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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH | VOL. 33, NO. 17 6 State senator and congressional wannabe Andrew Brock will kick your ass if you dare use the wrong restroom.

9 You could call HB 2 a solution in search of a problem, but it’s more callous than that.

10 To determine the boringness of cities in a given state, Chris Kolmar created an algorithm.

14 Mixed martial arts has a unique past, a vibrant present, and an uncertain future in North Carolina.

17 The city of Durham has made a mess of its attempt to fund two major music festivals in the same month.

24 What’s it like to eat a buffalo, then stare at its kin in an area field?

25 It’s not even summer, and they’re already making 150 ice cream sandwiches per week at Standard Foods.

26 Carolina Glazed makes the absolute best donuts in the Triangle.

28 The question of cultural appropriation assumes that the powerful culture is the only one involved in the exchange.

41 I gently tugged the hem of his neon garment. “Mr. Prince,” I scream-whispered. “Mr. Prince!”

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triangulator +“DO YOU HAVE A PENIS?” As the sun blazed down on the legislative building on Jones Street Monday afternoon, a short-haired woman argued passionately with two men wearing white T-shirts with “HB 2” crossed out in red.

“This isn’t about discrimination, it’s about protecting her,” the woman said, motioning toward an elementary-school-aged girl holding a sign that read, “Stand With North Carolina.”

“So which bathroom should I use?” one of the men asked.

“I can’t tell if you’re a man or a woman,” the woman said. “I don’t mean that to be ugly.”

“I’m transgender female to male,” the man replied. “Would you want me using the bathroom with your daughter?”

“Do you have a penis?” the woman asked, utterly serious.

On the opening day of the General Assembly’s short session, hundreds of people from all over the state descended upon Raleigh, either to support HB 2 or, led by the Reverend William Barber and his Moral Monday crew, to call for its full repeal.

Those in support, about eight hundred people, set up lawn chairs on Halifax Mall, the long, grassy strip to the north of the legislative building, for a noon rally. They listened to gospel music and heard speeches from stalwarts of the state’s religious right: perennial congressional candidate Mark Harris, family values lobbyists Tami Fitzgerald and John Rustin, pastors and elected officials and conservative pseudo-celebrities like the Benham brothers.

The tone was unmistakably conservative Christian, and people’s stated support for HB 2 was entirely based on the imaginary premise of protecting women and children from predators in restrooms; the other parts of the farreaching bill were barely mentioned.

Senator Andrew Brock, a Republican from Mocksville who is running for Congress, threatened to assault any trans person who dares use the wrong bathroom: “A newspaper reporter said when we had the special session that it was going to cost forty-two thousand dollars. ‘You’re a fiscal hawk. How can you justify that?’ I said, ‘Forty-two thousand dollars will not cover the medical expenses to the man who walks into the bathroom when my little girl’s there.”

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burg County Republican who introduced HB 2, called opponents’ response a “media-fueled, ideological carpet bombing.” Other speakers leveled vitriol at companies like Target, Starbucks, and Barnes & Noble—which have all publicly opposed HB 2—and tore into attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper.

“The media will give this rally this much attention,” said a woman in a red T-shirt and sunglasses, bringing her thumb and index finger together. “They’ll be talking about that other thing over there for days.”

That other thing, the rally for HB 2 opponents—which also took on a religious tone, albeit a more inclusive one—was well attended, too, with a similar turnout. Following a morning press conference at the Capitol, a coalition of civil rights, faith, business, and advocacy groups delivered petitions with more than 150,000 signatures calling for a repeal of HB 2 to Governor McCrory’s office.

In the afternoon, opponents rallied at Bicentennial Mall before staging a sit-in inside the legislative building, right as the House and Senate went into session. (There were no arrests at the sit-in, though fifty-four protesters were arrested throughout the day.)

The Moral Monday crowd kept its focus on the entirety of the legislation, with Barber urging people not to focus strictly on the bathrooms issue. Instead, he characterized HB 2 as being of a piece with voter suppression, racial gerrymandering, and class warfare, in that it denies cities from passing living-wage ordinances.

“Hate Bill 2 was passed in the spirit of the politics of Jesse Helms,” Barber said. “When Jesse Helms was down in the polls in the eighties, he attacked the gay community and he attacked the black community. This bill is the combination of homophobia, race, and class as a political wedge issue.”

Monday’s dueling rallies may not have changed any hearts or minds, inside the General Assembly or out. But don’t expect the conversations—or the protesters—to disappear before November.

+THE $71 MILLION QUESTION A coalition that includes the Durham city workers’ union is vowing to pressure the city into halting plans for a new $71 million police headquarters. (The project was originally slated to cost $81 million, but in February the city council voted to downsize.)

On April 18, picketers representing the Durham Beyond Policing coalition earned approving honks from passing drivers on Mangum Street. They say they’ll keep it up until the city kills the police HQ project.

“We just feel like eighty-one million is a lot to put toward a police station,” says Nathanette Mayo, a chemist for the Department of Water Management, “particularly when city workers have gone without for so many years. The last time we saw this, the money was taken from city workers to build DPAC. We just have never caught up.”

Mayo is secretary of the UE Local 150. She complains that “little, measly payfor-performance merit raises” that don’t keep up with inflation have replaced cost-of-living raises. “We’re continuously falling behind,” she says.

The minimum wage for city workers is $12.53 per hour; the union and its allies are fighting for $15. (Since state law prohibits collective bargaining, public pressure is their only recourse.)

TL;DR: Three days after that protest, coalition member Chanelle Croxton addressed the city council at a midday work session. She demanded “an active divestment from the police” and a “reinvestment into services, programs, and institutions that serve the needs of the most marginalized in our community.”

She added that concerns about the new headquarters are not just about the allocation of funds. Durham Beyond Policing, she said, was created “to point out the gross abuses and violence of the Durham Police Department … and the ways policing in Durham actually causes harm, particularly to black and brown residents.”

On behalf of Durham Beyond Policing, Croxton also demanded a council vote by May 18 to quash the project.

“We thought that was a date in order for them to properly address what we say,” Croxton says, “but also, put pressure on them. If the council doesn’t come up with a response or their vote is to continue on with the plans, then we’ll actively be fighting that in multiple ways.”

The city seems unlikely to be swayed.

While city council member Jillian Johnson agrees that the DPD’s new headquarters is too expensive, she says, “The city and administration really want this to happen.”

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+THE $500K ANSWER

Let’s be real: the federal minimum wage— $7.25 an hour—is laughable. To make matters worse, North Carolina prohibits local governments from setting their own wage floors. So in the more progressive parts of the state—Durham, Asheville, and, most recently, Orange County—living-wage campaigns have formed to certify businesses that don’t pay their employees like shit.

The Orange County Living Wage Project, which launched last November, has attracted fifty-eight employers—nonprofit, forprofit, and public entities that now pay all employees at least $12.75 per hour (or $11.25 per hour if the employer provides health insurance). The organization, led by Susan Romaine and Orange County Commissioner Mark Marcoplos, estimates it has lifted the wages of nearly six thousand employees a combined $526,000 in just six months.

That half-million-dollar mark calls for a celebration, Marcoplos says, and at 7 p.m. on May 3, the OCLWP will throw down at Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe in Chapel Hill (a certified living-wage employer, of course) with some live music and a screening of a new OCLWP video.

Marcoplos tells the INDY that adding Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools to the OCLWP’s ranks in January was a significant coup. “They had a lot of part-time workers they were paying below

the living wage,” Marcoplos says. “And they took a look at it and decided the right thing to do was include money in the next budget [for the wage increases]. That’s what really helped get us up over five hundred thousand dollars.”

The OCLWP’s list includes everything from health care to automotive companies, florists to frame makers. Though spots like Glasshalfull and Joe Van Gogh are on board, Marcoplos reports that cajoling restaurants has proven difficult.

“Waiters and waitresses typically make good tip money,” he says. “But usually the dishwasher ends up left in the lurch.”

There are limits to the project’s reach.

Employers that are part of the OCLWP can— and sometimes do—hire subcontractors who may not pay a living wage. “We can’t really control that,” Marcoplos says. “If you hire a sub, you don’t have the right to demand that they show you their payroll.”

Marcoplos adds: “I’m a business owner”— his green-building company is also part of the OCLWP—“and I know it’s not easy to change your budget, give out raises. I think the best thing we do here, given the constraints, is build awareness about companies that are paying a living wage and still prospering. If somebody has a better idea of how to do that, believe me, we’re all ears.” l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Danny Hooley, David Hudnall, and Jane Porter.

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The NCAA gives UNC a new notice of allegations that removes the football and men’s basketball teams as primary beneficiaries of fake classes. “Telled u i gud at Inglesh,” a football player emails his mother.

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UNC academic adviser Mary Willingham tells WRAL that UNC and the NCAA are “colluding to protect the profit sports.”

Thanks to their fake classes, no UNC athletes know what “colluding” means.

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A federal judge upholds North Carolina’s voter-ID law in a 485-page ruling. Four hundred eighty-five pages! It must be crammed with Scalia words like “brobdingnagian” and “ninnyhammer.”

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With inflation, North Carolina teacher pay has dropped 13 percent in fifteen years. Cue Whitney Houston: “I believe the children are our future/North Carolina should cut their teachers’ pay.”

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After a backlash, Wake County’s school system drops proposed changes to its Pledge of Allegiance policy. Its new policy salutes Jesus Christ, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Petty.

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Governor McCrory gets into a Twitter fight with Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas over HB 2. It ends with Lovato calling McCrory’s official profile photo “a nice dick pic, dude.”

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State senator and attorney general candidate Buck Newton says at a pro-HB 2 rally that “we must fight to keep our state straight.” The crowd cheers. “And purge our browser histories of gay porn.” Silence.

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Durham weighs spending $600,000 to keep the Carolina Theatre in business. Those books aren’t going to cook themselves!

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Durham announces Cerelyn Davis— Twitter handle: @1divacop—as its new police chief. Also, follow former police chief Jose Lopez: @earlyretirementboi69.

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The Dog That Caught the Car

PAT MCCRORY DESERVES EVERY BIT OF THE HELL HE’S CATCHING OVER HB 2, AND THEN SOME

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ animus against Pat McCrory never saw this coming. the economic carnage it has wrought.

He thought House Bill 2 was an easy win, That—specifically, the $34 million in ecoa way to curry favor with a GOP base that nomic activity the Greater Raleigh Conalways viewed him—a Chamber Republican vention and Visitors Bureau said HB 2 put much more than a social conservative—with at risk—was also the reason Raleigh’s city suspicion. Trans people, a tiny sliver of the council finally denounced the law last Tuespopulation that is already marginalized and day, joining most of the state’s other major misunderstood, would make an easy target. metros. Raleigh was a few weeks late to the Besides, he was protecting little girls from party; even then, though, it wasn’t offering its cross-dressers creeping in the bathroom. own statement so much as cosigning what Who could have a problem with that? the Raleigh Chamber had already said.

As it turns out, lots of people—and, more Which is fine. The economic argument is important, lots of businesses. By now, the important. But all the talk about disappeardrumbeat of denunciations has become ing dollars can sometimes obscure the fact almost monotonous: Pearl Jam to Springsthat, at its very core, HB teen, the NBA to the 2 is morally indefensible.

NCAA to NASCAR, just the provisions Red Hat to PayPal to “We may never know Not overriding local antidisthe Raleigh Chamber and livingof Commerce to Donthe full impact of the crimination wage ordinances or the ald freaking Trump, not one that evicted all workto mention municipalidamage being done place discrimination ties all over the state. HB claims from state court— 2’s backers—especially to our reputation.” those are indefensible, McCrory—have been on too—but also the casus the defensive, alternately belli of this whole affair, lashing out at “Hollywood the transgender-bathroom freakout. elites” and trying to weather the storm.

At the risk of belaboring the point: though McCrory, in a very real sense, has become hundreds of cities have laws like the one the dog that caught the car. And his re-elecCharlotte passed and HB 2 shut down, there tion this November is now very much in peril. have been zero known cases in which trans So on Monday, looking to press their men have used those laws to sneak into pubadvantage, a group of Democrats introduced lic bathrooms and harass or assault women a bill to repeal HB 2. “North Carolina has lost or girls. And even if one did, the harassment over a thousand jobs and millions of dollars or assault would still be illegal, and HB 2 in a little over a month,” said Representative would do nothing to stop it.

Darren Jackson, D-Wake. “We may never You could say this was a solution in search know the full impact of the damage being of a problem, but it’s more callous than that: done to our reputation.”

HB 2 is both pointless and mean, using an atOf course, so long as Senate leader Phil risk group as a piñata, a futile last gasp of the Berger digs in, this repeal is going nowhere. culture war’s losers.

But that’s not the point. The point is that HB As such, its proponents, including McCro2 is supported by just 36 percent of voters, ry, deserve everything they’re getting. When according to the most recent Public Policy the dog catches the car, the dog gets run over.

Polling Survey, and Democrats want to use And that brings me to a final point: over the this issue as an election-year cudgel, pitting

weekend, The North State Journal, a newspaper founded by McCrory administration vets, took a swing at our managing editor, Grayson Haver Currin, an active HB 2 protester. The gist: “His involvement in the anti-H.B. 2 strategy does raise the question of whether the managing editor of a local publication organizing protests presents a conflict of interest.”

Actually, no, it doesn’t. What Grayson and fellow INDY contributor Tina Haver Currin are doing aligns perfectly with this newspaper’s mission of effecting progressive change.

This is true of both the Air Horn Orchestra, which gathers outside the Governor’s Mansion every Wednesday evening, many in shirts

asking, “Can You Hear Us Now, Pat?” to make a bunch of noise; and NC Needs You, a stunningly successful campaign to persuade artists not to boycott North Carolina but instead to donate their proceeds to LGBTQ causes.

As an institutional matter, this sort of activism is not just condoned; it’s encouraged. More than that, if we want to lance this festering boil of intolerance, it’s necessary.

So if you’d like to join Grayson and Tina, the Air Horn Orchestra will again gather on Blount Street Wednesday at six o’clock.

Bring your favorite instrument of mass noisemaking. l jbillman@indyweek.com

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Kolmar and Johnson had stumbled upon a dark truth about media in the Internet age: Establishment news outlets—TV stations, radio stations, even newspapers—were as desperate for traffic as Movoto was. In this beleaguered media environment, a halfbaked Movoto “study” often rose to the level of news. If something smelled vaguely viral, journalists would happily gobble it up. Few editors or reporters seemed to care about the methodology behind Movoto’s findings, or even that Movoto was a for-profit enterprise.

Traffic to Movoto skyrocketed, from two thousand visitors per month in 2011 to eighteen million in 2014. But there was a problem.

“The traffic was all crap,” Kolmar said. “The people weren’t buying houses.”

Kolmar and Johnson had become wizards at getting eyeballs, but their audience was mostly clickbait rubberneckers. And though creating all that content was cheap, it wasn’t free. Movoto wasn’t seeing a substantial return on its investment.

In October 2014, Movoto was purchased by a large Japanese corporation and soon cut the cord on Kolmar and Johnson’s viral-content strategy.

Kolmar relocated to Durham, where his fiancée is a pediatrics resident at Duke Hospital. Johnson and his fiancée later followed them to the Triangle. They wanted to continue working together, building on the knowledge of regional virality they’d acquired at Movoto but in an environment free of the burden of having to sell something.

In other words, a clickbait site.

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for Building a Clickbait Empire A local business tries to decipher what the Internet wants— and how to turn it into gold

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On a Thursday morning in January, I drove to the Chapel Hill home of Johnson and his fiancée, Kim. Located in a woody subdivision, their place doubles as the de facto base of operations for Kolmar and Johnson’s new venture.

Kolmar typically works from his home in Durham (he has a new baby) or Bull City Coworking, but he’d stopped by, in Duke cap and hoodie, to give me an overview of the

operation. Kim, who helps out part-time, was in the living room, half watching TV, half working on her laptop. Johnson, a UNC cap on his head, was in a Post-it-filled zone off to the side of the living room, behind a messy desk with a couple of large monitors on it. A Pandora station was churning out earthy jams: Rusted Root, Dave Matthews, an interminably long

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Four years ago, Chris Kolmar and Nick Johnson were working in the Bay Area for Movoto, an online real estate brokerage that matches buyers with agents. Kolmar, a twenty-nine-year-old computer geek with a brain for algorithms, was Movoto’s director of marketing. Johnson, thirty-nine, an affable former sports reporter, handled media outreach. Their directive was to drive traffic to the Movoto website so that people could connect with agents, buy houses, and score Movoto finder’s fees.

Search-engine optimization was key.

Movoto needed to appear prominently when people searched for “realtor Detroit” or “houses for sale Tucson.”

But the web was also in the midst of a sea change. Facebook had become the Internet’s home page. Sites like BuzzFeed were breaking traffic records—and raking in truckloads of cash—by specializing in the kind of viral ephemera that Facebook users share widely.

What if, Kolmar wondered, Movoto applied BuzzFeed’s strategy to Movoto? Businesses creating original content as a way of marketing themselves wasn’t a new concept, of course. But the Facebook paradigm held vast potential. A post could reach millions in a single day.

If Kolmar could produce content and get it to go viral, that would translate into big traffic for Movoto’s site—and, in theory, big bucks for Movoto.

“The challenge was how to make real estate interesting,” Kolmar says. “And we didn’t have a team of journalists who could compete with the big media outlets on real estate news. So we started writing these blog posts about things that we knew there was an audience for: what the fictional value of Batman’s house might be, or how much Harry Potter’s castle would cost.”

It soon occurred to Kolmar that posts about neighborhoods, cities, and states were a natural fit. So Movoto started cranking out titles like “These Are The 10 Best Places To Live In Alabama.” The methodology—tossing census information, crime rates, tax rates, weather conditions, and a few other factors into an algorithm and writing up whatever it spit out—wouldn’t pass muster at a research lab, but that wasn’t the point.

“We figured out pretty quickly that if you tell the people in a city that their city is a topten best place to live for something, they’ll click on you,” Kolmar said. “And often, if you send that link to a media outlet in that city, they’ll do a story on it.”

Counting Crows song. Their new company, founded last May, is called Chasing Chains, LLC—a frisbee golf reference.

“Regional infotainment” is the phrase Kolmar and Johnson use to describe Chasing Chains’ two sites, HomeSnacks and RoadSnacks. Though that phrase may be unfamiliar, the content it refers to is likely queued up

on your Facebook feed at this very moment.

Maybe a friend from college just shared a post about the “50 Best College Towns To Live In Forever” that featured your alma mater. Or a restaurant where your cousin works was named one of the “20 Best Restaurants in Charleston Right Now.” If you click on these links, they sometimes lead you to well-established websites, either old school (Travel & Leisure) or new (Thrillist, Huffington Post). Like Kolmar and Johnson, these outlets have discovered that innate

hometown pride can be soaked up and wrung out as advertising dollars.

Just as often, though, the “10 Reasons North Carolina Is The BEST State” post leads you to some site you’ve never heard of before. Some—like WalletHub, NerdWallet, and SmartAsset (why are the two words always smashed into each other?)—are personal finance websites that publish clicky, regional “studies” to boost their exposure and collect consumer data. Others, like HomeSnacks and RoadSnacks, are pure page-view

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plays, dependent entirely on ad revenue.

Only In Your State—probably Kolmar and Johnson’s closest competitor—falls into the latter category. It has huge reach: more than five million fans across its state-themed Facebook pages. Brian Warner, who owns and runs the site, told me he started Only In Your State because he wanted to highlight cool places and interesting small businesses.

“I just think it’s awesome when we hear from businesses that tell us their sales exploded after we called them the best donut shop in their state,” Warner says.

But how does Warner, who lives in Los Angeles, have any idea what the best donut shop in Georgia is? He says he has a team in place that manages content for individual states. But he’s unwilling to divulge how many employees he has or how they’re paid.

Kolmar and Johnson are more open about their business. At Johnson’s house, I asked them to take me through the life of one of their posts. They chose “These Are The 10 Most Boring Cities in South Carolina.”

Kolmar takes pride in the fact that their findings are not plucked from thin air but rather are the result of a pseudoscientific data mine. To determine the boringness of cities in a given state, Kolmar created an algorithm that examined the percentage of the population over thirty-five years old, married population, population with kids, and population over sixty-five. The higher these numbers were, the more boring the place was.

Johnson purchased three Facebook ads targeting users who live in the cities that made the list, as well as users who “like” South Carolina on Facebook. Each ad used a different picture. After a few hours of the “suggested post” being delivered to Facebook feeds, Johnson checked to see which ad was attracting the most clicks and shares. He then shut off the others and increased the ad buy on that post. In the other room, Kim was blasting South Carolina media with pitches, drawing from an organically assembled spreadsheet containing more than two thousand media contacts across the country.

Johnson checked Chartbeat to see how many users were currently looking at the post: twenty-six.

“Twenty-six at noon is pretty good,” Johnson told me. “If it continues at this pace, by three p.m. there could be about fifty on it, and by the time people get home from work, maybe a hundred. And if you get hot with sharing after work, you could have as INDYweek.com | 4.27.16 | 11

many as six hundred on it by midnight, and if you can get to there, you’re pretty much guaranteed one hundred and fifty thousand views”—Kolmar and Johnson’s general benchmark for a viral post.

A few days earlier, while browsing the HomeSnacks site, I noticed that the thumbnail for a post called “If You’re From North Carolina, This Will Be The Most Jaw-Dropping Thing You See Today. Guaranteed” had a computer-drawn marker circling some indiscriminate object on a beach, with an arrow pointed at it. But when I clicked, it was just a four-minute video with aerial shots of picturesque North Carolina scenery. There was no payoff for the beach mystery. Despite this, it had attracted over seven hundred thousand page views.

The videos they were publishing the morning I visited also had arrows and circles, occasionally a “Wow!” written somewhere on top of the photo. What was with the drawings?

“It’s so spammy, and I hate it,” Johnson says. “But if I ran those videos without the arrows or the ‘LOL,’ probably about half as many people would engage with it. We could say, ‘This is a great video, it’ll break your heart, it’s beautiful,’ and with no arrow maybe five percent click. People don’t care.

But if you’re like, ‘This will blow you away,’ and you circle something or throw an arrow on it, they come to it.”

Does HomeSnacks see diminishing returns on its traffic after people realize they’ve been misled?

“That’s a concern, for sure,” Johnson says.

“I think about that. But the thing is, right now we’re so new that we don’t really have a brand.

We’re just another site you see on Facebook that you click and then read real quick.” l l l

The plan with HomeSnacks was to create a mix of regionally specific, positive-toned listicles and sappy, Upworthy-like fare. The target market was (and is) women thirty-five and older.

“They’re the biggest sharers on the Internet,” Kolmar says. “Generally speaking, if they don’t care about it, we don’t write about it.”

“But it’s surprising what they seem to care about,” Johnson chimes in. “I live with a woman over the age of thirty-five”—his fiancée, Kim—“and I’m always trying to quiz her on ideas I have. I haven’t been able to figure out a pattern.”

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day is an interesting anthropological experi-an umbre ies are ev ment,” she says.

“Like, you’d think a ‘best places to raise atailor-ma kid’ post would do well to women over thirty- So click five,” Johnson says. “But that’s not been ourbait. The T ally reput experience.”

In fact, they found that Facebook usersletHub an were starting to grow tired of hearing aboutThe TBJ m we’re all top places to live.

So they launched a new site, RoadSnacks,outlet, in to explore the darker side of “regional info-INDY, ha tainment”—hence the “boring” and “dumb-point ind est” posts. They’ve done a series of negativelists. concepts for each state: drunkest cities, most The p stoned cities, douchebag cities, ghetto cities. these are An early HomeSnacks post about the bestmate ne cities in Florida netted only twenty thousandThey’re c unique page views. “But then we flipped it onfic grabs the RoadSnacks site and did the worst citiesgrabs, too in Florida, and that got three hundred thou-capitalisti sand views in a week,” Johnson says. “Righthere are p now, nine times out of ten, the traffic is bet- Even W ter for the negative stuff than the happy orfounder Your Sta exciting stuff.”

This approach is a double-edged sword,told me t however. Earlier this year, RoadSnacks ranwas to ge a post called “These Are The 10 Worst Chi-where his cago Suburbs.” Kolmar’s algorithm deter-strike d mined that the number-one spot belongedentertain to a village called Harwood Heights. The postnations in caught fire on Facebook and was picked uppaid him t by the Fox and ABC affiliates in Chicago. Theed on his s residents of Harwood Heights took it person- Johnso ally—so personally that the Chicago Tribuneregularly did a story about the response, which includ-HomeSna ed criticism from the school superintendentered credu “The on and the mayor.

“My thing is, I don’t think the mayor ofity [news Harwood Heights should give a shit thatthe Chica RoadSnacks did a post about Harwoodpost? I me not even a Heights,” Johnson says.

Each post, Kolmar points out, has a note up top stating that it is “opinion based on facts” that is “meant for infotainment.” In other Despite b words, it shouldn’t be taken seriously.

“We clearly say we’re not an authority,”—just Kol lance writ Kolmar says.

Still, this episode hits on an interestingattracted point about the relationship between the tra-sites last m Observer’s ditional news media and clickbait sites.

A quick scan of my INDY email accountdraws 2.2 shows that WalletHub has sent me forty-two They’re pitches since the beginning of this year. Pos-Kolmar sh sible story ideas include a study about 2016’sstatement best cities in which to celebrate St. Patrick’s2015—its Day and one about 2016’s best cities for anbiggest ex active lifestyle. It’s tempting. For an over-and payin worked reporter trying to hit a story quota, anpost’s per “A study has found” post is like being handedfrom web

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FREE VACCINES FOR LIFE an umbrella in a rainstorm. Clickbait studies are even more appealing because they’re tailor-made to garner clicks.

So click-hungry news operations take the bait. The Triangle Business Journal, a generally reputable publication, aggregates WalletHub and the like on a near-daily basis.

The TBJ may be the worst local offender, but we’re all guilty. Virtually every local media outlet, including the INDY, has at some point indulged these lists.

The problem is, these are not legitimate news stories.

They’re cynical traffic grabs—and cash grabs, too. The purely capitalistic dynamics here are plain to see.

Even Warner, the founder of Only In Your State, flat-out told me that his goal was to get to a point where his site could strike deals with entertainment destinations in which they paid him to be included on his site’s lists.

Johnson says he is regularly surprised by the degree to which HomeSnacks and RoadSnacks posts are covered credulously by the media.

“The only authority we have is the authority [news outlets] give us,” he says. “Why is the Chicago Tribune doing a story about our post? I mean, it’s RoadSnacks-dot-net. We’re not even a dot-com.”

Taboola—were $163,000. Their net income was $55,000.

“But with six or seven million people a month coming to our site, we should be making more money than we are,” Johnson says.

To further complicate things, their current business model will likely soon be outdated.

“Our current strategy works right now, but it’s not going to last,” Kolmar says. “The ad spends are getting more competitive.

And Facebook could change its algorithm at any point, which would alter our traffic structure. So we have to diversify how we make money. It’s just a question of what direction to take.”

Consulting is one possibility. “We’re very good at getting a lot of people in one region to see the same thing in one day,” Johnson says.

“Which is a good skill to have, and I think there are companies that would pay us for that insight.”

In the meantime, HomeSnacks and RoadSnacks are beginning to bump up against the limits of regional infotainment.

“We’ve kinda run through a lot of the good topics already—fattest, laziest, hardest-working, boring, redneck, whatever,” Johnson says.

“You know, can you tell people, ‘These are the most redneck cities in North Carolina,’ and then the next year say, ‘These are the most redneck cities for 2017’? I think we’re still trying to test the limits of what people are willing to read.”

Kolmar told me that what he’d really love to do is turn the sites into more journalistic enterprises—something closer in spirit to Atlantic Cities.

“I think Nick and I, we think of ourselves as good humans, we want to balance our karma out,” Kolmar says. “And we really do have a passion for local news. I wish we had the money to do more original reporting and original videos, on-the-ground stuff about Durham restaurants and things like that. Unfortunately, that’s not what the Internet wants.” l dhudnall@indyweek.com

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Despite being a relatively tiny business —just Kolmar, Johnson, Kim, and some freelance writers—Chasing Chains nevertheless attracted seven million unique visitors to its sites last month. By comparison, The News & Observer’s marketing literature indicates it draws 2.2 million per month.

They’re not buying Rolexes yet, though.

Kolmar showed me Chasing Chains’ income statement for May 2015 through December 2015—its first eight months in business. The biggest expenses were buying Facebook ads and paying writers (they pay based on the post’s performance). All told, revenues—all from web ads, mostly Google Adsense and

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BY BRYAN C. REED | WE GET BRUISED IN THE TRIANGLE’S VIBRANT MIXED MARTIAL ARTS SCENE

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signed up on a whim. Soon I was grunt as Cody Maltais shoots his training almost every day. Martial foot into the base of my ribcage, arts hooks people that way. My feeling his toes curl into my abs. ninjutsu instructor, Hardee Merritt, Even with tempered speed and force, is an advanced martial artist, but his Maltais’s teep—a straight snapping introduction was much like my own. kick used by Muay Thai fighters “I was into G.I. Joe when I was a to control distance and wind their kid,” he says. “Snake Eyes was my opponents—knocks me back. favorite character, and he was a I’m learning to flex into the kick to ninja. I wanted to follow in Snake dull the impact. Still, for a moment, I Eyes’s footsteps.” wonder: What the hell have I gotten He started reading all the ninjamyself into? related books at the library in For two months, Maltais has been Clinton, North Carolina, and he tried teaching a group of students the the moves with a friend in his garage. fundamentals of mixed martial arts When he discovered the dojo in at his new gym in Durham, Elevate Chapel Hill, Merritt started driving MMA Academy. Twice a week, for up twice a week to train. Eventually, three hours a night, we drill on the he bought the place. forms and footwork of boxing, the But martial arts training today is takedowns and grappling moves of much different than it was when I wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and Muay was struggling to crack a board. The Thai kicks, plus lots of conditioning rise of MMA and access to online and mobility exercises. information about myriad fighting “We’re training athletes who styles has fueled age-old debates happen to be good at fighting,” about which style works best in Maltais says one evening while real life. Since its introduction in running laps around the mats. In the early nineties, MMA has been a his pro fighting career, he trained in testing ground for those theories.

Raleigh, California, Las Vegas, and, In North Carolina, where the sport while deployed with the Marines, has a unique history, it has given rise in Iraq. But he always dreamed of to a vibrant, close-knit community, teaching. After selling his stake in galvanized by local history and the Carrboro’s Steel String Brewery, struggle for mainstream legitimacy. which he cofounded, and moving to I couldn’t imagine a better way to Las Vegas to fight full-time, he came get inside that community than by home last year to open Elevate. immersing myself, rib kicks and all, “I want to take what I’ve seen in Maltais’s methods, which benefit in California and Vegas, and my hobbyists like me as well as people opinions on how high-level athletes Just for kicks: The INDY's Bryan Reed trains at Elevate with Shayaan Sarfraz. PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE pursuing fighting at the top levels. are trained, and put them into arts only through UFC on cable, Wu-Tang their parents. Dojos opened in strip malls practice,” Maltais says.

Clan songs, and Hong Kong cinema. across the country. They promised to instill Honestly, I’ve never been much of an hough people have fought for sport for But two years ago, relenting to my wife’s discipline, confidence, and self-defense. But athlete, let alone a fighter. Until recently, my most of human history, the origin of demands that I go to the gym with her, I was I begged my parents to sign me up because I experience with martial arts was similar to MMA dates to November 12, 1993. In drawn to the dojo next door. The marquee wanted to be like my cartoon heroes. that of millions of other nineties kids. Movies the first Ultimate Fighting Championship, at Chapel Hill Quest Martial Arts promised I quit too early to realize that goal. Mostly, like The Karate Kid and Teenage Mutant aired on pay-per-view, fighters from various “To-Shin Do Ninjutsu. Japan’s Oldest I just remember crying when I couldn’t break Ninja Turtles had made karate appealing to disciplines—karate, sumo, boxing, Brazilian Martial Art; Newest Teaching Methods.” I a board. Afterward, I experienced martial suburban children—and, more important, to jiu-jitsu, and others—faced off with only two

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rules: no biting or eye gouging.

By locking two people in a cage until one of them quit or lost consciousness, UFC 1 was a coldly clinical settling of centuriesold pissing contests. The winner, a lanky Brazilian named Royce Gracie, took his family’s art—a grappling-focused judo descendant called Gracie jiu-jitsu—to wide acclaim. Soon, fighters of all disciplines were adding grappling to their arsenals, and mixed martial arts was born.

Brandon Garner owns Gracie Raleigh, a gym on West Davie Street. Between 2005 and 2010, he had a successful pro career; his 8-1 record earned him a spot on reality show The Ultimate Fighter. It’s easy to trace his career to those early UFC bouts.

“My dad would have a party and everybody would come from the gym and watch the UFC,” he says. Inspired, Tom Garner flew to California to convince Gracie to train his friends in jiu-jitsu. In 1996, one of them, Greg Thompson, was among the first to receive a black belt from Gracie, who eventually tied one around Brandon Garner’s waist, too.

North Carolina became a jiu-jitsu hot spot. Thompson taught in Hillsborough, then Fayetteville, developing the Army’s Special Operations Combatives Program and uniting a network of training facilities as Team R.O.C. Many of his students became teachers in turn. In the Triangle, there are at least six jiujitsu schools, many led by practitioners who trained with Gracie, who has awarded more black belts in North Carolina than anywhere else in the country.

Today, MMA is more popular than ever.

UFC stars Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm show up on daytime talk shows. Ireland's Conor McGregor landed on a Sports Illustrated cover. And in March, New York lawmakers voted to legalize and regulate MMA, making it the final state to do so.

But before MMA fought its way to mainstream acceptance, it resembled Fight Club more than a sport. In 1996, Senator John McCain condemned it as “human cockfighting.” At the time, he wasn’t wrong.

“It was kind of a Wild West back then,” Garner says. When he started as an amateur in 2001, weight classes were managed—or weren’t—on an honor system.

Amateurs competed under the same rules as professionals, allowing more dangerous strikes and submission holds, and referees sometimes failed to stop bouts before

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fighters sustained injuries. And there was no required blood testing to insure against infectious disease.

“It’s definitely safer now than it used to be,” Garner says. Indeed, from the can’t-lookaway spectacle of its early days, MMA has evolved into something almost civilized. In a 2007 piece in The Guardian, David Mamet called MMA “the true marketplace of ideas.”

“The mixed martial artist,” he wrote, “will and must school himself in the forms evolved out of many cultures: Britain and the U.S. for boxing, Japan and Brazil for jiu-jitsu, Thailand for Muay Thai, Okinawa and China for karate … capitalism meets globalism, and the question of free trade versus protection is addressed in a canvas ring.”

Rather than just pitting styles against one another, MMA gradually evolved its own hybrid style—not just a combination of staple techniques but a fully integrated system.

“MMA is its own thing. It’s not just jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai and wrestling. It’s the inbetween spaces,” says Durham-based fighter D’Juan Owens. MMA also gained a full set of rules and regulations. After McCain’s crusade, UFC introduced weight classes, gloves, and a long list of illegal techniques, which started to shift mainstream perceptions of the sport.

“People are now more willing to try it because of the rule structure. It seems softer,” says Jason Culbreth, another Gracie black belt, who founded Forged Fitness in Raleigh. “From a true fighter’s perspective, they made it a candy-ass sport.”

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andy-ass or not, the regulation of unsanctioned brawls made it possible for MMA to find a foothold in North Carolina, which banned all kinds of “ultimate fighting” competitions in the nineties. Early adopters traveled out of state for matches in Virginia and Kentucky. Merritt went all the

”Is this going to turn into some crazy gauntlet?

Is everybody going to punch me in the face?” way to Kansas to win two amateur bouts.

Advocates like Culbreth and promoter Doug Muhle lobbied the state to sanction MMA under the N.C. Boxing Authority in 2007’s Act to Define and Regulate Mixed Martial Arts. They had to educate lawmakers and the Boxing Authority, convincing them that the dangers of MMA weren’t as extreme as they were perceived to be. In fact, while fights often leave combatants’ faces bloody, traumatic injuries are statistically much rarer than in boxing or football.

Culbreth proposed a “progressive system” of skill divisions that would allow fighters to gradually rise from rookie, through amateur, toward pro. Instead, the state adopted existing rules from Ohio.

“That’s why our rules are kind of screwed up,” Culbreth says. “Rather than being cutting-edge and having some initiative, they just adopted somebody else’s.”

MMA fights in North Carolina are booked as amateur or professional, with slight variations on legal techniques (no elbows or kicks to the head in amateur fights) and roundlengths (three minutes for amateurs, five for pros). Still, the legalization of the sport made way for promoters to give local fighters an arena, matching them to ensure fair and entertaining bouts.

“Fans want to see two skilled guys who know what’s going on in a fight,” Culbreth says. “There are now enough legitimate academies across the state that you have a much better pool of athletes to pull from.”

Culbreth estimates that only two to five percent of martial artists step up to MMA. But with more gyms around for students who want to try some aspect of MMA, the number of aspiring fighters grows accordingly.

“What you see is a bigger pool of people wanting to learn jiu-jitsu for fun,” he says.

“They have a moment like, ‘You know what?

I want to test my skills.’ So they enter a tournament. Then they’re like, ‘Wow, I’m pretty

good at this. I might want to learn to fight.’ It’s a great way to see where you stand.”

Nevertheless, the logistics of putting on competitions still make it difficult to foster active competition without looking beyond the Triangle.

“There aren’t enough promotions putting on enough events,” Garner says. Until recently, the Bull City Brawl was a reliable source of local pro-am events, but after renovations at the Durham Armory required multiple cancelations and postponements, it seems to have run its course. Greenville's Next Level Fight Club hosted its first event in Raleigh in February; the next is in May. “If you’re serious about fighting you probably need to go to a different state to pursue that,” Maltais says. “It’s a shame because we have every single resource that you could use. We’re not missing anything.”

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n my training, the first hour-long class of each night is devoted to MMA’s basic mechanics. We fine-tune our MMA footwork, a galloping step that ensures balance, by moving in a three-step square, throwing jabs and crosses in time with our steps. We learn simple movements like “shrimping” and “break-falls” before building a wrestlingbased takedown flow.

For the second hour we train in jiu-jitsu, in which sparring is safer. Each two-week stretch of the jiu-jitsu course emphasizes a different defensive posture, like “butterfly guard” or “turtle.” We roll from our featured position and try to choke or joint-lock our partners at almost full speed.

The night ends with an hour of striking.

Wearing boxing gloves and shin guards, we hit each other’s palms or kick thighs in rhythm, building combos to confuse and counterstrike an opponent.

This is followed by more conditioning to build hand speed and resilience. In one drill, I hold a sit-up two-thirds of the way up while my coach tries to push my shoulders to the mat in irregular thrusts. I go home sore, limbs spotted with bruises even though I haven’t worked up to full-contact sparring.

One of my training partners, Shayaan Sarfraz, remembers watching the Canadian welterweight Georges St. Pierre starch Matt Hughes for the division championship at UFC 65 in 2006.

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Power glove: Bryan Reed, ready to spar

N.C. State, Sarfraz holds onto his dreams of fighting in the Octagon. With a background in wrestling and karate, he’s adding jiu-jitsu and kickboxing to help him pursue that goal.

“I’m going to try this MMA thing out, and if it doesn’t go my way, well, I have this degree,” he says. “I don’t want to be eighty and think, ‘Man, what if this happened?’”

Whether or not it’s poised to launch the next UFC star, North Carolina has built a remarkable scene for people interested in the martial arts. Jiu-jitsu practitionerJeff Shaw

”From a true fighter’s perspective, they made it a candy-ass sport.” is the cohost, with kickboxer Trevor Hayes, of Cageside ConcussionCast, a weekly podcast and radio show on Hillsborough’s WHUPFM. The six-month-old program covers a local martial arts scene Shaw describes as “passionate, vibrant, diverse, and growing.”

“We have an identity in North Carolina,” Shaw says. “We have something that is different than it is any place else in the world.”

Reporting from regional competitions and offering in-depth interviews with local fighters, Shaw and Hayes didn’t expect a

huge following, but their show became a popular segment on the community station.

“What I thought was this weird niche show that would animate me and twenty of my friends immediately found a really feisty core audience,” Shaw says.

In Durham Central Park on Sunday, Shaw and Hayes cohost ConcussionCast Carnival, which draws support from sixteen regional schools to help Triangle Jiu-Jitsu and Cageside MMA move to a bigger Durham facility. Bearing out Shaw’s assessment of the scene, it's about much more than one gym.

“This is about the whole community,” Shaw says. “We have people from just about every local school competing, volunteering, or participating in some way.” In addition to food trucks and music, the Carnival offers seminars in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and women’s self-defense as well as cage matches between some of the region’s most notable fighters.

Caitlin Huggins and Samantha Faulhaber face off in North Carolina’s first-ever women’s black-belt superfight. MMA pro D’Juan Owens takes on black belt CJ Murdock.

Maltais faces Virginia’s Dave Porter. Mary Holmes, who took home gold medals at the Pan Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship, fights Laurie Porsch, who brought home her own gold from IBJJF’s New York Open.

James “Boomer” Hogaboom, owner of the Durham-based Cageside MMA and Toro BJJ brands, has watched the scene grow for a decade to achieve this unique cooperation.

“We are so lucky in the Triangle area,” he says. “We all get along, and that’s not that common. I understand that in California, if you go train at another gym, it is very frowned upon. In North Carolina, we welcome one another with open arms.”

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ut no matter how chummy the schools are, they’re still training fighters. How inviting could it really be? Recalling the first day of class, Maltais laughs.

"Everybody was looking around, deer in the headlights, like, 'Is this going to turn into some crazy gauntlet? Is everybody going to punch me in the face?'" He instructed the class to relax and promised nobody was going to get hurt that night. Despite my lingering preconceptions of the rough-and-tumble old school, I’ve yet to show up at work on crutches or sporting a shiner.

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pool wasn’t always this easy. In preparing for his bouts a decade ago, Merritt recalls long, plentiful sparring sessions. Even for seasoned martial artists, the toll was heavy.

"We were lucky,” Merritt says. "We had some good training, but about once a week, somebody was going to the hospital. I think everybody is training smarter now."

There’s no question that MMA is becoming more presentable, but dangers persist. A Portuguese fighter named Joao Carvalho recently died from injuries sustained in a cage fight in Ireland. And no matter how rare such a tragedy might be, competitive fighting leaves its marks. Cauliflower ears, scarred brows, and torn ligaments are common.

Training can be even more dangerous.

Repetitive stress, overtraining, and sparring can all lead to injury.

“You’ve got to have that ability to bite down on your mouthpiece and really fight,” Maltais says. His philosophy is that fullcontact sparring has a role in training, but that coaches are responsible for keeping their students safe. And what benefits a fulltime competitor might not be worth it for a hobbyist, in no small part because of the risks of brain trauma from repetitive impact.

So I’ll probably never test my mettle in a cage, much less battle under the UFC marquee. But, like scores of people in the Triangle, I’ll keep training as if I might. I like the confidence that comes from knowing I’m better equipped to defend myself if necessary, and it’s a hell of a workout. Mostly, I’ll keep going because of the community I’ve found in martial arts.

“Our lives have become very detached from each other,” Maltais says. “Martial arts gyms, CrossFit gyms, and yoga studios are succeeding because people need an outlet where they feel that connection.” At the dojo and the gym, each class ends with thank-yous, handshakes, and even sweaty hugs.

In Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee quipped, “Boards don’t hit back.” It was a dismissive comment, noting that hitting an inanimate object reveals little about a fighter’s skill.

I could’ve used the advice as a struggling karate kid—not only to remind me of the board’s weakness, but also because Lee’s words suggest the key difference between what we can do alone and what we can do with a community. Boards might not hit back, but they won’t pull you up, either. l Twitter: @BryanCReed

Headliner Status TWO MUSIC FESTIVALS, MOOGFEST AND ART OF COOL, ASKED THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DURHAM FOR MONEY. THE VERY DIFFERENT RESPONSES THEY GOT MAY SAY A LOT ABOUT DURHAM’S FUTURE.

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Three years in, Art of Cool Festival cofounder and director Cicely Mitchell admits this is something of a make-or-break year. As with many such upstarts, the multiday, multivenue jazz-and-soul event—which filled the festival void for Durham after it went a half-decade without one—has never broken even, in spite of steadily increasing revenues.

A biostatistician by day, Mitchell has never taken a salary from the event and, alongside her parents, has invested more than $75,000 into it. If the festival can’t become solvent in May, she says she may pause Art of Cool or move it outside of Durham—a city that, especially this year, has given the event something of a cool reception.

“Like every year, we’re definitely going to evaluate the festival,” she says with a sigh. “We’ll see what our options are to continue it.”

In late March, during a city council work session, Mitchell took a necessary step toward staying. She made a plea for more money—$20,000—which would help her cut fewer corners on things like artist hospitality and move toward profitability in the final weeks before Art of Cool begins.

It was her second time asking the city for money for this year’s event. Months earlier, she had requested $20,000 from Durham’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, but she was given only a quarter of it, $5,000—$3,000 less than the previous year and $3,250 less than the event’s inaugural edition. Last year, the county denied Art of Cool’s separate $5,000 request, which commissioner Wendy Jacobs attributes to a lack of new available funds for nonprofits like Art of Cool. Mitchell was disappointed, but Art of Cool had always been a bootstrap operation, an unpaid labor of love.

So she pressed on, at least until learning that the city’s new festival recruit, Moogfest, was seeking $62,500 from the city and a matching amount from Durham County. That was more than five times what Art of Cool had received from

either in three years combined, and the for-profit Moogfest seemed poised to get it, based on economic-impact projections of around $7 million. Those public dollars would fund free festival programming, including an outdoor electronic concert for children, synthesizer workshops, and an interactive LED display in CCB Plaza.

During a public comment period after Moogfest’s March presentation—in which the festival boasted that 60 percent of its attendees had a household income of more than $100,000— Mitchell stepped to the podium. Her voice cracked nervously during her first-ever talk before the council.

“We are very grassroots, but the lineup that we claim is of national and international acclaim,” Mitchell told the council. “Our audience breakdown really reflects the population here in Durham: sixty-six percent is African-American, twenty-four percent is white-Caucasian.”

Step by step, she explained the costs necessary to upfit the Durham Armory, an eighty-year-old, city-owned space. She would need to expand the stage, add light and sound systems, and rent a generator to power them all. The council responded enthusiastically, with Mayor Bill Bell and council member Steve Schewel agreeing that Art of Cool merited more city support.

Still, for nearly a month, Mitchell heard nothing. After a mid-April meeting—with the festival set to begin May 6—even council member Jillian Johnson said she didn’t know if the item would come up in time, as it had yet to appear on an agenda.

Two days later, city manager Thomas Bonfield seemed perplexed by the question.

“Yes, Art of Cool will get those funds. They have been approved,” Bonfield told the INDY, explaining that the city council doesn’t need to vote on appropriations of less than $50,000. “We have not finalized the paperwork yet.”

Less than an hour later, Mitchell and Johnson both reached

out to share news that their festival and their council, respectively, had yet to hear. On Monday night, Mitchell returned to the county commissioners to ask them to match this $20,000.

Despite turning down her earlier $5,000 request, they agreed. ● ● ●

During the last year—or since Moogfest confirmed its move to Durham after a troubled half-decade run in Asheville—the quest for public and private funding by both Moogfest and Art of Cool has emerged as a new symptom of the city’s pervasive growing pains, an outgrowth of its troubled efforts to build a cohesive vision for its own future. Where it has often seemed that doors have been flung open for Moogfest since its arrival, Art of Cool still seems sometimes to be looking for the key.

Bonfield’s delayed response was but the latest indication of a flawed process that hasn’t kept up with the city’s growth.

“People are rightly concerned that, with this explosion of development, we’re going to pave over what makes [Durham] so appealing—its diversity,” says Farnum Brown, who joined Art of Cool’s board of directors after seeing the way the festival energized downtown during its first year. “Having a festival that is becoming a national destination for fans of black American music is a great way to promote and highlight that diversity. And Moogfest just isn’t going to do that.”

Moogfest director Marisa Brickman, who declined to be interviewed, said in a written statement: “Our mission is to establish Moogfest as a platform that can shine a light on Durham’s vibrant community, the history, and the ambitions that make this such a great place.”

Still, the situation has prompted allegations of racism and confusion about how city and county finances work. To wit, the Durham blog Bull City Rising issued two alternate takes INDYweek.com | 4.27.16 | 17

on the issue, one pinpointing racial inequity and the other taking a more conciliatory tone by diving into the numbers. Longtime city council member Cora ColeMcFadden says there is a “racial connotation” to the funding process and calls it favoritism, noting that Art of Cool is led by a black woman and Moogfest by a white woman. But Adam Klein, the chief strategist for American Underground, which sponsors both events, wouldn’t mention race at all when asked if he considered it a factor in the way the events had been funded.

Maybe it’s a little of both, then, each exacerbated by a city both drunk on and punch-drunk from rapid growth—and the compulsion to build an event, like Moogfest, that serves as a magnet for savvy young (and largely white) professionals.

“It’s a variation of the grass is always greener, or the expert is from out of town,” says Ashley Capps, whose company, the Southeast booking giant AC Entertainment, produced Moogfest for three years. “What is homegrown or grassroots is often underappreciated by community leadership, taken for granted.

There is a tendency to go for the new and shiny.”

Art of Cool more money than it had initially asked for and more than it had received in the two previous years combined. He reckons that the specificity of the second ask—and the fact that the money was needed to make the city’s armory function properly—had something to do with it.

The first decision wasn’t about race, he says, just as the move to revisit Art of Cool and reward an extra $20,000 wasn’t appeasement. Aside from that, he can’t say.

What Bonfield does know is that the process must improve now that Durham is recruiting and generating more events.

During the next budget cycle, he says, the city will set aside $200,000 for such festivals, then hone the process of distributing that money by using more data and better analysis to determine what events are generating revenue and what events have the most accesible components.

These decisions stem in part from economic impact estimates, formulated for the city by Durham’s visitors bureau.

Moogfest’s funding numbers stem from the Asheville festival, whose financial losses partly prompted its move to Durham.

Better defining and refining the process and the numbers that drive it, Bonfield says, is the best way to prevent these problems from reoccurring.

“The inconsistencies of funding for all the events that the city has funded over the years, some longer than others, we need to get our arms around that,” he says. “Before we give anybody money next year, we’re going to evaluate what’s an appropriate contribution for the city. It has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with diversity.”

Bonfield is right: the system does need to be overhauled.

In the last year, its ambiguities have left too many onlookers skeptical, perhaps even fearful that Durham is trying too hard to engineer how its downtown audience looks, how it thinks, what it hears. Despite talk of economic development, it’s hard not to see the disproportionate math and the open-and-closed doors as an attempt to whitewash Durham’s events.

For Jillian Johnson, it’s important not just to empower black-owned events in Durham but to advocate for them, especially in a city whose center grows evermore expensive.

Johnson says the city council can only do so much to control gentrification; the choice about which cultural events to support and foster is a crucial one.

“We’ve spent a ton of money on high-rise hotels or this giant tower on Main Street. Most of this money is not going to create a downtown where lower-income people and people of color feel welcome,” she says. “Putting some investment into programs like Art of Cool is a way to balance that a little bit.”

Johnson says that, in the past three years, Art of Cool has been nickel-and-dimed into accepting paltry sums, while this year, Moogfest got just what it asked for. That, she says, is no way to treat one festival that set the stage for the other.

“Keeping a black-led, Durham-indigenous music festival in downtown and helping it be successful is something that is important,” she says. “Having an inclusive festival downtown is a way to hold on to some of that diversity. There are aspects of our community—like that diversity and inclusiveness— that cannot be reflected in an economic-impact analysis.” ● gcurrin@indyweek.com

“What is homegrown or grassroots is often underappreciated by community leadership.

There is a tendency to go for the new and shiny.”

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Before Moogfest announced its relocation last July, organizers had already begun building an impressive network of sponsors and partners, both public and private.

Ahead of the move, the festival made connections with American Underground and its parent company, Capitol Broadcasting Company. Less than two weeks after Moogfest made the move official, Casey Steinbacher, the head of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce for eight years, announced her resignation. She soon started working under contract for Moogfest, helping to link the festival with money from area businesses and local governments.

“One of my roles is to help ensure that Durham help [Moogfest] be successful through sponsorships and engagement,” Steinbacher says.

She’s done exactly that. Moogfest’s matrix of sponsors and partners—from long-term agreements with Research Triangle Park and Capitol Broadcasting Company to multiple alcohol and hotel contracts—is the most exhaustive, impressive network among all current Triangle festivals. There are shoe sponsors and software partners, “friends of Moogfest” and a “community investment consortium.” If Moogfest fails, it will not be for lack of extended tendrils; funds from the city and county represent just two components of a funding pool that includes major international corporations and chains.

Funding for Art of Cool, meanwhile, has languished. Its sponsorship roster is slim, despite a current revenue projection by the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau of $1.6 million. Based upon expected attendance increases and a reconfigured festival format, that estimate nearly triples figures from Art of Cool’s first two years.

Even American Tobacco Campus, which sponsored Art of Cool in its first year, dithered on whether to be Art of Cool’s title sponsor this year, only agreeing to do so in January, four months after the festival announced its lineup and a month after the INDY pointed out the ATC’s downgraded role. At least at first, Mitchell found less money on the public and pri18 | 4.27.16 | INDYweek.com

vate fronts, despite her rising revenue projections.

Mitchell laments that many of the companies and institutions she pitched repeatedly over the years—including the city and county—are the same ones that have so eagerly enlisted with Moogfest. In many cases, Mitchell takes the blame, as she’s had to build networks and learn how to navigate bureaucracy. She just wonders why, for Moogfest, that network is ready-made.

“We paved the way,” she says. “We were down there with the hatchet so others can walk on through. That’s how it feels.”

Indeed, Durham’s enthusiastic embrace of Moogfest has suggested that city leaders, from government officials to the Goodmons of Capitol Broadcasting Company, are eager to build a Bull City event that promotes a tech-embracing, highbrow brand. But just as Durham seems to want Moogfest, Moogfest needs Durham.

Launched in 2004 as an annual one-day concert in a Manhattan club to honor synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog, Moogfest maintained that minimal format for five years before tanking attendance caused organizers to reconsider. Two years later, Moog Music partnered with AC Entertainment, the Southeast booking agency that also coproduces Bonnaroo, to relaunch the event in Asheville, Moog’s longtime home.

That arrangement lasted for three years and perennially lost money until, in 2013, Moog Music pulled the plug and decided to rebuild it as a composite music festival and tech summit.

This new version tanked, too, losing $1.5 million and prompting organizers to ask Buncombe County for $250,000 to help power the next edition. In May 2014, less than a month after that year’s festival, a county board unanimously rejected the application; rumors of the festival’s move to Durham began to spread four months later. The network of Bull City partners was already forming.

The city, meanwhile, never asked Moogfest for its past financial records. Bonfield says they aren’t required if an event has “a track record and a legitimate organization structure.” Durham began putting most of its eggs in what has, to date, seemed like a broken basket, all the while pivoting away from the Art of Cool.

“City officials are tying into Durham’s identity as a tech hub, and because Moogfest is an electronic festival, that makes sense. That is a legitimate aspect of our town’s identity to highlight,” says Brown. “But it’s not the only one. And if it were, you’d be missing out on a lot of why Durham is special.” ● ● ●

Bonfield does not know why Art of Cool’s second request for funding, the one Mitchell made in March, was fulfilled, though she only received a quarter of what she wanted the first time around. By backtracking, the city ended up giving

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With 10 years of experience and known by her patients for her excellent chairside manner, Dr. Kemp has been assigned to lead the downtown office. The Bull City Dental team is highly trained, caring and compassionate, working to meet all of your oral health needs, even in an emergency. Whether you are interested in brightening your smile or concerned about the health of your mouth, we are anxious to help you maintain a healthy, attractive smile for life.

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e are excited to announce the opening of Bulldega urban market, a family owned and operated small grocery located in the heart of downtown Durham across the street from City Hall. With an emphasis on supporting the needs of the diverse Durham community, Bulldega provides access to local produce and humanely raised meat, along with those everyday household necessities that you can’t live without. One driving value of our family market is healthy, sustainable eating at accessible prices. With monthly meet-andgreet functions, our commitment to the community extends beyond the shelves. Durhamites can get to know local farmers, bakers, wine distributors, coffee roasters, and other purveyors that contribute to the store.

What makes Bulldega different? Check out the living herb wall, cut off what you’d like, and buy it by weight. Next, take a stroll through the meticulously curated beer, wine, and cider room; ask our knowledgeable staff if you’re looking for suggestions. On your way out, grab a “takeaway” lunch or dinner specifically made for Bulldega by Durham Catering, or warm up with some gourmet soup from Short Winter Soups. And don’t walk through the store without reading the ever-changing, educational info-cards placed throughout the store to help any lay-shopper expand his/her grocery buying and storing knowledge.

Come by and check us out! Looking for something you can’t find? Let us know, and we’ll do our best to stock it.

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The name may not ooze sex, but make no mistake; these locally-owned stores are all about providing fun for adventurous adults. According to Erik, the company’s general manager since opening in 2005, the idea has always been to create a store unlike any of its kind. “We often hear from customers how much they like the name and the overall look of our stores.” He adds, “We’ve worked hard to distinguish ourselves from typical “adult stores” beginning with our name, and so far it has been a success.”

I feel Cherry Pie is the Triangle’s top choice for adults seeking those “naughty bits.” Both locations offer well-lit, spacious layouts that make shoppers feel completely at ease. Erik’s wife Christine, Cherry Pie’s visual merchandiser, explains why the welcoming nature of the store is so important, “The store is laid out with our customers in mind. They are able to browse where they feel most comfortable, which is very important.”The front of both stores feature literature, candles & incense, games and a wide variety of quality lubricants & lotions. Glass display cases contain an impressive collection of contemporary tobacco accessories. They also carry a large assortment of hilarious bachelorette party favors year-round.

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“We’re proud to say we’ve kept our prices down despite the slow economy and cost increases,” says Erik.

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louds Brewing was built in the summer of 2014 with the idea of being a technologically advanced restaurant and bar that caters to the crowds of downtown Raleigh. As businesses continue to evolve and change in Raleigh, we wanted to bring that feeling to the local restaurant scene by offering items that no one else does. The self-serve beer wall, The Downpour, allows patrons to sample, select, and pour their own beer. We also import beers from both Europe and across America, with an emphasis on celebrating North Carolina beers. The bar features forty beers on draft with ten of those located on The Downpour. We also offer a large selection of canned and bottled beer, ciders and mead, along with wine and liquor.

A collaborative effort of restaurateur Adam Hoffman and brewer John Oldendorf, the goals of the company are simple: Great Beer, Great Food, and Great Service.

Located in the Historic CP&L Garage, the space was renovated to bring back the industrial feel that the Powerhouse Square District deserves. With garage doors connecting the patio to the restaurant, exposed columns, and I-beams, as well as a custom concrete bar with reclaimed wood accents, we’ve blended the modern with the historic. The industrial atmosphere has been infused with technology wherever possible.

Wi-Fi tablets for tableside service, LED lighting, and of course The Downpour, all come together to create a space that feels both raw and unfinished, yet modern and functional.

The company recently opened its brewery located on Front Street, and debuted its first beer in March, 2016. Five different Clouds Brewing beers are currently available at the downtown restaurant, with more styles scheduled to be released throughout 2016.

Clouds Brewing is continuing its expansion with a second restaurant slated to open this summer in Durham’s historic Brightleaf Square.

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oggie Spa & Day Care opened in 1998, and it changed the way dog boarding was done overnight. Kirk Korley wanted to create a boarding atmosphere where dogs can socialize and interact with one another, and designed the rooms to be about 100 sq ft per room (all with windows for natural light), eliminating the cages and crates in traditional kennels.

Located on 11 peaceful acres, minutes from Carrboro, Mebane, Pittsboro and Graham, the first thing you will notice is the lack of constant barking. Since the dogs are outside running off their energy, there is a lot less noise from confinement. Doggie Spa used a dog behaviorist in designing the buildings and the layout of the facility.

At Doggie Spa, you have the choice to offer your dog the amount of outdoor time that is right for them. You can do the Social Times (three 30 minute periods a day), or you can opt for the Day Care Boarding option (your dog will be out most of the day). Groups are based on age and personality. Doggie Spa can even handle dogs that cannot be around other dogs socially. All of these options include free pill medication dispensing.

Doggie Spa was the first facility to offer: outdoor social times; being open 7 days a week; open holidays; offering 24 hour pick up rooms; on-site management; taxi services; and generator backup. Doggie Spa has continually led the way on improvements of the care of the dogs being boarded. And the staff is a small, very professional group of adults that tend to the needs of the dogs. They have continually won best of awards due to their attention to detail using their 57 years of combined pet care experience.

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RJ Building was established in 2002. Since then my focus has been on remodeling, additions and custom built-in furnishings. I believe in careful design and high quality craftsmanship. I employ a hands-on approach to general contracting. I do most of the work myself, bringing in the appropriate subs at the appropriate times--one project at a time.

With respect to my clients and their homes, I strive to make the construction process as clean and convenient as possible. “… I was so fortunate when a friend recommended Matt several years ago to build our maple wood stairs…Matt did a perfect job at a reasonable price. When the time was right for us to remodel our kitchen Matt Janssen was the first person I called. Matt was fantastic during the entire project because he is so dependable, trustworthy, well organized and has such a positive attitude.” -Margaret Whiting, Artist “Matt Janssen is the most honest, reliable, thoughtful, and skillful builder we have ever employed. He has completed every project, large or small, on time and on budget.

We’ve recommended him to many friends and acquaintances, and I feel confident in saying that his work has pleased and impressed all of them”--William Witt, former Iowa state representative and photographer “My biggest regret is that Matt has relocated to North Carolina. I doubt I’ll ever be able to find another contractor as dependable and talented as he. He is not only a builder, he’s an artist. I recommend him most highly as a very satisfied customer”- Tim M. Lindquist, Ph.D., PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting, UNI

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by Theresa Naomi Writz. It was Naomi’s longtime dream to have her own gallery, to display her art work and to help promote other artists.

Located in the courtyard behind 711 Iredell St., accessed from Alley 8, Naomi Studio and Gallery is one of Durham’s best kept secrets…but not for long.

You may spot the sandwich board directing you from Ninth Street or Alley 8, or see the large colorful whirligigs that line the courtyard, but then you are lured in by the music playing outside of the gallery (sometimes jazz, sometimes blues and always funk on Fridays). Once inside you will be moved by the diverse and eclectic collection of fine art, neo-outsider art, collectibles and more. All created by local artists and crafts people.

In addition to sharing her work and other artists’ work, Naomi holds opening receptions for featured artists on a regular basis and creates interactive community events often teaming up with other local businesses and vendors like Bull City Cigar, Bull City Street Food and Happymess Studios.

The next event, Naomi Studio and Gallery will be teaming up with Bull City Cigar Co. to bring “Courtyard off Alley 8 Cigar and Art Fest”, Saturday, April 30th from 4:00 pm-8:00 pm, featuring 3 artists; Dave Alsobrooks, Clarence Mayo and Ray Tolan, cigar rolling demos, Bull City Street Food, music and additional local vendors.

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PRAGMATIC REALIZATIONS OF A WEEKEND SPENT ON THE PIEDMONT FARM TOUR

BY ANGELA PEREZ

On Saturday morning, I loaded my Jeep with two coolers packed full of ice and headed for the country—specifically, for the bison and bratwurst of Roxboro’s Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm.

At last, I’d decided to try the Piedmont Farm Tour, a self-guided weekend exploration of thirty-eight farms in Alamance, Chatham, Orange, and Person counties, sponsored by Pittsboro’s Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. This edition marked the twenty-first season of small farms flinging open barn doors and metal gates to a public increasingly curious for a glimpse into where good food begins—as well as to buy it, hence the ice-heavy twin coolers.

As I left Interstate 85 in Durham and took to winding country roads, I passed at least a dozen farms. I was minutes away from the city, but it seemed as if I were in some faraway place, where entire communities carved out an existence exquisitely oblivious to the nearby noisy city.

I arrived at Sunset Ridge in time for lunch beneath a sprawling gazebo built on a manmade lake. Hoping to beat a rapidly growing posse of farm tourists, I wolfed down a bison bratwurst and found a seat on a covered wagon. I was going to meet the buffalo.

A John Deere tractor pulled the squeaking wagon up a bumpy hill. The farm’s owner and steward, Jack Pleasant, sat between tractor and wagon, directing our attention to a shaded grove a few yards away. The herd seemed to take no notice of our jostling cart of city slickers and, languishing in idyllic repose, refused to come closer. It was thrilling. Just fifteen minutes earlier, I had eaten the kin of these great beasts on the farm itself; here was the idea of farm-to-table incarnate, in the

form of a grilled sausage.

I’m generally interested in the source of my food, but, stuck in the city, I have to glean that knowledge from a sign at the farmers market or the farm named on a restaurant’s menu. Hanging out in the same pasture with relatives of your lunch—that’s different, humbling, direct.

Throughout the weekend, back at the barns and outdoor markets, my fellow farm tourists eagerly bought anything described as local and fresh. I visited the recommended eight farms in two days, and almost all of these fellow visitors had spent $30 for a ticket and would spend the next two days traversing the region by car because they wanted to learn more about their food and its beginnings.

At W.C. Breeze Family Farm, the last spot I visited on Saturday, one farmer went on the offensive as he sliced up chunks of a fresh turnip and handed them to me.

“All of the nutrients and flavors have been bred out of animals and produce, all in the name of longer shelf life and mass production,” he told me. “People have grown up on what’s put in front of them at big chain grocery stores.”

Large farms exist in order to feed the masses cheaply, he admitted. Still, he lamented the system’s inherent lack of taste, nutrition, and sheer joy.

“These local small farms participating in these farm tours,” he continued, “show the public how to get back to that better place.”

I thought about how or when I’d lost what he mentioned. Sure, I spent most of my childhood on my grandparents’ tiny farm in northeastern North Carolina, but during the last few decades, I, too, had become a blind, passive consumer, simply accepting what was convenient. I was miffed.

Early on Sunday afternoon, I made my way up the potholed hill of Hillsborough’s Wood-

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crest Farms and stepped into a realm of controlled chaos. Screaming children ran wild among ramshackle barns, leaning chicken coops, and unkempt hoop houses. Chickens and ducks roamed free, bounding off the backs of goats (that paid them no mind) in order to reach higher perches. They taunted the turkeys, sneered at the tourists.

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Farm-tour guide Nicole Accordino explained that these five acres allow the farmers to continue the work they did in their former communities. For these families, self-reliance and growing crops native to Southeast Asia are vital, not just for sustenance but also for community structure. As the sun started to set, we wandered among wooden trellises and raised huts along paths strewn with wood chips. During the summer, Accordino said, the farm becomes a gathering place for the farmers, their families, and friends.

As the group left the fields, I stayed behind, sitting alone on a wooden bench.

I marveled at the ways food can connect us, especially in a world increasingly overrun by mass production and splintered by information and ideas competing for our attention. If I pay more mind to those links, I reckoned, I can eat healthier food, better food.

I have no excuse not to, really—I know where it comes from and how to get there. ● Twitter: @DoYouMuumuu

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Food truck season in downtown Raleigh unofficially launched last weekend, when the beer festival Brewgaloo interspersed a flotilla of them among nearly a hundred brewers along Fayetteville Street. The trucks return in force Sunday, May 1, for the year’s first official rodeo—“a half-mile of Food Trucks & Restaurants spread out over eleven city blocks,” organizers boast. They’ll run the street between one and six p.m. A day earlier, Chapel Hill’s Orange United Methodist Church hosts a dozen trucks (and bands, storytelling, and a bounce house) in a fund-raiser for TABLE, which distributes healthy meals to children in need in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, especially when school is not in session. www.downtownraleighfoodtruckrodeo.com & www.tablenc.org

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The past several weeks have been significant for Counter Culture Coffee Company. Long one of the best roasters in America, Counter Culture upped its potential productivity in a major way by relocating from a too-small space near the Durham-Morrisville border to a massive recycled facility in East Durham. Shortly after the move was finished, veteran customer support employee Lem Butler captured the United States Barista Championship. So Counter Culture has a lot to celebrate at this free grand opening Saturday, April 30. Between ten a.m. and four p.m., you can tour the new space, sample the beans and brews, learn about the best techniques for making your own coffee, and try local foods created especially for the event. They’ll even have a pop-up shop, so you can take the latest Counter Culture roasts home.

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STANDARD FOODS’ SUPERIOR ICE CREAM SANDWICH

BY TINA HAVER CURRIN

Krystle Swenson prepares an ice cream sandwich PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE Eating at Standard Foods is like a tasty game show; your experience depends on the door you choose. Behind door No. 1, you’ll find an eighty-seat restaurant. Behind door No. 2, though, you’ll spot shelves stocked with cooking essentials, soup and pasta takealongs, fresh vegetables spilling from bushel baskets. The top prize—a delicious ice cream sandwich from pastry chef Krystle Swenson—lurks near the grocery’s rear.

“I was really drawn to the dueling parts,” says Swenson, who relocated from Chicago’s Blackbird to work with Standard. “It’s so exciting for a pastry chef to have a retail outlet where they also have things on the menu.”

The key to great ice cream is in the details, Swenson explains, like separating the egg yolks completely from the whites and properly tempering the eggs to produce a velvety, homogeneous base. She cooks with milk from Ran-Lew Dairy in Snow Camp, chosen because of its commitment to non-GMO feed. It’s not highly pasteurized or homogenized and sports a high butterfat content.

The base is punched up with seasonal ingredients to create the sandwich fillings.

While the ice cream offers a platform for experimentation, the most intricate part of the sandwich is one of three cookie containers: a butter cookie, a brown-sugar based cookie, and a chocolate shortbread. They are thin enough to yield, dense enough to provide structure. Their flatness makes them look like pancakes, but Swenson has perfected the balance of crunch and chew.

“That’s the part I worked on the most,” she says. “Sometimes, a cookie is great on its own, but when you freeze it, the ice cream and the cookie temper differently. It might be too hard and the ice cream squishes out. I needed recipes that were thin, without compromising any textures or consistencies.”

Swenson makes around 60 pints of ice cream and 150 ice cream sandwiches per week, a stunning figure since the temperature has yet to crack ninety degrees. Soon, pecan, cookies and cream, and coffee will yield to herbs, like lemon balm and lemon verbena. Swenson will fold strawberry sorbet into vanilla ice cream, too—sure to be a winner behind door No. 2. ● Twitter: @tinacurrin INDYweek.com | 4.27.16 | 25

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ave for a single orange accent wall, the interior of Carolina Glazed Donuts, which opened in late February in a nondescript strip mall between Durham and the Research Triangle Park, is the most basic beige.

Pops of color come from a handful of hard red plastic booths and a single potted plant, which stands like a lonely sentinel near the front door. There’s no espresso machine in sight, not even a soda fountain.

Beneath the constant glow of fluorescent lights, you’re not likely to linger over a latte or even your breakfast for an hour or so in a place like this.

But that’s not the point: Carolina Glazed makes the absolute best donuts in the Triangle.

At Carolina Glazed, you will find nothing considered fashionable. In an area undergoing a bloom of haute couture donuts, though, where places such as Monuts and Rise offer eccentric specialties like chili mango or crème brûlée and their takes on the faddish cronut, Carolina Glazed stands out for its dedication to craft and its execution of the basics. To a near-comical extent, it is a bullshit-free eatery, the place to go if you want a top-quality, low-budget treat and none of the frills.

The only gimmick at Carolina Glazed, if you can call it that, is its filled donuts. In most other shops, you gaze into the case and make a selection.

Here, though, you choose the shell of your donut—standard rounds or long johns, perhaps topped with maple, chocolate, or vanilla icing—and then one of seven fillings (lemon, blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, vanilla cream, Boston cream, or cream cheese, which sports a slight tang). Your picked poison is added in plain view.

Carolina Glazed subscribes to both schools of donut thought: yeast and cake. The yeast donuts are light, airy, and delicate, served either with a plain glaze or a touch of icing. If they lack a hole, expect them to be filled. Cake donuts, on the other hand, are much thicker and heavier. Their outsides are a little crumbly, the insides perfectly dense for dunking into a cup of black coffee, an accessory Carolina Glazed actually can sell you.

These yeast donuts are largely variations on plain glazed and chocolate iced donuts, though some are maple iced, too.

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CAROLINA GLAZED DONUTS 5400 S. Miami Blvd., Durham 919-474-9999

Glaze of Glory NO TRENDS, NO TRICKS, JUST TRUTH: CAROLINA GLAZED DONUTS MAKES THE REGION’S BEST DONUTS

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The strawberry donuts are almost cartoonishly bright pink.

Others come dusted in coconut flakes, peanuts, or rainbow sprinkles. The sweetness stems from the glaze, which adds a touch of crunch against the pillow of pastry inside. They don’t quite melt in your mouth like a hot, mass-produced Krispy Kreme confection, but the competition is a close one.

The old-fashioned cake donuts are a marvel, with a crisp exterior that yields to a near-fudgy interior. They’re also simple, with a blueberry variety being the most extravagant iteration. The standard is so good that even a cake donut topped with a thick layer of chocolate barely bests its plain counterpart.

Carolina Glazed doesn’t stop with donuts; the handful of other pastries are fantastic, too. Its classic apple fritter is intricately twisted, with small chunks of apple and a mild amount of cinnamon sprinkled throughout the crispy treat. Hefty cinnamon buns and braided twists sit close by, as do four-pronged

bear claws stuffed with delectable applecinnamon goo.

The beguiling strawberry “butterfly” may catch your eye. With four small pastry tendrils that spiral together, it looks more like a snarling Cthulhu than a butterfly. But that’s only semantics. A light swipe of strawberry jam sits on the inside of each curl—not enough to overwhelm, but enough to add a sticky burst of flavor.

The knotty pastry pinecones suggest a cinnamon bun styled into the shape of a beauty queen’s updo. It’s difficult to make head or tail of how the thing gets its figure or its name (again, it doesn’t resemble a pinecone), but the layers of little twists make it easy to pull apart to share (or graze on alone with one hand). Glaze and cinnamon pool under the pinecone’s central knot, offering a final chamber of sweetness.

Keep in mind that the fritter, butterfly, and pinecone are all enormous; you could eat just one and be done for the day.

They’re also included in the price for an assorted dozen, which runs about eleven dollars. That’s even with Krispy Kreme’s price tag and a bit higher than Dunkin’ Donuts, while at Rise and Monuts, the most basic treats start around a dollar, so the cost of a mixed dozen escalates quickly. Carolina Glazed bests those esteemed area institutions for less by staying simple; you can get a lot of basic but glorious fried dough for very little, well, dough.

There is just one rub: located on South Miami Boulevard, just off Interstate 40, Carolina Glazed is only convenient for those who work in RTP. But at least the shop opens early and closes late every day (save on Sunday, at two p.m.), so these golden, sugar-wrapped halos aren’t limited to breakfast or brunch hours.

Given how skilled Carolina Glazed is at its craft, it’s surprising to show up on a Saturday morning and find the place nearly empty. It might not be hip, downtown, or destined to spawn franchises wielding wild flavor combinations, but its exceptional offerings trump the whimsical winds of cool every time.

Carolina Glazed takes itself seriously in the only way that really matters—simply conceived and expertly executed pastries. l ahussey@indyweek.com

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HOW ROOMFUL OF TEETH SINGS BEYOND CULTURAL BORDERS When I ask Brad Wells, the founder and director of New York vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, if there is a Roomful of Teeth “sound,” he just laughs.

“It makes me think of the kids around town who refer to us and go ‘yaaaaaaaah,’” he finally manages, “and immediately do some throat singing thing.”

The Grammy-winning group is best known

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for its enthusiastic embrace of vocal techniques outside of the classical tradition— Tuvan and Inuit throat singing, Sardinian cantu a tenore, Georgian choral singing, among others. Working with sympathetic composers, the singers synthesize these techniques with operatic bel canto, Broadway belting, and doo-wop bits into musical polyglots. No two Roomful of Teeth pieces sound the same.

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At Duke, Roomful of Teeth will showcase that singularity with Partita, by North Carolina native Caroline Shaw, and The Ascendant, from New York’s Wally Gunn. Where Partita whirls with restless energy, The Ascendant is conceptually compact, filling all the crevices of a given idea.

Wells never did define Roomful of Teeth’s “sound,” so we talked about the primal joy of singing and questions of appropriation, instead.

INDY: You originally spread three parts of The Ascendant across one album and are only now adding the last three. How do they work together?

BRAD WELLS: They fit seamlessly. Wally is such a thoughtful, patient composer. He gets ideas and boils them down in his reduction sauce for a long time, so when you finally get to his score, it’s so clean, and the lines are so beautiful. It’s all still text by the same Australian poet, Maria Zajkowski, all from the same collection of poetry. The themes all connect, so that helps the continuity.

Does the group’s approach to a piece change when there is a text involved?

If it makes sense to talk about the text in terms of shaping or color, we do. Everybody in the group is pretty sensitive that way. Most of them sing as soloists in various capacities, so they have a built-in proclivity to deliver text meaningfully. For the pieces that don’t have text, when it’s more explicitly about color or timbral shifts or various techniques, making sure everybody is clean and clear in their concept is important. That gets talked about— how much belt here, how much mix there, how gritty in this part? We get into nuanced discussions about these things more than pieces with text.

Of all the techniques Roomful of Teeth has learned, do you have a favorite?

A couple of them attract me in a more consuming way. One is the phenomenon of belting. It’s a way for women to sing loudly but in a powerful, emotional, possibly beautiful way. Women singing in choral settings don’t necessarily have the experience of a full-bodied analogue to a “roar.” You think about a baritone or tenor really letting it rip; it can feel so full-throated and satisfying.

Women in choral settings don’t have that experience. They’re up high in their head voice, and physically it’s not the same. But it is if they’re belting. Then the other is Korean pansori, to me an incarnation of the blues spirit. It’s about voicing pain and suffering in order to relieve the pain and suffering.

Do you think about questions of appropriation, since you take foreign techniques and recontextualize them?

Our feeling is that the experience of studying these techniques is very much about encountering the culture of singing that an expert will bring to us. In addition to learning some of the mechanics of Inuit throat singing, we spent a week getting to know these two singers from northern Quebec—what’s behind their traditions, who taught them, why did these women do it. There’s a kind of broader learning that’s part of our exploration.

Then there’s a kind of experience of echo.

We don’t hold ourselves as practitioners in any expert way of any of these techniques. It’s more like the voices have been expanded in terms of what they’ve experienced and what’s available to them.

I remember, a few months ago, talking to an anthropology professor who had studied textiles on some Southeast Asian island about how the textiles responded to Westerners coming through from the fifteen-hundreds on.

The artists on those islands immediately started to take advantage of Western art aspects— sometimes subtly, sometimes less so.

The question of cultural appropriation assumes that the powerful culture is the only one that is involved in the exchange, but in fact these exchanges are happening constantly. There’s an arrogance in our role, thinking of ourselves as the powerful culture and handpicking little things to use to our profit. These exchanges happen everywhere all the time, and you can’t stop them. They can enrich everybody. l Twitter: @danruccia

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MACBETH Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Saturday, April 30 & Sunday, May 1 www.carolinaballet.com

Fit for a King

CAROLINA BALLET'S NEW MACBETH TELLS UNTOLD STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH PLAY

BY BYRON WOODS

(Amanda Babayan) against her assailants bleed into a flashback of her dancing with her husband (a crisp Yevgeny Shlapko), Weiss’s disturbing staging emphasizes how Macduff has ultimately betrayed her and her children.

Scearce’s seventh musical score for Carolina Ballet dramatically underpins the actions and emotions on stage. When King Duncan is found murdered, the music’s lush lyricism (featuring Gregg Gelb on saxophone) recalls the dark rapture of Bernard Herrmann’s work for Alfred Hitchcock. The martial dissonance that funds the wartime scenes contrasts with the tenderness of a love theme for the royal couple, and both contrast with the eerie palette of vibraphone and soprano voices for the three witches.

It’s been quite a month for Shakespeare in the Triangle, during the four-hundredth anniversary of his death. A marathon reading of his First Folio at the N.C. Museum of History (April 23–28) strips his thirty-eight plays down to their words. And Carolina Ballet does away with words entirely in its new version of Macbeth at DPAC this weekend, following the mid-April premiere at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium (the production reviewed here).

When artists adapt a play into another medium, the rhetoric of subtraction usually arises: How much of the story did they keep?

But the true measure of artistic director Robert Weiss’s inventive balletic adaptation of the Scottish play involves how much he’s added as well. Weiss and composer J. Mark Scearce’s movement-based libretto devotes its first five scenes to a vivid backstory for the warrior and his wife, carefully sourced from events mentioned by Shakespeare’s characters in his text.

These additions depict Macbeth’s initial valor as a soldier and the couple’s early intimacy in a joyous village-wedding dance.

Marcelo Martinez and Lara O’Brien give unexpectedly pensive performances as Mac-

Before Lady Macbeth’s backstory brings more pathos to her downward spiral— reflected in designer David Heuvel’s gradually reddening costumes—it also introduces a playful element between her and her husband. In an early scene, O’Brien goads Martinez toward his character’s bloody deeds with a few well-chosen bumps rendered hip to hip.

These and other choices meaningfully extend Shakespeare’s dramatic arc and bring more humanity to the couple at its center.

Remarkably, Weiss and Scearce have managed to tell us something new in a four-hundred-year-old story. l Twitter: @ByronWoods

Out, damned spot: Lara O'Brien and Marcelo Martinez in Macbeth PHOTO BY ARMES PHOTOGRAPHY

beth and Lady Macbeth. Their nuptial joy is conspicuously cut short, as their wedding night occurs on the eve of war.

Though much of Weiss’s choreography stays understandably close to the ground throughout this somber tale, O’Brien’s passionate grand jeté from the marriage bed before melting into the arms of her character’s beloved provoked gasps from the audience, expressing the couple's deep commitment.

The shifting portals of Jeff A.R. Jones’s craggy set allow Weiss to segue cinematically between the battlefield and scenes recounting the pregnancy, childbirth, and aftermath that Lady Macbeth alludes to in Shakespeare's chilling original text.

Weiss juxtaposes other dark and light actions throughout the work. Pablo Javier Perez’s nimble Banquo is murdered as a royal celebration unfolds on stage, before his ghost demands a dance of death with the monarch and his wife.

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04.27–05.04 If there is a central tenet to be taken away from the nearly fifty-year career of The Residents—the eccentric, anonymous, and essential pop deconstructors—it is to never fear the future. Whether working with major labels or launching their own, The Residents were pioneers of using both CD-ROMs and downloads to translate their sounds SATURDAY, APRIL 30 into multimedia visions. Their costume-cloaked identities also presaged the online era of SoundCloud sources, where nameless, faceless kids churning out beats in bedrooms are making some of the moment’s most vital art. Despite an THE RESIDENTS enormous catalog, The Residents remain current by continuing to throw current pop culture grist into their musical mill, churning out songs whose surrealistic senses of rhythm, melody, and lyrical allure suggest a Top 40 station transmitted from another dimension. Tonight, the band presents Shadowland, a conceptually existential retrospective of sorts that still looks forward, in true Residential fashion. As a bonus, the new documentary Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents will play before the band steps onto the stage. —Grayson Haver Currin

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CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $30–$35, www.catscradle.com

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TONK

On TONK’s new Second Nature, the timetraveling Raleigh band again delivers its tried-and-true formula of classic twang reverence. This is an act of area aces who play with the likes of Chatham County Line, Tift Merritt, Old Habits, and Bandway. The sextet sets tear-jerking lyrics against understated but impressive arrangements of weepy pedal steel and barroom piano, a sound that slots the band comfortably alongside honky-tonk legends of yore. Take “A Guest in Your House,” where Jay Brown wonders over an imaginary pint, “Am I a fine work of art at home in your heart/or just a guest in your house?” as an accordion wheezes behind him. Countdown Quartet’s Steve Grothmann fronts more local standbys in Clear Spots, a band whose ragged riffs suggests Neil Young starting a garage rock band. Between sets, WKNC DJ Big Fat Sac—host of Both Kinds Radio—spins cuts from country’s golden age.

—Spencer Griffith KINGS, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $10, www.kingsbarcade.com

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THE REAL AMERICANS

BEAVER QUEEN PAGEANT KICK-OFF PARTY

The “theater journalism” of New York monologist and mimic Dan Hoyle recalls the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Spalding Gray. After interviewing and impersonating a broad range of Nigerians in Tings Dey Happen, his solo show on African oil politics, Hoyle ventured into other territories that were foreign to him—the back roads and small towns of conservative America—in an attempt to break through what he calls the “latte liberal bubble.” In The Real Americans, he listens to a closeted Texas fundamentalist, a Michigan gun enthusiast, and a racist, if hospitable, self-described Alabama redneck, in an attempt to understand what drives and influences the red-state worldview. The result, says SF Weekly, is “a rare and sincere attempt to create political theater that doesn’t simply confirm its own premises.” —Byron Woods

The twelfth-annual Beaver Queen Pageant would seem the perfect counterargument to the current image of North Carolina as an intolerant place. Centered around a beauty competition wherein participants must dress as drag beavers—and if they hope to win, they’d better have a functioning tail—this proudly weird June throwdown celebrates inclusiveness while providing essential support to Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association, a group dedicated to the preservation of urban wetlands and restoration of the local habitat. Providing a small slice of what’s to come in roughly six weeks, this family-friendly “Tails & Tiaras”themed shindig is devoted to rug cutting and favor currying (if you’re one of the aspiring Beaver Queens on hand to schmooze the judges). Proud of its completely rigged voting system (bribery is encouraged), the pageant kicks off with the ebullient party sounds of the Bulltown Strutters, united in a communal spirit of “Peace, love, and beaver.” —David Klein

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PARKER & OTIS, DURHAM 6–8 p.m., free, www.ellerbecreek.org

“I should have asked more questions,” Vivian Bearing ruefully says at the start of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Wit. “I know there’s going to be a test.” Until now, this self-absorbed world-class scholar has studied John Donne’s poems on death and God with the professional detachment of someone who never expected to encounter either of them directly. But when faced with her own truly final examination, at the end of stage-four ovarian cancer, Bearing has little time left to reassess her humanity or the emotional and intellectual blockades she’s lived her life behind. Broadway actor Judy McLane stars in NC Theatre’s production of this frank, compassionate work. —Byron Woods FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, RALEIGH Various times, $29–$75, www.nctheatre.com

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COMPAGNIA FINZI PASCA: LA VERITÀ

Cirque du Soleil may be boycotting North Carolina thanks to HB 2, but you don’t have to wait for repeal to escape into acrobatic fantasy. This week, Carolina Performing Arts presents La Verità, written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, who has an interestingly subversive perspective on modern circus theater. In 2005, he created Cirque’s Corteo, in which a clown observes his own merry funeral. La Verità, now on tour, pays homage to no less an iconoclast than Salvador Dalí, with acrobats performing music, juggling, dancing, and twisting their bodies among fantastic set pieces that evoke the surrealist artist’s stark, dreamlike imagery. Described as “a decadent Vaudeville channeling of Dalí’s vision,” it also has something of his mad, louche charm, and is sure to bring a bit of wonder to a place that could certainly use some. —Brian Howe UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $29–$59, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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ABSU AT THE POUR HOUSE (P. 33), BEYONCÉ AT CARTER-FINLEY STADIUM (P. 34), BIRTHING BODIES AT DUKE HOMESTEAD (P. 38), CONCUSSIONCAST CARNIVAL AT DURHAM CENTRAL PARK (P. 14), ANJELAH JOHNSON AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 37), MACBETH AT DPAC (P. 29), ROOMFUL OF TEETH AT DUKE (P. 28)

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• LOCAL 506: FS, Bear Girl; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • NIGHTLIGHT: April 919Noise Showcase; 8:30 p.m., $5–$7. • THE PINHOOK: OBN IIIS, Drug Yacht, Scanners; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • POUR HOUSE: The Quaker City Night Hawks; 9 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: The Werks; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15.

THU, APR 28 I Am Maddox PROOF OF Concept records CONCEPT and bands often fall flat. The songs of Raleigh’s I Am Maddox follow an enigmatic sci-fi narrative about revolution in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

It’s hard to follow, but the band doesn’t rely on the gimmick as its biggest strength. Concept aside, the group’s sharp guitar interplay and vocalist C.J. Bauckham’s high-flying melodrama still have plenty of power. Plus Pseudo Cowboys and Spiral Fire.

—PW [KINGS, $5/9 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: SOON REGION This week’s Local VARIETY Band Local Beer takes a big-tent tack. Local heavy-psych supergroup SOON roars like a doom metal titan but casts its vision upward, with sharp hooks. Washington’s Paperhaus contrasts SOON’s low and slow stuff with agile indie pop that sits somewhere between Talking Heads and Muse. Charlotte’s Patois Counselors open with prickly, stirring post-punk. —BCR [POUR HOUSE, FREE/8:30 P.M.]

Poliça DARK United Crushers, the POP new album from Minneapolis synthpop stalwarts Poliça, turns from the group’s cloudy-day soul toward a brash concept record about dystopian America. Fans of Channy Leaneagh’s distinct, effects-

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treated quiver will love this, even as she ditches the reverb for unadorned ballads about police brutality and corruption. United Crushers is a bit self-serious and lacks the production juice of previous efforts, but you can’t fault Poliça for trying to throw a curveball. —DS [CAT’S CRADLE, $16–$18/9 P.M.]

The lows, though, are turned down into a post-rock simmer, while the highs come cranked in a hardcore shock. It’s adolescently aggressive, sporting hard feelings without apology or temperance. —GC [LOCAL 506, $8–$10/8 P.M.]

Steel Panther

U.S. A veteran presence RIDDIMS on the American reggae circuit, John Brown’s Body has been pushing the basics of island music in new directions for more than two decades. Often sidestepping the traditional themes of weed, war, and religion, the New Yorkbased outfit doses its dense arrangements with rapped rhymes and futuristic electronics as much as with dancehall toasting and dub. The avantgarde instrumentals of Asheville’s Jonathan Scales showcase his virtuosic steel pan chops with Caribbean influences, jazz, and funk. —SG [POUR HOUSE, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

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LAFFS IN Hard rock and hair SPANDEX metal have long had their tongues planted firmly in their collective cheeks. The collection of Sunset Strip lifers known as Steel Panther make the jokes a bit more explicit and a lot more meta, parodying excess while kicking out catchy riffs. Wilson opens. —MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25/7 P.M.]

The Underground Collective Beat Battle SOUND- Lately, Crystal BOMBING Taylor—lead organizer and self-professed “queen curator” of this producer showcase series—has been adamant about distinguishing her hip-hop franchise from “pop-up shop” beat battles.

Neither has produced many tangible results song-wise, but it’s a battle worth nodding along to, anyway. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY DEEP SOUTH: Rome Jeterr; 8 p.m., $7. • NIGHTLIGHT: Elysia Crampton, Bekelé Berhanu, Misha; 9 p.m., $10.

See indyweek.com. • SLIM’S: Beloved Binge, Seabreeze Diner; 9 p.m., $5.

FRI, APR 29 Atma Weapon FANTASY Greensboro METAL prog-metal band Atma Weapon comes by its nerdiness honestly. The band’s name refers obliquely to Final Fantasy VI, and its first record name-checks Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Last year’s The Fields Where Nothing Grows

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ABSU In heavy metal, the battle between seriousness and silliness can often seem like a binary. Either an act just wants to play real hard and real fast while singing about drinking, hanging with wizards, or grooving with Satan, or it wants to document the daunting void, to explore the evil annals of the world with great solemnity. This needn’t be an either-or proposition, of course, but it most often is.

You don’t go to Sunn O))) for riff-loving smiles and high kicks, and you don’t take a deep dive into Manowar’s catalog to contemplate your own existence.

Strangely enough, Absu—Texas legends largely regarded as one of the first American acts to take on the mantle of black metal—have learned to straddle this attitude division brilliantly. Each of Absu’s albums offers an exploration of some mythological system—first Sumerian, then Celtic, and now the wider world of magick. The albums brim with esoteric references and complicated riddles, mystifying proper nouns and heady decrees, a formula that bandleader Proscriptor has pursued for nearly three decades. To wit, he says of the forthcoming Apsu: “Lyrically, this will definitely be my most scientific album to date. It not only descends deep into the hardships of spirits such as Qingu and Irra, but the Enochian Magic(k) System and the cause/effect of Hermetic Praxis.” Ridiculous, right?

Especially on Absu’s two most recent albums, though, the music is a high-flying, high-energy circus, its mix of strangely giddy black metal and thrash played at methamphetamine speed zigging and zagging with unexpected delight. To wit, Proscriptor began “Earth Ripper,” the opening cut from the band’s great 2011 album, Abzu, with the sort of jubilant squeal that suggested all of Van Halen riding in a convertible with the top down. Absu combines exuberance and erudition for songs that are, at first, fun to hear and, ultimately, necessary to ponder. —Grayson Haver Currin THE POUR HOUSE, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $10–$12, www.the-pour-house.com is heavy and technical, serving as a good soundtrack for a badass boss battle. —PW [DEEP SOUTH, $5/9:30 P.M.]

Dumpster Babies GARAGE On January’s Lost SPLITS and Found, Chicago’s Dumpster Babies filled thirteen tracks with brisk, easygoing rock

that split the difference between crisp power pop and bratty garage-punk on songs like “Gimme What I Want.” But when the band stretches out on cuts like “Age of Apathy,” it injects loud-fast pop with unlikely nuances. Tennessee’s Shake It Like a Caveman, a one-man band fusing slinky blues riffs with garage grit, opens. —BCR [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Greaver HARD The Faun is the FEELINGS excellent, emotionally charged debut album of Durham quintet Greaver. Splitting vocals between two members, both positioned in front of a band that prefers to brood just before it bursts, Greaver recalls the traumas of Cursive’s classics.

Kawehi LOOP Hawaiian QUEEN ambient-pop musician Kawehi caught some shine a few years ago with YouTube versions of chestnuts like “Heart Shaped Box” and Lady Gaga numbers. This sort of video-based cover phenom may be a dime a dozen, but her offbeat original material is worth a listen. She utilizes Dustin Wong-style instrumental looping with a number of off-the-wall instruments to create small, beautiful spheres of sound. —DS [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $13–$15/8 P.M.]

M. Ward NAP In early March, M. TUNES Ward released More Rain, his first solo record since 2012’s A Wasteland Companion. The LP indeed sounds engineered to soundtrack a cozy day inside, during a torrential downpour.

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JUKE SKYWALKER juke trailbla his legacy a members o crew Ghett expanded t instance, th rebranded T PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTspearheade TUESDAY, MAY 3 twenty-one Taye. Nothi Rashad’s ab During the last several months, the collective wait for Beyoncé’s next album hummed loudly in the than “XTCC It Down EP. background of the music-minded Internet. Remember, she dropped her last album by surprise in December 2013, an event so seismic that surprise releases are now called “pulling a Beyoncé.” (Sorry, “There’s a v should be e Radiohead.) Her fervent fanbase and the media’s need for new content made speculation about down to a n what she might do next run wild—vague announcements fueled manic tweeting from fans, hasty meant for d exchanges between writers and editors. In recent weeks, those teases only foreshadowed Beyoncé’s break your mesh-heavy fitness line and a release by Schoolboy Q. At last, on Saturday, she issued the bold, pace can be sprawling Lemonade in conjunction with an HBO special and through Tidal, the digital distribution Taye’s mad system she co-owns. Now that’s a power play. making it a The tour preview she delivered at the Super Bowl gave tongue-waggers plenty of advance notice [KINGS, $8/ that she and her phalanx of musicians and dancers will deliver military-grade precision when they take the stage. Beyoncé is one of the best live performers working right now, full stop; her seemingly endless charisma means that she can turn stadiums into sweaty clubs and make attendees feel like Essex// she’s beaming right at them. Her voice remains impeccable, keeping up with her guitar-god-like flights Market of melismatic fancy. While her perfect façade can be frustrating for those who like their pop stars a INDIE little messier and a little more human, her live shows can convert even the most stalwart cynic into a UPSTART buzzing member of the Beyhive. —Maura Johnston is busy reco while Charl CARTER-FINLEY STADIUM, RALEIGH recently fin 7:30 p.m., $45-$280, www.thepncarena.com stint. The la Over It stret dreamy—so much so that it’s him as a launching pad. —DR STUDIO: Kamara Thomas; 7 p.m., Youth’s den [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, hard to imagine these songs $12–$15. • NIGHTLIGHT: Just the rock purism $18–$66/8 P.M.] translating into something Right Height No Bucket Required; fuzzy anthe compelling in a standing-room9:30 p.m., $7. • SOUTHLAND —BCR [SLI only club format. NAF is Jenny BALLROOM: Warez; 10 p.m., $11. • Tannahill Weavers Lewis’s new band, and it takes THE STATION: Teardrop Canyon, the evening’s opening slot.

Bad Balloon; 8:30 p.m., $7.

Benji H SCOTTISH Representing the —AH [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, PRIDE old guard of the SHOES: $23–$25/8 P.M.] Scottish folk scene, Tannahill JUST OK Weavers formed in Paisley a few enigma Ben years after Dylan went electric. confusing f N.C. Symphony: Armed with Highland bagpipes, Tim Barry simplistic. I Beethoven’s Violin the group infused traditional beat and vo QUIET, Since he swapped Concerto music with raucous energy.

Ndegeocell NOT SOFT his electric guitar Having weathered a revolving simply goes All classical music for an acoustic in 2004, 1.5 B’S ensemble and the vicissitudes of But the who seems to, at some erstwhile Avail frontman Tim popular tastes, the group still exists in a w level, address Beethoven and Barry has become the archetype delivers a spirited show. —DK maybe bein his shadow. This concert makes for the ex-punk turned [THE ARTSCENTER, just being a that explicit, pairing the master’s folksinger. Keeping the earnest $18–$24/8 P.M.] joke. Is this violin concerto (ably performed delivery and tenacious approach Maybe you

by Noah Bendix-Balgley) with to touring of his louder days, ALSO ON FRIDAY Merge Reco John Adams’s Absolute Jest, a Barry delivers these spartan New Belgiu THE CARY THEATER: Buddy concerto for string quartet. tunes with conviction. —BCR [MOTORCO, Mondlock, Dana Cooper, Bill West; 8 Adams takes shards of scherzos [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, p.m., $20. • CITY LIMITS: Dylan from late Beethoven works and $10–$12/8:30 P.M.] Scott, Nate Kenyon; 8 p.m., $12. • reassembles them into a new Midtow DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIwork. Adams isn’t poking fun at UM: Murray Perahia; 8 p.m., $10–$62.

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DJ Taye JUKE SKY- In the two years WALKER since footwork and juke trailblazer DJ Rashad died, his legacy as one of the founding members of the Chicago-based crew Ghettoteknitianz has expanded the genre. See, for instance, the work of the rebranded Teklife conglomerate, spearheaded by DJ Earl and twenty-one-year-old prodigy DJ Taye. Nothing better expresses Rashad’s absence and impact than “XTCC,” from Taye’s Break It Down EP. The vocal sample— “There’s a void where there should be ecstasy”—is minced down to a near eulogistic chant, meant for dancing that can break your ankles. Yeah, the pace can be intimidating, but Taye’s made a mission out of making it all accessible. —ET [KINGS, $8/9:30 P.M.]

Essex//Muro, Black Market INDIE Rising Raleigh indie UPSTART oufit Essex//Muro is busy recording its first singles, while Charlotte’s Black Market recently finished its own studio stint. The latter band’s new Get Over It stretches from Sonic Youth’s densely textured indie rock purism to Japandroids’ fuzzy anthems. Crete opens.

—BCR [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Benji Hughes SHOES: “Girls Love Shoes,” JUST OK from soul-funk-pop enigma Benji Hughes, is mighty confusing for something so simplistic. It’s got a thudding beat and vocals by Meshell Ndegeocello, and the chorus simply goes “Girls love shoes.”

But the whole dumb premise exists in a weird gray area of maybe being sexist, or maybe just being a poorly executed joke. Is this dude for real?

Maybe you can ask him at Merge Records’ free party with New Belgium. —AH [MOTORCO, FREE/9 P.M.]

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Fest kicks off North Hills’ outdoor music schedule with a celebration of bands from the Carolinas. Cravin’ Melon, the bronze medalist of South Carolina’s nineties lite-rock scene behind Edwin McCain and Hootie and the Blowfish, headlines with help from the familiar choral guitar riffs of its minor radio hits, “Come Undone” and “Sweet Tea.” Cary-based singer and The Voice contestant Katelyn Read, Glee alum Noah Guthrie, and Raleigh’s own Jack the Radio round out the lineup. —KM [MIDTOWN PARK AMPHITHEATRE, FREE/2 P.M.]

PULSE Electronic Dance Party VISION Some people look QUEST for meaning in literature. Others search for wisdom in the Four Noble Truths. And then there’s the spiritual journey of PULSE, long providing Raleigh with EDM bangers at tinnitus-inducing volumes for an affordable price.

The comically maximalist wubstep of Atlanta’s Twin Circuits tops the bill. —DS [LINCOLN THEATRE, $10–$15/9 P.M.]

Widespread Panic, Jason Isbell NEW Widespread Panic SOUTH and Jason Isbell are major figures on the Southern rock scene who run in vastly different circles, though Panic bassist Dave Schools did lend a helping hand to Isbell’s former Drive-By Truckers in their early years. While the Athens-based Panic has a loyal following for fluid, long-form jams, Alabama’s Isbell is one of the finest Americana songwriters today, favoring gentler introspection over his riffy Truckers work.

—SG [WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, $45–$55/6 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY DEEP SOUTH: Walpyrgus; 9 p.m., $6. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Roomful of Teeth; 8 p.m., $10–$28. See page 28. • LOCAL 506: SkyBlew and the Digidestined, (J)Rowdy and the Nightshift; 9 p.m.,

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The group’s 2014 Grammy for Best R&B Performance on the Lalah Hathaway-assisted single “Something” is a prime example of the latter. The Group’s latest, less accessible LP, Family Dinner - Volume 2, shows a band that’s evolved from pandering to the uninitiated jazz listener to re-exploring some of the more coded composing of all its global influences. There’s less room for cheesiness and more satisfaction to be had for sophisticated jazz fans. A perfect formula, it seems, for a springtime museum show. —ET [N.C. MUSEUM OF ART, $19–$35/6:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Vetiver, Kacy & Clayton; 8 p.m., $15. • LOCAL 506: Jamie Kilstein; 9 p.m., $8–$10.

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WED, MAY 4 Shooter Jennings OUTLAW Waylon’s boy may HEIR be the obvious heir to the outlaw country throne, but you never can tell when he’ll take a drastic detour. After all, his latest album is a tribute to Giorgio Moroder, and he has also released trippy prog-rock epics. But right now, he’s on tour with his dad’s old band, so it’s a safe bet he’ll be honoring his family name while digging into his own country-rocking catalog.

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The New York-based “Japanese Action Comic Punk Band” has always been a spectacle on stage. Head-to-toe colors identify band mambers Peelander Red, Peelander Yellow, Peelander Green, and Peelander Purple, who ricochet around the stage and turn a crowd into active participants.

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Kim Richey AMERI- Singer-songwriter CAN ACE Kim Richey has penned tunes for a wide lot of performers, from Brooks & Dunn to Trisha Yearwood, but

it’s her own albums—full of penetrating, poetic songcraft— that show her true depth. When she brings her songs to small stages, the intimacy only underlines the gravitas of her material. —JA [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $18–$20/8 P.M.]

Bunny Wailer REGGAE A living legend FORBEAR thanks to the half-dozen roots reggae classics he recorded alongside Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer helped define the genre as a founding member of The Wailers before striking out for a prolific solo career. Though he’s not quite the writer that Marley and Tosh were, Bunny’s clear voice—the key high harmony in The Wailers’ signature sound—makes for a fine lead in

his own spiritual and political material. —SG [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25.50–$40/8:30 P.M.]

Chelsea Wolfe WOLFE Perhaps it was the LIKE ME tours with Queens of the Stone Age or the collaborations with Russian Circles, but something pushed the “metal” to the forefront of Chelsea Wolfe’s self-described “drone-metal-art-folk” hybrid on last year’s Abyss. Still, as the recent B-side “Hypnos” shows, she may be best when using her ethereal voice to deliver heavy, anxious lyrics over featherlight arrangements. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE, $18–$20/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Marcus Anderson; 5:30 p.m., $5. • THE PINHOOK: Delicate Steve; 9 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Stammerings; 9 p.m., $5–$7.

OPENING

Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Apr 28-Aug 15. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

Emerging Artists Spring Show: Mychal Fakir, Frank Mansaray, Winnie Okwakol, and Cody Palmer. Sat, Apr 30, 4-7 p.m.

Elevation Gallery, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com.

SPECIAL Half a World Away: EVENT Oil paintings by Alicia Armstrong. Fri, Apr 29.

Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

SPECIAL Pencils, Paint and EVENT Pearls: Diana Hrabosky, Jean Scholz, and Pat Buchanan. Apr 29-May 24.

Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

SPECIAL Remnants of Great EVENT Spirit: Paintings by Lyudmila Tomova. Apr 29-May 30. Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com.

SPECIAL Spring in Flight: EVENT Energy art by Renata McConnell. Apr 29-May 30.

Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.the-qigarden.com.

ONGOING 2016 Members’ Showcase: Thru Jun 11. Durham Art Guild,. www. durhamartguild.org.

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

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04.27–05.04 Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. 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. Thru Sep 11.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe 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 LAST Another Point of CHANCE View: Paintings by Amanda Charest. Thru May 1.

Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

LAST The Art of the CHANCE Female: Group show. Thru Apr 30. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com.

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 North Carolina. Thru May 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Lynn Boggess: Oil paintings of the N.C. coast and W.V. mountains. Thru May 28.

Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill.

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SPECIAL Branching Out: EVENT Photography by Eric Saunders, paintings by Chris Graebner, and turned wood by Michael Salemi. Thru May 22.

Reception: Fri, Apr 29, 6-9 p.m.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. 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. Thru Sep 25.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe 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.

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

LAST Dust & Smoke: Greg CHANCE 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 Express Yourself: A Celebration of Black Art in Durham: Thru Jun 17. Duke’s Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Durham.

Failure of the American Dream: Phil America installation. $5.

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

The Figure Revealed: Work about the human body by Stephen Early, Mikio Watanabe, Lawrence Feir, and Lee Johnson. Thru May 22. Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. www. adamcavefineart.com.

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.

LAST Fooling Around: CHANCE Rebecca Toy and Kim Ballentine. Thru Apr 30.

Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com.

LAST Fresh Views: CHANCE Barbara Burlingame.

Thru Apr 30. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

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.

Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2.

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

Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This outstanding exhibit of one hundred drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art can be experienced in many ways: 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, just to name a few), 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).

It’s a thorough anatomy of a form. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org. —Brian Howe

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ANJELAH JOHNSON “I love Jesus, I do, but I will punch a ho.” That’s Anjelah Johnson explaining that she’s a Christian and a comedian, but not a Christian comedian. The actress (Ugly Betty, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel) and former Oakland Raiderette broke through in comedy with her viral video “Nail Salon,” which led to a stint on Mad TV. One of her characters on the show, the attitudinal fast-food employee turned music star Bon Qui Qui, grabbed attention. It’s Bon Qui Qui who will perform when Johnson comes to Durham, rapping such tracks as “I’ma Cut You” and “No Boyfren” with backing from Group 1 Crew, the Christian rap group featuring Johnson’s husband, Jose “Manwell” Reyes. But don’t be surprised if Johnson dips into her other popular bits, like the one about being a Mexican who doesn’t speak Spanish with Puerto Rican in-laws who seldom speak English, or the one about using Liam Neeson’s Taken to prep for European travel. —Curt Fields CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $33–$54, www.carolinatheatre.org

LAST Master Works of CHANCE Haitian Art: Pieces from the collection of Norvel and Isabelita Burns. Thru Apr 30. Gallery C, Raleigh. www. galleryc.net.

Members’ Spotlight Exhibition: Thru May 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart. com.

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

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

SPECIAL Navigating To + Fro: EVENT Tedd Anderson, Amy Hoppe, and Peter Marin.

Thru May 20. Reception: Fri, May 6, 5-7 p.m. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts.

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

LAST Notes from the CHANCE 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

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MURMURATIONS DANCE: BIRTHING BODIES Even with the best planning and modern medical care, childbirth and the early years of parenting are a major test. Now imagine it’s 1856, the year young Artelia Duke gave birth to her second son, James, at Duke Homestead. Murmurations Dance artistic director Nicole Dagesse gave this assignment to herself—while she was in the midst of pregnancy and early motherhood—poet Jaki Shelton Green, and a group of local musicians, obstetricians, nurses, mothers, and daughters. The resulting multimedia performance, Birthing Bodies, combines music, poetry, and dance in a site-specific exploration of midwifery and home birth in North Carolina, in the buildings and on the grounds of the historic site, as a part of the Durham Independent Dance Artists season. —Byron Woods DUKE HOMESTEAD, DURHAM Various times, $15, www.murmurationsdance.org

Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow Revue: Burlesque and more. $10. Thu, Apr 28, 9 p.m.

Southland Ballroom, Raleigh. www.southlandballroom.com.

Leap of Faith: Musical. Apr 28-30. United Church of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill. www. unitedchurch.org.

Macbeth: Carolina Ballet. Apr 30-May 1. Durham Performing Arts Center. www.dpacnc.com.

See review, p. 29.

The Real Americans: Play. $15–$45. Apr 27-May 1. UNC’s Kenan Theatre, Chapel Hill. www. playmakersrep.org. See p. 30.

Still…Life. An Exploration of a Killing State, North Carolina: Play. $10. Apr 28-May 1.

Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. www.upucc.org.

The Tenderloins: Comedy. $35–$255. Mon, May 2, 7:30 p.m.

Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre.com.

Waging Hope: Stories from the Front Line of Adolescent Oncology: Staged reading. Sat, Apr 30, 7:30 p.m. NC Theatre Conservatory, Raleigh. www. nctheatreconservatory.com.

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more. The better pictures admit complex reality, not just seamless artifice. Thru Sep 30.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham/. —Chris Vitiello Passages: Paul Hrusovsky.

Thru Jun 18. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

LAST Roatán Gems: Linda CHANCE Eddins. Thru Apr 30.

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

LAST Rebecca Rousseau: CHANCE Abstract paintings.

Thru Apr 30. Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh.

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.

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

SPECIAL Visible Spectrum: EVENT Portraits from the World of Autism: Photographs

by Mary Berridge. Thru May 8.

Artist Talk: Wed, Apr 28, 7 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

LAST Watermedia CHANCE Abstractions: Watercolors by Sterling Edwards. Thru Apr 30. 311 Gallery, Raleigh.

LAST Whimsical Travels: CHANCE Mixed media by Cinc Hayes. Thru Apr 30. Bond Park Community Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Wood & Water: Installation by Greg Lindquist and Damian Stamer. Thru Jun 18. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

stage OPENING

42nd Street: Musical. May 3-8. Durham Performing Arts Center. www.dpacnc.com.

Blue Note Grill Radio Show: Storytelling, live music, and more. Thu, Apr 28, 7 p.m. Blue Note Grill, Durham. www. thebluenotegrill.com.

Bread & Puppet Theater: $10–$14. Sun, May 1, 7 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

Compagnia Finzi Pasca: La Verità: $10–$59. Wed, Apr 27 & Thu, Apr 28, 7:30 p.m. UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www.carolinaperformingarts. org. See p. 31.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 29–SATURDAY, APRIL 30

Wake Up to Stay Alive: Solo show by Anita Woodley. $8–$15. Sat, Apr 30, 2 p.m.

Health Touch, Durham. healthtouchnc.com.

What A Blessing I Could Have Been: Play. $10–$15. Sat, Apr 30.

Hayti Heritage Center, Durham. www.hayti.org.

Wit: Play. $29. Apr 29-May 8. NC Theatre, Raleigh. www. nctheatre.com. See p. 30.

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Stuart Albright: A World Beyond Home: the Education of a Poet, an Athlete, and a New Generation of Students. Tue, May 3, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

William Brettmann: War Poets of the Western Front 1914-1918.

Sat, Apr 30, 4 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

BRIAN BLANCHFIELD Winston-Salem expatriate Brian Blanchfield first established himself as a topically freewheeling, syntactically swashbuckling poet in two collections, the second of which, A Several World, was long-listed for the National Book Award. Last month, he moved into the realm of prose in Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, a collection of opaque but fascinating pieces that use topics as elusive as “dossiers” and “tumbleweed” as trapdoors that plunge us into the catacombs of Blanchfield’s personal history. One that appeared in Harper’s last November begins as an exploration of the word “frottage” before deepening into an unsparing account of being young and gay, and fleeing the religious South for New York City, at the height of the AIDS crisis. Now based in Tucson, Arizona, Blanchfield returns to his home state to read at Duke’s Little Corner Reading Series with awardwinning Durham poet kathryn l. pringle. —Brian Howe THE SHED, DURHAM 8 p.m., free, www.shedjazz.com

Sheri Castle: Cookbook Rhubarb. Sat, Apr 30, 2 p.m.

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

Part of the HRC National Day of Action. Thu, Apr 28, 6 p.m.

LGBT Center of Raleigh, Raleigh. www.lgbtcenterofraleigh.com.

Dori Ann Dupre: Novel Scout’s Honor. Sun, May 1, 2 p.m.

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

Lucia Powe: The Osprey’s View.

Wed, May 4, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Kathleen Grissom: Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House. Thu, Apr 28, 1 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

John Shelton Reed: Savor the South cookbook Barbecue. Sat, Apr 30, 1 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Nortin Hadler: By the Bedside of the Patient. Wed, May 4, 7 p.m.

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

Orville Hicks: Performing classic Jack tales. Thu, Apr 28, 5:30 p.m. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

I Am Jazz Community Reading:

Lee Smith: Hillsborough writer Lee Smith’s Dimestore is an escape to simpler times, but it’s also so much more. Beyond a wholesome coming-of-age adventure set in bucolic Grundy, Virginia, it’s about the fracturing and binding qualities of familial mental illness and the search for enduring love, all wrapped tight in fifteen personal essays. Sat,

Apr 30, 11 am. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com. —Ryan Ashley-Anderson

Mon, May 2, 7 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

LITERARY R E L AT E D

Listen to Your Mother: Storytelling about motherhood by local women. $20. Wed, May 4, 7:30 p.m. Meredith College, Raleigh. www.meredith.edu.

James H. Johnson, Jr.: “The United States, North Carolina and the Triple Whammy of Geographic Disadvantage.”

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

Periodic Tables - The Mind Club: Kurt Gray discusses the moral

implications of how we perceive the mind. Thu, Apr 28, 7 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic.com.

Shakespeare Marathon: 38 Plays in 5 Days: Around-theclock readings of all 38 plays

by William Shakespeare.

Thru Apr 28. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE

Look out, Ambassador Cinemas, there’s a new retro film series in town. Raleigh Film Underground, focused on indie and cult movies from the second half of the twentieth century, debuts on Friday, backed by a $1,000 grant from The Awesome Foundation. The series also previews new films by North Carolina directors. “The goal is to provide smart, fun, subversive entertainment and give our local filmmakers a new way to promote their work and connect with their audience,” explains series director Emily Alexander. It kicks off with Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend’s career-launching 1987 sendup of racial stereotypes in Tinseltown. You can also catch a preview of Christopher Everett’s Wilmington on Fire, a new documentary about the “Wilmington Massacre” of 1898, when white Democratic party insurgents ejected the city’s black leadership and a mob of white men attacked the only black newspaper in the state. Don’t show up at the wrong Trophy (you want the big one on Maywood) or you’ll be late, and might not have time to hit the Tan-Durm Indian food truck before RFU’s opening credits roll. —Brian Howe TROPHY BREWING ON MAYWOOD, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., free, www.facebook.com/raleighfilmunderground

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Empire of Corpses: $15.

Wed, Apr 27, 7 p.m. & Thu, Apr 28, 7 pm. Raleighwood Cinema Grill, Raleigh. www. raleighwoodmovies.com.

Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents: $30–$35.

Sat, Apr 30, 8 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro. www.catscradle.com.

OPENING  The Green Room— After witnessing a murder, a punk band must fight back against a merciless group of skinheads. Read our review at www.indyweek.com. Rated R. Keanu—Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele star as best friends who pose as

drug dealers in an attempt to reclaim a beloved stolen kitten from a gang. Read our review at www.indyweek.com on Friday. Rated R. Ratchet & Clank—Video game characters leap to the big screen in this animated adventure of an animal and a robot trying to save the universe. Rated PG.

A L S O P L AY I N G Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ 10 Cloverfield Lane—The spiritual successor of Cloverfield has wit and suspense, not just mysterious marketing. Rated R.  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—D.C. Comics’ two most iconic heroes clash in an overstuffed slog littered with great moments. Rated PG-13.  ½ City of Gold—This documentary follows Los

Angeles Times writer Jonathan Gold, who shook up the fancy world of food writing. Rated R.  ½ Deadpool—Marvel’s smartass semi-hero (Ryan Reynolds) revels in excesses of quips and gore. Rated R.  Everybody Wants Some!!—Richard Linklater follows seventies paen Dazed and Confused with this ode to the eighties. Rated R.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a CGI-heavy update that is decadent and well-done.

Rated PG.  Miles Ahead— Don Cheadle finally delivers his deeply imaginative (if not exactly historical) biopic of jazz great Miles Davis. Rated R.  Miracles From Heaven—This Christian film is admirably frank about American families’ unsexy financial challenges. Rated PG.

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It’s Sunday, and like many of us, I’m still not OK. For the past three days, I’ve woken with the heaviest of hearts, rummaging through social media remembrances and obituaries while revisiting classics, rare performances, ghostwrites, and B-sides. Ask a hundred people their favorite Prince song, and you’ll get two hundred answers. Ask one thousand people their “Prince stories,” and you’ll get two million. Here’s one.

I was in my mid-twenties, making my first trip to New York. It was only early fall, but the air was bold and brisk. I connected with an old friend who insisted on taking me out to her favorite nightclub, to show me her version of the city.

I was not hip. I was not cool.

I was country. I was green. Still, I hopped in a cab and directed the driver toward the Manhattan address my friend had given me.

Upon arriving at the door of this swank, dimly lit club, I realized I was overdressed. My beige wool turtleneck and I were out of place.

I met my friend at the door anyway.

The bouncer motioned us in. I felt foreign, and I looked it. I needed respite, so I sought the bathroom.

While waiting in line, I scanned the room, gill-packed with people who fit the most narrow standard ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS WILLIAMS of beauty. Everyone was strikingly tall and uncomfortably gorgeous. My eyes split throngs of stunners and landed on a barely lit back wall. Sitting on a couch and seemingly orchestrating this outlandish symphony was Prince. Supermodel Niki Taylor and BET’s Ananda Lewis flanked him. A trio of bodyguards who looked a lot like The Revolution flanked them. My sweater had felt like an electric blanket, and now it felt like fire.

Eventually, Prince, his entourage, and the majority of partygoers migrated to the dance floor. Prince stationed himself on a tabletop, hovering above the crowd, directing us. I spent most of the evening watching him watch us. The details have faded, but I remember a lime-green jumpsuit and levitation, a laid-ass perm and a halo.

Eventually, I slunk through the body protectors, reached up, and gently tugged the hem of his neon garment. “Mr. Prince,” I scream-whispered. “Mr. Prince!” He turned, threw an incriminating eye at his detail, and slid one of his slender shoulders in my direction. I mumbled something about loving his work, then poked my finger into my chest, and said, “The South’s got a voice, and you gon’ be hearing from me.”

My heart in my throat, I bounced backward, shocked and satisfied with the charge I’d asserted in the majestic ear of Prince. The rest of that out-of-place evening, I danced so hard that sweat ballooned in the armpits of my turtleneck. Ever since, I’ve aimed to be a voice from the South that Prince would want to hear. —Shirlette Ammons

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