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RED After teachers marched on Raleigh last year, the General Assembly gave them a raise.

That’s not good enough, they say.

BY LEIGH TAUSS AND SARAH WILLETS, P. 10

DRILL, BABY, DRILL, P. 7

ITMFA, P. 8

SEXUAL HEALING, P. 21

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VOL. 36, NO. 18

DEPARTMENTS

6 One of the most expensive things Durham residents can vote on during participatory budgeting this month: new classroom projectors.

6 News

7 The FAA says local governments don’t get a say in RDU’s controversial quarry lease.

15 Food 16 Music

8 The question isn’t whether Donald Trump should be impeached, only whether he will be.

20 Arts & Culture

10 In 2013, North Carolina was ranked forty-seventh in teacher pay.

Now, it’s twenty-ninth.

24 Music Calendar

22 What to Do This Week 28 Arts & Culture Calendar

15 There are six cocktail bars within a one-block radius of the INDY’s Durham office. The seventh is coming soon. Pity our livers.

17 Some Christian artists go secular to make money. For David Bazan, leaving the faith made it harder to survive.

20 Local dance artist Jess Shell got so much out of Tobacco Road Dance Productions that she decided to run it rather than let it close.

21 Before she became a household name, Dr. Ruth had a radio show built just to meet community-health-programming standards. It was buried in a midnight slot.

Kids help make signs ahead of the May 1 teachers march (see page 10).

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backtalk

Look the Other Way In last week’s paper, Leigh Tauss wrote about four Raleigh lawyers who are taking an RV into lower-income neighborhoods and giving advice to residents. The problem: What they’re doing might fall under the city’s restrictions on mobile retailers.

“Instead of asking if they’re breaking rules,” asks Toni Chester, “shouldn’t we be asking how we can support and institute change that will help a service that is so obviously needed succeed in our community? We know our legal system is broken.

This is a real, tangible solution to a small part of the problem.”

“I love this creative way to get help where it is needed,” writes Jena Matzen. “As a former Legal Aid lawyer who also did a lot of outreach, I can attest to how the need for legal services in low-wealth communities far outstrips the current publicly funded supply. I hope that they can keep it up.”

“With the gutting of Legal Aid for the poor,” adds Kathryn Welch, “I would think those offering their services to the poor for free would be celebrated. There must be a way for them to continue as they are now and for the overly rigid rule followers look the other way for once.”

“Raleigh is not a young city, and it is no longer a Southern city.”

The Raleigh City Council is expected to take up a mobile retail ordinance on May 7.

In other Raleigh news, developer John Kane has asked for a zoning change that would allow him to build a forty-story skyscraper downtown. As the INDY has reported, even if Kane includes affordable units, the council might not go along, as some members are worried about development downtown. Last week, the city’s planning commission approved the zoning request.

“Sorry, that lot near downtown is zoned to be a gravel parking lot,” writes John, assuming the voice of the council’s majority. “We can’t add buildings to this town, because the neighbors don’t like change.

We laughed at them when someone proposed building in the city. Our millions of roads can’t handle adding density.”

“Raleigh is not a young city,” writes David W. Jones. “It was founded as the capital city in 1789, the same year as the founding of our nation. Learn something about Raleigh if you want to manage it. I am an eighty-year native of Raleigh, and it has become the city I never wanted to live in. It is not a young city, and it is no longer a Southern city, just like the test of our state.”

Leah Abrams wrote recently about the increased stay times at Urban Ministries of Durham.

“I understand they’re trying to make Durham a better place, but long as [landlords] keep asking for a six-hundred credit score for rental properties, some people will always stay homeless,” writes Wanda Lowry. “How can people in an urban neighborhood afford a $600 deposit, $600 down, and first month’s rent, an appliance fee of $100, an application fee of $50, and they want three times the rent? A lot of people don’t make it.”

Finally, Jeffrey C. Billman wrote last week about the voluminous lies and misdeeds of the Trump administration brought to light by the Mueller report.

“The single biggest problem with Trump, even more than the fact that he is crude, disrespectful, and sociopathic, and likely the reason for it, is that never before in his entire life has he been told no,” writes Mark Ellis. “And now that he is, he can’t stand it. A spoiled brat.”

“Nothing can be done about the 35 percent who support him fervently,” adds Donovan Verrill. “We just have to hope the rest see the light. I’ve heard numerous politicians tout the intelligence of the American voter—Trump’s election proves how low it actually is.”

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People Power

DURHAM BEGINS A $2.4 MILLION EXPERIMENT IN DIRECT DEMOCRACY

BY ERIN WILLIAMS

B

eginning May 1, Durham will ask residents age thirteen and older to vote on how the city should spend $2.4 million.

The vote will mark the culmination of a nearly yearlong exercise in direct democracy—a process designed to ask all city residents, no matter their citizenship status or criminal background, to decide what projects they want the city to spend money on in their own neighborhoods. Each of the city’s three wards will have $800,000 to allocate on ideas that originated within these communities.

Durham is the second North Carolina city to embrace what’s known as participatory budgeting, after Greensboro. Over the last fourteen years, twenty-nine cities in the U.S. and Canada have used participatory budgeting to spend more than $300 million, according to the nonprofit Participatory Budgeting Project.

“The goal is to involve people who are traditionally not involved in local government or budget processes,” says Robin Baker, the city’s budget engagement coordinator. “We felt, as a city, that it was important that everyone would be eligible, not only to submit an idea, but also vote in the elections.”

Last July, the city council appointed a fifteen-member steering committee tasked with drafting the rulebook, establishing goals and measures of success, creating timelines, and developing outreach strategies. As part of the initial idea collection phase, the steering committee attended more than fifty events (including Spanishonly and youth-focused events), ten festivals, and thirty community meetings, meeting with more than two thousand residents. During the proposal development phase, the city enlisted more than a hundred residents as budget delegates to work with city staffers and the steering committee to vet and develop the ideas into proposals.

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and the folks who were budget delegates,” says council member Jillian Johnson, who spearheaded the initiative. “They got to work with city staff to learn and ask [questions like], ‘We want to build a sidewalk.

the three wards. Three of these projects— an LGBTQ youth center, bus shelters with reclaimed art and solar panels, and Wi-Fi picnic tables—are citywide, meaning they’ll also appear on the ballot in Wards

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How does that actually happen? What are the requirements? What is the cost? Does the city build it, or does it get outsourced?’”

Most projects on the ballot will address infrastructure needs, such as improving streets and sidewalks. The second largest category is parks and recreation projects, followed by projects related to safety and the environment.

Ward 1, which covers the areas surrounding downtown and a little north, has twenty projects on the ballot, the most of

2 and 3. (Funding for citywide projects will be split equally among the wards that vote for them.)

The rest are specific to the area, and underline the infrastructure deficiencies in some neighborhoods: play equipment in Carroll Park, more street trees and bus shelters, a sidewalk along Carroll Street, and sidewalk repairs on Gray Avenue, as well as historic monuments along the Fayetteville Street Corridor, according to the city’s mock ballot.

Ward 2, which includes southern and eastern Durham, will vote on expanding El Futuro’s bilingual mental health clinic as well as improvements to parks and sidewalks. Ward 3, in the city’s wealthier western enclaves, will vote on art displays on East Chapel Hill Street buildings, new projectors for Jordan High School and three middle schools, and a solar electric vehicle charging station in the Lakewood Shopping Center, among other things.

The city will ask voters to rank up to ten projects in their ward from their highest priority to their lowest. With the exception of the school projectors in Ward 3 and the sidewalk projects in Wards 1 and 3, none of the projects listed on the city’s mock ballot— which includes expected costs—approaches $800,000. That means there are likely to be multiple winners awarded at least some money in each ward.

The steering committee set a goal of turning out at least 10,000 voters, compared with 36,427 in the 2017 municipal election. Johnson says she’s optimistic the city can meet the target, especially by encouraging participation in public schools. Durham middle and high schools will have voting sites and incorporate lessons about the initiative in U.S. history, civics, and social studies courses.

Johnson hopes this will get young people interested in city politics.

“There are so many fewer barriers to getting involved in [participatory budgeting], and we hope that it gets people more engaged in the city overall, to learn more about what is happening in the city, to get more engaged in their community, or to get more involved in municipal elections,” Johnson says.

Voting continues through May 31. The winning projects will be announced in June and implemented within three years.

Residents can vote online at pbdurham. org or in person at a participatory budget voting site or pop-up. (Visit the website’s events page to find the voting location closest to you.) backtalk@indyweek.com

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Not Our Problem

THE FAA WON’T STOP RDU’S QUARRY LEASE. BUT CONSERVATIONISTS SAY THEY’RE NOT GIVING UP.

BY LEIGH TAUSS

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he Federal Aviation Administration dealt opponents of a second stone quarry near Umstead Park a blow Monday.

Conservationists hoped that the FAA would halt a controversial lease agreement between the Raleigh-Durham International Airport Authority and Wake Stone Corporation for 105 acres of land, which the RDU authority board approved March 1 and is now the subject of a lawsuit.

The airport authority says that, over the next twenty-five years, this lease will generate up to $24 million in royalties—revenue that the airport needs for infrastructure to keep up with a 42 percent increase in ridership since 2010, including building another runway. RDU has also pointed out that this land is private property and has never been a public park, though mountain bikers have illegally used it that way.

The deal’s opponents dispute how much money the lease will produce, saying that it only guarantees RDU about $8 million, and, in the process, the quarry will destroy the land’s future recreational value.

Conservationists allege that RDU had no right to sign the lease without getting the four local governments that oversee the airport authority—the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the counties of Wake and Durham—to first sign off.

In Raleigh, the issue became a political football in late March, when several city council members pushed for a resolution opposing the lease. Council member Stef Mendell argued that RDU had not been transparent about its dealings with Wake Stone. The resolution failed on a 4–4 vote after the city attorney said the council’s verdict would be merely symbolic.

On Monday, in a letter to RDU president Michael Landguth, FAA southern regional director Steven Hicks agreed, saying the agency wouldn’t require the airport to get a release from area counties because the lease didn’t use federal funds and “does not appear to adversely affect the safe and

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efficient operation of aircraft or safety of people and property on the ground related to the aircraft.”

Council member Dickie Thompson, who sits on the RDU board, wasn’t surprised.

The board’s legal counsel had told the board that the FAA and local governments wouldn’t—and couldn’t—get involved.

“I’m sure it’s not going to make some people happy, but I think it’s one more step in a lengthy process. It’s not an overnight thing,” Thompson says, pointing out that the quarry still needs to obtain permits.

(As the deal’s opponents note, Thompson’s construction company buys material from Wake Stone, though he says Wake Stone

has never cut him a deal and RDU says this doesn’t amount to a conflict of interest.)

Mendell says she’s not ready to give up.

“I was disappointed by it, but will continue to explore other options,” she says. “I don’t think a quarry is the best outcome for our community, and I don’t believe it’s what residents want. I’d like to see a solution that benefits both our airport and our region’s economic development as well as benefiting our environment and those who enjoy its recreational offerings.”

The FAA’s decision doesn’t bode well for a lawsuit filed in March by The Umstead Coalition, Triangle Off-Road Cyclists, and Tamara and Randal Dunn, who live near

the second quarry. The lawsuit—which won a temporary restraining order prohibiting quarry construction through August, though exploratory drilling can continue— argues that local governments should have a veto.

The FAA now says they don’t.

“I think we still have a strong case,” says Jean Spooner, who chairs The Umstead Coalition. “The land is titled to the four local owners, the governments, and it is their land. We still think they have a say and should have a say in how their land is utilized. We fully intend to continue in our pursuit to protect our public lands.” ltauss@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.1.19 | 7

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Impeach Donald Trump

WHAT’S POLITICALLY MESSY HAS BECOME CONSTITUTIONALLY NECESSARY

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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here’s no excuse, nor any alternative. What’s politically messy has become constitutionally necessary.

Donald Trump must be impeached.

Impeachment is risky. It will drown out progressives’ messaging on health care and jobs. It will enrage Trump’s base and fuel conspiratorial “deep state” rants. It might lead to retaliatory investigations into the FBI and Hillary Clinton and the rest of Trump’s enemies list.

And it won’t lead to Trump’s removal from office. House Democrats probably have the votes to impeach the president, but the Republican-controlled Senate is unlikely to convict him. (It’s possible that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will refuse to hold a trial.) When that happens, Trump will again dismiss the whole exercise as a partisan witch hunt.

None of this is in dispute, at least by anyone with fidelity to reality, nor is it something to be shrugged aside as a personal failing, like lying about a blowjob. This is a man fundamentally attacking the institutions of democracy. He doesn’t just need to lose; he needs to be held accountable. More important, this country needs to reckon with the cancer Trump both embodies and represents. Regardless of how it ends, impeachment forces that reckoning.

That matters more than politics.

One article of impeachment against Richard Nixon accused him of “making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States.” Nixon lied to Americans about the investigation into his campaign and White House staff. I dare anyone to say Trump has done anything less.

Mueller’s report showed that Trump lied about his business dealings in Russia, about his campaign’s coordination with Russia, about his son’s meeting with a Russian operative, about his decision to fire James Comey, about wanting to fire Robert Mueller, about so many other things. His press secretary and attorney general also misled the American people about the investigation.

Another link between Nixon and Trump: obstruction of justice. Mueller made clear that, if Trump weren’t president, he would’ve been charged. Had his underlings not ignored his instructions to, for instance, fire the special counsel and then lie about it, the case against him would be even stronger. Referencing “constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct,” Mueller’s report amounts to an impeachment referral.

There’s also the matter of Trump, aka Individual 1, being, in essence, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against his personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to helping the president

The question isn’t whether Trump deserves it.

Politically, there’s little upside for Democrats. Trump is already headed into an election year polling around 40 percent with a good economy. Views on Russia and Robert Mueller’s investigation are fixed: According to a recent Politico/Morning Consult Poll, voters are split 41–41 on whether Trump’s campaign worked with Russia, a 47–34 percent plurality believe Trump obstructed the investigation, but only a third of voters think Congress should begin impeachment proceedings.

So why take a chance on something that won’t work and might provoke a backlash?

The answer is simple: It’s their obligation.

It’s not just about Donald Trump or gaining a political advantage. It’s about coming to terms with the fact that the president of the United States has violated the public’s trust and betrayed his oath of office.

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pay a porn star to keep quiet about their alleged affair, in the process violating campaign finance laws.

In addition, Trump has flagrantly profited off the presidency. Republican PACs and political campaigns have spent millions at Trump-branded properties, and deep-pocketed Mar-a-Lago members get close-up access to Trump and top officials. His Justice Department has also adopted a “narrow” interpretation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause that allows Trump hotels to accept huge sums from foreign governments.

But the corruption offends me less than what Trump has done since the Mueller report’s release—that is, to effectively elevate himself above the law. His administration has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for Trump’s tax records and sued the House Oversight Committee over a subpoena for Trump’s financial records; it has also instructed a former aide not to testify before a House panel and is fighting a subpoena of former White House counsel Don McGahn. Trump and his children have also sued Deutsche Bank and Capital One to prevent them from complying with congressional subpoenas for the president’s financial document.

There’s no compelling justification for any of this, other than that Trump doesn’t feel like he should have to cooperate. According to The Washington Post, White House lawyers are planning to fight all subpoenas and defy all inquiries, because, as Trump put it, “There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan—obviously very partisan.”

If Trump can simply ignore Congress— and lie to the American people, commit campaign finance fraud, be openly corrupt, and obstruct justice—with impunity, because Democrats are too frightened of the political fallout, then they’re unworthy of the power they’ve been given.

The question isn’t whether Trump deserves to be impeached. It’s whether Democrats have the courage to impeach him. jbillman@indyweek.com

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counselor for every 367 students. The recommended ratio is one counselor for every 250 students.

On Wednesday, as thousands of educators converge on the state legislature for the second straight year, one of their five demands will be for more support staff—more counselors, as well as psychologists, nurses, and social workers—to help students cope with what’s happening outside of school, which, in turn, will help them learn.

Arising amid a wave of teacher walkouts in red states, last year’s teachers rally drew twenty thousand red-shirted educators and supporters to downtown Raleigh demanding better pay and more respect from the Republican-controlled General Assembly.

DeLaughter didn’t make it, nor did some of her Lakewood colleagues. They say they were too emotionally drained from fighting off the charter takeover.

But they’ll be there this year—like at least thirty other school districts across the state, Durham Public Schools will close to allow teachers to march.

Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, have been largely dismissive of the rally.

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very weekday, Charlene DeLaughter wakes up in the dark, around 5:15 a.m. She drives herself and her tenyear-old son from Raleigh, where they live, to Durham’s Lakewood Elementary School, where Sidney is a fifthgrader and DeLaughter is the only counselor for 389 students. Some days, she doesn’t get home until dark.

That’s been her job for two-and-a-half years, crafting a curriculum to address students’ social and emotional needs, collaborating with teachers on instructing children with different learning styles, and visiting classrooms every month—more often in times of crisis, like when Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids spread fear among Lakewood’s immigrant community. (DeLaughter counts at least six students whose relatives were detained by ICE this school year.)

For that, she earns $47,000 a year.

From that sum, the single mother deducts student loan payments, rent, and the approximately $300 she spends each year on gifts for her students: little things like stress balls and Yo-Yos. It’s never a choice between buying something for them and buying something for Sidney, she says. She goes without.

“Them first, then me,” she says.

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In 2017, Lakewood was identified as one of the lowest-performing schools in the state and nearly taken over by charter operators as part of the Innovative School District program. About 53 percent of Lakewood students are Hispanic, 25 percent are black, and just under 8 percent are white. It’s not uncommon to hear Spanish spoken in the hallways. Some students are the children of refugees or undocumented immigrants. Others come from unstable homes. More than 80 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Having more support staff would help students deal with trauma, DeLaughter says. But right now, the burden falls on her and a single social worker.

And a heavy burden it is.

“I see a therapist. I make sure that my emotional health is good, because if mine isn’t good, I’m not able to help the students,” DeLaughter says. “I just continue to tell myself I’m doing everything I can.”

She’s not the only school counselor who feels that way. Statewide, according to the Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina schools employ one

Teachers prepare signs for the May 1 march.

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Last year, a lawmaker from Union County referred to marchers as “union thugs.” Last week, Senate leader Phil Berger called the North Carolina Association of Educators, which is organizing the event, a “far-left” organization that is “trying to bully school districts into keeping kids out of the classroom, all so the hyper-liberal union can try to get more Democrats elected.”

It’s unclear how big a role the 2018 march played in Democrats’ success last November, when Republicans lost their legislative supermajorities.

But Republicans argue that they have increased teacher pay significantly in recent years—some of the highest wage hikes in the country, in fact—pointing to a National Education Association study from March that found that the state’s average teacher salary had jumped from forty-seventh in the country in 2013 to twenty-ninth today.

That, House Speaker Tim Moore’s office boasted when the NEA report was released, was “an impressive accomplishment for Republican lawmakers.”

Teachers say it hasn’t been enough.

“Like we should be satisfied that we got a crumb, that’s how I feel,” says Abby Exum, who teaches gifted students at Lakewood Elementary but took a second job as a tutor to make ends meet. “We should be satisfied with a crumb when we didn’t get anything for so long. The crumbs that you’re giving us, yes, thank you, but more needs to happen.”

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overnor Cooper’s budget proposal gives teachers a 9 percent raise, but he won’t get his way.

While the GOP supermajorities are gone, the Republicans are still in charge, and the education funding debate seems likely to play out as a semi-choreographed fiasco: The General Assembly passes a budget.

Cooper vetoes it, demanding more money for teachers. There’s a standoff. They settle somewhere in between.

Republicans began unveiling their budget Monday night. What’s been released so far contains some additional money for education, though it doesn’t specify across-the-board raises for teacher or support staff. Instead, it dangles incentives for teachers who develop ways to improves test scores and offers teachers a $145 stipend for classroom supplies. (A recent survey of Lakewood Elementary teachers found that they spend about $300 a year on supplies out of pocket.)

On Monday, Moore’s office announced an education-budget-related press conference for Tuesday afternoon, after the

INDY goes to press. It’s possible that details of teachers’ raises could be detailed then, ahead of Wednesday’s rally.

Last year’s budget increased teacher pay by 6.5 percent; the year before, 3.3 percent; the year before that, 4.7 percent. In 2013, Republicans point out, North Carolina ranked at the bottom in the country in teacher pay, but now it’s near the middle— which, adjusting for cost of living, is actually pretty good, they say.

But those pay hikes don’t tell the full story, says Lakewood second-grade teacher Cara Casey. Nor have they brought the state’s teachers up to national standards.

According to the NEA, North Carolina lags about $7,800 behind the projected national average teacher salary of $61,782. “[Legislators] are painting a picture for people in the public that’s not real,” Casey says.

In North Carolina, the state provides teachers a base pay, which counties can supplement. Following the recession, teachers, like all state employees, had their pay cut a half a percentage point in 2009, then saw a two-year pay freeze. While they received a 1.2 percent bump in 2012, they got nothing in 2013. Ever since, the legislature has been playing catchup.

But even with five straight increases and a sixth likely on the way, teacher pay hasn’t kept pace with the cost of living. North Carolina teachers have an average salary of $53,975; adjusted for inflation, however, that’s about $3,310 less than they did before the recession, according to the Department of Public Instruction.

And though the mean salary is pushing $54,000, many teachers aren’t making that much. The mean, the NCAE says, is skewed by a large number of long-term teachers at the higher end of the state’s pay scale as well as teachers who live in larger counties that pay higher supplements.

Indeed, the state’s pay scale maxes out at $52,000. According to the DPI, if you remove local supplements, the state’s average teacher earns just $49,395.

Funding those supplements has strained larger counties’ budgets. Case in point: Wake County, which has dramatically increased its school supplement since Democrats took over the Board of Commissioners in 2014. County residents have seen their property taxes rise five consecutive years. But even that wasn’t good enough; last year, two commissioners lost their reelection bids to education advocates.

This year, Wake’s school board has asked for nearly $49 million in new funding.

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hen the state moved to take over Lakewood Elementary in 2017, the community rallied behind the school. Eventually, the DPI relented, and Lakewood—along with Durham’s Glenn Elementary—was removed from the Innovative School District.

After that, the changes were noticeable.

The school came together like a family, DeLaughter says.

The DPI granted Lakewood restart status, allowing it more flexibility with spending and scheduling. Lakewood also became one of four pilot schools in the Bull City Community Schools Partnership, a concept that leverages community relationships and assets to solve problems created by the underfunding of public education.

The school’s performance scores improved dramatically. The school hired two teaching coaches and was able to make its social worker full-time. The local neighborhood association raised money to reimburse teachers $150 each for supplies.

None of that progress can be credited to the General Assembly, says Lakewood Elementary community schools coordinator Anna Grant.

But the neighborhood can’t make up for the school’s share of the more than $170 million in state funding that the Durham County

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Board of Commissioners says has been cut from the DPS budget since 2008. And that’s left teachers like Casey looking for alternatives, including crowdfunding.

“I’m torn,” Casey says. “I wish I didn’t have to [ask], but I also know there’s so many people in this community that want to help us.

Our community around us understands our struggle.”

The NCAE has issued five demands for the May 1 march, the first being more support personnel.

According to DPI data, North Carolina lags the national average in staffing for school psychol- PHOTO BY JADE WILSON ogists, nurses, and social workers.

To cite one example: The National Association of School Psychologists recommends that schools nationwide employ one psychologist for every five hundred to seven hundred students. North Carolina schools employ one per 2,083 students. Similarly, while the National Association of Social Workers recommends that school districts have one social worker for every 250 students, North

Carolina has 1,081 social workers for 1.6 million students, according to the DPI. Educators are also asking that school personnel be paid no less than $15 an hour, something other state employees won in last year’s budget, though public school and community college employees were left out.

The State Employees Association estimates that this leaves behind about fortyfive thousand public school workers, including bus drivers and custodians.

The teachers also want retirement health benefits to be reinstated for future teachers, which the legislature ended last year for teachers who start working in 2021, and pay hikes for teachers with advanced degrees, which North Carolina educators had before 2013.

Finally, they argue that the General Assembly should expand Medicaid, as they can’t effectively teach kids who come to school sick or stay home because of an illness that could have been treated had their family taken them to a doctor.

In response, Republicans rolled out a bill last week that would make future school-day rallies like this impossible.

Since school districts cited the large number of teachers taking the day off in their decisions to shut down classes, the legislation would forbid teachers from using personal leave unless they can line up a substitute.

For the teachers who take to downtown Raleigh’s streets on Wednesday, that’s an indication of the kind of respect they get from current legislative leaders.

“Not much has changed in terms of the general funding for education,” says Lakewood teacher and march organizer Anca Stefan. “We are still woefully below national averages for staffing, for resources in general. What we were able to do [last year] was channel our educators’ voices all throughout the state in an organized way around the ballot box.”

But what the legislature still misses, DeLaughter says, is that it’s not just about teachers’ paychecks.

They didn’t go into education to get rich.

“We work hard here, and regardless of how much we get paid, it’s not going to take away from the work that we do,” DeLaughter says. “I’m excited about May 1.” news@indyweek.com

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says Kingfisher will be different: “We’re here’s no shortage of bars in the taking ingredients like a carrot and figuring Triangle—from basic breweries to out, what’s the best drink we can make with the most innovative mixology-centhis, as opposed to just making a carrot oldters—and downtown Durham is no excepfashioned or trying to put ingredients into a tion. There are at least five cocktail joints drink that doesn’t really fit.” within a one-block radius of the Durham Umstead regularly visits local farmers Hotel, not counting that establishment’s markets to identify unique possibilities, own restaurant and rooftop. such as a sunchoke colada, for Kingfisher’s So why would husband-and-wife menu. Developing a cocktail, he says, is a team Sean Umstead and Michelle lot like a chef creating a dish: It’s about layVanderwalker open their new bar, ering complementing flavors that hit the Kingfisher, in the same spot? tongue just right.

“Because if you’re trying to represent a “I like to take something that’s typically place, you need to have access to the people thought of as food and put it into a cocktail,” who are and aren’t normally from there,” Umstead says. “Kale, Umstead says. “The for example, provides concept for Kingfisha freshness and a biter has grown out of our terness that dries out a shared interests and a drink, and I think those desire to represent Durthings are fun to learn ham, the Triangle, our and work with.” friends, and our home The downstairs space through cocktails. Our features designated location puts us in seating, including a comthe best position to do munal-feeling lounge that, and to collaborate area and intimate, with others around the closed booths. The aescommunity.” thetic, which Umstead Umstead, who previsays was first informed ously launched the bar by the archetypally dark program at the Countand brooding speakeasy ing House and, until Michelle Vanderwalker and Sean look, has evolved into last winter, was general Umstead PHOTO BY ROBERT K. WALKER something more dynammanager at Raleigh’s St. ic, punctuated by personal touches, local artRoch Fine Oysters + Bar, says farm-to-glass work, and happy accidents, like the exposed cocktails are the next step in bar ingenuity. brick wall the couple discovered when the With Kingfisher—which gets its name drywall was damaged during construction. from the belted kingfisher, a rarely spot“Once you’ve been down here for a while,” ted fishing bird that burrows along the Eno he says, “you tend to lose track of the time.”

River—he plans to lead the charge. The bar is “Whenever we talked about what we likely to open later this month, in June at the wanted the bar to look like,” Vanderwalker latest, though there’s no firm launch date. adds, “I always ended up saying, ‘Well, I “Our space’s intent is to showcase Durcould make it.’” ham, so our cocktails are farm-driven,” Her touch is evident everywhere, from the Umstead says. “We’re taking produce and upholstered banquette seating and the fired making it the star of the show. One of the clay tiles on the U-shaped bar to slip-cast tiki core ideas that contributed to our program mugs and plates, which are exclusive to Kingis, how do we make a beautiful daiquiri if fisher and feature original stencils designed we just want to use North Carolina strawby Vanderwalker’s great-grandfather. berries, but they’re only in season for six “I really love the idea of art being everyweeks? So we’ve canned and preserved and where,” Vanderwalker says, “so you don’t powdered and dehydrated and tried a milnecessarily have to go on purpose to see it, lion different methods for doing that.” but it just shows up when you’re out in your Partnering with North Carolina farms— everyday life. We wanted to give local artsuch as Durham’s Lil’ Farm—Umstead ists a place to showcase their work and give and Vanderwalker are sourcing the freshthem a stipend, so they can survive—and it est produce possible to serve Kingfisher’s enhances our space.” menu. To be sure, lots of bars highlight local food@indyweek.com and seasonal produce. But Vanderwalker

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f you’re not paying attention, I’m not mad at you, I just don’t care what you think, because there is incredible fucking music coming out right now.”

This is surprising talk coming from John Vanderslice, the operator of Tiny Telephone Recording. He started the “analog-centric” studio in San Francisco twenty-two years ago, in a bare-bones rehearsal warehouse, going on to amass a huge collection of vintage equipment. He’s produced the likes of Deerhoof, Spoon, and Death Cab for Cutie in addition to writing and recording eleven studio albums of his own strange but accessible indie pop. Hearing Vanderslice disparage “analog people” is like hearing Bernie Sanders coming out against Medicare-for-all.

But Vanderslice says he’s changed his attitude toward modern music production in recent years, thanks, at least in part, to the vitality of rap and other contemporary genres.

“Analog does sound better to me, but it’s like I’ve been radicalized from a political position,” he says. “I just don’t buy it anymore.

There’s a literalism and a backwards-looking vibe to analog people that I really can’t stand.

I want to listen to shit that just came out. I generally don’t respect people who don’t listen to rap music, and I don’t respect people who can’t name three records that came out in the past month.”

That’s not to say Vanderslice has turned his back on his old synthesizers and tape machines. If his latest record, The Cedars, is any indication, analog machines are still very much in the mix. In some cases, he’s using these old units to approximate the sparse, experimental, dark aesthetic of some hiphop (see “Will Call”) rather than chasing a vintage rock sound; in others, he’s using them to color linear-sounding piano elegies (see “Spectral Dawn”).

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on a highway, which he characterized as a near-death experience. But he was talked out of retirement by his label, and he’s now touring again to support The Cedars, coming to Cat’s Cradle Back Room on May 6, supporting Pedro the Lion. He tells the INDY that his fascination with using the studio as an instrument began when he was introduced to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Who as a teenager.

“I always wanted to own recording studios from the time I was like fifteen years old,” he says. “I knew that studios were the secret sauce on all these records that I loved. I kept seeing all the same names—Eel Pie, Abbey Road—cropping up on these albums, and I knew it was a thread that mattered.”

The room for innovation afforded to a studio musician has always thrilled him, especially as an alternative to the linear songwriting associated with being in a traditional band. (Think of the difference between the mop-top era of The Beatles and the expanded sense of possibility behind Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.)

“I knew that records that were voiced in a more ambitious way—like with orchestral percussion, for example—completely changed the experience of listening to it,” he says. “It really mattered where those records were done, who they were done with, how much time they had, and what their approach was.”

Unlike some audiophiles, however, Vanderslice isn’t stuck in the stone age of rock ‘n’ roll and claims to have no interest in replicating fossils. In fact, he’s bored with most of the indie music being recorded on tape machines, at least compared to modern hip-hop.

“Rap is so fast and connected,” he says.

“There’s this viral use of language and ideas.

Rappers are listening to singles that came out last week and putting out a single this week in response. It’s completely reactive, in real time. So, when a band writes to me and says they want to sound like Nirvana, I want to write back and say, ‘Are you fucking kidding me, dude?’”

John Vanderslice PHOTO BY SARAH CASS Not only that, but digitally produced music also sounds better than ever to Vanderslice, though he says it will always sound about 10 percent worse to him than a tape recording. He believes computer-based songwriting opens the door to an exciting,

nonlinear plane, a new sonic frontier where anything goes—and it’s populated almost entirely by rappers.

“It’s easier to be radical, using these techniques in Ableton and getting away from this very literal sense of, ‘We’re going to play

this guitar part here,’” he says. “It feels like rap is getting more experimental. It’s common for me to be blown away by the quality of sounds people are getting when they’re tracking their own stuff.”

These are bold words from someone whose business is based on owning a ton of analog gear and recording in the old ways.

The boutique synthesizers, effects pedals, tape machines, and guitar amps at Tiny Telephone are useful and valuable to Vanderslice

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personally, and he believes some of the textures they produce can’t be beaten. But he’s still entranced by the fact that one person with a laptop can push the envelope so far.

“It’s become a really complicated conversation for me to have,” he says. “I love and respect those machines, but it’s cloudy in a way it wasn’t five years ago. I’m constantly at war with myself to where I’m super cynical even with the things I believe.” music@indyweek.com

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Last decade, PTL’s brand of introspective, earnest indie rock had risen to both critical and popular success among the youth-group set. Bazan’s wrote about faith in a way that resonated: He wanted his to be stronger, but he had doubts. He wanted to feel God’s love, but the church’s sanctimony could be more pervasive.

It wasn’t hard to see him falling from grace. The seven years between the debut Whole EP, which concludes with an instrumental called “Hymn,” and Achilles, which concludes with a confessional about Bazan’s drinking problem, chart an almost linear progression from Pentecostal upbringing to agnostic adulthood.

Along the way came 2002’s Control, a critically acclaimed, biting critique of American culture and capitalism.

Bazan shelved PTL in 2006 because he wanted to distance himself from the Christian scene. Going solo and outing himself as a nonbeliever cost him fans and sales, but it also led to two of his most poignant records: 2009’s Curse Your Pedro the Lion PHOTO COURTESY OF CATSCRADLE.COM Branches, essentially a breakup letter to Jesus, and 2011’s Strange Negotiations, a rebuke of revanchist conservatism. Both felt of a piece with Pedro the Lion. His last two solo efforts have eschewed guitars for the downtempo synths and drum machines of his Headphones project.

So in that sense, Phoenix is a return to form—a three-piece, straight-ahead rock album.

But thematically, it doesn’t revert to PTL’s religious themes, though they often linger in the background, in lines like, “I tried eternity and a couple of other drugs.”

Instead, Bazan writes about growing up in Arizona. The album’s thirteen songs are vignettes about the small pleasures, mundane memories, and lingering regrets of his childhood: his first bike, the Circle K down the street, trying to sneak secular music. He turns the camera on himself and his own shortcomings: his desire for freedom, which leads to loneliness; his need for acceptance, which hurts others. Wistful and sad, joyful and nostalgic, and littered with lyrical callbacks to earlier PTL and Bazan songs, it’s almost an origin story, told with enough remove to see that origin for what it was, for better or worse. —Jeffrey C. Billman

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The new leaders are instituting a few straThat daunting task involved a complete ess Shell wasn’t yet a Tobacco Road tegic changes in their first year at the helm. refiguring of their university’s black box Dance Productions alumnus when According to Shell, extending the six-month theater for performance in the round—plus she decided to keep the company mentorship to nine months was in large part a load-in involving five-hundred pounds of from closing. due to happenstance—the outcome of wressoil and a load-out returning the space to its The longtime dancer and emerging chotling with a set of conflicting production calenoriginal condition. reographer was only halfway through the dars. But the gift of extra time has been group’s core program, a half-year felbeneficial to the works to be presented. lowship devoted to supporting and IN CONCERT 2019 “The artists went more in-depth producing new works in progress, in Friday, May 3 & Saturday, May 4, $13–$15 into their investigations,” Shell says. early 2018, when founders Stephanie PSI Theatre, Durham “The extra time is visible.”

Woodbeck and William Commander www.tobaccoroaddance.org The group’s mentorship sessions announced that they were considerhave also been enhanced by the ing ending the project. incorporation of critical response For four years, Tobacco Road had techniques pioneered by choreograincubated new choreographers and pher Liz Lerman, which emphasize assisted established dance-makdescription over verdicts. ers who wanted to effect signifi“Initially, we thought we’d try difcant changes in their work through ferent feedback processes througha one-of-a-kind process. After a out the year, but it felt so great that panel of dance veterans accepted it just became our way of speaking,” their proposals for new works or new says Winthrop. approaches to existing ones, artists More changes may be in store for received studio time and feedback next year’s program. Since so much through a series of workshops and contemporary dance is created for viewings over a six-month mentornon-proscenium spaces, Winthrop ship as they developed their work. and Shell are contemplating a secLast year’s program provided Shell, ond stage production in an alternaa 2016 MFA graduate from UNCtive venue. That added concert would Greensboro’s dance program, with also allow Tobacco Road to provide “such an amazing experience that I dance-makers crucial opportunities felt the calling to step forward,” she for acquiring the backstage, technisays. So she enlisted the help of crecal, and managerial skills required to ative partner Lindsay Winthrop, a produce their own work. fellow MFA from UNCG, and togeth“A lot of choreographers don’t have er, they convinced the founders to let experience in self-production, and the company continue under their there aren’t that many outlets where leadership. they can learn,” Winthrop says. “We A key part of the argument involved can provide that knowledge.” the experience both had in producing Kristin Clotfelter performing in last year's Tobacco Tobacco Road’s class of 2019 takes their own work. Beyond its processRoad Dance Productions concert PHOTO BY STEPHANIE LEATHERS the stage Friday and Saturday at driven workshops, Tobacco Road PSI Theatre; the cohort includes company “We had to fight so hard to make that is also a production company, securing the alumni Silvia Sheffield and Marsha Thomspace our own, to present our creations venue, theatrical designers, technicians, and as, UNC-Chapel Hill dance faculty member on our own terms,” Winthrop recalls. “We crew to stage the results of the fellowships in Heather Tatreau, and newcomers Madeline went into Tobacco Road with the same an annual springtime showcase.

Braxton, Emily Crofford, Marco Orellanafeeling: We can do this, no matter how To earn their graduate degrees, Shell and Portillo, and Megan Payne. hard it is, to make it available for other Winthrop had to do all that and more while arts@indyweek.com choreographers.” producing their own evening-length works.

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Let’s Talk About Sex

LONG SHOT MAKES IT A JOKE. ASK DR. RUTH TAKES IT SERIOUSLY. GUESS WHICH ONE WE LIKED BETTER.

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art political satire and part romantic comedy, Long Shot is the latest from the brain trust that brought us filthy and funny comedies such as Neighbors and This Is the End. The new film is a little less filthy and a little less funny, but it’s quite a bit more ambitious—a pop-culture reflection of our anxious, fractured political culture.

Rom-com-wise, it’s pretty much by-thebooks from here, marching through territory previously mapped by films like Dave and Bulworth and The American President. Rogen’s shtick is reliable, if a bit tired by now, with its mandatory jokes about drugs, onanism, and bodily fluids.

Theron, admirably game, finds threads of

jokes and ramshackle charm, leaving halfassed satire and unfinished bits scattered everywhere. It never seems to occur to the filmmakers that jokes can be fixed, crafted, heightened, improved; that you have

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to move through those first-thought gags.

Comedy at this frequency requires real effort. That’s how you make it look effortless. —Glenn McDonald arts@indyweek.com

BRIEF

ASK DR. RUTH 

Opening Friday, May 3

LONG SHOT ½

Opening Friday, May 3

Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in Long Shot Seth Rogen plays Fred Flarsky, a wise-ass Brooklyn writer for the local alt-weekly— noble work, to be sure. He is essentially identical to every other Rogen character: funny, loose, self-deprecating, horny. Charlize Theron plays Fred’s childhood babysitter crush, Charlotte Field, now all grown up and serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

After they cross paths at a political gathering, Charlotte hires Fred as a punchup writer for her stump-speech team. Fred’s hard-left sensibilities open up new electoral demographics for Charlotte, and soon, she’s in the running to be America’s first female president. Naturally, Fred and Charlotte also fall in love, causing severe headaches for the candidate’s buttoned-up image wranglers.

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real character-based comedy among the goofiness. Her adventures while rolling on MDMA are highlight-reel funny.

Screenwriters Dan Sterling (Girls) and Liz Hannah (The Post) provide political edge, and there are some funny bits featuring Bob Odenkirk as a dim-bulb narcissist president and Andy Serkis as a soulless right-wing media magnate.

To its credit, Long Shot takes aim at both sides of the political aisle, calling out righteous lefties for bullying and virtue signaling. But it never settles on a convincing point of view, and there’s a sense of missed opportunity. There’s no satirical punch line, no critical follow-through. The movie too often coasts on blunt-force sex

Good sex is not easy. How do we find it? How do we have it? These were taboo questions forty years ago; these days, they’re slightly less verboten but still evergreen, which makes the armchair guidance of the legendary sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer as essential as ever.

A refreshing new documentary reminds us how revolutionary her influence on America’s bedrooms has been. Director Ryan White gives Westheimer the same kind of loving treatment that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Fred Rogers have received in recent years. His heartwarming film follows the spunky, diminutive sex therapist COURTESY OF HULU ORIGINALS from her years as a singleimmigrant mother turned happily-married academic, to the present, where, at the age of ninety, she continues to lead a life of robust public engagement.

Westheimer’s career as a media personality began in 1980 with Sexually Speaking, the WYNY radio that was originally booked to meet community-health-programming standards and buried in a midnight slot. As a trained therapist, though, Dr. Ruth offered something entirely new: a candid, non-judgmental space that normalized a broad range of desires and experiences.

Her line stayed open through the AIDS crisis and America’s many sexual panics, as listeners called in with questions about everything from erectile dysfunction to sex toys. Her humor and nonplussed style earned trust—in the footage spliced throughout the doc, callers nervously ask intimate questions, which she gently coaxes along in her thick German accent, “Uh-huh, go on, go on”—and the show became hugely influential; even breaking through the tangled airwaves of television preachers and Christian pop radio that I grew up listening to.

Ask Dr. Ruth also takes an emotional look at Westheimer’s childhood as a German-Jewish refugee and survivor of the Holocaust, in which both of her parents died. She speaks guardedly of this trauma, but does say that it shaped her ambitions and joie de vivre. “From not having parents from the age of ten, I was very much aware of the importance of being touched, of being loved,” she says, later adding, “I have an obligation to live large and make a dent in this world.” That dent is joyously clear in Ask Dr. Ruth, as it becomes evident that not only has her voice changed lives, it has saved them. —Sarah Edwards INDYweek.com | 5.1.19 | 21

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

XIU XIU

From its earliest fringe outings on Olympia indie incubator Kill Rock Stars, Jamie Stewart’s polarizing recording project Xiu Xiu has excruciatingly articulated trauma. Screaming yourself deaf over mountains of contact-mic noise can suggest rage, yet Stewart’s disorienting falsetto induces a much deeper existential anomie, whether he’s singing timidly about eating disorders, sexual humiliation, or love. On Xiu Xiu’s latest, Girl with Basket of Fruit, Stewart and Angela Seo rip a turn from recent clean-cut pop dalliances and back into their claustrophobic lane: dissonant, queasy noise-pop that borrows sounds from across the musical rainbow. A cult band if there ever was one, it’s among the most distinctive acts of our time. But the caveat is the same as ever: It’s up to the listener to tease apart meaningful moments and pure shock value. —David Ford Smith MOTORCO, DURHAM | 8 p.m., $15–$18, www.motorcomusic.com

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

5.1–5.8

BY ANDREA PETROVICOVA

SATURDAY, MAY 4

THURSDAY, MAY 2–SATURDAY, MAY 12

WHERE THIS FLOWER BLOOMS

THE DANCE ON WIDOW’S ROW

GOLDEN BELT STUDIOS, DURHAM 7–10 p.m., $5, www.goldenbeltarts.com

BURNING COAL THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Thu.–Sat./3 p.m. Sat. & Sun., $20, www.burningcoal.org

Perk + Niel, an independent curatorial consultancy that advocates for artists of color in the Triangle area, is quickly becoming an exciting node on the Third Friday circuit. In its new Art & Architecture series, for example, it recently hosted an installation by Calvin Brett, who creates topographies of trash, and a run of varied performances around it, activating the lobby and other spaces in the N.C. Mutual building where it resides. Now, Perk + Niel is heading offcampus to Golden Belt Studios for a special pop-up exhibit on Saturday evening. Where This Flower Blooms is a celebration of Black art featuring work by Maya Avery, Valencia Abraham, Kiara Sanders, Shaquim Muldrow, Britney Balmer, Jameela F. Dallis, Will Jenkins, Leah Miracle Young, Miriam Ximil, and Shamonique Miles. The exhibit is oriented toward breaking down stigma around mental health, and the featured speaker is Anastasia Williams, founder of A Will to Thrive Counseling. —Brian Howe

North Carolina playwright Samm-Art Williams’s drama Home documented the hard comingof-age and earthy healing of an African-American sharecropper, first in a 1980 Broadway production, then in a 2008 off-Broadway revival. But The Dance on Widow’s Row strikes closer to the rewarding writing he did for the Emmy-winning eighties situation comedy, Frank’s Place.

In a small North Carolina coastal town, four single, elegant women of a certain age plan a party to attract potential elder suitors. The rub? The women are all widows who, through nothing more than sheer coincidence, have buried nine husbands altogether. As a result, the street they all live on, now called “Widow’s Row,” is generally thought to be a less-thanhealthy place for men to linger. Can the ladies break the perceived jinx? Will any of the eligible bachelors leave the party alive? Noted director Terra Hodge mines the laughs in this Agape Theatre Project production. —Byron Woods

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

ART IN THE GARDEN AT 1902 BORLAND ROAD (P. 28), JAPANESE BREAKFAST AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 24), JOHN VANDERSLICE AND PEDRO THE LION AT CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM (P. 16), RIGGED: AN AMERICAN PLAYBOOK AT THE VARSITY THEATER (P. 32), ILIZA SHLESINGER AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 31), SOUTHERN CULTURES ISSUE LAUNCH AT UNC’S STONE CENTER (P. 30), TOBACCO ROAD DANCE PRODUCTIONS AT PSI THEATRE (P. 20) 22 | 5.1.19 | INDYweek.com

THURSDAY, MAY 2

MELISSA ETHERIDGE

A lot of water has flowed beneath the bridge since 1988, when Melissa Etheridge released her first album. Back then, just being a raw-throated female rocker with a singer/ songwriter side was enough to set her apart from the pack. Three decades and several sociopolitical landscape shifts later, Etheridge is touring a new album that includes some of the fiercest rocking she’s done in a good while, if not ever. But for all the raucous riffs on The Medicine Show, the songs Etheridge is penning now are undeniably informed by what it means to be an American in the present moment. And yes, if you’re good, there’s still a strong chance that you’ll hear “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One,” and maybe even “Like the Way I Do,” so don’t go thumbing through your Twitter feed when she starts playing the new ones. —Jim Allen THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $63–$99, www.carolinatheatre.org

FRIDAY, MAY 3

JACQUELINE L. JACKSON

When Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to federal prison for financial misdeeds in 2013, his mother, Jacqueline L. Jackson, promised to write him a letter every day for the duration of his thirty-month sentence. She kept her promise. The composite of her epistolary devotion, Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison, is a selection of letters filled with glimpses of home, musings from life in the Jim Crow South, and, above all, an unwavering commitment to her love and a promise that things would get better. Jackson Jr. writes of the book, “My mother, through her letters, sustained me through my darkest hour. She reminded me of the power of love, the power of mercy, and the power of forgiveness.” This Friday, Jacqueline L. Jackson is joined by her son for a reading and discussion at Quail Ridge Books, moderated by family friend April Smith. —Sarah Edwards QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS, RALEIGH 7 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com

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THURSDAY, MAY 2–SUNDAY, MAY 5

SHAKORI HILLS GRASSROOTS FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & DANCE

The folks behind Shakori Hills are so serious about what they’re doing that they hold their festival twice a year, putting all those wussy annual events to shame. The setting is pretty idyllic: a big piece of farmland. And it makes an ideal spot for all manner of rootsy sounds.

This time around, that means everything from the Americana of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real to the folk-rocking, bluegrass-picking whatever-you-call-it of Donna the Buffalo, who are serving as curators of the bill. But it also encompasses hip-hop-flavored jam band Sophistafunk, the reggae rumble of Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, and much more. If you, in turn, are serious about Shakori Hills, you can bring a tent and camp for the duration fo the three-day festival, taking in the music, arts, and generous smattering of progressive-minded workshops and initiatives. —Jim Allen SHAKORI HILLS, PITTSBORO Various times, $40+, www.shakorihillsgrassroots.org

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music

WED, MAY 1 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Wishbone Ash; $25. 7:30 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE: India.Arie; 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Steve Gunn, Gun Outfit; $15-$17. 8 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Jazziando; $5.

5:45 p.m.

JAPANESE BREAKFAST “Diving Woman,” the best song on Soft Sounds from Another Planet, the 2017 record from Japanese Breakfast, opens with a wish that serves as an invocation: “I wanna be a regimented woman,” Michelle Zauner sings over washy guitars and a burbling synth line. When she’s not on tour, Zauner extends her creative curiosity. Already, she’s an author: Last year, she penned a New Yorker essay—“Crying in H-Mart,” a moving meditation on losing her mother and navigating her Korean heritage— that turned into a forthcoming memoir of the same name. She also directs music videos (she’s been hailed as a visionary for her work with Charly Bliss and Better Oblivion Community Center, and for her own stunning videos) and she’s working on the score to a video game, Sable. And somehow she finds time to make music: Recorded at a hotel in Bali, “Essentially,” the first synth-pop single Zauner’s released in two years, is another addition to a collection of works that are by turns deeply personal and welcoming. I don’t know if this is the regimen Zauner was looking for, but it’s a good one either way. With Ex Hex, Eternal Summers. —Patrick Wall

CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $23–$25, www.catscradle.com

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

NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Cue: Rheji Burrell, Don Play; $10. 10 p.m.

THU, MAY 2

NIGHLIGHT: Dylan Gilbert, Streak of Tigers, Blakeney Bullock; $7.

9:30 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Asher Skeen’s Album Release; $10. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Shakori Kick Off Party: Lost Dog Street Band, Matt Heckler; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE: Melissa Etheridge; $63-$99. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE: Foxing & Now, Now, Daddy Issues; $18-$20. 8 p.m.

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POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Night Battles, Zodiac Panthers, The Mumz; $5. 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACKROOM:

FRI, MAY 3

[$14–$16, 8 P.M.]

CAROLINA THEATRE:

Julia Jacklin

Crushing, the Australian singersongwriter Julia Jacklin’s sophomore effort released this past January, is the work of an artist staring in the mirror and taking stock. Failed romances get the Courtney Barnett treatment (sarky, witty lyricisms), but it would be a mistake to think that relationships are the primary preoccupation of an album grounded deeply in autonomy and the act of asking for what you want. Through folky garage-rock, Jacklin’s voice rings through clearly: In “Body,” she wonders whether a past partner has held onto a nude photograph of her and, if so, if he’ll use it for harm; in wondering, she hits a mark both wrenching and wry as she concludes, “I guess it’s just my life/and my body.”

—Sarah Edwards

KINGS: Hardcastle, Jet Black Alley Cat; $10. 9 p.m.

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[$20–$25, 8:30 P.M.]

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

MOTORCO: Gangstagrass, Durty Dub’s Charley Pride Tribute; $13-$15.

8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Cheap City; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

Japanese Breakfast

MOTORCO:

Hot Snakes

Last year’s Jericho Sirens ended a fourteen-year hiatus for the raging indie-rockers of Hot Snakes. Building upon the legacies of not only Hot Snakes, but also prior and concurrent icons like Drive Like Jehu and Rocket From the Crypt, the core duo of John Reis and Rick Froberg proved that time hasn’t softened their approach at all. Indeed, the bruising garage-rock swing and serrated post-hardcore guitars are as potent as ever, offering an explosive springboard for rabid hooks.

Mannequin Pussy and Almost People open. —Bryan C. Reed

LOCAL 506: D.Shawn & Soul, Alan Thompson & The Next Life; $10. 9 p.m.

SUNDAY, MAY 5

MEREDITH COLLEGE’S JONES AUDITORIUM: Meredith Sinfonietta; 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Boy Named Banjo; $12-$15. 8 p.m.

The Marshall Tucker Band [$40–$75, 8 P.M.]

Trends come and go, but the blend of country, rock, blues, and folk that first-generation Southern rockers The Marshall Tucker Band have been turning out since the early seventies just keeps on chooglin’ along.

After all these years, original frontman Doug Gray is still out there leading the boys through “Take the Highway” and all the rest. Is Marshall Tucker in the lineup? That would be tough, considering there never was anybody by that name in the band.—Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE:

Jump, Little Children [$25–$30, 8 P.M.]

Jump, Little Children has been around for over two-and-ahalf decades, but you’d be forgiven for forgetting about them; when their latest album, Sparrow, came out last fall, it had been thirteen years since they’d put out new music. The Charleston-based

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band is much the same this time around, with upbeat, sometimes soaring acoustic pop that sounds like it’s straight out of 2005. Fans and other nostalgists should enjoy the show. —Elizabeth Szypulski CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Dissimilar South; $9-$12.

8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Phat Lynx, Rye Baby; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

FLETCHER OPERA THEATER: N.C. Symphony: Carmina Burana; 8 p.m.

HAW RIVER BALLROOM:

The Jayhawks

for projects with artists like The Dixie Chicks and Golden Smog. Skylar Gudasz opens.

—Spencer Griffith KINGS: King Dude, Kate Clover, Maggot Heart; $12-$14. 7 p.m.

KINGS: No BS! Brass Band; $13-$15.

10:30 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE: Cravin Melon; $13-$23. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506: The Yawpers, In The Whale, Blood Red River; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

MOTORCO: The Murlocs, Moonwalks; $13-$15. 9 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT:

[$25–$28, 8 P.M.]

Scumraid

One of the great alt-country acts of the nineties, The Jayhawks lent pop-friendly hooks to folksy, melancholyfilled jangles. The soaring harmonies of co-leaders Gary Louris and Mark Olson were their calling card, and although Olson left the band for the second time, several years ago, they still have plenty of material penned

by Louris from which to pull, while occasionally incorporating tunes he wrote

Control, the 2018 LP from Seoul, South Korea punk band Scumraid, is an absolute blitzkrieg of raw aggression. In a series of minute-long bursts, the band shatters the mold of hardcore, letting its avalanche of percussion and the sandpaper-scraping sound of guitars form an impressionistic vision of hardcore brutality.

Still, there’s a surging pulse within the din that makes the chaos feel controlled enough

[$10, 9:30 P.M.]

to compel attention. Tonight, they’re joined by Washington State’s Physique, and a pair of Raleigh bands, Public Acid and Scarecrow. —Bryan C. Reed

THE STATION: The Ghost + Bones, Liz Reedy & Bobby McGuire; free. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Identikit, Echonest, I AM Maddox; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

SAT, MAY 4

DUKE CHAPEL: Choral Society of Durham; $10. 8 p.m.

PINHOOK:

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Davina & the Vagabonds; $15-$20. 8 p.m.

[$15, 8 P.M.]

CAT’S CRADLE: I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, Superet; $20-$23. 8 p.m.

Ufomammut This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Italian trio Ufomammut. The band has spent those two decades crafting a heavy, hypnotic mix of psychedelic rock, doom metal, and cinematic synth.

Their eighth and most recent studio outing, 2017’s 8, surges through eight tracks over fortyseven minutes, digging deep into distorted riffs that build into psychedelic expanses of heavy groove and atmospheric drone. Kings Destroy shares the bill. —Bryan C. Reed POUR HOUSE: Captain Beyond, Lightning Born; $20. 9 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Pharez Whitted, Lovell Bradford Trio; $20. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S: Matt Southern & Lost Gold, Erie Choir, Josh Carpenter; $5. 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Mary Lattimore and Mac McCaughan [$15, 8:30 P.M.]

These two provided one of the more intriguing sets from last year’s alwaysintriguing Three Lobed Records/WXDU Hopscotch day party. It turns out that McCaughan’s synthesizers and Lattimore’s harp are the perfect combination for radiant, ambient improvisations. Their set that day floated out of the room like a single perfectly white down feather twirling and cavorting in a gentle updraft; since then, the pair have released a collaborative new album, New Rain Duets.

—Dan Ruccia

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM:

Quatuor Ébène

[$42–$48, 8 P.M.] Gabriel Fauré completed his lone string quartet in 1924, a few weeks before his death at the age of seventy-nine.

The piece is built around its luminous central adagio, a movement adorned with one of Fauré’s beautiful, trademark endless melodies.

The whole work seems to exist outside of form or time. Quatuor Ébène will also perform Beethoven’s Haydn-esque first quartet and his fourteenth, Opus 131, a work which pushes quartet form to the limit and beyond.

—Dan Ruccia FLETCHER OPERA THEATER: N.C. Symphony: Carmina Burana; 8 p.m.

KINGS: Wilderado, Sego; $12-$15.

9 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Tash Sultana; $35-$60. 7:30 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Vamachara, Chamber, Invoke, Joy, Thirteenth; $10-$15. 8 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD: The Ghost of Saturday Nite, Rocket 77, The UnSubs, Safe Word; $8. 8:30 p.m.

MEREDITH COLLEGE’S JONES AUDITORIUM: Raleigh Symphony Orchestra; 8 p.m.

MOTORCO:

John Paul White [$25, 8 P.M.]

John Paul White, formerly of The Civil Wars, grew up just north of the Alabama– Tennessee state line, within spitting distance of the fertile, soulful shores of Muscle Shoals. His music, though, has always leaned toward the commercially viable countrypolitan sheen of the 1970s. His new album The Hurting Kind, out this month, is flush with the kind of languid honky-tonk shuffle that made legends out of Chet Atkins and Patsy Cline, although it lands softly. Folky Nashville songstress Erin Rae opens.

—Patrick Wall NIGHTLIGHT: Carouse 4; $7. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Ecstatic Vision, Heavy Temple, Crystal Spiders; $8-$10.

9 p.m.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: GRiZ; 7 p.m.

THE RITZ: Cash Unchained: The Ultimate Johnny Cash Experience; $10.

8 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Randy Johnston, Scott Sawyer Quartet; $25. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S: The Royal Nites, 300 Dog Nite; $5. 9 p.m.

THE STATION: AL1CE; free. 8 p.m.

SUN, MAY 5 CAROLINA THEATRE: Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle: Masks and Fairytales; $30. 3 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE: Japanese Breakfast, Ex Hex, Eternal Summers; $23-$25. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Ruen Brothers; $10. 8:30 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Durham Medical Orchestra: Symphonie Fantastique; free. 3 p.m.

KINGS: Idles, Fontaines D.C.; sold out. 8 p.m.

Julia Jacklin performs at Cat’s Cradle on Thursday, May 2.

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LOCAL 506: Jenny Besetzt, Nanami Ozone, Pool Boy; $8. 9 p.m.

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: Triangle Youth Philharmonic; 7 p.m.

Neptunes Parlour: The Medium, Axxa/ Abraxxas, Grand Vapids; $10. 9 p.m.

THE NIGHT RIDER: Daddy’s Beemer, Orange Doors, Spaced Angel; $5 suggested. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Murphy’s Law, Poison Anthem, Down To This; $15-$18.

9 p.m.

MON, MAY 6 CAT’S CRADLE: Riverside, Contrive; $20-$25. 7:30 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Pedro The Lion, John Vanderslice; sold out. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Dexter Romweber; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

KINGS: The Joy Formidable, Exit Mice; $16-$18. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Psycroptic, Cannabis Corpse, Gorod, Micawber, Outliar; $18$22. 6:30 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD: High Spirits, Savage Master, Demon Eye; $10. 9 p.m.

THE NIGHT RIDER: Hermit High Priestess, Ops, Frugivore; $5 suggested.

8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Loamlands, Your Heart Breaks, Nana Grizol; $8-$10.

8 p.m.

John Paul White performs at Motorco on Saturday, May 4.

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POUR HOUSE: Combo Chimbita, Chocala; $12-$15. 9 p.m.

THE WICKED WITCH: Bitter, Inc., Tescon Pol, Marselle, Cannd; $5 suggested. 8 p.m.

TUE, MAY 7 ARCANA: Polyorchard, James Gilmore Freetet; 7 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE: Eli Paperboy Reed, GA-20; $15-$18. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: MURS, Locksmith; $15-$17.

9 p.m.

THE CAVE: Kiss the Tiger, D-Mills, Raine Stern, People of Earth; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE:

Circles Around The Sun [$17, 8 P.M.]

Formed to record a set of instrumentals played between sets during the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well shows, Circles Around The Sun features members of Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Beachwood Sparks stretching out on funky jams inspired by both the Dead

Quatuor Ebène perform at Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium on Saturday, May 4.

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and jazz fusion. The band’s guitarist, Neal Casal, is producing the new album for opener Zephaniah OHora, who offers an acoustic set of classic country originals which bridge the gap between Bakersfield and Nashville. —Spencer Griffith LOCAL 506: Wretch, Leadfoot, Witchtit; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: Triangle Youth Orchestra; 7 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Radiator Hospital, Big Nothing; $10. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Night Beats, White Woolly; $12-$15. 9 p.m.

THE RITZ: Garbage; $38. 8 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Avery Linderman Quartet; $10. 7 p.m.

THE STATION: Coyote vs. Acme Residency; free. 8 p.m.

WED, MAY 8 CAROLINA THEATRE: Night Ranger; $50-$75. 8 p.m.

KINGS:

Skeletonwitch [$15–$18, 8 P.M.]

Last year’s Devouring Radiant Light marked a major turning point in the career of Ohioan heshers Skeletonwitch. With new singer Adam Clemens (also of Wolvhammer) in tow, the band restructured its approach, leaving behind some of its more familiar thrash elements for a more fluid and melodic vision of black metal full of moody atmosphere and nuanced textures. It was a daring departure for an established band, but ultimately a triumphant one. Soft Kill, Wiegedood, and Portrayal of Guilt support the headliners.

—Bryan C. Reed KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Mint Julep Jazz Band; $5. 5:45 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Hey Guy; $8-$10.

9 p.m.

MOTORCO: Xiu Xiu, M is We; $15$18. 8 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT: Macula Dog, Marselle, Leisure Knots; $7. 9:30 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Mr Twin Sister, Sateen; $12-$14. 8:30 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Thor, Widow; $17$20. 8:30 p.m.

SLIM’S: Void King, Deadly Edibles, Sludgemuffin; $7. 9 p.m.

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art 5.1–5.8 OPENING Allison Coleman, Gabriella Corter, Angela Lombard: May 3-Jun 27. Artspace, Raleigh.

Kathleen Deep: Still: Mixed media and photography. May 3-31. Reception: May 3, 6-8 p.m.

The Centerpiece, Raleigh.

Exposed: Nudes in Art: Twentyfive local artists. Fri, May 3.

Reception: May 3, 6 p.m. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. litmusgallery.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.

Oops! Happy Accidents: Art based on accidents. May 2-Jun 2. Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

V L Rees: I Love Paris: Paintings.

May 3-Jun 29. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off: Interactive sculptures. May 4-Oct 31.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Kirsten Stoltmann: I am Sorry: May 3-Jul 31. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

Where This Flower Blooms: Visual art, speakers, and more. $5. Sat, May 4, 7 p.m. Golden Belt’s Grand Gallery, Durham. perkandniel.com.

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.

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

Shib Basu & Peggy Van Arnam: Ink and Chains: Ink and crayon, jewelry. Thru May 28.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 4

JAKI SHELTON GREEN AND FRED L. JOINER AT ART IN THE GARDEN Last week, there was some big news for two prominent area poets, North Carolina poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green and Carrboro poet laureate Fred L. Joiner. Both won major fellowships from the Academy of American Poets: Green will receive $75,000 to launch a program to support young poets engaged in civic activism in North Carolina, and Joiner will receive $50,000 to build up the West End Poetry Festival. If you’d like to congratulate them both, there’s no better time than 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, when both will be at Art in the Garden to read poetic reactions to the works. Now in its twenty-fifth year, the annual, outdoor large-sculpture show outside Hillsborough features juried works in metal, stone, and other mediums by ten artists. After this opening day, which runs from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., you can also visit the sculpture garden between noon and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 5 or between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 11; all the sculptures are for sale, with all the proceeds going to the artists. —Brian Howe

1902 BORLAND ROAD, HILLSBOROUGH 1 p.m., free, www.garden-art-gallery.com

Sculpture by Tinka Jordy PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

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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.

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.

Byron Gin & Andy Farkas: Paintings and prints. Thru Jun 1. Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. adamcavefineart.com.

Stephen Hayes: Legacy, Legacy, Legacy: Mixed media. Thru May 19. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

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. Reception: May 4, 2 p.m. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham.

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.

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

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.

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.

Katie Shaw: Residency. Thru May 31. Reception: May 3, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh artspacenc.org.

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. Thru May 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

Lien Truong: The Sky is Not Sacred: Multimedia. Thru Jun 22. Reception: May 3, 6 p.m.Artspace, Raleigh.

UNC-Chapel Hill MFA Class of 2019: Sacred Wasteland: Group show with guest curator, William Paul Thomas. Thru May 26. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.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 Zeno Alexander Alexander: Children’s Ever. Sat, book The Library of Ever May 4, 4 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

Andrews: Sunset Mary Kay Andrews Novel. Tue, May 7, Beach: A Novel 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 2

KIESE LAYMON IN CONVERSATION WITH TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM Southern Cultures, the quarterly journal published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary issue with a reading and conversation with Kiese Laymon. Laymon is the author of the critically acclaimed Heavy: An American Memoir, which has won a bouquet of awards since its publication last year, including the 2019 Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction and a best-of-2018 nod from The New York Times. Following his reading, Laymon will be joined by Tressie McMillan Cottom, an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The pair unites to celebrate Southern Culture’s “Backward/Forward” Issue, which contemplates the past and future of the American South and was guest edited by Charles Regan Wilson. —Coco Wilder

UNC’S STONE CENTER, CHAPEL HILL 5:30 p.m., $10, www.southerncultures.org

5.1

Booth: Novel Tempted Karen Booth Scandal. With Piedmont

by Scandal Laureate David Menconi. Wed, May 8, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Nickole Brown & Jessica Jacobs: Poetry reading. Thu, May 2, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

Kiese Laymon PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR

Adam Rubin High Five 6pm

5.3

Jacqueline L. Jackson Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison 7pm

Mary Kay Andrews Sunset Beach 7pm

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LECTURES ETC. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of Genetic Ancestry Testing: Periodic Tables series. With Dr. Charmaine Royal (Duke University). Tue, May 7, 7 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. scienceandsociety.duke.edu.

Erich Nunn: Popular Music & Gentrification: Tell About the South series. Tue, May 7, 12:30 p.m. Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill. south.unc.edu.

Through Our Eyes: Youthorganized summit on growing up in Durham. Tue, May 7, 11 a.m. Durham Convention Center, Durham. madeindurham.org.

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Southern Cultures Magazine Launch: With Kiese Laymon.

Thu, May 2, 5:30 p.m. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. southerncultures.org.

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Kashinda T. Marche: Unbreak My Heart. Sat, May 4, 1 p.m.

Barnes & Noble, Durham.

Adam Rubin: Children’s book High Five. Thu, May 2, 6 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

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Matt & Ted Lee in conversation w/ Ashley Christensen, Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business 7pm

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Jacqueline J. Jackson: Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison. Fri, May 3, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Emily W. Pease: Short story collection Let Me Out of Here.

Tue, May 7, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

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OPENING Beatles vs. Stones: A Musical Showdown: Tue, May 7, 7:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Beautiful: Musical. $35+. May 7-12. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Beehive: The 60’s Musical: Theatre Raleigh. Musical.

May 8-19. Kennedy Theatre, Raleigh. theatreraleigh.com.

Birds of a Feather: Theatre in the Park. Staged reading.

Sun, May 5, 2 p.m. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. theatreinthepark.com.

Ryan Davis: Comedy.

May 2-4. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

The Dance on Widow’s Row: Agape Theatre Project. Comedy. May 2-12.

Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. agapetheatreproject.com.

Divas: Cabaret. Benefit show. $40-$65. Sat, May 4, 7:30 p.m. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. raleighlittletheatre.org.

Forces of Nerdity: Variety show. $10-$25. Thu, May 2, 9:30 p.m. The View at Legends, Raleigh. legendsclub.com.

Imagine National Dance Challenge: Dance.

May 3-5. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.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. thepitchapelhill.com.

May the Fourth PlaySlam Be With You: Cary Playwrights’ Forum. Sci-fi play slam. $13. Sat, May 4, 7:30 p.m.

The Cary Theater, Cary. caryplaywrightsforum.org.

Norway: Little Green Pig. Play. Free. May 2-4, 7:30 p.m.

Wrightwood Park, Durham. littlegreenpig.com.

Paw Patrol Live: Kids show. $25+. May 4-5. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Chris Thomas & Vanessa Fraction: Comedy. $25. May 3-4. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.

Rhythms Live Music Hall, Durham. rhythmslivenc.com.

Young King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone: Carolina Children’s Theatre.

Play. May 2-4: 7 p.m.

May 4: 2 p.m. matinee.

Holly Springs Cultural Center, Holly Springs. carolinachildrenstheatre.com.

ONGOING Church and State: Play. Thru May 12. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. nract.org.

Murder for Two: Musical.

Thru May 5. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh. com.

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Farewell Play: Play. Thru May 2. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 4

ILIZA SHLESINGER I’m not that big on Netflix comedy specials, but I’ve watched every single one of Iliza Shlesinger’s—four, to date, most recently Elder Millennial, in which the comedian sizes up life and love on the outer rim of a youth generation that’s starting to feel its age. Shlesinger is one of her generation’s best physical comedians, contrasting her CrossFit-instructor appearance with a range of grotesque caricatures and caustic insights for maximum comedic effect. Her material is good, too; Schumer-like in its blend of self-skewering barbs, dude-annihilating cannon blasts, and gender-politics commentary. True, by special number four, some of her tricks start to feel stretched a little thin—that crone-from-the-cave character, again? Is every man she knows really the shiniest-shirted New Jersey nightclub meathead imaginable? But seeing it live on stage should freshen up the experience, and Shlesinger’s likely working new material for her inevitable next special.

—Brian Howe

THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM | 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., $76+, www.carolinatheatre.org

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS Ask Dr. Ruth: Documentary. $10. Fri, May 3, 2 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Body Double & Sisters: Fri, May 3, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

The Human Tornado: Mon, May 6, 6 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: May 7-8, 7 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Mommie Dearest: Wed, May 8, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

On the Back of a Stranger’s Bicycle: Documentary.

Remarks with film subject Renee Fink to follow. Sun, May 5, 4 p.m. Kehillah Synagogue, Chapel Hill. holocaustspeakersbureau.org.

Red Dust: $7. Wed, May 1, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Serial Mom: Tue, May 7, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

A Series of Fortunate Events: Short films. $15. Sun, May 5, 5 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

OPENING  Ask Dr. Ruth— Reviewed on page 21. Not rated.

The Intruder—A young couple is elated to purchase their dream home, only to find that it comes with strings (e.g., an obsessive Dennis Quaid) attached. Rated PG-13.

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 Amazing Grace— A dazzling, long-overdue testament to the Queen of Soul at the height of her career. Rated G.  Captain Marvel—Brie Larson is an intergalactic fighter who begins questioning who she is. Rated PG-13.

½ Long Shot—Reviewed on page 21. Rated R.

½ The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part—Though there’s a live-action subplot, the little plastic people and their incessant pop-culture references remain the heart and soul of the franchise.

Rated PG.

UglyDolls—In this celebritypacked animated adventure, beautiful dolls are out and unconventional dolls are in.

Rated PG.

 Us—Jordan Peele’s Get Out follow-up pairs a haunting atmosphere with humor and a chilling call to action. Rated R.

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MONDAY, MAY 6

RIGGED: THE VOTER SUPPRESSION PLAYBOOK While much of the mainstream media casts Russia as the lone bogeyman of American election fraud, there’s a systematic scheme of homegrown voter suppression going on in plain sight. This documentary, sponsored by the American Issues Initiative and narrated by actor Jeffrey Wright, chronicles the barriers to enfranishment being imposed nationwide by the Republican Party. This includes a visit to North Carolina and its GOPcontrolled legislature’s efforts at rank gerrymandering, voter ID, and restrictive, unconstitutional measures (never mind illegal plots like absentee ballot-stuffing). A panel discussion following the film will feature Allison Riggs of the Southern Coalition of Social Justice, who recently argued North Carolina’s partisan gerrymandering case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Other participants on the panel include N.C. Rep. Robert Reives, Tomas Lopez of Democracy NC, and Jennifer Bremer of the League of Women Voters NC. —Neil Morris

VARSITY THEATER, CHAPEL HILL | 7 p.m., free, www.varsityonfranklin.com

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Fest in the West: Local breweries and restaurants, live music, and more.

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USA Baseball National Training Complex, Cary. festinthewest.com.

Haw River Festival: Music, food trucks, activities, and more.

Sat, May 4, 4 p.m.

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St. Barbara’s Durham Greek Festival: Food, wine, live entertainment, activities, and more.

Sun, May 5, 11 a.m. St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, Durham.

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