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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH 8 In the last year, Raleigh lost at least a dozen police officers to higher-paying municipalities.

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10 “Are low-wealth communities going to benefit from this, or is this a tool of the development community?”

14 The composting toilet offers scented sawdust so you can “cover your business.”

19 “I finished my drink and fumbled through the dark to the restroom, where a friendly, ordinary-looking man casually offered me a bump of cocaine.”

30 Have you ever seen a hot dog wrapped in empanada dough? Don’t, then.

31 American ale yeast helps make Raleigh Brewing Company’s perfect springtime beer.

33 Maybe the trans opera in the General Assembly didn’t change Phil Berger’s mind about HB 2, but it certainly resonated.

34 The ugly spirit of exceptionalism rears its head in Chekhov update The New Colossus.

35 New film The Lobster surreally skewers society’s fear of single people.

49 Headed north to give Dad his wish.

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We’ll begin with this little gem from commenter David Parham about our HB 2 coverage: “Your overflowing disdain of things you either do not really understand, do not respect, or both comes across so loudly and one-sided that we readers have little choice but to take your views with a grain of salt, if not dismiss them altogether. Governor McCrory stands behind some genuine concerns of many reasonable, temperate, and loving people whose values are grounded in common sense and respect. I’d say that to an unfamiliar reader, and especially to one well-informed on the HB 2 issue, your overkill slant against those who are not brainwashed by militant views of the LGBT community comes across as a bit juvenile. I long for reason, hard to find these days in journalism. Would you agree?”

Not especially, no.

Moving on to last week’s Soapboxer, which focused on new data about ever-rising income inequality. Cityfox writes: “I get why the greedy Art Pope types want the largest pieces of the economic pie. What I don’t get are the poor and middle-class folks who vote Republican. Do they think Pat McCrory and his cabal give a fig about them? Their taxes are on the rise. The GOP has cut safety-net programs for all North Carolinians, including current and retired veterans. The NCGOP talks jobs and

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then blocks raises to minimum salaries. Is it the kabuki dance of social issues?”

Lynn Hayes adds, “I’m all for raising the minimum wage, but even $15 an hour will not bring back a strong middle class. The problem is the loss of quality jobs—factory jobs that paid well and provided good benefits. Somehow these must be replaced by other quality jobs that provide more opportunity and incentives for people to build careers and prosperity. There must be incentives for companies to keep factories and other businesses in the U.S., and this must be the priority. Focusing on minimum wage, I believe, obscures the bigger issue.”

Finally, a correction: in last week’s story “Out of Site,” about the debate over where to locate homeless services in Carrboro, we reported that All Day Records co-owner Charlie Hearon received a flyer about moving the IFC’s soup kitchen out of downtown. He did not receive the flyer but was only made aware of its existence, he says. The woman who was circulating the flyers did not tell him that IFC director Michael Reinke was involved in the effort. l 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 As the battle between Charlotte and the General Assembly over transgender rights has raged over the past few months, neither side has seemed very interested in ceding any ground on an issue that’s sure to shape the next election. That all changed last week, however, when the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce publicly encouraged the city council repeal its nondiscrimination ordinance as an olive branch to the General Assembly.

On Friday, The Charlotte Observer reported that council members could rescind the ordinance passed in February under the guise of “cleaning up of ordinances that have no power.” The Human Rights Campaign immediately went on defense ahead of Monday’s council meeting, starting a Twitter campaign encouraging the council to “stand up to bullies in Raleigh. Stay strong for LGBT people. You’re on the right side of history.”

Then, on Sunday, Charlotte Chamber CEO Bob Morgan penned an op-ed in the Observer, saying, “The ask by the legislature that Charlotte act first carries with it an overture to begin rebuilding trust. To reject that overture likely only further impairs a relationship that needs repair.”

At no point did Morgan spell out what he meant, but it was clear: throw trans people under the bus (or out of the bathroom), and maybe the legislature will play nice.

This, of course, would have been a fool’s errand; the discrimination that drove business and events out of North Carolina in the first place would remain perfectly intact. And the damage would persist. “Clearly,” Wake County commissioner John Burns told the INDY, “nobody is canceling in Raleigh because Charlotte passed an ordinance.”

The HRC and the Charlotte Chamber engaged in a war of words, with HRC president Chad Griffin calling the Chamber and state leaders “anti-LGBT bullies” and questioning “who [Morgan] represents.” In response, Morgan released a statement saying, “Others may disagree with our approach, but we take great offense at the suggestion that we support discrimination of any sort.” Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts weighed in as well: “We cannot compromise on basic human rights. Any repeal of LGBT protections is bad for business, bad for Charlotte’s future.”

Representative Chris Sgro, D-Greensboro, the executive director of Equality NC, told the INDY on Monday that no one had seen the legislation the Chamber was drawing up. “It’s a red herring,” Sgro said, calling the Chamber a “conduit for [Senate leader Phil] Berger and [House Speaker Tim] Moore’s will.”

In the end, the Chamber’s efforts failed: on Monday night, the council voted 7–4 to affirm its nondiscrimination ordinance.

“The economic loss that the state has suffered, the risk of losing federal funding, and the sullied reputation of our state is solely because of HB 2,” Sgro says. “[Charlotte’s] ordinance isn’t the problem. HB 2 is the problem.”

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+REASONABLE VIOLENCE

Moogfesters ambling along Mangum Street on Saturday afternoon might have noticed a small cluster of bodies outside Durham City Hall.

They weren’t watching an impromptu synthesizer performance or listening to a talk about the future of cyborgs. Instead, they were there to hear Shanika Biggs speak.

Biggs’s twenty-one-year-old son, La’Vante, was killed by Durham police officers last September. Clearly suicidal and holding what was later revealed to be a BB gun, Biggs was shot following negotiations with DPD officers that lasted about fifty minutes. At various points, he set his gun on the ground, once for as long as three minutes. Ultimately, four officers fired a total of twelve shots at Biggs, five of which entered his body.

Last Tuesday, Durham County District Attorney Roger Echols announced that, following a review of the State Bureau of Investigation’s file on Biggs’s death, no charges would be filed. “There is no evidence … that rises to willful, malicious, or criminally negligent conduct by law enforcement or that the use of force by law enforcement was unreasonable or excessive,” was the official word.

The DPD also conducted its own investigation, and on Thursday the city council and city manager Tom Bonfield met in a closed session to discuss the extent to which that investigation might be made public.

“While we appreciate this step toward transparency, we do not view this as accountability for what happened,” Shanika Biggs said on Saturday, flanked by La’Vante’s father, Tyrone Ruffin, and several representatives from the NAACP. Council member Jillian Johnson says that, although both investigations concluded that officers did nothing illegal or against policy, “we need to have a better infrastructure in place for police responding to mental health crises.”

On May 28, at 6:30 p.m., the Biggs family will gather again, at CCB Plaza in downtown Durham, for a remembrance of La’Vante. He would have turned twenty-two on May 27.

“If the decision is that no law or policy was broken in this instance,” Shanika Biggs said, “then it is clear that something needs to change.”

+DIMINISHED RETURNS

Raleigh city manager Ruffin Hall unveiled his proposed budget last week, and it gives city employees a 3 to 3.5 percent “merit pay” increase. But for the more than twentyfive hundred employees, including the majority of cops, who make less than $55,000 a year, that raise could effectively be erased by proposed changes to their health insurance coverage. In some cases, employees will actually take home less money.

In an email to city employees, Hall explained that the cost of spousal coverage has risen, and the city is adding more spouses than new employees. Additionally, high-cost claims related to “significant and chronic health challenges” have risen 35 percent in the last two years.

While the city will absorb 82 percent of the health plan increase for the next fiscal year, employees will pay more for premiums and copays. Additionally, family plans will cost an extra $60 per month, and if employees are married and their spouses have access to health insurance through their jobs, the employees will have to pay a $50 monthly surcharge for choosing to take the city’s coverage.

TL;DR: “It won’t be across the board, but some officers will take a pay cut depending on their circumstances,” says Rick Armstrong, vice president of Teamsters Local 391, Raleigh’s police union. “That is the overall problem. We believe RPD officers are paid substantially less than officers at other departments in Wake County.”

Armstrong estimates that, in the last year, RPD has lost at least a dozen officers who have gone to work in municipalities like Wake Forest or Holly Springs.

He’s called for Raleigh cops to be paid a starting salary of $40,000 a year, a 15 percent increase.

“We understand that the city manager is conducting a pay study, but right now we are losing a lot of police officers on a regular basis, and we think something more substantial should be done.”

Along with firefighters, Raleigh police will make their case to the city council June 7.

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The search for an alternative site for FoodFirst, a new three-story building proposed by the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service to replace its existing pantry, is the subject of intense debate in downtown Carrboro. But IFC director Michael Reinke has a simple request: “Is there a chance that we could talk about what’s going on in Carrboro being about feeding hungry people, and not being about the homeless?”

The pantry, he reminds people, is a different thing

from the IFC’s men’s shelter: “All the people that we’re serving are people that have housing. They’re just hungry.”

The IFC plans to relocate current dining services from Chapel Hill and consolidate all of its food assistance operation in one spot. The nonprofit’s Main Street property is the obvious but controversial first choice.

Several months ago, some fifty downtown businesses, citing concerns about the “chronically homeless” scaring away customers, signed a petition asking the town to put the IFC services somewhere else.

Reinke allows that some clients of the men’s shelter may occasionally bus into town to enjoy food and fellowship at the new building, as they currently do in Chapel Hill. But if that worries you, consider this: “If you go and eat at Weaver Street Market and you sit down on the lawn there, you might be sitting next to somebody’s who’s teaching at UNC, and you might be sitting next to somebody who doesn’t have a place to stay. Sometimes it might be hard to tell the difference.”

Still, the town’s board of aldermen asked the IFC to look for an alternative; after an extensive and expensive search process, the IFC located an undeveloped plot with about 1.3 acres of usable land at 303 Jones Ferry Road.

Sherri Ontjes, the retired creator of Carrboro’s North Carolina Crafts Gallery and a petition signer, is pushing hard for that option. “I’m trying to make sure that people who are hungry are fed, and that people who are running small businesses are taken into consideration,” she says.

But that property presents its own challenges. It’s divided by a stream that constrains land use. Reinke says there’s a possibility of an environmental hazard. And bus lines are less accessible than at the downtown site.

An IFC board meeting about the two sites is scheduled for May 25. Reinke expects a final decision by June 30. The IFC will then hold a series of community forums before submitting a rezoning petition to the town council between October and next March. l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest, Danny Hooley, David Hudnall, and Jane Porter.

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David Gergen, a former advisor to both Republican and Democratic presidents, calls out N.C. Republicans’ “extremist politics” in a commencement speech at Elon. “What do you expect—dude’s a commie,” says a GOP spokesman of Ronald Reagan’s PR guy.

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Maroon 5 cancels North Carolina tour dates over HB 2. In polls, support for HB 2 ticks up.

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The legislature considers stricter regulations for solar and wind farms than it has for coal and nuclear plants. Santa’s going to be putting wind in their stockings this Christmas.

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Former Republican N.C. Supreme Court justice I. Beverly Lake III comes out against the death penalty. We’re sure the nearly three dozen people executed during his tenure admire his courage.

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The state House rejects a tax on private planes. It’s about time those millionaires scored one in the legislative win column.

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The Department of Environmental Quality classifies all coal-ash pits as a high or intermediate priority for cleanup. No word on when they’re going to do something about Parrish Street, though.

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The state, having given up on converting pig poop into energy, fails to meet its goals for turning poultry poop into energy. Next up for energy production: all the shit that Pat McCrory is full of.

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A fire destroys part of the historic Old Bellevue Mill in Hillsborough. Ten local performing arts organizations immediately inquire about using it as an untraditional performance space.

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The New Hanover County School System proposes a ban on skinny jeans as part of its dress code. First they came for skinny jeans, and I did not speak out, for I do not wear skinny jeans. Then they came for slim-fit, and again I was silent. When they came for Dockers, no one was left.

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appropriate but imperative,” Rodriguez It’s a rare occasion when business says. “Gentrification should be manrepresentatives and environmentalists, aged from a land-use perspective and a seniors and millennials, city and country community perspective because it is a dwellers all get on the same page. community issue. The cities and counBut that’s what happened at the ty should work together to make sure Raleigh Convention Center last week, at places don’t gentrify to expel residents a public hearing on Wake County’s tranfrom existing neighborhoods, because sit plan. Going by the dozens of mostly the beneficiaries of more transportation white, mostly affluent people who effuwill ultimately be low-income residents.” sively praised the plan, it would be easy to But it’s that government accountabilconclude that it enjoys near unanimous ity that southeast Raleigh advocates say support—and why wouldn’t it? they’re most worried about. At the MarIf voters approve the $2.3 billion tin Street meeting, attendees emphasized November bond referendum, the counthat equity, transparency, and accountty will quadruple the number of buses ability from elected officials are imperaon the road, with significantly expandtive if they are to support the referendum. ed high-frequency service and bus rapid “Wake County and the City of Raleigh transit corridors running in the heart need to share with the voters what the of Raleigh. It will connect regionally transportation needs are and what future through a commuter rail system running bonds are being contemplated to handle from Garner to Duke University. And it growth,” Coleman wrote in an email to will add more routes and longer service the INDY. “The public needs to have a hours to link residents to destinations At last week’s public hearing, dozens of mostly white residents effusively praised Wake’s comprehensive discussion with all their throughout the county. transit plan. Southeast Raleigh’s African-Americans, however, aren’t yet sold. elected officials about this matter before “I depend on public transportation to PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER the vote in November on the transit tax.” get around because I don’t drive,” Raleigh County officials are listening: commisresident Jeff Smith said at the hearing. “I’ve system, which they say has been expensive, inequitable, and sioners James West, John Burns, and Sig been in Raleigh since 1985, and I’ve been unreliable for years.

Hutchinson attended the Martin Street meeting. “We know using the bus system ever since. I’m real happy the people “I do have reservations about supporting this plan, and I do there are many impediments in southeast Raleigh, and we of Wake County will finally have an opportunity to vote to believe black people have been punished. Our voices have not want to make sure we look at root-cause issues and have increase public transit, something that is long overdue.” been heard,” Rainey said. processes so that those most affected by changes will be But at a listening session held the week before at MarTo Coleman, the plan looks like a way for the city to “finish involved,” West told the crowd. tin Street Baptist Church, it was clear that some southeast wiping out the east Raleigh community” through redevelopBut the city has been largely absent from this debate, and Raleigh residents have serious doubts about the plan, doubts ment. He’s particularly worried about having bus rapid tranit’s unlikely to share its plans for the bond money before that go beyond whether bus shelters will be sufficiently sit in the New Bern Avenue corridor, which he believes will November. upgraded or expanded service will reach underserved routes. lead to upscale development that will drive property values “No timetable has been set but if the referendum is sucSome wonder if Wake’s transit plan will actually improve the out of the reach of many current residents. In other words: cessful, council will make the appropriate decisions and as quality of life for the people it’s designed to benefit most—in gentrification. always information will be shared with the public,” spokesthis case, low-income residents in Raleigh’s southeast corner, “All we need going down New Bern Avenue and in southman John Boyette told the INDY in an email. which is slated to receive more than $400 million in bond east Raleigh is just more buses with more frequency,” ColeTo southeast Raleigh advocates and residents, that’s neither money from the plan over ten years. man said. “Bus rapid transit is going to be brought in on New transparent nor acceptable. “We must hold the city of Raleigh “Are low-wealth communities going to benefit from this, Bern Avenue to destroy the fragile business community and accountable in this transit plan,” Spencer said at the Martin or is this a tool by the development community to steer the housing.”

Street meeting. “They have got to be nailed to the cross.” development on transit corridors?” asked community leader Daniel Rodriguez, a professor of sustainable community “I do not want to support an exclusive downtown,” Rainey Dan Coleman. design at UNC-Chapel Hill, says the residents’ fears are “coradded. “I am very concerned about whether or not I will support Coleman, city government watchdog Octavia Rainey, and rect but misguided,” noting that gentrification is always a this plan, and I won’t until the city of Raleigh shows me someformer Raleigh Transit Authority member Dwight Spencer possibility with any economic development proposal. thing very different when it comes to race and diversity.” l spoke about a deep distrust felt by the mostly African-Amer“Bringing better transit to low-income groups is not only ican residents who rely on city buses have toward the transit jporter@indyweek.com 10 | 5.25.16 | INDYweek.com

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So we made the most of it. On relatively stark budgets— between $300 and $600, though, to a person, we overshot (sorry, bosses)—we headed out to five spots within a half-day’s drive: Hot Springs, Knoxville, Richmond, Elm City, and the Outer Banks. There we ate and drank and unmoored ourselves from the workweek’s stresses. We lounged in the sand and hiked the Appalachian Trail. We stayed in yurts with composting toilets and beachside abodes that climate change will probably claim within a century. We saw concerts, roasted potatoes on a fire, and were casually offered cocaine.

We had wonderful adventures, and we didn’t pay for any of it. Ain’t life grand? —Jeffrey C. Billman

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To be completely honest: this year’s Summer Guide is something of an elaborate con job.

We somehow convinced the company to fund weekend excursions for five of our writers—a company-paid vacation, in other words. This isn’t the sort of thing that happens at major dailies these days, let alone cashstrapped alt-weeklies like ours. It’s kind of amazing that they went for it.

We made a simple pitch: we love the Triangle, but summer in the Triangle sucks. It’s hotter than hell, the good festivals are in spring and fall, and, more than all that, sometimes you just need to get away.

The bosses, probably figuring they could sell some travel ads, signed off. I have no idea if that happened. If not,

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Everybody Yurts Hot Springs is famous, of course, for its opera house. I’m kidding! It’s famous for its hot springs. Accordingly, booking a soak was the first thing my companion and I did when planning our westward escape. Otherwise, we wanted to leave things open. We’d been feeling too wound up in the world, and a mountain enclave with a triple-digit population and indifferent cellular service sounded appealing.

We found a random yurt on Airbnb, advertised as “Mountain Fiesta Yurt GLAMPing,” which seemed like a good compromise between the best parts of camping (a fire pit, an idyllic setting) and rooming (electricity, a bed). We knew we’d hike on the Appalachian Trail, another of Hot Springs’ main attractions. But all of our best experiences turned out to be improvised or discovered.

That’s the way to travel somewhere like Hot Springs, where nothing goes as planned—throwing Google Maps to the wind and navigating the terrain on a personal, local level. The destinations become more rewarding for the winding, unknown roads that lead to them—not unlike the roads that lead into Hot Springs.

It’s a four-hour drive from the Triangle, the monotony of I-40 scrolling by like the background in a shabby cartoon. But then we exit into a different world. On the approach to Mountain Fiesta, where the yurt awaits, we judder at school-zone speeds through switchbacks that continually refresh our views of rising slopes, forests, and pastures.

The no-nonsense straightness of the interstate, so much like the workweek, gives way to a path that is circuitous by necessity, subservient to the undefeated geography of rural Madison County. As we finally reach our destination, our cell-phone signals, already flickering, promptly cut out.

Mountain Fiesta is a compound of Airbnb rentals near the French Broad River. In its former life it was a garden store frequented, we have it on good authority, by fancy ladies, and the property remains beautifully, messily gardened. The rolling grounds include a yurt, a barn, a trailer, a tent, dogs, chickens, goats, and a donkey named Corazón. Brenda, the owner, lives in a house there, and she offers to drive us and our things to the yurt in her cart. We decline, even though it’s up a very steep, short hill, because we don’t want to seem like people who would want to be driven up a steep, short hill. As we climb the wooden steps into the yurt, which is elevated a few feet off the ground, I’m panting slightly, but we’re delighted by what we see.

A yurt is a venerable old shelter, a round tent built around a wooden lattice, with a door and a peaked roof. But unlike one you’d have found on the steppes of Central Asia, this one has a small refrigerator, a coffeemaker, an electric space heater, and a big fluffy bed, romantically canopied under either tulle or mosquito netting. Smiling down on it is an oculus that admits stars at night, up-and-at-’em sunrises in the morning. With its homey touches—wrought iron shelves of knickknacks, local nature books and board games, a little dining room table— it beats a hotel at $80 a night, especially with a torch-lit path leading down to a private fire pit with a sweeping view of the property and the blue-hazed mountains beyond. Even the composting toilet is, somehow, adorable, all clean and new—and featuring scented sawdust to, as a sign delicately puts it, “cover your business”—tucked inside a traditionally moon-marked outhouse. (What did the moon ever do to deserve that distinction?)

We only have about an hour to loll around the yurt before we need to make the trek for our bathhouse appointment. Though Mountain Fiesta has a Hot Springs address, it’s really out in the county, and more than half an hour’s worth of shuddering hairpin curves wait between us and the Hot Springs Resort

& Spa. The natural mineral springs there have impassively watched an impressively long series of grand hotels burn down one after another since the nineteenth century.

The springs became a destination as early as 1778, when white settlers discovered them and proclaimed the health benefits of their Cherokee magic. The foundation of an original bathhouse remains onsite, evoking ominous madhouse ruins.

Now the springs are privately owned as a spa, and water is pumped from underground into plastic tubs in open-faced wooden bathhouses, for privacy. The naturally heated water is warm but not hot, visibly mineralized, silky and buoyant with bubbles. We’ve somehow landed in what we’re told is the most desirable tub, where the French Broad meets Spring Creek, and time melts away with the golden hour as it slides through the tunnel of trees enclosing the river.

Feeling restored and cleansed, we venture into Hot Springs’ small downtown. After a tavern opened there in 1788—a stop for wayfaring American Revolution soldiers—it became more of a tourist destination when a turnpike was constructed through it in 1828. By the end of the nineteenth century, according to the resort’s website, “there were amusements of every variety: bowling alleys, billiard rooms, tennis courts, swimming pools, riding stables, a golf course, amateur theatricals, and an orchestra playing for dances every evening in the large ballroom.”

Times seem to have changed in Hot Springs, though, and we can't find any such amusements. It feels like a place people pass through, especially as the Appalachian Trail passes directly down the main street. The pavements are marked with the AT symbol, and backpackers seem to outnumber citizens or tourists. The town still has something of the frontier outpost about it, its shops geared to sportsmen, its coffee prospects grim.

But we find a warm haven in the historic Iron Horse Station, a restaurant and bar teeming with a vibrant townie culture. We’re

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drawn in by the sound of someone playing a guitar, which turns out to be made out of a cigar box. We have the grilled local rainbow trout, its freshness accentuated by lemon and pepper, as well as a couple of local craft beers, Foothills Brewing Company’s Carolina Strawberry and Asheville Brewing Company’s Ninja Porter. The former is light and tart, the latter heavy as cocoa and coffee.

We’d been eating car and camp food—dried fruit, nuts, bread, cheese, avocado—so eating a good meal is especially satisfying. But, this pleasant respite aside, our trip to Hot Springs wasn’t really about Hot Springs.

Still, we find ourselves back in town the next day to pick up the Appalachian Trail.

We’d chosen a hike from many that Brenda had laminated in a binder, which promised varied climbs, waterfalls, and views. It’s an overcast day, with a heavy feeling in the air, and as we near the trailhead, we discover why. All the trails on this side of the French Broad are closed for controlled burns, and

they will be for our entire trip. Downcast, we trudge back through town to the other side of the river and pick up the trail there. But it’s an unimpressive stretch, a mild incline rising through thin forest, with no views to speak of.

It’s not like we don’t have other options.

Rafting on the French Broad is great, as is hiking in Pisgah National Forest. But any of that would require cell phones, and we can't even. So instead, we drive to Marshall, another town that, like everything around here, is half an hour to forty-five minutes away from everything else. If Hot Springs feels hardscrabble, Marshall is quainter, like a mountain Hillsborough (if more visibly economically depressed). It has a cafe serving Counter Culture and a health-food grocery. Improvising a dinner plan, we buy a bag of small Yukon Gold potatoes to roast in the fire, blithely assuming we know how to do this.

Then we wander into a junk shop that’s blasting the White Stripes, and its friendly

owner, hearing our hiker’s lament, gives us directions to a trail on the Big Ivy River. He even runs out to our car as we’re leaving to clarify one landmark-based point. Even so, we get lost and have to drive back for further instruction. The second time, we find the way, down a broad, easy path under a green canopy, with the sun settling down on the calm river beside us.

It’s already dark when we get back to the yurt, after picking up tinfoil, firewood, and a few other supplies in Hot Springs. We’re starving. But before we eat, we have to build the fire, wrap the potatoes in foil, put them on the fire, discover that makes them burst into flames, let the fire burn down, and then nestle the potatoes in the embers instead. It’s very late now, and we’re demented with hunger. Maybe that’s why, when we unwrap the first potato and find it crisp on the outside, soft and mealy inside, it seems like the best thing we’ve ever eaten—even better than our Iron Horse Station meal because it was hard-

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won, much like our Big Ivy walk. We burn our fingers on the foil, split the potatoes with a plastic takeout knife, and stuff in obscene quantities of butter and gas-station salt and pepper from paper packets, swigging nightcooled pinot noir from the bottle.

One protip for staying at Mountain Fiesta: if you desire the boundless peace and quiet of the mountains, book the barn and the yurt, and then just stay in the yurt. That will prevent anyone else from booking the barn and whooping it up at the ping-pong table all night. (The barn admittedly looks pretty sweet; it also has a DVD projector.)

I guess there is no real getting away from it all. On Sunday, submitting again to consumerist reality, we stopped in Asheville on the way home, to shop, drink Izzy’s Coffee and Dobra Tea, and gobble vegan biscuits and gravy at Early Girl Eatery. Back on the grid, we went back to work, but my heart is still glamping in the yurt. ● bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com || 5.25.16 5.25.16 || 15 15 INDYweek.com

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Here Comes the Sunsphere A walk through Knoxville,

a city suffused with music history Situated just on the other side of the Appalachians, about a five-hour drive from the Triangle, is the sweet little city of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The occasion for my first-ever visit was Big Ears, a small but broadminded festival that convenes some of the greatest minds in contemporary experimental music. But while Big Ears was worth the

late-March trip, it’s hardly Knoxville’s only music festival. There’s also the annual roots-rock-focused Rhythm N’ Blooms festival in April and the Knoxville Stomp in May, which celebrates the strange historical and current worlds of old-time music.

The city is suffused with country music history, with markers on the Cradle of Country Music

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

Walking Tour noting sites of former radio stations, recording studios, and the like all over the city. Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Dolly Parton, and others make appearances. Even if you don’t opt for the mapped-out tour, you’ll stumble upon these markers as you navigate Gay Street.

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partner (or yourself ) over to Pioneer House to get outfitted with its fantastic collection of Western wear. There are plenty of rhinestones to be had, or you can take home letterpress prints, many of which are made in the shop in back. My sense of style is mostly minimal and pragmatic, so attempting to suit myself in multicolored embroidered finery would be a poor choice. But still, Pioneer House’s offerings reinvigorated my regret that I hadn’t been born properly rich and famous enough to have owned a classic bedazzled Nudie suit.

Smaller than that of Raleigh and Durham, Knoxville’s downtown is compact enough to be comfortably walkable; even without a car at my disposal, I found plenty of attractions to enjoy. The city has a beautiful old charm to it, with sturdy prewar brick buildings making up most of the architecture. An enormous sign advertising JFG coffee is gorgeous as it sparkles at night, and the main drag of Gay Street is home to similarly excellent marquees. The Tennessee Theatre, a decadently decorated room that seats about sixteen hundred, boasts the best and brightest, a massive vertical display of white lights that spell out “TENNESSEE.” Every state should endorse itself with such enthusiastic signage.

Bijou Theatre, which recalls Durham’s Carolina Theatre, seats seven hundred and sits just a couple of blocks away from the Tennessee. Both spaces offer quiet, tunedin listening experiences, while smaller clubs like The Pilot Light and The Bowery tend toward regular rock-club bills. At Big Ears, the super-new Mill & Mine felt like a combination of Cat’s Cradle capacity with Haw River Ballroom’s aesthetics for sets from Kamasi Washington and the Sun Ra Arkestra. It was so new and shiny that I worried about getting a contact high from the stillpotent fumes of the floor varnish. There’s no shortage of spaces to experience live music in Knoxville, no matter your tastes.

But even if music isn’t the focus of your trip, there’s still plenty to do. The Zoo Knoxville sits just a few minutes outside of downtown and has an education-focused approach to its exhibits. Near the World’s Fair Park is the Knoxville Museum of Art, a modest three-story institution. On a Friday morning, the museum was almost completely empty, making for a pleasant retreat. You could spend several hours examining every detail of the museum’s collection of large-scale contemporary works in an upstairs gallery or do the same with the exquisite miniatures of the Thorne Rooms 18 | 5.25.16 | INDYweek.com

collection on the bottom floor. The miniatures were enchanting, while the large works were almost intimidating in their scale—a hyperrealistic rendering of a wrinkly bald head and set of shoulders bordered on gruesome that early in the day. Once you’ve gotten your fill of visual art, walk up the block and score some artful sweets from Knoxville Chocolate Company, which offers an intoxicating variety of sugary pick-me-ups.

Knoxville’s famed Sunsphere, a giant gold structure installed in 1982 to herald the World’s Fair, also sits near the edge of World’s Fair Park. In the decades since, the Suns-

Downtown Knoxville has dozens of shops and restaurants, a large cluster of which you can find around Market Square. The eateries vary from quick, casual service to chains like Tupelo Honey to more lux offerings. At Knox Mason on South Gay Street, I found moderately upscale Southern food that hit the spot.

Ham croquettes, a strawberry salad, and oven-baked macaroni and cheese made for an unorthodox dinner, but Knox Mason was skilled at balancing rich and simple food.

This was my major meal indulgence, and it was well worth the price—a little over $30— though I wouldn’t feel fully decadent until I

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phere has become a symbol for the whole city. You can take an elevator to an observation deck on one of the Sunsphere’s lower levels, underneath a restaurant and private businesses that occupy the space—and no, none of these businesses is a wig outlet, as The Simpsons might have you believe. About four stories up, though, the observation deck isn’t high enough to offer much of a view.

(If you share Knoxville’s appetite for big, quirky architecture, there’s also the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on the other side of town, which boasts a massive ball incorporated into its structure.)

went for drinks the following night.

Behind the Oliver hotel is the Peter Kern Library, a speakeasy-style bar. You enter through a back alley, and a single red light on the wall serves as the only indication that there might be anything there at all. Depending on how busy the bar is—it only fits about thirty—you might have to wait to enter, but the drinks are well worth your time. So too is the aesthetic. Inside, a dim, cozy oasis awaits, and you feel as though you’re tucked away in a posh study. The $10 cocktails, all named for literary figures, appear fussy with their lists of ingredients—lavender liqueur,

pimento dram, and watermelon- and strawberry-infused mezcal—but these elaborate beverages pull through. A Primrose, named for a Hunger Games character and featuring the aforementioned fruity mezcal, was deliciously sweet and smoky. My next drink, a fruity Holly Golightly, was mostly just sweet, with a prosecco finish that added a delightful bit of fizz. I wanted to work my way through a Matilda, a Big Brother, a Holden Caulfield, a Rhett Butler, an Artful Dodger, and so many more, but my wallet and liver proved to be limiting factors.

One of Knoxville’s fastest-growing areas is Old City, which has seen a steady uptick in new businesses over the past few years. This pocket has plenty of spots to hang out, eat, and sip on coffee or cocktails. Awaken Coffee and Old City Java both provide appropriately strong coffee and respectable light breakfasts; the former hosts worship services in the back of its shop on Sundays. But it was OliBea, on the same block as Old City Java on South Central Street, that served the best breakfast I’ve ever had. I had balked at paying $8 for pancakes but quickly found them worthwhile—more than that, even. They were like lemony stratus clouds, sweetened with a generous drizzle of syrup. A pair of sage sausage patties offered a salty complement, and a black cup of coffee was the bold finishing touch on my Saturday morning fuel-up.

Later that evening, I was tipped to the Knoxville Public House on West Magnolia Avenue. It’s first and foremost a bar, but it also has a solid food menu. You can get pretzels or snazzed-up popcorn for snacks, or turn your pit stop into a meal with one of its several specialty hot dogs.

I was surprised that, in quality and price, Public House’s fare beat out another spot on the edge of Old City, Curious Dog, which banks on specialty hot dogs and sandwiches in addition to beers. Knoxville Public House will also serve you an ounce of the lauded (and outrageously expensive) Pappy Van Winkle bourbon for $23, if you’re feeling bold but not too bold.

In some ways, Knoxville felt similar to Durham: a smallish, once-bustling Southern industrial hub that’s still on the rebound decades after that industry disappeared.

It’s not the place to go if you need a major change of scenery, but for a tunes-filled, treat-yourself weekend, Knoxville makes for a fine getaway. ● ahussey@indyweek.com

The Young Heart of the Old Confederacy

A wet, weirdly charming adventure in

Richmond M O N U M EN T

BY DAVID HUDNALL

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t rained for the better part of the two and a half hours it took to get from Durham to Richmond.

It continued to pour on me after I had dumped off my stuff at the Airbnb—a fifteen-hundred-square-foot loft, all to myself, on Broad Street between Virginia Commonwealth University and downtown; $90 a night; a steal—and walked out to wetly explore the neighborhood. As I was waiting for a light to change at the big, busy intersection of Broad and Belvidere, a black town car cruised past slowly, and, in a way that felt almost methodical, sprayed the contents of a giant puddle directly at me. I’m six feet tall and the water reached my head. It was like a scene in a movie. I was a sad man in the movie.

I trudged back to the Airbnb and changed out of my soaking clothes.

“You’re not going to let this discourage you,” I said to the bathroom mirror. “You’re going to have a nice time in Richmond.”

And, actually, I very much did. Relatively new to the South, I’d never given much thought to Richmond. I assumed it was a boring city. It has a boring-sounding name. It doesn’t have any professional sports teams. I don’t know any cool bands from there. I had never heard anybody say a single word about Richmond until I was assigned to write this piece.

It turns out that Richmond is super charming. It’s got the same creative-class downtown revitalization thing happening—cool food scene, new breweries, art galleries, and cute shops in once-aban-

doned downtown storefronts—that you see these days in every midsized American city that has its shit together. But there are other, broader reasons why Richmond is appealing. All the good neighborhoods pretty much bleed into one another, which makes it walkable. The state capital is there, so there’s power and money and gravitas. It used to be the seat of the Confederacy, so there’s old, weird history. And there’s a big university in the middle of it, so there’s lots of young people.

You can open your mouth and taste the gentrification in the air. On recommendation, I had planned to eat dinner at Black Sheep, a restaurant inside an old converted home in what they call the Carver District. It was only a few blocks from my place on Broad Street. On the way there, I was asked for change several times, and passed one person lurking near an empty doorway whom I feel comfortable describing as a troublemaker. A block up, on Marshall, thudding drums and whining guitars emanated from inside an old row house. A twentysomething dude in all black was smoking a cigarette on the porch. Up in the distance, construction wrapping flapped in the rainy breeze beneath a sign for a hulking, new, upscale student housing development called 1200 West Marshall.

Black Sheep was packed and didn’t appear to have a bar for a lone man to sit and eat a meal. I tried Saison, a gastropub with an adorable French-like market attached to it, but there were no spots at the bar there either. I ended up at Graffiato, on Broad and Jefferson. (Did you know that Thomas Jefferson designed the state capitol building? Well, he did.) Graffiato is one of those big, sorta-nice wood-fired pizza places with a sleek and sterile design and a noisy interior. It was fine.

I wanted to turn things up a little, though. I did some Googling and flipped through Style Weekly, the INDY’s very distant Richmond cousin. I settled on a K-pop party at a spot near VCU called Balliceaux.

Korean pop, French-sounding restaurant—you see how cultured I am?

On the way there, I ducked into Baja Bean, which sounds like a burrito chain but is actually a grubby, subterranean VCU undergrad bar.

I was sitting at the bar, pretending to be more interested in the Celtics game than I really was, when the power went out. For a minute, it was pretty close to pitch black down there. What does it say about me that my immediate instinct was to reach over the bar and steal one of the liquor bottles? That I am industrious? But then everybody pulled INDYweek.com || 5.25.16 5.25.16 || 19 19 INDYweek.com

out their cell phones and ruined what could have been an interesting experience.

I finished my drink and fumbled through the dark to the restroom, where a friendly, ordinary-looking man casually offered me a bump of cocaine. “This is the perfect situation for doing coke in a bar,” he said, laughing. Hoo boy. I could not deny that. Nor could I deny that the experience would add some interesting texture to my story. And cocaine plus K-pop sounded very much like a winning combo.

I’m not saying I’m too old to do cocaine with strangers in dark bars. Well, maybe I am.

I had plenty of fun without it. Balliceaux is very cool. From the outside, it’s got the look of a neighborhood hangout—it’s tucked into a residential stretch of Lombardy Street in the Fan District—but inside it’s as stylish as its name suggests. The front room is narrow, with two-person booths on one side and tables on the other, leading to a small bar that serves attractive craft cocktails and a small but smart selection of beers. The kitchens serves Thai and French Indochinestyle tapas. I didn’t have any. I ordered tequila-and-sodas from the well. Our budget isn’t that big.

The dance party was in the back room and cost $5. It was a whole other world back there.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to a dance party with such a good vibe. It wasn’t some hokey, “ha-ha-remember ‘Gangnam Style’?” ironic deal. It was a big, sweaty, culturally diverse room full of people getting down with some catchy, weird, loud pop music.

After midnight the songs skewed less K and more pop: work work work work work; dur dur dur dur dur. I met an attractive young Asian woman with tattoos. We texted later.

It was cool.

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am not one of those people who wake up early and go to the zoo or the museum when I visit places (though the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is said to be top-notch).

I like to eat at expensive and well-reviewed restaurants and drink in weird bars.

But I do like to bike. I find it’s the best way to see a new city. You can cover a lot of ground in a shorter amount of time than walking. And you experience the city much more intimately than if you were just driving around.

Around noon on Saturday, I made my way over to Cyclus Bike Shop, in the Church Hill neighborhood, and rented a Fairdale bike for $30 flat. I spent the better part of the day cruising around Richmond (which is mostly nice and flat) on two wheels.

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Mural Project. For the last five years, the group has brought international artists to the city and allowed them to paint the sides of buildings, with the goal of increasing tourism and establishing the city as more of an art destination. It really does enrich the look of the city. I was impressed. ● The James River is a real treasure. (They call Richmond the “River City,” don’t you know.) They’ve got a little riverwalk down there; there’s old guys fishing in canoes out in the river; you can lay out by it or even swim in

Steady Sounds shares space with a vintageclothing purveyor called Blue Bones. Good selections on both fronts, and a strong community vibe to the place; highly recommend. ● Food I can vouch for: Comfort (unpretentious, if somewhat pricey, Southern cooking); 821 Cafe (A-plus brunch spot near VCU); smoothies at Lift (Broad Street coffee shop); and coffee at Lamplighter Roasting Company (three different locations).

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the damn thing if you want, though it was too cold when I was there. ● The Hollywood Cemetery is worth a solid hour of your time. I recommend the towering, can’t-miss-it pyramid tomb, a memorial to eighteen thousand Confederate soldiers; and the mausoleum of William Wortham Pool, also known as the Richmond Vampire. Motherfucker was a vampire!

(They say.) ● The wide, grand Monument Avenue, with its massive, Colonial-style houses and historic statues of Civil War-era heroes, is a stunning stretch of the city. A massive tribute to Confederate general Robert E. Lee, visible up in the sky from blocks away, was erected thirty years after the South lost the war. That’s some real Southern shit. ● For window shopping and afternoon loafing, there’s Carytown, a cute strip of retail, bars, and restaurants adjacent to the Fan District. Broad Street between Belvidere and the capitol is a still-gentrifying corridor with more of a city feel and lots of modest spaces housing small businesses (an art nonprofit; boutique clothing shops with not very many items; a hip salon; several galleries). On a New York-looking street corner at Broad and Monroe, a record shop called

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kept things relatively mellow on Saturday evening. After dinner at Comfort, I asked the bartender for a nearby bar recommendation. He mentioned Quirk, a boutique hotel and restaurant that has taken up residence in an old luxury department store built in 1916. I had passed by early and seen many beautiful people lounging and drinking inside.

“Are there any, like, bar bars around here?”

I asked. “Like, dirty bars? Like a shithole?”

“Well,” he said, “there’s Gwar Bar.” Gwar, a metal band known for bloodsoaked beheadings at its shows, hails from Richmond. A few years ago, some of the members opened a bar in the Jackson Ward neighborhood, not far from where I was staying. It was less grotesque than one might expect. In fact, it’s pretty much an ordinary dive bar. Ask the bartender about the Sunday 666 specials.

I biked back over to Balliceaux for a garage rock bill featuring Charlotte’s Paint Fumes and the Ar-Kaics, a Richmond band just back from a European tour. Fun sets, but I was spent. I’d packed a lot into the last thirty-six hours.

I’m planning a trip back to Richmond soon, though. Southern gentility, a little grime, delicious food—it’s worth your time.

Go now, before the loft I stayed in is sold to make room for an H&M. ● dhudnall@indyweek.com

State of Ruin

A weekend with the deserted buildings, empty streets, and occasional resurrections of

Eastern North Carolina

BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN

ROCKY MOUNT

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We had been in Elm City for thirty-five minutes the first time I trespassed, hopping a rusty old fence. We found ourselves, uninterrupted and alone, prowling an area advertised as off-limits. Turns out, during this weekend adventure, it would not be our last offense.

We’d left Raleigh minutes after the workweek had ended, headed east for a little less than an hour, and pulled into the laughably affordable Bailey House—Elm City’s only bed and breakfast, and perhaps the only one worth counting within a halfhour drive, the officious but infinitely pleasant innkeeper Nell Cain had told us upon arrival—just as the sun had started to sink to golden-hour lows. It was Friday evening, not yet seven o’clock, but the little Eastern North Carolina railroad town already seemed tucked in for the night.

The streets were empty, the tracks quiet, the wind whispering. Two orange tabby cats playing in the neighbor’s yard seemed to be the town of one thousand’s busiest weekend scene.

There were a few enthusiastic introductions and some anxious explanations.

Nell told us of her afternoon troubles with a plumber who had quit before making our bathroom sink usable, a tale confirmed by her son, Jason, the home’s actual owner, who soon arrived with a pizza tucked under his arm. We smiled, nodded, and said goodbye for the moment, pulling two bikes from the roof of our sedan and starting a slow roll down South Railroad Street, which hugs the still-active rail line.

We passed rows of silent brick storefronts and a grand old depot, a gleaming

silver water tower and century-old homes in various phases of splendor or squalor. In a little less than a mile, a row of spindly cedar trees formed a fence of sorts to our right, leading the way through the ferric gates of the Cedar Grove cemetery. We eased along the shaded gravel paths, ogled the oldest stones, and cut across muddy hillocks in a farmer’s unkempt field.

At last, we found ourselves at a locked fence that guarded the waterworks of the swampy town’s sewer system, entirely unexpected given the community’s presiding feeling of complete torpor. We looked through, saw an adventure ahead and no “No Trespassing” signs in sight, and determined that we had forty-five minutes to kill before heading an hour southeast to late dinner reservations at the television-famous Kinston restaurant Chef & the Farmer.

I climbed, while my wife, Tina, shimmied between the gate’s halves. Honeysuckle bloomed in billowing clouds along the lagoon’s banks, while the early signs of blackberries poked through radiant green leaves and briars. We peered into the goopy water, marveled at turtles fighting through the muck, and soon returned to the other side of the fence, where our unlocked bikes stood undisturbed.

We spotted carloads of kids arriving at a middle school dance and two other bikers along the town’s “fitness trail,” or what you may call a sidewalk. We became the first people to ever go through the drivethru of Boogie’s Turkey BBQ by bike. (The prize, turns out, was free hush puppies, the only thing we’d wanted.) We climbed a slow country hill outside the Elm City limits, just as the sun properly began to set. We turned INDYweek.com || 5.25.16 5.25.16 || 21 21 INDYweek.com

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around and moseyed to our car and headed back to the highway.

When I’d sorted through Eastern North Carolina lodgings, I’d wanted a town I’d never seen, full of people I’d never met and who mostly let the occasional tourists be. Nodding to a family closing its Friday by sitting on its front porch in hushed Elm City, I realized this was perfect.

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ike lots of the United States, North Carolina is dotted with places that have never really adjusted to several decades of systemic economic changes. With their wealth of well-built monolithic warehouses or labyrinthine mills, these tobacco or textile towns stand now like grand skeletons, stripped of the people and business that once made them buzz with vitality.

And if big-box retailers didn’t bleed such towns’ retail districts dry to begin with, they’ve certainly helped keep them that way.

Lines of once-grand bank buildings or humble brick grocers are now notable only as

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antique stores or for the advertising murals that cling to their sides, like ghosts holding fast to the belief that, against all odds, the future can bring them back to life.

And in some cases, as a weekend spent roaming the small cities and minuscule towns of Eastern North Carolina will prove, that actually happens. Kinston, Wilson, Farmville, Nashville, Elm City, Snow Hill, Sharpsburg, Rocky Mount: together, these places—wrapped inside or along a geographic oval one hundred or so miles from the Carolina coast—offer studies in repair and

disrepair, the stages of the cycle suggesting an urban analogue to forest succession.

In Kinston, for instance, Vivian Howard has brought a deserted quadrant of the city back to life with Chef & the Farmer, a sleek restaurant where soft jazz and energetically abstract paintings belie the homey comfort of updated Southern standards like spoonbread, Hoppin’ John, and big skillets of grits. Howard grew up nearSEWAGE LAGOON SUNSET by and returned to the area to launch the restaurant after a tortured stint PHOTO BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN at an advertising agency in New York.

To my mind, Howard is better at thanks to liquor laws that must certainly date telling this story than she is at rewriting the back to Kinston’s prime, you’ll need to step rules of regional favorites in the same way across the street to another bar for a full drink. as, say, Ashley Christensen or Sean Brock; But venture far outside of these few the food is rather expensive but only mildly blocks—or, in some cases, simply across the inventive, with flavors that are either merely street—and you’ll find that, despite the hoopfine or a desperate scramble to stun. la, renaissances come slowly and in phases.

Still, she, her restaurant, and a popular Most of the town resembles its region, with PBS show about her saga, A Chef’s Life, have people still working to fend off the poverty helped spark an line and buildings still awaiting saviors. honest-to-goodIn Kinston, the once-proud Paramount ness renaissance Theater is an eyesore of ruins. In Rocky within plain sight Mount, regal downtown buildings now stand of a replica of like lonely suitors, desperate for attention. In the CSS Neuse, Elm City, an impressive train depot, boarded a Confederate and locked tight on all sides, awaits help from ironclad, and the departments of agriculture and transa sudden, draportation in becoming the community cenmatic swoop in ter the town desperately desires. Along the the Neuse River winding, field-lined roads that connect these itself. These days, tiny burgs to relatively major cities, too many you can spend abandoned tobacco barns, roadside stands, more than $200 community marts, and gas stations to count for one night in are being strangled by vines or fighting the The O’Neil, the pull of gravity and—slowly, steadily—failing. century-old shell I find myself staring at these buildings, often of a gorgeous sneaking in to imagine their past lives and Farmers & Merthose of the people who used them. It’s a chants bank that’s strange sort of necromancy, I suppose, one of now a lavish, sevfew facts and many assumptions. en-room hotel. You can sit at an oyster bar or In these towns, surrounded by ancient have a wondrously rich veggie burger made buildings in which nothing has happened from butter beans at Howard’s other restauin decades, time can seem to stand still. But rant, The Boiler Room, or meander around time is actually of the essence, as many of Flue, a row of earth-cast sculptures made by these communities seem teetering on the Raleigh’s Thomas Sayre as a reflection on the brink of permanent financial ruin. town’s largely lost tobacco heritage.

Farmville actually recognized this and Or you can squander the day in one of the acted accordingly. Downtown storefronts state’s best breweries, Mother Earth, where appear to have been abandoned on a whim. a taproom of soft neon lights and sharp lines But Duck-Rabbit, a brewery that opened is almost discordant with the beer’s typically on the edge of the town’s industrial zone in robust character. You can sample the goods 2004, is actually succeeding with a growof its fledgling distillery during a tour, but,

ing network of distribution. The town was so desperate for a Kinston-style revitalization it helped Duck-Rabbit obtain a $125,000 grant for a taproom, a hopeful tourist magnet.

As we sat outside at a picnic table on a Saturday afternoon, a few pints of barleywine deep into a suntan and a novel, it seemed to be working.

Every few minutes, car tires would crunch the gravel driveway, or a posse of men on motorcycles would rip into unmarked spaces. Some customers talked like regulars, while others openly marveled that they had been able to find this place in a town they’d never visited.

When I paid my tab, the bartender essentially cut it in half and handed me half of a doppelbock six-pack. She knew we were from Raleigh but staying in Elm City, just two people trying to get away in a region where very few would think to look.

“Just tell your friends we’re here,” she said, smiling.

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n Sunday morning, we woke up a little late in our pale yellow Elm City bedroom, decorated cheerfully with lighthouses, rows of pulp fiction, and Native American statues, a tribute to early settlers of the region. We wandered into the dining room and found the table set with a spinach quiche Nell Cain had made that morning and fresh strawberries Jason had picked up Friday.

Nell told us about her childhood in Elm City and walked us through the various companies that had purchased the nearby electronics factory where both she and her husband had worked. The Bailey House is a de facto history museum for Elm City, where Nell has lived all her life. It’s lined with newspaper clippings about its past and diplomas from the town’s schools. She talked about former guests as if they were old friends, discussing their eccentricities and accents.

I wondered what she might say about us, the couple who had cruised through the graveyard on mountain bikes upon arrival and who had asked seemingly obsessive questions about businesses that were long since gone.

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he first thing I learned about the Outer Banks is that you don’t drive there at night. You especially don’t drive there at night during a torrential downpour. The reasons should have been obvious: N.C. 64, for the last hundred miles or so until you hit Manteo, is a desolate two-lane road in the middle of nowhere—no lights, no shoulder, just two lanes and a prayer that you make it to civilization safely.

We—me, my wife, Adri, and our two dogs, Belle and Sebastian—were driving from Durham to Duck, where we would encamp for the night in the top floor of a bucolic beach house three hundred feet from the ocean. We’d chosen Duck as our landing spot because of our dogs; specifically, it’s the only town in the Outer Banks that allows your pups to run the beach leashless year-round, and our dogs, born and raised on Florida beaches, very much like to run leash-less in the sand and surf.

The storm put us several hours behind schedule— for a good two hours, I was driving maybe 25 mph, trying not to die—and it was nearly midnight before we found our rental, a nice, comfortable place I’d nabbed on Airbnb, where we could slip in and out without having to bother (or even see) the homeowner, who lived below our guest space. It was affordable ($164 for a Friday night) because it was out of season. Try to rent

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a place like it between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and you’ll pay upward of $250–300 a night. We had much more space than we needed—a giant living room with a pullout sofa and two bedrooms, one of which had a bunk bed and a twin, perfect for the kids we don’t have—enough to bring a crew with us if we chose. We promptly crashed.

Come morning, we hit the beach. But first, we went in search of nourishment: Duck Donuts, of course, because when in Rome, but also a little breakfast joint we’d spotted down the road near Kitty Hawk called Stack ’Em High Pancakes. The former—a nascent chain that has spread throughout the state, including to Durham—makes donuts to order, meaning you decide what you want, the order goes in, you walk to the other side of the wooden, inlet-fronting pavilion, watch your donuts being made, then get your piping-hot box. They were delicious.

The same cannot be said for Stack ’Em High, where we stood in line for twenty minutes waiting to order and, twenty minutes after that, left behind barely touched plates of omelets and pancakes.

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informed us that, while they have outdoor seating, they nonetheless did not allow dogs. Finally, we happened upon a little storefront called Burger Burger, which had a small deck out front and enthusiastically welcomed our canines.

It hit all the right spots: the service was friendly, my local-fish sandwich was scrumptious, my wife’s burger satisfied her picky taste buds, the dogs got lots of French he second thing I learned about the Outer fry scraps, and there was an ample selection of Carolina Banks is that Duck doesn’t really want you on beer. (I got a Hoppyum.) its beaches.

A half-hour later, we found our home for the night, a Or at least, the town doesn’t make it easy for tourists. log cabin set against a woodsy backdrop about a halfThere’s plenty of beach access, but there’s nowhere to mile from the ocean, down a long, winding dirt road. legally park—unless, of course, you’re renting a house. So The house was beautiful but also a little eerie. (For I frantically texted our host, a room downstairs we paid asking if we could leave our a little over $200.) Here we car at his place even though wouldn’t have the whole we were supposed to be out by space to ourselves but would mid-morning. He graciously instead share with the agreed. homeowner, a Texan named The next three or four Dan who had coasters porhours—I dozed off and lost traying Johnny Cash’s and track of time—saw us loungJim Morrison’s mug shots ing on the beach, which we had but also had salsa constantly almost to ourselves, while our playing in the background. dogs first frolicked and then We set out for the beach, collapsed in an exhausted heap which was within eyeshot beside us. It was, in a word, of the famed lighthouse. Per resplendent: clear water, clear the local rules, the dogs were skies, a breeze whipping off the leashed. We went on a fortyocean, the sandy dunes and the five-minute walk through beachfront homes overlooking the deep sand, sinking to our them behind us. ankles with each step. Then That afternoon, we slowly we stopped, lay fully clothed made our way down mostly on our backs, and closed our two-lane Highway 12 for about eyes, letting the breeze and seventy miles toward Buxton, the sun and the salty waves near Hatteras on the southern from the incoming tide tickSHAKLEFORD BANKS end of OBX, where we would ling our feet wash away the stay the night. It took a couple week’s stress. of hours to get near where we Appropriately sunburned were going; the highway does and requisitely exhausted, not lend itself to speed. we drove back to our cabin But the views, especially as you inch toward Hatteras, in the (sorta) woods, grabbing a twelve-pack of the only are spectacular: a calm sound to your right, guarded by craft beer the nearby convenience store offered. We sat shrubs that lead to narrow pockets of sand. On a windy outside on Dan’s screened-in, second-story deck, sipped day, you’ll see parasailers and kite-surfers. On the other our beer, and listened to the world around us. (There side, sometimes shielded from view by massive dunes was a noise that sounded a whole lot like some creatures that reach into the sky, is the ocean, breakers whitegetting it on, though we never pinpointed what creacapping a few yards off-shore (much to the chagrin of tures they were or what exactly they were doing.) surfers).

Here again we rammed into what proved to be the We stopped for lunch about twenty minutes’ shy of vexing question of our trip: Where could we take the Buxton, mainly to kill time before our check-in with our dogs for dinner? Dan recommended a sports bar nearsecond Airbnb host but also to get a beer, because by this by called the Lighthouse Bar, which had a small deck point I’d spent eighteen hours of my weekend vacation out front. We sipped our beers but decided that, given sober as a preacher, and that needed rectification. the dark clouds gathering overhead, it might not be in Problem: with the mid-afternoon sun beating down our best interest to stick around for food. We instead above us, it was no longer cool enough to safely leave our grabbed a pizza to-go at a place called Angelo’s, and dogs in the car while we ate. Which meant we had to find went back to our abode, and called it a night. (The pie a dog-friendly spot, and that proved difficult. was … fine.)

One after another, the restaurants we passed

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n Sunday morning, we drove to the southern tip of Hatteras, where you can catch a ferry that takes you to the wild horses of Ocracoke.

We did not do that. Instead, we parked and walked to a gorgeous deserted beach that curves from ocean to sound, the shore break rolling in, backed by a stiff easterly wind, barely a soul in sight. We let the dogs run loose again—we weren’t supposed to; this was a leashes-only beach—but only for a second, until we heard the rumble of a four-wheel-drive truck heading around the corner.

It was not, it turns out, any sort of beach patrol, but rather a beach that is open to trucks. Trucks and dogs don’t mix, and, in any event, the heady wind was too sharp in the coolness of the young morning, so we were off, back up Highway 12.

As we made our way north, we came upon probably the weekend’s best discovery, a narrow-looking structure with a steep set of stairs leading to the front door: “Scratchmade Snackery,” the sign said. There we found a cornucopia of carb-heavy delights—golden brown, perfectly baked loaves of various breads, scones, cinnamon buns, cupcakes, muffins, a wonderful key lime concoction. Best of all, because it was Sunday morning, our entire haul was half off. We grabbed two loaves—one cheese-infused, the other infused with basically everything—and a bunch of other stuff for the road.

An hour later, thoroughly stuffed, we arrived back at Kitty Hawk, where—thanks to it being a windy Sunday in April rather that a hot Saturday in July—we easily scored parking about a hundred feet from the beach. Here again, we could let the dogs loose, but only because we were out of season: Kitty Hawk enforces a daytime leash law from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend.

Kitty Hawk’s beach is narrow, maybe fifteen yards from the high-water line to the four-foot dunes that separate the public space from the rental beach houses behind them. (Sebastian, our little King Charles spaniel, tried and hilariously failed to scale one of these things.)

They were also deserted, not another human being in eyeshot in either direction. Were the ferociously sharp early-afternoon wind not whipping sand into our faces and knocking over our beach chairs, we might have claimed this little slice of Eden for our own. Instead, after about twenty minutes, we’d had enough.

We made one last pit stop: Outer Banks Brewing Station, where I had a wonderful crab bisque and a highABV doppelbock followed by a forgettable session pale ale. The dogs were confined to the car, windows cracked.

(This is something we don’t usually do, but we parked under a shady tree and it was only sixty degrees.) This is unfortunate, as the brewpub has an amazing outdoor space that would be ideal for canine companionship.

But alas, they don’t allow it. The manager couldn’t offer much more of an explanation than “the owner said so.”

And so we piled back in the car and headed home.

This time, the four-hour drive, on a sunny Sunday afternoon, along the same vacant two-lane roads that had terrified me less than forty-eight hours earlier, with windows down and radio up, was anything but harrowing. Actually, it was almost sublime. l jbillman@indyweek.com INDYweek.com || 5.25.16 5.25.16 || 25 25 INDYweek.com

The Hot Summer 100

A checklist of the summer’s best concerts, readings, exhibits, performances, food events, and fests Each of the road trips we’ve suggested in this year’s summer guide will last you for a weekend, perhaps three days. That leaves more than three months of opportunities to sample a wealth of Triangle events, from the annual American Dance Festival and Festival for the Eno to concerts in the amphitheater of the North Carolina Museum of Art and big shows in the area’s music sheds.

For your planning purposes, we’ve gathered one hundred of those events into a handy pullout checklist.

Put it on the refrigerator, and enjoy the summer. ❑ JUNE 4: The Princess Bride, N.C. Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org

❑ MAY 24–29: ACC Baseball Championship, Durham Bulls Athletic Park, www.theacc.com ❑ MAY 27–30: Freedom Balloon Fest, Fuquay-Varina, www.wralfreedomballoonfest. com ❑ MAY 29: JAWSFest, The Baxter, www.baxterarcade.com ❑ JUNE 1: No BS! Brass Band, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu ❑ JUNE 2–5: Ginger Wagg’s AndAlwaysWhy, The Torus Building, www.didaseason.com ❑ JUNE 3: Bronwen Dickey & John Lane, Quail Ridge Books, www.quailridgebooks.com ❑ JUNE 3 & 4: Curtis Eller & Bipeds Dance Company, The Shed, www.shedjazz.com ❑ JUNE 4: Cyndi Lauper, Memorial Auditorium, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com 26 | 5.25.16 | INDYweek.com

❑ JUNE 12: Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon, Nightlight, www.nightlightclub.com ❑ JUNE 12: Dungen, Kings, www.kingsbarcade.com ❑ JUNE 12–25: Cirque de Vol’s The Fringe Dwellers, Murphey School Auditorium, www.burningcoal.org ❑ JUNE 13: La Dispute & Des Ark, Lincoln Theatre, www.lincolntheatre.com ❑ JUNE 14: Frazey Ford, Loamlands, Motorco, www.motorcomusic.com ❑ JUNE 14: Diane Rehm, McIntyre’s Books, www.fearrington.com ❑ JUNE 15: Skylar Gudasz, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu ❑ JUNE 16: Billy Strings & Town Mountain, American Tobacco Campus, www. americantobaccocampus.com ❑ JUNE 17: Kooley High, The Pinhook, www.thepinhook.com

❑ JUNE 5: Farm to Fork Picnic, Hurdle Mills, www.farmtoforknc.com

❑ JUNE 17: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers with Blue Cactus, Cat’s Cradle, www.catscradle.com

❑ JUNE 6: Body Games & Operator Music Band, Nightlight, www.nightlightclub.com

❑ JUNE 17–18: The Farm, Trust the Bus, www.culturemill.org

❑ JUNE 8: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Motorco, www.motorcomusic.com

❑ JUNE 18: Labyrinth with Cirque de Vol, N.C. Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org

❑ JUNE 8: Leyla McCalla, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu

❑ JUNE 18: Mad Skillz Plays Michael Jackson and Prince, Motorco, www.motorcomusic.com

❑ JUNE 8-19: All My Sons, Kennedy Theatre, www.theatreraleigh.com ❑ JUNE 10: Ellie Goulding, Red Hat Amphitheater, www.redhatamphitheater.com ❑ JUNE 10: PT Scarborough Is a Movie, DSI Comedy Theater, www.dsicomedytheater.com ❑ JUNE 10–26: The Glass Menagerie, Raleigh Little Theatre, www.raleighlittletheatre.org

❑ JUNE 10–11: North Carolina Symphony’s John Williams Festival, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, www.boothamphitheatre.org ❑ JUNE 10–12: real.live. people.durham’s Feature Presentation, Trotter Building, www.didaseason.com ❑ JUNE 10–25: Tiny Engine Theatre Company’s Cloud 9, Common Ground Theatre, Durham, www.cgtheatre.com

❑ JUNE 11: Anti-HB 2 Benefit: MAKE, In the Year of the Pig, Bad Friends, Natural Causes, No Eyes, Organos, & Flesh Wounds; Kings; www.kingsbarcade.com ❑ JUNE 11: Jon Lindsay, The Pour House, www.the-pour-house.com ❑ JUNE 11: M83, Red Hat Amphitheater, www.redhatamphitheater.com

❑ JUNE 19: Durham Father’s Day Food Truck Rodeo with Kaira Ba, Durham Central Park, www.durhamcentralpark.org ❑ JUNE 19: Jim Lauderdale & Jeanne Jolly, Motorco, www.motorcomusic.com ❑ JUNE 20 & 21: Savion Glover & Jack DeJohnette, Duke’s Page Auditorium, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu

❑ JULY 23: Big Lebowski The Dude Abides Party, N.C. Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org

❑ JULY 29: Maxwell and Fantasia, Red Hat Amphitheater, www.redhatamphitheater.com

❑ AUGUST 12: Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally, Durham Performing Arts Center, www.dpacnc.com

❑ JULY 23: Dragged Into Sunlight, Kings, www.kingsbarcade.com

❑ JULY 29–30: Paul Taylor Dance Company, DPAC, www. americandancefestival.org

❑ AUGUST 13: Iron & Wine, N.C. Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org

❑ JULY 23: Kool & The Gang, Bootsy Collins, Morris Day & The Time, Doug E. Fresh; Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek; www.livenation.com

❑ JULY 30: Todrick Hall, Meymandi Concert Hall, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com

❑ AUGUST 13: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, Durham Performing Arts Center, www.dpacnc.com

❑ JULY 24: Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle, Meymandi Concert Hall, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com ❑ JUNE 21: Weezer & Panic! at the Disco, Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, www.livenation.com

❑ JULY 1–2: Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane Dance Company, DPAC, www. americandancefestival.org

❑ JUNE 23: Pere Ubu, Cat’s Cradle, www.catscradle.com

❑ JULY 2 & 4: Festival for the Eno with Hiss Golden Messenger & Nikki Hill, West Point on the Eno, www.enoriver.org

❑ JUNE 24: All About America: Photographs by Burk Uzzle, Ackland Art Museum, www.ackland.org ❑ JUNE 24: Black Mountain, Cat’s Cradle, www.catscradle.com ❑ JUNE 24: Kool Keith, Local 506, www.local506.com ❑ JUNE 24–25: Stephen Petronio Company, DPAC, www.americandancefestival. org ❑ JUNE 25: Cirque de Vol; The Hell No, & Mad Max: Fury Road; N.C. Museum of Art; www.ncartmuseum.org ❑ JUNE 25: Tim Heidecker, Neil Hamburger, & Jenn Snyder; Cat’s Cradle; www.catscradle.com ❑ JUNE 26: Mitski, The Pinhook, www.thepinhook.com ❑ JUNE 29: Aesop Rock, Cat’s Cradle, www.catscradle.com ❑ JUNE 29: Mount Moriah, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu

❑ JULY 9: Aoife O’Donovan, Hayti Heritage Center, www.hayti.org ❑ JULY 11: Heather Havrilesky, The Regulator Bookshop, www.regulatorbookshop.com ❑ JULY 12: Steve Gunn, Kings, www.kingsbarcade.com

❑ JULY 3: Martine Gutierrez, CAM Raleigh, www.camraleigh.org

❑ JULY 13: Chuck Palahniuk, The Regulator Bookshop, www.regulatorbookshop.com

❑ JULY 5–7: John Jasperse, Reynolds Industries Theater, www.americandancefestival. org

❑ JULY 13: The Quebe Sisters, Blue Note Grill, www.thebluenotegrill.com

❑ JULY 6: Sierra Hull, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu ❑ JULY 6: Modest Mouse & Brand New, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, www.boothamphitheatre.com ❑ JULY 7: Oak City 7 with Shirlette Ammons, Raleigh City Plaza, www.oakcity7.com ❑ JULY 8: Kevin Smith Presents Yoga Hosers, Carolina Theatre, www.carolinatheatre.org ❑ JULY 8–24: 10 by 10 in the Triangle, The ArtsCenter, www.artscenterlive.org ❑ JULY 9: David Holt, David Wilcox, & David LaMotte; The Cary Arts Center; www.sixstringpresents.com

❑ JULY 13: William Tyler & Jake Xerxes Fussell, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu ❑ JULY 13–AUGUST 7: Truth to Power 4, Pleiades Gallery, www.pleiadesartdurham.com ❑ JULY 18: Flight of the Conchords, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, www.boothamphitheatre.com ❑ JULY 18: Freakwater, The Pinhook, www.thepinhook.com ❑ JULY 20–31: Violet, Paul Green Theatre, www.playmakersrep.org ❑ JULY 22: Peter Frampton & Gregg Allman, Red Hat Amphitheater, www.redhatamphitheater.com

Shirlette Ammons PHOTO BY KATHARINE DAVIDSON | MAKE FILE PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER Kool & The Gang PHOTO BY SILVIA MAUTNER | Mitski PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ

❑ JULY 24: Digable Planets & Camp Lo, Cat’s Cradle, www.catscradle.com ❑ JULY 24: Gwen Stefani, Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, www.livenation.com ❑ JULY 25: Marissa Nadler & Wrekmeister Harmonies, Cat’s Cradle Back Room, www.catscradle.com ❑ JULY 27: Black Twig Pickers, Duke Gardens, www. dukeperformances.duke.edu

❑ JULY 30: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Release Party, Flyleaf Books, www.flyleafbooks.com ❑ AUGUST 3: Boris & Earth, Cat’s Cradle, www.catscradle.com ❑ AUGUST 6: History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection, N.C. Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org ❑ AUGUST 7: Raleigh Evening Food Truck Rodeo, Fayetteville Street, www.downtownraleigh foodtruckrodeo.com ❑ AUGUST 12: Dixie Chicks, Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, www.livenation.com

❑ AUGUST 13: Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale, Fletcher Opera Theater, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com ❑ AUGUST 18–21: Charlie Murphy, Goodnights Comedy Club, www.goodnightscomedy.com ❑ AUGUST 19: Brian Wilson, Memorial Auditorium, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com ❑ AUGUST 20: B.J. Barham, Lincoln Theatre, www.lincolntheatre.com ❑ AUGUST 26: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, N.C. Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org ❑ AUGUST 26: David Liebe Hart, Pour House, www.the-pour-house.com ❑ AUGUST 27: Piedmont Regulators, Saxapahaw Rivermill, www.saxapahawnc.com ❑ AUGUST 31: Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, www.nasher.duke.edu ❑ SEPTEMBER 8: Dom Flemons Duo & The South Carolina Broadcasters, American Tobacco Campus, www. americantobaccocampus.com ❑ SEPTEMBER 8–10: Hopscotch Music Festival with Erykah Badu, Andrew Bird, Beach House, Young Thug, and more; Downtown Raleigh; www.hopscotchmusicfest.com Compiled by Grayson Haver Currin, Brian Howe, and Allison Hussey.

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At Durham’s Makus Empanadas, bright orange letters stretched across one wall deliver a big promise about the little pastries you’re about to eat.

“Our food is made with the belief,” it reads, “that lifelong memories can be formed around something simple.”

Family photos of the owners, brothers Hernan and Santiago Moyano and old pal Ricky Yofre, hang nearby. Together, the mantra and those captured moments suggest that Makus aims to evoke the fuzzy feelings of a close-knit family gathering in Buenos Aires. The first time I read the wall, I soon imagined happy people sipping Malbec and eating empanadas while communing in some lush cobblestone courtyard, the surrounding gardens draped in purple and blue jacaranda blooms.

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grabbing a quick bite at a generic cafe in a strip mall, which is mostly correct. Makus is essentially a fast-food eatery in Hope Valley Commons, the brick-and-mortar outgrowth of a long-standing corporate catering routine. To make a lifelong memory of that, the food will need to leave quite the mark.

Well, at least it left questions.

As I sauntered up to the counter, the music blaring overhead exacerbated the incongruity between the restaurant’s mission statement and atmosphere. Instead of focusing on which of the nine varieties of empanadas I wanted, I found myself musing over lyrics: “I’m slowly losing hold of everything I got/You’re looking so damn hot.”

I only learned later that this was “I Don’t Want This Night to End” by country star Luke Bryan, not an intentional jingle for Makus’s steaming empanadas. American pop-country

culture and Argentinian street food—what a novel combination.

The menu reflects a kindred fusion. There are classic South American flavors like chicken, beef, spinach, and corn, and another set clearly meant to tantalize the American palate—pepperoni, bacon, ham and cheese, and so on. Yes, these are re-creations of that American triumph of baked dough, the Hot Pocket, recast with a supposed South American flair.

In another patriotic homage, Makus nods to the fast-food value meal. You choose three empanadas, a drink, and a side for less than ten dollars. In true Argentinian style, this encourages samples of different fillings; in true American style (or so I thought), it would allow me to gorge for cheap.

My first observation when seeing the actual empanadas, though, was that I was going to need a few more. They were flaky and pip-

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Pittsboro, and May 29 at both Raleigh and Chapel Hill’s Southern Season. For Piedmont’s “Seasons of the Sea” series, Greg Gettles will take a different approach by grilling, chopping, and serving two large cobia, just as Fertel’s subjects do with a hog.

celebration of both sides of food production, begins a three-day slate of suppers, picnics, and extravagant dinners next week. Consider this a small preview: Lil’ Farm owner George O’Neal, one of the most colorful personalities in Triangle www.rienfertel.com farming, will cut old-fashioned shaved ice on the patio of The Durham Hotel and serve it with www.piedmontrestaurant.com strawberries grown on his farm. Watch him work NOT A GAG Wednesday, May 25, from five to eight p.m.

Here’s the deal with The Doughman: Four www.thedurham.com eaters-gone-athletes take turns devouring a course and then finishing a short physical BARBECUE HOT task—a 5K, perhaps, or a ten-mile bike ride. For For his new book, The One True Barbecue: Fire, the eighth year, the menu looks fantastic, with Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole cupcakes and jackfruit barbecue and chana Hog, acclaimed food writer Rien Fertel traipsed across the region to talk barbecue with traditional masala. After Saturday, though, you may not keepers of the flame. He returns for a reading tour want them again for a long time. Registration runs $150. of the turf—May 27 at The Regulator, May 28 in

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again offering no bread to temper the processed dog. In all my years, I had never longed for an old-fashioned hot dog in a fluffy, white-andbrown bun more than I did when sampling the empadog. Perhaps pinnacle is the wrong word...

Surprisingly, the simple shortbread cookies— offered in cinnamon, vanilla, and lemon varieties—were the real treat. These dense, buttery delights were born to go with an espresso or cortado, though Makus only offers drip coffee.

Maybe coffee suggests lingering in an Argentinian cafe rather than dipping into a fast-food spot, but Makus already crosses that line by offering Argentinian wines and American craft beers.

Fusion is an active field in the region’s food scene, whether handed down from the multiethnic window of the Boricua food truck or delivered in the hominy-heavy macaroni and cheese of Luna Rotisserie, whose empanadas scoff at Makus’s own hybridized efforts.

Yes, Makus crosses similarly international boundaries—and, in the form of fast food, quickly. But it’s mostly a trip to nowhere. In the years when Chubby’s stood out in the local food scene, Makus might have enjoyed similar prestige. But other local chefs are already beyond the next level, in the same vein for the same price.

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ing hot but so tiny that I tried them all on my first visit. At $2.50 each, these extra empanadas soon equal the cost of a separate sit-down meal elsewhere.

Served on a bright orange strip of paper laid over an industrial metal tray, much like what you would expect to see during a doctor’s visit, each empanada comes “branded” with the initials of its respective name near the crimped edge. It took me longer to read the breaded letters than to eat the empanada bites—a clever ruse, Makus.

The shredded chicken was pleasantly spiced, the ground beef overly so. The novel sweet corn mingled well with the piquant chimichurri, a sauce traditionally used for grilled meats but at Makus meant for dunking savory pastries. The intense flavor of the pepperoni sausage overwhelmed the pastry, a combination only slightly better than a frozen Hot Pocket. And the bland cheese stuffed into almost all of the empanadas is barely worthy of the hot, crisp dough it occupies.

The chipa bread, a famous Argentinian treat, arrives as tiny balls of chewy, cheesy dough.

Again, it was so small that the tasty insides could not balance the dark skin of overcooked cheese. It left an acrid, burnt taste, marring what should have been a very simple pleasure.

At Makus, the pinnacle of Ameri-Argentine quick cuisine is the “empadog,” a thick hot dog ensconced in a crispy layer of baked empanada dough. But the crust around this giant version of a pig-in-a-blanket is thin enough to be pointless,

RALEIGH BREWING COMPANY

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Tucked on a side road between an Applebee’s and a Waffle House is a beer-lover’s multiplex at Raleigh Brewing Company. The twenty-barrel brewhouse and taproom are attached to a brewing supply store. Though that interior entices through the smell of sweet malt, an outdoor corral of picnic tables offers the best place to sit, sun, and sip on the brewery’s newest seasonal—a zippy blood orange wheat beer.

Originally known as the Big Squeeze, the draft took its name from a period of statewide economic hardship. Governor O. Max Gardner encouraged farmers to grow edible products, like corn and tomatoes, rather than the cash crops of cotton and tobacco. But when the bigger brewery Harpoon issued a shandy called the Big Squeeze, Raleigh Brewing reconsidered a name it had yet to trademark. The beer now goes by First Squeeze, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the original moniker.

Though the Squeeze is a wheat beer, it’s distinct from a hefeweizen or a Belgian wit. The difference comes from the style of yeast that American wheat beers use. Hefeweizens use a German strain that tastes of bananas, while the Belgian variety packs a punch of clove. Instead, the American ale strain offers a clean, neutral flavor. Since the piquancy comes from added ingredients, rather than a pervasive yeast character, you’ll often see American wheat beers made with delicate flavors, like fruit.

“That’s what makes it really drinkable,” explains Raleigh Brewing’s production manager and head brewer, Alex Smith. “What I love about the Squeeze is that the wheat gives it this great, creamy mouthfeel. There’s no vanilla, but I get a light, refreshing Creamsicle effect from the wheat, then a pop of citrus.”

When the Squeeze is poured, it arrives golden and hazy, a slightly frothy head on top—so quintessential, it looks like the beer emoji. It smells of straw and honey and tastes like a dollop of orange marmalade served atop toast.

A simple recipe of wheat, malted barley, and caramel malts (for that enticing tawny color) gives the beer its backbone. But it’s the blood orange peels, added in the boil and again after fermentation, that provide the special zing. Lightly carbonated and mighty refreshing, this estival ale works just as well poolside as it does at the taproom’s picnic tables.

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Not Your Platform

FINDING PERSONAL MEANING AND COMFORT DURING AN OPERA ABOUT TRANS ISSUES IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

BY LILY CAROLLO What struck me first was the amazing operatic sound emanating from the North Carolina General Assembly.

I had never before been to an opera, so perhaps this music was ordinary in its extraordinariness. But still, the amount of effort and finesse in sustaining those songs was astounding, powerful, and resonant.

When I arrived at the Thursday afternoon performance of The Body Politic in the auditorium of the state’s legislative building last week, five people stood on the low stage, each with a music stand. The accompaniment was simply piano.

This was a concert only, not a fully staged production. But the text is what mattered.

The Body Politic follows a boy as he navigates American identity politics after fleeing Taliban-era Kabul. Written by University of North Carolina School of the Arts graduates Charles Osborne and Leo Hurley, the play is loosely based on Ovid’s tale of Iphis, a girl who is raised and disguised as a boy so her father doesn’t kill her. The gods eventually turn her into a boy in response to continued prayers from his mother. Sound relevant in Raleigh right now?

Indeed, the opera was originally intended to open in New York following its world premiere at the Boston Center for the Arts earlier this month. After the passage of House Bill 2, though, Hurley and Osborne decided to bring it back home, deploying a crowdfunding effort to make a detour for the legislators in Raleigh. Their hope, they’ve said, was to inspire “civil discourse through art.”

The crowd filled about a third of the auditorium, with attentive news crews perched with cameras, pens, and pads along the sides. Only after I entered the building did I realize the risk I’d taken. As a transgender woman in North Carolina, I wouldn’t have legally been allowed to use the women’s bathroom while attending the opera in this public building. Then and there, though, I vowed to myself that even being in the heart of North Carolina’s discriminatory government wouldn’t have stopped me.

But I didn’t need the bathroom. Instead, I paid close attention to the songs, spotting several key phrases that resonated with my experience both in this skin and in this state.

“My body is not a soapbox,” Iphis says near the end. “I do not exist for you to preach your body politics.”

To the detriment of my mental health, that’s a feeling I’ve had every day since HB 2 passed. I’ve had to see my therapist for the first time in months. The past few weeks have been

especially difficult, as depression continues to deepen in a place that continues to focus on which bathroom I use.

Supporters of the law oversimplify the body and biology. Yes, aside from rare medical conditions, sex is a binary, but that doesn’t mean you get to ignore disorders of sexual development, which includes gender dysphoria. This is an extreme discomfort with the primary or secondary sex characteristics of one’s body. The biological basis for this condition hasn’t been determined, but lots of research suggests the cause comes from the brain.

When that someLeo Hurley (left) and Charles Osborne, the writers of The Body Politic thing is thrown off, PHOTO BY CHARLES OSBORNE as happens with hope that there might be another life, another chance; that gender dysphoria, feelings of wanting a male or belief inspired me through my transition and through today, female body or something in-between (“feelto tomorrow, and into the rest of my life. ing like a man or a woman”) can only be met Life since my transition has been harder than I had imagby transitioning. That urge isn’t something ined.

The process is an experience I don’t think you can I’ve sought. appreciate fully without enduring it. So I found some strange, This misunderstanding of a medical condefiant comfort in an early portion of the opera: “Just do what dition makes acceptance incredibly hard, you’re told.

Don’t make the world harder for yourself,” Iphis’s another issue addressed in the opera. Iphis mother tells him. and Eugene talk about leaving Chapel Hill In October 2012, when I began therapy for my struggles and beginning new lives in New York because with gender, I didn’t intend to transition. I recognized the they simply aren’t fitting in—Iphis because of gender dysphosocietal benefits of being a white man in America, like no pay ria, Eugene because he’s a drag queen. gap or catcalling.

In that past life, elected officials and enterI’ve had to deal with such isolation and feelings of escape since tainers amply represented my kind in culture. I didn’t have HB 2 cleared the governor’s desk. I don’t feel welcome here; as I to worry about discrimination with employment, housing, or prepare for my first year at UNC-Chapel Hill, I fear I will have to dating. If I transitioned, I knew I would have to worry about live with this feeling until I graduate or the law is overturned. No, all of that while also stressing over surviving my transition Iphis, I don’t have the option of fleeing Chapel Hill. (the attempted suicide rate of the transgender population is “You have one body. The one that I gave you,” Iphis’s mothabout 40 percent), passing as a woman in public, and afforder tells him during one of their many arguments. One of my ing things like hormones and surgeries. most recurring thoughts since I transitioned—and one I Still, I decided I had no choice. imagine I’ll have the rest of my life—is that this body is the Sitting in a room in a legislature that seems to believe othonly one I’ll ever get. My one and only chance to be born a girl erwise, I hoped for more civil discourse, through opera or in this life is gone. But I never really had a chance, did I? merely through understanding. l The only circumstances that could have given rise to me, to Twitter: @alittlelilypad my consciousness, is this exact situation. I maintain the small 5.25.16 33 INDYweek.com | 5.25 16 || 33

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No Exceptions

THE NEW COLOSSUS UPDATES CHEKHOV FOR AN ENTITLED, INFANTILE INTERNET AGE

BY BYRON WOODS

Early in The New Colossus, a visit between two childhood friends suddenly takes a bitter turn. “You’ve always thought you were better than the rest of us,” snipes Paulina (Susannah Hough), a small-town hausfrau with a Betty Crocker complex. She’s angry with Irina (J Evarts), a former local actorturned-soap opera star who now returns home only under duress. The imperious Irina ridicules the accusation with an indulgent, mocking laugh, before asking, “How else could I have survived?”

Thus playwright Tamara Kissane broaches the subject of her rich contemporary adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull at Manbites Dog Theater. Surely we all like to think of ourselves as special. But then there are those like Irina and her son, a troubled video artist named Konrad, who believe themselves to be so special that the rules of civility, social intercourse, and even basic humanity no longer apply.

Tom Wolfe explored this kind of exceptionalism among Wall Street’s self-styled “masters of the universe” in The Bonfire of the Vanities, and we’re seeing it again in present-day American politics. The unfounded, convenient belief that one’s own region, race, religious faith, or political system is intrinsically superior to all others has made an impact on every recent national election.

By contrast, this Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern premiere indicates the degree to which its interpersonal analogue has crept into the American psyche.

In a year when political forces have endangered the common good in order to deny equal status to a certain class, The New Colossus is the second regional show in which characters just as doggedly deny equality to family members and lovers, based on their perceived differences. As journalistic gravitas formed a dividing line between necessary and expendable humans in January’s memorable Time Stands Still, interpersonal equality is granted only for artistic achievement, with equally problematic results, in The New Colossus.

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Nebbishy teacher Meddie (Lazarus Simmons) has Konrad (a mercurial Alex Jackson) pegged when he calls his earnest but muddy multimedia performance “an excuse for you ... to rub our faces in your artistic juices.” But by then, Irina has already rubbed Konrad’s face in something fouler.

After heckling and derailing his performance, she dismisses it as “post-apocalyptic garbage.” Meanwhile, thriller novelist Trig (a deft Jaybird O’Berski) demurs on economic grounds: “It doesn’t matter anyway.

It’s all about marketing. You don’t need to make good art ... it’s about who’s buying what you’re selling.”

Faced with such lacerating advice, Konrad has as little chance of artistically blossoming as he has of not becoming a raging narcissist.

We see this in his neglect of the dying uncle he’s being paid to care for. Though Konrad defiantly tells his mother his art will change the world, he shows no interest when Meddie begs him to help document the hellish public school where he works. Instead, Konrad makes ugly, infantile Internet attacks on his supposed muse, Nina, (Alice Rose Turner), after they’ve broken up.

Konrad’s obsessive video documentation of virtually everything he sees suggests something potentially even darker: the possibility that nothing in his life, including him, is sufficiently real unless he can capture it on screen. His alarming emotional meltdowns when his intimates won’t go on camera—plus a desperate admission that he’s “disappearing”—suggest a borderline personality disorder for the YouTube age, in which the only remaining personal boundaries are the edges of a video frame.

Director Dana Marks elicits strong moments from this talented ensemble, and Nicola Bullock’s disquieting choreography for Irina stuns us at mid-show. Though I didn’t believe that musician Masha (Mara Thomas) was carrying the torch for Konrad, her quietly devastating late-night scene with Nina captured the justified discomfort

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A Pair of Ragged Claws THE LOBSTER SURREALLY SKEWERS SOCIETY’S FEAR OF SINGLE PEOPLE

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Few films are as disturbing or funny as writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos's latest.

That it manages to be both at once is an even rarer feat. As the leading light of what some critics call a "weird wave" of Greek cinema, Lanthimos is benefiting from international financing and Hollywood stars for the first time in The Lobster. Yet he and screenwriting collaborator Efthymis Filippou haven't compromised the dark, often bizarre view of human relations they developed in Dogtooth and Alps.

Where those films focused on isolated communities, The Lobster expands Lanthimos's theater of the absurd to encompass all of society. In a dystopian world that's more funhouse mirror than science fiction, single people are rounded up and taken to a hotel where they have forty-five days to find a suitable mate. If they fail, they're transformed into the animal of their choice. Call it the totalitarianism of the couple.

Left by his wife, David (Colin Farrell) goes to the hotel with his brother, who is now a border collie. When asked what animal he would like to be should he not "make it," he chooses a lobster because they have long lives, maintaining virility into old age. "And I like the sea, very much," he adds.

“A lobster is an excellent choice,” the hotel manager (Olivia Colman) replies. “The first thing most people think of is a dog, which is why the world is full of dogs.” The film’s weird, stilted dialogue reflects an infantile

and traumatized social psychology. It’s a testament to Lanthimos and his incredible cast that their performances carry real pathos.

The lonely-hearts’ attempts to connect are as forced as their speech. Though never explicitly defined, the rule of coupledom demands a "suitable match" based on some arbitrary personal characteristic: a limp, nearsightedness, a taste for berries. Dishonesty runs rampant.

John (Ben Whishaw), one of David's friends and competitors, slams his face into furniture in order to woo a young woman who has chronic nosebleeds (Jessica Barden). Everyone glumly accepts this as the way of the world, with increasingly horrifying consequences for David. Meanwhile, the Loners, a community of single rebels, lead ascetic lives in the woods outside the hotel, terrorizing mainstream society and punishing one another for any more physical intimacy than an awkward hug.

As a satire of modern romance, The Lobster is pretty obvious: we worship the idea of romantic love, but do everything in our power to make sure it never happens. When David finally meets the love of his life (Rachel Weisz), however, the narrative ascends from farce to tragedy. It’s a degree of emotional directness that Lanthimos has avoided until now; that he achieves it so beautifully suggests even greater things in his future. l Twitter: @traxus4420 Editor's note: The Lobster's release was delayed until June 3 as this issue went to press.

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05.25–06.01 SATURDAY, MAY 28–MONDAY, MAY 30

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

“O heaven,” says Proteus, “were man but constant, he were perfect.” And Proteus would know: After exchanging rings with Julia, he travels to Milan and falls so hard for the Duke’s daughter that he offers her Julia’s ring and snitches out his best friend, Valentine, who’s planned to elope with her. (All together now: Men. Hmph.) Over the next month, Bare Theatre presents Shakespeare’s play, free, at six unconventional public spaces across the region, including an office park in RTP, a Hillsborough bar, and Durham’s Brightleaf Square. This weekend, it’s five daytime shows outside of the N.C. Museum of History (where a copy of the First Folio is on exhibit). Tour locations, dates, and times are on the company’s website. —Byron Woods N.C. MUSEUM OF HISTORY, RALEIGH Various times, free, www.baretheatre.org

FRIDAY, MAY 27–SUNDAY, MAY 29

ANIMAZEMENT

If the words “Dragon Ball Z” just make you wonder what happened to the first twenty-five dragon balls and Ghost in the Shell isn’t your Citizen Kane, you might surmise that there’s nothing for you at Animazement, Raleigh’s annual anime and manga convention. But in fact, the festival’s mission to showcase Japanese culture goes far beyond drawings of saucer-eyed tykes who always seem to be crying, sweating, shouting, or doing all three at once. Japanese guests at the festival this year include classical and jazz musician Toshiyuki Watanabe, who will conduct the Duke University String School in a selection of his works; astronaut Soichi Noguchi, a Discovery crew member; ska band OreSkaBand; and double Dutch team J-TRAP. Of course, many more guests come from the world of anime writing, art, animation, direction, and voice acting, and there will be all the autograph lines, video game tournaments, cosplay contests, themed panels, karaoke, J-pop dance-offs, and artist and dealer tables you can chuck a shoryuken at. —Brian Howe RALEIGH CONVENTION CENTER, RALEIGH 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Fri. and Sat./9 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun., $25–$65, www.animazement.com 36 | 5.25.16 | INDYweek.com

+ SUNDAY, MAY 29

JAWSFEST

The annual JAWSFest moves a few blocks east for this year’s nautical adventure. The celebration needed, well, a bigger boat than its traditional home at Carrboro’s The Station, so it moved to “Chapelboro”—that is, Midway businesses including Al’s Burger Shack, Beer Study, and Local 506. The Baxter is JAWSFests’s hub and will screen the event’s shark-infested namesake at nine p.m. Meanwhile, music at the 506 skews toward enjoyably goofy local standbys, particularly the stampeding sword-and-sorcery metal of Colossus. Durham good-times indie trio Hammer No More the Fingers (who issued an album appropriately titled Black Shark in 2011) share the marquee.

They make appropriate headliners; given the bands’ area longevity, some of the regulars in the room should even know the words to some of their songs—and to JAWS itself.

Blood Red River, Dogs Eyes, Lay Away, Almost People, Natural Causes, and Youth League round out this fine free show.

—Corbie Hill LOCAL 506 & THE BAXTER, CHAPEL HILL 3 p.m., free, www.baxterarcade.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

AUDIO UNDER THE STARS AT THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES (P. 46), BELOVED BINGE AT THE PINHOOK (WWW.INDYWEEK.COM), A GIANT DOG AT LOCAL 506 (P. 41), IF/THEN AT DPAC (P. 44), MERLE HAGGARD TRIBUTE AT KINGS (P. 39),YOUSUF ZAFAR AT THE CARRACK (P. 43)

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 27–SUNDAY, JUNE 5

THURSDAY, MAY 26

HUGHIE

HOMETOWN HEROZ

True, the human barnacles that clung to the edges of the New York underworld in 1928 rarely used terms like “existential crisis.” Still, that’s what Erie Smith is having, now that Hughie, a nondescript night clerk at a third-rate midtown residential establishment, is dead. In their all-night gab fests, Smith had been able to paint himself as a ladies’ man, a high roller, and a wise-guy confidant.

Now that mirror’s gone, as Erie briefs the new guy at the front desk about the man he replaced in Eugene O’Neill’s atmospheric, two-person, one-act drama.

In a rare bit of stunt casting, actors Brook North and David Klionsky trade roles nightly in this South Stream production. —Byron Woods

MOTORCO, DURHAM 9 p.m., $12–$15, www.motorcomusic.com

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DUKE GARDENS, DURHAM 7 p.m., $5–$10, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

NO BS! Brass Band

NO BS! BRASS BAND

If you are a brass band purist, devoted to the tropes and norms of the original New Orleans sound, you may call, well, BS on Richmond’s NO BS! Brass Band. They rap through megaphones and drop down into drum-heavy sociopolitical chants, get wild and weird and free when they feel like it and, in general, bring a proud tradition into loud, jubilant, eruptive glory. The horn lines are excellent, the tones crisp. The rhythms are raucous, the drum section swinging. These are high-tier players, after all, many of them studio musicians linked with the likes of Bon Iver or their city’s own Spacebomb production house. But on stage, the need for bona fides and credentials falls away fast, as NO BS! basks in the energy of its own sounds, all smiles and shout-outs—from and for the crowd, at once. This should be a perfect start to Duke Performances’ excellent summer series. —Grayson Haver Currin

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Most artists on Hometown Heroz, a Carolina-based hip-hop showcase, are indeed young regional torchbearers. Kinston native Jackie Spade, for instance, earned some glow last year as a spitter selected for the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher. Littleton’s Shamiere Jackson, or Swank, began blazing his trail last year with two bold projects and updates of Ginuwine classics and a Sampha cut. Upstart Raleigh club charmer and image guru ZenSoFly has already been celebrated by some as the “mayor” of the city’s new music identity. While the remaining rascals on this bill, Rodney Wright and Gentry, have a way to go before they reach similar levels, they’ll be forced to step their games up in the company of such quickly rising peers. In the context of this show, everyone’s a hero for assuming such lofty local responsibilities. Cheer them on, and you may hear pieces of the state’s musical future. —Eric Tullis

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music WED, MAY 25 N.C. Heritage Awards FUNKED During the last UP quarter-century, the North Carolina Heritage Awards have amassed an impressive roster of alumni, each devoted either to maintaining the state’s extant folk traditions or adding to and updating them. This year, two Vietnamese weavers, three Carteret County boatbuilders, Balsam Range banjo player Marc Pruett, and singer Sheila Kay Adams earn the honor. The main event, though, is undoubtedly Maceo Parker, the funk saxophonist with the bold tone and ageless swagger. He, along with the rest of the year’s musical recipients, will perform tonight.

Here’s hoping he’s the grand finale. —GC [FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, $25/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: Clark Stern & Chuck Cotton; 8 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: The Longleaf Pine Nuts; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: We Are Scientists; 8 p.m., $15. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Peter Lamb & The Wolves; 5:30 p.m., $5, 12 and under free. • LOCAL 506: Air Traffic Controller; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • MOTORCO: Hot Club of Cowtown, Dissimilar South; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • NIGHTLIGHT: 919Noise May Showcase: Lost Trail, Joules, MichaelThomasJackson, Powercloud; 8:30 p.m., $5. • THE PINHOOK: Just Jess, The Second Wife; 9 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Igor & Red Elvises, Stump Tail Dolly; 9 p.m., $12– $15. • THE STATION: Ramblin’ Fever Psychedelic/Cosmic Country Night; 9 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Tom Carter; 8 p.m., $10.

THU, MAY 26 The Affectionates FEEL THE With the new “I Pick LOVE You,” Durham’s The Affectionates offer a rollicking rock song lifted by bright violin licks. The track is rough around the edges, immediately infectious at the core. M Is We opens, while

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Ellis Dyson & the Shambles

BULLYGiven such a WOOD positive reaction to its Shakori Hills set earlier this month, this edition of Dishoom’s dance series installation should have The Pinhook overflowing with “a new mix of a crowd,” as lead DJ, Rang, puts it. After a short hiatus, the original Dishoom crew of dhol player G2 and percussionist Brevan Hampden will reunite in hopes of turning downtown Durham into one huge Bollywood dance. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $10/9 P.M.]

SHAMBLE Ellis Dyson & the ON Shambles pick up the ragtime-inspired folk-rock mantle that Holy Ghost Tent Revival dropped when it veered toward indie rock. Dyson and company’s songs are tight, light, and sweet. Steph Stewart & the Boyfriends open with warmhearted folk, plus the Tan and Sober Gentlemen. —AH [KINGS, $5–$8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY

FRI, MAY 27 Caravan Palace NOT If you’ve ever SWING thought swing music was missing thumping EDM beats, Caravan Palace is for you. Instead of horns and a rhythm section, they have piles of synths and sequencers. And singers who at least gesture toward Billie and Ella. Tea Cup Gin opens. —DR [CAT’S CRADLE, $20–23/8 P.M.]

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Magician Michael Casey bends your brain with sleights of hand in between. —AH [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

510 GLENWOOD: Albannach; 7 p.m., $10–$15. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Fantastico!, Henbrain; 8:30 p.m., $7. • DEEP SOUTH: Bare the Traveler, The Ivory, Magnolia, But You Can Call Me John, Take the Fall, Clever Measures, The Starless; 7:30 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Honey Magpie; 6:30 p.m. Salsa Latin Dancing; 9 p.m.

Marimjazzia; 9:30 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Ryan Hutchens; 7 p.m. • MOTORCO: Hometown Heroz: Rodney Wright, Jackie Spade, Gentry, ZenSoFly, Swank; 9 p.m., $12– $15. See page 37. • PARK WEST VILLAGE: Bull City Syndicate; 6 p.m., free. • THE PINHOOK: Beloved Binge, Horizontal Hold; 9 p.m., $7. See indyweek.com. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Blanko Basnet, Seepeoples, From Bears; 8:30 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: Temple Crusher, Birth the Wretched, Flytrap; 9 p.m., $5.

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SATURDAY, MAY 28

MERLE HAGGARD TRIBUTE “Even if your politics were left of center, chances are you sang ‘Okie from Muskogee’ at some point in your life,” says Chip Robinson of the Merle Haggard hit. “It’s just a great song from a man who wrote a lot of great songs.” Robinson, who has written some great numbers himself with The Backsliders, will cover his Haggard favorites while headlining a tribute to the career of the singer he calls “the working man’s poet laureate.”

The lineup also features the new rootsy combo Wayleaves (featuring veteran Triangle rockers from acts like Polvo and The Cherry Valence) and classic country supergroup TONK, which will tap Haggard’s more obscure material, according to drummer Ben Barwick. “With Merle, there are so many amazingly great masterpieces,” Barwick says, “you could probably throw a dart to pick them.”

“I really admired how, like Johnny Cash, Haggard was never afraid to grow and evolve as a human, yet he stayed true to himself up until he died,” says David Burney, frontman of the impeccable Cash tribute act Johnny Folsom 4. For this show, they’ll take on Haggard, too. “He never conformed, and he never lost that sense of who he was.”

Though this is hardly the only tribute to the Hag we’ll see in the Triangle, Merle’s influence on this lineup is apparent, both in how TONK’s originals owe him a clear stylistic debt and through the rebellious spirit that Robinson often channels. “Haggard was synonymous with the Bakersfield sound—music that was more honest and swinging than the pap that was coming out of Nashville at the time,” says Robinson. “Merle lived what he sang about, and you could tell it from his delivery.”

—Spencer Griffith KINGS, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $8, www.kingsbarcade.com

Colleen vs. Cancer FUCK Since her January CANCER diagnosis of stage IIIB cervical cancer, Colleen Weatherly has fought through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and other treatments, stacking up medical expenses. Fortunately, her friends and family have been fighting, too, to raise funds to

offset those costs. Tonight’s show is one more step toward helping Weatherly. Colossus headlines with a grinning revival of classic metal’s soaring melodies. No Love and Pie Face Girls offer complementary sets of furious and infectious punk. It’s a killer triple bill on any night, and this time, the proceeds go to help a neighbor in need. —BCR [SLIM’S, $20–$30/8 P.M.]

Dangermuffin BEACHY Dangermuffin BUMS makes music meant for a Guy Harvey shirt, a pair of Sperrys, and some unnecessary Croakies. Ambling along to laid-back grooves with easygoing melodies, the conscious South Carolina trio delivers lightweight fluff from the intersection of roots

SPARTAN Performing solo with ROCK a collection of pawn-shop instruments, Lincoln Durham strips dark blues rock to its foundations. His minimal percussion and simple riffs frame a growling, gospel-twisting voice that suggests Jack White and Nick Cave. Durham fills his latest effort, Revelations of a Mind Unraveling, with shadowy tales and Southern Gothic signifiers.

Dex Romweber offers a more faithful revival of old Americana.

—BCR [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Lindi Ortega NEOLindi Ortega hails COUNTRY from Canada, but her style will take you back to sixties Nashville. Mix that with a side of alt-country and one of the most alluringly idiosyncratic voices under the Americana umbrella, and you’ve got one of the most distinctive neo-country stylists around. Her moody, melancholy tunes creep up on you. Jeremy Squires opens. —JA [MOTORCO, $14–$16/8 P.M.]

PULSE Electronic Dance Party ROARING Some drugs are 20S illegal, but Raleigh’s EDM party series PULSE is not.

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The bacchanal returns this month with a twenties theme, so don your best Gatsby gear for a night of anachronistically knocking bass music. —DS [LINCOLN THEATRE, $10–$13/9 P.M.]

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros HUDDLE This ten-member UP NOW shiny, happy collective achieved ubiquity with the 2009 album Up from Below, which featured the twinkling “Home” (NFL and Microsoft used it) and the pomp-filled “Janglin’” (Ford). On this year’s messy PersonA, they ditch the big hooks and marauding-gang choruses for knottier compositions that pay direct homage to rock’s bygone days. “Somewhere” blinks at “Here Comes the Sun,” while “Perfect Time” suggests a musical-theater mash-up of “Oh! You Pretty Things” and “Perfect Day.” —MJ [N.C. MUSEUM OF ART, $27–$45/6:30 P.M.]

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• MERCURY STUDIO: Jack the Radio; 7 p.m. •MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Joshua King and Jordan Powers; 8:30 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: L. Lewis, Nick Klein, Liquid Asset, Housefire; 9:30 p.m., $7. • NORTHGATE MALL: Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos, John Dee Holeman; 6:30 p.m., free. • PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: Steve Hartsoe; 8 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ariel Pocock Trio; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • THE STATION: Kitty Box & The Johnnys, Taz Halloween, Stu Cole; 8:30 p.m., $5.

• THE STAG’S HEAD: AirCrash Detectives; 8 p.m., $5.

SAT, MAY 28 !!!, Stereolad

ROCK Just under a year RELEASE since releasing Flamingos, a six-track collection of alt-rock with ambitions that point toward arena-filling acts like The Black Keys and Kings of Leon, Young Cardinals debut a visual companion to the album, described by the band as a “short film or a very long music video.”

Directed by Patrick Shanahan, the film will roll before the Raleighbased three-piece takes the stage.

Ivy Stone sprinkles high-octane originals between classic rock covers, while Thick Modine adds Southern swagger to garage rock.

With 100 Yorktown. —SG [POUR HOUSE, $5–$7/9 P.M.]

FLIP THE When the New York LOOPS party-funk outfit !!! plays, they work hard. Sweaty jams like the bass-heavy “All U Writers” and the George Michael-nodding “Freedom ’15,” both from last year’s As If, require band and crowd to max out their energy levels. But !!! isn’t satisfied with doing just one set; they’ll be opening for themselves as their Stereolab-saluting alter ego Stereolad, charging through amped-up (and appropriately tight) versions of their references.

—MJ [CAT’S CRADLE, $15/8:30 P.M.]

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ARCANA: One Track Mind; 10 p.m., $5. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Good Rocking Sam; 8 p.m., $8. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • CARRBORO FARMERS MARKET: Wilbur Tharpe, Spencer Branch; 6:30 p.m. • THE CAVE: Nefarious Characters, Inner Prolific; 9 p.m., $5.

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FEEL IT An eclectic group of YET? Tar Heel acts, from Greensboro punk/ska group Corporate Fandango to Hillsborough alt-country rockers Eno Mountain Boys, band together to help Bernie Sanders in the closing weeks of the primary campaign. This all day-show will collect campaign contributions.

There’s also a five-dollar pre-show

on Friday night at The Maywood.

—PB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $15–$18/2 P.M.]

Blue Cactus NOT As Blue Cactus, PRICKLY Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez step away from the contemporary folk tunes they craft under the Steph Stewart & the Boyfriends banner. Together, the two offer more strippeddown, old-fashioned country.

These acoustic tunes should sound lovely outside in Saxapahaw. —AH [SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL, FREE/6 P.M.]

Bobby Bryson & The Company SMALL Songwriter Bobby TOWN Bryson once said he used to be a prostitute on a strip of U.S. 301 in Wilson before being saved by a preacher. Not sure about that, but the assertion does speak to the trained multi-instrumentalist’s Saturday-sinner-Sunday-saint country-rock tendencies, which are redolent of Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell. With Season & Snare and Paper Dolls.

—PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Caramel City: Divinity Roxx BOLD Following its most ROXX successful festival to date, the Art of Cool Project returns to its monthly soul series with star bassist and soul-rock rapper Divinity Roxx. There’ll be no lack of spectacle here. Twice before, Roxx has toured with Beyoncé as the R&B icon’s bassist and music director, which may have helped inform the Victor Wooten-approved singer-songwriter’s subsequent solo albums—2012’s The Roxx Boxx Experience and this year’s ImPossible. It’s an unconventional pick for Caramel City’s casual tendencies—but a genius one, too. With Rahbi. —ET [POUR HOUSE, $8–$10/9 P.M.]

The Menders RAW One moment The ROOTS Menders are busting out some down-and-dirty,

fuzz-laden, blues-influenced garage rock. The next they’re chiming in on luminous four-part harmonies for acoustic folk-rock.

Whichever way they lean, they always leave you in good hands.

Plus Hearts and Daggers. —JA [THE CAVE, $5/8 P.M.]

box, page 39. • THE KRAKEN: Lee Gildersleeve and The Bad Dogs; 8 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: Kev-O, Mic Mang, TLS, Eastern Suns, Xavier; 10 p.m., $7–$10. • THE PINHOOK: J. Kutchma, Wailin Storms, Restorations; 9 p.m., $8. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Salina Solomon; 7 p.m. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Piece of Time, Edge of Humanity, Everthrone, Enigmatic Path; 8 p.m., $8.

N.C. Symphony Summerfest: Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony EVENING Summer symphony MUSIC concerts are generally places for lighter fare, meant to accompany picnics and little kids cavorting. The first half of the N.C. Symphony’s first Summerfest concert offers just that with some boisterous Smetana and playful Wagner. But then things get more serious with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, a work almost operatic in scope, thanks to brooding chorales, aria-like melodies, and a whirling dance at the end. —DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $28–$31/7:30 P.M.]

Raze: Chocolate Rice FUNCRay Coleman, or TION Chocolate Rice, has been a DJ fixture around Raleigh for years, recognizable for his Fooly Cooly parties at Neptunes and his deep knowledge of house and hip-hop classics. He’ll sprinkle in original productions, which demonstrate his ear for the more melodic sides of dance music.

Chapel Hill’s Matt Stevenson opens with scorching techno that occasionally reaches Jock Jams levels of hype. With Lady Fingers.

—DS [THE STATION, $5/10 P.M.]

Jarekus Singleton BLUE FOR- His name might not EVER be on the deed, but Jarekus Singleton has played at the Blue Note so many times, he must own a piece of the action by now. His fiery sets invoke the three Kings—B.B., Albert, and Freddie—with some scorching Hendrix licks. A pro basketball player until an ankle injury ended his career, Singleton puts his athletic drive into these muscular blues. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/8 P.M.]

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A GIANT DOG The annals of rock ’n’ roll history are replete with great core duos—Lennon and McCartney, Page and Plant, Daltrey and Townshend, Mercury and May, Jones and Strummer.

In the riotous Austin power-punk quintet A Giant Dog, singer Sabrina Ellis is the Jagger to guitarist Andrew Cashen’s Richards. The two started playing in bands together back in their Houston high school days with Orville Neeley, namesake of the excellent Austin rock band OBN IIIs and A Giant Dog’s founding drummer. Since forming A Giant Dog, Ellis and Cashen have been the band’s glimmer twins, sharing vocal duties and cowriting the tunes. Their gender dynamic and vocal harmonies suggest another seminal tag team, too, in the Pixies’ Frank Black and Kim Deal.

Marked by equal measures of sugar and grime, A Giant Dog’s big, bright, and boisterous songs exist at the intersection of punk, glam, and power pop. Were this rock ’n’ roll high school, A Giant Dog would almost certainly be the burnouts. “We are shitty people who do not deserve to be signed to Merge,” Ellis said when the band joined the esteemed label. “But we are down.”

Pile, the group’s third album and Merge debut, doubles down on the band’s swaggering sleaze and stoned sense of humor. “I’m too old to die young/I can’t even remember being young,” Ellis sings on the speedball “Sex & Drugs.” Drums pound with full-bore intensity, while beer-soaked riffs rip through speakers. It’s a record that finds the band at its best and most buoyant. It’s a triumph for A Giant Dog as a whole, but the magic clearly starts with Cashen and Ellis. —Patrick Wall LOCAL 506, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., $8, www.local506.com

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BLOG With the new EP BORN Actual Replica Vol. I, the Michigan quartet The Soil & the Sun pulls Caribbean accents into a propulsive millennial-style folk template. It wouldn’t sound out of place next to Panda Bear or the Dodos. Smooth and simple vocal melodies invite sing-alongs, while a big beat urges the tunes forward. With Mammoth Indigo, Illiterate Light, and The Pinkerton Raid. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $8/8 P.M.]

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TUNES Dubs” title didn’t make it clear, valiant Animazement attendees should consider this the unofficial after-party.

Wilmington chip-pop shredders D&D Sluggers play innuendoladen rock tunes that suggest Weezer squeezed through a Super Nintendo sound chip. They share the stage with Raleigh’s Eight Bit Disaster, who reimagine many decades of video game music through rock and jazz filters. The VaudeVillain Revue opens. —DS [DEEP SOUTH, $8/8 P.M.]

ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Durham Durham: Eighties New Wave Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • CAFFE DRIADE: Jason D. Thompson; 8 p.m., free.

• CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Uniontown; 8:30 p.m., free. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Hardworker; 7 p.m.

• IRREGARDLESS: Daniel Stanislawek; 11 a.m. Gary Brunotte & Nelson Delgado; 6 p.m. The Russ Wilson Swingtet; 9 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Glenn Jones; 7 p.m. • KINGS: Merle Haggard Tribute Night: Chip Robinson, Wayleaves, Tonk, Johnny Folsom 4; 9 p.m., $8. See

POLITICS Over the past few & POLISH months, 97.5-FM on-air personality Mir.I.am has earned points in the local rap scene for providing artists with the platform to have their music showcased on a commercial platform. Through her periodic 919 Radio show or past showcases like this one, she’s whittled most of the local rap fat down to a reliable roster of talent without visibly politicizing her agenda. Will the music show its gratitude? We’ll see. Ace Henderson, Will Wildfire, Defacto Thezpian, Rome Jeterr, Von Dupree, and Danny Blaze stack this bill. —ET [POUR HOUSE, $12–$20/9 P.M.]

Cloud Becomes Your Hand CLOUDY The kaleidoscopic COLLAGE music of Cloud Becomes Your Hand balances bizarre samples, brilliant melodies, and video-game blips in inside out Dadaist collages of delirious aplomb. An intuitive logic connects all the divergent threads, keeping this stuff from sounding haphazard. Doc Ellis Dee opens. —PW [NEPTUNES, $7/9 P.M.]

Nikki Hill BLUESY Raised in North BITE Carolina, Nikki Hill has been making a name for herself as a powerful, bluesy singer. Her voice hits hard with heaping doses of confidence and grit. Her new Heavy Hearts, Hard Fists rings out with blues, rock, and soul and brims with energy. Hill’s

appearance in Durham should be a fiery one. —AH [MOTORCO, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Nappy Roots STILL The Nappy Roots DOIN’ IT must love the Triangle. Or is it the other way around? Having just stopped in Raleigh last month and, before that, Durham in November, Nappy Roots continues to push their country rap legacy. “At the level we’re at now, we’re not even thinking about mainstream radio,“ said member Fish Scales in a recent interview. “We focus more on a specific audience.” Even without any recent semi-hits, Nappy Roots don’t seem poised to lose a time-tested audience anytime soon. Adisa McKenzie opens. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $15–$17/8 P.M.]

Triangle Wind Ensemble: Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue: A Celebration U.S.A. Large-ensemble WINDS musical groups typically come in two forms: the orchestra and the wind ensemble, with the orchestra often deemed superior. That is a shame, as a good wind ensemble can contain as much color, variety, and nuance as an orchestra. This pops concert offers a decidedly American take on the form, with music by Gershwin, Copland, Sousa, and John Williams. The performance of Rhapsody in Blue features twelve-year-old Durhamite Gabriel Crist. —DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $13-26, 7:30] ALSO ON SUNDAY ARCANA: Aerial Ruin, Knives of Spain, Divine Circles; 8 p.m., $5.

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Mrs. Magician CALI POP On the John POWER Reis-produced LP Bermuda, San Diego’s Mrs. Magician finds a charming balance of punk’s economical songwriting, power pop’s urgency, and classic pop’s jangly finesse.

When the band drifts into dreamy pop on “Forgiveness,” it floats into a Zombies-meets-Band of Horses chorus but bolts back into sharp verses. During “No Action,” Mrs. Magician tempers post-punk nerves with pillowy proto-garage rock organ. Midnight Plus One opens. —BCR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $8/8 P.M.]

Pinkwash PINK Pinkwashing is a NOISE false promise, an effort to poach the money of well-meaning folks looking to help aggrieved loved ones by consuming oodles of pale pink ribbons and tchotchkes. The Philadelphia duo Pinkwash comes from that mix of angst and grief; much of the band’s material thus far, 2014’s Your Cure Your Soul and last year’s Cancer Money, finds singer-guitarist Joey Doubek exploring grief for his mother, who died of breast cancer in 2009. On the new Collective Sigh, Doubek and one-time Des Ark drummer Ashley Arnwine continue to build minimalist punk structures out of repeated riffs and fills, making music that aims for high-volume catharsis. Raleigh’s Pie Face Girls open. —PW [PINHOOK, $7/9 P.M.]

Flesh Wounds, Life Stinks, Urochromes, No Love POTENT Local favorites Flesh PUNK Wounds and No Love bookend the bill with punk that is equally hectic and hooky.

San Francisco’s Life Stinks bring a sneering, groove-driven style that draws as much from The Velvet Underground’s nonchalance as Fang’s irreverence. Urochromes, of Massachusetts, complete the night with rabid, lo-fi hardcore.

—BCR [THE STATION, $7/9 P.M.]

Hotline ELECTRO Last year, four-fifths SOUL of Raleigh’s Oulipo became Hotline. The chage wasn’t meant to signal a stark stylistic departure for the eccentric electro-pop outfit; its recent full-length picks up where Oulipo’s swan song, Kisses to the Sky, left off. The quartet digs deeper into its danceable eighties affections, giving glossy neo-soul and light funk tunes theatric vocal treatments. Philly’s Laser Background opens. —SG [NEPTUNES, $7/9:45 P.M.]

Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils GUITAR Guitarist Ian Moore GROOVES hasn’t released a new full-length record since 2013’s Aerie, but a recent spat of soul covers—like Al Green’s “I’m a Ram”—share the loose grooves of his mid-nineties work. Backing band the Lossy Coils color in between the lines of Moore’s noted fretwork, which carried the singer-songwriter onto tours with The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Paul Weller. —KM [MOTORCO, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: A Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration FRINGE Remember in the ON TOP good old days (January!) when the only reason events were canceled was the weather? The original run of this show, a revue of show tunes led

by Oscar Andy Hammerstein III, fell victim to an ice storm. But now June is bustin’ out all over. —DR [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $30–$75/7:30 P.M.]

Oxymorrons HIP-HOP Not to be confused ATTACKS with the South Carolina rap crew OXYxMORON, this New York hip-hop quintet radiates some of the same no-frills classicism as Doomtree, plus the fun seduction of a party band like Gym Class Heroes.

They’ll share a bill with Greenville freestyle enthusiast Konvo the Mutant for a show that could land anywhere between jam land and rhyme school. —ET [LOCAL 506, $8–$10/9 P.M.]

Tomboi BOI BAND Florida’s Tomboi is a tight little trio that layers an electronic foundation with crunchy riffs and nearspooky vocals. The band bends electronica, rock, and psychedelia together in wonderful ways, for songs that are gritty in all the right places. (A cover of Ghost Town DJs’ “My Boo” is fantastic, too.)

Louisiana’s Rareluth opens with more standard synthpop. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Hackensaw Boys; 8:30 p.m., $15. • DUKE GARDENS: No BS! Brass Band; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. See page 37. • LINCOLN THEATRE: OTM, Lek and Uptown; 9 p.m., $15–$35. • POUR HOUSE: Youma, Blue Frequency, Joe Perrow, Sam Mazany, Kenyon Adamcik, Benjamin Malone; 9 p.m., $10–$12.

art OPENING

SPECIAL After Apartheid: EVENT Collages on canvas

by Kenneth Robert Nkosi. May 27-Jun 19. Reception: Fri, May 27, 6-9 p.m. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net.

SPECIAL Adam Breaky: Final EVENT Friday open house.

Fri, May 27, 6-9 p.m. Waverly Artists Group Studio & Gallery, Cary. waverlyartistsgroup.com.

Celebrate Summer: Paintings and jewelry by Anna Ball Hodge and Stephanie Gardner.

Jun 1-26. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

SPECIAL Memories in Black EVENT and White: the Photographs of Bennie Culp: May 27-29. Reception: Fri, May 27, 6-9 p.m. Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough. www. skylightgallerync.com.

SPECIAL Reflections and EVENT Flow: Glass by Jean Cheely, paintings by Jan Kinlaw, and photography by Barry Udis.

May 27-Jun 21. Reception: Fri, May 27, 6-9 p.m. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www. carygalleryofartists.org.

ONGOING 10 DEEP 25: Group show. Thru Jun 11. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. scrapexchange.org.

2016 Members’ Showcase: Thru Jun 11. Durham Art Guild, Durham. 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.

LAST A Personal Look at CHANCE Nature: Nancy Nieves. Thru May 30. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

LAST The Abstract Truth: CHANCE Art about music.

Thru May 29. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. PleiadesArtDurham. com.

Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

05.25–06.01 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 Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

LAST Artface: Portraits by CHANCE Tom Dunne. Thru May 29. Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

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ARTQUILTSvoices: PAQASouth. Thru Jul 2. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www.friendsofpagewalker.org.

LAST Barns & Cricks: Lori CHANCE White. Thru May 28. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. tippingpaintgallery.com.

Benjamin Britton: The Hope and Desire Forecast: Thru Jun 5.

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com.

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

LAST Birds in the Bees: CHANCE Collages by Nancy L. Smith. Thru May 30. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com.

LAST Blurred Lines— CHANCE Modern Paper Quilts: Lisa Parrot. Thru May 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

LAST Lynn Boggess: Oil CHANCE paintings of the N.C. coast and W.V. mountains. Thru May 28. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www. tyndallgalleries.com.

Breathing Space: Joann Couch.

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

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938 and now based in Wilson, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Martha Clippinger: Thru Jun 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Collectors’ Open House: Thru Jun 30. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www.leehansleygallery.com.

LAST Connected: Pierce CHANCE Boshelly. Thru May 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

Depth Perception: Selected works by the UNC MFA class of 2016. Thru Jun 5. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org.

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YOUSUF ZAFAR: NATIVE We usually think of cultural diversity in the context of difference. But in Native, photographer Yousuf Zafar offers a counterintuitive perspective: he is after what makes us all alike. In his lush color photographs of working-class life in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Central and South America, he looks beyond superficial variations in dress and regional culture to focus on the deeper commonalities of land and sea, work and play, striving and sustenance. The exhibit “challenges the notion that cultural identity is unique,” writes Zafar, who was born in Pakistan, raised in Ohio, and now lives in Durham.

“In light of our similarities, what does it mean to be native?” He’ll also probe that question at an artist talk, at 7:30 p.m. on June 9, before the show closes with a reception at 6 p.m. on June 11. —Brian Howe THE CARRACK MODERN ART, DURHAM Noon–6 p.m. Tue.–Fri./2–5 p.m. Sat., free, www.thecarrack.org Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5. Durham History Hub, Durham. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

SPECIAL Earth, Wind & Fire: EVENT Pottery by Garry Childs, carved wood by Larry Favorite, and paintings by Jude Lobe. Thru Jun 19. Reception: Fri, May 27, 6-9 p.m.

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The Ease of Fiction: This exhibit features paintings, drawings,

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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 SPECIAL Elements and EVENT Artifacts: Sculpture

by Lucia Apollo Shaw and Gretchen Cobb. Thru May 30.

Hillsborough Wine Company. chapelhillwinecompany.com.

Exposed: Nudes in Art: Thru Jun 3. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.

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

LAST Faces: Keanna Artist CHANCE and Margaret Griffin. Thru May 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.

First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare: In May at the

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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 Fragments: Found & Formed: Charron Andrews, Susan Parrish, and Carol RetschBogart. Thru Jun 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

From Frock Coats to FlipFlops: 100 Years of Fashion at Carolina: Thru Jun 5. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib. unc.edu/wilson.

Half a World Away: Oil paintings by Alicia Armstrong.

Thru Jun 19. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net.

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

Imagine and Island: Michael Ligett. Thru Jun 30. Bond Park Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

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Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

LAST Long Pose CHANCE Exhibition: Thru May 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

LAST Looking Back At You: CHANCE Tim Saguinsin. Thru May 26. Golden Belt, Durham. www.goldenbeltarts.com.

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. It’s a thorough anatomy of a form. Thru Jun 19.

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

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Our House: Durham Arts Council faculty and students.

Thru Jul 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org.

Bill Bellamy: Stand-up comedy. $22–$33. May 26-29. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Passages: Paul Hrusovsky.

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

Carrboro Prom: Sat, May 28, 9 p.m. Carrboro Century Center. www.carrboro.com/ centurycenter.html.

Picturing Sound: Gemynii, Frank Myers, and James Cartwright.

Thru Jul 10. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham.com.

Hughie: Play. $13–$15. May 27-Jun 5. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www. sonorousroad.com.

Rare Earth: Photographs by Marjorie Pierson. Thru Jul 10.

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

Remnants of Great Spirit: Paintings by Lyudmila Tomova.

Thru Jun 22. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com.

Rubbish 2 Runway III: Dresses by student “trashion” designers.

Thru Jun 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

SPECIAL Silkscreen Prints EVENT from the McMann Fine Art Collection: Thru Jun 18.

Reception: Fri, May 27, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

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

Late Nite Tonite with April Dudash: Late night talk show. $8–$10. Fri, May 27, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx Theatre, Raleigh. comedyworx.com.

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Most daily decisions (Paper or plastic? Shaken or stirred?) are notably un-freighted with fate. Then, at one fork in the road, you sense the universe holding its breath while you make up your mind.

When Elizabeth, the central character in If/Then, comes to such a hinge moment one sunny afternoon in a New York park, the magic of musical theater enables her to take both paths. As creators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal) thread between Liz and Beth’s lifelines, both women ponder the roads not taken. But what will happen when their paths unexpectedly reunite?

—Byron Woods DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM Various times, $30–$115, www.dpacnc.com

New Moon Spotlight: Fool Moon comedy showcase featuring Brandy Inez, Tareq Salameh, Lamont Ferguson, Michah Hanner, and JD Etheridge, hosted by Matt White. $5. Sat, May 28, 8 p.m.

Moonlight Stage Company, Raleigh.

Shamrock Breakdance Competition: $5–$10. Sun, May 29, 10:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsbarcade.com.

The Roast of Erik Lars Myers: Sat, May 28, 7 p.m.

Mystery Brewing Public House, Hillsborough. www. mysterybrewing.com.

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WEST END SUMMER FILM SERIES Chapel Hill’s West End Wine Bar tends to keep its wine list international, restricting its homegrown offerings to craft beer. But it bolsters its local menu with this summer film series, which showcases the work of local filmmakers every Wednesday. This kickoff screening features a highly eclectic lineup: Cake, Josh Dasal’s 48 Hour Film Project-winning dark comedy; Liyana, on Command, Eryk Pruitt’s short about a very unusual relationship counselor; and Bragg N East, Rob Alan Underhill’s faith-based film about a police officer and a gang member’s road to redemption, among others. Pair local cinema with a nice glass of Sangiovese in an accessible series that continues in the coming weeks with screenings devoted to webseries, horror, and gay and lesbian films. —Brian Howe WEST END WINE BAR, CHAPEL HILL 7–9 p.m., free, www.facebook.com/WestEndSummerFilmSeries

$12–$20. May 27-Jun 12. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org.

Wit: Improv comedy game show. $8–$10. Sat, May 28, 10 p.m. ComedyWorx Theatre, Raleigh. comedyworx.com.

ONGOING The New Colossus: $5–$20.

Thru Jun 4. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org. See review, p. 34.

Weekly comedy at DSI: League Night (May 26, 8:30 p.m.), The Thrill (May 27, 8:30 p.m.), Mister Diplomat (May 27, 10 p.m.), The Jam (May 27, 11 p.m.), Improv Wildcard (May 28, 7 p.m.), Stranger Danger (May 27, 8:30 p.m.), Versus (May 27, 10 p.m.) DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. www. dsicomedytheater.com.

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Alice Through the Looking Glass—Disney’s surrealist update of Lewis Carroll’s stories gets a second installment. Rated PG.

KISS Rocks Vegas: Wed, May 25, 7:30 p.m. Crossroads 20, Cary.

Love & Friendship—Lady Susan Vernon tries to make matches for her daughter and herself in this adaptation of a Jane Austen novella. Rated PG.

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners: Thu, May 26, 6:30 p.m. UNC’s Murphey Hall, Chapel Hill.

X-Men: Apocalypse—The summer superhero parade continues with another X-Men entry. Rated PG-13.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Fri, May 27, 6 p.m. Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

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OPENING A Bigger Splash—A rock star and her photographer boyfriend have their Italian vacation interrupted by an unexpected arrival. Rated R.

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 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 on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13.

 Miles Ahead— Don Cheadle finally delivers his deeply imaginative (if not very historical) biopic of jazz great Miles Davis. Rated R.

 Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A sorority and a suburban couple square off with mindless gross-out gags.

Rated R.  ½ The Nice Guys—Ryan Gosling cracks a case as a private eye in 1970s L.A. in this hoot-and-a-half comedy.

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 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.  Keanu—Key & Peele’s action-comedy-slash-catmeme falls flat with the same jokes over and over. Rated R.

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Bronwen Dickey and John Lane: Pit Bull and Coyote Settles the South. Wed, Jun 1, 7 p.m.

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

The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Poetry by Sampson Starkweather, Paige Taggart, Lauren Hunter, and Chris Vitiello. Thurs, May 26, 7 p.m.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com.

Rien Fertel: The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmastes Who Cook the Whole Hog. Fri, May 27, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop. com. — Sat, May 28, 11 am.

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

Matthew Quick: YA novel Every Exquisite Thing. Tue, May 31, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

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 The Meddler—Writerdirector Lorene Scafaria captures a love-loathe relationship between a daughter and her widowed mother. Rated PG-13.

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FRIDAY, MAY 27

AUDIO UNDER THE STARS There was a line snaking down the block outside of Durham ice cream shop The Parlour during Moogfest on Saturday evening— even though, as anyone who wore their usual May attire to Moogfest intimately knows, it was rainy and cold. That’s one sure sign we’re ready for summer fun, which heats up a notch further with the seasonal debut of Audio Under the Stars. The burgeoning Bull City summer tradition brings recorded storytelling to a picnic-blanket-friendly setting in the garden outside the Center for Documentary Studies. The theme is “Bad Advice & Second Chances,” with radio-quality productions of stories of “good intentions, bad ideas, rescue, revival, and redemption.” Speaking of second chances, this program was rained out last September; if it happens again, a rain date has been set for June 3. —Brian Howe CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, DURHAM 8–10 p.m., free, www.audiounderthestars.net

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“You don’t seem to have this trip thought through very well,” he says, eying my dad’s fifty-year-old metal tackle box and a couple of dusty rods. “It’s not even walleye season yet.”

I explain that it doesn’t matter. He feels the breadloaf-size box poking from my duffel.

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It is May 6, two decades to the day since my dad died. I am headed to a motel in Nestor Falls, Ontario, on Lake of the Woods, where his family fished for decades.

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ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS WILLIAMS The border patrol officer was right about my plan. The resort is a roadside bait shop with a few rooms upstairs. The island I want to get to is about twenty-five miles away by water and obscured by a windy blanket of forest fire smoke. The only boat available at the tail end of winter is an aluminum v-hull beater.

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If the smoke didn’t clear, I wouldn’t be able to get on the water at all.

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