCenterLive

The Clarks WHOLLY A venerable roots ROCK rock outfit dating back to the mid-eighties, Pittsburgh’s The Clarks have cultivated a formidable catalog filled with good-humored Stonesy-raunch, Springsteen-style character sketches, and a surfeit of terrific tunes tailor-made for beautiful losers and doomed romantics everywhere. Michael Tolcher opens. —TB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $14.50/8 P.M.]

Tim Darcy OUGHT Tim Darcy—frontNOT man of bustling Montreal post-punks Ought— irons out his jittery tendencies on solo debut Saturday Night, a diverse but accessible set of melodic, introspective indie rock tunes that’s reminiscent of the Velvet Underground and The Smiths tossed with frayed bits of Americana. Molly Burch opens with dusty, soulful country. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Drug Yacht

YOKELORE / pronoun

WE 3/8

CARDIGAN

TH 3/9

AND

LOCAL 506 PRESENT

PROFESSOR TOON

FR 3/10

MAL BLUMCOSMIC ANDPUNKTHE BLUMS HEAT w/ Navy Gangs

SA 3/11

SU 3/12

CROCODILES / AJ DAVILA MO 3/13

JENNY BESETZT MONDAY NIGHT OPEN MIC COMING SOON:

CHICANO BATMAN, CORY BRANAN, THE SECOND 506 BAND LOTTERY www.LOCAL506.com

34 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

DAVES I Though their band’s KNOW name suggests narcotic opulence, the three Daves of Durham’s Drug Yacht pull a hard left, opting for late-nineties indie shout math with plenty of muscle and melody. If the trio’s at all anxious, it ain’t from withdrawal—well, except from maybe their stack of Minutemen records. With Positive No and Three Body Problem. —PW [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/9:30 P.M.]

Electric Guest LIGHTS Tuneful, inoffensive, OFF and almost entirely forgettable, these L.A. denizens traffic in a hybrid of indie pop and blue-eyed soul that practically marinates in its very blandness.

Frontman Asa Taccone spreads his wispy falsetto all over the band’s lightly debauched tales of privilege, but the effect is neither dangerous nor insinuating. Chaos Chaos opens. —TB [CAT’S CRADLE, $12–$14/8 P.M.]

Get the Led Out ZEP NOD Nature abhors a vacuum, and this

Philadelphia-based tribute band’s lovingly convincing renderings of Led Zeppelin classics has filled a void for those too young or not fortunate enough to catch the band live. Remarkable attention to detail and a deep understanding of the group’s lore makes these true believers ideal Zep ambassadors.

—TB [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $27–$52/8 P.M.]

Whit Grumhaus HEART- Carrboro singerLANDIA songwriter Whit Grumhaus’s new record, The Hungry & the Hunted, opens with “Walking Man,” whose slide-guitar accents and bittersweet strum pattern suggest a lost Tom Petty track. From there, Grumhaus moves confidently through ruminative Americana, stately chamber pop, and mid-tempo folk-pop with a sonic richness via producer Chris Stamey. The Jeb opens. —DK [THE STATION, $6/8 P.M.]

Gary Hannan & Julianne Ankley TWANGY Bringing together a PAIR wealth of songwriting and performing experience— she’s an award-winning vocalist and songwriter, he’s written hits for the likes of Blake Shelton and Joe Nichols (notably “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off”)— Gary Hannan and Julianne Ankley invoke the spirit of the great country duos. —DK [THE CARY THEATER, $10–$25/8 P.M.]

St. Paul & the Broken Bones SAINTLY Where St. Paul & the SOUL Broken Bones’ 2014 debut, Half the City, was an exemplary but straightforward revival of sixties gospel-inflected Southern soul, last year’s Sea of Noise found the band blending that bedrock of Otis Redding and Al Green with dramatic atmospheres and socially conscious lyrics, suggesting influence from both Sly Stone and more modern inspirations. Expect a sweaty mess as the Alabama outfit’s instrumentalists tackle the tough job of matching the impassioned, incongruent vocals of show-stopping frontman Paul Janeway.

Aaron Lee Tasjan opens. —SG [THE RITZ, $25/8 P.M.]

Al Strong & Fresh 5 SOUL Trumpet master Al JAZZ Strong honed his skills at the NCCU Jazz Ensemble, cofounded the Art of Cool Project, and has kept busy as a solo performer and collaborator with jazzers and rappers alike. On Love Strong, Vol. 1, whether he’s reworking “Itsy Bitsy Spider” into a swooning, polyrhythmic dream or giving “My Favorite Things” a Latin makeover, the love comes through.

—DK [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $16.50/7 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY 618 BISTRO: Randy Reed; 7-9:30 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Jimmy Weaver Trio; 9 p.m., $5. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • CARY ACADEMY: Measures of Love; 7 p.m., Donation. • THE CAVE: The Undercover Dream Lovers, Nick White, Raid the Quarry; 9 p.m., $5.

• DEEP SOUTH: I Am Maddox, Paper Dolls, Homestruck, Messenger Down, Stammerings; 8 p.m., donations. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Cappella Pratensis: Triptych: The Musical World of Heironymus Bosch; 8 p.m., $10–$32.

See page 23. • IRREGARDLESS: Stephen Anderson Duo; 6:30 p.m. • THE KRAKEN: Better Off Dead; 8 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Mal Blum and the Blums, Cosmic Punk; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • MOTORCO: The Expendables, Rdgldgrn, Tribal Theory; 8 p.m., $18–$65. • THE PINHOOK: Pie Face Girls, The Shondes, Al Riggs; 9 p.m., $8. See box, page 33. • PNC ARENA: Casting Crowns, Danny Gokey, Unspoken; 7 p.m., $25–$50. • POUR HOUSE: The Shakedown Performs Hall and Oates; 9 p.m., $10.

• RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Wild Pink; 7 p.m., free.

• SHARP NINE GALLERY: Lovell Bradford Trio; 8 p.m., $10–$20. • SLIM’S: Shadow Band; 9 p.m., $5. • THE BULLPEN: Cary Morin; 7 p.m.

SAT, MAR 11 Jenny Besetzt BUMMER Greensboro’s Jenny POP Besetzt made a name for itself by playing morose, leaden post-punk à la Joy Division—a far cry from chugging riffs and cheery melodies.

However gloomy, they’re ultimately a pop band, dredging wiry grooves from the surrounding misery with aplomb on last year’s excellent Tender Madness. Bond St. District, Hotline, and Blackslage open. —ZC [KINGS, $12/9 P.M.]

GUITAR LESSONS Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced - all ages

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

GURU GUITARS 5221 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27606 (919) 833-6607 www.guruguitarshop.com Present this coupon for

Member Admission Price

Al Strong performs at Beyù Caffè Saturday night PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

Mega Colossus

Son Volt

EPIC Throw your horns to METAL the sky, but be careful not to overdose on the soaring vocal wails or dizzying guitar harmonies of the Triangle’s joyous metal gods, Mega Colossus, whose lyrics read like fantasy tales. Born out of a garage with boatloads of swagger, openers The Beggars meet all the stereotypes of rowdy Detroit rock ’n’ rollers ready to party. Chapel Hill quartet Ruscha forges intense and heroic instrumentals out of shape-shifting metal. Mega Colossus and The Beggars also play a Sunday matinee at Slim’s.

—SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $8/10 P.M.]

HIGH Despite an VOLTAGE impressive, extensive catalog following Jay Farrar’s split from Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt has remained relatively overlooked.

That’s too bad; Farrar’s lyrics beg to be teased apart, articulated by his weary voice and a revolving band that ventures beyond alt-country into heartland rock and, most recently, the blues.

Johnny Irion opens. —SG [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $22–$25/8 P.M.]

Sing Out! Benefit for the ACLU of North Carolina KNOW YR In the current RIGHTS climate, where the basic, constitutionally guaranteed freedoms are being called into question by the powers that be, the ACLU’s work in defending civil liberties is more vital than ever. At Cat’s Cradle, a group of N.C. musicians are doing their part by donating the evening’s proceeds to support the legal foundation of the organization’s North Carolina branch. The stellar, Americanaleaning lineup includes area treasure Tift Merritt, Asheville string band Town Mountain, ace singer-songwriter Caleb Caudle, Mountain Man’s Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and other special guests. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE, $15/7:30 P.M.]

The Warm Up LOTS OF Local boom-bap HIP-HOP enthusiasts know Raw Sole Records as North Carolina and Virginia’s flagship label for underground rap, with a focus on old school-style hip-hop.

At Deep South, the label hosts a vast lineup: veteran local rappers Samson, Frosted Gunz, and Poe Mack, along with newcomers Warrin Supreme, Joey Bars, and Totty. Tuscon acts as the evening’s host, and Fin the DJ will be on the turntables. —CM [DEEP SOUTH, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Chan Hall; 7 & 9 p.m., $12. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Josh Preslar Band; 8 p.m., $8. • CARY ACADEMY: Measures of Love; 7 p.m., Donation. • THE CAVE: Shadow Band, Arson Daily; 9 p.m., $5. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Muscadine Bloodline, Jobe Fortner; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • IRREGARDLESS: Brent Stimmel; 11:30 am. Gen Palmer & Andrew Berinson; 6 p.m. The Boulevard Ensemble; 9 p.m. • THE KRAKEN: Zuzu Welsh, The Glenn Jones Band; 8 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Bowie

Ball; 9 p.m., $10. • LOCAL 506: Heat, Navy Gangs; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • THE MAYWOOD: A Light Divided, Bridge to Breakdown, Adam Hill Band, Ghoston Road; 8:30 p.m., $10. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4; 8 p.m., $25. See page 24. • MOTORCO: Rock Roulette to Benefit Girls Rock NC; 8 p.m., $10. See page 31. • NIGHTLIGHT: Disco Sweat XXXII; 10 p.m., $8–$10. • POUR HOUSE: Litz, The Nitrogen Tone, The Forgotten Man; 2 p.m., free. Signal Fire, The Elovaters, Elusive Groove; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Luxeposh; 10 p.m. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Dentist, Riviera; 6 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: Tower, Final Sign, Old Scratch; 9 p.m., $8. • THE STATION: The Wyrms, Dentist, Seabreeze Diner; 8 p.m., $7. Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free.

(Not Valid for Special Events, expires 01-18)

919-6-TEASER for directions and information

www.teasersmensclub.com 156 Ramseur St. Durham, NC

TeasersMensClub

@TeasersDurham

An Adult Nightclub Open 7 Days/week • Hours 7pm - 2am

SUN, MAR 12 Holly Bowling PIANO As a classically JAMS trained solo pianist, Holly Bowling’s instrumental interpretations of popular jam band tunes are light and refreshing—and she’s got two records of reimagined versions of songs by Phish and The Grateful Dead. On last year’s Better Left Unsung, Bowling’s collection of Dead covers, tracks float along dreamily. Expect a piano jam session full of spontaneity, upbeat fun, and soothing sounds. —EGB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $12/8 P.M.]

YOUR WEEK. EVERY WEDNESDAY.

Crocodiles CROC Equally adept at ROCK channeling their fetishes for T. Rex-style glam, Stooges-like in-the-red garage

MUSIC•NEWS•ARTS•FOOD INDYWEEK.COM INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 35

stomp, and moody synth pop à la The Psychedelic Furs, San Diego’s self-consciously stylish Crocodiles have a habit of churning out memorable melodies while somehow failing to ever fully distinguish themselves from their iconic influences. AJ Davila opens.

—EB [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

the music so impressed Lakota, Mandan-Hidatsa, Navajo, and Salish Kootenai elders that they requested he preserve their songs with his flute. He brings those songs to Carrboro for this late-afternoon performance. —GB [THE ARTS CENTER, $6–$12/3 P.M.]

a mom now and rediscovering her first love of jazz. On her fine recent LP, Day Breaks, Jones still dazzles on both originals and an audacious cover of a Neil Young deep cut.

—DK [MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, $66/8 P.M.]

ALSO ON SUNDAY

Julia

CARY ARTS CENTER: Basant Bahar; 3:30 p.m., free. • THE CAVE: Star Wizard, The Narcotix; 9 p.m., $5.

• CHAPEL OF THE CROSS: The Splendors of Italy; 3 p.m., $18. • DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Electric Kif with Alison Shearer Group / Raleigh Rockers; 12:30 p.m., free.

• HAYES BARTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Three Triangle Tenors; 3 p.m., Donations. • NIGHTLIGHT: Eugene Chadbourne; James Gilmore, Daniel Hall, Casey Toll; 8 p.m., $8. • THE PINHOOK: Emily Reo, Infinity Crush, Janxx; 8 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Seth Rosenbloom; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • SKY LOUNGE AT GREENBRIDGE CONDOMINIUMS: Jennifer Curtis; 2 p.m., $25. • SLIM’S: Mega Colossus, The Beggars, Tonk; 2 p.m., $7.

POUR HOUSE: The Social Animals; 9 p.m., $5–$7. • RUBY DELUXE: Experimental Tuesday: 80lb Test; 11 p.m.

CLASSIC + Julia’s first single, ALT ROCK “The Bewitching Hour,” provides just a taste of the band’s funky rock, but elsewhere, the trio focuses on heavy guitar riffs in songs that meld classic and alternative rock. With Lyra and Grayscale Whale. —EGB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $5/7 P.M.]

Senses Fail

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

MONDAY, MARCH 13

AN EVENING WITH GORDON LIGHTFOOT In the mid-sixties, being a singer with an acoustic guitar meant being compared to Dylan. Strangely, though, no one called Gordon Lightfoot, who issued his self-titled debut LP in 1966, the Canadian Dylan. He was too polished, too accessible. You could still hear traces of the kid who learned to sing in church in his rich vibrato. It was a solid start, and the record yielded one of his finest songs in “Early Morning Rain,” but his unmistakable earnestness was a touch behind the explosively creative times.

Lightfoot would have to wait about five more years to get his moment. In the void left by the recently officially broken-up Beatles, changing the world and freeing one’s mind were out as song subjects; introspective and personal ruminations were in. Thus, Lightfoot landed his first U.S. hit in 1971 with “If You Could Read My Mind,” a hushed, intimate tune inspired by his divorce.

Improbably, it was after the moment passed that Lightfoot enjoyed his greatest success with “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Looking at the current state of the pop charts, it seems incredible that Lightfoot nearly topped the charts in late 1976 with a six-and-a-half-minute storysong about an actual shipwreck in the era of Rod Stewart and the Bee Gees.

Yet his was a funny kind of fame. It has never been hip to be a Gordon Lightfoot 36 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

fan. Bob Dylan’s cover of “Early Morning Rain” (which was, admittedly, on his only universally maligned record, Self Portrait) did nothing to up the man’s hip quotient.

Even in Canada, the rugged-featured, bearded baritone was both revered as a national treasure and the subject of years of continual lampooning on SCTV, the Canuck equivalent of SNL. By the early eighties, the hits had stopped coming, and Lightfoot halted his career for a few years after his 1986 LP, East of Midnight, suffered from a particularly vicious critical pile-on.

Happily, time ameliorates the vicissitudes of taste, and Lightfoot’s skilled songwriting and beautifully toned voice continue to age like fine wine at this far juncture. The range of folks who have recorded his songs— including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Barbra Streisand, and Nico—attests to the songs’ versatility and staying power.

Lightfoot has spent most of his more recent days conquering personal demons and major health issues, and he has not recorded new material in more than a decade, but with a songbook this deep, that’s forgivable. And that shipwreck song, a classic of the narrative genre, hasn’t lost its power to evoke the icewater mansion of the deep. —David Klein CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $47–$220, www.carolinatheatre.org

NOT SO Don’t look to New EMO Jersey post-hardcore outfit Senses Fail to satisfy your craving for middle school nostalgia. The band may have first attained mainstream recognition during the peak emo years of the mid-aughts with alt-rock-leaning records like Still Searching and Life Is Not A Waiting Room, but it has long since eschewed those big-tent tendencies (not to mention all of their original members, save vocalist Buddy Nielson and drummer Dan Trapp) for basement-friendly, breakdownheavy hardcore. Counterparts, Movements, and Like Pacific open.

—ZC [CAT’S CRADLE, $18/7 P.M.]

Lee Fields SAY IT Lee Fields has been LOUD at it since 1969 but found a wider audience in his later years, defying the odds in an industry that tends to turn its back on aging soul men, as it did with Fields’s mentor and sonic touchstone, James Brown.

Onstage with his six-piece band, Fields summons vintage soul with the urgency of the present.

Carolina Soul’s founder, Jason Perlmutter, opens the evening celebrating the first anniversary of the retailer’s Durham brick-andmortar store, with a DJ set. —DK [MOTORCO, $17–$20/8 P.M.]

Gary Stroutsos NATIVE Greek-Italian-AmeriFLUTE can Gary Stroutsos explored Afro-Cuban and Chinese music before delving into American Indian music. His dedication to correctly interpreting

MON, MAR 13 Electric Kif This Miami quartet’s dynamic, Latintinged take on fusion suggests a common ground between Herbie Hancock’s eighties forays into electronic experimentation, coupled with Carlos Santana’s scorched-earth guitar histrionics and combined with the ambitious, compositional complexity of seventies prog rock heroes like King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Freerunner opens.

—TB [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.]

FUSION

ALSO ON MONDAY CAROLINA THEATRE: Gordon Lightfoot; 8 p.m., $46–$220. See box, this page. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

TUE, MAR 14 Norah Jones SULTRY In 2002, Norah SOUNDS Jones became a star with Come Away with Me, a dusky blend of jazz, pop, and folk that earned five of her eventual nine Grammys and had the whole world contemplating the musical conundrum, “I don’t know why I didn’t come.” That was then. She’s

ALSO ON TUESDAY

WED, MAR 15 Captured By Robots ROBOT Two tortured MASTERS decades ago, San Francisco ska vet Jay Vance ditched human bandmates and built complex drum- and guitar-playing bots that turned on him, renamed him JBOT, and enslaved him into performing brutal, pummeling music and making him contemplate the weakness of the human race.

Twenty years later, the concept, taken to delightful extremes, is still musically, mechanically, and comically remarkable, and still transcends its gimmick. —PW [KINGS, $13–$15/9 P.M.]

Sand Pact B.Y.O. As with all good MEANING abstract art, you get from Sand Pact’s Malleate what you bring to it. If you hear a response to state-sponsored terror in the duo’s dense electronic duo’s visceral, jackboot bass-drum hits and eerie production, it’s there.

If you perceive a treatise against white supremacy in the grimy hip-hop bent and foreign-language vocal samples, that’s there, too. It’s a perfect match for Bull City Records’ progressive Why Wait? series.—PW [BULL CITY RECORDS, FREE/7 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY THE CAVE: Floor Model, Secret Boyfriend, Housefire; 9 p.m., $5. • HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: The Holland Brothers; 6:30 p.m. • MOTORCO: Scythian, Dissimilar South; 8 p.m., $15–$18. • NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE: The Nile Project; 7:30 p.m., $7.50–$30. See page 31. • POUR HOUSE: Consider the Source, Felix Martin, Anamorph; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • RUBY DELUXE: Goth Night with DJ Bela Lugosi’s Dad; 10 p.m. • THE STATION: Saving Space Showcase: Cosmic Punk, Soccer Tees, Fish Dad; 9 p.m., $5.

art OPENING

SPECIAL Coiled Collaboration: EVENT Textiles. Douglas Odom and Sue Kopkind.

Reception: Fri, Mar 10, 6-9 p.m. Womancraft Fine Handcrafted Gifts, Carrboro. www.womancraftgifts.com.

SPECIAL Color Search: EVENT Paintings by Judy Keene. Mar 11-May 6.

Reception: Saturday, Mar. 11, 5-7 p.m. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

SPECIAL Eyes Wide Open: EVENT Photography by Elizabeth Galecke. Mar 10-Apr 30. Reception: Friday, Mar. 10, 6-8 p.m. Tiny Gallery at the Ackland Museum Store, Chapel Hill.

Object Lessons: Ceramics from the Gregg Museum of Art & Design: Ceramics. Preregistration required. Sat, Mar 11, 11 am. NCSU Campus: DH Hill Library, Raleigh. www.lib. ncsu.edu.

SPECIAL Laura Park and EVENT Connie Winters: Paintings. Mar 9-Apr 7.

Reception: Thursday, Mar 9, 6-8 p.m. ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh. com.

submit! Got

something for our calendar? EITHER email calendar@indyweek.com (include the date, time, street address, contact info, cost, and a short description) OR enter it yourself at posting. indyweek.com/indyweek/ Events/AddEvent.

DEADLINE: Wednesday 5 p.m. for the following Wednesday’s issue.

Thanks!

FOR OUR COMPLETE COMMUNITY CALENDAR WWW.INDYWEEK.COM

3.8 – 3.15 SPECIAL Raleigh Fine Arts EVENT Society: Mar 12-Apr 27. Reception: Sun, March 12, 4 p.m. Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

ONGOING 2-Dimensional Art Show: Group show. Thru Mar 22. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www. co.orange.nc.us/library/carrboro.

Animal Spirits: Visionary Folk Art: Group show. Thru Apr 6. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www. historichillsborough.org.

Ansel Adams: Masterworks: An artist is not always the best person to assess his or her own work, but in the case of Ansel Adams, the great photographer of the American West, the king of the coffee-table book, we’ll make an exception. Adams called this “the Museum Set,” the ultimate expression of his legacy. These forty-eight masterworks, taken in locations like Glacier National Park, Yosemite, and Monument Valley, speak to Adams’s monumental purity of vision.

Thru May 7. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

—David Klein Art of the Children of Abraham: Mixed media. Thru Mar 27.

West Raleigh Presbyterian Church, Raleigh. www.wrpc.org.

Artspace Corridor Exhibition: Carrie Alter, Paula Baumann, Andie Freeman, Celia Gray, Judy Keene, & Don Mertz. Thru Mar 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation: By examining the history of Indian immigrants as they assimilated and contributed to American life—musical, political, culinary, scholarly, sporting, and cultural—this traveling Smithsonian exhibit reframes what it means to be an Indian American. Thru Apr 2.

City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh.

—David Klein Cascading Color: Elizabeth Kellerman. Thru Apr 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamconventioncenter.com.

LAST A Celebration of CHANCE 100 Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is built on a grand pattern of Latin American myth and history, intermeshed with an intimate one of seven generations of a family, and both wound by Márquez into shapes of fated repetition and doom. This exhibit by the Artist Studio Project, including twelve artists’ responses to the novel, was curated by Rafael A. Osuba, who put on a similar tribute to Don Quixote last year. Thru March 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

—Brian Howe Collecting Carolina: 100 Years of Jugtown Pottery: Pottery.

Thru May 29. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Collections: Leah Sobsey. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

Color Across Asia: Thru May 13, 2018. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

The Color of Light: Landscapes

by Lyudmila Tomova and Vinita Jain. Thru Mar 29.

Village Art Circle, Cary. www. villageartcircle.com.

Come Closer: Ceramics by Holly Fischer. Thru Mar 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Connections: Paintings by Ellie Edwards-Smith. Thru Mar 30.

Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www. enogallery.net.

Corridor Exhibitions: Carrie Alter, Paula Baumann, Andie Freeman, Celia Gray, Judy Keene, and Don Mertz. Thru Mar 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Cuba Now: Photography by Elizabeth Matheson. Ongoing.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

Ryan Cummings: Thru Mar 25. more. Raleigh. www.jmrkitchens. com.

Darning Memory: Fabric works

by Leatha Koefler, Mary Starke, and Ely Urbanski. Thru Mar 24.

Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts.

An oil painting from Judy Keene’s Canyon Series PHOTO COURTESY OF CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY

SATURDAY, MARCH 11

JUDY KEENE: COLOR SEARCH

This is the first significant showcase of Durham-based painter Judy Keene’s work, but it’s undergirded by her long background in museums and galleries and her basis in art history.

Primarily working in oil on linen canvases, Keene brushes and knifes opaque and transparent forms of varying thicknesses into earthily textured, evanescent crags. Keene mingles the influence of abstract impressionist color-field painters—some of whom, like Keene, studied with Shirley Blum, including Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly—with a cool patina of Old Masterly precision. Keene’s abstractions abut the border of the real; her Canyon Series (pictured) harks back to her travels through the American West as a child in the 1950s, with her mother and father, whose work as a prospector fed an abiding geological interest. After this opening reception, the exhibit runs through the sixth of May. —Brian Howe CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY, DURHAM 5–7 p.m., free, www.cravenallengallery.com

Deadpan: Kerry Law, Alex O’Neal, and Kirsten Stoltmann.

Thru Apr 1. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org.

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

Exposed: Nudes in Art: Juried show featuring work by twentyfive artists. Thru Mar 30.

Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.

Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett: Selftaught artists also teach

one another. Starting in the 1980s, Alabama produced a remarkable crop of AfricanAmerican ones who entered the canon as it slowly grew less homogenous. Scavenger sculptor Lonnie Holley has had a retrospective at the Birmingham Museum of Art; assemblage master Thornton Dial has been collected by MOMA, the Whitney, and the Met. Little known but primed for reconsideration is Dial’s cousin, Ronald Lockett, who explored the panoramic violence and racial strife of

the twentieth century in richly textured, starkly totemic paintings on discarded materials, wrought with wire and nails, twigs and leaves.

He made some four hundred works before his death from complications of HIV/AIDS at age thirty-two in 1998. See fifty of them in the first solo exhibition of his work. Thru Apr 9. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org. —Brian Howe Flora and Fauna: Mixed media.

Thru May 14. Ackland Art INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 37

Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org.

Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 1470–1520: Thru Jun 18. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org.

History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This is the first time in decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings of Old Master painting and sculpture. Thru Mar 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Josh Hockensmith and Mark Iwinski: Mixed media. Thru Mar 27. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

Holding On: Ceramics, collage, and photography by essica Dupuis, Karen Hillier, and Sarah Malakoff. Thru Apr 15. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Howard Murry Rediscovered: Charlotte native Howard Murry painted in the resort town of Valle Crucis, near Boone. Murry was interested in rural North Carolina, from farming methods to religious practices, and his watercolor landscapes depict a slightly idealized past, free of utility lines and automobiles, taking subtle modernist liberties.

The first exhibit of his work in twenty-five years consists of forty watercolors that his grandson has owned since Murry’s death in 1968. Thru Mar 25. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www.leehansleygallery. com. —David Klein Illuminations: Intimate Portraits of Mother Nature: Photography by Richard Mathis. Thru Mar 26. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

In Conditions of Fresh Water: The term “environmental racism” has existed since the eighties, and the problem has existed for much longer. But it took the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to wake the nation to the idea that marginalized communities are routinely subjected to inferior, often dangerous environmental conditions. Even in 2017, basic services such as clean water and wastewater treatment are still lacking in places like Alamance County, imperiling both the 38 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

health of residents and the security of the land itself.

This exhibit is a collaborative project by Torkwase Dyson, a Duke visiting artist, and Danielle Purifoy, an attorney/ environmental scientist, that explores this phenomenon in depth through interviews with residents of two rural, historically black Southern counties, including Alamance, that have been victimized by this insidious form of institutional neglect for decades. It adds up to a powerful exhibit comprising photographs, paintings, and prose that speak to human resilience in the face of injustice. Thru Jun 3. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. —David Klein Illuminations: Intimate Portraits of Mother Nature: Photography by Richard Mathis Thru Mar 26. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences. org.

Life in the City: Kanchan Gharpurey. Thru Mar 31.

Carrboro Century Center, Carrboro. carrboro.com/ centurycenter.html.

SPECIAL Location Known: EVENT Gail Biederman, Chad Erpelding, and Travis Head. Thru Mar 18. Artist Talk: Mar 16, 7-9 p.m.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

LAST Moor and Moon: CHANCE Mary Walker. Thru Mar 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts. org.

New Oils: Paintings by Bert Beirne Thru Mar 22. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams: Documenting the experiences of Latino farmworkers in the Carolinas.

Thru May 7. Historic Oak View County Park, Raleigh. www.wakegov.com/parks/ oakview.

Orange County Artists Guild Members Exhibit: Group show. Thru March 21 Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/library/ carrboro.

Project Reject Is Underway: Site-specific installation by Jeff Bell and Megan Sullivan.

Thru May 27. Artspace,

Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Rock, Paper, Water: Paintings and paper filigree. Eng Pua, Barbara Procter Smith, and Diane Starbling. Thru Mar 28.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

LAST Sabungeros CHANCE (Cockfighters): Photography by Douglas Vuncannon. Thru Mar 11.

Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens.com.

LAST Sense of Scene: CHANCE Group show. Thru Mar 11. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts. org.

A Sense Of...: Photography.

Ongoing. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

Some Semblance: Photography

by Stephen Fletcher. Ongoing.

The Framers Corner, Carrboro.

LAST SPECIMEN: A CHANCE Collection of Plant Artistry: Thru Mar 11. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org.

SPECIAL Stories from the EVENT Heartland: Paintings by Rachel Campbell Thru May 25. Reception: Mar 17, 6-8 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org.

Submerged: We often hear about “emerging” artists—but whence do they emerge?

From somewhere below the vast, shifting surface of the gallery world, a fact that Mahler Fine Art manager Jillian Ohl keys in on in the title of the group exhibit she curated at the Raleigh gallery.

Submerged features a dozen artists who are either new to the Raleigh/Durham area or just beginning to show their work, although some of the names, such as Davis Choun, might already be familiar to those who frequent Raleigh art havens such as Artspace and Visual Art Exchange.

Others include Austin Caskie, Conner Calhoun, Dare Coulter, and Britt Flood; all are post-undergraduate but younger than thirty, working in mediums from experimental sculpture to abstract figure painting. “As an artist myself, I’ve noticed my friends and peers creating amazing work that gets little recognition in the local art community,” Ohl says. “Taking the initiative, I collected what I believe

to be the best of the next generation of artists. This all came from my belief that young artists have to support each other rather than be competitive.” Thru Mar 31. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com. —Brian Howe Textiles in Tiers: Trudy Thomson, Sandy Milroy, and Rose Warner. Thru May 25. National Humanities Center, Durham. www. nationalhumanitiescenter.org.

This Is Mine: Photography by Sarah Elizabeth Borst Thru Mar 15. Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Allison Tierney: Thru Mar 25.

HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

Total Life Center Exhibition: Artwork created in collaboration with artist Deb Withey and Total Life Center.

Thru Mar 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Transits and Migrations: A Summer in Berlin: Student photography. Thru Apr 15. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Unwoven Testaments: Textile art by Laurie Wohl that explores the relationships between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Thru Mar 26.

Meredith College, Raleigh. www.meredith.edu.

food Bull City Food & Beer Experience: $80–$130. Sun, Mar 12, 4 p.m.. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

Food Truck Rodeo: Sun, Mar 12, 12-4 p.m.. Durham Central Park, Durham. www. durhamcentralpark.org.

Try & Buy Market: Hosted

by Raleigh Food and Wine Festival Sun, Mar 12, 12-5 p.m.

Raleigh Beer Garden, Raleigh.

stage OPENING 3D Project: Cary Ballet Conservatory Sat, Mar 11, 2 & 7 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

13 The Musical: $15–$20. Mar 10-26. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Play $10–$15.

Mar 9-19. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh. com/venue/kennedy-theatre.

The Bodyguard: Mar 14-19.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www. dpacnc.com.

Bobby Bones: Stand-up comedy. $27.50–$125. Fri, Mar 10, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www. carolinatheatre.org.

Dan Cummins: Stand-up comedy. $15–$23. Mar 9-11. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

CUT&PASTE: Draft 2: Dance. $10–$20 donation. Fri, Mar 10, 7 p.m. irque De Vol Studios, Raleigh. cirquedevol. com/.

The Freestyle Funny Comedy Show: Improv and stand-up comedy with audience participation. $20–$30. Sun, Mar 12, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Glass Mena year passe word on its months lat company n 1.5,” guest goodnightscomedy.com.

Dacons-Br IMOMSOHARD: Comedy. production $25–$46. Fri, Mar 10, 8 PlayMaker p.m. Meymandi Concert Apparel, is Hall, Raleigh. www. production dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Nottage th coming-ofLITE 2017: One-act plays Donation. Fri, Mar 10, 6:30 1950s, a bl p.m. & Sat, Mar 11, 3 & 7 p.m. racism and narrator’s m Cary Senior Center, Cary. face marke www.townofcary.org. challenges The Naked Magicians: tenement. $35–$55. Thu, Mar 9, 7:30 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www. dpacnc.com.

No Poetry Comedy Deluxe: Stand-up. Thu, Mar 9, 8:30 p.m. Ruby Deluxe, Raleigh. www.facebook.com/ RubyDeluxeRaleigh.

Office Madness: Comedy. $12. Sat, Mar 11, 2 p.m.

Ezra Center, Raleigh. www. ezracenter.com. — Sat, Mar 11, 8 p.m. Danugen Center, Durham. www.danugen.com.

Pieces of Gold: Art, dance, music and more by students from Wake County Public Schools. Wed, Mar 8, 7 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

The Sinful Six: Stand-up comedy goes blue. $12. Wed, Mar 8, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Studs of Steel: $10–$15. Fri, Mar 10, 7 p.m. City Limits Saloon, Raleigh. www. hellyeahraleigh.com.

Four Seasons: Presented

by Carolina Ballet. Mar 9-26. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

See box, p. 39.

Two Months In: An Original Sketch Comedy Revue: Comedy. $10. Mar 10-18, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive. org. See p. 30.

James Gregory & Ron Perkinson: Stand-up $30. Sat, Mar 11, 6 & 8:30 p.m. Temple Theatre, Sanford. www. templeshows.com.

John Waters: Stand-up comedy. $37–$68. Thu, Mar 9, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www. carolinatheatre.org. See p. 27.

Steve Hofstetter, Sam Norton: Stand-up comedy. $15. Sun, Mar 12, 8:30 & 10:30 p.m. The Maywood, Raleigh. www. themaywoodraleigh.com.

Horrible People: Confessional stand-up comedy. $12. Wed, Mar 15, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www.

ONGOING LAST Crumbs from the CHANCE Table of Joy: In November 2015, Bartlett Theater opened what they claimed would be a season of works by and about Tennessee Williams with a notable production of The

Vivaldi

THURSD

VIVA

The retro were only last two m on the fam Sydney d ness in V sultry hea and the p outdoors

FLETCHE Various t

Glass Menagerie. More than a year passed as we waited for word on its next show. Sixteen months later, in what the company now calls its “Season 1.5,” guest director Karen Dacons-Brock helms a second production that, on the heels of PlayMakers Rep’s Intimate Apparel, is also the second local production of a play by Lynn Nottage this year. In this coming-of-age tale, set in the 1950s, a black family flees racism and the death of the narrator’s mother in Florida to face markedly different challenges in a drafty Brooklyn tenement. The cast includes

Lakeisha Coffey and Jade Arnold. $15–$25. Thru Mar 13.

7:30 p.m. PSI Theatre, Durham. www.durhamarts.org —Byron Woods Twelfth Night: It’s no accident that the publicity shots for PlayMakers Rep’s upcoming production of Twelfth Night look like outtakes from a tony fashion magazine. When associate artistic director Jerry Ruiz decided to set one of Shakespeare’s most frequently produced works in the Mediterranean in the 1950s, designer Anne Kennedy zeroed in on the work of Slim Aarons, a mid-century

glamour photographer who shot what he called “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places” for society magazines, Town & Country, Holiday, and Life.

Thus, a shipwrecked Viola crashes among—and becomes hired help for—the beautiful people, as jet-set socialites Duke Orsino and Lady Olivia take their ease in a coastal resort town. Thru Mar 19. UNC Campus: Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org.

—Bryon Woods

? y d n i e h t e v o L

us... t r o p p u s o esses wh in s u b e h t Support

! l a c o l S hop

BILL BURTON ATTORNEY AT LAW Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

PHOTO BY ARMES PHOTOGRAPHY

THURSDAY, MARCH 9–SUNDAY, MARCH 26

VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS

The retro pedigree is obvious from the title. When Vivaldi wrote this suite of violin concerti, there were only four seasons in a year, not the endless barometric cavalcade we’ve encountered over the last two months. When Carolina Ballet’s artistic director, Robert Weiss, set his new choreography on the famous quartet in 2014, critics praised its chromatic takes, abetted by Jennifer Aiello and Sydney de Briel’s costumes and Ross Kolman’s lights. Three years ago, the INDY praised the joyfulness in Vivaldi and Weiss’s close contrasts of climates: the sprightly choreography of Spring, the sultry heat and sudden thunderstorms of Summer, the courtly dance of descending leaves in Fall, and the pristine, bracing chill of Winter. Of course, our emotions about the similar show unfolding outdoors these days remain more ambiguous. —Byron Woods FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, RALEIGH Various times, $30–$89, www.carolinaballet.com

Un c o n t e s t e d Di vo rc e SEPARATION Mu s i c Bu s i n e AGREEMENTS ss Law UNCONTESTED In c o r p o r a t i o n / L LC / DIVORCE Pa r t n e rMUSIC s h i pBUSINESS LAW Wi l lINCORPORATION/LLC s C o l l e c t i o n s WILLS

967-6159

(919) 967-6159

bill.burton.lawyer@gmail.com INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 39

page

screen

READINGS & SIGNINGS

TUESDAY, MARCH 14

13TH

In the documentary 13th, Ava DuVernay unpacks the trajectory of the eponymous constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

Through this loophole clause, DuVernay connects slavery to mass incarceration, revealing the extent to which our laws— and human rights—have become arbitrary in practice. The prison population has quintupled in the last forty years, and black Americans are imprisoned five times more often than white Americans. The documentary combines interviews from civil rights leaders like Angela Davis and black writers like Jelani Cobb with brutal archival footage from which you can draw a harrowing line to the divisive rhetoric and systemic violence against black people today. 13th is a quick-hit lesson about the undercurrent of racism fueling American society; see it at this free community screening. —Victoria Bouloubasis MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.motorcomusic.com

SPECIAL SHOWINGS Straws: Thu, March 9, 7 p.m. $15–$20. Fearrington Village Barn, Pittsboro. www. fearrington.com.

Stark Love: Fri, Mar 10, 8 p.m.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

OPENING

Kedi—This Turkish documentary celebrates the thousands of stray cats living on the streets of Istanbul.

Unrated.

Kong: Skull Island—This reboot of the King Kong franchise is set before 2014’s Godzilla.

Rated PG-13.

A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  A Dog’s Purpose—Josh Gad voices a reincarnating dog in this maudlin family movie. Rated PG. ½ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them—A Rowling-penned, promising start to a new Harry Potter franchise. Rated PG-13. ½ Get Out—Jordan 40 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com

Peele of Key & Peele’s directorial debut is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner crossed with a racially charged The Stepford Wives update. It’s also one of the best things to happen to the horror genre in twenty years. Rated R.

 The Lego Batman Movie—Cranking up the Jokes Per Minute with an astonishingly high success rate, this animated film blends over-the-top laughs aimed at youngsters with countless gags for adults. Rated PG.

½ Hidden Figures— This true story of three black women triumphing over racism and sexism in the 1960s space race has a TV-movie softness but powerfully portrays bigotry and courage. Rated PG.

HH½ Passengers—This glossy interstellar vehicle for provocative moral entanglements ultimately implodes from the pressure of its star-driven, crowd-pleasing mission. Rated PG-13.

½ I Am Not Your Negro— Raoul Peck’s filmmaking doesn’t always serve the material, but his James Baldwin doc must be seen for the undimmed power of its subject’s words and presence.

Rated PG-13. ½ John Wick: Chapter 2—This smartly made return for the reluctant hit man character that resuscitated Keanu Reeves’s career runs on muscle cars and muscle memories. Rated R.  La La Land—Damien Chazelle reunites Gosling and Stone for a breezy jazz musical with Technicolor charm. Rated PG-13.

 Patriots Day— Mark Wahlberg’s ego singlehandedly avenges the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Rated R.  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story—This war flick set in the Star Wars universe takes place just before the first film, and works great as a stand-alone. Rated PG-13. ½ Silence—Scorsese offers a masterful, reverent tale of seventeenth-century Jesuits traveling to Japan.

Rated R.

H½ Table 19—This comedy about the unpopular table at a wedding is a feast of cringes and winces. Rated PG-13.

David Blevins: North Carolina’s Barrier Islands: Wonders of Sand, Sea, and Sky. Tue, Mar 14, 7 pm.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

Tim Gautreaux: Signals: New and Selected Stories. Wed, Mar 15, 7 pm. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Jenny Lawson: You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds. Sat, Mar 11, 3 pm. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

David Joy: In his well-received debut novel, Where All Light Tends to Go, David Joy couched a coming-of-age story in a desperate, dangerous Appalachian milieu dominated by the meth trade and family bonds forged in hopelessness and violence. Joy incorporates similar elements in his second novel, The Weight of This World, but the storyline arcs wider as it heads toward its concluding meth-crazed road trip. Set in the mountains of North Carolina, the story focuses on Thad Broom, a soldier returning home from Afghanistan whose struggles to reconcile himself to the horrors of war are interrupted by a life-changing windfall from a drug deal gone wrong. Joy

has earned significant praise for the “white-hot intensity” of his writing, and his skill in evoking the grittier end of the Southern landscape has earned comparisons to Faulkner and Harry Crews. Wed, Mar 8, 7 pm.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com. — Thu, Mar 9, 7 pm. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

—David Klein Elinor Lipman: On Turpentine Lane. Tue, Mar 14, 7 pm.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

— Wed, Mar 15, 7 pm. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Charlie Lovett: Novel The Lost Book of the Grail. Sat, Mar 11, 11 am. https://www. fearrington.com/event/charlielovett-lost-book/. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com.

William C. McDonald III: The Shadow Tiger. Free. Sun, Mar 12, 3 pm. North Regional Library, Durham.

Brad Parks with Jeffery Deaver: Say Nothing. Fri, Mar 10, 7 pm. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks. com.

Penguin Teen on Tour: Renee Ahdieh, Natalie C. Anderson, Alwyn Hamilton, Lesley Livingston. Mon, Mar 13, 7 pm.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

www.quailridgebooks.com.

Samantha Shannon: The Song Rising. Tue, Mar 14, 7 pm.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Boozy Poetry Night: local poets read their work. Second Mondays, 8:30 pm. The Stag’s Head, Raleigh.

Depression Folk: Bluegrass Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America: Book talk

by Ronald D. Cohen, followed by music by The Down Hill Strugglers Thu, Mar 9, 5 pm.

UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

Durham Women Take No Bull: Panel discussions and keynote address 25.00. Wed, Mar 8, 9 am. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre.org.

Durm Talks: Jesse Huddleston & Desmera Gatewood: “Life Under 45: Organizing & Strategizing in the Trump Era.” Tue, Mar 14, 7 pm. Beyu Caffe, Durham.

Valerie A. Johnson: “Speaking Truth, Giving Voice: A Talk in Celebration of the Genius of Black Women in North Carolina.” Sat, Mar 11, 11 a.m.

Historic Stagville, Durham. www.stagville.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 13

PHILLIP LEWIS: THE BARROWFIELDS With the publication of his debut novel, The Barrowfields, Phillip Lewis has been lauded as an important new voice in fiction. Seven or so years in the writing, this comingof-age tale, set in the small town of Old Buckram in the Appalachians, has earned Lewis comparisons with such masters of the genre—and fellow North Carolinians—as Thomas Wolfe and Reynolds Price. The story’s narrator, Henry, grows up in a grand house in the barren, remote landscape of the title, in the thrall of a father forced by circumstance to return to the locus of his blighted childhood but blessed with the chance to write the novel that is his life’s dream. The house is a spooky place where bad stuff happened long ago, and eventually, bad stuff starts happening there again. Henry manages to get away, but the pull of home and the shared elements of character that unite him and his father have an unshakeable grip.

—David Klein FLYLEAF BOOKS, CHAPEL HILL I 7 p.m., free, www.flyleafbooks.com

indy classifieds employment

- Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician.

Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

BARTENDERS NEEDED MAKE $20-$35/HOUR Raleigh’s Bartending School 676.0774 www.cocktailmixer. com 1-2wk class

MEDICAL BILLING TRAINEES NEEDED! Train at Home for a new career now at CTI! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Online Training can get you job ready! 1-888512-7122 HS Diploma/GED & Computer needed. careertechnical.edu/nc

FTCC FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE is now accepting applications for the following positions: Computer Programming &Development/Database Instructor For detailed information and to apply, please visit our employment portal at: https://faytechcc.peopleadmin.com/ Human Resources Office Phone: (910) 678-7342 Internet: http://www.faytechcc. edu An Equal Opportunity Employer

LOCAL DRIVERS WANTED! Be your own boss. Flexible hours. Unlimited earning potential. Must be 21 with valid U.S. driver’s license, insurance & reliable vehicle.

866-329-2672 (AAN CAN)

MISSION X ESCAPE

The most unique place to work in Durham is HIRING! MISSION X ESCAPE is one of the most innovative escape rooms in the area. We are looking for some interesting and yes extraordinary people that want to work in a fun and unprecedented industry! We have Part-time positions open for Weekends and Evenings.

Send me an e-mail or call Gary 614-348-3394 and send resume to garybalser01@ email.com.

counseling/ therapy

MAKE THE CALL TO START GETTING CLEAN TODAY. Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol & drug addiction treatment. Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139 (AAN CAN)

classes & instruction DANCE CLASSES IN SWING, LINDY, BLUES, TAI CHI At ERUUF, Durham & ArtsCenter, Carrboro. RICHARD BADU, 919-724-1421, rbadudance@gmail.com

TAI CHI Traditional art of meditative movement for health, energy, relaxation, self-defense.

Classes/workshops throughout the Triangle. Magic Tortoise School - Since 1979. Call Jay or Kathleen, 919-968-3936 or www.magictortoise.com

Kim

home improvement

ALL THINGS BASEMENTY!

MASSAGE BY MARK KINSEY

products ACORN STAIRLIFTS

The AFFORDABLE solution to your stairs! **Limited time -$250 Off Your Stairlift Purchase!** Buy Direct & SAVE. Please call 1-800-291-2712 for FREE DVD and brochure.(NCPA)

GOT KNEE PAIN? BACK PAIN? SHOULDER PAIN?

Get a pain-relieving brace at little or NO cost to you. Medicare Patients Call Health Hotline Now! 1- 800-591-5582

919-416-0675

Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all of your basement needs! Waterproofing, Finishing, Structural Repairs, Humidity and Mold Control.

FREE ESTIMATES! Call 1-800698-9217(NCPA)

professional services PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards.

Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7.

877-362-2401

claSSy@indyweek.com

ALL AREAS FREE ROOMMATE SERVICE @ RENTMATES.COM. A PLACE FOR MOM.

The nation’s largest senior living referral service. Contact our trusted, local experts today! Our service is FREE no obligation.

CALL 1-800-717-0139

Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at RentMates.com!

(AAN CAN)

Upscale Spa. private outdoor hot tubs, 26 massage therapists, overnight accommodations, sauna and more.

Starting at $42. Shojiretreats. com 828-299-0999

FUN LOCAL CHAT LINE

100’S OF HOT URBAN SINGLES

Chat Lines. Flirt, chat and date!

Talk to sexy real singles in your area. Call now! (877) 609-2935 (AAN CAN)

LIVELINKS

ROBERT GRIFFIN IS ACCEPTING PIANO STUDENTS AGAIN! See the teaching page of: www.griffanzo.com Adult beginners welcome. 919-6362461 or griffanzo1@gmail.com

DECLUTTERING? WE’LL BUY YOUR BOOKS

getaways

Listen to ads and reply free.

Raleigh 919-882-0810. Durham 919059509888. Use free code 7883, 18+.

lessons

We’ll bring a truck and crew *and pay cash* for your books and other media. 919-872-3399 or MiniCityMedia.com.

COMING TO ASHEVILLE?

#1 CHAT IN RALEIGH

music

stuff

While you wait. Graduate Gemologist www.ncjewelryappraiser.com

Instant live phone connections with local women & men. Try It FREE! 18+ 919.899.6800, 336.235.7777 www.questchat.com

ESTATE NO. 15-E-1175 ALL PERSONS, FIRMS AND CORPORATIONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST ANDREW N. MERCIER, JR. deceased, of Wake County, North Carolina, are notified to present their claims to Mary B. Peterson, ADMINISTRATOR, at 305 Amacord Way, Holly Springs, NC 27540 on or before May 24, 2017 or this notice will plead in bar of their recovery. Debtors of the Decedent are requested to make immediate payment to EXECUTOR/ADMINISTRATOR ABOVE. This is the 22nd day of February, 2017.

- Mary B. Peterson, Administrator of the Estate of Andrew N. Mercier, Jr.

for sale

JEWELRY APPRAISALS

SAFE STEP WALK-IN TUB ALERT FOR SENIORS. Bathroom falls can be fatal.

Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets.

Less Than 4 Inch Step-In. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors.

American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-807-7219 for $750 Off.

entertainment

are waiting to Chat! Try it FREE! 18+ 919.861.6868, 336.235.2626 www.metrovibechat.com

www.harmonygate.com Book your ad • CALL Sarah at 919-286-6642 • EMAIL

in Lochaven neighborhood in North Durham. 3 bedroom 2 bath, 1377 sq ft on a half acre lot. Totally refurbished new roof and paint inside and out, new tile floor in kitchen and family room. Huge new deck 20' by 16'. 601 Wildwood Dr. Contact 602-330-1204 or 609-890-6247. Must be seen to be appreciated and great for someone seeking privacy. $169,000.

misc.

notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF ANDREW N. MERCIER, JR.,

share/ durham co.

services

FULL BODY MASSAGE

by a Male Russian Massage Therapist with strong and gentle hands to make you feel good from head to toe.

Schedule an appointment with Pavel Sapojnikov, NC LMBT. #1184. Call: 919-790-9750.

own/ durham co.

BRICK HOUSE FOR SALE ON BEAUTIFUL QUIET DRIVE

Sponsored by

massage

Ten years helping clients feel at home in their bodies.

Swedish & deep tissue massage for stress relief. Near Duke.

MassageByMarkKinsey.com.

NCLMBT#6072. 919-619-6373.

Coalition to Unchain Dogs seeks plastic or igloo style dog houses for dogs in need, as well as indoor metal crates.

To donate, please contact Amanda at director@unchaindogs.net.

is a joy to be around!

AIRLINE MECHANIC TRAINING -

body • mind • spirit

KEEP DOGS SHELTERED

To adopt: 919-403-2221 or visit animalrescue.net

employment assistance Get FAA certification to fix planes. Approved for military benefits. Financial Aid if qualified. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866-441- 6890

housing

critters

CALL SARAH FOR ADS!

AIRLINE CAREERS BEGIN HERE

MEET GAY AND BI LOCALS Browse & Reply FREE! Raleigh 919-882-0800, Durham 919595-9800. Use FREE Code 2707, 18+.

auctions WATERFRONT PROPERTIES AUCTION Custom Waterfront House with Dock, ORIENTAL and 2.2+/Acres on Bay River with Camp/ Dock, STONEWALL - OnLine Bidding - MARCH 1-thru-14 www.HouseAuctionCompany.com 252-729-1162 NCAL#7889

INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 41

EEK ★ I

YW

★★★★★★★

HIGHLIGHT! ★★★★★★★

K ★ IND EE

Who:

East Durham Children’s Initiative (EDCI)

7 9

4What: 1 EDCI provides a pipeline of high-quality 4 6 services from cradle to college and career 2 for the children of East Durham. We use 7the power of partner3 ships across multiple 1 6 sectors 2 7 to bring kids and families the re9sources and supports they need to be successful in school 4 and 8 life. Since 2010, we’ve connected 6 5 more than 1,300 low-income 4 6 9 8 Give:

TO BE FEATURED IN A GIVE! GUIDE HIGHLIGHT, CONTACT CLASSY@INDYWEEK.COM

2016

D ★ IN Y W

3 4 2 8 7 1 6 5 9

Y WEEK ND

9 8 6 1 5 4

children and 700 families in East Durham to a comprehensive continuum of supports including childcare access, a low-cost preschool, parent education, out-of-school learning programs, and more.

1

edci.org/donate

# 73

su | do | ku

6

crossword If you just can’t wait, check out the current week’s answer key at www.indyweek.com, and click “Diversions” at the bottom of our webpage.

1 4 7 8 6

7 3 7 9

8

5

3

8

8 2 9 6 4

MEDIUM

# 74

this week’s puzzle level:

© Puzzles by Pappocom

5

6

There is really only one rule to Sudoku: Fill in the game board so that the numbers 1 through 9 occur exactly once in each row, column, and 3x3 box.

The numbers can appear in any order and diagonals are not considered.

Your initial game board will consist of several numbers that are already placed. Those numbers cannot be changed. Your goal is to fill in the empty squares following the simple rule above.

9

1

4

3 4 6

1 8 2 2 7 6 4 8 6 1 5 7 2 2 6 4 5 9 4 3 2 67 3 4 1 8 5 2 1 6 7 4 6 6 8 2 8 3 6 1 9 2 35 9 7 5 5 8 7 5 7 7 5 1 9 3 3

3 4 1 7

2

# 75

6 8 6 9 2 5 4 3 7 1

5 1 7 3 9 6 4 2 8

# 74

HARD 4 6 5 7 8 1 2 3 9

9 7 2 3 6 5 1 4 8

8 1 3 4 2 9 7 6 5

3 5 8 9 4 7 6 1 2

6 2 4 8 1 3 9 5 7

7 9 1 6 5 2 4 8 3

5 4 7 1 9 8 3 2 6

1 8 9 2 3 6 5 7 4

2 3 6 5 7 4 8 9 1

solution to last week’s puzzle

3

4 1

8

MEDIUM

# 76

8 2

9

3

# 75

# 29

6 3 5 7 2 4 9 8 1 If you just9 can’t check 4 8 6wait, 5 1 7 3 2 out the current 1 7 2week’s 8 3 9 answer 4 6 5 3 9 1 5 7 2 6 4 8 key at www.indyweek.com, 8 2 4 3 9 6 5 1 7 and click “Diversions”.

5 6 7 4 1 8 2 9 3 Best of luck, 7 5 and 6 1 have 4 3 8fun!

2 9 2 8 3 9 6 7 1 5 4 www.sudoku.com 4 1 9 2 8 5 3 7 6

25 5Page 19 of 6 42 | 3.8.17 | INDYweek.com 8 9 7 5

4 2 3 7

# 76

5 4 7 2 6 3 9 1 8

2 1 9 8 5 4 7 6 3

3 8 6 1 7 9 4 2 5

6 7 4 5 3 1 8 9 2

HARD

9 2 3 4 8 7 1 5 6

1 5 8 6 9 2 3 4 7

7 3 2 9 4 5 6 8 1

3.8.17

9

2

4 6 5 3 1 8 2 7 9

6 2 1

6

9 5 2 8 9 8 6

7 3

4 # 30

8 9 1 7 2 6 5 3 4

1 2 Book your 7 ad • CALL 4 Sarah at 919-286-6642 • EMAIL claSSy@indyweek.com 3 8 9

30/10/2005

6

8

A E M C, Inc.

Massage School Take the opportunity to get a new career in the Massage Business • State and Nationally Approved Diploma Training • NCBTMB Approved Continuing Education • Easy Financing, Student Loans, Scholarship

If you are a man or woman, 18-55 years old, living in the RaleighDurham-Chapel Hill area, and smoke cigarettes or use an electronic nicotine delivery system (e-cigarette), please join an important study on smokers being conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

www.raleighmassagecenter.com

Bolinwood Condominiums Affordability without compromise

Convenient to UNC on N bus line 2 & 3 bedroom condominiums for lease

www.bolinwoodcondos.com • 919-942-7806

Raleigh • 919.790.9750

What’s Required?

• One visit to donate blood, urine, and saliva samples • Samples will be collected at the NIEHS Clinical Research Unit in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina • Volunteers will be compensated up to $60 Who Can Participate?

• Healthy men and women aged 18-55 • Current cigarette smokers or users of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes (can be using both) The definition of healthy for this study means that you feel well and can perform normal activities. If you have a chronic condition, such as high blood pressure, healthy can also mean that you are being treated and the condition is under control.

For more information about this study, call 919-316-4976 Lead Researcher Stavros Garantziotis, M.D. • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

CALL SARAH FOR ADS!

919-286-6642

advertise on this page!

reserve this space for $100! classy@indyweek.com

CALL SARAH FOR ADS!

919-286-6642

last week's puzzle

Dating Made Easy

Playmates or soul mates, you’ll find them on MegaMates Always FREE to listen and reply to ads!

Always FREE to listen and reply to ads!

Raleigh:

Raleigh:

(919) 573-6821 (919) 573-6818 www.megamates.com 18+

Book your ad • CALL Sarah at 919-286-6642 • EMAIL

claSSy@indyweek.com

www.megamates.com 18+

INDYweek.com | 3.8.17 | 43

YOUR WEEK. EVERY WEDNESDAY. FOOD • NEWS • ARTS • MUSIC

INDYWEEK.COM TO A DV E R T I S E O N T H E B AC K PAG E : C A L L 9 1 9. 2 6 8 .1 9 7 2 ( D U R H A M /C H A P E L H I L L ) O R 9 1 9. 8 3 2 . 8 7 74 ( R A L E I G H ) • E M A I L : A DV E R T I S I N G @ I N DY W E E K .C O M