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6 North Carolina is one of sixteen states that deny students who are undocumented immigrants access to in-state tuition. 8 “The whole vaping industry is being gift-wrapped and handed over to the tobacco industry.” 11 In the Triangle, there are more poor people and fewer middle-class people. 12 Between 1896 and 1994, not a single Republican was elected to the state Supreme Court. 17 There were hurdles along the way, but Moogfest finally debuts in Durham. 20 Sunn O))), Jlin, Floating Points, Actress … We’re excited for music at Moogfest. 26 As the fight for transgender rights continues, the battle for transhuman rights is brewing. 30 “Food, I think, for everyone is such a tool in breaking down barriers.” 32 The audience resolves an unfinished Dickens tale in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 33 Opening an old box led to a unique memoir from world-famous photographer Sally Mann.

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30 Food 32 Culture 34 What to Do This Week 37 Music Calendar 41 Arts/Film Calendar 45 Soft Return

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A Finger in the Eye

Another week, another round of back-and-forth between HB 2 supporters and opponents. A sampling: “The gender-neutral bathrooms aren’t used just by transgender folks,” writes Mike W. “They’re used by criminals and sexual predators. … This is not something that is done to insult people or make them feel uncomfortable, it is something we do to offer privacy and secuCurt Fields, rity to all who use a public restroom.” ll, Emma “Laws about separate accommodations for blacks, such as arren onald, Neil water fountains, didn’t really seem substantial at the time,” couners, David ters Randy A. Riddle. “Both blacks and whites had access to their c Tullis, own water fountains, right? Water fountain laws were symbols echowska of a larger pattern of discrimination and violence against blacks and other minorities. They were one piece of a larger puzzle about om equality. Similarly, the ‘bathroom’ law is purely symbolic. It’s unendyweek.com forceable. However, did you know that a transgender person is er Williams, murdered every twenty-nine hours just because of who they are?” The Reverend Rollin Russell, of the Orange-Durham chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, takes m issue with Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest using state letterex Rogers head to ask churches to host him, as INDYweek.com first reported last week. This, he argues, is a “finger in the eye to federal law,

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which bars tax-exempt groups from intervening in partisan politics. Forest’s letter goes on to suggest a format for such a visit: ‘invite me to attend a Sunday service at your church … have me on stage side-by-side with you and you conduct a Q and A session.’ Never mind that he is running for re-election. Does he not know that to do as he suggests would place any such church in possible violation of IRS rules and endanger its tax exemption, [or] that churches are forbidden to engage in partisan political activity? Of course he does. He and the church groups to which he panders want to have their cake and eat it too.” Finally, Kander takes issue with last week’s story about parking in downtown Durham—specifically, what’s not in it: “Wow. Did I miss it? Not one mention of trolleys, streetcars, or other mass-transportation options. Many cities use trolleys because of limited parking options. This is not an uncommon problem in trendy areas. Oh wait, there was the shuttle for a special event. Not the same thing.” Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek. com, comment on our Facebook page or INDYweek.com, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.

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triangulator Are you the fair-minded sort who believes it just may be possible that newly appointed UNC system president Margaret Spellings isn’t merely a political hack whose motives have zilch to do with advancing academia? Prepare to be disillusioned. Spellings—a former G.W. Bush administration secretary of education and University of Phoenix board member hired by a Republicanappointed board of governors to replace Tom Ross, who was fired last year for reasons no one ever really explained—provided further evidence of such hackery last month when she made Cecil Staton the future chancellor of East Carolina University. Former INDY staff writer Billy Ball, who is now with N.C. Policy Watch, took a deep dive into Staton’s past earlier this week. On the surface, some of Staton’s background is impressive. He has a business degree from Oxford. He’s a successful broadcasting and publishing entrepreneur who’s wielded some academic fundraising clout. He was an associate professor and provost for twelve years at Mercer University in Georgia. This past April, he was hired as the interim president of Georgia’s Valdosta State University. His political past, however, does not look so benign—even on the surface. As a five-term Republican member of the Georgia Senate, Staton moved millions in taxpayer dollars to Mercer, the private university that employed him. He authored a voter ID bill that a federal judge likened to a “poll tax.” He was also notorious for pushing police crackdowns on immigrants. Most bizarrely, he was involved in an email scandal, in which the then-senator allegedly used a fake account and name to spread attacks about a political rival. “We know Ms. Spellings was a political appointee who has had nothing really to do with advancing academia,” N.C. NAACP president William Barber told Ball. “Now it seems birds of a feather flock together.” Faculty members are outraged, but—surprise!—their anger is being brushed off by the board of governors. Staton, who starts in July, will earn an annual salary of $520,000. That makes him the third-highest-paid chancellor in the state. 6 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

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I really, really greatly respect the artists who were part of that boycott, and I think that’s a totally valid, effective way to do things. But to me, that’s the act of an ally. And while I might not live in the state of North Carolina, I have toured through once or twice a year for the past twenty years, I pay taxes in the state of North Carolina, and that’s a reality for me. Even before HB 2, touring through the country, public restrooms are a fear. You don’t feel safe, necessarily, as a trans person. So it’s not like there’s something called HB 2 and now I have to operate this way when I go there. It was like, well, I already operated that way when I went there, and I already had those fears, and you just made it even more dangerous. —Laura Jane Grace

Last week, while the state government remained engulfed in the dumpster fire known as HB 2, four Republican representatives quietly filed a bill to throw even more obstacles at refugees who want to resettle in North Carolina and the localities that want to take them in, while making it much easier for cities and counties to reject them. HB 1086, the “Refugee Resettlement Act,” is cosponsored by House Majority Leader Mike Hager and Representatives Chris Whitmire, John Torbett, and George Cleveland. It would allow local governments to request a “moratorium” on new refugees by passing a simple resolution stating that resettling refugees into their area would be bad. That request would then be forwarded to the North Carolina Refugee Assistance Program, which in turn would pass it to the feds. Lifting such a moratorium or asking to settle additional refugees, however, would become a much more strenuous process. Localities would have to hold a public hearing, adopt a resolution, and get approval from the head of the NCRAP before proceeding. “It’s a shockingly high bar for municipalities to prove that they can take more refugees, and it’s making it easy to say, ‘We don’t want them,’” says Representative Duane Hall, D-Wake. “This bill is driven by fear. It’s xenophobic.” Of the four sponsors, only Torbett and Cleveland represent districts that have actually taken in refugees in this decade: one (!) refugee each for the cities of Gastonia (2012) and Jacksonville (2010), both well before the recent conservative consternation about Syrian refugees in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels. Of those two, Torbett has a long history of using his power to make it harder for immigrants to come to North Carolina. As a Gaston County commissioner, Torbett sponsored a 2006 ordinance that stripped funding from all public programs aimed at helping undocumented immigrants adjust to life in the United States. The ordinance also ordered local law enforcement agencies to crack down on immigrants and partner with ICE in deportations. In that legislation’s text, Torbett blamed many of America’s problems—“overcrowding

TL;DR: THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER in school classrooms, public parks, and recreation”; “creating havoc and death on our highways”; and a “lack of social and personal health care standards”—on the undocumented. The next year, Torbett advocated against the county banking with Bank of America because of a pilot program that allowed people to obtain a credit card without a social security number. A county finance officer told the Gaston Gazette at the time that the decision would cost the city $31,000 per year. Regardless, Torbett said, “We’re not supporting a system that supports illegal immigrants.” Torbett did not respond to the INDY’s request for comment.

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Estefanny Perez graduated from high school last year and applied to several different colleges in the Triangle. Among others, she was accepted to Meredith College on a $16,000 scholarship, but she would still have had to take out a $20,000 loan to cover tuition and living expenses. “I thought about private schools because they give more scholarships than public, but it was still too much,” Perez says. “And Wake Tech is still out-of-state tuition too, and it would have been too much for me to afford.” Perez took a year off school to work and save money, hoping to eventually save enough to pay for classes at Wake Tech. But Perez and students like her—who came to the United States before the age of sixteen but live in one of sixteen states,

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including North Carolina, that deny undocumented immigrant students in-state tuition or access to state universities—now have another option. A new scholarship will allow high-achieving immigrant students to apply to either Eastern Connecticut State University or at Delaware State University, with a scholarship for up to $80,000 over four years, or $20,000 a year. The scholarships, offered by the national scholarship funding organization TheDream.US, will go to five hundred students for the 2016–2017 school year. Most of these students, who are protected from deportation thanks to the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Temporary Protected Status policies, are expected to come from North Carolina and Georgia; these states have the highest numbers of undocumented young people locked out of higher education in the country. “It’s a waste of talent, of time for teachers who spend it working on these students and making sure they got ready to go to college, and of their potential,” says Gaby Pacheco, program director for TheDream.US. “These students are determined, and they want to have an opportunity to go to school. And we know that, after they go to school, they’ll be able to provide more in taxes, they will have better jobs and be able to provide for themselves, their families, and just really contribute to their communities in a different way.” Students can apply for the scholarship by June 9 by visiting thedream.us/opportunityscholarship. l triangulator@indyweek.com

Laura Jane Grace, the transgender lead singer of the band Against Me!, burns her birth certificate before a show in Durham. “Damn, wish I’d thought of that eight years ago,” President Obama muses.

The White House says it won’t defund North Carolina while the HB 2 court battle plays out. The state cancels its $4 billion Kickstarter campaign.

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Tourism agencies across the state are worried about HB 2 driving tourists away. Sucks for the economy, but we’re looking forward to a Yankee-free summer at the beach.

North Carolina moves from forty-second to forty-first in the nation in teacher pay. You can’t argue with progress.

The state House proposes a budget that gives most state employees a 2 percent raise and teachers up to a 5 percent raise. Fortieth in teacher pay, here we come!

The legislature considers overturning the light-rail funding cap, which will allow the Durham-Orange County line to move forward—unlike traffic on Fordham Boulevard, which we look forward to never driving on again.

Art Pope says he will not support Donald Trump for president. When pressed to elaborate, the mega-donor shrugs. “I know odious. Odious is a good friend of mine. And Donald Trump is not odious enough.”

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The state’s epidemiologist admits in a deposition that she worried about the Department of Environmental Quality rescinding “do-not-drink” advisories near coal ash ponds. “Duh,” say people who live near the Dan River, stroking their beautiful new gills.

Wake County’s manager proposes a property-tax increase to fund schools. Hey, you try to think up a tax-bracket-related joke.

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randon Meyer used to own a computer-repair shop in Wilmington. Seven years ago, his now-ex-wife opened up an e-cigarette business in the front of the space. It was among the first shops of its kind in North Carolina. “I’d be in the back, working on comput-

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ers all day, hearing customers up front come in and tell her how much better they could breathe, how [the e-cigarettes] were helping them quit cigarettes,” Meyer says. Meyer now lives in Durham, where he owns an e-cig store of his own. The Vape Shop does steady business selling e-liquids

(flavored bottles of nicotine juice); “mods” (the mechanical instruments that heat the juice, which users then inhale and blow out as a cloud of vapor); and other assorted vaping accessories. If you visit The Vape Shop to buy juice, you have your choice between brands that the store purchases from wholesalers and brands Meyer makes and bottles himself at an off-site location. Just about anybody with an Internet connection can figure out how to make juice. It requires only four ingredients—food flavoring, vegetable glycerine, propylene glycol, and nicotine—all of which are readily available online. For many vape proprietors, mixing their own juice is where the margins are. The margins are high, in part, because there are no licensing or compliance costs. No government body has been monitoring the products to ensure, for instance, that the juice doesn’t contain dangerous levels of nicotine or hazardous flavoring chemicals. Not surprisingly, this completely unregulated market has grown exponentially in recent years. The e-cigarette industry (which includes both the products found at vape shops and disposable e-cigs found at gas stations) is projected to surpass $4 billion in 2016. Jason Joyner, a lobbyist for the N.C. Vaping Council, estimates that there are at least five hundred vape shops in the state. Those numbers are likely to dip, however, given the sweeping (and long-awaited) set of rules issued by the Food and Drug Administration on May 5. The 499-page document contains a variety of requirements for the e-cigarette industry, many of which, such as bans on selling to minors and childproof caps on juice bottles, were expected. What has the industry up in arms is the FDA’s declaration that any e-cigarette product that went to market after 2007 must go through the agency’s approval process in the next two years. “That’s ninety-nine percent of the products on the market,” Meyer says. “Juices, mods, everything. The e-cigarette market barely existed in 2007. So it’s pretty much everything.” Meyer’s most popular juice is called East Coast Coil Oil. It comes in four different nicotine strengths: 0 mg, 3 mg, 6 mg, and 12 mg. Under the new rules, Meyer would be required to submit to the FDA applications for all strengths of East Coast Coil Oil besides the zero-nicotine product. Meyer (and several others in the industry the INDY talked

to) estimates the cost of an FDA review at about $1 million. The Vape Shop manufactures roughly fifteen other flavors, each with its own nicotine strength. Do the math, and this modest store would have to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million to continue operating lawfully. “Only the Big Tobacco companies will be able to afford that,” Meyer says. “The whole vaping industry is being giftwrapped and handed over to the tobacco industry.” (R.J. Reynolds, Altria, and Lorillard now own and market a variety of e-cigarette products, VUSE, Mark 10, and blu among them.) The Puffing Monkey, in Raleigh, is in the same boat. “We’re a small business; we can’t afford a million-dollar pre-market FDA application,” says manager Alex Lumsden. “This will shut us down, no question.” FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum says the review costs “are likely in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars, not in the millions or tens of millions of dollars estimated by some others.” The new rules, he argues, “will result in significant public health benefits, including preventing youth initiation, helping consumers better understand and appreciate the risks of using tobacco, prohibiting false and misleading claims, and preventing new products from entering the market unless a manufacturer demonstrates that the products meet the relevant public health standard established in the Tobacco Control Act,” a 2009 law that gives the FDA authority to regulate tobacco products. Vaping is almost certainly healthier than smoking, but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless. The industry is so young that there’s not a lot of definitive research on vaping’s effects on the body. What’s more, public health advocates point to a federal study that found that youth vaping jumped 900 percent between 2011 and 2015, with young people lured by flavors like watermelon and pancake. Thus, advocates contend, vaping acts as a gateway drug to more dangerous tobacco products. Most people in the vaping industry acknowledge the need for some kind of regulation. Some juice makers have been moving toward traceability, like Smoke Crossroads in Greensboro, whose products include lot

numbers, serial numbers, and bar codes. Its owner, Alan Blythe, moved from the restaurant business to the vape shop business and now is a wholesale producer of juice. Smoke Crossroads works closely with Mother Murphy’s, a Greensboro extract company that refines flavors for tobacco companies—the menthol in a Newport, or a Swisher Sweets cigar. Mother Murphy’s formed a subsidiary called Alternative Ingredients to service the e-cig industry. Blythe says Alternative Ingredients’ lab expertise and FDA experience (through its work with Big Tobacco companies) gives Smoke Crossroads an edge in surviving the vape Armageddon. “I truly believe this industry needs regulation, and we knew this was coming, so we’ve been trying to prepare,” Blythe says. “Still, we’re going to have to drop our product line from eighty-five flavors down to fifteen or so.” The new FDA rules go beyond the world of vaping. Jeff Amendola runs Bull City Cigars out of a basement space on Ninth Street in Durham. He sells cigars out of a front room and rolls them in the back. His cigars are made from a variety of imported tobacco leaves with different flavor profiles: spicy, peppery, sweet, etc. There’s the Torpedo, the Corona, the Indonesian, the Havana Churchill. Per the new rules, Amendola will be required to obtain market authorization for each of these products within the next two years. “I honestly don’t know how it would be possible to do that,” Amendola says. “I’ve talked to a few people who think there might be some exceptions made for small guys like me. But I’m obviously nervous, because this is how I support myself.” The best hope for Amendola and others is a House bill currently wending its way through Congress that would prevent the FDA from using 2007 as a benchmark but rather require safety reviews for all new products. It passed a House Appropriations Committee vote in April but still has a ways to go. “The way we see it right now, we’ve got about two years left, maybe three,” says Lumsden, referring to the two-year window for applications, plus an additional year for FDA review. “Then, unless something changes, that’s it.” l dhudnall@indyweek.com

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The co-owner of All Day Records in Carrboro misunderstood the intentions of a young woman passing out flyers to business owners along Main Street early last week and mistakenly reignited a social media furor over whether the town should centralize its homeless services downtown or place them somewhere else. The record store’s co-owner, Charlie Hearon, posted May 10 on Facebook that the woman had entered the store that day “asking if we would join with other businesses and donate some money to a plan to move the soup kitchen to a location out on Jones Ferry [Road] somewhere.” Hearon says he didn’t catch her name or affiliation. “I said that we didn’t support that,” he tells the INDY. “She slinked away pretty quickly.” The Inter-Faith Council’s plan to move its community kitchen from Chapel Hill to the space now occupied by the IFC’s pantry in downtown Carrboro IFC director Michael Reinke PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER has been a contentious issue in Carrboro for several months. The pantry distributes roughly four thousand bags ments on Hearon’s Facebook thread, some of of groceries per year. A rebuilt three-story which called for boycotts of their businesses. location at 110 West Main Street could serve Yet none of those critics seemed to know an estimated 250 sit-down meals per day. that the petition was drafted and circulated More than sixty business owners signed months ago or that Neal expressed regret a petition last year, calling the plan to bring about signing it when he spoke at a Board of the community kitchen downtown “ill conAlderman meeting in March. (At that meetsidered” and “grossly under-scrutinized by ing, the board approved a text amendment the IFC.” On November 17, Rise Biscuits & allowing the IFC to apply for conditional Donuts co-owner Rick Robinson, flanked by zoning that would allow it to add the kitchen Neal’s Deli owner Matt Neal, presented that to its pantry.) petition to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen. What Hearon didn’t notice before he disIt fretted about the presence of the “chronicarded that flyer was one of the names at cally homeless” and its potential to harm the top: Michael Reinke, executive director local businesses. of the IFC. Reinke has been working with Both Robinson and Neal—as well as other local resident Sherri Ontjes, retired foundpetition signers—were excoriated in the comer of North Carolina Crafts Gallery, to find

alternative spaces for the proposed Main Street facility. (Ontjes says the woman circulating the petition was her granddaughter.) “The Board of Alderwomen and Aldermen asked us if we would take a look at other locations, and we said she would do that,” Reinke explains. This request was made back in November, after business owners’ concerns were aired. “And this is actually costing us money. It’s costing us money to hire lawyers—and hire architects—for them to say, ‘Would another site work?’” Only one proposed alternative site is up for serious consideration: a 1.3-acre plot at 303 Jones Ferry Road, near the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. It’s a one-minute drive or six-minute walk from 110 West Main. Reinke estimates that the scouting and assessment costs will exceed $20,000. His first choice is to remain on Main Street, for one simple reason: “We own it.” Moving to Jones Ferry would mean that the IFC’s neighbors would be residential, which could generate more controversy. The recent opening of IFC Community House—on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill—met with fierce resistance from neighbors. In addition, the Main Street location is served by several bus routes; the Jones Ferry one would require a longer walk to some of those buses, which could discourage some homeless people from visiting the kitchen. “It’s our hope to either make the decision by the end of May,” says Reinke. “But we have to make it by the middle of June.” The decision is urgent, says Reinke, because Chapel Hill would like its building at 100 West Rosemary back. The town has been letting the IFC use it for twenty-eight years. l dhooley@indyweek.com

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The Widening Divide

IN THE TRIANGLE, THE MIDDLE CLASS IS DISAPPEARING. HB 2 WON’T HELP. BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

To some degree, the data tells us what we already intuitively know. But that doesn’t make it any less sobering. Between 2000 and 2014, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, the percentage of adults living in middle-class households declined in 203 of the 229 metropolitan areas surveyed. On average, metros saw a 4-percentage-point decline; nearly a quarter of them saw a staggering 6-point drop. Adjusting for inflation, the median middle-class household now earns 6 percent less than it did in 1999. In other words, the middle class—defined by Pew as households of three earning between $42,000 and $125,000 a year—is withering, eroded by an increasingly yawning divide between rich and poor in a recovery whose gains have been almost uniformly distributed to the top 1 percent. If you want to know why there’s so much economic anxiety despite relatively decent top lines—5 percent unemployment, about two hundred thousand jobs added a month—look no further. For most of us, the recovery doesn’t feel real, just stagnant wages swallowed up by all-consuming debt. This dynamic, the report shows, is true throughout much of North Carolina. While in some parts of the country—for instance, oil-rich Midland, Texas, or white-collar cities like Boston—the middle class is giving way to a rising percentage of wealthy people, that’s not what’s happening here. Quite the opposite, in fact. As The New York Times Upshot blog reported, in the metro areas surrounding Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Goldsboro, the percentage of middleclass earners has steadily declined, while the number of low-income earners surged. Goldsboro is the most pronounced example of this dynamic in the entire country: in 2014, 48 percent of its population

was considered middle class, while 41 percent was lower class; in 2000, the lower-class percentage was hovering closer to 20, while the middle class was substantially more robust. In Raleigh today—one of the fastest-growing metros in the country—just 50 percent of the population is middle class, while the lower-class percentage has inched up to 25 (equaling the percentage of wealthy households). There’s a similar story in Charlotte and Greensboro. So when Governor McCrory boasts about the state’s GDP growth being among the highest in the country and credits it to his tax policies, remember the flip side: those policies, which cut taxes for the wealthy, will likely accelerate this trend. Of course, many factors are at play, and most of them are not unique to North Carolina: the decline of manufacturing and government jobs, for instance, and a recovery largely fueled by low-wage service-industry jobs. As Alexandra Forter Sirota, a policy analyst with the N.C. Budget & Tax Center, puts it, “We have a wage problem in North Carolina. That’s clear.” There are things the state can do to ameliorate this problem, Sirota says. It could better invest in its schools and universities. It could revisit its tax cuts to make those investments possible. As she points out, we now have thirty years of evidence showing that “supply-side economics is a wholly discredited way of enacting policy.” But the most important thing the state could do, she says, is

raise the minimum wage, currently just $7.25 an hour. That won’t happen, though—not with this legislature. Which brings us back to HB 2: in addition to its attack on transgender individuals, this staggeringly awful piece of legislation also forbade municipalities from raising their minimum wages, either for the private sector or their own contractors. Right now, the only thing municipalities can do to combat income inequality is increase their employees’ pay, and that won’t accomplish much. Were this not the case, local governments could at least try to tackle economic inequality. There’s research that suggests a patchwork of minimum wages isn’t ideal and might exacerbate inequality from region to region, Sirota points out. Still, it would allow for some movement in the right direction. And the status quo is fundamentally untenable. Without a thriving middle class, it’s difficult to maintain a high quality of life. Without a high quality of life—no matter the tax incentives you in front ofor them—it’s difficult Todangle advertise feature to attract top employers, who want to recruit a pet top employees, whofor wantadoption, to live in places with a high quality of life. please contact Ultimately, our state’s obsequiousness to the short-sighted, rgierisch@indyweek.com avaricious demands of the Chamber crowd—which wants low wages that pad the bottom line—will bite us in the ass. And yet, we’re doubling down, both on low wages and trickledown economics. History suggests this won’t end well. l jbillman@indyweek.com

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yez! Oyez! It’s April 13, and the N.C. Supreme Court is in session in Raleigh. The seven justices enter their courtroom in solemn fashion, taking their seats behind the walnut-paneled bench. Chief Justice Mark Martin, a Republican, is in the center. The six associate justices are divided equally between Republicans and Democrats, giving the Republicans a 4–3 majority. Does their party affiliation matter? It’s not supposed to. And yet … Scheduled for argument today: Faires v. State Board of Elections. Tellingly, it’s a case about Supreme Court elections. It’s simple on its face. But look again: there’s the full tangle of politics that has our state tied in knots. When the case is called, Republican Justice Bob Edmunds gets up and leaves without explanation. No need. Edmunds has recused himself, and everyone in the court knows why: Faires, among other things, is about him. At issue is a change enacted last year by the Republican-dominated General Assembly. It was designed to let Edmunds, whose eight-year term expires in December, run for “re-election” in 2016 assured that no other candidate could run against him. How? By allowing him to choose a “retention election,” a system never before used in North Carolina. The new law offered this option only to sitting Supreme Court justices who had been elected previously. Edmunds fit the bill; he was elected in 2000 and 2008. So did GOP justices Barbara Jackson and Paul Newby, whose terms will expire in 2018 and 2020. In a retention election, the only choice is whether to keep the incumbent. If not, the governor would appoint a replacement. Obviously, lawmakers wanted to keep the Supreme Court in Republican hands. The plaintiffs in Faires, however—including Raleigh attorney Sabra Jean Faires— argued that the law violated the state constitution, which requires that judges be elected in real elections. That was the legal question. Faires was a potential candidate against Edmunds. Was her right to run protected by the constitution? But there was also a political question that hung over the courtroom: Could these justices be trusted to set politics aside? The good news, now that we know how Faires came out, is that the Republican scheme was indeed struck down, though not by the Supreme Court. Consequently, Edmunds has been forced to run in a real election, beginning with a primary on June 7, against three opponents: Faires, who deserves consideration if for no other reason than that her lawsuit is the

reason we’re having an election; Michael Morgan, a top-rated Wake County Superior Court judge; and Daniel Robertson, a littleknown Davie County bank attorney. The top two finishers will face off in November. Edmunds, the only Republican in the field, is almost certain to be one of them. If you don’t want the court to remain under GOP control, you have options: Faires, an unaffiliated voter, or Morgan, a Democrat. It’s a choice you probably didn’t know you have, in an election that you may not have known is happening. But it is happening, and it’s as important an election for the future of North Carolina as any that will be on the ballot this year.

ow for the bad news: the answer to that political question is no, the court’s Republicans cannot be trusted to rise above politics. Faires was an easy test, involving an uncomplicated statute with an obvious constitutional flaw. When it came before a lower court in February, the judges unanimously granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs. But the Supreme Court split 3–3, which allowed the lower court’s ruling to stand. The high court’s non-decision was announced May 6 in a brusque, unsigned opinion that failed to specify how each justice voted. Again, no need. Everyone who was in court April 13 heard the three remaining GOP justices mount a vociferous defense of the law. The gist: members of the General Assembly are the people’s representatives, and if they think retention elections satisfy the state constitution, that’s what matters. The three Democrats—justices Cheri Beasley, Robin Hudson, and Sam Ervin IV—countered that even legislators can’t ignore the constitution, which calls for judges to be elected just as the governor and legislators are. If this law were upheld, Ervin asked, could the General Assembly create a retention election for an incumbent governor? Edmunds didn’t vote, of course. But he’d already cast his lot when, as a candidate, he decided whether or not to run in a retention election. The law gave him that choice; he could run in a traditional election, open to other candidates, or shut them out and run solo for retention. Within days of the law’s passage, Edmunds chose retention.

f Faires demonstrated how far the Republicans will go to keep control of the Supreme Court, it told us little about why they will go so far. For that, let’s turn to John Davis, a

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THE CHALLENGERS Here’s irony: Supreme Court elections are officially nonpartisan. So you won’t see any party designations on your Supreme Court primary ballot. But Edmunds will likely finish first, because he’s the only Republican running, and the Republican Party is telling its voters to support him. One other advantage Edmunds has: there are four hotly contested Republican congressional primaries on June 7 and just one Democratic primary. In much of the state, this so-far obscure judicial primary will be the only reason to vote. Turnout will be awful. But because of the congressional races, it will be somewhat less awful on the Republican side. As for the Faires-Morgan choice (you can only vote for one, after all): Faires is a sixty-year-old lawyer for a private firm. But for thirty years she worked on the legal staff at the General Assembly, serving as an expert on tax and election laws whose advice was trusted on both sides of the aisle. She has the unique distinction of having been a top aide at different times to former Senate leader Marc Basnight, a Democrat, and former House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan, a Republican.

smart political consultant who, in 2013, wrote a series of articles for his conservativeleaning clientele under the heading, “How the North Carolina Republican Party Can Maintain Political Power for 114 Years (Like Their Predecessors, the Democrats).” Davis set down five rules, the last of which was: “Lose the courts, lose the war.” That war would be for the General Assembly, which for more than a century prior to the 2010 elections was dominated by Democrats. But here’s a little-known corollary that Davis put his finger on: between 1896 and 1994, not a single Republican was elected to the state Supreme Court. In the nineties, the Republicans began to break through, as voters started electing lawand-order candidates to the courts. By 2004, the Supreme Court was 6–1 Republican. What happened next was redistricting mayhem. Following the 2000 census, Democrats controlled the General Assembly and, as they’d done before, they drew legislative districts that favored their continued control. Davis, who specializes in election analysis, says the resulting Senate maps produced twenty-eight Democratic-leaning districts, sixteen Republican-leaning districts, and six swing districts. In the House, the edge was fifty-nine Democratic districts to forty-seven Republican leaners, with fourteen swing districts. But then the state Supreme Court swept in and, in a series of rulings called the Stephenson cases, declared that the maps violated the 14 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

A self-described introvert, she’d actually decided not to run against Edmunds until the retention-election bill came along—a bill she knew instantly was unconstitutional. Yet it passed, and Edmunds signed up for a retention election. “I thought, this is a total outrage,” she says. “This is nothing but blatant partisan politics.” The Supreme Court shouldn’t be political, she says—and if she’s on it, she won’t be. Morgan, also sixty, isn’t quite as blunt when it comes to calling out the court’s partisanship. As a sitting judge, there are limits to what he can say. But he makes the point indirectly, criticizing Edmunds for labeling himself “conservative.” True, Morgan’s a Democrat. “But I’ve not called myself ‘liberal’ … or ‘progressive’ or anything else except fair and impartial,” he says. Morgan is running on his experience as a judge for twentyone years on the superior court and district court. As a trial judge, he gets high marks from the bar association. “I want this as a promotion,” he says. “I feel I’m ready for

state constitution. New maps were forced on the Democrats by the Republican court, and they shifted the gerrymandering advantage slightly in the Republicans’ direction. Which is where things stood until 2010, when a national landslide helped Republicans capture solid control of both the House and Senate. Davis maintains that, but for the Stephenson rulings, the Democrats’ original maps might have allowed the party to retain its edge in at least one house. Saddled with the Republican maps, however, the Democrats were toast. So Republican legislators were in charge of drawing the new legislative district maps following the 2010 census. The gerrymandering was vicious. The Republican maps have allowed them to win supermajorities in both legislative houses, even though roughly the same number of people in the state vote Democratic as Republican. In short, because they controlled the Supreme Court a decade ago, the Republicans control redistricting now. Because they control redistricting, they control the General Assembly. And because they control the General Assembly, they control every aspect of public policy in North Carolina, from school funding to which bathrooms we use. That they’ve gone on a right-wing rampage is putting it mildly. Which is where the present-day Supreme Court comes in. It could put a serious crimp in their power. But as long as its GOP majority holds, it won’t.

promotion to the highest court.” He offers something else, too. He’s an African-American male. And while he’s not running as a “black candidate,” he says, he is someone who likes to get out in the community, speak to groups, answer questions, and try to dispel by example the idea that the judicial system can’t be fair to African-American men. It’s hard to run in judicial races. The candidates can’t talk about cases that may come their way or even about constitutional issues except in the most general terms. Faires does, however, object to the kind of gerrymandering that produces districts that look like “ink splats.” And when asked about the voucher law, Morgan mentions that he serves on the bench with Judge Hobgood, who ruled against the law but was overruled by the Supreme Court. “I have a great deal of respect for Robert Hobgood,” Morgan says. “His thoroughness and his reasoning, I always find to be enlightening. I felt as though it was the same in this case.” Which is about as close to a policy position as he’s allowed to take.—Bob Geary

Critically, the Supreme Court decides whether the Republican gerrymander is unconstitutional, which it arguably is because of the extent to which voters are assigned to districts by race—diluting the impact of African-Americans and thus helping Republicans. Twice so far, the Supreme Court has approved the current Republican maps. The first time, in 2014, the vote was 4–2 (one seat was vacant), with Edmunds writing the majority opinion for the Republican bloc. Ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court to review the maps a second time, the Republican quartet again rubber-stamped them in a 4–3 opinion written by Newby. Each time, the court’s only African-American justice, Cheri Beasley, authored angry dissents, joined by her fellow Democrats, blasting the maps as illegal racial gerrymanders. It’s not hard to surmise that if the Republicans lose control of the court, Beasley’s dissents will become the majority opinion and the Republican gerrymandering will eventually be struck down. That might not cost the Republicans control of the legislature, at least not right away. At a minimum, though, their margins would be thinner, and there would be far fewer safely Republican districts. That, in turn, might curb the Republicans’

enthusiasm for legislation like House Bill 2. HB 2 is the subject of dueling lawsuits in federal courts, though it could also be challenged in state courts based on the state constitution’s guarantees of equality and equal protection under the law. With the current GOP majority on the Supreme Court, such a challenge would fail. A more progressive court, however, might strike it down. A more immediate example of constitutionally dubious legislation is the state’s school voucher plan, the so-called Opportunity Scholarship Program. It provides annual grants of up to $4,200 per student to private schools, religious schools, even home schools, with no standards for what’s taught, who the teachers are, or what the students are learning—if anything. Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood ruled that the program violated the state constitution in eight separate ways, including the clear requirement that public funds for education be used “exclusively” for public schools. But in 2015, the Supreme Court overruled him, 4–3, with the Republican quartet again finding that if the General Assembly had decided something was constitutional, it was. It’s hard to imagine that a court with fewer Republicans would rule the same way. l rjgeary@mac.com

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mark the times I have attended Moogfest not by the specific year or by roster but, instead, by the musical moments that left the biggest impressions. There was, for instance, the inexplicably deep bass tone of the producer Pantha du Prince, which rattled a midsize arena in downtown Asheville to the very frame. Or there were the kaleidoscopic arpeggios of Emeralds, which seemed to make a large club sparkle with sound, or the manic, mind-scrambling pace and projections of a Squarepusher set that felt like it made too many neurons fire at once. During the best of its half-decade stay four hours to the west, Moogfest extended an invitation to have your body shaken by big sound, your mind broadened by new possibilities. No, Moogfest never broke even in Asheville, but on that conceptual count, it operated firmly in the black. This week, Moogfest will at last arrive in Durham after a year and a half of anticipatory debate, analysis, and excitement. Its journey here, to its third city in a little more than a decade, has not been an easy one. After floundering in New York, Moogfest went through two distinct iterations in Asheville, the second of which generated losses of $1.5 million in 2014. Still, that event was an audacious one, pairing diurnal panels and workshops with nocturnal concerts that put the day’s ideas in loud, vivid praxis. Where many such conferences break those pieces apart (see South by Southwest, or locally, Hopscotch), so that the dreamers and the doers don’t always collide, Moogfest had the gall to jam all those factions in one place and facilitate an exchange. At great risk, Moogfest declared that it would be more than a music festival, more than a tech symposium, and more, really, than both at once. Emmy Parker, Moog Music’s brand director, labeled the losses “an investment” in that mission. The ambition of Moogfest 2014—and the financial flop that followed—helped push the event to Durham after county officials refused to up their investment. Organizers have since tapped into a local network of sponsors, boosters, and citizens looking to support a multidisciplinary event that bolsters and burnishes the region’s growing tech image. It has not always been a comfortable fit. Blun-

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/ˈmōg-fest/ n -s 1. A celebration of the birthday of Robert “Bob” Moog, the inventor and synthesizer pioneer buried in Asheville. 2. A branding opportunity for Moog Music, an instruments company based in Asheville. 3. A music festival featuring musicians whose work incorporates the equipment or ideas of Moog or Moog Music. 4. A technology symposium of workshops, lectures, and conversations focused on cuttingedge topics. 5. A prominent symbol of Durham’s current growth and related challenges. 6. Any and all combinations of the above.

ders by the city and county in funding Moogfest at much higher levels than the older Art of Cool, which used some of the same spaces only two weeks ago, have led to charges of racism against the city. And the festival’s ostensible desire to integrate as much of Durham as possible in this re-launch—from museums and art galleries to Research Triangle Park and rock clubs—has sometimes stretched the organization’s framework and the region’s infrastructure a bit thin. But these are larger topics, issues that must be addressed systematically by an area experiencing unprecedented levels of growth and concomitant growing pains. Moogfest spotlights those problems, though it didn’t create them. The welcome news is that, on the ground, Moogfest’s debut in Durham has the potential to dazzle again. In the festival’s four-day span, you can hear ambient music sculpted from the insects of Burt’s Bees Observation Hive and explore the earliest and newest synthesizer technologies. You can tinker with IBM’s Watson and listen to cutting-edge thinkers such as Neil Harbisson and Martine Rothblatt ponder the future. And that’s even before you consider the bands, a curious and quirky mix that cuts across genre and generation to link icons such as Gary Numan, Kode9, and GZA with iconoclasts such as Grimes, Blood Orange, and Grouper. You can see one of the loudest bands in the world, Sunn O))), in a parking lot, or one of their descendants, The Body, in a tiny club. Upstart locals like Trandle and Well$ share stage space with proven imports like Lunice and M. Geddes Gengras. In the next twelve months, Moogfest has significant questions to consider about its future and role in Durham, just as the city has similarly pressing concerns. But this week, Moogfest delivers a lot of opportunities to have your brain bent in the best of ways, to think about topics you’ve perhaps never pondered, to see bands that truly exist at the bleeding edge of form. In that regard, at least, Moogfest has rarely missed its mark. ● gcurrin@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.18.16 | 17

MARISA BRICKMAN MOVED BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA TO RESURRECT MOOGFEST IN A NEW CITY BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN Marisa Brickman thought there must be some mistake. In early 2015, she applied to be the new director of Moogfest, the music festival located in Asheville since 2010. But the post was listed in Durham, a city the North Carolina native had last visited as a UNC student some fifteen years earlier. Working in California, she had little idea how much it had changed, much less that its downtown could support a major music festival. In the year since Brickman relocated to Durham, she has helped build an extensive, cross-discipline network to support the festival’s restart. Its tendrils reach well beyond the city’s music scene and into art galleries and corporate headquarters, university spaces and city hall. Exactly a week before the festival’s first event (Moog yoga, or “Moga,” on the roof of The Durham Hotel), I sat down with Brickman to talk about the challenges of that ambition. 18 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

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INDY: Moogfest isn’t strictly a music festival or a tech conference but, instead, a lot of both. How often have you had to explain that mix during the last year? MARISA BRICKMAN: All the time. How does the pitch go? Moogfest is a music festival. Moogfest is obviously a celebration of Bob Moog’s legacy. With the very close relationships he had with artists, he developed tools that people could use for creative expression. During the day, Moogfest explores the tools that people are using to create and the intersection of how technology is impacting music, art, the way we think about ourselves. At night, the performances are the practical application of these tools. It’s curated artists we think are doing interesting things with technological tools or things with their AV shows and are known in their genre for doing something a little bit different.

It’s not practical, necessarily. It’s meant to inspire people to think about the future of creativity and new ideas, to inspire people to talk to each other about things they might not normally talk about. It’s an amazing collection of some of the brightest minds and interesting futurist thinkers, artists, and musicians in the world. Those dual sides seem like they’d compound the typical work of a festival and the format. How have you navigated that? I was looking at my job description, and I thought, “Wow, how is all this humanly possible for one person?” It’s five people’s jobs. You don’t realize the full scope of something until you’re in it. There’s not exactly a blueprint to do what it is we’re trying to do. There is a little, but the process of going to the “special events review committee” with the city and navigating that side of the equation has been interesting. I’m looking forward to pulling this one off and digging in to do other things we’re excited about doing— more year-round programming, doing things in Durham, outside of Durham. Until we have a successful blueprint for the festival in Durham, it’s not even worth putting too much energy into those things. What’s your primary goal for the weekend? That everyone have a great time. That artists feel like it was different than the usual. That people have memories from Moogfest, moments of inspiration they’ve not experienced anywhere else. There’s so many opportunities within Moogfest to blow people’s minds and make them think a little bit differently. Do you hope Moogfest has some generative effect in its new hometown? Cicely Mitchell at Art of Cool and I talk all the time about how we need to train people to go out more, to pay for shows, to go out and dance, to party. It’s not necessarily a culture of people going out all the time. The more things that exist like Art of Cool and Moogfest and Hopscotch, the more we can create this culture of people being excited to go out and see shows. Hopefully, Moogfest will contribute to creating more cultural capital and excitement in the Triangle. Moogfest and Art of Cool have been linked, through little fault of their own, in the battle for city and county funding, especially

because you’re two weeks apart. How do you approach that division? I feel like rising tides raise all ships. There’s room for so many festivals. I don’t see us as necessarily competitive to Art of Cool; I see us as very complementary to Art of Cool. The timing is just the tricky thing. We try to do Moogfest around Bob Moog’s birthday every year, which is the end of May. Given the landscape we’re in and the type of acts we book, it’s a good time because, at the end of May, you’ve got Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival and a lot of acts coming in from abroad. It’s too hot in the summer, and there’s Hopscotch in the fall. This time frame is the most ideal for us. The price of Moogfest has generated criticism, too, even from county commissioners. It seems, though, that the festival has worked to offer student discounts and free programming to combat that. Is that a deliberate way to create initial exposure? When you’re something new in a city, it’s a challenge and opportunity to learn how to reach everybody. Our student tickets have been really successful. The day tickets … we’re still promoting the day tickets. We want everybody to be able to access Moogfest, whether that’s through free programming, a student ticket, a day ticket, a festival pass. We have tried to create different opportunities to experience the festival. If you look at the price of a show at DPAC, for $150, you get to see one Broadway show. At Moogfest, for $249, we’ve got four days of experiences, one hundred shows, installations, conversations, workshops. You came on board after the 2014 festival, where Moogfest lost $1.5 million and found a new home. How much pressure is there to break even? It takes a while for festivals to break even. We’re not on a path like a traditional festival, as far as getting bought. Of course, there’s always the pressure to make something financially successful. Everybody’s end goal is to break even and make money, but we all realize that, with what we’re doing, it’s going to take a little while to get there. If Moogfest doesn’t break even, it will be back in Durham next year, correct? Every year. We’re here forever now. ● gcurrin@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.18.16 | 19

Present Ten DAWN OF MIDI Dawn of Midi doesn’t sound like a piano trio. The group’s second album, Dysnomia, starts with a simple, weirdly syncopated bass line. A piano enters, playing a single clipped chord over and over, suggesting a sampler. A kick drum sneaks in another rhythmic theme. New patterns emerge and recede, all in the service of rhythms and breakbeats, not unlike an Aphex Twin record. This is jazz fully suffused with, and even overrun by, beats. The trio—Amino Belyamani on piano, Aakaash Israni on bass, and Qasim Naqvi on drums—can make conventional jazz. Its first album is a great example of contemporary free jazz that occasionally points toward something more. These days, though, the solos, the riffs, and the extended melodies yield to repeated fragments and lockstep grooves. And while this music conjures a sequencer’s beats and a synth’s consistent attack, it has a decidedly human, expressive core that indicates a different kind of jazz future. (THURSDAY, 8 P.M., CAROLINA THEATRE) —Dan Ruccia 20 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

TORY LANEZ “Fusion” and “diffuse” describe Tory Lanez’s hit, “Say It,” which sounds like down-tempo house fighting through nineties R&B and modern trap mutations. Those terms also apply to most of the moment’s compelling beat-oriented pop, which places the Toronto-based street-pop crooner Lanez on the curve of what’s hot. Still, while you will hear echoes of Drake, Future, Miguel, and Travis Scott, Lanez has an ear for the strange and formless, too. A gnarly, warped dubstep buzz anchors “Stuck on You,” while, as a guest on Freddie Gibbs’s “Mexico,” Lanez’s scrambled voice journeys through a rickety piano-trap loop. His recent mixtapes, The New Toronto and Chixtape 3, build a lengthy example of how R&B can be ambient; you hear a singer comfortable handing his songs over to mood. Lanez’s appearance at Moogfest might be a headscratcher for the experimental purist, but his music is an example of how crafted R&B can rub shoulders with the avant-garde. (FRIDAY, 11:45 P.M., MOTORCO) —Brandon Soderberg

MOOGFEST TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. IT MAY SOUND A LOT LIKE THESE TEN ARTISTS.

MORTON SUBOTNICK Morton Subotnick is known best for a pair of late-sixties albums made on Buchla synthesizers: Silver Apples of the Moon and The Wild Bull. Unlike many academic composers of the era, Subotnick wasn’t afraid of regular beats and patterns. He’s made a lot of incredible music since—see the caustic buzz of Sidewinder or the gentle gestures of Until Spring— though any conversation about him always returns to Silver Apples. At age eighty-three, Subotnick is still a force in avant-garde electronic music, still teasing out interesting sounds from his Buchla synths and writing inventive music for humans and electronics alike. But perhaps his most fascinating current venture centers on instruments for children, including an iPad app where children can essentially paint sounds, allowing them to “play at being a composer.” He envisions it as something like building blocks, noting that “building blocks don’t make skyscrapers, but you get the sense of building things.” His lone Moogfest performance is part of a tribute to Don Buchla, but the goal remains the same: to inspire others to hear (and make) new sounds. (FRIDAY, 3:45 P.M., DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL PSI THEATRE) —Dan Ruccia

FLOATING POINTS “Every melody declares to us that the past can be there without being remembered, the future without being foreknown,” wrote the neurologist Oliver Sacks in Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Neuroscience student and electronic composer Floating Points, or Sam Shepherd, shines in that momentary lag. From his club-ready house homage “ARP3” to the more astral affectations of “Thin Air,” Floating Points embodies the melody’s center. It’s how last year’s Elaenia, despite all its intellectual flexing, prospered among releases that only imagined the genre to be as deep as each producer’s module. FloPo’s bandassisted groove sessions arch into jazz-beat soliloquies that work the line between the esoteric and the melodic. In the past, on his Vacuum Boogie EP, Shepherd casually fashioned experimental club glide and near-D’Angelo funk. Now, look for an extended piece like Elaenia’s “Silhouettes (I, II, III)” to honor and defy expectations of Moogfest’s sounds with a fusion of the familiar and alien. He’s 4hero with a conductor, Jazzanova on a relaxant. (THURSDAY, 8:30 P.M., MOTORCO PARK) —Eric Tullis

JLIN The Chicago-born genre of footwork seems to be undergoing a second, if somewhat minor, renaissance. Kids barely aware of the genre six months ago continue to name-check the late footwork pioneer DJ Rashad. Others have looked ahead to forwardthinking producers such as Indiana’s Jlin, one of the most versatile, distinctive producers working in electronic music. She first broke out with the percolating “Erotic Heat” from a 2011 Planet Mu compilation, a track that caught the attention of a fashion designer and eventually gave her enough clout to book international shows between shifts at her Gary, Indiana, steel mill job. Last year, her full Planet Mu debut, Dark Energy, delivered an indescribable array of arrhythmia and spokenword creepiness. She eschewed soul samples, opening instead a sizable kit of fascinating sounds, which cut from canned haunted house screams to Chinese horns. As footwork moves further outward, she’s an especially exciting practitioner. (FRIDAY, MIDNIGHT, THE ARMORY) —David Ford Smith

ACTRESS Darren Cunningham riles people up. With the release of his fourth full-length, Ghettoville, the British producer courted critical acclaim and near-complete dismissal for his most abstract (and, some argued, unapproachable) material. At least one writer accused him of deliberately crafting a parody of experimental music. But Cunningham and his exceptionally bizarre sounds remind us that humor can be an essential part of out-music. At its best, Ghettoville demolishes genres such as minimal techno and chopped-n-screwed music in oblique, hilarious ways. See the song “Rap,” with its codeine-heavy meta-refrain of “wrap yourself around me,” or album closer “Rule,” which suggests a sampler choking to death. Even when he is repeating the same plodding beat for seven minutes, there’s humor to Actress. (SATURDAY, 9 P.M., THE ARMORY) —David Ford Smith SUNN O))) So just how massive is the sound of Sunn O)))? Moogfest originally slated the drone-metal titans for the Carolina Theatre, but the band’s armada of amplifiers—for which they are both named and known—prompted worries that they would actually start to shake the ceiling loose in the nearly century-old space. Instead, Sunn O))) will play in the parking lot of Motorco, a rare stateside outdoor appearance for the perennial festival favorites. But Sunn O)))’s volume is only the

essential spectacle of what they do, their emphatic and ecstatic method for making a series of important points. By slowing heavy metal’s riffs to a glacial pace, Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson give themselves space to improvise and explore those themes, to add subtle textures and touches that practitioners of their ancestral form often leave untouched. Enhanced live by filigrees of synthesizers and horns and fronted by Mayhem’s Attila Csihar, a supreme costumed leader, Sunn O))) presses simultaneously at the crooked boundaries of metal and noise, jazz and classical. They prompt questions about the purpose of genre, and then play loud enough to drown out those who ask. (SATURDAY, 9:15 P.M., MOTORCO PARK) —Grayson Haver Currin

VIA APP In a recent interview with Resident Advisor, the young Brooklyn-viaBoston producer Via App positioned herself in stark contrast to her peers’ laziness in the techno-and-noise underground. She decried a tendency toward easily digestible dance music. “It’s important to disrupt conservative habits in club culture,” she said, adding that “tracks can go hard in more roundabout ways, risk more—and ultimately reap greater rewards.” Via App’s strange and sometimesgorgeous collage-based music lives up to this pointed rhetoric, even as it uses several dusty elements itself. Many of the songs on the jarring Dangerous Game employ four-onthe-floor beats and spacey pads plucked from classic techno. But she subverts these standard pleasures with a barrage of unexpected bits, creating a distinct house variant. Like matter exploding from an infinitely dense sphere, jagged chunks of sound appear and evolve before you can process them. It works on two essential levels: You can dance to it, or you can (attempt to) analyze it. (SATURDAY, 11 P.M., THE PINHOOK) —David Ford Smith

THE RANGE James Hinton lives and works in an anonymous Brooklyn building. Despite an Ivy League education, he has largely spent his post-academia years making melodically left-field electronic music as The Range. Attuned to the sonic possibilities of a generation that shares itself online, Hinton draws liberally from the YouTube uploads of underage grime spitters, Ariana Grande fans, and hopeful amateurs performing for webcams and smartphones. Exemplified by his recent Potential, the empathetic end result of Hinton’s talent search feels like an evolutionary step beyond the sampling tradition. Whether taking sixteen bars wholesale or distilling a vocal down to an almost unrecognizable snippet, he’s actively exploring the humanity and intimacy inherent, yet not always visible, amid the hashtags. Often wondrous in its ability to evoke grand sentiments and subtle emotions, Hinton’s music captivates largely because of that methodology, one that hinges on his own desire to connect with others. (THURSDAY, 7 P.M., MOTORCO) —Gary Suarez

Dawn of Midi PHOTO BY FALKWYNDE GOYENECHE | Morton Subotnick PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST | Floating Points PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WINDISH AGENCY | Actress PHOTO COURTESY OF LIAISON ARTISTS | The Range PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WINDISH AGENCY | Greg Fox PHOTO COURTESY OF HEXAGRAM BOOKING | Sunn O))) PHOTO BY TINA HAVER CURRIN | Jlin PHOTO COURTESY OF PLANET MU | Tory Lanez PHOTO COURTESY OF SACKS & CO. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT

GREG FOX The drummer Greg Fox is barely thirty, but he’s already amassed a mountain of music. Though known best for the breathing blast beats he plays with black metal firebrands Liturgy, Fox has explored freedom and freak-outs in Guardian Alien, unhinged rock in PC Worship, bracing abrasion with Ben Frost, and long-form drumming duels with Oneida’s Kid Millions. He’s been the mentee of free jazz paragon Milford Graves, turning his thoughts on biometrics into oddly seductive music, and even joined baritone saxophonist Colin Stetson for a recent interpretation of Górecki’s third symphony. Fox brings these experiences—as well as his time learning to play drum ’n’ bass music and his ostensible interest in meditation—to bear in his solo music, which rewrites the expectations of a solo drum performance. Linking his kit with electronics, Fox creates a teeming sphere of sound, where that heavy metal insistence and devotion to mantra-like repetition battles in real time with an impulse to rip it up and start again. You want to step into Fox’s world and learn how he interprets all the things he’s heard. (THURSDAY, 2 P.M., 21C HOTEL MAIN BALLROOM) —Grayson Haver Currin INDYweek.com | 5.18.16 | 21

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Distorted perceptions: Grimes PHOTO COURTESY OF 4AD

Dismembering Memory BY BRANDON SODERBERG Thanks to that disorganized archive of damn near everything that we call the Internet, the flotsam of the past seems permanently accessible for the future. So many memories now exist in a state of digital immortality, documented in Twitter and Facebook streams of thoughts and, before that, through MySpace or Friendster profiles, LiveJournal or Angelfire entries. This is extreme fodder for nostalgia, infinite inputs that compound the natural impulse to, as one ages and sags and scars, yearn for simpler times. But how exactly is one supposed to mature and move beyond those inchoate days when so much of the old stuff remains so indefatigably present? This challenge demands you pick a side: succumb to mere nostalgia or power through it, using what you can of its carnage to create something new from stray pieces of the past. This is especially true of three modern Moogfest artists who don’t sound much alike but wrestle with memory through cyberpunk-like fusions of past and present. There’s the extravagant Adderall rush of pop semi-star Grimes, the dread-infected noise cutups of Oneohtrix Point Never, and the breached, damaged barrages of gender-freaking rapper Mykki Blanco. They reject simple, good-ol’-days longing for a moodier, more useful memory purge, tearing off the pieces of the nineties they can remix, refix, reify, and reorder into work that challenges the remember-when conceptions of youth. You hear frustrated, aspirational updates on nineties failings through their music, which highlights the difference between simply remembering and seriously reflecting, between lazy nostalgia and tough-minded revaluation. It’s a face-off with the past that chews schmaltz and irony to spit out a reimagined moodboard of some baffling, bygone era. On her 2015 album, Art Angels, Grimes explores feminist resiliency via the tragic optimism of nineties pop, delivered

with an ejaculatory approach to sound that mirrors Clintonrule excess. “Flesh Without Blood” and “Realiti” recall the Bring It On soundtrack, the Robitussin rage of Mindless Self Indulgence, and the swooping numbers of Mariah Carey, Kate Bush, and SWV. Grimes has pointed out that pop music was foreign to her as a child but more empowering to her later in life, when it was seen as hipster taboo. That feeling adds a wise distance to her music, because she now understands the implicit subversion capable through pop and its power to cut through politics. For Grimes, the focus is the patriarchy, made explicit on songs that mock male ego, privilege, and access: “I got friends in high places/I get out for free/I got in a fight but they don’t know me/Because I’m only a man/And I do what I can.” Oneohtrix Point Never’s Garden of Delete taps into existential turmoil by chopping nu-metal’s histrionics into post-electronica, mapping the overloaded essence of every dopey, angry, and horny teen’s brain onto eerie instrumentals. “Sticky Drama” and “I Bite Through It” mimic the sepiatoned menace of Nine Inch Nails videos, the narcotic drift of PC role-playing games, and the headbang reign of Korn. On Garden of Delete, Oneohtrix Point Never captures the underlying sadness and chaos of being a teenager and extends an earnest, aural olive branch to kids still living in places where there’s a vacuum of empathy for the outsider. On torn and frayed rap albums Gay Dog Food and Mykki Blanco Presents C-ORE, Mykki Blanco bears the weight of life as a “Sister Outsider” by valorizing the most subversive corners of MTV’s alternative nation—gritty hip-hop, blunted trip-hop, and raucous riot grrrl. Mykki Blanco cribs attitude from Gregg Araki movies, emotion from the most fragile mid-nineties rap, and scope from the projects of Kim Gordon or Kathleen Hanna. She emulates and updates the freedom those movements howled with her black queer voice. Here’s the wild-eyed, inspiring gusto of rap and punk of the nineties mainstream, gone radi-

AT MOOGFEST, SOME OF THE MOST VITAL MODERN MUSIC PLAYS WITH NOSTALGIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST cally inclusive for the next generation. Grimes, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Mykki Blanco have all publicly wrestled with their influences in ways that make it clear they don’t want the past to sit still. Grimes recruited Little Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence to remix “Kill v. Maim,” and she was wrongly accused of trolling when she turned a noteworthy DJ set into a reliquary of Top 40 hits. Oneohtrix Point Never remixed Nine Inch Nails and even toured with Trent Reznor, an experience that informed the aggro-bombast of Garden of Delete. For “Moment with Kathleen,” from Gay Dog Food, Mykki Blanco worked with Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and The Julie Ruin “Moment With Kathleen” appropriately begins with Blanco freaking out about the encounter: “Last night I met Kathleen Hanna. She was so cool. She was so sweet. It was just like I imagined,” Blanco screams just before a beat that mixes the wobble of industrial rock with the spiraling riffs of indie rock lands. Aware of how history has been kind to her but also how nostalgia has helped defang a movement she fostered, Hanna, in turn, ponders “the archive of the archive of the archive.” In essence, she gives a name to the nefarious phenomenon that Grimes, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Blanco all fight—empty nostalgia, rather than the more nuanced version that makes their work vital. The flip side of working closely with one’s idols is that they’re no longer preserved at a safe distance; you might see their flaws, their frailties. This is less of a problem for Grimes, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Mykki Blanco, because they don’t harbor illusions that the past was better. What’s challenging to them, though, is their subsequent responsibility for the future, or for the need to serve the alone, lost, and pissed-off kids flailing in 2016 just as their heroes once served them. It’s a heartening sort of reciprocity—there’s no yearning for days forever lost, only an attempt to make art more insurgent than the stuff that changed their worlds long ago. ● Twitter: @notrivia

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Even relative to other local music festivals, Moogfest isn’t cheap. Weekend passes sell for $249, about $80 more than the cost of Hopscotch and $30 less than a bonusheavy VIP pass to the Art of Cool. But the city and county of Durham combined financial forces to help fund an ambitious agenda of free programming at Moogfest, apart from the pricey ticketed events. In turn, the festival is offering a wide slate of art installations, concerts, and parties open to the public. These nine are among the best gratis bets.

CELEBRATING THE WORK OF DON BUCHLA: FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD SMITH

Among synth aficionados, debate persists about pioneer status. There’s Bob Moog, the more publicly hailed figure around which Moogfest is branded. Then there’s Don Buchla, whose synthesizers launched after Moog’s but whose designs may have been first. In a tribute to Buchla, Moogfest has gathered synths, prototypes, and photos to celebrate the contributions of Moog’s contemporary. All the pieces come from the collection of Richard Smith, an electronics technician who’s an expert on Buchla’s work. He’ll perform as a part of a tribute to Buchla on Friday afternoon. (Thursday– Sunday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m., Durham Arts Council Foyer)

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YES, MOOGFEST IS EXPENSIVE, BUT THE FREE PROGRAMMING IS GENEROUS. HERE’S HOW BEST TO GO FOR BROKE. BY ALLISON HUSSEY it all up with as much noise as you can handle. (Thursday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Power Plant Gallery)

REALITI: INSIDE THE MUSIC OF GRIMES Announced last week, this activity merges Microsoft technology with Moogfest headliner Grimes—sort of. Grimes won’t be performing, but Microsoft will use its Kinect technology to let people manipulate “Realiti,” a cut from her 2015 LP, Art Angels. The lighting and music will change as you move through four different zones of the installation. Take a few loops through with different looks. (Thursday– Sunday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., DCC Plaza)

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SWITCHBOARD SYNTHESIZERS

Head upstairs, and you’ll find what appears to be an old-fashioned telephone relay system. But artist and musician Lori Napoleon, or Antenes, has repurposed these former switchboards into functioning modular synthesizers. Both old phone systems and modular synths rely on cable patching to connect sounds, a common feature Napoleon exploited for this marvelous collection. She performs with these repurposed machines at one p.m. on Saturday. (Thursday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m., The Carrack)

Need to dip out of everyday life for a spell? Drop into this two-hour musical meditation to re-tune yourself. Taz Arnold, of the neo-soul hip-hop outfit Sa-Ra, leads this session a little outside of downtown at the Nasher. Not quite a lecture, concert, or installation, this meditation station presents a refreshing respite from the typical music festival hustle and bustle. (Friday, 2 p.m., Nasher Museum of Art)

THE GLOBAL SYNTHESIZER PROJECT This installation on the American Tobacco Campus brings the world to Durham. In late April, Moog issued a call for people across the globe to submit field recordings from their local environments. The brainchild of Yuri Suzuki, the project allows participants to create rich soundscapes from these crowdsourced samples. You can carefully craft something lush and pretty, or shake 24 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

DJ Lance Rock PHOTO COURTESY OF 3RD BANANA PRODUCTIONS

MOOGFEST REGGAE SOUNDSYSTEM PARTY

This late-afternoon fete offers the opportunity to bump, grind, or sway to

all stripes of reggae. Bull McCabe’s might not be your typical dance club, but its big backyard should make for an easygoing, early-evening hang. David Katz, Angus Taylor, Laurent “Tippy” Alfred, Lister Hewan-Lowe, and Blazer Soundsystem spin deep cuts into the evening. (Saturday, 1 p.m., Bull McCabe’s)

ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOR CHILDREN AND EXPERIMENTAL ADULTS WITH DJ LANCE ROCK AND YO GABBA GABBA!

This may delight adults as much as—more than?— kids. Yo Gabba Gabba! is a colorful, quirky Nickelodeon institution that stars a bunch of big, friendly monsters and their DJ friend, Lance Rock. Kids can see their hero in the flesh, while any grown-up can enjoy bright, fun tunes from a host of his non-monster pals. The afternoon concludes with appearances by funk master Bootsy Collins and Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh—master musical forces accustomed to delighting audiences of all ages. (Saturday, noon, American Tobacco Campus)

REGGIE WATTS

Underneath the Lucky Strike tower, loop master Reggie Watts will plug in for a free, full-length performance. Watts is an expert, intriguing improviser; his sets are like watching the pieces of an intricate puzzle fall together in real time. Maybe you don’t entirely understand how Watts’s looping setup works, but you will soon understand that it can keep your attention indefinitely. And his renowned idiosyncratic wit only makes his stunts stronger. (Saturday, 5:30 p.m., American Tobacco Campus)

SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS DAY PARTY

It may not be Moog-approved, but this party at Schoolkids’ Durham outpost offers an excellent afternoon of local music. Bombadil drummer James Phillips opens as Sumner James, his heady electronic project. Teardrop Canyon, the punchy new guitarand synth-driven band of Josh Kimbrough, takes the stage, followed by Raleigh’s great Enemy Waves, an astringent, tight, and loud psychedelic syndicate. You might not find many Moog contraptions, but you will find a solid bill. (Saturday, 1 p.m., Schoolkids Records) ●

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NEIL HARBISSON

Becoming Technology CYBORG ACTIVISTS AT MOOGFEST TAKE WEARABLE DEVICES TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY HANNAH PITSTICK

Thursday, May 19, 4 p.m., PSI Theatre, Durham Friday, May 20, 10 a.m., Carolina Theatre, Durham

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Transhuman rights is a burgeoning idea, and many self-described cyborgs see a battle brewing over the right to engineer their bodies and minds, expand their senses, or become “trans-species” by adopting the senses of other animals. In 2004, cyborg activist Neil Harbisson had a Wi-Fi-enabled antenna osseointegrated into his skull. It allows the colorblind artist to hear the light frequencies of color, from visible to ultraviolet and infrared, and to receive images from this world and beyond.

The operation, rejected by a bioethical committee, was eventually performed by a surgeon who required anonymity. “The amount of people who want to become technology is growing,” Harbisson writes. “In a way, we are all consciously or unconsciously in transition of becoming biological cyborgs—you can notice it in language. Before one would say, ‘My mobile phone is running out of battery,’ but now most people would say, ‘I’m running out of battery’ … We are already talking about technology as if we were technology.”

Totally unwired: Neil Harbisson PHOTO COURTESY OF MOOGFEST

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WE DRAW MOOGFEST'S ESOTERIC THEMES INTO FOCUS THROUGH THE LENSES OF ARTISTS YOU KNOW Harbisson is not alone in taking wearable technology to its logical conclusion. In 2010, to promote the extension of the senses and protect cyborg rights, he cofounded the Cyborg Foundation with Moon Ribas. She had a seismic sensor implanted in her arm in 2013, so that she could feel earthquakes around the world. Wirelessly connected to online seismographs, the sensor translates earthquake data into vibrations that vary in intensity depending on where a quake falls on the Richter scale. People around the world have been experimenting with body hacking for years, whether to compensate for a disability or enhance an ability. For Harbisson and Ribas, the decision stemmed from the desire to employ extended senses in their artwork. Ribas, a choreographer, began experimenting with sensory extensions while studying experimental dance at Dartington College of Arts in England, where students were encouraged to incorporate technology into their performances. “I always found the use of technology to be cold and distant, but I realized that if you unite technology with the dancer it could be something more personal and natural,” she says. Harbisson and Ribas appear at Moogfest this week, as part of the festival’s transhumanism theme. On Thursday at PSI Theatre, Harbisson will give a pedicure to his friend Pau Riba, amplifying the sounds of the colors on Riba’s nails as he hears them for the audience. At the same venue Friday, Ribas will improvise a dance and percussion piece based on the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates, as she feels them through her arm. “For this piece, the Earth is like the composer, and I’m interpreting the rhythm,” Ribas explains. Also on Friday, Harbisson will lead a panel discussion on becoming technology, “The Future of Our Species,” in which panelists discuss such questions as, “Are we prepared to become the designers of our own bodies and perception?” and “Will merging with technology increase our survival possibilities in Earth and outer space?”. Other panelists include Rich Lee, who has headphones

permanently implanted in his ears; Daniel Lock, an expert on the intersection between humans and other animal species; and B.J. Murphy, a futurist and “techno-philosopher poet.” Harbisson and Ribas believe much can be gained from incorporating technology into the human body; Harbisson cites the potential of harnessing blood flow as an energy source or the use of night vision to reduce the need for artificial light. But—perhaps unsurprisingly, at a time when North Carolinians still can't agree on something as relatively straightforward as transgender rights—the transhumanism movement has its critics, including people who believe that human beings have a Godgiven essence that should not be altered. “Some people fear that becoming a cyborg will make us less human, but I believe the opposite,” Harbisson writes. “Becoming a cyborg will make us feel more human—it will make us feel closer to nature and to other animal species.” Phil Torres, a Carrboro-based author and scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is an advocate of a position called “morphological freedom." “Morphological freedom holds that people have the right to manipulate and modify their bodies however they see fit—that is, on the one condition that such modifications don’t impinge on the rights of others,” Torres says. “As body hacking becomes more widespread, we might expect greater conflict between those who interpret it as a utopian movement and those who see it as an apocalyptic shift away from God’s intended state for humanity.” This year the Cyborg Foundation will launch Cyborg Nest, a company that will create senses you can buy, the first of which will be the sense of orientation of a bird. The partial implant will vibrate whenever the person faces north. But that’s beginners' stuff. For Ribas and Harbisson, the next stop is the moon. “Because our senses no longer need to be attached to our body, we can feel things that are happening very far from us, so my next project is to connect to the seismic activity of the moon,” Ribas says. “In one arm, I’ll be feeling earthquakes, and in the other, moonquakes.” ● Twitter: @HPitstick

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The food we eat is personal. It defines our very core—physically, emotionally, mentally. When we share food, we share the intimacy of our cultures, the people we love, and the people who have loved us with the communities we’ve created. For me, as a Greek-American, food is how I express my ancestral, ancient virtue of philotimo—a generosity rooted simply in doing the right thing. When a skeptic questions the authenticity of our food, it’s a deep dig into our very selves. Toriano and Serena Fredericks, the couple behind Durham’s Boricua Soul food truck, have encountered this many times in recent years. The pair has taken to the streets to share food that speaks to their mixed heritage; empanadas of collards and black-eyed peas or Cuban pork pressed into an Eastern North Carolina hoecake have raised a few eyebrows. For some, it’s a culinary adventure. For others, these blurred lines seem sacrilegious. Recently, the Frederickses issued a post on Boricua Soul’s website, titled “What is Authentic?” It made clear just how personal definitions of authenticity—and of 30 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

lifetimes spent explaining cultural pedigrees—can be. I spoke to Toriano and Serena about what “authentic” means to them and their brand. INDY: Tell me a little about your food truck, the “Soul Patrol.” TORIANO FREDERICKS: Devin, our almost four-year-old, is our first child. The truck is our second. When we started dating, Serena would mention food she ate growing up. One was empanadas, and I tried to re-create it. I started competing in N.C. State Fair food competitions. All these old ladies were there, and I come in with empanadas and dreads. It wasn’t like we left there thinking let’s start a food truck, but I was playing with the idea of barbecue and smoked food. Serena was like, “You’re crazy.” What about using what we cook at home? SERENA FEDERICKS: Throw a rock around here, and you’ll hit a barbecue truck. But that’s how this soul food/Puerto Rican fusion was born. It’s how we’ve been cooking all along.

What prompted you to write about authenticity? SF: When we started dating, it helped us to connect, this weird idea of “we’re not authentic enough, but we’re authentic together.” My dad is black and Italian, and my mom is Puerto Rican. All my life, I’ve really straddled this multinational question. My authenticity and my ethnicity have always been questioned— you’re not Puerto Rican enough, not black enough, not Italian enough. TF: Do you remember when [culinary historian] Michael Twitty was at Stagville? That dinner was just an eye-opener. Every culture has their food that they’re proud of. And it almost seemed like black people had been ashamed of their celebration food. Everybody has the food that they hold up as celebration food, and it’s almost ashamed of what ours is. It got us thinking about Puerto Rican food and Southern food and the commonalities—the Indians that were in Puerto Rico, Europeans that came here from Spain and the African slaves. Do people immediately get that your food—and your family—is a blend of Puerto Rican and soul? TF: Most people do, actually. It’s more on the side of some people who see that their favorites aren’t there. You almost feel defensive, explaining that this truck is a mix of two cultures. A lot of people see the Puerto Rican flag and assume it’s all Puerto Rican. We have one guy who actually came up, trying to heckle Serena. Serena heckled him back, New York versus New York. He was asking, “Where’s all the Puerto Rican things?” He was naming off things that were missing, his favorites. SF: “There’s no arroz con gandules!” He might have been six people back, and he was screaming. TF: It was in a bit of fun, but at the same time, there was a real level of disappointment. He didn’t try anything. We find that when most people get a closer look at the menu, they really see it.

EAT THIS FOOD TO GO: THE TRIANGLE’S BEST FOOD EVENTS The Durham debut of Moogfest rightfully gets the festival attention this week, but you might want to stop by Durham Central Park Saturday for other indulgences. The second Durham Blues & Brews Festival pairs hot players like Cool John Ferguson with unlimited cold pours from twenty breweries. Profits from the $40 tickets go to local charities. Meanwhile, in Raleigh, Babylon’s Samad Hachby helms the second Raleigh Food & Wine Festival. Four days of events, including wine dinners and a strawberry class at lucettegrace, culminate in a “grand tasting” on Sunday at 1 p.m. Tickets run $40–$59 for

Did those experiences help spark your thoughts about authenticity? TF: A mix between that and something both of us have faced our whole lives. Once a guy said, “You don’t know anything about cornbread,” because I’m from Connecticut. I told him I knew just as much as he did, because my grandmother was from Hillsborough. Both of us have had people say you’re not black enough because you talk a certain way. I went through the same thing with family, cookouts with aunts and uncles—“Why do you talk so white?” No matter what I talk like and what I do, I am absolutely black. I will be looked at that way. That post was a cross section between food and actual life. It’s obviously important to you. Even in the “about” section of Boricua’s website, you mention the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North as part of your identity. TF: Reading Adrian Miller’s book Soul Food, I hadn’t heard it coined as “migration” before. All this food is brought up North. There’s soul food in Connecticut because all the people that came from the South brought it with them. That’s what I ate, what my grandmother was making for me. That mixture, that’s America. TF: Devin is a product of Serena and I, and our history to make that kid is Puerto Rican, black, Italian. He’s what this truck is. This is what America is. SF: Our son refers to it as the family truck. He knows we’re Boricua Soul. The questions that I had growing up, I don’t want Devin to

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face. If you look at our son, we’ve never cut his hair. We let it grow wild. I want him to grow up to be a confident man, confident in his own skin. Tori and I had all these questions, surrounding race, surrounding who we were, growing up in towns where we didn’t feel like we really fit in. Food, I think, for everyone is such a tool in breaking down barriers. If we’re using what is our authentic food today as our pathway for our son, what a blessing would that be for this fuzzy-headed little boy. How does appropriation play into this? TF: You see a lot of times where white people are cooking and you think, “Is it soul food? Is it Southern food?” I always look at it as someone kind of respecting the history. I look at Shawn [Stokes, the chef-owner of Durham’s Luna Rotsisserie]. The guy traveled and lived in South America for years. He was obviously highly influenced by it. It’s the same thing with music and other art. You have to play judge to know whether or not someone is being respectful to the history. Do you feel like you have the clout necessary if someone were to question your respect? TF: There’s been times Serena hasn’t been on a truck, and I hope a Puerto Rican doesn’t call me out. I read a Yelp review about Roberto [Copa Matos] at Old Havana [Sandwich Shop], where some ass was going off, saying the owner isn’t even Cuban. That type of shit scares me. When you’re artistic, you’re putting yourself out there for judgment to strangers. It’s the scariest thing. ● Twitter: @ThisFeedsMe

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“So,” says the man at the next table to his server, “I hear you guys are famous for your fried chicken.” I hear the same. It’s a Tuesday night at Raleigh’s Soo Café, and the restaurant is all but empty—me and my partner, loudmouth and family, two teenagers making out in the corner and waiting for takeout fried shrimp. In addition to KFC, or Korean Fried Chicken, Soo offers other Korean dishes such as kimchi, galbi, bulgogi, bibimbap, and— “Beer!” the man exclaims. “You can’t have fried chicken without beer!” The server nods solemnly. I slowly push my glass of water out of sight. A big, spotty television plays K-pop music videos. There are fake plants, flowery paintings, and press clips, which adorn both walls and menus like report cards on a family fridge. Greg Cox, of The News & Observer, describes the chicken’s “cult-like following.” Southern Living features Soo in a roundup of “the South’s best fried chicken.” And in Walter, Dean McCord gets a little, well, purple: “We deserve this delicacy, and I’m going to do my damnedest to make sure Soo Café becomes an integral part of our food scene.” In 2014, the restaurant moved from its original location on Hillsborough Street to

this larger spot in North Raleigh. Have some people still not gotten the memo? Where are all the KFC addicts? Soo’s menu trades in a choose-your-ownadventure format: pick your cut (wings, drumsticks, tenders, and so on), and pick your sauce (original, soy-garlic, North Carolina hot and spicy, old-fashioned). The kitchen, says owner Young Jo, is developing two more sauces. I choose soy-garlic and old-fashioned, half a chicken each. They arrive piled high, steaming hot, shatteringly crispy. Soy-garlic—the most popular pick—is sticky-sweet, conjuring the classic Southern combo of salty fried chicken drizzled with honey. The “old-fashioned” is crimson colored and showered with sesame seeds. Your nose twitches just looking at it. Described on the menu as “most close to Korean flavor,” the sauce reminds me how un-spicy American food tends to be. It hurts so good. I roll up my sleeves, grab a pile of napkins, and request a glass—no, a pitcher, please—of water. Soon enough, I am left with a plate of little bones. I wipe my fingers, wrists, forearms, and face clean, then notice, from the corner of my eye, my tableneighbor doing the same. “A well-deserved reputation!” he announces. I have to agree. ● Twitter: @EmmaLaperruque INDYweek.com | 5.18.16 | 31

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Internationally renowned photoggrapher Sally Mann stays close to home. Since the early 1980s, Mann has used her farm near Lexington, Virginia, as a home base for taking photographs and painstakingly developing negatives by hand. When the intimate photographs of her children in 1992’s Immediate Family brought her a notoriety she didn't expect, Mann didn’t give in. Nearly twenty-five years later, she continues to confront themes as knotty as they are universal: the bodies of children and of the dead, the South and its legacy of violence and racial discrimination. In her memoir, Hold Still, which she brings to the Triangle this week, Mann uses her family history to excavate her personality, work ethic, and obsession with photography’s ability to stop time and reveal the timeless. INDY: Hold Still is an artist’s memoir, but it’s not just about your photography. It’s about a long family history. What drove you to open all those old boxes? SALLY MANN: Well, there is no choice, because there’s no forward. I mean, you can’t predict the future, but the past is so revelatory. Those boxes held the answer to the origins of my various fascinations, my aesthetic fascinations with the South and family and death. So curiosity drove me to take the box cutter to the tape, but as soon as I was in there I knew it was a treasure trove of personal information. The book includes a number of “failed” photos. Why did you print those, too? Actually I’m going to do a whole book of my duds. I want to do a book that has the behind-the-scenes, showing not only how I led up to that picture but the building of the concept as I added different elements. I’ve already started talking to a publisher about

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it, because people need to see them. Pictures aren’t born out of one momentary puff of inspiration; they’re endlessly, gruelingly slow. More like narratives than snapshots? Yes, I think increasingly my work has become more narrative. I used to take pictures just to see what they would look like as photographs. I didn’t have any reason to take them. I just took them because something was beautiful, with a whimsical pleasure in the aesthetics of silver on paper. Gradually I got more interested in the idea of using photography to say something. I’m just fascinated with what it means to be an artist who embraces the South as an artistic theme. You’ve both written about and photographed the South. Are those processes different? It’s all a form of inscription. It’s either light on paper or it’s words on paper. Fundamentally, it’s a mark that you’re making, but certainly it would have been very difficult to do with words what I could do with the photographs.

Speaking of the South, do artists have a role to play in political change? Well, I think so. Haven’t they always? I actually think they have an obligation. As for HB 2, I thought it was interesting that Springsteen canceled a concert in North Carolina. Those kinds of gestures make a huge difference in raising awareness.

On a lighter note, photography today is different because so many have access to it on cellphones. As someone who’s practiced photography in an entirely different way, what’s your take on selfies? I have mixed feelings. I love the ease with which you can make pictures now. I take pictures on my iPhone just like everybody else. I don’t participate in any social media, not even Instagram, but I do love how easy it is, and how beautiful, and how detailed and sophisticated the lenses are. But on the other hand, I wonder if the whole notion of image making is being somehow cheapened by the ease with which images can be made. I’m sure there’s all sorts of apps for vignetting and blurring to make an iPhone picture look like it’s been taken with one of my funky lenses from the 1800s, but it’s never entirely convincing. There’s a level of authenticity that’s unreproducible. So you’re on tour now? Yes, I just got back from Milwaukee, Chicago, and New York, and it kicked my butt. I’m not made for this at all. I don’t even like leaving the farm. But we did a little conversation with Charlie Rose at the 92nd Street Y the night before last, and I made him a martini on stage. A very strong and very tall martini, so we had a lot of fun.

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In December, Netflix released Making a Murderer, a ten-part documentary series following the tangled legal plight of Steven Avery. First, Avery served eighteen years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. Then, within two years of his release, he was jailed for murder in his home state of Wisconsin. Though for some the show raised questions of truth and tragedy voyeurism, it also offered compelling insight into how justice miscarries. Dean Strang and UNC law alum Jerry Buting, Avery’s legal team for his murder trial, charmed Making a Murderer fans with their commitment to getting Avery a fair trial against crooked cops, manipulative prosecutors, and small-town grudges. On tour, they come to DPAC to discuss Avery’s case in relation to larger issues in the criminal justice system, followed by a Q-and-A. —Allison Hussey

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In concert, K. Sridhar sits at center stage, his legs crossed, the tailpiece of his sarod pushed just beyond his right thigh. When he begins to play, he closes his eyes, head tilted upward and away from the strings, along which his left hand glides and his right hand dances in complicated patterns that he seems simply to

possess, as a bird knows how to sing or a bee knows how to buzz. His ragas are trances, invitations for immersion, and he’s right there with the audience, too elevated by the sound for pedestrian measures like needing to look at his fingers. The descendent of dual ancient Indian musical schools, Sridhar has played the sarod since he was five, becoming the youngest member of Ravi Shankar’s ensemble only seven years later. He now represents a rare extant link to a legendary tradition. Sridhar played his first-ever show in the United States at The ArtsCenter twenty years ago; this is a commemoration of sorts for music that, no matter how WHAT little it changes, feels urgent and engrossing every time SALLY M it’s played. —Grayson Haver Currin DOWNTO (P. 43), W THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO AT OAKW 8 p.m., $20–$22, www.artscenterlive.org AMPHITH Konvoi

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The characters in The New Colossus, Tamara Kissane’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, have changed quite a bit after entering the twenty-first century. Constantine, the moody young playwright in the original version, is now the PewDiePie-inspired Konrad, making major coin on YouTube. His mom’s a B-movie actress on the skids, and her consort, Trigorin— oops, make that Trig O’Ryan—bears a striking resemblance to trashy thriller novelist David Baldacci. Now the whole high-maintenance crew is at the beach house for some R&R, and one has brought along a gun. Uh-oh. Dana Marks directs this Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern premiere. —Byron Woods

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Kings is the downtown rock club where the North Carolina Symphony goes to push its boundaries, where small groups of players get the chance to experiment at intersections of classical music and modernity. This concert concerns strings presented in different configurations. The centerpiece pits Caroline Shaw’s recent string quartet Entr’acte against dancers from the group Black Irish. Entr’acte reconfigures the harmonies and rhythms of English Renaissance dance into a swirl of bent chords and plucked notes, about as far as you can get from Black Irish’s typical hip-hop beat. Equally interesting is Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. For clarinet and string quartet, the 1994 piece melds klezmer music with post-minimalist urgency. Shulamit Ran’s furious …Possessed by the Devil for solo violin and Paul Hindemith’s vaguely neo-classical duo for viola and cello, dating back to 1934, complete the adventurous bill. —Dan Ruccia

In Durham, the scale and strength of Moogfest’s debut are bound to dwarf the thirty-seven-yearold Artsplosure, which again takes over downtown Raleigh. But the standby more than holds its own as a free alternative for music lovers, families, and visual arts aficionados. In fact, this is one of the best music lineups in Artsplosure’s four-decade history. On Friday night, Zack Mexico’s kaleidoscopic garage psych sets the table for the spaced-out twang of Georgia’s Futurebirds. And on Saturday, the infectious funk of Raleigh breakout dude Boulevards serves as the prelude for famed blues-rocker Doyle Bramhall II. Sunday gets swampy, thanks to the zydeco-and-blues alchemy of slide guitarist virtuoso Sonny Landreth, the New Orleans funk of Mardi Gras Indian-led troupe Cha Wa, and the blistering blues-pop hybrids of fiery player Samantha Fish. And there’s more than music, of course. Elsewhere, “artlets” featuring interactive dance and theater will appear along the bustling art market of the Fayetteville Street artery, while miniature golf, sand sculptures, and colorful pianos—ready to be played—dot Moore Square. —Spencer Griffith

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Konvoi’s music feels like a fistfight. On its fulllength, self-titled debut, the Boone quartet stammers and snarls and shouts, with Sean Bos tossing off imprecations over a band that harnesses the power of hardcore to the blessed structural instability of post-punk. As blown-out bass lashes whip-like against drums that forsake neither punch nor power, David Cate wields his guitar like an amorphous weapon, capable of strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning, and biting. Some of these songs deliver big, burly hooks, while others tend to delight in their defiance of such conventions by splitting melodies and licks into a half-dozen broken pieces. Issued tonight by Chapel Hill’s Snot Releases, Konvoi is one of the state’s essential records this year. To match it, this is a top-notch bill, split evenly between loud rock—Konvoi and radiant alt-doom dudes SOON—and mutated electronica from the delightfully savage Housefire and blissed-out and broken Asheville beatmaker Mall Prowler. Sponge Bath spins records in and out of sets. —Grayson Haver Currin THE CAVE, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $5, www.caverntavern.com

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THU, MAY 19 BarBarians BAR In January, rapper BATTLE Anderson Burrus and several other emcees from the weekly UNC Pit Cypher kicked off the annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival by breaking the Guinness World Record for a rap cypher. For more than twelve hours, Burrus and his crew spit rhymes until they were out of ideas and breath. He’s recharged now, and he’s bringing plenty of help for this battle of the bars. With Illpo, Gritty City, Richie Nelson, Shred TVT, Shame, and Rise Rashid. —ET [DEEP SOUTH, $5/10 P.M.]

Eureka California SACRA- Eureka, California, MENTO? the city, is the prim seaside seat of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire. The entire city is on the National Register of Historic Places. Eureka California, the band, is about as far removed from that as can be. They’re an Athens, Georgia, guitar-and-drum duo that cranks out catchy garage rock that crackles and pops with British Invasion immediacy. Witching Waves open. —PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

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Franklin feels all the more precious in light of the recent passing of musical legends. In her seventythree years, Franklin has weathered health problems, an abusive marriage, and the occasional career lull. It’s remarkable what a supple and charismatic marvel her voice remains. With eighteen Grammys, a raft of high honors, and a bevy of songs that still start a party, she is among the world’s most celebrated artists. Still, that’s academic; when she starts to sing, those with functioning ears know they’re in the presence of greatness. —DK [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $70–$350/8 P.M.]

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CHRIS STAPLETON/KENNY CHESNEY/ WILLIE NELSON & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON There have long been two kinds of country singers—those who combed the catalogs of Nashville songsmiths in search of tunes and those who have penned at least part of their repertoire. There’s nothing necessarily inferior about either class; the former group stretches from Patsy Cline to George Strait. But the country singer-songwriter tradition runs from the days of A.P. Carter through honky-tonk heroes like Hank Sr. and Don Gibson and to the countercultural country mavericks of the late sixties and beyond. This week, you can see three very different variations on that continuum, in reverse chronological order. At eighty-three, Willie Nelson arrives in Cary with old compadre Kris Kristofferson, about a month shy of octogenarian status himself, in tow. Long before they merged in the eighties supergroup The Highwaymen, Willie and Kris helped build the framework for the outlaw country revolution. In the sixties and seventies, they were the iconoclastic avatars of the collision of hippie culture and country music. The songs they wrote reflected that duality. A younger generation gets its moment the night before when Kenny Chesney, now fortyeight, plays Walnut Creek. Chesney first gained fame in the nineties, and he’s since settled into icon status in the twenty-first century. While he’s more closely associated with the arena-ready pop-country scene that built his fame, he has become a Gen X version of Jimmy Buffett and an increasingly introspective balladeer. Chris Stapleton, who comes to Cary a day earlier, is ten years Chesney’s junior. He’s now at the fore of a wave of artists keeping contemporary country honest. Even with his golden, soulful voice and eclectic songwriting skills, Stapleton, the former singer of neo-bluegrass band the Steeldrivers, avoided stardom for a while. When he finally released his solo debut last year, he emerged as something like the Southern Van Morrison, incorporating soul, country, and rock influences into a very personal, very celebrated style. —Jim Allen STAPLETON (FRIDAY): KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, CARY 7:30 p.m., $43–$50, www.boothamphitheatre.com CHESNEY (SATURDAY): COASTAL CREDIT AT WALNUT CREEK, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., $30.25–$652, www.walnutcreekamphitheatre.com NELSON & KRISTOFFERSON (SUNDAY): KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, CARY 7 p.m., $49.50–$59.50, www.boothamphitheatre.com

SELFAllen Stone’s appeal AWARE is obvious. He’s a devotee of slinky, funk-inflected soul who can sing the roof off a house. His politics avoid the stuff the think piece-industrial complex pinned on Robin Thicke. (“Chuck your laptops, chuck your lights,” he sings at one point. He also quotes Kendrick Lamar in song.) Live, he’s a dynamic force, leaning in to his full-bodied voice and retaining a playful charm. Jared & The Mill opens. —MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20/7 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY THE CAVE: Konvoi, SOON, Housefire, Mallprowler; 8 p.m., $5. See page 35. • KINGS: N.C. Symphony: Dreams and Prayers; 9 p.m., $9. See page 34. • LOCAL 506: Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands, Larkin Grimm, Molly & Quilla; 9 p.m., $10. • MOTORCO: Moogfest: Gary Numan, Zombi; $250–$500. See page 17. • THE PINHOOK: Moogfest: Rabit; 8 p.m., $250–$500. See page 17. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Outside Soul, Nuclear Honey; 9:30 p.m., free.

FRI, MAY 20 DSF Earth Corps G’NIGHT Those embedded IREE within the Triangle music scene of the nineties probably caught at least one gig by DSF Earth Corps, a Tar Heel trio whose bar-friendly mix of reggae, funk, mountain music, and crowd-pleasing cover tunes made them a presence locally and beyond. Tonight, they return to waft more positive vibes in this suitably down-home setting. —DK [THE KRAKEN, FREE/9 P.M.]

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N.C. Symphony: The Rat Pack, 100 Years of Frank! RINGA In this centenary DING year of Frank Sinatra’s birth, every salute is an occasion to consider his artistry and his status as the first modern pop superstar of the twentieth century. Tributes like this one, which focuses on his Las Vegas years, are fun, but reveling in this particular Scotch-soused bro phase seems more about an easily digestible package than musical genius. Even the song selection—sentimental treacle like “Mr. Bojangles,” novelties like

“That’s Amore”—values razzmatazz more than the gifts of The Voice. Rat Pack Frank was Frank at his most tacky and boorish and shady. In this season of Trump, who needs more of that? —DK [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $30–$75/8 P.M.]

Never Say Die Tour CONFUS- Moogfest is happenING HYPE ing in Durham, but devotees of heavy bass and brain-zapping electronics would do their cerebral cortexes a solid by checking out this bill, which showcases acts from the UK label Never Say Die. Cofounder Tommy Dash’s project Skism leads the way; while this tour shows off his business savvy and affinity for larger-than-life sounds, Dash revealed his lighter side with his clip for the 2010 single “Down with the Kids,” which takes a This Is Spinal Tap approach to dance music’s absurdities. —MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY CARRBORO FARMERS MARKET: Cool John Ferguson, Guitar Lightnin’ Lee; 6:30 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): You Won’t, Sumner James, Jocelyn Mackenzie; 8:30 p.m., $10–$12 See box, page 39. • THE CAVE: PROM, Automagik, Young Cardinals; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Amongst All, Dragmatic, The Static Drive, Ivy Hill; 8:30 p.m., $5. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Chris Stapleton, Sam Lewis; 7:30 p.m., $43–$50. See box, page 37. • LIGHT ART + DESIGN: Alison Weiner and Friends; 8 p.m., $20. • MOTORCO: Moogfest: GZA, Tory Lanez; $250–$500. See page 17. • NORTHGATE MALL: Handsome Al & The Lookers; 6:30 p.m., free. • PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER: Polka Plus Band; 7 p.m., free. • THE PINHOOK: Moogfest: M. Geddes Gengras, Hanz; 4 p.m., $250–$500. See page 17. • POUR HOUSE: Groove Fetish, The Get Right Band, The Southern Belles; 9 p.m., $5–$7. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Marty Willson-Piper’s Acres of Space, DuHost; 7 p.m. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Dealing Stan; 8:30 p.m., $10. • THE STATION: The Outboards, Joe Romeo & The Juliets; 8:30 p.m., $5.

SAT, MAY 21 Tab Benoit HOLD TH’ Last time he came SAUCE around, Tab Benoit seemed to dive too deep into the giggle juice and turned in a sloppy, rambling set. The Cajun bluesman, blessed with Otis Redding’s soul and Delbert McClinton’s voice, is too good to stay that way for long. Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos open. —GB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20–$30/8 P.M.]

Chicken Wire Gang CLUCK- Supergroups make BAIT sense on paper, but for every Cream, you get a passel of Mike & the Mechanics. Fortunately, the members of Chicken Wire Gang—a loose, long-running concern strung together with veterans of Squirrel Nut Zippers, Southern Culture on the Skids, Flat Duo Jets, and others—approach the concept with less world-beating ambition than earthy fun and roadhouse abandon. Behind the jokey exterior, skilled musicianship anchors this party-friendly mélange of country, zydeco, garage, Tex-Mex, and whatever else seems to fit the moment. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $7/9 P.M.]

Faults LASERFaults is the new CUT solo stuff of local sparkplug Mike Dillon. Like his work in Gross Ghost and Spader, these are sharp, nervy, and contagious post-punk songs. On the immediate “Last Rites,” the beat pops hard beneath a jangle-pop veil. The psychedelic turns these new songs take should link well with the haze and hooks of Philadelphia’s excellent Honey Radar. —GC [THE STATION, $5/8:30 P.M.]

Must Be the Holy Ghost BLAZE IT The Holy Ghost probably wouldn’t approve of you smoking loud, but if he did, it might enhance your

Owen Ni SHAKING Underground EDM CAVE producer Owen Ni loves to linger in a techno-house sound space, where the grooves of Underground Resistance mesh with Carl Craig’s darker ethos. The approach rarely goes awry, but when it does, he has a roster on his Run On Recordings to get him back on track. They won’t be with him here, but he’ll have their artilleries. With Silk Road. —ET [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Josh Rocker Memorial Benefit ROCK RE- This memorial gig MEMBERS remembers Josh Rocker, a Raleigh-based drummer and avid music fan who passed away in January at the age of thirty-one. His friends in the jammy prog band Absent Boundaries, thrash-revival titans Blatant Disarray, atmospheric indie-prog act Gold Coast, and street punks Poison Anthem join forces to pay respects to Rocker and raise money to support Raleigh’s Transitions LifeCare, the nonprofit hospice facility that treated Rocker in his last days. —BCR [KINGS, $10/9 P.M.]

FRIDAY, MAY 20

YOU WON’T When the Boston duo You Won’t takes the stage, the instruments outnumber the personnel several times. There’s guitar and drums, a singing saw, harmonium, wind chimes, a whirly tube, a bass ukulele, and so on. Watching Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri conjure so many sounds is fun, sure, but their real strength comes from cunning songcraft, where seemingly breezy tunes sport latent emotional intensity. This is especially true on April’s Revolutionaries, the more ambitious and focused follow-up to 2012’s Skeptic Goodbye. These moments come through in slower songs like “Trampoline,” where a singing saw warbles as Arnoudse confesses “I don’t know ’bout you and me” and ruminates on heartbreak. On “Little Lion,” Arnoudse gets graphic. “So what good have you done with your moral marauding?/Your dogs are all dead and their corpses are rotting,” he sings. Among these rough-and-tumble pop songs, it’s one of several jarring moments. Even as You Won’t digs deep, the instrumentation remains buoyant, especially during tracks such as “No Divide,” “Ya Ya Ya,” and “1-4-5.” These bright songs trade in familiar uncertainties, insecurities, and other assorted anxieties. “Douchey”— a bouncy number about overcoming one’s, yes, youthful “douchiness”—is a tad silly, but its cheekiness is at least honest. Rather than ALSO ON SATURDAY THE ARTSCENTER: K. Sridhar; 8 p.m., $18–$22. See page 34. • CHAMPIONS AT MISSION VALLEY: Supa Soop, Rodes Hunt, A Oneda, Fyre Reppa, Ton Kash; 9 p.m., $10. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Old Southern Moonshine Revival; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PAVILION AT WALNUT CREEK: Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion; 7:30 p.m., $30–$652. See box, page 37.• DEEP SOUTH: Louis Waymore, Uncle Geet, Wade Hill; 8:30 p.m., $5. • DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Blues & Brews Festival; 5 p.m., $20–$40. • ERUUF: Mallarmé Chamber Players; 8 p.m., $5–$25. • FORTY ACRES: Big Sandy &

His Fly-Rite Boys; 8 p.m., $20–$25. • THE KRAKEN: Kitty Box & The Johnnys, Monika Jaymes; 9 p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: Michael Daughtry Band, Over at Ten; 8:30 p.m., $7. • MEADOWMONT GAZEBO: The Barefoot Movement; 6:30 p.m. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony: The Rat Pack, 100 Years of Frank!; 3 & 8 p.m., $30–$75. • MOTORCO: Moogfest: Mykki Blanco, Christian Rich; $250–$300. See page 17. • NIGHTLIGHT: T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi; 10 p.m., $8. • THE PINHOOK: Moogfest: Quintron and Miss Pussycat, The Body; 4 p.m., $250–$500. See page 17. • POUR HOUSE: Mojo Rising, Halestrum; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • RALLY POINT SPORT GRILL: Rock Your World

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appreciation of Jared Draughon’s vivid one-man electronic symphonies, presented here with film projections. Openers Hotline will help you get over your tears and fears first with their New Romantic synthpop ballads. With Animalweapon. —DS [LOCAL 506, $8/9 P.M.]

brooding over black clouds of emotion, You Won’t revels in them, less cursing the storm than celebrating in its rain. Sumner James and Jocelyn McKenzie open. —Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO 8:30 p.m., $10–$12, www.catscradle.com Benefit: Nantucket, Band of Brothers; 6 p.m., $20. • SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL: Mason Via Band; 6 p.m., free. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (DURHAM): Enemy Waves, Teardrop Canyon, Sumner James; 1 p.m., free. See page 24. • SLIM’S: Random Conflict, Sibannac, 49/short; 9 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: The Fifth, Last Call Messiah; 8 p.m., $10.

SUN, MAY 22 Ex-Cult GRITTY & Chris Shaw, the GRIMY singer of Memphis punk quintet Ex-Cult, describes

himself as “the voice from the sewer” and shouts about “the future of nothing.” Shaw’s unmistakable bleakness is, in part, the band’s calling card, delivered over lean but fuzzy onslaughts of guitar-spiked anxiety, antagonism, and aggression. The band recently announced its third LP, the Ty Segall-produced Negative Growth; perhaps they’ll tease some tunes. Locals No Love and Dogs Eyes open. —PW [KINGS, $8/9 P.M.]

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sharp-tongued alt-country troubadour Todd Snider, Dave Schools and Duane Trucks from Widespread Panic, and Americana cult hero Neal Casal? The answer is Hard Working Americans, who turn out some of the most thoughtful but loose-limbed roots rock around. A dozen poems penned by Snider served as the starting point for the batch of songs that became the band’s new album. The end result is nowhere near as cerebralsounding as that suggests. Town Mountain opens. —JA [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25/8 P.M.]

Radio Birds SOUTH Fans of Jack the ROCK Radio will likely find a lot to love in Atlanta’s Radio Birds, which adds a raspier voice to the Raleigh rockers’ fondness for modernizing Southern rock and cuts it with rustic, harmony-laden tunes. Amarillo quartet Strangetowne straddles alt-country and traditional divides, then scorches that line with incendiary guitar solos. Young Yonder opens. —SG [POUR HOUSE, $5–$8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Willie Nelson & Family; 7 p.m., $49.50–$59.50. See box, page 37. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: Bull City Bandits, Circa Now, Some Antics; 3 p.m., free. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: Raleigh Ringers; 4 p.m., $20. • NC MUSEUM OF ART: Boylan Brass; 3 p.m., $12–$14. • SLIM’S: The Infamous Sugar, The Fabulous Miss Wendy; 8 p.m., $5.. • UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Voices; 3 p.m., $7–$20.

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POMP & On the week-old POP Black Box, Boston duo Air Traffic Controller delivers songs that aspire to meet the demands of the moment’s EDM-colored Top 40, head on. In the four minutes of opening track “People Watching,” for instance, the band packs in layers of hoots, handclaps, thick synths, strings, and horns. It’s overwhelming if not terribly compelling. —AH [LOCAL 506, $8–$10/9 P.M.]

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ALSO ON MONDAY THE CAVE: The Infamous Sugar, The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Occasional Caucasians; 9 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Psylo Joe, The Jauntee; 9 p.m., $5–$7.

POP Dina Maccabee and VAPORS Ron Shalom share a broad sense of what pop can be. Above entrancing viola lines, Maccabee hangs melodies that suggest folk songs with strange contours. She can dive into extended improvisations, too, obfuscating tunes with playful turns. With Fers Yn Ri, meanwhile, Shalom drapes wafting guitar and patient accompaniment around sweetly plaintive singing. —GC [THE SHED, $7/8 P.M.]

Simon Joyner GRASS & Perhaps more than BRANCH any other songwriter currently operating, Nebraskan Simon Joyner conjures the dark wit of Leonard Cohen. But his evocations never stoop to mimicry. Joyner hems Cohen’s lugubrious urbanity with the forlorn twang of cultish country songwriters such as Gene Clark. In his songs, you’ll find the loneliness of the rolling plains. Plus, he was championed by the late legendary BBC disk jockey John Peel. How’s that for a ringing endorsement? With John Davis & the Cicadas. —PW [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.] 40 | 5.18.16 | INDYweek.com

ALSO ON TUESDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The Americana All-Stars, Tokyo Rosenthal, David Childers, The String Beings; 8 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Chrome Scene, Arson Daily, Remark; 9 p.m., $5. • THE RALEIGH TIMES BAR: Hardworker; 7:30 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

ALL THE On last year’s VIBES phenomenal one-take, no-overdubs Long Time Underground, Tom Carter elicited sounds from his guitar—or were those bagpipes and synthesizers?—that I can’t explain. But Carter’s immersive music feels more like that of a shaman than a showboat as he lulls listeners into a world of fantastic images and deep meditation. Here’s a righteous comedown from Moogfest’s downtown commotion. —GC [THE SHED, $10/8 P.M.]

Hot Club of Cowtown NEOThe story of the WESTERN Western swing revivalists Hot Club of Cowtown goes back to New York, where guitarist Whit Smith and fiddler Elana James played in an eleven-piece act called Western Caravan. As a trio with bassist Jake Erwin, they still breathe new life into country jazz. Their latest album, Midnight on the Trail, even finds time for some cowboy ballads. —JA [MOTORCO, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

Igor & Red Elvises GLOBAL Igor Yuzov APPEAL cofounded this international crew in the mid-nineties, playing “crazy Russian folk-n-roll” on the promenade in Santa Monica and building an enthusiastic fan base. Since then, the band has recorded prolifically and toured almost ceaselessly, operating on its own terms and with those same strange rock standards. With Stump Tail Dolly. —DK [THE POUR HOUSE, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

Just Jess NEW A year ago, GROWTH Durham’s Jess Caesar released The Break-up EP, her debut as Just Jess. It was a good, heartbroken start, and months of refinement have added more shine. The Second Wife, Reese McHenry’s twangy and thrilling revival, opens. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $5/9 P.M.]

We Are Scientists SCIENCE! The new Helter Seltzer (someone had to do it) largely eschews the old tricks of We Are Scientists’ frenetic neo-new-wave post-punk—cymbal-heavy drum pulses, rough guitar riffs, debauchery. Produced with keyboardist Max Hart, who’s toured with Katy Perry, Helter Seltzer sands down those rough edges, washing mid-tempo songs in alternately smooth and fizzy synths and programmed drum beats. There’s almost no danger of being blown away, but it’s almost equally difficult not to find the tunes pleasant. —PW [KINGS, $15/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Peter Lamb & The Wolves; 5:30 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: Ramblin’ Fever Psychedelic/Cosmic Country Night; 9 p.m.

SPECIAL Along These Lines: EVENT Constance Pappalardo. May 20-Oct 16. Reception: Fri, May 20, 5-7 p.m. Durham Convention Center. durhamconventioncenter.com. Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. May 19-Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Arts Day 2016: Conference on arts and action. $20-$150. Tue, May 24 & Wed, May 25. NCSU’s Talley Student Center, Raleigh. SPECIAL Breathing Space: EVENT Joann Couch. May 21-Jun 30. Reception: Sat, May 21, 3-5 p.m. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. www. littleartgalleryandcraft.com. Chatham Artists Guild: May 19-Jul 27. NCSU’s The Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/ crafts. SPECIAL Collectors’ Open EVENT House: May 22-Jun 30. Reception: Sun, May 22, 2-5 p.m. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www.leehansleygallery.com. Fashion Unchained: Fashion show, live music, silent auction, and more. $25-$30. Sat, May 21, 7 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. SPECIAL FRESH: Pre-jury EVENT exhibition. May 19-30. Reception: Thu, May 19, 6-8 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture. May 21-Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

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SPECIAL Looking Back At EVENT You: Tim Saguinsin. May 20-26. Reception: Fri, May 20, 6-9 p.m. Golden Belt, Durham. www.goldenbeltarts. com.

ONGOING 2016 Members’ Showcase: Thru Jun 11. Durham Art Guild. www.durhamartguild.org. 4 Directions: Textile and collage by Marguerite Jay Gignoux, A. Brook Heuts, Harriet Hoover, and Carolyn Nelson. Thru Jun 11. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www.lightartdesign.com. The Abstract Truth: Art about the transcendence of music. Thru May 29. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www. PleiadesArtDurham.com. Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isle of Shoals: In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Childe Hassam spent decades painting Appledore Island, a resort in the Gulf of Maine. His style is beautiful and refined, like a slightly more fastidious Monet, but the subject is repetitious, and oddly, NCMA has chosen to pipe in distracting seagull sounds, like a small-town natural history museum. It’s hard to forget these are essentially a wellheeled person’s pretty vacation paintings. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Arise! Bald Man! King of Hair People!: Bill Thelen, the founding director of groundbreaking Raleigh gallery Lump, is stepping down after

two decades, and this final show under his tenure is a tribute to him. The group installation, oriented around Thelen’s penchant for drawing bald guys, is the brainchild of Team Lump, the collective that brought bonkers art to Blount Street. Thru Jun 11. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org. —Brian Howe Artface: Portraits by Tom Dunne. Thru May 29. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www. PleiadesArtDurham.com. ARTQUILTSvoices: PAQASouth. Thru Jul 2. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www.friendsofpagewalker.org. Peg Bachenheimer, Jenny Eggleston, Brett Morris, Leslie Pruneau, and Susan Quint: Thru May 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Barns & Cricks: Lori White. May 7-28. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. Benjamin Britton: The Hope and Desire Forecast: Thru Jun 5. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com. Best of North Carolina 2016: Paintings, prints, and more about N.C. history. Thru May 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net. Birds in the Bees: Collages by Nancy L. Smith. Thru May 30. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com. Blurred Lines—Modern Paper Quilts: Lisa Parrot. Thru May 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org. Lynn Boggess: Oil paintings of the N.C. coast and W.V. mountains. Thru May 28. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www.tyndallgalleries.com. LAST Branching Out: CHANCE Photography by Eric Saunders, paintings by Chris Graebner, and turned wood by Michael Salemi. Thru May 22. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. www.hillsboroughgallery.com. Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938 and now based

Elements and Artifacts: Sculpture by Lucia Apollo Shaw and Gretchen Cobb. Thru May 30. Hillsborough Wine Company, Hillsborough. chapelhillwinecompany.com. Exposed: Nudes in Art: Thru Jun 3. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 20

10 DEEP 25

Several locations, several incarnations of Durham, and twenty-five years after The Scrap Exchange opened, it’s hard to believe that the creative reuse center not only still exists, but thrives, recirculating materials for artists and crafters, engaging the community with hands-on events, and curating art shows on Chapel Hill Road. Then again, maybe it makes perfect sense in a city that prizes a history it’s in the process of mulching. The Scrap Exchange takes a well deserved victory lap in 10 Deep 25, an art show opening in its Cameron Gallery on Third Friday and running through June 11. The show features more than ten creative reuse artists with strong ties to the center, including Bryant Holsenbeck, Cici Stevens, Stacey L. Kirby, and Gary Pohl. At the opening reception, you can put the inspiration of their ingenuity to use with some free play in the Make and Take Room. —Brian Howe

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in Wilson, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST Canned Heat: The CHANCE Art of Encaustic Painting: Dianne T. Rodwell. Thru May 23. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org. Martha Clippinger: Thru Jun 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Connected: Pierce Boshelly. Thru May 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org. Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

Depth Perception: Selected works by the UNC MFA class of 2016. Thru Jun 5. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org. Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5. Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org. The Ease of Fiction: This exhibit features paintings, drawings, and sculptures by four young, technically skilled, U.S.-based African artists who intimately navigate the facts, official narratives, and myths of two nations that see each other in different ways. $5. Thru Jun 19. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe Eggistentialism 3.0: Chickenthemed art presented with Tour D’Coop. Thru May 28. 311 Gallery, Raleigh.

Express Yourself: A Celebration of Black Art in Durham: Thru Jun 17. Duke Campus: Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Durham. FACES: Keanna Artist and Margaret Griffin. Thru May 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com. LAST THE FIGURE CHANCE REVEALED: Stephen Early, Mikio Watanabe, Lawrence Feir, and Lee Johnson. Thru May 22. Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. www.adamcavefineart.com. First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare: In May at the museum of history, a key tome of Shakespeare is on display. It was published in 1623, and it includes the Bard’s most famous play, Macbeth, as well as thirtyfive more scripts that might have been lost to the sands of time had two of Shakesy’s pals not had the wit to bind them in a book, far past his prime. Alas, when the First Folio hit the stalls, he’d been interred seven years ere the date, and didn’t get to reap any windfalls (but publishers to this day still do great). See this, a rare, realdeal Shakespeare copy, on tour thanks to the Folger Library. Thru May 30. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory. org. —Brian Howe SPECIAL Fragments: Found & EVENT Formed: Charron Andrews, Susan Parrish, and Carol Retsch-Bogart. Thru Jun 5. Artist Talk: Thu, May 19, 6 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. From Frock Coats to FlipFlops: 100 Years of Fashion at Carolina: Thru Jun 5. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

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Imagine and Island: Michael Ligett. Thru Jun 30. Bond Park Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org. Mary Kircher: Thru Jun 25. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com. Eric Legge: Folk art. Thru May 31. Tempest in a Teapot, Durham. www.tempest-teapot.com. Long Pose Exhibition: Thru May 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This outstanding exhibit of one hundred drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art can be experienced in many ways: As a master class in drawing, a chance to see the hands of big names (including Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Klimt, Mondrian, de Kooning, Magritte, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Ruscha, just to name a few), or as a dazzling technical display. The exhibit ranges from fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts and expressive Baroque portraits to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art (areas of particular strength). It’s a thorough anatomy of a form. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org. —Brian Howe LAST Moods and Colors of CHANCE Nature: Michael Navascues. Thru May 23. Herbert C Young Community Center, Cary. townofcary.org. Navigating To + Fro: Tedd Anderson, Amy Hoppe, and Peter Marin. Thru May 20. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts.

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Here and Now: Larry Dean, Craig Gurganus, and Fen Rascoe. Thru Jun 4. ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www. artsource-raleigh.com.

LAST Nest: Leatha Koefler CHANCE and Brenda Brokke. Thru May 22. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello Our House: Durham Arts Council faculty and students. Thru Jul 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org. Passages: Paul Hrusovsky. Thru Jun 18. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com. LAST Pencils, Paint and CHANCE Pearls: Diana Hrabosky, Jean Scholz, and Pat Buchanan. Thru May 24. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www. carygalleryofartists.org. A Personal Look at Nature: Nancy Nieves. Thru May 30. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org. SPECIAL Rare Earth: EVENT Photographs by Marjorie Pierson. Thru Jul 10. Reception: Fri, May 20, 5-7 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Remnants of Great Spirit: Paintings by Lyudmila Tomova. Thru May 30. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com. Rubbish 2 Runway III: Dresses created by student “trashion” designers. Thru Jun 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com. Silkscreen Prints from the McMann Fine Art Collection: Thru Jun 18. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org. Site-Specific Installation: Antoine Williams. Thru Jun 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

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Half a World Away: Oil paintings by Alicia Armstrong. Thru Jun 19. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net.

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OAKWOOD LIVES: HOME AGAIN! It’s hard to bring the dead to life again. Ask Rebecca Bossen. She knew that Vallie Lewis Henderson helped found the Oakwood Garden Club, which in turn helped get Oakwood designated Raleigh’s first protected historic district in 1974. But the record discloses much less about Henderson’s motives and personality. “It’s a puzzle,” Bossen admits, “creating a living, breathing character from a few pieces of information, staying true to what I understand was her spirit.” This weekend, she and six other playwrights revive six famous and infamous inhabitants of Oakwood Cemetery, near their actual gravesites, in the latest installment of Burning Coal Theatre’s long-running series. —Byron Woods OAKWOOD CEMETERY, RALEIGH 6:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $10–$20, www.burningcoal.org Southern Comforter: Abstract oil paintings and photographs. Thru Jun 1. The Carter Building Galleries & Art Studios, Raleigh. www.thecarterbuilding.com. Transplanting Traditions and More...: The Karen Youth Art Group. Thru Jul 3. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com. When Kindness and Truth Meet; Peace and Justice Shall Kiss: Sculptures by Phyllis Kulmatiski. Thru Jun 30. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.the-qigarden.com. Wood & Water: Installation by Greg Lindquist and Damian Stamer. Thru Jun 18. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com. Dan Woodruff: Thru Jun 25. HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

stage OPENING Bull City Blues: Improv comedy. $12–$20. Fri, May 20, 8 p.m. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com. Chanakya: Play. $39–$99. Fri, May 20, 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Church & State: Staged reading. $5. Wed, May 25, 7 p.m. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www. burningcoal.org. Horrible People: Standup comedy. $5–$13. Wed, May 18, 8 p.m. Goodnights

If/Then: Musical. May 24-29. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

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The New Colossus: Play. $5–$20. May 19-Jun 4. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www.manbitesdogtheater.org. See p. 34. Russell Peters: Comedy. $36–$46. Sat, May 21, 8 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre.com. RuPaul’s Drag Race Battle of the Seasons: $37.50. Sun, May 22, 8 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center. www.dpacnc.com. Mickey Schroeder, Grant Sheffield, Eric Megert: Standup comedy. $10. Thu, May 19, 7:30 p.m. Raleighwood Cinema Grill, Raleigh. www. raleighwoodmovies.com. Tom Simmons, Will Jacobs: Stand-up comedy. Fri, May 20, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. Jenny Zigrino: Stand-up comedy. $15–$30. May 19-21. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

ONGOING LAST Beertown: CHANCE Participatory theater. $13–$22. Thru May 22. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www.raleighlittletheatre.org. LAST The Mystery of CHANCE Edwin Drood: Musical. $30–$32.50. Thru May 22. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. See review, p. 32. Weekly improv at DSI: INDY 5000 (May 19, 7 p.m.), League Night (May 19, 8:30 p.m.), The Thrill (May 20, 8:30 p.m.), Mister Diplomat (May 20, 10 p.m.), The Jam (May 20, 11 p.m.), Improv Wildcard (May 21, 7 p.m.), Stranger Danger (May 21, 8:30 p.m.), Versus (May 21, 10 p.m.) DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. www. dsicomedytheater.com.

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KISS Rocks Vegas: Wed, May 25, 7:30 p.m. Crossroads 20, Cary. Sitting at God’s Table: Documentary and panel discussion. Sun, May 22, 3 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Sat, May 21, 2:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

OPENING The Angry Birds Movie 3D—The massively popular franchise that started as an iPhone game gets an animated featurelength film. Rated PG. The Meddler—Marnie (Susan Sarandon) follows her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne) to Los Angeles to start a new life after the death of her husband. Rated PG-13. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A suburban couple and the rowdy sorority next door clash in this college comedy. Rated R. The Nice Guys—Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe star as bumbling private eyes investigating suicide and conspiracy in 1970s Los Angeles. Rated R.

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

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MOVIES IN THE PARK Look, North Carolina’s known for tobacco— though homophobia is sadly up there recently. So why not acknowledge the past and look toward the future with films about quittin’ the cancer sticks? “Durham was built with tobacco money but that was long ago,” says Durham Cinematheque director Tom Whiteside. “This show is about cessation.” His eighth season of screening themed archival PROMOTIONAL IMAGE FOR MARCH OF TIME FILM “TOBACCO LAND USA,” DURHAM, 1939 films and oddities in Durham Central Park begins with “Maybe You Should Quit,” a ninety-minute flurry of vintage shorts, clips, banned TV commercials, educational films, and more. A highlight: “The Quitter,” a redubbed version (from the 1963 sketch show Fractured Flickers) of Peter Lorre, in the classic suspense film M, with actor Hans Conried, who later voiced Captain Hook in Disney’s Peter Pan. It may or may not get you off tobacco, but a few good, hacking laughs are guaranteed. —Zack Smith THE LEAF IN DURHAM CENTRAL PARK, DURHAM, 9 p.m., free (donations requested), www.durhamcentralpark.org on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13.  Everybody Wants Some!!—Richard Linklater follows seventies paen Dazed and Confused with this joyful

ode to the eighties. Rated R.  Green Room—Punks and skinheads face off in Jeremy Saulnier’s bloody horror thriller. Rated R.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG.

 Miles Ahead— Don Cheadle finally delivers his deeply imaginative (if not very historical) biopic of jazz great Miles Davis. Rated R.  Keanu—Key & Peele’s action-comedy-slash-catmeme falls flat with the same jokes over and over. Rated R.

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Ashton Applewhite: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. Fri, May 20, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com. Diane Chamberlain: Meet the author tea. Thu, May 19, 3:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. — Fri, May 20, 7 p.m. Meredith College: Jones Auditorium, Raleigh. www.meredith.edu. See story, p. 33. Michael Perry: Novel The Jesus Cow. Wed, May 18, 7:30 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. — Thu, May 19, 7 p.m. with live music by Phil Cook. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

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Diasporadical Salon: This evening of “short performances by local Black and Brown artists” is themed “FUTURISMS” and framed by a Sun Ra quote. Part of a new poetry series at the Atomic Fern, it features some readers who recently appeared at the excellent, experimental, socially conscious Inversion reading at The Shed. Sun, May 22, 8:30 p.m. The Atomic Fern, Durham. www. atomicfern.com. —Brian Howe

Art with the Experts: “Education and Public Programming Options” with Kay Ruhle and Ryan Helsel from the Nasher Museum of Art. Mon, May 23, 7 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Garrard Conley: Discussing memoir Boy Erased with Garth Greenwell (What Belongs To You). Sat, May 21, 3 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

Kim Krawiec: “Periodic Tables: Taboo Trades: Blood, Eggs, and Kidneys.” Tue, May 24, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic.com.

Rien Fertel: The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmastes Who Cook the Whole Hog. Tue, May 24, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

Harold Koenig: Discussing his personal journey of spirituality and his career. $10, under 25 free. Thu, May 19, 7-9 p.m. Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill. www.thechapelofthecross.org.

Storytelling Festival: Wayne Poole, Gaines Steer, Roger Manus and Beverly Miller, and Suz Robinson. Fri, May 20, 7 p.m. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com.

What Have We Got to Lose? An Annual Inventory on Cary’s Historic Properties: Highlighting properties in Cary’s three National Register historic districts. Tue, May 24, 7:30 p.m. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www.friendsofpagewalker.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 21

RED ADEPT AUTHOR PANEL A variety of paranormal fiction authors take the spotlight at this reading and signing from Red Adept, an N.C. company specializing in publishing, editing, and proofreading services for independent authors. The featured authors include Jason Parent (Seeing Evil, What Hides Within), N.C’.s Karissa Laurel (The Norse Chronicles), Erica Lucke Dean (To Katie with Love), Jessica Dall (Raining Embers), and Nicholas Conley (Pale Highway). It’s a chance to discover a potential new favorite writer, and learn more about publishing in the process. —Zack Smith CAMERON VILLAGE REGIONAL LIBRARY, RALEIGH 2 p.m., free, www.redadeptpublishing.com

Sally Mann: Hold Still: A Memoir in Photographs. Thu, May 19,

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