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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | DURHAM VOL. 33, NO. 14 6 Of course someone was playing a flute outside Duke University’s Allen Building.

8 The Twitter handle of police chief finalist Cerelyn Davis is @1divacop.

10 “Boycotts don’t work. It’s going to hurt us.”

11 Ninety percent of lawmakers who voted for House Bill 2 aren’t in competitive districts.

DEPARTMENTS 6 Triangulator 8 News 26 Camp Guide 32 Food 33 Music 38 Arts & Culture

12 Steve Malik, the new owner of the Carolina RailHawks, founded his high school’s soccer team in 1978.

40 What To Do This Week

19 Full Frame: R.J. Cutler’s timely program of docs on elections will make you never, ever want to work on a campaign.

48 Arts/Film Calendar

43 Music Calendar 53 Soft Return

32 It’s spring! Top of the Hill’s blueberry beer is back.

33 Sometimes, you can’t let the crowdfunding demands get to you. Some Army knows.

38 The poetry of Langston Hughes profoundly shaped the rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. 39 Community and The Soup star Joel McHale wants you to be the best Joel McHale you can be.

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Our House Bill 2 coverage continues to prime the comments pump.

Let’s begin with Wafranklin, who chastises the eleven Democrats who sided with the GOP majority: “It would appear that some of our more conservative (dense) representatives were duped again by a bill which puts the counties and cities in a straitjacket in an exercise where the bill was written in the dark, rushed through the assembly (both houses), and sent to [Governor McCrory] for signature. That alone should have alerted these people that something stank.”

“People do need to be educated on transgender issues,” adds Laurie B. “The support for this bill comes from a place of ignorance. Shame on the representatives who refused to respond. They owe their constituents an explanation, even if it’s as idiotic as Charles Graham’s. And yikes at [Representative] Brisson. That’s … bold, I guess. ‘Nah, I’m good.’ Does he think he’s responding to trolls on Twitter or something? Come on. Do better.” “[Senate President Pro Tempore] Phil Berger seems to have spent a great deal of time imagining why this law was necessary,” writes Nate. “That’s … weird.” “[Lieutenant Governor Dan] Forest is about as damn dumb as they walk and talk,” says Watt Jones.

Jennifer Cole argues that the state’s Republicans should be careful what they wish for. “The more of these hate bills that are legislated, the greater the certainty that eventually the federal government, the Supreme Court if necessary, will step in and cut these haters off at the knees, just like they did with marriage equality,” she writes. “If they remain on this course long enough, they will lose their ability to legislate anything at a state level.”

Lisa Magni, meanwhile, raises an interesting point: “So Republican logic is that laws stop molesters, but laws don’t stop gun violence?”

And, finally, offcenterlevi, a Bull City expat who moved to Germany, writes: “I always thought that someday my new family and I might move back to Durham. The Republican takeover of North Carolina has been really disconcerting. This new law is beyond belief. I’m sure Durham is still a great place, but I would never consider living in Mississippi, and at this point I have no intention of returning to North Carolina.”

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triangulator +LISTENING TOURS Margaret Spellings, the Republican operative hired to run the UNC system after the board of governors canned Tom Ross, told the media at N.C. Central last Friday that she just wants student protesters to give her “a chance to lead this enterprise.”

That last word—enterprise—didn’t sit well with the fifty or so students who later protested outside the Hoey Administration Building.

“I declare today that we are not customers, as Spellings has remarked,” student protester Rebekah Barber said.

“Her time as secretary of education under the Bush administration corroborates that she is profit-driven and not for the betterment of historically black colleges and universities,” added another protester.

Spellings, a former secretary of education who started at UNC March 1, visited NCCU on Friday as part of her “listening tour” of UNC’s seventeen campuses. While there, she spoke with students and was treated to a jazz performance.

“This is a mighty engine of prosperity and opportunity in this city, and I’m gonna be a frequent visitor, Deb,” Spellings told Chancellor Debra SaundersWhite at the press conference.

Spellings told the press she takes all the recent demonstrations against her in stride. “What I’m hearing them say is that they want to be heard,” she said. “They want to be heard by me, and they want to be heard by the board of governors, and they want to be heard by the legislature. And I think that’s fair and that’s right.”

That would be encouraging were it not for this: later this month, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest is expected to introduce the comically named Campus Free Expression Act, which proposes punishments— to be determined by the board of governors—for students and faculty members who disrupt public meetings with protests.

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+NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Records the INDY received last week indicate that 86 of the city of Raleigh’s 3,809 employees make more than $100,000 a year. And in municipal government, like everywhere else, the rich are getting richer.

Most of the city’s top-paid employees recently received sizable raises.

The salary of city attorney Tom McCormick, for instance, jumped from $232,405 to $259,000—an additional $26,595, a more than 10 percent increase. City manager Ruffin Hall will make $7,826 more this year, bringing him up over $231,000. Assistant city managers James Green, Marchell Adams David, and Tansy Hayward will take home an extra $10,825, $10,000, and $1,600, respectively. (They’ll earn $180,285, $167,500, and $161,600.)

And police chief Cassandra Deck-Brown will make $16,682 more than she did last year, bumping her up to $160,000 even.

The average city employee, meanwhile, makes $51,996 a year. And nearly 8 percent of the city’s workforce—three hundred employees—earns $31,200 a year or less. That sum works out to $15 an hour for full-time work, the rate often considered a living wage.

Thanks to the General Assembly, Raleigh can’t pass a citywide living-wage ordinance, nor can it force its contractors to pay decently. (Perversely, state law requires cities to go with the “lowest responsible” bidder, which encourages contractors to be cheapskates.) But it can pass a living-wage ordinance for its own employees.

That’s what Wake County did for its workers last year, setting a floor of $13.50 an hour.

At the Raleigh City Council, the topic hasn’t come up.

The City of Raleigh’s 5 Highest-Paid Employees 1. TOM MCCORMICK, city attorney: $259,000 2. RUFFIN HALL, city manager: $231,426 3. JAMES GREEN JR., assistant city manager: $180,285 4. MARCHELL ADAMS DAVID, assistant city manager: $167,500 5. PERRY JAMES III, chief financial officer: $164,625

+LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER Here’s some disconcerting news for people who like, you know, clean water—especially the more than three hundred thousand residents of Wake and Chatham counties who rely on Jordan Lake for their drinking water.

In March, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality released a draft report that found that SolarBees—giant mixers that are supposed to eliminate nutrient pollution in Jordan Lake and other bodies of water, for which the legislature allocated $3 million in lieu of actually stopping developers from polluting the lake—don’t work at all. So, in typical McCrory administration fashion, the DEQ removed the report from its website and from the agenda of the Environmental Management Commission.

A law passed in 2015 instructed the DEQ and the EMC to submit a joint report on SolarBees to the legislature’s Environmental Review Commission by April 1. The DEQ missed that deadline—it says the legislature gave it an extension—and the EMC hasn’t yet reviewed the report. It won’t meet again until May; the legislature, of course, convenes for its short session later this month. “[The report] that was posted on our website was a draft that will be replaced by the final version,” says DEQ spokeswoman Stephanie Hawco.

She promises that the final report will be ready soon.

“A scientifically based review of strategies to reduce the excess nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous) in Jordan Lake will be critical to future decisions by the N.C. General Assembly and to the citizens of the state,” Molly Diggins, state director of the N.C. Sierra Club, wrote in a letter to lawmakers. “The [commission] has an important role in protecting Jordan Lake as a safe drinking water source and ensuring that strategies to maintain Jordan Lake water quality are based on science.”

But for now, the state will continue entrusting its water to expensive contraptions that don’t work, because to do otherwise might infringe on the rights of developers to dump pollutants into Jordan Lake. Drink up, everyone.

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+VIVE L’OCCUPATION Nearly two years ago, Tallman Trask III, executive vice president at Duke University, struck (at a low rate of speed) a female parking attendant with his Porsche before a football game. Trask, you’ll be shocked to learn, is old and white. The parking attendant, Shelvia Underwood, is young and black.

That incident probably wouldn’t merit comment, except that Trask allegedly called Underwood the N-word before driving away.

On February 29 and March 1, The Duke Chronicle published a twopart series alleging widespread racism and hostility in Duke’s Parking and Transportation Services Department. Two weeks later, Underwood filed suit against Trask for battery, negligence, civil conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.

That’s the backdrop for the recent wave of campus tumult. On Friday, nine students entered Duke’s Allen Building and refused to leave until their demands—which include the termination of Trask and two other PTS higher-ups, as well as an outside investigation into the department—were met. Outside, a coalition of students and some current and former PTS employees camped out in tents in solidarity. They stayed all weekend, about one hundred strong at their peak.

On Sunday evening came a small victory: Duke officials agreed to grant amnesty to those inside—essentially, to not suspend or expel them. They also announced that the Allen Building—home to President Richard Brodhead’s office—would be closed on Monday.

Spirits seemed high outside Allen on Monday afternoon. The sun was out. Lawn chairs and a dozen tents were scattered across the lawn. A protester played a jaunty flute tune, accompanied by some percussion and a guy on acoustic guitar. Durham City Council mem-

ber Jillian Johnson, a former Duke student, dug into a big bag of pretzels and told the INDY that she was there for moral support.

Inside, the occupiers were negotiating with Duke officials about how to move forward. Around noon, another victory for the protesters: Trask issued a public apology for the Underwood incident.

“While the details of what happened are a matter of disagreement and subject of civil litigation, I recognize that my conduct fell short of the civility and respectful conduct each member of this community owes to every other,” Trask said.

Presumably, Duke officials figured this would be enough to clear the kids out of Allen so that school business—including classes— could resume. Nope. The students wanted more of their concerns addressed, among them a $15-an-hour minimum wage for all Duke employees. “[The Trask incident] is just the tip of the iceberg of a much broader problem of institutional racism and a culture of harassment and exploitation of our majority black and brown service workers,” says Bennett Carpenter, a graduate student. “Questions of economic inequality are so deeply intertwined with racism.”

Eventually, the talks stalled, with Duke officials saying they would only negotiate after the occupiers stopped occupying. The occupiers remained. Late Monday evening, Duke announced that Allen would once again be closed Tuesday. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Danny Hooley, David Hudnall, Evan Owens, and Jane Porter.

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UNC loses to Villanova on a last-second three-pointer. Somewhere, Coach K shakes his head, whispering, “Show off.”

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Hundreds block Franklin Street in Chapel Hill in protest of House Bill 2—like on Halloween, but with more moral purpose and less public intoxication.

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Google Ventures bans further investment in North Carolina until the state repeals HB 2, and PayPal withdraws plans for a Charlotte expansion. Hey religious right, we realize you’re not into birth control, but that’s not how the pull-out method works.

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Citing HB 2, Lionsgate and the A&E network say they’ll no longer film TV shows and movies in North Carolina. Silver lining: this will keep Duck Dynasty out of North Carolina.

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The North Carolina Republican Party’s embattled chairman, Hasan Harnett, says the party’s internal rift could impact the state’s presidential delegates if there is a contested convention this summer. “There’s hope!” John Kasich exclaims.

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North Carolina lawmakers consider eliminating state licensing for acupuncturists, athletic trainers, locksmiths, librarians, and more. “Sweet!” says an aspiring librarian who moonlights as an amateur pitching coach, who is also locked out of his house and trying to quit smoking.

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Wake County’s district attorney dismisses more than one hundred DUI cases because a police officer lied. “I wondered why he told me to suck instead of blow the breathalyzer,” said one driver. “And why it was full of cognac.”

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Duke students occupy a building on campus to demand the firing of administrator Tallman Trask III, who is accused of using a racial slur. Wait, isn’t that the rich guy from Gilligan’s Island?

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The $5 Million Question

RALEIGH OFFICIALS ARE DODGING THE BIGGEST QUESTION OF BODY-CAM POLICY: WHO GETS TO SEE THE FOOTAGE? BY PAUL BLEST

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steps taken,” and that there “was nothing to add to that.” Likewise, Mayor Nancy McFarlane declined to comment; her office said it would be “premature” to do so.

Council member Corey Branch, whose district includes the Southeast Raleigh neighborhood where Denkins was killed, says the criteria for releasing this footage are still being developed with help from the city’s attorneys.

“It’s situational, and we don’t know all the situations,” Branch says. “For anything involving a domestic case or a child, I wouldn’t want to release right away to protect their privacy.”

Civil rights advocates have an idea what that policy should look like. In early March, the state ACLU sent the mayor, city council members, and the police department a letter outlining best practices employed by other municipalities. Included are “clear directives” on body-camera activation, reasonable public access, mandates for how long the RPD holds on to those videos, and consequences for officers who violate body-cam policies.

“In North Carolina, we struggle with how to define records properly,” says N.C. ACLU policy counsel Susanna Birdsong, who authored the letter. “We would advocate that the discretion not remain within the police department. The very least amount of access should be that the person depicted on the recording should be allowed to see it.”

Geraldine Alshamy, a member of the newly created Police Accountability Community Taskforce—which is not affiliated with the city—says three years

is too long to wait for the body-cam program to be fully implemented.

“Body cameras are just a first step,” she says, “but we need to take a deeper look at these cities that are using them.”

Alshamy, like her counterparts in Durham, is also pushing for “reasonable public access”—including making videos available through the RPD website or some other means—that would be ensured by an independent oversight committee or citizen review board.

“I am definitely looking into it,” Branch says of a review board. “It’s too early to say we’re going to have one, but it’s something I’m paying attention to.”

A review board, Alshamy argues, would go a long way toward solving what she sees as the real problem.

“Body cameras alone are not the cure-all,” she says. “It’s about the ability to trust the police.” l pblest@indyweek.com

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Two weeks after Akiel Denkins was shot and killed by a Raleigh police officer under disputed circumstances on February 29, the city council unanimously approved the purchase of six hundred body cameras and instructed Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown to develop a plan to put them to use over the next three years. The city expects to spend as much as $5.2 million on the program over the next five years.

That was only the beginning.

The next—and most important—step is figuring out who gets to watch the videos those cameras produce. Judging by debates raging in other cities around the state and vague statements from city officials, this question won’t have an easy answer.

In Charlotte and Durham, police departments have claimed that state law considers body cameras part of an officer’s personnel file. The Charlotte police chief, Kerr Putney, has said that he alone has the authority to view the footage. Here’s the problem with that: following a recent altercation in which a cop beat a man who was lying on the ground, Putney said the video proved the officer’s story. But because that video hasn’t been made public, there’s no way to tell if he’s right. (A bystander’s cellphone recording suggests he’s not.)

In Durham, meanwhile, debate over access to the footage has effectively stalled the city’s plan to spend $366,000 on cameras until after a new chief has been named. As in Charlotte, police officials have sought more restricted access than those who argue that the cops need greater accountability.

Yet, as sticky as this wicket has proven elsewhere, Raleigh has thus far dodged the inevitable debate. Deck-Brown told the council that the Raleigh Police Department’s policy would be unveiled in the third quarter of this year, right before the first hundred cameras hit the streets. RPD spokesman Jim Sughrue told the INDY that the “development of a policy will be among the near-term

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Will Boycotts Work?

BUSINESSES AND FILMMAKERS ARE TALKING ABOUT ABANDONING NORTH CAROLINA AFTER HB 2.

WILL IT MATTER?

BY DANNY HOOLEY

to say how much. “Those are very hard to Orange County’s local governments were organize,” he says, “and probably, over the quick to denounce House Bill 2, the antistretch of time, those concerns will disLGBTQ proposal rushed through a special sipate. Still, we want to keep in mind that session and signed by Governor McCrory on our tourist industry in the state is about a March 23. twenty-billion-dollar industry.”

Three days later, the Carrboro Board of The loss of major events could also make Aldermen convened a special session of its lawmakers reconsider. “I would think own to pass a resolution condemning the new something like the NBA saying, ‘We’re not law. The Chapel Hill Town Council quickly going to have our All-Star Game in 2017 followed suit. [in Charlotte] if this bill is still there’—I The towns’ progressives were united in think people would pay attention,” Oates purpose, if not on tactics. The one sticking says. “I think elected officials would pay point: boycotts. Some argued that boycotts attention to things like that.” could pressure the state’s leaders to repeal HB The NBA released a statement last 2. Others said they would just end up hurting week that hinted at a possible change of the wrong people. plans. And Atlanta has been making some For boycotts: new Chapel Hill Town Counserious moves to poach the event. After cil member Nancy Oates. “I’m under the belief all, these games pump, on average, more that money talks, and, in an election year, I than $100 million into local economies. believe money talks even louder.”

(It’s worth noting that the Republican Against boycotts: Orange County Commisgovernor of Georgia, Nathan Deal, recentsioner Penny Rich. “Boycotts don’t work. It’s Hundreds protested HB 2 in downtown Chapel Hill last Tuesday. PHOTO BY MATTHEW LENARD ly vetoed anti-LGBTQ legislation.) going to hurt us. What we need from these The Piedmont’s furniture industry may businesses is them to support us in lawsuits. ment One—wrote an essay back then for the Huffington also suffer. In a March 28 statement, High Point Furniture We need their money.”

Post titled “Why You Shouldn’t Boycott North Carolina.” But Market warned that “dozens of customers”—industry buyRich serves on the board of the Orange County Visitors Kleinschmidt, Chapel Hill’s first openly gay mayor, views ers—have said they will not attend this month’s Spring MarBureau. Early last year, the bureau reported that tourism in boycotts against HB 2 differently. ket in protest of HB 2. the county was on the rise and that LGBT travelers deserved “My concern in 2012 was that a boycott would hurt a lot The message from some of those buyers? Move it somesome of the credit. of folks that were actually trying to do good,” he says. The where else. That’s a scary thought for the state’s economy. A “We have about three million people who come to Orange counties that form “the best of the state,” he adds, voted over2013 Duke University study showed that the huge trade show County on a yearly basis,” Rich says. “Those three million whelmingly against it. “This is different. It begins and ends generates $5.4 billion, including nearly 21,500 jobs and $604 people every year drop about a hundred and eighty million dolin the legislature. These are just these legislators—largely million in visitor spending. lars. That’s clean economic development. So, if everyone stops Republicans, with those eleven Democrats in the House— Gerrymandering likely insulates most lawmakers from coming here, where are we going to make up that revenue?” who, just once again, have proven themselves to be really bad any political fallout from HB 2. But that’s not the case for the Opponents of HB 2, she argues, need the likes of Broadway at their job. … We need to send this message to those people governor. Pope McCorkle III, director of graduate studies at composer Stephen Schwartz and film director Rob Reiner to in the legislature and the Governor’s Mansion. And I think Duke’s Master of Public Policy Program, says the governor’s come here and fight it—just like he fought Proposition 8 in that actually can be effective, in ways that are different than a “Carolina Comeback” brag will haunt his re-election camCalifornia—instead of pulling out of North Carolina. response to a large-scale referendum.” paign if businesses bail.

It’s a debate we all heard in 2012, when North Carolina Without an actual boycott, the veiled corporate threats “The types of entities that have been threatening to boyvoters enshrined Amendment One into the state constitulikely won’t amount to much. For example, while a Human cott are kind of Pat McCrory’s calling cards,” McCorkle says. tion. Many of the calls for boycotts came from out of state.

Rights Campaign petition signed by more than 120 CEOs of “Ribbon-cutting Pat, Mayor Pat—he loves all these major corA change.org petition urged the Democratic Party to move major companies has received a lot of media attention, none porations, and announcing them. And so, it’s kind of an idenits national convention out of Charlotte. (It didn’t happen.) of them has actually threatened to leave the state. tity crisis.” l Former Chapel Hill mayor Mark Kleinschmidt—who was Tourist boycotts could also exert pressure, says Michael one of the attorneys who successfully challenged Amenddhooley@indyweek.com Walden, an economics professor at N.C. State. But it’s hard 10 | 4.6.16 | INDYweek.com

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Won’t Back Down

AS THE HOUSE BILL 2 FALLOUT INTENSIFIES, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DIGS IN. HERE’S WHY THEY CAN DO THAT.

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

ry hard toFor the last two weeks, every morning has open to “new ideas and solutions” to “make y, over theseemed to bring another blow: another prothis bill better in the future.” s will dis-test, another denunciation or proposed boyThe legislature’s Republicans, on the other mind thatcott, another city or state travel ban, another hand, seem determined to ride out the gathis about abusiness reconsidering its multimillionering storm. Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger’s office told the media that he dollar investment, another entertainment also makecompany abandoning us for more tolerant had no interest in revisiting the law. Repreuld thinkclimes, another sports event mulling pulling sentative Paul Stam, a powerful Apex Repub‘We’re notout, another news report that the state has lican, told The News & Observer he might me in 2017put at risk billions of dollars in much-needed tweak one technical aspect. Other than that, l there’—Ifederal aid. though, “We’re not going on,” Oates It suffices to say that to change the policy of would payHouse Bill 2, the antithe law.”

Ninety percent of There are, to my mind, LGBTQ legislation lawmakers who ment lastthe General Assemtwo factors at play here: change ofbly rammed through supported House Bill 2 the first is the simple fact king someand Governor McCroare running unopposed that most of the economent. Afterry signed March 23, has ic damage HB 2 inflicts or won their previous age, moredevastated North Carowill be on the state’s conomies.lina’s brand—that is, a election by a landslide. urban centers, especially epublicanlighthouse of tolerance the Triangle and Charal, recent-in the anti-intellectual, lotte. And while those SUPERthe important that folks know n.) metros are poweringIt’s both state’s ecoBible-thumping void of the Deep South. The that there are two waves of voting ustry mayMcCrory administration immediately went nomic and populationnext growth—they year - so whateveraccount you need to do to make that clear in the ad will be Furnitureon the defensive, blaming the media for the for two-thirds of all new residents, according appreciated. ustry buy-outrage and outright lying about the obvito the U.S. Census Bureau—they are not the ring Mar-ous fact that HB 2 strips the state’s citizens places from which the legislature’s Republicans derive their power. In fact, the General of existing rights—not just gay and transgene it some-der people, but also workers and anyone who Assembly has been openly hostile to local conomy. Asuffers workplace discrimination. governments in recent years. rade show But by last week, the governor’s dam of defiPut simply, the Republicans can afford to let and $604ance began showing signs of cracking, which Wake or Durham to take a hit; Wake and Durham won’t vote for them anyway. was predictable enough. A year ago, after all, kers fromthe conservative governor and legislature of And that leads to the second point. As ase for theIndiana backed down after protests over its Common Cause North Carolina points out, studies atanti-LGBTQ legislation, and last month the thanks to the state’s partisan gerrymander, governor’sRepublican governor of Georgia vetoed a simnine out of ten lawmakers who supported tion cam-ilar bill under similar pressure. McCrory, a the bill are running unopposed or won their previous election by a landslide. little slow on the uptake, came to realize that ng to boy-when he signed HB 2, he might have signed Which is to say: McCrory might notice orkle says.his political death warrant—unless, of course, your outrage. But the guys on Jones Street major cor-he could do something to soften his image. don’t have to—and, unless they want to save of an iden- And so last Tuesday he released a video in the governor’s bacon, they’ve got little incentive to back down now. l which he insisted, “This is not about demonyweek.comizing one group of people,” and said he was jbillman@indyweek.com

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Game On FOR A DECADE, THE CAROLINA RAILHAWKS HAVE BEEN PLAGUED BY MISMANAGEMENT AND SCANDAL. NEW OWNER STEVE MALIK WANTS TO PROVE HIS TEAM IS HERE TO STAY.

BY PAUL BLEST

Steve Malik is nothing if not blunt.

Take, for example, his answer to a question about whether he’s thinking of moving his newly acquired soccer franchise, the Carolina RailHawks, out of WakeMed Soccer Park, the Cary stadium the team has called home since its inception, maybe to downtown Raleigh or somewhere else in the Triangle. Most sports team owners would be evasive, so as not to offend their hometown. Malik is not.

“Yes,” he says.

Such a move is probably inevitable, he adds, given soccer’s rising popularity and Raleigh’s desire to erect a stadium in its urban core. “I expect Raleigh to have a twenty-five-thousandseat stadium, expandable to fit forty thousand people,” he says. “I’m telling you, it’s going to happen.”

His enthusiasm is palpable. So is his ambition. Malik’s goal is to bring the RailHawks to the “top tier” of professional soccer. Whether that means as a contender for the secondtier North American Soccer League championship or as a Major League Soccer franchise remains to be seen. Given the RailHawks’ history, either would be a momentous achievement.

Throughout their ten-year existence, the RailHawks have been plagued by broken promises, scandal, mismanagement, and shady dealings, from one owner who auctioned off team assets on eBay to another who was indicted last year as part of the notorious FIFA scandal.

And while Malik, a millionaire who bought the team in October, has pumped much-needed money into the team and its facility, it’s unclear whether that will boost the RailHawks’ lackluster average attendance, which hasn’t exceeded five thousand since 2007.

In other words, there’s a massive chasm between where the RailHawks are now and where they’d like to end up.

And yet, Malik professes optimism.

“We’re spending millions and millions of dollars ahead of the curve,” he says. “I’m doing it because, over a period of time, I’ll recoup that.”

The question is, however, whether that optimism is tethered to reality—and whether Steve Malik, through deep pockets and sheer force of will, can make the RailHawks a premier Triangle institution. l l l

A quick recap of the team’s tumultuous history is in order.

In 2006, Chris Economides, a former executive with the Rochester Rhinos, a United Soccer League team, founded the franchise. Like the Rhinos, the RailHawks competed in the USL. They got off to an inauspicious start in 2007, posting losing records the first two seasons. Two years later, Economides sold the franchise to a minority investor, Selby Wellman. Two years after that, Wellman joined eight other USL clubs in a migration to the new North American Soccer League. In the meantime, average attendance plummeted, down to just 2,241 in 2010.

Wellman began looking for investors to prop up his floundering enterprise. The team’s coffers were drained. By the end, even the free stuff the team promised guests on promotional nights was gone, leaving embarrassed staffers to explain that they had nothing to give away.

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dated the team’s assets on eBay and Craigslist. Afterward, just four RailHawks staffers remained.

Then, soccer management company Traffic Sports USA and its president, Miami lawyer and NASL CEO Aaron Davidson, bought what was left of the RailHawks for $14,999, making the team one of three NASL clubs in which Davidson had a controlling interest.

“They propped us up,” says Jarrett Campbell, founder of Triangle Soccer Fanatics, one of the two RailHawks supporters’ groups. “At the time, we were really thankful for Traffic Sports saving the franchise, because we were staring at the possibility of not having a team the following year.”

He’s not exaggerating: this sort of ownership drama has killed several American soccer teams, including the MLS’s Miami Fusion and Tampa Bay Mutiny and more recently the NASL’s Atlanta Silverbacks and San Antonio Scorpions.

But under Traffic Sports, things improved.

Attendance crept up, even though the franchise had a skeleton front office and team salaries were so low that players left for law school and unpaid marketing internships.

And despite Davidson’s relatively meager investment in the team, Carolina outperformed expectations, even besting the MLS juggernaut Los Angeles Galaxy three years in a row at the U.S. Open Cup.

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American Davidson and Traffic Sports, along with ’s Miami more than a dozen international soccer powand more erhouses, were indicted in federal court on backs and charges of racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, as part mproved. of the FIFA corruption scandal. Davidson’s the fran- arrest sent shockwaves through American and team soccer—and the NASL. ft for law Campbell started a campaign to force ernships. Davidson out, arguing that, even before the y meager scandal broke, the ownership had shirked a outper- its duty to the team and fans; his efforts garthe MLS nered the attention of The New York Times. ree years “Our frustration with Traffic as an owner was pretty high before this happened,”

Campbell says. “They kept promising they were going to invest in the team, but the reality is, the team really hadn’t grown.”

Before the FIFA scandal, reports circulated that Traffic was looking to sell. Afterward, that became inevitable.

Although Campbell says the situation was less dire than at the end of Wellman’s tenure, the RailHawks were still facing an ownerless purgatory.

“Being league-owned was by no means our desire,” he says. “What we were staring at was somebody keeping the doors open and the lights on and probably not having a very competitive team. It wasn’t that I thought there wouldn’t be a team here, but I was con-

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cerned about the long-term health of the team if no one stepped up.”

But someone did step up.

On October 30, the same day the RailHawks defeated the Indy Eleven to wrap up an otherwise middling season, the team announced Steve Malik, a fifty-one-yearold medical-technology entrepreneur, as its new owner.

“I’m going to have to spend a considerable amount of money. And I’m willing to do that,” Malik said when he was introduced. “I want to win. We are going to win. …

I’m not doing it to make money. I’m doing it because I love soccer. I want to see Raleigh reach its full potential.” l l l

“I’ve always wanted to own a pro team,” Malik says.

“But if you asked me when I was a kid, it wouldn’t have been a soccer team. It would have been a baseball team.”

Don’t get him wrong: Malik—a Kinston-raised UNC graduate who founded the Cary-based medical technology company Medfusion in 2000—loved the game enough in 1978 to start his high school’s soccer team. Baseball may have been his first love, but the RailHawks mark his first foray into the world of pro sports. The team’s supporters embraced him—owing in part, he acknowledges, to the manner in which Traffic Sports exited.

“It was a low point for the soccer business and [cast] a shadow on our local team,” he says. “It was easy to go up from there.”

But that’s not the only reason Malik has engendered goodwill. As soon as he took over, he did something Traffic never did: invest. He moved the team’s front office out of a small, cramped environment at WakeMed into the Owner Steve Malik and president Curt Johnson Medfusion offices in Cary and fully staffed the club for PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE the first time in years. This season, which began on Saturday with a 2–1 victory over Minnesota United FC, the want, what international fans want,” says team president and players will wear a new custom jersey and—more imporgeneral manager Curt Johnson. “We’ve addressed some of it tant—have group health insurance for the first time. over the past five years, but now we actually have the resourcAt WakeMed, the team has added amenities for families es to address it.” (the Duck Donuts Family Zone) and millennials (a beer garJohnson, who played on the ACC champion N.C. State den). It’s also inked a multiyear broadcast deal with Capital team in 1990 and later was the general manager of MLS’s Broadcasting Company; all RailHawks games will be teleKansas City franchise, has been with the club since 2011. vised on either WRAL and Fox 50 and stream online via Malik, he says, has brought new energy to a previously moriWRAL’s website. bund organization.

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“Budgets have been small, staffing has been small, and that’s why we’re so excited about Steve,” says Johnson. “He’s a breath of fresh air from an ownership standpoint, and his desire and willingness to spend more in key budget areas will help us over time to grow.”

Malik kept the team’s leadership largely intact, retaining both Johnson and Colin Clarke, a former MLS coach who has managed the team since 2011.

In Malik’s view, Johnson and Clarke performed well despite resource constraints, finishing in the top half of the league every season except one. He also pumped money into the team’s roster; although NASL teams keep contracts under wraps, a WRAL report last week said that the RailHawks “dramatically increased” the player budget, though it remains in the bottom half of the league.

Even with Malik’s investments, the RailHawks still have a way to go to keep up with their competitors, especially the New York Cosmos, the reigning NASL champions, who’ve made a habit out of luring top names like Spanish striker Raúl and Croatian midfielder Niko Kranjčar. Not coincidentally, the Cosmos attract big crowds, even on the road: a RailHawksCosmos match drew 7,217 people, WakeMed’s highest attendance last year.

Still, it’s a start—and, considering how low the team has been in the past, a welcome change. l l l

The Malik era began on a warm Saturday in late March, when Carolina kicked off the unofficial start of its 2016 season with an exhibition against Deportivo Toluca, a famed Mexican club that will celebrate its one-hundredth season next year. The packed crowd was split between Toluca’s green and the RailHawks’ orange. When RailHawks forward Brian Shriver made a screaming run down the left side of the field, the Carolina side roared. When Toluca’s Carlos Esquivel made a saving tackle, the green side roared louder.

Toluca won 3–0, but that didn’t really matter. What mattered was that the RailHawks broke their attendance record, drawing over nine thousand people.

Malik knows the RailHawks won’t always play international powerhouses—or even NASL teams with legitimate star power,

like the Cosmos had in Raúl. Most RailHawks games will be played against teams with talent unknown to everyone but diehards. Putting butts in seats will be more difficult.

But ignore that and assume they’re successful, that better players and better exposure and more stadium amenities attract the kinds of crowds that make the soccer world take notice. What comes after that?

“Steve’s long-term vision is for us to play at the highest level,” Johnson says.

Does that mean MLS? “Well, that means different things to different people,” he says. “But ultimately, there’s no reason that in North Carolina, and specifically the Triangle, that we can’t be a top-ten marketplace for soccer. We have a history of being a top-ten marketplace, but a lot of marketplaces have passed us by. They’ve been better funded, they’ve built better facilities, and they have larger average attendance as a result.”

To some degree, this MLS question is premature. After all, this is a club that twice over the past five years came perilously close to shutting down. But it nonetheless seems a logical outgrowth of Malik’s ambition. The NASL is the minor leagues; perhaps a jump to the bigs is where the RailHawks’ “full potential” can be found.

There’s a precedent for NASL or USL teams making that leap. Orlando City Soccer recently did so from the USL, and the team that the RailHawks opened their season against, Minnesota United FC, will follow suit next year.

In fact, several teams that the RailHawks started out with in the USL—the Seattle Sounders, Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland Timbers, and Montreal Impact—are now established MLS franchises.

Malik knows they’ve got geography in their corner. There’s a six-hundred-mile gap in the Southeast between Washington, D.C., which has an established MLS franchise, and Atlanta, where an MLS team begins play next season. North Carolina—either the Triangle or Charlotte—would be an obvious choice for an expansion team.

And it’s no secret that the MLS wants to expand. MLS vice president Dan Courtemanche says the ultimate goal is to grow to twenty-eight clubs; right now there are twenty, with expansions coming in Atlanta, Miami, Minnesota, and Los Angeles.

Courtemanche says MLS expansion depends on four factors: local ownership with strong financial backing, an ownercontrolled stadium, the strength of the local market and geographic location, and a history of support for sports in the area. The RailHawks have at least two of those, with

a fast-growing market rabid for college basketball. (In fact, as Malik points out, a recent soccer-market study ranked the Triangle as more attractive than several cities that have MLS teams, including Philadelphia, Boston, and Orlando.)

At a RailHawks luncheon commemorating the team’s tenth anniversary on March 23, however, Malik was uncharacteristically cagey when asked about his aspirations to join MLS. Instead, he waxed lyrical about the positive response he’s received since assuming ownership.

“There’s a lot of things that could happen, that’s all musing,” he later told the INDY. “We’re in the NASL. We have a great league. I like the model. … So if NASL can reach its potential, NASL is a very viable path to top tier.”

Still, it’s difficult to see how the NASL gets there. Popularity chases talent, and talent chases money. For the foreseeable future, MLS will have a lot more of both talent and money.

Though the NASL doesn’t disclose its players’ salaries, MLS’s league minimum is $60,000 a year, well above what most NASL players make. (The Tampa Bay Rowdies recently signed a top forward to a reported two-year deal worth $150,000, which indicates that even the best NASL players don’t make much more than MLS’s benchwarmers.)

MLS interest would also help Malik make the case for a new stadium. It’s not hard to understand why he wants one. There’s not enough seating or parking at WakeMed, which was built for the WUSA’s Carolina Courage before the women’s soccer league folded in 2003. And WakeMed is currently nowhere near MLS standards. The league requires franchises to have facilities with a capacity of between eighteen thousand and twenty-five thousand seats, more than double WakeMed’s space.

Then again, a stadium that size doesn’t make sense if you’re only drawing forty-five hundred people a game.

Malik thinks his team will get there, sooner rather than later. He points to the increased marketing and operations budget, as well as his focus on local youth academies for young players, which he hopes will improve the RailHawks brand.

“I think that when all of those other things turn, we’re an undeniable top-tier market,” Malik says. “At the rate we’re growing, anyone who has a TV contract is going to want exposure to our market, and we’re going to be the team. … When you talk about soccer in Raleigh, you’re going to be talking to me.

So, whatever happens with our market, we’re going to be the club.” l pblest@indyweek.com

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FULL FRAME: CAMERAPERSON

Peripheral Vision

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FULL FRAME TRIBUTE AWARD WINNER KIRSTEN JOHNSON SEEKS TRUTH IN CINEMATOGRAPHY IN CAMERAPERSON

BY NEIL MORRIS

In director Kirsten Johnson’s autobiographical anthology of her twenty-five years in cinematography, Cameraperson, she includes a scene from her film Derrida, in which she trips and nearly falls while filming the French philosopher crossing a street in Manhattan.

“That’s the image of the philosopher who falls in the well while looking at the stars,” Derrida observes, referring to the story of Thales the astrologer made famous in Aesop's fables.

It’s also a potential pitfall for documentary cinematographers, who need to strike a balance between capturing the big picture and the emotional realities of the moment.

“Being focused while you’re filming is what you’re hired and compelled to do,” says Johnson. “But you’re trying to keep your peripheral vision intact, not just so you don’t get hit by a car, but also so you can anticipate where the story is going, or understand the larger context in which it’s happening.”

This weekend, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (April 7–10) honors Johnson with its annual Tribute Award, screening a number of her previous documentaries as well as Cameraperson, which blends home videos with footage and outtakes from many of Johnson’s films, including Citizenfour, The Oath, Two Towns of Jasper, The Invisible War, and Fahrenheit 9/11.

Johnson’s emphasis on cinematography rather than directing makes her unique among prior honorees such as Steve James, Ken Burns, and Albert Maysles. The INDY spoke with Johnson about the unique perils of a cinematographer trying to capture the truth.

“There’s a real tension between following what’s happening in front of the camera,” she says, “and where the story is pulling you.”

INDY: Is Cameraperson more a commemoration of your life as a cinematographer or an homage to the role of the cinematographer in filmmaking?

KIRSTEN JOHNSON: This film came out of a need to understand the work that I was doing, especially in an era where we’re all becoming camera people. Everyone is walking around with a phone in their pocket.

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made in fragments, out of chronology. It’s just evidencebased—I’m just showing you the footage. But it is questioning filmmaking itself and acknowledging the many different ways that stories can be told.

Is there deeper meaning to the film’s title? After all, you didn’t call it Cinematographer.

It acknowledges the relationship between cameras and people. Both words are included in the title. Certainly it has gender connotations—pretty much every day that I’m out with a camera, someone will accidentally call me “cameraman.”

That seems to be the default name for the job. There’s also a sense of the working-class nature of the job [in the title], different from the term “cinematographer.”

There’s a striking scene where you film your mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, as she turns away from the camera to stare out at the hills on her Wyoming ranch. You widen the shot and show the panorama of the moment, instead of zooming closer.

That landscape meant so much to her. What that shot does in “zooming to the wide,” which is not in fashion now—zooming out is more of a seventies film move—expressed my knowl-

edge that I was losing her, and that she was alone in the landscape, and I couldn’t hold onto her and protect her. I hadn’t looked at that footage at all after I filmed it or after she died, and it was only in the process of making Cameraperson that I looked at that footage again and saw so much metaphor in it.

How does the cinematographer figure into the search for truth in documentary filmmaking, something we talk about more in the context of editing or direction?

We are literally the ones searching in the moment. Where we choose to turn the camera or not provides the information for the director or editor to work with while creating the film.

I have this story of being detained at the border during the period where Laura Poitras was being detained, quite a bit after we had made The Oath together, and we were working on what would become Citizenfour. The border official asked me, “So, do you look for individuals to interview, or do you just hold the camera?” I responded, “I just hold the camera.” But my interpretation of what that meant compared to his interpretation was quite divergent.

The opening two scenes in Cameraperson are a marriage of visual and auditory stimulation—a sheepherder accompanied by the clanking of bells, a desolate road with the sound of faraway cars passing by, punctuated by thunder in the distance. Do you view cinematography as more than just a visual medium?

That’s a beautiful thing you’re noticing. It’s been a great joy in my life as a cameraperson to collaborate actively with the sound people I work with. They have taught me that being a cameraperson is more about listening than seeing, in many ways. That was something we thought a lot about in making Cameraperson, how to engage both the sound and image, because that’s what I experience as a cameraperson, this full sensory awareness.

Eye on the sky, feet on the ground: Kirsten Johnson in Cameraperson PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKER/FULL FRAME

Is cinematography sometimes the art of knowing what not to shoot?

Sometimes people don’t want you to show things, but you need to show things. That was part of my experience working with Michael Moore [on Fahrenheit 9/11], standing on the street corner at the U.S. Capitol and having congressmen run away from him as he tried to approach them and ask, “Do you want to send your kids to Iraq?” I remember thinking how extraordinary it was that he’s comfortable pursuing the difficult moment, pursuing people when they don’t want to be filmed.

In Two Towns of Jasper, you show the district attorney and others reacting to evidence—photos, the chain used to drag James Byrd to his death—without first showing what they’re seeing or describing.

Those were questions we had in making the film. Do you show or not show photos [of the deceased James Byrd]? I dedicated Two Towns of Jasper to Mamie Till-Mobley, who helped change our perception of racism in this country by her willingness

to show her son’s body in the casket. There’s this real tension between what we recognize and see, what we turn away from, what is exploitation, nonpermissive use, et cetera.

The Two Towns of Jasper experience was incredibly powerful.

I looked inside that [photo album], and I’m haunted by the images I saw. I didn’t want anyone else to see that. But the tension when you’re making a film is how far to go to open up the horror that people have experienced.

Some past Full Frame Tribute Award winners tinge their gratitude with ruefulness, recognizing that it’s the sort of accolade one usually receives at the twilight of their career.

Has receiving it hit you the same way?

[Laughs] I was about to say that I hope I don’t die while filming, but that’s not true. If I get to be Albert Maysles’s age and I die while filming, I’m cool with that.

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BY BRIAN HOWE

CALL ME MARIANNA (April 7, 4:10 p.m.)—“Please talk to me like a son,” says the mother of a Polish transgender woman seeking gender-affirmation surgery. It’s one of many heartbreaking, maddening moments in director Karolina Bielawska’s moving documentary about Marianna’s struggle for self-actualization, as she batters herself against bureaucracy and prejudice. “It’s absolute bliss,” Marianna enthuses after her surgery, running on the beach in a swimsuit. It’s a hardwon, joyous moment with more adversity in store. Intercutting Marianna’s journey with scenes of her rehearsing her story with a community theater group, the film aptly uses music by Antony and the Johnsons to soundtrack the difficult, courageous transformation into oneself.

OUT RUN (April 8, 7:10 p.m.)—The world premiere of S. Leo Chiang and Johnny Symons’s documentary on Bemz Benedito, who wants to be the first transgender woman in the Congress of the Philippines, illuminates the complex cultural status of LGBTQ people in a Catholic nation where paternalistic prejudice jostles with a rich “bakla” culture and Ladlad, the world’s only LGBTQ political party. Grassroots activism and unusual alliances lead up to Election Day in Benedito’s race against a homophobic preacher.

KIKI (April 8, 10:10 p.m.)—In the New York City subculture called Kiki—a crucible of art and activism, and a descendent of the Ballroom scene—different “houses” of young LGBTQ people

BY TINA HAVER CURRIN

Documentaries, with their insistence on critical thinking, often feel profoundly human. Yet several films at Full Frame this year delve into the complex beauty of wildlife, instead, using animals as mirrors for society and measuring up the arbitrary line we’ve drawn between being nature’s caretakers and inhabitants.

THE ART OF FLYING (April 7, 1:30 p.m.)—The deft movements of the common starling’s glossy, black body remain a scientific mystery. When last year’s warm winter kept the birds in the Netherlands, filmmaker Jan van IJken captured dense concentrations of the birds in flight. This artistic short meditates on their majestic spiral formations, which shift and dilate without any discernible leadership.

KEDI (April 8, 10:20 a.m.)—The hundreds of thousands of cats living in the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul are like Neko Atsume come to life. But instead of settling down in someone’s backyard, these free-range kitties live in abandoned buildings and scavenge from dumpsters, somewhere between wild and domestic. This story is told from both the human and the cat’s-eye perspective, and shows how these animals have come to signify freedom, adaptation, and serenity to the humans who interact with them.

LGBTQ RIGHTS REEL Full Frame recently released a statement against House Bill 2, the discriminatory legislation barring transgender people from using the public restroom that matches their gender identity. “We are proud to be a part of the documentary community, providing a safe space for myriad perspectives in an effort to cultivate empathy,” the statement read in part. The claim has substance: Documentaries, as intimate portraits of specific lives, are uniquely powerful tools against bigotry, which thrives on ignorance and generalization. Four of the most interesting films at this year’s festival take up LGBTQ issues. Though each has a different cultural perspective, each finds the same heteronormative pressures around the world.

NATURE OF THE BEAST

Out Run PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKERS/FULL FRAME of color compete in Kiki balls filled with voguing and fashion. Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon, a Kiki insider, followed seven community members for three years, tracking the struggles with poverty and prejudice—and the beautiful self-expression—that make Kiki, which serves as a family for those who have been shunned in their own, so vibrant and vital.

THE BALLAD OF FRED HERSCH (April 9, 4:10 p.m.)—Fred Hersch is widely regarded as one of the finest jazz pianists and composers alive today. That’s remarkable enough for a white man from the Midwest, before you factor in that Hersch is openly gay and HIV positive. Still relatively rare in jazz today, it was positively seismic when Hersch came out in the early nineties.

Directors Charlotte Lagarde and Carrie Lozano have crafted an intimate portrait of a remarkable life that shows how even acceptance can be seamed with prejudice. Hersch’s mother tells the requisite story of him picking out songs on the piano at a preternatural age; she also recalls her shame at his coming out, which she blithely refers to as “dirty laundry.” The film also deals with Hersch’s medically induced coma and recovery in the late 2000s, but it’s not all hardship. It’s also a touching love story featuring Hersch’s longtime partner, Scott Morgan.

“The first time I met him, the adjective I would use would be radiant,” Hersch says. Top it off with plenty of Hersch’s radiant musicianship, and this is one not to miss. bhowe@indyweek.com

TERRITORY (April 8, 10:20 a.m.)—Barbary macaques have long called the Rock of Gibraltar home, but the monkeys are increasingly heading into town to rattle streetlights and frolic on rooftops. The macaques’ complete disregard for the invisible border that divides human civilization from the natural world is portrayed through natural sound and stunning imagery.

PICKLE (April 8, 7:20 p.m.)—This quirky short about a middle-aged couple who rescue animals with medical maladies is a sweet, if sorry, story.

There’s a paraplegic possum and the titular fish, who was born without the all-important ability to swim. Punctuated by animated illustrations, it’s a charming look at the ways humans express love for one another and their animal companions.

UNLOCKING THE CAGE (April 8, 1:30 p.m.)— Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker raised $87,230 on Kickstarter to fund this documentary about the work of Steven Wise, an attorney on a thirty-year mission to give animals personhood rights. They follow Wise and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project, as they slowly gain acceptance arguing on behalf of four captive chimpanzees in New York. Hegedus, Pennebaker, and Wise will be there to discuss the film after the screening.

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FULL FRAME’S THEMATIC PROGRAM DIVES DEEP INTO THE CONNIVING, IDEALISTIC WORLD OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS

mentaries about the cultural upheavals of the sixties and seventies and the people who tried to upend the system. Four that track the evolution of American politics during this period are of special note.

In Primary, a young senator named John F. Kennedy seeks to snatch the nomination from the favorite, Hubert Humphrey.

Campaign Manager tells the story of the twenty-eight-yearold executive director of the Republican National Committee who engineered Barry Goldwater’s hostile takeover of the GOP in 1964, beginning a rightward trajectory that continues apace to this day.

Then there’s the aforementioned America Is Hard to See, about the ’68 campaign. And, finally, the important Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed tells the tale of the underfunded,

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

“You know the New Hampshire primaries are unique in politics,” Lyndon Johnson told a Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering on March 12, 1968. “They are the only races where anybody can run”—he pauses—“and everybody can win.”

LBJ did in fact win the New Hampshire Democratic primary that day, but his was not a joyous victory. In fact, it marked the beginning of the end of his political career, as an antiwar insurgent named Eugene McCarthy claimed 42 percent of the vote, exposing the incumbent’s soft underbelly. A few days later, Robert Kennedy threw his hat in the ring; two weeks after that, LBJ dropped out.

The twentieth century offered few elections as tumultuous and consequential as that 1968 contest, as the horror of Vietnam and racial unrest rent the country’s social fabric. LBJ was humiliated, RFK was assassinated, and the soul of the Democratic Party was torn asunder in a Chicago convention marked by protests and riots. In the end, party bosses handed Hubert Humphrey the nomination, and Richard Nixon Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed kicked his ass in November.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKERS/FULL FRAME The McCarthy campaign is lovingly captured in Emile de Antonio’s America Is Hard to See, which is included in Full Frame’s Thematic Program, “Perfect disorganized, and thoroughly unlikely presidential bid of Shirand Otherwise: Documenting American Politics.” It's a collecley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and a tion of twelve docs—plus one work of fiction, 1969’s Medium trailblazer by any definition.

Cool, which climaxes at that Chicago convention. The proThose elections have a sense of gravity, marking the gram, curated by the great documentarian R.J. Cutler, focuses beginnings of epochal change even when, as in ’64 and ’72, largely on the grind of presidential politics from the ground the status quo prevailed. (There’s an argument to be made level, through the eyes of wide-eyed idealists and battle-hardthat the same is true with Bernie Sanders’s campaign this ened operatives. year.) They are important and vital to understanding modCutler includes two of his own films, which opt for the latern American democracy. ter entry point: the Oscar-nominated The War Room (which But for sheer entertainment value, you can’t do better than he coproduced) documents Bill Clinton’s rise amid scandal Caucus, an aggravating but thoroughly enjoyable (because and intrigue in 1992, and A Perfect Candidate (which Culter you know the outcome and can thus laugh) face-palm that codirected) goes deep into Oliver North’s failed bid for the U.S. explores the 2012 Iowa caucuses, which, you’ll recall, made Senate in 1994. Another nineties doc, Taking on the Kennedys, fleeting stars of such luminaries as Herman Cain and Michele tells the story of a political neophyte who unsuccessfully chalBachmann. Indeed, what is politics in the Age of Trump if not lenged Patrick Kennedy for Congress in 1994. another source of entertainment?

But those films—even the political junkie’s crack that is The jbillman@indyweek.com War Room—don’t carry the weight of their forebears, docu-

NORTH CAROLINA IN FOCUS

BY NEIL MORRIS

Though Full Frame draws filmmakers from around the country, and even the world, it doesn’t neglect its home state. Here are a few docs with Tar Heel ties to look for at the festival this year.

THE JAZZ LOFT ACCORDING TO W. EUGENE SMITH (April 7, 10:10 a.m)—From 1957 to 1965, W. Eugene Smith, a former Life magazine photographer who left his job and family, documented the legendary jazz musicians and other cultural figures who dropped by his dilapidated Manhattan loft for nocturnal jam sessions. Directed by Sara Fishko, the film is part of a larger, decade-long project organized by Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies.

OFF THE RAILS (April 7, 7:20 p.m.)—Asperger’s syndrome and an obsession with New York City transit plagues Darius McCollum, who has been arrested more than thirty times and spent more than twenty years in prison for commandeering New York City trains and buses. McCollum's parents retired to North Carolina, and several minutes of this world premiere show McCollum visiting his mother in Winston-Salem.

A HOUSE WITHOUT SNAKES (April 8, 1 p.m.)—Directed by Elon University alumnus Daniel Koehler, this world-premiere short features two young Bushman in Botswana forced to find their futures against the backdrop of upheaval in their homeland.

TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ (April 8, 8 p.m.)—In this much-anticipated world premiere, two groups of young white men search for two seminal blues musicians in 1964 Mississippi. The doc features animation, with performances by Gary Clark Jr. and Lucinda Williams. Producer Benjamin Hedin lives in Durham, and director Sam Pollard sits on the Full Frame Advisory Board; both will be present for a post-screening discussion.

I, DESTINI (April 9, 10:10 a.m.)—This animated, autobiographical short from filmmaker Nicholas Pilarski, a former Duke graduate student, in collaboration with Durham teen Destini Riley, explores the illustrations of a young woman coping with the incarceration of a loved one. Durham’s Southern Documentary Fund assisted with the project.

RAISING BERTIE (April 9, 4:30 p.m.)—This sixyear coming-of-age portrait revolves around three young African-American men in rural Bertie County, North Carolina, as they navigate poverty, prejudice, unemployment, and family. The film, a world premiere, was aided by the Southern Documentary Fund and produced through the renowned Kartemquin Films. Director Margaret Byrne also worked on American Promise, which won a Full Frame Grand Jury Prize.

Twitter: @ByNeilMorris

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BettEr EaRly Than never The Veldt (and friends), New York, 1992 PHOTO BY MICHAEL GALINSKY

RACISM AND MAJOR-LABEL EXPECTATIONS PLAGUED THE VELDT IN THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES. IS MUSIC FINALLY CATCHING UP WITH THE BAND’S MIX OF SOUL SINGING AND SHOEGAZE ROCK?

BY CORBIE HILL

In the old days, The Veldt’s vibe might not have been so mellow.

On a warm weekday afternoon, most of the band—a longtime Raleigh cult favorite whose pioneering distortion-soaked soul went tragically overlooked amid the rise of indie rock— sits on cushions around a low, worn wooden table in the downtown apartment of cofounder Daniel Chavis. A breeze rattles the blinds, and a twelve-string acoustic guitar leans against the wall. The Veldt vocalist sips white wine from a coffee mug.

Drummer Marvin Levi reclines across the table, while Danny Chavis—Daniel's twin brother, younger by about five minutes, and The Veldt’s guitarist—speaks through the speaker of a cracked cellphone from his New York apartment.

Only producer and programmer Hayato Nakao is missing.

“We do what we want to hear since there’s no pressure on us, no record company behind us,” Danny says.

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But it hasn’t always been this way: during the eighties and nineties, The Veldt was signed to and dropped from a string of major labels. Capitol Records shelved an entire album, and the music that did finally emerge seemed forever hamstrung by the illogical demands of handlers and industry types.

Nominally, The Veldt was and, again, is a shoegaze band, their soul-shaped hooks rising through a layer of heavy, honeyed amplifier roar. But the tag makes the members roll their eyes; they've been making this kind of music since 1986, many New Waves ago. Releasing this music as a black, Southern band didn’t make stardom any more certain, either.

“We saw people like Vanilla Ice rapping and we were like, ‘You could market this white dude but you couldn't market us?’” Danny recalls.

But The Veldt isn’t trying to focus on the past.

After the band’s long and vexing original run from 1986 through the late nineties, the Chavis brothers embraced electronic textures as the duo Apollo Heights. In 2001 and 2011, they reunited as The Veldt without any major-label baggage or demands.

In recent years, a fresh crop of listeners has caught up to The Veldt’s sound. In February, a piece in the British newspaper The Guardian argued “the mix of shoegazing rock and moody soul they pioneered has been adopted by the likes of the Weeknd and Miguel,” citing one pop producer’s longtime love of the band as evidence. Two weeks later, Wax Poetics announced the band’s “triumphant comeback.” In April, The Veldt will issue a sterling EP, The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation, to be followed by the full-length Resurrection Hymn. Big tours are falling into place.

Thirty years after The Veldt’s beginnings on Franklin

Street, it seems like the band’s moment may be arriving.

“Now the sound is back to what we kind of left off from, what we had been doing. The new generation is just discovering us,” Daniel says. “They're not always asking us stupid questions. They don't ask me about being black or that bullshit. They ask what was the sound like. What was it like to live back then and meet all your heroes?”

I asked The Veldt some of those same questions, as well as to share their twisted, unlikely timeline in their own words.

1986

DANNY: We started playing at the Chapel Hill Teen Center. Then we started playing house parties and a lot of fraternity shows, which was a big part of why we were successful in Chapel Hill.

MARVIN: There's always been something crazy about how frat people enjoy soul, yet they don’t always socialize with the people who provide that music. There were some frats who actually did socialize with us; to this day, we'll see them in New York or anywhere else. They liked The Smiths. They loved The Cure. Some of them knew music.

DANNY: A lot of people have a misrepresentation of the fraternity thing in Chapel Hill.

There's people who did love music, and they got a bad name from the stereotype.

MARVIN: We've played at some weddings for these guys. They've asked us to come down to the beach, play their socials. We’d all get thrown out—them, us, everybody.

1989

MARVIN: We were on Capitol Records.

There was some miscommunication with our manager, a lawsuit. We settled the suit for an amount we can't disclose and went to...

DANIEL: Hell!

MARVIN: We went to Mammoth. We settled the suit with Mammoth and went to Polygram.

DANNY: We were in limbo for about a year.

MARVIN: We toured with The Jesus and Mary Chain, with 24-7 Spyz. We stayed busy.

DANIEL: I wasn't working then. We made more money by ourselves than we ever made at any label. We played all the time. We played those frat parties, and we played a lot of dancey stuff. We had never been a dancey band, but we knew that people would come to have a good time. We got weary of that after playing with The Jesus and Mary Chain. We didn't want to play that kind of dancey music anymore.

MARVIN: After that Capitol thing, we went from Chicago in a minivan straight down to

New Orleans and started these shows with the Cocteau Twins—from New Orleans to the Gulf and then Florida. We were going from the soundboard to the stage, up a series of steps and landings. On one of the landings, someone said, “What are niggers doing opening up for the Cocteau Twins?”

DANIEL: I said, “Ladies and gentlemen, before the show, we've been asked why a black band is opening for the Cocteau Twins.

You're just about to see." We did our set.

DANNY: We got a standing ovation. There's a CD of that somewhere.

1993

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MARVIN: We put rebel flags on our amps.

Tom Petty had a gigantic rebel flag backdrop, and he had Lenny Kravitz open, so we covered the stage with rebel flags.

DANNY: We were supposed to be doing a major tour with Cocteau Twins in Europe, but Mammoth didn't let us. They wanted us to stay here in the United States.

DANIEL: We had just had it, tired of it. I called my A&R guy and said, “Look, we've just been offered the whole of the European tour with the Cocteau Twins. I'll turn twenty-seven in Berlin if we do it.” He was like, “Nah, you guys are doing pretty good here."

MARVIN: It stopped right there. We got dropped.

DANIEL: They said "No, we need to break the record here first. They follow America.”

Every time we said “Europe,” they were like “No, no, no, no, no." You know the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs? We were the No No Nos.

1998

MARVIN: Danny wanted to move in a new direction because we weren't playing anything except, as he would call it, “barre-chord barrages.” It was getting too rough, not enough focus. Daniel was with his family. Danny had a family. They wrote these songs and made this record that became Apollo Heights.

DANIEL: If you listen to the Veldt EP and even Marigolds, we brought a lot from Public Enemy. They had these interludes. We were going to go in that direction anyway with a full record.

DANNY: We had been playing the same songs for quite awhile and technology and everything was changing, moving in a more electronic vibe.

DANIEL: We did that in London and they had the A&R girls come in: “What? Hip-hop beats over music? No one does that.”

MARVIN: We got that from Richard Thomas, the drummer from The Jesus and Mary Chain. When we were in Kentucky on tour, I went on stage with him and Daniel, and I was like, "What's going on with the sam-

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pler?" He showed me how to play it, because I was a terrible drummer, and that was it.

We came back and asked Polygram if we could get a sampler.

2004

DANNY: Apollo Heights went on tour with TV on the Radio. They had a heart attack, because they thought we were idiots.

DANIEL: Me and Danny were always smartmouths, picking on them. Indie rock changed to be this politically correct shit. We were a rock band. We were not eating patchouli or hummus backstage.

DANNY: These were different people.

MARVIN: Another nation.

2011

DANNY: I was beginning to hear more and more about that term, shoegaze.

DANNY: We’ve finally been able to get our music out the way we want to because we don't have anybody in our way. We never really changed.

MARVIN: Ain’t a damn thing changed.

We got back together in 2011 and played in Raleigh for the first time. We had one reunion in 2001 for the Cradle’s fifteenth birthday and then we had another reunion April 13, 2011. We started playing more.

DANIEL: I was back and forth. I like coming home. One thing I have thought about: since Raleigh has grown a little bit, it's a perfect

opportunity to make a stake living here.

2016

DANNY: We went to Canada with this group called B-17 to play this place called The Silver Dollar. There happened to be this journalist that was a fan. The guy we met there from The Guardian, Mike Doherty, loved it.

It sounds clichéd, but we went to Canada and people loved it. You can't give this shit away in New York. First of all, there's so many egos and people here. There's a lot of people trying to find themselves, find different things.

You get lost. You become apathetic. It's good to see the reaction we've been getting. We didn't know we were supposed to stop.

DANIEL: We didn't get that memo.

DANNY: What else am I supposed to do?

Along the way, we've lost a lot of people.

We've lost friends who didn't really see our vision. We understand that people have lives, so it's not a bitter situation. The idea of stopping never came into our minds.

DANIEL: Jim Morrison was right: "Music is your only friend until the end." I thought he was joking and then, damn, I'm divorced.

Wow, music really is my only friend.

DANNY: I just chose to keep doing music.

I've lost wives. I've lost girlfriends. One thing I didn't ever lose was my desire to do music.

You cry for a while. You're depressed for a while. You have to get up and do what makes your blood flow.

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THE VELDT THE SHOCKING FUZZ OF YOUR ELECTRIC FUR: THE DRAKE EQUATION (Leonard Skully Records) You could excuse some nervousness on behalf of The Veldt.

The five-track set The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation is the first batch of new material from Raleigh twins Daniel and Danny Chavis under the name in nearly twenty years.

In the interim, the music industry has shifted dramatically, so that the structures, celebrities, and even the sounds themselves are no longer the same. In fact, lots of stuff in that span has made The Veldt, whose star never rose to its predicted apogee, sound remarkably prescient. TV on the Radio’s curling mix of gospel and rock and modern hip-hop’s love of dissonant textures and broken beats all seem like arrows shooting from The Veldt’s idiosyncratic atmosphere. What’s more, many of the band’s shoegaze peers have reunited, riding the wave of latent hype cycles to the high-paying top rows of festival posters. You’d be anxious about re-entry, too.

But The Shocking Fuzz is the most assured, at-ease collection of The Veldt’s entire career, with big, stuttering beats and overdriven, swollen textures suggesting a paragon of what you might call “soulgaze.” It’s as if, upon hearing recent approximations of what they once did, the Chavis brothers settled again into their old sound, happy to recharge it.

Opener and lead single “Sanctified” is a high-volume daydream, sheets of guitars shrieking beneath the trunkrattle zeal of programmer Hayato Nakao. Echoed by singer Marie Cochrane, Daniel sounds like a sensual minister, wonderfully lost somewhere between the realms of R&B and gospel.

“One Day Out of Life” is an act of dissonant accretion, with rays of noise gradually building into a deafening roar that swallows Daniel’s forlorn falsetto.

But it’s “In a Quiet Room” that sounds the most like what was once future music and what is now incredibly popular. Bright guitars scatter with U2-like delay over a fierce trap beat; an angelic web of vocals crisscrosses through it all, its hook surrounded by arching, close-eyed melismas. It’s profoundly narcotized pop, built for a generation working to legalize weed by a generation that didn’t have the luxury in the first place. Easy way to calm the nerves, at least. —Grayson Haver Currin

The wall of Rise's new downtown Durham store

PROOF OF CONCEPT RISE IS THE REGION’S FASTEST-GROWING FOOD FRANCHISE, BUT IT’S NOT JUST DONUTS AND BISCUITS THAT MAKE IT COOK.

BY ALLISON HUSSEY • PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEREMY M. LANGE

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f you show up at Rise Biscuits & Donuts at four o’clock on a Friday morning, you’re already running four hours behind Bethany Conver.

The baker has been at the Rise near Durham’s Southpoint Mall—the flagship operation of a suddenly sprawling local franchise, with big plans to go national within the next year—since midnight, starting by herself the process that will yield a day’s worth of donuts. The approaching weekend always means big biscuit-and-donut business, she says, so this will be a busy day.

From Thursday through Sunday, this is Conver’s life.

At this early hour, the compact kitchen is chilly, and it smells mostly of grease and sugar. Conver’s daily ritual is methodical, maybe even rote, but it’s not light work. To make a massive batch of apple fritters, for instance, she wraps large chunks of chopped apples and multiple dollops of cinnamon into a swath of thick dough. She wields her pastry cutter like an ax, each blow landing with a thud and separating the start of one fritter from the rest. Bethany folds the dough and

repeats, manually blending the pastry each time.

The donuts are proofed, or allowed to rise, one final time before they’re fried, glazed, and iced. Conver glazes them when they emerge from the fryer, using a slotted stainlesssteel glazing table that allows several donuts to get their sugary shell at once.

Just after four, Conver begins to get backup. First, a lone decorator arrives to fill, ice, and sprinkle donuts for hours.

The rest of the crew—responsible for making biscuits, running the registers, making sure the restaurant is ready to serve—arrives around six a.m., an hour before the doors open.

And when they do, more often than not, a few customers are already queued up outside.

Those lines, it seems, are starting to show up everywhere, just like Rise. In the four years since Rise opened this single storefront near Southpoint, the business has grown from one location to a string of seven stores across the Triangle—two in Durham, two in Raleigh (with a third coming at the end

of May), and one each in Morrisville and Carrboro. Rise is expanding throughout and beyond North Carolina, too, with twenty-three franchises already sold from Wilmington and Charlotte to as far away as Dallas.

And Rise is now moving beyond its reputation as a breakfast emporium: the new downtown Durham location offers lunchtime biscuits, with flavors including a version of Nashville hot chicken, a pork chop biscuit, and even a sloppy joe.

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decade ago, Tom Ferguson had four ideas for a quickservice food establishment—burgers, biscuits, pasta, and chicken. In 2008, the first theme became OnlyBurger, a pioneering Triangle food truck that has since spawned two brick-and-mortar locations and helped foster the area’s love of mobile eats.

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But the pasta and chicken ideas have been shelved, temporarily at least. Ferguson has had bigger fritters to fry for the last half-decade.

When Ferguson first started considering Rise, he only intended to make biscuits. But on a scouting trip to Portland, Oregon, where he was in town to visit Pine State Biscuits, a friend took him to the city’s famed Voodoo Doughnut. One donut was all it took to set him on a second path.

“I took a bite of the maple bacon and thought, ‘Oh, I’m doing both,’” he remembers.

Ferguson felt specialty donuts, much like biscuits, were an underserved market in the Triangle. When he returned to Durham, he bought the necessary equipment and spent nine months developing the techniques.

Making donuts was a new craft for Ferguson, but working in the food industry wasn’t.

In fact, donuts seem to be the culmination of a lifelong focus on food. In high school, Ferguson struggled with dyslexia and finished low in his class rankings. But along with playing football, cooking for friends was the only thing that gave him real satisfaction.

After a stint in the Army, Ferguson decided to pursue the hobby full-time. He began making omelets at a Marriott in Austin.

He spent the next several years bouncing among jobs, following his Marriott boss to Washington, D.C., before returning to Austin, enrolling in culinary school in New York, and making eight more moves across the country before settling in the Triangle in 1998. He worked in area staples like the late Pop’s and the upscale Nana’s. He also worked in the more business-oriented world of catering.

“I would work in a restaurant to learn how to cook,” he says, “and then I would go to a catering company, and the catering companies didn’t know how to cook that well.”

In 2000, Ferguson launched Durham Catering Company. He still used the kitchen at Nana’s, where he first met sous chef Brian Wiles. A few years later, Wiles was managing another kitchen when he heard of Fer-

guson’s ambitious new breakfast plan. He dropped by Ferguson’s office and left a sticky note on the desk—get in touch.

Ever since, the pair (and third partner, Andy Seamans) has been the force behind Rise’s ascent. Like Ferguson, Wiles’s restaurant acumen comes from years in kitchens, not a business program.

“Tom gave me the confidence and the knowledge to understand the back end of it—the financial end, the payroll, the money going out versus the money coming in,” Wiles says. “That was the missing element.”

Much of this back-end business happens in what Ferguson calls his “war room.” It is, in fact, a modest, unadorned guest bedroom in his Hope Valley home. Three large computer monitors help him oversee his fiefdom.

A computer at each store has a dashboard, which managers use to stay current on new recipes and other dispatches from Ferguson.

And Trello, a web-based management system, has ensured fewer missed phone calls and fewer flurries of emails—really, more efficiency. For Ferguson, this is a point of pride.

“I believe that being dyslexic makes you learn stuff differently and approach stuff differently. It makes me want to connect the lines between people and what they’re doing—make it easier, break it down, just get to the point,” Ferguson says. “If there’s an issue, I don’t want to just fix the issue. I want to go back and fix the problem.”

Long lines and wait times, for instance, were common gripes in Rise’s early days.

Rise initially used a take-a-ticket, deli-style line system for orders. But the volume of sales was higher than anticipated, so the process created chaos. Complaints forced Ferguson to reimagine Rise’s customer service.

He did away with the tickets and installed a new point-of-sale system that eliminated the need for orders to be printed at all.

“We evolved with what the customers were saying, and that made them rightfully feel that they were a part of it,” Ferguson says. “We were listening.”

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t each Rise location, each chef is empowered to make menu decisions, a fundamental principle meant to keep the franchise from getting boring as it expands. At the Big Biscuit Brew Ha-Ha, a fund-raiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, that idea will take center stage. Each of Rise’s six current Triangle locations will present its best biscuit, created in collaboration with topnotch Triangle chefs, such as Bill Smith and Ashley Christensen. And the kitchen pairs each biscuit with a beer from one of six local breweries. Customers vote to determine which of the Rise teams has risen highest.

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The first day under the new system, the crew was able to handle orders more easily, translating to a $500 jump in sales in a single day. Now, on an average Saturday at Southpoint, Rise sells more than seventeen hundred donuts and nearly nine hundred biscuits.

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efore business could boom, Rise had to learn to make donuts.

Three months before Ferguson and Wiles opened their first store, they embarked on what they call “The Donut Tour,” traveling across the United States to visit seven cities in eight days: Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Austin, St. Louis, Atlanta, and New York.

“Tom has always been a big believer in research and development,” Wiles says.

“Going out, seeing things, seeing how they operate, and trying to build the concept behind the idea, instead of just having the idea and going from there.”

Some of the places they visited were great, others only OK, Wiles says. They thought they could do better. What’s more, the exploratory mission proved integral to Rise’s approach to flavor. Shops in Austin, New York, and Portland inspired Rise’s all-important tripartite system of “old school, new school, our school” donuts.

Rise’s “old school” donuts are familiar favorites, and its “new school” donuts tend to follow trends, like the “cronie”—their take on the cronut fad. All of these categories shift a little every month, based on management directive.

The “our school” recipes, though, are new inventions, like the delightful Passion Fruit Tango donut, which boasts a passion fruitflavored filling and an icing made with the citrusy powdered drink of childhood, Tang.

Some suggestions for these flavors come from friends or customers, but they're often made by Rise employees. Ferguson and

Wiles empower each store and its chef to take their own chances and make their own choices. This facet is what keeps Rise from growing stale.

The varieties don’t always last, like a peanut butter-and-jelly donut that proved too complicated to make in high numbers, but little else is off-limits. In late February, for instance, the specials included a salted caramel yeast donut and another that was a nod to King Cake, the Mardi Gras staple, some even stuffed with the traditional tiny plastic baby that’s supposed to bring good luck.

Wiles and Ferguson agree that fancy flavors are a secondary concern. With both biscuits and donuts, texture is paramount.

For biscuits, it’s the balance between a fluffy interior and a slightly crispy exterior. Donuts, Ferguson explains, should have what he calls “mouth pull.”

“When you bite into it and you pull it, does it pull with it? Or does it break off, kind of a little stale?” he explains. “If the texture’s right, the flavor can follow.”

This baker’s mantra seems to hold for Rise as an enterprise. Ferguson and Wiles have built systems that they can manage and expand without too much constant reinvention, and they’ve empowered employees to make each location their own. The flavor follows.

“It’s a little surreal to see it grow,” says Wiles, a few days after the people of Carrboro begin lining up outside the store. “But I keep that in check by saying if we don’t keep this tight and keep our product correct, and continue to make sure we have better processes in place, it could all fall through the cracks.”

Back in Durham, the door swings open at exactly seven a.m. Customers stream into Rise, some of them regulars whom the staff recognizes and greets. They buy the day’s first donuts and biscuits.

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BY CORBIE HILL

The first time it rained, the water flooded Russ Baggett’s new sanctuary.

It was the summer of 2015, and the Some Army bandleader had just moved to Alabama. His wife, Hannah Baggett, had finished her doctorate at N.C. State and found work at Auburn University. The two bought a house in nearby Opelika, a small, conservative town that all but shuts down on Sundays.

Not long after arrival, Baggett turned his energies inward. He populated the basement with instruments and recording gear and began tinkering. He’d physically left the Triangle music scene, in which he’d been playing in various bands for nearly two decades, but he hoped to stay involved from a distance.

He wasn’t going to give up the introspective rock of Some Army, whose other members remained in North Carolina. In the basement of this small house with the big yard, he could record and share demos any time he wanted.

There was nobody close enough to be bothered by noise, either.

“I can set everything up,” Baggett reasoned, “and not worry about breaking it down every day when I leave.”

But here came the rain, the water trickling in. Baggett has a few handyman skills—put him in front of a tape machine or a keyboard, and he’s fine. But a sump pump? Please.

Still, he approached the household problem as he would a musical one: he figured out how to fix it himself. Like the move, he would make it work. l l l

In 2013, Some Army’s trajectory did not involve an Alabama basement. Months after releasing a remarkable, lauded EP, the still relatively new band launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to fund its debut LP. In a little more than a month, they’d surpassed their goal and raised more than $7,000 to record at the esteemed Kernersville studio, Fidelitorium. They planned to release the

record later that year: “As far as rock bands go,” the campaign boasted, “we’re organized.”

Soon, though, it was 2014—then 2015, then 2016, and still no album. On Friday, Some Army will finally issue One Stone and Too Many Birds, three years, one month, and one week after funding the record.

As a Kickstarter campaign, One Stone constitutes something of a failure. It took three years, and the bandleader doesn’t even live in the state. As a record, however, the sonically dense, emotionally complex One Stone is a success. There’s the ebbing and flowing polyrhythms of “Infinite Mirror” and the twilit My Morning Jacket vibe of “Americana Strangler.” “Stars Aligned” ends in a euphoric psych-rock deluge. Turns out, Some Army didn’t put out One Stone until it was ready.

“If we could go back in time, we would have found a different way to put the money together to do the record,” Baggett says. “That probably caused us and me to set unreasonable expectations for the timeline. Once the timeline gets fucked up, that becomes another dimension of the stress.”

Baggett makes it clear that he's grateful for the friends and family who funded the album.

As months turned to years, he updated them often. In prepping the incentives promised to the people who backed the project, Baggett has spent hundreds in postage alone.

“I feel like patronage is a thing that happens and has been a thing throughout history," says Some Army drummer Brad Porter, speaking somewhat from experience as operations director for The ArtsCenter. “Whether you are a painter, a sculptor, a musician, people have patrons.”

As he sees it, crowdfunding is merely the information age’s patronage system. That Baggett took so long to finish One Stone seems immaterial.

“Sometimes you gotta brood over it,” Porter says.

“And nobody broods like Russ Baggett,” bassist Joe Caparo says, laughing.

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On a weeknight, Porter, Caparo, and guitarist Elysse Thebner Miller hold down a corner table in Carrboro’s B-Side Lounge. Porter and Caparo “just saw Dad this weekend,” Caparo jokes, when the two stayed with the Baggetts on their way to Texas for South by Southwest.

Every member of Some Army still in North Carolina plays in other bands, which makes the separation and wait less fretful.

“I get my creative needs met elsewhere, which allows me to be just openly excited about Some Army stuff when it comes up,” Miller says. “There's something about this project that, for whatever reason, always feels really fun and fresh.”

The band members have never emailed more than they do now, she says, and the Opelika basement demos make for exciting listening. If there is a regret, keyboardist Patrick O'Neill offers later, it’s that the band retreated from live shows in 2013 to finish the album but never really started back.

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tum we might have had,” says O'Neill.

Caparo wishes Some Army had played more shows in the past three years, too, but in many ways, he says, the unintended pause was essential. There was a lot of raw energy to the initial sessions, and the tracks wouldn't have sounded properly focused or had the same impact if they'd been rushed.

“The work Russ put in to make it feel more cohesive and polished was, in part, what made it more time-consuming,” Miller says.

“I set the bar pretty high for myself,” Baggett confirms. “Am I a perfectionist?

I’m not a good enough player to be a real perfectionist.”

Still, when a song doesn’t sound the way he wants, the problem becomes a significant source of distress. He scrapped a few Fidelitorium-recorded numbers and put in additional studio time with some friends before taking everything on himself; he had produced and recorded the EP in-house, so he naturally drifted back to that approach.

Through 2014, Baggett shared a practice space with the Raleigh bands Gray Young and Goner. He was working as a waiter at night, so he’d arrive at seven or so in the morning, four or five days a week, and obsess over keyboard tones or individual guitar lines. A year passed this way. When One Stone was as close to complete as Baggett could get it, Han-

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nah accepted her assistant professorship at Auburn. In July 2015, they left.

“It’s hard to know what to think about it at this point," Baggett says of the album, allowing a chuckle. “It's taken so long that I'm at the point where I don't really care.”

But he probably likes it more than he lets on; at least his bandmates do. Caparo had it in his CD changer recently to relearn the material. When the randomizer pulled up one of the songs, Caparo was impressed before realizing it was his own band. Miller says she hears different nuances through different stereo systems. Many of the sounds Baggett discovered and deployed in the long process between crowdfunding and release are only used once on the record, a reflection of the attention paid to every track.

“For whatever reason, the record finally feels ready to be put out,” Miller says. “It needed to age a bit before.” l Twitter: @afraidofthebear

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BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN The first time I saw Wu Man play the pipa, a four-stringed lute with an ancient Chinese lineage, time seemed to stop. I stood silently and slack-jawed, watching her left hand dart along the instrument’s neck, bending and shaping notes to add subtleties of inflection and tone that guitarists (bless their six strings) just can’t get.

A quarter-century after her arrival in America, Man has become one of the world’s leading instrumentalists with an instrument that’s largely unfamiliar, at least to Western audiences. Though she often plays traditional Chinese music, she is perhaps more interested in adding the pipa to unconventional settings, like the works of Brian Eno or even bluegrass.

I spoke to Man at a tour stop in Portland, Maine, where she was playing several new pieces of contemporary Chinese music with the Shanghai Quartet—simply the latest part of her mission, it seems, to pass the pipa.

INDY: You play lots of traditional Chinese music, of course, but you’ve never seemed limited by it. You’ve played bluegrass and modern Chinese classical music. You’ve played with Philip Glass and Terry Riley.

Has that diversity become an aim?

WU MAN: I trained in China, and I grew up with the kind of music that people call “Chinese music.” But in the twenty-first century, for a lot of traditional musicians, the question is how can we survive in society? Not only in China but a lot of other countries have slowly lost their traditions. Outside of small villages, it’s harder to hear traditional music.

It is very important to step out of this box that we call “Chinese music.” I tell others that this not only belongs to the Chinese. This culture and this instrument is for all of us, for the globe. It’s important for composers to know they could use different instruments, not only violin, strings, piano, Western classical instruments. They could use pipa. They could use banjo. They could use African instruments. This is only the tool to write.

Speaking of bluegrass, you played “I’m Going Back to North Carolina” alongside a banjo player on Wu Man and Friends. How does that connect to pipa?

Sometimes you are surprised at how similar traditions are. The geographic location is far away, across the ocean, but somehow you always find a similarity in culture, in music. On Wu Man and Friends, I play with a banjo player on an American folk song. When I first heard music played on the banjo, I said, “Wow, this is perfect to play on the pipa.” And I had heard from a lot of audiences that the pipa sounds like a banjo. So, to me, it’s very comfortable.

It’s natural to play bluegrass, because the instruments are from the same family.

But are there instruments or settings you’ve found incompatible with pipa?

For instrumentation, I’ve so far been very successful with Western string quartets, wind instruments, and percussion. But I’ve never tried pipa with brass, like trombone. I haven’t figured out how to make it work sound-wise, with the different colors. You haven’t seen anything of the pipa with the piano.

If I do that, I need to be really careful of how the piano is going to be played. With a piano, every note is perfect in Western pitch, but the language doesn’t really go with my pipa because we have such lefthanded ornamentation. People already have the ear for piano, of how they think it should be in tune. But with my instrument, the left hand is very flexible. It is totally different intonation. For most people, the two instruments put together are probably not in tune.

Each collaboration, I have thought about it well. It’s very much done carefully to pick what kind of instrument and what kind of musician I want to work with.

That’s very personal. l gcurrin@indyweek.com

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Educated at The Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, Cushman is the author of her own cookbook, “Simple, Real Food.”

Amanda’s healthy recipes have appeared in publications such as Food and Wine, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. In Los Angeles her highly successful private classes included celebrities such as Neil Patrick Harris, Molly Sims and Randy Newman.

Wanting a slower pace with more focus on local, farm to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham.

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ight Kitchen Bakehouse & Cafe opened in November of 2014 rather quietly. “We didn’t have much time or extra cash to have a big to-do,” says owner Helen Pfann, “My Dad brought some wine for a soft opening party, and then we were off.”

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

European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top.

The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus.

“I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. “I designed the kitchen so we could do wholesale and have room to grow. We’ve just started working with the Produce Box, so folks statewide can try our breads.”

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

Exchange and fine teas from Tin Roof Teas, it’s a great space to meet a friend or have a small gathering at one of the larger farm tables. A selection of sandwiches, daily soup and quiche specials round out the menu.

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Langston Hughes is now most widely known in the context of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which draws its title from Hughes’s “Harlem.”

The poem asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?”

But, as N.C. State associate professor W. Jason Miller’s new book, Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric (University Press of Florida), reminds us, Hughes had a wider impact. Miller demonstrates the profound influence Hughes's poems exerted on the letters, sermons, speeches, and ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. If the influence of Mahatma Gandhi helped King shape his vision of nonviolent resistance, then Hughes’s poetry helped him articulate it to the masses.

Miller, the author of a previous study of Hughes, makes this case with archival sources and analysis of King’s copious writing. In a 1960 visit to Durham’s White Rock Baptist Church, King drew a vivid phrase from “Harlem” to decry “the festering sore of segregation” in the state. The opening lines of Hughes’s “Youth” resonate with the tone of civil rights leaders, calling for optimism amid continual struggle: “We have tomorrow/ Bright before us/ Like a flame.” In a dozen years, King cited the poem nearly six dozen times.

But King didn’t simply quote Hughes.

Instead, he riffed, deliberately modifying the poems to suit his rhetorical situation and the political climate. As Miller puts it, King “transposes, extends, blurs, and … recasts” his sources. Without saying it outright, the author portrays King as Hughes’s protégé, which marks him as one of the most important mid-century American poets.

Hughes and King’s unspoken collaboration, Miller argues, stands as “the twentieth century’s most visible integration of poetry and politics.” For anyone following politics today, there’s no doubt that he’s right. It’s impossible to read the words of Hughes and

King without cringing at how far politics has drifted from poetry. Is anything less imaginable in 2016—a year of insults, doggerel, and patent falsehoods—than a candidate waxing poetic?

The most powerful argument in Origins of the Dream goes unstated: political speech blossoms when it isn’t simply political.

Without a little poetry—which, according to Auden, “makes nothing happen”—perhaps a little too much happens.

King, cribbing Hughes, wrote, “The clock on the wall read almost midnight, but the clock in our souls revealed that it was daybreak.” Between these words and Trump’s recent claim to “have the best words,” the border between politics and anything lyrical seems to have been sealed with a fiftyfoot wall. l Twitter: @dedalus11

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Joel McHale’s trademark snark with smarts has gotten scarcer recently, after the end of Community, the cult-favorite sitcom he starred in, and The Soup, the E! series where he spent more than a decade mocking other TV shows. But McHale quickly pursued new endeavors, appearing in the new The X-Files and starring in an upcoming CBS comedy pilot, The Great Indoors. He’s also publishing a memoir, Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be, in November.

Before coming to DPAC on April 8, McHale chatted with the INDY about his stand-up act, his book, and the future of Community, mostly sarcastically.

INDY: The X-Files, the book, the tour—are you sure you’re working enough?

JOEL MCHALE: Well, what about the CBS pilot? And I’m getting a paper route, and training to become a dental hygienist.

That’s good. There were some worries you were about to be underemployed.

As you just said, I live a life of desperation— that every job I take could be the last one. If I’m not doing lots of jobs, I’ll just be at home, running around in circles, screaming, “This isn’t happening! This isn’t happening!”

What draws you back to stand-up?

Well, standing on stage and telling people jokes is very energizing and nerve-wracking and fun. And they pay me. I think it lengthens my life, and allows me to ridicule people from different parts of our country.

Diversity is important. Do you have a particular theme for this show?

I would say it’s mid-century-modern … I don’t know. It’s a new act. I don’t think the people of Durham have even seen the old act. It talks about current events, and me and my family.

And there’s pyrotechnics, a lot of explosions and aerial work; it’s a lot like Cirque du Soleil.

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Is there anything you can reveal about your book?

It’s a memoir-slash-self-help book—how to become a celebrity, and when you become a celebrity, how to get free stuff, and how to operate as a celebrity. There’s a chapter called “Angela Lansbury–Eat a Dick!”, which is about how to start a celebrity feud.

Ever considered writing film or TV scripts?

I have not written my Game of Thrones episode yet, where you see the White Walkers at home, just kind of hanging out and getting their White Walker kids ready for school.

Community had a strong finale with that hashtag, #AndAMovie. How might such a movie happen?

Well, I’d like to reach out to readers today and ask for $50 million for the movie. That would be very helpful; it would get us a third of the way to our goal, which is a $150 million production. It’s going to look much bigger than Pirates of the Caribbean. As far as it actually happening—everyone in the cast is more than happy to do a movie. We very much enjoyed our last season on Yahoo [after leav-

ing NBC] because they let us do whatever we wanted, and I think those episodes are some of the best we ever did.

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Has your reality TV expertise from The Soup given you insight on how to defeat Trump?

Defeat him? Why would you want to do that?

Point. He might be helpful for material.

Uh, yeah! Very helpful. I’m voting for Dukakis this year, so I’m feeling he’s going to re-enter the race very soon. You have all your Super Tuesdays and your caucuses, and we’re just sitting back in California, waiting for you to get done. Then we’ll tell you who we want.

That’s the kind of arrogance you rarely hear about on the West Coast, but it’s prevalent.

You got your wine out here; in Seattle we got Starbucks; we make your airplanes at Boeing.

This is the kind of arrogance you’ll hear on stage.

What are some other projects you have coming up?

Trying to raise my kids not to be animals.

We’re in Southern California, so there’s only a one-percent chance they won’t. l Twitter: @thezacksmith

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Is the downtown Raleigh romp of Hopscotch too much for you? Does the thematic grandeur of Moogfest overwhelm you a month before it even starts in Durham? If so, Duke Coffehouse’s much more modest and manageable Brickside let’s you dip into a post-everything festival of rap and rock and pop and experimental mayhem for a day and then return to your regularly scheduled life. The third-ever Brickside lineup is indeed a curious one, with New York rap pioneer Grandmaster Flash—you know, the Furious Five, “The Message,” “The Adventures of…”— headlining alongside fellow New York icon, record producer, and weirdo heavy rock master Martin Bisi. The real excitement, though, may come from the visceral noise shocks of provocateur Pharmakon and the brilliantly confrontational, Springsteenand-Strummer-sized political anthems of Downtown Boys. Several top-notch locals—the alluring Zensofly, the swaggering Natural Causes, and the glaring Bad Friends—join. Also, AJJ, formerly knock as Andrew Jackson Jihad.

—Grayson Haver Currin

Greg Cartwright has mellowed with age. But rather than diluting what forged his reputation as a high-caliber rock ’n’ roller decades ago, the process and restraint has made the Asheville-based songwriter and bandleader more potent. Sure, the raw and rowdy garage-punk his Oblivians made in the nineties remains vital, teeth-gnashing rock.

But even then, Cartwright showed his classicpop songwriting chops. And with his latest and longest-running act, Reigning Sound, Cartwright’s evolution has been pronounced.

On 2014’s Shattered, the Reigning Sound’s Merge debut and one of Cartwright’s finest to date, he hinges on craft, augmenting his instincts for melody with seventies soul strings and keys. To wit, he cut the album at the epicenter of the soul revival, New York’s Daptone. Songs like “Falling Rain” back Cartwright’s subtly worn vocals with a brassy punch that vamps into a timeless hook. He goes solo here for a collaborative series between Merge and the brewery New Belgium—a perfect opportunity for the songs to outshine the sonics. Nest Egg opens.

—Bryan C. Reed THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., free, www.thepinhook.com

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You can call this show a staged reading with benefits for two reasons. Each night, different local celebrities will perform what originally was a one-person BBC radio play, with part of the proceeds going to charities. But they won’t be alone onstage. In Lee Hall’s uncanny drama, a twelve-year-old girl with autism hasn’t got much time to figure out a lot of things: Why are her parents sometimes together and sometimes not? What are the doctors not divulging about her gift for numbers and her ailing body? And how do you die the right way? Only the beauty of opera gives the title character moments of transcendence. As such, soprano Julianna Tauschinger-Dempsey will perform songs associated with Maria Callas during the performance. Christian Stahr accompanies on piano; Jerome Davis directs. —Byron Woods MURPHEY SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $5–$25, www.burningcoal.org

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That didn’t take long. In late December, The Station, a longtime staple on Carrboro’s Main Street, shuttered along with Southern Rail and The Tiger Room due to the most recent owner’s tax debts. But Andrew Moore, who owns The Venable, just a few yards away, swooped in with plans to turn Southern Rail into a forthcoming barbecue joint and to update The Station into a properly intimate rock club. Moore chose wisely in building a staff, selecting Carrboro musician and booking agent Michelle Temple to make the club more than an open-mic joint or free-show afterthought. She’s got some interesting ideas, too, including using the club for rock shows on Thursdays and Fridays and reserving Saturdays for strong DJ sets. This weekend, they give it a shot: Kamara Thomas, formerly of Earl Greyhound, offers her current soul-folk on Thursday, followed by the wonderfully gestural classic rock of Transportation (and the intricate indie of Knurr and Spell) on Friday. DJs Fifi Hi-Fi and Mike D christen the decks on Saturday. —Grayson Haver Currin

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The sport called ultimate disc has shades of football, soccer, and basketball; players jockey for soaring passes, pressing toward opposing goal lines. The recent phenomenon of pro ultimate separates itself from the decades-old club system by replacing a complex tourney structure with a TV-friendly season. It works: The Raleigh Flyers’ opening-day BBQ Bowl at Cardinal Gibbons High School, a face-off with rivals The Charlotte Express, is one of three scheduled to air on ESPN3 this year. You can pregame with Backyard Bistro barbecue and a Trophy growler, participate in free youth clinics and pickup games, radar-clock your Frisbee flick, or turn the children loose in the Flyerz Kidz Zone, if you dare: It’s “filled with Spikeball, Kan Jam, and more!” (No idea, but sounds dangerous.) Cruelly, Flyers mascot Sunny the Flying Pig will be forced to sing the national anthem as you chew ’cue, raising the specter of a Rosanne-like travesty. Then there’s the game: The Flyers started strong in the American Ultimate Disc League last year, becoming 2015 South Region champs. Maybe their flight to the Final Four starts here. —Brian Howe CARDINAL GIBBONS HIGH SCHOOL, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $5–$14, www.raleigh-flyers.com

THURSDAY, APRIL 7–SATURDAY, APRIL 23

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A detective is interrogating a suspect on his recent online behavior. “Who are we when we ‘interact’ without consequence?” she asks. “What is ‘revealed’ by feeling an ax slide through the flesh of a little girl?” The man calmly replies, “The revelation is when she resurrects and comes to stand before you again.” Jennifer Haley’s unnerving psychological drama asks just how virtuous virtual reality will be if humans are able to explore their darkest impulses in full-fidelity sight, sound, smell, and touch; the answers might have you looking at that Oculus Rift in a different light. Jules Odendahl-James directs a cast including Caitlin Wells, Lazarus Simmons, and Marleigh Purgar McDonald. —Byron Woods MANBITES DOG THEATER, DURHAM Various times, $10–$20, www.manbitesdogtheater.org

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The final quartet, written in 1875, splits the difference, with themes bounding between major and minor modes at will and pointing toward the complexity of his later music.

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The Cactus Blossoms EVERLY There’s a fine line AFTER between influence and replication, and The Cactus Blossoms’ debut, You’re Dreaming, goes beyond mere retro tribute. The duo of brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum conjures up The Everly Brothers, but they bring a crisp, knowing perspective to vintage harmonies. —KM [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12/8:30 P.M.]

Halestorm NÜ On Into the Wild COUNTRY Life, Halestorm adds Nashville fuel to sludgy rock; the end result aims for country crossover, an appealing possibility if you imagine watching lye-voiced lead singer Lizzy Hale smoke that genre’s endless supply of beer-andtruck-obsessed bros. With veteran shredder Lita Ford and blistering upstarts Dorothy.

—MJ [THE RITZ, $29.50/7:30 P.M.]

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Holy Ghost Tent Revival HOLY Holy Ghost Tent ROLLERS Revival, formerly of Greensboro but now of Asheville, is more old-school than Sunday school. The septet plays a laid-back brand of rock that bends more toward roosty soul and urbane updates of The Beatles. Squint hard enough, and “Right State of Mind” kind of sounds like a Revolver outtake. —PW [MOTORCO, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

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Elle King EXES/ Last year’s surprise OHS hit “Exes and Ohs”—a saucy track that smushes the sweep of “The Killing Moon” and the bite of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”— only offered a small taste of Elle King’s potential. On her first full-length, Love Stuff, her raspy growl summons the blues and slowly gathering storms with equal aplomb. The banjo-flecked “Kocaine Karolina,” sure to be welcomed here, shows her gentler side. —MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20/8 P.M.]

The Second Wife COUNTRY Bouncing TWANG confidently between classic rock and honky-tonk twang, Second Wife’s Tourist also reflected the real-deal struggles of mastermind and master singer Reese McHenry. She carefully pieced together the record while recovering from a heart condition in recent years.

McHenry and her band share the stage with Raleigh’s Orchid Sun, who play shredding, standard piano rock. —DS [KINGS, $7/9 P.M.]

Voidward METAL The 2013 EP Knives WANDER introduced Voidward, then the solo project of Durham’s Greg Sheriff, with three long tracks that fused post-rock with black metal’s banshee roar and wandering psych-rock. That debut

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GABRIEL KAHANE & TIMO ANDRES I was interviewing the young composer, pianist, and singer Gabriel Kahane on the radio when I made a mistake. I accidentally conflated him with Timo Andres, a slightly younger but certainly related composer. Kahane took it in stride. Turns out, even if their music runs in wildly different directions, the two are kindred musical spirits. Kahane should require no introduction in these parts; he seems to play here every few months, most recently in October with the N.C. Symphony. His songs abound with the pathos of richly conceived characters. Andres, on the other hand, is more austere, preferring rhythmic thickets and minimalist bliss. A highly accomplished pianist, he, too, has performed with the N.C. Symphony in the past year as both a featured soloist and composer.

What they share is an abiding fascination with the weight of the Western classical canon. For this duo recital, they weave a peculiar musical sheaf—really, a mixtape—that binds Schumann and Bach with Andrew Norman, Thomas Adès, and their own music. Schubert’s Impromptu in G-flat Major bumps into Kahane’s “Where Are the Arms” so they cast each other into relief, complementary melodies undulating in different ways. A few songs by Britten and Ives flank the mixtape, and they are especially mellifluous in Kahane’s unadorned baritone; classical art songs often get bogged down with operatic vibrato, so hearing them as simple songs is a welcome change. They’ll play a few of György Kurtág’s Bach chorale transcriptions, too, which sound wonderfully like toy pianos. And, of course, since they are musical buds, they wrote pieces for each other, trying to capture a vision of the other’s sound. —Dan Ruccia UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $10–$20, www.carolinaperformingarts.org showcased Sheriff’s knack for rangy, exploratory music as well as his ability to nest detours inside high-endurance riffing.

Voidward headlines as a full band, borrowing members from local heavies Hog and MAKE. Atlanta’s MTN ISL and Raleigh’s Witchtit open. —BCR [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

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FRI, APR 8 Buddy Black BLUES Buddy Black’s raw SHREDS blues mates the instrumental fire of Albert Collins with the scalded singing of Buddy Guy. Black has an impressive and eclectic musical résumé, including gigs with Percy Sledge and Ernest Tubb. A slew of guitar slingers have covered “Five Long Years,” but Black’s version roasts this old blues chestnut ‘til it’s crispy. The Tornado Blues Band opens.

—GB [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $10/7 P.M.]

Free Clinic, Pie Face Girls POLAR Free Clinic and Pie OPPOSITE Face Girls occupy opposite ends of the fidelity spectrum. Wilmington trio Free Clinic plays its garage-pop buttoned up, with tunes that have a cool, coastal breeziness.

Raleigh’s Pie Face Girls are scuzzy and dingy, with rejoinders—“Fuck You, I’m Pretty”—that are irresistibly racy and ribald. —PW [KINGS, $5–$7/10 P.M.]

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Outliar THRASH While debuting a REVIVAL new lineup in February, Raleigh thrash revivalists Outliar seemed not to have missed many steps in transition. Their performance was tight and frantic, evoking Metallica’s grunting melodies, Slayer’s frenzied assaults, and Sepultura’s grooves. With Behind the Wheel, American Empire, and Edge of Humanity.

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FUNKED Downtown UP Durham’s new Carolina Soul coexists with a variety of Triangle record stores, but its niche aesthetic gives it the feel of a sacred headquarters for vintage enthusiasts sharing and searching for every funk, soul, hip-hop, and jazz gem known. Now it can act as a charging station for soulful DJs stopping through, like New York’s Danny Akalepse. He’s at The Pinhook on Friday before heading to Raleigh’s Five Star on Saturday with his longtime friend and fellow crate-digger DJ Ryah, of the Carolina Soul Records team. Two nights, two spots for soul-splurging turntable adventures. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $7/10 P.M.]

Josh Thompson SECRET Come for Josh STAR Thompson’s radio singles like “Beer on the Table” and “Way Out Here,” but stay for hidden gems he’s written for Brad Paisley and Jason Aldean.

The singer-songwriter helped pen the two superstars’ best cuts to date—Aldean’s honest “Church Pew or Bar Stool” and Paisley’s cutting “A Man Don’t Have to Die.” —KM [CITY LIMITS, $12/8 P.M.]

Umphrey’s McGee SKIN JOB As jam bands go, Umphrey’s McGee is uncharacteristically tight. The songs on 2014’s Similar Skin average less than five minutes.

Live, they snap to the shifting tempos of their intricate arrangements with a precision that’s almost mechanical. The game of Spot the Influence, though, remains pretty easy: the Dead, of course, and a lot of Weather Report, Yes, and seventies Zappa. This is the start of a two-night stand with Tauk. —PW [THE RITZ, $27.50–$50/7:30 P.M.]

UNC Opera OPERA With UNC SQUARED undergrad singers, UNC Opera presents a pair of lighthearted mini-operas. In Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone, Ben keeps trying to propose to Lucy, only to be thwarted by her phone conversations. At twenty-five minutes, it’s more short story than novel. And Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon, premiered in 1904 when Viardot was eighty-three, is a fairly silly retelling of Cinderella with a few key changes. Written for piano and singers, it feels perfect for a Parisian salon. —DR [UNC’S GERRARD HALL, $10/7:30 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Some Army, Jphono1, No Eyes; 9 p.m., $7–$10. See page 33.

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p.m., $10. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Shanghai Quartet featuring Wu Man; 8 p.m., $10–$38. See page 37. • GARNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band; 7:30 p.m., $15–$18. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Delta Rae, Aubrie Sellers; 8 p.m. • LITTLE LAKE HILL: Kate Campbell; 8 p.m., $20. • POUR HOUSE: The Shakedown: Rod Stewart; 9 p.m., $12.

• RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Gavin Degraw, Mark Scibilia, Jason Adamo Band; 8 p.m., $28–$102. See indyweek.com. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Scott Sawyer and Dave Finucane; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Curtis Eller, Drowning Lovers, Charming Disaster; 9 p.m., $5. • ST JOSEPH’S PERFORMANCE HALL: Eleanor Tallie; 7 p.m., $30–$40 • THE STATION: Transportation, Knurr & Spell; 8:30 p.m., $5. See page 41.

SAT, APR 9 Acid Mothers Temple RADICAL Acid Mothers MESS Temple isn’t a band that takes it easy. For the last twenty years, the revolving collective has been perpetually prolific, releasing records that skip between psychedelic lift and scrambled jazz, between wall-of-sound rock and playful paroxysms. Every show and every album seem to be a bit of a mystery, a chance for AMT to try some new stunt or to test (and sometimes prove) some latent capability. At best, their shows are first-rate, totally immersive freak-outs. With Mounds. —GC [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Phil Cook & the Guitarheels RHYTHM In September, Phil & ROOTS Cook released Southland Mission, a full-band realization of his interpretations of American roots music. Cook has said the record was something he felt like he had to do. Indeed, opener “Ain’t It Sweet” bursts open with joy, while the rest offers reflections on tribulations and triumphs.

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Live & Local: Earth Day 2016 GREEN To celebrate Earth DAY Day, the merchants of Hillsborough Street have put together a day-long, familyfriendly festival with a little something for everyone. From Jack the Radio’s roots rock and John Dee Holeman’s Piedmont blues to a Japanese drumming outfit and the pop-rock of headliners The Love Language, the roster is suitably diverse.

You can also learn about exotic animals and rain barrels and take in aerial performances from Raleigh’s Cirque de Vol. —AH [COMPAGNIE PARK, FREE/2 P.M.]

Swift Creek GREENER Raleigh’s Swift ‘GRASS Creek is another of the Triangle’s current crop of mid-grade folk outfits. The band’s bluegrass-inclined tunes are bright and gentle, even when the band sounds unsure of its sound. Swift Creek celebrates the release of its second album, Magnolia. —AH [KINGS, $8/8 P.M.]

Orlando Consort 4 JOAN 4 It’s a strange and EVA AGO brilliant idea: construct a soundtrack for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1927 film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc with music composed in France during Joan of Arc’s lifetime. To complement the film, the Orlando Consort has selected a varied mix of sacred songs by largely unknown composers.

This was a transitional moment during the Hundred Years War, where the extreme complexity of the Ars Nova had fallen out of favor for the clarity of chanson.

Two of the most famous composers of the era—Dufay and Binchois—appear with

some early chansons. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–$38/8 P.M.]

Sponge Bath BLISS Golden Light is the BEATS vinyl debut of Carrboro house maestro Sponge Bath. Its sides glow faintly, as if from a distance, with new-age encouragement whispered above a hard beat with a soft edge. Fresh from tour, new records in hand, this is Sponge Bath’s night, though the rest of the bill isn’t so shabby. Loner.9 headlines, with Patrick Gallagher and Misha offering support.

—GC [NIGHTLIGHT, $8/10 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY THE CARY THEATER: Beth Wood, Mary Johnson Rockers and The Spark; 8 p.m., $20. • CAT’S CRADLE: They Might Be Giants; 8 p.m., $23–$25. • THE CAVE: Blackbeard’s Lost Weekend VII; 7 p.m. See indyweek.com. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Brian Davis; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • DEEP SOUTH: The Nasty Habits, The Johnny Folsom 4; 8 p.m., $8. • LOCAL 506: Sadistik, Bleubird, Weerd Science; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • THE MAYWOOD: Pivot, SlowEnd, Kindler; 9:30 p.m., $8.

• POUR HOUSE: Sunny Ledfurd, Jujuguru; 9 p.m., $12–$15. • THE RITZ: Umphrey’s McGee, Tauk; 7:30 p.m., $27.50–$50. See April 9 listing. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Heart of Carolina Orchestra; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

• SLIM’S: Youth League, Chew; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: DJ Fifi Hi-Fi, Mike D; 9 p.m., $5. See page 41. • UNC’S GERRARD HALL: UNC Opera; 7:30 p.m., $10. • UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Gabriel Kahane and Timo Andres; 8 p.m., $10–$25. See box, page 43.

SUN, APR 10 Duke New Music Ensemble NEW & For its second NEWER concert under director Sid Richardson, the Duke New Music Ensemble offers an intriguing mix, including premieres from David Kirkland Garner, Richardson, and Kenneth David Stewart. All three involve electronics in various ways: Garner backs a

meditative chamber ensemble with electronic drums.

Richardson puts the wail of a loon in conversation with solo violin. Stewart weaves complicated rhythms around a duo of guitar and cello. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, FREE/3 P.M.]

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New jam “I’m Good” doubles down with enough handclap rhythms and positive vibes to make Pharrell blush. For fans of Diet Coke commercials and the Grouplove Pandora station.

With Julia Nunes and The Rebel Light. —DS [CAT’S CRADLE, $15–$17/8 P.M.]

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It opens with a mobile of bird songs and ascetic chords, presaging the mystical Catholic visions to come. Those take the form of pellucid lines that simply hover, never approaching anything resembling an arrival or resolution. Time really does cease to exist. It’s simultaneously ecstatic and contemplative. —DR [UNC’S GERRARD HALL, FREE/7:30 P.M.]

Ringo Deathstarr FORCE Yes, yes, acknowlAWAKEN edge the punny name, and then look past it.

Over the past eight years, the Austin trio Ringo Deathstarr has honed an impressively massive attack that updates the sound of early nineties shoegaze by splicing it with psychedelic pop.

January’s dreamy full-length, Pure Mood, fetchingly splits the difference between A Sunny Day in Glasgow and A Place to Bury Strangers. —PW [THE PINHOOK, $10/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY THE CAVE: IHOG; 7 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Afton Music Showcase; 6:30 p.m., $12–$15. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: Key of Betrayal, House Guest, Noise Ordinance; 3 p.m., free. • NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY: Ed Stephenson & The Paco Band; 3 p.m., free.

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This appearance from Fanfare Ciocarlia, a powerhouse Balkan brass band, is a prime example of why: this twelve-piece is jubilant and raucous and fast, with big beats boiling beneath shouted vocals and howling horns, a perfect party primer. Fanfare Ciocarlia can get mellow on occasion, easing off the drums to offer an arching ballad. Even the best deserve a breather. —GC [MOTORCO, $10–$28/8 P.M.]

PUB ROCK Wreckless Eric’s REBORN cult-hero status has been assured ever since the British rocker released his lovable lo-fi stomp, “Whole Wide World,” in 1977. In recent years, he and his wife, Amy Rigby, have taken up residence in the States and made engaging duo albums. Eric’s latest solo release, 2015’s AmERICa, finds him happily grinding out gritty riffs like it’s still 1977. With Kenny Roby. —JA [LOCAL 506, $10/8 P.M.]

That’s the Joint SHOW Lately, the OFF Durham-based event-planning crew The Underground Collective has consistently offered a platform for burgeoning hip-hop and comedy talents to show off. This Monday night open-mic series is its latest act of tastemaking, hopefully birthing a new breed of standouts, not just hometown hobbyists. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $5/7 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Algiers, The Veldt; 8:30 p.m., $10–$12. See page 20. • THE CAVE: The Rock N Roll High Fives; 7 p.m., $5.

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TUE, APR 12 Into It. Over It. GET INTO The closest kin to IT. the wistful Evan Weiss, the Chicago veteran who’s fronted the essential emopop outfit Into It. Over It. for nearly a decade, isn’t Owen’s Mike Kinsella but Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard. Weiss’s pacing and verbosity have always leaned more Emerald City than Windy City. March’s excellent Standards is packed with smarts and hooks, and it could do for Into It. Over It. what Transatlanticism did for Death Cab. Plus The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, The Sidekicks, and Pinegrove. —PW [MOTORCO, $15–$17/8 P.M.]

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NAPALM DEATH By any measure, Napalm Death is one of metal’s most important bands. In the early eighties, the British band pioneered a bullet-fast fusion of death metal and hardcore eventually called grindcore. Napalm Death earned the favor of the BBC’s John Peel and appeared on a 1988 cover of NME as “the fastest band in the world.” Indeed, its 1.3-second blast “You Suffer” is one of the shortest songs ever recorded. “It’s just everything going at a hundred miles per hour, basically,” bassist Shane Embury told Spin in 1991.

But as Napalm Death aged, it evolved, incorporating elements of noise, industrial electronics, and free jazz, while proving itself a restless beast. The band collaborated with free jazz wizard John Zorn, plus members of Carcass and the Dead Kennedys. In 2013, Napalm Death even worked with ceramicist Keith Harrison on Bustleholme, a performance piece in which the band played a set through speakers encased in tiles, a sort of effigy of Thatcher-era public housing. Ultimately, this open approach to making art, more than speed itself, may be Napalm Death’s defining trait.

Napalm Death remains volatile and vital. Last year’s Apex Predator—Easy Meat is arguably one of the best records in a catalog stuffed with great ones. It detonates blast beats between mid-tempo lurches. “Smash a Single Digit” features a legitimate hook. “Dear Slum Landlord...” rides a slithering melody, with frontman Mark “Barney” Greenway chanting more than screaming. Today, Napalm Death eschews most of the confines of the genre it created. Instead, the elder act has grown to become one of metal’s most consistently thrilling and surprising units. With Skemäta and Necrocosm. —Bryan C. Reed KINGS, RALEIGH 8:30 p.m., $16, www.kingsbarcade.com

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra SCREEN The Bavarian Radio FLAIR Symphony Orchestra has an illustrious history of collaborating with many of the greats from the mid-twentieth century on. This show, however, showcases late romanticism. On the first half is Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s 1945 violin concerto, which repurposes themes from some of his film soundtracks. It’s a boisterous affair that pairs perfectly with Mahler’s fifth symphony, which starts with a desolate funeral march with a soaring trumpet solo and flies everywhere from there. Mahler’s vision is truly cinematic in scope, with a huge range of moods, characters, and conflicts. —DR [UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, $10–$104/7:30 P.M.]

Beverly Tender NOT Raleigh-via-Philly TWEE musician Molly Hastings plays clever, self-conscious “dog rock” with friends under the name Beverly Tender.

In their words, the tag serves to keep them from being labeled as yet another twee band.

Rightfully so, as their prickly guitar atmospherics and

resigned vocals take far more from nineties emo and slowcore giants like Duster than they do from Beat Happening. With Oh, Rose, 100-Watt Horse, and Fish Dad. —DS [THE PINHOOK, $7/8 P.M.]

Slang GLAM Atlanta post-punk GUYS weirdos Slang have crafted a distinct sound.

Frontman Hayes Hoey’s intriguing kinda-goth, kinda-not delivery mines the strange space between glam-era Bowie and the cabaret cheese of that guy from Panic! At The Disco.

Unfortunately, Hoey’s sonorous vocals often carry the rest of the band, who play their parts dutifully but seem afraid to step on the singing. With Hotline and Ghostt Bllonde. —DS [NEPTUNES, $6/9:30 P.M.]

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars ALL Sierra Leone’s A-LEONE Refugee All-Stars includes refugees displaced to Guinea during Sierra Leone’s civil war. The group metes out tunes in a mélange of West African styles—baskeda, palm-wine, gumbe, highlife, soukous—and turn tragedy into uplifting near-spirituals. When the styles blend, the All-Stars make a passable cousin to Fela Kuti’s scorching Afrobeat ensembles; at worst, it can be a bit like watered-down reggae.

Mamadou “Le Nomad” Balde opens. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $15–$18/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Iration, Hirie, The Expanders; 8 p.m., $20–$95.

• CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Erothyme, Stratosphere, Spaceship Earth, Shanti; 8 p.m., $8. • THE CAVE: Heliophonic, Maximino, Axtonfrick, Emceein’ Eye, 1970s Film Stock, Leavves; 8 p.m., $5. • KINGS: Ladies First: An All Women Music Showcase; 8 p.m., $13. • MOTORCO: David Wax Museum, Darlingside, Haroula Rose; 8 p.m., $12–$15.

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SPECIAL Members’ Spotlight Exchange, R EVENT Exhibition: Thru visualartexc May 8. Reception: Fri, Apr 8, LAST Art in Bloom: You’ve heard 6-9 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel CHANCE of flowers inspiring art (cue Hill. www.frankisart.com.

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by Lisa Creed across the state fill the museum Thru Apr 9. ArtSource Fine Art, Thomas. Thr with bouquets inspired by work Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh.com.

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The Scrap E Fearrington Village Open Peg Bachenheimer, Jenny My Mother Took the Ming Rose www.scrap Studio Tour: Sat, Apr 9 Eggleston, Brett Morris, Leslie out of the Cradle: Ceramics by & Sun, Apr 10, 12-5 p.m.

Roatán Gem Pruneau, and Susan Quint: Alice Ballard. Thru Apr 24. Eno Fearrington Village Artists Failure of the American Dream: Thru Apr 3 Thru May 28. Artspace, Raleigh.

Gallery, Hillsborough. www.

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Phil America. $5. Thru May 8.

ART BY SHELLEY SMITH Gallery, Ral www.artspacenc.org. enogallery.net. fearringtonartists.org.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. www. tippingpain Best of North Carolina 2016: camraleigh.org.

The Nature of Wilderness: SPECIAL From the Mountains Rebecca Ro Paintings, prints, and more Michelle Podgorski. Thru May 8.

EVENT to the Sea: Paintings Fooling Around: Rebecca Toy paintings. T surveying the history of North Durham Arts Council, Durham.

by Joan Meade. Apr 10-May 29. and Kim Ballentine. Thru Apr Arts Cente FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Carolina. Thru May 31. Gallery www.durhamarts.org.

Reception: Sun, Apr 10, noon30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh.

C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Site-Specifi 2 p.m. Church of the Good www.localcoloraleigh.com.

Nest: Leatha Koefler and LAST Antoine W Beyond Walls: Shepherd, Durham. www.

Brenda Brokke.

Thru May 22.

From Frock Coats to FlipCHANCE Designs for 25. Artspac cgsonline.org.

Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.

Flops: 100 Years of Fashion artspacenc Twentieth-Century American townofcary.org. at Carolina: Thru Jun 5. UNC Two of the most interesting properties in downtown Raleigh’s Murals: James Henry Skin Dive 2 ONGOING Campus: Wilson Special Notes from the Garden: Susan Moore Square district, the Pink Building and the historic Tarlton Daugherty, Ben Shahn, and water portr Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

Woodson and Carol Nix. Albee/Carland/Hauser/Oleson: House, are teaming up for a unique art exhibit. Developer Jason Charles Alston. Thru Apr 10.

Tyroler. Thr www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

Thru Apr 30. Roundabout Becca Albee, Tammy Rae Queen’s Monarch Property made headlines recently by moving Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Williams H Art Collective, Raleigh. www.

Carland, EJ Hauser, and Jeanine Hill. www.ackland.org. the hundred-year-old Tarlton House to a new location at 414 New Home in a New Place: www.chape roundaboutartcollective.com.

Oleson. Thru Apr 30. Lump, Bern Avenue, using a special, slow-rolling, remote-controlled Photography by Katy Clune Canned Heat: The Art of LAST Raleigh. www.teamlump.org. of an immigrant community contraption. This weekend, home and art lovers alike can tour it OFF-SPRING: New Generations: CHANCE Encaustic Painting: Dianne in Morganton, N.C. Thru Apr This exhibit, mostly while viewing the thesis exhibitions of two graduate students in The Amalgamation Project: T. Rodwell. Thru May 23.

Pottery/gla 27. Center for the Study of the photography, makes “ritual” art and design at N.C. State: Sally Van Gorder and Shelley Smith.

Tom Spleth. Thru Apr 16. Light Cary Town Hall, Cary. www. kiln openin American South, Chapel Hill. its theme, and the offerings Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www.

Both explore feminine identity through household detritus—and, townofcary.org. more. Thru www.uncsouth.org. are alternately revelatory lightartdesign.com. in Smith’s case, multifaceted self-portraits. Smith is also the Creek Galle Claybody: The Human Form in and rehashed from big-box driving force behind the Pink Building, the low-cost studio in a Mary Kircher: Thru Jun 25.

American Impressionist: www.cedar Ceramic Art: Group show. Thru postmodernism.

“Off-Spring Goodnight building nearby, which shows how artists and owners Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Childe Hassam and the Isle of May 13. Claymakers, Durham.

Strangers i of Cindy Sherman” might Raleigh, Raleigh. www. can collaborate to make creative use of dormant properties.

Shoals: In the late-nineteenth www.claymakers.com.

Janssen an have been a better title. skyhouseraleigh.com.

This exhibit in a soon-to-be-residential home is further proof and early-twentieth centuries, May 7. Arts Martha Clippinger: Mixed Stagey oversize portraits of of concept.

After the opening reception on Friday, you can visit American impressionist Childe La Sombra y el Espiritu IV - The artspacenc media work on wood. Thru Apr children in adult dress give a Hassam spent decades painting between one and five p.m. on Saturday, when there’s also an artist Work of Stefanie Jackson: Thru 30. Artspace, Raleigh. www. momentary “whoa” reaction LAST Appledore Island, a resort in the talk at two p.m., and Sunday. —Tina Haver Currin May 13. UNC: Sonja Haynes artspacenc.org. and nothing more; proofs from CHANCE Gulf of Maine. He began near Stone Center, Chapel Hill. www. a Glamour Shots dumpster TARLTON HOUSE, RALEIGH Thru Apr 1 Coming Soon, Dot-to-Dot: the hotel before venturing to sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu. would offer sounder cultural 6–10 p.m., free, www.thepinkbuildingproject.com Museum, C Selections from the Gregg the outer limits of his ninetycriticism. The better pictures Luminous: Jewelry by ackland.org Museum of Art & Design. Thru acre world, painting the varied admit complex reality, not just Arianna Bara and paintings Apr 23. Page-Walker Arts & confluences of rocky coasts and ways: As a master class in (areas of particular strength). seamless artifice. Thru Sep 30. Sweeping G

by Eduardo Lapetina. Thru History Center, Cary. www. placid surf. His style is beautiful drawing, a chance to see the It’s a thorough anatomy 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. Jessica Sing Apr 24. Hillsborough Gallery friendsofpagewalker.org. and refined, like a slightly more hands of big names (including of a form. Thru Jun 19. NC www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ Durham Ar of Arts, Hillsborough. www.

Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.

LAST www.durha Duke University durham. —Chris Vitiello hillsboroughgallery.com.

CHANCE Advanced Painting Klimt, Mondrian, de Kooning, ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe On the Wild Side: Paintings by Tarot Drea Marks of Genius: 100 Magritte, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Students: Thru Apr 9. Craven Master Works of Haitian Art: Nancy Smith. Thru Apr 24. The Carlson, Ke Extraordinary Drawings from and Ruscha, just to name a Allen Gallery, Durham. www.

Pieces from the collection of Community Church of Chapel Hill Darius Qua the Minneapolis Institute of few), or as a dazzling technical cravenallengallery.com.

Norvel and Isabelita Burns.

Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill. 19. Arcana, Art: This outstanding exhibit display. The exhibit ranges from Thru Apr 30. Gallery C, Raleigh. arcanadurh Dust & Smoke: Greg Lindquist of one hundred drawings from fifteenth-century illuminated Other Toy Story: Sculpture www.galleryc.net. and Damian Stamer. Thru Apr LAST the Minneapolis Institute of Art manuscripts and expressive installation by Joyce Dallal.

30. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh.

CHANCE can be experienced in many Baroque portraits to Abstract Thru Apr 28. Visual Art painter, orig Expressionism and Pop Art Greensboro Got something for our calendar? EITHER email calendar@indyweek.com (include the date, time, street address, contact info, cost, and a short description) guardiansh developme OR enter it yourself at posting.indyweek.com/indyweek/Events/AddEvent. DEADLINE: Wednesday 5 p.m. for the following Wednesday’s issue. Thanks! fastidious Monet, but the subject is repetitious, and oddly, NCMA has chosen to pipe in distracting seagull sounds, like a small-town natural history museum. It’s hard to forget these are essentially a wellheeled person’s pretty vacation paintings. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe

The Ease of Fiction: This exhibit features paintings, drawings, and sculptures by four young, U.S.-based African artists who intimately navigate the facts, official narratives, and myths of two nations that see each other in different ways. For example, in “kindred,” Nigeria’s ruby onyinyechi amanze layers photo transfers and drawings in a luminous scene of wading birds, braided hair, and a leopard-headed gentleman of a distinctly colonial mien. $5. Thru Jun 19. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.—Brian Howe

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Exchange, Raleigh. www. visualartexchange.org.

LAST John Parkinson: CHANCE Custom furniture.

Thru Apr 11. Liberty Arts, Durham. www.liberty-arts.org.

The Process of Seeing: Paintings

by Lisa Creed, William Paul Thomas. Thru Sep 30. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com.

LAST Recycling Is for the CHANCE Birds: Birdhouses by Jefferson Garvey. Thru Apr 9.

The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org.

Roatán Gems: Linda Eddins.

Thru Apr 30. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

Rebecca Rousseau: Abstract paintings. Thru Apr 30. Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh.

Site-Specific Installation: Antoine Williams. Thru Jun 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Skin Dive 2016: Photographic water portraits by Barbara Tyroler. Thru Apr 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www.chapelhillpreservation.com.

LAST Spring Pottery & CHANCE Glass Festival: Pottery/glass blowing demos, kiln openings and firings, and more. Thru Apr 10. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www.cedarcreekgallery.com.

Strangers in Paradise: Carolyn Janssen and Jillian Mayer. Thru May 7. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

LAST Study for Portrait CHANCE VI: Francis Bacon.

Thru Apr 10. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org.

Sweeping Green Blue Air: Jessica Singerman. Thru May 8.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Tarot Dreamscapes: Cade Carlson, Kelly Knapp, and Darius Quarles. Thru May 19. Arcana, Durham. www. arcanadurham.com.

LAST The Ties That Bind: CHANCE Beverly McIver is a painter, originally from Greensboro, whose guardianship of a sister with developmental disabilities was

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THE ELEPHANT MAN

As David Bowie and Bradley Cooper both learned (in 1980 and 2015, respectively, when they played in the show on Broadway), the title role in this historical drama is as challenging physically as it is emotionally. For two hours each night, an actor must embody the misshapen form that earned Joseph Merrick notoriety in a London freak show in the 1880s, and made walking, standing, speaking, and sleeping fundamentally problematic throughout his life. But Bernard Pomerance’s script locates and examines the true deformity in society’s historic treatment of the differently abled. Artistic director Ira David Wood III directs his son in the title role. —Byron Woods

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THEATRE IN THE PARK, RALEIGH Various times, $16–$24, www.theatreinthepark.com 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, perhaps you will, too. Thru Apr 9.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. — Brian Howe SPECIAL Visible Spectrum: EVENT Portraits from the World of Autism: Photographs

by Mary Berridge. Thru May 8.

Reception: Fri, Apr 8, 6-9 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

SPECIAL Walls of Color: The EVENT Murals of Hans Hofmann: The Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann took a commission for a mural project in Chimbote, Peru, in 1950. Though never realized, the seven-foot-tall oil studies for it in this exhibit offer a look under the hood of abstraction.

The studies demonstrate Hofmann’s “push/pull theory” of abstraction, by which adjacent colors and forms create synthetic depth and implied movement, a template that one can use on almost any twentieth-century abstract work. Thru Apr 22. Discussion: With Hofmann student Ken Jacobs, Sun, Apr 10, 4 p.m.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org. —Chris Vitiello

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An Evening of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones-inspired belly dance. $10–$12. Thu, Apr 7, 8 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill. www.local506.com.

BOB: Comedic play. $5–$10.

Apr 7-17. Duke Campus: Sheafer Lab Theater, Durham.

On view through June 26, 2016

2001 Campus Drive, Durham I nasher.duke.edu Christian Marclay, Actions: Flopppp Sllurp Spaloosh Whoomph (No. 3) (detail), 2013. Screenprint and acrylic on canvas, 61 1⁄2 x 102 1⁄2 inches (156.2 x 260.4 cm). Collection of Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger. Image courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York. © Christian Marclay. Photo by Steven Probert.

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Charlotte’s Web: Play. $10–$14.

Fri, Apr 8-Fri, Apr 15. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

ChoreoLab 2016: Dance performances choreographed

by Duke faculty Thomas F. DeFrantz, Ava LaVonne Vinesett, Julie Janus Walters, Nina Wheeler, and advanced choreography students in the Duke Dance Program. $7–$17.

Fri, Apr 8 & Sat, Apr 9, 7:30 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

DJ Douggpound, Brent Weinbach: Stand-up comedy. $20. Wed, Apr 6, 8:30 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro. www.catscradle.com.

Drunk Sports Live: Comedy. $5–$13. Wed, Apr 13, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

The Living Mosaic of Language and Cultures in N.C.: Sat, Apr 9, noon. Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Joel McHale: Stand-up comedy. $32–$52. Fri, Apr 8, 8 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com. See story, p. 39.

Merrily We Roll Along: Play presented by Meredith Ensemble Theatre. $5–$10. Apr 6-10. Meredith College: Jones Auditorium, Raleigh. www. meredith.edu.

Cesar Millan: $38–$102.

Sat, Apr 9, 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

The Nether: Play. $5–$25.

Apr 7-23. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org. See p. 41.

Craig Shoemaker: Standup comedy. $18–$31. Apr 7-9. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Spoonface Steinberg: Play. $15–$25. Apr 7-24. Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh. www. burningcoal.org. See p. 41.

ONGOING  ½ Jacuzzi: Ward Theatre’s strongly acted and directed debut production, a taut psychological thriller, is the hottest show in town. $25. Thru Apr 17. Ward Theatre, Durham. wardtheatrecompany.com. — Byron Woods Kafka’s Monkey: Play. Thru Apr 9. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com.

Million Dollar Quartet: Musical. $20–$135. Wed, Apr 6, 7:30 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com.

The Real Americans: Play. $15– $45. Tuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Thru May 1. UNC Campus: Kenan Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.playmakersrep.org.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Presented

by PlayMakers Repertory Company. $15–$44. TuesdaysSundays, 7:30 p.m. Thru Apr 23. www.playmakersrep.org. UNC Campus: Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org.

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Autism in Love: Sat, Apr 9, 2 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Park Row: Tue, Apr 12, 7 p.m.

The Cary Theater, Cary.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: $7–$10. Fri, Apr 8, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

OPENING THE BOSS—Melissa McCarthy is a Martha Stewart-style industry queen seeking redemption. Rated R. DEMOLITION—After his wife dies in a car crash, investment banker Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles to put his life back together. Rated R.

A L S O P L AY I N G See our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE—The spiritual successor of Cloverfield has wit and suspense, not just mysterious marketing. Rated R.  BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE—D.C. Comics’ two most iconic heroes clash in an overstuffed slog littered with great moments. Rated PG-13.  CREATIVE CONTROL—

READINGS & SIGNINGS

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

FAD FESTIVAL Screendance, a term for filmed documentaries, performances, and experiments dealing with dance, is too broad to be contained by the annual festival at ADF alone. In this evening of international screenings at the Cary Theater, Autumn Mist Belk’s Code f.a.d. Company curates fifteen works, including two world premieres by her own company.

Keep an eye out for the stylish, stylized AX.APE by Berlin’s Toby Wulff; Irish filmmakers Adrienne Brown and Eoghan O’Reilly’s atmospheric I See His Blood; Netherlands director Harrie Verbeek’s psychodrama, Interlude; Pippa Samaya’s study in contrast and shadow, Pick Yourself Up; and Conrad Kaczor’s street-level documentary of Portland’s hip-hop, krump, and house scenes, We’re From Here. —Byron Woods THE CARY THEATER, CARY 7 p.m., $3–$7, www.codefadcompany.org Benjamin Dickinson’s squirmy indie is a cautionary tale about virtual reality. Rated R.  ½ DEADPOOL—Marvel’s smartass semi-hero (Ryan Reynolds) revels in excesses of quips and gore. Rated R.  THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT—The YA dystopian franchise turns away from sociological sci-fi.

Rated PG-13.  LONDON HAS FALLEN— Gerard Butler stars in this xenophobic, jingoistic terror-porn sequel to 2013’s

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Olympus Has Fallen. Rated R.  MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN—This Christian film is admirably frank about American families’ unsexy financial challenges. Rated PG.  STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS—J.J. Abrams successfully remixes Star Wars mythology for a new generation. Rated PG-13.  ½ THE WITCH—Arthorror director Robert Eggers conjures the demon-haunted world of early English settlers from real accounts. Rated R.

Linda Ashman: Sun, Apr 10, 2 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Rob Bell: How to Be Here. Fri, Apr 8, 6 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Charles E. Cobb Jr.: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed.

Wed, Apr 13, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

John Donovan and Caren Zucker: In a Different Key: The Story of Autism. Thu, Apr 7, 6:30 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Emery Lord: YA novel When We Collided. Thu, Apr 7, 7 p.m.

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

W. Jason Miller: Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric. Tue, Apr 12, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com. See story, p. 38.

Stephanie Storey: Novel Oil and Marble. Fri, Apr 8, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Two Writers Walk Into a Bar #22: Cantrice Janelle Penn and Sam Peterson. Tue, Apr 12, 7 p.m. West End Wine Bar, Durham. www.westendwinebar.com.

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From the Steeple to the People: Writing Church History Institute: Sat, Apr 9, 10 a.m. Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Raleigh.

Matt Gallagher and Jessica Scott: “Gender and Genre in Military Writing.” Mon, Apr 11, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Humor Conference: Fri, Apr 8 & Sat, Apr 9. www.humor. web.unc.edu. UNC Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

JOSH ROSENTHAL At the helm of the San Francisco record label Tompkins Square, Josh Rosenthal has overseen the release of wonderful new LPs from Frank Fairfield, Daniel Bachman, Alice Gerrard, Ryley Walker, Hiss Golden Messenger, and more. But his eye for the old stuff is just as sharp, with numerous compilations and reissues lending new life to a few underdogs in gospel, folk, and old-time circles.

The theme across Tompkins Square’s catalog is a keen appreciation for the material that deeply informs American roots music. In his new book, The Record Store of the Mind, which he describes as “part memoir, part music criticism,” Rosenthal addresses his life spent among these many albums. Steve Weiss, curator of UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection, joins Rosenthal in a discussion of the book and Rosenthal’s work. —Allison Hussey FLYLEAF BOOKS, CHAPEL HILL 7 p.m., free, www.flyleafbooks.com M.O. Walsh: Novel My Sunshine Away. Wed, Apr 13, 7 p.m.

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

Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Festival: Sun, Apr 10, 1-7 p.m. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Quincy Whitney: American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins—The Art and Science of the Violin.

Mon, Apr 11, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

Jeff Zentner: YA novel The Serpent King. Sun, Apr 10, 2 p.m.

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

LITERARY R E L AT E D Bynum General Store Storytelling: Sat, Apr 9, 6:30 p.m.

Bynum General Store, Bynum. www.bynumfrontporch.org.

Changing Climate, Uncertain Future: Unique Perspectives on Communicating Climate Science: Greg Fishel, Katharine Hayhoe, Walter Robinson. Thu, Apr 7, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Miguel Chirinos: “Money Talks: Don Quixote and the Spanish Peseta.” Sun, Apr 10, 2 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS WILLIAMS

The Tar Heels have done us all a great favor: the haters got their loss, and the faithful got a hell of a season.

Unlike just about everyone, the team actually lived up to the hype.

That last shot by Marcus Paige— an off-balance, falling, twisting number that caused the ball to land and tie the game—was redemptive, a time-stood-still moment in a contest that was slipping away. Torn away, really, by a veteran Villanova team that just didn’t quit.

There is no joy in being on the downside of one of the greatest title games of the tournament, but there’s pride, at least, in seeing a team battle back. In its history, Carolina has many storied combinations (Worthy and Jordan in 1982, Lawson and Hansbrough in 2009) and, of course, five championships. But I am not sure those teams had the same kind of cohesion as this one, a togetherness that built over the year as they got it together. It was a classic tournament run, as close to almost as almost gets—four seconds and some change, really.

It was a fine way to end an era.

We’ll know in a month or so the outcome of two years of NCAA investigations. No matter how it is spun, it’ll leave a nasty mark on UNC’s program. There’ll be penalties, soul searching, and another backlash against the NCAA. (There should be.) While the administration will push the idea of closure, it is doubtful that the clouds over the university will part any time soon. It is already tense in Chapel Hill, after all.

The campus is restive. The generational divide, particularly when it comes to social issues, is getting sharper, and the friction between the system, now firmly in the grasp of conservatives, and some of its more liberal campuses is generating more heat.

I remember an anthropology class at Carolina that ended with a series of lectures on the end of the world, specifically how humans were destroying themselves and the planet. Before the lectures, our professor said the material was so bleak that he only taught the class in spring, with the doomsday material scheduled to coincide with the time the azaleas bloomed. I hope the kids on Franklin Street who had their dreams dashed on Monday will take a little solace in the season.

The Carolina that convenes next fall will have gone through change and challenge. Let’s hope it learned something from its basketball team: get back up, and figure out how to do it better.

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