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SALVATION An elite electronic festival finds its footing in a populist city TIM HECKER, P. 11

U.S. GIRLS, P. 13

ASTRA TAYLOR, P. 14

Performing at Cat’s Cradle • SAturday, April 27 • 9 pm • $15

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Food & Drink Almanac The INDY’s Ultimate Guide to food and drink in the Triangle

On Stands Now

WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

VOL. 36, NO. 17

6 Until 1941, a first-degree burglary conviction in North Carolina carried a mandatory death sentence.

DEPARTMENTS

8 Raleigh officials like the idea of a mobile law firm that serves low-income areas, but they might have made it illegal anyway.

10 Moogfest

6 News 16 Art 23 Food

9 There’s no vindication in Mueller’s words, at least to anyone with third-grade reading comprehension.

26 What to Do This Week 28 Music Calendar

10 Has Moogfest finally cracked the challenge of being an elite festival in a populist city?

32 Arts & Culture Calendar

16 In his new joint exhibit at NCMA and 21C, the South African artist Wim Botha obsessively recasts Greek mythology.

23 We told a writer to celebrate Durham’s 150th birthday by drinking eleven specialty cocktails. Guess what happened.

25 You can get a burger at Al’s new shack, but you can also get a Kale Waldorf Salad.

Joe Budd of the law firm Osborn, Gambale, Beckley & Budd sets up a sign as the firm brought a pop up to Raleigh Blvd Shopping Center in their Winnebago RV, giving out free legal advice. (p. 8)

On the cover: Meg Remy of U.S. Girls, who perform at Moogfest on Saturday, April 27th

PHOTO BY BOB KARP

PHOTO BY COLIN MEDLEY

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CAROLINA THEATRE (DUR)

9/26 JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL

CITY BAND W/ SPECIAL GUEST AMANDA SHIRES DPAC (DUR)

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7/16 BILL CALLAHAN ($22/$25)

5/4 MARY LATTIMORE & MAC MCCAUGHAN W/ THE PAUL SWEST ($15)

5/22 GHOST OF PAUL REVERE ($15) 5/23 MARTI JONES & DON DIXON W/ J.D. FOSTER ( $15) 5/24 SONS OF PARADISE, AFRICA UNPLUGGED, THE UP & UP ($10) 5/25 VIOLET BELL (FULL BAND) W/ LIBBY RODENBOUGH OF MIPSO AND TATIANA HARGREAVES ($8/$10) 5/31 THE SH-BOOMS ($12) 6/1 SOLAR HALOS RECORD RELEASE SHOW W/ MAKE, MOURNING CLOAK 6/2 THE MYSTERY LIGHTS W/ FUTURE PUNX ($12/$14) 6/5 CAROLINE SPENCE 6/8 MATT ANDERSON W/ERIN COSTELLO ($15-$18) 6/12 EARTH W/HELMS ALEE ($15)

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5/5 RUEN BROTHERS (10/$12)

6/13 DYLAN LEBLANC ($12/$15)

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8/1 DONAVON FRANKENREITER ($20/$24)

5/7 MURS W/ LOCKSMITH ($15/$17)

6/17 CULTURE ABUSE ($15/$18)

8/7 MENZINGERS W/ THE SIDEKICKS, QUEEN OF JEANS

5/11 JON SHAIN AND FJ VENTRE W/ ROD ABERNETHY ($12/$15)

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Natural Fantasies Two months ago, Nick Williams wrote a feature on a wave of natural wines making their way into the Triangle. This elicited an impassioned response from Durham wine importer Jean-Christian Rostagni, who says the story’s premise is a fantasy.

“I exclusively import French wines, almost all from really small producers, and while they are not all organic, because sometimes climate change makes it challenging, they are all trying to use as few chemicals as possible,” Rostagni writes. “Even in Bordeaux, where organic wine growing was an oddity only a few years ago, it is now developing, and that is true everywhere in France at least, because most have realized that organic growing produces better wines.

After reading your article, I am wondering if you are not exposing a non-issue.

“It is unclear to me—and to the producers to whom I have shown your article—what meaningful difference, except drinkability or excellence, there really is between your so-called natural wines and organic ones. Organic winemakers certainly won’t use treatments if they don’t feel they need them. Like last year, it rained a lot in the spring, even in Provence, and the ones who saved the year are the ones who managed to pull out the tractor and spray the ‘Bouillie bordelaise’—copper—as often as needed because that stuff gets washed away by rainfall. But without it, the vine gets mildew, and then there is no harvest.

“So are these guys in the hands of the chemical magnates? Really, the natural wines you are describing can only be the result of amazingly rare growing conditions, where little intervention is necessary, or yield questionable results. Let’s also not forget that, given the worldwide shortage of wine, especially good wine, we would all have to drastically ration our consumption if we only had to drink these miraculous ‘natural wines.’

“The premise of your article rests on the fantasy that people use chemicals for the kick they get out of it, or something like that, while such use is actually born out of pure necessity, at least for the good winemakers. Because let’s face it, winemaking is truly an art, and it never ceases to amaze me observing how different the outcome can be between a talented winemaker and

“Quality wine, like everything else, cannot be cheap.”

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his or her neighbor, who may not be as well inspired. So let’s not try to create an issue where there is none, and if you want to be a good steward of the earth, your body, and your palate, drink organic wines when they are available, and good, for they are not all equal. But please also understand that quality wine, like everything else, cannot be cheap.”

Last week, Erin Williams wrote about efforts to improve pedestrian access to downtown Durham from Hayti, a historically black neighborhood cut off from the rest of the city during Urban Renewal.

“I worked in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the mid-eighties where the same thing happened,” writes Susan Carver Williams. “A thriving, multiuse workingclass area was cut off in the sixties by the new Interstate 40. It became a neglected, unsafe near-ghost town. The big, beautiful church hangs on, but just barely. It’s a sad reality that redevelopment has not typically been for the people already there. I hope Durham can do better going forward.”

Referencing the recent purchase of Heritage Square by a Texas developer, KD Choquette writes: “My concern is not only the squeezing out the historic community from Hayti in redevelopment or gentrification of downtown Durham, but also the potential loss of a much-needed organization that helps underserved population of people living with mental illness or substance abuse recovery—Recovery International. I’m not sure of the specifics, but having spent time there among the people RI serves and the staff, I know that losing this community outlet to redevelopers (who will inherently push out vulnerable populations) will be deeply felt and become a wound that may not ever heal for the overall community.

Thank you for bringing this issue to light!”

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indynews

Don’t Throw Away the Key NORTH CAROLINA’S LOCK-’EM-UP LEGISLATURE MIGHT BE SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE BY SARAH WILLETS

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ntil 1941, people convicted of first-degree burglary and arson in North Carolina faced a mandatory death sentence. Until December—when a law passed two years ago kicks in—the state will be the only one to automatically prosecute sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds as adults, thanks to a policy that’s been on the books for a century. And North Carolina is still ten times more likely to lock up a person of color than a white person, according to the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

The Tar Heel state has seldom been on the cutting edge of criminal justice reform. But a flurry of proposals this legislative session suggests that could change—or, at least, that there’s a new sense of urgency in how lawmakers are approaching incarceration.

This year, about two dozen bills have been filed to change the way North Carolina’s justice system treats people, from pretrial release to sentencing to reentry into society. Not all will become law, but many have bipartisan support.

“From my perspective, and I’ve shared this with many individuals, this is the most focused [session] on meaningful criminal justice reform that I’ve ever seen,” says Daniel Bowes, an attorney with the North Carolina Justice Center who has lobbied on reentry issues for seven years.

Tarrah Callahan, executive director at Conservatives for Criminal Justice Reform, who’s been working with Republican legislators on criminal justice bills, agrees. “It is a really exciting time that we’re seeing so much energy and willingness to consider different alternatives,” she says.

Republicans have controlled the General Assembly since 2011, and their support is necessary for anything to pass. And while the GOP has traditionally staked out toughon-crime positions, Republicans’ willingness to advance reforms has grown along with awareness about the consequences of incarceration.

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both caucuses get this issue and feel some urgency, and that translates into leadership support. What you’re seeing this year is that the leadership is supporting this.”

This momentum has been building since the 2011 Justice Reinvestment Act, which rerouted corrections spending to community programs aimed at reducing recidivism, Bowes says. Examining the costs of the criminal justice system grew into a larger look at its collateral consequences. Adding to the momentum are North Carolina’s Raise the Age Act, a bipartisan law passed in 2017 that, come December, will keep most sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds who are charged with crimes in the juvenile system; and the federal First Step Act, passed with President Trump’s signature, which reduces some federal sentences. Last month, four Republican state senators filed the North Carolina First Step Act, which is patterned after the federal legislation.

These issues resonate with conservatives, Callahan says, because they are evidence-based. Research shows that people are more successful when post-incarceration barriers are reduced.

“When we started talking about conservative criminal justice reform, oftentimes we would say, ‘These issues are consistent with conservative principles. We are supporting them because we are conservative, not in spite of it,’” Callahan says. “It’s really become something that you don’t necessarily have to add that qualifier anymore.”

Bills filed this session to eliminate sentences of life in prison without parole for juveniles and to end the death penalty for people with mental illnesses have bipartisan sponsors. (Efforts to repeal the death penalty and limit the use of solitary confinement for inmates with mental illnesses, meanwhile, only have Democrats on board so far.) House Bill 460—whose primary sponsors are Republicans, though fourteen Democrats have signed on—would prohibit state agencies from asking job applicants about their criminal history prior to

a conditional offer and “encourage” private employers to do the same.

A bill to study recidivism and tools to reduce it also has bipartisan support, as does House Bill 930, which—expanding on a 2016 law—would notify district attorneys if people serving an active sentence of at least six months have pending misdemeanors or infractions and create a process for dismissing those cases prior to their release.

Several more bipartisan bills seek to broaden expunction eligibility, allowing teens to expunge convictions for which they would no longer be tried in adult court once Raise the Age takes effect and making it easier for people to expunge charges that were dismissed or resulted in a not-guilty finding. One proposal would automatically expunge dismissed charges rather than requiring a person to petition for the expunction.

There appears to be more bipartisan support for bills dealing with sentencing, expunctions, and reentry than those focused on the front end of the criminal justice systems, perhaps because of the bail industry’s lobbying power.

Democrats have proposed bills to study the cash bail system and fund pilot programs to reduce the use of secured bonds.

A proposal to require some defendants to be released from jail pretrial with only a written promise to appear in court has two Republican sponsors. Callahan has worked with Republican legislators on House Bill 885, which would track jail data across the state.

“The most work has been done on reentry because, honestly, it’s just easier,” Bowes says. “Somebody has already been convicted and held accountable. At that point, it’s sort of an easy question: Do you think somebody should be punished for the rest of their lives, isolated from opportunities, and really pushed into a revolving-door criminal justice system, or do you think they should be given a fair chance?” swillets@indyweek.com

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Debtors’ Jail

A REPORT SAYS N.C. COUNTIES ARE LOSING MONEY

BY INCARCERATING PEOPLE OVER COURT DEBT

BY SARAH WILLETS

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orth Carolina counties see a “net financial loss” from incarcerating people over unpaid court debt, according to a new report by the state American Civil Liberties Union.

The report, called “At All Costs,” looks at the consequences of rising fines and fees across the state. The ACLU submitted public records requests and observed hundreds of court sessions in an effort to understand how many people are being detained for unpaid court debt, the costs to counties, and the revenue that the state brings in from those fines and fees.

“On average, a county spends more money incarcerating a North Carolinian for court debt than that individual owes debt,” the report says.

The report tells the stories of people directly affected by these costs—including a single mother in Robeson County who had to use rent money to pay $275 in court debt and a forty-two-year-old Edgecombe man who is still on probation four years after being released from prison because he couldn’t pay $1,300 in court debt as well as a monthly $40 probation fee.

Over the past twenty years, the number

of fees imposed in District Court has grown from four to forty-five, the ACLU says. For indigent people who get convicted, there’s a $60 fee for the appointment of an attorney.

There’s a $20 fee for going on a payment plan to pay off debt, and a $250 fee if community service is imposed. For those who fail to appear in court, there’s a $200 fee. If they don’t pay their debt, that’s a $50 fee. (If the charges are traffic-related, they’ll also have their licenses suspended indefinitely.)

Court costs have also gone up. Much of this revenue goes to the state’s general fund, like the General Court of Justice Fee, which applies to all criminal cases and has increased from $61 in 1999 to $147.50 today.

Not paying these fines and fees can cause a person to be held in contempt and jailed.

Sitting in on court proceedings in four counties—Robeson, Edgecombe, Avery, and Mecklenburg—the ACLU found that judges often don’t inquire into a person’s ability to pay before imposing fines and fees, and people are often kept under court supervision in lieu of fines and fees being waived.

The Supreme Court held in 1983 that judges must ask about a person’s ability to pay court debt, and the North Carolina Constitution prohibits imprisonment over debt. But the ACLU report describes judges imposing fines and fees as a default and joking about sending defendants to jail.

The report recommends that the General Assembly eliminate fees like the one imposed for appointing an attorney and reduce the General Court of Justice Fee by at least 50 percent. Legislators should also repeal laws requiring that judges who want to waive fines and fees first give notice to agencies that would lose revenue.

In addition, the ACLU recommends that the Administrative Office of the Courts set clear standards for conducting ability-topay hearings, that judges waive fines and fees for those who don’t have the money, and that judges stop holding people in contempt for failure to pay.

“North Carolina must follow the lead of other states and work to end this two-tiered system of unequal justice in which the poor receive harsher, longer punishments for committing the same crimes as the rich, simply because they are poor,” the report says. “Lawmakers, administrative officials, and the courts should develop a more robust, rational, and equitable infrastructure that better documents these problems, accurately assesses people’s financial situation, provides indigent North Carolinians with an attorney at every step of the process, encourages judges to waive fees when appropriate, and ensures that no one in our state is sent to jail or prison simply because they are poor.” swillets@indyweek.com

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Appeals on Wheels

A RALEIGH LAW FIRM GIVES LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS FREE ADVICE OUT OF AN RV. IS THAT LEGAL?

BY LEIGH TAUSS

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for one-day events four times a year on and the issue exists in enough of a gray area n Monday morning, Stacy Fields a single property. To date, however, the that it took the city two weeks to answer the walks across the parking lot of the firm has held six “guerilla-style” pop-ups, INDY’s question about its status.

Food Lion on Raleigh Boulevard though it hasn’t gotten any pushback from (“We do not give legal advice to the public toward a blue and white Winnebago, where Raleigh officials. (The lawyers were asked or answer hypothetical legal questions for four men in blue polo shirts sit in folding to leave the Cary Town Center.). the press,” city attorney Robin Tatum Curchairs under an awning. She has a question.

Another wrinkle: That code is about to rin told the INDY in an email last week, after She hopes they have answers. change. At a public hearing on May 7, the asking the newspaper whether it wished to It’s been a year since her mother’s death, Fields says, and there’s been a nagging issue over the estate. But there aren’t many lawyers’ offices near her East Raleigh home—certainly, none that will help her for free—so she hasn’t been able to clear up the matter.

In her neighborhood, she says, “I know for a fact there aren’t any resources as far as Legal Aid.” There’s help today.

The polo-shirted men are partners in the Raleigh firm Osborn Gambale Beckley & Budd. Fields had spotted them—and their Winnebago—on her daily walk and figured she’d give them a try. Attorney Justin Osborn escorts her inside the air-conditioned RV. They talk for twenty minutes.

“I have a lot more clarity,” Fields says as she leaves. “I got my questions answered.”

Fields is one of about sixty people the firm has helped over the last two weeks since taking their North Boylan Avenue practice on the road, going into low-income neighborhoods where residents normally don’t have access to legal assistance for issues like traffic tickets, landlord disputes, personal Stacy Fields gets legal advice from Justin Osborn inside a Winnebago. PHOTO BY BOB KARP injury cases, and expungements. city council will consider an ordinance— file a zoning complaint. “That is beyond the “You don’t have a law firm for miles in already three years in the making, but scope of our authority and duties.”) that area,” Osborn says. “It’s really sort of delayed last year because council member The current city code effectively bans a legal desert. People have problems with Kay Crowder was unable to reach the busimost mobile retailers. And on Monday transportation. They have issues getting ness owner who’d proposed the change and evening, assistant planning director Trato a lawyer. Some people are worried about thus thought it might not be necessary (he’d vis Crane told the INDY that the mobile the process and don’t want to go to a stuffy gone out of business)—that will legalize law firm likely meets the city’s definition office. Just giving an option of a place you mobile retail, but with limitations. Mobile of mobile retail, which means it’s subject can walk up to and ask a few questions is retailers will be restricted to no more than to city regulations even though it doesn’t extremely valuable.” ten events per site for up to two days at a charge for consultations. Right now, the The problem: What they’re doing could time—a maximum of twenty days per year. city only allows mobile retailers to set up be illegal, though no one’s told the firm that, 8 | 4.24.19 | INDYweek.com

“That would really neuter what we’re trying to do,” Osborn says. “Our goal is to be out two days a week.”

The proposed ordinance defines mobile retail as “the sale of certain goods or services” from a camper or travel trailer.

Though the lawyers aren’t selling anything, at least one person with whom they’ve consulted has turned into a paying client, Osborn says.

If Crane’s interpretation is correct, it’s probably not by design. Reached earlier this week, city council members who support the new ordinance—but were unsure about how it would affect the mobile law firm— agreed that the city’s lower-income areas need more legal resources.

“I think that’s probably an excellent idea,” council member David Cox told the INDY. “In fact, I was exploring the possibility of the city offering legal help to lower-income residents particularly when they are faced with things like evictions.”

“Everybody needs equal access to legal services,” added council member Russ Stephenson. “I hope that folks who want to provide free legal services are encouraged to do so.”

The council could try to clarify or amend the ordinance in May. Indeed, when told Tuesday morning that Crane thought the mobile law firm fell under the city’s mobile retail rules, Stephenson appeared to lean in that direction.

“If these people are truly offering a valuable free legal aid service to the community,” he said, “we should make sure our rules allow them to do their good work.”

Then again, amending the ordinance might lead to yet another delay.

For now, Osborn says he plans to keep doing what he’s doing.

“We know members of the city council are aware of what we’re doing,” Osborn says. “Until someone tells us to stop, we’re going to assume what we’re doing is lawful.” ltauss@indyweek.com

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our first clue that Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know what’s in the Mueller report is the date of its release: the day before Passover and Easter weekend, but a whole twenty-five days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered it and Attorney General William Barr assured Congress (and a gullible media) that the president had been cleared of wrongdoing.

Your second clue is that Trump spent the week prior rage-tweeting about the “18 Angry Democrats” on Mueller’s team who had—the logic gets a little twisted here—nonetheless rendered a “NO COLLUSION! NO OBSTRUCTION!” verdict.

Trump’s lawyers had gotten a sneak peek at the report’s 448 pages, and the president seemed less than thrilled by his exoneration.

Your third clue is that, the morning of the “lightly” redacted report’s release, Barr— whose history of covering up Republican crimes dates to Iran-Contra—held a press conference to repeatedly declare that there was “no collusion.”

This was all a shameless attempt to preemptively frame an obviously bullshit narrative. Once the report dropped, we saw how deep the bullshit actually ran.

Before we get there, though, imagine that everything in the Mueller report was new and The New York Times and Washington Post hadn’t revealed its contents over the last two years. (So much for #FakeNews, huh?) Imagine we learned for the first time that the Trump campaign welcomed Russia’s help in swinging the election; that, throughout the campaign, Trump was trying to build a $300 million high-rise in Moscow; and that Trump tried to intimidate witnesses and shut down the investigation.

The calls for impeachment would be deafening. Instead, the frog has boiled slowly, and Trump is trying to claim vindication.

There’s no vindication in Mueller’s words, at least to anyone with third-grade reading comprehension. To my mind, the report makes three things abundantly clear.

First, there was collusion—with WikiLeaks, which was publishing documents obtained by Russian hackers. Per Mueller’s report: “By the late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign, and messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks.”

And there were lots of shady campaign contacts with Russian operatives, including Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Kremlinconnected lawyer teasing “incriminating” information on Hillary Clinton. (Mueller concluded in part that Don Jr. was too naïve to realize that soliciting assistance from a foreign government was illegal.)

There’s no vindication in Mueller’s words.

But collusion isn’t a crime. The crime is conspiracy and coordination. While the campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks to disseminate the emails, Mueller decided he couldn’t establish a conspiracy with Russia.

Second, Trump tried to obstruct justice. Mueller “found multiple acts by the President that were capable of exerting undue influence over law enforcement investigations.”

In his summary to Congress, Barr brushed aside Trump’s obstruction by saying that, since there was no underlying conspiracy, Trump had no criminal intent.

But Mueller disputed that: “The evidence does point to a range of other possible personal motives animating the President’s conduct.” Among them: Trump saw the investigation as an attack on his legitimacy, and he also worried that it might expose other illegal or unflattering conduct.

As it turns out, Trump got lucky. His advisers simply ignored him: “The president’s efforts to influence the investigation

were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests,” Mueller wrote. And he escaped prosecution by virtue of the fact that a “federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President’s capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct.”

But there’s no doubt Mueller had the goods—that much he telegraphed. According to Department of Justice policy, Trump can’t be prosecuted while in office. Mueller wrote that if he reported that the president committed a crime, Trump wouldn’t have a chance to defend himself in court.

Meanwhile, an accusation that “could carry consequences that extend beyond the realm of criminal justice” would linger. That wouldn’t be fair to Trump, Mueller said. So instead, he punted to Congress.

Third, Trump lies all the time. About everything. Everyone around him lies, too.

A small sampling: During the campaign, Trump lied about his Moscow venture, and, Mueller wrote, “expressed skepticism that Russia had hacked the emails at the same time as he and other Campaign advisers privately sought information [redacted] about any further WikiLeaks releases.”

As president, Trump authored a press release that lied about his son’s meeting with a Russian operative, then his lawyer lied about Trump’s involvement with that press release. Trump lied about how he came to fire Comey. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders lied about the “countless” FBI agents who wanted rid of Comey (under oath, she confessed to making that up). Trump lied that he never directed the White House counsel to fire Mueller. Barr lied about what was in Mueller’s report.

Now Trump is lying that Mueller’s report exonerates him and that his enemies somehow fabricated the entire investigation.

The bullshit is an ocean. jbillman@indyweek.com

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FULL CIRCUIT

The Triangle’s premier electronic festival stays elite and global without neglecting the rich culture we have here at home

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ith its focus on the coolest electronic music, the latest technology, and the biggest ideas, Moogfest’s challenge in Durham has always been accessibility. The availability of day passes has fluctuated—nonexistent some years, scantily promoted in others—keeping the financial barrier to entry high.

And the free programming has generally been geared to people for whom building analog synthesizers and listening to arcane tech-futurist talks are parts of daily life. A dearth of both local faces and the kind of party music Durham loves sealed the reputation: Beyond its core audience, Moogfest was regarded as an elite festival at odds with the populist city from which it receives significant funds.

This year, though, the festival seems to be getting the hang of this Durham thing.

Day passes for $99 and student passes for $149 have been on sale since Monday, opening the door to those who just want to see a certain act or simply don’t have $249 to spend for the full pass. And while the main stages are still stocked with names that ring out to electronic heads but are virtually unknown to the general public—see GAS, William Basinski, and Tim Hecker, whom we interviewed for our lead story on page 11—the enhanced free offerings this year include a lot more Actual Music, much of it made or spun by Actual Locals.

In addition to free parties at Quarter Horse with Party Illegal, The Conjure, Mamis & the Papis, Raund Haus, and other local lights (see Eric Tullis’s story on page 15), there’s also a whole slate of free music on Saturday at the American Tobacco Campus, including footwork auteur RP Boo, local rapper Mez, and freaking Questlove, the festival’s best-known artist. Even the deep-tech freebies have a more accessible vibe than before, with the inclusion of N.C. State Libraries’ Saturday lab, where kids and adults can play with virtual reality and robots. Considering all this alongside our other Moogfest previews, including the politicized pop of U.S. Girls and the democratic demands of filmmaker Astra Taylor, you can see Moogfest finding ways to meet Durham where it lives without changing its esteemed, challenging bookings a jot.

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DEAFENING SILENCE An artist of volume and density embraces Japanese classical music and the power of empty space BY BRIAN HOWE

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im Hecker has been very quiet about Konoyo—quiet enough that we were pleasantly surprised when, Moogfestbound, he agreed to speak with us about it. Though an internet search returns plenty of glowing reviews, the only readily available interview was in The Japan Times upon the album’s release in September. At first, Hecker’s reticence and its exception both seem like unusual choices for a North American musician more often found in FACT or FADER than in Japanese English-language dailies. But both are apt of an album on which an artist of volume and density wades deep into Japanese music history and the airy hush of negative space.

Of course, beyond outright silence, what counts as negative space in music is highly subjective. To one person, a rampaging synthesizer arpeggio or a hazy drone might fill up the room; to another, it might outline what isn’t there. In any case, it’s not a property that critics have strongly associated with Hecker before. He’s often called an ambient musician, and—like The Disintegration Loops creator William Basinski, who performs Moogfest’s nightlong “sleep concert” this year—he is about as well-known and widely acclaimed as an ambient musician can be. But the term might give a wrong impression of soft-centered tone clouds and lapping synthesizers. Instead, Hecker digitally processes instruments such as guitars, pianos, and pipe organs, often beyond recognition, into sheer, forbidding structures that jut into the foreground.

You might call this “loud ambient,” a beautiful borderland fouled with runoff from the electronic-noise factories upriver. Clangorous and concussive, with heft and brawn, it roars secrets instead of whispering them. In a Konoyo rave that dubbed Hecker “ambient music’s willowy pope,” NPR Music was stirred to invoke crushing, smothering, plummeting, hell, Paradise Lost, Francis Bacon paintings, and thunderstorms, all in just two paragraphs, to approximate his discography’s force. We’re a long way from the dulcet piano intervals of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports. Yet ambient music’s insistence on evoking natural phenomena remains intact.

As we speak with Hecker, a tornado is supposedly heading for Durham, and when it turns out he’s interested in storm-chasers, we can’t help but wonder if the urge to drive into the heart of a tornado’s awesome, implacable natural violence might be related to the forms of his music.

“It’s not a compositional thing—I don’t make tornados,” he says, allowing, “I’m really more interested in the eerie negative space you’re talking about living in right now,

before the tornado hits, when all the air pressure sucks out of a space.”

This is the feeling that pervades Konoyo, where the tension and unease that once blared now hisses and breathes. Gone is the jackhammering distortion of Ravedeath, 1972, the floodlit sandstorm of Harmony in Ultraviolet, giving way the kind of Eastern tonality that sounds so eerie to Western ears and the sinuous, sharply etched gestures of live musicians. Hecker’s electronics usually sound like they could devour anything in their path, especially acoustic music, but Konoyo cultivates the impression that they’re being absorbed by the musicians instead. The most significant negative space opens between Hecker and the ensemble together in a room, and it fills with a kind of reverent presence.

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his isn’t the first time Hecker has plumbed antiquity for inspiration—Love Streams was rooted in medieval and Renaissance choral music by the likes of Josquin des Prez—but it might be the first time he has assimilated to the form he’s exploring instead of assimilating it. Konoyo is a collaboration with Motonori Miura, Fumiya Otonashi, and other members of Tokyo Gakuso.

The ensemble is steeped in the tradition and innovation of gagaku, an ancient form of Japanese classical music associated with Kyoto’s Imperial Court. It’s played on a battery of stringed, wind, and percussion instruments; Hecker focuses on the ryūteki (a flute), the hichiriki (oboe-like), and the shō (a mouth organ), all mortared together with a bit of European cello. It wasn’t the only distance between East and West that he had to figure out how to bridge.

The gagaku instruments seem like an obvious match for Hecker’s richly clustered electronic drones, but when he and the ensemble began to play together, they realized that the Western synthesizers were tuned almost half a step higher than the gagaku instruments.

To get an idea of how that sounds, Google Van Halen’s infamous out-of-tune performance of “Jump” in Greensboro.

“That would give you a sense of my first attempt to play 440 Hz [synths] with 430 Hz [instruments],” Hecker says. “It sounds like dogs howling, in the worst way. I took a lot of the material to Stones Throw Studios here in LA, put it on tape, and pitched it down, and then bounced it back to digital. You can also do digital techniques to pitch shift. But it’s a puzzle piece that didn’t make sense immediately, and it was challenging. You think you can just bring your synthesizers and improvise, but it takes a while to figure out what’s going on with tonality and harmony.”

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“Harmonic saturation is almost ubiquitous in our world, so what does that mean for writing music as an art practice or for making peace with your existence?”

Hecker says his interest in gagaku came into focus a few years ago, when he started to find “really good recordings, made in the seventies, with beautiful microphones.

The room just sounded like clank, clank— this absolutely otherworldly clanging sound.”

Intrigued by the timbres, phrasings, and tonal relationships, he delved deeper at the urging of his Love Streams collaborator, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, who told Hecker that gagaku influenced his Sicario score.

“Gagaku has a repertoire of standards, just like jazz standards, and it has deep meaning and reverence,” Hecker says. “It set my mind off, and I thought about ways to interact with this music that’s not a cliché exoticism, but some kind of deeper conversation between musicians who are interested in expanding their respective crafts into different places.”

Hecker could have sampled some gagaku recordings or found a North American newmusic ensemble capable in the form. Instead, he traveled to Japan multiple times to develop a relationship with the Tokyo Gakuso musicians, and they ended up recording together in a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, with themes begetting improvisations, improvisations begetting samples, samples begetting new explorations.

As a result of this intimate process, a sound artist known for posthuman grandeur has created a strikingly human album. But while Konoyo pays deference to an ancient cultural form, it also repudiates a modern one—the sonic density Hecker hears everywhere around him, and, perhaps, the density critics have often inferred in his music.

While the consensus is that Konoyo is the culmination of a trend toward fewer layers and decibels in Hecker’s music, he sees it as more of a pendulum he’s on.

“Digital technology has made it so easy,” he says. “You can increasingly just stack four hundred layers. What does that make the value of that? It feels like every commercial has post-EDM filter sweep sound design.

Harmonic saturation is almost ubiquitous in our world, so what does that mean for writing music as an art practice or for making peace with your existence? It may not be to amplify that trajectory. I think I bounce back and forth between those positions, and I think that’s OK.” Hecker has been at both Moogfest and Hopscotch before, and the sets were visceral and monumental. This time, he’ll have to make space for an ensemble of live musicians, and the impending release of Anoyo, a companion EP with more naturalistic sketches from the Konoyo sessions, isn’t likely to dispel the narrative that a loud-ambient icon has mellowed out. But Konoyo, while spacious and quiet, isn’t so much mellow as coiled, like something about to strike.

Remember, a pendulum always seems to halt before it swings back the other way.

“When I play with an ensemble I generally go for a lighter touch, but still, force and volume and intensity is something I enjoy very much playing live,” Hecker says. “Don’t think I’m in my twilight era where I’m going to start twinkling into negative space as much as possible. I’m not there yet.” bhowe@indyweek.com

TIM HECKER & THE KONOYO ENSEMBLE Conversation: Friday, Apr. 26, 2 p.m.

Performance: Friday, Apr. 26, 11 p.m.

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As U.S. Girls, Meg Remy buries political razor blades in leftfield-pop gloss

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veryone is about self-mythologizing these days,” says Meg Remy of U.S Girls. It’s the second weekend of Coachella, and she’s speaking via Facetime from her tour manager’s phone as her crew zips around, getting ready to perform that night. I’d asked if she felt any artistic kinship with the festival’s other headlining acts, such as the ascendant teen pop star and poptimist argument-starter, Billie Eilish.

Comparing the two might seem bizarre, but such is the nature of the post-Spotify landscape we inhabit. Everything becomes a continuum. In the press, Remy is usually sorted as a “pop experimentalist,” a catchall also used for more mainstream provocateurs like Eilish. At a time when mixing pop and “weird” is commonplace, it actually isn’t that hard to tie a corkboard string between Eilish’s Interscope-stamped pop and someone who once released her music on the Philly noise label Siltbreeze.

Remy, an avowed pop devotee, says she respects everyone’s hustle, but she isn’t too concerned about where she falls on a continuum with them.

“Labels and the industry need real artists just as much as those artists need labels,” she says. “I do my best not to pay too much attention to current trends in music, because I have always only aspired to do what I find meaningful.”

As anyone who has ever read an interview knows, almost every musician leans on this exact brand of purist self-reliance to mythologize themselves. But for once, I believe it. Compared to your average PR-coached phoner, Remy seems to spring forth from her own inexhaustible life force and personality. She is not one to pull punches or safely cushion her opinions in niceties.

In fact, during our conversation—which we’d present in its entirety if not for the

shaky phone connection—she is the opposite, prone to nuanced, longform opinions on any subject at hand.

Of course, there’s more to Remy than hot takes. Starting with 2008’s Introducing, she has racked up seven idiosyncratic albums and a number of other releases, ranging from outré hiss-caked droners to hooky hi-fi indiepop ballads that you might carefully position in a wooing mixtape.

Last year’s In a Poem Unlimited was her second consecutive record for legacy label 4AD and her second to be nominated for Canada’s Juno Award. Glossy and sparkling, it achieves the rare trick of effectively burying caustic, politically incensed miniatures in good leftfield pop songs, slathering razor blades in layers of contemporary Top 40 production oomph. Intriguing single “MAH” ostensibly could work as an empowered breakup anthem, though in reality, the song is about the failings of Barack Obama.

Don’t worry, Remy is emphatically not a conservative—she just doesn’t do sacred cows, and the targets of her protests are diverse. The song “Rage of Plastics,” for instance—a cover of the Canadian band Fiver—takes aim at industry, telling the tale of a woman who becomes infertile after working in a chemical refinery.

Remy’s pop music is partly fueled by heady political material: She’s recently been rereading Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, a subversive retelling of the history of the Americas that, she says, is “a bit more poetic” than Howard Zinn.

Though Remy has the deep reference pool and wit of your favorite Twitter personality, the nuance of her lyrics and opinions seem at odds with the tidy conventional wisdom of modern social media.

“Twitter is strange to me because it represents the flattening of the information pyramid, of high and low,” she says. “It is

Meg Remy PHOTO BY COLIN MEDLEY genuinely difficult to find truth when your cousin, politicians, celebrities, and corporations are all put together in the same place.”

Remy’s inclusion in Moogfest this year isn’t a total shocker. After all, in the last few years, her music has edged toward dubbier electronic zones, thanks in part to her longtime collaborator, the Canadian hip-hop producer Onakabazien. You could see ecstatic cuts like the Italo disco-esque “Window Shades,” from her 2015 record, Half Free, easily sliding into a deejay’s club set.

Last year, Moogfest’s initial lineup announcement caused some controversy when Caroline Polachek of the group Chairlift publically denounced the organizers on social media and exited the festival. In Polachek’s opinion, the festival stocking the first wave with women and nonbinary people

was tokenizing marketing, and she demanded to be “put with the boys.”

As a prominent artist in feminist dialogue, Remy is frequently saddled with this sort of discussion of patriarchy, and she’s a staunch realist about it.

“Moog or other festivals consciously promoting non-male artists doesn’t bother me at all,” she says. “Personally, I am thrilled that festivals are booking more lineups with women and people of color and varying identity. But these organizations are also coming out of decades where this sort of progressive push wasn’t was happening at all, and it was all white dudes. The benefit is larger in the long term. It comes down to the responsibility of companies like Moog to internalize this beyond a single lineup.” arts@indyweek.com

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THE PARADOX OF DEMOCRACY

Astra Taylor's experimental documentary spans Ancient Greece and modern Raleigh, interrogating the problems and possibilities of a restive political system

BY SARAH EDWARDS

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The title of Taylor’s forthcoming book—out May 7 from Metropolitan Books—puts this contradiction succinctly: We May Not Have Democracy, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone.

Taylor does not wax nostalgic about democracy, which she traces from its origins in the slave state of ancient Athens to more recent times, when it was used to justify the U.S. invasion of Silvia Federici and Astra Taylor in What is Democracy? PHOTO COURTESY OF ZEITGEIST FILMS Iraq. Instead, the film functions more as a documentary essay “There’s a reason that democracy is so structural change, then what’s the point if I’m intent on defining both the pitfalls and possiquarantined and limited,” Taylor says, just shouting into the void? The role of phibilities of democracy's experiment—a sweep“Because it means the power of the people losophy is digging into things in a way where, ing premise, to be sure, but it's refreshing to and it means a radical reordering of our even if there’s not an answer, it helps us idensee political theory coaxed out of the academy society, which a lot of people don’t want.” tify problems so that we can set goals and and grounded in the present moment.

With 2020 on the horizon, these make progress.”

“We live in a moment of profound political observations can be frightening, and But even when Taylor talks about the potcrisis and yet we often take the term that we’re potentially frustrating for those looking holes of progress, you can detect a note of throwing around for granted,” Taylor says. “I to walk out of the theater with a specific infectious optimism. The cinematography in think the word democracy, which means, ‘the call to action or a hashtag to tweet. But the film underscores this openness, with the people have the power’—it’s a very compliWhat Is Democracy? is not a traditional handheld camera framing every subject in an cated concept. The film tries to explore many issue documentary: It suggests that equal gaze, whether they're Cornel West or a of the tensions and obstacles standing in the philosophical inquiry can build a student at N.C. State. way of us making more democratic progress. foundation for change—if, that is, we can The latter interviews feel particularly It’s designed to get the audience thinking, as first go about defining what it is that we’re alarming, with young conservatives admitopposed to a kind of straightforward piece of fighting for. ting that a democratic society is an explicpropaganda or call to a single action.”

Federici is the last person in the film to it threat to their status (one young woman Taylor, who has previously made two other take on the titular question. Standing below states that while democracy does not inspire films—Zizek! (2005) and Examined Life the fresco, she turns her gaze upward. her, the “ability to climb” does). The film cap(2008)—is known for her organizing work “Democracy is worth fighting for,” she says. tures a shift—or, return—in conservative around economic justice and Occupy Wall “But we have to be sure how we define it— thought, in which the democratic ideal seems Street. When it comes to Occupy, she’s not not from above, always from below.” no longer even bundled into phony talking shy about articulating its flaws. sedwards@indyweek.com points about patriotism.

“It was this idealized situation where everybody had a voice, but there was no mechanism by which people had to follow through,” WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? she says. “We talk a lot about voice in this Saturday, Apr. 27, 3:30 p.m., free society, you know, ‘people need a voice’—but Full Frame Theater, Durham people need power. I can tell my stories until www.moogfest.com the cows come home, but if there’s not actual

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n contrast with the sometimes-obscure offerings of prior years, Moogfest’s free programming this year has a distinctly accessible cast. Nowhere is this clearer than in Astra Taylor’s new film, in which she asks the most populist, if daunting, question of all: What is democracy? To answer it, Taylor begins by traveling around the world and talking to people. North Carolina is one of her many stops.

What Is Democracy?, distributed by Zeitgeist Films, takes us to a Trump rally in Raleigh and protests in Charlotte. Guatemalan refugees sew at a cooperative in Morganton. Reverend William Barber delivers a rousing speech at a Moral March. Delaney Vandergrift, the former student-body president of North Carolina A&T State University, gives a powerful interview about the inherent precarity of being a black activist.

Following Saturday afternoon’s screening at Full Frame Theater (half the tickets will be available for free at the box office), Taylor will discuss the film with Vandergrift, Lea Martin, Jillian Johnson, and Tara Smith. Taylor, whose parents live in Greensboro, says that she finds North Carolina compelling because “It’s a laboratory for legislative minority rule. It’s a warning to the nation. It’s great that people are making inroads, taking back state power, but I think that it speaks to something very broad.”

Outside of North Carolina, the staging Taylor uses to investigate this amorphous question is expansive. In the memorable first scene, Taylor and the Marxist-feminist scholar Silvia Federici stare up at Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s The Allegory of Good and Bad Government, a fourteenth-century fresco that depicts the struggle between justice and tyranny, and powerfully foregrounds the high stakes of the question.

From Italy, Taylor travels to Greece to unpack the financial crisis and to Miami to speak with trauma surgeons, schoolchildren, and a formerly incarcerated hairdresser. Each conversation gets deeper into the paradox of our political experience— that although we may feel democracy eroding, it has also never existed.

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Party Illegal at The Pinhook has been a key part of Durham's growing electronic-dance culture. FILE PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE

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In one stroke, Moogfest is bolstering its pure dance offerings, its accessibility, and its local foundation BY ERIC TULLIS

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on’t worry, Durham—thanks to the strong presence of local dance-andparty outfits such as The Floor, Party Illegal, Mamis & the Papis, The Conjure, and Raund Haus, this year’s Moogfest will feel more like home than before. But it took a lot of trying, shifting, collaborating, and discovering to give this festival the local juice it needs to call this city its own.

The knock on Moogfest in prior years was that it could come off as a minefield of obscure electronic subgenres and that it neglected local artists, with most of its populist dance vibes coming from decadent, unofficial warehouse raves at The Fruit—hundreds of Fitbit steps away from the festival and after its last synths sounded—courtesy of the local party people in The Floor. In the festival’s cerebral environment, even its attempts at booking actual dance music didn’t always quite work—I’ll never forget the sight of people standing still and watching techno legend Derrick May.

But this year, after management changes, and thanks to the diligent efforts of local electronic artists and deejays, Moogfest seems to be catching up with what Durham wants: It wants to dance, and it wants to see some people it knows. The natural solution?

Tap the energy that’s already there, the format that’s already working, and hire local heads to do a mix of free and paid dance parties and performances. Two birds, one stone.

Things started trending this way last year, when Moogfest contracted The Floor to produce a party at The Fruit for three nights—sound, lighting, building a DJ booth, everything.

“It evolved from an informal relationship to a formalized relationship,” says Morgan Hayes, the founder and one of four “residents” of The Floor. Now, the house-music mainstays are Moogfest’s official anchor for the entire weekend, doing parties in three rooms of The Fruit instead of one.

But years before The Floor was formed, and even before Moogfest considered

relocating from Asheville to Durham, the Bull City’s queer-friendly, monthly dance throwdown, Party Illegal, had been laying the sonic groundwork for the city to handle an electronic-music takeover. This year, when Moogfest finally gave Party Illegal an official night to help curate, the festival let the crew take the lead.

“It’s been pretty easy to work with them,” says Patrick Phelps-McKeown, who deejays and makes music as Treee City. “There hasn’t been much of them saying, ‘We have this fully fledged out piece of programming and we’ll just slot you in.’”

Alongside deejays Queen Plz, PlayPlay, and others, Treee City has been organizing and playing Party Illegal events for years, most often at The Pinhook. But for Moogfest, the crew moves a block over, to Main Street’s barcade bunker, Quarter Horse, where the festival will try to corral both the general public and ticketholders into Thursday’s free dance party, which also

featuers The Conjure and Mamis & the Papis and starts at six in the evening.

“They way that we did the Quarter Horse thing was having ongoing conversations with people at Moogfest about how we could get locals involved, how we could create something that’s free and open to the public,” says Phelps-McKeown. “How can we open that door and get people in Durham who are doing cool shit, and who might not necessarily be into the world of festival-type electronic music and techno? I don’t want to lump parties like Mamis & the Papis or The Conjure into one monolithic thing, but to me, those are about community and people wanting to dance. It’s not so much about who has the latest twelve-inch from Berlin. I want to hear some cumbia. That is as much a part of dance music as anything else that’s going on.”

Moogfest might have started to realize the power of local dance culture last year, when Durham-based collective Raund Haus managed to squeeze more than twenty-five beat crazies on Motorco’s stage for its first official billing at the festival. Raund Haus also appears this year, with the visual-synth whizzes of Erogenous Tones, at Quarter Horse on Saturday.

Last year, the influential electronic-music website Resident Advisor embedded in Moogfest and wound up putting Raund Haus in its “Five Key Performances” post-festival coverage, alongside national and international acts such as Wajeed, Mouse on Mars, and Suzanne Ciani, writing that the beat crew “satisfied both the head nodders and the dance floor freaks as they cycled through recognizable snippets of rap, uplifting beats, and plain old weird beeps and bloops.”

Raund Haus founder Nick Wallhausser was elated at the write-up, but he still doesn’t think that that somehow earns his crew automatic booking on any festival lineup.

“There’s no ‘deserve,’ and I don’t think that any of these big festivals have to have locals,” he says, recalling Raleigh’s Dreamville Festival, which, while showcasing two Triangle locals, Rapsody and Mez, didn’t rely on them for area acceptance. (Mez also appears in Moogfest’s free programming at the American Tobacco Campus on Saturday.)

“It’s just cool when it can happen,” Wallhausser continues. “In the Triangle, we’re real lucky that there are high-caliber deejays and artists.” With the relationship between those artists and Moogfest looking more solid than ever, everyone trusts it will grow.

“Moogfest has included local acts every year, but it’s been an incremental progress,” says Phelps-McKeown. “I think that Moogfest dials in different [local] parts better for every different iteration of the festival.” music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 4.24.19 | 15

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Unstill as a Statue

WIM BOTHA SEARCHES FOR THE SECRET MARKS THAT INSTILL CLASSICAL IMAGES WITH AGONY AND POWER

BY CHRIS VITIELLO

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outh Africa’s Wim Botha is a bothand artist. Acknowledging the fundamental multiplicity of all things, his works are clear and ambiguous at once, open to not just varied but contradictory interpretations. His first solo museum exhibit in the United States is split between the North Carolina Museum of Art, where it will stay until August 4, and 21c Museum Hotel, where it will be all year. It consists of sculpture, Botha’s primary medium, as well as installations, drawings, and paintings from several ongoing—even obsessive— series from throughout his career.

Drawing upon religion and myth as well as Renaissance and Baroque art history, his most significant repeated subjects include the Pietà (the Virgin Mary holding Jesus’s dead body), Laocoön (the Trojan priest who was consumed, along with his sons, by giant serpents), and Leda (the princess raped by the god Zeus, who had taken the form of a swan). Botha focuses on the most famous of the many depictions of the Pietà and Laocoön: Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the statue of Laocoön and his sons at the Vatican.

From an art-historical perspective, these sculptures are among the ultimate expressions of agony and injustice. Botha spent time in Rome painstakingly recording their dimensions and configurations, which he treats as a physical proxy for the emotions they have expressed so persistently for centuries. He then replicates these subjects in works that range from small drawings to large sculptures in painted bronze, carved polystyrene, and wood. Instead of trying to advance his knowledge of these works down a line of logical inquiry, Botha is testing them, probing the material to discover

exactly which lines hold the power—which configurations of marks convey suffering, righteousness, or sorrow.

Both museums afford an opportunity to get inside Botha’s head as he asks these questions.

At 21c, on the wall next to the monumental bronze “Prism 10 [Dead Laocoön],” there’s an array of sixteen small, abstract drawings of the Laocoön in different styles, from tangled scribbles and Cubist constructions to minimal, ruled lines in a draughtsman’s hand.

Looking between the sculpture and the drawings, one can imagine Botha asking himself: “If I remove this line, or change its relationship to that line, is it still the Laocoön?”

Meanwhile, the “Untitled (Leda)” series at the NCMA consists of more than thirty red figures in oil on paper. Hung at irregular intervals in a horizontal line around three walls of the gallery, they are seen in linear order, like frames in a length of film. It gives the impression that we’re seeing Leda as a single image and as many at once.

These two works are key to Botha’s serial process. Applying analytical rigor and humanist curiosity, he dismantles his subjects to examine their components while revisiting them over time, allowing different facets to emerge and recede. However, he makes no claim for seriality as a path toward comprehensive knowledge of his subjects.

If anything, the sustained inquiry only leads to more questions, and these myths become less knowable and clear as time passes.

Does the Pietà express the agony of the loss of one’s child or the ecstasy of the Resurrection? Botha says it’s about both, embracing the fundamental unknowability of these objects, stories, and symbols, swarmed as they are by associations, values, histories, and contexts.

Top: “Prism 10 [Dead Laocoön]“ Bottom: “Laocoön 7” PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART

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Three times ‘All-Ireland Champion’ Uilleann Piper

“Untitled 38 (Leda)” PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART Take Leda’s story, which seems straightforward enough—she was raped and impregnated by Zeus. But it’s a fiction with no definitive telling or stable narrative. Sometimes it’s a seduction; sometimes there’s consent; sometimes it’s an assault; sometimes it’s both Zeus and Leda’s husband who impregnate her. In his depictions, Michelangelo made the coupling look gentle and holy; François Boucher chose a kind of realism; Fernando Botero made Leda appear to endure an assault through dissociation.

In an artist’s talk at 21c, Botha offered an alternative take, reading Leda as empowered through her beauty and desirability and Zeus as debased and fallen, having taken the form of an animal. The point is that readings accumulate as myths are retold through changing eras. Eventually, all the readings are right—or none are, because the story will outlive you.

So what are these stories for exactly, and why create artwork after artwork out of them? Botha asserts that, because even our most lasting and important cultural

narratives play out in ways we can’t know over time, they point us back to what we can know—ourselves. Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” ties knowledge to subjective being, which gives Botha something to return to throughout his serial inquiry. It also leads into the most both-and series of works in the exhibition.

Botha’s “Solipsis” series, featured at both exhibit venues, consists of large installations of disembodied wings carved from polystyrene and pointed forms constructed from many white fluorescent light tubes.

The title is a logical extension of the Cartesian idea that one’s consciousness proves one’s existence, but not the existence of anything else in the world. The ethereal installations look like half-disappeared angels or ghosts, arriving or fleeing or loitering, appearing out of or dissipating into light. Botha treats not knowing as our condition rather than our problem, and so his work asks “What is my condition?” again and again. arts@indyweek.com

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he Cary-Apex-Morrisville triumvirate pretty much embodies the term “bedroom community.” At least, it did. But as one of the fastest growing areas in the state, it is steadily evolving into more than that.

It’s probably always going to have a suburban soul, but there are a few citified corners to explore and enjoy. —Curt Fields

BANANA LEAF

1026 RYAN ROAD, CARY, 919-468-9958, BANANALEAFCARY.COM The quality of Banana Leaf far outstrips the picturesqueness of its strip-mall location.

There are the usual classics of Chinese menus, such as General Tso’s chicken, but don’t just stick to the tried and true when you order. Give the Vietnamese Triple Country Flavor Beef or the Malaysian Special Shrimp Noodle Soup a try. Also fun to explore is the casserole section of the menu, with such options as Tom Yum Seafood Casserole, Salted Fish and Chicken with Eggplant Casserole, and Beef Brisket Stew with Szechuan Style Casserole.

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ACADEMY STREET BISTRO

200 SOUTH ACADEMY STREET, CARY, 919-377-0509 There’s a dinner menu, but I prefer Academy for a comfortable lunch. Often I stick with a combination of appetizers.

Maybe a serving of crab cakes plus a grilled brie. Go on a Tuesday, when martinis are only $5, or on a Wednesday when mules (Moscow, Kentucky, or Caribbean) are $6.

ANDIA’S HOMEMADE ICE CREAM

10120 GREEN LEVEL CHURCH ROAD, #208, CARY, 919-822-1866, ANDISICECREAM.COM Three words for you: Lemon. Basil.

Sorbet. There are other flavors at Andia’s Homemade Ice Cream, of course. There are delicious varieties of ice cream and sorbet that are sure to please your palate. But, just in case I wasn’t clear, let me repeat: Lemon.

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1222 NORTHWEST MAYNARD ROAD, CARY, 919-799-2023, BREWNQUENC.COM Combining two things I love, Brew N Que is part BBQ joint, part bottle shop—and the brainchild of food truck owner Mike Markham. Start off with the Redneck Nachos or BBQ Egg Rolls. Then chow down on a BBQ platter or a sandwich such as The Big Cheesy (grilled pimento mac and cheese, barbecue, sweet pickles, and sauce). It’s a small room, so get there early.

CORBETT’S BURGERS & SODA BAR

126 KILMAYNE DRIVE, CARY, 919-466-0055, CORBETTSBURGERS.COM I like this straightforward family-owned burger joint. It’s not as fancy as some other places, but this modest spot can more than hold its own with selections such as the Gouda Morning Burger or the Sodalicious Burger. Even if you’re not hungry, it’s worth stopping by to peruse the cases with more than 250 varieties of soda, including regional offerings and unusual flavors.

DANIEL’S RESTAURANT & CATERING

1430 WEST WILLIAMS STREET, APEX, 919-303-1006, DANIELSAPEX.COM This Apex favorite has been serving pastas, pizzas, and desserts since 1996. The atmosphere is relaxed, and the prices are as pleasing as the food. Experience has taught me that if you’re going, make reservations. It’s also taught me not to leave without having the raspberry white chocolate cheesecake.

GOOD HARVEST

1104 LEDSOME LANE, CARY, 919-977-3836, FACEBOOK.COM/GOODHARVESTNC This Chinese restaurant has sister locations in Flushing and Brooklyn, New York, as well as stores dotting China. Good Harvest is all about seafood, with specialties such as Golden Pepper Crisp Fish and the signature Crunch Fish Pot.

HERONS

100 WOODLAND POND DRIVE, CARY, 919-447-4200, THEUMSTEAD.COM/DINING Five-star (from Forbes), five-diamond (from AAA) restaurant Herons, in the upscale Umstead Hotel and Spa, is a great choice for a special occasion meal. It’s pricey, but you eat like a king.

LA FARM BAKERY

4248 NORTHWEST CARY PARKWAY, CARY, 919-657-0657, LAFARMBAKERY.COM The chance to sit and savor the smell of fresh bread and French-press coffees is reason enough to visit La Farm. Of course, the fruits of this bakery’s labors are another excellent reason. Lunch and dinner selections range from quiches to sandwiches to seafood specials. On Sundays, brave the crowds for brunch.

MAXIMILLIANS GRILL & WINE BAR

8314 CHAPEL HILL ROAD, CARY, 919-465-2455, MAXIMILLIANSGRILL.COM Will and Margie Hennessee purchased Maxmillians in 2015 after working there for almost twenty years. The menu changes regularly, but the nightly specials are always a good bet.

SMOKEY’S BBQ SHACK

10800 CHAPEL HILL ROAD, MORRISVILLE, 919-469-1724 Smokey’s takes the Switzerland approach to saucing, marrying “the tangy cider-vinegar boy from the east and that sweet tomato gal from the west.” Don’t be scared off by the lines. Smokey’s may be small, but it’s efficient, moving long, peak-hour lines along quickly.

TOTOPOS

1388 KILDAIRE FARM ROAD, CARY, 919-678-3449, TOTOPOSFOODANDTEQUILA.COM All of the Mexican standards are here, and they’re capably prepared. But the attraction for me is the extensive tequila list. It boasts more than eighty. Tequila flights make it easy to sample a good number of those.

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BOND BROTHERS BEER COMPANY

202 EAST CEDAR STREET, CARY, 919-459-2670, BONDBROTHERSBEER.COM If I were writing one of those “Best Places to Live” lists that Cary seems to regularly appear on, Bond Brothers would be my

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number one reason for Cary’s placement on it. Bond Brothers is a young brewery, but it’s quickly become one of the Triangle’s best. IPAs, barrel sours, whatever style you want, they probably have a quality version of it. There are more than a dozen beers on tap, running the gamut from Belgian strong golden ales to dark lagers to Saisons to stouts to session IPAs. It’s enough to make me check Cary rental rates. (On average, they’re a smidge cheaper than Raleigh.)

FORTNIGHT BREWING COMPANY

1006 SOUTHWEST MAYNARD ROAD, CARY, 919-342-6604, FORTNIGHTBREWING.COM With brews such as the Blood Orange Blonde, Coffee Amber, and a cask-only English breakfast stout, Fortnight knows exactly what my taste buds want. Using recipes inspired by owner Stuart Arnold’s native England, the brewery has created quite a portfolio.

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PHARMACY BOTTLE + BEVERAGE

120 EAST CHATHAM STREET, CARY, 919-234-1098, FACEBOOK.COM/PHARMBOTTLEBEV Occupying the renovated site of a former pharmacy next-door to The Cary Theater, this downtown spot has become a popular hangout for locals. There are sixteen taps, plus the option of eight-ounce pours and beer flights. Large sliding-glass windows open up onto Chatham Street and outdoor picnic seating.

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TRIANGLE WINE COMPANY

575 NEW WAVERLY PLACE, #103B, CARY, AND 3735 DAVIS DRIVE, MORRISVILLE 919-307-3966 AND 919-462-1912, TRIANGLEWINECO.COM Triangle Wine Company has become known for its vast array of beer and wine selections, plus the ability to sample a pint or glass while you shop.

SHOP

ADORE DESIGNER RESALE BOUTIQUE PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

4226 NORTHWEST CARY PARKWAY, CARY, 919-481-3400, ADOREBOUTIQUES.COM This high-end designer resale boutique has consistently won acclaim as Wake County’s best consignment shop (there’s a sister store in Raleigh).

DOWNTOWN APEX

APEXDOWNTOWN.COM You won’t find a quainter, more welcoming small-town district than Apex. A downtown revival that began in 1995 has helped land it in the National Register of Historic Places.

Today, antique and other specialty stores make for an easy afternoon of shopping fun.

DOWNTOWN CARY FOOD AND FLEA

ASHWORTH VILLAGE, CARY, DTCFOODANDFLEA.COM Crafters and craft beer, food trucks and folk singers, and assorted artisans form the foundation of this street market on the second Sunday of each month.

THE PERFECT PIECE

PHOTO BY ADAM DAVID KISSICK

200 EAST CHATHAM STREET, CARY, 919-460-9841, FACEBOOK.COM/ THEPERFECTPIECECARY If you can’t find the, um, perfect piece at this eleven-thousand-square-foot building in downtown Cary, you’re not really looking.

This home décor and gift store focuses

on furniture sold through the store’s consignment inventory as well as vendors who occupy booths around the showroom.

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THE CARY THEATER

122 EAST CHATHAM STREET, CARY, 919-462-2051, THECARYTHEATER.COM The town of Cary purchased and renovated the town’s first indoor theater, built in 1946. Today, a new marquee graces its brick facade, which fronts a multiuse facility showing vintage films interspersed with live acts.

CIPHER ESCAPE

250 DOMINION DRIVE, MORRISVILLE, 919-378-9362, CIPHERESCAPE.COM What better way to discern what your friends are made of than to be locked in a room with them while trying to beat the clock and escape? For example, I once discovered that a colleague had a scream that rivaled any heavy-metal vocalist in terms of decibel levels. Good times.

FRED G. BOND METRO PARK

801 HIGH HOUSE ROAD, CARY, 919-462-3970 This 310-acre suburban oasis is a sprawling jewel for pleasure seekers of any age.

Numerous running and walking trails spiral throughout the premises and beyond.

Scattered among the sweeping greenspaces are shelters to reserve for gatherings, seven athletic fields, a challenge course, an amphitheater, and a playground. There’s even a screened porch with rocking chairs overlooking the lake.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE

8003 REGENCY PARKWAY, CARY, 919-462-2025, BOOTHAMPHITHEATRE.COM Named after a former Cary mayor, this performing arts venue sits along the north bank of Symphony Lake in Regency Park.

TRIANGLE TABLE TENNIS CENTER

2900 PERIMETER PARK DRIVE, #200, MORRISVILLE, 919-388-0272, TRIANGLETABLETENNIS.COM The largest table tennis center in the country, with twenty-five thousand square feet of professional playing space lined with forty tables to rent. The center also houses the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame, which is a real thing.

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WAKEMED SOCCER PARK

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COUNTING HOUSE

Hit Grass (Win Salad)

BAR VIRGILE

Annie Savoy

Booze You Can Use

TO MARK DURHAM’S 150TH BIRTHDAY, ELEVEN BULL CITY BARS CREATED SPECIALTY COCKTAILS. WE ASKED A WRITER TO DRINK THEM ALL—IN ONE NIGHT.

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urham officially incorporated on April 10, 1869. Two days and 150 years later, I celebrated by getting hammered on the INDY’s dime.

Here’s the backstory: Durham Distillery, the city’s award-winning gin- and vodka-makers, had partnered with eleven downtown watering holes to create original cocktails that celebrated something unique about the city. The drinks will be available through November, but really, what’s the point in pacing yourself?

My mission: In one night, go from bar to bar—in alphabetical order, no less!—and sample all of these concoctions, then try to remember enough about my adventure to write it down.

(Don’t try this at home, kids.)

There’s something you should know about me. I’m the cheapest of cheap dates—whatever the opposite of a hollow leg is, I have it. I’m also an infrequent imbiber. The last drinks I consumed before this were a couple of watered-down mojitos at a wedding in December.

To prepare, I spoke to friends with more practical boozing experience. Their advice: Keep something in my stomach, alternate sips of water with liquor, and, for God’s sake, don’t feel the need to finish your drinks.

So with that in mind, I set out on a Friday night, ready to give my poor, unsuspecting liver a vodka- and gin-soaked spanking. Shall we begin? food@indyweek.com

ALLEY TWENTY SIX A Fresh Start

2 oz. Conniption American Dry Gin 1/3 oz. House-made Yuzu Cordial 1/3 oz. House Dry Vermouth Blend Pour ingredients into a mixing glass. Add ice, stir, and strain into a cold coupe glass.

Owner Shannon Healey introduces us to bartender Cam, who serves me A Fresh Start. The beverage is bright and fresh, with the housemade yuzu cordial its most prominent element.

Yuzu is an Asian citrus that’s almost impossible to obtain in the U.S. Shannon compares the cordial to the Italian liqueur limoncello, but it’s so much better: perfectly sweet, with just the right amount of pucker, and somehow finishes with a deep, fruity, almost tamarind note. I’d love to come back for a glass by itself, but Healey says that, because of the scarcity, it’s only used as an ingredient. I drink about a third of the cocktail.

ARCANA

The Runaway Rabbit 1.5 oz. Conniption American Dry Gin 0.5 oz. Ancho Reyes 0.5 oz. Carrot Juice 0.25 oz. House-made Ginger Syrup 0.25 oz. Lemon Juice Combine all ingredients. Shake and serve up in a coupe glass.

Part art nouveau, part industrial chic, Arcana looks a bit like your grandparents’ furnished basement, if your grandmother was Lillie Langtry and your grandfather was Oscar Wilde.

The Runaway Rabbit pays homage to the late lamented Runaway clothing company. The ancho reyes give the cocktail a crack of heat perfectly balanced by the other components. I finish about half of my drink.

SOBRIETY LEVEL: Goodwill toward fellow humans.

SOBRIETY LEVEL: Like a judge.

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1 oz. Durham Distillery Cucumber Vodka 1 oz. Conniption American Dry Gin 0.75 oz. Dolin Dry Vermouth 0.25 oz. Cocchi Americano Drizzle of Castlevetrano Brine Stir ingredients together and strain into a coupe or martini glass. Drizzle extra virgin olive oil on top and sprinkle a pinch of pink salt. Garnish with a Castselvetrano olive and lemon swath.

The Annie Savoy’s extra virgin olive oil floating on top, studded with pink salt, gives it a unique mouthfeel. As a recovering bartender, I’m fascinated by the lemon swath; it looks like an unblemished cut of buttery yellow suede with absolutely no pith marring the surface’s perfection. I drink about a third of an Annie and leave a little noodle-kneed, needing food soon.

SOBRIETY LEVEL: Wobbly.

1.5 oz. Durham Distillery American Dry Gin 1 oz. Cucumber Juice 0.5 oz. Yellow Chartreuse 0.5 oz. Dolin Dry Vermouth 0.5 oz. Sauvignon Blanc 4–5 Mint Leaves Pinch of Fresh Ground Black Pepper Cucumber-Chartreuse Foam (to make: shake 0.5 oz. yellow chartreuse and 2 oz. cucumber juice with an egg white until the mixture is nice and frothy) Combine all ingredients (except foam). Shake and strain into rocks glass. Fill with crushed ice.

Top with foam and garnish with mint leaf.

Next, we head to 21c Museum Hotel and Counting House, home to the well-curated second-floor art gallery and the snazzy transparent bathroom stalls. The amusingly named Hit Grass (Win Salad) finishes with a bright, sharp peppery snap and sports an Instagram-worthy cucumber-scented foam that reminds me of summer days in my Uncle Cholly’s garden. I leave after four or five sips.

SOBRIETY LEVEL: Same.

COPA

Annie Savoy

Note: At this point, we realize that our next stop, Littler, was about to close. We also realize we’d have to shuffle our order to make it to Pizzeria Toro and Mothers and Sons before they close, too.

Bull City Sling 1.5 oz. Conniption Navy-Strength Gin 1.5 oz. Juice from Luxardo Cherries or Cherry Liqueur 0.5 oz. Brothers Vigalys Beebop Liqueur 1.5 oz. Pineapple Juice 0.5 oz. Lime Juice 0.25 oz. House Grenadine 2 dashes Angostura Orange Bitters Smoke from Parker Family Farms Brightleaf Tobacco Light a small piece of Brightleaf Tobacco and place highball glass over the tobacco to capture smoke. Add all remaining ingredients to shaker with ice. Shake slowly for 8 seconds to chill. Fill glass with ice and strain the cocktail over the ice. Garnish with pineapple wedge and cherry.

COPA, a Cuban farm-to-table tapas restaurant, is a relaxing, quiet spot to grab a bite and decompress. We order a small repast of chunky avocado crostini and platanos rellenos, sweet fried plantains filled with spicy meat. This is where I have my favorite drink of the night: The Bull City Sling is sweet, fruity, and brightly colored, and even though it contains three different spirits, it tastes dangerously non-alcoholic.

I drink about a third of my cocktail, and, while the food helps, I’m nonetheless the human personification of The Lego Movie song “Everything Is Awesome.”

SOBRIETY LEVEL: According to an observer, “extremely cheerfully effusive.”

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1.5 oz. Conniption American Dry Gin 0.25 oz. White Verjus 0.25 oz. Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice 0.5 OZ. Lavender & Butterfly Pea Flower infused Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur (to make: combine 1.5 oz. Luxardo Liqueur, 1 oz. water, 1 tsp. dried lavender, and 3 dried butterfly pea flowers in pot and simmer for 2 minutes; fine strain and cool before using)

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Electric Brewgaloo

USA TODAY SAYS BREWGALOO IS THE BEST BEER FEST IN THE U.S. WHO ARE WE TO ARGUE? BY ANDREA RICE

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arlier this month, USA Today declared Raleigh’s annual Brewgaloo—North Carolina’s largest beer festival, taking place this weekend—the best suds fest in the country. Now entering its eighth year, Brewgaloo is undoubtedly a massive event: thirty-five thousand people partaking in goods from 115 North Carolina breweries, local food trucks, local music, and local vendors, stretching from City Plaza to the Capitol.

But the best? In the country?

Then again, who are we to argue with the tastemakers at USA Today, especially when they’re hyping a local event that does a lot of good. Brewgaloo, after all, is a unicorn amid festival capitalism: Most of its proceeds go to Shop Local Raleigh, a nonprofit that, as the name suggests, encourages Raleigh residents to shop locally. (This year, the festival has partnered with Designed for Joy, which provides transitional work for women who’ve endured trafficking, homelessness, incarceration, or addiction.)

The INDY spoke with Shop Local Raleigh executive director Jennifer Martin about how her fest hit the big time.

INDY: What is it about a beer festival that is so appealing, compared to day drinking at a bar?

MARTIN: I think we create a sense of FOMO with Brewgaloo—you’re not just sitting and drinking, you’re standing up, congregating, meeting people you would have never met before, or running into someone from high school, and connecting with fellow like-minded people over beer. It gets people out: You’re not on your phone, you’re not at your computer, and you’re not just sitting inside. You have the ability to move around and walk around all day long.

How do you keep people from, well, enjoying themselves too much?

On Friday, we do a three-ounce pour. On Saturday, you can choose between a threeounce pour or a pint size. We also use a ticket system. You can purchase up to a certain number of tickets, and then each ticket has to be redeemed at a specific vendor. If, at some point, we find that a patron needs to no longer be at the festival, then we will put them in a cab or have a friend take them home. And we don’t allow beers that are over 8 percent ABV to be on tap.

What are you doing differently this year?

We’ve added a local spiked seltzer. We’ve also added an acapella group and are donating to their respective schools. We’re also working with Barbox [a mobile bartending service] and will have a trailer set up with a beer garden and food. The Carolina Hurricanes will be there with cornhole and other fun games for people to play. And at night, the Alamo Drafthouse is bringing out a dance party setup.

What advice would you give a first-timer?

If you’re not familiar with downtown, look at a map and familiarize yourself with parking decks. Also, plan for a DD or ensure you’ve got a safe ride home. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing.

And stay hydrated, right?

Yes! We have giant water towers that are equivalent to one thousand bottles of water each, which replaces that footprint. We supply a recyclable and reusable cup to be more green in what we’re doing, and we’ve also asked the food trucks and vendors to consider green options. We really try to reduce our footprint of trash. arice@indyweek.com

BREWGALOO N.C. CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL 2019

Block Party Tasting Event | Friday, April 26, 6–10 p.m. (Tickets: $35-$45) Street Festival | Saturday, April 27, 2–10 p.m. (Tickets: $30, free for designated drivers) Downtown Raleigh, www.shoplocalraleigh.org/brewgaloo

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AL’S PUB SHACK

FIRST BITE

50050 Governors Drive, Chapel Hill 984-999-4069

Shacking Up

YOU CAN GET A BURGER AT AL BOWERS’S NEW PUB, BUT CONSIDER EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS. HE DID.

BY ANDREA RICE

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he neighborhood has been incredibly welcoming to us,” Al Bowers says.

It’s April 17, a Wednesday evening, two days after Bowers’s third Chapel Hill restaurant opened in a tucked-away corner of Governors Village. Like his other shacks, it’s eponymous—“Al’s,” though he co-owns it with his wife, Melanie. Unlike the shacks on Franklin Street and in Southern Village, however, this one isn’t a just burger shack.

This is Al’s Pub Shack.

Here you won’t find the Bobo Chili Cheeseburger—the one TripAdvisor called the best burger in America last year, which shined a national spotlight on the townie gem. But you will find a dizzying array of sports memorabilia and eighties hair-band

photography adorning the walls, alongside framed relics from Bowers’s past: family photos, a vintage Yuengling & Son poster with puppies smiling over pints of beer, a framed picture of an exotic elephant.

The high tin ceilings reflect the natural light that floods in from the large windowed walls, and frosted turquoise glass chandeliers with Edison-style bulbs complement the bartenders and waitstaff in smart white aprons, crisp blue shirts, and matching ties. Four-tops of sleek, dark-wooded banquettes with soft leather backing invite guests to linger and perhaps commune with strangers.

That’s important: The Pub Shack was designed to be a well-curated neighborhood joint—the kind of place where you might

run into someone you know, if not where everybody knows your name.

And as you might expect of a place with “pub” in the name, there’s a plethora of beers on tap and in bottles—in keeping with Bowers’s commitment to local sourcing, they’re all (save one cider) from the Triangle, Wilmington, or Asheville— including standouts like the cloudy haze of a Tilt, a New England-style IPA from Durham’s Starpoint Brewing, and Tropical Lightning, the slightly bitter West Coaststyle IPA by Wilmington Brewing Co. There’s traditional pub fare, too: the popular fish and chips, all-pork hot dogs, and, of course, burgers.

The local-pasture-raised beef that had made Al’s the most talked about burger in

Chapel Hill remains exclusive to the Burger Shack. But Bowers nonetheless swears by the Pub Shack’s meat. The chuck-andshort-rib blend comes from the same New Jersey butcher, Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors, that fashions the burger blend for New York’s renowned Shake Shack.

But the Pub Shack goes beyond the bun.

The menu, developed by executive chef Taylor Halley, is bold and witty, leaning more upscale than the cheeseburgers and rosemary fries that have kept undergrads queued up down West Franklin Street since 2013.

The Kale Waldorf Salad with roasted butternut squash, apple, and dried cranberries, could convert a kale hater. Even jackfruit, the frequent pulled-pork substitute, makes several appearances: cleverly concealed in a bowl of vegan Jack’d Chili for the jackfruit-averse; as a protein option for the jackfruit-curious in the (gluten-free) “Super” Bowl; as an adventurous sandwich for the jackfruit connoisseur on the (also vegan) Brody Son, a banh mi with pickled vegetables and “yummy sauce.”

Heather Kumnick, Bowers’s director of development (and a vegan), says the pub created the smoked jackfruit bahn mi to give vegan patrons a sandwich of substance.

“Because it’s Al,” she says, “people automatically associate with the burger. But we definitely want people to come in and take a look at all the other sandwiches.”

Unsurprisingly, the Pub Shack burger was excellent: thick, juicy, perfectly pink in the middle, enhanced with a thin slice of bacon. The Brody Son, however, was less satisfying—perhaps the jackfruit could have used more seasoning or benefited from more pickled vegetables or cilantro.

But—let’s be honest—nobody was here for the jackfruit. By six o’clock, the pub’s modest dining area was nearly full. Just a stone’s throw from the rows of hackneyed silverscreen-era townhouses that line Governors Village, Al’s looked well on its way to becoming a neighborhood destination. arice@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 4.24.19 | 25

FRIDAY, APRIL 26– SUNDAY, MAY 12

CHURCH & STATE

It’s three days before the election in Jason Odell Williams’s 2016 comic drama, and North Carolina junior Republican senator Charles Whitmore is in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, running on what Whitmore’s wife calls the “faith, family, and football” platform. But moments before he’s supposed to close the deal in a final preelection speech, a story breaks that could end his political career. That morning, outside a memorial service following a mass shooting, a political blogger heard Whitmore question his faith in God and all those “thoughts and prayers” his fellow conservatives keep offering in lieu of legislation. The blogger’s account has gone online, and CNN and the Associated Press have just picked up the story. Whitmore’s campaign manager is in full spin mode and his wife is livid, as the gun-rights candidate has maybe ten minutes to figure out how he’ll square his change of conscience with his constituents. Yvonne Anderson directs Brian Yandle, Melanie Simmons, and Liz Webb in this North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre production. —Byron Woods

India.Arie PHOTO

COURTESY OF NS2

NORTH RALEIGH ARTS & CREATIVE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Fri & Sat., 3 p.m. Sun, $15–$22, www.nract.org

MONDAY, APRIL 29

JOHNNY MARR

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

INDIA.ARIE

Way back in 2001, the neo-soul songwriter India.Arie released “Video,” a tender love letter to complex African-American womanhood with the unforgettable first line, “Sometimes I shave my legs, and sometimes I don’t.” It was radical at the time, though it’s easy to imagine that Arie might now take umbrage at the refrain about being different (read: better) from an R&B video girl. On her new single “Worthy” from the album of the same name, Arie stresses the intrinsic value of all women, over a deft fingerpicked melody. The idea has long been in her sights. In her 2016 video for “Breathe,” penned for Eric Garner, Arie wore a T-shirt emblazoned with that word. She has always juxtaposed the personal with the political, and on Worthy, Arie celebrates joy and connection in the everyday as much as she acknowledges hardship and oppression. The end result is an integrated and uplifting collection of songs. —Josephine McRobbie THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM | 8 p.m., $50–$75, www.carolinatheatre.org 26 | 4.24.19 | INDYweek.com

After The Smiths split acrimoniously in 1987, Johnny Marr essentially spent the next twenty-five years distancing himself from the great Britpop wave that The Smiths had inspired. (Possibly because Britpop’s inherent commercialism and embrace of British nationalism were at odds with The Smiths’ anti-establishment philosophies, as Chloe Veltman wrote in The Believer.) In the interim, he spent a quarter of a century as a hired gun; when he finally got around to his first full-fledged solo album—his 2003 record with The Healers, the dreadful Boomslang, notwithstanding—in 2013, he grasped his roots with gusto, not desperately attempting to recapture the past but instead embracing his strengths and electronic interests. Last year’s Call the Comet mines those Madchester vibes and mirrors The Smiths’ political impulses, but the sci-fi concept behind it imagines an alternate universe built on warm humanism instead of crass capitalism. Its inherent idealism makes it not so much protest music but a plea to our better angels, and it jibes with glistening, gleaming craftsmanship. —Patrick Wall LINCOLN THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $30–$40, www.lincolntheatre.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 27

FRED HERSCH: LEAVES OF GRASS

The story goes that, in the mid-nineties, pianist and composer Fred Hersch felt a sudden compulsion to read Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass while on tour in Paris. Roughly a decade later, he premiered a new interpretation of Whitman’s ecstatic poetry in 2003 with an all-star ensemble, including trumpeter Ralph Alessi, saxophonist Tony Malaby, cellist Erik Friedlander, drummer John Hollenbeck, and singers Kurt Elling and Durham’s Kate McGarry. Hersch’s settings are sophisticated and complex, leaning ever so slightly more toward classical music than jazz—everything feels through-composed with few proper “solos.” At the time, Hersch described his process, stating, “I followed my instincts, and, away from the piano, I simply started to sing the poems. Over time, musical themes emerged—and I began to find internal rhythms as I lived with the subtleties of the words.” Here, Hersch has reassembled the original band to further explore Whitman’s variegated richness. —Dan Ruccia DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, DURHAM | 8 p.m., $25, dukeperformances.duke.edu

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WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

WIM BOTHA AT NCMA (P. 16), JACLYN BOWIE AT THE GREGG (P. 32), BREWGALOO AT RALEIGH CITY PLAZA AND FAYETTEVILLE STREET (P. 24), GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI AND ALAN SHAPIRO AT THE REGULATOR (P. 34), EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE (P. 36), GIRLPOOL AT MOTORCO (P. 28), MOOGFEST AT VARIOUS VENUES (P. 10), YOUR HEALING IS KILLING ME AT PLAYMAKERS (P. 35) INDYweek.com | 4.24.19 | 27

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BALDWIN AUDITORIUM:

JACK Quartet [$25, 8 P.M.]

WED, APR 24

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: The Brook & The Bluff, Jamie Drake; $10-$12. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Krantz, 90 Proof Therapist; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

KINGS: Helltrap Nightmare, Mister Wallace; $10-$12. 8 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE: Blue October; $28. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Unwed Sailor, Woodvamp, Tacoma Park; $8-$10.

8:30 p.m.

MOTORCO: Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, SMRTDEATH, Fantasy Camp; $16-$20. 7 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT: 919Noise Showcase: Okapi, cherry/holt/stott, gnawstiks, Bryce Eiman; $7. 8:30 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Cousin Earth, Cosmic Superheroes; $7-$10. 9 p.m.

THU, APR 25

TUESDAY, APRIL 30

GIRLPOOL

Formed by teenage best friends Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, Girlpool has documented how the duo has grown, both musically and personally, since their earnest and lo-fi 2014 debut. After those anti-folk beginnings, Tucker and Tividad gradually expanded their palette to include more textures while still relying on wry and revealing songwriting, with February’s What Chaos Is Imaginary marking the group’s most expansive effort yet. Largely ditching their trademark harmonies—perhaps a symptom of more individualized but still vulnerable songwriting—the ambitious album folds bits of strings, electronics, and fingerpicked guitar into languid arrangements. With dreamy vocals over lush electropop, Sugar & Spice saw Australian opener Hatchie casting huge hooks in soft pink hues that suggest the soundtrack of an eighties teen dramedy. Her forthcoming fulllength is full of earworms, whether backed by the buzzes of flourescent synths or awash in reverbed guitars that lend a towering shoegaze feel. Scrappy local trio Cosmic Punk opens. —Spencer Griffith

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM | 8 p.m., $15–$17, www.motorcomusic.com 28 | 4.24.19 | INDYweek.com

We Are Scientists [$15–$17, 8 P.M.]

The Berkeley-born, New York City-bred We Are Scientists used to make a lot of noise for a two-man crew. But on Megaplex, released last year, the duo traded polished postpunk for sugary synthpop, and the swap doesn’t do them any favors. The formulaic songs sand down the last vestiges of the duo’s spasmodic charm in favor of lukewarm indie-dance that fails to deliver any sort of rush. —Patrick Wall LOCAL 506: Empty, Wilwither, Heirloom; $10-$13. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE:

NIGHTLIGHT: Pinky Doodle Poodle, Lacy Jags, Salt Palace; $8. 10 p.m.

[$20–$23, 7:30 P.M.]

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

KINGS:

ARCANA: Shueh-li Ong; $10 suggested. 8 p.m.

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers

Girlpool

This event represents a meeting of two contemporary classical powerhouses with two distinct styles. On one side, the JACK Quartet have made their name with brilliant interpretations of the most caustic scores from the past century or so. On the other, yMusic have straddled the classical/indie rock divide, touring with Bon Iver and Ben Folds. The music here should be epic, including new works from MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey and Pulitzer Prize finalist Andrew Norman.

—Dan Ruccia

With last year’s Bought to Rot, Laura Jane Grace took a departure from her role at the front of the acclaimed punk band Against Me! to explore a more roots-driven, singer-songwriter guise.

Accompanied by Against Me! drummer Atom Willard and bassist Marc Jacob Hudson (collectively, the Devouring Mothers), Grace ignites a spark of spartan rock that feels as much indebted to the likes of Billy Bragg and The Replacements as it does to Against Me!’s earliest, acoustic releases.

Mercy Union and Control Top open. —Bryan C. Reed CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Acid Mothers Temple, Yamantaka, Sonic Titan; $12-$14.

9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Fireside Collective; $5. 9 p.m.

SLIM’S:

Tel

[$7, 9 P.M.] Richmond quartet Tel wraps plenty of nuance into its atmospheric doom. In one moment it has the tradmetal leanings of a band like Khemmis; in another, it ventures into atmospheric black metal, à la Agalloch, before driving into a sludge riff that would please any fan of Cough or early Mastodon. Progressive yet restrained, melodic yet intense, Tel’s March release, Lowlife, thrives on atmosphere and momentum, letting its complexities form a stirring undercurrent. Boone’s stonerdoom crew Darth Kannabyss and Raleigh’s Inanimus open.

—Bryan C. Reed UNC’S HILL HALL: Carolina Bluegrass Band; $10. 7:30 p.m.

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GANGSTAGRASS Durty Dub’s “Charley Pride Tribute”

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w/ Mannequin Pussy / Almost People COMING SOON: The Murlocs, John Paul White, Xiu Xiu, PJ Morton, Tim Heidecker & Gregg Turkington, Bear’s Den, Thank You Scientist, Hush Kids, Flotsam and Jetsam, Superorganism, Hot Mulligan, THAD, Slum Village, Mono, The Connells, Aaron West & The Roaring 20’s, Deicide, Origin, Mark Farina, Remo Drive, The Crystal Method, Remember Jones, Cavetown, Damien Jurado, She Wants Revenge, Mystery Skulls, Hop Along, Summer Salt, Dan Baird & Homemade Sin, The Rock*A*Teens, Escape-ism, We’re We Promised Jetpacks, Sophomore Slump Fest, Warbringer, Sonata Artica, Nile Also co-presenting at Cat’s Cradle: Japanese Breakfast, Ex Hex and Eternal Summers (on May 5th)

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SAT, APR 27 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Bill Price Charm City Rhythm Band; $10-$15.

8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE:

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers [$15, 9 P.M.]

Calling Sarah Shook and the Disarmers an alt-country band makes for the easiest stylistic shorthand, and there are certainly some overt country influences to be found in their tunes. But there’s also a raw, rock and roll energy at work that gives the band a visceral quality, and Shook herself commands a pretty badass attitude to boot. Forwardlooking yet tradition-conscious folk singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell opens.

—Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Endgame Party: P3, Meetro, Micah Evans, Eaz, J-Dub, Art God, T.U.T, YN3, Jon Blase, Eric Caron, DJ Chan E. Chan; $8. 9 p.m.

THE CAVE: Poor Pie, North Elementary; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

CITY LIMITS SALOON: Jukebox Rehab; $10. 8 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Fred Hersch; $25.

8 p.m.

DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM: Duke University String School: Violin and Cello Choir Concert; free. 4 p.m.

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: Brit Floyd; 7:30 p.m.

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers perform at Cat’s Cradle on Thursday, Apr. 25. PHOTO BY KATIE HOVLAND

FRI, APR 26 ARCANA: The Paco Band; 9 p.m.

THE ARTSCENTER:

Che Apalache [$22, 8 P.M.]

Think you’ve seen just about every possible variation on bluegrass? Not until you’ve heard Che Apalache, the Buenos Aires band that counts Argentinians, Americans, and Mexicans among its membership, and champions a genre of bluegrass called Latingrass. The group also has local roots: the band was started by NC fiddler Joe Troop after his move to Argentina.

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are bringing their electrifying blend of bluegrass and Latin influences to the ArtsCenter.

—Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE: FriendsFest 2019: Alumni Musician Showcase; free.

7:30 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Beta Radio; $10-$12.

8:30 p.m.

THE CAVE: Son Step, Horizontal Hold, Al Riggs; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

KINGS: Truth Club Album Release with Naked Naps; $10. 9 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE: David Allan Coe, Biggins, Aaron Hamm & Big River Band; $20-$30. 8 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD: Leffty, Strongman & Co, Chris Larkin, Jim Joels Jr.; $10. 8:30 p.m.

MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: N.C. Symphony: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; 7:30 p.m.

KINGS:

Reese McHenry Album Release [$10, 9 P.M.]

UNC’S HILL HALL: UNC Jazz Combos; free. 4 p.m.

Frankly, the Triangle is spoiled in being able to frequently witness a performer as charged with passion and intensity as Reese McHenry.

Shot out of a cannon with her band’s raucous energy and loosened up by a shot or three of tequila, the powerhouse vocalist takes no prisoners on her new LP, No Dados, which is full of crunchy garage rock scorchers, bluesy slow burners, and soulful sixties throwbacks. Spider Bags, Three Body Problem, and Dim Delights join. —Spencer Griffith

THE WICKED WITCH: Eyeball, Peasants of the Apocalypse, Lords and Liars; $10. 8 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD: Vesterian, Valle Crucis, Kurgan, Everwraith; $10.

8:30 p.m.

MOTORCO: The Pinnacle III: Heir of Victory; $15-$20. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Funk You, Maj Deeka; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

THE RITZ: Drake Night: So Far Gone; $10. 10 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: UNCChapel Hill Jazz Faculty, Scott Wendholt; $20. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: Salvacion, Knightmare; $5. 9 p.m.

MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: N.C. Symphony: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; 7:30 p.m.

SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: Reef Blower, Seeking Madras, Rosemary; $5. 9 p.m.

MOTORCO:

THE WICKED WITCH: Goth Night: Halfway to Halloween Party; $10-$15. 9 p.m.

Jo Gore

[$12–$25, 7 P.M.] With her carefully-defined aesthetic and velvety voice, Jo Gore looks and sounds like a lounge singer—until, that is, you listen to her lyrics.

Gore expands and subverts a familiar style, crooning about the complicated parts of love and desire over layered, lush arrangements. She’s equally comfortable with satire and sincerity. When she pokes fun in the sly, witty “Self Care,” her lyrics cut; in songs like “God of Slaves #17,” they wound.

—Elizabeth Szypulski POUR HOUSE: Daniel Donato, Striking Copper, Drinkard Sisters; $7-$10. 8:30 p.m.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER:

Rainbow Kitten Surprise [$25+, 8 P.M.]

If you listen to Rainbow Kitten Surprise expecting them to sound like their name, you’ll be disappointed— they’re not poppy, playful, or overwhelmingly fun.

Instead, their focus is moody, mildly intense indie rock.

The band members are all from North Carolina; the roots are evident in their folk-inspired harmonizing. A dollar from each tickets will go to Hurricane Florence relief.

—Elizabeth Szypulski

SUN, APR 28

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Be Loud! High School Showcase; free. 1 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Charles Latham [$7, 7:30 P.M.]

Singer/songwriter Latham started out in the Triangle before becoming a wandering troubadour, but the prodigal songsmith returned and has rooted himself in Durham for the last few years. His combination influences is well served by his keening tenor and his knack for lyrics that leap outside the box and take the songs to unexpected places. —Jim Allen THE CAVE: North By North, Sidewalk Furniture, Girl Werewolf; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke University String School: Orchestra Concert; free.

6:30 p.m.

KINGS: Pit Games: Jooselord, Jovi Mosconi, Nunez, Marcus Roc, Trashcan Prince, Yung Gooey, Hippy Messiah; $10. 10 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Cary Music & Arts Festival; 2 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Toke, Swineherd, Darth Kannabyss; $8-$10. 9 p.m.

SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: Emo Raleigh NC Showcase; free. 6 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Day Party: Medium Heat, Karbuncle, Stephen’s Pharmacy; $5. 2 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Gabe Dansereau Quartet; $20. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Todd Albright; $10-$12. 8:30 p.m.

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BLUE NOTE GRILL: Wishbone Ash; $25. 7:30 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE: India.

Arie; $50-$75. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Steve Gunn [$15–$17, 8 P.M.]

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers perform at Cat’s Cradle on Saturday, Apr. 27.

PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

With languid solos, hypnotic riffs, and a rough, growly lyrical style, guitarist Steve Gunn has always performed songs that contain a certain rambling quality. A new release, “Vagabond,” names the searching that’s inherent in his music, while also paying tribute to the film of the same name by recentlypassed French filmmaker Agnès Varda.

—Josephine McRobbie

MOTORCO: Gangstagrass; $13-$15.

8 p.m.

PINHOOK:

Asher Skeen Album Release [$10, 8 P.M.]

In a series of YouTube videos beginning in February of 2018, the transmasculine singer-songwriter Asher Skeen documented his changing singing voice during his first year taking testosterone. It was a lovely process to watch unfold, as the Durham-based Skeen performed tender originals and the occasional pop cover with enthusiasm, vulnerability, and curiosity.

This period of transition is documented on his second album, the wittily-titled ManMade Man, and for its release, Skeen will be backed by for the first time by a full band.

—Josephine McRobbie

POUR HOUSE:

Lost Dog Street Band [$10–$12, 9 P.M.]

Though Lost Dog Street Band began by busking and train-hopping their way across the country, the duo has since gained millions of views via frequent features on GemsOnVHS, a Lomaxian-style YouTube channel documenting folk artists in natural settings.

Their music is similarly raw, with plaintive fiddle accents backing tales from a roadweary troubadour. Fiddler Matt Heckler, formerly of area string band Deep Chatham, puts a ragged spin on originals drawing from Appalachian and Irish traditions.

—Spencer Griffith RHYTHMS LIVE: Jarlath Henderson; $15-$18. 7 p.m.

SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: Anamorph, Valence, Echonest; $7. 9 p.m.

TUE, APR 30 THE CAVE: Table Tennis Dreamer, Human Devices; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

MON, APR 29 THE CAVE: Dexter Romweber; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

KINGS: Next Town Down; $10+.

7:30 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE: Johnny Marr; $30-$40. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE:

Snide

[$5–$7, 9 P.M.] Though Snide has just a single track currently streaming, “Waste My Time” is a triumphant debut with snarled guitar and a gnarled rhythm pushing the howled and growled vocals into the red. The relentless threeminute gallop demands the repeat button, at least until the Saxapahaw trio’s equally pulverizing EP—full of throat-shredding shouts and piledriver riffs—is released this summer. Local punks Sunday Girl—featuring members of Witchtit, Zipper, and Shadows—and Basilica Hands open.—Spencer Griffith

KINGS: The Bright Light Social Hour, Walker Lukens; $12-$15. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506:

Hellogoodbye [$20, 8 P.M.]

If you haven’t paid attention to Hellogoodbye since George W. Bush was president, you’re in for a pleasant surprise.

Vaguely punk, kind-ofelectronic rock is out; lush, vivid disco is in. The band’s latest album, S’Only Natural, is pure pop, danceable in the best way. Come prepared to move. Hala opens.

—Elizabeth Szypulski MEREDITH COLLEGE: Carswell Concert Hall: Sinfonietta; 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: The Big Strong Arms, Shrub(b), Sound System Seven; $8-$10. 8 p.m.

THE RITZ: Gunna, Shy Glizzy, Lil Keed; 8 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: N.C. Jazz Repertory Orchestra; $20. 8 p.m.

ST JOHN’S METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: V.Rose, Uzuhan, Parris Chariz, Ada Steve Gunn performs at Cat’s Cradle Back room on Wednesday, May 1.

Betsabé; donations. 6:30 p.m.

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OPENING Shib Basu & Peggy Van Arnam: Ink and Chains: Ink and crayon, jewelry. Apr 26-May 28.

Reception: Apr 26, 6-8 p.m.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

Jaclyn Bowie: Interactive art.

Thu, Apr 25, 7 p.m. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Byron Gin & Andy Farkas: Paintings and prints. Apr 27-Jun 1. Reception: Apr 27, 6-8 p.m.

Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. adamcavefineart.com.

Incubator Awards Showcase: Student artists. Wed, May 1.

Artist talks: 12-1 p.m. Reception: 1-1:30 p.m. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

ONGOING 150 Faces of Durham: Photos.

Thru Sep 3. Museum of Durham History, Durham.

All the Pop: Thru Jun 2. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Keith Allen, Ben Hamburger, Kaidy Lewis, Carolyn Rugen: Thru Jun 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Ancestry of Necessity: Group show. Curator, April Childers.

Thru Aug 24. Reed Bldg, Durham.

Annual Photography Show: Thru Jun 2. West Point on the Eno, Durham.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

JACLYN BOWIE Projections, sculptures, natural materials, human bodies—Durham artist Jaclyn Bowie employs them all in her enchanting analog animations, which have trace elements of shadow puppetry and avant-garde cinema. But what happens on the screen (or wall, or wherever they happen to be projected) is only part of the story. Bowie is more interested in people, places, and how they influence each other; her works frequently begin in consideration of a site, not a predetermined aesthetic. More than a tangible product, Bowie’s practice creates spaces where people combine and collaborate, as you’ll discover in this interactive light installation at the Gregg Museum. Inspired by the museum’s current exhibits as well as the environment of its pollinator garden, Bowie will splay her projections across the Gregg’s exterior walls. But the artwork is only complete when it’s full of people to elaborate it with thoughts, stories, and interactions. —Brian Howe

GREGG MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGN, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., free, www.gregg.arts.ncsu.edu

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April Showers, Art Flowers: Group show. Thru May 26. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Amanda Barr: Group Hoarder Face Time: Performance art.

Thru Apr 27. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

Best of North Carolina 2019: Various artists and media. Thru May 14. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net.

Jasmine Best: Screened In: Sculptural elements constructed with textiles, fabric, and sewing notions. Thru May 12. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

Beyond Despair: An Environmental Call for Art: Work from 33 artists about, including, and referencing the environment. Thru Jun 22.

National Humanities Center, Durham. vaeraleigh.org.

Wim Botha: Stil Life with Discontent: Mixed media.

Additional work on view at 21c Museum Hotel. Thru Aug 4.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Bull City Challenge: Group show. Thru May 31. Bull City Art & Frame Co, Durham.

Sophie Chunn: HagerSmith: Thru Apr 30. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.org.

The Colors of the Spring: Paintings and sculptures. Thru May 13. Golden Belt, Durham.

Linda Ruth Dickinson: Resonant: Paintings. Thru May 24. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. themahlerfineart.com.

Durham Art Guild Members’ Showcase: Group show. Thru Jun 8. Durham Art Guild, Durham. durhamartguild.org.

Ayla Gizlice: Natura Naturans: UNC-Chapel Hill Undergraduate Honors Exhibition. Found objects. Thru Apr 26. Reception: Apr 26, 6 p.m. UNC’s Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Great and Small: Thru Apr 27. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

Stephen Hayes: Legacy, Legacy, Legacy: Mixed media.

Thru May 19.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Harriet Hoover: Attic Breeze Tests: Sculptures. Thru Apr 28. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill.

I AM A MAN: Civil Rights Photographs, 1960-1970: Thru May 31. Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill. south.unc.edu.

John James Audubon: The Birds of America: Ornithological engravings.

Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Judy Keene: Numinous: Paintings. Thru May 4. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings: Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Stacey L. Kirby: The Department of Reflection: Multimedia. Thru Aug 4.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

Left-Handed Liberty: Outsider art. Thru Jun 23. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Sean Livingstone & Erica Gimson: From Here to Their: Paintings and cyanotype prints. Thru May 4. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham.

Richard Lund: DREAMLAND: Paintings. Thru Apr 27.

Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

The Magic of the Sculptural Jewelry: Jewelry. Thru May 13.

Golden Belt, Durham.

Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds: Synchronized silent video installation. Thru Sep 8. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Michela Martello: Consequential Stranger: Illustrations. Thru Jun 1.

Artspace, Raleigh.

Chris Musina: Paradise: Paintings. Thru Jun 2.

Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery.

N.C. Artists Exhibition: Juried group show. Thru Jun 9. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. ralfinearts.org.

NCCU Digital Pre-Production: Digital animations as used in video game production.

Thru Apr 30. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

Lynne Feiss Necrason: Sylvan Sculptures: Photographs. Thru May 11. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

Odili Donald Odita Murals: Thru Jul 28. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Susan Harbage Page: Borderlands: Documentary photos and found objects from the US-Mexico border.

Thru Jul 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Theresa Pastoriza-Tan: Internal Landscapes of the Curious Kind: Mixed media.

Thru May 7. Golden Belt, Durham. durhamartguild.org.

PLANET eARTh: Thru Apr 28.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

Pop América, 1965-1975: Latin American pop art. Thru Jul 21. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Portraits of Durham: 64 local artists. Thru May 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

21cmuseumhotels.com. [re]ACTION: Artistic renditions inspired by scientific images. Thru Jun 23.

Golden Belt, Durham. reNautilus: Thru Jul 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris: Their World Is Not Our World: Video installation.

Thru Jul 7. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Cher Shaffer: Art from the Holler: Folk art. Thru May 31.

Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough.

She Likes Blue: Group show.

Thru Apr 30. 311 Gallery & Studios, Raleigh.

Tilden Stone: Southern Surreal: Furniture. Thru Sep 8. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

William Paul Thomas: Disrupting Homogeny: Portraits. End date TBA. Thru Jul 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s: Photos. End date TBA. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

Lien Truong: The Sky is Not Sacred: Multimedia. Thru Jun 22. Artspace, Raleigh.

UNC-Chapel Hill MFA Class of 2019: Sacred Wasteland: Group show with guest curator, William Paul Thomas.

Thru May 26. Reception: Apr 25, 5-8 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

Ely Urbanski: Prints on fabric.

Thru Apr 30. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

Christina Lorena Weisner: Explorations: Science sculptures. Thru Jul 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922: Thru May 19. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Within the Frame: Photos.

Thru Jul 7. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Tina Barr, Valerie Nieman, Patty Cole: N.C. Poetry Society reading. Sun, Apr 28, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Mario Bellatin: ¿Cómo encontrar la palabra? Las nuevas escrituras.

Mis nuevas escrituras. Thu, Apr 25, 5:30 p.m. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. global.unc.edu.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI AND ALAN SHAPIRO

Belle Boggs & Therese Anne Fowler: Novels The Gulf and A Well-Behaved Woman. Sat, Apr 27, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

In this month’s installation of the Regulator Bookshop’s Poetry Series, Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Alan Shapiro join forces with emerging poets Travis Smith and Coco Wilder. Calvocoressi is the author of three collections of poetry; her most recent collection, Rocket Fantastic, received the Audre Lorde Poetry Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is currently working on a memoir, The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself, and a novel. Shapiro, a Pulitzer Prize finalist from Boston, is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill; just last month, he launched his most recent collection, Against Translation. Poet Travis Smith, who has been published in Harpers, Crazyhorse, and The Collagist, will read alongside Coco Wilder, who serves as co-web editor of the Four Way Review, and is a recipient of a 2018 Academy of American Poets University Prize. —Lucy Marcum

Joseph Finder: Judgment: A Novel. Fri, Apr 26, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Bryant Holsenbeck: The Last Straw. Mon, Apr 29, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Austin Kleon: Keep Going. Tue, Apr 30, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

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Kate T. Parker: The Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood. Tue, Apr 30, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Anna Quindlen: Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting.

Wed, Apr 24, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

A Whitman Sampler: A Bicentennial Celebration: Readings and remarks by Richard H. Brodhead, Duke University. Thu, Apr 25, 4 p.m.

Duke’s Perkins Library, Durham. library.duke.edu.

LECTURES ETC. Professor Brian Cox: Universal: Science program. Thu, Apr 25, 8 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

TEDx Chapel Hill: Live speakers and TED videos. Sat, Apr 27, 1 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. varsityonfranklin.com.

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Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Jason Robert Brown: Theatre Raleigh. Reception, concert, and talkback session. Sat, Apr 27, Sat, Apr 27, 7 p.m. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. theatreraleigh.com.

Church and State: Play. Apr 26-May 12. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. nract.org.

Dane Cook: Comedy. $40+.

Fri, Apr 26, 8 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical: Wed, Apr 24, 7:30 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Drag Me to Church: Drag show. $10. Sat, Apr 27, 6 p.m. Calvary United Methodist Church, Durham. calvarync.org.

An Evening of Magic: Magic. $5. Sat, Apr 27, 6 p.m. New Horizons Fellowship, Apex.

RaleighMagicClub.org.

John Heffron: Comedy.

Apr 26-28. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Ladies of the 80s: Comedy.

With Michelle Maclay Herndon, Al-Nisa Lawson, Iris Medina, Amy Mora, and Janeen Slaughter. Wed, May 1, 8 p.m.

The People’s Improv Theater Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com.

Murder for Two: Musical.

Apr 26-May 5. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Farewell Play: Play. Tue, Apr 30, Thu, May 2, Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Shamel Pitts: Black Velvet: Architectures and Archetypes and Bobbi Jene Smith: A Study on Effort: Dance. Apr 24-25. Current ArtSpace + Studio, Chapel Hill. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Stage Kiss: Sonorous Road Theatre. Play. Apr 26-May 12.

Sonorous Road Theatre, Raleigh. sonorousroad.com.

ONGOING Comedy Night: With David Hughes, Drew Robertson, Erin Terry, Grace Reynolds, and host Michelle Maclay.

Thu, Apr 25, 7 p.m. The Cave, Chapel Hill. caverntavern.com.

Godspell: $24-$33. Thru Apr 28. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. theatreinthepark.com.

The Good Hour: Comedy.

With Mark Brady, Jeremy Alder, and Aaron Cardwell. $5. Thu, Apr 25, 8 p.m. The Maywood, Raleigh. themaywoodraleigh.com.

The Great Celestial Cow: Play.

Thru Apr 28. Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh. burningcoal.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24–SUNDAY, APRIL 28

YOUR HEALING IS KILLING ME Virginia Grise, a queer Chicana theater artist, began making a list of the things that were killing her—quite literally—in 2016. The list included eczema creams, prescriptions treating symptoms and not causes, chiles, Monsanto, BPA plastics, and white liberalism. Delving further into the challenges her body was facing, that index of toxins evolved into a onewoman, first-person, ground-level critique of the U.S. health care system. “Everywhere I go I am confronting a system,” she concludes, “Doctors operate in a system that ultimately doesn’t want us to be healthier.” Grice’s one-person show incorporates broad-ranging research, interviews, and personal narratives from “San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools, the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists,” in a work that seeks to “replace individual self-care with collective selfdefense.” Shayok Misha Chowdhury directs Florinda Bryant in this PRC2 season closer. —Byron Woods

PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun., 2 p.m. Sun., $15–$35, www.playmakersrep.org

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension & The Wraith: Fri, Apr 26, 7 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30

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Exit Through the Gift Shop: Tue, Apr 30, 7:30 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Playing in Alamo Raleigh’s Film Club Series next Tuesday, Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) follows the attempts of an amateur filmmaker to meet Banksy, the once massively popular anonymous street artist whose works graphically point to the hypocrisies of gentrified urban spaces. Although Banksy defies his own unmasking, Exit Through the Gift Shop gives us an illuminating glimpse into the world of “street art,” a category somewhere between graffiti and monumental public art, neither free from the international art market nor wholly dependent on it. The film’s funny, nimble, meta structure keeps us on our toes, wondering who is the real subject of the film and who has control of the camera. Though Exit is a fun movie, one wonders when Alamo’s promising-sounding Film Club will begin programming geared towards film lovers looking for deep cuts, rather than films that have already been available on Netflix for several years. The heads are waiting.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Mon, Apr 29, 7 p.m.

Schoolkids Records Raleigh. schoolkidsrecords.com.

In Our Own Hands: Holocaust documentary.

Discussion with Rabbi Michael Gisser, former US Army chaplain, to follow. Sun, Apr 28, 4 p.m. Levin Jewish Community Center, Durham. levinjcc.org.

Love is a Racket: Wed, Apr 24, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

The Masked Avengers: Wed, Apr 24, 8:15 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Miss Potter: Discussion with Druscilla French to follow.

Wed, Apr 24, 10 a.m. UNC Friday Center, Chapel Hill. fridaycenter.unc.edu.

Resilience: Documentary.

Thu, Apr 25, 6 p.m. Orange County Rape Crisis Center, Chapel Hill. ocrcc.org.

The Southern Noir Film Hour: Short films by Edith Snow and Eryk Pruitt. Live music from Swedish Wood Patrol. Thu, Apr 25, 6:30 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. motorcomusic.com.

Touch of Evil: Drama. Sat, Apr 27, 9 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

The Wicker Man: Discussion to follow. Free. Wed, Apr 24, 7 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com.

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