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A political newcomer and Raleigh City Council member compete for the new state Senate District 13 seat. BY JASMINE GALLUP

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The director of the Hayti Reborn proposal is calling on Durham's City Council to hold a public hearing to allow the community weigh in on plans for redevelopment of downtown properties. BY THOMASI MCDONALD

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Teardowns are happening all over the Triangle. A local Facebook group captures residents' curiosity and frustration. BY REBECCA SCHNEID

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For Margaret Szewcyzk, opening up a European bakery is a taste of home— and a dream come true. BY JASMINE GALLUP

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Helen Frankenthaler's printmaking process comes to the Nasher Museum of Art. BY HARRIS WHELESS

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Raleigh singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy's sophomore album, Dream Rooms, is a bittersweet slant toward the sweetness love can offer. BY SARAH EDWARDS

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This week for the web, Jasmine Gallup wrote about a group of Wake County residents from the housing justice coalition ONE Wake who are putting pressure on the Wake County Board of Commissioners to provide some sort of property tax relief as the Triangle becomes increasingly unaffordable for renters and longtime homeowners. Reader IAIN BURNETT has some thoughts on these efforts:

Gentrification needs to hire a PR firm. It’s not a bad thing. It’s the reason the world has the population distribution it does now—for millennia have-lesses and have-mores competed over desirable patches of land, and generally the former had to move on and accept a slightly-less-desirable patch of land. Thankfully, the driving force is dollars now instead of swords and arrows. The desire for cheap farm land was what brought American settlers west of the Appalachians. Over time, their efforts created desirable patches of land for the cycle to repeat—look up best places to live Midwest or mountain west or west coast and you’ll find cities and towns aplenty that were once edge of the map, amenity-free census tracts.

Lately though, the youngest child of NIMBYism is baring its teeth here in Raleigh. It happened in California in the 1970s, when an aging population got legislation passed to forever limit property tax raises to 2% and to create excessive barriers to property development. It essentially said, those who are here now are locked in as winners; those yet to come, tough luck. In many measures it is what’s responsible for the housing crisis out there, as lone retirees can afford to hold onto their million dollar family-sized houses on a fixed income (which by the way, condemns public services who depend on taxes to a bankrupt future). Now I see an effort to propose property tax relief for longtime residents in Raleigh (woe to those who haven’t lived here “long enough” to qualify). No good comes from distorting the housing market like that. Yes, some people with limited incomes who’ve seen their neighborhood appreciate greatly will find the most economical decision is to move away to where land is cheaper. But by doing so, they open up a property by the schools, the jobs, and the parks for the next person to move in. Those jobs and great schools here that are attracting the influx? They aren’t going anywhere.

When the housing stock is made artificially static, all that happens is the inbound people live farther away, commute more, and don’t get to have what previous generations had that made the community a desirable place to live. It encourages developers, who by previous NIMBY legislation have been locked out from making townhouses and secondary dwelling units, to instead build housing farms along highway corridors, further locking us into a car-dependent life.

I looked up ONE Wake’s proposed legislation, and it amounts to a 1cent/$100 property value tax. For a $500,000 property, that is $50 annually from people who can afford to live here, to subsidize people who cannot but get to anyways. The size of the tax doesn’t bother me—it’s the idea that our money will be used to break the natural housing cycle and condemn Raleigh to a future that can only mean sprawl and artificially chosen winners and losers. Let’s not stack a new problem onto the already existing problems around housing and transportation.

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Senate Showdown A political newcomer goes head-to-head with a Raleigh City Council member in the Democratic primary for North Raleigh’s new state senate District 13. BY JASMINE GALLUP jgallup@indyweek.com

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he newly drawn state senate District 13, which spans North Raleigh from the inner beltline up to Durant Road, is a mixed bag.

On the west side, it’s a wooded suburban paradise, filled with towering oaks and homes sitting on almost an acre of land.

Moving east, however, the neighborhoods get smaller and the streets more urban.

Crossing over Capital Boulevard, the area is a working-class neighborhood surrounded by bus stations, discount grocery stores, and auto repair shops.

Here, like everywhere, growth is an encroaching force. Some residents are worried about rising rents, others about new development, and everyone about things getting more expensive.

This is the district up for grabs in November. Solidly liberal—about 64 percent Democrat, according to the Princeton Gerrymandering Project—it’s not so much a question of whether a Democrat will win but of which one.

Next month’s Democratic primary sets Patrick Buffkin, a traditional candidate with local experience, against Lisa Grafstein, a political newcomer with a yen for social justice.

Grafstein, a soft-spoken woman of 55, lives with her partner, Linda, near Millbrook. She didn’t plan on going into politics, but after working as a civil rights lawyer for more than 25 years, she began thinking about how she could make a bigger difference. It was a call from Lillian’s List, which supports progressive female candidates, that spurred her decision, Grafstein tells the INDY. “My first reaction was ‘Obviously not.

Why me?’” Grafstein says. “But then I talked to Linda some and thought, well, why not me? I want to contribute in this way and do some good.”

Buffkin, currently in his third year on the Raleigh City Council, won his seat in 2019 during an upswell of support for the pro-hous4

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ing, pro-development candidates. He’s since supported the majority’s stance, working to pass the affordable housing bond and raise money for parks with a 1¢ tax increase.

“I’ve focused on challenges facing our community that affect people’s lives every day,” Buffkin says. “My experience has been that … all these issues are bigger than one city and need state-level solutions.”

Unsurprisingly, Buffkin and Grafstein agree on the big touchstones of the Democratic platform. Both think that the legislature should give more money to public schools, specifically by funding the Leandro plan, a $1.7 billion school improvement plan.

Buffkin and Grafstein also promise to fight to expand Medicaid. Grafstein adds the first thing she plans to do if elected is talk to colleagues about improving health care for people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities. “[Our behavioral health care] needs funding and leadership. We have to be putting the money in the right places,” Grafstein says.

“We spend a lot of money to keep people in institutions and we could be supporting them in the community.”

For Buffkin, a renewable energy and utility lawyer, protecting the environment is a particular point of concern. He emphasizes combating climate change by supporting renewable energy.

“I have a good understanding of what it takes to make our communities resilient against the effects of climate change,” Buffkin says. “Here on the city level, that’s been funding our stormwater utility, changing our development regulations to keep development out of floodplains.”

“My experience on the city council, having to make the tough decisions and experience the trade-offs, distinguishes me [as a candidate],” Buffkin adds. “Often, governing is the difficult task of choosing the least bad option and trying to make progress where you can.”

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What does Grafstein stand for?

Grafstein has a focus on economic justice, which covers more than the wealth gap, she says.

“There are two sides to the budget: there’s the cost of things, but there’s also what people are making,” Grafstein says.

“Part of what makes housing unaffordable is low wages. Part of what it makes dramatically difficult when gas prices go up is that people are making low wages.”

Like most Democrats, she favors raising the minimum wage and wants to “get out of the way of unions.”

“It is a really exciting time right now because of the way the labor market is.

Workers just have more power and less fear of being unemployed. So there’s more of an ability to organize,” she says. “From my point of view, unions have been one of the most effective ways of ensuring actual safe working conditions and good wages for people.”

For the first 16 years of her law career, Grafstein fought against workplace discrimination and wage violations. Today, she advocates for the rights of people with disabilities. Having spent her entire professional life fighting for the little guy, Grafstein plans to continue her leadership on social justice. That’s a reassuring prospect, especially in a state like North Carolina where civil rights seem to be continually under attack.

As the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Grafstein talks about protecting a woman’s right to have an abortion. She also wants to protect voting rights—creating more access to the polls, giving adequate funding to local electoral boards, and eliminating gerrymandering.

“We need to have nonpartisan redistricting reforms,” she says. “We’re not going to have it until Democrats get more power and force Republicans to think hard about the next census, but, you know, it’s a possibility.”

What does Buffkin stand for?

Where Grafstein is ideological, Buffkin is practical, focused on issues like affordable housing, infrastructure, and public safety.

On the council, Buffkin has been confronted with Raleigh’s rapid growth almost daily for the past two years. His stance on the city’s rising cost of housing is clear— he’s helped invest in affordable housing and reform zoning laws. If elected, Buffkin says, he’ll approach state issues the way he has local issues.

“We’re rolling out the [affordable housing] money in really smart ways and targeted investments. Contrast that with the state level, where funding for the housing trust fund has been reduced over the last several years,” Buffkin says. “A lot of these challenges just need greater resources, greater attention.”

Buffkin plans to give local governments more autonomy and funding. He and Grafstein each talked about stopping the Republican-dominated legislature from phasing out corporate tax and instead put that money to good use.

If elected, Buffkin says he’ll prioritize improving the state’s infrastructure to help water and sewer systems keep up with growing neighborhoods. Addressing climate change is also critical.

“We’ve got to start changing the way we live, work, and do business, so we have

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less impact on the climate,” Buffkin says.

“That means reducing emissions in our electric sector; it means electrifying our transportation; it means rolling out more clean energy.”

Buffkin also wants to look at ways to reduce gun violence and hate crimes. When it comes to gun control, Buffkin says, he supports “smart reforms” like background checks, red flag laws, and crisis intervention for victims of violence.

On the issue of creating a police oversight board, Buffkin says Raleigh’s council did not have the authority to do so when the question last came up. If elected, however, Buffkin plans to vote to give cities more power over such issues. Oversight of policing needs to be part of the conversation, he says.

Ultimately, Buffkin says he wants to get the state legislature moving again.

Things like criminal justice reform and health inequities “are solvable problems,” Buffkin says. “It takes resources. It takes careful decision-making, but that’s the kind of approach I want to bring to the state senate.” W

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Durham A view of Fayette Place in the Hayti district PHOTO BY D.L. ANDERSON

Call for Hearing The group behind the vision for Hayti Reborn wants the Durham City Council to intervene to keep the plan alive. BY THOMASI MCDONALD tmcdonald@indyweek.com

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arlier this year, the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) rejected a visionary plan to develop a residential, educational, and commercial hub near downtown Durham known as Hayti Reborn. Last week, the director of the group behind that effort asked the Durham City Council to allow the community to weigh in on the development of Fayette Place, a 20-acre swath of long-vacant land in the southern shadow of the downtown district.

“Since [the] Durham Housing Authority plans to enter into a 99-year land lease with a development partner, what happens on this project will impact the Hayti community for the next century,” Henry McKoy, the director of Hayti Reborn, wrote in an email last Monday to Durham’s city council on behalf of the Hayti Reborn Community Action Council (HRCAC).

McKoy wrote that the council is “peacefully asking” Mayor Elaine O’Neal and her fellow council members to intervene “in the matter of Fayette Place and agree to support Hayti Reborn’s request for a public hearing (‘Public Healing’) on this matter—and host this event in full view of the public.”

The HRCAC email also asked the council members to “issue a city injunction on Fayette Place by asking the DHA to immediately cease and desist any and all current negotiations with any organization on Fayette Place’s development until this matter is fully settled through a public hearing.”

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offer feedback to its members following a public hearing on “competing Fayette Place visions.”

McKoy states in the email that the city’s elected leaders and city manager have a vested interest in the development of Fayette Place, per a 2017 contract between the City of Durham and DHA, along with the nonprofit Development Ventures Incorporated (DVI), when the federal housing agency repurchased the property.

McKoy notes that one of the provisions of the contract states that “DVI shall not develop, sell, convey or otherwise transfer the Site, or any part thereof or interest therein, without the prior written consent of the City Manager or his/her designee.”

McKoy told the city council that its action, or inaction, will impact the next five generations of Black Durham residents and determine “whether the next century will be spent re-creating wealth in Durham’s Black community or re-extracting wealth from Durham’s Black community.”

O’Neal told the INDY that the council did not discuss McKoy’s email during its work session on Thursday.

More than a half century has passed since a dramatically misnamed federal urban renewal effort during the 1960s and early 1970s destroyed 4,000 homes and 500 businesses in the neighborhood to make room for construction of Highway 147.

Last year, during the nation’s inaugural Juneteenth celebration, McKoy’s vision for the Fayetteville Street Corridor

deeply resonated with stakeholders in the neighborhood who are concerned about the growing specter of gentrification, issues of equity, and whether the community will retain its historical character.

McKoy is also director of entrepreneurship at North Carolina Central University’s business school. He said that Hayti Reborn’s proposal wasn’t even given a seat at the table.

McKoy, in a 13-page appeal last month to DHA’s decision, and in the email this week to the city council, says that “out of the 10 developer proposals, Hayti Reborn was the ONLY team not allowed to present its plan through interview with the DHA Review Committee prior to their selection.”

“In our naive state, Hayti Reborn never anticipated that a local, minority and community-led team, based in the community with the project, and whom had over 50 individuals and organizations offer letters or signatures of support for the project, would be denied an interview at least, even if it was just for show,” McKoy states more broadly in the appeal. “These associated individuals, some of whom were actually part of the families whose homes and businesses were displaced when the Durham Redevelopment Commission led the way for the Durham Freeway to come through their homes. This project is for them.”

Hayti Reborn’s email to the city council is the group’s latest effort to resurrect the plan to revitalize the Hayti district with a 2,000-acre development with Fayette Place as the hub. That dream was deferred in January, when the DHA announced that it had chosen two developers, Durham Development Partners and the Atlanta-based Integral Group, LLC, for the $470 million construction of residential units across three downtown locations: Fayette Place in the Hayti district, Forest Hills Heights, and the county-owned land surrounding the current DHA offices.

On February 4, Hayti Reborn filed a protest letter that said DHA’s approach to redevelop Hayti will only reinforce the gentrification already taking place throughout the district.

On March 4, in response to the protest letter, DHA CEO Anthony Scott emailed and snail-mailed McKoy a five-page letter that outlined the procedural history of the developer selection process that included establishing a committee to review the development proposals.

Scott says that Hayti Reborn was among the four finalists, but the Black-led developer received “the lowest aggregate score, by a substantial margin, among the four respondents,” he wrote.

While knocking down Hayti Reborn’s protest as being “without merit,” Scott wrote that DHA had not violated federal policy with regard to community input, equity, land use, or due process with its selection of developers for its affordable housing project.

He added that Hayti Reborn “did not demonstrate a sufficient level of experience in relation to the objectives”

mandated in the DHA’s request for development proposals.

“Given the magnitude of the award, it was not a ‘serious violation of principles’ of [DHA policies] to value a respondent’s financial capacity and prior experience to deliver its proposal as important criteria for award in this case,” Scott wrote.

McKoy, in the appeal letter, challenged Scott’s assertion that Hayti Reborn is unqualified to complete the Fayette hborhood Place project. f gentrifi- The Hayti Reborn team, McKoy wrote unity will in the March 11 appeal, “is comprised of some of the leading real estate developorth Caro- ment professionals in Durham, the Trianhat Hayti gle region, the nation and arguably the world (several of our team members have table. decision, a global footprint) and have worked on that “out some of the most renowned and acclaimed the ONLY projects. So, which of these team meminterview bers, specifically, was deemed unqualified election.” or lacking qualification?” ted that a McKoy added that the Hayti Reborn the com- team includes Winn Companies, “the largndividuals est developer and manager of affordable upport for housing in the United States of America.” st, even if As for Scott’s assertion that Hayti Reborn dly in the is lacking in “financial capacity,” McKoy says hom were the group’s lead financier, PNC Bank, was usinesses chosen “after a competitive bidding process Commis- where banks sought to offer financing to e through the Hayti Reborn vision of Fayette Place,” along with Partners in Equity, “a Durhame group’s based and Black-founded and led entity the Hayti that is the leading firm of its kind in North ette Place Carolina and likely the United States.” ary, when McKoy admits that Hayti Reborn likely evelopers, faced a greater challenge than the other nta-based proposals submitted by the developers. uction of “Hayti Reborn was proposing that its s: Fayette project on Fayette Place have the econom, and the ic benefit accrue primarily to DHA and the A offices. local low income and historic community,” etter that McKoy wrote. “This meant that we had a only rein- unique structure to our proposal.” roughout McKoy also questioned whether his status as “organizational leader of Hayti DHA CEO Reborn both made it unqualified and five-page nullified any impact of the additional developer team members?” ommittee The NCCU entrepreneurial scholar noted that he has over 25 years’ experience in four final- community economic development workest aggre- ing as a banker, in the energy industry, and ur respon- as a state government official who worked “with DHA’s primary funder—HUD [the as being Department of Housing and Urband Develt violated opment]—with over $1.5 billion in funding quity, land including for economic and affordable housers for its ing development.”

McKoy questioned whether DHA and nstrate a DVI were qualified to be co-developers of bjectives” the downtown affordable housing proj-

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September 23, 2021: Hayti Reborn submits proposal to DHA for Fayette Place January 3, 2022: DHA announces a development partner from outside the Hayti community February 4: Hayti Reborn submits written protest to DHA March 4: DHA denies the Hayti Reborn protest March 11: Hayti Reborn files appeal to DHA denial April 4: Hayti Reborn requests that the city hold a public hearing about the Fayette Place development

ects. He says DHA’s development experience and financial capacity came into question following a recovery agreement it reached last month with HUD that shows the local housing authority “scored a failing assessment.”

McKoy reminded the city council of previous city leaders’ decades-old deferred promise to rebuild the Black community, which led to its destruction, and how the $4 million the city gave to DHA in 2017 to repurchase Fayette Place is taxpayers’ money.

“The Durham Housing Authority has stated that the community-generated vision for the Fayette Place site was not worth listening to and consideration, and therefore they were justified in their singling out of Hayti Reborn’s plan for dismissal,” McKoy wrote to the council.

He noted that a number of HRCAC members “were actually in households that were razed by the Durham Redevelopment Commission [that] was formed in 1958 to drive urban renewal through Black Durham.”

“After 64 years, don’t these 70-plus and 80-plus year-old elders deserve to have their voices heard? FINALLY? By someone?” McKoy wrote. “Don’t other members of our Hayti Community Action Council—those currently living in crumbling and dilapidated public housing—with their children and families, deserve to have their voices heard? FINALLY? By someone?”

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Durham The South Bank building downtown is one of many Durham buildings undergoing demolition to make way for new construction.

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Teardown Town As Durham buildings fall to the wrecking ball, a Facebook community gathers to watch, vent, and question.

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ddy Cozart’s first post to the Teardowns of Durham Facebook group features a series of emoji: angry, sad, crying.

“My block @ Hillsborough and Rutherford has been sold,” the February 21 post says. “Final day to move out March 4th. The buyers are developers. I’m assuming more apartments will go up …”

The comments came rolling in, mostly sympathetic, some angry and indignant.

Cozart’s is just one of the emotional posts that litter the walls of The Teardowns of Durham, an open Facebook group that focuses on pictures and information relevant to Durham’s changing housing landscape.

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of buildings that have been torn down, housing justice activism, and new, expensive housing in the area. Though the active member count is much smaller, the Facebook group is public for a reason: it’s a place for free information. And with about 50 posts per month in the group, and many more comments on each, there’s much to be informed about.

The Teardowns of Durham is partly just what it sounds like—a Facebook group about buildings that have been or are being torn down. But it has also become a forum where locals discuss how Durham is changing and shifting, where new developments are coming, and which buildings they once recognized are coming down.

The active discussion reflects Durham’s housing crisis: in the first three months of 2021, about 2,400 homes

were sold in Raleigh and Durham. Of those, more than half were bought either by people from out of state or by companies, according to a report from the Triangle Business Journal. According to WRAL, 20 percent of homes in Durham were purchased by investors in the fourth quarter of 2021, up from 11 percent in the second quarter of 2020.

Durham housing prices and property taxes also have increased, making it harder for newcomers to buy and for residents to stay. Meanwhile, though Durham has made efforts to create rent relief programs, the demand for housing remains high, and housing stocks are low.

The Facebook group began as a way to exchange information among a small group of Durham friends and colleagues. It has now ballooned to include thousands of members, from Duke students to Durhamites who have been here since childhood.

There’s a catharsis that runs through each post about a demolished Durham building—a need to tell someone about the frustration of losing a property. A recent post

by David Becker is typical of many.

“Big beautiful place on the corner of Gregson and Club was there yesterday when I drove by. This morning … gone,” Becker writes. Much of the frustration aired on the Facebook group reflects worries about losing Durham’s personality, including historic buildings that are dispersed throughout the city. Durham has 15 historic neighborhoods that are listed as National Register Historic Districts. In addition to the Facebook group, other activists and preservationist groups include Open Durham, Historic Preservation Society of Durham, and Preservation Durham.

Frequent poster Chris Jay notes that a homeowner refurbished an old home to make it a “weekend getaway” out in Narrowsburg, New York.

“Imagine if all the old homes in Durham that are getting torn down were revitalized and brought back to life to their original classic design, including decor,” Jay says.

“That’s what this woman did!”

Another commenter echoes Jay’s sentiment.

“I’m sad we are losing so much of Durham’s history,” the post says. “When someone’s lived here all their life, the changes seem so overwhelming … not always a good thing.”

Some posters on the Facebook group push back, arguing that romanticizing old houses will not make Durham more affordable and will not stop gentrification.

The posts that consistently get substantial interactions, though? Questions. Many users in the Face-

“I’m sad we’re losing so much of Durham’s history. When someone’s lived here all their life, the changes seem so overwhelming ... not always a good thing.” book group wonder what is happening to Durham’s warehouse district, around the corner from Fullsteam Brewery and the Accordion Club, where commercial buildings are being torn down on Geer Street.

Another poster supplies a partial answer, responding that a Washington, DC, developer plans to create two large apartment complexes called GeerHouse.

One user laments the teardown of one home replaced by four modern tiny homes on Pritchard Place, near North Carolina Central University. Another user shares a tip: she heard that a century-old Pentecostal church in West Durham is being sold. Responses flood in. The overtone of the conversation: Will the church be torn down?

Concerned Durhamites started the Teardowns of Durham Facebook group in May 2019, when the pace of construction and demolition around Durham was ramping up in neighborhoods including Trinity Park, Braggtown, Watts-Hillandale, Campus Hills, and more.

In part, the group fills an information gap. Local journalism has been declining in most places in the country, including in Durham, and there are fewer local news sources to keep Durhamites informed about their changing city.

That is a major reason why Ellen Dagenhart, who previously served as president of the Historic Preservation Society of Durham, joined the Facebook group in September 2019.

“The few remaining reporters just can’t be at every meeting where so much of the sausage is brought up and made,” she said. “There’s an awful lot of mischief happening that is under the radar now. Teardowns is filling a void, a need, for a place where people can share, learn, question, vent.”

Bonita Green was born and raised in Durham. She left Durham for South Florida in 1999, and when she returned in 2012, she didn’t recognize the city she loved. Now, she lives in the Merrick-Moore Community and works with the Merrick-Moore Community Development Organization. Fed up with the rapid development, she has used the Teardowns

group to air her frustrations, she said in a recent interview.

“I saw all the development in my community and the acres of land that the city bought on the west side of Durham. So I had a fear of being washed out. I was fighting to protect the legacy of this community,” Green said.

For people like Green, the Facebook group has become more than a place to simply share news and vent. It has also become a site of political organization and mobilization. There are almost as many petitions in the group as pictures of bulldozed buildings.

Urban planner and Durham resident Nate Baker said the petitions and political activism of the group tell a greater story: they reflect many Durhamites’ desire for control over the housing situation in their city. He believes Durham residents are not necessarily resistant to change, as long as they are included in the process.

“I think people have anxiety about the world changing around them and not really having much of a say in the matter,” Baker said. “There hasn’t been robust community engagement and planning processes to alleviate some people’s concerns over teardowns.”

He says the city could make changes, like building more affordable housing complexes, that would make Durham’s residents feel more empowered.

Dagenhart, the member who joined the Facebook group in 2019, said the Facebook group is also a place where residents can talk about their aspirations for what Durham could be. She recalled the joyous ceremony that took place in 2011, when more than 2,000 citizens took vows to “marry Durham,” promising to protect the city and its reputation and to honor its diversity.

“I think Durham is in need of some marriage counseling,” Dagenhart said. W This story was produced through a partnership between the INDY and 9th Street Journal, which is published by journalism students at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy.

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NOTICE OF DURHAM COUNTY PRIMARY AND ELECTION Tuesday, May 17, 2022 The Primary and Election for Durham County will be held in Durham County, NC on Tuesday May 17th. All Durham County precincts will be open from 6:30 am until 7:30 pm.

17-year-old Durham County voters who are registered and will be 18 years old on or before Nov. 8, 2022, may vote in Durham’s Primary. 17-year-olds are not permitted to vote in School Board or Town of Cary elections.

Party primaries will be open to voters registered with that respective party. Unaffiliated voters may vote a non-partisan ballot that will only include the School Board Election and Town of Cary (if applicable) OR choose to participate in either the Republican or Democratic primaries. Registered Libertarians will be given a non-partisan ballot.

The following contests will be on the Durham County ballots*: • US Congress • NC Supreme Court • NC Court of Appeals • NC General Assembly • NC District Court • Durham County Sheriff • Durham County District Attorney • Durham County Clerk of Court • Durham County Board of Education (Final Election) • Town of Cary Council (Final Election – Cary residents only) *Offices will only appear on your ballot if you are eligible to vote for the respective contest.

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North Regional Library 221 Milton Rd., Durham

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CHEF CHICK’S BAKERY 2500 Meridian Pkwy Suite 135, Durham | Opening summer 2022 | ccbakerync.com

Taste of Home For Margaret Szewczyk, opening up a European bakery is a dream come true.

BY JASMINE GALLUP jgallup@indyweek.com

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tepping into Margaret Szewczyk’s kitchen, the unmistakable smell of pastry and baked butter hangs in the air. A hint of sweetness follows—sugar and apricot. All of a sudden, the baker’s townhouse feels like home.

The warm smell of bread and baked goods has followed Szewczyk around since she was a child. She’s not sure when she started baking, but it’s something she’s done “forever,” Szewczyk says. She has fond memories of sitting in her grandmother’s house in Poland, talking to her babcia as she shuffled around the kitchen.

“Even now when I bake, I feel her with me,” Szewczyk says. Her grandmother never wrote her recipes down, but the secrets behind her traditional Polish dishes were passed down to Szewczyk’s father, who then passed them to Szewczyk. This year, the Cary local is finally pursuing her vision of opening her own bakery. “[Baking] is not what I went to school for … but it’s always been my passion,” Szewczyk says. “I figured when I retired, I’d open a bakery. I just decided not to wait anymore.

It was something I would regret forever if I didn’t try it.”

Later this summer, Szewczyk will open the doors to Chef Chick’s Bakery, off Durham’s Meridian Parkway. And as she waits for equipment to be delivered and construction to finish on her storefront, she plans to bake treats at home for delivery around the Triangle. (Interested parties can order through the Toast tab on her website.)

The bakery’s name is a play on her last name. People are often stymied by “Szewczyk,” with its tricky z’s and w’s.

When asked how to pronounce it, she always explains it the same way: “Imagine a ‘chef’ and a ‘chick,’ like a girl cook.”

Szewczyk’s is from Gdańsk, Poland, where she also spent her childhood. In 1983, at age seven, Szewczyk immigrated to the United States with her parents, who settled down in North Carolina.

Until the coronavirus pandemic hit, Szewczyk made frequent trips to Europe to see her extended family. Now that it’s difficult to visit, she says, baking things like mazurek, her favorite Easter dessert—a kind of large shortbread topped with chocolate and walnuts—makes her feel a little closer to home.

That’s the feeling she wants to offer people through her food, Szewczyk says. A feeling of comfort and belonging in a place that might otherwise feel strange. People don’t

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come to North Carolina just from California and New York but also from eastern European countries like Romania, Hungary, and Croatia.

Szewczyk, who has heard stories from her parents about how tough it was settling down in the United States, wants to offer what support she can for the eastern European community in the Triangle. Eastern European food isn’t easy to come by in the Triangle—specialty goods like kolaszcki, kielbasa, and pierogis often require a drive up North, especially since longstanding Durham institution Halgo European Deli & Groceries closed in 2020. Szewczyk wants the bakery to be a place for people who may not feel like they have one, she says.

“My parents really struggled when they first came here.

It was very hard for them,” Szewczyk says. “I’d like [the bakery] to be a place where people can come and feel comfortable and feel welcome … and maybe you’ll find a food that reminds you of home or reminds you of something from your childhood, that brings back warm memories. That’s the feeling we want to create.”

Szewczyk also wants to give people who have never traveled to Europe an authentic taste of the continent’s food and culture.

“We really want it to be an immersive experience, where you walk in and you feel like you’ve been transported,” she says. “I’m hanging curtains like the ones my grandmother had. They get made over in Poland, I’ve never seen them here. My dad is making the cabinets, the bread displays.

The floor is gonna look like what it looks like in Europe.”

Szewczyk plans to feature baked goods from a different country each month—treats like Welsh cakes, Swedish car-

damom buns, and financiers, small French almond cakes that look almost like bars of gold, she says.

Szewczyk is also buying magazines from abroad for people to browse. She plans to put a map on the wall where people can show where they or their families are from. She hasn’t finalized all the details yet but says she’s brimming with ideas about how to help create and support a multicultural community.

For now, though, the baker is operating out of her home, from a renovated kitchen that is a culinary dream come true. Granite countertops, a bread oven, and a gas range create a clean, professional space where the baker can whip up everything from pączki, the Polish version of donuts, to kołaczki, a kind of cookie made from cream cheese and butter, often filled with jam and topped with powdered sugar.

Szewczyk’s kołaczki are a soft bite of sweetness, the dough tangy with a slightly sour undertone from the cream cheese. She’s filled some with homemade apricot jam, some with Ferrero Rocher chocolate, and some with black currant jam. It’s one of her favorite fruits: a small berry often used dried in scones and other English pastries.

In the Szewczyk family, food is a love language. Whenever she went to Poland, her grandparents would “pile on food,” she says. “They would cook enough for an entire army.”

Szewczyk’s got that gene too. Whenever someone comes to her house, her first instinct is to feed them.

Now, as she starts her own bakery, she’s hoping to feed an entire community.

“My grandmother’s cooking always made me feel better, no matter what was going on,” Szewczyk says. “I think it’s possible to make people feel better through food.” W INDYweek.com

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER: UN POCO MÁS (A LITTLE MORE)

Through Sunday, Aug. 28 | The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham | nasher.duke.edu

Helen Frankenthaler working on “Venice II” (1969 -72) with Bill Goldston at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), West Islip, NY, March 1972 HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION ARCHIVES, NEW YORK. © EDWARD OLECKSAK

Color Studies Helen Frankenthaler’s dynamic printmaking process, up-close.

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alking into the Nasher’s latest exhibition is like walking into a printmaking studio in the throes of production. In the foyer, you’re immediately met with three large black-and-white vinyl photos of the abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler.

The minimal triptych presents the artist at three distinct stages in her career, captured from contrasting vantage points—smearing paint with a scalpel knife, surveying proofs of the exhibition’s title print, and in consultation with a printmaker.

These photos present her not as she is known in the cultural eye—posed, for instance, in Gordon Parks’s famous Life magazine photo series, on top of her enormous stained canvases—but as an artist consumed in the process.

“A lot of photographs of her made her look very decorative,” says co-curator Alana Hyman. “And so I had the idea to put these large, really colossal photographs of her looking much more active and much more engaged with her art rather than as this decorative, passive art piece herself.”

Helen Frankenthaler: Un Poco Más (A Little More), which opened February 12, collects six prints and eight proofs made over five decades of printmaking, including the title print, “Un Poco Más,” which is displayed alongside five working proofs and a color trial proof.

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Un Poco Más was co-curated by four Duke undergraduates—Claire Hutchinson, Alana Hyman, Tristan Kelleher, and Andrew Witte—for the Curatorial Practicum: Exhibition Development and Design course taught by Ellen C. Raimond, assistant curator of academic initiatives at the Nasher Museum. The works are grouped by curatorial theme: the title lithograph and its proofs; sculptural prints; prints inspired by Japanese motifs; an early screenprint; a lithograph that recalls Frankenthaler’s soak-stain paintings; and prints featuring etching and aquatint. Donated by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in 2019, they represent a broad range of printmaking techniques, studios, and working relationships with different printmakers.

“She was known as a painter, but she collaborated with ceramicists, sculptors, people in metalworking, and also printmakers,” says Hutchinson. “And in each of those different mediums, she kind of pushed to do something new.

With printmaking, she sought out working with experimental printmakers who were doing really new things in the field.”

The mid-20th-century printmaking renaissance came at a perfect time for Frankenthaler, who was born in 1928.

She’d played a critical role in the second wave of color field painting, pioneering a new “soak-stain” technique, in which

she applied aquatint and house paint, then allowed it to soak or drip according to how she manipulated the canvas.

Her early prints—the screenprint “Untitled” (1967) and the lithograph “Altitudes” (1978)—highlight a transitional period in which she relied on a similar technique to create pools of color or soak more or less opaque splotches of ink into a print’s surface.

But in “Ganymede,” also from 1978, there is evidence of increased experimentation. Using etching and aquatint, she and the printmaker produce jagged, intersecting planes of line and color. These same gestural techniques recur in “Tout-à-coup” (All-at-Once), a large earth-toned print from 1987, marked by translucent streaks that stand out like hot scalds on a baking sheet.

She worked using a system of trial and error, a process clearly mapped out in the working proofs for “Un Poco Más.” In one proof, painted scraps of notebook paper are pasted on; in another, scraps of test prints show her alterations in tone and placement of secondary hues.

“She hasn’t even added in the other colors yet,” says Witte, gesturing at an initial proof. “She’s just seeing, how is this white going to appear on the black background? And you can see”—he points to the next proof—“she’s thinking, okay, I want color here; these three spots right here.”

On the far wall are two sculptural pieces made at two different studios: “Bay Area Wednesday I” (1982) and “Guadalupe” (1989). The former is a monotype; its central feature was made using a hydraulic press—a kind of crater with varying coloration around the edges and base, as you might see on a topographical map.

The latter was done using Luis Remba’s trademarked Mixografia process, unique to his studio. By pressing paper pulp into a copper mold, he and Frankenthaler were able to manipulate the surface of a print, adding three-dimensional relief, gashes, and textures. In printmaking, says Kelleher, Frankenthaler found a medium that not only was collaborative but also constituted a more indirect engagement with materials and surfaces.

“With printmaking, there’s another level of separation, which is a lot different than the singular artist working on this singular canvas where they’re directly touching it most of the time,” he says.

On the far left wall are two works that represent Frankenthaler’s abiding interest in Japanese motifs. The first, “A Little Zen” (1970), is a minimalist print consisting of red and green calligraphic marks and a small pool of blue on an open plane. The last print of her career, “Weeping Crabapple” (2009), made two years before her death, is richly layered, requiring the use of over 30 wood blocks to render different marks and patterns.

Frankenthaler conceived of her printmaking process as a conversation, says Hyman: “You talk to the work; the work talks to you.” With Un Poco Más, Frankenthaler’s prints are given a stage. A rapturous dialogue ensues. W

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DREAM ROOMS RELEASE SHOW

Friday, Apr. 22, 6p.m., $20 | Rose Garden, Raleigh

Dream Ticket On her sophomore album, the irrepressible singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy goes her own way.

BY SARAH EDWARDS sedwards@indyweek.com

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ne afternoon in 2017, the singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy met Mipso’s Joseph Terrell for lunch at Jade Palace, a decorating book called Dream Rooms for Real People in tow. Earlier that day, Rhudy—who’d just released her debut album, Rock N’ Roll Ain’t for Me— had picked it up while wandering around a Carrboro thrift store; she liked its photos of plush eighties carpeted bathrooms.

Glancing at it, Terrell told her, “You should name your next album that.”

Thus was born Dream Rooms, Rhudy’s irresistable sophomore album. It’s an apt name for an intimate, intricate album full of jewel-like songs—folk, but with irresistible hooks and crisp pop production—that feel like worlds in and of themselves. Listening has the effect of drifting from room to room at a party, glass of wine in hand, catching snatches of emotional conversation.

It’s also an album that Rhudy had to put a pin in for several years: one song, “Janie Doe,” was written almost eight years ago, and most of the rest were written around 2019, pre-pandemic, before both of Rhudy’s main worlds—the service industry and the music scene—were thrown for a loop.

“I sat on this record for quite a little bit, thinking I was gonna send it out and shop it around,” says Rhudy, 26, sitting at downtown Raleigh’s Person Street Bar, where she also works. “But it didn’t seem like something that was viable in the industry the way it is right now, with everybody trying to get back to the way it was.”

Rhudy chose to forge ahead on her own and self-released Dream Rooms on April 8; on April 22, she’ll ring it in with a release show at Raleigh’s Rose Gardens.

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lin, and Joe Westerlund; Marlin (one-half of the band Watchhouse) produced the album. Most songs, she says, were written over the span of two meaningful relationships that followed each other so closely that she anticipated having to emotionally “pay for” the sequence.

“You want to feel all your feelings at the rate that your heart wants to feel them,” Rhudy says. “But I was still very cognizant that I was maybe moving on too fast and not actually going through that grieving period of a relationship. I think I ended up doing that like halfway into that next relationship.”

“To the Nines,” a balladic song about trying to muster a going-out spirit after a breakup, is a perfect snapshot of that specific mixed mourning period. It’s a savvily executed two-minute song, beginning with the deadpan “I’m not having fun at this party / Wishing I’d stay at home / I could ask the man in the corner / He’s picking my brain all night long,” which then leads into the aching zinger: “Found better things to do with my hands / Now that you don’t hold them / You don’t hold them anymore / … Ain’t it awful always wanting more.”

Specificity is a boon and Rhudy’s songwriting is especially resonant for its witty, openhearted precision. Listening, I was reminded, at once, of singer-songwriter kindred spirits like Waxahatchee and Tift Merritt but also of the confident confessionals of pop-country stars like Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves. Rhudy has the shine of a rising star who could mix credibly, and comfortably, with any of the above.

“She’s really fearless as a songwriter,” says Mipso member Libby Rodenbough, a close friend and collaborator of

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Rhudy. “There’s this perception that writing about your own life in a raw, direct way, is immature or cliché or something.

But the more that I do it, and the more that I continue to listen to music, I realize that it can be wonderful to write in more abstract ways—but it’s also a lot safer.

[Rhudy] has no fear about being extremely personal or being embarrassed. To me, that’s essential to doing a creative career.”

Rhudy was born in Raleigh and grew up in a music-playing family; she trained in classical violin and learned fiddle tunes at conventions in southwest Virginia. At Appalachian State University, where she began a music therapy degree, she started playing music more seriously, taking a brief Nashville detour for a semester, before dropping out her junior year and returning to Raleigh.

Here, she began waitressing and writing more songs. She carries a notepad around on shifts, she says, in case anything good comes to her at work. (For example, the perfect line “I spent all my tips on a blouse I just stained / Another thing I have to explain” from “To the Nines.”) In Raleigh, she’s found kinship with musicians like Marlin and Emily Frantz of Watchhouse (with whom she has toured twice) and Rodenbough, with whom Rhudy says she shares a mutual “friend tab for musical favors.”

“I really like being home—I don’t know if I’ll ever move from Raleigh,” Rhudy says.

“It felt really cool to have a job and go to

work at like seven in the morning every day—that’s when I worked at a breakfast place. I had all this time in the afternoons for gigging.”

In 2017, just shy of her 22nd birthday, she released Rock N’ Roll Ain’t for Me, an album with stronger Americana overtones than Dream Rooms and maybe a bit more country fang. Lead single “I Don’t Like You or Your Band” contains the perfect breakup burn: “Your cigarettes, your leather shoes, you, your friends, and your white boy blues / You’ve become something I can’t stand.” (I’d quote fewer lyrics, but they’re all just too good.) If Rock N’ Roll showed one spirited side of the relationship coin, Dream Rooms flips to show the other.

“My first album had a definite ‘fuck you’ to it,” Rhudy says. “I rationalized it by saying, ‘that’s how dramatic you felt in that moment—you deserve to honor how dramatic and angry and hurt you felt.’ But this one’s more about my part in all those situations.”

Dream Rooms is a touch softer and more self-reflective than the debut, but, now a few years removed from its source material, it’s also a bittersweet slant toward the sweetness that romance can offer, even when fraught. It sounds, in other words, a lot like love.

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Please check with local venues for their health and safety protocols.

Shovels & Rope performs at the Haw River Ballroom on Fri., Apr. 15. PHOTO BY LESLIE RYAN MCKELLAR

Lynn Grissett Quartet $15+.

Sat, Apr. 16, 8 p.m.

Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham.

Queer Agenda! $5. Sat, Apr. 16, 10 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Ricky Stein Sat, Apr. 16, 9 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill.

Samantha Fish $25. Sat, Apr. 16, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro.

music Danielle Nicole $20. Wed, Apr. 13, 9 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

Live Jazz with Mark Puricelli and Friends Wed, Apr. 13, 7 p.m.

Imbibe, Chapel Hill.

Postmodern Jukebox: The Grand Reopening Tour $39. Wed, Apr. 13, 8 p.m. DPAC, Durham.

Slow Crush $15. Wed, Apr. 13, 7 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill.

Yoke Lore $15. Wed, Apr. 13, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro.

Three Lobed Recordings 21st Anniversary Festival $20+.

Apr. 14-16, various times. Various locations, Durham.

Futurebirds $25.

Apr. 14-15, 8:30 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

Guerilla Toss $15.

Thurs, Apr. 14, 8 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

James McMurtry SOLD OUT. Thurs, Apr. 14, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

Joe Troop & Friends: April Residency with Sophia Enriquez $20+. Thurs, Apr. 14, 7 p.m. The Fruit, Durham.

Nnenna Freelon Thurs, Apr. 14, 7 p.m. Seby Jones Performing Arts Center, Louisburg.

Slothrust $14.

Thurs, Apr. 14, 9 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Steve Hackett— Genesis Revisited: Selling England by the Pound $75+.

Thurs, Apr. 14, 8 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

C. Albert Blomquist Fri, Apr. 15, 9 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill.

The Conjure FiveYear Anniversary $10. Fri, Apr. 15, 10 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

Emma Geiger: Haven EP Release Show and MFA Encore Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. The Fruit, Durham.

For the Culture Fridays $10+. Fri, Apr. 15, 10 p.m. The Fruit, Durham.

Pom Pom Squad $15. Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

Porches $16. Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro.

Shovels & Rope: The Manticore Tour $25. Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw.

Simon Dunsen Quartet $15+.

Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m.

Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham.

Yacht Rock Revue $25. Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. The Ritz, Raleigh.

Fruit Bats SOLD OUT. Sat, Apr. 16, 8 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

Idlewild South: A Tribute to the Allman Brothers Band $15+. Sat, Apr. 16, 8 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

Shallow Cuts: Pop Dance Party with DJ’s Fifi Hi-Fi & Mike D $5. Sat, Apr. 16, 9 p.m. Rubies on Five Points, Durham.

Southern Culture on the Skids $25.

Sat, Apr. 16, 6:30 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Yard, Carrboro.

Tommy Emmanuel, CGP $40+. Sat, Apr. 16, 8 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Carolina Cutups & Friends Sun, Apr. 17, 5 p.m. Rubies on Five Points, Durham.

Live Jazz with Danny Grewen Mon, Apr. 18, 6 p.m.

Imbibe, Chapel Hill.

Lights $24. Sun, Apr. 17, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro.

The Pack A.D. $10.

Mon, Apr. 18, 8 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

MAN ON MAN $14.

Sun, Apr. 17, 8 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

Provoker $15. Sun, Apr. 17, 8 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham.

R.A.P. Ferreira $15. Sun, Apr. 17, 8 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill.

Tercel Sun, Apr. 17, 8:30 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill.

Delta Sleep $15.

Mon, Apr. 18, 8 p.m.

Local 506, Chapel Hill.

Halo Trio Mon, Apr. 18, 9 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill.

Hurray for the Riff Raff $20. Mon, Apr. 18, 8 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

Cody Canada & The Departed $17+. Tues, Apr. 19, 8 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh.

Duke Chamber Music Program Concert Tues, Apr. 19, 7 p.m. Baldwin Auditorium, Durham.

Live Jazz with the Brian Horton Trio Tues, Apr. 19, 9 p.m.

Kingfisher, Durham.

The Lo-Fi Lounge $10. Tues, Apr. 19, 8 p.m. The Fruit, Durham.

OKILLY DOKILLY $15. Tues, Apr. 19, 8 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

The Stifftones Tues, Apr. 19, 9 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill.

Porches performs at Cat’s Cradle on Fri., Apr. 15 PHOTO COURTESY OF CAT’S CRADLE

The Bad Checks $5. Sat, Apr. 16, 10:30 p.m. Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro.

Duke Opera Theater: “The Queen’s Perspective” Sat, Apr. 16, 3 p.m.

Baldwin Auditorium, Durham.

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CULTURE CALENDAR art NCMA Emerging Artisan Series 2022: Kickoff Event Wed, Apr. 13, 4:30 p.m. NCMA, Raleigh.

Radical Repair Workshop: All about Glue Wed, Apr. 13, 12 p.m. The Nasher, Durham.

Virtual Art for Lunch: John Bechtold Wed, Apr. 13, 12:30 p.m.

Online; presented by the Ackland Art Museum.

Gallery Talk: Jade Wilson Thurs, Apr. 14, 6 p.m. The Nasher, Durham.

Mindful Museum: Virtual Sensory Journey through Art Thurs, Apr. 14, 7 p.m. Online; presented by NCMA.

Hoax Theory Presents: 2000BC

by Jack Crowley Fri, Apr. 15, 7 p.m.

Silverado, Durham.

Susan Woodson: Featured Artist Exhibit and Third Friday Reception Fri, Apr. 15, 6 p.m.

5 Points Gallery, Durham.

Live from the Studio: Creating Collages with Sara Rahbar Sat, Apr. 16, 1:30 p.m. Online; presented by NCMA.

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection Sun, Apr. 17, 1:30 p.m.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill.

Amendment: A New Choreographic Work by Michael Kliën Apr. 18-19, 6 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham.

Virtual Educator Webinar—Fault Lines: Art and the Environment Tues, Apr. 19, 4 p.m. Online; presented by NCMA.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent has an advance screening at Raleigh’s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on Sat., Apr. 16.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA

Jaki Shelton Green has areading and book signing at the North Carolina Museum of Art on Sat., Apr. 16 PHOTO COURTESY OF NCMA

stage A Wrinkle in Time $20+. Mar. 30–Apr. 17, various times. Playmakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill.

Tricky Dick 11: Unmasked and Letting It All Hang Out $8. Thurs, Apr. 14, 8 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

The Life of Galileo $15+. Apr. 7-24, various times.

Burning Coal Theatre Company, Raleigh.

Embarqued: Stories of Soil $35.

Apr. 15-16, 8 p.m.

Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

Cascade $10+. Apr. 7-23, various times.

Swain Hall Black Box Theater, Chapel Hill.

In Conversation: Stefanie Batten Bland Fri, Apr. 15, 12 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center Lounge, Durham.

The Comedy Experience Presents: Maddie Wiener and Kenyon Adamcik $10+. Wed, Apr. 13, 8 p.m. The Fruit, Durham. $10+. Thurs, Apr. 14, 9 p.m. Lanza’s Cafe, Chapel Hill. $10+. Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. Clouds Brewing, Raleigh.

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$10+. Sat, Apr. 16, 8 p.m. Moon Dog Meadery, Durham.

Selena Movie Party $18. Apr. 13 and 16, various times. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Raleigh.

MovieDiva Film Series: City Streets $8. Wed, Apr. 13, 7 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Above Suspicion and Berlin Express $10. Fri, Apr. 15, 7 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

Monty Python’s Life of Brian $10.

Apr. 16 and 19, various times. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Raleigh.

Dazed and Confused with Cast Reunion $13. Sun, Apr. 17, 6:45 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Raleigh.

Advance Screening: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent $13. Sat, Apr. 16, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Raleigh.

Advance Screening: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair $13. Tues, Apr. 19, 9:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Raleigh.

Shane Gillis $25+.

Apr. 14-16, various times. Goodnights & Factory Restaurant, Raleigh.

Leela Dance Collective: SPEAK $30. Thurs, Apr. 14, 8 p.m. Stewart Theatre, Raleigh.

Trey Kennedy: The Are You for Real?

Tour $25+. Thurs, Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m.

DPAC, Durham.

Mark Normand: All Over the Road Tour $28+. Fri, Apr. 15, 7 p.m. The Carolina Theatre, Durham.

The Price is Right Live! $31+. Fri, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. DPAC, Durham.

Chris Rock $328+.

Apr. 16-17, 8 p.m.

DPAC, Durham.

Me, Myself & Shirley $35+. Sat, Apr. 16, 7 p.m. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

Pretty Woman: The Musical $15+. Apr. 19-24, various times.

DPAC, Durham.

The Black Elite and the Gilded Age: Race, Wealth, and Class Tues, Apr. 19, 6 p.m. Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, Durham.

page An Evening with David Sedaris $55+. Wed, Apr. 13, 7:30 p.m. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh.

Alan Shapiro: Proceed to Check Out Thurs, Apr. 14, 5:30 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill.

Jeffrey Beam: Verdant Sat, Apr. 16, 4 p.m. PS118 Gallery, Durham.

Poetry Alive: A Reading and Book Signing with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green Sat, Apr. 16, 1 p.m.

NCMA, Raleigh.

Walter Bennett: The Last First Kiss Thurs, Apr. 14, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.

Library Fest: The Food Edition Apr. 18-23, various times. The Carolina Theatre and The Nasher; also online.

John Manuel: Solitario Book Release Party Fri, Apr. 15, 7:30 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham.

Community Read: The 1619 Project Tues, Apr. 19, 6 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh; in person and online.

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