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Durham's mayor pushes back on accusations that she has been holding "secret meetings" with gang members. BY THOMASI MCDONALD

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Last week in print, we ran a pair of stories that look at the rising rates of gun violence in Durham. Thomasi McDonald wrote about Durham district attorney Satana Deberry testifying before Congress that police and criminal justice reform is not the factor driving increased gun violence, as Republican lawmakers argue. And Dair McNinch, in a piece for UNC Media Hub that we republished, took a look at the specter of gun violence as a fact of life for the Bull City’s young people. Our readers had thoughts.

“As someone who lived in Durham I believe that people need opportunities to make enough money to live,” wrote Facebook commenter KRISTAL ROEBUCK in response to McNinch’s story. “There needs to be compensation for graduating from high school.

There needs to be training during high school so kids can either go directly into a job from high school or they can go directly to college after graduation. Lack of opportunity leads to frustration and leads to violence and crime. I realize there will be people who do not want to compensate kids who graduate from high school. Would you rather pay for them to go to prison?

I didn’t think so.”

And in response to McDonald’s story, we received the following comments on Facebook: “It makes more sense that gun violence is linked to the desperation and hopelessness too many feel,” wrote RHONDA NOTTINGHAM. Commenter JENCY MARKHAM says Deberry isn’t tough enough and argues that legal guns themselves aren’t responsible for increased gun violence: “Well maybe if she ever actually prosecuted someone they wouldn’t be eligible to go buy that gun. But are we really going to sit here and make believe that legal guns are responsible for this increase ?”

For the web, Jasmine Gallup wrote about the Raleigh City Council’s decision to eliminate parking requirements for new developments. Some Facebook commenters say this is a bad policy choice, but commenter JOSEPH JOHN KOMINKIEWICZ argues otherwise: “I’d just like to point out that removing the parking requirements for developments is an extremely good idea, and not a bad thing at all. Cities that do this have found that it creates more usable density, which is what makes a good city. You generally don’t want areas that have each building with a bunch of surface parking next to it because it spreads everything out and generally wastes space. When things are spread out, it costs more to develop public transportation for the area and generally makes it a undesirable place to walk through. There are many recent peer-reviewed urban planning studies that support what the council has decided upon.”

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15 MINUTES Michael Oakes, 21 Third-year engineering student at NC State and candidate for the state House of Representatives, District 49

BY JASMINE GALLUP jgallup@indyweek.com

How did you decide to run for office?

When I went to my first Wake County Libertarian Party meetup, I met Travis Groo, who is currently the chair. I looked him up and I found him on Ballotpedia, and it was like somebody turned on a light switch. I was like, “Wait, this isn’t the guy in Washington, this isn’t the guy in the Capitol Building, this is a guy who’s here at this bar with me, we’re having some nachos. This is a guy whose beliefs I agree with and who is sort of an everyman.” It inspired me.

I didn’t realize politics were so accessible and they could be used to such avail without being deeply entrenched in that political system.

What does it mean to you to be a libertarian?

A very common phrase that gets cited is “Don’t hurt people, don’t take their stuff.” As a libertarian, you look at the consequences of a decision. We need to make sure that people’s rights are not being infringed on. “Don’t hurt people” means there’s no aggression, you don’t attack people, you don’t take things from them by force.

“Don’t take their stuff” is why you often hear about libertarians worried about things like the budget for the state or the country, or taxation.

What issues are important to you as a member of Gen Z? Housing affordability is a huge issue [for people my age]. We have all these young families moving to the Triangle for jobs, and they can’t afford to live here. Raleigh housing prices have increased 35 percent in the last 12 months, which is staggering. One of the biggest barriers to success for students and young families is homeownership. If you have to rent forever, that’s a huge

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liability. You can’t save up; it might put strain on trying to put your kids through college or trade school. In North Carolina, especially with COVID, we’ve seen a lot of companies moving to have their employees work from home. The issue for cities is that for-lease office space is empty. We have these empty office buildings in urban areas near grocery stores, near businesses. If we were to streamline or incentivize the nonresidentialto-residential rezoning there, they could be converted very easily into affordable housing, which would work with the low supply we’re seeing in places like Raleigh.

You support the legalization of marijuana. Why? Over half of nonviolent drug crimes are marijuana related. That is billions of dollars spent on this failed war on drugs. There’s just this huge waste of taxpayer money spent punishing nonviolent crimes.

If you decide to consume marijuana in your home, you’re not hurting anyone. Ethically, I don’t believe it should be illegal. Even beyond the punitive side of it, there’s this huge public appetite [for legalization].

Seventy-three percent of North Carolinians want medical marijuana legalized and 54 percent want both medical and recreational legalized.

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Minds Not Meeting Durham’s mayor pushes back on Black liberation minister’s accusation that she has been having “secret meetings” with gang members.

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urham Black liberation minister Paul Scott has often been the city’s Socratic gadfly that calls attention to grassroots issues with a biting commentary that pierces the skin of an elephantine local government.

Last month, the slim, bespectacled minister posted a YouTube video accusing Elaine O’Neal, the city’s first Black woman to serve as mayor, of secretly meeting with gang members amid her ongoing effort to curb the city’s gun violence epidemic.

The YouTube video begins with Scott standing behind a podium draped in a flag featuring the Pan-Africanist red, black, and green colors, alongside shelves stocked with books. He announces that he wants to discuss an issue “that people in Durham are talking about.”

“They are talking about the secret meetings that our mayor Elaine O’Neal is involved in and members of the city council are involved [in] to stop the violence in Durham, to stop the shootings in Durham,” Scott says. “That’s the purpose. But some of us have a problem with that strat4

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egy … because it’s secret meetings that’s got the Black community in the condition that it’s in right now.”

“Should the mayor of a city be involved in secret meetings and not talking to the press and not keeping the community informed? No!” Scott says during the little-over-20minute video. He adds that the murders of Black leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were the result of secret meetings.

Scott later says that O’Neal was asked why she’s not talking publicly about the gun violence and that the mayor said she’s “having meetings with gangs, with the streets, and [that the gang members] don’t trust the government.”

The accusation incensed O’Neal.

“There have been no secret meetings,” she told the INDY. “More than 100 people have attended a retreat that we held with gang members at [city council member] Mark-Anthony Middleton’s church.”

Middleton, an ordained pastor, says the retreat took place at his church shortly after O’Neal became mayor-elect.

“It was done before she was sworn in,” says Middleton, adding that the purpose of the retreat was to hear from officials with Hayti Reborn, an initiative that envisions a vibrant residential, educational, and economic district along the historically Black Fayetteville Street Corridor.

Middleton says about 100 people, including media, were at the retreat.

“There were some folk there who I definitely recognized as gang members,” Middleton says. “Was the mayor-elect interacting with them? Absolutely. Because of her rapport, the mayor has an ability to navigate in spaces the rest of us don’t have. You can be aghast, but you can’t be surprised.”

Durham County sheriff Clarence Birkhead this week told the INDY that it’s not unusual for him to meet with residents “one on one, two on two, with the understanding that we can accomplish a lot together.”

He added that sometimes the work to stop gun violence calls for “strange bedfellows. We have to come at it in a different way. Traditional methods don’t always work.”

“And certainly Mayor O’Neal has a long history of community advocacy, and certainly a knowledge of the streets of Durham that contributes to her ability to do the work,” the sheriff later added.

Gang-fueled violence in Durham, and in much of the country, has been a major issue during the pandemic. Over the past two years, the city reached a dismal plateau of more than 800 shootings and last year tallied a record number of homicides.

O’Neal is a lifelong Durham native who still lives in the modest red-brick home her father built in the same West End neighborhood where Scott gives away books. Soon after O’Neal announced early last year that she was running for mayor, she made clear that she wanted to make a difference in the lives of young people, who in the past stood before her in the courtroom when she was a judge, and are now dying or at risk of dying from gun violence in the streets. Voters heard O’Neal. She won with 85 percent of the vote.

Three months into office, O’Neal has taken the step of personally interacting with some of the city’s ranking gang members.

She shared with the INDY some of what’s taking place behind the scenes. The work is revealing, and astonishing: A large quantity of drugs went missing and gang members made calls to other states in order to prevent bloodshed in the Bull City, she says. There was a night when young men who were “riding six deep in a car, fully armed, locked and loaded,” were intent on carrying out a revenge shooting. A community leader “made a call [to the gang members] and that was quashed.” A mom and her children had to flee to a nearby county because gunmen were threatening to shoot up her apartment while looking for one of her children. In order to ensure the family’s safety, a call was made to “the guys,” who went to the woman’s apartment and helped her retrieve clothing and other items after she and her children moved out.

“I’m working harder than I have ever worked in my life to stop this violence,” O’Neal says. “I can’t put these boys on TV for media fodder. Every night no one gets shot, these men are doing their job. That’s not fair to them, and the government has done nothing for them. It puts their lives in danger and it puts me in danger too. We ain’t playing. This is dangerous work.”

O’Neal added that difficult economic circumstances are compounding the issues young people in Durham are facing.

“These are awful times,” she says. “These guys can’t get decent housing. They can’t get jobs. How much are they being paid?

Nothing. It’s been a mess. They have been neglected for so long. And [Scott] wants to intellectualize. Well, come do it yourself.

Come on over here, make a phone call, and tell them to stop the violence. Go ahead.

Make a phone call.”

Middleton, the city’s mayor pro tem, says it’s important to remember that O’Neal during her campaign said she would not have the same media footprint as the city’s past two mayors, Steve Schewel and William “Bill” Bell, who made regular media appearances.

“No one should be surprised,” he says.

“She made it clear during her campaign that she would do a different mode of mayoring.”

Middleton added that O’Neal didn’t say she would never talk to the media about the city’s gun violence.

“But right now, with the people she’s working with, she doesn’t want to spook them,” he explains. “The mayor is being who she said she would be.”

About a week after Scott posted his video, he says O’Neal’s assistant phoned him and said the mayor wanted to meet with him.

O’Neal and Scott met on March 8 at Franklin Village, an apartment complex on North Blacknall Street. O’Neal was accompanied by two gang members and Brenda Howerton, the chair of the Durham County Board of Commissioners.

Howerton could not be reached for comment, but O’Neal and Scott both agreed on one thing: the meeting did not go well.

“Let me put it this way,” Scott says. “Like Michelle Obama said, ‘When they go low.

We go high.’”

“He asked the gang members, ‘Where are the guns coming from?’” O’Neal says.

“That’s exactly what they don’t want, is a political stunt.”

Scott says he wasn’t trying to put the gang members on blast. He says the ubiquitous presence of guns in African American neighborhoods is part of “a larger genocide agenda” targeting the Black community.

“That’s where that question came from,” he explains. “The guns didn’t fall

out of thin air. They’re coming from somewhere, and until we get to the root of that cause, we can’t find the solution.”

O’Neal says Scott brought up the importance of exposing young gang members to books about the Black experience. “[The gang members] told him, ‘These kids aren’t ready for books. They are trying to survive.’”

Scott disagrees. He says it’s important not to “parrot the talking heads on Fox News.”

“I think these young people on the streets, at least the ones I deal with, want knowledge and information,” he says.

O’Neal, a pioneering judge and retired interim dean of the NC Central University School of Law, says Scott pulled out a copy of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

“I told him, ‘Yeah, I got The New Jim Crow,’” O’Neal says. “I lived that system.”

O’Neal says Scott got into an argument with the gang members, and then he told her she had brought the two gang members along for protection.

“I told him I brought them along to explain what was happening,” she says.

The mayor said Scott, toward the end of the meeting, wanted her to be more specific after he asked why she thinks Black people don’t trust the government.

That’s when the bottom fell out of the planned private meeting.

“I told him the answer I gave was all he was going to get,” she says. “He persisted in being argumentative and I lost my cool. I went on a rant about how I had walked these streets, and just two years ago eulogized one of my young cousins who had been killed on these streets and he wasn’t the first of my family members to die on these streets, and I said, ‘I don’t have time for this.’

“I told him, this is the answer: ‘I am the fucking government,’ and I walked out.”

Scott told the INDY that despite the way the meeting went, he and the mayor have the same “end goal.”

“I would like a city council that reflects the interests in the area, like the HBCUs,” he says, “and not one that reflects the Three 6 Mafia.”

“I don’t think it’s useful for an elected official to not be open to criticism from Durham’s citizens,” he later added. “We want elected officials who will answer the tough questions.”

Make no mistake: while Scott and O’Neal approach the topic of gun violence differently, both have the Bull City’s best interest at heart.W

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Rent Racket Rent increases are displacing residents of aging duplexes in Carrboro whose wages can’t keep up with real estate market prices; it’s the same story all over the Triangle. BY JASMINE GALLUP jgallup@indyweek.com

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n three months, Alanna Davis will pack up her home, load her life into a moving truck, and drive 150 miles southeast to Wilmington, where the housing costs are about three times cheaper than in the Triangle.

“It’s bittersweet,” Davis told the INDY. “My partner grew up in Chapel Hill—this has been home for him— but we just can’t afford to live here anymore. While moving to Wilmington is exciting, an adventure, it’s also pretty bitter to be priced out of a community we have deep roots in.”

Davis is one of the lucky ones. Her current job, as a community organizer for nonprofit Carolina Jews for Justice allows her to work remotely, so she’s able to live almost anywhere. She also has financial support from her family as she looks for a new home, a place she can buy and invest in long-term.

But many of her neighbors don’t have those advantages, Davis says. The people who live in Regent Place, a group of aging duplexes around a cul-de-sac on Old Fayetteville 6

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Road in Chapel Hill, are teachers, single moms, people with special needs, and working-class families.

“I’m thinking a lot about my neighbors who don’t have backup plans, [who don’t have] flexibility in their budgets,” Davis says.

Davis and her neighbors are being forced out of their homes because of an all-too-common phenomenon in today’s housing market: local property owners selling to big companies.

As the Triangle grows, property owners can make a quick buck from investors looking to capitalize on the demand for housing. It’s a tempting prospect, especially if they’re unable to maintain the property themselves.

A million-dollar check can be a lot more appealing than constant visits to fix the roof.

And that’s exactly what’s happening in this case.

Last fall, the owner of Regent Place, a local landlord with an LLC, sold the property to global conglomerate Greystar. That company, which owns more than

50 properties in North Carolina, is raising rents by nearly 20 percent.

“They initially wanted to take mine from $1,210 to $1,550,” says Heather Ray. “If we went month-to-month, our rent would be $1,900.”

After protest from residents, Greystar agreed to cap rent increases at $200. But that’s still out of Ray’s price range, she says. Ray and her partner struggle to make ends meet as it is.

Greystar, in a response to a request for comment from the INDY said in an email that the rent increases will pay for an “improvement program” to the property.

“We appreciate that the rapidly changing real estate market is a cause for concern to our Regent Place residents,” a spokesperson for Greystar wrote. “It is our desire to see the Regent Place community prosper as we improve our environment and facilities. ... Paying higher prices is never welcome but it is a reality of our current times. We are committed to working with our residents to cushion the impact of these increases and provide as much notice as possible.”

But residents say, in the pandemic economy, providing notice isn’t enough.

“I’m an elderly undergrad student,” Ray says. “I work parttime and I get a housing stipend. But because of the pandemic, that has been several months behind. [And] there’s only so many hours I can work while I’m going to school.”

Davis has also had a tough time affording her rent, she says. Like Ray, she was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

“I lost my job at the beginning of the pandemic, so I make about $20,000 less than I did when I moved into this place,” Davis says. “I’m hard-pressed to even afford the rent without that increase because of the impact the pandemic has had on me. I just can’t afford a $200 increase.”

Millennials today know that renting a home in the Triangle is a long, frustrating, and often expensive process. As of February, the average cost of a one-bedroom apartment was $1,342, putting it out of reach of anyone who makes less than $54,000 a year.

The best option for many is to split the cost of a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate, a partner, or both. Even then, market rent ($1,536 for a two-bedroom) can be unaffordable for people who make less than $30,000 a year.

Demand for housing means investors usually don’t have trouble finding people to rent expensive apartments. When the residents of Regent Place continued to protest rent hikes, they received a letter in return stating that “the [lease] renewal rates offered are below current market rent.”

That may be true, Davis says, but it doesn’t help her or her neighbors, who can’t afford market rent.

“Our wages aren’t impacted by the market value of real estate,” she says. “[Greystar] took a risk buying these places but didn’t at all consider the human element, the impact that was gonna be had on the humans that live [here].” W

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the COVID-19 pandemic—and invites a close at the future of festivals in the Triangle. Because, amid difficulties and current restraints, the local music and event scene continues to blossom, and local event planners continue to roll with the punches.

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Festival Fever The festival ecosystem has never been without its challenges.

Nevertheless, local event planners look eagerly toward the future.

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his weekend, the first annual Bull City Summit was scheduled to launch. Merging music, art, science, and technology, the festival promises festivalgoers a unique experience with “leading and breakthrough creatives, musicians, technologists, scientists, researchers, artisans, and entrepreneurs alike,” according to its website. If its structure feels aligned with that of Moogfest—the multiday conference and festival, formerly in Durham, that honored Moog synthesizer inventor Robert “Bob” Moog—it is because both festivals have UG Strategies founder Parag Bhandari in common. In 2018, Bhandari joined the Moogfest team for a short tenure, though the following year, the festival, steeped in logistical issues, canceled its 2020 dates.

On the surface, Bull City Summit has many of the shiny things a festival needs to survive: an array of sponsors and

partners, aesthetically pleasing marketing, local partnerships, a user-friendly website, and engaging keynotes and workshops. Still, on March 21, just a few days before the festival was set to launch, it was postponed.

Over email, Bhandari says that though Bull City Summit was ready to move forward from an infrastructure perspective, ticket sales suggested consumer hesitation about in-person events.

“That’s not unusual in these times, and also it’s a yearone event,” he wrote the INDY in an email. “So, we pivot.”

The festival is now scheduled to take place September 15–18; all music-related events, however, are still moving forward with evening live music showcases Thursday through Saturday, with tickets priced at $20 per show. The festival’s delay speaks to the difficulties of getting a festival off the ground—something that was difficult even before

n recent years, festivals have surpassed being trendy. The seeming profitability of festivals has come a long way from its DIY origins to attracting A-list celebrities and large corporate live music promoters. The public is often well aware of the number of attendees at some of the world’s largest festivals. In 2021, despite the risks of the pandemic, Rolling Loud Miami hosted 75,000 people; Travis Scott’s disastrous Astroworld saw 50,000; and, prior to the pandemic, Coachella saw on average 150,000–250,000 festivalgoers each year, grossing $67 million to $117 million in ticket sales.

Here in the Triangle, festival attendance has varied widely over the years. With a solid decade under its belt, Hopscotch, for instance, has had its attendance reported at around 25,000 a year. During Moogfest’s four-year run, it averaged about 10,000 music and tech lovers. And in 2019, at its inaugural event, J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival drew an impressive crowd of nearly 40,000. This year, the festival—which is produced by ScoreMore, the same promotion company behind Astroworld—is expected to surpass its first attendance record.

Of course, when considering the success and profitability of festivals as big business, attendance numbers aren’t all that matter, nor do they reveal all there is to know about profit margins. The majority of festival expenses come from talent—including artist fees, riders, and travel and lodging expenses—as well as security and insurance. It’s easy for festival expenses to surpass the revenue they accrue in ticket sales and sponsorships. In 2011, when Coachella announced it was expanding from one to two weekends, the festival founder and producer Paul Tollett explained that he was “approaching the supply-and-demand issue in his own unorthodox way.” For Coachella, in securing talent for two dates, the hope was that the first weekend could cover production and overhead costs; the next weekend would create an opportunity for actual revenue.

Beyond having a vision, making a festival happen takes follow-through. In 2017, the world gained a front-row seat to that fact when it witnessed, in real time, the massive flop of Fyre Festival, the luxury festival that wasn’t. The year after Fyre Festival tanked, Durham experienced its own version of that event with the NC Hip Hop Festival.

Though two other locally grown festivals—the DURM Hip Hop Summit and Beats n Bars Festival—had cultivated community roots with artists and hip-hop heads alike, the NC Hip Hop Festival website, which is still available online, heralded itself as “NC’s largest festival showcasing the best in Hip-hop and R&B from across the world.”

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“For a festival to survive, it has to offer a distinct experience ... it’s the experience and the way it’s laid out that will have people talking and planning to come back.” them Nas, Phonte, and Petey Pablo—some of whom were never officially booked or even aware of the event. And though a few artists did attend, the festival didn’t end up having a stage, and they performed instead on a platform a few inches off the ground.

Artists and fans took to social media to express concerns.

“My name, as well as several other dope acts, was on the flyer advertisement for this festival,” wrote Lena Jackson, a rapper based out of Raleigh. “I wasn’t there, and I know many of the other acts weren’t either, or were screwed over before/after they got there.”

One former festival partner, Heather Mandelkorn, president of the Holistic HipHop Collective, went so far as to create a Facebook complaint to gather consumer complaints. Mandelkorn, based outside of the state, had been brought on to help book talent. Over the phone, she described the event as a festival that was “out to profit off the culture and not ensure a well-produced event occurred that represented hiphop and NC in the best manner.”

In response to the backlash, festival organizers Alicia and Elijah Vick issued a formal apology and solicited feedback via a community survey. Although their website lists a festival date for 2021, it is not clear whether the Vicks produced another event.

When thinking about the future of festivals in the Triangle—especially in an uncertain post-vaccine landscape, and with a mind toward planting sustainable roots— there are plenty of ongoing questions about how to create and measure festival success.

“In order to sustain a large-scale festival in this area, all stakeholders such as city/ council entities and businesses should provide money, resources, and infrastructure, but also consumers should buy tickets early and encourage others to visit and enjoy the festival,” says Cicely Mitchell, cofounder of the Art of Cool Festival and past president of the Art of Cool Project. “Success is relative to the stakeholder. I’m sure the festival owners measure success by ticket sales and profit and loss. City and council entities likely see success by economic impact. It just depends on the stakeholder. The audience may measure success by the experience they had.”

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olina Waves CEO Miriam Tolbert adds that “continued interest is required. Great lineups and curation. Activities and attractions outside of just the festival itself. There need to be innovative and new concepts, proper planning, and promotion.”

Curators John Laww and Dasan Ahanu point out that a unique experience is key.

“For a festival to survive, it has to offer a distinct experience,” says Ahanu, cocreator of the Hip Hop South Festival, an initiative of Carolina Performing Arts’ Southern Futures that is scheduled to run April 22–23 in Chapel Hill. “It can’t just rely on the musical acts. Curation is important. The music may draw attention but that will ebb and flow. It’s the experience and the way it’s laid out that will have people talking and planning to come back.”

Laww is the founder of the DURM Hip Hop Summit and the former producer of Beats n Bars. In addition to prioritizing the festival vibe, he says, “having a consistent group of hard-working people organizing helps a ton! Folks go to festivals to have a shared memory, or to feel they’re a part of something bigger than them, or simply to sing their favorite song with a few of their friends. The atmosphere is what will create that memory. And if it’s dope, folks will come.”

Surveying the Triangle’s festival hits and misses, another key question comes to mind: Is it the best geographical fit for festival culture?

Bhandari, the founder of Bull City Summit, is confident that Durham is a good fit. “[It’s] the reason why we invested into saving Moogfest in 2018, [it] was also for the City of Durham and the potential here for events like that moving forward,” he wrote over email. During the early stages of the pandemic, Bhandari’s company produced events like the Live! in the Lot music series in the parking lot at Motorco Music Hall and last July’s pilot for Durham Summer Wine & Food Festival. Both were successful, despite the pandemic odds, and the number of attendees suggests that people in the Triangle are eager for more.

But the biggest case to be made for cultural festivals in the Triangle, of course, is that rich culture already is here. Perhaps with the right programming, production, and curation, a new season of successful festivals is just around the corner. W

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DIRECTORY After a long two years, our masks are coming off, North Carolina’s COVID metrics are improving, and many of us are finally reaching a place in our lives where it feels like things are getting back to normal—whatever that looks like. And with a return to a somewhat normal life comes a return to doing the things we used to love to do prepandemic—top among them being going out to festivals.

From Dreamville, which returns to Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park early next month, to political conventions ahead of this year’s primaries and midterms, to summer

music festivals and concerts, to food and wine festivals, art festivals , film festivals, Pride festivals, beer festivals, strawberry picking festivals, and much, much more—there’s not a lot that’s not back on the table this year.

Check out our exhaustive list of local festivals to see what most interests you—there’s bound to be something for you and your friends and family this spring, summer, or fall. Festival organizers will be taking care to ensure that you have as fun, safe, and, yes, normal festival experience as possible.

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Women Dismantling Racism

MARCH 25

PineCone presents Lúnasa AJ Fletcher Opera Theater, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh

Join Zoom Meeting, Meeting ID: 962 1311 2953

pinecone.org

oursacredcircles.org/osc-events--announcements. html

Queer Joy Lunch Brunch

EVERY WEDNESDAY, 7 - 9 PM

Music Bingo with DJ HALO Fullsteam Brewery, Durham (21+)

www.fullsteam.ag/event/music-bingo-with-djhalo/2022-03-09

WEDNESDAYS/FRIDAYS THROUGH JUNE 22

LIVE Music at Beach Shack Bottles and Taps Beach Shack Bottles and Taps, Raleigh beachshackbottlesandtaps.com

EVERY 3RD SATURDAY, MARCH – NOVEMBER

Deep River Folk School Living Well Community, Franklinville www.deepriverfolkschool.com

MARCH 26

Potluck picnic at the big tree on Duke Campus, across from Whole Foods (outside at the tables if it rains) https://oursacredcircles.org/joyoushout.html

MARCH 26

Orange County Democratic Party County Convention

Zoom register here: mobilize.us/ orangecountydemocraticparty/ event/441005/ www.orangedems.com

MARCH 27

Road to Wonderland Circus Show The Pour House

facebook.com/events/s/road-to-wonderlandvariety-sho/223067273230998/

MARCH 27

MARCH

Ackland F.A.M. Family Day: Make It with Metal

MARCH 20

events.ackland.org

NC Arbor Day Tree Giveaway Durham Central Park at the Food Truck Rodeo

weplantitforward.org/events/2022/3/20/nc-arbor-day-festival-tree-giveaway

MARCH 23 – 26

Bull City Summit

Downtown Durham (Various Location) www.bullcitysummit.com

Ackland Art Museum MARCH 27

Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Festival Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org

MARCH 30 – APRIL 17

Playmakers – A Wrinkle in Time Chapel Hill playmakers.org

MARCH 31 – APRIL 1

Cosmic Rays Film Festival

123 South Boundary Street, Chapel Hill 10

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APRIL APRIL 1 – 30

Wilde’s 5K Walk/ Run for Autism Camp Virtual

sites.google.com/view/wildeswalk

APRIL 2 – 3

Dreamville Festival 2022 Dorothea Dix Park www.dreamvillefest.com/

APRIL 2

Cary Tacos ‘N Taps

Koka Booth Amphitheater (21+) cary.tacosntaps.com/

APRIL 2

Vintage and Handmade Spring Block Market

Parking lots at Trunkshow and Aardvark Screenprinting, Wake Forest Rd IG + FB @trunkshowraleigh

APRIL 3

4th Annual Festival of Nations Durham Central Park www.sistercities-durham.com

APRIL 3

A New Season of Song Carolina Contemporary Composers

All Saints’ UMC, Morrisville qrcc.me/r7itjkWx

APRIL 3

Five Points Spring Tree Giveaway

Fallon Park, Raleigh

APRIL 7

The Collection, LIVE @ Lake Raleigh

Lake Raleigh (corner of Main Campus Dr & Campus Shores Dr) liveatlakeraleigh.com

APRIL 7 – 10

Full-Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham

fullframefest.org

APRIL 8

PineCone presents: Doc and Cover

AJ Fletcher Opera Theater, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh pinecone.org

APRIL 8 – 24

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, a theatrical production

Umstead Park United Church of Christ (15+) thejusticetheaterproject.org/enemy-of-the-people

APRIL 9

NC Master Chorale presents: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes – An Afternoon of Music by Black Composers Christ Baptist Church ncmasterchorale.org/season

APRIL 10

A Tribute to Pauli Murray and 4 World Premieres

by NC Composers

Hayti Heritage Center, Durham

weplantitforward.org/events/2021/3/20/fivepoints-spring-tree-giveaway

durhamsymphony.org

APRIL 6

Reality’s Talent Show

Peter Lamb & the Wolves Koka Booth Amphitheatre

APRIL 10

The Durham Athletic Park realityministriesinc.org/talent-show/

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APRIL 13

How to Build Your Own Tiny House: On a trailer or on a Permanent Foundations

The Mint Julep Jazz Band Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

APRIL 15

Tribute to Legends with Marcus Anderson’s LET’S GO CRAZY SHOW: The Music of Prince Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

APRIL 15

Spring Bling

Sherlocks of Downtown Durham IG @sherlocksglass

APRIL 16

Success at Foraging for Wild Edibles in the Spring Living Well Community, Rising Sun Way, Franklinville

Living Well Community, Rising Sun Way, Franklinville deepriverfolkschool.com/

APRIL 16

Learning Focus with Archery

APRIL 18 – 23

LibraryFest

Durham County Library durhamcountylibrary.org/libraryfest

APRIL 19

The Black Elite and The Gilded Age: Race, Wealth, and Class Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Durham

Living Well Community, Rising Sun Way, Franklinville

bit.ly/TBEaTGA

deepriverfolkschool.com/

The Barefoot Movement, LIVE @ Lake Raleigh

APRIL 16

Tribute to Legends with BEE GEES NOW! The Music of the Bee Gees

APRIL 21

Lake Raleigh (corner of Main Campus Dr & Campus Shores Dr) liveatlakeraleigh.com

Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

deepriverfolkschool.com/

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APRIL 22

Curator-Led Tour for “Modern Black Culture: The Art of Aaron Douglas” Ackland Art Museum events.ackland.org

APRIL 22 – 24

GreenWood Wrights’Fest Shakori Hills

greenwoodwrightsfest.com

APRIL 22 – JUNE 19

myth & memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022 Ackland Art Museum events.ackland.org

APRIL 22 – JUNE 19

MODERN BLACK CULTURE: THE ART OF AARON DOUGLAS Ackland Art Museum

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APRIL 24

Charlotte Earth Day 2022

Arbor Day Festival

charlotteearthday.com

WePlantitForward.org/arbor-day-festival

APRIL 23

APRIL 27

1st Ward Park, Charlotte

Dorothea Dix Park, Adams Field

Whiskey Wine & Fire – Cary

Stanley Baird Group

cary.whiskeywinefire.com

boothamphitheatre.com

APRIL 23

APRIL 28

Koka Booth Amphitheater (21+)

Song Building Workshop with Joe Troop The Fruit, Durham pinecone.org

APRIL 23

Koka Booth Amphitheatre

Raleigh Fashion Fest

Smoky Hollow, Raleigh (intended for adults) raleighfashionfest22.eventbrite.com

APRIL 29

runsignup.com/Race/NC/Durham/ BullCityBeerMile

NC Master Chorale presents: Mozart and Handel: Vespers and Dixit Dominus

APRIL 23

ncmasterchorale.org/season

Bull City Beer Mile

Durham Central Park

Bearthday at Raleigh City Farm Raleigh City Farm

raleighcityfarm.org/events/bearthday2022

APRIL 23

Children’s Day Festival of Cary Fred G. Bond Metro Park, Cary kids.ata-nc.org/

APRIL 23 – 24

The 9th Annual Festival of Legends

Christ Baptist Church APRIL 30

Write Now! 2022

The McKimmon Conference & Training Center, NCSU tafnc.com/WriteNow

APRIL 30

Beyond the Book Children’s Book & Art Festival

Moore Square Park, Downtown Raleigh (recommended 10 and under)

Optimist Farm, Apex

BeyondtheBookFestival.com

festivaloflegends.com

APRIL 30

APRIL 23 – 24

2-Day - Hands On Nail Tech Class

Durham (recommended 16+) thenailsecret.com

APRIL 24

Ackland F.A.M. Family Day: Fishes and Dishes, Plants and Plates Ackland Art Museum events.ackland.edu

20th Annual ClydeFEST Bynum, NC

chathamartscouncil.org/clydefest/

MAY MAY 1

Artist-Led Tour for “myth & memory: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2022” Ackland Art Museum events.ackland.org SP E C IAL ADVERTI SI N G SE C TI O N : F E STIVAL & EVENT DIR ECTORY

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MAY 15

Jim Ketch Quintet

The Block Party

boothamphitheatre.com

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MAY 4

MAY 19

Koka Booth Amphitheatre

Koka Booth Amphitheatre

PineCone presents: Shirley Caesar & The Caesar Singers

Shirlette Ammons, LIVE @ Lake Raleigh

pinecone.org

liveatlakeraleigh.com

MAY 5

MAY 20 – 21

Lake Raleigh (corner of Main Campus Dr & Campus Shores Dr)

Gallant’s Channel, Beaufort

Meymandi Concert Hall, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh

Lake Raleigh (corner of Main Campus Dr & Campus Shores Dr)

Tumbao, LIVE @ Lake Raleigh 2022 Beaufort Music Festival liveatlakeraleigh.com

beaufortmusicfestival.com

MAY 21

Beer Bourbon BBQ – Charlotte 17th Annual Strawberry Festival &Ballantyne’s Backyard, MAY 7

Old North Durham Park cpscnc.org/strawberry-festival

MAY 7

Rock the Booth featuring NELLY with Cooper Alan Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

MAY 7

Born at Duke Homestead Duke Homestead State Historic Site dukehomestead.org

MAY 13 – 14

Longleaf Film Festival

North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh (recommended 13+) longleaffilmfestival.com

MAY 15

PineCone Presents: Tray Wellington Band with Sonny Miles (solo) Opening Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh pinecone.org 14

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Charlotte (21+)

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MAY 21

Girls’ Night Out: Kay Yow Cancer Fund Benefit Concert, ft. KT Tunstall and special guests Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

MAY 21

Hops & Blues Festival

The Glass Jug Beer Lab – RTP eventbrite.com/e/hops-blues-festivaltickets-277635865347

MAY 21

African American Trailblazers Mural Walk

Ackland Art Museum and Downtown Chapel Hill events.ackland.org

MAY 22

Kidznotes Sunday Funday Festival

Golden Belt - Mill Stage Ampitheater Kidznotes.org

MAY 26

Little River Band

Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

JUNE Chapel Hill-Carrboro Small Town Pride Various places

Chapelhillarts.org/smalltownpride

JUNE 3 – 4

God’s Trombones

Hayti Heritage Center

JUNE 4

Summertime Beer Fest

Clouds Brewing Taproom (21+) (1233 Front Street – NOT downtown Raleigh location) summertimebeerfest.eventbrite.com

JUNE 10 – 26

MAN OF LA MANCHA The Justice Theater Project, Raleigh

thejusticetheaterproject.org/man-of-la-mancha

JUNE 13 – JULY 29

Summer Horse Camp

Blue Skies of Mapleview LLC, Hillsborough (8-18 yrs) blueskiesmapleview.us

JUNE 16 – 19

Burning Board Go/ Baduk/Wei-chi Festival

Camp Lapihio, Umstead State Park

JUNE 17

JUNE 19

Juneteenth Jubilee “Afrofuturism”

Ackland F.A.M. Family Day: Juneteenth Celebration

atcfestivals.com

events.ackland.org

JUNE 18

JUNE 23 – 25

The Fruit, Durham

Ackland Art Museum

Oddville Art Festival

Billy Strings

durhamfruit.com

boothamphitheatre.com

JUNE 18

JUNE 24 – 25

The Fruit, Durham (+18)

Koka Booth Amphitheatre

Preservation Chapel Hill 50th That Music Fest Anniversary Celebration (with Durham Bulls Athletic Park music by Liquid Pleasure) JUNE 25 Horace Williams House and Grounds Out! Raleigh Pride presented

by Workplace Options thatmusicfest.com

facebook.com/PreservationChapelHill

Fayetteville Street, Downtown Raleigh OutRaleighPride.org

trianglegoclub.org/burning/burningboard.htm

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JUNE 25

Return to Wakanda Fashion Show

Raleigh Convention Center returntowakanda.eventbrite.com

The Black Elite and The Gilded Age: Race, Wealth, and Class A CONVERSATION WITH SCHOLARS

Drs. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Carla Peterson, and William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. MODERATED BY

Dr. Adriane Lentz-Smith

Tickets at www.eventbrite.com | bit.ly/TBEaTGA

April 19, 2022 6:00–8:30pm Washington Duke Inn

AUGUST THURSDAY NIGHTS IN AUGUST

Movies Under The Stars Forest Theatre

JULY

chapelhillarts.org

THURSDAY NIGHTS IN JULY

Koka Booth Amphitheater (21+)

Movies Under The Stars Forest Theatre chapelhillarts.org

JULY 4

July 4th Fireworks

Southern Community Park chapelhillarts.org/fireworks

JULY 16

Crushable Fest: Cider, Seltzer, & Sour Beer

AUGUST 5 – 6

Beer Bourbon & BBQ – Cary cary.beerandbourbon.com

AUGUST 19

Smokey Robinson

Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

AUGUST 20

Tacos ‘N Taps – Charlotte Ballantyne’s Backyard, Charlotte (21+) charlotte.tacosntaps.com

AUGUST 27

glass-jug.com/events

Night Nation Run

JULY 17

boothamphitheatre.com

The Glass Jug Beer Lab – RTP

PICK-a-Ton

Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm @Cedargroveblueberry

JULY 23

Pork, Pickles, and Peanuts Duke Homestead State Historic Site dukehomestead.org

JULY 25

Andrew Bird and Iron Wine Outside Problems Tour Koka Booth Amphitheatre boothamphitheatre.com

Koka Booth Amphitheatre AUGUST 27

Family Farm Animal & Harvest Day

Duke Homestead State Historic Site dukehomestead.org

AUGUST 27

Packapalooza

Hillsborough Street, from Dan Allen Drive to Pullen Road packapalooza.ncsu.edu

SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER, DATES SOON TBA

Tracks Music Series Chapel Hill

chapelhillarts.org/tracksconcerts

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SEPTEMBER 3 – 4

John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival Oak Hollow Festival Park, High Point Coltranejazzfest.com

SEPTEMBER 14 – 17

On The Same Page, Ashe County’s Literary Festival

In and around West Jefferson onthesamepagefestival.org

SEPTEMBER 15 – 18

Durham Summer Wine & Food Festival

Downtown Durham (various locations) www.durhamsummer.com

SEPTEMBER 17

Glass Jug Oktoberfest & 8th Anniversary

The Glass Jug Beer Lab – RTP glass-jug.com/events

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SEPTEMBER 17

Happy 200th Burwell

SEPTEMBER 24

Bullhorn Fest

Shadowbox Studio, Durham bullhornarts.org

SEPTEMBER 24

Triangle Fermentation Fest Botanist & Barrel @Botanistanfbarrel

SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 1

IBMA Bluegrass Live! powered by PNC

Red Hat Amphitheater and Downtown Raleigh worldofbluegrass.org

OCTOBER SATURDAYS IN OCTOBER

Festifall Arts Market & More Downtown Chapel Hill

Film Fest 919

durhamarts.org/centerfest/

SEPTEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 31

Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum Ackland Art Museum ackland.org

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dukehomestead.org

burwell-school-historic-site.square.site/events

Downtown Durham

March 23, 2022

Historic Durham Athletic Park

chapelhillarst.org/festifall

47th Annual CenterFest Arts Festival

18

Vintage Base Ball Game

N Churton St, Hillsborough SEPTEMBER 17 – 18

the Triangle’s Arts & Culture Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 24

S PE C IAL ADVERTI SI N G SE C TI O N : F E STIVAL & E VEN T D I R E C TO RY

Chapel Hill filmfest919.com

SPARKconQuest Treasure Hunt 2022

Downtown Raleigh (18+) sparkconquest.com

OCTOBER 1

Charlotte Wine & Food Festival Ballantyne’s Backyard, Charlotte (21+) charlotte.uncorkthefun.com

OCTOBER 7 – 9, 14 – 16, 21 – 23

All the Way

The Justice Theater Project, Raleigh thejusticetheaterproject.org

OCTOBER 8

NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 5

Whiskey Wine & Fire – Charlotte Ballantyne’s Backyard, Charlotte (21+)

PlantFest (Orange County Master Gardeners) Plant Sale/ NOVEMBER 13 Garden Exhibits/Activities Thanks + Giving Hillsborough Food Truck Rodeo

charlotte.whiskeywinefire.com

orange.ces.ncsu.edu

OCTOBER 8

AppleFest

Botanist & Barrel @botanistandbarrel

OCTOBER 15

Charlotte Das Best Oktoberfest

Ballantyne’s Backyard, Charlotte (21+) charlotte.dasbestoktoberfest.com

OCTOBER 28

Downtown Durham Oktoberfest

Durham Central Park glass-jug.com/events

OCTOBER 28

Duke Homestead’s Halloween Phantasmagoria Duke Homestead State Historic Site dukehomestead.org

OCTOBER 28 – 30

Oktoberfest

Clouds Brewing Taproom (1233 Front St, NOT Downtown Raleigh location) cloudstoberfest.eventbrite.com

Legion Road Open Space, Chapel Hill chapelhillarts.org/foodtruckrodeo

NOVEMBER 19 – 20

Durham Art Walk Holiday Market

Various sites in Downtown Durham durhamarts.org/art-walk/

NOVEMBER 26

Holiday with the Horses

Blue Skies of Mapleview LLC, Hillsborough (weight restriction 200 lbs) blueskiesmapleview.us

DECEMBER DECEMBER 2 & 9

Christmas by Candlelight Duke Homestead State Historic Site dukehomestead.org

DECEMBER 3 & 4 OR 10 & 11

BLACK NATIVITY

The Justice Theater Project, Raleigh thejusticetheaterproject.org

DECEMBER 10

2nd Annual NC Holiday Beer Fest

Clouds Brewing Taproom (21+) (1233 Front St, NOT Downtown Raleigh location) ncholidaybeerfest.eventbrite.com SP E C IAL ADVERTI SI N G SE C TI O N : F E STIVAL & EVENT DIR ECTORY

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TH 3/24 @DPAC @DPAC

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV W/ JOE PURDY

SA 3/26 @CAT’S @CAT’S CRADLE

PENNY & SPARROW

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS W/ JAKE XERXES FUSSEL

W/ LERA LYNN

CAT'S CRADLE

THE DEAD TONGUES

FR 5/6

TANK AND THE BANGAS / CORY HENRY

SOLD OUT

SU 5/8 BUILT TO SPILL W/PRISM BITCH, ITCHY KITTY ($25/ $29)

WE 3/30 CAVETOWN W/ TESSA VIOLET

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

PENNY & SPARROW

TH 3/31

THE DIP

W/ OH HE DEAD

FR 4/1 THAO W/BECCA MANCARI, WHY BONNIE ($22/$25) TU 4/5 MOONCHILD W/ AUSTIN ANTOINE TH 4/7

MØ

($25/$28)

FR 4/8 BOY HARSHER W/ CLUB MUSIC AND PERMANENT SU 4/10

W/ WOMBO

WE 4/13 FR 4/15 SA 4/16

FUZZ ($20)

SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, ZEN FRISBEE, DEX ROMWEBER LIGHTS

PEDRO THE LION ($20/$23)

HIP HOP SOUTH FESTIVAL: RAPSODY, SHIRLETTE AMMONS, CAROLINA WAVES FR 4/22

SHAKEY GRAVES W/ SUN JUNE

SNOW THA PRODUCT

SU 4/24 MO 4/25

[CANCELLED: BARNS COURTNEY]

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR ($35) WE 4/27 WKNC PRESENTS

GANG OF YOUTHS SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS

TH 4/28

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DRY CLEANING

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SOLDSA 5/21 OUT

BEACH BUNNY W/ KY VOSS

HANK PATTIE & THE CURRENT W/ JON WARD BEYLE

FR 6/3

SYMPHONY X, HAKEN, TROPE

FR 6/10 MO 6/13

ALDOUS HARDING

4/6 BLACK MIDI W/ NNAMDI

MO 4/18 ANDMOREAGAIN PRESENTS

4/7 TODD SNIDER ($25/ $28)

GUIDED BY VOICES ($30/$33)

NILFER YANYA

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS W/ LYDIA LOVELESS

MO 5/2 TU 5/3

W/ TASHA

DESTROYER

W/ ROSALI

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF FT. GAVIN HARRISON

THE PACK AD WE 4/20 ADULT., KONTRAVOID, SPIKE HELLIS TH 4/21 HOVVDY FR 4/22

SA 4/23 ERICDOA W/ JUNO, GLASER TH 4/28 ANGEL DU$T W/ SPIRITUAL CRAMP, WEBBED WING SA 4/30

KELSY KARTER W/ NIKI DEMAR

SU 7/10 VANSIRE W/ YOT CLUB

TH 6/23

BIKINI KILL

SPIRITUALIZED LIVE

FR 9/9

TU 9/13

OSEES

TU 9/27

SALES W/ BRONZE ($25/$28)

ELECTRIC SIX/ SUPERSUCKERS

TH 9/29

FR 10/14 STEREOLAB W/DERADOORIAN

AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

WE 10/26

CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM FAMILY VISION, BLOOD, THE VELDT FR 3/25 MATT HECKLER

TH 3/24

W/JEFF LOOPS (OF LOST DOG)

SA 3/26

ZACHARY WILLIAMS

WE 3/30

LEIF VOLLEBEKK W/ DOSH

SOLD FR 4/1 OUT

JOHN CRAIGIE SA 4/2 GRIFFIN HOUSE SU 4/3 MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES TU 4/5 JACK SYMES W/ RENNY CONTI

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INSIGNIFICANT OTHER, CALIFORNIA COUSINS HAW RIVER BALLROOM (SAX)

LD

WE 5/4

W/ CRUNK WITCH

WE 7/13 STEVE VON W/ HELEN MOODY

TIL

FR 8/12 THE BLAZERS ’22 SUMMER REUNION

BRONCHO TROPICAL FUCK STORM

FR 9/16 WE 11/2

4/15 SHOVELS & ROPE

SO SHARON VAN ETTEN ($31/$34) 4/22 OUT

4/29 FLOCK OF DIMES W/ KARIMA WALKER 5/21 ANDY HULL

THE ARTSCENTER (CARRBORO) 4/14 JAMES MCMURTRY

W/ALEXA ROSE

TU 3/29 NAKED GIANTS W/ WOMBO

SOLD OUT

($25/$30)

BRE KENNEDY

5/18 VUNDABAR

RIVER WHYLESS

OF THE LONE BELLOW

FAILURE

TU 6/21

MOTORCO (DURHAM) 5/10 JOY OLADOKUN /

W/ MOLLY PARDEN ($15/$18)

DAN ANDRIANO & THE BYGONES TH 5/5 BORN RUFFIANS WE 5/11 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, GLOVE, SPIRIT SYSTEM, WAILIN STORMS WE 5/18 REMO DRIVE FR 5/20 DRY CLEANING WE 5/25 EMILY WELLS ($15/ $18) TH 5/26 SHANNON O’CONNOR CD RELEASE / JON SHAIN & F.J. VENTRE FR 5/27 PARTHENON HUXLEY & HIS RIDICULOUS BAND SA 5/28 MICHIGAN RATTLERS TU 6/7 BAY LEDGES FR 6/10 DIANE COFFEE MO 6/13 MO STRAND OF OAKS W/THE STILL TIDE MO 6/27 COLA TU 6/28 DANIEL NUNNELEE MO 7/4 MC CHRIS

SA 4/23 HOMEHSAKE W/ BABEHEAVEN ($17)

TU 4/26

MØ

MO 5/16 LAUREN SANDERSON W/ JORDY AND MIKI RATSULA

W/ TILLIE

WE 4/20 SIERRA FERRELL W/ TIMBO ($18/$20) TH 4/21

THE AFGHAN WHIGS

SA 5/15

($16/$18)

SAMANTHA FISH

SU 4/17

TU 5/10

YOKE LORE

PORCHES

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he Jewish Authors Book Festival, a unique partnership between Durham’s Beth El Synagogue, the national Jewish Book Council, and local nonprofit Jewish for Good, kicked off Sunday with talks from best-selling authors Cynthia Levinson, Riva Lehrer, and Brad Aronson.

The weeklong virtual event features more than a dozen Jewish authors speaking to readers and answering questions about works ranging from children’s picture books to novels, memoirs, works of nonfiction, and even a cookbook with chef-author Paula Shoyer’s focus on instant pot kosher cooking.

Free passes to the virtual festival are available online through Chapel Hill retailer Flyleaf Books (all featured books are available to order through Flyleaf, as well).

Tune in on Wednesday at seven p.m. as author Joshua Henkin discusses his novel Morningside Heights, a sweeping look at modern love, marriage, and family, winner of the Book of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, named Editor’s Choice by The

New York Times, and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates award.

On Thursday, author Helene Wecker discusses The Hidden Palace—her much-anticipated follow-up to her debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni—which continues the chronicles of Chava, the Jewish golem, and Ahmad, the Arabian jinni, in “a blend of romance, Mary Shelley–esque horror, and folklore,” according to Kirkus Reviews.

And on Sunday at seven p.m., don’t miss author Joshua M. Greene’s talk on his biography Unstoppable, capturing the life of Siggi B. Wilzig, an Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to the United States who became a legend on Wall Street.

In a time and a state where anti-Semitism has become more visible—and seemingly more accepted, as espoused by the likes of North Carolina’s lieutenant governor Mark Robinson—it’s more important than ever to hear the voices of Jewish people whose contributions to our culture remind us of what unites rather than divides us all. W INDYweek.com

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Open Ended Experimental North Carolina music label Three Lobed Recording celebrates twenty-one years with a festival at Duke University this April.

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he most common version of the Three Lobed Recordings logo consists of three interconnected circles, one significantly larger than the others. The edges are ragged and splattered haphazardly with paint.

For the musicians connected to the Jamestown, North Carolina–based experimental music label and its founder and sole employee, Cory Rayborn, the logo is more than an evocative illustration. “It’s one of my favorite logos,” says Sunburned Hand of the Man’s John Moloney. It reminds singer and guitarist Meg Baird of the surrealists, or Kandinsky. Guitarist William Tyler calls it a “visual shibboleth” akin to the Black Flag bars or the Grateful Dead’s Steal Your Face logo. Harpist Mary Lattimore notes, “If I see someone wearing a T-shirt or a hat [with the logo], I’m like, ‘Oh yeah. They get it.’” And for guitarist and singer Steve Gunn, it’s the symbol of “a community and an aesthetic, a celebration of musicianship and music.”

Those themes—community, friendship, music—kept recurring in my conversations with these five musicians, all of whom are playing at the label’s twice-delayed 21st-anniversary festival at Duke University on April 14–16. Spread out over three days and three venues, the Three Lobed Recordings 21st Anniversary Festival sprawls out like a side-long track on one of the label’s LPs. Each night promises a different combination of heady experimentation, be it the folk-inflected adventures of Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore, the abstract noise sculptures of Body/Dilloway/Head, or the sun-dappled guitar sojourns of Marisa Anderson and William Tyler. Two years of pandemic-related postponements have somehow made the festival—and the levitating effects of all the music in it—that much more joyful, regardless of whether you wear your Three Lobed shirt at all times.

Some of the performing musicians, like Gunn and Moloney, have put out piles of releases on the label; others, like Baird, Lattimore, and Tyler, only a few. Regardless, they all have a similar reverence for Rayborn, Three Lobed, and their fellow musicians on the label.

“Three Lobed is that cultivation of creativity in a positive way,” says Gunn, “where Cory is encouraging people to make music. He’s encouraging people to make releas-

es and to put them out there. There’s a certain sense of fearlessness to that.”

Everyone seems to have a story about how Rayborn has encouraged them to make the music they wanted to make. In the mid-2000s, for instance, after years of playing in bands, Gunn had started recording solo songs in his Brooklyn apartment and self-releasing the occasional small-run album. Rayborn pushed him to make them into a proper album, which became 2009’s Boerum Palace, an album that helped launch his career as a solo artist.

“Cory was such a supporter of what I was doing, even if I kind of didn’t even realize what I was doing,” he recalls, laughing.

For Baird and Lattimore, a nudge from Rayborn was critical for the creation of their 2018 album Ghost Forests. “We had always just sort of loosely talked about how fun it would be to make a duo record together,” Lattimore remembers. “Even though we lived in Philly, we didn’t get to it when we both lived there. Then we both moved to California, and we still talked about it. Cory was really encouraging, and then finally he was like, ‘We need to make this happen.’ It was a really great experience.” She talks about the origins of her duo album with Mac McCaughan the same way.

A word that keeps coming up about Rayborn is “trust.”

“People inherently trust Cory, once they get to know him,” says Tyler, “because they know he’s honest, which is a rarity in the music business. And he’s very impeccable with this word, which is also pretty rare.” Gunn concurs, noting that that trust goes both ways, “You can trust him. Trust is a very important part of being a musician and being an artist. He’s very open to people’s visions and what they want to do.”

All of this results in an experience of releasing music that is different from other labels. Three Lobed only puts out a handful of records each year, all on heavy vinyl with high production values. Even though Rayborn, who attended Duke as an undergraduate, has a day job as a business lawyer, he still finds time and energy to lavish attention on the label. (He recently joked on Instagram about playing hooky from work to mail out a massive pile of Sonic Youth LPs.) The artists, all of whom have released music on other labels, notice this care.

“He’s the best label we’ve ever worked with. I know people on bigger labels, way bigger bands don’t get the same treatment,” Moloney says before going on to talk about how Rayborn helped him put over 150 Sunburned Hand of the Man albums on Bandcamp, only a few of which were on Three Lobed.

Tyler concurs: “The fact that he is this one-man operation doing things he does is pretty remarkable. That’s definitely something we talk about as artists who are friends with him.”

“I love that Cory just keeps it very independent and very small and close-knit,” says Lattimore.

“All the people he works with are his friends. Seeing things like takeovers and acquisitions and all that stuff, I feel like everybody wants to be so big. I think that Cory maintaining this very steady, cozy, professional, beautiful label is something that really stands out especially right now.”

“Everybody on the label knows each other personally, hangs around together, and plays shows together. It just seems like a mature, respectful, family vibe that’s happy to be around each other,” Moloney says, adding, “A nondysfunctional family.”

Three Lobed events, too—such as the consistently unpredictable Hopscotch day parties—function as a kind of family reunion for the label’s sprawling musicians.

Having heard so much about all the ideas people read into the Three Lobed logo, I asked Rayborn about its origins. His answer was telling and in character. He mentioned Alysha Naples, the designer who originally created it, and Robert McKnight, a former intern (one of only two ever for the label) who gave it its current, iconic “splatter” form.

And then he added, “It didn’t take long for me to tell the artists I was working with to feel free to take the concept of the logo and translate it in their own sensibility if they felt so moved. This has resulted over time in lots of variations and reimaginings, which I love.” Openness. Trust. The promotion of artistic self-expression.

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Down to Earth On Breakthroughs in End Theory, Will Brooks finds liminal spaces between sound, image, and improvisation.

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he year is 2079 and globalized society as we know it has collapsed. A kind of suicide pill has been invented that allows users to abandon their corporeal selves and upload their consciousness to the metaverse. Those who stay behind, known as “Earthers,” resort to homesteading in remote parts of the globe.

This is the narrative concept behind Breakthroughs in End Theory, Carrboro electronic artist Will Brooks’s first full-length album as 6wx_o, an enthralling cycle of ambient synth pieces which will be released on March 25, following last year’s self-titled EP. The songs on this album are culled from three different sources: live scores of sci-fi films, improvisations from a techno set, and compositions for a performance at the Raleigh venue Ruby Deluxe (from which the last track, “Breathing Song,” is taken).

Probing, more rhythmic, and darker in tone than last year’s EP, each of the songs documents an aural response to a multisensory experience, exposing the interpretative gaps, contingencies, and near equivalencies that exist between sense and reason. “Idle Hands,” “Pillz,” and the three-part “Song for the Metaverse” all bear the thematic presence of isolated digital spheres. Taken from a livestream Brooks did for Palacio Palace, a virtual music venue based in LA, these quick-fire note clusters were re-recorded at a much slower tempo and drawn together with a soft edge of padding and white noise.

The remaining tracks were composed while watching muted sci-fi, including the Ridley Scott films Alien, Legend, and Blade Runner, and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (which also features a suicide drug). From this heightened perception of the image, Brooks crafts an alternative accompaniment: sketches of the unseen threads that link perception, backstory, and setting.

By nature of its form, the instrumental concept album presents a unique puzzle for listeners. Much of Brooks’s world building is not explicitly present in his compositions.

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Artful Story Time Wed, Mar. 23, 10:30 a.m. NCMA, Raleigh.

Chris Smith’s honors thesis exhibit, A Queer Spatial Imagery, runs at the Hanes Art Center Mar. 28-Apr 1.

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Christopher Ruocchio: Kingdoms of Death Thurs, Mar. 24, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

stage Small Mouth Sounds $15+. Mar. 18–Apr. 2, various times. Honest Pint Theatre Company, Hillsborough.

Nate Bargatze: The Raincheck Tour $29+. Fri, Mar. 25, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. DPAC, Durham.

The Pirates of Penzance $15+.

Mar. 24-27, various times. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Rodney Carrington: Let Me In! $47+.

Sat, Mar. 26, 7 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

Daniel Habif: Ruge Tour $39+. Thurs, Mar. 24, 8 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

The Dresser $24+.

Mar. 25–Apr. 10, various times.

Theatre in the Park, Raleigh.

Into the Woods Mar. 25-26, 7:30 p.m. ETC Auditorium, Durham.

Neptunes Comedy Presents: Jaffer Khan $10. Sun, Mar. 27, 6 p.m.

Hartwell, Raleigh.

Road to Wonderland Variety Show $15.

Sun, Mar. 27, 7 p.m.

The Pour House Music Hall, Raleigh.

Whose Live Anyway? $37+.

Mon, Mar. 28, 8 p.m. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

Oklahoma! $30+.

Mar. 29–Apr. 2, various times. DPAC, Durham.

The Comedy Experience Presents: Matt Ruby $10+. Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m. The Matthews House, Cary.

Martha Graham Dance Company: HUMAN/NATURE $29+. Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m. Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill.

Welcome to Night Vale Live: The Haunting of Night Vale $25+. Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Hayti Lit Book Club Reads: The Color Purple Thurs, Mar. 24, 7 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham.

Zhang Er: First Mountain, with translator Joseph Donahue Thurs, Mar. 24, 5:30 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Neal Thompson: The First Kennedys Fri, Mar. 25, 4 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Michael J. Gerhardt: Lincoln’s Mentors Tues, Mar. 29, 5:30 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

art Close Looks Conversational Tour: Mughal Perforated Screen Wed, Mar. 23, 1:30 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Collectors’ Seminar: Building an Art Collection Thurs, Mar. 24, 5:30 p.m.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Guided Tour: Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa Thurs, Mar. 24, 1:30 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Paul Mpagi Sepuya Thurs, Mar. 24, 7 p.m. Online; presented by the UNC Department of Art and Art History.

Live from the Galleries: Frank Lee Craig–Near Distance Thurs, Mar. 24, 6 p.m. Online; presented by the Gregg School of Art & Design.

Pancakes and Booze Art Show $10+. Thurs, Mar. 24, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

An Evening with Raquel Allegra Fri, Mar. 25, 5:30 p.m. Vert & Vogue, Durham.

Anne Gregory: Featured Artist Exhibit and Third Friday Reception Fri, Mar. 25, 4 p.m.

5 Points Gallery, Durham.

Artist Talk with sTo Len Fri, Mar. 25, 7 p.m. Attic 506, Chapel Hill.

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection and Peace, Power & Prestige Fri, Mar. 25, 1:30 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Meet the Artist— Radical Repair Workshop: Ceramic Repair Sat, Mar. 26, 12 p.m. The Nasher, Durham.

Honors Thesis Exhibition: Chris Smith, A Queer Spatial Imaginary Mar. 28–Apr. 1, various times. Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill.

Honors Thesis Exhibition: Luek Collins, Pretexts for my Iridescence Mar. 28–Apr. 1, various times. Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill.

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Raising Arizona and Quick Change $10. Fri, Mar. 25, 7 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Anything Goes: The Musical $13.

Sun, Mar. 27, 7:45 p.m. The Drive-In at Carraway Village, Chapel Hill.

Remember Jones $12. Sun, Mar. 27, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

Rahsaan Barber Quintet: Mosaic CD Release Party $25.

Sat, Mar. 26, 8 p.m.

Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham.

Ryan Hanseler/ Gracie Jay Duo $15+.

Sun, Mar. 27, 4 p.m.

Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham.

Taylor Alxndr / Jae Quisol / KHX05 $10. Sat, Mar. 26, 10 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

The River Speaks of Thirst: Film Screening and Discussion Thurs, Mar. 24, 7 p.m.

NCMA, Raleigh.

Lights, Camera, Language Film Series: Arrival Fri, Mar. 25, 7 p.m.

D.H. Hill Jr. Library, Raleigh.

Queer Agenda $5.

Sat, Mar. 26, 11:55 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Third Eye (Tool Tribute) / Shortest Straw (Metallica Tribute) $12+. Sat, Mar. 26, 8:30 p.m.

Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

Matt Heckler performs at Cat’s Cradle on Friday, Mar. 25. PHOTO COURTESY OF CAT’S CRADLE

311 $42. Wed, Mar. 23, 8 p.m. The Ritz, Raleigh.

Bull City Summit $20. Wed, Mar. 23, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

The Dangerous Summer / Cory Wells / The BRKN / The Bronze Age $16. Wed, Mar. 23, 8 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill.

Queer Country Night Wed, Mar. 23, 8 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Tank and the Bangas $25. Wed, Mar. 23, 7:30. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro.

Carolina Waves Showcase Featuring Imani Pressley and 3am Sound $20.

Thurs, Mar. 24, 7 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Epik High $17+.

Thurs, Mar. 24, 8 p.m. The Ritz, Raleigh.

Family Vision / Blood / The Veldt $10. Thurs, Mar. 24, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

Gregory Alan Isakov $37+. Thurs, Mar. 24, 8 p.m. DPAC, Durham.

Lorelai Ensemble $10+. Thurs, Mar. 24, 8 p.m. Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University, Durham.

All Mozart with the North Carolina Symphony $44+.

Mar. 25-26, 8 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

Syncopated Gold: Carrie Marshall Jazz $20+. Mar. 25-26, 8 p.m. Theatre Raleigh Arts Center, Raleigh.

Matt Heckler $15. Fri, Mar. 25, 8:30 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

All Mozart: Friday Favorites with the North Carolina Symphony $36+.

Fri, Mar. 25, 12 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

Rafal Blechacz $10+. Fri, Mar. 25, 8 p.m. Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University, Durham.

Dylan Scott: Livin my Best Life Tour $25. Fri, Mar. 25, 8 p.m. The Ritz, Raleigh.

Elaine Dame: The Strayhorn/Ellington Collaboration $25.

Fri, Mar. 25, 8 p.m.

Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham.

Lúnasa Presented

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Fri, Mar. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

The Score $22.

Fri, Mar. 25, 8 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

Sparks SOLD OUT. Fri, Mar. 25, 8 p.m.

Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

Wake Moody / Elora Dash / Vintage Astronaut $10. Fri, Mar. 25, 8 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill.

Zach Wynne Fri, Mar. 25, 7:30 p.m. The Oak House, Durham.

An Evening With Dr. Monica Song: “Dream Paysage” Live Piano Concert $10. Sat, Mar. 26, 5:30 p.m. NCMA, Raleigh.

Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros Featuring The Wolfpack $49+.

Sat, Mar. 26, 7:30 p.m. DPAC, Durham.

Ciompi Quartet Sat, Mar. 26, 8 p.m.

Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University, Durham.

Girls in Geish: Chronicles of the Past Dance Party $10. Sat, Mar. 26, 10:30 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill.

Penny & Sparrow $22+. Sat, Mar. 26, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro.

Zachary Williams (of The Lone Bellow) $18. Sat, Mar. 26, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

Against the Grain Fanzine presents: Statement of Pride / Beskar / No Longer at Ease / Rapid Fire $12. Sun, Mar. 27, 4 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill.

The Foreign Landers $15. Sun, Mar. 27, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

Imani Winds: A Woman’s Perspective $10+.

Sun, Mar. 27, 7 p.m.

Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University, Durham.

Lavender Country / Austin Lucas / Paisley Fields / Loamlands $15. Sun, Mar. 27, 8 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Triangle Wind Ensemble Presents: VOICES $16. Sun, Mar. 27, 4 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary.

Andmoreagain Presents: Holy Fuck $12. Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Live Jazz with The Brian Horton Trio Tues, Mar. 29, 9 p.m.

Kingfisher, Durham.

The Midnight $25.

Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m.

Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

Naked Giants $12.

Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra $25. Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m. Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham.

Phil Cook $10+.

Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m.

Nelson Music Room at Duke University, Durham.

Sensi Trails / Bonzai / The Hourglass Kids $12. Tues, Mar. 29, 7 p.m. The Pour House Music Hall, Raleigh.

Will Hoge $20.

Tues, Mar. 29, 8 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

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