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6 Michael Kerr’s death hasn’t prompted all the changes prisoner-rights advocates want.

13 If a judge declares you incompetent, a courtappointed guardian can settle your lawsuit without your consent.

17 “There’s so much selfishness in drinking.”

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23 Future Islands’ Sam Herring has a Stanley Kowalski intensity, pinned to the semi-suaveness of an aging suburban mambo instructor.

24 Exciting Raleigh rapper Ace Henderson learned about rhyming from basketball and band class.

26 “Magic might be the only truly subjective art form.”

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Readers continue to be outraged that we would support the “lackluster” Hillary Clinton over “lifelong progressive” Bernie Sanders. “I usually depend on INDY to help me decide how to cast my vote,” wrote Albert Studdard. “Your weak-kneed dismissal of Bernie Sanders makes me wonder if I should bother again.”

A reader named Rick took umbrage at our—square quotes— “endorsement” of Donald Trump as well. “You have changed a class operation to trash. Hillary is bad enough, but intellectually defendable. Trump’s endorsement reduces you to lowdown, immoral, and, well, stupid (as that bozo so often fumes). You are pathetic.” Rob Napier writes that our endorsements are too important to squander: “Your political reporting and endorsements are a huge benefit … . But your clearly bad-faith endorsement of Donald Trump is a stain on that.”

But most of the fire was aimed at the Democratic front-runner. “Hillary Clinton failed to see the folly of Iraq/Libya/Syria,” adds John R. Wilson of Raleigh. “Sanders was right; she was wrong. … Also, she is a political chameleon, not tried and true as portrayed.”

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“I’m quite surprised with myself, as I keep coming to the same conclusion as did y’all.”

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Seriously? Are we in middle school?”

Correction and clarification: last week’s story on the Akiel Denkins shooting understated the number of police agencies that use body cameras. While Raleigh’s presentation listed eleven, the state ACLU says there are at least twenty-eight. In addition, while community members complained about council member Corey Branch’s absence from the protests, Branch says he did in fact attend a vigil and meet with neighborhood pastors. Though his presence wasn’t high profile, he says, “I’ve been fully engaged.”

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triangulator +MICHAEL KERR, TWO YEARS GONE

Saturday marked the second anniversary of the death of Michael Anthony Kerr, a fifty-four-year-old schizophrenic man who died of dehydration while being transferred between North Carolina prisons. His death raised serious questions about the state prison system’s use of solitary confinement and its treatment of mentally ill prisoners.

Kerr was put into solitary on February 5, 2014, at the Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville, where he stayed for thirty-five days. On March 12, he was transported to Central Prison in Raleigh. Once he arrived, officials found him unresponsive. In the wake of Kerr’s death, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a federal investigation, at least nine Department of Public Safety workers were fired, and Kerr’s family reached a $2.5 million settlement with the NCDPS. For current inmates, however, the situation hasn’t improved much, activists say.

An August 2015 letter by a coalition of groups, including the ACLU, which was sent to the Justice Department’s civil rights division, says that prisoners are often put in solitary confinement for offenses like profanity and that more than 20 percent of prisoners in solitary “require some kind of treatment for mental health issues.”

“Every day that the status quo endures without intervention, North Carolina’s system for housing inmates in solitary confinement claims more victims to needless suffering and death,” the letter says.

Part of the problem is funding. Governor McCrory and state prison officials requested $24 million in last year’s budget to help provide inmates with mental health treatment; the legislature gave them half that.

But NCDPS deserves a share of the blame as well, says Deborah Weissman, a UNC school of law human rights professor. “If you think about the fact that prisons have become the default institution for people whose criminal behavior is a direct result of their mental health and a lack of treatment,” she says, “there just hasn’t been enough done.”

To make matters worse, North Carolina is one of two states (the other is New York) that treat sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds as adults. And a quarter of those inmates are being held in solitary.

Earlier this year, President Obama barred the federal prison system from using solitary confinement as punishment for juveniles. North Carolina hasn’t yet followed suit. “[DPS Commissioner W. David Guice] said that he agreed with that goal,” North Carolina ACLU legal director Chris Brook says. “But, unfortunately, we haven’t seen a policy barring sixteen- and seventeen-year-old prisoners in the N.C. system from being held in solitary confinement.”

In response to Kerr’s death, Guice says, the department has put in place new leadership, improved staffing levels, and implemented new policies.

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“We have ended [solitary confinement] for juveniles in the state’s juvenile justice system,” Guice writes in an email, “and are moving toward the same for the youngest inmates in the state prison system. … There are only about sixty inmates in the adult prison system who are sixteen or seventeen years old. In the past year, we have decreased the percentage of those young inmates in restrictive housing from 52 percent to 26 percent.”

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The biggest reform has been the creation of therapeutic diversionary units—a more humane alternative to solitary confinement. WRAL reported over the weekend that the first seventy TDU beds will open at the end of April, with a total of around 230 expected by the end of 2017.

But given the current number of North Carolina inmates in solitary who have mental health issues—350—that’s not enough. Guice says the DPS is lobbying the legislature for additional funds. But activists say the state’s response— both at the legislative and executive levels—has been wholly inadequate.

“These are people, human beings, who, we understand,

go from solitary to the streets,” Weissman says. “To say they have a chance of meaningful, smooth re-entry [into society] is a joke. Their lives hang in the balance.”

+WHO POLICES THE POLICE?

On Saturday, an attorney working with Akiel Denkins’s family and the NAACP challenged the Raleigh Police Department’s version of how the twenty-four-year-old man was fatally shot by Officer D.C. Twiddy on Leap Day [“Four Shots on Bragg Street,” March 9].

“What we can say, based on initial review by our forensic pathologist, is that there was a shot from the back to the front shoulder area,” attorney and N.C. Central law professor Scott Holmes said at a press conference.

On March 3, Raleigh police released a report stating that Denkins had struggled with Twiddy, who was trying to arrest Denkins on a felony drug charge. According to the police, Denkins reached for a gun before Twiddy fired.

The report noted four bullet wounds in Denkins’s chest, which—though no points of entry were mentioned—seemed to suggest the bullets struck him from the front.

Not so fast, Holmes says. “There were other shots.”

This claim aligns with at least one witness account. Truvalia Kearney had previously told The News & Observer that Twiddy shot Denkins in the back because the suspect had frustrated the officer by jumping a fence.

As the INDY reported last week, there was a prevailing sense in this Southeast Raleigh neighborhood that, no matter the facts, the police would clear their brother in blue. “It’s going to be a justified shooting,” one resident said. “The cops are going to fix it up some type of way.”

One way to forge trust, activists say, would be to create a civilian board that reviews claims of police misconduct. At last Thursday’s Human Relations Commission meeting, the Police Accountability Community Taskforce began an effort to persuade the city to do just that.

PACT wants a board that “has the power to investigate, subpoena, and discipline police when there is injustice,” according to the recommendations PACT plans to submit to the city council.

While civilian oversight boards already exist in some North Carolina municipalities, including Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Charlotte, the general consensus is that these groups are largely toothless. PACT wants to model Raleigh’s board after one recently implemented in Newark,

TL;DR: THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER New Jersey, says Mike Meno, communications director for the North Carolina ACLU. Newark’s board has the authority to subpoena data and testimony from the city’s police department and audit the department’s policies and practices. It also has the power to recommend disciplinary decisions to the police chief and compel the department to report racial and demographic data regarding police activities, including stop-and-searches.

But the city will need the legislature’s permission to enact any review panel, no matter the scope of its authority. Last year, Representative Rodney Moore, D-Mecklenburg, introduced a bill to enable cities statewide to create such boards without first seeking the state’s blessing, but it went nowhere.

In addition, PACT is asking city officials for several things: to strengthen the police department’s anti-bias policy and regularly review stop-and-search data; to require written consent-to-search forms; to deprioritize marijuana enforcement; to implement body cameras (which the city council was set to discuss the day Denkins was shot); and to create an internship program to recruit officers of color.

+NOT TOO LATE

“Housing downtown is simply unaffordable,” Rev. Susan Dunlap told a crowd of about five hundred at First Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon. Ain’t that the truth.

Dunlap was addressing not a church congregation but a pre-election assembly of delegates for Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations, and Neighborhoods). The event was a chance to hear from community stakeholders on issues plaguing Durham, even in its cur-

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rent era of prosperity. Affordable housing hovers right around the top of that list.

Dunlap relayed a story of an acquaintance who she recently heard say that it was “too late” for Durham to shut out the luxury developers who are slowly turning America’s downtowns into prohibitively expensive playgrounds for the wealthy. And North Carolina cities are especially vulnerable, hobbled as they are by state law that forbids them from requiring developers to include affordable units.

Still, Dunlap was looking on the bright side. She explained that the city and the county still own several plots of land downtown. In selling that land to a developer, the city or county could make affordable housing part of the contract. Those properties include two acres at Jackson and Dillard streets, two acres on the 300 block of East Main Street, and four acres on the 500 block of East Main Street.

The Durham Housing Authority also has the option to repurchase twenty acres of property at Fayetteville and Umstead streets that is currently owned by a Philadelphia-based company.

All the candidates for Durham County Board of Commissioners were present at First Presbyterian. One by one, CAN leaders asked them if they would support: 1) 100 percent affordable units at the property on the 300 block of East Main Street; and 2) 60 percent affordable units at the property on the 500 block of East Main Street.

To a person, the commission candidates said they would.

“It’s not too late for downtown Durham,” Dunlap concluded. “We have land, we have time—and we have an election.” l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest, Danny Hooley, David Hudnall, and Jane Porter.

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The N.C. Republican Party shuts off the email of chairman Hasan Harnett, the first African-American to run the state GOP. Now he’ll have to use a private server, and we all know where that leads: Benghazi!

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After a Donald Trump supporter sucker-punches a protester at a rally in Fayetteville, the sheriff’s office briefly considers pressing charges against The Donald for inciting a riot. “Wait until I run Fort Bragg,” Trump retorts. “You’ll wish you’d known better, smartypants.”

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UNC wins its first ACC tourney since 2008 and scores a number one seed in the Big Dance. “Friggin’ shucks,” says an obviously verklempt Roy Williams. “I’m so gosh-darn proud of these dang boys I don’t know whether to spit or go blind.”

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The state’s new voter ID laws make it more difficult for college students to vote. They now have to borrow their older brother’s license and keep their thumb over the hair color.

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A federal appeals court rules that the “Choose Life” license plate is constitutional.

Emboldened, conservative legislators propose a pro-gun plate, “Choose Death.”

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A new report finds that Asian-Americans are North Carolina’s fastest-growing demographic. Gary Kahn googles “how to move to Canada.”

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The state tells Lee County residents that, despite recent tests that found evidence of coal-ash contaminants, their water is now safe to drink. “Also may grant superpowers,” says the state, citing The Toxic Avenger.

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After an affiliate switch, WNCN and WRAL argue over whose ratings are doing better. In response, former WNCN anchor Penn Holderness pens a WRAL dis track, which means we’ve all lost.

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Resisting, in Black and White AN N.C. CENTRAL LAW PROFESSOR SAYS 90 PERCENT OF THOSE ARRESTED FOR OBSTRUCTING A DURHAM POLICE OFFICER ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN

BY DANNY HOOLEY

Durham-based attorney Scott Holmes can’t help but laugh when the police report is read to him over the phone.

After all, the alleged language used by his thirty-four-year-old client, Kevin Love, toward Durham police officer R.A. Ingram was pretty salty. But Holmes is quite certain about one thing: his client was likely charged with “resisting, delaying, and obstructing” a police officer because he is black.

And he says he has the stats to prove it.

Holmes says Love was arrested on February 8, 2015, for “taking a picture of an officer who was conducting a traffic stop. An officer got pissed off at him for trying to record him and charged him.”

According to Ingram’s report, Love “stopped and said, ‘You are a real dickhead.’ He then attempted to talk to the driver. I asked him to leave. He left, circled back, and talked to the driver again. He gave the driver his phone number.”

“It started because I had received a seatbelt violation,” says Love, “and about five or ten minutes after he let me go, after giving me the ticket, I saw him on another street, where he had stopped a car—it was like a BMW with dark tinted windows—and he was talking to the guy behind the passenger seat. And I knew the guy.”

Hoping to prove in court that Ingram (who is also black, according to Love) was “just out there harassing people” that day, Love stopped and snapped a picture of the officer, who was in a patrol car. Ingram told Love to leave, and they argued.

“From my patrol vehicle, I asked Mr. Love to leave,” Ingram wrote in his report. “He told me to ‘shut the fuck up,’ and remained talking to the driver.”

Holmes says there’s no way to know whether Ingram’s report accurately reflects Love’s comments. “The dash cam doesn’t have audio, so you can’t hear their conversations,” he says.

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two other officers about a half an hour later, arrested, and taken downtown for booking. He was released on a $500 unsecured bond and had to rescue his car from a towing lot, which wasn’t cheap, he adds.

In the end, the audio-free dash-cam video was innocuous enough to get Love’s case thrown out of court.

Holmes, an N.C. Central law professor, points out that many defendants—like Love—sign a waiver affirming that they won’t need a court-appointed attorney to represent them for a nonviolent “resist, delay, and obstruct” charge, which is filed entirely at the discretion of an officer and, in law enforcement circles, is sometimes referred to as “contempt of cop.”

Holmes says that, when he was in private practice, he sought out people charged with RDO and offered to defend them pro bono. He considered it a public service.

“One of my areas of pro bono service and concern was the kind of situation where somebody was charged with obstructing justice—and that’s their only charge,” he says.

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“Because, usually, in those situations, the police have engaged in some kind of misconduct and are trying to cover it up by charging the person with obstruction—or ‘resist, delay, and obstruct.’”

He and his law students have recently compiled statistics showing that—as he put it in a tweet earlier this month—“90% of the people charged with nonviolent discretionary charge of obstructing an officer in Durham in the last 18 months were of color.”

Holmes supplied the INDY with a list of those arrested for RDO between August 1, 2015, and February 29, 2016. He and his students found that, out of 195 people charged just with RDO—a class 2 misdemeanor usually not punishable by jail time, though the costs can be considerable and the arrest stays on a person’s record permanently—only twenty were white.

Such disparities aren’t unique to Durham. In recent years, studies have shown disturbing statistics for resisting-arrest charges in big cities like New York and San Francisco. A WNYC report showed that 15 percent of New York City officers made a staggering 50 percent of resisting-arrest charges in the city. And only 5 percent of those cops filed 40 percent of those charges, which shows how subjective they can be. Strikingly, the data also revealed that NYPD cops were far more likely to charge black people for resisting arrest than whites.

San Francisco’s stats from 2010 through 2015 are similar to Durham’s. African-Americans there were eight times more likely than whites to be charged with resisting arrest.

In an email to the INDY, Durham police spokesman Willie Glenn said the department was unable to confirm the accuracy of Holmes’s findings. “This is not data the department has compiled,” Glenn wrote. l dhooley@indyweek.com

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AVID VIDEO, THE TRIANGLE’S LAST INDIE RENTAL SHOP, FINALLY TURNS OUT THE LIGHTS

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ason Jordan’s store hours aren’t as regular as they used to be. They haven’t been for a while. But that doesn’t mean he’s not working when the sign on the door reads “CLOSED.” At about twelve fifteen on a dreary, cold, and drizzly February day, Jordan walks unhurriedly, leather bag hanging from his right hand, toward Avid Video, the small Durham business he built two decades ago at an even more challenging location than the small Perry Street space it’s occupied since 2009. He was supposed to open at noon.

But these days, it’s not like many people will notice if he’s late.

The video-rental businesses isn’t what it used to be. Plus, he’d already announced back in October that he’d be gone by now.

“I think a lot of people think I closed down in December,” he says. “That was the original plan. And then I ended up getting my kids for a week at Christmas break, so I just closed the store during that time. The store sales were going so well that I decided to stretch it out a couple more months. I think it might have been a mistake.”

He won’t be there much longer. He’ll close for his kids’ spring break during the last week of March and then come back the first week of April for what he calls a “blowout sale.” Around April 8, his long-beloved video store will close its doors for good.

With his long black hair, neck-length beard, and thrift shop sweaters, Jordan looks like a guy who’s gotten used to lonely days at the store. But he remains gregarious and friendly, laughs easily, and still gets hyper when discussing films.

He says he’s late today because he spent the morning at home, transferring a longtime customer’s home movies to DVD. “Yeah, that’s another service I provide,” he says. “Since I’ve been open, actually. Early on, I took my Yellow Pages listing and, rather than put anything under ‘video rental,’ I would put it under ‘video-transfer service.’ I figured most people that were looking in the Yellow Pages were going to drive a certain distance for a movie rental, as opposed to the videotransfer service, where they might be willing to drive across town to get the service.”

That kind of scrappiness has kept Jordan going since he

and his now ex-wife, Paige Jordan, opened with all VHS rentals at North Durham’s Willowdaile Shopping Center in 1996.

That, and stubbornness.

Jordan can rightfully claim that Avid was the Triangle’s last nonadult video store to stay open, despite the deadly competition from Netflix, Amazon, Redbox, and other corporate dream killers.

“I take a little pride in that, I guess,” he says. He looks down and pauses. “I refused to close it down when it would have been fiscally responsible for me to do so. You know, I should have done this years back.”

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ccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 was a good year for video-rental establishments, with 17,828 counted. In North Carolina, the number of stores had already dropped a bit from 2005, when there were 645.

By 2013, however, the national number had dropped to 3,174.

And there were only 110 statewide.

To get a sense of how crushing a decline the video-rental industry has suffered over the past decade or so, consider the once-mighty Blockbuster. At its 2004 zenith, the Dallas-based company operated more than four thousand stores nationwide.

But six years later, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy. Today, only fifty-one Blockbuster stores remain open in the U.S. Nine of them are in Alaska. Everywhere else, Blockbuster stores are an oddity.

None of the forty-two stores outside of Alaska are in North Carolina. The last of the Triangle Blockbusters closed in Raleigh more than two years ago.

After Dish Network bought Blockbuster in 2011, a three-year purge of stores followed. During that time, it wasn’t uncommon to bump into a grinning Jordan at, for instance, the nowdefunct West Highway 54 Blockbuster location. He was there to scoop up some of the stock at liquidation prices.

“Every store that would close, I would go and get inventory from it,” says Jordan. “A lot of it, I put into the store, boosting our rental selection. And a lot of it I would put online to sell.

And I think that’s why you’re seeing an increase in the prices online now. It’s because there aren’t those resources to get

“They were nice. They were knowledgeable.

They knew what the shit they were talking about.”

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that inventory anymore. I’m sure there were other sellers just like me who were going out to those closings and buying it up and putting it online to sell. And now there are no more stores to close, because they’re already gone.”

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ordan was born in 1970, in the small farming town of Banks, Alabama. As a kid, he says, “the only place that rented movies was a dry cleaner in our town that had a wire spinning rack of these VHS tapes that were in these big boxes back then, you know? You would pay a seventy-fivedollar membership fee at this dry cleaner to be able to rent one of the couple dozen movies that he had on a wire rack.”

Jordan knew what he had to do.

“I talked my dad into buying a VHS player, like the year they came out in the market or the year after,” he says. “Because there was nothing to do there.”

The dry cleaner’s selection wasn’t all that great—a lot of

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Kiyan Saremi peeks into the front window of Avid Video, while Cy Stobber makes a purchase at the front counter.

Chuck Norris, Jordan recalls. But he nonetheless managed to find the perfect flick for his family’s first movie night.

“The first movie we watched was Dawn of the Dead,” he says, laughing. “And I was just fascinated by the fact that you could pause the movie and rewind it, and I could watch a guy’s head explode one frame at a time.”

He loved movies, but there were no theaters in Banks. So his mom would have to drive him to nearby Troy to see liveaction Disney films of the seventies, starring the likes of Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

“There was a drive-in there in that town,” he says. “I would see double features that I probably shouldn’t have seen at a very young age.”

Soon after, his family moved to Panama Beach. After high school, his love of literature led him to study it at Florida State

University. At some point, though, he realized that this path would lead to a teaching job, and that didn’t appeal to him.

Videos appealed to him.

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or Jordan, filling Avid’s shelves with Blockbuster product was sweet revenge. In 1999, Blockbuster had bullied Avid Video out of its original fifteen-hundredsquare-foot location at Willowdaile.

“Blockbuster was pretty famous for doing this at the time,” Jordan says. “They would find a store that had already established a market. … And they would go into a market where there was already an established customer base, build a store close to that location, and then undersell the competitor.”

Blockbuster also had the clout to convince landlords to choose the big chain over the little guy. So Avid was out.

It was just as well, Jordan says. Business wasn’t all that great there anyway.

“I was sandwiched between a nail salon on one side and a dry cleaner on the other,” he says. “I must have breathed so many toxic chemicals.”

Jordan spent most of his time playing video games with teens from a nearby apartment complex. When the nail salon was converted to a tae kwan do studio, the store had a new problem: students over there were shaking the plaster with kicks and slams.

“I constantly had films falling off the walls,” he says.

Jordan and Paige had moved to North Carolina from Tallahassee—they’d met at FSU—specifically to open a video store.

“We were music lovers,” Jordan says. “We were constantly at the local club in Tallahassee, listening to bands play. A lot of them would be on the road from Chapel Hill.”

The couple decided Chapel Hill was their kind of town.

They packed up two thousand VHS tapes of mostly B-movies and straight-to-video cheapies Jason had purchased from Video 21, the small chain that employed him as a store manager for a few years. But when they looked around Chapel Hill, they found that the retail rents were prohibitively high.

They ended up at Willowdaile. While they worked to avoid opening too close to a Blockbuster, there was nonetheless daunting competition.

“When we opened, there were fifty or sixty rental stores in the Triangle,” Jordan says. “That’s why I picked the name Avid, for the Yellow Pages listings, so that we would come first. Because there were so many stores.”

Three years later, Jordan was scouring Durham for another affordable spot. He found one next to the Whole Foods at Broad and Main in Durham, where they rented twenty-eight hundred square feet.

Around that time, DVDs had come on the market, and they were cheap. Jason ordered them by the dozens.

“I was catering to a more art-house crowd,” he says. “I was stocking foreign films and independent titles and classics, and anything that would play at the Carolina Theatre, I would bring into the store.”

Avid thrived on constant foot traffic from Whole Foods customers. Jason and Paige had their first child, Sadie, in 2004, and she became a regular presence, running around through the maze of the big basement video room, often with customers’ children. A son, Nico, was born in 2008.

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that was going to kill it.”

When the recession hit, a lot of local video stores went down—including Jason’s favorite, VisArt Video.

“Oh, I hated to see those VisArts close,” he says. “That was a great store. Early on, that was what I was wanting to emulate. Their business. Their model. The art-house films that they carried. The titles they offered. …

Even after DVD had really taken over the industry, they still kept all that VHS, with every single title facing out.”

VisArt, founded in 1985, grew as a small but lucrative chain, constantly seeking bigger spaces and moving to escape Blockbuster’s hostile maneuvers.

“We were probably doing a couple of million dollars a year, at the best of times, with probably six stores,” says Stacey Gamble, who worked as a buyer for VisArt from 1988– 2011. “At the end, it was less than half that.”

She adds that the success of DVDs in the early 2000s initially did more harm than good.

“There was a gradual decline when DVDs came onto the market,” says Gamble. Prior to that, she adds, new releases could cost as

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much as $100 per copy to buy—and around $70 for retailers. “Customers couldn’t go out and buy films.”

VisArt’s big Carrboro space next to Cat’s

Cradle was the company’s last Triangle branch. It closed in 2011. That was preceded by two Durham closings—a store on Hillsborough Road and another on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. The demise of the latter, Jordan’s favorite, was likely hastened by the presence of a Redbox at the neighboring Harris Teeter.

Gamble’s long career in video rentals began at the trailblazing North American Video, created by Gary Messenger out of his garage in Durham in 1979. By 1993, he’d left the video business, but the chain continued until its last store closed in Raleigh last year.

Messenger says he’s sad to see Avid go.

“They were nice,” Messenger says. “They were knowledgeable. They knew what the shit they were talking about. It’s just a shame.

The concept of a video store, and what a video store offered, was probably the neatest thing since sliced bread.”

In the current age of instant gratification, Messenger says, he laments the lost “family aspect” of old-fashioned video stores, where parents and their kids picked out movies together. Now, he says, that’s history.

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n 2009, Weingarten Realty declined to renew Avid’s lease for the space next to Whole Foods.

Jordan had to move again.

“I had a five-year option,” Jordan says, “but I had to give them a three-month notice. And I waited until the last month, when my lease was expiring, and told them that I wanted to stay another five years. And they told me that it was too late.”

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In one sense, that was OK. With Netflix and Redbox eating into his customer base, he struggled to afford the rent, which by then had risen to nearly $5,000 a month.

But while Avid’s next space, at 1918 Perry Street, was a simple walk across the street from Whole Foods, for the sizable portion of its clientele who were Whole Foods shoppers, the store may as well have moved across town.

Avid’s business fell off dramatically.

Jordan’s friend and former upstairs business neighbor, Bull City Records owner Chaz Martenstein, says Perry Street wasn’t great for him, either. He moved his store to Hillsborough Road in 2011.

“Perry Street is just a street,” he says. “It’s off the beaten path. You can't keep the panhandlers away.”

To make matters more difficult for Jordan, he and Paige split in 2011.

With help from Martenstein, Jordan started to maintain an online presence. He began letting customers trade in old records and CDs for rental credit, and for the past couple of years, his used-record sales have sometimes beaten his video-rental numbers.

He started selling stuff on eBay—which he’ll continue to do from home, after he no longer has to pay $2,000 a month rent for his brick-and-mortar business.

“I tend to focus on things that are difficult to find online,” he says. “I check the ‘closed’ listings frequently. I’ll find things I didn’t know were valuable and realize that I have it in the inventory, and I’m able to go and just pull it up and put it up on eBay. That’s something I’m going to lose when I close the store.

This will all be in storage. So I won’t have that ability to, you know, realize that something is valuable and then go find it on the shelf somewhere.”

And his online customers won’t enjoy the benefit of his recommendations. If they don’t already know about the Akira Kurosawa films he owns, and the Fellinis, the Antonionis, the Herzogs, Dario Argento’s masterpieces and other Giallos, and Criterion titles that aren’t available for streaming, who’s going to tell them?

“Jason at the video store was great for that,” Martenstein says. “I could always go in there and tell him which genre of horror I wanted to watch that night, and he always had something to suggest. And he was always very right.” dhooley@indyweek.com

It started with an argument. No punches thrown, just words exchanged.

Denise Fitzpatrick, a petite, primly dressed African-American woman, now sixty-one, went to use the restroom at the Cornerstone Day Center, a publicly funded, Wake Countyowned facility in downtown Raleigh that provides services such as mental-health and substance-abuse treatment to the homeless.

It was August 2014, and Fitzpatrick had swung by Cornerstone to pick up her mail with her son, Julian, now thirty-four, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

They were homeless—and had been, on and off, for the previous two years. At the time, they were living out of a storage unit.

When she returned from the restroom, Julian was in the Cornerstone lobby, arguing with another homeless man. The man was cursing at Julian, Fitzpatrick says.

“It was M F this and F you, you stepped on my bag, M F this, that, and the other,” Fitzpatrick recalls. “He was saying, ‘Let’s take this outside.’”

Staff members and security guards later told Fitzpatrick that Julian had stepped on

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Julian Coatley, Fitzpatrick’s son

the man’s bag. Julian apologized, they said, but the man wouldn’t accept his apology. As Fitzpatrick was leading her son out of the building to cool down, the man continued to yell at him. Julian picked up a metal trashcan and slammed it to the ground. It was an uncharacteristic outburst, Fitzpatrick says.

For this infraction, Julian was barred from the Cornerstone premises for twenty-eight days, in accordance with the center’s policy.

Fitzpatrick sent Julian to a crisis center and had his medications adjusted.

From the county’s perspective, this should have been the end of it.

Fitzpatrick thought it was.

She continued to utilize Cornerstone’s services. A month later, she signed into Shelter Plus Care, a program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides rental subsidies and support services to homeless people with disabilities, including mental illnesses. Fitzpatrick has been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

She was approved for the program, which currently has about two hundred participants in Wake County. On October 14, 2014, she attended an orientation and signed a document outlining expectations for voucher participants. According to the form, Fitzpatrick could request that her son be allowed to live with her, and she agreed to monthly visits with her caseworker. In exchange, Wake County would cover 100 percent of her rent—which turned out to be $655 a month— plus her utilities.

But after Fitzpatrick made it clear that she wanted her son to come live with her, things started to unravel.

A social worker told Fitzpatrick that Julian couldn’t live with her because his behavior was threatening to himself or others. Another Cornerstone employee told Fitzpatrick she would have to apply for a different program if she wanted her son to live with her.

Yet another told her she would have to live by herself for a year before she could have her son move in.

To Fitzpatrick, these responses contradicted the rules she’d agreed to follow.

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should lose their legal autonomy.

“I am crying out for justice,” Fitzpatrick says. “I am crying out for fair treatment to whoever listens. It isn’t fair for my son to be in adult care, begging to come home. Justice to me means fair treatment—that we should be compensated for our damages.” l l l

the Fair Housing Act. The law makes it illegal for otherwise qualified individuals with a disability— including a mental impairment—to be excluded from federally funded programs because of their disability or the disability of anyone associated with them. Fitzpatrick maintained that Julian was not a threat to anyone, yet the county refused to let him live with her.

In November, Fitzpatrick filed a complaint with HUD, the North Carolina Human Relations Commission, and Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Fair Housing Project. That kicked off what Fitzpatrick describes as months of harassment and discrimination against her

by Wake County employees, culminating in a lawsuit brought against her by her land-

lord after the county revoked her voucher and a countersuit she filed against Wake County. That, in turn, led to a settlement she didn’t want but was forced into by her courtappointed guardian, a former Wake County judge, after she was declared unable to manage her own affairs—a decision, it seems, prompted in part by her insistence on taking her case to trial.

Fitzpatrick’s story sheds light on just how challenging it is for people like her to find normal, stable housing where they can live independent lives. It also raises questions about the kinds of decisions social workers and bureaucrats should be allowed to make on behalf of people with disabilities, and about under what circumstances individuals

Four years ago, Fitzpatrick and Julian lived together in a rent-to-own home in Atlanta. Julian’s schizophrenia, with which he’d been diagnosed at eighteen, had escalated, and Fitzpatrick often came home from her job as a receptionist to find that he’d been pacing the streets of their neighborhood. She quit work to care for him.

Fitzpatrick became Julian’s guardian in 2013, shortly after they moved to the Triangle. Fitzpatrick wanted to be able to sign off on his medical decisions. She struggled to find housing, and they ended up staying with a niece in Knightdale. The situation soon became untenable. Julian stayed up all night and ate and slept at odd times; that irked the niece’s husband, who wanted them gone, Fitzpatrick says.

So, for the rest of 2013 and most of 2014, they lived together in hotel rooms when they had money and out of storage units when they didn’t. Julian was hospitalized a few times and lived intermittently at crisis centers and group homes. Fitzpatrick would stay in shelters when he was away.

After enrolling in Shelter Plus Care, Fitzpatrick signed a lease for a one-bedroom unit at the Montecito Apartments, a complex of brick buildings on Colby Drive in North Raleigh, in December 2014. Based on the assurances she says county officials gave her, she assumed she’d be allowed to have her son move in with her.

County officials had other ideas.

“The program is designed to assist the eligible applicant to establish and become stable before we entertain adding anyone else to the household,” program assistant Wanda Teel wrote in an email, included in court documents, to caseworker Joanna Fullmer.

In January 2015, Fitzpatrick received a handwritten note from Fullmer, stating that Wake County would terminate her voucher if she didn’t show up to a meeting at Teel’s office. Teel followed up with several emails explaining that Fitzpatrick had signed the wrong paperwork in December. The correct paperwork, she said, required weekly instead

of monthly caseworker visits. The new forms also would have required Fitzpatrick to wait two years before she could add a family member to her voucher.

But when Fitzpatrick met with Teel in March, Fitzpatrick says, Teel refused to let her see the new rules she was supposed to agree to. So Fitzpatrick refused to sign anything new. (Teel did not respond to the INDY’s request for comment. As outlandish as Fitzpatrick’s claim may seem, in a later ruling, Wake County District Court Judge Ned Mangum found it to be true.)

Because Julian wasn’t allowed to live with her, Fitzpatrick lost guardianship; in March, Julian was discharged from a county crisis center, where he’d gone a few months earlier after having suicidal thoughts, and sent to an adult-care home in Durham. And because Fitzpatrick had refused to sign Teel’s paperwork, she received a notice that, effective May 31, 2015, Wake County would be terminating her housing voucher.

Federal regulations state that, under Shelter Plus Care, assistance can only be revoked in severe cases. The county cited Fitzpatrick’s failure to complete required paperwork, noncompliance with weekly visits (which Fitzpatrick never agreed to), and her absence from a required housing committee review.

May 31 came and went, but Fitzpatrick refused to leave her apartment. In June, Duke Energy cut off her utilities. She stayed anyway.

“I had already filed a complaint [with HUD and Legal Aid], and when they cut everything off, I didn’t really have anywhere else to go,” Fitzpatrick says. “I could have gone to a shelter … but I just thought, this is wrong.

My voucher was terminated wrongfully, and this needed to be in front of a judge. So I contacted Legal Aid again.”

On June 18, Fitzpatrick received an eviction notice. She stayed put.

go to the ER,” Fitzpatrick says. “They gave me more tests than you can think of—EKG, blood tests, a chest X-ray. They said it is stress related, because they couldn’t find anything else that was wrong.”

In a July 19 email, Chester advised Fitzpatrick to be evaluated by a psychologist. An affidavit from a mental-health provider, she said, would be crucial for the case to be successful. So therapist Lauren Bridges assessed her. According to an affidavit, Bridges determined that Fitzpatrick “is at risk for recurrent episodes of heightened anxiety, paranoia and underlying mood symptoms” as a result of homelessness and “stressors related to the loss of her housing voucher.”

In July, Chester and Fitzpatrick appealed Montecito’s eviction order and sued Wake County for wrongful termination of Fitzpatrick’s voucher. Chester wrote in Fitzpatrick’s complaint that “deprivation of her right to enjoy housing with or without her son had caused her apprehension, embarrassment, humiliation and emotional distress.”

Wake County countered with a motion to dismiss. But it also proposed a settlement that would retroactively reinstate Fitzpatrick’s voucher, not require her to wait two years to add Julian, and dismiss Montecito’s claims against her. In return, Fitzpatrick would agree to drop her complaints against the county and attend weekly meetings with a caseworker.

Fitzpatrick refused. In emails to Chester, she insisted that she wouldn’t settle because she was sure the county had discriminated against her and she wanted compensation.

In the emails, which Fitzpatrick provided to the INDY, Chester repeatedly advised her to settle, becoming evermore frustrated with her client. Finally, in August, Chester withdrew as Fitzpatrick’s counsel, citing Fitzpatrick’s refusal to accept a “reasonable” settlement.

But before Chester exited the case, another district court judge, Debra Sasser, appointed Fitzpatrick a guardian ad litem, someone to act on Fitzpatrick’s behalf. It’s not clear from court records why this happened, but, under state law, guardians can be appointed to act on behalf of “insane or incompetent” people.

Fitzpatrick believes Chester used the

“It isn’t fair for my son to be in adult care, begging to come home.”

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At Legal Aid, an attorney named Suzanne Chester picked up Fitzpatrick’s case. Fitzpatrick told Chester that she wanted to sue the county because her mental illness had been exacerbated by stress.

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therapist’s affidavit—which states that she is “unable to trust information presented to her” and feels anxious and paranoid—to convince Sasser that Fitzpatrick was not capable of acting in her own best interest. Fitzpatrick points out that no records indicate that she is “insane or incompetent.”

However, judges are allowed to use their discretion to decide whether someone is incapable of assisting herself in court. “[Chester and another Legal Aid attorney] took me into a room and said, ‘Look, they are going to appoint you a GAL,” Fitzpatrick recalls. “‘The judge is going to give you a GAL, and we want to choose who it is.’ She said, ‘I know a man that used to be a judge. We have been friends for twenty years.’”

(In an email, Chester defended her representation of Fitzpatrick. “In this case, what is in the public record is not indicative of all that transpired,” she wrote. She said she could not elaborate because she is bound by state rules governing attorneys’ professional conduct.)

The GAL they chose was Abraham Jones, a former Wake County Superior Court judge.

Like Chester, Jones advised Fitzpatrick to accept the settlement. Again she refused. In October, Judge Mangum refused Wake County’s motion to dismiss Fitzpatrick’s case and scheduled a jury trial for December 2.

But that trial never happened. “[Jones] came into the picture in August to settle this thing for Wake County,” Fitzpatrick says. “He harassed me from August to December to settle, and then in December, the day before the trial, he motions the judge to dismiss the case.”

Jones declined to comment for this story.

As Fitzpatrick’s guardian, Jones could approve the settlement whether Fitzpatrick liked it or not—and that’s what he did. As part of the agreement, Fitzpatrick’s complaints to the Human Relations Commission and HUD were also dismissed.

Fitzpatrick’s was one of 105 Wake County housing-discrimination complaints filed with the state Human Relations Commission between 2007 and 2015, according to county records. In a presentation prepared ahead of a county commission work session on Monday, staffers said the county lacks the resources to investigate these complaints.

The county is now considering whether to establish its own human relations committee to take on that task. l l l

Fitzpatrick’s story may be unique, in that she lost her autonomy for reasons that aren’t immediately clear, but housing mentally ill people is a widespread problem, both in Wake County and throughout North Carolina.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice sued North Carolina and a handful of other states for violating the Olmstead Act, which requires states to place people with mental disabilities in community settings where they can live independent lives. Per the terms of a settlement, the state has to ensure that at least three thousand people with mental illnesses living in adult-care homes are placed into “community-based supportive housing”— meaning homes and apartments—by 2020.

Ann Oshel, the community relations director at Alliance Behavioral Healthcare, a health network that provides services for the mentally ill, says that since the state settled the DOJ’s lawsuit in August 2012, thirty-seven people with mental disabilities “have been waiting for months and months [for Wake County] to locate housing for them.”

Put simply, landlords don’t want them, even if they have housing assistance.

“The problem we have run into in Wake is that there is a competitive housing market anyway, so landlords have a choice of who to rent to. So the people we serve are less likely to be granted accommodation,” Oshel says.

But for Fitzpatrick, finding a landlord wasn’t the problem; it’s more the vicious cycle of homelessness and unemployment that she’s once again fallen into.

In January, Fitzpatrick relinquished the housing voucher her settlement afforded her.

She says she no longer trusted the county and was too stressed to deal with its caseworkers. She landed a job at Waffle House, she says, but lost it because she couldn’t arrange transportation to and from the women’s shelter. She’s still looking for work.

Julian remains in an adult-care home in Raleigh.

“He begs to come home, he wants to stay with me on the weekends,” Fitzpatrick says, her voice breaking. “Whenever I start thinking about it, I get sentimental. I think about the fact that Wake County is authorized by the federal government to provide housing for mentally ill people with disabilities. We go in, we’re homeless, living in storage units, hotels, and shelters. Then we’re excluded because my son has a disability. It doesn’t make sense. And it’s illegal.” l jporter@indyweek.com

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ALCOHOLISM COULD HAVE KILLED CRAWFORD LEAVOY, NOW ONE OF THE TRIANGLE’S FOOD STARS. FIVE YEARS LATER, HE’S LEARNED TO RUN PAST IT.

BY JILL WARREN LUCAS much that was dear to him—especially Clayton Alfonso, who he would marry in October 2014, and his hard-earned job at August, the flagship of acclaimed chef John Besh—Leavoy admitted something he had angrily denied for years: he was an alcoholic.

If he wanted to remain in his field as a wine director, not to mention grow old with his faithful partner, he needed to make some very severe changes. l l l

Leavoy grew up in a small town near Birmingham, Alabama. A standout on his high

school’s debate team, he had friends who drank and smoked pot. His only vice was cigarettes. He didn’t taste booze until he arrived in Baton Rouge as an eighteen-year-old Louisiana State freshman.

Underage drinking was simply part of the culture on a campus long regarded as one of the country’s top party schools. Alcohol loosened Leavoy up to new experiences, like going to gay bars.

“I bought into the idea that having a drink at the end of the day signified that you were taking the necessary steps to becoming an adult,” he says. “I was studying political sci-

ence, but really, it was my minor. Drinking beer became my major.”

Soon it wasn’t just the end of the day, and it wasn’t just beer. Leavoy moved on to whiskey, which, as the country songs goes, is quicker for getting drunk. After graduation, Leavoy and Alfonso, who met and started living together at LSU, moved to New Orleans, where Alfonso enrolled in medical school.

Leavoy found jobs at fine dining establishments, eventually landing at August. He managed to hide his habit as he rose through the ranks; in just a year and a half, he moved from busboy to wine director.

“At the time, I was drinking super classy things like flavored vodka with Sprite and a little lime. It was fruity, mysterious,” he says, mockingly assigning the lofty descriptors of the expensive wine he served to the customers who trusted his discerning palate. “It got the job done.”

Leavoy was good in his role, in part because of his innate ability to memorize facts and recall important details, like what a big-spender enjoyed on his last visit. And, well, there was the free wine.

“I couldn’t see it then, but now I realize it was the blurring of the lines,” he says. “I would ‘taste wine’ and ‘do research,’ while drinking. I got into some interesting social circles.”

Not all of them were good. Buddies in the restaurant industry often cover for one another, carrying a drunk friend home or letting them sleep off a bender on the sofa. They’re not inclined to get into personal business, like cutting someone off when they’ve had one too many. Once, a colleague at August did confront Leavoy. It didn’t end well.

“He said something like, ‘Jesus, it’s coming out of your pores,’” Leavoy recalls.

“I told him to shut up and mind his own business.”

Leavoy worked hard to

Two weeks after finishing his first marathon, Crawford Leavoy waits in the starting chute of Cary’s Tobacco Road Marathon. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

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maintain the act. He served as a volunteer coach for a private school’s debate team. He recalls traveling with the team to a big event during an especially stressful time.

“I got the kids to the hotel and thought to myself, ‘There has got to be a liquor store open,’” he says. He found a fifth of Knob Creek. “The next day, in probably one of the most embarrassing things ever, the kids had to wake me for the tournament.”

Looking back through the lens of intensive counseling and five years of sobriety, Leavoy is astounded he survived without so much as a DWI. He’s even more amazed that Alfonso stayed by his side.

“There are a lot of memories of going out after work and getting phone calls at seven in the morning—‘I’m leaving for work and you’re still out.’ I didn’t recognize that as a problem,” Leavoy says. “I don’t know why he put up with it.”

For Alfonso, standing by Leavoy was simply the right thing to do.

“Sober Crawford was who I fell in love with. Drunk Crawford was my worst nightmare,” he says, recalling Leavoy’s final collapse, which came on the heels of a fifthanniversary celebration dinner at August. “I fought for him to succeed in rehab because that is what a dedicated partner does.”

Alfonso appealed to the medical school dean, asking for Leavoy to receive counseling, a benefit reserved for married students.

At last, the ordeal opened Leavoy’s eyes, forcing him to acknowledge dangerous patterns that he had dismissed simply as the life of a wine director in a party town. l l l

On his way out of New Orleans, and on his way to rehabilitation, Leavoy rode past Mardi Gras parade floats lined up alongside the Superdome.

During a three-day evaluation, his counselor encouraged extended in-patient treatment. Leavoy already demonstrated signs inconsistent with healthy detox. He didn’t realize, for instance, that his flu-like symptoms and simmering rage stemmed from a sudden absence of alcohol.

“He told me that if I was agitated or didn’t feel right, I might need to go to the hospital. I laughed. I was always on the cusp of flipping out,” says Leavoy. “It was the fear of being alone that got me to be aggressive about a solution. Retrospectively, it was one of the most amazing talks I’ve ever had.”

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ance would not cover treatment. His father said he would help with whatever he needed.

As Leavoy recalls the talk, he pauses, collecting himself.

“I was amazed,” he says. “There’s so much selfishness in drinking, but that was the most generous thing anyone could have done.”

During the first few weeks, Leavoy compared himself favorably to other patients.

They struck him as more desperate, further gone. He treated it like summer camp, he says, but he soon started to feel better, like he had some control of his situation for the first time in years.

Leavoy was more fortunate than many addicts, who come home to find little more than the wreckage of burned bridges. John Besh had held his job, allowing him to return to a good position in a prominent restaurant.

Alfonso welcomed him home.

“This was, hands-down, the most difficult thing I have ever had to do,” Alfonso says. “But I’m so glad that Crawford got the help he needed and that I stuck through those dark times.

We are married and living life to the fullest.”

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After rehab, Leavoy began running to lose a few pounds. He hadn’t run since he was a kid, when he tried out for his middle school track team but was told he was too slow. It strengthened his body and cleared his head, helping him stay clean. He earned membership in a rarified club—getting and staying sober in New Orleans.

“I don’t live in a fairy-tale world. Sobriety is a fragile thing, and I am faced every day with a decision of whether to pick up a drink,” he says. “There has to be some level of getting right with the world, understanding that you’re not at the center of it. You have to accept the world as it is.”

In April 2013, Leavoy’s world shifted 850 miles northeast when Alfonso accepted a medical residency at Duke University. They came to Durham to look for a house and felt an instant connection with the food community. Leavoy was glad to see plenty of running clubs, too. They had dinner at Piedmont, which had declined as other hot restaurants opened downtown. They were not dazzled, but Leavoy sensed promise.

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rawford Leavoy blames no one but himself for becoming a belligerent drunk.

But there likely were genetic predispositions pointing him toward alcohol abuse—and an abundance of environmental contributions, too.

“That’s New Orleans in a glass,” Leavoy says. “A loving bartender will take your messages when you’ve passed out drunk.”

In recent weeks, as Leavoy trained for the Crescent City’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, he has been candid about his sobriety. Still, colleagues in the local culinary community have expressed surprise that an associate widely admired for his ability to recall small details about customers and friends went through such a difficult time.

Hai Tran, the sommelier at Herons at The Umstead Hotel & Spa, was reluctant to consider if his own coworkers struggled with sobriety issues and the proximity to alcohol.

“It really is up to the respective individual if they are able to continue in this profession once they have dealt with such personal demons,” he says. “I commend Crawford for conquering his own demons instead of letting it own him.”

According to Paul Nagy, an assistant professor at Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a person’s ability to recover from addiction is as “individualized” as someone’s ability to recover from heart disease, diabetes, or other chronic conditions.

While it typically benefits recovering alcoholics to distance themselves from triggers, such as easy access to booze in a high-stress workplace, Nagy suggests that becomes less urgent with time.

“One to five years into recovery, many people have developed skills for managing life without substances and ideally experience that life in recovery has become ‘worth it’ enough to diminish the risk associated with historic vulnerabilities,” says Nagy.

Leavoy’s experience appears to be a textbook example.

“I was ready to stop lying to everyone, including myself,” he says. “People say, ‘Man, you got sober in New Orleans?’ The bigger thing is I stayed sober in New Orleans, and I’m making a conscious decision every day to stay sober here.”

—Jill Warren Lucas

A month later, Piedmont hired a new chef, Ben Adams, who has since left to launch Picnic. One of the first people Adams hired was Leavoy, who started July 1. The team was a fine one: less than a year later, the INDY raved about Piedmont’s astounding turnaround. Two days later, The News & Observer awarded the renewed restaurant four stars. l l l

Surprisingly, Leavoy does not find working in a restaurant with a bar, or buying large volumes of wine, a challenge to sobriety. Though he hasn’t had a sip in five years, he pairs wines with food from memory.

“If you’re on balance and find your way on the beam, you can do anything you want— including going to bars. Bars do have non-alcoholic options,” he says. He’s created dozens at Piedmont. “I didn’t know that at the time.”

Settling in Durham gave Leavoy a chance to return to coaching debate teams. He interviewed at Durham Academy during that first visit and became a part-time coach. In July, he became the highly competitive team’s head coach.

“Yes, I have two full-time jobs now,” he affirms with a grin. “And I run thirty miles a week.”

A year ago, Leavoy decided to step up his running program and finish a marathon. He almost did last fall in Savannah, but race officials shortened the distance by about two miles due to worries about high heat and humidity.

Maybe the temperature was meant to be: on February 28, the fifth anniversary of his sobriety, Leavoy returned to New Orleans to run that city’s Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon. Conditions were good. Leavoy missed his goal of completing the course in three hours and thirty minutes by two minutes, but that was merely a detail. Two weeks later, he ran in Cary's Tobacco Road Marathon.

“The goal of New Orleans was never to have some epiphany about the anniversary or sobriety,” he says. “But the fact that the date and location had such significance really was another one of those things that cannot be just a coincidence. I went with the desire to stay in gratitude for what I’ve been given.”

When Leavoy ran past Jackson Square, he began crying. He was moving past the bars from which he used to stumble at dawn, drink in hand. When he saw his husband at the halfway point, he knew he’d make it.

“I went from falling down in the French Quarter to running through it,” he says. “I felt gratitude in ways I cannot describe.” l Twitter: @jwlucasnc

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Max Kast does not mind the interruption.

On a Thursday morning, the thirty-six-year-old wine director of the rural Chatham County outpost Fearrington Village stands at the bar of the gargantuan Chapel Hill grocer Southern Season. He swirls a glass of Chianti Rufina in his right hand, bends his neck, and dips his nose deep beneath the glass’s wide rim, suggesting a bird shoving its beak underwater to scour for a meal. When at last he looks up and opens his eyes, a customer has drifted toward him, curious as to what he’s doing with all those open bottles of wine and half-empty plates of salad so early on a workday.

“Are you offering samples?” she asks, inching toward the bottles.

A Southern Season employee, positioned nearby like a sentinel, swoops in to explain that, no, Kast is doing an interview in advance of a class he’ll soon lead at the store about how best to pair wine with vegetables.

She stops just short of shooing her away. The curious customer begins to apologize, but Kast swings around, all smiles beneath his spectacles.

“Would you like to try some?” he asks, reaching for another glass. “What kind of wine do you like?”

Kast pours her a glass of seven-yearold Saint-Joseph Blanc from the Northern Rhone—“full-bodied wine that’s going to be more creamy, with a little bit of age to it, so you get some oxidized notes,” he’s already explained—and tells her to enjoy. She sits down at a nearby table, now charmed, and listens in.

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Part of Kast’s hospitality stems, no doubt, from his decades in the restaurant world. In Montana, he cooked his way through college before taking a job at a four-star resort just south of Missoula, nestled inside national forests. And next year will mark his first full decade with The Fearrington House, where he was named wine director after his first year on the job.

More than that, though, Kast simply seems excited to share his enthusiasm about wine with someone new. “The most profound Syrahs of my life were made by this

gentleman, seriously,” he says of the wine he handed to the passerby. “It’s wine that, when you smell, you’re on a whole different plane of existence.”

Kast unloads strings of adjectives and analogies for each sniff or sip of wine, referring to the skin of a green almond or quince paste or a particular type of flower. He speaks of “harmony on the palate” and of where every layer of flavor in each drink lands on your tongue. It’s as if he’s tasting the wine on a molecular level and is able to detect even the slightest touches of terroir. In May, he will attempt to pass the requisite final portion of the Court of Master Sommeliers exam, making him one of only a few hundred master sommeliers in the world. To get to that point, he’s employed the aid of a sports psychiatrist; he also tastes one hundred wines per week and meets often with other sommeliers to practice. When Kast explains all this, it’s somehow more inviting than intimidating, as if he is providing the passwords for a secret world he needs to share.

That spirit drives one of Kast’s newer pursuits as a sommelier, too: teaching people that fine wine pairings aren’t limited to steak or seafood. Several years ago, after a stint on the Paleo diet meant to stabilize his weight and improve his performance in marathons, he was eating so much meat that the thought of eating more began to repulse him. He cut it from his diet and soon realized he didn’t miss it. At home, he discovered that he actually loved cooking vegetables more,

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and started to shape his own recipes.

Professionally, though, he encountered the stubborn belief that you can’t really pair wine to vegetables, a mind-set he hopes to dismiss not only through pairings and dinners at The Fearrington House but also by teaching classes about how to do it.

“With pork tenderloin, or beef, those are really powerful flavors. I know I need something with tannin, which is attracted to protein. That’s easy. But when you have vegetarian food, you have more subtle flavors, a lot of things going on,” he says.

By way of explanation, he motions to the bar, where a kale salad loaded with walnuts, apples, and cheese and coated in a mildly acidic dressing sits. He talks through considerations for each flavor—which ones he’ll complement, which ones he’ll contrast, and why.

We’ll assume you had your fill of green beer last weekend, in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day, which arrives on Thursday. A beer dinner at Durham’s Local 22 on St. Patrick’s Day offers a chance for another kind of green brew, without the food coloring. California’s esteemed Green Flash is currently building its second brewery in Virginia Beach. In anticipation, Local 22’s been serving its stuff all month. This fourcourse dinner comes with matching brews. Related: After a long delay, Raleigh’s Clouds Brewing started serving its own beer, a single IPA, amid the weekend’s St. Patrick’s celebration. It’ll add two more beers on Thursday. www.local22durham.com & www.cloudsbrewing.com

“It’s a little bit more complicated, sure.

There’s not one wine that will go perfectly, so you need to figure out which direction you want to go,” he admits. “But that makes it more fun.”

During staff dinners at The Fearrington House, Kast will sample new meat dishes.

Given the price customers are paying for the fare, he believes he should understand the food his recommendations accompany.

Otherwise, he relies on three decades of memory for the meat pairings.

“I’m still trying to figure this out. I don’t want to be preachy about it, but I just want to open it up,” he says. “We’re such a meatdriven society that I want to show people that meat doesn’t have to be on everything for it to be decadent, fun. There can be a balance there.” ● gcurrin@indyweek.com

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When Trophy Brewing opened its second location outside of downtown Raleigh late last year, the large new production brewery promised big things to come. While the first location had perfected creative pizza, the output of the three-barrel nanobrewery had always been serviceable, rarely stunning.

After three years of being confined to the small space, Trophy can now produce five thousand barrels of beer a year, enough to distribute locally. The big facility also gives Trophy the room it needed to grow creatively. Trophy can pump out the old favorites in the new location and use the old, small space to run experiments. The first such successful trial, a horchata stout, is an exceptional proof of concept—and perhaps Trophy’s top prize to date.

Essentially, a stout is a very strong porter, a beer with a “stout” alcohol content beyond 7 percent. Roasted malts or barley give the drink a smoky or bitter taste. Horchata, on the other hand, is a traditional Latin American In the brewery, beverage made from ground almonds one of those outside-the-box drinking horchata mixed with cinnamon, vanilla, and things.”

PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER sugar. Dubbed “El Hombre” for the For El Hombre, Wing added Spanish jazz standard by guitarist Pat the almond tea and extra spicMartino, the hybrid has a rich, semies to an existing stout recipe. sweet finish, a silky consistency, and The resulting sip begins with the espressoa sturdy 7.7 percent ABV. The beer embodies like roast of a solid stout and finishes with horchata’s fun, complex spirit. a flourish of warm cinnamon and the subtle Trophy imparts that horchata taste sweetness of vanilla. through a roasted almond tea, which conEl Hombre is the first time a Trophy beer tains planed and crushed nuts, cinnamon, has made the jump from a small-batch idea and pieces of apple and beetroot. Head brewto Trophy’s larger system. Twenty barrels er Les Stewart and pub brewer Josh Wing are now fermenting on Maywood Avenue, first experimented with the method while tea and all. Nurtured in the nanobrewery, El using a ginseng blend for their Wit-Tea-Est Hombre will soon be let loose with wider diswitbier. They determined the correct dostribution, like a teenager who’s passed a driving rates for adding tea to the fermenter, not ing test. Let’s hope it has siblings. ● the boil.

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BY JEFF KLINGMAN

The Snails formed in 2008 to play a birthWhen Future Islands delighted David day party for Baltimore rapper Spank Rock. If Letterman and subsequently dominated your unearthed, footage of that first performance Facebook feed in 2014, the moment was the might be a perfect time capsule of the interviral boom at the end of a long, slow burn. locking oddness of that city’s vibrant music Future Islands hadn’t come out of nowhere, scene during the last decade, which seemed hadn’t been manufactured by some label or from the outside like a Day-Glo DIY comic financier. A performance that assured and camera-ready could only be the result of some very hard work, like years of long tours and unwavering focus.

On some level, though, Wed Mar 9 the charisma of Future Islands singer Sam Herring seems so specific it must be innate. The band’s rockadjacent synthpop isn’t that different from large swaths of marginally popular, festival-friendly stuff that’s been so dominant in indie circles during the last decade.

Herring’s lived-in oddity makes Future Islands sin- The Snails, dressing the mollusk part PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BAND gular. His Stanley Kowalski strip. During the last seven years, The Snails intensity, pinned to the semi-suaveness of an have survived shifting permutations, sucking aging suburban mambo instructor, renders in members of B-more bands big and small standard pop-song longing as last-chance (Lower Dens, Wume, Nuclear Power Pants, romance. Coming from a tousled-haired kid, Small Sur, Teeth Mountain) for sporadic live “Seasons (Waiting on You)” could be hoshows. A willingness to strap on plush, snailhum; coming from Herring, it’s life or death. headed cowls for a performance and execute As much of himself as Herring puts across songs that exalt the small, noble lives of garden in Future Islands, with his heavy metal growls mollusks has been the central requirement. clashing with Tom Jones crooning, one band An EP, cheekily titled Worth the Wait, can’t contain every interest or whim. The finally materialized in 2014, elevating the band's sudden leap in success after signing band beyond party stunt. And early this year, to 4AD—and, in particular, that Letterman the thin idea translated into a belated debut performance—means that Herring’s sidealbum, Songs from the Shoebox. Yes, the shoehustles are news now. Blogs tracked him popbox is where they, actual snails, live. ping up under nom de rap “Hemlock Ernst,” It’s the sort of high concept that only works with bemused interest. (Cameos on tracks by as a side outlet for musicians with better far-flung collaborators like Australian group known primary gigs. As an artistic conceit, Curse Ov Dialect and American underground this should barely sustain a parody Twitter rappers like Milo and Open Mike Eagle exhibaccount, let alone a full-length album. Still, it a dexterous, if not entirely seamless, flow.) stridently unimportant larks are often more Along with Future Islands bassist William delightful than too-careful works of perfect Cashion, he’s also a key component of the very craft and, at a slight twenty-eight minutes, strange-seeming new band The Snails.

Judah and The Lion

Songs from the Shoebox doesn’t tax patience.

There are no dirges, no odes to the existential dread posed by family dogs or rock salt.

The songs are bright, shaggy, brief. If anything, Songs from the Shoebox is not weird enough to fully execute the fleeting whimsy that’s always held the center of The Snails’ existence.

The Snails’ sound is looser than that of Future Islands; that group’s big-swing gravitas would seem out of place amid these affable jams. Pinging guitar noodles, bobbing bass lines, and alternately smooth and shrieking horns back Herring’s vocals. The singer slips out of cruise-ship crooner mode here, singing instead in a low yelp that seems to catch on the back of his throat and emerge in tatters. “Tight Side of Life” rolls forward with a winning power-pop choogle.

“Parachutes” mixes jangly college rock and soft-rock sax that would have been ostracized from the original vintage.

The holiday anthem “Snails Christmas (I Want a New Shell)” makes the most strange sense. It’s convincingly seasonal, for one, its saxophone blasts giving off the radiant warmth of a crackling hearth. And, as with Alvin and the Chipmunks or the California Raisins (comparisons the band members have put forward themselves), the baked-in novelty vibes of The Snails are as traditional as Christmas ham. It’s the rare song on the record that’s legitimately eccentric, not just another indie rock number that’s unusual only for the silly backstory bestowed upon it.

It’s charming that one of the first real post-breakthrough moves of Herring and Cashion gathers old friends to goof off. No one can begrudge some snails having a little fun. And if that’s all The Snails are remembered for in the long run, which seems likely, mission accomplished. l Twitter: @jeff_klingman INDYweek.com | 3.16.16 | 23

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ENERGETIC, ANALYTICAL, AND OPINIONATED, ACE HENDERSON COULD BE NEXT IN NORTH CAROLINA’S RAP RISE

BY EMMA WITMAN

Allen “Ace” Henderson, a self-described deer, has bounded suddenly from his seat in his east Raleigh apartment. He seems to glide toward the second-floor balcony’s railing.

“Hey,” he yells to a trio of friends shooting hoops below.

“We just said something about 808s up here, about how Kanye West changed the game up.”

The young emcee pauses and listens, scoffing at one friend’s less-than-glowing response—“He said ‘Basura,’” he relays. Henderson paces for a moment before sitting back down. He begins to dissect his admiration for the genrescrambling sounds of West’s 808s & Heartbreak.

Henderson is often contemplative, nearly stoic. But flighty tangents like these illustrate the twenty-two-year-old rapper and singer’s central dichotomy: Henderson writes lyrics that seem wise beyond his years, and they seem to fly from his spark plug of a body.

In November, Henderson self-released the album Analog Youth: Yesterday Is Over, his most comprehensive attempt at folding his views on morality and memories of a Raleigh childhood into a cohesive narrative. The best rap album to emerge in the Triangle last year, Analog Youth depends on Henderson’s energetic tension.

And, in a moment when Triangle rappers like Rapsody and King Mez, his mentor, seem upwardly mobile again, Henderson is a likely candidate to have next. An intriguing new EP, LAP 143, is his subsequent step.

“I think of Analog Youth in a political aspect: What am I really going to talk about for the next four to five years if I don’t have any type of platform?” he says. “What’s going to be there? What can I say to you if you don’t know what I’m about?”

Henderson has a sharp, square jaw and a wiry build. His eyes are almond-shaped, and his no-motion-wasted kind of physical grace speaks to an athletic background. His posture and self-assured demeanor make him seem deceptively tall.

Through basketball, Henderson says, he first learned how to turn a lifelong love of words into rap.

“My main allegory for music was basketball,” he explains.

“That was my right, dominant hand. From there, it was creating cool punch lines, the dunks. Cool entendrés are the layups.”

Henderson then sought the dynamism and duality of super athletes, like runner and passer Cam Newton: “I needed to develop ambidexterity—singing, carrying a tune, that’s my left hand.”

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Rapper Ace Henderson reminisces in the band room at Broughton High School, where he played alto and baritone saxophone.

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both singers, encoraged Henderson to play an instrument from age ten. Playing alto saxophone in the Broughton High School marching band helped him develop mental discipline. There, he learned the value of collaboration, which has served him well as an emerging emcee.

“I’ve been accustomed to learning how to stand out, but also to blend in and contribute,” he says. “And that’s all my main purpose is: stand out enough so that I can attract the right people around, and play my role to the best of my ability.”

Henderson’s band background is surprisingly prominent during the stylistically wide-ranging Analog Youth. The sentiments are complex, layered—some jump from the face of the track, others lurk beneath strata. With gasping urgency, Henderson bleeds out some of his finest raps on “Buck.” And then there’s the more nuanced emotion of “3K15,” with a sultry sample of jazz singer Melody Gardot and a homage to OutKast’s “Ms. Jackson.”

“Take a little trip to the mountains/I’ve been looking for the fountain,” Henderson croons in mellow tones over a light beat. The rhyme reflects the painful memory of watching his grandmother die. “[That’s] the fountain of youth,” he says. “I wished I could

have manifested that for her in that moment.”

Analog Youth is deeply personal for Henderson, whether by incorporating his spirit animal into the artwork and track titles or copying verses from letters he never sent. It’s the punctuation on his childhood, a segue into adulthood: “I’m telling the story of myself and all these environments I’ve been in. I preface it with ‘Cleanboi,’” he says.

At shows, Henderson often leads crowds in a chant: “I’m a cleanboi ’till the day I die,” the audience shouts. But what does it mean? Being clean, he says, can start as simply as a pack of fresh white tees. It’s a quick take on the idea of cleanliness as godliness, even self-improvement. No matter what your present circumstances are, cleanliness is within reach. It’s the better version of whatever you’re doing.

Analog Youth’s narratives unapologetically relate the dirty details of Henderson’s journey so far, but, in “cleanboi” spirit, he rejects the notion that a life of restraint equates to a life unfulfilled. There’s no self-pity.

“Making the best of what you got while you have it,” he says.

“Once you find a purpose for what your passion is—boom, it’s a wrap.” l Twitter: @emwity

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Paths of Resistance

WILD WONDERS FROM TEGUCIGALPAN AND AMERICANA ANTHEMS FROM CALEB CAUDLE TEGUCIGALPAN THE FIFTH OF SHE (self-released)

When the fourteen tracks of The Fifth of She, the beguiling and bewildering debut cassette of Clark Blomquist as Tegucigalpan, spool to an end, you may feel like you’ve made a new friend. More specifically, it may seem that you’ve sat in Blomquist’s living room late at night, a drink in hand, and asked Blomquist to play his favorite records for you. Before dawn, the selections skip from iterative techno to high-flying metal, from narcotized dirges to subdued pop experimentalism, from ambient hum to scorching psych. Bleary-eyed, you leave confused but delighted, your mind imagining connective threads that may or may not exist.

Blomquist might already be familiar from his work in several top-caliber area acts.

He was a staple of the formidably graceful The Kingsbury Manx and, until recently, the howling second guitarist of Spider Bags. In the duo Waumiss, he helped make delightful messes of melodies and electronics.

Still, the sheer variety and level of accomplishment on The Fifth of She is surprising, like a thoughtful gift in the mail when it’s not even your birthday. The record’s first half crisscrosses the hard rock spectrum, each song refracted through Blomquist’s other loves. “Goldy, Consumes All Things” is outlandish thrash metal, like Voivod scoring a brain-baked road trip through the Southwest.

“WURGG” sounds like the work of a toughguy, roadhouse Southern rock band stuck without gravity in outer space. Blomquist’s voice floats over Built to Spill-like college rock during the invigorating “A Device,” a song that

sports a guitar harmony so sharp you may want it to last forever, as though it’s reelin’ in the years.

But nine minutes of blown-out, drugged-up acoustic blues serve as the unlikely transition into the record’s equally unlikely second half, a curving trail through sample-based bedlam. Blomquist spins sheets of noise and mangled voices beneath the hard-hitting “She Said No” but sings soft, celestial lines above the stuttering clip of “Petunia, I will make you tall.” He alternately summons Panda Bear’s Beach Boys love and serrated industrial noise.

When the slowly disintegrating signal of closer “Rechazo En Ambas” finally dies, you rub your ears and eyes, as if the living-room listening session has ended, wondering what exactly you’ve just heard. So much, really.

—Grayson Haver Currin

tion permeate the album. Caudle heads into the chorus of the record's standout single, “White Doves Wings,” with a string of confessions. Over shuffling strums and gentle prods from dobro and Hammond B3 organ, Caudle sings, “I’ve crossed some lines/I shrugged it off/And let it bring me down/Been the last person even I would want around.” Despite this checkered past, he suggests a better future. “Red wine stain on a white dove wing/ well, a furious love has found me.”

If that better future includes a shot at wider success, it won’t be altogether shocking. (Although it’s certainly not as certified as some of the more fawning reviews might suggest; Huffington Post called Caudle the

“next Jason Isbell” and said Carolina Ghost “could bump James Taylor from his perch as the most famous crooner about the Old North State.”) Caudle and his band play tight and smooth here, putting a steady beat beneath these honky-tonk shuffles. Caudle writes with the regional specifics and character details of his alt-country idols and plays with the pop sensibilities of a George Strait or Randy Travis. Songs like the smoldering, sentimental “Uphill Battle” and the uptempo drinking number “Borrowed Smiles” define “neo-traditionalist.” It’s easy to imagine them as new Americana anthems.

—Bryan C. Reed

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CALEB CAUDLE CAROLINA GHOST (This is American Music)

Journeyman singer-songwriter Caleb Caudle has spent most of his adult life making music, first with his band The Bayonets and, more recently, as a solo artist chasing the shadows of Americana crossover stars such as Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton. His latest collection, Carolina Ghost, is the twenty-nine-year-old’s seventh and the one that’s best-positioned to launch the North Carolina native’s career. It certainly has the backstory.

After a sojourn to New Orleans, Caudle came back to Winston-Salem, sobered up, and fell in love. Thoughts of finding comfort by putting down roots, of making peace with past mistakes, and of seeking redemp-

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JOSHUA LOZOFF: LIFE IS MAGIC The ArtsCenter, Carrboro Saturday, March 19, 2 & 7 p.m., $12–$18 www.artscenterlive.org

Up to New Tricks

STAGE MAGICIAN JOSHUA LOZOFF RETURNS TO THE PLACE WHERE HE FIRST LEARNED TO USE HIS ILLUSION

BY BYRON WOODS Long before his acting career landed him in movies and TV shows like Clueless and Cheers, where he played Carla Tortelli’s son, Joshua Lozoff learned his first card trick in a children’s magic class at The ArtsCenter in 1982. Twenty years later, he started doing close-up magic at local restaurants, and his first full-length shows, Beyond Belief and Parlor Magic, sold out runs at Manbites Dog Theater and The Siena Hotel between 2007 and 2010.

Outside of occasional one-offs, Lozoff has been a bit harder to find in recent years. He’s been focused on corporate shows that regularly send him across the country—and on raising a child he and his wife, actor Melissa Lozoff, adopted a year ago. But the magician’s disappearing act ends this Saturday when Lozoff brings his new all-ages, ninety-minute show, Life Is Magic, to The ArtsCenter, kicking off a Southeastern tour.

We recently met him on the patio at Carrboro’s Gray Squirrel Coffee to discuss the thin line between theatrical magic, “the only entirely subjective art form,” and everyday intuition.

Tie in the sky: Joshua Lozoff PHOTO BY NEW IMAGE STUDIOS

figure out what it’s saying, to see if it’s different from other things I’m saying in the show.

Having seen your work, I know your shows deal with intuition, nonverbal communication, and subliminal influences, as your current press release says. What I don’t know is why.

They fascinate me, and I think they fascinate a lot of people. I think they’re the superpower that is the closest to something we all can actually do. We all read people and read body language, and we all should be aware of how you might be subliminally influenced by advertising. It empowers you if you realize that stuff is real.

Mine are just the fun, theatrical versions of it. We do it all the time—and yet when we see Sherlock Holmes know where somebody is from by the way he tips his hat, it’s exciting partly because it looks like a superpower. It’s even more exciting because it also feels like something we all can actually do—and I think that is true, to some extent. I can have someone stand onstage and know what word they’re going to circle in a magazine from asking them a couple of questions. Maybe it doesn’t work exactly like that in real life, but it’s close.

INDY: Why has it been so long since your last show in the area?

JOSHUA LOZOFF: I didn’t want to do a public show locally until I had new stuff to share with the people here.

Most people don’t realize how brief the shelf life of a magic effect is. The first thing someone says if they really like a trick is, “Do it again.” But after you’ve shown a piece once to an audience, you really can’t show them the same thing twice.

True. If I was a comedian, it would be even harder. Chris Rock has said he can’t even try things out in clubs anymore because someone’s going to put it online with their phone.

You did an interesting mind-reading bit on WNCN’s My Carolina Today a few weeks ago.

Yeah, that trick’s gone. Now, what I did for them is a customized version of something that can still be in my show; I made it different enough so I can use it again. But magicians think a lot before putting something on TV. A lot of magicians will add new things into their show every few months. I 26 | 3.16.16 | INDYweek.com

respect that—I’m envious of that—but it’s not the way I work at all. When I develop a new idea, it takes a long time to get it on its feet and ready to show. What I’m doing is a theater piece.

I’m not just a guy picking up rings and then picking up a bird; I’ve got to break apart my script and figure out if it fits. I have to

Magic is internal, I think. The viewers or participants are ultimately the ones who designate an event as “magic”—or not. That takes place inside us, where we give these things value and meaning.

Magic feels to me like one of the only totally subjective art forms. A play can be terrific even if everybody in the audience doesn’t get it. Certainly that’s true of music; there’s music that’s amazing, even if everybody who listens to it doesn’t feel it is amazing. They’re wrong; it still is.

But magic is only magical if the audience has that experience. If they don’t, it’s not magic. It’s not like, “You’re wrong; I did magic anyway.” It’s entirely, one hundred percent dependent on the experience of the audience. I don’t know that there’s anything else like that. l Twitter: @ByronWoods

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MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN Opening Wednesday, March 16

Where Credit Is Due

CHRISTIAN FILM MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN GOES WHERE SECULAR HOLLYWOOD WON’T

BY LAURA JARAMILLO

I confess I had Miracles From Heaven pegged as another anti-science salvo from the Christian-cinema juggernaut (see also God’s Not Dead and Heaven Is For Real). After all, the film’s trailer, which gives away its entire plot, emphasizes that miracles can achieve what science cannot. I was interested to see how such a polemic makes its case.

But surprisingly, Miracles From Heaven is more critical of the medical establishment’s economics and power dynamics, in which doctors don’t take patients seriously, than it is of secular science. Ultimately, it presents a world in which God and science coexist, and it deals with the major, unsexy problem American families now face—how one person’s sickness can bring an entire family to the brink of bankruptcy—with a refreshing honesty that mainstream Hollywood can’t match.

Based on the true story of a girl who develops a mysterious and severe stomach disorder, Anna Beam (Kylie Rogers), the film details her family’s sacrifices and her miraculous recovery after a freak accident. The latter is a reward for Anna’s superhuman faith in God, a regular tenet of evangelical traditions: To be healed, you must believe.

But you don’t have to buy that in order to identify with the film’s structural critique.

Jennifer Garner unleashes her native Texas accent as Christy Beam, a mother who advocates fiercely for her daughter against a largely uncaring medical establishment.

The film has many of its genre's trappings, from sincerely shredding Christian altrockers to a pristine, candy-colored miseen-scène in which people always seem to be wearing their Sunday best. But the glossy surface is not a mere genre convention. All the majestic real estate and gleaming sport utility vehicles foretell the film’s central crisis, a problem at least as serious as Anna’s medical disorder: financial precariousness.

Behind all the seeming prosperity of

Jennifer Garner in Miracles From Heaven the Beams’ large horse farm, a monstrous, gnawing debt threatens to financially sink them when Anna falls ill. Christy remarks that they had to pull “every last bit of equity out of the house” to fund her husband’s veterinary practice. “Equity” is not a word you hear often in Hollywood films, but it’s one that haunts the Beams as they inch closer to losing their home because of overextended credit.

The other factor exacerbating the Beams’ financial woes is the sheer cost of medical care and their limited health insurance.

They’re not the only ones in the film perpetually on the edge of financial ruin.

Without an appointment, Christy takes Anna to Boston to see the one pediatric specialist in the country who might be able to help her.

Christy implores the receptionist to let her see the doctor, insisting that her daughter is dying. “I’m just doing what I’m told,” the receptionist says. “I really need this job.”

Miracles From Heaven’s Christian context opens up spaces that would be too queasy

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for a secular film; even the horror of a child's death can be ameliorated by faith. In one scene, Anna admonishes Hailey, her cancerpatient hospital roommate, to not be afraid of death. With less competent actors, the scene could have fallen anywhere between treacly and creepy, but these two ten-year-olds seriously discussing mortality is genuinely moving. Rogers is superlative as Anna, alternating quite convincingly between cuteness and preternatural wisdom.

Patricia Riggen, known for directing secular Latino films like The 33 and Under the Same Moon, handles the religious aspects of Miracles with relative restraint. Not that the film isn’t dripping with a certain corniness— it very much is. But while it questionably proposes faith as the solution to our nation’s lack of a social safety net, talking matterof-factly about the nuts and bolts of that problem is commendable. That’s more than you can say for most major movies. l Twitter: @mtrlgrrrl INDYweek.com | 3.16.16 | 27

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CREATIVE CONTROL Opening Friday

Surreal Estate

LOVE AND SQUALOR IN THE NEW REALM BETWEEN THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL BY GLENN MCDONALD

It takes two: Reggie Watts in Creative Control Ever get the feeling that something truly sinister is simmering quietly beneath our brave new world of digital technology? The dark scifi drama Creative Control thinks so, too.

Director Benjamin Dickinson’s squirmy black-and-white indie is a cautionary tale set five minutes in the future, concerning a virtual reality technology called Augmenta.

Dickinson plays David, a creative director at a marketing agency tasked with selling the new device, which falls somewhere along the future trajectory of Google Glass or the Oculus Rift. The headset looks like an ordinary pair of eyeglasses, but has powerful features for recording and augmenting reality.

David is under tremendous pressure at work, which he tamps down with booze, prescription meds, and whatever drugs he can find at the Brooklyn parties he attends.

His girlfriend, yoga teacher Juliette (Nora Zehetner), is spooked by his intake of substances, as well as his apparent attraction to mutual friend Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen).

David’s downward spiral accelerates when he incorporates Augmenta into his cocktail of addictions. By manipulating the device’s imaging capabilities, he creates a virtual avatar of Sophie that is pliant and programmable. It’s not really her, of course, and it’s not really sex. But David is quickly losing the ability to make those distinctions.

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Augmenta proceeds apace. Hipster icon Reggie Watts, playing himself, comes on board as an artistic consultant for the campaign. The filmmakers are clearly having some fun noodling with the story’s meta themes. Watts’s scenes as a digital shaman are very funny, and the Augmenta commercial he finally delivers is the film’s darkest bit of nearfuture satire.

Everything else plays out like a low-budget Bret Easton Ellis adaptation crosscut with an episode of Black Mirror, the edgy British TV anthology of digital-age anxieties. The black-and-white widescreen cinematography is stylish, and the special effects are superb.

But the story and characterizations are flimsy, as is the self-conscious lead performance by Dickinson, who probably should have stayed behind the camera. If the vision is darker than that of other recent films covering similar territory—Ex Machina, Her—it’s also less accomplished.

In its most compelling passages, Creative Control evokes a real sense of dread, familiar to anyone who’s been paying attention to consumer technology in recent years. Why is it that our coveted devices, designed to communicate and connect, seem to be pulling us apart? What if virtual reality turns out to be the greatest trick the devil ever pulled? The film’s through-line is too rickety to deliver any answers, but it is asking the right questions. l Twitter: @glennmcdonald1

03.16–03.23 TUESDAY, MARCH 22

TRAJAL HARRELL

The line between fiction and nonfiction is a topic addressed with particular fervor in cultural debates: Did it happen? Whom do we believe? Does it matter?

Dancer and choreographer Trajal Harrell questions that line, allowing memory, history, and imagination to swirl together.

Since the early 2000s, he has explored the ways varied cultural histories and movement traditions intersect, combining voguing, butoh, and 1960s postmodernism in Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church. Harrell and his performers stage another imagined dance-historical encounter in Chapel Hill, The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the Samurai. “Montpellier” refers to Dominique Bagouet, leader of the “new French dance” movement; the samurai is butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, and they’re debating in dance, song, and dramatic text with Ellen Stewart, founder of experimental theater La MaMa. You might be wondering, “Can that happen? Do I believe it?

Does it matter?” That’s sort of the point. —Michaela Dwyer UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $10, www. carolinaperformingarts.org

Trajal Harrell: The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the Samurai PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS

TUESDAY, MARCH 22–WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

LEE SMITH

At first glance, Lee Smith’s Dimestore: A Writer’s Life looks, sounds, and tastes like an escape to simpler times, when girls were girls and jogging wasn’t something you did for sport. That’s just what the celebrated Hillsborough author’s new memoir is—but it’s also so much more. Beyond a wholesome coming-of-age adventure set in bucolic Grundy, Virginia, it’s a story about the fracturing and binding qualities of familial mental illness and the search for mad, enduring love, all wrapped tight in fifteen personal essays. Whatever you’re looking for as a reader, you’ll find it in the Dimestore. Hillsborough’s Purple Crow Books hosts Smith at the Orange County Public Library on Tuesday, followed by a Quail Ridge Books-backed reading at the McKimmon Center on Wednesday. — Ryan-Ashley Anderson ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, HILLSBOROUGH/MCKIMMON CENTER, RALEIGH 6 p.m. March 22, free, www.purplecrowbooks.com/7 p.m. March 23, free, www.quailridgebooks.com

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK Drive-By Truckers PHOTO BY DAVID MCCLISTER

FRIDAY, MARCH 18 & TUESDAY, MARCH 22

GIRLS ROCK NC

In the span of five days, you can witness at least two generations of Girls Rock NC’s important work in making music a more equitable environment. On Friday night, forty women over the age of eighteen will conclude the first iteration of “Rock Roulette.” A month ago, organizers sorted participants—some of whom play in acts you may have seen around town and some of whom have never really picked up an instrument—into eight bands. Their mission? Build a ten-minute set (with one optional cover tune) while turning friends into fans who want to donate to Girls Rock NC. Here, the groups, blessed with names such as Bambi’s Moms and Sassmaster, deliver the jams, hoping to raise $10,000 collectively, which will be used to fuel Girls Rock’s regular programming. That includes ten-week camps during the school year, like the one that ends Tuesday evening, when two young bands make their public debut.

“It’s a really neat marriage of our programming and fund-raising,” says director Collier Reeves. —Grayson Haver Currin THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 8 p.m. (Friday), 5 p.m. (Tuesday), $5, www.thepinhook.com

MONDAY, MARCH 21

GOLDLINK

Few rappers in recent memory have accomplished what GoldLink has. Like Chance The Rapper, he’s cultivated a robust fanbase as an independent artist untethered to record labels or rap styles. Bolstered by a Rick Rubin cosign, he came on the scene in 2014 with the outlier “Sober Thoughts,” which skewed closer to Aquemini-period OutKast than anything on the radio. The track connected in a tremendous way, as did his eclectic tape The God Complex and the countless shows he delivered in support of it and last year’s And After That, We Didn’t Talk. Where does GoldLink go from here?

Too conventional for weird rap circles but too unconventional for J. Cole’s mainstream, he’s an emcee without a country. Suffering from success, he has said this tour will be his last for some time. Catch him while you still can. With Elhae. —Gary Suarez

KINGS, RALEIGH

8:30 p.m., $15, www.kingsbarcade.com

THURSDAY, MARCH 17–FRIDAY, MARCH 18

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

The live double album was a popular if critically maligned staple in the seventies, providing artists with an easy way to fulfill contracts and deliver red meat to a hungry fanbase. In 2016, a thirty-five song, five-record live set might seem crazy, but it makes sense for the Drive-By Truckers. In twenty years of continuous touring, the band has honed its songcraft and deepened its onstage alchemy. A Drive-By Truckers show is an immersive experience that alternates the righteous roar of rough-edged Southern rock with trudging builds and Patterson Hood’s spoken narratives. Touring in support of It’s Great to Be Alive!, which pulls from every era of the band’s two decades, the band faces a challenge in having to cram so many good songs into two shows. They’ll find a way. —David Klein CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 9 p.m., $25–$28, www.catscradle.com

FRIDAY, MARCH 18

STRANGE NEW WORLDS: CRUMBS

The ArtsCenter is doing its part to catch a few of the many worthy small films that slip through the Triangle’s inadequate net of art-house screens with “Strange New Worlds,” a new series roving through “alien landscapes and distorted realities” in modern cinema. According to box-office manager Matt Stevenson, it was conceived because he wanted to see the 2015 Ethiopian sci-fi film Crumbs but didn’t expect it to reach North Carolina any time soon. The surreal postapocalyptic love story finds its protagonists living in a bowling alley as a long-dormant alien spaceship begins to show signs of activity above them. The other two films in the series, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (April 8) and Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (May 13), pick up on the main theme in different ways, the former foraying into the alien landscape of the past, the latter into the distorted reality of a woman searching for the buried ransom money from Fargo. The in-house film series, hoped to be followed by others, is a smart use of the stadium seating and more-than-adequate projection and sound system of The ArtsCenter’s Earl & Rhoda Wynn Theater. The Chelsea’s cool, but Carrboro could use an art house of its own.

—Brian Howe THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $7–$10, www.artscenterlive.org

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? BASTAGES AT THE KRAKEN (P. 31), THE CLOTHESLINE MUSE AT THE CARY ARTS CENTER (P. 37), FETTY WAP AT THE RITZ (P. 32), MAX KAST AT SOUTHERN SEASON (P. 20), JOSHUA LOZOFF AT THE ARTSCENTER (P. 26), MARKS OF GENIUS AT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART (P. 35), SNAILS AT KINGS (P. 23) INDYweek.com || 3.16.16 3.16.16 || 29 29 INDYweek.com

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EVENING SHOW IS SOLD OUT

TRIANGLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA SOUTH CAROLINA SA 3/26 BROADCASTERS WE 3/23

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS THAYER SARRANO $25/$28) FR 3/25 AARON CARTER ($15/$17)

SA 3/26 MOUNT MORIAH W/ ELEPHANT MICAH AND DEXTER ROMWEBER ($12) MO 3/28 JUNIOR BOYS W/ JESSY LANZA, BORYS ($15/$17) WE 3/30 THE WONDER YEARS W/ LETLIVE, MOOSE BLOOD, MICROWAVE TH 3/31 G LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE W/ THE BONES OF JR JONES **($25 / $30) FR 4/1 DUNCAN TRUSSELL ($20) SAOU 4/2TDAUGHTER W/ WILSEN

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TU 4/5 SEAN WATKINS W/ PETRA HADEN & JESSE HARRIS ($12/$15) FR 4/8 MAGIC MAN & THE GRISWOLDS W/PANAMA WEDDING ( $20) SA 4/9 THEY MIGHT BE

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FR 5/13 PARQUET COURTS W/ B BOYS ($13/ $15) SA 5/14 THE FRONT BOTTOMS W/ BRICK & MORTAR, DIET CIG ($17/$21) SU 15 BLOC PARTY W/ THE VACCINES ($29.50/$32) WE 5/18 ROGUE WAVE W/ HEY MARSEILLES ($16/$18)

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TH 6/30 MODERN BASEBALL W/JOYCE MANOR ($19/$23)

4/24: JENNIFER CURTIS: THE ROAD FROM TRANSYLVANIA HOME

TU 11/22 PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT (PERFORMING "SUBSTANCE"/

BY JOY DIVISION AND NEW ORDER) ($25)

4/25: BOOGARINS ($10/$12) 4/27: TROUT STEAK REVIVAL ($8/$10)

W/ JULIA NUNES & REBEL LIGHT ($15/$17)

CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM

4/29: KAWEHI ($13/$15)

WE 4/13 IRATION W/ HIRIE ($20)

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CAROLINA THEATRE: The Pink Floyd Experience; 8 p.m., $28–$89.

• THE CAVE: Sarah Mae Chilton, Hank and Brendan; 9 p.m., $5. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Songs from Downstairs with Rod Abernethy; 8:30 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Litz, Psylo Joe; 9 p.m. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Rusted Root; 8 p.m., $25.

THU, MAR 17 Selwyn Birchwood BLUES Selwyn Birchwood MASTER is getting to be a regular around here, and his versatility keeps fans coming back. The Tampa native’s guitar regularly calls upon royalty—Albert and Freddie King, as well as Albert Collins, ring from his strings. Muddy makes an appearance from time to time, too. Birchwood also speaks fluent Piedmont blues, and he sweetens his own swampy originals with soulful vocals.

—GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/ 8 P.M.]

Coyote vs. Acme AFFABLE Songwriter Marty FOLK Smith leads Durham anti-folk crew Coyote vs. Acme in celebrating the band’s November EP, Ambition > Ability. The disc’s title offers a self-deprecating indication of Smith’s charm. His voice leans toward the deadpan, suiting the sly humor of songs like the wintry come-on “Hibernate.”

—BCR [THE CAVE, FREE/9 P.M.]

Currents KORNNu-metal’s FED bass-spanking belligerence is alive and well in the blunt, earnest djent of Connecticut’s Currents. Take the band’s latest single, September’s “Withered.” Clanging bass—an awkward collision of funk-metal and industrial—gives way to bludgeoning hardcore, cut with emo dynamics. Convictions and Exiles open. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $10/7 P.M.]

03.16–03.23 Futurebirds BOOTOn Futurebirds’ GAZE coming-of-age third LP, Hotel Parties, the Athens sextet strikes a balance between dreamy, shimmering atmospheres and haunting, psychedelic twang. The title reflects the aching intimacy of these reverb-covered anthems, built to linger into the early morning hours. Starry-eyed Americana meets indie pop in opener The Roman Spring. —SG [MOTORCO, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

Grandchildren PANDA Orchestral pop BARE through and through, Philly’s Grandchildren check all the brightly colored boxes that modern indie requires. In other words, they play every bubbling island rhythm, yodeling hook, and twinkling piano part your post-Merriweather Post Pavilion mind requires. The music is highly competent but often suggests something you’d skip on a Spotify Discover playlist.

Come early for excellent local distorto-pop kings Wool. —DS [KINGS, $8/8:30 P.M.]

John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff C&W Saint Who-rick’s HOLIDAY Day? At least that seems like the idea for this welcome honky-tonk bill, where John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff headline with an alternating stream of dejected ballads and dance-until-youspill-your-drink country rockers.

Tonk opens with pre-outlaw shuffle. While there may be a tear in your beer, at least it’s less likely to be a green pint. —CH [THE KRAKEN, FREE/9 P.M. ]

Local Band Local Beer: See Gulls LOCAL One of the most GOODS alluring bands to emerge from the Triangle’s rock scene this decade, See Gulls wield the form’s essential elements—guitar, bass, drums, and, best of all, attitude—with

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THE BASTAGES

Maybe it’s true that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Who says those tricks aren’t worth revisiting, though? The Bastages, which includes two members of eighties hardcore eccentrics Ugly Americans and Superchunk’s original drummer, can claim a rich punk-rock lineage. The hooky political barbs they’ve delivered since 2009 don’t stray far from the acerbic anthems of the Dead Kennedys, either.

With the panache of veterans, the band filled an EP, a two-song single, and last year’s searing, frequently hilarious Scavenger Birdsongs with punk rock that loaded the unorthodox spirit of Ugly Americans with sneering jokes. Songs like “Fisted Santorum” added dick jokes to sharp protest. “Stand Your Ground,” a tribute to Trayvon Martin, took a serious, snide side on gun control. The Bastages’ members came of age with Reagan-era punk, but they had a keen eye for contemporary commentary.

Now they’re calling it quits. Bassist Chris Eubank, a longtime sideman for many bands, will be leaving the Triangle for work. While The Bastages weathered the departure of singer/drummer Simeon Berkley by filling his roles with drummer Chuck Garrison and singer Chris Horstman, this is different. “[Chris is] irreplaceable,” says guitarist Danny Hooley, also Eubank’s bandmate in Ugly Americans (and, full disclosure, a staff writer at the Indy). “Ask anyone in any of the other bands he plays in, and they’ll tell you the same thing.”

With The Bastages officially put to bed, Hooley says he’s ready for something different. Garrison is still active with other bands. It’s less clear for Horstman, the lead singer, who’d never been in a band before.

“There’s always unfinished business,” Hooley says. “We were knocking around new and different song ideas when Chris sprung the news on us. But, hey, those ideas will turn up somewhere.” With Horizontal Hold. —Bryan C. Reed THE KRAKEN, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., free, www.thekrakenbar.com

aplomb. At the front, Sarah Fuller treats her position like a pedestal, letting loose on bad vibes and bad romances in equal measure. Boone’s Naked Gods, who have trimmed the My Morning Jacket-like excess around their songs following a hiatus, open alongside the pugnacious Pie Face Girls. —GC [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

Mac Sabbath FAST The two-year-old FARCE Mac Sabbath is a patently ridiculous parody band, but of what, you can never be quite sure. Yes, the anonymous quartet delivers reverent takes on Black Sabbath hits, with most every note rehearsed and

faithfully delivered; the words, though, are about fast food, so “Sweet Leaf” becomes “Sweet Beef” and “Iron Man” becomes “Frying Pan.” But Mac Sabbath’s members arrive costumed as evil permutations of McDonald’s characters: Ozzy is a Joker-like Ronald who douses the front row in vomit. It’s a send-up of fast-food culture and the taste bud control the corporations behind it somehow wield. Is the ruse enough to sustain an entire show? Well, maybe, so long as Mac Sabbath doesn’t super-size its own set.

—GC [LINCOLN THEATRE, $13.50/8:30 P.M.]

Michael Ray ASS When country MAN? newcomer Michael Ray sings about “Your funky little back beat” on his radio hit “Kiss You in the Morning,” he’s not talking about the song’s background groove. Like his mainstream bro-country peers, the creativity he uses to describe a woman’s body is imaginative, if tired. —KM [DEEP SOUTH, FREE/9 P.M.]

Sham Rockers SHAM While its name ON! might lead you to think otherwise, Sham Rockers derive not from the Emerald Isle but from Red Clay—Ramblers,

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FRI, MAR 18 Bedowyn HEAVY October’s Blood of HOOKS the Fall proved Bedowyn’s place near the top of local metal. Its alloy of proto-metal groove and stoner sprawl, proggy detours and big-tent hooks makes it equally inviting and devastating.

Tonight, Bedowyn splits the bill with The Hell No, a Raleigh band devoted to classic hard rock’s swagger. —BCR [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

The Foreign Exchange SOUL RE- Two months from MINDER now, The Foreign Exchange’s label will begin another cycle of strong output.

First, the imprint will release collaborator ZO!’s Skybreak LP, followed by Eric Roberson and Phonte Coleman’s yet-to-betitled joint project and Coleman’s long-awaited second solo album, No News Is Good News. Couple all that with Coleman’s placement on Robert Glasper’s upcoming Miles Davis tribute, and you arrive at soul ubiquity. In the interim, this is a great opportunity for The Foreign Exchange duo of Nicolay Rook and Coleman to offer fans a live reminder of why they’ve been at it for all these years.

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IN THE Lovedrug has been MIDDLE caught in alt-rock limbo for fifteen years. The Nashville group is a little too smart and sharp for major labels—Columbia released its debut, 2004’s Pretend You’re Alive, then dropped the band like a stone—but its Anglophilia is too contrived for the taste of indie rock lifers. With Youth League, Magnolia, and Oceans.

—PW [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons MORE It’s a violin SEASONS showcase! Vivaldi’s Four Seasons needs no introduction. This time, it features four soloists drawn from the N.C. Symphony’s violin section (Elizabeth Phelps, Jacqueline Saed Wolborsky, Dovid Friedlander, and Rebekah Binford) accompanied by a “multimedia experience” celebrating the North Carolina Park’s centennial. Then comes Nico Muhly’s electric violin concerto Seeing Is Believing, full of celestial arabesques. Soloist Karen Strittmatter Galvin takes the lead. The symphony will also play Aaron Jay Kernis’s Musica Celestis. They repeat the program on Saturday, March 19, and Wednesday, March 23.

—DR [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $18-$75/8 P.M.]

Ellis Paul WOODY With a Woody LITE Guthrie tattoo on his arm, folkie Ellis Paul literally wears his heart on his sleeve.

But the Boston native’s storybook songs are more introspective than Guthrie’s sweeping landscapes and more wistfully romantic, too, as if in the style of James Taylor. The Holland Bros. open. —GB [MOTORCO, $16-$18/ 8 P.M.]

Grainger Smith COUNTRY If country music HITTER really is a singles-driven genre, Grainger 32 | 3.16.16 | INDYweek.com

Smith is primed for power.

“Backroad Song” already struck a nerve, thanks to a sing-along chorus that checked all the rural routes. His new album is loaded with related content. It also features “Merica,” a song from his comedic alter ego, Earl Dibbles Jr., so there’s that. Kasey Tyndall opens. —KM [CITY LIMITS SALOON, $10–$15/8 P.M.]

Tinashe CANDY The cover art for SOUL Tinashe’s latest single, the Metro Boomin-produced “Ride of Your Life,” pictures a headshot of the twenty-three-year-old pop singer with the front end of a Hot Wheels truck sticking from her mouth. While far from the more abstract gestures of contemporaries like FKA Twigs, there’s at least enough innuendo here to keep our imaginations idling while Tinashe juggles roles as a young party starter and R&B-bending seductress.

—ET [THE RITZ, $25/8 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY CAROLINA THEATRE: 1964: The Tribute; 8 p.m., $29–$66.50. • CAT’S CRADLE: Drive-By Truckers, Thayer Sarrano; 9 p.m., $25–$28.

See page 29. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Ellis Dyson & The Shambles, Tan and Sober Gentlemen, Lester Coalbanks and the Seven Sorrows; 9 p.m., $7.• THE CAVE: Drum N Bass Dance Party; 10 p.m., $5.

• CITY TAP: Paleface; 8:30 p.m., free. • DEEP SOUTH: Vanilla The Hun, Pragmaddix, Jrusalam, Gifted Musik; 9 p.m., $5. • KINGS: The Snails; 9 p.m., $12–$14. See page 23.

• THE KRAKEN: The Bastages, Horizontal Hold; 9 p.m. See box, page 31. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Breakfast Club, Unchained; 9 p.m., $10 • THE MAYWOOD: Dr. Copter, Boss Nacho, Uncle Evan and the Drinkers; 8:30 p.m., $8. • NC MUSEUM OF ART: Ed Stephenson & The Paco Band; 5:30 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Girls Rock NC Rock Roulette; 7 p.m., $5. See page 29. • PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: The Groovynators; 8 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Sun Dried Vibes, Of Good Nature, Tyler Vickery; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Stephen Anderson Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

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FETTY WAP Aware of hip-hop fandom’s fickleness, Fetty Wap clearly intends to get as much from his fifteen minutes as he can. In addition to the quartet of radio and club smashes that led to his eponymous debut, he’s guested on songs from dozens of other artists, adding his human soundboard of catchphrases and grunts to tracks from most everyone who can afford his feature. From Selena Gomez remixes to Zaytoven one-offs, Fetty’s ubiquity has yet to wane, even as the limits of what he can offer become painfully clear.

It’s premature to count out an artist like Fetty, given that he caused such seismic shifts in his genre in such a short time frame. His first album is barely six months old, and there’s already talk of a follow-up, with new Fetty singles now worming their way through formal and informal channels. He’s appeared on at least two songs in the Billboard Hot 100 during most of the last fifty-two weeks—at present, four.

While Fetty didn’t invent the rapper-turned-singer model, he’s the best iteration since Akon. Much of that has to do with perceived sincerity. You hear Fetty’s come-ons and believe them. “Trap Queen” served both as a paean to women who stand by their men and women who rightfully look for ones worthy of attention and love. While the annoyingly omnipresent sidekick Monty isn’t cut from the same romantic cloth, he gets to bask in the aura simply by standing next to Fetty. Not a bad glow, while it lasts. —Gary Suarez THE RITZ, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $32.50, www.ritzraleigh.com

SAT, MAR 19 Elijah Jamal Balbed JAZZ A Saxophonist Elijah GO-GO Jamal Balbed lives in Queens, but he’s from D.C., which means that his straightahead jazz isn’t so straight.

Working with D.C. legend Chuck Brown, Balbed brings a go-go sensibility to his tunes, even if it’s just in a quick exit from a solo. Your heart beats faster to catch up. Balbed has cred, too.

In 2013, he was Washington City Paper’s Best Tenor Saxophonist, and he’s just finished a stint at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Doha, Qatar. —CV [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $9/8 P.M. & 10 P.M.]

Cameron Carpenter INWith his tight, black ORGANIC clothes, bedazzled leather boots, and occasional mohawk, Cameron Carpenter looks like a stunt double for Trent Reznor, maybe Johnny Depp. He applies that star gusto to, of all things, the pipe organ repertoire, alternately thrilling and mystifying audiences by playing fast and loose (literally

and metaphorically, mind you) with Bach, Sousa, and Chopin.

For the stage, he’s designed “The International Touring Organ,” a digital beast so grand it looks like the command center of the starship Enterprise. As with his performances themselves, it’s at least exciting for gawking. —GC [NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE, $25.50–$30/ 8 P.M.]

Foxing TWINKLE- Foxing is aware of CORE its mortality.

“Someday, Foxing won’t be a band,” the St. Louis quartet offers by way of biography. As if to reinforce that notion, the band imbues its compositionally complex and lyrically dense emo—think American Football played at half speed and sung on key—with an urgency that comes not from quickened tempos or raging distortion but from singer Conor Murphy’s naked fragility. With O’Brother, Tancred, and Adjy. —PW [LOCAL 506, $12–$14/7:30 P.M.]

Groove Fetish SOUTH Strong Southern NOODLES rock influences run through the writing of Groove Fetish. But the Wilmington crew’s otherwise solid songs often get obscured thanks to needless guitar noodling and overindulgent organ solos.

Fledgling Raleigh quartet Fonix adds funky jazz fusion in the opening slot.—SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $7–$10/9 P.M.]

Jewel NO The way Jewel’s ARMOR paper-light songs ruled radio in the mid-nineties, you’d think the whole country was going to start decamping to coffeehouses en masse for new music. After that near-miss (R.I.P., Hear Music), Jewel became a shape-shifter—poet, children’s-music crafter, WWE Raw guest host—and arrived back at the beginning in 2015, with an album saluting her debut, Pieces of You. Picking Up the Pieces thankfully finds itself in slightly weirder territory than its two-decade-old antecedent.

“Love Used to Be,” for instance,

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veers into poetry-slam mode over gently militaristic drums.

JD & the Straight Shot, the blues vanity project of cable mogul and sports owner James Dolan, opens. Whatever you do, don’t heckle him about the Knicks’ season score. —MJ [CAROLINA THEATRE, $37–$156/8 P.M.]

Laney Jones & The Spirits BACKED Looking to hit your WITH “And The” quota this month? Look no further than Laney Jones and the Spirits, with openers Ellis Dyson and the Shambles and Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. “And” is also a good conjunction to describe Jones’s gathering of bluegrass and country and folk and indie rock. After attending Berklee College of Music and sharing the stage with Alison Krauss, she settles into a spunky, spirited mix on her new album.

—KM [KINGS, $7–$10/9 P.M.]

Logic TURBO In 2011, Logic was TUNES already getting millions of views with every YouTube video. Five years later, his cult following has not only propelled him to a major-label deal but also kept him near the top of hip-hop through two albums, including last year’s epic and impressive The Incredible True Story. Like his dizzying and lengthy verses, it’s a run that shouldn’t end anytime soon.

Dizzy Wright opens. —RC [THE RITZ, $25/8 P.M.]

Bill Lyerly Band COWS & Even though he BLUES cofounded regional Southern rockers The Super Grit Cowboy Band, guitarist Bill Lyerly’s main passion has always been the blues. His Railroad Station Blues, for instance, channels the sounds of Albert King through Stevie Ray Vaughan and flashes of Hendrix.

—GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/8 P.M.]

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PitchBlak Brass Band BRASSBetween providing HOP live backing for Pharoahe Monch, arranging Aaliyah and Busta Rhymes for brass, and penning progressive bars-and-beats originals, PitchBlak Brass Band has more in common with The Roots than even the most hip-hop oriented New Orleans brass outfits. The Brooklyn-based collective will even rhyme over an instrumental take on Pink Floyd. Asheville rapper Philo kicks things off.

—SG [THE POUR HOUSE, $7–$10/9 P.M.]

Steep Canyon Rangers STILL Transylvania GRASSY County’s newgrass heroes in Steep Canyon Rangers have become best known outside of bluegrass circles for their collaborations with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, but they’ve never abandoned their original agenda. In fact, it was only when they left Martin to his own devices for 2012’s Nobody Knows You that they earned themselves a Grammy. Their combination of roots-conscious chops and stylistic fluidity has remained firmly in place. Look Homeward opens. —JA [LINCOLN THEATRE, $18/9 P.M.]

Wham Bam Bowie Band LOVE AN It’s dismaying to ALIEN think that tribute acts like Wham Bam Bowie Band are all we have left if we want to get a sense of a “David Bowie concert.” Still, the band has spent years exploring the man’s music and highlighting underserved eras in his rich discography. They’ll have to do.

—DK [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $10/9 P.M.]

The Wiley Fosters Celebrate The B-52s TIN ROOF By removing the RUSTED two middle strings of his Mosrite guitar and tuning the remaining pairs way down, Ricky Wilson gave the B-52s bite and swing. Having made a

study of Wilson’s crazy tunings, the Wiley Fosters will memorialize Wilson on his birthday with a set of songs by his singular Georgia band. With Curtis Eller’s American Circus. —DK [THE KRAKEN, FREE/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY THE CARY THEATER: Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche; 8 p.m., $20. • THE CAVE: Bad Dog Blues Band; 7 p.m., $5. Shady Rest, Bob Funck; 10 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: LowBrow; 9 p.m., $5–$10.

• GARNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: The Steel Wheels; 7:30 p.m., $20–$23. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons; 8 p.m., $18–$75.

• MOTORCO: Thick Modine, Lazarus Blue, Jaggermouth; 9 p.m., $8. • THE PINHOOK: Party Illegal; 10 p.m., $10– $12. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: Nick and the Babes; 8 p.m., free. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Keith Ganz Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Roar the Engines, Toynbee; 9 p.m., $5.

SUN, MAR 20 Joan Baez VOICE OF She made her mark AN ERA in volatile times, singing folk and Dylan tunes, but Joan Baez came into her own creatively after the protest era.

Still, as the subject of her signature song, “Diamonds and Rust,” Dylan’s spirit appears with her every performance.

Baez’s voice hasn’t lost the power to conjure up a sixties highlight reel, and her music was made for times like these. —DK [DUKE’S PAGE AUDITORIUM, $10–$60/8 P.M.]

Shovels & Rope S.C. The Charleston duo DUETS Shovels & Rope has added plenty of polish since the Raleigh dive Slim’s was its typical Triangle stopping point.

That means there’s more room for the couple’s raw Southern stomps and gorgeous harmonies to shine, though Cary Ann Hearst steals the spotlight as the queen of neo-classic country. —SG [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $25–$27/8 P.M.]

Stonecutters DOOM+ For the most part, Kentucky’s Stonecutters deliver horror-film doom with a quickened tempo, lifting wicked riffs out of Sabbath idolatry so as to race toward metal glory. Occasionally, though, the band barrels ahead with a grindcore group’s intensity, with the same rhythm and leads crammed into smaller spaces. Such permutations are just strange enough to provide Stonecutters with a necessary touch of distinction, although you’ve likely heard heavier rock cut with similar tools, anyway.

Thunderchief opens. —GC [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

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LESS Late in the last WARPED decade, the Florida pop-punkers We the Kings crafted one perfect power-pop track, “Check Yes Juliet,” before becoming Warped Tour constants. On 2015’s Strange Love, the band dropped the “punk” to mixed results. “Jenny’s Song” comes off like a “More Than Words” rewrite, and there are way too many reggae-lite beats. At least “Love Again” convincingly combines nu-disco slickness with erotic desperation. With AJR, She Is We, Elena Coats, and Brothers James.

—MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25/7 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY CAROLINA THEATRE: The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle: Love and Tragedy; 3 p.m., $25. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: Sound System Seven, Second Husband, D.O.T.R.; 3 p.m., free.

MON, MAR 21 Joe Satriani AXEMAN As with collaborators Steve Vai or Yngwie Malmsteen, it’s easy to dismiss Joe Satriani as some six-string wanker, more focused on instrumental flair than actual composition. And despite his long list of rock-royalty bona fides, there is some truth behind that image. But even in 2016,

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Duke Chorale BYRD & Fresh off a Spring WORDS Break tour through Florida and South Carolina, the Duke University Chorale will perform a nicely varied concert.

Expect it to draw on composers as old as William Byrd and as new as Duke alums Caroline Malonée and Sidney Boquiren.

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Slothrust, Yung BUZZ Leah Wellbaum BANDS leads the curious Massachusetts trio Slothrust, a band that treats blues and country less as historical antecedents of grunge rock than necessary accessories to it. In her husky, biting voice, Wellbaum delivers arcane lyrics that snowball into big emotional revelations, while the band unfurls thick riffs over 34 | 3.16.16 | INDYweek.com

accompaniment that feels almost casual. Their fellow travelers from SXSW in Austin are the very promising Yung, a guitar-driven Danish quartet set to issue its debut LP, A Youthful Dream, via Fat Possum in June.

Its first single, “Pills,” recalls the bittersweet grandeur of early records from The Twilight Sad, with the guitars released from clouds of echo and reverb and now coiled, snake-like, into striking position. —GC [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Aaron Lee Tasjan ROCK Collaborations with OUTLAW Jack White and Pat Green, plus time as a touring guitarist with The New York Dolls and Drivin’ N Cryin’, prove Aaron Lee Tasjan’s ability to straddle the line between punk and roots. Those branches inspire the gritty folk he pairs with wry lyricism on earthy tunes like “E.N.S.A.A.T.” With Rob Nance & the Lost Souls.

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WED, MAR 23 Jeff Austin Band WAY OFF Since departing YONDER Yonder Mountain String Band two years ago, cofounding mandolinist Jeff Austin has struck out on his own with even more open-minded solo work. On this tour, Austin promises to revisit old Yonder favorites that haven’t been performed in a decade or more.

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frantic instrumentation and seemingly limitless energy added risk back into indie rock, Philly avant-punk outfit Palm continues that offbeat legacy.

Palm’s (wait for it) angular songs often threaten to collapse in on themselves, but Hugo Stanley’s pummeling grooves bring you to the edge and back every time. With Gnarwhal.

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R. Ring DEADPAN It’s not easy to COOL outrun the shadow of a famously cool and influential sister, much less one who is your identical twin. But Kelley Deal has done so with aplomb, both in the Breeders and in her surprisingly fecund run of side projects, including one with Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach. R. Ring is a collaboration with Mike Montgomery, of genre-crossing post-rock act Ampline. Together, to hear them tell it, they make music that is “sparse, chaotic, abrasive and lulling, often within the same song.” With Flesh Wounds.

—DK [KINGS, $8/9:30 P.M.]

Wayland YOU DO Swap the grungy YOU, BUD distortion for some thick twang, the heavy-handed riffs for pedal steel glissandos, and the thudding drums for … well, no, we can keep the thudding drums, and Wayland’s “Get a Little” might have been a modest bro-country hit. It’s essentially a Buckcherry song, a meat-headed, knuckle-dragging four-chorder about being disappointed and defiant, about partying and being pissed off, whose moment has long passed. If that’s your deal, run with it. LaureNicole opens.

—PW [POUR HOUSE, $8–$10/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY LOCAL 506: Forever Came Calling, Major League, Sudden Suspension, Zestrah, Summer Wars; 6:30 p.m., $10– $12. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons; 7:30 p.m., $18–$75. • SLIM’S: Pie Face Girls, Big Quiet, Band & The Beat; 9 p.m., $5.

The Amalgamation Project: Tom Spleth. Mar 18-Apr 16.

Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www.lightartdesign.com.

American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isle of Shoals: Mar 19-Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Basant Bahar: Rang De. Sun, Mar 20, 4 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

SPECIAL Best of North EVENT Carolina 2016: Paintings, prints, and more on the history of N.C. Mar 20-May 31. Reception: Sun, March 20, 1-4 p.m. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Mar 19-Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org. See box, this page.

SPECIAL A Mess of Feesh: EVENT Dan Smith. Mar 22-Apr 2. Reception: Sat, Mar 26, 6-8 p.m. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www. thecarrack.org.

ONGOING LAST African American CHANCE Quilter Circle Show: Thru Mar 19. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

Americana: Textile & History as Muse: Robert Otto Epstein, Margi Weir, and David Curcio.

Thru Mar 26. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Art Marketplace: Moving sale.

Thru Apr 2. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www.leehansleygallery.com.

LAST Art-Music FUSION: CHANCE Dan Campbell. Thru Mar 23. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com.

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Eggleston, Brett Morris, Leslie Pruneau, and Susan Quint: Thru May 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

LAST Chisel and Forge: CHANCE Works by Peter Oakley and Elizabeth Brim: Thru Mar 20. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

SPECIAL Clothesline Musings: EVENT Art Inspired By the Clothesline: Thru Apr 3.

Reception: Fri, March 18, 6-7:30 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Coming Soon, Dot-to-Dot: Selections from the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. Thru Apr 23. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

LAST Contemporary CHANCE Landscape Paintings: Paintings by Nancy Hughes Miller. Thru Mar 22.

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

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by Tradition: Art Alumae Exhibition: Oil and graphite by Janet Link and Sherry di Filippo.

Thru Mar 24. Meredith College: Cate Center, Raleigh.

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03.16–03.23 sculptural paintings mimic crumbling walls, while Egypt’s Sherin Guirguis slips around figuration into intricate patterns of hand-cut paper that unite the ancient Middle East with California modernism. $5. Thru Jun 19. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org. —Brian Howe LAST Excavations from CHANCE Nothingness: Harriet Hoover and Wendy Collin Sorin. Thru Mar 18.

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

Failure of the American Dream: Installation by Phil America. $5. Thru May 8. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. www.camraleigh.org.

Fine Arts League of Cary’s 21st Annual Juried Exhibition: Thru Apr 23. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

SPECIAL Scott Garlock: EVENT Discussing photography. Tue, Mar 22, 7:30 p.m. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Gristle Sausage: Sculpture by Michael A. Salter. Thru Mar 26.

Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org.

Duke University Advanced Painting Students: Thru Apr 9.

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

Cinc Hayes: Mixed media.

Free. Thru Apr 30. Bond Park Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

The Ease of Fiction: This exhibit extends the homeland introspection of CAM Raleigh show Failure of the American Dream, Phil America ‘s video installation filmed in a tent city near Silicon Valley. The Ease of Fiction features paintings, drawings, and sculptures by four young, U.S.-based African artists who navigate the facts, official narratives, and myths of two nations that see each other in different ways. In “kindred,” Nigeria’s ruby onyinyechi amanze layers photo transfers and drawings in a luminous scene of wading birds and a leopard-headed gentleman of a colonial mien. A similarly dreamlike mingling of the drawing room and the savanna inflects large-scale paintings by Botswana’s Meleko Mokgosi.

Rwanda’s Duhirwe Rushemeza’s

Heralding the Way to a New World: Exploring women in science and medicine through the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection. Thru Apr 1. Duke Campus: Perkins Library, Durham. www.library.duke.edu.

Home in a New Place: Katy Clune’s photographs of an immigrant community in Morganton, N.C. Thru Apr 27.

Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill. www.uncsouth.org.

LAST If I Were You and CHANCE You Were Me: Polymer clay and found object sculptures by Elissa FarrowSavos. Thru Mar 17. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

LAST It’s All About The CHANCE Story, Volume IV – Allan Gurganus: Artists respond

STARTING SATURDAY, MARCH 19

MARKS OF GENIUS What do the voluptuous portraiture of François Boucher, the stippled pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, the tragic social commentary of Käthe Kollwitz, and the colorful modernism of Henri Matisse have in common? Each artist used drawing as a way to study, iterate, or imagine a finished work of art. Over the last hundred years, the Minneapolis Institute of Art has amassed an extensive collection of works on paper, some of which can be seen through June 19 at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. March 19 will be a busy day for the museum—also opening are American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, ticketed with Marks of Genius, and Island Boy: Original Illustrations for Barbara Cooney’s Classic Children’s Book. —Tina Haver Currin NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH 10 a.m.–5 p.m., free–$12, www.ncartmuseum.org

to the Hillsborough author. Thru Mar 20. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

La Sombra y el Espiritu IV - The Work of Stefanie Jackson: Thru May 13. UNC’s Sonja Haynes

Stone Center, Chapel Hill. www. sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu.

Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich: Thru Mar 25. UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill.

Listening to Patience: Paintings

by Onicas Gaddis. Thru Mar 31.

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Thru Sep 5. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Modern Nature: Nature paintings by Becky Denmark and Ben Knight. Thru Apr 9.

ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh.com.

SPECIAL Naked: A visual EVENT celebration of the human form. Thru Apr 3.

Reception: Fri, March 18, 6-9 p.m. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

On the Wild Side: Paintings by Nancy Smith. Thru Apr 24. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

SPECIAL Paintings, EVENT Assemblages, Objects: Mixed media by Audrey Bell. Thru Mar 19.

Reception: Fri, March 18, 7-9 p.m. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www.thecarrack.org.

Constance Pappalardo: Paintings. Thru Apr 30.

Umstead Hotel & Spa, Cary. www.theumstead.com.

Prismatic Atoms: Glass sculpture installation by Gretchen Cobb. Thru Mar 30.

The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.the-qi-garden.com.

PULL: If last year’s excellent Nasher show of prints is still embossed on your brain, then check out this new exhibit of work by modern printmakers.

Curated by Supergraphic’s Bill Fick and UNC art professor Beth Grabowski, the show features twenty-three international artists who work in everything from screenprinting to 3-D printing. Lynne Allen etches her Lakota Sioux history on wood and deerskin, while Fick offers a grotesquely blemished face that might have sprung from a Charles Burns comic. Thru Mar 27. Meredith College: Weems Gallery, Raleigh. www.meredith. edu/the-arts. —Brian Howe Sedona Sunrise and Sunset: Oil paintings by Lori Leachman.

Thru Mar 26. Naomi Gallery and Studio, Durham. www. naomistudioandgallery.com.

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SPECIAL A Show of Hands: EVENT Teddy Devereaux.

Thru Apr 3. Reception: Fri, March 18, 6-9 p.m. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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LAST Simple Ways: Folk CHANCE Art by Leonard Jones: House paint on scrap metal. Thru Mar 17. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www.historichillsborough.org.

Spring Fever: Oils and acrylics

by Bekah Haslett and Margo White. Thru Mar 31. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.

Spring Forward: Thru Mar 26.

Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www.tippingpaintgallery.com.

Stitch Chat: Mixed media

by Pati Reis. Thru Mar 26.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

The Ties That Bind: Beverly McIver is a painter, originally from Greensboro, whose guardianship of a sister with developmental disabilities was the subject of the HBO documentary Raising Renee.

McIver exposes another thread of her complex family life in these oil portraits of her father, whom she has gotten to know over the last decade. “I believe that I have fallen in love with my dad,” McIver writes. In her vibrant portraits of him at various ages, you might, too.

Thru Apr 9. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery. com. —Brian Howe Time Travels in NineteenthCentury Landscapes: There was once a hierarchy of painting genres: Religious allegories at the top, representational works at the bottom. But in the nineteenth century, landscapes were reinvented by artists with nostalgic idealism about the time before industrialization.

Painters like J.M.W. Turner created landscapes that toe the line between fantasy and reality, as can be seen in this exhibit. Thru Apr 3. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org. —Sayaka Matsuoka LAST Wild Ponies: CHANCE Jennifer Miller. Thru Mar 19. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

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Bill Bellamy: Stand-up comedy. $22–$38. Mar 17-20. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the Samurai: Dance by Trajal Harrell. $10–$25. Tue, Mar 22, 7:30 p.m. UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www. carolinaperformingarts.org.

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HHHH Grounded: In this encore of the gripping solo show seen at Sonorous Road in December, a pregnancy gets a gutsy fighter pilot reassigned as a drone pilot and begins her descent into sensory deprivation and battle stress.

Under Jerome Davis’s direction, Michelle Murray Wells keeps us strapped into this nightmarish odyssey across an uncharted realm of conflicting emotions and faltering perceptions. Strongly recommended. $14–$20. Mar 18–20. Sonorous Road Theatre, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad.com.

—Byron Woods Joshua Lozoff: Magic. $12–$18.

Sat, Mar 19, 2 & 7 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org. See story, p. 26.

Panoramic Dance Project: Dance. $5–$12. Mar 16-17, 8 p.m.

NCSU’s Stewart Theatre, Raleigh.

Transactors Improv: For Families!: Sketch comedy. $6–$10. Sat, Mar 19, 6 p.m.

Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com.

Zero Headspace: Sketch comedy. $10. Mar 18-20.

Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark.com.

ONGOING LAST The 25th Annual CHANCE Putnam County Spelling Bee: Musical. $15–$20.

Thru Mar 20. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org.

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Fleming) stumbles into his family’s cabin before a reunion with his estranged father, Robert (Geoff Bowen), he finds it occupied by Helene (Emma Jo McKay) and Derek (Brandon Cooke). Bo thinks they’re vacation renters who’ll leave the next day, and he accepts their invitation to stay the night and share the hot tub and brandy, spilling some of his family’s most damning indiscretions along with the hooch. Under Wendy Ward’s nuanced direction, McKay and Cooke deepen our unease with the inscrutable charade of a couple posing as property caretakers for this over-privileged, underethical clan. $25. Thru Mar 20.

Ward Theatre, Durham. www. wardtheatrecompany.com.

—Byron Woods

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Stephanie Evanovich: Novel The Total Package. Thu, Mar 17, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Judy Hogan: Novel The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery. Sun, Mar 20, 3 p.m.

LAST The Lion King: It CHANCE sounded crazy when Disney announced it would make The Lion King a musical in the midnineties. But more than $1 billion in grosses later, in this touring production at DPAC, director Julie Taymor has it figured out. Right from “The Circle of Life”—probably the best-staged opening number in Broadway history—you know you’re in for something beyond special. All the design elements blend so seamlessly it’s like watching a 3-D movie (minus the glasses). But the stagecraft doesn’t take over the show; it helps tell a rich story. Believe the hype. $39– $109. Thru Mar 20. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com. —Jeffrey Kare Miss Nelson Is Missing: Play. $11–$17. Thru Mar 25. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

LAST Tempest Fantasy: CHANCE When Carolina Ballet artistic director Robert Weiss adapted Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer-winning work in 2006, his challenge was to keep up with the daring, darting orchestration, which traces the flights of Ariel, Shakespeare’s famous air spirit, in the first movement. In subsequent sections, Weiss visualizes the composer’s portraits of the pensive Prospero, the roughedged Caliban, and lovers Miranda and Prince Ferdinand. $30–$68. Thru Mar 20.

Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www.dukeenergycenterraleigh. com. —Byron Woods LAST The Wolf: Play. $10– CHANCE $15. Thru Mar 20.

Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

South Regional Library, Durham. www.durhamcountylibrary.org.

Sister Souljah: A Moment of Silence: Midnight III. Reservation required. Fri, Mar 18, 6:30 p.m.

Bennu Center, Raleigh. www. bennucenter.com.

Kenneth Robert Janken: The Wilmington Ten. Tue, Mar 22, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Katy Munger: Discussing her mystery fiction. Thu, Mar 17, 3:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Henry Petroski: The Road Taken.

Wed, Mar 23, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Jonah Winter: Hillary. Fri, Mar 18, 6 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Wax Wroth Poetry Series: Readings by Scott Daughtridge, Stephanie Dowda, Jessica Q. Stark, Amanda Dahill-Moore, and Brian Howe. Music by Calapse. Sat, Mar 19, 8 p.m. The Shed, Durham. www.waxwroth. wordpress.com.

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MARKS of GENIUS 100 EXTRAORDINARY DRAWINGS FROM THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART

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AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST

CHILDE HASSAM Travel to Maine through the eyes of “America’s Monet”

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Tickets at ncartmuseum.org or (919) 715-5923 top: Amedeo Modigliani, Female Bust in Red, 1915, red gouache and black ink wash on wove paper laid down on Japan, 14 × 10 5/16 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art bottom: Childe Hassam, From the Doorway, 1892, watercolor on paper, 21 1/4 × 17 1/4 in., Private collection, North Carolina

Both exhibitions made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.

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Madeleine Zelin: “Freedom and the Economy of Late Imperial China.” Sat, Mar 19, 10 a.m.

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Natasha Trethewey, who served as U.S. poet laureate from 2012 to 2014, is the daughter of mixed-race parents from Gulfport, Mississippi, whose marriage was still illegal at the time of its consummation. Personally forged in the crucible of our nation’s historical inequality, Trethewey has pursued its fractures in Pulitzer Prize-winning verse. “Elegy for the Native Guards” searches Gulfport in vain for monuments to black Civil War soldiers as prominent as all the Confederate ones; “Enlightenment” reckons with Thomas Jefferson’s slave ownership via a familial conversation: “I’ve made a joke of it, this history/ that links us—white father, black daughter—/ even as it renders us other to each other.” As the 2016 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence at UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, Trethewey speaks at the Genome Sciences Auditorium on March 22; see UNC’s website for more upcoming appearances. —Brian Howe UNC’S GENOME SCIENCES AUDITORIUM, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., free, www.college.unc.edu

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OPENING BRONZE—Melissa Rauch plays a foul-mouthed Olympic gymnast with a new rival in this Duplass brothers production. Rated PG-13.  CREATIVE CONTROL— See review, p. 28. Rated R. THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT—The young adult dystopian franchise continues.

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Unexposed Microcinema showcases modern experimental films that open minds to the multiplicity of human perception, but the organizers are not impervious to the calendar. Bowing to good old March Madness, the series presents From Deep, an experimental sports documentary directed by Brett Kashmere. In a previous video essay, Kashmere examined hockey violence and its place within the Canadian identity using standard documentary moves as well as experimental film techniques. From Deep looks at basketball through the lens of its connection with the wider culture, hip-hop, the branding of Michael Jordan, and the sport’s evolution from modest beginnings as the invention of P.E. teacher James Naismith to its eventual ascendancy to a billion-dollar industry whose stars are treated as demigods. Unlike standard-issue sports docs, Kashmere’s work incorporates expressive touches that recall other media, and From Deep has been described as “part sociological treatise, part mixtape.” —David Klein UNEXPOSED MICROCINEMA, DURHAM 8 p.m., $5, www.unexposedmicrocinema.com

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT— In this Colombian adventure film, an Amazonian shaman and two Western doctors seek a sacred plant. Unrated.

suspense, not just mysterious marketing. Rated R.  ½ DEADPOOL—Marvel’s smartass semi-hero (Ryan Reynolds) revels in excesses of quips and gore. Rated R.

 MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN—See review, p. 27.

Rated PG.

 LONDON HAS FALLEN— Gerrard Butler stars in this xenophobic, jingoistic terror-porn sequel to 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen. Rated R.

A L S O P L AY I N G See our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.

 ½ THE REVENANT— Leo DiCaprio plays a historical fur trapper left for dead after a bear attack. Rated R.

 ½ 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE—The spiritual successor of Cloverfield has wit and

 STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS—J.J. Abrams successfully remixes Star Wars mythology for a new generation. Rated PG-13.  ½ A WAR—This Danish Oscar nominee was critically lauded for eschewing the genre’s usual heroics, but it’s really about exoneration, not accountability. Rated R.  ½ THE WITCH—Arthorror director Robert Eggers conjures the demon-haunted world of early English settlers from real accounts. Rated R.

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These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen.

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The final piece of the pie is the cafe at Night Kitchen.

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A Table for Two

During the last week, two crucial figures of twentieth-century culture died. George Martin, the patrician producer of Beatles records, and former first lady Nancy Reagan may seem as similar as chalk and cheese. Perhaps his most famous production featured the line “I’d love to turn you on.” Her most famous quote, on the other hand, remains “Just say no to drugs.” Her husband led America. He produced America. Still, despite their widely different paths, they held uncommonly similar roles that had inestimable impacts.

Martin adored music from an early age; he was a classically trained oboist who fantasized about becoming the next Rachmaninoff. After a rough childhood, Nancy Davis chose an acting career. Rather than fantasize about being the next Barbara Stanwyck, she wished for the perfect husband. In 1952, the same year Martin enjoyed his first hit (“Mock Mozart” by Peter Ustinov), Nancy Davis married her dream man.

In early 1967, when George Martin was in Abbey Road Studios, handing out his scores for the wigged-out climax of “A Day in the Life,” Nancy, California’s new First Lady, might have been in Sacramento, shaking a newspaper in her fist for taking her to task for calling the governor’s mansion “a firetrap.” (The Reagans would last four months before moving out for plusher digs.) The cultural revolution Martin was abetting by producing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band was not her cup of tea. But with her at his back, Ronald would soon enough launch one of his own.

The composer Aaron Copland said, “If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of the Beatles.” Likewise, if you want to understand the eighties, play the speeches of the Reagans. The 1980s were the Reagan Eighties, just as the Beatles were the face of their decade. In that crucial respect, Martin and Nancy might actually have had a lot to discuss over dinner.

As the guiding hand and steadying force behind respective cultural juggernauts, he and she had an incalculable affect on human history through their closeness with leaders on the world stage.

The so-called Reagan Revolution could not really have occurred without Nancy’s presence. He needed her, called her Mommy. The Beatles needed Martin, too, both to serve as an authority figure and to make their musical ideas reality in the studio.

Despite their differences, Martin and Nancy shared a similar notion toward the unique and powerful roles they played. They were there to support, to bring out the best from their famous charges. —David Klein Twitter: @DKleinandFall

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Profits support Pleasant Drive Animal Rescue. 919-904-9025 ACHfixit@gmail.com

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