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WHAT WILL THEY SCREW UP NEXT?

THE LEGISLATURE’S BACK IN SESSION. PASS THE SCOTCH.

By Paul Blest and Jane Porter, p. 10

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | DURHAM 6 Actually, Governor, Robin isn’t in Batman v. Superman.

10 “There are several big-name legislators known for social issues who are in their last session. I can’t imagine them not wanting to do something.”

12 In 2007, 78 percent of Americans identified as Christian. In 2014, just 71 percent did.

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6 Triangulator 20 Food 24 Music 28 Arts & Culture

16 A record made with the Beach Boys’ producer wasn’t enough to make Sammy Walker the New Dylan.

18 Is “Durm” a vortex of trendy new money or a grungy haven of underground art? Runaway has it both ways.

32 What to Do This Week 35 Music Calendar 40 Arts/Film Calendar 45 Soft Return

20 We’re happy to announce we’re excited about Thai food again.

23 At 21c, they make Nashville hot chicken without the chicken.

28 An exceptional form of mercy is explored in the apartheid-era tale “Master Harold” … and the boys.

30 The Guild creator Felicia Day beat sexism and anxiety to become queen of the geeks.

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Cancelation Notice

Another week, another batch of House Bill 2 stories, most of them about this or that event canceling in protest. David McKnight writes that these cancelations are counterproductive: “This would be a good time to survey the overall political terrain on the question of how liberalminded people in North Carolina are treated by supposedly liberal interest groups at the national level. It seems to me frequently—and also in the case of HB 2—that some of the very people and organizations who are trying to do the most to advance equality and fairness under the law here in North Carolina are often the very folks targeted by national liberal groups purporting to act on behalf of equal rights and individual liberty and dignity for all. Why would a performance at the annual Eno River Festival, of all places, be canceled in the name of national quest for justice and equality?”

Terry J Tolbert offers similar thoughts on Pearl Jam’s cancelation, which he believes is “moronic and naive.” “Hold the show, tell people why you object and ask for change. Don’t cancel.”

ThatManThatOversThere concurs: “Thanks Pearl Jam, now can I get a refund please, and spend my hard-earned money on food at a local market to support my locals? You have so much money, why don’t you use it for a better cause?”

And commenter Travis Smith 1 says that Pearl Jam’s decision to call off the show is no big loss.

“Good,” he writes. “Take your fairy, mumblemouth shitty music and go play your concert in some weirdo bathroom.”

On to other subjects. In response to an article last week on Durham’s solar ambitions [“Sun City”], Rusty Haynes offers a correction: “A recent INDY article alleges that solar costs ‘over $10,000 per panel’—which is woefully misleading. A residential photovoltaic system is composed of numerous individual PV panels. An investment of $10,000 is around enough to buy an entire three-kilowatt residential PV system (installed), which could power an entire small, energy-efficient home. The real barriers to solar energy in North Carolina are backward-looking state policies and crummy electric tariffs cooked up by Duke Energy.”

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triangulator +GOVS SAY THE DUMBEST THINGS

In full damage-control mode, Pat McCrory sat down for a ten-minute interview with Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday to defend his position on House Bill 2. It, um, did not go especially well. Point by point, Todd thoroughly deconstructed McCrory’s mendacities, shredding his talking points about “government overreach” and the “disconnect” between “the corporate suites and Main Street on a very complex subject,” which is rich coming from a former Duke Energy exec.

By the end, it was painfully clear that McCrory still has precious little grasp of what the law he signed last month actually does or of transgender rights generally. But the interview did provide us with copious comic relief: McCrory kept opening his mouth hole and dumb things kept falling out. Below, we’ve rounded up five of the gov’s greatest MTP hits. You’re welcome!

Todd had just pointed out that Charlotte has been fighting this issue for some time.

Last year, its city council rejected a similar antidiscrimination ordinance. But then voters elected new council members who campaigned on a pledge to pass this very law, and those elected officials followed through on their promise. It was an arduous, passionately argued process, and the voters spoke. Compare that to HB 2, which was unveiled, “debated,” and then signed into law in all of twelve hours.

As Todd retorted, “You guys debated for like ten seconds.”

2. “It was the left that brought about the bathroom bill, not the right in the city of Charlotte.”

Here McCrory was actually blaming Charlotte’s leaders for following through on their campaign promises. Weird thing for a politician to say.

3. “I walked into a buffet restaurant, an African-American buffet restaurant, and people welcomed me with open arms and said, ‘Thanks for protecting us.’”

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4. “A very powerful group called the, Human Relations, uh, uh, Human Rights Council … my gosh, they’re more powerful than the NRA.” The Human Rights Campaign, which is the organization’s actual name, will be delighted to learn that it wields more power than the group that shut down gun control after Sandy Hook. Perhaps the HRC should harness it to push through the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which LGBTQ groups have been unsuccessfully pursuing for years.

5. “With all due respect to the Hollywood, the new Batman and Robin movie is playing in China.”

As we all know, The Hollywood is a very powerful outfit that forces all films to be screened in communist countries. We also know that the new “Batman and Robin movie” is actually called Batman v.

Superman, and Robin isn’t in it.

McCrory’s point, such as it is, was that Hollywood’s opinion on HB 2 can’t be trusted because it deals with China, the second largest movie market in the world after the United States. His fellow Republicans have made similar arguments about, for instance, PayPal, which bailed on a planned expansion after HB 2. But remember Novo Nordisk, the company McCrory just praised for its $1.8 billion expansion in Clayton? It has three plants and offices in China.

Todd had the perfect response to this sentence, which sums up our thoughts on the entire interview: “OK.”

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1. “Actually, Charlotte’s vote was a very little debate. They just had a lot of public speakers speaking for and against.”

+YOUR MOVE, RALEIGH

Five days after HB 2 was signed into law, Raleigh mayor Nancy McFarlane issued a statement that read, in part: “We will continue to support all of our businesses, citizens and visitors with the utmost respect, regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.”

A lovely sentiment. The problem is, McFarlane’s statement stops auspiciously short of an official condemnation of the law—and an official condemnation is what this law demands. Three weeks later, we’re still waiting.

Since HB 2’s passage, Asheville, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Greensboro have all passed resolutions slamming it, as has the Durham County Board of Commissioners. Last week, Raleigh’s Human Relations Commission asked the city

council to do the same. And several council members, including Bonner Gaylord, Russ Stephenson, and Mary-Ann Baldwin, have come out against the law.

But the council as a whole hasn’t acted— and it’s not clear if it will. Repeated calls to the city attorney’s office were not returned.

And on Monday, spokesman Damien Graham told the INDY that “neither the [Human Relations Commission] or their resolution is on the agenda” for Tuesday’s council meeting, which takes place after we go to press.

While cities can’t override state law, they nonetheless have to stand together against Jones Street’s aggression.

North Carolina’s third, fourth, and eleventh most populous cities are standing with Charlotte; it’s time for Raleigh to do the same.

TL;DR:

+TEENAGE WASTELAND

Sorry, delinquents: North Carolina is the worst place in the country to be arrested as a teenager.

A draconian state law dictates that sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds picked up for minor misdemeanors—littering, possession of a small amount of marijuana, etc.—are treated like adults in the criminal justice system. Every year, thousands of North Carolina teenagers start their adult lives with a criminal record because of mistakes they made before they were even allowed to vote.

This isn’t the case anywhere else in America besides New York, which bests the Old North State by having a provision in place that guides such teens from the adult system to juvie under certain circumstances.

Last week, Orange County announced a move to maneuver around this law. Firsttime teenage offenders will now be issued a youth citation that routes them toward a ninety-day misdemeanor diversion program that includes community service and educational court sessions, which lay out how damaging (and expensive) their punishment would have otherwise been.

It’s modeled after the MDP in Durham County pioneered by Chief District Judge Marcia Morey, which has a 98 percent success rate: of the 125 youths who have passed through it, only two didn’t complete the pro-

gram, and only four received new charges.

Morey tells the INDY that she’s “delighted” Orange County has decided to adopt her model. “Although it is not a substitute for North Carolina law to be changed to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction to eighteen, it is a start,” Morey says.

Morey also notes that several other counties have expressed interest in starting similar diversion programs, including Buncombe, New Hanover, Guilford, Warren, Mecklenburg, and Cumberland.

+WE NEED ANSWERS

Durham police officers fired twelve shots at La’Vante Biggs on the morning of September 15, 2015. Five entered his body. Biggs, twenty-one, died on the front lawn of his home in east Durham.

The incident had several hallmarks of a suicide-by-cop. Biggs had called the police to the house. When they arrived, he was holding a gun to his head and threatening to kill himself. His mother, Shanika, was in the yard, pleading with him to put it down. Officers negotiated with Biggs for about thirty minutes. Then, according to a Durham Police Department report, Biggs “aggressively took steps” toward one of the officers on the scene, at which point four different officers discharged their weapons, killing him.

Only later did officers discover that Biggs

hadn’t been holding a real gun, but rather an Airsoft BB gun.

Biggs’s family has a lot of questions about what happened in the approximately fifty minutes between the time Biggs called 911 and was shot to death. So does the Durham NAACP, which has been investigating his death. And, after reviewing several documents and audio recordings related to Biggs’s shooting, so do we.

On Saturday morning, surrounded by friends and family on the spot where Biggs was killed, Shanika demanded answers. She wants to know why, given that La’Vante set down his gun three separate times during the standoff—once for as long as three minutes— the police did not subdue him with nonlethal weapons. She wants to know why the officer Biggs “aggressive took steps” toward apparently did not feel threatened enough to fire his own weapon. She wants to know why only one of the roughly twenty officers on the scene had crisis intervention training.

“I want to know why the police treated my son’s suicide threat like a hostage situation,” Shanika tells the INDY. “He was a danger only to himself, and they killed him anyway.”

The INDY has sent those questions and more to the DPD. We’re waiting to hear back. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest and David Hudnall.

THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER -2

The cost of HB 2 to North Carolina, according to the Center for American Progress: $500 million. The joys of discriminating against LGBTQ people: priceless.

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Wake County’s visitors bureau reports that HB 2 has already cost the county more than $700,000. And that was before Pearl Jam canceled its Wednesday show, which cost the county the sound of Eddie Vedder screaming “Yeah!” 700,000 times.

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The porn site XHamster blocks North Carolina users in protest of HB 2. In response, Thom Tillis at last vows to tell us where his dirty hands have been.

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After Pearl Jam (from Seattle) and Boston (from Boston) cancel their N.C. performances over HB 2, McCrory slams them as “Hollywood elitists.” Wow, thoughts do arrive like butterflies.

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Even after Governor McCrory issues an executive order to try to mitigate HB 2’s damage, Duke University and the Durham Chamber of Commerce demand its full repeal. McCrory calls their edicts a bunch of bull, then laughs at his own joke.

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Franklin Graham defends Duck Dynasty personality Phil Robertson after Robertson prays “that we put a Jesus man in the White House” ahead of a NASCAR race. By “Jesus man,” we presume Robertson means “Jewish socialist.” Feel the Bern, baby!

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Duke is conducting an internal investigation into its women’s basketball team after two players abruptly announced they wouldn’t be returning. “Those women need to be back in the kitchen, anyway,” says Phil Robertson, self-proclaimed Jesus man, while Franklin Graham nods approvingly.

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A video showing Durham cops aggressively raiding a woman’s house during a pot bust goes viral. Reached for comment, a vacationing Jose Lopez could not be heard over the din of steel drums.

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What Will They Screw Up Next?

THE LEGISLATURE’S BACK IN SESSION. PASS THE SCOTCH.

BY PAUL BLEST AND JANE PORTER

After one special session to fix their own screw-up (gerrymandering) and another to screw up everything else (House Bill 2), the state’s lawmakers will reconvene for their short session Monday. The short session is, in theory, a way for legislators to pass local bills and adjust the previous year’s budget. As we’ve seen in past years, however, anything is fair game, and the short sessions are becoming less and less short.

Two years ago, the short session stretched until August 20.

Lawmakers used the extra time to lift the state’s ban on fracking and criminalize whistleblowing on oil and gas companies.

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the House and the Governor’s Mansion, and a whole host of issues they might use to cement North Carolina’s reputation as a place where right-wing fanfic gets turned into state law.

Here’s what’s on the docket for the springtime circus.

HB 2

Despite the nationwide firestorm that followed the March 23 special session, Republican leaders have little interest in repealing or even tweaking House Bill 2—much to the chagrin of the increasingly embattled Governor McCrory, we imagine.

That’s not to say Democrats won’t try: Representative Billy Richardson, D-Cumberland, who voted for HB 2 but later

penned a mea culpa in The Fayetteville Observer, will introduce a bill allowing local antidiscrimination ordinances like the one Charlotte had and HB 2 overruled, while Representative Darren Jackson of Raleigh is going for full repeal.

“I’m somewhat hopeful,” Jackson says. “People are ashamed and upset that we’re trying to demonize a subset of our population. The more this debate goes on, the more people are starting to realize that.”

But barring an economic catastrophe that forces their hand—it’s possible: last week, the Center for American Progress estimated that HB 2 could put at risk a half-billion dollars in economic activity—the Republicans aren’t likely to abandon their base-stoking anti-LGBTQ ways anytime soon.

“I would obviously like for all of it to be repealed,” says Representative Duane Hall, D-Wake, “but there’s little chance of that happening.”

There’s a better chance that the part of the law that stripped workers of the ability to file discrimination claims in state court will be revisited. Governor McCrory called for this provision’s repeal last week, and Hall will introduce a bill to do just that. NC Justice executive director Rick Glazier, a former legislator, says there are “indications” that the GOP leadership may be willing to play ball.

There may be a silver lining to this mess: given that it’s an election year and the state Republicans have already been pilloried over their attack on LGBTQ rights, the legislature may be less apt to pass additional measures to, for instance, further erode abortion rights.

Then again, maybe not: “There are several big-name legislators known for social issues, like Representative Skip Stam, who are in their last session,” Hall says. “So they said they expect it to be a short session, but I can’t imagine them not wanting to do something.”

THE BUDGET

Over the past few weeks, McCrory has been traversing the state touting his budget priorities, including a 5 percent across-the-board raise for teachers, $30 million in new funding for people suffering from mental-health and substance-abuse disorders, and $8.6 million for expanding programs related to children’s welfare.

But if past is prologue, what McCrory wants and what the legislature will give him are two very different things.

Last’s year budget gave teachers a one-time bonus in lieu of a raise and killed the Durham-Orange County light rail project, but there’s hope that this year might be better. House Speaker Tim Moore has already indicated that teachers will get raises, although they’ll probably be closer to the 2 percent the House tried to grant last year (before being shut down by the Senate) than McCrory’s 5 percent or the 10 percent hike that Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson pitched in January.

Representative Jackson says he also expects raises for most state employees, too. “Just [two weeks ago], the judicial branch submitted a request for four percent raises for the judiciary and judiciary personnel,” he says. “With this being an election year, I do expect there to be raises; it’s just a question of how much.”

The House and Senate’s priorities are a little murkier; one bill that could be revived would funnel money from public schools to charter schools. In September, House rules committee chairman David Lewis, R-Harnett, said that legislation would be “studied extensively” ahead of the short session and that Republicans would “maybe try to revamp the entire way we fund” schools.

About light rail, whose state funding was spiked behind closed doors during an eleventh-hour budget conference: officials in Durham and Chapel Hill remain hopeful. After all, the House has already repealed the cap on light-rail funding.

“The Senate has to take it up,” says Representative Graig Meyer, D-Durham and Orange. “ … My guess is that the Senate leadership will use it as a bargaining chip in the final budget negotiations.”

CIVIL LIBERTIES

The state ACLU has a couple of things on its radar.

The first is body-camera legislation. As municipalities consider police body cams, they must grapple with several pertinent questions: Who gets to see the footage, and under what circumstances? Are they public records or part of an officer’s personnel file, which puts them off-limits? How should cities square citizens’ right to privacy with the need for police accountability?

Last week, a legislative committee proposed language that would essentially leave it to local governments to decide whether and how body-cam footage will be released.

Susanna Birdsong, policy counsel for the N.C. ACLU, says that while the proposal clarifies that footage is not part of an officer’s personnel record, it gives local law enforcement agencies “wide discretion to withhold or release [footage] based on a series of factors that end up weighing in favor of withholding.”

The legislation, she adds, “doesn’t allow for a clear path to public access of recordings that the public should indeed have access to, including recordings involving use of force and any incident that results in a formal complaint.”

Without transparency, you don’t get accountability.

Another bill the ACLU is watching would make student assaults on teachers felonies rather than the highest level of misdemeanor, which they are now. Since “assault” is vaguely defined, Birdsong says, situations that do not involve any physical contact or injury could be deemed felonies.

“It’s something we’re worried about because it exacerbates the school-to-prison pipeline and impacts disproportionately kids of color and kids with disabilities,” Birdsong says. She points out that, in North Carolina, sixteen- and seventeenyear-olds are treated as adults in the criminal justice system, meaning a kid’s youthful indiscretion could become part of his or her permanent record.

“The bill is not responding to any rise in these kinds of incidents in schools,” Birdsong says. “It’s just an idea from a legislator that we don’t think is a good one.” The bill’s sponsor, Senator Jerry Tillman, R-Moore and Randolph, did not return the INDY’s messages by press time.

THE ENVIRONMENT

Environmentalists are watching several proposals with trepidation, says Cassie Gavin, director of government relations for the N.C. Sierra Club.

First, there’s a measure that would freeze the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards. REPS ensure that a portion of electricity sold by North Carolina’s three investorowned utilities comes from renewable sources.

Currently the state is on track to have 12.5 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2021, but this proposal would freeze that percentage at 6 percent until 2018, with no requirements thereafter.

This idea stalled in the House last year. But then it was stuffed into a so-called regulatory reform bill, which passed the House and is now headed for the Senate. That means it is very much alive.

Lawmakers could stuff other bad ideas into the regulatory reform bill, too.

For example, the Environmental Review Commission heard a proposal last week to allow people to throw their old television sets into already overflowing landfills rather than recycle them. Another proposal would remove the Department of Environmental Quality’s authority to regulate stormwater runoff—which contains nutrients that pollute lakes and rivers—into some bodies of water.

“The less stormwater management you do, the more nutrients you get flowing into waterways,” says Gavin. “… It’s called regulatory reform, but it’s more like regulatory repeal, because every regulatory reform bill just takes away more requirements focused on environmental regulations.”

That regulatory reform bill could also see the reappearance of developer-friendly legislation that rolls back the buffer rules that protect the state’s rivers, streams, and other waterways.

PUBLIC RECORDS & FREE SPEECH

Stam, a powerful Wake County Republican, submitted a draft bill to the Committee on Education Strategies and Practices in March that would remove teacher pay from public records. North Carolina currently ranks near the bottom of the country in teacher pay, an inconvenient fact that Stam, who is retiring after this session, apparently decided was better to just hide.

“One of the real problems for differentiated pay or merit pay or whatever you want to call it is frankly envy and jealousy,” Stam explained during a committee hearing last month.

“People don’t like the idea that other people will know what your salary is.”

In other words, knowledge is power, and Stam doesn’t want teachers to have any of it.

In addition, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest’s campus “free speech” bill will also likely be introduced this session.

That act would ban “disruptions”—i.e., protests—of public meetings or events, which have increased since Margaret Spellings became president of the UNC system.

“Our universities must be a place where there is free trade in the marketplace of ideas,” Forest said in a statement, which must be news to protesters who, under Forest’s bill, would face expulsion for exercising their free speech rights. ● backtalk@indyweek.com Additional reporting by David Hudnall.

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LAST WEEK, CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES GATHERED NEAR CHARLOTTE TO DISCUSS HOW TO TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY. WE SENT A SPY.

BY JANE PORTER

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and their self-perception as a persecuted subset of the population.

But on a practical level, conservative pastors are researching and mobilizing their congregants—and anyone else they think will be receptive to the cause.

Once identified, these people are bombarded with tailored messages on everything from Israel to gun control. And then they’re asked to promise to vote, registered, and eventually taken to the polls.

Faith leaders are also appealing to one another to take political messages to their pulpits, to create homeschooled “disciples” so that their congregants’ children—unsullied by the public school system— will perpetuate the Christian worldview, and even run for office themselves.

ILLUSTRATION BY SKILLET GILMORE

I’m

waiting to wash my hands in a beige-toned ladies’ room in the Southern Evangelical Seminary’s headquarters in Matthews, which is just outside of Charlotte.

A middle-aged woman standing at the sink, sporting a tailored skirt suit and a stiff helmet of hair, is telling another woman her life story: she’s from Missouri, but she moved down to Charlotte for work. She snaps shut the latch on her designer bag.

“So I was down there protesting the city council vote,” she’s saying. “They didn’t listen to us, but they will listen to God.” “Amen,” says the second woman, gleefully stomping a high-heeled foot and raising her hand in the air.

In North Carolina, bathrooms aren’t just bathrooms anymore. They’re battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, and these women—attendees of a conference hosted last week by the state chapter of the American Pastors Network, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit that raises money for Christian ministries—are on the front lines.

The conference, billed as a “roadmap for renewal,” wasn’t explicitly political, but the undertones weren’t difficult to spot. They weren’t even undertones. All the old Moral Majority chestnuts were out on display: abortion is like the Holocaust, gay marriage is unconstitutional, and immigrants are just fine so long as they love Jesus.

And there was this handout, touting “the case for Christian involvement in the culture war”: “Bornagain/Evangelical voters were 24 percent of the electorate [in 2012] and while 79 percent voted for Romney, 20 percent voted in defiance or ignorance of clear Biblical teaching of the God whom they profess to follow, voted for Barack Obama, the most anti-Biblical, pro-abortion and pro-gay president in history.”

It’s true that conservative Christian voters have been a powerful electoral force in North Carolina and elsewhere for decades. And while their influence is waning as the nation becomes more diverse and secular—Pew researchers found that between 2007 and 2014, the Christian share of the population fell from 78 percent to 71 percent—church leaders are getting savvier about how to engage self-professed Christian voters who hold conservative views. Part of that strategy includes appealing to their preoccupation with social issues like abortion and gay marriage, their reverence for the founding fathers,

“If God is calling you to run for office, run for office,” George Barna, who founded a marketing research group that polls people about their beliefs, told the conference’s 150 attendees. “We are in dire straits. That is obvious to me. There are so many things you can do to inform your people. You’re the best alternative to the media.”

With the ever-present backdrop of House Bill 2 lingering over North Carolina, these were culture warriors being called to battle.

And for a cool $40—the American Pastors Network has an annual revenue of about $2 million—I got an inside look at the religious right’s plan to take America back despite the changing cultural currents.

In sum, it goes like this: the message isn’t the problem; mobilization is. As Barna told the crowd, twelve million Christian voters weren’t registered to vote in 2012. Another twenty-six million stayed home. Barack Obama won by just 3.5 million votes.

So they don’t need to moderate their positions on LGBTQ or abortion rights. They just need to vote—and if enough of them do that, they’ll be able to impose their version of America on the rest of us.

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hose inspired women who were with me in the ladies’ had just heard a sermon from Paul Blair, a former offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears, now a pastor and candidate for Oklahoma state Senate. With his symmetrical facial hair, megawatt teeth, and tan, Blair looks like a more buff version of George Michael.

Through a group called Protect Life and Marriage OK, Blair says he is working on a model for Oklahoma to be the first state in the nation to fully outlaw abortion by “redetermining licensing standards” for doctors.

“We will jerk the licenses of doctors who perform abortions,” Blair says to applause.

Indeed, the Oklahoma Senate passed a bill last month to do exactly that. And several other states already place onerous requirements on clinicians who perform abortions or require them to have admitting privileges to nearby hospitals. So this is a plan already in motion all over the country.

Blair outlined a second proposal “to launch national resistance” to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obgerfell decision—the one that legalized gay marriage last year—in a magazine interview that was circulating at the conference. The premise is that the federal courts have a “limited scope of jurisdiction,” according to the U.S. Constitution, and that God grants people their rights, not the government. Therefore, if the government violates those God-granted rights, the people

have the right to disobey or ignore the government’s laws.

“The definition of marriage is a closed case, because it was defined by the word of God,” Blair tells the audience, to cheering cries of “that’s right,” “hear, hear,” and, of course, “amen.”

Blair is followed by Barna, who trots out ominous statistics about the state of the faith.

Barna’s numbers show that while millions of Americans consider themselves born-again, many of them lie and get divorced and think that a person can have an abortion, get gaymarried, or be a Muslim and still make it into heaven. This, in his view, does not bode well for the church’s future.

As we take a midmorning break for muffins and orange juice, the woman sitting next to me asks what I think of the presentations so far. She’s in her mid-fifties and is there with her husband. She wears open-toed leather sandals and offers people mints from a tin of mini-Altoids resting on top of her Bible.

“We homeschooled our kids, so a lot of this really resonates with us,” the husband tells me.

I can count on one hand the number of people at the conference who look to be around my age, in their late twenties or early thirties. The rest are decades older, many probably retired. And while the overwhelming majority is white, at least a dozen AfricanAmericans are here as well, including Pastor Leon Threatt, a candidate for North Carolina’s newly drawn Twelfth Congressional District. Speakers make a point of emphasizing racial inclusivity in the road map for the renewal of Christian values.

“We don’t hear a lot about the black founding fathers, like Wentworth Cheswell,” laments David Barton, a shifty-eyed, grayhaired Texas activist with a fox-like face.

(Cheswell, who was of mixed race and was listed in the Census as white, is generally regarded as the first person of African descent to hold public office in America; he was elected the town constable in Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1768.)

Barton is an “expert in historical and constitutional issues,” according to his conference bio. But his expertise is, at best, debatable. In 2012, his book The Jefferson Lies was recalled; his Christian publisher cited numerous errors. Most modern historians consider Barton, a frequent contributor to Glenn Beck’s radio show, a hack—though that’s not the case in this room.

Christianity has spread to 90 percent of the nations in Africa, Barton laments, but Christian values have not.

“We’ve seen the problems in Africa increase recently,” he says, “like AIDS, corruption, abuse of women, and poverty.

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because the way you get AIDS nowadays. It’s not from blood transfusions any longer, but from violating God’s standard of sexuality.”

This claim—a somewhat gentler take on the “AIDS Kills Fags” rhetoric popularized by Westboro Baptist Church— seems to resonate here. People nod and murmur in agreement.

Christian values are on the wane in America too, Barton says, with divorce up among born-again Christians. That, on the other hand, elicits little reaction from the room.

Barton concludes his sermon with a story about a woman from Bentonville, Arkansas, who ran for a seat on the school board when some members “wanted to do the bathrooms thing”—to allow students to use the bathroom that comports with their gender identity, as Charlotte wanted to do.

“She said, ‘Oh no you don’t’ and won the school board seat with thirty-five votes,” Barton says.

“School boards are a piece of cake. Recruit the right people and put them in these races.”

what sounds a whole lot like music from a Disney movie— specifically, “A Whole New World” from Aladdin, but with a “choose Jesus” theme. Kistler’s not a bad singer, but the whole performance is awkward. No one else seems as weirded out as I am, though, and they clap politely when he’s finished. For the next song, a matronly woman who sounds like a classically trained opera singer joins Kistler on stage.

Our hunger sated, we gather back in the conference room for the pastors’ final pitches. Throughout the day, we heard from ten different speakers, including Dr. Richard Land, the president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary, and Sam

Gary Frazier, a self-proclaimed expert on Bible prophecy and current events, lays out “Project 1356,” a scheme to get 1.356 million conservatives to vote in eleven battleground states to try to swing the 2016 election away from likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. It’s implicitly clear that the only viable candidate for these folks is Ted Cruz. Frazier and Blair have already endorsed the Texas senator. Land attended a Cruz fund-raiser and has said that Trump is “a scam.”

Mobilizing voters will involve appealing to thousands of conservatives in these states and getting them to pledge to vote. Once they make that promise, Frazier says, they’ll be more likely to head out to the polls.

It’s worked before, Frazier says. In Alaska, for example, the goal was to get six thousand more conservatives to vote in 2014. Fifteen thousand pledged to vote that year, and more than twelve thousand actually did, helping elect Republican Dan Sullivan to the U.S. Senate.

In 2016, for battleground races in North Carolina, Frazier says the goal is to get more than 150,000 conservatives to vote.

But this pitch seems desperate, a tacit acknowledgement that the church’s influence is in precipitous decline.

During a panel discussion before we broke for lunch, a question arose as to how to engage Millennials with the “Biblical worldview,” presumably the one that says it’s OK to discriminate against people simply for being different.

The speakers didn’t have a good answer—other than to “really be Christ-like.”

“If you say you are a Christian and therefore you are Christlike, you are more likely to befriend and have a relationship with those people,” said Barna. “We need to be attractive enough for them to say, ‘That’s really different, I want to know how they do that.’”

“If you mess up once, they’ll lose confidence in your ability to tell the truth,” another panelist added.

The audience giggled raucously, but it sounded nervous and forced. It was unclear whether they were at a loss as to how to respond or at a realization that, for this generation, the religious right has already messed things up beyond repair. l jporter@indyweek.com

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e break for lunch, which is catered by Chick-fil-A—or, as a pastor says later, “the chicken of Jesus.”

As I’m scanning the space under a massive circusstyle tent for a place to sit, two guys in their early fifties, Keith and John, invite me to join them. John slides me a business card from a Christian college in Kannapolis. It indicates that he is a professor of “peribiblical studies.” I’m not entirely sure what that means.

“You must be here because your husband’s a pastor,” Keith says. “Will you be taking this information back to your church?” I mumble something about wanting to strengthen my faith; luckily, I don’t have time to elaborate.

There’s a burst of music, and a twentysomething kid in a shiny gray suit, black-rimmed glasses, and chin-length hair combed to one side is up on a stage at the back of the tent. A giant American flag hangs beside him.

He’s Nathan Kistler, the son of evangelist Dave Kistler, president of the North Carolina chapter of the American Pastors Network. The younger Kistler, who works for a Christian lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, belts out lyrics over

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Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network. I can’t help but notice that all of the speakers are white men.

One of the afternoon speakers, an educator from South Carolina, uses the Bible’s fall-and-redemption narrative to make a case for parochial education; we hear public education equated with child abuse several times and are told how hard it is to come by a real Christian education, since textbooks tend to be secular. A religious liberties lawyer informs the faithful of their rights: pastors can, for example, endorse political candidates personally, as long as they don’t use church resources to do so, and they can speak directly about legislation from the pulpit. A pilot, Steve Scheibner, describes his brush with death as he, by chance, avoided piloting one of the planes that went down on 9/11.

Yet another evangelist, Sammy Tippit, regales us with stories of his missionary work in Romania and Burundi, urging pastors to reach out to and convert immigrants. “God is moving in Iran,” Tippit says. “Thousands of Iranians are being converted. Churches are popping up all over Turkey for refugees.

A German pastor recently baptized two hundred Afghans.”

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New MorNing A NORTH CAROLINA LABEL GIVES A LONG-LOST “NEW DYLAN” A SECOND CHANCE BY JIM ALLEN

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here should be a long German word for the phenomenon by which we endlessly seek new iterations of an irreplaceable cultural force. You’ll find few better examples than the music world’s desperate quest to anoint a “New Dylan,” starting in the sixties, continuing apace through the late seventies, and, to some extent, still happening now.

Singer-songwriter history is littered with artists who were simultaneously honored with and damned by the designation—Loudon Wainwright III, John Prine, Elliott Murphy, Steve Forbert, a young Bruce Springsteen, and so on.

Arguably, aside from Springsteen, none of these fine songsmiths achieved the same cultural impact as the inscrutable man from Minnesota. But they often ended up earning some cult-hero status—except, ironically, the singer most legitimately daubed with the New Dylan brush, Sammy Walker.

The Georgia-born Walker released his first album, the solo acoustic Song for Patty, on Folkways in 1975. From his fingerpicking patterns and rack harmonica to his freewheeling lyrics and

n "I thought things were really looking good, and I was ready to take it to the world.

But things didn’t work out quite that way." keening tenor, he arrived like an answered prayer for those who’d spent the last decade mourning the loss of mid-sixties Dylan. Walker was a Peach State folksinger whose twang was more natural than that of Dylan, who had worked hard to come off like a character from a Woody Guthrie song.

He came by his sound honestly.

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Walker could deftly combine the poetic and the political, as on the Patty Hearst-inspired title track of his debut. The gentle “Catcher in the Rye,” on the other hand, gracefully captured the yearning young adults feel when gazing at the long, Sisyphean slope ahead.

That feeling epitomizes Walker’s career, really.

Though he flirted with fame in multiple forms as the New Dylan, it always eluded him, eventually forcing him to quit music altogether. But with the help of Ramseur Records, the same label that launched the career of The Avett Brothers, Walker, who has now called North Carolina home for two decades, has been given a second chance to share his old songs. Released earlier this year, Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, a new collection of very old demos, suggests that we all missed out when the spotlight swept past Walker.

In the early seventies, Walker had been working as a janitor when he sent a homemade demo tape to New York folk magazine Broadside. It was then passed on to legendary underground DJ Bob Fass. His show had famously featured Dylan as a drop-in guest early on. He invited Walker to play.

“I bought me a one-way ticket to New York,” remembers Walker from his home in Hayesville, a tiny mountain town at the western edge of North Carolina. “I never came back.”

The folksinger Phil Ochs heard Walker on Fass’s show and suggested they meet. Walker played Ochs several songs, and Ochs, in turn, approached Folkways boss Moe Asch, who also felt the excitement. From there, Walker’s career seemed to advance at an astonishing pace.

“It was really Phil that helped me get my first Folkways record,” he remembers. “I arrived in May of 1975, and in June we started making the record. For once in my life, I was in the right place at the right time.”

Critics have since speculated that Ochs, who also helped Walker land a subsequent deal with Warner Brothers, may have had a secondary motive. Some have suggested that Ochs never

got over his ugly falling-out with Dylan, so he latched onto the up-and-comer who struck him as the most likely candidate to kick Dylan out of the box.

“It’s possible, I suppose,” says the unassuming Walker. “Why he chose me, I don’t know. I know there was conflict, just from things I’ve read and heard.”

Still, in the months before his 1976 suicide, Ochs pushed Walker as hard and far as possible, even taking the young songwriter to Warner Brothers head Mo Ostin.

“Phil had called up Warner, and he was singing some of my lyrics over the phone to Mo Ostin,” recalls Walker. The deal was soon done. “But after Phil died, Warner didn’t do much to promote my records.”

On the way to almost becoming a folk phenomenon, Walker nearly became a movie star, too. Another Walker admirer, Lee Hays of The Weavers, connected him with heavyweight music manager and aspiring film producer Harold Leventhal, who needed someone to play Woody Guthrie in a film adaptation of Bound for Glory.

“Harold was looking for kind of an unknown. I went down and met Harold and sang a couple of Woody Guthrie songs, and he got excited and wanted me to go out to Hollywood for a screen test,” he says. “But the director, Hal Ashby, said he didn’t want to work with an unknown, so I never went.”

David Carradine ultimately landed the role, but the incident hadn’t been a total loss. Leventhal became Walker’s manager and negotiated the Warner contract. The demos that scored Walker that big deal—and many of which he rerecorded for his self-

titled Warner debut in 1976—are the basis of Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, a stunning glimpse into a lost moment forty years ago.

“They were songs that were sent out to Warner before the deal was sealed, to let them know what was coming, to decide if they wanted to finalize the deal,” he says. “It’s the unplugged version of that album.”

Produced by Nik Venet, who signed and worked extensively with the Beach Boys, the 1976 record featured first-call players like guitarist James Burton and drummer Jim Gordon. But the solo acoustic demo takes have both an urgency and an intimacy all their own.

The level of lyrical detail on the title track, for instance, suggests that Walker could have taken an alternate path as a prose writer. “The

Sammy Walker cutting 2008’s Misfit Scarecrow PHOTO BY DANIEL COSTON

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hoofbeat of a stallion stirs the dusty ground into a powdered rain/that lifts and curls until it’s done and settles down into his flowing mane,” he sings, packing more potent imagery into a single line than most writers manage in an entire song. And Walker’s compassionate portrait of an elderly woman’s last days on “Cold Pittsburgh Morning” feels like a Eugene O’Neill play waiting to happen. It’s incredible to think that Walker was a mere twenty-three years old when these demos were cut.

“Those demos really capture an optimistic spirit of the way I was feeling and what I was writing. The spirit is there,” he says. “I

was really confident and optimistic at that point in my life. I thought things were really looking good, and I was ready to take it to the world. But things didn’t work out quite that way.”

After releasing Walker’s second majorlabel record, 1977’s Blue Ridge Mountain Skyline, Warner Brothers dropped him, apparently having done little to promote his music. He was no longer a priority.

“I didn’t have anybody to help put a tour together for me,” he remembers. “Warner Brothers didn’t do anything. My manager didn’t do anything. I was still a naïve kid, and I didn’t know how it worked. I was counting on those people to put things together for me, and nobody did.”

In retrospect, was it Warner’s lack of support that kept Walker from breaking through, the overabundant Dylan comparisons, or a mix?

“It’s something that’s probably handicapped me pretty bad, even though, really, I didn’t sound that much like Dylan but for a couple of years. He was a big influence on me when I was a teenager,” Walker says.

“After I got nailed so bad about sounding too much like a young Dylan, I consciously tried to sound completely different. I got rid of the harmonica. I tried to change my voice.

If I’d have sounded different on those songs, I think maybe people would have paid more attention to the songs themselves.”

Discouraged by the false starts, Walker mostly disappeared from music, releasing one more album on Folkways before taking two decade-plus breaks. He issued Old Time Southern Dream in 1995 through a small Swiss imprint. He relocated to North Carolina in 1996, settling in Hayesville, where his grandparents and mom had long lived. And then, in 2008, Concord’s Ramseur Records released Misfit Scarecrow. Label owner Dolph Ramseur is a longtime friend of Walker’s, and he asked if there were any unreleased relics of Walker’s New Dylan days.

That led to Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’.

“The demos had just been sitting around for all those years,” he says. “I sent him a cassette.”

Walker is mostly retired from music now, as he has been for decades. But he seems hopeful, if uncertain, that Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’ could reintroduce his records—or, in many cases, introduce him altogether.

“Maybe a few new people who’ve never heard of me will hear it, and maybe it’ll make them look into the old records,” he says. “It’ll be worthwhile if that happens.” l music@indyweek.com

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Naming Rights

WHAT KIND OF CITY IS “DURM,” ANYWAY? RUNAWAY VENTURES AN ANSWER WITH ITS NEW DOWNTOWN STORE.

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evotees of Runaway gear are standing in line outside 212 W. Main Street in Durham. It’s the morning of Saturday, April 2, and Gabriel Eng-Goetz and Justin Laidlaw are ceremoniously unlocking their first brick-andmortar store. After selling their wares online, in boutiques, and in pop-up shops for several years, the small company known for its “Durm” shirts and stickers is ready to stake its claim downtown.

“We’ve been in here the last month trying to figure out what items we were going to put in and what atmosphere we wanted to create,” says Laidlaw, Runaway’s twenty-five-year-old media director. “All the elements of Runaway and Durham are here.”

The store, right next to 21c Museum Hotel, fills a small corner of the Trust Building, which became one of Durham’s first skyscrapers when it was built in 1905. It’s fitting that a brand built on the city’s past would find a home in a historic building. There’s a neon sign in the window and local art on the walls. Among the T-shirts, hats, and socks on the shelves is a new collection created for the opening, including shirts emblazoned with Durham landmarks, bulls, and leaves that say “Durham Grown.”

Eng-Goetz, Runaway’s thirty-year-old creative director, founded the company five years ago. He describes the Runaway aesthetic as “hood chic, comfortable and stylish, with a street edge.” At the opening, he and Laidlaw are both wearing their own supply, which looks like it was made for them— and, in a way, it was.

Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw are cool and soft-spoken, even as they talk about achieving world domination. Still, they seem somewhat surprised that they own a store. Customers, some of them friends, trickle in throughout the morning. One can’t decide between a tank top featuring kissing fish and another with "Durm" on a bull silhouette. Others wander in to check out the clothes, meet the owners, or chat with Raj Bunnag, whose art is the first to be displayed in the store, which doubles as a gallery.

“The vibe has been great, with a large array of people,

both long-standing fans of the brand and newcomers,” EngGoetz says. “It’s great to showcase our stuff in a space that we fully curated, and interact with our audience in a way that’s like, ‘Welcome to our new home.’”

At five p.m., the hoopla moves down the street for a party at Ninth Street Bakery. The crowd spills onto the patio and into the parking lot, drinking beer, petting dogs, and nodding along to DJ sets. Wool E. Bull is firing Runaway shirts out of a T-shirt cannon. (The company will design the Durham Bulls’ uniforms for a game on June 9.) As the evening air grows chilly, some people pull on Durm sweatshirts, celebrating a company that grew out of the inextricable link between its founders’ struggles with their own identities and a strong identification with their native city. l l l

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urm written across a bull, Durm in the shape of a train, Durm in block letters representing the Durham flag, Durm on a floral pattern. You’ve seen the shirts, hoodies, hats, and bumper stickers everywhere, even if you don’t own one. They’ve become an omnipresent sign of local pride. Not everyone sporting them has lived in Durham for very long. But for Eng-Goetz, who coined the spelling when he launched Runaway in 2011, the brand is very personal.

“The whole campaign behind Durm is a very hyper-localized type of movement,” he says. “This is a local pronunciation of the word, for people who have grown up here. I just hope people see it’s coming from a very real place.”

Born and raised in Durham, Eng-Goetz left to study art at Syracuse University, but moved back after he graduated and started making clothes for himself and friends.

“Growing up as a mixed-race person in the South, I had a lot of questions about identity, and I found that art was a great way for me to explore that and figure things out,” he says.

“Soon I saw that [the clothing] was speaking to other people.”

Laidlaw also grew up in Durham, in a predominately white neighborhood, before attending Winston-Salem State and North Carolina Central University, both historically black institutions.

“I didn’t really have the black identity a lot of people might associate with me, so I went through a lot of similar issues as a kid and into my adult life,” he says. “I felt like Runaway was an opportunity for me to explore those same identity issues.”

Runaway strives to represent a community of people with unusual careers, talents, and backgrounds—people who are “running away from convention,” in the words of one of the company’s mantras. Beyond the Durm line, which makes up about a third of Runaway’s currently available stock, you’ll find lots of darker iconography, heavy on skulls—some of it also locally focused, including the N.C. state seal cast in skeletons and a “City of Medicine” T-shirt with a caduceus surrounded by alcohol, condoms, and drugs.

Another Runaway mantra is, “Say it like you’re from here.” But the changing nature of Durham makes it difficult to say what, exactly, convention is, and who is from here.

Is “Durm” a wealthy mainstream city of new transplants or an edgy underground one populated by longtime locals?

Eng-Goetz fondly remembers participating in a pre-revital-

Clothing klatch: Justin Laidlaw (left), Rebecca Ward, and Gabriel Eng-Goetz (right) at the Runaway store PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

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ization art show in an abandoned building that’s now a hair salon. He founded Runaway for people who remember the city the way he does—as a scrappy, self-sufficient place where people were creative by necessity.

But as young professionals are moving to Durham in droves, charmed by its historic vestiges even as they spur downtown’s transformation, Runaway gets to have it both ways. Thirty-something parents at baseball games wear the brand, as do Duke students, hip-hop artists, and teenage skaters. Some proudly wear the Durm logo, embracing the city they’re from or the one they just moved to; others opt for Runaway’s edgier designs, which are more reflective of EngGoetz’s personal taste. l l l

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elling clothes is only part of Runaway’s vision.

Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw also want to highlight unconventional voices among the Triangle’s artists, musicians, and other creative types.

One of their projects is a documentary series called The Runaways, where Durham filmmaker Ned Phillips sheds light on local characters like burlesque dancer Miss Bliss, skateboarder Tahir Troublefield, and Joe Miller of the Baxter arcade bar in Chapel Hill. The series can be viewed on Runaway’s website, along with interviews with artists, articles about local musicians, and recaps of events.

“It's always interesting to learn what drives passionate people,” Phillips says. “Runaway has always been about blazing your own trail and doing it with style, and I think the people featured in the docs are doing just that.”

Runaway also applies its brand to “underground, makeshift events” that don’t attract mainstream attention but are nonetheless selling points of Durham, such as the Raund Haus experimental beat showcase at The Shed.

“We see that as something that probably won’t get major press, but is essential to the type of scene people talk about in the Triangle,” Laidlaw says.

“We have a lot of coffee shops, we have cool hotels—a lot of cities have things like that.

But these more unique outlets that people are starting to create are the things we want to highlight.”

That’s the idea behind Runaway’s gallery, too, which EngGoetz says favors art that pushes boundaries and questions social norms, rather than just providing ambiance while you shop for a Durm shirt.

Bunnag, the first featured artist, is a Durham-based printmaker and research fellow at Supergraphic whose intricate work features skulls, skeletons,

Say it like you're from here: Runaway's signature "Durm" design

and commentary on the "war on drugs."

“He’s the perfect person to debut in the gallery,” Eng-Goetz says. “He’s this Thai dude with dreads—he’s not your typical character you see in North Carolina, but very much embodies the Durham spirit.”

Runaway will collaborate with each of its featured artists on a T-shirt design. The idea is to "bring fine art to the streets" and make it more accessible, giving people who can’t afford to buy a painting from a gallery the chance to own a piece of local art for $26, the price of any Runaway T-shirt. Bunnag’s design features a meticulously drawn skeleton warrior, dragons, and a macabre take on Runaway’s logo, which depicts a rabbit and a boy with his belongings in a kerchief on a stick.

“I feel like [Runaway] is something bigger than just streetwear,” Bunnag says. “It’s something that the Durham community is proud to be a part of. Through this collaboration, I hope to show that our art scene is much more than just landscapes and stuff that looks good over your couch. We make art that has a message and a meaning.” l l l

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hough Runaway’s vision is more ambitious than skyline T-shirts, that’s what jump-started its mass appeal.

Diverse customers and inclusive projects aside, EngGoetz and Laidlaw have taken on the role of commodifying the city's identity, name, and history, to create an image of Durham street culture that people can buy in to. Building their brand on Durham’s name didn’t require any legal wrangling, though Runaway has issued cease-and-desist letters to imitators.

In some ways, Runaway aims to re-create the gritty aura of an earlier Durham by positing itself as an underground enclave while relying on mainstream appeal to support it.

For some, “Durm” connotes the city that Eng-Goetz has in mind. For others, it represents only New Durham. And others still can’t afford a $26 T-shirt, which makes the brand more

accessible to the well-off people flooding into Durham than to those who helped create the city Runaway is selling, and who are now being pushed out.

If there’s a contradiction, Runaway’s spokesmen aren’t fazed by it. In fact, they welcome it.

“We have a business model that works,” Laidlaw says. “Art is of the highest importance, but for us to sustain what we want to do, there has to be a model that’s scalable.”

“Anyone the brand speaks to is welcomed with open arms,” Eng-Goetz adds, “whether it’s the grandma buying organic vegetables at the farmers market or your sixteen-year-old skater at the skate park. As long as our intentions are authentic, and it speaks to the people buying it, then I’m all about it.”

And there’s the hope that someone who buys a Durm shirt will then be drawn into Runaway's other projects. Maybe that person will watch the documentaries, support the underserved artists they highlight, or learn about Durham’s history.

It’s an optimistic, if somewhat vague mission—one not out of place in a city undergoing its own identity crisis, as new luxury condos and skyscrapers jostle with new underground art spaces and venues. While the Triangle’s art scene is already much more than wall-ready landscapes, Runaway does seem well poised to lead people to dig a little deeper and explore the unconventional.

Since the store opened, Runaway has hired two more employees, doubling its staff to four. The next step might be to spread into other parts of North Carolina, and then other states and countries.

“There are other places in the world where people feel conflicted and want to find an outlet to do something against the grain,” Laidlaw says. “We want to push the art, the media, the clothing—and we want to give Durham an opportunity to have its time in the national and international spotlight.”

For now, though, they continue to conquer their home turf one T-shirt at a time, with a steady flow of customers in the store in the weeks since it’s been open.

At Bunnag’s Third Friday reception on April 15, the store is packed, just like on opening day, with a diverse crowd: middle-aged women making the gallery rounds, teenagers with skateboards and backpacks, young professionals, and fans and friends already decked out in Runaway. Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw greet them all with a wave and a grin. Bunnag stands in the corner talking to people about his work while others buy clothes, drink beer, and study the art. Downtown gleams outside the window, as confused, perhaps, about its identity as Runaway’s founders once were about theirs. As the city continues to develop, the shop is there to sell its loyal following, and passersby alike, a piece of Durm—whatever that means to them. l Twitter: @iza_woj

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THAI SPOON

3808 Guess Road, Durham www.facebook.com/thaispoondurham

THAI CHINA BUFFET

4900 N.C. Highway 55, Durham (919) 361-8881

Fit to Be Thai’d

IN DURHAM, TWO RESTAURANTS—ONE OLD, ONE NEW—REIGNITE OUR ENTHUSIASM FOR THAI FOOD

BY DANNY HOOLEY

In a few decades of experience, the suggestion of local Thai food hasn’t often elicit unfiltered enthusiasm. When someone among a group of friends has suggested it for dinner, the responses have tended to be affirmative but not terribly excited.

It’s not that Thai food is boring or bad—to the contrary, even. And we have many good options in Durham (Bangkok 54, Twisted Noodle, and Thai Cafe) and Raleigh (Thaiphoon, in spite of the bad pun, is solid).

Anecdotally, though, it seems that people choose their regular spot based on geographic convenience, not gastronomic preference. They all run together.

Or so I thought. In recent weeks, I’ve discovered two Thai restaurants in Durham— one only two months old, another so old I feel like I need to turn in my Northern Durham High School yearbook in shame— that distinguish themselves in several ways.

They both serve unusually memorable versions of the standards, your curries and your pad Thais, and traditional dishes you rarely see in these Southern parts. And they offer their own creations, too, showcasing surprisingly creative kitchens.

Thai Spoon opened on Valentine’s Day in Cross Creek Shopping Center, high in the reaches of North Durham. Head chef Phattharasaphon Lynch, a former employee at the standby Thai Cafe, succeeds with a menu of intriguing choices for diners who want to move beyond basic curries and noodles.

That said, Thai Spoon also handles the classics beautifully. The steamed chicken dumplings (also available fried) are worth the drive alone. The wrap is light and springy, while the basil-flavored chicken inside leaves a satisfying heat that lingers after you’re finished. Tiny bits of carrots add a pleasant, unexpected crunch.

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Want to get excited about Thai food again? Try the fried rice seafood— really, the whole menu—at Durham’s new Thai Spoon. PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE

marinade. Those onions nestle among a generous toss of chopped spring onions.

Somehow, all those onions don’t overpower the dish. Rather, they play on the same team as the chili spices to create that satisfying burn.

Here’s a tip I learned during several visits: If you can take it, order everything medium hot. This is the rare restaurant that gives you “hot” when you ask for it, and the “medium” designation helps maintain the harmony of flavors.

In the end, that may be what puts Thai Spoon above its peers: Whether you’re trying a familiar massaman, panang, green, or yellow curry, pad Thai, or one of the restaurant’s own creations, such as the delicious spicy fried rice tom yum seafood, the bright, familiar flavors blend in a way that makes you feel like you’re rediscovering the pleasure of Thai cuisine. It’s so good, you may start to get adventurous about following the menu’s Thai detours— go with that instinct. l l l

Thai Spoon has a few characteristics in common with Thai China Buffet, in South Durham’s Parkwest Shopping Center for nearly a decade. Both restaurants are entirely family ventures. Neither lists pork on the menu with entrées, but it’s available if you ask. (Aoy Wajamathura of Thai Spoon laughed, with a bit of embarrassment, when I asked her why; she says she simply forgot.) Both offer vegan options by excluding fish sauces, with no

indyfood ruinous effect. And neither serves alcohol, although Thai Spoon is supposedly working on that.

Spirits wouldn’t make much sense at Thai China Buffet, anyway; at night, the small dining room is brightly lit, a telling sign that most of its dinner business goes to take-out.

Go, instead, at lunch, between eleven a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, which South Durham residents and RTP employees already seem to do in droves.

Walk in between noon and one p.m. on any day of the week, and good luck getting a seat.

People are here for good reason: the steam table is refilled often and in small batches.

Half of the buffet is standard fare you could find at the Chinese buffet across the street, but Thai China’s orange chicken and fried pork are just that much better. There’s a lot of turnover with the standard dishes, so that one disappears as another appears, creating a fun lunchtime guessing game.

Though helmed by Laotian immigrants Van South and Van Bouatay, the main attraction is the Thai food, including the most popular dish, the basil chicken. It’s simple, really, with ground chicken stir-fried among basil

and spices. It’s good enough to pass as comfort food, if your idea of comfort is a warmth radiating thorough your chest. (Again, order medium-hot for best effect).

Other standouts include the Pla Lad Prik, a fried (but not battered) whole tilapia with a generous portion of a spicy, smoky brown sauce. It’s big enough to share, if you’re into that kind of generosity. The Pinky in a Blanket stuffs marinated shrimp in a deep-fried roll, with a sticky sweet sauce for dipping.

I also love the buttered mussels topped with cheddar cheese, accompanied by a sweet, red hot sauce. It looks so wrong and tastes so good. It is the one dish on the menu that makes me wish Thai China had a license to sell beer; this is the best new bar food I’ve had in a while.

The savory touch of Laos and the creativity that the chefs at Thai China Buffet bring to their food make me want to try everything they’ve got. Eventually, I will. The same also goes for Thai Spoon, the other Durham restaurant that’s turned my once blasé suggestion of Thai food into a zealous declaration. ● dhooley@indyweek.com

FOOD TO GO: THE TRIANGLE’S BEST FOOD EVENTS TABLE, FARM, OR BOTH

Two of the week’s biggest food events, all part of the annual spring series Taste, have already sold out—that is, The Grand Taste Experience, which will bring a constellation of local chefs to the Durham Armory, and a celebration of Nana’s guru Scott Howell the next day. But you can still get in on Taste’s most affordable offering, a lunchtime cookout at Maple View Farm outside Hillsborough. The fare is admittedly a bit more modest than at the other meals, with hot dogs and fixings, beer and ice cream. Tickets for the eleven a.m. party start at $12.50 for kids and $35 for adults, with family four-packs available at a steal.

If you didn’t get into The Grand Taste, you may consider the Earth Day iteration of Fork2Farmer, a series that sends you into the field before putting you at the dinner table. You’ll start a few miles outside of downtown Raleigh at Old Milburnie Farm, a delightful spread of chickens and pigs and rows of green, before heading downtown for a unique meal at Centro. Tickets for dinner and the Thursday tour run $73. And in the same vein, the great Piedmont Farm Tour runs April 23–April 24, with one $30 ticket earning you and a carload of friends access to a score of farms scattered across the region. www.tastetheevent.com, www.centroraleigh.com, www.carolinafarmstewards.org

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The keg of North Carolina Beer Month will be tapped before you know it, but there are plenty of chances for suds this week. Highlights include Brewgaloo in Raleigh (see page 32), a five-course collaboration between Trophy and Mandolin, and what sounds like an incredible “garden party” at Lantern in Chapel Hill, with pours provided by Raleigh’s consistent Nickelpoint Brewing. www.ncbeermonth.com

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B.GOOD

555 Fayetteville St., Raleigh www.bgood.com

To B.Good, or Not to B.

ONE OF DOWNTOWN RALEIGH’S FIRST CHAINS IS NAUGHTY AND NICE——AND, ULTIMATELY, NEITHER

BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN

At B.Good, the New England-based franchise that opened its second Raleigh restaurant on the ground floor of downtown’s gleaming Charter Square in mid-March, two large, square-shaped hardcover books flank the cash registers. They stand half open, as though pleading to be picked up.

If you’re in line, go ahead and grab a copy of How We Do What We Do: Ingredients, Nutrition & Stories of Real Food Made by People Not Factories. Inside the bound, forty-page volume, where “STORE COPY” is printed across the front in a military-grade font that suggests a rapacious black market exists for filched B.Good propaganda, colorful portraits of smiling farmers and playful cartoons of food chains illustrate ooo-rah essays about local sourcing and big, boastful nutritional charts.

You might even recognize a familiar face in what’s ostensibly the North Carolina edition, available only here and in B.Good’s eighteen-month-old North Hills location— Russell Vollmer, of Vollmer Farm, thirty-five miles to the north, or Bob Nutter, patriarch of Maple View Farm, forty-two miles to the west.

As you stare at the printed page, or perhaps the same field-based photos, blown up beyond life size and hanging on the restaurant’s bright red walls, the burger you wanted suddenly becomes something more: a local patty, sourced from the smiling family in nearby Pinetops, and served with sweet potatoes grown by Jimmy Burch, who grins from his own permanent post above the organic soda machine. It all seems, somehow, a little healthier, a little more community-oriented, a little better for everyone and everything involved.

You may even decide you’ll return before putting the book back down. You may even change your mind.

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A devil and an angel at Raleigh’s second B.Good.

PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

the city streets, B.Good is the first legitimate chain to take a gamble on modern downtown Raleigh. It’s a smart bet, too, as B.Good taps into two momentarily dominant restaurant trends, one of which the city center has and another it desperately needs.

First, B.Good is a “fast casual” chain, meaning, like Panera or Chipotle, it pairs the counter-only service of fast-food institutions with the boosted quality and customization you’d expect from a full-service spot. Thanks to factors including increased minimum wages and food-consumer conscience, the concept is one of the fastest growing, most desirable models in the industry.

B.Good conspicuously exploits that second factor, by alluding to its local sourcing virtually everywhere in the restaurant. Overhead, televisions play loops of B.Good’s good deeds and better farms. A chalkboard map of North Carolina pinpoints the origins of your particular location’s beef and cheese, bread and milk, and it is dutifully replicated on the menu. There are those portraits, those books,

and, behind the counter, a grocery-store-size shelf of produce that no one ever seems to touch. There are North Carolina beers on tap and North Carolina ice cream on reserve for vanilla and chocolate milkshakes, B.Good’s only desserts. B.Good is the high-speed logical extension of this farm-to-fork moment.

B.Good’s third animating concept is an ecumenical one, if it’s rarely attempted beneath one roof with such aplomb: half of the menu features burgers and fries, while the other features quinoa-based bowls and salads stocked with superfoods and assorted greens. In a play between health heaven and caloric hell, those milkshakes square off against acai smoothies. The idea is a splendid one—fast food that wears the devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other, sourced from close quarters whenever possible.

But too often the food seems to suffer from such indecision, with meals that are, at best, just fine. The burgers are decent—the beef comes in a thick, house-ground patty, while the veggie version is a similarly dense

scramble of grains and greens. The house specialties, including the Tex-Mex “West Side” or the Gouda-and-mushroom mush of the “Adopted Luke,” and a rotating seasonal selection seem inspired, if they don’t really taste that way. The flavors smear together, each vying for so little ground they collectively don’t gain much.

The same holds for the salads and bowls; try the “Power Bowl” blindfolded, and you may not even notice the Brussels sprouts slivered and grilled inside, certainly not the pepitas. The beets and garbanzos of the “Harvest Kale” surrender beneath a mountain of coarse greens and a barely detectable sherry vinaigrette. A side of “crisp veggies” seems simply warmed and slathered with shredded cheese, a slap in the face for the farmers on eternal watch a few feet away.

Of them all, it’s the Burch family from Faison—Jimmy, Jimmy, and Jared—who fare best. Their sweet potatoes become the menu’s masterpiece when cut into short, stubby fries. They are alternately crispy and crackling or hot and moist, popping with the first bite like some savory fruit gusher. Dip them in the jalapeño ranch or the perfectly balanced Sir Kensington’s ketchup, and you too will buy into B.Good’s compromise of mindful indulgence, at least temporarily.

But then you’ll leave and remember that, a hundred yards from B.Good’s front door, Happy+Hale, a local shop that’s also just opened its second location, occupies one of four glass cubes flanking Raleigh City Plaza.

For about the same price as a B.Good’s “Power Bowl,” you can have most anything you want, and it will almost certainly have more flavor and pizzazz. Cut a block over to Wilmington Street, and you’ll soon find Chuck’s, where a “Dirty South” burger is totally worth the extra buck or two.

Maybe that’s the ultimate eat-local assertion of a place like B.Good, an early entry in what will surely be a continued trickle of chains. Oftentimes, we already do what they do—simply better. l gcurrin@indyweek.com

food Fowl Play IN DURHAM, A MEAT-FREE, LOW-COST TAKE ON NASHVILLE HOT CHICKEN

BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX BOERNER

EAT THIS Josh Munchel remembers the first time he ate Nashville hot chicken. In fact, four years ago, he and several other chefs from his hometown of Cincinnati made a road trip with the mission of visiting Prince’s, the epicenter of the pungent regional favorite. He remembers not only how it tasted—he liked the crunch and zest—but especially how it felt.

“We tried all the levels of spice that they have,” says Munchel. “And the hottest one shot tingles through you, those crazy nerve-ending feelings, like your arms and legs went to sleep on you.”

You won’t get the same sensation from Munchel’s latest creation at the bar of the Counting House, the high-ceilinged restaurant he helms on the ground floor of Durham’s 21c Museum Hotel. You won’t get chicken, either. Instead, Munchel has applied the idea of Nashville’s notoriously spicy bird (now so vogue it’s on the menu at Kentucky Fried Chicken and the basis for a new Durham food truck) to tempeh, the meat substitute made from fermented soybeans.

Munchel first encountered tempeh while working at a sushi restaurant early in his career, but he imagined this dish only after the Durham Vegan Drinks crew reserved a table for an evening cocktail at the Counting House. Munchel sources his

COUNTING HOUSE

111 Corcoran St., Durham www.countinghousenc.com

beans from TempehGirl, a Hillsborough-based upstart that skips popular tempeh-making shortcuts to up the flavor.

As you would do with chicken, Munchel brines the tempeh in a high-spice solution before dredging it through a batter of flour, cornstarch, soy milk, and a healthy dose of potent flavors, including paprika and cayenne. When each piece emerges from the fryer, he stirs it through a spiced fat bath, so that the tempeh’s skin seems actually to bleed heat. This, Munchel confesses, is the real Nashville secret.

“That fat makes it pop,” he says. “It adds that spicy coating to the fritter.”

As the tempeh cools, Munchel ladles a very mild vegan ranch dressing—made from mixing pureed firm tofu with more soy milk and a light spice blend—on a rectangular piece of shiny slate. He plops five pieces of tempeh in a crooked line through the spread, curls thinly sliced pickles around and alongside them, and sprinkles greens across the top.

No, Munchel’s tempeh skins won’t make you cry, or even tingle. But at five dollars a plate, they may make you demand a second, sizzling round. l gcurrin@indyweek.com

At Counting House, Josh Munchel swirls fried tempeh in a spiced fat bath, then plates it on slate.

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In With the Tide

ON SOURVEIN’S FOURTH AND FINEST ALBUM, AQUATIC OCCULT, THE COASTAL CAROLINA STALWARTS FIND INSPIRATION IN THE OCEAN BY BRYAN C. REED Troy Medlin is a nomad.

When he’s not touring as the leader of the pugnacious metal band Sourvein, Medlin— known better to fans of the coastal institution as “T.Roy”—tours the country for other work. When North Carolina’s film industry boomed, he found regular gigs as an extra.

But these days he does trim carpentry on Bald Head and Figure Eight islands. When hurricanes hit, he does restoration work from Florida to Cape Hatteras, a trade he learned in New Orleans. Right now he’s in California, helping to rebuild a friend’s house.

But this nomad always returns home, to Cape Fear. For the Carolina Beach native, going even a couple of hours inland can throw off the rhythm that’s long been at his doorstep.

“Living on the island,” he explains, “there’s a certain rhythm with the ground moving and the tides.”

On Aquatic Occult, only the fourth studio LP by a cult favorite whose career spans almost a quarter-century, T.Roy at last fully embraces the inspiration of the North Carolina coastline. A maritime fantasy built on high drama and low doom metal, it’s Sourvein’s best, most involved work to date.

“The ocean’s a heavy place,” T.Roy says.

“It’s a mysterious place. There’s so many little creatures that are like two inches big, but they could kill you. There are storms and currents.

It’s heavier than any satanic cult would ever be. One minute it can be nice and tranquil; the next minute it’s rough and dangerous.”

Aquatic Occult is an obvious step in Sourvein’s twenty-three-year career, one that pays necessary homage to home. But it’s also an overdue shot at broader recognition.

The album bears the imprint of the storied Metal Blade Records, a label whose catalog includes iconic works by Slayer, D.R.I., and Corrosion of Conformity. When T.Roy was a kid going to DIY shows in Wilmington and listening to those seminal thrash records, he dreamed of being in a Metal Blade band.

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LEFT Sourvein’s T.Roy, at home on the coast

PHOTO BY NOELLE ROSE RIGHT

...and in the studio

PHOTO BY D. RANDALL BLYTHE

label, when it’s the label that’s been on the top of your list since you were seventeen, is really cool, man,” he says. “It’s a good feeling.”

Making Aquatic Occult didn’t prove quite so pleasant. The idea for the album dates back more than five years. But just as T.Roy started writing, his mother died. His material shifted dramatically, turning away from the ocean and finding the scathing songs of 2011’s Black Fangs instead.

“I was just not in the positive frame of mind,” T.Roy says. “I started drinking again because I was so bummed out. My thoughts just weren’t on fantasy and pulling at this inspiration and abstract writing. When you’re down and out, it’s harder to put those energies together.”

So T.Roy shelved the Aquatic Occult conceit until he could pull his life together and find a head space conducive to fantastical imagery, more playful and abstract songs. In the interim, he cut Black Fangs—which he describes as “gnarly and full-on angry.” Sourvein also released a pair of split EPs, with Japan’s Coffins and Oregon’s Graves At Sea. For the latter, T.Roy and the band drove three hours inland to record in Raleigh with Mike Dean, bassist for Corrosion of Conformity. “[T.Roy] liked the vibe, keeping close to home in North Carolina,” Dean says. “When he got the hookup from Metal Blade Records [to record Aquatic Occult], we decided to do it again and to do it on two-inch analog tape.”

But the version of Sourvein that worked with Dean in 2014 didn’t stick together long enough to make Aquatic Occult—par for the course for Sourvein. The band has long been a revolving door, at times including such metal luminaries as Electric Wizard’s Liz Buckingham and Weedeater’s “Dixie” Dave Collins.

“The part of me that craves order and repeatability and efficiency was craving a steady lineup of musicians that had rehearsed a whole lot,” Dean says of the sessions that yielded Aquatic Occult. “That wasn’t necessarily the case.”

Instead, the album came together through an ensemble cast of hard-rock heavy hitters.

COC’s Dean and Reed Mullin, Weedeater’s Keith “Keko” Kirkum, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God, and Amebix’s Stig Miller all contributed. So, too, did one of T.Roy’s early heroes: Dave Capps of Wilmington’s All Tore Up. “Capps is one of my favorites and one of the first guys I saw play locally that made me be like, ‘Oh, you can do it here,’” he remembers. “You can just play someone’s house.”

Like the misfit band that made it, Aquatic Occult was pieced together from old and new ideas. T.Roy would revise some lyrics moments before stepping behind the microphone; he had scribbled others twenty years before. Riffs evolved in real time, in the studio. The band incorporated recordings of the surf at Kure Beach, sonar, and bountiful reverb to evoke an oceanic atmosphere.

Somehow, T.Roy improvised his way into a remarkably cohesive record.

“A lot of songs turned into interludes and a lot of interludes turned into songs,” Dean says. “It was definitely keeping me on my toes. I like not being stuck in a form.”

That free-form approach yielded a dynamic record. From the sludge, melodies that could be described as elegant emerge. Thick distortion reveals huge organ swells beneath.

“Cape Fearian,” a haunting acoustic guitarand-spoken word interlude, describes an environment of mysterious swamps where “Spanish moss rides the live oaks.” “Capsized” churns a doom whirlpool, while “Coral Bones” suggests the brawny complexity of Mastodon at their mightiest. For T.Roy, the album was an opportunity to move away from the more direct, anger-fueled stuff of his past to develop nuance and metaphor.

Fri April 22

www.lincolntheatre.com APRIL

Big Something Thu April 21

We 20 STYLES & COMPLETE

w/Devious / Gifted 6 / Ronin / Eight Bit Disaster 8p Th 21 SOMO w/Quinn XCII/Kid Quill 7p

Fr 22 BIG SOMETHING

w/ People’s Blues of Richmond 8p

Sa 23 THE OH HELLOS w/The Collection Tu 26 THE MERSEY BEATLES #1 BEATLES Tribute from The UK

Th 28 STEEL PANTHER w/Wilson 7p Fr 29 COSMIC CHARLIE Sa 30 PULSE: ELeCtRoniC dAncE PArTy “With this, I’m talking about finding an island with the Fountain of Youth in it,” he offers with a chuckle. “It made it more positive and loose and fun—kinda happy, upbeat, more pep in the step. This is where I wanted to be.”

Alongside the move to Metal Blade, Aquatic Occult brought T.Roy, now forty-three, back to the mind-set of a young and ambitious musician in another way. In the band’s early days, he would come to Raleigh for Sourvein shows, sit at Cup A Joe on Hillsborough Street, and scribble lyrics into notebooks. He dreamed about putting them to tape, which he finally did here.

“To come back twenty years later and be doing a record down the street with the guys from Corrosion of Conformity, coming in every day for coffee,” he says, “it was touching in a way. I was able to go back and find one of those old notebooks and pull some lyrics from actually sitting in Cup A Joe years ago.”

For all these full-circle moments, though, Aquatic Occult is neither a Hail Mary nor a retrospective. It’s just one more step in a long journey. Sourvein already has plans to tour Europe and the West Coast this year. After that, there’s another record to make by building upon leftover bits that emerged from the recording process for Aquatic Occult.

“I just want to see what’s next,” T.Roy says.

“This is what I do. This is what I’ve always done. I just wasn’t going to stop, and I won’t stop until I can’t do it. I just want to be on tour. Then come back to Carolina Beach, have a little break, and go on tour again.”

Reliable as the tides, Sourvein goes out into the world and winds up back at Cape Fear. l Twitter: @bryancreed

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w/ Down By Five

Fr 13 BUCKETHEAD Sa 14 FLATBUSH ZOMBIES

w/A$AP 12vy / Remy Banks

We 18 CRUIS’N USA TOUR Feat CURREN$Y 7:30p Th 19 ALLEN STONE 7p

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w/ Jared & The Mill

Fr 20 GFW & SOGNAR PRESENTS NEVER SAY DIE TOUR Sa 21 TAB BENOIT

w/ Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos

Su 22 HARDWORKING AMERICANS w/Town Mountain 7p

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But Raleigh emcee Tab-One stands out for the most delightfully novel of rapping reasons: for nearly a decade, he’s just been himself.

On the thirteen-track Sincerely, Tab, the first Kooley High-associated release since last year’s Heights EP, Tab and producer Sinopsis stick to their soulful roots rather than following new fads. The result is a heartfelt, genuine record that, though occasionally missing the mark, ultimately resonates.

“I wish that we could be more critical of leaders, and stop idolizing all these idiots and divas,” offers Tab on the Carlitta Durandassisted “Don’t Love.” This is a frequent theme for Tab here, who laments a world lived through photo filters and disappearing videos, from the single “Electric” to “Keep Moving.”

As a persistent emcee who has continued to cultivate his craft despite a lack of fame, his contempt for vanity and validation is both understandable and welcome. More important, he doesn’t seem particularly concerned with stardom. On the standout “M.O.B.,” which features one area rhymer who has risen through the ranks, King Mez, Sinopsis’s rippling synths ebb and flow inside a dynamic background for Tab: “It is not my aim, to make it in the game/I see it as an opportunity to make a change.”

Having spent enough time in hip-hop to have brushed shoulders with legends, seen friends and bandmates become famous, moved out-of-state to pursue music, and

returned to start a family, Tab is the rare cautionary tale with a happy ending. He’s an artist who didn’t “make it in the game,” but wasn’t crushed by it either. On Sincerely, Tab, he suggests a boom-bap version of those pharmaceutical advertisement disclaimers, as though he’s telling rappers: “Hip-hop stardom is not for everyone. Talk to your doctor to find out if it’s right for you.” The result isn’t always riveting, with tracks like “One Life” and “World Tour” wandering too much for their own good, but it is unquestionably honest. Use as directed, hip-hop. —Ryan Cocca

DEFACTO THEZPIAN RAHEEM ROYAL: AN INDUCTION TO GREATNESS EP (self-released)

In sports, high-quality teams often play down to lesser competition, performing poorly in the absence of a worthy opponent as though they require a foil in order to focus. Likewise, good rappers sometimes trip through bad production, stumbling over

beats that don’t challenge their own skills.

That is the case for Durham rapper Defacto Thezpian on his Raheem Royal: An Induction to Greatness EP. Defacto Thezpian is one of the Triangle’s most exuberant emcees, and these tracks brim with lyrical firepower, or at least the suggestion of it. But they’re often mired in dreary beats and unimaginative concepts.

The signs of trouble arrive early with “Put It in Rotation,” a four-minute song with a loop that barely evolves. “The Misled” and “Bodily Circumstances” fall victim to similar pitfalls, burdened by fake strings and percussion kits that are the wrong kinds of throwbacks. And too often, Thezpian rushes through his lyrics. Though he's one of the quickest rappers in the Triangle, he still manages to get himself tongue-tied frequently, starting with the aptly titled opener, “Rambling.”

When producer Ron Jovi finally musters a strong beat, as on the second portion of “The Misled,” Defacto finds fertile ground, laying down one of his best verses here: “My rapping is prevalent, I think it’s rather evident, you couldn’t copy me even if you was Kinko’s/She messing with them freaks, I be with them kink hoes.”

Likewise, collaborations with fellow Bull City artists provide better moments. Featuring Lil Bob Doe, the fraught, overcast “Game Don’t Change” is the album’s peak, while bonus track “Top of the Chandelier,” helmed

by Alex Aff, shows what Defacto can accomplish with a different producer.

Defacto’s quality rises and falls with the music behind him. The good news for him?

Based on his backing here, he’s not even close to his ceiling. —Ryan Cocca

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“MASTER HAROLD” ... AND THE BOYS Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh Through April 24

For Mercy's Sake

ASTONISHING PERFORMANCES POWER A TALE OF RACIAL RECKONING IN APARTHEID-ERA SOUTH AFRICA

BY BYRON WOODS

Early on, we recognize that Hally’s not a bad sort. He’s bright, almost selectively precocious in English, while struggling— mostly out of a lack of interest—through math and history. As he banters with Sam and Willie (George Hill), another servant at the restaurant, Hally disparages the grueling forms of punishment used primarily against black people under apartheid, including the deceptively named “strokes with a light cane.” He’s optimistic that change will come. At one point, Hally says, “Every age, Sam, has got its social reformer. My history book is full of them.” But when Sam asks, “So where’s ours?” Hally’s

response is telling: “Good question.”

At the same time, Fugard gradually reveals this adolescent’s stark racial privilege over a wiser elder. Under Jesse Gephart’s direction, Pluska, a remarkable tenth-grade actor from Enloe High School, conveys this privilege in subtle vocal vacillations between spontaneity, superiority, and stiffness. When Hally chastises Willie, we note his tone of command, and his patronizing air when discussing Abraham Lincoln with Sam. It’s unsettling when, after a debate over historical “men of magnitude,” Hally proudly tells Sam, “Tolstoy may have educated his peasants, but I have educated you.”

most squirm-inducing scenes in twentiethcentury drama. Then, when Hally escalates the conflict beyond words, the room goes absolutely still.

Much of that response has to do with stage veteran Gil Faison's career-defining performance as Sam. By this point in the play, he has convinced us of Sam’s deep affection for his fellow worker, Willie; his love of music, jokes, and dance; and his deep concern for Hally. But when Hally crosses Sam’s final border, the righteous, pent-up rage born of a lifetime of oppression erupts.

It’s a lesson our present-day legislators have yet to learn: Sometimes, the whipped

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It’s a rainy afternoon in 1950 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, at the start of Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”... and the boys, which is currently in production by Mortall Coile Theatre Company at Sonorous Road.

But a storm is also brewing inside the St. George Tea Room, the seemingly prosaic setting for a one-step-forward, one-stepback tale of racial reckoning.

Hally (Ben Pluska) is a white, seventeenyear-old high school student. Sam (Gil Faison) is a forty-five-year-old black man who has been employed at the Tea Room, Hally’s family’s business, for years; he’s also been an unacknowledged father figure to the boy.

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Matters quickly darken from there. Bad news about his estranged father leaves Hally furious, frustrated, and vulnerable. Pluska and Gephart convey these moments with velocity and pathos. When Sam tries to comfort Hally, the boy lashes out at him and Willie with the weapon closest to hand—a vicious string of racial slurs. It is one of the

person seizes the whip in mid-stroke. When a long abused community—black people, gay people, transgender people—summarily refuses to be punished further, it rarely results in the form of mercy that this exceptional cast ultimately explores. l Twitter: @ByronWoods

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American Zen

CHEADLE AND LINKLATER BREAK THE RULES IN DARING PERIOD PIECES

BY GLENN MCDONALD MILES AHEAD Opening Friday, April 22

When he's locked in, Don Cheadle has more raw wattage than any other screen actor I can think of. He broke into the business in 1995 via the criminally underrated Denzel Washington noir Devil in a Blue Dress with an audition tape that has become Hollywood legend. (Google it.)

Miles Ahead, the Miles Davis biopic Cheadle's been shepherding for more than a decade, is a fascinating bookend to that audition tape. It’s his baby all the way—he co-writes, directs, and plays the title role—and it’s as much a testament to his journey through the Hollywood system as it is a tribute to Davis.

Miles Ahead announces Cheadle as a formidable filmmaker who's not afraid to break rules. In fact, his biopic of the great jazz innovator isn't really a biopic at all. It's an impressionistic caper movie, largely fabricated, set during Davis's fallow period in the late seventies, when he got serious about his drugs and stopped making music altogether.

Ewan McGregor costars as a Rolling Stone journalist who accompanies Davis on a mad, entirely fictional crusade to recover stolen master tapes, a structure in which Cheadle can weave his impressions of the man and his music. Biographical details are inserted in flashbacks and carefully constructed scenes that illuminate Davis's creative genius and chaotic personal life. The crucial moments come in the spaces between the plot points.

Cheadle's bold storytelling crescendos in a frenzied finale. A shootout at a boxing match shifts into a concert scene, with Davis playing trumpet in the bloodied ring. Time bends and folds; past and present flicker until only the violent beauty of Davis's music remains. Cheadle’s performance is, as usual, superb—he nails Davis's sinister, throaty rasp—and Emayatzy Corinealdi provides a critical counterpoint of sanity as Frances Taylor, Davis's wife and muse.

Miles Ahead opens with a quote from Davis: “If you’re going to tell a story, come with some attitude, man.” The same line pops up at the end, too: Cheadle is giving us the key to unlock his thrilling, unconventional film essay.

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

Opening Friday, April 22

Nature has wisely arranged things so that we live through our youth while we're young.

With the energy we expend in our teens and twenties, and the changes we must navigate, we'd never survive otherwise.

Richard Linklater's new comedy, Everybody Wants Some!!, captures this sentiment.

Set in the fall of 1980, it follows a group of young, perpetually horny college baseball players in Texas. Like many of Linklater's films, all the way back to Slacker, it meanders and drifts, less interested in plot than in characters, situations, and moments. Linklater has billed the movie as a spiritual successor to his seventies paean, Dazed and Confused.

In another way, it continues 2014’s Boyhood, which ends where Everybody picks up: in the first days of college.

Incoming freshman Jake (Blake Jenner) is a promising pitcher. He's been placed in off-campus housing with the baseball team, a dubious administrative decision that leads to the first of many Animal House-style parties. We gradually meet the rest of the team: Upperclassman Finn and McReynolds are dismissive of freshmen in general and pitchers in particular. California transfer student Willoughby brings the dope and surfer wisdom. Niles, from Detroit, is an alpha dog who's wound several twists too tight.

It's so nice to be in the hands of a talented filmmaker like Linklater, who refuses to let his characters devolve into stereotypes. Just as in Dazed, the weird specifics of each cast

Don Cheadle is Miles Davis in Miles Ahead.

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member bounce off one another, generating authentic ensemble comedy. Everything that happens in the house, from playing pingpong to smoking pot, becomes a competition.

Ballplayers—what are you gonna do?

If the movie has an arc, it's about the boys' relentless pursuit of sex, an impulse Linklater treats as entirely natural and healthy.

Going wherever the girls are, they roam like pack animals to the disco, the country bar, the punk show, and the theater party. In a rare moment of self-reflection, one jock observes, “Whenever we’re around baseball, all we talk about is girls. But whenever we're around girls, all we talk about is baseball.”

Moments like this suggest the film's quiet

cleverness. On the surface, Everybody looks like a college comedy jammed with eighties nostalgia—Space Invaders, Devo, terrible mustaches. But there’s no toxic irony curdling it into a That ’80s Show-style burlesque.

The movie's primary colors are laughter, enthusiasm, and joy, and the dialogue is funny and revealing.

“I actually don't think at all,” Finn says. “I just talk a lot.” That's the trick, isn't it? These are not thoughtful guys, but they live in the moment, and so does the film, in which Linklater reaffirms his place as our best chronicler of American Zen. Alright, alright, alright.

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FELICIA DAY

Wednesday, April 27, 6 p.m., $20 (book purchase) Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro www.catscradle.com

Internet Famous

FELICIA DAY DEFEATED SEXISM AND ANXIETY TO BECOME THE QUEEN OF THE GEEKS

BY ZACK SMITH

wanted to show that I accomplished a lot, but Felicia Day is humble enough to stress also that I failed a lot. I think failures are, in a that she’s mainly Internet Famous. way, more motivating—you learn more from “I’ll go into a coffee shop, and maybe one them. It’s something I wish that someone had person will recognize me,” she says. “But that told me.” one person will be really smart, and we’ll have a great conversation.”

But for fans of comics, video games, and web comedy, Day is more than just Internet Famous— she’s a virtual empire unto herself.

She’s helmed web series like The Guild, appeared on multiple network TV shows, and founded the production company Geek & Sundry. She also commands more than 2.8 million followers on Twitter.

Last year, Day added “New York Times Bestselling Author” to her résumé with her memoir You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), which she's bringing to Cat’s Cradle, courtesy of Flyleaf Books and NC Comicon, for a Q-and-A and a signing of the new paperback edition.

The book sounds like the internet, with lots of emphatic italics and capital letters. It chronicles not only Day’s homeschooled Southern upbringing, early adoption of the Internet, web entrepreneurship, and adventures in TV, but also her struggles with depression, anxiety, and the online distribution of her personal information in “Gamergate,” an ongoing fiasco that broke out in 2014 over charges of corruption in video-game journalism that were really a thinly veiled pretext Brand new Day: You're Never Weird on the Internet for the harassment of high-profile (Almost) is out now in paperback. women in fandom.

She also found it tricky to recount creatDay says the biggest challenge of writing ing The Guild, because “everyone’s already the book wasn’t recounting the painful times. heard that a thousand times.” For those who Rather, it was finding a way to make her story haven’t: Day found success in a web series useful to others. about a group of people addicted to an online “It makes you see yourself in a way you fantasy game who start hanging out in the can’t when you’re living in your own memreal world. It hilariously contrasts the hyperories,” Day says of the writing process. “I

organized game with the characters' awkward, misguided approaches to everyday life and one another, in ways that are both mocking and deeply sympathetic. Concluding in 2013 after six seasons, with multiple awards and hundreds of millions of views, The Guild can still be streamed in its entirety on Netflix.

Day reached an even wider audience when she costarred with Neil Patrick Harris in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the web series of future Avengers director Joss Whedon, who also wrote an introduction for Day’s book. She’s also had recurring roles on such traditional TV shows as Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Eureka, but she’s still most comfortable online.

On the Internet, “you don’t have to make something to please everyone anymore,” Day says. “The digital world is always going to be the place I feel most at home, because it has that freedom of individuality. Old media has learned to sort of codify what they approve of, and that’s fine, but digital media has opened a lot of doors for people to cross back over into old media with new stories.”

Day hopes that the biggest lesson readers take away from her memoir is that “everyone has the opportunity to create,” regardless of their origins or the challenges they face on the very same medium—the web—that gives them a platform.

“While you won’t succeed one hundred percent of the time, and you’ll make mistakes, that shouldn’t dissuade you from attempting it,” Day says. “Because that attempt is always going to push you to a new area and make you a person you wouldn’t have become otherwise.” l Twitter: @thezacksmith

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When Burning Coal Theatre Company artistic director Jerome Davis learned that a copy of the First Folio, published in 1623, was coming to the N.C. Museum of History (on view May 7–30) to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, his surprising response was, “Let’s read it—the whole thing.” He’s enlisted forty troupes from across the state for a nonstop staged reading of Shakespeare’s entire oeuvre at the museum, starting at noon on Saturday and continuing through Thursday morning. The building will be open all hours, but if you’d rather catch Sunday’s wee-hours reading of Titus Andronicus in your pajamas, the shows will also be live-streamed at www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. — —Byron Woods N.C. MUSEUM OF HISTORY, RALEIGH Various times, free, www.burningcoal.org

FRIDAY, APRIL 22–SATURDAY, APRIL 23

BREWGALOO

Ever been to a beer festival? They can be incredibly fun, but over the course of a day, they can turn into slogs of bad attitudes and long lines, heavy stomachs and sweaty brows. This year, though, Raleigh’s North Carolina-focused Brewgaloo—dedicated to “getting consumers to think local, buy local, eat local, and drink local”—gets smart by staging two separate shindigs. On Friday night, Brewgaloo hosts a four-hour block party in Raleigh City Plaza, with one forty-five dollar ticket securing you unlimited samples from thirty-five brewers. With a limited number of tickets offered, it’s a relatively intimate inebriation extravaganza. The next day, Brewgaloo commandeers all of Fayetteville Street with an armada of food trucks, eighty-five Tar Heel breweries, and a good cast of bands scattered across several stages. It’s free to attend (but not to imbibe) and open to the whole family and—weather-permitting—probably pretty crazy. Our advice: get in early for the evening out. —Grayson Haver Currin FAYETTEVILLE STREET, RALEIGH Friday: 6–10 p.m., $45; Saturday: 2–10 p.m., free; www.shoplocalraleigh.com/brewgalooo

FRIDAY, APRIL 22–SATURDAY, APRIL 23

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY

We very nearly lost Martha Graham. The modern dance matriarch’s company ceased operations and cancelled performances—including a season opener at the American Dance Festival—when Graham’s hand-picked successor revoked all performance rights to her work in a 2000 power play with the company’s board of directors. The company’s future remained in limbo for two years. But since then, artistic director Janet Eilber has given it new life, curating Graham’s classics—including the Medea-based Cave of the Heart and the Suite sexually symbolic Dark Meadow Suite—and commissioning new works like Woodland by Pontus Lidberg and Inner Resources by Marie Chouinard, whose Gymnopédies you might have caught at Carolina Performing Arts in January. See all four at Memorial Hall this weekend. —Byron Woods UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $29–$59, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK SATURDAY, APRIL 23–SUNDAY, APRIL 24

BULL CITY BUNGALOW DAYS

For its annual home tour, Preservation Durham has declared 2016 “the year of the bungalow,” reclaiming the term from its White Album associations (“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill,” not really a great Beatles moment in retrospect). Instead, the tour showcases the bungalow for what it is: a uniquely American construction, and as such, one more like jazz than rock. Thousands of these one-story dwellings were built throughout Durham in the early decades of the twentieth century, and many remain, like the Jenkins-Sligh house, hand-built by local farmer and builder Lonnie Jenkins in 1928. This ten-stop home tour winds through the Bull City, stopping at ten varied examples of the bungalovian form. While the image in your mind’s eye is likely a basic model, this tour sheds light on the evolution of these utilitarian structures while providing a sense of the flavor of the epoch in which they flourished. You can brush up on Bungalow 101 at a talk by Preservation North Carolina’s Myrick Howard on Wednesday, April 20, at 7 p.m. at the Temple Building in Durham. —David Klein GEER STREET GARDEN, DURHAM Noon–4 p.m., $20–$25, www.preservationdurham.org

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND EUGENE MIRMAN

Most songwriters avoid going for big laughs—and maybe that’s good, since comedy can be so hard to do well. Still, a deadpan, surrealistic sense of humor has always infused the music of Robyn Hitchcock. In 1979, he dedicated Can of Bees, the debut LP of his band The Soft Boys, to “anyone who started out as an animal and winds up as a processing unit.” Comedian Eugene Mirman’s stand-up persona is infused with rock’s wiseass spirit and backed by actual rock content. On his debut, a bit begins, “You know how, sometimes when you’re drunk, you say something you sort of regret … to Ace Frehley?” Heck, he’s even on Sub Pop. It feels more than right for these kindred spirits, who have shared stages together informally in recent years, to formally share this seated show. —David Klein CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $25–$30, www.catscradle.com

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THURSDAY, APRIL 21

MAGRUDERGRIND

Brooklyn’s Magrudergrind attacks the intersection of heavy metal and hardcore punk with a sense of devil-may-care abandon. They drop hip-hop samples into the spaces between tracks and zipline from blast beats to viscous, stoner-style breakdowns without warning, as though on a mission to make order of an attention deficit. But on the new II, the band’s proudly hostile first record in seven years, all of that restlessness feels focused into one sharp point—less a hodgepodge than a concentrated attack. Above the orchestrated melee, Avi Kulawy rants and raves about generational hypocrisy and technological obsequy, self-destructive behavior and big-picture resistance. In the close quarters of Local 506, the set should sound like a sermon, feel like a riot. Yautja, whose menacing music suggests grindcore and doom metal bands swapping members, opens, alongside Torch Runner and Lesser Life. —Grayson Haver Currin LOCAL 506, CHAPEL HILL 8:30 p.m., $12, www.local506.com PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ

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• UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Les Arts Florissants with William Christie; 7:30 p.m., $10–$99.

THU, APR 21 Rod Abernethy, Wyatt Easterling

WRITING Far from his past VETS life as singer and guitarist in Arrogance and his more recent efforts composing for video games, Rod Abernethy is now revisiting his folk side with a new album of acoustic guitar pieces. Chapel Hill native Wyatt Easterling—a longstanding songwriting and producing presence on the Nashville country scene—opens with his own solo material. —SG [THE STATION, $5/8:30 P.M.]

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EASY Bolstering GROOVES easygoing acoustic pop-rock with jazzy saxophone and jammy stretches, Baked Goods recalls the days of dime-a-dozen Dave Matthews imitators. The Chapel Hill outfit serves as a solid if indistinct facsimile for current East Coast college students. Nashville’s The Vegabonds add slick, neoAmericana. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE, $10/9 P.M.]

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SoMo YOUTUBE If the words “Hide R&B and Freak Feat. Trey Songz” make your heart flutter, you should give Texas R&B heartthrob SoMo a chance. He got his start as one of those golden-voiced kids crooning Drake and J. Cole covers on YouTube but has since pivoted toward original material that colors those artists’ mope moments with pop. Plus Quinn XCII and Kid Quill. —DS [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25–$400/7 P.M.]

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Local Band Local Beer: Some Army ENLIST After three years of TODAY stalling, Some Army finally released its excellent first LP, One Stone and Too Many Birds, earlier this month. Through a web of reverb, the band reckons with personal woes in a satisfying clutch of rock songs. Two weeks after celebrating the record’s release, Some Army headlines this installment of Local Band Local Beer and opens tomorrow night’s Schooner show at The Pinhook, taking a local victory lap of sorts. Wild Fur and Doc Aquatic share the bill. —AH [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

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WASTIN’ Sorry, Kenny AWAY Chesney, but Jimmy Buffett remains the reigning champ of the concert-as-huge-party scene, spinning lilting island yarns about lands where margaritas and cheeseburgers are on unlimited supply. Buffett’s sand-dusted fantasies will always provide some comfort, even if his soft renouncement of House Bill 2 could have provided a little more. —MJ [WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, $36–$136/7:30 P.M.]

BOLD & Explicit lyrics—sexANTIQUE ual and otherwise—got a bad name during the previous century, when a mildly suggestive locution like “Let’s Spend the Night Together” or even slurred innuendo (“Louie Louie”) could incite controversy and stoke youthful fascination.

As Duke’s Collegium Musicum reminds us, dirty lyrics did not originate with 2 Live Crew. This performance will feature the music of Henry Purcell (who wrote an ode to flatulence), Palestrina, and a promised panoply of “polyphonic pervs.”

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MICHAEL GORDON’S TIMBER AND RUSHES The last century of music has seen the rise of a small but strong repertoire of pieces for choirs of single instruments: Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras for cellos, Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint for clarinets, and Julia Wolfe’s Lad for bagpipes. These are tricky, exciting ensembles, each with a surprising amount of expressive power. Bang on a Can cofounder Michael Gordon has written two works for masses of single instruments, Timber and Rushes, both of which feature unusually potent instruments.

Timber is exactly what its name suggests. The 2009 piece features six wooden simantras, Eastern Orthodox liturgical instruments that are essentially slabs of wood. These boards create the most amazingly hypnotic sound world, built around the wood’s hollow resonance. Each of the six instruments is tuned differently, and Gordon has the players (Mantra Percussion, in this case) gradually change where they strike the instrument, subtly shifting the pitch and sound character. It’s not unlike running your hands across the columns of a banister, except it’s continuous and all encompassing.

Written in 2011, Rushes is the younger sibling to Timber. It, too, features a relentless wash of notes to create unexpectedly delightful textures, this time for seven bassoons. Gordon talks about the “heft” of the instrument and its “primal” buzz, its ability to create “the aural effect of a Seurat painting.” And like the work of that pointillist master, this creation will vanish if you look too closely. Focus, instead, on the wash of sound, an extended om that extends forever downward.

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Night Demon, Against the Grain METAL Old-school metal FAITHFUL reigns tonight.

Californian headliners Night Demon find fertile ground between NWOBHM melody and frenzied thrash. Michigan’s Against the Grain favors

speed-metal lunges. Utah’s Visigoth brings agility to a purist NWOBHM revival, which means the band pairs well with Raleigh’s own Walpyrgus.

—BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $10/8:30 P.M.]

Pujol GOOPY What was once a GARAGE constantly shifting lineup behind frontman Daniel Pujol seems to have settled down. The current iteration of Pujol pushes its mix of punk energy and pop smarts into new directions. Garage rock’s still the game, but Kisses, the band’s

Eric Strickland & the B-Sides MERLE With tales of trains, MAN barrooms, and booze delivered in a Carolina twang and backed by soft pedal steel, Eric Strickland’s country tendencies seem out of sync with most of today’s market, Chris Stapleton excepted. They would have fit in among the outlaws a few decades ago. Josh Brannon Band and Erik Smallwood join. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $5/9 P.M.]

True Widow SLOW The Dallas trio True MOODS Widow writes low, doleful songs that seem to swing slowly, like aging pendulums, between stoner metal and hazy psychedelic pop.

Imagine Red House Painters and Low dropping out of the indie rock game years ago, establishing a biker gang, and forming a colony in the sunbaked Southwest, and you’re close.

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FRI, APR 22 Anohat TURN UP The brains behind the EDM party Anohat like to call their events “dance experiences,” which is perhaps too poetic for a fine EDM party. The lineup rolls deep, with enough DJs to allow your friend who passed out while pre-gaming to walk in majestically—like Jesus, even—during the last set. With Ronin, Phrey, Devious, Gifted, and 6 X/OLF. —DS [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $12/9 P.M.]

BIG Something CUT A Steeped in spacey NUG synthesizers supported by funky bass lines and punctuated by horn blasts, Burlington sextet BIG Something warms up for festival season.

Their genre-mashing jams emphasize dance-floor friendliness, whether with a laid-back reggae groove or a kinetic beat that conjures Daft Punk. People’s Blues of Richmond opens. —SG [LINCOLN THEATRE, $14.50/9 P.M.]

Hank, Pattie & The Current NEWEST This is the debut of ’GRASS a new project from Raleigh banjo extraordinaire Hank Smith and fiddle master Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw. While Kinlaw adheres to tradition, Smith delights in bending it; here, their powers combine for sharp, folksy tunes that feel familiar but focused, at least in part, on the future. —AH [KINGS, $15/8 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: Classical Mystery Tour BEATLE- Beatlemania, once ESQUE the epitome of uncool, was prescient, as tributes, re-creations, jukebox musicals, and other forms of catalog plundering have become a dependable spoke in the entertainment wheel. In this retread of a retread, the songs of the Beatles are delivered capably and credibly with the state symphony’s support.

Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about. —DK [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $30–$75/8 P.M.]

Nappy Roots AW NAW The recent HELL YES Instagram meltdown of former Nappy Roots rapper R. Prophet made more noise than the Kentucky hip-hop quartet’s subsequent and murky “Concrete Pavement” single. That’s unfortunate—the crew still gets buckwild live on the strength of its great debut LP, Watermelon, Chicken, & Grits, and the Organized Noize-laced Nappy Dot Org masterpiece. With Tuscon, Lazurus, and Defacto Thezpian. —ET [POUR HOUSE, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

The Old Ceremony OLDER This intimate O.C. performance serves as a retrospective and look ahead for the lush, cinematic chamber pop and smart songcraft of The Old Ceremony. The band promises to dust off some aged gems and deliver a few new tunes over the course of both acoustic and electric sets. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Outcry Tour THE MAN The long-running UPSTAIRS musical offshoot of Australian megachurch Hillsong, Hillsong Worship, headlines this traveling celebration of churches. The bill skews toward the godly and young: Kari Jobe’s

reverent pop recalls the Lilith Fair era’s more strident love songs, while Jesus Culture and Elevation Worship combine grunge-lite balladry with lift-every-voice positivity. —MJ [WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, $26–$100/6:30 P.M.]

Schooner FLOATS In business for the YR BOAT better part of the last decade, Schooner’s sailing has, for the most part, been pretty smooth. Its most recent LP, 2013’s Neighborhood Veins, swoops and dives into reverb-heavy rock. The band promises it’s working on new stuff, so expect to hear some here. Some Army kicks off the bill, while Asheville’s Gold Light takes the middle. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $7/9 P.M.]

Tokyo Police Club RAD ALL Ontario’s Tokyo OVER Police Club has the cheek to title its recent LP Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness, plus a proven knack for hooky, biting pop-punk to back the swagger. The underlying template doesn’t stray far from Weezer two decades ago, but those songs are classics for a reason. Opening is Cali-based From Indian Lakes. —DK [MOTORCO, $16–$18/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: The Piano Has Been Drinking: A Tom Waits Cabaret; 8 p.m., $20. • CAT’S CRADLE: Tribal Seeds, Fear Nuttin Band, E.N. Young; 8 p.m., $17–$20. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Kane Brown, Kasey Tyndall; 8 p.m., $10. • DEEP SOUTH: Taryn Papa, Kaylin Roberson; 7:15 p.m., $5.

Little War Twins, Magnolia, Xylem; 10 p.m., $7. • DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: Michael Gordon: Timber & Rushes; 8 p.m., $10–$22. See box, page 35. • THE KRAKEN: Zuzu Welsh Band, The Swang Brothers; 9 p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: Kiss The Curse, Meliora, Novarium; 9:30 p.m., $8. • NC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: Street Havoc: The Miseducation of Hip-Hop; -8 p.m., Donations. • NIGHTLIGHT: SOON, The Powder Room, Wailin Storms; 9 p.m., $7. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Lynn Grissett Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Old Quarter,

Antique Hearts; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: Grand Opening Secret Show; 8:30 p.m., $15. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Kim Arrington and AllNite Public Radio; 7 & 9 p.m., $12–$15.

SAT, APR 23 Marley Carroll

POP IDM Considering Bibio’s pastoral glitch, Caribou’s nü-disco wizardry, and the falsetto of Baths, many musicians have recently smuggled pop tendencies into heady beat music. Asheville producer Marley Carroll falls into that mix. His colorful 2013 breakout single, “The Hunter,” shimmers with drifting, elegiac vocals and moody synths, the skin attached to an IDM skeleton. It’s anthemic, upbeat stuff that works for devotees and casual fans of electronic music alike. —DS [KINGS, $5–$7/10 P.M.]

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INDIE A trio of indie rock ELEMENT and noise rock veterans, E—yes, that’s the entire name—affixes dissonance-pocked riffs over jaw-jarring drums. Neptune’s Jason Sanford and Come’s Thalia Zedek take different approaches to the vocals, with the latter lacing words around the instruments and the former stabbing into the sound’s core with them. It all recalls the glory days of Touch & Go, really, except with a patina of prettiness that gives this power trio an unexpected, near-postrock romantic glow. It’s smart, sharp rock, a signal from the nineties altered and amplified for now. John Davis, formerly of The Folk Implosion and now of the city of Durham, opens.

—GC [THE PINHOOK, $8/8 P.M.]

I Was Totally Destroying It

POP Though the pace of PUSHERS I Was Totally Destroying It’s once-prolific output has slowed considerably (2015 single “Yours Truly” was its first release in two years), the

crew can still strike a masterful balance between springy power pop and moody indie rock. The band mines its extensive catalog for both tonight. Label mates The Heligoats chip in chipper, charming tunes. The Roman Spring and Eric and Erica round out the bill. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $5–$8/9 P.M.]

Argyle Goolsby CREEP The erstwhile SHOW frontman of horror-punks Blitzkid, Argyle Goolsby hasn’t left much of his old crew’s melodic sensibilities or cult-movie kitsch behind. If anything, Goolsby and his new backing band, The Roving Midnight, have only gotten more hookier, making 45 Grave look harsh in comparison. Poison Anthem, Dead End Lane, Safe Word, and Noesis flesh out the bill. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.]

Johnnyswim BIG FOLK Built mostly from handclaps and grandstanding sing-along choruses, Johnnyswim’s “Home” fits well within the context of big, earnest folk tunes so popular during the last decade. You’ve heard stuff like this a hundred times before, but the duo’s bouncy rhythms gives it a pep most miss. Johnny P opens. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE, $20–$70/8 P.M.]

The Oh Hellos IT TAKES The Oh Hellos are TWO technically a duo, featuring siblings Tyler and Maggie Heath. They surround themselves with seven more members who add percussion, electric guitar, violin, accordion, and more. For this band, though, bigger isn’t better. The Heaths’ harmonies are so concise that the extra personnel mostly clutters the pair’s gentle folksy stylings. —AH [LINCOLN THEATRE, $15/9 P.M.]

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Magnolia Collective HEY Y’ALL On last year’s An Old Darkness Falls, Carrboro’s Magnolia Collective delivered rhythm-heavy Americana that slouched and stomped in equal measure. The band performs at the recently re-opened Station with Michael Rank, who opens with his tender, heartbroken tunes. Plus Jeremy Squires. —AH [THE STATION, $7/8:30 P.M.]

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the Bottom Line, Dane Page Band; 8:30 p.m., $10. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony: Classical Mystery Tour; 8 p.m., $30–$75.

• NC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: Street Havoc: The Miseducation of Hip-Hop; 8 p.m., Donations. • POUR HOUSE: Joe Hero, Amuse; 9 p.m., $5. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Thomas Linger Group; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

• SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Third Eye; 9 p.m., $8.

SUN, APR 24 Cary Music & Arts Festival

YOUTH Here’s a chance to LEAGUES enhance your spring fever. An early evening outdoor showcase, The Cary Music & Arts Festival will present music and visual art by students from Cary, Athens Drive, and Green Hope high schools. The festival is free, with donations supporting student arts programs. —AH [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, FREE/4:30 P.M.]

Jennifer Curtis: The Road from Transylvania Home

FIDDLER’S A Jennifer Curtis MÉLANGE concert is always a lovely mystery. Her restless muse pulls in so many different directions simultaneously that it’s difficult to know quite what to expect. The core of this afternoon concert is the Enescu violin works she has recently championed. But she’ll also be joined by Kurdish vocalist and women’s rights activist Dengbej Gazin and a band. Where it all goes will be an exciting surprise.

—DR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/3 P.M.]

Dr. Bacon

HILLS Shakori Hills PEOPLE season is almost upon us again, and this show is meant to be a booster for this spring’s festival. Boone’s Dr. Bacon reps the festival well with its fast-and-extra-loose blend of folk, rock, blues, and funk. The Eno Mountain Boys open. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $6/8 P.M.]

full-length Get Back to New York City. They’re clearly fans of the ballroom blitzes of The Ramones and the gutter-glam proto-punk of New York Dolls.

—PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Voidward STRONG Voidward is the fullSPRAWL band outcropping of Durhamite Greg Sheriff’s heavy musings. The band’s lengthy excursions lumber and stagger more than they sprint, carefully balancing psych-rock wandering, post-rock vamps, and black-metal fury. Tonight, the rising Durham act, which shares members with local favorites MAKE and Hog, headlines over the smoldering post-rock of Memphis’s Holy Gallows and the restless prog-metal of Raleigh’s Anamorph. Raleigh’s Black Wall opens. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $7/9:30 P.M.]

The Joy Formidable HEAR THE The Joy Formidable ROAR hit the nail on the head in titling its first album The Big Roar. The Welsh trio’s first two albums carved out a reputation for larger-than-life, amps-at-eleven, shoegaze-like alt-rock. Hitch, the band’s third, dials back the volume and increases the complexity. It relies less on revved-up riffs and instead turns inward while still keeping the Gain knob plenty high. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE, $16–$60/8:30 P.M.]

ALSO ON SUNDAY THE CAVE: Eric Sommer; 7 p.m., $5. • MONKEY BOTTOM COLLABORATIVE: Karen & The Sorrows, The Paisley Fields, Blue Tailed Skinks; 3 p.m., $5–$20. • MOTORCO: Hayseed Dixie, Blood Red River; 8 p.m., $14–$16. • NC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: Street Havoc: The Miseducation of Hip-Hop; 8 p.m., Donations. • POUR HOUSE: Mclovins, Blue Healer; 9 p.m., $5. • SEEDS: Fire Pink Trio; 5 p.m., $75.

• SHARP NINE GALLERY: Jim Snidero Quartet; 7 p.m., $10–$24. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sammy Miller and the Congregation; 3 p.m.

Shivery Shakes PHOTO COURTESY OF PANACHE BOOKING

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

OBN IIIS

Dr. Boogie

One of the more notable exports from an Austin garagerock scene full of notable exports, the prolific, ambitious OBN IIIs earn acclaim for evoking mainstream seventies hard rock and basement punk at once. This band switches gears seamlessly.

On last year’s Worth a Lot of Money, Orville Bateman Neeley III and his crew bounce easily from the loud, fast roar of “Trash Heap” into the more relaxed boogie of “4KD,” with Neeley finding notes of Lee Ving’s snarl and David Lee Roth’s peppy “alright!” Delighting in the middle ground between the neo-hard rock of JEFF the Brotherhood or Diarrhea Planet and the gritty stuff of Jon Spencer, OBN IIIs present a sort of rock-lineage Rorschach test. Whether you hear the influence of Thin Lizzy or The Stooges, post-punk or R&B depends as much on you as them.

To wit, on the A-side of the band’s latest seven-inch, “Rich Old White Men,” the group merges driving arenarock riffs with stinging post-punk squalls as a barking Neeley drags the song toward Fucked Up’s expansive hardcore template. The B-side, “On the Verge of Collapse,” rages with sharp punk riffs, martial drumming, and a hook that suggests Bad Religion and Ted Nugent.

Tonight, OBN IIIs share the bill with a pair of idiosyncratic locals. In the middle, Drug Yacht pastes jagged, lunging rock into a riff collage. The opening set introduces Scanners, a new band promising “pop songs with teeth” and including members of Natural Causes and the Mississippi-bred pop band Unwed Teenage Mothers. The shape-shifting rock of OBN IIIs is bound to fit right in. —Bryan C. Reed

SAME OL’ Dr. Boogie aptly SONG titled its first

THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $8–$10, www.thepinhook.com

MON, APR 25 Boogarins PSYCH Fernando “Dino” OUT Almeida and Benke Ferraz began playing music together as crate-digging teenagers in the central Brazilian city of Goiânia. Their deep bond extends to Boogarins’ tight psych-rock jamming, which builds on a base of early seventies boogie rock and twists it into new forms via helical improvisation. Raleigh’s Birds of Avalon make for a good pairing, with big hooks filtered through psychedelic prisms. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

SUMMER Austin’s Shivery FUN Shakes sling cute, tight surf-pop—a perfect soundtrack for an early spring evening. On 2014’s Three Waves and a Shake, the trio strikes an excellent balance with songs that are airy, eager, and upbeat, recalling Mac DeMarco without the brat shtick. —AH [NEPTUNES, $6/9 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY LOCAL 506: Mobley, Janxx; 9 p.m., $10.

TUE, APR 26 Houndmouth RAGGED Though their lyrics GLORY can come loaded with hard feelings and slightly better tales, Houndmouth’s music tends to fall into the feel-good roots-rock continuum that stretches from The Band to Blitzen Trapper. There are sweet, sing-along ballads and aching, snarling, electric jams, with stops at many points in between on last year’s Little Neon Limelight. Richmond’s terrific and beguiling Lucy Dacus opens. —GC [CAT’S CRADLE, $18–$20/8:30 P.M.]

Mother Falcon SPREEAn ambitious indie LIKE rock band from deep in the heart of Texas (just like The Polyphonic Spree), Mother Falcon is a large ensemble (just like The Polyphonic Spree) that utilizes all of its eighteen members in the service of snappy, stirring, uplifting songs (just like—you get it, right?). —PW [KINGS, $12/8 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY LINCOLN THEATRE: The Mersey Beatles; 8 p.m., $25–$65. • LOCAL 506: Greg Holden; 9 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Signal Fire, Sensamotion; 9 p.m., $5–$10.

WED, APR 27 April 919Noise Showcase NOISE Raleigh ambient NIGHT voyagers AMMO suggest you listen to their recent record, Here, in one sitting.

That’s right, as the music percolates with all sorts of colorful effects and buried samples only attentive listeners will discover. They share this bill with Greensboro noisenik Reardin, who uses odd textures to craft beautiful, sometimes terrifying ambient sounds. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $5–$7/8:30 P.M.].

Trout Steak Revival HALF In a world ’GRASS increasingly inundated by roots-music-loving ensembles, Trout Steak Revival, a Colorado folk-grass quintet, manages the neat trick of paying homage to high-lonesome progenitors without slavishly aping them. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE, $8–$10/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY LOCAL 506: FS, Bear Girl, Hundredftfaces, Prom; 9 p.m., $8–$10.

• THE PINHOOK: OBN IIIS, Drug Yacht, Scanners; 9 p.m., $8–$10. See box, this page. • POUR HOUSE: The Quaker City Night Hawks; 9 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: The Werks, CBDB, Backup Planet; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15.

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OPENING

ONGOING

SPECIAL 2016 Members’ EVENT Showcase: Apr 22-Jun 11. Reception: Fri, Apr 22, 5-7 p.m. Durham Art Guild, Durham. www.durhamartguild. org.

SPECIAL Lynn Boggess: Oil EVENT paintings of the N.C. coast and W.V. mountains. Apr 21-May 28. Reception and Demo: Sat, Apr 23, 6-9:30 p.m. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www.tyndallgalleries.com.

SPECIAL Branching Out: EVENT Photography by Eric Saunders, paintings by Chris Graebner, and turned wood by Michael Salemi. Apr 25-May 22. Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

SPECIAL The Figure Revealed: EVENT Work about the human body by Stephen Early, Mikio Watanabe, Lawrence Feir, and Lee Johnson. Apr 23-May 22. Reception: Sat, Apr 23, 5-8 p.m. Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. www.adamcavefineart.com.

SPECIAL Passages: Paul EVENT Hrusovsky. Apr 23-Jun 18. Reception: Sat, Apr 23, 5-7 p.m. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

SPECIAL Roadscapes: EVENT Elizabeth Roetzel.

Apr 22-May 3. Reception: Fri, Apr 22, 6-9 p.m. Golden Belt, Durham. www.goldenbeltarts.com.

Albee/Carland/Hauser/Oleson: Becca Albee, Tammy Rae Carland, EJ Hauser, and Jeanine Oleson. Thru Apr 30. Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org.

SPECIAL EVENT Wood & Water: Installation by Greg Lindquist and Damian Stamer. Apr 23-Jun 18. Reception: Sat, Apr 23, 5-7 p.m. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

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American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isle of Shoals: In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Childe Hassam spent decades painting Appledore Island, a resort in the Gulf of Maine.

His style is beautiful and refined, like a slightly more 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 Another Point of View: Paintings

by Amanda Charest. Thru May 1. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

Artspace Teaching Artists Showcase: Thru May 14.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

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

Best of North Carolina 2016: Paintings, prints, and more surveying the history of N.C. Thru May 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Canned Heat: The Art of Encaustic Painting: Dianne T. Rodwell. Thru May 23.

Cary Town Hall, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

Claybody: The Human Form in Ceramic Art: Group show. Thru May 13. Claymakers, Durham. www.claymakers.com.

Martha Clippinger: Mixed media work on wood. Thru Apr 30. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

LAST Coming Soon, DotCHANCE to-Dot: Selections from the Gregg Museum of Art &

Design. Thru Apr 23. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: Exploring Durham’s role in popularizing baseball cards. Thru Sep 5.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

Dust & Smoke: Greg Lindquist and Damian Stamer. Thru Apr 30. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www.flandersartgallery.com.

The Ease of Fiction: This exhibit features paintings, drawings, and sculptures by four young, technically skilled, U.S.-based African artists who intimately navigate the facts, official narratives, and myths of two nations that see each other in different ways. $5. Thru Jun 19.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe Failure of the American Dream: Phil America installation. $5.

Thru May 8. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

LAST Fine Arts League of CHANCE Cary’s 21st Annual Juried Exhibition: Thru Apr 23.

Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

SPECIAL Flowers Will Return: EVENT Hopeful Paintings by Bob Hart: Thru May 19.

Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www. historichillsborough.org.

Fooling Around: Rebecca Toy and Kim Ballentine. Thru Apr 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com.

LAST Home in a New CHANCE Place: Photography

by Katy Clune of an immigrant community in Morganton, N.C. Thru Apr 27. Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill. www.uncsouth.org.

Mary Kircher: Thru Jun 25.

Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com.

La Sombra y el Espiritu IV - The Work of Stefanie Jackson: Thru May 13. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. www. sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu.

GREG LINDQUIST: “DUKE ENERGY’S DAN RIVER X”

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST/NCMA

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

DAMIAN STAMER, GREG LINDQUIST, AND BURK UZZLE With two new shows that opened last week, NCMA examines its home state with expressive oil paintings of North Carolina landscapes and iconic photos of its social upheavals. In Altered Land (through Sept. 11), Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Meanwhile, in American Chronicle (through Sept. 25), one of North Carolina’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Burk Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938 and now based in Wilson, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. All three artists spill out of NCMA, too: Stamer and Lindquist have a pair of complementary shows, Wood & Water (Craven Allen Gallery, reception April 23, 5–7 p.m.) and Dust & Smoke (Flanders Gallery through April 30), while American Chronicle is coordinated with Uzzle exhibits at the Ackland (June 24–Sept. 11) and the Nasher (May 28–Sept. 18). Meet the artists among their works Friday night, and note the interesting juxtaposition of these shows: the human chronicle roils; nature patiently waits it out. —Brian Howe NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH 6–8 p.m., free, www.ncartmuseum.org Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

LAST Luminous: Jewelry CHANCE by Arianna Bara and paintings by Eduardo Lapetina.

Thru Apr 24. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This outstanding exhibit can be experienced as a master class in drawing, a chance to see the hands of big names (including

Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Klimt, Mondrian, de Kooning, Magritte, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Ruscha), or as a dazzling technical display. The exhibit ranges from fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts and expressive Baroque portraits to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art (areas of particular strength). Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Master Works of Haitian Art: Pieces from the collection of Norvel and Isabelita Burns.

Thru Apr 30. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

SPECIAL Members’ Spotlight EVENT Exhibition: Thru May 8. Artist Talk: Thu, Apr 21, 6 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

LAST My Mother Took the CHANCE Ming Rose out of the Cradle: Ceramics by Alice Ballard.

Thru Apr 24. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

The Nature of Wilderness: Michelle Podgorski. Thru May 8.

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

Nest: Leatha Koefler and Brenda Brokke. Thru May 22. Cary Arts Center. www.townofcary.org.

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

Notes from the Garden: Susan Woodson and Carol Nix. Thru Apr 30. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Stagey oversize portraits of children in adult dress give a momentary “whoa” reaction and nothing more. The better pictures admit complex reality, not just seamless artifice. Thru Sep 30.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello The Process of Seeing: Paintings

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

Roatán Gems: Linda Eddins.

Thru Apr 30. Tipping Paint

stage OPENING Aging Life’s Most Dangerous Game: Nonfictional theater. $15. Thu, Apr 21, 7 p.m. UNC Friday Center, Chapel Hill. www. fridaycenter.unc.edu.

American Idiot: Musical presented by William Peace Theatre. $5–$15. Apr 21-24.

William Peace University: Kenan Recital Hall, Raleigh. www. peace.edu.

John Boni, Drew Harrison, Matt White: Stand-up comedy. $10. Thu, Apr 21, 7:30 p.m. Raleighwood Cinema Grill, Raleigh. www. raleighwoodmovies.com.

Jim Breuer: Stand-up comedy.

Apr 21-23. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

recycle this paper Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

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

LAST Skin Dive 2016: CHANCE Photographic water portraits by Barbara Tyroler.

Thru Apr 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

LAST Sky Touching Earth: CHANCE Silk scarves by Deborah Younglau and oil still life paintings by Elizabeth Lee. Thru Apr 27. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com.

LAST Small Treasures: CHANCE Small works of art

by North Carolina artists. Thru Apr 23. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists. org.

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

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

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

Tarot Dreamscapes: Cade Carlson, Kelly Knapp, and Chicago/Raleigh Improv Festival: Improv comedy teams from Chicago and Raleigh. $12–$40. Fri, Apr 22 & Sat, Apr 23, 8 p.m. ComedyWorx Theatre, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com. #Comments: Sketch comedy and live music. $8. Sat, Apr 23, 7 p.m. The Shadowbox, Durham. www.theshadowbox.org.

Compagnia Finzi Pasca: La Verità: Dance theater. $10–$59.

Wed, Apr 27 & Thu, Apr 28, 7:30 p.m. UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Martha Graham Dance Company: Dance. $10–$59.

Fri, Apr 22 & Sat, Apr 23, 8 p.m.

UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www.carolinaperformingarts. org. See p. 32.

Martin Lawrence: Stand-up comedy. $45–$122. Fri, Apr 22, 8 p.m. PNC Arena, Raleigh. www.thepncarena.com.

Brian Malow, Kelly Ryan,

Darius Quarles. Thru May 19. Arcana, Durham. www. arcanadurham.com.

Treasures of Carolina: Stories from the State Archives: public records and private archival materials from the state archives. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism: Photographs by Mary Berridge.

Thru May 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart. com.

LAST Walls of Color: The CHANCE Murals of Hans Hofmann: These seven-foot-tall oil studies for an unrealized mural project by Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann demonstrate his “push/pull” theory of abstraction, wherein adjacent colors and forms create synthetic depth and implied movement. Thru Apr 22. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org. —Chris Vitiello Dan Woodruff: Thru Jun 25.

HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

DUKE PERFORMANCES Brandy Brown, Micah Hanner, Jack Bowen, Deb Aronin: Stand-up comedy.

Thu, Apr 21, 9 p.m. Fullsteam, Durham. www.fullsteam.ag.

I N D U R H A M , AT D U K E , A R T M A D E B O L D LY

The Real Americans: Play. $15–$45. Apr 27-May 1.

UNC’s Kenan Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.playmakersrep.org.

Rhythmic Innovations: Dance. $10–$15. Sat, Apr 23, 7 p.m. & Sun, Apr 24, 3 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www. carolinatheatre.org.

ONGOING LAST Cabaret: Musical.

CHANCE $30–$115. Thru Apr 24. Durham Performing Arts Center. www.dpacnc.com.  The Elephant Man: By the end of Act One, I was sure that Theatre in the Park had stripped The Elephant Man to its bones. But in Bernard Pomerance’s Tony-winning script, I found skeletal scenes

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and underdeveloped characters.

You can’t fault director Ira David Wood III for brusquely forging through such territory. The show’s true rewards lie in Act Two’s debate on the selective morals of Victorian England, as Ira David Wood IV contorts his frame into the physical malformations of Joseph Merrick. The support is uneven, but Lynda Clark is typically crisp as Ms. Kendal, and Wood III effectively conveys a doctor’s turn toward darkness as he finds in Merrick’s deformities a grim mirror of his society. $18–$24. Fridays, Saturdays.

Thru Apr 24. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark. com. —Byron Woods LAST  “Master CHANCE Harold”...and the boys: Mortall Coile Theatre Company. $16–$18. Thru Apr 24. Sonorous Road, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad.com. See review, p. 29.

LAST  The Nether: CHANCE Jennifer Haley explores the ethics of unvirtuous behavior in virtual worlds in her creepy high-tech police procedural, directed in Durham by Jules OdendahlJames. In a near-future where the natural world has been

razed, most work and schooling happens in The Nether, an immersive, interactive Internet.

As Sims, the designer of online realm The Hideaway, puts it, The Nether is this culture’s “contextual framework for being.” That’s a problem, since The Hideaway gives pedophiles a place to engage those behaviors without harming children, who are played by adult laborers. But as The Nether develops its own laws, consequences arise: Sims faces multiple counts of solicitation, rape, and murder. When human suffering is outsourced in virtual play, it doesn’t just vanish into the cloud. The damage registers on bodies in this gripping drama. $5–$25. Thru Apr 23. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org. —Byron Woods LAST The Realish CHANCE Housewives of Raleigh: A Parody: Play. $32.

Thru Apr 24. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

LAST Spoonface CHANCE Steinberg: Local celebrities perform what originally was a one-person BBC radio play about a girl with autism by Billy Elliot screenwriter

Lee Hall. Soprano Julianna Tauschinger-Dempsey performs songs associated with Maria Callas. $15–$25. Thru Apr 24.

Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www. burningcoal.org. —Byron Woods LAST  ½ Sweeney CHANCE Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The second recent regional production of Sweeney Todd (following Raleigh Little Theatre’s) distinguishes itself with marquee leads: Broadway’s David St. Louis and TV’s Annie Golden (Orange Is the New Black). PlayMakers’ design excels, but on opening night, while St. Louis was mellifluous, Golden struggled to keep up in the fast parts. $15–$44.

Tuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Thru Apr 23. www. playmakersrep.org. UNC Campus: Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org. —Byron Woods LAST The Tale of the CHANCE Allergist’s Wife: Play. $12–$17. Thru Apr 24.

North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org.

LAST The Wizard of Oz: CHANCE $18–$20. Thru Apr 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

JASMINE POWELL: SHADOWS CHASING LIGHT Choreographer Jasmine Powell was moved by Shadows Chasing Light, Texas-based poet Brian Bowers’s 2012 book. She resolved to set the work in motion on the stage. In the resulting collaboration, an array of dancers and musicians from five continents creates “a transmedia experience,” combining spoken word, original music, photography, visual art, and ensemble movement in an evening-length work that asks, in Powell’s words, “how we learn about ourselves and how we love. Not what we love, or why we love, but how.” Bowers’s smoky, meditative voice over ambient soundscapes leads us along the way in this latest show from Durham Independent Dance Artists. —Byron Woods PSI THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $20, www.didaseason.com

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Suzanne Adair, Bryan E. Robinson, Britni Robinson: Mystery authors discuss their work. Sat, Apr 23, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Fred Chappell: A Shadow of All Light. Sat, Apr 23, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Felicia Day: Memoir You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). $20. Wed, Apr 27, 6 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro. www.catscradle.com. See story, p. 30.

William Geroux: The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler’s U-Boats.

Wed, Apr 27, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Kurt Gray: The Mind Club. Sat, Apr 23, 2 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Kathleen Grissom: Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen

House. Wed, Apr 27, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

21, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Sandra Guiterrez: Cookbooks.

Sat, Apr 23, noon. Southern Season, Chapel Hill. www. southernseason.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D

Ken Ilgunas: Trespassing Across America. Thu, Apr 21, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Robert Morgan: Historical novel Chasing the North Star. Thu, Apr 21, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Adam Skolnick: One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits. Wed, Apr 27, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Shelby Stephenson, Anora McGaha, Cedric Tillman: Poetry. Sun, Apr 24, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Anthony Tata: Novel Three Minutes to Midnight. Wed, Apr 27, 6 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Sam Trull: Photo book Slothlove.

Wed, Apr 20, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com. — Thu, Apr

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Tamika Galanis and Jon-Sesrie Goff: Discussing Hacking the Narrative: Telling Counter-Tropic Stories and After Sherman. Sat, Apr 23, 1 p.m. Duke Campus: Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building), Durham.

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Teen Lit Fest: Author talks, workshops, and more. Sat, Apr 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS After Sherman: Documentary about Southern heritage. Fri, Apr 22, 6 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham.

Almanya: Welcome to Germany: Documentary. Mon, Apr 25, 5:30 p.m. UNC FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. www.global.unc.edu.

Color Correction: Documentary about DNA testing and racial identity. Wed, Apr 20, 6 p.m.

Full Frame Theater, Durham.

Days and Details of Death and Devils: Examining multiyear recipient of Forbes’ “Most Miserable City” award. Sun, Apr 24, 4 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham.

Mean Streets: Tue, Apr 26, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24

FRUITVALE STATION Before director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan made Creed, the duo teamed up to chronicle the heart-wrenching final hours in the life of Oscar Grant, a twenty-two-year-old African-American man shot by a police officer in 2009 while lying face down in the titular Oakland, California transit station. The film was a critical success upon its release in 2013—it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance. Coogler worked closely with the Grant family, including Oscar’s mother, played by Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer.

The film’s impact resides in both its respectful, thorough presentation of Oscar’s life and its straightforward account of his tragic death. Fruitvale Station was released a full year before the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and, sadly, the film’s relevance has only heightened in the years since. See it for free in the Liberation Film Series at the Carrack. —Neil Morris

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Other than “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Vivian was unfamiliar with eight of J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. But we’re reading them now— it’s one of the few things that can still be rectified.

Vivian and I met a little over a year ago on a warm spring morning. I sat on a bench, she in her motorized wheelchair. We were discussing the upcoming benefit in her honor at Cat’s Cradle, but that wasn’t all. Along with ALS, with which she’d been diagnosed about a year prior, Vivian held forth about the evils of Citizens United vs. FEC, about a life-changing field trip she led to the Holocaust museum in Washington, about having her eyes opened by R.E.M. as a student in Athens in 1982. I transcribed every word of our fiftytwo-minute conversation, even the stuff that wouldn’t end up in my article. I wanted to keep those moments, pauses and all.

Shortly after the show, Vivian and her family prepared to move to a different part of Chapel Hill. She accepted my offer to help sort through the fifty or so containers stored in a crawlspace. I would come by in the mornings and haul up some boxes, then unpack the contents. She had a sure sense of whether the items would be kept, donated, or tossed. Handwritten letters, pencil sketches, modeling headshots: they were all precious markers of a rich, unique life, but not every beautiful thing was kept.

Our friendship blossomed. I’d stop on the way over and get a turkey sub at Jersey Mike’s—with “Italian spices” and yellow mustard, the way she liked it—to share later. After the move, I kept visiting. We watched the brilliant BBC series Blackadder. I made her a mixtape. In mid-June, she was able to meet me and my son for a chocolate chocolate-chip cookie and an iced coffee (with a shot of hazelnut) at Weaver Street Market.

But in late summer, things went swiftly, cruelly downhill with an infection, a misdiagnosis, and a hellish three-week hospital stay. When she came home in mid-September, Vivian was severely diminished. Only one hand worked, and her speech had taken a major hit. “Drunken sailor,” she called it. Still, that was preferable to unintelligible, which is where things now stand. With help from her new assistive technology system, Vivian can communicate still, but it’s an effort. So we read—specifically, Nine Stories.

In the final image of “Down at the Dinghy,” story No. 5 but our first, a mother and a son race happily homeward on foot. I remember something Vivian said some weeks before, in response to a question I asked. In her dreams, she said, there’s no chair. —David Klein

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JEWELRY APPRAISALS

While you wait. Graduate Gemologist www.ncjewelryappraiser.com

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

MATH HELP!

Tired of no teacher feedback? Student homework evaluated, skills assessed and personal help. www.Math-Jack.com, Dr. Cliff 919-357-3255.

GOT A MAC?

Need Support? Let AppleBuddy help you. Call 919.740.2604 or log onto www.applebuddy.com

T’AI CHI

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

Classes/workshops throughout the Triangle.

Magic Tortoise School - Since 1979. Call Jay or Kathleen, 919-968-3936. www.magictortoise.com

INTRO TO IMPROVISATION

Wed. May 11 and Sat. May 14. Be funny, be quick, be confident. 919-829-0822 or www. comedyworx.com

FITNESS STARTS HERE! WORK OUT WITH US AT DUKE HEALTH & FITNESS CENTER.

Newly Renovated! Indoor/Outdoor Tracks, Saline Pool, Group Fitness, Strength/Cardio Equipment, Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, Personal Training, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Therapeutic Massage. Call Today! 919-660-6660 or www.dukefitness.org

NINTH STREET DANCE

Workshops: Tango 4/23, Doonya 4/30, Hip-Hop 5/7. Classes for people of all shapes/sizes in: ballet, tap, lyrical, hip-hop, salsa, swing, break, pilates and more. www.ninthstreetdance.com

HIRE THE BEST!

Find the best candidates for your job opening in the INDY! Employment ads start at 70 cents/ word/week. Call INDY Classifieds: 919-286-6642 or email classy@indyweek.com

THE BEAUTY OPERATORS BURN DOWN THE BLUE NOTE GRILL SAT. APRIL 23 8:30PM, 709 Washington Street, Durham. www.thebluenotegrill.com

PSYCHIC MILLIE PALM/TAROT CARD READINGS

Clairvoyant Medium. 40 years experience.

Intuitive Psychic Readings, Communication with Loved Ones, Advice on Life and Love. I Help you solve problems! www.psychicmillie. com 919.942-1184/919-688-0310 Psychic Wallace Institute, 1418 S. Miami Blvd. Durham.

919.286.6642

5K Run/Walk and 2K Walk Register/donate: www.RacingForRescuesNC.com Dogs Welcome • Great spring raffle • Much, much more!

CLASSES FORMING NOW

Programs in Massage Therapy, Medical Assisting, and Medical Office. Call Today!

THE MEDICAL ARTS SCHOOL

Raleigh: 919-872-6386 • www.medicalartsschool.com OLD FASHIONED HANDYMAN!

Appliance installation/repair; Equipment, Plumbing & Electrical repair; Fencing; HVAC ; Preventative maintenance; Roofs/Gutters.

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

GET YOUR AD IN 101 PAPERS FOR $375/WEEK

RUN YOUR CLASSIFIED in 101 North Carolina newspapers for only $375 for a 25-word ad.

Call 919-286-6642 or email classy@indyweek.com for details.

Weekly deadline 4pm Monday • classy@indyweek.com

IS IT HARD TO IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT WEED?

COMING TO ASHEVILLE?

Do you want to stop, but can’t? We Can Help!

Marijuana Anonymous: www.NorthCarolinaMA.ORG 919-886-4420

GLAMOUR MODELS NEEDED For film/print work. 919-949-8330

HOME REPAIR SPECIAL

Upscale Spa. private outdoor hot tubs, 26 massage therapists, overnight accommodations, sauna and more. Starting at $42. Shojiretreats.com 828-299-0999

Place an ad in the Professional Services section for 4 weeks, get 2 extra weeks FREE! Ads start at $19/week. 919-286-6642 or e-mail classy@indyweek.com

DANCE CLASSES IN SWING, LINDY, BLUES, CHARLESTON

DECLUTTERING? WE’LL BUY YOUR BOOKS

At ERUUF, Durham & ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

RICHARD BADU, 919-724-1421, rbadu@aol.com

Monday Nights, 7-10pm, $155. April 18-May 23, 2016, Final performance at last class. Call 919834-4001 to register.

MARK KINSEY/LMBT

Feel comfy again. 919-619-NERD (6373).

Durham, on Broad Street. NC Lic. #6072.

TRIANGLEGAMENIGHT.COM

Some places do karaoke. We do Game Nights. We bring 75+ board games to venues all around the triangle. Check out our free events.

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GARDENS TO DIE FOR

Find Peace, Beauty, and Abundance in your own yard! Mark N. Jensen. 919-528-5588 GardensToDieFor.com

STAND-UP COMEDY CLASS AT BURNING COAL THEATRE

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

UNIQUE MOTHER’S DAY GIFTS OF LOCALLY HANDCRAFTED STONE GARDEN ART

Large selection of stone birdbaths, benches, lights, tables, & more. Designed & carved on site, these pieces will be something special to give your Mom. Simchock Stone 5404 Old Hillsborough Rd. Durham 27705. 919-382-8773 www.simchockstone.com

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