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LIFT EVERY VOICE

Illustrious UNC folklorist Bill Ferris collects his life’s work in Voices of Mississippi, a portal into the complex cultural landscape of the South • By Allison Hussey, p. 16

HELL IS THE HOLE, P. 8

HOW TO STEAL A BLUE DEVIL, P. 20

LATINO ART FOR ALL, P. 22

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

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DEPARTMENTS

6 Urban greenway projects in Atlanta and Chicago led to displacement in surrounding neighborhoods.

A coalition wants to make sure that doesn’t happen in Durham.

6 News 15 Food 16 Music

8 From 2012–15, Devon Davis spent 1,001 days in solitary confinement in Central Prison. When he was arrested again last year, he immediately went back in the hole.

20 Arts & Culture 22 What to Do This Week 25 Music Calendar

10 Just 3 percent of housing in Chapel Hill is affordable for families who make less than $58,000 per year.

28 Arts & Culture Calendar

15 Jewish brisket differs from Southern brisket in that it’s slow-braised in an oven rather than rubbed and smoked.

16 Bill Ferris’s new Voices of Mississippi box set connects the sounds and stories of the deep South.

18 Caique Vidal originally developed the song “TYSM” to kindly usher a woman off stage, but now it’s the title track of his new album.

20 Mississippi artist John Steele Davis was surprised enough when his blue devil statue disappeared from his hometown, but he’d never have guessed it would wind up in Durham.

Yvette Matthews of the Community Empowerment Fund (see p. 10)

On the cover: James “Son Ford” Thomas

PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

PHOTO BY WILLIAM FERRIS

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Social Experiments

experimental crap shoot. The class divide Last week, we ran a pair of stories that is toxic, and it is nearing the place where looked at charter schools—one noting that it cannot be spanned. Upward mobility has the two charters in northern Orange CounHowe stalled. This inequality entrenches itself ty cater overwhelmingly to white students, Willets through both financial and invidious nonthe other discussing the efforts of a Durd financial forms of wealth and power. The ham charter to counteract the effects charmost obvious are an education and a stable, ters have had on traditional public schools. safe family life. The upper class has instiCommenter LunaBelle takes exception to tutionalized passing wealth and privilege the former: “This article is very biased and along to their heirs at the expense of other quite frankly, unfair. What is wrong with en, Jane people’s children. It is entirely possible to having school choice? Yes, funding does Spencer get a good education at the many schools follow the student, as it should, since it’s for ura that aren’t in the top-tier system. But the the student. The success of a charter school Donald, tick, bad ones are really bad for your kids’ future. comes from the dedication and hard work n Ruccia, of its teachers, administrators, and parents, I hate to say it, but your children are a social itiello, and economic experiment.” who work tirelessly for the students withFinally, Hugh has some thoughts on the ole Villena out the same financial backing that public recent controversy at the Contemporary schools have. Implying that charter schools Art Museum of Raleigh over its handling of are racist is offensive.” ms Margaret Bowland’s racially tinged exhibiTerry Mancour, meanwhile, thinks the tion, Painting the Red Roses.

Central Park School for Children’s advo“As an art buff of many years,” he writes, cacy of reintegrating charters into the Durwart “I’ve seen all kinds of art ranging from ham Public Schools system is “an abysmal the religious to the idea. If the parents and avid Lee, obscene. I’ve liked/ children of Durham Roux, “Implying that loved some and have were happy with DPS , charter schools are hated/been repulsed by in the first place, there racist is offensive.” other works. Art from would be no need for its ancient inception charter schools. Unforhas been adored and disparaged. That is its tunately, articles such as this demonstrate er Hurld, excitement and interest—often its beauty. how DPS is far more interested in social It is the epitome of freedom of speech. engineering than academic excellence or anchard “I have no problem with the people who life preparation. Despite a few special prodislike Bowland’s work and disagreed with grams for elite learners in a few specifits value or meaning. Personally, I find the ic subjects, DPS’s lackluster performance, work very well done and intriguing. I find both on paper and in the experience of the 200 the criticism somewhat exaggerated. And parents and children, is why the charterI have a big problem with a power-based schools program was originally demanded. attempt at institutional censorship.

“Those of us who have experienced both “The idea that a white artist or writer can’t charter schools and DPS schools are proek.com depict black experience is inherently racist. tective of charters for a reason: we pay the eek.com It is often the outsider who can be exquihighest property taxes in the state. We 1972 sitely sensitive to another’s experience, even should have a choice of decent schools for at times more expressive than that person that money. That includes schools that are e themselves. I found Chris Vitiello’s piece a ‘unapologetically progressive,’ where kinclassic example of knee-jerk political cordergartners talk about race, and schools that rectness. To censor art is to inhibit artistic are unapologetically dedicated to critical development and is an offense to free speech thinking, numbers, letters, and vocabulary. and art itself.”

Our children are not a social experiment.”

To which commenter where’s the beef?

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Hot on the Trail

DURHAM WANTS TO TURN A DEFUNCT RAIL LINE INTO AN URBAN GREENWAY. SOME RESIDENTS WORRY IT WILL FORCE THEM OUT.

BY SARAH WILLETS

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hen Fred Snider moved to Edward Street in the 1980s, the Old North Durham neighborhood was largely populated by one-story duplexes. Now, brightly colored homes are starting to pop up and tower over them.

“The reason why I bought this house is the neighborhood. If they’re going to turn it into that,” he says, pointing to a yellow twostory on the opposite corner, “that’s not a good look for me.”

Standing in his neighbor’s driveway, Snider says that his neighborhood is more diverse than ever. But he’s seen his neighbors’ homes foreclosed on, and like others on this street, he gets phone calls and fliers every month with offers to buy his house.

He’s concerned that the city’s plans to build a 1.7-mile greenway from downtown Durham to Avondale Drive, just a few blocks north of his house, would accelerate these changes. The Durham Belt Line, an estimated $15 million project that would turn a defunct rail line into a linear park, is intended to provide access to walking and biking trails connecting to public transit, amenities, and jobs downtown.

“If you’re going to improve this city as a whole, you’ve got to do it around transit,” Snider says. “It’s moving in the right direction. I just don’t want to get lost in all that.”

Greenway projects in cities like Atlanta and Chicago have led to increased property values and displacement in surrounding neighborhoods. With a draft plan for the Durham Belt Line out for public input, an initiative known as Durham Belt Line for Everybody is coalescing to ensure that this doesn’t happen in Durham.

While some neighborhoods along the route are largely white and affluent, others—like Snider’s—are home to lowerincome residents, communities of color, and renters burdened by housing costs.

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The proposed greenway begins near West Village (above) and ends in Old North Durham (below). PHOTOS BY CAITLIN PENNA

contrast. On one end are downtown’s lauded restaurants, swanky hotels, and tech startups. On the other, aging homes abut body shops and convenience stores with signs in Spanish.

“Creating low-cost and low-carbon transit is a wonderful idea,” says Tara Mei Smith, executive director of Extra Terrestrial Projects and one of the organizers of Durham Belt Line for Everybody. “I think the goals of the projects are great. It’s just that when it’s actually implemented in other places, that’s not what has happened.

It’s really been a project to remake the city for the sustainability class.”

The rail line was originally built in the 1890s and, throughout its hundred-year life, carried cotton, textiles, tobacco and people.

Plans to convert the line into a greenway have been in the works since 2001.

The seventeen acres surrounding it were recently acquired for $7 million by the nonprofit Conservation Fund, and the city hopes to buy the land in the fall. In his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, city manager Tom Bonfield is recommending $2.4 million for the project, in addition to $2.5 million budgeted two years ago.

Construction could begin as early as 2020.

A draft plan for the Belt Line includes public art, scenic viewing spots, and an urban park between Chapel Hill and Morgan Streets. The route would connect to the future 1.7 million-square-foot Innovation District, the South Ellerbe Stormwater Restoration Project, and Goose Creek Trail in Northeast Central Durham. Planners envision it will ultimately join a trail connecting Durham to Wake County as well as the three-thousand-mile-long East Coast Greenway.

The plan also identifies sites for affordable housing and offers recommendations to make building and preserving it easier.

According to the plan, the Belt Line would

connect 776 non-vehicle households within a quarter-mile of the route to alternative modes of transportation and would increase the number of surrounding households with access to open space by 52 percent.

But Smith says the plan doesn’t do enough to ensure that neighborhoods surrounding the Belt Line are protected before work gets underway. Planning for Washington, D.C.’s 11th Street Bridge Park, considered the best example of an equitable greenway project in the U.S., for example, implemented neighborhood-stabilization efforts like a savings program for renters six years in advance.

“Once you start to roll the dice in creating this development, there’s no way to slow down the market,” Smith says.

tum, and the context suggests that the areas around the Belt Line could accept a lot more development in a short period of time.”

Jake Petrosky, a planner with Stewart, the firm designing the project, concedes that urban greenways increase property values, but he argues that’s happening along the Belt Line now and would continue whether it’s built or not.

“If we build this trail, it is likely that we could accelerate those property-value increases by one year,” he says. “The alternative, though, is not really attractive because you’d be taking away this spike of public access, increased mobility, and connection to the heart of Durham and replacing it with likely more market-rate housing.”

“Once you start to roll the dice in creating this development, there’s no way to slow down the market.”

Within a quarter-mile of the Durham route, the median household income ranges from $62,000 to $18,000 by census tract, compared with the citywide median income of $50,000. Census tract 2, where the Avondale Drive end of the trail terminates, is considered severely housing-cost-burdened, with 35 percent of renters spending 50 percent or more of their income on housing costs, according to UNC’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies. Tract 9, directly to the south, is also severely cost-burdened. They’re also home to the city’s fourth- and fifth-largest Latinx populations. Tracts slightly farther out from the route are seeing some of the city’s highest rates of eviction filings.

“Where the social tensions are in a particular place, they are exacerbated by these kinds of things,” says Justin Robinson, who is also working on the Durham Belt Line for Everybody initiative.

Kofi Boone, a landscape architecture professor at N.C. State who studied perceptions of safety on the American Tobacco Trail and served as a consultant for the Belt Line, says the latter touches more underutilized land ripe for development.

“I think that’s one of the reasons why people are more concerned about its potential for gentrification and displacement than they were with American Tobacco Trail,” he says. “It’s a different time. There’s a different climate and political momen-

Durham Belt Line for Everybody’s main concern is that residents should be involved in the process. About seven hundred people have given input so far through surveys, meetings, and pop-ups at places like the farmers market, but there has not been a door-to-door effort to reach residents like Snider and his neighbors, who told the INDY they had either never heard of the Durham Belt Line or had no idea the greenway would pass so close to their homes. Petrosky says there will be more opportunities for community engagement as the project moves forward.

Part of the challenge, Boone says, is reaching people who aren’t already interested in green amenities and getting them to see the Belt Line as not only a trail but as a means to improve their quality of life and more easily connect to jobs and the services they need.

“I think the perception is still that it’s a green-people thing,” he says. “My hope moving forward with the communityengagement process is that that message becomes more nuanced and becomes more connected to the actual needs of the communities that it’s supposed to serve.”

A public survey is available at DurhamBeltLine.com through June 25, and a community meeting will be held June 11 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Durham Nativity School. swillets@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.30.18 | 7

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In the Hole

DESPITE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS, DEVON DAVIS SPENT 1,001 DAYS IN SOLITARY AT CENTRAL PRISON. WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AGAIN, HE WENT RIGHT BACK INTO ISOLATION.

BY TAYLOR KNOPF

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ast spring, Devon Davis says, he was riding in the passenger seat of his early-2000s-model Lexus with a friend when Raleigh police pulled them over.

There was a gun in the vehicle. Davis said it belonged to the driver. The driver said it belonged to Davis. It was a classic case of “he said, he said.”

Davis, twenty-six, has a felony record— under state law, he’s forbidden to own or possess a firearm. Insisting the weapon wasn’t his, Davis says he told the officer to check for his fingerprints on it. But Davis says he was frazzled. He resisted arrest. His car was impounded, and he was escorted to Wake County Detention Center.

After several months in jail, Davis was convicted of the firearms charge and sent to Central Prison in Raleigh, where from 2012–15 he’d spent 1,001 days in solitary confinement, alone in a cell. During this incarceration—he was convicted of trying to steal a car and then, while on probation, was charged with attempted burglary—his mental health problems got worse.

Davis, who’s been diagnosed with a number of mental health issues, including ADHD, bipolar disorder, and a psychotic disorder, was immediately placed back into solitary confinement. Prison officials call it “restrictive” or “segregated” housing, but it equates to an inmate spending twenty-two to twenty-four hours per day alone in a cell roughly the size of a parking space.

Those familiar with prison procedures say returning inmates are often placed in the same custody level they left. For Davis, this meant solitary, where he remained for 154 days before being moved to the regular prison population.

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prison records.) Additionally, keeping Davis in solitary for an extended time violated a 2016 prison policy that prohibits housing inmates with mental illness in restrictive housing for more than thirty days.

But here’s where it gets tricky: Davis was not put on the prison’s mental health caseload—meaning the inmate has been identified as having a mental health issue and is receiving medication for it—even though he received psychiatric care during most of his previous three-year incarceration.

Davis says he asked for his mental health medication—twice —but had to wait to get it. According to Davis’s medical records, which were obtained by Disability Rights NC senior attorney Susan Pollitt, from the time Davis entered Central Prison on October 13, 2017, until February 2—113 days—he went without medication.

Denying an inmate appropriate medical care is a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to Chris Brook, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.

Davis didn’t leave solitary confinement until March 15—after a lawyer and a reporter began inquiring about him.

According to other attorneys who work with inmates, Davis isn’t the only prisoner with a mental illness being held in solitary for more than a month.

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avis has a long history of mental illness coupled with a difficult upbringing.

He was born with cocaine in his system, which can cause long-term developmental problems. After developing auditory hallucinations at age six, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

Davis’s mother and father each did time in prison, and a court ultimately terminated their parental rights. Davis bounced between group homes and foster care. His court records detail eleven psychological evaluations throughout his childhood.

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Davis entered a state prison before he was twenty-one, where he endured three years of solitary confinement, which experts say can exacerbate the symptoms of mental illness.

During Davis’s first incarceration, prison records say, he acted out, yelled, and cursed at staff. He exhibited signs of depression and paranoia, including a time when he smeared feces in his cell, telling staff that voices told him to do it.

“It just did something to me,” Davis said in 2015 after he was released from his first incarceration. “You stay back there for so long, you start to get comfortable. As you start to get comfortable, it does something to you physically. It does something to you mentally. Now you don’t know if you’re coming or going. Walls close in on you. You so anxious to get out your room, but they [the guards] don’t want you to come out.

They take your [recreation time], saying that you’re asleep.”

During his first incarceration, Davis tried to hurt himself multiple times and was placed on suicide watch, records show.

Shortly after a story about Davis ran in The News & Observer in 2016, the state Department of Public Safety announced a new suicide prevention program with updated health policies. A number of the changes involved better monitoring and evaluation of inmates with a mental health diagnosis.

One of the program’s goals is to keep inmates with mental illnesses out of solitary confinement.

“As placement of a mentally ill inmate in restrictive housing is discouraged and shall take place only as a last resort, such placement should be limited to 30 days in one calendar year,” the policy states.

Over the last several years, there has been an effort across the nation—and in North Carolina—to decrease or eliminate the use of solitary confinement in jails and prisons.

World leaders have compared the use of solitary confinement to torture. And for decades, researchers have documented the detrimental psychological effects that prolonged isolation has on a person’s mental health.

In North Carolina, prison officials even sought outside help from the Vera Institute of Justice to reduce their use of solitary confinement for disciplinary purposes.

When the suicide prevention policies went into effect in 2016, advocates said “it was a step in the right direction.”

But today, people like Davis are still being sent to solitary.

In the last five months, prison officials reported five North Carolina inmates died by suicide. At least two were in restrictive housing at the time of death.

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C Prisoner Legal Services, a group of lawyers who work doing indigent services for the state court system, continues to receive letters from inmates with diagnosed mental illnesses who have been kept in segregation longer than a month, says Michele Luecking-Sunman, PLS civil litigation managing attorney. However, she has not personally come across a case like Davis’s, where prison staff withheld psychiatric medication and kept an inmate in solitary.

“What we do see all the time are people who have very clear mental health issues who are being put in segregation,” Luecking-Sunman says.

Gary Junker, the director of behavioral health for the Department of Public Safety Division of Prisons, says that inmates with a diagnosed mental illness are assessed when entering a restrictive housing unit and at thirty-day intervals afterward.

“A decision to maintain an offender in restrictive housing is based on many factors including current mental status, adjustment to restrictive housing, as well as consideration for institutional safety and security,” Junker says in a written statement. “In some instances, an offender with a mental illness refuses to leave restrictive housing. If the multidisciplinary team determines that removing an offender from restrictive housing may place others at risk for assault or injury, or would potentially disrupt the orderly running of the institution, a decision can be made to continue the offender’s housing status.”

State prison officials would not say how many inmates are receiving medication for mental health problems and are also being held in restrictive housing.

One problem the prison faces is a lack of resources to properly treat all inmates with mental illness, says PLS director Mary Pollard.

Brook seconds that, saying DPS needs “improved and more robust mental health screening when someone comes into prison, so that prisoners with mental illness do not fall through the cracks.” Brook says there needs to be “ironclad rules” to make sure inmates aren’t sent to segregation due to behavior caused by their mental illness.

The state ACLU also receives complaints from inmates who say they’re not receiving proper medical care, both for physical and mental health issues.

However, Brook says mental illness is often seen as “less serious” than physical ailments. “We would all agree that it’s their responsibility to treat a prisoner who is suffering from a heart attack,” he says. “The same logic says that we need to be treating folks who are incarcerated who suffer from mental illness.”

Brook emphasizes that an inmate’s medical issues don’t just exist inside prison walls.

“I think Mr. Davis’s case makes this plain as well—this is not just an ‘inside the walls’ issue,” Brook says. “We need better mental health treatment options in our communities, especially for those who have just been released from prison.”

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orth Carolina prisons currently house over 36,500 inmates. And 95 percent of these inmates will eventually return to society. Every year, about twentyfour thousand prisoners are released at the end of their respective sentences.

In the past decade, there has been a 60 percent increase in the number of inmates diagnosed with chronic illnesses, and a 65 percent increase in those diagnosed with mental illnesses, according to Joe Prater, DPS secretary of administration for adult corrections and juvenile justice. About 17 percent of the total prison population has been diagnosed with mental health issues, and the majority of inmates with these illnesses have more than one diagnosis.

The State Reentry Council Collaborative, established by lawmakers last year, comprises work groups that look at issues that affect formerly incarcerated people

such as unemployment, transportation, mental health, and substance abuse.

These are some of the things Davis dealt with when he left prison the first time. He struggled to find housing and a job. He was homeless for a time. He went on and off his mental health medications and frequently missed appointments.

Right now, Davis is happy to be in the prison’s “regular population.” His mood is improving, and he’s smiling again. Back on his medications, Davis describes himself as “a walking pharmacy.”

Now that he’s out of solitary, Davis is part of a prison work program, which gives him credits toward his overall sentence time. From 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., he serves on the prison’s hospital janitorial staff, sweeping floors, wiping windows, and emptying trash cans.

Davis says he’s just keeping his head down and riding out his sentence. He vows to stay away from the bad crowd that landed him in prison the second time around.

And this week, he’ll be out. backtalk@indyweek.com A version of this story originally appeared on the nonprofit news site NC Health News.

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FRONT LINES A decade ago, Yvette Matthews was unemployed and struggling.

Now she’s a key advocate for affordable housing in Chapel Hill.

BY PETER ANDRINGA

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he Community Empowerment Fund’s small basement office in Chapel Hill bustles with activity as Yvette Matthews scurries in and out, racing to pick up an incessantly ringing phone between guiding those looking for help and sharing a joke with students passing through. She deftly switches from task to task, directing the flow of people into and out of the office like an air traffic controller.

While it looks like she’s moving one hundred miles per hour, this is more or less a normal Thursday for Matthews.

“I’m a pretty good multitasking kind of chick,” says Matthews, a sixty-year-old office manager with short, slightly graying hair and a narrow face that usually frames a smile. “So I can hear you talking here, hear them talking there, and still do what I need to do.”

The office is colorfully decorated, with walls covered in handmade cards and signs, photos of CEF volunteers, and a series of portrait sketches along the back wall. A large “Happy Birthday Yvette!” sign drapes from the ceiling above her desk, a gesture of appreciation from weeks ago that no one has the heart to take down. In one corner, a “Declaration of Financial Independence” is written across the wall in neat, Carolina-blue handwriting.

“We, the People of the Community Empowerment Fund, declare our independence from the oppression and tyranny of the unjust financial system, whose banks are built on the backs of the poor,” it reads. “This system has turned us against ourselves, our brethren and our sistren, putting individual property ahead of community well-being.”

Hyperbole aside, this declaration ably sums up the CEF’s mission, which is to help the homeless, jobless, and otherwise at-risk citizens of Chapel Hill establish financial independence. From her desk in the front room, Matthews—known as “Miss Yvette” in the office—sees all sorts of people across all sorts of life situations: students, activists, volunteers, local officials, and most of all, the downtrodden of Chapel Hill.

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“I think when most people come in, they come in with a hopelessness, like nothing is working out,” she says. “And you see them leave not the way they came in. They leave with something. That’s the most rewarding for me.”

This March afternoon is unusual in one respect: Matthews is embarking on her first vacation in more than four years with CEF, taking a few weeks off to visit family in Michigan. As she prepares to leave, she gives detailed reminders to volunteers, attempting to distribute her collected knowledge so the office will run smoothly in her absence.

Throughout the afternoon, a few dozen locals come in and out of the office. Matthews greets them and hands them off to one of a dozen college-aged volunteers in the office—CEF calls them “advocates”—to meet one on one and help fill out paperwork for benefits, apply for jobs, look for affordable housing, or reach other personal goals.

The people seeking help—“members”— have already gone through an orientation, and now meet with their advocate regularly as they progress toward their goals.

Everyone in the room describes Matthews as the glue that holds this community together, the person who knows everyone and welcomes each person who enters the door with a smile. Between welcoming members and giving instructions to advocates, she also attends to the small details that keep the office functioning: making sure the coffee pot is full, handing out mail, making small talk with the handful of people who’ve come for a safe space and a warm cup of coffee. She clearly loves her job—she’ll tell you so herself, enthusiastically—but sometimes disappointment surfaces when she talks about the world outside.

One of the most intractable issues CEF has confronted is the affordable housing crisis in Chapel Hill, which Matthews deals with directly. Homeless people come through her door every day. She says she’s confused as to how Chapel Hill, an affluent community that calls itself the “Southern Part of Heaven,” could be so paralyzed by a problem in its own backyard.

“If you’ve never experienced it, you don’t know what it’s about,” she says.

People live in cars and tents, but most folks don’t notice. And the town’s public officials just talk.

“We have talked this thing to death,” she says. “It is time to do something.”

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atthews was born and raised in a suburb of Detroit but eventually made her way to North Carolina, where her mother was raised and her grandfather was living. She raised her own family in

the Chapel Hill area and spent twenty-two years working at a K&W Cafeteria nearby.

In 2008, after what she describes as a mid-life crisis following the death of her uncle, she quit her job at K&W to look for something that offered more purpose. She spent almost a year unemployed, applying for everything she could think of, to no avail. Eventually, a friend advised her to go to CEF, at the time a one-year-old organization, to see if it could help. There, she became a member and met Jon Young and Maggie West, who became her advocates.

She met with Young and West each week and came to CEF’s office every day to apply for jobs and visit other members.

“I could see from the office that they were overwhelmed with a lot of stuff,” she says, “because they had no one to do it.”

She began volunteering at the front desk every day. As CEF grew, the small nonprofit, which is primarily funded through individual donors, found enough money to start paying Matthews for one day, then three days, then five days a week. Now, Matthews is the first one to open the office at 10:00 a.m. and the last to leave at 3:00 p.m.

Matthews says she manages to scrape by with her small salary from CEF, a second part-time job at a women’s shelter, and her husband’s income as a town employee.

In her time at CEF, Matthews has learned that there are thousands of families in Chapel Hill—even those with stable employment— who struggle to find housing they can afford.

As of 2015, of more than fifty-six thousand housing units in Orange County, only seventeen hundred are affordable for families living below 80 percent of the area median income—about $58,640—according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Another survey found more than thirteen thousand households with income below that figure, which indicates that there are thousands who struggle to afford to live in and around Chapel Hill.

Matthews and other activists point to UNC-Chapel Hill as the main driver of the affordable-housing shortage. One analysis from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that 40 percent of the demand for rental properties in Orange County is from UNC students. The university has increased enrollment and brought more highly paid academics into town, driving up competition for a limited housing supply. Meanwhile, over the last few decades, zoning laws and attempts to preserve the historic downtown have prevented development and reduced supply.

Today, Chapel Hill’s zip code, 27516, has the fourth-highest average rent in the state and the highest in the Triangle, according to the apartment-listings site RentCafe.

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s the March 21 Chapel Hill Town Council meeting crossed the onehour mark, the room was quiet. Eyes drooped and people slouched in their seats while the nine council members on the dais discussed recent sidewalk improvements—dull, quotidian stuff. Until, that is, Mayor Pam Hemminger moved on to the next topic: the affordable-housing bond.

The room buzzed. Papers rustled. People whispered to their neighbors.

The town manager had recommended letting voters decide on a $10 million bond, which would likely be paid for by a one-cent increase in the property tax. During the public comment period, speaker after speaker asked council members to increase the bond to $15 million, which would require a larger tax increase or a decrease in other expenditures. Over the next few hours, eighteen community members—from academics to activists to residents of a local homeless shelter—delivered impassioned pleas for the higher amount.

Young, a CEF founder and co-director (and Matthews’s advocate), was among them: “I understand that there are prior obligations,” he told the council, “but I don’t understand why housing isn’t held parallel to all these other priorities. … What is an amazing school if there’s not a safe house to go back to? What is a great park if a family is working five jobs collectively and they don’t have time to take their families to the park?”

In the end, though, the council didn’t budge. The $15 million amount, council members said, was too much. The measure for the referendum passed on an 8–1 vote and will go to voters in November.

“Politically, that meeting felt very bleak,” Young told the INDY a few days later. “I’d say the lip service for ‘this is a priority’ without much political action or response is the standard.”

Council member Allen Buansi, who was elected in November, argues that this was just the first step in a bigger process of making Chapel Hill more inclusive.

“I think we did the right thing in putting [the bond] forward,” he says.

“Unfortunately, the town doesn’t have unlimited resources to devote to affordable housing, and folks will understandably get frustrated with this result.”

This isn’t the first affordable-housing bond proposal Chapel Hill voters will vote on. In 2016, a smaller countywide bond— $5 million—was approved partially due to Matthews’s advocacy. She realized the referendum would need more attention in order to succeed, so she organized a group to campaign for it in a unique way.

“I really wanted to pull together and organize people who feel the same way I feel,”

“I understand that there are prior obligations, but I don’t understand why housing isn’t held parallel to all these other priorities.” says Matthews, who was on vacation when the March 21 meeting took place. “I felt like people would get it more if they could hear it musically instead of talking about it, because the talking is just a lot of rhetoric over and over and people get really bored with that.”

That September, Matthews organized the “CEF Advocacy Choir”—a group of CEF staff, advocates, and members who toured the county singing songs about affordable housing. They performed at churches, community groups, town events, a local newspaper, and a radio station, singing both original compositions and well-known songs with new lyrics relevant to the bond proposal. One example: “We call on you brother/ to help with the struggle/ We all need somewhere to lay our head,” they sang, to the tune of “Lean On Me.” “We went to every single church in the area, to make sure every single person knew about the bond,” she says. “And guess what: None of them knew about it.”

In November, the bond passed 66 percent to 34 percent. Matthews celebrated that success, but she’s nonetheless frustrated by what she perceives as the confusion in priorities of people who fully grasp

the problem. As an example, she points to a plot of land the town recently purchased on Legion Road, which some residents are campaigning to use for a thirty-court pickleball complex to extend the town’s existing six courts for the sport, a hybrid between tennis, badminton, and ping pong.

A group of more than two dozen pickleball players—mostly retirees—came to a town council meeting in October to ask for new courts that would make Chapel Hill the “East Coast destination” for the “life-changing” sport. The group is well connected: Brad Hemminger, a certified USA Pickleball Ambassador and one of the group’s leaders, is Mayor Hemminger’s husband.

Matthews would rather see affordable apartments built on the property.

“Why not take one pickleball court and put it in the corner and use the rest of that land for somewhere people can live?” she asks. “Some people need to realize they’re not here alone.”

Subsequent planning sessions have focused on using the land for some sort of public park, but a town spokesman says planning is ongoing and details will not be determined until after the town manager

presents his recommendation at an upcoming town council meeting.

The town is moving forward with other projects, including building public housing, partnering with community nonprofits, and collecting almost $1 million in property taxes for its affordable-housing fund.

Matthews and other activists say these are good steps, but not nearly enough.

“The [government] system sometimes fails to look at the individuals they serve as human beings. They get a number when they walk in,” says Chinita Howard, who lived in her car for months after she was priced out of her home in 2016. Howard became a CEF member and found a new home with CEF’s help. Now she volunteers with the organization. “I think [CEF] does it right because they consider the whole person, not just one issue.”

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hen Matthews arrived home at the end of March, the office was busier than ever, so she threw herself back into her work. CEF has recently started a number of initiatives to organize the community around affordable housing, hoping to bring forward voices that aren’t always heard in the political process.

“Issues that affect people with money and time are the ones that people get really angry about, and they have time to show up,” says Young. “We have to make sure people are brought into those spaces so they can speak directly to those issues and so they can have a voice in developing solutions.”

CEF and the other affordable-housing organizations have tried to better strategize their work in Chapel Hill. CEF organized “Meeting of the Minds,” a monthly event that brings together community leaders and advocacy groups to talk about the issue. Another group, the Orange County Affordable Housing Coalition, held a summit in February. The goal, as these groups describe it, is to better coordinate their political activism and work together to educate citizens of Chapel Hill about the need in their own backyards.

Young says these initiatives give him hope. “We’ve seen more collaboration,” he says. “As things have gotten worse, nonprofits have started working together.”

Matthews is already working on songs for the Advocacy Choir to promote the new bond referendum in November. Their first performance was at an April event at the UNC’s Memorial Hall, and now the choir has embarked on six months of musical advocacy leading up to the election.

“It's inevitable that things have got to change,” she says. “They've got to. It cannot continue to be the same as it is.” backtalk@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.30.18 | 13

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JEWISH FOOD FESTIVAL

Sunday, June 3, 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m.

Levin Jewish Community Center, Durham www.levinjcc.org

Better than Bubbe’s

CELEBRATE JEWISH FOOD AND CULTURE WITH A DISTINCTLY SOUTHERN TWIST AT THE JEWISH FOOD FESTIVAL

BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

“B

eing Jewish in the South is very different, especially in smaller Jewish communities. There are a lot of things that you take for granted, and one of the biggest things is food,” says Jill Madsen, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill. “Most Jewish traditions and rituals center around food. Most of those things you cannot get in Durham.”

Serving and celebrating Jewish cuisine is part of the inspiration behind the annual Jewish Food Festival, taking place Sunday, June 3 at the Levin Jewish Community Center. Proceeds from food sales support the Jewish Federation’s initiatives to combat food insecurity, including stocking Jewish Family Services’ food pantry. One hundred and fifty volunteers will not only run the event, but also make all the food in the weeks leading up to it.

“They’re making what we call ‘bubbe’s finest.’ They’re using family recipes to prepare the different options served that day,” says Madsen. “It’s a really special day to have all of those favorites from your childhood, things you only have once a year because you only prepare them for special occasions, or because there isn’t a deli or restaurant that has them.”

Beyond bringing the Jewish community together over grandma’s best dishes, Madsen says that the festival provides a pathway for people who aren’t Jewish to experience Jewish culture.

It’s the type of event that Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South and a professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, says is a core, classic event in the life of a Southern Jewish congregation.

“It’s always been a way for community engagement and to encourage knowledge about who the Jewish community is to the non-Jewish community,” says Cohen Ferris, who grew up in a small Jewish congregation in Arkansas. “There’s a strong sense of community building, of being good

Baking specialist Michelle Farmer-Gray braids dough for challah PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA neighbors, and who we are as Jewish North Carolinians. It tells that story through their food and their hospitality.”

Dishes that will be sold and served at the festival represent different facets of Jewish cuisine. Mediterranean specialties include Israeli salad, made with diced cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions; and bourekas, which are pastry parcels stuffed with savory fillings like feta and spinach.

Eastern European dishes like blintzes— thin pancakes filled with cheese or fruit— and potato latkes, or crispy shredded potato pancakes, are particularly sought after, mostly, says Madsen, because they

are patshke. In the context of a recipe, Madsen says that the Yiddish word loosely translates as “not easy to make.” These are the labor-intensive dishes typically reserved for major holidays or special occasions, ones you’d easily be able to find ready-made in cities with larger Jewish communities. Chopped liver, representing New York Jewish deli traditions, is another example. Think of chopped liver as a Jewish pâté; it’s typically made with the schmaltz, or rendered fat, of whatever animal protein you’d be serving at a celebratory dinner.

The festival’s chopped liver is made with chicken livers and schmaltz from brisket.

Jewish brisket differs from Southern brisket in that it is not rubbed and smoked, but slow-braised in an oven with root vegetables, red wine or stock, tomato sauce (often prepared ketchup and chili sauce), and ingredients such as coffee, Coca-Cola, or beer that deepen flavor and tenderize the meat, which is then sliced and served alongside the braised vegetables.

For the festival, volunteers are taking a cue from Southern barbecue, chopping Jewish-style brisket—which they’ve braised in a beef consommé with yellow onions, brown sugar, and a spice medley—then piling it onto slider-size challah buns and topping it with caramelized onions. The buns are made from the same recipe that produces the braided sweet bread loaves that are baked and sold every week at the Levin JCC alongside loaves of babka, a sweet bread swirled with chocolate or cinnamon, which will also be served at the festival.

Local businesses have rallied to show their support. Bagel Bar is donating bagels, Mediterranean Deli will bring falafel and pita, Whole Foods is offering pastrami for sandwiches, Weaver Street Market will help bake rye bread, and Trader Joe’s placed a special bulk order of kosher chicken. The Forest at Duke, a nonprofit that helped underwrite the program, will also host one of the cooking demonstrations, showing attendees how to make traditional rugelach, a crescent-shaped flaky pastry rolled with chocolate or fruit fillings.

The festival is open to everyone and admission is free, though attendees are encouraged to bring nonperishable food items to donate to the food pantry (peanut butter and canned tuna are particularly in demand). Food tickets, used to pay for the dishes, can be purchased onsite.

“The event is a really great way to experience and enjoy traditional Jewish fare while also feeling like you’re giving back to the community through supporting the food pantry,” says Madsen. laylakh@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.30.18 | 15

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Voices Carry

A NEW BOX SET OF FIELD RECORDINGS BY UNC’S BILL FERRIS TEACHES US WHAT WE STILL HAVE TO LEARN FROM THE SONGS AND STORIES OF MISSISSIPPI BY ALLISON HUSSEY

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o hear Bill Ferris, the renowned folklorist and senior associate director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South, discuss his life’s work is to listen to maps being drawn in real time. As he discusses everything from blues singers and mule traders to the writing of Alice Walker, Ferris illuminates the hidden threads that connect the songs, stories, and culture of the South. The place closest to Ferris’s heart, however, has always been his home state of Mississippi.

This week, the Atlanta-based label Dustto-Digital releases Voices of Mississippi, a four-disc box set of music, interview, and film recordings conducted throughout Ferris’s illustrious career. It serves as a convenient analog for almost any conversation you could have with Ferris: the CDs deliver a rainbow of different voices and musical styles, previously unreleased films bring some of these characters to life, and a book includes full transcripts and additional notes about the content of the discs. It’s a perfect portal into the variegated—and complicated—cultural landscape of the South.

From his Chapel Hill office, Ferris discussed the new collection and the persistent global appeal of the South.

INDY: You’ve got such a huge archive of a lifetime of multimedia recordings. Where did you start with trying to figure out what you wanted to include with this set?

BILL FERRIS: It really started about a decade ago with a conversation with Lance and April Ledbetter, whose work I have long admired.

They said they were interested in putting a box set of my work together, and I said I would be thrilled. It was much bigger than I think anyone, including me, anticipated. We went through several teams of people. People listened to everything there. We had everything transferred to digital platforms.

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narrative. We added to that unreleased films that are on a DVD. It’s wonderful to live this long and see things you thought would always be on a dusty shelf, rarely known, now very accessible to anyone. The box set stands with a foot in both camps—you have the physical artifact of the box with the book and the CDs and DVD, but underneath those discs is a little piece of paper with a code that allows you to download the entire project into whatever device you want to use.

Speaking of some of those pieces, there’s a full disc of storytelling. Why was that something you wanted to include instead of focusing on music only?

We tend to work in boxes or in silos, intellectually. Folklorists have three boxes. There’s music, storytelling, and material culture— the quilts, the folk art. I’ve tried to work across those. At different points, I’ve been more focused on music or storytelling or art.

But I was an aspiring writer—I wrote poetry, fiction, and drama when I was a student in the sixties. I studied literature and I teach Southern literature and the oral tradition.

In my class, I use writers like Lee Smith and Randall Kenan and Daniel Wallace, as well as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, and I look at how those writers draw on music and storytelling to craft works of fiction. The storytelling CD draws on both the folk voices of folk tales as well as the writers whom I interviewed and photographed and filmed in the same way as a documentary approach. I see those two as joined at the hip.

I’ve known music fans who have expressed an aversion to gospel music because they don’t connect with some of its religious messages. What are your thoughts on the appeal of gospel music to nonbelievers?

I grew up in the Presbyterian church, but I’m a nonbeliever. I love gospel music because it’s a work of art. It’s, aesthetically, a very beautiful sound. The Staple Singers sing not just about religion, they sing about civil rights.

The Voices of Mississippi set in full PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA Mahalia Jackson was part of Martin Luther King’s foundation, musically. He would call her before he was going on a march.

Being religious, to my mind, has very little to do with whether or not you like gospel music. It should be, do you like that sound? Whether it’s a cappella singing in a little rural church or the sounds of The Staple Singers. Aretha Franklin—a secular soul singer who grew up in the church of her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin. He was from Clarksdale, Mississippi, also the home of Sam Cooke. Those worlds are interconnected. That gospel sound—the churchy sound of chords and Ray Charles and others—is a foundation for secular music.

So much of your work is built from meaningful, deep personal relationships with people. How did that get to be such a big part of what you do?

I think it goes back to the farm where I grew up, which was isolated. My family was the only white family there. I played with children my age, and it was a community that

was separate. When I was four or five, a lady named Mary Gordon, who took care of me, would take me each first Sunday to this little black church on the farm, Rose Hill Church. I learned the hymns and later realized there were no hymnals. I realized that when those families were gone, the music would disappear.

When I went to college and then to graduate school, I felt that I was kind of being pulled away from those roots and I did not want that to happen. Discovering folklore was my way of reconnecting and bonding with people. In my field work, I began looking for blues singers, but when I found musicians, they were people. To me, the music was part of a deeper life of an individual, and it expressed his or her life in ways that required you to go deeper.

What you’re really trying to do is capture the story, the narrative of a personal life within the voice of that person. Sometimes it’s just a one-hour visit, sometimes it’s a hundred hours of many years of listening, like with Ray Lum and James Thomas.

But it’s always that person that I wanted people to contact in their relationships.

That’s why I was drawn to photography and film as well as sound recordings, to show you who you’re hearing and to set them in the context of the juke joint or the church or the auction barn—to give you a total immersion within the life of that person.

The storytelling disc ends with you and James “Son Ford” Thomas, who features pretty prominently across the set, walking through a cemetery and talking with each other. It ends with you both wonder-

ing if there’s going to be a black president some day. What made you want to conclude it there?

I can’t take credit for where that is. That was Scott Barretta and April and Lance’s decision about how to compile it. To me, it’s appropriate because of my long and important relationship with him. But it’s also important because it deals with an issue of inequality and race that both he and I felt deeply about, that sadly lingers today.

He worked, as a young man, as a gravedigger. He was familiar with the dead, and the cemetery was like his second home.

As we walked through this cemetery in

“Everyone we meet in the course of a day has a story, a really important story, and we just touch the very top of a deep well of information.”

William Ferris FILE PHOTO BY JUSTIN COOK

New Haven, Connecticut—this was during one of his visits to my students at Yale—he said, “You know, when I see these expensive, beautiful monuments for white people, it makes me wonder why white people spend so much on flowers and monuments for the dead, when there are people across the street that are hungry and don’t have enough to feed their children.” Then he said, “When I die, no one will remember me.

They’ll remember you, Bill.” I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “They’ll put a little tin marker up, and in a few months or a few years later, it’ll be gone and I’ll be forgotten.

But you will have a monument made out of stone that will last, because you’ve got money.”

That’s a conversation that distills a lot of what led me to do these recordings. I saw them as a political act in the sixties. To me, recording the voices of poor people who often would say, “If I tell you this, will you promise to put it out there and let people know what it was like for us down here?”

And I said, “I promise you.” My books are about that, and this box set is about it. It’s giving voice to the voiceless.

As Faulkner once said, the goal of every writer is to etch their mark on the face of oblivion. Well, these voices are a mark on the face of oblivion, for James Thomas, for B.B. King, for Ray Lum, for Eudora Welty, Alice Walker. All of their voices, to me, have a gentle beauty that reminds me of my grandmother. You feel nurtured and back home when you feel these voices. You don’t have to be from Mississippi or even America—people from all over the globe love this music, love the voices, and are hungry for it.

What do you feel like we still have to learn from these voices?

Everyone we meet in the course of a day has a story, a really important story, and we just touch the very top of a deep well of information, of knowledge. As folklorists, we go a little deeper, and some people deeper than others. If we could teach this approach to other people—when you check out of the grocery store, or mail a package, you do a transaction that really has very little human exchange. But that’s another human being you’re dealing with. Do you say, “How are you doing today? Where are you from?” You begin to kind of open a door of communication. That’s a way of humanizing life and enriching life.

If you have an iPhone, you can do finer recordings and films than I could do with much more expensive equipment. We all have the capacity to do this kind of work if we want to. ahussey@indyweek.com

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CAIQUE VIDAL & BATUQUE Saturday, June 2, 9 p.m., $10–$12 Motorco, Durham www.motorcomusic.com

Feel the Beat

DURHAM’S CAIQUE VIDAL BRINGS BRAZIL TO THE BULL CITY WITH HIS JOYFUL, ECLECTIC ENSEMBLES

BY KATIE JANE FERNELIUS

“Y

ou can’t talk about Caique without talking about Joy,” says Jesse Huddlestone, the worship director at CityWell United Methodist Church and Durham musician Caique Vidal’s neighbor and close friend. He’s talking about Joy, Vidal’s much-adored wife and his primary motivation for moving to Durham, but it’s an appropriate double meaning to describe the joie de vivre with which Vidal approaches every aspect of his life. Vidal is joy personified: His body bubbles with giddiness as he punctuates words with exclamatory grins. It’s contagious.

Huddlestone, like many people, first heard of Vidal by, well, hearing him.

Huddlestone was enjoying a beer at Surf Club when an explosion of syncopated beats, ecstatic horns, and melodies erupted from down the street at Motorco. He decided to go check it out and was pleased to find Vidal performing for a concert in celebration of Carnaval, an annual Brazilian festival.

“He often pulls people on stage to dance, and I got pulled on stage,” Huddlestone says.

“And the rest is history.”

Vidal has been a fixture around Durham for years, performing at events like Durham’s Brazilian Day Party and the Festival for the Eno. But he hasn’t issued a record until now—this weekend, he and his band, Batuque, celebrate the release of the fivetrack TYSM. The album’s title is an acronym for “Thank You So Much,” and it honors Vidal’s Afro-Brazilian roots.

One of the record’s songs, “Aide,” is a tribute to capoeira—a Brazilian martial art, dance, and music style—and a lament of its waning popularity. The song encourages dancers to embrace the ginga (swag) required to perform capoeira. “Batuque de Nego” (translating to “the drumming of black people”) is the most political of the quintet: it’s a tribute to black ancestors who embodied the persistence of black culture and the importance of fighting against its devaluation today. “TYSM,” the tit18 | 5.30.18 | INDYweek.com

ular track and the only song with English lyrics, is a song he originally developed to kindly usher a woman off stage, but has now become a staple in all of his sets. All of the songs pop with precision and flow with narrative depth.

“It sounds like the music that I’m used to, all the culture that I am,” Vidal says. “All the action happens on the upbeat.”

In addition to producing an album, Vidal also leads the samba-reggae drumming group Batalá Durham, studies vocal performance at UNC-Chapel Hill, and is the father of a 14-month-old named Odara (“Beauty” in Yoruba). Surprisingly, he doesn’t come across as stressed or exhausted at all.

“I have a song called ‘So Easy’ that didn’t make the album,” Vidal explains. “If I get worked up about a problem, most likely I won’t see the solution of it. Sometimes you just need to take yourself out of it, see it from outside. Let the universe do its job. I try to be very laid back.”

Growing up in Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil, one of Vidal’s most cherished memories was appearing in the music video for Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” with the Oludum collective. The ensemble is an Afro-Brazilian musical group that fights for social justice in the city. Music and justice have been linked in Vidal’s imagination since. His family couldn’t afford to own instruments, so he would visit local music stores to practice on the instruments there until owners kicked him out.

“My instrument was buckets,” he recalls with a laugh. “I certainly didn’t own my own drum set.”

As he grew older, he chose to pursue formal music education, studying at Liceu de Artes e Oficios da Bahia, with an emphasis on singing. He then worked at Balé Folclórico da Bahia, a folk-dance company that toured throughout Brazil and abroad. This set his music career into motion and made it possible for him to travel in a way that he never had before.

Caique Vidal PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Vidal arrived in Durham in 2012 through an unusual set of circumstances: He followed his heart. The first time he saw his wife Joy, an American, outside a performance of Bale Folclorico in Salvador, he sang out to her, “You are so beautiful to me”—the popular Joe Cocker song. It was love at first sight for both of them. Soon, he followed her to Durham, where he became somewhat of a personality around town as he made himself an unofficial ambassador of Brazilian culture.

It would be easy to characterize Vidal’s life journey from Brazil to Durham as a Cinderella story. But Vidal is quick to clarify that, while he is grateful, he is always mindful of his family and friends back home. He lives in the contradictions of his success.

“My mom is there [in Salvador], my whole family is there, and I know their struggles. It is a big pressure to be here. I’m the 1% and I cannot mess it up. I need to use all the platforms that I have to bring consciousness, to make space for people to discuss things that matter,” Vidal says, continuing. “But I also feel proud, because I fought my way completely. If you see the neighborhood where I grew up, you’d say ‘no way.’ Out of ten of my childhood friends, definitely seven are in jail or dead due to violence, due to police brutality, due to drug abuse.”

Still, Vidal exudes an undeniable delight in life, even when conflict comes knocking. Last August, he was at the center of the tension

between Batalá Durham and a neighbor whose noise complaints threatened the group’s practices at Durham Central Park.

A year before this incident, Terreiro de Arte e Cultura, an Afro-Brazilian center for arts and culture, was priced out of their North Mangum space, so the possibility of being pushed out was real to Vidal.

“With the renovation of this city, we are pushing people out of this community,” Vidal says. “But we need the people who show us what was here before. We need to protect the people who show us who we are.”

Yet Vidal continues to insist on his place in the Durham community by making it for himself, and inviting us all in.

“He’s a great example of what I think makes Durham so special—that space can be made for everyone, especially when we see so many people being pushed out,” Huddlestone says, emphasizing the importance of Vidal as a man of color, as an immigrant, and as someone who is deeply embedded in the Durham community.

“I think it matters that there are people like Caique who use their limited time, money, and energy to create something that doesn’t exist and wouldn’t exist without them,” Huddlestone adds. “And everyone benefits. And I don’t say that with exaggeration. I think everyone who lives in Durham benefits from what he and those around him offer.” music@indyweek.com

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The Devil Went Down to Durham

HOW A BLUE DEVIL STATUE THAT WAS RAISING HELL IN SMALL-TOWN MISSISSIPPI ESCAPED, AFTER A BRIEF ABDUCTION, TO BRIGHTLEAF SQUARE BY NICK GALLAGHER

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hen John Steele Davis got word that the four-hundred-pound blue devil statue he made had been stolen from a park in the small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, he was on the other side of the Mississippi River, visiting friends in the Ozarks. This news was surprising enough, but neither Davis nor anyone else could have guessed that the statue, after becoming the focus of local controversy and intrigue, would end up in Durham, a city he had never visited.

The sixty-two-year-old craftsman, who grew up close to Water Valley, had been a blue-collar worker most of his life. In the early nineties, he decided to adapt the skills he’d learned on the job to become a selftaught artisan in a dizzying array of mediums. He’s created furniture made from twisted wood scavenged in the wilderness and banjos with tensioners made from bullet casings and bicycle spokes (renowned North Carolina musician Jimbo Mathus owns one, according to Davis’s friend, Billy Stevens).

He’s currently building himself a haybale home.

In 2015, Davis began work on a statue of Uncle Sam, but then he realized that by making a few alterations—a pitchfork and a tail—he could turn it into a blue devil, which is the mascot of Water Valley High School.

Davis drew inspiration from stories he’d read when he was in high school, including The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, which was based on the German legend of Faust.

It’s not uncommon for Davis to be inspired by things he’s read, says Stevens, a longtime Durham County resident who first met Davis while studying music history in Oxford, Mississippi. Stevens describes Davis as an almost impossible juxtaposition of rural farmworker and worldly intellectual. Although he never graduated from college, Davis is well read and curious.

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Stevens says. “You know, ‘Call John Davis because he probably did it once with his grandfather when he was a kid.’” Stevens recalls that, when neighbors complained of a wild boar causing a nuisance in their yards, Davis took it as a chance to experiment with an ancient cooking technique. He shot and cleaned the boar himself and built an underground pit that he’d read about called an earth oven to roast the boar overnight.

Following the statue’s completion, Davis received permission from Water Valley’s Main Street Association to place it at a small park near the center of town, where it became something of a local celebrity.

During the city’s art crawl, people from all over the region came to see it, Davis says.

On prom night, students from Water Valley High School took pictures with it.

But some vocal critics, informed by religious convictions, did not want a lifelike devil to become the face of their community. Davis recalls a contentious debate at the local arts council over whether the blue devil should have been moved after its initial showing at the town’s art crawl.

With a stoic, slightly sad gaze and rich hues of silver and sapphire, the life-size statue is indeed difficult to ignore. In a town that has allowed beer only since 2007, the criticism wasn’t all that surprising to the craftsman. But he hadn’t anticipated that it would amount to anything.

“There was somebody in town that was putting a lot of pressure on anybody he could find with influence, and I had been asked by a few people to move the blue devil,” Davis says, in his mellow Southern drawl, referring to a prominent local artist. “These people didn’t have the authority, but they wanted it moved.”

Then, while he was away in the Ozarks in May 2017, Davis received a call from Mickey Howley, a member of the Water Valley Main Street Association, who, as Davis remembers, asked, “John, what’d you do with your blue devil? I came into town this morning and saw that it was gone.”

John Steele Davis’s blue devil statue at Bull City Art & Frame Company PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

Davis immediately enlisted a group of friends to help search for the statue while he was away. Many of them, including Bill Becker, who reported the statue’s disappearance to the police, thought that employees of the town’s government were behind the disappearance, a rumor that quickly spread online. Davis claims that those suspicions were confirmed when he spoke on the phone with a high-ranking official in the town’s government who admitted that he assisted in the abduction, along with several other government staff members, and apologized.

The morning after Becker filed a police report, the statue was quietly returned to the local police department—albeit in a damaged state, with a broken tail and hand and a hole in its back. Davis chose not to press any charges. Instead, he says, he asked the perpetrators to donate money to the library of the local Davidson Elementary School as compensation. An administrator

ham with the help of Billy Stevens—call him the devil’s advocate.

Earlier this month, Davis drove through Duke’s campus with the statue hoisted upright on the back of his pickup truck— “tied down kind of like Gulliver, so he wouldn’t tip over,” Davis says. The first stop was Duke’s law school, which he was excited to visit because it was where Richard Nixon studied. Davis and his friends also took a picture of the blue devil in front of Cameron Stadium.

“Pretty much anybody who walked by stopped and looked at it,” Stevens says. “It certainly attracted attention everywhere it went. It got a good tour of Duke.”

Stevens, who knew Bull City Art & Frame Company co-owner Lewis Bowles through a business networking group, reached out about putting the statue on display in the shop’s gallery. The custom frame shop at Brightleaf Square usually features the

“John, what’d you do with your blue devil? I came into town this morning and saw that it was gone.” at the school says she recalled discussing the payment last year, but could not verify that a donation was made.

Davis based his decision on the idea that one should not fight fire with fire. “I thought, ‘Well, I’m just letting it all go,”’ he says. “I had been in trouble before, when I was younger, and people had been merciful to me.”

Though the theft occurred a year ago, officials at the Water Valley Police Department would not comment on the case, saying it was still under investigation.

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hen Davis talks about his blue devil, it’s almost as if he sees it as a living, breathing creature, tormented by the town and exhausted by all of the spectacle. In some ways, his personification of the statue reflects his current disposition.

“It put me through a lot when that happened,” Davis says. “I was pretty wound up, and I was fortunate that I was surrounded by some friends that advised me to calm down and take the high road.”

But it was clearly time for the statue to find a new home. Davis remembered that the blue devil was also the mascot of Duke University. He transported the piece to Dur-

work of local artists, says gallery curator Michelle Draughon. But after hearing about the statue’s history in Mississippi, the shop became increasingly interested in housing it.

“We just thought it was very appropriate to have something here that was synonymous with Duke,” Draughon explains. “And also, personally, I was intrigued by the story that there was actually a high school somewhere else in the country that went by the name Blue Devils for their sports program.

The more I heard about the backstory, the more fun it was.”

The blue devil is on sale at the shop for a negotiable price of $14,850, which Draughon said was at Davis’s discretion. As for the artist, he went back to Mississippi, leaving his dear friend behind for good. After a turbulent life and a long journey, Davis thinks it’s time for the blue devil to rest.

“I’d like to have him outdoors, sitting up on a pedestal a little bit, where he could be seen in a public place, either on a street somewhere or maybe on the Duke campus,” he says. “That’s what I envisioned, but we’ll just see how it turns out.” arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 5.30.18 | 21

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK 5.30–6.6

FRIDAY, JUNE 1

KOOLEY HIGH THURSDAY, MAY 31–SUNDAY, JUNE 10

DEATHTRAP

It isn’t healthy to trifle with an overactive imagination. In Ira Levin’s Deathtrap, playwright Sidney Bruhl has long been known as the Neil Simon of the Broadway murder mystery, but after his most recent flop, he’s licking his wounds at his remote Connecticut mansion with his wife, Myra. Even more irritating, a bright young student in his playwriting class has generated a surefire thriller but wants Sidney’s thoughts before letting anyone else know the play exists. In an age before computers, there’s just one typewritten draft. To Myra’s horror, Sidney begins imagining different ways to kill the student to steal the script and then invites him over for the night—you know, for feedback. But because everyone in this metatheatrical whodunit has at least one double-cross in them, all is not as it seems. The first big reveal is not the last, and each twist reframes everything that’s happened up to then. Deathtrap opens TheatreFest, the three-show summer repertory season from N.C. State’s University Theatre. —Byron Woods TITMUS THEATRE, RALEIGH Various times, $6–$23, www.theatre.arts.ncsu.edu 22 | 5.30.18 | INDYweek.com

Earlier this year, Raleigh hip-hop crew Kooley High leveled up with Never Come Down, its newest LP, which featured Rapsody reuniting with the group under the guidance of the revered producer 9th Wonder. This weekend, they’re helping lift up others with a benefit for the Durham Community Land Trust. The nonprofit is dedicated to helping people who are drawing disability income secure housing, in addition to its long-term goals of maintaining permanent affordable housing in Durham.

The Beast’s Pierce Freelon emcees the evening, which also includes young Blackspace poets, Batalá Durham, activities for kids and families, and the Community Empowerment Fund’s Advocacy Choir. If you live by “love your neighbor” and want to push back against the city’s alarming rate of gentrification, here’s a great opportunity to put your money where your mouth is. —Allison Hussey DURHAM CENTRAL PARK, DURHAM 6 p.m., pay-what-you-can ($30 suggested), www.dclt.org

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FOOD SATURDAY, JUNE 2

APEX LATINO ARTS FESTIVAL

The Jarabe Tapatío is a traditional Mexican folklórico dance that dates back to the eighteenth century and was born out of rebellion in Jalisco, Mexico. It’s a beautiful, spirited dance that evokes great pride for Latino culture.

But you don’t have to be Latino to enjoy and appreciate its vibrancy and the elaborate attire worn by the dancers.

This Saturday, you’ll get the chance to experience it firsthand when the Ballet Folklórico Orgullo y Alma Latina perform it at the Apex Latino Arts Festival. Now in its ninth year, the cultural event that brings together the best in Latino food, music, and art promises to be livelier than ever. The day event will include face painting, candle decoration using tamal leaves, piñata making (and breaking, because that’s the whole point), music by Francisco y Valeria, DJ Nick Martin, and more. If you can’t make it, you can still view the Latino art exhibit at the Halle Cultural Arts Center, which coincides with the festival and closes on June 8. —Araceli Cruz HALLE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, APEX 3–10 p.m., free, www.apexlatinofest.com

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6

PARQUET COURTS

In an interview with NPR’s Bob Boilen, Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage and Austin Brown said that in making their new LP, Wide Awake!, they tried to push outside their snarky art-rock purview. Savage says he drew largely on the American punk of the eighties: bands such as Flipper, The Dicks, and The Minutemen. Brown took inspiration in the music of singer Grace Jones, reggae artist Augustus Pablo, and the funk band Parliament. And indeed, the record, cartoonishly produced by Danger Mouse, packages joy, anger, and slanted polemics in a paradoxically attractive array of sounds. The band loops from power pop to vitriolic funk to Shins-y melancholy and back again. But the group’s cheek still comes through; amid the natterings about dismantling institutions on “Total Football,” Savage can’t resist slipping in a “fuck Tom Brady” kiss-off. There’s also a song called “Freebird II.” —Patrick Wall CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 9 p.m., $15–$17, www.catscradle.com

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ADULT SWIM ON THE GREEN

The network that brought you such seemingly (and not-so-seemingly) drug-induced programming as Rick & Morty, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the various Tim and Eric series breaks out of your TV/pot-smoke-filled dorm room and into a soccer park in Cary for a live tour stop. Food, merchandise, and games figure prominently at the event, which is hosted by comedian Zack Fox and features screenings of new or previously unseen Adult Swim material.

There will also be a beer and wine garden, chances to win prizes, and, inevitably, a few inebriated fans who will loudly demand to know if they’ll ever do new episodes of Metalocalypse; this writer might be among them. If you’ve never experienced the Dadaist surrealism that airs late at night between reruns of Family Guy and King of the Hill, all we can say is: Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not take your kids to what might sound like a fun cartoon-themed event. They will be ruined. It’s eighteen-plus only anyway. —Zack Smith WAKEMED SOCCER PARK, CARY 6 p.m. doors/8:30 p.m. shows, $10+, www.adultswim.com

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WED, MAY 30

ARCANA: Dana Livermore & Sara Zaleta: The Ogre’s Wife: Unveiled; 9 p.m.

THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free.

DEEP SOUTH: SondorBlue, Wanderwild, The Brook & the Bluff; 8 p.m., $7–$10.

MOTORCO: Mallarmé Chamber Players with Kaira Ba: Universal Love; 7:30 p.m., $5–$25.

Weather Warlock

THE PINHOOK: Dissimilar South, MKR; 7:30 p.m., $7.

POUR HOUSE: Kendall Street Company, Raptor Taxi; 8 p.m., $7.

THU, MAY 31 2ND WIND: 2fer; 7:30-9 p.m.

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[$10/8 P.M.]

Weather Warlock is a band, but first and foremost a handmade electronic instrument. The Weather Warlock is a drone-generating synthesizer which, as its name suggests, modulates based upon conditions of light,

moisture, and wind. Though the purely musical content of the show may be average, the Weather Warlock will perk the interest of DIY inventors and gearheads alike. With Savage Knights. —Noah Rawlings POUR HOUSE:

Local Band Local Beer: Al Riggs, Flash Car [$3–$5/9 P.M.]

Like the bulk of Al Riggs’s prolific output, his latest LP— We’re Safe But For How Long, which he releases on Friday—is

an intimate, lo-fi affair, largely cocooning his reflections on “pathetic masculinity” in gentle warmth. Riggs’s live band, and guitarist Lauren Petto in particular, elevates the impact of his acute song by bringing a tremendous urgency. Riddled with anxious energy and bursting in Technicolor, Flash Car’s psychedelic fuzz teems with synths while Morgan Friedman’s classic sense of melody conjures the fifties and sixties. Coco Amino skews its harmony-rich roots jangles with off-kilter power pop sensibilities. —Spencer Griffith INDYweek.com | 5.30.18 | 25

FRI, JUN 1 ARCANA: Super Secret Dance Party: DJ Rang, DJ Forge; 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $8.

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Epitome Band; 7 & 9 p.m., $16.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free.

THE BULLPEN: Thomas Rhyant’s Sam Cooke Revue; 8:30 p.m.

CARRBORO TOWN COMMONS: Freight Train Blues: Eastern North Carolina Gospel Jubilee; 6:30 p.m., free.

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: DCLT’s Party in the Park: Kooley High; 6 p.m., $28–$30. See page 22.

KINGS:

Arson Daily; Onward, Soldiers [$7/9 P.M.]

Seemingly made for mass consumption—or at least broad alt-rock appeal— Arson Daily polishes up its garage influences while incorporating vaguely bluesy touches to deliver big, dynamic tunes built for partying. With just a hint of twang, the languid shuffles and lively rockers of Onward,

Soldiers suggest a worthy worship of heartland heroes like Tom Petty, while Charlie Paso’s ramshackle indie rock is reminiscent of local legends Lonnie Walker with an added dab of doo-wop.

—Spencer Griffith MOTORCO: Darin & Brooke Aldridge; 8 p.m., $15–$18.

POUR HOUSE: Larry Keel Experience, South Hill Banks; 8 p.m., $12.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Jimmy Gilmore Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

SAT, JUN 2 ARCANA: 2018 Beaver Queen Pageant Afterparty: DJ VSPRTN; 9 p.m.-midnite.

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THE BULLPEN: Russ Varnell & His Too Country Band; 8:30 p.m.

DURTY BULL BREWING COMPANY: Pete Pawsey; 4 p.m.

FAIRMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus: Journey to the Past; 7 p.m., $10.

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MOTORCO: Caique Vidal & Batuque; 9 p.m., $10–$12.

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POUR HOUSE: Los Acoustic Guys, Conceptos; 8 p.m., $10–$12.

SAXAPAHAW RIVER AMPHITHEATER: Saturdays in Saxapahaw: Dex Romweber; 6 p.m., donations.

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Julie Cira & The Wake [DONATIONS/7:30 P.M.]

“Reckless, I wanna be reckless,” sings Julie Cira with leaveit-all-on-the-floor gravitas reminiscent of Rid of Me-era PJ Harvey. The bandleader of queer alt-country outfit Julie Cira & The Wake shared on Twitter that the song is about “the loss of freedom that comes with chronic illness,” and she shines presenting a contemplative confessional.

The clarity of Cira’s words and the stirring intimacy of her arrangements with lead guitarist Nadia Elle Levin arrangements create an atmosphere as tough as it is tender. DUMP HIM and Baynaham open.

—Josephine McRobbie CAT’S CRADLE: Tyler Childers, Liz Cooper & the Stampede; 8 p.m., Sold out.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Sunflower Bean [$12/8 P.M.]

When Taylor Swift was twenty-two, she wrote a song about it. So did Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming. “You’re getting old, so act your age,” she croons on the title track from the Brooklyn trio’s new record, Twentytwo in Blue. That record, Sunflower Bean’s second, offers another reverent spin on discarded sounds—clean and chiming Paisley Underground psychpop, Fleetwood Mac’s silvery ballads—that sounds nice but fails to resonate, outside of the radically empathetic title track, as anything more than vaguely pleasant. —Patrick Wall DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3.

JOYFUL JEWEL: Kirk Ridge; 2 p.m., donations. Isabel Taylor and Leah Kaufman; 3 p.m., donations.

KINGS:

Jackie Venson [$15–$20/5:30 P.M.]

Austin, Texas guitarist and songwriter Jackie Venson exudes a studied versatility and sensitivity honed during her time as a Berklee College of Music student. Describing her experience studying piano and composition at the prestigious school as somewhat cutthroat

and unhappy, Venson found solace her senior year in the cathartic energy of electric blues guitar. From here, Venson has branched out into confident experiments with funk and soul, all topped with her gliding vocals. —Josephine McRobbie KINGS:

awakebutstillinbed [$8–$10/9 P.M.]

Considering the genre’s evolution, it can be easy to toss around the emo descriptor with little actual meaning, but it’s nearly impossible to avoid mentioning that awakebutstillinbed’s brand of rock music is, well, rather emotional. Shannon Taylor could write in an invented language and her shredded vocal cords alone would still convey the intensity of thoughts like “How many times will I pour my heart into another person’s failure to move?” as she pushes her raw howl into the red. Museum Mouth and Dododo join.

—Spencer Griffith MOTORCO:

POND

[$15–$17/8 P.M.] Flanged vocal harmonies, groovy baselines, vintage synths, abuse of psychedelic effects, Perth, Australia…

POND is not Tame Impala, but the two bands share band members and a number of stylistic similarities, to the extent that there is a video on Youtube called, “Where Tame Impala Ends and POND Begins.” If a distinction need be made, POND is the looser and goofier of the two, worth seeing live for their energy and melodicism. With Fascinator.

—Noah Rawlings POUR HOUSE: El Dub; 8 p.m., $6–$8.

SLIM’S:

Mouton, Dim Delights, Wild Fur [$5/8 P.M.]

For a Fugazi-approved $5, you can check out this bill that includes Springfield, Missouri garage power poppers Mouton. Their Midwestern spin on late-eighties fuzz anthems heads up a bill that also includes Durham’s resident soulful rockers Wild Fur, plus Raleigh’s Dim Delights. Bang for your buck!

—David Ford Smith

You can catch Sunflower Bean Sunday night in the Cat’s Cradle Back Room.

MON, JUN 4

POUR HOUSE: Misnomer, Chuck Lichtenberger; 8 p.m., $7–$10.

IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7-10 p.m., free.

RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m., $7–$10.

THE PINHOOK: Mama Played Mondays; 7 p.m., free.

THE PINHOOK:

Via Intercom [$10/9 P.M.]

Via Intercom’s Buzz Buzz Vertigo, released in December, is lacking in certain elements— restraint, for one—but ambition is not one of them.

The indie folk band’s songs are lyrically dense, structurally complex, and rendered not only through traditional instruments (guitar, fiddle), but a variety of instruments and effects designed by the band members themselves.

Such ambition is likely to carry over into an impressive live show (plus they’re playing with Blueberry, the best shoegaze band in the state). With Blueberry, Pool Boy, and Caitlin Washburn.

—Noah Rawlings

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will soothe those searching for a quick dreampop fix. With Triangle twee-pop great Moon Racer. —David Ford Smith POUR HOUSE: The Dickies, The Queers; 8:30 p.m., $17–$20.

ARCANA: Andrew Grimm, Ellen Cherry; 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Post Animal, Paul Cherry and The Remarks; 8:30 p.m., $12–$14.

WED, JUN 6

LOCAL 506:

Karla Bonoff

Eternal Summers [$10/9 P.M.]

There will always be room in rock for reliable, regularly touring acts who aren’t necessarily going to explode on blog headlines or snag Best New Music accolades.

For instance: Virginia dreampoppers Eternal Summers. The band has honed their southern-tinged Mazzy Star melodies and lithe guitars to a spitshine for almost a decade, and it shows. The band’s new record, Every Day It Feels Like I’m Dying..., is a fine collection of understated rainy day indie ballads and

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2ND WIND: Yeaux Katz; 7-9 p.m., free.

THE ARTSCENTER: [$25/8 P.M.]

Covered and interpreted by everyone from Linda Ronstadt to Bonnie Raitt, Karla Bonoff is primarily known for her songwriting chops. As a performer, she has the openhearted sentimentality and strong voice of contemporaries Carly Simon and Christine McVie, switching between piano and acoustic guitar to accompany her melancholy SoCal compositions.

—Josephine McRobbie CAT’S CRADLE: Parquet Courts, Goat Girl; 9 p.m., $15–$17.

See page 23.

HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m.

THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free.

MOTORCO: Brick + Mortar, The Unlikely Candidates; 8 p.m., $15.

NIGHTLIGHT:

Palberta

[$7/9:30 P.M.] Palberta’s bite-sized punk spitballs are weird and wonderful. Slashing, discordant riffs come from all directions.

Drums pump and stutter with manic energy. Playful, occasionally childlike vocal harmonies are at once charmingly pretty and skincrawlingly ugly. Roach Goin’ Down, due in mid-June, is simultaneously haphazard and composed, filled with head-fakes that seem planned and primitive. It’s a wild and unexpected ride, lovingly crafted with the naive confidence of a band discovering new musical possibilities and having a blast doing it. Spookstina, Housefire, and Widow open.

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OPENING 9th Annual Apex Latino Arts Festival: Free family-friendly activities, arts and crafts, piñatas, face painting, culinary festival ($7), live music, dancing, and entertainment. Sat, Jun 2, 3-10 p.m. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

Adult Swim on the Green Tour: Games, prizes, unaired Adult Swim episodes. Sun, Jun 3, 6-10 p.m. WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary.

African Sculpture and Craft Sale: Fundraiser for African children. Zimbabwean Shona stone sculpture, African beaded sculpture, wood carvings, fabrics. Sat, Jun 2, noon-4 p.m.

Amina’s Gift African Art Market, Chapel Hill.

Art at the Cottage: Eight local artists and artisans at a cottage home (8616 Bells Lake Rd, Apex, 27539). Sat, Jun 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mosaic Artist, Apex.

The Art of a Scientist: Art and science exhibit. Fri, Jun 1, 6-9 p.m. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham.

Imagination in Light and Color: Linda Collura. Sun, Jun 3, 1-3 p.m. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com.

Free as a Bird: Art exhibit. Thru Jun 26. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

FRESH Juried Exhibition: Work

by N.C. artists, juried by NCMA curator Jennifer Dasal. Jun 1-29.

Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Lobby Call: Jeghetto’s Puppet Museum: Pop-up puppet museum by Jeghetto. Sat, Jun 2, noon-3 p.m. The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham.com.

Pet the Zoo: Local artists create a “petting zoo.” Fri, Jun 1, 6-10 p.m. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. visualartexchange.org.

Pigments Tamed: Watercolors

by Mary Ruth Dana. Fri, Jun 1, 6-9:30 p.m. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. localcoloraleigh.com.

The Raleigh Pancakes and Booze Art Show: More than fifty emerging artists, live body painting, free pancake bar, more.

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Age 21+. $10-$12. Thu, May 31, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh. lincolntheatre.com.

SPECIAL Summertime: EVENT Summer-themed nature paintings. Jun 2-30.

Reception: Fri, Jun 1, 6-9 p.m.

V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

AMY SHERALD There was a time—a rather long time, during the slow ascendance of modern art—when portraiture seemed distinctly retrograde, with its quaint mimesis and its aristocratic history. But what a difference a century can make. In our day, when an awareness of the power structures of cultural representation has risen to the fore, portraiture is the site of some of the most significant fault lines in the art world, whether it’s Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till in a casket at the Whitney or Margaret Bowland’s images of black people in white makeup at CAM Raleigh, Kehinde Wiley’s “Judith and Holofernes” at NCMA or Amy Sherald’s cerebral Michelle Obama portrait in the Smithsonian. Sherald’s presidential portrait employs the same exquisitely muted, expressive style as “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” which won first prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, besting more than twenty-five hundred other entries. From June 1 until August 26, The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, a touring exhibit featuring dozens of the winners, will be at the Ackland in Chapel Hill. It’s a fitting return for an artist who had her first solo exhibit in 2011 at UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, where she’ll appear on Friday for a conversation moderated by Dorothy Moss, associate curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery and director of the competition. —Brian Howe

Sweet 16th at 311: Local Color Gallery celebrates sixteen years as a women’s co-op of eleven artists. Fri, Jun 1, 6-9:30 p.m.

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

Transendental Concord: Photographs by Lisa McCarty.

Jun 3-24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpreservation.com.

The Walls We Build: Artist United group. Fri, Jun 1, 6-10 p.m. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Raleigh. www.unitedarts.org.

Works of Heart Kickoff: Kickoff party for auction in September to benefit the Alliance of AIDS Services Carolina. Fri, Jun 1, 6-9 p.m. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. themahlerfineart.com.

ONGOING LAST April/May Show: CHANCE Mixed media by Carol Retsch-Bogart and photography by Bill McAllister and Sam Wang. Thru Jun 3.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Artspace Corridor Exhibition: Member artists Jane Cheek, Autumn Cobeland, Arsis Fruritch, Joyce Watkins King, and Susan LaMantia. Thru Jul 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Business as Usual: A massive white man’s head hangs from the ceiling, with furrowed brows, beady eyes, and veins protruding at the temples.

This omnipresent “boss” watches over Winston-Salem artist Bob Trotman’s exhibit, which incorporates mixed media and video art into dozens of figurative sculptures that critique big business by unmasking its gospel of greed and envy at the expense of workers. In wood, resin,

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tempera, and wax, the handcarved figures range from doll size to larger than life. The details in their caricatured faces show that they have become hardened to their expendability in an ecosystem of private enterprise. Echoes of 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis are also present.

Trotman uses the form of the automaton to propose his concerns about the dehumanization of workers.

Though it was made two years prior to Trump’s election, “Trumpeter” seems like an

on-the-nose caricature of our POTUS as a CEO. A trumpet connected to a motionactivated speaker stands in for the figure’s head. As you draw close, it emits indiscernible squawking sounds, implying that the bullying figurehead offers citizens nothing more than a farcical circus of noise.

Thru Jul 1. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts. ncsu.edu. —Julie M. Hamilton Elizabeth Bradford: Paintings.

Thru Jul 31. Umstead Hotel & Spa, Cary. theumstead.com.

SPECIAL The Bull Meets the EVENT Bayou: In a global, digital age, art, like everything else, risks turning into an unmoored commodity in virtual space. That’s why shows like this are so refreshing, reasserting that art emanates from real communities in certain times and places and strengthens those communities by forging bonds between them. The exhibit, curated by local artist Jaclyn Bowie, presents the works of Durhamites alongside New Orleans’s Level Artist

Collective. Thru Jun 2.

Reception: Sat, Jun 2, 5-10 p.m., $5 suggested. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. thecarrack.org. —Brian Howe Coalesce: Watercolor Society of NC Central Region exhibit. Thru Jun 27. Sertoma Arts Center, Raleigh. parks.raleighnc.gov.

Combinations: Pottery by Garry Childs, photography by Eric Saunders, and paintings by Pat Merriman. Thru Jun 24.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com.

LAST Hotel Theory: CHANCE Around the time he stepped away from his twenty-year tenure as founding director of Raleigh gallery Lump, Bill Thelen struck out for an artist residency in a hotel in Oaxaca. He brought two books with him, Huysmans’s decadent Against Nature and Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory, an experimental philosophy of hotel life. The result is Thelen’s own Hotel Theory. Consisting of drawings, collages, wall paintings, and a new fiber piece, the exhibit tracks an artist “immersed in the colors and textures of the Oaxacan landscape and facing middle age” as he observes the lines of history, place, and personal identity from a rented room, a space (like middle age) that, in its nowhere-ness, offers fresh vantages. Thru Jun 1. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe LAST Chad Hughes: Oil CHANCE paintings. Thru May 31. Bull City Art & Frame Co. bullcityartandframecompany. com.

Latino Arts Collective Exhibit: Thru Jun 8. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

The Lovers: Pink crepe myrtles quiver in spectral layers. Curtains rustle in glowing purple rooms.

An antique mirror rests in a water-stained sink. Windows and doors beckon into other worlds. Such is the imagery found in Joy Meyer’s large-scale video installation. Thirteen channels of video and sound, augmented with objects such as faux-fur rugs, neon signs, and vintage TV sets, create an immersive environment that draws on themes from speculative fiction, epistemology, feminism, and the tarot (the show is named after the deck’s sixth card) to test the edges of space and time, love and desire. Thru Jun 9. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. —Brian Howe Our House: Durham Arts Council student and instructor exhibition. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Debbie Quick: PNC Pop In Artist in Residence. Beaded drawings and figurative sculptures. Thru Fri, Jun 29. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Raleigh Makers Market: First Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Benelux Cafe, Raleigh. www.beneluxcafe.com. raleighmakersmarket.com.

LAST Red Summer: CHANCE Wendell A. White’s large-scale prints combining contemporary landscape portraits and historic newspaper accounts. Thru Jun 2. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Rise of the Phoenix – El Ascenso de la Fénix: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Felicity Palma, Yuko Nogami Taylor. Thru Aug 4.

Duke Campus: Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building), Durham.

Americans weren’t making vital contributions to the course of art history; it’s that the white male canonmakers didn’t as readily embrace them. This touring exhibit at the Nasher is a spectacular corrective, highlighting the Africandiaspora abstract artists who refined this new way of seeing. They range from midtwentieth-century Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis to contemporary iconoclasts such as Theaster Gates and Mark Bradford, whose twenty-five-foot-tall sculpture anchors the exhibit. Thru Jul 15. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. — Brian Howe

Snippets: Paintings by David Molesky. Thru Aug 15. Gallery A, Raleigh. www.gallerya-nc.com.

Spring Sublime: Thru Jun 11.

FRANK’s Outreach Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection: The most famed names in postwar abstract art—Mondrian, de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko—had very different ways of pushing painting past representation.

They also had something in common: all were white. Of course, it isn’t that African

Step Right Up: Sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. Thru Aug 31.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

SPECIAL Structure: VAE EVENT Photographers Forum exhibit. Thru Jun 14.

Reception: Fri, Jun 1, 6-9 p.m.

Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www.litmusgallery.com.

The SuperNatural: We’ve lost sight of the seams, once considered inviolable, between nature, technology, and commerce. The SuperNatural explores how we see and shape the contours of our planet as the physical refuse of the industrial age shades into the digital refuse of the present. The show includes a generative digital video by Tabor Robak, a virtual reality installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, and photos by Lars Jan, among many others.

Brooklyn artist Chris Doyle created “Dreams of Infinite Luster,” a digital animation.

In it, “All the elements are rendered in gold, the color of lucre—the product, engine, and goal of capitalism.” Is a luxury hotel an odd site for postcapitalist critique? Sure. But, as we’ve said, what seams?

Thru Jul 1. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels. com/durham. —Brian Howe Three Quilts: Fiber art by Martha Clippinger. Thru Aug 12. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Through Eyes of My Own: Exhibit exploring identity curated by the

Nasher Teen Council. Thru Jul 7.

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

SPECIAL UNTITLED, 2018: EVENT Works by 2018 MFA graduates Allison Coleman, Lindsay Metivier, Kimberly English, Jeanine Tatlock, Sara Farrington, Carley Zarzeka, and Joel Hopler. Thru Jun 23.

Reception: Fri, Jun 1, 5-7 p.m.

UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Visualizing Micro Environments: Paintings by Orr Ambrose inspired by cosmology, physics, and microbiology.

Thru Oct 11. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamconventioncenter.com.

The Wild: Leah Sobsey, Joy Meyer, and Jeff Whetstone videos in downtown Raleigh’s Market Plaza. Thru Jun 27.

BLOCK2 Video Series, Raleigh.

LAST Working Classics: CHANCE Landscapes in oil by Steve Hessler. Thru May 31. NC Crafts Gallery, Carrboro. www.nccraftsgallery.com.

Worlds Apart: Thru Jul 7. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com

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SPRING AWAKENING Ours isn’t the only nation to have lost perspective on—and lives over—the sexuality of its youth. In the 1870s, as the Comstock Laws criminalized the distribution of information on birth control in the United States, Germany’s new Reich Criminal Code banned “anything that offends the public’s sense of modesty and morality in a sexual sense.” In subsequent years, the Kaiser, conservative political parties, and certain “morality leagues” demanded those laws be tightened further. This is why teenagers in a small German town are desperately looking for insight into the changes their bodies are undergoing. No adult is telling them anything because of a toxic combination of legal intimidation, distaste, religious beliefs, and ignorance. What happens when a generation learns about its sexuality strictly through trial and error? Frank Wedekind recorded the results in his controversial, frequently banned play. Then, playwright Steven Sater and nineties pop-music maven Duncan Sheik adapted it into a Tony-winning musical in 2007, just in time for renewed assaults on contraception by the American right. Aya Wallace choreographs and Timothy Locklear directs. —Byron Woods

NORTH RALEIGH ARTS AND CREATIVE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $12–$20, www.nract.org

OPENING 2018 Beaver Queen Pageant: Family-friendly humor pageant in which contestants compete for title of “Beaver Queen” through fashion, talent, and personality. With music, a Scrap Exchange tail-making booth, food trucks, and more. Benefit for the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association. Hosted by WUNC’s Frank Stasio. Sat, Jun 2, 4-8 p.m.

Duke Park, Durham.

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Group Scene: Open stage for improv teams. First Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Thru Jun 5. Imbibe, Chapel Hill.

The Harry Show: Ages 18+. Potentially risque games improv games with audience volunteers. $10.

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com.

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Improv at the Varsity: Standup, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.

Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity.com.  Wakey, Wakey: I’d love to give Manbites Dog Theater a critical victory lap for its final show, and no words here could diminish the reputation artistic director Jeff Storer and managing director Ed Hunt have earned. But on one level, this is a transparent exercise in theatrical grief counseling—a dubious bit of fan service for the company’s longtime supporters.

Will Eno’s 2017 script applies a postmodern aesthetic of awkwardness and failure—both personal and theatrical—to the one subject where defeat is a given: mortality. Central character Guy acknowledges that time and nature conquer our best-laid plans: “You adjust.

And your life is the adjustment.

To the real things.” But of course, there comes a point when no further adjustment is possible.

For Guy, it’s when he can no longer rise from the wheelchair he’s previously stepped out of to underline its artifice as a prop.

From that point, Wakey, Wakey turns into a coercive living wake: an indeterminate time spent with a man awaiting his own death, armed with little more than a stack of notecards, a juice box, an animal video, and an abiding sense of irony. Despite Ivey’s convincing emotional inventory, an unwelcome sense of lassitude deliberately creeps in. Actor Lakeisha Coffey’s late appearance as Lisa, a nurse, injects moments of compassion and patient conversation. But who is Guy, exactly? Given Wakey, Wakey’s marked similarities to an earlier Eno play—Thom Pain (based on nothing), which Manbites Dog produced in 2006—it seems like an awkward coda featuring the same character later in life. Both plays share another weakness: the hasty shorthand Eno uses, from single-word incantations to a supposed “gratitude exercise,” to refer to emotional states instead of writing scenes and dialogue that actually evoke them. $5-$20. Various times.

Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www.manbitesdogtheater.org.

—Byron Woods

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DAVID SEDARIS: CALYPSO Whether it’s the tone and texture of his New Yorker pieces or NPR’s annual broadcasts of his performance of “Santaland Diaries,” there’s something comfortingly consistent about the humor essayist David Sedaris, something timeless and perennial—an odd pass to come to with an artist of discomfort. We know just what to expect from him, yet we never tire of it, partly because his tales of growing up in North Carolina have wormed their way into our nostalgia zones, partly because he’s one of the most genuinely amusing yet emotionally arresting humorists working today. His new book, Calypso, is being hailed as David Sedaris both one of his funniest and one of his darkest, and PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR locals will be pleased that it’s set in the author’s North Carolina beach house with his fractious clan. Sedaris has always been candid about the foibles of his family and the shadowy parts of his self-esteem, but at age sixty-one, even more restraints seem to be falling away, and Calypso’s curmudgeonly chortles imply that he might have some surprises in store for us yet. The cost of admission covers a copy of the book from McIntyre’s and entrance to the reading and signing line. —Brian Howe

THE FEARRINGTON BARN, PITTSBORO | 6:30 p.m., $30, www.fearrington.com

READINGS & SIGNINGS Seamus McGraw: With A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis. Thu, May 31, 7 p.m.

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

David Sedaris: With his new book Calypso. $30. Fri, Jun 1, 6:30 p.m. Fearrington Barn, Pittsboro. www.fearrington.com.

LECTURES ETC. A Jungian Approach to Parapsychology: With Ken Turner. Fri, Jun 1, 7 p.m. The Episcopal Center at Duke University. www.rhine.org.

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THURSDAY, MAY 31

BEST IN SHOW

Fattitude: Documentary about weight stigma in popular culture. $20. Sat, Jun 2, 7 p.m.

The Fruit, Durham.

Talking Black in America: Documentary about AfricanAmerican English. Thu, May 31, 6:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill.

OPENING Action Point—It’s Jackass-style stunts with Johnny Knoxville, now in a sketchy amusement park. Rated R. Adrift—Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin play a reallife couple stranded after a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Rated PG-13.

The Rider—Chloe Zhao injects cinematic poetry into the story of a young rodeo cowboy with a career-ending injury. Rated R. Saving Brinton—Documentary about eccentric Midwestern collector Mike Zahs. Unrated.

Best in Show Wait, when did the Nasher turn into a chichi boutique gallery? Through November 25, the museum that brought us landmark exhibitions such as El Greco to Velázquez and Southern Accent is dedicating its Collection Galleries to—wait for it—art featuring cats and dogs. Wow. I can’t wait for Coastal Feelings: Thanatos and Teleology in Contemporary Watercolor Seascapes and Elbow (Pasta) Room: Postwar Macaroni Art from The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection. OK, no, I’m being cheeky, and so is the museum, using a clichéd theme and a knowing smile to showcase the vigorous modern-art abstractions of Karel Appel and Dieter Roth, who never had hotel-room walls in mind. Appel was a cofounder of the mid-twentieth-century Dutch experimental-art collective CoBrA, while Roth, a Swiss postwar powerhouse, was a mover in everything from Op Art to Fluxus. In their lithographs, domestic animals explode in torrents of expressionistic marks or hide behind zoomed-in impressionist pixels. And there’s no better way to kick off such a cheeky exhibit than with a screening of Best in Show, in which mockumentary master Christopher Guest goes full Guffman on the world of dog shows and stamps eternal hilarity into the words “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut.

Macadamia nut.” We wouldn’t usually say this, but you should go to the dogs. —Brian Howe

THE NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, DURHAM | 7 p.m., free, www.nasher.duke.edu

food & drink California Olive Ranch x Raleigh Denim Workshop Dinner: Olive-oil-based dinner from John Upsal of Spread NC with Raleigh Denim founders Sarah Yarborough and Victor Lytvinenko. $125. Fri, Jun 1, 6:309 p.m. Raleigh Denim, Raleigh. raleighworkshop.com.

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music by Dylan Marcone. Thu, May 31, 6-8 p.m. Cameron Court Apartments, Raleigh.

The Accordian Club, and The Wine. Sat, Jun 2, noon-10 p.m.

Downtown Durham, Durham.

Durham Cider Crawl: Participating venues include Alley 26, Black Twig Cider House, Bulldega Urban Market, Bull City Ciderworks, Bull McCabe’s, Durty Bull Brewing Company, Fullsteam, Little Dipper Fondue Durham, Pour Taproom, Sam’s Quik Shop,

Friends of Oberlin Village Annual BBQ: Barbecue dinner, live music by Swade & Satin, cake walk, local history and guided tours of historic AfricanAmerican cemetery. $10.

Sat, Jun 2, 5-8 p.m. Oberlin Cemetery, Raleigh. www. friendsofoberlin.org.

June Buggin’ for TLC: “Wandering food experience” to benefit Triangle Land Conservancy on National Land Trust Day. Spread NC and Old Milburnie Farm celebrate local food, alcohol, artisans, music, and the outdoors. $65.

Sat, Jun 2, 2-7 p.m. Old Milburnie Farm, Raleigh.

La Pizza de Pulcinella: Live music, Italian pizza in outdoor

Upgrade—A technophobe must accept an AI implant that gives him superhuman abilities in this sci-fi bodyhorror thriller. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Black Panther— Marvel’s Afrofuturist

wood-fired brick ovens, ceramics gallery, gardens, adoptable cats and kittens.

Sat, Jun 2, noon-4:30 p.m.

The Goathouse Refuge, Cat Rescue, Gallery & Gardens, Pittsboro.

Moe’s Three Amigos Taco Tour: Traveling, free taste test of Moe’s Southwest Grill’s newest taco. Sat, Jun 2, 5-7 p.m. Durham Bulls

breakthrough shows what black writers, actors, and characters can do with center stage. Rated PG-13.  Deadpool 2—If the first Deadpool movie was a halfhearted R-rated Spider-Man, the sequel is a controlled detonation of the superhero-movie template: filthy, funny, and cheerfully ultraviolent. Rated R. ½ Disobedience— Acclaimed Chilean director Sebastián Lelio sets out to explore lesbian sexuality within a conservative Hasidic community, but international stardom does not make for international cultural competency. Rated R.  Isle of Dogs—Wes Anderson’s animated fable is alternately respectful and baffling in its treatment of Japan. Rated PG-13.  RBG—Forgot those Avengers. This doc about pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the best superhero movie of the year. Rated PG. ½ Solo: A Star Wars Story—If Rogue One was a war picture set in the Star Wars universe, then Solo is a space western, and a pretty good one, too. Rated PG-13.  A Wrinkle in Time— Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the classic novel is bold and messy, but with its diverse cast, it could be a touchstone for today’s twelve-year-olds.

Rated PG.

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A Simul-Cinema Tribute to Moulin Rouge: Dinner theater and cabaret inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. $75. Sat, Jun 2, 7-11 p.m.

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